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Several hundred people were on hand yesterday afternoon for the dedication
and open house for the dome education building at Griffin Christian School.
Visitors had an opportunity to see inside the unusual building which features
U.S. built jets
used in attack
Tim Shepherd
Shepherd
awarded
scholarship
Timothy Norris Shepherd of
Griffin has been named
recipient of the Marie Johnson
Fort Scholarship.
He has completed his
requirements for graduation
from Griffin High and already
is attending the University of
Georgia where he is a political
science major. He plans to
make law his profession.
Shepherd is the son of W.
Harold Shepherd and the late
Mrs. Christine Norris Shepherd.
An honor student at Griffin
High, he was a member of the
varsity football team and a
member of the Beta Club.
He has been active in the Boys
State and Boys Nation
programs.
The scholarship was
established by the late Mrs.
Fort. It enables a graduate of
Griffin High to attend the
University of Georgia four
years.
Primary criteria are
academic performance and
student need.
The selection committee
provided for in the trust is made
up of Griffin High Principal
Ormand Anderson; the’
president of the Federated
Garden Clubs of Griffin who is
Mrs. Gerald Lawhorn and the
trust officer of Commercial
Bank & Trust Co., who is Lin
Thompson.
SAIGON (UPI -Military
sources said jet fighter-bomb
ers captured by the Commu
nists at the height of their
offensive bombed Saigon’s Tan
Son Nhut airbase today in the
first such raid of the .Vietnam
War.
Scores of American-built jet
bombers and other planes were
captured intact when South
Vietnam pulled out of Da Nang
and other northern airfields
without a fight at start of the
Communist offensive. Many
pilots chose to flee with their
families rather than stay with
the planes.
The bombing attacks which
brought gunfire throughout
Saigon also brought reports of a
possible coup against Gen.
Duong Van “Big” Minh mo
ments after he had assumed
the office of president with a
pledge to begin immediate
cease-fire talks with the Com
munists.
It also brought panic and
fears of a final assault on
Saigon by Communist forces
that have reached the suburbs
only three miles from the
center of the city.
The sources said four A37
Dragonfly jets carried out a
bombing mission on the mili
tary section of Tan Son Nhut
from the Communist-occupied
airfield at Phan Rang, 165
miles northeast of Saigon on
the coast of the South China
Sea.
Pilots of chase planes—Fs
Freedom Fighter jets—said the
A37s piloted by Communist
airmen returned to the coastal
city and were seen landing
there after the raid.
The attack on Tan Son Nhut
touched off explosions which
rocked Saigon and heavy bursts
of anti-aircraft fire caused 60
minutes of panic in the South
Vietnamese capital.
The Viet Cong meanwhile all
but rejected Minh’s call for an
immediate cease-fire, although
it had indicated earlier he
would be acceptable.
A statement issued by the
Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolu
tionary Government in Paris
said its two basic conditions
must be met before the fighting
is halted. These were disman
tling of Saigon’s war machine
and U.S. agreement to respect
circular classrooms. The building is on the First Assembly of God Church
property between old Highway 41 and the North Expressway.
the fundamental right of the
Vietnamese people.
The National Assembly voted
134-0 Sunday night for Minh to
succeed Tran Van Huong as
president of South Vietnam and
negotiate peace with the
Communists.
Hijack
bond set
ATLANTA (UPI) - Francis
Page Covey, charged with
pirating a jetliner with 67
persons aboard because he
“just wanted to see Castro,”
was placed under SIOO,OOO bond
today at a hearing before a U.
S. magistrate.
Magistrate Allen Chancey
also agreed to' a public
defender’s request that Covey,
45, of Richmond, Va., be housed
in the federal penitentiary here
because he had a history of
apparent mental problems. He
had been kept in the Fulton
County jail since his arrest last
Friday.
Dogs maul youngster, 7
MIDWEST CITY, Okla.
(UPI) — Two German she
pherd dogs pulled Timothy
Fleming, 7, over a fence where
they and two other dogs,
slashed, chewed and mauled
the youngster.
The boy was reported in
satisfactory condition today. It
required 400 stiches to close the
wounds inflicted by the dogs,
Researchers optimistic on T-cell cancer cure
MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) -
Researchers say they may be
optimistic, but they feel they
have found the way to cure “T
--cell leukemia,” the most
common type of blood cell
cancer in children.
According to Dr. Herschel P.
Bentley Jr., who heads the
team of doctors at the
University of South Alabama
Medical Center, it is believed
that two drugs now under
research may be the answer to
curbing the action of the
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Listening to dad
Little Jennifer Dykes who is 20 months old seemed
impressed with her father, Jim Dykes of the school’s
faculty, as he described the dome building to visitors.
However, Mr. Dukes’ son, Jeff, who is four, seemed a little
ho hum about his dad’s performance.
authorities said.
Timothy’s father, Richard
Fleming, a police officer, said
some children ran into his
house Saturday afternoon and
said Timothy was being at
tacked by dogs that had pulled
him over the fence into the
yard in which they were kept.
“I ran out the front door and
around to the back and jumped
pituitary gland.
Bentley said the doctors
believe the pituitary overstimu
lates the thymus gland and that
T-cell growth becomes like
wildfire, crowding and suffoct
ing other needed cells in the
bloodstream.
If the drugs can trigger body
harmones into recognizing leu
kemia cells and destroying
them, the disease can be
controlled.
The treatment would not
work on B-cell or adult strains
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, April 28,1975
the fence and saw three
German shepherds and a
schnauzer chewing on my son,”
the father said.
Fleming kicked the dogs
away from the boy and handed
him over the fence to his wife.
He used his service revolver to
protect himself from the dogs
until he could get back over the
fence.
of leukemia.
“But the T-cell in children
has been of most concern,”
said Bentley, “and if we can
whip it, which I believe we can,
a great part of the battle will
be won.”
The project is working with
BCG, which is flown in from
the Pasteur Institute in Paris
and is being used on humans,
and with thymosin, which is
being tested on laboratory rats.
“We think Thymosin and
BCG will do the same thing,”
GRIFFIN
For citizens
Planning review
tomorrow night
Griffin-Spalding people will
have a chance to say how they
think this community should be
planned for growth during the
next 20 years at a public
meeting tomorrow night.
It will be held at the Spalding
Courthouse beginning at 7:30.
Alfred Bolton of Griffin En
gineering will outline some
preliminary plans to show what
might be required to meet
federal and state environmental
protection laws.
These laws will be important
in developing land use plans for
the area, he explained.
The public hearing is required
under federal-state regulations
so citizens will have an oppor
tunity to share in planning,
Bolton said.
He said he hoped a large
number of people will attend to
see what has been done so far in
planning and to give their ideas
on what they think the future of
this area should be.
The Griffin-Spalding County
boards of commissioners hired
Bolton’s firm to handle the
planning and design of develop
ment for this community.
Bolton said the planning
phase should be finished by the
end of this year. The next phase
would be design and the final
stage would be construction..
The project covers the next 20
years and envisions a growth of
up to 54,000 people, Bolton said.
That’s about the number of
people the Griffin-Spalding area
will be able to handle under
guidelines and formulas
developed by state and federal
environmental protection
regulations, Bolton explained.
It’s important for citizens to
have a say in the planning,
Bolton said.
That’s why he wants people to
attend the session tomorrow
night.
Labor party vote
undermines Wilson
LONDON (UPI) - A vote by
the ruling Labor party to end
Britain’s membership in the
European Common Market has
undermined Prime Minister
Harold Wilson’s authority.
The resounding vote at a
weekend party conference wid
ened the split between Wilson,
who wants to keep Britain in
the nine-member community,
and the party’s anti-market
left.
The nation’s 40 million voters
are to resolve the question June
5 in a nationwide referendum.
Wilson, who called the poll,
says his government will abide
by the electorate’s decision.
Labor anti-marketeers re
ceived a boost Saturday at a
special one-day party confer
ence to debate the membership
question.
More than 1,000 delegates to
the meeting at a north London
sports hall voted by a 2-to-l
margin against Britain’s con
tinuing membership in the
market. Britain joined in
January, 1973.
The vote was a serious
rebuke to Wilson, who had
delivered a personal pro
market plea at the meeting.
“In my judgment, it is now
best for the future of Britain,
best for the Commonwealth,
Rev. Graham
Rev. Graham
to resign
Baptist post
The Rev. Harold Graham,
director of the Flint River
Baptist Association for the past
10 years, will resign tomorrow
to accept a similar post with a
Baptist Association with head
quarters in Cobb County.
His resignation will be
received at the sixth annual
spring meeting of the Flint
River Association tomorrow
afternoon.
The session will begin at 3:30
at the Mt. Gilead Baptist
Church. Supper will be served
delegates at 6 p.m. and another
session will begin at 7 p.m.
The Flint River Association
began having spring sessions
six years ago. They do not
replace the annual fall sessions
of the Association.
best for Europe, best for the
developing world, best for the
wider world, that we remain in
the community,” Wilson said.
The Labor party as a whole
has consistently opposed mem
bersip ' —even under new,
more favorable terms negotiat
ed by Wilson in the past year.
Opponents claim Britain is
paying more than its fair share
of the community’s budget,
losing its sovereignty as a
nation and paying more for
food imports.
Wilson has permitted a
minority of his cabinet to
campaign publicly for a “no”
vote in the referendum.
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“I guess a church that takes
no part in what’s happening
during the week might as well
stay closed on Sunday, too.”
said Bentley. “Shut off the
pituitary from overstimulating
the thymus. Everbody has the
T-cell production, but the body
regulates its functions.
“You run into leukemia when
these normal cell functions fail
to shut down and the production
of T-cells keeps on.”
The drawback to BCG is that
it must be administered by
cutting grid lines into the arms
and legs of the children and it
cannot be given until the victim
has undergone two years of
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have made
good movie
ATLANTA (UPI) - “It
would have been worth filming
for a movie or something,” said
police Sgt. D. V. Lee after a
wild chase through city streets
that left two persons wounded
and seven cars wrecked Sun
day.
Police said the episode
started when Everett Eugene
Hill, 23, of Miami, walked into
the American Motor Hotel and
asked clerk Mark Charnow how
much it would cost him to rent
a room.
When Chamow told him he
I would have to put down a $2
deposit, Hill drew a pistol and
leaped behind the counter.
Security guard Christopher A.
Danielson, who had been
signaled by the bellman when
the man jumped over the
counter, came rushing around
the corner.
“When I rounded the corner,
I was confronted by a .38-
caliber pistol pointing straight
at my head,” said Danielson.
“The perpetrator said ‘Don’t
try it.’ I didn’t.”
Atlanta policeman R. L.
Garmon, who had been talking
with Danielson, came around
the comer with his pistol
drawn, police said. When Hill
saw Garmon, he opened fire,
hitting Charnow in the left
shoulder.
Hill, whose pistol had run out
of bullets, ran for the door.
Garmon fired, hitting Hill just
above the knee.
Once outside, Hill jumped
into his car and tore off down
the street. Minutes later, the
chase was on.
The screaming police cars
spotted Hill on Juniper Street
and began chasing him. At an
intersection, two police cars
coming down a side street
collided with one of the police
cars on Hill’s trail. No one was
injured.
Police set up a roadblock and
stopped Hill, but not before
another police car had rammed
Hill’s car from the rear.
Burglary detective R. M.
Tilman, who had just finished
an extra job as a guard at
Underground Atlanta, had
stopped his car to see if he
could help.
“All of a sudden, I saw this
little car whiz by me,” said
Tilman. “Then, as I started to
get out of my car, I saw this
wagon (a police paddy wagon)
headed straight for me.”
The driver of the paddy
wagon, who had joined the
chase late, rammed into the
side of Tilman’s car, damaging
it and the wagon extensively.
Neither Tilman, who dove for
the floor of his car when he
saw the collison coming, nor
the paddy wagon driver was
hurt.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
82, low today 60, high tomorrow
near 80, low tonight in low 60s.
drug therapy. \
Thymosin, which Bentley
hopes will be available for
human use by August, can be
injected as soon as leukemia
diagnosis is made.
The program is only four
weeks old and many questions,
such as the side effects of the
new drugs, must still be
answered.
“We have much to do but
we’re very optimistic,” said
Bentley. “I think we’re going to
conquer leukemia.”