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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 29,1975
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Israeli consulate siege
ends with surrender
By ERIK VAN EES
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (UPI) — A former
Israeli soldier who single
handedly stormed the Israeli
Consulate, seized more than 20
staff members and raked the
streets with gunfire surren
dered meekly today, freeing the
last of his hostages.
Police said four persons were
killed in the gunfire and 32
injured, one critically, during
the 16-hour siege.
Two of the dead were
hostages and two were bystan
ders, hit when the gunman
sprayed machine gun fire from
the windows, police said. Most
of the injured were pedestrians.
Police identified the gunman
as David Protter, 24, a security
officer employed for the past
year by the consulate to search
persons entering the premises.
The Israeli national radio
said Protter was discharged
from the Israeli army three
years ago on grounds of mental
instability. Police in Johannes
burg said he was a native of
South Africa but Israeli reports
said he was born in Austria.
Police said he apparently
wanted to dramatize a grudge
he held against the Israeli
government.
Protter quietly surrendered
just before dawn to Bureau of
State Security Chief, Gen.
Hendrik van den Bergh, who
told him to ” be a man.” Police
immediately bundled him into a
car and drove him to Pretoria,
the capital.
Police would not comment on
reports the dead and injured
hostages were hit accidentally
by police snipers who returned
Protter’s fire with bursts into
the consulate.
Before he surrendered, Prot
ter said he never intended to
harm anyone.
Israeli Ambassador to South
Africa Yitzhak Unna refused
throughout a night of negotia
tion to yield to Protter’s
demand to fly him and the
hostages to Israel.
Protter had threatened to
blow up the building with the
hostages inside unless he was
given an Israeli aircraft and
safe passage to Tel Aviv, where
he apparently wanted to speak
with Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
Protter also repeatedly asked
authorities to broadcast his
political beliefs, which the
hostages said appeared to be
pro-Palestinian.
Police said Protter spoke to
them in different voices and
ran from window to window as
he fired, prompting earlier
reports that there were several
gunmen inside the building.
After the surrender, Unna
said he would transmit Prot
ter’s grievances to the Israeli
government, but he did not go
into details.
South African Police Minister
Jimmy Kruger said that when
between 20 and 30 employes
Morning Glory
installs officers
The April meeting of the
Morning Glory Garden Club
met at the home of Mrs. Mary
Ann Shapard with Mrs. Carol
Smith as co-hostess.
Mrs. Rita Lawhorn, president
of the federation, installed the
new officers for the coming
year. The club presented past
president, Mary Ann Shapard,
with a fem and cache pot.
Members were reminded that
an arrangement workshop will
be conducted by Mrs. Harry
Gwinner at the Cheatham
Auditorium of the First Baptist
Church.
The upcoming Crimson
Clover Festival and the flower
show were discussed.
The May meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. Judy Smith
with Mrs. Jane Weathers as co
hostess.
Fifteen members were
present.
arrived for work Monday
morning, Protter herded them
all into one room explaining he
was carrying out a mock
security exercise.
He was armed with ex
plosives, three revolvers and
two Israeli light machine guns,
Kruger said.
Police said Protter paralyzed
downtown Johannesburg be
cause of the wide line of fire he
commanded from the fifth floor
consulate windows. Officials
sealed off a nine-block area.
Israeli Consul General Arieh
Bustan, who was one of the
hostages, said after his release
that Protter was in a highly
emotional state throughout the
siege.
Without apparent reason,
Bustan said, Protter suddenly
offered just after midnight to
release three young boys in
exchange for cases of Coca-
Cola.
They were freed unharmed.
Other hostages then began
emerging from the dingy
building over the next several
hours. Some were carried out
on stretchers, others appeared
wounded but managed to walk
out unaided.
When only two hostages were
left inside, Protter walked down
the stairs and surrendered to
police on the pavement outside.
At a news conference later,
Kruger said, “Everyone (of
the hostages) who came down,
broke down. That’s how trau
matic it had been for all of
them.”
Aidmore
Auxiliaries
gave $56,000
The regular monthly meeting
of the Griffin Aidmore
Auxiliary was held at the Elks
Club with the president, Mrs.
Jack O’Brien presiding.
Last year’s officers gave their
reports and over $56,000 was
donated to Aidmore Hospital in
Atlanta by the Elks Auxiliaries
and Elks Lodges.
Plans for the Elks Auxiliary
annual fish fry were discussed.
It will be held May 28 on the
front lawn of the Griffin Elks
Club from 5 to 8 p.m. Proceeds
will go to the auxiliary local
charities and to Aidmore
Hospital.
Mrs. O’Brien announced
committee chairmen for the
coming year. Secret pal names
were drawn by the members.
The president announced that
open house at Aidmore Hospital
would be May 4, along with new
officers day.
The Griffin Elks Auxiliary
will hold a birthday-cookout at
the hospital May 14.
Forty members and two new
members, Mrs. Eddie Kinard
and Mrs. Jimmy Coleman, and
one visitor, Mrs. Jerry Barrow
were present.
State flags
program topic
Mrs. Barney Hawkins was the
speaker at the April meeting of
Boynton Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Hawkins spoke on
“Georgia, Its Flags and Its
Capitols”. Mrs. M. F. Kelley,
program chairman, introduced
the speaker.
The meeting was held at the
clubhouse with Mrs. W. J.
Proctor, president, presiding.
Mrs. O. N. Mathis, music
chairman, introduced Miss
Kathy Baker and Miss Kitty
Woodward. Miss Baker sang
two selections, accompanied by
Miss Woodward.
During the business session,"
plans were announced for the
May 22 luncheon to be held at
Capri Restaurant.
Hostesses for the meeting
were Mrs. Florence Barker,
Mrs. Elizabeth Swanson and
Mrs. Gilbert Smith.
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Precision drill
Griffin High School ROTC drill team demonstrated precision drill for students of Spalding
Junior High Unit I. The demonstration gave the students an insight into ROTC which many
will take next year. Members of all extra curricular activities were present such as the rifle
team, color guard and of course the drill team. Spalding Junior High Unit I students were
given an opportunity to ask questions about the program.
Webb Pierce
will build ramp
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
Country music performer Webb
Pierce, owner of a famous
guitar-shaped swimming pool,
says he will soon have a
cement ramp on his front lawn
large enough to accommodate
six tour buses, despite his
neighbor Ray “the streak”
Stevens’ objections.
Pierce won a court battle
Monday over the right to build
the ramp in the fashionable
Oak Hill area of suburban
Nashville. Stevens, who lives
across the street, had sought an
injunction barring Pierce from
constructing the $7,000 ramp.
Stevens had charged in
chancery court last week that
the ramp would add to the
noise and congestion in the
area and make it more
commercial, while Pierce con
tended that the ramp would
ease bottlenecks along the
tourist route.
Mrs. Miller
president
of AAUW
Mrs. Dave Miller was elected
president of the American
Association of University
Women at the April meeting.
Other officers are Mrs. Abner
Caldwell, first vice president;
Mrs. Charles M. Smoak, Jr.,
second vice president; Mrs.
Tom A. Skelton, Jr., treasurer;
Mrs. Al Cook, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Warren Pugh,
corresponding secretary.
Mrs. Henry Phillips, presi
dent, presided during the busi
ness session. The members
discussed what AAUW has
meant to them.
Annual contributions were
given to the AAUW Educational
Foundation through which
AAUW carries out educational
and public service projects.
Plans were made for a
membership drive. Miss
Rebecca Morse was welcomed
as a new member.
Mrs. Tom Skelton reported on
plans for the May luncheon
which will be held at Capri
Restaurant May 3.
Mrs. Abner Caldwell and Mrs.
Thelma Davis were appointed
to attend the state convention in
Columbus, Ga.
Mrs. Thelma Davis served
refreshments to the members.
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“About 4,000 people come by
here every week wanting
pictures of my house and the
pool out back and when I’m
home I come out and greet
them personally and sign
autographs. They’re fans and
without them I’d never have
this $600,000 house,” Pierce
said.
The performer said that
Stevens had lived in the
neighborhood only a year and
had known beforehand that it
was thick with country music
fans.
“But he’s a hermit. People
like him should build their
house on top of a mountain,”
Pierce said.
Stevens said in court last
week that providing a place for
tour buses to stop was “a little
too much of a commercial thing
in my neighborhood.”
He said he does not object to
fans and people in general,
“but when I go home I want to
be alone and enjoy the privacy
of my home.”
Recently, no parking signs
were put up by the city
government in the area where
the two singers live along with
Tennessee’s governor, Minnie
Pearl, Jerry Reed and other
notables.
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213 N. HUI St.
Open
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Ham or smoked (link) sausage for only 45c
Hotcakes, stack of 3 60c
HOT LUNCHES
Meat, 2 vegetables, bread and butter. $1.50
Phone us-227-5080-for
fast take-out orders
LIBERTY’S CENTENARY
LONDON (UPI) - Liberty’s,
one of London’s most exclusive
department stores, celebrates
it’s centenary this year. Special
displays will be organized
during July and August in the
Regent Street store, built in
Tudor style from the oak
timbers of a Victorian warship.
The Victoria and Albert Mu
seum will also hold a special
exhibition about Liberty’s, fa
mous for its fabric prints.
GRIFFIN’S OWN
WORLD FAMOUS
GREENLIFE
GARDEN PLANTS
• Tomato
• Pepper
• Eggplant
Individually Grown And Treated
To Set More Fruit And Produce
Longer.
— Dealers —
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• Buckles Hdw.
• Eppinger Ace Hwd.
• Crook’s Mart (Senoia)
• Greenlife Gdns.
• Milner Variety
Quality Grown
GREENLIFE
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On Griffin-Barnesville
By Pass US 41 S.
Hours 10-5, Sun. 2-6