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Griffin Daily News Wednesday/ April 30/ 1975
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Fluoridation up for vote
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — Chatham County voters will
get to vote on whether they want fluoridation of the
drinking water supply.
The Coalition for a Fluoridation Referendum recently
obtained enough signatures to call for a referendum on the
issue, and the county Board of Registrars approved the
group’s petition containing 3,086 signatures, about 100
more than the number required.
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ENDS SUNDAYI
Planning
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funding, Bolton pointed out.
“We’ll pay the 75 percent
too,” he quipped.
Robert Pitts asked if the 1-75
connector would figure in the
plans. Bolton said it would but
the decisions on that would have
to be made by another arm of
the government.
Dick Miller noted he lived
outside the so called
“perimeter” and wanted to
know if the plan would include
all of Spalding County.
Bolton said the plan would
cover the entire county, in
cluding the city of Griffin.
Virginia Adams wanted to
know if the citizens committee
would be a sounding board and
if it would try to tell people what
to do with their land.
The committee absolutely
will not try to tell people what to
do with their land, Bolton said.
He said the committee would
work as an advisory body.
He said the study would be
concerned with population
density and not land use.
Sen. Virginia Shapard wanted
to know if the plan was a
“chicken or egg” situation and
which would come first.
Bolton said that the data
being gathered now would show
trends of community develop
ment. He said in the end, city
and county local officials would
have to develop rules and
regulations to maintain the
integrity of the plan.
Real estate man Bart Searcy
said it seemed to him that it all
came back to sewerage and
water. He wanted to know how
Clayton County included a
northern part of Spalding in the
Clayton plan.
Bolton said he thought the
government had made a big
mistake at this point. He said
Clayton’s was the first grant to
be approved and the decision
might have been made in haste.
He said it might be changed.
Searcy wondered why Henry
County would be allowed to
develop a water reservoir in a
section of Spalding County
which would restrict land use in
that area.
Searcy said he had every
confidence in Bolton and his
citizens committee but was
skeptical of the federal govern
ment.
“I don’t know who they are,”
he said.
W. H. Newton 11, president of
the Rotary Club, asked if the
plan would conflict what the
Mclntosh Trail was doing in this
area.
Bolton said it would not and
that the work would be com
plementary.
Jonathan Adams wanted to
know if copies of the federal law
on EPA were available. Bolton
said he thought summaries
might be supplied to people who
might want them.
Mrs. Eleanor Childers wanted
to know if big utility firms
would be required to make
plans under the eyes of the
federal government. She said
she thought they should.
Bolton said he thought they
were doing their own planning.
Mike Acton wanted to know
where the money would come
from to finance the program.
Bolton said 25 percent would be
from local sources and 75
percent from federal sources.
He said the state might have to
help with part of the “local”
financing.
Cecil Byram of Southern Bell
wanted to know if other than
conventional methods of
sewage disposal were being
considered.
Bolton said they were.
The Rev. Forest Traylor
wanted to know about the Flint
River water supply.
Bolton said it actually had
improved during the last few
years, indicating that EPA
regulations north of Griffin
were beginning to have a good
effect.
GRAVE ROBBERS
NORWELL, Mass. (UPI) —
Thieves are stripping the
bronze markers and brass rods
from graves for their scrap
value.
One manufacturer of grave
markers here has developed a
bronze-antiqued plastic marker
that has the same beauty and
durability of metal at half the
cost and with little scrap value.
The new marker is made of
tough cycolac, produced by
Borg-Warner Chemicals, that is
the same high-impact thermo
plastic used for products such
as football helmets and ski
mobile bodies.
Vietnam
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9:00 a.m., (9 p.m. Tuesday
EDT) of U.S. Ambassador
Graham Martin and a Marine
security force from the Ameri
can Embassy.
At 10:30 a.m., President Minh
announced the unconditional
surrender of South Vietnam to
the Communists “to avoid
needless bloodshed.”
At 12:30 p.m. North Viet
namese army tanks rumbled
into the city and headed for the
presidential palace to accept
the surrender.
Residents were obviously
fearful. But when it was clear
there was to be no more killing
for those who put down their
arms, they began to take to the
streets.
The Communist tanks went
past the embassy and rumbled
straight into the palace
grounds, breaking down the
gates as they went.
Troops spread out quickly,
took the palace guard prisoner
and raced inside the building to
raise a huge Viet Cong flag.
By 1:30 p.m. they had
occupied virtually all ministries
and military headquarters. The
big Viet Cong flags went up on
cars, jeeps, tanks, the National
Asssembly and government
ministries.
Military vehicles not occupied
by the victorious Commmunists
flew the white flag of surren
der.
Soldiers threw down weapons
and stripped off boots and
uniforms on Saigon streets and
tried to fade into the popula
tion. The Communists made no
immediate attempt to round
them up but moved quickly to
secure key areas in what
obviously was a well-planned
operation.
A Saigon policemen, identi
fied by his uniform as Lt. Col.
Long, put a pistol to his head
and committed suicide in the
main downtown square.
Crowds came out in greater
and greater numbers, and by 2
p.m.there were about 1,000
persons on downtown Tu Do,
where during American in
volvement U.S. soldiers were
entertained in sleazy bars by
prostitutes.
Saigon radio announced the
city was henceforth to be called
Ho Chi Minh City—"the city
which Uncle Ho dreamed of.”
Ho died in 1969.
Some aspects of the takeover
were confused.
Most civil servants and
government workers fled with
the Communist advance, caus
ing some electrical outages and
Commissioner has stroke
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) - The vice president of the
Georgia Association of County Cmmissioners, James
“Dixie” Ham, was reported resting comfortably at a
hospital here following an apparent stroke Tuesday.
Ham, who also serves as chairman of the Bryan County
Commission and the Bryan County Industrial Authority,
was taken to Bullock County Hospital after being stricken
at his Pembroke office. He was later transferred to the
Chatham County Memorial Medical Center here.
communications problems.
International communicatio
ns were closed, opened, closed »
again and opened again over a
six-hour period.
But despite the fears and
apprehensions of many, the *
first day under Commnist
control in Saigon was relatively
calm. «
In general, newsmen were
allowed to operate at will,
although only news wires were
allowed to send out news. •
Radiophotos and radio circuits
were not allowed, and no planes
were allowed to land to pick up _
television film.
There was no censorship of
the news reports. In the case of
UPI at least, there was no *
contact between the Commu
nists and newsmen except on
the streets.
TRADITION BROKEN
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — The
National Council of United
Presbyterian Men is breaking
with 27 years of tradition to
hold its 1976 meeting in the
bicentennial state of Pertnsyl- *
vania. In the past the meetings
have always been held in
Chicago or St. Louis.