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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 1,1975
Belle of Louisville wins
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) - Capt. Charles Brasher
churned his steamboat, the Belle of Louisville, along the
Indiana shore. The Delta Queen took the Kentucky side of
the Ohio River and the Julia Belle Swain raced up the
middle.
It was the 12th annual running of the Great Steamboat
Race Wednesday. And it was serious business.
“I wish they were all this easy,” said Brasher, who
steamed the Belle of Louisville to victory.
But Brasher’s victory wasn’t exactly a solo. At a crucial
turn, he summoned two waiting tugboats for a shove that
outwitted his competition.
The sneak attack was not a popular move.
“They pulled a sneaky one on us with those two
tugboats,” says Capt. Ernest Wagner, who piloted the
Delta Queen out of Cincinnati. “Next year we’re going to
use the Mississippi Queen (now being built) to turn us
around.”
Capt. Dennis Trone, skipper of the Little Julia Belle
Swain of Peoria, 111., which came in third, said, “I think
the use of tugboats by the Belle hurt us worse than it did
the Queen because we’re smaller and more
maneuverable.
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“I think the race would have been neck and neck
between us if the Belle hadn’t used the tugboats, but I’m
not saying we would have won,” Trone added.
Despite all the complaints, the Golden Antlers, symbol
of riverboat supremacy, will hang over the wheelhouse of
the community-owned Belle of Louisville until next year.
The race began at 5:45 p.m. as the three boats slipped
away from 4th St. and the river wharf. The river was quiet
—all traffic was halted an hour and half before.
The Belle of Louisville raced along the Indiana shore
and the Queen steamed on the Kentucky shore over the 10-
mile course, while the smaller Julia Belle Swain got the
middle of the river.
Under conditions of the race, the Delta Queen and Belle
of Louisville were to stop at the Six-Mile Island buoys, five
miles upstream, while the Julia Belle Swain made the
turn in one sweep.
This time, though, the Belle handed the other two
paddlewheelers a surprise when two tugboats pulled up
and turned her around. It happened so fast, the Belle was
steaming downstream for home while the larger Queen
was still heading upriver.
Officers get raises
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Commissioner of Public Safety
Col. Herman Cofer and Georgia
Bureau of Investigation Direc
tor Beverly Ponder were
granted substantial salary in
creases Wednesday by the
Georgia Safety Board.
Cofer, who now makes $27,500
annually, will get a raise to
$32,500, and Ponder’s salary
will go from $27,500 to $30,000.
The board also approved a
raise from $25,000 to $28,000 for
Porter Weaver, Cofer’s assis
tant.
Georgia State Patrol troopers
recently received pay hikes
when they were brought under
the state Merit System by the
General Assembly, but Cofer
and Weaver got no raises since
their positions are not covered
by the Merit System.
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SIMPLE PLEASURE of riding a bicycle was denied to the
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the “Cricket," a small device that emits a high-pitched sound
which enables a blind cyclist to follow from behind. The
device, seen behind the seat of Porod’s bike, has a range of
about 200 feet.
Television
Its sunset
for Gunsmoke
By FRANK S. SWERTLOW
NEW YORK (UPI) - Matt
Dillon is dead. After 20 years
on the air, CBS-TV has
canceled “Gunsmoke,” the se
cond longestrrunning program
in the history of prime time
television.
CBS’ announcement was part
of the network’s fall lineup for
the 1975-76 season, which it
hopes will lead the broadcaster
to a prime-time victory in the
national ratings for the 20th
consecutive year.
The new schedule also meant
death for five other shows and
gave birth to nine others.
Nineteen other shows remain,
but many of them have been
given new time slots. There are
12 comedies, three variety
shows and the rest are action
adventures.
One of the biggest surprises
was the movement of “All in
the Family,” TV’s highest-rated
show, from Saturday night to
Monday.
NBC announced its schedule
last week, and it is expected
that network will make several
changes in its lineup. ABC will
announce its schedule shortly.
“Gunsmoke,” which started
as a radio program, began its
historic television run in 1955
with James Arness in the role
of Matt Dillon, the marshal of
Dodge City, Kan., in the 1870 s.
Only “The Ed Sullivan” show,
which ran for 22 years,
exceeded “Gunsmoke’s” lon
gevity.
Other shows dropped by CBS
are “Manhunter,” “We’ll Get
By,” “The CBS Friday Night
Movie,” and “Mannix,” which
may move to ABC next year.
The network’s new shows
include “Beacon Hill,” an
American adaptation of the
British series “Upstairs, Down
stairs”; “Bronk,” starring Jack
Palance as a unorthodox police
investigator; “Switch,” starring
Robert Wagner and Eddie
Albert as two private eyes; and
“Kate McShane,” starring
Anne Meara as a woman
lawyer.
CBS also added “Three for
the Road,” starring Alex Rocco
as a freelance photographer
who takes his two orphaned
sons on his assignments;
“Doc,” starring Barnard
Hughes as a neighborhood
doctor in a racially mixed
neighborhood; “Big Eddie,”
starring Sheldon Leonard and
Sheree North in a tale about an
ex-gambler and his show girl
wife; “Phyllis,” a spin-off from
the Mary Tyler Moore show
starring Cloris Leachman as
Phyllis; and “Joe and Sons,”
starring Richard Costellano as
a widowed blue collar worker
trying to raise his two sons.
FORD SUFFERS LOSS
DETROIT (UPI) — The Ford
Motor Co. suffered a $l5B
million pretax loss in the first
three months of 1975, the
biggest firstrquarter deficit in
its history and the latest
indication of the depths of the
auto industry slump.
Ford’s financial statement
Wednesday was the second
from the industry.
The full schedule: (N is new
show, (NT is new time)
-8 p.m., “Three
for the Road”(N). 8-9 p.m.,
“Cher.” 9-10 p.m., “Kojak.” 10-
11 p.m., “Bronk”(N).
-MONDAY: 8-8:30 p.m.,
“Rhoda”(NT). 8:30-9 p.m.,
“Phyllis” (N). 9-9:30 p.m., “All
in the Family” (NT). 9:30-10
p.m., “Maude” (NT). 10-11
p.m., “Medical Center.”
-TUESDAY: 8-8:30 p.m.
“Good Times.” 8:30-9 p.m.,
“Joe and Sons” (N). 9-10 p.m.,
“Switch!” (N). 10-11 p.m.,
“Beacon Hill” (N).
-WEDNESDAY: 8-9 p.m.,
“Tony Orlando and Dawn.” 9-10
p.m., “Cannon.” 10-11 p.m.
“Kate McShane” (N).
- THURSDAY: 8-9 p.m.,
“The Waltons.” 9-11 p.m., “The
CBS Thursday Night Movies.”
-FRIDAY: 88:30 p.m., “Big
Eddie” (N). 8:30-9 p.m., “M-A-
S-H” (NT). 9-10 p.m., “Hawaii
Five-O” (NT). 10-11 p.m.
“Barnaby Jones” (NT).
—SATURDAY: 8-8:30 p.m.,
“The Jeffersons” (NT). 8:30-9
p.m. “Doc” (N). 9-9:30 p.m.,
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
9:30-10 p.m, “The Bob Newhart
Show.” 10-11 p.m. “The Carol
Burnett Show.”
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By United Press International
Last stronghold falls
In a statement broadcast by Radio Saigon the
Communist government of Vietnam said diehard South
Vietnamese defenders in the Mekong Delta had been
defeated. It was the last stronghold of the fallen
government. In the broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, the
Viet Cong said the first step in setting up a Communist
society in South Vietnam had bear taken—all “industrial,
agricultural and commercial establishments” had been
confiscated. International communications with Saigon
were erratic in the wake of the Communist takeover of the
city. And the flight of trained civil servants from South
Vietnam heightened the problem.
‘Relations with all’
PARIS (UPI) — The Viet Cong’s Provisional
Revolutionary Government mission in Paris issued a
statement Wednesday that said the new regime in South
Vietnam “is ready to establish relations with all
countries.” The statement went on to say the government
will accept economic and technical aid as long as it is not
accompanied byy political ties. The PRG said it “will
pursue a foreign policy of peace and nonalignment.” Viet
Cong officials said the statement raised the possibility of
eventual normal relations with the United States.
Await foreigners
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand (UPI) — French,
Swedish and Thai doctors waited at the Cambodian border
today to receive foreigners who have been sheltered in the
French Embassy in Phnom Penh since it fell to the Khmer
Rouge April 17. Officials had a list of 101 persons who
could be in the first group to leave the embassy. Three
large airconditioned buses stood by to speed the refugees
to Bangkok when they arrived. A total of 610 refugees are
expected to be shipped in groups by truck over the 300-
mile road to the border.
June 1 deadline set
WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Ford’s latest energy
policy strategy calls for a June 1 deadline for Congress to
come up with an acceptable conservation policy. If none is
forthcoming by then, Ford threatened to raise the tariff on
imported oil to $2 per barrel. The President pushed his
original deadline for the raise back 90 days to give
Congress a chance to act. His new strategy also sets the
stage for a gradual lifting of controls on domestic oil
prices, adding five cents per gallon to the price of gasoline
by mid-1977, but places final responsibility for that action
on Congress.
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