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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 62, high yesterday
74, low yesterday 68, high
-tomorrow in low 70s, low tonight
in upper 50s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:11, sunset tomorrow 8:14.
City Commissioners
back Recreation board
All five members of the
Griffin city commission today
asked all appointed recreation
board members to stay on that
board.
The commissioners said in a
letter to them:
“We, the undersigned
members of the Board of City
Commissioners, request that
you remain on the Recreation
Board to serve out the term to
which you have been appointed,
‘ whether appointed by the Board
of City Commissioners or the
Board of County Com
(missioners. We have been and
are extremely pleased with and
proud of your service to the
Viet Cong rulers
take over labor
By United Press International
The Viet Cong rulers of South
Vietnam took over the nation’s
labor movement today and
branded the country’s top union
leader a traitor.
The Viet Cong, in a broadcast
over Radio Saigon, said Com
munist workers seized the
headquarters of the Confedera
tion of Labor, the umbrella
organization for South Viet
nam’s unions.
The broadcast, monitored in
Bangkok, said 3,000 workers
community and to us on all
matters regarding the complete
Recreation program.”
The letters went to Bob
Braddock, chairman; Mrs.
Carolyn Harris, Frank
Touchstone, George Reid and
Henry Walker.
They were signed by Com
missioners Louis Goldstein,
Raymond Head, Jr., R. L.
Norsworthy, Preston Bunn and
Ernest H. Jones.
They asked that the five
signify their acceptance of the
request by signing the letter and
returning it to the com
missioners.
“belonging to the committee for
the defense of labor rights”
seized the labor building in
Saigon.
The Viet Cong called the
leader of the confederation
“traitor Tran Quoc Buu,” but
made no mention of his
whereabouts. Buu had been
considered a possible presiden
tial candidate before the fall of
the former government.
The Communists said the
confederation would be re
placed by a liberation trade
union and ordered all members
of the old organization to report
within 24 hours.
The new regime, moving
rapidly to impose a Communist
society on South Vietnam, has
already nationalized all farms,
factories and businesses in the
country.
The Viet Cong said “many
persons in the Saigon puppet
administration took dozens of
warships, cargo ships, cargo
planes and jet fighters” to
neighboring countries.
The statement, broadcast by
Peking’s New China news
agency and monitored in Hong
Kong, said the Viet Cong has
“the' right to recover all
property ... recently stolen and
GRIFFIN
DAI LY<NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 104
taken away by members of the
puppet army and puppet
administration.”
But in Washington, Defense
Secretary James Schlesinger
said the United States “retains
ultimate title” to South Viet
namese warplanes because of
aid clauses prohibiting transfer
of military hardware to other
governments.
“So I would not think that we
would have difficulty in reas
serting title to those aircraft,”
Schlesinger said Thursday.
G-S gets state kindergarten money
for one-fourth of eligible children
The Griffin-Spalding County
School System will receive
$144,714 to implement the state
wide kindergarten program
which begins when school opens
in the fall.
The program can accom
modate around one-fourth of the
county’s approximately 855
eligible five-year-olds.
Six classes will be set up at
Anne Street School, with no
more than 25 children in each
class. There will be two sessions
daily; the first from 8:30 to
11:30 a.m. and the second from
noon until 3 p.m.
Lunch will be served to
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, May 2,1975
Mostiler says bill
can be corrected
Bolton
hopes U.S.
learned
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
State Attorney General Arthur
K. Bolton said Thursday he
hoped the United States had
learned from Vietnam that
“our type of government is not
an exportable commodity.”
Bolton, who also described
Watergate as a major mistake,
told a Law Day audience at
Gainesville Junior College that
for democracy to succeed,
“citizens must want our type of
government.
“You cannot talk to people
about abstract freedom when
their bellies are hungry and
you cannot talk to people about
laws and honesty in govern
ment when you are supporting
governments who are not
themselves obedient to the law
and who are ridden with
corruption.”
In referring to Watergate,
Bolton said he thought that
former President Richard
Nixon and some of his aides
saw the office of president as
similar to royalty.
America’s founders came to
this country to get away from
“royal men,” he said, and
Watergate stemmed from the
“absolute regal concept with
which Nixon and some of his
aides viewed the presidency.”
children in both sessions.
The program is being funded
. entirely with state funds. There
i will be no tuition fees or other
i costs to the parents. All supplies
used by the children, including
math and writing workbooks,
will be furnished.
School officials stressed that
although classes will be
provided for handicapped
children, a child does not have
to have a major handicap, nor
does he have to come from a
low-income home to be con
sidered.
The children must be five on
i or before Sept. 1 to be eligible.
Errors in the wording of
legislation concerning increas
ing Spalding County’s commiss
ioners from three to five
members will have no effect on
the Nov. 4 referendum,
according to Rep. John
Mostiler.
Mr. Mostiler said yesterday
afternoon he contacted the
General Assembly’s legislative
council which worded the bill
and was told there would be no
problem, that the bill can be
amended correctly at the first
of next year’s legislative
session.
Also, recently in a Brunswick
court case, a judge ruled errors
in similar legislation obviously
were typographical and could
be amended correctly in the
next legislature, he added.
A question on the bill’s
validity arose when it was
discovered boundaries of one of
Spalding’s four districts were
incorrectly described as run
ning in an “easterly” direction
along “East 5010m0n..., when
it should have read “westerly”
along “West” Solomon.
The measure calk for the
county to be divided into four
districts, beginning at the inter
section of Hill and Solomon and
extending in four directions to
the county line. Voters would
elect five commissioners, one
residing in each district and one
from the county at large.
Voters will decide in the
November elections if they
want to make the change.
Screening for correct
placement of children will be
done by local school officials
who will begin in June.
Parents must bring their
children to the Anne Street
School for screening. They were
asked to contact the school
immediately if interested in the
program.
Each class will have a
teacher and aids to assist them.
The kindergarten will provide
experiences designed to help
eliminate educational deficits
and establish readiness for
school.
Especially stressed will be
Our
Bi-centennial
flag
These Griffinites pooled their talents to produce this Bi
centennial flag for the city. Jeff Turner (1), Marsha Finch
(r) and Jan Sharp (front) display the results. It’ll be
presented officially Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock in front
of city hall. The red figure of a Griffin on a field of blue
dominates the flag. Mounted on the white section is the
gold seal of the city. Mr. Turner and Miss Finch designed
and produced the flag and Mrs. Sharp helped with putting
it together.
Daily Since 1872
Mississippi River
flooding continues
By United Press International
Flooding continued to cause
problems along portions of the
Mississipi River today while
thundershowers swept from
Nebraska into western Texas
and from New York and
southern New England into the
Carolinas.
Severe thunderstorms in
Texas Thursday night lashed
the city of Laredo with hail up
to two inches in diameter,
causing some damage to
automobiles and homes. The
storms dumped an inch and a
half of rain on the city within
30 minutes, producing local
flooding. Strong winds also
toppled trees, a garage and
power lines.
Golfball-size hail fell at
Brownfield and Tilden, Tex.,
and hail piled up to two and
three inches deep on the ground
near Seagraves, Tex.
Hail up to one half inch in
diamater fell in southern
Nebraska.
There also was some wind
damage Thursday to small
buildings in a section of
Orlando, Fla.
Rain was scattered today in
the Plains and East. Clear or
partly cloudy skies prevailed
elsewhere across the nation
except for some stubborn
the tools of reading, including
vocabulary building, ex
perience charts, introduction to
library books and children’s
literature.
The program also will stress
developing large muscles and
fine muscles, hand and eye
coordination and at the right
time, when coordination has
developed, the child will write.
Number concepts will be
taught, along with sizes, shapes,
colors, likeness and differences.
• Concrete examples and
association will be used.
cloudiness along the California
coast.
Officials in northeastern lowa
Thursday said the rising
Mississippi River was continu
ing to cause problems as it
neared a crest of 22.5 feet at
Dubuque. The crest, feet
over flood stage, is expected
Tuesday.
East Dubuque, 111., Mayor
Don Allendorf said four state
conservation officers are con
ducting a boat patrol in the
flooded Shore Acres section to
prevent looting after 40 families
left their homes in the flood
prone area. Allendorf said
electricity was turned off to the
area Thursday, but was turned
back on following, complaints of
residents, many of whom left
food in freezers.
Civil Defense authorities said
40 unoccupied mobile homes
south of Harpers Ferry have
been moved due to' the flood
threat.
At Prairie du Chien, Wis.,
officials said the city’s low
lying area is flooded with
approximately 40 familes
evacuated.
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That shirt
was exactly
like hers
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) - Linda
Dixon admired the shirt and
trousers worn by the man at
the bar because they were
exactly like the ones she had at
home.
On a hunch, she went home.
When she got there, she had
been burglarized and the shirt
and'trousers were among the
missing goods.
Police were alerted and
arrested Andre Frederick
Logan Wednesday night on
charges of buying, receiving
and concealing stolen property.
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