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Ford plans
Mideast talks
By United Press International
President Ford will meet
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat and Israeli Prime Minis
ter Yitzhak Rabin separately
next month to discuss a Middle
East peace settlement, reports
from Cairo and Tel Aviv said
today.
Egyptian diplomatic sources
said the Ford-Sadat meeting
would take place early in June
in Salzburg, Austria. Ford will
be in Europe at the time to
attend a NATO meeting in
Brussels.
The Israeli national radio
said Ford and Rabin would
meet in Washington as a follow
up to the Ford-Sadat talks.
Official Israeli government
sources said they had no
information on a Ford-Rabin
meeting.
Tel Aviv newspapers said
such a meeting would be
“natural and logical” because
of the failure of Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger’s peace
mission earlier this year and
Ford’s decision to reassess U.S.
MMiddle East policy.
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MOBILE, Ala.—Winners of the first preliminary
competition of the America’s Junior Miss finals are: (1-r)
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Youth Fittness; Corlis Chang, (Hawaii), Scholastic; Julie
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nam could now possibly strive
for a personal foreign policy
success,” the newspaper Ye
dioth Ahronoth said. “This
meeting could be a last and
desperate attempt to avoid a
Geneva conference.”
Both Israel and the United
States have said they were
ready to attend a reconvened
Geneva Middle East conference
but also have expressed reser
vations that such a conference
would fail if not thoroughly
prepared beforehand.
The Cairo sources said the
official 'announcement of the
June 1-2 meeting, the first
between Ford and Sadat, would
be released simultaneously in
Washington and Cairo today.
The sources said Sadat
referred to the talks with Ford
when he told a May Day rally
Thursday, “Since there is no
military battle now, there must
be a diplomatic battle.
“Starting tomorrow (Friday),
you will be hearing about this
diplomatic battle whose ulti
mate aim is to make sure there
will never be a return to the
state of no war, no peace,” he
Law day
About 100 people Including members of the Griffin High band showed up for the public
observance of Law Day. The ceremony was held on the steps of the Spalding County
Courthouse. It ended in the rain. Speakers and other participants included City Manager
Roy Inman, Attorney Larry Evans, The Rev. Billy Southerland, the Rev. 0. H. Stinson,
Judge Andrew Whalen, Chamber of Commerce President Scott Searcy and Cary Jones,
banker and singer. The speakers discussed how law touches the lives of everyone in the
community.
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said.
The Egyptian president called
on Israel to “withdraw from
the occupied Arab lands and
recognize the legitimate rights
of the Palestinian people” to
achieve peace in the region.
Ford will go to Salzburg after
attending a North Atlantic
Treaty Organization summit
conference in Brussels May 29-
30, the sources said.
They said the talks will cover
Middle East peace efforts,
including the possibility of a
new American attempt to
arrange an interim Egyptian-
Israeli peace accord.
The two leaders also will
discuss the prospects of recon
vening the full-scale Arab-
Israeli peace conference in
Geneva.
In addition, the sources said,
the Ford-Sadat talks will cover
bilateral relations, which have
remained warm despite the
collapse of Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger’s Middle East
peace mission last March.
Forshee, (Arkansas) Poise and Appearance. Each girl
won a 11,000 scholarship and will participate in the finals
on May 5. (UPI)
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Insurance hassle brings crisis
By RICK DUBROW
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
work stoppage by anesthetists
in the malpractice insurance
hassle today forced the transfer
of the most critical patients to
unaffected hospitals.
The biggest obstetrics unit in
San Francisco was shut down.
Hospital admissions were re
duced to only the most
necessary cases. There were
layoffs at one hospital, and
nurses at another were placed
on a four-day work week.
The crisis was created
Thursday when some 200
anesthesiologists allowed their
group malpractice insurance to
lapse in protest of the higher
rates offered by the Argonaut
Insurance Co., Menlo Park,
Richard Rich dies
at Houston hospital
ATLANTA (UPI) - Richard
H. Rich, a prominent Atlanta
civic leader and philanthropist
and head of Rich’s department
stores for the past 25 years,
died Thursday at Methodist
Hospital in Houston.
Rich, who was 73, had been
hospitalized since April 14, a
store spokesman said. He had
undergone surgery after suffer
ing several strokes.
Private funeral services, to
be attended by members of the
family only, will be held at an
unannounced hour and location
today. He will be buried in
Westview Cemetery where his
late wife, the former Virginia
Lazarus, is buried.
Although his name was
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Judge Andrew Whalen
Calif.
Eight Northern California
counties were affected. San
Francisco, Marin, Alameda and
Contra Costa were the counties
hardest hit. Doctors in less
populated Solano, Trinity, Shas
ta and Siskiyou counties paid
new and higher insurance
premiums. Some of Northern
California’s 4,000 general prac
titioners were “unavailable.”
Local medical societies set up
emergency telephone centers to
handle referrals for those in
dire need.
Argonaut Insurance said it
was forced to stop providing
group rates because the awards
in malpractice cases have been
so large. The new individual
rates were some 300 per cent
synonymous with the store
founded in 1867 by his
grandfather, Morris Rich, Rich
ard Rich was born with another
name.
He was born Richard Rosen
heim, son of a Savannah shoe
wholesaler, on Dec. 24,1901. He
adopted the surname Rich
when he was 19 years old at the
request of Morris Rich, who
recognized in his grandson an
eventual successor to the
leadership of the family busi
ness.
Young Rich often came to
Atlanta during his summer
vacations to stay with his
grandparents and work at
Rich’s. His first job was that of
a sls-a-week package wrapper.
Under his guidance, Rich’s
grew from one downtown store
to 22 stores doing a S3OO
million-a-year business in 1974,
mostly in metropolitan Atlanta,
with more stores in the
planning stage, including a
second in Birmingham, Ala.
Rich was an active figure in
Atlanta’s spectacular growth of
the 19605, heading the Met
ropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority during its early
development, the Arts Alliance,
the chamber of commerce and
United Way.
He served as a civilan aide to
the secretary of the Army and
worked with Central Atlanta
Progress Inc. and the Citizens
Advisory Committee for Urban
Renewal.
Here’s what tax cut means to you
WASHINGTON (UPI) - If
you are a married worker with
four dependents and a $15,000
annual salary, you probably
just got what amounts to a
$4.73 weekly raise.
It’s because federal income
tax withholding was reduced
Thursday as a result of the tax
cut bill Congress passed in
March.
A single person earning
SIO,OOO a year gets an extra
$1.44 a week because of the
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higher in many places.
There were 30 hospitals in
San Francisco affected by the
anesthetists’ action.
Officials at Children’s Hospi
tal in San Francisco said they
were shutting down their
obstetrics unit —the biggest in
the city —because they were
afraid of the shortage of
anesthetists. The unit handles
about 200 cases a month.
Deliveries, according to a
spokesman, would be handled
at San Francisco General
Hospital —one of six city
hospitals not affected.
Mrs. Margaret Stack, 67, a
widow, entered Mt. Zion Hospi
tal where she was told she had
cancer of the stomach. Officials
said they could not perform
Carter:
send ’em
to Asia
CHICAGO (UPI) - Vietnam
refugees should be settled in
Asian countries intead of the
United States, according to'
former Georgia Gov. Jimmy
Carter, an announced candidate
for the 1976 Democratic presi
dential nomination.
“I don’t say we ought to close
our doors to them completely,”
Carter said Thursday.
But, he said, except in a few
individual instances where
there was a particular reason
for the refugees to come to the
United States, he “personally
would favor the settlement of
the South Vietnamese refugees
in other parts of the world.”
“They would be much better
off for the rest of their lives in
Asian countries where they
would be much more compati
ble to the society there, the
customs, traditions and lan
guages.”
Carter said Taiwan, Japan,
Thailand, South Korea and the
Philippines might be willing to
take the Vietnamese if given
financial inducement by the
United States.
Carter talked with reporters
after meeting with Mayor
Richard J. Daley.
He denied he has sought
Daley’s support for his bid for
the party’s presidential nomina
tion.
smaller withholding.
It may not seem like much to
individuals, but collectively the
change will increase payroll by
$9.3 billion during 1975.
The 10 per cent rebates on
1974 federal income taxes that
begin going out in mid-May at
the rate of SIOO to S2OO for most
families will contribute another
$B.l billion to consumer income.
Another $1.7 billion in Social
Security checks, at SSO each,
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surgery on her because it was
not considered an acute emer
gency.
Mrs. Stack, who said she felt
“lousy” and wanted to get the
operation over with, was
transfered to the University of
California Medical Center for
the operation.
A. Dale Morgan, president of
the San Francisco Hospital
Conference, told the county
Board of Supervisors that
volunteer hospitals would have
to reduce their staffs.
“Presently these San Francis
co hospitals employ 8,500
people,” he said. “It is
anticipated that between 2,500
and 3,000 people face layoffs
during the first week in May. If
the situation continues, even
White House screened
potential demonstrators
CHARLOTTE (UPI) — Two
White House defendants in a
sl.l million civil suit admitted
Thursday they used a screening
process to exclude demonstra
tors from a speech here by
former President Nixon in 1971.
Ronald Walker and Michael
Duval, White House advance
men during the visit by Nixon
to Billy Graham day, said the
screening process was devised
because of a possible “riotious”
situation at Charlotte Coliseum.
Their testimony came Thurs
day as the defense rested its
case after two weeks in the suit
brought by 18 persons who
claim they were illegally
barred from the event. They
are seeking $60,000 each in
damages.
Rebuttal witnesses were to be
called by the plaintiffs today
and final arguments to the jury
were expected to be held
Monday.
Walker said he told William
Henkel, another advance man
who along with Walker and
Duval are defendants in the
suit, to “set up a system to
eliminate, as best possible,
those individuals intent on
disruptions.”
Nixon chief of staff H.R.
Haldeman is also a defendant
but did not testify. Other
defendants include the Secret
Service, Charlotte police and
volunteer members of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Walker said he felt protest
will be distributed in the next
four months.
The total effect will be to add
$19.1 billion in income at the
consumer level.
Economists will be watching
closely what Americans do with
the extra money. If they spend
it on automobiles, refrigerators,
clothing and other durable
goods, this should stimulate
production and employment
and ease the recession.
greater numbers could be
affected.”
In Sacramento, Calif., the
state Assembly voted final
legislative approval to a bill
which would enable doctors to
buy insurance at least for the
next two years. Gov. Edmund
G. Brown Jr. reportedly had
not decided whether he would
sign it.
The measure would require
California insurance companies
to provide such policies where
none was available. It would
empower the state insurance
commission to set up under
writing associations on a
county-by-county basis if a
substantial number of doctors
were left without insurance.
demonstrations outside the coli
seum would have been appro
priate.
“I was concerned about a
riotious type situation for
people inside the coliseum,” he
said.
Duval, who was sent to
Charlotte to implement the
screening plan, said suspected
demonstrators were to be told
their tickets were fake and they
would then be placed aside, led
down a chute consisting of
roped off barrels to an outside
door, and someone would be
there to question the person
and determine if they were in
fact a threat.
Duval admitted that he didn’t
know who was to be outside to
question those sent down the
chute. He said city or state
police intelligence officers were
to be on hand in the lobby of
the coliseum to point out
possible demonstrators.
Volunteers from the VFW
were taking tickets at the
coliseum and some of them
admitted during the trial that
they excluded or helped to
exclude persons from the
coliseum.
“I didn’t give any authority
to VFW volunteers to exclude
people,” said Duval, currently
a member of President Ford’s
domestic counsel staff.
If people put their bonus
dollars in the bank, or use them
to pay bills, the tax cut and
rebate plan will have a much
less salutory effect on the
economy.
Some employers may not
have gotten new withholding
schedules from the government
in time for this week’s checks.
When they do, the lower
withholding would be retroac
tive to May 1.