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Grade crossing wreck
kills McDonough woman
Mrs. Faye Crowell, 59, of 359
Key Ferry road, McDonough,
was killed when a freight train
hit the car she was driving at a
grade crossing near Jenkin
sburg.
The accident happened about
4 p.m. yesterday.
The victim was taken to
Sylvan Grove Hospital in
Jackson and was being tran-
Ford says U.S. must strengthen alliances for peace
By RICHARD LERNER
NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -
President Ford said today the
• United States must show
clearly in the post-Vietnam era
that it will strengthen alliances
and be able to back them up
while continuing a search for
peace.
The President prepared his
> remarks for delivery aboard
the USS Nimitz after the new
aircraft carrier, the nation’s
second nuclear-powered and the
sferred from there to an Atlanta
hospital when she died.
Sheriff Barney Wilder of
Butts County said the woman
had been visiting friends at
Westbury Nursing Home near
Jenkinsburg.
Survivors include her
husband, W. D. Crowell,
mother, Mrs. Cynthia Elliott,
and two daughters.
largest ever built, was commis
sioned in ceremonies at the
Norfolk Naval Station that
serves as headquarters for the
Atlantic Fleet.
“The Nimitz joins the fleet at
an auspicious moment, when
our determination to strengthen
our ties with allies across both
great oceans and to work for
peace and stability around the
world requires clear demon
stration,” he said.
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1 speak to you for a SSOO
honorarium — I don’t know
what it would take to get him to
listen to you.”
Ford, flying here from
Washington at mid-morning for
the occasion, called the carrier
“a solid symbol of U.S.
strength and resolve —made in
America and manned by
Americans.” And he said “to
all, this great ship is visible
evidence of our commitment to
friends and allies and our
capability to maintain those
commitments.”
The nuclear-powered carrier,
first built since the USS
GRIFFIN
DAILYtNEWS
Vol. 103 No. 105
Private firm for hospital
comes under fire here
Seventeen men who have
served as city and county
| commissioners and as hospital
authority members today said
|| they opposed the idea of turning
the administration of the
hospital over to a private firm.
They said that hospitals
| operated under such
arrangements charge patients
|| 25 to 50 percent more.
They based this assertion on a
check with such hospitals within
| a 250 mile radius of Griffin.
The men said going to such a
plan would have to be approved
by voters, since tax money had
been spent to build the hospital
and its additions.
They said discussion of such
an idea had forced the authority
to delay some decisions might
prove to be detrimental to
patient care and lower hospital
personnel morale.
The former officials asked
that the present authority forget
| about such a plan.
Glenn Bryant, former city
| commissioner and hospital
authority member, issued the
|| statement on behalf of the men
f who agreed to it.
Those suporting the
|| statement included:
|| C. Edward Willis, Kimsey R.
| Stewart, Robert Shapard, Jr.
| Scott Searcy, Carl Richardson,
Carl E. Pruett, Jack Moss,
Henry McWilliams, C. A.
Kendrick, Alyn Jones, James
• : (Red) Head, Homer Grisson,
Chester Golden, Dr. W. R.
Gilbert, David Elder, Joe
Dutton and Mr. Bryant.
The statement said the “for
profit company” no doubt offers
good quality patient care in
|| hospitals it serves but so does
; the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
The statement pointed out
|s that the G-S hospital only a few
weeks ago was fully accredited
by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals. The
|| statement said the hospital here
| was one of the few to earn such
|l long term accreditation.
The G-S authority has for
several months been in
vestigating the possibility of
going to a private firm ad
ministration of the hospital.
Murphy predicts S3O-million deficit
ATLANTA (UPI) - Despite a
3.1 per cent increase in revenue
collections in April over March,
House Speaker Tom Murphy
predicts the state will end the
current fiscal year with a S3O
million deficit.
State Revenue Commissioner
Nick Chivilis announced Friday
that April revenue collections
totaled $140.4 million, an
increase of some $4.4 million
over the same month in 1974
and a 3.1 per cent increase over
March.
He said individual income tax
receipts showed an “en
couraging” rise of 22.8 per
Enterprise in the 1960’5, was
named in honor of Fleet Adm.
Chester Nimitz, who died in
1966 and was one of the nation’s
greatest World War II naval
heroes. Ford, recalling his own
days on a carrier during the
war, said “looking back on my
own life, one of the things of
which I am proudest is that I
can say I served under Adm.
Nimitz in the Pacific.”
Defense Secretary James
Schlesinger, Navy Secretary J.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, May 3,1975
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Checkins blood supplies
Mrs. Edward Middleton, Mrs. Bill Reynolds and Mrs. Joe
Hardwick (1-r) check blood supplies at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital. They are working on the campaign to
get donors to go to the bloodmobile when it visits Tuesday.
Clayton County escapees
used ‘miracle blade’
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) — A
massive search continued today
for nine of 10 inmates who used
a “miracle blade” to saw
through a vent in the roof of
the Clayton County Jail early
Friday.
A 10th escapee, accompanied
by relatives, surrendered to
authorities at the jail Friday
night. He was identified by
Sheriff Robert A. Deyton as
Herschel Wayne Parmer, ac
cused of rape, armed robbery
and burglary.
Deyton said the escapees,
who may have had as much as
a four-hour headstart, could be
described as “very dangerous.”
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation and Georgia High-
cent, and he described April
receipts as the best for any
month since November of last
year.
But Murphy said the recent
upturn is not enough to prevent
a serious revenue deficit for the
fiscal year ending June 30.
“I am of the opinion that
we’re going to start fiscal year
1976 a minimum of S3O million
in the hole,” he said. “I hope I
am wrong, but I’m afraid we’re
going to have to reduce some of
the programs we put in the 1976
budget.”
Chivilis had said the state
would probably be $9 million or
William Middendorf and Adm.
James Holloway, chief of naval
operations, were among many
top Pentagon officials invited to
the commissioning of the
Nimitz, a 95,000-ton ship run by
two nuclear reactors. It will
have a crew of more than 6,000
and be able to house about 100
tactical aircraft.
Ford took the occasion to
emphasize the important role
that aircraft carriers play in
way Patrol joined dozens of
officers from area police
departments in scouring wood
ed areas and apartment com
plexes near downtown
Jonesboro following the escape.
Helicopters and bloodhounds
were used in the search.
Deyton, summoned back from
vacation following the escape,
said the 10 had been jailed on
charges ranging from armed
robbery and rape to forgery
and incest.
The escape, which occurred
between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.,
was the largest in the history of
the relatively new jail and was
the first since the county
installed a closed-circuit televi
sion system to monitor activity
$lO million short of the
anticipated revenue for fiscal
1975, but he predicted economic
recovery would stimulate reve
nues to make up the difference
by the end of fiscal 1976.
Murphy has already asked
his staff to analyze the 1976
state budget. “If it comes to
the place were we have to cut,
we’ll be able to look at those
figures and make an intelligent
decision,” he said.
For the first 10 months of the
fiscal year, revenue amounted
to $1.21 billion compared to
$1.16 billion last year. The
increase of some $43.2 million
defense planning by citing the
role they played in the
evacuation of refugees from
South Vietnam.
Without the five carriers in a
flotilla off the Vietnamese
coast, he said, “we could not
have rescued all the remaining
American citizens and thou
sands of endangered Viet
namese from Saigon within 20
hours.”
The President said the Nimitz
was “a double symbol for
It’ll be at the Cheatham building of First Baptist Church
from noon until 5:30 p.m. under sponsorship of the Junior
Woman’s Club. The drive will be in the name of Dawn
Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Merritt.
in corridors around cellblocks.
The inmates escaped from a
second-floor cell block contain
ing 22 prisoners, 12 of whom
apparently decided to stay
behind, Deyton said.
“That is a cell designed to
house a maximum of eight
prisoners,” said the sheriff.
“We’re overcrowded down
here. We’ve got people sleeping
in the chapel.”
Some of the 12 inmates who
remained in the cell apparently
answered morning roll call for
the escapees, the sheriff said.
The escape was not detected
until a relative of one of the
inmates told police she had
recieved a call to pick her
relative up at the intersection
was 3.7 per cent over a year
ago, still well short of the
projected 11 per cent growth
rate for the state.
Chivilis said that although the
sales tax receipts were “flat”
—rising only 1.9 per cent to
$45.6 million —he felt a
recovery pattern would contin
ue in the coming months.
He said that he based his
belief on the fact that tax
rebates would be going out this
month, a potential stimulus to
the economy, and on the growth
of national retail sales.
The biggest rise in the main
revenue producing taxes came
today’s challenges,” represent
ing “our immense resources in
materials and skilled manpow
er ... and our massive but
controlled military strength.”
Ford paid tribute to Adm.
Nimitz, calling him “one of the
most self-effacing and certainly
one of the most effective” of
U.S. naval commanders in
World War 11.
The President algo noted that
as Nimitz was ending his
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of 1-20 and 1-285, about 10 miles
from the jail.
Deyton said a jailer who
serves food to the cell block
saw newspapers stacked up
around the cell bars. They
apparently were used to hide a
hole dug through the wall into a
vent leading to the roof.
Deyton said he suspects a jail
trustee, a prisoner with special
privileges, of smuggling a
“miracle blade” to one of the
inmates. The file, about the size
of a ball point pen, can be used
to cut through the toughest
metals and its filing sound can
be muffled with wet towels, he
said.
in liquor which jumped 62 per
cent to almost $3.4 million, an
increase the revenue depart
ment was at a loss to explain.
On the other hand, income from
the beer tax fell 21 per cent to
$3.1 million.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 58, high yesterday
83, low yesterday 62, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in mid 60s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:12, sunset
tomorrow 8:14.
career in 1947 as chief of naval
operations, he recommended
plans to design and build a
nuclear propulsion plant for a
submarine —starting a break
through in that field.
Ford planned to return to
Washington in early afternoon,
to hold a series of staff
meetings, and then to attend
the annual White House Cor
respndants Dinner at the
Washington Hilton Hotel.