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Marine families say
sons died proudly
By DONALD P. MYERS
United Press International
The only book Kelton Turner liked was the Bible.
He was one of nine children, and he did poorly in class, |
quit the football team and dropped out of Los Angeles g
High School during his senior year. He wanted to be a
Marine but he flunked the test.
The 18-year-old youth who grew up in Kinloch, Mo., a
suburb of St. Louis, took the exam a second time and
finally became a Leatherneck.
“I gave him a Bible and he wrote me saying that he g
always carried it with him,” his mother, Mrs. Ester B.
Turner, said Wednesday. She wept as she talked.
“He told me that he might get killed, but that he was t
willing to die for a good cause. He said God was with him |
and he wasn’t afraid to die.”
Pfc. Kelton R. Turner was aboard a helicopter hit by |
Cambodian gunboat fire a week ago off Tang Island. He
was among 15 American servicemen killed in the island g
assault to free from the Kmer Rouge the U.S. cargo ship
Mayaguez.
“Due to the nature of the incident, his remains could not g
be recovered,” the Navy Department told his mother in a
telegram. And these are some of the other young men who |
will never come home:
—Pfc. Richard W. Rivenburgh, 21, of San Diego, Calif., |
one of 10 children, high school dropout who joined the
Marines seven months ago because “he couldn’t find
anything but odd jobs,” his mother said.
—Lance Cpl. Andreas Garcia, 20, of Carlsbad, N.M., one
of nine children who liked to tinker with cars and dreamed |
of becoming a Marine so his mother would be proud of |
him.
—Pfc. James R. Maxwell, 18, of Center Ridge, Ark., one
of five children who had been a Marine for just eight
months and who looked forward to coming home and
getting married.
—Pfc. Walter Boyd, 19, of Norfolk, Va., one of six
children who joined the Marines seven months ago to earn |
enough money to go to college.
—Lance Cpl. Gregory S. Copenhaver, 19, a straight-A 1
student who never missed a day in class during his final
seven years of school at Perryville, Md.
“We’re trying to look at it as if he had been a policeman
that was just killed on the job,” said Mrs. Abbie
Rivenburgh of the oldest of her 10 children. “There’s no
grudge against anyone.
“I feel like my husband—if they had sent the Marines in g
when the Pueblo was in trouble this would have been |
avoided. It had to be done,” she said of the assault to free
the Mayaguez from the Cambodian Communists. “I only
hope this will be a lesson to them.”
Os her son, she said, “The Marine Corps came as a
challenge and he wanted to prove to himself and others |
that he could do it. He loved the Marines.” He wrote home
just four days before he died, and he told of plans to marry
his high school sweetheart.
“Don’t get tired of waiting for me,” were his last words.
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Worker does a little head scratching as Southern Bell has Hill street section resurfaced. Telephone
cable had been installed underground earlier this year.
Hamil says county wants
in on decision making
Spalding County Commission
Chairman P. W. Hamil issued a
statement this morning
accusing the city of making
decisions and choices affecting
both governments without
consulting the county.
He said the county commiss
ioners are capable of making
decisions for operation of the
county government and they
want to and have always tried to
work with city officials in its
rib
Hamil
Vote office
to be open
Saturday
The Spalding County
Registrars office will be open
Saturday 9 a.m.-12 to issue
absentee ballots to people who
cannot go to the office during
weekdays.
The ballots will be for the
Tuesday election to fill a
vacancy on the Spalding County
Board of Commissioners.
As of this morning, 50 ab
sentee ballots for the election
had been issued.
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“Compassion for those who
fail shouldn’t keep us from
praising those who don’t”
GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 121
operation.
“We, the county commiss
ioners, find it difficult to make
joint appointments and
decisions with the city. Even
though we had made recom
mendations, the city has chosen
to unilaterally announce its
choices and decisions without
consulting county wishes and
choices. This makes it difficult
for compromises and impairs a
harmonious relationship,”
Hamil said.
Hamil said several times in
the past, the city has announced
its choice of a joint city-county
appointment without consulting
the county which had chosen
someone else.
Concerning recreation, he
said the county understood the
two governments would study
the joint budget before an an
nouncement was made. The city
announced its approval without
consulting the county, he said.
Hamil said he first heard
about a proposed joint monthly
meeting with the city through
the news media.
The county will be glad to
meet with the city on any
mutual problems and had “set
out to do it last year”, he added.
He said it would be better for all
city and county commissioners
to get together instead of just
two or three as has happened in
the past.
As for the monthly third
Tuesday meetings with the city,
Hamil said Commissioner Reid
Childers is out of town and that
has not yet been decided.
During their planning session
Tuesday, the city com
missioners agreed to meet with
the county every third Tuesday.
The idea was suggested by
City Manager Roy Inman and
County Administrator Lewis
Leonard.
Hamil said he has informed
Mr. Inman that the county
commissioners will meet with
the city board to discuss the
recreation program at the city’s
convenience. This was in reply
to yesterday’s letter from the
city concerning the recreation
budget.
The county has been and is
now making a study of
bookkeeping systems and
equipment in order to obtain
what will best serve the county
government, he added.
Tuesday, the city com
missioners discussed renting its
computer system to the county.
“I feel that we should be given
some consideration in making
decisions and planning and not
be told what we will do when we
have not heard about the
proposals.
“For plans to be carried out,
we must be in on the planning,”
Hamil stated.
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John Smith of the Griffin Street Department checks for
gas after an explosion on West Poplar street caused this
section of pavement to erupt. He found no evidence of gas
which might have caused the explosion about 3:15 p.m.
Upturn on way?
By RICHARD HUGHES
UPI Business Writer
The nation is on the verge of
an upturn in industrial produc
tion, but consumers still face
rising prices, heavy unemploy
ment and cuts in take-home
Pay.
In a series of economic
reports Wednesday, govern
ment and private organizations
said:
—Orders of durable goods
rose last month by 9.8 per cent,
the sharpest increase in more
than seven years and only the
second monthly increase in the
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past seven months. The in
crease signals an upturn in
industrial production. But steel
men said their production is
sagging drastically and fore
casts of an upturn in the last
three months of the year are
“just talk.”
—Consumer prices rose .06 of
a per cent in April, the largest
increase in inflation since
January. The increase, howe
ver, was about half the monthly
rate of inflation in 1974. The
White House said President
Ford was encouraged by the
slower rate of increase.
—Coal prices rose nearly 50
per cent for utilities and most
of the hikes were passed on to
consumers in higher electrical
bills, according to documents
filed at the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Electric
bills will go even higer of the
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries raises prices
later this year.
—A study of the possible
increases in oil taxes and
prices being proposed in
Washington or discussed by
Betty Ford visits refugees
By SARA FRITZ
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Betty Ford has
returned from her visit to a Vietnamese
refugee tent city to tell her husband that
his refugee program is well organized and
the homeless people seem happy.
Mrs. Ford Wednesday toured
Vietnamese camp No. 8 at Camp
Pendleton, Calif., a stark-simple collection
of hundreds of Army tents nestled in a
plush green valley near the Pacific Coast.
Although she saw only a few hundred of
Pendleton’s nearly 18,000 refugees, many
of them indicated they were honored by
her visit. She told them she shared their
suffering and hoped they would become
U.S. citizens.
Among the refugees she encountered on
her casual stroll among the tents was
former South Vietnamese Vice President
Nguyen Cao Ky, who kissed her hand and
invited her into his tent. There they sat
face to face on separate cots for several
minutes, discussing conditions at the
camp.
Dressed in a borrowed Marine field
jacket and a lavander ascot, Ky told the
First Lady that her visit would be a “big,
big boost for morale” and asked her to
Daily Since 1872
yesterday. An unidentified driver told officials the
pavement blew up in front of him as he was driving along
the street. Street repairmen fixed the damage and had
the road back in full service within a short time.
exporting nations indicates
Americans could be paying as
much as 95 cents for a gallon of
regular gasoline within one or
two years.
—The purchasing power of
workers declined for the 10th
month in the last 11, and take
home pay in April lagged 4.1
per cent behind wage increases
for the average blue collar
worker.
—The Conference Board, a
private research group, said
consumer confidence was bol
stered by cooling inflation and
tax rebates. But, the board
said, “any widespread rush to
the country’s retail counters
will depend on a real increase in
incomes.”
—The number of first-time
claims for unemployment com
pensation, a guage of the rate
of layoffs, rose early in May
after falling for several weeks.
The reports present a mixed
picture for the individual, but
the surprising surge in orders
of durable goods was one of the
clearest signs yet that a
business recovery is near.
carry a message of gratitude to President
Ford.
She in turn assured him only “a small
percentage” of Americans are hostile
toward the refugees.
Mrs. Ford also visited the camp’s make
shift school, interrupting a class in which
some 40 Vietnamese children were
learning English by reading “This Land is
Your Land.” She stopped many times to
talk to the homeless children, some of
whom wore full-sized field jackets that
dragged on the ground.
She later confided that she had
considered adopting a Vietnamese child
but has since abandoned the idea.
Although Mrs. Ford asked camp
officials several times why the refugee
relocation was going so slowly, she told
reporters on the flight back to Washington
after her four-day California visit that she
intended to tell the President she was
“impressed with the excellent job they
have done with setting up the camp.”
“I was impressed how very sincere they
were and how really happy they appeared
to be. They were all smiles. They seemed
to feel as though they were being
adequately taken care of.”
Talmadge says
food stamps
mismanaged
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., said
Wednesday that President
Ford’s decision to use military
force to recover the merchant
ship seized by Cambodia was
“the only way to preserve our
respect and integrity in the
world.”
Talmadge also said in a
television interview that abuses
in the food stamp program are
largely the result of mis
management.
He said the food stamp law
has been amended to include
deductions that “really got it
up to where people above the
poverty level under certain
conditions could get food
stamps”.
“That to my way of thinking
is wrong.”
He said also he hoped state
officials in Georgia would be
more careful in certifying
persons for food stamps since
the General Accounting Office
had found that 32 per cent of
those getting the stamps in his
home state were ineligible.