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Cub Scout Marshall Woodall gives Old Glory a salute as he prepared to celebrate Memorial
Day in Griffin Monday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Woodall, Terrace street. A Bi
centennial program will be a highlight of the day. It will be held at Hill and Solomon streets
beginning at 5:30 p.m. The square will be blocked off so the Drum and Fife Corps of
Washington, D.C., with area high school bands can present a program of music. Merchants
in the downtown area cooperated with the program by decorating windows to carry out the
Bi-Centennial theme.
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Col. Quincy Collins of Cobb
County, former POW in the
Vietnam war, will be the
principal speaker for the bi
centennial program Monday
afternoon. He is scheduled to
talk beginning at 6 p.m. at Hill
and Solomon.
Environmental score
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fifteen fifth
graders from a little town in Vermont
toured Washington the other day. But
instead of the Lincoln Memorial and the
Washington Monument, they visited the
Scary Dairy and the Pumpkin Shell.
What the youngsters from Wilmington,
Vt., were seeing were the neighborhood
landmarks and playing places of kids their
age who attend 106-year-old Stevens
School five blocks west of the White House.
The trip, on foot, took several hours as
the Stevens fifth graders led their visitors
to the fire station (“They have a cheap
soda machine”), the neighborhood library
(“More books than school”) and to the
“Scary Dairy,” an abandoned Sealtest
plant (“ENORMOUS rats”).
Then, a stop for soft drinks and ice
cream cones at the Pumpkin Shell, a
Chinese carryout, and on to Rock Creek
Park to throw stones at the water and on to
DuPont Circle for tag and frisbie.
Simon Nicholson, one of the adults who
tried to keep up with the tour, described
the itinerary as “an environmental score”
—a kind of program of things to see and do.
The point, Nicholson said, was to demon
strate that environmental scores invented
by children for themselves were often
quite different than scores invented by
adults for children.
As if to prove the thesis, it turned out
Swimming policeman
has to give it up
BIMINI, Bahamas (UPI) —
Husky Ben Huggard, a Long
Island policeman who hoped to
set a new long distrance
swimming record, was thwartr
ed by stinging jellyfish and the
collapse of his protective shark
cage after 28 hours in the
Gulfstream.
The 35-year-old Huggard of
Freeport, L.1., was at least 60
miles short of his objective of
165 miles Friday when he was
forced to shore, but his
handlers claimed he had
surpassOd the record 91 miles
covered by Cookie Baker
Walter Poenich in 1972.
The swim began at 1:22 p.m.
Thursday off Marathon in the
Florida Keys and ended some
25 miles southwest of this tiny
resort island about 5:30 p.m.
Friday.
Aching from the sometimes-
that the kids from Vermont had many of
the same kinds of places on their own
environmental scores as the Washington
inner city youngsters.
Scott, peering out from a mop of long
hair, gave the fire station a close
examination, and observed that it was a lot
like the one he often “hanged around” in
Wilmington.
Keith, Leslie and Becky, leading five
visitors through the shell of the dairy,
scrambled up rusty and rickety iron
ladders and dodge debris left by the
vanished machinery. No rats showed
themselves, but there were lots of bits of
pipe and cork and wire to collect.
One of the Vermont mothers expressed
alarm about the building, saying there was
nothing that dangerous to play in around
Wilmington.
The visiting principal, Sid Dupont of
Deerfield Valley Elementary, asked the
mother if her children hadn’t played in an
abandoned house in the town before it was
torn down. In the yard, maybe, but
certainly not in the house, she replied.
Dupont beckoned one of his charges
over. Assuring her that no one was going to
get into trouble, he asked if she and her
brothers had ever played in the old house.
The girl nodded affirmatively.
“In the basement, too?” he asked.
“Yes,” she said, looking nervously at her
mother.
lethal sting of a Portuguese
Man O’War, Huggard finally
called it quits when the steel
mesh cage which protected him
from shark attacks collapsed
beyond repair. The Gulfstream
waters around Bimini are
heavily populated by large
sharks.
He was stung Friday morning
when the jellyfish drifted
through his cage, but Huggard
had been determined to go on.
“It’s pretty bad,” he said.
“I’ve been stung before by
jellyfish, but this is worse.”
It was the disintegration of
the 1,400-pound shark cage in
the eight-foot waves which
finally led to the decision to
call off the attempt. Plastic
flotation gear began breaking
away early Friday from the
device. Continued repair efforts
finally failed in the rough seas.
GRIFFIN
DAILY^NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Americans leave Laos;
embassy burns papers
By FREDERICK H. MARKS
VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) —
The United States flew another
80 women and children from
Laos to Thailand today and
began burning non-essential
embassy documents in the face
of anti-American demonstra
tions and increasing Communist
control of the country.
A charter flight brought the
80 dependents of U.S. officials
in Laos to Bangkok and
officials said they expected
another flight later in the day.
Two chartered planes flew
159 women and children out of
the country Friday in the first
stage of the planned evacuation
of most of the 1,000 Americans
from Laos.
Those planes were allowed to
leave only after lengthy
negotiations among U.S. of
ficials, leftist student leaders
and Communist Pathet Lao
representatives. Communist
troops had earlier barred the
Americans from leaving their
residential compound.
Some 500 Laotian employes of
the U.S. Agency for Internation
al Development mission demon
strated for an hour to demand
pay checks delayed by the
seizure of AID officers by
student demonstrators.
The Laotians milled around
the closed gates outside the
windowless two-story concrete
embassy building to protest the
delay in salaries they normally
would have received last
Wednesday.
They hung a sign on the
embassy fence which read
“Embassy please order finance
section to pay our salaries. We
won’t be not mad if you do
that.”
Laotian-speaking U.S. Air
Force Capt. James D. Quinn
went with a delegation of the
workers to the USAID com
pound seized by the students
last Wednesday, but was
unsuccessful in efforts to get
the students to leave so the AID
employes could be paid.
Student leaders rejected the
proposal and demanded that
three Americans locked inside
buildings at the compound
leave, a suggestion that was in
turn rejected by U.S. officials.
U.S. embassy sources dis
closed the destruction of
documents has been going on
for several days.
Embassy officials described
the step as a routine precau
tionary measure. Similar
moves were taken before the
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These Griffinite* greeted camera people and others who
came to Griffin yesterday to film segments of a movie on
the bi-centennial. Other places in Georgia will be
featured, too. The film will be about the 13 original
colonies, Georgia being one of these. Greeting die movie
makers at the Lewis-Mills Home on North Hill street were
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, May 24,1975
final evacuation of American
missions in Cambodia and
South Vietnam.
Within the past week about
230 of the approximately 850
official Americans and their
dependents in Laos have left.
Gordon Ramsey, acting direc
tor for the U.S. Agency for
International Development, told
newsmen Friday the entire
American AID staff would be
evacuated except for a small
negotiating team to arrange the
final dissolution of the AID
mission.
All provincial AID missions
have already been closed.
At the 10-acre AID compound
two U.S. Marine guards and a
civilian remained locked inside
concrete buildings under orders
to “hold the fort” while about
200 student protestors milled
around outside.
U.S. officials said the three
Americans were beginning to
run low on food.
Fishing
report
Here is the Georgia Departr
ment of Natural Resources
fishing forecast for the week
starting Sunday: High Falls:
full and muddy ; fishing slow for
all species. Jackson Lake:
normal, lake is clear, rivers are
muddy; excellent for bream
using red wigglers and crickets,
good for bass using purple
plastic worms. Flint River:
normal and clear, fishing fair
for all species. Ocmulgee
River: rising and stained;
fishing is slow.
Hospital Council asks
doctors to return
By United Press International
The Hospital Council of
Southern California has called
on striking doctors to return to
work for a 90-day cooling-off
period.
The strikers have received
angry warnings from legisla
tors to return to work while the
legislature wrestles with the
malpractice insurance problem.
“As long as the legislature
continues to act in good
faith,’’doctor work stoppages
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Golden age love
Mr. Albert Bell Conger and Mrs. IJU« Mae Glass were
united in marriage yesterday at the Salvation Army
Chapel on 13th street. The Rev. Elvyn McDonald, pastor
of Hanleiter United Methodist Church, performed the
ceremony. Many members of the Golden Age Club
attended the wedding and honored the Congers at a
reception. The Congers are members of the club. That’s
where they met.
can have no further effect in
speeding enactment of short
range solutions,” says Hospital
Council President Stewart
Marylander.
The California Assembly
Ways and Means committee
Friday unanimously approved
stopgap legislation to shodt
down skyrocketing malpractice
insurance rates.
The legislation would reduce
soaring malpractice insurance
premiums to only 50 per cent
(l-r) City Commissioner Preston Bonn, Bi-Centennial
Chairman Doug Hollberg, Mayor Louis Goldstein, Jake
Cheatham of the Historical Society, City Commissioner
Raymond Head and Andrew Blake of the Historical
Society.
above the pre-crisis Jan. 1
level. Some insurance compa
nies have boosted rates by as
much as 600 per cent over those
in effect Jan. 1, and thousands
of physicians are withholding
their services in protest.
The legislation, to be consid
ered by the full Assembly
Tuesday, would require insur
ance companies to pool and
provide insurance to doctors
who cannot otherwise get it.
Vol. 103 No. 123
Five die
on state
roads
By United Press International
At least five persons were
killed on Georgia highways by
Saturday morning, accounting
for one fourth of the State
Patrol’s predicted 20 deaths for
the Memorial Day weekend.
Two teenagers were killed
when their car crashed headon
with another in the Smyrna city
limits Friday night. The vic
tims were Cynthia Yarbrough,
16, and Alan Lee Crowley, 15,
both of Smyrna.
Another accident claimed the
lives of two men in the Douglas
city limits Saturday morning.
The State Patrol said Barry
Courson of West Green and
Jimmy Mclntosh of Waycross
• were killed when their car
overturned on a curve while
traveling at high speed.
Harold Jefferson Henderson,
21, of Thomasville was killed
when he stopped at an
intersection in Thomas County,
then pulled into the path of an
oncoming vehicle Saturday
morning, the patrol said. The
State Patrol predicted Friday
that 20 persons will be killed
and 280 injured in 880 traffic
accidents around Georgia over
the Memorial Day weekend.
Bill Wilson, public relations
officer for the patrol, said
Friday the forecast was 16 per
cent under that for last year.
He said the biggest factor in
the reduction was the 55 mph
speed limit.
Motorists were advised to
stay within the speed limit
because, starting at 6 p.m.
Friday and ending at midnight
Monday, patrolmen will be
“working around the clock” on
the state’s highways, Wilson
said. The Civil Air Patrol said
it will have as many as 20
planes surveying the main
arteries.
“That’s in addition to the
three helicopters and the plane
we will have flying,” Wilson
said.
Troopers, he said, who
normally are assigned to
nontraffic duties will also be
working on the roads this
weekend.
Convicted
detectives
lose pay
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Four
of five Macon police detectives
convicted Thursday of taking
bribes have been removed from
the city payroll and the fifth
has taken retirement, city
officials said Friday.
Acting Police Chief J.E.
Brooks said he will recommend
three of the detectives be fired.
Detective L.M. Brown was
granted retirement after 27
years service and Brooks said
he understood Detective Chief
B.C. Cranford would also retire.
He said he will recommend to
the city council police commit
tee that the other three officers
—Capt. Julian Seymour, R.L.
Newsome and J.A. Finney —be
dismissed.
temptation — especially as
more enticing ones come
along.”