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In the garden at 95.
Man celebrates
95th in garden
Milton Ross observed his 95th
birthday working in his garden.
He lives alone near Milner
just off old Highway 41.
He is the only survivor in his
family of seven sisters and two
brothers. Some nieces and
nephews live nearby and drop in
to visit and help him with a few
chores.
But mostly he looks after
himself.
He cooks.
Sometimes he eats two meals
a day. Sometimes three a day.
It just depends.
He already has a fine looking
garden coming up and expects
to make up to S3OO on it this
year.
“I need the money to pay the
doctor,” he said.
He’s having trouble with
vains in his legs and has to see a
doctor monthly to have them
dressed.
But trouble with his legs does
not keep him from his daily stint
in the garden. He has corn,
butterbeans, squash and even
some peanuts.
“This is the only thing I own,”
Mr. Ross said, pointing to his
potato hoe. The maddock and
another hoe nearby are
borrowed, he said.
He said he had paid $6 for his
potato hoe.
He likes to watch television at
night and sometimes stays up
late enough to catch the Johnny
Carson show.
“Depends on whether the
Would women rulers mean an end to wars?
By DONALD P. MYERS
United Press International
“Few little girls settle children’s quarrels with a fist
fight,” said Sherry Chenoweth of Minneapolis.
So she said women should have the chance to become
world leaders and put an end to war.
“Women haven’t had the opportunity to run the world.
The jury is still out,” said the woman who is Minnesota
state director of consumer services. “There’s no question
historically that men have made a mess of governing and
women should be given a chance to gain access to power
centers.
“Give us a chance.”
The wives of the leaders of Israel and Egypt believe
there would be no more wars if women ran the world.
“Can you imagine battalions of women fighting among
themselves?” said Mrs. Lea Rabin, wife of the Israeli
prime minister. Mrs. Gihan Sadat, wife of the Egyptian
(resident, said wars would end only “when women occupy
the key posts.”
They made the comments at the World Conference of
programs are any good,” he
said.
He washes his own socks but
some kin folks helps him with
the rest of his laundry.
He’s been a farmer and
carpenter all his life. He had to
drop out of school in the sixth
grade.
But his father told him he
could succeed if he cultivated
what he had.
Friends and relatives
celebrated Mr. Ross’ birthday
last Sunday — father’s day with
some gifts and a little party.
He’s never been married.
“But I tried,” he quipped,
with a twinkle in his eyes, now
dim with age.
As two visitors were leaving
his yard yesterday, they
thanked him for the time he had
taken from his gardening.
“That’s all right, it’ll be there
tomorrow,” he said.
Rabies spreading nearby
Although rabies seems to be
spreading in two of Spalding’s
adjoining counties, the sheriff’s
department here said today it
has not received any reports of
the disease.
Since the first of April, two
Lamar County residents have
been attacked and bitten by
rabid foxes. Both victims are
receiving anti-rabies treatment
to prevent contracting the
disease.
Within the past month, two
mad raccoons have been found
Gov. Busbee
to outline
money pinch
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee, faced with one
of the state’s “biggest financial
crises ever,” will go on
statewide television tonight to
tell Georgians about the money
pinch and spell out how he
thinks it should be handled.
Busbee, who has ordered
legislators to convene in special
session Monday, plans to
propose the chopping of SIOB
million from state the budget
for the 1976 fiscal year —a
move which is sure to bring
sharp criticizm from pressure
groups.
Busbee instructed state de
partment heads Wednesday to
cut $35 million from their
collective budgets for the new
year, which begins July 1. He
said he would slash the
remaining $73 million to meet a
SIOB million deficit.
“If you can help me come
forward with S3O million to $35
million, I can come up with the
$73 million to S7B million,”
Busbee told the officials. He
said he would make the cuts
without reducing critical ser
vices.
He will make the statewide
broadcast explaining the cuts at
8 p.m. tonight.
House Appropriations Chair
man Joe Frank Harris called
on the department heads to
reduce their budgets by 12 per
cent, compared to the 4 per
cent cuts requested by Busbee.
The officials were to have
their proposals ready for
Busbee by noon today. Harris
gave them until Friday to come
up with plans for 12 per cent
cuts.
Among programs which may
be cut is the $35 million
property tax relief program,
which House Speaker Tom
Murphy has already said he
will fight to retain. Teacher and
other state employe pay raises,
scheduled to become effective
in September, may be delayed
until January. State hiring may
be frozen, along with various
capital outlay projects. The
$10.5 million budgeted for the
International Women’s Year, which opened today in
Mexico City.
American women aren’t sure that they could bring
world peace. But they would like the chance to try.
“Women are more attuned to keeping harmony,” said
New York City Police Lt. Mary Keefe, 45. “They’ve been
doing it for years in family life. It probably would be a
better world.”
“I think the world would be more peaceful if women ran
it because I feel that many women are much more
humanistic and much more nurturing and more
concerned about feelings,” said Marilyn Shuler, 35,
president of the Boise, Idaho, school board.
“I think there would be some changes in foreign
policy,” said Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 42, California’s
first black congresswoman. “The idea of proving who is
the strongest is not part of a woman’s philosophy.”
Rhea Grossman, a Miami judge, said world peace has
nothing to do with the sex of world leaders.
“Any competent individual, male or female, who is
placed in a position as head of state can avoid war and
conflicts,” she said. “I believe avoiding war is a matter of
GRIFFIN
DAILYt’NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 145
in Butts County in the Buttrill
road area about a mile and a
half from the Jackson city
limits.
Both Lamar County cases
were in the Redbone District
near the W. A. Sullivan farm
and Zellner road at Sugar Hill
Farm.
The second case in Lamar
County occurred on June 6. The
victim’s small dog, which also
was bitten by the fox, had to be
destroyed as it had never been
inoculated against rabies.
The second rabid coon in
statewide kindergarten pro
gram may be chopped.
The state’s largest education
group has already thrown the
first punch against any move to
cut state employe salaries.
Carl Hodges, executive secre
tary of the Georgia Association
of Educators, said Wednesday
that employe salaries should
not be tampered with.
“All state employes are in
dire need of cost of living
raises granted by the General
Assembly this spring,” he said.
“Cutting their salaries instead
of considering reductions in
other areas would be a major
mistake.”
Officials of the 27,000-member
GAE have already suggested
the legislators eliminate the
property tax rebate, saying it
would afford “minimal if any
relief to most citizens.”
They called on the legislature
to cut all new and “non
essential” programs.
Sen. Horace Tate, one of the
state’s two black senators, has
suggested the lawmakers raise
taxes on “non-essential items
such as cigarettes, whiskey and
beer.” He said the special
session should be used to find
new sources of revenue instead
of cut the budget.
Busbee announced the money
crisis Tuesday, saying it sprung
up because the economy didn’t
turn around as soon as
expected. Only two weeks
before, he had said the state
faced a S4O million deficit by
the end of the current year.
The state would have the SIOB
million deficit by the end of
fiscal year 1976.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
90, low today 64, high yesterday
91, low yesterday 69, high
tomorrow in low 90s, low tonight
in upper 60s, total rainfall at the
weather station .23 of an inch.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, June 19,1975
Butts County was discovered on
June 6 also.
It had been killed by dogs and
dragged into the yard of a
family on Buttrill road. Four
days later when a report was
received from the Com
municable Disease Center in
Atlanta that the animal was
rabid, W. E. Essich, Butts
County Sanitarian, obtained
permission from the man who
discovered the coon to have his
nine dogs destroyed, since he
lacked the funds to have them
By ANDREW A. YEMMA
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPl)—“The laser beam is perfectly
harmless,” they told me. “The only possible danger is if
you look directly into it up close. It could burn your
eyeballs out.”
Ray Stanford’s invitation to participate in an historical
event sounded encouraging. Crazy Ray, as he’s called by
some of the more skeptical news folk around town, was at
it again, trying to talk to visitors from outer space.
Stanford directs Project Starlight International, a
group which for the past two years has been attempting to
attract Unidentified Flying Objects to a 100-foot wide
circle of blinking lights on a remote hilltop northwest of
Austin.
A month ago, Stanford announced his group had
acquired $25,000 worth of scientific equipment to be used
in an experiment which could result in man’s first
communication with a UFO.
The system, crudely translated from the highly
technical jargon expounded by Stanford, involves the
transmission of a television image of a test pattern
through a neon-helium laser beam from the ground to a
UFO.
To show the system could work, Stanford dared me to go
up in a helicopter with a television camera and point it
directly into the path of the laser beam. The camera
would record the television picture on video tape and the
tape would be replayed when the helicopter landed.
A check with a few authorities disclosed the laser was
harmless from a distance greater than about 100 feet. The
Gasoline higher, short
CHICAGO (UPI) - The
honeymoon is ending for
American motorists, according
to a petroleum industry expert.
Herbert Hugo, senior editor
of Platt’s Oilgram, a daily
publication on the petroleum
industry, warns gasoline prices
will rise by three to five cents a
gallon by the Fourth of July —
just in time to catch holiday
motorists.
Keep education money-Christie
D. B. Christie, superintendent
of the Griffin-Spalding County
Schools System, said today that
he’d rather see the $35-million
tax relief program deleted from
the state budget than to see
reductions in the educational
budget.
“It is my belief that the $35-
million allocated by the General
Assembly for tax relief should
be deleted altogether, since the
properly educating our young people, ridding ourselves of
our prejudices and having competent people to lead us.”
Some American women believe their role is still in the
home.
Mrs. Ann Knowles, 60, of the Detroit suburb of Lincoln
Park, believes in the traditional role of women. “There’s
nothing women can do to change the world,” she said.
“They’ve got their own place —in the home —and there’s
where they can change things.”
Jean Dawson, mayor of Mahtomedi, Minn., said women
might, make better world leaders than men because
females are more sensitive. “But women also are liable to
be more retaliatory, so it probably would all balance out
in the long run.”
“Women certainly have no comer on the market where
doing right is concerned,” said Cynthia Vanda, 37,
director of the University of Pittsburgh women’s center.
“But if women have and take the opportunity to really
develop their own abilities, rather than copying men’s
way of running the world, I think that a more peaceful
world would be possible.”
vaccinated.
A 10th dog belonging to a
neighbor also was killed.
The first rabid coon was
discovered in the Towaliga
District of Butts County on May
18.
Residents in the areas of both
counties were cautioned not to
handle sick dogs, cats, cattle or
other animals and to confine
any strange acting animal for
observation.
Anyone bitten should im
mediately consult a physician,
county health department and a
Frisbees, lasers only way to fly
Hugo also says motorists
could encounter short gasoline
supplies by August, forcing
them to queue to await their
chance at the pumps.
He says the high demand for
gasoline could result in short
supplies of fuel oil this winter.
“The latest import tax plus
increased operating costs will
be passed along to motorists
within 10 days,” Hugo told UPI
amount refunded to most indivi
duals would be insignificant and
offer only token relief,” Mr.
Christie said in a letter to Dr.
Jack Nix, state superintendent
of schools.
“I feel that there should be no
reductions in the educational
budget which would be
detrimental to the programs or
services provided for the
children enrolled in our public
schools. I would also suggest
Daily Since 1872
veterinarian.
The best test known to deter
mine if rabies treatment is
needed for anyone bitten, even
if there are no signs of rabies in
the animal, is to confine the
animal for 10 days to see if
symptoms of rabies develop.
In cases of wild or vicious
animal bites where confinement
is not possible, kill the animal,
being careful not to damage the
head which must be examined
for the presence of rabies.
All warm-blooded animals
and humans are susceptible to
helicopter would be at least 2,000 feet away.
Reporters gathered on amid June night for the trip to
the super-secret site where Stanford’s folks have been
trying to attract the UFOs.
While Stanford and seven or eight assistants garbed in
white jumpsuits scrambled around adjusting the $25,000
worth of equipment, Neil Davis, a physicist from San
Diego, Calif., entertained.
Davis threw a frisbee with a magnet attached over a
magnetometer —a device which can supposedly detect
the presence of UFOs in the area. The frisbee caused the
gadget to emit a warbling, high-pitched tone.
Finally a two-seater whirlybird approached the site.
Stanford’s jump-suited assistants displayed equipment I
was to take up in the helicopter.
It seemed simple. Just point this television camera into
the laser beam and turn on the video recorder. Let the
tape run for 30 minutes while the pilot hovers the
helicopter.
We took off and turned on the video recorder, pointing
the camera into the laser beam. It was difficult to keep the
camera in the path of the beam —a spot of red about five
inches in diameter, but I know I got several direct hits.
Thirty minutes later the helicopter landed. Stanford
took the video tape and replayed it on a television screen.
Nothing. The tape was blank.
The next day Stanford called and said it might have
been a low battery on the video recorder. He predicted a
successful test will only be a matter of time.
I can hardly wait until his next telephone call.
Wednesday.
“But the most critical period
will come in August, which
looks like the time we’re likely
to have real problems with
gasoline,” he said.
The demand for gasoline is so
great, Hugo said, that it could
trigger a shortage of fuel oil
during the cold weather
months.
that public elementary and
secondary education receive
priority over other educational
and state agencies in budgetary
matters,” Mr. Christie said.
The letter to Dr. Nix ex
pressed Mr. Christie’s views on
proposed educational budget
cuts necessitated by reduction
in anticipated state revenue.
Mr. Christie said the local
school system had employed all
staff members for the coming
Cynthia Powers, 29, a Baltimore librarian, said
“women are not as violent as men. Jacquelin Wexler, 48,
(resident of Hunter College in New York City, disagrees.
“I think if women look at some of the violent revolution
ary movements in the very recent years, we certainly
have seen as much violence from young women as men,”
she said.
Esther Saperstein, 72, Chicago aiderwoman and former
state senator, said Israel did go to war under Prime
Minister Golda Meir. But she said “women are less apt to
resort to wars to settle problems. I don’t think women
think in terms of war.”
Joyce Ferguson of West Memphis, Ark., the state’s only
woman mayor, believes cooperation is the answer. “Men
and women have to work together for peace. We must love
one another.”
“I’m really not in favor of women running the world,
and I’m not in favor of men running the world,” said
Erma Greenwood, 58, a Knoxville, Tenn., attorney. “I’m
in favor of a partnership between men and women. And
that goes for everything, business, politics, the home.”
rabies.
Symptoms begin to appear
after a long and uncertain
period of inoculation, ranging
from two weeks or less to many
months.
A change in normal behavior
is usually seen.
The Lamar County Board of
Health is recommending action
to reduce the fox population. A
meeting has been scheduled
July 2 to consider adoption of
regulations requiring inocula
tion of all dogs in Lamar
County.
wk
“Often what must be done
isn’t as important as how it is to
be done.”
year based on allotment in
formation provided earlier.
The local superintendent also
suggested that teachers be
given the salary increase ap
proved and funded by the
General Assembly.
“A reduction in salary would
seriously affect teacher morale
and could bring about teacher
strife and discord,” Mr.
Christie wrote.