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Vol. 103 No. 166
Cosmonauts rocket
flawlessly into orbit
Apollo-Soy us
timetable
HOUSTON (UPI) — Timetable of major events for the
Apollo-Soyuz international spaceflight for today and
Wednesday (all times EDT, based on on-time launchings
and subject to change):
Today, July 15
3:50 p.m. — Apollo astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance
Brand and Donald K. Slayton are launched from Cape
Canaveral. (TV).
4 p.m. — Apollo reaches orbit ranging from 103 to 93
miles high.
5:04 p.m. — Apollo separates from its spent Saturn
rocket. (TV).
5:13 p.m. — Apollo turns around and docks with the
docking module mounted on the nose of the Saturn. (TV).
5:55 p.m. — Nine-minute telecast begins showing crew
activities in the Apollo.
6:24 p.m. — With docking module linked to it, Apollo
fires control rockets to move away from the Saturn,
slightly raising its orbit to 103 by 94 miles high. (TV).
7:20 p.m. — Soyuz cosmonauts begin eight-hour sleep
period.
7:35 p.m. — Apollo fires its main engine to begin
rendezous maneuvers, switching into orbit ranging from
102 to 101 miles high.
9:31 p.m. — Apollo fires its main engine again to move
into orbit 145 to 105 miles high.
10:38 p.m. — Apollo uses its main engine to change the
plane of its orbit, if necessary, to correspond with the
Soyuz orbit.
Wednesday, July 16
12:10 a.m. — Apollo astronauts begin eight-hour sleep
period.
3:20 a.m. — Soyuz cosmonauts awaken, have breakfast
and perform spacecraft systems check. Soyuz is in its 14th
orbit.
8:10 a.m. — Astronauts awaken during their 11th orbit.
8:46 a.m. — Soyuz maneuvers into circular orbit 140
miles high.
10:20 a.m. — Apollo crew checks out the docking
module. (TV).
12:31 p.m. — Cosmonauts test television link between
Soyuz and U.S. control center in Houston.
4:42 p.m. — Apollo corrects orbit, if required, for
rendezvous with Soyuz.
6:40 p.m. — Soyuz cosmonauts begin eight-hour sleep
period.
9:20 p.m. — Apollo astronauts begin eight-hour sleep
period.
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Meter money
David Bolton (1) and Doug Bollberg (c) present $7,000 check to Mayor Louis Goldstein,
representing the city, from merchants who raised the money to keep about 400 meter-free
off street parking places downtown for another year. The check was presented this morning
during an administrative session of the city commissioners.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, July 15,1975
GRIFFIN
By AL ROSSITER JR.
UPI Science Editor
Two Russian cosmonauts
carrying a United Nations flag
rocketed flawlessly into orbit
from a Central Asian desert
today 7% hours before three
Americans were scheduled to
blast off for history’s first
meeting in space of men from
two nations.
Col. Alexei Leonov and
civilian flight engineer Valeri
Kubasov reported their Soyuz
19 spaceship was working
perfectly as it circled the globe
in the opening half of the
international project drawing
the attention of millions around
the world.
America’s Apollo astronauts
Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand
and Donald “Deke” Slayton
waited patiently at Cape
Canaveral, Fla., for launch at
3:50 p.m. EDT in pursuit of
their Russian comrades. Con
gratulations from the Ameri
cans were radioed to the
cosmonauts nearly two hours
after launch.
“Thank you very much,”
Leonov said. “Everything is
perfect.”
President Ford and 300 others
Soviets watch
first launch
MOSCOW (UPI) - An
estimated 100 million Soviet
citizens, watching the first live
television broadcast of a
manned Soviet spaceshot, saw
two cosmonauts rocket safely
into orbit today for an historic
rendezvous in space with three
Americans.
“Very slight swinging...pres
sure normal ... everything is
perfect,” radioed Lt. Col.
Alexei E. Leonov, the comman
der, as the Soyuz ship dwindled
on TV screens to a bobbimg
white pinpoint of light.
Small crowds stood outside
Moscow radio and television
stores, exclaiming “They’re
off!” as the ship lifted off from
the Baikonur launch site.
“One hundred seconds, nor
mal,” came the voice from
Soyuz. “One hundred twenty
seconds ...140 seconds .. 160
seconds and that sky is very,
very blue... everything is going
okay.”
watched on television in the
State Department auditorium in
Washington as the Russians
blasted off and the Pressident
led the cheers and applause as
the two cosmonauts went into
orbit. He said he was “very
impressed.”
The countdown at the Florida
oceanside spaceport was click
ing along without a hitch and
project officials reported the
best weather there in months.
If all goes according to plan,
the five spacemen will meet in
orbit Thursday, docking 136
miles above Germany. The
symbolic handshake will come
three hours later when Stafford
floats through a special docking
module-airlock to Soyuz.
Leonov, 41-year-old Soyuz
commander, and Kubasov, 40,
blasted away only five thou
sandths of a second late at 8:20
a.m. EDT (4:20 p.m. local
time) from Baikonur Cosmo
drome near the town of
Tyuratam east of the Aral Sea.
With Soviet television beam
ing the view to hundreds of
millions of persons around the
globe for the first time, the 162-
foot, 20-engine Soyuz rocket
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Moments later came the
announcement Soyuz was safely
in orbit and Leonov and
engineer Valeri Kubasov start
ed checking out systems.
It was a normal working day
here and television officials
said they expected an even
bigger audience for the Apollo
liftoff later today since workers
will be home by then.
The cosmonauts sounded as
cheerful aboard the spacecraft
as they sped away from earth
as they did when they went
aboard.
Leonov happily called “Go to
the devil” — an idiomatic
Russian expression which best
translates as “knock on wood.”
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 66, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 64, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in upper 60. Total rain
fall at Sunny Side weather
station .54 of an inch.
Atlanta to buy
Paulding site
ATLANTA (UPI) — The City of Atlanta today formally
makes a $lO million purchase of a possible site for a
second major city airport in Paulding County.
Chief Administrative Officer Jules Sugarman said the
deal for the purchase of more than 10,000 acres of land
from the Aldephi Investment Corp, would be finalized
today at closing proceedings.
A spokesman for Mayor Maynard Jackson said “what’s
happening is the formal signing of the papers. The
agreement to buy the Paulding County land was made by
the Atlanta City Council several months ago and the down
payment was made several months ago.”
Sugarman said $900,000 has already been paid the
investment group, formed by Atlanta real estate
developer Tom Cousins, and the full $lO million would be
paid today.
He said a recent Atlanta Regional Commission decision
not to plan for a second city airport in Paulding County
because the site was outside their seven-county planning
area did not alter the city’s plans.
Paulding County is located some 35 miles northwest of
Atlanta and is under the jurisdiction of the Coosa Valley
authority rather than the ARC.
Sugarman said the Coosa Valley authority favors the
purchase, as does the major airlines.
“What the ARC decided was that they had no
jurisdiction,” Sugarman said. “Therefore their position
was no position at all.”
“What we have consistently said is that the land
appears to have the potential of a good airport site and
unless we get it under government ownership at this point,
the time could pass so that we could never acquire it.”
Daily Since 1872
General Assembly budget cuts
cost local schools $452,000
The Griffin-Spalding County
School System’s share of the
budget cuts made by the
General Assembly last week
will amount to some $452,000,
according to Supt. Ben Christie.
Mr. Christie explained to the
school board last night that the
figure includes loses of around
$275,000 in teacher pay raises,
$82,231 for the kindergarten
program, $15,420 for instruc
tional media, $5,000 for instruc
tional equipment, $9,000 in
school bus drivers’ salary
raises, and $60,000 for adult
education.
The number of professional
people in the system (teachers,
principals, counselors, etc.) will
not be decreased except in the
kindergarten program. It has
been cut in half from the
proposed six units to three
units.
The state will continue to
finance kindergartens to
accommodate three divisions.
They are for children with
physical and mental handicaps
and those emotionally distur
bed. Kindergarten classes for
each of these three divisions
will meet both in the mornings
and in the afternoons, each with
classes of 12 children or a total
of 72.
In addition, a new kinder
garten program, open only to
children whose parents are on
welfare, will be financed with
federal funds.
Mr. Christie said there will be
four of these classes with 20
students each. They will meet
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“It’s bad manners to swear at
farmers with your mouth full.”
BAIKONUR, USSR — Soviet cosmonauts Valeri Kubasov (1) and Alexei Leonov (r) salute
as they report in to board their Soyuz spacecraft here today. (UPI)
all day. Names of eligible
children must come through the
Department of Family and
Children Services, he said.
The church sponsored kinder
gartens at the schools will
continue as in the past, Christie
added. Some 120 children are
enrolled in the six classes.
The jobs of three reading
teachers have been cut. They
had been scheduled to work in
disadvantaged schools and have
been transferred to teaching
jobs.
The board also approved a
multi-county application for
adult education programs.
The system will have to ex
plain to the state how it spends
money on the adult programs,
before the money will be ap
proved, according to Larry
Dunn, coordinator.
Spalding is headquarters for
the program which also in
volves adult classes in Pike,
Coweta, Fayette, Jasper,
Lamar, Monroe, Upson and
Butts Counties.
Dunn said he expects the
system will get the same
amount ($120,000) to operate as
was received last year. The
program is 90 percent financed
from federal funds, with 10
percent coming from the state.
Dunn said he is writing a
project for the center which he
hopes will bring in some $30,000
to finance home-bound instruc
tors to get at the problem of
illiteracy, in addition to the
classes at the center.
The school policy handbook
52 percent didn’t know
How many senators
does state have?
ATLANTA (UPI) — A poll of
600 Georgians across the state
shows that 52 per cent did not
know how many United States
senators the state has, but of
the two senators, Herman
Talmadge is the best known.
The poll, conducted by
Darden Research Corp, here,
shows that persons in urban
areas were correct on the
senators question about 57.5 per
cent of the time, while a rural
City may change code
for Holiday Inn license
The Board of Griffin City
Commissioners is considering
changing the city code to enable
the Holiday Inn to obtain a
liquor pouring license.
This morning during the
commissioners’ planning
session, Innkeeper Guenter
Roesch and his assistant, Terry
Couch, asked the commiss
ioners what they were going to
do about the Inn’s application
which was submitted six
months ago.
Holiday Inn, under present
regulations, does not qualify.
The city code requires that
places which sell mixed drinks
be at least 51 feet away from
residences and that the owners
reside in Spalding County for at
least 12 months.
Holiday Inn has two resi
dences at its rear. Its owners
live out of state. Innkeeper
Roesch moved his family here
nine months ago and has pur-
was approved with Mrs. Mary
Stinson’s stating she would have
to study further the section
concerning students who are
expelled because of behavior
problems but are allowed to
continue their education at the
adult centers.
A citizens’ committee helped
compose the policy handbook.
Board members voted to
commend the committee for
their hard work. Several
members present at last night’s
meeting were Miss Ann Hill
Drewry, chairman, Russell
Smith, also a board member,
Mrs. Barbara Alexander,
Tommy Jones, Gene Kierbow,
Mabel Cook, William Walker
and Bob Nix.
Mrs. Yvonne Langford, public
relations chairman, said her
committee is planning question
aires to be filled out by sample
groups of teachers, parents and
students.
The answers will be tabulated
with the results put to use to
help the school system, she
said.
The board approved her re
commendation that a citizens’
committee be appointed to help
formulate the questions.
Many citizens, Mrs. Langford
said, already have volunteered
to make up the questions and
help with the distributing and
tabulations of the answers.
The questionnaires will be
subject to the board’s approval.
She said the object would be
to get constructive ideas and
suggestions to help the system.
area resident knew the right
answer about 41.5 per cent of
the time.
When asked to name the
senators, Telmadge was named
by 63.8 per cent of those polled,
while Sen. Sam Nunn was listed
by only 40.3 per cent of the
time and 29.5 per cent said they
did not know the names with 12
per cent naming the wrong
ones. Gov. George Busbee was
rated as doing a good job, by
56.7 per cent of those polled,
chased a home here.
Mr. Roesch asked the com
missioners to either change the
code or make an exception to
Holiday Inn.
He said the inn will close its
lounge and when remodeling is
complete, the dining room will
be moved there with the present
dining area reserved for large
groups and meetings. Mixed
drinks would be served only in
the dining room with meals. No
drinks could be purchased for
consumption in the rooms, he
explained.
He contended the actual
premises of consumption is the
dining area, which would more
than meet the city code. It is 180
feet from the residences.
He noted another lounge
(Plaza Grill on East Solomon
street) erected a fence around
its entrance to meet its license
requirements that it be 600 feet
from Griffin High.
Approval was made to accept
a pipe line’s offer of $3,080 for a
20 foot right of way at the edge
of the Jackson Road School
property.
The following new teachers
were elected:
Anne street — Mrs. Ann
Carter, kindergarten.
East Griffin—Miss Casandra
Houston, second grade.
Fourth Ward — Miss Lisa
Medlock, EMR.
Moore — Martin Mosteller,
fifth grade.
West Griffin — Miss Eliza
beth Price, first grade.
Spalding II — James Bieniek,
reading and Thomas Keith,
science.
Spalding I — Mrs. Louise
Hodges, social studies; Robert
Lacher, mathematics; Miss
Diane Potter, physical educa
tion.
Griffin High — Miss Annette
Parker, biology.
Miss Elizabeth Martin —
behavioral disorders.
Reginald Mcßride — elemen
tary music.
Resignations included Mrs.
Connie Most, kindergarten at
Anne street; Miss Emily Bailey
fifth grade, and Mrs. Shelly
Williams, fourth grade, at
Atkinson; Mrs. Anne Batchelor,
librarian at Spalding 11.
Mr. Phil Crawford who taught
fifth grade at Moore was
granted retirement.
Student and athletic in
surance was awarded to
Bankers Fidelity, handled by O.
M. Snider Insurance agency.
t but when asked the same thing
: about President Ford, only 49
per cent of those surveyed
! thought he was performing
I well.
I In the same poll, 56.2 per
’ cent said doctors were the most
respected member of the
' community, while lawyers got
! only an 8.8 per cent vote of
i respectability.
’ The poll was conducted July
7-10 via telephone interviews.
Commissioners Preston Bunn
and R. L. “Skeeter” Nors
worthy said they had opposed
the fence.
Presently the Holiday Inn
serves beer and wine. Roesch
asked the commissioners where
a couple could go for a meal and
drinks in Griffin unless they
belong to a private club.
Most of his customers are
commercial travelers who if
they want a drink must stop at a
liquor store and carry the bottle
to their rooms, he said.
If the license is granted,
Roesch assured the commiss
ioners there would be no
disturbances or drunkenness.
Everything would be under
control, he promised.
Mayor Louis Goldstein and
Commissioner Raymond Head
both said they thought the or
dinance should be varied or
changed so the license can be
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