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GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 169
Space diplomats
trade places today
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Sid Dell (r) greets Ms successor, Jerry Buffington, as director of the Georgia Labor Depart
ment office In Griffin. Dell will retire at the end oi July.
Buffington succeeds
Dell at labor office
Jerry Buffington will succeed
Sid Dell as director of the
Georgia Department of Labor
Office in Griffin Aug. 1.
Dell will retire after 23 years
with the department. He served
in Carrollton, Macon and
Atlanta before coming to Griffin
in September, 1965. He became
manager here in 1969.
Under Dell’s direction, the
Griffin office has been responsi
ble for filling 13.535 non-farm
Army honeymoon
all over now
TACOMA, Wash. (UPI) — The
honeymoon — and the marriage as well —
is over between the Goekes and the Army.
When Timothy Goeke and his wife,
Ellen, joined the Army in 1972, they were
told by recruiters they would be stationed
together and would work the same hours.
The Army heralded them as the first
husband-wife team to enlist under
guarantees and options of the “modem
Army.” But couple says the Army didn’t
live up to its promises, so they’re getting
out.
The Goekes were told they would be
stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison near
Indianapolis, where they would attend
finance school.
Instead, Mrs. Goeke said, she was
ordered to clerk-typist school at Fort Dix,
N.J., and her husband to paratrooper
school at Ft. Benning, Ga.
They objected and both were stationed
at Fort Dix.
There they encountered more problems.
They were told they could not live together
—a promise they had been given upon
They’ll appeal death sentence
SAVANNAH (UPI) — Attorneys for
Johnny L. Johnson of Sumter, S. C.,
sentenced Thursday to die in the electric
chair on Sept. 3 for his conviction of
murdering and raping a 20-year-old
Savannah woman, have said they will
appeal the case as far in the courts as
necessary.
Johnson, 21, was convicted July 9 of
murder, kidnaping, rape and aggravated
assault from a July 21,1974 incident during
which Suzanne Edenfield was killed.
Superior Court Judge George Oliver
Thursday set the time for Johnsons
execution between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, July 18,1975
jobs, 3,736 farm jobs and
training 1,012 people for jobs.
Dell will do some consultant
work on labor problems and
programs after his retirement.
He makes his home at Turin,
Ga.
Before joining the Labor
Department, Buffington worked
in radio for 10 years. He was
affiliated with WTGA in
Thomaston and later with
WPLO in Atlanta.
He transfers to Griffin from
enlistment.
Higher authorities intervened, and they
were permitted to share the same
quarters. Then they were transferred to
Ft. Lewis near Tacoma. This didn’t end
their problems.
The Goekes were not treated too well by
their fellow enlisted men and women at Ft.
Lewis.
“The oldtimers, lifers, weren’t ready to
accept the change,” Spec. 4 Goeke, 25,
said.
The Goekes said other soldiers were
jealous of their combined monthly take
home pay ($800) and he suffered ridicule
when she attained the rank of private first
class before he did.
“I outranked him and — poor Tom — I
mean, you know what the men are like in
the Army. They’re so macho,” she said.
“It got to be one of those things where I
could do no wrong and he could do no
good.”
Mrs. Goeke got out of the Army last
June. Her husband’s enlistment ends in
November.
also sentenced Johnson to life for the rape,
20 years for the kidnaping and 10 years for
aggravated assault to be served
concurrently.
By Georgia law, the case automatically
goes to the state Supreme Court and if the
sentence is upheld then the attorneys can
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, which
has said it will study the capital
punishment issue and make a decision on a
North Carolina case in about a year.
Johnson’s attorneys have said they will
take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if
need be.
the Labor Department at
Gainesville where he was
employer relations representa
tive.
He and his wife, Wanda, have
two children. They are Phil, 14,
and Cindy, 11.
Buffington is music director
of the Atlanta Road Baptist
Tabernacle at Gainesville and
active in gospel singing groups.
The Buffington family will
move to Griffin soon.
Daily Since 1872
HOUSTON (UPI) - Russian
and American space diplomats
traded places aboard their
linked spaceships today and
gave the world 140 miles below
televised tours of their craft
and their homelands.
The three Americans and two
Russians moved between the
Apollo and Soyuz for a series of
ceremonies, experiments and
public relations sightseeing
tours in the name of detente
and scientific cooperation.
They also shared meals but
Soyuz commander Alexei Leo
nov said, in English, “the best
part of a good lunch is not what
you eat but with whom you
eat.”
He had steak and potato soup
with Thomas Stafford and
Donald “Deke” Slayton in the
Apollo and said, “now I eat my
space food with my very good,
very nice friends, Tom and
Deke.”
Vance Brand, the third Apollo
crewman, ate a lunch of shchi,
a soup usually made with sour
cabbage, along with chicken,
plums, strawberries and juices
in the Soyuz cabin with Valeri
Kubasov.
When Leonov moved into the
Apollo for the first time, he
happily greeted Slayton in
English: “Howdy partner, my
old friend.”
Brand, Leonov and television
viewers on Earth were
given tours of the Apollo and
Soyuz spacecraft and later the
spacemen pointed a camera out
the window as the ships swept
at 17,376 miles an hour over the
vast expanse of the Soviet
Union.
Vance Brand moved first to
the Soyuz, greeted Valeri
Kubasov and said good morning
to Moscow control.
Alexei Leonov followed a few
minutes later to the American
docking module before floating
to the Apollo for four hours of
ceremony, work and sightsee
ing in the name of science and
detente.
Bull elephant attacks;
woman is still alive
VALENCIA, Calif. (UPI) — An angry bull elephant
trampled a woman animal handler Thursday and drove
both his tusks into her neck, exposing her jugular vein.
“That she is still alive is a miracle,” said the surgeon
who operated on the wounds.
Beverly Lamping, 33, who manages the animal farm at
the Magic Mountain amusement park with her husband
Frank, was leading a 5-year-old elephant named Bamboo
from a bam to an exhibit area when he suddenly attacked
her for unknown reasons, park officials said.
‘ ‘The elephant just decided to kill me,” she later told her
husband. “He went after me three or four times. He
knocked me down several times. I couldn’t fight him off.”
She crawled bleeding into an auto to escape the attack of
the 700-pound beast.
Surgeons at Golden State Hospital operated for 1%
hours too repair the wounds inflicted by the elephant’s
tusks in the area of her collarbone and neck. She was in
serious but stable condition.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
84, low today 68, high yesterday
85, low yesterday 67, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s. Total
rainfall yesterday .24 of an inch.
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“A farm is where we can
raise wholesome food and
people.”
Thomas Stafford met Leonov
in the docking module and said,
“Alexei just gave me a
present.” He held a portrait of
himself before a television
camera. Leonov is an amateur
artist who is preparing a
collection of sketches on the
joint project.
The third Apollo crewman,
Donald “Deke” Slayton, re
mained behind in the Apollo
during the first of three crew
transfers in the second day of
life aboard the crowded space
homes of Americans and
Russians.
Locked together by a jointly
designed docking apparatus,
the spaceships Apollo and
Soyuz represented what Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev called
“a prototype of future interna
tional orbital stations.”
Stafford opened the hatch
between the docking module
and Soyuz for the first time
today at 5:57 a.m. EDT and
laughed when he saw wires and
hoses floating about.
“Looks like a bunch of snakes
in here, Valeri,” he told
Kubasov.
After awakening from sound
but abbreviated sleeps, the five
crewmen were informed by
their control centers in Houston
and Moscow that what ap
peared Thursday night to be a
slight air leak into a tunnel
linking the Soyuz with the
docking module was not a
problem.
“Everything is shipshape,”
Leonov reported.
The first telecast of the day
from Apollo started at 5:38
a.m. EDT and Stafford, speak
ing in Russian, told contollers,
“good morning, this is pretty
early in Houston, yes.”
Brand examined small fish
swimming in a plastic bag in
the docking module and report
ed to ground communicator
Karol Bobko, “the fish look
healthy, 80. They’re swimming
around happily.”
Woman got between father,
lawman to prevent shooting
A Griffin man was being held at
the Spalding county jail in a
shotting last night.
His relative has been charged
with pointing a pistol at a
sheriff’s investigator in con
nection with the same incident.
According to the sheriff’s
department, Danny Ray Brown
of Griffin was shot during an
argument on Plum street in
Experiment last night. The
bullet went through his arm and
into his abdomen, lawmen said.
He was carried to the Griffin
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Doffer at work
Several Griffin businesses and industries will participate In the local bicentennial
celebration in August with public tours. The schedules are being worked out and will be
announced. Visitors will be able to see such people as doffer Charles Connally at work at
Griffin Division of Thomaston Mills.
Campaigning costs
not always the same
WASHINGTON (UPI) - When
President Ford goes campaigning, it costs
the Republicans $2,600 an hour just to rent
Air Force One. Democrat Fred Harris is
planning a coast-tocoast campaign trip
for about S2OO a day.
The former Oklahoma senator will set
out July 30 in a 28-foot camper vehicle on a
35-day, 5,300-mile trip from Lafayette
Square across the street from the White
House to San Diego, Calif.
He expects to keep the cost of the trip
under $7,000 by parking the camper in
regular tourist campgrounds in 13 states.
Harris, who ran out of money when he
tried to win the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1972, is operating a strict no
frills campaign for 1976. Campaign
headquarters are his home in the
Washington suburb of McLean, Va., and he
frequently stays overnight in the homes of
supporters while on the campaign trail.
The use of campaign trailers and
campers is common in state politics, but
Harris apparently is the first presidential
candidate to take a crosscountry
campaign to the highways. Putting
economic adversity to work, Harris says
Tobacco farmers to protest
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI) — A
group of disgruntled tobacco
farmers, claiming they need a
sharp increase in tobacco
prices to break even, an
nounced plans today for a mass
meeting to protest prices paid
in the first two sales weeks on
the Georgia-Florida belt.
Julian B. Bennett, a Way
cross tobacco grower serving
Hospital for surgery. He was
reported in good condition there
this morning.
Investigator David Head went
to the emergency room to check
on Brown and while he was
there, someone ran up and told
him there was fight outside at
the hospital’s rear entrance.
Head went outside and saw
several people standing around.
Head, who was in plain clothes,
chased the man and called out
that he was a law officer. He
attempted to show the man his
his low-budget transcontinental trip will
take his campaign to towns no presidential
campaign has ever visited. He compares it
to Harry Truman’s famous 1928 “Whistle
Stop” railroad campaign.
An example is Ely, lowa, where Harris
will arrive Aug. 12 for a campaign picnic
at the home of his aunt and uncle, Wanda
and Ralph Harris. Ely, near Council
Bluffs, has a population of 275.
Harris also will visit larger cities, such
as Rapid City, S.D., Boise, Idaho,
Sheboygan, Wis., Lima, Ohio, Pittsburgh,
Chicago, San Francisco and Chadron, Neb.
Traveling with Harris will be his wife
LaDonna and his 13-year-old daughter
Laura, along with one staff aide, Don
Grissom. Grissom’s duties will include
press relations and auto mechanics.
Just as big-time presidential campaigns
have their chartered press planes to follow
. the candidates as they jet across the
country, Harris’ tour will have media
company. Campaign spokesman Frank
Greer says one group of reporters already
has arranged to follow Harris in a second
camper when he starts the trip at
Lafayette Park.
as spokesman for the group,
said farmers from the 49
Georgia counties in the belt will
gather at the Ware County
Courthouse at 8:30 Saturday
night.
He said the growers are also
unhappy with Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz’ decision
to increase tobacco acreage 15
per cent this year.
badge.
The man ran to a truck in the
parking lot, grabbed a .22 pistol,
cocked it, and aimed at Head,
officials said.
Head jumped behind a car
and pulled his own service
revolver. Before shots could be
fired, the man’s daughter got
between the two.
She got into the truck and
drove away with her father.
Investigator Head radioed for
other lawmen to stop the truck.
When it was located a short
“I believe the average price
is about 86 cents a pound,
somewhere in that area,” said
Bennett.
“We had a 49-county meeting
back before the markets
opened, and we figured our
costs would be 95 cents a pound
to produce tobacco, and we
asked for five cents a pound for
management,” he explained.
time later, the man was not in
the vehicle.
He was picked up later on
North Ninth street.
He was identified as Wesley
Norman Hand, 56, of 1234 Seago
drive. After being charged with
pointing the pistol at Head, he
was held at the county jail
pending an investigation.
Sheriff’s investigators said
Hand’s relative, Henry Edward
Hand, 36, of 4 Plum street, also
was being held in connection
with the shooting of Brown.