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The opening of Griffin’s newest industry, Bandag, next
spring is expected to give the community an economic
boost.
In addition to some 150 new job openings with an annual
payroll of $1.5-million, Bandag is expected to pay Spalding
County and Griffin some $85,000 in ad valorem taxes each
year on its four to five million dollar investment.
Bandag also can take credit for the city and county’s
obtaining a new industrial park, which can attract even
more industires.
When the commissioners learned last week that Bandag
would build the new plant in another town because the
owners of the proposed site backed down, they hurriedly
got together and purchased around 90 acres from Otis and
Andrew Blake.
The two governments paid the Blakes $3,000 per acre for
the property which is bounded by U. S. 41, Hudson and
Wilson roads and other Blake property.
The governments jointly will develop the industrial
park, paving roads at estimated costs of $119,000, putting
in sewerage at a cost of some $42,685, and paying around
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John Neel of Mid-Ga. Bandag in Griffin checks equipment. He and his brother, Charles,
figured heavily in getting Bandag to locate a plant in Griffin.
Nixon tired
to save Marine
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) -
Former President Richard Nixon took
command at the scene of a bloody car
crash, radioing for a medical helicopter
and directing attempts to pry a dying
Marine from the wreckage with a
crowbar.
Nixon was “very sad” when the rescue
efforts proved fruitless and all three
Marines involved in the accident died, his
son-in-law, Edward Cox, told UPI Friday.
The Marine Corps said it was Cox who
wielded the crowbar in an effort to free an
injured Marine trapped in the wreck.
Nixon, his daughter Tricia and Cox were
driving through the Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps base Thursday evening on
their way home to Nixon’s seaside estate
after a round of golf on the camp’s course.
Two autos collided head-on just ahead of
the Nixon car.
“They were a couple of hundred yards
ahead,” Cox said. “Two cars were terribly
mangled.
“The Secret Service driver’s inclination
was to keep going but the President
ordered him to pull over.”
“You need any help?” Nixon called to a
Marine warrant officer attending to the
crash. “We’ve got some first aid
equipment.”
The Department of Natural Resources fishing forecast
for next week for area lakes is as follows:
HIGH FALLS—Normal, clear, catching a few bass and
crappie.
LAKE JACKSON — Above normal, clear, good for
bream and bass using pastic worms at 15-20 feet, catching
a few crappie.
Nixon’s car carries medical supplies
because of his phlebitis condition and other
health problems.
“Yes sir, we sure could use it,” the
warrant officer replied. Nixon asked if he
had sent for an ambulance. The warrant
officer said he had.
Nixon turned to his Secret Service
driver, George Hollanderski and ordered
him to “use our radio... Ask for a medevac
helicopter.”
“I went up to the door (of one of the
wrecked cars),” Cox said. “I knew one of
the fellows was dead, “we can’t do
anything for him,’ somebody said. I saw
another sitting there and there was still a
flicker of life.” Cox and others pulled the
Marine from the car, while his father-in
law checked on the driver on the other side
of the auto.
“His foot was jammed in against the
pedal,” Cox said. “Get a crowbar over
here,” Nixon called to the Secret Service
agent.
Cox pried the wreckage away from the
Marine’s foot. A Marine helicopter arrived
10 minutes after the call from Nixon’s car
radio.
The dead were identified as Sgt. David
A. Vandal, 28, Cpl. Rameiro Delgado, 20
and Sgt. Larry Grise, 24.
Plant paved way for industrial park
$25,000 for installing water lines.
Bandag has agreed to pay SIO,OOO an acre for a
developed 20-acre tract. It will have a spur rail line and
gas facilities.
Bandag is the leading manufacturer of precured rubber
treads used in retreading tires.
The Griffin plant will be the company’s seventh facility.
They furnish rubber to some 800 franchised dealers
throughout the United States and some 80 other countries.
The home office and two other tread rubber plants are
in Muscatine, lowa. One equipment plant and a research
and development division are there, too.
Two plants are in Oxford, N.C. Due to the rapid growth,
the plant there was doubled in size last year.
The newest plant is in Chino, Calif. It opened Jan. 1.
Other company operations are in Shawingin, Quebec,
Canada; Lanklaar, Belgium; Johanesburg, South Africa;
and Garetsburg, Austria.
The Griffin plant primarily will furnish tread rubber to
franchised dealers in the Southeast. Previously plants in
Texas and North Carolina covered the area.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 170
Postal talks
down to $$
Lockheed sued
in Viet crash
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Lockheed Aircraft Corp, has
been sued for $2.5 billion in
connection with the cargo jet
crash that killed more than 100
Vietnamese orphans in April,
Lockheed records showed
Saturday.
Lockheed disclosed the law
suits in documents filed with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
The CSA cargo jet was one of
five being used to evacuate
2,000 orphans for adoption by
U.S. families in the final days
before the Communist takeover
in South Vietnam.
Many of the orphans were the
children of Americans who had
served in South Vietnam and
all had been adopted by U.S.
families, according to the U.S.
Agency for International Deve
lopment.
The craft carried at least 319
passengers including 43 crew
members and an estimated 243
orphans. More than 200 persons
died, most of them orphans.
Exact numbers have not been
determined because of the
crisis conditions which pre
vailed at the time of the ill
fated flight.
The Lockheed documents said
five damage suits “in the
approximate amount of $2.5
billion” were filed in May and
June in California, Illinois, New
Ordinary robbery
| became extraordinary
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) —lt started just like any
run-of-the mill bank robbery.
Three men walked into a downtown branch of the First
£ Alabama Bank Friday, whipped out guns, forced
employes and customers to the floor and cleaned it out.
£ So far, so good.
They rushed out of the bank to their getaway car in the
parking lot, its engine running and its driver ready.
Still, everything A-OK.
But then an unidentified citizen with a gun opened fire
on the robbers. He didn’t hit any bandits, but he hit Randy
| Smith, a passerby.
The bandits roared down an alley in the getaway car
and two of them leaped into another car with the loot.
The original getaway car continued down the alley, but
the second car gunned into the street and crashed into a
car driven by Frances Baker and careened into a
telephone pole.
The bandits bailed out and fled on foot back down the
alley, leaving behind a revolver, a shotgun, and all the
loot.
Police officer Jerry Hazel, speeding to the scene on his
motorcycle, collided with a car.
Officer Hazel and bystander Smith were hospitalized in
satisfactory condition, Mrs. Baker was unhurt. The
robbers remained at large.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, July 19,1975
Initially, each day, the Griffin plant will make enough
rubber for 5,000 truck tires or 18,000 passenger tires.
Some of the rubber made in Griffin may be sent to South
and Central American countries and even Africa,
according to Senior Vice President Charles Edwards. He
said he sees a great future in Griffin.
Within three to five years, tread rubber for off the road
vehicles, including bulldozers and scrapers may be made
here. Presently it is made only at the Muscatine plant.
Edwards said Bandag is concerned with the environ
ment and has taken every step to avoid polluting the
atmosphere with noise or dust or the water.
Water at the Griffin plant will be used only for cooling.
Ninety-eight percent of it will be recirculated and used
repeatedly.
No dust fumes will be generated and there will be no
noise pollution, he promised.
Groundbreaking for the 90,000 square foot plant is
scheduled for late August.
The Griffin facility is expected to be the best yet, as
York and the District of
Columbia.
The actual amount is proba
bly substantially less, Lockheed
said, “since plaintiffs in each of
the class actions purport to
represent all others. ”
Lockheed said the damages
claimed exceed the company’s
insurance coverage, but it
believes any recovery against it
will be covered by insurance
because of duplicate claims.
No final determination has
been made on what caused the
crash, but Pentagon and State
Department officials ruled out
sabotage.
The plane broke into three
pieces and burst into flames a
mile from the runway while
trying to make an emergency
landing at Tan Son Nhut
airfield near Saigon April 5.
The pilot said he lost control of
the plane after the rear door
blew out.
The CSA, which was the most
costly plane ever built when it
was put into use by the Air
Force in 1968, has had a history
of problems. It had never
before been involved in a fatal
accident, but two of the 81
planes built at a cost of $55
million each had burned on the
ground and a third was
destroyed by fire in 1974 after a
crash landing.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Postal negotiations covering
about 600,000 workers are
getting down to business on
money issues.
“After 80 days, they just got
around to bargaining,” W. J.
Usery Jr., President Ford’s
special assistant for labor
relations, said Friday.
Usery shuttled between the
low key postal talks and the
tense railroad negotiations. He
has performed mediation ser
vices in both talks and saw the
rail negotiators reach agree
ment earlier Friday, averting a
possible rail strike.
Representatives of the U. S.
Postal Service and four unions
collected at the L’Enfant Plaza
Hotel for a brief bargaining
session Friday, and the U.S.
Postal Service presented its
economic offer.
After a short, table thumping
session, the negotiators reces
sed. Talks resumed later in the
afternoon.
“We are now deeply in the
area of negotiating on the
direct economic items to be
incorporated into this con
tract,” said Darrell Brown,
chief negotiator for the Postal
Service.
Brown said the two sides
were “meeting on an around
the clock schedule.”
The contracts with the four
unions expire at midnight
Sunday night. No strikes are
provided for under laws cover
ing postal workers.
The Postal Service is bar
gaining with the National
Association of Letter Carriers,
representing 193,000 workers;
the American Postal Workers
Union, 318,000 workers; the
National Post Office and Mail
Handlers of the Laborers’
International Union, 40,000; all
AFL-CIO units; and the Nation
al Rural Letter Carriers As
sociation, representing 50,000
workers.
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“A good speech is one that
can be understood — especially
by the person making it”
Randag will chose its design from one of seven
architectual firms which are working in competition on
the project.
The building is being designed so it may be doubled in
size.
Most of the 150 employes will be men, with women,
primarily working in the office. The office force may have
15 employes.
When construction starts, a resident engineer will come
to Griffin to supervise. He will remain until the building is
completed.
Sometime in March, the plant manager and his family
will move to Griffin. A highly skilled laboratory manager
will arrive about two months before opening, along with a
production specialist.
Two other skilled workers may also come.
All other workers will be from the Griffin area.
Mr. Edwards said a personnel man to do the hiring may
be sent in, or if a qualified local resident can be found, he
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Proud father Jerry Davis, 21, of Lewisville is all smiles
after his wife gave birth to quintuplets born six weeks
prematurely within a six-minute period at Parkland
Hospital in Dallas. (UPI)
It’s a girl, girl,
girl, girl and a boy
DALLAS (UPI) — Mr. Davis, it’s a girl, girl, girl, girl
and boy. Mr. Davis?
Jerry Davis mksed the whole thing. He was stuck on a
hospital elevator Friday while his 20-year-old wife,
Debbie, gave birth to healthy quintuplets during a six
minute Caesarian delivery.
“I was stuck on the elevator for 30 or 45 minutes,” the
new father said. “She just went into surgery as soon as I
walked into the elevator. When I got off I was told we had
five babies. I was real shocked. I had told her I didn’t care
as long as we had one boy.”
A spokesman at Parkland hospital said the babies were
“progessing satisfactorily.”
“Prognosis is guarded at this point,” he said, “because
in births of this kind complications can arise. But we are
not aware of any at this time.”
The quintuplets were bom six weeks prematurely, but
E)r. Jack A. Pritchard said all went normally during the
delivery and the mother was having no problems. Dr.
Pritchard said Mrs. Davis had been taking “a drug that
induced ovulation.” The babies were her first children.
Outside the hospital, Davis, 21, of Lewisville, Tex.,
pushed his cowboy hat back on his head, fingered a pouch
of chewing tobacco and grinned. He was asked what he
would do with so many daughters.
“I guess I’m to have a basketball team,” he said. “They
(girls) can learn to play, too.
“I was first told that she was going to have twins,
possibly triplets. I’ve been shocked three times because a
month ago I found out we were going to have four. Now we
have five.”
The new Davis basketball sisters weighed 2 pounds, 3
ounces; 3 pounds, 2 ounces; 3 pounds, 3 ounces and 1
pound, 14 ounces. The boy, who will likely be the center,
weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces.
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Parkland hospital personnel roll one of the quintuplets
bom to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Davis from the delivery room
to the nursery. The quints were born six weeks
prematurely within a six-minute period. (UPI)
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