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— Griffin Daily News Monday, July 21,1975
Page 7
Mayor Jackson
Out-lobbv anti-gun control lobby
ATLANTA (UPI) - Atlanta
Mayor Maynard Jackson told a
congressional subcommittee
today that Americans had to
“out-lobby the anti-gun control
lobbyist” as the first step
toward curbing gun-related
crime.
Jackson was among propo
nents of pistol regulations
testifying at a public hearing
aired on educational television.
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The regional hearing of the
Judiciary subcommittee under
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
was the fifth held around the
country to gather public views
on handgun legislation.
“By Jan. 1, 1976, I would like
to see each state with an active
organization which can provide
two major services,” Jackson
said. “This organization can
provide resources to out-lobby
the anti-gun control lobbyist.”
In addition to compiling data
on gun-related crime, the
mayor said, such a state-funded
program could “aid the nation
al project in providing vital
research on a state-by-state
basis” in documenting argu
ments against handguns at the
federal level.
Jackson also called for strict
city ordinances regulating
handgun sales, along with
federal legislation to “control
the vast black market in
handguns and to regulate
strictly the importation of
handguns.”
He said that although nation
al polls have shown “a
consistent majority” of Ameri
cans favor gun controls, that
majority has been “less effec
tive in making its views known
to legislators across the country
than have the highly effective,
well-financed lobbyists for or
ganizations such as the Nation
al Rifle Association.”
Later J. P. Strom, chief of
the South Carolina Law En
forcement Division, told the
subcommittee that laws are
needed to make it harder for
criminals to get pistols and
sawed-off shotguns while still
allowing citizens to keep guns
in their homes for personal
protection. Strom said he and
other law enforcement adminis
trators felt there was a need
for “certain types of legislation
with respect to the sale,
possession of firearms, particu
larly handguns, automatic
weapons and shoulder weapons
altered or redesigned for
concealment.”
Strom said South Carolina
had tightened its gun laws last
First autos of ’76
coming off line
DETROIT (UPI) — The U.S.
auto industry’s first 1976 model
car was being built today amid
hopes it will signal an end to
the longest sales slump since
the Depression of the 19305.
year to outlaw the “Saturday
night special” type of cheap
handgun.
Conyers said prior to the
hearing that the subcommittee
feels the public is not satisfied
with the 1968 federal gun law
passed after the assassinations
of the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
He said the law “may not
have increased gun sales but it
certainly did nothing to reduce
them. There was a loophole in
it as wide as a truck.”
The loophole, he said, was a
provision that permits the
importation of pistol parts
although the assembled weap
ons are now allowed through
American ports.
A statement released jointly
Saturday by the Georgia
Wildlife Federation, Georgia
Sport Shooting Association and
the Georgia Arms Collectors
Association charged that oppo
nents of gun control had been
excluded from the hearing,
which it called “deliberately
biased, slanted and rigged.”
Witnesses scheduled to testify
today include state Sen. Robert
Bell, state Reps. Billy McKin
ney and David Scott, City
Council President Wyche Fowl
er, Councilman Morris Finley,
Executive Director of the
Georgia State Crime Commis
sion James Higdon and Nation
al Rifle Association
representative Claude Caldwell.
Conyers said Atlanta was “an
ideal location” for the hearing
because FBI statistics indicated
“the murder rate per 100,000
inhabitants in 1973 was much
higher than the rate recorded
in New York, Chicago or
Detroit.”
American Motors was produc
ing the first ’76 model at its
Kenosha, Wis., plant after a
two-week vacation shutdown.
The rest of the industry won’t
complete the switchover until
August and September.
Word also was out that open
ended layoffs in the industry,.
some dating back to energy
crisis cutbacks in early 1974,
are now down to 129,000
workers. The lowest figure
since Christmas still accounts
for 18 per cent of the industry’s
blue collar labor force.
Perhaps the most significant
new model startup will come in
mid-August when General Mo
tors begins production of its
new Chevrolet Chevette, the
smallest U.S.-built car and the
first major competition for the
mini-foreign models.
The Chevette, which GM is
hoping will be rated by the
government at 40 miles per
gallon on the highway, is 17
inches shorter and 400 pounds
lighter than the Chevrolet
Vega. Its 85-cubic inch, four
cylinder engine will put it in
direct competition with cars the
size and power of the Volkswa
gen Rabbit.
The Chevette will be intro
duced with the rest of the
Chevrolet line in early October.
This week, 31 of the nation’s
58 car and truck assembly lines
are shut down and for the
second week in a row, auto
production will fall below
100,000.
GM has seven plants closed,
all for model changeovers;
Ford’s 23 assembly lines are
down for the second week of
scheduled vacations; and
Chrysler’s Belvidere, 111., plant
is closed to reduce output of big
cars.
GM has 88,300 of its 400,000
workers still idled. GM execu
tives have predicted that figure
would drop below 76,000 by the
end of August.
At Chrysler, long-term layoffs
dropped by close to 4,500 in the
past two weeks, including 1,700
workers returning to jobs today
at the firm’s Wilmington, Del.,
plant from layoffs that began in
November.
georgia news
Woman held in slaying
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (UPI) — A Decatur County woman
was being held on murder charges Sunday following the
Friday night slaying of a Jacksonville, Florida woman on
a Veterans of Foreign Wars club dance floor.
Decatur County Sheriff E.W. Phillips said Mrs. Edna
Birdsong, 57, was charged with the murder of Mrs.
Dorothy McDaniel, 58.
Phillips said Mrs. McDaniel and Mrs. Birdsong’s
husband, John Henry Birdsong, had been dancing and
were joining friends at a table when the accused walked
up and shot Mrs. McDaniel.
Phillips said the victim was shot twice in the back with a
.38 caliber pistol.
Jan Busbee has surgery
ATLANTA (UPI) — Jan Busbee, Gov. George Busbee’s
20-year-old daughter, was “doing very satisfactorily” late
Sunday after emergency surgery to relieve an intestinal
blockage, according to a spokesman for Crawford W.
Long Hospital.
Miss Busbee was stricken with an abdominal pain
Saturday night and was rushed to the hospital by her
father. She underwent lenghtly early Sunday morning
surgery her doctor said she tolerated “very well.”
The spokesman in addition to the blockage, Miss
Busbbee suffered from acute intestinal inflammation.
It was not determined Sunday how long Miss Busbee
would remain hospitalized.
Miss Busbee, a journalism student at the University of
Georgia, was visiting her parents at the Governor’s
Mansion when stricken.
33 arrested in raids
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — A preliminary hearing is
scheduled for today for 33 persons who were arrested over
the weekend on gambling charges here.
Police raided two places in downtown Savannah Friday
night arresting 21 persons in the first raid and 12 in the
second. Those arrested were charged with gambling and
frequenting a gambling house. Police said cards, dice and
money were confiscated during the raids.
Freak accident killed him
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — Herbert Lawyer, 42, of
Savannah, died Saturday of injuries he received in a freak
accident on July 12 in which the man fell out of a second
floor window at his home.
Police said that Lawyer was eating a dinner of chicken
and rice on the ledge of an open window. The man fell
asleep and then fell out the window hitting a roof, some
steps and a sidewalk. He fractured his spine and skull in
the accident.
Record net earnings
ATLANTA (UPI) — Scientific-Atlanta Inc. reported
today that preliminary figures indicate record net
earnings of $1.29 a share and record sales of $35.7 million
during the year ended June 30.
President Sidney Topol said the sales were 35 per cent
over the previous fiscal year and the earnings total
represented a 33 per cent rise.
“We are benefiting from the explosive worldwide
growth in satellite communications, a powerful new tool
to reach remote areas of the world both on land and sea,”
Topol said.
Scientific-Atlanta manufactures products for
telecommunications, satellite and cable communications
and allied fields.
Check those
free offers
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Governor’s Office of Consumer
Affairs has warned that “free”
vacation offers are often fronts
for some other scheme and
asks consumers to check out
the sponsor’s background
before accepting such deals.
Dr. Tim Ryles, GOCA ad
ministrator, issued the warning,
which was the first one from
the newly created office. He
said free vacation offers
sometimes have turned out to
be fronts for questionable land
sales or the free offers were not
honored at hotels and re
staurants.
Ryles said his office has been
getting inquiries about free
vacation offers from a firm in
Chicago. The firm says in a
four-page letter that the person
has been selected for four days
and three nights of deluxe
lodging paid for by the firm.
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Angry women slash
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
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by the rape of a friend barged
into a house, overpowered the
suspected rapist and slashed
him. in revenge, a police
detective says.
Police Chief R.H. Palmer
identified the rape suspect
Sunday as John Dotson, 20, of
Daytona Beach. He was listed
in satisfactory condition, under
guard in a hospital’s intensive
care ward and undergoing
treatment for cuts on the face,
arms, shoulders and abdomen.
Dotson was charged with one
count of sexual battery.
Police said they were called
to the Dotson home about 2
p.m. Friday by his relatives.
Officers found Dotson in the
front yard, holding a towel to
his bleeding face.
Police said he had been
attacked in the yard. A relative
said, however, the attack
occurred inside the house, while
Dotson’s girl friend and two
sisters were in a back room.
The relative said six women
entered the house and overpow
ered Dotson. Two reportedly
held him down on the floor
while the others slashed him.
Carter on the trail
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — Democratic presidential candi
date Jimmy Carter will attend a fund raising reception
and meet with area democrats Tuesday night.
The former Georgia governor will hold a news
conference and tape television programs following his
afternoon arrival.
MARTA gets more money
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Department of
Transportation announced today a $69,971,000 grant to the
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority to help
continue construction of the area’s rapid rail transit
system.
The money will help fund engineering, project manage
ment, land acquisition and construction projects and
assist in the purchase of 100 new rapid transit rail cars.
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Police Sgt. Robert Sharpe
said Sunday, “I understand
there is a connection.”
Another put it more directly
“They were avenging the rape,
that’s what they were doing.”
Police said the unidentified
rape victim reported a man
jumped into her car, held a
razor to her throat and forced
her to drive to an apartment
where she was sexually assault
ed early Friday.
When she resisted, she said,
she was slashed across the
throat. She was treated at a
hospital and released.
Police said they later learned
the rape victim had sworn out
a complaint against Dotson
about two hours before the
women attacked him.
No arrests had been made in
the attack on Dotson. But police
arrested three women on an
unrelated charge Saturday and
said they were thought to have
been involved.
Police said Dotson would not
tell detectives if he knew the
attackers or the three women
arrested on the unrelated
charge. They said other princi
pals in the investigation also
were uncooperative.