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Gift to city
City Commissioner Preston Bunn presented a minature Griffin bicentennial flag to the city
last night at the regular meeting of the board. It is a replica of the official flag which the city
had designed for the nation’s 200th birthday. Mayor Louis Goldstein accepted on behalf of
the city.
Phone bills zoom;
Cut it: Busbee
ATLANTA (UPI) — State employes,
apparently thinking the new statewide
telephone hook-up perates toll-free, have
nearly tripled their long distance dialing —
and Gov. George Busbee wants them to cut
it out.
“The phone usage went up apparently
because of greater access to the lines, and
possibly because of people misusing the
phones,” said Bill Roper, head of the
management review section of the state’s
Office of Planning and Budgeting.
Roper said Tuesday that since the
Georgia Interactive Statewide
Telecommunications (GIST) system was
activated Dec. 29, calls have jumped 270
per cent - from 302,000 a month to 834,000.
Former Gov. Jimmy Carter activated
the state agency telephone network with a
flip of a switch the Sunday before New
Year’s Day, and placed the first call on the
system to Busbee, who was then relaxing
Viet refugees selling gold
By DONALD P. MYERS
United Press International
The Vietnamese are selling gold at a rate of more than
$40,000 a day in the four refugee camps in the United
States. Some are selling the wedding rings off then
fingers.
The two firms doing the most business have bought
more than $3 million in refugee gold at camps in
California, Florida, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. The
price Tuesday was $193 per tael —a group of three thin
gold leafs weighing a total of 1.2 ounces used throughout
Southeast Asia.
One firm, U.S. Silver Corp, of Van Nuys, Calif., expects
to buy $lO million in refugee gold when the Vietnamese get
out of the camps and into American society.
“We expect to buy four or five times more gold then —
$lO million would be a safe figure,” said Richard Thies,
chief economist for U.S. Silver. He said many refugees
who fled South Vietnam are rich, professional
businessmen with “considerable wealth.”
“They do have a lot of gold,” he said.
His firm and another, DeakPerera International, Inc.,
of New York, have bought $2.3 million in gold at the four
refugee camps since they opened in May, according to Lt.
Col. Hal Roeder, an Army spokesman at Ft. Indiantown
Gap, Pa. A third firm, Manfra, Tordella and Brooks of
New’ York, has bought another $600,000 at one camp alone.
Evan Ecko, branch manager for Deak-Perera at the
Pennsylvania camp, said most refugees have sold gold in
taels. But some have peddled gold jewelry, particularly
wedding bands worth $lO to SSO.
“Apparently many of the refugees left Vietnam without
money or valuables and their wedding bands are the only
things erf value they have left to their names,” Ecko said.
“We hear rumors all the time that some of the refugees
have large amounts of gold they are holding onto. Now
that they’re in the United States, holding onto the gold and
knowing they can get money for it any time makes the
refugees feel a little more secure.”
U.S. Silver Corp, refuses to buy wedding bands.
“Selling your wedding band is a personal thing and
at his Albany home as governor-elect.
The GIST system connects state offices
in various cities, with billings for long
distance calls at first divided up on the
basis of how many phones an agency has.
Later, the Department of Administrative
Services switched billing systes, tabbing
each department for the actual number of
calls it placed through the GIST system.
Roper said that, in the confusion, some
employes apparently got the idea that the
GIST system was a toll-free network
among state offices.
Busbee sent a memorandum to state
offices, advising that telephone charges
allowed by the Federal Communications
Commission and Georgia Public Service
Commission have gone up, and asking
employes to cut down on use of the GIST
network.
The state has budgeted nearly sl4
million for telecommunications, including
local and GIST calls this year.
involves a lot of emotion,” said Robert Rosebrock of U.S.
Silver. “We don’t want to participate in that kind of
transaction. If a person comes in and wants to sell his or
her wedding band, it’s probably the last thing of value
they have. We try to encourage them to hold off and say
that things will probably get better for them.”
Most of the selling is going on at Camp Pendleton, Calif.,
and Ft. Chaffee, Ark. Most Vietnamese know what they’re
doing and the gold market in the refugee camps is com
petitive.
11 dead
in train
accident
HAMBURG, West Germany
(UPI) — A passenger train
jammed with rush-hour com
muters collided head-on with a
freight train Tuesday, killing
nearly a dozen persons and
injuring scores more.
Police said at least 11 persons
died and 70 were injured when
the six-car train and the freight
train collided outside the
Hamburg station.
Rescue squads used steel
cutters and acetylene torches
today to cut their way through
the twisted wreckage of the two
trains.
The crash was the eighth
fatal train accident in West
Germany this year and the
third head-on collision in the
last two months.
Rescuers worked for several
hours to free victims from the
commuter’s lead car, com
pressed into an accordion of
steel and blood.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Census bureau estimates
G-S population 43,200
The number of people in Griffin and Spalding County
continues to increase, according to the U. S. Census
Bureau.
The latest estimate is that the community has 43,200.
The Census Bureau Office in Atlanta said this estimate
was of July, last year.
The Census Bureau is operated by the U. S. Department
of Commerce.
A spokesman for the Atlanta Census office said the
43,200 was a provisional estimate — that is the bureau
may change its mind later and revise the estimate.
The 1970 census showed Griffin-Spalding with a popula
tion of 39,514. This figure was an actual count when census
takers came to the community and counted noses.
The bureau makes revisions periodically but makes an
actual population count in every state every 10 years.
The next official nose count will be in 1980.
The Atlanta office said the Griffin-Spalding gain by
birth-death was 9.3 percent since 1970.
The migration gain was 5.2 percent.
The latest census estimates in surrounding counties
were as follows:
Butts 11,900, Lamar 11,200, Pike 8,200, Henry 28,000,
Clayton 127,800, Fayette 16,700, Coweta 36,600 and Upson
24,800.
Busbee eyes
D.C. money
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov. George Busbee flies to Wash
ington Monday, seeking an $Bl million boost in Georgia’s
share of federal clean-water funds and hoping to improve
the state’s allocation of highway funds financed through
gasoline taxes paid by Georgia motorists.
Busbee told listeners on a radio talk show Monday that
the $9 billion in water and sewer project money impound
ed by former President Nixon has been released by the
Ford Administration and U.S. Supreme Court, but that
most states are not getting a fair share because the
original funding formula is no longer pertinent to current
needs.
“Now that they’ve released the money, we’re being
greatly discriminated against in Georgia, along with all of
the Southern states, in fact 32 states are being
discriminated against,” said Busbee. “We’re getting back
sll3 million and we should get an additional $Bl million.”
Busbee was the guest of Atlanta City Council President
Wyche Fowler, who took over the microphone at a local
station (WRNG) specializing in discussions with listeners
calling in comments and questions.
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Kathy Detchon of the Flint River Regional Library staff looks over books about General Lee
as interest in the Confederate general rose with the granting by congress of citizenship to
him.
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Little John Boyd checks out old fashioned farm bell at
Camp Pirkle where camp meeting is being held this week.
He’s the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd of Phenix City,
Ala. With him is the Rev. Forest Bateman, resident
director of the camp.
Pool room hearing to follow this course
Griffin City Commissioners
last night at their regular
meeting set up the way they will
handle an application by Calton
Ahl to operate a poolroom at 129
South Sixth street.
They followed the recom
mendations of City Manager
Roy Inman as he had outlined
them in his briefing session with
the commissioners Tuesday
morning.
The commissioners directed
Inman to hold a public hearing
on the application Monday at 4
p.m. in the city hall auditorium.
Following the hearing, Mr.
Inman will made a decision on
the license.
People who wish to file
grievances against the decision
Citizen Lee
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
After turning in his sword at
Appomattox Courthouse 110
years ago, rebel Gen. Robert E.
Lee applied to President
Andrew Johnson for citizenship.
Today it’s up to another
president, Gerald R. Ford,
finally to grant the Confederate
commander his wish.
With Lee’s great-grandson
looking on, the House voted 407-
10 Tuesday to give the general
full citizenship. The Senate had
approved an amnesty resolution
written by Sen. Harry Byrd of
Virginia earlier this year.
Ford’s signature will restore
Lee’s citizenship retroactive to
June 13, 1865, the day — some
two months after he surren
dered the southern forces to
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant — that
Lee first filed an appeal for
pardon and citizenship.
Historians say Lee wasn’t
aware then that a loyalty oath
was required as the price of
forgiveness for all officers of
the rebellion.
Vol. 103 NO. 173
Rezone
request
rejected
Griffin City Commissioners
unanimously turned down a
rezone request in the Beatty
subdivision area last night that
would have permitted a con
struction firm to convert a
house into an office.
Eight people in the area told
the commissioners they had
invested heavily in their homes
and didn’t want to risk seeing
the area become a business
section with the rezoning.
Two people spoke in favor of
the rezoning.
Mrs. Adelia Dixon of 2045
Lewis street said her husband,
Carroll Dixon who operates the
construction business here,
wanted to use the house as an
office. That’s why they asked
for the rezoning.
She said they did not want to
do anything that would detract
from the section as a residential
area.
Those who appeared to object
included James Helms, Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Pierce, Tom
Donald, G. W. Mullis, John
Grant, Johnny Johnson and
Larry Johnson.
James Boyd, 655 Garrett
street, father of Mrs. Dixon,
appeared to speak in favor of
the rezoning.
Mrs. Dixon said her husband
could not appear because of
illness.
Commissioner Raymond
Head said he thought the area
would become business but said
he would vote with the other
four commissioners to make it
unanimous.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
87, low today 73, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 71, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s.
Inman makes may do so with
the city within four days.
These grievances will be
considered at the next regular
meeting of the commissioners.
The commissioners have
regular meetings at the city hall
on the second and fourth
Tuesday nights beginning at
7:30.
After learning of the tech
nicality, he went before a
notary public in Lexington, Va.,
Oct. 2, 1865, raised his right
hand and said:
“I, Robert E. Lee, do
solemnly swear in the present
of almighty God, that I will
henceforth faithfully support,
protect and defend the Constitu
tion of the United States and
the union of the states
thereunder... so help me God.”
Near the bottom of the
amnesty oath, in a cramped
scrawl he signed “R.E. Lee.”
But the document vanished— no
one knows how or why. Without
it, neither President Johnson
nor Congress could do a thing
about the petition.
In an official sense, Lee died
in 1870 a man without a
country.
Then, five years ago, an
archivist found the missing
document in a nondescript
cardboard box of Civil War era
State Department papers. A
new drive was begun to grant
the Virginian’s request.