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New comic section;
no price increase
The Griffin Daily News will have a new-type Color
Comics Section in Saturday papers starting this week. The
daily comics page will continue without change Mondays
through Fridays.
The new section on Saturdays is smaller in size, easier
and handier to hold and to read.
The primary reason for it, though, is that it is less
expensive than the larger sections of the past, and the
Griffin Daily News was faced with the choice of
increasing the price of the paper of cutting expenses. One
way to economize would be to eliminate the color comics
entirely; another was to reduce their size, which we have
done.
We hope you like the new size, we know you will like
holding the line on the price of the paper.
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one phase of its operation as the Industry Appreciation
Week in Griffin drew to a close today. This photo was
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furtune than to give Him the
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Food poisoning hits
accountants in Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) - Eighty
one persons attending a conven
tion of the National Society of
Accountants for Cooperatives
suffered food poisoning after
eating at a downtown restau
rant Thursday night.
William Breyer, a night
administrator for Grady Hos
pital, said 51 women were
treated for food poisoning. He
said late Thursday night that 25
women were still at the
Murphy eyes airport authority
ATLANTA (UPI) — A fivemember study commission,
set up Thursday by House Speaker Tom Murphy, will
consider creation of a special Airport Authority to
arbitrate disputes over where to put new terminals.
“I think the state of Georgia should take on the
obligation of running an international airport, along with
other large facilities involving air travel,” said Rep. Jim
West, DJonesboro, who introduced the bill setting up the
State Airport Authority.
West said that as Georgia becomes more of a southeast
ern hub for overseas travel, and competition already
heated for an Atlanta-London route, the state needs one
airport authority to administer a huge international
airport _ rather than leaving it to the city government.
“My bill is patterned after the Ports Authority bill, and
the Ports Authority has proved its ability for over 20
years,” said West. “And I know this type of arrangement
would be good for our major airports.’”
Tour at Highland
Army takes control
in Bangladesh coup
NEW DELHI, India (UPI) -
The armed forces seized power
in Bangladesh today in a
predawn coup that took the life
of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and
put his pro-American com
merce minister in power,
reports from Dacca said.
Bangladesh Radio, in a
broadcast monitored in New
Delhi, said Khondakar Mush
taque Ahmed led the coup
hospital, but probably would
not spend the night.
Joe Massey, an administrator
at Crawford Long, said 30
patients —all women—were
treated for food poisoning, and
of that number 11 were
admitted because they had
other health problems that
could complicate their recove
ry. Massey said the 11 are in
satisfactory condition.
The 81 women were in
Atlanta for a three and a half
G-S schools not expecting
big increase in enrollment
made in the drawing room at Highland. Several local
industries opened their plants to the public for tours this
week as part of the bicentennial observance.
against the left-wing sheikh,
ruler of the country since its
bloody war of independence in
1971.
“Under the leadership of
Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed,
the armed forces have taken
over in Bangladesh,” the radio
said. “Sheikh Mujuibur Rah
man has been killed and his
autocratic government has been
toppled.”
day convention, which was
attended by 400 members of the
NSAC and their spouses. The
group was staying at the
Stouffers Inn, but had gone out
of the hotel to a downtown
restaurant for a banquet.
Both hospital spokesmen hesi
tated to comment on the
specific food that caused the
poisoning saying they weren’t
quite sure, which dish at the
banquet caused the illness.
Murphy decided to put the bill before a special panel to
hold public hearings rather than refer it to a standing
House committee.
While West’s district does not figure prominently in it,
there has been a continuing controversy over where to
locate Atlanta’s second airport—with the city picking one
location, the airlines favoring another, and residents of
outlying counties bitterly protesting that their tranquility
should not be sacrificed as the price for Atlanta’s
commercial growth
West said his bill was not directed specifically at
arbitrating the Atlanta dispute, but it could help resolve
the problem.
“I don’t think it is right for one municipality to be able to
infringe on another municipality, or county government,
without the benefit of being heard by a higher authority
that is uninvolved,” he said. “This is big business, and I
think all the people of Georgia should be involved.”
GRIFFIN
DAI NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 193
The broadcast, monitored by
the Press Trust of India news
agency, said the coup against
the 55-year-old sheikh “has
been taken in the greater
interests of the country.”
“Mr. Ahmed has become the
president of the country,” the
radio said. “All patriotic and
peace-loving citizens of the
country are requested to
cooperate with the new govern
ment.”
In Washington, the State
Department also reported the
coup in the desperately poor
country of 75 million, one of the
most overcrowded and underfed
nations in the world.
A State Department spokes
man said there were no reports
of casualties among the 765
Americans, including 111 U.S.
government personnel and
dependents, living in Ban
gladesh.
Reports reaching New Delhi
said there was sporadic fighting
around the Bangladesh capital
of Dacca at the start of the 5:30
a.m. coup but “otherwise the
situation seems calm.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, August 15,1975
Officials of the Griffin-
Spalding School System do not
expect a large increase in
enrollment when classes begin
Aug. 25. »
One official ventured a guess
of around 9,400 or so but said it
was hard to tell at this point.
This would be about the same
enrollment in the early days of
last year’s school year.
Meanwhile, plans for opening
the system for the 1975-76 year
moved along today.
Supt. D. B. Christie said he
did not see any major problems
with school buses. He said none
of them were grounded after
State Patrol troopers inspected
them.
Mr. Christie said some minor
deficiencies were found but they
should be corrected before
schools open. He said no unsafe
buses would be allowed to pick
up children.
Mr. Christie said he sup
ported the annual inspections of
buses but he thought a scare
element had been injected into
the check system.
State Patrol officials have
found trouble with more than
half the buses they have
checked so far over the state.
The superintendent saw no
problem with getting the buses
rolling here.
Teachers report Tuesday for
pre-planning work and
organizational sessions.
Open House will be held
Friday 1-6 p.m.
First graders and out-of-state
students need to bring im
munization certificates to
school in order to be admitted
under state law.
Insurance will be $3 for
regular coverage and sl7 for 24-
hour year-round coverage.
Elementary school lunches
will be 40 cents a day. Junior
High and High School lunches
will be 45 cents a day. Extra
milk will be five cents.
Press poop
SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) -
Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon’s
new press aide Wednesday
distributed a statement saying
the governor, upon returning
from a visit to the district
attorney’s office in Bayamon,
reported he had found such
disarray that he was ordering a
total reorganization of the
office.
However, a few minutes after
it was distributed, the aide
telephoned the news media to
ask them to delay using it until
Thursday.
The governor, the aide
explained, had been unable to
make the visit Wednesday and
had postponed it until the
following day.
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A committee from the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital
Auxiliary met to formulate plans for the Red Cross
Bloodmobile which will be here Sept. 4, at the First
Baptist Church from 12 to 5:30 p.m. The quota for this visit
is 250 pints. Discussing the detailed plans are (seated Lr)
Mrs. Emmett Craddock, Mrs. Ernest Holloman,
Rate hike requested
Phone bill would be
$7.75-$7.95 at home
Southern Bell’s latest rate
hike request would increase
residential monthly bills in
Griffin from $7.15 to $7.75 or
$7.95, a spokesman for office
here said.
Business rates per month
would go from $14.90 to $16.50.
The telephone company
planned to file a rate hike
proposal today with the Public
Service Commission.
It would amount to 11 percent
across the board and bring in
$46.3 million more.
If Southern Bell gets the
increase, it will double the
price of a local pay phone call
in Georgia to 20 cents.
“If we get the 20-cent coin
telephone call, that will mean
that the users will bear of the
cost of one of our most
expensive items — pay pho
nes,” said the spokesman, who
did not want to be identified.
In return for the 20-cent pay
Joan Little
acquitted
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) - A
Superior Court jury today
acquitted Joan Little, a black
woman accused of murdering
her white jailer with 11 blows
of an ice pick during what she
claimed was a sexual assault in
her cell.
The jury of six blacks and six
whites deliberated one hour and
21 minutes before filing back
into the third-floor courtroom
with the verdict.
Jury foreman Mark Neilson
read the verdict after Superior
Court Judge Hamilton Hobgood
warned spectators that if there
were any outbursts of emotion,
“You will be placed in jail for
contempt of court. If anyone
thinks they can’t control their
emotions, then you better leave
now.”
Hobgood turned the case over
to the jury at 10:34 a.m. EDT.
After reading his charge to the
jurors, Hobgood told them:
“All right, you may retire.”
In his 59-minute charge,
Hobgood said, “You must find
the defendant not guilty unless
every circumstance points to
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phone call, Southern Bell will
reduce its rates to all custom
ers by 20 cents, he said.
The spokesman said pay
phone expenses have gone up
eight times since the last
increase in 1952.
He said the company also
hopes to show the PSC how the
“devastating level of inflation”
has affected Southern Bell’s
rate of return on investments.
“Last December the PSC said
we needed to earn 9.26 per cent
on our investments to operate
efficiently,” he said. “All we’re
saying is that we still haven”t
earned that. So we’re asking
them to allow us to earn what
they already said we should be
earning.”
The PSC approved the 9.26
per cent rate of return last
December when it granted the
company a $53 million rate
increase. But the spokesman
said the company has fallen
her guilt.”
Miss Little watched quietly
and without emotion as the
jurors filed out of the cour
troom, her elbows on her legs
and her head in her hands. She
was wearing a blue jeans suit.
Hobgood, a 64-year-old veter
an of 20 years on the North
Carolina Superior Court bench,
chatted with attorneys from the
bench after the jurors went to
start deliberating.
“I like to think of myself as
an amateur mind reader when
it comes to jurors, and I know
of at least three jurors...who
will speak their piece before
any vote is taken,” he said.
Outside the 12-story Wake
County Courthouse, about 20
demonstrators milled around in
the 90-degree heat in a show of
support for Miss Little.
“The judge must be impar
tial,” Hobgood told the jury
during his charge. “You are not
to draw any inferences from
any ruling I have made or from
the inflection of my voice, from
questions I may have asked or
any other actions during the
trial.”
executive secretary American Red Cross, Griffin
Chapter, Mrs. Joe Huckaby, committee chairman, Mrs.
Harold Cranford, president of the hospital auxiliary; Mrs.
Charles Clifton, (standing Lr) Mrs. Loren Shewfelt,
Tyndall McMillan, bloodmobile chairman, Mrs. Morris
Goldstein, Mrs. David Charnigo.
between 1.5 to 2 per cent below
that level every month.
Since 1974, he said Southern
Bell has cut its 19,400 employes
down to 18,000 and has chopped
off $63 million from its $356
million construction budget.
He said energy conservation
tactics which have included
driving company cars less and
conserving electricity have also
been instituted and “still the
electricity bill went up $2
million.”
“We don’t take rate increases
lightly,” he said. “We’ve looked
at every square inch of the
business and asked where can
we cut? And we still find
ourselves in dire straits.”
He said long distance tele
phone calls, which usually
increase annually by 10 to 15
per cent, dropped slightly below
last year’s level and that also
contributed to the company’s
not earning the 9.26 per cent on
its investments.
Family
wants
proof
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.
(UPI) — The family of Samuel
Bronfman 11, breaking a two
day silence, has called upon his
kidnapers to renew contact and
provide further proof the 21-
year-old heir to the Seagram
liquor fortune is still alive.
A statement read by a family
spokesman Thursday outside
the 150-acre Bronfman estate
said the family had done its
part in following the abductors’
instructions and now wants a
response byway of a special
telephone number.
It was not known, however,
whether a $4.5 million ransom
reportedly demanded has been
delivered.
“We need additional evidence
now that Sam is still alive and
well,” family spokesman Jona
than Rinehart told newsmen
gathered outside the Bronfman
home in Westchester County, 25
miles north of New York City.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 90,
low today 72, high yesterday 90,
low yesterday 69.