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The candidates
These are the candidates for the at large post on the board of Griffin City Commissioners in
the Nov. 4 election. They are (l-r) Incumbent Louis Goldstein, Harold Ogletree, electrical
contractor; and Henry Miller, appliance dealer. Goldstein qualified several weeks ago.
Ogletree and Miller qualified for the race yesterday before the noon deadline.
Japan to establish
trade office in south
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
George Busbee, his voice
shrouded by the static of 7,500
miles of telephone wires, said
today his trade mission to
Japan has resulted in establish
ment of a special trade office to
funnel Japanese investment
into the Southeast.
In a telephone chat with
newsmen in his Capitol office,
Busbee said from Tokyo that he
ran into evangelist Billy Gra
ham during an embassy recep-
Newborn baby
airlifted
to Columbus
A newborn baby was airlifted
from Griffin to the Columbus
Medical Center in Columbus
during the night.
The baby is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. Gordon Davis and was
born around 2 o’clock yesterday
afternoon at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital. Dr. Davis is
a dentist in Thomaston.
The child developed
respiratory problems and as
both Grady and Egleston
Hospitals in Atlanta were filled,
it was decided to transfer the
infant to the Columbus Medical
Center. The three facilities all
have top rated regional in
tensive care nurseries.
A U.S. Army helicopter from
Ft. Benning, with two
registered nurses and a woman
pilot* landed at the Griffin
airport early this morning. The
nurses came to the Griffin
hospital, picked up the baby and
returned to the airport to take
off at 1:30 a.m.
City okays purchase
of leaf, trash truck
The city commissioners
during their meeting this
morning approved the purchase
of a leaf and trash truck for the
sanitary department.
Money for the demonstrator
model already had been set
aside in the budget for sanitary
equipment. Its cost will be
$23,000, plus the trade-in of an
old trash packer. New models
list for around $29,000, accor
ding to City Manager Roy In
man.
During a called session of the
commissioners approved a low
bid of $8,742 for the purchase of
24 new trash dumpsters from R.
G. Christain, Jr. Another bid
was more than SIO,OOO.
An engineer’s layout of 199
new cemetery lots in the supple
mental section of Resthaven
Cemetery was approved. The
section is at the rear of the main
office in Oak Hill.
At Mayor Louis Goldstein’s
suggestion and the approval of
other commissioners, the news
media will be given a copy of
the city code and will be fur-
tion tonight — it was 10 p.m. in
• Japan, 9 a.m. in Georgia — and
* added that he will cross paths
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' Republic of China next week.
“We’ve had a very profitable
> trip so far,” said Busbee, who
t left for Japan last Sunday to
return a visit by a Japanese
i trade mission he hosted at the
, Governor’s Mansion last
» March.
“Today, the Japanese voted
■ —as a result of the mission —
to form an association between
Japan and the southeastern
United states,” said Busbee.
“This will have to be firmed up
with the other states, which will
include Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, North
Carolina, outh Carolina and
‘ Virginia.”
’ He said the Japanese busi
-1 nessmen who toured the region
last March “voted unanimous
ly” to set up a special trade
5 office here, and that he invited
' them back to Atlanta next
month to “formalize” the
5 agreement.
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i “Few folks want more than
1 their fair share — but lots of us
! have an exaggerated idea of our
fair share.”
nished supplements as ad
ditional codes are passed.
The city commissioners were
to meet at lunch today, along
with county commissioners
from Spalding, Pike and Henry
Counties, to discuss the possi
bility of the three counties’
participating in a joint venture
by using Flat Shoals as a future
water supply. The site is located
in Pike County.
Commissioner Preston Bunn
said he wants the city to extend
the same courtesy, concerning
free parking, to all amputees
and handicapped citizens
needing wheelchairs which is
given to veterans.
He noted that a hardship is
placed upon some handicapped
persons who have to park a long
way from their work.
Mr. Inman announced that
resurfacing of intersections at
Sixth and Taylor and Sixth and
College will start tomorrow.
Payment of $5,966 to Paul W.
Heard & Co. was approved for
work at the water treatment
plant.
“They feel that the economic
growth of the United States is
in the southeastern United
States,” said Busbee.
‘I looked up
| - saw me coming’!
A Griffin man suffered minor injuries yesterday when
his car crashed through the front of McLellan’s.
James E. Green, 72, of 207 Kelsey drive, said he parked g
in front of the store to pick up a few items. While he was
purchasing some candy, he heard a noise and looked £
around to see his car plowing through the front plate glass
window.
“I looked up and saw me coming,” Mr. Green recalled.
He said he ran to the car to stop it and in the excitement,
must have hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes because
the car kept coming into the store.
While in the process of moving the vehicle, his arm g
caught between a parking meter and the car.
Police officers carried him to the Griffin hospital where
x-rays were made and a cut over his eye was treated.
Damage to the store was set at SI,OOO. The damage to
Green’s car was around $350, police said.
Chris Goen, eight, of Route One, Box 51, suffered a lip
laceration yesterday in a collision on East Broadway.
Drivers of the cars were Mrs. Sheila Jean Goen, also of
Route One, Box 51, and Wayne Patrick of a Griffin
address.
Natural gas
prices hiked
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
price of natural gas to
residential customers of Atlanta
Gas Co. will go up an average
of $1.19 a month because of a
hike imposed by the company’s
wholesaler.
Atlanta Gas said Monday that
the increase will be levied on
all of its 675,000 retail
customers in Georgia, including
Reaction
U.S.-Soviet grain deal
irks farm organizations
By United Press International
The Ford administration ex
ercised “dictatorship with a
vengeance” and used farmers
as “political pawns” in ham
mering out a multi-billion
dollar U.S.-Soviet grain pact,
said leaders of the nation’s two
largest farm groups.
American Farm Bureau
President William Kuhfuss
called the five-year grain pact
a breach of faith with
American farmers and ranch
ers that “establishes a danger
ous precedent for future
political international commodi
ty agreements and constitutes
further interference with the
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Weather
COOLER
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
72, low today 40, high yesterday
70, low yesterday 40, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in mid 40s.
business and commercial firms.
A spokesman said that
Southern Natural Gas Co.,
which feeds Atlanta Gas, had
applied to the Federal Power
Commission last March for
permission to increase its rates.
He said the FPC had not ruled
on the request and Southern
Natural was permitted to
impose the increase subject to
refund.
market system in world mar
kets.”
Kuhfuss, in a statement
issued from the organization’s
headquarters in Park Ridge,
111., said intergovernment trad
ing is wrong because it means
sharing world markets on the
basis of political determination.
“The State Department has
used farmers as political pawns
in its diplomatic game through
its manipulation of the market
ing of agricultural com
modities,” he said.
Oren Lee Staley, president of
the National Farmers Organiza
tion, urged Congress Monday
night to prevent President Ford
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Medicaid changes
to cut income
of G-S Hospital
Patients, who are not on
Medicaid or Medicare, or some
other benefactors, will have to
help pay the hospital expenses
of indigent patients, Adminis
trator Carl Ridley told the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Authority board members last
night.
Mr. Ridley commented that
changes in state financing of
Medicaid patients will directly
reduce funds to the hospital for
both in-patients and out
patients. Somebody, whether it
be other sick patients or other
local sources, will have to pay
that portion not paid by state or
federal funds, he said.
Even though the hospital’s
income was down last month
due to fewer patients’ being
admitted, both Comptroller
Ramon Garcia and Mr. Ridley
predicted the patient load will
increase during the next six
months to offset any losses.
COMPUTER
The board is considering
leasing a computer for the
hospital instead of continuing on
a computer network system.
Presently the computer
system costs some $2,800
monthly and with the new ad
dition will increase to more than
$4,000 per month.
When the present contract
expires in April, 1977, the
computer costs will go up some
U.S.-Russia sign
5-year grain deal
DETROIT (UPI) — Thirty
five angry women marched
through the front door of the
staid, all-male Detroit Athletic
Club Monday to protest a long
standing club rule that requires
women to enter by a side door.
“Everyone has a right to say
their piece, I guess,” said one
astonished club member who
was just about to light a cigar
as the women massed in the
lobby and began reading a
protest resolution.
The women asked to see club
executive manager Linden
Mills to discuss the side door
policy, but were told he was out
for the day. So they instead
gathered on a marble stairway
in the walnut-paneled lobby and
sang the popular song, “I Am
Woman.”
The protest was organized by
the National Organization for
Women after Detroit City
Councilwoman Maryann Mahaf-
from implementing the
agreement.
“Farmers of the U.S. have
been repeatedly been lied to,
betrayed and sold down the
river by the administration,”
Staley said in a statement
issued at NFO headquarters in
Corning, lowa.
“The administration is now
defying Congress and the law of
the land by curtailing export of
commodities which are surplus
to our needs without complying
with the Export Administration
Act of 1969.”
“This is government dictator
ship with a vengeance,” he
said.
30 per cent, Mr. Ridley ex
plained.
By having an in-house
system, approximately SI,OOO
per month could be saved,
according to Chairman O. M.
Snider.
MOVE
The emergency room will
move into the new wing the
latter part of November, Mr.
Ridley announced.
The laboratory will expand to
the present emergency room
site and to the front where the
business and admission offices
are located. Those offices also
will move to the new wing.
Plans are under way to sand
blast and calk the front of the
present hospital so that it will
match the new wing.
GROUNDS
L. J. Ballard, Sr., was
commended for his work in
beautifying the hospital
grounds. Plans call for sugar
maples and shrubs to be planted
in the area between Graefe
street and the parking lot north
of the new section. A grove of
pine trees recently was
removed from the site.
PRIVILEGES
According to Dr. Lucian
Tatum, the executive com
mittee of the medical staff has
approved granting temporary
courtesy staff privileges to Dr.
Donald W. Rooker, an ear, nose
fey, arriving to attend a
meeting at the club Thursday
night, was told by a doorman to
use the “ladies entrance”
around the side.
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As President Ford announced yesterday the United States and the Soviet Union have signed
a 5-year agreement providing for the sales of UJS. grain to Russia, farmers in the Midwest
are hurrying to get their 1975 crops harvested before cold weather sets in. In Litchfield,
Minn., farmer Kenneth Anderson climbs aboard his huge combine while finishing off his
corn crop. The U.S.-Soviet grain agreement represents $1 billion in annual export revenues
for American grain, Ford said. By the agreement, Ford lifted an embargo on grain
shipments to the Soviet Union that was placed in effect last August. (UPI)
and throat surgeon. Dr. Rooker
has been on the staff at Emory
and is going into private
practice in Atlanta. He plans to
work with Dr. Jack Austin in
Griffin one day each week. Dr.
Rooker also will perform some
plastic surgery.
BY-LAWS
The medical and dental staff
by-laws which have been in the
Malpractice insurance
won’t up room rates—yet
Higher cost of malpractice
insurance is not expected to
increase room rates at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital right
away, according to Adminis
trator Carl Ridley.
Increasing the cost of
malpractice insurance is ex
pected to force some hospitals
around the state to raise room
rates to offset the additional
expenses.
Ridley said the hospital here
pays about $60,000 yearly on all
insurance premiums, including
malpractice coverage.
He said any increases in in
surance costs have been ab
sorbed in the room rate in
crease which went into effect
Sept. 1.
“I don’t foresee the room
Mrs. Mahaffey refused and
sent in a written note explain
ing her absence from the
meeting.
Maitre d’ Earl Robinson said
Vol. 103 No. 250
making for many months were
finally approved last night. The
approval was subject to a few
technical changes which will be
voted on by the medical staff
during its meeting tonight.
Dr. William Feely, new assis
tant administrator who began
work two weeks ago, was
welcomed to his first board
meeting.
rates going up again this year.
We will try to hold them down at
least until the middle of next
year and hopefully after then,”
he said.
The Newton County Hospital
in Covington is expected to
increase rates $5 or $6 per day,
one report said.
The Covington hospital last
year paid $13,120 for
malpractice insurance. This
year’s premium jumped to
$106,663.
Dan Barker, administrator of
Crawford Long Hospital in
Atlanta, said the problem is
getting more severe than we
thought it would.
“It’s beginning to snowball,”
he said.
Barker was assistant ad
ministrator of the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital when it
moved into the present building
from the old Strickland
Memorial building.
Mrs. Mahaffey probably could
have entered by the front door
if she asked to, but was
apparently too angry to seek
permission.