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— Griffin Daily News Friday, January 2,1976
Toll
Deaths rose
5 per hour
By United Press International
Traffic deaths rose at a rate
of nearly five an hour in the
first hours of the New Year’s
holiday weekend and fires
claimed an alarming number of
lives.
Traffic accidents increased
sharply in the early hours of
the holiday period, coming on
the heels of 412 traffic deaths
over the Christmas weekend —
the lowest toll on record for a
four-day Yule holiday.
The National Safety Council
had estimated between 350 and
400 persons would die in traffic
accidents during the 102-hour
New Year’s holiday period,
which began at 6 p.m. local
time Wednesday and ends at
midnight Sunday.
But the death count was well
over a third of the council’s
pre-holiday estimate today as
the second full day of the long
weekend began.
Multiple-death accidents and
bad weather helped boost the
death count.
Employes
Killing the goose
ELIZABETH, N.J. (UPI) -
“Public employes are killing
the goose that laid the golden
egg,” said Mayor Thomas G.
Dunn and announced plans to
dismiss 75 city police officers
and firefighters.
Dunn announced the layoffs
New Year’s Day and said they
would become effective Febru
ary or March pending approval
by the city council.
The mayor attributed the
need for the dismissals on
Elizabeth’s “shrinking tax
base, the winning of excessive
wage and benefit demands by
cops, firemen and teachers and
reduced state aid.
“Public employes are killing
the goose that laid the golden
egg,” he said.
Dunn has been locked in a
controversy over wages paid to
public employes since a tea
cher’s strike last fall and
sporadic job actions and sick-
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WEST GRIFFIN DAPTIST CHURCH
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
NEW YEAR’S BIBLE CONFERENCE
JANUARY 2-4, 1976
Theme: "Preach The Word"
FRIDAY EVENING —7:30 P.M.
"WHAT IS THE GOSPEL” Medford Caudill
Hanover, Michigan
"THE NEW BIRTH" Joseph C. Wilson
Toledo, Ohio
"MY CHURCH" Willard Pyle
South Point, Ohio
SATURDAY MORNING — 10:00 AM.
■ WHAT'S RIGHT WITH THE CHURCH" Bill Smith
Prattville, Alabama
"THE CROSS OF CHRIST" David West
Jesup, Georgia
"PRAYER" Don Phillips
Bristol, Tennessee
SATURDAY EVENING —7:00 P.M.
"THANK GOD FOR ELECTION" Joseph M. Wilson
Tulsa, Oklahoma
"THE FOUR HORSES OF THE
APOCALYPSE"—Part I Milburn Cockrell
Ashland, Kentucky
"MY WORD" Willard Pyle
South Point, Ohio
SUNDAY MORNING—10:00 A.M.
"SCRIPTURAL MISSIONS" Medford Caudill
Hanover, Michigan
"BAPTIST DOCTRINE AND HOLINESS" Bill Smith
Prattville, Alabama
"PAUL'S PREACHING AT CORINTH" Joseph C Wilson
Toledo, Ohio
"THE AFFECTIONS OF THE SOUL" David West
Jesup, Georgia
SUNDAY EVENING — 7:00 P.M.
"IRRESISTIBLE GRACE" Dan Phillips
Bristol, Tennessee
"GOD'S ETERNAL, SOVEREIGN AND JUST
REPROBATION" Joseph M Wilson
Tulsa, Oklahoma
"THE FOUR HORSES OF THE
APOCALYPSE"—Port II Milburn Cockrell
Ashland, Kentucky
Address: 1614 Piedmont Rd.
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A United Press International
count at 2 a.m. EST showed 145
persons dead in traffic ac
cidents. A breakdown of acci
dental deaths:
Traffic 145
Fires 49
Planes 2
Other 6
Total 202
Florida reported 18 traffic
deaths and California and
Texas reported 10 each.
Fires also took a heavy toll.
A fire broke out at a New
year’s in Brooklyn, N.Y., and
partiers, instead of calling for
help, tried to put the blaze out
with a garden hose. They failed
and four children were killed.
A New Year’s Eve fire,
apparently triggered by Christ
mas tree lights, raced through
a Greenwood, Ind., home,
killing Charles Roberson, his
wife and their four children.
“It appears they all made an
attempt to get out but didn’t
have a chance,” a police
spokesman said.
outs by the city’s firefighters
and police officers.
Mailman’s
record
spoiled
CARR, Colo. (UPI) — A 59-
year-old mailman who doesn’t
let rain nor darkest night keep
him from his appointed rounds
had his record spoiled New
Year’s Eve by a blizzard which
also kept him from getting
home for 20 hours.
“The blizzard was so bad you
just couldn’t see a thing, and I
just ran into a snowbank and
got stuck,” said Loren Balmer
Thursday. “I couldn’t even get
out and walk for help. I just
had to sit there and wait it
out.”
Balmer, who delivers mail to
i 41 houses along a 54-mile route,
said he welcomed the new year
from inside his mailtruck,
which was stuck 80 miles north
of Denver.
He said he never doubted he
would be rescued, but the wait
was longer than he hoped.
“I had the heater to keep me
warm all night, but I didn’t
I have too much gas,” he said.
L “I’d run the heater 10 minutes
[ then turn it off for 35 or 40
I minutes.
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Casually dressed, President Ford holds a New Years Day meeting in the Oval Office with
James Lynn (r), director of the Office of Management and Budget, and other economic
advisers. The meeting was one of a long series dealing with the fiscal 1977 budget. (UPI)
Ford awaits report
on LaGuardia blast
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford today awaited a
report on the bomb blast that
killed 11 persons at New York’s
Airport this week.
He sought recommendations for
tightening security at the
nation’s air terminals.
The LaGuardia explosion also
injured 75 other persons Mon
day and was followed by
telephoned bomb threats to
dozens of other airports
throughout the country.
Ford planned to meet with
Transportation Secretary Wil
liam Coleman Jr., to get
suggestions for ways to avoid
such tragedies.
The President wound up his
Christmas-New Year’s holiday
vacation with a quiet New
Year’s Eve and a working New
Quakes
IX)S ANGELES (UPI) - The
first earthquakes of 1976 struck
Southern California, Greece and
the South Pacific New Year’s
Day, jolting the Los Angeles
area and killing a child in
Greece.
The California quake shook a
large area, rattling windows
and shaking furniture over four
counties. It disturbed millions
of residents but caused no
injuries and did no serious
damage.
More than 40 tremors shook
western Greece Wednesday and
Thursday, killing a child in the
village of Kastraki and injuring
two persons in Famila.
The strongest quake regis-
Now You Know
By United Press International
Hangovers are caused not so
much by pure alcohol as by
“congeners,” the chemical sub
stances added to alcoholic
beverages to give them their
characteristic flavor and
aroma.
Old Fashioned Sing-Out For
God.
Benefit For The Griffin
Community Treatment
Center.
Gospel Concert
Thursday, Jan. 8
7:30 P.M.
Griffin Nat’l Guard Armory
Featuring:
Hie Gospel Brass
The Southlanders Quartet
The Heavenly Four
The Stars of Harmony
The Caanan Land Quartet
Plus Local Group Singing
Out.
Hosted by Bro. Thomas
Tickets On Sale
Roses Spalding Square
Advance - Adults $3.50
Door-Adults $4.00
Children under 12 $2.50
Year’s Day.
He phoned most of his
Cabinet Thursday to wish them
“Happy New Year.” The White
House said Commerce Secre
tary Rogers C. B. Morton and
Attorney General Edward Levi
were out of the country and not
available, but that Ford had
called all the other Cabinet
members.
Ford’s daughter, Susan,
called from Vail, Colo., where
the family had vacationed
during the Christmas holidays.
In a brown sports shirt and
jacket, Ford sat at a desk
covered with worksheets for the
national budget he will submit
this month to Congress.
Budget advisers sat in a
semicircle facing Ford’s desk
and they discussed government
money matters for three hours.
California, Greece hit
tered 4.75 on the Richter scale.
The government said 103 homes
in Greece were destroyed and
300 damaged. Tents were sent
to shelter the homeless.
The Southern California trem
or “was one hell of an
earthquake —a really great
one,” said Mrs. Carlos Schie
beck of Buena Park. “We live
in a two-story house and it was
swaying.”
The tremor, which registered
4.2 on the Richter scale, struck
at 9:20 a.m. PST and was felt
in northern Orange County,
north through Los Angeles
County and 50 miles eastward
through San Bernardino and
Riverside counties.
Scientists at the Caltech
seismological laboratory said
the epicenter was about 20
miles east of Los Angeles, near
West Covina.
The quake disrupted some
telephone service and shook up
some of the thousands of
spectators who turned out for
the annual Rose Parade in
Pasadena.
GOSPEL SINGING CONCERT
Featuring
HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER
And
THE KENNY PARKER TRIO
Outstanding Song Writers and
Recording Artiste From Nashville, Tenn.
Sponsored By
GRIFFIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL-PTF
1411 Atlanta Road
Saturday, January 17th - 7:00 P.M.
Nursery Provided For Children Under 2 Years
Rev. Thurman Fountain, Pastor
Tickets $4.00
Then Ford worked alone until
dusk before taking time off to
watch the telecast of the
Orange Bowl football game
between Oklahoma and his old
school, Michigan.
The White House announced
Thursday Ford had issued his
first veto of the year — on a
bill to make the treasury
secretary a member of the
National Security Council —
and had signed 14 bills into law.
They included measures to
authorize the federal govern
ment to pay state and local
governments for guarding di
plomats, to grant $634 million
to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting for the next five
years and to extend the life of
the Appalachian Regional Com
mission.
A tremor that registered a
strong 6.8 on the Richter scale
was recorded at 5:42 p.m. PST
at the University of California
seismological laboratory at
Berkeley. Scientists said the
epicenter was in the New
Hebrides Islands in the South
Pacific, 6,000 miles to the
southeast.
In Hawaii, the Honolulu
Observatory said the tremor
was in the Kermadec Islands,
south of the New Hebrides.
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Bombing
More time needed to find clues
NEW YORK (UPI) - Police
Bomb Squad specialists say
Clapping
record
TRUMBULL, Conn. (UPI) —
“Our hands feel very stiff and
sticky,” said Mary Ahem, 15,
after she and three friends
clapped for 22 hours and 12
minutes.
The four high school girls
claimed a new world’s record
Thursday for nonstop applause.
They said the previous mark
in the Guinness Book of World
Records was 21 hours and 7
minutes.
The three others clappers
were Laura Owens, 16, Mary
Johnson, 15 and Linnea Ben
nett, 15.
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they’ll need at least another
week to complete their search
for clues in the rubble of the
LaGuardia Airport bomb blast
which killed 11 persons and
injured 75 others.
“We have the area of the
blast frozen through next
Wednesday,” said Det. William
Schmitt, a senior member of
the Bomb Squad team, at
American Airlines Hangar No.
1 at the airport, where the
debris is being examined.
“We’re going through every
thing,” Schmitt said.
Deputy Chief Edwin Dreher,
chief of detectives in Queens,
was named Thursday tempro
rary head of the police arson
and explosion squad to direct
the probe of the LaGuardia
bombing Monday.
Mayor Abraham Beame and
acting Police Commisioner
James M. Taylor said they
would place the entire re
sources of the police depart
ment at Dreher’s disposal for
the investigation.
Schmitt said the task force
has turned up no significant
leads on a potential suspect or
a motive for setting off the
blast in a TWA locker area.
The detective said bits of
debris from the blast site had
been sent to police laboratories
in an attempt to identify the
specific type of explosive used.
“After 25 years in this
business, I have a pretty good
idea what it is,” Schmitt said,
“but we’ll wait for the lab
report.”
Police appear to be pinning
their hopes at this point on an
anonymous woman who report
edly overheard two men at
tempting to place a warning
call from the airport shortly
before the explosion.