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Reagan and Ford take different trails. Story on page three.
False teeth are found
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (UPI)
— Will the owner of a missing
set of false teeth claim them?
Robert Guerrant says he
noticed a set of false teeth
while walking along a street on
New Year’s Day. He figured
the false teeth probably fell
from the mouth of a mer
rymaker who got carried away
with watching the old year run
out.
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These Griffin High students returned to classes today after Christmas and
New Year’s holidays all bundled up against the subfreezing weather. The
official low reading in the area was 15 degrees but may have varied from
place to place throughout the community. The forecast for tonight was for
readings in the low 20s but the forecast for tomorrow was for warmer and
cloudy weather. In the picture below, the weather turned the yard fountain
of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Morris, 1705 Ridge street, into this winter scene. The
gold fish in it kept on swimming beneath the surface.
Hijackers free
200 in ‘deal’
MANILA, the Philippines (DPI) —
Two Filipino gunmen hijacked a
Japanese jetliner today and threatened
' to kill all 200 passengers. But after
hours of negotiations they freed the
passengers in exchange for
, permisssion to fly to Tokyo with captive
crewmen and other airline employes.
The Japan Air lines DCB, however,
was unable to take off for Tokyo tonight
because the Japanese government
refused to allow it to land there.
The plane’s engines were warming up
for the flight to Tokyo late Monday
night when they suddenly were
switched off. The aircraft’s lights also
j were turned off and the plane stood
parked in darkness 50 yards from the
main passenger terminal.
Some 10 hours earlier the hijackers,
Building
permits
$741,130
Sixty-eight building permits issued in
Griffin and Spalding County during
December totaled >741,130.
The county issued 32 permits which
totaled $540,000.
‘ They included a $120,000 permit for a
new plant at T & A Enterprises, Inc.
(formerly Tallowmasters) on Pump
Station road; 12 single family residence
permits for $276,000 and 15 permits for
mobile homes totaling $98,000.
The county also issued permits for
four home additions, totaling $46,000.
In the city a permit for an 18-unit
apartment complex on Thurman street
was issued to Dr. Ben Gleaves for
SIIO,OOO.
There was one permit issued for a
> new single family home for $20,000; 19
permits for residential additions,
alterations and conversions totaling
$22,445; 10 commercial additions for
$27,485; and two church additions
totaling $8,500.
The city also issued two permits for
’ swimming pools totaling $12,700.
“My first reaction was to
leave them alone,” said Guer
rant.
“Later, I started thinking
there might be somebody who
wants to claim his teeth, so I
went back and got them.”
Guerrant promised to turn
over the teeth to the owner and
to “protect his identity.”
“This could be pretty embar
rassing,” he said.
who had sudddenly seized the aircraft
at Manila International Airport, had
released the 200 pasengers— most of
them Japanese-after threatening to
kill them unless authorities gave in and
allowed them to fly the hijacked plane
to the Japnese capital.
Permission was granted after long
negotiations and the big plane was then
readied to take off with the two
hijackers, 12 crew members and eight
other airline employees referred to as
“volunteer” hostages.
Hie hijackers had refused a direct
order telephoned from Philippine
President Ferdinand E. Marcos to
surrender, JAL officials in Tokyo said.
Mrs. Imelda Marcos was at the airport
during the drama, having gone there to
see a daughter off on another flight. She
chatted with a number of the freed
hostages, many of whom left the plane
laughing.
Informed government sources said
the reason for the delayed departure
was that Japan had refused permission
for the jetliner to land there as long as
the hijackers were armed. The two
gunmen were armed with pistols and
explosvies.
Georgia wagon
scheduled
here Saturday
The Flint River Saddle Club will
sponsor the visit of the Georgia
bicentennial wagon here Saturday to
sign up people to participate in a wagon
train visit here April 13.
The Georgia wagon will be in the
train that will go to the 13 original
colony states and end up in Gettysburg
on July 4 for the bicentennial
celebration.
The train has scheduled the visit in
Griffin April 13.
The Saddle Club invited horsemen
from this area to sign up to participate
in the Griffin visit. The signups will be
Saturday at Spalding Square 11 a.m.
until 5 p.m. where the Georgia segment
of the wagon train will be.
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Child abuse up
ATLANTA (UPI) - The total
number of incidents of child abuse and
neglect In the United States may be as
high one million cases a year, a
government official said today
Stanley B. Thomas Jr., assistant
secretary for human development with
the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, told a news conference his
agency had received an estimate of as
many as one million child abuse and
neglect cases in a recent study done for
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, January 5,1976
Lawmakers start
hacking budget
ATLANTA (UPI) - House and
Senate appropriations committees
began hacking away at state spending
today to deflate the current budget by
$61.4 million before going to work on
next year’s bare-bones appropriation.
Precisely one week before convening
of the 1976 General Assembly’s 40-day
session, somber committee members
began the hearings with an examina
tion of Secretary of State Ben Fortson’s
departmental budget. Gov. George
Busbee was scheduled late in the
morning to explain his proposed budget
cuts and additions, which leave a net
reduction of $61.4 million.
House Speaker Tom Murphy has
indicated he wants to cut $75 million to
SBO million from the budget.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller sat in on the
hearings, but did not take part. Most
House members visited Murphy on
their way to the hearing room, but
Murphy spent the opening morning in
his office.
The courtly Fortson, treated warmly
by committee members as the elder
statesman of state politics, led off the
marathon hearings by telling the
legislators he sympathizes with their
plight. Most years, the committees
have a surplus to distribute among
the department.
Thomas, keynote speaker at a
National Conference on Child Abuse
and Neglect, said the one million figure
includes both reported and unreported
cases.
“We are not sure there is an increase,
we just know that more instances are
being reported," Thomas said.
With an increased emphasis being
placed on reporting child abuse,
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agencies — but this year, cuts are
mandatory.
“I feel for the General Assembly in
trying to partition out what little money
you’ve got in the bank, in order for all of
us to operate the rest of the year,” said
Fortson.
When state tax collections —
depressed by the recession — fell far
below revenue estimates made during
last year’s legislative session, Busbee
reduced his budget first during the 1975
session, and again in a special session
last summer. His third and latest
cutback contemplates $70.5 million in
agency cuts, with J 22 million in
additions not anticipated in the regular
or special sessions.
That totals $48.4 million in reduced
spending, but Busbee also proposed
“borrowing” sl3 million of the $21.6
million in Georgia’s working reserve, to
make up for the Medicaid deficit left
over from fiscal 1975. That deficit was
brought on by a ruling from Attorney
General Arthur K. Bolton, who knocked
out the long-standing practice of paying
one year’s leftover Medicaid bills with
the next year’s appropriation.
Busbee said that if the legislators go
ahead with his recommendation that
sl3 million from the state’s “rainy day”
fund be advanced to this year’s
Medicaid budget, it will be reinstated to
the working reserve at the end of the
fiscal year.
Senate Appropriations Chairman
Paul Broun, D-Athens, said Sunday he
doesn’t expect the committees to cut
more than $75 million from the budget
of the current fiscal year, which ends
June 30. The General Assembly
convenes Jan. 12.
63.45 inches
of rain fell
here in ’75
Horace Westbrooks, Griffin’s official
weather observer, measured 63.45
inches of rainfall in 1975.
The normal annual rainfall for this
area is about 50 inches.
Mr. Westbrooks said the temperature
dipped to 15 degrees early this morning
at his weather station at Sunny Side.
The mercury is not expected to climb
above 37 today.
Yesterday’s low was 21 with a high of
36. •
Griffinites
push Carter
Five Griffinites were among 98
Georgians campaigning this week for
Jimmy Carter in New Hampshire.
The five are Clayton Brown, former
state representative; Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Smalley and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Mankin. Smalley is a former state
senator.
In a telephone report this morning
from Nashua, N. H., Brown said that
the Georgians would go door to door to
the homes of registered Democrats and
ask them to support Jimmy Carter’s
bid for the presidential nomination.
Brown said the Georgians hoped to
contact as many as 25,000 people
personally by Friday.
He said Nashua was a town about the
same size as Griffin.
It was covered in deep snow this
morning as the Georgians set out.
They were working without the on
scene support of Carter. He was
recovering in Georgia from a virus and
expected to join the campaign effort by
Wednesday.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 35, low
today 15, high yesterday 36, low
yesterday 21, high tomorrow in mid 40s,
low tonight in mid 20s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Increasing
cloudiness Wednesday with rain
Thursday and fair Friday.
News
summary
By United Press International
Ford talks
St. Louis — President Ford addressed
a farmers convention and called for an
immediate cease-fire in Angola and an
end to Russian intervention.
Signs bill
WASHINGTON — President Ford
removed the $2 a barrel fee on imported
oil.
Holiday toll
The total of New Year’s holiday
traffic deaths threatened to exceed
National Safety Council predictions.
Family freed
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. - The
father of a Wisconsin family detained
by a Cuban gunboat says “I’ve never
been at the dangerous end of ,50-caliber
machine guns before and I didn’t really
like it very much.”
No disgrace
HONOLULU — An Army deserter
who stayed in South Vietnam from 1972
to 1975 to care for his Vietnamese wife
and children is now a civilian without
the disgrace of a dishonorable
discharge.
Strike ends
MIAMI — The third longest strike in
U.S. airline history ends and National
prepares to fly tomorrow after a 127-
day shutdown.
Missed runway
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal
official says the pilot of a plane that
crashed and killed top Alaska oil
pipeline construction executives may
have just missed the runway. May be
led.
Cold wave
Much of the nation is locked in a cold
wave.
Storm
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A new storm
sweeps toward Scandinavia on the
heels of weekend killer tempests that
left at least 50 dead across Western
Europe.
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“Lives are lived as knitters
knit — without seeming to give
attention to the process.”