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By United Press International
Demos’ view
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Democrats, giving their view of the
state of the union, have accused
President Ford of inept, panicky
management of the economy and called
fdT new programs to “substantially”
reduce unemployment.
In a nationally televised Democratic
party reply to Ford’s State of the Union
speech, Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine
also criticized U.S. actions in Angola,
saying American foreign policy should
be conducted openly.
Lebanon crisis
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Moslem
forces backed by Palestinian troops
swung Lebanon’s civil war back to
Beirut today and Christian militias
vowed “no peace with the
Palestinians” despite Syrian efforts to
arrange a truce.
UAW warning
DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto
Workers says the country’s automakers
can expect a strike this fall if they try to
hold off union demands with pleas
based on their two-year sales slump.
The warning was delivered
Wednesday by UAW President Leonard
Woodcock in outlining strategy for
contract talks covering nearly 750,000
auto workers.
Heart attacks
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Medical
researchers have told Congress about
400 American women die every year
from heart attacks, strokes and other
illnesses related to the use of birth
control pills.
They also reported increased concern
about possible links between the pill
and other estrogen drugs, and breast or
uterine cancer, and about their
unknown effect on unborn children.
“We may very well, this generation,
have created a cancer-causing
epidemic,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy,
D-Mass., head of the subcommittee
hearing the testimony Wednesday.
Kissinger talks
MOSCOW (UPI) —Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger is encouraged by
Soviet efforts to resolve deadlocked
strategic arms talks, but apparently
has failed to change the Kremlin’s
position on Angola, U.S. officials said
today.
A knowledgeable U.S. official said,
however, it was still too early to predict
if Kissinger would wind up his trip
Friday with a framework for a new
arms accord.
Such an agreement could clear the
way for a visit to Washington by Soviet
Communist Party General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev.
Fire losses
increase
in Griffin
Fire losses in the City of Griffin
during 1975 totaled $710,860, a jump of
more than 500 percent over the previous
year. The number of alarms answered
decreased 12.8 percent, however.
According to Chief Billy Beeland, the
Griffin Fire Department answered 361
alarms, compared with 414 during 1974.
They included 110 to residences, 69 to
cars and trucks, 39 to businesses and
non-residential, 31 to grass and woods,
four to public utilities, eight emergency
alarms and eight outside the city.
False alarms increased 35.8 percent,
with 72 last year. The largest decrease
was in trash and woods fires which fell
from 83 in 1974 to 31 last year, a
decrease of 62.6 percent.
Defective wiring, motors and
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Sheriff needs help
to prevent burglaries
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert called upon
Spalding County citizens again today to
help him fight the increasing number of
burglaries by participating in the
Neighborhood Watch Program.
House burglaries especially plague
lawmen and Sheriff Gilbert noted the
average American community the size
of Spalding County has recorded a 22
percent increase. Nationwide a break
in is reported every 10 seconds, he said.
To help combat this, the National
Sheriff’s Association has organized a
National Watch Program and is
distributing literature to educate
citizens on how to protect their property
Food stamp fraud problem
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Agriculture Department, calling fraud
a “serious problem” among agencies
handling food stamp sales, says almost
$17.5 million has either been lost or
deposited late in federal accounts.
Assistant Agriculture Secretary
Richard Feltner said about SIO.B
million of the mishandled money is
“delayed” — meaning the money is not
lost but for various reasons, its deposit
is “lagging” so the federal government
does not receive full interest on the
funds.
But $6,690,727 is “missing,” Felter
said, and the department has no idea
where it is. He said, however, the
government will recover the money by
billing the states for the shortage.
Daily Since 1872
Airport
The muddle is a little clearer
Planes can fill up with gas at the
Griffin-Spalding Airport again.
The first tank of gas in more than two
weeks was delivered yesterday, when
the new tenants, Tri-T-Aviation, took
over the airport’s operation.
All parties involved in the airport
muddle met yesterday with both city
and county commissioners.
Louis Thacker, John Steinmetz and
Wayne Smith of Tri-T were told by the
commissioners to start exercising their
lease and begin operating the airport.
Temporary space will be provided Tri-
T while the dispute concerning the
occupancy of the previous tenant,
Airline Aviation Academy, operated by
Bob McSwiggan, is settled in the courts,
according to County Commission
Chairman Reid Childers.
Yesterday afternoon Childers,
representing the county, and Mayor
Louis Goldstein, representing the city,
along with other parties in the dispute
and their attorneys met at the airport
and agreed which areas both Tri-T and
AAA shall use until the matter is set
tled.
McSwiggan has given up the area in
the old administrative building where
the gas pump switches are handled and
the office portion of the lobby.
The old red hangar will be turned
over to Tri-T by Feb. 14 and the other
hangar will be cleared, according to
Childers.
Bob Finck, who operates the radio
shop, and McSwiggan will meet next
week with the commissioners to discuss
leasing land adjacent to the airport for
their operations.
McSwiggan said yesterday that he
has never refused to move. He said he
had offered Tri-T space in the building
and has been in the process of moving
for some time.
Both parties expressed their desire to
have the airport operating.
and the property of their neighbors.
The materials include a “self-help
test” to measure awareness levels to
threats regarding property and steps
citizens can take to protect themselves.
There also is a 16-page “Home
Security Inspection” booklet which
describes steps to take in safeguarding
property.
Burglary and thefts have been
reduced in communities participating
in the program, the sheriff said.
The free materials may be picked up
at the Spalding Sheriff’s Department or
may be made available by contacting
the department.
Feltner testified Wednesday in a
Senate agriculture subcommittee
reviewing the reports indicating
widespread “vendor fraud” in the food
stamp program.
Sens. James Allen, D-Ala., and
Robert Dole, R-Kan., blamed the
shortage on the agriculture
department’s lax administration of the
food stamp program. But Feltner said
the department and the states share the
blame since both failed to check vendor
reports adequately.
Feltner said the late and missing
deposits were uncovered in a review of
about 12,000 of the 14,000 authorized
food stamp vendors.
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The law allows the states and
counties to sell food stamps themselves
GRIFFIN
DAILY^NEWS
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, January 22,1976
Griffin and Hobart
sharing bicentennial
Hobart, Ind., and Griffin, Ga., are sharing the nation’s bicentennial in a sense.
Both towns are about the same in population and both have long high school
football traditions. Jeff Young who is a speech therapist with the Griffin-
Spalding School System was raised in Hobart. He has a teacher friend there and
they maintain their contacts. They are looking for a bicentennial project. Since
Griffin and Hobart are similar in many ways, the two educators decided to
share the two town’s interests in the bicentennial. Some of the sixth grade
students at West Griffin have begun exchanging information with some
students at Ridgeview elementary in Hobart. The information includes
histories of the towns and some examples of what each is doing during the
bicentennial. The students at West Griffin and at Ridgeview plan to continue to
exchange information through the remainder of the school year.
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or authorize sales by vendors such as
banks, post offices, credit unions and
currency exchanges. Most states have
taken the vendor approach but this does
not relieve their liability for the dollar
value of the food coupons.
As a result, Feltner said, the states
are the “first recourse” in recovering
the missing money.
Feltner did not list the states involved
because the figures are “tentative” and
the losses could be even higher.
The lost and lagging deposits were
found in 16 audits and a review of
records for 12,000 vendors between
July, 1974, and September, 1975. The
review covered all areas except New
York City, Vermont and Connecticut
and all vendors except post offices.
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Waterbed
drowning
attempted
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
(UPI) — A 23-year-old hospital
orderly was arrested Wednes
day for attempting to drown his
wife in a waterbed, police
reported.
Mountain View Police Chief
Robert Schatz said Mark Bates
was allegedly intoxicated when
he arrived home early Wednes
day and got into an argument
with his wife, Cheryl, also 23.
Mrs. Bates told police she ran
into the bedroom and her
husband followed, pushed her
onto a waterbed, cut the bed
with his knife and pushed her
face into the water.
She said she managed to
break free and call authorities.
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Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 58, low
today 29, high yesterday 55, low
yesterday 24, high tomorrow in mid 50s,
low tonight near 30.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Cold 1
Saturday with moderating tem
peratures Sunday and Monday. Chance
of rain Sunday.
The Country Parson
“A minor success can help a
fellow forget an awful lot of his
mistakes.”