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Textile leader says cutbacks helped
NEW YORK (UPI) - The president
of the American Textile Manufacturers
Association says the industry’s volun
tary cutbacks during the 1975 recession
was the most important factor in the
textile industry’s recovery.
John M. Hamrick told the annual
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Warm weather prompted Bill Partain of Hollonville to wet a hook at the
Griffin reservoir yesterday.
Gunman held
Ervin’s sister
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) - For an
hour Detective Sgt. Charles Bennett
talked at the wrong end of a gun to an
armed escaped convict. At stake were
the lives of three hostages, including
the invalid sister of retired Sen. Sam
Ervin, D-N.C.
Finally, Bennett said, “we
apparently gained a rapport.” The
hostages were freed unharmed
Wednesday and the gunman, identified
as Michael Keeney, 30, gave himself up.
“He had a gun on me the whole time I
was in the house,” Bennett said.
Police said Keeney held Ervin’s
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“Inflation can cause a fellow
to wear the same suit for
several years —a depression
can keep him thin enough to do
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meeting of the American Association
for Textile Technology Wednesday the
cutbacks in production by the
individual textile mills were the first in
the industry’s history.
“These enabled us to benefit quickly
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sister, Mrs. J. K. Hall, 84, her son,
Dorman Hall, and her nurse, Alice
Reven, at gunpoint for more than two
hours. Two other hostages — Hall’s
wife and teen-aged son, Thomas —
were released earlier, during police
negotiations.
Keeney had escaped from Florida’s
Santa Fe Correctional Center, police
said.
The escapade began when officers
spotted Keeney and another escaped
Santa Fe convict, William Jackson
Martin, 27, in a stolen car. A chase
through the tree-lined neighborhood
was punctuated by one gunshot but
there were no Injuries.
The stolen car crashed and Martin
was recaptured. Keeney, armed with a
9mm pistol and a .30 caliber pistol,
raced into the Halls’ three-story, white
frame home.
Dorman Hall said none of the
hostages was harmed or threatened
and he called Keeney “a very pleasant
gentleman.’’
Police sealed off the area, called in
sharpshooters and offered to negotiate
when Keeney threatened the hostages.
Then Keeney released Hall’s wife and
son and Bennett put down his gun and
walked unarmed into the house to talk
to him.
from a more favorable consumer
attitude,” he said. “The return to retail
purchasing was more quickly felt all
the way back to the plant level and
increased activity and employment
were the results.”
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Anna Wells, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Wells, 632
Windy HOI road, enjoyed the sunshine too at Griffin city park. Her mother was
busy on the tennis court getting in some practice while the warm weather
lasted.
NEWS
Hamrick said the recovery of the
textile industry was important to the
overall economy because the industry
“employes more people than any other
manufacturing industry.”
He said some of the problems still
Senate silently
okays ‘re-run’
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Senate
silently confirmed today its passage of
a constitutional amendment letting
Gov. George Busbee run for re-election
and the issue will now go on the
November general election ballot.
Sen. Lee Robinson, D-Macon, had
stalled the resolution overnight with a
motion to reconsider its 41-12 passage
Wednesday. He said he did not pursue
his motion today simply because “the
votes aren’t there.”
He would have had to sway four votes
to get the margin below the 38 votes
needed for a required two-thirds
majority —a virtual impossibility on a
matter members feel so strongly about.
Robinson said one factor lending
support to the two-term amendment is
a move among House members to
double legislative terms. He said
having a governor in office eight years
would have a definite impact on the
General Assembly, so members might
want the security of a four-year term of
their own, subject to re-election
indefinitely.
“I’d like to see a study commission
set up to study the impact of the whole
thing,” said Robinson. “We’re going
about it in a little bit of an emotional
way.”
Robinson, who campaigned for
Busbee before announcing for the
Senate himself, said legislators have no
fear of the present governor’s impact
on lawmaking, but some were uneasy
about the relations of future governors
with the legislative branch.
“If you’ve got a popular governor in
there for eight years, there’s no
question it will have an impact on the
legislature,” he said. ‘‘He can
undermind your campaign, if he wants
to. No one fears that with the present
governor, though.”
facing the industry include a need for
“tremendous capital” and greater
productivity. He said textile profits
“are the lowest of any major
manufacturing industry.”
Hamrick blamed government
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More
checks
stolen
Two more checks have been reported
stolen from a mailbox.
Griffin police said Mrs. Evelyn Jinks
of 207 West Tinsley street complained
that two checks were taken from her
box. They were a Veterans Administra
tion check and a supplemental check
and totaled about S2OO.
Local lawmen have received a
number of similar reports this week
and cautioned citizens who are ex
pecting checks to remove them from
mailboxes as quickly as possible after
being delivered.
Lamar suit
being dropped
Steps are under way to dismiss a $3.9-
million damage suit filed in December
by Lamar School Superintendent L. L.
“Bud” Jenkins against nine Lamar
County residents.
According to Hale Almond, attorney
representing the defendants, a copy of a
notice of dismissal was mailed to the
defendants by Atty. Harold Martin of
Jackson, who is representing Jenkins.
Jenkins filed the suit in federal court
after being acquitted by a Lamar
Superior Court jury last year on
charges of converting school money to
his own use.
The defendants included District
Atty. Edward E. McGarity, Gus M.
English, Dr. George T. Henry, Dr. S. B.
Traylor, Mattie Gordy, James Shiver,
J. Wendell Morgan, William W. Dennis
and Benson Ham.
Almond is representing all defen
dants except McGarity.
Trains collide
ARCHBOLD, Ohio (UPI) - Two
Penn Central freight trains,
unaccountably switched onto the same
track, collided headon with a
tremendous explosion near this
northwestern Ohio community early
today. Four crewmen were killed.
Two crewmen on each train were
killed, said Howard Gilbert, director of
Information Services for Penn Central.
regulation for the problems of shortage
of capital in the textile industry.
“We are placed at a disadvantage
with foreign competitors, partly
because of their lack of environmental
regulation but also because their tax
system favors investment,” he said.
Weather
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70, low
today 41, high yesterday 70, low
yesterday 41, high tomorrow in upper
50s, low tonight near 50.
News
summary
By United Press International
Quake toll
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala
(UPI) — More than 1,200 persons are
dead and as many injured after a 30-
second earthquake rocked the country
shortly before dawn Wednesday.
Many victims lived in rundown adobe
huts in slum areas, but hotels were split
open and centuries-old cathedrals col
lapsed when the ‘quake hit. Fires also
broke out across the capital.
Plane cleared
In a surprise move that astonished
even the staunchest supporters of the
controversial supersonic transport
plane, Transportation Secretary Wil
liam Coleman has given his
persmission for the Concorde to land at
two U.S. airports.
Coleman gave clearance Wednesday
for four daily flights to JFK Airport in
New York and two a day to Dulles
Airport, just outside Washington.
Trial begins
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A jury of
seven women and five men listened to
opening statements from the
prosecution and defense Wednesday as
the bank robbery trial of Patricia
Hearst got under way.
Defense attorney Lee F. Bailey
claimed Miss Hearst had been
brainwashed by her Symbionese
Liberation Army captors, and was not
responsible for her actions, although he
conceded the prosecution’s case was 90
per cent accurate.
Another fire
CHICAGO (UPI) — The second fire in
a Chicago area nursing home in five
days left six persons dead and 27 others
injured Wednesday. It apparently was
caused by the faulty cord of a table
lamp.
Nurse’s aide Denise Watson pleaded
innocent to charges of murder and
arson stemming from the first fire that
occurred last Friday. Fifteen died in
that blaze.