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I • By HOWARD A. TYNER
MOSCOW (UPI) — Workmen have begun installing
wire mesh screens on windows at the U.S. Embassy,
apparently to shield American diplomats and their
1 families from possibly harmful microwaves beamed at
the building by Soviet agents.
Despite freezing temperatures, workmen have spent
the past several days unsealing dozens of double-glazed
1 windows in the nine-story embassy and placing mesh on
the outside, diplomats said.
Visitors said the screens appeared to be the standard
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and House agreed
They’re still talking about the speech
Rep. John Mostiler of Griffin made the
other day from the well of the House.
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Pike ends social promotions
The Pike County Board of Education
last night eliminated social promotions
in grades kindergarten through fifth
grade when it adopted by resolution
promotion and retention procedures for
those grades.
The board will consider similar
procedures for other grades at later
meetings.
In other action, the board:
Voted to allow the 4-H Club to sponsor
a square dance club and use an
elementary school lunchroom for
meetings.
Discussed contract recommenda
tions for administrative personnel.
Approved several substitute
teachers.
Commended several teachers for
their outstanding work.
Approved the use of a school bus by
the 4-H Club and the Music Club.
Held a lenghty discussion on in
creasing teacher supplements, building
needs and travel costs.
Adopted dates for students entering
kindergarten and the first grade.
The promotion and retention
procedures were recommended by the
Pike County Curriculum Committee.
Prior to approval of the new policy,
the system’s procedures for grades 1-6
was to allow students to progress at
their own rates.
They were expected to achieve their
Carter: When Vm in the White House
By United Press International
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy
Carter, declaring victories in
state presidential primary cau
cuses in Oklahoma and Maine,
is now prefacing some of his
campaign remarks with “when
I am in the White House”
instead of “if...”
“I think you’re meeting with
and talking to the next
president,” the Democratic
hopeful told a group of about 50
condominium leaders in Hal
landale Tuesday. “I feel the
responsibility very much. I’m
going to try to make you proud
of me.”
Another Democratic can
didate, Sen. Robert Byrd of
West Virginia, is scheduled to
speak in Miami today. In Fort
Lauderdale, Sen. John Tower,
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Georgia’s unemployment pay laws.
After House members had heard him,
they voted 100-44 for the measure and
sent it to the Senate. The measure is
awaiting action there.
For one thing, the proposed changes
would speed checks to people without
jobs and who qualify for unemployment
compensation, Mostiler argued.
The proposal would make ineligible a
person who quit his job without a good
reason or was fired for a good one,
Mostiler said.
Failure to accept suitable work when
offered also would make a person
become ineligible for jobless com
pensation, Mostiler said.
He stressed that decisions in every
instance are subject to review by the
Labor Department and in every case
they may be appealed.
Another reform would widen the base
the employer pays into the program
from $4,200 to $6,000, Mostiler said.
He reasoned that cutting off abuses of
the program at one end would help
offset the increased base employers
would have to pay at the other end.
maximum potential each year.
The committee still agrees with that
policy, but in an effort to up-grade the
standard and quality of education a
student receives, the committee felt
that each student should reach a
minimum level of achievement based
of certain criteria before being con
sidered for placement in the next
higher grade.
The new policy states that retention
in kindergarten will only be considered
in special cases.
In making a decision, the teacher will
consider social, emotional and
cognitive development of the student.
In grades I—s, grade level equivalent
in math and reading will be determined
from test scores that will be obtained
through lowa Test or SRA Assessment
Survey.
The tests will be given in the second
full week of school and in May before
the school year ends.
If a teacher doubts the test, score .of
any student, that teacher would then
administer another test to determine
if the student can actually make a
higher score.
Students performing below ex
pectancy for the grade in which he is
assigned at the time of September and
January testing will be counseled by his
reading and math teacher and the
principal.
R-Tex., concludes his three-day
swing through Florida on behalf
of President Ford by holding a
news conference.
During his 40-minute talk,
Carter made a statement “from
the person who intends to be
the next president” and twice
prefaced remarks with “when I
am in the White House.”
In 30 previous campaign
tours of Florida, Carter had
been predicting a first or
second-ballot victory at the
Democratic National Conven
tion in New York, but he says
he is now more optimistic than
ever because of news from
Oklahoma and Maine.
He said reports from Ok
lahoma had him winning the
state’s primary caucus over
native son Fred Harris and the
news from 64 caucuses in
variety used to keep out insects. Presumably the screens
would deflect or at least interfere with any waves directed
at the windows.
There was no official comment on the purpose of the
screens, but their appearance in mid-winter coincided
with news reports the building was being subjected to
microwave radiation.
The reports said Soviet intelligence agents were using
the waves to listen to conversations in the embassy, to
activate hidden listening devices or perhaps to counteract
American debugging equipment.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, February 11,1976
Names of tvould-be candidates
for Georgia ballot would fill
two Atlanta phone directories
They won’t all make it
ATLANTA (UPI) — Americus
liberator saved a little money on his
presidential campaign literature this
year, but even his amended handbill
probably will not get him on the ballot
for the May 4 Georgia presidential
primary.
Mrs. Ellen McCormack, the New
York police officer’s wife running on an
anti-abortion platform, will probably
win her ballot position this afternoon.
And Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, the Texan
who dropped out of the Democratic
running this week, has until a week
from Friday to put it in writing for
Secretary of State Ben W. Fortson — or
else he’ll be on Georgia’s ballot despite
his announced intention of being only
the Lone Star State’s favorite son.
Frances Duncan, the head of
Fortson’s elections division, has two
Children in special education will be
socially promoted as the teacher
recommends.
The new policy also states that a
student will not be recycled more than
two times before the end of the fifth
grade.
Students, who have been retained but
makes an adequate score on the Sep
tember or January testing, will be
immediately promoted to the next
higher grade.
The five-member board also adopted
new policies for children entering
kindergarten and the first grade.
Students entering kindergarten for
the 1976-77 school year and in sub
sequent years shall be five-years-old on
or before Oct. 31.
Students entering the first grade for
the 1977-78 term shall be six-years-old
on or before Oct. 31.
The school board, which consist of
Richard Ward, chairman, Jack Pilken
ton, Charles Bentley, Graham Bell and
Ronald Adams, were told by Jim
Mullins, superintendent, that the Pike
County School System is rated
slightly above the state level in
achievement and that it was the
system’s goal to reach the national
level as quickly as possible.
The board discussed at length the
possibility of increasing teacher sup
plements.
Maine is that “I’ve gotten three
times more delegates than all
the other candidates put toge
ther.”
Carter called Florida’s March
9 presidential primary “the
crucial step in the selection of
our president” because the
state presents “a picture of our
nation in miniature.”
In Tallahassee, House Speak
er Don Tucker said Tuesday he
will put the name of Mrs. Ellen
McCormack, an anti-abortion
candidate from New York City,
on the state’s primary ballot.
Mrs. McCormack is one of 44
“minor” candidates who have
appealed to the Presidential
Candidates Selection Committee
to have their names included
along with 12 Democrats and
two Republicans approved so
far.
Officals told members of the American community
Tuesday they faced no “significant danger” from
microwave radiation in those parts of the embassy
frequented by nondiplomatic personnel — such as the
snack bar or nursery.
But the officials refused to reply when asked if this
meant there was danger to those who frequented other,
more secure parts of the embassy.
They did say, however, that a technician had begun
reviewing medical records of embassy staff and their
families and had begun taking white blood cell counts of
file folders about as thick as the Atlanta
telephone book, bulging with letters
from people who decided they want to
be president. Some of them, like the
Nebraska man who dubbed himself
“Americus Liberator,” are
quadrennial candidates who run
whenever the job becomes available.
Others, like a Los Angeles man who
claims kinship to more than a dozen
former presidents, maintain a devine
calling to the White House.
The presidential candidate selection
committee holds its second meeting
today, with 17 candidates — including
the reluctant Bentsen — already
guaranteed ballot position unless the
foreswear their candidacy in writing.
The committee put President Ford and
former California Gov. Ronald Reagan
on the GOP ballot last month, and
compiled 15 names on the Democratic
slate.
For some unknown reason, none of
the unknown candidates wanted to get
in the Ford-Reagan scramble for the
GOP nomination. All asked for position
on the Democratic ballot.
Among the Democrats were four men
none of the members had ever heard of,
but House Speaker Tom Murphy said if
they call themselves Democrats and
want to run for president, they have as
much right as the professionals to be on
the ballot.
The Georgia primary law provides all
three members of the selection
commission from one party must agree
to deleting any name from that party’s
ballot.
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“Lots of folks are willing to
forgo what they need in order to
pursue what they want.”
The six-member committee,
of which Tucker is a member,
meets today.
“Don will put her (Mrs.
McCormack) on the ballot
because she has qualified for
federal election funds,” said
Ken Driggs, Tucker’s press
secretary. “In Don’s mind, that
makes her a substantial can
didate.”
State Senate President Demp
sey Barron says he admires the
spunk of the minor candidates
but doubts he will vote to put
any of them into the primary.
“I have mixed emotions,” he
said. “I admire the effort
they’re putting forth. But my
political acumen tells me I
shouldn’t play a part in
confusing the ticket unless
there seems to be a real
possibility of success.”
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It helps
to have
the name
BRASELTON, Ga. (UPI) - To be a
good leader, Mayor Lewis Braselton
says, a person should be honest and
have love in his heart.
It also doesn’t hurt — in this north
Georgia hamlet — to have the name
Braselton.
Since 1916, the people of Braselton,
which is located about 40 miles
northeast of Atlanta in western Jackson
County, have elected a descendant of
the town’s founder, William Harrison
Braselton, as mayor.
The current mayor serves without
pay, in the tradition of his
predecessors, and so do his four cousins
who comprise the town council.
Braselton, 75, pays the town’s only
full-time policeman from the earnings
of his family’s stores. The arrangement
was worked out many years ago to save
the citizens the expense.
The mayor said his relatives operate
a supermarket, bank, hardware store,
furniture store, department store and
gift shop in the town.
The community also has two other
men deputized for parttime police duty.
Southeastern
to move office
Southeastern Textile Company, 222
East Solomon street, plans to move its
business offices into the old Bunn’s
Laundry building, which it owns now,
according to Pete Leary, vice presi
dent.
This will make space for possible
expansion of the plant in its present
building. The additional space would be
enough to handle some 25 machines,
Leary said.
He said the company expects to be
able to announce details about the
possible expansion in a week to 10 days.
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personnel, although the exact effect of microwave
radiation on the human body is not known.
No diplomats have left the Soviet Union in the past 10
months for medical reasons connected with radiation,
they said.
Despite making these disclosures, the officials refused
to discuss any details of the microwaves — such as when
or how they had been detected, what sort of counts, if any,
had been registered or where the waves were coming
from.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 68, low
today 52, high yesterday 71, low
yesterday 37, high tomorrow in upper
50s, low tonight in upper 30s.
News
summary
By United Press International
No jury present
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Patricia
Hearst’s bank trial is still being carried
on with the jury out of the courtroom
with U.S. District Court Judge Oliver
Carter hearing events that happened
after the holdup, so he can decide
whether to admit them as evidence.
William and Emily Harris refuted
Miss Hearst’s testimony of Tuesday
that she was beaten and sexually
assaulted by members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army while she
was their captive.
In a tape recording released in Los
Angeles, the Harrises said she was
never harmed and might have gone
home any time she wanted.
Nitty-gritty
Presidential contenders have gotten
down to the nitty-gritty with blasts at
each other in their latest campaign
efforts.
On the Republican side, the President
said Ronald Reagan did not have
enough experience to run the column.
Reagan, in turn, criticized Ford’s
foreign policy, saying, “One wonders if
we even have a foreign policy, for it is
impossible to detect a cohrent global
view.”
On the Democratic side Jimmy
Carter backed down on his predictions
he would beat Gov. George Wallace in
the Florida primary, and Wallace, with
tongue in cheek, laughed at Carter,
saying he was “lowering his sights.”
Still love him
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — Fanne
Foxe, whose association with once
chairman of the powerful House Ways
and Means Committee Wilbur Mills, led
to his losing that position, opened a six
night stand in a local club Tuesday.
After seeing her act, one fellow at the
bar said, “Shirley Temple,” then
finished his drink and left.
Miss Fox said she had not seen Mills
in eight months, but “I still love him,
sure, lots of people do, and so do I.”
But, she said, she no longer harbored
any hope of marrying him.
$5-million suit
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Frank
Peroff, not his real name, is planning to
bring suit against the government for $5
million.
Peroff is a former government
informer, who gave tips on heroin
smugglers. He said the Justice
Department promised him protection
from gangland reprisals, but is not
living up to its word. He said his
“cover” was blown three weeks ago
and his life is in danger.
The department, through a
spokesman, admitted it is refusing his
request on the grounds Peroff had
violated an earlier protection
agreement. The spokesman refused to
comment on details of the violation.
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