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Dr. Delia Amaya-Farfan and baby, Karen.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Home folk salute Carter
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) — Jimmy Carter
had never been welcomed home like
this.
Carter’s hometown supporters
planned a surprise celebration to greet
him as he drove into this tiny southwest
Georgia town about 10 p.m. Wednesday
from nearby Americus, where his
chartered plane had landed after a day
of campaigning in Massachusetts,
South Carolina and Florida.
A high school band played a jazzed up
version of “America the Beautiful,”
and about 350 well wishers cheered for
the former governor, who spoke to
them from a flatbed truck on Main
Street.
Buoyed by his recent win in the New
Hampshire primary, Carter expressed
Gross error
ATLANTA (UPI) — A federal judge
said he had never seen such a gross
error. A U.S. prisons spokesman called
it unprecedented. But Louis Altmark
had just spent a year and five days
longer than he should have in the
Atlanta federal penitentiary.
Altmark was given a bus ticket to
Miami, the customary new suit of
clothes and $95 when he was
released' hurriedly from prison earlier
this week. He was told that he had
served beyond his sentence — but not
how long or why.
Altmark, 41, had been convicted on
federal car theft charges four times
since 1961.
E. Michael Aun, a spokesman for the
U. S. Bureau of Prisons in Washington,
blamed the mistake on a “bureaucratic
error.” He said it was discovered last
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Adam Speerstra, four, heads back home to Alaska with his father, Terry, after
an incredible lifesaving trip. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, February 26, 1976
confidence that his campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination
would end in victory.
Many in the crowd Waved placards,
although some didn’t turn out just right.
They were supposed to read “Jimmy”
on one side and “Carter” on the other.
But on some of the cards, made by area
high school students, Carter came out
backwards.
“It’s been a long 13 months, but I
have something different from the
other candidates —a close relationship
with and the support from those from
my home state,” Carter told the crowd,
who waited about a half hour after the
candidate arrived because his wife
Rosalynn’s plane was a little late.
“There are 11 people in my family
In prison year too long
Saturday by a worker making routine
checks in the classification and parole
section.
Aun said Wednesday that Troy Peak
accidentally discovered an order
reducing Altmark’s sentence had been
placed in the prisoner’s file but not on
the master card at the front the file
folder.
UJS. District Judge Newell Edenfield
sentenced Altmark to his initial five
year sentence. He modified his order
four months later to a 30-month sen
tence.
Edenfield said Wednesday that
“some secretary probably goofed” in
transcribing his modification order.
“The records department at the
prison had to have gotten my order
because part of it was put into
Altmark’s daily file and part wasn’t,”
Husband, wife team
to fight world hunger
Delia and Jaime Amaya-Farfan of
the Versaille Apartments are unique in
that they just might have more
education than any couple in Griffin.
Both are research scientists and hold
8.5., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
Having done post graduate work,
Mrs. Amaya-Farfan has even more
education than her husband. And he is
proud of her.
Jaime (pronounced Hy-me) was bom
in Neiva, a town in the southern part of
Colombia, South America.
campaigning fulltime, but I feel
that everyone of you is a part of my
family.”
Carter warned the group that he
might not always be victorious.
“It would be a tiring procedure for
you to welcome me home after every
primary. I dont want you to be
disappointed if I come in second every
now and then,” he said. “There’s no
way a peanut farmer from Plains, Ga.,
can come in first every time.”
Carter had predicted repeatedly
throughout the day that he would win
the nomination on the first ballot.
“We are not going to have a
deadlocked convention,” he told an
airport crwd in Charleston, S.C. “I will
win the nomination on the first ballot.”
he said.
“The thing I can’t understand is why
Altmark didn’t know he was being kept
past the expiration date of his senten
ce.”
Each inmate gets a copy of any court
order affecting him, Edenfield
explained, “and according to the
warden Altmark must have gotten his
copy. Why Altmark didn’t scream
bloody murder, I’ll never know.”
The prisons bureau is now trying to
locate Altmark to tell him all the facts.
Justice Department spokesman Dean
St. Dennis says a detailed memo is
currently being prepared by Prisons
Director Norman Carlson for U. S.
They won death race
SEATTLE (UPl—Four-year-old
Adam Speerstra won his brush with
death in the Arctic and has gone home
to Alaska — wearing a protective
helmet and a big smile.
Adam’s father, Terry, was content
with just the smile when the two left
Seattle-Tacoma Airport for Fairbanks.
The helmet protects a head injury
that nearly claimed Adam’s life in an
accident at Speerstra’s hunting camp
260 miles southeast of Fairbanks Feb.
12.
Speerstra was feeding four ill horses
about eight miles from the cabin when
Adam was either kicked or stepped on
by one of the animate.
“I didn’t know he was injured,” said
Speerstra. “He was lying on the
ground. It was 15 below zero and I told
him to get up.”
When he didn’t, Speerstra knew his
son was badly injured.
Thus began an Arctic race with
death.
Delia is a native of the Philippines.
They met while doing graduate work
at the University of Rhode Island.
The couple moved to Griffin last year
where Jamie accepted a temporary
research job in the food science depart
ment of the Georgia Experiment
Station.
Delia came to Griffin several months
after her husband. She stayed in Rhode
Island until after the birth of their
daughter, Karen, last May. She con
tinued with her research in food
Vol. 104 No. 48
He told the Jacksonville, Fla.,
Donkey Club it is no longer a political
disadvantage to be a southerner.
“The vote in New Hampshire shows
that, as a southerner, I have not
suffered because of the place of my
birth,” he said. “I believe from the
bottom of my heart there is no
disadvantage in being a southerner any
more.”
During the morning, he said Florida’s
March 9 primary would be a political
showdown for George Wallace.
“If he does better in Florida than he
did in 1972, it will show he has the
momentum. If he does worse, it will
show a very good retrogressing in his
strength.”
Attorney General Edward H. Levi.
Once the memo arrives, St. Dennis says
“the department will study it to
determine what should be done to try to
compensate” Altmark.
Prison sources say there have been
occasions in the past where a prisoner
was kept a day or two beyond the date
his term expired. But they say
“Altmark’s case is unprecedented.”
Edenfield said he had “never seen
anything as gross as this.”
Sources said personal files of the 2,000
inmates at the maximum security prison
in Atlanta are duplicated on microfilm,
but the master cards on the
folders normally are the sole controls on
release times.
Speerstra, a Glennallen engineer,
stripped to the waist, strapped Adam to
his body with his belt, put his clothes
back on and made a 30-minute snowmo
bile dash to the cabin.
He tucked Adam in a sleeping bag
and began the two-hour job of thawing
the engine of his light plane, unfreezing
the skis and refueling the craft.
Speerstra took off for Northway, a
Federal Aviation Administration field
station 90 miles away, over 9,500-foot
mountains.
There he found an Alaskan
businessman with a faster plane who
took them to Big Delta, where they
were loaded into a helicopter and taken
the final 100 miles to a Fairbanks
hospital.
Despite the seriousness of Adam's
injuries, neurosurgeons there would not
attempt brain surgery because they
could no longer get or afford malprac
tice insurance. Speerstra hired a
registered nurse and booked a
pigmentation at the university until two
days before Karen was bom.
Jaime was chosen in nationwide
competition from some 60 applicants
for the Griffin position. His main
research here has been to study the
nutritive quality of peanut protein and
to measure the amino acid, tryptophan,
in a number of varieties of peanuts.
Tryptophan is important for normal
growth in children, as well as in young
animals. As most of the world’s food
needs must be met with vegetables,
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Dr. Jaime Amaya-Farfan (r) and Dr. A.L. Shewfelt of the Georgia Experiment
Station use machine to measure peanut protein.
Pike Jaycees
go for record
The Pike County Jaycees hope to set
a charter membership national record
tonight when it gets organized.
The national record is 125 members
and Pike County Jaycee backers think
they can top that by at least one.
The club will have its charter night
program at the elementary school in
Zebulon.
It will be under sponsorship of the
Griffin Jaycees.
Fred Harp, president of the Griffin
Jaycees, will lead a delegation from
Griffin to share in the charter program.
Jerry Hammond, a worker in adult
education, is the president of the new
Pike Club.
People
—and things
Newly appointed District Attorney
Byron Smith of the Flint Circuit lives in
Barnesville but sometimes plays golf in
Griffin where he has the reputation of
hitting the longest drive of anybody. He
is 34 years old and plays to a handicap
of two.
Yellow flowers and more stately
camellias adding beauty to Griffin
yards and Spalding fields, but some of
them shrivelled from cold nights.
Man on tractor north of town
breaking field for spring planting.
commercial flight to Seattle.
The journey from accident to hospital
took 12 hours.
Surgeons repaired much of Adam’s
skull and brain damage.
Now it’s up to time to heal the injury.
The Country Parson
Illi
“An education won’t hurt a
fellow if he has good morals.”
which usually are low in proteins, it is
important that scientists determine
which varieties of plants contain most
of the essential proteins.
Jaime has developed an automated
method for measuring trypotophan in
large numbers of peanut samples.
He can measure approximately 200
samples a day. It may take years, but
eventually, farmers throughout the
world, particularly in the poorly fed
countries, will know which variety of
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News
summary
By United Press International
No naive child
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Two
controversial issues arose Wednesday
in Patricia Hearst’s bank robbery trial
The first was when Prosecutor David
Bancroft questioned psychiatrist Louis
West about Miss Hearst’s use of drugs
before she was kidnaped by the
Symbionese Liberation Army. Bancroft
said his purpose in the questioning was
to show the defendant was not a “naive
school girl.” The judge permitted the
cross-examination to continue.
Campaigning
Before the hue and cry had died down
over the New Hampshire primary all
eight major Democratic candidates
started campaigning in Massachusetts,
where the next primary will be held
Tuesday.
On the Republican side President
Ford said he was “very happy” with his
51 to 50 per cent win over Ronald
Reagan. And Reagan said he “couldn’t
be more pleased” with his near break
even showing against an incumbent
president.
Muzzled
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House
subcommittee on government
information and individual rights has
challenged a claim of executive
privilege that has muzzled witnesses in
its investigation of intercepts of private
overseas cable communications.
It seems Attorney General Edward
Levi and Defense Secretary Donald S.
Rumsfeld had been ordered by
President Ford, to instruct the
witnesses, who had been subpoenaed,
not to comply with subpoenas.
Americans freed
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Charles
Gallagher, 44, and William Dykes, 55,
two U.S. government employes, who
were kidnaped at gunpoint four months
ago, were released Wednesday to U.S.
Embassy officials.
Lebanese sources said the two men
were freed in exchange for the release
of two Palestinian guerrillas jailed in
Israel, but the U.S. Embassy denied
any knowledge of such an exchange.
Nixons on tour
KWEILIN, China (UPI) - Richard
Nixon, in a Britishmade Trident
belonging to China’s civil aviation fleet,
flew the 1,100 miles from Peking to
Kweilin today.
He and his wife Pat arrived in light
rain that prevented them from viewing
the rock formations that make the city
one of the most beautiful spots in China.