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Henry fires
3 policemen
Ga. (UPI) - The
Henry County Commission has ordered
three county policemen fired and the
department is still operating without a
’ permanent police chief.
The commission met in special
session Thursday to reorganize the
, police department and name a new
chief but adjourned without acting on
either matter.
Commission Chairman Hugh Findley
said action was being held up “because
some things had come up that might
require investigation.”
* Acting Police Chief J.C. Floyd was
told by the commission to fire three
officers because of "objectionable
• things” found in their personnel files.
The files had been transferred to the
commission office when control over
, the police department was taken from
Sheriff Jimmy Glass.
Findley would not name the officers
but said two had charges pending
* against them when they were hired and
the third had admitted to drug use and
being drunk on duty.
• He said six other officers were being
paid as certified officers when actually
People
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Bright red roses growing on fence but
no chestnuts in evidence on Chestnut
Street in Experiment.
* Local Democrat official asking
businessman to contribute money to
Jimmy Carter campaign fund.
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Infrequent Griffin Post Office patron
startled when electronic doors open
t before she touches them.
DENVILLE, N.J. (UPI) - The next
step for the parents of Karen Ann
Quinlan is to persuade a hospital ethics
committee to allow their daughter to be
removed from the respirator that has
kept her alive for almost a year.
One of the last remaining legal
hurdles was removed Thursday when
Karen’s two doctors and St. Clare’s
Hospital independently announced they
would not appeal a New Jersey
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they had not been certified with the
state. He said county officers were
started at a monthly salary of $5Bl and,
after certification, were raised to $6lO.
“This is costing the citizens a lot of
money,” said Findley.
The commission voted recently to
take over the 38-man county police
force, which had operated out of the
sheriffs office.
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Supreme Court decision, which gives
the Quinlans the power to end their
daughter’s life.
“That decision takes it out of the legal
and public realm,” said the Quinlans’
lawyer, Paul Armstrong, adding that
Joseph and Julia Quinlan were thankful
there would be no appeal.
“This matter has been returned to the
privacy of the family,” Armstrong
said. “It is basically their decision and
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Keith Lynch testa Vande Graf generator at Spalding Junior High School Unit II science fair.
The project was demonstrated by Doug Segars.
the doctors’ decision now.”
Ralph Porzio, the lawyer for the two
staff doctors, said he expects a decision
will be reached in the next two or three
days on whether they will remain as
Karen’s attending physicians.
He said he did not know if the two
doctors believe there was no reasonable
possibility Karen could return to what
the court referred to as a “cognitive,
sapient state.”
Kidnap
NEW YORK (UPI) - Mel Patrick
Lynch, one of two men accused of
kidnaping Samuel Bronfman n, may
base his defense on a claim that the
Seagram’s liquor heir helped arrange
his own abduction.
The possible defense was disclosed
Thursday at a pretrial conference in
White Plains, N.Y., when an attorney
for Lynch’s codefendant, Dominic
Byrne, withdrew a request that his
client be tried separately. Lynch
recently suffered a heart attack and
was injured in an escape attempt
Monday night.
Byrne’s, attorney, Peter Deßlasio,
said without Lynch’s testimony, Byrne
“might be convicted of a kidnap charge
when in fact there was no kidnap.”
Deßlasio said Thursday he told State
Supreme Court Justice George
Beisheim Jr., "There have been
conversations between the attorney for
Lynch and the District Attorney that
there is corroborative evidence
Bronfman knew Lynch before the
kidnaping and there may be the defense
there was no kidnaping.”
Deßlasio argued that only Lynch and
his attorneys would know about a prior
link with the liquor scion. “Byrne would
not be able to produce such evidence
and therefore his constitutional rights
would be affected (in a separate
trial),” De Blasio said.
Anthony Moley, assistant district
attorney for Westchester County,
confirmed that Lynch’s attorney,
Walter Higgins, “has stated to us there
may be a defense along the lines Mr.
Deßlasio has indicated.”
None of the attorneys would comment
on what motive the 21-year-old son of
Seagram’s board chairman Edgar
Bronfman might have had for
arranging his own abduction.
Moley said Beisheim adjourned the
case until May 5.
NEWS
Did victim have a hand in plot?
In the historic March 31 ruling, the
New Jersey Supreme Court said that
the hospital must form an ethics
committee to confer with Karen’s
doctors and reach a final decision on
the Quinlan’s request to allow the 22-
year-old woman to die naturally.
The high court also gave Joseph
Quinlan the power to select doctors who
would be sympathetic to the family’s
wishes, but the Rev. Thomas Trapasso,
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more worrisome than what you
know,”
Mark Reid (1), a student at Spalding Junior High Unit H won the spelling competition in the
Griffin-Spalding School System this morning. The written tests were administered at
Fourth Ward School this morning under the direction of Walker Cook, curriculum director.
Reid won the system and district competition last year and will , represent the system
again this year. At the right is George Mixon, of Spalding Junior High IH, first runner-up.
Griffinites safe
after gun blast
Nine Griffinites were glad to be back
home safely after the window of their
camper-truck was shot out as they
passed through Maryville, Tenn., last
night.
They were returning from a trip
through the Smokey Mountains.
Barbara Langford and Annette
Daniel, both of 559 Patterson road, had
relatives with them on the trip.
Three were treated in the emergency
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AUGUSTA, GA. (UPI) - What would
you do if you were a doctor asked to
treat a case of “roaches of the liver?”
How about “harden arches” or
“Smiling Mighty Jesus?”
Doctors at the University Hospital
emergency room here would prescribe
treatment for cirrhosis of the liver,
hardening of the arteries or spinal
meningitis.
They have dealt with “heartbreak of
psoriasis” and . “goalstones”
(gallstones to the uninitiated),accor
ding to emergency room records.
One patient complained of feeling
“loose all over,” while one just plain
“took sick.”
One man was treated for “vitamin in
nose” and perhaps advised to take his
medication orally.
the family’s Catholic pastor, said no
decision has been made on the which
doctors the Quinlans will choose.
The high court’s ruling ended a legal
battle that began last July, three
months after Karen slipped into a coma
from an apparent combination of
alcohol and tranquilizers.
Last week State Attorney General
William F. Hyland said the state would
not appeal the ruling.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 65, low
today 43, high yesterday 76, low
yesterday 47, high tomorrow near 70,
low tonight in upper 30s.
FORECAST: Clear and cold tonight
with a low in the upper 30s. Saturday
sunny and wanner with a high near 70.
room of a Maryville hospital and they
continued their trip home.
Police said other cars including
police squad cars had been fired upon in
recent days in the area.
Policemen covered the truck window
with cardboard so the Griffinites could
continue their trip home.
Police in the Tennessee town con
tinued their investigation.
A careless patient said he was
“bumped by car while digging worms”
and another “got nose caught in
chainsaw.”
One not-so-serious complaint was
diagnosed as an Adam’s apple, a
normal anatomical feature, instead of
the feared “lump in throat.”
One man said he was “hit and kicked
by group of friends.”
Another patient who felt
“unconscious at night” might have
been told to sleep off this strange
malady.
Other recent complaints ranged from
a harmless case of dandruff to “foot
pains, yells like a bird when pressure
put on it.”
But one patient’s problem wasn’t
physical or medical. His chief
complaint? “My mother.”