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Ford sets Atlanta visit
ATLANTA (UPI) — President Ford
probably will make a campaign stop in
Atlanta in about a week and Vice
President Nelson Rockefeller was to be
in town today.
Clean-up
success
reported
City Manager Roy Inman credited
the success of the first week of the
special cleanup program to cooperative
property owners and tenants in the
Second Ward.
Beginning Monday the haul away
crews will move into the Third Ward
area.
Residents and property owners in
that section were asked to clean their
property and place the trash at curb
side for pickup Monday through
Friday.
The area is from Elast Wall on the
north; to Willis, Hamilton boulevard,
Sunnybrook drive, and Windsor way on
the east; to Beverly and Maddox roads
on the south; and to the west boundary
of Zebulon road and South Hill street,
from Wall street southward.
For the fourth week, beginning April
26, the cleanup crews will cover some of
the Fourth Ward area.
Definite locations will be announced
next week.
Hughes leave will?
HOUSTON (UPI) — An aunt of
Howard Hughes and her attorney son
have been named to administer
temporarily the Texas holdings of the
late billionaire, who may not have left a
will.
Probate Court Judge Pat Gregory
appointed Mrs. Frederick Lummis,
Hughes’ closest living relative, and
William Lummis in a three-minute
proceeding Wednesday granted on an
urgent request by the survivors.
The Lummis application said there
were “more than two debts” against
the estate and tax matters, which
needed immediate attention. The debts
were not defined.
The order applies only to Texas.
Hughes died of kidney failure April 5
while en route from Acapulco, Mexico
to Methodist Hospital in Houston.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY N EWS
Daily Since 1872
To help people who might be racing the midnight deadline for filing state and federal
income tax returns tonight, the Postal Service in Griffin placed a box In the lobby this
morning for tax forms only. Postmaster James Chappell said returns put in the box before
midnight would have the proper cancellation mark on it.
Joe Wilkinson, spokesman for the
President Ford Committee, said
Wednesday Ford has made tentative
plans to visit the city April 23, two days
after Republican opponent Ronald
Reagan visits several Georgia cities.
Wilkinson said the President has
received “a number of invitations.”
“We’re checking locations,” he said.
“But who knows? They may cancel out
tonight.”
It was announced in Washington that
Ford will make a two-day campaign
swing into Indiana and Georgia,
starting April 22 or April 23.
Rockefeller was to visit Atlanta to
attend a Republican Party luncheon,
hold a news conference and to address a
|SO-a-ticket reception tonight.
Proceeds from the reception will go
to the Georgia Republican Federal
Campaign Committee to finance
Republican candidates for Georgia
congressional seats.
I Mother of year sought I
April 30 is the deadline for entering nominations for Mother of the Year I
Award.
The award is made by the Griffin-Spalding Jaycees.
Letters of nomination should be handwritten and stating reasons why that I
mother should be chosen.
The letters should be sent to Gary Yawn, chairman, 132 Thomas street.
In Acapulco, a medical expert said
Hughes was in a state of “shock” three
days before his death but that his
personal physicians did not act to
hospitalize him.
“Howard died of an illness called
neglect,” said Dr. Vicente Manuel
Montemayor.
The extent of Hughes’ Texas holdings
is not known, but Hughes disposed of
the Hughes Tool Co. foundation about
four years ago. His worth was
estimated at |2 billion.
As temporary administrators, the
Lummises have control over all the
assets of Hughes’ estate in Texas. They
also can seek appointment as
permanent administrators.
Officials of Hughes’ Summa Corp, in
Los Angeles and members of his family
told the court they believe Hughes
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, April 15,1976
Sam Tate, chairman of the Georgia
Reagan campaign, said the former
California governor would be in
Georgia April 21 and. 28.
He said Reagan would visit Macon,
Augusta and Savannah April 21 and
then come back a week later for a swing
through Albany, Columbus and Atlanta.
Ford and Reagan are listed on the
Republican ballot in Georgia’s first
presidential preference primary.
Although Democratic delegates will be
chosen, in the May 4 election, the GOP
ballot will be a “beauty contest” with
no delegates at stake.
Alabama is also holding its primary
May 4, and Tate said Reagan would be
campaigning there also.
He said half-hour advertisments were
scheduled to be aired this weekend on
nine televison stations in Georgia.
Reagan aides were buying time on
two stations each in Atlanta, Augusta,
and Savannah, and on single stations in
Columbus and Albany, Tate said.
executed a will but that it has not been
found.
In Texas, the assets will be handled
by a safekeeping agreement with Texas
Commerce Bank in Houston. No one
will have the authority to take any
assets or cash or write checks in the
name of Howard Hughes’ estate
without a court order.
In Las Vegas, District Court Judge
Keith Hayes signed an order appointing
the First National Bank of Nevada as
administrator of some of the Hughes’
properties in that state. Elmer
Bacchina, senior vice president of the
bank, was sworn in as bank
representative prior to the court order.
In Los Angeles, Hughes’ first cousin,
Richard Gano, was appointed
temporary administrator for the late
billionaire’s California holdings.
Georgia hotbed
for smuggle
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ATLANTA (UPI) — An official of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a
special squad of agents has been set up
to stop the flow of drugs into the state
because “Georgia has replaced Florida
as “the hotbed of drug smuggling.”
“We’re making progress in the war
on drugs,” Phil Peters, head of the
Fly nt
denies
‘leaks ’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rep. John Flynt,
chairman of the House Ethics
Committee, denied a report by
columnist Jack Anderson that he
leaked confidential military
information to reporters, it was
reported today.
The Georgia Democrat was quoted in
Washington as saying he had
permission from “responsible Army
officials” to brief journalists in
advance about a proposed Army reor
ganization plan.
The Sixth District congressman is
heading the investigation into the
leaking of a confidential House
Intelligence Committee report to CBS
newsman Daniel Shorr, who had it
published in the Village Voice, a New
York City weekly.
Anderson reported in his column
published today that Flynt himself
“leaked confidential military
information to reporters on Jan. 10,
1973, to get publicity for his himself and
his views.”
Flynt was quoted as saying he merely
gave reporters a “background
briefing” the day before the Army’s
official announcement of the reorgani
zation which included the 1973 closing of
the Atlanta Army Depot and the
stationing of a new command at Ft.
McPherson, Ga.
“There was no intention to violate
any trust or confidence,” Flynt, a
member of the military appropriations
subcommittee, was quoted as saying.
“Certainly there is no equation
between the unauthorized distribution
of classified information affecting the
security of this country and a
background briefing on unclassified
information that was about to be made
public anyway.”
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GBl’s controlled substances division,
said Wednesday. “But we haven’t got it
licked by a darned sight.”
Peters said, “Planes and ships use to
deliver drugs to Florida. But they’ve
pretty well ran them out down there
and now they’ve moved in on us.”
He told the Georgia Safety Board the
state’s coastal makeup provides ideal
landing sites for drug-laden boats. The
state has 100 miles of coastline slotted
with 2,344 miles of inlets that lead to
400,000 acres of desolate marshland.
“We’re in the process of making a
survey of the airstrips over Georgia
long enough to accommodate a sizable
aircraft that are not attended at night,”
he said.
The 10-man GBI anti-drug squad
works closely with the federal Drug
Enforcement-Administration and U.S.
Customs to intercept shipments, said
Peters.
He said the GBI also has a separate
undercover squad that helps Georgia’s
local police officials trap drug pushers.
People
...and things
Four women leaving Spalding
courthouse about 5:15 p.m., last one
locking then shaking side door to make
sure.
Boys pitching horse shoes west of
town.
Every space empty in front of South
Hill apartments signs. They read,
“Unauthorized cars will be towed
away.”
Charlie Elrod of the Georgia Experiment staff in Griffin is one of the computer experts who
figure more and more in the lives of Grifflnltes. He is an old hand at computer operations
and has been solving agricultural research problems here for several years. Now more and
more work is being done in Griffin by computers. Some more examples are on page eight.
The Country Parson
raw
“It looks now like we might
have more people running for
office than voting.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 79, low
today 59, high yesterday 77, low
yesterday 56, high tomorrow in lower
80s, low tonight in lower 50s.
FORECAST: Fair tonight and
Friday. Mild tonight with a low in the
lower 50s . High tomorrow in the lower
80s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Partly
cloudy through the period with a slight
chance of showers Sunday, increasing
on Monday.
News
summary
By United Press International
In hospital
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Patricia
Hearst, who is hospitalized with a
collapsed lung, has told government
prosecutors she participated in the
bombings of two sheriffs cars in the
parking lot of the Marin Civic Center a
month before she was arrested.
Marin County District Attorney
Bruce Bales said Miss Hearst admitted
she was at the scene, with three others
not, named, but claimed she “didn’t
actually throw the bombs.”
Not surprised
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — William and
Emily Harris were faced with 19 fresh
charges Wednesday in connection with
the kidnaping of Patricia Hearst, and a
possible murder count in a Sacramento
bank robbery in which a woman was
killed. They were described as “not
surprised” at reports Miss Hearst has
agreed to be a witness against them.
Rob $4-million
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Three
masked gunmen gained entrance to the
luxurious Palm Beach Towers
condominium in the early morning
Wednesday by pretending to be
delivering pizza to the telephone
switchboard room.
They overpowered the telephone
operator and security guards and rifled
180 of 300 safety deposit boxes of
jewelry, cash and checks that “can’t be
less” than $3 million and “might be a
great deal more” than $4 million,
according to Palm Beach Police Chief
J. M. Gaffney.
Some 250 to 300 wealthy persons live
at the six-story complex, once a resort
hotel.
Longest skyjack
ROME (UPI) - The longest
skyjacking ever recorded—B,Boo
miles—has ended, and 12 Philippine
hostages are on their way home to
Manila today after being freed
unharmed.