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GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 Good news today! i 826 more Spalding people have jobs i Over 800 more Spalding County people have jobs than a year ago. This was shown today by figures announced by Jerry Buffington, local office manager of the Griffin Em ployment Office which serves Spalding L .H 1 / • . /'\ : \ ->: ' . '■'■-' , - Hl jj Era H?'. ;' • m MSsllF v s/ I * J /A • w- ]\/f f o Q I,lh Ginger Richards played the part of Statue of Liberty yesterday as Spalding Junior High C'Oo Unit 111 held a bicentennial program. More pictures on page 3. 'Georgia primaries . A costly ‘showcase’ ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia’s first presidential trimary isSi $1.5 million showcase for former Gov. Jimmy to f>x his home-grown political muscle and for Reagan to solidify his Southern seige on the Ford douse. ig on the same date as the Alabama primary, barter concedes to Gov. George Wallace as heartily ace concedes Georgia to Carter, the state balloting cted to be heavy next Tuesday. surprising that, instead of being interested in any rte, the election workers I’ve talked to say the forest seems to just be the fact that we’re having a (presidential) primary for the first time,” said Frances Duncan, head of Secretary of State Ben Fortson’s elections division. She said the secretary of state’s seminars for elections officers at the county and district level each drew about 150 persons, about three times the usual turnout. > She also said printing ballots and voting information has cost the state $400,000 and that staffing the polls and conducting the balloting will coat the counties another sl.l million. *’ A liquor referendum in DeKalb County and city-county consolidation votes in Macon and Augusta, some bond issues, charter amendments and school board elections in i other areas are expected to add to the turnout. Old Car Club host meet here ( Members of the Griffin Old Car Club expect many visitors to see the vehicles on display at city park tomorrow when the club hosts its annual spring gathering of old car buffs. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the show will continue until the early afternoon. . It is open to visitors free of charge. More than 100 people with antique and classic cars are expected to bring their vehicles to enter in the show here. Tuesday sample ballot on page 14 today Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, May 1,1976 and seven other counties in the Mclntosh Trail Area. The unemployment rate in Spalding was 12 percent at the end of March, 1975 but had dropped to 7.9 at the same time Get it together ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Police have recovered University of Georgia student Tim Rice’s stolen van. Now all they have to do is figure how to put the vehicle together again. Rice’s 1966 van was stolen from a dormitory parking lot Jan. 23. He had invested about $1,300 in refurbishing it with interior carpeting, a stereo system and other touches before the van was stolen. Campus Police Chief David Saye said Friday police had recovered the vehicle — in two pieces. The rear half of Rice’s His victories over Wallace in Florida and North Carolina stamped out any doubt of Carter’s southern strength. In addition to support from most of the state’s congressmen, he recently picked up vote pledges from Gov. George Busbee and Sens. Sam Nunn and Herman Talmadge, who seemed outraged at other candidates abusing Carter simply because he is a Southerner. Carter has also been backed by prominent black leaders, including Congressman Andrew Young of Atlanta, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. At last count, there were 2,090,267 voters registered in Georgia. Election officials shied away from any estimate of Tuesday’s turnout, but said past presidential heats have drawn upward of 60 per cent. Georgians do not register by party, but the 1974 vote went about 3-1 Democratic. Although the timing of the state’s first primary only accidentally coincides with the Alabama primary, its ar chitects — incuding anti-Carter House Speaker Tom Murphy—would like to see it grow into a regional, or even nationwide, preliminary round in the quadrennial presidential eliminations. Backers of the regional approach, including Carter, feel pooling states would give a broader test of candidate (Continued on page two) this year. Since Spalding has a labor force of 20,142, this means that 826 more pebple had jobs. Figures for April are not available yet but are expected to show additional improvement. The overall comparison for the area’s van had been cut off and fastened to a 1962 van. “We are kind of in a dilemma about bow to return the victim’s stolen property,” Saye said. An officer spotted the patched together van in a university parking lot and recognized the features listed in Rice’s report of the theft. Police have arrested Kenneth Douglas Pittman, 30, of Jackson County, as the owner of the remodeled vehicle. He was charged with receiving stolen property. Vol. 104 NO. 104 eight counties including Spalding is 10.8 unemployed for March last year and 7.9 (the same as Spalding’s) for March of 1976. Every one of the individual counties showed improvement, as follows: Asbestos found in Atlanta water WASHINGTON (UPI) — In a study described as inconclusive but worrisome, the Environmental Protection Agency has found traces of asbestos —a potential cause of cancer — in the drinking water supplies of Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco and Seattle. The same study, it said, found no traces of the mineral in five other cities — New York, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City and Denver — although EPA said it still can’t be certain those water supplies are completely asbestos-free. In any case, said Dr. Andrew Breidenbach, an assistant EPA administrator, the residents of the first five cities should have no qualms about drinking the water. Further tests will be conducted in all 10 cities, he said, and the levels detected so far are much lower than those found in Duluth, Minn., where iron reclaiming operations have fouled Lake Superior. “We have some concern about asbestos,” he said. “We feel we should completely delineate the risk that asbestos poses to finished water. We have no evidence from the data we have today that there is a serious cause for concern.”, Improved filtering systems might be an eventual solution, he added. People ...and things Man, two little boys playing practicing ball at West Griffin School, one little girl watching. Flag standing out handsomely in spring breeze at Experiment Post Office. Small child following mother as she works in yard on North 13th Street. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70, low today 50, high tomorrow near 70, low tonight in low 50s, high yesterday 66, low yesterday 53. FORECAST: Variable cloudiness tonight and Sunday with a chance of some light rain. EXTENDED FORECAST: Fair Monday through Wednesday with a warming trend Tuesday and Wed nesday. ■Hr wM 7 i wffi* a^T ■ Av * ■Ly- • ■ L ll «■ ’>' •*--• Early risers Fishing report The Georgia Department of Natural Resources* fishing I Q forecast for the week of May 2-8 includes: V JACKSON LAKE: Normal, clear. Good for bream, shellcrackers and catfish; bass and crappie on bed. SINCLAIR: Down, clear. Good for white bass and bream; good for largemouth bass in late afternoon; fair * or catßsh; good for crappie at night. FLINT RIVER: Normal, clear. Fair for all species. Butts 13.5 and 11, Fayette 10.5 and 8.5, Henry 12.4 and 10.1, Lamar 10 and 6.3, Newton 8.8 and 7.1, Pike 11.8 and 8.7, Spalding 12 and 7.9, and Upson 8.2 and 5.3. News summary By United Press International Real thing? LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) - The purported will of Howard Hughes found on a desk at the Mormon Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, seems to be genuine, a group of handwriting experts believe. If the will is accepted as genuine, it opens the way for what probably will be the longest probate trial in American legal history. The probate may be drawn out even more, Los Angeles County Public Administrator Bruce Altman said, because of indications of thievery within the estate. Injures self DENVER (UPI) - Brad Errol Wild, 20, was found bleeding profusely by his roommate, who was told Wild had tried to comply with a passage in the Bible that commanded him to cut off his right These early risers were among the 160 Scouts attending the Towallga District spring camporee on the farm of Dr. O.E. Sell in Lamar County this weekend. One of the highlights of the weekend will be a bicentennial performance by a Marine Corps unit tonight. The agency said the asbestos found may have come both from natural sources, such as rock formations, and man made supplies. Asbestos is a known cancer causer in its airborne, powdered form, but little is known about its effect in drinking water or food. The highest single asbestos reading —2OO million fibers per liter—was found at one location in Philadelphia. Yet other tests in that city showed no asbestos at all. The Boston readings ranged from 10 million to 1.4 million fibers per liter; Atlanta, 36 million to 8.4 million; San Francisco, 15 million to 1.6 million; and Seattle 1.9 million to 1.5 million. In all cases some samples at other locations in the cities, and on occasion back-to-back samples in the same town, showed no traces at all. By comparison, Breidenbach said, some Duluth samples showed hundreds of millions of fibers per liter. “The results are varied and inconclusive due to the limited amount of sampling in any specific location and the nature of the measurement techniques available for asbestos detection,” he added. “There is wide variation in the values that have been obtained in these studies and some apparent anomalies in the data, making it extremely difficult to interpret these results other than to say that some amount of asbestos is present." hand and pluck out his right eye. When the roommate returned home and found Wild, he had already severed his hand with an ax but said he needed help in getting his eye out. Doctors at Colorado General Hospital performed surgery to re-attach Wild’s hand. Kissinger MONROVIA, Liberia (UPI) - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on his fifth stop on a two-week African tour, said relations with Angola might be normalized if Angola removes 15,000 Cuban troops from its country. The secretary also said, heatedly that a statement by Ronald Reagan made earlied in the week that Kissinger was encouraging more violence by pledging “unrelenting opposition” to Rhodesia’s white regime was “totally irresponsi ble.” Mr. Buffington attributed the decrease in unemployment to continued improvement in economic conditions and skilled workers being called back from lay off.
