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Enrollment brisk
at Griffin Tech
Summer quarter at Griffin Vo-Tech
got under way today with vacancies in a
number of classes.
According to Director of Admissions
Coy Hodges, enrollment has reached
the 375 mark and was expected to climb
to capacity of 450. Applications were
being counted today.
Openings are still available in about
seven classes and interested persons
may apply. They include accounting,
brick masonary, data processing,
drafting, secretarial, machine shop and
welding.
Evening classes will begin Monday,
July 12. Registration is still open for
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Coy Hodges of the Griffin Tech faculty greets first day students.
Belli says R üby didn’t
plot death with Castro
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Attorney
Melvin Belli says it is untrue that Jack
Ruby met secretly with Fidel Castro in
1963 to plot the assassination of
President John Kennedy.
Belli, who knew Ruby as a friend and
client, said Tuesday Ruby may have
been in Cuba six months before the
assassination of Nov. 22, 1963, but he
never met Castro and would not have
joined any scheme to kill Kennedy.
“Jack (Ruby) was an intensely loyal
American,” said Belli. “He worshiped
Jack Kennedy.”
Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner,
killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man
believed to have assassinated Kennedy,
in Dallas on Nov. 24, 1963, while
millions watched on television. Belli
later was one of Ruby’s defense at
torneys.
A former CIA agent mentioned the
alleged Ruby-Castro talks to the Senate
Intelligence Committee. He said Ruby
met Castro while in Cuba trying to
make a drug deal.
The ex-agent said Ruby offered guns
in exchange for permission to use Cuba
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as a base for drug shipments to the
United States.
Belli recalled that Ruby had referred
to a visit to Cuba six months before
President Kennedy was shot.
“He started to go over. I don’t know if
he got there,” said Belli.
Ruby’s mission, the attorney
recalled, was gun-running, not drugs,
and definitely not the assassination of a
president.
He said Ruby’s gun-running deal
never materialized and reiterated that
“Jack never saw Castro.”
Belli said no one would have hired
Ruby in such a plan because “he was
impossible to work with. No one in his
right mind, would hire him to do
anything.
“He was immature in judgment,
erratic and emotionally involved.
Within five minutes of meeting him,
you knew he could not carry out any
plan. He was just a fellow trying to
scrounge and get by.”
Belli said Ruby never worked for the
FBI or CIA and attributed the latest
account of the Kennedy assassination to
“CIA buh .”
some evening classes, even though
some already are filled.
Mr. Hodges said enrollment is higher
Jaycees, wives worked
long, hard on holiday
Griffin Jaycees and their wives were
beginning to catch their breaths today
after working many hours on the
nation’s 200th birthday celebration held
here Monday.
Questioned about it, President
Tyndall McMillan said that planning
began before the first of the year, and
that some of the Jaycees and Jaycettes
worked from 6 a.m. until after midnight
on the big day itself, Monday July 5.
He could not estimate the number of
man-hours and woman hours spent, but
Mr. McMillan said that about 60
members, 60 wives of members and
some of their older children all pitched
in and worked hard and long to make it
the success it was.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, July 7,1976
than usual this summer and was ex
pected to equal that of spring quarter,
450.
The purpose of the celebration, he
pointed out, was patriotism and the
celebration of the Bicentennial, but
another annual purpose is saving lives
by keeping people at home and
providing them something to do on the
big annual Fourth of July holiday.
This year’s event was the 12th one in
Griffin sponsored and coordinated by
the Jaycees.
“Yes, definitely,” Mr. McMillan
answered when asked if the Jaycees
will sponsor another celebration next
year. And he said he wanted to thank
everybody who helped make this one
such a success. It was a community
wide project, he said, and everybody
deserved recognition and thanks for it.
Carter sets talk
with Mondale
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) - Former Gov.
Jimmy Carter, with his fund-raising
almost finished but his search for a
running mate just begun, plans to in
terview Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn.,
Thursday about joining his ticket.
Carter, assured the Democratic
presidential nomination at the party’s
convention in New York next week, has
a final sl,ooo-a-plate dinner scheduled
at the opulent Diplomat Hotel in
Hollywood, Fla., tonight.
He raised more than $1 million —
counting federal matching money —
during a four-day swing through eight
cities last week, and tonight’s affair is
expected to give him more than enough
to meet convention deposits estimated
at several hundred thousand dollars.
The campaign’s announced strategy
is to have some federal matching
money left over to refund to the
treasury once the nomination is
wrapped up and Carter is allowed to
share in a S2O million fund reserved for
nominees. The matching money was
accumulated by the Federal Elections
Commission through the voluntary $1
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designer
Guard makes
camp plans
Three officers and 85 enlisted men
from the Griffin National Guard unit
will leave Saturday to be part of the
48th Brigade convoy to Ft. Stewart for
two weeks of training.
Brigadier General Raymond E.
Grant of Cataula, commander of the
48th, said this summer’s training phase
is one of the most important in the
history of the Georgia Army Guard.
People
...and things
People looking with pleasure at
lovely rainbow yesterday evening.
City prisoners sweeping sidewalks in
front of municipal jail.
Patients in dentist’s office ap
prehensively awaiting their turns.
income tax checkoff.
Carter picked up the unanimous
endorsement of about 30 Democratic
governors attending the National
Governors Conference Tuesday in Her
shey, Pa.
Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland,
who had supported California Gov.
Edmund G. Brown in the primaries,
formally read the resolution endorsing
Carter for the White House.
Brown did not attend the convention,
and Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards —
another late Brown backer — stayed
away from the breakfast at which the
resolution was adopted.
Just as he wooed the nation’s mayors
a week earlier in Milwaukee, Carter
promised the governors a “part
nership” approach to government, if he
wins the presidency. He also repeated
his warnings against complacency —
saying the Republicans now bitterly
split between Ronald Reagan and
President Ford will reunite after their
Kansas City convention and mount a
formidable campaign.
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Toy inventor Jed Sudweeks, at his drawing table, placed first in the state of Georgia in the
“Create-A-Toy Contest”. In national competition he placed fifth. His winnings include a $25
savings bond and $64 in toys. Besides toys, Jed has planned and developed camping gear
and' he is now working on a book of do-it-yourself plans. Jed is the 15-year-old son of
Dr. E. M. Sudweeks of 404 Maddox road.
Cosmonauts may
attempt space link
MOSCOW (UPI) — Two Soviet
cosmonauts took an eight-hour rest
early today in their spacecraft racing
toward an expected rendezvous with
the orbiting Salyut 5 space station.
The Tass news agency said the two
cosmonauts passed out of radio contact
with Soviet ground controllers at 5 p.m.
EDT Tuesday, about nine hours after
their liftoff from Central Asia.
Tass said the eight hours until contact
was resumed had been set aside for
rest.
Soviet newspapers gave banner
headlines to the launch of the Soyuz 21,
but provided no hint when a linkup with
the orbiting lab was expected.
Most Western experts believed the
two cosmonauts would rendezvous with
the Salyut station within 48 hours of the
liftoff and begin a lengthy stay aboard
Salyut in a possible bid to set a new
space endurance record.
The current mark of 84 days was
established early in 1974 by a trio of
American astronauts aboard Skylab 4.
Cosmonauts Boris Volynov, a craggy
faced space veteran, and Vitaly
Zholobov, a mustachioed rookie, were
rocketed into orbit Tuesday from the
Soviet Central Asia launch site at
Baikonur.
It was the country’s first manned
mission since last July’s joint Apollo-
Soyuz spectacular.
Tass news agency said the tiny Soyuz
21 capsule was circling earth every 88
minutes in an elliptical orbit and all its
systems were working normally.
There was no official indication that a
space linkup was in store. Tass and
Moscow television said only that Soyuz
21 had been sent up to hold “joint ex
periments” with Salyut 5, which was
placed in orbit two weeks ago.
But Soviet scientists are known to be
particularly interested in developing
orbiting laboratories as a base for
studying outer space and each of the
last three Soyuz flights involved a
docking with Salyut s’s predecessor,
Salyut 4.
Although no details have been
released, the Salyut craft is believed to
be an improved version of the cylin
drical Salyut 4, which weighs ap
proximately 20 tons.
At a conference in the United States
last month, two cosmonauts said Salyut
5 had twin docking facilities and could
accommodate as many as six persons.
The Westen experts said this could
mean Volynov, the mission com
mander, and Zholobov, his flight
engineer, might be joined for a multiple
docking maneuver.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 80, low
today 65, high yesterday 78, low
yesterday 65, high tomorrow in low 80s,
low tonight in low 60s.
FORECAST: Fair tonight. Mostly
sunny and warm tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Partly
cloudy and warm with a chance of
thundershowers mainly southeast
portion Friday and Saturday and over
most of the state Sunday.
News
Summary
By United Press International
No review
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court justices Tuesday
barred federal tribunals from
reviewing most state criminal con
victions on grounds of illegal seizure of
evidence by police. It was the closest
the court has come to overturning a
major right given the accused, by the
Earl Warren court in 1961.
In addition, the court, in winding up
its session, ruled a defendant convicted
of a state crime may not obtain federal
court review of his conviction on
grounds evidence used against him was
obtained through “unreasonable sear
ches and seizures” which are barred by
the 4th Amendment.
Veto
WASHNGTON (UPI) - President
Ford Tuesday cast his 52nd veto,
against a $3.95 billion public works bill,
which Democrats claim would create
or preserve up to 350,000 jobs. The
President said the bill would create at
most about half the number of jobs
claimed; the average cost per job
would be $25,000 and they would not be
lasting.
Ford won the last battle on his veto of
the issue, but the Democrats believe
this time they have the edge for an
override. Both sides are accusing each
other of playing election-year politics
over America’s seven million unem
ployed.
Playthings
CHICAGO (UPI) — In a speech
Tuesday, Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger refused to criticize Israel for
its commando raid on Uganda’s En
tebbe Airport and called for an in
ternational agreement to stem
terrorism. He warned innocent people
cannot be allowed to become
“playthings of international thugs.”
The Israeli raid freed more than 100
hostages and left seven pro-Palestinian
guerillas and more than 20 Ugandan
soldiers dead. One Israeli officer was
killed.