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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 30,1976
Deficit crisis
Griffin Academy is optimistic
Bill Early, Griffin Academy
headmaster, said today he was
optimistic about the future of
the school.
The school sent letters to
parents with children at the
school asking for financial
support.
The letters arrived at their
homes yesterday.
Early said the response to
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them has been more positive
than negative.
The letters suggested con
tributions of |250, more or less,
to help handle the school’s
deficit.
Early said the contributions
would be in addition to tuition
costs.
He said the school wants to
know if it can count on com-
munity support. Tuition income
alone will not be enough to
operate over a long term, he
said. He said this is the history
of private educational in
stitutions.
Early wants to find out if
there is community support for
the school.
He said he was optimistic that
the school would be able to
continue.
The school’s board has voted
to discontinue the top three
grades.
Early said students in the
upper grades who had planned
to graduate from the school
wanted the grades restored.
The school has 171 students
now in the kindergarten through
the 12th grades.
Early said the school’s board
of directors would make a
decision on the institution,
based on the response it
received from its appeal for
community support.
Dumas Ponder, an airlines
pilot, is chairman of the board.
He was flying today and not
available for comment.
Skeletons
ATHENS (UPI) - The
doorman of an apartment
building found two human
skeletons on the balcony of an
empty apartment, police said
Friday.
After a thorough investiga
tion, police discovered both
skeletons belonged to Athens
University and had been taken
home for study by two foreign
medical students who aban
doned them on the balcony.
Crime report
Robbery, reported
Griffin police were in
vestigating a robbery and an
assault and attempted robbery.
A Bunn’s Laundry route man,
identified as John Whitfield of
Dale drive, told officers he was
robbed while making his rounds
on Circus street.
Whitfield said a black male
threatened him with a knife and
took his wallet which contained
an undisclosed sum of money.
In a separate incident, Frank
Knox of 838 Scales street was
beaten by a would-be robber.
Knox said a black male ap
proached him near his home
and beat him with a stick about
the arms and chest in an at
tempt to get his money.
The culprit did not succeed,
Knox said.
A Griffin police officer and
the sheriff’s son-in-law reported
thefts, according to the
Spalding Sheriff’s Department.
Officer Calvin Huggins of the
Griffin Police Department
reported that his son’s bicycle
was stolen from their residence
on Northside drive.
Randy Jackson, Sheriff
Dwayne Gilbert’s son-in-law,
complained that someone broke
a window in his auto and
removed a CB radio and 30-06
rifle.
The auto was parked at
Cronic Chevrolet on the North
Expressway.
The value of both items was
set at approximately |450.
A1977 Monte Carlo was stolen
from Cronic Chevrolet, sheriff’s
officers said.
The car was dark green with a
light green vinyl top and had a
Pike County license plate.
Homer Carden reported two
cows were missing from his
pasture on Musgrove road.
A home at 132 Searcy avenue
was damaged by vandals.
Sheriff’s officers said the
damage was reported by a Mr.
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Supreme Court to rule
on mandatory death laws
By JAMES A. KIDNEY
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court, which already
has upheld some capital punish
ment laws, may wind up as an
example for a major argument
against the death penalty —
that some die while others live
for the same crimes.
Last July the justices, on a 5-
4 vote, struck down Louisiana’s
mandatory death penalty statu
te. They upheld laws in other
states, which gave juries some
specific guidelines for deter
mining when a crime is so
aggravated the defendant
should be put to death.
An important element in
ruling on the constitutionality of
such laws, the court said, is
whether there is some mech
anism for reasonably insuring
persons accused of the same
kinds of crimes meet the same
fate.
The Supreme Court didn’t
reserve any part of the
Louisiana statute for further
review. A week later, it
vacated the death sentence
given Jefferson Washington Jr.,
who was convicted under the
statute for slaying a deputy
sheriff —a mandatory death
case under the seemingly
discredited statute.
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who complained that S3OO
damage was done to the
sheetrock ceiling.
A radio speaker was stolen
from a truck owned by Walker
Evans of 223 East Tinsley
street, according to Griffin
police.
Carlton Blackmon, 815 Lane
street, reported someone en
tered his home and stole a red
bank containing assorted
change.
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The justices stuck by their
decision in Washington’s case
last month, denying Louisiana’s
request for a rehearing and
insuring that the defendant will
receive a life prison sentence.
Monday, the picture suddenly
changed, but for another
Louisiana man, Harry Roberts,
who was sentenced to die for
slaying a New Orleans’ police
man during Mardi Gras.
The justices, in a terse order
that confused lawyers for both
sides, asked for arguments on
whether mandatory death laws
for killing a peace officer might
Carter protests
steel increases
By JOHN USHER
United Press International
The decision by America’s
three biggest steel companies
to raise some prices by 6 per
cent provoked an immediate
protest from President-elect
Jimmy Carter, who said the
increases would be an “unset
tling influence on price stabili
ty.”
There was no immediate
response from President Ford
or his lame-duck administra
tion, but Carter warned oil
producing countries could use
the steel price hike as an
excuse to raise their own rates.
U.S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem
Steel Corp, and Republic Steel
Corp, said Monday they would
join six other major producers
in raising prices on sheet and
strip products by 6 per cent,
effective Wednesday.
The increase means the
industry this year will have
raised prices 12 per cent on the
steel used heavily by auto and
appliance makers.
The Aluminum Company of
America also announced price
still be constitutional. Neither
Roberts nor Louisiana raised
the issue on appeal.
If the court decides such laws
are appropriate, Roberts may
die in the Louisiana electric
chair while Washington, con
victed under the same law,
iives.
Roberts appealed his case on
other grounds, such as intro
duction of his juvenile record,
hoping for a new trial. Even
the state, which opposed high
court review, acknowledged
Roberts couldn’t be executed
increases Monday. Alcoa said
they would raise by 10.2 per
cent the price of “aluminum
rigid container body stock” —
used to make beer and soda
cans. The increase is from 52.8
cents to 58.8 cents.
Carter said in a CBS-TV
interview that he had been in
touch with the steel companies
through unnamed represen
tatives. The response from the
steelmakers has been “noncom
mittal, and expressions of their
need to increase prices,” he
said.
“I think it (the price hike)
would be an unsettling influ
ence on price stability in our
own country,” Carter said.
Referring to threats by
members of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
to increase the price of their
oil. Carter said the steel
producers’ decision would be “a
signal” to OPEC to go ahead.
“I think this would be a good
under the July decision.
Roberts’ attorney, Garland R.
Rolling of Metairie, La., was
shocked by the high court’s
action.
“This case might backfire on
us,” Rolling said. Had Roberts
not appealed he would have
won a life sentence, but now he
could again face death if the
justices rule against him.
After a delay of several
weeks, the court Monday also
agreed to decide whether
former President Richard M.
Nixon’s rights were violated by
a law, passed after his
resignation, putting his White
House tapes and papers under
government control.
The case is expected to be
argued next spring and a
decision rendered by summer.
excuse for Iran and other
nations to say ‘Well, if you
increase steel prices in the
middle of our oil meetings, then
it’s legitimate for us to raise
our prices,”’ Carter said.
“I would hope that everyone
on a worldwide basis would
take another look at the
adverse impacts of inflation 1
and try to volunteer at least to
hold down both wages and
prices for the time being.” , >
The rise in steel prices is
expected to have the most
severe impact on the automo-■>
bile and appliance industries,
the largest consumers of the
rolled steel covered by the
increases. • ’
U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar
B. Speer, in Detroit to address
a stockholders meeting, said '
indications from auto industry
executives were that they “felt
the timeliness was questions- > •
ble.” But he insisted “there is
no question” the price hikes
were justified.