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Mrs. G. Gordon Liddy (second from left), protesting her
Watergate defendant husband’s “unfair” prison sentence,
yesterday presented Lawrence M. Traylor, Pardon At
torney for the Department of Justice (right) with a 7,000
name petition for executive clemency. James A. Gavin,
Yule shoppers
Stores inundated with bargain hunters
ATLANTA (UPI) - Although
some Georgia retailers com
plained that bad weather had
an adverse effect on after-
Thanksgiving business, stores
were inundated with bargain
hunters and Friday and Satur
day were described as the
biggest sales days of the year.
Christmas shoppers battled
the weekend rain and fog to
catch after-Thanksgiving sales
at stores across the state. The
weekend following Thanksgiv
ing traditionally kicks off the
hectic Christmas shopping sea
son, and — despite the weather
— this year was no exception.
Between Friday and Sunday,
more than 1.6 million people
packed Cumberland Mall, a
north Atlanta shopping center.
“Friday was an awfully bad
day weatherwise, but the
figures for the entire weekend
were up quite a bit from last
year,” said mall promotion
manager JoelSarrett.
In addition to the 73,689 cars
that jammed in to the mall
parking lot, Sarrett said,
“There were people parked on
medians, up and down the
street and up on (U.S.
Highway) 41. There were three
or four thousand cars that
never got in the lot”
He said mechanical counters
recorded the number of cars
that parked in the lot. That
figure represented a 2 per cent
increase over last year’s traffic
for the same three days.
Although traffic was not up
much, he said store managers
had told him that sales volume
increased substantially over
last year. “People were spend
ing more per transaction,” he
said.
Woody Hall, manager of
South DeKalb Shopping Center,
said, "Our traffic was excel
lent. We have a Santa Claus out
here that draws an awful lot of
people. But we didn’t need the
Santa Claus Friday and Satur
day.
Unlike at Cumberland Mall,
however, business at South
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DeKalb during the weekend
was off slightly compared to
last year.
“I believe it was not quite up
to last year because people did
not go after the big ticket
items. They bought less expen
sive items.” He said sales at
the mall’s stores were off about
one per cent.
At Lenox Square, another
Atlanta shopping center, offi
cials began noticing larger
crowds than last year’s about
two weeks ago.
“Sunday at 10 o’clock, we had
as many people in the mall as
we have during week. And the
stores hadn’t even opened yet,”
said Nancy Stone, a spokesman
for the shopping center. The
mall does not keep a count of
shoppers or cars.
Jean Ruvnitz, manager of
Toy City in Savannah, de
scribed the weekend as “hec
tic,” and said Saturday was
“the biggest day of the year.”
Mrs. Ruvnitz said dolls
Cloudy weather doesn’t
affect peanut growth
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI) — Peanuts grow just as
well during long periods of cloudy weather as they do
during sunny weather, a team of agronomists from the
University of Florida has discovered.
According to the scientists from the UF Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), peanuts, unlike
other crops like com, can compensate for periods of low
light conditions.
The findings of the IFAS agronomists are contained in a
paper scheduled to be presented today to a meeting of the
Crop Science Society of America in Houston, Tex.
Dr. Hang N. An, a Vietnamese-born researcher, said the
UF agronomists cultivated the peanuts successfully at an
experimental farm beneath strips of canvas that provided
shade.
“Shading had no effect on the final pod yield under the
conditions of this experiment,” Dr. An said. “The peanut
plant compensated for the stress conditions.”
According to the paper, the IFAS research should aid
fanners in tropical areas of the world, such as Latin
America and Africa, where there are long cloudy and
rainy seasons.
chairman of the Committee for the Freedom of G. Gordon
Liddy, hands the petition to Traylor. Other members of
the Libby family are, (1-r) James, 15; Raymond, 13; and
Alexandra, 18.
(UPI)
patterned after television’s
Bionic Woman and Six-Million-
Dollar Man were big sellers, as
were a Jaws game and electric
pinball machines.
Roy Domingos, president of
Burden-Smith department store
in Macon, said weekend busi
ness did not meet the store’s
expectations because of the
“miserable” weather.
But he said the store did
“very satisfactory business,"
despite fog, heavy rain and cold
temperatures. He said business
began picking up as soon as the
weather cleared.
Domingos said sweaters, top
coats and blankets were selling
especially well, as shoppers
prepare for what is predicted to
be an unusually cold winter.
He said sheets, pillow cases
and towels were also selling
“like hotcakes."
Seymour Kessler, part owner
of Kessler’s Department Store
in Atlanta, said the weather
was miserable, but business
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charged
YONKERS, N.Y. (UPI) - A
27-year-old nursing student has
been charged with raping and
sodomizing four girls at knife
point in Westchester County
and New York City over the
last six months.
Police said the suspect,
Alexander Verrone of Oran
geburg, N.Y., was identified
Tuesday by four of his young
victims, aged 9 to 12.
Verrone, married and a
student at Lehman College
School of Nursing, was arrested
Tuesday on charges of driving
a car with stolen license plates.
An identity check showed that
Verrone fit the description of
a man wanted on the rape
charges, a police spokesman
said.
Police said the rapist used a
variety of ways of approaching
his victims, including asking
for directions, or posing as a
cop or a cab driver.
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better than we’d hoped for in
that type of weather.”
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Liddy’s wife thinks
he deserves clemency
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Con
victed Watergate burglar G.
Gordon Liddy might do the
same thing again under the
same circumstances, according
to his wife Purcell, but she
thinks he deserves clemency
because his 21-year sentence
was “unfair.”
Mrs. Liddy, the five Liddy
CBers rescue
accident victim
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) -
Without the help of Lady No
Name, Guppy, Cartoon, Star
ship, Mouse and others Audrey
Felts might have become one of
the Thanksgiving holiday traffic
fatality victims.
Miss Felts, 47, was driving a
car Sunday night that plunged
off a bridge north of Birming
ham, Mo., and slid about 12
feet down an embankment. The
Pleasant Valley woman was
trapped in the car, bruised and
cut, as the temperature dipped
to 12 degrees.
“She could have frozen to
death,” said a family spokes
man. “From looking at the car
later, it looks like the door was
in contact with something
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children, and a neighbor,
James A. Gavin, Tuesday
presented U.S. Pardon Attorney
Lawrence Traylor with a 7,000-
name petition for executive
clemency.
Traylor allowed Mrs. Liddy
and Gavin to hold a news
conference in his private office
and, as he listened in, Mrs.
because she couldn’t open it.”
But, Miss Felts had a
citizen’s band radio and
managed to call for help. Her
distress signal was heard by
Lula Farmer, Kansas City,
Mo., known as Lady No Name
on CB channels.
“I tried to clear the channel
and I got ‘Birmingham’ out of
her,” said Mrs. Farmer. "She
said, ‘Help me, please help. I’m
hurt bad.’”
After contact with Miss Felts,
Lady No Name directed other
CB operators in a search for
the woman. She was rescued
about 30 minutes after her
initial broadcast.
Miss Felts was recuperating
from the accident Tuesday.
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, December 1,1976
Liddy made it plain to the
reporters that her husband is
not ready to show contrition.
“He still believes he was
doing what he was asked to do
by the executive department
and probably under the same
circumstances would do the
same thing the same way,” she
said.
She added it is “unfair” that
Liddy got 18 months for
refusing to answer questions in
court and up to 20 years for the
Watergate burglary while other
Watergate defendants have
served “an average of about
six months.”
Traylor, answering a repor
ter’s question moments later,
said “disparity of sentence” is,
in fact, one thing he considers
in deciding whether to recom
mend presidential clemency.
But Traylor refused to
commit himself or say how
long a decision will take. A
formal clemency petition Liddy
filed in September has yet to go
to the attorney general, who in
turn makes a recommendation
to the White House.
Liddy, celebrating his 46th
birthday in the Federal Correc
tional Institution at Danbury,
Conn., will complete his 43rd
month of confinement on Dec.
7, according to Gavin.
Reporters wanted to know if
Liddy will “talk,” once he is
freed.
“I think he might,” Mrs.
Liddy said. “I think he is angry
about what some people have
said, some who have told lies.”
She did not explain the remark.
Liddy is “not angry” about
President Ford’s pardon of
Richard M. Nixon, she said, but
added, “It’s a subject we don’t
want to talk about— very
painful.”
With her were the Liddy
children, Alexandra 18, Grace
16, James 15, Thomas 14, and
Raymond, 13.
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