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Greetings from Fords
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jones, 922
East Mclntosh road, received a card
from President and Mrs. Ford today
congratulating them on their 52nd
wedding anniversary.
“Warmest congratulations on your
wedding anniversary. May you be
richly blessed with many more years of
happiness together. Signed, Betty Ford
Milner to get
new flour mill
Construction of a flour mill near
Milner in Lamar County is expected to
begin in about 45 days. The mill is
scheduled to be completed and in
operation before the end of 1977.
John T. Stout, president of Dixie
Portland of Memphis, announced plans
for the mill at a news conference at
Lamar State Bank Friday afternoon.
Dixie Portland is a subsidiary of
Federal Company.
Holly Farms and Cosby-Hodges,
makers of Field and Show Dog food, are
other interests of the Federal complex.
When in full operation, the flour mill
will have some 35 employes, according
to Mr. Stout.
John B. Stout, an executive vice
president and cousin of President John
T. Stout, will be the manager of the mill
near Milner.
President Stout said the mill will
process grain into flour ready for
bakery use. The primary customers
will be bakeries in Georgia and other
Southeastern states, President Stout
said.
He said the company picked the
Lamar County site because of its
proximity to Atlanta.
It’s close to Atlanta but not in
Atlanta, Mr. Stout said.
The tanks for storing grain and flour
will be 140 feet high or about five
stories.
Five in Georgia may have
rare paralysis disease
ATLANTA (UPI) - Five persons
across Georgia have perhaps con
tracted a rare paralyzing disease, a
senior health official said Friday, and
he suspected “there are other cases out
there.’’
Dr. Charles Mosher, head of the
state’s swine flu program, said officials
have confirmed three cases of Guillain-
Barre Syndrome. Two others probably
have it
“We are sure there are other cases
(of Guillain-Barre) out there,” he said.
No Georgians have died from the
paralyzing illness.
All five victims had taken swine flu
inoculations, Mosher said.
Federal officials suspended the
nationwide swine flu program because
some people who contracted Guillian-
Barre had received inoculations.
Mosher said the state’s Guillain-
Barre victims were “spread all over
the state ... there is no geographical
proximity. The disease is apparently
Her job is rocking babies
and she likes it very much
ATLANTA (UPI) - Edith Henning, a
grandmother in her 60’s, is so excited
about her baby-rocking Job, she gets up
in the morning looking forward to work.
“I just love sitting here with my
babies,” said Mrs. Henning. “When I
get up in the morning I look forward to
getting to Grady (Hospital) and
working with my babies,” she said.
Mrs. Henning and another 73-year-old
Atlanta grandmother, Mary Delaney,
rock and cuddle babies four hours a day
as part of a research project to see if
premature infants grow better with
affection.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, December 18,1976
and Gerald Ford.”
Mr. and Mrs. Jones plan to have their
children, grandchildren and other
relatives visit them during the holidays
to help celebrate the anniversary.
They were married Dec. 25.
They have four children, 14
grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
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John T. Stout
The Austin Company of Atlanta will
be in charge of construction. W. D.
Diffenderfer, project planner for the
firm, was at the news conference in
Barnesville.
Joe Edwards, president of the Lamar
State Bank, arranged for the press
conference at the bank.
Dallis Copeland, president of the
First National Bank in Barnesville, also
was on hand for the announcement.
Copeland pointed out that the mill
will be constructed on land near the
Lamar County industrial development.
He said plans are for the flour mill to be
the forerunner of other industries there.
not contagious.”
He refused to release the victims’
names or where they lived. Their ages
ranged from 34 to 77 years.
One woman has remained in the
hospital since mid-November with the
disease and she had “some difficulty
breathing, but she is recovering,”
Mosher said.
She experienced symptoms typical of
the disease — muscular weakness and
numbness, he said.
Doctors have no specific treatment
for the disease which must “run its
course,” he said.
Some 800,000 people were vaccinated
in the swine flu program which was
suspended Thursday.
The program will resume “if there is
an outbreak of influenza,” Mosher said,
but he said even if no link is found
between Guillain-Barre and swine flu
vaccine “the latest hitch has probably
undermined the program.”
The program cost the state about |1
million.
The project, called Infant
Stimulation, is being conducted at
Grady Hospital by a Emory University
Medical School instructor, Dr.
Josephine Brown.
* The two grandmothers have provided
over 61 infants — usually weighing less
than three pounds — with love and
attention they often miss because the
hospital’s staff is too busy.
Mrs. Delaney said the babies respond
quickly to attention and it makes her
feel “so happy and valuable.”
“After you start rubbing them, you
see them trying to flex their muscles
NEWS
Miller, Dean
are fussing
over tapes
ATLANTA (DPI) - Lt. Gov. Zell
Miller and state Sen. Roscoe Dean
clashed Friday over whettier tape
recordings of a subcommittee hearings
should be made public.
The tapes involved testimony from a
former Georgia Power Co. security
officer who testified company officials
stalled an investigation of graft,
corruption and theft
Miller, the Senate’s presiding officer,
said all legislative records and
meetings are open to the public and that
the recordings made by Senate staff
members could be heard by anyone.
But Dean, D-Jesup and chairman of
the Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency in Government sub
committee on public utilities which
heard the testimony Wednesday, loudly
objected — saying the request should
have been made to him, not to Miller.
Miller ignored Dean’s objections and
said the tapes were available to
Georgia Power or anyone else who
wanted to hear them.
William D. Lovin, a former security
officer at the plant, testified his
superiors halted an internal in
vestigation of graft, corruption and
theft at the plant when it reached the
management level.
The federal Nuclear Regulatory
Commission is investigating Lovin’s
allegations, which were termed “un
founded” by one utility official.
Lovin said the probe was stopped
before it could be determined if sub
standard materials were used in con
struction of the only nuclear power
facility providing energy to consumers
in Georgia.
“The lieutenant governor of Georgia
has no authority to override the
chairman of a subcommittee set up by
statutory law like the EREG com
mittee,” Dean said in a letter directing
Senate staff members to withhold the
hearing tapes.
“When the Georgia Power Co. makes
a request in writing to me and states
their (sic) reasons, I will then make a
decision as chairman of the sub
committee,” he said.
Miller called the power company’s
inquiry about the tapes “a legitimate
request,” and authorized the staff “to
play the tapes for the representatives of
Georgia Power Co. and any other
citizens who may request to hear them. ”
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“A good conversation should
leave your friend better pleased
with himself than with you.”
and they will begin to follow you with
their eyes as much as they can.”
The infants leave the nursery when
they reach four pounds.
Both women completed a three-week
training course to learn how to handle
babies. They were closely supervised
during the first three months of the job
to gain experience gauging infant
stimuli.
The grandmothers got their jobs
through Economic Opportunity
Atlanta’s Foster Grandparent
Program.
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Debris including huge pieces of twisted steel, litter the dock area as firemen continue to
spray water on the stern section of the 38,000 ton Liberian oil tanker Sansinena. (UPI)
Five known dead
in ship explosion
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The
Liberian-registered oil tanker San
sinena exploded at an oil company dock
Friday, killing at least five persons.
Three were missing and about 50
persons were injured. The blast ignited
a spectacular fire in the giant harbor
complex and shook buildings 40 miles
away.
Police said today five persons were
known to be dead. A report earlier of 11
killed resulted from a hoax phone call,
Lt. Dan Cooke, Los Angeles Police
Department, said.
The caller said six bodies were found
submerged under floating debris, but
the U.S. Coast guard reported it could
not confirm the number killed.
Three persons, believed crew
members, were missing somewhere in
the jumble of burned wreckage. Divers
were to begin searching early today in
the oily waters of the harbor.
Among the injured were children on
pleasure boats in a nearby marina, two
dock workers and about 25 persons
aboard boats in the harbor.
The shock from the blast hurled
hunks of metal from the ship through
the air and shattered hundreds of
windows over three square miles of the
San Pedro harbor area. Police patrols
began immediately to protect against
looters.
Phone service was knocked out,
burglars alrms went off, traffic signs
were flattened for blocks.
A tower of smoke and fire climbed
nearly 1,000 feet into the air engulfing
the ship and the Union Oil Co. dock.
More than 200 firemen battled the fire
before it was declared under control,
but portions of the stem of the 810-foot
tanker continued to bum for several
hours.
The Coast Guard said about 25
crewmen had been taken from the ship
and plucked by boats from the water
where they were hurled, or dived, to
escape the flames.
People
...and things
Sign at Christmas tree farm, “Sold
out.”
Visitor to Griffin telling new
acquaintances, “I’m from Preston, not
far from Plains.”
Distance runner making his
December miles dressed in shorts and
sleeveless top just like it was July.
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Christmas Seals push Sunday
Some Griffin High volunteer students
plan to call house to house Sunday
asking for contributions to the
Christmas Seals program.
Joe Pittman, chairman of the Seals
campaign in Griffin and Spalding
County, is coordinating plans for the
special drive.
Pittman said last year’s campaign
was successful and he believes this
year’s will be even greater.
No one injured
in hospital fire
AUGUSTA (UPI) — A fire broke out
today at Talmadge Memorial Hospital
but firemen put the blaze out in 30
minutes and there were no injuries.
The fire was discovered about 8:07
a.m. in a kitchen area on the second
floor of the ninestory hospital and all
available city fire units were called to
the scene, according to a fire depart
ment spokesman.
Over 50 men battled the blaze which
was confined to the second floor. A
hospital spokesman said there were no
patients on the floor.
Patients on eight other floors of two
wings of the hospital were taken to
other areas of the building because of
the smoke, but no one was evacuated
from the structure, the spokesman
said.
Carter names Gov. Andrus
as Secretary of Interior
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) - President
electjimmy Carter, choosing his fourth
cabinet member, named Idaho Gov.
Cecil Andrus today to be his interior
secretary.
Carter told a news conference that
Andrus, Idaho’s first Democratic
governor in 24 years, is recognized by
environmental groups as one of the
nation’s leading spokesmen for
preserving wilderness areas.
“At the same time, he has brought
into this commitment for quality of life
Fishing report i
The Department of Natural Resources’ fishing forecast (
for the week of Dec. 19-25 includes:
HIGH FALLS: Above normal, muddy. No activity.
JACKSON: Low, dingy. Good for bass using deep rin- j
ning plugs; catching a few crappie; good for catfish.
SINCLAIR: Full, muddy. Catching a few crappie, |
striped bass and white bass.
He asked Griffinites to be ready to
make a contribution to the Christmas
Seals program when students call
Sunday morning.
Money raised through the drive goes
to help battle lung diseases such as
emphysema, asthma and broncitis.
Years ago the Christmas Seal money
went to fight tuberculosis. The program
has been expanded to include other lung
diseases.
Officials had not determined the
cause of the fire, but Augusta Fire Chief
W. L. “Bill” Maddox speculated the
blaze could have been started by
grease. There was no word on the
amount of damage caused by the blaze.
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DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
a proper perspective for economic
growth,” Carter said.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70, low
today 41, high yesterday 65, low
yesterday 41, high tomorrow in mid 60s,
low tonight in upper 30s.
FORECAST: Fair and cool tonight.
Mostly sunny and warm tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
rain west Monday, statewide Tuesday
and southeast Wednesday. Slightly
cooler Wednesday.