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Robert Bugg, record holder
Suspected police killer captured,
woman hostage found unharmed
ROANOKE, Ala. (UPI) - A man
wanted for the murders of a Columbus,
Ga., policeman and a Macon, Ga., man
was arrested near here early today and
a woman hostage was found unharmed,
police said.
Ronald Spivey was taken into custody
on U. S. 431 following a high-speed
Chairman
picking time
is tonight
Speculation about who will be elected
chairman of the Griffin City
Commission for 1977 is expected to end
at tonight’s meeting.
The board will have its final regular
Tuesday night meeting at city hall
beginning at 7:30.
The board elects its chairman and the
incumbent chairman is not eligible to
succeed himself consecutively.
Louis Goldstein is the incumbent
chairman.
Bloodmobile
here Thursday
The bloodmobile will make its last
visit of 1976 to Griffin Thursday.
Headquarters will be at the Cheatham
building of First Baptist Church.
Donors may go there between noon and
5:30 p.m. according to Randy Howell,
chairman of the local blood program.
The chairman pointed out that the
need for blood donors is even more
critical during the holiday season. He
urged regular donors and first time
donors to plan to go to the bloodmobile.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“Scarcity adds value to most
anything — which may be why
we so cherish an honest man.’*
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
chase, four hours after he allegedly
killed Officer Billy Watson in a
Columbus bar, Roanoke Police Com
missioner Donald Quick said.
“We got him about 10 miles north of
Roanoke. We pulled him over to the side
of the road... he didn’t resist arrest and
no shots were fired,’’ Quick said.
Roanoke is near the Georgia-Albama
border, about 75 miles northwest of
Columbus.
The female hostage, 34-yearold Mary
Ann Davidson, who was abducted from
the Final Approach bar in Columbus,
was in the car. “The hostage is fine,”
said a spokesman for the Randolph
County sheriff’s department.
Quick said police spotted Spivey’s
car, a 1970 Oldsmobile, in Roanoke and
followed it to a the Roanoke Court motel
where Spivey had just rented a room.
Police cars converged on the motel as
Spivey attempted to back the car into a
parking spot, Quick said.
“He saw the officers and he just took
off,” the commissioner said.
Spivey was in custody and Georgia
authorities were en route to pick him
up. “We have it wrapped up,” said the
Randolph County officials.
Some stations accused
of holiday ripoffs
ATLANTA (UPI) — Some service
station attendants across Georgia have
been giving fraudulent damage advice
to holiday travelers to boost car repair
bills, the state’s Office of Consumer
Affairs said Monday.
“There are even cases in which
unethical attendants have damaged
cars to drum up business,” said Dr.
Tim Ryles, the head of OCA.
“In such cases, attendants have
actually punctured tires, slashed fan
belts and put seltzer tablets in radiators
to create warm foam,” he said.
Auto tags go on sale Monday
The staff in the Spalding County Tax
Commissioner’s office at the
courthouse is all set to begin selling 1977
auto licenses stickers and tags Monday.
The office sold tags for between 27,000
and 29,000 vehicles last year, a
spokesman said.
This year, motorists who already
have a tag on their vehicles will get only
a small paper sticker to place on it
when they pay their taxes.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, December 28, 1976
Macon police said Spivey was
suspected of killing a man at the Brown
House Motor Hotel in that city Monday
evening and robbing a lounge there.
The dead man was identified as Charles
McCook.
Spivey apparently then drove to
Columbus to the Final Approach bar.
Deputy Commander Otis Gunn of the
Columbus police said Watson was on
routine patrol at a shopping mall in
Columbus where the bar was located.
“He walked in while the robbery was
taking place,” Gunn said.
He was shot twice — once in the head
and once in the chest with a .38 caliber
revolver, Gunn said.
Ms. Davidson, who was reportedly a
college teacher, was abducted from the
bar, police said.
Soon after the motel shooting in
Macon, police said a man entered the
Zodiac Lounge there and threatened an
employe. The gunman shot into the air
about five times, then fled with an
undisclosed amount of cash, police
said.
Macon police said Spivey, who is in
his 30’s, was once confined to the
Central State Hospital in Milledgeville.
Ryles said his office has received
numerous complaints about phony
damage reports.
He suggested drivers obtain a second
damage report before paying for
repairs.
“Finally, if you absolutely must have
repairs on the road, be sure to get the
address of the station and the name of
the owner and attendant,” he said.
He said Florida officials have also
received an unusually high number of
complaints, some of them from drivers
who said they were victimized in Geor
gia.
The sticker, a little larger than a
postage stamp, will Indicate the tag has
been renewed.
People with new cars will get new
metal tags just like the ones sold last
year.
Auto owners will pay their county
taxes on cars at the same time they
purchase the state tags or stickers.
The tag clerks will encourage people
to order tags by mail this year, a
NEWS
Fast!
By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Robert Bugg, 19 year old college
student, is willing to pay the price for
winning. As a swimmer with the
University of Alabama team he works
out between 40 and 50 hours a week.
The only reason he didn’t swim
Christmas Day was because he is
recovering from mononucleosis at his
home here while his teammates are in
Puerto Rico.
Named outstanding Georgia
swimmer of 1976 in the senior men’s
division by the Georgia Amateur
Athletic Union at a banquet at Emory
University on Dec. 11, Robert holds four
gold medals for his performance at the
10th annual National Junior Olympics
in Memphis, Tenn., in August.
The son of Connie and the late Walter
Bugg of Griffin, Robert grew up on
Mockingbird Lane with a pool in his
backyard, but he says that all he ever
did in that pool was jump and splash.
He began swimming with the swim
team at the Griffin Country Club when
he was 14 years old as his mother says
“to have something to do in the
summer." When he was 16 swimming
People
••• and things
Christmas lights continuing to shine
bravely on downtown Griffin streets.
Children skating in Griffin parking
lots.
Man sporting bright Christmas gift
tie and bragging that it “fits perfectly.”
President
reconsidering
amnesty
VAIL, Colo. (UPI) — President Ford
says he is considering granting a full
amnesty for all Vietnam-era draft
evaders and deserters before leaving
office — but he sounds unlikely to
change the position he has maintained
throughout two years in office.
On Monday, Ford said he agreed to
review the amnesty issue at the behest
of the wife of Sen. Philip A. Hart of
Michigan, who died Sunday.
But later, Ford left some reporters
with the impression that he was
unlikely the take the dramatic step she
suggested.
Another Liberian
tanker aground
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - A
Liberian tanker ran aground in the
Delaware River Monday and sent oil
surging into the water from its ruptured
hull.
The Coast Guard early today
estimated at least 133,500 gallons of
light Arabian crude oil had spilled from
the tanker Olympic Games. A
spokesman said “As far as we know,
it’s still leaking.”
Stockbridge
man killed
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (UPI) - A
35-year-old Stockbridge, Ga., man was
struck and killed by a car Monday
night, state troopers said.
The victim was identified as Robert
Brown. Troopers said Brown was
crossing Alabama 79 within the Gun
tersville city limits when he was hit.
practice that is used more and more
each year.
People can avoid standing in long
lines if they order tags by mail, a
spokesman for the tag office pointed
out.
People wishing to order tags and pay
taxes by mail may telephone the Tax
Commissioner’s office to find out how
much money is due then mail a check,
the spokesman advised.
Vol. 104 No. 307
Griffin swimmer is
candidate for Olympics
became part of his life and he went to
Atlanta to train four days a week after
school. He was an honor student and
Lieutenant Colonel of R.O.T.C. at
Griffin High.
Now he claims that it is easier for him
to swim than walk.
Trying to fill up high school and
college athletes has always been a
problem with mothers and Connie Bugg
says her son “eats constantly.’’ She
says the refrigerator door is always
open. Robert is six feet tall and weighs
160 pounds.
Seventy five percent of winning is in
the head says Robert. He attributes his
motivation and desire to succeed to one
of his coaches who told him “all you
have to do is set your mind to it, work
your tail off and then get to it.”
Swimming uses every single muscle
in the human body and during water
workouts Robert often swims seven or
eight miles. During one week he will
average 11 water workouts, three hours
of weight lifting and three hours of
flexibility or stretch workouts.
According to the Griffin swimmer, in
his strenuous training he passes
through the “pain barrier” in which
Over half of paralysis
victims took flu shots
ATLANTA (UPI/ — Over one-half of
the 383 victims of Guillain-Barre
Syndrome in the United States had
received a swine influenza in
inoculation, according to the Center for
Disease Control.
A CDC spokesman, who reported
officials would meet Wednesday to
determine the fate of the giant im
munization program, said 52.7 per cent
(202 persons) of the victims contracting
the disease had received swine flu
vaccinations.
Thirteen persons in the United States
have died of Guillain-Barre, according
to Don Berreth, a CDC spokesman.
Berreth said 166 persons contracting
Guillain-Barre had not taken
inoculations, three had been im
munized only against Hong Kong flu
and the immunization status of 12
others were undetermined.
The national swine flu program was
suspended Dec. 16 when the first cases
of the paralyzing syndrome were
reported. Health officials are in
vestigating to determine whether there
is a link between the vaccinations and
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 59, low
today 30, high yesterday 55, low
yesterday 30, high tomorrow near 60,
low tonight in mid 20s.
FORECAST: Clearing, windy and
much colder tonight. Tomorrow sunny
and cold.
Jefferson document?
BOSTON—George Berg displays part of Declaration of
Independence document which came from attic of his
family’s Dorchester home. Berg gave a large pile of
newspapers to a Rev. James K. Allen, pastor of the First
Parish Church who found the handwritten document
among the heap. This the minister thinks is the copy that
belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Story page 18. (UPI)
Weather
every muscle in his body aches and
yearns to stop. Athletes who succeed
continue to push until they are “so tired
that the muscles can’t function except
in the water.” A week or ten days prior
to a swim meet the training tapers off to
allow the “torn down muscles to
rebuild.”
Robert shaves his whole body
including his head before a meet
because it has been proven that shaving
allows the water to sheet off instead of
drip off the body and thus can speed up
one second of timing for every 100
meters of racing. “Swimming World"
magazine ranks Robert 19th in the U. S.
and 30th in the world in the 200 meter
free style. To him every second is
important.
As an accounting major at the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa,
Robert feels that his future lies in this
field. He plans to swim through 1980 and
hopes to compete in the N.C.A.A.
championship and ultimately even in
the Olympics in Moscow. But
accounting is to be his life and even
though his body is in the water most of
the time now his “feet are firmly
planted on the ground.”
the so called French Polio.
Fourteen more states have reported
new victims since the Dec. 22 CDC
released data from 30 states, which
indicated 223 cases of Guillain Barre.
At that time, officials said there was
a greater rise in Guillain Barre victims
among those who had not taken the
vaccinations. Os 223 cases, 110 persons
or 49 per cent had been inoculated, 100
had not and 13 others were unclear.
The highest number of cases were
reported in three states — New Jersey
(29), Ohio (24) and Wisconin (19). Some
states, however, have more thorough
data collecting systems than others,
Berreth said.
The latest data indicates a rise in the
percentage of the Guillain Barre vic
tims had taken swine flu shots, but said
CDC spokesman Don Berreth said the
CDC investigation has not determined
that “what the figures show is true.”
Among the 13 who died from Guillain
Barre, 10 had been vaccinated and
three had not. The Dec. 22 figures
showed seven victims, six of whom had
taken the shots.