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4j <*£*»•(> The Tom Pa y ne famll y made a project out of this sign for the Sugar Bowl. They wanted the
■LUfLP&IVI o f ans a t (tie game to know Griffin, Ga. was represented. Payne and his daughter, Susan
Smith, show the results of their efforts before sending the sign on its way. The Payne family
won’t make the trip to New Orleans so Ed Kinard of Griffin will take it and urfurl the banner
during the game.
Ga. Power may
file charges
ATLANTA (UPI) — A spokesman for
Georgia Power Co. told a Senate sub
committee Wednesday the company
may bring criminal charges against
some former subcontractors of a
middle Georgia nuclear plant, but
denied the plant was unsafe.
At the same hearing, William D.
Lovin of Macon, a former Georgia
Power employe, testified he was of
fered a “bribe” to cover up an internal
investigation of potentially unsafe
construction at the Edwin I. Hatch
nuclear plant near Baxley.
George W. Edwards, the power
company’s vice president for public
relations, said at the Public Utilities
Subcommittee that “We remain fully
convinced the Edwin I. Hatch nuclear
plant near Baxley is totally safe.”
He said the company has conducted
an on-going internal investigation of
alleged criminal activities at the plant,
including substandard materials and
workmanship and payoffs to conceal
poor construction.
As a result of the investigation, he
said “More than $170,000 was recovered
from contractors and individuals.”
"More money may be recovered and
criminal charges against some former
employes of contractors remain a pos
sibility,” he said. He did not specify
what charges were being considered.
Lovin, who last month accused the
power company of covering up an in
vestigation of plant defects, said he was
New year
Some will spend plenty celebrating its arrival
By JOHN LESAR
United Press International
A woman considering a big New
Year’s Eve called the Diplomat Hotel in
Hollywood, Fla., to price tickets to the
hotel celebration for a party of five.
She was told “Twelve-fifty” and
promptly mailed her check for $12.50.
It was returned for the lack of two
zeros.
The Diplomat is featuring Sammy
Davis Jr., and Liza Minelli New Year’s
Eve in what was billed as the “most
expensive nightclub show in history.”
The original price was $250 per person
but reservations lagged and ad
vertising was changed to list the price
as “from SIOO a person.” How far
“from” SIOO depends on location.
The Diplomat extravaganza is one of
thousands being held at hotels and
clubs across the nation. And, as with
everything else, New Year’s is more
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offered an indefinite leave of absence
with pay if he would turn over all his
documentary evidence to the company.
“I could only interpret that as a
bribe,” he said. said he declined
his attorney’s offer to assume full
“power of attorney” over the
documents, and dismissed the attorney.
The former employe said the “bribe”
was offered during a meeting with
some Georgia Power executives. It had
been arranged by the company’s
president, Ed Sherer, with whom Ixtvin
said he had met once before, he said.
Following the subcommittee
meeting, I-ovin said he refused the paid
leave offer and that, if he had accepted,
he felt his documentary evidence would
have been destroyed and then he would
have been fired.
Edwards denied any attempt to stifle
findings of inadequacies in the Hatch
plant’s construction, or any attempt to
get the company’s ex-security officer’s
materials.
“At no time did we ask for the
original copies of Mr. Ixivin’s in
formation; we offered to make copies
at our expense,” said Edwards.
“In exchange, we had agreed to place
Mr. Lovin on ‘leave of absence with
pay’ status for the duration of the in
vestigation.”
expensive this year.
In Beverly Hills, Calif., famed for its
luxurious parties, the Escoffier Room
of the Beverly Hilton offers an open bar
party, dancing and dinner for SIOO a
person. The price was $35 a person last
year. The $65 difference respresents the
change to an open bar serving patrons
all they care to drink. Last year they
$35 included only dinner, dancing and a
limited amount of wine.
New York City offers a variety of
New Year’s celebrations. The young
crowd may choose a wild evening at the
posh Regine’s disco on Park Avenue —
at a minimum of $l5O a person. Their
elders may prefer ushering in New
Year’s Eve with Guy Lombardo in the
Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria
from S9O per person.
The Rainbow Room, 65 floors above
New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, offers
an evening of dining and dancing for
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College
Gordon Junior College’s winter
quarter catalogue of course offerings
and other information is included in a
special section in today’s paper. It will
be found between Pages Four and Five.
Flying Tiger
accused
of juggling
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Flying
Tiger, the airline founded by World War
II hero Claire Chennault and operated
by his widow, Anna, has been charged
with illegally recording as operating
expenses its largess to politicans and
foreign dignitaries.
The Civil Aeronautics Board’s
Bureau of Enforcement Wednesday
asked the full CAB to hold a public
hearing and order Flying Tiger to halt
the alleged practices and correct its
books.
Beneficiaries of the gifts from 1969
through early 1976 include a senator, a
congressman, one past and one current
Ix>s Angeles mayor, a district attorney,
a former Cabinet officer and the wife of
South Korean President Park Chung
hee, the investigators said.
The Los Angeles-based cargo airline
also illegally listed $16,500 in payments
to employes as operating expenses and
failed to file required federal reports on
a total $46,092.72 during the seven-year
period, they said.
$52.50 a person — up $lO from last year
but still, according to Rainbow Room
spokesman, “a .... good bargain.”
Money savers can follow a parade
from the Plaza Hotel to Central Park
for an evening of free music and dance.
Or, they can just gather in Times
Square to watch the traditional giant
ball, studded with lights, drop to the
roof at the stroke of midnight.
In Boston, money conscious revelers
can take advantage of free shows in the
evening, then take in a processional
parade and fireworks show to usher in
1977.
In Atlanta, the Hyatt Regency is
offering free rock entertainment in a
lobby disco. At midnight, Ben Colli of a
local window cleaning firm will swing
down from the Regency Dome about 250
feet to the floor as 5,000 balloons float
down. New Year’s Eve prices at
various lounges and restaurants in the
Anti-flu battle
may be at end
ATLANTA (UPI) - Federal health
officials said Wednesday the massive
$135 million national swine flu im
munization program will not be
resumed because of “significant
evidence” linking it with a rare form of
paralysis.
While officials would not flatly say
the program was dead, it appeared
lifeless. Begun in October, the vaccina
tion program reached only about 41
million persons before it was suspended
two weeks ago.
Wednesday, Dr. David Sencer,
director of the Center for Disease
control, announced the 13-member
Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices agreed there was
“significant evidence of assocciation
between influenza vaccinations and the
Guillian-Barre syndrome.”
With that in mind, the committee
voted unanimously to continue the
moratorium begun when the incidence
of the unusual paralysis first came to
light. Sencer said “There would have to
be a substantial amount of influenza
around the country to justify resump
tion of the immunization program.”
One consultant to the committee, Dr.
John Fox, an epidemiologist at the
University of Washington, told the
group “it’s quite conceivable that we
are looking at an effect of all im
munological procedures.”
CDC officials were preparing a
newly, much more detailed question
naire to circulate to physicians and
health departments around the coun
try, seeking all possible information on
cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome. One
of the questions to be asked is whether
the victim received any other inon
culations and if so, when.
The committee did agree to let
private physicians continue to vac
cinate their patients against various
forms of flu, providing the patient
signed an informed consent paper. “We
do not think that very many physicians
will want to do this,” Sencer said.
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“If we want to protect free
speech, we ought to encourage
honest speech.”
Regency range from $9.95 to $47.50.
And those ushering in the New Year
in St. Paul, Minn., can dine, dance,
share a decanter of wine, wear paper
hats and whoop it up with noisemakers
for $25 a couple.
But at least one traditional New
Year’s party packages has bitten the
dust.
The Benjamin Franklin Hotel, one of
the last of the old, elegant, full service
hotels in downtown St. Louis will have a
garden terrace party and dancing.
Everything will be a la carte, though
room rates were reduced to $24 from
the usual $32 for New Year’s Eve
guests.
The hotel used to have a package
deal, at $75 a couple, but switched last
year.
“As prices started to go up for labor,
music and food, we had to charge more
and it got to be just too much,” a hotel
spokesman said.
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11 v>uC<’^ r tag stickers which will go on sale Monday at the Spalding
Courthouse. The stickers will be attached to the metal
tags vehicle owners already have. People with new cars
will get the metal tags.
Sen. Talmadge
seeks divorce
MCDONOUGH, GA. (UPI) - U. S.
Sen. Herman Talmadge asked the court
Wednesday for a divorce from his wife,
Betty, six days after the couple’s 35th
wedding anniversary.
Talmadge, 63, filed a petition in the
Henry County courthouse, declaring his
marriage “irretrievably broken.” The
couple had been living apart, the
document reportedly said.
Neither Talmadge, who was at
Ixjvejoy, his Henry County estate, nor
his staff would comment on the
proceedings, set for a preliminary
hearing Jan. 7.
“The petition speaks for itself and
that’s it," said Carla Wienand, a press
aide in the senator’s Washington office.
The petition reportedly asked that
Mrs. Talmadge receive no alimony or
division of property.
It states “the defendant (Mrs.
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cousin, Jason, as they and their family prepare to leave
St. Simons Island after a three day vacation. The
President-elect met with his new cabinet before returning
to Plains. (UPI)
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 55, low
today 25, high yesterday 45, low
yesterday 31, high tomorrow in mid 40s,
low tonight in upper 20s.
FORECAST: A chance of rain
tonight. Partial clearing, windy and
colder tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Fair
Saturday. Increasing cloudiness
Sunday. Monday mostly cloudy and a
little warmer.
Talmadge) owns assets having a
greater market value than the assets
owned by the plaintiff (Sen.
Talmadge), and has a greater annual
income than does the plaintiff. . .”
Henry County Superior Court Judge
Hugh D. Sosebee ordered Wednesday
that neither party dispose of any assets.
Talmadge married the former Leila
Elizabeth Shingler in 1941 at a
ceremony in the Governor’s Mansion
when his father was governor. His first
marriage to professional model
Kathryn Williams ended in divorce.
In 1948, Talmadge became governor
and his wife was the state’s first lady at
age 23.
The couple had two sons, one of
whom, Robert S. Talmadge drowned at
age 29 in an accident at Lake Lanier in
1975. The other son is Herman E.
Talmadge Jr.