• election.
Mrs. Ann Crichton, 37, was elected mayor and Steve
Johnson was elected vice mayor by the commission,
i which chooses the officers from its members.
Attorney appointed judge
ATLANTA (AP) — Arnold Shulman, an Atlanta at
torney, will be sworn in as a judge on the Georgia Court of
' Appeals Friday, a spokesman for Gov. George Busbee
said Tuesday.
Shulman was appointed to fill the unexpired term of
» Judge Sol Clark of Savannah, who has resigned.
The 62-year-old lawyer is required by law to run for the
rest of Clark’s term in the November 1978 election. The
t spokesman said if Shulman chooses to run for another
term, his name will appear twice on the November ballot.
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Distributor pleads no contest
ATLANTA (AP) — A second Georgia magazine
distributor has pleaded no contest to an antitrust charge
in an alleged conspiracy to prevent a third distributor
from establishing itself in the Atlanta and Albany
markets.
The Atlanta News Agency, the principal magazine dis
tributor in the capital city area, was fined $25,000 by U.S.
District Court Judge Charles A. Moye Tuesday after
changing its plea from innocent to nolo contendere (no
contest).
Family Reading Service, a smaller distributor in
Albany, was fined $15,000 last year after it also pleaded no
contest in the case.
Justice Department lawyer John Fitizpatrick said the
prosecution contended that Edward Elson, operator of the
family run Atlanta News Agency, initiated a conspiracy
with Family Reading Service to prevent Town & Country
News from establishing itself in those markets.
Atlanta News Agency still faces a Justice Department
civil suit in the matter.
Rev. Abernathy enters race
ATLANTA (AP) — Two more hats are in the ring for
Andrew Young’s sth District congressional seat.
The Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, national head of the
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference, officially
announced his candidacy today for the seat Young is
giving up to become U. N. Ambassador.
Republican Atlanta lawyer Ed Gadrix, who lost to
Young in the November election, declared his candidacy >
Tuesday.
Gadrix’s only Republican opposition comes from state
Sen. Paul Coverdell.
Other Democrats who have announced for the seat
include: Atlanta City Council President Wyche Fowler,
John Lewis, director of the Voter Education Project, state
Rep. Henrietta Canty, the Rev. Clennon King of Albany
and state Democratic party chairman Marge Thurman.
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LlKELY—United Auto Workers
Vice President Douglas A.
Fraser 60, appears certain to
be the successor to retiring
UAW President Leonard
Woodstock. The executive
board will meet Jan. 11 to select
a candidate to put before the
UAW convention in Los Angeles
in May. (AP)
China
quake toll
655,237
By ROBERT LIU
Associated Press Writer
HONG KONG (AP) - A top
secret Chinese document says
that the earthquake last July in
northeast China killed 655,237
persons, the second largest
quake toll in history, a leading
Hong Kong newspaper reported
today.
The South China Morning
Post said the document report
ed 779,000 persons were injured,
79,000 of them seriously.
The paper did not say how it
obtained information on the re
port. It said it was released at
an emergency conference on
earthquake relief work in Au
gust.
The quake on July 28 virtually
destroyed Tangshan, an in
dustrial city of 1.6 million popu
lation 105 miles southeast of
Peking. It did considerable
damage in Tientsin, China’s
third largest city, which had a
population of 4.3 million.
The Chinese government ad
mitted that there were many
casualties and serious damage,
but it has never announced any
figures. Cuban and Yugoslav
news dispatches reported tens
of thousands killed. But the
Chinese government declined
all offers of foreign aid, and
since no foreign relief personnel
were admitted to the devastated
area, there were no estimates
from such trained observers
available to foreign newsmen.
The greatest recorded loss of
life from an earthquake oc
curred in China more than 400
years ago, on Jan. 23, 1556. An
estimated 830,000 persons were
killed then in Shensi province,
in central China.
The second highest death toll,
according to historical records,
was 300,000 in Calcutta, India,
on Oct. 11, 1737.
The July quake measured 8.2
on the Richter scale, the highest
since the 1964 Alaska quake and
slightly less than the estimated
magnitude of the San Francisco
earthquake of 1906.
Hsinhua, the official Chinese
news agency, reported in Octo
ber that more than 70 per cent of
Tangshan’s mines and factories
were back in full or partial
operation. That report said
roads and highways in the area
had reopened in September, and
Tangshan had been largely
rebuilt.
