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Newspaper Page TextPage 12 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 10,1977 People Groucho Marx LOS ANGELES (AP) — Groucho Marx may be in the hospital recuperating from hip surgery but the 86-year-old comedian is reported to be having a wonderful time, a family spokesman said. And some of the nurses at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center are joining in by wearing Groucho Marx T-shirt. Marx entered the hospital Friday for surgery to insert a new right hip joint. Pains in his leg, which troubled him during a dinner with actor Elliott Gould, have subsided since the surgery to correct a floating fracture of the hip. ‘‘l’ll do anything to miss my cook’s food,” Marx quipped after entering the hospital, the spokesman said Wed nesday. Mort Sahl SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — He’s not exactly burying the hatchet, but comedian Mort Sahl says he’s giving up the idea of a lawsuit against entertainer Frank Sinatra. “I’m trying to give the courts a better press,” Sahl said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Sinatra sued Sahl in Los Angeles Superior Court in 1974, claiming Sahl had only paid off half of a $20,000 loan made 10 years earlier. The suit was filed a month after Sahl had commented on Sinatra’s attacks on a Hollywood gossip columnist. Sahl’s attorney, Ronald H. Rouda, said then that Sahl was considering a countersuit. But Sinatra’s case was dismissed when he refused to give a deposition last January. Asked on Wednesday if he plans to try to reactivate his friendship with Sinatra, Sahl said, “Not especially.” U.S. quake warnings discounted BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian and Bulgarian news agencies today discounted U.S. warnings that a second devastating earthquake might follow the one that last Friday killed at least 1,357 per sons and injured 10,296 by offi cial count. U.S. Ambassador Harry G. Barnes delivered a U.S. Geolog ical Survey report to the gov ernment Wednesday, warning that another major quake might follow “within weeks or months.” The report said an analysis of Romanian earth quakes indicated they often oc curred in pairs. Economists expect surge in food, fuel prices WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov ernment economists are ex pecting a temporary surge in wholesale food and fuel prices, mostly as a result of the severe winter weather. While the winter’s cold is giv ing way to spring in most sec tions of the country, its full force is just beginning to affect the nation’s leading economic indicators. GRIFFIN TECH NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER FOR DAY AND EVENING CLASSES. SPRING QUARTER BEGINS MARCH 21, 1977. V.A. APPROVED. CALL 227-1322 JUST MARRIED Just Married Couples Special 3 Days Only Thiirsday-Friday-Satiirday Sofa & Chair $4£Q95 Available in Care Free Vinyl or Herculon Vaughn Furniture 116 S. Sixth Street Phone 227-8911 Phone 227-8911 But the Romanian news agen cy Agerpres said, “A careful and specific study of the objec tive data and the history of some categories of earthquakes in the Vrancea area, which comprise the earthquake of Fri day evening, lead to the con clusion that a repetition of a magnitude similar to March 4 is hardly possible.” The Bulgarian news agency BTA quoted Lyubomir Krusta nov, director of the Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as saying “a second disastrous earth tremor cannot be expected." Quake specialists from the The government economists predict the temporary surge will show up in wholesale food and fuel prices for February, March and April. The Labor Department planned to announce the Febru ary figures today. The January wholesale index — which is generally reflected a few months later in consumer prices — was up five-tenths of 1 James Buckley NEW YORK (AP) — Former Sen. James Buckley has been named a commentator for the “Group W” radio stations of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. The announcement by Westinghouse on Wednesday said the conservative former senator, defeated for re-election last year, will begin his three-times-a-week commentary Monday. Buckley’s brother William, editor of the magazine National Review, moderates the nationally syndicated television program, “Firing Line.” Gerald R. Ford RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former president Gerald R. Ford says his memoirs will include a prominent mention of former president Richard M. Nixon. But when asked to elaborate, Ford turned salesman and said, “that can best be explained in the book itself.” Looking tanned, fit and relaxed, Ford and his wife Betty held a poolside news conference Wednesday to announce that they will each publish memoirs of their days in the White House. The Fords said their books will give both personal and historical views of the period which included the Watergate scandal and its aftermath. “Obviously we’ll be concerned with the period beginning prior to the time I was nominated for the vice presidency, which was a very difficult period in American history,” Ford said. Mrs. Ford said “My book will be my life as the wife of Gerald R. Ford." University of California at Berkeley arrived Wednesday and more experts from the U.S. Geological Survey are expected this weekend, the ambassador told reporters. The Romanian government lifted its earthquake state of emergency everywhere but in Bucharest on Wednesday. Res cue workers continued to dig in the rubble of Bucharest build ings, but there was little hope for the many persons still miss ing. The number of missing has not been announced. The Communist party esti- per cent, which was not ex ceptionally different from the three preceding months or from the 1976 inflation rate of 4.8 per cent. But the January figures were compiled before Jan. 11; they did not account for the citrus and vegetable freeze that struck Florida or for the peak prices for oil and natural gas that occurred later in the month. The Congressional Budget Of fice said last week that the final result of the winter freeze on prices will probably be a 1977 inflation rate as high as 6.8 per cent, well above last year’s, and well above the 5.3 per cent previously predicted by administration economists. Prices are not the only place where the freeze’s impact will be felt. The unemployment rate also should show it. mated property damage at SSOO million and said 7,000 families • were left homeless. It said they would be given new furnished apartments, clothing and SSO cash per person. The government asked that foreign aid shipments be sus pended until an evaluation could be made of what had been received and what was needed. Barnes said enough medicine was on hand, but equipment to care for heart ailments was needed. I I sll3s ''• * ■ Z.. I I® ■■, WBB* y -|lt I I WMi.'MHP' 1 !! I*' / J I JUST LIKE YOU, WEJRE CHOOSY TOO I I AND WE CHOOSE—YOUR SAFETY—FIRST— (L I that’s why we chose Michelin tires as oar product to present to you. Michelin Tire Cor- xTTtV- ) poration’s name and the steel belted radial tire have been synonymous with quality and value for over 28 years. We recognized their reputation tn the tire industry and thoroughly 1 tested their products and their entire program before asking to become their first dealer in ) the Griffin area. 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Kmart officials said the ad dition is another step toward making the store here a one- Way cleared for action on bills ATLANTA (AP) - The way was cleared for final legislative action on dozens of bills Wednesday when Georgia House leaders agreed to drop their proposal for giving legis lative committees veto power over new rules proposed by state agencies. More than 40 bills had been left in legislative limbo because of a disagreement between Gov. George Busbee and House leaders over the proposal. The legislature adjourns today. After a series of back room meetings among themselves and with Busbee, the House leaders agreed to accept a stop shopping center. A separate entrance to the phar macy has been constructed for the convenience of shoppers. People may get to the pharmacy through it or the regular entrances. A pharmacy telephone line will assure people that phone communications will be open. The pharmacy will be open during regular Kmart hours. compromise proposal offered by the governor last week. Under that proposal, legisla tive committees would review the proposed new rules of state agencies, but could not veto them. However, committees could object to them and they could be nullified by a two-thirds majority of both houses in the next session of the legislature. The full House voted late Wedneday afternoon by a 167-0 margin to write that proposal into law byway of amending a Senate-passed bill. The bill now goes to the Senate, where ratifi cation is expected.