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Movies
SUNDAY
9:00A.M. 0 — 'For Those Who Think Young’
10:30A.M. 0 — The Reel Glory'
12:30P.M. 0 — 'Fort Yuma’
1:00P.M. 0 — 'Mighty Joe Young'
3:00P.M. 0 — King Kong Vs. Godzilla'
4:30P.M. 0 — Here Come The Girls'
7:00P.M. 0 — The Wizard of Oz’
8:00P.M. 0 — 'Charlie Chan In Reno’
9:00P.M. 0 — 'Murder at the World Series'
11:45P.M. 0 — The Neon Ceiling'
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Measles cases
double in U.S.
ATLANTA (AP) — The number of
« measles cases reported nationwide in
the first ten weeks of this year has
' nearly doubled from a year ago, the
national Center for Disease Control
reported Friday.
• More than 12,600 cases had been
reported by March 12, compared with
♦ about 6,940 for the same period last
♦ year.
The findings are in line with an
, Associated Press survey which in
dicated a sharp increase in measles last
* year, and noted that public health of
ficials said 1977 may be worse.
* The increase appeared to be
• developing because immunization laws
weren’t being enforced by some states.
* Russ Charter, director of im
munization for the Detroit Public
Health Department, said he expects to
, see a decline in measles in the city after
a crackdown to try to get more children
* vaccinated.
There have been 137 cases of measles
identified in Detroit since the beginning
« of the year, but Charter said he expects
to see practically no cases in kin-
* dergartens within the next few weeks.
% Only about 300 pupils now are without
immunization and truant officers are
, contacting parents of children still out
of school, he said.
' Meanwhile, outbreaks in Fairbanks
and Anchorage last fall followed the
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
first outbreak of measles in Alaska in
more than three years at Shungnak.
The outbreak in Anchorage started in
October in a military base school and
spread to three other schools.
Records at one school showed 23 of
178 pupils in the fifth grade hadn’t been
vaccinated against the measles, the
CDC said, and in the third grade at
another school, five of 92 children
hadn’t been vaccinated.
When several Anchorage civilian
schools, arbitrarily selected, were
reviewed for immunization records, the
CDC said parents of more than 150
children were unable to produce
records of measles vaccination.
The CDC said all children without
written verification of measles vac
cination were immunized.
Authorities at Fairbanks first learned
of the outbreak there when, shortly
before the Christmas holidays, several
unvaccinated school children — all mil
itary dependents — were stricken.
The exclusion from two schools of all
children who could not provide written
verification of vaccination against
measles resulted in the vaccination of
approximatly 240 of the 550 children in
the two schools, the CDC said.
Dr. John Middaugh, Alaska’s
epidemiologist, said he attributes the
decline in immunization among
children in that state to newcomers.
Specials
SUNDAY
5:00P.M. 0 — Festival of Lively Arts for
Young People
9:00P.M. 0 — Bingl
10:30P.M. 0 — Loves Me, Loves Me Not
11:30P.M. 0 - N BC Forum
(D — Feather And Father Gang
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, March 19,1977
Girl on
the track
Janet Guthrey hit the big time
racing circuit running and has
been making news ever since.
She’s in Hampton this weekend
for the Atlanta 500 race Sunday
afternoon. The Griffin Daily
News cameras were trained on
her Friday afternoon at the
track to catch the qualifying
action. In picture at the left,
Janet waits quietly for her time
on the track. At right she is all
set for a whirl. Below she’s on
the second lap of her qualifying
run.
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Deputies
rescues 2
at reservoir
Spalding deputies rescued two men
from the city reservoir on Head’s Creek
Friday afternoon.
Their metal boat had overturned.
Deputy Jepp Childs who was off duty
and fishing there learned the men were
in the water. He phoned for help.
Deputies Rolin Busbin and Van
Matthews responded and the three men
rescued the two fishermen.
Emergency Medical Technicians
from the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
checked the two men at the scene and
found them all right.
Nobody seemed to remember the two
men’s names this morning.
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The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“Most big problems weren’t
important when they should
have been solved.”
NEWS
Army chief eyes
draft of women
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Army
Chief of Staff said if the United States is
forced to reinstitute a military draft or
some other form of “involuntary”
public service, “very serious con
sideration” should be given to making
women as well as men subject to call.
“If we’re going to utilize women in
the services as the recent trend has
been...then I think very serious con
sideration must be given to their being
in any future involuntary service,” said
Gen. Bernard W. Rogers.
Rogers said Friday he and U.S. Army
commanders are “unanimous” in
hoping the all-volunteer armed services
can be maintained.
He said that unlike before the end of
the draft, the Army is having difficulty
recruiting volunteers to fill reserve
units.
The general, who became chief of
staff in October, said “new initiatives”
to entice recruits into reserve com
ponents, such as enlistment bonuses
and tax breaks, are under consider
ation.
He said the Army will decide by fall
of 1978 if the volunteer concept will
work for reserve units such as the
National Guard and Army Reserve.
“And if we can’t," the general said,
“then among the things we must
consider is some kind of involuntary
service.”
A return to the draft would be one
option, he said, noting, “and if we went
back to the draft, we would not need all
of those that are in the manpower,
womanpower, person-power pool out
there, so we would have to go back to
the lottery.”
Rogers said this would be a “true
lottery” with few opportunities to avoid
the draft.
Another alternative, he said, would
be a one-or two-year period of “in
voluntary” public service which would
give men and women a choice between
civilian or military service.
The system might include regulations
giving the military the right to have
“first option on a particular individual
if it received too few volunteers,” he
said.
Tourism booming
ATLANTA (AP) — Tourism in
Georgia should reach a record high this
year, boosted by the more than one
million anticipated visitors to President
Carter’s home town of Plains, state
officials say.
“There is no doubt in my mind we will
have a record for tourists coming to our
state,” said Ed Spiva, director of tour
ism for the Georgia Department of
Industry and Trade.
“For the first two months of 1977,
Georgia’s interstate welcome centers
have already registered 700,000
travelers, an increase of 19.6 per cent
over the same period a year ago,” he
said.
Last year a record five million
persons visited Georgia’s nine welcome
centers and 63.4 million out-of-state
vacation and recreation travelers
Here’s something new for you
Listings such as these will be included in the new Tele-
View section of the Griffin Daily News which begins today.
The tabloid size section may be pulled from the paper and
kept handy for easy reference during the week. The Grif
fin Daily News will continue its regular day-night listings
in each publication in the regular place. In addition to the
listings, movies and specials will be included in the daily
logs. Sports fans will find television sporting events for a
week on today’s sports pages.
Vol. 105 No. 66
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Me worry?
DENVER, Colo.—Katy, an ostrich at
the Denver zoo, yawns to show her
boredom during another slow day at the
zoo. With no consumer price index,
Angolan invasions or taxes to worry
about life can be real dull
sometimes...!! you’re an ostrich! (AP)
Happy
ending
This story has a happy ending.
Mrs. Pete Ferris, wife of the Griffin
golf pro, was taking a valuable piece of
antique furniture to Griffin Academy
for use in a dinner-theater play.
It fell off a truck on the way.
When she learned what happened,
she telephoned the Griffin Daily News
which published a story about the lost
furniture.
Retired Police Chief Leo Blackwell
read about it in the newspaper.
He and Leroy Harrison, 1030 West
Broad street, riding in separate cars,
saw the furniture and stopped.
Harrison took it home with him to try to
locate the owner. Chief Blackwell
phoned Mrs. Ferris and her husband,
Pete, went to the Harrison home to pick
up the lost chair.
drove on the state’s highways.
But it’s Plains that officials say will
draw the lion’s share of interest.
“There was no outside tourist interest
in Plains in the past, except when
Carter was governor but that was
minimal,” said Warren Young,
assistant director of tourism.
“What is happening now, is the area
is going from a zero to a million plus a
year,” he said Friday.
Young said the state will open bids
Monday on construction of a SIOO,OOO
welcome center at Plains which will
direct travelers to other Georgia at
tractions after they leave Carter’s
home town.
In addition, the Georgia Department
of Transportation will construct a
restroom facility within walking
distance of Plains’ main street, he said.
Weather
FORECAST: Periods of rain tonight,
ending early Sunday morning and
clearing Sunday afternoon.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Scattered
showers beginning from the west
Tuesday and ending from the west by
late Wednesday. No major changes in
temperature until turning cooler
Wednesday.
Georgia Power
wants hike
of 20 percent
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power
Co. says sagging revenues, inflation
and construction needs were behind a
$197.6 million rate increase request that
could boost residential electric bills by
20 per cent.
Utility company President Robert W.
Scherer said Friday: “We recognize
fully that the increased rates will
create additional hardships on some
people who have difficulty paying not
just their electricity bills, but all their
bills.”
The rate increase, if approved in full
by the Public Service Commission,
would increase commercial electric
rates by 20.2 per cent and industrial
rates by 16.9 per cent, Scherer said.
The proposed increase, he said,
would raise the rate for 1,000 kilowatt
hours of electricity during winter from
$31.93 to $36.86. However, Scherer said
because of the use of air conditioners,
rates during the summer would be
higher than in winter months.
He said net income had dropped 13
per cent during the last year, and part
of that was because operating costs had
risen nine per cent.
People
...and things
Two of Coach Max Dowis’ young sons
scampering about field in College Park
Friday night handling football manager
duties.
Grandmother buying grandchild
something to wear for Easter.
Well known Griffin doctor sporting
new cap, hoping he can find his old one
before next football season.
The department also received money
from the General Assembly to help
boost tourism throughout the state.
It includes: an advertising budget of
$828,000, an increase of $200,000 over
last year; $42,600 for six additional
receptionists at five welcome centers;
an additional $36,000 to hire 29 summer
interns at the centers; $24,000 to pur
chase color videotape systems to show
short travelogues on attractions; and
$90,500 for displays at the nine welcome
centers.
Travel last year brought more thin
SIOO million in tax revenues to the state
treasury.
Construction on three more welcome
centers will begin within 12 months.
They are in Tallapoosa, Savannah and
West Point and will include parking and
restrooms, the department said.