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Griffin Daily News Saturday, March 19,1977
Japanese still searching
Marianas for WWII dead
SAIPAN, Mariana Islands
(AP) — While the bodies of 12
U.S. pilots killed in Vietnam are
being flown home, Japanese
volunteers still scour this
Pacific island for bodies of
World War II dead.
Os the 40,000 to 50,000 Japa
nese soldiers and dependents
believed to have died here over
30 years ago, perhaps only half
have been found, said Dan E.
Akimoto, director of general
administration for the Northern
Mariana Islands, part of the
American Trust Territories.
“It is a great pain to them
that a person is lying neglected
in a jungle of Saipan,” he said.
Because of that, Akimoto, a
Hawaiian-Japanese who has
been working for some 20 years
in the Trust Territories, east of
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the Philippines in the island
chain reaching toward Japan,
knows there will be future mis
sions from Japan.
The goals of the Japanese
missions are not unlike those of
the U.S. presidential commis
sion that went to Hanoi this
week. They want an accounting
and they want their own re
turned to their homeland.
The missions consist of volun
teers of all ages. Sometimes
they are the relatives of a sol
dier killed in the fighting here,
the spokesman said.
The U.S. battle to capture
Saipan in July 1944 was one of
the bloodiest battles of the
American push to regain con
trol of the Pacific.
Many of the remains have
been found at the base of a rug
ged outcrop called Banzai Cliff.
Akimoto said those were the
soldiers who preferred death to
surrender.
The remains of more than 1,-
000 bodies were recovered dur
ing the most recent mission,
which ended last week. Many
were found in the dense jungle
and caves just as they had fall
en.
The bones were cremated in a
special ceremony at the
Japanese Peace Memorial, ad
jacent to an old Japanese com
mand post. I>ast Sunday, a me
morial service was held and
small gifts of rice cake and sake
were left behind.
Despite the thousands of bod
ies which have been recovered,
it is not uncommon for a farmer
or road repair crew to come
across more.
Other reminders of the
island’s violent past include live
shells, military equipment and
rusted weapons still littering
the jungle.
Akimoto said it is possible
Mattingly
stepping down
ATI.ANTA (AP) - Mack
Mattingly, chairman of the
state Republican party, says he
will step down in May to run for
public office.
In a letter to party leaders,
made public Friday by GOP
state executive director Rich
ard Mcßride, Mattingly wrote,
“I will stay involved, and so
there will be no doubt, I will run
for public office in the future.”
that some stragglers from the
Imperial Army may be still
hiding in the jungles of the
Dr. Jackson sentenced
ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Roosevelt Jackson, an Atlanta
physician convicted of understating his income $167,000
from 1970 to 1974 and of evading $72,000 in taxes, was sen
tenced to six months in prison Friday by U.S. District
Court Judge Richard Freeman.
Freeman also ordered Jackson to serve five years
probation, to pay the taxes he owes and to file his returns
properly in the future.
Jackson, indicted in October, was convicted Jan. 21, the
Internal Revenue Service said.
He was indicted and arraigned in January on a 76-count
federal drug indictment and his surgical privileges have
been suspended at Grady Memorial Hospital and South
west Community Hospital.
Note believed hoax
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The Douglas County
sheriff said he believes a ransom note demanding $40,000
from a Douglasville banker for the release of his family is
a hoax.
Sheriff Earl Lee said Bob Stewart, president of the Citi
zen’s Bank, found the note Friday outside the bank near
his car after he had received a telephone call giving
directions.
Members of the family were found to be safe.
Lee left a bundle supposedly containing the money in a
garbage bin in downtown Douglasville according to
directions.
No one ever picked it up, and authorities refused to say
whether actual money was used.
Policewoman resigns
ATIjANTA (AP) Mary Smith, 24, the only woman
member of a special Atlanta Police Department squad
that handles extreme emergencies such as abductions,
snipers and suicide attempts, has resigned.
Her Feb. 23 resignation from the 15-member Special
Weapons and Tactic (SWAT) team was disclosed Friday.
She admitted she had experienced run-ins with other po
licemen. But she said she had planned to quit and added
that disputes with fellow officers had nothing to do with it.
Miss Smith qualified for the special team about a year
ago.
Policeman reinstated
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Policeman Nick Moore, sus
pended in January by former Chief of Police G.A.
Singleton, has been returned to the force.
The civil service board said Friday no further action
will be taken against Moore, president of the local chapter
of the fraternal order of police who claimed he was
suspended because of his involvement with the group.
Mayor W. Ernest Moore said last month internal
problems had been “bubbling for about three months”
and that they involved the suspension of Moore.
Douglas policemen,
firemen walk off
DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) - All
but one member of the Douglas
police force and many of the
city’s 20 firemen walked off
their jobs Friday, and a spokes
man said they would not return
until the city council reinstates
former police chief Garlian
Faulkner.
northern islands in the Ma
rianas chain. But he termed
that possibility “very slim.”
J. J. Polak of the state Fra
ternal Order of Police said the
“sickout,” prompted by the dis
missal Thursday of Faulkner,
would not end “until they (city
council members) reinstate
Chief Faulkner.”
Polak said the policemen and
firemen were protesting be
cause the council refused to
make public its reasons for
Faulkner’s dismissal.
City Atty. Bob Preston said,
“The former chief was given
the reasons for his dismissal
Thursday night and the council
will not comment further. Any
statement will have to come
from Faulkner.”
Faulkner said he was told at
the closed door meeting that he
was incompetent, that several
complaints had been filed
against the department, that he
did not keep regular office
hours, that his men dressed
sloppily and that he had no con
trol over them.
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Mike Brown, who started his
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nightclub and concert
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Brown, who was in Griffin
recently, visiting his family,
said he already had cut a single
and was to begin work soon on
an album.
Mike and a group recently
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Approves union
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Production workers at Sun
ny land Foods Inc., voted 372-204 Thursday to have the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of
North America AFL-CIO represent them in labor
negotiations.
In May, 1976, the workers rejected union representation
by a 44-vote margin, but the National Labor Relations
board ordered a new election when union officials claimed
irregularities.
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While he can play several
instruments, Brown loves the
guitar and plays lead. He calls
his type of music, progressive
rock.
His first guitar cost $7. The
one he now uses cost several
hundred.
Brown is not connected with
any rock group right now. “I’ve
decided to try it on my own,” he
said.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Bids are
being accepted for spraying the
controversial fire ant poison
Mirex over about two million
acres of land in east-central and
south-central Georgia, the
Georgia Department of
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Agriculture Commissioner
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spraying will involve 18 coun
ties in two projects beginning
April 7: one in Crisp, Turner,
Wilcox, Ben Hill, Dodge, Tel
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Laurens, Wilkinson, Baldwin,
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Walton, Washington and John
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Irvin said new federal re
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ronmental Protection Agency
allow only single-engined air
craft to spray the chemical. In
the past, multi-engine aircraft
and electronic guidance sys
tems were used.
Irvin also said one pound of
the chemical will be sprayed
over an acre of land. Earlier, an
acre was sprayed with a pound
and a quarter.
The Mirex spraying program
was banned by the federal gov
ernment July 1, 1975, then re
sumed on a limited basis in
Georgia and Mississippi in Oc
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