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Ex. Gov. Faubus
HUNTSVILLE, Ark. (AP)— Former Arkansas Gov.
Orval Faubus is working as a teller at the First National
Bank of Huntsville.
“Inflation put me back to work,” Faubus said Monday.
He said his state retirement benefits, computed on 10 of
the 12 years he was governor, came to “a little over $600”
a month.
Faubus, who has been working as a teller about five
days, said his 600-page book about the first four years of
his administration probably would be on the market
sometime in August.
He said the publisher wanted to release the book to
correspond with the 20th anniversary of the desegregation
crisis of Little Rock Central High School.
Juanita Castro
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Juanita Castro, sister of the
Cuban president, has branded President Carter’s interest
in re-establishing diplomatic relations with the country
“immoral and foul play.”
“If the American people actually knew what what was
going on inside the country under force of arms, I’m sure
they would support the liberation of Cuba,” Juanita
Castro said in an interview with the Los Angeles Herald-
Examiner Monday.
Miss Castro, 44, fled Cuba in 1964 and has since carried
on a lecture and broadcast campaign against the policies
of her brother and other Communist leaders in the
Western Hemisphere.
Ford keeps door open
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Former President Ford is
“keeping the door open” to running for President in 1980,
says Ron Nessen, who served as Ford’s press secretary.
“I’m sure he’ll have more concrete ideas on the subject
in a year or two,” Nessen told newsmen before a speaking
engagement Monday.
“After working with Ford for some time, I have learned
how he goes about making decisions,” Nessen said. “He
waits until as late as possible before committing himself
in order to weigh all factors possible.
“However, I’ve been in contact with him frequently
since he left office, and he has informed me he definitely is
keeping the door open for running for president in 1980.”
Pipeline may
.carry cereal grains
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
— Cereal grains, petroleum and
1 other commodities could one
day run from Kansas City, Mo.,
to Brunswick, Ga., through a
massive pipeline corridor now
being considered by a regional
board.
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Multi-State Transportation Sys
tem advisory board, said the
plan also evisions power sta
tions along the route.
He said they would provide
power to transport the mate
rials and allow utilities to ex
change electricity.
The board expects the federal
government to pay 70 per cent
of the cost of the corridor.
States along the route would
pay the other 30 per cent.
The route is planned to pass
through Columbus, Ga.; Bir
mingham, Ala.; Tupelo, Miss.;
Memphis, Tenn.; Jonesboro
and Batesville, Ark., and
Springfield, Mo.
Raymond Ellis, who is with of
a consulting firm making a
federally-funded survey for the
project, predicted that the pipe
line would boost industrial and
population growth 20 per cent
above current projections for
such cities as Kansas City,
Memphis and Jacksonville.
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Talking trees
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Conversation reached a new level
when Aaron Levey, left, and Jami Smith, preschoolers
from Bethel Synagogue in Phoenix listened to what
Ponderosa Pines had to say at the Phoenix Museum. The
trees, part of an environmental exhibit at the museum,
are wired to a recording to produce different sounds. The
trees ooze sap occasionally, so protective smocks are
worn. (AP)
8 flee
prison
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -
Eight prisoners escaped from
the Muscogee County jail Mon
day night after using hacksaws
to cut through metal bars in
their second-story dormitory
window, authorities said.
A lookout has been posted
throughout the southeastern
states for them.
Muscogee County sheriff’s of
ficers said other prisoners in the
47-man dormitory stayed
behind. They said the escape
apparently occurred about
10:15 p.m.
Officers said the escapees in
cluded James Patrick, 22, of
Columbus, in jail in lieu of
$250,000 bond and awaiting trial
on charges of kidnaping a 13-
year-old Columbus girl. Also in
cluded were Bruce Love, 28, and
Buford Padgett, 29, both of
Columbus and both scheduled
for trial soon on charges of rob
bing a drug warehouse in Co
lumbus. Love had previously
escaped from the Clayton Coun
ty jail by pretending to be an
other prisoner who was posting
bond, officers said.
Deputy Sheriff David Hopkins
said the escape was discovered
Monday night when officers re
ceived a call from an attorney
who asked if Padgett had been
allowed to call his wife. The at
torney said Padgett’s wife had
received two calls from her
husband.
Officers told him Padgett did
not have such permission, Hop
kins said. They checked the
dormitory and discovered Pad
gett and the others missing and
four bars sawn out of the win
dow, he said.
Also identified as escapees
were Felix Brooks, 23, Horace
Rosser, 23, Leroy Emory, 18,
Harvey Bennett, 17, and Tim
othy Williams, 25. Hopkins said
all are from Columbus except
Emory, who listed a Ft. Jack
son, S.C., address.
Williams was awaiting trial
on charges of theft by disposing
of stolen property and theft by
taking. Brooks was serving part
of a 10-year sentence for armed
robbery. Rosser was charged
with theft by taking and Emory
with theft and burglary.
Hopkins said off-duty person
nel were called in to aid in the
search. He said all the escapees
are considered to be dangerous.
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TV news people pawns in ratings
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Television news people are
pawns in the ratings game, hired and fired in some in
stances on the basis of skin tests given to viewers to
measure their reaction, says TV Guide magazine.
Psychological research firms have administered the
tests, similar to lie-detector tests, for TV stations in Los
Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver and St. Louis, the
magazine said today.
As a result of tests by San Francisco’s ERA Research
last spring, Los Angeles station KNXT, a CBS affiliate,
fired anchorman Pat Emory and coanchor Sandy Hill, TV
Guide said.
“The next few weeks about two dozen on-air reporters
and supporting players suddenly found themselves out of
work,” the article said.
“I’m sure if they showed Adolph Hitler up there on that
screen the needle would jump right out of the glass,” said
George Putnam, a veteran Los Angeles anchorman. “But
that’s no reason to hire Adolph to anchor the 5 o’clock
news.”
For the tests, several hundred viewers are paid to watch
videotapes of newscasters during a special screening
session. The viewers’ hands are smeared with surgical
jelly and attached to electrical sensors.
Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 22, 1977
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“When people are calm, their palms stay dry. But when
they get emotionally turned on — frightened, angry, guilty
or just sexually aroused — their sweat glands open up...”
the article said.
Test viewers then fill out questionnaires to describe the
newscaster. Friendly, cold, warm or distant? Shifty or
believable? Attractive, plain, familiar, dull?
A CBS spokeswoman in New York said the network
doesn’t use such testing, but she described local affiliates
as “fairly autonomous.”
KNXT general manager Christopher Desmond was un
available for immediate comment on the article.
Ms. Hill, now a field reporter for KABC-TV in Los
Angeles, said, “It’s ludicrous that they resort to skin tests,
personality inventories and stuff like that as a judgment
for who should be in television news. But as long as news is
ruled by rating points, it is inevitable.”
Emory, now an anchor for KSD-TV, the St. Louis NBC
affiliate, said ERA Research “finished their final report
and delivered it to KNXT at noon on June 8. By noon of
June 9, I was fired.”
“They said I wasn’t right for the market because I
hadn’t set that ERA needle off. That tells you they’re
looking for box office, not news,” he said.