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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1977)
DAI LY NE WS Daily Since 1872 Spring! Signs of spring were all around today. At right Jo Ann Todd and Mark Semich talk about plants at the annual Lawn and Garden Show being held this weekend at Spalding Square. The show drew thousands of people who are working on their home lawns and planning spring gardens. Below Greg Cody of 1118 Hilltop avenue, enjoyed some good old fashioned fishing at Placid Lake in the Third Ward section. Cody is a student in Atlanta. • :> •^.-_j_iMLj_i^^^^^^^^rr^Mg**Wlwn 1 W .> «*4teqp * * . . .^. 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To duplicate Martian soil for ex perimental purposes, Hubbard used information from tests conducted by the Viking spacecraft which landed on Mars. Hubbard, a Tech biology professor, developed one of three tests used by the Viking lander. He said he doesn’t believe there is life on Mars and he is fairly sure that results from the Viking mission were caused by chemical reactions, not by living organisms. In the experiment he devised for the Viking lander, small samples of Martian soil were gathered, mixed with radioactive carbon-14, and incubated for five days. Hubbard’s theory was that if carbon based living microbes were living in the soil, they would transform simple gas molecules into complex organic molecules, containing the radioactive carbon, which could be detected by the instruments in the spacecraft. “The first tests were positive; we found the organic molecules,” Hubbard Hb» A I \ J SgT W- W* wSr ■* '"*** ' J Ihk ** ® 1 ’ AuMtWKwR/ ' A 4k £f r ® / said. However, the organic molecules couldn’t be found in other tests. Therefore, researchers are trying to duplicate the soil for further tests on chemical reactions that could have produced the results found in the first Viking test in which organic molecules were found. That is why Hubbard is trying to build a model of Mars in his lab. Ultraviolet light, to which Mars is constantly exposed, is being beamed down on mixtures similar to those found in Martian soil. “We would like to know if the soil on Mars was chemically reactive before it was ever brought aboard Viking,” he explained. But, there is a problem with the earthbound experiment in that researchers “can’t exactly duplicate Martian soil. It may have taken millions of years to create the unique conditions that we find on Mars today.” Although Hubbard said he doesn’t believe life exists on Mars, he didn’t rule out the possibility that life may have existed there in the past. Vol. 105 No. 72 People ...and tilings Elderly apple trees blooming ever so youthfully and daintily. Small car tootling along with this sassy sign on its rear, “I may be slow, but I am ahead of you.” Man hacking and coughing with spring allergy. Army rebels strike Thai BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Army rebels seized the government radio station and security headquarters, reportedly killed a general and his aid and declared a coup by a military junta early today. But the radio station later went off the air and an army television station said the five-month-old govemmentof Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien was still in control. Most of Bangkok was quiet and pedestrians appeared to be going about their business normally. The army station said about 300 soldiers moved into Bangkok before dawn from a base in Kachanaburi province, 65 miles west of the capital, Fishing report Q The Department of Natural Resources’fishing forecast for the week of March 27-April 2 includes: 1 HIGH FALLS: Full, muddy. Excellent for crappie; fair toslow{orothers P ec,eß - JACKSON: Full, stained. Good for bass and fair for other species. SINCLAIR: Full, dingy. Fair for all species. Reunited sisters want changes; sue for damages MIAMI (AP) — Four sisters who were separated by F"- w « juvenile authorities 41 years ago ana were reunited only last fall are asking for a change in the state’s adoption laws and for $400,000 damages. “The main thing we’re interested in is in getting the law changed so it can’t happen to anybody else,” said one of the sisters, carolyn Mclntire of Miami. The law authorizes adoptive parents or adopted children 18 or over to obtain a court order opening their records. However, the names and addresses of natural parents and brothers and sisters are not necessarily included in those documents. Two state legislators said they will introduce bills next week to require that parental and sibling information be part of the records that are made ac cessible to adopted children when they reach 18. Mrs. Mclntire and her sisters, Agnes Wagner of Winter Haven, Olier Mowery of Lakeland and Dorothy Wiley of Ro mulus, Mich., are suing the state for SIOO,OOO each, said their attorney, Ellis Rubin. The girls and their then 9-year-old brother, Gerald, were left on a sidewalk in 1935 when their mother, Evie Melvin, went to visit their stepfather, who was in jail in another city. Their mother was arrested, the daughters said, because of gossip ac cusing the couple of living together though not married. However, a marriage certificate shows they were married in 1935. The other was released after spending about six weeks in jail and the stepfather later finished his term. By that time, the children had been placed with adoptive parents. The oldest daughter, Agnes, soon and seized the Internal Security Oper ations Command (ISOC) headquarters and the government radio station. The commander of the First Army Division, Maj. Gen. Aroon Tavatasin, and his assistant were killed when they resisted an attempted takeover of division headquarters, the television said. It said the soldiers who stormed the division headquarters surrendered later. Tanin was believed to be in the prime minister’s office in the city, but he had made no statement by midaftemoon. Bangkok was quiet except for the area around the rebel-held ISOC building. returned to her mother. Five years later, when Olier was 16, she ran away from her new home and rejoined her mother and sister. They continued to search for the other two girls and their brother. Gerald was found 11 years later. He died in a 1947 car crash. Soon after, the stepfather died in a boating accident. Agnes and Olier promised their dying mother in 1963 that they would continue the search for their sisters. Meanwhile, Carolyn was also looking for her family, and in 1975 she con vinced her adopted mother to tell her about her adoption. She soon joined her two sisters in the search for Dorothy, the youngest. That search ended last November when Dorothy, a 48-year-old widow, was found in Michigan through newspaper stories. The sisters were reunited shortly afterward in Orlando. Few more working in county Eighty-seven more people had jobs in Spalding County in February than were at work in January, according to the report from the Griffin Labor Department office. The increase cut the unemployment rate in Spalding to 7.5 percent, a tenth of a percent lower than it was in January. A total of 18,618 people had jobs in February, according to the latest figures available from the labor office. A total of 1,519 people were jobless in a labor force of 20,137. The Mclntosh Trail counties showed a slight increase in unemployment during February. The rate was 7.2 compared to 7 the previous month. February unemployment for other Trail counties were: Butts 9.4, Fayette 7.2, Henry 8.6, Lamar 6.7, Newton 6.1, Pike 9.3 and Upson 5. Weather FORECAST: Fair and mild with a low near 50 tonight. Partly cloudy Sunday. Continued warm with a high in the mid 70s.
