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Plane collision survivors flown to burn center
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE,
Canary Islands (AP) — U.S. and
Spanish officials began preparations
today to fly survivors of history’s worst
aviation disaster back to the United
States for treatment.
The U.S. Army Bum Center in San
Antonio, Tex., said it was preparing to
receive about 60 of the 70 survivors
from the collision Sunday on the Santa
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Tax rebate checks may never arrive
WASHINGTON (AP) - If you’ve
already figured out how to spend that
SSO tax rebate President Carter wants
to give to most Americans, think again.
There are increasing indications the
Senate may scrap the rebate and
substitute a permanent tax cut.
Senate debate on the tax proposals
will begin in another week and may not
be completed until after Congress re
turns in mid April from its Easter
recess.
And what members of Congress hear
during trips home may be the decisive
factor in determining whether a rebate
or a permanent tax cut is in the bill that
goes to the White House.
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These are the crew members of the Pan American 747 jetliner which collided with a KLM
747 on the runway at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Sunday. Those who survived,
starting at top left, are: Capt. Victor Grubbs, Centerport, N.Y.; Flight Engineer George
Warns, Blairstown, N.J.; First Officer Robert Bragg, Howard Beach, N.Y.; flight at
tendants Joan Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.; Carla Johnson, New York City; purser Dorothy
Kelly, New Hampshire; and flight attendant Susanne Denovan, Harrisburg, Pa. Members
of the crew who died are purser Frahcoise Colbert De Beaulieu, New York City, top right,
and, bottom row, (1-r), flight attendants Mari Asai, New York City; Carol Thomas, New
York City; Christine Ekelaud, New York City; Miguel Torrech, New York City; Marilyn
Luker, Philadelphia, Pa.; Aysel Sarp, Arlington, Va.; Luisa Flood, New York City; and
Sachiko Hirano, New York City. (AP)
Cruz airport runway of two Boeing 747
jumbo jets in which 575 persons were
killed.
Sixty-seven of the survivors and 321
of the dead were Americans, according
to information from the airlines.
Meanwhile, Spanish, Dutch and
American officials continued their
investigations to determine the cause of
the collision, which occurred as the Pan
The fight over the rebate carries the
potential for the most serious conflict to
date between Carter and Congress,
more serious than clashes over protocol
and water projects that have marked
the first 60 days of the Carter
presidency.
Carter is pressing for the rebate as
the way to give a quick boost to the
economy. But congressional support for
the rebate, even among Democrats, is,
at best, lukewarm.
“I plan to vote for it,” said Senate
Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-
W.Va., when asked his opinion of the
rebate.
“Enthusiastically?” he was asked.
Grandmother of five earned graduate degree
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, March 29,1977
American and KLM jetliners were
preparing to take off in fog from this
Atlantic island.
Spanish authorities ruled out
sabotage and claimed there had been
no errors in control tower com
munications with the two planes.
Officials said they would inspect the
10,000-foot runway, which has been
closed by wreckage and bad weather
“No,” replied Byrd. But, he said,
“It’s the President’s program. It’s part
of his economic stimulus program."
On the Republican side, the votes are
lined up, 38 to 0, against the rebate.
“There’s an excellent chance we will
defeat the rebate and substitute a
permanent tax cut,” said Minority
Leader Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn.
Baker is certain of some support
among the Democrats as well as of the
vote of Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. of
Virginia, an independent.
When the Senate Finance Committee
voted to keep the Carter rebate in the
bill rather than substitute a permanent
tax cut, the tally followed party lines.
BY MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Life for Elizabeth Boyd began educa
tionally after 40. She returned to school
when she had five grandchildren.
Offered a year’s scholarship to
G.S.C.W. in Milledgeville when she
graduated from high school she was in
love with James Boyd and turned it
down to get married. She returned to
school after her children were grown
and now has her master’s degree. Mrs.
Boyd was installed as the new state
president of the Georgia Library Media
Department of the G.A.E. Thursday at
Georgia State University.
Daughter of the late Elem and Ethel
Blalock, Elizabeth was bom in Griffin
and attended North Side, East Griffin
and Sam Bailey schools in addition to
Griffin High. Her brother Brady
Blalock is pastor of Hammond Drive
Baptist Church.
She was the “girl next door” for
James Boyd who paid no attention to
her before he left Griffin for awhile.
Then he returned and noticed her
charms. They soon married and had
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Catherine
Ivey who lives in Moultrie with her
husband and three sons and Mrs. Adelia
Dixon who lives in Griffin with her
husband Carroll and daughter and two
sons. Both of the daughters are
teachers.
While her daughters were growing up
Elizabeth worked at Woolworth’s, sold
Avon products and was an insurance
saleswoman for three years. Then she
worked in the school system here
without a degree and began attending
classes at Gordon. In 1969 her husband
had a heart attack and she “took a year
off from work and got her B.S. degree in
NEWS
since the collision of the two planes, to
determine if there was enough space
clear for a U.S. Air Force C-130
transport to land.
A C-130 from a base in Spain was
waiting at Las Palmas, on the neigh
boring island of Grand Canary, for
clearance. The homeward-bound
Americans were to be transferred at
Las Palmas to an Air Force C-141 to be
flown to McGuire Air Force Base in
New Jersey.
A spokesman for the bum center said
10 of the survivors to be flown to Texas
for treatment were in serious or critical
condition and 20 others were litter
cases.
U.S. officials said the airlift would
also include some survivors who did not
require hospitalization, but no names
were announced.
The KLM jetliner was hurtling down
the runway at about 150 miles an hour
for takeoff when it rammed into the
Pan American plane as it was turning
off the runway onto a taxiway, Spanish
officials said.
They said both pilots were told to taxi
down the main runway, with the KLM
craft in the lead. The Dutch pilot was
told to turn around and prepare for
takeoff but to hold his position until
given clearance, while the Pan Am jet
was to turn off at a taxiway and wait for
the KLM plane to clear, they said.
Gov. Antonio Oyarzabal said the
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“Folks will eat or drink most
anything and then expect a
doctor to cure them of what they
wouldn’t have if they hadn’t.”
elementary education” from Tift
College. She said it “took everything we
had and we even borrowed money” for
her to finish college. Her family
encouraged her every way they could.
Her husband, who was a loom fixer at
Rushton Mills and later worked with
Dixon Construction Company, helped
by cooking and cleaning house.
Elizabeth said James “always wanted
me to finish college.”
Mrs. Boyd received her master’s
degree from the University of Georgia
and is now a library media specialist at
the Pike Primary school in Zebulon.
She is president of the W.M.U. of Oak
Hill Baptist Church and superintendent
of the beginners department there. The
Boyds live on Garrett Street.
Reading has always been a part of
Elizabeth’s life. She says she has “been
everywhere through books, even
though she has really not been
anywhere.” When the girls were
growing up they walked to Hawkes
Library together and sometimes
stopped to “get an ice cream cone on
the way.” That was their recreation.
Mrs. Boyd still can’t get enough
reading and sometimes is reading four
or five books at a time. It is her favorite
hobby.
People seem to confide in Elizabeth.
When her girls were little they sat
together on the porch swing and ironed
out their problems. When she went to
college, in spite of the age difference,
her classmates talked to her and even
though her “hair stood on end”
sometimes at things they said, she
listened. Now she listens to her 400
primary students and encourages them
to read, knowing that in doing so she is
opening to them the doors of the world.
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Mrs. Nancy Akin of Sunny Side awaits word on the fate of her sister, Eve
Meyer, who was aboard one of the ill-fated planes.
planes collided nearly headon, and the
“key point” was whether the KLM pilot
had permission to take off.
The Dutch pilot, Z. A. Veldhuisen van
Zanten, was killed along with the other
248 persons reported aboard his plane.
But KLM president Sergio Orlandini
said the pilot was one of the airline’s
Study draws grim picture
of mail service in 1985
WASHINGTON (AP) - Your mail
won’t be delivered on Saturday, more of
your tax money will go toward sub
sidizing the Postal Service and you will
have to pay 22 cents for every first
class letter you mail.
This is the grim picture of the mail
service in 1985 as drawn by a federal
commission studying the future of the
financially troubled Postal Service,
sources said Monday.
The commission’s recommendations
to Congress are due by April 18, but
participants said the panel has voted to
recommend:
City Commissioners want
to know why rates hiked
Griffin City Commissioners will ask
for an explanation on why the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Authority went up so
drastically on its coronary and
intensive care room rates.
Commissioner Louis Goldstein,
during the commissioners meeting this
morning, recommended the city pass a
resolution highly criticizing the hospital
authority’s raising the rates from sllO
to |175.
He noted during the same authority
meeting in which the increase was
approved, the hospital reported a net
profit of more than SIOO,OOO for the
month of February.
Officials at the hospital said the
increased rates were necessary
because the 2 units were losing money
and the new rates would be at “break
even” operating costs. They also said
full rates of the intensive care and
coronary care units are covered by
most hospitalization insurance policies,
Goldstein noted.
The hospital is not a profit making
institution. It can’t make money or be
self sustaining in every department,
just as the city can’t make money on its
fire and police departments, Goldstein
said.
Also, rates on hospitalization
insurance will be raised to meet the
increase, he added.
Goldstein said the hospital has been
making a profit which was used for the
new addition. “The only reason they
had the money is that they overcharged
people. I think the people ought to vote
on any addition to the hospital and there
should have been a public hearing on
the increased rates,” he continued.
Weather
FORECAST: Showers likely and
possibly a thundershower or two
tonight and Wednesday.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
showers Thursday. Sunny Friday and
Saturday. The coolest day will be
Friday.
most experienced fliers and he doubted
he would have begun his takeoff without
clearance.
The Pan American pilot, Capt. Victor
Grubbs of Centerport, N.Y., was among
the 70 injured survivors from his plane,
but no explanation from him of what
happened was made public.
—Ending Saturday mail delivery to
save S4OO million per year.
—lncreasing taxpayer subsidies by
removing a ceiling imposed at the time
the Postal Service was reorganized
from the old Post Office Department in
1971.
The chances of Congress approving
the recommendations appear slim.
But without these measures, the first
class rate would have to be increased to
28 cents by 1985 to cover the sharply
rising cost of delivering the mail,
sources said the commission deter
mined.
“We are elected to represent the city
and we appoint one half of the members
of the Hospital Authority and I hope this
board concurs,” he said.
“I hope I don’t have a heart attack”,
said Mayor Raymond Head, a former
member of the Hospital Authority who
was replaced by his brother, Otis Head.
Head said he wanted to hold off on
any formal action until the city could
hear more of the hospital’s side.
Commissioner Dick Mullins said his
first reaction was the same as
Goldstein’s but he, too, would like to
question authority members before a
vote. The increase was probably too
much. The question is should it pay its
own way, he added.
“I don’t like it either”, was
Commissioner Ernest “Tiggy” Jones
comment.
Commissioner R.L. “Skeeter” ,
Norsworthy also voiced objections and
he thought the increase was “too much
at one time.”
People
••• and things
Businessman wearing low cut shoes
stepping off curb into stream on street
ankle deep.
Eleven-year-old boy to grandfather:
“I may not get an Easter basket this
year. That’s for children.”
Amateur gardener, remembering bad
luck he had with tomatoes last year,
announcing to friends he wouldn’t
attempt a crop again this year.
