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Page 12 ! — Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 2,1977 / ‘“ ~, , |Plp *■*" * » >/ «/*’ A i£< <; " t 4' wfll ,?w® 1 ir v..< ■ '■. M --- Two persons were Injured Friday when their twin-engine turbo-prop crashed near Grovetown, Ga. The pilot was Identified as Ralph Willis Ingle, of Columbus, Ga., The only passenger aboard was Ann L. Schumacker, also of Columbus. Both are in critical condition. The cause of the accident is unknown. Looking at the damage is Dr. David Jowers, left, an .aviation examiner and Cpl. John Lane of the Georgia State Patrol. (AP) 2 people hurt in plane crash AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - “I saw it as a white blur coming through the trees,” said David Mayer after an airplane crash seriously injured two persons Friday. “It was coming right at us,” he said. “It would have hit us if it had kept coming.” Ann Schumacher, 29, of Co lumbus, Ga., was listed in criti cal condition Friday night at University Hospital, a hospital spokesman said. 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(AP)—Fifteen persons were charged at Baldwin County Jail Friday in connection with the seizure of more than six tons of marijuana aboard a 45-foot sail boat Thursday night. After the sloop Gazu arrived on Alabama shores, some 60 of ficers from Alabama, Florida and Georgia descended on a rented beachside home and chased down three trucks in making the arrests. Georgia agents said nine of the accused were from the At lanta, Ga., area. It was the fifth major drug smuggling raid along this part Jackson fires 1,000 strikers ATLANTA (AP) - Mayor Maynard Jackson fired more than 1,000 striking blue-collar workers Friday and told At lanta residents they would have to haul away their own garbage until replacements could be hired. Jackson said at a news con ference he was sorry to fire the workers, but “we have turned the other cheek so many times that we have no more cheeks to of the Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast in a little more than one year. Authorities estimated that the Colombian variety of marijuana seized at Orange Beach would have a street value of about $3.5 million. They said it would go for S2OO to $350 per pound. Two suspects were injured in the arrests. Charged for possession of controlled substances were: Victor Wayne Poindexter, 31, Charleston, S.C.; Harold Wal ton Hinton, 36, Atlanta, Ga.; James Eugene Hornsby, 32, Fairbum, Ga.; Fred Barnett, Jr., 39, Treasure Island, Fla.; Louie Frank Gilchrist, 38, At lanta; Robert Norman Luke, 34, Fairbum; Tony Ray Dunaway, 29, Decatur, Ga.; Carey Estes Pierce, 23, Jonesboro, Ga.; Edward E. Tobin, 47, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; Woodie Herman Pierce, 36, Fairbum; William Witter, 30, Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Ronnie Poindexter, 33, Charleston, S.C.; Roger Thomas Eley, 31, Cumming, Ga.; Allen Barnes Gray, 27, Cumming; Bily Joe Watkins, no age given, Atlanta. Watkins was shot in the leg and Carey Pierce was shot in the side during the arrests. Durwood Elliott, a spokes man for Alabama liquor control agents, said the marijuana was moved ashore by aluminum flatbottom skiffs and about three tons of it loaded into three pickup trucks. Taking part in the raid and two-month investigation that preceeded it were the Baldwin County sheriff’s office, Ala bama state troopers, Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control agents, the Mobile, Pensacola and Gulf Shores police, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Flori da Department of Law En forcement, U.S. Customs Serv ice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Coke uncovers questionable payments ATLANTA (AP) - Ap proximately $1.3 million in “questionable foreign pay ments” have been uncovered in a continuing investigation by Coca-Cola Co., company offi cials say. In a statement issued Friday, the Atlanta-based soft drink company said a “substantail portion of the payments was maintained in off-book accounts or funds.” The investigation, the state ment said, showed the pay ments “were not in compliance with the company’s long-stand ing strict policy that its business be conducted in accordance with high legal and ethical standards.” The firm first announced an investigation into the foreign payments in October, 1976. In the statement Friday, the company said an “outside coun sel” had estimated the investi gation would be completed in May. turn.” He said it was “impossible to meet” 50-cent-per-hour wage increase demands of the Ameri can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, which struck the city last Monday. Jackson said firing the 1,001 workers —about 38 per cent of the city’s 2,640 garbagemen, street repairmen and cleaners and other blue-collar workers — was "the most painful and the most unpleasant task I have had to perform” as mayor, particularly because many of the employes “are the most needy, the lowest-paid of our employes.” Leamon Hood, AFSCME’s regional representative, said after Jackson’s comments that he felt the mayor wasn’t as concerned about the workers’ welfare as he indicated. “This is not a nickel and dime matter; this is a matter of human dignity," Hood said. The union is seeking wage in creases that would add S2O a week to the average blue-collar worker’s $l5O weekly paycheck. Hood said the strike would continue “as long as neces sary.” Jackson said the city would begin almost immediate ly to hire replacements for the fired workers. He gave no estimate when normal residential garbage pick ups would be resumed. Asked repeatedly by report ers whether there was any chance the fired workers could retain their jobs, Jackson ans wered repeatedly, “There are no guarantees of rehiring,” but he wouldn’t dismiss that possi bility should the union and city reach agreement. No further negotiating ses sions were scheduled. The mayor outlined a daily schedule for Atlanta residents to haul their garbage to city schools, shopping centers and fire stations to be picked up by city trucks beginning Monday. He also extended operating hours for city landfills. There were no reports of strike-connicted violence Friday, but one garbage truck driver was cut Thursday when a brick crashed through the window of his truck. Two other men were reported beaten Thursday. In memory of my loving son, Walter M. Johnson, who passed away 4 years ago today, April 2nd, 1973. Sadly Missed Loving mother, brother & Sister, Walter Johnson Jr., Son. 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Taylor St Griffin, Ga. I’ve ever won,” said Hughey, who has been a state court solicitor since 1970. Hughey had testified that he gave friends “many, many guns” but denied that he ever took money for them. “Obviously there’ll be no more guns given away,” Hug hey’s attorney Frank Martin said after the verdict was an nounced. “That’s an expensive lesson he has learned.” Hughey was accused of sell ing guns the county had con fiscated. Gasoline station operator Herman C. Williams, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy in the sale of guns, testified earlier that Hughey told him “if I could get rid of them (the guns), he would bring them to me.” Williams said he sold three pistols and “the next time I saw Mr. Hughey, we split the money.” Special employe John Gutenberg of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Al cohol, Tobacco and Firearms, told the U.S. District Court jury that he bought 26 pistols from Williams and traced 24 of them through police records to con fiscation in trials.
