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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1977)
Roadblock nets two escapees CUTHBERT, Ga. (AP) — A state patrol roadblock Friday helped pick up two prison es capees and a car reported sto len from a Florida automobile dealer, a patrol spokesman said. Sgt. Paul Campbell of the Cuthbert patrol post said a Co lumbus, Ga., woman and a Louisville, Ky., man were charged with driving without li censes when two cars were stopped at a roadblock just north of Cuthbert. The man also was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a license plate. A state patrol check revealed no stolen report on the cars, which were traveling together, and the passengers, a man and a young girl were released, Campbell said. “I was backing out of the jail driveway when I noticed a dealer decal on the back of the car that had no license plate,” Campbell said. “I went back in side and called the dealer in Tallahassee, Fla. ‘‘He hit the ceiling. He said a man took the car out to try it and didn’t bring it back. He said he had reported it stolen, but the report hadn’t hit our computers.” Campbell tracked down the two passengers, who turned out to be Glenn H. Thomas, a 37- year-old escapee from the fed eral correctional institute at Lexington, Ky., who has been serving a five-year term for in terstate transportation of a sto len auto, and his young com panion, an escapee from a ju venile detention center in Texas. Melba Helen Robinson, 20, of Columbus, and John B. Hasty of Louisville were charged with the traffic violations, and all Motor vehicle deaths Motor vehicle deaths per 100,- 000 population increased by 40 per cent between 1925 and 1970. However, deaths per 100,000 ve hicles declined by 55 per cent and deaths per 100 million ve hicle miles deceased by 73 per cent, reports the U.S. Census Bureau. PARKWOOD CINEMA I New Adventures "THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN" 7:15-9:15 PARKWOOD CINEMA II Everybody’s Favorite "SILVER STREAK" 7:30-9:30 PARKWOOD CINEMA 111 Final Week "AIRPORT 77" 7 P.M. - 9 P.M. I SPRING SALE | I Now On At I CMC CHEVROLET Continues Through April 30. I PAY S IOO OO dealers I ONLY COST I I OPEN 8 Till 8 I MOOGOOOOQGOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Due to tremendous response — We ; extend our SIOO.OO over cost sale ; through April to the Griffin-Spalding County area. JOOQOOOOOCOOOOOOCOO&OOOOOOOCCOOOOCOOOCOOOGOOOO® CRONIC CHEVROLET Expressway Griffin, Ga. I I A,L phone 522 2272 I O* 228-1326 four persons were charged with possessing a stolen auto and were held in the Randolph County jail. The state patrol is setting up a series of roadblocks this weekend to check for drivers’ licenses, license plates, no-fault insurance and inspection stick ers. Jackson promises pay hike ATLANTA (AP) - Mayor Maynard Jackson has promised city workers a pay raise in 1978 whether or not striking blue collar union members return to their jobs. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) called the strike March 28, asking for a 50 cents-per-hour raise and union recognition. Jackson said the city did not have the funds and he fired more than 900 striking workers four days lat er. Jackson made his surprise announcement of a pay raise Friday at a news conference. He also added that the hiring of replacements for the fired workers was being temporarily halted to give the union until Monday to end the strike. Pay for sanitation workers, street repairmen, water works employes and other blue-collar workers now begins at $l5O per week. City officials have hired re placements and allowed strik ers to come back to work to fill many of the openings. They said only 206 jobs remain open. There are 486 workers still on strike. The city has hired more than 200 new employes and 459 strik ers have returned to work. Jackson said he will negotiate with the union if the workers go back to work but that the talks would not include rehiring all discharged employes or a pay raise this year. [ j J Sund °y \r ■" 60 'ow V .1 /vk t ♦ ♦mparaturai (J 3553 50 \^ or or, °- fxXXXI Rain , ... /I SSSSSZ 50 Data from Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Fair and mild tonight with low in the mid 50s. Mostly fair and warm Sunday with high in the mid 80s. Eagle rehabilitation station established AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Birds of a feather flock together. And so it is appropriate that Auburn University, home of the “War Eagle,” is now the home of a rehabilitation station for eagles. The National Fish and Wild life Service Friday designated the university’s School of Veter inary Medicine its first official rehabilitation station for eagles injured by gunshot wounds. Injured eagles from through out the Southeast will be cared for by a team of veterinarians at the school. Other centers will be established on a regional basis. Dr. Jimmy Milton, a member of Auburn’s team of veter inarians, said the project will be aimed at returning the birds to their natural habitat. Birds too seriously injured to survive in the wild will be available for public display in Slaying suspects arrested in Houston ATLANTA (AP) — Two men wanted in connection with the slaying of a Cobb County man have been arrested in Houston, Tex., the FBI reported. Gene Herschel Huddleston, 33, and James Edward Flynn, 18, were taken into custody on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on murder and armed robbery charges, the FBI said Friday. The two are accused of rob bing and killing Hiram Nathan Wilson in Cobb County April 1. Cobb County police said Wil son was shot in the head and zoos and other appropriate places, said Milton. Those held in captivity in re gional centers, he said, will provide researchers with an op portunity to conduct a more de tailed study of the bird than has been possible before. And there’s always the possi bility that eagles held in captiv ity may be persuaded to mate, he observed. The fact that the eagle is an endangered species makes Mil ton’s role in the project that much more painful to the bird lover. He performs orthopedic surgery on the wounded birds, and their shattered bodies are “not a good thing to see,” he said. Milton said Auburn has treated three bald eagles and one golden eagle suffering gun shot wounds during the past month. One died; the others can never be returned to the wild. placed in his automobile which was soaked with gasoline and set afire. Huddleston and Flynn are being held in Houston pending extradition, the FBI said. Stolen bus recovered in Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Greyhound bus stolen from the company’s service center lot in Atlanta Wednesday was recovered by police Friday. Officers said a telephone call er told them the bus was parked on the city’s southside. A police spokesman said the bus, which was not damaged, apparently had been driven only from Atlanta to Birming ham. He said there were no sus pects, no motive and no details on what happened to the vehicle during its two missing days. Kissinger NEW YORK (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kis singer will receive the 1976 In ternational Humanitarian Award of Variety Clubs Inter national. Monty Hall, president of the group, announced on Tuesday that the award will be presented during the 50th annual con vention of Variety Clubs in Monte Carlo on April 29. r Showtime:\ Friday & Sat. - 7:13 & 9:00 P.M. Sunday-3:39,5:26, 7:1349:00P.M. Enter The Dragon ® COLOR <Showtime -7:30P.M. Superßug, The Wild One E COLOR Challenge io White Fang E COLOR Great savings! Sportswear sale. 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Taylor St. Committee okays LEAA funds split ATLANTA (AP) - A plan for dividing $1.69 million in federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funds in the Georgia judicial system has been approved by the state’s Judicial Planning Committee. The committee was created last year after judicial officers from across the nation com plained they did not have enough influence in the dis tribution of LEAA funds. Other states have similar committees. The Georgia committee sent its recommendations to the Georgia State Crime Commis sion. The recommendations will be reviewed April 25 and are expected to be approved, a spokeswoman for the com mittee said Friday. This division of the funds was recommended: —About sl.lß million for ad ministrative court services, in- Page 3 — Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 16,1977 eluding money for the State Ju dicial Council, administrative district offices, law clerks for Superior Court judges, assistant district attorneys, investigators and special prosecutors. -About $167,000 for judicial training programs at the Judi- HrrffS ‘■‘i GREENHOUSE 118 Wisso Road Griffin 228-8300 ( • Good selection of bedding plants ( • Begonias and geraniums \ • Variety of hanging baskets • Tomatoes ) II ~ Open 4:00 P.M. Weekdays \ Hours Open: A || Day Saturday and Sunday ( Jackson Highway East, Bft Miles, Turn Right On Wisso I Rd. First House On Right. cial College of Georgia, and $40,000 for training prosecutors. —A total of $312,000 for crimi nal justice information proj ects, including new records sys tems and docket programs to reduce the paperwork of court clerks.
