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.
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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
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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.
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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
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singer will receive the 1976 In
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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.
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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-
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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 16,1977
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Superior Court judges, assistant
district attorneys, investigators
and special prosecutors.
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