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Newspaper Page TextPage 8 Griffin daily news. Texas team caps North Sea ‘blowout’ By PAUL TREUTHARDT Associated Press Writer STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — A Texas well-capping team today stopped the eight-day-old geyser of oil that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the North Sea, but officials said crucial steps remained before the well would be “killed.” “We have confirmation that the rams have closed off the well and are holding,” a Phillips spokesman told reporters. “The team is now bolting a four-ton safety valve on top of the assembly.” Rams are metal discs which close together in the pipe to stop the flow. They shut off the flow while the huge stopper is attached. Mud from a nearby barge is then pumped into the hole via a hose. When the pressure of the well reaches zero, it can be officially described as killed. “We are not completely out of danger until the process Is completed and we have pumped Hussein spends night in Mansion ATLANTA (AP) - King Hus sein of Jordan spent Friday night at the Georgia governor’s mansion as he began a two-day visit to President Carter’s home state. The Georgia trip follows a formal state visit with Carter in Washington earlier in the week. The U.S. State Department said Hussein often tours a country after making formal visits. Hussein was scheduled to fly to St. Simons Island off the Georgia coast late today after speaking in Atlanta to the Southern Council on Inter national Affairs, a group of businessmen and academicians interested in foreign affairs. Hussein’s Georgia trip was labeled "private" by the State Department. While at the governor’s man- CATFISH CABIN Highway 16 East Jackson Road Griffin, Ga. 228-7620 All You Can Eat Friday Night FRIED SHRIMP (Ret. $4.95) ’3’s Saturday Night BOILED SHRIMP ’3’s Monday Night FROOLEOS ’3’s Sunday Sunday Luncheon (l-plate servings) s|9s H«in: M«i.-Sxl. 5-11 P.M. Sunday 12 Noon-10 P.M. : Johnny's Green Thumb i ! FRESH VEGETABLES 227-0116 ■ Two Locations For All Your Flint Needs ■ No. 1. No. 2. Experiment Street ’ 1222 Dewey Lane Beside Parris Radiator Shop • (Just Above Oak Hill Church) Across From Ace Hardware * Salo on everything Ml Types Plants and Hanging Baskets ■ 2 "Eoorobody Knows Johnny!” k——a—................a.A mud down the well to kill it,” said spokesman C. W. Lane said. “But I see plenty of smiles around our offices.” Oil had been spurting more than 60 feet in the air from the runaway Bravo 14 well, oper ated by Phillips Petroleum Co. 168 miles southwest of here. Four attempts to plug the well Thursday and Friday failed when clamps closed off the flow for a few seconds only to be forced open by the pressure, estimated to be 4,000 pounds per square inch. The flow was shut off at 6:05 a.m. EDT today after gushing since 5:30 p.m. April 22. It spilled about 1.2 million gallons of oil a day for a total of about 8.23 million gallons. The spill created a 70-by 60- mile oil slick in the North Sea but officials said some of the oil evaporated or was broken up by wave action and there was little ecological damage thus far. Famed Texas well-killer Paul ’’Red” Adair arrived here Fri- sion, he was to meet with for mer Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former South Carolina Gov. John C. West whom Carter has appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Georgia Gov. George Busbee. Rusk is one of Carter’s infor mal foreign policy advisers. Hussein landed Friday at Dobbins Air Force Base north of Atlanta and was accompanied by Thomas Pickering, ambassador to Jordan, and Dot Padgett of Douglasville, Ga., deputy chief of protocol for the State Department. Comedian nabbed in drug raid LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Comedian George Kirby was one of nine persons arrested here in a narcotics raid by the Las Vegas Police Department and the federal Drug Enforce ment Administration, author ities said. The agents who seized the drugs on Friday said they were worth $500,000 on the street. The drugs included two pounds of cocaine, a pound and a half of pure heroin and narcotics paraphernalia. Kirby, 52, who appears in Las Vegas at hotel showrooms on the Strip, has been under inves tigation for several months, po lice said. Kirby and a 40-year-old com panion, Mary Clay, alias Merry Christmas, were charged with selling the heroin to a federal undercover agent. Agents made arrests at the Kirby home and at three other locations and broke through iron gates at some addresses, police said. Slick breaking up off Florida keys MIAMI (AP) —A 60-mile long oil slick floating just miles from Florida Keys beaches and the continent’s only living coral reefs was slowly breaking up today, the Coast Guard said. Wave action was helping to dissipate the oil, said Coast Guard spokesman Bill Acuff. Coast Guard officials were opti mistic that the remnants of the slick would drift out to sea and away from the Florida Keys, he said. day afternoon to give support to his technical team on the rig. He spent the night aboard the barge Choctaw 11, a few yards from the oil platform. He was believed to have been aboard the rig when the capping operation began. Adair was working with col leages “Boots” Hansen and Richard “Toots” Hatteberg as well as a crew from Phillips. Adair said he had seen “a lot bigger and rougher” wells and predicted Friday the Bravo 14 gusher would be stopped in a few days. The Phillips spokesman said rams that were reworked in Stavanger were used to staunch the gushing oil and gas that was escaping at supersonic speeds from the well 10,000-feet deep in the seabed. He said new reinforced “blind rams,” were en route from California but had not arrived. Two types of rams had been tried. Pipe rams to reduce the flow of oil so that the stopper could be put in place and blind rams that shut off the flow completely. The pipe rams failed Friday and previous attempts with the blind rams also had been un successful in stopping the gush er. The operation is similar to placing a nozzle on a spurting garden hose. Congregation to discuss its future PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - The faded sign says “Plains Churches Welcome You, Bap tists, Lutherans, Methodists.” But on Friday, some mem bers of Plains Baptist Church, of which President Jimmy Car ter was a member, gathered at a meeting to discuss their future with the congregation and outsiders were not welcome. Attending were members who opposed the ouster of the Rev. Bruce Edwards in February. Discussion at previous gather ings of the same group has fo cused on the possibility of forming another congregation. Reporters were barred from the meeting and church mem ber Tim Lawson said no state ment would be issued. “We’re kind of in a fishbowl to the world here and sometimes things get blown out of proportion,” Lawson said. The Rev. Edwards tod report ers, “I’m not sure what’s going to be said. I just know they asked me to attend.” Asked if the meeting would center on the proposed creation of a new church, he said, “I’ll be sur prised if it isn’t.” The Rev. Edwards resigned as pastor of the church follow ing dissension over the admit tance of blacks to the congrega tion. President Carter, who now belongs to a Baptist church in Washington, had supported the pastor’s position. “All the conditions are favor able for that right now,” he said. “It’s stationary and if it moves at all later, we think it will move away from the Keys.” The oil was located about seven miles from the nearest shore, but only two miles from some off-shore reefs of live cor al. The amount of oil involved was not estimated. Rear Adm. Robert W. Durfey, commander of the 7th Coast Guard District, said Friday that if the oil “reaches the beaches there’s always the possibility of significant damage to reefs and shores ... we would have a major problem.” Meanwhile, Coast Guard planes searched northwest to ward New Orleans and north east, up the Florida coast, col lecting information on all tank ers moving away from the spill. The slick was believed to be diesel fuel mixed with detergent that is used when ships wash out their tanks. Using “oil fingerprinting,” experts can compare oil from a spill with oil from ships known to have been in the area of the spill. Economy perking up, economists say WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov ernment economists say the economy is perking up, but con sumer food prices are increas ing faster than expected while the prices farmers get for raw products rose for the fifth con secutive month. Food prices may average 4 to 6 per cent higher this year than last, the Agriculture Depart ment said Friday. It put the blame mostly on higher coffee prices and a winter freeze that damaged citrus crops. The department’s Crop Re porting Board also said prices farmers receive for raw prod ucts rose 1.5 per cent from OPEN DAILY 1M0; SUNDAY M SAT., SON., MON., TUES., WED. i • T z-T fz 1 Lz ■ 2 FIBERGLASS BELTS + 2 POLYESTER CORD PLIES SIZES RE6. 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Officials originally forecast a food price increase this year of 4 or 5 per cent, compared with a 3.1 per cent increase last year, 8.5 per cent in 1975 and 14.5 per cent the two previous years. The new expectation of a 4 to 6 per cent increase “reflects the uncertainty about coffee and imported foods” which will account for more than half of the increase, officials said. Higher prices for soy beans, cattle, oranges and potatoes ac counted for most of the increase in farm prices. Lower prices were reported for vegetables, hogs, eggs, cotton and com. Overall, farm prices were up 2 per cent from April 16, 1976, officials said. In other economic news: —The Senate approved a tax cut averaging sl2l a year for 47 million couples or individuals by raising the standard deduction. The measure, approved 73 to 7, simplifies tax forms to allow almost all Americans to fill out their federal income taxes without worrying about math ematical errors. —The House Budget Com mittee approved a new budget blueprint designed to unite Democrats on defense spending i and avoid having the funding legislation tied up. The com mittee restored S3OO million to the defense budget after initial ly recommending that it be trimmed by $2.3 billion.