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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 24, 1977
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Appointed
Rear Adm. Warren C. Hamm,
Jr., was appointed as the senior
delegate to the Korean Military
Armistice Commission by the
United Nations Command
Monday. Hamm replaces Major
General John K. Singlaud, who
was removed by President
Carter last Saturday for
publicly “criticizing” Carter’s
plan to pull American ground
troops out of Korea. (AP)
Laurens
getting
police
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) - The
Laurens County commissioners
say the county may have a po
lice force by next week.
Commission Chairman Billy
Lovett said Monday the force
would handle some of Sheriff W.
R. "Rock" Bussell’s duties.
The commissioners met to
discuss reports of questionable
activities by the sheriff, but did
not ask Gov. George Busbee for
an investigation.
The questions about the sher
iff arose from a story in The
Macon News, which quoted
county jail prisoners as saying
they had worked on the sheriff’s
800-acre farm while serving jail
terms.
“We consider this to be a very
serious thing, something that
needs further investigation,"
Lovett said Monday.
“The taxpayers of this county
are housing and feeding these
prisoners and they ought not to
be allowed to work on anyone’s
property, let alone the sher
iff’s,” Lovett said.
The paper, which published
the story Saturday, said the
sheriff confirmed that he did
use prisoners on his farm.
However, Sunday, Bussell de
nied he ever allowed inmates to
work on his farm. He also de
nied telling reporters that in
mates had worked there.
“We stand behind our story,"
said Frank Caperton, executive
editor of The Macon Telegraph
and News. “Two reporters in
terviewed Sheriff Bussell and
reported what he said."
Cotton
planting
increases
ATLANTA (AP) - Agricul
ture observers are expecting
greater cotton plantings this
spring because of a rise in cot
ton prices, the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta says.
In its May-June “Economic
Review," the bank said cotton
prices in late 1976 and early 1977
were 60 per cent above the
March 1975 low.
“Farmers are influenced
most by prices received in the
preplanting season, which is
usually the first quarter of the
calendar year," the publication
said.
The bank said movements in
first-quarter prices are more
closely related to changes in
planted acreage than are an
nual price fluctuations.
An April survey of planting
intentions showed that cotton
acreage would increase in only
three of the six states in the
bank’s Sixth District, officials
said, but many farmers may
change their minds before plan
tings have been completed.
The Sixth District includes
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and
parts of Tennessee, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
The bank said conservative
estimates of worldwide cotton
plantings project an increase of
nearly 1.5 million acres in 1977.
Bank officials predicted a
“sizeable" economic impact on
the Southeast if planted cotton
acreage in the region rises sub
stantially.
Soviets loved the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
By SETH MYDANS
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - The Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band, the first
American rock group to tour the
Soviet Union, ended their visit
with a concert that had a
Moscow audience cheering,
whistling and yelling for more.
“At the end we had them
bouncing in their seats, which
made us feel really good,” pia
nist-guitarist Jackie Robinson
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Clark said after Monday’s con
cert.
“We don’t have anything like
this here,” a teen-aged girl said.
“Ours are all about the spring
or the snow, or they’re patriotic
songs.”
The Dirt Band played a bright
foot-stomping blend of country,
blue grass and rock for 80,000
Soviets during a three-week
tour under a U.S.Soviet cultural
program sponsored by the U.S.
State Department.
Group members said au
dience reactions varied
throughout the tour from Riga
to Tbilisi to Yerevan to Lenin
grad.
In Riga, the audience sat re
spectfully throughout the con
cert. “I thought we had bomb
ed," said Hanna. But at the end
the auditorium exploded in 20
minutes of applause.
In Yerevan, 6,000 fans
clapped and danced inside while
15,000 without tickets surged
against the gates outside where
a teargas grenade was thrown.
In Leningrad, police ringed
the stage to keep away the fans.
Bearded banjo player John
McEuen said when people rose
from their seats they were told
to sit down.
In Moscow several young men
and women ran on stage with
flowers in the Russian tradition,
embarrassing bandsmen with
kisses.
Tickets sold for up to $8 —a
day’s pay for many Russians —
and reportedly went for up to
six times that amount on the
black market.
Many Russians, who have
plenty of rubles but little to
spend them on, were glad to
pay. A large share of seats went
to families of officials and
audiences were composed of
many middle-aged people.
“I wish we’d had the oppor-
tunity to play to more young
people,” said lead guitarist Jef
frey Hanna. “I know there’s a
big rock ’n’ roll audience out
there.”
“It was definitely worthwhile
to come here and put a dent in
the door for American music,”
McEuen said.
It is a door that has been
opening gradually since the
1960 s when the first carefully
controlled Soviet groups were
allowed to perform.
“Our kids know all about
American rock,” one Soviet
said. Many have learned about
American rock from foreign
broadcasts and there has long
been a lively black market in
rock records and tapes.
BOOK ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK (AP) - Ann
Heidbreder Eastman was
recently elected president of
the Women’s National Book As
sociation, a professional organ
ization of women and men in
the book world. Ms. Eastman is
director of Admissions at Chat
ham College in Pennsylvania.
