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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 24, 1977
Busbee, Edwards ‘well on way’
to settling boundry dispute
ATLANTA (AP) - The long
dispute over which state owns
what in the Savannah River
area may be decided without
going to court, the governors of
South Carolina and Georgia
said Monday.
South Carolina Gov. James B.
Edwards and Gov. George
Busbee of Georgia and their
staffs met for about an hour at a
motel near the Atlanta airport
and reached tentative
agreement on enforcement of
fishing laws in the river.
Both said they were “well on
the way to settling...once and
for all’’ the boundary dispute,
but indicated that no sustantial
agreements had been reached
Monday.
At issue is the exact place
ment of the state line in the Sa
vannah River and its direction
out into the Atlantic Ocean.
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The direction it takes out to
sea is important because alter
ing the angle could add or sub
tract potentially valuable oil
production ocean bottom to ei
ther state.
A voluntary agreement be
tween the states could end the
matter with ratification by Con
gress. Disagreement between
the states would send the mat
ter to the U.S. Supreme Court
for resolution.
Edwards and Busbee said
they agreed tentatively on how
to protect sport and commercial
fishermen in the Savannah
River from confusion while the
boundary is in dispute
fishermen will be governed by
the laws of whichever state they
return to when their fishing is
done.
Fishing laws differ in the two
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Georgia Governor George Bus bee (left) and South
Carolina Governor James B. Edwards tell a news con
ference in Atlanta Monday that they have come to a
tentative agreement on the enforcement of fishing laws on
the Savannah River and feel the two states can settle the
old boundary dispute out of court. (AP)
states—Georgia has a higher
catch limit for some species
than South Carolina, and per
mits fishing in some areas
banned by the neighboring
state.
The fish and game agencies in
AGNEW WATCHES
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - It
seems that time has run out on
the Spiro Agnew watch.
A family firm which cop
yrighted the watch stopped
making it about four years ago.
No more will be made.
In early 1970, Dr. and Mrs.
Hale Dougherty and their 10
children hired a graduate art
student to draw a caricature of
the former vice president. They
copyrighted the design and
were soon boxing and shipping
Agnew watches.
The Doughertys have kept
sales figures secret but a pub
lished estimate reported sales
of 100,000 in the first year. De
mand spurted again in 1973
when Agnew resigned.
“The people who have been
buying them for the last two
years or so are strictly collec
tors,” said Larry Dougherty,
23, general manager of the
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both states will be asked to
review the proposal and coordi
nate its implementation, both
governors said.
The boundary was first estab
lished in 1787 at the center of the
Savannah River, but at least
three disputes have occurred
since then. The legislatures of
both states have authorized
appeals to the U.S. Supreme
Court if the current dispute is
not settled.
South Carolina claims a topo
graphical map drawn in 1971 by
the U.S. Geological Survey gave
Georgia an area long con
sidered part of South Carolina,
including several uninhabited
islands in the river. In addition,
the map extends the Georgia
border northwestward into the
Atlantic Ocean, giving Georgia
more ocean territory than it had
in the past, South Carolina
contends.
Georgia argues that the
course of the river was changed
over the years by man-made
flood control projects, and says
the unwritten law is that the line
doesn’t change if a river is
altered by man.
Gov. Busbee
seeks aid
for shrimpers
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov.
George Busbee has asked Pres
ident Carter to declare six
coastal Georgia counties a ma
jor disaster area because of
damage done to the state’s
shrimp crop by last winter’s se
verely cold weather.
Busbee made the request
Monday, telling the President
more than 1,260 persons in
Bryan, Camden, Chatham,
Glynn, Mclntosh and Liberty
counties have been affected by
the reduced shrimp crop.
Economic damage to the six
counties will total at least $8.7
million in 1977, he said, adding
that if the shrimp crop is not
replenished by the fall as ex
pected, the damaged could total
S2O million.
Busbee announced last week
he would ask for the disaster
declaration after the state
closed its coastal waters to
shrimping with power drawn
nets. The shrimping ban was
imposed after tests showed
nearly no shrimp.
State assistance centers have
been set up in Savannah,
Brunswick, Woodbine, Darien
and Richmond Hill to help out
of-work shrimpers obtain job
placement assistance, unem
ployment benefits and food
stamps.
“It is beyond the capabilities
of the state and affected local
governments to effectively alle
viate the existing situation,”
Busbee told Carter.
He said he had been told a
disaster declaration would be
necessary before shrimpers
could receive loan assistance
from the federal Small Business
Administration.
FAITH IN A CITY
DETROIT (AP) — The city’s
Jewish population is forming a
Jewish congregation in the
downtown area almost within
the shadow of the new $337-rnil
lion Renaissance Center.
And in the ecumenical spirit,
Rev. John Nader, pastor of Old
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, has
offered rent-free use of school
buildings nearby for their syna
gogue.
Toby Citrin, a Detroit attor
ney and spokesman for the
group, said that “by forming a
congregation in downtown De
troit, we’re saying we have
roots here. Our ancestors lived
and worshipped here, and we
feel a close relationship with
the city as a melting pot of hu
manity and that we’re tied to
its future.”
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Motion to disqualify
Judge Langford continues
LAKELAND, Ga. (AP) - A
senior Atlanta circuit judge tes
tified Monday he urged the se
lection of Judge John S. Lang
ford of Atlanta to be the sixth
judge to hear the trial of a black
man accused of killing a white
Georgia police chief.
Judge Sam Phillips McKenzie
testified during the first day of a
hearing on a motion to dis
qualify Langford, who was ap
pointed by Gov. George Busbee,
to hear the case against Henry
Willis.
Willis and two other men, all
of whom are black, were ac
cused of killing Ray City Police
Chief Ed Giddens in 1976.
Five previous judges were re
moved or disqualified them
selves from the case.
Defense attorney Millard
Farmer has filed numerous
pretrial motions since the case
entered court nine months ago,
including challenges to the
qualifications of the judges.
Farmer told Superior Court
Judge W. G. Elliot of Valdosta,
who is hearing motions seeking
to remove Langford, that Bus
bee did not have the power to
appoint the Atlanta judge to a
particular case.
He also argued that Busbee
illegally terminated Langford’s
predecessor, Judge Dunbar
Harrison of Savannah, who was
replaced after he expressed
personal feelings of bias against
blacks.
An aide to Busbee has said
Harrison withdrew from the
case.
McKenzie testified Monday
that a spokesman for the gover
nor called him and asked him to
name one of the 11 Atlanta
circuit judges to the case. He
said he then approached Lang
ford about “an assignment.”
Also during Monday’s hear
ing, Farmer charged that the
prosecution is to blame for the
extraordinary length of time
taken for the case because it is
seeking the death penalty for all
three defendants.
But Dist. Atty. Vickers Neu-
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