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Newspaper Page Text‘We want to stay alive’ ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP) - Captive children chanted “We want to stay alive!” today as South Moluccan extremists holding more than 160 hostages again threatened to kill them if the Dutch government did not meet their demands. A deadline for death passed without apparent incident, however. Two hours before the deadline at 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EDT), several children were brought to the windows of the village school in nearby Bo vensmilde where they have been held for two days. They cried out in unison, Daily Since 1872 4l * M/ ■ . w I «? •. *' mBBHI :«••' ,»«#’* Political bubble? WASHINGTON — Rep. Walter Flowers, D-Ala., blows bubble gum and has It burst on his face while playing in the second annual Congressional Marbles Tournament Tuesday in Washington. (AP) Federal rules likely to hike utility rates “Federal regulations are getting to te point where anybody’s crazy to run >r elected office, crazy to be city tanager and crazy to head the water nd sewerage department," Mnmented City Manager Roy Inman. He made the statement during a udget hearing following Tuesday ight’s city commission meeting, iman had just read penalties of assible 1 and 2 year imprisonments nd up to $50,000 per day fines for city aders violating Environmental protection Agency regulations Lnceming pollution and waste water leatment. Harry Simmors, head of the water nd sewerage department, met with the Immissioners and told them the city Ls to do something about changing its pter and sewerage rate structure. The Lange will mean “tremendous creases" for both the home and Immercial user, he said. |L3 arrested in drug bust ■Griffin police, Spalding Sheriff’s Bpartment drug investigators and Borgia Bureau of Investigation agents Booped down on 11 homes during the Bht and arrested 13 people for Kpected drug violations. Bfost were charged with selling Brijuana. Heroin and phencyclidine Bo were involved. Some stolen Bperty was found in the searches, Bmen said. Bhe raids started around 9 o’clock Besday night and ended at Broximately 4 o’clock this morning. GRIFFIN “We want to stay alive, Van Agt.” Andries van Agt is the Dutch justice minister and the top government strategist in dealing with the gunmen. Six gunmen were holding 105 children and six teachers in the school. Seven other terrorists, one believed to be a woman, were holding at least 55 hos tages on a hijacked train stopped in the middle of open pastureland 10 miles north of here. Earlier today the Asian militants spoke with senior Dutch officials by telephone for an hour, rejected a government appeal for release of the “You’ve got to do something. Since the federal government has gotten in, you’re going to have costs you never dreamed of. The city is faced with higher rates that I wouldn’t want to predict,” he said. The federal act requires that cities meet certain water quality standards and EPA has told Griffin that instead of charging a flat rate for sewerage, users must be charged by the number of gallons put into the waste treatment systems. Everybody’s waste will be measured and the rates must produce money to finance the costs of maintaining and operating the sewerage facilities, he said. Sewerage costs more than water, he added. More money will be needed to correct sewerage treatment plants at Cabin Creek and Shoal Creek which are not up to standard. Also, present lines will have to be repaired. The Potato Creek plant which was One arrest was made at 8:15 this morning and more arrests are expected, when the suspects can be located, police said. According to Lt. Glen Whidby, who heads the police department’s narcotics division, his department had asked that GBI undercover narcotics agents be sent to Griffin. An undisclosed number arrived in April and have been working in Griffin and Spalding County buying illegal drugs in (Continued on page three.) Captive children chant children and repeated their threat to shoot hostages. The gunmen, members of an im migrant community from the former Dutch colony of the South Moluccan Islands, now part of Indonesia, were demanding release of 21 jailed coun trymen and a jumbo jet flight, with hostages, from Amsterdam to an un disclosed destination. Some South Moluccans are serving terms in Dutch jails for using political violence in the past in fruitless at tempts to force the Dutch government to help them win independence from Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, May 25, 1977 More rain was in the forecast for the Griffin area tonight and Thursday after .88 of an inch was recorded here Tuesday. Spalding County with other sections of the state has been suffering from the lack of rain in recent weeks. Gardens have stopped growing and farmers were beginning to hurt because of the unusually dry weather. The forecast for more rain was encouraging to most fanners and citizens in the area. More rain, however, will be needed to bail out the area and state from one of its worse droughts in recent years. The Associated Press reported: Despite the rains of Tuesday and more predicted for today, Georgia remains dryer than usual, and farmers need more rain to bring the state’s estimated to cost $1.7-million ended up costing $2.4-million or some SBOO,OOO more. Inman blamed the increase to federal regulations, including standards set by the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA), which assures safe working conditions, and the Davis-Bacon Act, which sets pay scales cities must follow for construction jobs. He also said federal officials told the city to build polishing ponds at the Potato Creek plant. After they were excavated, the city was told they were inadequate and filters would have to be added, Inman continued. Also regulations state that users outside the city cannot be charged more than those inside the city, as is presently done, Simmons said. The city must follow the 201 facilities plan and upgrade and build facilities (Continued on page three.) Area gets good soaking People ...and things Sign on church playground: Angels playing — drive with care. Co-worker to fellow employe just back from Panama City vacation: “What’d you catch?” Quick answer, “Lotta sleep.” Burly truck driver pulling rig up along side another vehicle at traffic light, glancing at young girl driving, then watching as she drags off in flash, leaving him almost sitting still. Indonesia for their homeland. “If you dare not to meet our demands ... we will not hesitate or bluff to shoot down a number of hostages for your pleasure,” the terrorists said in a letter to Dutch authorities that was released Tuesday. The government refused to discuss any deals unless the schoolchildren were released first. But, said Justice Ministry spokeswoman Toos Faber, “The terrorists see the children as their ace in the hole, their safeguard.” She described the negotiations, conducted crops back to normal, officials report. “There is quite a bit of moisture being brought into the state from the Atlantic” because of a low pressure system sprawled across Florida and Georgia, said George Rippen of the National Weather Service in Atlanta. The dry weather of the past two weeks, which had halted the planting of some crops last week, has virtually ended, he said. Rippen said Georgia will receive more rain within the next 24 hours, but the state still is drier than normal. “Seven and three-quarters inches of rain will put us back to normal,” he said. “I don’t think we want all of that at one time, because that would cause some problems. But a good inch or two of rain right now will help farmers and lawns and things like that.” The Country Parson by Frank Clark 4iHp JS J “Experience teaches you how to do a thing after you no longer need to know.” Griffin merchants open Memorial Day promotions Almost 60 businesses will participate in the Memorial Day promotion May 26- 30. Members of the Merchants Associa tion have been planning the special event for several weeks. Merchants will feature all sorts of holiday type sales as an invitation to people in this area to shop Griffin stores for bargains. Participating in the special promotion will be the following: Rhodes Furniture Co., Kinney Shoes, Byron’s California Concept, Cedric’s Fish & Chips, Eleanor Shops, Randall & Blakely, Inc., Mayfield Motors, Sutton’s, Toyota of Griffin, Southern States Printing Co. The Bonnie Shop, The Diana Shop, Griffin Office Supply, Beaty Auto Parts, Inc., Easterwood’s Shoes, by telephone, as courteous and “busi nesslike.” The tension eased noticeably in Bovensmilde as the deadline passed with no sign of violence in the school building. Police who had been jumpy earlier simply sat down in the shade with their carbines and made no effort to stop reporters or other passers-by. The gunmen, who seized the school and train in twin attacks Monday, also threatened killings if mediation was at tempted, if authorities did not meet the deadline or if there were reprisals against other South Moluccans living in Vol. 105 No. 123 Light rain and isolated thun dershowers were spread across central and eastern Georgia Tuesday. Farmers, meanwhile, faced other problems as well. Black shank is damaging the south Georgia tobacco crop and growers could suffer serious losses, said Jim Arnett of the Georgia Extension Ser vice. The disease, which destroys tobacco plants, is a soilborn fungus which first strikes the root system, then moves up the stem, turning it black. Cotton farmers, however, are planting more because of a rise in cotton prices. “Farmers are influenced most by prices received in the preplanting season, which is usually the first quarter of the calendar year,” the Bond issue panel formed Mrs. Donald K. Boggs has been named chairman of a steering committee which will push approval of a school bond issue in November. Mrs. John Carlisle was elected treasurer-finance chairman. Representatives of CARE, League of Women Voters, N.A.A.C.P. and the Utility Club attended the organizational meeting. The group’s goal is to work with the Griffin-Spalding Board of Education in informing people about the need for a Crouch’s, Coates Foreign Car Service, Griffin Sales & Service, Inc., The Plant Emporium, Wynne’s Jewelers. Cole’s Drugs, Jester’s Car Sales, The Furniture Shop, Purser Furniture Co., Cronic Chevrolet, Inc., Kmart, Ralph’s Take Home Kentucky Fried Chicken, Carpets of Griffin, Whitmire Jewelers, Safety director gets married Public Safety Director Leonard Pitts was not at the city commission meeting Tuesday night, as he usually is. He was on his honeymoon. He and Barbara Ann Pierce were married in a private ceremony during the weekend. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Variable cloudiness tonight and Thursday with chance of showers. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit *l, high Tuesday 88, rainfall .88 of an inch. Holland. A leader of the Moluccan community in the Netherlands, Dr. Theo Kuhuwael, a 63-yearold educator and civil servant, began a voluntary mediation effort Tuesday night. Officials said he had “orientation” meetings with local Moluccans but no immediate contact with the gunmen. As Dutch voters went to the polls for national elections today, Prime Minister Joop Den Uyl conferred with Van Agt and other key ministers in The Hague. Federal Bank of Atlanta said. Prices in that time were 60 per cent above the 1975 low. Despite the recent drought, county extension agents report the corn crop is in mostly fair condition. Tobacco was reported fair to good with irrigation in use where equipment was available. Cotton, peanuts and soybeans were rated fair to good, although soybean planting had been virtually halted. Scattered harvesting of small grains is underway, with hay reported in poor to fair condition. Peaches were reported mostly fair to good with some reports of sizing problems. Harvesting was 10 per cent complete. Apples and watermelons were reported in mostly fair to good con dition. new high school and renovations at the ninth grade and present Griffin High campuses. Mrs. Robert Langford, public information chairman for the school board, and Administrative Assistant Gene Kirbow attended the session. Mrs. Langford said tax money could not be used in a campaign for the bond issue. The committee plans a fund raising drive for money with which to promote the bond issue. Hensley Office Equipment Co., Inc. Mobile Telephone & Pager, Inc., Jones-Harrison Furniture Co., Cain’s, Sigman Buick-Opel, Inc., Akins Feed & Seed Store, Maxwell’s Home Furnishings, Hill’s Tire Store, Tonkin Casuals, Jim Pridgen Hardware Co., Griffin Hardware Co. Friedman’s Jewelers, Sears, Collins’ Men’s & Boy’s Wear, Bishop’s Clothing Store, Smith Roberts Co., Morrow Powell Clothing Co., Goode-Nichols Furniture Co., Cartledge Furniture, Buy-Rite, Godard’s Clothing Co. Griffin Daily News, First Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Griffin Federal Savings It Loan Assn., wgri, whie, wkeu, First National Bank of Griffin, The Bank of Griffin, Commercial Bank it Trust Co.