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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1977)
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Nearby, city work crews labored Dutch cut phones to terrorists groups ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities have cut the telephone link between two groups of South Moluccan terrorists and strung barbed wire around a school where they are holding hostages. But the Dutch reported no progress in negotiations Sunday night with the 11 armed extremists who hold 59 hostages in the school and a train 10 miles away. The government’s telephone lines to the school and the train remained in operation. The Justice Ministry said the Moluccans continue to demand the release of 21 compatriots imprisoned for previous terrorist offenses and a jumbo jet to fly all of them out of the country. “Their demands remain the same as at the beginning of the terror actions, DAILV#\i:WS Daily Since 1872 during the morning service to stop the gushing water from a pipe on Mace street which also had been struck. It was the last sermon for the Rev. Richard Comb, pastor. He left after the service to return to Missouri where he is a member of that Methodist conference. The North Georgia Conference will assign a new minister to the Highland and Pomona churches when it meets in June in Atlanta. and the two sides have not come any closer to each other,” a Justice Minis try spokesman said. The Moluccans, who demand in dependence from Indonesia for their ancestral islands in the former Dutch East Indies, have indicated they also want to take hostages with them out of the country. The government says it will not agree to that. Dr. A.J. Fonteijn, a senior Justice Ministry official, said 1,200 soldiers and hundreds of state police were surrounding the school at Bovensmilde and the train, which is sitting on a track in open farmland north of Assen. The government installed the phone hookup early in the siege, which began last Monday when the terrorists seized the train and school in simultaneous operations in the northern Netherlands. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, May 30, 1977 Busbee names Miller District Attorney Ben Miller of Thomaston has been appointed to the newly created judgeship in the Griffin Judicial Circuit. He will assume the office July 1 and take the oath a few days before that. Gov. George Busbee announced the appointment today. The governor said he would not fill the district attorney vacancy until he returns from a 3-week trip to Europe. Paschal English of Thomaston is the assistant district attorney. The Griffin Circuit includes the counties of Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Upson. Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., of Griffin is the other judge in the circuit. The two judges will share the case load in the circuit. The Georgia General Assembly created the second judgeship in its 1977 session. The heavy case load in the circuit prompted the legislative delegations of the counties involved to ask for an additional judge. Miller was appointed District Attorney July 1, 1969, and has won elections to the post 3 times. A native of Richland in Stewart County, Miller, 41, graduated from Richland High School and spent a year at North Georgia College in Dahlonega. He transferred to the University of Georgia where he earned a BS degree in business administration in 1958. He served his military obligation with the National Guard. Miller was in the contracting business from 1959-62. He entered the Lumpkin School of Law at the University of Georgia in 1962 and completed requirements for a law degree in March, 1965. He passed the state bar exam that year. Entering private practice with the Thomaston law firm of Adams and Barfield, Miller was made a partner Jan. 1, 1966 and the firm became Adams, Barfield and Miller. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, and the Griffin Judicial Circuit Bar Association. He is a member and former chairman of the Georgia Council of Prosecuting Attorneys and a member and former president of the District Attorneys Association of Georgia. Miller is a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Thomaston. He is married to the former Sandra Johnson of Columbus. They have 6 children, Brighte, 13, Laney, 12, Rachel, 10, Carolyn, 8, Ben, Jr., 7 and John, 3. He serves the great and the humble his specialties Peter Jeng’s prowess with Chinese recipes often gets him calls to cook special meals for governors, visiting consulates and other high government officials. He operates a restaurant in Griffin but frequently gets calls to come to Atlanta for special occasions. His skill has resulted in his catering dinners for the Consulate General of the Republic of China in Atlanta, his former home, and for many diplmatic guests. He has catered several meals for Jimmy Carter since 1972 and cooked something special for him just before he was elected President. Gov. George Busbee knows of his ability and sometimes calls for special food when he entertains visitors in Atlanta. Jeng has operated Chinatown Restaurant here several months. “It’s exactly Chinese food,” he said. He learned it in a restaurant in Shangahi when he worked there as a boy of 12. He was there 3 weeks but Jeng makes kitchen sing Fire death toll climbs to 160 SOUTHGATE, Ky. (AP) - The parking lot at the Beverly Hills Supper Club is still crowded. Scores of cars sit as silent sentinels for the people who never drove away. As recovery efforts resumed today, 159 bodies had been pulled from the charred ruins where a fire Saturday night had panicked 3,500 to 5,000 par tying patrons. One other person died later at a hospital, raising the toll to 160. Club burned quickly. Page 10 “We’re bringing in an additional crane to search, but all reports are there are there are no more bodies,” the mayor of Southgate said today. “We have found no more clothing or per sonal belongings.” On Sunday, Fire Chief Dick Riesenberg had said he didn’t think any more bodies would be found, but rescue supervisor Jim Lanagan said he feared more victims still lay under the rubble. Richard Schilling, who owns the club with his brother and father, said today he would have no comment on the fire. “All we are trying to do is cooperate as much as possible,” he said. The disaster left relatives weeping at an armory-turnedmorgue and officials talking about inadequate safety laws. Many survivors said they thought the electricity failed. They said the club was pitched into darkness shortly after the fire became known. A local po liceman said when he arrived at the club, he saw no lights, including exit lights. “As best as I can remember, when I got there at 9:30 there wasn’t a light inside or out,” said patrolman Tom Rebercomb of neighboring Fort Thomas, Ky. “The big light out front was out. It was the first time I could remember it being out.” Campbell County Coroner Fred Stine said more than 130 people had been hospitalized for burns or smoke inhalation. The bodies, many of them uncovered after a crane lifted parts of the collapsed roof, were ferried to the armory in Fort Thomas on military trucks. Early in the effort, the trucks had to pick their way through traffic jams on the narrow quarter-mile path from the club, high atop a bluff across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Later Sunday, they bounced past begrimed, exhausted firefighters catching naps on the ground. During early rescue efforts, learned the business quickly. He laughingly pointed to the end of his finger which he cut very badly when the chef hit him while he was slicing food with a big knife. Jeng now handles these same type knives in an exhibition of cutting skills which hardly require his looking at the food at all. After three weeks of intense work in the restaurant and many years of suffering under communist China rule, Jeng made it to the United States to presently work between Griffin and Denver, Colorado. But prior to coming to America Jeng had to forsake his parents and friends in China. He was on the run for four years trying to keep away from the communist regime in Red China. He knows that one of his brothers was decapitated when the communists took over China in the pre-World War II period. He never saw or heard from his (Continued on page three.) Vol. 105 No. 127 Southgate Mayor Ken Paul had to ask police to guard the bodies. “Can you believe it, we caught people taking stuff off those dead people,” Paul said. Three persons were arrested. There was no water sprinkler system in the club. Such systems were not made mandatory until after 1970, when the club was rebuilt following another fire. Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll and Mayor Paul said at the site Sunday that the law should be made retroactive to include all public places. Carroll said he would lead an in vestigation, “So we can, my God, see that it never happens again.” The fire apparently began at about 9 p.m., starting in the basement of the three-story brick building then breaking through the floor of the Zebra Room, one of several rooms and alcoves used for private parties. Stine, the coroner, said he had been told that the manager of the club had said the blaze began in a faulty generator. A state fire official said the cause had not been determined. In one room, 35 persons held a birth day party for Ona Mayfield, a teacher from Trenton, Ohio. Fifteen of them died, among them her son, Clark Mayfield, coach of the Jacksonville State University football team. It was not known if the guest of honor sur vived. The structure also had a 900-seat theater, the Cabaret Room, where comedians Jim Teter and Jim McDonald were on stage. Entertainer John Davidson, the main attraction, was next on the bill. The smoke and flames spread quickly. “It happened so fast, it’s a wonder anyone got out,” said waitress Mary Ann Kitka, 22. Busboy Walter Bailey, just graduated from high school, heard about the fire from a waitress and took over the the ater microphone. Bailey interrupted the act and told the patrons to head for the exits. But the fire wasn’t yet evident in the theater, and some people thought the busboy (Continued on page 3) " ' fl I 1 B a ■ I T |||b *' *'■ —r Jeng: It’s the real thing. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Partly cloudy and quite warm through Tuesday with slight chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight in mid 60s. High Tuesday' in upper 80s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning 63, high Sunday 90. “Those who expect to par ticipate in the benefits of life ought to be willing to share its obligations.” People ...and things Man doing double take of temperature downtown Sunday after noon when first the report came up in celsius figures. Griffinites cheering local riders at horse show in Monticello Saturday night. Lawn mowers purring all over the community Saturday afternoon following break in drought. Skydiver survives chute fail LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — An Albany man was hospitalized in good condition today after his parachute failed to open while he was skydiving Sunday. An auxiliary chute saved his life, but did not open quickly enough to prevent injuries, Civil Defense officials said. Billy Terry, 27, jumped over the Callaway Airport with nine other persons but the chute did not deploy, said Civil Defense Director Tim Duffey. His reserve chute deployed, but Terry’s fall was not slowed sufficiently to prevent injuries when he landed in a tree near the airport, Duffey said. It was about an hour before Terry was found.
