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Lightning did this damage.
Bolt damages
church here
Sunday services proceeded as usual
at the Highland United Methodist
Church, even though lightning knocked
out all the lights and heavily damaged
I the church’s steeple.
The bolt struck around 6 o’clock
Saturday night. It was so severe that an
inside wall in the church office was
damaged and a ceiling light was
broken.
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,
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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
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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
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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.
