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Page 2 — Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 31,1977 Departments want more money Most of the remaining overtime went to officers testifying before the grand jury and city, state and superior courts. Commissioner Dick Mullins noted overtime court costs may increase with the second judgeship, since more cases probably will be tried. The police department also is requesting a $20,000 radio scrambler. It would prevent radio scanner owners from listening to police radio calls. The request was made a year ago but was scrapped when commissioners learned the scrambler had not been perfected. Pitts said new models are due out within months which would be worthwhile. ADD OFFICERS Commissioner R. L. “Skeeter” Norsworthy whose lock and bicycle shop has been the scene of a number of recent burglaries and burglary attempts asked if there were any plans to add police officers Search for bodies gives way to search for clues to fire By STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press Writer SOUTHGATE, Ky. (AP) - The hunt for bodies has given way to a search for clues to the fire that in moments consumed the Beverly Hills Supper Club, killing at least 160 diners and nightclub patrons. Late Monday, a giant crane began ripping down the brick and wood facade, finishing what the fire started. It revealed the original colonial face of what had been one of the Midwest’s slickest nightspots, perched on a 17- acre bluff across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Officials got their first look inside the Zebra Room, just above where the fire is thought to have started in a basement boiler room area. They saw rubble but no bodies. Red Cross volunteers standing by sighed in collective relief. It had been their job to put charred corpses into body bags before transport to a makeshift morgue in a nearby Fort Thomas, Ky., armory. Southgate Fire Chief Dick Riesenberg said he is “absolutely Rosalynn visits plantation KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Rosalynn Carter visits a former U.S. sugar plantation now owned by the workers today following talks with Jamaican officials about their economic problems, Cuba and the weath er. The U.S. First Lady after ending the first day of her sev en-nation Isatin American tour in official receptions and pri vate meetings with government ■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•I i The Griffin-Spalding Art Association wishes to thank the following for making the Eighth Crimson Clover Arts Festival and the awards presented possible. SPONSORS Commercial Bank & Trust Co. Dundee First National Bank of Griffin First Federal Savings and Loan Association OK Oil, Inc. Griffin Gallery Harold B. McKnecly, Jr. Architect Bonanza Sirloin Pit Grandma's Pig, Inc. Griffin Hardware, Inc. Searcy Murray Realty, Inc. The Crossfield Co. Jones Harrison Furniture Co. Griffin Federal Savings & Loan PATRONS Dr. & Mrs. Lester L. Luttrell Dr. & Mrs. Jack Austin Dr. & Mrs. A. K. Weathers Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smalley Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Bryant Dr. & Mrs. George Brown Dr. Ann Stuckey Dr. & Mrs. Tofcy G. Smaha Mr. & Mrs. Tilman Blakely Dr. T. H. Wynne & Dr. Terry H. Wynne Mr. & Mrs. Albert Blanton Mr. & Mrs. R. Lee Pfrogner Mr. & Mrs. John Goddard, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Langford Dr. & Mrs. W. R. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Thomas V. Pollard Mr. & Mrs. J. Henry Walker, 111 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Bolton, 111 Griffin City Police WHIE WGRI WKEU Griffin Daily News •■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■•■l (Continued from page 1) on a downtown beat at night. Pitts answered that police officers already walk a downtown beat and more may be added when 5 or 6 vacant positions on the force are filled. Norsworthy commented he had seen men in cars late at night, but never walking. Police department requests for the coming year also include 6 new police cars and an auto for Capt. Jimmy Sutton, administrative assistant. Office and radio equipment also are included. The department has 75 employes, including school guards. Vandalism in the Third Ward Area is “getting real rough”, said Chief Pitts. Cost of replacing a damaged street sign, not including labor, is $54, he said. The proposed budget for the Griffin Fire Department is $724,807, compared with $680,549 for this year. Several thousand dollars certain” the rubble will yield no more victims. Kentucky Highway Patrol Commissioner Ken Brandenburgh said families and friends had reported 58 persons missing by Monday. Os the 160 bodies found, 118 have been identified. “I don’t know yet how many of the still unidentified dead will be on that missing list, but the fact that there are more people listed as missing than there are unidentified bodies does not necessarily mean there are still some victims left in the club,” he said. “Some of those reported missing may simply not have made contact with their relatives as yet.” Brandenburgh, who is coordinating the investigation, added, “You can’t expect us to come up with any possible explanations until at least the end of the week.” The cause of a 1970 blaze that destroyed an older club on the site was never determined. Investigators have tentatively ruled out arson and earlier theories that the fire started in a basement generator or officials, gets out in the coun tryside to talk to cane cutters who have become manager owners of the third largest sug ar plantation on the Caribbean island. The Bernard Lodge sugar co operative, formerly owned by United Brands, is a cornerstone of Prime Minister Michael Manley's democratic socialist program aimed at bridging the gap between rich and poor. Its needs to be spent on repair work at the city hall station. The work presently being done there does not include a new floor in the fire department. Exhaust fumes leak down to the jail, Pitts said. DOORS The large doors need replacing and the firemen’s dormitory needs work, he said. The civil defense budget is proposed at $3,575. Its 1977 fiscal year budget was $2,733. When Commissioner Mullins asked exactly what civil defense does, Chief Pitts explained that it was a “paper outfit” which is required by the state. Pitts said he had been its director for 10 years. Civil Defense is set up to take over in the event of a disaster, he explained. However, he said, if a disaster occurred, police, firemen, city line crews and the like would be the ones people would look to. Gene Folds, the present worker-owners who got $1.50 a day when Manley was elected in 1972 now earn $5.30 a day. The visit to the cooperative was the only provision in Mrs. Carter’s official schedule for her to come in contact with the Jamaican masses. But she was mobbed by an enthusiastic crush of children Monday on her way from the airport when Prime Minister Manley stopped their car briefly so she could greet the youngsters who had been let out of school for her arrival. A light drizzle was falling as Mrs. Carter arrived from Geor gia, and Manley apologized for the lack of sun. But he said since his guest came from a farming community, she “would appreciate that rain after three years of drought was a very good thing for Jamaica.” The weather shrank the num ber of invited guests at an offi cial outdoor dinner party at the prime minister’s home from more than 200 to fewer than 50 and forced them inside. But Mrs. Carter said she’d like to take some of the rain home to Georgia, “where we’ve had to stop planting peanuts because of the drought.” The First Lady had a three hour working lunch with Man ley and leading members of his government. She said she cov ered all the issues listed in her notebook for discussion — Cuba, the Panama Canal, energy, trade policies, human rights and Jamaica’s economic prob lems. DALE CARNEGIE COURSE NOW ENROLLING Jonesboro Class Develop Confidence, Enthusiasm, Leadership. Call 228-9905 Presented By Leadership Institute director, was praised for his work in setting up emergency places for people to stay if their fuel ran out during last winter’s cold snap. Folds’ salary as director is $125 per month, Pitts said. ANOTHER A fifth budget hearing is set for tonight when the commiss ioners will hear requests from the administrative offices, engineering department and garage. They also will be briefed on the city’s total income picture, said City Manager Roy Inman. Thursday night will be “scratching session” when they decide where to cut down. They’ll meet against next Monday night to go over the final financial picture. This morning, during their regular weekly meeting, they heard Roger Scott, who heads a state financed alcohol treatment center on South Hill street, explain a treatment plan for drunks. leaking oil tank, but have no ex planation as to why the fire spread so quickly. Some survivors said the flames flashed through air conditioning ducts and broke out through all the walls simultaneously. “They told us to leave. We got up. We noticed smoke, and then, wham, fire all around,” said a survivor from the Cabaret Room, where singer John Davidson was to have performed moments after the fire routed a crowd of at least 1,000 Saturday night. A charge of overcrowding in the Cabaret Room is being investigated. Most victims died trying to leave that room as smoke billowed in. There had been reports that exit lights went out just as flames were discovered. Fire officials denied the blaze started in a faulty electric gener ator. State fire inspector John Bramlage of Fort Wright, Ky., confirmed early today that the club’s owners had complied with his order of six months ago to install auxiliary lights. Deaths Funerals Mrs. Scogin Mrs. Mildred Doe Scogin died early Monday night at the Living Center of Griffin where she had been a patient for the past year. Mrs. Scogin was a lifelong resident of Spalding County, daughter of the late Edward Winslow Doe and the late Dora Skipper Doe. She was a member of St. George’s Episcopal Church. She is survived by a son, The Rev. Alfred F. Scogin Jr., of Laurinburg, N. C.; a brother, Raymond Doe of Griffin; 2 nieces, Mrs. James L. Mauldin and Mrs. Henrietta Horsley, both of Atlanta; 2 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock in St. George’s Episcopal Church. The Rev. Douglas Winn will officiate and burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. The body will remain at Pittman Rawls Funeral Home. The family requests that flowers be omitted and those desiring may make contributions to St. George’s memorial fund. Mrs. Ogletree The funeral for Mrs. Maggie Crook Ogletree, widow of Mr. John B. Ogletree will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the chapel of Haisten Funeral Home. The Rev. Wiley Virden and the Rev. Byron Thompson will officiate and burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may visit the family at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson W. Standard, 144 Experiment street. Haisten Funeral Home is in charge of plans. 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The Justice Ministry spokesman said the Moluccans were told they would have a better chance of getting a plane crew to take them if they also gave up their weapons. The terrorists did not reply immediately, the spokesman said. He said the Moluccans have made no mention for several days of their demand that 21 South Moluccans imprisoned for previous terrorist acts be allowed to leave the country with them.
