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Memorial Day
Tragedies mar holiday
By The Associated Press
On a Memorial Day weekend
officially set aside to remember
those who died in battle, Amer
icans prayed, marched, cele
brated and suffered new trage
dy.
Death shadowed the weekend
for many. At least 160 persons
died at a supper club fire in
Southgate, Ky., and hundreds
more were killed on the nation’s
highways and in other ac
cidents.
Some lamented that too little
thought was given to heroes of
past U.S. military in
volvements, with too much cel
ebration of the unofficial begin
ning of summer.
In just such a summer cere
mony, Frank Coghlan marked
the day by swimming from
Staten Island to Brooklyn in the
shadow of New York’s Verra
zano Narrows Bridge. After
emerging from the chilly wa
ters, he boarded a jet and flew
to San Francisco for a similar
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swim beneath the Golden Gate
Bridge.
The traditional wreath was
placed at the Tomb of the Un
knowns in Washington by Navy
Secretary J. Graham Claytor.
In Seattle, Bill Fletcher, a 92-
year-old veteran serving as
marshal of the Memorial Day
parade complained, “There’s
no enthusiasm any more.”
“My God, when I was a boy,
we’d have a parade that would
take three to four hours,” said
Fletcher. “Now they’re going to
pick me up in a big Cadillac,
take me to the reviewing stand,
I’ll get out for a few minutes,
then they’ll put me in the Cadil
lac and we’ll go home.”
The holiday brought back a
59-year-old memory of escape
from death for World War I
veteran Richard Cavender, 81,
of Bonita, Calif. Cavender re
ceived a Purple Heart medal in
the mail Saturday, weeks after
discovering a long-forgotten
document.
He'd been in the trenches
near Cantini, France, when the
Germans bombarded his unit
with mustard gas in June 1918.
Overcome by the gas, he lay
under a blanket for five days
until he could be evacuated.
In the Long Island town of
Manhasset, N.Y., a Right-To-
Life group placed a wreath on a
monument to war dead after
being barred from taking part
in an American Legion Me
morial Day parade.
The Legion had refused an in
vitation to the North Shore
Right-To-Life group on grounds
it is a political group.
Busbee
leaves
for Greece
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov.
George Busbee left for Athens,
Greece on Monday, on his fifth
trade mission to bring new
business to Georgia.
The 23-day mission included
scheduled stops in eight coun
tries.
The agenda called for meet
ings with Greek officials from
May 31 to June 7, and included
dedication of the new Georgia
Ports Authority office in
Athens.
The governor had appoint
ments in Switzerland, Italy,.
Austria, Germany, the Nether
lands and France through June
18.
Busbee was to be in London
from June 19-21 and return to
Atlanta June 22.
Busbee has stressed the need
for more businesses—both do
mestic and foreign—to invest in
Georgia.
In a speech last week, he said
350 international facilities are
located in Georgia, up from 135
three years ago.
The governor’s previous busi
ness seeking trips included two
to the Far East, one to Europe
and one to Mexico.
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Turtle race
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Defending champion “Mr. Gusto”
failed in his attempt to win his fourth title in the annual
“Memphis 500” at the Overton Park Zoo. “Mr. Gusto’s”
handler Louie Bell did everything but push the 475-pound
Galapagos tortoise down the 500-inch track, but the tur
tle’s time of five minutes was good only for fourth place.
The smallest turtle in the race, “Randy,” won in one
minute 22 seconds. (AP)
Valdosta admits
killing fish
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — The
City of Valdosta had “no
choice” but to dump raw sew
age into the Withlacoochee Riv
er, killing hundreds of fish, a
municipal engineer said Mon
day.
The fish were killed when raw
sewage was spilled into the
river because oil had been
dumped into the sewage system
and disturbed the balance of the
treatment plant, authorities
said.
“We had no choice,” City En
gineer Dave Moody said. “If we
had shut off the plant, sewage
would have backed up into the
houses and streets.”
Dan Holder, regional fish su
pervisor for the Department of
Natural Resources, termed the
kill “substantial.”
Jury out
on dentist
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — A jury of eight women
and four men retired for the
night Monday without reaching
a verdict in the case of a
Milledgeville dentist charged
with accepting medicaid
payment for work he did not
perform .
Dr. Sheldon Tuzman is
charged with 11 counts of ac
cepting medicaid payments to
taling about $3,000 for work not
performed.
Jury foreman Milton Snyder
indicated that the jury had
reached a verdict on three
counts and were deadlocked on
eight after six hours of deliber
ations. Judge George Jackson
said he was not ready to declare
a mistrial on the eight counts
and ordered the jury to return
today to continue deliberations.
The trial came to an abrupt
conclusion Monday when the
defense presented its entire
case in one-half day with only a
handful of witnesses. Tuzman
did not testify.
The prosecution took two
weeks and 59 witnesses to
present its case.
In closing arguments, defense
attorney Lee Dickens said the
indictments were based on ei
ther “honest human error” or a
difference of professional opin
ion between dentists.
Special prosecutor J. Melvin
England described the 11 counts
against Tuzman as an “obvious
pattern” of abuse. He said
Tuzman saw the medicaid
program “as an opportunity to
declare open season on the pub
lic treasury.”
The case is the first to be
presented to a grand jury under
a medicaid crackdown initiated
by Gov. George Busbee in 1975.
Albany State
students
demonstrate
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Sev
eral hundred students at Albany
State College marched through
downtown Albany Monday
night, calling for the ouster of
the school’s president.
A local reporter said 500 to 800
students participated in the
march, demanding President
Charles Hayes’s resignation on
the grounds of alleged mis
appropriation of funds.
Carter returns to Plains
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga.
(AP) — President Carter is re
turning to his troubled home
town to get together with kin
folk, walk down the old-timey
main street and have a look at
some of the family properties
put in trust while he occupies
the White House.
Carter and daughter Amy
were flying by jet to Warner-
Robins Air Force Base, near
Macon, Ga., then by helicopter
to Plains, the once-obscure
hamlet where he says he will
make his retirement after leav
ing the presidency.
Father and daughter were
alone, Mrs. Carter having taken
off Monday on a 13-day Latin
American goodwill mission.
While in Plains, the President
was planning to have lunch at
the outlying Pond House, scene
of some of his major campaign
and transition-period confer
ences, with brother Billy, their
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 31,1977
Page 5
mother and other family mem
bers. He also wanted to get a
look at some of the peanut fields
being rented out by trustee
Charles Kirbo, Atlanta lawyer,
friend and advisor, for the
duration of Carter’s White
House tenure.
Once a sleepy hamlet of fewer
than 900 people, Plains has been
almost overwhelmed since the
November election by thou
sands of tourists and a number
of home-grown and imported
get-rich-quick seekers.
Perhaps more troubling to
Carter, the congregation of the
Plains Baptist Church, where
he and his family have wor
shipped, has been divided over
the question of admitting blacks
to membership and the sub
sequent ouster of the pastor, the
Rev. Bruce Edwards.
Although Carter spent as
much time as possible in Plains
during the election year, he has
made only one two-day visit
there since becoming Presi
dent, in mid-February. And
there are indications he does not
plan frequent visits in the
future, perhaps preferring in
stead to rest on St. Simons
Island, on the southeast Georgia
coast. He spent most of the
Memorial Day weekend there.
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