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Eagle Scout saved man from fire
“Aw, that little ole thing.”
Eagle Scout Bill Scott, 17, may be
modest in admitting the heroics of his
lifesaving deed, but he surely will
admit the heat in the burning building
was intense and someone could have
died in it in very short time.
Scott had seen the blaze through the
windows of the apartment complex
across from his home on South Hill
street Saturday night about 11:30.
“At first it looked like psychedelic
lights until I saw the smoke,” Bill said.
After phoning the fire department,
Scott hustled to the scene where he was
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, June 16, 1977 Vol. 105 No. 142
People
...and things
Giant NBC Sports banner hanging on
front of house on South Sixth street.
Cars cutting around drain cover
sticking up in air at Eighth and Poplar
streets.
Young reader leaving library with
arm full of books getting start on
summer reading project.
Dundee revamp
means more jobs
Reorganization of Dundee plants in
Griffin will mean the addition of about
100 jobs by the end of this year, ac
cording to President J. M. Cheatham.
He outlined the reorganization as
follows:
“Basically, what we are doing is
channeling most production of our
Keller named
Clayton D.A.
ATLANTA (AP) - Robert E. Keller
of Jonesboro has been appointed
district attorney of the Clayton Judicial
Circuit, Gov. George Busbee
announced today.
Keller, 30, succeeds William H. Ison,
who resigned to accept an
appointement to a new superior court
judgeship in the circuit.
Keller, a graduate of the Emory
University school of law, was an
assistant district attorney in Clayton
County from 1972 to 1974, when he went
into private law practice.
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joined by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy
and they entered the burning dwelling.
Just at the top of the stairs, the two
rescuers found Gary Cleveland. He was
lying unconscious as a result of a fall.
“It was so hot up there, you wouldn’t
believe, you could cut the heat with a
knife,” Scott said.
He and the deputy dragged Cleveland
to safety. Scott pushed Cleveland’s
head back and got him breathing.
He had learned to do this simple but
life saving measure in scouting.
He said by then the firemen had
arrived and he called for oxygen to help
American journalist free
to return from Russia
By SETH MYDANS
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet secret
police who questioned American
journalist Robert C. Toth for more than
12 hours told him today he is free to
Griffin plants to that of the manufac
ture of towels. Rushton, a long-time
producer of gray goods, will become a
yam manufacturing plant in support of
our other weaving units. We plan to
utilize all the present work force at
Rushton in the manufacture of yam and
towels. This increased production will
create the need to employ about 100
additional employees at our Lowell
Bleachery operation, principally in the
cutting and sewing departments.”
He said the plan will begin shortly
after the company's annual vacation
and will be completed by the end of the
year.
Mr. Cheatham added, “We view this
move as a progressive step in our
continuing program of modernization
and in turn, make us more efficient
increasing the security of all con
cerned. We do not anticipate any
problems of placing anyone who wants
to work in our organization.”
When the move is completed and the
additional people on the payroll,
Dundee’s payroll is expected to exceed
S2O-million annually.
Cleveland with his breathing.
It just so happened Scott was still
dressed in his scout uniform.
He says he had had a full day of
scouting initiating some more boys into
the Order of the Arrow. He had been
their task master and had them
undergo their “ordeal” all day with just
cheese and crackers.
Scott said that most of the day he and
the boys had dug post holes at Camp
Thunder in Pine Mountain near
Thomaston.
He had gotten home, watched the
television a while, and decided to step
leave the Soviet Union. Toth said he and
his family would leave for the United
States on Friday as planned
The Los Angeles Times corre
spondent said the KGB telephoned him
to say he was “no longer needed and I
can go when I want.” He had been
barred from leaving the country while
he was being questioned.
Toth said his release by the KGB
amounted to “an admission that this
was all a frameup, or worse.”
He said the grilling about his contacts
with dissidents and about his articles
were “a terrible message to the
American correspondents who remain
that they may face the same kind of
harassment and to the dissidents that
they’re not immune from anything at
all.”
Toth said he expected the Soviet
press would use his case in an attempt
to intimidate correspondents and
dissidents.
The newsman said he would go to
London, where he planned to write
about his experiences in Moscow’s
Lefortovo Prison. “Right now I’m kind
of elated,” he said.
The 48-year-old newsman went to the
passport registration office to clear exit
papers for himself, his wife and their
three children. He has completed a
three-year assignment in Moscow.
KGB agents questioned Toth four
times — three hours Saturday, three
hours Tuesday and two sessions
totalling 6% hours Wednesday.
Toth said the police told him on
Wednesday he was a witness and “not
the accused.”
He said the KGB refused to divulge
Flynt Langford
Father of Year
in Griffin
The Griffin, Spalding County Jaycees
have named Paul Flynt Langford
Griffin’s Father of the Year for 1977.
Mr. Langford, a long time Griffin
resident, is the Secretary-Treasurer of
the Peace Officers Annuity and Benefit
Fund in Griffin. Langford is active in
several civic organizations in Griffin
and has been a leader in the community
for many years.
He was nominated by his wife, Betty
Jo, and was cited for his Christian
devotion to his family. He is a member
of the First United Methodist Church in
Griffin.
Mr. Langford resides on Sheraton
Drive. He has three children, Mrs.
Cathy Brooks, Rocky Langford, and
Gwen Langford.
Langford will be formally honored on
June 27 during the Jaycees regular
monthly meeting.
outside for some fresh air when he
spotted the blaze in the house across the
street.
Scott praised the Scouts for what he
had learned over the past 6 years.
Luckily, fast thinking and a helpful
attitude, helped to save the life of Gary
Cleveland.
Scott said after the fire was all over
he went home to rest.
Later, he said, he had a hard time
sleeping.
Small wonder.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. William
T. Scott 111 of South Hill street in
Griffin.
who was accused or to specify charges.
But he said much of the questioning was
about his relations with imprisoned
Jewish activist Anatoly Shcharansky,
against whom the government is
believed to be preparing treason
charges.
The decision to let Toth leave came
after the U.S. Senate approved a
resolution condemning his detention as
a “gross violation” of the 1975 Helsinki
accords, and after President Carter
told reporters he expressed his
“strongest objections” to the Soviet
Union.
Carter said Toth’s case could have an
impact on the Belgrade conference,
now in a preliminary session, which is
to review human rights progress since
the 1975 Helsinki agreements were
signed.
Toth was first picked up by security
police and questioned for three hours
last Saturday after he received an
article on parapsychology — the study
of extra-sensory perception from a
Soviet scientist.
On Tuesday, the Soviet Foreign
Ministry gave the U.S. Embassy a note
claiming Toth had engaged in “the
collection of secret information of a
political and military character.” It
said his “departure from Moscow until
the end of the investigation is not
desired.”
The newsman said an interrogator
told him scientific information from
other than official sources was con
sidered secret.
Another outspoken general
gets into Pentagon hot water
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American
three-star general who predicted that
the United States may become en
tangled in a Soviet-Chinese war is in hot
water with the Pentagon less than a
month after another general lost his job
for warning of a possible war in Korea.
Lt. Gen. Donn Starry, commander of
the Army’s sth Corps in Germany, was
directed Wednesday to postpone a
planned leave and report to the Pen
tagon on Friday to explain his remarks
to Army Secretary Clifford Alexander
and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Bernard
Rogers.
Starry, a West Point graduate
recently nominated for a fourth star,
said in a commencement address that
the Soviet Union and China probably
will fight a major war during the
students’ lifetime and that the United
States probably will become involved.
Late last month, Maj. Gen. John
Singlaub was relieved as the Army’s
staff chief in Korea for saying
President Carter’s plans to withdraw
ground troops from that country would
lead to war.
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Lane’s big night
T-League player Lane Dozier of Griffin poised to toss ceremonial game ball at
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium Wednesday night at the Braves-Mets baseball
game. With the young Griffin player is Tom Peak of the Braves organization. It
was Griffin Night at the stadium.
Singlaub was ordered home from
Korea for a meeting with Carter. But in
Starry’s case, White House press
secretary Jody Powell said “there are
no plans for Carter to speak with the
general.”
The difference may be that Singlaub
publicly questioned Carter’s planned
troop withdrawal from Korea, while
Starry did not cross any administration
policy position. Even so, public com
ments about war by high U.S. officials
are frowned upon when the ad
ministration is trying to ease world
tension and eliminate nuclear arsenals.
Starry, speaking at graduation
exercises of American High School in
Frankfurt last Friday, told students
that “in your lifetime the Soviets will
fight the Chinese, possibly simply
continuing their 10-year-old border
conflict, but more probably in a major
war.
“Difficult as it may be to see the
United States becoming involved in
such a war, it is likely we would do so
once it became apparent that one or the
other of the antagonists was about to
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Mostly cloudy and continued warm
with chance of few thundershowers
through Friday. Low tonight In upper
60s. High Friday in mid 80s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
69, high Wednesday 84.
win and gain absolute control over the
bulk of the Eurasian land mass,” he
added.
An Army spokesman said Starry’s
remarks do not represent the position of
the Defense Department or the Army.
“He was speaking on his own.”
Starry, 52, has been commander of
the sth Corps in Germany for the last 16
months.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“We may soon quit teaching
kids how to earn a living in
order to get them started
learning how to enjoy
retirement”
