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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1977)
‘lt was so hot up there, you wouldn’t believe 9 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. i wiiUgs ,v ' * •' Flynt Langford gets Jaycee honor. 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. -—■-—■■A Bill Scott in front of house where he rescued man. ’** r K*’’ jrJ: ' V' ( / / It* I s . . guK -*■> tg &&& , r9i a* s. mH Kh -jajE • ’Wr-- -Us ~ W 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 ■Em “We may soon quit teaching kids how to earn a living in order to get them started learning how to enjoy retirement”
