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Washington is H-O-T WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington is burning, spelled HOT. Temperatures over 90 on 10 of the past 11 days. Enough hu midity to keep mosquitos hap py. Enough bad air for a health warning. On Wednesday, the ther mometer hit 100, the first time in eight years. The forecast is for temperatures of near 100 through Monday, with humidity over 70 per cent. It’s enough to make the city’s newly opened air-conditioned subway stations a place to rest as well as wait for a ride. The jobs held by subway employes are among the best in town: working in cool concrete cav erns underground, explaining the mysteries of the new train Utility estimates challenged ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor gia Public Service Commission on Wednesday heard testimony from three experts whose re ports challenged Georgia Pow er Company’s estimates of what its generating needs will be by 1990. As hearings resumed on the utility's request for a $197.7 million rate increase, Georgia Power attorneys questioned the experts, John B. Legner, Keewahan Choi and John W. Buckingham, who prepared the reports for the PSC. “Our analysis suggests they will grow slower than they project,” said Legner, an asso ciate professor of banking and finance at the University of Georgia and director of the school’s Economic Forecasting Project. But Georgia Power’s chief rate counsel, James Joyner, at tacked the validity of the re ports. Georgia Power’s methods of predicting are not totally re liable, said Choi, a professor of mathematics and director of the Statistical Consulting Bureau of Georgia State University. Buckingham, manager of the PSC’s Utlities Financial Analysis Division, said the utili ty should have used more accu rate data to forecast loads. 3 ’Barna residents killed PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - State troopers have identified three Alabama residents killed in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 80 near here Tuesday. The victims were Edie Lee Skipper, 51; her husband, Joe Winford Skipper, 49; and Gla dys Sims Fowler, 49, troopers said. All were from Laverne, Ala. The victims were riding in a pickup truck which collided with a tractor-trailer rig when the rig jackknifed, troopers said. Pair charged in theft of equipment SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Two men face charges in connection with the theft of equipment valued at about $30,- 000 from a subcontractor at a Georgia Power Co. substation, authorities said Wednesday. The Chattooga County sher iffs office reported a tractor trailer, a lowboy trailer and a frontend loader were stolen from the G.R. McCall Construc tion Co. of Lithonia at the Trion, Ga., substation in March. The sheriff’s office said police at Scottsboro, Ala., reported recovery of some of the equipment and the arrest of Donald Day, 39, of Summerville and his brother, Hiram Day, 50, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Other equipment was recovered in Tennessee, deputies said. Alabama authorities said the two were charged with receiv ing stolen goods, grand larceny and carrying concealed weap ons. No charges have been filed in Georgia yet, officers said. system to tourists and commut ers alike. “This heat makes me feel lazy and evil,” said one suff erer, Gunther George, 49-year old fruit vendor working at his downtown stand on Wednesday. Washington wasn’t alone. Much of the nation was ex periencing temperatures in the 90s on Wednesday, and some sections had readings over 100. 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Electrical use set a record during the day in Washington, a city of great clusters of air conditioned federal offices. Highway pavement buckled. And for more than 1 million suburban residents, there wasn’t even the retreat of the neighborhood pool to look for ward to. A major pumping sta tion was knocked out. The National Weather Service held little hope that a line of thundershowers moving into the area from Pennsylvania would dislodge the stifling heat. Filming under way CLAYTON, Ga. (AP) - Filming is underway on the Walt Disney movie, “The Mil lion Dollar Deliverance,” in the War Woman community of Ra bun County, Ga. A made-for-television movie, the two-hour film will star Brock Peters as a captured Un ion artny soldier who aids In the escape of five rancher youngsters being held for ran som by a band of Confederates. Much of the film was shot earlier near Columbus, Ga. President Carter prepares for talks with Israel’s begin WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Carter is calling for a Middle East peace settlement to include full diplomatic relations between Israel and the Arab states as the administration prepares for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin. The President, meeting with 53 American Jewish leaders in a White House session on Wed nesday, told them he believes there still is a chance for a lasting Middle East peace settlement, possibly by late this year. Carter is due to meet with Begin in Washington later this month. Meanwhile, the President was reported determined to decide personally whether to recom mend production of a proposed new neutron bomb. Press Sec retary Jody Powell said Carter expects to make a decision shortly after he has a chance to Page 5 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 7,1977 see the results of studies on the new weapon. The studies are expected to reach the President about Aug. 15, Powell said. Carter met with the American Jewish leaders in an apparent attempt to ease their appre hensions about U.S. foreign pol icy in the Middle East. He opened the session by de claring that the cornerstone of his Middle East policy is to win permanent peace and the se- curity of Israel. GOODE- NICHOLS Furniture Co. Home of BEAUTYREST MATTRESS & BOX SPRINGS
