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Page 6 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 7, 1977 W "’* TcJ’’ *£ ’ r /\w *** IK A$L ■ kJ* B *■- xBB Xr ■*W IH' wJb IB AM ’< *■ ■Br MB >MMMp t V&W v 1 MM wHH I sJfIM * \ —3JW Bfef* WINCHESTER, Tenn.—Attorney Raymond Fraley, center, assists Victoria Price Street from the Federal courthouse in Winchester to her car at the close of the first day in the |6 million slander suit brought by her against Crime rate drops 9 percent By MARGARET GENTRY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s crime rate dropped 9 per cent in the first three months of this year over 1976, the largest quarterly reduction in the 19 years the FBI has is sued crime reports, the agency said today. The report listed a bitterly cold winter and heavy snow as possible reasons for the de crease. Although there were reduc tions in five of the seven major crime categories, the number of rapes increased 5 per cent and aggravated assaults were up 1 per cent, the FBI said in its Uniform Crime Reports. Summer Clearance Sale Continues Sutton’s 115 South Hill Street • ’ ''-‘X I VINVL I TABLECLOTHS Celebration priced 52x52-in. dH SfSf or 52x70-in. flannel backed H vinyl tablecloths. Kitchen < colors in checks, solio ™ Each I BENgFRANKLIIX I I HKSH College-Hill I I Shopping Plaza I I Griffin, Ga. I Leaving court The statistics are based on the number of crimes reported to nearly 9,000 state and local law enforcement agencies. Besides rape and assault, the report covers murder, robbery, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft. The sharpest decline was for larceny, 11 per cent. The report showed an 8 per cent decrease for robbery, 7 per cent for bur glary, 5 per cent for murder and 4 per cent for motor vehicle theft. The statistics showed an over all decrease in the crime rate in cities, suburbs and rural areas alike, although the decline was slightly less in rural areas. Geographically, the reduction NBC for the way that she was represented in the movie, “Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys”. James, her husband, carries some of the courtroom documents. (AP) ranged from 16 per cent in north-central states to 3 per cent in the West. The FBI noted that the sharp est drops occurred early in the period and said, "The harsh winter could have been a major factor in the declining number of reported crimes.” According to that theory, the snow and cold weather could have discouraged criminals from venturing out. One FBI official said, “The mugger ap parently wasn’t leaving the College leaders study guidelines ATLANTA (AP) - The heads of Georgia’s 32 state colleges and universities will meet with state officials in Atlanta Mon day to consider how to comply with a new federal integration directive. Six southern states were giv en new federal guidelines for desegregation of public colleges Tuesday. The guidelines set five-year goals for increasing house.” The over-all 9 per cent decline seemed to bear out a trend toward a stabilizing or decreasing national crime rate, at least for those offenses re ported to police. Other studies have shown, however, that many crimes go unreported. The FBl’s statistics for all of 1976 showed no increase from the previous year and a 6 per cent decrease for the last three months of 1976 compared with the same period a year earlier. black enrollment. Florida, North Carolina, Ok lahoma, Arkansas and Virginia also were included in the deseg regation order. HEW submitted the goals and timetables for desegregating colleges and universities to U.S. District Court Judge John Pratt in response to a court order. The HEW directive said black institutions have a “unique importance” for black students, but it said those schools are not exempt from desegregation plans. HEW called on state officials to specify steps that will strengthen black colleges. It also ordered steps to eliminate “educationally unnecessary program duplication" among traditionally black and white schools. The state must ensure that the number of black high school graduates entering state colleges will be “at least equal” proportionately to whites, the directive said. “Particular attention should be given to increasing black student enrollment and gradu ation from those traditionally white, four-year undergraduate institutions which serve as feeder institutions for the graduate and professional schools,” it said. Work time flexitime WASHINGTON (AP) - An increasing number of govern ment agencies and private in dustries are allowing their em ployes to work when they want to, National Geographic says. The new system, called “flexitime,” doesn’t cut back the number of hours a person spends on the job. It just lets people decide, within limits, when to start and stop. Those that come in early quit early, and employes can chose to work more than eight hours a day in order to have a three day weekend. The idea grew out of a Mun ich aircraft plant’s effort in 1968 to end tie-ups when shifts changed. The concept spread and by the end of 1976 corpo rations in Britain, France, the Netherlands, Japan and the Scandinavian countries had in stituted flexitime. Advocates of the plan say it reduces absenteeism and tardi ness and boosts morale as well as eases traffic. Paul Dickson, in his book “The Future Os The Workplace,” reported that flexitime saved the Munich plant >40,000 a month. Spalding escapee captured By The Associated Press Authorities captured four in mates who escaped from state prison work details Wednesday, but continued searching for one other escapee. Still at large was an inmate of the Spalding Correctional In stitute, Ronald Preston, 23, of Flovilla. He and Jimmy McCrendon, 31, of Griffin, es caped from a work detail in Shrimping results disappointing BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - It’s too early to tell whether shrimp will be caught in large numbers off the Georgia coast this summer, officials say. A state ban on shrimping, in effect since May, was partly lifted Wednesday, but with dis appointing results. Natural Resources Commis sioner Joe Tanner, who con ferred with shrimpers about the catch, said, "We’ll know some thing more by the end of this week.” “Today was disappointing, though,” he added. The Board of Natural Re sources imposed the ban after a frigid winter depleted the shrimp population. Shrimping was reopened off shore Wednesday, but the ban remains in effect on sounds, rivers and creeks for all but commercial bait shrimpers. More than 300 shrimpboats from Savannah to St. Marys were pit Wennesday, and one, the Evening Star, reported its first haul was only 15 pounds of brown shrimp. The captain, Robert Earl Knight, said his boat would catch 300 to 600 pounds of shrimp a day in normal times. But as the day wore on, other shrimpers said they were get ting better results. Tanner said the year will be tough for shrimpers. “The shrimpers are going to be lucky if they make more than a fourth of the income they made last year,” he said. Summer Savin Open 9 A.M. til 6 P.M. _ / ' ■■ WHILE SUPPLIES UST! Saw 530.95 N<Hti I \ 3 H.P. RANGER BIG 10'x S'METAL \18" ROTARY MOWER STORAGE BUILDING I I With Popular Gambrel Style Roof! e 3 HP 4 Cycle Briggs & Stratton Engine* —- r> Il • Easy Rewind Starter For Reliability* I e Comes With 4 Position Wheel Height Adjustments* wßakay* ffimW : Mil f 1 GALLON a a M - a REG. $139.95 STARTS TODAY! 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Two inmates of the Chatham President Carter declared Georgia’s six coastal counties a Geordies treated more like country cousins ATLANTA (AP) - If it weren’t for their accents, you’d never suspect Atlanta’s 380 British guests are from across the ocean. They’re being treated more like country cousins up for the weekend. The visitors from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, are part of an exchange arranged by Friendship Force, a project to swap grass-roots “ambassa dors” between the United States and other countries. Their counterparts, 381 Atlantans, are spending 10 days in Newcastle this week and next. The Britons braved Atlanta’s hot sun Wednesday as they spent their first full day in the city shopping, going to work with their volunteer hosts or sightseeing. Several complained about At lanta’s high summer tempera tures, which they said are about 30 degrees warmer than their own city’s. Yvonne Sterling, an 18-year old nursing student, enjoyed American hot dogs and spine tingling rides at Six Flags Over Georgia, an amusement park. But she said she avoided the Correctional Institution at Sa vannah were recaptured Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Howard Lee Jackson, 23, of Ocilla and James Blackmon, 20, of Columbus escaped by breaking out of a prison van while on a work detail in the Garden City community, au thorities said. They were recap- disaster area in June and made low-interest loans available to roller coaster because “we de cided it would be too fast.” Mrs. Joseph Lancaster vis ited the “shopping precincts” with her hostess while her hus band went to work with host D.D. English, a Decatur, Ga., warehouse dispatcher. Tony Bradley, a 21-year-old newspaper reporter, said he spent his first days in Atlanta correcting some mis impressions of the United States. “We were always told that Americans are very brusk and unfriendly, that you go to a case and the meal would be thrown down on the counter and the change grabbed, that if you spoke to somebody on the street you’d be arrested and that the food was of poor quality,” he said. “We found that to be com pletely wrong,” Bradley said. The journalist said he has found many strange sights, sounds and tastes in Atlanta. “The taste of butter and milk, even the taste of the gum on the back of your postage stamps, the smells, the noises are dif ferent," he said. “Everything is much larger — the cars, the tured in the same area. Jackson was serving 10 years for robbery and Blackmon was serving four years for burglary. Also apprehended was Dee Wayne Massey of Ocala, Fla., an inmate at the state prison in Reidsville, who was discovered missing Wednesday afternoon following a work detail, officials said. help shrimpers avoid losing their boats and equipment. roads, the buildings.” The “Geordies,” as New castle residents are called, ar rived in Atlanta Monday and will stay through next week. Bradley explained that their nickname came from a time when “there was trouble with one of the King Georges — I forget which one — and we sided with the king. Now, any one within smelling distance of the River Tyne is called a Geordie.” Tuesday night, the Geordies visited the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor before he died. Georgians and Geordies clasped hands in the church’s cramped quarters and sang a British-Southern chorus of “We Shall Overcome,” a song of the civil rights movement. “You’ve come a long way across land and sea to meet with your brothers and sisters in Atlanta,” Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. told the Britons. “I love you—every one of you. I hope you love me. If you help me carry this across the world, we’ll have a most beautiful place to live.”
