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Page 10 Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 9,1977 Friendship Force Buddies find each other 30 years after the war NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England (AP) — Curtis Hoff man and William Temperly aren’t likely to lose touch again. It took them more than 30 years to find each other. Hoffman, 54, came to this northeast industrial city as one of 380 Georgians taking part in the first flight of the Friendship Force, an exchange program I Your Good NeigHßor DICK HYATT 523 East Taylor St. Phone 227-2188 See him for all your family insurance needs ZAaA tun fatal | I Good Ntighbor, Stott Ftrm && bThtn ( ’""••““.J Stat* Farm Insurant:* CompaniM Hom* Ottic** Bloomington. Illinois !; This Sunday Is CHILDREN’S DAY ;! At !; ; Second Baptist Church ;! 501 W. Broad Street 9:45 A.M. Sunday School 11:00 A.M. Morning Worship Children in Grades 1-6 Will Be recognized, along with their ;! Teachers. !; !• 6:30 P.M. Church Training New Series of Special ? Studies Begins This Sunday. < 7:30 P.M. Evening Worship Billy Southerland, Pastor i; Hugh Canterbury, Education-Music Steve Galyon, Activities-Youth “A Church With Something !; Special For Everyone!” ; IK' HE II j JI ■■■■■■■ ' <M®R' Hr Get reliable one-hour (in many cases) eyeglass service in Griffin PEARLE Vision Center’s eye- So, for one-stop eyeglass glass service is good and fast shopping, stop into PEARLE Good, because we have our own Vision Center, in-store laboratory. That gives us complete control over the quality f Dp ADI p 1 of our work. And fast, because vision center in many cases we’ll have your new glasses ready in just one hour. The “Happy Face” Place. 505 West Taylor Tel. 228-3450. Open daily 9 to 5:30 Monday thru Sat. Grand Opening July 9 aimed at allowing Americans to make friends with residents of other countries. The Atlanta area visitors are living in the homes of Newcastle residents while a comparable number of Tynesiders visit Atlanta. In 1944, Hoffman met Tem perly, then a British constable, on a Newcastle street and they stopped to talk. It was the only time they met. “We had corresponded but I lost track of him,” said Hoff man, who took advantage of the Friendship Force tour to return to England. “I was prepared to go all out to find him. After all, I had no idea where he was or if he was still alive.” Hoffman’s host, James Dun can Elliott, started calling Temperlys in the telephone book the day the Georgia group arrived. He asked them if they had served on the police force dur ing World War II and if they knew Hoffman. “He got one and all he had to ask was if the man knew an American,” Hoffman said. “The man filled in my name.” “I don’t know who was more suprised, me or him,” said Temperly, a retired hospital administrator. “It was such a big shock to hit each other the first time,” he said. “After all, I only met him once. “I was serving as a special constable during the war and an American airman came up to me, I believe to enquire about directions. We became in terested in each others’ lives and started talking on the street,” Temperly said. “We talked about what it was like in America and then we parted. I never saw him again until we had dinner,” he said. The city has changed consid erably since the time he met Temperly, Hoffman said. “It used to be like stepping into another world. Now it’s very much like coming to the United States,” he said. “But I still love the city,” he said. “The combination of old and new is something you don’t find in America. If something is 200 years old we think it’s priceless. Here you’re dealing with things that date back more than 900 years. “I’d like to ome back again,” he added. “Besides, I can’t go 30 more years without seeing Temperly.” Labor peace on railroads may be coming to end WASHINGTON (AP) - Al most 10 years of labor peace on the nation’s railroads may be ending as unions and manage ment are tangling once more over the size of train crews. The unions see the emotional issue as the key to their very survival. Management calls the labor demands “feather bedding.** Firms agree to repay $394,000 to investors TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An agreement by two firms to repay $394,000 to 40 investors marks the first time the state has obtained full restitution in a securities violation case, says an aide to Comptroller Gerald Lewis. > ■ ■ w II Flipper HONOLULU—As the sun sinks over the Pacific Ocean, 10-year-old Laura Daniels practices her gymnastic routine at Nanakuli Beach, near Honolulu. She is the daughter of Mrs. Jacqueline Daniels. (AP) President Al Chesser of the United Transportation Union charged Friday that railroad management is trying to incite a strike and warned “we can accommodate them” if the companies persist in their posi tion. The 175,000-member union, which represents brakemen, conductors and engineers, David Fountain, Lewis’ press aide, said Friday the firms probably will not be prosecuted on charges of securities sales violations because they agreed to restitution. The firms, which were ac cused of selling unregistered securities, negotiated the agreement to repay the in vestors with Lewis and State Atty. James Russell of St. Petersburg. The settlement involved Highland Lakes Corp., which proposed development of an 850- acre tract near Bartow, and Harbour Investments Inc. of Tampa. Former Reps. Wallace E. Storey of Bartow and Louis Wolfson II of Miami Beach own Highland Lakes. Fountain said Harbour In vestments sold unregistered securities at a promised inter est rate of 12 to 14 per cent on the Highland Lakes develop ment. Harbour Investments was op erated by Wiley A. Storey Jr., Wallace’s brother. Fountain said investigators determined that the firms sold unregistered securities, a fel ony violation under Florida law. “At this time we do not intend to prosecute, but that’s open field,” he said. “There’s nothing in the agreement that says they can’t prosecute.” The agreement provides for investors to receive their origi nal investments, the interest for the time period of the in vestment and 8 per cent interest for as long as repayment takes. The agreement calls for full restitution in three years. “They get their original in vestment back plus interest for the time period it was to be in vested plus 8 per cent,” Foun tain said. “You can’t beat that with a stick.” Wallace Storey said he had “understood we were doing ev erything properly.” He said his firm’s failure to pay investors the promised interest resulted from the “economic crunch of 1974.” “There never was any in tention not to pay investors back,” Storey said. He called the agreement with Lewis and Russell a “happy solution.” would be the most seriously af fected among the 14 unions bar gaining with the industry if the size of train crews is reduced. The National Railway Labor Conference, the industry's bar gaining arm, served notice June 13 that it wants major cuts in crew sizes. It also wants to change the basis on which workers are paid Kids-Fun-Kids SECOND ANNUAL HAMSTER RACE Saturday - July 16, 1977 THE GREAT RACE CAN YOUR HAMSTER BEAT K MART’S AMAZING HAMSTER!! SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1977 HAMSTER RACE-Griffin-K MART Enter Now At The Pet Department WIN-FUN-PRIZES-FUN One Grand Prize — A Hamster Fun City With Many More Additional Prizes TRAIN YOUR HAMSTER NOW!! TO RUN IN ★ THE EXERCISE BALL ★ See You At The Starting Line At K Mart In Griffin July 16, 1977 at 1 to 4 P.M. as well as the rules determining which employes work in the rail yards. Crew size and work rules tra ditionally have been bitter sub jects between the industry and its unions. In 1959, the industry demanded the elimination of firemen in the diesel locomo tives and it took 12 years of legal battles before the issue was settled in the industry’s favor. Prisons checked for fire hazards WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed eral officials are stepping up their investigation of fire haz ards in the 37 UJS. prisons. The investigation was launched after a Tennessee jail fire killed 34 inmates, but not in time to prevent the worst fire in federal prison history. Director Norman A. Carlson of the Federal Bureau of Pris ons ordered the nationwide study after the Maury County, Tenn., fire on June 26 but before the Thursday blaze at the Danbury, Conn., prison that killed five prisoners. “After the fire in Tennessee, he (Carlson) was very con cerned that we were doing ev erything we could to prevent any kind of tragedy,” a bureau official said in an interview Friday. Carlson ordered wardens of the 37 federal institutions to submit detailed reports about fire hazards in each facility. He called the Thursday blaze the worst fire in federal prison history. The five were inmates at a minimum-security institution. Eighty were injured as the flames spewed toxic fumes through a two-story dormitory. Two guards and four fire fight ers also were hurt. immer Comfort. im Slip-on has Rope ge Cushion Insole lle - L9ojj|®r nen s Sizes Price Good thru Tuesday ★ Master Charge or BankAmerlcard '72 North Expressway Open Evenings’til 9 xt To RBM Volkswagen Sunday I’ till Get to know us; you’ll like us.® But that blaze was far from being the first. Three minor fires broke out in federal pris ons in Morgantown, W. Va.; Petersburg, Va.; and Terminal Island, Calif., last year. No one was injured in any of those fires and there was only limited damage. The bureau official said in vestigations concluded that all three were set by inmates. Oth er small fires have occurred periodically in federal prisons over the years. After the Danbury fire broke out, Carlson ordered the war dens of all other federal prisons to act “immediately to do whatever they can” to improve fire prevention and evacuation techniques, the official said. He asked for the detailed re ports by July 17, when top bu reau officials and regional di rectors will discuss safety im provements at a conference in Denver. The reports must include de scriptions of plans for evac uating inmates, placement of fire extinguishers and the kind of fire fighting instructions giv en inmates and guards, the offi cial said. The reports also must include information on what if any toxic substances are used in the orisons, the official added.
