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-J' ! J- X *r ** ’ 3?® £ S ! ■* t. % <s IS ' & ? g ir UKi ,-S|S llr " K k ’■IF $ ’■■B (L * ' M■ • .. « 1 ?a < ■/ ■» IHLft . i 3®O v kylSlk wWtw A .- ’- , "Zap’-'’ ’ ”■ '• :. x .; ’. ' :’fA • ; < Governor George Busbee, Miss Lillian Carter and Hank Aaron sit on the dais at the Atlanta Press Club Peanut Roast in Atlanta Thursday night while waiting for Bert Lance and Jody Powell to arrive. The roast is an annual Heavyweights ’ miss roasting By GREG MacArthur Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The fire was lit for a “peanut roast’’ of Bert Lance, Jody Powell and other Carter ad ministration officials. But as home run king Henry Aaron remarked, “I don’t see how you can roast anybody when they’re not here.” It wasn’t that the administration heavyweights were not good sports. It was simply that they were too busy in Washington Thursday night to get insulted at the Atlanta Press Club’s “Peanut Roast,” explained press club president Zeke Segal. But, although no one was there to squirm, the assem bled “roasters” let fly with good-natured barbs anyway. Although his stand-up delivery was less than perfect, Gov. George Busbee scored well when he told the crowd that Powell, the President’s press secretary “had gotten into some of that wife swapping in Washington.” “Only trouble is, he swapped his wife for a ‘57 Chevy and a pair of coon dogs,” Busbee said. Busbee also recalled that “when Jody got promoted from the fifth to the 6th grade, he got so excited he cut himself shaving.” Busbee also referred to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young’s “industrial strength gall” and mentioned that he had inherited “137 toothbrushes, 12 miles of dental floss and 34 wellthumbed Playboy magazines” when he suc- Weekdays - 7:09 - 9:00 P.M. Sunday - 5:16 - 7:09 & 9:00 P.M. 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Scott is the son of Mrs. Peggy A. Algren of 112 McKinley drive, Griffin. affair during which scholarships are awarded to aspiring young journalists. The roast is also an opportunity for guests to take tongue-in-cheek jabs at prominant politicians. (AP) ceeded Carter in the Georgia governor’s mansion. Aaron likened the 1976 presidential campaign team to a baseball club from Plains: “A town so small the mice once ate it.” He described President Carter’s best pitch as one that “starts out to the left and then curves around to the middle.” Walter Stone, a former principal at the Vienna, Ga., High School, Powell’s alma mater, recalled that Powell’s graduating speech “was a bit dull. But what it lacked in depth, he had in length.” Stone added, however, that Powell was doing “an ex cellent job as presidential press secretary. He’s standing for everything he thinks we’ll fall for.” Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times, took a shot at the absent federal budget director Bert Lance. “There’s good news and bad news about Bert’s finan ces,” Nelson said. “The good news is that he’s finally sold his bank stock at a substantial profit. The bad news is that the buyer is a South Korean businessman.” The “roastmaster” for the even was Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. Other celebrities attending the “roast” were Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner, Georgia Tech football Coach Pepper Rodgers and the President’s mother, Lillian Carter. Flowers stolen from cemetery Griffin police received another report of the theft of flowers from Oak Hill Cemetery Thursday. Mrs. Lewis Brewer of 1006 Windsor way told lawmen that a large number of potted plants and a floral arrangement were removed from her mother’s grave in the old section of the cemetery. The theft was one of several similar complaints recently, police said. Vandals also were on the loose again in the South Eighth street area. Walter Lee Hancock of 1317 McArthur drive reported that he was driving on South Eighth street Thursday evening when someone threw a rock and broke his windshield. The damage was set at $l7O. Police receive periodic complaints of rock throwing in that area. Griffin Auto Parts, 430 East Taylor street, was burglarized. Someone broke into the business and stole 2 lamps, a clock-radio and dishes, police said. Griffin police caught a 16- year-old boy at the rear of Griffin Electronics, 217 West Taylor street, a short time after he allegedly had stolen a microphone from the business. Police said he had hidden the SSO mike on his person. A small amount of change was taken from a drink box which had been broken open Wednesday night at The Fish House, 354 North 13th street. An interested citizen called the Sheriff’s Department to report that an Atlanta Newspapers’ box was on Sapelo road where it apparently had been discarded by thieves. Deputies recovered the box and notified the paper office. Richard Alton Buckalew, 20, of Peachtree street, was charged with enticing a child for indecent purposes and violation of the Georgia Con trolled Substances Act when a small amount of marijuana was found in his possession, ac cording to the Spalding Sheriff’s Department. Man, sons charged HOMER, Ga. (AP) - A Com merce man and his sons were jailed on murder charges Thursday in the shooting death of a North Carolina man, au thorities said. A spokesman for the Banks County Sheriff’s Department said Louis Douglas Hardy, in his 50s, and his sons, Billy Hardy, 30, and Kenneth Hardy, 29, all of Commerce, were charged in the death of Louis J. Ingram of Thomasville, N.C. Ingram’s body, found Sunday in the burned-out wreckage of his pickup truck, was identified Thursday. Stork Club LITTLE MISS MACFA YDEN Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Mac fayden of 161 Stafford avenue, Barnesville, announce the birth of a daughter on Aug. 4 at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. MASTER GREER Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Greer of 1508 Teakwood drive, Griffin, announce the birth of a son on Aug. 5 at the Griffin- Spalding County Hospital. LITTLE MISS CARSON Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Carson of Waycross announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Michelle, on July 21 at the Ware County Hospital in Waycross. Maternal grand parents are Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Landham of Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Carson of Brooks are the paternal grandparents. Prosecutor charges Zoo officials looked away as ring smuggled reptiles PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Zoo of ficials “were just looking the other way” as an international smuggling ring brought more than 600 rare con traband reptiles into the United States, a federal prosecutor says. “I think the mentality among the zoos in this country when this investigation started was, ‘lf you can get an animal, get it,”’ U.S. Atty. David Marston said Thursday after a federal grand jury here indicted 12 persons in a two and one-half year investigation that ranged from the United States to France, Switzerland, Africa and Australia. Eight of the nation’s most prestigious zoos were identified as having received the contraband animals. The zoos are: the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., a branch of the Smithsonian Institution; the Philadelphia Zoological Garden; St. Louis Zoological Park; Dallas Zoo; Knoxville (Tenn.) Zoo; Sacramento (Calif.) Zoo; Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, N. Y.; and Overton Park Zoo in Memphis. Although no zoo officials were named in the indictments, Marston said the U.S. Interior Department would seek civil penalties against institutions and curators that received the rare snakes, lizards, crocodiles and other cold blooded animals. Zoo officials denied any complicity in the alleged smuggling. “We did not smuggle any snakes,” said Charles Hoessle, deputy director of the St. Louis Zoo. “We bought the animals in good faith. The animals were in the country at the time we negotiated for them. If the animals BUY America's Number One Selling COLOR TV Pie “ °* “ ■MAiBMa FREE! E3 S SO OO UNITED STATES SAVINGS BOND When you purchase any 1977 Zenith Console Large Screen Color TV fe’loß TRADE-IN ■MI lr —I M l• Chromacolor picture tube ■ • 100% SOLID STATE BHa E ner 9 y s aver Chassis B Many More Styles and W Features for your selection FREE! UNITED STATES nfl SAVINGS BOND UU When you purchase any 1977 17" or 19” diag. 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In Memphis, Tenn., zoo director Charles Wilson said he believed the two Fiji iguanas at his zoo were not listed as endangered when they were purchased. “To my knowledge, those iguanas were bought before the Fiji Islands declared they were endangered and we believed we were buying them from a reputable dealer,” he said. “The thing that shocks me is that if they were illegal, then why blame us,” he said. “We didn’t import the animals and did not know they were illegal, if that is the case.” Wilson said he has not been contacted by Customs officials, who conducted the investigation, but said Charles Beck, the zoo’s curator of aquaria and reptiles, had testified twice before the grand jury. Ronald T. Reuther, president of the Philadelphia Zoological Garden, said last February when the investigation was announced that “these animals came in with permits we thought were proper." A Customs official said the in vestigation showed that more than 600 reptiles were illegally brought into this country. About 300 of the reptiles died shortly after being “clandestinely brought into the United States on one expedition in late 1974,” the official said. The resale value of the 300 surviving snakes and other reptiles was estimated at $35,000. CATFISH CABIN Highway 16 East Jackson Road Griffin, Ga. 228-7620 All You Can Eat Friday Night FRIED SHRIMP (Reg. $4.95) $395 Saturday Night BOILED SHRIMP Reg. 15.95 *3” Monday Night FROG LEGS (Reg. 2 Pre. $4.25) *3’s Wednesday Night FLOUNDER Reg. $3.50 $ 2 95 Sunday Sunday Luncheon (1-plate servings) $ 2 50 (Drinks Extra) Hours: Mon.-Sat. 5-10 P.M. Sunday 12 Noon -10 P.M.
