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Page 6 — Griffin Daily News Friday, August 5,1977 JME “ -•- ■*** iffe- ' “' k \ lfL^M^W'X' V v\ \ ' A. ' W. X ' *•*••**' * ' ?lMs , gK I fi 1 «■ / II iM HMHSv i II M I A* aMrS IM I Tired of waiting HAHIRA, Ga. — When Galen Miller, 2, went off with his grandmother Mrs. Evelyn Paschal to the tobacco market here, he was full of excitement. But faced with a wait of 2 or 3 hours before they could unload their flue-cured leaf, young Galen opts for a nap. With the number of buyers on Unployment rate declines By ROBERT A. DOBKIN AP tabor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s unemployment rate fell to 6.9 per cent in July, resuming its downward course after rising the previous month, the government reported today. Unemployment had risen from 6.9 per cent in May to 7.1 per cent in June after declining from a 1976 high of 8 per cent last November. tabor Department analysists said that with the rate hovering close to the 7 per cent level for the past several months, the growth in the economy appears to have slowed temporarily fol lowing the sharp expansion ear lier this year. Some economists were ex pecting another rise in the job less rate last month, but a sharp decline in the civilian labor force brought the rate down in July. Civilian labor force, which in cludes those working and look ing for work, declined by 340,- 000 last month with nearly all of the reduction occurring among teen-agers. The government said it was likely that the PLANT EMPORIUM Now Has FRESH FLOWERS 125 W. Solomon St. Phone 228-7033 The First Baptist Church of Atlanta YOUTH REVIVAL TEAM KIW Nm \ ■" n wb i J " yLkl % L Ay Susan Dodson Annette Coppedge CjCV Dennis McGuire Ed Waters ***, at DeVotie Baptist Churcn On August 5,6, & 7 Fri., Sat., Sun. at 7 P.M. Sunday Morning at 11 A.M. “Make Disciples Os All The Nations ... Teaching Them To Observe All That I Commanded You.” Matt 28: 19-20 reduction in the labor force was due to the lateness of the survey week when the June figures were gathered. “Thus, some youths who oth erwise would have been record ed as July entrants were count ed in June,” the government said. There was little growth in the number of Americans with jobs last month, as total employ ement, at 90.6 million, was little changed from June after ad vancing for eight consecutive months. Over the past year employ ment had grown by 2.8 million, Ears strained to hear ‘Dawson 5’ threats DAWSON, Ga. (AP) - Ears straining in crowded court room, 200 blacks and a few whites leaned forward as two young black men testified qui etly that white police had threatened them with castra tion, electrocution and bullets in the brain. James Jackson Jr. and Roosevelt Watson said those al leged threats caused them to confess falsely to taking part in the January 1976 shooting of a white ranch foreman at a rural grocery east of town. The testimony Thursday the Georgia-Florida belt to be cut in half next week, there has been a great upsurge in the quantity of tobacco brought to market and long lines of trucks laden with leaf are the rule. (AP) with a 2.9 million increase in nonagricultural industries and a 140,000 decline in agriculture. With the jobless rate falling back to 6.9 per cent last month, the total number of unemployed declined by 220,000 to 6.7 mil lion. Most of the drop occurred among teen-agers and adult women. The tabor Department said the teen-age jobless rate fell from 18.6 per cent to 17.4 per cent last month, its lowest point since October, 1974. However it was only white youths that ben efited, as the rate for black came as their attorneys wound up three days of arguments on motions that murder in dictments against Jackson, Watson and three others — the “Dawson Five” — be thrown out because of alleged miscon duct by law enforcement offi cers. Many of those officers ac cused of vicious threats against the defendants, sat in the court room as calmly as their accu sers during the testimony. They will get their chance to answer the allegations when prosecution attorneys begin re- teen-agers remained “ex tremely high” at 40.7 per cent, the government said. Among other major groups in the labor force, the government gave the following breakdown: —The jobless rate for adult men increased to 5.1 per cent in July from 5 per cent in June. —The rate for adult women declined to 6.9 per cent last month from 7.2 per cent. —Among whites, the unem ployment rate dropped from 6.3 per cent to 6.1 per cent. —Unemployment among blacks and other minorities was unchanged at 13.2 per cent. buttal testimony on the motions Monday. Defense attorneys Millard Farmer and Tony Axam also presented witnesses maintain ing that the grocery store own er’s identification of Watson might be shaky and that a jus tice of the peace might have had a monetary reason for issuing arrest and search warrants. But most of the officials and spectators’ attention was fo cused on Watson, 20, and Jack son, who turned 18 Wednesday. “I was scared,” they both said, again and again. “He said he was going to put a bullet in my head like I did the man in that store,” said Watson, testifying about former Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Jerry Culbertson. “I thought he was fixin’ to shoot me,” said Jackson when he testified that Terrell County Deputy Sheriff Jack Hammack questioned him with a pistol be tween Jackson’s eyes. Both defendants testified that another GBI agent threatened them with electrocution as they sat strapped to a polygraph machine in nearby Americus. Farmer argued that the five defendants are victims of con tinuing racial discrimination in the rural county just south of President Carter’s home town of Plains. Despite talk of integration in the South, witnesses said, blacks and whites seldom so cialize together in Terrell Coun ty and go to separate schools, churches and recreational facil ities such as swimming pools. Headmaster Tom Church of all-white Terrell Academy, set up less than a decade ago, said that although he wasn’t con nected with the school at that time, “I’m sure the purpose was a segregation concept, fear of the mass integration of the schools here and not knowing how to cope with it." Watson and Jackson are free on SIOO,OOO bond each in the slaying of foreman Gordon Howell, but the other three — Watson’s brother Henderson, 23; Jackson’s brother Johnny, 18, and J.D. Davenport, 20 — remain in jail. Superior Court Judge Walter Geer has reduced bail to a total of $200,000 for all five, but there has been delay by contributors of the money in redistributing it defense attorneys said. Nuclear material unaccounted for at Savannah River plant AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - Federal officials have disclosed that 450 pounds of nuclear material are unaccounted for at the Savan nah River nuclear plant here, but one local official said there is no indication any of the ma terial has been stolen. SRP officials “know of no substances that have been sto len,” Newton Seebeck, the plant’s director of safeguards and security, said Thursday. His statement came after the Energy Research and Develop ment Administration (ERDA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC) isssued public reports Thursday on the pre viously classified issue of mate rials unaccounted for — or MUFs — at nuclear facilities. The agencies acknowledged that scores of “inventory differ- X?<k'lZ I Ji Friend ask her for her husband By Abigail Van Buren 1977 by The Chicago Tribune-N Y News Synd Inc DEAR ABBY: Last week I returned from caring for my ailing mother for the last five weeks. She has a terminal illness and lives 300 miles from here. Yesterday a friend of mine called on me and I am still in shock. She begged me to give my husband a divorce! It seems they saw a lot of each other while I was out of town. She said they were “in love,” and he claimed I won’t give him a divorce. She said my husband said we were "separated” and I had left him! We’ve been married for 17 years and there never was any mention of divorce. In fact, I thought we had a good marriage. I am stunned, hurt and dizzy trying to figure this out. Can you help me? STILL IN SHOCK DEAR STILL: What’s to figure out? Tell your husband about your visitor, and let HIM explain it to you. DEAR ABBY: I have a rather delicate problem. My husband comes from a large family, and I get along very well with all of them, but naturally I like some of his sisters and brothers better than others. My question: When I entertain, isn’t it O.K. for me to invite, say, a few of my husband’s sisters and brothers, and leave out some? I was called on the carpet by my husband’s grandmother who said if I couldn’t invite ALL of the brothers and sisters, I shouldn’t invite any of them. Abby, that would m .'.e 18 people every time. I don’t expect to be invited every place MY sisters and brothers are. I'd like to add that I invite the whole tribe occasionally, so it’s not like I'm sn ibbing anyone. BIG FAMILY DEAR BIG: I don’t know who is calling the signals in your family, but she’s out of bounds. If you “invite the whole tribe occasionally,” no one should feel offended. Invite whom you wish. DEAR ABBY: I have a problem. I am a 66-year-old woman who is engaged to a 69-year-old man. He has been a widower for 11 years. He has asked me to go with him to visit his family. It would be a 900-mile trip by automobile. My children feel that it would be "proper” for me to go with him if we flew, but “improper” if we drove. I have known this gentleman since childhood and see nothing “improper” about making the trip with him regardless of how we went. Will you kindly advise me, Abby. UNDECIDED DEAR UNDECIDED: I see nothing “improper” here, except possibly that which exists in the minds of your children. Go along with your fiance and have a wonderful time. DEAR ABBY: What is your opinion of a person who is constantly correcting others in public about the pronunciation of words and their use? All involved in this situation are adults. Thank you. CRITICIZED DEAR CRITIZED: The constant corrector is showing his ignorance. It is infinitely more important to be KIND than to be correct. Everyone has a problem. What's yours? For a persona) reply, write to ABBY: Box No. 69700, L.A., Calif. 90069. Enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope, please. 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But the discrepancies were dismissed primarily as bookkeeping errors and other anomalies, rather than being viewed as actual losses. Leonard Ledbetter, chief of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, said Thurs- (Jongressmen reject gas tax WASHINGTON (AP) - Sev en of Georgia’s 10 congressmen voted with the majority Thurs day when the U.S. House of Representatives defeated 339-82 a five-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline. Voting against the tax were Reps. Doug Barnard of Au gusta, Jack Brinkley of Colum bus, Billy Evans of Macon, John Flynt of Griffin, Ed Jenkins of Jasper, Elliott Levitas of Atlanta, and Larry McDonald of Marietta. Voting in favor of the tax were Reps. Wyche Fowler of Atlanta, Ronald “Bo” Ginn of Millen and Dawson Mathis of Albany. 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