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Newspaper Page TextCarter keeps pushing for Geneva conference By RICHARD E. MEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Carter will meet with the foreign ministers of Israel and at least four Arab nations next month to build on what the ad ministration calls “continuing momentum’* toward a Geneva peace conference on the Middle East. These meetings and what the President concedes are “major differences between Arabs and Israelis’’ were likely to be top ics for discussion at lunch today between Carter and former ‘ Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Another probable item for discussion was the new Panama Canal agreement, which Carter and Kissinger have talked about on the telephone within the past week. The President would like support for Senate ratification from the former secretary, whom he criticized during last year’s presidential campaign for being a “lone ranger’* in foreign policy. The pact faces stiff opposi tion. Acknowledging that the agreement “is a tough political question,” Carter wrote to all members of Congress on Friday Until Tuesdoy SO 1 hkll' "Iwlllll 1 I 1 I vM tempe.otu.e, ‘O’ P»0. 7o ts f) J Rain _ , , V > |AAV\\| Cold Worm 70 ik j 1 l ' xxxxl *’■“■’■■■■ Data from inniiTa Stationary Occluded As NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE InHHlfl ■•■■■■ b »o NOAA. U.S. Dept, of Commerce, WEATHER FORECAST — Showers are forecast Monday over much of the country. Cool weather is expected from the northern into the eastern plains but most of the country is expected to be warm. (AP) ' ~ : <S' : i ;/•;> a* j:S ! “■'<J'■?■■■'<?«.As: '■ >i'S'?. : S ; . ®j -ii mE<' '"! | 18jfa.it..-' ||L il ''.■ W / ■ ■ / S* 4 For When You Want to Remember Choose from our selection of 8 scenic and color backgrounds. Select additional portraits and save up to 14 compared to 1975 prices. See our new large Decorator Portrait. No obligation to buy additional portraits. Satisfaction always. A professional 5x7 color portrait for THESE DAYS ONLY: AIIOIICT Tues - Wed - Thurs - m- Sat - MUUUOI 16 17 18 19 20 DAILY: 10 A. M. - 8 P. M. 1433 Georgia Highway 16 - West, Griffin One sitting per subject-$l per subject for additional sub jects, groups, or individuals in the same family. Bl I President Carter meets with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at the White House. Vance reported on his Mid-Eastern and European trip, which he concedes left “wide gaps” bet ween the Arabs and Israelis. (AP) for the second time in a week saying: “I need your help.” The White House made his letter public on Saturday. At the September talks on the Middle East, the foreign minis- Wentworth man on trial for murder SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The trial of a 19-year-old Port Wentworth, Ga., man, charged with murder, armed robbery and auto theft, gets underway today in Superior Court. Kenneth Dampier is accused in the robbery and slaying of service station attendant Mi chael Wayne Hilton, 19, of Gar den City, Ga., last Feb. 9. Dist. Atty. Andrew Ryan 111 said he expects most of today to be taken up with jury selection. Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday. Another Port Wentworth man, Albert Dickey, 22, was convicted last month of the same charges and was sen tenced to life in prison in the robbery-murder. Weekend accident toll reaches 8 in Georgia By The Associated Press Eight persons were killed in weekend traffic accidents in Georgia, including an elderly Eastman man in a two-car col lision, authorities said. C. H. Brewer, 82, was killed Sunday when the car he was riding in was struck from the side by another car about six miles south of Dublin on Ga. 31 in Laurens County, the state patrol said. Two persons died on Inter state 75 near Dalton when they were hit by a car while they were fixing a flat tire on their car. Jerry Hunter, age unavail able, and Imogene Burnett, 25, were standing beside the car when they were struck and killed early Sunday, troopers said. The state patrol said Joe H. Lewis, 25, of Waynesboro, and John Pierce, 25, of Millen, were ter of Lebanon might join his counterparts from Syria, Jor dan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in their parade to see the Presi dent and Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance. The Middle East ministers will be attending the United Nations General Assembly that month. Still to be worked out are dates for the meetings and whether they will be in Wash ington or New York, according to an administration official. The significance of the meet ings, the official said, is that “the peace process is still going on. “The momentum is contin uing,” he said. Carter announced his meet ings with the foreign ministers after receiving a first-hand re port Sunday from Vance on his 13-day trip to six nations in Eu rope and the Middle East. Telephone pacts all worked out ATLANTA (AP) — A Com munications Workers of Amer ica spokesman says all unre solved contracts involving tele phone companies in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina have been re solved. However, it wasn’t until after Western Electric installers in the four states struck at mid night Saturday that the final agreement was reached, the spokesman said Sunday. About 2,000 communications .workers struck in those four states and about an hour later agreement was reached, the spokesman said. “But it wasn’t easy to get in touch with everybody,” he said. “They are scattered all over the place, in little groups. We couldn’t notify everybody right away.” The union said it now has agreements with Southern Bell, Western Electric and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Details of the settlements were not available. killed in a head-on collision in Burke County Saturday night. The accident occurred about seven miles south of Waynes boro on a county road. Otis Hopkins, 14, of Swains boro, was killed Saturday night and four other persons were in jured when a car overturned on an Emanuel County road, troopers said. Cynthia Herring, 31, was killed Friday night when hit by a car as she was walking down the center of a Chatham County road, officers said. Timothy Carr, 16, of Cave Spring, was fatally injured Fri day night in an accident on U.S. 27 south of Bremen. The patrol said Carr was one of two youths in the auto being pursued by troopers when it wrecked. The Associated Press counts weekend accidental deaths from 6 p.m. Friday until mid night Sunday. news Suh site hearings set SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Four public hearings are sched uled for this week on a proposal to build a Navy submarine site at Kings Bay in Camden County, Ga. The first hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. today in Kingsland. Another is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., and two others are scheduled for Wednesday in Atlanta—at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Peteet out on bond ATLANTA (AP) —An Atlanta apartment manager, who alleg edly threatened to shoot Presi dent Carter last November, has been released on $50,000 bond on a charge of selling an automatic machine gun to an undercover police agent. John “Jack” Crane Peteet was arrested last week on the firearms charge and bond ws set at $500,000 by U.S. Magis trate Allen Chancey. Chancey reduced the bond to 3 charged in killing WINDER, Ga. (AP) - Three men have been charged with murder in the Friday night shooting death of a 29-year-old Winder woman, the Barrow County sheriff’s department said. Officials declined to discuss circumstances of the slaying, saying only that Mrs. Betty 6RIF FIN August Q coat, I Jr i sale < t 15% , I 20’« / All are new! All are exciting! All are just now / | | being shown for the first time. 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Peteet allegedly made the threat on Carter in November, 1976, saying, “If I had a ma chine gun, I’d mow Carter down.” U.S. Secret Service agents in vestigated the alleged threat and kept Peteet under surveil lance without arresting him, said Asst. U.S. Atty. William Tetrick. Parsons had been killed at her home by three shogtgun blasts in the chest. Charged Saturday in the death were James O’Dillon, 28, and Danny J. Whitehead, 21, both of Watkinsville, and Tom J. Gunter, 35, of Statham, au thorities said. Page 5 — Griffin Daily News Monday, August 15,1977 Cars slowed to make room LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some motorists find it annoying when other drivers try to cut ahead of them on the crowded freeways here. On Sunday, however, one ve hicle found it easy to cut in. 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