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: — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977
McDaniel sworn in
as state school chief
ATLANTA (AP) - Dr.
Charles McDaniel was sworn in
as the new state school superin
tendent Wednesday and later
told members of the Georgia
Board of Education he hoped
they would tell him when they
thought he was on the “wrong
track.”
McDaniel, formerly superin
tendent of Clarke County
schools, was given the oath of
office by Gov. George Busbee in
Dental records
key to body ID
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo.
(AP) — Dental records from
Georgia may be the key to
identifying a badly decomposed
body found near Granite Lake
in southwestern Colorado.
The sheriff’s office asked au
thorities in Savannah, Ga., for
dental records of Sam Hudson,
a 27-year-old Savannah man
who was reported missing in
late June while on a backpack
ing trip.
Hudson’s family has said it
fears he might be the victim of
foul play. A spokesman for the
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fifth and Solomon Spalding Square
a ceremony marking the first
time in 11 years a state school
superintendent has been chosen
by the governor instead of
elected.
McDaniel will serve in the
post vacated by Jack P. Nix,
who resigned to take early re
tirement, until the 1978 general
election.
Shortly after receiving the
oath of office, McDaniel attend
ed a meeting of the state Board
FBI office in Denver said the
agency was involved in the case
because of the missing person
report and the possibility that
Hudson’s travelers checks were
stolen and taken across state
lines.
Sheriff John Evans said the
body was found Tuesday near
Hudson’s backpack, which was
found in a crevice in rocks last
week.
Hudson’s father, Jack E.
Hudson, said the family became
worried when his son’s
travelers checks were cashed in
Las Vegas.
of Education called by board
chairman Roy Hendricks of
Metter to acquaint board mem
bers with the new superinten
dent.
“I have always tried to be a
strong administrator,”
McDaniel said. “I have strong
feelings... I’m not wishy-washy
on many things. I am frank. I
hope you won’t have your
feelings on your shoulders, and
I’ll try not to have my feelings
on my shoulders.”
McDaniel asked board mem
bers to tell him when they be
lieve he is on the wrong track.
“I will not necessarily change
things because you say so, but
we’ll certainly get our heads to
gether,” he said.
McDaniel said it is still too
early for him to make any
“profound statements” on his
future plans, but added that he
hopes to “move out around the
state as much as possible” in
the coming weeks to listen to
teachers, parents and pupils.
He told members of the im
portance of agreement between
the board and the school super
intendent.
“It would be folly if I went in
one direction and you folks went
in another,” he said. “I assure
you that will not take place."
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Georgia Gov. George Busbee (r) assists Dr. Charles McDaniel as he reaches for his speech
after being sworn in as Georgia’s state school superintendent. (AP)
PSC rejects discount
electric rates for poor
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia
Power Co. proposal to give dis
count electric rates to the poor
was rejected Wednesday by the
state Public Service Commis
sion but the commission or
dered its own staff to draft a
proposed rate schedule to re
ward low-volume users of elec
tricity.
The decision came during a
discussion of Georgia Power’s
request for a >197.6 million rate
hike, which would mean an in
crease of about 20 per cent in
the average monthly residential
utility bill.
Georgia Power had proposed
offering discount rates to the
poor to be offset by increases
for more well-to-do customers.
To qualify for the special rate,
consumers would have to be
certified by a state agency such
as the Department of Human
Resources, which operates the
welfare program.
A counter-proposal by Com
missioner Bobby Pafford calls
for setting rates which will re;
ward low-volume users but will
increase proportionately for i
those who use more.
Carters celebrating
Chip returns, Rosalynn’s 50, Jeff’s 25
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -
The Carters are celebrating,
and they have a triple reason.
The first is a reunion. Son
Chip has joined his wife Caron
and their five-month-old son,
James Earl Carter IV, at this
presidential retreat after re
ports that the two were separa
ting.
Second is the First Lady’s
birthday. Rosalynn Carter is 50
years old today.
The third is the birthday of
President and Mrs. Carter’s
youngest son, Jeff. He is 25.
Chip, 27, the Carters* middle
son, will spend the rest of the
week at Camp David before
taking Caron, 24, and the Presi
dent’s grandson back to their
home town of Plains, Ga. He
reports for work Monday in the
family peanut business.
The couple’s reunion late
Wednesday climaxed five days
of talk in Washington that they
were having marital problems.
The White House refused to
confirm or deny the reports, but
had said Chip would return to
Plains and his wife and baby
would remain at the White
House.
When the President and Mrs.
Carter, who is recuperating
from routine gynecological sur
gery, came to Camp David ear
lier this week, Caron and her
baby came along. Chip stayed
behind in Washington.
At dusk Wednesday, Chip
rode through the Camp David
gate in a blue limousine. “Chip,
Caron and James will leave for
Plains on Monday,” said Mary
Hoyt, the First Lady’s press
secretary.
Asked whether the reunion
was a special birthday present
for Mrs. Carter, the press sec
retary replied: “I think she’s
just going to love having the
whole family with her.”
The President interrupted his
week-long vacation, which be
gan Monday, for a conference
with Secretary of State Cyrus R.
Vance on his trip to Peking. The
secretary leaves Saturday.
Carter, Vance and the Presi
dent’s national security -assist
ant, Zbigniew Brzezinski, met
for an hour and 25 minutes
Wednesday afternoon. After the
session, Carter gave the two
advisers a personal tour of
“Under the present rate
structure, the more electricity
you use, the cheaper it is,"
Pafford said.
The commission instructed its
own rate designers to draft a
proposed rate structure in
corporating that concept and to
present it for consideration at
the commission’s next adminis
trative session.
The commission also agreed
to allow Georgia Power to con
tinue passing along its fluctuat
ing fuel costs to consumers un
der the “fuel adjustment
charge” —a surcharge which
can vary from month to month
according to the cost of fuel.
Commissioner Mac Barber
sought to abolish the surcharge,
arguing that it gives the com
pany too much freedom from
PSC control.
Barber said fuel costs should
be merged into the basic rates
charged to consumers for elec
trical service — charges which
can Only be changed with direct
PSC approval.
Other commissioners opposed
the proposal, arguing that it
would bring the utility before
Camp David, its bicycle paths
and guest cottages.
The administration is pledged
to try to move toward full dip
lomatic relations with Peking, a
process which has been stalled
since 1974, in large part because
the mainland government
wants the United States to drop
full recognition of Taiwan.
“If I could write the script,”
Carter said in a July 29 inter
view, “I could devise away out
of the dilemma." But he added:
“We don’t want to be in a
position of abandoning the
commitment to the peaceful ex
istence of the people of Tai-
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for increased rates.
Dickey admits
lying at trial
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A
Port Wentworth, Ga., man con
victed of murder in the slaying
of Michael Wayne Hilton told a
Superior Court jury Wednesday
he lied at his own trial and tes
tified that he fatally shot the
service station attendant.
Albert Kenny Dickey, 22, of
Port Wentworth, made the ad
mission before a Chatham Su
perior Court jury hearing the
case of Kenneth Darnell Damp
ier, 19, also of Port Wentworth,
who is charged with murder,
armed robbery and auto theft in
the Feb. 9 slaying of Hilton, 19,
of Garden City, Ga.
Dickey was convicted of mur
der in the case last month and
sentenced to life in prison after
he denied firing a fatal shot into
1 wan.”
Vance and Brzezinksi arrived
I from Washington by car be
■ cause of rainy weather that
i made a helicopter landing ris-
I ky. By the time their conference
s had concluded, the rain clouds
; had lifted. They returned by
1 helicopter without giving
reporters any hint of the
specifics of their discussion.
In addition to foreign affairs,
the President is working on leg
islative matters in preparation
for the return of Congress next
month. They include tax revi
sion and government reorgani
zation.
Bus hijacker
surrenders
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -
A lone gunman held 63 people
hostage at a remote religious
retreat then calmly surren
dered to police after his cap
tives helped persuade him to
give up.
Thomas Wilson, 26, of Bak
ersfield, Calif., was being held
today in the psychiatric ward of
the Santa Cruz County Hospital
where he will undergo testing,
said Chief Deputy Mark
Ganghoff of the Santa Cruz
Sheriff’s Department.
Wilson was booked for inves
tigation of kidnap and auto theft
in the hijacking of a public bus
and abduction of its four
passengers and driver, Gang
hoff said.
Wilson allegedly released the
passengers then forced the
driver to take him to the Baha’i
Faith religious retreat in moun
tains 20 miles northwest of this
coastal city.
He demanded to see two men
— Jack Kembro, a prisoner at
Hilton’s head. Dampier did not
testify at Dickey’s trial.
But Dickey reversed his
claim of innocence Wednesday
and told the court he duped
Dampier into confessing that he
shot Hilton twice with a sawed
off shotgun.
Dickey said he previously de
nied shooting Hilton because he
wanted to escape the death
penalty, which prosecutors had
requested.
He said Dampier was too high
on drugs at the time of the in
cident to know what happened.
“I told him everything I did, but
told him he did it,” Dickey
testified.
“Dampier tried to get me to
stop. I just shot the boy (Hil
ton)," Dickey testified.
GEORGIA, SPALDING COUNTY,
CITY OF GRIFFIN.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the “Georgia
Retailers’ and Consumers’ Sales and Use Tax Act. (Ga.
Laws 1951, p 340, as amended) an election will be held on
the 27th day of September, 1977 to determine if a majority
of the electors of the City of Griffin favor imposing a sales
and use tax authorized at the rate of 1 percent
Voting shall be from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. at the usual polling
ptaces and the ballot shall read:
SHALL GRIFFIN, GEORGIA LEVY A RETAIL SALES AND USE
TAX OF 1 Percent?
YES ( ) NO ( )
All persons desiring to vote in favor of levying such a
tax shall vote “Yes” and those persons opposed to levying
such a tax shall vote “No”.
Municipal Superintendent
Mariposa County Jail, who Wil
son claimed killed his son, and
Delos Brandon, a friend being
held at San Luis Obispo Men’s
Colony, a state prison — but
surrendered with the demand
unmet and without firing the
shots he had threatened.
The captives said they were
able to keep up their spirits by
praying and singing the gospel
and folk songs they had planned
for a musical show that
evening.
Ken Allen, 42, one of the last
hostages to be freed, said that
after lengthy debate Wilson
“began to be reasonable to us
and take our suggestions.”
Allen said Wilson finally told
his captives, “(Hi, you’re right.
We don’t want anyone hurt.
Let’s get the hell out of here."
A police hostage negotiating
team also aided in the surren
der.
The incident began near
nightfall Wednesday, when a
man armed with a .22-caliber
semiautomatic rifle and about
200 rounds of ammunition hi
jacked a city bus and forced it to
be driven to the religious
center.
He released the bus driver
then burst into the center’s din
ing room, starting a six-hour
ordeal for his captives. The man
forced the mixed-aged group of
men, women and children
against a wall, but immediately
released 21 of the hostages,
most of them children.
Three others were later re
leased, leaving 37 adults, a 2-
year-old and an infant hostage.
Deputies sealed off the area
and established telephone con
tact, with most of the calls in
itiated by the abductor, Gang
hoff said.
A spokesman at the Baha’i
Faith’s world headquarters in
Wilmette, 111., said Wilson
“may be the same person who
was removed from Baha’i
membership four years ago be
cause of psychological prob
lems.”