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Page 12 : — 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. 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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." IHr * ' Fw w j| 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- KM KM | TUB WEEK’S | g WISHERSI KrJ 'Custom Power Cushion Polyglos' Bl lOi Goodyear's All-Time Best Seller fIJB R s™.VUfl2for pMlgl <1 PL® ID Belted for e/8-i4 flSMfl ■ |l, Strength Cl* IP G/8 ~ 14 ■EEfI $ 258 " lU - H7B-14 fISCTfI $2.80 VW UU ~~G7B-15 $2.65 ~ uHI * VxS t ~ 178 ~ 15 $2.88 » ww! InfilflflHßflßflHHHB FET No,racleneeaed DT Just Say 'Charge It.'.. L"L See The Guys iR In The Winners Caps jg Ktt GOODYEAR WM HILL'S TIRE STORE them each month with a request 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.”
