Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, August 25, 1977, Image 16

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Newspaper Page TextPage 16 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 25, 1977 State studying false advertising ATLANTA (AP) — A recent investigation of 90 Georgia re tail stores may result in law suits against some merchants for use of alleged false adver tising, says the director of the state Office of Consumer Af fairs. Tim Ryles told a group of ad vertising executives and mer chants Wednesday that mis leading ads may prove costly if wzd: HL.iteffiy Gold coin checked ATLANTA, Ga. — Michele Menard, public relations chief for the Royal Canadian Mint, displays the new Canadian SIOO gold coin struck to conunemorate the 25th an niversary of the accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth 11. The coin, displayed in Atlanta on Tuesday, bears an effigy of the queen on one side and a floral bouquet representing the ten provinces and two territories of Canada. The larger reproduction on the left is used as a guide to identifying each of the flowers. (AP) Back-to-School Specials COATS - Friday and Saturday are the last 2 days to save on your new fall coat or jacket. Any coat or jacket from our complete collection. 15% to 20% off SWEATERS - Select any new fall sweater in the Jr. Corner and save! Friday and Saturday only 10% off • Jeans - save 10% on any pair of our great fashion jeans. Ditto, gotcha covered, Happy Legs, Moody’s Goose and Rumble Seats - all Friday and Saturday only 10% off SPECIAL PURCHASE Bobbie Brooks 100% polyester dress pants. Just the right shades of grey, rust, brown, navy, taupe to coordinate with fall sweaters and tops. An $lB - $25 value. 13 90 OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY 9:30 to 6. the ads violate the Fair Busi ness Practices Act. “Consumers are more likely to believe ads based on decep tion rather than truth” Ryles told the Georgia Retail Associ ation. He said consumers are easily fooled into believing words such as “discount” and “wholesale" automatically mean they are getting a lower price for goods. • . "*’l A * f / Mir i. PLAISTOW, N. H.—Peter Saunders of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tends to Shetland pony in Plainstow, N. H. The SPCA said the animal was kept in an uncleaned stall for 2 or 3 years. Its hooves have grown to 18 inches. A Plainstow woman is charged with mistreatment of the pony (AP) Jugde halts Fulton’s crackdown on obscenity ATLANTA (AP) - Fulton County officials’ efforts to crack down on the sale of men’s magazines violates the con stitutional rights of the magazine publishers, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Freeman’s action Barnards have pact CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who perfomed the world’s first human heart transplant, says he and his brother Marius have agreed to a pact that if one becomes terminally ill and despondent, and suicide is impossible, the other will “help him to die.” Marius Barnard also is a surgeon. “Marius and I decided that we would never let the situation happen where we became terminally ill and lost the will to live but could do nothing about ending our lives," Barnard said, according to the South African Press Association. “Our agreement is that if that happens to either of us, the other will help him to die.” Kept in stall came in a suit by publishers of five men’s magazines against Fulton County Solicitor Hinson McAuliffe seeking to have him enjoined from making further arrests of newsstand vendors on obscenity charges. Freeman said McAuliffe’s ac tions constituted an “informal Charges filed under bingo law SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Former state . Sen. Henry McDowell, his wife and son face charges of violating a provision of Georgia’s bingo law, which limits the amount of cash prizes awarded during games, authorities said. McDowell, his wife, Joyce, and son, Henry Jr., were re leased on SI,OOO bond each Wednesday, authorities said. If convicted of the charge, the McDowells could each be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison and fined $20,000. Dist. Atty. Andrew J. Ryan 111 said they were charged with violating a section of the law prohibiting organizations from distributing more than $l,lOO in bingo prizes a day or more than $2,200 a week. More than $3,000 was awarded during bingo games Aug. 19 in a hall owned by Mrs. McDowell and rented to a char itable organization, Ryan said. ★★★★★★★* Not a bomb PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — It wasn’t a bomb, only a plastic bag containing some sort of non explosive powder and a tran sistor radio, but Police Chief ■ Billy McClung was still unhappy. Several hours after the bag was discovered Wednesday near the Plains Baptist Church, examined by police and then declared safe by an ordnance team from nearby Fort Ben ning, McClung declined to say much about the “bomb scare.” “The whole thing about this is if you go saying somebody’s planted a bomb down here, sud denly we’ll have forty-hundred kooks getting ideas,” he ex plained. “We don’t want to have to deal with kooks.” McClung said the bag was found in “some bushes by the street” near the church. “A man brought it down here because he wanted to know what it was—that’s all,” McClung said. system of prior restraint.” He also ruled that the August issue of Penthouse magazine was not obscene based on pre vious rulings by the U.S. Su preme Court. Penthouse was the only one of the five magazines which sought a ruling on the obscenity question. The decision came one day after McAuliffe won his first victory in his campaign against the magazines. On Tuesday, an Atlanta magazine distributor pleaded “no contest” to obscenity charges and was fined SB,OOO by a State Court judge. Whirlpool i 4 SUPER SIZE CAPACITY plus J WASHES 40. ALL THESE FEATURES J UP TO IOLBS. • 3 AUTOMATIC WASH CYCLES F 4 OF HEAVY DENIM • 3 WASH/RINSE WATER TEMPS F <1 AND TWILL GARMENTS • EASY-CLEAN LINT FILTER F ; NOW ** T V ’299 M LDA 6900 H * □ NEW HOURS H U OPEN FRIDAY EVENINGS 'TIL 8 M U Mon. - Tues. - Thurs. - Sat. 9 to 6 M - U Closed All Day Sun. - Wed. U □ ® on,on r □ jl 7.1 H JAubl.... Phone 227-3597 H M W19521 '1 1 I b l H* M Jfl CT? M Law prohibits illegal pets ATLANTA (AP) — The rea sons for prohibiting persons from owning endangered or jjigg est IW M l<«™ for back to school 28 to 38 waist Reg. $15.00 to $24.00 n.« M 0” ndrodt to ehooso from: Levi, Tobias Brittania, > Male, Landlubber Oxford 2 SPALDIKG SQUARE dangerous animals as pets are well known: The laws protect the species and the public. In Georgia, however, the law > prohibits ownership of any ani mal not native to the state, un less a special permit is issued or the owner is a zoo or approved game farm.