Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, August 25, 1977, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text-Griffin Daily News Thursday, August2s, 1977 Page 8 Violence reported in coal strike By The Associated Press Violence was reported as dis sident miners defied leaders of the United Mine Workers and refused to end their wildcat strike. State police said shots were fired Wednesday night when two rival UMW groups gath ered in the Cabin Creek area of Kanawha County in West Vir ginia. No injuries were report ed and police said the groups dispersed shortly after the in cident. About 10 shots reportedly came from the direction of about 40 miners who said they Singer’s physician reveals Presley abused drugs MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Elvis Presley often swallowed too many sleeping pills, so friends started leaving sugar pills or vitamins on his bedside table to prevent an accidental overdose, the singer’s doctor says. Dr. George Nichopoulos said Presley abused drugs acciden tally, not on purpose. “...He really didn’t have a drug prob lem. He had a medication prob lem at times," Nichopoulos said Wednesday in a copyright interview in The Commercial Appeal. Nichopoulos, who treated the rock ’n’ roll superstar for 11 years, said Presley’s problem —■ ujb —: "1X ■ n i - Oi* tnMfaiJ Wednesday was Chip’s first day working at the Plain’s warehouse. (AP) IWo kinds of chicken from one great chicken place. I fried 1 ■ggiipwiiiwm 11 * .gm. One place called Kentucky Fried But some folks like a crunchier crust Chicken. on their chicken. They're the types who go You see, Colonel Sanders knows that for Extra Crispy. It's tender and juicy on different folks have different tastes. Take the inside like Original Recipe, but crispier Original Recipe for instance. Almost and crunchier on the outside, everybody loves its secret blend of 11 Whichever type you are, come on in for herbs and spices the Colonel spent a good some of our “finger lickin’ good"chicken, chunk of his life perfecting. Choose your Chicken-Original Recipe or l itn Crispy. Then choose your savings. Tfefw'l I® A Barrel of . A Bucket of I Kentucky Med Chicken. I Kentucky Med Chicken. I Kentucky Med Chicken. | |°n a 18-pc. or 21-pc. | On Q 15 , pc Bucket of |On a 3-pc. Dinner Box | ■ Barrel of Kentucky Kentucky Fried chicken ■ of Kentucky Fried. I Fried Chicken or Extra | Qr g X | ra Crispy. ■ Chicken or Extra | Crispy. K<ntwtaj frfal Z/Hidcen. Your place in town for two kinds of chicken. 131 East Solomon St. 1417 West Mclntosh Road Phone 227-3678 Phone 228 2432 would not return to work as di rected in an order issued Mon day by the union’s International Executive Board. UMW president Arnold Miller “has sent his thugs up here,” said the miners. The dissidents, believed to be from the union’s Charleston-based District 17, referred to the second group, which consisted of about 100 men. Members of the larger group said they were there “to make sure the pickets don’t stop the men from going back to work.” Earlier Wednesday, Miller had met with members of the with drugs ended three years ago when the strict procedures were adopted to prevent him from taking too much medi cine. “He’d wake up from sleep and he would take something and not even remember he took it,” the doctor said. Nichopoulos said he didn’t believe the 42-year-old Presley over-dosed on drugs at the time of his death, Aug. 16. "No, I don’t think he had anything to OD on. He had tak en a couple of sleeping pills or he was given a couple of sleep ing pills ... The only other me dication he had on hand was some medication he used for union’s organizing department and made plans to insure that pickets did not keep miners in the Cabin Creek area from their work. The groups remained about 75 yards apart. State police ar rived about 30 minutes after the shots were fired. “It’s brother against broth er,” said Talmadge Dean, of Ellsworth, Pa., a member of the larger group. “We were asked to come down here by our local union president. But we can see that District 17 isn’t ready to get back to work.” Dean said about 20 of the r L > 1 k ~ ’Ji Dr. George C. Nichopoulos his colon and medication that he used for his sinus.” —Elvis was notorious for shooting out television screens, and Nichopoulos once was struck in the chest by a rico- Chip has ‘dirty job’ PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Per spiring and covered with dirt, President Carter’s son Chip spent his first day working at the family peanut business Wednesday in the warehouse his father designed. Clad in bluejeans and a sports shirt, Chip, 27, did what he said was “very dirty work” — helping warehouse workers haul an old conveyor belt from the roof of the three-story warehouse. However, his Secret Service agent, also clad in jeans, was little help when one of the workers asked him to lend a miners in the group were from other states. Meanwhile, roving pickets moved back into UMW District 30 in eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, closing mines that had opened the day before. District President Robert Carter said the wildcat strike appeared to have slippped back into high gear after the brief Interruption. “It’s pretty wide spread. I don’t reckon there’s anything working," Carter said. The West Virginia Coal Asso ciation estimated 18,000 miners remained off the job Wednes- accidentally dieting bullet. “I had bugged him about something and he came out with this little .22 (caliber) hand pistol and shot the thing into a chair ... The bullet just ricocheted and stopped at my chest after it hit the couch or chair that I was sitting on.” —Elvis was unhappy in the last few months because he couldn’t work out problems with his fiancee, Ginger Alden. “Elvis loved to have a ... Well, he liked to be mothered a lot. He liked for a woman to mother him a lot. He missed his mother a lot. He liked to have somebody to take care of him and somebody to be hand. “I am working,” he said. “I’m watching.” Chip’s aunt, Sybil Carter, said there won’t be much for him to do until peanut harvesting begins in mid September. “Peanuts haven’t started yet in Plains,” said Mrs. Carter, wife of the President’s brother, BiUy. Chip, his wife Caron and their infant son James Earl Carter IV arrived in Plains Tuesday from Washington and are staying at the President’s home. Chip recently resigned his part-time, SB,OOO-a-year job with the Democratic National Committee. Invasion of privacy SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — It was an open and shut case of invasion of privacy and bugging in Superior Court. But rather than sentence the culprits, the judge chose to clear the courtroom. After a court recess Wednes day morning, the bailiff told Judge Harry Woolpert the ju rors had refused to go back to work. They said their jury box was covered with smaU, black bugs — possibly mites. “Your honor,” said one exas perated female juror, “I hope you can understand how diffi cult it is to inconspicuously squash little bugs that get down your bra.” The judge agreed to a sug gestion to take an early lunch recess while the court brought in an exterminator. SOLAR ENERGY IS FREE Let the SUN heat your hot water... With a new Grumman Sunstream Solar Hot Water System. It uses free solar energy to heat water for residential, commercial and industrial uses - at a fraction of the price you’re presently paying. Visit our working display August 25-27 in front of Rose’s at Spalding Square on highway 19 South. WHELCHEL SOLAR ENTERPRISES, INC. Chamblee, (a. (404)458-2311 day, primarily in District 17. That was down from the 30,000 strikers reported out Tuesday. About 10,000 eastern Kentucky miners were idle Wednesday. The renewed picketing was a blow to the UMW’s embattled leadership which had ordered the miners back for a 60-day period while the union contin ues negotiations on health bene fit funds with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA). The strike erupted nine weeks ago over cutbacks in benefits. around him to talk about these things. And he just couldn’t get this all quite coordinated with Ginger and this caused him a lot of frustration.” —E Ivi s ’ daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, will probably benefit psychologically in later life from her father’s premature death. “It was hard on his daughter coming from Califor nia to here and spending time here and spending time there.” He said he believes it is always better for the child of divorced parents to stay with mother or father and not with both. Pres ley and his former wife, Pris cilla Beaubieu, divorced in 1975. There has been some specula tion that the warehouse will be sold but family members won’t say what part Chip will have in any change. CAIN’S SPECIAL SALE! SVideomatic Dne-Button Tuning - the most corr~ ptetety automat,: one-button tuning system in the industry. 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In a dispatch from Washing ton, the newspaper quoted sources familiar with the inves tigation as saying that Donald HENSLEY OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY || And Special Shipment Os Travel lite School Bags Just Arrived FREE PARKING IN REAR OF STORE 115 West Solomon Street Phone 227-4132 HEMSLEV OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY || Tarleton, regional adminis trator in Atlanta, issued the or der in October 1976 to bank ex aminer Ashley Lee in con nection with Lance’s bank in Calhoun, Ga. In November, Tarleton termi nated an agreement with the bank that could have posed an embarrassment for Lance, who was soon to be nominated to head the Office of Management and Budget, the Times said. Tarleton and Lee were un available for comment. The comptroller’s office refused comment on the allegations, but said the IRS was called in by Comptroller John Heimann to determine if the matter had been handled properly by his office. President Carter, who had been elected three weeks ear lier, announced the Lance nom ination on Nov. 24.