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Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Partly cloudy and warm through
Saturday with chance of afternoon
showers. Low tonight in upper 60s; high
Saturday in mid 80s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
68, high Thursday 76, rainfall .33 of an
inch.
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Lance flap triggers
national bank check
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal
examiners are conducting a nationwide
survey of national banks in an effort to
find out if other bankers are involved in
questionable practices allegedly used
by budget director Bert Lance.
Got beetles?
be glad then
If you have ground beetles in your
yard, you should count yourself very
lucky, according to Dr. Wendell Morrill
of the Georgia Experiment Station.
“You are lucky because the beetles
are feeding on the destructive fall army
worm,’’ Dr. Morrill said.
The early infestation of army worms
provided food for ground beetles which
has resulted in plentiful numbers that
sometimes pose a nuisance by getting
into homes.
Dr. Morrill said the beetles have
large mouthparts but pose no threats to
humans.
“They do not bite people, are not
poisonous and cannot sting,” the
Station scientist said.
He, however, warned the beetles
produce an unpleasant smelling fluid
when handled.
The beetles attack fall army worm
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Beame’s eyes and mouth reflect bad news.
Tanner talks with EMT here.
Comptroller of the Currency John G.
Heimann, head of the federal corps of
banking examiners, told the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee on
Tursday that he had ordered the
national investigation as a result of the
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larvae and moths. In addition the
larvae of the adult, beetle also feed on
the army worm.
Dr. Morrill said the ground beetle will
live through the winter and will be
present next spring to help suppress
army worms next year.
“Fortunately, the fall army worm
does not live through the winter in this
area. Our infestations come up from
Florida each summer,” Dr. Morrill
said.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Recruiter helped save man
Petty Officer William M. Tanner,
who has served as the Navy recruiting
officer for Griffin for 18 months, has
been recommended for the Navy Life
Saving Medal for helping to save the
life of a man injured in an accident near
Griffin Aug. 31.
The letter has been submitted to
Navy officials by Machinist Mate Chief
George 0. Smith of the Navy Recruiting
Station in Jonesboro.
Tanner works out of the Jonesboro
Recruiting Station, but spends most of
his time in Griffin and Thomaston.
He came upon an accident Aug. 31
and stopped to see if anyone had been
injured. He found Starlin Peck still in
allegations involving Lance.
The Senate panel scheduled more
testimony on the Lance case today, but
members reportedly were split over
whether to continue calling witnesses
next week or wait for Lance to testify.
As the hearings continued in
Washington, Agriculture Secretary Bob
Bergland became the first member of
the Carter administration to publicly
suggest that the controversy has dam
aged the operation of the Office of
Management and Budget.
In an interview with the Minneapolis
Tribune, Bergland was quoted as
saying “the questions raised have
created such a furor that I think his
effectiveness has been impaired to a
point where it probably can’t be
restored.”
Bergland said the controversy has
damaged President Carter because of
his campaign promises about ethics in
government. And he said ad
ministration planning for next year also
has suffered.
Meanwhile, pollster Louis Harris
reported that Carter’s job rating from
the American people dropped to 44 per
cent positive in August, a decline of 7
percentage points from July and 17
points from his April standing.
Harris said the poll of 1,491 adults,
conducted between Aug. 13 and Aug. 20,
showed Carter receiving a 40-to-33 per
cent negative rating for his handling of
the Lance affair with 27 per cent un
decided.
Dark horses trample Mayor Beame
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor
Abraham D. Beame and former Rep.
Bella S. Abzug were sent to stinging
defeats in a mayoralty primary of dark
horses that ended in a near dead heat
today.
It was the biggest voter turnout in
New York City primary history.
The victors in the most crowded
Democratic field in memory are two
moderate-to-liberal politicans who
were not given much chance a few
months ago and who will face each
other in a runoff primary Sept. 19.
They are Rep. Edward I. Koch, 52,
from the Silk Stocking district of
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the vehicle, bleeding profusely.
There were several people gathered
at the accident, but they were not doing
anything to aid Peck, who had head
wounds and was trapped in the vehicle.
Tanner pried open the door of the van
with a tire tool and pulled Peck clear of
the smoking van. He began to ad
minister first aid, including the use of
ice and pressure to stop the bleeding.
When the ambulance arrived with
EMT’s Tony Landers and Tommy
Hubbard, Tanner assisted them in
getting Peck into the ambulance and on
the way to the hospital.
Tanner got in his Navy vehicle and
headed toward Griffin.
People
...and things
“Ice On Bridge” sign in use under
pleasant fall skies on Highway 155 in
Spalding County.
Student passing up lunch to have
enough money for football ticket.
Young man checking cloudy skies
then sun roof on his car to make sure it
won’t leak.
More women
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — The
city of Warner Robins has been ordered
to hire women for its police force until
they make up 41 per cent of the de
partment, officials said Thursday.
Mayor Foy Evans said the action was
ordered in a letter from the federal
Office of Revenue Sharing, which
Evans said made it apparent that “they
are... trying to set a precedent in our
case."
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argument is later.”
Manhattan’s East Side, and Secretary
of State Mario Cuomo, 45, who ran at
the urging and with the active support
of Democratic Gov. Hugh L. Carey.
Beame, who came in third, is the first
mayor turned out of office since Vin
cent Impellitteri lost to Robert Wagner
a quarter of a century ago.
Beame’s term in City Hall was
marked by New York’s gravest
financial crisis since the Depression. A
Securities and Exchange Commission
report released 10 days ago said he had
concealed the city’s financial shape
while promoting sale of its bonds.
Koch and Cuomo emerged from a
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A mile up the road, he found the
ambulance stopped and he stopped to
see if he could offer aid.
The victim had gotten worse and it
required two people working on him.
This was the reason the ambulance had
stopped. Tanner’s assistance allowed
the driver to continue to the hospital.
During the trip, Tanner assisted the
EMT by administering artificial
resuscitation with a breathing tube. He
also helped start an intravenous in
jection.
The two EMT’s said they were very
impressed with Tanner’s offers of aid,
not once, but twice.
They said after transferring the
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Riding at 90
Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican nominee for president, reached his 90th bir
thday today. He still rides Red, his aging horse, several miles a day along the
Kansas River near Topeka when weather and his business permit. (AP)
field of seven candidates to face each
other in the runoff primary because no
candidate received 40 per cent of the
vote. In fact, no one received more than
20 per cent.
With all but 29 of 4,763 precincts
counted, Koch was one percentage
point ahead of Cuomo.
On Nov. 1, the winner will face liberal
state Sen. Roy M. Goodman, who
defeated radio talk-show host Barry
Farber in the Republican primary.
Farber continues as the Conservative
party nominee, while Cuomo is on the
November ballot as the Liberal party’s
candidate.
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victim from Griffin to Grady Memorial
Hospital in Atlanta that everyone
concerned, including Tanner had done
an outstanding job in just getting Peck
to the hospital alive.
“I strongly recommend Petty Officer
Tanner for consideration for the Navy
Life Saving Medal, since it is probable
that this man would not have survived
without his help,” Smith said in the
letter.
Smith also said Tanner is an out
standing recruiter, who has feeling for
his fellowman and is willing to assist
when the need arrises as it did on the
day Starlin Peck was trapped in his
vehicle.
The 71-year-old Beame, who began
his public career in 1946 and became
the city’s 104th mayor, tearfully
pledged his support to the future
mayor, “whomever that person may
be.”
“I gave this city every ounce of my
strength and my fullest devotion during
its most trying years of crisis,” New
York’s first Jewish mayor declared. “I
have not let this city down.”
Defeated last year in a race for the
U.S. Senate seat now occupied by
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Mrs. Abzug,
57, said in her concession speech,
“We’re not stopping here.”
