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Major Traviss and wife who is a major, too, talk about their work.
Lance defends his use
of bank owned airplane
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate
committee investigating Bert Lance
scheduled a rare Saturday session
today to wind up testimony from
President Carter’s budget director.
Lance’s attorney was considering
whether to subject his client to
questions based on a Justice Depart
ment investigation of his use of bank
airplanes.
On Friday, Sen. Abraham A.
Ribicoff, D-Conn., chairman of the
Population tops
5-million mark
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s
population passed the five mil
lion mark this spring, according
to state officials.
Suburban areas got the bulk
of the growth, said the officials,
who used income tax returns,
school enrollment figures and
other data to determine that the
state’s population on July 1 was
5,011,300, about 82,000 more
than last year.
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Danielle Mullen (1) and Rebecca Gibson carried straw to
their cheerleading area in Newton County last night to try
to make a dry place. The straw didn’t help much,
however. A steady rain .'<ll as Griffin and Newton County
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governmental affairs committee, said
he was leaving that decision up to
Lance’s lawyer, Clark Clifford.
One committee member, Sen.
Charles H. Percy, R-111., spent last
Saturday at the Justice Department
examining its invesigation of how
Lance used National Bank of Georgia
airplanes while he was president of the
bank.
Percy examined sections of a report
by Comptroller of the Currency John
Heimann on his investigation of the
airplane’s use.
During Friday’s session, Sen. Sam
Nunn, D-Ga., the budget director’s
staunchest supporter on the panel, said
Lance should have a chance to see the
material if he was going to be ques
tioned about it.
Ribicoff then called a closed meeting
of the panel, inviting Lance and Clifford
to sit in.
Lance stayed about half an hour, then
left without any conunent.
Clifford said after the meeting that
Ribicoff was giving him a copy of notes
taken by members of the committee
staff on the Justice Department files.
Clifford said he would let Ribicoff
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battled. The rain stopped 6 seconds before the half ended
then started again in the second half and continued until
the game was nearly over.
know this morning whether Lance
would answer questions about it.
Ribicoff said he would abide by
Clifford’s decision. He said Justice
Department officials told him they
would not object to questions based on
the Heimann report.
Under questioning by Nunn earlier
Friday, Lance said his use of a bank
airplane to attend social events and
political affairs was a justifiable
business expense because he was “out
to develop business at each and every
opportunity.”
Lance faced tough questions Friday
on his alleged attempt to delay a
routine FBI check of his past.
Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, R-Md.,
charged that Lance several times failed
to sign papers giving the FBI per
mission to investigate him after he was
nominated as budget director by
Carter.
His poise weakening for the first time
in the hearings, Lance said that,
“Nobody ever told me there was any
difficulty at all in getting any sort of
paper signed by me.”
New team In Griffin
Salvation Army couple in love with Georgia
right away during vacation from Canada
A combined total of 63 years of ser
vice to the Salvation Army really began
at the altar for Major William A.
Traviss and his wife, Major Vivian
Traviss.
Major William Traviss is the new
commanding officer for the Salvation
Army mission located at 419 North 13th
street.
Both Traviss’ were raised in
Salvation Army families and had such
exposure from early childhood. They
both were bom in Toronto, Canada.
Major William Traviss’ father served
in the Salvation Army as a Corps
Sergeant Major for 45 years. His
mother never became an officer but she
was a member, a soldier.
Mrs. Traviss, also a major, said her
father built a Salvation Army home
when she was five years old. She said
she joined right then.
She made the decision when she was
“As soon as it was put before me, I
signed it,” he told the panel.
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Eating on beach may pose
sticky question in court
OCEAN BEACH, N.Y. (AP) - One
defendant is charged with eating a
chocolate-chip cookie, the other a
crumb cake. The case may pose a
sticky constitutional question.
Larry Wallick, 19, and Ruth Bushnell,
25, were to answer charges today of
violating this posh resort community’s
ban on eating or drinking in public.
They faced fines of $25 each.
They were ticketed Aug. 13 as they
sat on a curb in front of a bakery,
nibbling on their cookies and cake.
They declined the village constable’s
invitation to eat their snack inside the
bakery.
Rachel Doering, a first-grade teacher
and owner of the bakery, received a
summons for “negligently causing
people to eat in the streets.” She posted
$lO bail each for the defendants and
12 years old to become an officer and
has not regretted it since.
“I’ve never found anything better,”
she said.
Mrs. Traviss’ mother and grand
mother both served in the Salvation
Army for 40 years each.
The Traviss’ said they love the Army
and its easy to work with something
when you have been in it and enjoy it.
The Traviss’ explained they both
began their services as corps cadets at
a local mission. They had Bible lessons
and after a period of time made up their
minds to dedicate their lives to the
Army.
As soldiers, they joined the Salvation
Army Church, which is a non
denominational organization,
professing they were sinners. The
church worked with them through the
various programs and after a period of
time they knew if they wanted to
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later in the summer had the case
against her dismissed.
“I have had the police stand outside
my door watching ... They actually
chase down kids eating a cookie and tell
them to go home and eat it, but they let
the ice cream cones go,” she said.
Why ice cream? “The ice cream cone
is such an American institution that we
had to turn the other way on that one,”
said village trustee Warner Danby.
“Once you allow a cookie, what’s
wrong with a beer? Where do you draw
the line?” he asked.
The trustees say the ordinance is
designed to prevent rowdiness as well
as clutter. “People used to go in the
streets with drinks in their hands and
become unruly or carry food on the
beach and leave greasy papers in the
street,” Danby said.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA:
Partly cloudy through Sunday with a
chance of thundershowers. Highs in the
mid 80s. Low tonight in upper 60s.
dedicate their lives to the officership of
a Soldier.
Such a dedication required an oath
which to an extent meant wholehearted
devotion to working with and helping
people with little or no personal
financial compensation.
A Cadet usually trains for 2 years and
is commissioned a lieutenant. The
major designation came only after 20
years of service to the Army.
Major William Traviss has 24 years
of service and Major Vivian Traviss
has a total of 29 years in the Army.
Mrs. Traviss had been in the Army 5
years before she met the major. They
have spent 24 years of service together.
They met at a Bible class in a Toronto
Corps home in 1948 and later married in
the same year.
They had some friends they ac-
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People
...and things
Policeman in small three-wheel
vehicle patiently waiting in line for
lunch at fast food restaurant.
Guard at school crossing waving her
hand in attempt to slow car that is
passing through too fast as children are
ready to cross street.
“Churches confuse easily —
they’re likely to think they need
a new pastor when what they
need is different members.”