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Royal Navy comes
to aid of giraffe
MARWELL, England (AP) —
Zoo owner John Knowles is go
ing to try to raise his stranded
giraffe Victor to his feet with a
four-legged sling suspended
from four scaffolds.
“He will either have a
triumph and stand or have his
death throes in front of the
world, which makes me a bit
sick,” said Knowles, who has
been trying since early Friday
to coax the one-ton, 15-year-old
giraffe back onto all fours.
The 18-foot-tall animal appar
ently collapsed in his paddock
at Knowles’ wildlife farm 70
miles southlest of London while
trying to mate with one of his
three wives.
The owner said he’d received
more than 1,000 telegrams ex
pressing concern and suggest
ing ways to get Victor to his
feet.
One proposed digging a
swimming pool around the ani
mal and floating him to his feet,
but giraffes don’t like water.
Offers from a hypnotist and a
helicopter crew were declined.
A faith healer was allowed to
lay his hands on the animal’s
spots briefly, and un
successfully.
Victor quietly chewed fresh
grass and drank water as his
keepers fed saline solutions into
his weakening body through an
intravenous tube in his eightfoot
neck.
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SEPT. 19th thru OCT. 3rd
Evangelist — Rev. Bill Coleman
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Workers build scaffolding to lift Victor. (AP)
Knowles called in the Royal
Navy Monday. Three sail
makers from the Portsmouth (
dockyard measured the giraffe ;
for two pairs of short pants — ;
one for each pair of legs — at-
tached to a belly sling.
“It’s a bit of a problem be
cause we have never had to
make trousers for a giraffe be
fore,” one of the men said.
Meanwhile, workmen were
Mary McCrory
was not killed
ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor
gia State Patrol reported erro
neously Sunday that Mary
McCrory, 21, of Atlanta had been
killed in a traffic accident.
The victim was her sister-in
law, Annie M. McCrory, 21, of
Talbotton, Ga., who died Sun
day afternoon when the car in
which she was a passenger col-
Augusta approves law
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - A
new pornography control ordi
nance, passed by the Augusta
City Council, prohibits the sale
of sexually explicit material in
certain areas of the city.
Pornography dealers will not
be allowed to locate within
specified distances of homes,
schools, churches and other
adult-oriented businesses, City
Attorney Sam Maguire said.
Councilman Max Estroff, who
cast one of two dissenting votes
in the 12-2 decision on the ordi-
putting up four scaffolds of steel
pipe, one near each of Victor’s
legs. The sling will be
suspended from these gantries
and the animal will be raised by
hand winches.
lided with another vehicle on
’ Georgia 22 in Talbot County, the
state patrol said.
1 Mary McCrory told the At
lanta Constitution Monday that
; the victim was carrying her
: identification. The Georgia
’ State Patrol originally identi
-1 fied the victim as Mary
McCrory.
nance Monday, said he did not
care what the distance was, he
did not want pornography deal
ers in Augusta.
The other dissentor, Loyal
Hutton, said the ordinance
would allow the city to be used
“like Atlanta is being used.”
Busbee, Nunn
to meet
leaders
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov.
George Busbee and Sen. Sam
Nunn, D-Ga., will meet with
local political and business
leaders in 19 Georgia cities Nov.
9-18.
The forum, to discuss issues
likely to face government in the
coming year, will begin with a
breakfast meeting Nov. 9 in
Clayton.
Meetings are scheculed for
Gainesville, Athens, Atlanta,
Newnan, Dalton, Rome, Au
gusta, Dublin, Vidalia, Savan
nah, Waycross, Douglas, Val
dosta, Tifton, Albany, Americus
and Columbus before the wind
up luncheon Nov. 18 in Macon.
Uniroyal plant
to close
for 5 weeks
THOMSON, Ga. (AP) -
About 1,200 wage employes will
be out of work for five weeks
this winter when McDuffie
County’s Uniroyal plant closes
down from Nov. 28 to Jan. 2, a
plant spokesman said.
Why it pays to sell
your home through
a Realtor.
Mora Cash With Lass Effort
Most buyars ballova (whether true or
not) that owners Inflate the price of
their homo by at loost tho amount of
the commission. In this way. If they
later decide to employ a broker tho
solos price will Include the commission.
Tho buyer who dools directly with tho
owner will argue and Insist that tho
seller reduce his price by at least tho
amount of tho commission. Tho owner,
of course, hos hod ail of tho effort and
soiling expense himseH.
HLEON bates
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Loon Bates Realtor
420 West Slaton Ave.
Griffin, Ga.
Georgia law is delaying the
journey of 99-ton earth mover
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP)
— Georgia law is delaying the
journey of a 99-ton earth-mover
headed to a coal mine construc
tion job in Alabama.
Workers were taking the huge
rig apart Monday, a week after
the tractor-trailer hauling it
was halted and officials found it
was 48,000 pounds over the
weight limit set by state law.
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The driver, Albert A. Wood of
Walton, Ky., was charged with
operating a vehicle weighing
more than the 150,000-pound le
gal limit.
Department of Tran
sportation officials said he
could face a civil fine of more
than $2,700.
The Japanese-made Komtasu
Griffin Daily News Tuesday, September 20,1977
D455A earthmover is one of only
two that size in the United
States.
The $250,000 machine was de
livered by ship to Savannah and
was being hauled by truck to
Birmingham when it was
stopped.
Department of Tran
sportation officials said that
when the machine was
dismantled a new permit would
be issued, if needed, and the two
loads would be sent on to Bir
mingham.
Meanwhile, engineers were
going over the route the driver
took from Savannah to Hawk
insville, checking to see if there
had been any damage to
bridges.