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Woman charges sexist trucking firms are keeping her out of diesel rig KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - Edna Kilgo has white-line fever, but she says sexist companies are keeping her from getting a shot of diesel smoke and greasy food as a tractor-trailer truck driver. “I’ve got white-line fever, and when I’m under the wheel of an 18-wheeler I feel like I’m queen of the road,” said the 43-year old Mrs. Kilgo. “I want to feel the wheel in my hands ... smell the diesel smoke ... hear the hum of trie "tires on the pavement ... eat greasy food and complains about it. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I’d like to have the op portunity before I get so dog gone old I can’t. What’s stopping her, says the mother of four, is sex dis crimination. Mrs. Kilgo said she has spent 17 months knocking at the doors of more than 100 trucking companies, but none let her even take a test. “If I were a man I would have had a job a long time ago,” she said. Mrs. Kilgo has complained to the Interstate Commerce Com mission in Philadelphia and At lanta about her plight. “Women are even being trained today to be tomorrow’s astronauts, and I can’t even be a truck driver,” she said. She already has filed 14 com plaints with the Equal Employ- H» fought war* "•••» won them. . controversial He <f -fled Vk American hero Prerident*- of out time and might ■' and have been one hell Four year* in preparation and prdduction GREGORY PECK. MSB ARTHUR s-.-ut ryi k A wt a ***• twH-witM*«» ktißja* Mkft» JAi* -••»«• •«!»<>* HWKW «• PG •MW’H MMQ MHini X ' ?*S Parkwood Cinema I HttMlj 7.30-9:30 Parkwood Cinema II ■«••••*ar.wocut ’>• 'W.-VSajaC*/-' ..wmavt*. *•' ■wq’m«-newer-'«'» jma» ..ont&A ...ONRBIKROn.k*. etwaUXH* OM.'MKMx - wr•«......0 fwcz-sT;. RKSTWCTO Laat Week 1 Sbw NtgMy • PM PARKWOOD CINtMA 111 Ulf You Don 4 Buy At m Mucl) LJ LJ [Jke 1952 I» I ™'k” LJ 126 W. Solomon St Phone 227-3597 REGULAR or EXTRA CRISPY WEDNESDAY SPECIAL \ 9 pc. 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(AP) - “Carter Country” doesn’t look a bit like Carter Country, say people in President Carter’s home town. “Carter Country,” a new tele vision comedy which features a white Southern sheriff and a black deputy from New York, was panned by many Plains residents surveyed by a local weekly paper, The Plains Moni tor. Some thought it was comical and others called it disgusting, Busbee orders extradition of Lawrenceville man ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. George Busbee has ordered the extradition of a Lawrenceville, Ga., man charged in South Carolina with the sexual muti lation of a Clemson University student. The order directs Georgia law enforcement officers to deliver James Compton to Pickens County, S. C., Sheriff C. David Stone. Busbee’s press secretary, Duane Riner, said the extra dition order must undergo re- the ones that said being a woman was the reason they weren’t going to hire me,” she but almost no one said the tele vision show resembled real-life happenings here. Most of those surveyed said i they hadn’t seen the show. Oth ers compared it to “Barney Miller,” another situation com edy about dim-witted cops. Police officer Errol Hart said the show needed a star like Andy Griffith to make it click, while the President’s mother, “Miss Lillian” Carter, said, “I hate it! I don’t see a thing that view by a Superior Court judge in Atlanta for “legal sufficien cy" before it can be carried out. Compton, 25, and his brother, Marty, 18, were arrested after two Clemson students were at tacked in their off-campus apartment on Sept. 14. One of the victims, Milton Cronheim 111, 21, of Atlanta, was sexually mutilated. Cronheim was taken to Emo- Time running out on discharge review WASHINGTON (AP) - Time is running out in the Pentagon’s six-month campaign to review less than honorable Vietnam-era discharges. After today, there will be no more special toll-free telephone numbers, no more operators standing by in St. Louis to handle the calls. The Pentagon says some 16,- 227 discharges were upgraded through the end of last week. said. “It’s a shame a woman alone can’t get a job driving a tractor-trailer.” looks like Carter Country in it.” Mayor A.L. Blanton said he saw only the opening episode, and he didn’t like it. “My reaction to ‘Carter Country’ is that it won’t last too long. No similarity to anything around here — not that I know of anyway,” Blanton said. “This particular show will not help Plains. It’s corny — it doesn’t show the true picture of the Plains area. My advice to the producers is ‘Take it off the air!”’ ry University Hospital in At lanta, where a spokesman said he remained in satisfactory condition. Marty Compton waived his right to an extradition hearing and was jailed in South Carolina under $75,000 bond. James Compton is being held in DeKalb County, Ga., on a Georgia robbery charge. Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force discharge review boards still face 8,600 cases pending under the program, announced in April as the second part of President Carter’s effort to heal the divisiveness of the Vietnam War. But beginning Wednesday all discharge reviews “will be processed under normal De partment of Defense proce dures using written application procedures.” AHBk IP y / M Two men kidnapped Grazielle Ortiz-Patino, above, the 5-year old daughter of tin millionaire Georges Ortiz-Patino, Monday as the family chauffeur was driving her to school. Police said the men grabbed the child shortly after she was driven away from her parents’ home in a suburb of Geneva, Swit zerland. (AP) I A. * J 4 B Until Wednesday jrTai/ ■ 40W30 30 > Data trow Showers Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Fair and chilly again tonight with lows in the mid 40s. Sunny and mild Wednesday with highs in the mid 70s. Artist fighting to halt electric line construction FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - Ra bun Tingle, a free-lance com mercial artist and Monroe county landowner, goes to court Oct. 15 to try to stop Georgia Power Company from ruining his “dream home” with a $2 billion power plant. Tingle of Jonesboro has been granted an evidentiary hearing in Clayton County Superior Court to halt construction of the plant and keep the utility’s transmission lines off his five acre tract. The company filed a con demnation suit last March to stretch its 230 kilovolt power lines across what Tingle says is the “choicest part” of his wooded property. Tingle countered with a suit charging the utility with failing to file an environmental impact statement before beginning construction of the Robert W. Scherer Plant in 1974. He also contends the company could have used an alternate route for its lines and did not hold enough public hearings to explain the project before it moved to condemn his land and begin construction. 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Ted Blisterfield of the Atlanta office of the Environmental Protection Agency disagrees. “There should not be any site preparation until after the envi ronmental impact analysis is approved and an environmental impact statement is prepared Apple Appeal NEW YORK (AP) — For centuries apples have been as sociated with Halloween cele brations. “Maybe it’s because apples ripen at Halloween time, and were sacred to the early Druids,” says Hallmark re searcher Sally Hopkins. “They also figured in the Roman equivalent of Halloween, a fes tival honoring Pomona, the goddess of fruits.” The Halloween game of bob bing for apples or biting at ap ples suspended by a string orig inated generations ago in Ire land, Scotland and parts of England, according to Miss Hopkins. Sometimes a riskier variation was played by fixing an apple and a lighted candle at opposite ends of a suspended stick. The stick was rotated and the object was to bite the apple without getting burned by the candle. -Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 4, 1977 by the regulatory agency,” he said. Tingle claims he has docu ments indicating the EPA now is considering whether or not to grant a construction permit for the plant three years after the utility began building it. Tingle said he had been plan ning to build a home for his wife and five children on the land. When he learned about the condemnation suit, “I saw my dreams crumbling in an in stant,” he said. FREEMAN’S NURSERY 1999 N. Expressway 228-3194 Across From Capri Restaurant GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! EVERYTHING MUST GO! SAVE 50% TO 75% Binding, Stock, Shrills, Hanging Baskets, Railroad Cross Ties, Classware I Pottery 12' 120’ little Butler Office Building. Paneled, Carpeted, Heat And Air Conditioner Mrs. Gandhi brought to court By GENE KRAMER Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Indira Gandhi was brought to court on corruption charges to day after a night in police cus tody, but Magistrate R. Dayal said there were “no reasonable grounds” for her detention and freed her. The government said collec tion of evidence against Mrs. Gandhi would continue and she would be brought to trial. But it gave no indication when the trial might take place, and her sudden arrest and swift release were likely to prove a sizable boost to her attempt at a politi cal comeback. ‘•f Double Feature (R)\ .“BODYGUARD” : (“GOOD BYE BRUCE LEE ; Showtimes • : Weekday 7:30 P.M. • ; Sunday 4:30 & 7:30 P.M. • Happy Hooker Goes 'N ® T ?nrf shington COLOR] : ® Tender Touch COLOR] : Showtime 8 P.M.
