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—Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 6, 1977
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U.N. ambassadors
‘inspect’ President Carter
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(AP) — Like neighborhood
chums scrutinizing the new boy
on the block, ambassadors in
the tightly knit U.N. community
gave President Carter a close
inspection and liked what they
saw.
A number of diplomats gave
Carter high marks during his
visit to the headquarters of the
world organization Tuesday and
Wednesday. U.S. Ambassador
Andrew Young said the trip was
“an obvious success.”
Several delegates said the
President’s personal style dis
armed his critics and added
weight to the message of human
rights and disarmament that he
brought.
“He’s a very nice chap, and I
think some of the diplomats
won't find it so difficult to go
along with American policies
now,” said British Ambassador
Ivor Richards.
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“He’s not the kind of person
you want to rant or shout at,”
Richards added with a grin. “I
would say he has that U.N.
touch.”
Carter spent two appoint
ment-packed days getting ac
quainted with some of the policy
makers here for the General
Assembly session. He lunched
with African and Asian foreign
ministers and ambassadors and
talked trade with Latin
America’s representatives.
“I was at a luncheon with him
and he made a point of shaking
everyone’s hand at the table,”
said Ambassador Jamil M.
Baroody of Saudi'Arabia. “It
Lockheed remains
under strike threat
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -
Negotiations betweeen Lock
heed Corp, and a union repre
senting nearly 20,000 aerospace
workers at three sites were
broken off Wednesday, increas
ing the likelihood of a threat
ened strike Monday.
Lockheed spokesman Jim
Ragsdale said talks with the In
ternational Association of Ma
chinists and Aerospace Workers
— representing employes of
Lockheed-California Co., Lock
heed-Georgia Co., and the
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was just a small thing, but it
shows he has great respect for
the United Nations, more than
most American presidents.”
Calling Carter “charming”
and “straightforward,” Am
bassador Iqbal A. Akhund of
Pakistan said his visit revived
the U.S. commitment to the
United Nations after it ap
peared to lapse in recent years.
“The fact that he took two full
days here underlines his at
titude, I think,” Akhund said.
“Carter is very aware that the
United Nations cannot function
without strong U.S. support. It’s
a good sign for the future. I am
very hopeful.”
Co. — ended abruptly at 7 p.m.
Break-off of the negotiations,
which had been proceeding with
a federal mediator, meant that
19,600 union members probably
would stage a strike beginning
at midnight Sunday. A total of
about 42,500 workers are at the
i sites in Burbank, Marietta, Ga.,
■ and Sunnyvale, Calif.
The union walkout could af
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A.
B.
Maddox made
Fears famous
ATLANTA (AP) — The governor first made Bobby Lee
Fears a busboy. Then he made him a dishwasher. Then he
made him famous.
Fears is the dishwasher in former Georgia Gov. Lester
Maddox’s nightclub act, “The Governor and the Dish
washer.”
He credits Maddox with straightening out his life.
Fears has been singing for years, including some studio
work with stars in California in the 1960 s and a year with
the Ohio Players in 1968. But Fears, 32, said, “If it wasn’t
for Lester Maddox my name wouldn’t be known across this
country.”
The act brought Fears several appearances on national
televison.
Maddox is hospitalized, recovering from a heart attack
suffered Sept. 23.
“When I heard about the governor being sick, I began
thinking about my life and all the things I had done,”
Fears said in an interview.
Fears, who is black, credits Maddox, a restaurant
operator who won the governorship after refusing to in
tegrate his business, with turning him from crime back to
the Christian teachings of his grandmother.
In 1975, Fears said, he was “a child of the ghetto,” an
exconvict “with a record downtown as long as your arm”
and no job.
He had been convicted in 1971 of possession of heroin
because he “happened to be in a car that had heroin in it,”
he said, and he did time in Georgia’s maximum security
prison at Reidsville.
He went to Maddox and asked for a job — and got one as
a busboy at the former governor’s Pickrick restaurant.
Maddox, governor from 1967 to 1971, often entertained
patrons there.
“He came out and was playing a mouth harp and
laughing and picking up babies,” Fears said of the man he
called “Poppa.”
“The first thing I thought was, ‘He’s not anything like I
thought,’ so I asked if I could sing with him. He said I
couldn’t play his kind of music. I told him I can play any
kind of music. And he took me out and bought a guitar and
we sang ‘Red River Valley.’
“Lester stopped the drinking for me,” Fears said. “I
was in a world of badness. He showed me the way. Every
chance he gets, Poppa reads the Bible to me. And he’s
funny, too. That little man will tickle you to death, the way
he’ll joke and carry on.”
Scratch his back, but don’t crumple paper
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -
One boss stripped to the waist so
his secretary could scratch his
back, another warned against
crumbling paper before it was
tossed in the trash, and another
ordered his secretary to do his
wife’s schoolwork.
Those were among the re
sponses to a contest staged by
the San Francisco Examiner
which asked: What is the pet
tiest office procedure you ever
encountered.?
For obvious reasons, identi
ties weren’t disclosed.
A shipping clerk wrote, “We
are allowed three regular rest
room trips per week. Beyond
the third restroom trip, you are
not allowed to ‘go’ anymore for
the week. If you do, (manage
ment) will write a letter to the
union informing them that you
are ‘malingering.’”
The prize, a dinner for two,
went to the secretary who said,
“My boss keeps a large supply
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Biologists fear ferrets
are becoming extinct
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Three years ago a pair of black
footed ferrets emerged from a
prairie dog burrow in South
Dakota. The small weasel-like
predators scurried across the
dry earth before suddenly
disappearing down another
burrow.
Since that August 1974 dawn
patrol, which lasted only a mo
ment, the government has not
sighted the animal in the wild.
The black-footed ferret is one
of North America’s most beau
tiful predators, with deep
bronze fur, black feet and a
black mask across its eyes that
gives it a Lone Ranger appear
ance.
Biologists fear the animal is
becoming extinct.
“If there are any left, it is
questionable,” says the man
who made the sighting, Conrad
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unexpected dash to the airport
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fortunately these are not a par
ticularly fresh supply of shirts.
And since we all become accus
tomed to our own scent, he as
signs me the task of sniffing out
the most fragrant.”
Hillman of the federal Fish and
Wildlife Service.
And there are problems with
the only ferrets held in captiv
ity.
Efforts to breed two pairs of
the animals at the Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center in
nearby Maryland have failed.
One male, suffering from
what is believed to be terminal
cancer, is not expected to live
more than nine months. And one
of the females is reluctant to
breed.
But biologists have not given
up hope of saving the species.
“We want very much not to
lose this one,” says Keith
Schreiner, associate director of
the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Schreiner says he thinks there
are still some ferrets roaming
the wild.
“I am convinced that we have
a small population of black
footed ferrets, and probably
over a good-sized area,” he
says.
Even Hillman, who three
years ago spotted the animal in
a small dog colony tucked away
in South Dakota’s expanse of
rolling grasslands, is “op
timistic” some wild ferrets
survive.
Ferrets are believed to have
once ranged from southern
Canada south to Texas and New
Mexico. But the coming of the
white man destroyed the once
vast prairie dog towns where
they lived in abandoned
burrows.
Now the question is how many
— if any — ferrets are still
around. And if some survive,
whether a male and female live
sufficiently close together to
encounter each other during the
mating season.
Schreiner says the wild popu
lation may have diminished to
the point of no return.
Officials are considering arti
ficially inseminating the reluc
tant female in captivity. Arti
ficial propagation, designed to
provide black-footed ferrets for
release into the wild, may be the
last hope for saving the small
predators.
“If that doesn’t work,”
Schreiner says, “we may have
to face the fact we have lost a
species.”
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