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by Frank Hark
“I never assume folks are
going to behave as I expect
them to.”
West German commandos fly home
BONN, West Germany (AP) — A
West German commando force was
flying home in triumph from East
Africa today after a blitz raid on a hi
jacked Lufthansa airliner in which they
rescued all 86 surviving hostages and
killed three of the four hijackers.
Later in the night after the failure of
the hijacking was announced, three of
the imprisoned West German terrorists
whose freedom the hijackers demanded
committed suicide. A fourth terrorist
on the list also tried to kill herself and
was in critical condition.
The Entebbe-style rescue operation
early today at Mogadishu, the capital of
Somalia, provided “a very serious
lesson for some people around the
world on how to deal with terrorism,”
said a West German government
spokesman.
President Carter congratulated the
Businessmen say Georgia, Amtrak
have lot to gain by Atlanta route
ATLANTA (AP) — Both Georgia and
Amtrak have a lot to gain by bringing
the financially troubled Chicago-to-
Miami train through Atlanta, Macon
and Savannah, politicians and
businessmen say.
The train’s current $9.5 million deficit
would shrink and Georgia’s tourism
and transportation industries would
grow, they said at a hearing Monday
night in which an informal coalition
from the three cities urged Amtrak to
route the Floridian through Georgia.
The 260-mile run from Atlanta to
Natural gas shortage threat vanishes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of
thousands of factory shutdowns this
winter due to natural gas shortages
apparently has vanished because of
precautionary purchases of higher
priced emergency gas, a federal
agency says.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission reported to the
commission that four of the six
pipelines which had expected major
shutdowns now anticipate no industrial
disruption. The other two now expect
DAILY^NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Fred Harp, a Southern Bell employe in Griffin, made this
picture of an overturned track hauling lumber Monday
afternoon on Georgia II near Cliff Futral’s store. The
State Patrol Investigated but had not filed a written report
on the mishap late this morning.
Government threatens
to ban sodium nitrite
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal
government says it intends to ban the
chemical used to cure bacon, ham and
lunch meats unless manufacturers can
prove the substance doesn’t cause
cancer.
The Agriculture Department is or
dering manufacturers to test the
preservative, sodium nitrite, to see
whether it acts with other substances to
form a cancer-causing agent, nitrosa
mine.
Animal tests have shown that some
nitrosamines are among the most
Bonn government for the “courage of
their decision” to end the 4%-day hi
jacking without giving in to the
hijackers’ demands. Japanese Justice
Minister Mitsuo Setoyama, whose
government met the demands of
Japanese hijackers two weeks ago, said
the West German action “showed how
to prevent hijacking.”
Somali officials said nine passengers
and one commando were slightly in
jured in the 10-minute raid and the
terrorist who survived, a woman, was
badly wounded. Lufthansa, the West
German airline, said one other
passenger was hospitalized “in a state
of collapse.” But all the hostages left
Mogadishu this morning for home,
Radio Somalia reported.
Most were Germans, but two
Americans were reported among them.
They were Christine M. Santiago, 44, of
Savannah is a “natural economic
corridor” which would link Georgia’s
coast with its capital and the Middle
Georgia farms and industries with
Atlanta’s transportation and banking
facilities, said Macon Mayor Buck
Melton.
“Southeast Georgia is an area on the
move and it cries out for tran
sportation,” said U.S. Rep. Bo Ginn, D-
Ga., citing the coast’s growing port,
military, tourist and federal facilities in
the Brunswick and Savannah areas.
Delegates from Atlanta said the train
would get a “dramatic increase” in
only a limited impact.
Plant closings totaling in the
thousands had been feared because of
reports issued by the commission in
September based on supply information
filed by the six pipelines last May and
June.
But updated supply figures show
major purchases under federal rules
which allow interstate pipelines or their
customers to buy emergency supplies
at essentially unregulated prices.
Usually, interstate purchases come
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, October 18,1977
potent agents causing liver and other
cancers, said Carol Tucker Foreman,
assistant agriculture secretary.
“I don’t think it is an imminent health
hazard,” Ms. Foreman said in a
telephone interview. “If we did, we
would act immediately. But there is
cause for concern.”
The department will initially con
centrate on bacon manufacturers, who
make the widest use of sodium nitrite,
said Ms. Foreman, who prefers that
designation.
riders from the metropolitan area’s 1.8
million population and its industries,
and noted with a hint of hurt pride that
it was the nation’s only major city
without Amtrak service.
The hearing was one of a series being
held on possible rerouting of the
Floridian, which Amtrak’s board of
directors is considering dropping. The
hearings, which continue tonight in
Montgomery and next week in Chicago,
are being held to “look for benefits of
the train that we don’t know about
now,” an Amtrak official said.
under price controls.
The difference in cost is substantial.
Regulated gas in interstate pipelines
sells for about $1.44 per thousand cubic
feet. Unregulated gas sells for about $2.
The extra cost is passed on to the
consumer.
The commission reports show the
pipeline companies are depending on
these higher-priced emergency pur
chases to bolster their supplies enough
to avoid major shortages, though some
shortages still will exist.
Santee, Calif., and her 5-year-old son,
Leo. Mrs. Santiago has a heart con
dition.
The surviving hijacker, the lone
woman in the Arabicspeaking gang,
remained in a Mogadishu hospital,
officials said.
The identities and nationalities of the
terrorists remained in doubt. But
Somali Information Minister Abduqal
dir Salad indicated that the three bodies
were being sent to Germany.
The hijackers demanded the release
of 11 imprisoned West German
terrorists and two Palestinians in
Turkish jails, along with 86 million in
ransom. The couple who headed the
list, Andreas Baader and his mistress,
Gudrun Ensslin, committed suicide
during the night in their cells, and two
others on the list, Jan-Carl Raspe and
Irmgard Moeller, slashed their wrists.
Hospital authority
HEW turns down
home care money
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital has
been turned down by the U. S.
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare for a $200,000 grant which
would have established a home care
program in Spalding and 4 area
counties.
Executive Director William Feely
told the Hospital Authority Monday
night that an HEW official said the
grant was not approved, primarily,
because the amount requested was
excessive for the area to be covered and
the number of patients to be seen.
Even though the hospital won’t get
the federal money, plans are under way
to continue studying the establishment
of a home care agency. Officials feel
there is a need for it and that it is a
better alternative to more expensive
care.
By not using federal money, there
will be fewer strings attached to the
plans, Feely said.
Revised plans on home care will be
discussed early next year among
authority members, the medical staff
and community leaders.
The effect of the increase in the
minimum wage on hospital finances
was discussed.
Beginning Jan. 1, the minimum wage
will rise from $2.30 to $2.65 per hour.
The increase will cost a minimum of
Raspe died in a hospital during the
morning, and Miss Moeller was
reported in critical condition.
The only hostage killed was the chief
pilot of the Lufthansa Boeing 737 jet, 37-
year-old Juergen Schumann, whose
body was put off the plane shortly after
it landed in Mogadishu Sunday.
Officials said he was shot Sunday while
the plane sat at the airport in Aden,
South Yemen, fifth of its six stops
during its zigzag journey over Southern
Europe and the Middle East to East
Africa.
The raid, reminiscent of Israel’s
successful rescue at the Entebbe,
Uganda, airport last year, was the first
combat operation for the Border Guard
Group 9 commando strike force, set up
after the 1972 Munich Olympic
massacre. Officials said the an
titerrorist specialists had rehearsed the
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John Lindsey, Clerk of Spalding County Superior Court (r)
presents certificates to attorneys (1-r) Doug Tingle,
Richard Hunter and Mrs. Cecelia de Oviedo. The three
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Also in this story:
1. Minimum wage discussed.
2. Floor scrubber purchased.
3. X-Ray signs seem to be working.
4. Elevator being installed.
$42,000 and will not include other raises
which must be made when the law goes
into effect.
Feely noted that unemployment
insurance costs must also be paid by
the hospital which will add from $20,000
to $64,000 in expenses. Social Security
costs also will climb, it was noted.
It has not been determined yet how
much the rising costs will be, he said.
The board took action to help combat
the minimum wage problem. Members
approved the purchase of a floor
scrubber which will do away with 2%
jobs.
The $2,750 machine will reduce floor
scrubbing time from 20 to 32 hours
daily. It is expected to pay for itself in 2
months.
Bill Wesley opposed the purchase. He
said he did not know enough about it
and wanted more information before he
voted.
“Battery replacement could eat you
up,” he said.
Voting for the purchase were Dick
Hyatt, Otis Head, O. M. “Pete” Snider,
attack well, practicing on an identical
plane before being sent to Mogadishu.
Under cover of darkness, the raiders
blasted open emergency exits over both
wings of the twin-jet airliner. They
poured into the passenger cabin hurling
“blinding” grenades that stun with a
Hash of light and loud bang but emit no
shrapnel.
They found that the hijackers had
rigged the inside of the plane with
explosives and poured gasoline over the
aisle carpeting. The passengers had
been strapped into their seats with their
safety belts.
The hijackers apparently did not
have enough time to ignite the gasoline
or detonate the explosives.
“There was some shooting.... There
was no panic. The passengers were
evacuated as fast as possible by sliding
down inflated slides from the emergen-
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Fair and cool tonight with lows in the
low 40s. Sunny and cooler Wednesday
with highs in the upper 60s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
36, high Monday 64.
in triumph
Griffinites recently passed the Georgia Bar exam. The
new attorneys were sworn-in Monday by Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr.
Larry Ballard, and Dr. Kenneth
Reynolds.
In the last 2 or 3 weeks since signs
have been posted in the emergency
room, no patients have asked that the
radiologist not read their x-ray film.
The signs were posted after com
plaints from patients about receiving
bills from a radiology firm for reading
x-rays which the patient’s personal
physician already had read.
Since then, patients are told it is the
policy of the hospital and medical staff
to use the radiologist and it is con
sidered good practice, but if the patient
objects, he must talk it over with his
own physician who will explain why he
feels the radiologist should read the x
ray.
If the patient still insists, he must
sign a form, Feely explained.
Since the new policy went into effect,
no patient has requested that a
radiologist not be used.
A new elevator is now being installed
and will be completed by the end of
November. The second elevator will be
completed 3 months after that and the
3rd one, 3 months later.
The entire project will cost $169,000.
Following the meeting, Jack Rowe,
the new data processing manager, took
authority members to the hospital’s
pent house to inspect the new computer.
cy exits,” a Lufthansa spokesman said.
A Somali government spokesman
said two of the hijackers were killed
inside the plane and the third man was
wounded and died in a hospital.
People
••• and things
Lady almost losing control of new car
after it strikes one of the red cones used
as traffic marker while North
Expressway is resurfaced.
Mother and children disappearing in
vapor of auto as they get in car to go to
school.
Area resident neatly piling garbage
bags beside half-empty dumpster on
Manley road.