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DAILY NEWS Daily Since 1872 Woman slain; mate held another in well wounded I Ws-tr. V Tgfy Kj* £ ' I Prince Charles walks with Dean David Collins, right, Rector of the St. Philips Episcopal Cathedral of Atlanta, Sunday after addressing the congregation. Prince Charles left Atlanta Sunday to go to Texas, the next stop on his tour of the United States. (AP) Prince in Atlanta ‘Why weren’t you in church?’ ATLANTA (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles wound up his three-day visit to ' the Deep South Sunday by worshipping at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta and quipped to bystanders outside, • “Why weren’t you in church?” He flew immediately after the ser vices to Kingsville, Tex., where he was ; to be the guest at the ranch home of Mrs. Anne Armstrong, former am bassador to Great Britain. During the Episcopal services, the prince walked from the front pew to a lectern near the altar and read the parable of the Pharisee and the Publi ' can from Luke 18: 9-14. He was seated next to Gov. and Mrs. George Busbee, and joined in singing hymns and the national anthems of both the United States and Great Britain. While kneeling, the prince bowed his head and placed his right hand around a Town had last laugh WARSAW, N.C.—(AP)A Columbia, S. C. radio station tried to make this community of 2,700 the butt of a big-city joke, but a little small-town ingenuity rewrote the punchline. The station, EIS, sponsored a contest in which the first prize was a trip to Warsafr. Second prize was a week for 2 in New Orleans. The station called it a “No Contest Contest.” In addition to the accommodations in a Warsaw motel, the prize included bus transportation via Turkey, N.C., which was to have been the original first prize destination, but the station found the bus wouldn’t stop there. Along with the bus tickets came a warm carton of milk, a cheese sand wich, a used pillow and an old magazine. Joe and Joy Wilson won the trip, and Wilson had to admit that at first blush he was disappointed not to have won second prize instead. But residents of Warsaw didn’t like GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, October 24,1977 carved oak fleur delis extending from the end of the pew, apparently shielding his face during private prayer. Admission to the cathedral, which seats 1,200, was by ticket only, with first choice going to as many parishioners as possible. Those members who did not get in received letters of apology from Dean David B. Collins of the diocese. Saturday night, Prince Charles laughed often at a musical ex travaganza on the South held at the landmark Fox Theater in Atlanta, including a crash course on how to acquire a Southern accent. In the afternoon, he watched eighth ranked Kentucky dismantle Georgia 33- 0 at Athens. He drew wild cheers when he strolled onto the field during half time festivities and stopped to kiss several cheerleaders. what the contest had done to their town’s image.. The Warsaw people told the Wilsons to tear up the bus tickets and instead sent Milford Quinn to pick them up Friday in his private airplane. When they landed in Warsaw, the Wilsons were met at the airport by 200 cheering residents. Officials handed them certificates signed by Gov. Jim Hunt which made them “honorary Tar Heels.” Then the Wilsons went to their motel for more surprises. “We walked into the motel and it was lined with flowers, buckets of cham pagne and baskets of fruit,” said the amazed Wilson, 30, an installer for Western Electric. Townspeople looked on the contest first as a cruel, nasty joke but they turned it into their favor “Now people have heard about us and know more about us,” one said. Griffin police were investigating seperate weekend shooting incidents in which one woman was killed and another critically injured. Mrs. Rosemary Delane Thomas, 31, of 817 Hammock St., died of gunshot wounds to the head. Police said they were called to the residence shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday and were met at the door by Douglas Moore Thomas, 43, husband of the slain woman. They found Mrs. Thomas lying on the floor just inside the doorway. She had been shot in the forehead with a high powered deer rifle and apparently had been dead some 12 hours, police said. Thomas was taken into custody and was being held in the city jail for questioning. Saturday afternoon about 1:15 p.m., police answered a call to 1450 Boyd Row to check a report that a woman had fallen into a well. She was identified as Martha May Gilbert, 22, of 1450 Edgewood Ave. Her common law husband, Bill White (also known as Willie Mack Davison), 37, told police that he and his wife had been gathering pecans near the abandoned dry well and had gotten into an argument. According to police, he said he slapped his wife and she fell into the well. When his efforts to get her out failed, police were notified. According to Sgt. Dean Ray of the Narcotics Division, the woman could be heard groaning at the bottom of the 40- foot well. Griffin Firefighter Joe Henley was lowered into the well and attached a rope around Mrs. Gilbert so that she could be pulled up. She was rushed to the Griffin- Spalding Hospital where doctors discovered she had been shot .through the right cheek and had been stabbed several times in the throat, Ray said. She also had been beaten about the head with an unidentified object, he added. She was transferred to Macon Medical Center and placed in the in. tensive care section where she remained in critical condition today. White was being held in the city jail on an aggravated assault charge, pending an investigation. Bloodmobile here today The bloodmobile was at the Cheatham Building of First Baptist Church from noon until 5:30 p.m. today. Moose Club members sponsoring the visit were hoping 300 to 500 pints of blood could be collected. *■««. Coy L. Hodges and students of Griffin Tech make final preparations for open house which will be held Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Faculty and staff will be available to talk to people and to give tours of the modern facilities. Door prizes will be given. Pictured (1-r) are Cindy Yancey, Coy Hodges, Danny Williams and Mary Stinson. People ••• and things Tot about 4 awed with beauty of fall leaf, picking it up then scampering home to give it to his mother. Squirrel dropping nut just fallen from tree and scampering off for safety as big watch dog charges. Pumpkin patch now down to a precious few with the approach of Halloween. FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Cloudy with chance of rain tonight and lows in the mid 50s. Occasional rain likely Tuesday with highs in the mid 60s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning 49, high Sunday 74 as recorded at the Spalding Forestry Unit. Open house Vol. 105 No. 253 Balloon maker From yacht skipper to flying, he practically wrote license rules “Hot air balloons are great get-away machines. Your problems just drop away like the ground moves away from you during take off — you can’t worry. It’s just a frame of mind.” Mark Semich, Griffin hot air ballon manufacturer and flier, often lets his troubles drift with the winds as he quietly sails the wind currents high above everything. Resigning himself to the fact that while he is flying he doesn’t know where he is going, doesn’t know when he will get there, and matter of factly not really giving a caring, Semich is lifted high as the scenery slowly but con stantly changes below him. “Ballooning is a gentle sport, it is very calm, slow and easy-going. You just go ghosting along with the wind like having your own flying carpet. Nothing really happens fast,” Semich said. Semich has always worked within the boundless confines of water and air. Though the 2 appear on very different ends of a spectrum, Semich sort of discovered the new adventures of air as he was working on water. His work career began with a large sea diving outfit on the Pacific Ocean where he donned a heavy diving suit, Weather O. ■ \ \ ■■■ - ■v/V'* Jr; ' *■ ' .. - |jr ' X Leave his troubles grounded helmet included. He would sink to the ocean’s depths as an apprentice diver salvaging wrecks and making repairs on ships. Later he refined his oceanic en deavors to skippering sail boats, maintaining them, with his own work force. His job as captain of the yachts meant he planned the entertainment and the cruises for the owner of the boat. “On those boats you lived like a millionaire and got paid for it,” Semich said. One such yacht was John Wayne’s, the Wild Goose. Semich and his crews had taken on the job of making some repairs on the boat. It just so happened the skipper of the Wild Goose had a fatal heart attack and Semich was asked to be the captain. He had been captain of the Wild Goose for almost 2 years when he read an article concerning the Navy’s in terest in redeveloping modem ap proaches to hot air balloons. His interest in hot air balloons had been kindled and Semich designed his first balloon. “I had never seen a real hot air balloon in my life,” he said. Taxes, energy work wait for congress WASHINGTON—(AP)—Energy and taxes dominate congressional action this week as the Senate takes up an energy tax bill, the House debates Social Security taxes and a conference committee works on a national energy policy. While the rest of Congress planned to take a Veterans Day off, the House- Senate energy conference committee was summoned to work on the holiday by its chairman, Rep. Harley Staggers, D-W.Va., who said today’s session was in the national interest. The panel made scant progress in 3 long sessions last week, agreeing only on a compromise requiring utilities to help consumers insulate their homes— one of the less controversial issues facing the 43-member committee. This week it will look at President Carter’s proposal to force most utilities and industries burning oil and natural gas to convert to coal. The House passed the President’s program, but the Senate voted to allow all but the biggest plants to continue using oil. The Carter administration can be expected to lobby hard for the House version and to try to persuade con ferees to adopt a compromise bill Cauctious at first, he rose to the heights on a tether line but courageously cut it to rise to greater heights. “I cast loose and the thing just worked beautifully,” the hot air balloonist said. It turned out the Navy had been busy developing their own hot air balloon. Semich later learned that he owned the second modem hot air balloon in the world. Things seemingly were going well until he received a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration’s board of inquiry. He had never equated his balloon flying with airplanes but the FAA had. He was told he needed a balloon pilot’s license. Semich laughingly said he was issued the license because he had been summoned for flying a balloon. By virtue of that fact, he was issued a license. Semich since, however, has worked closely with the FAA establishing guidelines and regulations for hot air balloonists. (Continued on page five.) resembling it. The Senate rejected most of the major proposals in the Carter energy plan. The Senate Tuesday takes up the final part of that energy legislation—its tax aspects. But the bill sent to the floor by the Senate Finance Committee contains (Continued on page 3.) The Country Parson by Frank Clark £& Ji “Diet foods are simply ex pensive replacements for what we shouldn’t have been eating in the first place.”