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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 25, 1977
Congressman gives up Capitol Hill
career to return to steel mill job
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania congressman
says he is giving up his Capitol Hill career to return to a
job in a steel mill, convinced that any guy next door can
make a good legislator.
“I look at my colleagues, and some of them who have
gone on to the Senate and probably someday will be
considered presidential material — and I just don’t see
there’s much difference between them and the people who
are my neighbors or relatives back home,” said
Republican Gary A. Myers.
“I’m convinced that many white-and blue-collar people
I come across in my daily life back home could serve as
president,” said the 40-year-old Butler, Pa., resident who
plans to quit Congress when his second term expires in
1979.
Myers, a former steel plant foreman, said his political
life hasn’t left him with enough time for his family.
He didn’t realize, he said, how much he would be away
from his wife Elaine, 12-year-old daughter Michele and 10-
year-old son Mark.
He spends up to 120 days a year in his western Penn
sylvania district, leaving his family behind at their
Mcl-ean, Va., home. And when he’s in Washington, he
works 80-hour weeks.
On top of that, he said, he usually brings home a
briefcase full of paperwork.
His congressional career has placed other strains on his
City of Dublin sued
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — The City of Dublin is being sued
for $51,746 by a woman who claims her home was
damaged in four separate floodings caused by backed up
sewerage lines.
The suit, filed by Mrs. Robert T. Anderson in Laurens
County Superior Court, charges that too many customers
on inadequate sewer lines are to blame for the damage,
caused when sewage backed up through her bathroom
twice in May, once in September and again last week.
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Film rights
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Para
mount Pictures says it has ac
quired the film rights to
“Lupe,” a novel by Gene
Thompson.
The novel, published by Ran
dom House, deals with “mur
der by supernatural forces and
the terror of witchcraft in 20th
century California.”
home life.
Myers complained that when he leaves home in the
morning, he doesn’t know if a prolonged debate or com
mittee meeting will delay his return that evening.
“I don’t want to wake up suddenly a couple of years *
from now, see my kids on the high school graduation stage
and realize I didn’t even know them at all,” he said.
His public life has cut into the time he spends with his
wife, Myers said. They don’t go out as much and Mrs.
Myers finds herself alone at home more often than before,
he said.
Before his election, he was a foreman at the Armco steel
plant in Butler. His old job has been filled by someone
else, he said, and he doesn’t know what he’ll be doing
when he returns.
Whatever it is, he faces a hefty salary cut, to less than
half the $57,500 he makes as a congressman.
Myers ignored tips from political pros to slowly work his
way up the ranks — from local elective office, to the state
legislature, to the Congress.
“You just don’t have to wait, or go through training,”
said Myers, pointing to his own career. He ran for the
House in 1972, lost, but tried again and won a seat for 1975.
Myers also vows never to seek another political
position, comparing his two terms in Congress to a tour of
military duty. “Once it’s over, it’s time to move on,” he
said. |
Conservationist honored
MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) - A High Performance
Achievement Award has been given to Dwight Knight Jr.,
district soil conservationist in Colquitt County, in
recognition of the drainage and terrace work completed in
the county in 1976.
The award came from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Soil Conservation Service.
SBA approproation
JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) - A $1.4 billion appropriation
to the federal Small Business Administration should speed
up loans to drought-stricken Georgia fanners, according
to U.S. Rep. Billy Evans, D-Ga.
The appropriation should reach President Carter’s desk
for his signature soon, Evans told members of the newly
formed Twiggs County Chamber of Commerce.
Escapees captured
ROME, Ga. (AP) — Floyd County police have recap
tured two escapees from nearby correctional institutions,
a police spokesman said.
James Lamar Wright, 21, and Edward Lee Wright, 31,
were apprehended when police stopped a truck in which
they were riding Saturday, the spokesman said. James
Wright was returned to the Rome Youth Restitution
Center and Edward Wright was sent back to the Adairs
ville City Jail.
Teacher wins battle
with Bendix Corp.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) -
The Bendix Corp, says.it will
settle a consumer complaint
case involving a two-cent toilet
part with a substantial check —
reportedly for about $20,000.
The money will go to an
Athens, Ga., schoolteacher who
launched a fight against the
Southfield, Mich., firm four
years ago after the toilet part
failed and flooded her mobile
home.
The schoolteacher, Priscilla
Moore, says a second flood oc
curred when the replacement
part installed by a repairman
broke. Ms. Moore says Bendix
employes subjected her to a
series of delays when she sought
repairs for the mobile home,
built by a Bendix subsidiary
called Bendix Home Systems
Inc.
As a result of her case, at
least one executive lost his job
and the company is reviewing
its consumer complaint proce
dures.
“Sure it’s embarrassing,
sure," Charles F. Donnelly,
vice chairman of the board at
Bendix, said Monday. “I felt in
reading the file that if even half
of what she said was legitimate
it was too much.”
Ms. Moore, a 30-year-old jun
ior high school reading special
ist, was living in Tucson, Ariz.,
when the two-cent battle began
in October 1973. The part was a
plastic coupling on the bottom
of the toilet.
The settlement was reached
after Ms. Moore took her case to
a federal hearing in Wash
ington.
Way back
NEW YORK (AP) - Sev
enty-four color photographs de
picting “the full spectrum of Is
raeli life” will be on display at
the Jewish Museum here
through Dec. 18.
The show is called “Israel
Kaleidoscope: Color Photo
graphs by Morris and Edith
Jaffe” and the museum says it
“captures the essence of an an
cient land, while reflecting the
influence of contemporary
life.”
In Memory of Larry Jeff
Huff - August 10, 1963.
Months and days have
grown into years.
Our hearts aches, and eyes
fill with tears.
Precious memories close to
our heart.
Memories which linger not
far apart.
He gave God his heart in
his early teens - only lived
to serve him through
seventeen.
Young A quite God called
him away.
We hope to meet him one
glad day.
Mother: Mrs. Agnes Huff
Brother: Ronnie Huff A
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'Miss Vicki" Miss again
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Tiny Tim and his wife, Miss
Vicki, have been divorced, ending a marriage that began
on a national television show in 1969.
Tiny Tim, the falsetto singer whose career peaked in the
late 60s with his song, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” did
not attend Monday’s divorce proceedings in Superior
Court. His lawyer, Philip Paley, said the singer was on a
concert tour.
Carpet makers using
techniques of painters
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —
Carpetmakers, who for years
have simply copied their prede
cessors, now are looking at
painters and trying to imple
ment their techniques, the
chairwoman of the Carpet and
Rug Institute’s Style and Design
Council said Monday.
“For years we relied on his
tory, trying to make our carpets
look like the hand-knotted kind
or trying to give nylon the ap
pearance of wool,” said Mar
jorie M. Rhodes, of Dalton, Ga.
“Now we’re using techniques
painters learned after centuries
of experimentation and apply
ing them to carpets,” she said in
an interview during the in
stitute’s two-day convention in
Charleston.
She said the idea is to do “the
same thing that artists do. We
cover a flat surface, trying to
give an illusion of nature. I’m
not talking about putting nudes
on carpets, but we could do it.”
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Carpet makers are using nat
ural forms and colors to create
imagery giving the illusion of
rocks, jewels, shells and flow
ers.
“We take colors that God puts
on rocks, the impressions a bird
sees as he flies over a flower
garden and blend them into a
carpet pattern," Mrs. Rhodes
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William Simon
NEW YORK (AP) — William Simon, former secretary
of the treasury, has resigned as chairman of the board of
The Trib, a planned daily newspaper, at the request of the
paper’s publisher, Leonard Saffir.
Saffir said Simon’s resignation was requested because
Simon had “attempted unsuccessfully to gain editorial
and financial control for political purposes.”
According to Simon’s secretary, Simon, now working
for a management consultant firm, “has resigned due to a
commitment of time and other personal reasons.”
Karl Wallenda
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Aerial stuntsman Karl
Wallenda, who fell 20 feet off a high wire in the back yard
of his Sarasota home last week has been released from a
local hospital.
The 72-year-old Wallenda, who fell while rehearsing a
stunt for a movie about his family, left the hospital wear
ing a back brace.
Hospital officials said doctors discovered a minor
fracture of a vertebrae which they said will restrict the
veteran performer’s activities for two to three weeks.
J. B. Priestley
LONDON (AP)—J.B. Priestley and three other Britons
have been appointed to the Order of Merit, Buckingham
Palace announced today.
“But, instead of red roses on
the floor, we produce out-of
focus roses that will com
plement walls and furnishings,”
she continued.
She said there is a practical
side to the multi-colored carpet
ing. “If they spill ketchup on the
carpet, they’re just adding
another shade that won’t be no
ticed."
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