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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, Novembers, 1977 Page 12 Friendship Force Wallace impressed MONTE VALID, Ala. (AP) - Mayonnaisse on french fries? Warm beer? Ham and cheese crepes? What people in other countries eat and do may be just as foreign to Americans as grits and barbeque is to them. However, through Friendship Force, a people-to-people exchange program, Americans can not only refresh their diets, but share jobs with neighbors across the seas. Gov. George Wallace announced Friday that about 280 people from the Birmingham area will travel to a foreign country next May as Friendship Force “ambassadors." “I am very much impressed by this program as it offers an opportunity for a shared community-wide involvement in international experiences,” the governor said at the University of Montevallo. “It requires no federal or state funding but relies exclusively on a citizens volunteer force.” Friendship Force was introduced by President Carter at a governors’ conference last March. Mrs. Carter serves as the national honorary chairwoman for the project. Helen Perkins of Montevallo, flight director of the Birmingham exchange program, said the tour would include residents from “all walks of life” in the metropolitan area of Jefferson, Shelby and Walker counties. Wallace appointed Mrs. Charlotte Blackmon, director of International Studies at Montevallo, to serve as state director for the program. “An important concept of Friendship Force,” Mrs. Blackmon said, “is not to visit any particular country. “In this way, we hope to discourage people who see Friendship Force merely as an opportunity to travel to a particular nation for business or for pure tourism at a reasonable price. “We look on everybody who signs up as an ambassador for international understanding and friendship.” Mrs. Blackmon, a veteran world traveler, also said that Montgomery has asked to be the next Friendship Force participant. Strike talks to be moved MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Ne gotiations in a dispute idling machinists and aerospace workers at Lockheed Georgia IN MEMORIAM In memory of Luther F. Pritchett, Died Nov. 5, 1976. It does not seem like a year since God called you away. We think about you every day. We know that you are at rest. We know you are with our precious Savior, Mama and Daddy too. And someday we are looking forward to seeing all of you. Sadly missed by: Son: Jimmy, Sandra, Darien and Jason Brother - Bobby , Annette and Ralph Sister - Jim, Inez and Jerry Hendrix ____ Russell’s RESTAURANT “Good Food Today And Everyday” 1-75 at Locust Grove, Ga. Phone 957-4827 Russell Oldag YOU £1 Have a responsibility to Griffin and WW Spalding County Jk The position of County Commissioner is of vital interest to each of YOU * YOU have an opportunity to elect a man to represent YOU. It requires sound decisions concerning: Fire Protection, Water & Sewerage, New Industry, Environmental Protection, Energy Conservation and to insure responsible management of public funds. If YOU feel that my background of business and community service best qualifies me for this office I will appreciate YOUR vote on Tuesday November Bth. VOTE FOR DAVID ELDER Sympathetic and responsive to the needs of all the people. (Paid Political Adv.) Co. will be shifted Thursday to Ixis Angeles, where talks will continue on a corporate-wide basis, a federal mediator said Friday. Mediator Talley Livingston said the action was taken at the request of the International As sociation of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Negotiations between repre sentatives of IAMAW Local 709 and Ixjckheed Georgia were re sumed Wednesday for the first time since Oct. 19 when about 4,600 workers at the Marietta plant walked off the job. Fellow union members at l-ockheed’s California plants had been on strike since Oct. 3 Also involved are about 350 union employees at Lockheed plants in Charleston, S.C.; Me ridian, Miss., and Clarksburg, W. Va. At issue are retirement bene fits, wages and changes in the seniority system, according to Reeves Bowen, president of the local union. .Ul Jkfs V H W If I 1 ■ • ■. t/' * ■ v&’.’ sbJ, HBEjIZ WfF*r ~ B nr- ■' ’•-'•• , “ K * • 1 ‘ ‘ S'* ' ' COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.—A wagon train carrying 35 juvenile offenders and 37 Vision Quest staff members winds its way toward a campground near a county juvenile detention facility here after a 1,000-mile trek Lockheed will resume negotiations after proding from federal mediator LOS ANGELES (AP) - Un der prodding from a federal mediator, the I-ockheed Co. has agreed to resume negotiations on key issues in a 4%-week strike that has slowed produc tion of the giant aerospace firm in five states. “I think it’s encouraging,” Neil Vandercook, a spokesman for the International Associ ation of Machinists, said Fri day. “Now we can really get down to strike issues.” Jim Ragsdale, a spokesman for Lockheed-California, agreed, adding, “We hope we can get the strike resolved as soon as possible.” Under Friday’s agreement, I,ockheed and the IAM will re sume negotiations Thursday on such national issues as wages, fringe benefits and a company proposal to change the job se niority system. Talks on those issues broke down Oct. 5. Five days later, 14,000 IAM workers walked off their jobs at Lockheed plants in Burbank, Palmdale and Sunny vale, Calif. Another 5,000 workers at Ixjckheed facilities in Marietta, Ga., Charleston, S.C., Meridian, Miss., and Clarksburg, W. Va., went on strike Oct. 19. Since then, the company and the union have met sporadically on local issues, such as contract language disputes peculiar to specific plants. On the issue of wages, the un ion is asking for a 17 percent increase over three years, while the company is offering 9.5 percent. The average hourly wage for IAM members is now $7.32. Wagons ho! Officials at Ixickheed said de liveries of aircraft, some of them delayed up to two weeks, had been continuing during the strike. But they said production was limited to supervisory per sonnel putting finishing touches on planes that were nearly as sembled when the strike began. Ixickheed-Califomia has de livered three LlOlls to com mercial airlines and one S3A antisubmarine plane to the Navy, a company spokesman said. “But if the strike were to last beyond the first of the year, we just don’t know what would happen,” Ragsdale said. “There probably would be some substantial delays in delivery, but we just don’t know how many planes would be affected or how long they would be delayed." The delays would come, he Hall County escapees caught By The Associated Press Six prison inmates who es caped from two different in stitutions in the past week were back in custody today after being recaptured by author ities. Two of three prisoners who escaped from the Hall County jail last weekend were recap tured Friday in Gainesville. Authorities said Tommy Mor rison, 22, was arrested about noon and Billy Ray Fisher, 18, surrendered early Friday morning. Christopher L. Duncan, 18, the third of the three Gain esville residents to escape, re mained at large. The three, all of whom were being held on charges of bur glary and previous escapes, broke out of jail last Saturday by knocking out a second-floor cell window and lowering them selves to the ground with sheets tied together, authorities said. Meanwhile, the Georgia State Patrol said four inmates who escaped from the Georgia In dustrial Institute at Alto early Friday were recaptured in Thompson several hours later. They were identified as Charles Hutto, 18, of Nicholls, serving two years for rape; Damon Ballard, 16, Columbus, seven years for armed robbery; Wayne Kirkland, 19, Hazel hurst, five years for burglary and motor vehicle theft, and Luther Higgins, 19, Augusta, serving four years for motor vehicle theft. from Tombstone, Arizona. Four old wagons, refubrished by the youngsters, and 38 horses and mules made the long journey which began Sept. 1 (AP) said, after supervisory person nel ran out of nearly assembled craft which needed only final touches and test flying. Elsewhere, nearly 24,000 aerospace workers were still on strike against the Boeing Co. in Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kansas. That strike, which began Oct. 4, is mainly over wages and an IAM proposal for a union shop, which the company has traditionally opposed. Under a union shop, all persons are required to join the I YES I I For I I QUALITY EDUCATION I I VOTE I I YES I I For I | OUR CHILDREN | I VOTE YES TUESDAY, NOV. tth I ■ Third Ward P.T.A. ■ (Paid Political Adv.) union after they are hired. Contract talks were contin uing at Rockwell Corp., where thousands of workers were laid off when the controversial Bl bomber was scrapped, and at McDonnell-Douglas Co. in Long Beach, where the union’s ex pired contract has been in definitely extended during ne gotiations. “Rockwell and McDonnell- Douglas are just waiting to see what happens here,” an IAM official at Ixxrkheed said. Son wants revenge for mother’s death CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) - A 20-year-old youth, apparently angered by the deaths of his mother and grandmother, forced his way into the Polk County jail Friday night in what police said was an attempt to shoot his father, who had been charged with the slayings. Officers said Gary Godfrey, 20, of Cedartown, was wounded during the incident and was treated at Floyd County Medi cal Center in nearby Rome for bullet wounds in the leg and foot. Sheriff Seals W. Swafford said Godfrey’s father, Robert Godfrey, had been in the jail for several months, charged with murder in the Sept. 20 slayings of his wife and mother-in-law. “His son, Gary, came in here about 7 o’clock tonight and took my jailer at bay with a 30.06- caliber deer rifle,” Swafford said. “He took him upstairs and had him unlock the cell block, and all indications were that he was going to shoot his father,” I can ’t remember the City of Griffin getting as many shopping centers, businesses, eating establishments, paving of streets, resurfacing, sewage facilities, vapor street lights as in the last six years. NOW THAT’S PROGRESS PLEASE VOTE FOR ME ON TUESDAY Nov. 8 and I will work for progress the next four years. VOTE FOR R. L. SKEETER NORSWORTHY 4th WARD (Paid Political Adv.) he said. Swafford said a deputy ar rived, spotted the jailer, Gary Godfrey and his father standing outside the cellblock and fired twice. The younger Godfrey did not fire his weapon, the sheriff said. 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