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John McCloy refuses
to write his memoirs
By PETER ARNETT
AP Special Correspondent
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — In a memoir-addicted
society, he adamantly refuses to write his.
Rather than ruminate on the days when he strode across
the world’s stage with the giants of his time, John L.
McCloy, 82, would prefer to discuss his Manhattan law
practice or tell of the antlered buck he encountered
recently in the Connecticut woods.
But determinedly modest McCloy — once described by
Lyndon Johnson as the “greatest pro-consul in American
history” for his work in postwar Germany — is laboring
over the writing of a speech, in which he will accept the
Statesman-Humanist award from the Aspen Institute for
Humanistic Studies in New York tonight.
The two previous winners of the Aspen award were Jean
Monnet, first deputy secretary general of the League of
Nations, in 1971, and Willy Brandt, former mayor of West
Berlin and former chancellor of West Germany, in 1973.
In an interview at his rural hideaway, McCloy said he
knew both Monnet and Brandt well.
“My career is marked not by its height but its length,”
he insisted, recalling that as a captain in World War I he
served with officers who had fought Indians on the
American plains. Today he commutes to Manhattan with
their grandchildren.
“My life span represents 40 percent of the life of this
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Buddy Cochran
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Buddy Cochran, the man con
victed of ramming his car into a Ku Klux Klan rally, is ru
mored to be on a hunger strike, but if so, Sheriff Randy
Howard wants to know where the food is going.
“He hasn’t turned down any trays,” Howard said
Monday in response to news reports that Cochran was
refusing”We send in trays with food on them and they are
coming out empty.”
He will be sentenced Thursday at the Sumter County
Courthouse in Americus, Judge W.F. Blanks said Mon
day.
John Huston
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor-director John Huston,
who has had two operations this fall, has improved from
fair to good condition.
But it’s too early to tell when the 71-year-old double
Oscar winner will go home, said a spokesman for Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center in Hollywood.
Huston, who won the Academy Awards in 1948 for
writing and directing "The Treasure of Sierra Madre,”
underwent elective heart surgery on Sept. 25 for an aortic
aneurism. He was operated on Oct. 28 to relieve ab
dominal blockage, a complication of the earlier surgery.
Adela Holzer
NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway producer Adela Holzer
is faced with new allegations similar to those in a state in
dictment that accuses her of $2.3 million in grand larceny
and stock violations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil
complaint filed Monday that Mrs. Holzer, a major in
vestor in the original production of “Hair,” violated
securities laws in selling investment contracts for various
commodities, land in Spain, vehicles and stock.
The bankrupt Broadway entrepreneur has been free on
a $50,000 surety bond pending trial on a 248-count in
dictment alleging that she defrauded investors in various
deals, issued false financial statements and violated
securities laws.
Thor Heyerdahl
QURNA, Iraq (AP) — Norwegian explorer Thor
Heyerdahl has installed two square reed cabins aboard
his raft, the Tigris, in preparation for sailing on a “voyage
to the unknown’’ later this week.
He still must set up masts, oars and steering devices be
fore taking to sea with the sand-colored, oval-shaped boat.
Heyerdahl says the boat is being built to a 5,000-year-old
Sumerian pattern and is the “oldest type of boat known to
man.”
The 63-year-old explorer declined to commit himself to
a definite date of departure, Monday the raft will set sail
within four days.
Heyerdahl, mastermind of the famous 5,000-mile, 101-
day Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947, said his impending
voyage is meant to assess how far the ancient Sumerians
could have transported their civilization.
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country, which says less about how old I am than about
how young America is,” McCloy said.
Historians are less modest than McCloy, and they trace
his imprint on some of the major events of mid-20th
century America. As assistant secretary of war to Henry
Stimson throughout World War II he helped tap a
relatively unknown officer named Dwight D. Eisenhower
for command of American forces in Europe.
He was also instrumental in promoting the construction
of an edifice later known as “McCloy’s folly” — the
Pentagon. “But we were right about the Pentagon, it still
functions well,” he said.
McCloy’s most memorable job, he said, was as U.S.
military governor and high commissioner for postwar
Germany from 1949 to 1952 “where I tasted the heady wine
of total power, a proconsul’s power.”
He remains proud of America’s role.
“The rebuilding of democratic Europe after the war
was a Periclean age of international cooperation. The
foundations have held,” he said, “despite constant
pressure from the east.”
He added, “I am just back from Europe and I was
amazed to see the degree our vigor and our policies are
depended upon. They look to us as the defender of the
faith, and despite Vietnam and Watergate our prestige is
largely unimpaired.”
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LITTLE MISS GRIFFIN
Mr. and Mrs. Henry (Jabo)
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announce the birth of a
daughter, Stephanie Elizabeth,
on Nov. 11 in Warner Robins.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Conley of Warner Robins
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Griffin of
Griffin.
MASTER KELLEY
Mr. and Mrs. W. Jeffrey
Kelley announce the birth of a
son on Nov. 13 in Argyllshire,
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LITTLE MISS MATLOCK
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Rd., Orchard Hill, announce the
birth of a daughter on Nov. 14 at
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Atlanta. Mrs. Matlock is the
former Cheryl Akin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Ralph
Akin of Griffin.
Federal consumer credit law revisions
may create discrimination, FTC says
By JONATHAN WOLMAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Re
cent revisions in the federal
consumer credit law could open
the door for discrimination by
merchants and credit card op
erations, the Federal Trade
Commission says.
The FTC and Sen. William
Proxmire, chairman of the Sen
ate Banking Committee, are
asking that the revisions be
withdrawn. The changes were
drafted quietly earlier this year
by staff members of the Federal
Reserve Board.
“The Fed is undermining
credit protection by opening the
door to immense loopholes,”
said one FTC staffer. Proxmire
complained the revisions, writ
ten as interpretations of the
law, “misconstrue legislative
intent” in passing the credit
protection act.
One revision allows mer
chants to inquire about such
things as race, sex or religion as
a means of designing sales
strategies.
A second would allow a mer
chant to refuse to take a credit
card without explaining the
reason for the denial.
Prior to the first revision,
which already is in effect, it was
Lance believes balanced budget
is only way to solve inflation
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP)
— Former budget director Bert
Lance says only a balanced
federal budget will solve in
flation, which he calls the na
tion’s biggest problem.
The budget must be balanced
in order to trim inflation, which
has triggered energy shortages,
unemployment and other prob
lems, Lance told 1,200 farmers
Monday at the 39th annual con
vention of the Georgia Farm
Bureau.
“It can be done by 1981,” he
said, referring to President
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illegal for merchants to seek
information which could be
used to discriminate in granting
credit.
The second revision replaces
a current regulation requiring
an explanation of the reason for
denying credit unless the cus
tomer fails to present a credit
card or proper identification.
Proxmire, in a letter to Fed
eral Reserve Chairman Arthur
Bums, said the first revision
“sweeps aside” previous anti
discrimination protections and
turns the enforcement process
upside down.
“Rather than prohibiting con-
Investi gator reports:
Protection system, training
may have saved fire victims
ATLANTA (AP) — Adequate
fire protection systems and
evacuation training of employ
ees might have saved most of
the 164 people who died in a
supper club fire in Southgate,
Ky., in May, an investigator of
the fire says.
Richard Best, a fire analysis
specialist, told the nonprofit
National Fire Protection Asso-
Carter’s proposal to balance the
budget by then.
The federal government is
“reaping inflation because of
what was sown in previous
years,” said Lance, who has
been touring the country and
giving speeches since he resign
ed under fire as director of the
Office of Management and
Budget in September.
He urged the public to make
short-term sacrifices to encour
age long-term gains.
“The problems of agriculture
can’t be solved until inflation is
■Griffin Daily News Tuesday/ November 15,1977
duct which gives business an
opportunity to discriminate, the
board would place the burden
on the enforcement agencies to
ferret out discriminatory be
havior,” the Wisconsin Demo
crat complained.
The FTC said the credit card
interpretation “provides credit
ors with a ready-made vehicle
for discrimination.”
“Instead of denying trouble
some applications for credit
outright, a creditor could issue
an account ... and cut off the
applicant’s access to credit at
the point of sale,” said Lewis
Goldfarb, an acting assistant
ciation’s fall meeting here Mon
day that an electrical fire broke
out in an unoccupied service
room at the Beverly Hills
Supper Club between 8:45 and
8:50 p.m. on May 28, but patrons
in the Cabaret Room, where
most of the victims died,
weren’t warned of the blaze by
employees until 9 p.m.
Minutes later, when volunteer
solved," he said.
Farmers are at their best
when things are most difficult,
Lance said, adding that their
“indomitable spirit” will make
them take the long view in re
solving their present problems.
On another issue, the former
Georgia banker said it is “vi
tal” to bring people from the
private sector into government
service because they have a
different perspective from bu
reaucrats.
Many people won’t serve be
cause of “what we put them
through,” said Lance. But, he
director at the FTC.
“The consumer would never
be told the reason why a charge
authorization was denied, and
the creditor’s discriminatory
practices r*euld go unnoticed.”
The Federal Reserve staff,
not the board itself, quietly is
sued the interpretations last
spring.
They apply to a 1975 law
which bars credit dis
crimination based on sex, ma
rital status, race, color, nation
al origin, age or receipt of pub
lic assistance, such as welfare
benefits.
firefighters arrived, the Caba
ret Room was blanketed with
“tremendous smoke,” he said,
preventing many occupants
from escaping.
“If there had been evacuation
training for employees and a
fire escape plan, that might
have provided the extra min
utes that would have allowed
people to be evacuated,” he
said.
said, capable people must be
willing “to pay the price” to
serve their government.
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