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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 s’ |||O - # B fl John Huston People 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. I ■ £ Adele Holzer 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.” JgTStork club LITTLE MISS GRIFFIN Mr. and Mrs. Henry (Jabo) Griffin of Warner Robins 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, Scotland. Mrs. W. C. Kendrick I LeSABRE LAND I I At I ■ SIGMAN BUICK I —hh.i.i.i.ictw I Any 1978 Buick LeSabre In Stock I I Most Any Color - Good Selection I I "First Come - First Served" I EPA Rating EPA Rating I 24 MPG - Hwy. FULL SIZE FAMILY CAR 24 MPG - Hwy. I I 5 Demos 5 DEMOS I I Left TO SELL I I SAVE SAVE I LeSabre Custom Sedan Melvin Lester SEE: Eric Sigman Melvin Waldrop Colin Reeves Zach Hayes Hamp Russell Donnie Wilson Randy Skates Lanier Shivers Homer Sigman I AT Mark Luke ■ ... SIGMAN BUICK ... I 228-2700 Griffin, Ga. 228-2700 I of Griffin is the maternal grandmother. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kelley of Griffin. LITTLE MISS MATLOCK Mr. and Mrs. James E. Matlock HI of 18 Green Acres Rd., Orchard Hill, announce the birth of a daughter on Nov. 14 at Crawford W. Long Hospital in 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 Page 3 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. GOODE NICHOLS Furniture Co. Home of BEAUTYREST MATTRESS & BOX SPRINGS