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Toccoa Falls College
looks to the future
TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) - After
more than a week of trying to
restore what was a peaceful
Bible college before a broken
dam sent a wall of water crash
ing through their valley, stu
dents and faculty members at
Toccoa Falls College are ready
to look to the future.
“We’re convinced the best
years are ahead of us,” said Dr.
Jim Grant, vice president for
public relations of the 70-year
old college, which suspended
classes last week after a rain
swelled dam burst Nov. 6,
sending millions of gallons of
water cascading through
dormitories and trailers on the
campus and claiming 38 lives.
Classes at the inter
denominational school, with
which all of the victims were
associated, were to resume to-
Supreme Court keeps
alive $5-million suit
WASHINGTON (AP) - Allen
Aaron Jackson was a 21-yearold
Army recruit in 1974 when a
tank cut him in half, severing
both legs and leaving the kid
neys and bladder as the only
organs intact below his navel.
Jackson survived and now
wants |5 million. He says the
Army should be forced to pay
him because he never should
have been near that tank.
The Supreme Court kept alive
Jackson’s hopes of winning his
lawsuit when it sent his case
back to the U.S. Court of Claims
on Monday. That court
previously had dismissed the
suit after apparently making a
factual error in its deliber
ations.
“We were both surprised and
delighted to hear about the
court’s action,” said one of
Jackson’s lawyers. The ex-sol
dier is being represented by the
prestigious San Francisco law
firm headed by Melvin Belli.
Jackson, now 24 and a Chi
cago resident, signed up with
the Army intent on learning a
trade. He signed a contract in
which the Army pledged to give
him at least 16 months of me
chanical training so he could go
into the service station or car
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ing gathering at chapel.
“The response of the public to
the college has been pheno
menal,” said Grant. “The re
sponse we’ve seen financially,
emotionally and spiritually con
vinces us the future of Toccoa
Falls is brighter than any of its
past. We’re convinced the best
years are ahead of us.”
Five students and two full
time instructors were among
the victims. The rest of the dead
were dependents or staff
members. Many of the students
who lived on campus were sent
home or to the homes of friends
after the tragedy.
Grant said two professors
have been added to the faculty
until the end of school to take
over the theology and Bible
classes taught by Edward Pep-
repair business after a three
year hitch.
Jackson’s suit claims he was
promised that his specialized
training would begin as soon as
he finished basic training, but
his first assignment was to a
tank division.
Disgruntled by what he con
sidered a breach of contract,
Jackson requested and had
scheduled a May 20,1974, meet
ing with superior officers to
discuss the matter. The meeting
was never held.
The tank division’s com
mander ordered that Jackson
postpone the meeting to go out
on maneuvers. It was during
those exercises that the tank
ran over him.
The Supreme Court told the
claims court Monday that its
finding that Jackson had not
completed basic training when
the accident occurred was ap
parently wrong and that the
lower court should study again
whether he is entitled to dam
ages from the Army.
In other matters, the court:
—Agreed to decide whether
concern for the existence of a
Shah of Iran greeted
by demonstrations
WASHINGTON (AP) - As
the Shah of Iran was opening a
two-day state visit here today,
security forces braced for dem
onstrations seen as the biggest
display of political agitation
since the Vietnam War era.
City police and federal au
thorities prepared to cope with
competing groups of placard-,
carrying, slogan-shouting dem
onstrates split between sup
porters and opponents of the
monarch.
Permits for the demonstra
tions indicated 10,000 to 15,000
people might take part in pro
tests around the city.
After an overnight stay at co
lonial Williamsburg, Va., 150
miles south of here, the Shah
planned to fly by helicopter to
the Ellipse near the White
House for a ceremonial wel
come from President Carter.
The anti-Shah forces, com
plaining of alleged tyrannical
rule in Iran and its economic
and military ties with the
United States, said that the Ira
nian government is bankrolling
travel and housing for the pro
shah factions during the mon
arch’s visit.
The Iranian government has
angrily denied the charge.
In turn, the Iranian foreign
ministry has charged that
sney and Dr. Jerry Sproull, who
were among the victims.
Male students will be per
mitted to return to the upper
floors of a men’s dormitory that
was flooded when the water
burst through the earthen dam,
passed down the upper portion
of Toccoa Creek and crashed
over Toccoa Falls, rushing
through the campus.
The basement portion of the
dormitory, where three stu
dents were trapped and
drowned, will not be reoccupied
because of the possibility that
Toccoa Creek could flood again
and the waters could penetrate
the lower floors, he said.
Grant said only one student
has withdrawn from the college
as a result of the disaster.
tiny endangered fish, the snail
darter, should block completion
of a sll6 million dam in Ten
nessee.
A federal appeals court ruled
last January that the snail dar
ter, a 3-inch long member of the
perch family found only along a
17-mile stretch of the Little
Tennesse River, has to be
protected. The lower court or
dered the Tennessee Valley Au
thority to halt construction of
the nearly completed Tellico
Dam.
—Agreed to review the validi
ty of lowa’s system of assessing
corporate income taxes on out
of-state companies doing
business in lowa.
lowa’s corporate tax assess
ments generally are higher than
those imposed by 44 other states
and the District of Columbia. If
the Supreme Court upholds
lowa’s system, other states are
likely to consider adopting it to
increase revenues.
—Let stand a lower court’s
ruling in a case from Illinois
that state prison officials must
supply a reason when refusing
to let a prisoner call witnesses
at a disciplinary hearing.
“criminals and anarchists” fi
nanced by Libya and other
countries make up the anti-Shah
elements assembled here.
Opposing Iranian groups
were assigned separate areas
on the Ellipse for demonstra
tions, and police took measures
to insure the two factions re
mained apart.
Permits indicated that as
many as 9,000 pro-Shah demon
strators were expected, in
cluding 422 Iranian military
personnel training in Texas and
a number of Assyrian and Ar
menian orgnizations from
around the country.
The anti-Shah demonstrators
were organized by a coalition of
Iranian student groups. Police
predicted as many as 6,000
people would protest the shah’s
policies and ties with the United
States.
Blair House, the temporary
residence for the Shah and his
wife, Farah, was subjected to
unusually tight security, as was
the White House across Penn
sylvania Avenue.
The Carter administration’s
relations with Iran reflect sev
eral of the difficulties it has had
in pursuing some of the foreign
policy goals it has set.
The administration’s tenden
cy toward a strong emphasis on
human rights and reducing
overseas arms sales has been
blunted, in the case of Iran, by
what officials describe as hard
political realities.
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Even Teetotallers
visited Pinkie’s Bar
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - For
almost every Georgia politi
cian, including teetotallers Jim
my Carter and Lester Maddox,
a trip to Savannah meant a visit
to Pinkie Masters’ bar.
Under Masters, who died
Sunday of cancer at age 64, the
bar was more of a political sa
lon than a saloon, and Georgia’s
officeholders, would-be of
ficeholders and newsmen gath
ered there regularly.
He was a Carter supporter
when the president was a state
senator, and Masters used to
brag that he was the first to take
Carter’s presidential aspi
rations seriously.
His claim had some sub
stance.
In 1974, every bottle of alcohol
Masters sold from his adjoining
liquor store was carried out in a
bag bearing the hand stenciled
slogan: “Carter for President.”
Carter and Masters became
friends, and it was only an op
eration to remove a cancerous
growth last January that pre
vented Masters from accepting
an invitation to the in
auguration.
On Sunday, Carter called the
Savannah hospital where Mas
ters had recently been read
mitted. According to a family
spokesman, Carter inquired
about his old friend’s health
only to be told that Masters had
died minutes before.
The spokesman said Carter
was “very disturbed” by the
news, and he quoted the presi
dent as saying, “I thought the
world of him... Pinkie was very
close.”
Funeral services for Masters,
who was bom Christopher Mas
terpolis, were scheduled today
at 3 p.m. at the Greek Orthodox
Church of St. Paul in Savannah.
In addition to a number of
Georgia political figures, a
White House contingent com
posed of Press Secretary Jody
Powell and presidential aid
Hamilton Jordan was expected
to attend the services.
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