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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. 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Call 227-5080 for take-out orders. day with the customary morn 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. THE CAKE BOX? 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(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. 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