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Sweet-Orr Co., Inc. of Anniston has been awarded a large government contract which will enable it to add about 25 persons to its work force, plant manager Abe Cooperman said this morning Cooperman said the contract, calls for manufacturing in excess of 400,000 utility shirts. He said production is expected to start in about two weeks and continue until the end of the year. The contract will provide full employment for up to 200 persons, Cooperman said. The company started with 55 employes four years ago and has grown to 175, he said he said he is now looking for additional employes. He added that the new hiring is significant against the backdrop of a generally depressed economy. Sweet-Orr, a subsidiary of ‘Sweet-Orr, Inc. of New York, ‘manufactures Boy Scout and other shirts. 'Comttnued From Page 1) ‘weapon or any other evidence that would provide additional clues. When officers first converged ‘on the area the morning the bodies were discovered the ‘couple's 1966 Dodge automobile was missing. It was later found parked near an apartment complex in Jacksonville Snead said several fingerprints were taken from the car and at one time it was thought the prints matched those of John Paul Knowles. He was arrested by Atlanta police several months ago in connection with at least a dozen killings. Knowles’ prints were ‘compared to those found on the ‘car and there was no match Knowles’ name came up as a suspect because at the time of the Phillips deaths, Knowles was said to have been in Georgia. Knowles, according to Snead, had relatives in the Piedmont area and was distantly related to the Phillipses by marriage Knowles was shot to death by Georgia authorities a short time after his arrest as he was trying to escape ‘891. Seward is still being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for the Phillips killings “We're still checking a lot of information and running down remote leads,” Snead said. But I wouldn't say we're close to solving anything, and I don't see us solving the case in the near future unless something breaks. Saigen fed From Page political setup. Foes of former President Nguyen Van Thien were urging his 71-year-old successor to step out also so that Minh could form a new lineup that the Communist m ight agree to negotiate with Political sources said Huong and Minh met for more than two hours, and the 71-year-old president offered Minh the pre miership “with full powers. But they said Huong insisted on keeping the presidency he suc ceeded to on Monday night ,when Thieu resigned Cambodia continued under virtual news blackout, one week after the fall of Phnom Penh Official sources in Bangkok said they had heard reports of political trials in the Cam bodian capital but they could not be confirmed. ‘The Khmer Rouge radio, monitored in Bangkok, said the goals of Cambodia would be de mocracy, nonalignment and territorial integrity. It pro claimed April 17, the date Phnom Penh fell, as Independ ence Day. ‘The short broadcast out of Phnom Penh — the only news break — announced the begin ning of three days of celebra tions and praised the “heroic struggle of the people's liber ation forces” for bringing victo- Informed French sources in Paris said today that a plane scheduled to take food supplies into Phnom Penh for 600 per sons who have taken refuge in the French Embassy there has been held over in Vientiane, Laos, because the Phnom Penh airport is still closed. The sources said that water is being supplied to the embassy but gave no information on whether the delay in delivering food supplies was critical. They said it was hoped that the Phnom Penh airport would be opened soon. Minh, a 59-year-old 200- pounder, took over in Vietnam after Diem’s overthrow and murder and was figurehead chief of state for three months
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Thu, Apr 24, 1975
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