Georgia Governor seeks amendment for funding new industry sites
Gov. Lester Maddox proposes a constitutional change to allow Georgia to fund site preparation for new industry. The plan would allocate 1 to 2 percent of project costs, potentially $3 million on a $300 million influx, and use state money via the Department of Industry and Trade to assist local authorities with infrastructure. He cites a lost Swift Packing Co. bid in Columbus to justify the move.
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ANTA
Lester Maddox
General Assembly
Maddox
Georgia
Swift Packing Co
Columbus
Alabama
Department of Industry and Trade
Georgia official resigns as family services director
Mrs. Bruce Schaefer, head of the Department of Family and Children Services in Atlanta, resigns effective July 1. Gov. Lester Maddox plans to name William H. Burson as her successor, a choice tied to Burson’s prior service to Sen. Herman Talmadge and former Gov. Sanders.
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Atlanta
Bruce Schaefer
Department of Family and Children Services
Associated Press
Lester Maddox
William H. Burson
Schaefer
Carl E. Sanders
Burson
Herman Talmadge
Sanders
Maddox
Department of Industry and Trade
Rocks Hurl At Ambulance After Late Grady Response
An angry crowd pelted a Grady Hospital ambulance with rocks at the scene of a pedestrian hit by a car. Willie James Dawson, 28, was already being loaded into a private ambulance when police said the Grady unit arrived six minutes after the call. Dawson, described as not seriously injured, was identified as a Black man.
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Anta
Grady Hospital
Willie James Dawson
Grady
Dawson
Here's Proof Of Affluence
The Treasury Department said there was $220.16 cash in circulation for every person in the nation as of April 1980. The per capita high was $225.59 last December, but the trend remains upward. Total currency and coin in circulation reached $48.7 billion in April 1980.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Most Gay Crops Improving
The Georgia Crop Service reports most crops except cotton improved or stayed in good condition after last week’s rains in south Georgia. Field work began mid week with soybean planting advancing, while corn tobacco grain and peanut crops showed progress and pastures benefited from rainfall. Cotton remained in poor or fair condition in most areas.
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Athens
Georgia Crop Service
South Georgia
Airlift Planned for Americans From Nigeria Split
The United States plans an airlift to evacuate about 700 Americans from the eastern region of Nigeria as hostilities loom between rebel forces and central government. Ambassador Elbert G. Mathews urged firms to withdraw dependents from Biafra under Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu.
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Lagos
Nigeria
U. S
Elbert G. Mathews
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Republic of
Biafra
Graduation time as diplomas handed to hundreds
Graduation time across 13 schools weeks brings 900 plus area students their diplomas. Central High honors 77 boys and 49 girls with ceremonies at Municipal Auditorium tonight at eight. Thomasville High follows at 8 30 p m with 151 seniors and honor speakers. Vashti and Birdwood College selections also set for weekend ceremonies with ministers and officials delivering remarks. Continued on page six.
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Central High
Municipal Auditorium
Marty Willett
Marsha Travis
Diane Council
Nancy Smith
Diane Groover
Billy Long
Lynn Keadle
Gary Jackson
Edward King
Karen Jennings
Mary Roberts
Thomasville High
Doa Taylor
Gail Carden
Sallyann Munro
Carl Copeland
al McGraw
Sammy Calhoun
Alan Laing
Bill Gaither
Leisa Tomlinson
Vashti
First Methodist Church
Louis Patmore
Bay Shore Methodist Church
Tampa
Fla
Birdwood College
the Speak
Summer quarter at UGA Thomasville Center may reach 300 students
Director H D Meyers says over 280 applications already received for the summer quarter at the University of Georgia Thomasville Center. He notes reaching 300 would be a fivefold rise from last summer. Registration is set 6 to 9 30 p m June 12 at Thomasville High School. Classes begin June 15 and run full time.
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University of Georgia Thomasville Center
H. D. Meyers
Meyers
Thomasville High School
Iraq Kuwait Troops Back Nasser Forces
Arab forces massed in Egypt against Israel as Iraqi and Kuwaiti units joined Nasser’s bloc. Britain warned against closing the Gulf of Aqaba, while the United States urged UN action to cool the crisis. The Intrepid sailed toward Vietnam as Egyptian forces increased in the Sinai and Jordanian recruits prepared near the Israeli border.
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Cairo
Iraq
Kuwait
Egypt
Israel
Britain
Gulf of Aqaba
United States
U.N. Security Council
Middle East
U. S
Intrepid
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Canal Bank
Defense Department
Washington
Vietnam
Aqaba
Gulf
Elath
Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Brown
House of Commons
Brown
Harold Wilson
Commons
Aden
Hermes
Far East
Nasser
Sinai Peninsula
Abdul Rahman Aref
Jordan
Hussein
Syria
Damascus
Miss Iff Defuses Stickup With Toy Gun in Swiss Office
In San Francisco AP report Anna Marie Iff 28 a secretary alone at the Swiss National Tourist Office confronted a robber who demanded money After noting she could not open the safe she handed over 11 dollars Then the assailant ordered her to remove clothing but Iff grabbed the robber s gun and found it was a toy The suspect fled as clerk Howard Wilcox 37 arrived from the basement and called for help.
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San Francisco
Anna Marie Iff
Miss Iff
Howard Wilcox
Cong Fortress Shattered by Spectacular Bombing Action
U S forces launched into a vast Viet Cong coastal complex in Quang Ngai after a Navy rocket barrage hit fortifications destroying bunkers and trenches. The operation followed the war’s highest May U S casualties and a record air losses, with ongoing fighting and 18 enemy deaths reported as troops swept the area.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Green Beret Medics Deemed Vital in Vietnam War Tribunal
Army physician Maj. Craig Llewellyn testified that Green Beret medics were essential to the U.S. medical program in Vietnam. He served as a rebuttal witness in the Levy court martial, where Capt. Howard B. Levy faces charges for refusing orders to train medics and promoting disloyalty. The trial, featuring ten senior officers, could carry a lengthy sentence. defense argues medical ethics privilege may apply.
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Columbia, S.C
Vietnam
U.S
Army
Howard B. Levy
Craig Llewellyn
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Llewellyn
Berwick
Yale
Levy
Brooklyn
N.Y
Woman Halts Pill Led To Wales First Quadruplets
Marjorie Price, 28, of Morriston, Wales, halted the birth control pill after four children. Now she is expecting Wales' first quadruplets, a development noted by AP.
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Morriston
Wales
Marjorie Price
Post Office Stickup Near Army Base in San Francisco
Two men entered a U S Army base post office near closing time in San Francisco locked three employees in a vault and escaped with 3331 dollars. One thief carried an old fashioned long barreled revolver.
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San Francisco
U.S. Army
Dixie Baptists Warn Of False Patriotism
Almost 15 000 Baptists were urged not to be blinded by distorted appeals to false patriotism and to back a peace statement criticizing U S motives in Vietnam. The Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission warned of the peril of nuclear age terror and urged peaceful policy. The commission has 10 952 463 members in 33 949 churches and faced a floor vote after an attempt to abolish it failed. Senator Mark Hatfield spoke on the vote.
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Miam Beach
Fla
U. S
Christian Life Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptists
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Thomasville
Travis Hall
W. M. Luckie
Brooks County
Walter V. Marvin
el Dorado, Ark
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Iff
Eeeeneeteaens
Heloise
Green Beret Corps
Billy E. Jones
Ft. Gordon, Ga
Jones
Post Office
Dixie Baptists
Mark Hatfield
Ore
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