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Thomasville Times Enterprise (Newspaper) - September 19, 1970, Thomasville, Georgia Thomasville Lowndes Quot a rust Central bainbr�dge34 Fitzgerald 7 Cairo. Valdosta o Crisp co.20 Moultrie o Tift co.26 Pelham o Turner co.19 Monroe o Albany high26 am Ricus 13 Mary persons16 Early co. 0 Clinch co.34 wort co. 14 Berrien co.48 Benedictine 0 waycross8 Ware co. 6 Appling co.20 Baldwin 0 dublin12 Irwin co. 7 Miller co. 9 26 0 vol. A xxxix no. 224 tel. 226-2400 a . Box 650 Thomasville. Georgia 31792 saturday afternoon september 19, 1970 12 pages 2 sections daily except sunday Lois per copy �z1news briefs Ochlocknee fish kill investigated Moultrie a. Apr authorities Are investigating a fish kill in the Ochlocknee River West of Here and have warned fishermen not to eat fish caught in the area until tests have been completed Colquitt county health department officials said the fish kill occurred last week. Preliminary reports by the state game and fish commission blamed Low water Levels and minor pollution for depleting the River s oxygen and causing the kill. However Leon Kirkland of the commission s fisheries division said fish caught in the River near Moultrie should not be consumed until after tests Are completed next week. Election set sunday in Sweden Stockholm apr campaigning in Sweden s National election ended i iday night with a close contest predicted Between Premier Olaf palme s social democrats and their non socialist opposition. If a right of Center coalition can upset the social democrats sunday s general election the chief architect albeit unwilling will be a the swedish communist party. The heated campaigns entering on the issues of mounting tax Bills squeaky tight Money and burgeoning inflation ended with a television debate by leaders of the major Conte Denig parties. Fighting flares in Louisiana town Thibodaux la. Apr fights and suspected arson Early today brought Large numbers of state troopers and sheriff s deputies to this Lafourche Parish Community about 50 Miles Southwest of new Orleans officials said. Details were sketchy but first reports indicated fighting started around a teen age night spot a building was burned on the Edge of the Black Section of town and firemen were harassed. The Law enforcement forces blocked off the area and remained through the night. Fiery Leader enters University Berkley Ca if. A _ Mario Savio Bushy haired and fiery Leader of the 1964 free speech movement that gave birth to a new dimension of Campus protest says he is reentering the University of California. Savio now 27 still Bushy haired was asked by a newsman Friday whether he would re enter the Berkeley Campus political Arena. He replied Quot i am going Back As a a University spokesman confirmed Savio has been readmitted As a Junior in biological sciences for classes which begin oct. 5 for the 28,000-student Campus. Southern governors meet begins Biloxi miss. A _ Southern governors gather Here for their annual conference today faced with the dilemma of finding ways to pour Oil on troubled Public school Waters while keeping the real stuff out of streams and coastal areas. The 36th annual conference for Southern chief executives officially begins today but the governor s Don t get on the Agenda until monday. 3 killed in Georgia accidents by the associated press three persons have been killed in Georgia accidents this weekend two of them in traffic. The state patrol said Robert Hicks 71, of Atlanta was fatally injured Early saturday in a head on collision on Howell Road inside the Atlanta City limits. Mary Verdelle Boatwright 34, of Tifton was killed Friday night in a Collsion on Georgia 35 inside the City limits of Omega the patrol said. A 47-year-old Rome Ga., Man Fred weeks was found dead in downtown Rome Early Satu a. Hussein agrees to cease fire plan Liss fleeing police London a member of the Union of Arab students leaps from a window of the jordanian embassy As he flees from police who were called in to Clear the embassy after 25 members of the Union staged a they were protesting Quot against the criminal fascist regime in Power in up telephoto. Administration blocks threatened rail strike Wasoff Langton apr acting Quot with great reluctance Quot the Nixon administration has blocked for 60 Days a threatened nationwide rail strike. President Nixon signed executive orders Friday barring a walkout by four unions against 160 Rau fines and creating a five member Board to investigate the dispute. Unless Congress enacts emergency legislation the unions will be free to strike if no contract settlement is reached in the next 60 Days. The orders signed under provisions of the railway labor act affect some 400,000 Union members about 70 per cent of the nation s railway work Force. Asst. Secretary of labor William j. Usery a top labor troubleshooter said at the White House he had hoped for a settlement negating the need for the executive orders. It was Quot with great reluctance Quot he said that tie labor department recommend the president sign Quot the orders. But he indicated Only a few Points of major disagreement remain to be resolved after weeks of gov emment sponsored talks. Those issues should be dealt with by the Board he said. He said a five met sober panel instead of the usual three member Board was formed Quot so that an equitable settlement May be reached at the earliest possible its members Are to be named later. I under the 44-year-old rail labor Law the Board will study the dispute and submit its recommendations with 30 Days. Over the following 30 Days the unions and rail lines Are to consider the recommendations during negotiations. A strike had been called for sept 10, but government mediators won agreement from the Union to Delav for five Days. There were selective shutdowns in some areas tuesday and wednesday until a Federal court order blocking any strikes took effect. . Dist. Court judge Howard Corcoran said Friday he would leave his order in effect until it expires sept. 23. Area deaths Mccollum Paul j. Or. A Page 6 arabs get surrender ultimatum Beirut Lebanon apr Cairo radio said today k no Hussein has agreed to an egyptian cease fire proposal but shortly after the broadcast Jordan s military governor gave palestinian guerrillas an ultimatum to surrender or face firing squads. The ultimatum from Field marshal Habis maj Ali had a three hour deadline it appeared to mean the egyptian cease fire Effort had collapsed. Maj Ali said in a broadcast by radio Amman that the guerrillas who did not surrender would be executed As mutineers. The Cairo broadcast said president Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had proposed to Hussein that he and the guerrillas accept a 24-hour cease fire. According to Cairo Hussein agreed. Cairo said the agreement had been worked out Early today in a meeting Between Hussein and Gen. Mohamed Sadek Egypt s chief of staff who had flown to Amman Early in tie fighting. It said Sadek then weat into conference with Yasir Arafat Over All Leader of the Guei Rilla movement and other officials of the Centra committee of the Palestine liberation organization. Madaii s announcement made no mention of the egyptian initiative. He stressed that the ultimatum was imposed under the martial Law decreed by Hussein at the Start of the fighting on thursday. The egyptian Effort and a Jali s ultimatum came in the third Day of fighting. Casualties were reported soar lag past 5,000. Royal forces were reported attacking the Guenill ask called fedayeen in the North. Madaii s proclamation said Quot this is the last warning to the fedayeen. Quot All guerrillas must Lay Down their and surrender by 4 . Anyone who resists the Royal forces after this time limit will be treated As an outlaw and killed or arrested and tried by courts martial on a charge of armed Mii tiny against the authorities Quot this crime is punishable by the deadline was 10 a.m., Edt. Maj Ali repeated earlier assurances that guerrillas wishing to surrender would not be harmed. In Beirut guerrilla spokes men said before news Canie of Madaii s us Timat Iun that Nasser s proposed cease fire had virtually no Chance of acceptance by the guerrilla leadership. Up Tele Phiilip. Gov. Maddox r had some kind words for Carl Sanders Quot he s making Good common sense getting Down to common people Quot hard fighting Sanders attacks Carter for crawling in bed with gamblers by the associated press former gov. Carl Sandt is who will face Jimmy Carter in a sept. 23 Runoff for the democratic gubernatorial nomination has charged that his opponent has Quot sold out Quot the voters and Quot crawled in bed Quot Vav the Long county charge Friday riia a lighted Sanders Campai gang act invites Carter ignoring he charge confidently proclaimed that he would carry All but four of the state s 159 counties in the Runoff. Gover Lester Maddox meanwhile issued a statement saying he would endorse neither of them in the Runoff. Maddox captured the democratic nomination for lieutenant in Tallahassee unarmed Jailer killed by robbers in fight at football game us. Soldier hijacks thai none Bangkok Thailand apr a thai charter plane returned to Bangkok today after a junket into communist territory reportedly on orders of an american Soldier of Fortune with a prison record in. Arizona. Bira air transport owner of the single engine Cessna Wren identified the Hijacker As Bob Keesee from a passport he left in the plane. He had rented the plane last monday at $60 an hour on the pretext that he was scouting locations for a motion picture production Bira air said. Sunny mostly sunny and warm today and sunday details Page 12 grip3n,-Ga. A a Quot a Quot Black teen Ager was shot and killed Friday in a racial clash which broke out moments before a High sch dbl. Football game ended police said. The victim was tentatively identified As Ricky Sut on about 16, of Griffin. Police said a White Man who lives about two blocks from the stadium was arrested and charged with murder. They identified him As Ray l. Robinson 47. Police chief Leo Blackwell said the trouble started when several fights broke out behind the bleachers at the Foo fall Field. As the game ended he said several Large groups of negro youngsters left the stadium and began a Rock far owing spree in the downtown but ii Ness Section. At that Point Blackwell sad he called for additional assistance from the state patrol and a Quot Good number Quot of troopers responded. Quot it looks like everything is a quiet now Quot Blackwell said. Two police officers both on duty at the stadium were hit by rocks As they attempted to bring the crowd under Cantrol. They were identified As it. L. J. Miller and sgt. Waste Harrison and neither was believed to be seriously Hurt. Blackwell said at iras six negro youths were arrest id in connection with the Rock throwing incidents. They Weie not immediately identified. The football game Between Griffin High school and Thor Rell High school of Atlanta attracted an overflow crowd of about 7,000 persons. Blackwell said he did not know Exa i by How the trouble started but added that it apparently Quot involved a group of negro you no sters who were unable to find Quot Griffin won the food Ball game 38-0. Officials said both High schools have at least some degree of integration. At the Peak of the disturbance Blackwell said about a dozen groups of negroes ran my from about 20 to 50 Yoang sers were involved in the Rock throwing. He also said the fue department reported several false alarms during the episode. Tallahassee Fla. Apr an unarmed Leon c unto Jailer was killed and another wounded seriously Friday when they interrupted an armed robbery on their Way to work and attempted to Stop its for Iff Ray Hamlin said. Ziomas revel Young father of two sail sons died when he tackled on robber and was shot 4n the Back of the head of an other Hamlin said. H. M. Carroll revel s coworker was reported in serious condition suffering from Bullet wounds in the face and com Ach. Quot they walked in on a a Quot Dup being committed by four coloured males and revel evidently jumped one of the bandits Quot Hamlin said. Quot they were both unarmed and because of their classification they never wore he said the robbers shot the men grabbed what was described As a considerable amount of Money from the Register at Luke s Goce y store leaped into a car and sped off. Quot we be been quest zoning suspects and running Down loads since it happened this afternoon but we Don t have any Oiivia in custody yet Quot Hamlin said. Authorities from Georgia joined Florida Highway r Atrol troopers Tallahassee , Hamilin s department and the Florida Bureau of Law enforcement in the manhunt Friday night. Hamlin said revel who was in his Early 20s, had worsted for the sheriff so department Jor about a year. He said he was a native of Tallahassee governor in he sept. 9 primary without a Runoff. Sanders issued has newest charges in a release distributed to newsmen by Campaign aides. The attack was consistent Wuh the new image Sanders is projecting a that of a two listed campaigner who knows he .4s behind and who is attempting to do some thug about it. Sanders trailed Carter by about 90,000 votes in the sept. 9 voting. He said that while serving As governor from 1963-66 be had attempted to oust gamblers and Quot clip joint operators Quot from Long county and that Maddox has carried Forth his efforts. Carter was quoted earlier in the week As saying he would attempt to improve the somewhat oiled image of Long Boualy if he is elect governor. Quot the very idea that he would openly court this Long county clique that has brought shame on our state for years should Quot reveal to the people that be is willing to make any kind of Deal that would further his political purpose Quot said Sanders. The outward Surenky of the Carter Campaign was in rifled. The closest he came to betraying deep concern came continued on Page 6, col 1 j promising work reported on birth control agent inside Abby. Church. Crossword comics editorials. Horoscope. Heloise. Obituaries. Sports. Television. Want ads weather. Women s news. 5. 2. 5. 94 12 _____36 7-8. 9 10-11 123 new York a scientists reported today promising experimental work on a new birth control agent one that would be used Only once a month when the woman believes she s pregnant. The research was described As very preliminary but a Federal family planning expert said the agent May be very close to the Quot ultimate Quot family planning method. Quot the agent is one of a remarkable series of chemicals called Prosta Glandino hormone like fatty substances found widely and animal tissue. Prosta Glandino have credible Range of effects and researchers say they May hid medical uses in therapeutic abortion inducement of labor and in contrast to their birth control potential As a treatment for male sterility. The versatile chemicals also May find uses m the treatment of ulcers blood pressure problems asthma and even nasal de congestion. The newest report on Stag Landing came from or. Sultan m. M. Karim of maker ere University at Kampala Uganda to an International meeting on the subject held by the new York Academy of sciences. Or. Karim reported that Prost Arlandin has been Given to 12 women who had missed their menstrual period for from two to seven Days. The chemical is in Tablet form and a sorted in the Vagina. It produced a Normal period in 11 of the presumably pregnant women. Pregnancy was confirmed in eight of them. There have been Only minor Side effects he said and the chemical seems to leave the body after affecting the uterus

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