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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 35

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Atlanta, Georgia
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35
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Drr. 29. 1978 3-C State News In Bnef Ware Official Named Head Griffin Schools -V. Si. 7 From Staff And Prt OrtpatafiM GRIFFIN Dr, Charles H.

Green, Ware County school The 45-year-old Green, hired after unanimous approval of the Griffin-Spalding County school board, will begin his new rintipt in Anril npnrv Wallcpr chairman of the board, said. thg Nationwide Supermarket of Sound Ld r-7 ,1 4 i-ti II I i- u4i nil hi in Green, who has been school superintendent in Ware County (Waycross) since 1973, will succeed D. B. Christie, who died in August Crash Spawns 4 Lawsuits ROME Four suits filed in U.S. District Court here seek -more than $3 million in compensation for the families of six Rockmart residents who were lulled in a plane crash two years The lawsuits charge negligence on the part of the Federal Aviation Administration flight service station at Indianapolis, Ind.

The suits were filed by the administrator of the estates of Richard Pierce, 34, the plane's pilot; his wife, Mary Joan Pierce, 28; and their two sons, Tony and Corey. Separate suits' were filed in the deaths of two other plane passengers, Mrs. W.G. Nesbitt and her daughter, Robin. The suits contend the FAA "failed to exercise reasonable care in briefing the pilot" about weather conditions along the flight path.

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Jack Birge be set aside. Magistrate Allen Chan-cey, Jr. filed recommendations U.S. District Court Judge Albert Hender- son in Newnan saying that both Dr. Brige's conviction for stealing police records and the conviction of Edwin Birge, his son, for marijuana possession be set aside on the grounds that the juries were selected improperly in both cases.

District Attorney Billy Lee said Thursday that he expects Judge Henderson to make his decision without setting a hearing and that although he bad not seen Magistrate Chancey's recommendations Thursday, he was sure that he would file objections to it Dr. Birge, who is now serving a three-year sentence at a medium-security prison in Milledgeville, has contended that both he and his son, who was earlier sentenced on the marijuana charge, were set up by the police and other Ca-rollton officials. Birge bad been convicted in October, 1976, in connec- uie nurses may uc wuiuuig up i uic suwgmciuuuw, nucic they end up as dog food. "With horse meat going for 32 to 40 cents a pound, a horse will bring $320 to (400," said John Cobb, assistant commissioner in the animal industry section of the De- STA-85 SYSTEM SAVER 2 CUT 130" STA-85 SYSTEM SAYER 1 CUT 170" Reg. Separate 0 Reg.

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a.J il. -jit i iu uucwrs sam we average age oi ine meaicai siaii is 60, and they considered the weekend service, which they have 1 handled in the past on a rotating basis, to be an unreasonable. EZZ3 "tioff with the" theft of Hs ScmY STA-85 AMFM Stereo Receiver Two MC-U00 Bass Reitex Stereo Speakers with Genuine Walnut Veneef ReaJc STA-85 AMFM Stereo Receiver Two Realistic Optimut-25 V. Speakert with Genuine Walnut Veneer Cabinets, Removable Grille LAB-65'Changer with Base, Hinged Dust Cover and Magnetic Cartridge Cabinets LAB-200 Changer with Ultra-Modem Base, Hinged Dust Cover and S29.95-Value Magnetic Cartridge WALTHOURVHJLE Mrs. Carrie Kent a 54-year-old woman who has won a runoff election for mayor of this tiny Liberty County town, said Thursday, "I just want to get all of the people here involved in the government of the city." Mrs.

Kent is not unusual in being a woman office holder here. I Back in 1974 a group of women headed by Lyndol Ander-rson got the town incorporated and then proceeded to defeat all male candidates at the polls later that year for the posts of I mayor and five councilmen police records. His son had been sentenced to serve one year on the drug charge. The son is free awaiting appeal. Birge's attorney Bobby Lee Cook of Summerville had asked Magistrate Chancey in a habeas corpus petition to set aside his client's conviction' on the grounds that blacks, women and young persons had been excluded from the juries which had tried the Birges' cases.

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