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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
• Your Influence In Griffin!
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GR IFFIN HIGH WINS DISTRICT BASKETBALL
E VENIN GOOD G
By Qutraby Melton
Well everybody's happy.
That Is everybody in Griffin.
For Griffin High annexed tfc e
Fourth District Basketball cham
pionship Saturday night in
Thomaston. In one of the hard
est fought games ever played in
the district the Gold Wave edg
ed out the Rebels 24 to 21. This
Is the fourth straight year they
have won the district basketball
title.
And in winning the district
title they also won the right to
represent the Fourth District in
the state tournament.
But that’s not all.
When the Gold Wave wen
Saturday night they lan their
championship titles, during the
past four years, to the staggering
total of 24. Few people realize
what a fine record in atnletlcs
Griffin High has made in those
four years.
A careful search of the rec
ords shows that total 24
TWENTY-FOUR.
During the four years there
have been two coaches at Grif
fin. High. Tom MooTer was
there in '42 and piloted the locals
to two district, one NGFA, and
four state championships.
Jeff West has been coach for
the past three years and his
championships total seventeen.
In his winnings are five scat
championships, one NGFA title
and eleven district crowns.
Here's how the championships
won in the past four years stack
up.
Under Moorer in 1942 the Gold
Wave won the NGFA football
title and then took state
the state golf and state tennis
championships as well as the
district basketball and track
titles.
In 1943. the first year Coach
Jeff West was at Griffin High,
the boys started out by winnmg
the NGFA football tite. They
lost the state title, to Albany; bv
the close score of 6 to 0.
This same year they won the
discus event in the state track
meet and won district champion
ships in basketball, track, and
in botli singles and doubles in
tennis.
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Then came 1944.
West led the boys to three
state titles—relay race, singles
and doubles in tennis; and four
district titles—basketball, track,
doubles.
And in 1945-46 West s record to
date is district titles in basket
ball and tennis, both singles and
doubles, and a state title In ten
nis singles.
And the year is not yet
through.
The 1946 Oold Wave aggre h a
tion have a chance at the state
track title and at the state bas
ketball championship.
The locals are almost sure to
annex the track title since the
team they will put In the field
is the same one that lo.-t out on
state title last year bY ONE
POINT.
POLICE WARN BOYS NOT TO SHOOT
GUNS INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS
City police today warned boys not to shoot guns Inside the city
limits.. Recently reports have been made to the police that boys have
been shooting air guns and 22 rifles at birds and squirrels. Recently
a shot from one gun went through the frone door of a residence In
the Third Ward they states
It's against the city laws to shoot firearms Inside the olty limits.
Then, too, ssys Chief'Harper, it’s dangerous, for no one knows where
the bullet might wind up.
Parents sre urged by the chief to sts that their boys do not
■hoot runs inside the city limits. Cases will be made against parents
of any boys who are found shooting guns inside the limits.
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GRIFFIN
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Takes Thomaslon
In Close Game
Saturday Nigh!
Locals Will Represent
District In State
Tourney Next Month
By winning the Fourth District
Basketball championship Sat
urday pight Griffin High ran its
total championship titles up to
24 during the past four years.
A list of the titles is carried in
today’s Good Evening column.
For the fourth straight year Grif
| fin High has won the right to rep
resent the Fourth District in the
State High School basketball tour
nament. They won this right Sat
urday night by nosing out Thomas
ton 24 to 21 in the final game of the
district tournament played in 1 nom
as ton.
Prior to this game the two teams
had met twice this season, with
each team winning the game played
on their home court.
In order to play Thomaston in
the finals Griffin High mowed down
Spalding High, 68 to 14; Hogans
vile, 34 to 12; and Forest Park, 28
to 23
Much of the success of Griffin
in this tournament must be gtv en
to the strong defense that v,a.i put j
up. The locals just didn't Intend j
for their opponents to ring up very I
many points. The opposition scor- j
ed a total of 70 points In font' games
—or 17 and a half points per game.
Griffin scored 144 in four games
or an average of 38 points per game.
State Tournament
The state tournament will be held
in the Mercer University gymnas
ium, in Macon, beginning on March
6. Griffin will play the winner of
the Second District tournament.
Thomasvllle and Moultrie were the
finalists in that tournament, The
game will start at 9:30 o'clock.
In winning Saturday night Lyle,
Turner, Lynch and Thacker were
towers on the defense, Lyle heid
the Thomaston center, Lumpkin, to
five points. Turner kept Nath
Thompson, who has been averaging
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Spalding Girls Play
In Tourney Tuesday
The Spalding High School girls
will meet the McDonough team Tues
I day night at 8 o’clock In the opening
game of the Fourth District tourna
ment for girls in Group "B" scnools 1
The game will be played in the gym
at Jackson.
Immediately after the dpalding
McDonough game, the Jackson girls
will meet the Villa Rica quintet
This game is schedued to oegih a'
nine. f
The Griffin girls play their first
game Wednesday night at eight when
they meet the Manchester players.
Teams from 13 schools have en
tered the tournament this year. In
addition to the two local teams, they
are Fayettevlle, Vila Rica, McDo
nough, Newman, Manchester, Uar
rclton, Jonesboro, Thomaston, Forest
Park, Hogansville, and Jackson.
Admission to the games wll be 30
cents for students and 60 cents lor
adults.
GRIFFIN, GA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1946
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BOILER EXPLOSION WRECKS CHJJRCH BASEMENT—A boilef
explosion wrecked this basement room in the First Christian Church,
at Washington, Pa., Feb. 22, killing one woman and injuring 43 of thp
guests at a father and son banquet being held at the time.
(AP WIREPHOTO)
Mayor Appeals lo Murray lo Prevent
Tieup of New York's Transportation
49 Join Church
At First Methodist
Forty-nine new members join
ed the First Methodist Church
Sunday morning. Included a
mong the new members were 15
who Joined on profession of
faith; 10 who Joined on vows;
and 24 who came into the church
on certificates from other
churches.
These new members came as
n result of the Visitation Evan
gelism Campaign conducted by
ministers and laymen.
Others who signified their in
tention of Joining tne church
will be taken in at an early date.
Funeral Today For
Mrs. W. T. Ingram
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist
Church at Woodland for Mrs. Dor
sey Hawkins Ingram, 57, who died
early Sunday morning at her home,
123 1/2 West Solomon street, Grif-
fin. Rev. C. B. Herrington offi
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' tated a ‘ the flnal lites ' Interment |
followed in the Woodand cemetery, i
Haisten Brothers, funeial
were in charge of arrangements.
# Mrs. Ingram is survived by her:
husband, William T. Ingram; two
daughters, Mrs. E, P. Kitchens of
Macon and Mrs. R. A. Mixon of i !
Palmetto; one son, Grady Ingram i
of Talbotton; two “Sisters, Mrs. A. J/ j
Logan of Jacksonville. Fla., and| |
Mrs. Forrest Speaks of- Atlanta; jl live] |
brothers, Jim Hawkins, B. lia,,v
kins, both of Woodland, Frank Haw- I
kins, David Jackson Hawkins, both
of Atlanta, and E. J. Hawkins of
Macon.
Griffinite's Mother
Dies This Morning
Mrs. M. M. Wilkie, mother of L.
M. Wilkie of Griffin, died this
morning at the home of her son
at Unadllla. She had been in ill
health for some time. Burial will be
In Carrollton Wednesday.
WILLIAM M. COOK
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
BAINBRIDOE, Md—William M.
Cook, pharmacist’s mate third class,
of Griffin, Oa., has been honorably
discharged from Naval service at the
who was last stationed at St. Eliza
Separation Center, Bslnbridge. Cook,
beth Hospital in Washington, has
been In military service 1 for 21
months.
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Mayor William o’Dwyer of New
York has appealed to CIO President
Philip Murray to use ills "position,
and influence” to avert a tieup of |
New York’s subways, street cars amlj
buses.
The Mayor’s telegram to Murray j
Sunday night said a strike of CIO!
transport workers, threatened
"any hour after Tuesday midnight,"
would result in “grave injury" to I
the cify’s millions and to "the cause I
of organized labor." |
Murray declined comment on the
mayor’s appeal, willingness but he previously j
had expressed to
the possibilities of preventing a
strike.
Referring to the union’s principal
demand, O'Dwyer declared “We cen
not and will not recognize any or
ganization as sole and exclusiv e bar
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KNOW YOUR GRIFFIN
Light, Water Department Affects
Savings For Griffin Consumers
During 1945 the Griffin Light
Water department affected sav
of $10,000 for consumer
During 1941 unaccounted tor elec
amounted to 17.6 per cent of
the total used. This was reduced
to 9.6 per cent in 1945. and affect
ed a saving of $7,000. A total of 15
per cent unaccounted for electricity
is accepted ”by experts as normal,
A similar reduction was made in
unaccounted for‘water. Last year
the unaccounted for water totaled
per cent as compared with 11.6
per cent in 1941, a saving of $3,000
yearly.
Last year the depart mem served
3300 water meters and 4.000 electric
meters. It disposed of sewage trofn
an estimated 2,500 establishments.
The department distributed 12,384,
000 kilowatt hours of electric energy
and 675,000,000 gallons of water. It
disposed of more than 483,000.000
gallons of sewage.
Glenn Bryant is superintendent of
the department. He has served in
that ■ capacity since April 1, 1942.
Office workers are Miss Loette
Hunter. Miss Ruth Hunter and Mrs.
Virginia Anderson.
Other employes include D. W.
Slmonton, electric meter eervice man;
L. M. Carver, water meter service
man: J. A. Fountain, electric Une
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superintendent; j. H. Helms, taeter
reader; R. C. Slmonton, water line
superintendent; R. P Whlrlow,
[plumbing Inspector; Oscar Leach,
electric service inspector.
Reds, Government !
Agree To Merge
Armici In China
Chinese Government and Com
munist Military representatives sign
erf. a jmirger today which culls for
gradual reduction of the army into
modern, tight-knit national dc
fense force which may aid in toe
nation's rehabilitation.
The agreement, signed in Ciiunz
jimg in the presence of General
Marshall, provides for reorganization
of government forces into 5u uivi
sions and Communist troops into 10
divisions within 18 months, om
bracing 20 armies of three divisions
each and with the President of the
Repubic as commander-in-chlet.
While Chinese officialdom thuS
was taking another stride toward
unity, agitation for withdrawal oft
Soviet troops from Manchuria ap- j
peared to be mounting ‘steadily. In
Shanghai, demonstrators p.aateied
the door of the Russian consulate ,
with posters demanumg um R_d
Army troops quit the sprawling ter
ritory.
“Follow Emperor"
In Japan, prefectural governors
were urged to folow Emperor Hiro
hito’s example in standing "by the
people” and devoting themselves to
“the task of new national recun- j
struction." Hirohito shattered pit
cedent last week' in visiting war- j i i
devastated areas in and near Toxvo.
The Job of weeding out ultra-Na
from Japan's 3.000 caniii-1
dates has developed into such a j
slow process that the cabinet post
the National elections from
March 31 to April 10,
Kyodo News Agency, reporting the
cabinet announcement, said the 10
day postponement would permit
"closer contact with Allied head
quarters for a strict examination of
qualification of candidates."
KELLY PENN BREAKS ANKI.E
Kelley Penn, switchman for the
Central of Georgia Railroad, fell
from an engine Saturday afternoon
and broke his ankle. Tire accident
occurred at the crossing on North
Hill street.
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(Photo by Weaver'
David L. Hinton, Harry G Ham
mock, James A. Darts, all veU-ian*.
apprentice linemen. J T Pickett
Is head lineman
Colored employes in lude Jack
Smith, electric lineman, and Rufus
Jordan, lineman helper Joe Fleml
stcr, J. C. Barkley, Nathaniel Hun
nlcutt. Will Hoioway, Vinson Dixon,
Willie McDay, Anthony Williams.
Robert Long, Ernest Jester, ZeU.er
Williams, Isaac Sutton, Marshal
Jones, Ben Fambo and Cleveland
B&ttle, a veteran, are members of
the water and sewage crews.
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MILK LINE—Customers of a strike-bound dairy stand in line to
obtain emergency supplies of milk in Detroit as the CIO Dairy Work
ers strike entered its fourth day, Feb. 23, shutting off regular milk
supplies of an estimated 750,000 Detroiters. (AP WIREPHOTO)
Argentine Election Ends Quietly;
Both Candidates Claim Victory
GOVCfllOr Appoints
ggn FoftSOn Jr •i
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secretary or orate
ATLANTA — i/Pi — Governor
Ellis Arnall today appointed
Ben W. Fortson. Jr , of Wash
ington, Ga., secretary of state
to succeed tire late John B Wil
son.
Fortson. a member of the leg
islature from Wilkes county, has
long been an ardent supporter of
the Governor and led the recent
unsuccessful fight to make it
possible for him to run for
another term of office.
Mr. W. G. Steele
Dies From Burns
Mr. Walter Grady Steele oi
Hampton died early Sunday morning
at the Strickland Memorial Hospi
tal after being severely burned Sat
urday afternoon about 5 o'clock
while building a fire. Mr. Steele
threw kerosene on the kite and the
can exploded. Flames envelop'd him
and he was severely buraerfjall over
He was rushed to the hospital where
he died a few hours later.
Mr. Steele was a prominent iarm
er and lumberman of Henry count).
He was 57 yea^s old.
Survivors wile Mrs. Mi
hala Orlffin Steele, one dougnt'i,
Mrs. Bessie Clenney of port Depot it.
Ala ; six sons, W. S Steele, of Tort
De;x>.«lt, Angus Steele. Warn* r
Steele, Thomas Steele. Paul Suele.
and Earl Steele, all of Hampton;
one sister, Mrs. H T Nea ol Wash
ington, D. C five brothers, R. B
.
Steele of Macon, W T SUeie o;
Griffin, II K Steele, M C, Steele,
and T M Steele, nl of Hampton
Funeral services were held
I afternoon at 2 o’clock at Mount
me. Methodist chum, with Ret
L B
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Hatsten Brothers, funeral directors
were in charge oi arrangements.
The following served as pallbear
P rs: Arch btcee. Deroy Steele, Hen
derson Steele, Carson Steele Billy
I Bolton and Will Mltchel
NAVY DISCHARGES
ZACH L. GRIFFIN
JACKSONVILLE. FIh - Zach L.
Gnffln, storekeeper second class. 228
Ray street, Griffin, Ga. received
an honorable discharge from
Naval service nn Wedne>day.
ruary 20 at the Naval
3eparaticn Center, Naval A)r Sea
tlon, Jacksonville.
GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence In Griffin!
BUENOS AIRES (#) — Oppos
ing political leaders expressed sat
isfaction today with the orderly
conduct of Sunday’s presidential
elections and indicated they would
regard the outcome as a true ex
pression of the will of the Argen
tine people.
lioth_ sides voiced confidence of
victory, but it appeared that it
might be 30 or 40 days before Ar
gentina learns whether her next
president will be Col. Juan D. Peron,
"Iron Man” candidate of the labor
party, or Jose P Tamborini, repre
senting the Democratic union.
Under Argentine law all ballot
boxes must bo transported to pro
vincial capitals for tabulation of the
vote. Because of the distances In
volved, poor transportation and the
time required to count the paper
ballots, an early indication of the
outcome is unlikely—barring a ver
itable landslide.
The tabulation will be watched
eagerly not only In Argentina but
In tiie outside world because of the
bearing the outcome may have on
this country's future relations with !
the United States.
Peron was roundly denounced by
the U. a. State Department recently
in a Blue Book" accusing him of
collaborating with the Nazis Fol
lowers of Tamborini. on the other
hand, feel that his election would do
much to repair Argentina's strained
relations with Washington and to
cement western hemisphere friend
ship
RANSOM J. PELT GETS
DISCHARGE FROM NAVY
JACKSONVILLE, Fla -Hanson J
Pelt, radioman thiijd riav., Route
B. Griffin, Oa , received an honor
able discharge from the Nival sen
; lee at the Nuval Personnel
|tion Center' Naval Air Station.
Jacksonville
DRUNKS, GAMBLERS LOCKED IN CLINK;
ARRESTS MADE DURING WEEK-END
Drunkenness and gambling, peace officers reported 'today, were
responsible for the majority of 74 arrests made by local law enforce
ment officers during the week-end which has just ended.
Tiie city Police Department reported that officers arrested 62
persons, most of them charged with drunkenness and gambling. The
number of urrests made were "slightly more than usual'’ the-depart
ment reported.
Cpl H. C. English of the Orlffin Stute Patrol headquarters re
I ported that 17 arrests were made by patrolmen during the week-end.
Moet of them, English said, were for driving under the influence of
Intoxicants.
j "It seems that most of the esses we make now are for beltyt
drunk,” English said.
Sheriff L. C. Mlddlebrooks said that his office had a Uttle variety
from drunk cases. The sheriff's office arrested one man for wife beat
ing. two for traffic violations and two for drunkenness. He said that
the week-end, as far as his office was concerned, was quiet.
Established 1871
Die
In Riots
In India
Indian Air Force
Personnel Refuse
To Resume Work
BOMBAY. (/P)—Royal Indian sail
ors who participated in a mutiny
last week have returned to duty,, a
British communique said today, and
conditions in Bombay are "prac
tically normal."
Strikes have ended at shore in
stallations, dockyards and aH but „ "
one of the city’s 66 cottoti milk
the communique said, although
Royal Indian air force personnel
here still refuse to work.
A British army comm inique said
latest figures on civilian casualties
admitted to hospitals since the be
ginning of the disturbances totaled
228 killed and 1,047 injured.
Other sources said the toll was
much greater, however, and might
never be known. Many of the dead
already had been cremated on burn
ing ghats, the funeral pyres which
daily receive the city’s dead.
Courts of Inquiry
While Jawaharlal Nehru, Con
gress party leader, arrived to In
vestigate the causes of the rioting,
the army announced that five courts
of Inquiry had been ordered. The
multiple courts will Inquire Into
separate incidents. Four are to be
gin their investigations at once.
Meanwhile, police said that Bom
bay had experienced Its first quiet
night since last Monday, when the
first group of Indian sailo’"’ went
on strike because of alleged dis
crimination against tiiem by the
British.
Law officers spent most of tire
night in a quiet, systematic roundup
of persons suspected of being involv
ed in the rioting. The number ar
rested was not disclosed.
Military and naval inquiries were
launched under orders from Vice
Adnt. J. H. Godfrey, commander of
the Royal Indian navy, into griev
ances of the mutineers.
Gregory To Speak
To Exchange Club
Billy Gregory, first prize winner
in the Georgia Power Company con
test, will be guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Exchange
club Tuesday. He will be introduced
by C. T Elliot, program chairman.
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ALCHRON J. RHODES
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
FORT Mi PHLKSON — T/5 Al
citron j, Rhodes, 116 West Poplar
street. Griffin, has been honorably
discharged from the Army of the
United States after 35 months' serv
ice: He spent six months overseas
with tiie 262 M P Company. The
discharged soldier is authorized tu
wear the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon,
the American Theater Ribbon, and
the Oood Conduct Medal.
Prior to entering the service
Rhodes was employed at Highland
Mills