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CRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Moneys Your Talent, Your
’Hme, Your Influence In Griffin
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E By VENIN Quimby good , G
Melton
George Simons, city plan
ning engineer employed by the
city and county to make a sur
vey of Griffin, and Spalding
County and draw up a pro
gram lor developing the city
and county along well defined
Plans, has made a report that
covers ail phases of city and
county activities.
It is a most important re
iiort. Because of its importance
and to acquaint the people of
Griffin and Spalding County of
its ■suggestions we will run a
series of articles on the various
phases of it. This will enable
everyone to become familiar
with the various features of the
plan.
Some of the suggestions call
for radical changes. It would
be impossible to put all of them
into effect immediately and the
plan was drawn up with the idea
that it would take from 10 to
years to do everything that
is 'suggested.
In making the report Simons
and tis associates took into
consideration the possible in
crease the-population in both
city and county.
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Simons pointed out in his
report Thursday night that
Griffin was one of few cities
that had a city-plan from the
very start. General L, L. Grif
fin, when he founded the city,
laid out a city of wide streets,
parks, and provided for sites
for public buildings and
churches.
Griffit) was established in 1840
and by 1860 had a population of
2,855—this was thee first year
that the federal governemnt
took a census here.
The plan of General Griffin
did not, and could not, take
into consideration a city of 15.
00o today and 31,000 by 1950
if the city limits are extended as
suggested in the report
The city and county commis
sioners, we believe, acted very
wisely in employing an expert
city planning engineer, for if
Griffin and Spalding County are
to Kjmw and develop into the
sort* of a community all want
there should be no haphazard
development—rather an orderly
development along well defined
lines.
Auto Drivers Con
Get New Licenses
Here This Week
Automobile drivers in Griffin and
Spaldingf County will get a chance
to renew their 1948 drivers'lic n ns°s
today and Saturday, Sgt. H. C.
English of the State Patrol said.
Sgt. English said the license vali
dating machine would be at the
local patrol station through .'Sat
urday for those wishing To renew
1948 licenses. Licenser will be re
newed from 9 A. M. nth 5 P. M.
Drivers not renewing licenses this
week will havp to wait until next
Thursday and Friday. English said.
The present licenses expire June
30
A 1948 license and a filled-out
application Tor renewal must be pie
rented for renewing licenses, En
glish stated that folded or mutilat
ed applications will not be accepted.
Licenses may be renewed for one
or five years.
Sheep Breeders
Hold Meeting Here
Stewart Colly. Orantvllle,
elerted president of 'he
Sheep Breeders Association at
annua! meeting here Thursday,
Approximately 75 breeders -
tended the meeting nt which
Fxperlment Station nerr was host.
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CATTLE I.MPROt EMENT is one of the programs that is now being carried out in this section by
agricultural experts. An example of herd improvement by using a purebred bull is showin above. The
Angus bull, held by Donald Lee, FFA member, is the sire of the 8-month-old calf held by Carlos Lang
ford. Herman Nelson, vocational agriculture teacher, holds the dam, which is a grade cow. C. E. Bell,
Purebred Jr., Extension Service livestock specialist, looks on. The trio was shown at the Spalding County Fair!
bulls will be offered to farmers here at a bull sale Tuesday to help improve herds.
Planned
• Harts . .
An Ohio judge contends that
most people can be trusted. But
folks would prefer that they pay
cash. j
Police in an Indiana town are
-eeking a culprit who nearly wreck
ed a movie theater. Likely a man
who lacked self-control when some
body crawled over his lap.
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National Rail Crisis j J
W.4SHINGTON President
Truman went over the railroad cri
sis with his cabinet at -u hour-long
meeting today.
The cabinet conference concluded
before Presidential ' A sistant John
!?. Steelman began a meeting with
heads of the three brotherhoods
which have celled i like for n“x .
Tuesday-----
Leaving the cubit.r se.-'sl >n At
torney General Clark told report
ers he advised the,,Prey-dent in an
pinion last Week that lie has am
ple power to seize the railroads ii
went he derides th.v step is ad
visable.
At .. the .. u time, Clark cmehu" .
same
zed that no orders look‘ng-to ^
>ne have been prepetcc,
Clark said the seizure power Is
under a 1916 law
Top providential advisers insist
.hat the President will consider set
.ure only as the It;' resort. He
*’8!> .-aid to be clinging to hope that
representatives oi the brotherhoods
and of the carrier.; will .reach i n
igreemcnt.
Spalding Team Will
Compete In Athens
A Spalding High FT A llveslo'k
iudgtng team wilt c- c’peje agalr-t
judging teams from iM "j over the
date at the Univ'ei i’v of Georgia
Saturday.
The judR'ng routes; p. part of the
'limit.1 Dairy Day ai the University
>f Georgia mid FF \ and 4-JI teams
f rom the state will compete. The
Ipalding team- will be eomposed of
DonaUI l ee Alien ru'ford, Scott
Futral. Horner Fletcher Jr, Carey
lones and Fmmett "Wills. I r ian
Nelson is agriculture ton' at
Spalding,
Survived By Son
Tit addition to survivors already
announced, Pvt. Jark Campbell.
Army hero who was killed in
France during the -var and who
will be burled h"re FntuMnv, is
survived by a young son. Jackie
"nmpbell of Griffin.
An auction sale of purebred beef ,
and dairy bulls Will be conducted i
here Tuesday in an effort to im-j
prove beef and dairy production in!
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this part of the state.
The sale, which Will be open to j
.
farmers in Henry, Butts, Lamar, :
Pike. Coweta and Spalding Coup- ;
ties, is being sponsored by the Four !
State Breed Associations of Guru- |
seys, Jerseys, Angus and Hi refolds '
cooperation with '
in the Georgia 1
Experiment Station here, the Grif
fin and Spalding County Chamber
of Commerce, the com'; tv agent
die Agricultural Department ol
the Central of Georia Railway,
The sale will be held at the Ex
periment, Station here and will be
fin at 1 P. M Approximately in
to 18 bulls of all four breeds will
be sold to farmers to be used as
herd sires.
W. Tap Bennett, director of the
Central of Georgia Agricultural
department, said that the sale
would be a "real opportunity” to
purchase a bull of the farmer’s
choice. ,
The cheapest way to increase
milk production and oeef tonnage
is to use a good bull, which will
insure maximum efficiency of pas
said.
Spalding Seniors
Observe Kid Doy
Seniors at Spalding High school
drCSSPri kW Cl0thCS and af,er
presenting a program at the school
loaded into buses and went to In
dian springs for their pinic today,
T he Kid Day program depicted the
nursery rhyme of ;hp oi<: lady who
lived in the shoe. /
Griffin High Band To
Give Concert Toniqhf
Griffin High school’s band will
present a concert <on><>ht at the
high school auditorium at R o'clock
The public is invited to attend and
tickets will be on sale at the door.
U. S. Gets Orders
WASHINGTON —(Ti— Tlie Air
Force readied buying orders for 2,-
727 new warplanes today, awaiting
only President Truman's signal to
start building a 70-group peacetime
alrmada
afler the Senate gave a
74 to 2 vote of approval Thursday
to a $3,233,200,000 airpower expans
ion fund. Air Force officials an
uounced they were warming up their
purchasing machinery.
A Sen ate-House conference com
mlttee was expected to act swiftly
to compromise minor differences in
the bill previously passed by a 343
to 3 vote In the House The measure
‘h*n will go to (lie White House
Griffin, Ga., Friday, May 7, 1948.
• Briefs ...
JONESBORO -- A .-pedal Clay
ton County grand jury and recom
mended today tlia the county's
March 20 primary be declared no
election." It,-said a number of un
Qualified voters pi; tirirate in t$e
primary • .
JACKSON. Miss Senator
George of Georgia and Governor J
Strom Thurmond of South Caro
lina are favored equally by Gover
nor Fielding N. Wright s.-> Southern
presidential candidates, Wright had
today.
CIO Blasts Chrysler,
Quits Bargaining
DETROIT ~(/P — The ClO-Uni
ted Auto Workers, having quit the
bargaining table with a bitter blast
it Chrysler Corp.. on.-'ied ahead to
lay with plans for a strike they
now rail "inevitable."
State and federal mediators im
mediately moved f rward with
hopes of bringing the warring par
ties together again before the strike
leadline, set by the U V.V at May 12.
_ Terming wage nego'ntions .... with ...
Chrysler tq be in a "hopeless ., , dead- .
’ock, , , „ the union bione off the talks
thur-dav and told the corporation
tts attitude . is an insult .... to human
uecency. , .,
In a formal statenv-nt. Norman
Matthews, director of the UAW s
-h.ysler department, said "there is
no point in further negotiations and
, strike next Wednesday is inevi
able" unless the auto makers
hanse their position.
The UAW has demanded a 30
cent an hour wage ia o' t in addition
to various fringe demands Chrys
ler countered tills with a six-cent
ffer which was v it ldrawn after
hemtnion icieeted ; The prcsenl
vverage scale is $1.50 f ->i production
corkers
where favorable action seems likely
despite the $822,000,000 added to
Mr. Truman's original request.
This was the money tacked on
to assure a start toward the 70
group Air Force rather than the
55 groups first planned or the 66
groiip compromise pul forward by
Secretary of Defense Forrestal m
his plea for a "balanced" military
expansion
While most of the debate center
ed on the iheme that air force is
the best defense against attack, r
number of lawmakers left no doubt
they would like to avoid an elect
ion year vote on reviving the draft
and setting up Universal Military
Extended City Limits 1
Consolidated Schools
Called For Simons
State Peach Crop
Only One-Third
MACON. Ga T’i — The
Georgia Fruit Exchange pre
dicted today that the state's
1948 peach crop v‘11 not ex
ceed 3,000 carloads. This is less
than one-third of Georgia’s po
tential production.
The estimate wa ■ prepared by
W C. Eewlev. oves'dent of the
exchange.
Jews Claim New
Gains From Arabs
In Holy Land Fight
HATFA. Palestine — i/P )— Jews
claimed today to have seized new
territory from northern Palestine
Arabs in the waning days of Great
Britain's mandate* /over the Holy
Land.
British rule is to end a week from
tonight., Though the United Na
(ions lately has shied away from its
partition plan of last November,
the Jews are setting uc a
ment to take over then in the parts |
they would get undei the plan
The Jewish Agencys militia, Ha
ganah, said Thursday night its men
had captured two Aiat villages be
tween Nazareth, famed as Christ's
boyhood home, and the sea of Ga
lilee. and had take'. *> hilt over
looking Safad, mainly Arab city a
bout 10 miles north of the sea
Kasanah said two Jews were kill
ed and nine wounded and 20 A
rabs were left dead in Sejera, and
two other Jews died and 16 were 1
wounded in the attar’* on Arab El I
Edha. where Arab losses were be- I
heved high
'
Haganah said that near the Jew*
ish settlement' of Mishmar
mek, it broke up ' a tew hundred A
rab troops, mostly Iraqi 1 volunteers,
hhuiodav
In Tel Aviv, Haganah said with
out confirmation thit Lebanese
troops shelled the Jewish .settlc
ment „ . of , F.umat Nefta’i in northern
palestlne bofore Thursday.
Nrwspapm tliere ald Jfcws holdln({
yehudia nw Lydda a , rporti beal
off # counleratla , k by four armor .
ed vehicles of the Trans-Jordan A
rab Legion, part of which is in Pal
estine to help the Br't'-h in
work X
Greek Executions
GPEECE fir h vs.cut
boosted to 213 the number of
prisoners pm to c.eath since
the assassination oi Juslice Min
i-tor Clnlstos laidcs Sa. urday
Training. |
Mr. Truman, who asked for both
of these, took seathtng exception ,
to a substitute manpower plan put
iorward by Rep. Leo Allen
chairman of the House Rules Com
niittee.
Allen, whose committee has block
ed action on UMT, suggested V shelv
ing the draft ns well by
bonuses up to $1,500 to volunteers.
Mr. Truman told his news con
fcrrncc Thursday this was the most
asinine proposition he has seen yet.
The Air Force said the new
will provide 143 bombers. 1,575 jet
fighters and 909 reconnaissance,
transport, training, rescue and lla
Ison aircraft by 1953.
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Engineer Makes
Complete Report
To Planning Group
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Because
of the importance of and far
rearhing interest in the pro
posal for developing Griffin and
Spalding County along well de
fined plans, a series of articles
will be published on each sug
gested feature. Saturday the
proposal to consolidate and Im
prove the schools will be dis
cussed.)
By QUIMBY MELTON, Sr. I
The long-range city planning re
port prepared by George Simons,
planning engineer, calls for a pro
gram of civic expansion and im
provements that include:
Extension of the'city limits;
Consolidation of city and county
with a widespread program
for new schools;
Additional city parks and recreat
ional centers: ->
A civic center on the present
Griffin High school site;
A sewerage system that would
every house in the eorpor- 1
ate limits;
Tripling the storage capacity of
the water system, building an add- j
ilional filter plant and another 20 j
inch main to the Flint over;
Creation of a system of highways
that would circle the city and uf
ford traffic routes for heavy trucks;
Zoning system for the county; [
Improving satety conditions in the i
city by building an overpass over
the Central of Georgia Railway on
Hill street and on West Solomon
street, and an underpass at life mi)
street crossing;
Two new fire stations, one in the
southeastern section and the otfiei
in the northwestern section
Simons told a meeting of the
Planning Commission, city and
county commissioners and repre
sentatives of civic groups here
Thursday night that the suggested
expansion plan was drawn up to
Griffin as she grew and to
a haphazard development
of Griffin. He estimated that alter
extension of the city limits "into
those parts of the county that are
actually a part of Griffin but lie
outside the small city limits'. Grif
fin would have a population of 31,
000 when the 1050 census Is taken
a „d that 30 years later Griffin would'
be a city of 49.0IK) At present,
counting only those people who
I within the city limits. Griffin' has
I.VJXJO people, he haid, and if there
no expansion of limits the popu
iRtion would be 30,000 in 1980
i The proposed "civic
center" which
| would be ended ,on the high schol
campus would im-hidr the present
library, city auditorium couil'y
courthouse, city-hall a trade school
older students and adults and
parking space for some 300 auto
mobile-; Establishing the ’ civic
,
enter" depend on the two school
systems here being consolidated and
Griffin High begin moved to Spa
ing nigh
Simons told the group that heard
his report that the ugge .iion
made did not contemplate putting
t | M . u , H n )nto , i„, m ediaielv
city plan he said, Is a long
range one extending over io to 20
years,
fjOCal Weather
Maximum Tcwlav: m
Minimum Today: .41
Maximum Thursday:
Minimum Thursday: 60
GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your Talent, You*
Time, Your Influence In Griffin
Hat tiers Told To
Stay Out Of Court
ST. LOUIS —'IP'. Judge Ver
non C, Oetting nut tired of
battling couples a ho kls-s and
make up before they get to
court.
Judge Oetting ruled t h a I
hereafter a $3 mint f ee will be
charged husbands or wives who
get their mates arrested at
night and decline to prosecute
the next mornitur
“It probably won't stop any
fights," the judge said, “but at
least the battles that get all the
‘ wav to court will be good ones."
Leaders Promise
Support To Future
Textile Development
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla — bV
Pledges of support in further de
velopment of the cotton textile in
dustry were given Thursday by a
,lt Kh farm organization official and
the chancellor of Georgia's State
University System.
The pledges were made to me'
bers of the Cotton Manufacture 1
of Georgia in annual convent.).m i
here !
II,-L. Wingate, president of t v j
Georgia Farm Bureau Federal 1 , 0 .
said he was authorized to name n
committee to work with industry l
business and labor groups tow: ■, i
better understanding ot mut:;
problems
The University ch ancello r ' I
Paty, offered full eoi ;i
in aiding development of
adequate leadership and resea. i
necessary if the industry i >
maintain its present rote as
state’s largest.
Wingate urged the 400 manu
facturers here for the meeting ' ,
aid in seeing that the parity pri >
for cotton is maintained He el )
said that the day has come wh i
Georgia farmers must nti: e ’
kind of co’ton the mannfactui
want
Wingate [ said also that fiftui
leaders would opiate to the 'bit
ler end any effort on the part ol
unions to organize farm labor
' There r nothing vindictive . i
that stand.” fie said. "It i; nee.«
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Picture Gets Boy, 9, In Serious Trouble,
But Reporter Makes Amends Best He Can
NEJV YORK l*. 5 new panel
i, .poiier took a little hi.v to the i)r
vis Under the -lie’m lances, h"
II" ughl it W.C the Ivvt he Z'Oul'J
d()
Several weeks ago-John OTtrillv
of the New York Tribune
wrote a story about the Ringline
Brother.", and Bar,m*'i ’and ‘Bai!e ,,
arrlvlm: n n 8f| ' ,rr
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Above hi story v.ii' a picture f, f
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tile elephants paiadvog
spicuous in front of trie line of de
phants was n sm ill Imy
Litter thl" letirr came to the
newspaper;
"Dear Mr. O'ReU'y
“You took a picture of the ele
phants marching down the street.
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SHAPELY MOVIE ACTRESS
ESTHER WILLIAMS says scan
ty swim suits are immodest and
will have to go. She proclaims
she has yet to find a man, “In
cluding the so-cafird wolves,"
who thinks the scanties are good
to look at. Girls who want men
to like them, opines Esther,
should wear suits like she haa
on herr in Hollywood. iAP
Wirephoto).
Mystery In Newnan
Gets More Mixed Up;
Whose Body Is It!
ATLANTA 0Pi - An officer of
tiie Georgia Bureau of Investfga
lion -ays the body of a man found
in a shallow jilt in Meriwether
County was that of William Tur
ner who had been grin'? under the
name of Wilson Turner.
Jam? Hillin, investigator for the
GDI, .-aid Thursday William Turner
left the.Army during World War II
NEWNAN, Ga. — i i°\ Dis
co very tlial a young tenant
farmer slain neai here was not
Wilson Turnor, £ hut hh bro
was
tlier, William, will nnl alter the
state's murder rase against four
men, Sheriff A. L. Potts said to
day.
and began using the name Wilson
Turner.
Four men are charg'd with mur
der in the slaying.
Meanwhile, Coweta County She
| riff A L. Potts is awai ing informa
(j,m on the dead man'- blood type
from the Army. Hillin said the
blood type would be compared with
blood found on clothing of John
Walla-e. Meriwether dairyman, one
of (he four men eharfi'i with mur
dcr
A
T paraded in front ■<them from E.
8|tli St and Beron I Avenue all the
w»v down to the Garden.
"For punishment mv mommv
let me go to the efretis I went
too far from home You rfM riot
ha v to put the pi-1,,. > lr> the paper
and pn me lo trouble
•Yours truly. Dion Rummage.’'
O'Reilly, though not directly ref
pim.'ibie for the nii'.urr. called on
nlne-vear-old Dion's parents and
p-u undeii them I i . ;*»r the pan
Ishttunt.
ORrlllv 1 took Dion ‘o the circus.
Circus President J 'hn Ringling
North personally praised Dion’s
handling of the elephant pnrndP.
"After you get 'em here." he told
the boy, "I counted thl m and there
wasn't one missing '