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Invest Your Money, Your Talent, Your
Time, Your Influence In Griffin
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Of The Associated Press
Better Report Asks
Water Facilities
By venin Quifnby good, Melton G
There’s considerable 'good
news” originating in Griffin
today.
First the City Commission
lias announced that the 1948
tax rate will be 13.5 mills in
stead of 24 mills.
This has been matte possible
by the new assessments just
completed that inc’uded new
buildings and “fair" revaluation
cf all property. The tax di
)cst for Griffin is r.ow close to
-14,000,000.
The entire 13.5 mills will be I
Used to run the city schools and
Pay off bonds and interest due
on them. Other city operations
will be run from other sources
of income such as profits from
the Light and Water Depart
ment, police fines, business li
cense fees, beer taxes and park
ing meter receipts.
The proposed 13.5 mill tax
rate is probably the lowest tax
rate that any city 'he size of
Griffin has in the nation. And f
we believe that by running the
city proper from other than tax
money Griffin will be setting
a precedent.
, Another bit of good news is
the State Highway Department
will let^ contracts on May 28th
for three projects in Spalding
County. Making a four lane
highway out of part of East
Taylor street, putting a nem
bridge over Cabin Creek on the
Jackson ror.d ’and paving part
of the Griffin-Fayet'cville road,
beginning at the McIntosh road
in Spalding County.
Other good news includes the
fact that the city is going to
“get the city on* of the mud
and cjust" by paving parts of
nine streets. Asphalt paving
will be laid on pavement treat
ed base such as is used in pav
ing many highways in North
Carolina. This paving is ex
pected to start early this sum
mer.
II Bulls Are Sold
At Livestock Sale
Two of the “top" bp'is offered for
tale at the North Central Georgia l
Pure Bull Sale heje Tuesday were
bought by Spalding County men,
the other going to buyers from
Butts and Jasper Counties.
Eleven bulls were .old with^our
of them being bougnt by Spalding
County cattlemen and dairymen.
The buyer coming from the greatest
distance was David Tanklin of Au
gusta, who bought a Guernsey bull.
W. S. Mixtn, Griffin bought the
“trp" Guernsey and Tommy Sliap
nrd, Griffin, bough' the “top" An
gus. J. W. Browning of Butts
bought the "top" p 'lied Hereford
and John Smith, Eatonton, bought
the “top" Jersey Smith also bought
two other Jersey bulls.
The average price for the bulls
was $198.
Other Spalding Ootin'y men who
bought buils were /»:va Scott, an
Angus, and N. K. Galloway, a Jer
sey.
Other buyers were David Frank
lin, Guernsey: Oeorge E. Mallett,
Jackson, a Guernsey and Tom
Hutchinson, LaGrange an Angus,
The sale was held at the Oeorgla
Experiment Station and was spon
sored by the Griffin and Spalding
County Chamber , of Commerce, the ..
Spalding County farm agent, the
Oeorgla Experiment Station and
the Georgia Expev'ment Station
and the Agriculture Department ef
the Central of Georgia.
Report Also Asks
Expanded Sewerage
For Growing City
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
another of the series of articles
on the recommemlaiions of
planning engineer George Si
mons, who was employed by the
city and county to make a sur
vey here and recommend a plan
for orderly development of Gri
fin and Spalding County. The
next article will di cuss recom
mendations for improved parks
and recreation grounds.)
By QUIMBY MELTON, SR.
George Simons, planning engi
neer, has recommended to the City
County Planning Commission that
the water works of Griffin be ex
panded so that sufficien t—pure
water can be supplied to all sections
of “Greater Griffin.”
city and its environsjt^nd that the
sewerage disposal lants be greatly
enlarged.
During 1947 tl city pumped and
Used 3,789,000 gallons a day and by
1950 the demand w ill reach 4,500,000
gallons daily, Simons estimated,
Within the next 30 years the de
mand will reach more than 12,000,
000 gallons daily if the present
trend of increase keeps up.
In order to prepare foi the addi
tional demand for water, Simons
recomends that a second 20 -inch
supply line be laid "<so the river, a
second filter plant be erected and
sufficient storage for 12,000,000 gal
lons be provided.
By 1950. if the city’limits are ex
panded according to Simons recom
mendation, Griffin will have a po
pulation of 31,000. One of the ad
vantages of extendi city limits
will be tlie furnishing of water to
all territory taken in.
The present sewerage system in
Griffin is inadequate and sewer
lines should be extended to every
house in th^; city limits, the engi
neer recommends. Ard as addi
tional areas are-annexed to.the city,
sewerage should bep rovided there
also. Simons states that, a city only
partly served with sewer line is a j *
dangerous city in which to live. He
advocates every house in the city
having an Indoors toilet? connected
with the sewerage system.
In order to care for the increased
sewerage service, Simons also rec
ommends that additional sewerage
disposal plants be built by the city
He pointed out in his 'eport to the 1
Planning Commission that the two i
plants now in operation already are I
taxed to handle sewerage that I
comes to them.
The two sewerage disposal plants
were Installed in 1935. The Cabin
Creek plant was d 'signed to care
for an average flow oi 750,000 gal
'ons per day. The Isop Branch
plant was designed to care for an
average flow of 500,009 gallons a
day. These two plants were design
ed to care for a population of only
13,900 and the city already has
passed that population figure.
If, end when, th? citv limits are
extended to give Grlflin a 31,000
population, the capacity of these
two plants must be more than dou
bi ed Or if new plants are install
ed they must be considerably lar
ger .than the planks new used.
BingO Tonight
Bln ®° Bames be Played at
i tllr Vetelanfi Memorial ClubhoU.se
tonlght at 7:30 ' Proceeds t» m the
|' wl ” ' be U ; rd furnish gifts
* nd ci ^ s ^ patients at the
Lawson Veterans Hospital.
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Unued warm with scattered
thunder shower* Thursday.
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A YOUNG KOREAN MOTHER comes to the polls with her baby
strapped to her back and votes at Seoul, Korea, Monday. She is
taking advantage of her newly granted franchise in the election
ordered by the United Nations. In this particular district of Seoul,
80 percent of the registered voters cast their ballots within two hour*
after the polls opened. The area is in the American-occupied xone
of South Korea. (AP Wirephoto via U. S. Army Sig n al Corp. WwiHn )
To Lot Contracts
for 3 Here
The State Highway' Department
will let three contracts for work in
Spalding County on May 28, it was
announced today. Two of the pro
jects are in the county and one in
Mrs. W. H. Adkerson
Dies At Her Home
Mrs. Minnie Hatchett Adkerson,
5S, wife of W. H. Adkerson, died at
icr home on Route A ?.t 7:30 Tues
day night. She had been in declin
ing health for several months.
She moved to Griffin from Mole
na a year and a half ago and was a
member of Molena Baptist Church.
Her body will lie in state at her
home from 6 o'clock this evening
until it is taken to the Molena Bap
list Church where if will lie in state
from 1:30 Thursday afternoon until
the funeral at 2 o'clock. The Rev.
J. S. Hayes will officiate and burial
will be in Old Hebron cemetery with
Kaisten Brothers in charge.
Pallbearers will be Jack Barker,
Hoyt Fain, Everett Marshall. Lamar
Hatchett, Harold Hatchett and Wil
bur Watts,
In addition to her husband she is
survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Jack Barker of Griff'n and Mrs.
Wilbur Watts of Molena- two sons,
Alvin Adkerson of Or iif'n and B. •
Adkerson of Concord, three broth
ers, F». F. Hatchett of Griffin. A. H.
Hatchett of Atlanta and A. F. Hat
chett of Thallman; two sisters, Mrs.
C. C. Riggins of Griffin and Mrs.
J. B. Marshall of Greenville.
Kids Will Be Kids And Spalding's Seniors
Acted Their Paris Well At Kid
By MARY JIM WILLIAMS |
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Spalding High Correspondent |
Kids will be kids. You’ve probably
heard this expression for many
years. |
Well. 1 can guarantee now that
this statement is true. Even if the '
seniors at Spalding High were pro
tending that they were real kids last
Friday, they really did a good job.
The day began early in the gym
for underclassmen. The theme of
the program was “The Old Woman
That Lived in the Shoe." Mrs. E.
A. Nealy represented the old wo
man. t
Her attire was very fitting for
the occasion. Her dress was a print
rd silk, and she wore an attractive
wlilte lace apron with. it. She wore
high topped shoes and a bonnet
which belonged to her great grand
mother. Hariett Turnipseed.
Of course, she hnd so many child
ren she didn’t know what to do.
Coach Art Scalll served as the
(ud man and knocked at the door
Griff in>Ga., Wednesday, May 12, 1948.
the city,
The work in the city will be a
bout one mile of widening and re
surfacing on the Gr'ffin-Bames
ville (East Taylor street") road, be
ginning at Fifth street and running
to Hip city limits. This will make a
four lane highway of that section
of the road. The Project also in
cludes sidewalks and guttering.
The second contract to be lgfc, is
for paving 7.955 miles on the Grif
fin-Fayetteville road, The work
will start where the Fayetteville
road leaves the McIntosh road.
The third contract is for a new
bridge and paved approaches over
Cabin Creek on the Jackson high
way. This bridge is located just
west °f the Wilson Matthews place.
j All three of these arc Federal Aid
i projects.
| Work on these prjects must start
within 10 days after the bids are
accepted officially and work must
be completed in 140 to 150 days.
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I Rotary Program
Dr. C. Roy Angel], who is con
ducting the revival at the First Bap
tist Church, and Carlos Purgailis,
( who is directing music at the re
| vival, will present the program at
I the noon meeting of the Grtftin
Rotary Club at the Elks Club
| Thursday.
* Local Weather
Maximum Today: 74
Minimum Today: 64
Maximum Tuesday: 85
Minimum 62
of the shoe. The shoe was a very
attractive creation—made by the
senior boys who take agriculture
with the help of Virginia Hood.
retributive education teacher at
Spalding. The program consisted
of poems and songs and the "Old
Woman” was showing Coach 8calli
what her many children could do.
After the program the group
journeyed to Indian Springs for a
picnic hnd this is where the chtld
lsh acts began. Swinging, scesaw
lng, playing on the rocks and on
the merry-go-round all were a part
of the day’s fun.
A picnic lunch was served In the
woods at noon. There's where more
fun began. Well, Kid pay is over
H nri j guess we will have to act
more like dignified seniors, until
after graduation anyway,
This week's program at 8paldlng
will Include the annual Junior
Senior Banquet which Is a gala af
fair of the season each spring. This
banquet will be held Friday
in the library of the school.
Tax Rate Nearly Half,
On Other Fees
Higher Math
With Fair Sex
SALT LAKE CITY—OPt—Carl
Swenson, cab driver, sat pa
tiently, while his three femi
nine passengers “divided” up
the 35-cent fare for the short
ride they just had had.
Much computing went into
the negotiations. The fare
couldn'tjjte split three ways ex
actly.
But the women nearly made
it.
Swenson accepted 33 cents—
three dimes and three pen
nies—and two cents worth of
Utah state one-mill tax tokens,
seven from two of the women
and six from the third.
Bevin Charges Reds
With Standing In Way
Of World Peace
LONDON — MP) — Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin told Parliament
today only the communists are
standing in the way of world peace.
“I am anxious for peace; anxious
for a settlement with Soviet Rus
sia.” he said.
He added that there could be no
settlement until "the ground
been cleared.”
Bevin was replying to a question
by Anthony Eden, wartime foreign
secretary. Eden had a^ked wheth
er he could make a statement about
the American-Russ'an diplomatic
exchange which the Moscow Radio
disclosed early Tuesday,
The Russian pronouncement had
aroused hope among official and
unofficial Europeans 'hat Soviet
willingness to talk things over with
the United States was a hopeful
sign for lasting peace The gen
eral reaction was tha’ there may be
much to gain and little to lose by
such talks, no matte • whose idea it
was. — ;
Bevin criticized the Russian pub
licizing of the Russian and Ameri
can statements, saving.
"Before the Untied States gov
ernment received i reply from the
Soviet government, publication was
made through the 'lass agency.
While that diplomats usage goes on,
clearing of the ground for an un
almost
“If the ambassador of a nation
cannot discuss quite frankly with
the foreign minister of another
country without publication: if lie
cannot do that In ardor to bring the
parties together, then the situation
is not only intolrrabi'p out peace is
impossible."
Dr. Randitt Buys
Americus Drug Store
Dr. Henry P. Randlt*. druggist at ,'
Wards, lias bought the Hawkins
Pharmacy at America,'-, and will
move to that city next week. Dr
Randitt lias been a pharmacist here
with various drug stores for many
years. Hawkins Pharmacy Is one of
the leading drug smres - l .'.merlcu
Barbs ...
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Don't spend all you make, advises ,
a bank ad. Lots of people get that
mixed and don't make all they
1 spend. I
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It helna a lot in these mighty
hard an4 trying times to have every
) body trying mlghtv hard.
Taxes Would Go
To Retire Bonds,
Support Schools
Griffin will become the first mun
icipality of any size in the* nation
that will finance normal city af
fairs out of other than tax money
when the city commissioners pass
on second reading, two. weeks from
now, an ordinance setting the tax
rate for 1948. At the same time
Griffin will have one of the lowest
city tax rates In the nation.
Tuesday night the City Commis
sion passed on first reading the
1948 tax ordinance calling for a
13.5 mill rate. The rate last year
was 24 mills. The new low rate
has been made possible by the new
property assessment that now totals
some $14,000,000. Tile new assess
ments include additional building
here during the year and a new
"fair" revaluation of all property
already on the books.
The 13.5 mills will be allotted 11.5
mills to maintain the city schools
and 2.00 mills for paying Interest
on and retiring outstanding bonds,
Previously the city has assigned
15 mills of its general tax income
to city schools and each year has
appropriated money from the Light
and Water department profits U
the schools. This year, even with a
lower tux rate the sahoob
wfil receive a larger amount due
to increased property assessments
and no special appropriation will
be made,
City operations will be financed
from city income other that taxes,
In this category are five types of
income: Profits from the Light and
Water department, police fines, bus
iness license fees, beer licenses and
Income from parking meters.
Before the city can officially
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Methodist Barbecue
The Griffin District Methodist
Laity League will hold a barbecue
supper Thursday night at
i at Orchard Hill with Dr! W. B.
Stubbs of Emory University es
guest speaker.
i Seniors Take Exams At Griffin High School
! But Dream Or Annual Junior-Senior Prom
By HOWARD WAI LAC K
Griffin High Correspondent
There are only six more days
until school is out!
Yes. although seniors can t realize
that they are practically through
with their high school training, the
familiar Oulf -alrndar In
Anne Hill’s room shows dearly that
on May 21 Honor Day will be held
and school will be officially out for
thi >e months of summer vacation, -
But meanwhile, theic !• still the
Junior-Senior Proni (a go through
with.
The juniors have put weeks ot
work into decorating the uncoopera
gym, just to honor the depart
ing seniors.
Juniors really must think a lot of
the class of '4H. Besides the massive
Job of decorating. ,tu '1th graders
have scouted around end
the late President's favorite musl
cl an, Graham ack.son. and his or
rhestr » 10 P |a y f, >r ' h couple of
hundred dancers.
This year the Junior-Senior Prom
will be a two-fold JitVlee for the
Renlor class. It not onh will mean
the largest, most, formal and most
eagerly looked forwatd to dance of
. GRIFFIN FIRST
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Tima, Your Influence In Griffin
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SCENES REMINISCENT af
1941-42 were enacted at the
Castle Air Force Base at Mer
ced, California, when crewman | I
of three B-29 Superforts left on
a fiigiit which win lake them
to Okinawa via Germany, the
middle East and India. Auth
orities said the flight was part
of a routine program currently
bring conducted bv the .**■**«&. Stra
Command. u ...I
teglc Air
(NF.A Telephotoh
Circuit Court Denies
Labor Board PetHk
The U. S. * Circuit Court of Ap-1
peals for the Fifth District has de
nied a petition of.the National La
bor Relations Board for enforce
ment of an order of that board gi
ven Crompton-Highland Mill, Inc,
of Griffin. The case was heard by
Justices Hutcheson. Holmes and
Waller.
The case grew out of a petition
filed by the National Labor Rela
tions Board seeking to have the
court declare Crompton-Highland
Mill guilty of “unfair labor prac
tices" in that it had granted a wage
increase without conulting the- ui*»
ion.
The report of the hearing states
that the wage "increase was granted
after collective bargaining had bro
ken down, the union had with
drawn from further bargaining and
a s t r |g e vo * c | lac j fo ( ,cn railed
"The evidence also reams to be
without dispute that the raise in
wages was made by the company to
meet competition by o’her rrtilh In
that (Griffini .sectiju’.,' - the oKidal
court report states.
“Under thesek circumstances ft
does not appep 'J l.< an tmfair
labor practice ti nt a- general in
crease in wages to *he employ#*
without consulting :h - union. On
the strength of tin - view, and In the
light of the earnest ro-rrtlons by
the respondent (the mill) that tt
has complied with the board'*
votts order and ha, subsequently
bargained with the ur.'on in rela
tion to two general increases in wa
ges. the petition of the board for
enforcement of the order will be
(fented, ' the court ordered.
The case which came before the
Circuit Court this month originate]
in August of 1946. The union at the
j mill is the Textile Workers TTnfon
I of America. CIO
Briefs ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s
military manpower bill bumped
headon today inn the explosive
rnee segregation Wane and a pos
sible Southern filllbu ter.
ROME — Luigi Emandi. mild 74
year-old banker win says he loves
I America, will be sworn In tonight
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Widow, 100, Hits
Suitor With Cane
MANILLA, (IP) — A 100-year
old Filipino widow complained
to police today that she was
the object of amorous advances
by a 70-year-old unwelcome
suitor.
Mrs. Augustine Aco said she
resented Mariano Gabriel’s at
. tltude. So much so, she added,
that she whacked him soundly
over the head with a cane and
sent her daughter to call the
cops.
No charges were placed
against Gabriel and police did
not hold him. They quoted him
as describing Mrs. Augustine
as "an angel in disguise.”
Chrysler Workers
Go On Strike Today;
75,000 Walk Out
DETROIT- -UP) Chrysler Corp.'s
75,000 CIO production workers went
on strike today for a third round
„f post-war wage Increases.
Picket Cal Moorehead, paradinc
bpforp lhp big DodKC ma , n plan ,
| reporters, “It looks like a long
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"Tlil.s will protably be tough.” he
added.
Picketing was quiet. Union head
quarters said the first workers out
were those at the Dodge truck plant.
They jumped the gun by 30 min
utes.
The union already is raising r
million dollar "kitty" to finance the
wnlkout.
The executive board of the union
met in special session as pick': j
j lines were thrown about Chrysler':
Detroit plants.
Negotiations broke down Tuesday i
night on wage demands of the ClG
United Auto Workers. The union
scaled its 30 cent an hour demav I
' down to 17 cents without success.
The best company offer was I
cent- an Iioiii
the year as in th" pest, but th:
year the seniors also ".ill be cele
brating tlie end of their final
exams.
Today. Thursday and Friday the
72 struggling future graduates fin
ally will be comple.’ing their Hind
exams.
Streaking of finishing things, Pete
Ferris, Griffin's answer to “Nat'ir
Bov" Radrliffe, finished hi - high
school athletic career nicely by copp
ing the state discus throw at Macon
last week and also breaking th"
state record set by Griffin’s Wllev
Virdcn In the mee- last year. In
cidentally, Pete hart never picked
up n discus until :hl spring.
SEEN AT RANDOM: Orlffln
High delegates to the Scholastic
Press meet In Athen: hurry I nr
from press meet 'o trnrk meet, to
baseball Riime all in one short af
ternoon. . . . Sleeping sickness in
every class , . . Masculine athletic
managers feeling rigid nt home
with Bcndix washer in the Home
Er department after several weeks
of washing track nnd baseball
: equipment ... Jul'a Maddox mak-
1 tng like a dandelion at the ADPI
j rush party in Athens last week,
Established l!
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