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Griffin Daily News
High
TWIRP Season
To End With Dance
SUSAN DAVIS
This week has been declared
TWIRP (The Woman In Return
P ays) s eason by the Key Club.
VWlxvP season is a tradition
at Griffin High. During this
time girls swap places with the
boys. Girls must carry boys'
books, open doors for them, and
make arrangements for all da
tes.
TWIRP season will end Satur
day night at the TWIRP dan
ce. The Kangaroo Court, where
all offenders of the TWIRP rul
es will be punished, is the high
point of the dance.
Friday IgEjt Night at 8 o'clock the
Griffin h glee clubs will pre
sent “Mr. Crane" at the school
auditorium.
This is a musical comedy ab
out a feud between a boys’ sc
. hool and a girls’ school. Featur
ed in the cast are Elizabeth
Merritt, Dick Brooks, Linda
Priest, Henry Harmon, Rilla
| Smith, Karen Conner, Kathy
Conner, Oriska Crawley, Marie
i Rawls, Billy Young, Darryal
, Chandler, and Danny Clark.
Danny will play Mr. Crane.
On April 21, 22 and 23 the state
Student Coun® convention will
Spalding Junior High
Clubs Elect
1966-67 Officers
I j By ROBBIE HOLMES
The clubs at Spalding have
: been busy this week preparing
! for the next school year and
helping improve Spalding for
: the remainder of this year.
! The pinth grade Y clubs have
elected officers for next year,
j club at Griffin elected High. the The following boys (Hi-Y) offl
i cers: Arthur Moss, president;
j Brooks Johnson, vice president;
t Mike Hubbard, secretary; Qu
imby Melton, treasurer; and Na
. than Wood, chaplain.
The girls (Tri-Hi-Y) elected
officers for two clubs. The fol
lowing are on the first slate of
officers: Myrna Green, presi
dent; Doris Taylor, vice presi
dent; Polly Dempsey, secre
tary; Dawn Conner, treasurer;
and Nancy Waits, chaplain. The
following are on the second slate
Carroll Betzold, president; Judy
Herndon, vice president; Rhon
da Carney, secretary; Margar
et Owen, treasurer; Jan Mals
BELLAMY UNDER KNIFE
NEW YORK (UPI) —Walt
Bellamy, the New York Knick
; erbocfeers’ 6-foot-ll center and
leading scorer last season, was
■ successfully operated on Tues
day for the removal of cysts
from both feet
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b e held at Rock Eagle. State of
ficers will be elected. Attending
from Griffin High are Richard
Turner, April Dawn, Delle Har
ris, Louise Moore, Pam Craw
ford, Carl Presley, Susan Wil
liamson, Miss Julia Elliott, and
Mr. Larry Kendrick.
April is Education Month in
Georgia. The Griffin High mem
bers of the Future Teachers of
America Club are planning to
honor teachers. April 21 is Tea
cher Appreciation Day at Grif
fin High. On this day the F.T.A.
Club will help teachers and ser
ve refreshments.
Friday afternoon the Griffin
High baseball team will play La
Grange there. Saturday GHS
will play Headland there. Next
Monday the opponent is Lanier
(away). Tuesday the team will
play Jonesboro here.
Also Friday the golf team will
play Columbus and LaGrange
here. Next Monday and Tuesday
the team will journey to Chat
tanooga to play in the Chatta
nooga golf tourney.
Special congratulations to Miss
Julia Elliott. Miss Elliott, Grif
fin High speech teacher, was na
med Griffin’s Woman of the
Year.
bary, chaplain.
At the club meetings, Friday,
Mr. Julian Grantham’s, Mrs.
Ruth Hickey’s, and Mr. Harvey
Oglesby’s seventh grade Hi-Y
clubs met together. The speak
er was Mr. Ed Crawford, who
spoke on his work In the com
munity.
Mrs. Tennle Caldwell’s eighth
grade Tri-Hi-Y club met, and
the program, on the Twelve
Disciples, was presented by Ka
thy Hoffman.
Work was begun on the school
project, promoting neatness on
the campus. A poem is being
read over the school P.A. sys
tem every day this week, en
couraging the picking up of lit
ter.
The boys’ 4-H clubs from both
buildings met together, with
Larry Dinkins presiding. Robert
McKoy read the devotional, and
the program, on lawn mower sa
fety, was presented by Mr. Jack
Smith.
Mr. Ferris Smith’s and Mr.
Clarence Whatley’s ninth grade
Hi-Y clubs participated In a bas
ketball game during the club
period. Among the other clubs
watching the game were those
advised by Mr. Edwin Dye, Mr.
James Martin, Mrs. Betty Jo
Merrlt, and Mr. Don Warlick.
Thursday, April 21, 1966
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HE GETS THE POINT—It’s not an antique doll but a
medical exhibit that Dolly Ah-now is holding. The papier
mache figure from traditional Japan, Chinese part of a London display of
items used in medicine practiced in
much of the Orient, pinpoints proper location of needles
used in acupuncture. An ancient practice, acupuncture
calls for inserting needles into the body at precise points
to cure ailments.
Kelsey Junior High
Fathers Present
PTA Prodram
By HELEN REID
And FERNANDO MARTIN
The Kelsey Junior High PTA
featured at its monthly meeting
a “Father’s Night” program on
Tuesday. With the exception of
selections from the band, the
fathers were in complete char
ge.
Featured on the program was
a panel discussion on "The Fa
thers’ Role in the Home, School,
Community and Church”.
Fathers participating on the
panel were C. H. McDowell, A.
Hood, Sr., the Rev. C. L. Walk
er and O. B. Head, Sr.
Others appearing on the pro
gram were Robert Bridges in a
reading; the Rev. K. P. Pyron
and his son, Calvin, sang two
selections; scripture was read
by Waymon Johnson and prayer
by the Rev. C. L. Walker.
The Arts and Crafts classes
exhibited items which they
made. At the conclusion of the
PTA program, parents viewed
the exhibits. The fathers were
given gifts by the Arts and
Crafts classes.
STUART FORCED OUT
NEW YORK (UPI) —New
York Mets first baseman Diok
Stuart aggravated a left rib
cage injury batting In the first
Inning of Tuesday’s contest
against the St. Louis Cardinals,
and was forced to leave the
game.
MAGEE NAMED COACH
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Jack
Magee, former star basketball
player and assistant coach at
Boston College, was named
head basketball coach at
Georgetown University Tues
day.
He succeeds Tom O’Keefe,
who resigned in February after
six years at Georgetown.
Fairmont High
Students Observe
Library Week
By SANDRA SCOTT
And BLAND BATE?
National Library Week is be
ing observed by the students of
Fairmont. Friday the assistant
librarians will hold a book ex
hibit in the library.
Mrs. F. M. Head, Fairmont
Librarian, has been selected to
attend the American Library
Association meeting in New
York, July 10-16.
Bland Batey has been select
ed to participate in a Summer
Humanities Institute at Bennett
College in Greensboro, N.C. He
will study “creative writing."
Four students entered the es
say contest sponsored by the
Central Georgia Electric Mem
bership Corporation. They were
assigned the topic, “The Rural
Electric Cooperative’s Contri
bution to My Community and
My Country."
The Fairmont band participa
ted in a band clinic at Fort
Valley state College today.
Friday, the state track meet
will be held at Fort Valley. All
Fairmont students who won fir
st or second places at the dis
trict track meet will participate.
The Home Economics classes
and the family living class had
their fashion review Wednesday.
Mrs. E. D. McPhail is advisor
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of the Home Economics Depart
ment.
Ihe Spanish classes attended
a symposium at Fort Valley in
which Lena Horne talked about
her book "Lena”.
Students attending the sym
posium were Paulette Parks,
Ethelene Reid, Henrietta Zlar
ner, James O. Smith and J. E.
Russell, teacher.
COPS GET BITTEN
TORREON, Mexico (UPI) —
Mario Juarez decided this week
that he had been “bitten" by
(Forced to bribe) too many
policemen.
When two policemen came at
him with their hands out, he bit
them.
“I wanted them to know how
it felt to be ‘bitten* all the
time,” Juarez told the judge.
TALKED INTO JAIL
TORONTO (UPI) —A long
distance romance resulted in a
three-month Jail sentence for a
talkative 21-year-old Toronto
woman. Edythe Clausner was
sentenced when convicted on
charges that she gave a false
name to the phone company
and amassed a bill of $1,204
mostly in long distance calls to
a boyfriend in Montreal.
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of the new 490-passenger planes Boeing will build for Pan
American. Superimposed on the top view is an outline of
the largest jetliner now in use, dwarfed by the much bigger
Boeing 747. The 25 new planes—a $525 million contract—
will be 228 feet long, with 195-foot wingspread, and the tail
will stand higher than a five-story building.