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JLi VENIN
By Quimby Melton
From time to time during the
42 years Good Evening has been
with the Griffin Daily News, he
has arrived at the office to find
various things left on his desk
by persons who had called after
Good Evening had gone home,
and who asked the man left at
the office to lock up, “Put this
on Good Evening’s desk and he’ll
get it in the morning.”
The things left on the desk ran
ge all the way from clippings
and pictures, and once even a
dead, three legged baby chick,
two baskets of tomatoes, plums,
peaches, etc.
Wednesday morning, when
Good Evening get to the office,
he found his desk covered with
gay colored balloons, and hand
flags. They had been left by a
member of the Jayeees and were
samples of the balloons and hand
flags that will be given children
here on July Fourth.
Thanks Jayeees leaving
those on my desk gives Good
Evening another chance to call
attention to the stupendous
Fourth of July celebration the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
will stage come Monday. There'H
be plenty activity here, opening
with the big parade, and the sky
diving stunts, and closing with
fireworks that night.
Once again, and for the second
straight year, Good Evening can
tip his hat to ABC of Griffin and
to Dave Patrick, a past president
of the club.
For, once again, the Griffin
ABC has won first prize in the
national scrap book competition,
and once again it was Dave Pa
trick who “kept the scrapbook”
and made up the exhibit so at
tractively that it won top honors.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Waldrop
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harper
were on hand at the national
convention held in Muskegon,
Michigan, to receve the award.
Waldrop is president and Har
per is treasurer of the Griffin
Club.
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It’s always good to note honors
that come to friends in nearby
cities. And here is one of the
highest honors that can be paid
anyone.
Sam Burke, of Thomaston, has
become the first man interested
in high school activities, to be
elected to the All Sports Hall
of Fame in California.
What Sam Burke has done for
high school sports has been so
outstanding that three years ago
he was elected president of the
National High School Associa
tion, and the national organiza*
tion has been so pleased with the
way he has handled that impor
tant post that they have re-elect
ed him three times.
Folks in Georgia who have
kept up with high school sports,
in all categories, are unani
mous in their admiration of Bur
ke and his activities to make,
and keep sports in Georgia high
schools on the up and up.
Good Evening joins the good
folk of Thomaston in saying
“We’re proud of you Sam Bur
ke” And as far as this long-time
high school sports fan is concer
ned, there is no one man in the
state who has done more for high
school athletics than Thomas
ton’s Sam Burke.
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And it’s always pleasing to
Good Evening t 0 tip his hat to
a former Griffinite who is honor
ed.
Today received notice that
Frank Hood, former Griffinite,
now manager of the Georgia Po
wer Company’s community de
velopment division, is the re
ceipient of the Georgia Munici
pal Association’s 1965 Georgia
Key Citizen Award.
Country Parson
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is why it’s hard to tell him
the right way to live.”
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Takes Jail - Hair
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) —
Billy Lee Anderson, 19, Wednes
day chose to spend eight months
in jail rather than have his long
blond hair trimmed.
Anderson, of DeKalb County,
was brought before Judge Os
car MHchell on charges of be
ing involved in a fight last
month. The youth was told he
could go free if he paid a $100
fine and agreed to have his
locks sheared.
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A Brand New American Citizen
Mrs. Frieda Braselton, native of Germany who
has lived in America 10 years, became an American
citizen Wednesday. Her neighbors at Orchard Hill
helped her celebrate. Members of the Rehoboth
Baptist Church sparked a drive for money so the
new U. S. citizen could telephone her mother in
Germany. They made her the guest of honor at a
supper Wednesday night in Orchard Hill. Mrs.
County Paving
Zooms Ahead
road be scraped. He said now
people call and ask that the
shoulders on their paved road
be mowed.
Almost as many men are need
ed for mowing as are for scrap
ing, but the operation of trac
tors is much less than for the
heavy equipment. Lane said as
the number of paved roads in
creases, the need for heavy eq
uipment for maintenance pur
poses would become less.
Floyd Wilkerson, warden of the
Spalding County stockade, said
paved roads usually need patch
ing in five to seven years, ac-
Spalding County road machi
nery has been running most of
the day since clear weather mov
ed into the area. Three paving
projects in the county have been
completed and three other roads
have been graded and are ready
for paving.
The paving projects now in
progress do not include the Co
unty Line road which is a state
project.
Tom Lane, administrator for
Spalding County Commissioner,
said nearly half of the roads in
the county have been paved or
are ready for paving.
The paving projects in the
county have been scheduled
so that no family is now more
than two miles from a paved
road. Most are less than that.
All streets in Camp Stephens
subdivision are being graded
and will be paved under the
| property assessment law. Prior
to passage of the law a couple
of yeais ago, property owners
had to pay in advance before
streets in a subdivision would be
paved.
The county at that time did not
have a law to back them up on
assessing property owners for
street paving.
Not all of the pacing in the
county is being done under state
aid and property assessment.
Assessments may be made only
on property in subdivisions. Open
county roads are paved under
state aid or solely by the county.
The county did not have ma
chinery to do its own paving un
til last year, Lane said.
Many of the old wooden brid
ges in the county have been eli
minated by the paving projects
and replaced with steel culverts
and modern concrete structures.
Maintenance costs on the coun
ty roads also are being lowered
by the paving. Paving elimina
tes maintenance on wooden brid
ges, scraping, much of the ditch
cleaning and “rocking” of roads.
Lane said in years past people
would call in and ask that their
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Anderson, who says h e plays
in a rock and roll band, chose
jail over the barber.
Weather:
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 89, low today 68, h i gh
Wednesday 90, low Wednesday
72; sunrise Friday 5:33, sunset
Friday 7:49.
cording to the amount of use and
need to be resealed in 10 to 11
years, depending on use.
Several other paving projects
are scheduled for the year in ad
dition to those now in progress.
They are expected to push the
county’s total amount of paved
roads to the half-way mark.
Wilkerson said since clear
weather had moved in after a
rainy spring that every piece of
equipment had been operating.
He said the work was being done
as rapidly as possible, but not so
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Workmen grade the edges of Experiment street where it is being widened so
it can be paved and curbed. The work is under a state contract and an agreement
with the city and county. The work began at 15th street and will go to Riegel’s
curve.
Hospital Here All Set
For Medicare To Start
Braselton ate southern fried chicken, displayed an
American flag, and made plans to call her mother.
Shown are (1-r) Mrs. 0. M. Duke, and Mrs. Lillie
Futral who helped plan the affair, Mrs. Braselton,
her husband, Royce, and the Rev. and Mrs. Cecil
Dix, of Rehoboth Church. Mrs. Braselton met her
husband while he was with the Armed Forces in
Germany.
Motorists Begin
To Clog Area
Griffin and Spalding
streets and highways today
gan to clog with vacation
fic. Officers have said the
end is expected to be one of the
heaviest of the year.
St. W. E. Butler of the
State Patrol and Griffin
Chief Leo Blackwell have
motorists to drive with
me caution.”
Shoppers have crowded
downtown area of Griffin
week while shopping for
during Vacation Valua Days.
Many of Griffin’s textile
will be closed for vacation
week. Numerous employes of
mills have planned vacations to
Florida, Tennessee, North
lina, South Carolina, Alabama
and other points where they
be driving.
Vol. 95 No. 153
Patient Load
Increase Seen
As Gradual
The Griffin - Spalding County
Hospital is ready to begin ad
mitting patients under the Medi
care program which goes into
effect at midnight.
Hospital Administrator Jack
Moore said a physical interme
diary audit of the cost account
ing department was completed
Wednesday to determine the
amount of reimbursement the
hospital is to receive under the
program.
Moore said when Medicare pa
tients come to the hospital, they
must present their Health Insur
ance Card which has a claim
number on it.
After presentation of the card,
Medicare patients will be admit
ted to the hospital under normal
procedure. Moore said the only
difference in admission of Medi
care patients would be more in
volved policies which include
eight to 10 forms.
I'atients must be certified to
enter the hospital by a doctor.
The doctor must certify again in
14 days that the patient needs to
remain in the hospital and again
at 21 days.
Moore said no influx of Medi
care patients is expected at the
hospital over the weekend or
next week. He said, however,
the patient load is expected to
increase sharply in the first two
or tlxree months.
The patient load is expected to
level off after the first two or
three months with the increase
averaging between five and eight
percent.
Moore said the program will
increase the workloads in each
of the hospital departments. He
said the hospital will maintain
an adequate staff at all times to
take care of the patient load. He
said the staff will be increased if
necessary to maintain the staff
patient ratio.
“We feel that the immediate
increase in the patient load will
be due to the fact that some
people have held off on selec
tive surgery until the program
goes into efect,” Moore said.
Check valves in the program
will prevent overcrowding of the
hospital. The check valves will
prevent over utilization, under
utilization and unnecessary ad
missions.
Moore said each hospital de
partment is braced for the pro
gram. He said it is too early to
tell what problems will arise.
Patients entering the Griffin
Spalding County Hospital under
the program are covered by the
Griffin Social Security Office.
Miss Kate McLaurin, Officer-In
Charge of the office, said today
that the Griffin-Spalding Hospi
tal, Sylvan Grove Hospital in
Jackson and Upson County Hos
pital in Thomaston, the three in
the district, have completed ar
rangements for the program.
Patients now in the three hos
pitals, who are eligible for the
Medicare program, will be trans
ferred to it at midnight.
Miss McLaurin asked residents
of the area to write, phone or
visit the Social Security office
for answers to questions about
the Health Insurance Program.
The office is on West Solomon
street. Miss McLaurin may be
called at 227-0183.
Cordele Looks
Like Town In
Occupation Zone
CORDELE, Ga. (UPI) — This
racially tense town in south
Georgia had the appearance
early today of a wartime occu
pation zone with deserted
streets, a strict curfew and po
lice patrols.
Travel in the town, from dusk
to dawn, was restricted to motor
ists passing through on high
ways.
The 10,000 citizens of Cordele
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Local Drivers
Cautious On
Killer
By JAMES STEWART
Motorists in the Griffin area
are using more caution on t h e
Griffin-Barnesville “killer strip.”
Sgt. W. E. Butler of the Grif
fin State Patrol said he feels
that drivers in the Griffin area
have begun using more caution
on the road.
He said a series of articles in
the Griffin Daily News on the
“killer strip” had brought to the
attention of the drivers in the
Griffin area the dangers of driv
ing on the 16-mile stretch of two
lane pavement.
Sgt. Butler said drivers had
known of some of the dangers in
the past, but now they are more
aware of them and are watching
the other driver more.
“I think that with local drivers’
being alert of conditions of the
road, I believe it will cut down
on the number of accidents,” he
said.
The Sergeant agreed that there
is no way of letting out-of-state
drivers know what kind of dan
gerous conditions he is approach
ing.
Sgt. Butler said the State Pat
rol here has centered its atten
tion on the “killer strip” for some
time. He said now radios are be
ing used more than before to
catch traffic offenders on the
stretch.
He said it is impossible for a
patrol car going one way to turn
around and catch a driver. He
said radios are being used to
notify other cars and police in
towns at either end of the high
way.
The killer strip is said to be
one of the worse strips of two
lane pavements in the southeast.
Local law enforcement officials
commenting on the road, said
it is overcrowded and serves as
a funnel from Griffin to Barnes
ville and visa versa.
The 16-mile stretch, U. S. 41, is
marked with numerous danger
points. It is almost a continuous
stretch of curves and hills from
Griffin to Barnesville.
Passing points on the road are
limited. There are only one or
two places on the stretch where
a car can pass another safely.
Work has started on a detour
at Orchard Hill that will be used
while two sharp hills are cut
down to improve sight distance.
Work is near completion on the
detour and the work to cut down
the hills is expected to begin
Ifcon.
Many proposals «teve
made to improve traffic eondi-
tions on the route, including rou
ting some of the southbound traf
fic down U. S. 19, traffic signs,
traffic lights, parallel lanes to
the present ones and double yel
low lines.
The Spalding County grand
jury has urged the State High
way Department to “use all pos
sible speed” in the completion
of the Griffin-Barnesville four
lane by-pass which is under con
struction.
The grand jury in its J u n, e
presentments said it is aware Of’
the situation on the crowded
“killer strip.”
The Griffin and Thomaston
Chambers of Commerce have
had discussions on the routing of
traffic southbound for 1-75 down
U. S. 19 to Thomaston, Georgia
80 to Roberta and U. S. 341 to I-
75 at Perry.
Sgt. Butler said the conditions
on the highway are bad enough
without the influx of vacation
traffic expected on it in the next
few weeks. He said next week
will be one of the busiest weeks
for the highway.
A map released by the State
Highway Department Division
of Highway Planning shows the
highway to be one of the heaviest
traveled two-lane roads in the
state. Approximately 9,000 cars
traveled the road during each 24
hour period in 1965.
This was an average of 375
cars per hour. The number in
creased in the day light hours
and was reduced at night.
The by-pass which is to relievte
the crowded conditions on the
road will not be completed for
sometime. Work is now in pro
gress at Milner. One portion of
it has been completed and the
right-of-way has been cleared
for most of it.
Davison Named
Vice Chancellor
ATLANTA (UPI) - The State
Board of Regents Wednesday
announced the appointment of
Dr. Fred C. Davison of the Uni
versity of Georgia as vice chan
cellor of the university system.
Davison, currently dean of
Georgia’s School of Veterinary
Medicine, will take over Sept.
1, from Dr. S. Walter Martin,
is jolng Valdosta State Col
lege.