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By Quimby Melton
The Georgia Department of
Industry and Trade has just
Issued its 1969 directory of Geor
gia manufacturing firms. It is a
150 page book, the pages being
about the size of those used In a
telephone directory.
It is a most interesting book,
■well indexed, with an attractive
front and back cover.
Good Evening spent sometime
studying parts of it and came up
with some things which he be
lieves our readers will find of
interest.
For instance, listed are 46
manufacturing firms in Spald
ing County. Included are both
large and small. Two of the
firms do not employ any work
ers being operated by the own
ers. The list of manufacturers
Includes many and varied pro
ducts.
According to this report the 46
manufacturing firms employ a
total of 6,804 persons; 3,264 men
and 3,535 women.
Other counties adjacent to Sp
alding, the number of manufac
turing firms and number of em
ployes are:
Butts 10, 1,102; Henry 19, 1,250;
Lamar 8, 1,743; Upson 24, 5,004;
Pike 5, 219; Fayette 17, 752; Co
weta 36, 5,354; Meriwether 20,
2,311; and Clayton 67, 3,634.
This interesting directory com
piled by the department’s div
ision of research, begins with a
letter from Governor Lester
Maddox. As an introduction it
carries a two page feature “Ge
orgia Facts”. This begins with
reproduction of a tablet, atop of
which is the seal of Georgia, and
which reads:
Georgia: One of the thirteen
original colonies. Georgia was
named for King George 11. It
is the largest state east of the
Mississippi River, even though
Alabama and Mississippi were
carved from her original terri
tory. Pioneering in religion, ed
ucation, medicine and agricul
ture, Georgia is now enjoying a
phenominal Industrial growth.
The text below the tablet
reads:
CHARTER — The charter
for the colony of Georgia was
granted on June 9, 1732 by Ge
orge n, King of Great Britian.
The original territory extended
from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Mississippi .liver, and included
all the land which now compro
mises the states of Alabama and
Mississippi.
STATEHOOD — Georgia ach
ieved statehood on Jan. 2,1788 by
ratifying the new Federal Con
s st i tut ion. Georgia was the fourth
state to ratify the Constitution.
AREA — Georgia’s total area
of 58,876 square miles is the
« largest of any state east of the
Mississippi and ranks 19th am
ong all 50 states. The state is 315
miles long and 250 miles wide.
* POPULATION — The 1960
census set Georgia’s population
at 3,943,116, a rank of 16th am
ong the 50 states.
MOTTO — Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation.
NICKNAME — The Peach St-
* ate.
STATE BIRD — Brown Thra
sher.
* STATE TREE — Live Oak.
INDUSTRY — Georgia has
long been an Industrial leader
, among Southern States, and in
recent years has assumed a na
tional leadership role. Georgia
leads all states in the production
of carpets and in the production
’ of paper, and is among the na
tional leaders in such industries
as textiles, transportation and
food processing. The industry
* of Georgia is marked by a heal
thy diversification and continu
ing growth.
, AGRICULTURE — Long a
farming state, the new urban
Georgia is still a leader in mo
dern agriculture. Georgia leads
the nation in production of pea-
* nuts, pecans, pimento peppers,
commercial boilers and naval st
ores products. The state has 23,-
800,000 acres of woodlands whi-
* ch provide the raw materials
for the mammoth paper Indus
try. Cattle and swine production
are also important in the state.
* It’s Great to Be a Georgian
and to have a part in its grow
th and development. This last
sentence is not found in the
* 1969 Directory, but is the idea
this long-time Georgian got as
he studied the report.
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Jim Owen, chairman of the Red Cross Board of Directors, gave a pint of blood at
the bloodmobile Tuesday in the Cheatham auditorium of the First Baptist Church.
Red Cross Nurse Mrs. Jeanette Moorman keeps watch on Owen.
Bloodmobile Visit
Hailed As Success
Lee Roy Claxton, chairman of
the Red Cross Bloodmobile pro
gram here, today hailed the
Tuesday visit as a success.
A total of 197 pints of blood
were collected. This was 47 more
than the quota assigned for the
visit.
Nixon Urges Senate
To Okay Nuclear Pact
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPD—
President Nixon today urged the
Senate to proceed promptly
with ratification of the treaty to
prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons to have-not countries.
Nixon, who opposed ratifica
tion of the nuclear nonprolifera
tion treaty during the election
campaign last fall following the
Soviet invasion of Czechoslova
kia, said in a special message
to the Senate:
"My request at this time in
no sense alters my condemna
tion of that Soviet action, I
believe that ratification of the
treaty at this time would
advance this administration’s
policy of negotiation rather than
confrontation with the U.S.S.R.”
Signatory nations under the
treaty would join in attempting
to curb the spread of nuclear
weapons, but help nonnuclear
weapon countries to develop
peaceful applications of atomic
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35-INCH MOTHER — A nurse displays the 16-inch
baby bom to Mrs. Medine Koyun, 33 and only 35
inches tall, who looks on placidly in Balikesir, Turkey.
Her husband Ibrahim,, a sheepherder, is 5-feet-10.
The baby weighed 4 lbs., 5 oz.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
This will help make up some
of the deficit racked up during
the last few visits, chairman
Claxton pointed out.
He thanked Griffinites for
their good response to the plea
for blood. Claxton said the blood
committee here would continue
energy.
Nixon, who is preparing for a
trip to Europe to visit capitals
of some of America’s NATO
allies, discussed the treaty as
well as the Mideast situation,
and other matters in a meeting
with Republican congressional
leaders this morning.
While the White House was
making public the President’s
request for Senate ratification
of the nuclear treaty, the GOP
congressional leadership
emerged from a meeting with
Nixon predicting that new
legislation would be proposed to
deal with strikes if the East
Coast dock strike is not settled
shortly.
Rep. Gerald R. Ford and Sen.
Everett M. Dirksen told news
men that the new legislation
may be necessary if current
arbitration efforts are unsuc
cessful.
The President apparently will
go to Europe later this month
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, February 5,1969
to work for an even better resp
onse to the bloodmobile's visit
in April.
Twenty-four people who had
never given blood before came
to the headquarters at the First
Baptist Cheatham auditorium
Tuesday. Six donors were from
out of town.
or early next month, with visits
planned to Paris, Lohdon, Bonn,
Brussels and West Berlin.
Informed sources said those
were the stops planned but not
necessarily in that order.
As for the nuclear treaty, it
was submitted to the Senate
last year by former President
Lyndon B. Johnson, but ratifica
tion efforts ran into trouble with
the indignant reaction on
Capitol Hill to Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia.
During his campaign for the
presidency—and again in his
message to the Senate today—
Nixon said he had always
"supported the goal of halting
the spread of nuclear weapons”
but opposed ratification last
year because of the Czech
situation.
Nancy Hanks
Stays On Tracks;
Tickets Hiked
ATLANTA, Ga. (UPI) — The
Nancy Hanks, the railroad
streamliner which has become
a fixture in much of Georgia’s
landscape, has won a reprieve
from the State Public Service
Commission.
The commission Tuesday
turned .down a petition by the
Central of Georgia to disconti
nue the famed passenger train,
saying it was "one of the last
trains running to the coast.
“We felt we just couldn’t al
low it to discontinue its run,”
declared PSC Chairman Wil
liam Kimbrough. “It does have
passengers.”
The railroad claimed it was
losing money on the Nancy
Hanks and had already gone
more than $300,000 in debt on
the streamliner.
The commission, in denying
the Central’s request however,
approved a series of rate in
creases to help the line make
up the losses. A spokesman
said the round-trip Atlanta-Sa
vannah fare would be raised
from $11.85 to $16.85.
The commission held a series
of public hearings on the rail
road’s petition to discontinue
the line, and many of the
train’s passengers testified that
the Nancy Hawks had become
a “tradition” in Georgia.
Venable Defends
M-H Buildings
Program Comes
Under Questioning
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPD—The State
Health Department’s construc
tion of new mental health facili
ties came under sharp question
ing today during budget hear
ings by the joint House-Senate
Appropriations Committee.
Dr. James Venable, director
of the Health Department, was
asked if the state was not over
doing the building of mental
health facilities, especially in
view of the difficulties in find
ing personnel.
Venable replied it was “the
only way I know to meet this
tremendous problem”.
Committee questioning of the
need for new mental facilities
began Tuesday when members
asked if it was wise to attempt
to staff the new regional men
tal hospitals before they were
constructed.
The state has constructed or
plans to build new mental hos
pitals in Atlanta, Augusta, Sa
vannah, Rome and Columbus.
The hospitals at Atlanta, Sa
vannah and Augusta have eith
er been completed or are near
ing completion. Venable esti
mated the cost of operating all
five hospitals at sl7 million an
nually.
The matter arose Tuesday
when Budget Director Wilson
Wilkes cited a request for $410,-
000 in the next fiscal year to
staff regional hospitals at Co
lumbus, Rome and Savannah.
During committee questioning
of Wilkes it was brought out
that of the three hospitals, only
the one at Savannah has been
constructed.
Wilkes said the money was
needed to help recruit and train
the staff before the facilities
are built. But his answers did
not stop the questions. Both
Wilkes and State Board of
Health Chairman Beverley For
rester who followed him before
the committee were asked if it
was not more important to ade
quately staff present facilities
before spending money to build
new hospitals for which recruit
ment of personnel would be dif
ficult.
Dr. Forrester made a plea for
V,S. Court Says
Auburn Can’t
Bar Chaplain
MONTGOMERY (UPI) — Au
burn University’s campus speak,
er policy was ruled unconstitu
tional today by a U. S. district
court judge, paving the way for
controversial Yale chaplain Wil
liam S. Coffin to speak on the
campus Friday.
The ruling was handed down
by Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.
Johnson’s order enjoins Au
burn President Harry Philpott
and other university officials
from interfering with Coffin’s
scheduled appearance.
The ruling came two days
after a three-hour bearing on a
suit filed by the Human Rights
Forum, a student-faculty group
challenging Philpott’s veto last
fall of the proposed Coffin ad
dress.
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Immediate adequate staffing of
Central State Mental Hospital.
He said this took priority over
all other programs of the health
department, and cited an in
stance in which one attendant
would be in charge of looking
after 100 mentally disturbed
patients at Central State.
But Forrester said the region
al mental hospital also took a
high priority because they
would take some of the load off
Central State which has 9,500
patients and is the largest men
tal hospital in the United States.
During hearing testimony
Tuesday, state Rep. Bobby Paf
ford of Lakeland charged that
two firms in Atlanta and Au
gusta were getting an unduly
large share of the state’s arch
itectural business.
Pafford said the firms of A.
Thomas Bradberry of Atlanta
and fellers of Augusta had re
ceived approximately $6 million
in architectural fees in the past
six years, including every ma
jor contract negotiated by the
state.
Charging “political patron
age,” Pafford said there were
452 architecture firms in Geor
gia just as capable as Brad
berry and Jones and Fellers.
State Auditor Ernest Davis
told Pafford his department did
not hire the architects and that
it was done by individual agen
cies. He said it was not practi
cal to contract for architects on
a bid basis.
“We have 542 registered arch
itects residing in Georgia,” Paf
ford declared. “It seems to me
the people now getting all the
state’s business are no more
capable than some of these
others. It’s nothing but poltiical
patronage.”
Robbers Strike
At Two Motels
ROME, Ga. (UPD—Two Holi
day Inn motels, located in
Rome and Marietta, were rob
bed during the night by gunmen
who got away with an estimat
ed $325.
Late Tuesday night, a robber
entered the Holiday Inn located
near Marietta on 1-75 and
forced a guard and a clerk to
lie on the floor while the other
clerk emptied the cash register.
Police said he escaped with
about $175.
A pistol-wielding robber wear
ing a stocking mask took about
$l5O from the cash register at
a Rome Holiday Inn about 3
a.m. today.
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Membership
February is membership month for the Griffin Area
Chapter for Retarded Children. Mayor O. M. Snider,
Jr., pays his membership fee to Mrs. Mary Fitzhugh,
executive director of GACRC. The Griffin Area
Chapter operates the Play-to-Leam School and the
Way-to-Eam Workshop.
Rules Panel Okays
Congress Pay Hike
WASHINGTON (UPD—The —
House Rules Committee today
approved a 41 per cent pay
boost for members of Congress
and thus, in effect, nailed the
$12,500 annual boost into law.
The Rules Committee acted in
a closed meeting. Chairman
William M. Colmer, D-Miss.,
who had fought the pay raise
which also includes boosts for
top government officials and
judges, said afterward the vote
for the raise was “substantial.” 1
The Senate went along with 1
the pay raise package Tuesday. 1
Under today’s House rules !
action, the issue will not be put
to a vote in the House.
Lacking a veto by either ;
House or Senate, the increase
takes effect automatically,
starting with the first pay :
periods after Valentine’s day.
The vote in the 15-man rules
committee, normally considered
an arm of the leadership, was :
reported to have been 12 to 3
against Colmer’s effort to ;
snatch a pay veto proposal from
the House Post Office commit- ;
tee and send it directly to the i
House floor.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy !
and a little warmer tonight and J
Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti- :
mated high today 62, low today
33, high Tuesday 53, low Tues- ;
day 28. Sunrise Thursday 7:32 1
a.m., sunset Thursday 6:17 p.m. ;
Kenyan team must have had a more legitimate reason
for stopping at the Nairobi station.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Man Names
U. S. Govt.
In His Will
MIAMI (UPD— They found
the body of the old man on the
bed in his $4-a-night hotel room.
He held a walking cane in his
hand.
In an olive drab military
footlocker Tuesday, police found
a note:
“In case of my death, I wish
to make the U.S. government as
my beneficiary 100 per cent,” it
read. It was signed, “Cpl. Jacob
Ramer, U.S. Army, Retired.”
The locker also contained $695
in cash, bonds valued at $6,350
and a bank account totaling
$7,945.67.
Authorities said Ramer, 70,
apparently died of a heart
attack.
Everett Stanley, a hotel
employe, said Ramer "never
talked and never bothered
anyone. He didn’t say boo.”
The hotel’s night manager
said Ramer checked into the
hotel in September of 1967,
listing "The City” as his former
address. There were no known
relatives.
Officials said Ramer’s
$14,990.67 probably would be
turned over to the U.S.
government.