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By Quimby Melton
Welcome to Griffin!
Play Ball!
The Welcome is from Griffin
to the young men who are here
to play for the State American
Legion Baseball Championship;
the Play Ball was called loud
and clear Wednesday afternoon
when the Georgia Stat° Legion
“World Series” got under way.
There are six teams in the
play; five are district champ
ions, the sixth is Griffin, the
host team.
The tournament got off to a
flying start Wednesday noon
lunch
eon for the visitors and local
guests. “Welcome” was the
theme of the meeting and, guid
ed by Dr. Sonny Butler, Griffin
baseball enthusiast who acted
as master of ceremonies, short,
sincere welcome talks were
made. These “loaded the bases”
with Welcome.
Then came the "clean up hit
ter”, the Rev. Jimmy Waters,
Southern Baptist Convention of
ficial, who is recognized as a lea
der of the youth. He “hit it over
the fence" with a straight from
the shoulder talk a’med direct
ly at the young ball players.
They gave the “slugging” prea
cher rapt attention and applaud
ed his talk.
That Griffin is in for some in
teresting baseball became evi
dent Wednesday afternoon and
night when the first two games
were played. Colleee Park de
feated Savannah 12 to 3; and
Athens beat Albany 10-2. But
that does not mean either Sav
annah or Albany are out of the
race, for the tourney is a double
elimination affair and both will
have another shot at the title.
The only two teams that did
not play Wednesday were Smy
rna and Griffin. They meet to
night at 8:00, and while Smyrna
comes to Griffin classed by
many as “the team to beat” the
Griffin team will forget for the
evening that they are the
“hosts” and will battle the Col
legians all the way.
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An interesting feature of this
state tournament is that there
are several big league and col
lege scouts attending the games;
they come as talent scouts look
ing for young ball players who
may possess what it takes to
make an outstanding ball player.
Many of the big league stars of
past years got their baptism of
big time baseball while playing
on American Legion teams.
Who knows? The 1969 Griffin
tournament may turn up anoth
er star and in years to come,
when someone talks about him,
one who attends the games here
this week can say with pride,
“Why I saw that man play ball
in Griffin as a member of an
American Legion team when the
tournament was held there in
1969.” And, then, he might stret
ch the truth a little and add
“The minute I saw him walk out
on the field I said to myself
there goes another Bob Feller,
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb or W i 111 e
Mays.”
Anyway Welcome to Griffin!
Play Ball!
Local Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 68, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 66, sunrise
tomorrow 6:55, sunset tomorrow
8:33.
Six Injured
In Wrecks Here
Six people were injured yester
day in traffic accidents in Grif
fin and Spalding County.
Three were Injured in an ac
cident a mile west of Griffin on
the Ellis road. One was admit
ted to the Griffin-Spalding Coun
ty Hospital.
Jimmy W. Wray, 22, of Chest
nut street, Experiment, was ad
mitted to the hospital. He suffer
ed a fractured arm, fractured
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MERILLAN, Wis. (UPD—
The Grim Reaper must have
had a belly laugh here in 1917.
A story resurrected from the
Wisconsin Leader, published
here until 1929, quoted from
death certificates signed by
physicians who proved to be
masters of malapropisms.
Among the causes of death
written by doctors for the chief
statistician of the state Board
of Health were:
“A mother died in infancy.”
“Deceased had never been
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Consumer Protection Lousy
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPD —The
federal government is doing a
grossly inadequate Job of
protecting consumers from
dangerous drugs, contaminated
foods and other hazardous
products.
That is the gist of a
confidential report submitted to
Dr. Herbert L. Ley Jr.,
commissioner of the Food and
Drug Administration, by a
study group composed of seven
senior FDA scientists and
administrators.
Ley set up the group May 1.
The members were asked to
make a candid appraisal of
consumer protection programs
and to pull no punches in
reporting any shortcomings
they found. No announcement
was made of the study, given to
Ley July 14.
A copy of the report, obtained
by UPI, makes chilling reading
for consumers who believe the
government is protecting them
from unsafe products.
The report said FDA does not
. ribs and injuries to his chest and
. back.
Tony Bodeman, 24, of 320 Nor
. th 15th street, suffered a frac
! tured arm. Ronald Wayne
. Blanks, 24, of 643 North 17th st
. reet, driver of the car, also was
injured. Bodeman and Blanks
. were treated at the hospital.
They were riding in the same
. car. Damage was estimated at
[ $3,000.
„ Two people were hurt in a
wreck at West Taylor and South
Eighth streets.
Mrs. Clynda Martin of College
Park, suffered injuries to h e r
right leg and Mrs. Robert M.
Steele of College Park suffered
injuries to her chest and right
leg. Both were treated in the
emergency room at the hospital.
They were passengers in a car
driven by Elizabeth Davis Pate,
of 3815 Sulene drive, College
Park.
Another car was drive, by
Margaret McCullough, of 774
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fatally sick.”
"Died suddenly, nothing se
rious.”
“Died suddenly at the age of
103.”
"Went to bed feeling well, but
woke up dead.”
“Kicked by horse shod on left
kidney.”
“Pulmonary hemorrhage,
sudden death. Duration four
years.”
have enough money, manpower
or legal authority to do the job
it should be doing. With a
budget of $72 million a year
and a staff of 4,252 persons,
FDA is trying to police 60,000
firms producing $l3O billion
worth of consumer goods
annually.
Here is what the group said
about the inadequacies of
protection provided to consu
mers in various fields:
Drugs:
The “weakest spot” in
consumer protection is inade
ouate control over imported
drugs. As things now stand,
“we have no means of
determining manufacturing,
processing, packaging or stor
age conditions in foteign
countries.” Hence, Imported
drugs come into this country
under far less stringent controls
than are exercised over U.S.-
produced drugs.
Even in the United States,
some drug companies are
failing to do as much as they
should “to prevent mislabeled,
sub or super-potent, or conta-
East College street. Damage
was estimated at SBOO.
A police report said the car
driven by Elizabeth Davis Pate
ran a red light and collided with
the car driven by Margaret Mc-
Cullough.
A Hampton woman suffered
multiple contusions of her head
and chest in an accident at Nor
th Expressway and Viney ar d
road.
Mary Sue Stewart of Route
One, Hampton, was treated at
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital. She was listed as the dri
ver of one car involved.
The other automobile was dri
ven by Priscilla Cougler Eller
bee of Route One, Molena. Da
mage was estimated at $1,500.
A State Patrol report said the
car driven by Priscilla Ellerbee
was traveling west on the Vine
yard road and pulled into the
southbound lane of the North
Expressway in front of the Ste
wart automobile.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 7, 1969
Tornadoes Swoop Down
On Lake Area; 12 Dead
Report Pulls No Punches
minated drugs from being
marketed.” In each of the last
four years, several hundred
drugs have had to be recalled
from the market because of
such product defects—discov
ered after they yere already on
sale to the public.
The advertising claims made
on television and in other media
for nonprescription drugs often
go far beyond anything the
FDA will allow the manufactu
rer to claim on the label of his
product. FDA has no authority
to regulate advertising of
nonprescription drugs.
Practicing physicians who
prescribe drugs for the public
often are unaware of adverse
reactions to new drugs that
have been reported to FDA by
other physicians, hospitals or
the drug industry. “No efficient
mechanism” now exists for
disseminating this information
to all doctors in a hurry.
Food
Nobody knows how many
Americans get sick from eating
bad foo-i, but “conservative
estimates” range from 2
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ATLANTA (UPD—The Metro
politan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority has voted to begin all
fuure meetings at 3 p.m. in
stead of 3:30 p.m. so its mem
bers can have a chance to get
home before the afternoon traf
fic crush.
The authority, which meets
weekly, is preparing a rapid
transit plan for submission to
Atlanta voters in 1971 or 1972.
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million to 10 million a year.
Many agencies are involved
in policing the nation’s food
supply—the FDA, state and
local public health agencies, the
Agriculture Department, to
name a few. There is little
coordination and they some
times work at cross purposes.
The widespread use of
chemicals in food production,
processing, preservation and
packaging poses potential ha
zards to consumers’ health, and
too little research is being done
on these hazards.
Present provisions to ensure
“honest and informative label
ing and honest packaging” of
foods are inadequate to prevent
housewives from being fooled
and gypped. Some of the food
labeling regulations now being
developed cannot be enforced;
others fail to give consumers
the kind of information they
want.
State and local programs
dealing with sanitation in
restaurants and food-vending
devices often are inadequate to
prevent contamination of food
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by “insect, bird and rodent
filth.” This is an important
cause of foodborne diseases.
Medical Devices:
Some 5.000 medical devices—
ranging from X-ray machines
down to quack contraptions
with flashing lights—are now on
the market. Some are capable
of causing injury and death.
But “at this time FDA has
completely inadequate resour
ces and statutory authority to
regulate this growing and
highly sophisticated industry.
Current programs do not even
approach adequate consumer
protection.”
Cosmetics:
Americans spend about $7
billion a year on cosmetics.
Some are known to cause
“adverse reactions Such as
irritations” in some users, and
others “contain new ingredients
of which we have little or no
knowledge.” Despite this, there
is no present requirement for
warnings on the labels of
cosmetic products that may
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Some Vacationers
Caught In Boats
By LOTTE SEIDLER.
OUTING. Minn. (UPD—Tor
nadoes swooped out of a
twilight sky in Minnesota’s lake
country Wednesday night,
beaches, in boats and in flimsy
resort cabins. At least 12
persons died and scores were
hurt.
Buildings were flattened,
trees uprooted, gasoline pumps
wrenched from their concrete
foundations and utility poles
toppled. Communications were
so badly snarled that the full
extent of the disaster could not
be determined 12 hours later.
So many fallen trees blocked
roads and highways rescuers
literally had to cut their way
through with chain saws and
plow their way through with
bulldozers to reach the injured
and trapped.
At least 10 tornadoes touched
down, two in the Outing area,
150 miles north of Minneapolis;
one each near Motely, Pine
River, Emily and Backus, all in
Cass County; and one each at
Britt, Flood wood and Buhl, all
in St. Louis County, and Lake
Bemidji in Beltrami County.
Came From Farms
Six of the injured came from
11 farms devastated by a
tornado two miles north of
Floodwood. Eino Garvi and his
wife survived unhurt by racing
to the basement and crouching
against a wall. The twister
lifted their home from above
them. “I went through it once
before,” Mrs. Garvi said. “I
figured if the house goes, it
goes.”
The worst devastation oc
cured in Cass County, along a
30-mile swath from Emily to
Hill City, with Outing as its
center. Most of the deaths
came when a twister slammed
through the four cabins near
Outing of a summer camp of
the Bethany Fellowship Church
Association of Bloomington,
Minn., a Minneapolis suburb.
Mrs. Dene Taylor, wife of the
Cass County coroner, said,
“Their cottages were literally
picked up and dumped in
Roosevelt Lake.”
Five Bodies Identified
Mrs. Taylor said the Cass
County sheriff told her husband
to prepare his morgue for 14
bodies. Eight bodies were
brought to the morgue. They
included three women and a
girl from Minneapolis, a woman
from New Hope, one from
Richfield and a local couple.
Mrs. Taylor said that among
the missing was the Rev.
Arthur Olson, former China
branch director of the Lutheran
World Federation, whose wife
and daughter were among the
dead. Also missing were a 5-
year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy
and a 2-year-old girl, all
believed to have been camping
with Olson at the church resort.
Bruce Woodford, Walker,
Minn., told of finding the
abandoned car of a motorist
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who had disregarded a warning
against heading into the torna
do area just south of Backus.
He couldn’t find the motorist.
Woodford also searched without
success for a man he said he
saw parachute from a light
plane caught in the storm.
High winds claimed a life in
Upper Michigan early today.
Leif Goodman, 11, Evanston,
111., was killed in Wells State
Park in Monominee County
when high winds knocked a tree
onto the tent where he was
sleeping with his father and two
brothers. Authorities said ao
tornoda was reported in the
area.
Homemaker
Fair Contest
Slated Here
A Georgia homemaker to re
present each of the counties in
the Sixth Congressional District
will be chosen and announced on
Tuesday, Aug. 19 at the Holiday
Inn in Griffin. Judging begins at
10:30 a m.
From the county winners a
congressional district Georgia
Homemaker will be chosen. She
wi'l compete with the other nine
congressional district winners
forth" title. “Georgia Homema
ker Os The Year”. The final
iudcine will bo held on October
Ist at the Southeastern Fair in
Atlanta, Ga.
Each of the county winners
win be the honored guest of the
Southeastern Fair at the annual
Homemaker Luncheon to be held
at the Southeastern Fairgrounds
on Georgia Homemaker Day,
Thursday, Oct. 2.
Th° congressional district win
ner and her husband will be spe
cial guests of the Southeastern
Fair on Oct. 1-2 and participate
in Georgia Homemaker Day,
Thursday, Oct. 2.
judges Fjii be; M r s. Doe Har
den of Zebulon, Ga., represent
ing the Georgia Home Econo
mics Association.
Mrs. Andrew Alexander of I r c-
Donough, Ga., representing the
Georgia Farm Bureau.
Mrs. Bobby G. Anderson of Jo
nesboro, Ga.. renresenting the
Georgia Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs.
Mrs. John H. Gregg of Con
cord. Ga., representing the Ge
orgia Extension Home Econo
mics Council.
The program is sponsored an
nually by the Georgia Home
Fconom’cs Association. Georgia
Farm Bureau, Georgia Fede
ration of Women’s Clubs, and
the Georgia Extension Home
Economics Council in coopera
tion with the Southeastern Fair
Association.