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Rev. Buice
Rev. Buice To
Present Concert
, At DeVotie
i The Rev. Jack Buice will pre-
1 sent a Christmas concert at
I DeVotie Baptist Church Sunday
I evening at 7 p.m.
I Assisting the Rev. Buice in
1 the concert will be Mrs. Buice
i and their two daughters.
I Following this service a
| special program for the young
i people will be presented in the
i fellowship hall of the church.
The Rev. A. C. Stephens is
i pastor.
About Town
i ROTARY CLUB
The Griffin Music Club will
1 present the program for the
Griffin Rotary Club Thursday
i at noon, at its regular meeting
1 held at the Elks Club.
; Stork Club
LITTLE MISS POSEY
I Mr. and Mrs. Ronald T. Posey
! of Route Two, Parrish street,
< Griffin, announce the birth of a
daughter on Dec. 9 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
; Bill Gordy
Doing Fine
, Bill Gordy, 17-year-old son of
, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Gordy of
j Route Three, was reported in
( excellent condition following
, open heart surgery in Birming
j *ham, Ala.
, This was the second heart
, operation for the Spalding
Junior High student.
J He is in room 250 at Universi
i ty Hospital in Birmingham.
s Rev. Fields Accepts
s Interim Post
The Rev. Richard Fields has
’ accepted a call as interim
pastor of the Vineyard Baptist
Church. He formerly was pastor
’ of Fairview Baptist Church
■ where he served four years.
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Wednesday, Dec. 10,1969
Coroner’s Jury
Rules Death Was
Caused By Blows
A coroner’s jury, late yester
day afternoon, ruled that the
Nov. 23 death of John Robert
Hogan, 85, of Route Two,
Chehaw road, was due to multi
ple cerebral hemorrhaging
caused by a blow or blows on the
head and inflicted by a person
or persons unknown.
The inquest, under the
direction of Coroner Emmett E.
Chappell, was held at the county
jail and four witnesses were
heard.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Sto
well Jr., Hogan’s daughter and
son-in-law, told of her father’s
phoning her about 8:30 on the
night of Nov. 22 and asking
them to come, saying he had
been beaten and robbed.
Hogan lived alone and as he
was partially paralyzed, used a
wheelchair. His home is some
150 yards from the Stowell’s.
They said when they arrived
at the Hogan home, the front
screen was broken and the door
open. Mr. Hogan was huddled
on the floor by the phone table.
His face was swollen and
bruised and he was conscious
and was able to say that he had
been knocked out of his wheel
chair and robbed of his wallet
containing some S2OO.
Deputy David Bridges testi
fied that Hogan was un
conscious when he and Deputy
Tommy Whaley arrived about
9:15 p.m. and was not able to
make a statement to them.
Mr. Hogan was carried by
ambulance to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital and
died at 3:20 the next morning.
Dr. Carlos A. Zevallos,
pathologist at the Hospital who
performed the autopsy, testified
that death was caused by a blow
or blows on the head.
Sheriff’s officials said that
several persons have been
questioned and their in
vestigation of the robbery-mur
der is continuing.
Hospital
The following persons have
been admitted to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital:
Vanie A. Kimbell, Mrs. Betty
Smith, Mrs. Charlotte Pope,
Wyman Hand, Mrs. Sallie Wal
ker, Frank Coleman, F. M.
Few, Mrs. Oline Zellner, Ben
jamin W. Studdard 111, Julius
Crowder, Tommy E. Helton,
Mrs. Sherry Pierce.
The following were dis
missed:
Walter D. Morgan, Victor
Blackmon, Mrs. Donna Stonica
and baby, Terrie Sue LeCroy,
Ernest Smith, Mrs. Lottie
GREER, Mrs. Janith English,
Clarence Fuller, Oscar Lee
Harris, Mrs. Mattie Ogletree
and baby, Mrs. Gladys Rosser
and baby, Mrs. Charlotte Willis,
James O’Neal, Mrs. Betty Wil
son, Mrs. Florrie Bates, Ernest
R. Akin, Mrs. Willie Pick,
Henry Jackson Sr.
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Personal
Hand
ATLANTA (UPI)-State Rep.
Bob Harrison of St. Marys who
introduced legislation for devel
opment of Cumberland Island,
said Tuesday his law firm had
worked for the company which
wants to develop the island.
Harrison said his firm had
done legal work for Sea Pines
Plantation Co. for more than a
year but said he did not know
that “I have not done anything
for them personally.”
Harrison’s response came af
ter Joseph Fraser, vice presi
dent of the Sea Pines Plantation
Co., said at a State Coastal Is
landsStudyCommission hearing
that Harrison had introduced
two bills to create a Camden
County Recreation Authority.
The authority would have the
right to condemn large tracts of
land on privately owned coastal
islands and to turn them over to
private developers. The bills are
still pending.
Sea Pines is the firm that
converted Hilton Head Island in
South Carolina into a plush re
sort and it has purchased more
than 3,000 acres of Cumberland
Island. Fraser said his firm is
conducting engineering studies
on developing its portion of the
island.
’ CongressmanWilliamStuckey
plans a bill authorizing the fed
eral government to take over
the island but has not yet in
troduced the measure.
A number of persons testified
at the hearing in favor of the
federal government taking over
the island to make it a national
pleasure park, including former
State Sen. Jimmy Carter, who is
expected to run for governor
next year.
Seek The Truth
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPI) -
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
Army chief of staff, said Tues
day night America owes it
to her fighting men in Vietnam
to sort truth from fiction in the
alleged My Lai massacre.
“Let us not rush into judging
the accused,” he told a Cham
ber of Commerce banquet.
“Only the courts should deter
mine guilt or innocence in re
gard to the law.”
Judge Refuses
Autopsy
On Kopechne
By THOMAS J. MCINTYRE
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (UPI)
—A county judge today refused
a request from Massachusetts
authorities for an autopsy on
the body of Mary Jo Kopechne,
who died last summer when an
auto driven by Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy plunged into a tidal
pond. ■
Judge Bernard J. Brominski
of Luzerne County said there
was nothing to indicate Miss
Kopechne, 28, a secretary and
Kennedy family campaign
worker, died by “other than
asphyxiation by immersion. ’ ’
The judge, noting the request
for the autopsy had referred to
blood on the victim’s blouse and
in her mouth and nose, said
“the only positive testimony as
to these was that this evidence
was wholely consistent with
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By United Press International
FIRE CODE VIOLATION
CHICAGO (UPI)-A team of
inspectors conducted a surprise
visit to Chicago’s Playboy
Building Tuesday. They said
they found several violation of
the fire code.
For example, they said, a
door in the Playroom bar,
clearly marked with an “exit”
sign, led into the Playboy
bunnies’ dressing room.
PLEADS GUILTY
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (UPI)-
Paul Walker, 72, pleaded guilty
in Municipal Court Tuesday on
a charge of tossing a brick
through a plate glass window at
the home next door.
Walker said he took the
action because the rock music
drums of his neighbor, William
Fernandez, 19, offended his
“noise tolerance.”
NOT HIS DAY
ISLE OF SHEPPEY, England
(UPI)—For runaway prisoner
Ivan Lewis, it just wasn’t his
day. He hopped a train he
thought would take him to
London and freedom.
It took him back to the Isle
of Sheppey, where he had
escaped from Eastchurch Pri
son.
The 21-year-old prisoner gave
up in despair.
SPONTANEOUS GESTURE
LONDON (UPI)-A Russian
patrol vessel was shadowing the
British aircraft carrier Eagle
as part of the cold war—but it
was Trafalgar Day, a British
holiday, last Oct. 21.
So, the Biritish Ministry of
Defense disclosed Tuesday, the
British troops sent one of their
number by winch over to the
Soviet vessel—and presented
the Russians with a bottle of
whisky—“as a spontaneous
gesture.”
Murder Links?
By JACK V. FOX
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-An
investigation is being conducted
into possible links between the
seven Tate-Laßianca slayings
and the Nov. 5 stabbing deaths
of two young Church of
Scientology members, police
said today.
The disclosure came as
Charles Manson, the pied piper
of a hippie cult accused in the
Sharon Tate-Laßianca killings
was returned here Tuesday
night for arraignment on seven
murder charges. Manson, 35,
who will appear in court
Thursday, was brought from
Independence, Calif., where he
was held on auto theft charge.
He wore fringed buckskin
clothing and moccasins.
Three other members of
“The Manson Family” were to
be arraigned today.
death by drowning.” The
accident occurred July 18 on
Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.
Noted Discrepancies
In a 14-page opinion, Bromin
ski said testimony at a two-day
hearing here last October noted
discrepancies in Kennedy’s
televised account and a police
report of the accident. He said
these “do not alter the
determination of the cause of
death.”
The girl’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Kopechne of
Berkeley Heights, N.J., had
fought the autopsy request.
They told a news conference
after Brominski’s ruling they
were “very pleased by the
decision.”
Mrs. Kopechne, speaking in a
low voice, said “I’ll come up
here very often to see my
daughter. I could never have
gone to that cemetery (at
nearby Larksville) if I knew it
had been disturbed. I’ll be
back.”
Kopechne said the fact that
an inquest will be held in
Massachusetts into the death of
his daughter, an only child,
“does not disturb us. We are
waiting patiently for the
inquest.”
Joseph Flanagan, the parents’
attorney, said he was negotiat
ing with an insurance company,
which he declined to identify,
concerning the possibility of
filing a “wrongful death action
civil suit” for the family’s loss.
Not Surprised
In Massachusetts, Edgartown
Police Chief Dominic J. Arena,
who investigated the accident,
said “I can’t really say that
I’m surprised” by the ruling.
He said he felt the judge in
Edgartown was “anxious” to
complete an inquest as soon as
possible.
Brominski’s ruling, which
climaxed a 17-week legal fight
over the autopsy proposed by
Massachusetts District Attor
ney Edmund S. Dinis, said “it
is the conclusion of this court
that the facts presented herein
are insufficient to support a
finding of the cause of death of
Mary Jo Kopechne other than
asphvxiationby an immersion.”
Apartments
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street instead of allowing only
east bound traffic on the street
at present.
Mayor Dutton said the matter
would be referred to the Police
Department’s traffic division
for study and a recommenda
tion.
Fire Damages House
The Griffin Fire Department
answered an alarm yesterday
at 12:15 p.m. to the residence of
Mrs. Lizzie Coleman, 302
Tuskegee avenue.
One room and its contents
were damaged by fire ands fire
men reported cause was un
determined.
Legals
LEGAL 4045 —
GEORGIA,
SPALDING COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that
Mrs. Hessle F. Butler as admin
istrator of estate of Herman
Gunter has applied to the Ordi
nary of said County for leave to
sell land belonging to the Estate
of Herman Gunter for the pur
pose of paying debts of Estate
and distribution to heirs.
Said application will be heard
at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary for said County, to
be held on the first Monday in
January, 1970.
George C. Imes, Ordinary.
Fried £kicken
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Georgia News
Gillis Bill Modified
ATLANTA (UPI)-Unfavor
able reaction from State High
way Board members modified a
proposed bill Tuesday which
would have given Highway Di
rector James L. Gillis the same
legal power as the entire board.
“The previous bill made it un
necessary for the board ever to
meet as I see it,” Atlanta board
member Alex Smith said. Smith
also voiced his disapproval at a
board meeting Tuesday of other
board members’ action in send
ing the original bill to legis
lators and lobbying in its be
half.
The modified proposal which
received the board’s approval
said Gillis would be able to ex
ercise only those powers dele
gated him by the entire board.
Under th® original bill, Gillis
Firestone Strike
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI)-About
half the 800 production workers
at the new Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co. plant walked off
their jobs late Tuesday night
after local contract negotiations
stalled.
Picket lines were up today,
but observers said some em
ployes were crossing them and
going to work.
A company spokesman said
negotiations with Local 887 of
the United Rubber Workers on
several issues had been going
on for several days, but prog
ress “is virtually stalled. There
are a number of key issues left
to be resolved.
“The company made a very
Both In His Favor
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)-Gov.
Lester Maddox says two things
can stop him from being gov
ernor again next time—a heart
beat or a court decision—and he
believes “both of them are go
ing to be in my favor.”
Maddox, whose court chal
lenge to the constitutional pro
vision that would keep him
from succeeding himself gets
its first airing Thursday, was
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would have been able to oper
ate independently of the board.
The question of Gillis’ power
came up when Smith charged
his current position was illegal.
Attorney General Arthur Bolton
ruled that a clarification of Gil
lis’ position should be made by
the 1970 General Assembly.
Previously, Gillis had been
granted power to approve road
contracts when the board was
not in session, but under the at
torney general’s ruling approval
of all projects by the entire
board was required.
Some, however, considered
the bill academic, noting that
Gillis already has the backing
of a majority of the board and
has been delegated all the pow
er he has requested.
substantial offer which provides
for inclusion of all Firestone
employes under the master con
tract in effect at other Fire
stone plants,” added personnel
manager R. E. Hutchens.
The union said it was striking
in protest of “wage inequities”,
seniority and other matters. It
was the second strike at the
plant in recent months. On Oct.
8, workers walked out for three
days to protest the dismissal of
four employes and alleged un
fair working conditions.
The plant, which began opera
tion last year, has about 1,000
workers and recently announced
an expansion that would in
crease the work force by 500.
here Tuesday for the annual
Christmas motorcade of
mayors bringing gifts to
Gracewood Hospital patients.
“If I get a favorable court de
cision,” said Maddox, “I feel
confident I will be the next gov
ernor. And I would suggest to
the others who are seeking that
office that they may as well re
tire.”
Pets & Livestock
FOR SALE: Pekingnese pups, 7
'weeks old, AKC, wormed and
shots, SIOO. AKC Boston Terriers
for Christmas, 228-1459.
FOR SALE: 4 Cocker Spaniels
of top breed. 227-7502 or 227-
1026.
Poodle, AKC, black female, mi
niature, year old. SSO. 358-2712.
AKC Irish Setters, $35; AKC Pe
kingnese, $100; Purebred Siame
se kittens, sls. 227-8843.
HORTON’S KENNELS
Puppies for Christmas. Peking
ese, rare white and colors, min
iature Schrauzers, Cocker Sp
aniels, Toy Poodles, Chihuahuas,
Alaskan Malamutes, Samoyed
and German Shepherds. Phone
227-6332, 227-3823.
Welsh pony with saddle, brid
dle, cart and Harness, SIOO.
Phone 227-3823 or 227-6332.
Toy Poodles, all colors, stud
service. Puppies and grooming.
358-2712.
WANTED: Male, black Cocker
Spaniel, 4 months- 1 year old.
227-
FOR SALE: Shetland pony,
bridle and saddle. Call 227-0727
after 6:00 p. m.
Lost & Found
LOST: White male cat with
black spot on head and nose.
Children’s pet. Call 227-2073 af
ter Sunday night.
LOST: Young German Shepherd
dog, Nov. 28, vicinity of Will
iamson. Reword. 227-1108.
I.OST OR STOLEN: German
Police dog, child's pet. Phone
228-
LOST: Model 66 Poulan bow
type chain saw near Griffin. Re
ward. 227-1805.
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