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Garbage--
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
ATLANTA (UPI)-The gar
bage is piling up again in
DeKalb County, the bedroom
suburb of Atlanta where five
years ago the same problem
cost the county’s top official his
job.
Garbage collection has long
been the hottest political issue
in DeKalb County, one of the
fastest growing areas in the
nation.
But, suddenly, it’s never been
worse.
John Newsome, the county’s
public information officer tries
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HOMES FOR SALE
749 SPRINGER DR. — Owner being transferred, 3rd Ward
School area. Neat 3 BR home with partial basement. Excel
lent condition. See now at $17,500.00
1311 GREENBRIAR DR. — Nice 3 BR brick veneer home.
LR, panelled kitchen, tiled bath and paved drive. Lot Is
M x 223. Pay equity and assume loan. $12,000.00
405 NORTIISIDE DRIVE: Attractive brick home in imma
culate condition. Home features 4 BR, 2 full baths, built-in
kitchen with dishwasher, LR and DR combination and
family room. Located on extra large lot. Pay equity and
assume 51% loan. $22,500.00
141 SECOND AVE. — Neat Mock home located on large leve
lot. 3 BR, bath, LR, DR and kitchen. Paved road, city wate;
and gas. $11,500.00
320 MAIN ST.: Nice duplex already rented — $70.00. Good In
vestment. Pay equity and assume existing loan. $8,000.00
707 E. TINSLEY — Nice 5 room house with screened hi side
porch. Has nice work shop in back yard with 559 sq. ft. plus
double carport. Only $11,750
LOTS FOR SALE
PINELEA ROAD — Wooded lot - 120x300. $2,700.90
WESLEY DRIVE - Beautiful lot - 100x200. $3,700.00
GRANTLAND ROAD - Wooded lot - 148x300. $5,800.00
BROOK LANE: Exclusive lot - 110x228 $5,500.00
SUBURBAN HOMES
34 ACRES, 18 miles south of Griffin, 6 miles from 1-75.
Beautiful brick 4 bedroom home with central heat, air con
ditioned. 2 fireplaces and all built-ins. Double carport, 3
acre lake. Property is completely fenced and in permanent
pasture. Drilled well. See now. $42,000.00
2.2 ACRES — 2 mi. W. of Griffin, located on Lennox Circle.
Located on property is 2 BR mobile home partially fur
nished. Special features are drilled well, cook out shelter
with gas grill, running water and electricity. This property
is in good condition. $8,006.00
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to explain:
“The county commission
gave sanitation workers what
amounted to four-day holidays
over both Christmas and New
Year’s, then we lost another
three and a half days to cold
and ice.
“This meant our people have
been off more than half of the
time over a three-week period—
and now they’re two to three
weeks behind in their work.”
Buck Stops at Top
Newsome said a lot of people
have been quick to blame the
present County Commission
It’s Piling Up Again
In DeKalb County
chairman, Clark Harrison. Har
rison, who has been in office a
year, succeeded Brince Man
ning who won the post from the
late Charles Emmerich in 1964,
mainly on a promise to do
something about the garbage
problem.
“We’re in worse shape now
than we have been in more
than a year,” Newsome said.
“But, I think it’s fair to point
out that when the present ad
ministration took office a year
ago, it found collections were
almost as far in arrears as
they are now.”
As Newsome sees it, DeKalb
County, which has jumped from
250,000 to more than 400,000
population since the last cen
sus, is just growing too fast for
its garbage cans.
“We’ve got only one incinera
tor, and it’s being run 24 hours
a day every day, and one land
fill,” Newsome said. “We des
perately need more facilities.”
But the biggest single prob
lem appears to be finding men
to pick up the garbage in the
first place.
“Your average garbage col
lector doesn’t have a very high
sense of obligation,” Newsome
said rather sadly. “The only
day we’re ever sure of having
a full crew is Friday — because
that’s pay day.”
Newsome said the county has
been trying to make garbage
collecting as attractive as pos
sible, “but we’ve got to face it:
It’s just a dirty, smelly job
that has to be done.”
County officials have talked
about getting out of the garbage
collecting business altogether,
letting citizens get their debris
to the incinerator or land fill
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EXTRA NICE FARM, 18 ml. S. of Griffin, 50 acres of land,
30 acres open. Beautiful 21 acre lake. Good timber value.
Completely remodeled home on inside — presently receiving
SIOO.OO per year soil bank Income. Property has barn and
smokehouse, 28 pecan trees, good scuppemong vine and fig
trees. Tractor and mower included in sale. Couple retiring
and moving to city — See now at $27,500.00
41 ACRES —ll ml. W. of Griffin, Just off Hwy. 16. Located In
Spalding Co. Beautiful country home overlooking 81 acre
lake. Home has 2 large BR, ceramic bath, bofit-ta kitchen,
breakfast room, LR with fireplace, large den with stone fire
place, sun porch also has stone patio and carport. Special
features are carpeting and central heat, lush pastures, view
of 81 acre lake. This property is something to see! <47.tM.tt
I ACRE — « ml. E. of McDonougn. Located on Fincher
ville road. 6 room frame house in excellent
condition. $8,900.M
II ACRES — 5 mi. W. of Griffin, 3 BR brick home, LR, kit
chen, ceramic bath. $9,500.00
50 ACRES — 5 mi. N. of Griffin on Hwy. 92. Beautiful brick
home with LR, DR, family room with fireplace, built-in kit
chen, 2 baths, and 3 large BR, an abundance of closet space,
carport and patio. Good frontage on Hwy. 92 and excellent
lake site. $55,000.00
ACREAGE FOR SALE
153 ACRES, located 18 miles S. E. of Griffin, 6 miles to 1-75.
All under fence, 70 acres in permanent pasture, balance in
cuttable timber. Plenty running water through property.
Good barn. Property has long paved road frontage. Move
fasti $220 per acre
176 ACRES — 2 mi. S. of Griffin —2OO yards from 4-lane to
Atlanta. This property is only 1 mi. from Griffin’s finest
residential area. Beautiful open and wooded land. 7% financ
ing available for 10 years. SBSO per acre
100 ACRES — 9 mi. W. of Griffin — Spring fed stream mean
dering through property, 8 acre lake site. 1 wooded, 1 open,
old frame house. 1.800 ft. of road frontage. Pay equity and
assume 7% loan for 10 years. $350 per acre
62 ACRES 19 mi. S. of Griffin (Lamar Co.) — Completely
fenced, half open, beautiful 5 acre lake. 11 mi. to 1-75. Good
paved and dirt road frontage. Owner will finance with 20%
down. $30,000.00
“as best they can.”
“But people aren’t too con
cerned at the moment with our
future plans,” Newsome con
tinued. “All they know is that
we’re supposed to be picking up
their garbage twice a week and
right now it’s piling up in their
yards.”
There’s been a move on in
DeKalb County, some say with
Manning’s backing, to have
Harrison recalled.
If the garbage piles much
higher...
Volcano climbers
get a warning
MANILA (LJ PI) — Authorities
have warned local mountain
climbers against attempting
8,284-foot Mayon volcano dur
ing the rainy season. They said
a 21-year-old university student
failed to heed the warning,
slipped on the wet ground at
6,000-foot level and rolled down
to his death.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
No wonder they gave us
free coffee for an hour from
the machine the other morn
ing. The candy-vending giz
mo kept our quarters for the
rest of the day.
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An old-timer is a per
son who can tell you what
a breakfast nook was.
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For young marrieds who
furnish their new home on
rsso
the installment plan, the
billing comes after the coo
ing.
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One of the best ways to
serve leftovers is to rela
tives.
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A CENTURY LATER- The charred hulk of the never-completed
Confederate ram is displayed at the Confederate Naval Museum
at Columbus. The ship, burned by Federal forces, sank in the
Chattahoochee River and was raised a hundred years later.
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TOUR
GEORGIA
COLUMBUS, Georgia
(PRN) - The C.S.S. Muscogee
never fired a shot in anger, nor
made startling headlines
during the Civil War, but
today, the charred hulk of the
ship is arousing public interest
in the new role of a tourist
attraction.
This quirk of fate began
when Union Troops burned
the incomplete gunboat,
designed to be one of the most
formidable ramtype ships in
the Confederate Navy. When
they captured Columbus in
1865, they set the vessel a fire.
It burned for 12 days adrift on
the Chattahoochee River. She
eventually sank some 25-odd
miles below the city.
The Muscogee was designed
as a twin propeller, ironclad
steamboat. Approximately
200 feet long, she was built to
mount four seven-inch guns
and two 6.4 inchers. Records
assembled by the Georgia
Historical Commission show
construction started on the
gunboat in late 1862. A
launching attempt failed in
December, 1863, and the
scarcity of iron plates delayed
completion until December
22, 1864, when she was
successfully launched. The
gunboat was still being fitted
75 ACRES — 18 mi. S. of Griffin, located on paved road with
11 acre pond. Mostly fenced, approximately 10 acres open
land. Owner will split in two tracts. Good Investment. Some
financing available. $l9B per acre
145 ACRES — 30 ml. SW of Griffin. All wooded, rolling land,
nice stream. Good investment at $l5O per acre.
49 ACRES — 6 mi. S. of Griffin — This is perfect for small
cattle farm. Completely fenced', 3-4 in pasture, stream
meandering through property and long paved road frontage.
SSOO per acre.
46 ACRES —l2 ml. S. W. of Griffin — completely fenced, 90%
open in permanent pasture. Pond site. Just off paved road
with good road frontage. 4 room tenant house, possible air
strip. Located 1 mi. from new country club. 20% down and
balance for 10 years. $18,400.00
571 ACRES — 5 mi. S. of Griffin (Spalding Co.) — Mostly
wooded land, good pond site, good growth of pines. $16,500.00
40 ACREa — 8 mi. W. of Griffin with 4 room frame house,
nice stream through property. Mostly wooded land. $15,500.00
15 Mi. S. of Griffin — 10 acre wooded tracts with good road
frontage—lß tracts to select from. Only $350 per acre.
15 Mi. S. of Griffin — 5 acres wooded tracts with good road
frontage. 6 tracts to select from. $400.00 per acre
60 ACRES, 18 mi. S. W. of Griffin. Long road frontage. 4-acre
lake site. Cuttable pulpwood. $250 per acre
310 ACRES, 40 mi. S. of Atlanta, 4 ml. from Alvaton, Ga.
Property fronts 1 mi. on good sandy road. 150 acres open
land. Lake site. $4,000 in pulpwood. 5 room frame house. 36-
acre cotton allotment. Can be bought in 2 tracts. Only $250
per acre.
40 ACRES, 10 mi. W. of Griffin. Just off Hwy. 16, this tract
of land is located in Spalding Co. with a road on 2 sides. Also
has excellent lake site. S6OO per acre
250 ACRES, 7 Mi. W. of Griffin, less than % ml. from William
son City Limits. Property is located in Spalding and Pike Co.,
100 acres in open land balance in timber. Plenty of water.
Owner will finance this property at 7% interest $325 per acre
out when General James H.
Wilson and his Union troops
captured Columbus and the
Muscogee.
For nearly a century, the
warship that never saw action
lay on the bottom of the
Chattahoochee River. The
Muscogee’s exact location was
discovered during a low water
period in 1960.
Local residents got the idea
of raising the ancient gunboat
and returning it to Columbus.
A coordinated salvage
operation began enlisting the
aid of local organizations, the
Georgia Historical Commission
and Georgia’s governor. It was
no easy task.
Because the hulk had
become filled with sand and
debris, it was decided to float
the Muscogee in two sections.
The stem was raised first, and
was installed at what is now
the Confederate Naval
Museum operated by the
Georgia Historical
Commission.
Today, you can study the
Muscogee’s charred hulk on
display at the museum. The
timbers, surprisingly well
preserved, are held together by
stout spikes, many of which
have been twisted by the fire’s
intense heat.
Griffin Daily News
Religion In America
Prayer Os Indian
Reflects Concepts
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
White latecomers to the
Western Hemisphere, since the
time of Columbus, have tended
to look down on Indians as a
primitive people with a primi
tive concept of God.
This hoary libel would not
have endured if white men had
made a real study of Indian
religion.
But they were so busy
preaching to the “savages”
whose continent they were
raping that they rarely stopped
to wonder whether Red men
might have something worth
while to say to them in return.
Talks Instead of Listening
How much the white man
have missed by talking instead
of listening is indicated by a
book which was first published
way back in 1932 but only
recently came to my attention.
Published by the University
of Nebraska Press under the
title, “Black Elk Speaks,” it is
a compendium of spiritual and
secular wisdom from the lips of
Ben Black Elk, a Sioux Indian
philosopher who lives on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in
South Dakota.
It contains a prayer which
Black Elk likes to say at night,
while standing on a high hill
and facing West. In this prayer,
God is addressed as “grand
father” because that is the
term of greatest respect known
to the Sioux Indians.
Here is Black Elk’s prayer,
reproduced by permission:
“Grandfather, great myster
ious one, you have been always,
and before you nothing has
been.
“There is nothing to pray to
but you.
“The star nations all over the
universe are yours, and yours
50 ACRES, 9 ml. W. of Griffin, excellent road frontage, open
and wooded land. Lake site and old frame house. 7% financ
ing. $350 per acre
71 ACRES — 5 miles West of Griffin, growing timber. Good
area to build nice home. $440.00 per acre
37 ACRES, 16 ml. S. of Griffin. Open and wooded. Nice
stream, paved road frontage. $9,256
57 ACRES — 6 mi. N. E. of Griffin, 7 mi. to 1-75. Prime for
development. Has 10 acre lake well stocked. Heavy timber
around lake. $36,000.00
90 ACRES — 19 mile* west of Griffin. 1,309 ft. paved road
frontage, 3,000 ft dirt road frontage. 50 acres open land, lake
site and lay of land perfect for 2,000 ft. strip. Owner will
finance 29% down for 10 years. $33,000.00
125 ACRES, 9 mL from 1-75 — AR under fence. 5 acre pond.
Excellent road frontage. Owner financing 20% down balance
at 7%. $49,000
75 ACRES — 2 mi. W. o. Griffin. Beautiful rolling land, 3-4
in pasture. All under fence. Building site overlookin"
pastures of adjacent cattle farm. Small pond stocked' for
fishine. This orooertv will enhance in value since it has
water and gas 1 mile from property. New 4-lane 2 ml. away.
New country club being built close by. 6% loan on property
now. $550 per acre
154 ACRES, 8 mL S. of Griffin. Good road frontage, beautiful
pond site. $259 per acre
10 ACRES, 7 mL S. of Griffin, nice site to build a home. Ex,
cellent road frontage. $5,009
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
Valuable commercial property located on W. Taylor st. right
in the middle of all the action. Lot size is 75’ x 210’.
$33,000.00
6 ACRES located just oft 4 lane by-pass. in
clude good building and drilled well. Good location for Mobile
Home Park or Restaurant. $12,000.00
Friday, January 16, 1970
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are the grasses of the earth.
“Day in, day out, you are the
life of things— •
“You are older than all need,
older than all pain and prayer.
“Grandfather, all over the
world the faces of living ones •
are alike. In tenderness they
have come up out of the
ground.
“Look upon your children •
with children in their arms,
that they may face the winds
and walk the good road to the a
day of quiet.
“Teach me to walk the soft
earth, a relative to all that live.
“Sweeten my heart, and fill «
me with light.
“Give me strength to under
stand and the eyes to see.
“Help me, for without you, I •
am nothing.”
If Black Elk’s concept of God
is primitive, we should all be so
primitive. •
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