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By Quimby M«h<m
Notice how many people are
whistling “Take Me Out to the
Ball Game”?
Baseball time is here. It won’t
be long before the Braves and
other big league teams begin
the race for the pennant, and
some college and high school
teams are already playing.
But one of the most important
features of baseball is just now
having “spring try-outs.” And
there is as much excitement at
these as one will find at any big
league training camp. Every
one of the “men” who are trying
out are “rookies” trying to
break into organized baseball —
organized that is into the Griffin
Little League circuits. Reports
today say that 202 “rookies”
have reported and will be given
tryouts. These 202 would-be
players are vieing for 85 vacant
spots on Little League teams
that are organized here. There
are two leagues, each with eight
teams. Each team can carry 15
boys on their roster, so there
will be 240 boys, from nine to 12
years of age, playing in the two
leagues this spring.
Those rookies now trying out
who do not break into the re
gular Little League will still
have a chance to play organized
baseball. After the tryout sea
son is over and 85 fortunate
rookies have been “signed” the
City Recreation Department
will take over and organize
what is known as a minor lea
gue so that every boy will have
a chance to play supervised
baseball.
One feature of Little League
is the number of grownups who
take an interest in the teams
and their games. Some of the
finest men in Griffin, most of
them young men but some of
them bordering on the “senior
citizen” class act as managers,
trainers and the like, giving of
their time, their talents and
their money to help make spr
ing and early summer a happy
and a helpful one for a lot of
youngsters.
All should be, and no doubt all
but a few uninformed people,
are proud of the Little League
here in our community.
Christopher Morley sees April
as the “starting signal” of
Spring. He once wrote “April
prepares its green light and the
world shouts “Go.”
Fuzzy Woodruff, greatly be
loved all-round reporter of days
gone by, but who was at his best
when writing of sports, said the
beginning of Spring “comes
rushing in when the umpire
shouts “Play Ball!”
And Edna St. Vincent Millan
called the month of April “an
idiot” writing “yearly down the
hill, comes like an idiot, April
bubbling and strewing flow
ers.”
And, still discussing April, the
month that baseball starts and
flowers bloom, remember this
is one of the shortest months in
the year. “Thirty days hath
September, April, June and
November; All the rest have
thirty-one excepting February
alone and that hath twenty
eight clear, and twenty-nine in
each leap year.”
We like April for “April show
ers bring May flowers”; and
baseball as well. As like the
flowers, we like baseball, and
we like to applaude Little Lea
gue baseball.
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SAIGON — Brigadier General
William R. Bond, commander
of the U. S. 199th Light Infantry
Brigade was killed in action in
Vietnam.
The Griffin Boys Club has found
a home. It will be housed in the
building which previously hous
ed the nursery in East Griffin
next to the elementary school In
that community. The Griffin
Exchange Club kicked off the
fund raising campaign to
finance the club’s operation
with a $2,000 donation. The Boys
Club sponsors here hope to raise
>20,000 for the first year’s
operation. They hope to get it
included in the United Fund
program next year. Shown are
(1-r) Paul Daniel, treasurer of
Exchange, Warren Scoville,
president of the Griffin Boys
club, Robert Sykes of Atlanta,
Southern Region director of
Boys Clubs; and Hugh Hunt of
Griffin, a leader in getting the
club started here.
ilhey're Getting Set For Schoofl
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As many five-year-old pre
school children learn to tell the
difference in colors and how to
use sissors, the Griffin-Spalding
County Cooperative Kindergar
ten Program completes its first
month of operation surrounded
by an aire of success.
“We have three classes of 20
youngsters and they’re all doing
well,” said Miss Nelle Tanner,
coordinator of the program for
the Griffin-Spalding County
School System.
The cooperative project,
funded by the First Baptist
Church, began classes Feb. 14.
Miss Tanner continued, “We
are trying to prepare these
children in this program so they
will be able to compete with
other first graders when they
enter public school in Septem
ber.”
Foster
Hearing
Wednesday
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI)-
Roger Foster, son of a promi
nent Griffin, Ga., physician and
a top student when he was in
high school, will be arraigned
Wednesday for murder in 1963
of a charter boat captain and
his son.
Foster, 24, was ruled insane
at the time of the slaying of
Capt. Douglas Trevor of the
charter boat Dreamgirl and his
son Edward. Foster was 17 at
the time of his sanity hearing.
He was declared sane and re
leased from the South Florida
Mental Hospital at Hollywood,
Fla., last February and brought
here for arraignment.
State Attorney David Blud
worth said he will ask that Fos
ter be tried for the deaths of
both Trevor and his son.
A Coast Guard cutter on April
11,1963, took Foster into custo
dy aboard the Dreamgirl off the
Cuban coast. Foster told author
ities he had slain the Trevors
with a knife off the Marquesa
Keys and sailed for Cuba.
Weather
WINDY
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70,
low today 57, high yesterday 78,
low yesterday 52, rainfall .55 of
an inch; sunrise tomorrow 6:28,
sunset tomorrow 6:52.
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Flood Hits Albany
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI)-Red,
swirling floodwaters from the
Flint River crept toward
a near-record crest today as an
orderly evacuation of homes in
low-lying areas continued.
The evacuation effort began
some 22 miles downriver late
Wednesday. The state patrol
shepherded a convoy of 20
trucks loaded with men and
equipment into Newton, a river
community of some 1,500.
TTie Newton business district
was evacuated and store mer
chandise moved into attics. Vol
unteers assisted people in se
curing their homes and aided
them in finding temporary shel
ter.
Newton Mayor Joel Forrester
said evacuations have been al-
■ln
“Few folks can trust their
mouths sufficiently to take
the risk of having evil
thoughts.”
Copyright 1970, by Frank A. Clark
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Thursday, April 2, 1970
Students were selected to par
ticipate in the project following
the recommendation of the
principals of the Shockley,
Moore, and Atkinson Elemen
tary Schools.
“This program is for children
who have not had kindergarten
experience of any type,” Miss
Tanner added.
Each class has one “profess
ional” or paid teacher in addi
tion to many volunteers.
These teachers are Mrs.
Frances Melton, Mrs. Leonard
Ixjkey and Mrs. Cecil Byram.
Teachers salaries and mater
ials for classroom use are pro
vided by funds from the First
Baptist Church while the
Griffin-Spalding County Schools
furnish the buildings.
“As I work with my children
(Moore Elementary), I find it is
more like teaching three or four
year olds, rather than five-year
olds,” said Mrs. Lokey.
Mrs. Lokey explained that
most of the children have no
idea of sharing with their peers:
“During o»ir Easter egg hunt,
I had one little boy who found 18
candy eggs while the girl with
him found only two.
“When I asked if he would
share some of his eggs with the
little girl he said ‘no’, they were
his.”
However, when the first boy
refused, another came up and
offered the little girl two of his
eggs, which gave her four but
left him with only two.
“Times like that make you
really think about what we are
trying to do,” Mrs. Lokey ex
claimed.
Ideally, the kindergarten
should last for an entire year to
most completed.
The Red Cross opened an
emergency shelter in a junior
high school gymnasium for Al
bany residents forced from
their homes by the river. Civil
Defense authorities said no
sandbagging operations were
being undertaken along the riv
er, which covered several Al
bany city streets.
Most of the people evacuated
here were from low-income dis
tricts near the riverfront. Au
thorities said the flood victims
generally shunned the Red
Cross facilities and moved in
with relatives or friends.
The third community affected
by the rising water was Radi
um Springs, a plush bedroom
area just south of here. Many
No School
Tomorrow
There will be no classes in the
Griffin-Spalding School System
tomorrow.
It will be a work day for
teachers who are in the Georgia
Education Association (GEA)
and teachers who are in the
Georgia Teachers and Educa
tion Association (GTEA) will
attend that organization’s
meeting in Atlanta.
All students in the system will
have a holiday.
Regular classes will resume
Monday.
of the homes evacuated in Ra
dium Springs are ranch-style,
waterfront houses.
The Weather Bureau predict-
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properly prepare a child to en
ter the first grade.
However, the cost of such a
year round operation would be
more than one organization
could handle, according to pro
ject
Commenting on the possibi
lity of a summer program, Miss
Tanner said, “Federal funding
may be possible if federal agen
cies are given an easier go of it
by then.”
Miss Tanner cautioned of be
ing overly optimistic about
federal monies.
“With federal money, we
could continue to operate
through the summer with the
church resuming financial res
ponsibility in the fall,” she said.
Co-chairmen of the project for
the First Baptist Church are
Mrs. James Strong and Mrs. J.
M. Cheatham.
ed the river would crest at 33
feet here and 34 feet at Newton,
only two feet short of the all
time flood record.
Vol. 98 No. 52
Twister Hits
Molena;
No Injuries
A baby twister roared
through Molena early this
morning, knocking the chim
neys off a nursing home build
ing where there are 50 patients.
No one was injured.
A small tool shed near the
building was wrecked. Some of
the wreckage ended up a quar
ter of a mile from the building in
treetops.
The heavy winds which lasted
a few minutes twisted and
damaged trees in the area, a
spokesman for the nursing
home said.
The home was a school build
ing before it was converted into
a nursing home.
Heavy rains followed the
storm.
Heavy gusts of wind hit the
Spalding County area, too,
about 5:30 this morning.
Sunny Side residents reported
tree damage from the winds.
Limbs were blown down in
several areas of Griffin early
this morning. Heavy rains
followed the gusts, estimated at
speed up to 25 miles per hour.
Winds and apparent tornadoes
did scattered damage in two
Georgia communities early to
day.
At Arlington in Calhoun Coun
ty, witnesses said a funnel
cloud swooped into the edge of
town shortly after dawn. The
bulk of the storm was centered
on land owned by George Fin
cher.
Three houses had their roofs
blown off or damaged, ajid
trees in the area were uprooted.
Fincher said the wind came
up and disappeared in no more
than 15 seconds. He said, “It
was gone almost before I knew
it came.”
Hart County sheriff’s deputies
reported heavy winds—also be
lieved to have been a tornado—
did scattered damage in a set
tlement some four miles north
of Hartwell.
That storm hit at 6:30 a.m.
One trailer was flipped onto its
back, a roof blew off one house
TRIVIA BOWL
BOULDER, Colo. (UPI)-The
University of Colorado will hold
its third annual Trivia Bowl
beginning next Monday to learn
just how much trivial informa
tion its students possess.
Students taking part will be
tested in 18 categories, includ
ing pop culture, pop literature,
pop music, sports “or any
information not considered
needed for the content, philoso
phy or ideology of otherwise
essential information,” a
spokesman said.
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and several large chicken
houses were destroyed.
An unconfirmed report said
one person was injured in the
storm and had been admitted to
Hart County Hospital.
Several large pine trees were
blown across U.S. 29, tempo
rarily blocking passage on the
main artery to Anderson, S. C.
Henry Gets
Half Million
For Water
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD)
has announced a half million
dollar grant for Henry County
for construction of a water
system.
Rep. Jack Flynt Jr. of Griffin
made the announcement. Henry
County is in the Sixth District
which he serves.
The grant will be for con
struction of the county system,
an elevated storage tank,
pumping station, meter station,
transmission mains and
distribution lines.
Development of the area is
hampered by the lack of a pub
lic water facility, HUD said.
The present systems are in '
isolated areas and provide only
local service to the communi
ties in which they are located
with little or rfo Service outside
the city limits, HUD said.
Stolen
Mail Bag
Found
A mail bag which had been
stolen from the Williamson Post
Office Tuesday night, was found
yesterday afternoon on Pine
Hill road, west of Griffin.
The Sheriff’s Office received
a call from two men who found
the mail sack in a ditch by the
road. Mail was scattered all
over the road.
Burglars entered the Will
iamson Post Office by breaking
a window Tuesday night. They
took the mail bag and a type
writer.
The GBI and FBI are assist
ing the Pike and Spalding
County Sheriff’s Departments
with their investigation.