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By Quimby Melton
Sunday is “The Glorious
Fourth” and there will be many
sermons preached in keeping
with the 195th anniversary of
the birth of our nation.
And when communities cele
brate the day, on Monday,
Griffin will put on a show that
will be interesting, thrilling,
spectacular, and in keeping
with the occasion as will any
city in the country.
The Jaycees and Jaycettes
have worked and planned for
months for the celebration.
They have come up with a pro
gram “bigger and better” than
ever — and that’s not just a
claim made by a circus advance
man.
The opening event will be a
parade in downtown Griffin.
The 3rd Army Marching Band,
and several high school bands
will liven the parade, which will
move off at 10 a.m.
There will be floats galore
and the ever cooperative Shrine
Club will have clowns, trick
motorcycle riders and automo
biles to add color.
The Old Car Club and their
automobiles, many 50 or more
years old, will be another
feature.
At noon the celebration will
move to the Municipal Park.
Here there will be contests,
such as the Tom Sawyer Fence
Painting contest. This will be
opened to boys 9-11, to enter the
contestants must wear an
“authentic Tom Sawyer”
costume.
There will be a ball game bet
ween Griffin’s Senior Babe
Rutii All Star team and a tour
ing team from Memphis, Tenn.
And if one wants thrills,
plenty will be furnished by the
dty divers who will jump from
airplanes and land on the
Municipal Golf Course.
Then comes the evening pro
gram.
An auction of articles sent the
Jaycees by movie stars, star
athletes and leading office hold-*
ers — there will be one from the
White House — will start the
ball rolling.
Then will come the contest to
select “Miss Griffin”. At prior
Fourth of July celebrations the
beauty queen has been called
“Miss Fourth of July.” This year
the title has been changed and
now the winner will be “Miss
Griffin”. As such she will be
eligible to compete in the “Miss
Georgia” and the “Miss Amer
ica” contests. To enter the
“Miss Griffin” contest a young
lady must be at least 16 and not
over 21 years of age. The winner
will be crowned by Mary Ann
Crawley, winner of last year’s
“Miss Fourth of July” event.
In addition to choosing “Miss
Griffin,” a Junior “Miss
Griffin”, and a little “Miss
Griffin” will be selected. The
Junior Miss contest will be for
girls not younger than 12 and
not older than 15. The Little
Miss ages are 9-11.
There will be plenty of things
to enjoy here on Monday. Last
year’s parade and celebration
drew crowds estimated by
Jaycees and Griffin Police at
19,000. If the weather is good,
and indications are that it will
be, a crowd of 25,000 or more is
expected. Certainly the pro
gram arranged will draw that
many.
“And a Good Time Will Be
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“Religion is what men turn to
when they are in trouble that it
could have kept them out of.”
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Rhonda Cook, Griffin High cheerleader, receives first day cover from Ed
Chalkley, post office employe in Griffin, as the Post Office Department
became the U.S. Postal Service today. The Griffin Post Office along with
others over the nation held open house to mark the occasion.
Suit plans long campaign
Hal Suit indicated in Griffin
yesterday he plans a sustained
campaign for the governor’s
office. He said with the excep
tion of Carl Sanders, other
people who have served as
governor had histories of long
exposure to the public before
being elected.
Suit pointed out that Garland
Byrd was ahead in his bid for
the governor’s office before he
was sidetracked and Sanders
moved into the lead from his
post in the Georgia senate.
He said he plans to continue to
make a lot of speeches and see a
lot of people.
He was in Griffin to talk to the
Kiwanis Club.
Suit cast an eye at the
Russian leader weeps for cosmonauts
By JAMES O. JACKSON
MOSCOW (UPl)—Leonid I.
Brezhnev wept today before the
open coffins of the three Soyuz
11 cosmonauts, heroes who
brought glory to the Soviet
Union at the sacrifice of their
lives.
The Communist Party Gener
al Secretary, Premier Alexei N.
Kosygin and President Nikolai
V. Podgorny led tens of
thousands of mourners in the
lying-in-state at Soviet Central
Newest fire station has had 9 alarms
Griffin’s newest fire station
has had nine calls since it went
into operation April 24. It is
located on South Hill street near
Crescent Elementary school.
The City of Griffin has a
“five” rating for fire protection
according to the American
Insurance Association and the
Southeastern Board of Fire
Underwriters.
The rating is done on a scale
from one to ten. The higher the
number the better the rating.
Fire insurance companies set
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senatorial seat presently held
by David Gambrell, a Gov.
Jimmy Carter appointee.
Suit believes that the incum
bent will offer for election to the
post. He said Adjutant General
Ernest Vandiver surely would
run for the senate. Vandiver is a
former governor and was high
on the speculation list of those
Gov. Carter might pick to go to
the senate when Sen. Richard
Russell died.
Rep. Bill Stuckey of Eastman
was another potential candidate
Suit mentioned. Rep. Fletcher
Thompson and Macon Mayor
Ronnie Thompson are among
prospective candidates, Suit be
lieves at this stage of the game.
He pointed out that he didn’t
put Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox on
Army House.
Tears rolled down Brezhnev’s
cheeks as he gazed at the
bodies of Georgi Dobrovolsky,
Vladislav Volkov and Viktor
Patsayev. He brushed the tears
away with his hand, then with a
handkerchief.
The Soviet Union’s best
scientists examined autopsy
reports, the cosmonauts’ space
ship and flight records to try to
find the mysterious force that
killed them Wednesday on their
return from the Salyut orbital
their premiums for Griffin
according to the rating.
Chief Leonard Pitts feels the
“five” rating is average. He
says he has seen many im
provements in fire fighting
since he joined the forces in
1949. He has seen the city limits
increase nearly four times the
original three and a quarter
miles to 11 square miles.
“Much new equipment has
been added, plus courses in fire
fighting, fire prevention and
rescue,” the Griffin Chief
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, July 1, 1971
Commemorative stamps for the; occasion were being cancelled today in
connection with the revamped postal service. Alabama’s ‘Red’ Blount
headed the revision project. How he did it is related in a story on page 18
today.
the list.
“Nobody knows what he will
do,” Suit quipped.
Suit said he was concerned
about the posture of the United
States in world trade, par
ticularly concerning the decis
ion against the SST.
The United States used to be
the country to beat at the annual
air show in Paris until this year,
Suit observed. He said several
other countries including
Russia displayed aircraft
superior to that from the U.S.
Suit thinks it was a mistake
for the U. S. to halt the SST pro
ject. He said it could have been
finished and already money
spent on it would not have been
lost.
Suit believes the SST will
continued.
“We are constantly training
to keep our men informed in the
best methods of fire fighting
and fire protection,” the chief
said.
The three squads located
strategically throughout the
city on South Hill street, Fifth
and Solomon streets and North
Taylor have had a total of 200
hours of training. Each fireman
takes 105 hours of pump
training, six hours of fire
stream, gas mask, and rescue
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enter the world aircraft market
and deplored the fact that the U.
S. apparently had dropped out
of the race.
The Republican leader in
Georgia said he thinks the
government should underwrite
the loan for Lockheed. He noted
it was argued that the govern
ment should not subsidize busi
nesses but said this was a false
premace.
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation (RFC) already has
spent billions to help private
businesses and other federal
agences have done the same,
Suit said. So he couldn’t see that
helping Lockheed with a loan
guarantee would be setting a
precedent.
station.
The cosmonauts will be
buried Friday afternoon in the
Kremlin Wall following a state
funeral in Red Square. The U.S.
Embassy immediately post
poned its Independence Day
reception from Friday to
Monday.
The cosmonauts bodies had
been brought to Moscow from
Central Asia, to the army
house, and beginning at noon
thousands of Soviet citizens
began filing through to pay
their last respects.
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Draft office wait
Mrs. Irene Coussons,
executive secretary of the
Griffin Selective Service office,
says they are still in business,
though the nation’s draft law
expired today.
In a message to all local
boards sent by Mike Y. Hen
drix, state director, the Griffin
board was told to do no further
classification, send no more for
physical examinations or in
duction until further notice.
All regular registrants who
have been ordered for prein
duction in July are to have their
practice.
“When we get an alarm it
takes us about a minute to get
out of either of the stations,”
Chief Pitts continued. The men
have answered 189 calls so far
this year. Some 102 of the calls
would have been made by the
South Hill Station if it had been
in operation for the entire first
half of the year.
There were 379 calls in 1970
with a total of $58,184 fire loss.
The first five months of this
year show a total loss of
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Suit talks with Spalding Republican Women.
$38,553.71 in the city. “Os
course, one big fire could easily
top that figure,” Chief Pitts
added.
Using the 1970 data the Griffin
department provided protection
to the city on a per-capita basis
cost of only $2.35 per fire and
per person. The Griffin Chief
says the fire fighters traveled
1,148 miles in putting out fires
using some 21,275 gallons of
water this year.
A day for a Griffin fireman is
in shifts of 24 hours at a time.
Doug
made
wedding |
“I certainly want you present and sitting on the front
seat,” Jeanne Morris told her grandfather “Doug” Morris
when she announced she was to be married on June 30. ■£
And grandfather Morris said, “I’ll be there.” :•:•
But the weU known taxicab owner had no idea that he :•:•
would be in the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital on the #
day his granddaughter was to be married.
A few days before the ceremony Morris was told by his
physician that he must go to the hospital, and the day he
was to go was the day before his granddaughter was to be :j
married. *
Doug Morris immediately told his granddaughter of this
and how disappointed he would be.
“You will be there’” was her reply. “I’ll see if some
arrangements can be made.” g
And evidently the young lady was able to do so.
Monday afternoon Morris was admitted to the hospital.
Tuesday preliminary X-rays were taken and Morris put to g
bed to await the results. g
Wednesday morning Morris’ physician told him, “I $
understand you had planned to go to a wedding but that $
your being here inters ers. There is nothing we can do until §
after I have studied the X-rays. If you feel like it, get up g
change your hospital clothes for your wedding suit and go S
on. But be back here and in bed before midnight tonight”
Doug “felt like it”, got dressed and was present when g:
granddaughter Jeanne and Tommy Payton, of Sunny
Side, were married Wednesday night at Searcy Memorial ig
Church. Doug Morris was sitting on the front seat in the i-i
church. He was back in his hospital bed “before g
midnight.” g
orders cancelled. Examinations
and inductions will be resumed
when a new draft law is passed.
There will be no action taken
on expired postponements until
further notice. Those
registrants under special call
number 46 will continue to be
processed. Call number 46
consists of doctors and does not
apply to the Griffin area.
Mrs. Coussons will continue to
register men who are turning
18. The draft office will continue
to keep records and keep them
current.
Inside Tip
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Phone tap
ATLANTA (UPI)-Vice
Mayor Maynard Jackson
charged Wednesday that
someone is tapping his
telephone as well as the phones
of several city aidermen and he
called on Police Chief Herbert
Jenkins to order an in
vestigation.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
89, low today 67, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 69. Total
rainfall .03 of an Inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:39, sunset
tomorrow 8:45.
Chief Pitts in talking about the
semi-military organization says
every piece of equipment is
wiped clean every day both
bottom and top even if there has
been no fire.
“Every man has a duty to
perform in general
housekeeping because no help is
brought in for cleaning and
cooking,” the chief said. “There
is always something to keep a
fireman busy as well as being
on alert constantly for a fire
call,” he added.