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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
An otherwise Glorious Fourth
celebration was marred by four
accidential deaths in the three
county area patrolled by the
Griffin Post of the State Depart
ment of Public Safety. Two of
those killed were residents of
Griffin, the other two were a
couple from College Park.
And to add to the long Fourth
weekend toll was the drowning
of a Griffin man at a beach near
Panama City, Florida.
The Griffinites killed in the
automobile accident were
Lawrence Finney and his 11-
year-old daughter, Debbie.
The man who drowned at the
Florida beach was Noah Allen
Smith, 26, who was drowned
when he attempted to rescue a
woman who had been swept off
her feet by the strong undertow.
His attempt was of no avail.
Both the heroic Griffinite and
the woman drowned.
The Fourth of July celebra
tion, held Monday, July sth, was
highlighted by a Parade, led by
the Third Army Marching
Band, the selection of Miss
Griffin and a great display of
fireworks. Barbara Ann Clark
was chosen Miss Griffin, Dar
lene Bellingham, Junior Miss
Griffin; and Kimberly Hamrick
was chosen Little Miss Griffin.
There were 53 contestants in
this classification.
The three young ladies chosen
in the Fourth pagentry were not
the only ones who were honored.
For the City Commission, on
Tuesday night, honored the city
chaplain, the Rev. Jim Kelley.
It was the 57th anniversary of
tills entering the ministry in the
Methodist Church and his 50th
wedding anniversary.
Total assets of the three
banks in Griffin at the close of
the first six months of 1971 was
almost $92 Million. (Good Even
ing remembers when he moved
to Griffin in 1925 there were five
banks here and their total
assets were less than 89-
million).
Governor Jimmy Carter an
nounced Sept. 26 as the date for
a special session of the General
Assembly.
Some 30 members of the State
Senate, all friendly to Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox met in Atlanta
to discuss a change in Senate
leadership. Their target was
Senator Al Halloway who
currently is both Democratic
majority leader and Governor
Carter’s majority leader.
Mayor Sam Massell announc
ed an “anonymous donor”,
believed to be a foundation, has
given a solid block of property
in downtown Atlanta to be the
site of a city park or a new
Municipal Library. This block is
in die heart of the “Five Points”
area and is estimated to be
worth as much as 110-Million.
Mayor Massell has not taken
Good Evening into his confi
dence and told him which of
several foundations was the
donor. But we venture the guess
it was the Woodruff Foundation.
This is the foundation that
recently endowed a new library
for Emory University. Bob
Woodruff, former Coca Cola
president, has long been a Be
liever in, a Booster for, and a
Builder of both Atlanta and
Georgia.
President Nixon certified the
26ft Amendment to the Con
stitution that lowers the voting
age to 18. Georgia started the
ball rolling in this direction
when, during the administra
tion of Governor Ellis Arnall,
fte age limit was lowered to 18.
American casualties in South
Vietnam were 23. Some features
of tiie North Vietnam peace
proposals were rejected but
Paris negotiators continued to
discuss other features.
Vice President Spiro Agnew
and Presidential advisor Henry
Kissinger continued their visits
to “trouble spots” in the Orient;
and Chile had another serious
earthquake.
People receptive to Gospel at camp
JACKSON, Ga. — A family
rolls into Indian Springs State
Park to camp out for a few
days.
A college boy strolls up and
begins talking about camping
and soon has gotten adquainted
with the children in the family.
Richard Darby, the college
student, seems to know his way
around this mid-Georgia family
camping site. He sounds like a
veteran staff member.
Actually, Richard, from
Baton Rouge, La., is spending
the summer in the Jackson area
under the supervision of the
Kimbell Baptist Association.
He and Teresa Fahr are
spending 10 weeks as student
summer missionaries for the
Southern Baptist Home Mission
Board and the Georgia Baptist
Convention state missions pro
gram.
Mornings may find Richard
and Teresa on a nature trail
with children. This gives mom
and dad a couple of hours to
relax, and the parents seem to
Fire death
probed here
Griffin Police and firemen to
day continued an investigation
into the fire death of Alfred L.
Whitaker, Jr., 27, of 322 North
Fifth street.
Firemen were called to the
home at about 3:30 Sunday
morning. Other occupants
escaped fte flames but Whi
taker perished in them, in
vestigators said.
Police said that the victim
suffered a contusion on the back
of the head. They said it ap
parently was caused by some
thing blunt.
Police said that at this point in
their investigation, no motive
pointing to foul play had beep
found. However, their in
vestigation of the death continu
ed.
The victim was employed by
a pipeline firm in Jonesboro.
There was no electric power
on in the house when the blaze
started, investigators said.
They speculated that a possible
cause of the fire might be a
kerosene lamp near a card
board wall.
The front house was gutted,
firemen said.
Besides the victim, those in
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appreciate it.
The work at Indian Springs is
part of a growing concept of
resort ministries which Georgia
Baptists are encouraging,
according to the Rev. Archie G.
Mayo from the Convention's
cooperative missions depart
ment.
People come to resort areas
to escape the rush of business
and the noise of television.
Richard has found people
receptive to Gospel tracts or
Bible portions in the camping
area. Perhaps they have a little
more time to think when the TV
isn’t blaring.
“I haven’t found any of the
literature lying around,” he
says. “They usually read it and
seem to keep it.”
Teresa, who is from Para
gould, Ark., uses her guitar to
teach songs to the kids in
tiie park. The instrument also
comes in handy when sne and
Richard lead services in area
churches on Sundays.
The two college students are
the house when the fire started
included:
Pearline Evans, about 60, the
original renter of the house;
Wilburt Evans, about 17,
Jimmy Evans, about 25;
brothers of the victim; and
Mattie Pearl Walker, about 26,
a cousin who was spending tiie
night at the home.
Police said Jimmy Evans
awoke first and woke up his
mother. They left the house
through the front room. Wilburt
Evans also ran out of the front
of the house.
Police said Wilburt Evans
attempted to break down the
back door to get the victim out
of the fire. He was unable to do
so because the door was locked,
police said.
Mattie Pearl Walker escaped
the burning dwelling through a
bathroom window.
Survivors of the victim in
clude his widow, Mrs. Mattie P.
Whitaker, his mother, Mrs.
Charlie L. Harvey; father,
Alfred A. Whitaker, all of
Griffin.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, July 12, 1971
Ministries at Indian Springs
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Star gazers
ATLANTA (UPI) —Residents
of an Atlanta apartment build
ing awakened today to find
what they thought were two
bodies in the courtyard of the
building.
They called police, who re
sponded with six patrol cars,
two motorcycle officers and an
ambulance.
As a crowd of residents and
newsmen looked on, a police
man shook one of the inert fig
ures. A startled young man
jumped to his feet. He ex
plained that he and his girl
friend had fallen asleep last
night while watching the stars.
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Hangs self
at center
JACKSON, Ga. (UPI) - A
young inmate of the Georgia
Diagnostic Classification Center
apparently hanged himself in
his cell.
A spokesman for the state
Department of Corrections said
Charles Ronald Wade, 21, of
Atlanta was found hanging with
a torn bedsheet tied around his
neck around midnight.
Wade was committed to the
diagnostic center last Friday
after being sentenced in Fulton
County to two years in prison
on a charge of theft by decep
tion.
Station yesterday. Nearly 100 sailors fought the two-hour
blaze which occurred on the air station’s 31st anniversary.
getting to know the youth of the
churches of Kimbell Associa
tion and are seeking to involve
some of them in activities at
Indian Springs.
In the talk stage is a day
camp program at the park for
youngsters from the area.
Student ministries in resort
areas are also being conducted
this summer at Stone Mountain
Park, Jekyll Island, and Savan
nah Beach.
Mayo said this is the third
summer that Baptist students
have worked in Georgia resort
areas.
The work at Indian Springs is
a pilot project for Kimbell
Baptist Association. Supervis
ing the program are Moderator
Don Folsom, pastor, First
Baptist Church, Jackson; and
Missions Committee Chairman
Waldrep Jenkins, pastor, Mace
donia Baptist Church.
They hope to develop a year
round ministry at the park as a
result of what the students are
doing this summer.
Baldwin
relieved
of command
SAIGON (UPl)—The U.S.
command said today Maj. Gen.
James L. Baldwin has been
relieved of > command of the
Americal Division, whose
troops manned an artillery base
in which Communist sappers
killed 33 Americans last March
and wounded 76.
Baldwin, has completed one
year of a Vietnam tour which
usually is at least 18 months for
commanding generals. He hand
ed over command last Friday
to Maj. Gen. Frederick J.
Kroesen Jr., former assistant
chief of staff for operations of
the military command in
Saigon, spokesmen said.
The command declined furth
er comment on the change of
command except to say that
Baldwin “will be reassigned by
the Department of Army.”
Baldwin was commander of
the Americal, formally desig
nated the 23rd Infantry Divi
sion, when sappers raced
through the wire of Fire Base
Mary Anne behind a curtain of
mortar shells on March 28.
The command reported 33
Americans killed and 76 wound
ed on the base, 25 miles west of
the division’s headquarters at
Chu Lai.
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Richard Darby and Teresa Fahr (standing center), summer mission workers at Indian Springs
State Park, Jackson, talk with a Florida family who chose the park as a vacation camping spot.
Richard, from Baton Rouge, La., and Teresa, from Paragould, Ark., are sponsored by the Kimbell
Baptist Association, tiie Georgia Baptist Convention State Missions program, and the Southern
Baptist Home Mission Board.
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“It doesn’t follow that you
agree with someone just
because you both disagree with
the same people.”
Talmadge, Maddox differ
on rural development
JEKYLL ISLAND (UPI) -
Sen. Herman Tai mad ge, DGa.,
and Lt Gov. Lester Maddox
took opposing views on rural
development today.
Talmadge called on municipal
officials from around the state
for their support for his pro
posed rural development pro
gram as a means of helping
overcrowded cities.
Maddox, also addressing the
Georgia Municipal Association’s
38ft annual convention later,
said “all these people know
what causes rural problems. If
they don’t know, they are stupid
and shouldn’t be in office.”
The lieutenant governor was
referring directly to Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey, D.-Minn., who
last week held hearings on
rural development in South
Georgia. Humphrey was named
by Talmadge to head a Senate
agriculture subcommittee on
rural development.
Humphrey’s visit, Maddox
charged, “was at taxpayer’s
Bogus bills loose
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)-
The Secret Service says coun
terfeit 810 bills distributed in
South Carolina by a group of
persons operating also in Geor
gia and Alabama are turning
up in banks.
Printing equipment believed
used to make the bills and
826,500 in 850 notes were seized
Friday in Gadsden, Ala., and
five persons were arrested Fri
day in Alabama.
However, the Secret Service
said the only bills passed on to
the public—a maximum of 8500
tn 810 bills—were distributed in
Diabetes tests
are planned
A communitywide program to
find persons in Spalding County
suffering diabetes and who
don’t know it is set for Aug. 2.
The program called “WHY
WAIT?” is sponsored by the
Spalding County Home
Economics Clubs and the Spald
ing County Health Department.
Their combined effort is to
discover the 350 “unknown
diabetics” in Spalding County.
expense in an Air Force plane
and was made only with 1972
in mind.” The former vice
president is a possible Presi
dential candidate next year.
Maddox also was critical of
President Nixon’s proposed rev
enue sharing plan, which he
branded “a farce and a sham.”
He proposed instead that the
federal government take over
full financing in such areas as
highways, water and sewage
systems, pollution controls,
rapid transit and commercial
airport development.
Talmadge told the GMA of
ficials, in comparing the in
terests of cities and rural areas,
“more and more we are com
ing to the realization that what
benefits one benefits the other.”
Georgia’s senior senator said
cities are faced with massive
migration from the country and
yet not enough resources to
cope with the problems this in
flux creates.”
South Carolina. “A few are
drifting in,” a Secret Service
agent said Sunday.
The agent said the bills were
of high quality—“A pretty good
job of printing it.”
Talmadge B. Gaittier, 44, of
Gadsden, and Jimmy I. Hud
gins, 34, of Altoona, were ar
rested in Gadsden and charged
with manufacturing the bogus
bills. Hugh Lowe Jordan of
Centre was charged with vio
lations of the counterfeiting
law.
James P. Williams, 27, of
Gadsden, and William Fusilier,
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Several centers will be set up
throughout the community,
Health Center officials said.
One minute tests will be offer
ed at the centers.
The times and places the
centers will be in operation will
be announced, Health officials
said.
Spalding is one of some 50
counties in the state where the
tests will be given on a mass
scale.
Long County
vacancies
are created
ATLANTA (UPI) - Welfare
director Jim Parham said to
day he had created two va
cancies on the Long County
Board of Family and Children
Services.
Parham declined to reappoint
the chairman of the Long
Board, W.M. Jones. The direc
tor also revoked a waiver which
allowed J.D. Battle to serve on
the board, even though he was
employed by another agency.
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90, low today 70, high yesterday
88, low yesterday 69. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:43, sunset
tomorrow 8:43.
35, of New Orleans, were ar
rested in Birmingham and
charged with possession and
sale of counterfeit notes.
Albert L. Gaither, 21, Emile
J. Poisson Jr., 24, and Karl 0.
Fastnacht, 28, all of Hapeville,
Ga., were arrested June 7 and
charged with passing $lO coun
terfeit notes. Carney L. Hay
less, 28, of Mountain View, Ga.,
was arrested June 16 on
charges of selling bogus $lO
bills.
All nine persons were re
leased on bond, the Secret
Service said.