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By Quimby Melton
Scientists say 1971 is an
“earthquake year”, when
* quakes of severe intensity can
be expected. Already there
have been several severe
* quakes. Scientists have long
said that quakes are brought
about as the axis of the earth
shifts to keep up with changes in
* the true North Pole. And there
are some government scientists
who maintain this shift is
greater every seventh year.
f (If one understands this
theory of quakes he is a wiser
scientist than Good Evening.
, The oily thing we know of
quakes is that we hope they will
“stay away from our door.”)
Dr. Billy Graham, the
* evangelist, has his own theory
about earthquakes. Speaking
recently at Oakland, California,
Dr. Graham said:
* “God uses earthquakes to
shake people up, out of their
complacency and over-
* confidence.” Some earthquakes
are natural, but sometimes
when God wants to get a point
across He speaks through
* earthquakes.” The Rev. Mr.
Graham said earthquakes
occurred when Moses was given
w the Ten Commandments, when
Christ was crucified, on the day
He was resurrected, and when
Paul and Silas were in prison
» and their guard was converted.
“The Bible never says when
the world will come to an end,”
the evangelist went on. “But it
* does say the age we’re in shall
end.... It seems to many of us
that all the signs He spoke of are
, now converging for the first time
in history.” He said these signs
included predicted famines,
pestilence, an age of false
, prophets, and an age of violence
and immorality.
In this Oakland, California
statement Dr. Graham very
< plainly said that the message of
frequent earthquakes this year
did not mean that God was
warning the world would come
to an end immediately. For the
Bible very plainly teaches that
no man knows when the end
, may come “like a thief in the
night” or like a landowner who
has left his possessions in the
hands of his servants and who
' might return home at an
unexpected hour to see how they
are following his instructions.
But if earthquakes will tend to
make individuals, groups and
nations “take stock” of their
way of life and will bring about
improvements then ear
thquakes will not be shaken in
vain.
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“A pessimist expects pigs to
find a hole to get out — an
optimist thinks they’ll find it to
get back in.”
Companies fined
ATLANTA (UPI) — Three companies, including
Georgia Power Co., have paid fines for water pollution
violations and R.S. “Rode” Howard of the Water Quality
Controlßoard said they would “notbe the last”
Georgia Power paid a $750 find for a diesel fuel spill into
the Coosa River in Floyd County last month.
Two development firms, Ervin Co. and the Cambridge
Co., paid |SOO and SI,OOO respectively for dumping raw
sewage into Nancy Creek, a tributary of the
Chattahoochee River.
None of the fines was contested.
Howard, executive secretary of the water qualify board,
said the firms were the first three to be penalized under
Georgia’s strengthened anti-pollution laws.
He said he hoped the action would “motivate some of
these people to be more diligent in controlling their wastes
if they know the state can now hit them in the pocket book
Commissioners
kill shop center
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Chairman of the Griffin-Spalding County Board of Health,
Dr. George Walker (1) talks over local concerns with Dr.
Edward S. Vanderhoof, director of the Georgia West Health
District.
Dr. Vanderhoof
health director
Increased service hours and
new public health programs are
being instituted under the
direction of Dr. Edward S.
Vanderhoof, new director of a
multi-county health area which
includes Spalding.
In compliance with Health
Department redistricting,
Spalding will be included with
Butts, Fayette, Coweta,
Meriwether, Troup, Carroll and
Heard Counties to form
Georgia’s West Health District.
Only six Georgia counties
have not joined one of the newly
consolidated 14 health districts.
Upson, Lamar and Pike are
among the six who have until
July, 1973 to become par
ticipating members.
“My job is an administrative
one. My staff and I will coor
dinate programs throughout the
district, while making our
specialized training available to
local departments,” Dr. Van
derhoof said.
Aside from his medical
training, Dr. Vanderhoof
TRIP CANCELED
GLADSTONE, N.J. (UPI)-
The United States Equestrian
Squad has been forced to cancel
its second trip in a month due
to an epidemic of Venezuelan
Equine Encephalomyelitis. The
three-day horse-jumping squad
withdrew from the Pan-Ameri
can Games in Cali, Colombia,
for the same reason.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
recently received a master’s
degree in Public Health Ad
ministration from the
University of Hawaii.
“In an effort to make health
services more readily
available, the Griffin Health
Department will begin new
hours of 7:30 ajn. until 6 p.m.
daily and 8 a.m. until noon on
Saturdays,” he added.
Before entering the field of
public health, Dr. Vanderhoof
served Vietnamese civilians for
four years with the U.S. State
Department, after leaving 20
years of private surgical
practice on the West Coast.
Although district
headquarters will be located in
LaGrange, Dr. Vanderhoof will
maintain a sub-district office in
Griffin, where he will spend two
days a week.
“More efficient use of
resources is our main goal.
Current programs will continue
with increased emphasis in
Mental Health programs
dealing with drugs and alcohol
and family planning services,”
he explained.
Aside from Dr. Vanderhoof,
district health personnel will
include a deputy director, chief
of administration, chief of
nurses, chief of mental health,
health planner, health program
representative, and en
vironmental services super
visor.
“My staff and myself are paid
with state and federal funds
without cost to the counties
served,” he said.
Other enrichment personnel
who may be employed by the
district on a cost shared basis
include two sanitarians with
special training in solid waste
(garbage) disposal, two nurses
with special training in family
planning, and an accountant
clerk.
Talmadge encouraged
INDIAN SPRINGS, Ga. (UPI)
— Georgia Sen. Herman Tal
madge, who is sponsoring leis
lation to reverse the rural-to
urban population shift, said to
day he is “extremely en
couraged” by the national re
sponse to the problem.
“People have talked and talk
ed for years about how rural
problems have been translated
into problems that now threa
ten to turn large metropolitan
areas in to ungovernable and
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Wednesday, August 11, 1971
Griffin City Commissioners
voted unanimously against
rezoning for a shopping center
in the Crescent School area last
night. Hundreds of people who
live in the area packed the city
hall auditorium to show their
objections.
They broke into applause
when the three commissioners
voted against the rezoning.
Henry Walker 111 of 930
Mockingbird Lane was the first
to speak against the proposal.
He presented the com
missioners petitions against the
rezoning he said were signed by
some 450 to 500 people, 400 of
whom live in the immediate
vicinity of the area.
He pointed out that some of
the problems that would be
created with a shopping center
near the school included in
creased traffic, increased noise
in the predominately residential
area, continuous lighting of the
area, an influx of “un
desirables” who might increase
the crime rate and others.
He said D. B. Christie,
superintendent of schools, had
signed the petitions objecting to
the shopping center from the
standpoint of an educator.
Walker said Russell Gray,
principal of Crescent
elementary, also opposed the
center’s being near the school.
Gray could not be at the
meeting last night to express his ’
objections because he was on
Lt. Law
resigns
force
Lt. Lewis Law has resigned
his position with the Griffin
Police Department to become
an investigator with the
Security Department of
Eastern Airlines in Atlanta. The
resignation is effective Aug. 22.
Lt. Law was second in
command of the Griffin Police
Detective Bureau and has been
with the Department for nine
years. He was born in Griffin
but moved to LaGrange where
he attended the public schools.
After serving six years in the
U.S. Air Force, three of which
were spent in Germany, he
returned to Griffin in 1962 when
he joined the Police Depart
ment.
He is a graduate of the
Georgia Police Academy and in
June received the Associate of
Arts Degree from Georgia State
University. He also has com
pleted law enforcement courses
sponsored by the University of
Georgia.
Lt. Law will be the only in
vestigator for Eastern in
Atlanta. On Aug. 23 he will fly to
Miami for a two-weeks training
session.
He is married to the former
Sharon Jones of Griffin and is
the father of a son, Kenneth,
seven. Mrs. Law is Child
Welfare Supervisor for the
Department of Family and
Children Services in Spalding
County.
unliveable nightmares,” Tal
madge said in a speech pre
pared for a Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corpora
tion meeting.
Only now, he said, has the
talk become translated into ac
tion. He said the urban crisis
has become “so severe and vir
tually intolerable ... (and) we
are getting more interest from
rural government, federal gov
ernment, the news media, and
from concerned taxpayers
vacation, Mr. Walker said.
Seaton Bailey, Griffin
businessman, told the com
missioners he had helped in the
building of 287 homes in the
area. He said all of them were
worth at least $25,000 and most
of them more than that.
He said a conservative
estimate of their total value
would be $7,175,000 and they
might possibly go as high as $lO
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He noted that the proposed
shopping center complex would
be a million to a million and half
dollar investment.
Carl Pruett of Maple drive,
who is a former mayor and city
commissioner, pointed out that
the fire station in the area was
built on the basis of serving a
residential area and not a
business area. He too, objected
to the center.
Glenn Bryant, a former city
commissioner, said he thought
the meeting could be speeded if
the commissioners would call
for a show of hands by those
opposed to the center.
Mayor Barron Cumming took
the suggestion and asked for a
show of hands.
They shot into the air from all
over the room.
Mayor Cumming said he
believed nearly everyone
present, except city employes,
had raised his hands.
(Sane city employes attend
each commission meeting as a
matter of routine and they were
not there to participate in the
debate.)
When the hands shot into the
air, Commissioner Scott Searcy
moved that the rezone request
be denied. Commissioner O. M.
Snider, Jr., quickly second the
motion and Maya Cumming
made it unanimous.
The applause followed.
All but four or five seats in the
auditorium were filled.
Mitchell Elrod, a native of
Griffin who runs a marketing
service in Atlanta, had
requested the rezoning to make
way for the shopping center.
Late yesterday morning he
asked the commissioners by
letter to hold the request in
abeyance because of the
unexpected opposition to the
center.
The City Commissioners went
ahead with the zoning hearing
last night after City Attorney
Robert Smalley said in his
opinion they were authorized to
do so.
Twice Mayor Cumming asked
if anyone were present who
wanted to speak for the
rezoning. No one rose to speak.
A proposal to rezone for of
fices property fronting on Pojjlar
and West 11th streets was ap
proved by the commissioners
without opposition. It had been
recommended by the city
zoning board.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 90,
low today, high yesterday 86,
low yesterday 68. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:03, sunset
tomorrow 8:22.
everywhere.
“Although the hour is late
and we are already about 25
years behind the problem, we
can safely say now that rural
development is an idea whose
time has come.”
Talmadge is the principal
sponsor of a bill to create a
Rural Development Bank and a
new source of credit for build
ing up the economy of rural
areas.
Vol. 99 No. 189
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Belfast area has war torn look. (UPI)
British troops
storm barricades
By DONAL O’HIGGINS
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPI) —British forces stormed
barricades in Roman Catholic
areas of Belfast under heavy
sniper fire today. Britain
dispatched an additional 600
troops to Ulster to crush street
fighting protesting internment
without trial.
Troops of the Royal Green
Jackets shot and killed a sniper
as they fought their way under
heavy fire into a bakery seized
earlier by gunmen and convert
ed into a strongpoint in the
Eliza StreetrCromach Road
area of the city, an army
spokesman said.
The death of the gunman
brought to 19 the number of
persons killed in street clashes
which broke out Monday and
Idaho state
prisoners riot
By KIP RUTTY
BOISE, Idaho (UPI) -
Angered by record hot weather,
dirty water and other problems,
convicts at the century-old
Idaho State Prison rioted
Tuesday night, firebombing
four buildings and stabbing two
fellow inmates.
Raymond May, state director
of corrections, and two aides
conferre with a six-inmate
council for more than an hour
and then acceded to most of the
convicts’ demands, which he
said “are justified.”
May noted that several days
of hot weather had pushed
temperatures to 110-118 degrees
in some poorly-ventilated cells
and that an inadequately
repaired laundry limited con
victs to one change of clothes a
week.
Only after May agreed to the
convicts’ demands did they
return to the cell for a head
count. Then with permission of
the authorities, they met again
increased sharply when Pre
mier Brian Faulkner ordered
internment without trial in a
bid to eliminate the outlawed
Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The toll of dead surpassed the
numbers killed in any one year
since current Roman Catholic-
Protestant violence broke out in
1969. Street clashes claimed 12
lives in 1969 and 17 in 1970.
Soldiers surrounded the bake
ry, forcing snipers to scurry to
rooftops from where they
leveled steady fire at advancing
troops.
The troops later seized the
building. They found the dead
gunman inside, an army
spokesman said.
As soldiers fanned out
hunting snipers they believed
escaped from the bakery, an
in the prison yard to cool off
through the night. Many carried
knives removed from the prison
kitchen and prescription drugs
taken from the hospital.
The handling of the crisis by
May, a 30-year veteran of the
federal prison system, brought
bitter charges from Ada County
Sheriff Paul Bright, who
shouted at May: “Taxpayers’
dollars are going up in flames
because you want to play
footsie.”
Bright had come with other
lawmen to the prison when
word was received of the riot,
but was ordered off the prison
wall by May at the request of
prisoners earlier in the evening.
Bright shouted at May during
a news conference later that
Idaho State Police “had this"
riot under control but you
pulled guards off the walls
when the prisoners started
shouting.”
May ignored the outburst by
the sheriff and left the room.
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elderly woman, a black lace
scarf on her head, waved a
white fist and shouted —
“Bloody British won’t even let
me get to mass.”
“I know this is an unpopular
measure, but we are not paid to
take chances,” a young British
officer said. “We believe some
of the gunmen are still in the
area and until we know different
we shall stay here.”
In Britain, more than 600
troops of the first battalion, the
Royal Fusiliers—one third of
them recalled from leave a
week early —moved out bar
racks enroute to Ulster.
An army spokesman said
about half the soldiers would
travel to Northern Ireland by
plane and the remainder by
boat from Liverpool.
Key charged
with theft
Jeff Key, coordinator of an
adult education program for an
eight county area, has resigned
following embezzlement
charges against him, a
spokesman for the Griffin-
Spalding School System said
today.
The program is administered
through the system here and
includes Spalding County.
The school spokesman said
that full restitution of $2,244.41
had been made and that the
Griffin Police Department was
handling the investigation.
A warrant charging theft by
taking was taken by Major R.
E. Irvin who said Key made out
teachers’ checks to persons not
on the payroll. Key then signed
and cashed the checks, Irvin
said. The checks have been
cashed over a period of the last
six to seven months.
Officers said that Key ad
mitted the thefts to School Supt.
Ben Christie voluntarily. His
address is Route One, Milner
and he has been released from
the Spalding County jail under
bond.