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By Quimby Melton
In the 46 years Good Evening
has lived in Griffin he has at
tended and enjoyed many civic
club meetings. But never in all
those years has he attended one
with as a unique a program as
the one presented Tuesday at
the Exchange Club. It was
decidedly “different” and at the
same time interesting.
The program was presented
on the lawn at the Elks Club by
the Towaliga Indian Dance
Team, a group made up of Boy
Scouts of the Arrow rank and
Senior Girl Scouts. The group
was organized and has been
trained by a young married
couple, Ray and Anne Howard,
who love Scouting and are quite
active in it.
The Indian Dance Team is
unique in many ways. First of
all, when it was organized it was
decided the leaders and the
Scouts themselves would study
the history of the American
Indian, his customs and
ceremonies. Every available
source of information was
contacted, frequent visits to
various places where Indians
had lived were made, and the
leaders and Scouts wrote the
script for the show they were to
stage.
Then, in order to catch the
spirit of the whole program the
Scouts, both boys and girls,
made their own costumes, in
cluding ceremonial garb.
Before the program and its
details had finished the group
had come up with what in the
moving picture industry would
be called “a great production.”
Another unique thing about
the production is the fact that
the Towaliga Indian Dance
Team has competed with other
youth programs at various
places and has walked off with a
wigwam full of prizes.
Probably the most gratifying
victory was scored at Baton
Rouge, La., where Order of the
Arrow groups from seven
Southeastern states competed.
Griffin won first place as
a team and first place for the
most authentic girl’s costume.
The Griffin group also won
first place and several in
dividual honors in competition
with Arrow rank teams from
Georgia, Florida and Alabama
held at Camp Thunder. And the
Griffin Dance team furnished
part of the program when
nearby Fayette County
celebrated its sesquicentennial.
The demonstration staged for
Exchange Tuesday was marked
not only by the unique costumes
and dance ceremonial with the
accompanying fire dances, but,
and the boys may not like this,
by the rhythmic grace
displayed by the boys. And the
girls were as charming, even in
their age old costumes as only
girls can ever be.
The dosing scene of the
demonstration was one that is
always used whether the Dance
Team is competing with other
teams or entertaining a civic
group. Ray Howard read an
authentic Indian “Lord’s Pray
er” as his 7-seven-year-old son
Mayes Howard intrepreted it in
authentic Indian sign language.
Here is the Indian version of
the “Lord’s Prayer. (How
similar to ours it is.)
“Now Great Spirit and
Keeper of our fire whose tepee
is beyond the Great Mountain
and sky. Your name is spoken in
Council with great respect. You
speak with great wisdom, and
have many braves. My bow is
strong; my arrow is straight;
the deer and bison are many.
Make me strong in heart and a
brother to my brother and to
speak not with forked tongue.
Be beside me in life and speed
my journey to the happy hun
ting ground. Your medidne is
strong-the bundle hangs high
and I will sit in your council
forever.”
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SPACE CENTER—HOUSTON—ApoIIo 15 astronauts, (l-r),
Commander David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B.
Irwin display a model of the memorial plaque which they left
on the moon, during news conference at the Manned
Fight sleeping sickness
Horse clinics planned
Four area clinics for horse
inoculation against Venezuelan
sleeping sickness (VEE) have
been set up in Spalding County.
Owners of horses, ponies
and mules over one day old,
with the exception of side
animals, are asked to bring
their animals to one of these
locations on the specified
date.
The inoculations are free of
charge but in order for enough
vaccine to be available at each
clinic, it will be necessary for
owners to notify area chairmen
at least one day prior to the
clinic date.
Area seniors earn diplomas
Thirty-four Griffin High
School seniors will be awarded
their high school diplomas Fri
day morning at 10:00 during a
brief ceremony in Room 103 an
nounced C. W. Daniels, GHS
summer school principal.
Sixteen other seniors
representing Lamar County
High, Jackson High, and Henry
County High will receive their
diplomas from their respective
schools.
Os the class of 50 summer
graduates, Griffin High has 34,
Lamar County High has 10,
Henry County High has four and
Jackson High has two.
Thirty of the 50 to receive
diplomas are doing so a year
early by attending summer
school. Griffin High has 17 early
By RICHARD J. SCHNEIDER
DENVER (UPl)—Lyn Helton,
a brown-eyed teen-aged wife
with an 18-month-old daughter,
wants “to love everything I
can.”
She said she has gained a
new capacity to love since
doctors told her she will die,
perhaps within months, of a
rare bone cancer. She is 19.
“I’ve learned how to love
people. I’m not afraid to say,
‘Hey, I love you.’”
Lynn Helton smiled and her
words were soft and happy:
“Being this dose to death, I
realize how important it is to
love everything I can. I think
death is sort of beautiful.”
She said her husband, Om, a
photographer and musidan, has
learned to face her death just
as she has.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY NE WS
Daily Since 1872
The federal government
requires that each horse be
under quarantine for 14 days
following inoculation. Without
the inoculation, the enquires
cannot be moved within the
state.
All animals that can be
moved should be txought to one
of the clinics on the specified
date.
Clinics are as follows:.
Northwest area: George Far
rar, Fair Oaks Farm, Birdie
road. Aug. 14, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Chairmen — Curtis Cawthon
and Frances Farrar.
Southeast area: Dave Fulton
graduates while Henry County
has three, Lamar County High
has eight, and Jackson County
High has two.
Os the 398 students enrolled in
summer school, there are 383
active to date. A breakdown by
schools shows a student
distribution of 190 students for
Griffin High, eight for Henry
County High, 39 for Lamar
County High and Jackson High
with 12. Those schools not hav
ing any graduates this year
included Gordon Military with
six, Birney Elementary of
Atlanta with one, and Brenau
Academy of Gainesville with
one.
All students will be issued
report cards Friday morning
between 8:30 and 9:30. Mr.
She wants to love everything
“He’s really mellow. His
philosophy is take it as it
comes. He’s accepted it very
well.”
But her daughter is another
matter.
“Jennifer knows there is
something wrong with me.
Sometimes—l don’t know why,
it’s very strange—she’ll cry
when she sees my crutches,”
the young mother said.
Doctors told her she had
osteo sarcoma shortly after
Jennifer was born. Mrs. Helton
has already lost the use of one
leg and must use crutches to
walk.
“My whole outlook has
changed because of this,” she
said, speaking slowly at the
kitchen table of their three
room , |97-a-month apartment.
“I’ve just matured a lot
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 12, 1971
Spacecraft Center. The small memorial plaque was placed in
a subtle crater with names in alphabetical order* of all the
astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the pursuit of
the exploration of space. (UPI)
Farm, Rehoboth road. Aug. 17,
6 p.m. Chairmen — Jan Fulton
and Freida Braselton.
Southwest area: Griffin Flint
River Saddle Club, Carver road.
Aug. 19, 6 p.m. Chairman —
Mrs. Ivan Taylor.
Northeast area: Dusty
Rhodes Farm, North Second
street. Aug. 21,2 p.m. Chairman
— Dusty Rhodes.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
87, low today 66, high yesterday
90, low yesterday 70. Sunrise to
morrow 7:03, sunset tomorrow
8:21.
Daniels said no cards will be
issued to students owing tuition
fees, make-up fees and lost text
book fees.
The following are Griffin High
School summer graduates:
Thomas Marvin Akins, Ray
mond Askins, Janet Eve Biles,
Kirk Drew Blackmon, Kathryn
Holley Butler, David Allen
Calder, Judith Virginia Cook,
Robert Terrance Corley, Alonzo
Napoleon Dickerson, Richard
Edward Dix, Robert Dukes,
Daniel Richard Fields, Maxine
Freeman.
Barbara Jean Goen, Carolyn
Denise Green, Virginia Hardy,
Hank Elton Harrell, Suzanne
Howard, Alvin Hutcherson,
Eric Hutcherson, William Den
nis Johnson, Audra Leigh Ken-
Dying of cancer
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“You can tell whether what
you did was worthwhile by
whether you feel like boasting
about afterwards.”
ley, Jackie Joanne Lamb, Jay
Marlene Mann, Rebecca
Dianne McDermid.
Floyd Douglas Neal, Angie
Lyn Patterson, Cathy Darlene
Pitts, Rickie Lee Ransey, Lucy
Gail Sanders, Janet Lee Smith,
Roberta Weems, Randy Lewis
Wyatt, Judith Ann Wyciskala.
Henry County High — Shirley
Akins, Sheryl Little, Vickie Sut
ton, Steve Stockton.
Lamar County High — Carol
Brice, Roxanne Davis, Connie
Faulkner, Portia Fletcher,
Evelyn Theresa Goen, Glenda
Sue Ingram, Aubrey Milner,
Pamela Morgan, Jane McLean,
Carolyn Skinner.
Jackson High — Raymond
Larry Price and Lynn Wilson.
faster than I would have
normally. I realize things that
probably would have taken
years to realize—things like
caring for and respecting
people.”
She is writing a book to
describe her thoughts on death.
“I’m trying to get across how
it feels to be dying and raising
children at the same time,” she
said.
“I’ve read lots of articles
about people wo have had
cancer and lived. But readers
get a false impression from
this. I’ve never read an article
by someone who is dying.
“I think if I’d seen something
like that, it would have helped
me get through a lot of
emotional pain,” Mrs. Helton
Vol. 99 No. 190
Apollo crew
agree moon
fascinating
By AL ROSSITER JR.
UPI Space Writer
space center, houston (UPI)
—Apollo 15 astronauts David R.
Scott, Alfred M. Worden and
James B. Irwin said today the
moon “is indeed a fascinating
place” with a wealth of
scientific information to be
harvested.
“I hesitate to use the words
barren and desolate, because I
think to the three of us the
moon is dynamic, it is beautiful
and it has character,” Scott
said at the opening of the
atronauts’ first news conference
since returning to earth Satur
day.
The moon crewmen showed a
color movie of the landing craft
Falcon carrying Scott and Irwin
to a gentle touchdown on the
smooth floor of a mountain
valley. Scott reported “the
vehicle performed flawlessly all
the way down.”
Irwin used another movie
sequence to take reporters and
television viewers on a bounc
ing ride across the rocky,
crater-marked landing site in
their electric moon car.
“I hope it doesn’t make you
seasick,” he told his audience
of newsmen and project offi
cials at the Manned Spacecraft
Center auditorium. “It’s kind of
a combination of a small row
boat in a rough sea and a
bucking bronco ride.”
The astronauts presented the
public with 12 new still color
photographs. One was a closeup
of the huge Apennine Moun
tains, covering an area about
two miles across which Irwin
called “a fantastic example of
organization ... the most
spectacular Dave and I have
seen.”
Scott said that during moon
orbit he could see 10 challening
landing sites on each revolu
tion.
“It makes sense to look at
every place on the moon very
carefully to select the best
places,” Scott said. “But, as we
could see from any place you
go there’s a wealth of material,
a wealth of new and unknown
scientific data to be gathered.”
Data gathered in lunar orbit
by Worden is beginning to
confirm theories about the
lunar beginning and develop
ment over billions of years.
said.
She said the treatment for
her disease was so unpleasant,
she had it stopped.
“They gave me radiation. It
burned my leg very badly and I
lost the use of it. My hair fell
out I lost weight. The drugs
made me vomit for eight hours
in a row, and I couldn’t eat for
three days.”
She stopped the radiation and
dosages of three powerful
anticancer drugs, which only
slowed the growth of the
cancer.
“For me, mentally, the drugs
were worse than having the
disease,” she said. “I would
rather die in a shorter length of
time with a happy state of
mind than take the drugs and
be unhappy and mentally
deficient.”
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NEW YORK—Georgina Rizk, the Lebanese beauty who won
the Miss Universe crown in Miami Beach recently, checks
her weight on a luggage scale at Kennedy Airport shortly
before taking off for Europe. It will be her first visit to
Europe since she was crowned. She weighed an attractive 120
pounds. (UPI)
Lad thinks his
father forgot him
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPl)—Little Eric Morris doesn’t seem
to know what happened. He thinks his father just plain
forgot him.
One minute he was on his way to Nova Scotia with his
father on a camping trip; the next minute, at least in his
9-year-old mind, he was riding along on the Cape May N.
S.Lewes, Delaware, ferry.
He was taken to the Erma, N. J., police station where he
further confused matters by giving a false name and
claiming he was on his way home to Nova Scotia. That
was Monday.
Tuesday was spent in waiting for the boy’s father to
return and then contacting the mother when Eric gave his
correct home address in Augusta.
The mother said she couldn’t afford for Eric to fly home
from New Jersey, but an uncle later arranged a flight
ticket. Eric flew from the Cape May, N. J., airport to
Philadelphia and then to Augusta Wednesday.
During his stay in New Jersey, Eric was the guest of
Mrs. Ann Hayes of Erma, who frequently takes in lost
children.
“My ex-husband is a lower township cop,” said Mrs.
Hayes. “So whenever they come across a lost kid, I usu
ally wind up taking care of him for awhile.” Mrs. Hayes
said Eric “just kept sitting on the front porch looking for
his father’s car to come down the road.
“But he didn’t seem thrilled about going back home. I
think he was really looking forward to that camping trip.”
So, apparently, was the father. There was no word from
him in time to do Eric any good.
Construction sites
no place for children
The Griffin Police Depart
ment today warned parents to
keep their children away from
construction sites. They said it
not only is dangerous for
children to play around the sites
but recently several buildings
under construction have been
vandalized.
This morning officers were
called to two homes under
construction on Larcom lane in
Hillandale where building
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materials had been damaged.
Lumber to be used for room
partitions had been thrown to
die ground from a platform
about 12 feet high. Lawmen said
such acts in addition to being
dangerous for the children, are
expensive for the building
contractor, as workmen must
be paid to repair the damage.
The Police Department will
patrol construction areas more
often in an effort to prevent
vandalism, they said.