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By Quimby Melton
Many years ago Good Even
ing’s father-in-law, Col. Fred
Davenport of Americus, sent
him a copy of Gilmer’s “Sketch
es of Some of the First Settlers
of Upper Georgia.” The book
had been edited by J.E.D.
Shipp, an attorney practicing at
Americus. Shipp, who was Mr.
Davenport’s roommate at
Auburn, was a kinsman of Gil
mer’s and had come into pos
session of the original “Sketch
es”, with notations on the
margin, and several letters Gil
mer had written; from these he
was able to contribute this in
teresting book to the history of
Georgia.
George R. Gilmer was at one
time Governor General of the
Colony of Virginia.
Col. Shipp in his edition of
“Sketches” tells how some of
the leading citizens who had
first settled in Virginia, coming
from England and other Euro
pean nations, decided to come
■ to Georgia and face the dangers
of a sparsely settled colony.
They located in what was then
known as the “Broad River”
area.
Among the families that
moved to Georgia were some of
the bolder Meriwethers, Taia
ferros, Gilmers, Crawfords, and
McGehees. It took the same
courage to leave their home in
.Virginia and “migrate” to
Georgia that it took for them to
leave England and other Euro
pean countries and come to Vir
ginia, Shipp points out.
Many of these earlier settlers
were well educated and though
Inhere were no schools then in
the Broad River area many of
them brought along tutors for
F their children. However, some of
the families, for one reason or
the other, did not have tutors
and their children were invited
to attend schools at the home of
their more fortunate neighbors.
This resulted in what might
have been called “public
schools” in early Georgia.
Shipp in writing about early
schools in Virginia and then in
Upper Georgia tells a story that
* would indicate that even then
there was a school transporta
tion problem. — How to get the
children to and from the
“schools.” There were trails
rather than roads and no side
walks; and walking in “bad
weather” was sometimes im
possible. In such an instance the
school children would spend the
night at die home where the
“school” operated.
And Col. Shipp tells how one
of die Gilmers — “Peachy” Gil
mer, a big, fat boy who did not
like to walk, solved the trans
portation problem, at least half
solved it. He lived with his
family in Virginia and the
“school” he was sent to by his
parents was several miles up
tiie Shenandoah River. Let Col.
Shipp tell the story:
“Peachy was very fat from
childhood. He floated on water
without any effort. During the
summer he went home by
jumping in the river and float
-1 ing down stream. The current
was strong and swift and he al
ways got home before any of his
walking brothers or sisters”.
' Shipp does not tell what
Peachy did in the winter. But he
does say the big boy “was in-
■ sensible to cold, but could not
bear heat So the doors of his
house were never dosed day or
night.” So maybe Peachy float-
' ed down the river even in
winter.
There are many interesting
, stories in the Shipp-Gilmer
Sketches that tell of the customs
of the early settlers of “Upper
Georgia”. Most of the stories
show the courage of these
people even when faced by the
greatest dangers and problems.
Weather
estimated high today
6, low today 65, high yesterday
0, low yesterday «7. Sunrise
©morrow 7:30, sunset
•morrow 7:30.
Griffinites warned
about money survey
The Spalding Sheriffs Department today warned
residents not to give out any information to telephone •
callers who phone to ask how much Spalding Countians
g have in their bank or savings accounts.
S They received a complaint yesterday that a woman,
identifying herself as Mrs. King, called a resident and
said that she was conducting a survey on how much
Spalding Countians have on deposit in banks and savings
and loan associations.
Officials said no survey is being taken and asked
?: Griffinites to notify them if they receive such a call.
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ATLANTA—Donna Annette Grogan, 12, a blind seventh
grader, uses a computer produced Braille textbook to keep
pace with her sighted classmates at Garden Hills School in
Atlanta. The blind children are placed in regular classes with
sighted students and are provided with Braille versions of
First grade enrollment
in G-S System is 943
Georgia’s declining birthrate
and subsequent first grade
enrollment decreases drew the
attention of the State’s
Fall arrives
tomorrow
Summer ends and autumn
begins here tomorrow at 11:45
am.
Horace Westbrooks, Griffin’s
official weather observer, noted
that sunrise tomorrow is 7:30
am. and sunset is 7:30 p.m.
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Callaway
Stallings elected Grand Warden, IOOF
J. Edward Stallings, 102
Melton street, Griffin has been
elected Sovereign Grand
Warden at the International
meeting of Independent Order
of Odd Fellows in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY# NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, September 22, 1971 Vol. 99 No. 225
Education Department. But
Spalding birthrates and first
grade enrollment have not
varied too much in the past five
years.
Supt. D. B. Christie of the
Griffin-Spalding System
checked first grade enrollment
here during the last five years
and found these figures:
1967-
1968-
1969-
1970-
1971-
The State Health Depart-
Fuller Callaway dead
ATHERTON, Calif. (UPI) -
Fuller E. “Clay” Callaway HI,
heir to a Georgia textile fortune
and prominent Bay area social
ite, died Tuesday night, appar
ently from an overdose of sleep
ing pills.
The 39-year-old jet setter, who
also was a record - setting
yachtsman and ex-husband of
television personality Pia Lind
strom, was found dead fully
clothed in the bedroom of his
home.
Officials reported a number
of sleeping pills scattered over
the floor and San Mateo County
Coroner Paul B. Jensen said
death “was apparently from an
overdose of seconal.”
A single-sheet note, written in
This puts him third in line to
become Sovereign Grand
Master, the top office in the
world wide organization.
Mr. Stallings who operates a
concrete business in Griffin and
is a member of the Griffin-
Griffin Lodge host
Moose convention
set here Oct. 1-3
stand textbooks. The Atlanta School System, working with
IBM and MIT, has developed a unique system for printing
Braille by computer, replacing hand-produced textbooks that
were destroyed when the city’s Braille library burned to the
ground in 1969. (UPI)
t ment’s Bureau of Vital
Statistics in Atlanta today gave
the Griffin Daily News these
birth rate figures for Spalding
County:
1967-
1968-
1969-
1970-
1971- not available yet.
Mr. Christie said there was no
overcrowding in the first grades
in the system here. He said the
pupil-teacher ratio ranged from
24 to one to 27 to one, well within
the Southern Association Ac-
large letters, was addressed to
the victim’s father, Fuller E.
Callaway Jr., LaGrange, Ga.,
manufacturer.
“To dad,” the note said in
part, “it looks like it’s turned a
full circle and turned back on
y0u...”
A caretaker said Callaway
seemed all right earlier in the
day, but a half-empty bottle in
dicated he had been drinking
shortly before his death.
The handsome socialite was
divorced from his third wife,
actress Annette Cash, in 1967.
His second wife, Miss Lind
strom, daughter of actress Ing
rid Bergman, divorced him in
1961 after 22 months of marri
age. His first wife, Winda, is
Spalding Board of Education, is
among the Georgians attending
the international meeting in
Vancouver, Canada.
He will return to Griffin
Saturday night.
Mr. Stallings has held every
creditation standards.
Statewide, first grade
enrollments are down, causing
some to wonder how many
students went to private schools
this fall instead of public
schools.
One high state officials
estimated that not more than
15,000 first graders entered
private schools this fall. This is
a small number when con
sidered in the overall state
picture, the state officials ob
served.
now Mrs. James Warren of Ath
erton.
Callaway skippered the yacht
that broke the record in the
trans-Pacific Yacht Race. He
narrowly escaped death in 1963
when his sailing vessel, the
Morning Star, struck a reef off
the coast of Nicaragua and
sank.
At the time, Callaway and his
crew were heading for Newport,
R. 1., and a Trans-Atlantic race
to England.
Callaway’s father owns a
number of textile mills abroad
and has headed Callaway Foun
dations Inc., which had operated
five textile mills in Georgia.
The Georgia mills were sold sev
eral years ago to Deering-Milli
ken Inc.
major office in the Warren
Lodge 20 IOOF, of Griffin and in
the state Odd Fellow organiza
tion.
He is representing Georgia at
the international meeting this
week.
The Georgia Moose Associa
tion will hold its annual conven
tion here Oct. 1-3 with the
Griffin Lodge as host.
Jay Stoehr, assistant director
of the Membership Enrollment
Department of the Loyal Order
of Moose, will represent the
Supreme Lodge at the conven
tion. Kent A. Youmans, state
director, will also attend.
H. C. “Hap” Arnold of Colum
bus, president of the State
Moose Association, will preside
over all of the business sessions.
Serving as the official visitor
for the Women of the Moose to
the Women’s Conference will be
Antoinette Marinello, Grand
Recorder, of Mooseheart, 111.
Registration will begin at 1
p.m. on Oct. 1. The Nominating
Committee will hold a luncheon
at that time.
A class enrollment is schedul
ed for 6:30 p.m. and the “25”
Club party is set for 9 p.m.
Business sessions continue
Saturday, Oct. 2 with a gover
nor, secretary, state officers
and committeemen breakfast at
9 a.m.
A business session is set for 10
a.m.
A Civic Affairs and Ritual
Symposiums are scheduled for
Saturday afternoon.
The president’s banquet will
begin at 8 p.m.
The convention will end Sun
day, Oct. 3 with a fellowship
breakfast at 8 a.m., memorial
service at 10 a.m., business
session at 11 a.m. and a state
officers’ and committeemen
luncheon at 1 p.m.
City opens
books
for races
Candidates for chairman of
the Board of City Commission
ers and from Wards Two and
Four have until Oct. 18 to enter
the election.
Qualifying began today for
the three posts.
Candidates for Post Two and
Post Four must live in those
wards in order to qualify as a
candidate.
The chairman will be elected
from the city-at-large.
Candidates may qualify at
City Hall between the hours of 9
am. and 4:30 p.m.
The qualification fee is $l5O.
“As long as there are some
things that are unknown,
somebody will be trying to find
out”
Police crackdown
on loud mufflers
The Griffin Police Depart
ment announced today that they
have declared war on persons
who drive motorcycles and cars
with loud mufflers and will
make cases against any of
fenders.
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Mrs. Marinello
State bonds draw
$lB-million bids
ATLANTA (UPl)—Bids were
offered to the state Tuesday on
more than $lB million in bends
to finance construction of
schools and for sewage projects
on state-owned Jekyll Island.
The largest issue was for $15.7
million by the Georgia Educa
tion Authority for building new
schools or classrooms in 13 coun
ties. Solomon Brothers was the
apparent low bidder, charging
an interest rate of 5.04974 per
cent.
The Jekyll Island Authority ac
cepted bids on $2,320,000 in
bonds for sewage projects and
for anti-erosion work on the
beaches of the island. Apparent
low bidder was a group com
posed of Trust Company of
Georgia, First National City
Bank of New York and Chase
Manhattan Bank, at an interest
rate of 5.0865 per cent.
Duration of both bond issues
is 24 years.
The Education Authority also
voted Tuesday to waive its rules
in order to help resolve what
John Sims, secretary of the au
thority, called “local disharmo
ny” in Coweta County.
Sims said local school board
officials admitted they had
“made a real blunder” on mis
placing priorities in construction
of the Newton Junior High
School and an addition to New
ton High School.
Local officials said they had
miscalculated the costs of the
two projects, overfiguring on
the junior high school and un
derfiguring the senior high
school.
The authority, after Sims said
it would be “economically un
sound not to”, voted to allow
The department has received
numerous complaints lately
that vehicles, especially
motorcycles, with loud mufflers
are disturbing residents. Police
said that the riders drive
through town and residential
sections at night awaking
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Jay Stoehr
the local board to switch the
bond funds to complete con
struction of the high school.
The authority also voted to
strengthen a 1968 ban against
use of an Atlanta architect’s
firm in construction of state
buildings.
The body had in 1968 passed
a resolution saying it would no
longer hire the firm of Wilfred
J. Gregson to draw up plans for
new buildings. That resolution
was expanded Tuesday to cover
buildings designed by the Greg
son firm which had already
been constructed with the aim of
selling them to the state.
Sims said attorneys advised
him the strengthened resolution
was needed in the event “we.
had litigation with this gentle
man.”
The authority already had
filed a $627,155 suit against
Gregson’s firm in a dispute over
plans for the Business Adminis
tration Building at Georgia State
University.
The suit filed in Fulton Coun
ty Superior Court charges the
authority had to have plans re
drawn and asks that Gregson’s
firm be forced to pay for the
new plans.
In answer to the suit, Greg
son said his plans were ade
quate and claimed the authority
still owes him $4,277.
The biggest school bond proj
ect is for work on six schools
in DeKalb County.
Other projects were over $l.B
million for Clayton County; $1.6
million for Cobb County; $1.5
million each for Gordon County
and Newton County; and $1 mil
lion for Decatur County.
Others were $261,319 for
Clarke County; $362,382 for
Douglas County; $947,100 for
Gwinnett County; $818,606 for
Hall County; $273,158 for Wilkes
County; $422,981 for Wayne
County; and $752,251 for Cal
houn County.
Griffinites and disturbing the
sick.
A city ordinance forbids car
or motorcycle owners to have a
straight exhaust or no muffler
and police will make cases, day
or night, against any violators.