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Weekend Notes:
Several records were broken
here last week.
The week was more like
summer weather than the usual
week before Christmas. Almost
hot weather, with intermittant
rain and sunshine prevailed. It
was the first such Christmas
weather many remember.
There was another first for
Griffin.
It was the first time in more
than 50 years a mayor was
elected; the first time a Negro
was elected to the city con
mission, and it was the first
time on the commission for
Skeeter Norsworthy. And it was
the first five-man city com
mission for the city.
And that was not the only
“first.” Two city policemen,
Ben Giles and Earl Ethridge,
played the role of midwife for
the first time. Called to a home
here by a neighbor who only
said “come quickly this is an
emergency” they found a
woman in hard labor and
brought a baby into the world.
The mother named the baby for
the two, Ben for officer Giles
and Earl for officer Ethridge.
Other local news:
A 40-year-old glider pilot,
John McLaren, of Avondale,
crashed near Williamson and
was killed.
Claude Christopher, Frank
Lindsey and Mrs. Beulah Carter
were honored by the Griffin Bar
Association.
Congressman Jack Flynt
announced the General Services
Acfrninistration had given the
“green light” for construction
of the proposed federal building
here.
Jerry Savage was elected
president of the Chamber of
Commerce and will take over
direction of that organization in
January.
Savage is president of the
Bank of Griffin.
Churches and schools staged
Christmas parties and Carol
programs. Schools closed down
for the rest of the year.
John Q. Public stepped up the
tempo of shopping realizing
Christmas was almost here.
Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones,
69, the winner of golf’s “grand 1
dam” and who refused to turn
professional, died in Atlanta.
Governor Jimmy Carter
continued to predict his
proposed reorganization of
state government would be
approved. He said he based his
optimism on his proposals
“being right."
Zoning continued to be argued
in many parts of the state.
A Monroe grocer whose body
was found weighted down in a
lake was the victim of a moon
shine “gang” state and federal
officials held. The man was
scheduled to testify against
moonshiners in court. Officials
said they were positive of this
but doubted if they could prove
it.
U. S. Federal Circuit Judge
Otto Kerner, former governor
of Illinois, was indicted by
federal grand jury for perjury
in connection with investigation
of race track operation.
Congress adjourned for the
rest of the year.
Two Americans held prisoner
by China for years were sud
denly released.
Cuban refugees in Miami
sought Uncle Sam’s approval
for their “invasion” of Cuba
after U. S. based freighter was
seized by Cuban government.
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Senoia woman
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5 U.S. jets
show down
SAIGON (UPl)—The U.S.
command announced today that
fjve Thailand-based U.S. F 4
Phantoms had been shot down
over Indochina and that four of
the 10 downed crewmen were
rescued.
Court rules
on money
for children
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Court declared unani
mously today that states using
federal funds for aid to
dependent children and other
Social Security programs must
abide by the eligibility stan
dards set up under federal law.
Specifically, the court held
that Illinois was not entitled to
restrict help under the aid to
dependent children program to
eligible 18 to 20 year olds who
attended high school or voca
tional school but deny it to
those attending college.
The Social Security Act
allows use of federal funds for
needy youths in that age group
who are full-time college
students. The Health, Education
and Welfare Department
(HEW) has interpreted the law
as not mandatorily listing those
who must be included under
state programs but merely as a
broad definition of those for
whom the government was
willing to make matching
payments.
Illinois authorities argued
that the federal law permitted
states to vary their eligibility
requirements from federal stan
dards.
A special three-judge federal
court in Chicago held on April
30, 1970, that there was a
rational basis for Illinois to
distinguish between the differ
ent categories of students.
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BUFORD, Ga.—The typical Christmas Nativity scene is set
up just outside the guard tower and barbed wire fence at the
Georgia Training and Development Center at Buford, Ga.
The Inmates of the minimum security facility asked the
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NOT YOUR ORDINARY pussycat, this pet of John
Royal of Miami, Fla., is the star of the cat show. Os a
very rare breed called Sphinx, it is technically a bald
cat. A mutation developed in France, the little hair it
has at birth soon falls away, baring a peachlike skin.
Work incentive play okayed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — An amendment by Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., to the Work Incentive
Program that would boost on-the-job training and public
service employment has been approved by a conference
committee.
Talmadge, in a weekly circular to voters, said the
approval means President Nixon will probably sign the
bill.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, Dec. 20, 1971
warden for permission to put on a Nativity play with the
warden’s wife playing Mary. Permission was granted for the
play and the display in front of the prison. (UPI)
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI) - A
new city planned for Coweta
County has been named Shenan
doah and the woman who sug
gested the name, Mrs. Douglas
Wilson of Senoia, was presented
a $5,000 award today by de
velopers of the project.
Mrs. Wilson said, “The name
Shanandoah speaks for itself.
Aristocratic, proud, romantic
and dreamy. A man has a vi
sion of a city beautiful in the
red day hills of Georgia
and surely this beautiful city
deserves a name worthy of his
dreams.”
Mrs. Wilson, a research tech
nician at the University of
Georgia agriculture experiment
station at Griffin, received her
award from Scott Hudgens of
Atlanta, the developer of Shen
andoah, at a Chamber of Com
merce luncheon here.
Her entry was selected from
among 1,093 names submitted
in a contest open to Coweta
County residents.
Hudgens commented, “To
many people, Shenandoah sug
gests open spaces, green fields
and woods, meadows and
streams, and rolling country
sde. The property on which
Shenandoah will rise is blessed
with all of these gifts of nature.
They will be preserved and in
corporated into the basic de
sign of Shenandoah.”
Hudgens said planning and
engineering for the city was on
schedule and that he hoped con
struction could begin during the
last half of next year. Shenan
doah, located 25 miles south
west of Atlanta, will be built
over a 15-year period at a cost
of between SSOO million and $1
billion, he said.
The new city, expected to
have a population of 65,000 per
sons, will include light industry,
office buildings, a shopping cen
ter, schools, a junior college
and a variety of housing rang
ing from high-rise apartments
to single-family dwellings.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
65, low today 53, high yesterday
59, low yesterday 28. Total
rainfall .40 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:39, sunset
tomorrow 5:31.
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Christmas came early for Mrs. Douglas Wilson, of Senoia, Ga. Her “Christmas present” was a
check for $5,000, a prize for submitting the name Shenandoah for a new town of 65,000 to be built in
Coweta County 25 miles southwest of Atlanta. Mrs. Wilson, a research technician at the University
of Georgia Agriculture Experiment Station in Griffin, entered the winning name in a contest
sponsored by Scott Hudgens Co. of Atlanta, developer of the new town. Bringing Mrs. Wilson the
happy news is J. W. Stephenson, managing director of Shenandoah.
Explosions scatter
Christmas shoppers
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPI)—A chain of explosions
ripped through stores and
offices in downtown Belfast
today, scattering crowds of
Christmas shoppers, the army
said.
An army spokesman said
“miraculously” only three per
sons were injured.
He said at least 13 explosions,
Nixon removes
imports levy
HAMILTON, Bermuda (UPI)
—President Nixon announced
today that he has signed a
proclamation removing the 10
per cent surcharge on foreign
imports.
The United States had agreed
to remove the surcharge as
part of the international mone
tary padcage approved Satur
day night by the Group of 10
free world trading partners.
Nixon made the announce-
Feds check leads
in Monroe killing
By United Press International
Federal authorities said Mon
day they had “good, substantial
leads” in their search for the
killer of Monroe businessman
James 0. Daws, whose body
was found Friday with three ce
ment blocks tied to it at the
bottom of a creek near Winder.
In another development, Wil
liam Preston of Monroe, who
was Daws’ attorney, said Daws
recently had reported threats on
Us life but Preston refused to
disclose the source of the
threat.
William Griffin, assistant re
gional commissioner of the Al
cohol, Tobacco and Firearms
seven of them in the downtown
diopping area, went off be
tween 10:30 and 11 a.m., about
the time Aiderman Joseph
Cairns, Lord Mayor of Belfast,
was presenting a check for
$150,000 to the Britidi army for
Christmas aid to soldiers.
The spokesman said two
bombs went off at the front and
rear of a television rental firm
ment shortly after arriving in
the Bermudas for a pre-
Christmas summit talk with
British Prime Minister Edward
Heath.
“I have today made the first
decision implementing the
Group of 10 decision” Saturday
when the United States an
nounced it would devalue the
dollar by 7.89 per cent, Nixon
said.
division of the Internal Revenue
Service, said in Atlanta “we
are continuing our investiga
tion” and “we do have some
good, substantial leads.”
When asked if federal author
ities knew the identity of the
killer, Griffin replied: “If we
knew who did it, we would have
made an arrest.”
Preston said an agent of the
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Division told him “we know
yho did it, but we don’t have
enough evidence to get a con
viction."
Daws, 67, had been sub
poenaed by a federal court in
Columbia, S. C., to testify Dec.
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in Linenhall Street, only a few
blocks from Belfast City Hall.
Firemen arrived within seconds
to put out a blaze which swept
the block.
Other blasts heavily damaged
an antique shop, an automobile
diowroom, a furniture store, a
case and part of the Sun
Alliance building, housing the
offices of an insurance firm.
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more from his neighbors’ pain
than from his own.”
3 in the case of his stepson,
Harold Chauncey of Barrow
County, charged with manufac
turing contraband whisky. Daws
disappeared Nov. 22.
Preston also said Daws was
suing his wife for divorce at the
time of his death and that the
Walton Superior Court had is
sued an order restraining Mrs.
Daws from interfering in the
affairs of her husband pending
the outcome of the divorce suit.
The divorce case probably
would have been heard early
next year, Preston said.