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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
February term of grand jury
ippointed City Commissioner
‘Skeeter” Norsworthy to
Spalding Health Board;
■ecommended, a Juvenile
detention Home for this area;
andled many cases; inspected
nunty departments and ad
ourned in record time. This
(rand jury wfll be available for
my necessary business until
June when it will be called for
vork in connection with
superior Court. This is the long
erm hold over grand jury.
The Griffin Labor Depart
nent office reported it filled
1,359 “non farm” labor jobs in
971.
The Exchange Club opened its
ampaign to select Griffin’s
Man of the Year for 1971.
'Jominations must be made by
March 1. Only men who have
ived in Spalding County during
1971 are eligible.
A delegation appeared before
he City Commission and asked
hat fire protection be extended
o cover Spalding Heights.
Mayor Goldstein said this area
s outside city limits.
The U.S. Justice Department
ejected a Redistricting
iroposal for the Griffin
Congressional District. A House
committee, charged with this
responsibility will meet Monday
in an attempt to meet federal
equirements.
And Jeane Dixon, who has
gained national, prominence by
ter predictions, kept those
present at the Rotary Club’s
annual Ladies night meeting,
sitting on the edge of their
chairs wondering what she
would predict next.
DeKalb, Georgia’s second
populous county, voted 2 to 1 in
favor of liquor sales. Now a
mixed drinks election is
planned.
The U.S. Department of
Justice entered suit against
Baker (Newton)County,
charging it with having sold a
vacant school building to a
group that planned an all white
school.
President Nixon in a special
message to Congress assessed
America’s relations with the
rest of the world. This message
came as America and the world
were wondering just what effect
his visit to China might have.
He warned that the visit would
not have any immediate effect,
out expressed hope it would
open the doors for a better
understanding and cooperation
“between two great nations.”
Washington announced that
the “about 80” estimated
number of persons who would
be permitted to visit China
during the Nixon visit had been
increased. There will be a dozen
aboard the plane with President
and Mrs. Nixon and “some 300
others aboard other planes.
The U.S. stepped up bombing
missions in the Vietnam war in
an effort to hinder a new “Tet”
offensive by North Vietnam.
Violence was still a threat in
the religious war in Ireland;
and in the Near East where
Israelites and Arabs are on the
> brink of open hostilities, there
: was little lessening of the
[ tensions. The situation there is
’ also a case of two religions
i confronting each other.
And even Russia, which
claims that it has made as much
if not more progress in
j providing its citizens with the
; “comforts of life” had to admit
that in the Ukrain more than
11,000 homes with electric
refrigerators had to shut them
down because of mechanical
failure, admitted “there were
no repair parts” to put them
back in order.
And Time Magazine as well
as Life, dubbed Clifford Irving
the “Con Man of the Year.”
Petition asks that
GPD be relocated
in downtown area
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-CorneUa Wallace, wife of
Democratic Presidential candidate George Wallace gets her
helmet adjusted on a visit to the Daytona International
Speedway by Bill France, former president of the speedway.
Mrs. Wallace will be making her second appearance as a
pace car driver at a major race. The first lady of Alabama
will drive the pace car to start the Daytona 500 Feb. 20. (UPI)
Spalding included
in highway bids
Gainesville
bank robbed
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
The First National Bank of
Gainesville was robbed of an
undisclosed amount of cash to
day by bandits who struck just
as an employee was gathering
receipts from a drive-in night
depository box.
The employee was returning
to the main bank building when
accosted by a man armed with
a pistol and wearing a mask.
Another bandit was waiting in
a late model getaway car,
which was found about an hour
later abandoned in a hospital
parking lot. The car carried
Fulton County tags.
Police said the masks worn
by the bandits made it impossi
ble to determine their color or
other features.
Richmond buses nearly empty
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)-Near
ly empty school buses shuttled
between Richmond County’s 52
public schools today as white
parents made good their threat
of a countywide boycott of
classes.
The county began implemen
tation of federally - ordered
school desegregation plan which
involved massive busing. The
plan, to be carried out in three
phases, called for the integra
tion of seven elementary schools
today.
Richmond County School Su
perintendent Roy Hollins said
he has no attendance totals but
the boycott appeared to be
“right effective.”
No pickets appeared at any
of the schools but white parents
milled around on sidewalks and
drove past the schools with their
children in their cars.
The boycott, sponsored by
Citizens for Neighborhood
Schools and the Save Our Chil
dren Committee, defied a feder
al court order issued by Judge
Alexander A. Lawrence of Sa
vannah.
GRIFFIN
IJAIN E WS
Daily Since 1872
The state Highway Depart
ment of Georgia has announced
the awarding of several bids
affecting Spalding County.
More than five miles of
Georgia 92 (Griffin to Fayet
teville) will be resurfaced at a
cost of $76,027.40 E. Jack Smith,
contractor of Atlanta had the
low bid. The work will begin at
the Fayette County line and
come southeasterly.
Safety modifications on In
terstate routes 75 and 475 will
take place in Bibb, Monroe,
Lamar, Butts and Spalding
Counties requiring 184 working
days at a cost of $687,489.87.
Chaney Fence Corporation of
Florissant, Missouri, was the
low bidder.
All bids were rejected for
more than eight and one half
miles of resurfacing in Henry
and Spalding Counties to begin
at Ga. 16 and extend nor
thwardly to 1-75 on Ga. 155
(Griffin to McDonough).
Lawrence’s order expressly
banned boycotts, and the judge
said today from his home in
Savannah that he has renewed
the order to cover the next 10
days.
Lawrence also said he has or
dered federal marshals to be
present at all seven schools in
volved in the first step of his
desegregation order.
Stanley Cook, head of the Cit
izens for Neighborhood Schools,
called the boycott a success. He
said his group would sponsor
another boycott Feb. 28, just be
fore implementation of the sec
ond part of the judge’s plan.
Ervin Clack Jr., head of the
Save Our Children Committee,
said his organization is asking
parents to take their children to
schools they previously attend
ed Tuesday and attempt to reg
ister them.
Cook said he expects massive
withdrawals by white parents
later this week. “I know some
members of our group have
been contacting churches and
other organizations to ask them
if they can use their buildings
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, Feb. 14, 1972
Jim Pridgen, owner of Jim
Pridgen Hardware, is currently
circulating a petition among
downtown merchants, property
owners and businessmen asking
that the Griffin Police
Department be moved back to
the central business district,
that steps be taken to provide
the department with necessary
equipment to maintain the
greatest possible efficiency,
and to provide sufficient per
sonnel to maintain the depart
ment “and give our city, both
business and residential,
maximum protection as needed
both night and day.”
“I want to make it perfectly
clear that I’m not criticizing
anyone,” Pridgen said. “It is
my feeling, along with several
others, that the situation
(burglaries and thefts) has
become critical and something
must be done.”
“Also I would like to stress
the joint that if there isn’t
adequate facilities downtown
we should built something new
and that if we do not have
enough personnel in the
department we should increase
the police force,” the Griffin
merchant said.
Several major burglaries,
including five drug store break
ins, have occurred here since
Jan. 1
Burglars struck at Pirdgen
Hardware a few days ago and
got away with over $9,000 worth
of firearms and ammunition.
The $9,000 does not include a
truck that was stolen plus other
items that were taken.
In addition, a rash of drug
store burglaries have occurred
here in the last two months.
Those thefts included large
quanities of narcotics. ,
Everett Beal, owner of a
Griffin drug store, said he was
wholeheartedily in favor of
increasing the number of
policemen.
“I know the department is
understaffed,” he said.
He said the problem (drug
store break-ins) probably would
be discussed at the next
meeting of Griffin pharmacists.
Billy McDaniels, an in
surance executive, said he
planned to contact insurance
people to get their views on the
situation. “Something needs to
be done to help solve the
problem,” he said.
Pridgen said that it was his
feeling that relocating police
headquarters downtown would
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for tutoring,” he said.
Already at one school, Bunge
low Road, 300 white students
were withdrawn last Friday.
Butler High School, which
was not involved in the deseg
regation order, reported about
1,400 students out of the 1,600
enrolled were absent.
At Richmond Acacemy, also
unaffected by the order, offi
cials said only about 20 per cent
of the 1,400 students enrolled
were present.
At John Milledge Elementary
School, one of the seven to be
integrated and the scene of a
white parents’ protest this week
end, 91 black students appeared
by bus to attend classes but
there were only nine whites.
The total enrollment is 489 of
which 307 were to be white.
One white parent, Frederick
Scott, brought his three chil
dren to John Milledge Elemen
tary, located in a lower middle
class neighborhood, but would
not allow them to enter.
“I’m going to keep them out
as long as it takes,” said Scott.
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SAPPORO, Japan—The USAs Anne Henning (1) and Dianne
Holum, both from Northbrook, 111., pose speed skating
medals they won in the Olympic Winter games. Miss Henning
won the 500 meter first place gold medal and a 1,500 meter
Exchange Club
continues
paper project
The Exchange Club of Griffin
took two trucks loaded with
paper and magazines to the
paper mill at Austell Saturday.
One U-Drive-It truck furnished
by Tom Smith and Cecil Wilder
was loaded with 18,640 pounds of
old newspaper. The other truck
furnished by Haisten Brothers
was loaded with 444 pounds of
magazines.
The Exchange Club realized
$148.24 from the sale of the
papers and magazines. To date
the Club has realized $467.35
from the sales of the papers and
magazines. These funds have
been and will be used by the
Club in its charity projects.
The Exchange Club will
continue this project. Anyone
who has old newspapers and
magazines which he wishes to
donate may leave them at the
collection point in a former
filling station at the corner of
West Taylor and Eleventh
streets across from The Bank of
Griffin.
“They don’t have no system,
my kids will get to school
around 11, and they won’t get
them home until after 5.”
Lawrence’s retraining order
would impose a $1,006 fine and
a possible one-year jail term on
any violators, but several of the
parents said they were not con
cerned with the order.
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“It’s hard to stick to your
ideals while believing there’s
something wrong with
everything.”
Vol. 100 No. 36
Rep. Flynt will run
regardless of line
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin said today he would be a
candidate for reelection from
the Sixth District, regardless of
what district lines eventually
are drawn.
The Griffinite is in his 14th
year in congress.
Asked about the ruling
against the present Fifth and
Sixth District lines, the
congressman said:
“I have said on many oc
casions and I say again I have
liked every district that I have
ever been in. I know that I will
like the people of any district
that the General Assembly and
the Justice Department finally
decide on. I will be a candidate
to succeed myself in whatever
district is finally drawn.”
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Forget tax hanky-panky
By RAY DE CRANE
NEW YORK - (NEA) -
The Christmas bill are not
fully paid, Junior’s college
tuition is going up again and
that April 17 income tax
deadline moves closer every
day.
Let’s see, muses the har
ried taxpayer, didn’t Presi
dent Nixon order all federal
departments to cut back by
5 per cent on the number of
employes? Then didn’t he
give the staff of Internal
Revenue Service the respon
sibility for being watchdogs
over enforcement of the Eco
nomic Stabilization Pro
gram?
Those guys at IRS are
good all right, the harried
man continues to dream, but
even they can’t do every
thing.
Since they are going to be
so busy checking on store
third place bronze medal. Miss Holum won a first place gold
medal in the 1,500 meter event and a second place silver
medal in the 3,000 meter event
Flynt originally was elected
as congressman from the old
Fourth District, succeeding the
late Sidney Camp of Newnan.
Rep. Flynt ran for the seat after
Mr. Camp died and has held the
post ever since. The old Fourth
District later was revised and
became the Sixth.
The Justice Deoartment has
notified Georgia officials that
the reapportionment of the
Fifth and Sixth Districts is not
acceptable. The state’s
congressional districts were
reapportioned last fall at a
special session. The state house
and senate districts also were
reapportioned at the same
session.
The Justice Department said
prices, rents and wages,
maybe they will be unable to
check those tax returns too
carefully.
We’ve got news for you.
You’re not the first one to
think along those lines.
IRS has got the message,
too. They are prepared for
all those who make subtle
inquiries about the size of
the work force and all that
extra work that must be
done.
The inquiries have been so
numerous that IRS has pre
pared a “fact sheet.”
This shows, right off, that
Internal Revenue has been
officially exempted from the
cutback order. This is to in
sure that it will have ade
quate staffing.
Last year IRS had 68,700
employes. This year it has
4,000 more.
Inside Tip
Con
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that the way the Fifth and Sixth
Districts are drawn now tends
to dilute the black voting
strength in the Atlanta area.
The district lines had been
under court attack since they
were submitted.
Sen. Leroy Johnson of the
Atlanta area hailed the ruling
by the Justice Department as a
victory for black voters in the
Atlanta area.
The Fifth District is held by
Rep. Fletcher Thompson of
East Point now, He plans to run
for the U.S. Senate, a post now
held by Sen. David Gambrell.
Thompson said he would fight
the federal ruling against the
Fifth District line as a matter of
principle.
If it continues to supply
3,000 employes to the stabili
zation program, it actually
has 1,000 more employes for
auditing tax returns than it
did a vear ago.
And another thing. Every
time they check records to
make sure there is no price
violation, they do double
duty by checking compliance
with the income tax at the
same time.
It works the other way,
too. When they are checking
income tax returns and are
looking over the books, they
are also in a position to
check price violations.
So if you have any devious
notions, better forget all
about it.
Uncle Sam’s tax sleuths in
sist they will be in an even
better postion than before to
spot any hanky-panky on
those tax returns.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)