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By Quimby Melton
Tomorrow is March first.
March is the birth month of four
Presidents of the United States;
'nd the anniversary of four
ates being admitted to the
ion.
Presidents born in March
, 1 March 15,1767, Andrew Jack
ysn, 7th President;
i- March 16, 1751, James Madi
son, 4th President;
March 18,1837, Grover Cleve
land, 22nd and 24th President;
March 29, 1790, John Tyler,
10th President.
The four States admitted to
the Union in March were:
March 1, 1803, Ohio, 17th
state;
March 1,1867, Nebraska, 37th
state;
March 3, 1845, Florida, 27th
state;
March 4, 1791, Vermont, 14th
state.
March 3 is a big day in the big
state of Texas. It was on that
day in 1836 Texas adopted its
Decaration of Independence
from Mexico.
March 26 is “Palm Sunday”
the anniversary of Jesus’
triumphal entrance into Jerusa
lem, and March 31 is the an
niversary of “Good Friday.”
Easter is Sunday, April 2nd.
March is Red Cross Month; It
is also Spring Clean-up month.
March is Girl Scout Month,
with March 12 as Girl Scout
Sunday.
(Georgia has every reason to
be interested in Girl Scouting,
for it was a Georgia woman —
Juliette Gordon Low — who in
1912 introduced Scouting to the
United States. At first it was
known as Girl Guides, the name
of a similar organization in
England. In 1915 the name Girl
Scouts was adopted. Mrs. Low
was born in 1860 and died in
1927.)
March brings many interest
ing and important events.
The “Ides of March” is on the
15th. It was on this day 448 C,
Julius Caesar was assassinated.
The first day of Spring is
March 21.
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17.
March 19 is the day
“Swallows Return to Capis
trano” (Calif.). This has been a
special day there since 1776.
March is the month when
Washington stages its Cherry
Blossom celebration. The
cherry trees that line the banks
of the Potomac were originally
given Uncle Sam by Japan.
There are two special weeks
in March that interest this
columnist a lot. One is “Return
that Borrowed Book” week (We
still have some books that
friends borrowed that are miss
ing from our library; and we
probably have some ourselves
we have neglected to return.)
The other is “Save Your
Vision” week. When one
reaches 81, one realizes how
foolish it was to have strained
our eyes and not having gone to
an occulist earlier and following
his advice.
Tomorrow is March — May it
be a happy and rewarding
month.
Qualifying
fees set
in Spalding
Spalding County Com
missioners today announced
qualifying fees to enter local
political races to be filled this
year.
They are:
Tax Commissioner $660,
Clerk of Court $650, Sheriff $750,
Ordinary $570, County Com
missioner $250, Coroner $86.40
and Justices of the Peace $lO.
Democratic and Republican
parties will set qualifying dates
and deadlines and make other
party rules governing the
primaries.
The commissioners said they
were required by state law to
jet the fees.
Ways-Means calls
for tax freeze
ATLANTA — The Georgia
House Ways and Means Com
mittee today passed a resolu
tion declaring a freeze on all tax
increase measures.
Rep. Quimby Melton, Jr., of
Griffin is chairman of the com
mittee. It has the responsibility
of considering all revenue
proposals submitted in the
House and making recom
mendations as to what action
should be taken on them.
Mr. Melton who represents
the Spalding-Fayette district
has been chairman of the com
mittee six years.
The resolution said that it
would be grossly unfair to
burden the people of Georgia
with higher taxes. It pointed out
that the citizens of the state are
faced with rising unemploy
ment, interest rates and cost of
Flint dredge ruling
muddles muddy water
Although dredging of Flint
River in Clayton County has
been approved by the Georgia
Water Quality Control Board,
the land developers who make
up the Upper Flint River Clean
and Flood Control Association
may have stirred up more than
muddy water.
Groups representing a wide
range of interests along the
Flint were on hand for the
special meeting of the full
Georgia Water Quality Control
Board in Atlanta yesterday.
The Board voted five to one to
uphold the ruling of State
Health Department Ad
ministrative Officer Robert Van
Norte, which allowed for the
continued dredging of the river
by Clayton County landowners.
Opposing the Board’s action
in the only desenting vote was
the group’s youngest member,
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MAN, W. Va.—■ Carrying all he has left, a white rabbit and an axe, Clarence Davis, 10, left, and his
brother Alvis 12, walk toward their uncle’s home in Man. The boys lost their 8-year-old sister and
their mother Saturday, in flash flood which ripped through their hometown of Stowe, up the valley
. from Man.
GRIFFIN
DAI LA t"NE WS
Daily Since 1872
living.
The resolution said that in
come to the state through the
Revenue Department totaled
$949,145,999 for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1971, and that
this was an increase of
$44,866,570 over the previous
year.
It is probable that this sum
will be a billion dollars soon, the
resolution said.
The Ways and Means Com
mittee shares the concern of
Georgians over the rising cost
of living and inflation, the
resolution said.
The House scheduled debate
today on a plan to reapportion
the sth and 6th Congressional
Districts.
The U. S. Justice Department
dumped the job of realigning
David M. Sherman.
Immediately after the
Board’s ruling, Executive
Secretary R. S. “Rock”
Howard, an opponent of the
dredging said:
“I still feel that this kind of
operation (the dredging of the
Flint) is a threat to the water
supply of the City of Griffin.”
Several persons owning river
property downstream from the
dredging operation attempted
to argue against the continua
tion of the dredging, but Board
chairman Dr. John Venable
ruled that the matter would be
decided on the basis of more
than 400 pages of testimony
given before Van Norte.
Jimmy Jackson, representing
himself and his mother, Mrs. R.
L. Jackson, both downstream
landowners in Clayton County,
grouped with others to fight the
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, Feb. 29, 1972
the district boundaries back in
to the lap of the legislature two
weeks ago when it rejected a
revamping plan drawn by the
General Assembly last year.
The Justice Department said
in a letter to Attorney General
Arthur Bolton that the General
Assembly plan dilutes black
voting strength in the Atlanta
area.
The House Reapportionment
Committee has passed out a
plan which would give the sth
District a black population of
approximately 42 per cent.
However, blacks in the House
say they want closer to 48 per
cent and Rep. Grace Hamilton
of Atlanta says she will try to
amend the committee recom
mendation.
Also on the House calendar
is reconsideration of a bill that
dredging of the Flint.
Jackson and his allies main
tain that irrepairable damage
will result not only to aquatic
life in the river, but also to wild
life and archaeological relics
which are in the immediate
area of the river bed if the
dredging is allowed.
The Board ordered Howard to
draft special regulations and
guidelines with reguard to
dredging and channelization for
its consideration at the Board’s
next meeting.
Howard indicated that there
would be no further attempts by
his staff to halt the dredging
near Riverdale.
Throughout the hearing,
Board members continually
expressed doubts as to their
authority to regulate dredging
on private property.
would allow the city of Atlanta
to annex all of unincorporated
north Fulton County. The mea
sure failed to receive the neces
sary constitutional majority last
week.
The reapportionment bills took
some of the spotlight off the
Senate which Monday passed a
controversial measure regulat
ing retail electric power in
Georgia and then voted to re
consider its action.
The power bill passed 34 - 20
after five hours of debate. Sen.
Al Holloway of Albany, unsuc
cessful in leading a fight
against the measure, was suc
cessful on a motion to recon
sder.
The bill, as it was passed,
would give the Public Service
Commission authority to set ter
ritorial boundaries for private
utility companies such as the
Georgia Power Company, rural
electric cooperatives and muni
cipality - owned power com
panies.
The Georgia Power Co. and
the coops have favored the bill
with 50 municipalities that own
their one electric systems op
posed.
Representatives of the three
factions filled the gallery during
the long debate in which sup
porters cited a need for regu
lation to halt duplication of
lines and unfair competition
and opponents arguing that
such regulation would stifle city
growth and give the coops and
Georgia Power an edge.
Spalding solons
asked to oppose
electric bill
The Board of City Com
missioners has sent telegrams
to Spalding County’s re
presentatives in the Georgia
House and Senate asking them
to oppose the electric power
bills under consideration in the
legislature.
The city’s telegram is as fol
lows:
“The Board of Commission
ers of the City of Griffin on
behalf of, and certain of the
backing of, the 22,734 city
residents are unanimous when
they urge most strongly that
you vote against passage of H.
B. 1274 and S. B. 408 (electric
power bills) and that you oppose
any amendments to these
measures or the associated
parlimentary maneuvers that
fail to secure the present in
tegrity of your city’s municipal
electric system.”
Man survives
51-hours
of surgery
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI)-
Doctors at the University of
California at San Diego Hospi
tal have revealed they per
formed a 51-hour brain opera
tion on a young man to remove
a golfball size abnormality.
The operation was so delicate
that the doctors, working in
relays, had to look through a
microscope to see what they
were doing.
The surgery was performed,
during 20 hours on Jan. 3 and
31 hours during Jan. 17-18 on
the brain of Victor Zazueta, 19, ■
El Centro, Calif.
Dr. John F. Alksne, chairman
of the neurosurgery division
and one of the three surgeons
involved, hesitated to label the
operation a record, but he said,
“It was pretty long. I’ve never
heard of one any longer.”
Zazueta said, “I just wanted
to get it over with. I feel fine,
but I can’t exert myself. No
hard work, riding a bicycle or
even driving the car.”
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ATLANTA—Lt Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia, showed up at the state capitol wearing the new
look. Maddox surprised the members of the Senate when he called them to order wearing a stylish
gray toupee. Here Maddox is shown before and after. (UPI)
Sheriff clears 64 pct.
of cases with arrests
An annual report issued by
Spalding Sheriff Dwayne
Tag
sales
slow
About a quarter of the 1972
auto license stamps expected to
be sold in Spalding County this
year have been purchased.
Mrs. Ruby Hill, Tax Com
missioner whose office handles
the sales, said just under 5,000
people had purchased their
vehicle stamps. Some 22,000
were purchased here last year.
This leaves about three
fourths of the vehicle owners
who still must purchase their
1972 stamps, she said. The
deadline is March 31.
The tag agent urged Spalding
citizens to get their tag stamps
now to avoid long waiting lines
near the deadline.
The stamps may be pur
chased by mail, Mrs. Hill
pointed out.
Man of Year
nominations
due March 1
The Griffin Exchange Club
today reminded citizens that :
tomorrow is the deadline for■:
making nominations for Man of■:
the Year.
The nominations should be :
mailed or taken to the Chamber '■
of Commerce on West Taylor :•
street. The Chamber mail box •
number is 73.
Letters must be postmarked ■:
by March 1, midnight to be
eligible. Nominees must have J
been residents of Spalding •:
County during 1971. Letters •;
should review accomplishments .<
of the nominee so judges can :■
use them as guides in making a :•
selection. ;•
Dr. Lester Luttrell is presi- >
dent of the Exchange Club.
The award winner will be •
announced March 7atll a jn. at ?
the Chamber of Commerce. The •:
Man of the Year will be honored •
at a special program March 21 •
at the Exchange Club.
Weather
WARMER •:
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY :
72, low today 49, high yesterday •:
72, low yesterday 36. Sunrise >
tomorrow 7:12, sunset ■
tomorrow 6:31.
Gilbert today stated that of the
400 major crimes investigated
by his department during 1971,
64*/i percent or 258 were cleared
by arrests. In addition, the eight
deputies in his department
answered 2,318 complaints.
All of the following crimes
were solved: three criminal
homicides, four forcible rapes,
29 assaults with guns, knives or
other dangerous weapons, and
155 other assaults.
Two armed robberies have
not been cleared, 26 of the 91
house burglaries have been
cleared as well as 15 of 67 thefts
of over $50,17 of 36 thefts under
SSO, and nine of 13 automobile
thefts.
In addition, the Sheriff’s
Department made the following
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“Worry is what makes a little
problem seem big.”
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THE WOMAN AT THE WELL
One of the longest recorded discussions in
the New Testament is the luncheon break
that Jesus took at Jacob’s well in Samaria.
Not with His disciples nor His family.
Neither with opponents who plotted His
arrest and conviction, but with a Samaritan
woman who had lived with five husbands
and now was seeking a sixth relationship.
In a few moments of conversation and
dialogue, Jesus turned her way from sexual
destruction to the threshold of spiritual re
covery and well-being. This was a healing
experience and it took some while for His
disciples to realize that emotional distress (as
suffered by this Gentile woman in her
physical and sexual indulgence) was just as
disabling as being lame or blind.
The Samaritan woman, with Christ’s help,
asked for enduring recovery and for the
water that wells up to eternal life. At
Jacob’s well, a Samaritan woman found
Jesus and the true meaning of life. And be
cause of her need, we have one of the long
est conversations in the Bible and surely one
of the most meaningful.
For o full-color, 64-page book based on this series, contain
ing eight big illustrations suitable fcr framing, send $2.25 in
cash or check to LENTEN BOOK, c/o this newspaper, P.O.
Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019.
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arrests: 113 for driving under
die influence of intoxicants, 259
for public drunkenness; 185 for
traffic offenses, and 996 served
warrants.
Os the 34 searches for illegal
whiskey, 13 stills were destroy
ed. There were 508 civil papers
served, lookouts posted for 27
missing persons, 44 trips to
Central State Hospital in
Milledgeville, 109 trips out of
the county serving warrants
and papers, and to detention
centers, five trips out of state
picking up prisoners, 37 days in
State and Superior Courts and
226,285 miles patrolled.
STAR due
March 8
The Griffin-Spalding STAR
student award for 1971 will be
presented March 8 at the Griffin
Kiwanis Club’s noon meeting at
the Elks Club.
The system will announce the
person who scored highest on
the college board exam and
present the award. The winner
will name the teacher of his
choice as the STAR teacher.
The Sixth District STAR
awards banquet will be held
here March 15 at the Jackson
Road elementary school
cafeteria. The winners of the
district honors will compete on
the state level for STAR student
and teacher.