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By Quimby Melton
Yesterday was officially the
first day of Spring, and we had
been expecting it today —
March 21. However we failed to
take into consideration that this
is leap year and February came
up with 29 days thus setting the
calendar off balanace. We also
forgot that the first day of
spring is tied in with the Vernal
Equidox which this year
arrived in Griffin Monday at
7:22 a.m.
What is the Vernal Equidox?
Our unabridged dictionary
says Vernal Equinox comes
when the sun crosses the plane
of the earth’s equitor making
day and night of equal length. It
also says the word “vernal”
means green. So the Vernal
Equinox is a time when the rays
of the sun begin to warm the
seed that is planted bring on the
green blade that proceeds the
o*ain and the harvest. And this
dictionary also says that this
phenomena of spring “usually
comes on March 21.”
The “Vernal Equinox” also is
taken into consideration of
arriving at the date for Easter
Sunday. There was a difference
of opinion as to the proper day.
Some early Christians said it
should be on the Sunday closest
to April 11, but another group
said it should be a week earlier.
Then at the Conference at Nice
it was decided Easter Sunday
should be the first Sunday
following the full moon during
the Vernal Equinox, with
provision being made that
should this full moon fall on a
Sunday the following Sunday
should be Easter Sunday.
And while we’re writing about
the Vernal Equinox and Easter
why is the anniversary of the
Resurrection of Christ called
“Easter”? About the fifth
century a Biblical scholar first
used that name saying that it
was appropriate as it resembled
the goddess of Spring —
“Eoster”.
Vernal means green; and
Equinox means the time when
the chilling winter winds sub
ade and warm weather comes.
So we hope yesterday, the
first day of spring was a happy
one for all.
All our lives we have heard
that the Easter season was the
time to plant vegetables and
grain and that Good Friday
was especially fitting.
And since Spring has of
ficially “sprung” as an old aunt
of Good Evening’s used to say,
here are some things our dic
tionary of quotes has to say
about Spring.
We find the first thing said
about Spring is to part of a song
sung many years ago by some
American ministrel singer
“Flowers that bloom in the
Spring — trala.”
Coleridge wrote “If winter
comes, can Spring be far
behind.”
To wind up these Spring
quotes, how about this one from
the American author Mark
Twain? “In the Spring a young
man’s fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love.”
An example
PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI)-City
Manager John Wentz has
drafted a memo instructing city
department heads on the art of
writing a brief, one-page memo.
Wentz’ memo was six pages
long.
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“A fellow who’s drowning
can’t wait for a more
convenient time for you to save
him.”
Downtown improvement
A Chamber of Commerce
committee on downtown im
provement believes its $50,000
budget can be raised.
Chairman Felton Rainwater
told Chamber directors the
committee had set that amount
as its goal to get the program
started. He said today he
thought the money could be
raised.
Hospital authority
eyes expansion pact
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Authority might be ready to call
for bids on an addition by Octo
ber, according to Administrator
Carl Ridley. Should this target
date be met, the authority
would be able to let a contract
by November, he said. All dates
are tentative, he emphasized.
The authority has been
working on an expansion pro
gram for 66 beds. This would
bring the total to 229 beds.
Some Hill-Burton funds will
be available for the expansion
and the authority is looking into
other ways to raise the rest of
the money.
The project at present will be
more than $2-million.
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ATLANTA (UPI)-The route
finally chosen by Transporta
tion Secretary John Volpe to
complete 175 between Marietta
and Cartersville will allow the
highway to be built a year
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Griffin Tech’s Georgia Occupational Awards of Leadership
(GOAL) finalists are (1-r) Steve Phillips, Shirley Scott, Diana
Dunn and Wiley Greene Jr. Hie Griffin Chamber of
Commerce education committee will select one of the four
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eyes $50,000 budget
Initial response to a letter
appeal for contributions and
support has been good, the
chairman said. Some checks
already have been received to
help finance the program.
Mr. Rainwater appointed a
committee to draw up specific
plans for the project. Gerald
Bilbro, architect, will be chair
man. Serving with him will be
engineer Alfred Bolton, busi-
Members of the authority got
an up to date report on the
expansion program last night at
their monthly meeting.
Should the project move on
schedule, the new section could
be ready for occupancy by 1974,
according to Mr. Ridley.
Overall occupancy of the
present 163 beds has been 89
percent with medical patients
running more than 100 percent,
Mr. Ridley told the authority.
This indicates the need for the
addition, he pointed out.
Two physicians have express
ed an interest in coming to this
community to practice. One is a
surgeon and the other a
pediatrician. The administrator
proposed routes, according to
state officials.
“I’m tremendously pleased,”
said Highway Director Bert
Lance Monday. “This is the
day we have been waiting for
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nessman Bart Searcy and
Mclntosh Trail director Wade
Pierce.
This committee has been
asked to come up with plans for
the committee to consider.
The improvement panel was
scheduled to name more
committees this afternoon at a 4
o’clock meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce.
In other business handled at
plans to pursue these inquiries
to see if it can be worked out for
the two doctors to come here.
Dr. George Wren of Georgia
State University in Atlanta
wrote the authority asking if the
hospital would be interested in
participating in an adminis
trative internship.
Under the program Georgia
State would send students on the
masters degree level here for on
the job experience in adminis
tration.
Mr. Ridley said the hospital
considered a high recognition
just to be considered for such a
program. He plans to investi
gate to see if the hospital here
can participate.
The authority received a
request to consider using cable
television service for patient
rooms. The authority was told
that the service would improve
reception.
The purchase of an operating
room washer-sterilizer machine
was approved with the low bid
of $6,178.26 being accepted.
Copies of the Hospital
Auxiliary by-laws were
distributed to members of the
authority.
finalists to represent Griffin in state GOAL competition. Hie
awards were based on academic achievement as wen as
instructors’ evaluation of the students.
the 30-minute directors meeting
yesterday, Bill Ramsey of the
zoning committee said that
panel had been doing some
investigation of mobile home
zoning.
Jack Smith, chairman of the
education committee, reported
on STAR student-teacher pro
grams held at Griffin High and
GOAL student programs held at
Atlanta
has new
police chief
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Atlan
ta Board of Aidermen has con
firmed by a vote of 10 to 5 the
appointment of Assistant Police
Chief John Inman to succeed
retiring Chief Herbert Jenkins.
Mayor Sam Massell proposed
Inman’s name to the board
Monday and his confirmation
followed debate.
Inman thus becomes the first
new chief in the dty in 24 years
—the amount of time Jenkins
held the post.
Inman, 47, served 17 years as
a patrolman before being pro
moted to sergeant. In the last
nine months he was elevated
from the rank of lieutenant to
assistant chief.
Jenkins had passed the man
datory retirement age but was
kept on while his successor
could be selected.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
73, low today 52, high yesterday
74, low yesterday 47. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:44, sunset
tomorrow 6:46.
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Five newcomers to Griffin have organized a Newcomers Social Club for Women. They are (l-r)
Mrs. Isabel Schofield from New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Sandy Schenk from Chicago, 111., Mrs.
Joanne Todd from Florence, S.C., Mrs. Marge Ziegler from Evansville, Ind., and Mrs. Bonnie
Phrogner from Cumberland, Md. They are shown talking over plans for the club with Dewitt
Simonton, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. The function of the club would
be to enable new people moving into Griffin to make friends and socialize with other newcomers.
Some of the activities the club plans include bridge, arts, crafts, golf, and book review groups.
Social events would include dinner-dances, luncheons, fashion shows and family picnics. The club
plans to recruit members from the Newcomers list at the Chamber. It will meet April 6 at the
Moose Club at 7:30 for an organizational meeting.
Pike football player
suffers neck injury
Ricky Haygood, a 10th grade
football player at Pike County
High School, was listed in fair
condition today at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital where
he was admitted last night,
suffering from a dislocated
vetebra in his neck.
Wayne Newton, principal of
Pike High, said this morning,
that the young football player
was paralyzed from “his head
down.”
Mr. Newton said that doctors
Miss Layona Glenn,
retired missionary, dies
ATLANTA (UPI) - Miss
Layona Glenn, a retired mis
sionary praised by a president
and honored by the country of
Brazil who died Monday at the
age of 106, will be laid away
according to her own plans.
Mrs. Pat Meyer, the adminis
trator at the Wesley Woods re
tirement home where Miss
Glenn lived, said the high-spir
ited spinster had made her own
funeral plans five or six years
ago, “down to the pallbearers,”
and had kept them up to date
since.
However, there was no im
mediate date set for the ftineral
at the First United Methodist
Church in Conyers. The time
depended on when a brother,
Mark Twain Glenn, could come
from St. Petersburg, Fla. He is
86.
In addition to winning praise
for a 40-year Methodist mis
sionary career in South Amer
ica, Miss Glenn was often de
scribed as America’s oldest
newspaper columnist. She re
tired only last year from peck
ing out weekly columns on her
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Griffin Tech. The local
Chamber participates in both
projects.
He reported the chamber
education committee would
cooperate with Griffin Tech in
scheduling and promoting Tech
days. They have been set for
May 17-18 this year.
During the two day event,
businessmen of the area will be
felt it was too early to deter
mine how long the paralysis will
last.
The Pike sophomore, who is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Haygood of Route One, Zebulon,
was injured last night in a foot
ball jamboree at East Coweta
High in Senoia.
Pike was playing East
Coweta at the time. An East
Coweta runner was hit hard by
Haygood, who was playing in
Pike’s defensive backfield.
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ATLANTA—Layona Glenn, former missionary to Brazil and
the oldest newspaper columnist in America, died yesterday
at the age of 106. Miss Glenn, had been hospitalized since
March 14 in Emory Hospital after a fall in which she broke
her hip. Up until last year she had continued to write weekly
columns for the Rockdale County Citizen, her home-town
paper and the Covington News. (UPI)
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invited to visit the campus, talk
with students who are nearly
finished with their training, and
interview job applicants.
Lee Roy Claxton told the
directors that Rep. John J.
Flynt, Jr., Sixth District Con
gressman from Griffin, had
been contacted about speaking
to a quarterly Chamber break
fast meeting. The date has not
been set.
They were the only two players
involved, Mr. Newton said.
Young Haygood was rushed to
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital for emergency treat
ment and later admitted.
Haygood went out for football
last year but suffered a broken
ankle in pre-season practice
and missed most of the season.
The 16-y ear-old football
player is in traction in room 403
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.