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■ j VENIN VJ
By Quimby Melton
■Veekend Notes:
■Jaylin Corporation of
Bverly Hills, Calif., announced
By had bought the Kell Build-
B; on Carver Road. The price
Ks $1,120,000. The big building
■U be used as a warehouse and
Btribution center for Elliott
Bugs, Diana Shops, and Stripe
Bscount Stores in the south-
Bst. 150 people will be employ-
B at first. The purchase will be
Banced by revenue certificat
'l issued by the Griffin In-
Bstrial Building Authority.
■Steve Phillips, student at
Biffin Tech, was winner of the
B)AL program and will
Bmpete with other winners
Bm Georgia Vocational Train-
B Colleges for state honors.
■Lee Roy Claxton was named
B the newly created State De-
Brtment of Human Resources.
■Rev. Walter Elliott was the
Bnner of SIOO prize offered by
Be Griffin Daily News in
Bnnection with its 100th birth-
By celebration. Rev. Elliott
Bes in nearby Henry County.
■Realizing the increasing
Bpense that funeral directors
Bust absorb in connection with
Brnishing ambulance service,
Be county commissioners
Bgan studying how they could
Bovide such service in the
Bture.
■ Fire that broke out at Dora-
Blle in a gasoline storage tank
Birk raged from early Thurs-
By morning all week. Two are
Biown dead and many injured.
I total of 160 firemen are known
B have been taken to hospitals
Br treatment for injuries and
Bnoke inhaling poison.
■ The Georgia Department of
Bgriculture destroyed some 700
let birds that had been shipped
lere from other states. The
Birds were suspected of carry
lig germs that could be tran-
Bnitted to poultry.
I Governor Carter left for a
I good will” tour of Central
Imerica. His purpose is in
Iromoting trade between them
Ind Georgia.
I Jack Nicklaus weathered
Ittempts of a large group of
■also rans” and won his fourth
Masters green coat. But pro
fessional baseball continued
liireatened, both players and
Management losing money as
players strike continues.
I Governor Carter won 12 of 13
lielegates elected to the
Democratic party convention in
Vfiami. These were added to the
ist of those previously chosen in
state primary.
James Byrnes, 92, died in
Columbia, S.C. Byrnes held
>very office, both elective and
ippointive, except President,
that one could hold. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, whom Byrnes served
as Secretary of State, called
aim his “assistant President.”
Former President Lyndon
Johnson was hospitalized for a
heart attack but at end of week
said to be out of immediate
danger.
South Dakota’s Senator
George McGovern scored a
decisive victory in the
Wisconsin Democratic
primary. He won 54 of the 67
delegates to the Miami conven
tion.
The picture in Vietnam
continued alarming.
Tanks and infantry forces in
large numbers stormed over the
DMZ and captured many South
Vietnam strongpoints. U. S. air
attack and South Viet forces
destroyed many of the tanks but
the enemy continued to ad
vance.
Uncle Sam brought into the
area additional diips, including
carriers, and Washington an
nounced we would not “leave
our men and our allies at the
mercy of the enemy.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
69, low today 36, high yesterday
59, low yesterday 35. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:19, sunset
tomorrow 7 o’clock.
Nearly 500 people were
headed out of Griffin and north
ward on U.S. 41 for work, ac
cording to a partial traffic
survey by the State Department
of Transportation.
On the other hand during the
same period, 200 people who
live outside Griffin were headed
for the city for work.
Robber slashes woman
Son, 3, grabbed him by leg
Mr
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga.—Wayne Wadlington prepares to release the first of 15 cheetahs that have
arrived from Africa to take up residence at Lion Country Safari in Henry County. The African
wildlife park represents an investment of $4.4-mlllion and will be the home for about 1,200 animals
and birds. It will take up 562 acres. (UPI)
Griffin golfer dies
playing at Jackson
Bobby Seal McCullough, 42, of
322 Dale street, Griffin, died
Saturday afternoon at Sylvan
Grove Hospital in Jackson. He
apparently suffered a heart
attack on the Jackson Golf
Course.
He complained to other
members of the golf party of
chest pains at the eighth hole
and said he would walk back to
the clubhouse. When he arrived
there, the pains became more
severe. McCullough was taken
Connector
meeting
set May 18
The State Department of
Transportation has scheduled a
public hearing in Griffin May 18
on a proposed connector route
to 1-75.
Part of the route will be four
lane.
A spokesman for the Trans
portation Department said
three alternates under study
would be discussed. Depart
ment officials will ask for
opinions for local citizens
regarding the best location of
the connector.
The public meeting will begin
at 7:30 in the Spalding County
Courthouse.
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Nearly 500 head north for work;
some 200 come to Griffin to jobs
These figures were compiled
during a survey from 6 a.m. till
2 p.m. The survey was in
terrupted because of rain and
will be completed at a later
date.
The survey point was north of
Griffin. The Transportation
Department said the survey
was about 35 percent completed
to the hospital where he was
pronounced dead.
McCullough was employed at
the Diagnostic and Classifica
tion Center at Jackson. Roger
Starr, personnel director of the
center, was in the golfing party
with McCullough.
Mr. McCullough was born in
Newton County and had lived in
Griffin for three years. He was
a member of the Full Gospel
Temple. He was a retired U. S.
Army sergeant and a member
of the Masons Lodge F and AM,
Fort Jackson No. 374 in Colum
bia, S.C.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lois Chambers Mc-
Cullough; three daughters,
Mrs. Nancy Randolph, Miss
Janie Hilda McCullough and
Miss Pamela Lynn Mc-
Cullough; three sons, Jeffery
McCullough, Mark McCullough
and Tony McCullough, all of
Griffin; three sisters, Mrs.
Evelyn Woodie of Griffin, Mrs.
Shirley Costlow of Merritt Is
land, Fla. and Mrs. Barbara
Evans of Griffin; a brother,
James McCullough of Merritt
Island, Fla.; and grand
daughter, Little Miss Wendy
Randolph of Griffin.
Funeral services will be
conducted Tuesday afternoon at
3 o’clock from the Full Gospel
Temple. The Rev. E. D. Goss
and the Rev. J. A. Goss will
officiate and burial will be in
East Griffin cemetery with full
military honors. McDonald
Chapel is in charge of plans.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 10, 1972
and would require about eight
more hours of traffic checking.
Personnel from the depart
ment stopped vehicles and
asked fbr their destinations.
Traffic from and to Griffin was
checked.
People were asked the pur
pose of their trips.
A total of 496 people headed
Convalescent
dedication set
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr. of
Griffin will be the dedication
speaker at the Spalding Con
valescent Center just off North
Hill street Sunday at 2 p.m.
A ribbon cutting ceremony
will be held, according to A. C.
Touchstone, one of the
developers of the nursing home.
The public is invited.
Secretaries
day planned
The Women’s Division,
Chamber of Commerce will
have the annual secretaries day
April 28 at the Moose Club
beginning at 12:05 p.m.
Secretaries will be guests of
their bosses at the affair. A
“boss of the year” award will be
presented.
Mrs. Lucile Preston is chair
man of the luncheon.
“A lot of busy men can’t take
time to live — but they all seem
to find time to die.”
north from Griffin said they
were going to work. Fifty said
they were going home while 55
said they were headed for
personal business trips.
Nineteen were headed for
medical and dental ap
pointments and 31 were headed
for school.
A total of 35 people said they
A Negro man was arrested
this morning in Senoia after a
five-county search which had
continued around the clock
since Saturday afternoon when
a Fayette County grocery
operator was stabbed during a
robbery attempt.
The suspect, Carl Leonard,
25, who gave his address as the
Knox Motel, Macon, told of
ficers this morning that he
escaped from Macon lawmen
two months ago where he was
being held as a murder suspect.
He said that he has been on foot
ever since.
According to GBI Agent Mike
Carothers, Leonard came into
the South Fayette Grocery,
which is about three miles north
of Senoia in Fayette County,
and gathered up several
grocery items. While the
proprietor, Edwin Brown, was
placing the items in a sack, the
suspect grabbed Brown’s
daughter, Mrs. Jean Shell, 35, of
Route One, Senoia.
He then placed a knife at her
throat and demanded all the
groceries he had gathered and
all the money in the cash
register, Carothers said.
At that moment, an unidenti
fied colored man came into the
store, but ran out when he saw
what was happening.
The assailant then carried
Mrs. Shell to the front door and
was trying to get her through
the door, when her three-year
old son grabbed him around the
leg. The man cut Mrs. Shell on
the throat and scalp then ran
into the woods at the rear of the
store, leaving the groceries and
money behind.
Mrs. Shell was admitted to
the Newnan Hospital and was
listed in fair condition today.
A massive manhunt was
begun which included law en
forcement men from Fayette,
Coweta, Spalding, Pike and
Meriwether Counties, GBI
agents, State Patrol troopers,
policemen from Peachtree City,
Fayetteville, and Senoia and
men and Hoodhounds from the
Jackson Diagnostic Center. The
search continued from Satur
day until this morning when
Senoia Police Chief John
Bearden spotted the suspect on
a road in Senoia and arrested
him.
He was taken to the Fayette
County jail for further in
vestigation.
363 signed
for DC trip
Spalding Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert said today that 363 sixth
grade School Safety Patrol
members have signed up to go
on the patrol’s annual trip to
Washington next month.
Twenty-five chaperones will
accompany the students on 10
chartered buses. They will
leave May 9 from Spalding
Junior High School on the
Atlanta Highway at 6 p.m. and
return to Griffin May 14.
Sheriff Gilbert sponsors the
trip.
Vol. 100 No. 84
were headed north from Griffin
for social and recreational
purposes. Forty-one were going
shopping.
Most of the northbound was
headed for Atlanta.
Os the traffic headed for
Griffin, 139 said they were
returning home and 200 said
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Fßl agents arrested Stanley Speck, 31, of San Francisco on charges of
hijacking a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and demanding $500,000 ransom. (UPI)
Hijack suspect walks
into hands of FBI
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI)-A
tall, husky man inadvertantly
walked into the arms of FBI
agents Sunday night after he
allegedly attempted to hijack a
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Boeing 727 following a formula
nearly identical to one used by
a hijacker two days earlier.
FBI agents subdued the
would-be hijacker at Lindbergh
International Airport here after
he startled authorities by
agreeing to leave the aircraft to
pick up himself maps and
weather information he had
demanded for a flight toward
Miami.
“He doesn’t appear to be the
snartest hijacker I’ve heard
of,” one official said.
The FBI identified him as
Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, of
San Francisco. Police there
said a man by that name was
on two years probation for a
disorderly conduct conviction in
January.
The hijacker commandeered
the jet shortly before its
landing here as flight 942 from
Oakland, and demanded four
parachutes and $500,000.
The suspect, wearing Navy
type blue fatigues and with
blond hair reaching to his
shoulders, was apprehended as
he walked down the ramp a few
minutes after the 85 passengers
aboard were released.
Authorities said the hijacker
claimed to be armed with a
pistol and a hand grenade and
initially communicated to the
crew only through notes, as a
hijacker had done aboard a
United Airlines jet comman
deered Friday. In both instan
ces $500,000 and parachutes
were demanded.
Earlier Sunday, the FBI
arrested Richard Floyd McCoy
Jr., 29, in Provo, Utah, as a
suspect in the United case. He
allegedly commandeered a
United Boeing 727 over Colora
do and later parachuted from it
with the ransom.
PSA officials said a stewar
dess and at least one passenger
saw the hijacker enter a
restroom in the rear of the
plane about 15 minutes before
its scheduled landing. When he
emerged, he handed the stewar
dess a note announcing the
hijack and stating his demands
for the parachutes and ransom.
The stewardess carried the
note to Capt. Arthur Steck of
San Diego, who radioed the
8499,970 recovered
SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)—
The FBI today announced
recovery of $499,970 in the
home of the sky-diving college
student held for the hijacking of
a United Air Lines jet last
week.
The disclosure came in a list
submitted by the FBI to the
U.S. magistrate on the results
of a Sunday search of the
Provo, Utah, home of Richard
Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, a Vietnam
veteran majoring in law
enforcement at Brigham Young
University.
Agents had dug up McCoy’s
backyard during the search, but
the money was found in a box
taken from his brick home.
Among other items reported
seized at the home were:
—A green military-type flight
suit with two aerial flare
cartridges in the pockets, and a
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they were headed for Griffin to
work. A total of 30 were coming
here on personal business and
two had medical or dental
appointments. Seven were
headed to Griffin for school and
40 were coming for social and
recreational reasons. A total of
23 were coming to Griffin to
shop.
hijacker’s demands ahead.
Airline officials, working with
the FBI, replied that they did
not have that much cash on
hand and it would be difficult to
assemble on a Sunday.
Learning this, the hijacker
released the flight’s 85 passen
gers and demanded the maps
and weather information for a
flight toward Miami, saying he
personally would pick up the
material at the bottom of the
ramp.
Ground crewmen were pre
paring to refuel the aircraft
when the suspect descended the
ramp and was apprehended by
agents mingling among the
workmen.
second flight suit.
—A blue and white parachute
with red trim and a black
parachute harness.
—Two helmets, one crash
type and one military jump
style.
—A pistol and holster and
clothing, which were in the box
with the money.
—Two electric typewriters
and a brown striped sport coat.
The UAL hijacker was given
a $500,000 ransom in the
escapade which started Friday
over Colorado and included a
landing in San Francisco and a
bail-out over Provo.
FBI agents took four boxes
and two suitcases from the
McCoy home Sunday, saying
they had “evidence” but
refused to disclose if the money
had been found.