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By Quimby Melton
Nearly three-fourths of
Georgia’s 159 counties lost
population in the 1960’5, ac
cording to the State Office of
Planning and Budget. There
were 115 counties that lost. The
loss is attributed to migration to
larger cities ajid out of the state.
In spite of so many counties’
losing population, the entire
state showed a gain. This was
approximately 16.75 percent.
Here in Spalding County the
population, 35,404 in 1960, and
39,574 in 1970, showed an 11
percent gain.
This report showed that only
eight counties south of Macon
showed a gain. The fastest
growing counties in the state
during this 10 year period were
DeKalb, Clayton and Cobb.
Atlanta, that largest city in
the south, showed a loss due
largely, it is said, to many
moving from the “central city”
to the suburbs in Fulton and
neighboring counties.
In spite of so many counties
losing population — 115 of them
did — the State of Georgia
showed a 16.75 percent gain.
Spalding, our home county,
was not too far behind the state
with 11.66 percent gain and like
other counties showing gains;
saw the larger percentage gain
in areas outside the city limits.
While Georgia and Spalding
County both welcome desirable
citizens from other states, it is
pleasing to note that the
migration from Georgia of men
and women reared here has
begun to slow down. There was
a time, not too long ago, when
“the cream of the crop” of our
young people moved away to
other states because Georgia
did not offer them the ad
vantages for advancement
offered by other states.
Today the picture is different.
One can find the “grass as
green” here as in any other
state.
Mitchell says
Clark was ‘duped’
WASHINGTON (UPI)-John
N. Mitchell said today Ramsey
Clark was “duped” by the
North Vietnamese into playing
upon the “deep concerns” of
the families of American
prisoners of war.
Mitchell, the former attorney
general and campaign manager
for President Nixon, called
upon Democratic presidential
candidate George S. McGovern
to answer two questions:
“Does Sen. McGovern en
dorse and approve the out
rageous conduct of his adviser
and supporter, Ramsey Clark,
while in Hanoi?
“Does Sen. McGovern believe
Ramsey Clark is the ‘perfect’
GOP chairman cites
voting errors here
The chairman of the Spalding
Republican party today
enewed his call for an election
x>ard here. He cited a 16-vote
rror he said he had found in the
toig. 8 primary as an example
f why he thinks such a board is
needed.
Ivan Taylor, Jr., said the
rror would not make any
iifference to any Republican
andidate nor to the Republican
’arty.
“It only reconfirms previous
■rrors in our election
rocedures,” he said.
The chairman said that the
arty had suffered irritations
>ecause of election procedures
ind handling of elections since
he party became active here in
964.
School tax rate
set at 20 mills
The Griffin-Spalding School
Board last night set the school
tax rate at the maximum 20
mills. This is the same rate the
system has used for the past
several years.
The board also set a half mill
rate to retire one bond issue and
a 1.4 mills rate to retire another.
This is in line with rates of
past years and according to the
bond debt retirement schedule,
school officials pointed out.
The 20 mill tax rate for school
operations is expected to bring
in about $1.6-million as the local
share for operating the school
system.
The budget for the 1972-73
year is $7-million.
State revenue officials have
threatened under new
legislative powers to require all
counties to levy taxes at 40
percent of market value. If this
comes about, then local tax
rates must be reduced to an
amount to provide the same
revenue as the higher tax rate.
The local board figures it was
on safe ground in following the
same procedure it has for the
past few years and setting the
rate at the maximum 20 mills
under present percentage of
assessment. In Spalding County
the percentage of assessment is
just under 30. Should this be
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choice to fill the shoes of the
late J. Edgar Hoover as
director of the FBI?”
Clark, a former Democratic
attorney general, said in San
Francisco Monday that the
North Vietnamese foreign mi
nistry “guaranteed” him that
all U. S. prisoners would be
released as part of any
settlement. And he said the
editor of the leading Hanoi
newspaper told him some
prisoners would be released the
day McGovern is inaugurated
and all of them within 90 days.
Mitchell said there was
“nothing new” in the offer to
return U. S. prisoners when
He said the party officials had
complained numerous times to
the ordinary, registrar,
legislators and other public
officials.
The election board has been
proposed to grand juries, the
Democratic party and other
officials, Mr. Taylor said.
He said other large,
progressive counties already
have gone to this procedure.
Mr. Taylor said his
statements were not intended to
question the honesty of anyone
who has ever participated in
past elections. He said
Republicans don’t think there
have been any intentional
violations of the election code.
He said some GOP officials
think there have been some
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
increased to 40 percent under
State Revenue Department
orders, then the millage rate
would be dropped enough to
keep the same amount of school
money coming in for this year,
school officials pointed out.
As required by law, the school
board will send its tax rate
request to the Spalding County
Commissioners. There it will be
included in the total tax rate.
The board approved the
following faculty changes:
Elections
Miss Kathy Smith, English,
Unit II; Miss Karen Proctor, D.
E., Griffin High; Roben Voigt,
Art Consultant; Ronnie
Garrison, 6th grade, Atkinson;
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Gambrell, Nunn agree
No mileage from debates
By United Press International
The series of debates between
Sen. David Gambrell and state
Rep. Sam Nunn move to Macon
and Thomasville today.
Both Gambrell and Nunn, who
face each other in a runoff pri
mary Aug. 29, have indicated
there is a military and political
settlement. But the editor’s
alleged statement was new,
Mitchell said.
“Given the stark contradic
tion between the state position
of the Hanoi government and
the whispered position of the
Hanoi editor, one most conclude
that Mr. Clark has been led
down the primrose path by a
Communist newspaperman,
Mitchell said. “In exchange for
this endorsement of Sen.
McGovern by the largest daily
in Hanoi, Mr. Clark has
provided the Communist re
gime in return with an
international propaganda wind
fall.”
violations through ignorance.
Mr. Taylor pointed out that
the Spalding Republican
primary Aug. 8 did not have a
run-off nor were there any close
or questionable outcomes in any
races.
“But in examining the
records after the elections, we
found that some Republican
candidates received as many as
16 more votes than there were
Republicans who registered to
vote in the Republican
Primary. In one precinct alone,
there was an eight vote
discrepancy,” Mr. Taylor said.
The 16-vote error in the
Republican primary which has
only 267 voters indicates an
approximate error of six per
cent, he said.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 15, 1972 Vol. 100 No. 190
Miss Margaret Parks, 3rd
grade, Atkinson; Miss
Margaret Parks, 3rd grade,
Atkinson; Mrs. Helen Reeves,
6th grade, Atkinson; Mrs. Polly
Flannigan, Language Arts,
Beaverbrook; Miss Sally Burns,
sth grade, Crescent; Mrs.
Martha Jordan Addleton, sth
grade, Fourth Ward.
Mrs. Joann Moorer, Math,
Spalding I; Mrs. Jane Anne
Settle, English, Spalding I;
Wayne Hutchings, Math,
Spalding II; Howard Janke,
Math, Spalding II; Thomas
Cook, Social Studies, Spalding
III; Mrs. Linda Garrison,
Science, Spalding III; James
Coleman, Science, Griffin High;
they will go back on the road
as soon as their current series
of eight televised debates are
concluded. The winner of the
runoff primary will face Rep.
Fletcher Thompson in the No
vember general election.
Both say they are not getting
the mileage they expected from
their television debates, and
they will concentrate more time
and money on other campaign
methods for the next two
weeks.
The debates will be held in
Augusta on Wednesday and con
clude in Savannah Thursday.
Monday night, while one At
lanta television station was car
rying the Russian film version
of “War and Peace,” another
carried the live Gambrell-Nunn
debates.
It was the fourth televised de
bate between Gambrell and
Nunn in little more than 24
hours.
There was no immediate re
port on how the ratings went
but a spokesman at WAGA-TV
said about 12 persons were
pressed into service answering
a flurry of telephone calls from
viewers wanting a chance to
ask questions of the candidates.
The format did not call for an
swers.
Gambrell charged “smear”
and Nunn attacked Gambrell’s
voting record — as has been
the pattern — as the joint ap
pearances of the candidates
continued.
In an earlier daytime debate,
Nunn opened the confrontation
with a denial that he had
missed more than 40 per cent
of the votes in the past session
of the legislature. Gambrell had
made the charge in the opening
debate Sunday.
“I had an 87 per cent voting
record,” Nunn said. “I wanted
to be in the U. S. Senate cam
paign then but my first duty
Bloodmobile
due Aug. 22
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in Griffin Aug. 22.
Headquarters will be at the
Cheatham Building of First
Baptist Church.
Lin Thompson, chairman of
the Spalding program, said
donors may go to the center
from 11:30 a.m. till 5 p.m.
The Griffin Kiwanis Club will
sponsor the visit.
Neri Coleman, Industrial Arts,
Griffin High.
Miss Almarene Johnson,
French, Griffin High; David
Nell, Math, Griffin High; Mrs.
Betty Turner, Business
Education, Griffin High.
Resignations
Miss Martha Brand, Math,
Spalding II; Miss Gail Rucker,
Science, Spalding III; Mrs. Ann
Wilkinson, English, Spalding
III; Mrs. Carolyn Head,
Business Education, Griffin
High; Larry Kendrick, Science,
Griffin High; Julian Russell,
French and Journalism, Griffin
High; Mrs. Bobbi Hooks,
English, Spalding II; Mrs.
Marjorie Hobson, Math, Unit I.
was to the people of Houston
County.”
The Perry farmer charged
that Gambrell had a “vice
presidential complex” — that
the senator thought it necessary
to be voting in the Senate only
when he could break a tie.
Gambrell said that Nunn “has
been running a smear cam
paign” and had attacked his
personal character.
Historic house
burns on Taylor
Heavy five o’clock traffic
hampered fire fighting
operations yesterday afternoon
at 611 West Taylor street where
a blaze damaged heavily an
historic Griffin house.
Firemen stretched hoses and
equipment across streets to
connect with fire plugs but
afternoon traffic hampered fire
fighting.
The call came at 5:10 p.m. to
the two story house owned by
Mrs. Munroe d’Antignac. It was
vacant and was to have been
torn down.
Fireman Douglas Gilbert, Jr.,
was slightly injured when the
roof caved in with him as he
battled the blaze.
He suffered a leg injury.
The historic house was built
104 years ago by Dr. J. H.
DeVotie, pastor at the time of
the First Baptist Church of
Griffin.
DeVotie Baptist Church in
Experiment is named in his
honor.
The house belonged to his
grand-daughter, Mrs. Munroe
d’Antignac. Prior to the fire Mr.
and Mrs. d’Antignac had leased
the property to the McDonald
restaurant chain and moved to
451 Mimosa drive. The house
was empty when it burned and
Mr. and Mrs. d’Antignac
speculated that “it must have
been caused by vandals.”
Before moving, the d’An
tignacs had given a walnut stair
rail from it to the Griffin
Historical Society, a granite
curbing from a water well to the
Flint River Baptist Association
for use at its camp near
Pomona, and Dr. Devotie’s
books to DeVotie Baptist
Church. They had been removed
before the fire.
The stair well had been in-
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5 systems ordered to form
new desegregation plans
NEW ORLEANS (UPI )-Five
of Georgia’s 81 school districts
have been ordered by the sth
UJS. Circuit Court of Appeals to
come up with new
stalled in the house about 1875
and had been taken from an
Episcopal school named the
College of Central Georgia. It
had operated at 13th and Broad
streets for several years and
then closed.
The house which burned had
been vacant for about a week,
and demolition work had begun
on it and one next door which
also belongs to Mrs. d’Antignac
and which she has leased to
McDonald. Fixtures and fur
nishings had been removed and
insurance cancelled.
School board sign-up
to open here Sept. 5
Griffin-Spalding voters will
elect five school board mem
bers Nov. 7 to serve four-year
terms.
This will be the first time the
community will elect board
members on an at-large basis.
This means that all citizens in
the city or county will vote in all
five races.
Until voters approved the
change in a referendum last
spring, the county had elected
five board members and the
city five. School officials asked
for the change to bring the
election in line with the one
man-one vote principle ordered
by federal courts.
Board members whose terms
expire Dec. 31 this year include
W. G. Blakeney, Miss Anne Hill
Drewry, Russell Smith, Edward
Stallings and John West.
Candidates for any of the five
posts must register with the
county ordinary between Sept. 5
at noon and Sept. 29 at noon.
They must pay a S2O
desegregation plans.
The court, in a ruling re
turned Monday, said that one
of the districts, Newton County,
apparently was using busing in
reverse to maintain segregation.
The circuit also ordered one
district in Alabama, Marengo
County, to come up with a bet
ter plan.
In still another desegregation
development, the court reversed
a ruling of the Atlanta district
courts which had dismissed a
motion in which the Justice De
partment had sought to enjoin
the Baker County school board
from selling a public school
building to Baker Academy.
The court ordered new hear
ings to be held in the Albany
U. S. District Court in that
case.
Besides Newton, the sth Cir
cuit singled out Elbert, Taylor
and Dougherty County districts
and the Decatur city school
system.
As for Elberton, Newton and
registration fee.
The election will be on the
same date as the November 7
general election.
Carryover board members
will be C. T. Parker, Henry
Walker, Bill Westmoreland, Dr.
Tom Hunt and Kenneth Un
derwood.
School board elections are
held every two years with
members elected for four year
terms.
“Nothing will keep a fellow
honest like being trusted.”
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Taylor Counties and the Deca
tur city system, the appeals
court criticized the Georgia dis
trict court for failing to imple
ment all provisions of earlier
rulings relative to faculty and
staff.
The lower courts were told to
implement all pertinent provi
sions of the case of Singleton
v. Jackson “relating to deseg
regation of faculty and other
staff, school construction and
site selection and attendance
outside system of residence.”
In the Dougherty County case
the court found that a modified
plan by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
“has not effectively desegregat
ed a substantial number of
schools in the system.”
There, it ordered the case re
manded for a hearing and sub
mission of a new plan since “we
are not furnished with a
satisfactory basis for the
continued existence of the large
number of one-race and
predominantly one - race
schools in the system.
The court ordered that the
lower courts should make each
of Georgia’s school districts
parties to the statewide deseg
regation suit now before it. This
move would allow U.S. district
courts other than in Atlanta to
conduct hearings and to better
supervise desegregation.
In the Newton County rul
ing, the court said “there is one
all - black school East Newton,
and one virtually all - white
school, Heard-Mixon, which it
is alleged are kept racially
identifiable by allowing freedom
of choice when simple zoning
or pairing alternatives exist
which would completely deseg
regate these schools.
“Under freedom of choice,
black students living in the
Heard-Mixon area are bused to
East Newton, approximately six
miles away.
“White students who live in
the immediate vicinity of East
Newton are bused to predomi
nantly white Mansfield school,
eight miles away.