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By Quimby Melton
Quite often on election day
Good Evening recalls some
election day stories he heard
told when a younger man living
in South Georgia. Especially
has this been the case when the
election campaigns brought on
certain pertinent charges made
by the candidates.
One of those stories was of the
“village drunk” who was a
registered voter and who never
missed voting. One day there
was a “confrontation” meeting
of the two candidates. People
were interested in seeing what
they would charge each other in
a face to face meeting. The
“village drunk” sobered up
enough to stagger to the
meeting. After it was over, he
was asked what he thought of
the candidates. His reply:
“Both spoke mighty highly of
himself and low rated his op
ponent.”
Another voter was said to
have been solicited to vote for a
candidate who said “You have
known me all my life. We are
about the same age, both lived
here all our lives and you know
all about me. I hope you will
vote for me.”
“That’s why I can’t” said the
other. “I don’t know a thing
about your opponent, and I
know all about you. That’s why
I’ll take my chances and vote
for the other fellow. He might
make a better official than
you.”
Autos stored
on farm
at Sunny Side
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Some 14,000 Ford Torino 1973
automobiles are being stored on
the Sunny Side farm of Rep.
John J. Flynt, Jr., until they can
be placed in the hands of
dealers.
A spokesman for the sales
division of Ford in Atlanta said
that dealers would be invited
into Atlanta this week for a
preview of the fall line.
He said the cars would be put
in the hands of dealers after
that to be ready for the fall sale
campaigns.
The automobiles are under
heavy security guard on the
Sunny Side farm.
Board rejects car price hikes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Price Commission today turned
down the request of General
Motors and Ford to raise prices
on 1973 model automobiles.
Commission chairman V.
Jackson Grayson Jr. said he
took the action because price
increases might push profits of
the two giant automakers over
the ceilings authorized under
the Economic Stabilization Act.
The increases requested by
Chrysler, American Motors and
International Harvester
remained suspended pending
the results of public hearings on
auto industry pricing policies
scheduled to begin Sept. 12.
Grayson said Ford and
General Motors could come
back as early as Oct. 1 with
new increase requests based on
financial data from their third
quarter figures. He conceded
. PSC recommends phone rate hike
ATLANTA (UPI) — The staff of the State Public
i Service Commission has recommended Southern Bell
Telephone Co. be allowed to increase its rates by about 12
per cent, just half a per cent less than the company has
asked for.
Southern Bell has asked the PSC for a 12 and a half per
cent hike, but a senior commissioner staff man
recommended Monday the telephone company get an
• increase of $19,344,000, or about 12 per cent.
The PSC staff did not recommend how the proposed rate
increase should be structured— the key to determining
, which telephone customers will bear the hike.
State says two jails here
not meeting standards
The State Fire Marshall’s
office has sent letters to the
Griffin Police Department and
the Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department advising them that
both the city and county jails
are not meeting the minimum
regulations for life safety under
the Georgia Safety Fire Law.
Seventeen deficiencies were
found to exist at the city jail; 24
at the county facility.
Both city and county officials
say they will do all possible to
bring the jails up to standard,
but as both buildings are so old,
it may be impossible to comply
with all the regulations.
Several of the deficiencies at
both places can be corrected
easily, officials said, such as
making fire evacuation plans
available, storing paint and
other flamable items away
from the cell blocks, and
mounting fire extinguishers on
the walls.
Maj. Kenneth Underwood of
the Griffin Police Department
said it would be impossible to
comply with all regulations at
the city jail without building
new facilities. The report stated
that the city jail is inadequately
separated and protected from
the rest of the building which
houses the City Hall, court
room, fire department and
offices. Also listed were im
proper wiring, inadequate exits,
no sprinklers and no emergency
lighting.
County Commissioner Jack
Moss said that the county plans
to make every effort to comply
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“It’s surprising how a little
appreciation will help a fellow
through gobs of criticism.”
that the commission could
grant the new requests prior to
November but he emphatically
denied the order was issued
with an eye toward giving the
administration a pre-election
image of being tough on
business.
“We made this decision
independent of any election
date,” Grayson said.
General Motors, the tradition
al price leader in the auto
industry, had asked the com
mission for a $54 average
increase on its 1973 passenger
cars and trucks. Ford wanted
to boost its prices by an
average $59. Both companies
said they needed the extra
money to cover costs of
government-required safety
bumper and exhaust standards.
Both requests had been
scaled down—Ford from $91.52
—and General Motors from sßs—
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 29, 1972 Vol. 100 No. 202
and that Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
has said his department will
correct several minor
deficiencies themselves. The
county jail was criticised for
using a cardboard box for a
trash can in one of the rest
rooms and poor housekeeping in
the cell block.
Moss said that they want the
jails to be safe and that the
county plans to obtain bids on
other corrections concerning
the building. These deficiencies
included inadequate separation
between the cell area and ad
ministrative areas, inadequate
exits, stair not enclosed, kitchen
not enclosed, and improper
wiring.
Youth, 18,
arrested
in burglaries
Griffin Police have recovered
some stolen merchandise and
have arrested a teenager and
charged him with five recent
house burglaries and the theft of
a bicycle. More burglary
warrants are expected to be
taken, police said.
Held in the Spalding County
jail was Gary Reno Miller, 18, of
517 Not th Hill street. He was
being held for violation of
probation and on four warrants.
Detectives said Miller has
been charged with three
burglaries at the home of Hugh
M. Terrell, 426 West Broad
street, in which silver, small
electrical appliances, and a
radio were taken; the June 29
break-in at the Jerry McClain
residence, 123 Tilney avenue, in
which jewelry, money and a
pistol were taken; the July 28
burglary at the home of Bill
Woodward, 855 Hillcrest
avenue, in which a television
and watch were taken; and the
theft of a 10-speed bicycle from
the porch of Leia Worthy’s
residence, 444 North Eighth
street. Detectives said the
bicycle and some of the mer
chandise from each of the
burglaries have been
recovered.
They are continuing their
investigation.
after the administration called
the companies’ top executives
to the White House two weeks
ago to ask that the increases be
withdrawn.
The increases of the three
other companies were: Chrys
ler $91.32, American Motors
$149.68 and International Har
vester $47.
A decision as to how much, if
any, of these increases should
take effect will be made after
testimony from next month’s
hearings has been digested,
Grayson said.
In letters to GM chairman
Richard C. Gerstenberg and
Ford executive vice president
J. Edward Lundy, Grayson said
the increases were turned down
because the companies were
“not technically qualified at
this time for price increase
consideration.”
Under the company proposal, Atlanta area phone bills
would go up about $1.25 per month.
The Southern Bell proposal includes an experimental
plan that would allow a low rate based on low usage by
corecity, poor subscribers. The plan would allow a
customer to pay $5,95 a month if he only made 20 outgoing
calls. The customer could take as many incoming calls as
he wished.
Hie PSC seems likely to approve the experiment, for at
least a year, if the company agrees to extend it statewide
if the project is successful.
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Jackson Road Elementary School first grade teacher Mrs. Nancy Hattaway
talks about the color red with first day students (1-r) Mike Henshaw, Gloria
Rice, and Patricia Durden. Students throughout the Griffin-Spalding School
System began the 1972-73 term today.
School enrollment gains
First day enrollment in the
Griffin-Spalding School. System
totaled 8,866.
This was 321 more than
reported for school on the first
day of the term last year.
School administrators have
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Who’s
eligible
to vote
Any qualified voter who did
not vote in the Republican
Primary three weeks ago is
eligible to vote in the Democra
tic Primary runoff election
today. This includes those who
did vote in the Democratic
Primary on Aug. 8 plus those
who did not vote at all then. The
only qualified voters who can
not vote in today’s election are
those who voted in the
Republican Primary three
weeks ago.
estimated enrollment may
reach 9,300 or 9,400 within the
first two weeks of school.
Private schools in this area
have not opened. Sacred Heart
is scheduled to open Thursday.
Griffin Academy and Griffin
Christian School are scheduled
to open Sept. 5.
A spokesman for the Griffin-
Spalding System said enroll
ment is expected to increase
daily for the next two weeks.
By then the system will begin
to get an idea of what average
daily attendance will be in the
system.
First day enrollment by
schools in the system was as fol-
Senoia wreck
injures two;
cattle killed
SENIOA, Ga. (UPI) — Police
said 15 cattle burned to death
and eight to 10 others had to
be killed because of injuries
they suffered when a tanker
truck and tractor trailer haul
ing cattle collided Monday.
Officers said the driver of the
cattle truck, Leon Marshall
Key, 47, of Meigs, and the other
driver, Clinton Semmons of Co
lumbus, were seriously injured
in the mishap, at the intersec
tion of state highways 16 and
85.
Both power and phone service
were cut off when fire flared up
from the leaking gas and
spread to a nearby power pie
and to a restaurant. The rest
aurant was not damaged.
Traffic on the roads was tied
up for several hours, and fire
men from four nearby commun
ities had to fight the blaze.
lows:
Atkinson 687
Beaverbrook 643
Crescent 628
East Griffin 294
Fourth Ward 503
Talc suspected
in infant deaths
PARIS (UPI)—It looks like
any other talcum powder,
harmless enough in its brightly
decorated can. But health
officials suspect it has caused
24 infant deaths, and a massive
drive was on today to remove it
from the nation’s marketplaces.
Reports poured in from
around the country of babies
already dead or dying, repor
tedly because their mothers
sprinkled them with the talcum
powder, named “Bebe” (baby).
One physician said that death
came quickly, from 24 to 48
hours after first outbreak of the
symptoms—diarrhea, extreme
sleepiness, convulsive move
ments and large swellings on
the buttocks where the powder
had been applied.
The unofficial death toll
attributed to the powder stood
at 24. At least 21 of the deaths
were counted in Aube and
Ardennes Provinces in north
east France where first reports
came to light of a possible link
between “Bebe” powder and a
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 62, high yesterday
88, low yesterday 63; estimated
low tonight near 60; estimated
high tomorrow near 80; sunrise
tomorrow 7:15, sunset
tomorrow 8:02.
Griffin has largest PD
Griffin has the largest police department of any city its
size in Georgia.
This was shown in the FBl’s publication “Uniform
Crime Reports -1971” which was made public today. The
report showed that as of Dec. 31, 1971, Griffin’s police
department employed 57 people, 51 of them males and six
females.
Gainesville and Waycross had 49 each, Gainesville with
46 males and three females, and Waycross with 43 males
and six females. LaGrange was next with 48 of whom 45
were males and three females. College Park had 43, all
but one males.
Jackson Road 411
Moore 475
North Side 243
Orrs 551
Third Ward 265
West Griffin 275
series of unexplained infant
deaths.
Health officials have ordered
the gaily colored, red and blue
flowered plastic cans of talc
seized from store shelves and
sent to Paris, where experts at
the toxicology laboratory of
police headquarters will analyze
it. Police were under orders to
seize the powder and keep it
from the public until the tests
are completed.
Preliminary laboratory re
ports said the powder contains
6 per cent hexachlorophene, a
commonly used skin disinfec
tant. A health official said the 6
per cent figure was “high” but
added that no human tolerance
limits have been defined for the
chemical agent.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has previously
urged American consumers to
make restrained use of pro
ducts containing hexachloro
phene.
Officials said the powder is
sold in groceries and super
markets, thus preventing regu
lation by laws applying to
products sold in pharmacies.
The Morhange Parfumerie
firm, manufacturer of the
powder, said it only made a
concentrate of the substance
and that another company,
5.E.T.1.C.0., refined and pack
aged the product.
Forecast
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Spalding 111 831
Spalding n 860
Spalding I 761
Griffin High 1439
Total 8,866
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PARIS—This can of talcum
powder looks harmless enough
in its brightly decorated can,
but health officials in Paris
suspect it has caused 24 infant
deaths, and a massive drive
was on to remove it from the
nation’s marketplaces. The
unofficial death toll attributed
to the powder stands at 24.
(UPI)