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By Quimby Multon
Weekend Notes:
First report this morning was
that 15 persons had been killed
on Georgia highways over the
weekend. One of these was a 17-
year-old Griffin boy, Douglas
Wayne Henry, who lost control
of his car Sunday night. The car
turned over and he was fatally
injured.
In addition to these highway
fatalities news from Marianna,
Fla. told of three Georgia
students’ being drowned while
dcin diving in underwater caves
there.
The week began with doctors
confronted with a problem. The
question was whether to give
little Tara Taylor anti-rabies
shots. She had been bitten on the
nose by a dog while she and her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Taylor, were visiting in
Mableton. It was decided to
wait a few days and, thanks be,
all danger disappeared and
little Tara is well and happy.
The Board of Education or
dered all bus routes altered so
they would not have to cross the
Taylor and Poplar street
bridges over Southern Railway
tracks. State Highway officials
said the bridges were unsafe for
school buses.
The Health Board has invited
City and County Commissioners
and the County Zoning Board to
meet with them in an effort to
agree on the size of lots for
homes in the county. This was
being done in hopes of im
proving sanitation and health in
the county.
The United Fund, Frank Akin
chairman, opened today. The
goal is $91,200.
Preston Bunn, Griffin busi
nessman, said he planned to run
for the city commission.
Griffin’s Bears won 13-0 from
Clarke-Central (formerly
Athens High). Griffin plays
Jonesboro this Friday night in
their second away from home
game. The first was with
Decatur and resulted in a 26-26
tie.
Georgia Bulldogs opened
their season with a 24 to 14 win
over Baylor; and Georgia Tech
looked most impressive in
smothering South Carolina 34 to
6.
In professional football, the
Falcons smothered the Chicago
Bears 37-21 in a game played in
the windy city.
President Nixon’s personal
representative Henry
Kissinger, returned to Washing
ton after trips to Moscow and
London and Paris. Rumors
circulated of another effort
being made to bring about
peace in Indochina.
Hanoi freed three POWs. One
of the three is a Georgian, Maj.
Edward Knight Elias of Valdos
ta.
Presidential race tempo
quickened. Gallup poll says
Nixon today is choice of 62
percent of the under 30 voters.
Senator George McGovern,
speaking in Arizona, said he
does not believe this. He said a
30 and under voter who votes for
Nixon “doesn’t know which end
is up.”
A crowd of 10,000 was there to
greet him. With Senator Ted
Kennedy appearing with him on
the platform at Chicago, an
ever larger crowd was present.
Senator Barry Goldwater
took the stump in Georgia for
Republican Fletcher Thomp
son, GOP candidate for the U. S.
Senate, and urged Georgia
voters to give him a landslide
victory.
Legislator Sam Nunn,
Thompson’s opponent, was in
Washington, becoming familiar
with the duties of a senator. He
returned home and is ready to
canvas the state actively.
Neither Nunn nor Thompson
is taking the other “lightly”.
“So few of us seem to have it
that I wonder why they don’t
call it uncommon sense.”
Student
killed
in wreck
A Griffin High School junior,
Douglas Wayne Henry, 17, of
Experiment, was killed last
night around 7:10 p.m. when his
car overturned on the Old
McDonough road, near Oxford
Thief left
Hampton couple
$5 in Daytona
A thief took all but $5 from a
Hampton man’s wallet after he
and his wife left their motel
room at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Self
of Hampton told Daytona Beach
police they left their room at
Holiday Inn, 2770 North Atlantic
Avenue about 11 a.m. last
Thursday.
Mr. Self, 23, said he left his
shorts with his wallet con
taining $145 in assorted bills on
a table top. When he and his
wife returned about 2 p.m., they
found that $l4O had been
removed from the wallet. Only
a $5 bill remained. He said the
door was locked when he and his
wife left and it was still locked
when they returned. Nothing
else was reported missing.
The motel maid who cleaned
the room told police the door
was unlocked when she entered
the room. She said she locked
the door when she finished
working in the room.
Police said there were no
signs of forced entry.
Heat may have killed
Monticello gridder
EATONTON, Ga. (UPI) - A
heat stroke considered a likely
cause of death of a 16-year-old
high school football player who
collapsed during a game after
an autopsy was inconclusive,
doctors said.
Films also failed to show any
injury which might have led to
the Friday night death of tackle
Tony Carter, according to
coach Lamar Lipham of Eagle
ton’s Monticello High School.
Dr. Ed Davis, who treated
the young gridder at Putnam
General Hospital before he died,
said he suspected Carter died
of a heat stroke “but no con
clusions as to the cause of
death can be known until re
sults of microscopic studies are
known in several days.”
Carter, a 5-11, 200- pound
tackle, collapsed in the third
quarter of his team’s game
with Putnam County Friday
Georgian among three POWs freed
TOKYO (UPl)—North Viet
nam Sunday released three
American prisoners of war to
their waiting relatives and a
U.S. peace group in Hanoi, the
Communist Vietnam News
Agency (VNA) said.
The VNA dispatch, monitored
in Tokyo, said “a moving
moment followed” when two of
the three men—all pilots—were
reunited with members of their
families in the downtown
ceremony.
The three men, all pilots,
were Navy Lt. (j.g.) Markham
L. Gartley of Dunedin, Fla.,
captured Aug. 17, 1969; Navy
Lt. Norris Alphonzo Charles of
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road, some 3.4 miles east of
Griffin.
Troopers at the Griffin Post of
the Georgia State Patrol said
the youth was traveling north
when, for no apparent reason,
his car ran off the left side of the
road, traveled some 150 feet
down the shoulder, then came
back across the road and
overturned. Hairy was thrown
from the vehicle, they said.
He died of severe head injur
ies.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Henry. In addition to
being a student, he also was
employed at Crompton-High
land Mill.
He had resided here for only a
time, moving to Griffin
from Miami, Fla., with his
family.
In addition to his parents, he
is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Douglas L. Smith, Mrs.
Verlon Rivers and Mrs. Betty
Hilliard of Griffin; two
brothers, Bobby Henry of
Griffin and Ronnie Henry of
Atlanta and grandmother, Mrs.
Hilda Hahn of Bakersville,
Calif.
Funeral services will be
conducted Tuesday afternoon at
3 o’clock in Haisten’s chapel.
The Rev. James Blalock will
officiate and burial will be in
Oak Hill cemetery. Haisten
Funeral Home is in charge of
plans.
night.
“About the only thing we
have to go on so far,” said Dr.
Davis, “was that he had a real
high fever when he came into
the hospital. He maintained that
high temperature—we were not
able to cool it down—and he
also had a rapidly beating
pulse.
“We’re suspecting — or at
least I’m suspecting—that he
had a heat stroke. But that
has not been confirmed.
“He rapidly went downhill and
died after he got here,” the
physician said.
Coach Lipham described the
tragedy.
“It happened late in the third
quarter. We were in our goal
line defense and Tony was
slanting toward the line.
“That’s one slide. In the next
one, he’s getting up off the
ground and walking toward the
San Diego, Calif., captured Dec.
30, 1971, and Air Force Maj.
Edward Knight Elias, of
Valdosta, Ga., captured April
20.
The report said the prisoners
“joyfully greeted” peace com
mittee members David Dellin
ger, Mrs. Cora Weiss, Princeton
University Prof. Richard Falk
and The Rev. William Sloane
Coffin Jr. of Yale University.
Charles’ wife and Gartley’s
■ mother accompanied the peace
group, called “The Committee
of Liaison with the Families of
American Servicemen Detained
in North Vietnam,” to Hanoi to
meet the prisoners.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, September 18, 1972
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These are some of the dumpsters which have arrived here and are to become
part of Spalding County’s new garbage service for residents of the county.
They are to be placed about the county so residents can take house garbage
Auto hits deer;
two youths hurt
Two Stockbridge teenagers
were injured last night when
their car hit a deer on Ga. 155
about nine miles north of Mc-
Donough in Henry County.
State Patrolmen said
Raymond Clay Foster, 17 and
Ben Shurling, 18, were carried
to DeKalb General Hospital
with injuries.
They told troopers their auto
hit a deer, the hood flew up and
hit the windshield and the auto
swerved off the toad and
skidded into a culvert. The auto
was demolished.
end zone. Why he was on the
ground I don’t know.
“Once on the sidelines then,”
the coach said, “he collapsed.
We revived him and he seemed
oaky for a few seconds and
then was real sick. We rushed
him to the hospital immed
iately.”
Members of the family and
friends were at his bedside
when he died, Lipham said.
“I just don’t know what to
say,” Lipham said. “Somehow
everything you say at times like
these sounds all wrong. How
we’ll carry on I don’t know.
“You always hear of things
like this happening to the other
person,” the coach said. “And
now it’s happened to us. It
makes you wonder if you’re in
the right business. I wonder if
I did something wrong...if this
tragedy could have been pre
vented.”
VNA said that after the
ceremony the pilots, “their
families and the peace group
drove to the hotel reserved for
them.” A Columbia Broadcast
ing System (CBS) radio report
from Hanoi said the pilots and
the visiting American group
were expected to take “some
tours of damaged areas” before
returning to the United States.
It was not known what route
the group would take out of
Hanoi, but it was considered
likely they would fly to Moscow
on the Soviet Aeroflot airline
next Saturday through Vien
tiane, Laos.
VNA quoted Gartley as
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Mrs. Evelyn Smith of Route one, Box 343, Griffin, hold her latest pet - “Little Ed” -a seven ounce,
white toy poodle. Little Ed, now six-weeks-old, weighed in at a hair over one ounce when he was
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Adult education classes
to begin night sessions
Adult Education Fall night
classes will begin tomorrow at
Moore Elementary School,
Griffin High School, Atkinson
Elementary School, and Central
Baptist Church.
The classes are aimed at
persons 16 or older who have not
completed their high school
education.
These students may study
reading, writing, English,
math, science, history and other
subjects while preparing for the
high school equivalency exam
(GED).
A morning class, under the
direction of Mrs. John Harlow,
will meet at the Oak Hill Baptist
Church on Monday and Wednes
days between 9 a.m. and noon.
The Griffin Store Front
saying “the news of my release
came as a complete surprise to
me. As long as this conflict
continues, the suffering of
the Vietnamese people will
continue, and dissensions and
unrest in the U.S. will continue,
and more American pilots will
be killed and captured.”
VNA said Gartley “promised
that back home he will make
every effort to end this war and
to get his fellow pilots
repatriated.”
“The only way to get them all
(captured pilots) home is end
the war,” VNA quoted Mrs.
Weiss as saying.
Vol. 100 No. 219
Learning Center, located on
West Taylor street, offers
continuing adult classes
Monday through Friday bet
ween 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., with the
exception of Friday afternoon
DOT plans school paving
Spalding County is to get a
contract for paving at four
schools in the Griffin-Spalding
System, according to Bert
Lance, director of the Depart
ment of Transportation.
He announced he has . ap
proved preparation of the
contract with Spalding County
Commissioners.
The paving is to be done on
parks and drives at Anne Street
school, the Education Services
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HANOI—At left, Navy Lt. Norris Alphonzo Charles, of San Diego, Calif., is reunited with his wife,
Olga, and at right, Navy Lt. Markham L. Gartley, of Dunedin, Fla., is reunited with his mother,
after they and a fellow prisoner were released Sunday from a North Vietnamese prison camp. The
three American prisoners of war were released to a U.S. peace group and some members of their
families. (UPI)
to them for disposal. The county has purchased a specially built truck to pick
up the garbage placed in the dumpsters. The County Commissioners will
announce when the dumpsters are put into place and are ready for use.
when they close at 4 p.m.
There is no charge for
materials or instruction in
Griffin’s Adult Education
Classes.
building on Vineyard road, the
resurfacing of the bus drive at
Spalding Junior High Unit One,
and the bus turn-around at the
rear of the cafeteria at Fourth
Ward School.
A spokesman for the Spalding
County Commissioners office
today said the contract had not
been received. He said the
amount of money involved
would not be known until the
contract arrives here.
Forecast
Clearing
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United
fund
starts
General solicitations began
today in the annual United Fund
campaign.
The goal is $91,200 and the
drive will end Oct. 20, according
to Frank Akin, chairman of the
fund raising effort.
Nine agencies will share in
the budget.
Advance gifts solicitors
already have been at work on
the drive.
Chairman Akin asked that
Griffinites be ready to make a
contribution or pledge when a
solicitor calls the first time.
This will hold call-backs to a
minimum and help complete
the drive quickly, he said.
Volunteer solicitors were
urged to complete calling their
lists as soon as possible and to
make reports as soon as they
can.
Clothing
drive set
Sept. 25
The Kiwanis Club will have its
annual clothing drive next
Monday night, Sept. 25. Clothing
collected from over the com
munity will be put in a clothing
bank to be distributed to needy
students in the Griffin-Spalding
School System.
Scott Searcy, chairman of the
Kiwanis committee handling
the drive, said the annual
roundup would begin at 7 p.m.
Kiwanis members with
volunteer helpers will cover the
community to pick up the
clothing.
They have asked Griffinites to
begin this week, gathering the
clothing they plan to donate and
have it ready next Monday
night when a Kiwanis
representative calls. This will
help speed the drive.