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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Kiwanis announced it would
hold its annual clothing drive
today. Clothing suitable for
wear by needy school children
will be picked up, repaired, and
cleaned, then placed in a cloth
ing bank. School authorities will
handle the distribution to child
ren.
A Griffin girl, now a student
at the University of Georgia,
told the Kiwanis Club of her
visit to Moscow. Miss Maribeth
Caste Haw, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Castellaw,
discussed interestingly her trip.
Prior to entering the Univer
sity, she attended Abraham
Baldwin College at Tifton where
“she took every academic
honor a girl could win.’’
Griffin High’s Bears defeated
Jonesboro 41-14. The game was
played at Tara Stadium. Next
Friday night Griffin will play at
home meeting North Clayton, a
team considered one of the
strongest in this area. But the
Bears will win, this old timer
predicts.
Our good neighbors over in
Pike County celebrated the
sesquicentennial. Part of Spald
ing was once part of Pike and
we had a more than passing
interest in the celebration there.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, Lt.
Governor Lester Maddox, and
Congressman John J. (Jack)
Flynt were present to help
celebrate. Flynt was marshal of
the big parade and then on
Sunday spoke at a homecoming
rally in Williamson.
Reports showed DeKalb
County was the richest county
in the nation — per capita in
come. In fact, the margin was
$2,000 per family. Now Spalding
probably does not come any
where near the DeKalb aver
age, since we do not have as
many manufacturing concerns
as she. But we do have other
“riches” that are even more to
be desired. For we have
churches, homes, radio stations
and a newspaper dedicated to
making this community a better
place in which to live.
United Nations General
Assembly opened its 27th
session in New York. Most
important on its agenda is the
war in Indo-China and wide
spread terrorism.
Final return of three POWs to
America was delayed so Viet
nam could use them as
propaganda pawns.
Federal pay board made a
decision that may lead to back
pay of salary increases to
Lockheed and Georgia teach
ers.
Gov. Carter announced he
will name area Crime Sup
pressing groups over the state.
Mayor Sam Massell ordered
Atlanta Police Chief John In
man to run two men Massell
says are national crime ring
associates out of the city.
Counter charges have been
made that a brother of the
Mayor is associated with these
two. Massell was to hold a press
interview this morning to an
swer these charges.
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“I guess the best thing to
teach a child is how to think
properly — then he’ll figure out
how to act right.”
Griffin Tech
to graduate
206 students
Graduation exercises for
Griffin Tech will be held
tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Spald
ing Junior High Auditorium,
Unit I, Varsity Road.
Edwin V. Langford, Sr.,
Director, will present the
graduates. Russell M. Smith,
chairman of the Board of
Education for Griffin Tech, will
award the diplomas. Two
hundred and six students will
graduate.
The Rev. Don H. Pye, pastor
of Mount Carmel Road Baptist
Church in Henry County and a
former instructor at Griffin
Tech will be the speaker.
Outstanding Student Awards
will be presented by Charles R.
Horton, coordinator of post
secondary education.
The students to be graduated
are:
Auto Body and Fender Repair
Michael Chapman, Ralph
Davis, James R. Johnson,
Garry W. Manry, Leon
McGhee, Stevie McGill, Joel
O’Barr, Joseph E. Pair, Paul
Pryor, Ernest Ransom, Daniel
T. Rasar, Haskel Taylor, Philip
Turner, Henry L. Twilley.
Automobile Mechanics
Willard T. Bumham, Henry
Dallas, Grover Darden Jr.,
Oscar Davis, David Glanton,
Henry Goolsby, Steve Graves,
Ronald D. Harold, Nathaniel
Harris, Jr., Albert B. Hicks, Jr.,
Willie F. Jackson, Larry Jones,
Chester Roy Kendrick, Ronald
D. Knowles, Larry Lovelace,
Aubrey Mitchell, Melvin
Parrott, Aridues B. Pitts,
Tommy W. Pritchett, James
Riggs, Jesse L. Wilkes Jr.,
Douglas C. Wilson.
Brickmasonry
Willie A. Dewberry, Eddie M.
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TOKYO-Japanese Prime Minister Kauei Tanaka waves to
crowd of well-wishers as he leaves Tokyo International
Airport for Peking. Tanaka and his party will arrive in
Peking to confer with Premier Chou En-lai on the
normalization of relations between China and Japan. (UPI)
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The Griffin Kiwanis Club will have its annual clothing g
drive tonight beginning at 7 o’clock.
Members of the club with the assistance of several g
youth groups including Key Club members and Boy §
Scouts, will leave Kroger Parking lot at the beginning of g
the drive and fan out over the community.
They will knock on doors and ask for clothing which
people may wish to donate students in the Griffin-Spalding :$
School System.
The clothing will be placed in a school clothing bank. It :•:•
will be repaired and cleaned where needed. Faculty g
members will supervise its distribution to needy students g
in the system. g
Scott Searcy is chairman of the committee handling the g
drive.
He asked that Griffinites leave their outside house lights g
on so Kiwanians can make their calls quickly and safely. g
Gas tank blasts
injure at least 8
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UPI)
— At least eight persons were
injured today, three of them
critically, when two huge gaso
line storage tanks exploded in
roaring flames at the Tri-Com
munity Shell storage yard.
Listed in critical condition at
Erlanger Hospital were Alfred
Hodge, 38, an employe of the
nearby Firestone Latex Co., and
two Ringgold, Ga., men, Don
Ross and Paul Henley.
The exploding tanks were be
lieved to belong to the Southern
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, September 25, 1972
Facilities Oil Co., one of sev
eral firms storing gasoline in
the huge yard bristling with
tanks.
All off-duty firemen and po
licemen were called back to
duty.
“We have two tanks that fully
exploded, and I think we have
some railroad tanker cars on
fire,” a Fire Department dis
patcher said.
Firemen were running out of
foam used to fight gasoline
fires and were sending to At
lanta for more. Two firemen
and a policeman received slight
bums and were treated and re
leased at Erlanger.
Area residents were evacu
ated from their homes to an
emergency shelter set up at
Hillcrest School about a mile
and a half away.
Authorities said two men
standing outside the nearby
Firestone plant had their
clothes burned off by the in
tense heat. The explosion was
of such force that it could be
heard seven miles away.
Electric power was shut off
in a wide section of the en
dangered area for fear downed
lines would set off further ex
plosions at the adjacent Shell
oil yard.
All available Chattanooga
firefighters and firefighting
equipment were used to battle
the blaze, which sent balls of
flame shooting hundreds of feet
in the air.
The Federal Aviation Admin
istration suspended all aircraft
from flying below 3,000 feet
within five miles of the area.
City, county and state police
set up roadblocks and barred
traffic within a two- mile
radius of the plant.
House leadership battles shape
ATLANTA (UPI) — George
L. Smith of Swainsboro appears
a cinch to be re-elected House
speaker.
Other House leaders, however,
may be in for a battle, though
the key members are expected
to hang onto their positions.
Smith will be nominated for
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.-Rock Climber Jim
Birdwell inches his way down the sheer granite face of El
Capitan with injured climber Neal Olson, 24, of Portland,
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sheer granite face of El Capitan. (UPI)
Webb sees attempt
for death penalty
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) — It’s al
most sure that somebody will
try to get the death penalty re
instated in Georgia in the 1973
General Assembly, according to
the chairman of the Senate Ju
diciary Committee.
The chairman, Sen. Julian
Webb of Donalsonville, says he
he is “fairly certain” legisla
tors will attempt to restore the
death penalty in certain types
of premeditated “heinous” mur
ders.
The U. S. Supreme Court
ruled Georgia’s death penalty
unconstitutional a few months
ago, forcing Georgia and other
states to re-evaluate their death
penalty laws. The court ruled
the death penalty was cruel and
unusual punishment, and has
been applied in a discrimin
atory manner.
That knocked out all execu
tions in all states. In some
another term — the fourth
straight —by the House Demo
cratic Caucus when it meets
shortly after the Nov. 7 general
election. That normally is all it
takes.
Smith has served 10 years as
speaker, although all were not
consecutive. He was speaker
Daily Since 1872
states, condemned prisoners
were re-sentenced to life.
“I feel fairly certain there
will be legislation to put the
death penalty back into force in
Georgia, but I don’t know just
to what extent it will go,” Webb
said. “It may only apply to
heinous types of crimes result
ing in death, those that are
highly aggravated and carefully
premeditated.
“I don’t know whether it also
wall apply to deaths in the fit
of anger — and the death pen
alty for rape may be lifted.”
Currently — though in a state
of flux while the state seeks a
rehearing on the Supreme Court
ruling — Georgia’s capital pun
ishment law covers first degree
murder, rape, armed robbery
and kidnaping.
Webb isn’t sure whether he,
personally, wants it back.
for four years while Ernest
Vandiver was governor, then
sat out four years during the
Sanders’ regime before he was
installed again as speaker in
1967. He’s held the job ever
since.
Tom Murphy of Bremen,
floor leader during the Maddox
Ore., who suffered a compound fracture of the right leg while
climbing the 3,000 foot rock. (UPI)
Historical Society
may buy N. Hill home
The Griffin Historical and
Preservation Society will have
a called meeting Wednesday to
decide whether to purchase the
old John Blakely Mills home on
the northeast corner of North
Hill street for restoration.
The meeting will be held at
the Community Room of
Commercial Bank & Trust
Company beginning at 4 p.m.
Douglas Hollberg, president
of the historical organization,
called the meeting.
Brown makes bid
for whip’s post
Rep. Clayton Brown, Jr., of
Griffin plans to make a spirited
bid for election as House whip.
The Democratic Party caucus
which will be held in Atlanta
after the November general
elections will decide this and
other leadership issues.
The meeting is scheduled
seven days after the Nov. 7
voting.
Brown said by then, it should
be known who will be in the
House.
He said his six years in the
House as a Spalding-Fayette re
presentative will put him in 27
to 30 position in House seniority.
He believes this will help him in
his bid for the whip’s post.
Ward Edwards of Butler, a
funeral home director and a
former Griffinite, is the current
whip.
Jack Connell of Augusta also
plans to make a bid for the post.
Brown said that the whip’s
office is fourth down in the
leadership organization of the
House. He said if he is elected,
he feels he could better serve
Spalding and Fayette Counties,
since he would be in a leader
ship position in the House.
Brown said he has been
talking with some of the House
members from the Columbus-
Muscogee, DeKalb, Cobb and
Fulton County areas for sup-
administration, appears to have
enough support to be chosen for
a second time as speaker pro
tern, capitol sources say. But
he has two opponents for the
job — Rep. Elliott Levitas of
Decatur and Rep.-elect Robin
Harris, also of Decatur, who is
returning to the Houso a
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He said that advisors have
suggested the home might be a
good location for the Society’s
headquarters.
The Society has a verbal
option on the property and must
make a decision by Sept. 30.
Total amount of money involved
in the purchase is $30,000 ac
cording to Hollberg.
He said that some members
have agreed to endorse the note
for the money to be borrowed
for the purchase.
port.
He said he had no firm
commitments but many had
told him they “would think
about it.”
Bunn enters
city race
Preston Bunn, Griffin bus.
nessman, today became the
first person to qualify for the
city commission post covering
the Third Ward.
O. M. (Pete) Snider, Jr. is the
incumbent.
Qualifying opened today at
the city hall and Bunn entered
the race at 9:40 a.m.
He had said earlier that he
would be a candidate.
Qualifying ends Oct. 23 at noon.
This will be the first venture
in seeking public office for
Bunn. He has served many
years on the Recreation Ad
visory Board of the city, an
appointive office.
The election will be held Nov.
7.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
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85, low yesterday 62, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in mid 60s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:32, sunset
tomorrow 7:32, sunset
tomorrow 7:25.
two-year absence.
George Busbee of Albany is
expected to win another term
as majority leader, but Ward
Edwards of Butler is having to
wage a spirited battle in his
ca mpaign to be re-elected House
whip. He’s being challenged by
Jack Connell of Augusta and
n-ivton Brown Jr. of Griffin.