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Two men are arrested
in livestock shootings
Two men are being held
without bond in the Spalding
County jail in connection with
last month’s horse shootings in
the eastern section of the
county.
Arrested yesterday were
Lyndon Maurice Rasbury, 24, of
1334 Ruth street and John
McCullough heads
animal science
Dr. Marshall E. McCullough,
professor of animal science,
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture Experiment
Stations, has been named head
of the Department of Animal
Science at the Georgia Ex
periment Station here by the
University System Board of
Regents.
As department head, Mc-
Cullough will direct the
research program in animal
science of Georgia’s oldest
experiment station, one of three
main stations in the College of
Agriculture’s statewide system.
He has served as acting head of
this department since July 1,
1971.
McCullough, a research
specialist in animal nutrition,
has made many outstanding
contributions to the develop
ment of Georgia’s livestock
industry. Results of his
research with silage have con
tributed greatly to its
development as a major cattle
feed in Georgia during the past
20 years. Author of 42 articles
published in national and in
ternational scientific journals,
McCullough also is a prolific
School loan
not likely
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education last night approved
borrowing up to $200,000 if local
tax money does not come in on
schedule.
The board does not believe the
loan will be necessary but took
the step in the event the money
should be needed to pay ex
penses through December.
Tax notices have been
delayed here while the State
Revenue Department was in the
process of factoring digests.
Tax notices were expected to
begin going out today.
A spokesman for the school
board said it did not want to
have to call a special meeting to
authorize a loan, should one be
needed.
Diabetic tests
set Thursday
Free diabetic tests will be
offered Thursday at the
Spalding Health Center from 2
to 4 p.m.
Anyone taking the test diould
eat a good lunch two hours
before being tested, according
to Jim Morgan, coordinator.
This will insure accuracy, he
said.
Persons taking the test who
show positive results will be
referred to their family
physician, Morgan said.
Will walk and run
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
mocratic Sen. William Prox
mire, who has an insatiable
appetite for exercise, said
Monday he plans to walk and
run 1,200 miles across his home
state of Wisconsin during the
next three months.
The 57-year-old lawmaker
said he expects to cover at
least 25 miles a day and visit
four or five communities a day,
with interruptions for congres
sional business.
The first leg of the tour will
begin in Milwaukee next
Monday and cover the state’s
southern border over a week’s
time.
Edwin Kinney, 26, of Route
Three, Box 22, Jackson.
They are charged in a
warrant with shooting two
quarter horses owned by
Johnny Sherwood. One of the
mares died as a result of the
wounds. The horses were shot
around noon on Oct. 17 while in
M. E. McCullough
contributor to popular dairy
periodicals and general farm
magazines. He is author of the
book, “Optimum Feeding of
Dairy Cattle,” which is now in
preparation for its second
edition.
McCullough is a regular
program participant in short
courses conducted by the
Cooperative Extension Service
throughout the state. He also
has presented scientific papers
or lectured on animal nutrition
in England, Scotland, The
Netherlands, West Germany,
Sweden and Finland.
A native of Wick, W. Va.,
McCullough received the B.S.
degree in agriculture from
Berea College in 1950 and the
M.S. degree in agriculture from
the University of Kentucky in
1951. He has been a member of
the research faculty at the
Georgia Station since July 1,
1951.
Weather
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BELTON, S.C—Mrs. Marie Ballentine, 96, the oldest licensed
driver in Anderson County—and possibly the state —says she
prefers her 1951 Plymouth over a newer car “because we’ve
been going around together so long we’re accustomed to each
other. “She says her car has lasted so long because she
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a pasture on the Wisso road.
On the same day two other
horses were shot and wounded
in Spalding County, a conductor
on a Southern Railway freight
train was shot at some 10 times
as his train was passing through
Monroe County, a cow was shot
and killed while grazing in a
Tho ready
for talks
By United Press International
North Vietnamese politburo
member Le Due Tho left Hanoi
for Paris today to resume
cease-fire negotiations with the
United States despite Hanoi’s
previous objections to more
such meetings. But Radio Hanoi
said if the U.S. side keeps
delaying peace, the Commu
nists will continue “and step
up” the war.
“Os late,” Radio Hanoi said,
“the United States side has
proposed another private meet
ing between the United States
and the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam (North Vietnam) to
settle the signing of an
agreement on ending the war
and restoring peace in Viet
nam.”
“Once again to show its good
will and its serious attitude,” it
said, “the Democratic Republic
of (North) Vietnam side has
agreed to this U.S. proposal.”
Presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger’s last series of talks
with Tho ended Oct. 8 in Paris
and, Hanoi said later, resulted
in a nine-point peace program
which it said Washington
promised but failed to sign Oct.
31.
In Paris, U.S. and North
Vietnamese spokesman said
I Graham crusade |
| June 18-24
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g ATLANTA (UPl)—Billy Graham will hold a crusade in
$ Atlanta June 18-24 in the 51,000-seat Atlanta Stadium. g
It will be Graham’s second crusade here. He drew a
cumulative audience of 500,000 here in 1950 with a five-
g weeks meeting.
g Thomas G. Cousins, chairman of the committee that g
sponsors Graham’s appearance, said the date of the
g crusade wus reset from May because of prior g
g commitments by Graham to appear in Korea.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, November 14, 1972
Lamar County pasture and an
auto parked on Walker’s Mill
road in Spalding County was
damaged by bullets.
Officials at the Spalding
Sheriff’s office said the two
suspects are expected to be
charged with all of the
shootings.
they knew nothing about Tho’s
arrival.
City vote
date changed
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.,
today signed a court order
setting the city commission
runoff date for Nov. 28. This is
the same date of the Griffin-
Spalding School Board runoff
election.
The order cleared the way for
both elections to be held on the
same date.
Judge Whalen signed the
order in Thomaston this mor
ning where he was holding the
criminal session of Upson
Superior Court.
Incumbent O. M. Snider, Jr.,
and businessman Preston Bunn
will be matched in the city
commission runoff. Both signed
the petition requesting the vote
day change.
Incumbent John West and
challenger Homer Williams will
be matched in the school runoff.
Only city voters will vote in
the city race but city and county
voters will cast ballots in the
school board runoff.
drives it only to the store, to church and on occasional visits
with friends. On her own age, she says: “I like to give my
mind a little workout each day and crossword puzzles
stimulate my thinking.” (UPI)
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ATLANTA—Mitsubishi International Corp., a Japanese firm
has announced the opening of an Atlanta office for
investment opportunities in the Southeast and possible
marketing of Southern products abroad. Officials of the
corporation met with Gov. Jimmy Carter and were served
tea, Japanese style. (1-r) Gov. Jimmy Carter; Toshiharu
Murder suspect holds gun
on wife enroute to hospital
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (UPI) -
A husky murder suspect held
police at bay with a gun point
ed at his wife’s head for more
than two hours today, then
agreed to ride with officers to
the state mental hospital — the
gun still aimed at his wife.
A minister, Georgia’s state
patrol chief, and two sheriffs
got into a car with the suspect,
James Robert McCranie, 29,
and the terrified woman and
they set out on the 90-mile trip
to Milledgeville with an escort
of six patrol cars and a hover
ing helicopter.
McCranie still had a gun
pointed at his wife’s stomach
although he had surrendered
another weapon which he had
kept cocked and under her chin
for about an hour and 45 min
utes while police tried to talk
him into surrendering near this
small town, about 22 miles
north of Atlanta.
McCranie is suspected of
murdering his 75 - year -old
grandfather, Robert Lee Mc-
Cranie, 75, who was found shot
to death in his home near Hawk
insville, Ga., about 100 miles
south of Atlanta.
Pulaski County Sheriff An
drew Hill, who came here when
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McCranie was surrounded by
state, county and local officers,
said the elderly man’s hands
were tied behind his back with
strings from his boots and
he had been shot in the head.
Hill said McCranie then al
legedly abducted his sister - in
law, but released her un
harmed, drove to Cumming
where he seized his wife, Hilda,
24, from whom he had been
separated for several weeks,
and fled.
Police picked up his trail at
Cumming and followed McCra
nie to a wooded area near here
where he exchanged shots with
the posse. Later, the six - foot
fugitive, who weighed about
225 pounds, agreed to sit in an
unmarked police car but kept a
.32 caliber pistol pointed at his
wife’s head.
McCranie, who shook notice
ably but kept a gun pointed at
his wife, permitted a Metho
dist minister, the Rev. J. B.
Hodges Sr., to sit with him.
At the request of Hodges, he
turned over the pistol he had
kept pointed at Mrs. McCranie’s
head but then pulled out an
other gun and rammed it into
her stomach.
After almost two hours, Mc-
Cranie then agreed to go to the
mental hospital, accompanied
by Col. Ray Pope, head of the
Rats invade Davenport
DAVENPORT, lowa (UPI) - Rising
waters from the Mississippi River and the
closing of the old city dump created a
touchy situation for Davenport officials—
an invasion of 1,000 to 1,500 rats.
However, Public Works Director Rex
Mathews says there’s no reason for
concern as the migration of rats poses “no
problem, no health danger” at present, as
long as residents don’t panic.
Mathews said Monday so far no one has
come close to being attacked by a rat and
poisoned food has been placed in sewers
and catch basins to eliminate the
vagabonds.
He said Davenport residents are being
asked to keep their pets confined to the
household and to caution children about
the poison, which has been placed in fish
heads and grains.
The rat problem came to attention
during the weekend when 150 rats were
killed by autos as they crossed U.S. 61.
Police patroled the area around the city’s
baseball stadium to discourage sightseers
from killing the rats with clubs, sticks and
baseball bats because such action would
Kido, President of Mitsubishi; Ken I. Suzuki, general
manager of the newly opened Atlanta office; and Toshihiro
Tomabechi, Executive Vice President, Mitsubishi. Serving
the tea are: (1-r) Mrs. Yoshio Mizutani and Miss Hiroe
Nakato. (UPI)
Georgia Public Safety Depart
ment, Sheriff Hill and Sheriff
W. J. Dodd of adjoining Gwin
nett County.
With three patrol cars in
front and three more in the
rear, the caravan set out for
the mental institution while a
helicopter flew overhead.
Hill said he had previously
talked McCrane, who worked in
a veneer mill, out of kill
ing himself, his wife and their
four children. “Jimmy gave
himself into the state mental
hospital about a month ago and
was there for four or five
days,” Hill said.
He called McCranie, who was
under bond for kidnaping his
Some tax notices
going out today
Some tax notices were ex
pected to be in the mail by this
afternoon, according to Mrs.
Ruby Hill, tax commissioner.
Notices have been delayed
because the local tax office had
to wait for the State Revenue
Department to factor the digest
and approve it.
Taxes on the notices which
will begin going out now will be
due Dec. 20.
Mrs. Hill said that real estate
cause the rats to attack.
Mathews said a “bunch of high school
kids from three counties” heard about the
situation Sunday night “and went to the
dump and started swinging on the rats”
but they, too, were discouraged from
contact with the animals.
A “combination of things” created the
migration, Mathews said. First, the city is
in the process of closing down the old dump
and moving into a new sanitary landfill
area. As dumping is phased out, food
becomes scarce, so the rats are moving to
find food.
In addition, water from the rising river
has flooded the rats’ home ground,
contributing to the movement.
Also, Mathews said, city officials used a
batch of poisoned food Nov. 3 at the old city
dump to try and cut down on the rat
population.
“Rats are pretty smart,” he said, “and
when they see a lot of their own are dead,
they move on.
“It’s no big thing, really,” Mathews
said. “Things are a lot worse when the
river floods.”
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wife previously and tying her
up, “highly nervous” and “very
persistent” about what he want
ed to do.
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“Maybe we need an oil
depletion allowance for folks
who are running out of elbow
grease.”
taxes will show a 28 percent
increase as a result of the
factoring required by the state.
The State Revenue Depart
ment did not factor inventory,
equipment, motor vehicles and
other personal property, Mrs.
Hill pointed out.
In effect, Mrs. Hill said that
these items will be taxed at a
lower rate so the difference will
be made up in the real estate
taxes.