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. Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 28, 1972
Page 8
Chamber speaker
Doug Kiker is coming home
The National Broadcasting
Company’s (NBC) Washington
News Correspondent Douglas
Kiker will be the featured
speaker at this year’s annual
Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce banquet Tuesday,
Jan. 9. It will be at Spalding
Junior High II cafeteria.
A Griffin native, Kiker has
been based in the nation’s
capital since 1966, except for a
brief period from November,
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1969, until October, 1971, when
he was stationed at NBC’s
Rome bureau.
As NBC’s correspondent in
Rone, Kiker reported the death
of Egypt’s President Nasser,
and the 1370 erruption of Jordan
into civil war.
Other assignments have
taken him all over Western
Europe and the Middle East.
Kiker, a Spalding High School
graduate, probably will stay
with his father while in Griffin.
His father, R. D. Kiker, lives
at 130 Lake avenue.
Before joining NBC’s news
staff in 1966, Kiker was the New
York Herald Tribune’s White
House correspondent.
He was in Dallas when Presi
dent Kennedy was assassinat
ed, having been sent there to
cover the President’s visit.
Kiker said he remembers the
details vividly, from the
moment the Presidential
limousine pulled away from the
motorcade until he was stan
ding outside Parkland Hospital
and heard over Vice President
Johnson’s car radio that the
President had just died.
Before joining the Herald
Tribune in 1963, Kiker was
director of information for the
Peace Corps.
Prior to his Peace Corps
work, he was the Washington
correspondent for the Atlanta
Journal.
Part of his assignment while
he was with the Journal was a
twice-weekly column he wrote
for the Cox newspaper chain,
which included the Atlanta
Journal, the Dayton (Ohio)
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Born in Griffin in 1930, he was
graduated from Presbyterian
College in Clinton, S.C. in 1952.
After college he entered the
U. S. Navy OCS through com
petitive examinations, and then
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Hospital Report
The following persons were
admitted to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital:
Mrs. Hallijeane Stevens, Mrs.
Pat Keller, Eddie Hubbard,
Mrs. Ellen Maddox, Mrs.
Gladys Parker, Mrs. Christi
Peugh, Edward Head, Curtis
Raybon, James Gilbert, W.
served as a deck officer aboard
aircraft carriers off Korea.
Kiker has written two books:
“The Southerner” (1957), a
story about integration, and
“Strangers on the Shore”
(1959), a book about the peace
time navy.
He has written articles for
Look, Good Housekeeping,
Harper’s, the Yale Review and
the Atlantic Monthly.
Chamber of Commerce
Executive Vice President Russ
Spangler said that 156 tickets
had already been sold to the
banquet.
Former Chamber President
Lee Roy Claxton is banquet
chairman.
David Perry, G. Dustin Talley,
Mrs. Sharon Fuller, Onree
Gamer Sr., Mrs. Mattie Mc-
Cord, Mrs. Kate Richardson,
Scott Grady, Mrs. Thelma
Patterson, Mrs. Emma Jo
Smith, Mrs. Nora Bankston,
Mrs. Olivia Ford, Mrs. Doris B.
Adams, Mrs. Minnie Perteet,
Mrs. Sara Toland, Mrs. Nancy
J. Dick, Mrs. Erma Jean
Brooks, Dorothy Hambrick, L.
G. Moore, Mariane Duncan,
Miss Nora King, Mrs. Mary
Davis, Mrs. Leola Y. Ison.
The following were dismiss
ed:
Clifford W. Henley, Mrs.
Barbara Hale, Mrs. Myrtle
James and baby, Mrs. Barbara
Norman and baby, Mrs.
Elfrieda Harps, Kari Whit
worth, Mrs. Fanny Anthony,
William R. Cochran, L. M.
Dutton, Mrs. Dianne Kendrick
and baby, Everett Thomas,
Mrs. Eula Nolton.
Property Transfers
The following property
transfers were recorded during
the past week in the office of
Spalding County Superior Court
Clerk F. P. Lindsey.
Thomas S. Greer to General
Griffin Properties Inc., five lots
in the Second Land District;
General Griffin Properties Inc.
to Thomas S. Greer, two lots in
the Second Land District* Lee
and Judy B. Christian to
General Griffin Properties Inc.
house and lot in Blake Sub
division; Clara B. Cox to
Baptist Tabernacle of Griffin,
three acres on Carver road;
FGS Enterprises Inc. to Roy M.
Foshee, lot on Landsdown
drive; John B. Wood Jr. to Joel
Lynch, house and lot Teamon
road; Marvin E. Johnson to
James L. and Bennie L.
Phillips, house and lot Am
berwoods subdivision.
L. J. Ballard Sr. and L. J.
Ballard Jr. to L. Bruce Cald
well, one acre Hall road; Ed
ward and Brenda Diann Turner
Coggin to Miss Ann Bond, two
acres in the Union District;
Sam E. Cobb to William C. and
Linda J. Sinden, house and lot
Vineyard Heights Subdivision;
Ex-Cel Builders of Griffin Inc.
to John Hudik, house and lot
Kennedy Drive; Emily G.
Jordan to George M. Murray
Jr., house and lot Hamilton
Boulevard; John W. Armsby to
B. D. Adams and Samuel W.
Preston Jr., house and lot on
School road; Meeks Realty Inc.
to Harry D. Banks, six and a
half acres Third Land District.
Stork Club
MASTER KELLER
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R.
Keller of 1110 West Poplar
street, Griffin, announce the
birth of a son on Dec. 27 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
MASTER ADAMS
Mr. and Mrs. William R.
Adams of 638 West Poplar
street, Griffin, announce the
birth of a son on Dec. 27 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
MASTER DUNCAN
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E.
Duncan of 713 Greenwood road,
Thomaston, announce the birth
of a son on Dec. 28 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.