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Boys ’ Club
has party
More than 75 boys and girls
attended the annual Boys’ Club
of Griffin-Spalding County
Christmas party at the East
Griffin clubhouse.
Boys’ Club board member Al
Gilespie was in charge.
A band made up of Robert
Sullins, Jeff Gilespie and Van
Turner played holiday music.
A hot dog and baked bean
supper was served the group by
Alice Baker, Charleen Jones,
Mrs. Chester Wright and Mrs.
Don Baker.
Following the meal, a magic
diow was presented by Travis
Brown.
To close the evening, Santa
Claus gave out presents to each
guest.
Special guests for the
celebration were board
members R. G. Culpepper, Don
Baker, John Hurbert and club
workers Jerry McClean and
Mary Hedderman.
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Obstructing an Officer
Without any doubt, punching a
policeman in- the nose would
amount to the crime of “obstruct
ing an officer.” But what about
the assorted lesser confrontations
that arise daily between citizen
and constable? Where does the
law draw the line?
Generally speaking, you may be
guilty of this offense even if you
do not resort to any force at all.
Take the case of a youthful
demonstrator who “went limp”
when the police ordered him
to climb into a patrol wagon.
Charged later with obstructing
an officer, he argued that he
could not be punished for simply
doing nothing.
Nevertheless, the court found
him guilty as charged. The court
said his refusal to obey a lawful
order not only delayed and ob
structed his own arrest but also
delayed and obstructed the arrest
of others.
Affirmative action, of course,
is even riskier. Thus:
A motorist lost his temper when
he found a meter maid beside his
parked car, writing up a ticket
that he felt was unjustified.
First, he refused to accept the
ticket. Then, when the meter
maid tried to put it on his wind
shield, he blocked her path and
deflected her arm.
A court concluded afterward
that these actions, added together,
did constitute the offense of ob
structing an officer.
This does not mean, however,
that a policeman has to be treated
with kid gloves. Reasonable re
monstrance is within a citizen’s
rights.
In another case, while a man
was being placed under arrest in
a tavern, his wife informed the
police—with vigor—that they had
no right to take him away. Still,
she did not interfere physically
with the arrest. Nor did she use
threatening language.
Haled into court for obstruct
ing an officer, the woman was
found not guilty of any offense.
The court said:
“Policemen are no more exempt
from criticism than cabinet min
isters.”
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Mr. Allen
Mr. Michael Duane Alien, 29,
of Atlanta, died Dec. 20 in
Atlanta.
Mr. Allen was born in Lamar
County and was a member of
the Catholic Church.
He is survived by his father,
Jack Allen of Atlanta; a sister,
Mrs. Sylvia Allen McCullough
of Culloden; a brother, Steve
Allen of Atlanta; grandmother,
Mrs. Arthur C. Pettis of
Thomaston.
The rosary will be said
tonight at 8 p.m. at Hubbard
Funeral Home. Funeral ser
vices will be conducted Friday
morning at 11 o’clock in Hub
bard Funeral Home. Father
Fitzpatrick will officiate and
burial will be in Greenwood
cemetery.
Miss Pyron
Funeral services for Miss
Eunice Opel Pyron, 55, of 206
Armstead Circle, will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock from the Corinth Baptist
Church in Rover. The Rev. W.
H. Stephens will officiate and
burial will be in Rest Haven
cemetery.
Survivors include four sisters,
Miss Osalene Piercy of Griffin,
Mrs. Lois Scott of Miami, Fla.,
Mrs. Susie A. Mack of Key
West, Fla., Mrs. Mary Parks of
Atlanta; three brothers, Em
mett C. Pyron of Chattanooga,
Tenn., Robert Pyron of Atlanta
and Benjamin R. Pyron of
Griffin; aunts, uncles, nieces
and nephews also survive.
The family will receive
friends and relatives at Mc-
Dowell United Funeral Home
tonight from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The body will remain at the
funeral home.
Mr. Thurmon
Mr. Willie Thurmon of 223
Quincy avenue died Wednesday
afternoon at the VA hospital in
Atlanta.
Mr. Thurmon was a lifelong
resident of Spalding County.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Frances Thurmon.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Watch night
service set
New Year’s Eve watch night
service will be held at the
Hammond Drive Baptist
Church beginning at 7:30 p.m.
and continuing past midnight.
It will feature special music
and include songs by the Ser
vants Quartet of Forest Park,
Ga.
The public is invited.
About Town
BICYCLE RODEO
A bicycle safety rodeo,
sponsored by the Griffin Junior
Woman’s Club in cooperation
with the Griffin Police
Department, will sponsor the
rodeo Friday morning from 10
am. to 12 noon at the First
United Methodist Church
parking lot. All children six
through 12 years of age are
invited to participate. Awards
will be presented.
Mt. Gilead Baptist Church celebrated the end of the
indebtedness on its building with a note-burning service. The
present building was built in 1959 and is valued at $120,000.
Burning the note is Rev. Paul Peace and Davis Johnson,
chairman of the Board of Deacons.
Man charged with theft
A 39-year-old man has been
charged with the theft of more
than SI,BOO and filing a false
report of the crime to Griffin
Police.
Detectives said that Ben
jamin J. Conner of Route Five,
Box 322, reported around 8:15
last night that someone had
broken into his car, while it was
parked on West Broad street,
and had stolen a bank deposit
bag containing $1,803.34. Conner
is manager of U-Serve, U-Save
at the North Expressway and
Vineyard road and said he was
going to deposit the money for
the store. He said he had left the
car locked and had placed the
bag under the front seat. When
he returned to the car, he told
officers, he found the vent
window broken and the bag
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the car trunk and found the
money bag containing all of the
cash. They then placed Conner
under arrest.
GOLDFISH GUARDED
NEWCASTLE- UPON-TYNE,
England (UPI) —Municipal
authorities have assigned
guards to the ornamental pool
in front of the Newcastle-Upon-
Tyne civic center to keep
hungry seagulls from eating the
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The guards went on duty
Wednesday after the gulls ate
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Maddox faces strong
pre-election challenge
ATLANTA (UPI) — Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox, who says “in
all probability” he will run in
1974 for another term as gov
ernor, will face what could be
his strongest pre-election chal
lenge on opening day of the
1973 General Assembly.
And how well he fares could
have considerable bearing on
how well he does in a guberna
torial bid.
The Senate will organize for
the new session on Jan. 8, open
ing day, and that’s when an all
out push may be made to strip
Maddox of his committee-ap
pointing responsibilities.
Despite some reports that the
showdown will never come off,
individual senators say they
think it will. And battle lines
are clearly drawn between Mad
dox supporters and backers of
Gov. Jimmy Carter, who thinks
Maddox has misued his legisla
tive powers and wants the pre
siding officer of the Senate de
frocked.
Maddox is confident.
“We have the votes,” he said
in an interview with UPI. How
many, he is asked. “Enough,”
he says.
If the battle comes off, it will
pit Carter forces, headed by
Sen. Bobby Rowan of Enigma
and presumably most of the 20
senators who resigned from the
Democratic caucus with him
against Maddox, Sen. Culver
Kidd of Milledgeville, Sen. May
lon London of Cleveland, Sen.
Terrell Starr of Forest Park
and others.
The eight Republicans, headed
by Maddox ally Armstrong
Smith, unofficially are split 5-3
in favor of the lieutenant gov
ernor. Without them, the 48
Democrats are just about evenly
divided.
Starr flatly states, “The lieu
tenant governor will win this
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 28, 1972
fight.”
“The governor has said this
is what he is going to,” Maddox
said when asked if he believed
the action would be attempted.
“Os course, he pledged to the
people all along that he would
not.”
Maddox, who served as gov
ernor from 1967 to 1970, said
everywhere he goes, he is asked
if he will run again for the top
spot.
“In all probability, I think I
will, if health permits and I’m
living, free and wanted,” he
said. “The odds favor my seek
ing the office of governor, but I
haven’t made any plans.”
Maddox spoke out against Car
ter’s plans for use of revenue
sharing funds, pledged a new
fight against any Atlanta an
nexation efforts and said he
would oppose any kind of tax in
crease proposals. Carter is pro
posing forms of local option
taxes as property tax relief.
“I don’t see how anybody
could stand up before the peo
ple of this state with a $343
million proposed increase in ap
propriations and propose some
new tax increases,” he said. “I
don’t think the people are going
to bring it up. I think they’re
going to resist. I don’t think
there ought to be a tax increase
anywhere in this state. I just
don’t think it’ll get off the
ground (in this coming ses
sion).”
But Maddox said unless Car
ter’s proposed record $1.6 bil
lion budget isn’t afforded “the
watchful eye of every member
of the House and Senate” and
funds go into areas “where they
will cause recurring expendi
tures,” a tax increase may be
necessary “in the next couple
of years.”
The lieutenant governor said
he believes the s9l million in
revenue sharing funds plowed
into Georgia should have been
earmarked by the federal gov
ernment.
“With the state running and
looking for places to spend mon
ey and city and county govern
ments doing the same thing,
we’re running into a fiscally un
sound practice,” he said.
“My idea is that the vast a
mount of these funds, if not all,
ought to go into a crash pro
gram in water and sewage to
cover this entire state as rapid
ly as we can and as long as
these funds are available,” he
said.
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