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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Spalding voters gave their
okay to Library bonds in the
, election held last Tuesday.
About a third of the registered
voters cast their ballots. There
was no other matter to be voted
on. Had there been, the total
vote might have been more.
As it was, there were 4,997
votes cast and the majority in
favor of bonds was 2,873, a
winning margin of 749. Actual
construction can begin by fall.
The long needed larger post
office facility may have to wait.
Delegates from Griffin attend
ing the National Chamber of
Commerce meeting in Wash
ington got that word from Con
gressman John J. Flynt.
A Griffin minister, Rev. Hart
well Kennedy, 17 years pastor of
the Second Baptist Church, an
nounced plans to retire in
August. But he will not retire
from seeking to help the people
of his community. Retired
persons in many fields can be
and often are interested in help
ing other less fortunate people.
There will be special ob
servance and open house at
Brightmoor Nursing Home on
Mothers Day next Sunday.
Spalding County building
* permits totaled $1,077,045 in
April.
Griffin building permits
totaled nearly a quarter of
* million dollars.
Bids for constructing addi
tions to the hospital are due
( May 29.
For some time the parachute
training school in nearby Butts
County had no serious acci-
* dents. Then an instructor got
tangled in his parachute and fell
4,000 feet to his death; and the
past weekend a 22-year-old
* Atlanta school teacher fell a
much shorter distance and
broke her back. She was
, brought to the Griffin hospital
and then transferred to an
Atlanta hospital.
Around the state, nation and
* world:
President Nixon nominated
Howard (Bo) Callaway of
Georgia to be secretary of the
Army.
The Sidney Lanier bridge at
Brunswick was reopened five
, months after a freighter knock
ed a 350 gap in it, killing 10
motorists.
Testing of Georgia school
’ children at the fourth, eighth
and eleventh grade levels show
ed them four months to a year
behind the national average. In
Griffin a school official said the
public school system here came
out pretty well.
. The tests showed the system
here in the top quarter of the
schools in Georgia and possibly
in the top 10 percent.
New disclosures of wrong
doing in high places easily
dominated the national news.
-• Four key members of the Nixon
administration quit their posts
as the Watergate scandal
widened. They were Atty. Gen.
* Richard Kleindienst, chief of
staff H. R. Halderman, domes
tic affairs advisor John D.
. Erlichman and chief counsel
John W. Dean 111.
President Nixon went on
* national television to declare
there would be no whitewash at
the White House and that those
t guiltj rtf misconduct and break
ing the law would be dealt with
under the law.
, Former Democrat John B.
Connally former secretary of
treasury under President Nixon
and former Democratic gover-
* nor of Texas, switched to the
Republican party, a move that
had been expected for some
, time.
Pistol armed guerrillas kid
napped American diplomat
* Terrence G. Leonhardy in
Mexico. He was reported in
good health but his captors had
„ upped their demands for his
return.
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475 set
for D.C.
Some 475 school patrol
students and their chaperones
will leave tomorrow for a visit
to Washington, D.C.
Departure time is 6 p.m. from
Spalding Junior High Unit II in
11 chartered buses.
This will be one of the largest
delegations ever to make the
annual trip.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert has
coordinated the planning for the
trip.
The group is scheduled to
arrive in Washington Wednes
day at 1 p.m. They will check
into the Harrington Hotel and be
off for some sightseeing.
Before they arrive, they will
make side trips at Richmond,
Va., for breakfast and at Mt.
Vernon across the Patomac
river from Washington.
Among the places of interest
the group is scheduled to visit
are Washington Monument, U.
S. mint where currency is print
ed, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln
Memorial, Arlington National
cemetery, the U. S. Capitol
building and other points of
interest.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., is
scheduled to meet the Griffin
buses when they arrive Wed
nesday.
The schedule for the trip is
Revenue
sharing
planned
City Commissioners have a
rough idea of how they will
spend the latest federal revenue
sharing funds.
But Roy Inman, city
manager, said the board was in
the process of refining the
estimates at the moment.
The dollar and cents designa
tions are expected to be
finalized soon during upcoming
commission sessions.
The federal government
requires that governmental
bodies indicate how they plan to
use the federal revenue sharing
funds.
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Finalizing plans for the Crimson Clover Art Festival
sponsored by the Griffin-Spalding Art Association are (Lr)
Mrs. Helen Bryant, chairman of the show, Dr. A. K.
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crammed pack with places to
visit and things to do as the
youngsters make their annual
visit to the capital city.
The group is scheduled to
check out of the Harrington
Hotel Saturday afternoon and
head homeward.
Officials said they hope the
buses will be back in Griffin by
Sunday morning around 8
o’clock.
Doctor
holds hope
for Wallace
MONTGOMERY, ala. (UPI)
— Gov. George C. Wallace will
undergo another acupuncutre
treatment today with the Chi
nese specialist administering
the treatment holding out hope
that Wallace may walk again.
The Montgomery Advertiser
quoted Dr. Ling Sun Chu Sun
day as saying that “maybe”
Wallace could use his legs
someday to walk after losing
use of them May 15, 1972, when
he was shot in Maryland.
Chu said he was encouraged
by several things, according to
the advertiser, including Wal
lace’s mental outlook. “He re
sponds quickly and sharply to
questions whereas at first he
was sluggish and confused,”
Chu was quoted as saying.
The color and warmth have
returned to Wallace’s legs, the
newspaper quoted Chu. When he
first treated the partially-para
lyzed governor, Chu said, the
legs were cold to the touch and
colorless.
Wallace exercises daily at the
executive mansion, using
weights, parallel bars and
crutches to build the muscles in
the upper half of his body.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 53, high yesterday
71, low yesterday 45, high
tomorrow in low 70s, low tonight
near 60. Sunrise tomorrow 6:50,
sunset tomorrow 8:18.
Planning art festival here
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First place winners (1-r) Colbert Duffey and Dirrot Pack display first place
art winning entries from Saturday’s GHS Junior-Senior Student Art Show.
Senior High School winners were: Paintings and Drawings; Colbert Duffey,
first; Curtis Jackson, second; and Patricia Harris, third; Sculpture; Dirrot
Pack, first; Diane Cobb and Delton Rodgers, second; and Jan Harris, third;
Crafts; Ann Slade, first; Angela Dowdy, second; and Jane Weldon; third.
Honorable mention went to Patti Perry, Pat Moore and Margaret Walker.
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“It’s hard work to keep busy
doing unimportant things.”
Weathers, president of the Art Association and Frank Jolly of
the Commercial Bank and Trust Company, where the spring
art show will be held, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
NEWS
Reapportionment plans
subject to 1965 vote act
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3
today that state reapportion
ment plans are subject to the
1965 Voting Rights Act, de
signed to protect minorities.
The Court laid down that
Students show their art skills
standard in a decision requiring
new reapportionment of the
Georgia House (rs Represen
tatives.
The Voting Rights Act forbids
certain states and other juris
dictions with past records of
low voter participation to make
political changes that might
affect minority political rights
without prior approval by
either the U.S. attorney general
N. Georgia honors
two Griffinites
Randy Harris of Griffin, a
senior student at North Georgia
College in Dahlonega, received
the H. Lamar Pittard, Jr.,
award in a ceremony yesterday
at the college.
Alumni Day, and Parents Day
at the college yesterday drew
hundreds of visitors to the
campus.
Arthur Bolton, Georgia Attor
ney General, was one of the
alumni named to the new Hall of
Fame at the school. Bolton
makes his home in Griffin.
Harris is the son of Mr. and
Qty moving ahead
with paving plans
Preparation was under way
today for some paving on Bass
alley.
City Manager Roy Inman said
that most of the day would be
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Junior High winners were: Paintings and Drawings; Terry Johnson, first;
David Hightower, second; and Kenneth Barlow, third; Sculpture; Kim
Colquit, first; Susie Whalen, second; and Mark Phipps, third; Crafts; Jennie
Smith, first; Joe Robinson, second; and Priscilla Reid, third. Honorable
mention went to Karla Larson, Danny Rodgers, and Terry Johnson. The Art
Show was sponsored by the Griffin Junior Woman’s Club. Judges for the
show were Mrs. Jim Maine and Mrs. Lester Luttrell.
or by the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia.
The attorney general rejected
prfans enacted in 1971 and 1972
ty the Georgia Legislature
because they provided for a
large number of districts where
more than one member repre
sented the same geographic
area, and for runoff elections
when no candidate got a
majority.
Mrs. Edward C. Harris of
Griffin.
He is a major in psychology
and is captain of the Blue Ridge
Rifle drill team which perform
ed during the afternoon.
The Pittard award was es
tablished in memory of H.
Lamar Pittard, Jr., a 1968 North
Georgia graduate who was
killed in Germany serving his
country there.
Harris is a past president of
the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity
and a member of the Scuba
Club.
taken with preparation of the
area. Progress of the work will
depend on the weather this week,
he said.
The city has just completed
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In multi-member districts,
each candidate was required to
designate the seat for which he
was running, referred to as the
“numbered post.”
Speaking for the majority,
Justice Potter Stewart said
prior decisions of the high court
control the Georgia situation.
He said they held that the 1965
act applies “to a broad range
of voting law changes.”
The Stewart opinion affirmed
a judgment by a special three
judge federal court in Atlanta
in a suit brought by the Justice
Department to stop the 1972
election after the Legislature
decided not to act further.
Georgia is subject to the act.
The attorney general rejected
plans enacted in 1971 and 1972
by the Georgia legislature be
cause they provided for a large
number of districts where more
than one member represented
the same geographic area, and
for runoff elections when no
candidate got a majority.
In multi-member districts,
each candidate was required to
designate the seat for which he
was running, referred to as the
“numbered post.”
paving on Beatty street.
Other streets awaiting a find
determination are Westbrooks
and Scales streets.