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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
The largest School Safety
Patrol from Griffin to visit
Washington on the annual visit
returned to Griffin Sunday
morning in time to help
celebrate Mothers Day. They
were indeed, but happy; for
they had experienced what they
later will recognize as a great
sightseeing trip. Everything
ran smoothly; there was no
serious illnesses and their
younger brothers and sisters,
who will be eligible to make the
trip next year are awaiting to
“hear all about Washington.”
Back when Good Evening was
1 a sixth grader, there was no
such a trip for us, but we’ll
wager the Sunday returnees
wanted to start Mothers Day off
with a hot bath, a hot breakfast
cooked by Mom and then a long,
long nap filled with pleasant
» dreams.
Now that Mothers Day has
been observed, get ready for
Fathers Day, the third Sunday
1 in June.
And speaking of special ob
servance of days: there will be
, one of real significance on
Memorial Day, Monday, May
28. A returned prisoner of war
will be featured.
• He is Sp. 6 Lenard Daugherty
who lives in Zebulon.
The program will be
presented in Memorial Park
and the public is invited.
Griffin’s ABC tried despera
tely to get every single detail of
, the newly expanded and im
proved Patrick Park, in East
Griffin ready for the Little
League games tonight. The
• games will be played but the
firm that donated the score
board put up a football score
board instead of a baseball
’ scoreboard and there is a little
work to be done on the new dug
outs. ABC has done a lot to
make Griffin a finer place for
our youngsters.
Elsewhere in our state, nation
and world:
• Watergate continued to
dominate the national news
with the indictments of former
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and
former Commerce Secretary
Maurice H. Stans in connection
with an unreported $200,000
, donation to the Nixon re
jection campaign.
New Republican John Con
nally of Texas accepted an
• unpaid part-time job as
presidential adviser.
A U. S. district judge dismiss
ed all charges in the Pentagon
Papers trial against Daniel
Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo,
indicating the government had
< bungled its case.
The Supreme Court ruled that
the latest reapportionment of
the Georgia General Assembly
' could not stand. State leaders
said they believe the reap
portionment job can be done at
the regular session next year.
Georgian Howard (Bo) Call
away was confirmed in the
Senate as Secretary of the
, Army.
The House of Representatives
in Washington went on record in
a series of votes as being op
« posed to additional spending for
U. S. operations in Cambodia.
Leftest guerrillas in Mexico
released U. S. Consul General
Terrance G. Leonhardy. They
abducted him and demanded
that 30 prisoners be released
from jails as the price for his
safe return. The prisoners were
released.
Henry Kissinger checked
backinattbe White House after
a round of cordial talks with
Soviet leaders in Moscow.
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“If I could see myself as
others do, I’d simply think there
was something wrong with my
‘ eyes.”
Set
for
launch
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -
Ground crewmen watched dis
tant thunderstorms but went
ahead and fueled the rocket
and readied the luxurious
Skylab space station for flight
this afternoon to push back the
frontier of manned orbital
endurance.
Monnwalk veteran Charles
“Pete” Conrad, Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin, America’s first space
physician, and aeronautical
engineer Paul J. Weitz waited
anxiously on the sidelines while
the countdown rolled toward
the 1:30 p. m. EDT blastoff.
They plan to take off 23%
hours later in an Apollo
command ship and rendezvous
with the orbiting lab Tuesday
night. The pilots will spend a
record 28 days living and
working in the eight-room
assembly that is as spacious as
a typical three bedroom home
on Earth.
Weather was the only poten
tial problem today. The skies
were mostly cloudy and fore
casters watched a band of
thunderstorms to the west.
NASA said there was some
concern the bad weather might
move into the launch area in
the afternoon.
Spaceflight meteorologist Er
nest Amman said' that at
sunrise the thunderstorms were
located just east of Tampa and
were heading this way. He said
chances were they would not
interfere with the launch, “but
we have to be aware of them.”
Numerous thunderstorms were
forecast for the late afternoon.
The final hours of the
countdown began at 7 a. m.
EDT when the 700-man launch
team started pumping thou
sands of gallons of supercold
liquid oxygen into the second
stage of Skylab’s 33-story
Saturn 5 rocket.
The astronauts’ smaller Sa
turn IB stood 8,700 feet away.
Among the thousands of
spectators were the astronauts’
families, several dozen former
prisoners of war and thousands
of other space agency guests.
Civil Defense officials planned
for a crowd of a half million
around the spaceport.
All Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz
could do today was watch, wait
and hope.
“I’m most worried about it
just getting into orbit,” Weitz
said in a pre-launch interview.
A failure would mean a delay
of a year or more until a
substitute lab could be readied.
Will Operate Untended
Skylab must operate untend
ed in orbit for more than a day.
But its most critical oribtal
operations are during the first
hour when it swings its solar
observatory into place and
unfolds the six huge winglike
panels that will convert sun
light into electricity for eight
months of service.
Conrad, Ko-win and Weitz
plan to dock their modified
moonship to Skylab seven
hours, 40 minutes after their
launch Tuesday. They are to
enter the 118-foot station
Wednesday morning and spend
the next two days turning it
into America's first base in
space.
“By this Saturday, all things
going the way we hope, we
diould have a fully operational
space station in orUt to bring
back the data in science and
technology to help all of us on
earth,” Project Director Wil
liam C. Schneider said at a
briefing Sunday.
The three Skylab 1 astronauts
are to return to Earth June 12
in the Apollo, leaving Skylab in
orbit. A second crew goes up
Aug. 8 to spend 56 days aboard
the space platform, and a third
crew is to dose out the $2.6
billion project with another 56
day mission Nov. 9 to Jan. 4.
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Sheriff needs help
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GOP district unit
names Griffinites
Bob Shaw, Georgia’s
Republican chairman, told the
Sixth District convention
delegates in Newnan Saturday
that this district is a main
target area for 1974 Republican
candidates. He said the political
atmosphere in the district is
changing, as many new people
are moving in and they appear
to be more poltically aware.
The area has the potential to
find candidates for many offices
next year, he said.
Shaw noted that ballot
security will be a major issue in
the years to come and that the
Republicans hope to see that the
election code rules in all
Georgia counties are abided by
in future elections. He noted
that the party has affidavits
from voters stating they voted
for former U.S. Congressman
Fletcher Thompson last year in
a county in which he got no
votes.
Several Griffinites were
dected to working committees
and offices.
Mrs. Ivan Taylor was one of
16 delegates elected to serve on
the state central committee
which will elect the national
Committeeman to replace
Howard “Bo” Callaway, newly
appointed Secretary of the
Army. This election will take
place at the Republican State
Convention at Jekyll Island
June 1 and 2.
Troy Mays was appointed to
the credentials committee, Ivan
Taylor to the rules committee,
and Frank Stovall to the
nominating committee.
Cary Hall, a consulting
engineer from Henry County,
TVo new ones
at hospital
There were no new mothers
cn Mother’s Day yesterday at
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Usually there are.
But a check of hospital
records showed no births on
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was elected the new Sixth
District Republican chairman.
He will serve for two years.
Other officers are James A.
Bentley of Fulton County, first
vice-chairman; Ralph Segrest
of Coweta County, Charles
O’Kelley of Butts, Earl Smith of
Clayton, Mrs. Claudine
Williams of Fulton, Mrs. Curtis
Whaley of Coweta, and Mrs.
Julia Hutson of Fulton County,
vice-chairmen; Mrs. Dorthe
Hall of Henry County,
secretary; Mrs. Ann Smith of
Clayton, assistant secretary;
Mrs. Ivan Taylor of Spalding,
treasurer; and Clifton Ward,
Carroll, assistant treasurer.
Fletcher Thompson also was
a guest speaker.
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The Griffin Chapter of Antique Auto Hubs of America took some of its old cars to Brightmoor Nursing
Home yesterday for a special Mother’s Day open house. Pictured are some of the patients and visitors
with some of the cars on display.
If School Patrol students in
the Griffin-Spalding School
make a trip to Washington next
year, Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
will have to have some help with
the project.
The sheriff said today that it
is a program of such size that he
cannot handle it any longer
without some help.
Sheriff Gilbert has been
coordinating the annual visit for
the past several years. He said
the one completed last week
was the largest ever.
The trip went exceptionally
well with a minimum of sick
ness and minor problems, the
sheriff said.
But the sheriff said his
department couldn’t handle the
function and he coultta’t handle
it alone any more.
The group left Tuesday after
noon in chartered buses and
arrived at the capital late the
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next day.
They spent the rest of the time
in the nation’s capital visiting
historical points of interest and
left for home Saturday after
noon.
The group arrived in Griffin
Sunday morning, completing
one of the most successful
Washington trips Sheriff Gilbert
could recall.
Different kind
WINCHESTER, England
(UPI) — Police suggested a
different kind of watchdog
today for farmers robbed by
pig and cattle rustlers: Geese.
“No one can get past a goose
withouts its hearing,” a police
spokesman said, “and some
villains are frightened of
them.”
It wasnt Elvis
LONDON (UPI) — Several
dozen girls screamed, photogra
phers shoved forward to get
one more shot and the official
greeter of Very Important
Persons extended a hand
Sunday to greet an illustrious
arrival.
Elvis Presley, it seemed, was
making his first visit to Britain.
But instead of the singing
star, it developed that the man
who stepped from a jet into a
rented Rolls-Royce limousine,
carrying a guitar and wearing
a white suit and long sideburns,
was a 23-year-old American
who later identified himself as
Eli Culbertson.
The hoax fooled everyone,
including the British Broadcast
ing Corp. (BBC). It broadcast
“Elvis’” greeting:
“I’m overwhelmed—this is
great”
“E 1 v i s, Elvis, Elvis,”
screamed several dozen girls.
VIP greeter Ross Chaffer
stepped forward to shake
“Elvis’” hand.
“I was phoned and told to go
to the airport to meet Elvis
Presley,” Chaffer said after
ward. “I was convinced it was
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Elvis.”.
The real Presley was appear
ing in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
Faulty diet
LONDON (UPI) - Actor
Mostyn Evans is on a tight diet,
buthis weight has zoomed from
238 to 252 pounds in the past
two weeks.
The trouble is that Evans has
been making television com
mercials in which he must
devour bread, corn flakes, cod
fillets and Guinness stout.
“The Guinness is the real
problem,” Evans said today.
“I’ve just been through a
marathon rehearsal in which I
had to down 15 glasses of the
stuff. They just kept retaking
the commercial over and
over.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
74, low today 52, high yesterday
75, low yesterday 54, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight in
upper 40s. Sunrise tomorrow
6:43, sunset tomorrow 8:24.