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County rabies clinics
planned June 18 week
• Spalding County Com
missioners this morning ap
proved use of rural courthouses
for county-wide rabies clinics
• scheduled for the week of June
18.
Dan McLean representing the
• Griffin Jaycees asked the com
missioners for use of the court
houses this morning. The
Jaycees will cooperate with the
• county and two veterinarians,
County wrestles with question:
where are we going for water?
All three Spalding County
Commissioners renewed their
• concern about the community’s
water supply for the future at
their meeting this morning.
, Commissioner Palmer Hamil
brought up the matter. He said
he needed more technical in
formation on the problem but
» that the community should be
concerned about it.
Hamil projected that if the
county’s building growth
' continues at its present rate, the
population of the community
may be double in 10 years.
, Hamil noted that the Griffin
Area Chamber of Commerce
had gone on record as being
opposed to a proposed water
» reservoir in Henry County in the
Sky lab astronauts get go-ahead
for most dangerous space walk
HOUSTON (UPI) - Skylab’s
astronauts have a go-ahead for
the most dangerous spacewalk
ever attempted in which they
will try to free a snagged
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Show biz heartbreak
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Elizabeth Denison of Averill
Park, N.Y., gets her first taste of heartbreak associated
with show business. Tears streaming down her face, eight
year-old Elizabeth, with ballet slippers in hand, waits outside
the stage door after being rejected for a part in Midsummer
Night’s Dream to be presented at Saratoga Performing Arts
Center this summer. Dozens of area youngsters tried out for
parts, but unfortunately there were many more children than
there were children’s parts. (UPI)
Dr. Fielding Lindsey and Dr. E.
H. Gilchrist, in offering the
clinics.
McLean said that details of
the clinics still are to be worked
out. He mentioned that the
clinic organizers are thinking
about offering the service for an
hour, say between 7 p.m. and 8
p.m. at the courthouses.
The scheduling is to be
worked out with the
Troublesome Creek area.
The Chamber contended that
the reservoir would prohibit the
development of up to 25 percent
of the land in that area of Spald
ing County.
Hamil said he thinks the
matter should be investigated
more to see what exactly is
involved.
Jack Moss, chairman of the
commissioners, said he thought
the county should ask the newly
formed city-county planning
committee to look into the water
situation and make it a top
priority matter.
The 12-member committee
was formed last week and
Barron Cumming, Griffin at
torney and former mayor, was
power generating wing.
But NASA was expected to
rule out an extension of this
first 28-day flight of the United
State’s laboratory in space.
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veterianarians and the Jaycees,
he said.
The commissioners said that
a follow-up to the clinics would
be held. They said that to be
effective, as many dogs in the
county as possible should be
inoculated against rabies.
County officials say that
Spalding has been fortunate in
that it has not had an outbreak
of rabies here.
asked to serve as temporary
chairman. County Agent Jack
Smith was appointed temporary
vice chairman.
When committee meets and
sets up a permanent organiza
tion, they plan to meet again
with the city and county com
missioners as well as zoning
board members.
Moss suggested that the
water supply of the entire
community should be put on a
priority list for the citizens
committee to consider.
“Where are we going for
water?” is a question that
Hamil said concerned him.
He pointed out that en
vironmental groups organized
here have noted the increasing
Mission director William C.
Schneider said Monday night
that a longer flight was “highly
unlikely.”
He said a NASA statement on
the matter would be issued
today.
The hand-over-hand excursion
20 feet at the side of the
crippled station, moving at
17,100 miles an hour, was more
Adult education
graduates 101
Dr. Ren Christie, head of the
Speech and Drama Department
at Valdosta State College, was
guest speaker at the Adult
Education Center graduation
exercises last night in the
Griffin High auditorium.
Rudy Craddock was master of
ceremonies. The invocation was
given by the Rev. Warren
Beddingfield, minister of Oak
Hill Baptist Church. Warren
Haisten was pianist
Dr. Christie was introduced
by D. B. Christie,
superintendent of Griffin-
Spalding County School System.
The diplomas and certificates
were presented by William M.
Mullis, Adult Education
coordinator to the following:
Ethel Jean Akins, Hilton
Holloway, Jewel Allen, Leonard
Allen, Helen Chapman, Robert
Chapman, Ethel Dunn, Tom
Dunn, Lucile Flemister, An
drew Gotell, Catherine Gotell,
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
90, low today 68, high yesterday
85, low yesterday 63, high
tomorrow In low 80s, low tonight
near 70. Sunrise tomorrow 6:27,
sunset tomorrow 8:45.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, June 5, 1973
Stray dogs in some South
Georgia counties have been
blamed for spreading the
disease.
Stray dogs in the county still
present a problem, the county
commissioners noted this
morning.
Dog owners will be asked to
bring their pets to the clinics
and have them inoculated
during the week of June 18.
cost of treating Flint River
water for use in the city system.
The increased cost is due to the
increased pollution of the river
in Clayton and Fulton Counties,
Hamil observed from the
reports.
Sandy Morgan, vice chair
man of the commissioners, said
that rather than opposing the
reservoir in Henry County, this
community might consider the
possibility of working out a
share program with Henry,
provided the reservoir plan is
possible and poses no threat to
land use in Spalding County.
The commissioners wondered
aloud at this morning’s meeting
what affect development of the
risky than any spacewalk yet
t attempted by Americans. But
' project officials said the poten
tial gain outweighs the hazards.
Commander Charles “Pete”
Conrad will lead the extraordi
nary attempt on Thursday to
repair Skylab and boost its
failing power supply. At stake
are two full 56-day missions
later this year. Conrad will be
Mamie Clyde Goodmon, Jossie
Ruth Mays, Eugene Mays,
Lucile McCollough, Emma Lou
Reeves, Beatrice Sullivan,
Willie Sullivan, Lillie Belle
Thrash, Willie Frank Trice,
Franklin White, Nancy Jester,
Marcia Clemons, Terry
Griggers, Linda Mitchell, Mary
Williams, Rovie Lyons, David
Wiggs;
Freddie Jenkins, Michael
Williams, Steve Fletcher,
Theodore Maddox, Archie
Montgomery, Bertha Mae
Williams, Emma Boggs,
Maxine Davis, Alma Landrum,
Larry Smith, Jake Dickson, Jr.,
Larry Pitts, Johnnie Mae
Driver, Barbara Lindsey,
Franklin Johnson, Jesse W.
Ross, Jr., Willie N. Blanton, Jr.,
Eugene James Taylor, Katrina
Cosper, Carolyn Bunn, Charles
Sanders, Harriett Patrick,
Luther Al Harper, Melody Tyus,
Bennie Richardson, Donna
Shelnutt, Rick Goolsby, Joe Lee
Moore, Everette Foskey,
Wayne Lamar, Robert Tyre,
Harold Ward, Anita Cox, Linda
Higgins, Vinson Corley.
Betty Roberts, Deborah
Langston, Forrest Buchanan,
Riley Tucker, David Williams,
Mamie Allen, Ruby Bass,
This is the first major in
tensive effort the community
has made in recent years to get
animals in the county
inoculated.
The commissioners assured
those working on the program
that the county would have
some sort of follow-up program
to make the anti-rabies fight as
effective as possible.
Spewell Bluff dam in Upson
County might have on Flint
River.
Some of the commissioners
questioned whether the long
planned project in Upson ever
would be built.
The commissioners said that
the community might have to
consider some type of sup
plementary reservoir supply for
the community.
The city already has a billion
gallon raw water reservoir on
Potato near Flint River. The
city has had to use the reservoir
all together at times in the past
when the Flint water supply
became so polluted it was
not practical to use the water.
accompanied by either Joseph
P. Kerwin or Paul J. Weitz.
Directors Send Procedures
Flight directors sent step-by
step procedures for the repair
operation up to the crewmen
early today via a radio
teleprinter aboard Skylab. They
will review them with the .
ground tonight and hold a
three-hour inside rehearsal
Wednesday.
Virginia Gibson, Linda
Clemons, Jimmy Noble, Lizzie
Mangham, Sara Westmoreland,
Lessie Reed, Patricia Clark,
Kathy Freeman, Shirley
Copenny, Charlie Harps, Mary
Cater, Louise Davis, Rosa
Fambro, Carrie Furlow, Norris
Gates, Lewis Harrison, Bobbie
Paige, Geneva Taylor, Sally
Thaxton, Gloria Smith, Johnnie
Smith, Georgia Webb, Doris
Whitner, Betty Coggins, Henry
Coggins, Mildred Holder, Shelia
Knowles, Lizzie Mae Matthews,
Fay Pettus, Lillian Wimbish
and Audrey Maddox.
Bloodmobile
visit June 26
Three women’s organizations
will sponsor the June 26 visit of
the bloodmobile to Griffin.
Wayne Brown, coordintor,
said that the Griffin BPW Club,
the Spalding BPW Club and the
Women’s Committee of the
Spalding County Farm Bureau
would be sponsors.
They will recruit donors.
It will be held at the First
Baptist Church in the Cheatham
building.
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Outstanding ABC awards
Judge John 0. Clements was named the outstanding member of the year in the Griffin Chapter,
American Business Clubs last night. Mrs. Katherine Sharpe was named the outstanding ABC-Ette
of the year. The awards was presented at a ladies night program at the Moose Club. Both clubs
installed officers for the 1973-74 year at the meeting. John Clements and Mrs. Sharpe display the
awards they presented.
Dollar nosedives
on Paris market
LONDON (UPI) — The dollar
nosedived in Paris today to its
second lowest price there since
the end of World War 11.
Dealers predicted there would
be more record high gold prices
on European markets by day’s
end.
It was the third major
setback for the dollar in less
than 24 hours. Monday, banks
in South Africa and Finland
abandoned the lowest agreed
price for the U.S. currency and
one London banker said a
dump-the-dollar campaign was
under way because “everyone
fears instability in Washing
ton.”
A Paris bank official said
today that' continuing disclo
sures in the Watergate affair
were bringing heavy pressure
against the dollar on the two
tiered French money market.
Richmond
rations
gasoline
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)-Gaso
line supplies to all Richmond
County vehicles except sheriff’s
department cars were cut off
Monday because of a fuel short
age.
Richmond County Commis
sion Chairman Norman
Simowitz issued the order in an
effort to stretch dwindling
gasoline supplies. The county
has been faced with a fuel crisis
since last Friday when the
Exxon Oil Company notified
officials it could no longer
supply the county with gasoline
because of allocation of supplies
within the Exxon firm.
County Clerk J. Lester New
some said he has exhausted all
leads in an effort to find other
suppliers.
Officials said the economy
measures already taken would
keep the county vehicles run
ning only until Wednesday.
The possibility was raised that
county vehicles, such as patrol
cars, could go to local gas sta
tions and pay the retail prices
to obtain gasoline once the
county supply is exhausted.
The French financial dollar,
used by tourists, speculators
and dollar-paid persons living
abroad, sank to between 4.14
and 4.16 francs in early
morning trading. Since Fran
ce’s recovery after World War
11, only once has the dollar
fallen lower—a plunge to 3.50
briefly in 1957.
Closing Price Monday
Monday’s closing price was
4.25 francs.
Today’s development means
the dollar thus has lost 24% per
cent of its value in France
since President Nixon first
devalued the U.S. currency in
August of 1971.
“The longer Watergate drags
on and the more revelations
crop up,” a spokesman for the
London merchant bank N. M.
Rothschild and Sons Ltd. said,
“the more the dollar is likely to
come under pressure.”
Millions of dollars were
dumped Monday, with their
prices tumbling to new lows in
Frankfurt, Zurich and Brussels.
In Tokyo today, the dollar fell
to its lowest level in three
weeks.
At the same time, gold prices
went above $l2O an ounce for
the first time in London, Zurich
$15.6 million extra
road money due state
ATLANTA (UPI)-The State
Department of Transportation
was notified today Georgia will
receive about $15.6 million ex
tra in interstate construction
funds from the federal govern
ment.
Deputy Transportation Com
missioner Emory Parrish said
Georgia applied for S4O million
from funds turned in to the Fed
eral Highway Trust Fund by
states which did not obligate
their interstate funds by May 15.
Parrish submitted a list of pri
ority projects when applying for
the money.
He said the additional money
will be spent for these projects:
—Two bridges on I - 95 that
cross the Satilla River and Whie
Oak Creek in Camden County.
—Nine miles of pavement in
Liberty County from the South
Newport River to State Route
38.
—Resurfacing of about 25
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and Frankfurt, hitting figures
almost three times the $42.22
price set by Washington.
Record Gold Price
In London, which generally
governs world gold trading, the
price was pegged by dealers at
a record $123.50 an ounce.
In Cape Town, the South
African finance minister said
his government would no longer
guarantee the minimum agreed
price of the dollar against the
rand as agreed early this year
when the dollar was devalued
for a second time.
In Helsinki, the national bank
abandoned its rate of 3.81 Finn
marks for the dollar, a move
that would let the dollar find its
own value.
The dollar was $2.5807 per
British pound in London,
slightly up from the record low
of $2.5870 last Friday; in
Frankfurt the dollar closed at
2.6050 marks, which meant in
effect an 18 per cent devalua
tion since the February mone
tary crisis.
In Zurich, the dollar closed at
a low of 3.03 Swiss francs, or a
10 per cent devaluation, and in
Brussels, it closed at 37.30
Belgian francs, a 7.5 per cent
devaluation.
miles on 1-20 in DeKalb, Rock
dale, Walton and Newton coun
ties.
—All bridge work on 1-95 from
1-16 through State Route 21 in
Chatam County.
—Rebuildingan interchange of
1-85, 1-75 and 1-20 south of the
capitol in Atlanta.
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