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The Griffin Daily News has
published Dr. Billy Graham’s
column on its Editorial Page for
a number of years and is
pleased to do so. This week in
special observance of Dr. Gra
ham’s Crusade in Georgia, it is
appearing in this space on Page
One. Later, it will return to its
usual position on the Editorial
Page.
What became of those towns
of Sodom and Gomorrah, so
famous for sin? Is there any
sign of the remains of these
cities, destroyed reportedly,
because of their sexual per
version? M.A.H.
According to archeologists,
both these cities now are
probably under the briny
waters of the Dead Sea. This
area, the lowest spot on earth,
1,292 feet below sea level, brings
thousands of tourists weekly.
Sodom and Gomorrah were
two of the five Cities of the
Plains destroyed in the time of
Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19).
The wickedness and
godlessness of these cities
became proverbial, but their
significance is more than ar
cheological. In the New
Testament (in Matthew, 2 Peter
and Jude) their fate is used as a
warning to those who reject the
Gospel.
Frankly, I’m alarmed at the
indications that America is
embracing increasingly those
sexual abnormalities. They
made the Sodomites and the
residents of Gomorrah
abhorrent in the eyes of a
righteous God, and they will do
it again. If there is one lesson of
history it is that you do not sin
with immunity. But likewise, if
there’s one lesson in the Gospel,
it is that forgiveness and
restoration is available to
sinners with repentant hearts.
Diabetic
tests set
The Spalding Health Depart
ment will offer diabetic
screening tests tomorrow from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the health
center.
The tests are free. Persons
taking them will be advised as
to whether the results are
negative or positive.
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Budget tops s6~mi Ilion
City raises taxes,
licenses, garbage fees
—and employes pay
Griffin City Commissioners
last night approved a $6,101,148
budget for fiscal year 1973-74
beginning in July.
It includes pay raises for city
employes totaling some
$250,000.
The commissioners also in
creased business licenses to the
tune of $60,000 and said taxes
would be increased this year,
even though the city tax rate
would remain the same.
In addition to the six million
dollar plus budget, the com
missioners adopted a supple
mental budget of $1,154,396
mostly for capital equipment. It
would be paid for largely from
revenue sharing money from
the federal government.
Tornado strikes
town again
SUMNER, Miss. (UPI) - A
tornado struck at this little town
Tuesday night for the second
time in two months, damaging
housetops and farm buildings,
but causing no injuries.
Tallahatchie County Civil De
fense official Alex Gates said
the tornado followed an almost
identical path of a much more
severe tornado which raked the
town April 24. The earlier storm
destroyed a portion of a school
where 800 students escaped in
jury, but 40 persons were in
jured.
Ironically, the National Wea
ther Service Tuesday conducted
a ceremony where Sumner
townsfolk gathered in gratitude
that students at the Tallahatchie
County West District School
were spared.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
90, low today 68, high yesterday
90, low yesterday 67.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. (1) shares a word with Rev. Billy Graham during crusade at
Atlanta Stadium. An estimated 41,000 persons flocked to the stadium despite heavy rains. (UPI)
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The commissioners also
doubled the garbage fee from $1
per month to $2. This would be
effective Oct. 1.
The commissioners said they
were announcing the changes in
fees, licenses and tax rates well
in advance so that if the citizens
of Griffin wanted to express
their views, they would have an
opportunity to do so.
The commissioners indicated
they planned to put the changes
on second and final reading at
their next regular meeting.
All five commissioners were
present for the meeting last
night. They are Chairman Louis
Goldstein, Vice Chairman Scott
Searcy, Commissioners
Gates said after the tornado
was reported Tuesday night,
“we are lucky that no one was
injured this time.”
Gates said the tornado occur
ring on the day of the ceremony
was “unusual”, but said “I don’t
want to get into providential
things.”
Tiny Qwark
finally found?
It was announced recently
that Dr. Walter Kellermann,
Dr. Gordon Brooke and John
Baruch of the Department of
Physics of Leeds University
in England have observed the
smallest particle in the Uni
verse, the mysterious qwark,
among cosmic ray showers
which bombard earth from
space.
If the existence of the sub
atomic qwark is definitely es
tablished, it would make the
fundamental laws of the
structure of matter very
much easier to understand.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, June 20, 1973
Raymond Head, Preston Bunn
and R. L. Norsworthy.
The changes were approved
by unanimous vote.
Chairman Goldstein said he
thought the salary increases for
city employes was an advance
for the city.
City Manager Roy Inman
explained that the supplemental
budget included 78 items.
The supplement calls for
purchase of two tractor traitor
type vehicles for the Sanitary
Department. They would be
used to haul garbage and trash
to the city landfill. Mr. In
man said that instead of 14 city
trucks making runs to the land
fill, the city would have two
vehicles making the runs.
A new 1,000 gallon pumper for
the Fire Department is in
cluded. Also, included is a new
aerial ladder truck to replace
the “ancient one” the city has
now, Mr. Inman said.
The city manager said that it
was difficult to administer a six
to seven million dollar budget
without some modern data
processing equipment. Money is
set aside for such equipment in
the supplemental budget, he
said.
He said a couple of traffic
lights were in the supplemental
outlay, too.
The addition of a fourth Light
and Water Department crew is
included in the supplement, too,
Mr. Inman continued. He said if
the city could finance it and the
staff could be recruited, a fifth
crew addition would make it
possible for the city to do some
work which it now has to con
tract.
The commissioners announc
ed that the tax rate would be
eight mills again this fall, the
same as the two previous years.
However, taxes paid will be
more, they said, because of
factoring placed on all real
estate in Spalding County, in
cluding the city of Griffin.
The commissioners said the
law requires that the 1973
assessment be the same in the
city as well as the county.
The city elected last year not
to accept the factored digest
which the county had to accept.
The city no longer has the option
of accepting or rejecting the
factored digest.
Griffin
Lions Club
is winner
The Griffin Lions Club was
the recipient of three District
Awards at the State of Georgia
Lions Convention which ended
in Macon yesterday.
The Griffin Club received the
District Governor’s Second
Place Award among 45 Lions
Clubs in the West Central Dis
trict of Georgia.
This award is based on ac
complishments during the past
year. The LaGrange Lions Club
received the top award in this
contest.
The Griffin Club also received
the Herschel McElroy Award
for the highest percentage of
eye donor forms completed and
sent to the Georgia eye bank.
In addition, the club was
recognized in a special award
for its work in hosting more
than 600 Lions’ members and
guests at a District Lions
Assembly held in Griffin last
October.
Those from the Griffin Club
who attended the State Conven
tion included: Marvin T.
Powers, president-elect of the
Griffin Lions Club; Charles B.
Wynne, deputy district gover
nor; William E. Bizzell, district
historian; Lovejoy Harwell,
past district governor; and A.
L. Shewfelt, president of the
local club. Mrs. Bizzell, Mrs.
Harwell and Mrs. Shewfelt also
attended.
Graham preaches
to umbrella crowd
ATLANTA (UPI) — Despite
heavy showers early in the
evening, a crowd of 41,000 toting
umbrellas gathered at Atlanta
Stadium Tuesday night for the
second night of the Billy Gra
ham crusade.
Graham told the audience the
large number in attendance in
spite of the weather “says
something about the spirit of
God and the people of Georgia.”
The evangelist talked about
religion in America, saying the
nation is not a Christian one.
“The civil religion we have is
not a Christian religion,” he
said, noting people worship
money, science, food and them
selves more than God.
“I would like to see the Ten
Commandments read in every
classroom of every school every
single day,” Graham said, “It
seems like Jews, Catholics and
Protestants in our society could
at least agree on that,” he said.
He said young people in
America are unhappy because
“there’s nobody to tell them
what to do.”
While Graham spoke to his
second predominantly white au-
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| Janet Love of the Flint River Regional Library Staff loves Griffin. She has lived with her
: family in several other states and some big cities but she likes Griffin best of all. Miss Love
i has become active in church and civic affairs of the community since moving here to work
! with the library. People who have been living here for many years may not realize what a
fine city this is, Miss Love believes. She has a degree in library science and is doing
| graduate work, commuting to Atlanta to take some courses.
City moves to collect
assessment on property
Griffin City Commissioners
have unanimously agreed to
begin fi fa proceedings against
an Arlington, Va. man who they
say owes the city $3,968.95 in
paving costs on a narrow strip
of road right of way he purchas
ed from U. S. Congressman
John Flynt several months
before the road was paved.
The purchaser was identified
as Clinton E. Brush, IV, of 1614
Commonwealth road, Arling
ton, Va. Brush is a former
member of Rep. Flynt’s staff.
However, he was not employed
by Flynt when the sale was
made, Flynt said.
The land is five and one-half
dience of the crusade, about 30
black pickets outside protested
the evangelist
Their signs said “Billy Gra
ham is a racist” and “Water
gate is a sin.”
Tyrone Brooks, executive di
rector of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, (SCLC)
Atlanta chapter, said his group
tried to contact Graham to dis
cuss the issues of their griev
ances. These also included the
evangelist’s support of the Nix
on administration, which Brooks
said represses blacks.
He said crusade workers
called him Tuesday to say they
were trying to arrange a con
ference, but he intended to con
tinue the demonstration until
they meet with Graham or until
the crusade ends Sunday.
Inside, Graham told the lis
teners America is- “still the
richest nation in the world, but
we have conveyed to our young
people that money is God.”
When he told the crowd to
choose the god they would
serve, about 1,350 people came
forward for Graham to pray for
them.
feet wide and some 1,210 feet
long. It runs down the north
eastern side of Old Mt. Zion
road from West Poplar street to
the Griffin By-Pass where the
Old Mt. Zion road deadends on
property next to the By-Pass,
owned by the Board of Regents
of the University System of
Georgia.
The Old Mt. Zion road runs
along side of the property of
Congressman Flynt’s residence
which faces West Poplar street.
Using fi fa proceedings, the
city could seize the strip of
property in question and sell it
at public auction, using the
money to apply against the debt
the city says Brush owes.
Records at the Spalding
Courthouse show that the tract
was sold to Brush on Nov. 22,
1971 by John J. Flynt, Jr. of
Spalding County, and John J.
Flynt in of Richmond County,
for $lO and other good and
valuable considerations. It
bears the minmum real estate
transfer tax of one dollar, which
means the purchase price could
range between SIOO and SI,OOO.
Flynt’s signature was wit
nessed by City Attorney and
State Senator Robert H.
Smalley, Jr. and Attorney John
Cogburn of the Smalley,
Cogburn and Evans law firm.
A number of residents on Mt.
Zion road petitioned the city to
pave the road in March, 1971.
City Commissioners put the
paving on final reading June 6,
1972 and the work was com
pleted Dec. 4, 1972.
The city has tried, unsuccess
fully, for more than three
months to collect the paving
assessments from Mr. Brush.
They said if they cannot collect
the money, it will have to come
from the Griffin taxpayers.
The city has a receipt that
Brush received a registered
letter they mailed to him on
May 29. As they have received
no reply, the commissioners
agreed yesterday at their
weekly planning session, to
start the fi fa proceedings.
Rep. Flynt, reached in
Washington yesterday, said the
property transfer was a legal
transaction and properly
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recorded at the Spalding County
Courthouse for public inspec
tion.
He said when the city asked
for him to grant an easement so
sewer trunk lines could be run
across his property he agreed to
grant it.
He said he told a city
representative he always had
tried to cooperate. He said it
would be pointless to object to
the easement request, anyway,
since the city had the legal
authority to get the agreement
with or without his consent.
Rep. Flynt said he knew the
agreement would diminish the
value of the land but that he
didn’t realize the extent until
after the agreement was made
final.
When he did, Rep. Flynt said
he decided to sell the land the
first chance he had.
Some City Commissioners
were wondering out loud why
anyone would want to buy a
strip of land 5.5 feet wide and
some 1,210 feet long.
Asked about this, Rep. Flynt
suggested that they ask the
person who bought the land.
No one answered the phone
when the Griffin News tried to
reach Brush at his Arlington
residence.
One commissioner, tongue in
cheek, said the new owner
might be planning to build a one
lane bowling alley.
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“We’re not trying to
understand the Bible as much
as we’re trying to find in it
support for what we already
believe.”