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Caution
Do not buy a paper from a child.
Some children have been stealing papers from coin
boxes and offering them for sale. >•:
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The Griffin Daily News is on sale at numerous places
throughout the city, but no child is authorized to sell single
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Man shot to death;
Atlanta woman held
An Atlanta woman has been
charged with murder in connec
tion with the shooting death of a
Griffin man who was found
lying in a ditch in front of the
Dundee Volunteer Fire Depart
ment on Railroad street in
Experiment early this morning.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
identified the man as Kenneth
Reeves, 40, of 1307 Ruth street.
The woman is Shirley Barrett,
26, of Atlanta.
The sheriff said that Reeves
was in the ditch, face down,
with a bullet hole in his back. He
had been dead for two or three
hours, the sheriff said.
Gilbert said the woman was
hitch-hiking south of Atlanta
and had been picked up by
Reeves around 1:30 a.m.
Griffin Police and Sheriff’s
officers were called around 6
a.m. by an Experiment
resident. The woman went to
several houses near the scene to
ask for help before she could get
anyone to call police.
The officers said that since it
was before daylight and the
woman was dirty and in a
drunken condition, people were
afraid to open their doors to her.
She was carrying a purse,
overnight bag, and a small
black dog.
Mr. Reeves was born in
Molena and came to Griffin 39
years ago.
He attended Spalding High
School and was employed by
Ford Motor Company at Hape
ville.
He was a Navy veteran of the
Korean war.
185 pints
of blood
donated
The Red Cross bloodmobile
got 185 pints of blood during its
visit to Griffin yesterday. The
seven pints donated at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital since
the bloodmobile’s last visit here
brought the total to 192 pints for
the last two-month period.
Wayne Brown, coordinator of
the program, said 27 people
were rejected as donors
because of minor physical
illnesses.
He said the Spalding BPW
Club recruited 20 donors in
competition with the Griffin
BPW and the Farm Bureau’s
Women’s Committee. The three
organizations sponsored the
visit and had a contest to see
which could get the most
donors.
The next visit of the blood
mobile will be Aug. 28.
Nixon vetoes war limit
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPI) — President Nixon today
vetoed legislation intended to
cut off funds for U.S. military
involvement in Cambodia and
Laos, administration sources
* reported.
The sources said official
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Reeves
of Experiment; several aunts
and uncles.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the chapel of Pittman-
Rawls Funeral Home. The Rev.
A. C. Stephens will officiate.
Burial will be in Oak Hill
cemetery.
The body will remain at the
funeral home until the funeral.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
86, low today 64, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 59.
Vacation Values Days
opens here tomorrow
One of the biggest Vacation
Value Days promotions ever
held in Griffin will open
tomorrow. A total of 67 firms
have signed with the Chamber
of Commerce Merchants
division to participate.
Merchants have been busy
several weeks getting their
stocks to a peak in preparation
for the thousands of shoppers
who will be in the city this week.
This has become an annual
promotion by the Griffin area
merchants and firms.
It features vacation bargains
galore as well as sales on many
Hollywood, Fla.
Local problems can t be ignored
HOLLYWOOD
By REG CROWDER
A balding man sipped his
drink and peered out the win
dow of McGowan's Lounge at
the lights of an oil barge pass
ing in the darkened Atlantic.
Some middle-aged couples
at a corner table argued the
merits of Lee Marvin as an
actor, in voices louder than
they must have realized.
Just a few lights burned in
the highrise condominiums to
the south, silent testimony
that the winter season was
announcement of the veto
would be made from the
Western White House as soon
as the President’s veto message
reaches the House of Represen
tatives in Washington.
The sources would give no
further details of the veto,
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The possible relocation of the
Griffin-Spalding airport will be
discussed at a Mclntosh Trail
meeting Monday at 2 p.m. in
Griffin.
Trail staff members with the
Department of Transportation
and R. Dixon Speas representa
tives will conduct the session.
The counties of Spalding,
Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar,
Newton, Pike and Upson, all in
the Trail area, have been in
vited to have their representa
tives present.
Wade Pierce, Trail executive
director, said future location of
airports in the area would be at
stake.
R. Dixon Speas, specialists in
airport design and location, has
been making a study of the area
on the possible relocation of the
Griffin-Spalding Airport.
Some indication of the firm’s
recommendations may be
discussed at the meeting.
“We say we’re trying to find
the truth — that’s because it’s
so much easier to hunt than to
accept.”
other items.
Shoppers will find many
specials in participating stores
as the sales get under way
tomorrow morning. The promo
tions will continue through
Saturday.
Every vacation and hot
weather need can be secured in
the Griffin area during the sale,
promoters of the event said.
Those firms and businesses
participating include:
Cartledge Furniture, Tonkin
Casuals, Star Chevrolet
Company, Hensley Office
Equipment, O’Kelley’s Furni-
over.
It is a curious place, this
thin strip of ocean front along
the eastern edge of what is
either Greater Hollywood or
South Broward County, de
pending upon whose chamber
of commerce is talking.
It is a place where owners
of $60,000 condominium units
don't know what city they're
in. A few think it's Miami
Beach.
The largest contingent is
from New York state and it
brings its business worries,
political gossip and hometown
newspapers along with its
sport shirts and fishing gear.
Studies show the typical meta
morphosis is from tourist, to
winter visitor to retiree.
which the White House had
hinted might be coming.
The halt to American bomb
ing of Cambodia and military
action in Laos was an
amendment to a $3.3 billion
supplemental appropriations
bill.
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Dozens of Griffin teachers are spending a part of the summer updating
themselves of the latest developments in education through graduate college
courses taught at the Cooperative Educational Services Agency on Vineyard
ture, Morrow-Powell, Smith-
Roberts, Rhodes Furniture Co.,
Sears, Griffin Gallery.
Jim Pridgen Hardware,
Cain’s, Jesse’s Pharmacy,
Bishop’s Clothing Co., The
Furniture Shop, Akin’s Feed &
Seed Store.
Ben Franklin Store, Spalding
Gas, Inc., Purser Furniture Co.,
Jones-Harrison Furniture Co.,
Ralph’s Take Home, Kentucky
Fried Chicken.
Southern Chrysler-Plymouth,
The Gentry Shop, Saul’s, RBM
Motors, Fabric Center & Annex,
F. W. Woolworth Co., Randall &
The change in state of
mind, interests and concerns
is even more gradual than the
physical relocation.
The refugees from the north
become incorporated in the
local scene by local problems.
When the roof on the mul
timillion dollar condominium
springs a leak, the parking lot
floods and the promised mari
na never gets built, it is
quickly discovered that local
officials are the folks to see.
The common problems of
water pollution, trash pickup,
traffic and crime are shared
with the more numerous lo
cals. And the invisible barrier
slowly dissolves.
The cost of food seems to
have hit those away from the
The legislation, cutting off the
funds for further U.S. military
involvement “in, over or from
the shores of Cambodia”
passed both House Monday and
the Senate Tuesday.
The bill immediately was
dispatched to the White House,
and Senate leaders said they
Blakely, Inc., Buy-Wise.
Griffin Electronics, Ed’s
Trading Post, Maxwell Furni
ture Co., The Bonnie Shop,
Jerrie & Don’s, Mary Carter
Paint Store.
Claxton’s Pharmacy, Batton
& Jackson Quick Tire, Goode-
Nichols Furniture Co.,
Suburban LP Gas Co., Fisher
Hardware Co., Clark’s Super
market.
Godard Clothing Co.,
Thriftown Food Store, Fashion
Shops, Leonard’s, Crouch’s,
beach more, although not ex
clusively. The beef boycott
drew enough housewife sup
port to form rival factions
among boycotters.
When a congressional com
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mittee held hearings in Miami
on the state's environmental
problems, area activists went
down to roast federal agencies
for being lax in their enforce-
had been assured the President
would decide this week on
whether to veto it. They said he
would not use the congressional
recess next week for a pocket
veto.
The Senate vote Tuesday was
81-11.
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Keeping one jump ahead
Fabric’s, Inc., The Treasure
Chest.
White’s Auto Store, Griffin
Sales & Service, Easterwood
Shoe’s, Whitmire Jewelry Co.,
Rose’s Stores, Inc.
Diana Shops, Carden Furni
ture Co., Capital Motors,
Fashion Shoes, Southern States
Printing Co., Toyota of Griffin.
Griffin Daily News, Greater
Griffin Gazette, WKEU, WHIE,
WGRI, The Bank of Griffin,
First National Bank, Commer
cial Bank & Trust Co.
Hollywood, Florida (pop. 106,873), lies
midway between Fort Lauderdale and
Miami on Florida’s Gold Coast. It is
both a resort and residential city with a
deepwater harbor and facilities for golf,
fishing and swimming.
ment of environmental laws.
The Watergate hearings are
received in much the same
way as the TV soap operas
they briefly replaced. “Did
ya' hear what Nixon did?’’ an
elderly man chuckles to a
buddy at the donut shop.
Local problems get first
place because they can't be
ignored. National’problems
often can't be separated,
though, as with inflation. At a
time when big government
seems more isolated than
ever citizens appear to be dis
covering that they can change
the direction of the planning
and zoning board.
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Cool temp
a record
The low temperature in the
Griffin area this morning was
climbing back to a normal level
with a 64, according to Horace
Westbrooks, weather observer.
The 59 he recorded yesterday
morning broke a 1912 record for
the same day.
The high yesterday was 87
degrees and today’s expected
high reading was 86.
road. Nine colleges and universities are providing teachers for the special
program. More than 29 classes have been taught this school year.
Judge Evans among
visitors in court
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.
welcomed three visitors in
Spalding Superior Court yester
day. They were Judge Randall
Evans, Jr., of the Georgia Court
of Appeals, Retired Griffin
Circuit Judge John H.
McGehee, and Quimby Melton,
Jr., editor of the Griffin Daily
News and also a member of the
Georgia bar.
Judge Evans, who was in
Griffin as the guest speaker at
the Exchange Club luncheon
meeting, had words of praise
'for Judge Whalen, and gave
those present a special treat by
quoting a few lines of poetry.
He said the last time he was in
the Spalding Courthouse,
Herman Talmadge was making
a speech on behalf of his father,
the late Eugene Talmadge.
Self defense claimed
in trial here
The murder trial of Elmond
Pope, 518 East Quilley street,
was expected to be completed
by early afternoon. Pope had
been charged with shooting Joe
Coleman, Jr., at Coleman’s
estranged wife’s home on
Alabama street last Nov. 7.
Pope, who is represented by
Attorneys John Goddard and
Howard Wallace, claims self
defense.
In sworn testimony, he said
that he had been going with
Coleman’s estranged wife,
Joan, and that about two weeks
before the shooting, he met
Coleman downtown on Slaton
street and Coleman threatened
to kill him. He said a few days
later, he purchased a pistol, not
to kill Coleman, “but to keep
him from killing me”.
Late in the afternoon of Nov.
7, he said, Joan called him to
come over. He stuck the pistol
in his belt, then went to the
house and was sitting in the
kitchen when Coleman came in
cursing him and threatening to
kill him. Mrs. Coleman tried to
push her husband away, but he
came back into the room and
came at Pope with a knife, all
the while saying that he was
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Judge Evans said he
especially remembers Spalding
County as years ago when he
used to travel between Atlanta
and Macon, the only strip of
paved road was in this county.
He ended with lines from “An
Irish Wish.”
“May the road rise to meet you.
“May the wind be ever at your
back.
“May the Good Lord keep you
in the hollow of his hand.
“May your heart be as warm
as your hearthstone.
“And when you come to die,
may the wail of the poor be
the only sorrow you’ll leave
behind.
“May God bless you always.
The author is unknown.
going to kill him, Pope con
tinued.
Pope said Coleman picked up
a chair to throw it at him and he
shot him in the side. A total of
five shots were fired, jurors
were told.
Coleman said he then ran out
the back door to a friend’s house
on North Sixth street several
blocks away. He asked the
friend to call police and Pope
waited at the curb for the of
ficers to come.
Police Officer John Ballard
testified that he and Officer
Hugh McLaurin answered the
call, and after taking Pope to
the city jail, went to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital where they
saw Coleman on an emergency
room table with three bullet
wounds in his chest, back and
arm. He died a short time later,
they said.
Officers testifying were Mrs.
Coleman; her daughters, Lizzie
Ann, 12, and Linda Ann, 17; and
Linda Ann’s boy friend, Charlie
Frank Perdue. They were all at
the house when the incident
occurred. Griffin Police
Detective Sgt. Marvin Barrow
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