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Northgate Center
to open in spring
Northgate Center at Mclntosh
road and the North Expressway
will open next spring.
The first phase of the shop
ping center will include a Food
Giant, Eckerd Drugs and a
Straw Hat Pizza Shop as major
tenants.
Spalding Square
to announce
plans Thursday
Plans for Spalding Square
shopping center south of Griffin
will be announced at the press
luncheon Thursday afternoon.
The center is on the Ben Brown
property south of Griffin across
from the airport.
Barnett Real Properties, Inc.,
of Henderson, N.C., is
developing the center.
Nixon’s temperature
is normal again
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon “continues to
feel well” and his temperature
is back to normal after
hovering last weekend at 101 or
102, his doctors said today.
The President, recuperating
at Bethesda Naval Hospital
from viral pneumonia, slept
well throughout the night, the
morning medical bulletin on his
condition said.
His doctors said Nixon would
“continue the program of
graduated increase in activity
today.”
He was expected to meet with
Treasury Secretary George P.
Shultz to make more final
decisions on Phase IV of his
economic program. Details of
the new regulations are expect
ed to be made public by Shultz,
possibly in a day or two.
Leonard Garment and J.
Fred Buzhardt, head of the
White House legal team con
cerned with Nixon’s Watergate
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ATLANTA—Janet Bruce, 17, of Marietta, Ga. conserves a lot of energy as well as shoe
leather as she roller skates away her duties of cleaning up bits of litter at a local amusement
park here. Janet, who is a senior in high school during school season, found that walking
around the 276-square-acre park was a little tiresome, so she purchased the skates shortly
after starting work. (UPI)
The Naredel Development is
just one of several centers being
constructed in Georgia. Others
are located in Coweta County,
DeKalb County, Clayton County
and Cobb County.
The first phase of the North-
LB J aide denies
bug devices used
By United Press International
A top assistant to President
Lyndon B. Johnson said Mon
day the charge that bugging
devices were used extensively
at the Johnson White House
was “an outrageous smear on a
dead president.”
Joseph A. Califano, a top aide
to Johnson, said there was the
defense, visited the hospital
Monday night for conferences
with other presidential aides on
the latest development in the
case —disclosure that Nixon’s
conversations in the White
House are automatically recor
ded.
A White House spokesman
said that Nixon did not meet
personally with Garment and
Buzhardt.
The spokesman said they met
with Nixon’s chief of staff, Gen.
Alexander M. Haig, and Press
Secretary Ronald L. Zeigler.
The meeting apparently was in
preparation for a more detailed
statement, promised shortly, on
the taping of Nixon’s White
House meetings and conversa
tions.
The morning medical bulletin
said the President had a dinner
Monday night of beef tender
loin, string beans, carrots,
fettucini and a spinach salad.
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gate Center is being constructed
on 11 acres.
Northgate is expected to have
a trade area of six counties with
a total population of 122,877.
Taylor Collier Realty is the
local broker for the retail space.
capability to record conversa
tions in Johnson’s office. But
Califano said Johnson opposed
all bugging.
“The White House was not
wired for sound,” Califano said.
George Reedy, Johnson’s
former press secretary, said he
did not know if bugging devices
were used by Johnson.
“That doesn’t mean it didn’t
go on,” he said. “You have to
realize that I was in the White
House only until 1966 and that I
was press secretary only until
1965.”
He said, “The facts are that
presidents do many things
which are unknown to their
assistants.”
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“Only people who were in a
position to create problems are
in the right place to solve
them.”
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Dr. Takle
likes Griffin
Dr. Leiv Takle, Griffin’s new
ophthalmologist whose offices
opened last Tuesday afternoon,
said he and his family are very
happy here and are amazed at
how friendly the people are. He
said when he came to look over
the city, he was struck by its
beauty and magnificent homes.
Dr. Takle (pronounced Leif
Tackle) will limit his practice to
diseases and surgery of the eye.
He also will fit contact lenses
and prescribe glasses. His of
fices are located in a new build
ing at 646 South Eighth street at
the rear of the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
He and his wife, Christina,
were encouraged to locate in
Griffin by two good friends, Dr.
Jack Austin and Dr. Peter
Berry. As Griffin had no
ophthalmologists and as it is
close enough to Atlanta to reap
the benefits of a metropolitan
area, the couple decided to
move here. Besides, Dr. Takle
grew up in a small town in Nor
way and likes small places.
Dr. Takle said when the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital
learned he would come here to
practice, they purchased the
latest instruments used in eye
surgery, including an operating
microscope, valued at
thousands of dollars. He said
the equipment is the same type
purchased by Emory Hospital
last year.
The doctor is no newcomer to
America. He attended Henry
Grady High School in Atlanta
for a year under the Inter
national Exchange Program,
and although he graduated from
the Atlanta high school, he
returned to his native country to
complete the equivalent of a
high school and junior college
there. He entered the Univer
sity of Oslo and studied for three
years with the intention of
earning his Ph.D. in psycho
logy. Before completing the
course, he said, he decided to
become a medical doctor and an
American friend encouraged
him to come to Columbia
University in New York in 1963
where he earned a BS degree in
zoology.
During his year in Atlanta,
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Dr. Takle
Dr. Takle said he lived with the
family of Dr. Samuel Y. Brown,
an Atlanta physician, who had a
son his age. Having a second
family there, he applied for and
was accepted to Emory Medical
School.
He earned his MD degree in
1969 and interned the next year
at Grady Hospital. For the past
three years, until June of this
year, Dr. Takle has worked in
the ophthalmology program at
the Emory affiliated hospitals
which include Emory, Grady
and the Veterans Administra
tion Hospitals.
Each summer, from the time
he was an exchange student at
Grady High until he returned to
study at Columbia University,
Dr. Takle came back to
America and worked as a
YMCA counselor and instructor
in soccer and sailing at a boys’
camp at Torch Lake, Mich. He
still enjoys these sports, along
with snow skiing and he tried to
get in all of that he can at Sugar
Mountain, N.C. in the winters.
Christina is from Sweden. She
was studing at a teachers’
college in Sweden and met her
husband in Oslo when she came
there as part of her studies. He
left for America two weeks
after they met, but they
corresponded for about a year
and a half and were married
Christmas 1964.
They have a son, Leiv Takle,
Jr., who was two in March.
The family has purchased a
home in Hillandale.
Dr. Takle said they are so
pleased with Griffin. “Nobody
in Atlanta really knows what’s
down here, or they’d all come
too,” he added.
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Griffin PD eligible
for LEAA grants
Robert C. (Bob) White,
Criminal Justice Planner, for
the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission has completed an
official Equal Opportunity
Employment program for the
Griffin Police Department.
He drew up the program in
compliance with the Law En
forcement Assistance Ad
ministration (LEAA) ruling
that the City of Griffin have, in
written form, a program for
equal employment opportunity
within the Griffin Police De
partment.
The Law Enforcement Assis
tance Administration (LEAA)
issued guidelines that required
certain recipients of their funds
(agencies with 50 or more
employees, recipients of $25,000
or more since the inception of
the LEAA Program) and at
least a three percent (3 percent)
Former Miss America
to speak at banquet
An outstanding speaker,
combining both beauty and
accomplishments, has agreed
to address the 1974 annual
dinner of the Griffin Area
Chamber of Commerce, ac
cording to past president Jerry
Savage.
The dinner, scheduled for
Jan. 17, will feature past Miss
America Marilyn Van Derbur.
In making the announcement
today, Savage said that Miss
Van Derbur is a dynamic
speaker who has addressed
various business and civic
groups across the nation.
Competing in a man’s world
of “banquet tour” speaking,
Miss Van Derbur has success
fully followed such orators as
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, and
Henry Ford 11.
She is an honor graduate of
the University of Colorado and a
member of Phi Beta Kappas
For the past four years, she
has narrated the Thanksgiving
Day and Cotton Bowl parades.
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minority work force to develop
and implement an equal op
portunity program.
Included in this program is a
written job description for all
positions within the Griffin
Police Department as well as a
revamping of existing job
descriptions, responsibilities
and other duties. A new set of
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general rules of conduct and
promotional and disciplinary
procedures have been
established.
White was requested to write
the program on June 1. In order
to complete this task White, who
has a complete working
knowledge of the Griffin Police
Department, first researched
the department’s existing
hiring, promotional and
disciplinary procedures.
Upon completion of the
analization of his researched
information, White wrote new
job descriptions and respon
sibilities, new hiring and
promotional procedures,
disciplinary procedures and a
set of new General Rules of
Conduct.
The program, completed
recently, enabled the Griffin
Police Department to receive
all approved LEAA Grants.