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Prisoner record
set at Spalding jail
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
that there were more prisoners
in the Spalding County Jail
yesterday than there have been
at anytime in the 12 years since
he has been sheriff.
The county jail has space for
55 prisoners. Yesterday there
Talmadge says pipeline
will alleviate crisis
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Herman E. Talmadge, D - Ga.,
said Tuesday the Trans-Alaska
pipeline would not only help to
alleviate the nation’s energy
crisis but also free the country
from the increasing control of
oil-rich Arab lands.
Talmadge, one of the senators
voting to approve the pipeline
Tuesday, said it would help the
nation’s balance of trade and
payments by keeping money
[Goodrum honored
Hedderman elected
jr. vice commander
Griffin Legionnaire Jim
Hedderman was elected Jr.
Vice Commander at the
American Legion state con
vention in Savannah last
weekend.
Hedderman has served as
Commander of American
Legion Post 15, Griffin and as
District Four Commander.
As one of four Jr. Vice
Commanders, he will serve an
area comprised of the second,
third, and twelveth
congressional districts.
Each Jr. Vice Commander
will function as a liason for the
Department Commander and
various District Commanders
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Plenty of butter beans
ATLANTA —A young worker fills a bushel basket full of butterbeans at the local Farmers’
Market here. What started out as a weak crop this season has turned into a late, but plentiful
supply of the favorites of southern tables selling for $6.00 per bushel. (UPI)
were 52 persons in jail.
The cells are divided into
three areas and can accommo
date eight females, six
juveniles, and 41 adult males.
Yesterday at one time there
were 46 adult males in jail,
which is five more than sleeping
here rather than spending it in
the Mideast.
“We ought to utilize our own
petroleum reserves,” he said.
“We're becoming more and
more victims of the Arabs
in the Mid East to utilize their
great monetary reserves to de
value further our dollar.”
Talmadge, a member of the
Senate Watergate Committee,
said he thinks the investigation
should end as soon as possible
in his area.
Retired Griffin businessman
F. A. Goodrum was honored by
the 3,000 Legion delegates with
a plaque denoting his personal
membership drive.
Goodrum signed 340 new
Legionnaires into membership
during the year.
He was also awarded the
distinction of representing the
state department as a delegate
to the American Legion national
convention in Hawaii in August.
In other convention activities,
the delegates elected W. E.
Mau, Tucker, as the new
Department Commander.
Elected as Sr. Vice Com-
GRIFFIN
DAILyITnEWS
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capacity. Twenty-nine of those
had been sentenced to prison
terms in Spalding Superior
Court recently and were waiting
for the State Department of
Corrections to complete the
paper work so they could be
transferred to the state prison
to clear “the enormous cloud
hanging over the White House.”
“I think it’s in the national in
terest that we complete these
hearings just as rapidly as we
possibly can to determine who’s
involved,” he said. “The credi
bility of the President of the
United States has been directly
questioned. And I do not believe
it’s doing the country any good
to leave his credibility in
doubt.”
mander was E. D. Echols of
Atlanta.
Named as Jr. Vice Com
manders, aside from Hed
derman, were Collier Roberds,
Statham; Dean McHaffey,
Columbus; and Willard
Dawson, Atlanta.
Delegates from Griffin
American Legion Post 15 at
tending the convention were:
Sam Saul, Carl Pruett, Pat
Murphy, Bill Capel, F. A.
Goodrum, Ray Fleming, John
Nixon, Ben Saul, Preston
Newton, Oman J. Kierbow, Bob
Turner, D. J. McSwiggan and
Jim Hedderman.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, July 18, 1973
system.
Yesterday the state
authorized that seven of these
prisoners be moved. Six were
taken to the Alton Correctional
Center. They all were under 21
years of age. One prisoner was
taken to the Georgia Diagnostic
Center in Jackson, which is the
usual place for Spalding
prisoners to go, Gilbert said.
The normal procedure for
moving a sentenced person is
for a state officer to come to the
jail and pick up the prisoner.
But, the sheriff said, as the state
has only two men to do this, the
county cannot wait and as soon
as the papers arrive, a local
deputy transfers the prisoners.
Sheriff Gilbert said he hopes
that the state will authorize
transfer of the 22 remaining
men under court sentence to
make room for the persons who
probably will be sentenced in
the special session of superior
court next week.
He added that yesterday after
the six were sent to Alto, four
additional prisoners were
brought to the county jail who
were not bondable and will have
to stay there until court con
venes.
All persons who violate a
state law, whether arrested in
the city of Griffin or the county
are processed through the
Spalding County jail. Persons
held in the city jail are those
who have violated some city
ordinance such as drunk driving
or speeding. All others are
brought to the county facility.
The sheriff’s office operates
with a staff of 16 including eight
deputies assigned to patrol the
county on three shifts a day,
seven days a week.
Sheriff Gilbert
assigns Cantrell
to assault case
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
that he has assigned Criminal
Investigator Richard Cantrell
of his department to work full
time on Monday’s rape case
until either the attacker is
caught or there are no more
leads available.
The sheriff said a number of
suspects have been questioned
and that his department is
working hard to catch the
culprit. Agents from the
Division of Investigation also
are assisting.
Parole jumper:
‘I knew they’d come’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
“I’ve lived the last six years in
hell and ecstasy,” Music City ’
record producer Tom Anthony 1
said from his jail cell Tuesday. 1
“The hell was knowing one 1
day the FBI would walk up to 1
me and say ‘we know you’re <
John Beck.’ The ecstasy was <
living with my wife and two
beautiful children and knowing i
that I had made a clean break i
from my prior life.” '
That day when the FBI !
walked up came Monday. Today 1
John Calvin Beck, alisas Tom <
Anthony, of Destiny Records, I
awaits government officials
from the federal penitentiary at <
Atlanta. i
Beck said he jumped parole 1
six years ago in Atlanta after <
being told he could not visit his ;
brother who is a captain on the
Bibb County, Ga., security po- ;
lice. He had just two months '
left on probation at that time 1
after being given a five-year !
white slavery term. 1
“So I went (to see his broth- I
er) anyway and from that point i
Nixon
resumes
schedule
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Nixon has resumed a
heavy full work schedule, and
has shown “no untoward
effects” from it, while shaking
off the last vestiges of his bout
with pneumonia, his doctors
said today.
A morning medical bulletin
pronounced him virtually recov
ered from the viral pneumonia
attack, his first illness of any
consequence since assuming
office. He is to be released
from the Bethesda naval
hospital about noon Friday and
will spend a long weekend
regaining his strength at Camp
David.
A 7:45 a. m. EDT report on
Nixon’s progress in recuperat
ing from the pneumonia attack
that sent him to the hospital
last Thursday night said he was
relaxed Tuesday during meet
ings with economic advisers,
congressional leaders and Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew.
Agnew reported him in
particularly good spirits.
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“Identical days can be
beautiful or ugly — depending
upon how you see them.”
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
87, low today 67, high yesterday
83, low yesterday 70, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70. Total rainfall
.27 of an inch.
The victim, a 26-year-old
white housewife, and her small
child were at home alone when
a black man, thought to be in his
mid twenties, entered the house
and raped her. He kicked in her
locked carport door and held a
pistol on the woman, ordering
her to put the child in another
room.
The incident took place
around 11:30 a.m. Monday at a
residence on the south side of
Griffin.
on I was in violation, ’ ’ Beck said.
“I changed my name the next
week to Tom Anthony. I really
don’t know why I chose that
name other than it just came
to me. At the time my wife was
pregnant with our first child
and I promised her we’d start
a new life.
“I became another person. In
reality Johnny Beck died and
made a new life as Tom An
thony. I secured another social
security number, a new driver’s
license and bought a car under
the name of Tom Anthony and
gotadditional identification.”
Beck said he bought an sll,-
000 mobile home last year and
a 1973 Thunderbird this year. At
present he said he is $50,000 in
debt to Nashville merchants
and banks.
“Almost every night my wife
and I would talk about what
would happen when someone
found out who I really was,” he
said from behind jail bars. “I’ve
had to live, breathe and sleep
this every day and every
night.”
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The City of Griffin has nailed two fi fa notices on the strip of property formerly owned by
Congressman Jack Flynt and conveyed by him to his former employe Clinton E. Brush IV of
Arlington, Va. One of the signs nailed to a pine tree is pictured above. It is addressed to
Brush and states in part, “You are hereby notified that I have this day levied a Fi. Fa. issue
by the City of Griffin against you for street paving, upon the aforesaid land as your 1
property. And you are further notified that said tract of land will be sold at legal sale by me
on the First Tuesday in August (7), 1973.” It is signed by the tax collector of the City of
Griffin. The property is five and a half feet wide and 2,210 feet long. Paving assessment
against it is in the amount of $3,968.95, plus interest. It adjoins the Congressman’s property
at his home on West Poplar street and Old Mount Zion Road and runs along Old Mount Zion
Road which was paved and for which paving the $3,968.95 charge was made. City
Commissioner R. L. “Skeeter” Norsworthy lives on the road which the city paved.
Officer shot
in hand
NEW YORK (UPI) - A
police officer frisking a man in
the Times Square area Tuesday
night was shot in the hand when
a gun in the suspect’s pocket
went off, police said.
The officer was not seriously
injured.
According to police, the
officer was approached by an
unidentified person who told
him there was a man with a
gun nearby.
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Skids to safe landing
ATLANTA—-Pilot G. C. Wade brings his Cessna 310 to an emergency landing when his nose
landing gear failed to lower completed (top). On landing the gear folded under leaving the
plane to plow along the foamed runway. The pilot and his young passengers G.O. Persons
111, and Jim G. Persons escaped unharmed. (UPI)
Landing was a
little bumpy
ATLANTA (UPI) - For two
hours Tuesday, C. G. Wade
flew his twin-engine plane in
circles above a suburban Atlan
ta airport, waiting for his land
ing gear to open. It never did,
but he came down anyway.
Wade was flying from St.
Simons Island and preparing to
land at Fulton County Airport
when his nose landing gear
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jammed, according to a Feder
al Aviation Agency spokesman.
Wade circled the airport while
emergency crews sprayed fire
retarding foam on the runways.
With two young passengers,
G. O. Persons 111 and Jim G.
Persons aboard, Wade guided
his Cessna 310 to a safe but
bumpy landing.