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Phase IV
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Spalding Square
to open in April
Spalding Square Shopping
Center south of Griffin plans to
open for business in April of
1974.
Stores are planned for Roses
Department Store, Piggly
Wiggly supermarket, and
Elliott’s Drugs.
Construction is underway at
the location across Highway 19
from the Griffin-Spalding Air
port. The property includes
approximately 25 acres which
Barnett Real Properties, Inc.,
of Henderson, N.C., purchased
from Ben Brown. He operated a
dairy there for many years. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown’s home is
adjacent to the development.
Bill Barnett, president of the
developers, told the plans to a
representative of the Griffin
Daily News prior to a press
conference to be held this after
noon. He was in Griffin for the
announcement.
“We expect to pour footings in
August and hope to open in
April,” he said.
Mr. Barnett is a native of
Macon, a graduate of the United
States Military Academy at
West Point, and of Harvard
Business College which he
attended after the Korean War
Rev. Claude Johnson
resigns pastorship
The Rev. Claude E. Johnson,
pastor of the First Assembly of
God Church at Riegel’s Curve,
has submitted his resignation to
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Girl traffic cop
MlAMl—Miami patrolman Gayle Jackson, who’s been walking a beat for 14 months,
graduated to a motorcycle Wednesday, making her Dade County’s first female motorcycle
cop and maybe the first in the nation. Like all new cycle officers. Ms. Jackson starts on a 3-
wheeler before becoming eligible for a 2-wheel cycle. (UPI)
in which he served as a lieuten
ant and pilot of FB4 aircraft. He
was vice president and director
of expansion for Roses for five
and a half years and has headed
his own development firm for
about 15 months. In addition to
the shopping center in Griffin,
Barnett Real Properties has
others in various stages of de
velopment in North Carolina,
Virginia, and Waycross, Ga.
He emphasized that the Roses
store which he announced will
be a department store and not a
variety store. Roses presently
operates a variety type store on
Hill street in downtown Griffin.
He was not prepared to say
whether Rose’s will continue its
present store.
The Roses Department Store
in Spalding Square, he said, will
have 54,000 square feet of space.
Its headquarters is in Hender
son, N.C. The Piggly Wiggly
supermarket, he said, will be
one of the chain whose head
quarters is Piggly Wiggly
Southern in Vidalia, Ga., and
the store in Griffin will have
26,950 square feet. The Elliott’s
Drug Store will be part of a
division of Daylin Corporation
which bought the H. V. Kell
Rev. Johnson
the official board and members.
Johnson, who came to the
church as associate pastor
some six years and nine months
ago and who became pastor a
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property on Carver Road and
whose headquarters already is
in Griffin. It will have 10,000
square feet in the center.
In addition to these three
stores, Mr. Barnett said, other
smaller ones will be located in
the center. He added, “Hope
fully, some will be local mer
chants.”
Mr. Barnett then said,
“Shopping centers do not kill
downtowns. They just expand
existing facilities to reflect the
growth of the community and
the trade area.”
He expects Spalding Square
Shopping Center “will cut off
business now going to Atlanta.”
The area to be served in
cludes about 100,000 people in
Spalding, Pike, Lamar, Butts,
Fayette, Henry and Meriwether
counties.
Barnett Properties, accord
ing to its president, likes to do
business locally whenever
possible. Citing this, he said
that Spalding Square is dealing
financially with Commercial
Bank and Trust Company of
Griffin; that the law firm of
Beck, Goddard, Owen and
Murray represents it; that
Kenneth Presley of Griffin is
year later, said he has no
definite plans for the future. He
has been asked to remain as
pastor until a replacement can
be selected.
The official board has called a
business meeting at the Sunday,
July 29, evening service when
the Rev. Johnson’s name will be
put before the people for
election of pastor. The board
voted 100 per cent to do this and
said that due to the resignation,
this will be an election, not a
vote of confidence.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 71, high yesterday
76, low yesterday 67, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight near 70.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, July 19, 1973
surveyor of the property.
Mr. Barnett said that the
three stores announced today
are in the first stage of the
shopping center’s development,
and that a second stage will
include a department store
“larger than Roses.” He said
that he was not at liberty to say
what store it will be and that
negotiations are underway with
several including one formerly
located in Griffin but which
closed its store here. This was
believed to be Belk’s.
Announcement today of
Spalding Square Shopping
Center’s plans was the second
this week of a major shopping
center in Griffin.
Northgate Center at Mclntosh
Road and the North Express
way announced Tuesday that it
will open in the spring and that
stores in it will include Food
Giant, Eckard Drugs, and a
pizza shop.
It is a Naredel development
and includes 11 acres. The firm
has other developments in
Coweta, DeKalb, Clayton and
Cobb Counties in Georgia.
Taylor Collier Realty is its local
broker.
Nixon ’s food price freeze ends
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ex
cept for beef, President Nixon’s
price freeze on food was lifted
today and he and his chief
advisers acknowledged there
will be a quick and substantial
rise in what it costs to feed
American families.
This was the element of the
new Phase IV economic plan,
unveiled late Wednesday, that
will be most immediately felt
and Herbert L. Stein, chairman
of the President’s economic
advisory council, admitted
today, “nobody is going to be
very happy about what we
did.”
“The producers are going to
be unhappy we didn’t lean one
way and consumers are going
to be unhappy we didn’t lean
that way,” said Stein. “But
that’s the nature of the
problem.”
The program also includes a
continuation of controls on
wage increases to about 5.5 per
cent and stipulates that a
business firm can raise certain
prices only so much as
production costs increases. Be
sides most food, the price
freeze imposed June 13 was
lifted immediately on health
care fees.
It was the food segment of
the program that drew the
greatest attention, from the
Five Marines
die in crash
MARIETTA,Ga. (UPI)-Five
Marines on a training mission
plunged to a fiery death Wednes
day when their helicopter burst
its seams and fell near a resi
dential area, scattered twisted
bits of wreckage in yards and
gardens.
The large OH-1 Echo “Huey”
craft was attached to the tacti
cal air command at the Atlanta
Air Station and on a routine
exercise when part of its tail
and drive shaft fell, apparently
causing the chopper to flip over
on its back.
The victims were identified as
Capt. Ronald G. Denton, the
pilot; Sgt. Charles C. Miles;
Sgt. Donald R. Isaac, all of
Marietta; crew Sgt. Duane E.
Miller, Acworth, Ga.; and
Lance Cpl. Kelly N. Cansella,
Fargo, N.D.
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Spalding Square
Site of Spalding Square off Highway 19 South
President on down. In a written
statement, Nixon said, “There
is no way, with or without
controls, to prevent a substan
tial rise in food prices.”
Stein echoed this today. “My
personal view is that we will
have a bulge over a period of
some months,” he said, but like
Nixon he insisted the price rise
would be much less in the
latter part of the year and
continue to level off in 1974.
“Nobody is going to be very
happy with what we did, we’re
sure of that,” said Stein. “It is
clear that the big increase in
the supply of meat is about a
year off because we have this
fall the big increase in the
crops of corn and soybeans —
the things that animals eat —
and it takes a year for the
animals ... to come to market.
“But the whole process that
we are engaged in is one of a
delicate balance in our interest
in restraining the prices and
our interest in getting the
output out.”
John T. Dunlop, chairman of
the Cost of Living Council, and
Stein both refused to predict
how much food prices would
rise, although a food chain
spokesman forecast a 4 to 5 per
cent jump in the next two
months.
The expectation is that by the
One witness, 8-year-old Mitch
Miller, said he watched the craft
pass overhead and then “all of
a sudden, it just started coming
apart. We were trying to get
away. The tail just went off and
it started busting up.”
No one in the residential area
was reported injured although a
nine-foot section of the heli
copter’s tail struck a house and
ripped into a driveway and
fence before stopping.
Joey Crooks, 10, was playing
with the Miller youth when the
“Huey” flew by.
“It was flying with no trouble,
but then everything started
coming apart. It kept on flying
and we saw two men hanging
out of the door. They were
trying to get out but they flew
into the woods and flipped over
and crashed. There was a big
fire.”
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time housewives do their
weekly shopping at the super
market next week, they will see
the effects of the removal of
the freeze on food prices. The
freeze on beef lasts until Sept.
12.
Stein and Dunlop were
interviewed on the CBS-TV
Morning News program and
Shultz on the ABC-TV Today
show.
Nixon said in his statement
that food price increases in the
latter part of 1973 “would be
less than in the first half of the
year but greater than anyone
would like.”
He still vowed to ‘‘do
everything in my power” to end
all economic controls by the
end of this year. But he said a
“move to freedom now would
most likely turn into a detour
back into a swamp of even
more lasting controls.”
Wages Under Controls
The statement said wages
will be under mandatory
controls in Phase IV—just like
those in Phase 11. Rents,
interest rates and small busi
nesses with 60 or fewer workers
would be exempt.
Consumers should begin to
see these effects of Nixon’s new
policy:
—Grocery prices will proba
bly begin to escalate in a week,
Supermarket prices
haven’t increased yet
By United Press International
Supermarket officials said
today they have not increased
food prices since the Phase IV
economic plan was announced
Wednesday but markups should
begin next week “in full force”
—and “be way up” by next
month.
Jim Sheehan, manager of a
Bohack chain supermarket in
Manhattan said that “probably
within the next few days I will
receive a directive from the
main offices telling me the
increases for the various
items.”
Sheehan said food price
increases should begin next
week “in full force. By this
time next month, the prices
should be way up.”
In Albany, N.Y., William
Golub, president of Golub
as wholesalers and retailers
begin adding on the costs they
absorbed during the freeze.
—Every gasoline pump at
retail service stations will be
required, by Aug. 12, to have a
sign listing both ceiling prices
and octane rating.
—Telephone, electricity and
natural gas rates will be free to
climb although increases still
Phase IV
at glance
By United Press International
Phase IV at-a-glance:
The Phase IV economic plan,
a sector-by-sector approach,
generally freezes profits instead
of prices, and returns wages to
the same mandatory controls
used in Phase 11.
The particulars:
Wages—The same as under
Phase ll—increases limited to
5.5 per cent, plus 0.7 per cent
for fringes.
Food—Except for beef the
food price freeze ends im
mediately. Beef prices will be
unfrozen on Sept. 12.
Industrial and service sector
Corp., which owns Central
Markets and Price Chopper
Markets in eastern New York
state and western Massachu
settes, said, “We view Phase IV
as another nail in the coffin of
food distribution.”
He said the housewife would
feel the increase “almost
immediately,” but added his
company is waiting to hear
from the National Association
of Food Chains in Washington
for clarification of many points
in Phase IV.
He said the first prices to see
increases would most likely be
perishables, such as produce.
Other markups will include
pork and wheat and com
products, as well as cereals,
oils, flour, canned goods and
frozen foods, he said.
In Buffalo, N.Y., Joseph
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must win approval of local
regulatory commissions.
In order to prevent a sudden
surge in prices, Nixon ordered
the freeze lifted piecemeal.
Food prices—with the exception
of beef—plus doctor, dentist,
hospital and other health care
fees are immediately exempt
from the freeze.
—Price freeze remains until
Aug. 12 when all increased
costs will be passed through on
a dollar-for-dollar basis.
Wholesale and retail (non
food)—Price freeze remains
until Aug. 12, when increased
costs will be passed through on
a dollar-for-dollar basis.
Petroleum—Price ceiling for
crude oil continues; ceiling
prices on gasoline, diesel fuel
and heating oil will be
established Aug. 12.
Health—The price freeze ends
immediately, with a new price
control program to be
developed no later than Oct. 1.
Brennan, division manager of
Loblaws markets, said in
creases will not go into effect
until “next week at the soonest.
We have to interpret what can
be done. We’ve got to assess
what’s being said. We want
more clarification on some of
it.
“We want to continue to
maintain a competitive posi
tion,” Sheehan added, “and
stay in business.”
New York City shoppers
expressed dismay at the news
that the lid was coming off food
prices. Miss Alice Monroe, who
lives on a fixed income,
commented: “Really, I don’t
know what to do. The prices
will get higher and my monthly
income will stay the same. I’m
worried sick about it.”