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t ATLANTA (UPI) - Calling
.e Nixon administration’s
ice freeze on food “plainly
hotic”. Sen. Herman
Gasoline
licture
jrighter
IaTLANTA (UPI) - The Geor
a Motor Club says the fuel pic
jre in the state is brighter than
I been in almost two months.
|A club spokesman said 58 per
’nt of 118 service stations sur
■yed in the club’s weekly check
';re operating normally, for a
/o per cent increase in opera
ins over last week.
jJim Walls reported that the
I and looks good, though the
jb is aware of shortages in
me stations.
He said, “Motorists can con
(ue to expect these spot shorts
es, but the general picture is
je of gradual improvement.”
The motor club has conduct
-1 the weekly surveys since
’ me 8, when 66 per cent of the
1 ations were operating normal
i.
; In the recent survey, no sta
ins were limiting the amount
fuel that customers could buy,
id only one station reported
ling out of at least one grade
I fuel.
Stations which limited operat
ig hours or closed on Sundays
jmained constant, with 24 per
ent operating reduced hours
nd 23 per cent closed on Sun
?ys -
jDther districts
Knay be redrawn
ATLANTA (UPI) —The Geor
-1 House remapping 15 of its
I multi - member districts,
ly have to reapportion the re
linder of its districts, accord
> to capital sources,
rhe U. S. Justice Department
ABC chapter
edicates
jym tonight
| The Griffin Chapter of
nerican Business Clubs will
dicate its new gymnasium at
itrick Park tonight with a
ogram beginning at 6:30.
The event also will mark the
th anniversary of the Chapter.
‘ J. W. Roberts is the president
the club. He and David Harris
ive coordinated arrangements
r the program tonight.
The chapter has been
■veloping the Patrick Park
ea for several years. Con
ruction of die gym is the latest
eject.
Dundee Mills made the land
'ailable for the recreational
implex. One of the first
ejects was to build a Little
jague baseball park there.
The State Little League
>urnament was held at the
riffin field this year.
The ABC Chapter here also
is developed a football field
id other outdoor facilities at
e park.
The gymnasium will make it
issible to utilize the complex
e year "round.
Grunt and groan lawmaker
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Talmadge, D-Ga., said the
damage caused by the freeze is
irreparable.
“Never in the history of this
country have we been faced
with peacetime price controls,”
Talmadge said. “And never has
the havoc of such an unwise and
plainly idiotic policy become evi
dent so quickly.”
Talmadge, chairman of the
Senate Agriculture Committee,
addressed the Food Manufac
turers Sales Executive Club,
predicting the nation will go
through a long period of food
shortages and high prices be
cause of the freeze.
He said his committee fore
saw the present shortages and
price increases back in June,
and they anticipated problems
in trying to overcome the “dis
locations" caused by the admin
istration farm policy.
Talmadge praised the new
farm program, but noted his
fear of harm caused by the pre
vious one. “I fear that before
the terms of the new program
will become fully effective, we
will all have to suffer through
a long period of high prices and
shortages brought upon us by
the unwise administrative action
in imposing price freezes on
food."
The senator cited a massive
increase in income over the
world as the cause of increased
food demand, and he advocated
increased production as the so
lution.
He said, “It is extremely im
portant that this nation take
every possible step to encourage
our farmers to produce in the
future.”
has already forced the House
to revamp the first group into
single - member districts pit
ting several incumbents against
each other.
The House Reapportionment
Committee completed work this
week on the 15 districts the Jus
tice Department objected to be
cause the agency charged the
districts dilluted minority vot
ing rights.
Sources said federal officials
say the Justice Department is
no longer bound to its earlier
demand, and may force revamp
ing of all 32 districts.
House Speaker George L.
Smith said the state planned to
redraw only the original 15,
leaving the other 17 intact. He
said the reapportionment com
mittee had told him “it would
stick with the 15.”
Smith said he wanted a re
apportionment bill passed by the
1974 General Assembly during
its first week in January.
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“Probably the most creative
among us are those who can
make the best excuses.”
GRIFFIN
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Daily Since 1872
Just
around
corner
A score of Spalding County
Council 4-H’ers have been
modern Tom Sawyer’s this
week as they have painted
everything white (including
themselves) at the fair grounds.
The project, a money-making
agreement with the Griffin
Kiwanis Club, is designed to
whitewash all the buildings on
the grounds. Hot dog cookouts
and “sprinkle” parties have
been added to make the whole
proceedings a little less like
work for the teenagers. Bill
Wages and Beth Epling are
adult advisors for 4-H.
He’s warmly received wherever he goes
ATLANTA (UPI) - When
Gov. Jimmy Carter embarked
on his grass roots “listening”
tour down the West side of
Georgia, his motives, to some,
were suspect.
For a man who wasn’t running
for anything, this had all the
earmarks of an old- fashioned
whistle stop political thurst into
the hustings. There were hand
shakes all around — at the fac
tory during shift - changes, on
the street corners, in the shops.
The attractive wife and five
year -old daughter joined in.
If Carter had kissed a few ba
bies, the picture would have
been complete.
The theory advanced by some
was that this was an “ego trip”,
to repair a declining popularity
in areas where he was sure of
support. Some said he was lay
ing in ammunition for a big po
litical push in 1976.
Another theory is that Carter
genuinely is interested in what
the people are thinking, that he
wants to devote the rest of his
term pushing for legislation the
Georgia girl
Miss Teen-Ager
NEW YORK (UPI) - Brown
haired, blue-eyed Janet Reeves,
a 16-year-old high school senior
from Columbus, Ga., today won
the 14th annual Miss America
Teen-Ager Pageant.
Lucy Demkiw, 17 of Brooklyn,
was chosen second runner-up.
Miss Reeves, one of ten final
ists who participated in the com
petition that ended at 3:30 a.m.,
was awarded more than 120,000
in prizes—including a new car
tor her victory, which was
judged on the basis of beauty,
poise, scholastic achievement
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Carter people to people —
people want and being what he
onced referred to as “a full
time fighting governor.”
There could be some of all
that behind the exhaustive eight
day tour. But one thing is ob
vious to anyone tagging along:
Carter is being warmly received
everywhere he goes. He is en
countering absolutely no criti
cism of him or his administra
tion. If his popularity is wan
ing, as some polls suggest, it
was not apparent this past week.
The word most widely heard
at stop after stop was “appre
ciate.” The people to whom he
spoke on the streets, in barber
shops, the garages, the small
cases, the rural stores indeed
seemed to appreciate him com
ing by.
Carter tells a man trying to
kick the habit at an alcoholic
treatment center in Rome that
he would be glad to help the
man get a job, adding “there’s
hope for you.” He praises a 17-
year -old boy who has become
an inspiration to other juvenile
offenders at a rehabilitation
and community service.
Miss Reeves, who will enter
her senior year this fall at Hard
away High School in Columbus,
says she would later like to
study pediatrics. She topped an
original field of 46 contestants
chosen from nearly every state.
Katherine Kassing, 17, of Mc-
Lean, Va., was selected first
runnerup; Sherri Moore, 17, of
Fullerton, Calif., was picked
third runnerup, and Kim Wag
ner, 15, of Overland Park, Kan.,
was selected fourth runnerup.
house in Newnan. He says, “My
name’s Jimmy, what’s yours?”
and waits patiently while a re
tarded woman in Ellaville col
lects her thoughts sufficiently
so she can mumble her name.
The manager of Ann’s Case in
downtown Cedartown is upset
because hamburger meat has
doubled in cost. The young pro
prietor of a 125 - year -old
store in Dranesville wants to
know whether he can butcher
his own beef and sell it through
his store. Carter doesn’t know,
but he’ll find out. The operator
of a Carrollton garage thinks
there’s too much feet - drag
ging going on in the fixing up
of a stretch of highway. Carter
checks on it, then makes a spe
cial trip to his business to tell
him what’s the holdup. A Cor
dele druggist wants to know why
there is a delay in him getting
medicaide reimbursements.
Carter calls Atlanta. Find out,
he says. The head of a clinic in
Ellaville tells him, “It’s hard to
get physicians to come to a
rural area without full medical
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facilities.”
The Carter entourage stuck
mainly to the rural highways,
streaking down two-lane roads,
making quick stops in small
towns, or beside the road (the
governor once pulled over in the
middle of nowhere to talk to a
carpenter building a house about
the high cost of lumber). He
stayedaway from Columbus, the
only major city on his route.
“This gives me a chance to
talk to people,” Carter said.
One of them was 84-year-old
Mrs. J. V. Blackwell of Cedar
town, who donated two Ameri
can flags, one of which was
draped over her husband’s cas
ket, to an Atlanta project Car
ter supports. “I’m a Republi
can,” she said, “but I’m back
ing you to the hilt.” They posed
for pictures. “I grin from ear
to ear,” she said. “So do I”,
Carter said.
“I am proud in what I have
done that pride is strengthened
as I walk up and down the
streets, hearing what our pro
grams have meant to the peo-
Georgia Pulitzer Prize poet
Conrad Potter Aiken dead
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI)-Con
rad Potter Aiken, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a
major figure in American let
ters, died of a heart attack Fri
day night at the age of 84.
After a distinguished writing
career, primarily as a poet,
Aiken returned to his native
Savannah two years ago and
had been in poor health for re
cent months.
He left Savannah at the age
of 11 when his father, a physi
cian, killed his mother and
committed suicide. Aiken was
raised by relatives in New Eng
land and attended Harvard
where he met and became a
friend of T. S. Eliot.
Aiken’s earliest writings dis
played a talent for keen psy
chological probing and utilized
a “stream of consciousness”
style. He was one of the ear
liest authors to recognize the
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First session of Superior Court of
Spalding County began on Monday,
May 17, 1852, with Judge James H.
Stark of the Flint River Circuit
presiding and J. A. Thrasher, Jr.,
representing the State as Solicitor
General.
ple,” Carter said.
An aide said not only was
there no attempt to “rig” the
route to insure favorable reac
tion, but the opposite was true.
“We wanted to find some cri
tical comment, but none was
forthcoming,” the aide said.
“Not even in his home terri
tory, which hasn’t received any
major help since he’s been gov
ernor.”
It surprised Carter, too. The
educational television crew
which accompanied him wanted
him to line up someone critical
so he could answer the charges
on film.
“But we couldn’t find any
one," the governor said.
Carter talked frequently about
reorganization, particularly the
Human Resources Department,
at every opportunity. One paper
accused him of “patting himself
on the back,” but he pressed on,
accenting not so much personal
accomplishment as he did re
sults.
“My overall impression is one
abilities of his fellow Souther
ner, William Faulkner.
Five “Symphonies,” written
by Aiken in 1915-20, were his
first successful poems. They
were characterized by a musi
cal style through which he
hoped to achieve “a sort of
Absolute poetry.”
Later he wrote narrative
poems and meditations, fol
lowed by a return to musical
themes and another element in
his writing, death. Some critics
described his works of this per
iod as “dances of death.”
He won the Pulitzer Prize in
1930 for his “Selected Poems.”
Other accolades included the
National Bode Award and Bol
linger Prize for poetry.
Aiken travelled and lived in
Europe following college, then
returned to the United States
where he split his time between
New England and Savannah
of friendship,” Carter said as
an aide drove him to Americus.
And so it was.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 70, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 70, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s, total
rainfall yesterday .27 of an inch.
until he came to live here per
manently in 1971. Illness pre
vented him from attending
“Conrad Aiken Day” in Savan
nah last March.
Aiken worked in obscurity,
sometimes extreme poverty, for
much of his career but made
his living at writing. He pub
lished five novels, four volumes
of short stories, many critical
essays and a play.
Aiken’s last poem, “Thee,”
gives his view of creation.
The poet “loved every mo
ment of life," said a close
friend and professor in Savan
nah, Joseph Killorin. “He knew
all about death. He talked about
it endlessly but he never feared
it.”
Graveside services are
planned Monday at Bonaven
ture Cemetery.