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SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
Pouring vote
is tomorrow
Griffin and Spalding County
voters will have a chance to go
to the polls tomorrow to vote yes
or no on whether the community
will authorize liquor pouring
licensing.
The vote follows a referen
dum in which voters approved
the legal sale of package liquor
here.
The pouring license would
permit fraternal, veterans and
private clubs as well as
restaurants to serve mixed
drinks.
The question has not created
the interest the first referen
dum did.
The Committee for Legal
Control has been promoting a
yes vote for pouring licenses.
Citizens Organized for a
Protected Environment
(COPE) has not been as active
in the pouring license cam
paign.
The organization opposed the
package store referendum in an
all out campaign against legal
liquor sales.
Polls will open tomorrow at 7
a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
All regular voting places in
the city and county will be open.
A total of 16,046 people are
registered and eligible to cast
ballots tomorrow.
Both City and County Com
‘missioners, meeting
separately, have been busy
since the package store
% referendum, hammering out
local regulations to get the new
law operative.
County Commissioners have
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TIVERTON, R.I. — With a touch of holiday humbug, Earle W. Stewart, an insurance agent,
boards up town hall because he claims the city owes him $2,000 in unpaid insurance
premiums. Stewart, an employe of the Tiverton Insurance Agency, Inc., says he has been
unable to collect on the policies, which expired in March.
at $2,000 and will charge the
maximum 80 cents per gallon in
local taxes.
Other rules and regulations
are being completed.
A commission spokesman
said it may be later January or
mid-February before package
licenses are actually issued.
Ed makes it
silver Yule
A quiet Christmas tradition is
being carried on in a side room
at the Spalding County court
house.
Children are seen with a
special kind of smile on their
faces.
These young people belong to
a very unusual club.
They are Griffin’s juvenile
offenders.
The reason they are smiling is
Spalding County Juvenile Of
ficer Ed Crawford’s own unique
brand of Christmas.
As each boy or girl makes his
weekly check-in, Crawford or
his co-worker, Mrs. Jean
Toland, gives them a Merry
Christmas and a silver dollar.
Some of the dollars will be
spent.
A few will be treasured for
years to come.
The dollar was special
because it came from soneone
who cares.
A present from someone who
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City Commissioners have
been working to draft local
package store regulations.
They have not announced a
license fee or tax rate.
Neither board has announced
what it would do if pouring
licenses are approved in the
vote tomorrow.
expects nothing in return.
A present with no strings
attached — one that does not
have to be matched.
An uncommon experience in
any season, but especially for
children who may be ex
periencing the true spirit of
Christmas for the first time.
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“We distrust folks who lack
experience — and pension those
who have it.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, December 19, 1973
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Fire victims
need clothing
Here it is just before
Christmas and Mr. and Mrs.
Bill English are homeless. Fire
destroyed their house near High
Falls in Lamar County and all
their possessions went up in the
blaze.
It broke out Monday about 5
p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. English were in
the 10-room frame house when
the roof started to fall in. They
were unaware of the fire which
started in the top of the house.
The couple lived alone in the
house and managed to get out of
the blaze unharmed.
One of their children, Mrs.
Billy Hicks, lives at 1238 Ellis
road, Griffin.
Mrs. Hicks said anyone
wishing to donate any clothing
to her mother and father may
do so at their Ellis road address.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
56, low today 27, high yesterday
49, low yesterday 25, high
tomorrow in mid 50s, low
tonight in upper 30s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:41, sunset
tomorrow 5:31.
Bank robbery suspect
arrested in Atlanta
The third suspect of the Dec.
11 Concord Banking Company
robbery was arrested in Fulton
County yesterday:
Pike County Sheriff J. Astor
Riggins said that Robert Lee
Green, 26, was taken into
custody yesterday afternoon at
the apartment of his girl friend
on the Jonesboro road in Fulton
County. A paper sack con
taining a portion of Green’s
share of the stolen money was
recovered, lawmen said.
Two other suspects, Michael
Jerome Banks, 19, and William
Mack Smith, 26, both of Atlanta
addresses, were arrested last
week and lawmen had pressed
an extensive search for Green
since.
Sheriff Riggins said that
Tuesday night he and DOI
Agent Bert Davis learned
NEWS
Nominated for honors program
Griffin High students who have been nominated for the
1974 Governor’s Honors program are (front, 1-r) Jeffrey
Elmer Wright, George Wayne McMullen, Newton Monroe
Galloway, Laura Ashley Davis, Kevin Wyatt Reid, Mary
Mr. and Mrs. English will live
with relatives.
Mrs. English wears a size 20-
22% dress and a 5% shoe size.
Her husband wears a 34-32
pants size and a 15-15% shirt.
His shoe size is 8%.
Santa night
to benefit
Salvation Army
“Santa Claus” night at a local
drive-in movie will be held
Friday night for the benefit of
the Salvation Army.
The program will begin at
7:30 at the Iris Drive-In Theater
on Memorial Drive.
Santa will be on hand to give a
gift to the driver of every car.
Admission will be free, but
drivers who wish to do so will be
invited to give $3 for the Salva
tion Army’s Christmas
program.
The occasion is sponsored by
Griffin Radio Station WGRI.
Two family-type movies will be
shown.
Green’s Volkswagen was at the
Fulton County apartment
complex. He and Davis went to
the apartments and confiscated
the car but did not find Green
there.
Yesterday following an
arraignment in Pike County for
Banks and Smith, the lawmen
decided to check the apartment
again.
DOI Agents Davis and Allen
Smith, accompanied by District
Attorney Ben Miller, went to the
complex and found Green in bed
asleep. He was alone in the
apartment.
When they brought him to the
Pike jail, Green told the
lawmen where they could find
his share of the loot.
Pike Deputy Billy Riggins
returned last night with Miller,
Davis and Smith to the apart-
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Herbert Carley, Charles Edward McKemie, Tim Norris
Shepherd, Hayward Ray Simonton, Mark Allen
Williamson and Gregory Phillip Head.
Tax forms
are on
the way
Deliver}' of possibly the
largest single mail shipment in
U. S. Postal Service history—
— million income tax packages
— will begin Dec. 26 to homes
and businesses across the
country, the Postal Service
announced today.
The packages contain the
forms taxpayers must file by
April 15 and the instructions for
doing so.
The delivery is the final step
in a massive movement of mail
that started Dec. 3 at two
Wisconsin printing plants.
For the first time, the Postal
Service is handling the entire
shipment from printers to
taxpayers. Previously, the
Internal Revenue Service did
most of the job, using the mails
only to deliver the forms from
IRS Regional Service Centers.
Some 300 vans are being used
to transport the packages from
the printers in Green Bay and
Menasha, Wis., to 125 cities
where they will be sorted and
distributed to local post offices.
ment where they found a paper
bag filled with bills.
Just under $5,000 of the more
than SB,OOO taken in the robbery
was recovered with the arrest of
Banks and Smith. The money
recovered yesterday was to be
counted this morning.
Green is a former resident of
Griffin. He is a former student
at Griffin Tech. His wife gave
birth to a baby daughter at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Saturday and undercover
agents waited there for a while
in hopes that Green would show
up to visit his wife and new
daughter.
District Attorney Miller said
that an arraignment was being
scheduled for Green.
The three suspects were being
held in the Pike County jail.
Forecast
Rain
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Karen Bouchell wins
DAR citizen award
A Griffin High School senior
has been selected as the DAR
good citizen of the year.
Karen Bouchell was
presented the Daughters of the
American Revolution Good
Citizenship Award for 1973 in a
special chapel program this
morning.
The award is given to the girl
voted best citizen by her class
mates and faculty.
Winners are selected for
qualities including depen
dability, service, leadership
and patriotism.
The Griffin Pulaski Chapter
of the DAR sponsored the local
award.
Karen has received
recognition for receiving the
Outstanding Student Council
Award, serving as the GHS
Council chairman and chaplain,
Y Club president and junior
class secretary.
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By United Press International
Wilson sOth governor
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) — Malcolm Wilson took over as
New York’s 50th governor Tuesday with the pledge to take
“vigorous action serving the people” rather than head “a
caretaker administration.” Wilson, 59, succeeded Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, who resigned to devote full time to
two national study groups.
64 persons wounded
LONDON (UPI) — Four bombs went off Tuesday,
wounding 64 persons in what police believe may be a
renewal of an Irish Republican Army campaign. Eight of
the injured remained hospitalized today and Scotland
Yard said it hoped to issue descriptions of two IRA
members suspected of taking part in the terror bombings.
Israel, Egypt to attend
GENEVA (UPI) — Israel and Egypt promised today to
attend the Middle East peace conference that will open
Friday in Geneva. Syria, the other major participant in
the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, said it would boycott the talks.
New guidelines
VIENNA (UPI) — Representatives of the world’s 12
major oil-producing nations have decided on new
guidelines expected to increase energy prices for the rest
of the world. Sources in the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries said a conference Tuesday agreed
prices should be based on supply and demand. Until now,
the organization has fixed oil prices in advance.
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Karen Bouchell
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Bouchell of 1493
Wesley drive, Griffin.