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Chamber challenged with ‘lmpossible Dream 9
Marilyn Van Derbur
challenged a Chamber of
Commerce audience last night
to set definite goals and definite
times to reach them.
The blonde former Miss
America beauty called on them
to reach for their impossible
dreams.
Don't be afraid to take a risk
because of the fear of failure,
she said.
To reach goals, she said a
person had to be willing to risk
failure. Plain, hard work plays
an important part in any
achievement, she went on.
In her travels across the
nation as the 1958 Miss
America, she said she had
observed the successful people
in towns and cities to see if they
had something in common. She
said she couldn’t tell the suc
cessful people from others by
looking at them.
But she said he had found all
of them had this in common:
they had set definite goals and
definite times in which to reach
them.
She recalled the incident
which started her on the road
toward becoming Miss
America. It was when she was
elected to be Miss Colorado
University. She related she was
not present when her sorority
sisters voted her to represent
the university.
At first she said she couldn’t
do it but finally agreed to ac
cept.
She said she practiced a
number on the organ four hours
daily for four months in
Martin president
of Hampton Bank
J. W. “Jake” Martin has been
elected president of the Bank of
Hampton succeeding Ben 0.
Sims, who held the position
since 1948. Mr. Sims retired
Dec. 31, 1973, after 25 years of
banking.
Mr. Martin came to the Bank
of Hampton as cashier in 1966
after six years with the Com
mercial Bank and Trust
Company in Griffin. At that
time, the bank was in
corporated from a private bank
to a state chartered FDIC bank
with assets of $230,000. Now the
bank has assets of nearly
$4,000,000 and has recently
moved into a new quarter of a
million dollar building featuring
the latest in banking equipment
and services.
Mr. Martin is a native Grif
finite, attending public schools
in Griffin and graduating from
the Georgia Banking School in
.Athens. He served two years in
the U. S. Army from 1955 to
1957. He is married to the for
mer Jacqueline Davis and they
have two children, Jan, 16 and
Jeffrey, 11.
He is a member of the First
Wesleyan Church in Griffin and
Four men shot
BELFAST (UPI) — The shooting of four men in a rural
Catholic pub late Thursday was probably a reprisal for
the assasination of a Protestant militiaman little more
than an hour earlier, police said today.
Nixon calls meeting
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon called
strategy meetings with Republican congressional leaders
today to talk about his State of the Union address, which is
to be delivered before both a joint session of Congress Jan.
29.
In another development, the White House has promised
to cooperate fully with an FBI investigation into the
Watergate tapes.
The President’s attorneys Thursday asked a federal
court to dismiss a Senate Watergate committee request
for five of the presidential tapes. They argued the courts
have no jurisdiction in what they said was an essentially
political argument between Congress and the White
House.
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The many faces of Marilyn Van Derbur as she spoke here.
preparation for talent competi
tion in the Miss America
pageant.
She picked that category, she
said, because she never had
heard of an organist in the
talent division, and she believed
she could be the best in this
competition.
She recalled a couple of days
after she won the title and being
rushed one evening to a hotel in
New York.
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he teaches the Young Adult
Class. He is also the music
director and a member of the
local church board. He is a
Director of The Hairy County
Chamber of Commerce.
The Bank of Hampton
Directors are: C. T. Parker,
chairman, Roy Bridges, Jr.,
Thomas A. Burdeshaw, Edred
M. Fortson, James L. Hen
derson, Jr., J. W. Martin, R. A.
Parker, Ben O. Sims and John
C. Walters, Jr.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
On the way there, she asked
what she was supposed to do
and she was told she would
speak to the national mayors
meeting.
“I can’t do it,” she exclaimed.
“Os course you can, you are
Miss America,” her chaperone
told her. So she did, she
recalled.
She said being Miss America
had taught her she could do a lot
of things she didn’t think she
Local option taxes move center stage
ATLANTA (UPI)-“A tax by
the drink is preferable to a tax
by the gallon,” says the Local
Government Revenue Study
Committee in recommending
four types of local option taxes
to combat a wounded Georgia
economy.
The seven - man committee,
from both houses, think a 10
per cent mixed drink excise tax
is a good idea. After all, it
passed the House last year.
Currently, it’s in the Senate
Banking and Finance Commit
tee, whose chairman, Sen. Gene
Holley, D-Augusta, is co-chair
man of the revenue study panel.
The legislators also look upon
a 3 per cent excise tax on
hotels, motels, and similar
lodging places as a fairway of
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Inflation soaring
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Government figures show the
economy stumbling toward possible recession with
economic growth at a three-year low and inflation soaring
at the highest rate since the Korean War.
That gloomy picture, which experts say will get worse
when the full effects of the energy shortage hit home,
occurred in the final three months of 1973.
Hopes for early agreement
LONDON (UPI) — The Soviet Union has dashed hopes
for early agreement on East-West troop cuts, endangering
plans for a pullback of some U.S. forces from Europe this
year, it was disclosed today.
Allied defense sources said the Soviets, in a statement
circulated by the official Novosti Press Agency in
Moscow, insured long and frustrating negotiations by
linking the troop cuts with corresponding reductions in
armaments, including nuclear weapons and warplanes.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 18, 1974
could.
It’s never too late in life to
accept a new challenge, she
said.
“What is old, anyway?” she
asked.
She said that if Winston
Churchill had vanished from
public life at the age of 55, he
would have gone down in the
history books as a dismal
failure. He had suffered many
political failures, was not too
raising money. It passed the
House and is in Holley’s Senate
committee, too.
A proposed amusement tax
was dropped—for now, anyway.
The hotel - motel and mixed
drink taxes, however, are just
supporting characters in the big
play the revenue study commit
tee plans to begin this coming
week in the House.
The main items are pro
posals for local option sales and
income taxes, drawn in such a
way as to assure property tax
reductions and tied together so
if one fails to pass, the other
goes down the drain as well.
Right off, there’s plenty of
opposition voiced by such lead
ing figures as the chairmen of
the two appropriations commit
tees — Rep. James “Sloppy”
Floyd of Trion and Sen. Frank
Coggin of Hapeville; House
Speaker Thomas Murphy and
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, who re
peatedly has ruled out any state
tax increases while he is in
office, said in his budget mes
sage it may be advisable to
popular in government, and had
made poor grades in school.
But Churchill was determined
to succeed, she explained.
He worked hard.to master the
English language “until he had
the structure of the English
sentence in his bones,” Miss
Van Derbue said.
Abraham Lincoln lost many
elections and suffered many
personal defeats before he was
elected president, she recalled.
turn to a local option income
tax as away of cutting ad
valorem taxes.
No way, say the opponents.
“We need to save the sales
tax to finance state business,”
says Floyd.
In its report mailed to all
members, the committee decid
ed against recommending a
state sales tax hike, expanded
grants or revenue sharing con
cepts. Seeking new ways to
finance local governments, “it
was agreed to recommend only
those bills which both bodies
(House and Senate) would con
ceivably pass during the 1974
session.”
“What we must avoid,” says
Rep. Burton Wamble, D-Cairo,
the other co-chairman, “is to
have this labeled as a tax in
crease. It’s not—we’re just let
ting people decide for them
selves how to solve their own
problems.
The General Assembly will be
asked to allow the counties to
choose between a local optional
sales or income tax and then, if
desired, add one or both of the
Economic crisis
LONDON (UPI) — British officials today said Prime
Minister Edward Heath has decided to make one last bid
to end the nation’s economic crisis before he dissolves
Parliament and calls for elections.
The officials said Heath was seeking a new meeting with
heads of the 10 million-member Trades Union Congress
next week in an attempt to work out a compromise with
striking coal miners.
Rocket hits school
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Rebel forces shelled Phnom
Penh for the fourth day today, sending one of their big,
Soviet-built rockets through a French run school.
UPI reporters said the two 122 mm rockets killed one
person and wounded four others, raising the toll to 18 dead
and 60 wounded.
In another attack, an 82mm mortar round exploded
behind a government building near Phnom Penh’s
Pochentong Airport, but there were no injuries and little
damage.
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other two.
The sales and income tax
proposal will include a local
referendum. It will say that the
income tax would deal only
with personal net taxable
income at the point of residence
and would not involve any cor
porate income taxation. The
sales tax plan would be levied
at point of sales.
Fire hazards listed
in city, county jails
The state fire marshall’s
office cited a number of safety
violations in its inspection
report on the city and county
jails.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
county violations range from
defective electric wall sockets
to inadequate exits from cells.
Public Safety Director
Leonard Pitts said the need for
exits in cell areas, fire alarm
system, emergency lighting,
posted evacuation plan, better
Don’t be like an oyster satis
fied with social security, Miss
Van Derbue said. Be like the
eagle which builds his nest on
the highest peaks, risks storms
and other hardships, she con
tinued.
She said American needs its
eagles today, and not oysters.
She concluded by singing a
verse of “Impossible Dream”
then added a verse of her own.
(She is married to Larry
Egypt, Israel
sign agreement
KILOMETER 101, Egypt
(UPI) — Israel and Egypt
signed an historic agreement
today to separate their armies
along the explosive Middle East
truce lines in “the first
significant step” toward ending
a quarter-century ol'conflict
The two countries, backing
cell block ceilings and improved
wiring were some of the things
cited in the city jail report.
Many of the violations were
on same report made last year,
Pitts noted.
Sheriff Gilbert said he is
taking steps to meet safety
standards where possible but
said it would be impossible to
comply in some instances
because of the age of the
building.
Pitts indicated the same
about the city jail. He pointed
out that work on the electric
system, evacuation plan and
emergency lighting system was
in progress when the inspection
was made. He said when the
work is completed, these points
will be in compliance.
But he said there are no plans
to increase cell block area exits
and reconstruct ceilings of
cells.
Pitts said the age of the city
hall building was a factor in
trying to meet standards.
The county jail violations
included defective wiring, no
alarm system, no evacuation
plan, improper exits, an open
stairway, lack of a fire door
between the kitchen and rest of
the building and no boiler room
separation.
The report said there were too
many keys to cells in the county
jail but Sheriff Gilbert said he
thought the keys were needed
for security.
Both Pitts and Gilbert hold
hopes for new jail facilities
some day but they point out that
the cost would be tremendous.
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Atler, a Denver attorney. They
make their home in Denver and
have a daughter, Jennifer, two
and a half years old.)
Russ Spangler, executive vice
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, introduced the
speaker.
Bob Scroggins, 1973 presi
dent, handed the gavel to his
successor Billy Shapard during
the evening.
off from the brink of war,
signed the accord at 12:30 p.m.
(6:30 a.m. EDT) in the barren
Egyptian desert near the Suez
Canal, marking another tri
umph for Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger’s brand of
personal diplomacy.
Israeli Lt. Gen. David Elazar
and Egyptian Maj. Gen. Mo
hammed Gamassy, the two
nations’ military commanders,
put their names to the troop
pullback pact in a U.N. tent at
the Kilometer 101 desert
outpost along the Cairo-Suez
highway.
“This is a great day and a
day we all hope will be the
beginning of peace in the
Middle East,” Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir said in
Jerusalem.
Israeli frontline troops along
the waterway, most of them
reservists anxious to return
home from the sand-swept
desert, celebrated the accord
with fireworks, flares and
shouts of joy.
Mrs. Meir praised the Nixon
Administration’s Middle East
“policy of understanding” and
said “many women, children
and parents in Israel will soon
see their dear ones returning
from service in the army.”
President Nixon said the
pact, announced simultaneously
Thursday in Washington,
Jerusalem and Cairo, was “the
first significant step toward a
permanent peace in the Mi
deast.”
“I guess if a preacher’s going
to preach like he ought to—he’d
better have an outside income.”