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Tornado strikes
section of Pike
Tornado like winds lashed
Spalding, Pike and other
counties in this area early this
morning. Heavy rains drenched
this section of the state.
The storm struck about 3:15
this morning. Severe weather
warnings were in effect and had
been since early yesterday
evening.
Hubert Chance who lives off
Patton road in Pike County
between Zebulon and Griffin
reported a tornado swooped
down on his property as the
storm broke.
He said trees fell near his
home, some of them brushing it
as they pounded to earth. Mr.
Chance said he had cleared
many of the trees near his home
and consequently none of them
fell directly on his house.
Mr. Chance said the power
was out at his house today. He
said the twister swooped
through a wooded section of his
land turned trees into splinters.
At least 50 of them were
Commissioner irate
over illegal dumping
Out of county people who
dump trash in Spalding’s
dumpsters are putting the
system in jeopardy, according
to Sandy Morgan, vice chair
man of the county commission
ers.
He said unless something is
done to correct the problem, the
dumpster system would become
unworkable.
Discussing the matter at this
morning’s monthly meeting of
the commissioners, Mr. Morgan
said trash and garbage being
brought in from five surround
ing counties have swamped the
ability of the Spalding system.
He said the other counties are
2 complain about quarry blasting
A father and son asked Spald
ing County Commissioners
today if they could do anything
about the dynamite blasts at a
Williamson, Ga., rock quarry.
They said the blasts are tearing
up their homes.
Paul Wilson and his son,
Charles, said the dust and noise
problems were bad but that the
blasts were damaging their
homes.
They, with their families, live
in separate homes near the
quarry. They live in the
Bethany and Shackelford road
areas.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Homeowners are becoming more and more inventive in their
quest for distinctive mailboxes. Steve Moore attached a conventional box onto the forks of a
1947 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Moore is a motorcycle service manager and rides a
cycle year round. He says guests have no trouble finding his home. (UPI)
knocked down as the twister hit,
Mr. Chance said.
He said a chicken house on the
Alyn Jones property was
damaged.
The area is near McElroy’s
grocery store between Zebulon
and Griffin.
Several other homes in that
section reported trees blown
down nearby.
Horace Westbrooks, Griffin’s
weather observer, recorded 1.72
inches of rain this morning.
His measuring equipment is
at his home in Sunny Side.
Lightning flashed across the
skies in Griffin as the rain swept
over the community.
But damage seemed to be
limited to roofs of some
buildings and homes. The
storm’s intensity did not reach
that of one which struck here a
few weeks ago. That one
wrecked several mobile homes
and did extensive property
damage to some businesses.
Some of the gusts of wind
bringing in as much trash as
Spalding has. Mr. Morgan said
the system just would not
handle that much.
Besides, he said he didn’t
think it right for the taxpayers
of Spalding County to have to
finance a garbage disposal
system for people in other
counties.
Chairman Jack Moss said the
county has invested too much
money in the dumpsters to think
of abandoning them. He said he
would rather consider hiring a
couple of county policemen to
catch out of county people who
dump trash in Spalding’s
for Delta Airlines out of Atlanta
said he has no trouble spotting
his home from the air when he
flies over. He said dust from the
quarry makes it easy to find,
since it covers most of that area
around Williamson and Rover.
Paul Wilson told the com
missioners, “We can stand the
dust and noise but not tearing
up our homes.”
The commissioners said they
had dealt with the quarry firm
before and always found them
to be reasonable. They said they
would write the firm and
discuss the problem.
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early today reminded Grif
finites of the heavy winds that
struck here last Saturday after
noon.
High winds leveled a shop and
chicken house last night at the
home of Mrs. Philip Weldon on
South Sixth street extension.
Also wires were downed and
there was some damage to the
roof of her home.
In Cherokee County (Canton,
Ga.), a tornado demolished
about nine mobile homes. The
winds blew off porch roofs and
uprooted trees.
The storm cut a path about a
half mile wide for almost 10
miles and came as part of the
state was under a severe storm
warning.
Only one minor injury was re
ported. A man suffered a slight
cut when his house trailer was
blown off its foundation into an
other mobile home.
The winds ripped off the roof <
of the Central Soya Poultry i
plant and demolished two out-
dumpsters.
Vice Chairman Morgan said
the Spalding Sheriff’s office now
was equipped to check out-of
county dumpster users through
tag numbers. He and the other
commissioners asked any
Spalding residents seeing out of
county people use dumpsters to
get tag numbers and report
them to the sheriff’s office.
Mr. Morgan said some people
in neighboring counties were
bringing trash to dumpsters by
the truck loads. He said if the
practice continues, the dump
ster system will be in jeopardy.
Paul Wilson said he had taken
up the matter with an insurance
adjuster. He said an insurance
representative came to his
home to test the sound made by
blasts with instruments.
The rock firm knew he was
there and would make the tests,
Mr. Wilson pointed out. He said
when the blast was fired, it was
like a firecracker. The in
surance man didn’t even hear
it, Mr. Wilson continued.
But he said blasts at other
times have been so bad they
have shaken the earth at
Williamson, Ga.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 2, 1974
side service buildings, a car and
a pickup truck. The flying roof
sliced through main power lines,
putting a wide area out of elec
tricity for a time.
The poultry operation was
shut down for the day.
Mobile homes in two sales lots
were damaged or destroyed and
home owners east of here re
ported extensive damage to
porch roofs, outbuildings and
trees.
Byron Dobbs of WCHK, Can
ton, said he was awakened by
the “roaring” sound of the wind.
“I could hear metal flying,” he
said. “The wind was blowing
very strong and it was hailing
and raining real hard.”
Dobbs said about 1.4 inches of
rain was measured at his
station as the storm passed
through the area, about 40 miles
north of Atlanta.
Some trees
present
hazard
The City Commissioners
learned today that some of the
large oak trees on Sixth Street,
in front of the Woman’s Club
house, will have to come down.
City Manager Roy Inman told
the commissioners that when
several limbs fell at the club
house during last week’s storm,
it was discovered that the trees
from which they fell have
hollow trunks. Other limbs are
extending over Sixth street and
electrical wires, he said,
placing most of the tree weight
in that direction and thereby
causing a hazardous condition.
Inman said he and two tree
experts from the Georgia
Experiment Station, Turner
Davis and Jerry Walker, looked
at the trees, both at the club
house and in other areas of the
city, and it was their unanimous
opinion that many of the trees
will have to come down. They
cannot be salvaged as they are
hollow and have deteriorated
down to the base of their trunks,
he said.
He suggested the city start a
nursery to replace the trees,
growing those varieties which
would be the best height and not
require a lot of trimming under
electrical wires.
Inman said he thought a good
place for the nursery would be
the Griffin golf course.
The commissioners agreed
that trees which are taken down
should be replaced with either
other trees or shrubbery where
possible. They also agreed to
work with the Federated
Garden Clubs about the matter.
Unemployed
pay hits
$1.42 million
ATLANTA (UPI)-The state
Labor Department said Monday
that payments to unemployed in
Georgia hit $1.42 million last
week, marking the 12th straight
week they have exceeded $1
million.
A spokesman said that so far,
the state has paid out $16.59 mil
lion, more than half of the to
tal of S3O million paid out dur
ing all of 1973.
He said also that an estimated
4,000 persons applied for unem
ployment compensation who had
not sought such benefits previ
ously, raising to 80,000 the num
ber of persons putting in appli
cations this year. That’s almost
twice the total for last year at
this time.
State Labor Commissioner
Sam Caldwell called the situa
tion “disturbing” but he said
“this recession can still be
short-lived if Washington wants
to make it short-lived.”
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Pile driving equipment pound away at the construction site for the new post office
building. This view shows construction from the West Solomon street side. Inset
shows sign posted at Solomon and Eighth.
Paving
requests
made
James Hall and L. M. Dutton
who live on Horseshoe Bend
asked the Spalding Com
missioners today about paving
the road.
The commissioners gave
them a standard petition form
and asked interested property
owners to sign it. The com
missioners said the paving
would cost $1 per foot for each
side of the road. The work could
be done under subdivision
regulations and policies for
such county developments.
The two men presented a
petition for paving. The com
missioners said the signatures
needed to be on the proper form
which they gave the two men.
Mrs. Phyllis Lee, her
daughter, Miss Beverly Lee,
and Mrs. Humphrey Wright
who live on Dutchman road
asked the status of paving for
the unpaved portion of that
road.
The commissioners said the
county would have to have state
aid to do job. They said the road
was included on the paving
priority schedule for the county.
But they said it would depend on
when the state could release
money to do the job.
One of the women said they
were promised four years ago
the road would be paved.
Another said when they moved
there six years ago, they were
promised the road would be
paved. They said they still are
waiting.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 58, high yesterday
85, low yesterday 49, high
tomorrow in mid 70’s, low
tonight in upper 50’s. Total rain
fall 1.72 inches. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:28, sunset
tomorrow 7:44.
Water lines
being tested
Spalding County Com
missioners said today lines in
the latest water expansion pro
gram were installed. They said
some testing still had to be
done, however.
Some clean-up work still has
to be done before Metro Pipe
Co. fills its contract, the com
missioners said.
They said they were withhold
ing payments on the project
until this work was completed.
Vol. 102 No. 79
Commissioners discuss
hospital problems
Chairman Jack Moss of the
Spalding County Com
missioners said today he
thought problems at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital could be
worked out.
Commissioner P. W. Hamil
said the problem seemed to be
being able to present the
problems to proper authorities
for solutions.
He said problems could not be
solved until they are defined
before proper authorities.
The comments came in
response to questions from
newsmen about the hospital’s
indigent mothers who come
there with no doctor and no pre
natal care.
Moss who is a member of the
hospital authority had men
tioned the problem of indigent
mothers at last month’s com
mission meeting.
He said pregnant women
from neighboring counties were
turning the emergency room at
the hospital into a delivery
room. The problem is one of
serious concern to the
authority, Mr. Moss said.
He said the authority would
draft a letter to governing
bodies in surrounding counties,
telling them they would be
responsible for their indigent
patients who come to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Moss said a rough draft of the
letter had been drawn and it
would be in final shape to mail
soon. Moss said he had insisted
that the letter make it clear the
other counties would be
responsible for their indigents.
Last week Commissioner
Hamil had attempted to get
some complaints aired before
the hospital authority. He was
told during the meeting that the
personnel committee was in
The firm is working under a
$30,000 late completion penalty
already, the commissioners
said.
The commissioners said they
were up to date in their
payments to the firm.
The commissioners figure
there is the possibility of a court
confrontation with the contrac
tor over the late penalties and
other portions of the contract.
session and it was not a regular
board meeting.
Hamil was directed to take
the complaints to the personnel
committee. Later Hamil said in
a public statement he thought
conditions at the hospital had
deteriorated to the point that
going through so called chan
nels would not solve the
problems.
Hamil appeared with some
hospital employes and some
doctors at last week’s meeting
in an attempt to get some
complaints before the hospital
authority.
Asked if Moss and Hamil had
been discussing the hospital,
Moss replied, “Not today.”
Moss said he thought
problems at the hospital could
be solved through a spirit of
cooperation and everyone’s
working together.
He said he had urged
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By United Press International
April Fool’s joke
PASADENA, Calif. —Mariner 10 claimed the record
today for history’s most distant April Fool’s joke: There is
no “Charley the moon.” “Charley,” was Mariner’s joke
on the space scientists, a prank on a cosmic scale. What
the Mariner-watchers at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory thought was a possible moon over Mercury, a
startling discovery, has turned out to be prosaic old 31
j Crater—a hot and distant star that tricked one of
Mariner’s instruments through a series of coincidences.
Tornado kills one
A tornado ripped through Cherryville, N.C. early today,
| killing one person and destroying or damaging 25 mobile
I homes in two hard hit trailer parks. On Monday, the
I National Weather Service counted 28 tornadoes along a
I storm belt stretching from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Huntsville,
I Ala. The two-day death toll was at least three, one each in
| Alabama, Kentucky and North Carolina.
I Mills’ prediction
WASHINGTON —Rep. Wilbur D. Mills says he believes
the House will impeach President Nixon but the Senate
will not have the two-thirds majority necessary to convict
him, subjecting the nation to a “terrible, traumatic
experience.” Mills based his comments on talks with
House members from all over the country. “There’s no
I doubt in my mind that there are enough votes really —and
I can’t prove it —for the articles of impeachment in the
i House,” he said. “The great worry I have is that... only a
; majority in the Senate then votes for impeachment. And I
I think that will follow, though two-thirds may not.”
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establishment of the personnel
committee at the beginning of
the year. Moss noted the
authority had other committees
and thought one on personnel
was just as important as X-rays
and other things that go into
giving health care service.
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