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Early arrivals at the fire scene this morning check damage. Grill was in center (arrow) and barber shop was at right.
Three escape blaze
on Experiment street
Fire heavily damaged a
building on Experiment street
early this morning. Three
people asleep in the home part
of the structure escaped without
injury.
Firemen answered the alarm
at 2:28 this morning. It housed a
barber shop which Red Stan
dard has operated at that
location some 20 years, a
restaurant known as the Dairy
Foster parents
to organize here
A Griffin couple thinks most
foster parents have some
common concerns and
problems. They believe sharing
these with other foster parents
can be helpful.
That’s why Dr. and Mrs.
Doelas Landes are interested in
starting a foster parents
association here.
A meeting for that purpose
will be held Thursday night at’
the Church of Christ on South
Hill street. It will begin at 7:30.
Foster parents in this and
surrounding counties have been
invited. Other people interested
in the program have been in
vited, too.
Letters about the meeting
were sent to the 36 foster
parents homes in Spalding
County. There are about that
many more in the counties of
The ifome Gardener
The home gardening bug is
about to bite.
Indications are that it will hit
more people this year than
since the outbreak of victory
gardens during World War 11.
Food prices and shortages are
Bar and Grill, and a home
which the grill operators oc
cupied.
Mr. Standard owned all of the
property.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kennedy
operated the restaurant, a
popular short order place.
They and their son and
daughter lived in the home
section of the building. Mr. and
Mrs. Kennedy were asleep in
Fayette, Henry, Newton, Butts,
Lamar, Pike and Upson who
have been invited, too.
The Department of Family
and Children Services here is all
for the idea. It has offered to
help in any way it can.
Mrs. Jan Maddox and Mrs.
Nancy Wyatt coordinate the
program in Spalding and the
other counties. Some 50 children
are in the foster parents home
in Spalding now. There always
is a need for more.
Dr. and Mrs. Landes as well
as Mrs. Maddox plan to attend a
national meeting of foster
parents associations in
Spokane, Wash., April 25-27.
There they will learn how local
organizations function.
The Griffinites plan to bring
back the information they
receive at the Washington
expected to prompt many to
grab a hoe and some seed.
Good Friday traditionally has
been the day for garden plan
ting in this area.
Those who plan one will find
DAILY
Vol. 102 No. 83
the building when the fire broke
out. Their son was away,
spending the night with friends.
Mrs. Kennedy told Fire In
spector Gene Golds she smelled
smoke and woke up momen
tarily. She apparently dozed off
again then woke up a second
time when she realized the
building might be on fire. She
and her husband were asleep
upstairs.
meeting and put it into use in
the foster parents set up here.
Dr. Landes is in the food
science department at the
Georgia Experiment Station.
He and his wife have two
children of their own and a five
year-old son they adopted when
he was a couple of months old.
He and his wife, both natives
of Lewisville, Ark. have been
interested in the foster care
program for some time. In fact,
they discussed the matter even
before they were married.
They have had foster children
in their home and plan to have
more.
Dr. Landes studied at the
University of Arkansas and
received his Ph. D. degree from
Michigan State.
some valuable tips in the series
of six articles entitled “The
Home Gardner” beginning
Monday in the Griffin Daily
News.
Watch for the articles.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, April 6, 1974
Mrs. Kennedy quickly
aroused her family, made her
way down the stairs and out the
front. She kept waiting for her
husband but didn’t see him.
Firemen speculated he got out
through an upstairs rear win-
Doctor, wife
were abducted
RINGGOLD, Ga. (UPI) - A
prominent north Georgia phy
sician and his wife were abduct
ed for several hours early today
as two men attempted to rob
the couple, officers said.
One man was held but another
escaped, according to Catoosa
County authorities. The man
held was identified as Clayton
Hayes, 35, of Ooltewah, Tenn.
Officials said Dr. and Mrs. C.
W. Stephenson were asleep
when two men broke into their
bedroom and ordered them to
go to the physician’s office.
Officers said Stephenson and
his wife were taken to the doc
tor’s office where an all-night
nurse was also held. She was
identified as Ruth Love.
The two men ordered Steph
enson to produce money and
drugs.
Mrs. Stephenson, on the pre
text of calling a patient, notified
Nixon appreciated tax fund drive
By United Press International
Barely had President Nixon
promised to pay back taxes of
almost $500,000 than Americans
started drives to raise the cash.
But the President, described as
“deeply moved” by the efforts,
said he’ll pay every penny
himself and send back any
donations.
A group of Louisiana Repub
licans, an Illinois attorney and
some Kentucky businessmen all
began apparently spontaneous
NEWS
dow.
At first the family feared
their son might still be in the
building but then Mrs. Kennedy
remembered he was spending
the night away.
authorities and Catoosa County
deputies and state police con
verged on the office.
Hayes was arrested at the
scene. Officials said another
man escaped by using Miss Love
as a shield.
There were no injuries re
ported.
Wirr <?/
“Great persons aren’t
necessarily folks who’ve had
great success.”
drives to help Nixon foot the
bill.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald W. Ziegler told report
ers aboard the Air Force plane
carrying the President to a
memorial service for President
Georges Pompidou: ‘‘The
President is deeply apprecia
tive and heartened by the
individual expressions of sup
port. He was very deeply
moved by the fact that many
people want to contribute and
Daily Since 1872
Mrs. Kennedy told Folds this
morning she got up shortly
after 1 a.m. this morning and
walked through the restaurant.
She found no signs of any
trouble, then.
She told Folds she apparently
couldn’t sleep, got up and
checked the restaurant, then
went back to bed.
Folds said the cause of the
blaze had not been determined.
Firemen kept the blaze from
spreading to other businesses
and buildings in the block. The
Rex Theater is near where the
fire broke out.
The Kennedy family this
morning was looking for a place
to live and to relocate their
business.
The barber chairs in the
barber shop area were pulled
from the burning building and
appeared to have been
damaged little.
Inspector Folds said the
building had two roofs. It
previously had a flat roof and
the V-shaped roof had been
added in later years.
There was no way to estimate
the dollar value of the loss
today, Mr. Standard said. He
said it would be a total loss.
Mrs. Kennedy recalled trying
to arouse a neighbor to call the
Fire Department but failed to
get a response.
She remembers finally telling
someone in a white automobile
to call the Fire Department.
assist him in paying his taxes.
“But he said he...would pay
every penny of it. He feels that
he should do so personally and
will be making arrangements to
pay with the use of money he
has in savings and by
borrowing additional money.
“People making similar of
fers will be told the President
appreciates their thoughtfulness
very much but that he will pay
the taxes himself.”
Raymond Statham, a Repub-
Chapin to fight
perjury conviction
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Dwight Chapin, President
Nixon’s former appointements
secretary, says he will “fight.-
..all the way through” his
conviction for perjury.
He was found guilty Friday
on two of three counts of lying
to the Watergate grand jury
about “dirty tricks” pulled on
Democrats in 1972.
The judge, Gerhard A. Gesell,
set sentencing for May 6. He
released Chapin on his own
recognizance and told him to
appear before a parole officer.
Before sentencing him, the
judge said, “I am anxious, Mr.
Chapin, to know everything
about you you think I should.”
The maximum sentence is
five years in jail and a SIO,OOO
fine.
Made Hurried Statement
Chapin, in a hurried state
ment read outside the U.S.
District Court Building, said,
“Obviously, I am disappointed
... I will fight this thing all the
way through ... I feel we did
very well. The judge threw out
one indictment and I was found
innocent on another.”
But his attorney wasn’t as
definite.
“We’re gonna think the thing
through,” Chapin’s attorney,
Jacob Stein, said when asked if
an appeal would be filed.
The jury received the case
Thursday, began its delibera
tions Friday at 8:30 a.m. EDT
and took 40 minutes for lunch
beginning at 12:30 p.m. At 2:22
p.m., it asked Judge Gesell in a
note for “legal definition of
reasonable doubt, beyond a
reasonable doubt.”
Asks Instructions
Stein asked the judge to
instruct the jury of seven men
and five women that “the
manner in which a witness
answers a question is inextrica
bly bound up in ‘beyond a
reasonable doubt’.” The judge
said he never gave a jury more
Earl Stokes plans
to seek county
Earl Stokes of Ethridge Mill
road announced plans today to
run for Spalding County
Commissioner as a Democrat.
Stokes, a 49-year-old loan
firm operator, said he believes
his 25 years of business ad
ministrative experience would
qualify him to serve.
He and his wife, June, are the
parents of two children, a son,
Mark, 12, and a daughter, Lori,
7.
He has been in business here
22 years with State Loan and a
Man slain; another held
A Griffin man was shot and
killed yesterday afternoon
during an argument, and
several others were wounded,
according to sheriff’s deputies.
Killed in the hail of gunfire
was Willie Lewis Brownlee, 38,
of Route two, Hampton.
Charged with murder is the
dead man’s second cousin, John
Henry Brownlee, 69, of the
Kilgore road, Griffin, according
to police.
Deputies said the shooting
took place at Route One, Box
2998, Sidney road, off of Birdie
lican leader in Bossier, City,
La., said the Pachyderm Club,
a local GOP organization, had
raised S2OO among themselves
after deciding on the fund drive
and hoped to have $200,000
within a week.
Statham said that at their
weekly breakfast meeting Fri
day it was suggested the tax
bill was unjust, “and since we
feel it belongs to all Americans
and not just the President, that
we would help him pay his
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Dwight L. Chapin, President
Nixon’s former appointments
secretary leaves U. S. District
Court after a federal jury found
him guilty on two of the three
counts that he lied to the
Watergate Grand Jury. Chapin
faces a maximum of five years
in jail and a SIO,OOO fine for both
counts. (UPI)
than it asked, and he would tell
it again what he told it in his
instructions Thursday
“It’s a doubt based on
reason,” he said. “It does not
mean any doubt whatsoever ...
It is not a fanciful (or)
whimsical doubt ... It is proof
to a moral certainty.
The jury came back out at
2:38 p.m. Gesell said he would
check it at 5 o’clock and see if
a verdict had been reached on
some of the indictments. “They
may have reached a conclusion
on one or two counts and be
hung up, as they say, on a
single count.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
74, low today 36, high yesterday
61, low yesterday 45, high
tomorrow in low 70’s, low
tonight near 40. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:23, sunset
tomorrow 7:57.
resident of Spalding County 12
years.
Mr. Stokes said he had no
particular platform or issue to
discuss at the present but would
do so after the campaigns get
under way.
County Commission Chair
man Jack Moss holds the seat
on the board which will be filled
in the fall elections.
Mr. Stokes is a Scottish Rite
Mason and Shriner, and a
member of the Faith Baptist
Church.
Road, the home of Mattie Sue
Ogletree.
Wounded were Mattie Lucille
Jordan of Hampton and Alfred
Lewis Bryant of Sidney road.
Both were treated at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital and dismissed.
Deputies said the shooting
took place at around 6 p.m.
Friday.
Sgt. Tommy Whaley and Dep.
Albert Eady were the arresting
officers.
Brownlee is being held in the
county jail.
taxes.”
George Woodcock, a Mount
Carmel, 111., attorney and
chairman of the Illinois Repub
lican County Chairman’s As
sociation, said he would ask
8,000 Illinois Republicans to
donate S6O each.
A special fund, called “Peo
ple’s Fund for Nixon’s Taxes,”
was set up in Whitesburg, Ky.,
and already has more than $250
after one day.