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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 6,1974
4 HOLY WEEK SERVICES $
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Services Each Night 7:30 P.M. j|
Special Music At Each Service
The Pastor, Elvyn McDonald $
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FULL GOSPEL
BUSINESSMEN’S FELLOWSHIP
; Saturday, April 20th - 7:30 P.M. j I
I RED & MILDRED’S RESTAURANT
Speaker — RALPH THOMAS !
Ralph is an insurance executive in Atlanta and a leader of 3
Christian Fellowship groups. I I
—Everyone Invited—
Dinner Reservations must be prepaid. Please purchase | |
dinner tickets in advance from Sam Bunn, Pres., at 309 I!
West Taylor Street or Eric Sigman, Treas., at the New Life II
Book Store.
Call 227-4740 or 228-1161 ( |
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! Cost — $3.50 per person I i
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Morning Service 11:00 A. M. |
! SERMON BY PASTOR j
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! Evening Service 7:30 P. M. j
REQUIEM
by Johannes Brahms
presented by c
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The Adult Choir of St. George's Episcopal Church
(Soloists: Mrs. Hollis Nash and Dr. Robert Wilkinson
Organists: Mrs. Webster Chandler and Mrs. Donald Keene
? Conducting: Tom R. Roberts
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Griffin, Georgia
Rev. Bruce Morgan, Pastor
9:45 A M Bible stud *
11:00 AM. Morning Worship Rev . , M
God s Greatest Gift Sanct choj ,
The Palms
6:30 P.M. Church Training
7:30 P.M. Evening Worship
"Impossible to Live in a Dead Body" Rev. Mitchell
Preschool and Children's Choirs
HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Wednesday 6:45 P.M. Prayer Service
Thursday 7:30 P.M. Service of Communion
Friday 7:30 P.M. "The Crucifixion" Sanctuary Choir
Gasoline to be short?
ATLANTA (UPI) — The fuel
Allocation Office says Georgia’s
gasoline allocation for April is
far below needs and that the
state “will start running out
long before the 25th of the
month.”
Lamar Cobb, information of
ficer for the allocation office,
said Friday Georgia will receive
222.2 million gallons during
April, 32 million gallons short
of the amount requested.
“We can’t live with this kind
of allocation,” Cobb said.
Highway travel in April norm
ally is greater than in March
and yet this month’s allocation
is four million gallons less than
last month, he said.
Allocations set by the Federal
Energy Office are based on 1972
when, for an unexplained rea
son, Georgia’s gas sales in April
were lower than in March and
Escapee caught in Ohio
BUCHANAN,Ga. (UPl)—Ver
non Clevel McElroy, the con
victed killer of a policeman
who escaped from the Haralson
County Jail here, has been re
captured in Middletown, Ohio.
The FBI in Atlanta said Mc-
Elroy, 24, was captured Friday
by agents in Middletown. He
was being sought as a federal
fugitive because he had been
held in a U.S. prison at Terre
Haute, Ind., before being
brought here to be tried for
murder.
McElroy escaped with anoth-
Sentenced for fire
CUMMING, Ga. (UPI)-Jim
my Dean Hester has been sen
tenced to ten years in prison
for setting the fire that burned
down the Forsyth County Court
house.
Hester, 22, of Cumming, was
convicted by a Forsyth County
Superior Court jury late Thurs
day and senteneced a short
time later by the jurors.
The verdict was announced
Construction money sought
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Pentagon has asked Congress
to approve $101.7 million in con
structions for Georgia military
bases, including huge projects at
Ft. Stewart-Hunter Army Air
field near Savannah and Ft.
Benning near Columbus.
The requests are part of an
overal military construction
budget of $3.3 billion for the
1975 fiscal year.
The Pentagon has requested
$54 million for Ft. Stewart-Hunt
er, including $10.4 million for
construction of 400 single-family
housing units.
Ft. Stewart is scheduled to re-
Car blast kills girl
ATLANTA (UPI) - A two
year-old girl died Friday and a
boy was critically burned when
a car burst into flames as they
waited for the girl’s father in a
bank parking lot.
Police said Betty Renee War-
May.
“Georgia is probably the only
state in the country that had a
month when gasoline sales drop
ped off like that,” Cobb said.
“It’s never occurred again.”
The Georgia Motor Club, as
it has in recent months, presen
ted a more optimistic picture,
however. The club said Friday it
found in its weekly survey that
the availability of gas on major
highways and in metropolitan
areas “continues to improve.”
Almost half of the 169 service
stations polled said they were
open after 7 p. m. on weekdays
and Saturdays and that 25 per
cent would be open on Sundays.
Many stations did express
“concern that supplies may run
short as vacation time approach
es if travel continues to increase
while allocations remain the
same,” the motor club said.
er inmate, Steve Addison, early
this week by sawing the bars
of their jail cell window. Addi
son was caught a short time
later.
McElroy was sentenced to
life imprisonment Feb. 23 for
the murder of Tallapoosa po
lice Lt. William T. Manning and
the wounding of Manning’s part
ner, Edward Elliott.
He was being held in Buchan
an, pending a motion for a new
trial. The motion was denied
Tuesday by a Haralson County
judge.
from the stage of the Upper
Elementary School auditorium
shortly after 10 p.m. The trial
was held at the school because
no new courthouse has been
constructed here.
Hester was convicted of two
counts of second degree arson
for setting the courthouse on
fire and burning an unoccupied
dwelling as a diversion.
Two other defendants will be
tried later.
ceive a new 600 - man Ranger
battalion this year, a 4,500-mem
ber infantry brigade within a
year and possibly another brig
ade by 1976.
The expansion at Ft. Stewart
has led to reactivation of Hunter
Army Airfield, which was con
signed to “caretaker status”
last year.
The Pentagon wants $36.8 mil
lion for Ft. Benning, including
$25.2 million for the longstand
ing Sand Hill barracks construc
tion project, $10.7 million to up
date existing barracks and $l.B
million for a dental clinic.
ren died Friday night of burns
suffered in the fire. Wylie Nevie,
five-year-old son of a neighbor,
suffered burns over 90 per cent
of his body and was taken to
Grady Hospital.
Offices said James E. War
ren, father of the girl told them
he had parked in the lot and left
the children in the car while he
went into the bank.
The fire, possible caused by
the children lighting some
matches found in the car, flared.
Some unidentified passersby got
the children out.
Capt. C. R. Waits of the city
Fire Prevention Bureau said
a burned out matchbook was
found on the floor of the front
seat of the car.
REVIVAL
April 7 thru 14
7:30 P.M.
Cleveland Scoggins
Evangelist
Franklin Buffington
Song Leader
Nursery Open
SUNNY SIDE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Floyd under fire
in sunshine defense
ATLANTA (UPI)-House Ap
propriations Chairman James
“Sloppy” Floyd has ten days to
prove to a Fulton County Super
ior Court judge he acted prop
erly in using state attorneys to
defend himself in a suit on the
sunshine law.
Judge Sam Etheridge said
Friday Floyd must show he ob
tained the permission of Gov.
Jimmy Carter before getting
assistance from the attorney
general’s office and legislative
counsel Frank Edwards, and
obtaining a law firm at state
expense.
Floyd, D-Trion, also was or
dered to come to Atlanta next
Tuesday and give a deposition
in connection with the suit filed
by Atlanta radio station WRNG
which charges the General As
sembly held secret meetings in
violation of the sunshine law.
Attorney Larry Thomason,
representing the radio station,
said the deposition will be used
as evidence in a trial on the
suit scheduled for April 19.
Thomason said a public offi
cial who is being sued must get
the governor’s permission be
fore “he can utilize the attorney
general or a private law firm
at state expense in his de
fense.”
“He has no such permission
from Gov. Jimmy Carter. He
hasn't gone to him, and I’d be
Assistance teams
to help Georgians
ATLANTA (UPI )-Mobile dis
aster assistance teams of state
and federal officials will fan out
through parts of north Georgia
beginning Monday to provide
aid for victims of costly torna
does earlier this week.
Georgia Adjutant General
Maj. Joel B. Paris said Friday
the teams will work out of Blue
Ridge in Fannin County Mon
day, Ellijay in Gilmer County
Tuesday and Chatsworth in
Murray County on Wednesday.
Tornado victims in Bartow,
Paudling, Haralson and Rabun
Counties will be notified later
when the disaster teams will be
in their areas, Paris said.
The teams will set up head
quarters in county courthouses.
“Disaster relief centers have
United
agreement
reached
WASHINGTON (UPL) -
United Air Lines and union
mechanics reached agreement
today on a new contract,
beating a strike deadline by
less than one hour.
A company spokesman said,
“United Air Lines will operate
normal schedules today follow
ing an agreement which was
reached early this morning
between United and the Inter
national Association of Mechan
ics and Aerospace Workers
covering a new contract.”
No details will be revealed
until union members conduct a
ratification vote, the spokesman
said. He said union leaders will
recommend approval.
Agreement was reached by
management and union officials
who met through the night in
Washington. It was announced
less than one hour before the 6
a.m. strike deadline which had
been approved by the union’s
16,576 members.
surprised if Carter gives that
permission,” Thomason said.
Floyd is vacationing in Flor
ida and could not be reached
for comment.
The legislature, in particular
its leadership, is charged with
violating the sunshine law by
refusing to allow newsmen into
meetings of a House-Senate con
ference committee that worked
late last session to reach a
compromise on the fiscal 1975
budget.
The defendants included
Floyd, Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox
and House Speaker Tom Mur
phy.
Thomasonconceded, however,
that Floyd is “the focal point
of the suit.”
“He was the most outspoken
and the most ardent participant
in violation of the sunshine
law,” Thomason said. “He phy
sically barred two WRNG re
porters from getting into a
meeting.”
The sunshine law requires
public business to be conducted
in open sessions. Legislative
counsel Frank Edwards and
others have argued the legis
lature is exempt from the law.
Floyd argues that even if the
General Assembly is covered,
a conference committee makes
no official decisions, but only
recommendations which go
back to the House and Senate
for a vote.
already been established at
national guard armories in Cal
houn and Dalton and at the
First Baptist Church in Daw
sonville,” said Paris.
“The governor’s recovery
task force center has been set
up in Dalton,” said Paris, “but
these mobile teams will benefit
those in North Georgia counties
who are not able to get to the
Dalton center conveniently.”
The officials will give area
residents advice on such prob
lems as food stamps, home
loans, insurance, temporary
housing and other aid from
both the state and federal lev
els.
“We urge everyone suffering
any form of damage caused by
the tornadoes to visit one of the
governor’s task force centers
and make their needs known to
the federal and state agencies
there to help them,” Paris
said.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of our
husband, father and
grandfather Ernest Pitts
who passed away 4 years
ago April 6, 1970.
A precious one from us has
gone. A voice we loved is
stilled. A place is vacant in
our heart that never can be
filled. His memory is a keep
sake from which we will
never part. God has him in
his keeping, but we have him
in our heart.
Sadly missed by:
Wife: Odessa Pitts
Sons and Daughter: Mr. &
Mrs. Carl Pitts
Grand Children: Tiger, Eric,
and Kace Pitts
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| Merrietta, Ga. Evangelist |
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• SERVICES:
1 APRIL 8 thru 12th - 12:05 - 12:30 P. M.
Ministers and Topics: Theme: Events in Holy Week
I Monday -B. Sutherland: Triumphant Entry. Hymn: Holy,
Holy, Holy
| Tuesday- Thurmond Fountain: Cleansing of the Temple.
Hymn: Have Thine Own Way
I Wednesday - Orville Wright : The Betrayal. Hymn: Are
Ye Able
’ Thursday - Lawrence Keever: Rethsemano. Hymn:
j Where He Leads Me
Friday - Elvyn McDonald: The Crucifixion. Hymn: When
| I Survey
) CLIMAXED BY:
I EASTER SUN RISE SERVICE,
I APRIL 14 - 6:45 A. M. - MEMORIAL GARDENS
| SERVICES AT
[ FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
I Sponsored by Griffin Area
I Ministerial Association.
REVIVAL
OAK HILL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Griffin, Ga.
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Jack P. Buice
Evangelist Mus,c Director
Warren Bedingfield, Pastor
April 7-12
7:30 Nightly
Special Morning Service
Wed. At 10:00 A.M.
Everyone Welcome