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¥: June 2,1969, and has remained at that figure until
today.
:•< The blank paper upon which the Griffin Daily
News is printed is one example of the higher costs of
publishing. In less than a year it has increased from
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by the paper companies with which we have
$ contracts to expect further increases as soon as
early summer. Since we require 550 tons a year, the
increase in the price of paper alone amounts to
:< more than $22,000 a year.
S The price of papers delivered by mail will be the
same as those delivered by carrier. Out of state
:< mail-delivered rates will be $3.75 for one month,
$11.25 for three months, $22.50 for six months, and
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$: We regret the necessity of raising the price of the
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for nearly five years compares favorably with
* everything else which is bought and sold, and we
will hold to the new rates just as long as we can.
Thank you for your understanding and
cooperation. We appreciate them, and we
appreciate you as a subscriber and customer.
Rain threatens
Hank’s homer
ATLANTA (UPl)—Rain is ex
pected in the Atlanta area to
day and tonight and a National
Weather Service forecaster says
the outlook for the Atlanta
Braves-Los Angeles Dodgers
game tonight “is a little ‘iffy’
right now.”
Henry Aaron will be honored
in elaborate ceremonies before
the game and then will make a
bid to break Babe Ruth’s legen
dary home run record of 714.
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“Most of us make other folks
look good simply by looking so
bad ourselves.”
Griffinite reaches
100th year April 15
April 15 is a very special day
for the Ponder family at 129
South Second street, Griffin.
On that day, the family
patriarch, L. Ponder,
celebrates his 100th birthday.
Bom in 1874, Mr. Ponder is a
native of Monroe County who
moved to Griffin 68 years ago.
He retired from Dundee Mills
in 1942, after 53 years as a
carpenter at Mill No. Five.
Mr. Ponder recalls that much
of Griffin was “just swamp”
when he arrived in 1906.
“Where city hall is now, there
was a great big hole that I
thought they’d never get filled
up,” he said.
As for his first name, Mr.
Ponder says all he can ever
remember being called was
“L”.
Some family documents show
his first name as either El or Al,
but he continues to use just “L”.
The centurian has been
married twice, once in 1896, and
again in 1951 to his present wife,
The weather service said thun
dershowers are expected by
dark, with the rain ending
around 9 p.m. There is a 60 per
cent chance of rain today and
30 per cent tonight.
“We expect the rain to end
sometime tonight, but we aren’t
exactly sure when. It’s a little
‘iffy’ right now,” a forecaster
said.
The senator wins
SPRINGFIELD, S.C. (UPI)
— Sen. Strom Thurmond, fresh
from the Edisto River Swamp,
won the eighth annual gover
nor’s frog jumping contest
Saturday and a trip to the big
event in Calaveras County,
Calif.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, named
after the well-known South
Carolina statesman, bounded 12
feet, nine inches, pleasing his
owner, Steve Williams, 16, and
his trainer, Cindy Davis, 17.
The amount of training Sen.
Strom Thurmond received was
debatable since he was
snatched out of the swamp less
than 24 hours before the
contest.
Mary.
Mrs. Ponder says her
husband checks out as healthy,
with a good heart.
“He feels good most of the
time, and sometimes he feels
extra good,” she said.
Mr. Ponder takes walks,
watches television, goes for
auto rides, and enjoys the
company of his many friends to
occupy his time.
Would he trade today’s
conveniences for yesterday?
Not a chance, except maybe
to regain his youth.
“I like things the way they are
now just fine,” he said.
Mr. Ponder has seven
children, 15 grandchildren, 32
great grandchildren, and five
great great grandchildren.
Family and church members
will gather soon to give a party
celebrating his entry into a new
century.
He is a member of the Haven
Chapel Church.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
G-S school board faces
decision on bond issue
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education gets down to some
decision making on a bond issue
:£ at tonight’s monthly meeting.
:$ It will begin at 7:30 in the new
math building on the Griffin
High campus.
The board has been shooting
for a May 21 vote on a $6-million
S bond issue. But all of its work up
:£ to this point has been in the
S preliminary and planning
stages.
The board is expected to
decide tonight if it wants to go
:•< ahead with the May 21 vote.
Indications were that it will.
Several board members
already are scheduled to talk to
PTA meetings tomorrow night
about the proposed bond issue.
Voters in the community are
expected to be asked to approve
financing a comprehensive
;$ program that calls for construc
tion of a high school complex
and an elementary school.
The proposal was built on a
survey by a team of educators
x. under the State Department of
Education who came here last
spring to review the school
system.
Among the things recom
mended in their report was
going to a comprehensive high
school. This would keep heavy
emphasis on college
preparatory studies but would
n- expand the curriculum to
iy emphasize vocational and
ig technical training.
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1( j A citizens study committee
appointed earlier this year
d recommended that a com
>t prehensive high school be built
e so it could coordinate a
, r program with Griffin Tech.
Henry Walker, a school board
member, coordinated the 20-
member citizens committee
with the school board.
)
h If voters should approve a
i, bond issue, the school board
-- would use $2-million in state
it funds and $6-million in local
g bond money to put the com
, prehensive program into effect.
d A $6-million bond issue would
h require a tax levy of 2.67 mills a
2 year, according to the school
s board. The school system has
1 bond indebtedness now that
requires 1.13 mills of taxes
annually.
§
The two together would
s require a total of 3.8 mills per
g year, according to estimates
gathered by the board.
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L. Ponder
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 8, 1974
It is the school board’s
thinking that the question
should be taken to the voters
before school is out this year.
School dismisses May 31.
The board realizes that it will
not have much time to present
its case for the bond issue. But
members figure the May 21 date
is the latest they can have the
vote without running into
schedule problems.
The Jfome Gardener
Gardening breaking
out all over nation
By Sheila and Allan Swenson
NEA Garden Columnists
Seeds are selling out. Some
plants are getting scarce and
gardening in every corner of
the country is booming.
It may be inflation and the
high price of food. It may be
the gas shortage that will be
keeping many people home.
It may be the back-to-nature
trend.
Whatever the reason, gar
dening will expand in 1974 as
it has not since the victory
garden era of World War 11.
That’s the consensus of gar
deners we spoke with, coast
to coast. Equally significant,
the storm is in the sales
figures, booked orders and
estimates of the major seed
firms, nuseries and others
that supply the vast garden
ing needs of America.
More than 50-rnillion peo
ple now garden to some
degree. A recent Gallup Poll
indicates another 30 million
would garden if they had the
opportunity.
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Judging from reports in a
spring survey, seed supplies
may be tight. Demand for
vegetable seed especially is
rising, between 20 and 50 per
cent over last year, some
seed firms report.
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 63, high yesterday
67, low yesterday 36, high
tomorrow in mid 60’s, low
tonight in mid 40’s, total rainfall
this morning .12 of an inch.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:21, sunset
tomorrow 7:58.
If that holds true, your best
bet is to order early io be cer
tain of the varieties, hybrids
and amounts you need.
With a bit of planning, even
small spaces, corners, unused
plots of ground can produce
abundantly.
Consider the soil as a bank,
a soil bank. If you invest just
$5 in seed and fertilizer,
devote a few hours each week
to managing that investment,
you get an amazing, tasty
return on your investment.
Pick a sunny, well-drained
spot, away from trees and
shrubs. Rent a tiller if the
area is large. Otherwise a
spade or garden fork can be
used to turn the soil. In fact,
you can simply till or turn
only the rows or hills in which
you will plant.
Mulching with straw, grass
clippings, old leaves, even
black plastic will hold down
weeds, retain moisture, stop
grass, and let your desired
plants grow.
Seed packets provide the
best basic planting informa
tion. Local libraries have
hundreds of useful gardening
guides. County agricultural
agents, offer free advise and
literature.
Select the vegetables your
family prefers. Forget corn,
mellons, other space-consum
ing vegetables unless you
have room.
Concentrate on bush
varieties. Use the sky, too.
Plant pole beans, put
tomatoes on stakes or in wire
cages, grow cucumbers on
fences. Be innovative.
A selection of snap beans,
beets, lettuce, radishes,
cucumbers, broccoli,
tomatoes will cost less than
$5 for seed.
Now they’ve jumped
on President’s dogs
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Like
some chief executives before
him, President Nixon is ex
periencing some controversy
over his dogs.
The Internal Revenue Service
and Sen. Russell B. Long, D-
La., want to know how often
King Timahoe the setter, Vicki
the poodle and Pasha the
terrier have flown gratis
aboard Air Force One, with the
purpose of possibly making the
President pay their fares.
Kenneth W. Gemmill and H.
Chapman Rose, attorneys for
the President, told Sen. Long,
in a letter dated April 1, no
other president ever has been
charged for the travel of his
family’s pets aboard official
aircraft, and they therefore saw
no reason why Nixon should
pay extra.
The White House may have
recalled allegations in 1944 that
President Franklin D. Roose
velt had sent a destroyer at a
cost of several million tax
dollars to the Aleutian Islands
to fetch his scottie, Fala,
allegedly stranded there.
“Republican leaders have not
been content with attacks on
me, or my wife, or on my
sons,” Roosevelt told a Team-
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Hearsts
visiting
in Mexico
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
The parents of Patricia Hearst,
angry, frustrated and exhaust
ed after more than two months
of agonized waiting for then
daughter’s release, left Sunday
for a rest in Mexico.
“They just had to get away,”
family friend Ira Walsh told
newsmen at the Hillsborough
home of Randolph and Cathe
rine Hearst.
He said “absolutely” that the
Hearsts had not left to meet
secretly with their daughter.
Two of Patricia’s sisters,
Anne and Gina, and Gina’s
husband, Jay Bosworth, were to
join them for a stay of up to 10
days, the family spokesman
said.
He would not reveal the
Hearst’s destination, but did
say that Hearst was prepared
to return immediately if there
are any new developments.
Patricia, 20, granddaughter of
newspaper giant William Ran
dolph Hearst, was dragged
from her Berkeley apartment
Feb. 4. In a tape recording
received Wednesday of last
week, she renounced her
former way of life, termed her
father a liar, and said she had
decided to join her kidnapers —
the Symbionese Liberation
Army (SLA) —“and fight
beside them.”
In an interview Saturday in
the dining room of his home,
Hearst said he thought his
daughter had been brainwa
shed.
“I think she was —not that
they had her in a tiger cage or
anything like that —but I think
that after 60 days you can
change people. I think she
believes some of the things on
the tape and not others. The
girl I knew 60 days before
would never have made the
statements she made,” he said.
Hearst now terms the SLA
kidnapers as “cruel people.”
ster’s Dinner in Washington on
Sept. 23, 1944. “No, not content
with that, they now include my
little dog, Fala.
“Well, of course, I don’t
resent attacks ... but Fala does
resent them. I think I have a
right to resent, to object to
libelous statements about my
dog.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson
had dog trouble When he picked
up his beagles its ears. Persons
who knew less about dogs than
Johnson said he was cruel to
them.
A dog named Freckles
traveled on the campaign trail
with presidential aspirant Rob
ert F. Kennedy, causing him
some embarrassment by leav
ing a deposit in a hotel lobby.
And this is not the first time
for President Nixon has faced
some trouble with dog difficul
ty. In his campaign for the vice
presidency in 1952, Nixon came
under fire for accepting contri
butions from various Republi
cans for personal political
expenses.
Nixon went on the air to
expose his entire financial
situation. The speech was
heavily emotional, with an
ironic touch halfway through it,
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Energy crisis
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. — For the many ostriches at Lion
Country Safari here, the 55 m.p.h. speed limit presents no
problems, because the large birds can only race up to 35
m.p.h. The sign applies to motorists who tour the park in
their cars, and the 55 m.p.h. is the current California
speed limit. (UPI)
Banks lifting
prime interest
NEW YORK (UPI) - Bank
ers Trust lifted its prime
lending rate to a 10 per cent
today, equaling the record set
last year, and prices fell
sharply on the New York Stock
Exchange at the opening of
trading.
Banks around the country
have been increasing their
prime rates, the amount they
charge their largest borrowers,
in recent weeks, beginning with
a one-quarter raise to nine per
cent.
Last week a large bank in
Atlanta jumped its rate to 9%
per cent. Other banks kept
their level at 9% per cent until
Friday when First National
Every President’s dogs have their day, and now is the
time for President Nixon’s three pets. The pets
are shown out on a walk with White House electrician
Traphes Bryant. (UPI)
when he said he wanted
everyone to know he had
accepted the gift of a little
cocker spaniel, which his two
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Bank lifted its prime to 9%.
Others quickly followed suit,
including the Bank of America,
the nation’s largest.
Analysts predicted over the
weekend that one of the major
banks would increase the prime
today to 10 per cent.
High prime rates disturb the
stock and money markets
because they discourage bor
rowing by large corporations
and other choice customers.
Shortly after the market
opened, the Dow Jones industri
al average dropped 1.40 to
846.14. Declines outnumbered
advances 198 to 83. Volume
reached 370,000 in the first
minutes of trading.
girls had named Checkers.
To this day, that broadcast is
known as “the Checkers
speech.”