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They need your help
Getting ready for White Cane Day here Saturday are (1-r) chairman. The Lions Club will place tables downtown and
Tommy Powers, president of the Griffin Lions Club: Louis in several shopping centers to collect donations to the
Arnett, secretary; Dr. Lome Shewfelt, immediate past program. Through it, the Lions Club will furnish white
president; and Love joy Harwell, White Cane Day canes to blind people.
First Spalding Square store
shoots for opening April 17
Rose’s in the new Spalding
Square shopping center will be
the first business to begin
operating there. The store plans
its grand opening April 17.
The center is on U. S. 19 south
opposite the Griffin-Spalding
Airport. It has been under
construction since last year.
Several other stores are making
plans to open in the complex
soon.
Personnel at the new Griffin
Rose’s store have been busy for
weeks stocking shelves and
display counters with mer
chandise for the opening.
The new Rose’s will be a
complete department store,
offering nationally known
merchandise.
Clothing for all members of
the family will be one of the
departments in the massive
store.
A complete line of lamps with
designs and sizes to fit almost
every need will be another of
the store’s specialties. Lamp
shades, lighting fixtures of all
sorts and other related equip
ment will be featured in another
section.
One of the most popular
places in the store is expected to
be the modern cafeteria. It is in
the rear center section and will
provide shoppers a place to
enjoy a meal or light snack.
One of the features of the
store will be its offerings in
artificial plants and flowers.
Located at left center, the
section features plants with a
spring and summer theme. A
complementary basket section
is another feature of the section.
A television and music section
also will be part of the store’s
complete merchandising plan.
It will carry the popular brands
of television sets as well as
other musical and entertain
ment equipment.
All sorts of other merchandise
will be available at the store in a
variety of other sections.
Chester
A full staff of clerks will be on
hand to help shoppers find what
they want.
Roger Chester is the manager
of the new operation in Griffin.
He transferred here from
Alexander City, Ala., and
previously was with Rose’s in
Winston-Salem. Mr. Chester
has five and a half years of
experience with the Rose’s
organization.
“We are happy to be in Griffin
and are looking forward to
serving the needs of the citizens
of this area,” Mr. Chester said.
He has built a staff of people
during a short time in Griffin
who are capable of answering
every customer need.
Mr. Chester is married and he
and his wife are the parents of a
son, Kurt. A native of Lenoir, N.
C., Mr. Chester was with the
Winston-Salem, N. C. store.
Steve Hurley is the senior
assistant manager and has
three years experience with the
Rose’s organization.
Hurley, a native of Asheboro,
N. C., was with the store in
Salisbury, N. C., for six months
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before being transferred to the
Mount Airy, N. C., store where
he served two and a half years.
Ronnie Keele, an assistant
manager, comes from
Alexander City, Ala., and has
been with the Rose’s organiza
tion more than 18 months. He
was with the LaGrange, Ga.,
store before coming to Griffin.
He and his wife make their
home here. Mrs. Keele is
associated with the Commercial
Bank & Trust Co.
Ron Dodson, a native of Madi
son, N.C., has been with Rose’s
stores some 18 months, too. The
assistant manager is married
and he and his wife live in
Griffin. He was with the Green
wood, S.C., store before being
transferred to the new Griffin
organization. His wife is with
the downtown Griffin store.
Mrs. Katherine Chance,
another assistant manager for
the Griffin store, is a native of
Atlanta. Her husband is
associated with Southern Rail
way in Atlanta and they make
their home in Zebulon.
They have a son, Randy, who
is a Georgia Tech student and is
associated with Georgia Power
Company.
Before joining Rose’s, Mrs.
Chance was with J. C. Penney in
Atlanta.
“Nothing is more fun than
having good friends come to
visit — unless maybe their
departure.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, April 11, 1974
Site check
scheduled
A site selection committee is
scheduled to check some
property here Tuesday to see if
it is suitable for construction of
school buildings.
Bill Cody of Griffin, regional
services staff member from the
State Department of Education,
will head the state personnel
coming here to look over the
property. The committee will
check some property at the
Mclntosh and Fayette road
division as a possible com
prehensive high school location.
Some other land that might be
suitable for an elementary
school also will be checked.
The sites will be reviewed as
part of the move toward a
comprehensive educational
program in the Griffin-Spalding
School System.
Voters will decide on a $6-
million bond issue May 21 to
finance the expansion program.
State pays
bus hikes
Griffin-Spalding citizens will
not have to pay any of the SIOO
per year pay increases for
school bus drivers effective in
September. The Georgia
General Assembly approved the
increases this year and
provided funds to cover the
entire amount.
Rep. Clayton Brown pointed
out that the Minimum Founda
tion Program for Education
was frozen by law at $79.5-
million which local communi
ties must pay. This was enacted
in 1973. He said this means that
any additional educational
expenditures must be funded by
the state and not by local
people.
Rep. Brown noted there had
been some misunderstanding of
funding of the school bus driver
pay raises. He said the state
would pay the entire amount.
Suicide squad
said wiped out
By United Press International
Three Arab guerrillas seized
an apartment house in the
Israeli border settlement of
Kiryat Shemona today and
methodically killed residents
one by one before blowing
themselves up with explosive
laden belts they had worn for
their suicide mission.
The mayor of the town near
the border of Lebanon said 21
persons died in the daring raid
in which the guerrillas shot
women and children and threw
them out of the windows. The
commandos also went from
door to door to shoot anyone
who answered. Some hostages
apparently died in the suicide
blast.
Mayor Avraham Aloni put the
death toll at three guerrillas,
two Israeli soldiers, eight adult
civilians and eight children.
A statement by a Palestinian
guerrilla group in Beirut said
the guerrillas had hoped to
force Israel to release 100
Palestinian commandos from
Israeli jails but destroyed
themselves when Israeli para
troops landed by helicopter on
the roof of the three-story
apartment house.
The raid came at the height
of an Israeli political crisis in
which Prime Minister Golda
Meir and her cabinet resigned.
Despite the seriousness of the
political crisis Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan left an emergen
cy cabinet meeting to fly to
Kiryat Shemona.
Whether other guerrillas were
involved in the operation was
not known but both Israeli and
guerrilla sources said three
men aged between 20 and 30
years and firing machineguns
and bazookas seized the apart
ment building in a raid just
after dawn. Military corre
spondents reported earlier
there were three guerilla
groups including some who
gave fire support. The army
did not deny these reports but
said as far as the army was
concerned only three men were
involved.
A guerrilla spokesman in
Beirut said the raid was
carried out by the “Popular
Front for the Liberation of
Palestine—General Command”
(PFLP-GC), a maverick guer
rilla faction.
“The three-man suicide unit
that carried out the operation
killed themselves by detonating
explosive belts they were
wearing,” the guerrilla spokes
man said. “In the process,
some of the hostages also
died.”
Speaking shortly after an
Israeli announcement that the
guerrilla group had been wiped
out, the spokesman said:
“It is absurd for the Israelis
to say they liquidated the unit.
How could they have shelled a
building which was full of
Israeli hostages?”
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Easter bunny
Griffin Recreation Department Easter Bunny Diane Cannon checks supplies for Saturday’s
Easter Egg Hunt. Beginning at 10 a.m., children 6-years-old and under and those 7-10-years
old may search for Easter treasurers at City Park, Patrick Park or Head Park. Some eggs
will contain special hidden prizes from Griffin merchants.
Watergate ‘victim’
gets 30-day sentence
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Her
bert L. “Bart” Porter Jr.,
described by his lawyer as “the
first victim” of Watergate, was
sentenced today to 30 days in
jail for lying to the FBI about
the bugging scandal.
“I am absolutely positive in
my heart—all the way down to
my toes—that I will never get
into trouble again,” Porter said
just before Judge William B.
Bryant sentenced him.
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WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks with Sens. J. W. Fulbright (left)
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Sparkman (D-Ala.) (right)
as he arrives to appear before the panel. Kissinger briefed the Committee on his Moscow
trip. (UPI)
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The boyish-looking Porter, 35,
testified at Senate Watergate
hearings last summer that he
lied about what he knew of
Watergate for fear other Nixon
campaign officials would ac
cuse him of not being a team
player if he didn’t.
Porter was scheduling direc
tor for President Nixon’s
campaign organization. He was
the 11th person sentenced in
connection with Watergate.
Bryant told Porter he “just
can’t forget” that Porter lied
on three different occasions to
federal investigators and sen
tenced him to a minimum of
five months and a maximum of
15 months in prison. But he
ordered that Porter only serve
30 days on the sentence and be
placed on unsupervised proba
tion for one year following his
release.