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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 16,1974
Beautification
people check
with HUD on delay
City representatives were to
confer with Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) people
today about a possible delay in
the Griffin beautification
program.
They wanted to find out what
effect a delay in the start of the
project would have on federal
matching funds.
The city with the Chamber of
Commerce and the
Beautification Committee had
hoped to get some work under
way by July 1. But this start
may not be in works, because no
bids on the first phases of the
work have been submitted.
Felton Rainwater, chairman
of the Beautification Com
mittee, brought Chamber of
Commerce directors up to date
on the program in a report
yesterday.
Alfred Bolton, president of
Griffin Engineering, and Roy
Inman, city manager, were to
consult with HUD today about
the project.
HUD agreed to supply
matching funds with local
money to help with the project.
It was expanded to include
About Town
KIWANISCLUB
The annual meeting of the
Griffin Kiwanis Club will be
held Wednesday, at 12:15 p.m.,
at the Elks Club. Officers and
directors for the coming year
will be elected.
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The outdoor gas grill,
roar alternate way to cook.
A very beautiful thing about a gas
grill is that it's a complete alternative to
cooking indoors. Now instead of cooking
in, you can cook entire meals outdoors.
Beef roasts, smoked turkeys, broiled
steaks, smoked fish, acorn squash,
escalloped potatoes, mixed vegetables.
You can even bake a cake outdoors.
And, there are some more beautiful
things about a gas grill. It lets you enjoy
the sky overhead and the breezes breezing
by during the pleasant days of Spring,
Summer and Fall (Winter, too). When you
cook outdoors you also get that very
special appetite-delighting char-broil
flavor and aroma while the family enjoys
patio living.
Beautiful? Very. You will love cooking
outdoors with Gas. It's Nature's purest,
cleanest form of energy. Indoors or
outdoors, let's all use it wisely.
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other areas of the community.
Originally, the project was for
downtown beautification.
Rainwater pointed out that
some $21,000 in matching funds
was marked for playground
improvement.
The Chamber had set a
$50,000 local fund raising goal as
its share in the original project.
This amount has not yet been
reached. Persons wishing to
contribute to it still may do so.
Contributions may be mailed to
Box 73, Griffin, Ga. 30223.
Ed Houghtaling, director of
the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission, told the Chamber
directors that the organization
was not going to move its
headquarters from Griffin and
it would not disband.
He said reports to the con
trary were not true.
He said the Trail’s staff stood
ready to help city and county
members in the Trail area with
problems they might have.
Jack Smith of the Merchants
Association reported a 20 to 30
percent increase in the use of
three city parking lots during
the month long meter-free
period before Easter.
The city and the Chamber had
worked out the trial period of
free parking in three downtown
lots to see what effect it would
have on traffic patterns.
The results of the trial period
are being studied.
Mrs. Barker
gives program
on cancer
Mrs. Fred M. Barker
presented the program at the
April meeting of the Griffin
Woman’s Club.
Mrs. Barker is in charge of
the work locally for the Ameri
can Cancer Society. She
discussed the need for
discovering cancer in its early
stages. She also told of the
services the Cancer Society has
to offer the cancer patients.
Mrs. Barker showed a film
also. She was introduced by
Mrs. W. J. Proctor.
Mrs. Proctor gave a brief
resume of the new educational
changes at Taullulah Falls
Institute. The school at Tallulah
Falls is owned by the Georgia
Federation of Woman’s Clubs.
Mrs. Marcus Jinks, president,
presided.
Hostesses for the social
period were Mrs. Paul Roberts,
Mrs. Ivan Fox, Mrs. Joe Huck
aby, Mrs. Cecil Maddox and
Mrs. E. R. Morris.
Tax trial
near end
Attorneys were expected to
conclude arguments in a tax
assessment dispute between
Pike County and the State
Revenue Department today.
The trial began yesterday
before a Pike County jury at
Zebulon.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit is
hearing the case.
The dispute involves
assessments for tax purposes of
property in Pike County.
Pike County Commissioners
contend the revaluation put on
the property by the Revenue
Department is too high. The
Department contends it
followed state regulations in
setting the assessments.
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Pat Hearst
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the kidnaping or the bank
robbery,” said U.S. Attorney
James Browning.
The three women named in
bank robbery warrants were
Nancy Ling Perry, Patricia
Michelle Soltysik and Camilla
Catherine Hall, all believed
previously to be members of
the tiny SLA which claimed
responsibility for the Hearst
kidnaping and the slaying last
November of Oakland Schools
Supt. Marcus Foster.
None of the men was
identified.
The bank robbery was yet
another bizarre development in
a case which Browning calls
unprecedented.
“There’s never been another
case in the annals of legal
history where the victim of a
kidnaping has turned up in the
middle of a robbery,” he told
newsmen.
The appearance of Miss
Hearst on the film allayed fears
that she might be dead, for
while her voice had been heard
on a tape recording as recently
as 13 days ago, she had not
been seen since the night of
Feb. 4 when she was carried
screaming from her apartment
near the University of Cali
fornia campus in Berkeley.
Previous Ties Known
All three of the suspects in
Monday’s bank robbery were
known to have previous ties to
the SLA or to one another.
Nancy Ling Perry, 26, a one
time topless dancer and occa
sional University of California
student who adopted the SLA
name “Fahizah,” is also
wanted for attempted arson in
the unsuccessful burning of a
house across the bay from San
Francisco which was once used
as an SLA headquarters. She
was living in the house under
an assumed name with Russell
Little, one of two men
imprisoned on murder charges
in the Foster slaying.
| Deaths-Funerals |
Mrs. Gray
Mrs. Thelma Carolyn Harper
Gray of Haralson, wife of Hosea
Pickens Gray, died shortly
before noon Monday at her
residence.
Mrs. Gray was a lifelong
resident of Coweta County,
daughter of Mrs. Kate Car
michael Harper and the late
James T. Harper. She was a
member of the Mt. Pilgrim
Lutheran Church.
In addition to her husband
and mother, she is survived by a
daughter, Miss Mary Gray of
Haralson; five sons, Lt.
Nathaniel Austin Gray of
Fairmont, W. Va., Sgt.
Jonathan Latimer Gray of
Thailand, Daniel Harper Gray,
Hosea Pickens Gray 111 and
Micah Parks Gray, all of
Haralson; three sisters, Mrs.
W. M. Morgan, Mrs. Robert
Ellington and Mrs. Eugene
Hubbard, all of Senoia; a
brother, James Preston Harper
of Bahama, N.C.; and one
grandchild.
Funeral services will be
conducted at the Mt. Pilgrim
Lutheran Church in Haralson at
a time to be announced pending
the arrival of her son from
Thailand. The Rev. Paul A.
Lorimer will officiate and
burial will be in the Senoia
cemetery. The body will remain
at Haisten Funeral Home in
Griffin.
Mr. Wright, Sr.
Mr. Thurman Lee Wright, Sr.,
of 1400 Dewey street was dead
on arrival at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Monday
night.
Mr. Wright was bom in
Gilmer County and had made
his home in Griffin for 25 years.
He was employed by Dundee
Mill No. Five.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Annie Mae Starks Wright;
a daughter, Mrs. Geraldine
Coates; two sons, Thurman Lee
Wright, Jr., of Logansville and
William Wright of Elijay;
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Wright; a sister, Mrs. Ora
Fountain; a brother, Hubert
Wright, all of Griffin; five
grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be
conducted Wednesday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock in Mc-
Donald Chapel. The Rev. Allen
Huckaby will officiate and
burial will be in Oak Hill
cemetery. The body will remain
at the funeral home.
Mr. Harris
Funeral services for Mr.
Willie Harris of Route three,
Ellis road, will be conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock from the Liberty
Springs Baptist Church in
Zetella. The Rev. H. L. Sutton
will officiate and burial will be
in Mt. Zion cemetery in Zetella.
Friends may visit the family
at the Harris residence on Ellis
road.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Barbara Harris; a son,
Willie Harris, Jr.; parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Andrews; four
sisters, Miss Carolyn Andrews,
Miss Regina Andrews, Miss
Jacqueline Andrews and Miss
Sandra Andrews; three
brothers, Lonnie Andrews,
James Andrews and Carl An
drews, all of Griffin; grand
parents, Mrs. Clara Mack of
Knoxville, Tenn., and Mr. and
Mrs. William Harris of Griffin.
McDowell United Funeral
Home is in charge of plans.
Ga. Power
to refund
$5.4 million
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Power Co. announced Monday
that as a result of an agreement
in rate cases pending before the
government since 1970, it will
refund about $5.4 million in rate
increases billed to rural coop
eratives and municipal electric
systems for the past three years.
Georgia Power President Ed
win I. Hatch said the firm would
retain $5.8 million of its earnings
under the rate increases, which
he described as a “major step
toward bringing electric rates
paid by these customers to a
reasonable level.”
At the same time, Georgia
Power’s parent firm, The Sou
thern Co., declared a quarterly
dividend of 35 cents a share on
common stock, payable June 6,
1974, to stockholders of record
May 6, 1974.
The firm said its revenue for
the first quarter of 1974 was
$314 million, up from $263 mil
lion during the same period in
1973, and consolidated net in
come was $42 million compared
to $34 million for the first quar
ter of 1973.
Griffinite
vice president
BOONE, N. C. - A. Wade
Evans, a native of Experiment,
Ga., has been promoted to
assistant vice president by
North Carolina National Bank
here.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Evans of 827 East
Mclntosh road, Griffin.
Program
on drugs
planned
Parents, teenagers, and other
interested citizens are invited to
attend a drug education
program, Thursday, April 25, in
the Stuckey Auditorium at the
Georgia Experiment Station.
The program is sponsored by
the Griffin Police Department.
Lt. R. E. “Dick” Weber, head
of the Atlanta Police Depart
ment’s Narcotic Division, will
speak.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m., the
building will be open for
viewing of drug displays.
Narcotic agents will be on hand
to answer questions.
Marijuana, cocaine, heroin,
and other types of drugs and
drug related items will be
exhibited.
Lt. Weber will speak
following a film on drugs.
At the conclusion of the
program, agents will burn
marijuana so that parents
might become familiar with the
odor.
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ALIBIS FOR FISHERMEN
To become a “complete” angler learn to offer a wide
variety of reasons the fish weren’t biting. First, blame
something you can’t control — Mother Nature! This is
certain to win a sympathetic ear (at least from your wife
who knows the problems you have catching fish). It
was too “cold”—in July change to “hot”—in March to
“windy”. The barometric pressure was falling. Lake was
so clear fish were easily spooked or so muddy they
couldn't find the bait. Water so high fish were scattered
—so low they were in deep holes. If weather was per
fect, try these. You lost the only lure they were hitting,
a purple Pooper Popper! Your motor conked out. Lake
is overfished, needs restocking. Water skiers churned up
the water so much fish were too dizzy to bite. But what
ever the alibi, always shake your head in despair and tell
it like you believe it yourself!
You’ll never need an alibi for “ready cash” when you
have a savings account here. Making regular deposits
beats making excuses!
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Dr. Terry Herndon, executive
secretary of the National
Education Association, will
speak tonight at an appreciation
dinner for retired teachers. It
will be held at Spalding Junior
High II cafeteria beginning at
7:30. The Griffin-Spalding
Assoication of Educators
arranged the program.