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BARNESVILLE - Millie
Crossfield of Griffin, a Gordon I
Junior College art major, has
spent the last two weeks brazing <
together a sculpture she calls |
“Summary of the Law.” 1
The sculpture is a project for :
a three dimensional design art !
course at Gordon. A combina- I
tion of spheres and iron rods, 1
the sculpture represents three
kinds of love.
Each sphere represents a
person. Connecting rods in
dicate love between persons;
extended rods represent radiat
ing love, or love for God; and |
round rods represent self love, i
Mrs. Crossfield, made the ;
sculpture using brazing, a ]
technique similar to soldering. '
Garden Clubs,
Art Association
plan festival
The Griffin Federated
Garden Clubs and the Griffin-
Spalding Art Association will
co-sponsor the Crimson Clover
Art Festival May 11 in Griffin.
It will be held at the Commer
cial Bank & Trust Co. parking
facility from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.
The garden clubs and the art
association are planning one of
the biggest art shows ever held
here in their joint effort.
148 checked
at clinics
A total of 148 people were
treated at the diabetic and high
blood pressure clinics at the
Health Center yesterday.
Jim Morgan, coordinator,
said five people were found to
have elevated blood sugar and
21 had elevated blood pressure.
They were referred to their
private physicians for further
testing and possible diagnosis,
Morgan said.
“We learn mostly by
imitation — which is why the
way folks behave is more
important than what they say.”
Mrs. Crossfield at work on art project.
Griffinite brazing artist
Total cost of the sculpture will
be about fifteen dollars.
“Fourteen of that is labor for
cutting the rods. I could have
gotten by cheaper, but it was too
hard to cut the rods with a hack
saw,” Mrs. Crossfield said. The
spheres are “dime store globe
banks” which were modified for
the sculpture.
The granite stone in which the
sculpture is mounted was
discarded by a tombstone
company.
For someone interested in
getting into brazing, the
equipment is fairly simple. An
acetylene torch provides the
heat to melt the brazing rod.
The rod is brass with a flux
Carter says Hancock gives program bad name
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter said Thursday the
alleged use of federal poverty
funds to finance a nightclub and
Nine arrested
in drug raid
ATLANTA (UPl)—Nine per
sons were arrested and $40,000
worth of cocaine seized by local
and state officers early today
in a raid on a private home
here.
The raid was carried out by
the Atlanta Police Department
and the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation (GBI).
Lt. R. E. Weber of the Atlan
ta Police and Ken Copeland of
Legion
to sponsor
service
A special program of
humiliation and prayer will be
held at the First United Metho
dist Church in Griffin Sunday,
April 28, beginning at 3 p.m.
It will be sponsored by the
Barnett-Harris Post 15 of
American Legion. Commander
Bob Turner announced plans for
the service.
The program will be in
response to the congressional
resolution declaring Tuesday,
April 30, a national day of
humiliation, fasting and prayer.
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covering. About the same
consistency as toothpaste, the
flux helps clean the metal
surface before it is heated.
Mrs. Crossfield and Gordon’s
art instructor, Alan Parker,
learned brazing by “trial and
error.” Since this was her third
quarter in art, she had already
mastered some fundamental
ideas of design which helped
make learning the technique
easier.
Brazing is, in some ways, a
limited medium. Although
relatively strong, the bonding
made by brazing limits the size
of sculpture that can be done.
Also, galvanized metal cannot
be used and sometimes mater
ials are hard to find.
buy three airplanes in Hancock
County “gives the whole pover
ty program a bad name.”
Carter told a news conference
the GBI narcotics squad identi
fied those arrested as Henry R.
Ferchand, Priscilla Ferchand,
William D. Crowe and Becky
M. Setzer, all of Atlanta; Dav
id M. Curlee and Peter S.
Jones, both of Decatur; Joseph
L. Harris and John Legette of
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and Dav
id R. Willis of Lake City, Fla.
Add chlorine to short list
By United Press International
Add one more woe to the
burden of American cities—-the
possibility of not enough chlori
ne.
A United Press International
survey shows the shortages
have eased somewhat in some
places since a recent gloomy
report on the subject by the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), but some cities
may have to get by with less of
the chemical used to treat
water and sewage.
The shortage is blamed on a
combination of heavy demands
for electricity, vital for the
manufacture of chlorine, and
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, April 19, 1974
A Spalding County Grand
Jury’s effort to close the Sixth
Street Recreation Center as a
public nuisance was tossed to
the city today.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., in
Spalding Superior Court this
morning granted a motion that
the move addressed itself to the
City Court. Tom Lewis is the
judge of that court.
Bill Johnson, attorney for
Calton Ahl who operates the
pool room on South Sixth street,
made a plea to the jurisdiction
and moved to dismiss on the
grounds that abatement of a
public or private nuisance in a
city of more than 20,000 people
is under the City Court and not
the Superior Court. He cited
Code Section 72-40 in support of
his contention.
Judge Whalen sustained the
motion.
District Attorney Ben Miller
agreed and said he had
researched the law on the
This is only one of several
media in which Mrs. Crossfield
has worked. Her favorite is clay
and her husband gave her a kiln
and potter’s wheel for Christ
mas.
The entire Crossfield family
is interested in art. Her
husband, a building contractor,
builds furniture and is interest
ed in woodworking. Her three
sons, ages 16,21, and 23 are also
art oriented and have various
projects going.
With such an artistic family,
Mrs. Crossfield sometimes is
cramped for space. “Right now
we have a very messy, little
shop. Someday we will have a
very big, messy shop.”
the Office of Economic Oppor
tunity grants apparently went
straight from Washington to
Hancock County, bypassing the
normal channels.
He referred to reports that
more than $1 million in grants
went to ECCO, Inc., a private,
non-profit corporation in the
county, and that some of it
was used to equip Associated
Airways and outfit the Academy
Lounge.
“We had very little to say
about it,” Carter said. “Much
of it came directly from Wash
ington, bypassing the normal
structure. I know I have never
seen a project request to estab
lish an airline or a nightclub.
Apparently money for that
came from the federal govern
ment.
the growing use of chlorine in
industry and transportation
problems.
The EPA survey of 74 cities
for the eight months ending
Jan. 31 showed 22 ran out
completely and 26 others were
short during the period.
In the UPI survey, a
spokesman for Chicago’s water
filtration plant said that al
though the situation was tight
last August, there were no
shortages at present for water
and sewage treatment. Howe
ver, he said, public swimming
pools may have to delay
opening or remain closed if
matter when it came before the
grand jury. Judge Whalen then
granted the motion.
Miller said he had made the
grand jury aware of the law but
filed for the nuisance
abatement in Superior Court at
the grand jury’s direction. He
told the court he did not think it
morally right or correct for a
district attorney to go into a city
and try to close a business
without the consent or con
currence of its governing
authority.
He said he had told the mayor
(Louis Goldstein) and the city
commissioners it was a matter
for the City Court to handle.
Miller told the court that the
mayor and commissioners
discussed the matter outside the
grand jury room and reported
they did not want to take a
position on the closing nor did
they want to file the complaint
in the City Court.
Miller said today this is as far
as he, as district attorney, and
the Spalding Superior Court
could go in the matter at this
point.
Mayor Goldstein said today
he would call a meeting of the
city commissioners next week,
possibly Monday or Tuesday, to
discuss the latest developments
in the case.
They had appeared as wit
nesses before the Spalding
Grand Jury which investigated
drug traffic during a special
session in March.
The Special Grand Jury
presentment April 3 recom
mended that city and county
officials and the district at
torney take whatever action
“they deem necessary and
proper to abate an alleged
public nusiance at a business
located in the city of Griffin in
Spalding County.”
“This sort of thing gives the
whole poverty program a bad
name.”
Carter said Hancock County
already gets an average of
more than three times as much
money, on a per poor person
ratio, as any other county.
He said much of the OEO
funds was being used for admin
istrative costs, including putting
county commissioners on as full
time salaried personnel at
SB,OOO a year and the hiring of
consultants.
Carter “reluctantly” vetoed a
new $300,000 OEO grant to Han
cock County recently, complain
ing that OEO officials had re
fused to provide him with an
audit of how federal money was
being spent in the county.
about 20 per cent. Most of the
city’s private and public pools
use sodium hydrochloride, so
they may not have the same
problem.
John Egan, director of water
quality of the New York City
Department of Water Resour
ces, said the overall situation
was satisfactory, but the city’s
suppliers warned there could be
a potential shortage in the
future. Nearby Westchester and
Nassau counties reported dif
ficulty in obtaining chlorine and
said orders had to be placed far
in advance to keep up with the
demand.
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Education was the subject when (1-r) C. T. Parker, Griffin-Spalding school board
chairman; Henry Walker, board member and comprehensive study committee chairman;
Jack Nix, state school superintendent; and D. B. Christie, Griffin-Spalding superintendent
got together.
State school chief
backs comprehensive
If the Griffin-Spalding
Schools are not expanded, the
system soon will have to
schedule classes in double
sessions, according to Jack Nix,
state superintendent of schools.
Nix, in a talk to the Griffin
Rotary Club yesterday,
predicted within 10 years,
Spalding County with its in
creasing birth rate will have
DeKalb County’s problems of
growth 15 or 20 years ago.
He gave figures to show the
need for a comprehensive high
school program, which Spalding
residents will vote on May 21.
Students in a comprehensive
high school rate a third higher
on vocational maturity tests,
have a dropout rate of 26.9 per
cent less than regular high
school students, 7.2 percent
more of them go to college, 50.3
percent more join the armed
forces, and 33.4 percent more
attend post high school
vocational classes, Nix said.
Georgia has one billion
dollars invested in school
buildings which are closed down
a fourth of the time. Nix told the
Rotarians if they operated a
business that way, they’d go
broke. (In a comprehensive
program, schools would be open
year round.)
He stressed the com
prehensive program educates
all children since its
curriculums are involved in
both college preparatory and
occupational training. More
people would be trained for jobs
and earn their own living in
stead of being on welfare rolls,
he explained.
He chided parents for not
disciplining and training their
children to be responsible,
shortages worsen.
Houston was forced to reduce
its use of chlorine at the city’s
two largest sewage plants.
There were several occasions
when they ran out entirely, but
supplies were delivered within
a few hours. Amounts used at
smaller plants were not redu
ced.
A brighter note came from
Boston, and Albany, N.Y.,
where the states’ chlorine
supplies are ordered. Neither
had any shortages.
Philadelphia has been getting
along since the fall of 1973 with
partial shipments from its
supplier and the cost has risen
responsive citizens at an early
age, then expecting the schools
to do this when the child is only
in school around seven hours a
day, 180 days per year.
The courts require that an
education be provided for
Kelley says FBI
will find Patricia
ATLANTA (UPI) - FBI Di
rector Clarence M. Kelley said
Thursday he believes his agents
will locate Patricia Hearst “in
a minimum of time,” but as for
now, “we don’t know where she
is.”
Kelley said the FBI had made
an extensive search for Miss
Hearst, who was kidnaped in
Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 4 and that
his men had “just about turned
that area upside down.
“I’m going to make an admis
sion that hurts. We don’t know
where she is.”
Kelley at a meeting of the
American Society of News
papers Editors, answered
questions during a session with
Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg
Murphy, a recent kidnap vic
tim, and Thomas Eastham,
editor of the San Francisco
Examiner, published by Miss
Hearst’s father.
Miss Hearst was identified as
a participant in a San Francisco
bank holdup earlier this week,
and Kelley said “We feel we
have a better opportunity (of
locating her) since they have
come out in the open.”
Kelley avoided direct com
ment on Attorney General Wil
liam Saxbe’s description of the
newspaper heiress as a “com
mon criminal.”
He said “We choose to take
the lesser of the evaluations that
she is a material witness and
could have been coerced ...We
will be guided by the facts and
not by any opinion.”
Kelley said the possibility the
case might be a hoax was “part
of our investigation” and if it
was determined Miss Hearst
took part in the bank robbery,
“the U.S. attorney has said she
will be charged. At this point,
we just don’t know.”
When asked if the FBI expect
ed to solve the case, he said
“I think we will in a minimum
of time.” He said nine kidnap
ings since that time had been
solved, and “in most cases the
ransom recovered and the vic
tims restored to their loved
ones.”
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every child. That, coupled with
problems of society (drugs,
crime, lack of discipline, etc.)
boils down to the fact that if
school needs are to be met in
Spalding County, the voters
should make the right decision
on May 21, he concluded.
Kelley said the agency had
kept its work undercover only
when it appeared overt activity
might have caused the kidnapers
to “do away with Miss Hearst.”
He also said the FBI might
have moved in with force had
the kidnapers’ hideout been lo
cated, “keeping paramount what
is best for the victim. That
might be to go in.”
In his speech to the ASNE,
Kelley defended the use of com
puters in combating crime.
“From my experience, I look
upon the computer as one of our
professions greatest break
throughs in the fight against
crime,” he said. “To arbitrarily
prevent us from using these
latest advances in science is to
place a handcuff on society’s
first line of defense.”
He stressed, however, that use
of the modem technology must
be “properly regulated and con
trolled so that injury will not
result to the rights of any indi
vidual.”
Also at the ASNE convention,
Gov. Dale Bumpers said for the
first time this century there are
no racist remarks coming from
the statehouses in the South.
“The political leaders of the
South have turned from racial
rhetoric to problem solving,”
Bumpers said. “The language
coming from every single state
house in the South is untainted
by racism.”
Bumpers was joined by U.S.
Sen. Ernest J. Rollings, D-S.C.,
and state Rep. Mrs. Grace
Hamilton in a panel discussion
on “Has the South Rejoined the
Union.”
In response to a question
whether Alabama Gov. George
Wallace could carry the South
in a 1976 presidential race, Roll
ings said the South has other
presidential possibilities besides
Wallace, including Bumpers,
Florida Gov. Reubin Askew and
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.
“I don’t think that George
Wallace is going to take the
South, but I think rather that
some southerners are going to
take the nation,” Hollings said.