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This is not the nudist club
This picture which appeared originally in the Barnesville News Gazette and then in the
Griffin Daily News is of the entrance to a private lodge in Lamar County and has nothing
whatever to do with a proposed nudist country dub. A business man who lives in Miami and
has an office in Griffin likes this part of the country so well that he and Ids wife may live
there when he retires.
Here are the bare facts:
Picture kicks up fuss
in Lamar, Griffin, Miami
A man who lives in Miami and
owns some acreage and a lodge
in Lamar County picked up his
paper the other day and looked
at a picture of the gate leading
into his Georgia property. He
was surprised that the paper
asked if it was the site of a
proposed nudist club.
The Barnesville News
Gazette published the picture on
its front page last week and
asked if it were the entrance to
the place. Next day the Griffin
Daily News published it with
full credit to the News Gazette.
Next morning Publisher Bill
Dennis of the Barnesville paper
phoned and said it was not the
club, and the Griffin paper
published a story saying that it
was not.
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What, then, is the place? Who
owns it?
Henry Weaver of Miami owns
it, and he owns and operates a
business in Griffin too. Talking
on the phone from Miami, he
told the Griffin Daily News that
he bought the acreage at the old
Buck Creek Boy Scout Camp in
Lamar County not far from the
Butts County line. He is using it
as a lodge where he entertains
business guests, and he likes
this part of the country so well
that he and his wife.are thinking
of living there permanently
when he retires.
President of Wencor, Inc.,
Mr. Weaver and his wife live in
Miami which is the head
quarters of his firm. The
company employs 25 people in
Miami, 10 in London, and four
or five in Griffin. The Griffin
office is located at 201 West
Broadway and has been here for
three years. It manufactures
gaskets for aircraft and sells
and ships them world wide to
airlines and other customers.
Manager of the Griffin opera
tion is L. J. Galati who lives in
Tyrone.
Mark Galati of the Griffin
office said the picture had
caused quite a bit of excite
ment. In Barnesville this week a
businessman said with tongue
in cheek at a civic club luncheon
that there had been so much
traffic past the gate since the
picture appeared that he was
thinking of putting up a hot dog
stand on the road. And in
Miami, Mr. Weaver said he had
taken down the sign which had
hung from the gate top. It
simply read, “Buena Vida”
which is Spanish for “Good
Life” and has nothing to do with
nudists. It is the name he had
selected for the place.
Meantime stories circulating
in Lamar County said the nudist
country club plans to open on
Sept. 21, but nobody could say
with certainty where the
property is located in the
county. The Lamar County
Ministerial Association an
nounced opposition to it, and
District Attorney Ed McGarity
said if he can find a law to stop it
he will “use the law.”
In Miami where the weather
Spalding will have
70 freshmen at Gordon
Seventy freshmen from
Spalding County plan to attend
fall quarter classes at Gordon
Junior College when the doors
open for the new academic year
on Sept. 17.
Gordon currently has 852
students applications for the fall
and is expecting a total of 1,000
students for the first day of
classes.
The following freshmen from
this area will begin college on
the Barnesville campus this
month.
Joan Karen Bouchell, Stephen
Permits
exceed
million
Building permits issued in
Griffin and Spalding County
during August totaled more
than one million dollars with
$344,659 issued in the city and
$717,260 issued in Spalding
County.
They included a permit for an
office building to the Congrega
tional Holiness Church Inc., for
$105,000 to be erected on Ga. 92
at Cheatham road, and a $66,860
permit for a pesticide building
at the Georgia Experiment
Station.
Permits for three new single
family residences, totaling
$145,000, were issued by the
city, while 12 permits totaling
$345,500 were issued by the
county.
The First Assembly of God
Church obtained a permit for a
new school building on Old
Atlanta road for $40,000. H & N
Farms, Inc., will build two
chicken houses at a cost of
$42,000 on Maloy road.
There were three permits for
swimming pools, two in the city
for SB,OOO and one in the county
for $5,000.
In the city, additions, altera
tions and conversions to 36
residences totaled $29,848, to 12
commercial buildings, $38,888;
and to one church, $4,000.
Permits for seven signs
totaled SIO,BIO and was $1,253
for one utility building.
There were 28 permits issued
in Spalding County for mobile
homes totaling $162,695 and 15
permits for additions to homes
totaling $57,065.
was warm, Mr. Weaver said all
the publicity was embarrass
ing. In Barnesville Publisher
Dennis just shook his head as
fellow townsmen kidded him
about the picture. And in Griffin
the weather turned cool and
people were thinking more
about getting out their winter
jackets than they were about
nudists playing golf in their
birthday suits in the neighbor
ing county.
Jackson Byous, Larry Joseph
Ballard, Robert Wesley Branch,
Charles Allen Biles, Carol Joyce
Berry, Seaton Grantland
Bailey, Linda Sue Braselton,
Kerry Randall Bunn.
Susan Denise Bunn, Robin
Gail Barton, Linda Carol Boze
man, Vernon Scott Coggins,
Katherine Susan Chambers,
Debra Jane Cox, Mary
Katherine Champion, Randolph
Wilson Dougherty, Ronnie
Eugene Dunn, Charles Edward
Dunn.
Melanie Foster, Robert
Marcus Foster, Marta Mariana
Gomez, Richard Joseph Gomez,
Michael Lee Harrison,
Christina Henson, Constance
Yvonne Huff, John Gregory
Holloway, Robert David Imes,
Russell Herbert Jones, Mary
Susan Jones, Gordon Lee Joslin.
Wayne Mitchell Jones, Dennis
Edward Kinard, John Roscoe
Langford, Paul Scotty
Lominack, Judy Gail McGee,
James Patrick McMullen,
Angela Eugenia McDaniel,
Geraleen Maddox, Archie Mae
Montgomery, Dave Lynard
Moss, Karen Lynn Maddox.
Archie Leroy Malcom,
Charles Randall Moore, Loretta
Morris, Christy Eugenia
Manos, William Bennett
O’Neal, Rhonda Joy O’Dell,
Michael Edward Peach, Loy
Dean Roberts, Frances Deirdre
Reynolds.
Richard David Sanders,
Robert Clark Scott, Jeffrey Dan
Smith, Merilee Ann Stevens,
William Leger Simons, Judy
Tyson Sikes, Mary Lynn Strong.
Jerrilynn Aimee Smith,
Teresa Anne Todd, Emmette
Monique Touchstone, Carol
Lynne Turner, Charles Timothy
Thomas, John Lee Thomas,
Gaynell Thompson, Rhonda
Elizabeth Watkins, Thomas
Ferrell Wilkerson, Frankie Ann
Watts, Brenda Brimer Whit
field, Brenda G. White.
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Groundbreaking
Participating in groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Spalding Farm Bureau building
were (1-r) Preston Bunn, city commissioner; David Elder, Spalding Farm Bureau director;
Louis Goldstein, city commissioner; Frank Jolly, president of Commercial Bank & Trust
Co.; Dr. J. G. Woodroof, bureau director; Russ Spangler, executive vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce; Julian Jones, bureau president; P. W. Hamil, Spalding
Commissioner and bureau director; Max Carden, Georgia Farm Bureau Federation Safety
director and Young Farmers director; Sandy Morgan, Spalding Commissioner. The
building will be at West Solomon and 16th streets. Also participating were: the Rev. Ed.
Sisson, pastor of the Crestview Baptist Church; Ronnie Green, Georgia Farm Bureau
insurance agent, and Mrs. Julian Jones, wife of the bureau president
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