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Advanced Gifts
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LARRY STOVER
Schools
Talk-a-thon raised
$5,741 for seniors
The talk-a-thon for the Golden
Age Club yesterday was such a
success that plans have been
made to have another next
year.
Some $5,741.07 was con
tributed or pledged in the first
effort. It was enough to wipe out
the deficit and assure the
program for senior citizens will
have enough money to operate
through the next fiscal year.
The Golden Age Club operates
under a fiscal year November
through October.
Mclntosh Baptist Church
turned out to be the biggest
single contributor. The
congregation sent a check for
$1,400 to the talk-a-thon cam
paign. The pastor is the Rev.
Miss America
Jeepers, Johnny’s watching
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI)
— When Shirley Cothran
walked down the runway as the
Miss America before over 80
million television viewers, the
only thing she could think was
“Jeepers! Johnny Carson is
probably watching me.”
Miss Cothran, 21, of Fort
Worth, Tex., laughed Sunday
about her nervousness during
the nation’s largest beauty
contest. Each time she went
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Billy Watts. He could not be
present to present the check so
sent it by Mrs. Mary Barineau
of the Spalding BPW Club. She
also is a member of the church.
Radio Station WHIE and the
Spalding BPW joined in
sponsoring the talk-a-thon.
Sid James Beeland coordinat
ed arrangements.
He said plans for next year’s
money drive would have the
talk-a-thon scheduled between
Mother’s Day and Father’s
Day.
James said at times there
were between 300 and 400 people
at the National Guard Armory
during the afternoon. Head
quarters for the talk-a-thon
before television, she said she
repeated a little prayer.
“I thought, ‘Lord, just help
me not to trip and fall and to
do my best,’” the 36-23-36
beauty said. During the
preliminaries, she won a trophy
in a bathing suit contest. i
Miss Cothran, a teetotaler i
and devout Baptist, said she j
had never wanted to try i
marijuana, because “I believe i
my body is the temple of God, i
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Clubs & organizations
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DICK COLLIER
Outlying
were set up there.
Davis Peeples of the Spalding
Sheriff’s staff with the help of
some Scouts and other young
boys raised some SSOO with road
blocks set up in front of the
armory and other places.
James said eight singing
groups provided the entertain
ment at the armory which drew
many contributors.
Fred Watkins, owner and
manager of WHIE, said the
station appreciated the support
the talk-a-thon received. He
said he was especially pleased
that the money for the Golden
Age Club raised yesterday
came from citizens and not
through taxes.
and I wouldn’t want to harm
it.”
She said she does not smoke
and has never taken a drink in
her life —“I don’t even like the
smell of alcohol.”
“Before the talent competi
tion, I tried not to think of
those millions of people watch
ing. I thought, ‘Jeepers! Johnny
Carson is probably watching
me.’ I didn’t think of anyone
else but Johnny Carson,” she
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, September 9,1974
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Miss America for 1975, Shirley Cothran of Fort Worth,
Texas, smiles for photographers as she stands on her
hotel’s sunporch overlooking the boardwalk in Atlantic
City. (UPI)
said.
The new Miss America, who
entered as Miss Texas, favors
legal abortions for rape victims
or when the life of a mother or
child is at stake, and she
supports the Equal Rights
Amendment.
But she said she would
“rather not deal with” ques
tions about amnesty for draft
evaders or about other aspects
of the women’s movement.
Evel
$6-million richer; 10 seconds short
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (UPI)
— Evel Knievel blasted over
the Snake River Canyon in a
powerful steam rocket Sunday
but a puzzling, premature
parachute opening yanked him
to a halt and dropped him on
the near shore of the river, $6
million richer but 10 seconds
short of his 8-year goal.
Knievel’s “skycycle” bumped
and battered against the lava
walls of the canyon as he
floated down into the 600-foot
deep gorge and bounced onto a
rock outcropping.
The motorcycle stuntman’s
face was cut and bruised and
his knees were lacerated, but
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“I enjoy being a woman. I
thought I am very feminine in
my own way. I enjoy putting on
a pair of cut-off jeans and
putting my hair in a pony tail.”
Miss Cothran has been in
involved in beauty contests for
three years, and in previous
contests she sang during talent
competiton. But she compared
her voice Sunday to that of her
father “who can’t carry a tune
in a basket.”
he was not hurt otherwise.
“The people prayed and God
made the wind blow,” Knievel
said, explaining the 15 mile per
hour breeze that blew him back
to a landing on the south shore
of the river and saved him
from possible drowning in the
turbulent currents at mid
stream.
The rocket ascended for only
8.7 seconds. Had it gone on as
planned, an extra 10 seconds of
thrust was expected to have
carried him to the other side.
There were conflicting expla
nations about just what went
wrong with the much ballyhoo
ed launch.
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JOHN HERBERT
County
United Fund
set to open
Work begins tomorrow on the
campaign to raise $91,100 for
the United Fund program for
1974-75.
The advanced gifts section
under chairman Jean Yates will
begin making calls to kick off
the drive.
General solicitation will begin
Tuesday, Sept. 17. The cam
paign is scheduled to be com
pleted by Oct. 31.
Lin Thompson is chairman of
the fund raising effort this year.
The goal is the same as it was
last year. The organizations
which will share in the budget
include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Sheriff warns
about shooting
Spalding Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert said his department has
had several complaints of
persons shooting on Sunday,
which is in violation of Georgia (
law. Sheriff’s officers also have j
investigated other reports of
hunters firing in the direction of ,
homes. ;
Saturday was the opening day
of dove season. |
Sheriff Gilbert also cautioned |
that charges will be brought ]
against anyone caught hunting ]
on property owned by the >
Another qualifies
A second woman has qualified
to run for a seat on the Griffin-
Spalding School Board.
Mrs. Mary C. Stinson of 1415
Spellman avenue qualified this
morning for post eight, the seat
also being sought by A. C.
Touchstone. The post currently
is held by Kenneth Underwood
who has not yet qualified for
reelection.
Mr. Touchstone qualified for
post eight Wednesday. He was
appointed to post seven to
complete the term of the late C.
T. Parker, but chose to run for
post eight.
Evel said first that he had
accidentally popped the chute
—designed to bring him to
earth after he had crossed the
1,600-foot-wide canyon —be
cause he had been taught by
rocket designer Robert Truax
that “if I could see the opposite
walls of the canyon, instead of
just sky, to pull the chute
because that meant I was
rolling” —going out of control.
But television tapes of the
launch showed the parachute
began deploying as the “skycy
cle” boomed up the short,
steeply inclined launch ramp
with a blast of steam power
that awed spectators.
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Publicity
Salvation Army, Emergency
Community Aid, Griffin Area
Chapter for Retarded Children,
Red Cross, Boys’ Club of Griffin
and FISH.
Chairman Thompson called
on Griffinites to be prepared to
make a contribution to the
United Fund when a volunteer
solicitor calls. He said this
would help complete the drive
quickly and help the volunteer
workers. When a solicitor has to
call on a person or firm more
than once it slows the drive,
Chairman Thompson observed.
Heading the sections of the
drive and working with
Georgia Experiment Station.
In the past this property has
been used by hunters but this
now is forbidden by all, in
cluding employees of the Ex
periment Station.
This information has been
given to all law enforcement
agencies, he warned.
Hunters were reminded that
they should ask permission of
the property owners before
hunting on their property. This
law has been enforced for many
years, Sheriff Gilbert said.
Mrs. Stinson, a cosmetologist,
operates Mary and Ralph’s
Beauty Shop at 1244 North Hill
street. Her husband, Ralph
Stinson, operates Ralph and
Mary’s Barber shop at 136 West
Slaton street.
Mrs. Barbara Alexander, 202
Bourbon street, is seeking elec
tion to post six which is
currently held by Dr. Tom
Hunt.
Others who have qualified are
Dan Boyd, post seven; J. Henry
Walker, 111, post nine; and
William F. Westmoreland, post
ten.
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It was braking the rocket
even as it shot off the ramp
bound for the other side of the
chasm.
The crowd gasped and
shouted in alarm as the
“skycycle” floated down out of
view. Knievel could be seen
struggling with the straps
holding him in, trying to bail
out with a reserve parachute
before he got too low to use it.
“I’ve heard it said that it’s
not whether you’ve won or lost
but how you’ve played the
game,” Knievel said.
“And to lose to a beautiful
canyon like this is, to me, not a
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Thompson are:
Jean Yates, advanced gifts;
Al Thrasher, industrial; Dr.
William King, medical; Lee
Roy Claxton, clubs and or
ganizations; Ray Sharpe, loan
companies; Doug Hollberg, Jr.,
downtown; John Herbert and
Dave Miller, county; Wayne
Brown, publicity; W. L. Con
nell, insurance and real estate;
Larry Stover, school system;
Bonnie Pfrogner and Virginia
Allison, residential; Dick
Collier and Frank Thomas,
outlying; and Richard Hunter,
public employes.
“People, like steam boilers,
are noisy when they let off
steam — but less destructive
than the eventual explosion if
they don’t.”
Nixon
pardoned
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real loss. I would rather have
had a happy landing on the
other side.”
Robert Arum, president of
Top Rank Inc., promoters of
the leap, said it was a draw —
“Knievel didn’t defeat the
canyon, but the canyon didn’t
defeat Knievel either. He made
the jump. He pulled the trigger
and flew.”
Arum said the promoters
expected to take in about $26
million in revenue from the $25
a head admission fee at the
site, closed circuit television
showings and other income.