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Dick Piland, Jr., and his dream house
FAA is neutral
on second airport
The Federal Aviation Ad
ministration (FAA) will not get
involved in the debate over
where to locate a second
Atlanta airport.
That was the word from
Phillip M. Swatek, director of
the southern region for FAA. He
made the federal agency’s
position of neutrality clear
yesterday in a talk to the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
directors.
Meanwhile, the debate over
the site for the second airport
continued.
Efforts to get it in Henry
County suffered a blow Tuesday
night when the Henry Com
missioners voted 4-0 against the
facility.
More than 200 people packed
the commission meeting room
in the Henry County Courthouse
They found the snake
Residents of the Poplar street
area of Experiment had an
uneasy day yesterday when
they thought a boa constrictor
was loose in their neighborhood.
The snake was found after a
five-hour search hiding in the
seat of a car.
Clifford Padgett, an
emergency medical technician
at the Griffin Hospital, sold the
snake to Horace Head, Jr., of
Pomona. Tuesday night he went
to Head’s home and borrowed
the snake to show to a friend. He
put the reptile in a cage and left
it in his car at his Experiment
home overnight.
Around 8:30 Wednesday
morning, Padgett came out to
Haile Selassie deposed
LONDON (UPI) — Ethiopia’s
armed forces toppled Emperor
Haile Selassie today from his
3,000-year-old throne and pro
claimed a military regime to
rule the country temporarily.
The armed forces promised
new elections and invited
Selassie’s son, Crown Prince
Woosan, to take the throne as a
figurehead constitutional mo
narch, U.S. Embassy sources in
London said. Woosan, 57, is ill
in Switzerland.
Selassie, the tiny, 82-year-old
“Lion of Judah,” bowed to the
at McDonough to air their
views.
All citizens speaking during
the session were opposed to the
airport in Henry County with
one exception. J. W. Lemon, a
black businessman in Henry
County who has been pushing
for the airport, spoke in favor of
it.
The meeting sometimes
became heated as one citizen
after another rose to object to
the airport.
The crowd insisted that the
commissioners take a vote.
They wanted to find out in the
face to face meeting how the
commissioners stood.
Chairman Hugh Findley call
ed for a vote and it was 4-0
against. As chairman, Mr.
Findley did not vote. The chair
man usually votes only to break
the car and discovered the cage
open and the snake gone.
After searching through the
auto, Padgett drove to an auto
upholstery shop where both car
seats were removed. Still no
snake.
One of the men there
suggested the reptile might
have crawled through a hole in
the air conditioning vent, so,
Padgett drove to a garage
where the dash board was
removed. He had no luck there
either.
He then gave up and drove
home where he found the neigh
bors out beating the bushes with
sticks and rocks trying to find
inevitable this morning and
accepted an Armed Forces
Committee decree deposing him
as Emperor of the nation he
had rilled since 1916, the
sources said.
The American sources said
Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian
capital, was quiet. They said
they had no word of the
Emperor’s whereabouts. Other
sources said he had been taken
from the palace his army
nationalized a month ago and
conveyed to a place “specially
prepared for him.”
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a tie.
Mayor Maynard Jackson of
Atlanta has been encouraging
new consideration for the Henry
County site.
He is interested in its develop
ment there in order to help the
southside of Atlanta.
Airlines which would foot
most of the bill for a second
airport still are opposed to the
Henry site. They think
passengers will not drive past
the present Hartsfield airport to
get to the second airport.
The airlines have found the
site near Cedartown ac
ceptable. They seem to be
favoring this now.
The city of Atlanta will have
to make another payment on an
option on this land in October.
What the city does then is ex
pected to be a tip on which way
it leans.
the snake. One woman closed
her doors and would not come
out of her house all day, he said.
The search ended when a
neighbor ran his hand in the
crack between the top and back
sections of the front seat and
felt the snake hiding there.
It is about five feet long and
around three inches in diameter
in some places. Boa con
strictors can grow to some 25
feet in length, Padgett said.
They can squeeze through a
crack as small as a keyhole, he
added.
He said he bought the snake
for a pet. Every three or four
days, Padgett said, he fed his
snake a field mouse or a frog
The armed forces decree did
not abolish Ethiopia’s monar
chy, which is said to trace in
an unbroken line from a union
between the Biblical King
Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba*
The decree said new elections
would be held, though it
specified no time, and a new
constitution proclaimed, the
sources said.
It ignored Selassie’s decree
naming his grandson, a student
in England, as his successor
and invited Crown Prince
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, September 12,1974
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Call it Donald
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPI) -
Rochester television news an
nouncer Carole Clifford has
decided to use male names for
the storms in her newscasts
because she thinks there’s
“something Freudian” about
naming hurricanes after
women.
“A tropical storm develops
from what meteorologists call a
tropical depression,” said Miss
Clifford, a parttime anchor
person for WOKR-TV. “I think
there’s something Freudian
about men giving a woman’s
name to a depression.”
She added she is referring to
tropical storm Dolly as Donald
and Elaine as Edgar.
which it swallows whole.
Padgett explained if the snake
is not hungry, it will play with
its dinner and if it is fed other
things for about a week, the
mouse or frog and snake will
become great friends. The
snake will then refuse to eat his
new friend, Padgett said.
As long as it is well fed and
not irritated, it won’t bite,
Padgett continued.
When asked, “How does one
pet a snake?”, Padgett ex
plained, “You take’em for
walks in your yard and you
hold’em on your arm...”
The snake is kept in Head’s
house in an aquarium.
Woosan, Selassie’s sole surviv
ing son, to assume the crown.
In 1960 Woosan was implicat
ed in a revolt by Selassie’s
palace guard while the Emper
or was abroad. Selassie quickly
queled that revolt.
But in recent years southern
Ethiopia has been gripped by a
killing drought. In the end it
was this drought, and Selassie’s
handling of it in the context of
his feudal and absolute power,
that led to his overthrow.
GRIFFIN
NEWS
Old Dovedown building
Dream beginning to take shape
Dick Piland, Jr., had a dream
two years ago.
It’s coming true.
It may take five years before
it’s finished.
He has purchased the old
Dovedown hosiery mill building
on West Solomon street and
hopes to turn it into shops,,
crafts, and learning center.
When finished, there’ll be
space for people to rent to
practice crafts. There’ll be
space for small shops. If all
goes well, there’ll be a restau
rant on the ground floor back
where the finishing room used
to be. That’s where people
working in the mill used to take
stockings and socks
manufactured upstairs and put
them into final shape for
packing and marketing.
Already the sound of the
hammer and the buzz of power
Post Office expected
to be ready by summer
It will be next summer before
the Griffin Post Office moves
across the street to its new
building, but Postmaster James
Chappell and his staff already
are making plans.
For one thing, the new Griffin
Postoffice will have a thousand
postal boxes and drawers
compared with only 580 at the
present location. These are
rented by customers who want
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SAN DIEGO, CALlF.—Polywogs—or recruits-in the U.S.
Navy’s Underwater Demolition Team training program
stand at attention after a mud drill. The fifth week of the
saws can be heard throughout
the building.
The Dovedown name has been
sand blasted off the face of the
building but it’ll be replaced.
Piland still plans to call it to the
Dovedown building.
The building is just a few
yards from the spot where Gen
L. L. Griffin, founder of the city,
marked off some of the first lots
of land for sale.
The building will be kept in its
present shape as much as possi
ble to preserve its historical
interest, Piland explained.
One of the spaces on the
ground floor will be set aside to
depict something of the history
of Griffin with pictures and
documents.
Upstairs there’s a large wing
which runs to the left. It used to
be the looper room. That’s
where the toes of socks and
stockings were sewed up.
to get their mail quicker by
going to the building instead of
waiting until delivery by
carrier. Increase and change in
size are causing a switch in
some box numbers, and Mr.
Chappell already is contacting
patrons and diplomatically
arranging for that. Some
patrons have held their num
bers for long periods of time and
when he can accommodate
■ them with similar boxes with
the same number he is doing so.
Exact date of the move is not
known. Shortages and delays
already have pushed the
projected date back from May
of 1975 to June, and there could
be more. Or the lost time might
even be made up. At any rate
the Post Office is planning to
move some time in the summer.
The present building on the
northeast comer of Solomon
and Eighth streets may be sold
for business or commercial
purposes or assigned to another
federal or local government
agency. One employe
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It has sunlight from the north
and would be ideal for an art
studio, Piland believes. He
envisions art classes’ being
taught there.
Piland said he would seek out
people who are serious about
their crafts. The space for craft
shops would be easy to rent, he
thinks, but he wants to be
selective and make sure he gets
people who have a professional
approach.
Piland has been looking at the
building for about two years and
dreaming about its possibilities.
Finally he just decided to take
the plunge and buy it.
It may take five years to
complete, Piland said.
He’s not working on a time
table.
The carpenters he has
working are taking the time
needed to turn out quality work
on the building, Piland said.
speculated that it would make a
good jail because it is built so
AMERICUS, Ga. (UPI)-The
Sumter County Board of Educa
tion has voted to put American
flags in every classroom and to
request teachers to conduct a
pledge of allegiance and morn
ing devotional.
“The board is hoping to reaf
firm a strong sense of loyalty to
our country,” Schools Superin
tendent Carl Story said.
He said the flags would be
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has appealed for 20 strong men
to help pull back a mammoth
rubber band which he hopes
will catapult him across the
23-week training program is devoted to exercises and
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They take pride in what they
are doing, he said.
That’s the sort of people he
wants to be in the craft shops,
once the building is a going
enterprise.
Making a pile of money out of
the renovation is not his goal,
Piland said. He said his
primary concern is to attempt
to keep something of historical
interest in the downtown area.
Piland said he is constantly
amazed by the number of
people who stop him on the
street and say that they used to
work at the mill.
The first thing he plans to do
before the building is open to the
public is have a party for people
who have worked in the build
ing.
Those who attend probably
will find things quite different.
But there’ll be many, many
memories there.
solidly. The floors, he said, are
16 inches thick.
distributed to every one of the
130 classrooms in the school
system. Teachers are being re
quested—but not required—to
lead their students in pledges of
allegiance and devotionals.
Story said the board also
agreed that any teachers in
structing students in evolution
should present and give equal
time to the Biblical account of
creation.
River Nene next month.
He said for the occasion he
would wear the same pair of
wings with which he failed to
fly across the 50-yard-wide
river in 1970.