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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.” DAILY Vol. 102 No. 217 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 Weather SUNNY T ao yM ■OO I ” ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 89, low today 66, high yesterday 89, low yesterday 64, high tomorrow in upper 80s, low tonight in 60s. 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 JU) “You can recognize a man of virtue — he’s the one who does right even when nobody’s looking.” w>~' ' «HL> jraiß w \ 9Py fr-ffly* ' ||||| 4 j ~"'W ’■Ssw* •. '- 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 Here’s mud in your, well Daily Since 1872 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 PETERBOROUGH, England (UPI) — Walter Cornelius, 54, 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 recruits are lucky to get two hours sleep a night (UPI) ®A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests Sumter board asks pledge, devotional Shades of Evel 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.