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It’s really harmless
Horace Head, Jr., plays around with his pet boa constrictor snake to show he’s quite
harmless. When the snake became lost this week, the search for it caused some uneasiness
among neighbors who didn’t know quite what to expect. The snake was found hiding in the
seat of a car.
Vote office
to be open
t Saturday
Because Monday is the last
day a person can register and
’ be eligible to vote in the
November general elections,
the registrars office at the
« courthouse will be open from 9
a.m. till noon Saturday.
People not registered by
Monday will not be eligible to
' vote this year in the general
elections.
The registrars office is open
, on Weekdays normally.
' “It’s hard to explain what you
meant by what you shouldn’t
have said in the first place.”
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Speaks for itself
This tongue-in-cheek display is one of the buildings at the
Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin. It speaks for itself.
Head to announce
for city reelection
Raymond Head plans to seek
reelection to the Griffin City
Commission this fall.
He told the Griffin Daily News
he planned to qualify and make
formal announcement of his
candidacy.
Head will complete his three
year-term on the borad at the
end of this year.
He will seek a full four-year
County names two
on hospital board
Spalding County Com
missioners in special session
this morning made two Griffin-
Spalding Hospital authority
appointments.
Larry Ballard, Griffin busi
nessman, was appointed to
succeed Mrs. Karen Harris who
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 89,
low today 67, high yesterday 88,
low yesterday 66, high
tomorrow in mid 70s, low
tonight in upper 60s.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 102 No. 218
term in the election to be held in
November. It is the only city
board post open this year.
When the city of Griffin went
from a three to five member
board of commissioners, terms
were adjusted for different
numbers of years during the
transition.
Head represents the second
ward of the city.
has moved away from the
community. Her unexpired
term runs through Dec. 31,1977
and Mr. Ballard will fill that.
County Commissioner Jack
Moss resigned from the hospital
authority and the com
missioners named com
missioner P. W. Hamil to
succeed him in a term running
through Dec. 31, 1975.
Moss who is chairman of the
county commissioners will
complete his term as a com
missioner at the end of this
year.
The appointments are effec
tive immediately.
Forthose who do not recognize the tool hanging under the
sign, it’s an old fashioned hoe.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, September 13,1974
Atlanta pre-summit
got their attention
By THOMAS G. BELDEN
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
youngest member of the U. S.
Senate says the first pre-summit
conference on inflation has
achieved a mighty victory
scaring the daylights out of
many in the housing and con
struction business about the
poor condition of the nation’s
economy.
“The construction industry
is just now getting the whole
picture,” said Sen. Joseph Bid
en, D-Del. “Guys have walked
out of the conference saying
‘we’re not the only ones.’ It’s
a mutual recognition of fright
that the bear is out there and
he can get us all.”
Biden joined seven other
members of Congress and of
ficials of the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment in listening Thursday to
the suggestions of more than 75
housing and construction leaders
for dealing with the economic
crisis in their business.
The 31 - year -old Delaware
lawmaker said many affluent
home builders and bankers have
been critical of government sub
sidies of the economically de
prived, but now what they’re
asking is “no different than
what welfare mothers are ask
ing.
“It (the conference) has to
make them see they’re one of a
number of people in the same
boat. I want to give them a
bucket but I want to give a lot
of other people a bucket too.
We’re walking a tightrope be
tween inflation and severe re
cession.”
A poll by the Lou Harris or
ganization of the delegates to
the one - day meeting showed
that 60 per cent of the industry
leaders foresee the economy get
ting “somewhat worse” and 15
per cent predicted it will be
come “a great deal worse.”
The leaders of home construc
tion, labor, finance and special
housing needs of minority
groups disagreed frequently
about how to solve their prob
lems but no speaker predicted a
healthy future.
Most of the participants said
balancing the federal budget
would help although that issue
produced hot debate. They also
urged easing of credit restraints
by the Federal Reserve Board
to bring down soaring interest
rates, and more direct govern
ment subsidies in the form of
loans available to potential
homebuyers.
The pre-summit was the first
of a dozen such meetings sched-
uled around the nation on var
ious aspects of the economy to
aid conferees at the White
House economy summit Sept.
27-28.
★★★★★★★★
Small
world
The daughter-in-law of Dr.
and Mrs. Jackson Landham of
Griffin today was the personal
escort for Mrs. Bob Callaway
during a tour of Fort Riley in
Kansas.
Mrs. Lila Landham was
chosen to tour the base with
Mrs. Callaway while her hus
band, Bo Callaway of Georgia,
Army Secretary; was at the
Army installation making an
official visit.
Mrs. Landham is the former
Lila Norman of Baltimore and
married Lt. Jackson W. Land
ham, 111, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Landham.
The interesting thing, Mrs.
Landham in Griffin said today,
is that she (Mrs. Jackson Land
ham) and Mrs. Callaway were
classmates at Agnes Scott
College in Decatur.
★★★★★★★★
Holloway
to seek
post
ATLANTA (UPI) - Sen. Al
Holloway, D-Albany, says he
will seek the powerful post of
Senate president pro tern in the
1975 General Assembly—a posi
tion now held by Sen. Hugh Gil
lis, D-Soperton, who says he will
fight to keep it.
Holloway said he is confident
he can win and believes he can
count on support from Zell Mil
ler, the Democratic nominee for
lieutenant governor. Holloway,
who served as Gov. Jimmy Car
ter’s Senate floor leader and
waged many a head-to-head
fight with forces aligned to Lt.
Gov. Lester Maddox, probably
has the support also of George
Busbee, the Democratic guber
natorial nominee who also hails
from Albany.
Holloway made his announce
ment that he would run for the
second most powerful job in the
Senate Thursday following a
closed-door meeting of senators,
most of whom belonged to the
Maddox bloc. Holloway said he
would not serve as Busbee’s
floor leader as he had for Car
ter.
Sen. Eugene Holley, D-Augus
ta, said he would run for re
election as Senate majority
leader and Sen. Culver Kidd, D-
Milledgeville, said he would
again run for majority whip.
Georgia Power cuts back
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (UPI)-
Waynesboro city officials say a
$975 million cutback in con
struction on the proposed Alvin
W. Vogtle nuclear plant, an
nounced by Georgia Power Co.
Thursday, won’t severely affect
the city’s economy.
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Marietta University
dealt two setbacks
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Uni
versity of Marietta has been
dealt a double setback in its
attempt to stay in business.
In apparently unrelated inci
dents Thursday, the State Board
of Education voted unanimously
to deny the school’s request for
certification and the U. S. Vet
erans Administration withdrew
its coveted college-level classifi
cation.
In announcing the VA’s deci
sion, regional Director A. W.
Tate said the school’s courses
“can no longer be recognized as
leading to a standard college
degree.”
“We have never built up to
i the full steam of what’s going
■ to happen here anyway, since
i construction just began on units
• one and two in June,” city ad
. ministrator Kenneth Davis said.
; “The economy here never
geared up to the power plant.
Kiwanian Dave Miller wanted to help his civic club
promote the upcoming Spalding County Fair but he had a
pro Hem. The club passed out bumper stickers for
automobiles but he was riding a motorcycle. He didn’t
have a bumper. Here Miller wonders how this small
sticker would look on the helmet he uses riding his
motorcycle.
He said the school will be
shifted to vocational status by
Oct. 1 and veterans there must
double their number of class at
tendance hours to qualify for
fulltime VA benefits.
VA figures show that Mariet
ta’s 900-member student body
has included as many as 834
veterans.
Tate said the VA decision
stems from an opinion by
Georgia Attorney General
Arthur K. Bolton last week
holding that the school lacked
legal authority to grant an
estimated 120 degrees under its
corporate charters.
So for good or for worse, we’re
sort of where we were six
months ago.”
The Georgia Power cutback
resulted from an overall cut
back in new construction pro
grams by the Southern Co., the
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“They won’t be out of busi
ness,” Tate said, but added,
“They’ve got a long way to go
to get this thing cleared up.”
State School Board members
apparently were unaware of the
VA decision when they voted
7-0 not to issue a certificate to
the 5-year-old school.
The action came on a motion
by Henry A. Stewart Sr., who
failed in an attempt to have the
state attorney general’s office
go to court to block any further
issuance of degrees by the
school.
Stewart contended the degrees
were illegally granted.
parent concern for Georgia Pow
er, Alabama Power, Gulf Power
and Mississippi Power. The
Southern Co., will cut construc
tion spending by $1.7 billion
over the next three years, pri
marily on nuclear plants in Ala
bama and Georgia.