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Griffin battles Rockdale tonight. Page 12 Forecast Rain Map Page 5 I'v JR ■ z - jB \ *.-J3T jjjr I l'< ‘ 'v. * j/fl JLJ’-. * '"' * zBI 'A.' 1 W&r i»? .‘X/X > x ißw%> .■■< X ; ,; d • • <<- W 'X-.X ■■ - Q XShjj'. vVo ~-. /::,< ■® t & 3tX XJSktM ■ s.WiU yx->■: 'O.• - 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.” lw " "*! / ~ ',-'yy/Br* .<r i / / SBBy**y^Tirii| [ | l|l || ... .. --,., 4 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. Daily Since 1872 . 'lk uL TStofi J z'* •q.Y' A MF • / y Problem 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 li A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests “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.