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Griffin Tech special section inside today Forecast Warm Map Page 9 Apple blossoms may join peaches in area In recent years, apple blossoms have joined peach blossoms in the springtime beauty of Middle Georgia’s rolling farmlands, as increasing numbers of landowners have begun to experiment with apple orchards. Dr. Stephen S' Miller, newly appointed assistant professor of horticulture at the Georgia Station of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture Experiment Stations, says apples are a fairly new crop in Middle Georgia, though they’ve been grown in North Georgia for many years. Miller, who received his Ph.- D. in plant physiology in 1971 ~ fe Mi l • J - ■E El I 5 Kt- 1 staSKa?:' fcj? ■ Krflß-fijal-vt IWOom I II 1 WmlJf Twr TO. yKj j ♦ Eiil i» i I BiMlKKbii ;'lfefe 4 jfl|n ■ • B" Mfamyn Ji -W &FJ la &i II J , 14 --? T2*± ■l fl I *'* 4 " p mKH Meet the president Gordon Junior College President Dr. Jerry Williamson talks with students in his office during fall quarter orientation and registration. Classes started yesterday at the Barnesville campus. Some 750 students enrolled on the first day but more than 900 are expected for the fall quarter. Registration continued today. _____ Practical Nurses graduate Friday Twenty-two people who have completed practical nursing training at Griffin Tech will graduate in cermonies Friday at the First Christian Church beginning at 8 p.m. Mrs. Thelma G. Helms, RN, is coordinator of the training program. She will handle the pinning of the graduates. The Rev. Victor Whited will be the speaker. The Rev. Orville Wright will give the invocation and Bobby Haralson will sing “He.” The Gideons Auxiliary will present Gideon Bibles to the Carter says dirty movies, porno help subsidize heroin ATLANTA (UPI) — People who go to dirty movies or put a “victimless” bet on a football game are subsidizing the heroin trade that makes addicts of their children, says Gov. Jimmy Carter. ‘ ‘The decent citizen of Georgia has to know that when he places a bet on a football game or en ters a house of prostitution, or buys a pornographic book or movie, he contributes almost di rectly to the heroin traffic that Vol. 102 No. 221 from the University of West Virginia, will be working with various types of apple trees to determine which varieties are best suited to Middle Georgia’s relatively mild climate. Apples characteristically have been grown in regions with cooler climates than Middle Georgia’s, Miller says, because they require a certain amount of cold weather to break bud dormancy. “We don’t know how much chilling apples actually require because they are grown in cold areas,” Miller says. “But I will be working to find out the chilling requirement of apples graduates’ Mrs. Gladys Shaw, RN, who is director of nursing services at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital, will give the inspirational. Mrs. Flo Laughren, RN, will present the diplomas. Edwin V. Langford, director of Griffin Tech, will present the Top Student Award. Bobby Haralson will conclude with “The Lord’s Prayer”, and the graduates will sing “God be With You.” Mrs. Peggy Whited will be the accompanist. Graduates will be: can destroy the life of his son or daughter,” said Carter at his weekly news conference Tues day. The governor called Capitol newsmen to his office to an nounce that improved under cover work has made it easier for the Georgia Bureau of In vestigation (GBI) to go after the “big shots” in the narcotics business. Carter was deliberately vague on details, saying he did not GRIFFIN to be grown in the state. I’ll try to find methods of breaking the rest period (bud dormancy) when we have unusually warm winters,” he says. Last winter’s effect on the state’s peach crop is a good example of what can happen when there isn’t enough cold weather, he says. Georgia’s peaches suffered from delayed foliation simply because there weren’t enough hours of cold to spark the budding process. Miller says he also will be working to determine the nutritional status of orchard soils in Middle Georgia. This will help in making fertilizer recommendations. Mrs. Shirley Atchison, Mrs. Sheila T. Burrell, Miss Karen Calder, Mrs. Janet Cannon, Miss Linda English, Mrs. Jinny Everhart, Miss Ruby Kate Goggins, Miss Bobby Goodman, Mrs. Marie Hightower, Miss Reba Hill, Mrs. Hazel Jones. Mrs. Rabiyah Khaliq, Miss Debbie Killingsworth, Miss Cynthia McGuffey, Mrs. Gail McLaurin, Miss Michelle Mullen, Miss Mary L. Rasaw, Mrs. Peggy Rivers, Miss Barbara Ussery, Miss Rhonda Vickery, Miss Lisa Young, Mrs. Rose Marie Young. want to jeopardize cases now in progress by citing specific en forcement techniques, but he said he has a fulltime assistant attorney general preparing a re port for the next governor on organized crime involvement in the drug business and “victim less” vice. He said that gambling is the major source of mob revenue, but that prostitution and por nography also help organized crime finance the heroin trade. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, September 18,1974 Griffin scientist heads research- Sheriff talks up ‘watch ’ program Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert issued a plea today for residents to help him cut down crime in Spalding County by joining the National Neighborhood Watch program. Recent FBI figures show an overall 15 percent increase in crime throughout the nation, much of which, according to leading law officials, is victim assisted. Many times citizens un wittingly encourage a crook by leaving an unattended car or truck unlocked and by not Sen. Kidd proposes bonus to vote ATLANTA (UPI) — It would probably be unconstitutional to penalize people who don’t vote, so veteran State Sen. Culver Kidd proposes giving a $5 to $lO tax bonus to those who do. “The penalty is the wrong way to go,” Kidd said Tuesday. “We should go from the stand point of a reward, rather than a penalty.” Kidd said he will introduce a I ------ * I I • JRBb wl I I IBM I Mr/ I j rBB Bl a -**■ City turning on electronic brain Computer operator Larry Brown checks new equipment at city hall administrative building while Patsy Williams works at key punch station. The new equipment soon will be telling city customers how much they owe “Basically,” he says, “my research will be concerned with the physiology and nutrition of apple trees. We’ll be setting up experimental orchards at Griffin — there are no apple trees there now because this research is so new. We will try to determine what root stock varieties and planting of management systems are best suited for apple growers in Middle Georgia.” According to Dr. Blake B. Brantley Jr., horticulture professor and department head at the Georgia Station here, the program is being initiated primarily to serve Middle checking to make sure all doors and windows are secured before leaving homes and businesses. With children back in school, the sheriff continued, many mothers are working and there are fewer persons in any neigh borhood who might notice a thief or burglar at work. This increases the possibility of successful daytime in strusions, and coupled with longer hours of darkness, in tensifies the problem of preventing or controlling crime, he said. It is obvious that police alone bill allowing voters to have their ballot receipts signed by a poll worker, then send the receipts in with their state income tax forms and claim the $5 tax write - off for each vote in the two primaries. He suggested that the federal government provide a similar $5 incentive as a deduction from federal income taxes, for those who vote in the November gen- Georgia’s apple producers, but support will also be given to the apple industry in the mountain region. “We want to solve problems peculiar to this area posed by temperature, climate and altitude,” he says. “We don’t know much yet about varieties and fertilizers,” Brantley says, “because apple production in Middle Georgia is so recent. Growers have had to depend on information based on work done elsewhere.” Miller says that apple research in Georgia has been very sketchy, and only recently has the number of trees in creased. Now, he says, there are about 500,000 apple trees in cannot cope with the problem, he said. They need the help of citizens, he added. The National Neighborhood Watch project, conducted through Sheriff Gilbert’s office, is designed to decrease criminal opportunity by increasing citizen awareness and involve ment. Free materials describing simple steps citizens may take to protect their property are available for the asking at the Spalding Sheriff’s Department. The information kits may be eral elections. The Milledgeville Democrat compared his idea to giving away saving stamps at grocery stores or plates and glassware at filling stations. “I am sure your first reaction would be, why should we pay anyone to exercise one of the main rights of Democracy?” said Kidd. “Today, we have been brought Daily Since 1872 the state. They’re almost equally divided between Middle Georgia and North Georgia. Why grow apples —a cold dependent crop — in a warm region? “We think there’s a good future for apples in Georgia,” Miller says, “because the crop matures well in advance of apples grown in other commer cial production areas of the United States. This early maturity gives Georgia growers a good fresh fruit market in the region and may eventually help Georgia become an exporter, too.” He feels that apples probably obtained by writing Sheriff Gilbert in care of the Spalding Sheriff’s Department, 232 East Broad street, or by phoning his office. If Spalding residents avail themselves of the free material, they could do a lot to decrease the opportunity for neighbor hood crimes to be committed, as, “opportunity plus desire equals crime”, the sheriff noted. If you help him to help you, crime in Spalding County can be decreased. up in a society of presumably being given something for noth ing—whether it is green stamps, glassware, or whatever it might be.” Kidd also proposed setting some spending limits on politi cal’ campaigns, saying can didates this year are finding it almost impossible to raise the large amounts they need to run on their light, water, sewerage and garbage bills. When the utility billing is working properly, the city expects to put some other work on the computers. A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests won’t replace Georgia’s famed peach crops. Instead, apples may provide growers with a dual role in the fruit industry. Miller feels that sweeter, better-tasting apples —for more months of the year — may - be a benefit for Georgians if the state’s apple crops continue to increase. “Right now,” he says, “ap ples are picked before they’re ripe, before they’ve reached their best flavor, because they have to be shipped long distances. It might be possible to get better quality apples to the consumer at a better price,” Miller says. JgMI spplt" “You can’t expect a fellow to know right from wrong if he can’t even tell bad from worse.” Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 85, low today 59, high yesterday 86, low yesterday 64, high tomorrow in mid 80s, low tonight near 60. for office. Kidd proposed a $750,000 limit on campaigns for governor, split $350,000 in the first primary, $150,000 in the second, and $150,- 000 in the general election. Candidates for lieutenant gov ernor would be limited to $250,- 000 in the first primary and $75,000 in each of the two elec tions after that, in Kidd’s bill.