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The data processing division of Griffin Tech drew much
attention last night as the school held open house in
preparation for the opening of the fall quarter. Instructor
Laura H. Gray (third from left) talks with Jane Chappell,
Minister sleeps in cell
to protest school books
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (UPI) - A Bible
cradled in his arm, the Rev. Ezra Graley
walked through the jailhouse door into a
crowd of weeping, hymnsinging followers.
“We are defending God and His people,”
he said. “The night in jail did not change
my mind.”
Graley, released on bond Thursday,
pledged to carry on a crusade against a
new series of school books he believes are
objectionable and called on fellow
protesters to avoid violence.
Many parents also object to the new
books, saying they degrade religion and
contain obscene passages on sex, narcotics
and other topics.
The protest against dozens of new
textbooks for the county’s 121 schools was
three weeks old. At its peak, there were
two shootings and other violence.
The books have been taken out of
classrooms for a 30-day review, but the
protesters demanded their permanent
removal.
“God’s people don’t protest in a rough
way,” Graley told women clustered
around him as he emerged from jail. They
wept as he spoke.
Graley and two other clergymen were
Voter
sign-up
at fair
The Provisional League of
Women Voters will have voter
registration places at the
Spalding County Fair again this
year.
Mary Ann Roth of the League
is organizing the program.
She said Registrar Joe
Burson would help the League
by holding training sessions for
them in registering voters.
The fair is scheduled Oct. 7-
12.
No locals
in November
Spalding County voters will
not have to decide on any local
amendments to the state con
stitution in November’s general
election.
However, they will have a
chance to vote for or against 16
state wide constitutional
amendments, according to
Ordinary George Imes, Jr.
Griffin Tech open house
Amnesty case wrapped;
another in works
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)-Fed
eral officials here already have
wrapped up on amnesty
agreement with a Vietnam War
draft resister and planned to
complete a second agreement
today.
Leroy Parkman, who spent
three months in jail awaiting
trial at the end of this month,
was accepted Wednesday under
the provisions of the conditional
amnesty program announced by
President Ford Monday.
B.C. Baxter, assistant to the
U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of Georgia, said Park
man agreed to serve 21 months
of alternative service, three
months less than the 24 months
stipulated by Ford.
The service time was reduc
ed, Baxter said, because of
Parkman’s three-month impris
onment and “the chances are
good” that his time will be cut
further.
Parkman, 22, of Augusta had
been charged with failing to re
port for induction. He re-
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Dorothy Berry and Virginia Berry about some of the
complicated equipment in the department and how
students learn how to operate it. (Other pictures page 14).
given 30-day jail terms and fines from $250
to S6OO for violating a court injunction
limiting picketing at the Kanawha County
Board of Education Building.
All were freed on bond, Graley after he
spent a night and day behind bars
preaching to fellow prisoners.
While the antitextbook demonstrators
vowed to push on with their fight, school
operations were getting back to normal
with the lowest absentee rates in three
weeks, and a special committee was being
formed to review the controversial
textbooks.
However, thousands of coal miners,
sympathizing with the book protesters,
stayed off their jobs in scores of mines,
ignoring appeals from union leaders to get
back to work.
United Mine Workers President Arnold
Miller sent a four-man investigating team
to Charleston to check out the situation at
the mines and warned coalworkers they
faced possible disciplinary action.
The protesters were warned by County
Circuit Court Judge John Goad to obey the
law.
“I will not stand by and watch anarchy
take over,” he said.
mained in jail because he could
not meet bond, which was first
set at $5,000 then reduced to
$2,500, Baxter said.
“He wasn’t suitable for re
lease on his own recognizance
because he had been a fugi
tive,” Baxter said.
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
counties should have the option
of treating a marijuana offense
like a traffic violation, the head
of the Chatham County Youth
Council said Thursday.
Jim Limerick said counties
should be allowed to decide on
issuing tickets requiring court
appearances, as used in traffic
offenses, rather than taking the
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, September 20, 1974
Ford
to pick
Nessen
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford is expected to
name NBC-TV’s White House
correspondent Ronald Nessen
as his new press secretary.
White House officials said
Thursday that Nessen had been
offered the job, and Nessen
said that he had been contacted
by the White House about the
position.
Nessen, 40, would become the
second presidential press
spokesman of Ford’s brief
administration succeeding J.F.
terHorst, who resigned Sept. 8
after Ford pardoned former
President Nixon.
Nessen would also be the first
network television news corre
spondent to ever be named the
permanent presidential press
secretary.
A native of Washington, D.C.,
Nessen gained wide reporting
experience covering various
government departments and
the civil rights movement for
United Press International from
1956 to 1962.
He joined NBC in 1962 and
was assigned to various Wash
ington beats, including the
White House during the presi
dency of the late Lyndon B.
Johnson.
Nessen also covered the
Vietnam War for NBC and
reported on 1968 election
campaigns as a Washington
correspondent after his return.
He traveled with Ford exten
sively after he was named vice
president.
President Ford attended a
Sunday afternoon party at
Nessen’s home in Bethesda,
Md., shortly after he became
president.
Chatham youth council says
Give counties option on marijuana
time to book the marijuana of
fender and have a bond
hearing.
“We’re putting too much em
phasis on enforcement of mar
ijuana and not enough on the
illegal wholesaling of hard nar
cotics,” Limerick said.
He said police agencies should
concentrate on imprisoning hard
drug wholesalers rather than
drug users.
Three more run
for school board
Three more people have
signed up for school board
posts. They will will seek
election to Post Seven, the seat
for which Dan Boyd already had
qualified.
Mrs. Jean Boggs, 1542 Ridge
wood drive, and Dr. Grover
Sowell, Route Two, Box 600,
qualified yesterday. Mrs.
Yvonne M. Langford, 600 South
Hill street, qualified this
morning.
Mrs. Boggs, a housewife, is
married to Donald K. Boggs, an
electronics technician with the
FAA at Hartsfield Airport in
Atlanta.
Dr. Sowell is a plant patholo
gist with the Georgia Ex
periment Station.
Mrs. Langford is office
manager and assistant to the
vice president at Osmose Wood
Preserving Co. Her husband is
Robert Langford, owner of
Georgia Business Service.
Others who have qualified are
Dr. Tom Hunt and Mrs. Bar
bara Alexander, Post Six; A. C.
Touchstone and Mrs. Mary C.
Stinson, Post Eight; J. Henry
Walker 111, Post Nine; and
William F. Westmoreland, Post
10.
Sen. Taylor wants
to kill ‘lovebugs’
KHJNM. (UPI) —State Sen.
Mel Traylor wants the Environ
mental Protection Agency to re
lax mirex spraying regulations
long enough to let southeast
Georgia destroy its troublesome
“lovebug” population.
Traylor, D - Savannah, said
Thursday he had been told that
hitting a sudden swarm of the
bugs at high speed in a car can
cause accidents, but he con
fessed he knows of no wrecks
directly attributable to the in
sects.
Plecia Nearctica, commonly
known as the lovebug, has no
ecological importance in the
balance of nature, an entomolo
gist at the State Department of
Agriculture said.
“The EPA has stringest regu
lations on the use of mirex
spray because it can harm plant
and bird life,” Traylor said. “It
also harms the softshell crab
along our coast.”
He said, “Maybe EPA can re
lax some of its mirex restric
tions just long enough not to do
any damage to our marine life
or wildlife, but to keep them
from reproducing one genera
tion.”
The insect has migrated to
the swamplands of south Geor
gia and South Carolina from
central Florida within the past
two years. Researchers at the
Possession of up to an ounce of
marijuana is a misdeamor
in Georgia. Limerick did not
recommend legalizing marijua
na, but said he thinks it is no
more harmful than heavy drink
ing. He said the state should es
tablish community-based drug
treatment centers to discourage,
rather than punish, drug use.
Speaking to the Senate drug
abuse subcommittee, Limerick
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It s a wonderful world
It’s a wonderful world was the theme running through this picture which Randy Piland
made on Third Ward School’s campus. Sharing the joy of the day were Staci Polk, Jennifer
Johnston and Amanda Chapman (1-r).
University of Florida in Gaines
ville looking for ways to kill the
bug, which they think may be
inducted to mate by exhaust
fumes on the highways.
Traylor was in the state capi
tol to enlist the aid of Gov.
Jimmy Carter, who was out,
and Agriculture Commissioner
Tommy Irvin. He also called
the Washington offices of Rep.
Ronald Ginn and Sen. Herman
Talmadge, chairman of the U.S.
Radar tickets
go to 9 drivers
Griffin police were out using
their radar equipment yester
day afternoon and issued nine
speeding tickets.
The radar was set up on
Memorial drive, the North
Expressway near the Griffin
fire station, Ga. 3, and on Meri
wether street near Haisten
Funeral Home.
The speeders were traveling
from 36 to 47 miles per hour in
25-mile zones. Their minimum
fines will be $27.50.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 85,
low today 63, high yesterday 83,
low yesterday 61, high
tomorrow in low 80s, low tonight
in low 60s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:23, sunset tomorrow 7:34.
said making drug use un
fashionable through peer group
pressure is an important step
toward ending drug traffic.
Sen. Tom Moore, R-Atlanta,
subcommittee chairman, said
Limerick’s suggestion of a traf
fic ticket approach would not
necessarily create a problem by
allowing some counties to be
harsh and others lenient in
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Traylor wants to get the EPA
to relax its restrictions for a
one - shot mirex spraying of the
bugs.
The senator said that while
driving in south Georgia
Wednesday, he hit a swam of
the bugs that forced him to pull
over and scrape his windshield
clean with a scoop usually used
for ice on winter mornings.
“When they mash against
your car, they secrete an acid
that can remove paint, if it’s
left on long enough,” he said,
and swarms of the bugs can also
cut air flow to radiators and
cause boil - overs.
Traylor described the lovebug
as “just an oversized mosquitos
that doesn’t sting” and said
“all they ever do is reproduce.”
Dump case
made here
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
his department is still looking
for trash dumping violators.
Yesterday a Spalding County
resident was arrested for
unloading yard trash and other
materials at one of the dump
sters.
Such materials should be
taken to the county land fill and
not left at the dumpsters, the
sheriff said.
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School
forum
planned
Candidates for school board
posts will have a chance to air
their views in a public forum
Monday, Oct. 21.
The program will be under
sponsorship of the Provisional
League of Women Voters in
Griffin at city hall beginning at
7:30 p.m.
The public will be invited.
Baker gets
scholarship
Thomas Baker, grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Forbes of
Griffin, has been awarded the
Ella M. Franklin scholarship by
the United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
Baker, a student at Emory-at-
Oxford University in Covington,
won the award based on his
scholastic record.
Mrs. William A. Armstead,
state scholarship chairman,
notified the Griffin UDC
chapter of the presentation.
Man accused
A Detroit, Mich, man was
arrested yesterday on a
warrant charging him with
stealing some cigars and a
magazine from U-Serve-U-Save
Service Station on the North
Expressway.
Mack Crane of Clark street,
Detroit, was being held in the
Spalding County jail under a
SSOO bond.
handling marijuana cases.
“We’ve got wet and dry coun
ties in Georgia, and if you get
caught with liquor in some of
those counties, you’re guilty of
a criminal offense,” Moore
said.
“The ideal situation would be
to have the law equal all over,”
he said, “but in fact, we know
it isn’t.”