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First Christian Church plan* tt» l»th anniversary
celebration.
■lst Christian
plans birthday
The First Christian Church of 1
Griffin is planning to celebrate
its 125th year of service to God 1
and man with special services
Oct. 19-20.
« Already plans are under way
to make the observance a
memorable milestone in the life
of the church.
' Dr. Roger N. Carstensen,
president of the Christian
' Kennedy won’t run
BOSTON (UPI) - Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, bowing to
the wishes of his family,
» announced today he would not
I seek the 1976 Democratic
presidential nomination.
The Massachusetts Democrat,
* who lost two brothers to
political assassins, said that at
the urging of his family he was
, bowing out of the presidential
race for 1976.
His wife, Joan, was at his
‘ Claxton
interested
Lee Roy Claxton said he
definitely would consider
* becoming commissioner for the
Department of Human
Resources, should the position
be offered.
Richard Harden, the com
missioner now, announced last
• -* week he would resign before the
year ends. He has been com
missioner since the department
was organized.
| Claxton, a Griffin phar
macist, has been on the board of
directors of the massive state
department.
I He said no one in authority
has discussed the possibility of
being commissioner since the
Griffin Daily News re
commended him in an editorial
* last week. Many people have
stopped him on the street and in
other places to encourage him
. about the post, he said.
College of Georgia in Athens,
will be the Saturday night
evening, Oct. 19, speaker.
Lyle Harvey, regional
minister of Christian Churches
in Georgia from Macon, will be
the Sunday morning, Oct. 20,
speaker.
The public will be invited to
join with the church in the
anniversary celebration by
attending the special services.
side as he made the announ
cement.
Kennedy said he would not
accept a draft and that his
decision was “firm, final and
unconditional.”
He said he would be a
candidate for re-election as
senator from Massachusetts.
Kennedy’s early announce
Refugee from floodwaters in Honduras waves white cloth to helicopter pilot as craft
approaches strip of dry land in Central American country.
(Story, map page 6.)
GRIFFIN
DAILY^NEWS
Vol. 102 No. 225
Last word from the Rev.
Wayne Wheeler was that the
former resident of Griffin and
his family were safe after
Hurricane Fifi swept through
Honduras.
He, his wife, and three of their
four children are in the Central
American country serving as
Baptist missionaries.
The Rev. Wheeler is the son of
the Rev. Sidney Wheeler of
Macon, formerly of Griffin.
Rev. Sidney Wheeler was a
former pastor of the East
Griffin Baptist Church. He is
pastor of the Bloomfield Garden
Baptist Church in Macon now.
His son Wayne, the
missionary, contacted him last
weekend through a telephone
and ham radio hookup. Rev.
Wheeler talked with his son who
said he and his family were all
right.
The Rev. Wheeler expected to
hear from his son again through
the ham radio-phone relay
today or tomorrow.
The ex-Griffin missionary is
married to the former Annette
Montgomery of Vero Beach,
Fla. They have four children.
Their oldest daughter, Pam, is a
student at a boarding school in
Tennessee. Their other children
who are with them in Honduras
are Sammy, Charlotte and Lisa.
Hugh T. (Chick) Henderson,
president of the congregation,
said the community would be
encouraged to join in the
celebration.
The Rev. Orville Wright,
pastor, will coordinate planning
with the church staff and
congregational officers in
completing details for the ob
servance.
ment of his political intentions
opened the door for other party
aspirants such as Sens. Henry
Jackson of Washington and
Walter F. Mondale of Min
nesota.
Kennedy first revealed his
decision to several prominent
Massachusette Democrats, in
cluding Mayor Kevin H. White.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, September 23, 1974
Rockefeller assets
set at $2lB-million
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice
Presidential nominee Nelson A.
Rockefeller said today a
revised accounting shows that
he and his immediate family
have assets totaling $2lB
million, most of it in trust.
Rockefeller, appearing at the
opening of his confirmation
hearings before the Senate
Rules Committee, said the
figure includes $39.5 million in
trusts for his wife and children
that were not included in
previous statements of his
financial worth.
Rockefeller previously dis
closed that his personal assets
totaled $178.5 million.
He volunteered to put his
personal holdings in a blind
trust if he is confirmed by
Congress as the 41st vice
Rockefeller
Jaycees plan
Red Ball push
The Griffin Jaycees are
making plans to have an
“Operation Red Ball” to help
with the safe evacuation of
children, elderly and people
with handicaps from burning
homes.
The Jaycees plan an intensive
effort during Fire Prevention
Week, Oct. 7-12, to distribute the
Red Ball stickers.
The stickers are about four
inches wide and can be placed
on doors in rooms which have
children, elderly people or those
with handicaps.
Should a fire break out,
firemen would check doors with
Red Balls first to get people of
these rooms first.
Evacuation of such people
probably would take a little
Counting the cost of Fifi
president of the United States.
The former New York gover
nor also said that his family
controls more than $325 million
in oil company stocks, but
added in no case do the
holdings account for less than 2
per cent of any single oil
company.
Opening the hearings in the
same room where the Water
gate Committee met, Chairman
Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev.,
said the committee must
consider closely “the public
policy implications of a no
minee whose vast financial
holdings touch many segments
of the American economic
system.
“The committee intends to
look at all aspects of his life
and his career in order that the
American public may be fully
informed on his views,” Cannon
said. “To the extent of human
capability the committee will
examine exhaustively, objec
tively and honestly his qualifi
cations so that those who do not
approve of the nominee will
know that no stone was left
unturned in the search for the
truth."
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 50, high yesterday
78, low yesterday 66, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight
near 50. Sunrise tomorrow 7:26,
sunset tomorrow 7:31.
longer and require a little more
care, sponsors of Red Ball said.
The Jaycee project has the
full support of the Griffin Fire
Department.
Theo Pinkston and Eddie
Mouchet are co-chairmen of the
Jaycee committee handling the
project.
They said the Red Balls would
be distributed from the Jaycee
booth during the week of the fair
which is the same as Fire
Prevention Week.
They will be distributed from
the three fire stations in the
city, too.
Jaycees plan to distribute a
letter to parents through the
school system here explaining
the program and the availabil
ity of the Red Ball stickers.
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Girl looks over wreckage of what once was her
neighborhood in Honduras after Hurricane Fifi swept
through. (UPI)
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Tummy Edalgo checks bananas growing in tree at her home, 217 West Vineyard road. She is
a student at Spalding Junior High II and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Edalgo. The
hnnnnn tree came from Atlanta relatives who got their plants from Orlando, Fla.
No gas shortage
seen this winter
By JOHN LESAR
United Press International
If cars are lined up for blocks
at service stations this winter,
it will be because of bargain
gasoline prices, not short
supplies.
Gasoline dealers, auto clubs
and state fuel officials polled by
UPI reported there should be
It is fall in Griffin
Today is the first day of fall 1
and people in this area could tell
it.
The temperature dropped to
50 degrees here this morning,
the lowest it has been in months.
Autumn officially began at
5:59 a.m.
The 50 degree temperature
this morning came within two
Bananas in Griffin
no recurrence of last winters
short supplies and long waiting
lines at the country’s service
stations. Gasoline, they say,
appears plentiful and prices are
going down.
Gasoline wars have broken
out in several areas, though
they appeared more scattered
skirmishes than full-scale batt
les.
Though the all-out, price
slashing wars remained only a
memory over most of the
country, gasoline prices, which
skyrocketed during the energy
crunch, were dropping in most
parts of the country.
Gas prices declined last
month for the first time in a
year, according to a govern
ment survey, and Federal
Energy Administrator John
Sawhill reported price wars
have broken out among service
stations in several cities.
Such skirmishes were report
ed in portions of Michigan and
Pennsylvania but did not
appear a nationwide trend.
Arizona Fuel and Energy
Director C. W. Myers, however,
reported dealers might set off
price wars in an effort to get
rid of surplus gasoline. But he
said such wars probably would
last only two to three months.
But even without wars,
gasoline prices were declining
and supplies were at least
adequate.
“We’ve discontinued our
weekly reports of supply
shortages at gas stations
because the situation is back to
normal and we don’t forsee any
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degrees of matching the all time
record low for Sept. 13.
The mercury was expected to
climb to the low or mid 70s by
early afternoon.
The low for yesterday was 66.
The high was 78.
The forecast for this area
calls for sunny skies with cool
temperatures.
problems this winter concern
ing gas supply shortages, long
lines of cars at stations and
also limited hours of service,”
a spokesman for the Minnesota
Automobile Association said.
The California Automobile
Club expressed a similar view.
“I’ve been in touch with most
petroleum people and the
collective opinion is that we’re
not threatened with a gas
shortage this winter, primarily
because usage has continued to
drop and travel is down
considerably,” spokesman
Mark Gerstel said.
Pete Conway, head of the 350-
member Northeastern New
York Gasoline Retailers’ As
sociation, which covers an 18-
county area, said he did not
forsee a recurrence of last
year’s gas melee.
“I think that now that they
have the mechanics to deal
with it, which they did not last
year, they (the government)
will be able to control the
situation where you won’t have
long lines,” he said.
“Os course,” he added,
“there may be some scattered
pockets where the gas may run
short and lines may form, but
not on the wide scale we had
last winter.”
Most dealers and refineries
polled also indicated there
should be adequate supplies of
fuel oil to meet residential and
commercial heating needs.
“In short, the energy crunch
is still here, but we’re dealing
with it and we have the
situation in hand,” one oil
company spokesman said.