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Grant Crawford, Raymond Ray and David McDonald (1-
r) of the Griffin High Key Club show three bags of pennies
they collected for the United Fund. The club has placed
Fire ants sting Spalding
Fire ants are posing a
problem for residents in Griffin
and Spalding County, according
to County Agent Jack Smith.
His office, the Spalding County
Extension Office, has received
several phone calls a day
concerning the fire ants for the
He’d change age
for first graders
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
Sen. Terrell Starr says he will
introduce legislation permitting
5-year-olds to enter first grade
if they will turn six by Dec. 31.
Starr, chairman of the Senate
Elementary and Secondary
Education Committee, proposed
Tuesday the age requirement
under Georgia’s new education
law be changed to avoid a
break in the continuity of a
child’s education.
Under the new education law,
which creates a statewide
kindergarten system, children
would enter first grade if they
are 6 years old by Sept. 1.
The new law, to become
effective July 1,1975, will make
age requirements for all school
systems in Georgia the same.
Each system currently sets its
Two houses
burn here
A house that was damaged in
a fire yesterday afternoon
burned down this morning on
Creek Wood Estate near
Vaughn. The Dundee Fire
Department answered both
calls.
James Garrett was listed as
the owner.
A defective fire place was
blamed in the fire which
damaged the house yesterday.
The blaze this morning was
under investigation.
Fire destroyed an unoccupied
house this morning at 2:40 on
Ben View road. It was the
property of Katherine Barrow.
The family was in the process of
moving to a new home.
Griffin Key Club at work
past two or three months.
Smith said he could not ex
plain the fire ant problem
unless it was because a treat
ment had not been made.
Tearing down a mound
spreads the ants also. If at all
possible, the mound, which
own age requirement.
Starr said at a news
conference the law creates a
problem for Georgians whose
children are now attending
kindergarten, but will not be 6
years old by Sept.l.
“Because of widespread con
cern and real hardship it would
cause if implemented without
further preparation, I have
been in touch with education
officials at all levels to seek an
equitable solution to the prob
lem,” he said.
Starr said he would propose
to the next General Assembly
session that the state go back
to the Dec. 31 requirement until
the statewide kindergarten is
implemented, expected to take
about two years.
Early frost kills crops
By United Press International
“This has been the worst year to get things done right,”
Jerry Andrews said, looking over his 120 acres of river
bottom land near Indianola, lowa.
Floodwaters covered the land this spring, delaying
planting. This summer, the land was blistered by a
searing drought which withered crops and further delayed
their maturing. The final blow came this week, with an
early frost that blanketed the land and further cut into
production.
Andrews’ case was typical of the plight of midwestern
farmers, hit hard by a full cycle of adverse weather this
season.
And the consumers, already beginning to feel the pinch
of the drought at the supermarket, may soon be facing yet
higher prices because of the early frost.
“I would suspect it would drive up meat prices,” Dr. W.
0. Scott, a University of Illinois agronomist, said of the
frost.
William J. Kuhfuss, president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, said it was too early to assess the
frost’s effects on meat prices “though it’s for sure they
won’t be cheaper.”
Walter W. Groeppinger, chairman of the National Corn
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collection boxes at the school and asked for pennies for the
campaign. It’s one of the special Key Club projects this
fall.
measures from six to 12 inches
above the ground, should be left
undisturbed. Underground, the
mound could be three to four
times as large.
Mirex is recommended for
destroying the fire ants, Smith
said. This insecticide, is
dissolved in soybean oil, then
poured into ground-up corn
cobs. The soybean oil attracts
the ants and they in turn take
the fire ant bait to the queen and
the other workers underground,
killing the whole colony.
Other insecticides, chlordane
or gasoline do not kill the fire
ants, they only move to build
another mound. The fire ant
mounds are similar to a beehive
and the fire ants are highly
organized.
Free fire ant bait is available
at the Extension Office as long
as the supply lasts, Mr. Smith
said. Mirex should not be ex
posed to the air too long.
Approximately two
tablespoons are needed per
mound. Following the treat
ments the insecticide should be
sealed in a jar to keep the
soybean oil from becoming
rancid. The fire ants will not
take the bait when it is rancid.
Mr. Smith explained that the
fire ants were imported from
South America from the port of
Mobile some 20 years ago.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, September 25, 1974
Sunny Side
post office
planned
Max B. Trout and David L.
Peterson of Atlanta, have been
awarded a contract to build and
lease a new post office at Sunny
Side.
George W. Camp, manager,
Atlanta Postal District, said the
new building will contain 874 sq.
ft. of interior floor space and
will be located on the northwest
corner of Highway 41 and
School Road in Sunny Side.
When completed, the building
will be leased by the U. S. Postal
Service for a ten year basic
period, with an option on 20
additional years. The building
will be completed by March,
1975.
st
“The best things about some
men are their wives.”
Growers Association at Boone, lowa, said the frost means
a S7OO million loss to farmers, figuring com at $3.50 a
bushel, and that com production would be down 20 million
bushels from the Agriculture Department’s last
prediction.
The American Soybean Association, based in Kansas
City, estimated that the killing freeze ended the growing
season for 50 to 100 million bushels of soybeans, but said
that varying degrees of maturity made it impossible to
determine how much the yield would be cut.
Paul Matavon, a farmer and seed processor at DeKalb,
111., said he saw no immediate effect on beef prices, but
said a year from now, “high quality beef might be really
scarce and expensive.”
National Livestock Board President David Stroud said
the psychological effects of more bad news could drive
prices up as much as the bad weather, saying the spring
rains, summer drought and early frost had “traumatized
the psyche of the market place.”
On the commodities market in Chicago, both com and
soybeans were climbing, but market experts said
soybeans —expected to be hardest hit because they are
planted later than com and mature later — were expected
to show the most price activity.
NEWS
’79 best guess
on 1-75 link
Best guess for completing the
link between Griffin and 1-75 is
1979.
That was the word a delega
tion from Griffin and Spalding
County got today. They talked
with Downing Musgrove, direc
tor of the Department of
Transportation at the State
Highway Office in Atlanta.
Rep. John Carlisle was
spokesman for the group which
went to inquire about the status
of the connector road.
Musgrove told the Griffinites
the project was one of several in
a five-year package. He said it
had high priority in the overall
project.
The five-year program began
this year and scheduled com
pletion of it is in 1979.
The outlook right now,
Musgrove indicated, is that the
contract for paving could be let
in 1978 and the project com
pleted in 1979.
The timetable is subject to
change because of the present
economic situation and federal
funds, he said.
Any changes in funds
availability would affect the
timetable.
The project involves federal
funds, Musgrove reminded the
Griffinites.
He said the project is on the
drawing boards now and is on
schedule.
Land acquisition for right of
way could begin in 1976, the
group learned. The cost is ex
pected to be in the range of
SBOO,OOO at today’s prices.
This would be in addition to
the $6-million price tag on the
paving project. The project
started as a $5-million job and
has risen to $6-million now
because of inflation and other
factors.
What the final figure will be is
hard to tell, the Griffin
delegation was told.
Young Logino, the Sixth
District representative on the
highway board, attended the
session with the Griffin
delegation and Musgrove.
Besides Carlisle, those at
tending from Griffin were Rep.-
elect John Mostiler, Sen.-
nominate Virginia Shapard,
Rep. Clayton Brown, County
Commissioner nominate Reid
Childers, Scott Searcy and Russ
Spangler of Chamber of
Commerce and City Manager
Roy Inman.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
68, low today 50, high yesterday
64, low yesterday 51, high
tomorrow in mid 70s, low
tonight in mid 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:28, sunset
tomorrow 7:29.
Daily Since 1872
Griffin Lions to sell bulbs
Dick Puls (1) and Dr. Leroy Harris boost the Lions Club annual light bulb sale to be held here
next week Members of the club will call on Griffin homes Monday through Wednesday.
Proceeds will go to support the sight conservation programs of the Lions Clubs.
Judge overturns
Galley conviction
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) - A
federal judge today overturned
the My Lai murder conviction
of former Army Lt. William L.
Calley on grounds of massive
pretrial publicity, denial of the
right to confront witnesses, and
improperly drawn charges.
The ruling was handed down
by U. S. District Judge J.
Robert Elliott, who has had the
matter under consideration
since conducting a two-day
hearing into the case last June.
Army attorneys were expect
ed to appeal the order
immediately, and Elliott’s rul
ing does not necessarily mean
that Calley will be set free.
Calley is being held at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., where he
was taken after the Army
succeeded in having his bail
revoked. Elliott earlier had set
Calley free on bail after Calley
took his case to the civilian
courts, having exhausted his
appeals before military tribu
nals.
Calley, a former Army
platoon leader, was convicted
DEERFIELD, WlS.—Mrs. Harold Feback inspects the leaves of corn that was heavily
damaged by frost. Mrs. Feback was prepared for a bumper crop but now feels that there
will be a 60 per cent loss of her 170 acres of corn. (UPI)
of the murder of at least 22
South Vietnamese civilians
when his unit made a sweep
through the tiny Vietnamese
Village of My Lai on March 16,
1968.
He was sentenced to life
imprisonment March 29, 1971,
by a court-martial board but
his sentence was reduced to 20
years by a military appeals
board and then to 10 by Army
Secretary Howard H. Callaway.
He served some 34 months
under house arrest in bachelor
officers’ quarters at Ft. Ben
ning here during those appeals.
His case went all the way to
then President Nixon without
reversal of the conviction, but
Elliott granted him freedom
Feb. 27 under a personal bond
to prepare an appeal in civilian
courts.
The 31-year-old former pla
toon leader then began serving
the remainder of his sentence
at the Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.,
military prison when an ap
peals court reversed the lower
court decision granting him
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freedom.
Calley, whose case will be
subject to mandatory parole
review Nov. 19, was originally
charged with killing over 100
Vietnamese civilians—the num
ber that actually died has never
been ascertained—but was con
victed of the murder of “at
least 22.”
Burglary
loot
recovered
The Upson County Sheriff’s
office believes it has broken the
back of widespread Thomaston
and Upson daylight burglaries
with the arrest of one man and
the issuing of warrants for two
other suspects.
Loot from several burglaries
was recovered.
The Thomaston Police
Department is checking
evidence in the case to see if the
suspects are linked with thefts
in the city.