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Gunman robs
service station
Police are looking for a lone
gunman who held up the Ten
neco Service Station at 115 West
Taylor street around 8 o’clock
last night.
FIRST STAMP SOLD
LONDON (UPI) - Stamp
auctioneer Robson Lowe sold
an envelope Tuesday bearing
the world’s first postage stamp,
mailed on the first day of issue,
May 6,1840, for $3,860.
Copies of the British “Penny
Black” (2%-cent) stamp, which
bears a profile portrait of
Queen Victoria, can still be
purchased without the first day
postmark for around $46.
tVIRtIL BROWN
CANDIDATE FOR
SHERIFF of
PIKE
COUNTY
QUALIFICATIONS:
AGE: 30 years
EDUCATION: Associate in Arts Degree from Gordon
Military College.
MILITARY SERVICE: Honorable Discharge from U. S.
Navy.
RESIDENCY: Life-long resident of Pike County.
Virgil Brown is a capable young Pike
Countian who is abreast of the problems and
opportunities facing Pike County. He would like
to serve as your sheriff.
Virgil Brown has no political alliances
formed through previous public office holding.
He is not obligated to any special interest groups
and is sponsoring his own campaign.
1974 is not the year of yesterday, but the year
of tomorrow. We need a capable young sheriff
able to adapt to these changing times in order to
meet tomorrow’s challenges effectively and for
the greatest benefit of each citizen.
It’s time for a change.
ELECT VIRGIL BROWN
NOVEMBER 26
"A Young Man... An Effective Worker”
(Paid Political Adv.)
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Marion Cleveland, the at
tendant, was working alone at
the station when the black man
walked in and pulled a pistol
telling Cleveland to give him all
the money.
The robber ordered him to get
in the back of the station. The
gunman then ran toward the
rear of the building.
He was described as being in
his early 20’s, around 6-feet tall
with a slim build and wearing a
green army field jacket and
dark pants.
The amount of money taken
has not been determined, but it
was thought to be around $75.
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The Rev. Lamar Cherry, pastor; Homer Sigman, fund drive chairman; and Al Blanton,
Administrative Board chairman (1-r), check figures as campaign to pledge the 1975 budget
went over the top. The congregation of 1,750 members of First United Methodist Church had
sought to underwrite a budget of $196,545.30 Pledges last night had reached $197,145 and a
few more reports still were to be made.
Ski lodge operators
hoping for some snow
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (UPI)
—Energy consumers lamenting
the coal shortages may not be
looking forward to a long, hard
winter —but there’s one group
which is hoping this winter
won’t be a repeat of last year’s
mild temperatures.
Ski lodge operators and
skiiers are praying for some
snow.
“Last winter was the worst
season we’ve ever had,” said
Rolf Lanz Monday. Lanz is the
new manager of the Gatlinburg
Ski Lodge, a job he took over
last April.
Before that, he was in charge
of the lodge’s ski program, so
he’s been around awhile.
“We had just 44 skiing days
last winter,” he said. “All the
month of January we didn’t ski.
There was a little spell in
February, and that was it.”
Without temperatures of 28
degrees or lower, ski resorts
RECORD PRICE
LONDON (UPI) — A silver
penny minted by a Viking ruler
called Eric Bloodaxe sold
Wednesday for $21,150.
The penny, dated in the year
948, was bought for an
unidentified Scandinavian col
lector by a coin dealer at a
Spinks and Glendinnings auc
tion.
An auction spokesman said
the price was a record for an
auctioned coin.
Over the top
such as the one here on the
eastern edge of Tennessee, and
the Renegade resort near
Crossville in the Cumberland
Mountains, are out of business.
Since there’s not enough
natural snow to keep them
going, they need cold weather
to operate their snow guns.
Man-made snow is the founda
tion of skiing in this part of the
country.
The winter of 1972-73 was not
much better for the Gatlinburg
lodge, financially. “We had 76
days skiing that winter,” Lanz
said. “But the season had
problems. It would snow in the
middle of the week, and warm
up so that on weekends there
was no show,” he said. And not
many skiers come to the slopes
during the week.
After two poor seasons in a
row, Lanz is looking forward to
colder weather. To prepare for
it, he has added some new
items.
A new chair lift will serve the
intermediate and advanced
slopes. The system of uphill
transportation can carry 950
persons per hour, compared to
250 per hour with the old lift.
Lanz plans to get the expert
slope into full operation this
season, in order to attract even
bigger crowds of top skiers
from the Southeast.
The expert slope on Mount
Harrison has been renamed
“Big John.” Snow making
equipment has been installed
there. The mountain is 4,800
long with a verticle drop of 800
feet. The chair lift has been
remodeled, and can carry 1,450
persons per hour compared to
400 persons per hour last year.
As an extra, Lanz is planning
night skiing every night,
Monday through Friday. The
usual pattern is for skiing
during the day on Saturdays,
with parties at night and
followed by quiet Sundays.
Another plus is the newly
rebuilt skating rink at the ski
lodge. The buckled surface,
caused by a break in the hot
water system, has been
eliminated.
And there’s a new tramway
from downtown Galinburg,
which will carry 120 persons
from the heart of the resort
town in eight and a half
minutes, leaving every half
hour. i
Put a little in
the stocking every week
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big Christmas check. You’ll enjoy a Christmas without bills, avoid service
charges from stores, and start the New Year in good financial condition.
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Purse
snatched
Judy Pierce of 1321 Green
view drive reported that three
black males snatched her purse
in front of the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital last night.
She said they grabbed the
purse and ran across the golf
course in front of the hospital.
It contained a 100-dollar bill,
three one’s and her driver’s
license.
The incident happened
around 7:40 p.m.
Mill to close
for inventory
The Griffin Division of
Thomaston Mills will be closed
next week for inventory control,
according to James E. Boyers,
vice president of the Thomaston
Mill organization.
He said the mills would
resume regular schedules the
following week. Mr. Boyers
noted that the stop would come
during Thanksgivingweek.
He said eligible employes
would be paid for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
He said the mills would assist
employes in making application
for unemployment payments
during the shutdown.
SPEED INCREASES
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
(UPI) — Pioneer 11 picked up
speed today on its flight
through the orbits of Jupiter’s
three middle moons.
The 570-pound, unmanned
spacecraft continued to operate
perfectly and was returning
color photographs of the planet,
which appear on a 21-inch
television screen at about the
size of a half dollar.
Scientists operating the space
vehicle at NASA’s Ames
Research Center clocked its
latest speed at 22,400 miles per
hour. The acceleration will
increase steadily as the craft
approaches the huge gaseous
planet.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 21,1974
Grandson of Mitchams
named administrator
Allan Thomas Williams, 27,
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Mitcham of Hampton, Ga., has
been appointed administrator of
Buckingham Couhty, Va.
The appointment was made at
the November meeting of the
Board of Supervisors. He will
assume his new duties on Dec.
1.
Williams is Buckingham
County’s first administrator.
The position involves coor
dinating the county budget,
acting as clerk to the board of
supervisors, representing the
board in intergovernmental
relations and helping the super
visors prepare county reports.
Williams is a native of Troup
County, LaGrange, Ga. He
moved to Buckingham County
from Madison County where he
was administrator of the Madi
son Department of Society
Services. He previously served
as a case worker.
Williams once served as
assistant pastor and youth
director of the Hampton, Ga.
Methodist Church. He is a
graduate of Druid Hills High
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M. G. SUMMERS, PASTOR
School in DeKalb County.
He is a graduate of Reinhardt
College, Waleska, Ga., Oxford
College of Emory University
where he received his A.A. in
social studies.
He attended Georgia College
at Milledgeville and Emory
University where he received
his B.A. degree with honors in
political science.
He is presently attending the
University of Virginia Graduate
School of Arts and Science,
Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs in Charlottes
ville where he is a M.A. can
didate in public administration.
His honors include a Woodrow
Wilson Fellow, at University of
Virginia and an Earhard Fellow
at the University of Virginia.
Stork Club
LITTLE MISS HENDERSON
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Henderson
of Route One, Box 152, Jenkins
burg, announce the birth of a
daughter on Nov. 20 at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal.