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Griffin Daily News
blue ribbon paper
The National Editorial
Foundation with headquarters
in Washington, D. C., has
designated the Griffin Daily
News a “National Blue Ribbon
Newspaper" for 1975.
Foundation President Paul D.
Coffman, a newspaper
publisher from Melrose Park,
DI., noted the Griffin Daily
News achieved the designation
in a nationwide program.
Twenty-five criteria measur
ing the newspaper’s service to
its community against a
national standard were used in
the evaluation.
Publishers whose newspapers
are recognized for their overall
excellence or who had been
accorded the designation before
served as judges.
Many newspapers achieved
the Blue Ribbon designation
again but some former winners
did not measure up. Coffman,
NEF president, attributed this
to the overall improved quality
of participating newspapers. He
said the judges were getting
more critical, too.
Coffman said the advent of
offset printing, the use of
illustrative material and the
opening up of the news columns
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Food firm confident,
despite deadly stew
JACKSON, Tenn. (UPI) -
The general manager of Kelly
Foods says he has faith that his
company’s sale of package food
products will remain good
despite the discovery of botul-
• ism in beef stew.
“Our volume in terms of
dollars and cents for the first 14
days of a four-week period is
down a little,” W.L. Franks
said Thursday, “But I have
faith and confidence in the
, people and our reputation in
the area we serve.”
Kelly’s, a division of the Krey
Packing Co. of St. Louis, has
• been ordered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to
recall all beef stew produced at
the plant. The firm also has
suspended canning beef stew
until all events surrounding the
incident have been fully inves-
n tigated, Franks said.
Police said Mrs. Cleo Harris,
79, of Griffin, Ga., died Dec. 1
after eating beef stew canned
• by Kelly’s July 11 for the
Kroger Co. Authorities said
botulism bacteria was discov-
t ered in the beef stew can
retrieved from her garbage.
The death led to a recall of
all beef stew canned by the
Marietta
to get
new tank
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (UPI)
— Mayor John Harden Thurs
day said Brown Steel Co. Inc.,
of Marietta, Ga., will replace
t the city’s million gallon water
tank that collasped Monday
while being filled with water
for the first time.
• Harden said Brown would
replace the $350,000 tank at no
cost. Brown will begin disman
tling the tank next week, but no
date has been set for comple
tion of a new tank, Harden
said.
• The tank collapsed because it
did not have an outside catwalk
to give additional support, like
most tanks the company
‘ constructs, Harden said.
“They thought they could build
it without the catwalk, but they
t found out that the catwalk
gives it more support than they
thought,” Harden said.
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make newspapers more at
tractive to the reader and more
appealing to the eye. The
reproduction of pictures and the
quality of make-up and press
work has been improved vastly,
he continued.
He said one of the outstanding
features of the Blue Ribbon
newspapers is the development
of the editorial page.
The -public opinion forum
offered through letters to the
editor shows that many news
papers are getting input from
their readers which demon
strates their concern for the
local concern for the communi
ties they serve, Coffman added.
The National Editorial
Foundation is dedicated to the
.improvement of journalism and
journalism education. It was
established in 1957. It has
conducted the annual Blue
Ribbon program since 1969.
Responding to the award,
Editor and Publisher Quimby
Melton, Jr., said the Griffin
Daily News would continue to
cover the news of the com
munity it serves as well as that
in the state, nation and world
and continue to offer construc
tive editorial opinions on the
affairs of the day.
Jackson firm under a variety of
labels.
Franks said the recall is
costing Kelly’s several thou
sand dollars and exceeds the
requirements of the govern
ment agencies investigating the
botulism incident.
“But we want to cooperate in
every way we can for safety
and to locate the cause for
botulism in that single can of
stew,” he said.
Henry pushes
deaths probe
Henry County lawmen today
continued to dig into a double
killing after the man who first
led them to the bodies of the
victims was held as a suspect
yesterday.
Chief of Detectives P. S.
Howard said murder warrants
had been issued against Jerry
Banks, 23, in the deaths of
Marvin King, 38, Jonesboro
High band director, and
Melanie Ann Hartsfield, 18-
year-old former student of his.
She was a Clayton Junior
College student when she was
killed.
Howard and other lawmen in
Santa
They see that his letters are answered
WINTER PARK, Ha. (UPI)
— It makes Pamela Cambell
sad that so many kids write to
Santa Claus and “nothing
comes back.”
So this year, the 17-year-old
senior at Winter Park High
School decided to do something
about it.
Pam enlisted her friend,
Karen Wray, and they distribut
ed posters in their neighbor
hoods, advertising that if
parents want their children’s
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A couple of Carter smiles
ATLANTA—Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter holds Ms seven year old daughter, Amy,
after he made a formal announcement in Atlanta he will seek the Democratic nomination
for President in 1976. Carter told a gathering of friends and supporters he is pledged to avoid
abuses and shady practices that have undermined public confidence in government. (Starts
page two). (UPI)
Lee chairman
of Demo caucus
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rep.
William J. “Bill” Lee of Forest
Park, an 18-year veteran of the
state House of Representatives,
Thursday was elected unani
mously as the new House
Democratic Caucus chairman.
Lee succeeds Rep. E. Roy
Lambert of Madison who was
reelected chairman a month
ago but who resigned to
become administration floor
leader for Gov.-Elect George
Busbee.
The 48-year-old Lee is chair
man of the House Industry
Committee and also serves on
the appropriations and rules
committees.
House members were told by
Speaker Tom Murphy that he
was going to strictly enforce
the rules governing activities in
the chamber to bring “a little
more decorum” to the House in
the 1975 session.
Henry County declined to
discuss the case.
Banks at first told authorities
he found the bodies of the vic
tims while hunting deer in
Henry County.
Shotgun shells found at the
scene reportedly caused in
vestigators to suspect a link
between Banks and the killings.
King and Miss Hartsfield who
played in his bands as a high
school student and was a friend
of the director’s family were
slain with shotgun blasts in the
head and body.
Banks reported finding their
bodies off a dirt road near
McDonough.
letters to Santa answered, to
address them to a post office
box in Central Florida.
Then the girls, who both have
other part-time jobs after
school, began writing the
repies.
“We thought we would just
put up a couple of posters at a
neighborhood shopping center,
but now we have about 35 signs
out and we’re getting responses
from such places as St. Cloud
and Altamonte Springs and all
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, December 13,1974
Wrapped whale
like hot dog
MYSTIC, Conn. (UPI) — A pilot whale arrived at the
Marinelife Aquarium here Thursday wrapped in heavy
padding that made it look like a giant hot dog in a foam
rubber bun.
After an odyssey that began with capture in the Pacific
Ocean, the 850-pound whale is settled in its new home
today, gobbling up frozen squid and getting acquainted
with the neighbors —six bottlenose dolphins.
It splashed into a spacious tank after a transcontinental
jet flight from Los Angeles, Calif., and a truck ride
through New York City and up the Connecticut shoreline.
Pilot whales are sometimes seen off New England
shores, but this is the region’s first in captivity. It was
caught Nov. 6 by Marineland of the Pacific, San Diego,
Calif.
Dr. J. Lawrence Dunn, a veterinarian who tended the
mammal on the trip, said the young female suffered some
abrasions on her flukes from thrashing around while
being loaded into the traveling gear.
Dunn said the whale is about five years old, 10% feet
long and still growing.
“I don’t believe that crazy animal,” Dunn said as it
began eating squid a few minutes after entering the
water. “After all that and it’s eating right off.”
Gloomy skies and a chill wind greeted the whale when
the door of its truck was opened. The only sign of life was a
puff of vapor every minute or so from the breathing hole
on top of its head.
The whale was hoisted from the truck on an overhead
crane, then carried by about 10 men to the indoor pool.
In spite of the cold, a girl in a bathing suit and
sweatshirt waited by the aquarium door for the whale’s
arrival.
‘Tm too nervous to be cold,” said Corrie Brown, 23,
assistant trainer at the aquarium. She and trainer Chris
Hoes jumped into the 20-foot-deep pool and stayed by the
whale’s side as it was lowered into the water.
As soon as the mammal felt the water take its weight, it
gave a mighty swish of its flukes, dousing handlers and
spectators.
The whale swam and swam around slowly, getting its
bearings, unmindful of the fact that its new home is less
than a mile from Mystic seaport, home base for 19th
century Yankees who made fortunes in whaling.
The pilot whale is sometimes called a “pothead”
because of its bulbous forehead, and grows to be 22 feet
long.
around,” said Karen, also 17
and a senior at Winter Park
High.
To help defray expenses for
postage, stationary and the post
office box, the girls ask parents
to enclose $1 along with a note
explaining what the child got
for Christmas last year.
The note gives the self
appointed Santa’s helpers an
idea what to say in the replies,
which are hand-written in big
red letters on Santa Claus
stationary.
The replies contain as many
personal references as possible,
but when it looks like the
youngster could use some help,
the letters get passed on.
“You can tell from most of
these letters that the kid knows
he’s going to get what he asks
for,” said Pam. “But when we
get one in which it’s obvious
the child didn’t have a merry
Daily Since 1872
Dovedown center
plans big party
Around 200 people already i
have indicated they plan to
attend a special party at Dove
down Center on West Solomon
street Monday night.
Dick Piland, Jr., who bought
the old Dovedown Hosiery Mill
building decided to have the
party and invite every person
who ever had worked at the
building when it was a mill.
The response has been fantas
tic, Piland said. Acceptances of
invitations still are coming in,
he said.
At first he planned a cake for
100 people then ordered another
the same size and still the
reservations are coming in,
Piland said.
He picked Dec. 16 as the day
for the party because that is the
birthdate of Mr. Evander
Shapard who used to own the
building and operate Dovedown
there.
Mr. Shapard plans to be at the
party and see many of the
people who used to work in the
mill for him.
Piland said the party would
start at 7 p.m. and a program
would begin at 9 p.m. The
Gordon Junior College choir
will be one of the features of the
program.
Piland plans to recognize
other people, too, such as the
oldest former employe present
and the one with the most years
of service at the mill.
The building is being
renovated and will be turned
into a crafts center. It’ll have a
restaurant in the rear section,
when long range plans are
completed.
In one of the upstairs rooms
where knitting and sewing
machines were, Piland plans to
install an art section. It can be
used for painting and other
skills which require a lot of
natural sunlight. Piland plans to
take advantage of the sky
lighting already a part of that
section of the building.
Two craft shops already are
open in the building. There’ll be
places for more, Piland said. He
said his idea was to make the
space available to professional
people in the craft and skill
trades. Eventually Piland hopes
the whole building complex will
be a crafts and learning center.
The party Monday night will
be the first organized activity to
be held in it since he bought the
building and began renovating
it.
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“Nothing is less fun than what
we try to enjoy alone.”
Christmas last year, we turn it
over to some club or church
organization.”
Business has been good —
about a dozen letters a day —
and the girls expect it to get
more hectic as the last-minute
rush begins.
But as Pam says: “Having
these children’s letters just
burned or thrown away really
hurts me.”
That’s where
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our money goes
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) -
Three oil-rich Saudi Arabian
princes lost $1 million in a
weekend gambling spree, a
casino manager said today.
“In my 21 years here I’ve
seen a lot of big spenders, but
I’ve never seen anyone spend
money and gamble on the order
of the Arabs,” said Morrie
Jaeger, casino manager of the
MGM Grand Hotel.
Jaeger said they placed bets
of $20,000 or more at a time,
playing roulette, craps, black
jack and baccarat.
“Tip! My God, did they tip!”
Crude oil
going up
VIENNA (UPI) - The
world’s major oil exporting
nations decided today to in
crease the price of crude oil by
7.4 per cent from Jan. 1, 1975,
Iran’s Interior Minister Jam
shid Amouzegar said.
The new price will be $10.46 a
barrel, Amouzegar said, com-,
pared with the present average
selling price of crude of $9.74
a barrel.
The new price will be under a
unified pricing system, ending
the posted price system which
set prices at an artificially high
level.
The new price for a 42-gallon
barrel of oil was fixed by
ministers of the 13-member
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries meeting in
Vienna.
“We agreed to abolish the
posted price system—the root
of excess profits by oil
companies,” Amouzegar said.
“We all agreed that a single
unified price system must be
adopted. The new system will
be in the interest of the
consumer. It will limit the
profits of oil companies.”
OPEC’s members — Abu
Dhabi, Algeria, Ecuador,
Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar,
Buses want
rate hikes
ATLANTA (UPI) — Eleven
bus companies asked the
Georgia Public Service Com
mission Thursday for an
increase in both passenger and
freight rates in the state to help
meet increasing costs.
The companies, including
Greyhound Lines Inc. and
Southeastern Stages, asked that
they be permitted to hike
passenger rates 10 per cent, the
same as granted by the PSC a
year ago, with a minimum one
way fare of 60 cents.
They requested an increase in
the freight rates, including a
raise in the minimum and a
boost in charter rates which
Greyhound traffic manager R.
L. Wilson said would average
out to about 18 per cent.
The increases, which would
be applied only in the state,
drew criticism from PSC
member Bobby Pafford. He
said raising the rate for
“deadheading” or driving an
empty bus to pick up charter
groups would discriminate
against persons living in small
towns.
PSC experts are expected to
question the need for the boost
within two weeks.
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said a security guard at the
Metro Club. “They gave the
maids SSO each.”
A female photographer said
she was tipped S2OO. “Nothing
like this ever happened befo
re,” she said.
Jaeger said that other
“wealthy Arabs have been
flying into Las Vegas the past
several weeks. One has been
flying in on a regular basis.
“He gambles all over town...
He alone dropped $1 million one
night recently. He beat us too.
One night he won $200,000.”
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela—
produce 85 per cent of world oil
exports.
The posted price is a
theoretical price of crude oil
from which actual prices are
worked out by a complicated
system of taxes and royalties
paid by oil companies to the
producers.
Present posted price is $11.65
a barrel but the actual price is
about $9.74.
The OPEC ministers also
agreed to hold a special
strategy session on a proposed
global oil summit in Algiers
Jan 8.
Venezuelan Mines Minister
Valentin Hernandez-Acosta said
the Algiers meeting will discuss
the proposal by French Presi
dent Valery Giscard d’Estaing
for a three-way summit of oil
producers, consumers and
developing nations.
Hernandez-Acosta said oil
and foreign ministers of the 13
OPEC members would attend
the Algiers conference.
League
granted
recognition
The League of Women Voters
of the United States has granted
recognition to the Griffin-
Spalding organization. The
local league no longer is
designated as provisional.
Ruth C. Clusen, president of
the national league
organization, congratulated the
local league on achieving
recognition.
“You’ve come a long way in a
short time,” she wrote Mrs.
Elaine Bolton, first president of
the Griffin organization.
She noted a gain in mem
bership and its stability and
predicted the organization
would continue to grow as it
participated in community
affairs.
Betty Hutton
has breakdown
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) -
Betty Hutton, the “Blonde
Bombshell” of stage and screen
who surfaced as a cook in a
church rectory last spring after
squandering her personal
wealth, has been hospitalized
for a “complete emotional
breakdown.”
Rev. James Hamilton of St
Anthony’s Church in Port
smouth, said Miss Hutton, 53,
was committed at Butler
Hospital, a psychiatric facility,