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Billy Shapard (second from left), immediate past president of the Griffin
Chamber of Commerce, received an engraved plaque recognizing a job well
done, from President Scott Searcy during the chamber’s dinner meeting last
Chamber gets
success tips
Some 260 Griffin Chamber of
Commerce members and their
guests were kept laughing last
night as Al Kirkpatrick cracked
one joke after another at the
63rd annual chamber dinner
meeting.
Kirkpatrick, a marketing and
management consultant and
lecturer, explained in an easy to
listen to manner how to be
successful.
When human knowledge is
doubling every six years and is
expected to double every 30
days by 1980, you’re in trouble if
you don’t stay on your toes and
keep learning, he said.
A few success pointers, in
terspersed between the jokes,
were:
Make the most of each day
without wasting time; have the
assurance to “tell it like it is”
and be basically honest; get
things done on time; be en
thusiastic; have a good at
titude; be optimistic but not
complacent; reexamine and
learn from your mistakes
(anybody who does anything
will make mistakes).
“Throw your heart over the
‘No fat’ budget debuts
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee’s $1,955 billion
budget for net fiscal year made
its debut in the House today
with the governor assuring
members it contains “no fat
and no frills,” and making a
strong pitch for his $lB million
kindergarten program.
“There will be some who say
we can’t afford to spend $lB
million for kindergarten,” said
Busbee. “I say, if we are
serious about excellence in
education, we can’t afford not
to spend it.
The budget and a $52 million
supplemental appropriation for
“I like election promises —
it’s good to see a person intend
to do better than he does.”
fence, “ he advised, “and the
rest of your body will follow”.
Everybody has the ability to
be successful, Kirkpatrick
continued. The ones who are
make a commitment to do
something, work hard at doing
what they don’t want to do, and
work hard at doing what others
don’t want to do.
It’s up to the person to decide
what’s most important to him,
he concluded.
The meeting began with
musical selections from the Lee
High Singers and Brookshire
band from R. E. Lee High
School in Thomaston.
The Rev. Douglas Winn of St.
George’s Episcopal Church
gave the invocation.
Scott Searcy, chamber
president for 1975, presented a
bronze plaque to Immediate
Past President Billy Shapard.
Guests, including officials
from other chambers in the
Griffin area, were presented by
Vice President P. A. Bond.
Mr. Kirpatrick was in
troduced by Russ Spangler,
chamber executive vice
president.
the current fiscal year were
formally introduced, read and
assigned to the appropriations
committee today. Actually, the
House and Senate appropritions
panels have been holding joint
hearings on the spending bills
since last week, when Busbee
made his budgeting plans
public.
The governor’s chief opponent
on the kindergartens item is
House Speaker Tom Murphy,
who wants to use the available
money to further reduce the
pupil-teacher ratio.
Busbee assured the legisla
tors he was “not inflexible
about making changes,
“I only had four weeks to
prepare the budget, and have
already suggested some
changes myself,” he said. “I
will work with the General
Assembly over the next several
weeks to produce a budget that
truly meets our critical needs
within the funds available for
expenditure.
The current revenue projec
tion envisions $1,658 billion in
state tax receipts during this
fiscal year and $1,844 billion in
the fiscal year starting July 1.
The House and Senate are
awaiting a new revenue projec-
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Lee High singers perform during Chamber dinner meeting.
tion Feb. 4, in hopes of boosting
this year’s expectations.
The December tax take
showed a growth rate of only
4.9 per cent, far below the 8 per
cent anticipated at the start of
the fiscal year, with a slight
decrease in sales tax collec
tions. Lawmakers rewriting the
budget in committee expect the
state revenue estimate to
rebound with the Feb. 4 report,
which will include taxes on
sales of the Christmas season.
The first of Busbee’s major
budget items cleared the House
Thursday with approval of a
$4.6 million “emergency” ap
propriation for prisons con
struction. Busbee warned today
that the prison system, de
signed for 7,500 inmates, now
houses more than 10,000 and
will top 12,000 next year.
“This is a budget low on new
programs and big on expanding
those programs that actually
get services down to the people
who need them,” said Busbee.
“When you pass this budget,
you can go home and tell your
constituents that even in these
hard times you have adopted a
budget which contains no fat
and nofrills, but yet provides
the services they need,” he
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, January 17,1975
night. Looking on were Al Kirkpatrick (1), the guest speaker, and Vice
President P. A. Bond.
said.
In addition to the $lB million
kindergarten program and $14.3
million to hire 1,477 new
teachers for lowering the pupil
teacher ration in grades 4-7,
major points of the fiscal 1976
budget include:
—s3s million in property tax
reductions, with a yet-undeter
mined ceiling on how much any
individual taxpayer could re
ceive in rebates.
—528.8 million for the univer
sity system—about half of it for
construction to meet rising
enrollment—with the rest going
to hire and equip 613 more
instructors.
—544.6 million in additional
funds for the Department of
Human Resources (DHR), with
$20.5 million of it going to the
Medicaid program.
Busbee said the major
achievements of his budget
plan were “stopping the rapid
increase in state employes,”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
55, low today 34, high yesterday
59, low yesterday 33, high
tomorrow near 50, low tonight in
mid 30s.
with only 191 new job positions
authorized, and avoiding future
debt by using bond issues
sparingly.
Jaycees
seeking
nominations
The Griffin Jaycees want
nominations for the
Distinguished Service Award it
will present.
It will be based on leadership
and community service during
1974. A person does not have to
be a Jaycee to be eligible.
Men between 21 and 35 are
eligible. If the nominee reaches
his 36th birthday before Dec. 31,
he is eligible if the activities for
which he is judged were per
formed when he was 35.
James Webb is chairman of
the awards committee. He said
nominations should be mailed to
him at 116 Laurel drive, Griffin.
They are due by midnight,
Feb. 1.
The award will be made at the
Feb. 10 regular meeting of the
club.
Nomination blanks are
available at the three Griffin
banks.
Daily Since 1872
Accident rate
drops in area
The Griffin State Patrol post
investigated 29 fewer traffic
accidents with one less fatality
last year than were investigated
during 1973.
The post patrols Spalding,
Henry and Butts Counties. It is
not responsible for patrolling
municipal or urban areas but
must keep records of all fatali
ties which occur there.
According to post comman
der, Sgt. A. L. Murphy, there
were a total of 30 traffic deaths
in 1974 and 587 accidents. In
1973,31 people were killed in 616
accidents.
Seven of last year’s fatalities
occurred in urban areas.
Ninety-three wrecks happened
on 1-75 last year with four
deaths and 28 injuries.
During 1973, there were 121
accidents on the interstate with
eight fatalities and 35 injuries.
Sgt. Murphy attributes the
decrease in accidents to beefed
up patrols.
His men made more than 48
Mary doesn’t think
husband turncoat
WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS, Tex.
(UPI) — Mary Nolan knows for sure today
her husband is alive somewhere in
Cambodia. She wants to see him —and she
wants him to be able to prove he is not a
deserter, as the Army claims.
“I don’t think he deserted,” she said
Thursday. “I feel he was captured or
forced into whatever they say happened.”
What the Army suspects is that her
husband might have become a turncoat.
A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday
the Defense Department learned from
reliable sources that Army Cpl. McKinley
Nolan, 30, is alive in Cambodia. But the
spokesman also said there were suspicions
he was a defector collaborating with the
Communists.
Nolan enlisted in the Army in 1965 and
went to Vietnam the following year. He
was wounded in combat and awarded the
Purple Heart, but was absent without
leave several times before disappearing
for good in November, 1967, according to
Army records. z
Mrs. Nolan said she received letters
from her husband in Vietnam before he
was listed as a deserter,. One of the letters
asked her to help him get out of the Army,
she said.
percent more arrests, or 7,204
during 1974. In 1973, 4,867
arrests were made.
There was an increase of
Knowles diary lists
14 slayings in U.S.
MIAMI (UPI) — Diaries
recorded by accused mass
murderer Paul John Knowles
two months before his death list
the slayings of 14 persons in
various parts of the United
States, the Miami News has
reported.
The News said the diaries
listed the following slayings:
—Jacksonville, Fla., July 27,
Alice Curtis, 65, found strangled
in her home;
—Jacksonville, Fla., July 27-
Aug. 2, slayings of two
unidentified girls;
—Atlantic Beach, Fla., Aug.
2, Marjorie Howie, found
In 1971, the Army wrote Mrs. Nolan
telling her it had information her husband
was alive “and in the company of Viet
Cong forces,” the Pentagon spokesman
said.
Last week the Army wrote Nolan’s wife
and mother it had received information
from intelligence sources the corporal
“was seen alive in Cambodia a few months
ago,” the spokesman said.
“This is the best information I have
received so far,” Nolan’s wife said. “But I
feel that they (the Army) could do more
than they’re doing. They have found out
that he’s alive. Why can’t they tell me
exactly what went wrong and why he’s not
home?”
Returned American POWs have said
they saw an American moving freely
among Viet Cong troops and apparently
was working for them.
The spokesman said there is. no evidence
indicating any of the nearly 1,000 other
missing American servicemen are alive in
Indochina. The main reason for the
suspicion that Nolan is a defector is the
belief of Pentagon officials that all living
prisoners were returned by the
Communists at the time of the cease-fire
two years ago.
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more than 38 percent or 501
more warnings issued last year
than in 1973 (1,800 in 1974, 1,299
in 1973).
strangled in her apartment;
—Macon, Ga., Aug. 23, Kathy
Sue Woods Pierce, 24, found
strangled in her home;
— Somewhere in Central
Georgia, sometime in August, a
woman whose name was not
disclosed;
—Ohio, Sept. 3, William
Bates, 29, an Ohio Power Co.
employe, found bound in a
wooded area near his home;
—Ely, Nev., Sept. 18, Em
mette and Lois Johnson, both
about 60, found shot;
—Somewhere in Alabama,
Mississippi or Texas, sometime
in September or October,
slayings of two persons whose
names were not disclosed;
—Marlborough, Conn., Oct.
16, Karen Wine, 35, and her
daughter, Dawn, 16, found
strangled in their home;
—Somewhere in Virginia,
Oct. 16-25, an unidentified
person.
Knowles had been accused of
the Nov. 6 slayings of Carswell
Carr and his daughter, Mandy,
15, in Macon, Ga. Ten days
later, he took Florida state
trooper Charles Campbell and
salesman James Meyer, 29,
Wilmington, Del., hostage as he
drove from North Florida into
Georgia.
The two men were found shot
to death later in Georgia.
Vandals hit
car at park
Vandals broke a car window
at the City Park last night.
The car, owned by Owen
Joiner of Finley street, was
parked in a well lighted area
under a street light at the rear
of the recreation center. The
damage was done while
Joiner’s son was playing
basketball from 6 to 7 p.m.
Officials said nothing was
stolen from the vehicle. The
vandals just knocked the glass
in a right side window com
pletely out.
The incident was reported to
Griffin police.