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M.E. “Gene” King (1), James T. Chappell (c) and Ben F.
Hoard (r) received Pilgrim Robes yesterday at a special
ceremony in conjunction with the Silver Anniversary of
Griffin Moose Lodge 1503. The men previously had
Burglars continue
on prowl in community
Burglars broke into Booker’s
High Performance Tire Center,
*7Ol East Taylor street, during
the weekend and stole the
company safe, an Underwood
typewriter, two 12-volt bat
teries, and around s3l from the
cash drawer and soft drink
machine.
> Griffin police said an adding
machine and several mag
wheels were found outside the
building, apparently left there
'by the burglars in their haste to
get away.
Police also investigated a
..burglary at RBM Motors, 392
North Expressway, where S3OO
was taken from a money bag.
Files on solons denied
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
J While several congressmen
promised a complete inquiry,
Attorney General William
Saxbe and former Attorney
'General Elliot Richardson said
today investigators will find no
evidence that the FBI keeps
files on members of Congress.
> Saxbe and Richardson re
' sponded to a report Sunday in
J the Washington Post that the
> FBI under the direction of
I former Director J. Edgar
I Hoover began collecting dossi-
ers on the drinking and sexual
1 habits of congressmen and
senators.
“If they’re looking for anoth
er Watergate,” Saxbe said,
. ■ “they’re going to be disappoin
ted.”
Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier,
D-Wis., chairman of a subcom-
i Voters to fill
Floyd vacancy
By United Press International
Voters in three northwest
Georgia counties will choose
among seven candidates Tues
day in a special election to fill
the post of the late state Rep.
( James “Sloppy” Floyd of
Trion.
Floyd, a leading figure in the
Georgia General Assembly and
chairman of the powerful House
Appropriations Committee, died
Dec. 20 of a heart condition.
His district included Chattooga,
Earn highest honor
Entry was made by breaking a
window on the side of the build
ing.
Burlgars failed in their at
tempt to break into Bonanza
Sirloin Pit, 1707 North Express
way. Police said an attempt was
made Saturday night to pry
open the rear door.
Four held in thefts
Four black males, police have
not identified were being held at
the city jail in connection with
four recent burglaries.
Detective Sgt. Marvin
Barrow said they have been
charged with break-ins at Akins
mittee on the administration of
justice, immediately promised
to call present and former FBI
officials to testify on the
charges.
Sen. John 0. Pastore, D-R.1.,
chairman of the Appropriations
subcommittee on the judiciary,
proposed an investigation by a
special select committee and
Senate Democrats were to meet
today to consider several such
proposals.
Saxbe and Richardson, inter
viewed together on ABC’s “AM
America,” said an investigation
would be valuable to clear the
air of such charges.
Both of them maintained,
however, that their own inqui
ries uncovered no evidence to
indicate that the FBI was
keeping dossiers on congress
men.
Dade and Walker counties.
The seven candidates include
DeForest “Brim” Warren, a
Summerville auto dealer; W.
Ray Giles of Trion, a sales
man; John G. Crawford, a
farmer from Lyerly; W. H.
“Nick” Dean, a minister from
Summerville; J. W. Greenwood,
a Trion teacher; Malloy Han
kins, a Trion insurance inspec
tor, and Willie T. “Leg”
McGraw, manager of a Sum
merville tire store.
GRIFFIN
DAI E WS
Vol. 103 No. 16 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, January 20,1975 Daily Since 1872
received the highest degree in Moose at the House of God,
Mooseheart, Hl. The honorary robing yesterday was at
their home lodge. Lamar Dorsey of East Point presided
over the ceremony.
Mrs. Carrie Smith, 1333 Edge
wood avenue, reported the theft
of a color television set from her
home during the weekend.
Someone stole around $55
worth of ceramic materials,
and about sl2 from the cracker
and peanut jars at Emmett &
Irene’s Ceramics, 889 East
Feed & Seed on East Taylor;
Griffin Auto Parts, 430 East
Taylor; Chap Johnson’s
Package Store, North Hill
street; and Fourth Ward Ele
mentary School.
“I’ve looked in to this,”
Saxbe said. “There is a certain
amount of congressional infor
mation that comes in from
other cases ... but as far as
having files and dossiers, that’s
not true.”
Richardson, who preceded
Saxbe as attorney general, said
he inquired about the possibility
Bank of Griffin
declares dividend
J. L. Savage, president of The
Bank of Griffin, announced that
the Board of Directors declared
a $50,000 stock dividend at its
meeting last Thursday.
The dividend consists of an
additional 5,000 shares of stock
to be issued to stockholders of
record Jan. 16, 1975. Each
stockholder will receive one
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“Religion is simply man’s
awareness of the difference
between what he is and what be
might be.”
Solomon street.
A 19-inch black and white tv
was taken from the master
bedroom at the home of the
Leonard Greens on Hamil road.
Sheriff
Sheriffs officers said entry was
made through the front door.
Mrs. Joyce Beam, 47 Pine
street, reported a burglary at
her house. The rear door had
been forced open and a pack of
cigarets, bottle of cherries, box
of pepper, and one soft drink
were missing.
Henry Johnson, 851 East
Broadway, reported the theft of
his car battery. It was worth S2B
he said.
of such files on congressmen
during his confirmation hear
ings “and I received a very
explicit denial of it.”
“And I’m quite sure that
letters have gone to the Senate
Judiciary Committee over the
signatures of attorney generals
saying this is not so,” he
added.
additional share for each seven
shares owned on that date.
The Bank of Griffin has just
completed its sixth calendar
year of operation and during
that period, the bank has grown
from initial capitalization of
$500,000 to total assets of
$12,000,000. In announcing the
dividend, Savage stated that
this was the bank’s third con
secutive $50,000 stock dividend.
He credited the bank’s suc
cess to, “a continuing great
response and support from the
entire community and an
outstanding effort on the part of
a devoted staff, directors,
stockholders, and customers of
the bank.”
The bank opened for business
on Aug. 26, 1968. Its founding
directors are Robert P.
Shapard, Jr., Chairman of the
Board; Robert P. Shapard, 111,
W. H. Beck, Dr. George L.
Walker, George C. Bell, D. B.
Searcy, Jr. and Jerry L.
Savage.
Bank resources
gain during ’74
Resources at the three banks
in Griffin increased almost $2.6-
million at the end of 1974 over
what they had been at the end of
1973, but they were more than a
million dollars less than what
they had been on June 30,1974.
The word “resources” is one
which most bankers used in
stead of the word “assets”. Law
requires the banks to publish
periodic statements of con
dition, and all three have now
published theirs as of Dec. 31,
1974. Comparisson of these with
those for the earlier periods
today showed these facts.
Resources of First National
Bank of Griffin and of the Bank
of Griffin increased over the
earlier periods, resources of
Commercial Bank and Trust
Company declined.
First National’s resources at
the end of 1974 were $35,819,146
which was $2,745,887 more than
at the end of 1973, and $1,845,501
more than at June 30,1974.
The Bank of Griffin’s
resources at the end of 1974
were $12,005,918, this was
$1,511,064 more than at the end
of 1973 and $97,113 more than at
June 30, 1974.
Commercial Bank and Trust
Company’s resources at the end
of 1974 were $97,144,618 which
was $1,665,862 less than at the
end of 1973 and $2,983,266 less
than at the end of June 1974.
The combined resources of all
three banks were $144,969,682 at
the end of 1974, $146,010,334 at
the end of June of 1974, and
$142,378,593 at the end of 1973.
Boy, 12,
hangs self
while playing
BAH GROUND, Ga. (UPI) -
A 12-year-old boy accidentally
hanged himself Sunday night
while playing with a parachute
cord in the basement of his
Cherokee County home.
John Cline of Route 1 was
found by his father, Ted Cline,
and taken to a hospitd in
Jasper, where he was dead on
arrival.
Coroner Norman Sosbee said
the death was accidental.
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Those Ford dogs
WASHINGTON—President Ford pets a sister of Liberty, his Golden Retriever, as it is being
held by Susan Ford on the south grounds of the White House prior to leaving for a dinner
party. (UPI)
Until recently the splendid Municipal
Park has been the showplace of Griffin and
the crowning star of its city government.
Except in vacation months a police
cruiser was enough to patrol it adequately,
but not any longer because gangs of
hoodlums now roam its well-tended
grounds. This was evidenced some months
ago when they beat two young joggers and
again last week when a boy, 14, sexually
attacked an innocent little girl, 9, who was
playing there in daylight.
The people of Griffin are deeply con
cerned about the situation. The first
obligation of a government is to protect the
lives and the safety of its people, including
innocent children at play in its own park.
So the city must police the park well
enough to protect everyone who wishes to
enjoy it lawfully — including little girls —
or it ought to close it. Fence it in; lock it
up; forbid anyone, especially hoodlums,
from entering it. If this is necessary, then
it also should close every other public park
and recreation facility in town.
But is it necessary? A policeman’s
starting salary with the City of Griffin is
$7,552 a year. Additional costs such as
uniforms, court pay, insurance and
retirement benefits increase this to $9,386.
So for that figure the city can put a
uniformed officer on duty on the ground at
the park eight hours a day.
The city pays $11,552 a year for the
Miller backs
city tax drive
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller today promised the
Georgia Municipal Association
his full support for GMA efforts
to enact local income and sales
taxes, along with taxes on hotel
rooms and mixed drinks.
“It’s our cities that have been
An Editorial
The Park
publication “The Hotline” which it mails
out with its light and water bills and which
serves no useful purpose. That is enough to
patrol the park and have $2,166 left over.
Griffin’s Mayor, City Manager and City
Commissioners were in Atlanta today at
the Annual Mayors Day banquets and
parties. Here is what it costs the City of
Griffin which does not have enough money
to protect little girls playing in its very
own park to belong to the association:
Regular annual dues, $2,516.06; Power
Section annual dues, $2,758.89, and a
special assessment to the Power Section
“for legal and engineering fees”, $5,313.00.
This is a total of $10,587.95 which is enough
to provide an additional full-time
uniformed policeman for the park or
elsewhere and have $1,201.95 left.
We do not find fault with the city
belonging to the organization, but along
with most of the people in the community
we do believe that it should put first things
first and certainly children at play in
Griffin are more important than city of
ficials at play at the Mayors Day in
Atlanta.
In the meantime, every child and every
parent should keep in mind the fact that
the park is a dangerous place where
savagery and the law of the jungle have
routed the law of the city on more than one
occasion and are likely to do so again until
the city corrects conditions which permit
them to exist.
ravaged by inflation and
recession,” he said. “It’s our
cities that have had to provide
one service after another,
without any added revenue
source. You’ve been hemmed in
by state leaders like ostriches
hiding their heads in the sand.”
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Miller told about 1,000 GMA
members at the start of the
association’s two-day legislative
conference, “what’s needed is
state officials that will take a
certain amount of risk” and
approve some local-option taxes
sure to be unpopular in the
current state of the economy.
Miller said that in Atlanta, a
three per cent tax on hotel and
motel bills would generate $2.5
million and a 10 per cent
mixed-drinks tax would add
$4.5 million to city revenue.
“This tax would be paid by
those who could most afford it,
in many cases our out-of-state
visitors,” said Miller.
He said a one per cent local
sales tax would be linked to a
local option income tax, both
requiring a vote by city
residents before taking effect.
The proposed hotel-motel and
drink taxes would not require a
public referendum before may
ors and city commissioners
could impose them.
“I have enough confidence in
your judgment not to require a
local referendum,” said Miller
of the latter taxes. “If you
don’t use good judgment, I’m
sure the voters will let you
know about it.”
GMA president John Barrow,
the mayor of West Point, said
on the eve of the legislative
forum that his association feels
“we’re in better shape for the
legislature than we’ve ever
been.”
Gov. George Busbee was
scheduled to follow Miller in
speaking to the mayors and
other city officials this after
noon.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
67, low today 36, high yesterday
68, low yesterday 45, high
tomorrow in mid 40s, low
tonight in mid 20s. Total rainfall
•65 of a inch. Sunrise tomorrow
7:43, sunset tomorrow 5:53.