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WASHINGTON—Zachariah D. Blacklstone, who turned IM hasn’t missed a day at work in
his floral shop office in more than three quarters of a century. Blacklstone remembers the
diplomats and politicians, statesman and their ladies he served in the past 77 years during a
interview. (UPI)
Celebrates 104th
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Za
chariah D. Blackistone, who
celebrated his 104th birthday
Sunday, says his secret to
longevity is a clean conscience
and a love of God.
“A good clean conscience.
And also to live with God. I
think that’s the key to a long
and happy life,” said Blackis
tone, a florist who hasn’t
missed a day at work in more
Young man
identified
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
Hall County authorities said
today they have tentatively
identified the body of a young
man who was shot to death and
left by the side of U. S. 129
south of here.
Officers said the victim was
believed to be a Monroe County
resident but they withheld his
name for the present. He was
believed to be in his early 30s.
The body was found near a
truck stop Sunday just two
weeks after the discovery of a
shooting victim in a similar
case. Sixteen-year-old Denny
Abna of Hapeville was mur
dered and his body dumped
beside another highway near
here. A suspect has been
arrested in the Abna shooting.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
66, low today 57, high yesterday
75, low yesterday 53, high
tomorrow in 60s, low tonight in
50s, total rainfall 2.06 inches.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:24, sunset
tomorrow 6:20.
Burglary rampage continues
Burglaries and thefts continu
ed to keep lawmen busy here
over the weekend.
Spalding Sheriff’s officers
investigated a burglary at the
home of Mickey L. Booth of
Route One, in which a double
barrel shotgun, two coats,
men’s boots, and a jewelry box
containing miscellaneous
jewelry were taken.
Entiy was made through a
rear window, officers said.
Mrs. Katherine Rawls, 905
than three quarters of a
century.
Blacklstone said he gave up
cigarettes and coffee 50 years
ago in order to protect his
health.
He opened his first floral
shop in Washington 77 years
ago and now has five shops in
the area. Over the years he has
served diplomats and politi
cians, statesmen and their
ladies.
Wreck kills
Griffinite
A Griffin woman was killed
and four other persons injured
in a Lamar County wreck early
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Ruby Jewell Jones, 42, of
529 East Slaton street, died of
multiple injuries shortly after
being brought to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Three passengers in her car
were admitted to the hospital
and all were listed in fair
condition there today.
They were Barbara Williams,
30, of East Slaton street;
Dorothy Jones, 33, of Freedman
street; and Doris Vaughn, 33, of
North Third street.
The driver of the other car,
Gene E. Leverett, 46, of Route
One, Yatesville, suffered facial
and head injuries. He was
dismissed after treatment in the
emergency room.
The accident happened about
five miles south of Barnesville
on U. S. 341 at Willie road. Mrs.
East Wall street, Apt. 8, com
plained that burglars forced
open her rear door and took a
19-inch portable Zenith
television set, valued at $l5O.
Touchstone’s Drive-In at 618
North Sixth street was hit by
burglars. They entered by
removing a rear screen door.
Merchandise, including
potato chips and meat, were
taken.
A U. S. Post Office AMC jeep
was stolen over the weekend.
DAI LY<N EWS
Vol. 103 No. 40
He said he once was called
almost daily by the White
House to send flowers to Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. Blacki
stone said “Uncle Joe” Cannon,
the legendary Speaker of the
House, “used to stop by every
morning to buy a carnation for
his lapel.”
He said he has a “distinct
recollection” of Benjamin Har
rison’s inauguration in 1893.
Jones’ car struck the other
vehicle broadside, according to
the Forsyth State Patrol Post.
Three Barnesville residents
also were brought to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital early
yesterday afternoon following a
wreck on Liberty Hill road, east
of Milner.
They were identified as
William Penn, 21, of 230 Penn
street, Barnesville, who suf
fered a compound fracture of
his left leg; his sister, Wilda
Penn, 15, who suffered a
fractured hip; and their
brother, Carl Penn, 18, who was
treated for chest and abdominal
injuries.
William Penn and Wilda Penn
were transferred from the
Griffin hospital to St. Joesph
Infirmary in Atlanta.
Lamar Sheriff’s Deputies said
their truck ran off the road and
crashed into a tree.
The vehicle was taken from
Whiten Auto Service, 426 East
Taylor street.
Police officers on patrol
discovered vandalism at
Fashion Industries on Harlow
street.
The front door was broken,
apparently by a thrown rock or
bottle.
Burglars failed to get into
Stewart’s Grocery, 815 East
Broadway. Police said some
siding had been removed from
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, February 17,1975
Griffin lawmaker fights
legal betting in state
Rep. John Mostiler saidtoday
he would continue his bitter
opposition to legalize betting at
horse and dog tracks in
Georgia.
He spoke out against the
proposal last night during a
briefing session for freshmen
legislators on proposals that
might come up this week.
Mostiler told the informal
caucus race tracks can be a
liability and not an asset as
backers suggest.
He said his information was
that tracks in Florida are losing
money. Some are even looking
to the state to bail them out, the
Griffin lawmaker said.
Such a situation could become
a drag on that state and
Georgia, too, he said, if the
General Assembly should ap
prove the betting bill.
Mostiler said he didn’t think
the measure would pass. But he
vowed to fight it at every oppor
tunity.
Mostiler told the caucus that
proponents of legal liquor had
argued that such a step in
Georgia would cut out boot
leggers.
Such has not been the case,
Mostiler said. He told the
caucus Georgia continues to be
the moonshine capital of the
nation, despite the increased
number of places that have
made liquor sales legal.
Sen. Bobby Hill is pushing to
make track betting legal in
Georgia. He appeared before
the caucus to argue for it.
A large group of horse
breeders, some of them wearing
dusty farm clothes and others in
brilliant racing silks, motored
to Atlanta with horse trailers
bearing sign denouncing House
Speaker Tom Murphy.
He said he wanted the bill
recommitted to the House In
dustry Committee for more
study.
The horsemen crowded into
Murphy’s office where the
speaker told them he was not
trying to stifle their bill. He said
in the 15 years he had been in
the House, he never had seen a
bill pass without a favorable
recommendation from a
committee.
The Industry Committee
refused to kill the bill last week
but sent it to the floor with no
recommendation at all.
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“The college graduate who
lacks common sense wasn’t
going to have it anyway.”
the building, but entry was not
made.
Daniel Sanborn, 640 West
Poplar street, Apt. A, reported
he received a package of books
through the mail. While the
package was left on his front
porch, eight of the books were
removed. Police officers found
three near the house.
Vandals broke the rear
window out of John Lowery’s
car while it was parked at his
GRIFFIN
Heavy rains during the week
end intensified a problem that
people in the Hampton Environs
have been complaining about.
The problem is that of
drainage.
One resident said today it
would affect Spalding County,
too.
He said the extra drainage
goes into Bear creek which
empties into Flint River,
Griffin’s water source.
Some 130 families in the
Environs area say they have
complained to the Hampton city
council several times about the
problem.
One man said all they have
got so far is a lot of talk.
He said they have been told
there are plans to improve the
system.
One man said the city came
out and dug a little ditch. But
that won’t do it, he said.
t home on Park avenue. Damage
was set at S2OO, sheriff’s of
ficials said.
Mrs. Jane C. Deane of 404
South Hill street complained
someone stole the battery from
her auto parked at her
residence.
An SBS check which had been
forged and stolen from Eloise
Lawrence of Griffin was cashed
at Rowell’s Grocery, 724 North
Hill street, over the weekend.
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Gets wish
HONOLULU—Dying of cancer, Heidi Biggs, 14, fulfills
her dream of a horseback ride and her dream of a
Hawaiian vacation with an hour-long horseback ride in
the rural town of Waimanalo, just outside Honolulu. (UPI)
Hampton Environs
has drain problem
GARC is not
seeking money
The Griffin Area for Retarded
Citizens today said it was not
conducting a fund. raising
Daily Since 1872
Summit
meeting
sought
MOSCOW (UPI) - Britain
and the Soviet Union called
today for a summit meeting to
wind up the European Security
Conference and for the early
resumption of the Geneva talks
on the Middle East.
A joint communique said the
four-day visit of British Prime
Minister Harold Wilson marked
“the opening of a new phase”
in Anglo-Soviet relations.
Wilson and Communist Party
General Secretary Leonid I.
Brezhnev, in a Kremlin
ceremony televised live, signed
documents providing for regu
lar political consultations and
cooperation in trade, technology
and public health. They also
signed a declaration demanding
urgent efforts to prevent the
spread of nuclear weapons.
effort of any kind.
A spokesman for the associa
tion said it has received word
that persons unknown are going
about some parts of the com
munity representing them
selves as solicitors of funds for
the GARC.
Mrs. Mary Fitzhugh, execu
tive director of GARC, said no
persons, organization or groups
are authorized to seek funds for
it.
, A membership drive is
planned in March but this will
not involve donations, other
than yearly dues, she said.
Any resident of Griffin or
Spalding County who is ap
proached by someone seeking
money in the name of GARC
should report it immediately to
the Sheriff’s Department,
advised Mrs. Fitzhugh.
Guard dog escapes
Griffin police warned citizens to stay away from a large
German Shepard guard dog which escaped from the
Fukaishi Group mushroom plant on Uniform road over
the weekend.
Sgt. William Huckaby said the dog, which had been
professionally trained as a guard dog, escaped from
inside the fenced area. There was no indication as to how
he got out, Sgt. Huckaby said.
The dog is black and tan and answers to the name of
“Jud”. He is not wearing a collar.
Anyone seeing the dog was asked to call either Animal
Control Officer Clyde Hicks at the Griffin Sanitary
Department or the mushroom plant.
Sgt. Huckaby said it would not be a good idea to try to
pet the animal.
State Senate
defeats ERA
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia Senate today defeated
the proposed Equal Rights
Amentment (ERA) 33-22.
The vote came less than an
hour after the upper chamber
took up the controversial issue
before a gallery packed
primarily with women. Sen.
Horace Tate, D-Atlanta, one of
the bill’s sponsors, said he
would seek reconsideration of
the adverse vote.
Before the debate began,
another sponsor of the measure
predicted it would be beaten.
Sen. Lawrence Stumbaugh,
D-Stone Mountain, had said
from the outset that the ERA
ratification resolution he spon
sored with Atlanta Democrats
Julian Bond and Horace Tate
was “one or two votes shy” of
the 29 needed for passage in the
56-seat Senate.
He said a weekend barrage of
lobbying by anti-ERA forces
has driven the pro ERA
number down to the lower 20’s.
“I’d say we’re 6 or 8 shy
now,” he said. “A lot of people
are scared that they’d be voting
themselves out of office, if they
vote for it.”
Stumbaugh said, “I’m kind of
scared, too, but I’m committed
to vote for it.”
Senate Minority Leader Paul
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Woman ordained
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Mary Jane Mats is ordained the first
woman minister of the American Moravian Church by
Bishop Edwin W. Korts at the East Hills Moravian Church
of Bethlehem, Pa. She will join the pastoral staff of
Bethlehem’s Central Moravian Church. A native of
Havertown, Pa., Mary Mats resides in Bethlehem with
her family. Her husband, William Matz, is Dean of the
Moravian Theological Seminary. (UPI)
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Coverdell of Atlanta said the
Republicans have not adopted a
party position on the ERA. He
agreed with Stumbaugh that
the prospects for passage were
dimming.
“I think it’s beat,” said
Coverdell. “It’s been getting
worse for the last four days.”
A large group of horse
breeders, some of them wear
ing dusty farm clothes and
others in brilliant racing silks,
motorcaded to the Capitol with
horse trailers bearing signs
denouncing House Speaker Tom
Murphy for his proposal to
shelve a pari-mutuel wagering
bill.
Prisoners slain
ADDIS ABABA (UPI) —
Hundreds of Eritreans who
staged a mass jail break last
week in Asmara were later
trapped and shot by elite
Ethiopian troops, witnesses said
today.
The government launched an
investigation into the breakout
and the shootings, witnesses
said.
More than 700 persons —
Eritrean guerrillas, sympathiz
ers and some criminals —
escaped from a police comman
do camp in the Eritrean capital
of Asmara Thursday night.