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Contractors
protest
center idea
Several contractors were on
hand at last night’s City Com
mission meeting to protest the
city’s decision to let Griffin Vo-
Tech students and the new
Spalding Kiwanis Club rebuild
the Police Community Center
on Pimento avenue. The center
was damaged heavily by fire
several weeks ago.
Roger Ackiss of Amps
Electric Co. was spokesman for
the group.
He said he thought even
though the project was a worth
while one, it was not fair for the
city to ask for bids from general
and electrical contractors, who
spent a great deal of time and
effort working them 14), then
give the job to the students.
He questioned the legality of
the students’ work and asked if
Vo-Tech would be required to
have a local business license,
liability insurance, workmen’s
compensation and anything else
required of a general contrac
tor.
BIDDING
“We are bidding jobs at cost
to keep from laying men off,
trying to keep them from
unemployment rolls. . . We
cannot have government
subsidized agencies competing
with private enterprise. . . It’s
not right. . .We’re 100 percent
against it. It’s 100 percent
wrong,” he said.
Mayor Louis Goldstein ex
plained that this work is dif
ferent in that many of the
center’s operations came from
contributions and gifts to
provide more activities for the
young people.
Vo-Tech students need the
work experience and the city
would be against their doing
jobs from which a profit is
made, Goldstein said. Also, the
Kiwanis Club is using this as a
community project, he added.
A licensed electrical contrac
tor, not students, will be used
for the electrical work. The city
also will reimburse the low
bidder for his effort in getting
the bid, Goldstein continued,
since the city did not plan to use
the Vo-Tech students when the
bids were sought.
FAVOR
James Davis, building con
tractor and member of the
Spalding Kiwanis Club, spoke in
favor of the plan.
He explained the club stepped
in to help after the center direc
tor, Police Sgt. W. 0. “Pop”
Ellis told members the in
surance settlement of some
$28,700 would not meet the low
bid of $31,496. In addition, new
furnishings would be needed, he
said.
“That extra money would
come out of taxpayers’ pockets.
We can save that money and
help those 300 children who used
the center and now have no
place to go,” Davis said.
WORTHY
“This is a worthy cause. It
won’t be a long job. I feel the
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“Most folks look forward to
happiness — forgetting that now
is the future they used to look
forward to.”
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contractors should step aside
for the children of Griffin,”
Davis continued.
The commissioners thanked
the club for its service on the
project.
An ordinance to limit the
number of package store
licenses to one for each 2,000
residents was put on first read
ing. The present limit is one for
every 1,500 residents.
During their morning
meeting yesterday, the com
missioners approved a beer and
wine license application for
Donald E. Stamey at 911 Everee
Inn road.
ORDINANCE
An ordinance was passed on
final reading to require dancing
schools purchase a mercantile
business license.
Payments to Arthur Pew Con
struction Co., Inc. of $39,273.97
for work on the Potato Creek
Water Pollution Control Plant,
Sewerage System Improve
ments, and of $1,347.85 to
Wiedeman and Singleton for
resident engineering services
during January were approved.
The city commissioners
commended two Griffin police
officers for their services
during the aftermath of the
tornado last Tuesday.
PRAISED
Officers Earl Ethridge and
Davis Harper were cited by the
Department of Transportation
for providing valuable assis
tance in aiding the quick road
clearance and restoration of
normal traffic flow on Ga. 16
west.
They were asked by Spalding
Sheriff’s officers to assist in
directing traffic around the
blockage, near the city limits,
until the road could be cleared.
The commissioners agreed to
waive the 11 p.m. curfew and let
the Griffin Tennis Association
sponsor an all night marathon
on the city courts Friday. The
money raised will be used to
advance interest in tennis
among high school students.
MAYOR
Mayor Goldstein will be the
city’s spokesman during the
public meeting on the recrea
tion program Thursday, March
6. The event will be sponsored
by the League of Women Voters
and the Jaycettes. It will be held
at the First Presbyterian
Church at 8:15 p.m.
All city commissioners said
they plan to attend.
A request from the Jaycees to
sponsor a youth dance on March
21 at the National Guard Ar
mory also was approved.
The Jaycees said they hope
the dance will express their
confidence in Griffin youth. It
will be from 8 to 11:30 p.m.
The commissioners denied a
request from Tim Steiner of
1356 Maple drive to place a sign
in his yard for services of the
Christian and Missionary
Alliance Church in his home.
The house is directly across
from the First United Methodist
Church. The city code permits
churches in R-1A sections but
after consulting City Atty. Bob
Smalley, the commissioners
learned the deed restrictions in
the area would not allow signs
in front of residences.
A request also was denied two
Griffin men, Byron Brown and
Joe Broski, who had asked to
take over the city’s grave
opening operations.
Local funeral directors said
they were satisfied with the
city’s work and were com
plimentary on its efficiency.
They have not received a
complaint concerning grave
openings, commissioners said.
Also, the operation is a paying
one and if someone else takes
over, several city employes
would have to be laid off,
according to City Manager Roy
Inman.
A resolution was approved to
execute an agreement between
the city and county to establish
a library board, its composition,
officers, meetings, powers and
duties.
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Griffin High has
two STAR winners
The STAR program at Griffin
High School came up with some
unusual twists today.
There were two winners.
One of the teacher winners
has been a STAR selection
before.
And one of the student win
ners is the brother of a STAR
winner three years age.
It all came to light at the
Griffin Kiwanis Club’s meeting
today when Clay Prothro and
Jim Burns were announced as
STAR students at Griffin High
for this year.
Prothro picked Mrs. Pat Lee
as his STAR teacher. She has
had the honor before.
Burns picked James Coleman
as his STAR teacher.
The students had tie scores on
scholastic aptitude tests on
which STAR winners are based.
It’s the first time in the
history of the program at
Griffin High that there have
Weather acting up in North
By United Press International
Powerful winds buffeted
Chicago and New York Tues
day, toppling chimneys and
damaging homes. A blizzard
howled over the Michigan’s
north woods, dumping a heavy
Barnesville
native Regent
One of two new members of
the State Board of Regents is a
Barnesville native.
Eldridge McMillan of
Atlanta, formerly of Barnes
ville, is the second black named
to the board which oversees the
university system. He is
associate director of the
By RICHARD HUGHES
UPI Business Writer
Mortgage rates for home loans are
coming down, but there are few buyers, a
mortgage loan expert says. There's too
much skepticism around.
“People just aren’t buying,” said Jim
Thompson, an official of the U.S. Savings
and Home League in Chicago, a trade
association representing 4,600 savings
banks.
“In today’s economic situation, people
are skeptical about taking on new financial
commitments.”
He said funds are pouring into savings
accounts at savings and loan institutions,
major mortgage lenders, but “we have no
demand for mortgages to take up the
flow.”
GRIFFIN
Home mortgage rates
NEWS
STARS: Clay Prothro, Mrs. Pat Lee, Jim Burns, and James Coleman (1-r).
been double winners.
Prothro is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Prothro, 560
Crescent road. He is the brother
of Chuck Prothro who won the
STAR honor three years ago at
Griffin High.
Burns is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert E. Burns, 1010 East
Mclntosh road.
The STAR winners at Griffin
High will move now to the
district competition. Winners in
the district will go to thefinals.
Prothro has taken a shine to
drama under the influence of
his STAR teacher, Mrs. Lee. He
is a member of the Dramatics
Club and the Magic Circle, a
drama orientated student
organization.
He plans to get into the
graphic arts business. Prothro
hopes to enter the Brooks In
stitute of Photography in Cali
fornia and learn the profession.
He’s interested in photo
graphy, not only as a hobby but
blanked of snow and snarling
traffic.
In snowed on Mayor Richard
J. Daley’s re-election parade in
Chicago and savage winds,
gusting to 67 miles per hour,
raked the city. However,
Southern Education Founda
tion.
The other new member,
named by Gov. George Busbee,
is Charles Oxford of Albany, a
professional engineer and past
president of the Albany
Chamber of Commerce.
as a profession.
Prothro, a senior, will
graduate this year from Griffin
High.
His father is a veteran postal
employe in Griffin. His mother
operates Prothro’s at Spalding
Square. Right now, their son,
Chuck, is working there, too.
Burns has his eye on an
agriculture engineering
profession. That’s his father’s
profession at the Georgia Ex
periment Station in Griffin.
Mr. Burns has gained state
and southeastern recognition
recently for his research in
making lawn grass grow
slower.
Young Burns has his eye on
Auburn University and would
like to be enrolled there this fall.
He figures Mr. Coleman, head
of the science department at
Griffin High, has had a big
influence on his scientific in
clination and picked him for the
hundreds of thousands of voters
dutifully marched to the polls,
braving the icy wind and snow
flurries to boost Daley to
victory.
The wind ripped windows out
of Chicago’s towering John
Hancock building and the
Chicago Sun-Times Daily News
building. Chimneys were top
pled and windows shattered
through much of the metropoli
tan area.
Raging winds also swept
much of the East.
Wind gusts of up to 75 miles
per hour lashed the upstate
New York town of Allegany,
overturning five house trailers
and destroying a barn. There
were no injuries.
Wildlife authorities is Vir
ginia Beach, Va., were forced
He predicted mortgage rates, which
peaked as high as 11 per cent in September
under the tight money policy of the
Federal Reserve, would decline to 8% per
cent or 8% per cent “at the outside” this
year.
In Washington, Arthur Burns, chairman
of the Federal Reserve, said the Fed’s
effort to make more and easier credit
available for business and consumer
borrowing is beginning to show results.
But Bums rejected suggestions the Fed
under take massive stimulation of the
economy through an 8 or 10 per cent
increase in the nation's money supply —
the amount on deposit in checking
accounts plus currency in circulation.
“We have no intention of doing that —not
as long as I am chairman,” Bums told the
Daily Since 1872
STAR teacher honor.
A Beta Club member, Burns
has won Tomorrow’s Scientists
and Engineers Award, the
Agronomy Award at the
Georgia State Science Fair and
a blue ribbon at that fair.,
He’s on the math team and in
the marching and symphonic
bands at Griffin High.
Active in the 4-H organiza
tion, he has won several poultry
awards, was district winner of a
business exploration project
which took him to Manhattan,
Kansas for a national meeting
and has received a junior leader
award.
The Griffin Chamber of
Commerce Education Com
mittee joins with the Griffin
Kiwanis Club in presenting the
STAR awards locally.
The State Chamber of
Commerce handles district and
state finals in the STAR com
petition.
to postopne efforts to kill 400
diseased coots still left at the
Back Bay Wildlife Refuge
because of strong winds,
clocked at between 45 and 50
miles per hour.
A blizzard, the powerful tail
of a major snowstorm which
socked the Midwest early in the
week, swept across northern
Michigan, all but paralyzing
traffic in the north woods area.
Marquette, Mich., was buried
under a 28-inch snow cover
after getting more than 24
inches of new snow in 24 hours.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., got 21
inches of snow and Pellston
recorded 16.
The storm trekked across
Missouri and into the northern
Great Lakes, with high winds
whipping up deep snows.
are coming down
Senate Banking Committee. “We can do
more. We can do a lot more. We can even
wreck this country. But we’re not going to
do it, senator.”
“The menace of inflation is by no means
behind us,” Burns said in opposition to a
resolution that would direct the Fed to
pour billions more into the economy to
fight the recession.
The Fed, under Burn’s direction,
sharply restricted monetary growth last
spring to check inflation. Critics of the Fed
charge that this action accelerated the
recession unduly.
In other developments:
—American Motors joined General
Motors in cutting prices on some models to
spur sales once cash rebates end Friday.
AMC’s announcment came shortly after
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Ford in Fla.
to golf,
push plan
HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (UPI)
— President Ford today battled
the “dilatory” Congress over
the breakfast table with media
executives and set aside time
for a round of golf in the Jackie
Gleason celebrity match before
heading back to Washington.
The President also scheduled
a news conference at 11 a.m.
EDT at the plush resort hotel
where he has been campaigning
with southern leaders and
mayors for his anti-recession
package.
Ford will play 18 holes in the
Inverarry Golf Classic with
comedian Bob Hope; pro Jack
Nicklaus and New York busi
nessman Elliott Kahn, making
up the foursome on the Fort
Lauderdale links.
Former President Nixon’s
closest friends, Charles G.
“Bebe” Rebozo of Key Bis
cayne, Fla., and New York
industrialist Robert H. Ab
planalp are on the board of
directors for the tournament.
At a dinner party he hosted
for 15 southern mayors last
night, Ford said, “the biggest
problem facing the country is
the dilatory tactics of Congress.
“There is no question that the
energy problem is more serious
in a fundamental way and the
economic problem is more
soluble,” Ford also told the
mayors.
“We could be victims of
decision-makers totally outside
Boy, 14, shot;
schoolmate held
A 14-year-old boy was shot by
a schoolmate yesterday af
ternoon.
Griffin Police Officer Sam
Batts said the victim, John
Oscar Lindsey of 204 Morris
street, suffered two bullet
wounds in the right hip.
He said the boys started
arguing during school
yesterday and continued their
New leash law
begins Saturday
The “strictest possible enforcement” of the leash law ill
begin Saturday, according to Griffin City Commissioners.
Last night, during their meeting, the commissioners
reminded citizens that dogs caught running loose and cats
picked up as nuisances will be impounded.
To claim the animal, the owner must pay a five-dollar
impoundment fee, plus one dollar per day feeding cost and
the cost of publication of the impoundment notice in the
Griffin Daily News.
The leash law requires all dogs be either fenced or tied
on the owner’s property.
Dogs and cats must be inoculated and tagged by March
1. The tags, purchased from the city after the inoculation,
cost two dollars each.
the industry reported mid-February new
car sales missed matching last year’s
level by only 210 cars. GM’s sales were up
16 per cent.
—Prices on the New York Stock Exchange
took their worst plunge in three months.
Heavy selling was prompted by investors
seeking profits on recent gains, more
adverse news about the recession and an
unfavorable government antitrust
decision against Xerox. The Dow Jones
industrial index plunged 17.76 to 719.18, its
worst loss since it fell 22.69 last Nov. 18.
— Consolidated Freightways Inc. said it
will close its U.S. truck plants during
March and would reduce schedules 50 per
cent when they reopen. The plants are in
Portland, Ore., Chino, Calif., and
Indianapolis, Ind.
the United States,” he added.
“To make ourselves invulnera
ble we have to show courage,
sacrifice and vision.”
Ford spoke against a back
ground of an earlier prediction
that Congress would sustain his
forthcoming veto of sharp
increases on imported oil. But
the victory he forecast did not
make him more conciliatory
toward Congress. He said that
the estimated 16 cent a gallon
increase proposed by the
Democrats tantmount to a gas
tax would be “devastating.”
Ford also was particularly
concerned to learn that an oil
depletion allowance amendment
may be tacked onto the
Democratic sponsored $21.3
billion income tax cut bill.
Press Secretary Rbn Nessen
told reporters that Ford feels
such an amendment would only
complicate the legislation and
would further delay it.
The failure of Congress to
pass a tax cut measure has
evoked loud complaints from
Ford, particularly in view of
the fact that he claims there is
a 100 per cent consensus for
such legislation.
Ford’s presentation won en
thusiastic response from the
mayors. Four of them, who
later appeared before repor
ters, praised Ford’s anti
recession package while at the
same time conceding that it
was not perfect.
dispute in the afternoon.
The incident happened on
East Chappell at North First
street, Officer Batts said.
The Lindsey youth was
carried to the Griffin Spalding
Hospital and after treatment in
the emergency room, was
admitted.
The other boy, who is 13, was
being held in the city jail.