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More volunteer for religious activities
WASHINGTON (UPI) — More Americans volunteer
their services for religious activities than for any other
field, according to Action, the federal agency that
coordinates voluntary services.
Action said a survey by the Census Bureau,
commissioned by the agency, showed 37 million
Americans were involved in voluntary activities of
various kinds during the one year period from May 1973 to
April 1974.
Some 50 per cent of all those volunteers, the agency
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Griffin area
Marble size hail whipped
about by heavy winds peppered
the Griffin community early
last night.
The wind knocked out a huge
plate glass window at Piggly
Wiggly in Spalding Square. A
spokesman for the store said
two or three people suffered
cuts but they were minor.
One of the people injured was
an employe.
The storm was part of a rough
weather front which moved
across the state early in the
evening.
The clouds were heavy over
the community before wind
whipped rain and hail over the
area. It lasted more than 10
Bloodmobile
visit big
success
The Griffin BPW Club went
over the top yesterday in its
drive to get 250 pints of blood
donated.
The bloodmobile collected 260
pints from more than 300 people
who came to offer their blood.
Some were turned down
because of minor physical
illnesses.
This was the first visit of the
year. Tyndall McMillan,
chairman of the local blood
program, said the success of the
visit was due to the combined
efforts of many volunteers the
Red Cross workers, the Hospital
Pink Ladies, the Senior Girl
Scouts, the news media, and the
nursery which Mrs. Gladys
Alford operated.
Mrs. Mildred Reeves coor
dinated the visit for the BPW.
Major tax compromise delays vote on bill
By KAY BROWN
ATLANTA (UPI) — In a
major compromise with Gov.
George Busbee, House leaders
agreed Friday to delay calling
up the House’s $35 million tax
relief program for a vote until
Monday.
The delay gives Busbee, who
had been miffed over what he
considered to be a snub from
the House leadership on spend
ing programs, time to put the
final touches on his proposed
tax relief plan.
Busbee is working with House
and Senate members on a
compromise tax plan that
would link full funding by the
House of his proposed $lO
million kindergarten program
One of 29 planes destroyed
minutes.
After the heavy rainfall here,
the skies brightened somewhat
and remained that way until
nightfall.
The storm brought a twister
to McCollum Airport near
Marietta. It destroyed 26 air
craft and damaged nine others.
The planes were valued
between $5,000 and SIO,OOO
apiece, according to Civil
Defense spokesman Rufus Bar
ber.
In other tornado reports from
around Georgia, the Central
Chemical Co. in Dekalb County
suffered damages from tor
nado-like winds. Some trees
were blown down in the North
Decatur area around Brook
hurst and Harrington roads.
Some trees and power lines
were blown down and some
storefronts were damaged in
the Gainesville area. Elsewhere
in Hall County there was light
damage.
Cleveland suffered a power
outage and a $2,000 mobile
home was damaged, according
to Barber. Another home had
damage to the roof.
Three houses around Social
Circle in Walton County suf
fered a combined damage
estimated at $5,000 when a
torando ripped through the
small community.
A barn was blown over in
Banks County in northern
Georgia. _
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tomorrow in lower 50s, low
tonight in mid 20s, sunrise
tomorrow 8:01, sunset
tomorrow 7:36.
to his support of tax relief,
fought for by the House.
Busbee had attacked the six
member “green door” commit
tee which meets in secret to
prepare recommendations for
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, for leaving him out of
the budget process this year.
Busbee said his Friday
meeting with the House Policy
Committee “was very plea
sant” and that “we’re trying to
work something out on tax
relief.”
“I am really optimistic that
some constitutional way is
going to be found to fund this
one-time tax relief,” said House
Speaker Pro Tern Al Burruss
after a late afternoon meeting
said, were involved in religious activities.
The primary motivations of these volunteers, according
to the survey, were the desire to help others, enjoyment of
volunteer work, a sense of duty, having “a child in the
program” —and for some, the inability to say no when
asked.
Typical religious activities cited by the survey included
teaching Sunday school, playing the organ or piano -for
church services, singing in church choirs, raising funds or
serving as altar boys and ushers.
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Pilots and plane owners check damage after twister hit airport near Marietta.
Weather acting up all over
By United Press International
Tornadoes, wild winds, dust
storms and snow plagued
communities across the nation
Friday. Two people were killed
and there were numerous
injuries and widespread proper
ty damage.
In the Mississippi and Ohio
valleys, more than a score of
persons were injured as tor
nadoes wrecked homes and
tossed trailers around like
match boxes.
Near Bakersfield, Calif., two
persons were killed and at least
one injured in a 16-vehicle
pileup on California 99 as a
severe dust storm swept
through the area. Police report-
with other House leaders in the
governor’s office.
“The lines of communication
have been opened up today, and
as long as you can keep people
negotiating and talking, the
differences will be worked out,”
Burruss said.
“The Democratic policiy
committee is trying their very
best to work with the distin
guished governor in trying to
derive a tax relief proposal that
is acceptable to us and him,”
Murphy told the House.
“There is no ill-feeling
between the governor and
myself,” the speaker said.
Busby’s proposal for tax
relief would set up two classes
of property owners, homestead-
GRIFFIN
DAILYtNEWS
Vol. 103 No. 57
It happened again this week
Pastor has had enough
of vandalism at church
The pastor of the Kincaid
Memorial United Methodist
Church has had enough of
vandalism attacks and
burglaries at his church.
“These deplorable acts must
stop! It is disgraceful and a
disaster to the community and
ed 22 traffic accidents in the
Bakersfield area during the
day, 14 of them involving
injuries.
Twelve elementary school
children were injured at
Omaha, Neb., when two school
buses collided on an icy hill. A
city fire truck and a car were
damaged in a second accident
as the fire truck rushed to the
scene of the bus crash.
An early-morning tornado
Friday wrecked one home and
damaged about 10 others at the
Blueberry Hills subdivision
south of St. Louis, Mo. Several
persons were injured by flying
debris.'
At McCollum Airport north-
ers and all other property
owners, including corporations
and excluding utilities.
A portion of the money,
probably sls million to S2O
million, would be allocated
equally to each homesteader in
the state, regardless of the
value of the property. The
remainder of the proposed $35
million for tax relief would be
distributed to the other proper
ty owners on some percentage
basis. A ceiling probably would
be set on the amount any one
individual or corporation could
receive.
“Right now none of us know
what tax relief bill will be
proposed,” Burruss said. He
said the various proposals are
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Education and health, each with 15 per cent of all
volunteers, were the second most active areas of
voluntary services.
“The study shows that the volunteer spirit is very much
alive and growing,” said Action Director Mike Balzano.
The survey, which involved some 24,000 people in 923
counties across country, is the first to provide nationwide
data on voluntarism since a similar Department of Labor
survey in 1965.
The new figure of 37 million people involved in
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, March 8,1975
these individuals who con
tinually hide in darkness and
destroy properties that are not
theirs,” the Rev. Stokes wrote
in a letter to the Griffin Daily
News.
“My nature has always been
to trust people, but acts like this
west of Atlanta, Ga., between
40 and 50 single-engine planes
were damaged by a tornado.
Rufus Barber, a Civil Defense
spokesman, said the twister
destroyed most of the planes,
which were valued between
$5,000 and SIO,OOO apiece.
Other parts of Georgia also
suffered damage by tornado
like winds. The Central Chemi
cal Co. in Dekalb County
reported wind damages, and
trees and power lines were
blown down in the North
Decatur, Cleveland and Gaines
ville areas. Three houses
around Social Circle in Walton
County were damaged when a
tornado ripped through the
being run through a computer
analysis to determine exactly
which groups would be benefit
ted. The figures are expected to
be ready for the House
leadership and the governor to
consider Sunday or Monday.
“I think it is important for
the public to know we’re not
just sitting down here arguing
over nothing,” Burruss said.
“We’re using the best legal
minds and information availa
ble.”
Friday’s change marked at
least the third tax relief
proposal considered by House
leadership this session. The
first plan, a circuit-breaker
measure, was abandoned when
figures from the Department of
make me feel that no amount of
safe guards can prevent these
open, deliberate thefts from
happening,” he said.
Thursday night was the latest
attack on the church in Ex
periment.
Someone broke out a window
small community.
Eighteen persons were in
jured —seven of them admitted
to hospitals —when swirling
winds tossed trailers up to 100
yards at Centertown, Ky.
Strong winds at Okawville,
111., caused power failures and
carried a dog house 75 feet—
with two dogs inside.
A fast-moving storm Friday
also dumped deep snows from
the Midwest to the Great
Lakes. The snow storm bowled
eastward across the Appalachi
ans and storm warnings were
posted in New York and New
England.
Revenue became ‘ ‘ inoperative. ’ ’
The second, based on the
average daily attendance in
private and public schools, had
serious constitutional and ad
ministrative problems, accord
ing to Busby and others.
Meanwhile, a floor fight
appeared to be shaping up on
whether Busby’s kindergarten
program will be funded in the
budget.
One kindergarten supporter
in the House said there are
more than 600 pro-kindergarten
votes and about 68 representa
tives opposed to kindergarten.
The House Appropriations
Committee cut most of Busby’s
requested $lO million for new
kindergarten programs last
voluntary activities compared with 21.6 million in 1965.
During the sample week of the survey, more than 15
million people contributed 140 million hours of volunteer
work —an average of nine hours per person according to
study. <
Balzano said one of the most interesting features of the
study was the high frequency with which people
volunteered their service, with 60 per cent saying they
were active at least once a month and 36 per cent saying
they were active once a week or more.
to enter the building. They took
a church casette tape recorder -
and his personal multi-ban
radio and a few other odds and
ends. Rev. Stokes estimated
their value at $l5O.
He said he had left the church
office about 10:30 Thursday
night and the burglary hap
pened sometime after that.
“I have been a minister at
Kincaid for almost two years
and there has been a constant
attack of vandalism on our
church. Broken windows,
breaking and entering, and
generally causing a good mess
of things (have resulted.)
Nothing major is ever taken,”
Rev. Stokes wrote.
He said the church purchased
a bus in June last year. He said
the bus was parked that night at
the parsonage and someone
stole gas from it that very night
and the next.
During the Fourth of July
week last year, he said someone
made off with the communion
set that he used to serve shutin
people and hospital patients.
Worse than that, he said,
someone smashed the money
bank in the children’s depart
ment and took a few dollars in
pennies.
“Not much to some people but
it meant a lot to a few children
who looked forward to putting a
few pennies in their bank to help
other people,” Rev. Stokes said.
He said he and David Head of
the Spalding Sheriff’s Depart
ment concluded that the in
dividuals doing these things
must be young people. He said
soft drinks, church supplies,
kitchen utensils and other
supplies were not touched.
“One could almost conclude
that they knew where they were
going,” Rev. Stokes said.
He said he would like to have
back the recorder, the com
munion set and the radio.
“Inflation may be the excuse
that will cause some of us to quit
buying things we already should
have quit buying.”
weekend.
After a meeting late Friday,
it was reported that several
state agencies are unhappy
over major cuts made from
existing programs in their
budgets in the House Appro
priations Committee’s version
of the 1976 budget.
The major department heads
met with Busbee, House Appro
priations Chairman Joe Frank
Harris and legislative budget
analysts.
They discussed differences in
what the agencies say is
necessary to fund existing state
programs at a “continuation”
level, and what the House
leadership allocated in the,
appropriations bill.
Daily Since 1872
“Please, the next time you
throw a rock, don’t throw it at
any building, especially our
church. We would also like to
use this letter to say that if you
are planning to break into our
church building again — Don’t.
It won’t be as easy as breaking
a window, cutting screen or
sawing a lock,” Rev. Stokes
wrote.
Man, 18,
killed
in wreck
Michael Anthony “Tony”
Andrews, 18, of Route One
Milner, Camp road in the Or
chard Hill community, was
killed last night in a traffic
accident on the County Line
road near Orchard Hill.
He was driving alone in a
pick-up truck during a heavy
rain storm when the accident
occurred.
The accident was found about
an hour later.
He was dead on arrival at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas James Andrews,
Sr., of Orchard Hill. He
graduated from Lamar County
High School and was employed
by Industrial Wholesalers in
Griffin.
He was a member of Orchard
Hill Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents,
survivors include four brothers,
Thomas J. Andrews, Jr., Roy
Andrews, Donnie Andrews and
Keith Andrews, two sisters,
Miss Joan Smith and Mrs. Mary
Gladden, grandmother, Mrs.
Catherine Joiner of Newington,
Ga.,
Funeral services will be
conducted Sunday afternoon at
2:30 from the Orchard Hill
Baptist Church. The Rev.
Charles E. Robinson will of
ficiate. Burial will be in
Greenwood cemetery in Bar
nesville.
His body is at Haisten
Funeral Home in Griffin and
will be carried to the church
Sunday one hour before the
funeral.
About $1.7 billion of the $1.9
billion state budget is used to
fund existing state programs
and each department theoreti
cally receives a larger share
each year to allow for inflation
and new positions.
“There was a large disparity
in many of the agencies from
what the governor recommend
ed and the committee appro
priated,” said one state agency
head who declined to be quoted
by name.
But he added: “The meeting
closed with a very good spirit
of cooperation. We established
some good lines of communica
tion, and I am hopeful we are
going to be able to resolve this
matter.”