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Wide circulation
“Slow what wide circulation we have,’’ quipped Edith Norton of the Flint River Regional
Library staff in Griffin about this book. An Eastern Airlines employe found it on an airplane
in Boston and mailed it back to the library. T he employe read it first, though. Title of the
book is “The Dutch Unde’’ by Marilyn Durham, who also is the author of “The Man Who
Lived Cat Dancing.” The book is safe back on the library shelf here and awaiting its next
venture.
sl2-million to help
state fight crime
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee said today
Georgia will receive more than
sl2 million in federal funds to
fight crime, with heavy empha
sis on computerized communi
cation at the state level and
anti-burglary action by city and
county police.
At his weekly news conferen
ce, Bubee said $7 million of the
Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration money will be
distributed by the State Crime
Weather
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White cane sale
Boosting the annual white cane sale are (t-r) Warren Bedingfield, chaplain; Joe Joiner,
public relations chairman; and Louis Arnett, vice president of the Griffin Lions Chib. The
sale will be Saturday to promote sight conservation. Cane sale stations will be set np
downtown and at some shopping centers. Members of the Lions Club will handle die sales.
Commission to cities and
counties for local crime-fighting
programs.
The other $4.9 million will be
kept at the state level for the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
crime laboratory and crime
information center, where com
puter banks provide instant
checks on suspect records,
stolen property and vehicles.
The largest individual portion
of the state’s share in the
LEAA fund is $1.44 million for
combatting burglaries and
other property crimes at the
local level. Most of that money
would go into police “THOR”
programs —“target hardening
and oppotunity reduction” —to
encourage merchants and
homeowners to install better
locks and mark their property
so it can be traced if stolen.
“What we’re trying to do is
coordinate the work in law
enforcement between the state
and local levels,” said Busbee.
“We now have the mechanism
for the state to provide support
services for local law enfor
cement.”
Busbee said another major
priority in the LEAA funding is
$335,700 for the prisons system
to evaluate all offender
rehabilitation programs, to
combat recidivism.
“Recidivism is one thing we
must attack, that we must
recognize if we are to make
any progress in reducing this
prison crowding that has
exploded,” said Busbee.
DAILY^NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 67
Robbers hit stations
Armed robbers hit two ser
vice stations at the Ga. 16 exit of
1-75 in Butts County early this
morning and made off with an
undisclosed amount of money
from each.
Attendants at the OK Oil Co.
said three black men drove into
the station at shortly after 5
a.m. One attendant, James
Tillery, was on duty and was
being visited by a friend, Bobby
Cochran, at the time.
The men came in and began
looking at eight-track tapes
when one pulled a sawed off
shotgun and held it on the two.
The robbery tried to remove a
pistol from Tillery’s holster,
which was attached to his pants.
When they failed, they made
him take off his pants and
forced him and Cochran to lie
face down on the floor.
Cochran suffered a bump on
the head when he was hit by one
of the robbers. He was not hurt
seriously.
The robbers took the money
from the cash drawer, along
with the Tillery’s pants which
contained his billfold, car keys
and pistol, and drove to the
Storey and Polk Gulf station
nearby.
They arrived there about
5:20. They asked Kenneth
Miley, the attendant, to put
some oil in their car. As he bent
over to open the oil can, one of
the robbers stuck the pistol they
had stolen from the OK at
tendant in his back.
They made him go into the
office where one removed the
cash drawer with the night’s
receipts from the register.
Another robber was standing in
the door with the sawed off shot
gun.
The robbers forced Miley to
stand in a corner until they
could get away.
In the excitement, the robber
with the stolen pistol left it on
the counter.
As they were driving away,
Miley grabbed the weapon and
fired about five shots at the
fleeing car. He said there was a
good chance he hit the vehicle.
Meanwhile, Hiram Blackmon
was told of the robbery by the
OK attendant.
He saw the robbers leaving
the Gulf station and followed
them south on the interstate. He
got close enough to the vehicle
to get its tag number, but
backed off when one of the
robbers pointed the shotgun at
him from a window.
The robbers’ car, which was
described as a 1966 red Chevro
let with a black top, left 1-75 at
the Barnesville-Jackson exit.
The GBI is assisting the Butts
Sheriff’s Department in the
investigation.
It’ll play again
LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) — Harlan Fisk grew up with
music. His father ran a music store in El Dorado, Kan.,
and served as the school’s bandmaster.
“I grew up blowing a horn. While I was still in high
school I got a job playing music at the old theater during
silent movies,” Fisk says. “I worked around the back
shop at Dad’s store, and got to know a lot about all kinds of
instruments.”
Today, at 60, Fisk’s hobby is putting the music back in
an old reed organ and watching tears of joy well up when
the owner hears a tune again.
The reed organ deserves a “definite place in our
country’s musical heritage,” says Fisk, 60, who retired
after 23 years as a federal accountant, including duty at
Lubbock’s Reese Air Force Base.
“The reed organ is probably best known to the public as
a pump organ,” Fisk said. “A lot of people don’t even
know there are reeds in them.”
The average home organ had 122 reeds. The larger,
more resonant church organs had as many as 354 reeds.
Reed organs were most popular around the turn of the
century.
“The nicest ones I’ve worked on —the ones with the
latest inventions —were built about 1900 to 1910,” Fisk
said. “I would never do it for a livelihood because of the
time and expense involved. But it’s worth it when I get one
fixed up and see tears in the eyes of the owner when it
plays.”
By 1920 most organ companies had gone out of business
or converted to building pianos, he said, but the reed
organ left its stamp.
“These organs were the forerunners of our present day
electric organs,” Fisk said. “The antique value today is
unlimited. People who have them usually attach
sentimental value, too.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, March 20,1975
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Attorney Clifford Seay, secretary Florence Williams,
secretary Olene Duke and Judge Tom Lewis (1-r) were in
the spotlight last night as the Griffin Legal Secretaries
Association held their annual bosses night banquet at the
Moose Club. Mrs. Duke was named Legal Secretary of the
Senate reconfirms
its budget version
ATLANTA (UPI) - By a 54-1
vote, the Georgia Senate
reconfirmed today its version of
the $1.96 billion state budget for
1976 which reduces the amount
of money put up by the House
for teacher pay increases and
property tax relief.
The reconsideration vas
necessary because Senate
President Pro Tern A1 Holloway
of Albany missed the vote
Wednesday night, and could not
serve as a member of the
conference committee to work
out a compromise budget.
Holloway voted today.
The conference panel of three
senators and three representa
tives was expected to go to
work on the House and Senate
versions of the big money bill
It’s honors time again
shortly to settle the differences.
House Appropriations Chair
man Joe Frank Harris of
Cartersville, a member of the
conference committee also, said
the Senate “shouldn’t have
gotten into our tax relief
money. It’s not so much as I
mind the money coming out of
tax relief but that it is going
back into reoccuring obliga
tions. That’s my main objection
to them tampering with it.”
Harris also said he felt the
Senate formula for allocating
pay raises for state employes
was good but had not been
properly investigated and might
need more study.
The Senate first adopted its
budget plan Wednesday night
after almost eight hours of
debate. Some $5 million was cut
from the $35 million proposed
by the House for tax relief.
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He’s opposed
RALEIGH, N.C.—Former Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., reads from a book entitled “Women and
The Law” as be urged legislators in his home state to defeat die proposed Equal Rights
Amendment when he addressed a House Constitutional Amendments Committee
considering the bill. (UPI)
Year and was nominated by her boss, Judge Lewis. Mr.
Seay was named Boss of the Year and was nominated by
Mrs. Williams. Guests included Sen. Virginia Shapard of
Griffin and the speaker, Sen. Franklin Sutton, of die ninth
state senatorial district.
“Money can’t do everything h
— but it does seem to hide a t
faults.”
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