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The long wait
They lined up again this morning at the Spalding Courthouse to get automobile tags. The
deadline is April 1. One woman stood in line today holding a tiny child. A young man read
from the Bible as he waited. The inside of the main floor was crowded so much that the tag
line spilled over into the outside.
Masked robbers hit
bank in Menlo today
MENLO, Ga. (UPI) — Four
masked men armed with
shotguns and high powered
rifles held up the Farmers and
Merchants Bank in this north
west Georgia town today and
escaped with an undisclosed
“I guess just about all of us
intend to be generous — as soon
as we have more than we’ll need
for ourselves.”
Privacy
Ford finds it in Good Friday worship
by RICHARD H. GROWALD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford went today to
perhaps the only place in public
where a chief executive could
find privacy. He attended a
morning Good Friday service
at the little church across from
the White House.
Ford stepped alone from his
limousine after a two-minute
ride from the White House
around Lafayette Square to the
steps of St. John’s Church.
He joined 21 other worship
pers in pews in front of the left
side altar in the Episcopal
church built in 1816 by capitol
architect Benjamin Henry La
trobe and known since then as
the church of the presidents.
GRIFFIN
DAI UV NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 74
amount of money.
The bandits, all white men
fled in a white over green 1968
or 1969 Ford with 1975
Tennessee license plates.
There were no reports of any
injuries.
T. W. Walker, president of
the bank said the four men,
wearing “some type of mask,”
entered the bank about 10:15
a.m., forced three customers to
lay on the floor, then made the
tellers lie down also while they
cleaned out the cash cages.
Walker said the men headed
north towards Cloudland, Ga.,
when they left the bank.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
74, low today 50, high yesterday
68, low yesterday 40, high
tomorrow in mid 70s, low
tonight in upper 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:36, sunset
tomorrow 7:51.
It was also this Good Friday
the church of three little girls,
two little boys and 16 adults
who tried mightily to ignore the
tall man in the navy blue suit
who sat in the third pew.
The President’s physician,
Rear Adm. William Lukash,
who must always go where the
President goes, stepped into a
side pew.
Ford ignored a pew bearing a
presidential “reserved” metal
sign and stepped into the pew
in which sat a man in a brown
suit. The man in the brown
suit, a woman in a green coat
in the pew behind and the
President of the United States
never exchanged glances but
gave their eyes only to the Rev.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, March 28,1975
Good Friday
services
are held
By United Press International
Pope Paul VI led the world’s
600 million Roman Catholics
today in solemn Good Friday
observances recalling Christ’s
Crucifixion 19 centuries ago.
In Jerusalem, thousands of
Christian pilgrims from many
denominations crowded the
narrow, cobbled streets of the
ancient walled city for proces
sions along the Via Dolorosa —
traditional path of Christ’s
march to his Crucifixion.
The 77-year-old pontiff was
scheduled to attend an evening
liturgical service in St. Peter’s
Basilica and then carry a tall
cross in a procession around
Rome’s Colosseum to re-enact
the stages of Jesus’ Crucifixion.
David Williams at the altar.
In the pews behind, the three
little girls carefully kept their
eyes on their prayerbooks. The
two boys—one with yellow hair
and one with red hair—did the
same, obviously exercising all
their willpower in keeping their
eyes to the front, even when
walking past Ford to the altar
to receive communion.
The President, the woman in
the green coat and the man in
the brown suit had led the
small, pre-rush hour congrega
tion in going to the altar to
receive the wafer in commun
ion.
When the Rev. Williams, in
leading prayers, called for
God’s blessing on the President,
Orchard Hill arrnex vote
may be set for May 27
Voters in the Orchard Hill
area probably will go to the
polls on May 27 to decide if they
want their land annexed into
that city.
Orchard Hill Mayor Jack
Grubbs said that Friday, April
4, is the deadline for Probate
Judge George Imes to set a date
for the referendum.
The voting must be held
within 30 to 60 days from April 4
Former Griffinite
caught in storm
Anita Hardy of Griffin is
another former Griffinite who
was caught into the tornado that
hit Atlanta this week.
She was riding to work with a
friend on the expressway when
the twister knocked out the
windshield of the vehicle.
Miss Hardy’s own automobile
was in a repair shop and she had
arranged to ride to work in
downtown Atlanta with a friend.
They heard the storm coming
and pulled to the side of the road
to stop. The other cars on the
expressway did the same thing.
Miss Hardy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Hardy of Or
chard Hill, got down on the
floorboard of the car. The storm
smashed out the windshield and
covered the two occupants with
glass.
She told her mother later that
she just knew the storm would
get them.
She said they had to finish
breaking out the car’s wind
shield before they could drive
into town to work.
She works with the juvenile
division in the Department of
Offender Rehabilitation. She’s a
deputy commissioner.
Miss Hardy said the storm hit
between 7:30 and 8 a.m.
Her mother did not hear from
her until around 11 a.m.
“She always calls when
something happens to let me
know she’s all right,” Mrs.
Hardy said today. When she
didn’t hear from her daughter,
she became worried.
The call finally came. She
said her daughter was still quite
shaken from the experience
when she telephoned.
Miss Hardy was very near the
apartment complex where
another Griffin native was
trapped in the storm.
She blanton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Al Blanton of Griffin,
escaped injury when the tor
nado damaged the apartment
complex in which she lives.
Miss Blanton had to move out
of her apartment because of the
he did not glance at the
kneeling chief executive 10 feet
to his front and a little to his
left. This is the church of the
presidents—and their privacy.
When, services over, Ford
strode down the isle and away,
only then did the privacy crack
a bit.
The red-haired boy turned
first. Then the yellow-haired
boy. Then the three little girls,
all stealing a glance at Ford.
It was 7:48 a.m. EDT and the
President was back in the
White House before the rush
hour crowds moved down
Pennsylvania Avenue, past the
White House, the park and the
church.
Daily Since 1872
and May 27 is the tentative date,
Grubbs said.
Mr. Grubbs explained that
two separate elections will be
held then.
Around 34 voters in the Or
chard Hill city limits, along
with several hundred persons in
the area to be annexed will
decide.
If a majority of the voters
approve, the area will be an
nexed, Grubbs said.
damage.
Miss Hardy’s home was not in
the path of the twister, however,
and was not damaged.
5-niember
board vote
November
Legislation for a November
referendum on a five-man
Spalding County commission is
awaiting Gov. George Busbee’s
signature.
Rep. John Mostiler said
legislation introduced at the
General Assembly by the
Spalding delegation will enable
Spalding voters to decide in
November on whether they
want to increase the county
commission from its present
three man membership to five.
The issue was backed by the
Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce.
It provides that the com
missioners’ terms be for four
years instead of the present six
and that each of the county’s
four districts be represented by
a commissioner, in addition to
one representative from the
county at large.
All Spalding voters would
vote on each of the com
missioners.
If the referendum passes,
voters will elect three new
commissioners next year.
They would be for the at large
spot, plus commissioners from
two county districts, one
presently held by Com
missioner Sandy Morgan whose
term expires in 1976.
Commissioners Reid Childers
and P. W. Hamil would com
plete their six-year terms
before facing reelection.
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A touch of the ’sos
Students at Crescent elementary yesterday tried to recapture the spirit of the 1950 s by
wearing the dress of that period to school. The sixth graders held a sock-hop in the
afternoon, a dance that was popular during the era. Dressed to help carry out the theme
were: (front, 1-r) Mrs. Mary Walker, Mrs. Mettelen Moore, Mrs. Mary Russell, Jonathan
Landrum, Jo Johnson, Krista Hutson and Christie Mclntyre (top) Mrs. Betty Skelton, Mrs.
Robyn Bolton, Chuck Gray, Joe Grubbs and Cezar Zevallos.
Talmadge says USDA
let them pile up
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
There are too many peanuts in
the United States —388,000 tons
to be exact —and the Agricul
ture Department announced
Thursday it is giving them
away as peanut oil.
The action followed passage
Monday of a Senate resolution
urging the agency to give the
$142 million worth of peanuts —
acquired under a price support
program —to needy people
before they spoil in storage.
The resolution was adopted
after farmers and Chairman
Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga.,
of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, charged that the
Agriculture Department delib-
Taxes
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erately allowed the surplus to
pile up as part of an effort to
pressure peanut growers into
accepting lower support prices.
The department estimated
the 1974 peanut would produce
about 121,000 tons of oil. It said
about two-thirds of it would go
abroad under the Food For
Peace program.
Scripto big loss
ATLANTA (UPI) - Scripto
Inc., Atlanta-based manufactur
er of writing instruments and
lighters, reported Thursday a
net loss of $2.5 million for 1974
despite a large increase in
sales.
getting worse since another 4 inches of snow is forecast for
the Twin Cities before this latest spring blizzard comes to
an end. (UPI)
Safe found
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - It
seems impossible that anyone
could lose an 800-pound safe
containing SIO,OOO worth of
jewelry. But somebody did. The
police department wants to
know who, and how.
The 4-foot-tall, gray metal
safe was found in an alley Feb.
26 by a motorcycle parking
control officer. It apparently
either fell out of a vehicle or
was abandoned by thieves ,
unable to open it.
When nobody claimed it after
10 days, detectives had it
drilled open and found a
valuable collection of pearl and
coral jewelry and 3,000 loose
pearls. Some papers were
found, but they gave no
indication who the owner was.