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can be seen in upper left. Picture at right shows the front section of the new addition with view of original building in; right
DAILY’vNEWS
Vol. 103 No. 77
Morgan to serve until
successor takes oath
Among the matters that came
up at the Spalding County Com
mission meeting this morning
were abandoning a road, fire
protection for Sunny Side,
paving a road, improving a rail
road crossing, rabies control,
killing rats at trash dumpsters
and turning down a request to
move a house into the county.
Chairman Sandy Morgan
presided. He said he expected to
serve as a commissioner until
his successor was sworn in.
Morgan announced his
“More folks have been
failures for lack of morals than
for lack of education.”
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Susan McCarty, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis ‘McCarty of Roberts street, yesterday became the first girl to tryout for Griffin Little League baseball. She hopes
to become a member of the Continental League, which is for nine and 10-year-old players. Her first day at tryouts went smoothly, except for some ribbing from young competitors.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, April 1,1975
resignation yesterday. He said
he sent a letter of resignation to
Gov. George Busbee.
The response the governor
makes to the letter will
determine when an election will
be called to fill the vacancy.
County Attorney Jim Owen
said that the remaining two
commissioners would be
responsible for setting an
election date. He said this was
under a Georgia code revision.
The election manager then
would be responsible for holding
Today is
last day
to buy tags
Today was the last day to buy
1975 auto tags without penalty.
Long lines were at the court
house again this morning.
A spokesman in the tag office
said the office will close at 5
p.m., but the workers will try to
sell tags to all who were in line
before then.
They worked until after 8 last
night, she said.
GRIFFIN
In this story.....
In this story:
—Chairman Morgan stays until his successor is sworn.
— Sunny Side fire protection.
— Closing road dispute not settled.
— Road paving request.
— Rats at dumpsters.
— Rabies control has no officer.
—Dog pound finish seen middle of next of month.
— Man can’t move house to Spalding.
— New administrator introduced.
—Resolution to pay tribute to Al Hill, late tax assessor.
the election.
A newsman had asked Com
missioner Morgan how much
longer he would serve. He said
until his successor took the oath
of office.
Chairman Morgan said Billy
Slaughter, mayor of Sunny Side
had asked about getting fire
protection for that community.
Mr. Morgan said he already
had discussed the idea with
Dundee Volunteer Fire Chief
Kenneth Roberts.
Roberts told Mr. Morgan that
the Dundee department now
could protect the Sunny Side
area but that with the present
equipment, the fire insurance
rates for Sunny Side would not
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be lowered much.
Mr. Morgan said to give the
kind of protection the people in
Sunny Side wanted probably
would require a fire station to
be built there.
Commissioner P. W. Hamil
wanted to know if the people in
Sunny Side understood if a fire
zone were set up for them, that
they would have to pay a higher
tax rate for the service.
Mr. Morgan said they under
stood that.
Commissioner Reid Childers
said he thought the fire protec
tion for Sunny Side should be
encouraged.
The commissioners said they
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Mrs. Bertha
Adams, 71, would beg for food, wore clothes given to her
by the Salvation Army and sympathetic neighbors who
felt she was unable to care for herself got her committed
to a nursing home.
Sunday she died of malnutrition, leaving behind close to
$1 million in cash and stocks.
“I continue to be flabbergasted,” attorney Robert Leite,
her court-appointed guardian, said Monday. “It’s hard to
get over seeing that much money.”
Leite, who was appointed Mrs. Adams’ guardian by a
probate judge who found her incompetent because of
“senility and malnutrition” last month, discovered the
widow’s assets in two bank deposit boxes. One box, at the
Atlantic National Bank, contained $600,000 in cash, while
another, at the Florida National Bank, contained
$199,581.50 in cash and an assortment of various stocks,
including 740 shares of International Telephone and
Telegraph Co. and 139 shares of International Paper Co.
Leite said he had no idea how Mrs. Adams had amassed
her wealth. She had married twice but both husbands
were believed dead and Leite knew of no family other than
a niece in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Adams, who weighed only 50 pounds when
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Regent
sets talk
at church
Elridge W. McMillan who is
the newest member of the
Board of Regents for the
University System of Georgia
will be the speaker for the April
6 annual men’s day program at
the West Sinai Baptist Church
on Akins street in Barnesville.
McMillan is a native of
Barnesville.
The theme of the week is
“making brotherhood work.”
The program will begin at 3
p.m.
T/n no poor woman’
Griffin crime rate
Major crime in the United
States increased 17 percent last
year which was less than the
52.86 percent rise in Griffin.
The national rate was
reflected in a report from the
FBl’s Uniform Crime Report,
released yesterday.
The 52.86 percent increase in
Griffin is based on figures from
the public safety com
missioner’s report to the city
commissioners and city
manager.
They were published Feb. 6 in
Griffin Daily News and the
Griffin City Manager Roy In
man later took issue with their
interpretation.
The national increase report
authorities were alerted to her condition, used to tell
neighbors she was “no poor woman” and had once lived in
wealth and comfort.
“She came to my back door and begged me for food,”
said Mrs. Odell Edwards. “But she always used to tell me
that she was ‘no poor woman’ and I believed her. She used
to tell me that she once lived at the Breakers (Hotel).”
Mrs. Edwards said Mrs. Adams “dressed nicely and
lived well” when she first moved into the neighborhood 25
years ago. But she gradually deteriorated so that in recent
years, according to another neighbor, “her house looked
like a pigpen and she got what clothes she had from the
Salvation Army.”
Neighbors finally alerted the Division of Family
Services to her condition and last March 17, following
Judge Paul Douglas’ ruling, she was committed to a
nursing home.
Leite, who conducted a court ordered inventory of her
belongings after her committal, found she owned a 1952
Cadillac valued at S2OO, had $210.75 in her bank account
and had stocks and securities valued at $3,000 before
finding the keys to the safe deposit boxes.
Mrs. Adams left no will and Leite said he did not know
whether her niece would be entitled to any of her property.
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yesterday showed Atlanta’s
crime rate had increased 7.9
percent which was short of the
national 17 percent.
But Griffin’s rate Os 52.86
percent far exceeded the
national rate.
Orchard Hill
vote May 27
The vote on annexation of
land into the city of Orchard Hill
has been set for May 27.
Probate Judge George Imes
officially set the date this
morning.
Some 34 voters residing in the
city and several hundred in the
area affected will decide.