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Wow! what a rainstorm
Freeze tonight threatens peaches
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Drain on Springer drive taxed last night.
People snap up beef offer
“Response to the Spalding
County Cattlemen’s Associa
tion’s beef sale was so over
whelming that we were forced
to stop taking orders,” a
spokesman for the group said
this morning.
The local association
discontinued accepting orders
for its ground beef when all of
the available 7,000 pounds had
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The Jaycettes have called on people in Griffin and g
I Spalding County to nominate a person for the “Young
| Woman of the Year” award.
Nomination forms are available at the three banks in
| Griffin and their branches.
I Nominations should be mailed to the Griffin-Spalding
I Jaycettes, 201 Larcom lane, Griffin.
I Mrs. C. E. Williams, Jr., is chairman.
The award will be [resented at a dinner meeting May 8
at the Elks Club.
Mrs. Williams invited civic and religious groups as well
as individual citizens to make nominations.
The winner will be selected on the basis of community ||
service and accomplishments during 1974.
Nominees must be between 21 and 36.
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been ordered.
The limiting factor was the
availability of processing facili
ties for the beef.
“We had ample live cattle in
the county but we could only
have enough cattle processed to
give us. 7,000 pounds of finished
ground beef.
“As Spalding County is the
closest association to the metro
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, April 3, 1975 Daily Since 1872
Last night.....and this morning
Atlanta market, it was felt that
a portion of our available supply
should be sold there. We, there
fore, allocated 3,000 pounds to
that market with the remaining
4,000 pounds for local consump
tion.
“We regret that we were
unable to fill the local demand
and would like to point out that
unless the ground beef was pre
ordered, there will be no beef
available to the general
public,” the spokesman said.
Those who placed orders for
the ground beef will pick it up
Saturday between 10 a.m. and
noon at the A & P Shopping
Center in Griffin.
The ground beef is 100 percent
tender Georgia beef, including
cuts usually sold as steaks and
roasts.
The beef will be processed,
inspected and labeled and
packaged in compliance with
U.S.D.A. and Georgia Depart
ment of Agriculture regula
tions.
“This is not an effort to
bypass the retail market,” the
spokesman said, “But it is an
attempt to dramatize the
economic plight of cattlemen, to
move some surplus beef, and to
make a superior product avail
able to the housewives at a
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bargain price.
“Members of the cattlemen’s
association will lose about $l5O
per head of cattle slaughtered
for the sale, but it will
demonstrate that the cattlemen
are not responsible for the high
beef prices,” the spokesman
said.
The Georgia Cattlemen’s As
sociation has scheduled at least
25 direct-to-consumers sales of
ground beef this Saturday
across the state, but the
organization said Wednesday it
is unable to meet the full
demand for the cut-rate meat.
Various chapters of the
association are taking orders
for six-pound packages of
ground beef, at $4 a package.
The Consumer Cooperative
Inc., the only Atlanta group
that will be selling the ground
beef, said it alone has a
demand for 100,000 pounds of
beef, but could only get 3,000
pounds from the cattlemen.
“We’ll provide 90,000 pounds
of ground beef at least at the 25
sales throughout the state on
Saturday,” said Walt Mitchell,
executive vice president of the
cattlemen’s group.
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Stream in front of Mrs. David Peeples’ house became small creek last night.
Griffin and Spalding County
survived one weather crisis last
night and faced another tonight.
While tornado like winds
rolled overhead, a rainstorm
brought nearly five inches of
rain to this community.
This ordinarily is the amount
that would fall in a month.
Radar stations in the Atlanta
showed a tornado over the
general area of Orchard Hill in
Spalding County T>ut it ap
parently didn’t touch down
there.
What appeared to be a tor
nado, however, did damage the
Billy Kenway home in Pike
County north of Zebulon. The
house was damaged and trees
blown down. But members of
the family inside escaped in
jury.
Meanwhile, Griffin tried to
wring out the water this mor
ning which the storm brought to
the community.
Lightning crackled through
the skies as heavy clouds rolled
over the area. Winds lashed the
community.
Tornado warnings were out.
The rain taxed the com
munity’s drainage system
beyond capacity in many
places. Some yards of homes
turned into miniature lakes as
the rain poured down.
The water level began to drop
this morning, however.
Some homes in the Griffin
area may have suffered some
damage but the community
generally escaped heavy losses.
The Georgia Experiment
Station recorded 4.80 inches of
rain and a resident on Ellis road
recorded 4.05 inches.
Weather Observer Horace
Westbrooks in Sunny Side
recorded 3.63 inches of rain.
Ed Powell who lives on Potato
Creek road recorded five inches
of rain. He lives in Lamar
County about eight miles from
Griffin.
A forecast of freezing weather
for tonight followed the storm.
Dr. E. F. Savage of the
Georgia Experiment Station in
Griffin said he didn’t like the
looks of things. The freeze
forecast is a threat to the peach
crop, he said.
He said trees in this area of
the state could survive a
temperature of 28 degrees but
probably would be damaged if it
gets colder than that.
Georgia growers reported
they were worried about the
weather tonight, too, Dr.
Savage said.
Earlier this week the state’s
top peach expert had said the
peach crop in Georgia was not
out of danger yet from weather
damage.
Growers generally are op-
timistic if they can get past
Easter without frost or cold
damage.
But Dr. Savage said Monday
there still was danger of a
freeze or other weather
damage. Easter came a little
early this year, he pointed out.
Meat prices
expected
to increase
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Agriculture Department says
large supplies of red meat
during the winter months have
kept retail prices down, but
seasonal reductions in beef and
pork supplies this spring will
push prices up again.
In a report on livestock and
meat, the department’s Outlook
and Situation Board said retail
meat prices in February
averaged 9 per cent below
February, 1974, levels. In
creases in beef and veal
consumption during the winter
months have more than offset
reduced pork and lamb con
sumption.
“The impact of unstable
market conditions, high feed
costs and the severe cost-price
squeeze faced by livestock
producers during the past 18
months continues to dominate
the livestock situation,” the
report said.
Economists said cattlemen
are continuing to adjust record
inventories by increasing
[ slaughter of cows, heifers and
non-fed steers. Reduced hog
. production will continue for the
. rest of 1975. Cattle slaughter
between January and March
, was up 15 per cent from a year
earlier, while hog slaughter
was down 6 per cent.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
65, low today 39, high yesterday
66, low yesterday 56.
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