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Chairman Ed Hallman
Cancer drive
under way
The residential cancer drive
began yesterday and will
continue through Friday, May
2.
Atty. Ed Hallman, Education
Funds Crusade Chairman for
Spalding County, asked
residents to welcome the volun
teers when they come to call.
“Many Spalding Countians
will be giving selflessly of their
time and efforts,” he said.
Concentrating on education,
research and service programs,
the American Cancer Society
works to improve cancer
Law day
program
planned
A judge, lawyer, minister,
sheriff and city manager will be
featured in a Law Day program
here. It will be in front of the
Spalding County Courthouse
May 1 beginning at 4 p.m.
The Griffin High band will
present pre-program music
beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit will
make opening remarks. AL
tomey Larry Evans will talk on
“Law and How Law Governs
Our Constitution and our Daily
Lives.”
The Rev. Billy Southerland,
pastor of Second Baptist Church
and president of the ministerial
association, will discuss “Moral
and Spiritual Values as they
relate to our Constitution.”
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert of
Spalding County will talk on
“What Law Enforcement is and
how Law and Law Enforcement
With friends like this . .
FAIRBURN, Ga. (UPI) - An
elderly Fairburn woman who
was getting only s2l from her
$146 monthly welfare check
because a friend was pocketing
the difference has gotten some
help from social workers at
Economic Opportunity Atlanta
(EOA).
Mrs. Mary Henderson, 70,
had an unidentified friend who
cashed her check for her and
kept the major portion for
herself.
When the EOA found out
about it, they put a stop to the
practice and now Mrs. Hender
son gets the full amount of the
check.
“And all that time I believed
my friend was giving it all to
me,” said Mrs. Henderson. “It
was my money too.”
Mrs. Henderson pays $5 per
month for an old shack that has
no indoor plumbing and no
prevention, early detection and
prompt treatment.
In Spalding County,
assistance on an individual
basis is readily available to
cancer patients. •
Some 1,500,000 Americans
who have had cancer, are alive,
well and free of the disease,
thanks to the progress of cancer
control.
“Your generous gift to the
Society can help speed the day
when cancer will become
curable or even preventable,”
Hallman explained.
provides Freedom for each
Citizen.”
Col. Roy Inman, Griffin city
manager; will discuss “How
Privileged we are to live in a
free society and what America
means to each of us and how we
must each individually defend,
uphold and respect the freedom
we have, lest we lose it.”
The Griffin High ROTC will
present the colors. Cary Jones,
banker, will lead in the singing
of the National Anthem.
The Chamber of Commerce
will sponsor the program at the
request of the Bi-Centennial
Committee.
Doug Hollberg is chairman of
the Bi-centennial committee.
Working on plans for the Law
Day program are Scott Searcy,
Chamber president; Gene
Dabbs, chairman of the Griffin
Bar Association.
outhouse.
The house also does not have
a bathtub and she has to fetch
water from a spring in front of
her home to wash, cook and
drink.
“I got rid of the rats but the
mice still keep crawling up on
my bed,” she said. “I throw up
the quilt and throw them off.”
She keeps her flour, sugar
and a few other foodstuffs in an
old wooden trunk. “I have to,”
she said. “The rats and mice
will get them.”
The workers at EOA now see
that Mrs. Henderson attends
the senior citizens’ program at
Union Grove Baptist Church in
nearby Union City. She rides a
bus to the meetings with other
senior citizens.
“It makes me happy that I
can go where people are talking
and laughing and singing and
praying,” she said.
15,705 people registered
to vote in Griffin-Spalding
A total of 15,705 people will be ■
eligible to cast ballots in the
May 27 special election for a
county commissioner.
This was the figure the
Spalding County Board of
Registrars announced in its
latest tabulations.
The board has been bringing
its registration lists up to date,
following a routine purge.
People who have not voted
and thus kept their registrations
active were notified by letter
their names would be removed
from the voter lists unless they
responded.
The purge was carried out
under Georgia law and is
handled routinely.
Spalding County’s two
commissioners, Palmer Hamil
and Reid Childers, called a May
27 election to fill a vacancy.
Chairman Sandy Morgan of
the County Commissioners
resigned.
The special election was
called to fill the vacancy.
Marijuana
plants
destroyed
Drug Agent Dean Ray of the
Griffin Police Department
pulled up some marijuana
plants he found growing off
Experiment street near an
industrial parking lot and a rail
road.
He received a telephone tip
that the marijuana was growing
there.
Ray said there was evidence
that the plants had just been
watered.
Mark Reid
spelling
champion
Mark Reid, seventh grader in
the Griffin-Spalding School
System, won the spelling
competition held yesterday at
the Cooperative Educational
Service Agency on. Vineyard
road.
Nineteen students competed.
He will be in the state spelling
contest May 1 at the Georgia
Association of Educators head
quarters in Decatur.
Reid is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Reid, 1720 Ridge
street.
He was in the spelling com
petition last year but advanced
to the state finals this year.
Weather
•SUNNY
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 67, high yesterday
83, low yesterday 57, high
tomorrow in low 70s, low tonight
in upper 40s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:08, sunset tomorrow 8:06.
“Most folks aren’t seeking
advice — they just want to find
someone who’ll sincerely listen
to their problems.”
GRIFFIN
DAILV#NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 93
REGISTERED NUMBER OF VOTERS AS OF APRIL 18, 1975
MAY 27, 1975 SPECIAL ELECTION COUNTY COMMISSIONER
(CITY)
MILITIA DISTRICT PRECINCT NO, VOTERS VOTING PLACE
1001 Griffin 1 787 West Griffin School
1001 Griffin 2 1,230 Fire Sta. No. 1, City Hall
1001 Griffin - 3 2,077 Spalding County Court House
1001 Griffin 4 504 Fourth Ward School
1825 Experiment 5 920 Ga. Exp. Sta. (Stuckey Bldg.)
1005 Orr’s West 0 1,139 Anne Street School
1005 Orr’s East 7 778 National Guard Armory
1005 Melrose 8 323 Spalding Jr. High Auditorium
Total City
(COUNTY)
490 Cabin 718 Ringgold Court House (Hwy. 18)
1005 Orr’s 1,212 Anne Street School
1080 Akin 714 Orchard Hill Court House
1007 Mt. Zion 314 Zeteila Court House
1008 Union 800 Birdie Community House
1089 Africa 1,098 Beaverbrook School
1159 Line Creek 209 Line Creek Court House
1825 Experiment 1,683 Ga. Exp. Sta. (Stuckey Bldg.)
1830 East Griffin 551 East Griffin Court House
Total County 73'1
Total City & County 15,705
Connally says he has
no political plans
ATLANTA (UPI) - John
Connally, fresh from his acquit
tal on bribery charges in
Washington, said Friday that if
he decides to re-enter politics it
would be through a desire to
“protect and strengthen the
political system of this coun
try.”
But, Connally, the former
treasury secretary, said, “I
have no political plans. I have
no plans at all in the political
arena.”
Connally made it clear at an
airport news conference en
route home to Texas that he
has not discarded the notion of.
re-entering politics at some
future date.
Accompanied by his wife,
Nellie, Connally jokingly told
reporters “I really don’t know
what you all are doing here.
I’m just passing through town.”
Then he said “I’m going to
respond as little as I can” to
reporters’ questions about his
trial in Washington, where he
was acquitted Thursday of
bribery charges, and his future
political plans.
Connally said he and his wife
had “been through a long and
trying experience” and “we’ve
seen the judicial system of this
country work.”
He said he did not want to
talk about bribery trial, but
added “I may have something
to say about that at a later
date.”
Connally, who once was
touted as a leading contender
Visitor a real cat
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BURBANK, Calif. (UPI) — The next time Patricia
Craig hears a thumping at her door, she may check to say
who—or what—is there before opening it. The caller
Friday was a large bobcat that bounded inside and ripped
up Mrs. Craig and her house.
A posse of about 100 county workers searched the scrub
covered foothills around her home today, looking for the
animal, estimated to weigh about 40 pounds.
Mrs. Craig, 24, said that when she opened her door in
response to the thumping, the bobcat:
-slumped through the door, clawing her on the arm.
—Bit her right hand.
—Clawed her carpets and table cloth into shreds.
—Dashed over the kitchen shelves, knocking crockery
to the floor. ,
—Tore two closet doors from their hinges, and
-Scrambled out the door and disappeared.
Dr. Ralph R. Sachs, deputy county health director, said
the large search force was formed because Mrs. Craig
will have to take the painful series of antirabies shots if
the bobcat cannot be found and because “the neighbors
are uneasy” at the presence of such an unfriendly animal.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, April 19,1975
for the Republican presidential
nomination, was asked if
anything he had said could be
taken to mean he had ruled
himself out of a return to the
political arena. He replied, “No
it doesn’t, but it doesn’t rule it
in, either.”
He said his and his wife’s
immediate plans were to return
to Houston and his law
practice. “We’re going to our
home to see if it’s all intact and
we’ll water the flowers.”
Patricia, others
swap guns for books
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Patricia Hearst and other
fugitives of the Symbionese
Liberation Army have put down
their guns and taken up
textbooks to change the world,
the San Francisco Examiner
said Friday. (
Unnamed sources quoted in a
copyrighted story said the SLA
now eschews terrorism in the
belief that the assassination of
Oakland School Superintendent
Marcus Foster was a mistake.
Two admitted SLA members
are on trial for the ambush of
Foster and an aide in Novem
ber 1973.
Sources, who the newspaper
said have seen and talked with
Miss Hearst, said she and
William and Emily Harris, two
SLA members last seen with
17 accused
in theft ring
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) -
Chatham County authorities
have rounded up 17 persons on
charges of taking part in a
theft ring which allegedly stole
over SIOO,OOO worth of goods in
Georgia and South Carolina.
The alleged gang was
charged with about 100 felonies
in the two states, Assistant
Dist. Atty. Andrew J. Ryan 111
of Chatham County said Fri
day. The arrests climaxed a
six-week investigation by both
Georgia and South Carolina'
officers. .
her, are reading American
history and are “working for
social change.” They are trying
to lead “a normal life within
limits,” the sources said.
The young fugitive’s father,
Randolph A. Hearst, president
and editor of the Examiner,
welcomed reporter Carol Po
gash’s information, which he
said indicated “that they (the
SLA) have given up violence as
a means of social change.”
There was no indication of
when or where the reporter’s
meetings with her sources took
place, but Hearst’s statement
suggested he may believe they
were recent.
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Gordon library
Construction will begin soon on Gordon Junior College’s $1.4 million library building
approved by the University System Board of Regents. Dunwoody and Company,
Architects, of Macon, presented this rendering of the two-story structure to the college for
approval. The library will cover 30,000 sq. ft., house 54,000 volumes and seat 375 students.
Daily Since 1872
Twister
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kills one
JACKSON, Tenn. (UPI) — A tornado striking just
before midnight Friday killed one person, injured about 60
others and caused extensive damage in this west
Tennessee town that was raked by another twister less
than a month ago.
Power lines were reported down throughout the city
Saturday morning and many streets were blocked with
fallen trees and overturned cars.
“Windows were blown out in several places downtown,
electricity’s out, and we’ve got power blackouts all over
town,” police Capt. Harvey P. Curlin reported.
The victim of the tornado was identified as Mrs.
Augusta Smith, believed to be in her 50’s.
Three children initially were reported missing from the
Lincoln Court housing project, but later were found
unharmed. “So far as we know, everyone is now
accounted for,” police said.
The twister hit in southwest Jackson, damaging the
Lambuth College campus, a residential section, the
housing project and two trailer courts, one of which was
tom by another tornado March 22.
At the Parkway Village Trailer Park, only 12 out of 84
mobile homes were left standing. Michael Houser, one of
the trailer owners, said: “I don’t think there’s a trailer
left that didn’t have some damage. I’m sure the damage
just in this park will be over a half million dollars.”
Additional damage was reported at Sadler Mobile Home
Park, which was hit by another twister last month.
Seventeen persons were injured and 18 trailers destroyed
in the earlier storm.
Friday night’s tornado struck about 11:45 p.m. “We
were watching TV and we could hear it coming,” said
Mrs. Mary Alexander of Jackson. “You couldn’t hardly
stand up, then all the lights went off. Then it was over.”
Hospital officials said about 60 persons were injured, 10
serious enough to require hospitalization. All of those
hospitalized were reported in fair condition.
A spokesman at Jackson Madison Hospital said one
person was hurt when a piece of debris was blown into the
path of an automobile, causing the driver to lose control
Prisoners hold
11 hostages
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
group of about ten inmates,
some of them armed, took over
a maximum security cellblock
in the city jail today and were
holding 11 hostages in an
apparently unsuccessful mass
escape attempt.
More than 100 city policemen
armed with rifles and tear gas
ringed the 103-year-old facility,
located about a mile east of the
Capitol, but officials said there
were no plans at present to
storm the jail.
Authorities said no injuries
were reported. A shot was fired
by an inmate at a guard, but
officials said no one was hurt.
The takeover began shortly
after midnight when two
inmates, one armed with a
handgun, overpowered a guard
and took his keys. The men
escaped in a Corrections
Department truck which was
abandoned a couple of miles
away. The men were still at
large.
It was believed the two men,
who had changed into guard’s
uniforms, were planning to
transport other inmates in the
back of the truck in a mass
escape attempt.