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Griffin’s flying grandmother
Mrs. Lee Roy (Emily) Claxton has realized a dream she
has had since childhood — that of becoming a pilot. She
qualified for her private pilot’s license after training at
the airport in Griffin and Hall’s Flying Ranch near
Hampton. The grandmother of two said be hopes it will
Outlook good for quints
By RICK VAN SANT
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Quin
tuplets born four weeks prema
turely to a woman who had
been taking fertility drugs were
doing well today and doctors
said their chances for survival
were good.
Three girls and two boys,
described by doctors as “nor
mal and quite lovely babies,”
were born to Pamela I<evy, 28,
of Cincinnati, at General
Miller
decides
not to run
Griffin businessman Henry
Miller, who said several weeks
ago that he was considering
becoming a candidate for
county commissioner, today
announced that he will not run.
Mr. Miller said that due to a
heart condition brought about
by a heart attack two and a half
years ago and on the advice of
his doctor, he will not be a
candidate for the office of
county commissioner in the
special election.
“I thank the many people who
encouraged me to run for this
most important office. I hope
the best qualified man for the
office will be elected,” Mr.
Miller said.
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“Changing people’s attitudes
will be more useful than
changing their laws.”
Burglars hit Chap Johnson 45th time Weather
Chap Johnson’s Package
Store on North Hill street was
burglarized again last night, the
eighth time since October and
about the 45th time since the
business opened some 30 years
ago.
Last night’s break-in was
discovered around 10 p.m. by a
passer-by who noticed the front
door open and called police. The
door frame had been broken.
This morning Mr. Johnson
was checking to determine what
DAILY NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 96
Hospital late Tuesday after
noon.
“Oh my gosh,” Mrs. Levy
said when her husband Mark,
27, told her she had just had
five children. The quints were
the first children for the couple.
Mrs. Levy, a counselor at
White Oaks Junior High
Schook, weighs only about 100
pounds.
“The babies are doing quite
well for their size,” reported
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Griffin High cheerleaders for 1975-76
The cheerleader corps for 1975-76 school year at Griffin High School includes Maletha Lemons, Miss Joyner, advisor; Ginger Stansell, (back) Ronnl
(front 1-r) Terri Mays, captain; Suzette Fuller, Paula Walker, Cortese Lewis, Rita Smith, Carol Morton, Judy Martin, and Peggy Allen.
Mathis, Lisa Ross, Belinda Coker, and Robyn Mullins, captain, (middle)
was taken. He said all of the
cigarets (around SIOO worth)
some wine, beer and a small
amount of change were
missing.
No money is kept in the store
but Mr. Johnson said he had left
a little change in a drawer last
night.
He said if any of the burglars
have been caught, he doesn’t
know about it. He caught an
armed robber who held him up
one time, he said. He has been
demonstrate that people should never give up on trying to
reach their goals. She said sticking with a challenge
usually will get the job done. Her husband, a Griffin
pharmacist, is a pilot, too.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, April 23, 1975
robbed twice.
Last night’s break-in was the
first time entry was made
through the front.
“Usually they come in the
back. I’ve bricked that up.
They’ve even tom through the
roof twice to get in,” he said.
Two other burglaries were
investigated by the Spalding
Sheriff’s Department yester
day. One was cleared with the
arrest of a 15-year-old boy.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
Dr. James M. Sutherland, in
charge of the hospital’s prema
ture nursery where the infants
were being fed intravenously.
“But the first 72 hours is the
critical periodnosis now is good
we can’t absolutely say they
will survive.”
Sutherland noted the smallest
baby had to have a minor blood
transfusion Tuesday night and
then “seemed well.”
The babies, all born within a
the youth was charged with
breaking into the Calhoun Elks
Lodge on North Hill street. He
entered by tearing a hole
through the floor, the sheriff
said.
Some of the merchandise he
was accused of stealing has
been recovered.
The loot included five cases of
beer and about three cartons of
cigarets.
The boy cannot be named
under Georgia law because of
Daily Since 1872
two-minute span, ranged in
weight from 3 pounds, 3 ounces
to 4 pounds, 13 ounces. They
totaled 19 pounds, 14 ounces.
“Mrs. Levy began taking a
fertility drug 11 months ago,”
said Dr. Allen R. Shade, the
physician who made the delive
ries. “The fertility drug was
most likely the cause of the
multiple births.
“I could tell some time ago
she was going to have at least
his age. His case will be
scheduled in Spalding Juvenile
Court.
A component stereo system
was reported stolen from an
apartment at Spalding Heights
yesterday.
Mrs. Evelyn Houston said the
set was worth $250.
No forcible entry was made
into the apartment, investiga
tors said.
Wants to learn at 86
By MICHAEL 0. WESTER
LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) : J. Wesley
Phillips, like most seventh graders in the
city’s public school system, can figure the
area of a cylinder or the interest on a bank
deposit compounded daily for any part of a
year.
But Phillips, who will be 87 in June, is
Lubbock’s oldest elementary student.
“I quit school in the fifth grade, but since
I re-enrolled in January (1974) I haven’t
missed a day of classes,” Phillips said.
Phillips moved with his parents to the
West Texas Plains in a covered wagon in
1898, and except for brief visits he has
never left the area.
His education is part of the Adult
Learning Center financed by federal funds
to help educate students of all ages up to a
high school level.
Phillips first retired at 65 as a
carpenter’s helper and again at 80 as a
lawn mower repairman. His wife died in
1971 and four years later he learned of the
adult education classes.
“I think the program is wonderful and
would recommend it to any senior citizen
— but most won’t listen to me,” Phillips
said.
He returned to school because he likes
math and wants to improve his knowledge
of it. He has decided hwen he finishes his
triplets, but I wasn’t sure if
there would be more.”
Mrs. Levy was reported
“doing extremely well” today.
Doctors described the father,
a Procter & Gamble Co.
management employe, as in a
“state of disbelief” and he
declined to talk with reporters
right away.
“He is reluctant about all the
publicity,” explained a hospital
staffer.
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tomorrow 8:09.
seventh-level math book he will buy an
electronic calculator.
“I want one to help me learn the metric
system,” he said. “I had some metric
math years ago —but part of it is new to
me.”
Phillips doesn’t know it yet but a local
office supplier has agreed to give him the
calculator he wants when he starts his
eighth-level math book.
Phillips knows he has other education
needs and is taking English.
“I use to be a good speller,” he said. “I
got headmarks at least once a week.”
A headmark, Phillips explained, was a
nickname given to a student for advancing
to the head of the class roll for spelling the
most words correctly.
“But it’s gotten away from me over the
years. I can’t even write a decent letter
now. It’s a little harder than math, but I’m
working at it.
“I get up and fix my own breakfast
before school,” said Phillips, who wears a
suit and tie every day to class.
“I used to drive my own car to school,
but a few weeks ago I moved to an
apartment about two blocks away so now I
just walk.
“We can go at our own speed and in the
subjects we like or feel we need. I can’t
wait to get through Book 7 in math and get
my calculator.”
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Husband, wife team
Togetherness
‘Sure shocks a
lot of people’
Sandra and Steve Williams became the first female in tl<
live a life of togetherness. Both state of Georgia to work for th;-
now work for Southern Bell company in the historical!
Telephone Company, in the male-dominated position <
Griffin area, as installers. They switchman.
reside in Zebulon, Steve’s home The Williams’ attend the
town. Zebulon Baptist Church. They
Sandra is no newcomer to the are the parents of a son, Robert,
communications industry. She age two and one-half. Steve
worked for the Thomaston attended Pike County High
Telephone Company, as an School, while Sandra is a
equipment engineer, for seven graduate of Robert E. Lee, in
years. While there, she met and nearby Thomaston.
married Steve, who was then When asked if his wife’s job
installing telephones in that had brought about any unusual
community. She later worked experiences, Steve responded
for General Telephone Com- with a grim, “sure shocks a lot
pany in Perry, where she of people.”
Court says no-fault
is colossal fraud
NEW YORK (UPI) — A state
Supreme Court justice has
declared New York’s no-fault
insurance law unconstitutional
and a “colossal fraud on the
public.”
Brooklyn Supreme Court Jus
tice George Nicols said Tues
day the law violated the rights
of due process, trial by jury
and equal protection of the law.
Nicols said Article 18 of the
state insurance law (the no
fault act) was “in fact, a bar to
recovery affecting whole
classes of litigants and this
court finds Article 18 as being
oppressive.”
It “is a denial to some
citizens of this state their basic
constitutional rights.... Accor
dingly, this court finds (it) to
be unconstitutional and invalid
in its entirety,” Nicols ruled.
In a footnote, he wrote that
proponents of no-fault had
argued that car liability insur
ance rates would be lowered
under the concept but “com
mon public experience and
knowledge seem to prove this
contention to be a colossal
fraud on the public.”
Nicols’ ruling stemmed from
a suit on behalf of nine infants
and adults injured in auto
accidents since February, 1974,
in which no one suffered
injuries that required more
than SSOO in medical fees.
The no-fault provision, which
became effective February
1974, eliminated the right to sue
in court for pain or other
nonmonetary losses received in
a car accident unless a
“serious injury” or “significant
disfigurement” was sustained
Nicols found those terms
“void for vagueness and violate
the fundamental requisites of
due process.”
He also said the right to trial
by jury “exists as an inherent
privilege that cannot be abol
ished statutorily” and stated
that in adopting the law, the
legislature “unblushingly decid
ed to flatly ignore the
constitutional guarantees” of
the people.