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These students participated in the East Griffin
elementary school kindergarten program. It was one of
the programs the First Baptist Church sponsored.
Pictured are (clockwise from right) Kip Clark, Carol Self,
Casey Ellis, Todd Giles, Laurie Carver, Michael Collier,
College
president
is dead
TIFTON, Ga. (UPI) -
Funeral services for Dr. J.
Clyde Driggers, president of
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College, will be at the First
United Methodist Church today.
Driggers, who had been
president of Abraham Baldwin
since 1964, died at an Atlanta
hospital Tuesday after suffering
a heart attack. He was 58.
His body lay in state in the
Chapel of All Faiths on the
Tifton college campus Tuesday
evening. Burial will be in a
family plot near Wachula, Fla.
Abraham Baldwin is a junior
college, one of 32 institutions in
the state University System.
University System Chancellor
George L. Simpson Tuesday
commended Driggers’ “splen
did” service at the college.
“He has brought that school
forward in service to agricul
ture, forestry and general
education,” Simpson said. “He
has been a great benefit to the
University System.”
Driggers, a native of Fort
Green, Fla., received a doctor
ate in animal nutrition in 1949
from the University of Florida,
where he taught in the poultry
and husbandry department
from 1938 to 1957. He was
chairman of the Poultry Divi
sion of the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture
when named president of
Abraham Baldwin.
He was a retired colonel in
the U.S. Army Infantry, in
which he served from 1941
through 1946. Driggers was
president of the Georgia As
sociation of Junior Colleges and
a member and executive in
numerous professional, techni
cal and civic organizations.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Doris McCullough Drig
gers; a daughter, Mrs. John
Pehler of Memphis; and sons,
Dr. David Driggers of San
Antionio, Stephen Driggers of
Athens, James Driggers of
Midway.
In lieu of flowers the family
asked that contributions be
made to the Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College Foundation
Inc.
Agency
rehired
ATLANTA (UPI) - The state
Department of Community
Development has voted to
rehire Gerald Rafshoon Adver
tising Inc. to handle state
promotion for another two
years.
A spokesman said the ac
count will amount to at least
$106,000 a year for Rafshoon.
An attempt by some new
board members to delay
Monday’s vote on which adver
tising agency would get the
prestigeous state contract was
unsuccessful. With 18 of the
board’s 20 members present,
Rafshoon got 12 votes, followed
by four for Gordon and Wood
Advertising Inc., the firm that
handled Gov. George Busbee’s
ads during his campaign last
year.
In other action, the board
unanimously approved Howard
Atherton of Marietta as com
missioner for the newly-created
Bureau of Community Affairs
in the department Eight new
board members were sworn in
Monday, and two old members
were sworn in for new terms.
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Tornadoes rip across Texas
By United Press International
Tornadoes ripped across por
tions of Texas Tuesday, de
stroying houses and mobile
homes, uprooting trees, down
ing power lines and leaving at
least three persons dead.
The small southern Texas
towns of Calvert and Yancey
bore the brunt of the storms,
though other twisters and
isolated thunderstorns swirled
from the Texas hill country
north to the Dallas-Fort Worth
area.
Media County Sheriff’s police
at Hondo confirmed that three
persons had been killed by a
twister that ripped through
Yancey, south of San Antonio.
Authorities said eight persons
were injured by that twister,
which demolished 16 homes and
damaged several mobile
homes. Damage was estimated
at $300,000.
Killed in the storm were
Ernest Wiemers, Blanch Wiem
ers and an unidentified 18-
month-old girl.
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“One fellow said he heard the
loudest thunder he ever heard,”
a police dispatcher said of the
Yancey storm. “I was talking
to him on the telephone. Little
did he know it was right at his
dqorstep. We had a unit out
there and it said it was right at
his doorstep while I was talking
to him on the phone.”
Another twister bowled
through Calvert, injuring four
persons and causing heavy
damage.
“There is quite a bit of
damage downtown and to some
residential areas,” a police
dispatcher in the Calvert area
said.
Debris from the storm
blocked a state highway and
the Southern Pacific railroad
tracks.
Powerful winds, possibly a
tornado, slashed the eastern
edge of Mineola, Tex., Tuesday
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night, damaging the Mineola
Packing Co. and knocking out
lights, telephones and radios.
No injuries were reported.
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Mississippi River out of its
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farmland in the nation’s mid
section.