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Getting ready
Gary Bartholomew helps Lee Ann Mitchell try on cap as they prepare for graduation.
Tax rebate checks
to begin Thursday
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
first income tax rebate checks
will be mailed this Thursday.
The administration hopes they
will lure tight-fisted consumers
into the marketplace once
Upson boy, 9,
hangs self
in accident
An Upson County boy
accidentally hanged himself
during the weekend.
Chapus Cherry, Jr., nine, was
playing with a rope in the yard
of his home in Upson County. He
placed the rope around his neck,
tied it to a gym set, and ap
parently tripped, dying of
strangulation.
Griffinite killed
in interstate mishap
Leeroy Goodman, 33, of
Griffin died Saturday when the
tractor trailer he was driving
ran off 1-85 south of Atlanta and
turned over.
A native of Clayton County,
Mr. Goodman had made his
home in Griffin for 14 years. He
was a member of the Mt.
Carmel United Methodist
Church, a member of the Meri
dian Sun Lodge No. 26 of
Masons and the Griffin Shrine
Club. He was a veteran of the
Marine Corps.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Jackie Pitts Goodman;
two daughters, Miss Leslie
Goodman and Miss Leesa Good
man; a son, Lee Goodman, all
of Griffin; mother, Mrs. Frank
Goodman of Sunny Side; six
Cutting primaries move to undermine Wallace?
By ARNOLD D. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Gov.
George Wallace was the leading
vote getter in Democratic
presidential primaries in 1972,
until he was shot by assassin
Arthur Bremer.
In the three years since he
was paralyzed, the Alabama
governor has repeatedly re
minded Democrats he was the
primary popular vote leader.
Wallace has expressed in
creasing fondness for primaries
to choose presidential candi-
again and help fight the
recession.
The checks will be between
SIOO and S2OO for most
taxpayers. In the first week,
the Treasury Department’s
regional offices plan to send out
$1.7 billion in 13.7 million green
checks.
The first recipients will be
those who filed 1974 federal tax
returns early. Those who
mailed returns in January
should get rebates in the next
week or so.
Those who filed around the
April 15 deadline will not get
their checks until June or early
July. A total of 66.8 million
Americans are expected to
receive $B.l billion in rebates.
When other benefits of the
tax cut package signed in late
March by President Ford are
sisters, Mrs. Tommy Rentz of
Baxley, Mrs. Daniel Bruce of
Jonesboro, Mrs. Ray Corley,
Miss Rita Goodman, both of
Sunny Side; Mrs. Brenda
Thompson of Brooks and Mrs.
Dianne Reid of Griffin; two
brothers, Robert Goodman and
Ferrell Goodman, both of Sunny
Side; grandmother, Mrs.
Geneva Long of Jonesboro,
several aunts, uncles, nieces
and nephews.
The funeral will be conducted
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
in the chapel of Pittman Rawls
Funeral Home. The Rev. Ray
mond Chambers and the Rev.
Ulton D. Singleton will officiate.
Burial will be in Griffin
Memorial Gardens. The body
will remain at the funeral home.
dates and recommended either
a national primary or a series
of regional ones to “let the
people decide.”
Now, getting ready for a
fourth presidential run, Wallace
and his supporters are growing
suspicious that an effort is
afoot to cut back rather than
expand the presidential prima
ries.
The primaries are important
because Wallace is no favorite
with most state and local
Democratic leaders, even in
added —including lower with
holding on 1975 federal taxes
and a SSO bonus payment to
Social Security recipients —
about sl9 billion will go back to
consumers in the next few
months.
Government economists are
betting most of this money will
be spent on new cars,
appliances, clothing and other
goods. If this proves true, it
will increase demand in a
sluggish economy — which
should boost production and
create jobs for some of the 8
million unemployed.
But if consumers remain
cautious and bank their rebates
or use the money to pay bills,
the recession could drag on.
Those who filed early and are
also due a tax refund will get
two checks —a refund and a
rebate. Late filers will get one
check with a note explaining
how much is refund and how
much rebate.
The multi-billion dollar opera
tion has been relatively trouble
free. “We were geared up for
this,” an IRS spokesman said.
“The brunt of the burden fell
on our computers and they
were quite capable of handling
it.”
“Maybe we weren’t as smart
as we thought we were when we
switched from raising oats to
buying gasoline.”
some Southern states. Selecting
convention delegates in cau
cuses and conventions instead
of primaries would be expected
to give party regulars a better
chance to check Wallace,
although the new party rules
give “outsiders” a better
chance than previous systems.
In 1976, for the first time, the
Democrats’ “proportional re
presentation” system requires
state parties to award delegates
on a pro rata basis to all
GRIFFIN
DAI EV # INIEWS
Vol. 103 No. 106
Griffin High may graduate
450 seniors this spring
Some 450 Griffin High seniors
will graduate in exercises held
in the stadium Friday, May 30
at 8 p.m.
Honor graduates who either
are members of or are eligible
for membership in the Beta
Club will be in charge of the
program.
The Rev. Forest Traylor, Jr.,
of the First Presbyterian
Church, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon in a
service Wednesday, May 28, at 8
p.m. in the stadium.
Os the graduates, around 200
are boys and some 250 are girls.
They include some 20 students
presently attending classes at
Griffin Vo-Tech and a few
students in classes at the Griffin
Learning Center.
Graduation rehearsals are
scheduled for the mornings of
May 28, 29 and 30.
School officials said seniors
may pick up their invitations in
their homerooms or from Mrs.
Juanita Morris in Room E-104.
Caps, gowns and diplomas
may be paid for in the school
office.
Adult Ed.
may get
new name
The Adult Education program
here may get a new name as the
result of a Griffin Daily News
editorial.
Walter L. Dunn, coordinator,
said he and Supt. D. B. Christie
of the Griffin-Spalding system,
would take the idea to the board
of education.
In a letter to Griffin Daily
News Editor Quimby Melton,
Jr., Dunn said he would suggest
the program be called Educa
tion Opportunity Center.
League wants
hospital talks
in public
The Griffin-Spalding League
of Women Voters has requested
that the hospital authority give
advance public notice of any
meetings they hold during
which the possible management
of the local hospital by Hospital
Corporation of America will be
discussed.
In a letter sent to authority
chairman, O. M. Snider, Jr.,
League president, Mrs. Sydney
Wynne, asked the meetings be
announced several days in
• advance and that a meeting
place and time be scheduled so
that interested citizens could
share their views.
She said the league takes no
stand in the matter and is
concerned only that the public
be made aware of the issues
involved.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 53, high yesterday
78, low yesterday 61, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in mid 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:14, sunset
tomorrow 8:15.
presidential candidates who
have 15 per cent or more
support in primaries, caucuses
and conventions.
Through May 16, 1972, Wal
lace received 3,334,914 votes to
lay claim to 324 delegate votes.
Sen. George McGovern, who
won the Democratic nomina
tion, had 2,183,533 votes and 560
delegates at that time and Sen.
Hubert Humphrey had 2,606,186
votes and 311 delegates.
Wallace and his campaign
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, May 5,1975
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Deputy Davis Peeples (1) along with Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert (r) talk to school patrols about their trip to
Washington, D.C. The students are Rebecca Holland,
Bubbette Crowder, and Greg Jester. They will be leaving
Pomona church
burglary victim
The Pomona United Metho
dist Church in Pomona was
burglarized over the weekend.
The Rev. Eugene Walton,
pastor, discovered the break-in
Saturday. He said an undeter
mined amount of merchandise
was taken which would be listed
later.
Entry was made through a
window, according to the Spald
ing Sheriff’s Department.
Griffin police investigated a
house burglary yesterday.
Mrs. Geraldine Evans of 1324
Lincoln road complained
someone entered her home and
took all of her clothes and furni
ture. Their total value was more
Viet refugee aid
tops Ford list
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Swift approval of aid to help
the estimated 120,000 Vietnam
refugees pouring into the
United States is the top priority
of the Ford administration and
Congress this week.
But as the first wave of
refugees arrived, some mem
bers of Congress reflected
public opposition and said they
oppose the refugee resettlement
plans.
Rep. Thomas Morgan, D-Pa.,
chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, said he will
summon administration offi
cials to determine the number
Washington bound
than $l,lOO, she said.
An undisclosed amount of
cash and checks were taken in a
break-in at Bill Bradley’s
Service Station on South Hill
street yesterday. Mr. Bradley
said he discovered the door to
the station open.
Mrs. B. F. Smith of 1333 Oak
dale drive apparently frighten
ed burglars away from her
home last night.
She told police she came
home about 9:30 and heard a
noise in the house.
She called police who sear
ched the house and discovered
two rifles, valued at $650
missing.
of refugees that will be
absorbed and the cost of
resettling them.
Some details may come today
when the government’s refugee
coordinator, L. Dean Brown,
appears before a House refugee
subcommittee.
Despite backing by Morgan
and President Ford, the House
last week defeated a Senate
passed bill that would have
provided some money for the
refugees.
Sens. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y.,
and Claiborne Pell, D-R.1., said
Saturday they will introduce
legislation this week seeking
humanitarian aid.
staff believe at least efforts to
repeal presidential primaries in
North Carolina and in Tennes
see were undertaken to reduce
or eliminate his chances of
winning delegates to the 1976
Democratic convention.
Wallace went to Raleigh and
Nashville to oppose the laws in
state legislatures. At last word
his strategists believed both
bills had been stopped.
They are watching what they
feel are similar efforts in
Nebraska and Florida and are
tomorrow along with 436 other school students on 10 buses
from Spalding Junior High Unit I at 6:00 p.m. They will
return to Griffin Sunday.
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PRIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis.—Drivers near the Mississippi
at Prairie du Chien had a difficult time getting close
enough to this sign to find out what street they were on.
The river was more than two feet over the disaster flood
stage. (UPI)
considering an effort to restore
the New Mexico primary.
Supporters of the laws in
North Carolina and Tennessee
deny Wallace was the target.
In North Carolina, the repeal
was part of an effort to shift
the regular primary from May
to August, which would make a
presidential primary useless. In
Tennessee, Gov. Ray Blanton
first attempted to stop crossov
er voting in primaries and
backed repeal only when that
failed.
Daily Since 1872
Junior Miss
is tonight
MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) —
America’s Junior Miss Pageant
lacks the word “beauty” in its
title for a reason. It’s no beauty
contest, officials say, and young
women competing for the title
agree.
Officials of the pageant, to be
televised nationally tonight, say
they look for outstanding
qualities in young American
females, not beauty.
“If you saw us all, especially
me, they’d know it wasn’t a
beauty contest,” said Debra
Ruth Clark, Maine’s 18-year-old
entry from Gardiner.