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Checking them out
M. Van Goss, head mechanic for the school bus garage near Spalding Junior High n, checks
buses in the Griffin-Spalding fleet to make sure they are ready to roll Monday when school
opens. State Patrolmen found some deficiencies in 28 of the 56 buses. School officials said
most were minor and all of the vehicles are expected to be in safe operating condition when
school opens.
Two of Central
escapees caught
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.
(UPI) — State and county
officers today recaptured two of
four men who broke out of the
Central State Hospital’s crimi
nally insane ward and shot a
city policeman.
A State Patrol spokesman
said Marion Roscoe Usry, 26, of
Clayton County and Thomas
Mitchell Overton, 19, of McDuf
fie County were picked up
about 10 a.m. in a patch of
woods in nearby Wilkinson
County.
At least one other fugitive
was believed to be on foot and
the search continued in that
area for him.
Usry’s wife, who was being
held by authorities, was be
lieved to be the person who
slipped the fugitives a gun used
in the break and in the shooting
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Fire knocker made here
Olan Purser, John Metts and John H. Miller (1-r) check
work on fire knocker which Griffin Tech welding students
completed. The equipment is used in rural fire fighting. It
of Milledgevillle policeman
Bennie Evans, 31.
Evans, who was serving as a
security guard at the big
prison-hospital complex, was
listed in serious condition at the
intensive care unit of Baldwin
Memorial Hospital.
The four fugitives — one of
them a convicted murderer —
slipped out of the Vinion
Building at 3:30 a.m. and are
believed to have fled in an old
model Ford. Evans said one of
the men, Michael Myers, shot
him as the four made their
break.
Police arrested Susan Ursry,
the wife of one of the four
fugitives, along with a teen
aged girl whose identity was
withheld because she was a
minor.
Police charged Susan Ursry
and the young woman, whose
name was withheld because she
is a minor, with four counts of
aiding in the escape of inmates
and with providing a gun to an
inmate.
Police identified the inmates
as Myers, 20, of Cobb County,
Marion Ursry, 26, of Clayton
County, William Fuller, 36, and
Thomas Overton, 19, of Thomp
son.
Dr. Miguel Bosch, the psy
chiatrist who examined the four
men, said Myers was in
custody for a probation viola
tion. Fuller had served 18 years
for murder before transferring
to Central State Hospital, Bosch
said.
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91, low yesterday 71.
is the second one the students at Griffin Tech have built
for the Georgia Forestry Commission.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 195
Community pushing
for solar complex
The boards of Griffin and
Spalding County commissioners
will hold a joint meeting in the
morning, along with other
community leaders, to prepare
an application for Spalding
County as location of a $75-
million Solar Energy Research
Institute.
The public is invited to the
session at 9:30 a.m. in the
meeting room of the Spalding
County Commissioners at the
courthouse.
According to County Ad
ministrator Lewis Leonard,
Griffin meets all requirements
and has a good chance if
Georgia is selected for the
facility.
“Griffin’s selection may not
be so far fetched, as it is better
qualified than any other
Georgia community,” Leonard
said.
Gov. George Busbee has
established a site selection
commission to solicit site
proposals from throughout
Georgia and to recommend a
site that will give the state the
best opportunity for location of
the institute.
Deadline for application is
Sept. 1.
The commission will coor
dinate development for final
application which will be sent to
the Energy Research and
Development Administration of
the U. S. government.
The commissioners have
invited to tomorrow’s meeting
representatives of the Real
Estate Board, Griffin Vo-Tech,
Chamber of Commerce,
Mclntosh Trail Area Planning
and Development Commission,
Griffin-Spalding School System,
Griffin Engineering and other
survey firms.
They will help prepare in
formation about the community
and discuss available sites and
acreage.
The total acreage needed for
the Institute is uncertain but
may require from 100 to 1,000
acres.
The facility might employ
between 300 and 1,000 people.
Research would be conducted
on the use of solar energy to
help meet the nation’s energy
needs.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, August 18,1975
Democrats set
district meets
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Democratic Party district cau
cuses will be held next
Saturday to decide on represen
tatives to next month’s charter
writing convention to be held in
Macon.
“The party has always ’
existed from administration to
administration, with the leader
ship changing with each gover
nor,” said Charles Graves, the
party’s executive director.
“A charter will give the party
continuity from year to year,”
he said, “because it will spell
out the ground rules under
which the party will operate.”
Under the party rules, any
registered voter can participate
in the caucuses in each of the
56 State Senate districts. Each
Senate district will have 10
delegates and five alternates
for the party convention in
Macon Sept. 19-20.
In addition to the 560 elected
delegates, voting rights will be
extended to all 100 members of
the charter commission, which
has been working on the party
charter since Busbee took
office.
There will also be 15
delegates from the Georgia
Young Democrats, six from the
national committee, and 38
Democratic public office hol
ders.
Because Georgia voters are
Demos set
meet here
Democrats in the 28th
senatorial district will meet
Saturday at the Spalding
County Courthouse at 10 a.m.
They will elect delegates and
alternates to the state party’s
charter convention at Macon
Sept. 19-20.
Ten delegates and five
alternates will be elected.
George Tumlin of Clayton is
chairman of the district.
Notice of candidacy must be
filed with him by noon Wednes
day.
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big — unless it keeps him from:
seeing how good little things can
be.”
Boys find dynamite
ATLANTA (UPI) — Two teen-aged boys found some
oddlooking sticks in north Atlanta Sunday. On taking them
home, the boys founds out the 32 sticks were dynamite.
David Smith and a friend found the explosives near the
Smith home, put it in a box and took the sticks to his
father, James E. Smith, who promptly called police.
Army ordnance experts were summoned to take
custody of the dynamite while police tried to figure out
where it came from.
Store operator slain
FRANKLIN, Ga. (UPI) — Milton Jackson, 49, operator
of a convenience store in this west Georgia town, was shot
to death Sunday in an apparent armed robbery.
Sheriff Virgil Bledsoe said Jackson was found dead in
the store Sunday afternoon, shot in the head with a .38
caliber weapon.
The sheriff said one of his deputies became suspicious
when he found the store locked and Jackson’s car still
parked outside.
On shining a flashlight in a window, officers spotted
blood on the floor. They broke in, Bledsoe said, and found
Jackson dead and the cash register emptied.
He said the slaying apparently occurred between 3:30
and 4:30 p.m.
not required to register by
party, voters taking part in the
district caucuses will be re
quired to sign affidavits stating
they are registered voters and
plan to support the Democratic
party.
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Winners
Crowned winners in beauty contests at Northgate Shopping Center Saturday night were
(standing, l-r) Peggy Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Allen, Route One, 419 Vaughn
lane, Miss Northgate; Donna Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Bailey of 580
Georgia avenue, Fayetteville, Junior Miss Northgate; and Teddi Mallory, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ted F. Mallory, 3006 Carol drive, Fayetteville.
Something new
The Griffin Daily News begins something new today. It
is a once-a-week editorial column by Bertha M. Combs of
McDonough. Miss Combs is a retired school teacher and
writer. We will publish her column every Monday on the
Editorial Page, Page 4, starting today.
Polls show
Ford slips
By United Press International
Fewer than half of those surveyed in today’s Harris and
Gallup polls approve of how President Ford is handling
his job, a substantial drop from the May gains Ford won
following the Mayaguez affair.
The Gallup poll said 45 per cent of 1,529 Americans sur
veyed approved Ford’s work in August. The Harris poll
listed only 38 per cent of 1,403 adults rating Ford’s
performance as “positive.”
But there was a big difference between the two polls on
how many persons disagreed with the President.
In the Gallup poll, disapproval came from 37 per cent
and 18 per cent had no opinion. In the Harris poll, 60 per
cent called it negative and only 2 per cent weren’t sure.
The President’s highly publicized trip to Helsinki to sign
the European security agreement apparently did nothing
to bolster Ford at home.
He had a 41 per cent positive rating in the Harris poll in
July and 52 per cent approval from the Gallup survey the
same month, the last Ford surveys for each organization.
The Gallup poll said nearly seven in 10 of those surveyed
called the economy the nation’s top problem.
Ford’s poll popularity declined steadily from a high of
71 per cent in the Gallup poll when he took office a year
ago to a low of 37 per cent approval last winter when the
economy’s decline was its sharpest.
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