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— Griffin Daily News Friday, October 3,1975
Page 2
DeVotie plans
big banana split
What may be the longest
banana split in the world will be
made in Griffin Sunday.
Members of DeVotie Baptist
Church in Experiment will
prepare the huge dessert in a
specially made wooden con-
Building
permits
show drop
Building permits issued in
Griffin and Spalding County
during September were down
more than three quarters of a
million dollars from those
issued in August.
Last month the total in the
city and county was $982,909
compared with $1,757,310 for
August.
The biggest decrease was in
commercial permits of which
none were issued last month.
During September the county
issued 79 permits totaling
$836,520. They included 28 single
family residence permits for
$633,000 ; 33 mobile homes at
$170,320; and 18 additions
totaling $33,200.
There were 70 permits,
valued at $146,389, issued in the
city. Two were for single family
residences for $54,000; 36 for
residential additions at $36,212;
10 for commercial additions at
$51,944; one utility building at
$3,000 and nine signs valued at
$1,233. There also were 11
permits to demolish buildings
and one to move a building.
Revival
planned
Revival services will begin
Sunday at the Williamson
Christian Church.
Services will begin each night
at 7:30 p.m. and will continue
through Wednesday.
The Rev. George W. Boswell
of Peachtree City will be the
evangelist. Special Music is
arranged for every service.
IN
MEMORIAM
WILLIAM HOMER FORDHAM
1898-1975
. and |u>t as it is appointed for man to
die once, and after that comes judgment .
(Hebrews 9:27)
It is easy for us to accept the fact that we
must all travel that path . yet . . the true
impact of one's death does not affect us un
til it happens to one of our immediate
family or to one who holds a very special
place in our lives.
Homer Fordham holds a very special
place in our lives While he has no children
of his own . . he has hundreds of young
men and women who have enjoyed his
fatherly influence on their lives by their
working with and for him during his more
than 65 years at Dundee No. 1; his
brothers and sisters are many . . every
Dundee employee who knew him shared a
love and respect for him, just as he loved
and respected them a relationship
stronger that that found in many homes
today. Homer was a member of an ex
tremely large family the employees at
Dundee Plant No 1 and hundreds of others
within the company who had the privilege
to know him . . and his untimely passing
will leave a void in all of our lives.
Were it our duty to pass judgement
Homer Fordham would be assured an eter
nity in Heaven. While denied this duty, we
can and will remember him in our prayers
and express our sincere thanksgiving to our
Heavenly Father for having permitted
Homer Fordham to become such a won
derful part of our lives for these many
years. Our lives have truly been enriched
by the presence of this great man . . .
Homer Fordham.
'Let me live in a house by the side of the
road Where the race of men go by-
The men who are good and the men who
are bad As good as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner s seat Nor
hurl the cynic's ban.
Let me live in a house by the side of the
rood And be a friend to man
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tainer. It will be 32 feet long and
will have 100 pounds of ice
cream, along with the usual
fixings.
Sunday School Director Perry
Walker hopes to have a large
crowd at Sunday School,
beginning at 9:45, because only
those attending the services are
eligible to eat a portion which
will be served around noon
following the church service.
The Rev. Ralph S. Estes is
pastor.
| Deaths |
| Funerals |
Mrs. Tingle
Mrs. Gladys J. Tingle of
Locust Grove, Ga., died
yesterday in Piedmont Hospital
in Atlanta.
Survivors include her
husband, Frank Tingle; a
daughter, Mrs. Terri Tingle
Heppner of Atlanta; sisters,
Mrs. Gordon Feagin of
Americus, Mrs. Vera Rod
denbery of Macon, Mrs.
Woodrow James of Americus,
nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be tomorrow
at 3 p.m. at the Locust Grove
United Methodist Church. The
body will lie in state from 2:30
p.m. to the funeral hour.
The Rev. Ed Boye and the
Rev. Harold Tucker will of
ficiate.
Entombment will be in
Westview cemetery.
D. T. Carmichael Funeral
Home of McDonough is in
charge of plans.
Mrs. Mays
Mrs. Willie Mays of Bowden,
Ga., formerly of Spalding
County, died Monday at the
Tanner Memorial Hospital in
Carrollton.
Survivors include a son,
Charlie Howard Lewis of
Bowden; three sisters, Mrs.
Annie Johnson, Mrs. Susie
Slaughter of Chattanooga,
Tenn., and Mrs. Louise Clark of
Griffin; a sister-in-law, Mrs.
Ethel Dragg; an aunt, Mrs.
Daisy Williams of Griffin; five
grandchildren, 17 great
grandchildren, nieces and
nephews.
The funeral will be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from the First Baptist Church in
Bowden. Walker Funeral Home
of Carrollton is in charge of
plans.
Thefts
reported
Griffin police were in
vestigating two thefts.
A $55 watch was stolen from
Jesse’s Pharmacy. Police were
looking for a black male
suspect.
A check was stolen from the
mailbox of Mrs. Eula Mae
Ogletree of Turner street, police
said.
Edward Ray Sharpe, 21, of 924
McLaurin avenue, and Danny
Oldham, 26, of 12 Terracedale
court, have been charged in
connection with the theft of a
Motorola two-way radio which
was stolen from a Miller’s
Funeral Home ambulance
several weeks ago.
Bartow
deputy
suspended
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— Bartow County Deputy
Sheriff Roy Mealer has told the
FBI that he lied to investiga
tors about circumstances sur
rounding an alleged beating of
a prisoner at the county jail
last August.
It was disclosed Thursday
that Mealer admitted in a
sworn statement given to the
FBI Sept. 12 that he gave
Bartow County investigators
“false information” about the
incident involving Larry Dou
glas McKinney, of Cedar Bluff,
Ala.
Sheriff Jim Wheeler Wednes
day suspended Mealer indefi
nitely until an investigation into
the case has been completed.
McKinney, 19, had accused
former sheriff’s investigator
William Rymer of beating him
while he was being booked at
the jail on drug charges.
Mealer’s statement to the
FBI differs from the version
Rymer has given. Rymer, now
a Cartersville policeman, has
admitted hitting McKinney
twice with an open hand,
saying he did so after the youth
first hit him and Mealer. He
has denied using excessive
force.
Mealer’s statement said, “I
do not know what provoked
Rymer to strike McKinney,
unless Rymer saw McKinney
strike me in the mouth, which I
believe was accidental. In my
opinion, Rymer was unjustified
in striking McKinney.”
The statement went on to say
that Rymer kicked McKinney
and hit him several times
during the alleged beating. The
deputy said he gave sheriff’s
investigators “false informa
tion” about the incident in
order to “cover up for Rymer.”
An attorney for McKinney
has filed for a dismissal of a
charge accusing his client of
simple battery against Mealer,
citing the deputy’s statement to
the FBI.
Mealer is the third Bartow
deputy to be suspended since
state and federal authorities
began separate investigations
two months ago into various
charges of police brutality here.
Deputy Kenneth Ray Smith
was suspended Tuesday by
Wheeler because he allegedly
lied during the trial of Noel
Lowe of Cartersville, who was
convicted May 13 on charges of
simple battery and two counts
of obstructing justice.
Charges against Smith and
Deputy Raiden Sullivan were
contained in a letter this week
from Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton
to Bartow Superior Court Judge
Jefferson L. Davis, recom
mending that Lowe get a new
trial.
Bolton’s letter said Smith told
authorities he lied about the
incident and that he saw
Sullivan strike Lowe first
during an altercation between
the two. Wheeler said Sullivan
had not been suspended but
that he is conducting an
investigation of the deputy’s
actions during the incident.
Another officer, Ed Hill, was
suspended two weeks ago in
connection with an altercation
he had with a citizen at a Lake
Allatoona camp site.
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Capt. John T. Williams retired from the Griffin Fire Department today after more than 32
years of service. Capt. Williams joined the department on June 1,1943 and on Nov. 1, 1964,
was promoted from pump operator to his present rank. He has been supervisor of his shift
at the North Expressway station and has put in the second longest time of service in the
department. He and his wife, Alma, reside at 115 LaPrade road.
Uniform ■
employes
to share
Employes of Rental Uniform
Service of Griffin, Inc., will
share in a new employe stock
ownership plan, according to
Grover Ferguson, vice presi
dent and general manager.
The Griffin firm is a sub
sidiary of Omni Services, a
holding company for eight in
dustrial laundries in Georgia,
Alabama, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The firm here has 42 em
ployes.
Under the new plan, employes
will become stockholders in the
company.
“It’s away of giving them a
piece of the pie,” said Martin.
“They get, a part of the
action.”
The Griffin Rental Uniform
Service rents, launders and
delivers clean work uniforms to
thousands of customers within a
100 mile radius of Griffin.
The plant processes ap
proximately 22,000 pieces of
work garments every four days.
The firm also offers dust
control services and products
such as mops, mats and dust
cloths. _______
Bicentennial
choir calls
rehearsal
The Bicentennial Choir will
have a called dress rehearsal in
the Griffin High auditorium
Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The program is scheduled for
Sunday, Oct. 12.
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Hospital Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital
yesterday:
Mrs. Ann Eason Buchanan,
Stephen A. Nobel, Melvin
Blalock, O. Marvin Wynne,
Milus W. Duke, Jesse Warren
Cooper, Mrs. Barbara Harris,
Robert M. Wainwright, Mrs.
Nanilene Lee Wilson, Wade W.
Milan, Mrs. Eva Lee Parks and
baby, Mrs. Melba Sue Ethridge.
Mrs. Odessa Lyone Henley
and baby, Miss Carrie Mae
Furlow, Mrs. Bernice C.
Henley, Mrs. Mattie W. Evans,
Horace C. Edwards, Mrs.
Juanita L. Simmons, Mrs. Lois
Lavender, William David
Evans, Mrs. Ema Jean Mur
phy.
Teacher injured
Miss Deborah Rothschild of
Kincaid avenue, a teacher of
vision impaired children at
Anne Street Street, was injured
in a collision Wednesday af
ternoon at South Ninth and West
College streets.
She was treated in the Griffin
hospital emergency room for a
broken wrist, bruises and
abrasions.
The other car involved was
driven by Williard Strozier of
West Wall street, police said.
Now You Know
By United Press International
Montreal is the second
largest French-speaking city in
the world, Paris being the
biggest.
Handicapped
week
Griffin Mayor Louis Goldstein
has proclaimed next week, Oct.
5-11, Griffin-Community Em
ploy the Handicapped Week. It
will be in conjunction with
National Employ the Han
dicapped Week.
During the week special
recognition will be given the
handicapped and more em
ployes will be urged to give
consideration in their hiring
policies to persons who despite
disabilities have the ability to
perform well at work.
About Town
HOMECOMING
Homecoming will be held
Sunday at the Central Lake
Church of God on High Falls
road. The Rev. Walter Langdon,
former pastor, will speak at the
11 a.m. and 2 p.m. services.
Sunday School will be held at 10
a.m. Dr. T. L. Lowery, who was
scheduled to be here, will not be
at the church until October 24,
25 and 26. The Rev. M. G.
Summers invites the public to
attend the homecoming ser
vices.
YARDSALE
The Mangham Class at
Kincaid United Methodist
Church will sponsor a yard sale
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at 703 West Quilley street, next
door to Standard Oil Co.,
weather permitting.
“THE GOSPEL ROAD”
A film entitled “The Gospel
Road” will be shown at Teamon
Baptist Church Sunday evening
at 7:30 p.m. The film, a story of
Jesus, was filmed in the Holy
Land.
Tighten
belts—
Gingrich
“Everyone is going to have to
tighten his belts. The important
thing is to make sure that
government bureaucrats in
Washington tighten their belts,
too,” Newt Gingrich, former
candidate for the Sixth District,
U. S. Congressional seat told the
Griffin Chapter of the American
Association of University
Women last night.
Speaking at St. George’s
Episcopal Church, Gingrich
warned that “Easy answers are
going to be dangerous answers.
There is no cheap, simple way
to fight high prices.
“George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson rebelled
against a government too big
and too distant to listen to the
people. Now we have a govern
ment in Washington that gives
itself free junkets, subsidized
meals, free medical care, and a
guaranteed annual pay raise
while you and I suffer,” he said.
He warned that “freedom is
ours only for one generation at a
time” and for citizens to go out
and fight for freedom at the
ballot box or lose it.
“If we grow lazy and refuse to
get involved, then we are
helping the special interests,”
he continued.
He said George Washington
would never have stood for the
bureaucrat’s arrogance,
politicians’ lies, and the ex
travagant wastes that are now
characteristic of our national
government.
Americans could learn a lot
from their founding fathers who
were for sound money and a
chance for everyone to stand on
his own feet, he noted.
“Our founding fathers beat
inflation and we can too,” the
West Georgia College teacher
said.
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Attendant On Duty
Drug arrests
made here
Two men were arrested in
separate incidents of drug
violations last night.
Horace Mangham, Jr., 28, of
519 Jefferson street, was
arrested when Griffin police
searched his home and found
nine small envelopes containing
suspected marijuana.
Police said eight of the
packages were found outside
the house and one inside.
They would sell for about five
dollars each on the street, police
said.
Chandler Wayne Brannon, 28,
of Griffin was arrested around
10:45 p.m. at a local business
and charged with violating the
Georgia Controlled Substance
Act.
Police said five white tablets,
with no prescription label, were
in his possession.
Stork Club
MASTER HOWARD
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jeffery
Howard of P. O. Box 36, Con
cord, announce the birth of a
son on Oct. 2 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.
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MASTER HOLLOMON
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Hollo
mon of San Antonio, Texas,
announce the birth of a son on
Sept. 22 at the Southwest Metho
dist Hospital. Mrs. Helen
Phillips of Griffin is the grand- ,
mother.
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