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Police chase
ends in Clayton
A 17-year-old Griffinite was
arrested last night after he led
police officers on a high speed
chase which ended in Clayton
County. It was the second police
chase on the North Expressway
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Former New York City Police Officer Kenneth J. Darby,
27, leaves Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA)
office here, using a cane. Darby, a six-year veteran of the
force, was dismissed from the job after a departmental
removal hearing. He reportedly sustained a knee injury in
early 1972 and had been allegedly absent from work for
600 days. (UPI)
Knee sore for 600 days?
NEW YORK (UPI) — Police Officer Kenneth Darby
complained of a sore knee in May, 1972 and told his boss
that it kept hurting until some time in 1974. Now he’s
looking for other employment.
Police Commissioner Michael J. Codd, being a skeptical
sort, found it hard to believe that a knee could stay sore
for 600 straight days. After a departmental hearing,
Darby was dismissed from the force Monday.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association supplied
Darby with a lawyer who said he will appeal the case.
The 27-year-old former cop, a six-year veteran of the
force, maintained in the hearing that he hurt his knee in a
car accident and needed a cane to walk. But Deputy
Commissioner Philip R. Michael, who presided at the
within four days.
Danny Ray James, 17, of 111
Mace street, was taken into
custody when his auto collided
with a pursuing Griffin police
vehicle in Clayton County. No
one was injured.
The chase started around
midnight when Officers Ricky
Carreker and Mike Brooks
attempted to stop a car on the
Expressway near the Griffin
Water Works. The vehicle sped
away and was chased by the
officers north on the Express
way, through Henry County and
into Clayton County where
Clayton lawmen set up a road
block near the South Express
way airport.
Officers said the cars were
traveling at speeds of more than
100 miles per hour.
When James saw the road
block, he attempted to turn
around at a crossover and head
back south, but when he
slammed on his brakes, the
police car hit the rear of his
vehicle in an attempt to stop
him. The police vehicle bumped
the car two or three more times
before his rear bumper locked
with the police car’s front
bumper, officers said.
The cars slid off the road and
into the median where James
was placed under arrest.
He was stopped about 200
yards before reaching the road
block.
He was charged with
speeding, failure to stop for
police and driving without a
license. Additional charges
were expected to be placed by
Clayton County lawmen.
Saturday afternoon a Concord
man, Willie Lee Owens, led
police on a chase north on the
Expressway before being
stopped.
hearing, said medical testimony did not support Darby’s
claim.
Michael issued an 11-page decision, which said, “All the
evidence points to one conclusion, namely, the respondent
willfully and without just cause refuses to meet the
standards of physical performance set for police
officers.”
Despite calling in “sick” for 600 straight working days,
the spokesman said, Darby does not hold the department
record for malingering.
Last March, Codd dismissed former motorcycle Officer
John Byrnes, 31, after a hearing on malingering charges.
Byrnes had been on sick leave for nearly five years.
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 45, high yesterday
77, low yesterday 40, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in upper 40s.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, October 22,1975
Clayton okays bonds
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) — Clayton County voters
Tuesday narrowly passed a sl2 million school bond issue
3,595 to 3,032.
Clayton County Supt. Ernest Stroud said the bonds will
be used to finance the construction of a new high school in
Riverdale, a junior high also in Riverdale, another junior
high in Morrow and for a vocational wing addition to
Morrow Senior High.
Stroud said the bond issue, which will increase Clayton
school taxes .8 of one mill, will also be used to make
various improvements to nine elementary schools in the
county.
Enrollment in Clayton schools increased by some 1800
students last year. There are some 34,000 students in the
school system.
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PmJI must be grown every season so
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By next.”
Had a look
at Griffin
lately ?
Have you had a look at downtown Griffin lately?
If you have, then you know it’s changing.
The other day Jimmy Chambers who is chaplain for the city of Griffin flew over the city
and a Griffin Daily News photographer was aboard. Chambers is chaplain for the Georgia
Wing of Civil Air Patrol and does a lot of flying in that capacity.
On this particular day Chambers flew low so the camera could catch a view of the new
post office (arrow in picture at left) as well as the historic Spalding Courthouse (arrow in
picture below.) Griffinites will be able to spot other well known landmarks, using these two
structures as a guide.
Police nab
suspects
in school
A citizen’s call, followed by
quick action of Griffin police
officers, resulted in the arrests
of two burglary suspects last
night.
Police received a telephone
call that Fourth Ward Elemen
tary School was being
burglarized. They sped to the
scene and arrive in time to
catch two teenagers inside the
building.
They were identified as Barry
Garner, 17, of 522 Slaton street,
and a 16-year-old who cannot be
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named because of his age.
In addition to the burglary
charge, Garner also was
accused of stealing an auto
which had been reported stolen
earlier.
William David Whitfield, 20,
of Williamson, also was charged
with the auto theft.
The 1967 Chevrolet Impala
was recovered in Rover. Its
owner is T. W. Turner of 812
West Solomon street, who had
reported the car was stolen
from his home. He said he had
left the keys in the vehicle.