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Sniper kills grocer; wounds policemen
DETROIT (UPI) — A sniper
firing from a top-floor hotel
room killed a grocery clerk
who was pulling two women out
of the line of fire and wounded
two policemen late Monday.
Then he apparently committed
suicide during a fire ignited by
police bullets and tear gas.
“The place was an inferno,”
a policeman at the scene said.
“There was no way for the guy
to get out.”
Police identified the sniper as
Paul Dawson, 28, a Vietnam
veteran who lived alone at the
hotel. They said Dawson
apparently shot himself as fire
swept the hotel.
Police said Dawson apparent
ly died in the room that served
The duck wasn’t
meant to die
SLIDELL, La. (UPI) — Duck hunter
Warren Stovall, relaxing at home after
bagging a pair of mallards he intended to
have mounted, went to his freezer to get
ice for a drink.
When he opened the freezer door a half
frozen duck with buckshot wounds in the
neck and wing flapped out of the
regrigerator and flew around the room.
“He started screaming,” his wife
Charlotte, who was in another room
watching television, said Monday. “I think
he thought the dead had come back to get
him.
“He came running in with the duck, and
it was alive. It had worked its way out of
the foil and was sitting in the freezer when
he opened it, and it flew out.”
Stovall had shot the drake and a hen
about dawn Saturday, and a busy taxider
mist told him to freeze the birds and he
as a vantage point for the
shootings. His body and an
army carbine were found in a
third-floor room after firemen
extinguished the blaze.
Police said Gerald “Cowboy”
North, who also lived in the
hotel and worked parttime as a
store clerk and porter, was
killed by the sniper’s bullets as
he dashed into the street under
fire to pull two women to
safety.
Witnesses said North was
shot in the chest just after he
pulled the two women out of the
line of fire.
Patrolmen Al Krasich, 30,
and Arne Jouz, 28, were
wounded as they stepped from
a squad car to answer an
would stuff them on Monday.
Stovall wrapped each duck separately in
tin foil, sealing them with tape, and popped
them in the freezer at 10 a.m. Saturday. It
was 10 that night when the duck flew out of
the freezer.
“The duck had worked his way out of the
foil and must have been out a long time,”
said Mrs. Stovall. “There was bird mess
all inside the freezer.”
A weeping Mrs. Stovall wrapped the bird
in a blanket and rocked it like a baby. She
nursed it through the weekend and took it
to the veterinarian. The vet said the
stunned bird survived in the freezer
because of its natural insulation.
The Stovalls decided to give the drake to
a man who raises ducks.
“As much as this duck has been through,
he wasn’t meant to die,” Mrs. Stovall said.
Griffin Ligh and Water Department crewmen Mac Taylor
(1) and Hoot Gibson (r) insulate hot lines before making
repairs near a downtown substation.
emergency call from the
grocery store where North was
killed.
They were listed in “tempo
rary serious” condition with
bullet wounds in the legs.
“All I can say is that I’ve
never been so scared,” said
Geoffrey Brown, who ducked
away from the line of fire and
took refuge in a neighborhood
grocery. “Everybody just fell
to the ground and crawled
away.”
A half dozen other residents
of the hotel, the Lincoln Motel,
were taken out as about 100
police began shooting into the
upper floor to flush the sniper.
The barrage of tear gas
canisters continued for about 30
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
minutes, even after fire bil
lowed through the hotel’s upper
windows and a column of
City asked to help
finance Yule parade
The Griffin City Com
missioners took no action this
morning on a Chamber of
Commerce request for the city
to help finance this year’s
Christmas parade costs.
David Bolton and Doug
Bollberg, Jr., came to the
meeting and on behalf of the
merchants, asked that the city
donate SI,OOO toward the parade
and the expenses of Christmas
decorations in the downtown
area.
The merchants division of the
Chamber owns the Christmas
fixtures and is responsible for
maintaining them and hanging
them each year.
Commissioner Raymond
Head said he thought the Broad
street merchants were not
being treated fairly because no
decorations are hung on that
street.
“I can’t go along unless Broad
street is included in the
downtown section. It’s on the
parade route and it seems
unfair that the parade comes off
a well lighted and decorated
street onto Broad which has no
decorations,” he said.
Mayor Louis Goldstein said
he also felt the entire parade
route ought to be decorated.
“I feel the whole town ought
to be decorated or nothing,”
was Commissioner R. L.
Skeeter Norsworthy’s com
ment.
Both he and Commissioner
Ernest “Tiggy” Jones said they
wanted to wait and discuss it
when Commissioner Preston
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, November 25, 1975
Sybil expansion
to add 500 jobs
Sybil Mills announced today
plans to expand its plant in
Griffin by 500 employes by the
end of 1976.
Sybil Mills is housed in the old
Jaco Mill on Broadway.
ReidS. Murphey, chairman of
Signal Knitting Mills Inc.,
announced the expansion
program today at the Griffin
Area Chamber of Commerce.
More than 30 Griffin business
and community leaders at
tended.
The expansion will mean
some 3 million dollars in payroll
to the community, Mr. Murphey
said.
The annual payroll of the
Griffin plant presently is about
$1.5 million annually. The plant
presently employes 260 people.
Mr. Murphey said that the
firm plans to begin taking new
applications for employes by
January and hopes the 500
people can be secured during
1976.
Most of the 500 new employes
Capt. Asher
Thanksgiving
speaker
The community Thanksgiving
Service this year will be held at
the First Christian Church with
choirs and ministers of the
central churches participating.
The speaker will be Captain
Roy Asher of the Salvation
Army.
Other churches participating
are: First Baptist, First United
Methodist, First Presbyterian,
St. John’s Lutheran Mission,
Sacred Heart Catholic and St.
George’s Episcopal.
The service is at 10:00 a.m. on
Thanksgiving Day.
smoke rose over the neighbor
hood. It stopped as firemen
began battling the blaze.
Bunn is back in town.
Mr. Bollberg said it was
strictly a question of money.
“We would be happy to assist
if the merchants there would
provide part of the costs,” he
said.
It would ruin the effectiveness
to thin out or move fixtures
from other locations, he stated.
However, he added, the
chamber will place four fixtures
on Broad street, if the city will
install receptacles on the old
wooden utility poles and help
with the expenses of moving.
Mr. Bolton explained that
anytime a new street is
decorated, the Chamber buys
the fixtures and asks merchants
for an assessment the next
year.
The commissioners agreed to
consider the matter and make a
decision later.
The Griffin-Spalding
Recreation board has approved
a budget for next year which is
some $27,000 less than the 1975
budget but is about the same
amount as was actually spent
this year, according to Com
missioner Jones who represents
the city on the recreation board.
The recreation department is
financed jointly by the city and
county. The budget must be
approved by both boards of city
and county commissioners who
plan to meet jointly on the
matter soon.
A new Georgia bicentennial
flag will be purchased for the
flag pole in front of the police
station.
will be women.
Sybil Mills in Griffin is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Signal.
Sybil is a cut and sew plant,
manufacturing mens and boys
polo shirts, tee shirts and briefs.
The expansion will not change
the product mix.
The Griffin division will be
under the management of Jim
Parrish with Ed Brooks as plant
superintendent.
Supervising this overall
expansion from the head
quarters office in Chattanooga
will be James Cofer, vice presi
dent in charge of production for
all Signal plants.
Chairman Murphey told the
group he was no stranger to
Griffin. He said his paternal
grandparents, the late Mr. and
Mrs. A. O. Murphey, had lived
in Barnesville. He said often as
a young boy he had passed
through Griffin and remarked
“What a wonderful town this
would be in which to live.’’
Mayor Louis Goldstein,
responding to Mr. Murphey’s
announcement, said he was
glad the manufacturer liked
Griffin and invited him to
become a resident here.
Mr. Murphey responded that
he felt sure that the tax rate in
Griffin would be much lower
than the rate in his home city of
Chattanooga.
Pike High health awareness
recognized as among best
A health awareness program
developed at Pike County High
is among the best.
That’s how Beth Malary, field
director, rated the project.
It came as the result of a two
week seminar which the U. S.
Office of Education and the
University of Miami held.
Developing the Pike project
were Lee Cook, principal; Jim
Crayton, visiting teacher;
Burgess Thomas, counselor; Al
Harwell, athletic director; and
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for a friendly pigeon as he and his grandfather, C.B. Hooks of Raleigh, feed the birds at
Capitol Square. (UPI)
Scott Searcy, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, said
the entire community
welcomed the expansion an
nouncement and was glad that
Sybil had decided to expand its
operation in Griffin.
P. W. Hamil, chairman of the
Spalding County Commiss
ioners, also joined in welcoming
the expansion project.
Frank Jolly, president of
Commercial Bank & Trust
Company, introduced Mr.
Murphey to the group. Mr. Jolly
said he thought it timely that
the expansion announcement
came during this Thanksgiving
season.
Mrs. Mildred Sawyer, execu
tive vice president of the Griffin
Chamber of Commerce, said
that the expansion program was
just like a new industry for the
community since it will bring
500 new jobs here.
Mr. Murphey said the ex
pansion would be at the present
plant site. He said no new
buildings were anticipated but
present space would ,be
renovated.
“We are going to need some
more parking space”, Murphey
said.
Signal Knitting Mills acquired
die Griffin plant one year ago.
Mr. Murphey said that since
that time the people employed
at the Griffin plant had proved
themselves honest, industrious
Ferris Qualls, physical educa
tion instructor.
The seminar included studies
of drug abuse prevention,
transactional analysis, values
clarification, transactional
mediation, pharmacology,
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and hard working and that this
was one of the factors that
figured in the decision to ex
pand here.
Signal Knitting Mills was
incorporated in 1916 and will
celebrate its 60th anniversary in
1976. Besides its headquarters
in Chattanooga, other facilities
are in Graysville, New Taze
well, all in Tennessee, and in
LaGrange, Ga.
Signal products are made for
such nationally known distribu
tors as JCPenney and Sears,
which distribute these products
under their own brand name.
At the conclusion of the 10
minute; announcement session,
Bill Ramsey of Griffin Federal
Savings & Loan Association,
called for the group to rise and
give a standing ovation to
Signal officials who were
present to make the announce
ment.
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“Folks who don’t ask
questions retain the ignorance
they were afraid to reveal.”
history of health awareness,
peer counseling and on the
scene observations of schools
which have health awareness
programs.
The Pike team was one of 10
which developed a health
awareness program for the
seminar. The teams
represented schools in the
Southeast.
The Pike team will help other
schools in developing programs
of their own.