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CHICAGO — Tragedy turned
an 18-year-old Spalding County
boy into a crusader for
emergency preparedness and
made him a national winner in'
the 4-H health project.
Tim Castellaw, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles D. Castellaw of
Route 2, Griffin, today became
the fourth Georgian to win top
honors at National 4-H Congress
here.
Most 4-H’ers work eight to ten
years to become U. S. cham
pions but Tim did it in four. And
he really got going in health
only two years ago.
He said his interest went into
high gear when a six-year-old
neighbor had massive heart
failure.
Robbery at store
A well known Griffin grocer
said today he and his brother
have a lot to be thankful for this
Thanksgiving season. They are
lucky to be alive after being
injured during an armed rob
bery at their store Saturday
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President Ford is extended a warm welcome from Huang Cheng, Chief of the People’s
Republic of China Liason Office in Washington, at the Peking Airport. Ford said of his trip
to China, “There is no reason why we can’t agree in many instances. We don’t have the
same political philosophy, but there is no reason we can’t work together.” (UPI)
China’s warm greeting
turns cold for Ford
PEKING (UPI) - China’s
leaders welcomed President
Ford warmly today and then
took the bloom off with a
blistering attack on U.S.-Soviet
detente, claiming Russian ag
gression “is bound to cause a
new world war."
“Today it is the country
which most vehemently pre
aches peace (the Soviet Union)
that is the most dangerous
source of war,” acting Premier
Teng Hsiao-ping said in a
welcoming banquet toast four
hours after Ford arrived for a
four-day visit.
“Rhetoric about detente can
not cover up the stark reality of
Surgery partially restores minister’s eyesight
DENVER (UPI) — “I thought the first
thing I’d ever see again was Jesus in
heaven,” says the Rev. William Renstrom
of Murfreesboro, Tenn., who had been
blind for 31 years until surgery partially
restored his vision two months ago.
Instead, the first new sight for the 51-
year-old singer for evangelist Dr. Bill Rice
was the loud-colored pajamas he was
wearing in a Nashville hospital.
Renstrom told The Denver Post in a
copyrighted interview during a visit with
relatives here that he’d given up all hope of
seeing after a World War II German mine
Tim Castellaw wins national 4-H honor
“His mother knew my father
was an ambulance driver and
that I had had first aid training,
so she called us for help.”
What happened next turned
Tim on to emergency prepared
ness.
“When we arrived, a crowd
had gathered just to watch —
not help,” he said.
“Between the time the heart
stops and four to six minutes
later, a person can be saved
without brain damage,” Tim
explained. “But this was not the
case this time.
“If only one person had
known simple resuscitative
steps, that boy’s life could have
been saved. But instead, they
stood their distance, ignorant
Clark brothers
thankful to be alive
night, he said.
Carl Clark and his brother
Irvin Clark, owners of Clark’s
Supermarket on East Broad
way, were injured when two
bandits held them up as they
were leaving the store about
the growing danger of war.”
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger treated Teng’s blast
with diplomatic aplomb, saying
it was just what he had
“expected,” and White House
aides said Ford saw the text in
advance and was unruffled.
His responding toast included
a low key but firm defense of
U.S. efforts to seek peace with
the Soviets.
Nonetheless, most of the
American delegation heard out
Teng’s remarks in silence and
the toast put a rough edge on a
welcome that had gone smooth
ly up to that point.
China’s finest—the top politi-
7:15 Saturday night.
Carl Clark was shot in the left
shoulder and beaten over the
head. He was admitted to the
Griffin hospital and was
reported in good condition there
this morning.
cal leaders available—were on
hand when Air Force One
touched down in cold, sunny
weather at Peking Airport.
Teng led a bigger and more
prestigious welcoming contin
gent than U.S. diplomats had
hoped for and, as a bonus,
thousands of Peking residents
jammed the streets to see
Ford’s 100 car motorcade pass.
The streets were empty when
President Richard M. Nixon
arrived on his historic China
visit three years ago.
The welcome put Ford in fine
fettle for his four-day visit. He
laughed and smiled often as he,
Mrs. Ford, daughter Susan,
he was defusing exploded in 1944,
destroying his right eye and damaging his
left.
He said over the weekend he’d sought all
possible medical help and was consistently
told he wouldn’t see again. However, he
said a Murfreesboro doctor proposed risky
surgery last summer, warning that the
operation might cost Renstrom what little
light perception he had left.
“It was a tough decision,” he said. “But
I just asked God what to do and then a
couple of days later decided to go ahead
and have the surgery.”
and dumbfounded.
“We discontinued resuscita
tion when we realized it was too
late to help.”
Tim said he felt only anger as
he stood and looked at the
people.
As the ambulance carried the
body away, he overheard a
friend say, “I wish I could have
helped him.”
“For days,” Tim recalled,
“that thought raced through my
mind.
“Finally,” he said, “I made
my decision that they would
help — because I would teach
them.”
Today, Tim Castellaw is an
emergency medical technician,
licensed by the state of Georgia
Irvin Clark also was beaten
about the head, but was not
hospitalized.
The brothers had closed the
store for the night and were
walking toward the rear of the
building to their pickup truck
when they noticed two black
males cutting across the
parking lot.
Carl Clark said one of the men
was holding a pistol and called
to them to “Hold it. This is a
hold-up”. He said the bandit
then shot him and when he
didn’t fall, he “hit me in the
head, knocking me flat on my
back.”
The other bandit beat Irvin
Clark and knocked him down.
“I thought they’d kill both of
us. When he swung on Irvin, I
had my chance. I had a .38 in
my belt and fired five shots,
emptying it. Irvin fired four
shots. We may have hit one of
them,” Mr. Carl Clark con
tinued.
The bandits escaped with a
canvas bank bag containing an
undisclosed sum of money.
The brothers ran to the store
and called police.
“The police really responded.
They were there in a few
seconds,” he said.
The bandits were thought to
be wearing army type or trench
coats. One of them had on a
checkered shirt.
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60, low today 35, high yesterday
67, low yesterday 53, high
tomorrow in low 50s, low tonight
near 30. Total rainfall last night
.84 of an inch.
Kissinger and their party
watched the ceremonies with
Teng and listened to a People’s
Liberation Army Band play
“The Star Spangled Banner”
and “The East Is Red.”
But only three hours later,
Teng took the rostrum in
Peking’s Great Hall of the
People and ripped into the
Soviet Union-and the “rhetoric”
of U.S.-Soviet detente—in wel
coming toast at the Ford
banquet.
Teng said, in passing, that
the United States and China
could further “normalize” rela
tions by following the guidelines
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Tim Castellaw
The operation in Nashville two months
ago was a tentative success. When the
bandages were removed, Renstrom said
the first thing he saw was the pajamas.
“I called my wife from the hospital and
said, ‘What’s the big idea getting me these
wild pajamas,’” he said, adding that
seeing his children and grandchildren for
the first time was a pleasant surprise.
“I’d always had some idea what each of
them was like,” said Renstrom, who
married and became the father of four
while blind. “Boy, was I ever wrong. They
looked completely different. Thev all
and the nation as a trained
ambulance attendant and
driver. Last year he responded
to 1,246 ambulance calls, and so
far this year has answered
1,687. He took a ten-hour cardio
pulmonary course and went
through 125 hours of emergency
medical training.
But what Tim did for himself
— his own education — is only
half the story. He kept his vow
to teach emergency prepared
ness to others.
First off, he increased
membership in a junior 4-H
health club, which he had
organized in 1972 with seven
kids, to 43. Then he taught a
health class to ladies in a
nearby community club.
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Carl Clark talks about robbery from hospital bed.
Mrs. Davis wins round
in retirement dispute
Federal Judge Albert Hen
derson today indicated he would
decide in favor of Mrs. Thelma
Davis of Griffin in her dispute
over retirement from the
Griffin-Spalding School System.
Judge Henderson of the
Northern District federal court
in Georgia told attorneys he
plans to write a decision in
“Folks spend most of their
lives accumulating what they
spend the rest of their lives
protecting.”
looked better than I thought they would.”
Doctors have warned Renstrom that
whether the operation will be a permanent
success is yet to be determined, but the
former combat engineer under Gen.
George Patton is nevertheless enjoying his
new independence.
Mrs. Ruby Renstrom says her husband’s
restored vision has created at least one
adjustment problem, his backseat driving.
“I’ve been driving for him all these
years and now it’s gotten so that I can
hardly drive to please him,” she said.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, December 1,1975
favor of Mrs. Davis because of a
conflict in local and state retire
ment age policies.
State law sets the retirement
age at 70 while the local school
board’s policy sets it at 65.
Judge Henderson indicated he
would not support local board
policies in conflict with state
law.
The judge indicated to at
torneys he would not give an
opinion on other points in the
dispute for the present.
Dow Kirkpatrick 11, one of the
Atlanta attorneys representing
the Griffin-Spalding School
System, said the judge’s
decision would be reviewed
after it is written. After that, he
will advise the local board on
what steps to take next.
Stuart Eizenstat of Atlanta
represented Mrs. Davis in the
dispute.
Mr. Kirkpatrick said it’s
possible that the final decision
in the case might have implica
tions in other school systems
which have local retirement
Next, he conducted a short
course on cardio-pulmonary
resuscitation for all the neigh
bors who were interested, and
then presented the same in
formation to members of his
church.
This year Tim demonstrated
ambulance preparedness at five
elementary schools, conducted
a first aid class for the Rotary
Club Auxiliary, and taught
resuscitation classes to
teachers in three elementary
schools.
At last count, Tim had given
88 demonstrations, arranged 51
exhibits, conducted 19 tours,
and made 9 surveys on subjects
related to health, emergency
preparedness, and first aid.
policies in conflict with those of
the state.
But he would not venture an
opinion as to the effect the final
outcome of the case would have
on them.
He said that the state law
needs to be made clear on this
point.
Latent Scrooges
find excuses
DETROIT (UPI) — A debt
counseling specialist says the
nation’s high unemployment
and recession have given latent
Scrooges a great excuse to cut
Christmas gift lists that grew
burdensome in better times.
Al Horner, president of the
nonprofit Consumer Counseling
Centers Inc., supervises 14
offices helping 8,000 customers
cope with heavy debts in one of
the nations highest unemploy
ment regions.
Comments from his custom
ers and others around the
nation portend a bleak Christ
mas for persons on the lists of
chronically debt-ridden Ameri
cans and even those just
suffering from the double
whammy of inflation and
recession.
“Through the more prosper
ous times we had in the last
four or five years, some gift
giving got out of hand,” Homer
said. “So many people now feel
this is a good year to cut back
the number and cut down on
the amount of gifts.
“Many opinions we get are
that people will have to cut out
good old Uncle Joe and Aunt
Tilly and most of their in-laws.
They’ve been wanting to for
years anyway, but now they
“Each time I give a talk on
how to save a life, I have a
feeling of fulfillment in knowing
that someday lives will be saved
because of my teaching," the
national health winner stated.
Tim’s experiences are point
ing him toward a career in
medicine; he wants to be a
surgeon.
Meanwhile, the Griffin High
School senior will continue to
work as an emergency medical
technician, and will teach
emergency preparedness and
first aid to as many people as he
can reach.
And when he does go off to
college next year, the SBOO
scholarship he received from
Eli Lilly and Company for being
national 4-H health winner will
come in handy.
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Mr. Kirkpatrick said there
are several decisions on retire
ment age limits pending before
the U. S. Supreme Court. A
decision on these by the
Supreme Court could affect the
state’s law on retirement, he
said.
have a valid excuse.”
Even fiscally responsible
consumers have been forced to
use their Christmas savings for
living expenses, Horner said.
Some will adjust by cutting
back, others will fall victim to
the credit card.
“People often use the card
without a specific amount in
mind for each gift or a list of
who and how much,” Horner
said. “Many will find that next
Christmas they’re still paying
for this one. Some are paying
for Christmases three and four
years ago.”
Two previously untouchable
Christmas benefactors — busi
ness associates and children —
will feel the crunch. Horner
said businesses are reducing or
eliminating bonuses, gifts and
even cards to employes and
customers.
For children, Horner said, so
called luxury gifts, mostly toys,
will be replaced with neces
sities. That means the parents
can expect the kids to turn up
their noses en masse Christmas
morning as they unwrap that
oft-maligned present — clothes.