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No paper tomorrow
The Griffin Daily News will observe
Thursday as a New Year’s holiday and
will not publish on that day.
Regular publication will be resumed
Friday.
Resolutions
They are not as popular as they once were
Making New Year’s resolutions
apparently is not as popular as it once
was.
At least that seemed to be the feeling
of most shoppers interviewed in
downtown Griffin yesterday.
Several joked they were so perfect
they didn’t need to make them.
Some said they had tried to give up
their bad habits before and it just
wasn’t worth the effort.
According to historians, celebrating
the New Year is one of the world’s
oldest customs.
Resolutions first began with the early
English who took on some celebrations
City Commissioners differ
in making some appointments
The Griffin City Commissioners
made several appointments yesterday.
Otis Head, brother of Commissioner
Raymond Head, was appointed to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital Authority.
The term is for four years.
He will replace Commissioner Head,
who according to state law, as an
elected official, can no longer serve on
such boards.
The decision was not unanimous.
Mr. Head nominated his brother.
“I think I should be replaced by a
black. Blacks need someone to relate
to. This is important where blacks are
concerned,” he said.
He pointed out that many of the
hospital’s 360-400 employes are black
and blacks need representation on the
10-man board.
Head said his brother has a real
concern for the community and would
serve well.
Mayor Louis Goldstein said he was all
for a black on the board.
Commissioner Preston Bunn agreed.
Commissioner R. L “Skeeter” Nors
worthy nominated Brack Pound.
Pound, also was backed by Com-
gig
“It’s getting so that in an
election, my sympathies are
with the winner.”
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The rush was on yesterday to mail letters for a dime at the Griffin Post
Office. The cost was 13 cents today.
Happy New Year to all
Daily Since 1872
from ancient Rome.
The English would clean their
chimneys to bring the household good
luck for the coming year. Later they
changed the expression, “cleaning the
chimneys” to "cleaning the slate”,
which meant making resolutions or
promising to correct bad habits and
making the new year better than the
year past.
Wiley Turner of Route Four, voiced
many opinions when he said, “I’ve just
about given up on resolutions. When I
was a kid, I used to make them, But I
never could keep them, so I just gave
up.”
Commissioner Head nominated his
brother.
missioner Ernest "Tiggy” Jones.
The commissioners also were split in
the same manner in their appointment
to the board of assessors.
Doug Hollberg, Jr., will remain on
the board. He received three votes from
Goldstein, Bunn and Head.
Commissioners Norsworthy and
Jones voted for John Herbert who was
nominated by Norsworthy.
Arthur Forrer and Dan Smith were
reappointed to the board of assessors.
They all serve a one year term.
The commissioners accepted the
League of Women Voters’ re
commendation and appointed Mrs.
Kenneth (Lucy) Reynolds to a five-year
term on the Griffin-Spalding County
Planning Commission.
She will replace George C. Bell whose
term expired.
Others on the board are Bob
Scroggins, Kimsey Stewart, Warren
Pugh and J. P. Jennings.
Pharmist Everett Beal was appoint
ed to the Board of Zoning Adjustment to
replace Otis D. Blake.
Beal was nominated by Commiss
ioner Bunn. The term is for five years.
Others on the board are Bobby
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Jesse Lawrence, who lives in Detroit
and is visiting his hometown of
McDonough, vowed, “the day after
New Year’s I’m gonna give up booze. I
can do it, cause I gave it up two years
and three months before.”
Losing weight was the main resolve
of Mrs. Jean Chambers at City Hall,
Larry Pitts of North Ninth street, and
Pat Walker a radio operator at the
Griffin Police Department.
Barbara Hunt of Hampton says she’s
getting “back on my diet. I lost 22
pounds, but I’ve been off it since
Thanksgiving.”
Emily Dowis, south Sixth street, said
Ogletree, W. B. Kendall, Horace Single
tary and George Murray.
Carl Cartledge was reappointed to
the Housing Authority for a five-year
term.
Other members are Charlie
McDowell, B. F. Akin, Felton Rain
water and T. T. Blakely.
Herbert A. Bolton was reappointed to
the Industrial Building Authority to a
four year term. Gene Cook and Scott
Searcy already are serving as ap
pointed members.
The commissioners accepted the re
commendation from Paul Kurtz, chair
man of the Griffin-Spalding County
Library Board, to reappoint Mrs. J. H.
Cheatham, Jr. to that board to a four
year term.
Other city appointments are Gerald
Bilbro, Dr. Charles Releford, and the
Rev. 0. H. Stinson.
Joe Ellis was appointed to the Board
of Appeals of Construction Standards.
He will replace Roger Ackiss who has
moved outside the city limits and there
fore is ineligible to serve.
Ed Whatley, Marshall Smallwood
and Leßoy Brown were reappointed.
The following were reappointed for
one year terms:
City Atty. Robert H. Smalley, Jr.;
Tax Collector John L. Dallas; Judge
police court Tom Lewis; City Chaplain
the Rev. Jimmy Chambers.
Greenway-Robinson Co., auditors,
have another year on their contract
which was put out for bids last year.
Mrs. B. F. Harris was reappointed to
the Vo-Tech school board. She is a joint
appointment of both the city and county
boards of commissions and will serve
another five years.
No appointments will be made by the
city to the Griffin-Spalding Recrea
tional Board until a new agreement
under study if completed.
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“I’m going to resolve to lessen
material gain and to increase spiritual i
growth, with the help of Christ,” said
Mike Wallace who lives on a farm in ;
eastern Spalding County. <
Other resolutions included: ;
Carlton Quick: “To stop smoking. I
don’t know whether I can, but I’ll try.” <
Allen Biles —“To be more helpful.” I
Jeanelle Giles, North Fifth street —
“I’m not gonna make any, because I
didn’t keep the ones I made last year.”
Doris Sherman, employe of Hawkes
Library, — “To be a better librarian.”
Mrs. Ernest Nealy, retired Griffin
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Pipeline cut
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Senate
Republican leader Hugh Scott
requested payments from a Gulf Oil
lobbyist but was told “his pipeline had
been cut off ” by the Watergate scandal,
a court-ordered report says.
The report confirmed earlier
investigations showing that since 1960
Gulf used money from a subsidiary to
finance illegal contributions to cam
paigns of Richard Nixon, Lyndon
Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and other
political figures.
But it said the full extent of these
contributions probably cannot be told
until the Securities and Exchange Com
mission and the Watergate special
prosecutor complete their
investigations.
The report, filed Tuesday, was
written by a committee headed by John
McCloy, who was assistant defense
secretary during World War II and U.S.
high commissioner in Germany after
the war. McCloy has no connection with
Gulf.
Faced with SEC charges of making
illegal campaign contributions in the
United States and payments to foreign
government officials in excess of $lO
million, Gulf agreed to a consent order.
Scott has denied taking any money.
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High teacher — “To keep traveling.”
City Manager Roy Inman — “To do
as good job as I can for the city. ’ ’
Barbara Crawford, 1221 Winona
avenue — “I want this year to be a good
one. I hope to put more into the new
year and get more out of it.”
Donnie Robison — “I hope to get my
car running so I can get to work on
time.”
Ricky Chambers, Old Atlanta road —
“To do better than last year.”
Julia Alford, Spalding Heights — “To
learn to drive.”
Pat Ford — “The same one I make
very year, to quit smoking and to lose
Many churches in the Griffin area will have watch night services to usher in
1976 tonight. Faith Baptist Church is one of them and represents the many
congregations in the area planning such services. Some will begin as early
as 7:30 and continue until the New Year arrives. Some will feature special
music services. Others will have a communion service as a highlight. The
watch night services are expected to draw thousands of people.
News summary
By United Press International
Manhunt
NEW YORK (UPI) - A massive
manhunt was under way today for
whoever planted a time bomb in a
locker at LaGuardia Airport Monday,
killing 11 persons and injuring 75
others.
President Ford ordered 300 FBI
agents to join scores of city detectives
in the search, and a $50,000 price was
put on the heads of the killers.
“We don’t know the reason for the
bombing,” Chief of Detectives Louis
Cottell said the day after the bombing.
“Because of that, the investigation at
this time will have to explore many,
many avenues.”
The airport reopened Tuesday night,
more than 24 hours after it was closed
by the blast. Airlines operating the 1,100
flights a day at the airport had canceled
some flights and rescheduled others
into nearby Kennedy and Newark
airports.
Oil nationalized
CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) —
Venezuela will formally nationalize the
world’s third largest oil exporting
industry Thursday in a billion dollar
deal involving nearly 40 American and
other foreign oil companies.
Venezuelan president Carlos Andres
Perez will officially mark the takeover
by hoisting the country’s vellow. blue
Tve just' about given up on resolu
tions. When I was a kid, I used to
make them. But I never could keep
them, so I just gave up.’
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 65, low
today 58, high tomorrow in mid 50s, low
tonight near 40.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
rain over the state Saturday, beginrilng
in the west late Friday. Colder Sunday.
weight.”
Janice Walraven — “I resolve to
make my life more interesting in 1976.1
don’t know how, but I’ll think of it Jan.
1.”
Mary Grubbs — “To be a better
person in 1976.”
Nellie Ruth McKibben of McDonough
— “I’m going to try to do better. I’m
going to Detroit.”
City Commissioner Skeeter Nor
sworthy — “I’m going to try not to
make the same mistakes in 19761 made
in 1975.”
Mary Cranford, 330 East College
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and red flag at the foot of a 61-year-old
wildcat well symbolizing Venezuela’s
start as a major oil exporter.
The ceremony ends two years of
intense negotiations.
Under the terms of the takeover, the
companies will receive $1 billion for
their expropriated holdings. They will
provide technical assistance to the
state-run industry and purchase its
crude and refined oil products.
Perez’s Democratic Action party has
been the driving force behind steady
state encroachment on foreign oil
companies since 1945.
It’ll cost more
It can cost a lot to bring in the new
year — unless you are among the many
Americans who stay at home at watch
Guy Lombardo’s band play “Auld Lang
Syne” on television.
A UPI survey shows prices for an
evening’s entertainment range from
more than $250 per couple to the cost of
a few drinks at the neighborhood
tavern.
Millions will shout “Happy New
Year” and kiss their spouses, lovers
and friends — not necessarily in that
order — at midnight tonight.
If it happens at the WaldorfAstorla
Hotel in New York, with Lombardo’s
band in the flesh and Aretha Franklin
doing the vocals, the cost per person is
advertised at SBO to S9O for the works.