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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, February 7,1976
Page 2
House tightens
jobless pay rules
By KAY BROWN
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia House has passed
legislation to tighten unemploy
ment compensation regulations
and declined to make the late
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
birthday a state holiday while
the Senate approved a modified
Sunday hunting bill.
The House Friday passed a
bill, sponsored by Rep. Ed
Mullinax, D-LaGrange, that
would deny unemployment
benefits to anyone who quits his
job without good reason, is
fired for good cause or refuses
to accept a suitable job.
The bill, passed 100-44, says if
a person unemployed for 8
weeks refuses to accept “suita
ble employment,” he could be
ineligible for compensation for
up to 13 weeks.
A bill supported by the
Legislative Black Caucus to to
make King’s birthday a state
holiday never came to a vote.
The House voted 78-56 to
modify the bill to make the
current Columbus Day holiday
“Distinguished Georgians Day”
to honor five outstanding
Georgians, including King and
the late Sen. Richard Russell.
After the bill was modified,
Rep. David Lucas, D-Macon, an
author of the original King bill,
moved to table the bill for the
session, getting a 72-63 favora
ble vote.
The Senate approved a
modified version of the Sunday
hunting bill defeated in the
House two weeks ago to change
present law prohibiting the
firing of guns on Sundays
except in self-defense or on
licensed pistol ranges.
The bill by Sen. Floyd
Hudgins, D-Columbus, would
permit hunters to use rifles and
shotguns on Sundays on their
own land or in fields where
they have an owner’s permis
sion to hunt.
The Senate also passed
another bill by Hudgins that
would regulate steel trap use.
The bill would require steel
trappers to check all their traps
daily and allow landowners to
set traps for “rodents and
destructive or dangerous ani
mals.”
The bill was amended to
allow unlimited trapping in
Brantley, Camden, Wayne, Bul
loch, Candler, Evans, Screven
and Tattnall counties, and
portions of Appling, Glynn and
Ixtng Counties.
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| Rev. E.P.
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Pastor
228 8448
FAITH TEMPLE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
1344 N. 9th St.
ss 10 A.M.
Worship ] | A.M.
Youth Service 5 P.M.
Evangelistic 6 P.M.
Wednesday Prayer 7 P.M.
"With message For body,
soul, spirit"
GRIFFIN CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY
ALLIANCE CHURCH
1356 Maple Drive
AN OPEN WELCOME TO
WORSHIP WITH US
9:45 A.MSunday School
lurnurrniu ”=«®A.MWorship Service
WCUNtSDAI 7:00 P.MWorship Service
7:30 P.MBible Study & Prayer
Pastor: Timothy Steiner
228-2265
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Taylor at Hill
Telephone 227-5517
Bruce M. Morgan, Pastor
Hartwell Kennedy, E. David Lee,
Associate to the Pastor Minister of Education
Harold Cartee, Judith Mahle,
Minister of Music Minister of Children’s
Education
Sunday Services
9:45 - Sunday School
11:00 • Morning Worship
“The Interpreters”
First in a series on the prophetic and priestly roles
of the church.church, Pastor.
5:30 - Church Training
6:30 - Evening Worship
Charles Whitworth, Speaker
Dial-A-Prayer 227-7381
The senators approved a
constitutional amendment by a
50-0 vote providing one-day
special legislative sessions to
consider bills vetoed in the final
year of a governor’s term. The
measure now goes to the House.
The amendment, by Sen.
Culver Kidd, D-Milledgeville,
provides for a special session
when 25 per cent of the
members petition for one, so
vetoes could be considered
before the election intervenes.
The Senate also approved
constitutional amendments to
increase from $12,500 to $25,000
the homestead exemption of
disabled veterans who lost both
legs or were blinded in a war,
and to provide property tax
exemptions for solar heating
and cooling of homes as an
energy conservation incentive.
The House passed 102-39 a bill
to prevent major oil companies
and other distributors from
selling gas at their own stations
at lower prices than they do to
other independent retailers.
The bill, by Rep. Bernard
Miles, D-Augusta, does not
prohibit a distributor from
operating retail stations, but
says the distributor must
operate on the same level with
dealers.
Operators of distributor
owned stations would be re
quired to purchase gas for
retail sale at the same prices
the distributor sells to in
dependent dealers, rather than
allowing the distributors to
undercut the independent deal
ers in prices at the pump.
Muscadine
meeting
planned
Researchers and growers
from middle and southwest
Georgia will attend the winter
meeting of the Georgia
Muscadine Association Wed
nesday at the Georgia Station.
University of Georgia
specialists will lecture on
pruning, processing and disease
control.
Dr. Maurice Ferree, hor
ticulturist with the Cooperative
Extension Service, will
moderate a panel discussion in
the afternoon. Marketing of
muscadines will be discussed
and four Georgia growers will
contribute firsthand in
formation.
A round table discussion on
muscadine care will be followed
by the final event of the day —
election of Georgia Muscadine
Association officers for 1976.
Mr. W. G. Ison, president of the
Association, will preside.
A good turn out is expected.
According to Dr. Ferree, over
100 growers and researchers
attended the summer tour of the
Association.
This annual event is spon
sored by the Cooperative Ex
tension Service, University of
Georgia, and the Georgia
Muscadine Association in
cooperation with the Georgia
Station.
The meeting is open to the
public.
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These members of the Calvary Baptist Church choir at
Barnesville will present the musical “Alleluia” Sunday
night at the Sunny Side Baptist Church beginning at 7:30.
Mrs. June Greene is choir director.
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School
.p Menu
The master menu for the
Griffin-Spalding County School
System for the week of Feb. 9-13
is as follows:
MONDAY — Hamburger,
baked beans, cole slaw, pear
half with grated cheese, bun,
milk.
TUESDAY- Beef stew,
green beans, tomato wedge,
peach half, roll, milk, butter.
WEDNESDAY — Pizza, lima
beans, lettuce and tomato
salad, orange half, milk, butter.
THURSDAY - Meat loaf,
buttered rice, field peas, stewed
tomatoes, cinnamon roll, roll,
milk, butter.
FRIDAY — Bicentennial
Menu — President’s Table —
Chicken Mt. Vernon (baked
chicken); Martha’s mashed
potatoes; salad Monticello
(carrot and raisen salad);
Lincoln log (roll with butter);
“can’t tell a lie” cherry pie
(cobbler); and Madison’s milk.
Caravan
will cost
SSOO daily
Griffin’s three banks, the
Griffin Kiwanis Club and
Spalding Square will finance the
two-day visit of the Tennessee
Valley Bicentennial South
caravan here.
It will be at the shopping
center Feb. 24-25.
The caravan will cost SSOO per
day. The Kiwanis Club with a
S2OO contribution will co
sponsor one day with Spalding
Square. The banks will sponsor
the other day.
The local bicentennial
committee is coordinating
details. School officials are
working with the committee in
an effort to provide students an
opportunity to see the historical
displays.
The exhibits depict the
history of the South and its
relation to the bicentennial.
Five truck trailers will be
connected U-Shaped so visitors
can walk through them and see
the displays.
Dimes
march
got $2,000
The General Mclntosh
Chapter of the March of Dimes,
which is made up of Butts,
Lamar, Pike, and Spalding
Counties reported ap
proximately $2,000 collected
during the annual Mothers’
March, with $519.87 coming
from Pike County, $377.27 from
Butts, $191.18 from Lamar and
the balance from Spalding.
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
501 W. Broad
Sunday Schedule
A M Sunday School
11:00 A.M Morning Worship
P MChurch Training
P M. Evening Worship
Billy Southerland, Pastor i
Charles Jones, Education-Youth
Gene Love, Music
To visit
Baptist
women set
meeting
The Women Missionary Union
of the Flint River Baptist
Association will hold its spring
inspirational meeting on
Monday. Two sessions will be
held. The 10:00 a.m. session will
be held at Locust Grove Baptist
Church and will be followed by a
covered dish luncheon. The 7:30
p.m. meeting will be at
Southside Baptist Church,
Griffin.
Featured speaker will be Mrs.
Hubert R. Tatum. Mrs. Tatum,
a native of Bramer, Tenn., has
been a missionary to Hawaii for
25 years. She and her husband
serve in church and home
evangelism.
Mrs. Edward Sisson, Director
of Woman Missionary Union,
will preside. Women from the 55
churches of the Flint River
Baptist Association are ex
pected to attend.
Church plans
first services
Victory Chapel Church at 1237
old Atlanta road has scheduled
worship services at 10 a.m. and
7 p.m. Sunday. Midweek ser
vice will be on Thursday at 7
p.m.
The pastor is the Rev. Albert
Simmons. He said it was a
newly organized in
terdenominational church.
Pike Athletic Dept,
plans auction
The Pike County High School
Athletic Department will
sponsor an auction Saturday,
Feb. 28, at 1 p.m. at Adkerson’s
Pecan Barn in Zebulon.
Any person who would like to
donate anything of value to the
school may contact Al Harwell
or Lee Code. These items will be
picked up or may be brought to
the high school.
Proceeds will be used by the
athletic department.
Stolen equipment
found in DeKalb
A diesel truck and two
tractors stolen this week from
Cobb Ford Tractor Company off
the Griffin-Barnesville by-pass
were recovered yesterday by
police in DeKalb County.
The value of the stolen
equipment was set at 1 $13,000.
Making ball plans
Members of the VFW 8480
Auxiliary have been asked to
contact Mrs. Betty D. Ellis at
her home tomorrow afternoon
at 1 o’clock about the annual
Valentine’s ball.
Serving with her on the
committee are Mrs. Connie
Smith, Mrs. Barbara Gilford,
Miss Lutricia Phillips, Mrs.
Leona Howard, Mrs. Norma
Wilborn, Mrs. Margaret Parks,
Mrs. Stella Dukes and Aldora
Mathis.
Fight
crime
Having a party? Don’t invite a thief.
A pile of coats, pocketbooks and other
valuables left in a secluded bedroom
makes a tempting invitation, especially
when seen through a lighted window.
Protect your guests’ valuables by
placing them where windows are
securely locked and the room is not
closed off from the rest of the house.
And, after the post-party clean-up, be
sure not to leave your watch and
rings... or your valuable silver, china,
or crystal...where they may be seen
near a kitchen window. A big party
indicates plenty of loot and relaxed,
congenial “victims” to the roving
burglar. Take care not to invite one of
these rovers, the next time you en
tertain.
This tip provided by ACT Against
Crime Together, statewide crime
prevention program of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation.
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Chairman
Richard D. Ward was re-elected chairman of the Pike
County Board of Education. Mr. Ward has served on the
Board for the past six years. He hails from Patton, Mo.,
and following his military service in the Air Force, he
attended college at Southeastern Missouri State College.
After two years, he attended Cape Central Airways,
where he received his flight training. For the past 14
years, Mr. Ward has been employed by Delta Airlines,
where he is presently the Captain of a Boeing 727. He is
mmarried to the former Jeanine Knight. The Wards have
three children attending Pike County School System. He is
a member of the Williamson Methodist Church. His
special interests include farming, flying, sports of an
kind, and managing Little League Baseball.
She jumped
at chance
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wants.
“People say I should go on and finish
school,” Gigi said of her decision to
drop out temporarily. “But I’d much
rather be doing this than be in a school
room. And I like to be around people all
the time.”
Besides, she said, she completed high
school a year early by going to summer
school each year, so she didn’t feel
compelled to zip through college.
Gigi has had no problems so far in the
traditionally male position, and she’s
not anticipating any.
She describes the job of doorkeeper —
making sure only authorized persons
enter the Senate chamber —as a chal
lenge “because it’s something I’ve
never done before.”
Gigi doesn’t know yet what route
she’ll take in pursuit of a political
career, but she thinks the Senate job
will help her decide. Right now,
however, she’s very sure of one thing —
she wants to come back next year.
Bible Thought From
(Uljitrrli of (ChrtHt
WE RECOGNIZE the Word of God only a* the standard
of authority in matters religious.
WE BELIEVE the New Testament should be our
CREED and guide in our worship, teaching, and practice,
"by which will we are sanctified" (Heb. 10:9).
"ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
(1 Tim. 1:14-17).
"ACCORDING as his divine power hath given unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue."
(1 Pet. 1:3).
"AND YE shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free" (Jn. 1:32) "thy word is truth" (Jn 17:17).
669 South Hill Street - Griffin, Georgia 30223
EVANGELIST
Evans McMullen 228-1133
Nixon
to visit
China
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPI) — In less than two
weeks, a jet from mainland
China will land at a California
Marine Corps base and ferry
former President Richard
Nixon to Peking to mark the
fourth anniversary of his visit
reopening Sino-American rela
tions.
In Washington, the White
House said Nixon’s trip is “a
private visit of a private
citizen” and emphasized that
there is “no White House
involvement” and the trip is
not considered significant.
But Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, who set up Nixon’s
first trip in 1972 —a visit that
eased a quarter century of
hostility between Washington
and Peking — called it
symbolic of the importance the
Chinese government places on
its improved relations with the
United States.
Nixon reportedly told Kissing
er about the Chinese invitation
Monday, well before he told
President Ford about the plan
Thursday, shortly before it was
announced. Kissinger has visit
ed the former president while
on a speaking tour of Califor
nia.
The official New China News
Agency announced the visit
Friday, saying Nixon had
accepted “with pleasure.”
Sirica
is better
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Wa
tergate Judge John J. Sirica
improved so much after his
near fatal heart attack Thurs
day he was taken off the
critical list late Friday.
Sirica, 71, was shifted to the
“serious” list by doctors at
George Washington University
Medical Center’s coronary care
unit. “He is progressing as well
as we can expect,” said Dr.
Joel Gorfinkel.
The statement said Sirica
was “alert and resting comfort
ably at this time.”
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH
10:00 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship
Griffin Academy
Wilson Road y*nT\
(Nursery Provided)
Rev. Gerald S. Troutman
President, Southeastern Synod ’rsL'
Lutheran Church in America
Sermon: Partners in ministry
Big Gospel Singing
Vineyard Baptist Church
Vineyard Road
Sat. Night Feb. 7- 7:30 P.M.
Featuring: Fishermen; The Ladies Trio from Central Lake
Church & Rev. Robert Pressley.
Everyone Invited
Pastor Rev. George Penion
I FIRST UNITED {
| METHODIST CHURCH {
| REV. LAMAR CHERRY, PASTOR A
REV. JOHN BONNER, ASSOC. PASTOR
I 11:00 A.M. SERVICE |
| SERMON BY PASTOR I
A "LET THE REFRESHING
I BREEZES BLOW” |
(EVENING WORSHIP SERVICE i
Seven-thirty o'clock f
I YOUTH REVIVAL |
(SERMON BY REV. C. R. HILL A
’’ALL YOUR LIFE I
| CHARLIE BROWN” |
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ABC-ETTES
The ABC-ettes will meet a
Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the «
home of Mrs. J. W. Roberts.
RETIRED PERSONS •
The regular meeting of the .
American Association of
Retired Persons will be held in
the cafeteria of the Griffin- ’
Spalding County Hospital at *
1:00 p.m. Monday. Sheriff
Dwayne Gilbert will speak on (
the “Neighborhood Watchffoer e
Protecting the Home from
Burglary and Vandalism”.
Hospital move
scheduled
Tuesday
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
plans to begin moving into its *
emergency room facilities
Tuesday. .
Administrator Carl Ridley »
said the new emergency room
section may be ready for use by
Tuesday night. '
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Wynne presides
The February meeting of the ‘
Bank Administration Institute
will be held at the Atlanta
Tonnehouse Motor Inn, Feb. 19
with Charles B. Wynne of
Griffin, president, presiding.
The speaker will be Charles
M. McCurry, director of j
chartered bank auditor
program of BAI.
Central Lake
Church of God
Wed. Night 7:30 P.M.
Sunday School 10:00 A.M.
Morn. Worship 11:00 A.M.
Evangelistic Svc. 4:00 P.M.
Voice of Calvary
Mon.-Fri. 9:45 A.M.
WGRI
M. G. Summers - Pastor