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People
—and things
About 50 spectators were caught in
Bicentennial exhibit at Spalding Square
about 8:30 last night. Itwas black as the
bottom of an ink well inside, but a man
soon appeared with a flashlight and led
them out. Generator had failed.
Firemen raising flag at City Hall
every morning.
Griffinites talking about news story
of the Goat Man’s retirement. One
recalled when he was in Griffin and
somebody stole and barbecued one of
his goats. The old fellow now lives near
Jeffersonville, Ga., has a rooster, a hen
and a horse but no more goats.
Georgian Jimmy Carter winner
By JERELYN EDDINGS
United Press Internation 1
Supporters of Jimmy Carter huddled
around television sets at home and
filled campaign headquarters buzzing
with excitement as early returns
showed their candidate was winning the
nation’s leadoff presidential primary in
New Hampshire Tuesday night.
“It’s like New Year’s Eve here,"
Gary Jackson yelled over a noisy crowd
at Carter’s Atlanta campaign
headquarters. “What can you say—l
guess winners attract winners.”
Campaign workers, who had been
addressing envelopes and writing thank
you letters all evening, were throwing a
victory party.
Carter held a strong grip on a 30 per
cent vote among Democratic
candidates in the primary, and the folks
back home were whooping it up.
“There are so many people here it’s
Pushing 100
‘When we came to Griffin in ’96, there were no electric lights,
no paved streets, no hospital...nothing’
Being almost half as old as one’s
country celebrating its bicentennial
birthday is unusual within itself. But
remembering almost everything that’s
happened since you were four-years-old
is indeed a rarity.
Mr. Mike Hambrick of 1102 Lake
avenue, who observed his 99th birthday
last month is just such a person. He can
recall things that happened before most
senior citizens were born.
Such as:
—The reconstruction period which
followed the War Between the States
“when anybody who had SI,OOO was
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
A Griffin woman asked city com
missioners last night for more police
protection in the community.
A woman neighbor who had helped
her out of a tight spot last Saturday
night came to the meeting to back her
up.
Mrs. Anita Snow, 405 South 15th street
told the commissioners:
“We’re sitting in our homes at night
with guns. We don’t know what might
happen.
“Next time we’ll call the coroner
instead of the police.”
She and her neighbor, Mrs. Florine
Parker, re-lived last Saturday night
which was terror filled for them, as
they addressed the commissioners.
Someone broke into the Snow home
while Mrs. Snow and her father-in-law
were there.
A pet dog of theirs began barking.
When Mrs. Snow heard her father-in
law warn the intruder, she ran out the
back door and somehow managed to
cross a tall fence. She ran to the neigh
bor’s house, fear written across her
face, and called for help.
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“The finest tools are useless
to the fellow who isn’t going to
build anything.”
almost impossible to get from one end
of the room to the other,” said Jackson,
who scurried back and forth posting the
latest results. “It’s a madhouse.”
“A lot of people have just wandered in
to watch the results and believe it or
not, they’re addressing envelopes.”
In Plains, Ga., the former governor’s
home town, Mrs. Lillian Carter had just
received a telephone call from her son.
“They’re having a good time up
there,” she said, referring to Carter and
his wife Rosalyn. “Hesaid they’re sitting
around in a hotel room watching
results.”
Mrs. Carter, along with her daughter
and son-in-law, was doing the same
thing at home, as were many other
residents in the tiny southwest Georgia
town. Mrs. Carter had just put Carter’s
7-year-old daughter Amy to bed.
“She just said ‘Uh huh, good,"’ Mrs.
Carter said, imitating Amy’s yawn.
“You know she’s been in politics all her
really rich. Only there weren’t many
who had that much.
—The freeze of ’99 when it snowed all
day Saturday and Sunday and when
people woke up they found the weather
so cold the wood wouldn’t burn.
—The deep snow of ’95, the year “we
lived in the country, when me and my
brother went hunting and found
bluejays dead all through the woods
from the cold.”
Born on a Pike County farm on Jan.
23, 1877, Mr. Hambrick was one of 10
children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hiram
Hambrick.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, February 25,1976
Her father-in-law, B. F. Snow, was
roughed up by a black man who took
Mrs. Snow’s purse before he left the
house.
Police arrived quickly after they
received the call but the prowler fled.
The father-in-law spotted the suspect
again Monday afternoon and police
were called. They arrived in about 10
minutes.
But by the time Mrs. Snow explained
the whole story again to them, the
suspect was gone.
She said she thought the police
needed better reporting among
themselves. Had the police who an
swered the call already known the
background, they would not have lost
time, Mrs. Snow concluded.
She and her neighbor had nothing but
praise for the police department. But
they said more police are needed to
protect the lives of citizens.
“Griffin’s a big place and three or
four patrol cars won’t cover the city.”
Mrs. Snow said.
Mayor Louis Goldstein wanted to
know if she thought more policemen
would cut down crime.
She said she thought it would.
He reminded her the police depart
ment budget is more than a million
dollars now.
She answered she wouldn’t mind
paying more taxes to get more police
protection.
Wave suit filed
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - Two
Augusta beauticians are being
sued for $12,000 by a Beach
Island, S.C., woman who claims
a permanent wave she received
“left a total wreck” of her hair.
Gaile Bennett said in a suit
filed in federal court against
Barbara Mears, a hairsetter
and beautician.
life.”
P.J. Wise, a friend and supporter of
Carter, said, “We’re just getting ready
to celebrate when he gets to the White
House. We’re real excited. We’ve been
pulling for Jimmy all along.”
Wise said his family had been glued
to the television and they were “just
trying to be calm people.”
His son, Phil, is Carter’s Florida
campaign manager.
Mrs. Maxine Reese, an avid Carter
campaigner, said, “I just wish that
everybody can become as excited as I
am. It’s just something that happens to
a town not even once in a lifetime."
She said she didn’t think there were
any celebrations in Plains. “We’re
mostly just staying home and watching
TV, trying not to miss anything."
Wise said the folks in Plains were not
out on the town because “we’re working
people. We got to get up in the
morning."
He recalls that the family moved 16
times from the time he was four years
old until they settled down in Griffin in
1896.
“When we came to Griffin in ’96,
there were no electric lights, no paved
streets, no hospital.... nothing. In wet
weather, mud on Hill and Solomon
streets was up to the wagon axle. Large
stones were laid across the streets for
people to walk over,” he reminisced.
There were no cars in those days,
either, and a stable was located at the
rear of the present site of Bunn’s
Laundry, he added.
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By United Press International
Childishness
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Dr. Louis
West, continuing his testimony in
Patricia Hearst’s bank robbery trial,
said she had suffered a “personality
regression to childishness” after being
kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation
Army.
Favors farming
A plan published Tuesday in the
official Peking People’s Daily and
broadcast by the New China News
Agency heavily favors agriculture over
industry in the Peoples Republic of
China.
It was considered another political
victory for acting Premier Hua Kuo
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Former Georgia governor takes leap forward.
Mr. Hambrick, whose looks belie his
age, (he could easily pass for 75) quit
driving some 20 years ago. He sold a
1929 T-model Ford which he had driven
28 years for S3OO — “half of what I gave
for it."
The man who purchased it still has it.
Mr. Hambrick thought so much of the
car that for several years, he went back
for an occasional visit with the vintage
vehicle. |
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Almost every afternoon, his pastor, •
the Rev. Warren Beddingfield of Oak
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Vol. 104 No. 47
W.H. Roberts and sons, Alan, 11, and Jeff, 8, were among nearly 2,000 people who
visited the Tennessee Valley South Bicentennial caravan display at Spalding
Square yesterday. Many more than that were expected today, including
busloads of school children. The display will continue here until 9 o’clock
tonight. It showed last at Dalton and will go from here to Cordele. An attendant
at the entrance to the display checked actual attendance with a hand counter
and at 8:30, a total of 1,933 had entered. That was more in a single day, she said,
than attended it during its visit to Atlanta. She expressed pleasure with the
Griffin turnout and said newspaper publicity accounted for it. Shortly after 8:30
the generator failed and the display closed early with the announcement that
everything would be working again this morning.
Bolton wins battle
for people beaches
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Georgia
Supreme Court, saying the natural
balance of Georgia marshes and
beaches are more important than
private property rights of adjacent
landowners, ruled Tuesday the state
can block construction in the
ecologically sensitive wetlands.
The ruling wound up seven years of
Mr. Hambrick recalls years gone by.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70, low
today 36, high yesterday 67, low yester
day 32, high tomorrow in low 70s, low
tonight in low 40s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: A
statewide chance of rain Friday and
mainly southeast on Saturday. After
noon highs in the low 60s north to upper
60s south on Friday and Saturday with a
warming to the mid 60s north and low
70s south on Sunday. Overnight lows
mostly in the 40s.
A bit of history
intermittent court fights by Attorney
General Arthur K. Bolton and environ
mentalists wanting to exercise state
ownership of the foreshore strip
between high and low tide lines and the
wilderness marshes of Glynn County.
In its 5-2 decision, the court said
owners of dry lands adjoining the
marshes and beaches are entitled to
cultivate and harvest oysters on the
wetlands — but cannot build
condominiums or resort hotels on them.
The ruling also means the landowners
must let the public use the beaches, if
they have been historically free for
swimming, fishing and sunbathing.
The court remanded the case to
Glynn County for a finding of facts on
which beaches are historically public.
“This means that the beaches and
marshlands adjacent to the Atlantic
Ocean and adjacent to the major tidal
rivers and intra-coastal waterways
belong to the people,” said Gov. George
Busbee. “The significance of this
historic decision is that the marshes
and beaches are owned by the state,
and they will be forever protected and
preserved.”
Bolton called the case the most
important he has handled in 11 years as
Georgia attorney general, and said he
is “delighted” at the outcome. He said
the ruling indicates the Marshlands
Protection Act passed in the early 1970 s
will be subsequently upheld.