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They came early to sign up
The line formed early at Griffin’s
First United Methodist Church yester
day. . . 3 a.m. to be exact
Kindergarten registration opened
yesterday morning for children whose
parents are not members of First
Methodist. To be assured their child
would be admitted, some parents began
arriving in the wee hours.
Walker Cook, curriculum director for
the Griffin-Spalding School System,
was second in line. He said when he got
there a few minutes after three, he
found Clarence Gilson already waiting.
By 4:15, 12 parents had assembled.
By 5:15, 20 had arrived, one for each
opening.
Crime roundup
Atlanta man accused
of check forgery
An Atlanta man has been
arrested by Griffin police for
allegedly passing forged checks
here.
Police said Robert Charles
Mathis, 30, of 1117 Constitution
road, Atlanta, was charged with
six counts of forgery.
He was accused of passing six
forged checks all written on a
Georgia Power Co. account and
all for under 8100 each.
They were passed at
Warehouse Groceries, My
Place Bottle Shop, Pitts &
Carter Grocery, Golden’s
Grocery, Gatlin’s Grocery and
West Side Package Store.
Around 12:30 this morning
Leon Lamar of 203 Alabama
street reported a burglary at his
home. The missing items in
cluded two television sets,
radio, stereo, five pairs of
pants, five shirts and four
sweaters.
Flint D.A.
appoints
assistants
Byron Smith, Flint Judicial
Circuit district attorney, an
nounced the appointment of
William Harold Craig and
Kenneth Ray Waldrep as
assistants.
Craig, 30, who has resided in
McDonough all his life, will
have an office in McDonough.
He graduated from the
University of Georgia and the
Walter F. George School of Law
at Mercer University.
He has been working with the
district attorney’s office 18
months.
Waldrep, 39, is a native of
Macon and has resided in
Forsyth most of his life. He has
been an assistant district at
torney since June 1, 1974.
Waldrep will maintain an office
in Forsyth, county seat of
Monroe.
Waldrep graduated from the
University of Georgia in 1970
and from the law school of that
university in 1973.
Smith said the main D.A.
office would be maintained at
Barnesville, county seat of
Lamar County.
Smith was appointed to
succeed Ed McGarity who
resigned a few weeks ago as
D.A.
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Some three hours later, when Mrs.
Frances Phillips, church secretary,
opened the office at 8:30,25 were there,
five more than there were spaces.
By yesterday afternoon, the list had
grown to 28 with eight on the waiting
list
Mr. Cook said he had heard that
parents began gathering around 5 a.m.
last year with some even coming from
nearby towns. He said he got there
early because he’d promised his wife
he’d make sure their daughter got
registered.
The parents, mostly fathers, said
they had a lot of fun. They made new
Their total value was around
$1,600, he said.
Rita Smith, a Griffin High
School student, complained that
someone stole her wallet from a
classroom at Griffin High
yesterday.
She said the billfold contained
seven dollars and personal
items.
The battery was stolen from
Annie Mae Foster’s car while it
was parked near her apartment
on Quincy street, police said.
C.C. Hunter of Pinetree circle
complained to Spalding
Sheriff’s officers that when he
returned home around 8:15 last
night he discovered the screen
and window broken in his kit
chen. Damage was set at 825.
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Hospital
Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding County • Hospital
yesterday:
Idus Barnette, Matti C.
Garrison, Mrs. Lucille B.
Weaver, Lanny H. Willis, Mrs.
Daisy Shockley, Betty Sue
Chapman, Steven B. Whitted,
Miss Melvinia Green.
Mrs. Cynthia Joann Powers
and baby, Mrs. Sara C. Sutton,
Mrs. Brenda P. Parham,
Rachel Roland.
Stork Club
LITTLE MISS COE
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Coe of 33
Spalding street, Griffin, an
nounce the birth of a daughter
on March 2 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.
LITTLE MISS HOSTMEYEK
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Host
meyer of Route Two, Griffin,
announce the birth of a
daughter on March 2 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
LITTLE MISS REID
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lee Reid
of Spalding Heights, Apt. G-5,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
daughter on March 3 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The governmental affairs
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, Jim Goolsby,
chairman, will hold its regular
monthly meeting Thursday at
7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn.
The community development
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, Jim Lewis,
chairman, will hold its regular
monthly meeting, Thursday at 4
p.m. in the Chamber’s meeting
room.
ROTARY CLUB
Dr. Tom Stelson will be guest
speaker at the regular weekly
meeting of the Griffin Rotary
Club on Thursday, at noon, at
the Elks Club.
Ga. Power
delivers
checks
Checks for 83,191 were
delivered to the cities of Milner,
Orchard Hill and Sunny Side by
G. K. Brown, District Manager,
Georgia Power Company.
These checks represent a
percentage of the gross receipts
received in 1975 by the company
from the sale of electric power
to commercial, residential and
industrial customers in these
cities. The payment is made
under the Municipal Partner
ship Plan. It is in addition to the
company’s property taxes,
which on a statewide basis last
year totaled 831,100,000.
More than 816,700,000 in 1975
gross receipts taxes is being
paid this year to the communi
ties of Georgia. This is an in
crease of approximately
85,200,000 over the amount paid
last year.
The company’s total tax bill
for 1975 was 8178,200,000. This
does not include the sales tax
the company collects from its
customers for the State of
Georgia, nor does it include the
sales tax the company pays on
materials used in its operations.
C.B. Club
names
Sweethearts
Kerri Mizell and Pam
Huckaby were winners of the
Sweetheart contest which the
newly organized County Line
CB Club sponsored.
Troy Hoard, president,
presented trophies to the
winners.
friends.
About 4 a.m., one of them discovered
the church reception hall door had been
left ajar, so they all went inside and
made themselves at home. Some of the
wives brought coffee and they sat
around the tables socializing.
They even made some rules and drew
a poster recording the time each
prospect arrived to make sure there
would be no disagreements as to who
would get the spaces.
Children of First Methodist families
were given the opportunity to register
during February.
Demos plan
workshop
for district
Griffin will host a Sixth
Congressional District work
shop for Democrats Friday
night.
It will be held in the Commer
cial Bank community room at
7:30 p.m. for the purpose of
acquainting Democrats with the
procedure for becoming a
delegate to the Democratic
National Convention to be held
in New York City beginning
July 12.
The workshop is being con
ducted as part of the party’s
Affirmative Action program
headed by basketball great,
Walt Bellamy, of Atlanta.
The delegate selection plan
for the Georgia delegation to the
convention provides for the
election of 38 delegates and 23
alternates at the congressional
district level in the presidential
preference primary to be held
on May 4.
According to Marge Thur
man, state chairman, “The
state democratic party is
making every effort to involve
citizens at the grass root level in
state and national politics.”
Further details may be ob
tained by calling L. C. Cato at
the Drug & Surgical Shop.
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| Deaths-Funerals j
Mr. Scott
Mr. Donaldson Gray Scott,
Sr., of 826 North Ninth street,
died Monday night at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Mr. Scott was a native of
Screven County and had made
his home in Griffin for 10 years.
He was a retired contractor and
a veteran of World War Two,
serving in the U.S. Army.
He is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Glenda
Heuvelmans of Green Bay,
Wis., Miss Donna Scott, Miss
Laura Scott and Miss Debbie
Scott, all of Aiken, S. C.; three
sons, Gerald Scott of Detroit,
Mich., Walter E. Scott of
McGuire AFB, N. J., and
Donald G. Scott, Jr., of
Statesboro; a sister, Mrs. Inez
Lovely of South Bend, Ind.; a
brother, John E. Scott of
Cochran; and stepmother, Mrs.
Walter D. Scott of Sylvania.
The body was carried from
Pittman Rawls Funeral Home
to the Thompson Funeral
Home in Sylvania Tuesday. The
funeral will be conducted
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in the chapel of Thompson
Funeral Home with the Rev. J.
K. Tillman officiating. Burial
will be in the Buck Creek
Methodist cemetery. Pittman
Rawls Funeral Home was in
charge of local plans.
Mr. Daniels
Mr. C. H. (Butch) Daniels, 31,
of 611 Lane street, died early
this morning at Georgia Baptist
Hospital in Atlanta.
Mr. Daniels was a Georgia
State Trooper, serving with the
Griffin Barracks for the past
eight months.
He was attending Troopers
Training School in Atlanta when
stricken ill Monday and was
carried to Georgia Baptist
Hospital.
His survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Sara Daniels, a teacher at
Spalding Junior High School,
Unit II; parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Willie C. Parks; and a brother,
Frederick Parks, all of Griffin.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by Millers Funeral
Home.
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Griffin fund raising drive for the Leukemia Society of America began here with the theme,
“Give ’76’ to Save!’’Two of the goals are to collect an average of 76-cents per house and 876
from as many businesses and professional leaders as possible. Homer Sigman (1) is
business chairman and Mrs. Loren Young (r), along with Mrs. Andrew Whalen, Jr. are co
chairmen. Area chairmen Include Mrs. Otis Blake, Mrs. Marshall Sims, Mrs. J. M.
Garrison, Mrs. Haskell Cookie, Mrs. William Bizzell, Mrs. R. G. Thesing, Mrs. Wyman
Mathews, Mrs. T. C. Barron, Mrs. Robert Langford, Mrs. Arthur Turner, Mrs. John
Herbert, Mrs. Chester Smith, Mrs. Clyde Newbury, Mrs. David Rents, and Mrs. Louise
Merritt. All money collected will be used for education, research and leukemia patient-aid.
Health officer
named
Dr. Roy Sandridge has been
named health officer for the
Georgia West district which
includes Spalding County.
This was announced yester
day at the Spalding Board of
Health meeting.
Dr. Sandridge expects to
spend several days a week at
the Spalding Center.
He has been working with Dr.
T. O. Vinson in DeKalb County.
Dr. Vinson was a former health
officer in Griffin.
Mr. Long
Mr. Willie H. Long of Route
three, Thomaston, died
Tuesday in the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Echols Long of
Thomaston; four daughters,
Mrs. Mary Scott of Atlanta,
Mrs. Dorothy Cochran of
Griffin, Mrs. Judy Barfield of
Locust Grove and Mrs. Alice
Harmon of Thomaston; three
sons, Willie David Long, Wiley
S. Long, both of Thomaston and
Sgt. Joe Long of Augusta; five
sisters, Mrs. W. C. Craven, Mrs.
Mae Teal, Mrs. James Hill, all
of Thomaston, Mrs. Allen
Huckaby of Griffin and Mrs.
Sam Strickland of Molena; two
brothers, J. D. Long and Allen
Long, both of Thomaston; and
10 grandchildren.
The funeral will be conducted
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from the Faithful Christian
Baptist Church in Upson
County. The Rev. Henry
Vaughn will officiate and burial
will be in the Hendricks
cemetery. Pasley-Fletcher
Funeral Home is in charge of
plans.
Bands
to have
concert
The band of Spalding Junior
High, Unit HI, Spalding Junior
High Unit I and H, and the
Griffin High Bands will be
presented in concert tomorrow
night at 7:30 in the Griffin High
auditorium.
This concert is part of the
preparation for the Sixth
District music festival, March
11-13 in Douglasville. Each year
the bands give the public this
opportunity to hear the groups
who are to participate. Music
featured will be of march and
classical nature.
“Band of Gold” Booster Club
members will be admitted free;
admission for others is |1 for
adults and 50 cents for students.
Directors are Walter Pyron,
Mrs. Charlotte Turner and
Richard Turner.
Leukemia drive
Chamber
to sponsor
sales talk
The Griffin Merchants
Association of the Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring a
Dutch treat breakfast Wed
nesday, March 17, 7:30 a.m. at
Holiday Inn.
Real estate developer, Dr.
Mack R. Douglas, will speak on
“How to Sell With En
thusiasm.”
Dr. Douglas is a professional
speaker and has trained
salespersons in insurance,
banking, real estate, industry,
distribution and retail sales.
SAGE Club
members
elected
Members of the
Davis—Tucker Chapter, SAGE
Club of Griffin High School,
attended the state convention at
Rock Eagle in Eatonton.
Members attending were
Wendy Sauley, president of the
local club; Carol Ellison, Janice
Roberts, Myra Johnston,
Martha Wise, Lamar Thomas
and the club advisor, Mrs. Sara
Ellison.
Carol Ellison was installed as
sixth district director and
Janice Roberts was elected
state historian.
The _
South’s
kind of rwSS
goodness.
Green Beans and ' ' / / \ \ \\
potatoes. The best of • 1 ' x
both—brought together for
i -S y° ur P' easure by people who were
brought up on green beans and
potatoes. And know exactly how -"/X.
they should taste.
Look for Sunshine
next time you V* 1
what we j|g
mean.
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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, March 3,1976
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throughout the city.
Mr. Inman showed the commission
ers a reflector from a street fixture
which had been damaged by a shotgun
blast. He said all of the expensive
fixtures, with the exception of two or
three, have been shot out by vandals.
The development has underground
wiring with fixtures which cost some
8200 each, compared with 830 for those
on other city streets.
Shoal Creek developers had
requested the city replace the ex
pensive fixtures.
Before the commissioners decide
whether or not to permit Tim Cramer,
the former operator Calton Ahl’s son-in
law, to open the Sixth Street Recreation
Center, they will ask for a recom
mendation from the chief of police on
the request.
The board also will ask advice of
Judge Tom Lewis, who ordered the pool
room closed as a public nusiance. *
They also want assurances from Ahl
that he will not be directly or indirectly
associated with its operation.
The matter will probably be taken up
at next week’s meeting.
The board accepted a low bid of
820,637 from McWane Cast Iron Pipe
Co. for the purchase of cast iron pipes to
be used at the Griffin-Spalding In
dustrial Park. There were five bids in
all.
Os the seven bids for assorted tapping
sleeves and valves, also to be used at
the park, Consolidated Pipe & Supply
Co., Inc., was low bidder in the amount
of 82,506.
N-Power
(Continued from page one.)
without being damaged, and were
impregnable to all but the most
powerful explosives. It would be
extremely difficult to open them
manually, he added, and anyone who
succeeded would die instantly from
massive radiation.
The experts said most fears about
security at fuel processing and power
plants were exagerated because
multiple security and safety measures
were more than adequate to deal with
sabotage, accidents and external
disasters — such as plane crashes,
tornadoes and earthquakes.