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Griffin gets a new zip
Griffin has a second zip code number.
The new zip code, 30224, will be
assigned to all Post Office box and
drawer customers.
Other Griffin residents, both city and
rural will continue with their present
zip code, 30223.
Postmaster James Chappell asked all
lock box customers to notify their
correspondents and pulishers of the
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Standstill
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - The bank
robbery trial of Patricia Hearst will not
go to the jury until sometime next
week. It was brought to a standstill
Wednesday by a request from defense
attorney F. Lee Bailey that the judge
throw out evidence damaging to the
case.
Judge Oliver J. Carter promised a
quick decision on whether to bar
documents seized in the Symbionese
Liberation Army’s last hideout ruled
inadmissible.
Shoot spree
DETROIT (UPI) — For reasons
known only to himself, Chauncey West,
who occupied a room in the Hotel
Addison for one night, went on a
shooting spree Tuesday night. “We
don’t know what caused him to do it,” a
police spokesman said.
West shot three men, in the hotel, who
are in serious to critical condition
today.
After shooting the third man, police
stormed the stairwell in which West
was hiding and exchanged fire with the
gunman, who finally was killed by a
police sniper as he climbed to the hotel
roof to escape tear gas fired by police.
Moscow picking
MOSCOW (UPI) - Delegation heads
at the 25th Communist party congress
were summoned to a special meeting
today to nominate a new party central
committee.
The full congress must then approve
the selection in a closed election, after
which the ruling Politburo will be
chosen from the central committee by
secret plenum.
Ann arrives
LONDON (UPI) - The United
State’s first woman ambassador to the
Court of St. James, Ann Armstrong,
arrived in London Wednesday night.
She will take up her official duties next
week.
On arrival, she answered questions at
a brief airport news conference. She
said she knew of no time when UJS.-
British relations have been better.
new number as soon as possible.
Mail bearing the old zip code will be
delivered during the transition period,
he said.
Mr. Chappell said he is continuing to
work toward a new uniform mailbox
numbering system for county residents
on rural routes.
Chappell pointed out as the com-
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Cary Hall battles his ulcers in workshop.
People
—and things
Young woman driving convertible,
top down, long hair streaming behind.
Or is it a young man?
Little wild peachtrees in full bloom.
Soft drink bottle still in yard of
Woman’s Clubhouse where female
student dropped it while cutting across
yard on way to school two weeks ago.
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‘Tm impressed by how much
folks can do when they have to
— and how little when they
don’t.”
Body of Viet hero home
WOBURN, Mass. (UPI) — Charles
McMahon Jr., one of the last two
American soldiers killed in Vietnam,
will be buried Saturday in a section of a
local cemetery reserved for war dead.
The body of the 21-year-old Marine,
who died in Vietnam 12 hours before the
American evacuation, was shipped
home Wednesday in a gun-metal gray
coffin provided by the government.
“Everybody is relieved,” funeral
director Everett Bixby said as he stood
in a winddriven sleet at Boston’s Logan
International Airport to pick up the
coffin. “The town is happy it’s coming
to a close.”
For 10 months, McMahon’s family
was uncertain his body would be
returned by the new Vietnamese
Saturday Dogwood Day
Dogwood seedlings will be distributed free on a first come, first served basis
Saturday morning from the Extension office conference room at Fifth and
Slayton streets.
Distribution will begin at 9 o’clock.
The city and county commissioners appropriate money to finance the project
which the Woman’s Division of the Chamber of Commerce sponsors each year.
It’s part of a continuing beautification effort of the Division.
munity continues to grow, rural routes
have to be reassigned to handle ad
ditional postal customers.
New assignments mean new ad
dresses for rural postal customers, he
pointed out.
This is sometimes confusing and
always trouble to the post office as well
as the customer, he said.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, March 4,1976
Better
not plant
too soon
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Home
gardeners have been warned there’s
still a good chance of frost ahead —
despite the warm weather over the
state for more than a week.
Specialists of the University of
Georgia Extension Service said
Wednesday the average date for late
frost ranges from about March 6 in
south Georgia to about April 3 in north
Georgia.
Gardening expert Paul Colditz says
the frost possibility limits the number
of vegetables which should be planted
at this time.
“In north and middle Georgia, it’s
time to plant English peas, onions,
carrots and turnips,” Colditz said.
“Anything else would be taking a
chance. South Georgia is slightly ahead
with plantings of irish potatoes,
cabbage, lettuce and other cool weather
crops.”
government. In February, Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass., sent two aides to
Southeast Asia to negotiate the return
of McMahon’s body and that of a
companion, Lance Cpl. Darwin Judge
of Marshaltown, lowa.
The pair died last April 29 in an
artillery and rocket attack on Saigon’s
Tan Son Nhut airport. Judge’s body was
returned to lowa Tuesday night.
“My boy said he’d come home and I
knew he would,” Mrs. Charles
McMahon told reporters as she waited
for his coffin to be transferred to a
waiting hearse. A daughter cried.
“I’m just glad the whole ordeal is
over with and that he’s home, back
where he belongs with us,” Mrs.
McMahon said.
NEWS
A permanent address system in the
county would give a home an address
that would not have to be changed
every time routes are rescheduled,
Chappell said.
He has consulted with the county
commissioners a couple of times about
the matter and is working with the
Mclntosh Trail people to get a study
under way.
Making furniture
“We’re the only family I know who
burns cherry, mahogany and walnut
wood in our fireplace,” quipped
Hampton resident Cary Hall.
The retired Navy captain and former
regional director of HEW, said he often
has such wood scraps to burn which
were left over from his hobby of fur
niture making.
The Halls live on a 55-acre estate in
Hampton. Cary has a large basement
room for his woodworking shop. He has
just completed two matching block
front chests of drawers whose designs
he adapted from rare museum pieces
made in the mid 1700’s by Rhode Island
cabinet makers, Townsend & Goddard.
The originals are worth many
Burglary
suspect
killed
A burglary suspect was shot and
killed last night.
Police identified him as Prentiss
Gilbert, 19, of 1245 Edgewood avenue.
He allegedly broke into the apart
ment of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Apple at the
Regency Apartments on West College
street and was shot by Mr. Apple as he
attempted to rob Mrs. Apple.
Police said the shooting occurred
around 11:20 p.m.
The man allegedly entered the
apartment while Mr. Apple was in a
bedroom. Mrs. Apple, who had been
out, returned home and said she was
grabbed by the intruder. When her
husband heard her screams, he picked
up a pistol and fired at the stranger.
Gilbert was shot once in the head and
was dead on arrival at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital, police said.
His survivors include his mother,
Mrs. Jessie Brown.
Funeral plans and other survivors
will be announced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Would you beleive
a pink alligator?
ANDYTOWN, Fla. (UPI) - An
airboat tour guide is having a hard time
convincing state game officials and
animal experts that he found a pink
alligator floating in an Everglades
canal.
Guide Danny Decker of Everglades
Holiday Park discovered the Moot
alligator earlier this week while out
with his airboat and later took a second
trip to the area just to make sure,
drifting within eight feet of the
creature.
“It was a hard thing to believe, but
there was no mistaking it,” said Elsie
Beswick, one of five persons Decker
took with him on his second trip. She
runs a fishing camp on Lake
Okeechobee with her husband.
“I was scared to death of the creature
but it was kind of attractive —for a
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Hall developed ulcers and Navy doctor told him
to get a hobby or else • • . He tried golf and ulcers
got worse ... So he turned to wood work.
thousands of dollars, but Cary says he
wouldn’t sell his copies for that, as too
much of himself went into making
them.
“Besides, nobody’s ever met my
price,” he laughed.
The chests are solid mahogany with
large hand carved shell designs on the
top drawers and ogee bracket feet. The
drawers are dove-tailed and all joints
are put together with wooden pegs,
reinforced by glue.
“There’s not a nail in either piece,”
he said.
The chests took more than a year and
a half to complete.
Cary began his unusual hobby some
22 years ago when he developed ulcers
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Wholesale
prices fell 0.5 per cent in Feburary, the
biggest monthly decline in nearly a
year, the Labor Department said today.
The overall decline reflected the
fourth consecutive monthly drop in food
prices and an easing of inflationary
pressures on industrial goods.
Wholesale prices, which generally
foreshadow prices paid by consumers,
have either declined or remained un
changed over the past four months. But
February’s report showed the biggest
single monthly improvement since an
0.5 per cent drop in March, 1975.
Following a 1.8 per cent leap last
October, wholesale prices remained
unchanged in November, declined 0.4
per cent in December and were
unchanged again in January.
The Feburary wholesale price report
brought good news for President Ford,
who has cited recent improvements in
inflation and unemployment as
evidence his go-slow economic policies
gator,” she said.
But three officials from the state
Game and Fresh Water Fish
Commission who investigated the
sighting near State Road 84 and U.S. 27
are skeptical.
Official Pat Mclntosh said he thought
it might have been a South American
cayman someone bought as a pet which
was dumped in a canal after its owner
grew tired of it. Lt. Tom Shirley said a
pink alligator was possible but that he
had never heard of one.
But Tommy Hines, of the
commission’s research division in
Gainesville, was the most disbelieving
of all and thinks someone is playing a
practical joke.
“Some guy out there has probably
dyed a gator pink and is having a real
laugh on us,” he said.
They have a new number.
Wholesale prices
dropped last month
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 80, low
today 54, high yesterday 81, low
yesterday 58, high tomorrow in low 70s,
low tonight in mid 50s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
showers Saturday through Monday
with a cooling trend.
and his Navy doctor told him to get a
hobby, or else.
First he took up golf, but that made
the ulcers worse, so he tried his hand at
wood working and has been at it ever
since.
The Hall home, which Cary designed,
is filled with his products.
There’s a poster bed with handcarved
flowers, appraised several years ago at
$1,000; eight Hepplewhite side chairs
with intricate handcarved backs and
needlepoint covers made by Dorothy,
his wife; mahogany lamps; a desk with
pulldown top; mahogany carved cor
nered card table; book cases; break
fast table; and many more pieces. The
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are working. February’s
unemployment report was to be
released Friday.
Wholesale prices for industrial goods
rose 0.3 per cent, compared to average
monthly increases of 0.7 per cent during
the last half of 1975. Contributing to this
improvement was a substantial decline
in fuel and power costs caused in large
measure by reduced crude petroleum
prices under the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act.
Food and farm prices fell 2.3 per cent,
continuing a trend that began last
November. Meat and dairy prices
declined along with sugar prices—
which had increased during January.
The Wholesale Price Index in
February was 179.4, or 4.7 per cent
higher than a year ago. This means that
goods costing SIOO in 1967 now cost
$179.40.
Ford’s critics, particularly those in
organized labor and on the campaign
trail, have contended that the economic
indicators will sour in coming months.
Another skeptic was Ross Allen, the
president of the International
Crocodilian Society and the operator of
a reptile farm in Silver Springs, who
said pink alligators don’t exist.
“But white ones do," he said. “A
combination of sun and blood could give
them a rosy glow. I’ve seen one in a
wilderness near Sarasota.”
Decker theorizes the alligator could
be an albino “although I have never
heard of one.”
On his second trip, Decker had
commercial photographer Alfred
Harkins accompany the group. Harkins
took two color photos of the pink gator
and left them with the manager of
Everglades Holiday Park.
Despite their doubts about the gator,,
game officials say they will attempt to
find it and capture it for further study.