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The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“An old-timer is one who can
remember when there seemed
to be enough of everything.’’
Signs are pointing
to burrrrrr winter
By JOHN LESAR
United Press International
Sexy deer, squirrels sporting thick
fur and gathering food without chat
tering and “woolly worms” decked out
in thick black coats have brought
predictions of a bitter winter from
folklore enthusiasts.
Frisky deer spell a wild winter for
Upper Michigan.
“The deer are getting awful sexy
already. I can tell you it’s gonna be
colder than it’s been in a long time,”
says Merl Katika, who lives near the
tiny, Upper Peninsula community of
Bete Grise. “The deer are rutting awful
early. It’s almost immoral. It means
lots of snow sure.”
The winter of 1959-1960 was a rough
one in the Tennesee mountains and
Helen Lane, east Tennessee’s folk
weather prophet, says another one just
hike it may be on its way.
GRIFFIN
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Daily Since 1872
It’s time
for us
to thank you
Fair time
Arson eyed in deaths of 5
“Com shucks are real thick this year
on sweet com and the fur on squirrels is
thick, too. We could get some hum
dingers here on this mountain,” she
said.
Other indicators, she said, include
squirrels that don’t chatter when they
gather nuts, low-flying hawks and an
abundance of crickets. But spiders
provide the clincher.
“I haven’t seen too many in the
grass” says Mrs. Lane, “there are
more in the house this year than in the
grass. The last time I remember that
happening was in 1959, and that
winter broke all records in Tennessee.
We had six feet of snow during the
winter.”
Lydel Sims, humorist and columnist
for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, ,
has been watching woolly bear
caterpillars — so-called "woolly
worms” — throughout the midSouth.
MONROE, Ga. (UPI) - Four girls
and a boy ranging in age from 18 to 5
years were killed in a fire at their house
today and officials were investigating
the possibility of arson.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Thomas, escaped the fire which
destroyed their two-story frame house
in a sparsely populated area three
miles from here.
Officials identified the dead Thomas
children as Jeanette, 18, Cynthia, 15,
Steven, 12, Karen, 9, and Allison, 5.
The bodies, “burned beyond
recognition,’’ Walton County Sheriff
Franklin Thornton said, remained
inside the house while investigators
from the state crime lab studied the
scene.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, October 11,1976
Jack Smith, manager of the Griffin Kiwanis Fair, checks wort on the midway this morning.
The Fair will open its Mth edition at 5 p.m. today. The fairgrounds were a flurry of activity
during the weekend and this morning as exhibitors rushed to get their displays ready.
Special events are included on every fair program every night this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were taken to
Athens General Hospital where Mrs.
Thomas, 42, was reported in fair con
dition suffering from burns. Thomas,
who works for a janitorial service in
Jonesboro, was treated and released,
officials said.
Dep. Sheriff Homer Reeves said his
department requested an investigation
by the state Fire Marshal’s office.
When Walton County firemen arrived
at about 1:30 a.m. the house was ablaze,
officials said.
The house was located about one-half
mile off State Route 78, Thornton said.
It was one of three houses in a row, and
it had recently been moved to make
way for a bypass construction, he said.
Three children were in two upstairs
bedrooms, while the parents and two
He says more of them are sporting very
black coats —a sign of cold weather —
but that reports are fragmentary.
“Our early sampling,” he Joked,
“indicates 40 per cent of the surveyed
woolly bears are predicting a cold
winter, 20 per cent are predicting an
average winter and 30 per cent do not
yet know what to make of it.”
In New Hampshire, Richard Crane,
an auctioneer-farmer in Hillsborough
County, is braced for a rough winter.
He says geese went south two weeks
early, white-tailed wasps are building
their nests high in the trees and rac
coons’ pelts are thick—all sure signs of
of a rough winter.
“I expect quite a bit of snow,” Crane
said.
And he’s a bit worried about the grey
squirrels. The don’t hibernate, he says,
so it’s a mystery where they’ve gone.
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This is National Newspaper Week,
Oct. 10-16, and as good a time as we
know to reflect on the growth and
development of Griffin and of the
Griffin Daily News.
In the past several years the com
munity has moved ahead steadily,, both
in size and in quality of life. Here at the
paper our policy has been to keep pace
with it, get a step or so ahead whenever
we can.
We have expanded local news
coverage considerably, both in writing
other children were in three other
bedrooms when the fire broke out,
Thornton said.
People
••• and things
Woman, calling to friend who ob
viously likes potatoes, “My, you look
like you’ve lost 10 pounds.’’
Bank customer, finding no chair,
simply drops to his knees, to sign note.
Pre-school tot, riding bicycle in rain,
protecting himself with pint-size um
brella.
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and in pictures. We have hired more
people and installed new machinery in
order to get the paper to you earlier and
better printed. Presently we are
reporting more than 200 local news
stories a week, and if all were con
centrated in one paper instead of
through the six days, it would be con
siderably larger than the one you hold
in your hand.
Here at the paper we realize fully the
great responsibility which we have to
the community we serve. We ap
preciate the opportunity to try and help
Bolton spent
sl.l million
for lawyers
ATLANTA (UPI) - Attorney
General Arthur Bolton’s office spent
more than >l.l million during the last
fiscal year for outside lawyers to
represent state agencies, a state audit
disclosed Sunday.
The audit for the fiscal year ended
June 30 said all but about SBB,OOO of the
outside counsel fees will be billed to the
23 agencies for which the lawyers were
retained by the Law Department. The
rest will show up in Bolton’s budget.
Deputy Attorney General Robert
Stubbs said there were “two kinds of
lawyers” used by the state.
He said staff attorneys do some work,
such as arguing the state’s position in
the courts, and others are brought in
from the outside because of their ex
pertise in specialized fields.
Stubbs said for the money spent on
outside counsel, the state could hire
about 26 fulltime lawyers at the
beginning salary, “but I don’t know
where we would put them.”
He said the state currently employs
54 lawyers and about 50 non-lawyers,
with office space for “about three more
bodies” at the Law Department.
“This is nothing new,” Stubbs said.
“People have been nibbling away at us
on this for several years."
The audit said last fiscal year the
department hired about 140 outside
attorneys, some of whom were paid
between $30,000 and $56,000.
Starting salary for a lawyer in the
department is $15,000 but Stubbs said it
costs the department about $40,000 to
hire a new attorney because of ad
ditional support services, such as
secretarial help.
The state auditor’s report said the
largest single payment to an outside
lawyer was $58,082 to Charles Pritchard
of Atlanta, a member of the firm of
Lipshutz, Zussman and Sikes.
Stubbs called Pritchard a “real
Griffin’s defense overpowered Jonesboro in a 16-0 victory Saturday night Rodney Jester
(IS) and Clint Hosely (88) force a fumble here. See story on page eight
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 65, low
today 48, high yesterday 70, low
yesterday 42, high tomorrow In mid 70s,
low tonight ih mid 40s.
FORECAST: Clear and cool tonight.
Sunny and mild tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
showers Thursday. Slight warming
trend Wednesday and Thursday, tur
ning cooler Friday.
make it the best one anywhere. Also we
know full well that none of this would be
possible without the help and support of
individual people. That means you, and
that is why in recent weeks and months
we have reemphasized our old policy of
stressing news about people, news
about you and things which affect you
directly.
So as we celebrate National
Newspaper Week we simply have this
to say: “Thank you. Thank you very
much.”
cracker jack” who heads a team of
lawyers working on land acquisition
matters for state highway projects. He
said some of the payments to Pritchard
were for work done by other lawyers.
Fees also went to the prestigious
Atlanta law firms of King and Spalding,
of which Jimmy Carter adviser Charles
Kirbo is a partner, and Gambrell and
Mobley, of which former Sen. David
Gambrell is a member.
King and Spalding was paid $21,177,
the audit said, and the Gambrell firm
received $44,837.
Griffin Bell Jr., the son of former U.S.
Appeals Judge Griffin Bell, was paid
$15,461 and the sons of Reps. Phil
Landrum and John Flynt were paid less
than SI,OOO each, the audit said. Charles
L. Pannell Jr., the son of the recently
retired state appeals court judge,
received less than SSOO.
Also on the list were state Reps. W.W.
“Wash” Larsen, DDublin; Benson
Ham, DForsyth, and Bryant Culpep
per, D-Fort Valley.
Balloon man
had to ditch
‘Silver Fox’
LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -
American Ed Yost failed by 580 miles to
become the first man to solo across the
Atlantic Ocean in a balloon.
Yost ditched his balloon “Silver Fox”
200 miles east of the Azores Islands
Sunday and was picked up unharmed
three hours later by a West German
freighter.
The 57-year-old balloon pilot was
forced to abandon the trip after his
helium supply dwindled and he began
losing altitude Saturday.