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Yule savings nearly sl-million
Nearly a million dollars in Christmas
savings is in the process of being paid to
Griffinites.
A check with financial institutions
and companies which have Christmas
Clubs for their employes showed a total
of $839,393 was involved in 1976
programs.
Local banks which operate Christmas
Clubs already have mailed checks and
begun opening new accounts for
Christmas of 1977.
Christmas Clubs with Commercial
Bank & Trust Co., First National, The
People
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Griffin postman, hands thrust in
pockets against the cold, making his
rounds.
Passerby peering through window at
women working at sewing machines in
Southeastern Textiles’ enlarged plant
on East Solomon Street.
Man inviting friend to revival ser
vices under way at his church.
Versatile
By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Ralph Jones, 26, has learned how to
handle the high cost of home building.
He is doing it himself.
Starting with 17 acres near the First
Methodist Church that he says he “and
the bank” own, he first had to clear
trees for the building site. These Ralph
cut into logs and bums in his fireplace.
The well was dug and Ralph bricked
up around it and installed his water
pump. He bought a metal warehouse
measuring 60 X 75 feet which came on a
truck. This had to be bolted together
and assembled.
Thanks to his friends, one of whom
had a crane, Ralph got the building up
and the roof on, resting it on top of a
concrete slab. Using lumber from a
house he had tom down on Poplar
Street which the owners had given him
to haul away, Ralph installed a ground
floor kitchen, and a bedroom, bathroom
and living room upstairs over part of
the building.
One of the windows in the living room
came from his grandparents’ house on
West Poplar Street. Ralph is the oldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ellis Jones
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Bank of Griffin, and First Federal
Savings and Loan Association totaled
$439,393.
Dundee Mills which operates a
Christmas Club program for its em
ployes plans to pay a large portion of
them Thursday.
Some employes elect to draw
payments at different times but a bulk
of the Dundee clubs will be paid this
week.
Crompton-Highland Mills operates a
program for its employes but didn’t
disclose their plans.
Several other companies in the
DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
and the grandson of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Jones of Griffin.
Ralph was in college when his grand
parents’ house was tom down, but he
came home in time to save the window
he’s using and the front door from the
bulldozer. The front door, with beveled
glass, had already been pushed over
but “not a pane was broken”. Some of
the molding was cracked but Ralph is
confident that he can repair or replace
it and later hopes to use it when he
builds his “real house.”
A sentimental person, Ralph has
refinished a walnut secretary and a pie
safe which are old family pieces and is
using them in his living room. A huge
eight foot free standing fireplace
dominates the room. It is made from a
liquid fertilizer tank which had rusted
out at the bottom and was given to him.
Ralph made the smoke stack from
discarded hot water heaters. He welded
them together and painted the whole
thing black. The fireplace rests on
bricks on a raised brick hearth.
Asked about his skilled brick
masonry, Ralph said he had practiced
by laying a brick wall for his mother in
return for a trip to the National Boy
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, November 30, 1976
Long distance runner
builds his own house
community which operate Christmas
savings plans either have paid them or
are about ready to do so.
All totaled, they should amount to
about a million dollars for people in the
community.
Marines
transfer
klansmen
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (UPI) -
The Marine Corps, troubled by
discovery of a Ku Klux Klan group on
this base where a group of blacks
recently stabbed and clubbed white
troops, is transferring some Klansmen
to other bases.
The black Marines who attacked the
white group, bursting into an illegal
barracks beer party, apparently
thought they were attacking klansmen,
but got the room next door to the Klan
meeting.
Scout Jamboree in 1964 when he was 14
years old, an Eagle Scout.
Another interesting feature of his
living room is the central light fixture
made from an old wagon wheel that
Ralph wired and adapted. His
television sits on two nail keys. Ralph
moved into his new home last June
after working on it for 13 months.
He is a mechanical engineer working
with American Mills. He holds the
Auburn school record for slow distance
running, covering 210 miles in one week
while he was in college. He now runs six
or seven miles a day “to feel good.”
As junior warden of St. George’s
Episcopal Church he is responsible for
the church properties and is currently
fitting plexiglass over all the stained
glass windows in the church to protect
them and provide insulation. He is
assistant Scoutmaster of Boy Scout
Troop One and chairman of the Boy
Scout committee of the Kiwanis Club.
Saying that he could never “repay to
Scouting what I’ve gotten out of it,”
Ralph, as a bicentennial pioneer has
learned to put to good use the skills and
materials he has.
Tickets
on the way
Tickets for the Griffin-Wheeler North
Georgia Championship game at
Marietta Friday night were to go on
sale this afternoon at the office of Supt.
D. B. Christie about 3 o’clock or later.
A school representative drove to the
Cobb County School this morning to get
the tickets for Griffin.
Advance tickets will be $1.50 for
students and $2.50 for adults. All tickets
sold at the gate Friday night will be $3.
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“Picking up others’ Utter is
good for both your environment
and your self-esteem.”
Ralph Jones
Vol. 104 No. 284
Scientists predict
another glacier age
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Three
scientists have linked the ice ages to
variations in earth’s orbit around the
sun and they predict another period of
glaciers will start in a few thousand
years.
The researchers said their findings
provide the first statistical proof of a
theory proposed in 1930 by a Serbian
geophysicist connecting earth’s orbital
behavior and climate changes.
“We have demonstrated, I think,
beyond any doubt what the fun
damental cause of these major climatic
changes was,” Dr. James D. Hays, of
Columbia University’s LamontDoherty
Geophysical Laboratory, said in a
telephone interview. “It’s basically
related to the geometry of Earth’s
orbit.”
Hays, Dr. John Imbrie, of Brown
University, and Dr. Nicholas J.
Shackelton, of Britain’s Cambridge
University, based their conclusions on a
study of a half million year span of tiny
fossils obtained in drill cores from the
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Jo Anne Todd of the W.M.U. at First Baptist Church talks
with M.A. Jaleel of India who is a microbiologist and
hospital epidemiologist He is one of the internationals to
be welcomed tonight at First Baptist Church.
First Baptist to greet
Griffin internationals
An International Banquet welcoming
people living in Griffin who are natives
of other countries will be held tonight at
7 o’clock in Cheatham auditorium of
First Baptist Church.
The banquet is being sponsored by
the First Baptist Church Women
Missionary Union for foreign emphasis
during the Season of Foreign Mission.
The WMU obtained the names of
internationals by contacting the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital, the Chamber
of Commerce, the Experiment Station,
and other places with a large number of
internationals employed. This was in
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
today 13, high yesterday 35, low
yesterday 30, high tomorrow in low 40s,
low tonight in upper teens.
FORECAST: Clear and cold tonight.
Sunny and not as cold tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: A
CHANCE OF RAIN Thursday, mainly
south portion with clearing on Friday
and Saturday. Cool days and rather
cold nights.
bottom of the South Indian Ocean.
Their findings, released Monday by
the National Science Foundation which
supported the work, will be published
next week in the journal Science.
They found that warm and cold
favoring forms of the microorganism
Radiolaria, along with chemical
changes relating to climate, correlated
exactly with periodic changes in the
path of Earth’s orbit, its tilt and its
wobble.
These orbital cycles occur every
100,000, 41,000 and 23,000 years and are
caused by the gravitational pull of other
planets, primarily the giant Jupiter.
The changes in the geometry of the
orbit affect the seasonal and latitudinal
distribution of radiation reaching Earth
from the sun, but not the total amount
of sunshine falling on Earth.
“So in a sense, the cause of these ice
ages is in many ways like seasons in
that you’re varying the amount of
radiation you’re getting in the summer
and winter, spring and fall,” Hays said.
addition to asking around the com
munity and in the church.
The program will consist of a
welcoming message by Dr. Bruce
Morgan, pastor of First Baptist Church,
and a brief message by the Rev. James
Lewis from the Department of
Language Missions of the Home
Missions Board in Atlanta. The Korean
children of the Byun family will per
form a special music presentation.
Guests will include natives from the
countries of Thailand, Hunan, Taiwan,
Korea, England, Germany, Spain,
Morocco, India and Puerto Rico.