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Lt. Drawdy in his cadet uniform at North Georgia College with his wife.
People
...and things
Man walking down street in
undershirt, his shirt over his shoulder,
in unseasonably warm December
weather.
Another prestige tag showing up, this
one reading COLT 45.
Daughter hitting panic button when
She can’t find shirt for her
father.
Carter taps Bell, Kreps
for cabinet appointments
, Plains, Ga. (UPI) — President-elect
Jimmy Carter today tapped fellow
Georgian Griffin Bell as Attorney
General and educator Juanita Kreps to
be commerce secretary, the first
woman in his Cabinet.
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Judge Bell
School’s out
here tomorrow
’ The Griffin-Spalding County School
System wid close at the end of the
regular school day Tuesday afternoon
for Christmas holidays.
' School will reopen Monday morning,
Jan. 3.
The superintendent’s office will be
’ open from 10 a.m. til 2 p.m., Dec. 22
through Dec. 31 except for Christmas,
New Year’s Day and Sundays.
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The Country Parson
by Erank Clark
■
“I never admit I’m a self
made man — I try to shift the
blame to somebody else.”
GRIFFIN
DAI
Daily Since 1872
Coffee prices going up even more
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Shoppers
who have watched coffee prices soar to
new records this year can expect even
higher prices in 1977, Agriculture
Department economists warned today.
And switching to tea or cocoa won’t
help the budget much, they said.
Experts said relief is a long way off.
In a report published today they said
world coffee production is not likely to
return to normal until the 1979-80
marketing season, although output
could improve earlier than that.
Rep. Robert Bergland, DMinn., also
was in Georgia and was expected to be
selected agriculture secretary by
Carter at an 11:30 a.m. Carter news
conference.
It was Carter’s fourth meeting with
reporters in a week.
Bell, 58. a former federal appeals
judge, is a good friend of Carter’s and
a law partner to Charles Kirbo, one of
the President-elect’s closest adviser.
Mrs. Kreps, 55, is a vice president of
Duke University and the first woman to
be named by Carter to his Cabinet. She
is a laboreconomist, a member of the
New York Stock Exchange and serves
on several corporate boards, including
J.C. Penney and Eastman Kodak.
Bergland, 48, is a farmer himself. He
operates a 600-acre farm and has been
an adviser on farm policy issues for
Vice President-elect Walter Mondale.
Carter has promised to appoint a
farmer to the agriculture post.
Carter has now filled seven of the 11
Cabinet positions. The only vacancies
are at the Departments of Labor,
Defense, Housing and Urban Develop
ment and HEW.
Feminist and black groups have
expressed their disappointment over
the makeup of Carter’s Cabinet so far.
There were reports that Newark Mayor
Kenneth Gibson, a black, is a leading
candidate to become housing secretary.
Where’s Doc bones?
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (UPI)
— Relatives of gunfighter Doc Holliday
want his bones moved to Georgia, but
city officials say no one knows for sure
where they are.
Holliday’s huge tombstone stands in a
lonely cemetery on a cliff overlooking
this city deep in the Rockies. The
marker is engraved with the gun
fighter’s picture and the words: “He
died in bed.”
But the remains may not be there.
City Manager John West said Holliday
was “supposedly moved’’ to the
cemetery from his original burying
place because of street construction.
“The old cemetery records were lost
and nobody knows if Doc’s body was
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, December 20,1976
Tragedy mars homecoming
Marine lieutenant, wife die
in wreck on way home
A native Griffin girl and her Marine
husband were just 15 miles from her
home town early yesterday morning
when their small foreign made car and
a fruit truck collided.
Both were killed.
They were headed home to spend the
holidays with their relatives in Georgia.
Lt. and Mrs. Jerol F. Drawdy were
driving from Havelock, N. C., near the
Marine base at Cherry Point. They
made their home at Havelock.
The accident happened about 6 a.m.
Sunday morning on the Jackson road
near Patrick’s Store.
The Drawdy car and a produce truck
loaded with fruit collided headon. The
driver of the truck was James Gilbert
of Jackson. He was taken to the Sylvan
Grove hospital at Jackson for treat
ment.
Meanwhile, analysts William C.
Bowser and Rex E. T. Dull said, sup
plies “will continue tight and prices will
remain relatively high.”
At the same time, Bowser and Dull
noted that tea prices on London
markets have also risen to new record
highs recently, and in a separate report
Dull said prices for cocoa also have
risen to new records this year because
of poor crop prospects in West Africa.
“And this means consumers will be
paying higher prices for cocoa and
Time’s getting short
Young people who plan to write Thursday.
letters to Santa for publication in the We need to have them in hand by
Griffin Daily News should do so right Wednesday.
away. Christmas will be here Saturday We’ve published a record number
and time is getting short. this year and will report on the final
We plan to publish the last ones by total when we can count them.
35 may be killed
in state accidents
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Georgia
State Patrol predicts 35 persons will die
in traffic accidents across the state
during the Christmas and New Year’s
holidays and plans rigid enforcement of
traffic laws.
The patrol predicts 1,170 traffic ac
cidents, 18 deaths and 378 injuries will
occur from 6 p.m. Thursday to mid
night next Sunday during the Christmas
holiday.
During the same hours for the New
Year’s holiday the following weekend, a
total of 1,124 accidents, 17 fatalities and
343 injuries were predicted.
Because both Christmas and New
Year’s occur on weekends this year, the
holiday periods will be 78 hours instead
of the usual 102 hours.
Public Service Commissioner Col.
Herman Cofer said drinking drivers
were usually a particular problem
during the winter holidays and troopers
would make those drivers a prime
target.
really moved,” West said.
Relatives of Holliday have asked to
have the bones moved to a Valdosta,
Ga., cemetery, where his parents are
buried. They expressed concern over
reports that youths in Glenwood
Springs used the tombstone for rifle
target practice and as a motorcycle
jump-ramp
West denied the reports, saying the
tombstone “was still standing and in
very good shape.”
The city manager said he would write
letters to Holliday’s relatives ex
plaining the situation but take no action
on their request.
Holliday, a dentist-turned gunfighter,
died of tuberculosis in 1887.
The bodies of Lt. and Mrs. Drawdy
were pinned in the wreckage and
rescue crews had to work some time to
get them out.
The couple apparently died instantly,
along with their pet dog and parakeet
which were in the vehicle.
Gilbert operates Cowan’s Store on
Highway 42 near Jackson and was
returning from the State Farmer’s
Market in Atlanta with a load of
oranges and apples, troopers said.
He has been charged with driving on
the wrong side of the road and with
homicide by vehicle, first degree.
Although he has not been charged
with driving under the influence,
investigators suspect alcohol was
involved and blood tests were being
taken.
Lt. and Mrs. Drawdy had been
chocolate products in the coming
months,” he said.
The boom in coffee prices was at
tributed to a freeze which struck Brazil,
the world’s largest producer, in July
1975. The disaster came too late to
affect that season’s production, but its
damage cut the 1976-77 crop potential
by 60 per cent or more.
The amount of coffee available for
export from producing nations in the
current season is now estimated at 44.7
million bags, nearly 20 per cent below a
Santa ’s
little
helper
at
Zebulon
Youngster at left was having a
ball Saturday afternoon helping
Santa spread Christmas cheer
In the parade at Zebulon. Old St.
Nick came into town on the
Zebulon fire truck.
Vol. 104 No. 301
married last January.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Drawdy
was the former Donna Jean Dickinson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Dickinson of 1117 Skyline drive, Griffin.
Her husband was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Drawdy of Waycross.
Lt. Drawdy was 23 and his wife was
20.
Mrs. Drawdy was a 1974 Griffin High
graduate and had attended North
Georgia College. She was a member of
the Kappa Delta sorority, Phi Kappa
Phi fraternity; Little Sisters, and
sweetheart of Semper Fidelis Society
while at North Georgia.
In addition to her parents, survivors
include a twin brother, Mark Dickinson
of Griffin; maternal grandmother,
Mrs. J. 0. J. King of Athens; paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Maude Dickinson of
year earlier and about 10 million bags
below estimated demand, experts said.
As the shortage made itself felt,
prices rose. At the retail level, although
consumers have already seen prices go
from |1.21 a pound for canned roasted
coffee in mid-1975 to $2.12 last October,
the analysts warned that more is
coming.
“The full impact of the present level
prices for green coffee has not yet
registered on the retail shelves,” they
said.
Mrs. Elizabeth McElroy Hardy
Parker died at the Brightmoor
Intermediate Care Center Sunday at
the age of 103.
She had lived in Spalding County
some 20 years and been a patient at the
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Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
today 41, high tomorrow near 30, low
tonight near 20.
FORECAST: Sharply colder and
clearing tonight. Much colder, windy
and fair tomorrow.
Douglasville.
Lt. Drawdy was a native of Waycross
and a graduate of Ware County High
School. He was a 1975 graduate of North
Georgia College and was serving with
the Sixth Marine Division.
Survivors other than his parents
include five sisters, Mrs. Inez Johnson
of Hillard, Fla., Mrs. Joyce Shumpert
of Gulf Port, Miss., Mrs. Shirley
Ammons and Mrs. Irie Hipps, both of
Waycross, Mrs. Wanda Hampton of
Offerman, Ga.; three brothers, Delton
Drawdy with the U. S. Air Force in
Germany, Richard Drawdy and Ricky
Drawdy, both of Waycross, grand
parents, James Hewett of Waycross
and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Drawdy of
Baxley, Ga.
Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home will
announce arrangements.
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center seven years.
She was a native of Butts County.
Survivors and funeral plans are
included in the funeral story on page
two.