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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1977)
JHMW:, W WBR’ T «1 *' t / •' . "'~'T' *' y ''■ - jh* I / X * < ■*7l;>4 k ,: 7 'Jr • / r s®*» > ■ i £IW i .Jr-'-• •’• •’F hl w. ’' ’ r ±, ./2 i J ■* ‘ » ' jn V •'• % 1 ■f'ijf? S ffl|| ' " : - > *«dEX* x •V ' ■ 7' ?: Dr. Ann By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON Dr. Ann Stuckey, Griffin pediatrician, spends long hours every day caring for children and comes home at night to “baby” her plants. She says “plants are the best tranquilizer there is.” Digging in the dirt comes naturally to her because she grew up here while her father, Dr. H. P. Stuckey, was director of the Georgia Experiment Station. She has never lived apart from plants. Even while doing her internship following medical school, Ann had cactus plants with her. Cacti were about the only things that could survive the hot hospital temperatures. Now she is an orchid enthusiast with orchids of every shape and size. She has two greenhouses, one a cool greenhouse for mountain plants and the other a warm greenhouse for jungle plants which is attached to her house on Brookwood Terrace. Approximately 1,000 wild azaleas grow on her lot and she has something blooming in the yard all year long. One of the most interesting plants blooming now is an Oriental sweet shrub. It came from the Kell property here and its plant ancestors were brought back to Griffin by Captain Mclntosh Kell. Captain Kell accompanied Admiral Matthew Perry on the historic mission that opened Japense ports to world Shoppers urged not to buy Coffee boycott spreading By The Associated Press A coffee boycott begun in New York City has spread to Ohio, Massachusetts and upstate New York, with super market chains urging consumers not to buy and providing discounts for substitutes — or for coffee. Ohio’s largest supermarket chain, Liberal Markets Inc. with 40 stores in Dayton and Cincinnati, continued selling coffee at 12.59 per pound, but DAI LY #* N EWS Daily Since 1872 trade in 1853. The tiny yellow blossoms of this Oriental shrub have a haunting fragrance. Bom in Griffin, Ann attended Fourth Ward School and Griffin High School. She graduated from Vanderbilt and then from Vanderbilt Medical School. She interned at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Montreal, Canada and at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. She was assistant resident at Michigan Children’s Hospital in Detroit and resident at Bellevue Hospital in New York. She opened her pediatric office in Griffin in 1944. There were only five practicing physicians in Griffin at that time, and she worked until February of 1946 without a break. Then she went fishing in the Everglades. She often made 20 or 25 house calls a day. Dr. Abe Oshlag came to Griffin out of the service in 1947 and made a “courtesy call” on Dr. Stuckey the first day he came. Ann said she “liked him” immediately. They were married in 1954. Growing up in New Rochelle, N. Y., Abe didn’t know “a petunia from a pea vine” when he married Ann, but she has changed all that and now he is as enthusiastic about plants as she. They have made many collecting trips into Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican launched a newspaper-and-billboard advertising campaign Monday urging shoppers not to buy. Shopwell Inc. in New York City is running ads in which the company president says, “The money you and I are being asked to pay for coffee is out rageous.” The newspaper ads include 20-cent coupons for tea, cocoa or hot chocolate. Advertisements for Boston’s Stop- Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, January 4,1977 She cares for children then babies her plants GRIFFIN Republic. Plants they bring home are first thoroughly washed, sometimes even with a toothbrush, and examined with a magnifying glass before they are inspected by the Department of the Interior. Most serious collectors are anxious that diseases and insects not be brought into this country. The Oshlags had a “field day” recently on a trip to Panama while the Pan Am highway was being bruilt through the jungle. Avid outdoorsmen, Ann and Abe went on a raft down the Green River in Colorado four years ago and spent ten days campaing and sleeping in sleeping bags. They went back to the Colorado River in May because “the flowers bloom in May.” Ann has managed to combine successfully the careers of homemaker and practicing physician. She says she has “two freezers, a microwave oven and a crock pot; so what else do I need?” She and Abe usually eat three meals a day at home. Declaring that “all babies need love,” Dr. Stuckey says that now in the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital mothers of premature infants are encouraged to come to the hospital to “cuddle and love” their babies. If it is true that plants are like people it is no wonder that Dr. Ann’s thrive. They get plenty of “tender love and care.” and-Shop Co. Inc. also included coupons —for coffee. The ads urged customers to find a substitute, but added, “If you must buy coffee, buy it only when it’s on sale,” and offered 70 cents off on a two pound can. In Syracuse, N.Y., on Monday, the Consumer Affairs Office announced that five major chains representing 33 area supermarkets had agreed to join the campaign. Happy ending Trained dos. master reunited A deaf-mute and his trained dog have been reunited, thanks to a story in the Griffin Daily News. Aurilio Longeona and his black shepherd pet got back together on New Year’s Day. The story began when Longeona and the dog became separated several days ago and the animal was picked up and carried to the city pound. Carter sets tough ethics code for himself, top federal officials PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — President-elect Carter today made public a tough ethics code for top government officials and pledged to free himself of any possible conflict of interest by turning over his prosperous peanut business to trustees who will lease or sell it. The ethics code requires presidential nominees, starting with Cabinet members, to divest themselves of any holdings that could conflict with their government duties and to submit detailed statements of their personal wealth. In addition, for the first time, they must sign a pledge to remain in government for their full appointed term, unless dismissed sooner. They also must agree that for two years after leaving government they will avoid any private job that would cause them to deal with their old departments or agencies on matters that concerned them as federal officials. “It is the objective of the new ad- People ...and things Youngster telling classmate what he got for Christmas on first day of school in the new year. Motorists taking early morning look at his windshield to check for ice, fin ding it fog coated instead. Downtown brownbagger with last remnants of holiday cake. 1976 was coldest year on record ATLANTA (AP) — If you thought last year was the coldest you could remember in Atlanta, you probably were right. The only year the average temperature was lower since readings began to be recorded was 1885. The National Weather Service said Monday that in 1976 Atlanta had an average temperature of 59.1 degrees, or 0.2 degrees wanner than the 58.9 of 1885. Typically the average is 60.8. There were 72 days when the mercury fell below Ex-commissioner Bunn dies Mr. Robert Preston Bunn of 919 Maple drive died unexpectedly, ap parently of a heart seizure, at his residence late Monday afternoon. Mr. Bunn was retired owner of Bunn’s Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co., establishing the firm in 1919. He was a lifelong resident of Spalding County and was active throughout his life in the business and civic life of the com munity. Mr. Bunn was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Arthur Maddox Sunday School Class of the church. He had served on the of ficial board of the church and was for several years president of the Sunday School class. Mr. Bunn was also one of the head ushers of the church. He had completed a term on the board of city commissioners in December and was appointed to serve on the Griffin Planning and Zoning board. Mr. Bunn was a member of the Vol. 105 No. 2 9 When Longeona attempted to claim Lee Comer, manager of the Greyhound his pet, he did not have the six-dollar Bus Station, gave pound workers the pound fee and left without leaving his telephone number of a man who name. In addition to being unable to employes deaf mutes. Mr. Longeona speak or hear, Longeona is a Mexican was traced through him. and doesn’t understand English. The reunion took place Saturday City Manager Roy Inman heard of when Mrs. Jean Chambers, pound the plight and waived the fee, but pound employe, took the dog to the home of officials could not locate Longeona. Mrs. J. C. Ison, Longeona’s mother-in- Following the newspaper account, law. ministration to avoid any conflict which could in any way influence any government officer except in the even interest of all the people,” said the written guidelines. Another announcement said Carter’s interest in Carter Farms Inc., which consists of agricultural real estate in this area, and Carter’s Warehouse, a partnership that buys peanuts from area farmers for subsequent marketing, will be transferred to a special trust. It was not immediately clear what would happen to $25,781 in common stocks owned by Carter’s wife, Rosalynn. A Carter aide had said last September that Carter would sell his stock holdings if elected. Carter’s interest in Carter Farms was valued at $348,444 on Dec. 31, 1975, and his interest in Carter’s Warehouse was valued at $330,062. The land owned by Carter Farms will be retained in the trust so long as he is president and will be rented for an an nual fixed amount. “Thus,” the announcement said, “the Carter family will not be affected financially from profits or losses of any of the farm operations.” Carter’s Warehouse, in which the President-elect is the principal partner, while brother Billy and mother Lillian have minority interests, “will be either leased for four years for a fixed amount, or sold, at the discretion of the trustee,” the announcement said. In either event, it said, “neither Jimmy Carter, his wife nor children will be affected financially from profits or losses of any of the warehouse oper ations.” Griffin Exchange Club. He was past president of the Griffin Junior Chamber of Commerce, a member of Griffin Preston Bunn Lodge 1207 of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. He was past president of the Georgia Laundry and Cleaners Association. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 50, low today 34, high yesterday 35, low yesterday 31, high tomorrow in mid 50s, low tonight in upper 30s. FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with a chance of rain tomorrow. A little wanner tonight. EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of rain Thursday then fair and colder Friday and Saturday. freezing and 14 when it rose above 90 in 1976, the weather service said. The average is 58 days below freezing and 19 days above 90 degrees. December’s monthly average was 39.8 degrees, or 3.7 degrees colder than normal. Atlanta had record low averages in October and November, as did several other Georgia cities, the service said. The sun shone 61.3 per cent of the daylight hours, 0.3 per cent more than normal, and precipitation was down 2.39 inches from normal to 45.95 inches. Under the guidelines applying to appointees, those named to the two highest federal pay levels will have to divest themselves of any interests that would “more than rarely” cause them to disqualify themselves because of possible conflicts. Those named to lower-paying jobs would be required to divest themselves of private holdings only if “disqualification will seriously impair the capability of the officer to perform the duties of the office to which nominated.” It said Carter will issue an executive order to spell out the financial disclosures he will require. Carter first promised to make the ethics guidelines public on Dec. 20, but his press secretary, Jody Powell, dis covered there was no copy of the per tinent documents here. An an nouncement then was promised for last Friday, but Carter ordered it delayed' as part of an effort to encourage reporters covering his activities to return to their homes for the New Year’s holiday. fiiY hmlß S.' wKSS “A fellow doesn’t learn from his mistakes unless he can recognize them.” He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Brooks Bunn; three sons, Robert Preston Bunn, Jf. of Griffin, William Edward Bunn and Albert Richard Bunn, both of Atlanta; two grand children, Deedee Bunn and Dodi Bunn, both of Griffin; a brother, Albert F. Bunn of Griffin, several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Lamar Cherry will officiate and burial will be in Midway United Methodist Church cemetery on High Falls road. Haisten Funeral Home is in charge of plans. Members of the City and County Commissioners, department heads of the City of Griffin, Griffin Exchange Club and the Arthur Maddox Sunday School Class will serve as honorary escort and are requested to meet at the church at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after noon.
