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Monday night’s freezing weather turned this water
fountain of Tommy Penley, West Central avenue, into this
beautiful mid-winter scene in Griffin. Picture of
thermometer downtown (top) was made at 6:01 today.
School board
to push study
Griffin-Spalding school board officers
were reelected to another term last
night in a brief and routine meeting at
the superintendent’s office.
Henry Walker will continue as
chairman, Russell Smith as vice
chairman and Supt. D. B. Christie as
secretary-treasurer.
As soon as committee assignments
are made this week, committees on the
comprehensive study and school sites
will begin work and make recom
mendations, Walker announced.
The comprehensive study, made by
state officials, has been approved by
Pilot
BY MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Airplanes are not usually parked in a
garage, but Bill Reynolds’ has been
since July. He is “refurbishing” his
1941 Taylorcraft plane at his home on
Wesley Drive and tows it to the Griffin
Spalding County airport behind his
small Volvo car.
The wings took up most of the space
in the playroom and Bill’s wife Linda
stepped over the transmission in the
kitchen for months. She found plane
parts under the sofas, behind the doors
and in every “nook and cranny” in the
house. It still surprised her one day
when she opened the freezer and found
a part stored there for safekeeping.
The Reynolds moved to Griffin from
Charlotte, N.C., three years ago in
February when Bill went to work as an
air traffic controller at F.A.A. in
Hampton. For awhile he commuted to
Hampton from Charlotte in another
plane he owned at the time.
Flying has been a part of Bill’s life
since he was six years old and began
assembling model planes at his home in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He
“hung around airports” and realized
early in life that “aviation would be my
thing.” He was in his third year at
Northeastern University in Boston
studying electrical engineering when
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, January IL 1977
the board. It calls for a new high school
and new elementary school. A bond
referendum to finance the program
probably will be held in the spring.
Dr. Tom Hunt, chairman, said the
committee will meet after appoint
ments are made and school administra
tors, teachers and the community will
be enlisted to help with plans.
Mr. Christie plans to talk with U. S.
representatives and senators on the
school system’s application for Public
Works monies to build a new elemen
tary school.
(Continued on page two)
Bill parks his plane
in his garage at home
he decided to “get back into flying.”
He spent eight years in the Navy as a
Flight Officer, running the navigation
and weapons systems on planes. Bill
made the last landing on the U.S.S.
Forrestal on July 29,1967 in Southeast
Asia before the carrier blew up at 10:45
in the morning. Forty airplanes loaded
with weapons and bombs were
destroyed and 147 lives were lost.
Bill wanted to “stay flying” so when
he was assigned to a tour of duty on
board ship in 1971, he chose to get out of
the Navy and go into private business in
Charlotte, N.C.
The Reynolds met in Columbia, N.C.,
in 1965. Bill stopped off to spend the
night with his sister who was living
there and she “dragged” him to a
party. Linda was there because her
girlfriend didn’t want to go to the party
alone. Bill left for naval training the
next day. Several months later he found
another excuse to “visit his sister” and
Linda and Bill’s romance bloomed.
They married in 1966 and now have a
son, Ben, a daughter, Jennifer, and a
kitten named “Holly” that Bill gave
Linda on Christmas Eve.
An avid sailor, Bill says that Griffin is
the farthest he has ever lived away
from the ocean and he is looking for
ward to sailing this summer. A talented
woodworker, he made much of their
More cold due tonight
More cold weather was forcast for the
Griffin area tonight but it won’t be as
bad as it was Monday night.
Weather observer Horace West
brooks recorded a low of 10 degrees this
morning at his home in Sunny Side.
The temperature on some downtown
500 expected at Elks meet
About 500 Georgia Elks and their
wives are expected to attend the
statewide midwinter meeting in Griffin
this weekend.
The convention of the Georgia Elks
Association will begin Friday afternoon
at Elks Lodge 1207 on Williamson Road
and continue through Sunday.
Grand Exalted Ruler Doug Whitaker
and the Griffin Lodge will host the
Gov. Busbee calls for fairness
in state’s property tax system
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. George
Busbee called today for a hard look at
the fairness of the property tax system
in Georgia as part of a six-year effort to
rewrite the state Constitution.
Busbee said that with voter approval
last November of “editorial" changes
in the Constitution, state officials
should start to work immediately on an
article-by-article revision of the bulky
document.
A major question during that effort
should be whether “our system of
taxation, particularly our methods and
concept of ad valorem taxation, is as
equitable as any system we can
prescribe,” he said.
The governor proposed a select
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furniture and also the deck at the back
of their house on Wesley Drive. While
living in Europe Bill and Linda became
interested in the wine there and both
like trying new kinds. They often “cook
together and crack a bottle of wine.”
The Taylorcraft plane Bill is working
on hasn’t been flown in 12 years. It is a
two seated plane with a closed cockpit.
It is covered with a fabric similar to
dacron which is stitched and fitted over
the plane and painted with “dope" to
give it weather resistance and strength.
Bill has changed the color from
“yicky” green to “Taylorcraft cream”
or yellow. The wooden propeller has
been resanded and refinished and the
interior completely replaced. Linda
helped some with her sewing machine.
The plane cannot be flown until all the
parts are in A-l shape. He has had some
difficulty obtaining parts for his “an
tique” plane but determination is
paying off. It is not equipped with
radios or other electronic devices so
the pilot simply “looks before he
lands.”
He hopes to get his plane in the air in
February, and Linda is sure that Bill
will succeed. She says “anything he
puts his mind to, he can do” and that
would include flying a “do it yourself
airplane.”
bank thermometers registered 10 and 11
before sunup this morning.
The forecast for the Griffin area said
the low tonight would hoover around 14
degrees.
Griffin like the rest of Georgia was in
the grip of a cold wave. Atlanta and
convention. Sonny Hunt is manager of
the local lodge.
Doug Whitaker is the new Exalted
Ruler of Griffin Lodge 1207 Elks.
The lodge elected and installed him
last night to complete the unexpired
term of John Wiley who resigned
because of poor health. Whitaker will
serve until April when new officers will
committee of top officials from all three
branches of government to work on the
constitutional revision, and said their
proposed changes could be submitted to
the voters in the next three general
elections, thus substantially completing
the work in six years.
In the text of his State of the State
address, prepared for a joint session of
the legislature at noon, Busbee also:
—Said he believes this legislature can
pass a lobbyists’ disclosure bill striking
the proper balance between the right of
citizens to express their views on
legislation “and the right of the public
to know who has a special interest in
legislation and how far that interest
goes.”
—Declared that education is the top
priority of his administration and said
he is “not going to rest until we are well
on our way to having a kindergarten
program ... (so that) all the young
people in this state can start to school
with as good a chance of success as any
other boy or girl in America.”
—Urged the legislature to adopt a
“sunset law” that would make the
state’s occupational and licensing
boards justify their work or face
elimination, and said if that proves
successful, he will ask lawmakers to
expand the law to other state agencies.
Turning to economics, the governor
said he believes the nation has begun a
recovery from the crises of past years
but said that “caution and fiscal
responsibility must be the prevailing
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Rome both recorded lows of 9 degrees.
It was 12 at Athens, 21 at Savannah, 17
at Macon and 16 at Augusta and
Columbus.
Georgia Power, the state’s major
electric utility, called on all customers
to conserve electricity.
The cold caused peak demand at a
be chosen.
Whitaker, general manager of
Mortell Company in Griffin, served
previously as Grand Exalted Ruler,
1971-72. He has continued active in Elk
dom and presently is an Aidmore
Trustee. Also he is past district deputy
grand exalted ruler for Georgia-
Northeast, and past State Vice
President for Georgia.
principles of this session.”
Although state funds are not as tight
as in 1975, Busbee said, state hiring
must be held to the minimum necessary
and bureaucrats must be discouraged
from “the old attitude that the way to
get ahead in government is to play the
game called ‘build up your bureau.
Busbee’s comments on reviewing the
property tax system marked the first
time during his administration that he
had raised the possibility of a tax
revision program sanctioned by the
state’s chief executive.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller has frequently
called for a thorough study of the
state’s tax laws, but has been un
successful in his efforts to have a blue
ribbon tax study commission appoint
ed.
People
...and things
Man leaving warm bed this a.m. to
discover in cold bathroom that water
pipes have frozen.
Carter supporter with invitation to
inauguration trying to get one to one of
the parties.
Shrubbery in Griffin yard wrapped in
shrouds of sheets and plastic to save it
from the weather.
Bill Reynolds polishes prop on his plane.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 35, low
today 10, high yesterday 32, low
yesterday 21, high tomorrow in upper
30s, low tonight near 14.
FORECAST: Fair and cold through
Wednesday.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
rain statewide, possibly mixed with
snow north, beginning Thursday
evening and clearing early Saturday.
Otherwise, partly cloudy.
time when the utility had to pull one of
its huge generators at Cartersville out
of service because of mechanical
problems.
“We can make it through the day if
people cooperate and we don’t lose any
more units,” a spokesman said.
A Georgia Power representative
telephone the Griffin utilities depart
ment this morning and asked for power
conservation in Griffin.
A spokesman for the utility said that
the power supply in Griffin was
adequate to meet needs. But Griffin
officials were urging customers to
cooperate with the Georgia Power
conservation plea.
Rev. Crawley
dies; rites
Wednesday
The Rev. Frank Crawley of
LaGrange died last night at Crawford
Long Hospital in Atlanta. He had been a
patient there three days.
He served as pastor of the First
United Methodist Church in Griffin
1952-56 and later returned here to serve
as superintendent of the Griffin District
of Methodist Churches.
The Rev. Crawley was a popular
minister in Griffin, taking a special
interest in young people. He was active
in the Touchdown Club and worked with
a group of people here in promoting
Little League baseball.
He was a member of the Kiwanis
Club in Griffin during his pastorate at
First Church.
He came here from the Elberton
Methodist Church and was assigned to
the Decatur First church after com
pleting four years in Griffin.
He was serving as district superin
tendent of the LaGrange district at the
time of his death.
In recent years he had suffered
several heart attacks.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wed
nesday at Spring Hill Chapel of H. M.
Patterson and Son Funeral Home in
Atlanta. Bishop William Cannon will
officiate. Burial will be in Arlington
cemetery in Sandy Springs.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Berrien Crawley; three daughters,
Mrs. Jane Manderson of Atlanta, Mrs.
Patrick Gorman of Rochester, N. Y.,
and Mrs. Nancy Brinsfield of Atlanta;
two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Barrow of West
Point and Mrs. J.W.D. Moodie of
Atlanta; three brothers, Charlie
Crawley of Dalton, Brantley Crawley of
Atlanta and Joe Crawley of Miami
Beach; two grandchildren.
