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This woman walking downtown in the rain and mist early this morning seemed
to symbolize the winter weather Griffin and the rest of the nation have been
having.
Tragedy strikes neighbors
Accident survivors
in serious condition
Nineteen-year-old Barbara Ann
Branch remained in critical but stable
condition today in the intensive care
unit of the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
She suffered extensive injuries
Thursday morning in a collision which
took the life of her brother, Robert
Wesley Branch 111, 20, and seriously
injured William Thomas Underwood,
53, of Route Two, a passenger in the
other vehicle.
The accident happened at 8:35 a.m.
within the city limits of Milner on the
Griffin-Barnesville four-lane at the
Ethridge Mill road intersection.
Underwood was treated in the
emergency room of the Griffin hospital,
then taken by ambulance to Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta where he
was listed in serious condition in the
special care unit this morning.
Several similarities connect the
tragedy with another fatal accident
which occurred less than a month ago
on Dec. 19.
The Branches are the son and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Senate okays sunset bill
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia
Senate passed Gov. George Busbee’s
“sunset” bill today, promising an end
within six years to regulatory boards
which cannot justify their continued
existence.
It was the first bill passed by the
Senate this session.
Among the first of the state’s 43
licensing boards and regulatory
agencies to be reviewed would be those
covering used car dealers, opticians,
plumbing contractors and funeral
homes.
“Clearly, if we’re ever going to gain
control of our state bureaucracy, we’re
going to have to start here,” said Sen.
Lee Robinson, D-Macon, a cosponsor of
the bill.
The Legislative Services Committee
would supervise the reviews after
reports from the state auditor.
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Branch, Jr., of 1119 Skyline drive. Their
next door neighbors are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Dickinson of 1117 Skyline drive,
whose daughter and son-in-law, Lt. and
Mrs. Jerol F. Drawdy were killed in a
collision east of Griffin on the Jackson
road as the couple was enroute to
Griffin for the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Drawdy, the former Donna Jean
Dickinson, and Bobby Branch were
both 20-years-old and both were 1974
graduates of Griffin High School. Both
attended North Georgia College in
Dahlonega.
The Drawdys and Branches were
both driving the same make of compact
car and both cars collided with trucks.
The truck driver involved with the
Drawdy collision was charged with
being on the wrong side of the road.
Troopers said Lonnie Barkley, 36, of
Route Two, who was driving the truck
which collided with the Branch auto,
was traveling on the Ethridge Mill road
across the four lane Griffin-Barnesville
By-Pass. The truck and the Branch car
which was traveling south on the By-
Pass collided.
Barkley was not injured.
Sen. Culver Kidd proposed a
substitute to create a joint House-
Senate Government Operations
Committee to conduct various
legislative investigations, including
review of the boards.
He later withdrew it.
“I imagine there will be some
discussion, but I expect it (the
governor’s bill) to pass by a
comfortable margin, Sen. Terrell Starr,
D-Forest Park, the governor’s floor
leader, said as he prepared for today’s
debate.
Kidd failed Thursday in a attempt to
have the Senate Rules Committee
approve creation of the Government
Operations Committee in place of the
Senate Committee on Economy,
Reorganization and Efficiency in
Government.
Kidd also has a separate bill pending
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, January 14,1977
Gas shortage closes
schools in Jackson
JACKSON — The supply of natural
gas to the city of Jackson and Butts
County has been cut by 65 percent in a
series of cuts that began early this
week.
All of the Butts County schools have
been closed along with a few industries
in an effort to provide adequate gas for
residential users.
The remaining industries in Butts
County are using as little gas as
possible.
Under normal conditions, Jackson
Carpet mill workers
feel cold bite, too
DALTON, Ga. (AP) -e An estimated
7,000 carpet mill workers in Whitfield
County have been laid off in the past
two days as manufacturers shut down
in the face of a shortage of natural gas.
On Thursday, officials of Southern
Natural Gas Co., which serves Georgia
and other southeastern states, said they
would probably continue to restrict gas
allocations for the next three or four
weeks.
Since Tuesday, the company has
limited allocations to residential and
small commercial users.
Industries across the state have been
forced to rely on alternate sources of
fuel and the reserves of major
distributors. Officials of Atlanta Gas
and Light, which serves most of the
large industries in Georgia, say they
believe they have enough natural gas
already on hand to see their customers
through the winter crisis.
About 70 municipalities in the state,
however, are served directly by
Southern Natural Gas or its Subsidiary.
Large industries located in those cities
have been forced to turn to alternate
sources of fuel, since most municipal
gas works have no reserves.
In Dalton, which bills itself as the
“Carpet Capitol of the World,” an in
dustry spokesman said many of the
carpet plants don’t have the equipment
to convert to other fuels, or don’t have
the money to afford those fuels.
Lawrence Merthan, executive vice
president of the Carpet and Rug
Institute, said Thursday the effect of
prolonged shortages could be “devas
tating to the industry.” He predicted
that a four-week shutoff of supplies
would result in another 7,000 layoffs.
Mills in northwest Georgia account
for more than 50 per cent of all carpets
manufactured in the United States and
employ about 30,000 workers, he said.
Ronald Kuehn, executive vice
president of Southern Natural Gas, said
the economic effects of the shortages
could be significant. “But we have to
in the EREG Committee to create a
joint Government Operations
Committee.
In the House, bills were introduced
which would abolish the straight party
ticket voting procedure in Georgia
elections, and which would give home
owners a tax break of up to S7OO on their
income taxes for installing
antiburglary equipment in their homes.
Several Republican legislators
introduced the measure to abolish
straight ticket voting, by which
Georgians have been able to mark one
box on their ballot or push one lever on
the voting machine to vote for all
candidates of a party.
Republicans in Georgia have
complained that the system works
aganst their candidates.
gets more than two million cubic feet of
gas per day. After the last cut which
came this morning, the city is getting
866,000 cubic feet.
Southern Natural Gas Company
which supplies the city of Jackson cited
unusually cold weather and frozen gas
wells in Louisiana and Mississippi as
the reason for the cutbacks.
Mayor C. B. Brown of Jackson
explained:
“The reason Butts County is in such
bad condition as opposed to
limit the allocations in order to protect
our residential and small commercial
users,” he said.
The gas shortages also have caused
factory shutdowns in Tifton, and the
closing of two schools in Tallapoosa.
Schools are not exempt from the
supply restrictions unless they use less
than 50,000 cubic feet of gas a day at
peak periods, Kuehn said.
People
...and things
String of cars which have been
moving slowly behind police car
speeding up and passing each other
when police car turns off onto side
street.
Man taking his customary brisk
morning walk this a.m. shielding
himself from rain with big and colorful
golf umbrella.
Big pile of colorful but fading flowers
waiting at curbside for garbage man.
Former P.M.
Eden dies
peacefully
ALVEDISTON, England (AP) -
Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden
died peacefully in his sleep this
morning at his country home in
southern England after a long illness,
his doctor announced. He was 79.
Eden, who as Britain’s foreign
minister in the 1930 s advocated a strong
stand against Fascist dictators but
failed as prime minister in the abortive
Suez invasion of 1956, was flown home
from Florida last weekend when it
became apparent that death was near.
He had been staying at the home of
senior American diplomat W. Averell
Harriman.
The British government said in an
official statement after Eden’s death:
“We mourn the passing of a
distinguished parliamentarian and a
statesman of exceptional experience
and determination.”
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
'or 1
“Crooks usually cheat crooks
— they don’t know how to deal
with honest folks.”
Vol. 105 No. 11
surrounding areas is because we have a
different supplier. If the cold weather
continues, surrounding areas will find
themselves in the same condition.
Other gas companies are now pumping
from their reserves and when they give
out, we’ll all be in bad shape.”
The city of Jackson has an LP system
which it uses to supplement its natural
gas supply. The amount of LP gas that
can be used is proportion to the natural
supply of gas.
“We cannot pump pure LP gas through
Senate panel says poor diets
leading public health problem
WASHINGTON (AP) - Poor diets
are one of the leading public health
problems, a Senate committee report
said today. It recommended a major
new federal program to educate
Americans on what they should eat.
“The public is confused about what to
eat to maximize health,” Chairman
George McGovern, D-S.D., of the Sen
ate nutrition committee said in the
report entitled “Dietary Goals for the
United States.”
The report said changes in the
average diet in the United States since
the beginning of the century “may be as
profoundly damaging to the nation’s
health as the widespread contagious
diseases of the early part of this cen
tury.”
“The over-consumption of fat,
generally, and saturated fat in par
ticular, as well as cholesterol, sugar,
salt and alcohol have been related to six
of the ten leading causes of death: heart
disease, cancer, cerebrovascular
disease, diabetes, arteriosclerosis and
cirrhosis of the liver,” it said.
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Griffin’s peanut man
Peanuts are a popular topic these days with the approach of Jimmy Carter’s
inauguration as President next week. But to Clinton (Bunn) Royals of 85 Elm
street, peanuts are old hat. He’s been selling them on the streets of Griffin and
at athletic contests for years. He’s Griffin’s peanut man.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
today 32, high yesterday 47, low
yesterday 31, high tomorrow near 50,
low tonight in mid 30s.
FORECAST: Rain continuing
tonight, ending tomorrow followed by
partial clearing.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Fair and
cold Sunday and Monday. Wanner
Tuesday with a chance of rain.
the lines, said Mayor Brown.
City officials in Jackson are watching
consumption and supply figures
through the day to try to determine
their situation.
So far no plans have been finalized to
reopen the schools or industries.
Mayor Brown has called on residents
to use as little gas as possible until the
situation returns to normal.
“The more gas we save now, the
faster we’ll end the crisis,” he said.
Over-consumption in general is a
major problem but undernourishment
due to dietary patterns may also lead to
malnutrition, the report prepared by
the committee staff said.
Traffic snarls
on busy 1-75
Northbound traffic on 1-75 in Henry
County was blocked early this morning
when a propane gas truck overturned.
Troopers at the Griffin State Patrol
Post said all north bound traffic was
being rerouted at the Locust Grove exit
north on Ga. 42, to Ga. 155, and from
there back to 1-75.
The truck, loaded with propane gas,
was from Kenan Transport Co. of
Orchard Hill. The driver escaped
injury. His name was not available.
Troopers said the accident occurred
about 6:30 a.m. The northbound lane
was expected to be blocked until about 4
o’clock this afternoon when the gas
could be pumped into another truck and
the wreckage cleared.
