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Black cowboys Tales of fortunes lured them west DENVER (AP) — When Paul Stewart was a boy his friends would never let him be a cowboy when they played cowboys and Indians because they said there were no black cowboys. So Stewart went searching through the history books and found not only black cowboys but black miners, ranchers, hotel owners, lawmen and outlaws in the Old West. Blacks were drawn to the West for the same reasons other immigrants were, Stewart says — the lure of fortunes to be made in the mines, land to be cultivated or simply “to do something individually for themselves.” Stewart says his research indicates that black immigrants found less discrimination from their fellow white settlers in the wide open spaces of the American frontier than they had ex perienced back home. Stewart, using old history books, business directories and taped in terviews with early settlers, has un covered evidence of blacks who did everything from running hotels to serving as deputy sheriffs to riding in outlaw gangs. For example, Stewart says, escaped slave Barney Ford came to Colorado in 1859 and tried his hand at mining before being cheated out of his claim. So he came down out of the mountains to Denver and opened a barber shop that catered to many prominent busi nessmen. Ford listened to the businessmen and learned where they planned to expand, invested in the land involved and then Livestock feed in short supply ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. George Busbee says he will de cide by Wednesday whether to ask President Carter to declare Georgia an agricultural emer gency area because of a short age of feed for livestock. State Civil Defense Director Billy Clack has submitted a re port indicating about 29 per cent of Georgia’s livestock farmers have no supplemental livestock feed supplies, Busbee said Thursday. Supplemental feed supplies include hay, peanut hulls and citrus pulp. * About 40 per cent of the Fri. & Sat. 7:27 & 9:00 P.M. Sunday- 4:21,5:54, 7:27 &9:00P.M. Emma Mae ® color 7:30 P.M. Friday, Saturday & Sunday Only The Town That Dreaded Sundown [g COLOR CATFISH CABIN Highway 16 East Jackson Road Griffin, Ga. 228-7620 All You Can Eat Friday Night FRIED SHRIMP (Reg. S4JS) $350 Saturday Night BOILED SHRIMP * Monday Night FROG LEGS $395 Sunday ' SUNDAY LUNCHEON (1-plate servings) s]9s Hours: Mon.-SaL 5-10p.m. Sunday 12 Noon-10 P.M. < 1-—— raised the price on it when they were ready to buy, Stewart said. Blacks and whites who settled on the area would often help each other build homes, plant crops and take care of sick family members, Stewart said. Stewart said most of the blacks migrated west after the Civil War. Between that time and the turn of the century it was relatively easy for them to own land, he said. After that, as immigration to the United States from overseas increased, discrimination against blacks in the West also seemed to rise, he said. Stewart said blacks owned ranches and mining companies or hired on as cowhands, riding the range — and carousing in town — with their white comrades. A black named George Ransom Dalton headed up an outlaw band which included white members, Stewart said, while another, Ben Boyer, was a deputy sheriff in Salida, Colo. Stewart is the curator of the Black American West Foundation Inc. museum here, and has written a book on blacks in the West called “Westward Soul.” “I think that it’s a combination of opportunities for blacks...and possibly there were relatives that came here earlier and said ‘Look, you know, it’s really good out here, you can come out here and you can get a fair shake, here I’ve got a place of business, I’ve got land here, I’m treated as an equal’,” Stewart said. state’s farmers have exhausted at least 75 per cent of their nor mal supplies and 25 per cent have exhausted at least 50 to 75 per cent of their supplemental supplies, Clack said. Busbee said the report in dicated some areas of the state will have no spring grazing be fore May. Under an emergency declara tion the federal government would: —Pay up to $24 a head to Auto firm suspected in mileage rollback ATLANTA (AP) - A Lavonia automobile dealership owned by a member of two state com missions will be charged with rolling back the mileage read ings on cars before selling them, says a spokesman for the attorney general’s office. Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert S. Stubbs said the civil suit will be filed against the Meredith, Chevrolet Co. at the request of the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, which has been investigating Robert R. Meredith’s firm for violations of Georgia’s Fair Business Practices Act. Probation revoked MACON, Ga. (AP) — A middle Georgia physician con victed in 1974 for income tax evasion has had his probation revoked because of a government charge that he illegally prescribed controlled drugs for an undercover agent. U.S. District Judge Wilbur Owens Jr. said Thursday he would determine at a hearing Feb. 10 the length of time Dr. James Outlar must serve. Outlar had served 60 days on the income tax charge and was to remain on probation four and a half years. ‘Ear’ cpierting vL W \ ‘ / v I happening! ' K I Ears Pierced FREE With Purchase Os Ear Piercing Earrings Saturday, Feb. 5, I 11 A.M.-5 P.M. 8 "" 8e ' JCPenney ss. transport cattle to active graz ing areas. —Underwrite 80 per cent of the cost of transporting hay or roughage. —Pay as much as 50 per cent of the cost of supplemental feeds, with a limit of 2 cents per pound and 10 pounds per head each day. The declaration also would make emergency loans avail able to farmers. The Atlanta Constitution re ported today that 78 charges will be brought against the La vonia dealership, which could be fined $2,000 for each viola tion. Meredith, a longtime support er of President Jimmy Carter, was appointed to the state Mo tor Vehicle Commission when Carter was governor of Geor gia. A law passed by the 1975 General Assembly renamed that panel the state Franchise Practices Commission and or dered Gov. George Busbee to reappoint the members, the newspaper said. m 'V — S■ f' Ik V pT ■ MEt fc: < * - DENVER, Colo.—ln the late 1800 s, this family operated a ranch in south Denver. They are, from left to right, Dan, George, Henry and William Parker. They were among a number of black cowboys, miners, ranchers, hotel owners, lawmen and outlaws in the Old West. (AP) Baffling vehicle LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) - The state doesn’t know what to call it, but R. Tony Riley has named it the limocycle. The three-wheeled vehicle, which combines a motorcycle and the rear end of a 1956 Volkswagen, offers elegance and comfort for S3O per two hour ride. The chauffeur is free. The limocycle — newest addi tion to the fleet of luxury cars for hire at Riley Limousine Service — “doesn’t really fit any of the state’s motor vehicle registration categories,” said Riley, 29. “They finally decided to list it as a homemade motorcycle — and that’s okay with me, since the fee is less that way.” Custom-built for $17,000, the 19-foot, 9-inch vehicle gets 36 miles per gallon on the high way, 29 in the city, and can go 97 miles per hour. Mag wheels, a gangster window and a 120- horsepower engine that’s half Volkswagen and half Porsche. Too much dancing SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - Harvey Gartley lost his boxing match by dancing himself to the canvas in the first round. His opponent never landed a punch. Ringside observers said Gar tley “danced himself into ex haustion” and collapsed after 47 seconds. His opponent, Dennis Oulette of Rogers City, was awarded a technical knockout victory. The nonbattle came in the preliminaries of the 15th annual Saginaw Regional Golden Gloves Tournament. Woman dies in fire THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A blaze firemen said started when two small children pulled burning material from a bedroom fireplace has claimed the life of an elderly woman believed to be in her 90s. Authorities said Mamie Brown, who was in the bedroom with her grandchildren when the blaze started Thursday, began to flee the house with the children and her daughter. However, her daughter said she returned to the house for personal items and could not be coaxed into leaving. By the time firemen pulled her from the blaze, she was dead. An autopsy was scheduled although authorities speculated Mrs. Brown died of smoke inhalation. Ql® I/) r / /// Y\// / / / //// ■ O-zCf / / f / drMl/ /n/L/ / /// ' I 1 Concern! I BLri We’re just as concerned as you tjKp/ JwZfyx about high costs and prices. I I (Ml I / /fw /VMf /' /1 ■//inflation isn't anybody's friend We're all caught up together in the I / 1 inflationary balloon and the only way were going to win is by work- I □ A /kit ing together. We pledge to do our share by doing everything we can I LO to hold down our costs and lower prices as much as reasonably H I k* possible Well look for special purchases on merchandise and pass I I W ///,'/// L on to you. whatever savings we get All we ask of you. m return,is to I 9 Z'Z.// ' do your share. Shop at home to help build up our local economy I ■ Cut back on unecessary spending Do your part to help conserve I ■ v ImFl/Kj energy. Together, we just might be able to deflate that economic I ’ balloon! I Th * I I Griffin I I Merchants I Griffin Daily News Friday# February 4,1977 Page 5 g jpia news Payment arrangements ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. officials say they are “making every effort” to work out payment arrange ments with customers behind in their bills this winter rather than shut off their electricity. Robert W. Scherer, the utility’s president, told the House Industry Committee Thursday that company of ficials have been instructed to try and avoid discon nections because of the cold weather and work stoppages. Scherer also told the committee power cutoffs on Jan. 17 were not caused by a lack of fuel. “The combination of record-breaing low temperatures throughout the Southeast, plus mechanical difficulties, brought about the cutoffs.” Standardize traffic laws ATLANTA (AP) — A new comprehensive traffic law manual and a series of schools to explain it will be used in Georgia next week in an effort to standardize traffic law enforcement. Derrell Carnes, director of the Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Counil, said 14 40-hour schools will be held to explain the new manuals. “This is our first determined step to stadardize and professionalize traffic enforcement from the state level down to the smallest municipality,” Carnes said. The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia prepared the manual. Appointment judge ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. George Busbee has appointed a Claxton attorney Superior Court judge of the Atlantic Judicial Circuit. James E. Fendley of Collins succeeds Paul Caswell, who retired last year in advance of the expiration of his term, which ends Jan. 1, 1979. Fendley, 50, a 1951 graduate of Emory University’s law school, served as a judge in recorder’s court in Evans County in 1969 and is a former president of the Atlantic Judicial Circuit Bar Association. ’ The Atlantic circuit includes Brya, Evans, Liberty, Long, Mclntosh and Tattnall counties. 11 Call ( ) BALLARD'S SERVICES ( ( Bill Ballard or Shirley Padgett / ( 228-1340 > > 629 West Taylor St. I
