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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, February 5,1977
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Award
Charles A. “Andy” Gresham (r), a former Griffinite, was
presented an outstanding performance rating by Gen.
L.F. Sullivan of the U.S. Marine Corps. Gresham, whose
federal career spans 33 years of active military and
civilian service, is a logistician with staff supervision
over 7 storage and distribution facilities throughout the
country for the Defense Supply Agency. He and his wife,
the former Gloria S. Gill of Griffin, live near Washington
D.C. She retired in 1974 after 30 years of federal service.
IN MEMORY
In loving memory of my
beloved Husband and our
Brother William Robert
“Son” Mabry who passed
away one (1) year ago
today, Feb. 5, 1976.
People say time heals all
sorrow and heartaches;
which is seldom true.
There is one thing for sure
that no one or time can
erase the memories we
shared.
God knew how much we
cared,
As He was knowing what
was best,
When He called you to rest,
To your home in the Sky,
Yes, God had a reason as to
why.
There’s a day coming soon.
It may be morn, night, or
noon.
I will be able to know the
reason why,
We had so little time
together before you had to
go.
Sadly missed by:
Wife: Mrs. Betty P. Mabry
- Griffin
Brothers: Mr. & Mrs.
Arthur L. Mabry
Fayetteville
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Mabry -
Griffin
Youth Sunday Feb. 6th
At The
First Congregational
Holiness Church
Highway 92 at W. Mclntosh Rd, ;
Youth will be featured in all parts of the services, 1
beginning with Sunday School, Morning and Evening !
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Youth Evang. Steve Snider
of Lincolnton, Ga.
Will be guest speaker
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. ;
Morning Worship 11:00 A.M.
Evang. Service 7:00 P.M.
Wed. Prayer Service 7:30 P.M.
Pastor Lewis James
Nursery Provided ;
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SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
501 W. BROAD ST.
Whatever the weather the SON always shines at Second
Baptist Church. Come enjoy the warmth of Christian
fellowship with us.
THIS SUNDAY
A.M. Men's & Boys’ Breakfast
A.M. Sunday School
11:00 A.M. Morning Worship
6:30 P.M. Church Training
P Evening Worship
WELCOME!
Billy Southerland, Pastor
Hugh Canterbury, Steve Galyon,
Education-Music Activlties-Youth
Griffin Tech
plans FORUM
Griffin Tech, in conjunction
with the State of Georgia
Advisory Council on Vocational
Education, is sponsoring a
public FORUM Feb. 7, at 7:15
p.m. at Griffin Tech.
The FORUM is one of over 150
being held simultaneoulsy
around the State and features a
specially produced television
show to inform viewers of the
varied working of vactional
education. Group discussions
will follow the viewing.
Governor George Busbee has
endorsed these forums as a
primary means of input from
the citizens of Georgia about
what they would like to see from
vocational education. The
public is invited.
Accused
of theft
Griffin Police arrested
Raymond Britton of 832
Westbrook avenue yesterday
and charged him with theft by
taking. He is accused of taking a
television from 746 Scale street.
Susan Sloan of 16 Spalding
street reported a portable radio
was taken from her car Friday.
The car was parked at a
convenience store at Fifth and
College streets.
Deaths
Funerals
Mr. Jones
Mr. Alton Edward Jones of
218 Morris street died early this
morning at his home. He was
born in Meriwether County and
had lived in Griffin most of his
life.
He was a heavy equipment
operator.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Ussery Jones, three
daughters, Mrs. Gloria Neal
and Mrs. Pam Jimmerson, both
of Griffin, Mrs. Kathy Kunkel of
Newnan; seven sons, Jerry
Jones, of Phoenix, Arz., Bobby
Jack Jones, Billy Jones,
Jones, Alton Jones, Jr., Ronald
Jones, and Steve Jones, all of
Griffin; mother, Mrs. Ida
Herrin, 25 grandchildren, 2
great-grandchildren.
Friends may visit the family
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
I.arry Jones, 1246 West Poplar
street.
McDonald Chapel will
announce plans.
Mr. White
Mr. Harry Arthur White, 60,
of Route 1, West Mclntosh road
died early this morning at
Crawford W. Long Hospital
after a short illness.
Mr. White, a native of
I*aneville, W.V., came to Griffin
from Riverdale a year ago. He
was employed as a heavy
mechanic for Eastern Airlines
in Atlanta.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Betty White, five sisters,
and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held
in the Haisten Chapel Sunday at
2:00 p.m. Rev. Steve Winter will
officiate.
Mr. White will be buried on
Tuesday in Pensacola, Florida.
Mr. Clemmons
The funeral for Mr. Eddie
(Monk) Clemmons of Route
One, Box 73, Zebulon, will be
held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the
Fuller Chapel United Methodist
Church. The Rev. T.R. Miles
will officiate. Burial will be in
the church cemetery.
Friends may visit the family
7-8 o’clock tonight at McDowell
United Funeral Home.
Survivors include two
daughters, Mrs. Edna Deamon
of Trenton, N.J. and Mrs.
Pearlie Mae Hillman of Albany;
four sons, Homer Clemmons of
Decatur, Rufus Clemmons and
Hartford Clemmons, both of
Zebulon, Eddie R. Clemmons of
Griffin; two sisters, Mrs.
Elnoar Patrick and Mrs. Betty
Boyd of Atlanta, 18
grandchildren, 2 great
grandchildren.
The cortege will assemble at
the residence at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday.
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Nora Cochran Brown of
Vaughn community, widow of
Mr. L.E. Brown, died late
Friday night in Griffin at her
home.
She lived with Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Mitcham in Vaughn.
She was born in Fayette
County and had lived in Vaughn
community 41 years. She was a
member of New Salem Baptist
Church.
Survivors include four sisters,
Mrs. Eva Mitcham and Mrs.
Mildred Bates, both of Griffin,
Mrs. Ixris Jones of College Park
and Mrs. Meggie Horcourt of
Palmetto; two brothers, Garion
Cochran of Palmetto and
Andred Cochran of
Fayetteville.
The funeral will be Sunday at
1 p.m. at New Salem Baptist
Church. The Rev. Carl J. Monell
will officiate. Burial will be in
the church cemetery.
The body will lie in state from
noon until 1 p.m. at the church.
McDonald Chapel is in charge
of plans.
ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH
/3a/lr 10:00 ’ Sunda * School
Sg'j 11:00- Worship
Nursery Provided
Rev. HacoW. vonHacke, PriWin
Pastor, 227-9992 Griffin Academy
Wilson Road
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Center of dispute
This dwelling at North Second and Mclntosh road is the center of a zoning dispute which hit
the County Commissioners this week. Some residents of the area contended it is a mobile
home. Two of the three Spalding County Commissioners considered it a modular home and
voted to allow it to stay in the area. However, the commissioners had another look at the
home today and said they are likely to meet again next week to review the decision.
STAR awards
due Feb. 16
The Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce is preparing for the
Feb. 16 announcement of
Griffin’s STAR Student, winner
according to Mildred Sawyer,
executive vice-president.
The Chamber is the local
sponsor of the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce’ Student
Teacher Achievement
Recognition (STAR) in the
Griffin-Spalding County School
System.
The Chamber has been
coordinating local activities
since late November which
include designation and
recognition of Griffin High
School’s STAR Student and
Teacher.
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Dinner theater
Planning Griffin Academy’s dinner theater are (1-r) Mrs. Medora Pelt, president of the
PTO; Mrs. Mary Hurt, theater director; and Bill Early, headmaster. “The Matchmaker,”
will be presented March 17 and 18. Tryouts for production are under way and the last
readings will be held at the school’s library Sunday at 5 p.m.
He didn’t faint
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony
J. Califano had predicted he
probably would faint, but the 32-
year-old son of an immigrant
cobbler and seamstress didn’t
faint as his number was picked
to win $980,000.
The New York state lottery
prize was said to be the biggest
lump sum payment ever made
by a U.S. lottery.
“We’re all gonna be rich,” the
Chamber staffers
to attend clinic
Mildred Sawyer, Jean Turner
and Jean Gatlin of the Griffin
Area Chamber of Commerce
will attend the staff clinic at
Perry Feb. 25-26.
The State Chamber of
Commerce executives will
sponsor the clinic.
These contests are held prior
to district recognition meeting
to be held in March and the
state banquet in April.
STAR is entering its 19th year
as the largest program in the
state to recognize academic
achievement, honor the
teaching profession, and
explain the merits of the free
enterprise system.
High school seniors compete
for the STAR Student title in
each accreditied Georgia high
school on the basis of scholastic
averages and Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT) scores.
STAR teachers are chosen by
the STAR students to share the
recognition and rewards.
father of two beamed, referring
to his whole family. “We're all
gonna have a few dollars.”
He wasn’t the only winner
Friday. Fifteen others com
peting for the top prize through
a complicated random sys
tem-employing two sets of en
velopes, comedian Bob Hope
and spinning plastic barrels—
each came away with $26,250
prizes.
With 20 per cent federal taxes
withheld, they got $21,000
checks. Califano’s check was
for $784,000.
Billed as the colossal yearend
Revival
Sunny Side Congregational
Holiness Church
Feb. 7-12
Rev. Billy Anderson, Jefferson, Ga.
is guest evangelist
7:30 Nightly
Rev. A. C. Hearn, Pastor I
UMW installs
its officers
Dr. Walter A. Perry installed
Heck Chapel United Methodist
U.M.W. offers as follows:
Mrs. Robert Holmes,
president; Mrs. Raymond
Head, Jr., vice-president; Miss
Mattie McClendon, secretary;
and Mrs. Willie F. Ison, mission
coordinator.
Other mission coordinators
were elected as follows: Miss
Alberta Gibson, Christian
Personhood; Mrs. Mary Jinks,
Christian Supportive
Community; Mrs. Ralph
Stinson, Christian Social
Involvement; and Mrs. Mamie
Calhoun, Christian Global
Concern.
Mrs. Dorothy Farley was
elected secretary of Program
Resources while Mrs. M.C.
Ballard was elected
chairperson for the Committee
on Nominations.
bonus prize, the money was left
over from the 1975 state lot
teries, which were abandoned
until late last year because of
irregularities.
State lottery Director John
Quinn asked Califano what he
would do with the money.
“I’ll probably faint,” Califano
answered, wringing his hands
and shifting from foot to foot.
Hope took one look at him and
quipped, “I could make a lot of
money just subdividing him.”
Califano told reporters he had
been buying the 50-cent lottery
tickets weekly for years.
Thomaston Mills
net income is up
Thomaston Mills’ net income
during the fourth quarter of 1976
was >719,754. The total
represents an increase of
$67,209 over the same period of
the previous year.
The figures were released in
the Thomaston textile
City employees
finish course
CARROLLTON, Ga.—Stanley
E. Donehoo, Charles D.
Huckaby and Steve W. Johnson,
all of Griffin recently completed
a course offered by the Georgia
Water and Wastewater Institute
at West Georgia College.
They are employed by the
City of Griffin and took part in
the one-week session on Basic
Wastewater.
The insittute is a cooperative
training effort of the
Environmental Protection
Division of the State
Department of Natural
Resources and the Board of
Regents through West Georgia.
Training sessions are geared
toward preparing participants
for required state certification
examinations and upgrading
the efficiency of water and
wastewater treatment paint
operators.
Jim Bennett, coordinator of
training at the insitutue,
awarded certificates of
attendance to participants and
congratulated them for their
achievements toward
environmental protection and
the defense of public health.
Patrol checked
33 accidents
Sergeant Hugh Taylor of the
Griffin State Patrol Post
announced today that his post
investigated 33 traffic
accidents, made 208 arrests and
issued 222 warnings in Spalding
county during January.
Sgt. Taylor said 13 persons
were injured in the 33 accidents.
Estimated property damage
amounted to $20,625.00.
Party planned
Mrs. Tom McGahee of 33 High
Falls Road will celebrate her
81st birthday Tuesday with a
party at her home at 6:30 p.m.
through 8:30 p.m.
Friends and relatives are
invited.
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Curse in bargain
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -
Whoever stole an Oriental pray
er rug valued at $3,000 from an
exhibit at the New Hampshire
Historical Society may have
gotten more than he bargained
for.
John Gregorian, a spokesman
for the corporation that owns
the 19th Century Kirghiz rug,
says an “awful curse” is cast
upon anyone who steals such a
rug.
Gregorian said the rug was
woven by members of the fierce
Kirghiz tribe that roamed
central Asia in the late 1800 s. As
far as Moslems are concerned,
he said, “You just don’t steal
prayer rugs.”
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I FIRST UHITED
| METHODIST CHURCH
REV. LAMAR CHERRY, PASTOR
REV. STEVE WINTER, ASSOC. PASTOR
. j MORNING SERVICE 11 A.M.
Sermon By Pastor
1 ’’DOING THE
! DIFFICULT”
j Evening Service 7:30
j Sermon By Rev. Winter
j ’’FROM BEING LED
j TO LEADING OTHERS”
operation’s quarterly report to
stockholders. Net profits during
the final quarter of 1975 were
$652,545.
Net income per share of
common stock rose from 77
cents to 85 cents.
Net sales declined in the final
quarter of 1976 to $21,555,997
from $26,100,979 during the
same period of the previous
year.
“We could have held our sales
at somewhat highter levels with
more aggressive pricing,”
Board Chairman George H.
Hightower said in the report,
“but we did not feel that this
would be economically
rewarding.”
Hightower said conditions in
the markets in which the
company operates have been
“difficult.” He added, however,
that “the outlook seems to be
slowly improving and we
anticipate higher sales in the
next six months.
The company’s cost of sales
during the final quarter of 1976
was $19,292,704, and that selling,
administrative and general
expense totaled $968,962. The
report lists “other income” at
$177,599.
Net income before income
taxes and cumulative effect of a
change in accounting principle
was listed at $1,415,369. Federal
and state income taxes totaled
$719,736 before an investment
tax credit of $24,121, leaving the
net income figure of $719,754.
The report shows that the
company’s net assets as for
January 1, 1977 were
$54,521,168.
FIRST
BAPTIST
CHURCH
Hill at Taylor
SUNDAY
SCHEDULE
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship
“From Thence He Shall...
Judge the Quick and the
Dead.”
(Fourth In A Series
The Apostles Creed)
By Rev. Morgan
5:00 Church Training
6:00 Evening Worship
“Ingredientsofa
Successful Marriage”
(Ist in a Series On
Home Folks).
By Rev. Morgan
YOU
can benefit
from
worship
at
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