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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1977)
Mr. and Mrs. Cheves tell their love story. Page 5 ' \ . . ’ ’ • ’' . .. . ... • ■ .; ;; . 2s lfr‘l iQ'W tS E? ..am! S 'B. jfl s= ■- * *. t- ■ A I f :... ’jar Aw BHH I j p * ■MHHV JI ■ 7 t i ▼ W I jfl BHIEi mBI Griffin High STAR teacher and student on campus. . • STAR student wants * to be medical doctor Picks his math teacher at GHS for honor * Tim Burke, Griffin High student who hopes to become a medical doctor, today was named STAR student of the < Griffin-Spalding School System. He picked Mrs. Marian Smith, chairman of the math department at Griffin High, as his STAR teacher. The honors were announced today at the Griffin Kiwanis Club’s meeting. The club has been host for the awards i' meeting for many years. The Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors the local STAR . program. South Georgia gets snow By The Associated Press Snow fell over south Georgia early today, delighting and surprising folks who awoke to what some described as a blizzard. The accumulations were not significant, but it was a special surprise to south Georgians because it was their second snowfall this winter-a rarity. The snow followed Tuesday’s high of 65 degrees in the area. Some south Georgia communities have not had snow for nearly 10 years. Trees, roofs and shrubs were covered and half an inch was measured on automobile tops in Tifton. Flurries were reported as far south as Tallahassee, Fla. and the National Weather Service said the band of snow would extend all the way to the east . Why does coffee cost so much? Editor’s Note: Why does coffee cost so much? Is there or ? Isn’t there a shortage? Here is a look at what has hap pened since a 1975 frost in Brazil touched off a surge in prices. /* By DAVID C. MARTIN and TERRY KIRKPATRICK > Associated Press Writers The coffee surplus of yesterday is gone. There is enough to meet the demand today, but not enough to quiet the fear of shortage tomorrow. * The fear is very real, and that is why coffee prices in American grocery stores have more than doubled in the past 18 months. f The well-publicized frost of July 1975, in Brazil, the largest grower, reduced the world coffee surplus to the GRIFFIN DAI LY N EWS Daily Since 1872 Burke is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Burke of 1657 Piedmont road, Griffin. He plans to study medicine at the University of Georgia. He is in the Beta Club, National Math Honor Society, and is a National Merit Semifinalist for 1977. He is a member of the Chess Club at Griffin High. Burke won the STAR honor with his top school scores on the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). He picked Mrs. Smith as the teacher who had contributed most to his education. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, February 16,1977 coast. Bill Hoopes of Radio Station WSFB at Quitman, Ga., said snow began falling there at 7:55 a.m. He operates a morning talk show. “I had to get somebody to come in and help me with the telephone calls,” he said. Quitman hadn’t seen snow since Feb. 14, 1958, when nearly two inches fell. Before that, there was a trace in 1973. “We had a blizzard until 8:25 a.m.," Hoopes said. “We stopped counting the telephone calls at 150 calls. They were just people calling in to talk to somebody about it. We don’t see snow down here that often. They just wanted to describe it. We’re just like a big country party line.” He said the snow at Quitman was nearly two inches deep. point where another such disruption could cause an ab solute shortage. The results: —Producing countries, taking advantage of the possibility of shortage, raised their prices sharply, dramatically increasing their revenues. —Many U.S. coffee companies, willing to pay the higher prices and immediately passing them along, made a quick killing on the coffee they already held, but later absorbed some of the rising price. —Coffee drinkers, refusing to quit buying, saw the retail price rise from an average |1.27 a pound before the frost to over $3 in some places today. All this, and yet coffee was still available. The 1975 frost cut production sharply in Brazil, but left enough green coffee beans on trees and in stockpiles to She is the wife of Robert H. Smith of Griffin and is a 1964 honor graduate of Fort Valley State College with a BS in math. She completed work for the MA degree in math at the University of Georgia. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Williams of Cuthbert, Ga. She has been with the Griffin-Spalding System several years. Burke and Mrs. Smith will represent the G-S System in the district STAR finals. The Country Parson by Frank Clark EK/,, ■■rit k “Whenever a fellow finds someone smarter than he is — he ought to listen to her.” Center work gets go ahead In joint session, Griffin City Commissioners and the Spalding County Commissioners agreed to a $170,200 contract to build a Fairmont Recreation Center. The center is to be located on Blanton street in front of Spalding Unit 111 Junior High. Ground breaking could begin as early as Monday Feb. 21. The structure can be completed in some 140 working days, weather permiting, according to the contractor, Structural Systems. In other action John Steinmetz, president of Tri-T Aviation asked the commissioners to reconsider the starting date for payment of rent for his company’s use of the county’s airport. Steinmetz contended his company should not pay rent from January 1 of 1976 because it was not able to take over full control of the airport facility, due to to prevent occupant’s refusal to vocate the premises. He said Tri-T was able to generate any decent revenues only after June 1, 1976, when the company finally took over. He says payment of S2OO per month rent was withheld for this reason. Tri-T officially began occupancy on Jan. 1, according to the commissioners, but because of the legal technicalities with the previous owner, they agreed to compromise. Tri-T is to begin monthly payments from April 1, 1976. The commissioners heard from Paul Kurtz and Walter Murphy of Flint River Regional Library. They talked about the possible effects of the rumored withdrawal of Clayton County from the library’s regional membership. Clayton County has a population of approximately 98,000 people or 46 per cent of the library’s regional population. The state pays $.20 per capita to the library and it stands to lose nearly $20,000 if Clayton County withdraws. The library will also lose some SIB,OOO or 18.5 per cent per capita for maintenance and operational expenses. Murphy advised the total could go as high as $50,000 plus loss of personnel and interest drawn on monies deposited in banks awaiting allocation and other expenditures. He said this unusally cold winter had had very profound effects on this year’s budget and the library is in relatively good shape through June of 1976. Any less money in the budget could cause some grave circumstances, they said. Kurtz and Murphy have a meeting scheduled next week with the Clayton County Commissioners about the rumored withdrawal. The commissioners requested that library administrators keep them informed. They also requested the administrators to present a projected operational budget based on Clayton County’s withdrawal. meet demand. Since the frost their price has more than tripled, from about 60 cents to $2.30 a pound. In the current marketing year, the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that there will be 45.5 million bags, just over 6 billion pounds, available for export. (A bag holds 132 pounds.) World demand is expected to be about 50 million bags. The difference can be made up from Brazil’s stockpile of about 25 million bags late last year. By dipping into the stockpile, Brazil actually exported more coffee in 1976 than in 1975 — 15.6 million bags last year, compared to 14.6 million a year earlier. It should have been no surprise that Brazil and other producing countries would try to get as much money for this coffee as they could. Needing coffee revenues to buy (Continued on page 16.) Vol. 105 No. 39 HL •< flrL /Jr '•lh. . ATLANTA—House Speaker Tom Murphy rests his gavel on his shoulder while watching activity on the floor. The gavel does not get much rest when the House is in session. (AP) Toymakers busy —250 days left NEW YORK (AP) — There are more than 250 shopping days left until Christmas, but the nation’s toymakers aren’t wasting any time. They have already introduced the products they hope will capture millions of consumer dollars in the 1977 holiday season. Buyers can expect more electronic toys and games; a revival of a few old favorites; tie-ins with television, movies and sports figures; and a wide range of mock Citizens Band radios. Some of the more elaborate playthings will retail in the area of SSO. David A. Miller, chairman of the board of the Toy Manufacturers of America, Inc., said 1976 sales at the wholesale level were $3.1 billion, up 14 per cent from 1975. He predicted 1977 sales would be 8 to 10 per cent higher than last year’s. There seemed to be less emphasis on violent toys than in past years. Toy guns occupied only one page of a 75- page catalogue distributed by one company. Mattel Toys, the world’s largest toymaker, offered a line of “Shogun” warriors, complete with battle axes and rockets. The Ideal Toy Corp, linked two fads with its Evel Knievel CB van — one of several additions to the Knievel line, in troduced five years ago. One model cycle was tied to an upcoming Knievel movie. An Ideal spokesman said the company had sold $125 million worth of Knievel toys. it" * Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low today 23, high yesterday 50, low yesterday 37, high tomorrow in low 40s, low tonight near 20. FORECAST: Sunny today and Thursday. Fair and cold tonight. Among the highlights of the fair: —The “Mary Hartman, Mary Hart man” game produced by Reiss Games. Described as “Fun for All Ages," the board game features the less-spicy episodes of life as portrayed in the syndicated televsion series. “We left out everything risque,” said a spokesman, who added that the game would retail for SB. —“Slime.” A greenish-yellow sub stance — 95 per cent water and 5 per cent chemical compound — designed to slide through your fingers. The man ufacturers describe it as “yuckey.” One spokesman said it “feels like thick Jello — only heavier.” —Dolls that develop a “tan” in one minute when placed in sunlight or close to an artificial light. The extra color lasts for an hour. People ••• and things School patrolman, cans of peanuts in his hands, knocking on door of apartment. Minister, layman making calls together for little boy in hospital who needs help. Policeman giving cheerful hello to early morning riser on his way to work downtown.
