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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1977)
Fur and hide New business in Griffin started with $5 skunk fur in Georgia Plott Hide and Fur Company, located on West Solomon street in Griffin is 52- years-old this year. In that time the business has grown from a meager beginning, when Jake Plott borrowed $5 to buy a skunk fur in North Georgia, to a company with an annual sales volume of $5-million. Today the company deals in hides, furs, skins, pecans, roots and herbs from sources all over the U.S. Some 8-10 buying agents represent the business and an additional collecting point in Blairsville. Jake, the founder, operates the collecting point in Blairsville. His son, Q. C. Plott, and grandson, Chris Plott, operate the plant in Griffin. “Our buying season runs close to parallel with the trapping season,” said Chris Plott. “In Georgia, that’s from Nov. 20 through Feb. 28." During that time the Plotts purchase all sorts of hides and furs including coon, grey fox, red fox, otter, bob cat, mink, etc. “Most of what we buy is already skinned,” said Chris. “We don’t solicit carcases.” He said depending on the condition, Eb-23 ■ v & y .JflS ' KI KmcSi I\ ♦ I ■ WF wRnV - <1 JgJ JLaF — All for one .. . ATHENS, Ga.—These two University of Georgia students, Steve Nail (left) of Dunwoody, Ga., and David Watson (r) of Decatur, Ga., in their unusual cloth is (are) the ‘lma Duo’. They are running for the single seat of Student Govern ment Association (SGA). Here they are soliciting votes on campus. (AP) Amin slaps ban on Americans nnf<nlnAAn nnmionflAn time c NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Idi Amin today ordered all Americans in Uganda to meet with him Monday and told his security forces to prevent any of them leaving the country before that, Uganda radio said. An Information Ministry spokesman, reached by The Associated Press by telephone from Washington, said the Americans will be free to leave, if they wish, after the Monday meeting. “There’s no cause for alarm. There’s no cause for fear at all,” he added. The government radio quoted Amin as telling regional administrative officers to question the Americans in advance of the Monday meeting and ask them whether they have been ha rassed in Uganda and whether they wish to remain in the country. Officials in Uganda, which borders Kenya in East Africa, estimate the number of Americans there at 250. “President Carter has expressed alarm and fear about the American community here and the president (Amin) has asked them to meet him on Monday to tell them what is happening, but otherwise there is no problem DAILY Daily Since 1872 size and quality of the hides and furs, he pays from $lO to sl6 for coon skins, $26 to $32 for grey fox, S4O to $45 for red fox, S4O to SSO for otter and around SSO for bobcat. “To prepare the furs, trappers skin the animals, clean the furs, stretch them over a form and dry them,” said Plott. “Then they bring them to us.” “We then run them through a selection process according to type, size, color and quality. Once they have been categorized, they’re packed and put into cool storage to await sale." The stored hides and furs are then sold to fur manufacturers who sell them to retailers in the form of finished products such as fur coats, belts, etc. Among the varieties of Georgia animals that the company buys the furs and hides of are coyotes and minks. “Just about every fur bearing animal in the U. S. is represented in Georgia except the badger and some varieties native to the Northwest,” said Plott. “There are wild minks inside Griffin’s, city limits.” He said the popular conception of a trapper is far from reality. “Most of them are only part-time trappers,” he said. “They are farmers, regarding the Americans here,” the information spokesman said. “They are all happy and I can assure you they are going to stay,” he said. Amin’s ban on American departures came two days after he charged that the United States, Britain and Israel planned to drop paratroops into Uganda in support of an alleged plot to overthrow him. The U.S. State Department said the Russians pushing civil defense plans WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials are more concerned about civil defense than at any time since the early 1960 s following reports of an elaborate Soviet civil defense program that includes construction of shelters to protect citizens and critical industries from nuclear blasts. Some U.S. experts believe the Russians are spending about $1 billion a year on civil defense. This is about 12 times the current U.S. Civil Defense budget of $82.5 million. But some western observers in the GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, February 25,1977 f ■ I I Ifri 7 i -Wlr-y 7 mH -A ** * lawyers, retired people, etc. While there are some trappers who depend solely on trapping for their livelihood, they are like you and I — ordinary people,” he said. “There are some burly, bearded types, but they’re the exceptions.” Asked how he felt about Congress fiddling with time By EDMUND PINTO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Daylight Saving Time doesn’t start until late April this year, but Congress is already trying to fiddle around with it again. Six bills have been introduced in the House to alter the current system of six months of Daylight Saving Time. One would make it a permanent, year-round fixture, another would cut it to three months. Benjamin Franklin is credited with first proposing Daylight Saving Time 190 years ago to save candles. It first started in this century to save energy during wartime. People ...and things Wise pedestrian in shirt sleeves with jacket and umbrella over his arm and sunglasses in hand prepared for any sort of weather. Three excited school children in hot pursuit of notebook papers blowing across College street in strong February wind. Two pairs of legs protruding horizontally side by side from beneath lone car in downtown parking lot. paratroop accusation was absurd. It had no comment today on Amin’s order prohibiting Americans from leaving Uganda. The broadcast today from Kampala, the Ugandan capital, said Amin ordered the regional administrative officers to prepare a list of all Americans in their areas along with their property, “including chickens, goats, pigs and other animals.” Soviet Union say they have not seen evidence of a major civil defense effort. One western diplomat in Moscow re ported no traces of such a program “beyond an occasional CD poster.” Pentagon analysts are worried that extensive Soviet civil defense preparations, coupled with significant increases they say are underway in Russian nuclear striking power, may be aimed at gaining superiority over the United States by the early 1980 s. They fear that the “balance of terror,” credited with deterring NEWS environmentalists or conservationists who are opposed to trapping as being inhumane, Plott said, “Most of these people are emotionally sincere in their opposition but essentially ignorant of the facts. Most any expert will tell you that wild animal populations must be shaved from the top. Daylight time starts on April 24 and runs until Oct. 30 this year. The extra hour of daylight in the evening — stolen from the early morning hours — has made Daylight Saving Time popular with many, but not with farmers who must wait an extra hour to begin their chores. One bill being offered to Congress this year would start Daylight Saving Time on the last Sunday in February and extend it to the first Sunday after the first Monday in November. Its sponsor, Rep. Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass., says it would make Halloween, Oct. 31, safer for children trick or treating. An aide to Studds pointed out it also Dust was the cause of funny looking sky Dust from the Oklahoma and Texas areas was responsible for that hazy atmosphere in the Griffin area Thursday. It caused some people to cough. It irritated the eyes of others. People with contact lenses complained. In Alabama, the dust was so bad that doctors cautioned people with respiratory difficulties to stay indoors through today. Some officials called the western weather one of the worst dust storms in decades. A massive storm system which has more than two-thirds of the nation in its grip caused the dusty weather. Many Griffinites were somewhat puzzled as they observed the haze-like skies. Some speculated it might be smoke from the increased number of forest and grass fires here. nuclear war, would be toppled if the Russian population were safeguarded while the U.S. population was not. However, there are significant dif ferences of opinion about the extent of the Russian civil defense effort. Defense Secretary Harold Brown is skeptical. He told a Senate hearing last month that “I am not convinced... that the Soviets have gotten very far” in developing an effective civil defense program. Vol. 105 No. 47 Chris Plott busy with furs at new Griffin industry. “Without trappers and hunters their populations would increase to such numbers that large amounts of them would starve to death or die of disease. That is nature’s way of shaving from the top.” He said he felt the swift death by the hunter’s or trapper’s bullet is more would retain daylight time past election day — the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November — and might encourage neople to vote in the evening. In 1973, because of the Arab oil em bargo, emergency legislation put daylight saving on a year-round basis to save energy. The system lasted through the last Sunday in October 1974. Efforts to shorten or abolish daylight time are made periodically. Rep. John J. Flynt Jr., DGa., wants to reduce daylight time to less than 5 months — from the last Sunday of April through Labor Day, the first Monday in September. Georgia did not get as much of the dust as Alabama. In that state, a spokesman for the health department said people with respiratory ailments should protect themselves from the dust. “It’s certainly dangerous to your health, there’s no doubt about it,” a spokesman for the department said. In Georgia the forecast called for rain Saturday. It prompted one forecaster in Atlanta to crack, “It’ll probably rain mud.” **% * £*:*'* W 3 i From Russia .... NEW YORK—Jose Serrano, who received a new kidney from a 16-year-old Moscow youth killed in a car crash, is visited in a New York hospital by his wife Louisa after the operation. Doctors at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center arranged to have the kidney flown from Russia to perform the operation on the 32-year-old Brooklyn construction worker 48 hours after it was taken from the donor. (AP) Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 71, low today 47, high yesterday 69, low yesterday 38, high tomorrow in mid 70s, low tonight near 50. FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness tonight. Chance of thundershowers Saturday. EXTENDED FORECAST: Scattered showers Sunday and Monday. Cooler Monday and fair Tuesday. humane than the slow death of disease or starvation. “The same people who oppose trapping animals, have exterminators rid their houses of rats and termites and spray to kill flies. Where do you draw the line?,” he asked. Traffic case in Plains, Ga. PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The first case involving the newly installed traffic light in President Carter’s hometown was settled Thursday when one of the drivers failed to appear in court. Two cars collided under the town’s only stop light on the second day the light was in operation. Mayor A.L. Blanton, who doubles as municipal judge, said William L. Marshall, the driver of one car, failed to appear in court and forfeited a sl9 bond. Gladys Murray, the driver of the other car, was judged innocent, Blanton said. The Country Parson by Frank Clark ■khmhe “Anybody can be successful by revealing his goal after he’s reached it.”
