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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 10,1977
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Town clerk Ivaloo Patrick, right, watches as residents of
North Haven Island, Maine cast their ballots during the
annual town meeting. Mrs. Patrick is the fourth
Town meeting
Direct democracy
NORTH HAVEN, Maine (AP) — The townspeople
began gathering well before the appointed hour of nine,
neighbors all, tied to this town and this island by blood and
heritage and to this gathering by a tradition older than the
republic.
It began when the first Plymouth colonists met to decide
among themselves matters of their common concern.
Their descendants, literal descendants in some cases on
this coastal New England isle, have found no reason to
change such a sensible system of direct democracy or any
way to improve upon it.
Thus none of the island’s 400 citizens needed further
encouragement to attend than the notice posted on the
bulletin board outside Waterman’s general store at the
town dock:
Town Meeting.
Across New England during the first two weeks in
March other towns held similar meetings. Large
anonymous cities may have abandoned annual one-day
assemblies as too unwieldy, but towns such as North
Haven yet exist as reminders that some places in this
bureaucratic land have neither outgrown their identities
nor yielded the Yankee notion of self-government to
professionals or computers.
“David, I think lasa had her hand up first, we’ll hear
you next if that’s all right...”
“I’m going to have to disagree with you, Eliot ...”
“Before we go any further I think this town owes a vote
of thanks to Jimmy Brown ...”
"Ivaloo, count the hands along with me so we get the
vote right ...”
With dispatch, but more important with civility and
mutual trust, North Haven’s citizens last Monday elected
their officials, voted taxes for street lights, roads, snow
fences, fireplugs, settled disagreements over clamming
grounds and ferryboat service, and went home after 5%
hours satisfied that no voice was excluded, no opinion
suppressed.
They know who they are, these islanders, and so they
nominated from the floor and found no need for super
fluous seconding speeches. They voted simply by drop
ping slips of paper in a box, as if electing a class beadle.
The new officials were sworn on the spot. Next item.
Time and again during the meeting the sliding top of the
sturdy wooden ballot box was opened, closed — “Has
everybody voted who wants to?” — and its contents
dumped on the table of the vote counters: Audrey Lincoln,
Annie Calderwood, Ida Haskell.
The box, not much larger than a shoe box, is the crafts
manship of James Brown, a boatbuilder. He made it in
1905 when he was town clerk.
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generation of her family to serve as clerk; her grand
father carved the box still being used to collect the ballots.
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It now belongs to the present town clerk, Ivaloo Patrick,
who is Brown’s granddaughter. The office of town clerk
has been in the same family for 73 years.
Continuity, loyalty, involvement, these are virtues
North Haven islanders respect.
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Testimony
ruled out
in trial
ROME, Ga. (AP) - The tes
timony of three key government
witnesses was ruled out
Wednesday by a U.S. District
Court judge presiding over the
bank robbery trial of William
Edward Alley of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
With the jurors out of the
courtroom, Judge Richard
Freeman heard the testimony
of the three men, who said they
could identify Alley from photo
graphs of the March 28, 1975,
robbery of the Menlo branch of
the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Summerville.
Four men robbed the bank of
more than $15,000, according to
testimony.
Jackie Robinson of Chat
tanooga, who said he knows Al
ley personally, testified he
could identify the defendant be
cause of his posture, even
though the robbers in the pic
ture wore masks.
He also said he had seen thin
rubber masks, similar to the
ones used in the robbery, at Al
ley’s home.
Larry Parker, a former po
liceman, told Freeman he could
identify Alley from the photo
graphs because of his personal
acquaintance with the defend
ant. He said he had seen masks
and guns similar to those used
in the roboery in Alley’s home.
FBI agent Al Mallard, said he
could make a similar identi
fication.
But the judge said their testi
mony was vague and in
conclusive.
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Pages
Griffin students serving as pages at the General Assembly this session inchided (front, 1-r>
Kristie Green, Jane Raunlkar, Carol Glanton, Lori Jackson, Jerry Southerland and Ed
Henderson. On the back row are (1-r) Laymon Hattaway, Spalding Junior High prinicpal
who coordinated selection of the pages through essay competition, Rep. John Carlisle and
Rep. John Mostiler of Spalding County
Plead guilty
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Two
Augusta men pleaded guilty
Wednesday to armed robbery in
connection with the May, 1976
slaying of a South Carolina
man.
Richmond County Superior
Court Judge Franklin Pierce
sentenced William Evans, 17,
and Michael Knotts, 20, each to
seven years in prison.
A third defendant, Walter
Williams, was tried and con
victed in January of murder
and armed robbery in the
shooting death of Ronald Eric
Anderson, 27, of Belvedere, S.C.
The Fellowship of Christian Women
of Griffin
will have their next lunchroom March 18 at 12 o’clock at
the Griffin Moose Club.
Speaker for March will be Enid Bell of Atlanta. Mrs. Bell
is a popular Christian Women’s club speaker. She is a
wife, mother and grandmother.
Tickets for the luncheon are $3 and are available at
Christian Book Center in College Hills Shopping Plaza.
A free nursery will be available at the Calvary Assembly
of God Church located a short distance from the Moose
Club. Reservations for the nursery must be made by
calling Ann Ponder 227-0577.
Women of all denominations are welcome!
