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Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 10,1977
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Wounded in Washington
A wounded person and four others are led from B’Nai
B’Rlth headquarters In Washington Wednesday after
Commercial development
of Plains is near
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - The first flood of commercial
development could hit President Carter’s home town
March 19, when 1,056 acres of land just outside the city
will be offered for sale at auction.
The President’s sister could be the first person over
whelmed by the flood. Her 15-acre homesite is surrounded
by the land to be sold.
Gloria Carter Spahn, and her husband, Walter, sold
more than 300 acres of the land to William O. Cochran,
who is selling it, he says, to move to a farming community
without the commotion brought to Plains by tourists
visiting the President's home town.
“We just don’t know what to do," Mrs. Spahn said in an
interview. “I’m just sorry to see this happening to our
town. This has been our home for 26 years, and I’m sad to
think we might be forced to move.”
Mrs. Spahn, however, said she and her husband had no
intention of selling their land, which is south of the city on
Georgia 45.
The Cochran farm has been subdivided into 134 parcels,
ranging from one acre to 86 acres.
There is no zoning law in Sumter County so the land
could be used for just about any purpose the new owners
desire.
“I tried to subdivide it in such manner that I’d have a
tract that might be suitable for any kind of prospect,” said
Tom Davis of the T. Lynn Davis Realty & Auction Co., of
Macon, Ga., which is handling the sale.
He said advertising brochures had been sent to real
estate firms, lawyers, motel chains and restaurant
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“I haven’t had any direct inquiries from anybody I’d
recognize,” Davis said in an interview Wednesday. “Most
callers simply just said ‘l’m Joe Jones’ and would ask me
to send a brochure.
"When they call you up, they don’t want you to know
they’re too interested,” Davis said when asked if he knew
of any motel or restaurant chains interested in the land.
“Some will have other people do their inquiring for
them.”
“I think we’ve had a right good response,” he added,
“but most of your better prospects do not make you aware
of their interest until sale day.”
One name in the Plains rumor mill as a possible buyer is
the Days Inns of Atlanta.
Board Chairman Cecil B. Day said members of the
firm’s real estate division had looked at the land but “we
have no plans whatsoever” to build a motel there.
The auction could be the first major test of land values
in the Plains area since Carter’s election.
“Come the 19th, we’re going to find out from John Q.
Public what property in Plains is worth,” said Davis.
The price Cochran paid for his land could not be deter
mined, but the Sumter County tax rolls place a fair
market value of $304,000 on the 1,056 acres of land in 974,
the first year Cochran owned it.
Good farm land is worth S6OO to SBOO an acre as farm
land, according to local realtors.
Crime report
4 people
rob man
Police were looking for 4
people who robbed a Griffinite
of $37 Wednesday night.
Rent Willis, 546 McKneely
street, told officers that 2 black
men, accompanied by 2 black
women, took the money from
him on North Sixth street.
Janie Hale suffered a cut on
leg Wednesday night when
someone tossed a rock through
a bedroom window at 521 South
Sixth street. Police said no
medical treatment was
necessary.
Jesse Grimsley, 1437 Atlanta
road, has been charged with
damaging property at the Days
Inn Motel on the North Express
way, police said.
A small amount of cash was
taken in a burglary at Classic
Hair Styles, 1011 Memorial
drive.
Katy Esary is
All-State pianist
Katy Esary, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Esary was chosen
from among Georgia students
as an All-State piano winner.
She will perform April 30 in
the Atlanta Civic Center at the
Georgia Music Educators
Convention.
Her teacher is Mrs. J.A.
Sudderth of Atlanta.
COMPUTER FINDS
KISS STIRRING
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
kiss is one of the latest methods
developed for turning on a
computer. A Japanese company
has produced a computer that
only registers lip prints, reports
National Geographic. The com
puter won’t work until the oper
ator presses his lips against it
and only if the kiss stirs some
thing in its memory bank.
Bottle response
INTERNATIONAL FALLS,
Minn. (AP) — When she was a
teen-ager, Diana Carrigan Rar
din tossed a bottle containing a
note into the Rainy River near
International Falls, hoping that
someday someone would an
swer it.
It turns out that an elderly
fisherman found the bottle the
same year near Lake of the
Woods, about 100 miles down
river. But it took him 13 years to
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“I meant to answer it,” ex
plained Fred Clark, 81, of Flint,
Mich., in a letter to Mrs. Rar
din, 27, who now lives in Motley.
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I found it.”
What’s
happening
Anniversary
The Utility Club will meet Friday at,
11:30 a.m. at the Griffin Moose Lodge
for their 50th anniversary luncheon.
