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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1977)
Page 2 Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 10,1977 k ts KP/ J3Mr ■' ’HHltWw'" 9>fl KLA f £j£ It J > 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 Around the Corner 1 Our new selections will, without a doubt, / Cj .[Zj 1 put you in the sewing mood, so come 1 q C visit us •" i j ICE CREAM PLAIDS, STRIPES, SOLIDS | n > A woven pique look, that's knit 1 Be | SWEATER KNITS DOTTED SWISS f 8 1 98 Yd «l 59 Yd } POLY-COnON printed INTERLOCK T-SHIRT KNIT (White) «]_ 98 # 3 49 $1 98 x Yd NATURAL LOOK DOUBLE KNIT POLKA DOTS SQ49 SO9B 100% Polyester « " « Buriin o g “pnton WO™ POLYESTER GABARDINE «2 49 & $ 2 98 «2 98 CHINTZ DENIM STRIPES Ideal For Wrap Skirts «l 69 Yd. $ 2 49 - 8 2 98 Many fabrics reduced, including our better knits reg. 4.98, Now 3.98 yd. and many of our knits at 2.98, Now 2.49 & 1.98. These are all spring fabrics, you'll be very pleased, come see. Cloth Comer 122 S. 13th St. gunmen took over the building. (AP) chains. “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 I Jones-Harrison’s SPRING SALE I I THE WARM SUN I Q) X IS COWIIHG BACK I I 3 DAYS ONLY - I I Save During Our IBv JH V yqwHSmHKI ||MjH KSHItsHI ■Metal Swings with stand and chains I I ■HHHHUV in White, yellow and green. I Reg. Price 79.95 Sole Price 63°° I Swing Only Reg- Price $49.95 Sale Price 36°° I * ■EVSiMIfI s I I a MBmi— ■ a I I v “ v I e ■HHHHHHB I Tradewind 3 Passenger Glider and Chair I I Expanded Metal Seat and Back. I I SQOOO I Reg. Price $119.95 Sole Price Q 7 I Available but not shown: Matching Chair I I SO4 OO I Reg. Price $34.95 Sale Price I 48” Oak Swings with Chains saiep ri c e s ls ßß I I 60” Oak Swings with Chains s□<« Price *18 88 I I No Interest No Carrying Charges I 421 W. Solomon St. Phone 228*8488 send a response. “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. He sent his letter to Mrs. Rardin’s childhood address, and her parents forwarded it. “It got set aside,” Clark wrote of the bottle and note, “and I lost track of it and forgot about it until the other day when 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.
