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What LaGrange and Marietta have done
may help Griffin in planning future
% Marietta
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Revitalizing downtown Griffin will
cost a lot of money and take a lot of
♦ t hard work.
That was the essence of what Howard
Atherton told the Griffin Merchants
Association Thursday night at the
• Chamber of Commerce.
Atherton, former Marietta mayor
and now director of Community
• Development for the State of Georgia,
said some 50 communities in the state
are looking into ways to redevelop
« downtown.
Griffin is not alone in its search for
the key to the problem, he said.
t Atherton said Marietta has set up a
• ’ downtown development authority and
begun a 10-year program that will cost
$5-million.
,*• He said Marietta and Griffin have
much in common and he shared some of
the decisions that city north of Atlanta
• had to make to get to the beginning of
its program.
Atherton said professional planners
U. drew up the Marietta plan at a cost of
* $62,000. Marietta called for bids on the
planning job and they ranged from
$50,000 to SIOO,OOO.
;• Any town that wants to revitalize
downtown must be ready to commit
about 50 percent of its space to parking,
. Atherton said.
He said downtown redevelopment
required dedicated leadership that was
above and beyond the normal concept
* ’ of leadership.
He cautioned against working up a
plan that the community could not
' * finance.
Atherton said downtown shouldn’t try
to compete with shopping centers
« because they couldn’t. However, he
said downtown could capitalize on its
assets which are many.
He said a healthy downtown business
* district would help rather than hurt
shopping centers.
He said downtown should not
, * approach redevelopment with the idea
of knocking down buildings and
constructing new ones.
• “it would be too expensive; use what
you have and capitalize on it,*’ he said.
The financial and political interests
% of any community must work hand in
* hand with its citizens if a plan is to
succeed, he said.
He said it took Marietta 10 years to
.. * overcome some political obstacles.
The Public and Business Affairs
Committee of the Marietta Kiwanis
« Club served as the focal point in getting
the idea going, Atherton said. The club
was community minded, had no
political axe to grind and could make
* unbiased recommendations, he said.
Some federal funds may be available
but such money is harder to come by
Mrs. Maynard
Mrs. Rosalie Maynard has devoted
all of her adult life to helping sick
people get well.
She’ll probably keep on doing that,
even though she retired today officially.
“I’d like to do some volunteer work to
help people in need,” she said.
“So many are in need and can t
afford help.”
Today was her last day at work as
director of nursing services at The
Living Center. Before that she had held
the same position at Brightmoor. And
before that she had worked in nursing
services at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
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now, Atherton said. He said Toccoa
built a downtown mall with about 75
percent federal money, thanks
probably to the influence of former
Congressman Phil Landrum.
And the Toccoa plan has not proved
out to be all that it was supposed to be
as a model development, the Marietta
man said.
He stressed the importance of citizen
participation.
He recommended surveys to find out
what people think Griffin should have
downtown.
One of the important elements in a
downtown is that people of a
community all feel it is theirs. Without
citizen support, a redevelopment plan
Frosted cereal really
fortified with iron
SEATTLE (AP) — Rick McDonald
eats his breakfast cereal with a magnet
— quickly, before it rusts.
McDonald discovered the other day
that the cereal he was eating —
“Frosted Rice,” a mineral-enriched
cereal made by the Kellogg Co. — was
laced with so much iron he literally
could pick up bits of it with a magnet.
“Tiny black specks, that’s what I
saw,” McDonald recaUed. “They were
all over the bottom of the dish, floating
in the milk.”
The 29-year-old television repairman
suspected the residue in his cereal bowl
was dirt or a form of iron used in
cereals which are enriched with vita
mins and minerals. The body requires a
, certain amount of iron in the daily diet,
mainly to produce hemoglobin, the part
of blood which carries oxygen.
Some of the doctors called her
“Rosie” at the hospital where her
bright smile often eased pain for some
patients.
Doctors knew her as a professional
nurse in the strictest sense.
Usually she was a person to know
what was going on all the time but not
Thursday afternoon.
The staff at the Living Center pulled a
surprise party for her in the dining
room.
They gave her a huge grandfather
clock to go in the new home she and her
husband, Horace, are building on
Maddox road.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, March 18,1977
Atherton shows Marietta sketch.
will fail, he said.
Marietta will finance its program
with one third of the local money
coming from the city, one third from
the county and the rest from the
community, Atherton said.
The first phase will cost about
SBOO,OOO, he said.
Elmer George brought Atherton to
the meeting. The Griffin Merchants had
invited George to share information
from the Georgia Municipal
Association on downtown redevelop
ment.
George is executive vice president of
the Municipal Association, a position he
took after resigning as Griffin city
manager. George continues as a citizen
of Griffin.
McDonald checked by holding a
magnet over the specks. They clung to
the tip. A few sweeps and the dish was
spotless.
A Kellogg executive told a local
newspaper there is nothing harmful
about the little black bits.
“It just doesn’t look too good,” he
said.
Kellogg officials at company
headquarters in Battle Creek, Mich.,
were not immediately available for
additional comment.
McDonald felt the Kellogg folks had
certainly given him his money’s worth
of mineral enrichment. But he didn’t
appreciate it.
“I thought, ‘how rude of them to put
this in my breakfast,”’ he said.
It’ll be next door to retired police
Chief Leo and Mrs. Blackwell. Mrs.
Blackwell also has been in nursing
work and she and Mrs. Maynard shared
much in common.
The new Maynard home will be
frame and painted dark green.
They hope to be in it by April or so.
They will move from their present
home on Everee road.
Mrs. Maynard was inspired to
become a nurse under the influence of
her country doctor uncle, the late Dr.
Mickelberry Thaxton in Butts County.
He died a few years ago at 99.
Born and reared in Butts County near
LaGrange
after
industry
Chamber and Griffin Industrial
Authority members got some ideas
Thursday as to what can be done to
promote industrial growth.
Jim Hamilton of the LaGrange
Industrial Development Authority
talked to the group in light of success
the authority there has had in bringing
new industry to their city.
LaGrange’s success can be attributed
to the combined efforts of city govern
ment, the authority, and the Chamber
of Commerce.
“We have competition and we are
willing to compete,” the C&S Bank
president said.
LaGrange had had no new industrial
development in the 10 years preceding
the combined organized efforts of the
city, county, Chamber and the
authority.
LaGrange has an industrial park of
600 acres with access to water and
sewage. There are 8 established
complexes and 2 others are under
construction.
The authority has plans for a
speculative building of 50,000 square
feet valued at some $240,000. The
building will be just a frame. It will be
available for occupancy by industrial
prospects on an almost immediate
People
...and things
Young couple parking bikes near
Little League dugout at city park then
jogging for awhile.
Man mowing grass already,
determined not to let it get ahead of him
this year.
Desperate golfer at city course
searching for his only ball so he can
finish game.
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The Country Parson
by Frank (.lark
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“Folks remark about
beautiful days only if they’ve
had some that aren’t”
Jackson, the former Rosalie Ridgway,
trained for her profession at Baroness-
Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
While there she met and later
married her husband, Horace, who was
with TVA then. He retired a few years
ago when the Atlanta Army depot
closed.
The Maynards have two sons.
Jimmy, 34, is married and lives with
his wife and 15-year-old son at Ponca
City, Okla, where he’s an accountant
with an oil firm.
Jerry, 27, is married and lives with
his wife in Toledo, Ohio where he is a
business executive.
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Jim Hamilton tells how LaGrange does it.
basis with minor alterations.
Their authority has been in
strumental in creating 1,200 new jobs
with a capital investment up to sll
-
LaGrange gets a cash flow from the
industrial park of some $500,000 an
nually from taxes and utilities. Troup
County gets some $150,000 in annual
taxes from the industries.
There have been no property tax
increases in the county as a result of
these cash flows, according to
Hamilton.
The LaGrange authority has applied
for federal funding to construct a
million gallon propane gas tank. The
tank is estimated to cost $1.5-million
and would maintain industries in the
park for approximately 50 days in the
event of a shortage.
“This is not a forever solution but it
would maintain the position of having
energy available in reserve form,”
Hamilton said.
The LaGrange Authority is
planning to improve the looks of the
property yet unsold in their industrial
park by landscaping and grading.
Hamilton feels pricing acreage in the
park at $5,000 an acre has helped in
H-House cells at Jackson
center of prisoner suit
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Corrections
officials have testified that there is no
consistent criterium by which state
prisoners are transferred to cellblocks
which house particularly dangerous
criminals.
Several prisoners have filed suit in
federal court claiming their rights have
been violated by being kept in the unit
Tele-view something new
The Griffin Daily News will introduce a new feature
Saturday. It will be called Tele-view and will be a section
with complete television listings for next week. It will in
clude movie and sports schedules as well as information
about special programs. The feature will be an extra for
readers at no additional cost. It’ll be part of every Satur
day’s paper.
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Larry Lawrence (c), administrator for the Living Center, shows grandfather
clock to Mrs. Maynard and husband, Horace (r).
Weather
FORECAST: Clearing and cool
tonight. Mostly sunny and mild
Saturday.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Mild
through Monday with scattered
showers southeast, ending Sunday.
bringing in new industries. The only
exception is $5,500 per acre for access
to rail siding.
He said developers know from the
outset when they see the map of the
industrial park what land will cost. The
authority will even give an option for 90
days for $1 to give them time to discuss
it further at their home office.
“We do everything we can to make
industrial prospects feel comfortable,”
Hamilton said.
A lot of money figures in the
operation of the LaGrange Authority.
Applications for federal grants and
assistance are depended on highly.
“If it hadn’t been for grants, we
wouldn’t be where we are today,”
Hamilton said.
The authority has hired a govern
ment services director to represent it in
Washington.
The firm also inventories available
monies and advises the authority as to
its eligibility.
To further enhance the qualities of
the park, the authority is planning a
child care center for children of persons
employed at companies in the in
dustrial park.
known as the “H-House” at the Diag
nostic Center at Jackson.
Lt. Jack Goff testified Wednesday in
a federal court hearing on the suit that
no action was taken on a May 1975
report claiming that a number of men
were in the section without sufficient
justification.
(Continued on page two.)