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happening
Meeting
The annual spring meeting of the
Citizens Improvement League will be
held Sunday at 8 p.m. at Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. The Rev. Julian C.
Hope of Macon will be the guest
speaker.
Women’s day
The Trinity CME Church will have
Women’s Day Sunday at the 11 a.m.
worship. The Rev. C.E.F. Hester is
pastor.
Revival
Revival services will begin Sunday at
the Union Baptist Church Route 6,
Sunday and continue through
Thursday. The evangelist will be Keith
Fordham. The church is at Jackson and
Jenkinsburg roads. The pastor is the
Rev. Mike Pinson. Services Sunday will
be at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Evening
services next will begin at 7:30.
VFW
The regular March meeting of the
VFW and Auxiliary will be held
Monday night. Supper will be served at
7:30 p.m.
Singing
A singing will be held at Pleasant Hill
United Methodist Church tonight,
beginning at 7 p.m., and featuring the
“Manna Singers” of Griffin.
Girl Scouts pushing
for camp trip money
Girl Scout Cadett Troop 128
has begun planning for a trip
this August to Ten Sleep, Wyo.
The cross country camping
trip is expected to cost around
12,200 and the Orrs students will
kick off their fund raising on
April 9.
They will be selling cakes and
bake items at Rose’s April 9 as
their first project.
The girls plan to take the five
day trip a few hundred miles a
day on the Girl Scout bus. They
plan to spend five days camping
on the very harsh terrain and
will try to make the return trip
in an additional five days.
The Girls are already some
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Troop leaders, Mrs. Kay
Vines and Mrs. Rosalind Evans,
do not plan to request the
balance of the money from the
parents of the girls.
They want the girls to work to
raise the money and learn from
the experience.
The girls have adopted a
variation of a perennial theme,
“Wyoming or Bust”, and plan to
post it whenever and whereever
they put on a fund raising drive.
They plan to man the Coke
wagon May 7 at the Art
Festival.
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Griffin High School Governor’s Honors Program candidates are: (clockwise) Austin
Raunikar, Mark Henshaw, Janet Drake, Libby Pierce, and Nonna Jones.
Griffin High has 5 finalists
in Governor’s Honors program
Five Griffin High School
students have been selected as
finalists for the 1977 Governor’s
Honor Program.
Principal Tascar Williams
has been notified by the State
Department of Education those
eligible to participate in the
program.
Students selected to
Speaker
Fred Stewart, president of
Southern Graphic Arts of
Vidalia, talked about Georgia
economic education programs
during the Junior Achievement
Advisers Appreciation dinner at
Holiday Inn in Griffin. The
graphic arts unit is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Piggly
Wiggly South. The supermarket
which has a store in Griffin has
been active in promoting the
free enterprise concept In
Georgia.
Rock-a-thon
seeks money
for missions
Some 15 to 20 young people
were conducting a rock-a-thon
at the DeVotie Baptist Church
today to raise money for home
missions.
They got pledges from adults
for the number of hours they
would spend in the rock-a-thon.
Money raised will go to the
Annie Armstrong home
missions program.
Showtime
Friday & Saturday
7:22 & 9:00 P.M.
Sunday 4:06,5:44,7-?2&9:00
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“Revenge of
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participate in the seven weeks
of study and their fields are:
Janet Drake, social science;
Mark Henshaw, math; Norma
Jones, music; Libby Price,
drama; and Austin Rauniker,
social science.
Anne Barker and Mary Jo
Darsey, both in social science,
have been selected as
Cecil Davis, Jr. gets
academy appointment
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr.
announced that Cecil Lamar
Davis, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil L. Davis of Griffin, has
been appointed to the United
States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Md.
A senior at Griffin High
School, Davis has maintained
an outstanding academic
record and is an active
participant in extra-curricular
activities at Griffin High
School. He has served as
president of the student body at
Griffin High School and
Mike Warnke
will speak
here Sunday
Mike Warnke who calls
himself an ex-Satanist high
priest will speak at the First
Assembly of God Church
Sunday at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
He has been recorded and
published and delivers a
message to young people. He
says he helps Christians to learn
to laugh.
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Nursery
Griffin Barnesville By-Pass
Open Friday - Mar. 25
• Bedding Plants
• Potting Plants
• Hanging Baskets
• Vegetable Plants
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alternates.
These students are among 600
high schoolers in the state who
will study this summer at
Wesleyan College in Macon.
They are local winners from
among 62 applicants. Os the 62
local applicants, 15 were taken
to Macon for the semifinals.
president of the Explorer Post.
During his sophomore year,
he was awarded the John J.
Flynt, Jr. History Award for the
best all round student in history
in the Sixth District of Georgia.
He is also a member of the
Interact Club.
Davis has been an active
participant of the Griffin Swim
Club and of the Griffin High
School swim team.
He will report to the Naval
Academy in June.
Computer
tripped him
The Griffin State Patrol unit
here turned over Roger Hicks,
Jr. Friday to the Griffin Police
Department.
Hicks, an Atlantan, went to
the Griffin Post for a driver’s
license. After a routine check by
computer, it was found that he
was wanted on a battery charge
and was out of jail on $4,000 bail.
Hicks was turned over to
Griffin Officer Roy Williams.
He was released to an Atlanta
bondsman.
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Deaths -F unerals
Mr. E’Dalgo
Mr. Dewey Turner E’Dalgo of
217 West Vineyard road died
Friday at the Floyd County
Hospital in Rome. He was a
native of Henry County but
made his home in Griffin for the
past 5 years.
Mr. E’Dalgo was a member of
the Bible Baptist Church in
Atlanta. He was also a retired
asbestos worker.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Alice Jerldine E’Dalgo of
Griffin; 3 daughters, Mrs. Jerry
Breedlove of Woodland Hills,
Calif.; Mrs. Brenda Benefield of
Covington; and Mrs. Vicky
Young of Griffin; 4 sons, Billy
E’Dalgo of Blue Ridge; Carlton
E’Dalgo of Griffin; Danny
E’Dalgo of Forest Park and
Glenn E’Dalgo of College Park;
4 sisters: Mrs. Eva Harrison of
East Point; Mrs. Elon Capps of
Atlanta; Mrs. Nita Robertson of
Hapeville; and Mrs. Pearl
Putnal of Bethesda, Md.;
brother, Don E’Dalgo of East
Point. 15 grandchildren and one
great grandson.
The funeral will be Sunday at
2 p.m. from the Demascus
Christian Church with the Rev.
Dan Entwistle officiating.
Burial will be in the County
Line Baptist Cemetery in
Jenkinsburg.
The body will lie in state at
the church from 1:30 until the
funeral.
Pittman-Rawls Funeral
Home is in charge.
Mrs. Evans
The funeral for Mrs. Bernice
Watson Evans was held this
morning at 11 o’clock at
Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home.
The Rev. Warren Bedingfield
officiated. Burial was in Oak
Hill cemetery.
Survivors included his
brother, Lester Watson of
Griffin, 3 sisters-in-law, Mrs.
Elbert Sears and Mrs. Luther
Watson, both of Griffin, Mrs.
Frances Watson of Atlanta;
brother-in-law, Millard Jones of
Mableton, nieces and nephews.
Mr. Beatty
Graveside services are
scheduled Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
in Oak Hill Cemetery for Mr.
Joe M. Beatty of Tallahassee,
Fla.
McDonald Funeral Home is in
charge.
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Mr. Williamson
Mr. Joe D. Williamson, Sr. of
438 North Eighth street died
Friday at the Living Center
after a short illness.
He was a native of Pike
County where he operated the
Williamson Grocery Store.
Mr. Williamson is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Lula Pruitt
Williamson; a daughter, Mrs.
Rosa Lee Jones of Griffin, 3
sons, J.D. Williamson, Jr., Guy
Williamson and Ronald S.
Williamson all of Griffin; a
sister, Mrs. Willie Howard of
Griffin, 11 grandchildren and 2
great grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m.
Sunday in Haisten’s Funeral
Chapel. The Rev. Walter Pettitt
and Rev. 'Warren Bedingfield
will officiate. Burial will be in
Griffin Memorial Gardens.
Haisten’s Funeral Home is in
charge.
Mr. Turner
Mr. George Mallory Turner, a
former resident of Concord,
died Friday in Hedgeville, W.V.
Mr. Turner is survived by 3
sisters; Mrs. Carl O’Dell of
Griffin; Mrs. Irene Duckworth
of Zebulon; and Mrs. Mattie
Turner of Baltimore, Md.
The funeral will be Sunday in
Hedgeville, W.Va.
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Bus Ministry Specialized Training Courses
Children’s Churches Choirs for all Ages
Kindergarten Youth Activities
Bible Study Mission Organizations
Organized Recreation
Family Night Supper
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Outreach & Homebound Visitation
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Hugh Canterbury Steve Galyon
Music-Education Activities - Youth
Mr. Woodley
Mr. Stanley Woodley of 217
Hipps street S.W., Atlanta died
unexpectedly Thursday.
Mr. Woodley is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Hester Woodley.
Griffin relatives include 2
sisters, Mrs. Inez Roberts and
Mrs. James Widmon, both of
Griffin.
The funeral will be Sunday at
1 p.m. at the Free For All
Methodist Church at 3835
Gilbert road in Atlanta.
The cortege will assemble at
11:30 a.m. on Sunday at Mr.
Woodley’s residence.
Collier Funeral Home of
Fayetteville is in charge.
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