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Newspaper Page TextGriffmite’s pilot son survived; Sunny Side woman’s sister aboard Mrs. A. H. Huckaby of 228 East Poplar street, Griffin, today was thankful her son had survived the collision of two big jets on the Canary Islands Sunday. Her son is Capt. Victor F. Grubbs, 56, who was pilot of the Pan Am 747. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lloyd Akin of Sunny People ...and things Four Oriental youngsters having the times of their lives using supermarket shopping cart as a wagon in front of Marion apartments. Blue puptent pitched on front lawn of Ethridge Mill home — another sure sign of spring. Thoughtful person getting out of his car to help legless lad in wheelchair across railroad grade crossing at 13th and Experiment street as busy after noon traffic whirls through area. ‘Miss Lillian’ took guest to air show ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — There were no magic carpets, just modern airplanes in the sky, when Mrs. Lillian Carter at tended an air show with an Arabian prince Sunday. The President’s mother, known as “Miss Lillian,” surprised about 30,000 spectators at the Second Annual Albany Air Show when she appeared ac companied by Prince Faisal Muhammed Al-Saud and his wife Asyia. A squad of airplanes bowed from the sky in honor of Miss Lillian and the royal visitors. The three were also entertained with a special concert by a local drum and bugle corps and given walnut batons, after the batons had been exchanged at 10,000 feet by a sky diving team. Mrs. Carter, who has limited her outside activity after a illness just before Christmas, noted that she had not received this much attention since the election of her son as President. Hunt house ' to go—one . way or other The historic Hunt house at Poplar and , Eighth streets which looks like something out of “Gone With The Wind” will be relocated or torn down. The Griffin*Spalding Historical Society is looking into the possibility of getting it relocated, according to Jake Cheatham, chairman. ♦ The First Baptist Church had decided to construct a chapel on the present site. , First Baptist officials said in view of the fact that the building is a registered historical site, it would be offered to the local historical society to move within ’ 12 months, at no cost to the church. If the historical society is unable to work out a relocation plan, the church ’ will proceed with demolition. Floyd Newton, chairman of the First Baptist planning committee, said it , expects to present a site development plan in the future which would include construction of a chapel where the Hunt home is now. ’ The ante-bellum mansion was the home of Capt. W. J. Kincaid, Confederate veteran who was the first » president of the Kincaid Mills, later to become Dundee Mills. The home was built by W. W. Chapman and Capt. Kincaid bought it later. Mr. Chapman built the house prior to 1845. GRIFFIN DAI LYNEWS Daily Since 1872 Side awaited some word on her sister, Eve Turner Meyer, who was a passenger on one of the ill fated planes. The wife of Capt. Grubbs talked with her husband by telephone after the crash. She and Capt. Grubbs live at Centerport, Long Island, New York. Capt. Grubbs told his wife he was burned about the hands and legs. He related how he had jumped from the cockpit after the crash. Mrs. Huckaby who lives with her sisters, Mrs. Francis Franklin and Mrs. Jo White, was on her way to High Falls State Park Sunday afternoon when she first heard of the crash. She and her sisters were headed there to see about a family cabin. When they heard no New York connection, they were somewhat relieved. But later they learned of the New York connection. Mrs. Huckaby learned her son was involved in the crash when she returned home about 6 p.m. Sunday. Frantic telephone calls finally brought word that her son had survived. Capt. Grubbs grew up in Cordele. He has a brother, Dr. Kenneth Grubbs, who is a dentist in Monroe. Dr. Grubbs grew up in Griffin and attended Griffin High School. Eve Turner Meyer was semi-retired from a Hollywood film career. She had been featured in some of the films her former husband, director Russ Meyer, had made. Mrs. Akin in Sunny Side who is the wife of the mayor, received a telephone call this morning from Pan Am confirming her sister was on the plane. It was not known if she was among the survivors, according to Mrs. Akin. Mrs. Akin said a cousin was certain Eve Turner Meyer was on the plane because she went to the airport to see her off. The former Griffin woman who later had a film career was on her way to join a tour group. Mrs. Akin was sticking close to her telephone in Sunny Side this morning awaiting some word on her sister. The Associated Press Atlanta Bureau said a radio station near the site of the tragedy had a partial list of passengers. The names of Ethel and Simon Meyer were on one of the lists. Mrs. Akin in Sunny Side said she didn’t think the names would be related to that of her sister. x v/z / '&t\r s-yfs >-/} yr I.JR R ■■ sic- ,115 KI *i <m a rSSg, aaflm ' Q| [ < ■ IIS WM ’ It/ «MF ! ' : 0 f ■ ftli' RR J a J kLH I h Will it be ‘Gone With The Wind?’ Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, March 28, 1977 ■» j1 bl* b■ ■ - w : CBU BRBB Debris of engine from crash. Mobley says Tate was the main issue The in-house political struggle to elevate Dr. Horace Tate to executive secretary was the most powerful issue of last week’s Georgia Education Association (GAE) Convention, according to Charles Mobley, Griffin principal and unsuccessful candidate for the association’s president-elect position. Mobley takes an opposing point of view from others who feel collective bargaining was a prime issue during the GAE convention. He lost his race to become president elect to Barbara Muntean, a Clayton County reading teacher. She was in favor of collective bargaining. Mrs. Muntean, however attributed her victory to a coalition of classroom teachers rather than her stand on collective bargaining. Mobley feels her election will further the collective bargaining struggle by which the GAE will function. “I could support collective bargaining if it had the decision or major backing of the educators in the state.” Mobley said. A survey taken during his candidacy indicated the majority of the organization’s members felt that a lack of unity was the major concern of the organization. He said the metropolitan areas need the right to bargain but the rural areas do not want it. The real issue during the convention concerned filling the executive secretary position which will be vacant effective July 1. Dr. Carl Hodges resigned the position in January and Tate supporters feel Tate should succeed him. Dr. Tate is the associate executive secretary of the organization. The confusion comes about as a result Presbyterians give move plan nudge The historic First Presbyterian Church building was on the sales block today. The congregation voted Sunday to proceed with plans for relocating. The congregation purchased some six acres near the East College and U. S. 41 Highway south a few years ago for relocation. Hubert Sullins, chairman of the Building and Planning Council, reported on a recommendation to the congregation Sunday. Frank Tardy of the council gave some additional details on the proposal. After hearing the report, the congregation voted unanimously to proceed to move. The Rev. Forest Traylor, pastor, said some construction could be under‘way as early as mid-summer. The resolution which the congrega tion adopted directed building program officials to proceed with all haste. Architect Bob Cunningham of Atlanta, already has some plans developed. The Rev. Traylor said these have to be finalized as part of the program to relocate. The church has been talking about relocating some 10 years. Vol. 105 No. 73 of the merger of the all-black Georgia Teachers and Education Association with the all-white Georgia Teachers Association. Hodges was elected as executive secretary of the new Georgia Education Association and Tate was elected as associate executive secretary. Mobley feels there was a gentleman type agreement put in at the time of the merger concerning succeeding officers, although there was nothing written concerning it. Mobley feels Tate should not be denied the soon to-be vacated position. “We have to do things that are right and not necessarily those written on paper,” he said. Tate was principal of the old Fairmont High School before merger of Schools in the Griffin-Spalding System. Mobley is principal of Beaverbrook elementary school here. :■$ * rllw-g “,>B WWBagßlgSfM M r $ ■./VB i sill On the sales block. “Thinking is one thing a fellow can do better alone.” SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Officials of the Spanish air ministry said today that at least 559 persons died in the fiery runway collision of two Pan American and KLM jumbo jets prparing to take off from this Atlantic island, it was the worst aviation disaster in history. Ministry officials working at the Santa Cruz airport said there were 80 survivors from the collision of the two Boeing 747’s Sunday afternoon minutes after a heavy fog descended. But these officials said there were a total of 639 passengers and crew members aboard the two planes, while the airlines reported a total of 645 aboard. All the survivors were aboard the American plane. Most of its passengers were from the West Coast of the United States. Both planes were on charter flights, loaded with vacationers. Hospital officials said most of the victims died of bums. Capt. Victor Grubb, the pilot of the Pan American plane, reported from his bed in Santa Cruz General Hospital that he was taxiing slowly down the main runway at the time of the collision. “The crew saw nothing right up to the moment of impact,” Grubb said. The Dutch pilot died in the fiery collision, along with the 238 other persons aboard, KLM said. Most of them were Dutch. Investigators were en route to Tenerife from the United States, the Spanish mainland and the Netherlands to try to determine the cause of the col lision. The U.S. Embassy in Madrid sent an eight-man delegation including a doctor, and three U.S. air Force Cl3O transports were ordered from bases in Spain and West Germany to the Canaries to help move the dead and injured. However, the airport at Santa Cruz was closed by stormy weather today. All flights were landing at Las Palmas, on Grand Canary island, and those who could not wait were taking a 50-mile ferry ride to get to Tenerife. Police and medical workers worked through the storm recovering the shattered remains and trying to identify them. Bodies were being piled in an airport hangar. Pan American said its flight carried 396 persons, including 364 passengers who boarded in Los Angeles, 14 who (Continued on page 2)