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David Huey of Griffin fishes in the spillway at the city water reservoir. Heavy
rains here Wednesday raised the level at the reservoir and the spillway. Huey
said he thought the high water made the spillway fishing better, especially for
crappie.
Busbee vetoes
oil, loan bills
ATLANTA (AP) — Declaring it not in
the best interest of Georgians, Gov.
George Busbee vetoed a bill today that
would have made it more difficult to
penalize small loan companies for
overcharging their customers.
Busbee also vetoed a bill that would
have prohibited oil companies to have
some hours of operation requirements
in lease contracts signed by service sta
tion operators.
The small loan company measure
would have amended current law to
require that borrowers prove they had
been cheated intentionally before they
could require loan companies to cancel
repayment of their loan.
The present law says that if the loan
company makes an error it must forfeit
both the interest and principal of the
loan.
The law affects only those companies
operating under the industrial loan act
—a law passed decades ago and de
signed to provide money for persons
considered credit risks. The firms could
charge the highest legal interest rates.
“I have decided that it would be in the
best interest of Georgians, who find it
necessary from time to time to borrow
from small loan companies, to veto this
bill as being so vague as to give a
dangerous degree of latitude to the
lender,” Busbee said in a news con
ference.
He said the ‘‘honest majority of small
lenders do not need this legislation
because they are not violating the in
dustrial loan act.”
He said the measure would have
placed an “almost impossible burden of
proof ... on the borrower, who is the
victim of a violation.
“The borrower ... would have to
prove that the lender actually intended
to steal. The question which arises is:
How can the borrower possibly prove
that the lender actually knew that he
was breaking the law?”
The other vetoed bill amended the
The Country Parson
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“A fellow isn’t free if he’s a
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GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
state’s gasoline marketing practices
act to prohibit oil companies from
requiring in their lease contracts that
service stations must operate 24 hours a
day or seven days a week.
Busbee said the measure did not
serve the public convenience and did
not encourage free enterprise.
On another matter, Busbee said he
learned last week that Georgia was not
among the finalists under consideration
for the site of the nation’s first solar
energy research institute —a facility
the state was avidly seeking.
Federal officials decided to locate the
center on a Colorado mountaintop.
Busbee suggested last week that the
state’s failure to gain the project was
due to reverse discrimination by the
Carter administration which feared po
litical repurcussions should the center
be placed in the President’s home state.
Bingo
The legalization of bingo in Georgia
has affected many people in one way or
the other. People in Griffin and the area
have been caught up in this new era of
legal bingo.
Some folks have taken a stand
against the “amoral wagering” while
others have found themselves being
drawn into an ever-growing group of
“circuit riders” which makes its
weekly rounds from one game to the
next.
Then there is the occasional player
who must satisfy his curiosity about the
magic of the small numbered cards.
Whether an avid player or a curious
first timer, once inside the doors,
everyone becomes a part of the
atmosphere of excitement.
The newcomers are easy to pick out.
They’re the ones with one to three cards
in front of them. The real bingo nuts are
the ones with up to 16 or 20 cards
precisely placed before them.
As the caller begins the first game, a
hush sweeps the room. That’s when all,
new and veteran players become one in
a mass of intense searching and
concentration.
As each number is called, tension
builds.
Then that critical point comes when
players, who need just one more
number, glance around and discover
that their neighbors are in the same fix.
Bingo!
The tension is gone with the single
word. The relaxed conversation of
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, March 31,1977
Many make circuit
now that it’s legal
Coffee prices
percolating
higher, higher
CINCINNATI (AP) - Folger Coffee
Co. has increased its wholesale coffee
price by 25 cents to $4.43 for a pound of
ground coffee, but consumers may not
feel the effect immediately.
Folger, the nation’s second largest
roaster, blamed the increase Wed
nesday on the continuing rise in the
price of green coffee beans, now more
than $3 a pound, about $2 higher than a
year ago.
The increase was Folger’s fourth this
year, for a total hike of $1.35 a pound.
The price hike may not be felt im
mediately, however. It can take as long
as several months, depending on the
individual grocer’s pricing policy and
inventory level, before wholesale price
increases cause retail prices to rise.
Many grocers choose to sell coffee as
a “loss leader” priced at or below cost
to attract customers into the store.
released pressure fills the room along
with exclamations of frustration.
After the winner collects his bounty,
the scene begins again and repeats
itself. But the newness of it all never
dies.
“I love to push the cards,” one
veteran player said. “I play 12 cards at
once and I win just about every time I
go.”
She recently won S4OO playing regular
bingo.
The really avid players will always
be found with plans for every
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. It’s bingo at the Griffin
Moose Club on Wednesday, at the Elks
Club on Thursday, at the VFW Club on
Friday and back at the Moose Club on
Saturday.
The Moose Club in Barnesville also
attracts many from the Griffin area.
Mike Gaddy of West Poplar street
plays with nine to 16 cards before him.
“It’s not easy to play so many cards
at one time,” he said. “You have to
hustle.”
Gaddy recently won S9B at the Moose
Club in Barnesville. He makes the
rounds regularly.
Mrs. Ruby Penn of Hammond drive,
said, “It gives me something to do. I’m
a widow and I can play and enjoy the
company of my friends and get home
before dark.”
Mrs. Penn’s high winning was at the
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State Moose meet
opens here Friday
Hundreds of visitors began arriving
this afternoon for the three-day Georgia
Moose Association’s mid-year
conference in Griffin.
Motels have been booked here for
weeks in preparation for the meeting.
Some guests had to take
accommodations in Hampton, Atlanta
and other cities in the area.
The conference will get under way
tonight with a special class enrollment
in honor of Phillip R. Mores, general
governor.
The session will begin at 7:30.
The Women of the Moose will
inaugurate its 3-day conference Friday
afternoon with a full schedule of events,
starting at 3 o’clock. Deputy Supreme
Grand Regent Mae McKenzie will
preside. Grand Chancellor Kay Cancie
Bingo action (1-r) game near
end, Mrs. Becky Hill with
winning card at Moose Club;
Doug Whitaker calls game at
Elks as Ed Crawford assists;
bottom, Mr. and Mrs. William
Patrick at Moose Club.
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Vol. 105 No. 76
Damage light
in wind, rain
A rain and wind storm swept through
the Bucksnort road area near the
Spalding-Butts County line early
Wednesday afternoon, uprooting trees
and extensively damaging wooded
areas. Apparently no one was injured.
A carport at the J.D. Huggins home
on High Falls road was lifted up and
carried over the house and landed in the
front yard.
The storm left a wide path of large
uprooted trees at the Abner Caldwell
farm.
“It was awful...more than my ears
could stand,” said Mrs. Huggins.
Even though the damage to their
home would amount to several
thousand dollars, Mrs. Huggins said
she and her husband were lucky
because a car and truck parked next to
the carport were not touched. Neither
was an electric power line above the
carport roof, she said.
The carport measured about 15 x 28
feet and was scattered over her front
yard this morning, she added.
She said a large tree, about 100 years
old, fell on top of a car at a neighboring
house occupied by a Clements family.
of Moosehart will hold a questions and
answers’ period. Mrs. Eleanor
Kapiloff, Graduate Junior Regent of
Griffin will give the address of
welcome.
Saturday will be a busy day for the
women as they are scheduled to meet at
10 a.m. and 1:30 and conclude by
attending the annual Deputy Supreme
Governor’s Ball with the men at 8
o’clock. James Chappell of Griffin is
the Deputy Supreme Governor.
Sunday, the women will convene at
V.F.W. Club for their final meeting at
10 a.m.. Senior Regent Frances Gaddy
of Griffin will give the combined
conference and Friendship report.
Motels in the city have been sold out
and many have been forced to accept
reservations in Hampton and Atlanta.
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Weather
FORECAST: Fair tonight with a low
in upper 40s. Increasing cloudiness
Friday with a chance of showers by
afternoon.
“I thought I was gone. My house just
cracked. It didn’t last long, but I
expected to go away with the house any
second,” said Mrs. Sally Manley who
lives on a dirt road off Bucksnort road.
She said her road was blocked by
fallen trees which had to be cleared
before the school bus could pass.
“Terrible”, was Mrs. Abner
Caldwell’s comment.
The storm left a path of downed trees
through their cattle farm. Her husband
was out surveying the damage this
morning and hopefully no cattle were
harmed, she said.
Huge trees on both sides of the road
were uprooted, she said.
Also a bam roof was blown off on a
Butts County farm.
Mrs. Ted Meza of Mez-Art Studios
said there was no damage at the studio.
She was going to inspect the land this
morning, she said.
Most Georgians can look forward to a
letup in the persistent rains that
drenched the state for two days, the
National Weather Service says.
The weather service forecast partly
cloudy skies with thundershowers
ending today throughout the state.
All severe weather watches and
warnings had expired by late Wed
nesday evening.
Early Wednesday, a severe weather
system bringing thunderstorms caused
a flash flood warning for most of north
Georgia and a tornado watch for 23
west Georgia counties.
People
...and things
Housekeeping staff member at
Griffin-Spalding Hospital mopping
front steps of building in rain.
Nervous father-to-be waiting at
admissions office filling out forms
while nurses attend to wife on third
floor.
Friends visiting with each other in
tag line at courthouse.
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