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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1977)
Where are the grads going?. Sampling shows most will continue their educations in college, technical schools, or armed forces. Formal learning won’t end after graduation for most Griffin High School seniors this spring. Most of them plan to continue their education in colleges, universities or other levels. Some will enter college right away while others plan to join the armed forces where educational opportunities will be offered to them. In a random sampling, the Griffin Daily News interviewed some seniors and asked them what they wanted to do after graduation. Here are the directions some of them will take: JULIA BOSWELL is going to Gordon Junior College to help her decide just what she wants to do as a career. She completed all requirements for graduation from Griffin High in middle March. Julia says the full load she is taking at Gordon will give her a head start on College credit. She plans to enter David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tenn, in Grand jury opens drug abuse probe **• I | f I '• — ) v . 'J A If 1 .B w- ■ *=t / p tM < ♦ jjg* / ■ A p . . ' , !-'■£■ * ' : is&vk *4- 4|BR r TMMfl*Bs<*difl # ■'• ii {••«« _dVSr~-‘at *U ■■•SaP JS» j b-~ Ww= ■ V ■’- * # fe 1 LL vM Rr X . n fl m£>- ' *' - Z.tjtf. I AiA ■flP r iBBuL / / • < X / JB v - Looking for dishes ‘All we have left is what we’re wearing’ By The Associated Press “All we have left is what we’re wearing,” said Steve Kulikowski, one of more than 130 persons who lost homes this weekend as tornados hit four Lower Michigan counties. State and municipal officials estimated damage from the storms at more than $2.5 million. Kulikowski, 26, like many others, lost home and possessions Saturday when a tornado roared through the Kalamazoo County farming community of Augusta. Damage in Augusta alone was estimated at over $1 million. “We’d just spent all our money on buying food,” he said. “And now the refrigerator’s gone.” The heaviest damage was reported in Kalamazoo and Eaton counties. Lesser damage also occurred in Livingston and Oakland counties, authorities said. The twisters were blamed for the death of one child and injuries to at least 44 other persons. A second death was blamed indirectly on the storm — Donald Merritt, 43, of Eaton Rapids, was electrocuted Sunday as he cleaned HHHHMBLc. Brian Votaw the fall. Julia, the number one ranked Griffin High senior, hasn’t decided exactly what she wants as a career. She says she really likes the sciences and most likely whatever she decides will lean toward the sciences. Julia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Boswell of 1125 Skyline drive in Griffin. GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 up debris. Law enforcement officials Sunday issued passes to residents and attempted to keep out all but emergency workers because curious motorists hampered cleanup work in a few areas. Crews from Consumers Power Co. said they were unable to reach some downed power lines because traffic blocked roads. Sheriff Art Kelsey said damage in Eaton County was expected to total more than $1.5 million. Bus passenger thought hijacker would shoot JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A teen-age passenger on a hijacked bus said accused kidnaper Ronnie Thomas Nance declared her his special hostage and hugged and kissed her while holding 38 passengers and the driver at gunpoint. “He dangled the gun in front of me,” Chris Corbett, 18, of Toronto, Ont., said after the trouble Sunday on a Connie Blalock JANICE MCGHEE will be the first in her family to go to college. She plans to enroll at all-female Spelman College in Atlanta on a cooperative basis with Georgia Tech. Janice says she will work toward a dual degree from the two schools over a period of five years to become an engineer. She said she became interested in engineering following a Minority Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, April 4,1977 AUGUSTA, Mich.—Sallie Jones collects some of her dishes Sunday morning from her destroyed home in Augusta. She survived a tornado Saturday afternoon when she rushed to the basement of her home. About 100 dwellings were damaged with 13 houses and 9 mobile home destroyed, he said. The lone fatality in Saturday’s tornados was Jason McKenzie, 5, of Flint, a passenger in a truck swept from Interstate 69 near Charlotte. The boy’s father, Gary McKenzie Sr., and younger brother, Ryan, 3, remained hospitalized Sunday in serious condition. One twister touched down near Olivet and swept northeast toward Charlotte, Greyhound bus. “I thought he was going to shoot me. “He said I was pretty. He put his arm around me and kissed me and said he was going to take me as his hostage,” Miss Corbett said. “He was ugly, the horriblest man I ever met.” She said that at one point Nance, 28, of Winter Garden, Fla., pointed the gun at a little boy. roli 1 Donna Sellers - . ■IFUI XL * *%’ "V Michael Gray Introduction to Engineering (MIE) seminar she attended last summer at Georgia Tech. Janice is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McGhee of 1313 Spellman avenue in Griffin. TIM BURKE enjoys playing chess and puzzle type games. He says that mathematics definitely figure in his future plans for furthering his • Vol. 105 No. 79 cutting a path about a city block wide for five miles and lifting cars from highways and dumping them by the roadside. When the tornado hit, Charles Schombs of Olivet was driving alongside U.S. 27. “I felt like I was inside a pinball machine,” said Schombs. “I couldn’t tell whether I was driving a car or being pushed around.” Schombs and his car wound up in a field. He was not injured. “The mother of the little boy was screaming T don’t want my baby killed’ and he shot over her head,” Miss Corbett said. Neither the bus driver nor any of the passengers was injured during the 2*6 hours they were held by the gunman as the Orlando-to-Toronto bus traveled along U.S. 1, authorities said. Nance was charged with 39 counts of ■ vWW \ Julia Boswell education. The Griffin High School STAR Student and perfect score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) mathematics section, wants to take Pre-Med studies. Tim says he also plans to stay in Georgia perhaps to return to Griffin to eventually work. He just can’t really get figures totally out of his future so he has an alternate The Spalding Superior Court Grand Jury was called into a special session this morning to discuss Griffin’s drug problem and to try to see what can be done about it. Five city and county leaders have been subpoenaed. They are Griffin Mayor Raymond Head, City Manager Roy Inman, Griffin Public Safety Director Leonard Pitts, County Commission Chairman P.W. Hamil and Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert. According to District Atty. Ben Miller, the drug problem in Griffin “is worse than I and a lot of us thought”. Miller said that street talk in Thomaston is that drug users don’t have to go to Atlanta to buy their drugs, they can get them in nearby Griffin. He said he has learned this is also talk in other towns in the Griffin area. Miller said he and a group of concerned Griffinites got together and decided to try to do something. They talked with Judge Andrew Whalen Jr., about calling the grand jury back into session. The worsening drug problem first became apparent with testimony in the Ronald Fouts murder trial, Miller said. “Jody” Gresham, who was accused along with Fouts of murdering Randy Reeves and Stanley Dorsey, testified that he was a drug pusher and user and sometimes made thousands of dollars a month in the business. Reeves was his supplier, Gresham said. According to Mr. Miller, the grand jury will probably finish their talks today. The Country Parson by Frank Clark “Your life can’t go according to plan if you have no plan.” kidnaping. He was overpowered by an FBI agent who had talked his way aboard the bus when police shot out a tire. Nance later told reporters, “I had nothing better to do — seriously.” Undersheriff John Nelson said Nance told the driver, Robbie L. Jones of Savannah, Ga., that he had domestic trouble and wanted to get to Arkansas fast —for reasons he didn’t explain. Rodney Jester choice of becoming an electrical engineer. Tim is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Burke of 1657 Piedmont road in Griffin. MICHAEL GRAY says the determin ing factor in helping him to make a career choice was his chemistry classes at Griffin High. He says he is very much interested in science. Michael plans to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, directing his studies in pre-med courses. He says he chose Morehouse because his father went there. He, however, plans to continue his medical studies at Emory University. Michael has chosen Aerospace or Aeronautical engineering as an alternate career. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gray of 227 Pinetree Circle in Griffin. Continued on page 2. Weather FORECAST: Rain and a few thunderstorms tonight. Rain diminishing Tuesday and turning cooler. EXTENDED FORECAST: Sunny days and cool nights Wednesday through Friday. Warmest day will be Friday. They’ve bloomed last time Experiment Station peach trees which have brightened the area near the North Expressway bridge many years have bloomed for the last time. They’ll be removed and not replaced. The station will keep its peach trees on the Ellis road, however, and continue a curtailed peach program, according to Blake Brantley, director of the Horticulture Department. He pointed out Dr. E. F. Savage, a peach specialist, will reach mandatory retirement age in June. University of Georgia officials will transfer his position to the Tifton Experiment Station. The Georgia Peach Growers Association had requested three positions at the Tifton Station. The retirement of Dr. Savage will leave one person in peach research at the Griffin station, according to Brantley. People ...and things Tag lines “gone with the wind” from Courthouse lobby. People all around town working in their yards between April showers. Children, adults joining church yesterday, Palm Sunday. School needs topic tonight A discussion of school needs will be held tonight at Beaverbrook elementary school beginning at 7:30. A proposed school bond issue will be outlined and citizens will be asked to express their views on needs. Nelson said the incident began when Nance, who boarded the bus in Orlando, pulled the gun about 19 miles south of St. Augustine. “He was asking the driver how to make connections for Arkansas,” said Mary Moore of Clearwater, Fla., a passenger. “The driver asked him very politely not to smoke in that area of the bus.
