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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1977)
A? TCC flr al E * w y W Hw' \ jj ■'J* I *J jWEI Hz '-J > v.D tWF lx '/ x . a / Xi £X\J * xb Er * w F' a I**** I - v *SH Mrs. W. C. Futral shows hand-painted china.... Ex-Griffinites ’ son piloted ill-fated plane 1 Southern Company Services Inc., jet pilot, Thomas R. Taylor 111, who was killed in the crash of a Southern Service corporation jet Thursday is the son of former Griffinites, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Taylor, Jr. . Taylor, 33, and captain-pilot of the jet z was killed with three other Southern Company Services, Inc. employes when the jet in which they were riding exploded in mid-air near McLean, Va. The other three persons killed included two Southern Services 'executives and a Southern Services pilot. The Atlanta-based twin-engine -Beechcraft Hawker crashed in a park in the Washington, D.C. surburb and skidded into a house occupied by a family of six, all of whom escaped injury. Taylor’s father, a retired Southern Services pilot, was enroute to Alaska with his wife, Lenora, and could not be reached until Friday night. Taylor senior, retired in February and now resides in Atlanta. The recent Southern Airline crash that claimed 68 lives in the New Hope crash was his old flight, according to Griffin relatives. Speculation about the possibility of sabotage began after FBI agents were been at the crash site and because the plane exploded in mid-air. A spokesman for the NTSB which is charged with investigating plane crashes, said the preliminary investigation shows no evidence of sabotage. He added it is routine for FBI agents to be at the scene of a crash. The jet which took off from Washington National at 8:40 p.m. Thursday, damaged at least 10 other homes as it fell to the ground. The Country Parson by Frank Clark M!|g “Usually the person who offers to meet you halfway is a poor judge of distance.” GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 * I '* A / ♦'SMk 3 1 ■ . I ?1 ■T- ' ■ f B »W- ■ Wfefc* Ja 1 I 4 I a A 11 V ■NWBMunk K > iOB 1- •r 1 I 1/ 1 SHIA i Kfef I Attorney general wants records open ATLANTA (AP) - Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell says he wants to open more Justice Department records to the public and he considers possible lawsuits after he leaves office all part of the job. He also said Friday that he sym pathizes with FBI agents accused of illegal wiretapping because he feels they believed they were acting in the best interests of the nation although he feels they were misguided and wrong. The Justice Department has no money to help pay their possible legal fees, he said, but he added, “I hate to see public officials lose life’s savings that way.” Talking with reporters after a Law Day speech at Oglethorpe University, Bell said he expected plenty of lawsuits himself after he leaves office. “It’s the price you pay in public of fice, you spend the rest of your life in lawsuits,” he said. He also said he has given a search committee another 30 days to come up with possible candidates for director of the FBI, and he called himself “color blind” in choosing staff members and Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, April 30,1977 Ed Crouch of Crouch’s receives “Boss of the Year” award from Mrs. Sue Ogletree (second from left) chairman of the 10th annual secretary’s luncheon held Friday at the Moose Club. The event is sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Griffin Chamber of Commerce. Looking on Tuberoses From a $1 venture, site became grower Mrs. W. C. Futral took a $1 venture and turned it into the largest business of its kind in the south. Shortly after World War 11, in 1946 as a matter of fact, she purchased a dozen tuberoses for sl. She planted them in her flower garden and soon found she had the whole family involved in the growing of tuberoses on a commercial scale. The flower garden was soon outgrown and the tuberoses were moved to a field near the Futral home on Jackson Road. From the mere beginning of a dozen tuberose bulbs, Mrs. Futral became the 'largest grower of tuberoses in the South. Mrs. Futral found that tuberoses were a flower that she did not know much about. She also found that no one else knew much about them either. She checked with almost everyone she knew about growing tuberoses and ran into dead ends. The horticulturalists at the University of Georgia in Athens did not know about the growing of tuberoses, but were able to help on a Boss of year boasted that he felt the Justice Department “has the most represen tative group of Americans anyone can Nuclear power eyed as solution ATLANTA (AP) — Nuclear power is the key to the energy problem, now and in the future, says a physicist at Emory University. Dr. Peter Fong, assessing the national energy policy at Emory’s Envirofuture 2000: The Impact of Science on the Lives of 21st Century Georgians, said Friday, “coal and oil should be used as material resources only, for instance synthetic fibers, and not be burned up. “Burning coal is as inexcusable as burning a copy of the Gutenburg Bible for heating a cup of tea. To opt for coal power rather than fission power is comparable to offering human sacrifice to please a pagan god. A thousand lives a year are lost mining coal,” he said. are (1-r) Mrs. Gloria Neel, women’s division president; Brenda Biles and Sandra Brantley, secretaries at Crouch’s who nominated their boss. Twenty-five nominations were received. couple of occasions. “It was completely by trial and error,” Mrs. Futral said. Now, land is treated before the buubs are planted and the roses are sprayed regularly to keep the insects away. Each year, the Futrals dig between 100 and 200 bushels of bulbs and store them in the basement. “I found one article in an Atlanta paper that said tuberose bulbs should be stored in a warm place, not lower than 45 degrees,” she said. Ever since, the bulbs have been gathered in the fall and stored on racks in the basement of the Futral home. The most bulbs ever dug was 500 bushels. “When they begin to bloom, my husband, Cliff, and son, Walter Cliff, are out before dawn cutting by car light so we can bundle and pack the tuberoses in five gallon buckets for the wholesellers,” Mrs. Futral said. Her tuberoses were sold to wholesellers in Macon, Atlanta and (Continued on page 2) find.” He added that he has been a bit surprised at the portions of his daily log that have made it into print after he started a policy of making the log public. “I did not know the press would be interested in putting in the paper that I got my hair cut” or that he took a steambath in the FBI gym, Bell said. He said he is thinking about requiring other Justice Department officials to follow his lead in logging their daily activities — at least in contacts outside the department — and making those logs public. He said such a policy would fit the first of his three goals for the depart ment — openness, fundamental fair ness and absolute integrity. “I think you have to go beyond equal protection (of the laws),” he said. “I think you have to go beyond due process in your dealings with other people into something I call fundamental fair ness.” Bell received an honorary doctorate of civil law degree from the college. Vol. 105 No. 102 -a Cl lOfc’ll taHrwit" ■*W | -■ < i aObiml ■ us DM TrfwjOSpl PiSml nK m| j ■ jp. ■lx v jris kv !■! jZ ....and some of the tuberoses she grew Thomaston Mills to create 56 jobs A Thomaston Mills expansion program will create 56 jobs at the mill in Griffin and add three-quarters of a million dollars in payroll. The Thomaston organization also announced pay raises effective July 3 for employees in Griffin and Thomaston amounting to a million and three quarters dollars a year. About a half million will go to employees in the Griffin mill and a million and a quarter to Thomaston employes in that city. Thomaston officials announced the Dundee announces general wage hike J. M. Cheatham, President of Dundee Mills, announced today that employees of Dundee Mills and its affiliated plants will receive a general wage increase to become effective on June 19, 1977. This increase will mark the eleventh general wages increase for Dundee employees in less than 10 years, dating to September 1967. In addition to the Dundee plants located in Griffin, the increase also aoDlies to the Baby Products Division Tax bill would save money for millions WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate passed tax bill would save money for 47 million taxpayers who use the standard deduction and make the task of filling out tax forms a little easier for nearly everyone. “Most people will be able to do their (tax) returns for themselves for a change,” Sen. Russell B. Long, chairman of the Finance Committee, told reporters Friday after the Senate passed the bill. A key part of the bill would simplify tax returns, creating new tax tables that would allow 96 per cent of tax payers to figure their taxes with a min imum of mathematical computations. The 76 per cent expected to take the standard deduction would need no math at all. Weather FORCAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA— Partly cloudy through Sunday with chance of showers, mainly during the afternoons. High Sunday in upper 70s. Low tonight mid 50s. Low in Griffin this morning 56. expansion of production of indigo dyed denim at the Griffin Division with the addition of 160 looms. This new production will create the 56 jobs. Recruiting and training to fill them already is under way. The Thomaston division will supply about 100,000 pounds of yam per week for this program. The product will be finished at the Thomaston division and add about 40 jobs there. Thomaston officials said they expect to increase annual sales by $lO-million and the payroll by three fourths of a million as a result of this expansion. in Oakwood, Ga, Georgia Screen Printers in Newnan, Ga. and Schiffli of Georgia in Manchester. Hundreds expected at Gordon College open house Sunday Hundreds of people are expected to converge on the Gordon campus in Barnesville Sunday when the junior college celebrates its 125th birthday with an open house. The celebration is from 2 to 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Activities include band concerts, campus tours, free door prizes, cake and ice cream, baloons for the kids, a softball game, Sneak preview of “The Music Man,” and ribbon cutting for the new student center. An afternoon of fun and activities fe in store for the entire family. People ...and things Work crews using jackhammers to rip asphalt put down the day before on West Solomon street. Service station employee giving out of gasoline on his way to help another stalled motorist. Youngster to father in store, “Why does it always rain on Saturday?”
