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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
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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
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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.
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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?”
