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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1977)
Sheriff forms drug squad «B r Hr ’•B •■fcjtfk. ’ % < K WHlftihiii iiil ■■ J*V xJ - -7.2BiiiiiiiMMßr — .2**wRHR, - ■ 1 IWtok ■ wk W a 4? v-- • Z1 r "S K Bi F S ■l||M' -.JBBK ■ —• •'■■■-'■ - •'■■ • -»' ■ ]r .J!PWBJ|BWPj ' * .■- t A \ Softball game at Dundee park, one of many activities which the Recreation Department coordinates. Plenty to do in warm weather / More and more people have leisure /time and more and more of them are spending it participating in programs sponsored or coordinated by the Griffin Recreation Department. “We are serving more people than we have ever served before,” Larry Neill, director of the Recreation Department, said. Neill said the future is bright for recreation programs. “We will serve as many people as possible for each activity,” he said. Recently, sign-ups for a night ceramics program had to be curtailed because of a lack of space. More than 100 people had signed up. “We just did not have enough chairs for more,” Neill said. The ceramics program is indicative of the participation in other recreation activities. More than 2,000 people are participating in organized ball programs this spring. There are 133 teams in the Tee League, Little League, Babe Ruth League and softball program. Neill said there has been an increased in participation in almost all of the leagues this year. “If we have 500 people to sign up for one of these programs, we will try our best to place each one on a team. They Gordon marks 125th year with student center opening Chancellor George Simpson of the University System of Georgia was among the educators on hand Sunday for the ribbon cutting which opened the new Student Center at Gordon Junior College in Barnesville. Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Williamson were hosts for the open house affair all after noon. Dr. Williamson is president. Visitors packed the auditorium in the new facility for the ceremony. Hundreds of visitors milled about the campus in a bright May day sunshine to DAI NEWS Daily Since 1872 might not get to play as much as they would on smaller teams, but they will get to play,” he said. Neill said participation had increased in other seasonal activities such as football, volleyball, basketball, and non-athletic activities. Some of the programs continue year round. Ceramics is one of these. Health Classes for men is another. The facilities of the Recreation Department are being used more than ever before, Neill said. He said there were so many organized activities there was no time for unorganized activities. “I would like to have it so a man could come out and shoot a few baskets (basketball) with his son if he desired. But, the way we are now, we are using both of our gyms and some of the facilities of the school system,” Neill said. Neill said the Recreation Department has a good working relationship with the school system. “We use their gyms for basketball and they use our facilities for some of their ball games (baseball.” Some of the programs Neill would like to see in the near future and some that have been requested most are track, soccer, wrestling and enjoy band concerts and other activities. Ice cream, cake, cookies, soft drinks and other refreshments were served visitors during the afternoon. A huge cake marked the 125th anniversary of the institution which was Gordon Military College before it became a junior college a few years ago. Many Griffinites were among the visitors to the campus during the afternoon. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, May 2,1977 gymnastics. Neill said revenue was the big problem in implementing the new programs. Gymnastic equipment is expensive and it would take a lot of money to equip a room properly, Neill said. “All of the programs suggested to us will be given consideration before the next budget year. This does not mean the programs will be included in the budget,” he said. In addition to the organized programs, the department helps' coordinate many activities conducted at the park. These include Kennel Club Dog Show, Special Olympics, the Griffin Old Car Club Show in the spring, the July 4 Celebration sponsored by the Jaycees and others. The new recreation complex at Fairmont Park is expected to be an aid in relieving pressure at the Griffin Recreation Center. “This is the first center that will be built as a city-county effort. The Griffin Recreation Center was built by a private corporation and leased to the city until the note was paid. The center at Patrick Park was built by the Griffin American Business Club. Neill said the facilities at Patrick Park would have been impossible Building permits soar The Spalding County Building Inspections Department issued permits for the largest dollar amount in a single month in April. The total valuation of the 98 permits was $2,226,910. The only other month in which the valuation has topped $2 million was June of 1971 when the total was $2,069,000. Permits issued in March by the Spalding County department totaled $1,314,524. The city of Griffin Building Inspec tions Department issued permits in April with a total valuation of $727,608. The permits issued by the county without the cooperation of the American Business Club and Dundee Mills. Also, another parcel of property was made available by Dundee for recreation. When completed, he believes the facilities at Fairmont will be used as much as the facilities at the City Park. Participation is up on the golf course, Neill said. The 18-hole course at city park is operated by the Recreation Department. Neill believes more land will be needed in the future to serve the people of the city and county. “More people are coming into the county and I believe more of them would participate in recreation activities if they were nearer a facility,” Neill said. “I would like to see any new subdivisions be required to set aside a certain amount of land of recreation facilities,” he said. He admitted it was almost an impossibility to expect a developer to give up part of his land for recreation. As more and more people move into Griffin and Spalding, Larry Neill and the staff of the Griffin Recreation Department work harder to serve them better. included one for $568,369 for the con struction of the youth detention center at Williamson Road and the Griffin- Barnesville By-Pass. A permit for $104,000 was issued for the construction of a Masonic Lodge on U. S. 19 south of Griffin. Permits for 38 single family residences totaled $1,258,300; 27 mobile home permits, $154,100 ; 26 additions to homes, $59,250; 4 pools, $20,891; and an addition to the Red Oak United Methodist Church, $62,000. The city permits included one for SIBO,OOO to Otis Blake for construction of the Sambo’s Restaurant at 1000 West Taylor street, site of the old Randall Vol. 105 No. 103 Two Spalding Sheriff’s officers have been assigned to work full time with a newly created county Drug Investigative Division. They are Sgt. David Head who has been in the detective division and Deputy Lee Oxford who was transferred from the Uniform Patrol Division. Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert took the action upon a recommendation by a special called session of the Spalding County Grand Jury. It found that Griffin was an area center for drug traffic. The new division went into operation Sunday. No extra money has been appropriated for the project. Sheriff Gilbert said one patrol shift will be one man short and other areas in his department will be operated on less funds. He said the unit can continue for the remainder of the year but will have no money for next year’s operations. County Commission Chairman P. W. Hamil said the county will try to work something out when the new budget is considered in December. Hamil said the county is doing all it can to cooperate and realizes the drug division must continue into the next fiscal year. Oxford will work under Sgt. Head. Head has been extensively trained in drug enforcement. He spent 3 months in a Washington, D. C. school under the Drug Enforcement Administration. Oxford will be trained on the job and will attend GBI drug squad schools within the next few weeks. The 2 men will be available to fight drugs 24 hours a day. They hope to cooperate with the city’s drug division to reduce the problem in both Griffin and Spalding County, Gilbert said. Effective May 15, Deputy Rollin Busbin will be transferred from the Uniform Patrol Division to the Final meet on schools The fourth and final in a series on school needs in the Griffin-Spalding School System will be held tonight at Jackson Road elementary school beginning at 7:30. School board members and other officials will outline a bond issue proposal and answer questions about it. The public is invited. People ...and things Old timer fondly looking at old model on display at antique car show here and recalling, “I remember when it came out.” Tiny little girl at open house on Gordon Campus, holding Gordon balloon in one hand and ice cream in the other, enjoying the afternoon. Girl dispatcher at Griffin State Patrol post smiling, “We’ve had no accidents since last Friday.” and Blakely building. Other permits issued in the city in cluded: 2 for new single family residences, $130,000; 2 new com mercial, $202,500; 43 additions to homes, $52,436; 19 additions to com mercial establishments, $326,210 ; 3 additions tb churches, $2,490; 3 utility buildings, $3,150; 1 pool, $3,532; 7 signs, $7,290. Recently, building inspectors for the city and county said they expected 1977 to be one of the best building years in the history of the building inspections departments. They said indications are that the trend begun in March and April will carry through the year. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA— Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with chance of showers. Low tonight around 60 and high Tuesday in upper 70s. LOCAL WEATHER—High at Spalding Forestry Unit Sunday 78, low this morning 61. Investigative Division to replace Head. He will work under Detective Sgt. Larry Campbell. Both men will be enrolled in advanced schools on law enforcement as soon as possible, Sheriff Gilbert said. Nixon scandal revived NEW YORK (AP) - One thousand days after his resignation, Richard M. Nixon, Watergate and secret tapes are before the American public again for a revival of yesterday’s scandals. Transcripts of unpublished tapes, showing Nixon’s involvement in the scandal and in hush money payments earlier than was known before, blos somed Sunday in two leading newspapers and two weekly news magazines. The new accounts added only small pebbles to the Watergate rockslide that forced Nixon’s resignation in August 1974. But they served to focus interest in his first television interview on the subject since then. The interview, paid-for and con ducted by television personality David Frost, airs Wednesday over 145 stations. Nixon reportedly received $600,000 plus a share of the profits for his participation. The same tape transcripts that surfaced in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time and Newsweek magazines were used by Frost when the interviews were taped last month in California. Nixon expressed surprise that Frost had them. “It hasn’t been published yet?” Nixon asked when Frost quoted from one taped conversation. “No,” Frost replies. “I think it’s available to anybody who consults the records.” Time magazine, in a lengthy account of the nearly 29 hours Nixon answered Frost’s questions, quotes the former President as saying his immediate actions after the burglary June 17,1972, at the Watergate offices of the Democratic party were designed “not to try to cover up a criminal action” but to contain the scandal for political reasons. “We weren’t going to allow people in the White House, people in the (re election) committee at the highest levels who were not involved to be smeared by the whole thing,” Nixon is quoted. Time concedes “some brief crucial moments of this taping have been kept in strictest secrecy by Frost.” Indeed, one question surely asked — why Nixon didn’t destroy those damaging tapes — is mentioned nowhere in the magazine’s account. The Country Parson by Frank Clark 111 “A good sermon tells you how your neighbors ought to behave.”
