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Friday 13-Watch it! By JULES Loh AP Special Correspondent NEW YORK (AP) - Tomorrow is Friday the Thirteenth. It is the only one in 1977 and, as luck would have it, it falls in May. What could be worse? “Nothing,” Shawn Robbins said, stroking her cat. “But I don’t believe in superstitions. I collect them, I find them fascinating, but I’m not super stitious.” Shawn Robbins can say that. She can spit in tomorrow’s eye because she is a psychic. She knows, in advance, that tomorrow holds no evil for her even though it is a Friday the Thirteenth that falls in May, the direst kind. May 13, as spook specialists such as Shawn Robbins know, is the ancient Roman festival of Lemuria. Woe are us. Lemuria is the dreadful night when the Lemurs, the malevolent souls of the dead, hover about. Placate them. Make them a midnight sacrifice. “Most superstitions have their origins in religion,” Shawn Robbins said. “Others trace back to practical necessities. “Friday the Thirteenth? The 13th .—-• —-•jfc, “—■ J & ■■■ ft 1 /'i ' 1 7 T 1 lw Mih x> * 4 jgkV"\ Nancy duMas is a good listener. She’s patient with patients Comforting an elderly woman whose dentures have been accidentally lost, finding a motel room for the family of an out of state man injured in an auto accident and just plain letting the patients know someone cares are some of the duties of Nancy duMas, patient -epresentative at the Griffin-Spalding hospital. Nancy has worked in the new position ! weeks and is kept busy every minute is more patients hear about her. The program, patterned after similar >nes in Macon, Atlanta and Augusta, oas designed to put patients more at *ase by answering their questions, txplaining hospital routines and irocedures and listening to their comments or complaints. One of the hardest jobs she’s had so ar was trying to console a woman vhose false teeth were accidentally lushed away. The elderly lady was lying in bed, looked up to machines and tubes and ieing fed intravenously when during he night her false teeth became mcomfortable. Since she couldn’t leave ter bed to put them in a holder, she eached over and laid them in a pan on he bedside table. Not wanting anyone to see the teeth itting there in plain view, she covered hem with a tissue. The next morning a nurse’s aide opped a thermometer in the woman’s nouth and before the lady could cream a protest, flushed the pan’s ontents away. apostle at the Last Supper was Judas Iscariot. The next day was Friday. We all know what happened. By the way, did you notice in the da Vinci painting that Judas has knocked over the salt? Interesting.” As for a superstition rooted in necessity, here’s one from Shawn Robbins’s copious collection: A coach whip snake will catch you at night and whip you to death. Tell that to your slave if he is inclined to run away. The superstition about walking under a ladder has elements of both origins. Some say a ladder casts the shadow of a cross. Tread on it at your peril. Others, including Shawn Robbins, say a ladder casts the shadow of a ladder and the only reason for avoiding it is to keep from getting paint-splattered. Shawn Robbins discovered her psychic powers 23 years ago when, as a girl of eight, she foretold her grand mother’s death. A few more accurate predictions and she discovered, as she explained it, that these weren’t just lucky hunches. Over the years she has worked into the major league of psychics, predicting airplane GRIFFIN DAI LY# NEWS Vol. 105 No. 112 To say the least, Nancy said, the lady was very upset. She had never let anyone see her without her teeth and now they were gone forever. Nancy was called to the rescue. “How are you doing?” greeted Nancy. “How would you be doing with no teeth?” the woman lisped. She was too embarrassed to see her friends, Nancy said. The hospital righted the situation by offering to replace the dentures and writing a letter of apology. She also was served food pureed especially for her. (Continued on page 2) They’ll appreciate teachers Friday will be Teacher Appreciation Day at Spalding Junior High School Unit HI. The seventh graders will be helping teachers teach and assisting in the principals’ and counselors’ offices, as well as in the library. There will be decorations in the halls and lounges and on doors and bulletin boards. Food and soft drinks will be served in the teachers’ lounges. A program will be presented over the intercom system. The English department, with the help of the Georgia history department is assuming most of the responsibility. Mrs. Betty Sears is chairman. * Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, May 12,1977 crashes, finding criminals for the New York police, serving as seer in residence for the National Enquirer. She took time out recently — probably knew she wouldn’t be busy — to share some lesser known super stitions from her collection. Take them with a grain of salt. Then toss the salt over your left shoulder. Here they are: Carry a rabbit’s foot tomorrow. Not just any rabbit’s foot. Carry the left hind foot of a rabbit that has run in a graveyard. Don’t get married in May. Wait until June, the month of Juno, patroness of happy marriages. As the Scots have warned us: “From the marriages in May, all the bairns die in decay.” Stay ashore if the old moon is in the lap of the new. That is, when you can see the faint outline of the full moon in the crescent of the new. If none of these omens are what you’re looking for, go see Shawn Robbins for a private reading. It will cost SSO; the psychic business is good. Shawn Robbins doesn’t plan to give it up. Not in the forseeable future. ROTC does it again Griffin High School’s ROTC Unit has earned an Honor Rating with Distinction for the second year in a row, an almost unheard of accomplishment. A cheer went up at the school this morning when cadets learned that the Commanding General of the First ROTC region based at Fort Bragg, N. C>, had notified the unit by phone. Rating with Distinction is limited to the top 20 percent of the units in the nation and seldom if ever before has been awarded to the same school two years in a row. The designation followed annual Federal inspection of the Griffin High unit on April 15. The Senior Instructor at Griffin High is Army Col. Jack L. Stewart, and the ROTC Battalion Commander is Cadet Lt. Col. Craig Bowers. With 419 cadets, the Griffin High unit is one of the three or four largest in America. Last year it was second largest behind Macon. Army Sergeant Major Horace Pearl of the unit said he wished everyone could have heard the cheers at school today when announcement of the achievement was made. People ...and things Young man running downtown fully clothed in winter jogging outfit under hot spring sun. Four high school age girls sitting on lawn at First Baptist Church Wed nesday late in the afternoon enjoying a laugh and canned cola drinks. Little girl tugging at mother’s finger to signal thirst then getting a sip of something cool from thermos bottle during quick stop under tree downtown. The five A-sections, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Sampson and Mrs. Nell Wynne, especially are involved in making the day a success. Each teacher has chosen a student to teach or help teach the class each period. Helping in Principal Laymon Hattaway’s office are Arnold Price, Todd Higgins, Roderick Wimbush, Todd Davis, Shan Robbins and Stacy Driver. Assisting Assistant Principal Tommy McGhee are Marty King, Spencer Miller, Tracy Hodo, Jon Windham, Mitchell Cardell and Todd Bunn. Working with the counselor, Mrs. a /Ji I* ' B* ■W;» • ■ 7- H ’' f yW'Ji ' W s X- lj. mH LtJKXT Shawn Robbins of New York City, a specialist in super- falls in May. What could be worse? “Nothing,” says Miss stitions, balances her cat “Kisser” on her shoulders in her Robbins, who suggests that one should carry a rabbit’s Manhattan apartment. Tomorrow is Friday the Thir- foot tomorrow. (AP) teenth. It is the only one in 1977, as luck would have it, it ft /d > They’re wanted Castro lead third world? WASHINGTON (AP) - Fidel Castro would rather pursue the role of Third World leader, particularly in Africa, than normalize Cuban relations with the United States, according to U.S. intelligence analysts. While continuing to provide some low key support for Latin American leftist guerrillas, the analysts said, Castro will focus much of his future effort in Africa. These were some of the conclusions in a recent U.S. intelligence assessment of Castro’s growing commitments in Africa at a time when U.S. and Cuban diplomats have been moving cautiously toward possible resumption of relations. Intelligence sources report, mean while, that Cuban military advisers have shown up in Ethiopia, the 12th African nation to accept help from Castro. Some eight to 10 Cubans are reported at work as the vanguard of several hundred military men being sent by Castro to help train some 25,000 Ethio pian peasant recruits to fight against Eritrean rebels. Angemette Walker, are Angella Willis, Ginny Dunaway, Kathy Powell, Carla Lewis, Misty Woltman and Louise Mizzell. The attendance counselor, Mrs. Kay James, will be assisted by Tharpe Lokey, Tonga Phillips, Mark Spence, Sherri Floyd, Ellen Reynolds, Sherry Wilson and Tina Tyus. Library assistants helping Mrs. Frances Swantic, librarian, are Jerry Southerland, Ed Henderson, Kim Williamson, Kenya Fortner, Lisa Akins, April Perkins, Kell Smith, Lura Pyle, Beth Davidson, Debbie Carver, Brandy Brickies and Mike Hortman. Daily Since 1872 Lighting cigars with SIOO bills He became suspect INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A man who used SIOO bills to light his cigars while buying rounds of drinks at a suburban tavern is being sought as the master mind of the multimillion-dollar robbery and murder of a reclusive grocery heiress. Authorities say state murder charges and federal fugitive warrants have been issued for Howard Willard, 38, and a woman believed to be traveling with him, Marjorie Pollitt, 48. They are thought to be en route to Daytona Beach, Fla. About $1.6 million was found in the possession of three persons already in custody in the case. Authorities say at least $1.4 million is still missing from the home of Marjorie Jackson, 66, who was found shot to death early Saturday. Lt. Robert Kirkman of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department said one Talmadge divorce may go to jury ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for U. S. Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia have asked the state Supreme Court to reopen his divorce case for a jury trial. Talmadge was granted a divorce from his wife Betty Feb. 17 under the state’s four-year-old “no fault’’ divorce law, which allows a judge to grant a divorce if one party makes certain statements, whether or not the other party contests them. But the state Supreme Court ruled on April 21 that a contested divorce amounts to “an issue of fact,” entitling either party to a jury trial. “They changed the law on us,” said attorney Alex McLennan Wednesday. “Even though my client was granted the judgment, we are the ones seeking this. It suits me to try it before a jury.” Talmadge’s attorneys asked that the divorce decree be vacated and the “issue of the divorce upon the grounds that the marriage was irretrievably broken be tried before a jury....” McLennan said he was seeking the reversal because Mrs. Talmadge has filed a similar petition, and “it will get the matter back into Superior Court quickly....” The senator’s original petition said he Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Fair and cool tonight with lows in the low 50s. Mostly sunny and a little warmer Friday with highs in the low 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 46, high Wednesday 78. of those already arrested told police that Willard got a floor plan of Mrs. Jackson’s house from a man involved in the January theft of $817,000 from her home.B The man, whom Kirkman declined to identify, said the plan to rob the heiress developed after he met Willard at an in ner-city nightclub, Kirkman said. Willard was identified as the man lighting cigars with SIOO bills, buying rounds of drinks and passing out SIOO bills to friends late last week. Mrs. Jackson’s body was found by firemen responding to reports of a fire at her weedchoked, three-acre estate. She had been fatally wounded by a .22- caliber weapon, and detectives believe the fire was set to conceal the crime. Police found more than $5 million in cash still in her house, stuffed in drawers and closets. and Mrs. Talmadge, his wife of 35 years, were separated, that there was no chance of reconciliation and that his wife was not entitled to alimony because her income is greater than his. Mrs. Talmadge denied that the marriage was permanently over, but asked for a jury trial on the issues of alimony and property settlement. A jury trial was denied because, at the time, it was unnecessary under Georgia’s nofault divorce laws. The Country Parson by Frank Clark OO't “Some of us confess our early sins as if we were bragging — not repenting,”
