Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by the 2016 Spalding County SPLOST via the Flint River Regional Library System.
About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1977)
Region champs i I .IM I *ll (■ 1 , d ■ i ~ 1, > I--a r*M'' KI Mi I 111 / II 1 £. Wa 1 ***&& I JSPJf w ~ i‘ ' ,k . 1 PaTRw 4 ■ ' I^A4v &3at i I Is r a l! F&Bu«k '■ i a- I ' \. 'j ’ WBBBSK '„/., IF i ly Secretary Charles Wynne, Administrator Carl Ridley and Chairman O. M. (Pete) Snider of the Hospital Authority. They keep looking to the future, (file photo) Residents of Spalding and 4 surrounding counties may be served by setter health facilities in larger quarters, more physicians and have available to them more services in the lext five years. Carl Ridley, administrator, Griffin- Spalding Hospital, said if the patient xspulation continues to increase at the •ate of the past 6 months, an addition vill be necessary in the next couple of rears. Nixon Ex-president gives self good marks on foreign policy WASHINGTON (AP) - A relaxed tichard Nixon, casting himself as oolly in charge of his own foreign •olicy, says he initiated overtures to Ihina, faced the Russians down in the 973 Middle East war and rescued Egyptian President Anwar Sadat from a coup or worse.” In a taped interview with British elevision personality David Frost, lixon said he had to overcome the eservations of Henry Kissinger to maintain U.S. military operations in :ambodia in 1970, despite dem nstrations at Kent State and other niversities. And, again over Kissinger’s warnings f possible political and diplomatic nplications, Nixon said he ordered the Cidd trial ‘Jimmy didn’t have anything to worry about,’ witness testifies ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man as testified that state Sen. Culver Kidd •Id him convicted drug dealer Hugh owe “Jimmy" Jordan was sure to fare ell in his appeal of the conviction ’cause Kidd had connections on the ate Court of Appeals. James Byron “Pappy” Davis of entre, Ala., testified Thursday in the deral bribery trial of Kidd and lother Alabama man. Jordan, who pleaded guilty to two larges in the bribery case earlier this eek, filed suit against Kidd last year, aiming the senator accepted SIO,OOO to ix” his drug case, then failed to diver. {Jordan was convicted of the drug targes in Dalton, Ga., in 1975; the GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 Ridley said with each addition more and better services are being provided. Several new medical service areas were included in the last addition. The administrator said new physic ians are being attracted to the Griffin area by improved facilities. Currently, a committee composed of three members of the hospital authority and three members of the medical staff is working to get new doctors for Griffin. Pentagon to “send everything that flies” to Israel to help the Jewish state snap back from the 1973 Yom Kippur attack by Egypt and Syria. Thursday night’s telecast over an informal network of 155 television stations was the second of five programs expected to bring Nixon approximately $1 million. Nixon appeared as confident discussing world affairs in Thursday’s taped interview as he had appeared uneasy in dealing with his Watergate downfall in last week’s telecast. Nixon, the only man to resign the presidency, assessed the world leaders he met while president and called Kissinger, who became both secretary of state and national security chief, “a Court of Appeals rejected his appeal and he is serving a 10-year prison sen tence. Kidd, Jordan and Donald E. Gilbreth of Florence, Ala., were indicted by a federal grand jury last year on charges of conspiracy and interstate travel to commit bribery. The indictment says Gilbreth acted as a go-between for the other two men. Davis, named an unindicted co conspirator in the case, testified Thursday that he talked with Kidd in the veteran Milledgeville legislator’s state Capitol office in 1975 and was told, “Jimmy didn’t have anything to worry about.” “He said a couple of judges were personal friends of his and that he’d h JB n I Tw MW W „ M 3 BL M II —- 3u — H. MLJL. w-w-w ■lm L- £3'J_ — .-4 k _ ■r — £ !■ ,i,tt sHul. •BWBIM •W~" ~*~W ig| |Bh*ww «* i" w * ii wm > wmmw*« < m»mri •> r’- * W * OMMMiIt.MI qMfgggtfKt JMWgff aK*MH Warn.. » MH JNamiimBMMMHMM !■ OTF? ' hRw 088 Freddie Gilbert (c) of Griffin High track team on his way winning a high hurdle event in the Region 6-A AA. Willie Gault (r| of Griffin was second. Trackman at left is from Morrow. (Stories and pictures 12.) Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, May 13,1977 Ridley said the new addition was designed to serve the people of Spalding and portions of Butts, Lamar, Pike and Henry Counties for 7 years. He said now is the time to begin planning for larger facilities. He said the recent influx of new residents to the area has increased the demand for hospital bed space. If it continues, more bed space will be needed much sooner than the 7 years, he said. genius” who had to have things his way. Os the world leaders he met, Nixon said: —The late Chairman Mao Tse-tung of China had “a devilish sense of humor” and lived very simply. Despite debilitating strokes he maintained con trol over China until his death last year. —The late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was both brilliant and boorish, with “a terrible inferiority complex.” —Khrushchev’s successor, Leonid I. Brezhnev, is not as quick intellectually, but also is not as volatile “and in that way a much safer man to have sitting there with his finger on the (nuclear) button.” Nixon called Kissinger an emotional already talked to one of them,” Davis said. Asked what judges, Davis replied, “on the Court of Appeals.” Defense attorneys tried to discredit Davis’ testimony, one calling him “the biggest bookmaker in northern Alabama’’ and suggesting Davis participated in efforts to free Jordan only as a means to fill his own pockets with money the Jordan family con tributed to a slush fund for the case. Davis admitted to “taking a few bets on football,” but denied that he was a major bookmaker or that he intended to take the Jordans’ money. Earlier testimony indicated that Jordan’s friends and relatives, in cluding Davis, participated in raising Hospital week checkup Growing population may mean more additions; search for doctors pushed; nuclear medicine here Ridley said the expansion had provided for physical therapy and respiratory therapy areas on the first floor and had removed all patients, except continual care — intensive care and coronary care, from the first floor. He said studies were conducted before the construction and they showed a demand for more private rooms. Sixty-seven additional private rooms were provided in the addition. Ridley also said the expansion had intellectual who “likes to say outrageous things.” He said Kissinger, who likes being a celebrity, constantly feuded with William P. Rogers before succeeding him as secretary of state. After the Watergate scandal forced Nixon’s resignation, Kissinger was sometimes critical of his old boss. In a dinner conversation in Ottawa, Canada, in October 1975, for instance, he was overheard describing Nixon as an odd and artificial man. “Quite candidly,” Nixon said, “it drives my family right up the wqjl and it’s only because it bothers them, that it would bother me at all.” Besides, he went on, “after such (Continued on page eight.) $105,000 to be used for influencing the case. The bulk of the money was placed in an escrow account and later repaid to contributors, testimony showed. Another government witness Thursday, Baldwin County Probate Judge Calvin Simpson, linked Kidd to the Dalton law firm of McDonald, McDonald and McDonald which represented Jordan during his trial. Simpson testified that he delivered a package to Ernest McDonald in Atlanta at Kidd’s request and that the attorney placed it in his pocket, giving the im pression he was expecting it. Simpson said he did not see what was in the envelope but that McDonald said it was “a retainer.” Vol. 105 No. 113 provided relief in some of the old sections. There, some of the private rooms had been converted to semi private. He said it may be necessary to convert some of those rooms back to semi-private if the patient population continues to increase at the current rate. MEDICAL CENTER The administrator said he sees the Griffin-Spalding Hospital as a regional service unit and not just one for the Griffin Hotel to become home for senior citizens Plans are under way for a modern downtown home for senior citizens. Marcus Sharp, owner of the Griffin Hotel at Solomon and Eighth streets, said today a feasibility study is being conducted by federal officials to reconstruct the old landmark. Lamar Seals, former director of HUD’s southeastern region, has been engaged as consultant for the project. Mr. Seals is the new president of the Hamilton Mortgage Co. of Atlanta. Mr. Sharp said, depending on engineering plans, 60 to 70 modern efficiency units, including kitchenettes, will be available. The inside of the old building will be rebuilt, complete with new elevators. The ground floor will house eating, recreation and hobby facilities, he said. If the project is accepted by HUD, it would be operated under the Griffin Housing Authority, which in a special called meeting, passed a resolution expressing an interest in the project, subject to federal participation and financing, Sharp explained. Under federal guidelines, those eligible to live there must be more than 55 years of age and in need. “The project would provide sorely needed efficiency apartment facilities, centrally located for those folks in need, who are still personally independent and aren’t in need of medical facilities such as the Living Center and Brightmoor,” he said. Approximately sl-million in federal funds will be needed, he said. Sharp has operated the facility as a home for the retired, but said “the limited approach I have been able to afford has not been enough and I feel is inadequate.” The basic structure of the building is sound and Sharp said he would be proud to have such a facility in the Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Clear and mild tonight with lows in mid 50s. Warm Saturday with highs in mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at Spalding Forestry unit 48, high Thursday 81. people of Griffin and Spalding County. He said that with the local hospital serving as a regional facility, it would be in a position to provide more services. Also, as a regional facility, the hospital will help attract more physicians to the area. “We want to provide those services to the people of this area they are now having to go outside to receive," Ridley (Continued on page 2) community. Griffin Mayor Raymond Head also praised the plan. “There is a real need for the aged to have such a place. It puts them in walking distance of shopping areas and would be another step toward rejuvinating the downtown area,” he said. HUD engineers will start their work next week, Sharp said. People ...and things Griffin High students pouring out of Labor Department where they had signed up for summer jobs. Pigeons resting on rotting roof of old apartment building. Group of hospital employes ad miring new ambulance which can’t be put into service until it passes state inspection. The Country Parson by Frank Clark Sift “Minor difficulty is the kind you’re not having.”
