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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.”
