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Report suspicions,
drug officer urges
The head of the Griffin Police
Department’s narcotics division
suggested citizens call lawmen when
they suspect drug abuse.
Lt. Glen Whidby made that response
Wednesday when a member of the
Griffin Kiwanis Club asked what
citizens could do to help fight drugs.
Whidby and David Head of the
Sheriff’s Department were the featured
speakers on the civic club’s program.
Head is assigned to handle drug
investigations in the sheriff’s
department. Other lawmen from both
arms of law enforcement as well as
some state agents were at the meeting,
too.
At the close, president Dick Wood of
the Kiwanis Club gave checks of SSOO
each from the club to the police and
sheriff’s drug units to help in the war on
drugs.
Whidby and Head agreed there was
no one quick solution to the drug
problem in Griffin and Spalding
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WASHINGTON — Col. Sanders, 86, originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and
Will Geer, 75, the actor who plays the grandfather on “The Waltons” are por
trayed in this double exposure as they wait to testify before a House Select
Committee on Aging in Washington. The committee was hearing testimony
concerning mandatory retirement. (AP)
County. They said it was not going
away and the only things they knew t<
do was to keep up the fight and warr
people about the trouble that comes
with drugs.
A doctor asked if Whidby agreed witt
those who wanted to make marijuana
legal. He said he certainly didn’t agree
He said in his 15 years as a drug
officer he has seen what smoking
marijuana can do to people physical!)
and emotionally.
Whidby said most people on hare
drugs now got started with marijuana
Head observed that many young
people are experimenting witt
marijuana today just as they did a few
years ago with beer and liquor.
Whidby estimated 85 percent of the
junior and senior high age people in this
community had experimented with
marijuana. He said there could be up to
35 percent of them who use it regularly.
Whidby said he didn’t see organized
It’s costing grad—and dad-more
If you remember when less than SSO
took care of the cost of graduating from
high school, perhaps it would be well to
reassess the situation by present-day
standards.
Griffin High seniors and their parents
are feeling the effects of increased
prices which tend to exact an
unbelievable amount of money even for
a “no frills” graduation.
The average graduation costs are
running from a minimal S2OO, class ring
included, up to S3OO or more for a few
frills.
One would be inclined to believe the
class ring would tend to be the more
costly of the items for graduation.
Not so. By far, the costliest senior
expenditure at present is the price of
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crime’s hand in the local drug market.
He said most pushers would go to
Atlanta and make their buys then come
home and sell. Some drugs are coming
into Griffin from Columbus, he said.
He said some of the marijuana was
home grown. He said one joint of
imported marijuana probably would
get the user high for about 3 hours
whereas the home grown type might
take 5 or 6 joints to get the same effect.
One man wanted to know what
Whidby could tell the club about
Tuesday night’s big drug bust here.
“Not much more than you can read in
the newspaper,” he said.
Whidby said the bust was the result of
a 2-month effort using under cover
agents. He said more arrests probably
could have been made if more under
cover agents had been available.
Whidby said that the Griffin Police
Department had been successful in
getting convictions or pleas of guilty in
99 percent of its cases in recent years.
People
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Father in pickup truck letting little
daughter pretend she’s helping him
drive.
Big shoe print in freshly poured
sidewalk concrete.
Woman carefully cutting red rose
from small bush in her yard then taking
it inside house.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—
Variable cloudiness tonight and Friday
with chance of showers.
LOCAL WEATHER-Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
63, High Wednesday 74, trace of rain.
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“A fellow’s contributions
more likely reflect the amount
of his compassion than that of
his paycheck.”
senior portraits. Os course, the students
exercise certain options.
James Johnston, yearbook advisor,
and his yearbook staff were in charge of
senior portraits this year.
The “most popular package" of the
photographs which are taken at the
beginning of the school year, was a
regular $8,995 grouping of pictures. The
set, however, was on special for $69.95.
The regular set of portraits which
included a 16 x 20 portrait in natural
color on canvas, a 11 x 14 portrait, two 8
x 12 portraits, and 30 bill fold size
pictures listed at a regular $189.95.
The special price was listed at
$149.95.
A senior just able to afford the
minimal amount for pictures could
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Smoke signal
ADA, Okla. — Nick Worchester, 62, an American Indian, pauses along an Ada,
Okla., street to roll a cigarette — something he’s been doing since he was 12.
(AP)
Chief judges trade barbs
ATLANTA (AP) — The chief judges
of the state’s two appeals courts traded
verbal barbs Wednesday over their
courts’ authority in the state judicial
system.
The exchange between Chief Justice
H.E. Nichols of the Supreme Court and
Chief Judge John Sammons Bell of the
Court of Appeals came during a public
meeting of the Constitutional Revision
Committee.
In November, Georgia voters ap
proved an article-by-article revision of
the state’s Constitution.
Rep. Wayne Snow, D-Chickamauga,
chairman of the judicial article revision
panel, said he would like former U.S.
District Court Judge Sidney 0. Smith,
who is now in private practice, on the
committee.
Nichols questioned whether Smith
would be serving on the panel as an
“agent” for the state Judicial Council,
a panel created by the legislature to
gather information about the courts.
“My position is that the Judicial
Council is trying to encroach on the
Bound hostage pushed from train
then yanked back after 20 minutes
ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP) —
South Moluccan terrorists holding 105
children in a nearby village school
today released their first hostage since
the initial takeover, a small girl who
complained of feeling ill.
The girl, 7 or 8 years old, was
wrapped in a blanket and taken away in
an ambulance shortly after noon.
purchase 8 natural color billfold size
portraits at $9.95. The package
regularly sells for sl2.
The average ring price ranges from
SSO to S9O, depending on the metal
chosen.
Rising seniors are urged to order
their ring during the summer just
before their senior year. They have a
choice of platinum, gold, sterling silver,
or stainless steel.
Some years ago in the not too distant
past, it was unheard of to buy a class
ring made of anything except gold.
The fluctuating price of gold has put
an end to that. Students are choosing
metals to suit their pocketbooks.
It’s hard to tell exactly how much a
ring costs now, according to Mrs.
powers of the Supreme Court to be the
head of the judiciary,” Nichols de
clared. “I’m not going along with
anything that will interfere with (the
Supreme Court’s) inherent powers.”
Bell retorted: “I don’t think the
Supreme Court has any power other
than that which the Constitution and the
legislature confers upon it.”
Nichols complained that the Judicial
Council had, through political means,
obtained the power to control certain
law enforcement grants from the fed
eral government, contrary to the
practice in other states where courts
control the grants.
“I understand the Judicial Council
was born because of the inactivity or
lack of leadership of the Supreme
Court,” he said. “That’s not the situ
ation now. We’ve got leadership and
we’re going to assert it.”
Bell said “there is a large area of
controversy” in what Nichols said
about the grants, “and I don’t think that
has anything to do with what we’re
doing today.”
Nichols replied, “Well, I do. And I
A second group of gunmen today
pushed a bound and blindfolded man,
dressed in symbolic white to signify
execution, from a hijacked train where
they are holding 55 hostages, Dutch
officials said.
The hostage stood on the tracks for
about 20 minutes with a rope around his
neck and his hands tied before being
Charlotte Larson, junior class advisor
who handled the ring orders a year ago.
It’s even more difficult to tie the
prices down this year because the
orders were handled by the junior class
officers and ring company agents.
The seniors ordered during the
summer, using individual order forms
and it is not exactly known which
options were taken.
Mrs. Juanita Morris, senior class
advisor, handled the invitation orders
for this year.
Mrs. Morris said she noticed that the
invitations were a penny higher this
year.
They sold for $.22. The cards which
must accompany the invitations sold
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More
drug
cases
Drug charges have been brought
against 3 more people, bringing the
total to 16 in a 2-day period.
Henry Lewis Allen, 24, of 228 Day
street, was arrested about 4 o’clock this
morning for allegedly selling
marijuana.
Lawmen also had been looking for
Terry Wright, 24, and learned today
that he is serving a prison sentence in a
federal penitentiary in connection with
counterfeit money charges.
Police said an undercover agent
bought phencyclidine from him at a
house in Griffin in April. The drug
charge against him is for that
transaction.
Dorothy Jester, Apt. 11-D, Spalding
Heights, has been charged with
violating the Georgia Controlled
Substances Act for possessing a small
amount of suspected marijuana. The
illegal weed was found by Spalding
Sheriff’s officers, assisted by city
police, while searching her home.
Thirteen of those arrested are alleged
drug pushers, having sold drugs to
undercover agents.
don’t care what you think.”
Bell replied, “Well, it’s mutual....”
Nichols then said the Court of
Appeals “is inferior (to the Supreme
Court); we wouldn’t be reviewing you if
it were not.”
Gov. George Busbee, a member of
the committee, ended the exchange by
saying, “at least we have a committee
that is not a rubber stamp.”
The judicial article committee will
include representatives of the deans of
the three law schools in Georgia and of
a variety of other organizations, in
cluding the Georgia Press Association.
House Speaker Tom Murphy, another
member of the committee, told Snow,
“You’ve lost your mind,” when Snow
recommended that a news media rep
resentative sit on the panel.
“I think we need some press input,”
Snow said, ‘l’d rather have them with
me than against me.”
Members of the committee set Oct. 1
as the goal for completion of revision of
the judicial article, the election law ar
ticle and the article on scholarships and
retirement.
yanked back into the train, a
spokesman for the Dutch Justice
Ministry said.
In the Moluccans’ native East Indies,
prisoners about to be killed are dressed
in white, the official explained.
The four yellow cars of the hijacked
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