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Baker, a Delta Airlines pilot, says he does the dare devil feats to make a few dollars and more or less because he likes flying. “I’ve been flying all my life,” Baker said. He grew up around an airport at St. Simons Island near Brunswick, where his father worked and even owned his own plane. Baker says he made his solo flight from that airport on his 16th birthday. His father still owns the plane in which he soloed and now his 15-year-old son is planning to use the same plane Fayette thanks doctor family FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - It was almost 26 years ago that Drs. Ferrol and Helen Sams started their Fayette County medical practice in a reqpvated house that was so hot Ferrol remembers “the sweat pouring down my socks and into my shoes.” Now the husband-wife medical team, two-thirds of the county’s doctor population, treats a steady stream of patients at their clinic. Sunday afternoon, scores of patients held a reception to honor the couple and thank them for years of treating colds, mending broken bones and saving lives. Jim Hazelton was one of many patients who praised the Sams’ dedication to the community, but he Prof eyes crossing ATLANTA (AP) — Ed Lormand, a college teacher with a few months free time, is going to England this summer. Nothing unusual about that ex cept...Lormand plans to sail there, alone, in a 28-foot boat. It will be his second attempt at a solo transatlantic voyage. “Yeah, sure, I’d have to admit that it is a little madness,” said Lormand, a 41-year-old music teacher at DeKalb Community College in suburban At lanta. “But I would think that every man who accomplishes something that DAILY Daily Since 1872 Baker with his plane near home in Spalding for his first solo flight on his 16th birthday later this year. Baker got into aerobatics 7 years ago when he and some other pilots formed an Atlanta Chapter of the International Aerobatic Club. The club provides competitions for aerobatic flyers on a regional and national contest basis. The American Aerobatic Club participates both nationally and internationally, according to Baker. With reference to his aerobatic flying, Baker likes to refer to that type flying as aerobatic rather than stunt flying. He says he is not involved in trying to make it in world aerobatic competition and has never really flown in an international meet. “I never have time to do that,” the pilot said. But Baker does find time to enter regional contests. Regionally he competes in 4 different categories for a total of 200 points. Each aerobatic maneuver is scored had another reason for wanting to honor the couple — his life. Several years ago he was mowing his lawn when he suffered a heart arrest. His wife called the clinic for help. Helen Sams responded by closing the clinic for the rest of the day and rushing Hazelton to an Atlanta hospital. Hazelton’s wife, Opal, was one of the organizers of the reception. “I don’t think someone has to die before you write him up,” she ex plained. “I believe in giving roses while the people are still alive. And everybody loves Dr. Ferrol and Dr. Helen.” The Sams seemed embarrassed by all the hoopla. “Why should I be thanked for doing seems to be beyond normal human endurance deals with madness,” he continued. “I think you’d have to say that about Edison, Einstein, anyone — Salvador Dali, Leonardo de Vinci. These men were all a little mad.” Lormand plans to set sail Saturday, leaving from Cumberland Sound at the St. Marys River on the Georgia-Florida line. If all goes according to schedule, 55 days later he will arrive in Plymouth, England, where he has reserved dock space for his Yankee 28, a 6,500-pound boat with 358 square feet GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, June 6,1977 according to varying degrees of difficulty. The contests are often judged by his fellow competitors who are not entered in that particular category. Baker said trophies are awarded and sometimes on less frequent occasions, cash. “More often than not we compete for trophies and recognition,” Baker said. As to the dangers involved in the stunts, Baker is not at all afraid but he does have respect for the possibilities. “Each sequence is methodically thought out and planned,” Baker added. Although he has a license waiver that permits him to fly acrobatically from 300 feet upward, Baker is sure to never attempt a stunt if it is not in the altitude range required for the particular maneuver. “That piece of paper won’t keep you from busting your veranda,” Baker said. Pilots with minimum altitude licenses can do no maneuvers at something that I have wanted to do all my life?” Ferrol asked. The couple first met while they were medical students at Emory University in Atlanta. “The thing I remember most were her eyes,” Ferrol said of his wife. “They were like jewels. I didn’t expect to meet anyone like that. Back then you didn’t expect med students to be pretty.” Helen’s brains matched her beauty and helped her break into the male dominated medical profession, he said. “She came into a man’s world, learned the rules, played by them and beat the .... out of all of us,” Ferrol said. of sails. This “madness” also struck Lor mand in 1976. Last June, after 12 days and almost 1,200 miles of sailing, the ocean washed his jib overboard, forcing him to dock at Charleston, S.C. Lormand, who spent four years in the Navy as a musician, has his route mapped out: he will arc northeastward along the Atlantic seaboard, past Newfoundland and away from North America. Relatively little time will be occupied with steering, he said. . NEWS altitudes less than 1,500 feet. The advanced aerobatic flyer must fly no lower than 1,000 feet. Baker can fly as low as 300 feet. Flying, not necessarily aerobatic, is a real pasttime for the whole Baker family. The Bakers live near a community operated airstrip by their Spalding County home where he and his wife both fly their single-engine planes. Baker’s wife, Carolyn, is a Delta Airline stewardess who has her own plane and a pilot’s license. Carolyn laughingly explained they both work to support their toys. The couple even owns their own hangars. Baker’s next aerobatic flying contest comes up this weekend at the Bear Creek Airport in Hampton. He will be participating in an air show at that time. The following weekend Baker and International Club will be participating in aerobatic competition at Bear Creek with aerobatic flyers from all over the country. People ••• and things Deputy at jail getting call to come to courthouse to handle drunk. Adults startled when toddler screams “Where’s Mommy?” in local department store. Griffinite, 23, taking his 13-year-old brother on first double date. WMV ” ■■■ » », . .;^.,^s*^„ J wi«i»sa**-' ■■ •a’swaSßMß Up and over Vol. 105 No. 133 County plans water study Spalding County Commissioners plan a study and report on the development of its water system. The study will be conducted by Southern Engineering Company and is scheduled to be complete by the end of August, according to County Administrator Lewis Leonard. Leonard said the commissioners want the report to see what recommendations of change, if any, will be made concerning the way the water system is operated. The county presently purchases its water from the city of Griffin and does not own its own water system. Existing conditions of the important features of the agreement between the city and the county will be summarized. The report also will inventory water production facilities, water distribution facilities, area description and population trends, fire protection benefits and a financial analysis of water revenues, water rates and cost of water production. An analysis will be made of feasible alternatives to the existing arrange ment for the lease and operation of the Mitchell, Halderman get their jail orders WASHINGTON (AP) - H.R. Haldeman and John N. Mitchell, the biggest fish in the Watergate prosecutor’s net, were ordered today to report to prison no later than noon June 22 to begin serving their sentences for their Watergate crimes. The ceremony that effectively ended their years-long fight to stay out of prison took only four minutes. Both men have been sentenced to serve 2%- to 8-year prison sentences, imposed on Feb. 21, 1975, for their roles in America’s biggest political scandal, the Watergate cover-up. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica had indicated last week that he would give the two former Nixon administration officials until June 22 to get their affairs in order. Haldeman had asked through his lawyer to remain free to attend his daughter’s graduation ceremony from law school and Mitchell asked to help his lawyers prepare a last-ditch, slim chance appeal to the Supreme Court. They have a choice of turning themselves in to a U.S. marshal at 10 a.m. or to voluntarily appear at the prison gates by noon. Sirica only placed the men into the custody of the attorney general and it is up to the Justice Department to designate the prison. Haldeman’s lawyer, John J. Wilson, said he had ar ranged for his client to go to the minimum security facility at Lompoc, It was up and over for this young jumper in the 19th annual Tri-County Hunter Show held Saturday at the chib grounds on Ethridge Mill Road. More than 80 horses were in the all-day event. The class schedule consisted of 15 inside and 15 outside the ring. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Cooler tonight with slight chance of thundershowers and lows in mid 60s. Clearing, windy and cooler Tuesday with highs near 80. LOCAL WEATHER — High Sunday at the Spalding Forestry Unit 93, low this morning 63. Spalding County Water distribution system by the city. Alternatives to be considered will include combinations of ownership, operation and management of water production and water distribution facilities by the county, the city, and by a joint authority. The Country Parson by Frank Clark J@ Jk v-'z “No matter what breaks down there are more folks who can tell you what's wrong than can fix it” Calif. Plato Cacheris, Mitchell’s lawyer, said arrangements were not complete but that the former attorney general probably will be sent to Allenwood, Pa. Food stamps —by boat HOG HAMMOCK, Ga. (AP) - What do you do when you need to apply for food stamps and the only way a caseworker can get to you is by boat? About 20 families in this community on Sapelo Island have that problem, so Mark Leaptrot, a caseworker with the state Department of Human Resources, rents a boat and is met at the dock by residents. Leaptrot, who is located on the mainland in Darien, Ga., is taken to the Hog Hammock church, which serves as a community center. Then a jeep driver picks up residents who have business with Leaptrot and takes them to the church. “We aU stick together,” said Mildred Groovner, whose grandmother came to the island as a slave.
