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Dry weather brings
water system gusher
Melton called to White House
Editor Quimby Melton of the Griffin
Daily News was in Washington today
attending an all-day briefing at the
White House.
Sessions began at 8:30 this morning
and were scheduled to continue until
3:30 this afternoon. He plans to return
New York
looks
for cause
NEW YORK (AP) - Pulsing again
with a heavy flow of auto traffic and
nearly normal runs of subways and
commuter trains, New York City went
back to work today as federal officials
opened their investigation into why the
lights went out — and why they stayed
out for so long.
Today’s Federal Power Commission
hearing in Manhattan, requested on
Thursday by President Carter, was the
first of three by governmental agencies
trying to fix blame for the blackout that
shut down the nation’s biggest city for
an entire day. Carter ordered an FPC
report in two weeks.
At 8 a.m. today, Mayor Abraham D.
Beame, who established a panel to
conduct one of the investigations, of
ficially lifted the state of emergency he
had imposed on the city.
Beame said that following a quiet
night and with electrical power
restored to virtually all of the 10 million
persons affected by the blackout, the
city was ready to resume its regular
daily routine.
During the 25 hours the power outage
lasted, it spread economic damage
reaching at least into the hundreds of
millions of dollars.
In poorer neighborhoods around the
city, merchants — mostly owners of
small businesses — set about the dif
ficult task of rebuilding from damage
caused by looters, more than 3,400 of
whom were arrested Wednesday night
and early Thursday.
Beame said he was “deeply con
cerned by the economic chaos that
resulted from the senseless looting that
took place. The business people who
were victimized must be helped as soon
as possible and those who committed
the crimes must be dealt with in a
severe manner.”
Beame planned to tour those areas
hardest hit by the looters later in the
day. The mayor and Gov. Hugh L.
Carey joined the state’s two senators,
Republican Jacob K. Javits and
Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan, in
urging President Carter to approve
federal aid to the small-business men
hit by the looters.
In today’s early rush-hour period,
auto traffic was heavier than normal
from northern suburbs, from Long
Island and from New Jersey, all con-
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The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“When there are needs, we
now expect Washington to do
what neighbors used to do.”
DAILY
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to Griffin tonight.
Melton said that when he was invited
to the White House that he was told the
briefing would be for 30 editors and
broadcast people from over the nation
and that he was the only one from
Georgia.
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PULASKI, Tenn. — Darby, 6-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David Young, kept
cool in a bucket of water during the annual cow show at the Pulaski state
fairgrounds. The temperature there was in the high 90s.
Fire protection
review is likely
Chief Kenneth Roberts of the Dundee
Volunteer Fire Department may have a
talk soon with the county com
missioners about the possibility of the
county’s taking over the service.
Robert said no talks have been held
with the county but the matter has been
discussed among the volunteer fire
fighters.
Chief Roberts reasoned many of the
volunteers are getting a little older and
keeping a new supply of volunteers is
getting more and more difficult.
The county contracts with the
Both sides remain calm
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter has no plans to reevaluate the
planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from
South Korea despite the downing of a
U. S. Army helicopter by North Koreans
in the first potential military crisis of
his administration.
The North Koreans have been
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, July 15,1977
As the temperatures rise, so does the
consumption of water, according to
Harry Simmons, Superintendent of the
Griffin Water Department.
Simmons says the water plant is
pumping between three-fourths of a
million and a million gallons more than
normal per day during the dry weather.
He said the rain this week reduced
consumption about a half million
gallons.
Griffinites and residents in the county
Cooling it
volunteers to protect a county fire
district. The county levies a tax on
those in the fire district to cover the
expenses of maintaining equipment for
the service.
Having the volunteer fire service
available enables the people in the
district to get lower fire insurance
rates.
In addition to that, the people get
some fire protection they did not have
before the county and the volunteers
worked out an agreement.
relatively restrained in their references
to the incident, a mood which has not
escaped the White House.
Carter’s press secretary, Jody
Powell, noted Thursday evening that
“both they and we have remained
reasonably calm in our statements
compared with past situations.”
He said that by Thursday afternoon,
the situation room at the White House,
NEWS
on the Spalding water system are
receiving a mix of water from the Flint
River and the city’s billion gallon raw
water reservoir on Head’s Creek.
Simmons said the supply of water in
the river and the reservoir is good and
there is no danger of water shortages in
the near future.
By The Associated Press
The hot, muggy weather that has
been steaming Georgia for the last few
weeks shows little sign of letting up.
Temperatures topped the 100-degree
mark across the state Thursday. In
Rome, the temperature soared to 103,
Macon simmered at 101 and Columbus
recorded 102 degrees, the National
Weather Service said.
The temperature at Macon set a new
record for a July 14, and the high at
Columbus equaled a record.
High temperatures in Columbus have
equaled or passed previous high
readings for seven days so far this
month. The highest temperature this
month in Columbus was 104 degrees on
July 7.
A high pressure system is entrenched
over the Southeast, pumping warm,
humid air into the state from the Gulf of
Mexico, the weather service said. The
moisture is causing some scattered late
afternoon and early thunderstorms
across the state.
The weather service’s outlook for
Georgia during the next 30 days calls
for higher than normal temperatures
and lower than normal rainfall.
And for the second consecutive day,
Georgia Power Co. on Thursday
reported a record high demand for
electricity. The utility said more than
9.6 million kilowatts of electricity was
used at 6 p.m.
That was five per cent more than
Wednesday’s record demand.
A spokesman for the utility said, “It’s
the same things. Heat and humidity and
extensive use of air conditioners”
caused the high demand.
People
...and things
Man leaving supermarket with big
watermelon on shoulder, headed for his
home freezer to cool it.
Little girl, clinging to mother with
one hand and ice cream with other,
gulping down treat before sun melts it.
Topless little girl wearing only diaper
seeking out a little shade in her front
yard on hot afternoon.
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“which the night before was bustling
with activity with the secretary of
defense, the secretary of state, the vice
president and the national security
adviser and all the sophisticated
communications equipment, was calm
and quiet with its normal complement
of men.”
The North Koreans, rejecting a
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Cathy Stephens: “You have to have terribly strong fingers.”
Harpist Cathy Stephens
part of musical family
Everybody loves harp music.
But seldom does one have the op
portunity to do something about it.
Cathy Stephens whose parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph L. Stephens live on
East College street, is one of those rare
people.
Just 3 years after she first got the
bug, she’s well on her way to becoming
an accomplished musician.
It all began in 1974 soon after Cathy’s
graduation from Griffin High School
where she was a Star Student. She and
her father were watching tv and saw a
harpist perform.
“That’s beautiful,” remarked Cathy.
“Would you like to get one?” asked
Mr. Stephens.
This was the beginning of a hobby
which changed Cathy’s life.
Finding a harp wasn’t easy. They
can’t be purchased in stores like other
instruments and must be custom or
dered. It takes up to 3 years and can
cost thousands of dollars.
The United States has about 2,000
harp players with only 6 or 7 in the
Atlanta area. Good teachers are ex
tremely scarce.
Mr. Stephens finally located a man
who recommended a manufacturer and
Cathy’s harp was ordered.
To get one quicker, she decided on a
simple model with no pedals.
When her parents saw the
seriousness and enthusiasm their
daughter showed over the instrument,
they ordered a more complicated
model which arrived this spring after a
2-year wait.
Cathy also has had the use of a
borrowed harp. A distant cousin in
Tennessee whom she’d never met,
heard about the new interest and sent
Cathy her Moot concert model, the
largest type made.
About a year ago, Cathy began
studying under Judith Beattie who
plays with the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra.
Miss Beattie is the reason Cathy
attends Georgia State University.
“Most other college towns don’t have
a good harp instructor. She’s the best
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Fair and hot Saturday with highs 95 to
100. Warm tonight with lows in low 70s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
72, high Thursday 99, rainfall .08 of an
inch.
ever. She makes me work hard and
that’s good. There’s no harp she can’t
play,” Cathy exclaimed.
Cathy can play all kinds of music,
from classical to pop, jazz and soft
rock. It all sounds good, she admits,
and unless the listener is a trained
harpist, mistakes often go unnoticed.
“You have to have terribly strong
fingers, ” said Cathy who has blisters
and calluses on hers.
The front strings or low notes are
made of copper and silver. The middle
are made of sheep gut and the back or
high notes next to the player are of
nylon.
Each string must be individually
tuned with a general overhaul every
year. Any player who can’t work on his
own instrument is in a fix, said Cathy,
because often there’s no one else
around to do it. It’s a big job that takes
about a week of hard work, she said.
The secret of harp music is coor
dination between the hands and feet,
with the feet regulating the sharps and
flats, she continued.
Cathy is hoping for the day when
harps will become more common place
and won’t seem so strange. Most people
have never seen one, she said.
Cathy comes by her talents naturally.
Her whole family is musical.
Mr. Stephens, an air traffic controller
at the FAA, plays the piano by ear. Mrs.
Stephens, a teacher at North Side, took
lessons as a child, and Cathy’s brother,
Larry, 17, is teachimg himself to play
the saxaphone and banjo. His sister,
Mary, 19, plays the guitar.
“When we get together, the sax
drowns out the others,” Cathy said.
Surprisingly, Cathy is not majoring in
music. She is a junior art major and
plans to teach art and play the harp on
the side.
She has an apartment in Atlanta, but
most weekends will find her in Griffin
where she attends St. George’s
Episcopal Church.
“I go out of my way to try to learn and
have made a lot of progress. A lot of
people could be good at it if they had the
chance. It’s worth the effort,” she said.
