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Rep. Flynt
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Common
Cause wants Rep. John Flynt, D-Ga., to
be removed as chairman of the House
ethics committee, saying he is in
capable of leading the panel’s in
vestigation into alleged South Korean
influence-buying in Congress.
But Flynt declares he will not quit.
“I’m 62 years old and have never run
from a fight. I don’t intend to tuck my
tail and run now,” he was quoted as
saying.
In a telegram to all Democratic
House members, David Cohen,
president of the selfstyled citizen’s
lobby, said of Flynt:
“His performance in the Korean
investigation has again demonstrated
he is totally incapable of carrying out
this crucial responsibility.
“Rep. Flynt’s removal is absolutely
essential if the House of Represen
tatives is to have credibility in the
country.”
Cohen’s remarks on Sunday followed
the resignation of Philip A. Lacovara,
chief counsel of the committee’s in
vestigation into reports that the South
Korean government sought to acquire
influence in Congress through gifts of
money and favors to some lawmakers.
Lacovara had complained that the
slow pace of the investigation had
hampered his work.
Capt. Bligh may lose again
LONDON (AP) - Capt. William
Bligh, who lost his ship in one of
history’s most notorious mutinies, may
now lose his final resting place to a
parking lot.
The commissioners who oversee the
finances of the Church of England have
decided that London’s Church of St.
Mary’s, whose churchyard holds the
grave of the hapless commander of the
HMS Bounty, should be torn down and
the site used for another purpose.
A campaign has been mounted to
save the church. The preservationists
A day at The White House. See Page 3
GRIFFIN
DAI LY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Water apparently will be one of the
keys to future residential and industrial
development of Orchard Hill and city
councilman Jack Grubbs does not see
any prospects of the city’s getting
county water in the near future.
“We are having to upgrade the
system to meet federal standards,”
Grubbs said.
Grubbs, who is known as the city’s
one-man chamber of commerce, is
hoping the city will have a drug store
and a doctor in the near future. He is
hoping to get a doctor to locate in the
city, but if that is not possible, have one
in office there on a part-time basis.
Orchard Hill is known for its grain
elevators. They were built many years
ago to serve the Swint Feed and Seed
Company and were believed to have
been the largest of their kind east of the
Mississippi River at the time of con
struction. The elevators can be seen a
long way from the city.
The city has a couple of industries, a
lumber company and a wood treatment
plant.
Grubbs said there is plenty of space
for industries to locate in the city, but
he has not heard of any recent
prospects.
Orchard Hill’s government was in
limbo for several years before being
rejuvenated. The city has three
councilmen, Grubbs, Hilton Harris and
Julian Jones. Each is elected to a three
year term with one being elected each
year. Harris is serving as mayor this
year. Each councilman serves his third
year as mayor.
Recently the city changed the elec
tion date from December to coincide
with the the general election date in
November.
The city has a fire truck which is
parked at the home of Julian Jones to
prevent vandalism, Grubbs said. The
city recently purchased a building that
will be renovated to serve as a fire
station. When the renovation is com
plete, the fire truck will be parked
there.
Grubbs who serves as the city’s
postmaster, also is the operator of a
grocery business and has developed a
small shopping facility which he hopes
to expand. He also owns the city water
system.
He said the number of boxholders at
the city post office has increased in
recent years and reflects a slow, but
steady growth of the area. Grubbs said
many of the people moving to the area
are coming from Griffin, Atlanta and
elsewhere.
“I see new faces about town all the
time,” he said.
“Many people interested in the
Orchard Hill area ask about the school
system. We do not have one in Orchard
Hill now, but I believe we will have one
in the not too distant future,” he said.
Grubbs said 2 subdivisions have been
developed in the area. He said there are
plenty of home sites in the Orchard Hill
area.
“I believe we are growing and I
believe we will continue to grow. We
are not expecting a boom. We wouldn’t
be able to provide the services if we did
have one (boom),” Grubbs said.
claim the commissioners plan to
convert the site into a parking lot for
tourist buses, but a spokesman for the
church commissioners said nothing has
been decided yet.
St. Mary’s, closed for the past five
years, sits on the right bank of the
Thames River just across the road
from the embankment where thousands
of summer tourists gaze at the Houses
of Parliament across the river. Lam
beth Palace, official London residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ad
joins the church.
If the site is cleared, Bligh’s bones
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, July 18,1977
probably would be reburied in con
secrated ground elsewhere, the com
missioners say.
“How they can think of pulling down
such a historic church is amazing,”
said Rosemary Nicholson, a London
housewife who launched the fight to
save St. Mary’s.
“I was horrified when I first saw the
church. Half the roof had fallen in and
the churchyard was overgrown and full
of trash. Tramps and alcoholics were
sleeping there and empty milk bottles
littered the porch — all next door to the
archbishop’s palace,” she said.
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Kiwanis Club
to honor 2 men
The Griffin Kiwanis Club will
honor an Eagle Scout and a Pike
County deputy this week for
getting a man out of a burning
house.
Eagle Scout William T. Scott
IV and Deputy Donald Buffing
ton will receive certificates.
They rescued Gary Cleveland
on the night of June 11 from a
house fire at 515 South Hill
street.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“The best part about owing
money is that you can be sure
there’s always somebody eager
to hear from you.”
Grain elevators well known landmark at Orchard Hill.
Divers going after
Civil War ‘capsule’
HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) - The
ironclad Monitor, whose sea victory
over its Confederate counterpart
Merrimack foreshadowed modern
battleships and submarines, is now one
of the Civil War’s “most valuable time
capsules” as it lies 220 feet deep in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Men soon will set foot on the
Monitor’s decks for the first time in
more than 114 years, hoping eventually
to restore the vessel to how it appeared
when commissioned in 1862.
Navigational equipment and buoys
were to be set today in the Atlantic, 16
miles east of Cape Hatteras.
“It’s a tremendously exciting
project, even though we’re a long way
from bringing the ship up,” says John
Newton, director of the Monitor
Research and Recovery Foundation in
Beaufort, N.C.
The current expedition, scheduled to
last three weeks, is to determine
exactly what it will take to surface the
ship that Newton believes can be re
stored.
The Monitor helped revolutionize
naval warfare with its ironclad body
and revolving gun turret. It was lost in
a storm Dec. 31, 1862, less than a year
People
••• and things
Housewife who’s been purchasing gas
from self service station driving car
with oil at dangerously low level and 2
almost flat tires.
Woman driving to downtown store
where she can save 40 cents on a pur
chase, returning to auto to find 50-cent
parking ticket on windshield.
Secretary gladly working late
because she hated to go home to house
without airconditioning.
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after it was commissioned.
Besides being the model from which
dozens of 19th century fighting ships
were copied, the Monitor is best
remembered for its battle with the
confederate ironclad Virginia, which
had been constructed from the remains
of the scuttled union frigate
Merrimack. The union navy always
thought of it as the Merrimack.
The Monitor outgunned the
Merrimack in their battle of March 9,
1862, one day after the confederate
vessel had sunk one union ship and
badly damaged another. The
Merrimack managed to slip away from
the Monitor, but it no longer was battle
worthy.
Next time he goes fishing,
he’ll wear iron shoes, iron buttons
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - The next
time Johnny Jackson goes fishing, he
says he’ll wear “iron shoes with iron
bottoms.”
He wasn’t wearing shoes when he
stepped on a rusty nail while on a
fishing trip last March. That led to a
three-month life-and-death struggle
with tetanus.
The 14-year-old boy was lucky—he
won. More than half the victims of
tetanus die, many of them within the
first few weeks.
The Homerville, Ga., youth never had
been immunized against tetanus,
although his family thought he had.
Doctors say the disease can be
prevented by immunization. But it
hasn’t disappeared, despite the low
number of cases. Only 289 cases were
reported in the United States in 1974,
and of those, 179 died.
Jackson was given a tetanus toxoid
shot when he stepped on the nail, but
the next day his foot began to swell and
his legs stiffened. A few days later he
Boy wins tetanus fight
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Continued warm and humid through
Tuesday with chance of afternoon or
evening thundershowers. Low tonight
near 70, high Tuesday low 90s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry unit
66, high Sunday 94.
The crew of the Merrimack beached
and burned the vessel at Hampton
Roads, Va., on May 11, 1862. The fire
ignited some gunpowder and the Merri
mack was blown to bits, pieces of which
were saved as Civil War souvenirs.
Siamese twins
to be buried
TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) — Siamese twin
brothers, joined at the chest when they
were born in Albany Wednesday, died
Sunday in Henrietta Egleston Hospital
in Atlanta.
The bodies were taken to a funeral
home in Toccoa, near their mother’s
home town.
had trouble chewing.
At the height of the disease, he was
wracked by spasms and convulsions.
“He was so sensitive that he’d have a
convulsion if someone touched him or if
he heard a loud noise,” said Dr. John
Greene, one of the pediatricians who
took care of him at Talmadge Memorial
Hospital in Augusta.
His body finally became so rigid that
the doctors gave him curare, a drug
best known for its use by South
American Indians in poison darts. It
totally paralyzed him, allowing his stiff
muscles to relax but requiring a
respirator to help him breath.
The paralysis lasted six weeks.
“He was a very sick boy. If you make
it past the first few weeks, if you don’t
die from the spasms you may die from
a lung infection,” Dr. Greene said.
Today, Jackson is learning to feed
himself again and to do things on his
own. And he’s receiving a series of
tetanus shots to make sure he doesn’t
get the disease again.
