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Looking for members
Stell Gray, Charles Neel, Bob Glover and Don Hutcheson (1-r) check progress on the
Chamber of Commerce membership campaign. It will end next week and chairman Neel
hopes 100 members will be added.
GRIFFIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is now ac
cepting student applications for Four-Year
Kindergarten thru Grade 12 for the 1977-78
School Term.
There will be a limited number of students accepted
for Four-Year-Old Kindergarten thru Second Grade.
Registration Fees are as follows:
Kindergarten - $25.00
Grades 1 thru 12 - $37.50
No one family will pay more than $75.00 for
registration fees.
There will be a SIO.OO late fee for applications ac
cepted after August Ist.
GRIFFIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
1411 Atlanta Road
228-2307
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Crime report'
Boy charged
with theft
by deception
Al4-year-old boy was
arrested Thursday and charged
with theft by deception.
The juvenile, who cannot be
named because of his age, was
accused of collecting 50-cents
from 2 tennis players after
telling them he was collecting
court fees.
He was released to his
parents, pending juvenile court
action.
A pocketbook and personal
papers stolen from a car parked
in the Dovedown Center lot
were found near the scene by a
Griffin police officer.
The purse belonged to Judy
Harris of Hammerhawk drive.
What’s
happening
Carport sale
Kincaid United Methodist Church will
hold a carport sale Saturday at 334
Mclntosh road. Proceeds will go toward
the newly constructed hotel at Mt. Zion
campground.
Field trip
The local chapter of the Georgia
Conservancy along with the Depart
ment of Natural Resources will have a
field trip Saturday to the Big Lazer
Creek Wildlife Management, along the
Flint River. Non-members, including
children, are invited to attend. For
directions contact Walker Chandler in
Zebulon.
VFW Auxiliary
The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post
8480 will meet at the Post home Sunday
at 6:30 p.m. All members are requested
to be present and to bring a covered
dish.
Anniversary
The W. P. Durden gospel choir will
celebrate their anniversary Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 at the Spring Hill
Baptist Church in Griffin. The Rev. W.
P. Durden is pastor.
Rummage sale
The Salvation Army will have a
rummage sale at the post on
Experiment and Randall streets
Saturday 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Summer final quarter begins
The third and final quarter of
summer school begins Tuesday
at 10:25 a.m.
Students may register for five
quarter hours in English,
general math, algebra, world
history 4045, U. S. History 5052,
political science 4074, general
science or biology.
Classes meet daily from 8:30
to 12 noon. The last day of
summer school is Friday,
August 12.
Saga of Solomon Run
joined neighbors outside to see what
help they could give.
They woke an elderly woman in a
first-floor apartment and Ray carried
her to a higher building.
Across Solomon Street, water swept
away a house. A father and son went
with it.
“We couldn’t get across the street,”
Ray said. “Boulders were rolling down
the river and Solomon Street. The
water was washing telephone poles and
trees down. After one boulder the size of
a house came down, half the highway
collapsed.”
Pennsylvania Route 56 is beside
Solomon Run, curving Slike past the
housing development.
“When the highway collapsed, the
water changed course and started
washing other buildings out,” Ray said.
“It began coursing between the
buildings, smashing cars against them.
Some of the foundations began
collapsing.”
All the while there was continuous
rain and unearthly noise.
At 2:30 a.m. Deborah heard people
shouting for help in the Glenn Graham
house across Solomon Street. The oc
cupants were on the second floor, be
cause the ground level was under
water.
“We made several attempts to help
them,” Ray said, shaking his head at
the memory. Somehow the six mem
bers of the family made it 10 feet across
the roof to Margie’s Bar, next door.
Minutes later the house washed away.
The people in the bar then put a
ladder to the roof of the Mack bungalow
on the other side, Ray said. Just as
Mack and his wife got down, their home
was swept off.
At 4:30 a.m. Ray and his wife were in
another building. “I had a flashlight
and saw something moving,” he said.
He reached down and pulled two
women and a baby from waist deep
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water, miraculously alive.
Over the rain and the thunder they
heard gunshots from the nearby MA
Lounge, a tavern that seats about 50
people.
“They were trying to signal for help,”
Ray said. “People couldn’t get to them.
I don’t know how many died there.”
Richard and Rita, meanwhile, stayed
in their apartment on higher ground.
With the first light of day, they
walked outside.
“It was a lot worse at daybreak,”
Richard said, “because you could look
out and see the lines hanging from light
poles, the busted cars, the crashed
buildings, the ripped off pavement with
gas pipes on top.
Helicopter pilots told them to go to a
road at the top of a steep hillside in back
of the apartment complex to be picked
up by army trucks. Ray Stantz, his wife
and their three children made the
climb, taking only diapers for the chil
dren and two cans of soft drinks.
Richard and Rita, meanwhile,
noticed that their two cars had been
smashed by the autos parked on either
side.
“I wasn’t worried about myself,”
Rita said. “We still had gas and water,
but no lights. At least that’s what I
thought until I tried to flush the toilet
and there was no water and tried to turn
on the stove and there was no gas.”
But Rita was worried about her
mother, who lives three miles away.
“Richard decided to put my mind at
ease by going over there.”
Richard: “I walked through mud and
water up to my neck, went under water
twice.”
But he made it and found the mother,
Rita Hunt, being taken care of by
friends. He walked back, arriving
shortly after 2 p.m. The walk, normally
45 minutes each way, had taken more
than four hours.
