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Paving machinery is covering more area in Griffin this year
Storefronts changing
in downtown Griffin
Downtown storefronts are in for a
change as three businesses make
moves.
• Dollar General Stores will open July
27 in the old Woolworth building on
North Hill street.
, Jim Milliken, Dollar General area
manager, said the Griffin store will be
, Water shortage
becoming critical
• ATLANTA (AP) - This year’s
drought is less serious than one in 1954,
but Georgia’s increased population and
, industry may cause water shortages
that are more critical, geologists said
Friday.
“. . . More people in Georgia, more
industry and farmers are using more
water to get higher productivity,” said
Sam Pickering, a state geologist. ‘‘As
• this increases, even a modest drought is
more noticeable.”
8 Griffin residents
nabbed in drug raid
A nine-day drug investigation was
capped with the arrest of eight Griffin
residents Friday.
' Spalding County Narcotics in
vestigator, Lee Oxford, said the arrests
capped the investigation by undercover
* Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)
agents.
All of the suspects were arrested on
charges of violation of the Georgia
Controlled Substance Act.
Investigator Oxford listed a variety
of substances purchased by agents,
’ including marjuana, MDA, cocaine and
phencyclidine.
The raids and arrests were conducted
■< by agents of the GBI, Spalding County
Narcotics division, other county in
vestigators, sheriffs deputies, and city
narcotics investigators.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert called for the
investigation. More arrests are ex
pected.
The Country Parson
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“I guess it’s better to start
something yon can’t finish than
to start nothing.”
DAI NEWS
Daily Since 1872
among a chain of 50 stores in Georgia
and some 723 stores in the southeast.
Milliken said the store gets its name
by the simple way retail items are
priced. Basically all pricing categories
are in even dollars. The general
merchandise store will sell health and
beauty aids, dry goods and family
clothing.
The chain originated 39 years ago by
Cal Turner in Scottsville, Kentucky
with one store there and has now grown
to a chain of 723 stores.
Milliken said Dollar General is the
largest dollar-type store in the nation.
“It’s the granddaddy of them all,
“Milliken said.
The Griffin store will employ four
persons and will be open six days from 9
a.m. until 6 p.m.
Milliken said the company decided to
open in Griffin because the community
is our type of people.
He said the stores operate at an
unheard of 16 2-3 per cent operational
Arrested were Ricky Howard, 27, of
16 Sixth street; William James Pollard,
29, of 27 Bleachery street; Ronnie Allen
Morgan, 19, of 832 Scale street; Albert
Lee Jones, 21, of 817 Scale street.
Darrell William Feltman, 19, of 526
Searcy avenue; Larry “Junior” Elliot,
25, of 104 Lynn street; and Jerry Donald
Couch, 24, of 8 Park avenue.
A sixteen-year-old also was arrested
but his name was not published in
accordance with Georgia law.
Oxford and Sgt. David Head of the
county narcotics division said a lot of
buys were made by GBI agents during
the investigation.
All of the suspects are being held in
the county jail. Bonds range from $5,000
to $50,000 for a second offender.
Griffin Daily News cited
for general excellence
Three awards went to the Griffin
Daily News Friday night during the
Georgia Press Association’s convention
being held this week at Jekyll Island.
The Fayette County News won a first
place award in feature writing in the
weekly newspaper division.
The awards were made in the Better
Newspaper Contest which the press
association sponsors each year.
The Griffin Daily News won third
place in General Excellence. The
Athens Banner-Herald, the Gwinnett
Daily News and North Fulton Today at
Roswell, won first, second and third
place awards in that category.
The Griffin Daily News won a second
place award in the Best Use of Local
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, July 23,1977
cost and because of that low overhead
the customer gets good values with no
frills.
Eleanor Shops
Eleanor Shops previously located at
125 North Hill street has relocated in
the old Leonard’s store at 119 South Hill
street.
Mrs. Florence Simpson, Eleanor
Company Supervisor said the store will
have a celebration of the relocation
August 3-5 with a grand opening sale.
The store is presently open for
business.
Eleanor Shops specialize in ladies
apparell.
The Furniture Shop
The Furniture Shop is presently
having a furniture liquidation sale for
going out of business.
The Furniture Shop will not relocate
at any place.
Doug Hollberg, Sr. said the store will
be leased to C. H. Livingston of
Alabama who expressed an interest in
downtown Griffin.
The new business is scheduled to open
September 15, according to Hollberg.
Douglas Hollberg, Jr. of the Fur
niture Shop will occupy the building
next door to the Furniture Shop to
conduct his property management
business, according to Hollberg.
People
...and things
People milling about on the sidewalk
outside Griffin store during Friday’s
power outage after electrical storm.
Children in back of old model, slow
moving station wagon having fun
waving to drivers of faster autos who
are passing them.
Workman on West Taylor street
doing a quick-step to get out of the way
of motorist who whizzes by while street
is being repaired.
Pictures division. The Gwinnett Daily
News was first and the Thomasville
Times was third.
The Griffin Daily News was a third
place winner in the Local News
coverage division. The Athens Banner-
Herald, The Daily Sun at Warner
Robins and The Times at Gainesville
were first, second and third place
winners in that section.
Competition for recognition of
newspaper excellence has grown
steadily in recent years with more and
more publications submitting entries.
Quimby Melton, Jr., is editor and
publisher of the Griffin Daily News.
Quimby Melton 111 is editor and
publisher of the Fayette County News.
Paving
Some complete,
more to come
Griffin has resurfaced more streets
in the past 3 months than it has in the
past 3 years, according to Jimmy
Johnson, city engineer.
In a year’s time, the city is expected
to resurface some 11 miles of streets.
The city contracted with Spalding
Concrete Company for 5.54 miles of
resurfacing.
The contract amounted to $137,750.
The work is 88 percent finished.
The contract with Spalding Concrete
shows four streets scheduled to be
resurfaced. They are:
Varsity road—Spalding to North
Expressway
Flynt street—Spalding to North
Expressway
Water works—Spalding to North
Expressway
Spalding drive—Flynt to Varsity.
Under the State Local Assistance
Road Program (LARP) the city will
have an additional 6.523 miles of
resurfacing to be complete by Dec. 1 of
this year.
The last session of the General
Assembly provided some S3O million to
fund LARP. The program is intended to
repair and resurface roads not on the
state system, many of which were
badly demaged by the recent severe
winter, and by flooding.
Ledbetter and Brothers, Inc., of
Rome was awarded the contract to
resurface the 6.523 miles of streets in
the city.
SIO,OOO annually
State agency heads ask
salary boosts for aides
ATLANTA (AP) — State government
department heads have asked the
Commission on Compensation to ap
prove pay boosts of more than SIO,OOO
annually for their top aides.
Comp. Gen. Johnnie L. Caldwell said
Friday salaries must rise from about
$22,000 a year to as much as $35,000 “in
order to keep a deputy long enough to
make it worthwhile...before he gets
stolen away by a law firm.”
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Vol. 105 No. 173
The Ledbetter Brothers bid totalled
$105,077 for the work which has a
scheduled completion date of Dec. 1.
North Hill street is incuded in the
LARP resurfacing schedule and will be
the first street tackled for resurfacing.
The North Hill resurfacing work is
scheduled to begin Aug. 15 and will
include resurfacing from the railroad to
East Mclntosh road.
SCHEDULED
The streets in the city scheduled for
resurfacing are:
Ellis road—Experiment to U.S. 41.
Eighth street—Milner to South Hill
Second street—Broadway to Tinsley.
Kelsey avenue—Pool to Third.
Pool road—Kelsey to Blanton.
Emlet drive—North Hill to dead end.
Tuskegee avenue—North Hill to end.
Spellman avenue—Talledega to
Lincoln.
Cherokee avenue—Hammond drive
to end and includes North and South
Cherokee.
Dewey street—Melton to City Limits.
Dora street—Dewey to Jackson road.
Richard Way—Off Dora street.
Hill street—Broadway to city limits
then to East Mclntosh road.
13th street—Taylor to Experiment.
Kincaid avenue—Springer to East
College.
East Solomon street—Third to
railroad.
Melrose avenue—Lyndon to Ellis.
The heads of many state agencies
have expressed concern that their aides
are being lured away by larger salaries
offered by private industry and the
federal government.
“Federal agencies are paying (bank
examiners) more than we can afford to
pay. We are having a hard time keeping
our young people,” said Banking
Commissioner Jack Dunn.
“It is obvious that my salary as
Tanker sprayed
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Partly cloudy through Sunday with
slight chance of afternoon and evening
thundershowers. Low tonight near 70
and high Sunday near 90.
crewmen abandoned the Greek tanker carrying 13 million
gallons of crude oil.
(AP)
COMPLETED
The following have been resurfaced:
Ninth street—Addavale to in
tersection at South Eighth.
Beck street—Country Club to
Pimento.
Beck street—Heritage Apts, to
Everee Inn.
Sixth street—East Central to Taylor.
Eighth street—Oak to Broad.
Solomon street—loth to 11th.
West Solomon—l6th to Melrose
avenue.
18th street—West Solomon to Taylor.
18th street—West Poplar to
Cherokee.
Broad street—l6th to 17th.
Melrose avenue—Lyndon to Ellis.
Cherry street—Ninth to 12th.
Cherry street—Hill to Ninth.
Cabin Creek drive—North Sixth to
Pool road.
Searcy avenue—East Solomon to
Broadway.
17th street—Solomon to Wright.
Chappell street—Fifth to Sixth.
Pamela drive—Beck to Anne
George Circle—Pamela to Pamela.
Gonza drive—Everee Inn to George
circle.
Brown street—Edwards to
Experiment.
Edwards street—Ruth to Brown.
Ruth street—From Experiment west
600 feet.
Solomon—Uth to 16th.
Cherokee circle—Poplar to Cherokee
avenue.
commissioner and the restricted in
comes of my top assistants are in
sufficient in light of salaries being paid
other state servants and the salaries
available in federal government,” said
Agriculture Commissioner Tommy
Irvin.
Irvin called his $35,000-a-year salary
“totally unrealistic” when compared to
salaries of some state employes who
have less responsibility than con
stitutional officers.
