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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1977)
Sunny Side ‘on grow’ Sunny Side is in one of the fastest growing areas in Spalding County and the city is keeping up with the growth in the area around it. The city is getting new businesses and homes and streets are being paved by the state. The city council has issued a permit for the construction of a warehouse within the city limits for an electric motor business. In addition to serving as a warehouse, the building also will serve as a retail outlet. Several new businesses have sprung up along U. S. 41 just outside the city and have been a benefit to residents of the city. The city also has issued a permit for a car wash. Plans call for a general merchandise business to be located on the same property with the car wash. The car wash inside the city limits would be the second for the area. Another was put into service earlier this year just across the highway from the city. The city levies a 5 mill tax and the Unemployment remains same in Spalding County Spalding County’s unemployment rate remained at 6.1 per cent in June, according to figures released by the Georgia Department of Labor. The number of persons unemployed in Spalding County increased by 21 from 1,297 in May to 1,318 in June. However, the number of persons employed rose 300, from 20,074 in May to 20,374 in June, according to the Georgia Department of Labor. I I™ Vw * OCTO • > ■ . -1 ; J' —- « Short circuit LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. — Three foot high Ruthie Soucek solves her height problem by utilizing the shelf of this telephone booth at Lake George, N. Y. She is a member of a performing group ap pearing in this resort com munity. (AP) There’s still hope for gardens Rains last week and this week have brought a second hope for the home gardener. Most gardens planted in the spring months produced nothing or very little because of drought. The second hope for the gardener lies in getting production from the existing garden or a fall garden. County Extension agent Jack Smith said it is possible to get some produc tion from the existing garden by fer tilizing. Fertilizer can be applied to lima beans and pole beans to gain some production from new blooms. Bush beans do not do well for a second crop, Smith said. Tomatoes also will produce from new blooms, but if they are fertilized, the GRIFFIN DAILY#NEWS Daily Since 1872 fertilizer should not contain nitrogen. High nitrogen content tends to promote end rot, Smith said. Bush beans, broccoli, carrots, collards, cucumber, lettuce, mustard, onion, irish potatoes, summer squash and turnip are some of the vegetables that can be planted in a fall garden. Smith said these vegetables will produce before frost if the proper varieties are planted. Not all varieties produce well in the fall, he said. The Georgia Extension Service has recommended some varieties for planting in the fall and the dates for planting. (See the accompanying chart.) The home gardener may encounter a couple of problems not experienced so money is used to pay for street repairs, street lights and legal services. Several new houses have been con structed in the area in the past few years, bringing several new residents to the city. Eight of the new homes in the city were constructed by city councilman Tommy Payton. Payton says he will build more homes in the city if property is available. The city is not completely saturated with homes and businesses, but it is becoming more difficult to get property in the city, Mayor Lloyd Akin said. Sunny Side is served by the county water system and only a couple of streets in the city do not have county water. “Water is available if the people are willing to pay the price to get it,” councilman Billy Slaughter said. At one time, the city had a fire truck, but because of a lack of use and per sonnel to use the truck, it “rotted down” and was sold. The councilmen could only recall a couple of house fires, a church fire and a business fire in the past 30 years. During the same period, the county’s labor force increased by 321, from 21,371 in May to 21,692 in June. (The labor force is the total number of persons both employed and unem ployed.) The total number of persons unem ployed in the Mclntosh Trail area in creased by 328 during the month, from 4,610 to 4,938. The number of persons employed increased by 524. The Griffin area saw its total labor force rise by 852. Other counties in the Griffin area and their unemployment rates include: Butts, 8.2; Fayette, 6.3; Henry, 7.5; Lamar, 5.7; Newton, 5.3; Pike, 8.4 and Upson, 5.3. Sen. Shapard not ruling out other races Virginia Shapard said Thursday she “would not preclude” the possibility of running for Congress against Jack Flynt. But, she told the Griffin Daily News, her “present plans” are to seek reelection to the Georgia Senate. These were her answers to questions by the paper in the wake of a story in The Wall Street Journal which iden tified her as “one of his likely op ponents.” “I did not tell him (the reporter) I was considering running against him. I did discuss ethics and Roscoe Dean. That was his own bit of reportage. . . Everytime I pick up a newspaper someone’s got me running for another office,” she said. Newt Gingrich, Flynt’s Republican opponent in 1974 and again in 1976, also is expected to enter the race, according to the article. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, Augusts,l977 Now, the city is being served by the Dundee Volunteer Fire Department, although the city is outside the county fire districts. “They come when there is a fire and they do a good job,” Slaughter said. The councilmen expressed hope the city would be included in a fire zone if a new fire station is constructed in the north end of the county. “It would help lower the insurance rates the people are paying,” Slaughter said. The city’s streets are being resur faced with state money through a contract with Spalding County. The county in turn has contracted the work to Ledbetter Brothers. Streets being resurfaced are Teamon road and Church street. The city councilmen expressed hope something could be worked out with the state for the resurfacing of other streets in the city. The city presently has a police car, but does not have a policeman. The (Continued on page 2) People ...and things Little boy checking grocery pur chases as mom and another lady talk while motoring along North Expressway in pickup truck. Child on West Poplar street yeilding to temptation and jumping in puddle caused by rains earlier in the week. Man relating that he did not have to cut his grass for two months and now he will have to cut it twice a week. Hospital shake-up suggested City Commissioner Louis Goldstein said he thinks it’s time the city and county governments demand an organizational shake-up of the Griffin- Spalding County Hospital. “It seems to me they’re so messed up in trying to evade plain answers to the public and the news media, that ap parently they don’t know what’s going on,” he said. For example, he said, the hospital has just turned over to a collection agency, bills for 2 county prisoners, taken to the hospital for treatment under armed guard. Hospital personnel know that Spalding County pays for all medical expenses of prisoners while in custody, yet the charges for these 2 were turned over to an Atlanta collection agency, The Southeastern Credit Corp., for collections, he said. “I am alarmed that it takes 3 men, drawing $69,000 per year (plus fringe benefits) to determine that the Spalding County government is a bad credit risk. I don’t think the citizens of Griffin and Spalding County, who own the hospital, should pay the cost of the collection for these bills. It should be paid by the (Continued on page 2) far this year — insect and disease. Smith said disease and insects need moisture and warmth to grow. This year, there has been an abundance of warmth, but a lack of moisture. Now, there will be some problems with both. Those planning to plant fall gardens should plant them as soon as the ground is dry enough to work. Smith said producing a fall garden or a second crop from the existing garden would depend on the area getting rainfall on a fairly regular basis. A dry fall could mean disaster for second crops and fall gardens, just as it did for spring gardens, Smith said. Some spring gardens held up better in the dry weather because of organic matter in the soil, he said. Organic A - f * JEbm ,, _ ■ y r ipimj afar WSM SIM CITY LIMITS mm EKH k Sunny Side, a growing community. Tons of nuclear material missing By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of both houses of Congress are calling for investigations following a government report that nuclear fuel plants cannot account for thousands of pounds of weapons-grade nuclear material. Officials of two federal agencies, releasing previously classified in formation, on Thursday conceded that the plants are unable to trace 8,437 pounds of uranium and plutonium that has disappeared since World War 11. The missing uranium and plutonium was part of the government’s supply of nuclear material to be used for con struction of atomic weapons. But federal officials insisted there is no evidence of theft of the materials or of a black market. One official said the amount of material missing from government plants or private facilities under federal contract was sufficient to construct hundreds of atomic bombs. Despite concern expressed in the past that a terrorist group might be able to assemble enough nuclear material to construct a bomb, government officials labeled the disappearances “inventory differences” and “materials unac counted for,” which the government refers to as “MUFs.” Even with the assurances of the federal agencies that there is no evidence of theft or a black market involved in the unaccounted for materials, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., has announced plans for a House subcommittee inquiry into the missing atomic material and Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, is planning Senate hearings. Dingell said he would seek testimony beginning Monday from officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration and National Security Council. A spokesman for Glenn said the senator was likely to call subcommittee matter is southern gardens does not last as long as it does in the north because of the intense summer heat. Those planting fall gardens should be particular about the varieties of seeds planted to insure a crop before frost. One Griffin Garden seed dealer said there had been a lot of inquiries about seed for fall gardens, but there had not been a lot of purchases of seed in general. “We have almost sold out of tumipseed and we expect other seeds for fall gardens to begin moving as soon as it gets dry enough for people to plant,” he said. Seed sales in the area have been curtailed this summer by the dry weather, but the dealers are optimistic that more fall gardens will be planted. Vol. 105 No. 184 hearings next month, after Congress returns from a recess. Glenn said he was especially in terested in learning about the 381 pounds of plutonium reported unac counted for at a single plant at Apollo, Pa., before 1965. ERDA and the NRC said the 8,437 pounds of nuclear materials unac counted for include about 3,400 pounds of plutonium and slightly over 5,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium. One NRC official said it requires about 20 pounds of plutonium or 40 pounds of highly enriched uranium to construct a single atomic bomb. “We believe the missing plutonium and uranium can be traced to overestimates, machining and scrap losses and unmeasurable amounts bound up in equipment and pipes,” said Gen. Edward B. Giller, deputy assistant administrator at ERDA, the government agency that owns more than 40 plants where enriched uranium or plutonium are in storage. More than 90 per cent of the missing plutonium was from production plants operated by ERDA at Richland, Wash, and Aiken, S.C. Duluth plant wins fight against OSHA NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Duluth, Ga., manufacturing plant has won its fight to prevent the federal Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) from holding an inspection without a search warrant. OSHA withdrew a petition Thursday from the sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appealing the decision of a federal judge that the agency had no probable cause to inspect the Centrif- Air Manufacturing Co., Inc. without the owner’s permission. —Fall garden vegetables— Vegetables, varieties and planting times for fall gardens include: Bush beans Tendergreen, Harvester, Extender, Astro July 15-Aug. 20 Beets Detroit Dark Red Aug. 1-Sept. 20 Broccoli Decicco, Waltham 29, Green Mountain July 15-Sept. 1 Carrot Nantes, Chantenay Aug. 20- Sept. 15 Collards Georgia, Vates Aug. 1-Sept. 1 Cucumber Ashley (slicing), Chipper (pickling) Aug. 1-Sept. 1 Lettuce Bib, Great Lakes Sept. 1-Oct. 1 Mustard Fla. Broadleaf, Southern Giant, Tendergreen Aug. 20-Oct. 1 Onion White Portugal, Crystal wax, Granex Sept. 1-Dec. 31 Irish Potatoes Pontiac, Red LaSoda, Sebago Aug. 1-Aug. 15 Squash Yellow crookneck, Dixie Prolific Aug. 1-Aug. 20 Turnip Purple top, White Globe, Shogoin, Just Right Aug. 10-Sept. 15 Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA: Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with a slight chance of af ternoon or evening thundershowers. Low tonight near 70. High Saturday in the upper 80s. Rather hot Sunday through Tuesday with a chance of showers. High Thursday at the Spalding Forestry Unit 84. Low today 68. Health plan hearing Aug. 11 The first draft of the Health Systems Plan (HSP) and the Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) of the North Georgia Health Systems Agency will be the subject of a public hearing scheduled for August 11. The hearing will be in the Spalding County courthouse courtroom at 7:30 p.m. The first draft of the health plan is the results of many months of work and direct involvement by over 150 persons. To assure public input, the hearing is being held to provide an opportunity for interested persons to submit their views orally and in writing concerning the two health plan drafts. The draft plans will be on display for public inspection at the hearing. The HSP details goals and objectives to be met over a 5-year period which would improve the health of the residents throughout the 24-county health service area. The Country Parson by Frank Clark f -'V '<7 SB “Folks seem to get the most happiness out of things they don’t get too much of.”
