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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1977)
Will city sack meters? The Griffin City Commissioners will decide at their next meeting on Aug. 23 whether to do away with downtown parking meters for a trial period. Eight merchants came to the Tuesday night meeting to request that the meters be removed. Sid Rifkin, owner of Marsh’s, said removing meters would be the most effective and simplest step toward helping the downtown area and putting the merchants there on an equal par with those in other shopping areas. He said he had names of some 30 merchants who opposed the meters and had promised to come to the meeting. Mrs. Angie Patterson, owner of The Bazaar Boutique, suggested the commissioners visit other towns to see first hand the “joy of shopping with free parking in downtown.” She described a city she recently 35 to earn diplomas in summer sessions Summer school at Griffin High is scheduled to close Friday and 35 seniors will be eligible for diplomas, according to C. W. Daniels, Griffin High summer school principal. People ••• and things Paper cup tossed from window of auto with bumper sticker urging “Keep America Beautiful.” Two-year-old thumping watermelon with tiny finger and smiling when he signals he thinks it’s ripe. Two women stopping in traffic lane of busy shopping center to discuss latest diet book they are reading, un concerned about traffic swirling about them. Back-to-school gets started Many Griffin community businesses today kicked off their back-to-school promotions. With the opening of schools here just weeks away, merchants have been busy stocking their stores with clothing, school supplies and other goods youngsters need to start the fall season. Many merchants plan special offers for parents shopping for their children. I j^As|^^^^^«sjßsSS^W - ■ i wWj, j Hi BMBI '‘ HH r \ -•' Hajj |" J -■’./.■• ''""■ fl fe.- BPR- & ■ First Federal building on South Sixth street. DAILY NEWS Daily Since 1872 Some merchants want to give it a try to see what happens. Commissioners will decide what to do at Aug. 23 meeting. visited in New Jersey which had taken down its meters, rerouted traffic and closed off street sections, adding benches and flower boxes, which helped make the downtown area interesting for shoppers. Mrs. Patterson noted that several downtown businesses have either moved or closed recently and said she understands that others may be in trouble. William Rosenfeld, owner of Buy- Rite, feels that with the advent of shopping centers, meters are an tiquated. Arrangements could be made to control parking as is done in other cities, he said. The controls could include marking tires with $2 fines for parking more than 2 hours. Merchants and employes could “snitch” on each other for using the The seniors, representing 5 different school systems, will receive diplomas from their respective school systems. A breakdown of the seniors’ schools and the number of students attending are as follows: Griffin High will have 24 eligible for graduation; Henry County has 5; Pike County High will have 4; Lamar County High has 1 and Parker High School of Greenville, S. C. has 1. There were 308 students enrolled in the 8-week sessions which represented Spalding, Butts, Pike, Lamar, Fayette and other counties. An average of 16 teachers worked during the summer session which of fered students an opportunity to make as many as 25 quarter-hours. The 25 quarter-hours would equal to one and two-third units of regular school work. Daniels felt the offering of quarter hours was advantageous to many The Griffin Merchants Committee suggested the promotion but did not organize a specific campaign. Most merchants accepted the dates the committee suggested and started their fall promotions this week. The bargains are expected to attract thousands of shoppers to the com munity this week. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, August 10,1977 students because it meant that a student who needed to make only a few quarter-hours would not have to attend the whole 8-week session. A student could make 5 quarter-hours credit during the morning sessions by attending summer school 13% days. He could make the same hours in the af ternoon by attending 20 days. Morning session classes are 3 hours while the afternoon classes are 2 hours. Summer school at Griffin High has been good for students in counties other than Spalding and is offering a viable service to. area youth. “It certainly has been helpful to the surrounding coqnties,” Daniels said. A county-by-county breakdown shows there were 17 students enrolled this summer from Pike County; Lamar had 8; from Henry there were 7; from Fayette 4; and from others there were 16. street spaces, he said. “We’d get a few chislers but most people would cooperate,” Rifkin commented. Mrs. Rifkin said she gets several complaints from customers daily about the meters. According to City Manager Roy Inman, around $17,000 to SIB,OOO is taken in annually from the meters. The first year they were removed from parking lots, merchants came up with $7,000 to help defray the lot rentals and taxes. Later the city got $5,000 but has received no money in the last 18 months, he said. Mayor Raymond Head said he favored a trial period of from 60 to 90 days to see if not having meters would work. “I hate to see downtown continue to lose businesses,” he said. The Country Parson by F rank ('lark jip TWmU k — “You ought to give advice sparingly — it can, like medicine, have bad side ef fects.” “If the majority of merchants want them out, I’d favor taking them out. I’d like to hear how most of them feel about it,” said Commissioner Ernest “Tiggy” Jones. Commissioner Louis Goldstein said he can see the advantages of both sides. “Others feel just as strongly about keeping them. I’d like to see a trial period and hear from the other side,” he said. “Let’s have a trial period and let the other side raise cain for a while. Go ahead, put a sack over them and try it out,” said Commissioner Dick Mullins. He noted that since the meters have been in use around 30 years, most people don’t know what it would be like (Continued on page 2) The Griffin-Spalding school system was represented by 186 students from Griffin High; 46 from Unit I, 3 from Unit II; 18 from Unit III; and from Griffin Academy there were 3. All seventh graders taking courses did so for make-up work only. Canning bubbles right along here Despite shortages of summer vegetables to some canneries in Georgia, the supply of green beans and pimientos to Pomona Products Co. in Griffin has been sufficient. Hugh Hunt of Pomona Products said the beans canned at the Griffin plant are grown in East Tennessee and that area has had more rain than the Griffin area. Hunt also said pimiento processing began last week and, so far, the supply had been sufficient. Most of the pimientos canned in Griffin are grown in Alabama, Mississippi and Ten nessee. Some of the pimientos are grown in the local area, but only a small percentage. Hunt said Pomona Products had been lucky so far this season. He said winter vegetables are grown in south Georgia and north Florida and that the supply would depend on the amount of rain in those areas. Some of the south Georgia canneries are having trouble finding enough First Federal is 50 years old The First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Griffin will observe its 50th birthday with a 3-day celebration beginning Thursday. Festivities start at the 223 South Sixth street building with a cake cutting at 2 p.m. The public is invited to drop by for a visit and refreshments Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4, Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 to 12:30 p.m. Door prizes , including a microwave oven for first prize, will be awarded. First Federal was founded Aug. 8, 1927, as the Griffin Building and Loan Association. There were 60 members who subscribed $65,000 of which $5,000 was paid in initially. During the half century, the association has expanded to its present asset size of more than $36-million. Serving on the first board of directors were P. E. Arnall, D. R. Cumming, G. J. Drake, J. P. Persons, J. P. Mason, J. W. Gresham, J. B. Mills, Robert Wheaton, M. M. Emerson, Bowden Vol. 105 No. 188 * |V v 1 Pomona Plant Manager J. P. Coates (1) and Bob Rogers, raw farm products manager, look over incoming pimiento pepper at Griffin plant. vegetables to keep operating. Especially the specialty packers such as Holmes Canning Co., Sandersville; Seabrook Farms, Montezuma; and R. B. Roddenberry Co. of Cairo, Ga. Most of these firms which usually rely heavily on local products have been importing vegetables from neigh boring states. Seabrook, which grows much of the products it freezes, has increased its fall planting of peas. A spokesman for the firm said the pack this year had been about half of normal. A spokesman for Holmes said that in some cases when the plant should be operating for 8 hours, it is operating only one. Vegetables that are in short supply include black-eyed peas, butterbeans, white acre peas, squash, cucumbers, field peas and sweet potatoes. None of these are packed at Pomona Products. Hunt said the beans for the pork and beans packed at Pomona Products are grown in Michigan and there is not Ragsdale, Thomas J. Denham, George A. Niles, J. P. Nichols, Jr., B.R. Blakely, Quimby Melton, Sr., B. S. Haisfield, W. T. Bennett, John W. Hammond, W. J. Carreker, B. B. Higgins, and John H. Cheatham. D. R. Cumming was the first president. He served continuously until his retirement Sept. 1, 1960. Joe Cumming, the second president, served the next 17 years, retiring last month. Larry Stover, the third president, joined the firm in 1972 as vice president after being with Decatur Federal Savings and Loan Association. He grew up in Washington, Ga. On March 18,1935 members accepted a federal charter. Earlier members had approved a resolution that the association petition the Federal Home Loan Bank for conversion to a federally chartered association and to change the name to the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Griffin, and to apply to the Federal Savings and Loan Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Partly cloudy and hot through Thur sday with chance of afternoon or evening showers. Low tonight near 70, high Thursday in the low 90s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 56, high Tuesday 94, rainfall 1.69 inches. expected to be a shortage of those. Hunt emphasized that the picture for the local canning plant could change if the dry weather continues into the fall and affects the supply of fall vegetables. Shortages of vegetables in the area are being reflected in prices at the State Farmers Market at Forest Park. Monday prices for pole beans were sl2 per bushel and above. The price was the same for butterbeans. Snap beans were going for $9 per bushel. New crop Georgia sweet potatoes were selling for sl3 for 50 pounds or 26 cents per pound. Many of the prices for fresh vegetables dip considerably during the summer months because of plentiful local supplies and plentiful supplies from South Georgia and North Florida. This year those supplies have been reduced and prices have remained high. “We have been fortunate at Pomona Products,” Hunt said. Insurance Corp., for insurance of its accounts. On June 1, 1973, a branch office was opened in Barnesville. Mrs. Faye Evans is manager and Mrs. Mildred Turner, teller. In addition to Stover, other officers are T. T. Blakely, vice president; Kay G. Harper, vice president and secretary-treasurer; Annelle W. Bowles, vice president and assistant secretary-treasurer. Present directors are T. T. Blakely, A. L. Blanton, J. R. Cumming, W. Barron Cumming, W.R. Gilbert, E. S. McDowell, Jr., D. J. Smith, J. Larry Stover, J. Henry Walker and Sara S. Whiddon. Other directors who have contributed their time and talents over the years were seaton G. Bailey. J. H. Cheatham, Jr., R. W. Cheatham, George W. Wheaton, Dr. H. P. Stuckey, John H. Morrow and Girdean Harper. A cake cutting is scheduled at the Barnesville office Thursday at 10 a.m.
