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It seems pets are being treated more
and more like humans. Now they can be
buried like one.
Three weeks ago, the “Memorial
Gardens for Pets” opened on Highway
41,2% miles south of Griffin in Orchard
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Local Griffin businessmen thought of
the idea and financed it. They had seen
pet cemeteries in many towns but none
south of Atlanta.
Joe Ballard, owner of Cherokee Lawn
and Gardens, is keeper of the grounds,
which consists of two acres.
Low pay deputies apply for food stamps
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — A radio
operator in the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Department says he may join
* nine of the county’s 11 deputies who
have applied for food stamps, claiming
a five per cent pay boost isn’t enough.
• “I am making $lO5 (a week) and
bringing home $83,” radio operator
Jerry Padgett said Thursday night.
“When I was on unemployment, I
brought home S9O (weekly.)”
Padgett joined the department July 1
after receiving unemployment
♦ payments for six months.
On Thursday, nine deputies applied
for food stamps after the county
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Ballard, checks out measurements for a lot.
Development of the cemetery is
divided into 3 phases. As soon as phase
one is completed, then work wUI begin
on phase 2, and so on.
Phase one has 1,696 lots. Three have
been filled.
Ballard takes care of the burial
details.
“It is just like a regular cemetery,
except the graves are smaUer,” he
said.
A customer chooses whatever type of
burial he wants. Vaults and caskets are
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commission voted Wednesday to grant
them a 5 per cent pay raise which they
said was not enough to support their
families.
“The increase is not effective until
next January, and by then all that most
of us will get out of it is four or five
dollars a month,” said Sgt. Stanley
Brumbalow.
He said officers work a 50-hour week.
“The cost of living is so high now, and
we make only $8,200 a year,” Brum
balow said, adding there is no overtime
pay for extra work.
Brumbalow, a five-year veteran, and
his wife have two children and are
Carter withholds comment on Lance
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter will continue to discuss official
business with Budget Director Bert
Lance, but he is withholding ex
pressions of support for his longtime
friend, whose personal finances are
under federal investigation.
White House Press Secretary Jody
Powell said Thursday that Carter
wants to avoid influencing the in
vestigation, being conducted by the
Comptroller of the Currency.
Powell faced his first on-the-record,
at-length questioning on the in
vestigation at the daily White House
news briefing and said in a carefully
worded statement that Carter would
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, August 12,1977
Space shuttle makes it
Utility people
oppose taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) - Utility
executives say that new taxes on oil and
natural gas in President Carter’s
energy plan would run up household
electricity bills and give the companies
a fiscal headache.
“Please, don’t pass this . . . thing,”
T.L. Austin, chairman of the board for
Texas Utilities Co. told the Senate
Finance Committee Thursday.
The panel is now considering the tax
aspects of Carter’s program, which
seeks to tax those fuels as an incentive
for utilities to convert their power
plants to coal and nuclear power.
The plan calls for rebating the fuel
tax funds to utilities to offset the costs
of new coalbuming equipment. But the
utility executives said the rebate plan
would leave them far short of
recovering the money they would have
to spend for the conversions.
Sen. Russell Long, D-La., the Finance
Committee chairman, seemed to agree,
telling Austin and other executives that
they made a good case.
“There’s no point penalizing you for
not doing something you can’t do,” he
said. “If they try to make you retire
plants with useful life, that’s a loss of
capital” that could go toward looking
for more oil and gas, he said.
W. Reid Thompson, chairman of the
Edison Electric Institute, an
organization representing private
power companies, said it makes
expecting a third. “I figured what my
income is and what my outgo is on an
average basis and I go $42 in the hole
every month,” he said. “I wasn’t in
cluding the food bill in that.”
Ron McClure, director of the county
department of family services, said
some of those applying for food stamps
could qualify, depending on how much
income deputies spend for essentials,
including food, clothing, medical costs
and shelter.
Another person applying for food
stamps Thursday was Garland Barron,
a plumber and a county commissioner,
who said his salary is slsl a week.
withhold comment on Lance or the
probe.
In so doing, Powell left Lance without
any statement of support from the
person who could have been his
strongest defender.
“It is our belief that the only ap
propriate course of action for us to
follow while the inquiry is underway is
to withhold any comment which could
be construed as influencing the con
clusion of that inquiry,” Powell said.
The press secretary said he realized
that the absence of comment on the
case could be viewed several ways,
presumably as a lack of support for
Lance.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (AP) — Two astronauts jockeyed
the Space Shuttle Enterprise to a safe
desert landing today after a fast, steep
glide off the back of its mother ship, a
jet transport plane. It was the first solo
flight of America’s newest manned
spacecraft.
Astronauts Fred Haise, 43, and
Gordon Fullerton, 40, aided by a
computerized control system, brought
the engineless, 75-ton craft to a perfect
touchdown in a trail of dust on a long,
dry, lakebed runway.
The glide from an altitude of about
25,000 feet took a little over five
minutes, during which the shuttle
turned, banked and apparently handled
economic sense for power companies to
convert to coal and nuclear plants
without having to pay taxes.
If anything, Thompson said, the taxes
could force companies to abandon
plants that use oil and natural gas
before the equipment is worn out.
All the executives said the tax
payments would simply be passed on to
their customers, adding that the higher
prices and tax shortfalls would harm
their chances of raising money for plant
construction.
Hans Tanzler, the mayor of
Jacksonville, Fla., and the head of the
municipally owned power company,
said the effect of the taxes will be to
“turn out the lights at the end of the
tunnel.”
People
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Housewife purchasing size too small
sale dress, telling store clerk that now
she has a reason to diet.
Shopper sampling grapes in College
street grocery store.
Trusties at rear of Spalding County
jail washing patrol cars.
Car with rear flat tire backing up long
line of traffic as it inches way to Taylor
street service station.
“You can’t spend more money than
you take in,” he said.
The requested $400,000 budget for the
sheriff’s department in 1978 was cut to
$290,000, and that included the 5 per
cent pay boost.
The county employs a sheriff, 11
deputies, one investigator and a jailer.
Deputies patrol 240 square miles with a
year round population of about 24,000.
Brumbalow said the population rises
to about 75,000 during the summer
because the county contains Lake
Lanier, Georgia’s largest inland water
recreation area.
Powell said Carter received a report
on the investigation Thursday by
Treasury Secretary W. Michael
Blumenthal, who asked for the session.
“It was our feeling that the President
should be kept abreast in general terms
... but that he not become involved in
the details or in any way attempt to
direct the inquiry,” Powell said.
“The fact that the friendship is there,
that the personal relationship is there,
makes it particularly important that if
we err we err on the side of caution,"
Powell said. “I know of no other course
of action to take.”
Powell said the two men would
continue to discuss budget-related
matters.
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just the way it had been designed.
The successful flight marked a major
milestone in the development of the
shuttle, which is to be a reusable
“space bus” in the 1980 s, capable of
carrying seven persons and up to 65,000
pounds of cargo into Earth orbit.
Donald K. Slayton, manager of the
approach and landing test, had said
that the only purpose of today’s flight
was “to just park that beauty back on
the lakebed nicely.” x
Haise, in putting the white and black
craft through its first solo maneuvers
over the desert, said it seemed to
handle a little better than a special
trainer in which he had made many
simulations of today’s flight.
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Hollonville church
hangs key on door
The Hollonville Baptist Church is a
typical, small country church in the
sense that it has one main wooden
building, chickens in the yard, and a
bam and horses in the back.
Yet, it is unique. Sunday marks 101
years of service for the church.
The church was constructed in 1876,
the one hundredth birthday of our
country. There is some discrepancy,
however, over the date of the original
constitution.
In “The History of Pike County 1822-
1972, it is stated that the church was
constituted in 1870, but according to the
“Sesquicentenniel of Pike County 1822-
1972”, it was 1874.
Before the construction of the
building, the Baptists of Hollonville
community met in a school building. As
more members were added the need for
a building arose.
The church purchased the land from
the late J. W. Perkins.
The charter members of the church
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Milner, Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Scott, Mrs. Jane Jackson, Mrs. Mary
Driver, Newton O’Neal, Mr. and Mrs.
William Edge, R. G. McAfee, Dr. B. M.
Owen, J. L. Edge, J. J. Carson, J.
Coggin, L. C. Fountain, G. W. Jackson,
and J. W. Perkins (all are now
deceased). The Rev. John L. Jackson
was the first pastor.
By 1892, the small congregation had
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Chance of thundershowers tonight,
becoming more numerous Saturday.
Continued hot and humid. Low tonight
in lower 70s, high Saturday near 90.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 67,
high Thursday 92.
The shuttle was carried into the air,
piggyback, aboard a Boeing 747.
Thousands of spectators watched the
takeoff, about a minute ahead of the
scheduled 8 a.m. PDT liftoff. When the
pair, accompanied by chase planes,
reached the proper altitude, explosive
charges broke the connection between
the craft, launching the shuttle on its
glide.
The entire maneuver — from takeoff
to landing — took less than an hour.
The landing was a preview of how
future manned space missions will end
— not with the traditional ocean splash
downs of the Apollo moon missions, but
with shuttles touching down at high
speeds.
grown to 150 members under the
leadership of the Rev. Ed Hammond of
Griffin.
At the time, a worship service was
held one Sunday each month and a
business meeting on Saturday. The
pastor would serve the other Hollonville
churches who also held services once a
month.
A very successful year for the church
was 1918. A revival was held. On Sept.
13, the church baptized 11 people in
Sullivan’s Mill pond. They had made
professions of faith during the revival.
During this year, Z. L. Scott chaired a
committee to raise funds for the pur
chase of a piano for the church.
In the early period of growth, nature
struck the church in a violent manner
twice. In the 1880’s, the Charleston
earthquake cracked the foundation of
the building.
Then in 1920, a tornado destroyed the
structure. The congregation quickly
restored the building at a cost of $4,000,
10 percent of which the Georgia Baptist
State Mission Board supplied.
In November of 1953 beginning with
the pastorate of Henry Collins, the
church began meeting twice per month.
A building committee was set up in
1953 to supervise the redecoration of the
church and the construction of an annex
to provide more Sunday School rooms.
The committee consisted of Albert
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