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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1977)
County growth Paving, water among things that figure in Spalding’s advance There are many factors contributing to the growth of Spalding County and the communities in the county, but no specific factor can be pinpointed as being solely responsible for the growth. Some of those factors contributing to the growth of the county include the county water system, the county’s improved road system, available homesites, an attractive tax structure, good churches and schools, homes and land in a variety of prices ranges and the proximity of the county to Atlanta’s southside industrial complex and the highway system connecting it to Spalding County. Other factors include the attitude of the people of Spalding County toward growth and the attitude of people who WS® JSmv ■, * UM I ' I Tl*’ E ■ -P?/1» kV*4* jyyMElS^y»eLt'rJL* jfll / MHBHiV**' Part of the crowd at the home of Elvis Presley in Memphis. (AP) Busbee stresses at home care ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. George Busbee said today the federal govern ment must develop a “coherent” national policy of at-home health care for the elderly, including tax incentives for families which do not send aging parents to nursing homes. Busbee’s comments came at a health People ••• and things Visitor at city jail asking police of ficial, “When are ya’ll gonna put an 8 foot fence around here to keep out the undesirables?” Hospital employe whistling “Don’t Fence Me In.” Woman in grocery parking lot picking up canned goods which had broken through the sack she was carrying. New FBI boss hopes to lead as Hoover did WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, who says he hopes he can lead the FBI as well as J. Edgar Hoover did, is likely to win easy Senate confirmation as bureau director, a leading conservative predicts. Johnson, a federal judge with a strong civil rights record, also drew praise Wednesday from liberals inside the Senate as well as out of Congress as President Carter’s choice to lead the FBI. The Senate Judiciary Committee, divided nearly evenly between liberals and conservatives, is expected to hold hearings on the nomination shortly after Congress returns on Sept. 5 from its summer recess. Sen Strom Thurmond, R-S. C., the GRIFFIN DAILY#NEWS Daily Since 1872 are moving from crowded metropolitan areas to areas that are less populated. All of the communities in the county have been growing and especially the Sunny Side - Birdie - Pomona areas and the Orchard Hill area. A spokesman for one of the com munities on the north side of Griffin said many people were locating in the Sunny Side - Birdie - Pomona area because they are near their work at the South Atlanta industrial complex which includes Hartsfield International airport. “They can leave their homes and drive to their place of work without having to go through Griffin or into Atlanta,” he said. He said many of those people moving into the area work at Hartsfield, either care hearing conducted by U. S. Sens. Herman Talmadge and Sam Nunn, D- Ga. The governor said a major problem is that medicaid program limitations often force those who need help to leave their homes and enter costly, long-term care facilities. “There is no excuse for these un necessary expenditures, but even more inexcusable is the removal of productive citizens from their homes and communities,” Busbee said. He said the cost of the medicaid program in Georgia during the past 10 years has gone from S2B million to $386 million. If the same pattern continues during the next 1) years, he said, medicaid costs in Georgia will exceed the total amount of the current state budget — $2 billion. He said a national policy for at-home health care, besides offering tax in centives, should give states more latitude to use federal funds from several sources, and should allow for experimentation with different kinds of senior member of the GOP con servative bloc on the panel, said he expects Johnson will win confirmation, barring unforeseen developments. “I don’t know of any special reason why he should be opposed,” Thurmond said of the 58-year-old judge noted for decisions upholding the rights of blacks in civil rights cases. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a leading liberal on the panel, applauded the nomination. “His career on the fed eral bench has been marked by an unflagging commitment to the concept of equal justice under law and a steadfast determination to guarantee the civil liberties and rights of all Americans,” Kennedy said in a statement. Johnson can expect close questioning Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, August 18,1977 as pilots or support personnel; the auto manufacturing plants; and other manufacturing and warehousing facilities. The spokesman said many of the people also work in Griffin businesses and industries. “We are far enough away from town that a person has some privacy, but yet he has next-door neighbors, he said. County Commission Chairman P. W. Hamil said the improved road system and county water had been contributing factors in the growth of the county. The county is paving between 10 and 20 miles of road per year and this year is resealing and resurfacing ap proximately 26 miles of roads. Spalding County Correctional treatment and care methods for the aging. Busbee said that although most persons in this country are covered by some kind of health insurance, the protection is often insufficient and unreliable. “As a governor, there is no question in my mind that some form of catastrophic coverage is needed to protect our citizens from the threat of financial disaster,” he said. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, another witness, declared, “The need for a national health insurance and a comprehensive health care plan for America is a desperate one. The reason we do not have it is that the people who need this protection the most are the least able to lobby for it — the poor, the infirm, the unemployed, the Afro- American, other minorities and the indigent.” Talmadge said he expected the hearing to provide him with a better understanding of the reasons “for the explosive and continuing increases in health care costs.” from the judiciary committee. Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., a committee member, said he is un- Judge Johnson Institute Warden Floyd Wilkerson, who travels the county probably more than any other one person, said the growth in the county is general and that it is or derly. He termed the growth “more desirable” in relation to orderliness. Wilkerson said its hard to keep the major roads in the county paved. “A road that is not used much this year may be a major road next year,” he said. He said people begin to build homes on “minor” roads and before one knows it, the road has become a major thoroughfare. The amount of dirt roads in the county is being cut each year by the county’s paving program. Wilkerson said he is looking forward to the day Car kills two at Elvis vigil MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds keeping vigil outside Elvis Presley’s mansion watched in horror early today as a car struck and killed two women, hours before the singer’s funeral. Police said the car was speeding and the driver had been drinking. The women, and a third person who was injured, were standing in a median section of four-lane Elvis Presley Boulevard, while about 300 persons were gathered on the sidewalk across from Graceland Mansion. Three women and one man were arrested several blocks away after the incident. Police said the car was traveling at 55 miles per hour down the street, where ■ the limit is 40 miles per hour. The accident came on a day that was ' to have been for the family and the close friends of Elvis Presley, not for the clawing, clutching, adoring crowds. As he wished it, the funeral for the 42- year-old singer was to be conducted in private, in mid-afternoon, with prayer and eulogy in the mansion he called home and entombment near his mother, in a cemetery not far away. Dick Grob, the chief of Presley’s personal security force, said the singer and his father, Vernon Presley, had planned his funeral. “This is running exactly the way Elvis’ father suggested it be run,” Grob said. “It’s been run in accordance with Elvis’ wishes.” The family had planned to allow the public to view Presley’s body for two hours Wednesday. The time stretched to 3% hours but there were still about 15,000 whose pilgrimage to see Presley a final time was in vain. Sheriff Gene Barksdale estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 walked past the seamless copper coffin. The estimate may have been generous, but the lines continued without letup for the entire 3% hours. decided about the nomination. But Allen said he wants to know what motivated Carter to select Johnson, whose decisions in certain cases have interjected him deeply into local and state affairs in Alabama. “I want to ascertain the basis on which the appointment was made. Was it expertise in law enforcement or because of his rulings with respect to Alabama schools, prisons and mental health?” Allen said. Committee members also are ex pected to question Johnson about his stand on intelligence gathering techniques of the FBI and his willingness to resist any political pressures on the agency. One former FBI official already is facing trial and others are under in- Vol. 105 No. 195 when all of the roads in the county are paved. “We have about 80 miles of water lines in the county and we need about three times that much,” Hamil said. He said he felt the county water was needed to help some of the areas grow. The Orchard Hill area is desperate for county water, Hamil said. In addition to the Sunny Side - Birdie - Pomona and Orchard Hill areas, other areas of the county showing growth include the Vaughn-Zetella area to the west of Griffin, Rover to the southwest, the Jackson Road-Ringgold area to the east and the Teamon area to the north east. Hamil said a recent report from the (Continued on page 3) ■ ■ She’s a log handler. Page 18. vestigation for allegedly illegal use of wiretaps, mail openings and similar practices in the late 1960 s and early 19705. The selection of Johnson to direct the FBI was announced at the White House Wednesday afternoon by Atty. Gen. Griffin B. Bell. It ended a seven-month search for a successor to Clarence M. Kelley, who is retiring Jan. 1. Carter, continuing his vacation at Camp David, Md., issued a statement praising Johnson as “a tough, fair minded protector of justice and the law.” He said that “my admiration for him is shared by those who have disagreed as well as agreed with his many difficult decisions from the (Continued on page 3) Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Little cooler and less humid. Low tonight in upper 60s; high Friday in low 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 70, high Wednesday 90. - I Hamil The Country Parson by Frank Clark “It’s hard for a fellow to worry efficiently about the energy crisis while he’s short on groceries.”
