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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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“It’s hard for a fellow to
worry efficiently about the
energy crisis while he’s short on
groceries.”
