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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1977)
I j t lkl «v j W Until Friday 50 jKfew 'W fiqures J Cl HI 60 I) ___] <1 temperature „ 70 Cold Warm Mr ™ —— Z=Z Data from Showers Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IlnnllM “■" ■“ NOAA US Depl of Commerce FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Partly cloudy tonight and Friday and little cooler and less humid. Low tonight in the upper 60s. High Friday in the low 80s. Fortson backs push for Georgia Southern ATLANTA (AP) — A push by i some legislators for a univer- 1 sity in south Georgia has been I given support by Secretary of I State Ben Fortson, who sug- i gests that Georgia Southern College be upgraded. “I say here and now, you ought to be a university along with the other great universities in the state,” Fortson said in a commencement address last week at Statesboro. Sen. Joe Kennedy of Claxton agreed. “We definitely feel there is a need for a university in the southern portion of the state,” he said. “If they can grant the status, the money can be found. “They have ways of finding County (Continued from page one.) Griffin Real Estate Board showed there are 3,000 homesites already laid out in Spalding County. He also said the county has tracts with acreage available to the prospective buyer. Spalding County was once termed agricultural and the economy of the county depended on agriculture and the cotton mills. Now, the economy of the county is more diversified. Agriculture and the cotton mills still are important to the economy, but do not have the bearing they once did. The railroads once played an im portant role in transportation, but it has been a long time since regular passenger train service was discon tinued in Spalding County. Trains made regular stops in Sunny Side, Pomona, Vaughn, Zetella, Rover, Orchard Hill and other communities. Some com munities had depots which later were replaced with shelters. Now, the shelters are gone. The people of Spalding are relying on automobiles for their transportation to and from their jobs and for pleasure. A few of the “old country stores" remain in the county and have the country store atmosphere, but most have yielded to the general mer chandise type community super markets. Convenience stores have popped up in some areas of the county. “The people of Spalding County have not turned up their noses at growth. They have been very receptive to those who have moved from other areas to the county and to those who have moved from Griffin into the county,” Hamil said. “Some of the people moving into Spalding County are wanting to get away from the crowding in the metropolitan area and they are finding it in Spalding County,” Lewis Leonard said. He is the county administrator. Leonard also said the availability of money for the construction of homes had been a contributing factor to growth. “We are looking forward to a bright future for our county; we are not going to stand still and let growth pass us by,” Hamil said. Correction Super X Drugs 1215 W. Taylor St. 228-5880 Noxema Shave Cream »*• 99 c PROLINN Liquid Protein was incorrectly advertised: Should have been. Natures Beauty Slim $ 13 95 money to do the other things they want. We’ve been fighting for some six or eight years to get our point across to get the regents to look at this,” he said. A resolution was passed by the state Senate during the last session urging the regents to 1 grant university status to Geor gia Southern. However, the vice chairman of the state Board of Regents, Milton Jones, said the con version of institutions requires “a lot money. Right now I do not see the availability of funds to start another university in the system.” Regent Rufus Coody of Vienna said that, even if the funds are available, he does not see a need for another univer sity in the state. A spokesman for Georgia Southern, Claude Felton, said members of the college com munity have urged the con version and said the college recently submitted a request for approval of a doctoral program in education. A university generally must have a series of graduate and professional programs. “I think this has triggered community and area response to the university status,” * Quick said. B ■ -Mi I Jik • Readin’/Ritin’and ‘Rithmetic.. .or Art, Aerospace and Accounting. FIRST NATIONAL MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Low-cost Back-To-School loans from First National can be a big help whether your children are just learning the “Three R’s” or going off to college to prepare for a career. We can help you pay for all the school clothes, tuition, supplies, equipment and whatever else your students might need. Just decide how much cash you have to get up, come buy and see us, and \ we’ll work out a convenient loan for you. After all, what’s more important than our children? i =— FIRST NATIONAL BANKET XH™OE N -"w 8 3L H XnRd OF GRIFFIN, GEORGIA MEMBER FDIC FBI boss (Continued from page one.) bench.” Kelley also praised the choice, saying in a written statement, “Although I do not know Judge Johnson personally, he impresses me as having excellent credentials to take over the reigns of the FBI.” Johnson, a Republican, was ap pointed to the bench in 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower after having served for two years as a U.S. attorney in Alabama. He turned down one request from Carter to take over as head of the FBI and its 8,000 agents, citing personal and financial reasons when he was ap proached last December. Bell also tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to get Johnson to leave the bench to become deputy attorney general. However, Bell said that he met with Johnson for two hours on Sunday in Newman, Ga., and persuaded him to take the FBI post. Bell said “no side deals” were involved. “We didn’t promise him anything. He changed his mind of his own volition. He just said he made a mistake.” The law provides for a single 10-year term for the FBI director, and Bell said Johnson is committed to serving the full tenure. He has been mentioned as a possible choice for the Supreme Court in case of a vacancy, but Bell said such a move “would shock me.” Johnson’s judicial rulings in school desegregation and other cases brought him into confrontations with Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and aroused bitter animosities among many Alabamans. “We have had our differences but I never considered them personal,” Wallace said of Johnson on Wednesday. He is a hard worker and I wish him the greatest of success in this new un dertaking and in behalf of the people of our country.” Page 3 Panama treaty opponents hope to block two-thirds By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Opponents of a new Panama Canal treaty, moving to counter White House efforts to rally support for the agreement, are hopeful they can deny it the two thirds vote needed to pass the Senate. A leading foe of the treaty, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., predicted Wednesday the pact will fail “unless tremendous pressure is brought by the ad ministration.” Thurmond and two other Sen ate opponents of the agreement, Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, planned to leave today for Panama. They intended to confer with U.S. officials, including Maj. Gen. Harold R. Parfitt, gover nor of the American Canal Zone, and Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Torrijos, after ar riving on an Air Force jet. Thurmond said he doubts that former President Gerald R. Ford’s endorsement of the treaty Tuesday will influence many Republican senators to vote for it. “They pretty much know how they stand,” he said. Two years ago, Thurmond garnered the support of 38 other senators in opposing any move to give control of the 51-mile long canal to Panama. There is no clear indication yet of whether the treaty can pass the Senate, as most mem bers say they won’t take a posi tion on it until they study the document. While the general terms of the — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977 agreement have been an- I nounced by the Carter adminis- < tration, the treaty itself is still being written. Ambassador Sol Linowitz, one of the President’s top treaty ne- , gotiators, said Wednesday tech nicians are working “around the clock, seven days a week,” to have it ready for the Senate next month. Opponents of the treaty are pegging much of their case on a recent public opinion poll that said 78 per cent of the American I people oppose giving up the 1 waterway. And some legislators 1 GOSPEL SING • Rex Melon Singers (Formerly “The Lefeure’s” • Ron Calhoun Singers • Plus Other Groups In Talent Sing. Thomaston-Upson Civic Center Saturday, August 20, 7:30 P.M. have said their constituents are disturbed by the proposal. Linowitz admitted yesterday that a “very large percentage” of Americans now oppose the treaty, but said those people “have not had the chance to learn the facts about what is in volved.” In the House, meanwhile, treaty opponents, led by Rep. John M. Murphy, D-N.Y., sub jected Linowitz and fellow am bassador Ellsworth Bunker to a day-long grilling on the pro posed treaty Wednesday.
