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Bible school
Will Cross is one of the students at Sacred Heart Bible School this week. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cross, 423 Hickory lane. More pictures on page 2.
Elvis’
flowers
for fans
MEMPHIS, Tenn. ''AP) — Fans of
Elvis Presley slept on the sidewalks
through the night, hoping to be among
the first of the expected thousands who
would be given flowers from their idol’s
funeral bouquets today.
Presley was buried at Forest Hill
Cemetery Thursday. His family
decided afterwards that the blossoms
from 3,116 floral displays surrounding
the singer’s white marble crypt would
be given to the thousands of fans who
had flocked to Memphis but were
unable to view Presley’s body.
Two dozen fans bedded down on the
sidewalk outside the cemetery, while
about 50 maintained an overnight vigil
about four miles away at Presley’s
Graceland Mansion.
Mourners had waited patiently for
hours in the broiling sun Thursday —
outside the Presley mansion, along the
four-mile funeral route on Elvis
Presley Boulevard and in front of the
cemetery.
The white funeral that Presley had
wanted was carried out: a white hearse
bore Presley’s copper coffin, covered
by 500 red rosebuds, and 16 shining
white Cadillacs led a creeping
procession of about 50 cars from the
mansion to the cemetery.
But a commercial atmosphere also
crept into the sad occasion. Hawkers
sold Elvis T-shirts for $lO. Forty-cent
picture postcards of Graceland went
quickly for $1.50. A small bottle of cola,
also $1.50.
Radio stations blared “Love Me
Tender” and other Presley ballads over
portable radios held by many fans
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The Country Parson
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“Many of our old problems
were solved by the creation at
new ones.”
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Actress Ann-Margret and hew husband Roger Smith are accompanied by a
sheriff’s deputy, right, after attending funeral services for rock and roll star
Elvis Presley at Memphis. (AP)
Happy warrior Humphrey
faces yet another fight
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Hubert
Humphrey, a political battler for 30
years, is facing the biggest battle of his
life — terminal cancer.
Humphrey has an inoperable tumor
in the pelvis, doctors said Thursday
after the Minnesota Democrat un
derwent surgery to relieve a blocked
large intestine.
Dr. John Najarian, chief of surgery at
University of Minnesota Hospitals, said
Humphrey would be up and walking
today and could be out of the hospital in
a week and back in the Senate by early
September, barring complications.
He declined to speculate on Hum
phrey’s life expectancy, saying: “It
could be months, it could be years.
Predictions are impossible.”
The 66-year-old Humphrey in an
article for this month’s Reader’s Digest
wrote, “You have to gear yourself to
the continuity of the struggle, knowing
that there will be days when you don’t
feel so good.
“Deep down I believe in miracles.
They have happened to a lot of people
who were given up to die and then were
restored to health.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, August 19,1977
Najarian said the tumor is “definitely
malignant” and cannot be removed
because of its location.
“The tumor in the pelvis is right on
the bone, and it is part and parcel of the
pelvis. It is physically impossible for it
to be removed surgically,” he said.
Najarian said the cancer could be
called terminal — certain to cause
death — in the sense that it cannot be
removed. He said the cancer may be
held in check, but not cured, by
chemical treatment.
People
••• and things
Young woman asking at probate
judge’s office in courthouse this
morning, “Where do you go to get a
divorce?”
Employes at Spalding Sheriff’s office
signing get well card for fellow employe
who’s ailing.
Griffin High senior going to beauty
shop this morning to be ready for senior
picture this afternoon.
Dundee fire fighters
to withdraw in ’7B
Spalding County Commissioners
have about a year and a third to figure
out what to do about county fire
protection.
The Dundee Volunteer Fire Depart
ment which had been providing the
service for the county’s fire district will
withdraw after Dec. 31, 1978.
Chairman P. W. Hamil today said the
commissioners will begin a long range
study to determine what can be done.
He said water service for fire plugs
would be a factor in reaching a
decision.
Chief Kenneth Roberts had told the
commissioners earlier that it was
getting more and more difficult to
provide the service with volunteers.
The volunteers at first had thought of
ending the service at the end of this
year. They extended the operation
through 1978, however, to give the
county time to make other plans.
The trustees of the Volunteer Fire
Department said they would work with
the county in any way possible to help
the commissioners assume the
responsibility for the service.
The Dundee Volunteer trustees met
with the commissioners Nov. 9 last year
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Teachers learning how
to teach metric system
A group of Griffin-Spalding County
school personnel and community
leaders are attending a week-long
metric system workshop in the Griffin
High Library.
The workshop is a result of a federal
metric grant of $18,843. Some 28 par
ticipants are learning the metric
system in a variety of hands-on
methods.
Such activities include estimating
and measuring objects using linear,
volume, mass, and temperature
measurement.
Banking report clears Lance;
some solons have questions
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter and banking officials are con
vinced that Budget Director Bert Lance
broke no laws as a Georgia banker, but
members of Congress want to question
Lance further about his finances.
Comptroller of the Currency John
Heimann, who had been conducting the
investigation into Lance’s business
affairs, concluded Thursday that no in
formation developed to date “warrants
the prosecution of any individuals.”
Afterward, Carter interrupted his
week-long vacation at Camp David,
Md., to fly to Washington and tell
reporters that “my faith in the
character and competence of Bert
Lance has been reconfirmed.”
“Bert, I’m proud of you,” he said,
shaking the hand of his close friend.
Lance said in a statement he would
remain in his Office of Management
and Budget post. “I feel my ability to
carry out my job has not been
damaged. In this regard I deeply ap
preciate the confidence which the
President has expressed in me.
“I feel strongly that if allegations
such as those raised in recent days can
cripple a person’s ability to carry out
his or her job, then we are in bad shape
in our country,” Lance said.
Vol. 105 No. 196
Classroom teacher, Miss Alice Way checks her computations for changing her English
weights to metric weights.
School personnel, basically
classroom teachers, are writing
packets for utilizing the metric system
in their respective teaching area to
make more interesting learning
situations for their students. The
packets will be reproduced and will be
made available to all teachers for use in
the classroom this year.
The workshop’s participating
teachers will lead other workshops for
all the teachers in their respective
schools. They will show the uses for the
metric kit each school will receive. The
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Carter confirms confidence in Lance.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of
the Senate committee which held
hearings on Lance’s nomination as
budget director, said the major
allegations against the official “were
definitely disproved by the comp
troller’s report.”
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Cloudy with chance of showers tonight
and lows in the upper 60s. Saturday
showers likely with highs around 80.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
66, high Thursday 84, rainfall .27 of an
inch.
workshops will also include sessions to
familiarize the teachers with the
materials in the learning packets.
Community participants for the
workshop this week have been brought
in to develop ways to help adults adjust
to the change using the metric system.
The results of their work will be used by
clubs and organizations throughout the
city for future workshops to help in the
general acceptance of the new system
of weights and measures.
Mrs. Gerry Wright is the instructor.
But the Connecticut Democrat asked
Heimann to finish his inquiry and
testify at a Government Operations
Committee hearing on Sept. 7, after
Congress returns from its summer
recess. Lance was asked to appear the
next day.