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Demos all smiles
at get together
Tuesday night was a fun time at the
Spalding County Democrats’ fund
raising buffet dinner at Holiday Inn.
Some 200 party members who
chipped in $lO a head for the evening’s
entertainment got more than their
money’s worth.
In addition to the main attraction (a
gung-ho party speech by Georgia’s
lieutenant governor Zell Miller), the
democrats enjoyed a medley of songs
dedicated to Democrat politicians sung
by Mrs. John Mostiler, an auction of
items donated by famous Democrats
and a delicious meal.
There also was a social hour before
the program got under way.
Dr. John Ellis was chosen Spalding
County’s Democrat of the Year.
According to Sid James Beeland who
made the presentations, Dr. Ellis
worked hard “in getting the flickering
flame started among the Young
Democrats of Spalding County.”
Vernon Ritchie who spearheaded the
party membership drive in the Sixth
District was selected the Outstanding
Party District Chairman.
L. E. Cato, past county chairman,
was recognized for his work on party
by-laws and putting the new charter
together.
Panama treaty signing
scheduled for tonight
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Carter and Panamanian head of
government Omar Torri jos will sign the
Panama Canal treaty tonight,
celebrating the finale of a 13-year
negotiation in a ceremony witnessed by
' 19 chiefs of state.
The historic moment also was to be
People
...and things
Woman assuring former owner of dog
it’s getting proper care: “I even brush
, Dink Dink’s teeth with a toothbrush.”
One liner on message board at First
Presbyterian Church, “God wants
’ spiritual fruit rather than religious
nuts.”
• Hand-drawn funny faces already
etched into dust on rear of school bus.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Miller, Flynt and Mitchell at Democratic meeting.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, September 7,1977
Mayor Raymond Head was on hand
to proclaim Tuesday “Zell Miller Day
in the City of Griffin”. He presented the
lieutenant governor with an official
framed proclamation of the event.
“They’ve never even done this in
Young Harris,” Miller quipped.
Miller, who said his wife, Shirley,
calls him a “country music fanatic”
also received a framed certificate from
the Country Music Association of Nash
ville, Tenn., praising him for his part in
passing legislation to control counter
feiting and piracy of records and tapes.
The document was signed by many
famous country music stars.
Miller urged the group to encourage
growth within the party.
“One of our greatest challenges is to
enlist the bright young minds of the
next generation of leaders,” he said.
In recent years, many people don’t
identify with either the Republican or
Democrat party and call themselves
independents, he continued.
“Too often independent means
disinterested and apathetic,” he said.
There is a growing skepticism about
both the competence and motives of
government. . . “and it is this doubt
about the motives of government that is
the most alarming development of all..
televised to audiences in the United
States and most of Latin America.
Representatives of 27 nations were on
hand for the signing.
The Organization of American States,
host for the occasion, has been the
scene of many anti-American con
frontations in the past. Now it is the
forum for a rare display of hemispheric
unity.
The treaty has won much more ac
claim in Latin America than it has in
the U.S. Senate, which could render the
festivities an empty exercise by failing
to ratify the treaty by the requisite two
thirds majority.
U.S. officials believe Senate defeat of
the treaty would trigger guerrilla
warfare and mob violence in the Canal
Zone.
The treaty calls for phasing out U.S.
control over the canal by the year 2000.
Panama then would assume full
operational control with the United
GRIFFIN
.” he said.
"It will be our task to reverse this
trend and to demonstrate that the
Democratic Party does indeed possess
a public philosophy that can be em
braced by the socially-conscious young
adults — young adults who are badly
needed to maintain the vitality of our
party," he said.
Miller also took several swipes at the
Republicans, referring to “8 long and
treacherous years of an administration
which had as its guiding principle
concern for its own perpetuation; an
administration which practiced the fine
art of ‘benign neglect’; an adminis
tration that made a science of lying to
and spying on the very public which it
was elected to serve. . .’’
The Democrats’ auction raised $lO5
with auctioneer, Sid James Beeland,
sounding like a real pro.
L. E. Cato with a bid of s3l bought a
pewter type pitcher decorated with the
seal of the U. S. House of Representa
tives. It had been donated by Rep. Jack
Flynt.
Miller’s book, “Mountains Within
Me”, went for $9.
“I usually can’t even give it away,”
he laughed.
(Continued on page 3.)
States reserving the permanent right to
intervene militarily against any threat
to the canal.
But many Americans retain a strong
emotional attachment to the canal and
wonder whether Panama, with a long
record of political instability, could be
trusted to run it.
Carter has been holding separate
meetings with the visiting dignitaries,
taking advantage of their presence to
push for his favorite foreign policy
themes: human rights, nuclear non
proliferation and cutbacks in weapons
purchases.
After an hour-long meeting with
Torrijos on Tuesday, Carter met
separately with presidents Alfonso
Lopez of Colombia, Augusto Pinochet of
Chile, Francisco Morales of Peru,
Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay and
Vice President Adalberto Pereira dos
Santos of Brazil.
NEWS
County gets nod
to expand water
The county has been advised it is
feasible to operate its own county water
distribution system.
The announcement came in
Tuesday’s Board of County Com
missioners meeting as a result of a
report by Southern Engineers which
have been studying the development of
the Spalding County water system for
90 days.
Tom Crawford, Southern Engineers
representative, told the commissioners
that as a result of the study which is to
be completed by next week, the county
could put in more lines for county
residents and buy water wholesale
from the City of Griffin.
Crawford advised the commissioners
to borrow sl.l from the Farmers Home
Administration. The loan would pay off
a $1 million indebtedness to the City of
Griffin for general obligation bonds and
would pay for laying more water lines
for county residents.
The city and county presently have
an agreement to have the city lay water
lines in the county, service them, and
take care of the billings to county water
system users.
Persons on the county water system
pay double rates to the city. Half the
amounts paid goes toward retiring the
general obligation bond owed to the city
by the county for the cost of laying and
maintaining the water system in the
county.
The progress report of the incomplete
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“If folks would do like the
preacher says, things would be
so good here nobody’d be much
interested in going to heaven.”
Vol. 105 No. 212
study indicated the city has the
capabilities to provide water to county
residents on such a county-city
arrangement for the next 20 years.
The study also indicated the city will
realize a profit as a result of such an
agreement.
The study which analyzes water
rates, water revenues, the cost of water
production and distribution, and a
comparison of water revenues and
water costs will be made by Southern
Engineers to county officials next
week.
(Continued on page 2)
A bargain
AUBURN, Ind. (AP) - At
$54,000, the 1931 gold leaf Cadil
lac Fleetwood might be consid
ered the bargain of this year’s
Midwestern U.S. Collector Car
Auction.
Two years ago Mark Miles of
Louisville, Ky., spent SIOO,OOO
for the vehicle with diamond
encrusted hub caps, white mink
carpeting and a radiator cap
studded with rubies and sap
phires. “I’m a little dis
appointed by the price, but it is
part of the game,” Miles said
Monday.
The auto’s new owner, Chig
Davis of Sandy, Tex., said he
plans to exhibit the car at shop
ping malls and car dealerships.
Griffin-Spalding ambulance attendants removed 2 unidentified young men from wreckage
late this morning. Both were unconscious and had no identification. The accident happened
just south of the U. S. 41 and East College street intersection shortly before 11 a.m. Mrs. Dan
Slade who lives nearby witnessed the accident. She said the driver apparently lost control
on the rain-slick highway. The car left the road, overturned 4 times and on the sth turn
crashed into a utility pole where it came to rest, she said. “I could hear them screaming all
the time it was turning over... I don’t know anything about the ambulance service, but they
sure got here fast. That car didn’t appear to be speeding,” she said. One of the victims was
thrown from the vehicle. Both were apparently in their late teens or early 20’s. The Spalding
Sheriff’s Department was investigating.
ATLANTA (AP) - When the district
attorney’s secretary guns down her
husband, and the D.A. may have to
testify, who’s left to prosecute the case?
When a south Georgia D.A., fighting
lung cancer, is flooded with legal briefs
from highpower'id defense attorneys in
a nationally publicized murder case,
where can he get h?lp?
In both cases this ycv the officials
called the Prosecuting Attorneys
Council of Georgia, a relatively new
state agency that gives informed ad
vice on thorny legal questions and
sometimes — as in these two cases —
furnishes experienced trial pros
ecutors.
Council Director Tony Hight says he
lost the case of the district attorney’s
Council helps DAs
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Occasional thundershowers tonight,
diminishing Thursday. Low tonight in
low 70s; high Thursday in low 80s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
86, high Tuesday 71, rainfall .44 of an
inch.
Twister skipped
population area
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - A tor
nado formed in the air and followed a
highway across Tuscaloosa County
before touching down in several areas
Tuesday, causing some damage but no
injuries.
The twister skipped over heavily
populated areas, felling trees and
power lines in some places and snatch
ing roofs from houses and barns in
others.
Damage was done at Cottondale and
Holt, at the Reichold Chemical Co.
plant and at a yacht club on Lake
Tuscaloosa, eight miles north of the city
of Tuscaloosa.
A worker at the North River Yacht
Club, Bruce Kincaid, said he saw the
twister coming and took refuge in a
pond while the storm battered trees and
damaged a building and some boats
and docks.
High winds or another tornado
sucked the roofs from four abandoned
houses and several bams at Windham
Springs in the same general area.
Earlier in the day, two twisters
reportedly made brief touchdowns in
southwest Alabama, in Mobile and
Wilcox counties, but caused no damage
or injuries.
secretary in north Georgia a few weeks
ago.
He and a young assistant district
attorney “gave it a vigorous
prosecution,” but the jury apparently
was swayed by testimony that the
husband had beaten his wife, Hight
said.
In the south Georgia case, Michael
Stoddard of the council has been
handling the main burden of
prosecution in court hearings on the
“Dawson Five,” a case involving five
young black men accused of murdering
a white ranch foreman 19 months ago.
That case has been further delayed
after Stoddard appealed a ruling that
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