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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Septembers, 1977
Page 2
Four prisoners escape
from Fayette Prison
By The Associated Press
Four prisoners excaped the
Fayette County correctional in
stitution this morning and a fe-
happening
Bradsford reunion
The Bradsford Family reunion will be
Sunday at noon at the Mt. Zion
Methodist campground.
Abernathy reunion
The Abernathy family reunion will be
Sunday at the Birdie Community
clubhouse. The reunion will begin with
lunch at 1 p.m.
Deaths
Funerals
Mr. Kilgo
Mr. Charles Anthony “Tony”
Kilgo of 438 Hammond drive
died at Griffin-Spalding
Hospital Wednesday of injuries
sustained in an auto accident
south of the U. S. 41 and East
College street intersection.
Mr. Kilgo was born in Fulton
County and had lived in Griffin
for most of his life. He was a
veteran of the U. S. Marines and
was employed with the Wood
Brothers Building Maintenance
here.
He is survived by his father,
Alfred D. Kilgo; a sister. Miss
Venetia L. Kilgo of Buford; 4
brothers, Rodney D. Kilgo of
Austell, David Kilgo, Danny
Kilgo and Anson Kilgo, ail of
Griffin; grandmothers, Mrs.
Pirla Buntyn of Griffin and Mrs.
Ruby Lewis of Atlanta.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDonald Chapel.
Mrs. Gay
Mrs. Ida Mae Gay of Griffin
died Wednesday at the Spalding
Convalescent Home where she
had been a patient for 2 years.
Survivors include her mother,
Mrs. Lizzie Jean Driver; 3
sisters, Mrs. Ixmise Driver,
Mrs. Irene Jordan and Miss
Sallie Josie Driver, all of
Griffin; 3 brothers, Charlie Gay
of Griffin, Albert Gay of
Fayette County and Jim Gay of
Atlanta.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by Miller’s Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Andersen
The funeral for Mrs. Yvonne
Andersen of 112 Big Horn road
was held this morning in Car
michael chapel in East Point.
Dr. David Cummins and the
Rev. Butch Thompson of
ficiated. Burial was in
Greenwood cemetery in
Atlanta.
Mrs. Andersen was the
daughter of and Badria
Obadia Krief. She was born in
Tunis, Tunisia and was a
missionary.
She is survived by her
husband, Fred Andersen; a
daughter. Miss Viola Marcelle
Andersen; 2sons, Elward Anton
Andersen and Earl Raymond
Andersen, all of Griffin; a
sister, Mrs. Marcelle Esposito
of Toulouse, France and 2
grandchildren.
Howard T. Carmichael and
Sons of East Point was in
charge of plans.
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male prisoner escaped the
Clarke County jail, but was re
captured, officials said.
The four who escaped the Fa-
Second sniper
victim dies
By MONTE PLOTT
Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -
As the family of 17-year-old
Kenneth Wilson prepared for
the youth’s funeral Wednesday,
a second victim of his suicidal
shooting rampage died.
And a Mecklenburg County
commissioner Wednesday
called for a full scale investiga
tion of the Day sniping
incident.
Jo Ann Terry, 28, one of four
persons gunned down at a
church picnic, died Wednesday
morning without regaining con
sciousness from surgery Mon
day night for an abdominal
wound.
Wilson, identified as the
swastika-wearing white youth
who calmly watched a softball
game at a black church Monday
before opening fire with a high
powered rifle, killed himself
after peppering a crowd of
about 200 blacks with gunfire.
He was buried Wednesday.
A 29-year-old man was the
first to be hit by the gunman and
he died shortly after the in
cident. In addition to Mrs. Ter
ry, two others were wounded.
Witnesses said Mrs. Terry
was waiting to bat in the softball
game when she fell.
“I’m shot, I can’t move,” she
reportedly told a companion,
who lifted her off the ground
and put her in a car.
Mrs. Terry, widow of a New
York policeman who was killed
on duty in 1971, was mother of a
9-year-old son and had adopted
a 7-year-old girl.
Bob Walton, the only black on
the Mecklenburg County Com
mission, said he requested an
investigation of the shooting to
head off possible retaliation in
the wake of comments made by
a state Nazi official. The official
said he would not be surprised
to see incidents similar to the
sniping occur because of what
he called frustrations on the
part of some young whites.
Young Wilson’s father said he
had no knowledge of any Nazi
activity by his son and dis
counted racism as a motive for
the shooting. He said his son had
been dating a black girl.
“If the people in the commu
nity know of the investigation,
they will feel a little more con
fident that efforts are being
taken to deal with it, so they will
not have to deal with it them
selves,” Walton said.
“Hopefully, the report will
show there are no organized ef
forts with regard to attacks on
members of the black commu-
yetteville institution drove
away in a truck. They were
identified by the sheriff’s office
as William Bowman, 18; Henry
Walter Harris, 21; Billy Joe
Clark, 20, of Troup County, and
Randy Robinson, 23.
The Clarke County sheriff’s
office said Lucy Mae Whitlock
of Wamerville escaped Wed
nesday night while being
booked at the jail. A spokesman
said she disappeared after
asking to go to the restroom.
She was recaptured shortly
before midnight.
‘Bedroom bugging’
tapes not destroyed
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)
— The bedroom bugging in
cident which Gov. George C.
Wallace characterized last Sep
tember as a “domestic matter
between my wife and myself”
nity,” he said.
Another black leader, City
Councilman Harvey Gantt, said
he hoped the incident would not
set a pattern “for terrorist
groups like the Nazis.
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Hospital Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Wednesday:
Doug Davis, William Reeves,
Ann Maddox, Ginger Chapman,
Addie Cooper, Mrs. Ellen Jones
and baby, Louie Williams,
Dempsie Brewster, Mrs. Elsie
Brewer and twin sons, Christine
Berry, Lucille Barrow, Gary L.
Parks, William King.
Stork Club
MASTER STOECKLEIN
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Stoecklein of Route I, Zebulon,
announce the birth of a son,
Charles Anthony, on Sept. 3 at
the Thomaston Hospital.
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Kindred
will head JA
H. Leland Kindred, personnel
director for Dundee Mills, has
been elected president of the
Junior Achievement Program
in Griffin. Kindred was in
fluential in bringing the JA
program to Griffin and served
as the program’s finance
chairman last year.
Elected to serve with Kindred
during the 1977-78 operating
year were Stell Gray, vice
president; Ruth Martin,
treasurer; and Mildred Sawyer,
secretary.
Al Thrasher is immediate
past president.
Wayne Brown will served as
program director of the coming
year. Brown served in this
capacity during the 1976-77
year.
could turn out to be a matter for
the courts, too.
The Montgomery Advertiser
reported today that the tapes
produced by the bugging device
on Wallace’s bedroom phone
were not destroyed following
their discovery last September.
Quoting reliable sources, the
Advertiser said some 400 hours
of taped conversations Wallace
had with “prominent women”
still exist and could play a vital
role in any divorce proceedings
initiated by his wife, Cornelia.
Mrs. Wallace moved out of
the executive mansion Tuesday,
saying she could no longer en
dure the "vulgarity, threats and
abuse” from her husband.
She conferred about an hour
Wednesday with her attorneys,
but her only comment was that
she has "no plans yet” to file a
divorce petition.
The 38-year-old attractive
brunette has, however, in
structed her attorneys “to do
what is necessary” to protect
her.
One of her attorneys, Ira De-
Ment, has indicated there will
be discussions with the gover
nor’s lawyers to come up with
an “amicable settlement.”
The Advertiser’s source said
if the Wallaces “can’t reach
some kind of settlement, this
could be one of the nastiest di
vorce cases in the history of this
state.”
And the source did not rule
out the possibility of the tapes
playing an important role in the
proceedings. The tapes, said the
source, are of “conversations a
married man ought not to be
having with other women.”
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Crime report
Check
forgery
reported
Griffin police were in
vestigating reports of a forged
check, a stolen money order and
a vandalism.
Irvin Clark of Clark’s Super
market on East Broadway
reported a Social Security
check he cashed was returned
to him Wednesday because the
endorsement had been forged.
Mrs. Mittie Ann Bell, 721
Anne Street, Apt. F, reported
that someone stole her money
order for $35. Police asked
merchants to be on the lookout
for it and to notify their depart
ment if it turns up.
Mrs. Joyce Farley, 212 Cabin
Creek drive, said someone
threw a rock and damaged the
trunk lid of her auto while it was
parked in front of her apart
ment.
Service and Judy at the Bank of Griffin.
Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Powers and Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Waller,
are neighbors in Brook circle. Every
night Judy and Ronnie got together and
worked, putting the plane back
together. They put new cloth over it and
painted it a bright yellow. Then back on
the soybean truck to the airport it went
where the wings were attached and
after more days of work, it was ready to
fly.
Judy vows when she first began to
help, she really did not want to learn to
fly. She just was not interested, she
said.
But finally, Ronnie’s bug rubbed off
on her. After talking with John Mabry,
she decided to take lessons.
She soloed last week and plans to fly
daily until she gets her license.
The landing was kind of bumpy, she
said, and Ronnie got “kind of upset”.
She thought he was afraid she’d ruin his
plane.
“No, no. I told you to save yourself
This man was having a blast at city hall this week. He was
sandblasting part of the structure as part of a general
renovation program which has been under way this
summer.
Flying
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first, then the airplane,” he protested.
Upon alighting, she was initiated by
airport employes who dowsed her with
water and cut off the back of her shirt.
It’s hanging on the airport office wall
for all to see, with Judy’s name, the
date and a note of how well she per
formed by instructor Mabry. Friends
also signed their congratulations.
Spurred on by his good luck, Ronnie
has just purchased 5 more J-3 Cubs.
Yes, Judy’s going to help him. When
they get the first 2 rebuilt and sold, he’ll
make his initial investment back, he
explained. Then the others will be that
much profit. They are in great demand
and the Atlanta area has more than
anywhere else, he said.
Ronnie appears genuinely puzzled
over Judy’s flying.
“When we first started dating, she
was not interested in flying. She hated
airplanes. .
“I still haven’t figured out why you
started flying... I still don’t know. . ”
