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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1977)
Court rules cohabitation not grounds for determining joint ownership ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor gia Supreme Court refused Wednesday to recognize cohabi tation outside of marriage as grounds for determining joint ownership of property. The court ruled against Hazel Rehak, a Floyd County woman who sought to enforce an al- Busbee asked to transfer youth center jurisdiction MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — State Sen. Culver Kidd has asked Gov. George Busbee to transfer jurisdiction over the Youth Development Center from the Department of Human Resources to the Department of Offender Rehabilitation. In a letter last week to Bus bee, Kidd said the DHR had “failed miserably” in its ad ministration of the Milledge ville facility, which houses Canoeing, drifting state rivers differ By NOLAN WALTERS Daily Tifton Gazette Canoeing South Georgia rivers differs from floating North Georgia “white water” just as eating boiled okra differs from eating fried okra. The motions are the same, but the feeling is entirely dif ferent. For one, North Georgia rivers and sometimes streams exhibit a strange phenomenon the natives call “current.” This mysterious force actually will propel a boat down stream with minimal help from the passengers. I noticed this right off when I left South Georgia to at tend college in Athens. The misconceptions I had about upland rivers exist in reverse when people visit God Country here, below the fall line. A friend of mine took a little trip, three or four days, down the Withlacoochee a while back, with a female companion, his dog, a couple six-packs and other necessities. He was lying back drifting quietly; listening to the ca cadas ratcheting in the woods and counting the tupelo berries as they fell with a “ploop” into the river, when he heard another canoe closing fast from behind. Turning around, he beheld three crash-helmeted boys in a heavy-duty, fiberglassed, reinforced floatation guaranteed vessel churning toward him with the discipline of Roman galley slaves. “How far to the rapids?” one adventurer asked when in range. My friend couldn’t bring himself to tell the stranger there weren’t any. So the two parties just studied each other like different species until the river eased them apart. Having spent time in cosmopolitan Athens, I can readily understand both my friend’s bias and that of the strangers. But all those early South Georgia years swimming in the Kinchafoonee (pronounced Kitch-afoo nee) Creek and falling out of trees into a spring we called Mossydale have had their effect. I can resist the allure of plunging over cataracts, swirl ing through Charybdis or bashing my brains out on a granite wall, for fun. “Maybe you prefer the slow death of a snake bite?” someone might reasonably ask. Well, no. But that’s not a problem if you watch where you’re going. Actually, wild life—alligators, snakes and the occasional wild boar—perform the same service for South Georgia canoers that “white water” does for their North Georgia cousins. They terrorize and impress the innocent when you tell them about your trip, probably the greatest of all pleasures to be derived from the out-of-doors. Sadly, this summer has not been a good one for river trips in South Georgia, and my friends once again are starting to doubt my devil-may-care courage. They’ve heard all of last year’s adventures. But the last time I tried the Alapaha River, billed as the cleanest in Georgia, the best I could do was to take my canoe for a walk. After a while, it became embarrassing sitting there in my noble, red Ouachita, looking heroic, in two inches of water. Fall is the kindest season for South Georgia canoe trips, though, and the rain has picked up of late. During Sep tember and October (and sometimes November and December), the weather is still warm enough for people, but not for snakes and bugs. Plus, the water level usually reaches the right height high enough for mobility and low enough to keep you out of adjancent peanut fields. There was a particular pleasure to be had last Labor Day on the Alapaha, drifting now and then past old men and boys fishing, asking if anything was biting. You can’t find that sort of thing when you’re rocketing down a river toward certain death. In fact, I’d be satisfied right now to be camped out on a sandbar, the moon the only light, listening to the owls hooting back and l forth through the fog. I wouldn’t mind some boiled okra either. leged agreement to share own ership of a home with Archie Mathis, a man with whom she had “cohabited” for 18 years but never married. “It is well settled that neither a court of law nor a court of equity will lend its aid to either party to a contract founded youthful offenders up to the age of 17. There have been about 60 es capes from the center in the last 12 months, and two escapees have been charged in con nection with the death of a Milledgeville man. Kidd cited apprehension in the community and added that the youths are “thrown together under scattered supervision and limited control” and added that upon an illegal or immoral con sideration,” the court said in the 5-2 ruling. The woman alleged the two bought the home together in 1957. Records show Mathis put the home in his name for loan purposes, and moved out in De cember, 1975, ordering her to “fights, extortion and sexual promiscuity permeate the youth population.” Kidd also said the facility originally was built to house delinquents aged 8 to 13, but slowly became transformed into an institution for older ju veniles with long records. The DHR has announced plans to build a fence around the center and to hire more guards, but Kidd said more radical changes are needed. He suggested that a new de partment, called the Adolescent Offender Rehabilitation Divi sion, be created inside the DOR and that the center and its three sister institutions in the state be placed under the division’s authority. “Law enforcement officials, court officials and the citizens who are violated (by escapees) are justifiably angered to find that virtually nothing can be done with these juveniles on ap prehension other than place ment in the same inadequate facility,” Kidd said. 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A federal court ruled earlier Speck Richard Speck, above, who 11 years ago murdered eight young nurses, skipped his parole hearing on Wednesday and in a letter, used obscenities to inform them he would see them next year. (AP) that Brown, now 57, was unlaw fully denied an appeal because his court-appointed attorneys failed to carry out his wishes to take the case to a new court, and ordered that Brown either be released or that his case be reviewed. Brown was convicted of the murder of Mrs. J.T. “Billie” Inman, whose body was found in a wooded area near Savan nah in 1962. She had been shot five times. The Georgia Supreme Court said the conviction must be re versed because blacks had been systematically excluded from the grand jury that indicted Brown and the trial jury that decided his case. In other decisions, the court: —Upheld the Clarke County school board’s action in estab lishing a millage rate designed to produce a surplus. —Upheld the conviction and life sentence of Randy Darnell Mitchell for the 1976 murder of the wife of Superior Court Judge Horace T. Ward of Fulton County. —Reversed the conviction and life sentence of Judy Carter in Bacon County for the 1974 shotgun slaying of her husband, Roy Carter. —Ruled it is not a violation of law for a parttime teacher in a county vocational-technical school also to serve on the board of education. —Declared unconstitutional a 1960 law making the Laurens County grand jury the final ar bitrator in disputes between the sheriff and the county commis sioners. Page 3 w ' Hit "* ■’*’”*’* Survived water Beetles and army worms control of the army worm is Lannate on soybeans and Sevin and Parathion on pastures and lawn grasses. “Sevin is one of the safer chemicals and it will do the job if it is applied properly. This has been one of the major shortcomings of those who have applied chemicals — they have not applied the chemicals properly,” he said. Herbert Womack, Cooperative Extension Service entomologist at the Agricultrual Experiment Station in Tifton, said the army worms arrived about six weeks early this year and are — Griffin Daily News Thursday, September s, 1977 HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Eric Hagerstrand, a Cin cinnati, Ohio, attorney, survived a white water raft trip on a West Virginia river but was undone —by Monday’s torrential rains — on his way home. Hagerstrand, foreground, was flooded out when his van stalled in a fast filling underpass here. (AP) (Continued from page 1) likely to be around longer. The mature worm is light green to black and grows to about one and one half inches before going into the pupa stage. It pupates five to 10 days and then emerges as a moth. The moths mate in two or three days and the cycle starts again. The moths can lay up to 1,000 eggs in a season. Womack said the hot, dry weather attributed to the early arrival of the worms. He also said viruses and fungus diseases that usually hit the worms have not developed this year.
