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Bert Lance moves through the crowd of people that greeted him on his return to Calhoun, Ga.
Tree-shaker will help
solve peach problems
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Thou
sands of Georgia peaches may
get canned as a result of a new
mechanical tree-shaker, re
searchers say.
In fact, researchers at the
Richard B. Russell Agricultural
Center hope the tree-shaker will
lead to a new farm industry in
Georgia — growing cling-seed
peaches used in canning. Most
now are grown in California,
which leads the nation in peach
production.
“We can produce a peach —
Baby Gold — that is superior in
taste to anything they raise in
California. And we have the
tremendous freight advantage
on them for the big eastern
markets,” said Dr. Gerald Dull.
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High production costs, a
problem in Georga as well as in
California, have forced West
Coast growers to cut their acre
age, Dull said.
But the new machine devel
oped at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Southeastern
Fruit and Tree laboratory at
Byron, Ga., will help solve that
problem, he said.
Chiefly designed by Byron en
gineers Gordon E. Monroe and
Donald L. Peterson, the ma
chine grips the trees and shakes
off peaches. Other similar
machines have been built, but
none are as fast as the Byron
model, Dull said.
Peaches such as Elbertas,
which are grown to be sold
Husband-wife team
Richard and Charlotte Turner are a
husband and wife team that makes
beautiful music together.
The couple has a uniqueness in that
there are no husband-wife band
director teams in Georgia who work as
director one with the other.
Mrs. Charlotte Turner directs the
Spalding Junior High band and feeds
Richard Turner’s Griffin High School
band.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, September 23, 1977
Turners strike up the band
GRIFFIN
fresh, can’t be used in the proc
ess because they bruise too eas
ily. But the cling peaches suit
able for canning can withstand
the fall to a soft continuous belt
which takes them to hoppers for
transportation to processing
plants.
There, the fruit must be sort
ed in ripe, over-ripe and green
piles before it can be canned.
Dull and other researchers
have designed an electronic
scanner which measures the
light penetration of the peaches
and separates them into grades.
He said the only problem re
maining is to persuade Georgia
farmers to grow canning
peaches.
“We are an unusual combination,”
Turner said.
Both Turners are Tennesseeans. Mrs.
Turner was bom in Chattanooga and
Turner was bom in Nashville.
Both just happened to matriculate at
the same college, Middle Tennessee
State, where their musical lives took
shape.
At Middle Tennessee Mrs. Turner
played oboe in the college band and
Lances:
‘We’re glad to be home again"
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Bert Lance
is home again, but he’s a pale ghost of
the joke-telling, back-slapping Georgia
banker who went to Washington last
January to be President Carter’s top
budget officer.
The wear and tear of investigations
into Lance’s fiscal integrity were
evident when he and his wife Laßelle
returned home Thursday afternoon for
a few days of rest and relaxation.
Lance’s booming voice seldom boomed,
his usually quick smile came slowly, his
eyes were cold, his face was drawn, and
he refused to answer questions.
The Lances flew home from
Washington in a twin-engine, turbo
prop airplane they had chartered.
Holding hands, they eagerly waded into
a small crowd of friends who met them
at the airport and later spoke briefly to
a cheering downtown throng which
welcomed them home.
But Lance’s folksy personality was
210 register
for scouting
Sponsors of the annual School Night
for Cub Scouting reported new mem
bership applications from 210 boys and
45 adults.
The Boy Scouts of America sponsored
the membership drive which was
conducted at elementary schools in the
Griffin-Spalding County School system,
Griffin Academy, and Griffin Christian
School.
A new Pack (108) was organized at
Griffin Academy.
Drive sponsors expressed ap
preciation to all who were instrumental
in making the membership drive a
success.
“Scouting will continue to grow in
Spalding County as long as we have
dedicated adults interested in our
youth,” Elliott Harwell, drive chair
man, said.
became the first girl in the school’s
history to become a drum major.
Because she played the oboe, one
among two of the most difficult band
instruments to play, Mrs. Turner’s
participation was always in demand.
She said the oboe is considered dif
ficult because the pitch is hard to get
because it is done basically with the
mouth. This is contrary to other
musical instruments because they have
provisions made for pitch.
She played with the Organ Guild, in
the pit orchestra for operas and even
sang in the varsity choir.
Mrs. Turner said she was kept busy
but mainly because of her ability to
play the oboe.
“When you play the oboe, you play a
lot of places,” she laughed.
Turner played trumpet in the college
band.
He said he began playing trumpet
when he was in the sth grade in the
Nashville School system.
He came from a family where the
father played drums in a big band
sound dance band. Music had always in
some way affected his life.
Turner and his wife met at Middle
Tennessee State and they recalled the
funny way it all happened.
Turner being a band major and a
sophomore, was working in the music
department to help pay his fees. It was
at the beginning of the school year and
he was issuing band uniforms when
Mrs. Turner entered the picture.
Being of small frame and a shorter
stature, Mrs. Turner posed a problem
in fitting.
“I must have gone through all 150
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subdued.
He shook hands mechanically, kept
conversations to a minimum and
repeated over and over to well-wishers,
“Good to see you, good to see you."
“We’re glad to be home,” Lance told
reporters, adding that he would rest
and visit with friends until next week,
when he will return to Washington to
clean out his desk at the Office of
Management and Budget, whose
directorship he resigned Wednesday.
He said he also will move the family
belongings back to Georgia.
“I think he’s relieved that most of it’s
over,” said Lance’s 17-year-old son
Stuart. “He probably will take it easy
for a while.”
The Lances rode in the family
Cadillac, a National Rifle Association
membership decal in its back window,
to the center of town, where a crowd of
more than 1,500 waited patiently in the
broiling sun for Calhoun’s most famous
son.
The signs in the crowd showed how
the town’s mood had changed since it
held an emotional rally last week on the
eve of Lance’s three days of televised
hearings before a Senate committee
probing his finances.
Last week, the placards said, “We
Love Bert” and “Bert Lance Was Fair
to Me, We Need Him in D.C.”
But Thursday, the signs castigated
the news media and politicians who
opposed Lance. Said one sign,
“Welcome Home Bert. You Don’t Need
Washington.”
Those at the welcome rally on the
steps of the Gordon County courthouse
showered prayers, cheers and roses on
the Lances, but they did not have last
week’s defiant spirit.
The Rev. Bob Maddox, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Calhoun,
prayed for “a time of healing...a time of
understanding.”
Mayor Billy Burdette said he had
been “very depressed” by the Lance
affair, which he termed “an act of
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Mrs. Turner and Lisa Hewitt.
Weather
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Fair tonight and Saturday. Low tonight
in lower 60s. High Saturday in mid 80s.
God.” But he urged the crowd, “Let’s
make this a celebration.”
Both Lance and Mrs. Lance, who was
given a bouquet of red roses, told their
friends and neighbors they were “very
grateful” for their support during what
Mrs. Lance called “our trials and
tribulations.”
Lance, who seemed embarrassed by
the crowd’s lavish applause, said his
time in Washington had been “very
fine” and he had “tried to do what was
right.”
He said he and his wife had bolstered
each other during “weak-kneed”
moments, and said last week’s rally at
the Calhoun Municipal Gymnasium had
helped him through the grueling
examination by the Senate Govern
mental Affairs Committee.
“You’ll never know what that rally
last Wednesday night meant to us,” he
said. “There is no way to adequately
explain what the love and support of in
dividuals like you has meant to us.”
People
...and things
Group of about 10 Griffin High
students accepting ride offer and
jumping into the back of pickup truck of
fellow student when it stops at traffic
light at 10th and Taylor.
ROTC Cadet riding bicycle and
eating fast on ice cream in attempt to
keep it from melting away in afternoon
sun.
Two little old ladies pointing in
several different directions as they ride
along West Solomon street, apparently
talking about the different homes and
the changes that have been made along
their route.