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Mrs. Geraldine Wright explains metric math program to Board of Education.
Motel foul-up moves
film makers to Newnan
That motion picture about a trackstar
will not be filmed in Griffin after all.
It’s moving to Newnan.
Two officials from American Inter
national Pictures, Joe Ellis and Joe
Roth, producer, came to the Griffin-
Spalding school board meeting to thank
school personnel for their cooperation.
The explained that they have about 50
people in the basic crew and cast, plus
others coming in such as art directors
and cameramen. Through a misun
derstanding, they were having to stay
at the Locust Grove Holiday Inn instead
of the Griffin inn and were “spending a
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Frank Moore, Carter’s liaison to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - Without the
help of the Congress, the president is in
deep trouble.
“If we can’t get our programs
passed, it won’t be a successful ad
ministration,” said Frank Moore,
President Carter’s liaison man to the
Congress.
Moore’s ties with the president go
back to the days when Carter was
Georgia’s governor.
A recognized authority on community
and area planning, Moore was
executive director of one of the first
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dash across beginning of airport run
way with young child in stroller to get
out of the way of a DC3 about to land.
Man and woman team looking for
work the modern way on Bieze street;
he with yard tools on his shoulder
proceded by her with portable radio
blaring modem jive tune.
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tractor pull. Richie Distel drives tractor pulling the sled.
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horrendous amount of time in cars”
coming to and from the filming site.
“We work a 12-hour day with a full
union crew and found ourselves
spending too much time traveling back
and forth from the Locust Grove
motel,” he said. The motel in Newnan is
only 5 minutes away, he said.
They said school officials had
cooperated in every way and gave
special thanks to Griffin High Principal
Tascar Williams and Mrs. Pat Lee,
speech teacher, who were most helpful,
they said.
“The worst is that the kids were all
excited about it,” Roth said.
area planning and development
commissions in Georgia.
Carter named him his executive
secretary in 1972.
In that job, he was responsible for the
administrative staff of 40 and served as
a legislative and intergovernmental
liaison, providing a link with the
legislature and local governments.
Moore and the president meet at least
once daily, sometimes as early as 7:45
a.m., but always by 9 a.m. The frequent
meetings, Moore said, allow him to
“take care of problems as they come
up."
The president’s touch in relations
with the Congress includes handwritten
notes to key legislators and hosting
meetings with lawmakers.
Those activities are “icing on the
cake," Moore said.
And it took plenty of icing to smooth
over some of the early rough spots.
There were complaints from
lawmakers that Carter aides failed to
return phone calls and showed up late
for appointments.
Lesislators also complained that the
White House advised them on policy
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223 Tuesday Afternoon, October 11, 1977
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“Folks of means often are
made miserable by their con
cern for the cheerful poor.”
Frank Moore (1) talks with President Carter.
Copeland
installed
president
Dr. H. J. Copeland, Jr., a native of
Griffin, became president of Wooster
College, Wooster Ohio, in a ceremony
during the weekend.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. H. J.
Copeland, 615 East College street. He is
a retired physician. Dr. and Mrs.
Copeland attended the inauguration of
their son as a college president.
The educator graduated from Griffin
High where he was president of the
student body when the Griffin and
Spalding School Systems were merged.
Copeland is married to the former
Laura Harper of Griffin, daughter of
Mrs. Girdean Harper and the late Mr.
Harper.
Farmers tune machines
Tractor pull highlight of fair
Farmers in the Spalding County area
who have been bragging their tractor
has the most power get a chance to
show what their tractors will do tonight
at the tractor pull at the Spalding
County Fair.
The tractor pull has become one of
the highlight attractions of the fair. The
pull begins at 7 o’clock.
Tractor pulls are conducted
frequently in the midwest and are fairly
new to the southeast. Pulls in the
midwest often draw crowds of 30,000 to
40,000.
Tractors will be competing in weight
classifications to see which one can pull
a “sled” the longest distance. The hitch
is that weight on the sled is shifted as
the tractors pull it. The further a
tractor pulls the sled, the more difficult
it is for the tractor to pull it.
The sled to be used in the pull at the
Vol. 105 No. 241
Board optimistic
on school bonds
The Griffin-Spalding school board
met Monday night in its last regular
session before the Nov. 8 bond
referendum.
After posing for a Griffin High
yearbook picture, members donned
green and gold T-shirts which are being
used to promote the bond issue.
The shirts are on sale in the schools
for $3 each and will be worn by students
each Monday until election day and also
on that day.
Mrs. Yvonne Langford, public
relations chairman, said she is very
optimistic about the bond issue and that
a slide presentation on the subject is
available to groups. Brochures will be
distributed this week and billboards are
already up, she said.
Parents and interested citizens were
invited to have lunch at Griffin High
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday in
observance of National Lunchroom
Week.
Mrs. Mary Stinson reported that
special menus are being planned and
visitors are asked to stop by the prin
cipal’s office before going to the lun
chroom.
Visitors may eat in the lunchroom, if
they can find a seat, or may take a sack
lunch to the lawn, Mrs. Langford said.
“I believe anybody who eats with us
will say ‘yes’, commented Chairman
Henry Walker.
Board members were first to see an
artist’s drawing of the proposed high
school and stadium.
At the end of September total
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fair was designed, engineered, built
and owned by Harold Distel, an airline
pilot who lives seven miles west of
Griffin off Highway 16.
The sled is the second to be built by
Distel. He constructed the first as a
challenge to fair manager Jack Smith.
“I told Jack that if he would have a
tractor pull at the fair, I would build a
sled,” he said.
Distel built the sled which had a large
chunk of concrete on the top that shifted
to change the weight. He later deter
mined that the sled could be dangerous
and decided to construct a new one. The
new one uses stationary weight on top
and the wheels under the sled move
back to change the weight. Tractors
will be used for weight.
Many farmers have been preparing
their tractors for the pull. They will be
tuned as nearly as possible to per-
54 Baptist churches
represented at meet
A total of 54 churches are represented
at the 55-member Flint River Baptist
Association two-day meeting in Griffin.
The first session was held Monday at
the Teamon Baptist Church on Teamon
Road where Dr. Charles Carter, pastor
of Jonesboro First Baptist, was the
speaker. He emphasized a bold mission
thrust with scriptures taken from the
Book of Acts, calling attention to the
expansion of the first century church.
He challenged the members to take on
the missionary duties of the church as
the Hirst Christians.
The director of missions, Dr. Sterling
Sexton, challenged the association
members concerning the roles of the
missionaries in their own cities.
During the business session, the Rev.
Brady Blalock, pastor of the Hammond
Drive Baptist Church in Griffin,
brought the introductory sermon. His
subject was, “Preachers Preach”, with
emphasis on the fact that the church
must be a speaking church.
Officers were elected as follow:
The Rev. Bob Jones, pastor of the
Carver Road Baptist Church in Griffin,
was elected moderator, and the Rev.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Decreasing cloudiness and cooler
tonight with lows hear 40. Sunny and
breezy Wednesday with highs in the
upper 60s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
50, high Monday 70.
Also in this story: —
1. — Think Metric stressed.
2. — Math test results concern board
member.
3. — System prepares to serve
handicapped.
4. — Gym use approved.
5. — PTA conferences held.
6. — Faculty changes announced.
4 pass bar
examination
Four Griffin people including a
woman and a Williamson resident have
passed the Georgia bar examination
and are expected to be sworn to
practice in the courts by Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr., of the Griffin Judicial
Circuit.
Those passing the bar exam include
Mrs. Cecelia de Oviedo, Richard
Hunter of Commercial Bank & Trust
Co., Doug Tingle in the cost standards
department with Dundee Mills, and Jim
Hendrix of Williamson who is branch
manager of Farm Credit Service in
Thomaston.
Mrs. de Oviedo, wife of a Griffin
doctor, is employed by Atty. Marshal
Sims. She took her law training at John
Marshall Law School in Atlanta.
Tingle and Hendrix studied at
Woodrow Wilson in Atlanta, and Hunter
studied at Atlanta Law School.
Warren Bedingfield, pastor of Oak hill
Baptist Church in Griffin was elected
vice-moderator.
The Monday session was climaxed
with a sermon by the Rev. Truett
Gannon, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist
Church of Stone Mountain.
Today’s session begins at 2:30 p.m. at
the Mclntosh Baptist Church on High
way 92. The evening session begins at 7
p.m.
The evening services will feature a
slide presentation by Dr. Ralph West of
Richmond, Va., of the foreign mission
board representing the Southern
Baptist Convention.
He is expected to reiterate the
Southern Baptist’s Bold Mission Thrust
of having 5,000 missionaries on the field
by the year 2000. At present, there are
2,877 missionaries on the field.
This evening’s session will be
climaxed with a cooperative program
by the Rev. Jerrell Pritchett of the
Georgia Baptist Convention. He is
expected to challenge the church to
cooperatively work as a unit as the
Baptist Church has done in the past to
achieve the assignments of the church.
section to get maximum pulling power.
There is expected to be six classes of
tractors: 5,000 pounds, 7,000 pounds,
9,000 pounds, 12,000 pounds, 16,000
pounds and super stock.
This year for the first time, there will
be a class for 4-wheel drive trucks.
All trucks and tractors are weighed to
determine class.
Ronnie Green is serving as chairman
of the pull and says it has become one of
the most popular events at the fair.
“We are expecting tractors from
Thomaston, Newnan, McDonough, Pike
County and other counties for our pull,”
he said.
Although the farmers may have their
tractors finely tuned, they will not be
permitted to add power boosters, such
as super chargers. They will be the
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