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Ray Fowler (c) with helper gathers hay on Teamon Road to form this fall scene in Spalding County.
Henry jury to settle
Talmadge property
McDonough, Ga. (AP) - u.s. sen.
Herman Talmadge and Betty
Talmadge, his wife of 35 years, were
granted a divorce for the second time
Tuesday, but a jury trial still will be
held to determine settlement of
property.
Judge Sam L. Whitmire of the Flint
Judicial Circuit granted the decree. He
ruled that until the property settlement
trial is held, Talmadge, a Georgia
Spalding is
No. 1 again
at Gordon
Gordon Junior College has registered
a record-breaking 1,316 students for the
fall quarter. This is an increase of 9.4
percent over last fall’s enrollment of
1,203.
Gordon’s enrollment has increased
each year since it became a unit of the
University System in 1972 with 550
students.
The admissions office and faculty and
staff are delighted with this growth.
President Jerry Williamson ex
pressed the staff’s sentiments, “We are
pleased with this continued growth and
feel that it is a reflection of the quality
of education that we are providing for
the students in our service area. The
fact that our students place first on the
Regents’ test and that our nursing
graduates perform superbly on the
state licensing exam are indicative of
the success of our program. Obviously,
students are enrolling at Gordon
because of our reputation of academic
excellence.”
Spalding County has the largest
number of students enrolled at Gordon
this fall, 354. Spalding is followed by
Upson with 310; Lamar 179; Butts, 130;
Monroe, 102; and Pike 86. The major
student population is from this 6-county
area.
This fall the college also has the
largest number of boarding students in
its 6-year history in the University -
System. Housed in the dorms are 160
students, 78 males and 82 females.
The national trend during the past
few years has been toward a decline in
enrollment in higher education;
however, with Gordon’s history of
growth as we; as the population in
crease predicted in this area, the
college officials are optimistic that the
college enrollment will continue to
grow.
GRIFFIN
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Democrat, can continue to reside in his
Washington condominium and Mrs.
Talmadge can live in the family home
at Lovejoy, Ga.
No date for the property trial has
been set.
The 63-year-old senator’s request for
a divorce originally was granted Feb.
17 under Georgia’s no-fault divorce law,
which allows a judge to grant a divorce
if one party requests it, even if the other
party contests the action.
However, after the state Supreme
Court ruled on April 21 that a contested
divorce entitles either party to a jury
trial, both the senator and Mrs. Tal
madge requested a trial and the divorce
was vacated.
Attorneys for the senator and Mrs.
Talmadge agreed last week to separate
the property settlement question from a
ruling on the actual divorce.
Talmadge’s attorney, Alex
McLennan Sr. of Atlanta, said he filed a
motion with Whitmire Tuesday for two
Lie detector tests
admissible in court
ATLANTA (AP) — Lie-detector tests
should be admissible in court so trial
juries can “attach to them whatever...
value they may have,” the Georgia
Supreme Court has ruled, throwing out
a long-standing prohibition against trial
use of polygraph exams.
“It is for the jury to decide what
weight should be given to the eviden
ce,” said the majority opinion in a
landmark ruling Tuesday. The
polygraph test results would still be us
able only if attorneys for both sides
agreed.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
■gs
“A boring conversationalist is
one who says everything he
thinks.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, October 19,1977
separate trials over the property set
tlement.
The senator would like to separate
the question of other assets from the
issue of who should keep about $750,000
that resulted from the sale of his share
of Terminal Facilities, a 1,000-acre
tract in Cobb County, McLennan said.
Talmadge said in a petition filed in
August that the property had been
placed in his wife’s name to prevent
news stories relating to its purchase
and to avoid useless controversy.
Mrs. Talmadge has contended that
the property was a gift to her and that
she was justified in keeping the money
from its sale.
In a cross-petition for divorce filed
last month, Mrs. Talmadge charged
that Talmadge was “guilty of cruel
treatment and habitual intoxication.”
A spokesman for the senator said the
allegations were “simply a threat to
smear Sen. Talmadge and a threat to
hurt him politically.”
Five justices voted with the majority.
Two dissented, calling the results of lie
detector tests “haphazard and in
conclusive.”
In other rulings Tuesday, the
Supreme Court:
—Rejected an appeal of Anthony
Machetti, who is on death row for the
Bibb County murders of Joseph Ronald
Akins and Juanita Knight Akins.
—Affirmed the death penalty im
posed in Muscogee County on Jerome
Bowden in the 1976 murder of Mrs.
Kathryn Stryker.
—Upheld a Bibb County jury’s
decision not to award alimony to the ex
wife of baseball pitcher Johnny Lee
“Blue Moon” Odom.
The high court ruling on polygraph
exams came in a reversal of a state
Court of Appeals decision concerning
the May 1973 statutory rape conviction
of Demlsey Roy Chambers in Bartow
County.
The appeals court had overturned
Chambers’ conviction, but the Supreme
Court decision sends the case back to
the original Bartow County court.
According to trial testimony by a
polygraph examiner, Chambers did not
tell the truth while his 10-year-old
victim did.
People
...and things
Two youngsters trying on Halloween
masks in variety store.
Driver patiently strumming steering
wheel with fingers while woman in car
behind honks and honks horn, urging
him to run fearlessly into traffic buz
zing from both directions.
Griffin High students scrounging
paper to decorate float for homecoming
parade.
Fats have
larger
show
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
While toothpick-thin models pa
raded past buyers at the Cali
fornia Mart, a heftier contin
gent was staging a much larger
trade and fashion show.
“Big Is Beautiful,” the first
major national exhibit of fash
ions for fat women, drew an
overflow crowd to the Mart the
ater this week to view bulky
models bouncing down the run
way in jogging suits, negligees
and evening gowns.
There were shouts, applause
and wolf whistles.
“The message of the show is
that just because you're over
weight, you don’t have to look
dowdy and ugly,” said Marilyn
Wheeler, the Mart’s special
events coordinator who planned
the unique three-day exhibit
and fashion show.
“There are intelligent, ag
gressive, witty big women who
don’t want to wear a tent for
ever,” said Miss Wheeler.
The trade show features 62
manufacturers specializing in
the large and half-size market
— sizes 18 to 52.
There were a few problems
backstage, Miss Wheeler noted.
“We realized we couldn’t have
the models changing back-to
back. And a size 20 sample just
didn’t fit all of them.”
David London, whose wife,
Nancy Austin, is a top designer
for heavy women, said, “Over
30 per cent of the women in this
country are in large and half
sizes. That’s 22 million
American women in our mar
ket.”
Seven years ago London and
his wife — who now weighs 273
pounds — opened a small Las
Vegas boutique for “Queen-siz
ed women.”
Ms. Austin, a comedienne,
had appeared on a TV show and
was inundated with mail from
big women asking: “Where can
I find clothes like yours?”
Vol. 105 No. 248
Chapter pushes
minority hiring
in Spalding
Gary Reid, Griffin president NAACP
chapter, thinks the county com
missioners should exert more control
for minority hiring in county offices.
Reid told the commissioners in their
Tuesday night meeting that he felt the
commissioners could do more to
promote minority hiring because they
control the purse strings and the
budgets of the elected officials.
Reid said he was in attendance at the
meeting to see if the commissioners
had a minority hiring progress report in
that his members were concerned
about the small number of blacks
employed by the county.
Reid mentioned the tax office where
there are no black employes. He said
the NAACP had sent several applicants
to seek jobs with the tax office. They
had been told the county did the hiring
and the office did not take the ap
plication.
“I think the county fathers should tell
the elected officials to balance this
thing out,” Reid said.
He said he did not want to dwell on the
past but by all indications there is still
evidence of discrimination. Reid said it
is not fair representation to have to go
out of the county to find work and come
back to the county to pay taxes and not
receive any benefits, as in the case of
the tax office.
Commission Chairman, P. W. Hamil
explained that there was very little
turnover in certain elected officials’
offices. He said the commissioners
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Nancy Austin at 273 pounds with escort pushes ‘Big is
Beautiful’.
“We opened our boutique with
300 garments and in the first
week we sold all but 23 pieces,”
she recalled.
Nancy Austin Fashions now
has four stores and a factory
that distributes to specialty
shops across the country. They
also sell large-size patterns for
home sewers.
Ms. Austin said she’s fighting
fashion stereotypes imposed on
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—
Fair and cool tonight with low in the low
40s. Sunny and slightly warmer
Thursday with highs in the mid 70s.
LOCAL WEATHER—Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
46, high Tuesday 73.
could not by law tell the elected officials
how to run their offices because they
were elected by the people.
Commissioner Frank Thomas said
the commissioners could, however,
seek cooperation with the elected of
ficials.
“It’s not a question that we can tell
them what to do because we are elected
like they are,” Thomas said.
Reid said he understood the situation
concerning being elected but He was
concerned with the county’s complying
with federal regulation for minority
hiring. He said he was also concerned
because some of the money in the
elected officials’ budgets may possible
be misued. He said now was the time to
do something while the commissioners
were reviewing budgets.
“We know what the law requires but
when are we going to get on with the
business?” Reid said.
At present the county commissioners
directly control the activities of the
correctional institute, the tax
assessor’s office, animal control, and
the juvenile probation office.
The elected officials* offices in the
county consist of the tax com
missioner’s office, the probate judge,
the sheriff, and the clerk of court.
In other action during the meeting
County Administrator Lewis Leonard
announced that 5 contractors were
interested in bidding on the con
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fat women. “We make very few
garments in black ... I remem
ber having nothing to choose
from but black button-down
the-front dresses.
“We emphasize color and a
youthful look,” said Ms. Austin,
whose new collection includes
decorated jeans, brightly print
ed handkerchief-style blouses
and a long lacy peasant dress
that doubles as a bridal gown.