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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 DAI LY#NEWS Daily Since 1872 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 ■i H ■■ .$9% \ ■ fl ’ fl fl ' I fl w fl . Sir' 11 ? Z ' fl ■ ■ ■ B fl I I 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 (Continued on page 2) 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.