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Homecoming set
“This is the Year” will be the theme
for Homecoming activities Friday at
Griffin High School.
They will begin with a pep rally
Friday morning in the gymnasium and
conclude with the Griffin-R. E. Lee
football game in Memorial Stadium.
The homecoming queen will be
crowned during halftime.
The activities for the day will in
clude:
Breakfast in the gymnasium for the
Bears as they are cheered to victory
during the pep rally.
A homecoming parade featuring 47
entries from Griffin High clubs and
organizations. The colors will be
burgandy and rose. The parade will
begin at 4 p.m. and will follow the same
route as last year.
Entries will be judged before and
during the parade and winners will be
announced at the pre-game show.
Judges are the Rev. Thurman Foun
tain, Mrs. Tina Vamadoe, Mrs. Linda
Fields, Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert and
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PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) - If the state
doesn’t hurry and find a new home for
Gertrude, the mayor of this tiny city
says he’ll turn the 14-foot alligator into
20 pairs of shoes.
“I don’t care what the yo-yos in
Tallahassee say about killing
alligators,” says Mayor J.J. “Toby”
Holland.
Holland says the ornery creature,
which lives in the Palmetto sewer
system’s settling pond, ate an Irish
setter, attacked a weeding
then nearly knocked down a fence
trying to get a small dog who happened
to stray near the pond.
Two weeks ago, agents of the Florida
Game and Fresh Water Fish Com
mission removed another gator from
the pond in this Manatee County
community and took it to a less popu
lated area.
Then they tried to get Gertrude.
To entice her, they baited an iron
hook with a dead rabbit. The hook came
back empty — and looking like a huge
iron straight pin.
Holland says he wasn’t surprised.
Gertrude tried to eat a backhoe last
week.
Sanitation workers were using the
machine to scoop weeds and cattails
from the settling pond when Gertrude
leaped from the water and grabbed the
hoe, Holland says.
Alice Sims.
The pre-game show will begin at 7:05.
Float winners and group winners will
be announced during pre-game ac
tivities and the sophomore and junior -
representatives will be presented.
Floats will not be driven around the
field as in previous years.
Representatives of the sophomore
class are: Julie Ward and Charles
Bartholomew, Elaine Mann and
Jonathan Phillips, Melissa Smith and
Roland Butler.
Junior representatives are Dianna
Johnson and Jeff Treadway, Diannese
Mathis and Henry Miller, Cynthia
Jones and Jesse Stewart.
The Griffin High Bears and the R. E.
Lee Rebels will kick off at 7:30 p.m.
The halftime show will conclude
homecoming activities.
Senior representatives elected by the
Senior Class to the homecoming court
are: Lucinda Crouch, Rick Reynolds,
Denise Mathis, Antonio Gray, Anne
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
For a minute they thought they were not married
ATLANTA (AP) —lt was only a joke.
But for dozens of women who fran
tically called federal officials to see if
their marriages really were invalid, it
wasn’t funny.
On Wednesday, a man identified as
Brennan Thomas of the U.S. Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare
was a guest on the Ludlow Porch show,
aired by Atlanta radio station WRNG.
During the interview, Brennan said
HEW had determined that all
marriages performed in the South since
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Cook, Yogi Sanders, Dena Bates, Jeff
Harpe, Renee Allen, Alvin Kendall,
Lisa Acosta, Gid Lockhart, Annette
Ellis, Calvin Cliett, Laurie Mitchell,
Chuck Hammock, Bonnie Owen, Kenny
Waller, Rochelle Weems, Joel
Domineck, Donna Dorton, Richard
Irvine, Lisa Lamb and Tim Cook.
From the senior girls, the student
body has elected the queen and 2
princesses. They will be announced at
halftime.
Mascots elected by the senior class to
help with the crowning ceremonies are:
Amy Tinley and Jaye Daniel and
Marquita Davis and Octavius Sim
mons.
The homecoming queen and 2 prin
cesses will be crowned by last year’s
winners: Beth Perdue, queen; and
Patty Raybon and Tommie Blalock,
princesses.
Dorinda Dowis, president of the
Griffin High student body, will emcee
the halftime program.
1957 were invalid.
“You wouldn’t believe the hysteria it
caused,” one regional HEW official
said. “Boy did we get a bunch of calls.
People think HEW controls marriage
licenses too.”
Joe Juska, head of public affairs for
the regional office, said the HEW in
formation center in Atlanta recieved
about 30 telephone calls, including one
from a woman who said “she thought
her mother was having a stroke after
finding out her grandchildren were
Japanese plant due
ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. George
Busbee has returned to Georgia after a
two-week trip in which he tried to woo
Japanese industry to the Southeast and
then warned Northern states that they
can’t push the South around on
economic matters.
Busbee spent the first 12 days of his
15-day journey in Japan and the final
three days in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
where he took over as chairman of the
Southern Growth Policies Board.
He talked briefly to reporters at the
Atlanta airport Wednesday after
stepping off a jet from Oklahoma City.
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and Keywanette Club’s homecoming float.
ATLANTA (AP) — A “very calm,
very cool” gunman seeking $3 million
and freedom for a jailed friend hijacked
a Frontier Airlines jetliner carrying 33
persons at a Nebraska airport today.
He forced the plane to fly to Kansas
City, released about half his hostages
and then flew on to Atlanta where the
friend had been held, authorities said.
The Boeing 737 made a normal lan
ding at 12:04 p.m. EDT, several hun
dred yards in front of the main terminal
at Hartsfield Airport. It sat at the end of
a cleared runway, then moved off
slowly and was expected to go into a
freight terminal where the FBI,
Federal Aviation Administration and
security officers had set up a command
post.
FBI spokesman Bill Williams said
that while on the ground in Kansas City
the hijacker released unharmed 17
passengers — five women, 10 children
and two men. He kept 15 hostages —
two male crewmen, two stewardesses
and 11 male passengers, Williams said.
The Federal Aviation Administration
in Atlanta said the plane was expected
to land there at about 11:55 a.m. EDT.
The FBI in Kansas City said the
hijacker, identified as Thomas Hannan,
illegitimate.”
Porch said he often does humorous
interviews with friends playing fic
tional characters. He said the shows
are done “absolutely straight” except
for a disclaimer at the end of the
program telling listeners they have just
heard “a Ludlow Porch Wacko
Production.”
“The last time I jumped on HEW in a
light-hearted manner, I had a guest
who said he was here with a $1.7 million
grant to change the names of Southern
the horizon” between Japanese in
vestors and Georgians, Busbee said.
He said his trip definitely will lead to
additional Japanese investment in
Georgia, and he said he would an
nounce plans in December for “a
Japanese plant that will affect trade.”
The governor also said he discussed
the possibility of direct flights between
Japan and Atlanta with Japanese of
ficials, and he said negotiations over
such a route would be concluded before
the end of the year.
Earlier, Busbee told the Southern
Growth Policies Board that he wants to
use that organization to monitor federal
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29, of Grand Island, Neb., demanded $3
million, two parachutes, two machine
guns, two pistols and the release from
an Atlanta jail of his partner in an
alleged bank robbery last month.
The FAA said the plane took off from
Kansas City just after 10 a.m. EDT on
the 600-mile trip to Atlanta.
In Atlanta, officials at Hartsfield
Airport were preparing a runway for
the hijacked jet. “We do not plan on
closing the airport, we will have to play
it by ear,” said John Braden, assistant
administrator of the airport.
The FBI said Alvin Feldman,
president of Frontier Airlines,
guaranteed the hijacker that the $3
million would be waiting for him in
Atlanta. A bank spokesman in Atlanta
said an effort was under way among
banks there to raise the cash.
A spokesman for the Fulton County
Jail in Atlanta said he had been notified
the hijacker sought the release of
George David Stewart, 29, of Mobile,
Ala., who had been held there since he
and Hannan were arrested last month
after an Atlanta bank robbery.
A federal magistate had freed
Hannan on $25,000 bond earlier this
month following his request to return
cities,” Porch said.
“We got over 10,000 calls when I was
the first man to break the story that
Montana did not exist—that it was a lie
by the federal government to cover up
the fact that in 1956 there was a war
between Oregon and Canada,” he said.
Porch said his other spoofs have
included programs on the money
making opportunities in raising
“naugas” for their valuable hides and
an interview with a man who said he
wanted to start a pornographic radio
station.
programs. He also said he wants the
board to serve as a forum for helping
resolve regional conflict over economic
development.
Busbee has been saying for months
that Northern economic interests are
attempting to curb the South’s
economic growth and to gain a larger
share of federal dollars at the South's
expense.
He said he would fight “economic
colonialism” that favors the North over
the South and added that he would work
hard for “legislation that is balanced
nationally, not Northerly...to reflect
need, not greed.”
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—
Fair and cool tonight with lows in the
mid 40s. Mostly sunny Friday with
highs in the low 70s.
LOCAL WEATHER—Low this
morning at the Spalding County
Forestry Unit 36, high Wednesday 72.
home to attend to some personal
business.
The jail spokesman said that shortly
before the plane took off from Kansas
City, federal marshals picked Stewart
up at the jail and drove him to an un
disclosed location.
“We tried everything you people can
think of to persuade Hannan to give
up,” said Williams in Kansas City. “We
tried everything. He was very calm,
very cool, but very determined.”
Passengers released in Kansas City
agreed with this assessment, and said
the hijacker had kept his gun in full
view but never verbally threatened
them.
In Washington, Atty. Gen. Griffin
Bell told reporters that rejection of
demands by hijackers is “our general
policy.” Bell, who said he reported to
President Carter on the Nebraska
hijacking, indicated Carter also takes
that position.
However, Bell declined to say what
might be done in the Nebraska incident.
Asked if troops might be used in an
effort to free victims of the hijacking,
Bell responded: “I don’t have any
troops. We would use the FBI and local
law enforcement agencies.”
Bell noted there are restrictions on
the use of troops within the United
States. But he noted the FBI has had
experience in handling hijackings.
Williams said a high school friend of
Hannan’s who was on board the plane
by chance tried in vain to get him to
give up when he commandeered it at
the Hall County Airport in Grand
Island, Neb. about 6:30 a.m. CDT.
An FAA spokesman in Washington
said the FAA first learned the plane
was in trouble when the pilot radioed
there was a man in the cockpit and
“we’re going to Kansas City for fuel.”
The plane landed in Kansas City
about an hour later.
Larry Bishop, a Frontier spokesman
in Denver, said 30 passengers and five
crew members already were aboard
the plane at Hall County Airport at
Grand Island when the hijacker pushed
through a security check and forced his
way aboard at 6:30 a.m. CDT.
People
••• and things
Boy 10 or 11 holding up traffic as he
rides skateboard down hill on West
Solomon Street.
Car with CB call letters on left side of
trunk and handle of “Wee Willie” on the
right.
Son good naturedly taking ribbing
from father after Yankees won the
World Series.