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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 20, 1977
Beth likes horse riding
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Beth Smith takes Curfew across jump at Tri-County Hounds ring.
Beth Smith loves to ride her horses.
As a matter of fact, she loves it so
much that she dreams of going to
England someday to take master
horsemanship courses.
Beth began riding about 5 years ago
and currently is the youngest member
of Tri-County Hounds, a fox hunting
group. She also is the holder of the Tri-
County Hounds Jack Dornish
Hilltoppers Trophy.
Beth earned her junior colors and
rides regularly with the hunters.
She rides every day the weather
permits and it does not interfere with
school activities. If Beth had her way,
she would forget about school and ride
all day.
She has 2 horses. Spicy is her own 14-
hand horse. Also she is riding Curfew
which she has leased from a camp in
North Carolina which teaches riding
during the summer.
Beth, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Joseph
V. Smith of 1484 Wesley Drive, became
interested in horses and riding several
years ago and has not given up despite
suffering a broken arm in a fall.
At first, she took lessons from Linda
Sell before getting a horse of her own.
She found one that she liked, but it
had been trained for riding Western.
Beth and Linda undertook the task of
changing the horse, Spicy, into a hunter
and jumper.
It took time for them to train the
horse at the same time Beth was
learning to ride. Her riding abilities
continued to improve and about a year
ago she began to enter shows.
Now, one wall of her bedroom is lined
with ribbons she has won. She has won
numerous trophies, too.
As a member of Tri-County Hounds,
she will be present on the first Sunday
in November for the blessing of the
hounds and the opening of the 1977-78
fox hunting season. Tri-County Hounds
hunt south of Griffin between Ethridge
Mill Road and South Sixth Street.
The blessing of the hounds is a
tradition that has passed from England
to the United States.
Beth says several other traditions
also have been passed on from
England. These include the light
English saddle and the conservative
dress of the riders.
As a junior rider, Beth wears a yellow
strip around the collar of her hunt coat.
Senior riders have brick red stripes on
the collars of their coats. Masters of the
hunt wear red coats. Joint masters of
the Tri-County Hounds are Ed
McMichael and Ken Coleman. Both
have been helpful to Beth in teaching
her to hunt.
For her protection, Beth is required
to wear a steel liner in her hunt hat.
“I prefer the English style of riding
because it gives you more feel of your
horse and the horse is responsive to
your body movements. You talk to your
horse with your body," Beth said.
President’s sister declines
some lecture invitations
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -
Being the President’s sister has
increased the number of lecture
invitations Ruth Carter Staple
ton gets, but some, such as one
to speak at a Democratic Party
rally, she declines.
“A lot of people want to hear
me because they want to see the
President’s sister,” she said at
a news conference here Wed
nesday. She is a guest lecturer
here for the national conference
of the International Order of
Saint T i>kp the Physician.
Some of her trophies.
In addition to riding, hunting and
showing her horses, Beth also takes
care of them or supervises their care.
She also has to clean her own tack and
loads her horse for shows.
Beth is continually reading books
about horses. She has more than a 100
books and magazines about horses.
She has a shelf in her bedroom that is
filled with plastic horses.
“You have to show your horse who is
the boss or it will try to unseat you," she
said. Beth said she has learned to hold
the reins and to be relaxed when she is
unseated (thrown). She has suffered
scratches and bruises in falls and once
suffered a broken arm.
Beth is in the Bth grade at Spalding
Junior High and is an A and B student.
As a reward for her academic
achievement last year, her parents took
her to the Bellmeade Horse Show at
Thompson, Ga.
Beth keeps her horses on pasture at
the farm of Dr. and Mrs. 0. E. Sell off
Ethridge Mill Road.
Almost every afternoon she is there
to ride and care for the horses.
“Generally, Beth rides from about
4:30 in the afternoon until dark. During
the summer months she would ride in
the mornings, Mrs. Smith said.
Beth’s secret to winning trophies and
ribbons was learning to jump. Junior
jumpers usually start with the jumps at
about 2 feet. The height is increased in
3-inch increments.
“The secret in jumping is to be with
your horses. You don’t want to be ahead
of or behind the horse in the jump,” she
said.
Judging in the English horse shows is
more strict than in western and walking
horse shows, Beth says. The English
believe in riding perfection and Beth,
said they say the Americans ride to
“near perfection."
Her dream is to go to England, study
riding, and take courses in master
horsemanship. Her mother has dreams
of her riding in the Olympics.
But that’s all in the future. Presently
Beth is satisfied to ride in the area
shows and with Tri-County Hounds.
Mrs. Stapleton was bom a
Baptist and professes a Baptist
theology, but she divides her
evangelism between Baptist,
Catholic and nonreligious
groups, preaching what she
calls inner healing.
Although she has spent the
last 19 years as an evangelist —
lecturing 20 days out of every
month, often to crowds as large
as 80,000, and writing two best
selling books — she said her
religious commitment is no less
strong that that of her brother
Jimmy.
“We have identical beliefs.
The difference is in the direc
tion. Jimmy has gone into the
area of politics and I have gone
into healing the individual per
son,” Mrs. Stapleton said.
She also said that one of three
books she is now writing will be
called “The Real BiUy,” about
her other brother, who stiU Uves
near the family hometown of
Plains. The book, she said, wiU
do away with BiUy Carter’s
black-sheep pubUc image.
What’s
happening
Spalding Kiwanis
The Spalding County Kiwanis Club will meet Thursday
at the Moose Lodge at 7:30 p.m. Incoming president, Ivan
Betz, will discuss plans and goals for the upcoming year.
Chicken dinner
The Rising Star Baptist Church Senior Usher board will
sponsor a chicken dinner at the church Saturday. Plates
will be |1.50,
Halloween carnival
A Halloween carnival will be held Saturday night at 5:30
at Kincaid United Methodist Church. Various food items
will be sold and Halloween games will be featured.
Pike carnival
Pike County Primary School will hold a Halloween
carnival Friday night, beginning with a spaghetti supper
at 6 p.m. Tickets for the supper may be purchased in the
school office, adults and children, $1.50. Tickets for
Halloween activities are 10 cents.
Deadlocked jury
leads to mistrial
A mistrial has been declared
in the Spalding Superior Court
case of Ronald Eugene
Robinson, 17, of Blanton Mill
Road, who was charged with
taking money from Roses
Department Store.
The jury after deliberating a
day and a half said it was
hopelessly deadlocked late
Wednesday afternoon. Earlier
in the day, Foreman Sam Stacy,
Stacy, Sr., said the vote was 9 to
3 for acquital. After several
more hours of deliverations the
vote was 8 to 4, he said.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.,
said the case probably will be
tried again next week when the
new jury list is called.
Two other young men are also
accused in the alleged theft.
They are Michael Lamar
Ketchem, 21, and Kevin
Deßendittis, 18. The three, all
former employees of Roses,
allegedly took $3,542 in cash and
$461.97 in checks from the store
on July 23.
Robinson was represented by
Atty. Benson Ham of Forsyth.
District Atty. Johnnie Caldwell,
Jr., was the prosecutor.
It took another jury only
minutes to find Terry Anthony
Brown not guilty of burglarizing
the home of his cousin, J. T.
Nichols, on Lake Avenue.
Testimony brought out that
Brown had been staying with
the Nichols family who had
asked him to leave shortly
before the Aug. 14 break-in.
When the family returned
home, they found a broken
window and several items of
clothing and jewelry missing.
Brown was represented by
Atty. Johnny Mostiler. Asst.
District Attorney David Fowler
prosecuted the case.
The armed robbery trial of
Joseph “Soupbone” Wilson was
under way this morning and will
be the last jury trial this week.
Wilson was charged with
robbing the Spalding Hosiery
Shop on Dec. 24, 1976.
Johnny Will Moreland
pleaded guilty in an earlier
term of court and is presently
serving a 12-year sentence for
the offense.
He is the state’s main witness
and cliams that even though he
committed the actural robbery,
it was Wilson’s idea, they used
Wilson’s car and gun and Wilson
got a bigger share of the money.
According to Defense Atty.
John Goddard, Wilson had
nothing to do with the robbery.
He admits going to the store in
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Hospital
report
Dismissed Wednesday from
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital:
Brenda Brooker, Billy Evans,
Jr., Marie Haggood, Clariece
Roberts, Donald Shackelford,
Elsie Smith, Jim Cobb, Wallace
Moore, Leola Williams, Karry
Hines.
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Stork club
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MASTER PRESSLY
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis O.
Pressly of 1110 West Poplar St.,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
son on Oct 19 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.
his car with Moreland, but said
he went there to make a pur
chase and the gun was not his.
Around $3,200 in cash and $75
in checks were taken. The
gunman held a gun on Lee
Hancock, an employee who was
in front of the store, and forced
his hostage back to the office
where he demanded the money
from Ben Glow, assistant
manager.
Moreland said he fled through
the railroad underpass to East
Broadway. Later he met Wilson
where the Money was divided,
he said.
Frank Thomas, Jr., also was
serving as a defense attorney.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Paschal
English was the prosecutor.
Deaths and
funerals
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Mrs. Williams
Mrs. Ollie Edmonds Williams
of 625 Moody St., wife of
Tommie G. Williams, died early
this morning at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital where she
had been a patient for 2 weeks.
Her death followed a lengthy
illness.
Mrs. Williams was a member
of the Deliverance Center
Church.
In addition to her husband she
is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Joe Bennett of Griffin; 2 sons,
Homer Williams and Cliff
Williams; 2 brothers, Otis
Edmonds and Lewis Edmonds;
a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Margie
Williams, all of Griffin; 11
grandchildren and 8 great
grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in
Haisten’s Funeral Home
chapel. The Rev. Gene Corley
and the Rev. Kenneth Bell will
officiate and burial will be in
Oak Hill cemetery. The body
will remain at the funeral home.
Mrs. Cook
Mrs. Patricia Harrell Cook of
Richmond, Va., died Tuesday at
the Medical College of Virginia
Hospital.
Mrs. Cook was a native of
Decatur and had lived in Rich
mond for several years. She
was the widow of Mr. Lewis
Cook.
Her survivors include a
sister, Mrs. Harold King of
Griffin; 2 nieces, Miss Brigette
King and Miss Christy King; a
nephew, Ronnie King, all of
Griffin.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by Pittman Rawls
Funeral Home. The body will
arrive in Griffin this evening.
Mr. Grisham
The funeral for Mr. Leroy
McClellan Grisham of 1310
Zebulon road was conducted
this morning at 10 o’clock in
McDonald Chapel. The Rev.
Danny Parris and the Rev.
George Coker officiated.
Graveside services will be
conducted Friday morning at 11
o’clock from the Beach Bluff
Community cemetery in Beach
Bluff, Tenn. The Rev. Jesse
Douglas will officiate.
McDonald Chapel is in charge
of plans. Mrs. Grisham died
Wednesday at his residence.
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