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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1977)
Griffin Tech Open House Thursday. See special section inside. ®t Wf' m 1 Lal I z sr H Vlf ■ 0 "' ° . k T'*Ek Reorganization of state courts runs into strong opposition ATLANTA (AP) — Members of a state constitutional revision committee say strong opposition convinced them to wait at least a year before asking the legislature to consider a major reorganization of Georgia's courts. A rough draft of the committee’s proposed revision, circulated this month to stimulate discussion, brought withering criticism from top legislative leaders and from courthouse officials around the state. The judicial article revision com mittee voted Monday to postpone its plans after its chairman, state Rep. Wayne Snow, D-Chickamauga, said sharp opposition generated by the rough draft made it “politically foolish” to submit it to next year’s legislature. The judicial article was being revised for presentation to the 1978 legislature President Carter’s energy bill called massive tax program ATLANTA (AP) — The president of the American Gas Association says the Carter administration’s energy bill is actually a “massive tax program which will cost the American consumer much more than the additional cost of new gas deregulation.” George H. Lawrence, in a news conference Monday, said a study by the association showed the ad ministration’s energy program would cost taxpayers an estimated $664 from 1978 to 1965, but lifting the federal price ceiling on newly discovered natural gas would cost homeowners less than S2OO during the same period. “The President either is being given The Country Parson by Frank Clark h ” term yr-afeiy “Hope that a burden will be lifted doesn’t make it lighter - but ft makes ft feel lighter.” DAILY Daily Since 1872 Jeff Deans enjoy the simple life. and eventually to the voters in the 1978 general election. Snow’s committee proposed these revisions: —Superior Court judges would be elected in bipartisan elections, serving terms of six years instead of four. —Justices of the State Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals also would be elected in bipartisan elections and would serve terms of eight years instead of six. —The State Supreme Court would have jurisdiction only over con stitutional questions and in capital punishment cases, while the Court of Appeals would assume many of the Supreme Court’s other cases. —Probate courts, juvenile courts and various state courts would be merged into the Superior Courts of their cir- incorrect information or is not being provided the facts,” Lawrence said. Carter recently accused gas and oil companies of trying to pull off “the biggest ripoff in history” through their intense lobbying for congressional re jection of his energy program. The administration proposal passed the House with little trouble, but the Senate has made drastic changes in the plan. A House-Senate conference committee is now trying to work out a compromise energy package. Lawrence said the study showed that “new natural gas deregulation can hardly be called a ‘ripoff,’” and warned that continued federal regulation of gas prices will inhibit production. The American Gas Association represents about 300 distributors and shippers of natural gas, but no producers. “Our interest is based solely on being able to have the gas we need to meet the needs of the consuming public," Law rence said. On the matter of lAt winter’s fuel curtailments, association Chairman Robert E. Seymore said it was economically unfeasible for the in dustry to store enough gas to prevent shortages if coming winters are as harsh as the last one. But Seymore said the odds are a GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, October 25, 1977 cuits, and the judges of the lower courts would become associate judges of the Superior Courts. Snow said much of the opposition apparently came from persons who did not know how a merger of the lower courts and the Superior Courts would affect them. “I’d be politically foolish to suggest that if you have the probate judges in 159 counties concerned about this and various state court judges opposed to our efforts, that we could pass this at the next session,” said Snow. Another committee member, Court of Appeals Judge George T. Smith, a former lieutenant governor, said the panel would not be able to win approval of its measures “until you come up with a plan in writing about how you’re going to handle the people in office now.” “hundred to one” against a repetition of last winter’s freeze. He added that the nation’s gas reserves are in “good shape.” In the event of another exceptionally long and harsh winter, however, Seymore said suppliers probably would cut gas shipments to industrial cus tomers sooner than they did last winter. The earlier cutoff would be coupled with an earlier resumption of normal service. He said an earlier curtailment of shorter duration “doesn’t have nearly the effect that that a long curtailment does.” People ...and things League of Women Voters representative attending city com mission meeting this morning, wearing red, white and blue scarf urging “Vote.” Candidate out hustling votes in the rain. Movie makers drawing crowd of spectators while they filmed funeral scene ih Griffin this morning. NEWS With artistic touch Getting back to the simple things in life is becoming a lifestyle for the Jeff Deans. Their home even is like a nostalgic paradise. The home on Bobolink Drive looks like most any modem one on the out side. Inside it’s like walking into yesterday. The authenticity of the trans formation is the result of the artisan abilities of the couple to work with several dying art forms. They say their abilities complement each other’s work. Dean artistic abilities are evident in the carved woodworks throughout the house. Mrs. Dean’s talents can be seen in the numerous stained glass pieces, in paintings, and in tole paintings. Mrs. Dean realized she could apply •her talents to her artisan endeavors primarily after a Valentine’s Day gift from her husband. She had become interested in stained glass and was playing around with it when she decided she could do a better job if she had a soldering iron. That was near Valentine’s Day. She suggested the soldering iron rather than the traditional heart’s day gifts. “I was just tickled to death to get it,” Mrs. Dean said. Since getting the soldering iron, Mrs. Dean has redirected her household activities, which basically had been devoted to sewing, to leading together patterns in stained glass. “It’s like being a new mom or daddy Shop owner turns little angels into Draculas, witches, wolves RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The harvest moon of Halloween turns The Dancer’s Shop into a ghoulish meeting place, where Benita Allen can transform the living into the living dead for $3 to $5. Ms. Allen is manager of the shop, an ordinary looking place which for most of the year deals in leotards, dancing shoes and other show business para phernalia. But when the autumn moon is full and Halloween candy appears on super market shelves, Ms. Allen starts to work her bewitchery. “It all began about three years ago, when we started carrying theatrical makeup,” she said. “We didn’t realize how much makeup sold at Halloween. We were amazed. If* Hi Vol. 105 No. 252 They’re turning their home into a nostalgic paradise Paul Lee, 11, is transformed from mild-mannered suburbanite into a vicious werewolf during a local store’s demonstration on how to use makeup instead of masks for because you did it all from scratch,” she said. Panes in the windows and doors of the house have been replaced with the stained glass patterns Mrs. Dean has made. Not that this would be enough for her, she has begun to etch glass, an almost forgotten art. She had made a sign which she displays at art and crafts shows which names her and her husband as exhibitors. Having to sketch scenes veered off -to taking 4 lessons in tole painting, the Gilreath believes he qualifies Bob Gilreath said today he believes he meets the residency and other requirements to be a candidate for Spalding County Commissioner. Georgia law requires a candidate to live in a county at least 2 years in order to be elected or appointed to an office in that county. Gilreath of radio station WHIE said he thought he had had a post office box at Orchard Hill longer than 2 years. He said he lives in the county on Rehoboth Road but did not know the date he moved there. Gilreath came to this area from Peach County in South Georgia, he said. He owned and operated the Reporter, a weekly Pike County Last year it was so big that we realized how effective it was, really, so we de cided this year to open a clinic,” she said. The “clinic” is a series of little seminars each night this week in which Ms. Allen and her sister, Jeanie Wilson, provide free instruction on an as sortment of bizarre transformations. The werewolf was Monday’s exer cise. It required about $3 worth of crepe hair, spirit gum and black makeup. Blond werewolves required ap plications of dark hair spray to keep from blowing their cover. On Tuesday the sisters planned to produce dogs and ghosts. On Wed nesday they were to teach youngsters how to use liquid latex to add about 70 MKi Ik.’ Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Rain ending tonight and lows in the mid 50s. Clearing and mild Wednesday with highs in the upper 60s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 59, high Monday 71. Halloween costumes. The shop also has makeup and in structions for ghosts, Martians, witches and the ever popular Count Dracula. (AP) ornate decoration of household utensils. Mrs. Dean now paints scenes of old bams and places of nostalgia on boards and other vesselware. Os course, it was not long afterwards that Mrs. Dean began to stetch on canvas and to paint with oil. She has several paintings of old homes and old bams. She has not yet mastered the painting of facial features but she has 2 attempts to her credit. Prior to her artisan undertakings, Mrs. Dean did a lot of sewing as a hobby. “I used to think I was a real busy (Continued on page 2) newspaper with an office at Zebulon. He established it then sold the newspaper about a year ago. Gilreath said he was unaware of residency requirements. Probate Judge John Snider said Gilreath had signed a statement that he was qualified to be a candidate and had paid his qualifying fee. Gilreath questioned whether the residency requirement would hold up under challenge in court. He said no one had mentioned anything about such requirements to him before. The residency requirement came up when Gilreath appeared on a WGRI radio talk show when he was in terviewed about his candidacy. years to their age. “Their faces will actually be wrinkled,” Ms. Allen ex plained. “This one costs a little more — about $5.” Thursday’s schedule gives the changelings a choice: a witch, a clown or a Martian. And finally on Friday, the ever-popular Dracula lives again... and again and again. All of the necessary materials are for sale at the shop, and there’s no denying that the clinics will help move the mer chandise. But there’s clearly more to the service than profit, since the shop also sells a pullover gorilla mask that produces roughly the same effect as the werewolf makeup —for $lB. “I hope the idea catches on,” said Ms. Allen. “The masks are really too bulky and the kids can’t see out of them very well.”
