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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 25, 1977
Page 2
Henry probes mystery plane
BY CINDY GLOZIER
HAMPTON, Ga.
Police authorities allege that the DC-4 which
landed near Bear Creek Airport in Hampton late
Saturday night had once been "fully loaded” with
marijuana before arriving in Henry County.
"We’re holding an investigation into the case
now,” stated Henry County Detective Captain T.K.
Floyd in an interview Monday morning. "We don't
know exactly how much marijuana the plane had
been carrying, but there is evidence that it had been
loaded,” he added.
Police were called to Saturday night’s landing of
the alleged "pot plane" after residents of the
Sunnyside Community in Spalding County noticed
the aircraft flying low over their homes toward the
airport runway.
Concerned motorists and residents went to the
airport to check on the plane as it landed on a dirt
runway outside the main portion of the Bear Creek
facility.
Witnesses say two men jumped from the DC-4
immediately after it landed. One man left the
Court roundup
He decided to plead guilty
while jury was out to lunch
The Spalding Superior Court
jury trial of Governor Hancock,
415 East Quilley St., came to an
abrupt end Monday when the
defendant decided to enter a
guilty plea while the jurors
were at lunch.
He was sentenced to one year
in prison, followed by an ad
ditional year on probation for
passing a S7O forged check at
Hutson's Grocery. The check
was on the account of Rogers
Restaurant.
Several other guilty pleas
were heard.
Ijirry Junior Elliott of Lynn
Street was sentenced to a total
of 6 years for selling cocaine
and marijuana to an un
dercovered narcotics agent.
Judge Ben Miller told him that
after he has served the first 3
years, he may serve the
remaining 3 on probation.
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months in prison for stealing 700
feet of copper wire from the
Central of Georgia Railroad.
The charge of aggravated
assault against Mike Parker of
728 Hammock St. was reduced
to simple assault and he was
sentenced to 12 months which
may be served on probation if
he pays a S3OO fine.
He was accused of
threatening to cut Dale Johnson
of 321 South Ninth St. with a
knife.
Gary Williams pleaded guilty
to two counts of robbery by
force and was sentenced to 2
years on each count to be served
concurrently. He and others
grabbed William J. Parson and
Joel McKoon, of the Griffin
Hotel, and forcibly took billfolds
from both victims.
The incident happened at
Eighth and Wall streets at the
rear of the hotel on April 13.
Two others, J. C. Moreland
and David Elliott, were sen
tenced in earlier terms of court
in connection with the rob
beries.
Judge Miller noted that
Williams had no criminal
record and since Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr. had sentenced one
of the other defendants with no
record to two years, he would do
the same.
Ricardo Gonzales Jr., 27, of
Hohl Street, Houston, Texas,
pleaded guilty to violating the
Georgia Firearms and Weapons
Act by possessing a sawed off
shotgun and was sentenced to a
year in prison which will be
probated if he pays a S3OO fine.
Carl Gregory Witt of Addie
Lane, Jacksonville, Fla., was
sentenced to two years in prison
for possession of more than one
ounce of marijuana. He was
found with the illegal weed by
Spalding Sheriff’s officers at
Mclntosh and Smoak roads on
Jan. 31.
Charges of violating the
Georgia Firearms and Weapons
Act by possessing an illegal gun
were dismissed.
Donald Wayne Andrews who
broke into the Majik Market on
West Solomon Street and stole
nine cartons of cigarettes, June
18, pleaded guilty to the
burglary and was sentenced to 3
years in prison.
Jerry Donald Long pleaded
landing site in an awaiting car and police.
apprehended the other man, Joe. Stellmack, 36, of
5320 Roswell Road in Atlanta for questioning.
Stellmack was taken Into custody for violation of
the Georgia Control Substance Act after police found
small quantities of marijuana inside the plane and
later released on bond.
Officials say the aircraft had flown to Henry
County from Miami, Florida. The plane previously
had been kept at the Bear Creek Airport and Is
registered as being owned by Costal State Air Cargo
In Atlanta, according to Detective Captain Floyd.
One source stated that the owners claim they had
sent the plane to Miami for repairs.
Authorities from the Drug Enforcement Adminis
tration in Miami had contacted the Federal Aviation
Administration requesting that a look-o- it be posted
for the DC-4 when it left their city, according to
police officials.
Authorities at Bear Creek Airport say they know
nothing about the landing of the plane and refuse to
comment on the owners of the aircraft. TJiey did
confirm, however, that the plane had previously
been stationed at their facility.
guilty to two offenses.
He was sentenced to 3 years for
burglarizing the home of Ronnie
Hillard on Ga. 16 East, Jan 7,
1975, and of taking guns and
money.
He received an additional
year to run consecutively to all
others for stealing guns from
George Miller on July 16.
Court recessed Tuesday af
ternoon until Wednesday
morning when a new trial is
scheduled. Two defendants who
were to have been tried today
decided to plead guilty instead
and witnesses in other cases
were subpoenaed for Wed
nesday!
A large number of cases have
been continued until the
February term of court.
Included is the retrial of
Ronald Eugene Robinson, 17, of
Blanton Mill Road. The first
trial ended in a mistrial last
week when the jury could not
reach a unanimous decision on
whether he was guilty of the
theft of money from Roses
Department Store where he was
employed.
Charges also are pending
against two other former em
ployees, Michael Lamar Ket
chem, 21, and Kevin
Deßenedittis, 18.
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Hospital
report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Monday :
Roswell Akin, Michael
Camach, Barbara Rush, Asa
Willard, Richard Porter,
Tommie Sue Wise, Dixie
Western.
Piggly Wiggly
holds record
on ‘stamps’
VIDALIA, Ga...Piggly Wiggly
Southern Inc. has been giving
S&H Green Stamps for 23
years...and it turns out to be a
record. Piggly Wiggly Southern
has given the stamps longer
than any other major retailer in
Georgia and The Sperry and
Hutchinson Company, parent of
S&H Green Stamps, today will
honor Piggly Wiggly Southern
officials at a dinner here.
S&H, celebrating its 81st
birthday, is honoring more than
1,000 business firms which have
given Green Stamps con
tinuously for 5 or more years.
Piggly Wiggly Southern began
offering Green Stamps on Nov.
15, 1954.
The retailer holding the
national record for S&H Green
Stamp longevity is Shafer and
Lohrman, an Allentown, Pa.
shoe store, which issued its first
stamp in 1917.
S&H said that 78 of its 16,000
accounts nationally have been
giving its stamps since before
World War Two, and seven for
50 years or more.
S&H is the nation’s oldest and
largest trading stamp com
pany. Although best known for
its S&H Green Stamps, it is a
diversified corporation of some
13 companies engaged in
promotional services, interior
furnishings, banking, insurance
and retailing.
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With artistic touch
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person,” she said. “But I really was a
dull person,” Mrs. Dean added.
One night as the couple was sitting in
the living room they surmised what the
room would look like if the wall between
it and the dining room were tom away.
Dean went into the basement and
returned with some tools. He knocked a
hole in the wall and told Mrs. Dean the
work had begun.
The removal of the wall led to
Dean’s removal of the carpet. The floor
since has been covered with 12-inch
shelving boards nailed down with 16-
penny nails. The boards have been hand
rubbed with a tungoil finish that will
improve in looks with age.
Mrs. Dean then covered the walls
with a printed cloth instead of paper.
Antique pieces of furniture blend in the
scene.
The large bay window sports no
curtains, rather Dean has made multi
fold wooden shutters to keep out in
truder views. The shutters are panels
meticulously glued together to make
larger panels. The shutters have been
stained to match the floor.
In any given fall or winter day a
visitor to the home may be greeted by
the aroma of food being cooked on the
fireplace.
The Deans had wanted to buy a wood
burning stove for cooking but having to
put it in the basement away from the
kitchen made it a little less feasible.
To compensate, Dean installed
swinging iron bars within the
stonework of the fireplace. Mrs. Dean
now cooks complete meals on the
hearth,biscuits and cornbread in-
n a
Welcome
Loretta Richards and Janice Burnett of Griffin Tech are
two of the students who will assist visitors as they view the
school Thursday evening, 7-9 o’clock.
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This plane landed on dirt runway outside the main portion of Bear Creek.
cluded.
She said it’s simple and all one has to
do is have the desire to do it.
“It cooks better than my gas oven,”
she said.
She said her biscuits and combread
are cooked in covered cast iron pots
covered with hot embers. She said they
brown just beautifully.
Cooking in the winter will be no
problem for Mrs. Dean because she
thoroughly enjoys cooking on the
fireplace.
“You can’t drag me into the kitchen
in the summertime to cook but in the
winter, I will cook anything on the
fireplace,” she said.
Upon entering the kitchen one is
greeted by a table completely set with
pewter under windows valanced with
stained glass. High and above is a rack
built by Dean lined with platters and
plates.
The Deans know exactly just how
nostalgic they would like their lifestyle
to really be.
Dean has constructed a model log
cabin exactly as he would like his next
home to be. The logs for the scalemodel
were hand hewn. The roof is covered in
hand hewn cedar chips and the stone
fireplace is so tree to form it will ac
tually draw smoke.
The couple now realizes their
potential in the arts.
They display their work at arts and
crafts shows such as the one at Com
mercial Bank and one at Gay.
Dean and his wife, Gail, and their 2
daughters, Misty and Melissa, live at
127 Bobolink Drive, Griffin.
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MASTER CLOWERS
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Clowers
of Route 1, Zebulon, announce
the birth of a son on Oct. 24 at
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
Appointmenti
ATLANTA (AP) - Got.
George Busbee Monday ap
pointed Art Fudger, judge of the
Dallas City Recorder’s Court, to
a vacant Superior Court judge’s
seat in the Tallapoosa circuit.
What’s
happening
Kiwanis Club
The Kiwanis Club program will be presented by
Education ’77. The committee is composed of interested
groups such as the Utility Club, the League of Women
Voters, the NAACP and CARE.
The panel speaking to the Club on Wednesday will be
Henry Walker, chairman of the Griffin-Spalding County
Board of Education, Bob Thomas, representing Education
’77 and a representative of the school administration.
The Club meets at the Moose Lodge at 12:15 p.m.
Paper drive
County Line United Methodist Church will conduct a
paper drive from now until January. For pickup call the
church.
Atkinson PT A
The second graders will present the program at the
Atkinson PT A meeting tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. at
the school.
PWP
The PWP will hold a discussion meeting at the Bram
blett building of the First Baptist Church tonight begin
ning at 7:30.
UDC meeting
The United Daughters of the Confederacy will be in the
meeting room of the Flint River Library, 3 p.m. Thur
sday. Mrs. W. J. Proctor is chairman of hostess and Mrs.
H. H. Gossett co-chairman. Other hostesses will be Mrs.
Harold Goodacre, Mrs. James Martin, Mrs. Clyde Nichols
and Mrs. J. W. Low. Mrs. Park McKibben is chairman of
program.
Candidates night
The League of Women Voters will sponsor a “meet the
candidates” night on Thursday in the City Hall courtroom
at 7:30 p.m. for the benefit of those running for the office
of City and County Commissioners. These groups will be
provided time to answer questions submitted by the
audience. The public is invited.
Biblical film
The film, “The Coming Invasion of Israel”, will be shown
Wednesday night at Faith Baptist Church, beginning at 7:30
p.m.
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