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City buys Elk land
for new water tank
Several expenditures were approved
at Tuesday night’s city commission
meeting.
A resolution was approved
authorizing the payment of SIO,OOO to
the Griffin Elks Lodge to consumate the
purchase of 6.68 acres of land for the
construction of a million gallon water
storage tank.
A contract for 1977-78 was awarded to
low bidder Bobby Dunn for tree
trimming work in the city. His bids
included hourly rates ranging from
$22.45 to s3l and included several types
of trimming services.
Two expenditures were tabled until
they can be looked into further.
They were a low bid of some $42,000
on a new motor grader for the street
Hospital bill stalls
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is
delaying until next year votes on
President Carter’s plan to hold down in
creases in hospital bills amid charges
from one critic that Carter has not
pushed the issue strongly enough.
The administration unveiled its
proposal last April and had hoped to get
it through Congress by Oct. 1. But since
then the bill has made its way through
only one of four congressional com-
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department and a low bid of around
SB,OOO on police officers liability in
surance.
Other expenditures included:
—55,796 to Stallings Concrete
Products Co. for sidewalk repair work
which is now about 64 percent com
plete.
—52,898 to John J. Harte, Assoc. Inc.,
for the final payment of Phase 1 of the
Sewer System Evaluation Survey.
—51,200 to Equility Service, low
bidder for electric department
equipment.
Since the next night commission
meeting falls on Nov. 8, election day,
the meeting will begin at 8 pan. instead
of 7:30 p.m.
mittees that must consider it.
Congressional sources say there now
is no chance for a vote in either the
House or Senate before adjournment
for the year.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass.,
the proposal’s leading supporter on
Capitol Hill, is critical of Carter for
what he calls Carter’s failure to sell the
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, October 26, 1977
Leaves
tumble
to ground
Millions of leaves just
beginning to sport their fall
colors in Griffin and Spalding
County came tumbling down
Tuesday in a steady and
sometimes heavy rain.
The total finally reached 2.7
inches Tuesday night before it
slacked off.
It was one of the heaviest rain
days in Griffin this year. The
summer was marked by a
drought that burned up crops
and gardens and stunted the
growth of grass.
The forecast for Thursday
was for mild and sunny
weather.
Tuesday began with rain and
it lasted most of the day.
Skateboards injure more than football
WASHINGTON (AP) - More people
will be injured riding skateboards this
year than playing scholastic, collegiate
and backyard football, a new federal
study discloses.
The Consumer Product Safety
Commission estimates 375,000 people
will be injured in skateboard accidents
movie
Griffin has its day
in the sun - - oops, rain
California movie mak
ers wanted a dreary day to shoot a
funeral scene in Griffin. Tuesday they
got more than they bargained for.
The weather cooperated more than
100 percent.
It was dark, overcast and more than
2.7 inches of rain fell.
Most of the shooting took place in the
old part of Oak Hill cemetery. Cinema
77 of American International finally
brought its people to Griffin after much
heralded plans to shoot a movie here
had to be abbreviated because of motel
mixups.
The story centers on a track star and
the location in the film is to be in
Griffin, California, a place that exists
only in the minds of the movie makers.
One of the scenes calls for a friend of
the track star to die. The movie people
picked Griffin for the burial scene.
Some local people were in some of the
scenes shot here. Among them was
Mildred Sawyer, Chamber of Com
merce executive, and J. W. Roberts,
insurance executive here.
They stood near the flag covered
casket used in the make-believe funeral
at Oak HUI.
Both put on sad faces with others in
the cast and stood while the cameras
whirled.
Shooting the graveside scene had its
light moments.
While the cameras did their work, the
actor who was playing the part of a
minister forgot his lines.
That stopped the action.
Director Joe Ruben jumped up and
wanted to know what was the matter.
Told the minister forgot his lines, the
Woman dies in wreck
A Spalding County woman was killed
Tuesday afternoon in a collision on
North Hill at Realty Street.
Mrs. Eunice Perdue, 40, of Route 4,
died in the accident. She was a
passenger in an auto driven by her
sister, Mrs. Betty Ann Weldon, 34, of
Route 4.
Mrs. Weldon suffered a compound
fracture to the ankle, contusions and
Georgia Supreme Court
upholds Spalding trial
ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia
Supreme Court has upheld the murder
conviction of a Spalding County man,
denying the second appeal in a week
that asked for ratio percentages for
minorities in grand jury pools.
In the Spalding County case, Ronald
Terry Fouts was convicted in the 1977
slayings of Randy Reeves and Stanley
Dorsey following an argument over an
alleged drug deal.
He was sentenced to life im
prisonment and appealed to the
Supreme Court, saying there were not
enough blacks, women and persons
under the age of 34 on the grand jury
that indicted him.
In a 4-3 opinion written by Chief
Justice H. E. Nichols, the court said
Tuesday that blacks were adequately
in 1977, compared to some 370,000 in all
the non-professional football games in
the country.
An unreleased report based on the
study predicts that the number of
skateboard injures will be more than
double last year’s 188,000.
A commission official said no other
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director shrugged his shoulders and
ordered a new start.
Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home fur
nished a grave tent and other equip
ment to make the graveside rites
realistic.
While the professional actors and
stand-in Griffinites crowded under the
tent, the filming proceeded, often in a
downpour of rain.
One place in the script called for the
procession to walk through the
cemetery. All in the group had to do so
with raised umbrellas in a downpour.
Another scene calls for the track star,
played by Scott Jacoby to lose
emotional control of himself at the
cemetery. He did this and wildly chased
a truck down the road in the rain.
Jacoby ran this scene 5 or 6 times and
when he was finished, he was soaked to
the skin.
The picture’s plot calls for the death
of the track star’s friends to spur him
on with determination to make good.
Plastic covers were the order of the
day. Technicians covered their huge
lights and camera equipment to protect
it from the rain throughout the day.
They plan to come back to Griffin
before the Nov. 25 finish of the film.
Plans call for them to shoot another
scene at the drive-in movie here at
night.
The main part of the film is being shot
in Newnan, Ga.
Griffin had its day in the sun — rather
rain — Tuesday when the movie
makers came to town.
Now citizens here will have to wait
and see if the scenes are in the movie or
if they hit the cutting room floor.
injuries to her chin. She was admitted
to the Griffin-Spalding Hospital where
she underwent surgery.
Andrea Barkley, 26, of North Avenue,
was driving the other vehicle. He was
not thought to be injured at first but
later went to the hospital emergency
room where he was treated for shock
and checked.
The accident happened about 4:30
represented, that three women served
on the six-person grand jury commis
sion and that the under-34 group need
not be considered because it is not a
recognized class of persons for grand
jury representation.
The decision was the second within a
week in which the court declined to set
rigid ratio percentages for blacks and
women in grand jury pools.
His attorneys argued that the trial
judge should have instructed the jury in
the law regarding delusional com
pulsion.
The court answered, “The only
evidence of any delusion was that he
(Mize) frequently talked to God and
that God talked to him, but nowhere did
the defendant testify that God told him
to do this act.”
product under its jurisdiction has
shown such a dramatic growth in the
number of injuries associated with it.
William Kitzes, the agency’s
program manager for sports and
recreation, said only bicycles will
account for more injuries this year.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Fair tonight with lows in the low 50s.
Mostly sunny and mild Thursday with
highs In the low 70s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning 60, high Tuesday 67, rainfall
2.7 Inches at the Spalding Forestry
Unit.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“Lives, like barns, get shabby
if they aren’t renewed oc
casionally.”
People
••• and things
Man pushing grocery cart loaded
with empty soft drink bottles on down
town street, causing traffic to creep
along.
Two squirrels protecting themselves
with their tails as they gathered nuts in
downpour of rain.
Mailman dashing to and from truck
as he made his rounds in the rain,
making up for the holiday Monday with
a double load of mail.
p.m.
An earlier accident on Zebulon Road
sent two teenagers to the emergency
room.
They were identified as Julie Ann
Bunn, 16, of Grandview Drive, and
Donner Peterman, 17, of South Side
Drive. Both were dismissed after
treatment.
Hot heads
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Some
Fairfax County firemen will be
getting new helmets. It seems
the old ones had an annoying
habit of melting during fire
fighting.
Fire Chief George Alexander
said the plastic helmets melt in
extreme heat, with the protec
tive crown collapsing and cur
ling over the hat’s rim.
The new helmets, also plastic,
are designed to stand up to
higher temperatures, he said.
The county supervisors said
they could afford new helmets
for only 150 firemen at a cost of
$25 apiece. The rest of the 635-
man force will wear the old
helmets for a while.
There are about 80 million bicycle
riders, compared to 20 million skat
eboarders.
Kitzes said in a telephone interview
Tuesday night that more than 25 per
cent of all skateboard accidents occur
the first day of use.