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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1977)
5 I j -pfe>/'' W® \ HF 4 A " ' j/ J^tH 11 ' A H - lB8b : jfl KKI » ;i , 4 *,. • ''AA s_/f'A> -A-JHh. /; sir * t Je* m ~ ’Jfln RUIW F IE Wk- BBK George Mooradian gives a familiar film signal. More pictures page 3. 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- DAI LY N EWS Daily Since 1872 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 (Continued on page 2) 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 Vol. 105 No. 253 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 Jft? I f “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.
