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Perry Coker (upper right) directs addition to home.
Man taken from home
Hill Touchstone, about 83, retired
Spalding County fanner and land '
owner, was kidnapped from his home at
1343 West Poplar St. about 9:45 this
morning, according to Griffin police.
Four persons are believed involved in
the kidnaping and theft of guns and
items from the Touchstone home,
police said.
Capt. Lawrence Miller of the Griffin
Police Department identified three of
the suspects as Clyde Long, about 25,
John Burk, about 45, Jan Burk, about 23
and daughter of John Burk. The other
suspect was not identified.
Details of the kidnaping were sketchy
County may buy vote
Spalding County Commissioners will
attempt to negotiate with Fayette
Commissioners on the purchase of 28
voting machines.
Fayette has 28 machines that have
been used about three times. They want
to sell them.
Spalding submitted the apparent high
bid which was under what the Fayette
No trick, no treats
Not even peanuts
from White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - No tricks. No
treats. Not even peanuts at the White
House this year. Halloween on Penn
sylvania Avenue was a bummer.
That’s what five tots discovered
Monday night on a Halloween tour of
who’s who in the nation’s capital.
Disguised as a bunny, a witch, a
cowboy, a soldier and Groucho Marx,
they arrived at the White House gates
howling, “Trick or treat.”
“Sorry, we don’t have anything,”
said one of the guards.
Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger wasn’t home. Neither was
Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ mother, Mrs.
Hugh Auchincloss, though a light was
on in the servant’s quarters.
The grand old diplomat, Averell
Harriman, had a maid handing out
dimes. And Lynda Johnson Robb,
whose father used to be president, was
pushing raisins.
At the CIA, only real-life spooks could
get through the gates.
And at the Iranian embassy, home of
caviar and champagne served by
white-gloved butlers, there were no
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at noon. Detectives are continuing an
investigation at the scene.
Miller said he was told by Willie
Thomas Kelley that the four came to
the home in two cars, one a 1975 Pontiac
LeMans and the other a 1975 Old
smobile Cutlass. The LeMans is brown
and the Cutlass green.
Kelley told Capt. Miller two men held
him while the others put Mr.
Touchstone in one of the cars.
Kelley also told Miller the suspects
took a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson
pistol and a 12 gauge shotgun from the
home. Other items also were believed
taken, Miller said. Miller said S9O in
Commissioners wanted for the
machines.
In other action, the Spalding Com
missioners told G. W. Bozeman,
operator of Capri Restaurant, he could
not have public dances at the lounge
there until he had a permanent cer
tificate of occupancy and met other
state and county building regulations.
treats this year.
“This is a government building,” the
official greeter said.
The kids’ five-star pumpkin award
went to Ethel Kennedy, who lives on an
estate called Hickory Hill in
McLean,Va.
In her front yard, where the late Sen.
Robert Kennedy used to play touch
football with his brood, a straw witch
riding a broom dangled from a tree.
Inside, where fireplaces on either
side of the hallway were burning, two
maids presided over a table filled with
mugs of cider and a dozen kinds of can
dy.
Down the road, nobody answered the
door at Sen. Edward Kennedy’s home
until the cowboy yelled,“Trick or treat,
smell my feet.” His reward: peanut
crunch.
Across the Potomac River in
Washington’s exclusive Georgetown
section, a uniformed maid at the home
of Washington Post publisher
Katharine Graham handed out -
chocolates and hard candy.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, November 1,1977
Permits show growth
in Spalding County
More than 18 times as many permits
for new homes have been issued in
Spalding County than in the City of
Griffin so far this year.
Records at the city and county
building inspectors’ offices show that 14
permits for new single family homes
have been issued in Griffin through
October, compared with 258 by
Spalding County.
In addition, 204 permits for mobile
homes have been issued in the county so
far this year.
During October only one permit for a
$30,000 single family home was issued
in Griffin, compared with 18 permits
totaling $537,800 in the county.
Spalding County also issued 20 mobile
home permits for $118,200 during
October.
Officials sight the lack of available
building lots for the city’s low new
home rate.
So far permits in both Spalding and
Griffin have topped $17.6 million.
cash was missing.
Miller said all of the suspects are
white and that the unidentified suspect
was wearing jeans and a denim jacket.
He was believed to be about 30 years
old.
Capt. Wallace Pitts, Sgt. Marvin
Barrow and Sgt. M. A. Brooks, all
detectives, are investigating the kid
naping and theft.
John Burk is the son-in-law of the late
Mrs. Ella Williams, Touchstone’s sister.
Jan Burk is his daughter and Long is
believed to be Miss Burk’s boyfriend.
It is believed that Burk lives in North
Carolina and that Miss Burk lives in
either Macon or Athens.
machines
Bozeman had asked for an extension
of a temporary permit.
Some people on the Airport Road and
Cedar Ridge road asked the county
what they needed to do to get it repaired
and possibly widened.
The commissioners told them about
what rights of way would be needed and
gave them other suggestions.
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A White House guard offers some conversation but no treats outside the White
House Monday night as he turns away trick-or-treaters. The group of
youngsters visited some other well known Washington addresses during their
Halloween travel. (AP)
Building was down in October with
the city’s 53 permits totaling $155,955
and 56 in the county totaling $1,177,250.
The county also had 17 additions at
$40,750 and the permit for the new First
Presbyterian Church for $482,000.
Other permits issued by the city
included 30 residential additions
totaling $53,503; 14 commercial ad
ditions totaling $17,986; two utility
buildings, $2,026; three signs, $6,640;
two swimming pools, $5,800; and one
permit to demolish a house.
October was the lowest month for the
city this year with January’s total of
$852,785 being the highest. That was
when a permit for $440,000 was issued
for construction of the Second Baptist
Church recreational building.
The highest month in. Spalding
County was April with $2,226,910 in
permits issued. It included the Youth
Detention Center for $568,369.
July was lowest with a total of
$738,338.
Oops,
name left
off ballot
There’s been a slight delay in setting
up the voting machines for next
Tuesday’s election.
The name of County Commission
candidate Al Norris was inadvertently
left off the ballots.
The Dalton printer was contacted and
was doing a rush reprint job today.
A total of 46 ballots were needed for
the voting machines.
People
...and things
Elementary school librarian telling
friend she often sews around 6 o’clock
in the mornings because she’s too tired
at night.
Little girl telling Sunday School
teacher details of her parents’ “big
fuss”.
Law enforcement officer making ‘off
the record’ comment that he is deeply
concerned about worsening drug
problem among 7th graders.
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Frances “Tut” Woodruff, right, niece of Coca Cola magnate Robert W.
Woodruff, of Atlanta and Veronique Marot prepare for a flight in a hang glider
at her Hang Glider Heaven in the northeast Georgia mountains.
Tea parties too earthly
Frances ‘Tut’ Woodruff
opens Hang Glider Heaven
CLAYTON, Ga. (AP) — Tea parties
were too earthly for Frances “Tut"
Woodruff, so she formed a heaven in
midair.
After spending most of her adult life
doing volunteer work for Atlanta
charities, Mrs. Woodruff, 54, the niece
of Coca Cola magnate Robert W. Wood
ruff, opened Hang Glider Heaven in the
northeast Georgia mountains last year.
She bought 125 acres of a 1,500-foot
mountain, leased another 75 acres and
created the state’s first hang gliding
park where enthusiasts can float
through the air attached to giant kites.
“I wanted to make a little money to
have a business, and hang gliding is a
business,” said Mrs. Woodruff, niece of
the soft drink company’s finance
committee chairman.
But she said some of her friends think
she is a little daft: “They say, ‘Why
don’t you stay home and pour tea like
the rest of us?’
'“I can’t stand sitting around the
house watching TV, and knitting bores
me. Mother says I should do
needlepoint,” said Mrs. Woodruff, who
travels around her park in a four-wheel
drive truck.
She got started in the hang gliding
project when she built a church near
Lake Burton for the young people in the
area. Besides being able to attend
church in jeans and cutoffs, she said,
the young people were invited to stay
after services to go water skiing.
She said she was impressed one day
when one of the young people hooked a
hang glider to a boat and sailed into the
winds.
Mrs. Woodruff sought out some ex-
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the
low 50s. Cloudy with chance of showers
Wednesday and highs in the low 60s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning 48 at the Spalding Forestry
Unit, high Monday 63.
perts in the field and began to form her
business. One of the people she hired to
help staff the park is Burke Ewing, a
four-year veteran of hang gliding who
flies with his 12-year-old dog Curtis.
She held her first hang glider contest
last October, but this year the annual
event has become an elaborate
Halloween festival with costume com
petition for children, arts and crafts
exhibit, athletic games and hang
gliding competition where the fliers
soar off her mountain and attempt to
land on a small target.
Mrs. Woodruff said it would take her
about five years to make Hang Glider
Heaven what she wants it to be. As soon
as she finds a suitable instructor, she
said, she wants to train beginners to use
her beginner’s slope.
An advocate of hang gliding, Mrs.
Woodruff also is a practitioner. She
tried it originally at Cyprus Gardens,
Fla., from the back of a boat.
But it wasn’t until last weekend that
she took her first heavenly flight off the
mountain she owns.
“Folks who spend too much
tend to think they earn too lit
tle.”