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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 1,1977
Page 14
Columbus, Ga.
Trick-or-treaters skip
area of 4 murders
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - The
streets were empty this
Halloween in the neighborhood
where four elderly women were
strangled in the past seven
weeks, as many children —
frightened of more than ghosts
and goblins — trick-or-treated
in the safety of a nearby mall.
A little boy dressed as a beat
nik said he was “scared to go
outside because of the mur
ders’’ so he joined about 5,000
other children to collect candy
at Peachtree Mall.
Only police cars patrolled
near where Feme Jackson, 60;
Jean Dimenstien, 71; Florence
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Tim Furlow • • 228-4888
Dan Smith 228-2461
Fred Smith 227-0754
Scheible, 89, and Martha Thur
mond, 69, were choked to death
by a person or persons police
suspect of being psychopathic.
Residents of the neighborhood
near Wynnton Road have ar
med themselves against in
truders, and police warned that
children trick-or-treating after
dark could get shot by mistake.
“All the children are going to
be disappointed, but with leople
as nervous as they are, we
might have a real problem,”
said Columbus police patrol
commander Jim Wetherington.
“I don’t think it’s fair to the
kids,” one woman at the mall
said. But another woman, say
ing she was having a party for
her children to keep them in,
added, “It isn’t safe for kids to
go out at night.”
Traffic was backed up for
miles on the way to the mall and
the merchants, who gave out
candy, were swamped.
“I’m telling you, we had
about 5,000 kids. I never saw so
many kids in my life but they
were all real nice,” said Ann
Roney, the assistant manager
of one of the stores.
Church plans
celebration
Chapel Hill Baptist Church is
celebrating the second an
niversary of its pastor and his
wife, the Rev. and Mrs. R. L.
Curtis, Jr.
Several sister churches will
partricipate in the celebration.
They include: Macedonia
Baptist Church, Pomona,
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Mt.
Neboe Baptist Church, Means
ville, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.;
Spring Hill Baptist Church,
Griffin, Friday at 7:30 p.m.;
Antioch Baptist Church, Griffin,
Sunday at 11:30 a.m. and
Philadelphia Baptist Church,
Hampton, Sunday at 3 p.m.
The public is invited to attend
any or all of the services.
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A recent rash of murders in the Columbus area has left many of the residents here in fear.
Because of this and the desire to keep the children off the streets a local shopping mall has
opened its doors to the young witches and goblins that would otherwise be on the streets.
Here Laurie Taylor, 2, gets handout at one of the stores on the mall. (AP)
3 more Legion Disease
cases confirmed in Tenn.
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -
Three more cases of Legion
naires disease have been con
firmed in Upper East Ten
nessee, boosting to 26 the num
ber of cases discovered in the
area and to 28 the number in the
state since Aug. 1, health of
ficials say.
Sullivan County health offi
cials said Monday the three
newest confirmed cases were
diagnosed among 65 patients
treated for atypical pneumonia
in the Kingsport area between
Aug. 1 and Sept. 28. The health
authorities said tests are con
tinuting on 20 of these patients,
while 19 have been shown as not
having Legionnaires disease.
The first three cases were re
ported at Kingsport’s Holston
Valley Memorial Hospital on
Sept. 28.
Dr. Charles Chapman, direc
tor of the county health depart
ment, said the three cases con
firmed Monday through blood
tests by the national Center for
Disease Control in Atlanta have
all recovered.
Chapman said there is only
one person diagnosed as having
Legionnaires disease still being
treated in a Kingsport area
hospital. Three of the 26 cases
resulted in death.
The 26 confirmed cases—lß
men and eight women—were
diagnosed among 65 patients
treated for atypical pneumonia
in the Kingsport area between
Aug. 1 and Sept. 28.
Since there have been no
cases of Legionnaires disease
as having been contacted after
Sept. 28, health officials have
said the outbreak is over in the
Upper East Tennessee area.
Two other cases, one result
ing in death, also have been re
ported in Nashville in the past
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month. There also have been
two cases of Legionnaires dis
ease, including one death, re
ported in Knoxville in the last
year.
Legionnaires disease has the
same symptoms as atypical
pneumonia—high fevers, chills
and headaches. It is caused by a
bacterium that has been iso
lated but its source has never
been determined. The ailment
can be treated with antibiotics.
The bacterium is picked up
from environmental sources
rather than spread from person
to person. Legionnaires disease
gets its name from a large out
break that occurred in the sum
mer of 1976 among persons who
had attended an American Le-
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Georgian and dog
found in wreckage
LAFOLLETTE, Tenn. (AP)
— A Georgia man missing for
three months and his dog have
been found in the wreckage of a
small airplane in the East
Tennessee mountains, author
ities say.
Dr. Robert Lash, a Federal
Aviation Administration medi
cal examiner, said William Nel
son Gordon, 58, of Kennesaw,
Ga., was identified through
dental records.
The discovery of the wreck
Monday morning ended a three
month effort by Gordon’s
daughter to find her father by
tracking down his constant
companion Chappie, a 7-year-old
Shetland sheep dog.
Gordon and his dog took off
from Georgia on July 26 in
tending to fly to Richmond, Ky.,
and then on to Howell, Mich.
The FAA said no flight plan was
filed.
When he failed to appear at
either destination a search was
launched. But after two weeks
no trace of the plane was found
and the search was called off.
Gordon’s daughter, Mrs. Gail
Byrd of Margate, Fla., then be
gan her search for Chappie. She
heard from Mrs. K.H. Garrison
of Acworth, Ga., that a stray
dog resembling her father’s was
seen in the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park by
campers in mid-August.
Mrs. Byrd learned from
Ranger Jan Dick at the park’s
Deep Creek Ranger Station that
a family in a red van with
Florida license tags became at
tached to the stray dog and was
given permission to take it
home.
She was unable to find the
dog’s new Florida owners.
Gordon’s cream and brown
single-engine Stinson was sight
ed at about 8 a.m. Monday in a
heavily wooded mountainous
area about 10 miles southeast of
LaFollette, about 30 miles north
of Knoxville, and about 75 miles
northwest of the area where the
dog was seen in the park.
Lash said Gordon died of
multiple head injuries and the
body of a dog was also found in
the wreckage.
The FAA said it did not know
how long the plane had been
there.
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