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Young drivers
It’s a little tougher
to get a license now
Because almost half of the road
accidents and deaths in this country
involve drivers under the age of 22, a
surprising number of teenagers think
requirements to get a driver’s license
should be made stricter.
The survey was made by the Gallup
Poll and showed that young people are
outspoken and critical regarding their
driving habits. They believe drinking,
reckless driving, and drugs are reasons
for the tremendously high incidence of
death for drivers aged 15-19 years old.
Georgia laws regarding driver
permits are the same over the state,
according to Examiner Frank Shivers
of the Georgia State Patrol Post in
Griffin.
Shivers said the examining personnel
at the station has a series of three tests
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New life form
breaks barrier
WASHINGTON (AP) - What could
be one of the first life forms to evolve on
earth is still alive in the form of a
microorganism that has survived for
more than three billion years.
University of Illinois scientists said
Wednesday that the tiny organism
previously thought to be an ordinary
bacterium is really a separate form of
life dating back to earth’s early history.
The discovery challenges the
traditional theory that divides living
things into two basic classes, the
“higher” forms of animals and plants,
and the “lower” forms of bacteria and
algae. The scientists say their
organism fits neither group.
“The organisms are a distinct new
class, no more related to typical bac
teria than to higher forms,” said Dr.
Carl R. Woese, the research team lead
er. “They are a third form of life on this
planet.”
Woese and Drs. Ralph S. Wolfe and
George Fox headed the effort that
discovered the organism’s uniqueness
by analyzing its genetic makeup.
Woese said in a telephone interview
that an important part of the discovery
is freeing scientists of the idea that
there are only two classes of life forms.
If a third form exists, then there also
could be several others waiting to be
discovered, he said.
The discovery also could provide new
clues to the unknown stages of evolution
that preceded life as it is known today.
The third life form is a one-cell
organism with the now outdated name
of a bacterium, methanobacteria
thermoautotrophica. The organism
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
that are administered to persons
desiring driver’s or operator’s licenses.
All of the test material is printed in the
driver’s manual which is studied by the
applicant.
One tightening up on requirements
for young applicants statewide went
into effect in 1976. A teenager applying
for a learner’s permit must pass the
regular driver’s written examination
before he is issued the learner’s permit.
“This is the best thing that could have
happened,” Shivers said.
In addition to having to pass the
written examination, the 15-year-old
must be accompanied by an adult who
must co-sign the application.
The applicant must also provide a
certified copy of his birth certificate as
proof of his age.
lives on hydrogen and carbon dioxide
and produces flammable methane gas
as its waste product.
The organism is widespread in nature
even though it dies in the presence of
oxygen. It exists in hot geothermal
springs and in decaying plant material
and the digestive systems of some
animals where other organisms use up
all the oxygen.
Falling switches caused
electric power to blink
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, November 3,1977
Electricity was off in downtown
Griffin for a few minutes this morning
when three Georgia Power switches in
the substation on East Slaton Avenue
feU.
What caused the switches to fall had
not been determined shortly before
noon.
One of the switches fell against one of
the City of Griffin’s regulators and
damaged it. The regulator looked as if
it had been shot several times with a
rifle. It had one hole in it and oil was
leaking out.
Georgia Power crews and City of
Griffin Light and Water Department
officials were on the scene shortly after
the switches fell to access the damage.
Clifford Hudson, Superintendent of
the Light and Water Department, said a
man from South Georgia was on his
Shivers speculated that the
requirements could be made a little
stricter by requiring, as in some states,
that youth up to 18-years of age be
required to have a parent or guardian
co-sign his application for a license.
A typical written examination at the
post and at others throughout the state
includes information on road signs and
driving rules. The applicant must make
at least 75 on each test in order to pass.
Examiners here also administer an
eye examination which must be passed
before one is issued a license. The test,
however, has had an easing up on the
requirement as of 1976 and a person
may pass with 20-60 vision rather than
the previous 2040.
Vision requirements of 20-60 are not
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Carter company to convert
Sports Palace into plant
The William Carter Co. has acquired
the Sports Palace property on Highway
341 between Griffin and Barnesville in
Pike County.
After extensive renovation, the
facility will be used for expansion of the
manufacturing operations.
Thomas W. Robert, vice president for
manufacturing, said the new facility
will be phased into the present Carter
manufacturing facilities during the
next six months and will create ap
proximately 75 new jobs.
Roberts said machinery will be
moved into the building in about 60
days.
It will be a cutting and sewing
operation.
The additional employment will bring
Carter Company’s total employment in
the Griffin-Barnesville area to ap
proximately 1,475. The Barnesville
operation employs approximately
1,100. Three hundred are employed at
the present Griffin facility.
Overall, the company employs more
than 5,000 at plants in Griffin, Bar
nesville, Forsyth, Thomaston and
Sandersville, Ga.; Harlingen, Lyford
and Raymondville, Texas; Centreville
and Senatobia, Miss.; Leola, Penn., and
Needham, Mass.
The latest additions is part of an
overall expansion of the company.
Recently a new plant was put into
operation in Texas, a new facility was
opened in Barnesville and the com
pany’s headquarters were moved from
Barnesville to Griffin.
way to Griffin to access damage to the
regulator and to make repairs, if
possible.
He said the places on the regulator
that appeared to be rifle shots were
caused by the bouncing of the energized
switch against the regulator.
The intake lines where the three
switches are located are fed by the
Georgia Power North Griffin sub
station.
There is enough electricity still
flowing through the substation to keep
electricity on in the downtown area.
“We would be hurting if this had
happened in the middle of the summer
when there was a peak demand for
electricity,” Hudson said.
“If it had happened during the
summer we would have had to make
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Dana Bailey gets instructions from teacher Henry Powers.
“We had a need for a building and the
Sports Palace was available,” Roberts
said.
Carter Company purchased the
building from a group of businessmen
headed by Jim Barnett of Atlanta. The
purchase price was not disclosed.
Billy Hancock of Slade Realty han
dled the negotiations.
People
••• and things
Traffic slowing to a halt while
passers-by crane necks to see movie
being filmed at the Doug Segars home
on East College Street.
Pedestrian knocking over huge ant
hill in front of city hall during drizzle
this morning to find it wet clear
through.
Secretary in downtown office reading
paper back novel while co-worker
across hall is overworked with stacks of
typing.
No change
The temperature didn’t change much
Wednesday and this morning at the
Spalding Forestry Unit.
The low there was 60 degrees this
morning.
So was the high for Wednesday.
temporary repairs to keep the supply of
electricity flowing to the downtown
area,” he said.
Most of the downtown area is fed by
the Slaton Avenue substation.
Hudson said it would take Georgia
Power workmen “quite a while” to
make the repairs. In addition to the
switches, several insulators were
broken and will have to be replaced.
The power outage this morning was
the second in less than 24 hours in the
city.
Wednesday night, an outage was
caused in the Forrest Avenue-Springer
Drive area because of a squirrel on the
line. The dead squirrel apparently
connected with one of the cross arms in
the rain and caused a fuse to blow.
Power was restored when the fuse
was replaced.
Vol. 105 No. 260
Absentee ballot requests
tips high voter interest
The number of absentee ballots
issued for Tuesday’s election is
“running pretty good”, according to
Spalding County Registrar Joe Burson.
As of this morning, his office had
issued 113.
Registered voters who are going to be
out of town Tuesday may vote today,
Friday and Monday from 8 to 5 p.m.
and also on Saturday morning from
8:30 until noon.
Family members may pick up a
ballot for persons physically disabled
or ill, otherwise the voting must be done
in person.
It is too late to mail ballots to
distances of more than 500 miles but
Burson said he was mailing ballots to
places under about 300 miles through
today.
During last year’s presidential
election more than 500 absentee ballots
were issued, but 113 so far is a good
number for a special election, Burson
said.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif —Fernando, born last month in a Santa Barbara zoo,
basks in the warmth of the sun while Allen Stupplebeen, two, just relaxes while
visiting the zoo. Fernando is one of two llamas born at the zoo in October. (AP)
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—
Rain and a few thunderstorms tonight
with lows near 60. Considerable
cloudiness with good chance of thun
dershowers Friday. Highs in the upper
60s.
LOCAL WEATHER-Low this
morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 60,
high Wednesday 60, rainfall .13 of an
inch.
Forty-one Ballots have been issued so
far for the city commission race, ac
cording to Mrs. Frances Bolton, city
absentee clerk.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
ran
“A careful shopper hunts
bargains — and the more he
finds, the less money he has
left.”