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Singing The Rev. Lizzie Turnipseed and her Saint James Spiritual No. 2 will render the music for a building fund drive program Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. Hyson Driver will be the mistress of ceremonies. The Rev. Horace Fuller, Jr., is the pastor at Mount Pleasant. Rev. Pennell Revival Rock Springs Congregational Methodist Church will hold revival services Nov. 7-11, at 7:30 each evening. The Rev. Jimmy Pennell will be the evangelist. He has served as a missionary assistant in Cuba and has pastored several years in Georgia and North Carolina. He serves as pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Douglas, Ga. Rev. Pennell is a descendant of Absaloon Ogletree, who organized the Rock Springs Church more than 100 years ago. The public is invited. More information may be obtained form the Rev. Ed Tinton, pastor. Singing The Emanuel Tabernacle on North Hill Extension will have a gospel singing Saturday night beginning at 7:30 p.m., featuring the Road Travelers of Jonesboro, Gene Corley of Griffin and other local singers. The pastor is the Rev. J.D. Madaris. Film A film, “The Gospel Road,” featuring Johnny Cash, will be shown at the Sunny Side Baptist Church Sunday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Grand Opening Deb's Cake Supplies No. 36 Bleachery St 10% ®»*» Purchases thru Sat., Mm. S 228-1861 On Tuesday gNov. 8 ELECT Bobby Dunn Your City Commissioner 4th Want Elect a man who really wants to represent you - Elect Bobby Dunn your City Commissioner - Fourth Ward. Your vote and support will be appreciated. (Paid Political Adv.) Church activities Speaker John Myers, a former drug user and alcoholic, will speak at the Meriwether Street Church of God, Sunday mor ning at the 11:00 worship ser vice. Myers was on drugs for almost 45 years. Several of those years were spent in prison and at the State Mental Hospital in Milledgeville. He is a member of the Meriwether Street Church of God and is the son of the late Rev. W.L. Myers. His brother, Billy Sunday Myers is a noted camp meeting preacher in the Church of God denomination. The Rev. Hulet Smith is pastor. Lindsey returns Navy Torpedoman’s Mate Second Class Willie F. Lindsey, son of Mattie S. Lindsey of 511 Mill St., Barnesville, recently returned from an extended deployment in the Western Pacific. He is serving as a crewmember aboard the destroyer USS Richard S. Edwards, homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. While deployed, his ship operated as a unit of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. His ship is 418 feet long, displaces 4,050 tons and carries a crew of 304 officers and enlisted men. She is outfitted with guns, torpedo tubes and an antisubmarine rocket launcher. He joined the Navy in October, 1963. PFC Bruce in exercise Marine Private First Class Ranel L. Bruce, son of Billy W. Bruce of Route 3, Box 442, Steel Drive, Hampton, recently participated in Exercise “Fortress Lightning” in the Republic of the Philippines. He is serving as a member of Battalion Landing Team Three Slant Four (BLT %), homebased on Okinawa. He is one of more than 14,000 sailors and Marines who took part in the two-week exercise, which included 30 ships and Seventh Fleet aircraft, along with elements of the Philippine Navy and Marine Corps. “Fortress Lightning” operations ashore. Bruce joined the Marine Corps in May, 1976. Woman choked to death CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) - A Fulton County woman arrested for driving under the influence was found dead in her jail cell early Friday, police reported. Police Capt. Reed Miller said the woman, identified as Janice Estfan, 43, had choked on a chain used to attach a bunk to the wall of the cell. Ellington coordinating Pony Express campaign E.O. (Skeet) Ellington will coordinate the “Pony Express" budget campaign at First United Methodist Church this year. It will start Nov. 13 and is to be completed within three weeks. He and those working with him already have recruited some workers. 'Ellington believes the program will in volve every person in the church. The Pony Express idea works like this: Station Agents and Trail Bosses will be responsible for starting a series of mail bags on their way. When a family receives one of the bags, members will find inside cards for indications of giving for the 1978 church year. They will fill out the cards, put them back in the mail bag, then take the bag on to the next family. One bag will cover 10 families in a neighborhood or area. At - the end of the “run” the bags Sgt. Chambers Griffinite is NCO of the Month Staff Sergeant Thomas G. Chambers of Griffin, Ga., and Private First Class Michael of Frenchville, Maine are the Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Month for October at Fort Rucker. Chambers is assigned to the 13th Company, Ist Battalion, and works as an instructor in the mechanics’ course for the OH-58 helicopter. Lavoie is a member of Comapny B, 46th Engineer Battalion, and is an electrician. The two honored enlisted men have received SSO U.S. Savings Bonds, Letters of Com mendation from Major General James C. Smith, commanding general. Certificates of Achievement from the Bogardus S. Cairns Chapter, Association of the U.S. Army, and a free week end as guests of the Sand Dollar Motel, Jekyll Island, Ga. Staff Sgt. Chambers’ ex perience in aircraft main tenance goes back to 1969 when he finished the basic course at Rucker as his first assignment after basic training. “This is a good job I have, and there’s no way I’d want to get Man leaves daughter and never returns FORBING, La. (AP) - A man stopped at a children’s home and asked that his daugh ter be watched while he fixed his car. He did not return. But the two-page handwritten letter pinned to the 7-year-old girl’s sweater told the story: He suffered from a “hopeless” illness and had “no one else to turn to’’ with the mentally re tarded child. A spokesman for the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Department said Friday that authorities were trying to identify the child, left Thursday at the Holy Angels School for retarded youngsters and adults. The man did not leave his name, nor that of the child, who does not appear able to hear or speak, the spokesman said. “I feel hysteria over the act of separating with her, yet it is an act of love,” the man wrote. “Years of anguish and fear have brought me to your door of mercy, to God, and my church. “I have no family, no one else to turn to for moral or financial support. During each operation I have had, just thinking of her has aided me. ★★★★★★A***************************** | Master Crafts | I Open House : * Saturday, Nov. sth, 9 A.M. till 6 P.M. * Master Crafts Novelties J * Finished or Unfinished. Free instructions on painting, i * Free Door Prizes j 12 Miles Out Highfalls Road - Follow signs. { Mrs. Jimmie Lee Cook $ * 228-1820 J •★★★★★★★★A****** ★★**★*★★★★*★***★★★*★* will be returned to the church. Al Blanton is chairman of the church’s finance committee and in that capacity is working in the campaign. Mr. Thomas will be the chief cook, layman Hattaway, the Church School coordinator; Bill Knight the publicity agent, and C.A. Collier the mail clerk. Station agents in the cam paign will be Jack Tingle, Brack Pound, Al Gillespie, George Murray, Jr., Gus Gustafson, Don Segars, Sid Feuvrel, Jim Demski, Joe Hardwick, Gordon Milling, Jr., Charlie Wynne, Fred Omund son, Butch Dixon and David Clements. The Rev. Lamar Cherry pastor, and the Rev. Steve Win ter, associate pastor, will work with the Pony Express cam paign. This will be the first time the church has used this method of getting the budget pledged. out of aviation,” he said. And another thing he wants to do is stay at Fort Rucker because, as he said, “this is a great place to raise kids.” His experience in that matter stems from his three daughters. Too, the Army Aviation Center is not so far from his hometown in Griffin. That is where his parents, William L. Chambers and Mrs. Margaret Huckaby, live; and it is also the home of his wife’s parents. She is the former Lynn Pearl, daughter of retired Army Sergeant Major and Mrs. Horace R. Pearl. PFC Lavoie, however is a long way from his home and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter in Frenchville, Maine. He left there in August, 1976 when he joined the Army and went to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., for basic training. He also attended an electrician’s course there. Like Chambers, he is working in the field he probably wants to stay in; but he doesn’t know if it will be as a member of the Army or not. “I have about three more years on this enlistment, and all I’m certain of right now is that I “But I am in the midst of de pression and hopelessness to day. There is so little time to find her security away from the indignities of public agencies. I am filled with strong feeling that you, as nuns, will under stand my plight.” He said he despaired over his “hopeless” illness and his in creasing inability to care for the child he loved. The letter did not indicate the nature of the father’s illness. “You never know what God wants to do,” said Sister Zita, director of Holy Angels, which houses and educates 170 infants, children and adults. “He brought her to the right place. We will care for her.” Nuns who saw the man de scribed him as about 5-feet-6, 140 pounds, with brown hair and a moustache. “He was very neat,” Sister Zita said. “The girl, too, was neat and clean.” “It’s not a case of child neg lect at all,” Teros said. “Looks like a situation where he left her here thinking it was the very best place in the world.” \ J ’k £ ■ S’ MPwIMSr Jr W ' ■'/ s Ellingthon enthused about campaign. A ■ Staff Sergeant Thomas G. Chambers (left), of Griffin, and Private First Class Michael Lavoie of Frenchville, Maine, are the Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Month for October at Fort Rucker, Ala. Part of Chambers’ work as an instructor in the OH-58 mechanics course deals with the helicopter’s electrical system, and he shows Lavoie one of the training aids used in that. Lavoie also works with electricity, but of a more powerful kind. He is a structural electrician for Company B. 46th Engineer Battalion. Chambers is assigned to 13th Com pany, Ist Battalion. want to be the best soldier I can,” the 18-year-old graduate of Wisdom High School in St. Agatha, Maine, said. Tuesday- Wednesday ; November Bth and 9th Hours 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. : i COLOR PORTRAIT SPECIAL! i 111x14 “S. FREE I ■ With Purchase Os Our Complete Picture Package Package ! ; O' x Consists Os: : PflL \ 1 2 - Color Bxlo Portraits i Sr 2 - Color 5x7 Portraits : jI Sr 10 ■ Bolor Portraits : ■ B No Extra Charge For Groups HHESSMHHSMMH ■ 81. J Up To 3 Persons j (Complete Package Oelieered To Our Store) $2.00 Down 12.95 On Delivery* ! Pictures Will Be Made At H&W Studio, Atlanta Plus Sales Tax ■ t FISHER'S HARDWARE i t College-Hill Shopping Center . Griffin, Go. No Limit Per IndMdual ! Page 7 He came to Fort Rucker last January. Chambers arrived here in July, 1976 from a three year tour in Germany. — Griffin Daily News Saturday, Novembers, 1977 Weather watch To December 1 Provided as a service to growers and gardeners in this area by this newspaper, the Georgia Extension Service and the National Weather Service A wetter than normal November is in store for Georgia, according to the latest outlook from the National Weather Service. That means harvesting and other field work may have more delays than usu al. But the above average rainfall will benefit small grain plantings and pastures. While rainfall is expected to be above normal, the northern third of the state will also have above normal temperatures. November temperatures in the rest of the state will be about normal. According to the Weather Service, November is usually a dry month in Georgia. Rainfall ranges from two to Cub Scouts of Pack 6 get pins and badges Cub Scouts of Pack 6, spon sored by Griffin Christian School, have made posters depicting places they would like to visit. In connection with the National Cub Scout theme for October, “Discover America,” the boys prepared the posters for the monthly meeting which was presided over by Hank Boynton, cubmaster. Boynton presented service pins to Adam Avery, Mike DRY CLEANING SPECIALS MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY SO4O V PLAIN SKIRTS £■ CASH & CARRY ONLY Ail Garments Moth-Proofed) WOODWARD CLEANERS COLLEGE AT BTH STREET (ACROSS FROM BIG STAR) Ms, \* » A * ** 'xJ three inches, with slightly more in the northern coun ties. Soil temperatures will continue to decline season ally, but generally will remain favorable for plant ing small grains. By mid-November, Georgia soils are normally too cool for effective soil fumigation. Central and South Georgia counties that have not had frost already should have it by the end of the month. And by the time November ends, tempera tures are usually down to the 50s and 60s in the afternoons and in the 30s to low 40s at night. Smith, John Scott, Marty Boynton, Roger Goen, and David Bell. Marty Boynton received his Wolf Badge and John Scott received his Scientist and Sportsman Activity badges. Boynton announced the boys will have a skit presented by Den 1 next pack meeting. Field trips in November include a visit to Delta’s jet base and to the Atlanta International Raceway time trials race.
