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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 10,1977
Griffin native expands his
pet business to hometown
Sonny Albert, a native of
Griffin who is making it big in
the pet business, opened a shop
in Griffin today. This is the third
one he has opened under his
corporation name of Pet Land.
He opened one in Warner
Robins then another in Macon.
If the business continues to
grow, Albert hopes to open
others around Georgia. He has
his eye on a possible location in
Augusta.
The Griffin shop is in Market
Square just off Highway 16
West.
Mrs. Rose Bishop will
manage the shop. She'll have up
to four people working in the
store after the grand opening
shakedown and things settle
into a regular business routine.
Staffers from the Warner
Probation officers
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to pay, he may elect to participate in
the work release program, working
week days and spending nights and
weekends with his family.
The work release program is Con
ner’s pet project. Four men are in the
program at present as an alternative to
going to the public works camp.
Some participants, especially those
with drug convictions, worked for the
first time in their lives.
It teaches them responsibility,
Conner continued.
He cited one man who worked for a
half day to pay off his fine, then went on
the afternoon shift at a local mill to
earn money for his family.
If he had gone to prison, the state
would have had to keep him and his
family up, too, Conner said.
OTHER CONDITIONS
Probationers also must meet other
conditions such as obeying the law;
avodiing bad habits, especially alcohol
and drugs; avoiding persons or places
of bad character; reporting to the
probation supervisor as directed or
permitting him to visit at home, work
or elsewhere; working faithfully at
suitable employment when possible;
not changing his present home address,
moving outside the jurisdiction of the
court or leaving the state without prior
permission of the probation supervisor;
and supporting his legal dependents to
the best of his ability.
Some 5,275 offenders have been
handled through the office since 1956.
This year, of the 189 new cases, there
have been only seven revocations.
“We can’t cure society’s ills. We’d be
the first to admit that, but if we have
one success story out of 10, it's an
achievement,*’ Conner said.
The cases less likely to succeed are
the drunks and those who commit profit
type crimes, such as forgeries,
burglaries, thefts and bad check
Jobless
rate
drops
The unemployment rate in
Griffin and Spalding County
declined by one-tenth of one
percent during September,
from 5.2 in August to 5.1.
According to figures from the
Georgia Department of Labor,
the number of unemployed
persons dipped by 19 to 1,046.
The total number employed
increased by 19 to 19,298. During
the same period, the county’s
labor force, including people
both employed, remained at
20,344.
The total number of people
employed in the Mclntosh Trail
area decreased by 211 during
the month, from 4,496 to 4,285.
There were 74,147 persons
employed, an increase of 190.
Other counties in the Griffin
area and their unemployment
rates include: Butts, 7.3;
Fayette, 5.6; Henry, 6.7;
Lamar, 5.1; Newton, 4.7; Pike,
5.3; and Upson, 5.1.
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Robins shop will be here to help
through the grand opening.
Albert, a 1967 Griffin High
graduate, worked in the fur
niture business a couple of
years after he finished his tour
of Army duty.
He and his wife, the former
Brenda Oglesby, also of Griffin,
set up a pet shop in Warner
Robins sort of as a hobby. The
business flourished.
Soon Brenda was making as
much money as her husband
was in the furniture business.
He decided to get into the pet
shop business full time.
Brenda is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Oglesby of
Griffin. They figured in the path
that led the Alberts into the pet
business. The Oglesby’s operate
a pet grooming business in
writing.
“The aggravated assaults and
murderers are the ones who give us the
least trouble. And the child support
cases are the biggest headaches,”
Conner said.
He’s handling 180 of these right now.
ABANDON FAMILY
“When a man abandons his family,
the wife expects you to succeed where
she failed. She wants miracles and
often the man has been laid off his job
or is sick and can’t send any money. .
Some of these cases are the third
generation. We try to use common
sense,” he said.
So far, some $109,185 has been
collected from the fathers. Much of this
money goes to the Child Support
Recovery Unit in Atlanta where it will
be applied to welfare recipients’
checks. Some of it goes directly to the
individuals for child support, he ex
plained.
Conner also handles 88 Uniform
Support cases which require no
supervision. He just collects money for
child support in cases in which one
parent lives out of the Griffin Circuit.
About 10 percent of those on
probation are “lady clients.” Most of
them have five or six children, making
it more difficult to collect fines and
restitution.
BAD TO JAIL WOMEN WITH
CHILDREN
“It’s bad to lock up a women who has
children,” Conner said.
“We want people to be able to turn to
us for help. Each case is treated in its
own light. People come up here in a
panic and if we can sit down and calmly
talk, they can almost solve their own
problems. We have to learn to listen.
Wtf see so much sadness and poverty.
It’s remarkable how much progress
we’ve made in 21 years,” Conner ob
served.
Protein diet
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He also maintained that no other effective treatment
exists for the clinically obese, which he called a serious
medical problem for one out of every four Americans and
“a major risk factor in a number of life-threatening
diseases.”
He said the FDA’s public warning should have a positive
benefit, saying the main problem appears to be “with
patients monitored minimally by physicians.”
Kennedy said, however, that even medical supervision
doesn’t guarantee the diet is safe. The commissioner said
all 10 of those who died after months of modified fasting
were under a doctor’s supervision.
“Fad diets for weight reduction come and go,” the com
missioner said. “ Most are safe enough for use for short
periods by the general public. But the liquid predigested
protein diet has real potential dangers.”
Drs. George L. Blackburn of Harvard Medical School
and Theodore B. Van Itallie of Columbia University, who
participated in the news conference as FDA consultants,
said the radical diet should be used only to treat the
“morbidly obese,” people whose excess weight may cause
or complicate other serious medical problems.
What’s
happening
Sunbeams bazaar
The Pomona Methodist Sunbeams will sell bazaar items
Saturday at 222 Manley from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The
bazaar was scheduled for last Saturday but was
rescheduled for this Saturday.
Spaghetti supper
Tickets for the spaghetti supper at Crescent School PTO
will be $2 for adults and $1.50 for children and will be
available at the door. The supper is being sponsored by
the school PTO in the school cafeteria on Friday from 5:30
to 8 p.m.
Griffin.
The pet shop business which
the Alberts developed was
something of a spinoff from the
Oglesby’s venture.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert were
pleased that they could expand
their growing business to their
hometown.
They continue to make their
home in Warner Robins where
Mr. Albert is active in political
and community affairs.
He is a political con
temporary of Mayor Foy
Evans, former publisher of the
Warner Robins Sun. Evans
appointed Albert recently to a
key city committee. Albert was
a candidate for city com
missioner at the same time
Evans made his bid for the
mayor’s office.
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Junior Achievement money
Don McSwain (1) and President Jett Russell (r) of the Griffin Kiwanls Clnb turn over check
to Al Thrasher representing the Junior Achievement program here. The money came from
the Spalding Fair Association which the Kiwanls Club sponsors.
Deaths and
funerals
Mr. Hodges, Sr.
Mr. Brae K. Hodges, Sr., 86,
of Jackson died Wednesday
morning at Georgia Baptist
Hospital in Atlanta.
Mr. Hodges was a retired
merchant and a member of the
Macedonia Baptist Church
where he served as a deacon.
He had been a member of the St.
John’s Lodge 45 of Masons for
the past 54 years.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Julia Florence Hodges of
Jackson; two daughters, Mrs.
Evelyn H. Mathais of College
Park and Mrs. Nancy Sanders
of East Point; three sons, Brae
K. Hodges, Jr., Haywood
Hodges, both of Jackson and J.
W. Hodges of Decatur; two
sisters, Mrs. Dama Haralson of
Barnesville and Mrs. Julia
Harris of Jenkinsburg; two
sisters-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Lee
Hodges of Jackson and Mrs.
Lucille Hodges of Asheville, N.
C.; nine grandchildren, seven
great-grandchildren, several
nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be Friday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from
the Macedonia Baptist Church.
The Rev. R. W. Jenkins, the
Rev. Maxie Treatt and the Rev.
Phil DeMore will officiate and
burial will be in the church
cemetery. The St. John’s Lodge
45 of Masons will be in charge of
graveside services. Haisten
Funeral Home of Jackson is in
charge of plans.
Mr. Donnie Brown
Mr. Donnie M. Brown died
this morning at Piedmont
Hospital in Atlanta.
Mr. Brown was the son of
Mrs. Gladys S. Brown of Griffin
and the late Raymon T. Brown.
White Columns Funeral
Home of Austell is in charge of
plans. The funeral is scheduled
for Saturday.
Mrs. Mann
Mrs. Hattie J. Mann of
Macon, mother of the Rev.
Walter Mann and Crawford
Mann, both of Griffin, died
Tuesday morning at the Macon
Medical Center.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by Hutching Mortuary
of Macon.
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Mrs. W. C. Brown
Mrs. Barbara Cleo Mallary
Brown of Covington highway,
Decatur, formerly of Griffin,
died this morning at Ken
nestone Hospital in Marietta.
Mrs. Brown was born in
Spalding County and had lived
in Decatur for three years.
She is survived by her
husband, Walter Eugene
Brown; four daughters, Mrs.
Debra Waldroff of Pittsburg,
Va., Miss Evelyn Brown, Miss
Monica Brown and Miss Geneva
Brown, all of Decatur; a son,
Walter Eugene Brown, Jr.;
three sisters, Mrs. Karen
Powell of Decatur, Mrs. Betty
Smith of Gainesville and Mrs.
Judy Sprayberry of Decatur; a
brother, Tony Mallary of
Marietta; mother, Mrs. Ger
trude Kent Mallary of Decatur;
and two grandchildren.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDonald Chapel.
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Hospital
report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Wednesday:
Arcolia Slaton, Mrs. Helen M.
Thompson and baby, Shari
Skinner, Brian Merritt, Robert
Steve Martin, Phu Mae Jen
nings, Murial Huckaby, S. Ross
Brown.
J. R. Cloud, Larry Goodson,
Billy Arnold, Steven Frye,
Winfred Terrell, Rae Brown,
William Pelt.
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LITTLEMiSSMARTIN
Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Martin of 1209 North Ninth St.,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
daughter on Nov. 9 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
Jewelry found
at hospital
Jewelry has been found at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
The owner may claim by
identifying it at the hospital
business office.
Grovetown
man drowns
APPLING, Ga. (AP) — A
Grovetown man whose body
was found in a pond Wednesday
apparently drove across a dead
end intersection and into the
water, Columbia County Sheriff
Edward Tankersley said.
Frank Kimbro, 66, apparently
was driving west on Georgia
232, failed to stop when it came
to a dead end at U.S. 221, and
continued across the highway,
through a fence and into the
pond, Tankersley said.
The accident apparently oc
curred Saturday afternoon, be
cause Kimbro left the farm
where he worked at that time
and had not been seen since.
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Pine Hill Road
will be closed
for repairs
Pine Hill Road between High
way 16 West and Club drive will
be closed Nov. 14, 15 and 16
instead of the days the city
announced Wednesday.
The road will be closed on
these days, weather permitting,
for repairs.
Escapees
are caught
in Tennessee
The two escapees from the
Spalding County Public Works
Camp have been captured in
East Ridge, Tenn.
Randy Cochran, 23, and
Melvin Baker, 31, will be
returned to Spalding County.
They escaped from a work
detail at the landfill Oct. 21 and
are suspected of stealing a car
and burglarizing a home on
McDonough Road shortly af
terwards.
The auto, owned by Mrs.
Glenn Everhart, was found
burned and abandoned a few
days ago in Jacksonville, Fla.
The men are thought to have
taken guns, clothing and money
from the home of Gary Earl
Jones.
Baker was serving a sentence
for forgery and writing bad
checks. Cochran had been
convicted of burglary.
Bike recovered
Spalding Sheriff’s officers
have recovered one bicycle and
are looking for another which
was reported stolen Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Hazel Bunn of 49
Crescent Ave. reported her
son’s 20-inch bike was stolen.
A bike owned by Herman
Smith of Edwards Street which
was stolen several days ago has
been found, officers said.
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engineering manager of
Imperial Homes in Griffin, a
company of Wick Building
Systems, Inc. He is a nationally
recognized home designer,
having won many awards for
his work. He comes to Imperial
from a major home
manufacturer in Atlanta.
Barinas whose hometown is
Shenandoah, Pa., graduated
from Georgia Tech in 1957. He
served in the U. S. Navy. He has
purchased a home at 1523
Kennedy Dr., in Griffin where
he will live with his wife, the
former Carol Guenther, and
their children, Cathy, 17,
Bernard, Jr., 16, John, 14, and
Rose Maria, 13. Mrs. Barinas is
a professional artist.
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