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! —Griffin Daily News Monday/ November 14,1977
Utility donates
$4,000 to center
The Griffin Utility Club has voted to donate $4,000 to the
Griffin Association for Retarded Citizens to help with
construction of a new training center at the Hamilton
boulevard complex.
The Utility Club is among other civic organizations
which have made contributions to this latest construction
project.
The building was needed to handle the expansion of
services to people with special educational and training
needs.
Crime report
Cadillac among things stolen
Area lawmen were looking for
a 1971 Cadillac which was stolen
over the weekend.
Bobby Joe Walker, 10th
Street, Barnesville, told
Spalding Sheriff’s Investigators
that he left the auto parked on
Old 41 at Orchard Hill and when
he returned Sunday, it was
gone.
David L. Payne of Shelby,
Ohio, who was staying at the
Days Inn on the North
Expressway, reported that
someone stole a tape player, CB
radio and about 30 tapes from
his auto while it was parked in
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LITTLE MISS GRANT
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L.
Grant of Route 3, Griffin, an
nounce the birth of a daughter
on Nov. 11 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.
MASTER HAMPTON
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery B.
Hampton of P. O. Box 214,
Hampton, announce the birth of
a son on Nov. 13 at the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital.
MASTER DUKE
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Duke of P.
O. Box 164, Experiment, an
nounce the birth of a son on Nov.
13 at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
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the motel parking lot.
Spalding Junior High School
Unit II was burglarized over the
weekend. Apparently nothing
was missing, police said.
A stereo was removed from a
house on West College Street.
John Walker of 1025 Boyd
Row, reported the theft of a .38
caliber gun from his car.
A utility house was
burglarized and damaged at the
home of Mrs. Clinton Joe
Mclntyre on Locust Grove
Road, according to the Spalding
Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s officers were in
vestigating a shooting during
the weekend.
Floyd A. Mathis, 212 Riley
Circle, was shot at his home by
his wife, Mrs. Estella Mathis,
lawmen said.
Auto hits
building
A speeding auto crashed
through a building at Tommy’s
Used Cars on Experiment
Street, injuring the driver,
demolishing two cars and
damaging another, police said.
The driver, David Willie
Ixmg, 34, of Mountain Brook
Drive, Thomaston, was carried
to the Griffin hospital
emergency room with injuries.
Griffin police said he was
traveling about 75 miles per
hour when he lost control of his
car. It left the street and
crashed through the wall of a
building, demolishing a 1972
auto parked inside and
damaging a 1969 model car also
inside the building.
Ixjng’s car was demolished.
Damage to the building was
set at $4, 500.
Frankie Stinson, 22, of Boyd
Row, was treated at the Griffin
hospital emergency room
following a collision on North
Hill and Cherry Streets, police
said.
John Albert Taylor of Route 2
was the other driver.
Deaths and
funerals
Mr. Lawrence
Mr. Hoyt David Lawrence, 64,
of 1449 Old Atlanta highway,
Sunset Drive, died Sunday
evening at the Living Center of
Griffin, where he was admitted
on May 2.
Mr. Lawrence was for 40
years employed as a mechanic
at Randall and Blakely until he
became ill in April. Mr.
Lawrence was a native of
LaGrange and had been a
resident of Spalding County for
most of his life.
He was the son of the late
Joseph Thomas Lawrence and
the late Henrietta Andrews
Lawrence.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Sara Flynt Lawrence; two
daughters, Mrs. Jeanette L.
Gresham of Griffin and Mrs.
Vivian L. Hooper of Stock
bridge; a sister, Miss Inez
Lawrence of Griffin; six
grandchildren, Mike Gresham,
Jan Gresham, Sandy Gresham,
all of Griffin, Bill Hooper, Mary
Beth Hooper and Phillip
Hooper, all of Stockbridge; and
a nephew, Tommy Lawrence of
Griffin.
The funeral will be Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the
chapel of Haisten Funeral
Home. The Rev. M. A. Powell
will officiate and burial will be
in Oak Hill cemetery. The body
will remain at the funeral home.
Mrs. Allen
Mrs. Mary B. “Gramps”
Allen, 74, of Barnesville died
early this morning at the
Heritage Inn Nursing Home
where she had been a patient for
the past two weeks.
Mrs. Allen was bom in Worth
County, Ga., and had lived in
Barnesville for 24 years. She
was the widow of Mr. Tom
Allen. At one time Mrs. Allen
was dietary aide in the Concord
School System. She was a
member of the Concord Baptist
Church.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Ed Taylor of Barnesville;
five grandchildren, two great
grandchildren; two sisters,
Mrs. J. D. Williams of Bar
nesville and Mrs. C. C.
Armistead of Williamson.
The funeral will be 3 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon in the
Concord Baptist Church. The
Rev. Bob McCombs will of
ficiate and burial will be in the
Magnolia cemetery. Haisten
Funeral Home of Barnesville is
in charge of plans.
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Catherine C. Brown of
1107 Briarcliff St., died Sunday
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
where she had been a patient for
three days.
Mrs. Brown was a member of
the Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church.
Her survivors include her
husband, Edgar Brown; a
sister, Mrs. Lizzie M. Jester of
New York; two brothers,
Charlie Jester of Griffin and
Hope Smith Hester of New
York.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Evans
The funeral for Mrs. Bertha
Walton Evans of Woodbury will
be Tuesday at Jones Chapel at 3
o’clock in Woodbury. Burial will
be in the Jones Chapel
cemetery.
Her survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Louise Rollins
of Manchester, Mrs. Betty Hill
of Griffin and Mrs. Bertha Mae
Pryon of Macon; four sons, Carl
Evans of Griffin, J. C. Evans,
Everett Evans and Hubert
Evans, all of Woodbury; a
sister, Mrs. Lizzie Moultrie of
Woodbury; 15 grandchildren
and 11 great-grandchildren.
Wade Gilbert Funeral Home
of Woodbury is in charge of
plans.
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Leaning on the mayor
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Seven-year-old Monique leans on her dad’s knee during a news
conference Sunday for Ernest Mortal, who was elected mayor of New Orleans. Mortal, a
former state judge, became the city’s first black mayor in history. (AP)
and have X-rays and tests and run up a
bill of SSOO quickly.
“The threshhold should be a more
realistic figure that would indicate and
be more in line with serious injury,” he
said.
McCrory said he did not know what, if
any, proposals about no-fault insurance
would be before the General Assembly,
but he feels there is a need for a
revamping of the enforcement and
threshhold portions of the law.
Some Griffin insurance agents feel
the theory of no-fault insurance is good,
but there is a need for some revisions in
the law.
Brack Pound feels the threshhold
should be raised to at least $3,000 and
automobile owners should be required
to present a policy and name of com
pany when purchasing tags.
RIGHT DIRECTION
“We are headed in the right direction
with the no-fault insurance law, but it
needs strengthening and there should
be some major revisions,” he said.
He agreed with McCrory that there is
a lot of misunderstanding about the law
and much of it is created by the agents
who are selling the insurance and not
fully explaining it to the purchaser.
"The insurance industry has not done
an adequate job of informing the public
about the coverage provided by
policies,” Pound said.
McCrory agreed that the industry
could be doing a better job of informing
the public.
“We have 40,000 agents and when
there are that many people selling a
service, some are not going to do the job
they should,” McCrory said.
DEFENDS AGENTS
However, he came to the defense of
the majority of agents, saying they
have an interest in their policy holders
and most are making adequate ex
planations to the public.
Morgan Harvill of Griffin said one
advantage of the mandatory no-fault
law is that it is getting some motorists
who previously did not have insurance
to purchase it. However, he said there
are still a large number of uninsured
motorists.
Harvill also feels no-fault is helping to
Utility backs
school board
The Griffin Utility Club gave
the Griffin-Spalding school
board a vote of confidence
during its meeting Friday.
The club voted unanimously
to “continue its interest in
quality education and its sup
port of the Griffin-Spalding
Board of Education in its en
deavors to improve its school
system and provide system
wide needs.”
In a letter to Chairman Henry
Walker, President Alice Blake
stated the “members are ready
to help in any way that you feel
we can be of service.”
Sounds better
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -
Cora Durbin lies about her age.
She celebrated her birthday
over the weekend, and she’s
really 10 years older than she
tells everyone she is.
“It sounds a little better being
91,” the 101-year-old Mrs.
Durbin said slyly from her chair
at Mount St. Joseph’s
Residence.
No-fault
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Newcomers
deadline
is Tuesday
The deadline for making
reservations and getting tickets
for the annual Newcomers
Dinner is Tuesday at 5 p.m. at
the Chamber of Commerce
Office.
The program will be held
Thursday 7 p.m. at the Moose
Club. The Women’s Division
sponsors this annual event.
It is to welcome the people
who have moved to the com
munity during the past year.
They will be guests for the
evening.
Other Griffinites attending
may purchase tickets at the
Chamber before the deadline.
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get payments for medical treatment to
the insured much faster.
“Other than that, I cannot see much
advantage to the average public,” he
said.
O. M. “Pete" Snider Jr. said the
General Assembly passed the
legislation, but did not provide any
funding for the enforcement of the law.
MORE PERSONNEL
“You cannot expect the Georgia State
Patrol to provide the same enforcement
without additional personnel,” he said.
Snider was quick to add that he would
encourage strengthening of the law.
“There should be a uniform ID card
for insurance holders. One of the local
legislators, John Carlisle, last year
introduced such legislation, but you
would not have recognized it when it
came out of committee,” Snider said.
The agents in Griffin are planning a
meeting in the near future with
legislators to discuss no-fault insurance
and to express their opinions about
what should be done to strengthen and
revise the law.
Reps. Carlisle and John Mostiler said
they do not know of any proposed
legislation, but a study committee is
working on no-fault and they feel there
will be some proposals presented to the
General Assembly.
RUMORS
Carlisle said he heard there are
rumors legislation will be introduced
to scrap the no-fault insurance
program. ’
“I am not for scrapping it. Let’s stick
with it until we can come up with
something better,” he said.
Carlisle said he realizes the law in its
current form is imperfect and revisions
are needed.
“There have been no definite for
mulations as of yet. I feel sure there
will be some proposals since there is a
subcommittee studying no-fault,”
Mostiler said.
“There are rumors of this and that. A
full committee will make recom
mendations to the House and just
because they make recommendations
does not mean that we have to vote for
them,” he said.
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What’s
happening
DAR meeting
Pulaski Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
will meet Thursday at 3:30 o’clock at the Lewis Mills
home. Mrs. Charles Newton, guest speaker, will speak on
American history. Hostesses will be Mrs. D. G.
McKaughan, Mrs. R. O. Campbell, Mrs. Ben Brown, Mrs.
George Brown, Mrs. James Skinner, Mrs. Marion Kelley
and Mrs. E. A. Seay.
Griffin NANBPW
Miss Jacqueline Calloway and Miss Lutricia Phillips
will host the November meeting of the Griffin-Spalding
National Association of Negro Business and Professional
Women’s Club Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the parish of St.
Stephens Episcopal Church on North Third Street.
Landmark Auxiliary
A “tiara gift-o-rama” will be Tuesday night at 7:30
o’clock in the Sunday school annex of the Landmark
Church of God, 105 West Chappell Street. Proceeds will go
to the Landmark Ladies Auxiliary.
Exchange Club
Bob Batcher of the Atlanta office of the American Red
Cross, will be guest speaker at the regular meeting of the
Exchange Club of Griffin on Tuesday, at noon, at the
Moose Lodge.
Pilot Club
The Griffin Pilot Club will meet Tuesday night at 7
o’clock at the Moose Lodge.
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital over
the weekend:
Harry Ward, Wayne Whit
field, Josephine Reid, Terrell
Williams, Mrs. Bonnie Snider
and baby, Jean Anglin, Johnnie
Evans, Elizabeth Campbell,
Jan Dover, Cary Perdue,
Frances Franklin.
Grace Ogletree, Katherine
Wolcott, John McCrackin, Wade
Carter, Laura Lunsford, Elaine
Henley, Ralph Autry, Lewellyn
Smith, Mark Cregg, Calvin
Cleveland, Verdie Beckham,
Early M. Watkins.
J. C. Turner, Beulah Cauthen,
Tony Blanchard, John W.
Carson, Harold Domingos,
JoDee Ison, Ivy Fears, Michael
Wilson, John Nelms, George
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Hospital
report
Corbin, Carl Howell, Billie
Davis, Mrs. Dianthia Mathews
and baby.
Anricus Tolen, Carlyn C.
Perdue, Luther Jones, Charlie
Bennett, Gail Blanks, Clare
Shelley, Susan Gaston, Oriska
Griggs, Edith Hall, Patricia
Harris, Debra Johnson, Lottie
Kilgore, Harold Morris.
Robert Murray, Jr., Susie
Pack, Carolyn Smith, Evelyn
Thaxton, Levi Tumipseed, John
Walker, Evelyn White.
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