News of Yesteryear — Aug. 15, 2012
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From the annals of 1912

• John Cooper, a candidate for Congress, was to speak in Griffin.

From the annals of 1937

• Griffin was named a headquarters for the Georgia Highway Patrol.

From the annals of 1962

• Former President Herbert Hoover proposed a Council of Free Nations. He said the “Reds have destroyed the usefulness of the U.N.”

• President John Kennedy was to give a report on the economy.

From the annals of 2007

• Carson Willis finished third in the Atlanta Junior Golf Grand Championship in the Boys 12-and-under Division.

• Firefighters had to extricate a woman from a car after a two-vehicle wreck on Memorial Drive.

• A woman and four children under 6 were displaced after a fire at Spalding Heights.
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