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By Quimby Melton
Georgia, ever min caul of the
great contribution he made to
the cause of education in the
state, will mourn the passing of
Chancellor Sanford, cf the Uni
versity System. No finer, nor
more patriotic citizen has ever
lived in Georgia.
He has lain the foundation
for a splendid University sys
tem and what he would like for
Georgians to do is to continue
to build tfvis system until it is
the, best-'in the nation. That
was ids dream. And if we
Gejrfgians want to we can fol
lo w the "blue prints" he drew
up ar.d accomplish just that.
One of the most important
things we must do is to pick
proper man to fill Dr. San
ford's place. The Board of
Regents, who will name his suc
cessor, has a job that is net
easy to do. All sorts of pressure
v^Sfill be brought to. bear to have
this or that man named. But
we have enough confidence in
that board to know they will
make a wise choice.
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Just as a suggestion to that
beard and in no wise seeking
to "bring pressure" on it we
suggest that Dr. Harmon Calu
wtll, now president of the Uni
versity of Georgia, would come
just about as near filling Dr.
Sanford's place as any man vve
know. He's a native Georgian,
having been born in neighboring
Meriwether County; he's an ex
perienced educatoif and he is
enough cf a politician to com
-bine political tact with educa
tional ability and make a good
chancellor. And. Dr. Caldwell
is a comparatively young mat*.
Don't get the idea that politi
cal tact isn't needed fer that
important job. With some 2-9
institutions in the system, there
is naturally a lot of rivalry
and with the General Assembly
the boss as to finances for the
system the Chancellor has to be
an expert politician or we might
say an expert concilliator.
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Should Dr. Caldwell be nam
ed Chancellor we'd also like
to suggest to the Buard of Re
gents that Dr. John Dreary,
dean of the Henry Grady SchoJ
of Journalism, at Athens, would
• make a good president for the
University.
Like Caldwell, . Drewry is a
native Georgian, having been
born ar.d reared right here in
Griffin. He has made a remark-
Pitts home on North Hill St.,
tension. He knocked on the
and according to accounts told
sheriff, then proceeded to
through the door twice an4 then
kick it in. His former wife told the
sheriff that Huff struck her and
that they went into the yard. While
there she is alleged to have told
Huff "I should kill -you for whip
ping me." He is then reported to
have handed her a pis tel and to
have said "Go ahead and shoot.”
It was then that she shot him.
Huff taken to the hospital told
the sheriff that it was all his fault
and that, he did not care to make
any case against his former wife.
No arrest has been made. The
,
■ase wiil be held epen for grand
jury investigation. Sheriff Miudlc
brooks, Deputy Luther Brooks and
State Highway Patrolman Sergeant
Joe Burson investigated the shoot
ing
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Mrs. Hallyburton
Resigns As Teacher
After 24 Years Here
Mrs. Lucia Hallyburton. for 23
years a teacher in the Griffin Pub
lic Schools, has resigned effective
Oct 1 She will move to Eliaville
to teach and to make her home
with her son and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Millard Arrington.
In accepting Mrs. Hallyburtcn's
resignation Supt. Crudup, of the
City Schools, praised her for her
excellent, record as. a teacher heic
and commended her to the people
of EllaviUe.
HUGH C. CONLEY WINS
COMMISSION IN ARMY
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Hugh
Carmichael Conley of College Park
Ga., husband of Mrs . Genevieve
Ragsdale Conley, 714 I Me cLaurin Ave
and today his department is re
cognized as one of the leading
Journalism Schools cf Amer
ica. Dr. Drewry ranks high m
edtjcatlonul ranks and his ap
pointment to be president would
be a wise one we sincerely be
lieve.
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Now should the Board of Re
gents have other plans for Dr.
Caldwell that would prevent
him being named Chancellor,
we would suggest for that po
sition;
Marion Smith Atlanta, now
chairman of the Board of Re
gents; ,
Luctcn P. Goodrich, Griffin,
former president of the Univer
sity of Georgia Alumni Associa
tion;
Ralph McGill, editor of the
Atlanta Ccnstitution;
Cason Calloway, Hamilton,
member of the Board;
Any of those four would make
an excellent Chancellor.
But regardless of who may
succeed Dr. Sanford they will
'have a hard time filling his
place.
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Occupation Forces In Japan Will Be
Cut To 200,000 Within Six Months
Griffinites Shiver
As Chilly, Rainy
Weather Hits City
■ Griffinites shivered during the
week-end as the first cool spell of
the current season descended upon
the city, accompanied by showers.
The cool weather which began
Friday, hit a lo wof 63 Sunday
morning and dropped 'to 62 this
morning. Throughout Sunday the
thermometer rose only to 71. Though
it was continually cloudy and damp
only .19 inches of rain fell Sunday
and Monday.
The weatherman forecasts mild
temperatures, becoming a little
temperatures becoming a little
warmer Tuesday afternoon.
Winfred Huff Shot
By Former Wife
Winfred Huff is in Strickland
Memorial Hospital with a pistcl
shot wouhd in his left side which
Sheriff Luther Middlebrooks says
was inflicted by Helen Pitts, a
former wife of tile man. The wound
is -not serious,
According to Sheriff Middlebrooks
Huff, who is now remarried, was
at one time married to Helen Pitts
and prior to that .to her sister
Alma Pitts. He had toeen divorced
by both of them. . s.
Saturday night he west with two
unidentified companions to the
210,809 Workers Idle
In Labor Disputes
WASHINGTON (/P) President
Truman today summoned Labor Sec
retary Schwellenback to lunch at
the White House to talk over re
conversion labor problems already
markccl.by strikes and lay-offs of
thousands of workers.
A check shows that 210,000 Amer
ican workers are not toiling as the
result of labor disputes.
Work stoppages were spread
across 12 states.
Michigan stands at the head of
idle workers. 58,800 workers were
idle as a result of the lay-off at
Ford plant brought about, it is re
ported, by a strike cf 4,500 at the
Kelsey Hqyes Wheel Company.
There were also work stoppages at
the Hudson Motor Co., The Mur
ray Corporation and the Patters
Makers.
Meanwhile threat of a strike hung
over General Motors and the Chrys
ler Corp. 'Die CIO United Automo
bile Workers prepared for a strike
vote to enforce a 30.per cent in
crease in pay. UAW also planned a
strike vote among Ford workers.
In Ohio there were work stop
pages at Goodrich Tire Co., and
General Motors Packard Electric
division.
Steel and coal strikes in Penn
sylvania accounted for some 13.000
Idle. In Illinois some 3,000 are out
of work.
Some textile plants in New Jer
sey were shut down, and in Iowa
meat packing house employes were
out.
Miscellaneous strikes included:
10.000 New York painters;, 7.000 Hol
lywood movie men; 2,500 dried fruit
was a
second lieutenant In the A*rmy of the
United States on September 6 upon
successful completion of the Offi
cer Candidate Course at The In
fantry Sehcol at Fort Bennlng.
The new lieutenant was inducted
into the Army on May 26, 1942, and
served with the Armv Air Force.
before taking the Officer Candidate
Course. He held the rank of ser
geant before being commissioned.
The new officer is a graduate of
Russell High School at East Point
and atteded Evening College at
Georgia Tech, Atlanta.
McDonough sailor is
ADVANCED IN RATING
ABOARD A CRUISER IN
PACIFIC.—Eldridge L. Turner. 27.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Tur
ner. Larneewill St„ McDonough,
Ga., has advanced to wntertender.
third class. USNR. He helps to take
care of the ship's oil and water
supply.
Before entering the Navy ln
October, 1943, Turner was a pipe
fitter for the Qrinnell Co., Inc., At
lanta, Ga.
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GRIFFIN, GA„ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1945.
Greatest Military
Gamble Pays OH
TOKYO.—(JP)— History’s greatest
military 'gamble — the American
landing in armed Japan—has pai'd
off so handsomely that occupation
forces probably will be. cut to not
more than 200.000 within six months.
General MacArthur said today.
As a result of the successful pene
tration of this conquered nation, he
added in a formal statement, troops
will be returned home as rapidly as.
ships are available. Regular Army
forces, he said, prcbably will be
able to maintain unaided the 200,
000-man force—“which will permit
complete demobilization of our citi
zen (draftee) Pacific Forces.”
“There waSi probably no greater
gamble taken in history," his state
ment explained “than the initial
landings” where were
outnumbered 1,000 to ope by arm
ed Japanese. But, he added, "the
stakes were worth it."
MacArthur’s estimate cf 200,000
occupation troops is just half the
number which Lt. Gen. Robert L.
Eichelberger, commander of the U„
S. Eighth Army, recently said would
be necessary — and Eichelberger's
figures were at that time consider
ed low. At the start, some 800,000
men—including air forces — w'cio
scheduled to participate.
Only Saturday, however, Eiehcl
berger forecast that the entire oc
cupation might be “washed-up"
within a year if it continued as
smeothly as it had started.
MacArthur s statement said, that I
the unknown quantity at the outset
of the occupation, was whether a
military government would have to
be established. This would have
involved several million troopi, he
said; but by working with the exist
ing Japanese government, purposes
of the surrender terms can
complished with cnly a small frac
tion of the men, time and money
originally projected.
“This situation involved grave
initial risk but successful penetra
tion and subsequent progress of the
operation now assures success oj
the venture,” he said.
Once Japan Is disarmed, he em
phasized, a force of 200,000 troep
“will be sufficiently strong to in
sure our will.”
Questions involved in the strength
of occupation forces, the Supreme.
Commander explained, are
I independent ot the future Japnncc
politico governmental st.-uetun
strikes in Kentucky.
SEAMAN IS
DESTROYER ESCORT
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
W. Phillips, seaman, first
Jackson, Ga.,- served aboard
the destroyer escort Wiseman tha
almost half-way around the
world to provide Manila with ligjjj
and power for several months.
The destroyer escort made her
way through the city's wrecked har
bors shortly after Its liberation, and
floated a heavy cable from the ship
to shcre.
SGT. DAVIS WILLIAMS
RETURNS FROM EUROPE
Sgt ' Davls wluiams of Griffin
RrrlVcd at Camp Patrlck Henry '
Va ’ aUer SerV ‘" 8 f0r n year * lUl
^ Thtrct Army ln Ule European
Iheater of Operations. Sgt. Will
Uams is expected to arrive heme at
an early date to spend a furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Davis E. Williams.
Columbus, O., recorded a low of
48 degrees in the middle of
this year and mothballed
came out ln thousand* of home*.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
PLAYS GAMES AT 2 P. M.
ATHENS. — (A0—The University
of Georgia has announced this year's
starting time for home football
games has been moved up to 2 P.
M. Eastern Standard Time. Tl' 1 '
change is in keeping with Athens
switch to Eastern Standard Tina
from Eastern War Time.
General Average
NEW YORK—(AO—The avtjraee
age of the 1,500 generals who com
manded , the 8.000,000-mah Amer
ican Army In May of 1945 was 51 4
years, says the Metropolitan Uf»
Insurance Company. Almost 35 per
cent of the generals were under 50.
Pipeline To Victory
NEW YORK—<A>)—Envugh gas
ollne ttnd oU to drlve from N ,, w
Yorlc ^ Chlca(f0 cvrry automo
bile, truck, tractor or bus that
existed In 1941 was transported
Europe by ship between D-Day ami
VE-Day according to Ships
gazine.
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NU^PAVEI) STREETS NOW Here men begin the tedious process of digging out from the sand
and muc ■k left in the citv after Hjtripica^ hurricane struck Miami, Fla. This street, Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, used be on
to a paved street running past t-h • Ocean Front hotels, but not any more. (NEA
Telephotoi. (Other Storm Pictures on
Mrs. R. E. Jones
Dies Sunday Morning
Mrs. Susan Fanner Jones, wife
of R. E. Jones, died Sunday, morn
ing at her home on the MaeA
Road after several weeks’ illness.
Mrs. Jones was 62 years old.
Survivors are her husband; three
daughters, Mrs. R. I.,. Johnson of
Griffin; Mrs. R. B. Parish and Mrs.
C. D:’Yarbrough, both of Atlanta;
live sobs, F. A. Jones, Harley M.
' Jones, both of Griffin; E. M Jones
of Atlanta: O. S.. Jones, U. S. Ma
rine Corps, California; and Cecil E.
Jones. ARM. United States Navy:
sister, Mrs. W. W. Mabry of Talla
poosa; two brothers, F. L. Farmer
of Tallapoosa: and T J Farmer
Of Tarrant. Ala
Funeral services '
will be held
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at
the DeVotle Baptist Church with
J. Herman Gresham official
Interment will follow in Holly
wood Cemetery at Tallapoosa. Hals
ten Brothers, funeral directors, are
in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Edward King.
A. C. Pounds. Marvin Waller, I J
Brown, c. E. Kent and C H. Churei
R. L. AARON RECEIVES
DISCHARGE FROM NAVY
CHARLESTON. S. C Sixth
Naval District HeadquuUers an
nounced today that Richard I con
Aaron, 27, has been honorably dis
charged from the Naval Service at
thi' U. S. Naval Personnel Separa
tion Center, Naval Air station.
Charleston.
He has served 41 months in the
Navy "" His home address is Route
C; Griffin Ga where his wife, the
former Miss Ruth Jones, nVd their
two-year-old daughter, Nancy Matt
el vn, reside.
Aaron plans, on his return’home
to enter business in Griffin Ga
Prior to entering thi> .service he
was employed by; Rushton Mills.
He has served on 'Naval patrol
duty at various Naval Air Stations
He held the rate of Aviation Ma
chinist's Mate First Cta.-s
THE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Cloudy and rain in central and
east portions today t(LU-LV'd by
partly cloudy weather (dniglit
and Tuesday; mild temperatures
becoming a little warmer Tues
day afternoon. Increasing winds
on coast this afternoon.
Maximum Monday: 71
Minimum Monday: 62
Maximum Sunday: if
Minimum -Sunday: 03
Rainfall Sunday and Mon
day: .19 inch. *
County Properly
Values Ijurease
Total, property value in Spalding
county has increased $267,460 since
1944.
Grover Padgett, local tax collec
tor, reported this morning that
property in this county was valued
at $9,300,125 in 1944, but that its
value today had Increased to $9,-
567,585.
This docs not mean, Mr. Padgett
warned, that all property could be
taxed. After homestead and per
sonal property exemptions were de
ducted, total taxable property was
valued at $7042250 last year and
at $7,222,070 this year - a jump
of $170,820 in taxable values.
City real estate values this year
have increased $36,415, jumping
from $2,991,070 in 1944 to $3,027,435.
Real estate outside the city is worth
$72,585 more than it was last year
when it was valued at $2,108,675
This year's valuation is $2,181,260
New Rehabilitation
Program Mapped
ATLANTA UP\ — A program of
rehabilitation designed to aid dis
charged servicemen who have run
afoul of the law, has been presented
at a series of meetings by Stair
Veterans Service Director C. Arlhui
Cheatham.
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Conferences were held at Savan
nah, Valdosta, Brunswick, Way
Griffin Man Secs
Wainwright Parade
Cary Reeves, general manager ,
or THE NEWS, who fs Iff HW
York wjih Mrs. Reeves on a va
cation trip, lias ’ written home
that he witnessed the welcome
parade glvefi General Jonathan
Wainwright in New York last
week.
“I’ve never seen anything
like . that be fore and consider
myself fortunate that I had a
chance to see this hero given
a suitable welcome by the great
est city in'the world." he wrote.
Former Griffinite's
Child Has Disease
Which Killed Mother
HAZtEHURST.—Lynn Heath, 3
y&r-eld daughter of diaries W
Heath is desperately ill at Hie home
In Hazlehurst She is suffering
from a malignancy similar to the
one which to< k her mother, Fran
ces Warren Heath, from her last
April;
For almost two years the family
has .sought relief from Specialists
and hospitals in vain; ra, knowing
the inevitable tlie family,
and friends hav< .ill combined ef
forts t.i m;tk iter remaining
as Happy as they can.
Her maternal grandmother, Mrs
L. C. Warren, has charge of her ar.d
tolls her stories and slhgs to her
hours of the day night
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ALBERT W. FUTRAL WINS
IN ARMY
FORT KNOX.
Albert Wilson Futral, son of Mr.
and Mrs J! B. Futral, Route 4.
Oiitlih *t la • commissioned a
se.-uu <i lieutenant in ceremonies
here Sept. 15, IP- was a member
of thi 82(1(1 graduatin'; class of tie
Ai lamed Officer Candidate School,
■ Forty-five new tfficcr* receive,!
their gold bars i tpon completion of
a 1.7-week coun- ,e. As their first
assignment. most of then) will rc
reive ; • .»t i; a Ft' (lining in command
duties at the Armored Replacement
Training Center at. Fort Knox. Oth
ers will go to Fort Riley, Kansas.
Following additional training, the
new officers will be assigned to
armored units a --platoon leaden.
REGISTRATION DRIVE
ATLANTA (/TO Georgia Dcmo
rratio women leaders will meet here
Friday, Sept. 28, to launch a reg
istration campaign, according to
an announcement by Mrs. J., W.
Oglesby, Quitmun, State Reglstra
tion Chairman.
The Fulton County Women's Dl
vision will be host for the
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DUE TO HIT
EAST COAST
LATE TODAY i
Only “Fringe” Of Storm
Will Hit Georgia
Forecast Says
SAVANNAH. — 1/SV-One fa- i
Uallly was reported here during,
the heavy rainstorm last idg^bt.
•Mrs. Roscop Tuten was fatally
hurt when her automobile hit a
tree near here. Her husband and
10-month-old baby were Injured.
BRUNSWICK.— OV) White
Brunswick and nearby St. St
mon's Island are taking every
precaution against the hurri
cane headed this way the fore
cast is that only the fringe of
the storm will hit the Georgia
coast and the center will pro
bably be some 50 miles off shore
and will strike the east coast
in the vicinity of Charleston,
South Carolina. (
MIAMI Fla. (/P) — A sluicing hur
ricane that walloped South Flor
ida with winds up to 143 miles per
hour, cost $50,000,000 in property
damage and left three dead, was
boiling up anew in the Atlantic to
day and racing toward the Georgia
and Carolina coastlines.
Residents from Brunswick, Ga.,
to Hatteras, North Carolina, bat- -
tened down or prepared to evacuate
low-lying coastal areas as twin red
and black hurricane signals were
hoisted between the two points.
The Weather Bureau said indica
tions were the center of the storm
would strike inland this forenoon
on the South Carolina coast from
Charleston northward with hurri
cane fury and high tides.
The howler, which lessened con
siderably as it limped northward
through the Florida penlnmla Sun
day. regained momentum and force
after passing into the Atlantic near
St. Augustine last night. Winds up
to 70 miles in gusts were reported.
Little structural damage or citrus
crop losses were reported from the
devitalized sterm as it moved
through Central and Northern Flor
ida. but- South Florida counted
scores of injured, hundreds of home
less and damage in the millions in
the wake of the blow.
Greatest damage was reckoned at -
the Richmond Naval Air Base, 30
miles south of Miami where three
towering blimp hangars collapsed
and turned at the height of the
storm, killing Harry M. Schultz, of
Miami, civilian fire chief at the
and Albany last week
welfare workers, prosecutors
judges in attendance.
Cheatham is also conducting
courses for wives and
at returning veterans on
psychological approach of fami
ly numbers toward ox-vildiers
H. F. BUNN AT
NORFOLK STATION
NORFOLK, Va Horn") Frank
!in Bunn, Jr., 19. seamqn second
class, USNR, of East Griffin, has
arrived at the Naval Training Sta
ll.n, Norfolk, . Va., Atlantic- Fleet
training center for destroyer eiew
to undergo instruction for duties a
board a new destroyer or simile
type vessel. He has already cflm
pleted a period of instruction Vi
the Mftjty Quartermaster School
Norfolk; Va.
Bunn I.-, a veteran of six went;'?
duty aboard the destroyers USS
Greer and USS Shannon in the At
lantic. . He wears ribbons for the
American Area and the European
African-Middle Eastern Area,
He is the son of Mr. and
Homer Bunn Sr., of 66 Fourth
East Griffin. Before enlisting
the Navy, Bunn was employed by
the Dundee Textile Company,
T
griffin first
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Established 1871-
The Navy estimated that between
$30,000,990 and $40,000,000 was lost
in destruction of tire $8,000,090 han
gars. largest sipgte-span wooden
structures In the world, and 369
planes and ' blimps that were
sheltered in a 190-ioot high, 1,100
foot long hangars.
Fifty sailors were injured battling s
I he blaze, but only a few required
hospitalization.
* A furniture factory fire In Miami,
whipped out of control by 99-mlle
winds tliat side-swiped the city,
caused $150,000 damage. South Flor
ida growers listed the fruit and
vegetable crop loss in the rich red
lands district at more than half a
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HIGHTOWER WILL HEAD
TEXTILE BOND DRIVE
Harrison Hightower*pr ulent of
the Thomftston Cotton Mills, will
direct participation of Georgia'*
textile industry in the coming Vic
tory Loan drive.
“Mr. Hightower, who lives in
Thomaston but also heads the
Griffin Division Thomaston Cottcn
Mills, will seek wholehearted sup
port in the drive of “every mill and
every textile employe in Georgia.”