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VENIN GOOD G
4 By Quimby Melton ^
Every town in America, ex
cept those war boom towns
where factories have closed
dtwn, are badly in need of ad
ditional houses, apartments anS
'robins, for rent.
ipt']! nowhere " is this truer,
thari right Ti^re in Griffin.
Every (lay people come by The
News offic# inquiring where
they can find g place to live.
This jamming, for instance, a
' young man, just discharged from
tlie Army, came by and said he
wanted to move to Griffin to
live. It happens that he visited
this city several times while
staticned at a nearby camp.
Even after he went overseas
he remembered Griffin and
Griffin people and his deter
mination to live here. But so
far he has been unable to find
a place to live.
And there will be hundreds
of Griffin boys, dischargecf
from the Army and Navy, who
be coming home soon look
ing for a place to live. Many of
them have been married since
the war started and will want
to set up housekeeping in their
own homes rather than live
I “with the old folks.”
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But that’s not all. Monday a
man, who has been a mighty
good citizen, moved away from
Griffin to another Georgia city
because he “could not find a
small apartment” here.
And today a woman, with
five sons in the Armed Service,
came by Tlie News to tell Good
Evening “good bye" before
moving to Atlanta. “I couldn't
find a place to live when my
bays come home,” she said.
What will Griffin do about"
this?
Patriotic people will look a
'V ,; round their homes and see if
they can’t find an extra room
or rooms to be rented to people
looking for a place to live.
There are many homes here
that could convert unused rooms
into small apartments.
And, surely, the building pro
gram for Griffin will see that
many small homes are built to
care ipr those who want' to live
here.
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And while we are talking of
tilings that Griffin needs bad
ly may we suggest to the City
Commission that the next pav
ing projects they approve in
clude paving certain streets on
the outskirts of the city that
lead to mill villages where some
of our best citizens live.
The other night Good Evening
drove out and over several of
these streets and they were lit
tie short of a disgrace. It had
*t raining and the streets
been
were so slippery that he was
afraid he would land in a ditch.
It's mighty fine to have the
main highways, threugh town,
paved, for they serve many peo
ple, both horaefolk and tourists.
But there nre dozens of other
streets, long neglected. that
should be paved and paved as
quickly as possible.
[ HI NABOR
A feller ain't
near *o apt to
rock tha boat
OVi'- yv if ha ha$ to
•I paddle his
canoe.
GRIFFIN
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I Grand Jury Returns
15 Indictments
This Morning
When criminal session of Spald
ing County Superior Court opens
Monday morning at nine o'clock at
least 15 cases will be on the calen
dar. This morning the Grand Jury
returned 15 indictments ranging
from cow stealing to attempt to
rape to assault with intent to mur
der. The Grand Jury was still in
session at noon.
In the meantime civil session ad
journed after 103 divorce cases and
only one other civil case which was
tried this morning. Originally 124
divorce cases were on the calendar
but dismissals account fer the dif
ference in number.
Late yesterday W. C. Kendrick
received a second divorce verdict
from Rosa Garrison Ryder Kendrick
and previously Marge M. Wright
had received a second and final
verdict from Clarence Wright.
This morning the Grand Jury
returned the following indictments:
Willie H. Thompson and Charlie
Cloud charged with cow stealing,
J. W. Williams charged with bi-
gamy, Evelyn Mae Golden charged
with bigamy, and Raymond Martin
charged with assault with intent
to murder.
George Bogan charged with bur
glary, Clarence Brooks Charged
with assault to murder and also
charged with assault and battery
(separate true bills were returned),
Roy Brown and Robert Chaney
charged with cow stealing, Truman
Knight, S. T. Harper and Walter
Bates charged with larceny of an
automobile, and Roosevelt Lockett
charged with a misdemeanor.
W. G. Ccnnor charged with as
sault with intent to rape, Corbett
Pritchard charged with driving
while drunk and with assault with
intent to rape (separate true bills),
and Winfred’ Huff charged with
possessing liquor on which no tax
had been paid and with three sep
arate misdemeanor charges (sep
arate true bills).
During the criminal session next
week Judge Chester A. Byars will
continue to preside and Solicitor
General F. E. Strickland will prose
cute for the State.
STATE GAS TAX
BRINGS MORE MONEY
ATLANTA.—(/P) — Abolishment of
gasoline raticning has already re
sulted in an increase in state gaso
line tax collections, Revenue Com
missioner M E. Thompson announ
ced today.
The collections for September
totaled $2,174,382 or^$213,000 high
er than the August ffilure. Thomp
son said the figure should go still
higher as more cars are returned
to the highways.
JIMMY MASHBdRN IS
KAPPA ALPHA PLEDGE
Jimmy Mashburn, freshman at
the University of Georgia, wa>
i P led 8ed to Kappa Alpha fraternii.'
during the recent Rush Week at
the University. Mashburn is Uie
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hcke Mash
burn, 651 East College Street, Gr:f
fin.
CPL. GERALD MANN IS
HOME FROM PACIFIC
Corporal Gerald Mann, who
ed for 41 months In the
Theater, has returned to the
and is now at Fort McPher
son. He is expected heme soon to
spend a furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mann, 328 North
Eighth Street, Griffin,
Ga* Truck Phones ‘No Gas’
PORTLAND, Me. (IP) — After de
livering 3,000 gallons of gasoline
to dealers on his route, the driver
of a large trailer truck ran out of
gas Just two miles from his corn
pany’s garage.
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GRIFFIN, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1945.
YOUR TAX CUT—HOW MUCH?
DEMOCRATS MOVE TO ENACT VINSON'S
TAX-REDUCTION PROGRAM INTO LAW
Admiral Nimitz
Is Flying Home
SAN FRANCISCO.—f?p£—Ad
miral Chester W. Nimitz, home
ward bound by air, will be wel
comed with a parade and recep
tion in this bustling port city
aftei^ plane his lands Naval at the Air Oakland Transport Aii
base today. m
The modest, 59-year-old com
mander-in-chief of the Pacific
Fleet will return to the United
States for the first time since,
victory over Japan. His trip
will be climaxed Friday when
he makes a report in Washing
ton before a joint session of
Congress.
Admiral Nimitz is due to ar
rive at H A. M. (2 P. M. EST.)
Military Training
On In Japan
BY MORRIE LANDSBERG
NIKKO, Japan, (/P)—Japan’s
surrender and stated willingness
to weed militarism out of educa
tion outwardly haven’t affected the
nation’s No. 1 school for boys.
The School for Peers where Jap
an trains princes and future lead
ers, still stresses Bushido in spirit
if not In military subjects.
To an American observer the
school has a distinct military uir
from the instruction to the way
the boys march, bow and salute.
Both the emperor’s sons—Crown
Prince Akihito, 11, and Prince Ma
shaito, 9, are students at the Nikxo
school, which is controlled not by
the education ministry but by the,
ministry cf the Imperial hotfseftold.
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Akihito j. - .... is . in . the sixth , , grade , and
ls • described j .. .. —fcwiv' by instructors „ , i as “an
especially good stitaentV - j- .
is . in,the . , fourth , .j grade. . >' -
A.saber-carrying officer loqj^but
fir; for r the r princes, " while they attend
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the day-long classes in, the hotel.
They are returnedto the nearby
summer palace in a, Packard ^mou
sine. The other boys, Htimbering
143, occupy the .Kanaya quarters.
There are 450 in the upper classes.
I saw tlie beys gather in the hotel ]
courtyard today for the fencing
lesson. They were wearing mustard
colored uniforms and were carrying
bamboo swords.
The boys. 8 to 14 years old, struck
at their opponents vigorously. After
a while thev donned head masks
and started clcuting each other on
the head.
The fencing lesson Is given twice
weekly. It formerly imported the
Bushido warrior spirit to the boys,
one instructor explained, but now
“it is strictly to train the body and
the mind,"
Students, representing Japan'?
wealth as well as royal bloofi. in
clude the son of the late Admirai
Yamamoto, the sen of one of the
bankers Yasuda—there are Half a
dozen in H.he Japanese Who's Who
—two boys related to the Imperial
family, and the son of Professor
Ishikawa of the Tokyo Imperial
University,
THE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Considerable cloudiness today
followed by cloudy weather to
night and Wednesday; srattcred
showers in north portion today
and tonight and over south and
central » portions Wednesday;
cooler tonight and Wednesday.
Maximum Tuesday: 72
Minimum Tuesday: 64
Maximum Monday: 77
Minimum Monday: 66
Rainfall: .20 Inch.
WASHINGTON. i/P I—Under
the proposal of Secretary of the
war time three per cent normal
Treasury Vinson it is propos
ed to repeal on Jan. 1 both the
tax on individuals and the 95
per cent excess profit tax on
corporations. He also recom
mends sharp cuts on excise taxes (
on such things as furs, jewelry,
liquor and cosmetics effective
next July 1.
BY JAMES MARLOW'
WASHINGTON. (/P)—Just
w'hat does this talk of reducing
taxes in 1946 mean to you, per- '
sonally?
First of all: Congress is work
ing on a tax cut now, It al
most surely will cut taxes, start
ing Jan. I, 1946.
But don't let the—figures you
see mentioned—about the size
of the tax cut—confuse you. For
example:
Secretary of the Treasury Fred
M. Vinson yesterday recom
mended that the three per cent
normal tax on individuals
should be wiped out.
Does that mean that you, as
an individual taxpayer, will
have your 1946 tax cut by only
three per cent?
No. It will mean a lot more
than three per cent for most
people. And here’s why:
There are two kinds of taxes
on people with income over $500.
One is called the surtax. The
other is the ncrmal tax.
The surtax gets higher and
higher, the higher the income.
The surtax, is 20 per cent on
incomes under $2,000. Then it
rises to 91 per cent on the high
est incomes.
Then there is another tax, the
three per cent normal tax. This
a flat „ three , per cent tax on
all income . over $500. No mai
ter . how mall „ largi It
cu
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doesnt’ , change according . to the ,,
'
|_iae qf , the-iocojne. „ It remains
fixed V
But about.’. 12,000,000 .people—
because ’■ of various deductions
for dependents and expenses—
don’t have to pay any surtax.
But they do have to pay that
three per cent normal tax. It’s
the only tax they pay.
So if Ccngress wiped out the
three per cent tax those 12 , 000 ,
000 people wouldn’t have to pay
any tax at all.'
In their case, then, the cut
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California
Hot Shots
LOS ANGELES. — f/P)~ Three
California communities weie
the nation's hottest spots yester
day, the U. S. Weather Bureau
reports. Los Angeles. Indio and
King City shared a maximum
ol 100 degrees.
It was the hottest Oct. 1
weather here since the Los An
geles Weather Bureau opened
in 1R78.
Walter e. Arnold is
HONORABLY
Pfc. Walter E. Arnold of
Polk, La., and Fort W ith,
received an honoruble discharge
tiie Army on September 24 at
Fort Sam Houston (Texasi
tion Center, Pfc. Arnold served
three years and one month in
army. He wears tlie Good
Medal.
' The discharged sclriier is the
band of the former Miss
Huckaby of Brooks. Mrs.
has been making her home with
husband in Leesville, La
spending several days in Fort
Texas, with relatives, Mr. and
Arnold will make their home
Brooks.
3-Biliion-Dollar
Highway Program
WASHINGTON i/P) Senate
Democrats and Republicans team
ed 1W today to pushjuie bulfding button for
a ni(ge postwar road pro
gram It calls for an outlay, of
mere than $3,000,000,00,0 in the next
three years.
Tlie program was authorized by
Congress last December as a post
war ^.measure to cushion the shift
to peace Under it the states must
match dollar for dollar the federal
funds provided.
It authorizes more than $500.
000,000 in federal funds for the
current fiscal year ending June 30
and the same amount for the two
following fiscal years.
In addition the program includes
$87,250,000 annually to help build
highways, roads and trails in for
ests, parks and Indian lands.
Planned allocations for the first
year, as set forth in a report issu
ed by the public roads administra
tion includes for Georgia: federal
aid highway system $5,048,564: sec
ondary or feeder roads $4,310,453:
urban highways $1,622,008.
With 9,200 Men
NEW YORK.—(/Pi—Seven troop
ships bringing mere than 9,200
troops home from Europe are sched
uled, to dock today in New York,
Boston and Newport News, Va.
Arriving in New York are the
Sea Robin, with 2.354 troops; Ciay
mount Victory, 1,947: James W. Ri
ley, 744; Andrew Fure.seth, 72'J;
Sirocco, 26,
Arriving in'Boston is the Marine
Robin, with 2.761 men. Arriving in
Newport News is the Justin Mor
rill', with 765.
Wrighf Bryan To
Speak At Kiwanis
Dinner Here Tonight
Wright Bryan, editor of The At
lanta Journal, will be guest speak
er at, the dinner which the 1-cal
Kiwanis Club will have tonight at
7:30 at the Grantland Memorial
Parish House. The dinner fs being
held in observance of '■'National
Newspaper Week, which is being
celebrated Oct. 1-8.
Bivap will be introduced by Dis
trict Governor Virgil Eady. Eariy
will present a scroll to Bryan and
a plaque to Quimby Melton, Jr., who
will soon become editor of The Grif
fin Daily News. The presentations
will be made on behalf of Kiwanis
International and the local club.
W. A. Gregory, president of the
local club, will preside during tiir
program Several gocal numbers
will be presented by George Wat
kins, tenor, who will be accompani
ed at tlie piano by Miss Thelma
Brisenrfine.
WACs, Soldiers
Parachute To Safety
MIDDLETON. Pu i/i’.
WACs and 10 Army personnel pan.
■huted to safety when the plane
vhich they were flying north
Maxwell Field. Ala., ran out cf
in bad weather and crashed
Wilkes-Barre.
The plane, a B-25 Army
piloted by Li. Charles Riley,
e it route to Stewart Field,
Point, N. Y.
T-5 JAMES ADAMS IS
STATIONED IN JAPAN
T-5 James Adams, who served in j
New Guinea and In the Philippine
Islands campaigns with the Army
Engineers is now staticned in Jap- „!
an. T-5 Adams is the son of Mr.
and yrs. J. A. Adams, 226 East
Chappell Street. ■
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ULTRA-SCIENTIFIC BABY VISITS "OUTSIDE” WORLD —
Debby Skinner, 13-months-old daughter of Prof, and Mrs. B^T.
Skinner, of Indiana University psychology department, who has
lived in a glass-enclosed play pen since birth, smiles as she is
allowed to-spend some time in the “outside" world. The child has
lived in the play-pen-bed combination which is temperature and
humidity-coltrolled, dust-proof and large enough for exercise, and
was only recently allowed to spend time out of the scientific con
traption. Mrs. Skinner is shown with tile ultra- scientific child. (NEA
Telephoto).
General Patton
Reported Relieved
Of His Command
BERLIN. </P)—A ratable
source said today Gen. George
S. Patton. Jr., had been reltev
ed of his command in the east
ern half of the Ameriran occu
pation zone in Germany by Gen.
Eisenhower.
Recent remarks of the Third
Army Commander abojit the
denazification program in Ger
many were reported by this
source to be the cause.
Lt. Gen. Luclen K. PruscoH
has replaced Patton, according
to this information.
SEAMAN PELT SERVES ‘
.
IN FIVE OPERATIONS
ABOARD USS IDAHO
ON BOARD THE USS IDAHO
OFF TOKYO. — Hiram A Pelt,
seaman, first class, of Qrifftn, since
boarding the USS Idaho at Elate.
New Hebrides in May, 1944, has
served t the veteran battleship
on
through five operations, including
the wild Kamikaze raids off Oki
nawa. Pelt is an ordnance gun
ner's mate for the main battery.
The arrival cf the Idaho in To
kyo Bay as part of the U. S. occupa
tional force, represents the termi
nation of a series of long, ardous
operations for the ship and the men
that man her. Pelt's comment on
the entrance was: "There was one
difference in Tokyo Bay frem anv
other port we have entered. The
others we entered with all guns
blazing The one main thought
with me as with every other
is when will we go home to civilian
life again. I am glad the war i v
over,”
RAY LYNCH EXPECTED
IN STATES OCT. 18
Charies Ray Lynch, seaman first
class, ly expected to arrive, in th
United States on October 18, ac
cording to a message which his
tn titer, Mrs. C R Lynch, received
from him at Pearl Harbor; Sea
man Lynch, who has been in
Navy for three years, lias been
active duty on a destroyer in the
Pacific for 20 months. He expect
a an
date
CHARLES A. COLLIER
DISCHARGED FROM NAVY
CHARLESTON S. C
Alfred Collier, storekeeper first class,
428 West Ccllegr Street, Griffin,
Oa„ was honorably discharged from
the United States Navy at the U.
S. Navy Personnel Separation Cen
ier, Charleston on Saturday, Sep
tember 29, 1945.
13 Local While Men
Report For Induction
Thirteen local white men reporl
”13 to Fort McPherson on Septem
ber 26 for induction into the arm
ed forces. Included in the group
were; . ,
Bruce Redding. Frank Ernest
Smith, James Alton Womack, Al
fred Lee Smith, Harvey Lamar Bus
bin, Winfred James Carson. John
Howard Nichols, John Wesley Mc
Gee, Henry Wayne Burroughs, Fred
M. Medley, Jr . James M. Parham,
Jr. Ray Steward, and Thurman
Lawson, transferred from Tifton,
Georgia.
Oner negro, Roy McCord, reported
for induction on September 20.
Farmers Must Unite
And Demand Rights,
Linder Tells Group
The time has ccme for fanners to
unite and demand their rights or let
world imports take care of the agri
cult' .1 needs of the people, Tom
LindeV, State Commissioner Of Agri
culture. told Spalding County fann
ers at the Farm Bureau meeting
Monday night in the Court Room at
the Court House.
Linder said that so far the farm*
”s have managed to get along with
no organized effort, but lie does not
believe that this will continue
be possible. He suggested that
Farm Bureau, instead of having a
general program, take up one
ter at a time, decide on the request,
and demand it.
Approximately 150 farmers
■resent to hear Commissioner
der Cie-rge Gaissert. president
‘he Spalding County Farm
presided at the meeting.
The next nvetine of the local
uniZiition wil! be held on the
M<-ndii\ in November
HOWELL DINGLER GETS
| DISCHARGE FROM ARMY
SAN ANTONIO. Tex
Fred Howell Dingier. 119 East
( lf , K ,. strccti Griffin, Ga has
honorably separated from th"
ol the United States at tiie
Antonio District installation of Hie
AAF Personnel Distribution Com
mand.
Prior to entering the service,
gier was a student at North
RiH College Wlille in the
lie served overseas 11 months
waf > «n armorer-gunner
Jng in eight missions beforc^he
taken prtsoner by tha Germans
The discharg'd soldier is the
of Mr. and Mrs. William H.
ler, 119 Sast College Street^
GRIFFIN FIRST
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Established 1871
CIO Wants
Congressmen
To Intervene
In Textile Disputes
Which Has Spread
To Nine States
Although, Washington sources
reported the Textile strikes had
“spread to Georgia" a check
with W UK and the Cotton Manu
facturers Association said only
two strikes in the stale were
known.
One was at the Athens Manu
facturing Company plant, and
the other at Dovedown Hosiery
Mills in Griffin. Both started
sometime ago and are not link
ed with the present Textile
strike.
By The Associated Press
The post-war wave of labor dis
putes. hitting hard at such key in
dustries as coal, textiles, oil and
lumber and keeping strike lines Jam
with
surged onward today.
A show-down was imminent in
the spreading strike of CIO oil
workers as union and operators
studied Secretary of Labor Schwel
lenbach's peace offer. There were
Indications the situation in the
broadening stoppage of operations
in the coal fields of Pennsylvania
and other states might reach a cli
max.
Return of thousands to their Jobs
for the new work-week yesterday
after labor disputes were settled
failed to materially cut the national
total of idle. Fresh strife in several
cities pushed the number from 352,
000 to around 380,000 within the last
24 hours.
Warnings from union leaders of
additional walk-outs In the coal
and textile industries as well as
possible walk-outs in other fields
indicated other thousands would
Join the strike lines.
The strike of some 46.000 textile
workers in nine states, including
Georgia, North and South Carolina,
also was expected to come before
the Labor Secretary. The CIO Tex
tile Workers Union appealed to
congressmen to form a commission
to deal with the crisis. A union of
ficial in Washington said the walk
out threatened an additional 40,000.
Conferees at the oil conference In
Washington studied Secretary
Sehwellenbach's proposal for a 15
per cent pay Increase and agree
ment by both sides to accept an
arbitrator's final settlement. The
government, busy for a week seek
ing to stop the strike^which has
spread to 12 states and taken some
36.000 workers off their jobs, ex
pected a decision late today,
Tiie Labor Department was busy,
too, with coal stoppages as a union
official predicted mines in West
Virginia employing 108.000 might
close within a-few days. In Ohio,
where 2.000 are idle from five mines,
a spokesman said h6 "wouldn't be
surprised" if all Ohio's 16,000 union
members quit work Currently about
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Visiting Speaker At
Presbyterian Service
Rev. J. F. Brown, newly-instalied
pastbr of Fellowship and Jackson
Presbyterian Churches, will speak
at the mid-week worship service at
the First Presbyterian Church Wed
nesday night at 8 n'cloek. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
PFC. J. B. MADDOX
RETURNS TO STATES
Pfc, J B. Maddox has returned
the United States after serving
[overseas for 26 months, He is cr
‘ pected to arrive in Griffin in
a
few days to spend a furlough with
his wife, the former Miss Chrtfr*
tine Smith.