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GRIFFIN FIRST
Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Tune,
Your Influence In Griffin l
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By Quimby Melton
James v. Carmichael, Mari
etta, has announced he will be
• a candidate for
governor of
Georgia.
Carmichael, a former member
of the General Assembly, has
a clean record and would make
the State of Georgia an excel
lent chief executive.
To date he is head and shoul
ders above any candidate who
has announced for this office.
His record is one that inspires
confidence and if the race is
limited to the present avowed
candidates he should be elected.
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V- Congress is to consider
soon
Universal Training bill and The
American Legion has put for
ward a program, which solves
the objections raised to the ori
ginal draft of the bill and would
result in our nation having a
reservoir of trained soldiers afid
sailors if any emergency should
arise. This plan wiii be sub
mitted to Congress within the
next few days and persons in
terested in it should contact
their Congressmen and Sena
tors. {
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The Legion plan calls for ci
vilian administration of Uni
versal Training.
Other features of the Le
gion plan provide:
Upon graduation from High
School or at the age of 18,
whichever is later, but in all
cases before the age of 20. every
young man will take 12 months
or equivalent of military train
ing. /->
Trainees will be permitted to
select the branch of service they
prefer.
The period of basic training
will be only four months—in the
summer. Then qualified trai
nees may receive advanced spe
cialist technical training in the
armed services, or take train
ing in scientific or profession
al subjects in special schools or
colleges, or he may take on the
job training, or he may enter
college and complete his train
ing in an ROTC unit.
If he does not want this
special training he may return
to his home town and complete
the equivalent of eight months
training in the local National
Guard Unit. Or he may re
main with the regular service
and take his eight months
extra training.
This plan makes It possible
for a trainee to continue his
education, or enlist in the
Armed Services if he sees fit.
Friends, Together
Throughout War,
Receive Discharges
* Wiley“and _
Corporal Hubert Pfe.
Ralph Belvin, life-long friends who
were Inducted Into the Army on
the same date and served together
throughout the war, landed in New
York on March 31 and received their
discharges on April 5 at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
Wiley, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Wiley, and Belvin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cleghorn of
Highland Mills, grew up together
and both worked at Highland Mills.
They were drafted at the same time
and reported to Fort McPherson.
CPL. R. W. GRIGGERS
SERVES IN GERMANY
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE.
APO 177. U. S. ARMY - .—Now serv
ing with the Army Air Forces In
Landsberg, Germany, Cpl. Robert
W. Origgera, ton of Mrs. Willie
Orlggers, Route B, Orifftn, Oa., is
assigned to one of the newest units
of the AAF. the European Aviation
engineer Command. Cpl.
has served In the European Theater
since October 8, 190.
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[NLRB Has Charges
Against Mills
Under Consideration
Only Petitions For
Elections Withdrawn,
NLRB Official States
Paul Styles, Atlanta regional di
rector of the National Labor Rela
tions Board, in a telephone conver
sation this morning said that char
ges filed against Thomaston Mills
(Griffin Division) and Dundee
Mills, Inc., of Griffin, were being
investigated by the Board. The Tex
tile Union charges the mills with
unfair labor activities.
However, the petitions oi the Un
ion for holding an election at the
two mills have been withdrawn.
This, for the present, cancels the
election order.
Mr. Styles stated that at any
time the Union sees fit it could re
petition the Board for elections.
If the NLRB finds sufficient evi
dence in connection with the char
ges filed by the Union against the
mills it will order a hearing on these
charges. At such a healing the
Board will hear from the mills in
answer to the charges.
Styles stated that the charges
were being investigated but that
it was impossible to give any idea
of when the investigation would be
completed and a report of findings
made public.
Funeral Held For
Mr. J. A. Joyner
Funeral services for Mr. J. A
Joyner, who died Sunday night at
8 o’clock were held Monday after
noon at 4 o'clock at the Carmi
chael Funeral Home in McDonough.
Graveside services were conducted
by members of the Masonic lodges
of Griffin and McDonough at the
cemetery in McDonough.
Pallbearers were L. D. Roberts,
Dennis Manis, Evans Mitchell, W. J.
Carreker, Otis Blake, and J. L. Hines.
Mr. Joyner and his wife moved
to Griffin ten years ago from Spar
tanburg, S. C. He was a member
of the First Baptist Church of
Griffin and attended the Men's Bi
ble Class. Mr. Joyner had been
in ill health for sometime. He was
78 years old.
Survivors Include his wife; one
daughter, Mrs. William Pullin of
McDonough; one son, Carey Joyner
of Greenville, S. C.; five grandcml
dren, Bob Joyner, James Joyner,
both of Atlanta, Joe Joyner of Mia
mi, Fla., Dan Joyner of Greenville,
S. C., and Mrs. L. P. McKibben,
Jr., of McDonough.
SEAMAN CALVIN LANE
IS NOW AT HONGKONG
John Calvin Lane, seaman second
class, USNR, is serving aboard the
USS Los Angeles which is now at
Hongkong, China. Seaman Lane is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Lane,
119 West Central Avenue, "Griffin.
NAVY DISCHARGES
W. A. GORDY, JR.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —Willian
A. Oordy, Jr., seaman second class
USNR, Experiment, Ga„ received a
discharge from the Naval servic
on April 11 at the Naval Separatio
Center, Jacksonville.
Something New In
Thievery Found
NEWARK, N. J.—(IP)—Police
scratched their heads In puzzle
ment today over the latest twist
In thievery. Someone had stol
en a parking meter and post,
first such theft in more than a
decade of parking meter his
tory in Newark.
The meter and poet are valued
at $60, but the meters are em
ptied of their nickels three times
a day and therefore the best
hsul a thief could expect would
be 40 cenLa. f
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GRIFFIN, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1946
^R d e sro f °week
ATLANTA. bP) Mixed
weather is forecast in Georgia
for the rest of the week by the
weather bureau here.
Wednesday will be cooler,
Thursday. Friday and Saturday
warmer. Easter Sunday will be
cooler. Showers and thunder
storms are in the forecast for
Wednesday and Saturday.
OPA Takes Top
Spot In Congress
WASHINGTON. —
gave OPA a major share of its at
tention today, and one lawmaker
said it would take President Tru
man's direct intervention to save
the price control program.
It was OPA in the House, where
debate entered its second day on
legislation to extend the life of die
price agency for another year be
yond June 30.
It was OPA at the Senate Bank
ing Committee which summoned
Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles
testimony on the OPA extender bill
and OPA Chief Paul A. Porter for
being framed for Senate considera
tion.
And it was OPA, plus the acute
meat situation, which preoccupied
the Senate Agriculture committee.
This group planned to seek fur
ther information on how govern
ment controLs are affecting the meat
industry.
Tire assertion that Mr. Truman
will have to come to the aid of
OPA extension legislation was made
by Senator Morse (R-Ore.), who
told newsmen he spoke as a friend
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MUST TAKE HAND
“It is perfectly obvious,” he said,
“that the President must take a
hand i„ this matter and give us
some definite assurances that OPA
is going to function in a fair ana
reasonable manner” in the future.
If such assurances are forthcom
ing, he ■ added, supporters oi price
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Patrol Charges
Kimble NOT Berry
The State Patrol reported today
that Earl Kimble of Atlanta, no!
George Berry of Sunny Side, was
charged with driving while under
the influence of intoxicants Satur
day. The two men were involved
in an automobile accident on High
way 41. No charges were made
against Berry, the Patrol reported.
It had been reported incorrectly
that Berry was charged with driv
ing while under the influence of
intoxicants.
CPL. CROWDER GETS
HONORABLE DISCHARGE
Corporal William T. Crowder, bro
ther of Mrs. Herschel Perkins, re
ceived an honorable discharge fror
the Army on April 1 after servic
18 months overseas.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
In
Compiled From AP Dispatches
WASHINGTON Secretary o
Labor Schwellenbach redoubled his
efforts today to break the deadlock
in negotiations between John L
Lewis and strike-bound soft coal op
erators.
PHILADELPHIA An alcoholl
extract which destroys tumors and
cancers and sets €n immunity a
gainst the growths Inbred aibtr.
rats has been developed by three
physicians.
WASHINGTON—Proponents tried
today without much hope of quick
success to push the Army-Navy
merger bill out of committee and
into the hands of a sharply divided
Senate.
WASHINGTON—The OPA hauled
out it* price charts today to deter
mine what effect a requested 25
per cent boast In railroad freight
rates would have on living costs.
| [Furnish le 9ion And Volunteer Union
I Police For Butte
BUTTE, Mont. (2P)—This strike
bound copper capital of 40,000 began
relaxing today from three days and
nights of vandalism as sheriff A1
McLeod credited volunteer war vet
erans a d members of the striking
CIO miners' union with helping ease
the tension.
While police and sheriff’s officers
last, night waited for telephone cal
lers to carry out threats to visit
more homes of nonstrikers, repre
sentatives o f the International
Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter
workers (CIOl patrolled Butte
pleading with crowds to keep order.
McLeod said groups of girls, boys
and women broke up without
and he added before going home
early today for his first sleep since
Friday night:
“We don’t expect are mnrp trouble
and won’t need outside helm But
I've been authorized to swear in
100 special deputies and I expect
to have them all today, just in
case."
Many of the 55 he had sworn in
this morning, he said, were Ameri
can Legion members and other vet
erans, all of whom volunteered.
Several groups of women and
children, threatened by anonymous
telephone callers, were moved from
their homes for protection last night.
And McLeod disclosed tnree juveniles
are in custody for alleged looting.
He added several others were being
"watched.”
As on previous occasions, the mobs
gathered last night at homes of An
aconda Copper Mining Company
employes who remained on jobs as
maintenance workers after the CIO
miners went out last Tuesday in a
dispute over retroactivity of a pay
raise offered by the company.
From the start of disorders, the
union officially has condemned th
hoodlumism and house wrecking.
Spalding Students
Grade 3,500 Dozen
Eggs In 2 Months
In the past two months Spald
ing High students have graded
and handled 3,500 dozen surplus
eggs for poultrymen in Spald
ing and surrounding counties.
The students, under the di
rection of Robert Allen. Cham
ber of Commerce agriculturist,
assembled, graded and packed
the surplus eggs so that they
could be marketed during a
time when supply was far above
demand.
The service will be discon
tinued after this week because
there is more demand for eggs
locally and the surplus is not
so acute, Allen said. Surplus
eggs had been shipped to At
lanta for sale.
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JAMES V. CARMICHAEL, of Marietta, former members of the
General Assembly, has announced he will be a candidate for Governor
in the coming state Democratic primary. 'AP Photo)
410 Drivers Renew
Licenses In Griffin
A total of 410 persons renewed
their Georgia drivers' licenses Mon
day at the Griffin headquarters oi
the State Patrol, Cpl. H. C. English
reported today.
Under new procedure licenses can
be renewed at Patrol headquarters
instead of having to be sent to At
lanta for renewal. Cpl. English said
that licenses can be renewed at
the local headquarters at least one
day a week for a number of weeks
Dates will be announced later.
GEORGIA TO BENEFIT
BY PAN-AM TRADE
ATLANTA,(,(P)—At the opening of
a three-day meeting of the Pan-j
American Clinic, delegates here
were told that Georgia, now
than at any time in the past is in
a position to benefit from
American trade.
Sam Dubose, of the United States
Department of Commerce, said yes
terday. with respect to Latin-Amer
ican trade, "We are surrounded by
markets that are teeming with de
mand for our goods "
MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR
Dick Mitchell Plays Leading Part
In Life 01 Griffin
Dick Mitchell takes the title of
“Man of the Week," having been
nominated and elected by a com
mittee of local citizens.
Mitchell is a past president of the
Griffin Rotary Club and member of
the club's board of directors He
holds a unique record in that he
has not missed a meeting of the
club since October of 1924
He is a druggist and at one time
was a member of the state Board of
Pharmacy examiners. He is a mem
ber of the First Baptist Church,
the Masons, Elks and Odd Fellows.
Mr. and Mr*. Mitchell live on
Cherokee road. They have two
married children, Mrs. Millet Ed
wards and Dick Mitchell, Jr Both
of them live In Macon
Mitchell’s hobby is foxhunting and
recently his hounds won prizes in
the show held here in con
nection with the Georgia Foxhurt
ters Association field trials.
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DICK MITCHELL
Gene Dahibender
Completes Foursome
In Nelson Game Here
There’ll be big time golf at the
Municipal Golf Course Wednesday
afternoon with Byron Nelson as
the featured player., - >
For the foursome that will play,
beginning at 2:30 pm, will in
dude, in addition to Nelson, two
top amateur players. Gene Dahi
bender, one oi Atlanta's tip flight
amateurs, has accepted at) invita
tion to play here in the match. The
other players will be Tommy Bar
nes - Atlanta, and Charlie Kan<>
golf pro at the Municipal Course.
Nelson is playing in LaGraiige
this afternoon, He plays heie '.Veli
nesday and then goes to Columbus
for a game Thursday alter noon.
Tickets for trie match, $2 00 in
cluding tax, can be secured a* the
Club House, The Spalding Hotel or
Smith Bros. Auto showrooms.
GriHinite's Mother
Dies This Morning
Mrs Mary C Clark, 74 mother
of J. D Clark of Griffin, died
morning about 3 o'clock at her hom<
near Moultrie, Mrs. Clark was
life-long resident of that section
and was a large land-owner
Survivors include thrte sons
two daughters.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock at
Baptist Church at Fun ton near
Moultrie Burial will be in
churchyard
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RAYMOND C. VAUGHN
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
FORT McPHERSON Pfc Ray
noiid C Vaughn. Route C,
las been honorably discharged
the Army of the United States
22 months service He spent
moatits overseas with the 88th Reg
iment 10th Mountain Division
The discharged -'ildier.is
ized to wear the Combat infant
Badge, the Distinguished Unit
Badge, the Good Conduct Medal
the European Theater Ribbon
two battle stars, and the
Theater Ribbon.
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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Tima,
Your Influence In Griffinl
James Carmichael
Will Be Candidate
For Governor
ATLANTA.——Shortly after
noon today it became evident
that former Governor E. D. Riv
ers would also be a candidate
in the coming state Democratic
primary. Friends of Rivers in
Lanier C ounty sent $500 by wire
to Che Stale Democratic 'Execu
tive Committee to pay his en
trance fee. “If the committee
sets the fee higher we will re
mit" the telegram stated.
By HENRY LESESNE
ATLANTA.—tAV-Now 36-year-old
James V. Carmichael—boomed as
an Ainail successor before "the
people's choice" became, a catch
phrase and a puzzle—has changed
his mind and will run for gover
nor.
Carmichael, a former legislator
who headed the Bell Bomber Plsnt
at Maitett.a during the War,' 1 'issued
a statement saying he would not
run because of his physical condi
tion and the demands of business.
Meanwhile the No. 1 political
enigma in Georgia became “who
will be the administration's candi
date—who will be the political
choice?” Daily hundreds of words
of political speculation reached
print.
Then, dramatically at the end ol
a day which brought many politi
cal developments, Carmichael an
nounced a change of mind—although
he says emphatically he doesn’t
offer his name as “the peoples
choice."
The people’s choice, he says, is
the man the people elect, and no
thing else. Equally emphatic, he
says that he represents no faction,
no man, no group of men. No
organization.
TO OPPOSE TALMADGE
And the thing that caused him to
change his mind, he says, is the
entrance of Eugene Talmadge and
the absence of a strong candidate
pledged to progressive government.
“I had hoped," said Carmichaei
“a candidate pledged to
sive government such as Geutgia
merits would appear. None has
Mv conscience will not let me sr
idly' by iir.d let the forces which
dragged Georgia into trie mud re
turn to office without the p ople
having the opportunity to vote for
the kind of government I believe
they want.”
Carmichael served two terms in
the Legislature from Cobb County.
In 1926 he was hit by an automo
bile in front of his 'home and hi
back was broken. He still walks
with a cane.
He finished high school Pt Mari
etla in a wheel chair. Then lie
tered Emory University, attending
three years on crutches. ' vas
with the Bell Bomber plant trout
! the 'beginning.
First, he was attorney for the $70.
000,000 government Installation
which built over 700 B-29’s; then
he became assistant manager. in
December 1944. he was made a vice
president of Bell Aircraft Corpora
tlon and finally general manage
"* , ' H ‘ Georgia |)iant
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^ely instrumental in bringing th
bi « ' ,lunt ,0 G '’ orR1 " *
Carmichael Is married and has
a two-yf*ar-old daughter
Dr, Lebedeff To Be
Kiwonis Speaker
Dr O. A Lebedeff member
the staff of the Georgia Experiment
Station, will speak on the subject
“Hybrid Corn" at the regular meet
ing of the Kiwahis Club Wednesday
He Will be introduced by w A
Newton, program chairman
THE WEATHER
Maximum Tuesday. 76
Minimum Tuesday: B3
Maximum Monday: 78
Minimum Monday. 49
Established 1871
Government
Moves To End i
Shortages II
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Wartime Controls Are
Slapped On To
Spur Production ■
WASHINGTON.—(AV-A large
section of the nation remained
on a meatless diet today as
the government waged a fight
to break illegal dealings In meat
and to restore more equal dis
tribution of supplies.
The shortage in meat, acute In
many metropolitan centers, was ■
reported In nearly every part
of the country.
WASHINGTON. — </P>—The gov
ernment mapped a new attack on
the snarled food situation today hi- j
volving butter, bread, meat — and
blackmarkets. N
Wartime controls were slapped
back in an effort to spur butter pro
duction and Stabilization Director
Chester Bowles foresaw a “real Im
provement within the next 60 days ’
on this front.
The Senate Agriculture Committee
called for more details on iattors
dislocating meat distribution, while
OPA and the Agriculture Depart
ment moved to restore other war
time controls on slaughtering with
the aim of spreading available sup
plies more evenly.
A potential bread problem had
members of the Senate 8mail Busi- I
ness Committee seeking ways of
meeting famine relief quotas lot j
overseas without impairing the na
tion's flour supplies.
The move lor butter production
was bracketed with OPA action to
keep consumers bills at their pres
ent levels for milk, butter, cheese
and other dairy products. A pro
gram of larger subsidies lor d*Ty
farmers was announced yesterday
to compensate for higher feed and
labor costs.
On butter, the OPA aimed at over
coming a situation which had made
it more profitable to use butterfat
for ice cream and other products
than for butter, Accordingly, the
wartime ban was restored on me
sale of whipping cream and reauio
tions were placed on the amount
of butterfat in Ice cream. The
program also includes price ceilings
for the first time on cream used In
bakery products and ice cream.
The Senate Agriculture Commit
| tee was platnly exercised about the
meat situation which packer James
j ^ Cooney testified was "a nation
al scandal which makes prohibition
look like petty crime."
With the FBI ordered into action
onc group of black market
| eors, there were hopes oi curbing
! some illegal transactions in meat,
j , jut oplnlons differed sharply wheth
cr the retro position of slaughtering
cotit rol.s would achieve Its aim of
lm p rov j ng the general meat situn-
1 lion
Price Administrator Paul A. Por
ter said the effect of tire control*
w ,, u)rt t*. t0 “provide ror better dis- v
tributlon of meat supplies at celling
prices to retail stores " .Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson salt! it
meant "in reality a share-the-live
stock program.*
The opposite view ", as taken oy
Cooney, rice president < t Wilson Ji
Co , one of the big four packets.
JIV told the Senate Committee .he
new order ••won't do any good."
"It calls tor policing at the stock
yards he asserted, | ” but the black
Mmpl> 4 1U „„ out and
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buy on the farms.”
JVVO LOCAL MEN
ENLIST IN NAVY
William Edward Bryant. 43 Pin*
Street, Experiment, and Areese Ir
, vin Brown Route A, Ortffin, hav*
enlisted In the United States Navy.
Brown had formerly served as %
coxswain In the Navy.