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Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence In Griffin
Member Of The Associated Press
Move Hospital 1
Planners Urge
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By Quimby Melton
Judge Ogden Persons, of the
Flint River Circuit, has resign
ed because ot poor health. He
has served his district as judge
for 24 years and was recently
reelected for a four year term.
Judge Persons, whose home is
in Forsyth, is one of the ablest
jurists in the entire South. A
deep student, a fearless judge,
and an honest man, Judge Per
sons brought dignity, ability,
and sincerity to the bench.
His career of usefulness to
the state has not been restrict
ed to serving as judge. For some
years he was a member of the
General Assembly from Mon
roe County and at one time was
president of the State Senate.
While In the Legislature he
was author of the Georgia pa
role law, the bone-dry prohibi
r t tion law, and a constitutional a
mendment which established
county educational systems.
Judge Persons, now that he
nas retired from the bench,
should write his memoirs. No
man coulud tell a more Interest
ing story and It would be one
that would be of historic value.
Tuesday is going to be buy
t ers’ big day in Griffin:
For many of the leading stores
in Griffin will join in a city
wide, mid-summer clearance e
vent. These stores will adver
tise one or more articles they
are pricing for quick sale. For
the stores must make room for
fall and winter merchandise
that is beginning to arrive.
But all of the articles that
will be sold at clearance prices
cannot be advertised, due to
lack of space, So - the wise
shopper will shop all of the var
/ ious stores so they will not miss
any of the bargains:
It will pay one and all to be
uptown early Tuesday morning
for first choice of the bargains.
This will be the first oo-op
erative sale that Griffin mer
shants have staged since before
the war.
It will be to the advantage
of every person in this commu
nity to read the two page ad
vertisement of the merchants
that will be published in Mon
day’s Griffin Daily News.
This will give one an idea of
. the bargains they will find in
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Merchant Seaman
Dies In Maryland
Mr. Henley Harrison Jester. 68,
a member of the Merchant Marine
for the past 30 years and a native
nf Griffin, died at the U. S, Ma
rine Hospital in Baltimore, Md„
Friday. He had been sick for sev
eral weeks.
Mr. Jester had traveled all over
the world and although and older
tnan volunteered for and partici
pated in the Normandy invasion
during the war.
He was bom ln Spalding County
'I the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Lee T. Jester.
Survivors Include six sisters, Miss
Eula Jester, Miss Cora Jester, Mrs.
Arama Woodall, Mrs.
Huvhcy, Mrs. Ralph Mitchell, all
" Griffin, and Mrs. Oliver Bedsole
Eastman; two brothers, If. J.
r and W. A. Jester, both of Oriffin.
Funeral services will be
/ ed la'er by Pittman Funeral
The Weather
FORECAST FOR GEOR
OTA:—Partly cloudy with little
change In temperature* tonight
and Sunday.
IN
Planning Board
Recommends New
Site For Hospital
The Planning Commission, In a
meeting Friday, recommended to
the Hospital Authority that the
proposed new hospital for Griffin
and Spalding County be relocat
ed on a site different from that of
the present hospital.
The recommendation was made
by the commission after touring
the city and studying possible sites
with George W. Simons, planning
consultant.
Several tentative sites were con
sidered ari'd one was recommended
to the Hospital Authority and is
now under construction by the au
thority. The site wrJ not be an
nounced until an option is secured
to purchase the land.
The jnew 100-bed hospltial, on
which construction is hoped to be
started sometime this fall, received
another boost forward Friday when
the federal government announced
that nearly $3,000,000 has been
made available for hospital con
struction In Georgia. The Hospi
tal Authority has had an applica
tion pending for federal funds for
sometime.
If federal funds are secured, the
local government, through the Hos
pital Authority, would have to sup
ply two-thirds of the cost of con
struction.
Mrs. Maud Meadows
(Brattled New Trial
Mrs. Maud Meadows, who was
found guilty of murder in the June
session of Superior ’ Court, was
granted a new trial this morning in
a hearing before Judge Chester A.
Byars. The new trial will be held
at Osctober term of court.
Mrs. Meadows was tried for the
murder of Joel B. Huff and upon a i
recommendation of mercy by the
Jury was sentenced to life imprison
ment. She immediately filed a mo
tion for a new trial.
The hearing for a new trial for
5. V. Price, found guilty of involun
tary manslaughter in the June ses- j
sion of the court, has been post- |
poned until August 23. j
Price, who was charged with sen-! the
murder of H. G Morris, was
tenced to two . years by . the .. court, . i
He „ also , filed ,,, , a motion , for a new'
rrial. . . _ Date 4 set , , for the new trial, . . ,
of Mrs. Meadow* » will be during 6 the i
October term of court. |
Police Get Radios
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The Griffin Police 1 Department
soon will have Its new FM- police
radio station, WEUT, ln operation.
Ail equipment has been Installed
and as soon as tests are completed
the station will go Into actual use.
The master station ie located ln
headquarters at the City Hall with
two-way radios ln two cars.
The police office has been re
modelled and counters built to ac
tommodate the new radio equip
ment.
Above are shown Officers Allen E.
Bryant (left) and R. L, Goodman
Inspecting the new patrol car in
which one of the new radios was
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ne Ferguson, 28 of Winston-Salem,
N. C., plays solitaire in her home to
pass the time while seeking a cure
for her strange ailment. On June
28, she yawned widely. Something
snapped, and since then her jaws
have been locked. Fifteen doctors
have examined her without find
ing a cure. She can open her mouth
only a quarter of an inch, and is
living on a liquid diet. Her weight
has droped from 134 to 101 pounds.
(AP Photo).
Over 100 To Enter
Model Plane Meet
To Be Here Sunday
Over 100 contestants wilf enter
the annual monel airplane meet of
the Griffin Model Club Sunday at
the old Griffin airport at Regiel’s
curve.
Some 26 prizes will be given in the
events includtag cash in each class
and model motors, kits and acces
sones.
Weighing in for the meet 'will
start at 9 o’clock with actual com
pfetitlon starting soon afterward
The American Model Association
official who will be present at the
meet will be Keith Monroe, Atlanta
Hobby Shop.
The meet, to which all clubs in
the state have been invited, is spon
"ored jointly by the National Aero
r autical Association, Griffin chap
ter; Pomona Products and Randall
and Blakely.
The public is invited to attend the
meet with no admission being
charged. Events Include free flights
lor all classes of gas models, tow
line gliders, hand launched gliders
and rubber models.
’ I ’ be ^ I 1 ” in ^ fodel Club ls head *
ed bv Bobby , Dcuglas ’ and George
Whatley L is secretary and treasurer,
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JERUSALEM — Officials said two
Brinsn soldiers were killed j by o a
trap attached to an under
ground cable they were repairing on
nf JccucalArn todav
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Officer O. C. Helms, (in the
picture), tries out one of the
! i adios which provides
tion between the squad cars
police headquarters. (Photos by
ry Reeves, Jr.)
GRIFFIN, GA„ SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947
Dutch Claim
New Victories
In Indonesia
BATAVIA, Java—Of)— The Dutch
claimed the capture today of a large
section of the North Java
but tlie Indoni/ Ian republicans re
ported successes’ also on at least
three widely scattered fronts «nu
spoke of rebellion among some IAst
Indians In the Netherlands army.
A Dutch spokesman said the
north coastline between Batavia and
Cheribon, 130 miles east, was all
now in the hands of Netherlands
forces.
The conflict followed a break
down in negotiations on how to
carry out the Cheribon agreement
of last March for a United States
of Indonesia to become sovereign
Jan. 1, 1949, as an equal partner
with the Netherlands under the
Dutch crown. :
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The latest Indonesian successe^
were reported in republican army
communiques, broadcast from the
republican capital of Jogjakarta.
The army told 'of action in west,
central and east Java.
Harris Jackson of the Associated
Press reported frem Jogjakarta
that the Indonesians estimated
Dutch casualties to date at 9,000. i
(He said General Soedirman, re
publican commander, gave this fig
ure in a news conference today and
said It came from Dutch infot
mants loyal to the republic.
(The latest Dutch casualty fig
ures, issued in Batavia’s communl- i
que Friday listed 32 Netherlands
soldiers killed, 41 wounded and sa
i en missing—a total loss of 80.
There was no definite indication of
the period referred to.)
Mrs. Davidson Dies
In North Carolina
Mrs. Annie Jenkins Davidson,
wife of D. T. Davidson, will be
buried in Ook Hill cemetery here
Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services will be held at
Hitman's Chapel with the Rev.
Zact Hayes officiating.
Mrs. Davidson died at a hospital
in High Point N. C. Friday after
noon She and her husband were
there attending the furniture mar
ket and Wednesday afternoon she
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
She was born in Americus the
dau * hter of the late Davld Henry
and Annie Carter Jenkins. She was
a former resident ., of . Griffin ^ and
married ... here. „ When she . lived .
was
in Griffin she was a member of the
! First Baptist Church. At the time
of _ . her death . her residence , ,
was
Haddock, Ga.
The body will arrive here this |
evening and will be at Pittman
Funeral Home until the funeral.
Pal'bearers will be Andrew Wha
len, Alex Gossett, Dick Drake, Jim I
Powell, David Brisendine, Lewis
Jordan and R M. Mitchell.
Survivors include her husband;
two sisters, Mrs. Roswald Hall
Drike of Memphis and Mrs. K. A*
Taylor of Miami; a brother, David!
H. Jenkins of Lake Charles, La.
Judge Ogden Persons
Resigns From Bench
Due To Poor Health
FORSYTH. Oa. (/PV-George Og
den Persons, judge of the Flint
Superior Court for the last 24
years, has resigned from the bench
because of “bad health and ad
vanced age. He Is 75.
August 1.
Persons was a pointed Judge of
the Flint Circuit ln 1923 by then
Governor Walker. Earlier he was a
legislator and city Judge.
He served In the House of Rep
-esentatives from Monroe County
'rom 1907 to 1910, as a senator
f rom the 22nd District from 1915 to
1917, and ln 1914-15 was Judge of
the Forsyth City Court.
While ln the legislature, Persons
was author of a Georgia parole
law, the bone dry prohibition law,
and a constitutional amendment
whlch established county educa
tlonal systems.
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27 MINERS DEAD IN ILLINOIS blast—T wenty-sev
„ Hen Mine No. 8 m miners lost their lives in an explosion at the Old
in , West Frankfort, 111., in the
the victim heart of the soft coal fields. Here rescue workers remove one
s from the shaft.—(NEA Telephoto)
Officials Finally
Open Abe Lincoln's
Documents
. WASHINGTON __ m Thirty
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eminent scholars, locked in a room
at the Library of Congress, delved
toda\ mto a collection of Abraham
Lincoln's oapors sealed from public
What they found was to be dis
closed at noon (11 A. M. EST).
view for 28 years.
The precisely worded terms of a
: eoue.st by the Civil War president's
sen Robert Todd Lincoln, were pre
cisely carried out by officials of the
library.
Robert, Todd Lincoln left the pa
pers to the library in 1919, under a
stipulation against opening them
until 21 years after his death. He
died ln 1926.
It was exactly one minute past
midnight that the time limit ran
out and five double safes full of
papers were opened.
194 VOLUMES
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Inside the five safes were 194
volumes containing items ranging
from correspondence Abraham i in
coin had with Washington stores to
communication;’ on yellowed parch
ment marked "by military tele
graph. Shine of the letters were
signed “A. Lincoln."
Dr. Luther Evens, librarian, said
that at a dinner Friday night the 30
men had discussed the possibility
that the fl,e miKht ™ nf ain the ori
ginal draft of the "Hixbv letter” in
which Lincoln eonsoled n Mrs Rix
by of Boston on the loss of her
five sons in the war.
They were eneer. too. Evans Mild,
to try to find the original manu
script of Lincoln’s farewell speech
to the citizens of Springfield. Ill ,
when he left hi' home to begin his
ew!ond ,erm ln ,hp wbl,p H " us0
FORMAL OPENING ......
Dr. Evans began the formnl open
ing at the appointed hour by read
ing Robert Todd Lincoln’s deed of
gift
Then, as flashbulbs flared O.
Percy Powell, assistant in the lib
rary’s manuscript’s division, twirled
the combination on the first safe.
The doors swung open to disclose
two rows of the bound volumes,
each volume II bv 14 inches by 2'
inches thick. He and Evans thumb
through several for thb benefit
ot Photographers.
Eager though they were to get at
the collection, the attitude of most
of the experts apimrently was sum
nied up ln a remark by Carl Sand
j burg, Lincoln authority on hand to
inspect the papers;
• Briefs . . . ,
BY THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
From LvmsHI Wiv* Fg»tv>r 4 «
ATLANTA — Gov. M. E. Thomp
son branded as false Friday a sta
temenf that he would use •“polfti ;
cal pressure" to keep the Georgia
Press Association from firths its
secretary, Sid Williams
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BFRLIN — Officio's today an
nounred a new British-American
incentive plan to give German min
ers gift food parcel for digging
more c °el In a hore nf spurring
Production in the vital Ruhr region.
Police Arrest Six;
Firemen Answer One
Call; No Accidents
A total of six arrests were made
by the Police Department In thp
last 24 hours Two of them were
charges of possessing non-tax
whiskey and the rest werp for dis
orderly conduct and drunkenness
The Fire Department answered
a cal! at 2:02 Friday afternoon to a
grass fire on north Hill street at
the abbattoir Ffremen stated no
damage was done.
The sheriff and Ftnte Patrol re
ported no accidents or arrests in
Spalding Countv.
An Editorial—
Griffin 9 Spalding
To Become Nation 9
No. 1 Communities
The week brought good news to Clrlfflnf
First off the city and county got together and by the city
<n,li it va.i. .uu -el that paying
lux practices should be equalized and
placed on an hone, t and equitable basks.
Then as a climax came news that the Griffin Hospital Authority
would begin construction of a 100-bed hospital here "as
sible, possibly soon as pos
by early fall."
' Then
came word that the federal government has alloted nearly
$3,000,000 to Georgia under the Hill Burton Act for hospital construc
tion. Hie Griffin Hospital Authority long ago applied for Oriffin’s
share of the funds when they anticipated that they would be made
passage Hill Burton Act often was cited by
the hospital group here as holding up construction.
Bo the news thi: week, all ln all, has been good for Griffin,
When we get, on- laxds on a fair system our bonding capacity will
be increased considerably allowing for marked improvements ln
schools and so on When we get our hospital built we will be caring
fur the needs of our citizens.
Now we are rbo.it to wo 5 k u;> to the beginning point where Grifln
and Spalding County reallyNiill become the nation's No. 1 city and
county. We can do It and we will as long as Individual citizens,
matter what their station in life, continue to manifest a keen Interest
in (he affairs of their city and county.
That the Griffin Dally News is pleased with developments this
week goes without saying for we have advocated a fair system of tax
ation and a new. hospital until blue in the editorial face.
. QUIMBY MELTON, JR.
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Veterans Clubhouse
Will Be Dedicated
On Sunday Afternoon
The Joint clubhouse of the Ameri
can Legion and the VFW Posts of
Griffin will be dedicated formally
j Sunday afternoon with state com
manders of both organizations tak
I !n ’ part ln the <*remony.
The services, which are open to
: i he general public, will begin at
3:30 P. M. Rnd the clubhouse will be
open for inspection by the public
i a f t.er the cererrmny.
Special guests at the occasion will
be 0,1 coun| y and’ city officials and
all vefprnns and their wives,
Quimby Melton, Sr., a member of
Loth organizations, will be master
of ceremonies
The program includes, talks the
Club and has been completely re
manders, and raising of a new flag
\ eterans organizations, It Is con
sidered to be one of the finest vet
erans clubhouses In the state.
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Establish! 1 1871
Onlyl
Remain For Action
Before Adjournment
WASHINGTON TTMjft
Jor appropriation bills, ft wool
and some legislative odds aid'
were the only he i Hers today beh
the first session of the Congress
adjournment tonight until
January.
Republican leaders running the
congressional show for the first
time in 15 years were conf ent
they could meet the adjour, sat
deadline without difficulty. ■-<<
But, If necessary, they stood ready
to resort to the often-used legisla
tive device of stopping the official
clocks short of midnight to make
the July 26 quitting date official,
RESOLUTIONS IN POCKETS L .
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GOP leaders Halleck of Indians
and Taft of Ohio carried In their
pockets House and Senate resolu
tions which, on adoption, will send
Congress home probably until next
January 2, unless the Republican
leadership, or President Truman,
recalls the legislators before then.
The House approached its finale
frerh from a normal quitting hour
Friday but senators assembled grog
gtly after their second straight
after-midnight tussle. They ended
a session of nearly 13 H hours early
today, a marathon which followed
the 18-hour session terminated
early Friday.
The adjournment resolution* were
due to eo into the hoppers as soon '
as it become certain that the re
maining “must” bills were in th#
clear.
In this category were a rivers and
harbors annroprlatlon bill, the ad
mint'd ration's foreign aid supply
money measure and the annual
Agriculture Department apprepria
tton bill. » n
COMMITTEES AGREE
Senate-House conference com
mittees agreed late Friday night oh
differences on fcoth the rivers and
harbors and foreign ■ bills and
placed them in a pc a for a
speedy, final okay by cham
hers.
Thp rivers and harhorR bill left
,hr House with a total of $339,189,
,869, which the Senate boosted to
$579 927.449 by adding some more
prelects. The Senate-House com
promise figure is $807 000,000.
The foreign eld bill carried ap
proximately $1,600,000,000, most of
it for feeding Europe and helping
j it bark to Its feet economically. The
compromise Friday night fixed at
$600,000,000 the fund provided in
i the bill for military government and
: relief in occupied countries for 15
I months.
The House already has approved
a compromise $613,046,826 agricul
ture supply bill, and prompt Senate
ratification W"s expected.
| BU1I a fourth aoprooriatlon Wit,
j n $110,058,500 supplemental measure
for miscellaneonus agencies, await
ed final Senate action.
rmpr.F m Burn avan IS
SERVING ON CRUISER
George M. Buchanan, mac’ Inlst
mate, second class, USN, hush, d of
Mrs. Myrle Buchanan of fin,
Ls serving aboard the heavy cruiser
USB St. Paul, flagship of Cruiser
Division 3 In Asiatic waters. The
St. Paul, which left the United
States ln February, is operating out
of the Whangpoo River, Shanghai,
China.
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BY HAL COCHRAN
It’s a brainy day on which you
buy government bonds for a rainy
day. '■
60,000,000 radio seta were in
use last year In the U. 8. That’s
a lot of blasts from next door.
Just traveling in circles
times comes from running
too much.