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Time, Your Influence In Griffin
Memb er Of The Associated Press
Extended Planning Report Asks
Limits
h E By VENIN good Quimby . G
Melton
They’ll be plenty of good
baseball on tap tonight when
Griffin High and Spalding
Spalding High lock horns for
their second game of the sea
son The game will be played
at the Griffin Baseball Park
and begins at 8.00 o’clock.
The first time the two teams
met Spalding won 10 to 7.
Griffin, coached by Bill Ram
sey, will be out to get revenge
tonight; Spalding, coached by
Art Scalli, .will be playing just
as hard to make a clean sweep
of the series.'
The two teams are more or
less evenly matched and any
thing can happen, Fans who
like fast baseball, such as
youngsters play, can see that
type of baseball tonight.
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Speaking of baseball—
Comparison of the standing of
this year's entrant in the Geor
gia-Alaibama League with the
standing last year may be of
inte r est .— - •—.........~ ~ —
This time last year Griffin
had played 18 games, just as
the team has this year. The
Pimientos of ’47 had wort 7 and
lost 11 to this date. The team
of ’48 has won 8 and lost 10.
The twin loss to Alexander
City over the weekend plum
meted Griffin from fourth to
sixth place. Last year at this
time we were in seventh place.
But the race this year is so
close that a couple of wins in
a row can get us back into the
first division.
Manager Campbell is doing
as well as rould be expected
in fact better—with a makeshift
ball team sent here by the St,
Louis Browns. He has the neu
cleus of a good team but needs
help badly. A few more ball
players that could play ball like
Campbell, Elio, and O’Donnell
would set this league on fire.
The SOS has been sent the
no response but the word is
out that “help is on the way.” J
Chamber Commerce
To Decide Upon
Regulating Solicitors
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce will deude Tuesday
whether or not to regulate persons
seeking contributions ftpm Griffin
business firms,
A meeting of numerous interested
in regulating solicitors will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce at 10
o’clock Tuesday monhrg to decide
whether or not to require Chamber
of Commerce approval of a solicitor
before git ing him a contribution.
According to plans, approval
would be Riven only after investiga
tion to determine wneiher the or
ganization seekim donations Is
worthy or operating under false
pretense.
VFW Meeting
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
will hold a regular meeting at 7:30
Tuesday night at the Veterans
Memorial Clubhouse, Commander
Frank Lindsey, Jr., announced to
day. The meeting will be both a
. business and social meeting with
free food being served members.
The Weather ...
FORECAST FOR GEOR
GIA:—Clear today m partly
rlnudv and continued warm to
night and Tuesday.
— LOCAL WEATHER —
Maximum TVuv. 7<»
Minimum Today: 66
Maximum Sunday: 83
Minimum .Sunday: 54
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I Would Benefit All,
Report Declares
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the third of a series of articles
oo the proposed development of
Grffiin and Spalding County
along well defined plans as sug
gested bv George Simons, plan
ning engineer employed by both
city and county to make a sur
vey here. The next article will
concern creation of a network
of highways that will connect
parts of the county and provide
routes that will eliminate heavy
traffic through downtown Grif
fin.
By QUIMBY MELTON
' George Simons, planning engineer,
has suggested that the corporate
limits of Griffin be exended so that
thickly populated areas adjacent to
Griffin and whose people are “re
ally citizens of Griffin though en
joying none of the advantages of
living within the city limits “can
become part oi Griffin.
Simons in his report to the City
County Planning Commission said
Although it would e desiiable to
expand the corporate limits by ui
.orporating a snip a mile or more
wide around the present city limits,
such a comprehensive expansion
at the time is not altnogether neces
sary. The expansion could be ac
complished better in stages, taking
in first . those thickly populated
areas adjacent to the city."
On a map submitted to the Plan
ning Commission, Simons recom
mends that the 'first stage of cor
.-'orate expansion should take in
Aii area" extending along the At
lanta highway that would include
Experiment and Highland Mills;
An area west of Griffin extend
ing about a mile;
An area southwest of tire city
extending some two miles;
And all that territory that com
prises East Griffin and immediately
surrounding land.
The planning engineer in recom
mending expansion of the corpor
ate limits points out that fire ana
police protection, water, sewerage
and other advantages would be fur-
1 nished these additions to the * city.
“Because of the close relation
between
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RONNIE SZUDZIK, 3, TACKLES AN 18-INCII SNOWDRIFT near
his home at Boston, N. Y.. Saturday after an unseasonal five-inch
fall revived winter, stranded some motorists and brought out snow
plows in the area. (AP Wirephoto.)
Georgia’s Democrats
Walk Out Of Convention
By THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
From Leased Wire Reports
Senator Walter George of. Georgia
•vas being groomed r-v presidential
candidate today, but politicians
were wondering what effect his
home state's action in walking out
out of a States’ Rights convention
would have on his candidacy.
Democratic Chairman James. S.
Peters of Georgia reported via tele
phone that Georgia’s delegation
SHS Judging Team I j
Wins Slafe Contest
A Spalding High school FT A live- j
stock Judging team took first place
in an FFA and 4- H Club da i r y ent- !
ile judging contest- held at the U- i
nive'rsity of Georgia Saturday.
The Spalding team competed with
45 three-men teams al! lover
of these thickly populated areas a:i.u
those now living within the corpor
ate limits, because of the many pro
common to both, they should
be brough closer together under a
one government jurisdiction.’’ Sim
ons told the Planning ■ Commission.
Simons estimated that with cor
porate expansion Griffin would
show a population of 31,000 when
the 1950 census is taken.
He said, "Wherever corixtrate
limit expansion is suggested very I
frequently industry objects, but in ■ |
a county like Spalding where thou
sands of persons live so close to I
the city—with only an imaginary | 1
line separating them from citizen
ship, the good of these people must
be given tirst consideration.
“They are certainly entitled to
have a sewerage system, plenty nr
pure water, adequate fire and police
protection. This will nia^e for a
happier, healthier and safer people."
In his report Simons recommends
that the present water system be
enlarged so as to take care of all
areas; that the present sewerier
system be enlarged to care for all
that additional fue stations be
established; and that and jxiUee
protection be expanded iTlicsi
suggestions will be reported In H
subsequent article on his report
Only Minor Damage
Firemen reported one call over
the weekend with on’y slight dam
age-caused by the blaze' The cal.
came Sunday night al 0:42 and was
at the Harper Produce Co., 208
West Broad street. Cause of the fire
was an electric motor In the refrig
eration system. Damage was
j fined to the motor, firemen said.
walked off the floor at the States'
Rights Democrats convention. In
Jackson, Miss., today when a re
solution calling for wide open bolt
from the Democratic party was re
commended.
Senator Geor ;*. c was being
groomed by some Southerners a.i
their candidate to oppose Truman
for the presidential nominations,
In Washington, Senator Russell of
Georgia said that unless his senior
colleague puts his foot down. Geor
ge’s name .will be offered at the
Philadelphia coonvcntion in July as
Georgia’s candidate in a “states’
rights' platform
George was said by friends to bp
about willing to lead the fight
against Truman’s civil rights pro
gram if he can be assured wide*
spread Southern support,
It had appeared likely that Up'
possibility of putting up the Geor-
the annua! Dairy Day
contest conducted by the Univer
sity of Georgia.
In addition to winning first place
for the team contest, two members
of the Spalding team lird for sec
ond place in individual scores. Al
len Fulford and Scott, Futral tied
with 380 points each out of a pos- |
sible 400 The| ■
other member of
(lie team was Donald f ee and al
ternates were Horace Fletcher. Em
mett Willis and Carey Jones.
The team was awarded the
Creamery Package Trophy, true
models of a Gurusey and Jersey
cows, a cash award. 25 pounds of
feed and several oilier smaller pri
zes. The trophy will have the team
members’ names engraved on it and
placed In the Spalding FFA chapi
ter room.
Coaches for the levin were Her
man Nelson, vocational agriculture
feather, and Fred Newman, agri
cnlturist for the Chamber of Com
i merce
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WASHINGTON J. Jut Ii. Lewis
today gave hard coal operators a
60-day notice of intent ton to end
the UMW contract covering 80.000
anthracite miners
BOSTON Nearly 10,000, ooo
Methodists In America and abroad
were pledged todn / to npiwise war
and to work for pe.v’" between the
U S. Rnd Russia Th" war-peace
stand was voted into Methodist re
gulations bv the denominations
top legislative both- meeling here.
VALLEY FORGE. Pa The
Reading railroad and the Mont
gomery district attorn, y said today
they found "Indications of tamper
Ing with the rails*’ Mint may have
caused a train wre"k Sunday
In which two ctcwi.ita were killed.
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in Jackson, Miss., where
Rights Democrats from
convened today to decide ihc
a revolt against nation
al party leadership. ,
Two phases of attack seemed ev
Went. As phrased by Gov. Ben
Laney of Arkansas, the conference
must plan common action for the
12 participating states to:
1. Effect a rewriting of the plat
form of the Democratic party to
eliminate the civil rights program
advocated by President Truman,
and nominate a candidate espous
ing the states' rights supporters.
2. Failing those aims in the Demo
cralic convention, to be prepared
to seek the same goal outside tha
convention. That would require a
separate convention of the states’
rights supporters.
Shot Gun Blast Kills Man;
Six Hurt In Accidents Here
One man was shot tc death and
six persons were injured in auto
mobile accidents here this weekend,
according to reports from police
and state i>atrolmrn
Police reported thr.f Benny Roy
Ector, 24, Negro, 840 Wall street,
was shot early this morning at his
home b y Henr .V Clay Scott. Negro,
Ector died soon after he was shot
1 Police before
said he told offlrers
J he died that Scott shot him. Po-
Griff iri* Ga., Monday, May 1.0, 1948.
Truman Seizes
U. S. Railroads
WASHINGTON, (AP) — President Truman today seized
the nation's railroads. ~ -
There was no word from the three strike-thfeatening unions
whether they would run the trains for the government. They
have called a strike for 6 A. M. (local railroad time) Tuesday.
Slant Liquor Ring
Becomes Involved
In Newnan Mystery
NEWNAN. Ga. UP) The tangled
case of William (alias Wilson) Tur
ner was knotted still more with the
entry of federal revenue agents
bearing warrants for two of the
principals and nine others.
■ Ironically, two of the warrants
for violation of the Internal rev
enue law, were against Turner, a
dead man, and John Wallace, own
er of a 2,000 acre farm, who Is ac
cused of killing him.
Tile other eight were identified
by Donald Tydings, assistant sup
ervisor of enforcement for the Al
cohol Tax Unit, as Tommy Win
dom. Shorty King, Jamie Bray,
Mack Scott, Will King, Cecil Per
kerson, Charlie McGruder, Robert
I.ee Gates and Albert Brooks.
Tydings said Gates and Brooks
were Negroes who worked on Wal
lace’s dairy farm.
With the arrest of the men, said
Tidings, one of the largest liquor ,
rings in the state was broken and
| marked the end of six months of
investigation
The arrests, Tydings added, were
delayed until Sheriff A. L. Potts
of Coweta County had finished the
probe into Turner's death.
The bizarre case started with Hie
disappearance of Turner after a 17
mile chase. Later, five men, in
eluding Wallace, were arrested on
murder charges,
They began a three-county search
for Turner’s body which finally
was found in a swamp where it had
been burned Subsequently, Sher
iff Potts revealed that the man was
not Wilson Turner as believed orl
ginately; but William Turner, an
1
A grand Jury hearing on the feci
eral charges was set for May 31, but
federal agents said those charged
by the state with murder would be
brought to trial first.
Eost Griffin Church
Will Have Revival
Revival services will begin Tut s
day night at the East Griffin Con
gregational Holiness Church. The
Rev. M E. Butler will preach Scr
vices will be held each night at
7:30.
j O'Kelley Visits Here
Hoke O Kelley, vetr-an of both
world wars who 1 a candidate for
■ governor was a visitor In Griffin
Saturday afternoon
lire believe Scott called him to the
door and shot him through a screen
door. He was shot with a shotgun
1 Lt. J. H. McCullough and Officer
J. D. Hudgins investigated the
j shooting, which c utif-t at 2:57 A
j ' M. today Scott lias not been ap
prehended by police. The rause of
1 the been deter
shooting has not
mined by police.
Patrolmen reported that four
persons Were Injured Ir an accident
The President signed a seizure
two minutes before 1 o’clock
(EDT) in an effort to bar a strike.
The order places orperation of the
trains under direction of the U. S.
Army.
Mr. Truman appealed to all rail
road workers to stay on their Jobs
"I call upon every railroad work
er to cooperate with the government
by remaining on duty,” the .seizure
statement said.
“I call upon the officers of the
railroad labor oreganlzatlons to take
appropriate action to keep their
members at work.’’
Mr. Truman's statement added:
“It is essential to the public health
and to the public welfare genciall>
>a ^ ever .v possible step be tak< n
by the government ip assure to the
fullest possible extent continuous
and uniterrupted transportation
service.”
“A strike on o^jr railroads would
be a nation wide tragedy, with world
Wide repercussions.”
The seizure order was issued after
a weekend of almost continuous
negotiations, directed by President
ial Adviser John Steelman, failed
to bring a settlement of the dispute
between the three brotherhoods and
the railroads over wages and work
ing conditions.
The heads 0,4 the three unions
left a White House conference just
as President’s executive order
,
j was being released. They would not
i s,l - v whether their union member, *
woll ^d remain on the job under
1 government seizure.
"We've going to take that up now
.
wltl1 our committees,’ President Ai
vauley. Johnston of the Locomotive
Engineers, David B. Robertson oi
the Fireman and Enginerncn, arm
A *L Glover, of the Switchmen
Union said
Pfi l ' CT,T01 VIVfli Rpfliflf
Al jl Ranlirl DC|[J|I)|
III
Revival services at the First Bi iD
tist Church got underway Sunday
with the pastor, the Rev IlU.h
Lindsey, preaching the opening ser
mons. Today Dr. C. Roj AnfcHl.
, )s) or of the Cent'al Bapth 1
; church of Miami, took over as eur t
j evangelist Dr Angcd will preach
twice daily, al 8 A. M and 8 P M
except Saturday.
The morning services are schedul
ed so that school children, teachers
and business men mav attend.
The, music is being led by Carlos
I pi rgalh of Harlow. H- In -addition
to br ing a song leader he i a vlol
ini,st of note.
; on State Highway 1 l. 'c Saturday
night Newell Tr Ihiilielt, Atlanta,
I fined laceration o* tile head
and right ankle and a fosslble con
eus‘Ion; William T Pouch, Htoue
M "*‘» ta ‘»- |pfl
ankle; Aline Johnson. Atlanta, re
j ceivcd deep cuts on both leg and
I the rigid shoulder and Doris
thews, Atlanta, suffered lacerations
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AFTER POLICE ATTEMPTED lo break op a demonstration on the
campus of the University of Nebraska, students dash up the step*
of the state capitol building at Lincoln to protest the use of tear
gas by the officers. Students and police clashed after the latter re
moved double-parked vehicles from campus driveways. (NF.X Tele
photo.) ’
Italian Red Leads Vote,
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But Koreans
The Fight For Peace
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jews claimed today to have oci u
mountain puss 10 miles west of
Jerusalem* in a supreme effort to
open the Arab-blocked supply 1:.. ■
from Tel Aviv.
Some 4,00fl Haganah troops wn •
said to be active in the drive in
clear an avenue for food to tic
100,000 Jews In truce-stilled Jeru
salem They smashed against Aral)
road blocks.
Across the Mediterranean, pro
visional President Enrico do Nir: I >
of Italy, choice of (he coinmuni !
and Iheir Popular Front, led For
eign Ministre Carlo Sfor/.a, oil*spo
ken anti-communist, m Purlin
meat's first vote for the presidency
of the Italian republic His 300 lo
Sforzn's 353 was short of the need
ed two-thirds majority for election
during the first thret ballot A .
simple majority elerls on the !'
th ballot
It w limited 80 percent
the 8,000.000 eliglbl" VOtl
southern Korea defied eommuni '
Violence and threat a to vote In t hr
country's tin elf-ruli elect ion
Some 60 communist w re in r
after n weekend of violenee whirl)
claimed 7<i live. 1 Communist.': and
some "liberal" groups shunned the
eject l< l toirl'leu bv M'lio »h;
from Russian ruled radios In north
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When a man says It wife can’t
take a joke maybe bt forget
self
f’lo.-et hook a'e »hire ill but
mother forgets to hang things.
The husband who mi-res his re
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gular bus home v vt -v likely t>
catch It.
Established 1871
cr.i Korea. The vote will be count
ed tonight.
Winston Churchill told 30.000
listeners In Amsterdam a united
‘‘
of the continent. He is leader of
the unofficial "Congress of Europe”
called in t#ie Hague to further a
democratic federation of European
countries He urged a cessation of
national rivalries, praised the Unit
ed states and urged a stand against
“any kind of totalitarian tyranny."
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
wired King Abdullah of Trans-Jor
dan he Is putting “all my armies at
your disposal for the fight in Pales
tine ’ Actio 1 hi Arab regular
troops may start after midnight
Friday when (tie British mandate
ends Abdullah already has com
mand of the armies of Trans-Jor
da’i, Syria. Iraq aid Lebanon. A
third of the Egyptian army was re
inrted in the southern border 01
the Hoh I,and.
r Hie 1 ’tilled Nation': speeded
the
estsblishmeiit of '
an < mei|'ency
Is k«r overrment for Pttles
V ti Utftlly all hope f>r a long
b rtn >11 ha faded Draft pro
|» I In n| 1 permanent trucp for
Jeru .alcin w- r< put before Jewish
and Arab lenders.
David Bf h-Gurioi premier des
innate of tin new Jew ish s'ale. said
! he belicwd the new country “will
lie erected" within i"v davs
1 21 Annual
sf Meeting
Of Credit Bureau
Will Be Tonight
The 21 mi nt tif ■ 1 i-'g if the
.
I Utedit Bureau of Griffin will bt*
| held it a o’clock tonight at the
Chamber nf Commerce tvlth D. J.
Arnold, president, pre ’ding.
Bob Duke, seereterv-treasurer,
will make his annual report and
new officers will be elected.