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By Quimby Melton
Tonight will be a big night
at Griffin High, for the Grif
fin Hign Band will give its
spring concert in the school
auditorium. The GHS Band,
under th: direction of Darden
Rumble, is the prize band of
Georgia high schools having
won top honors in both the
district and state contests.
Those who attend, and there
should be a record crowd, will
hear a concert that will present
the entire band as well as sev
eral pleasing solos, both instru
mental and vocal.
Tickets may be bought at the
door and Good Evening believes
that everyone who attends will
be more than pleased with the
program.
Roy Harris speaking at th#
Kiwanis Club luncheon Wed
nesday noon hit th: nail on the
head when he said the only way
to improve our school system
is to provide more money for
the schools.
"They, talk s lot about tax
revision" he said. ‘Well I don't
care what they call it Just so
there is more school money.
Tax revision—Just so it’s up—is
Just as good as more taxes.”
Harris said that all the "pan
aceas” that had been suggested
to make mors money available
for schools would not provide
enough to “come anywhere
near" meeting the require
ments.
Harris also made a new sug
gestion as to how the extra
state money should be raised.
He said that Georgia last year
paid 700-million dollars in fed
eral taxes while the total a
giaant of local taxes—state,
count and city—amounted to
166-miUon -dollars. ~~:
"Tho federal government
should cut its taxes reduce the
‘state aid program and let
states raise their taxes and
meet their own needs without
federal aid.” He pointed out
that a large amount of the 700
miUion-doilart paid 19 Geor
gians in federal taxes went to
help finance the "European
Recovery" program.
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Harris also advocated ia
ereaslng tne number of teach
ers of agriculture and domestic
science in Georgia schools
/ “rattier than cutting the num
ber down” sines this is “an
agriculture state” and the
farmer must take til the ad
vantages of education he pos
Mbly can.
"I am both a lawyer and a
farmer,” Harris said. “And
while‘I’ve managed to make
money as s lawyer I have never
yet made a dime a« a farmer.
It takes more brains to be a
successful tanner than a suc
cessful lawyer.”
“Thera was a time when I
thought the way te raise the
per capita Income of Georgians
was to industrialise the state
But when one considers that in
some of ths mid-western farm
ing states th* per capita in
come is much larger than hi
highly Industrialized states,
such as Ohio and Pennsyl
vania, one will see the import
ance of Improved faming as a
way to Increase statewide
wealth.” I
Talmadge Ousts Director
Of Vet Service Office
ATLANTA —</P>— C. Arthur
Cheatham was ousted as Oeorgla
veterans service dii-ector Wednes
day and replaced with a Talmadge
aide, William K. (Billy) Barrett.
The Talmadge-dominated State
Veterans Service Board asked Che
atham to remain in the department
for 30 days or longer as an advis
or to Barrett. Cheatham, who had
been director since 1944, agreed.*
Barrett, from Augusta, had been
Gov. Herman Talmadge's executive
aide.
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GERMAN WORKMEN MAKE MERRY on the fenders and engine hood of a bus that
took them out of Berlin when the Russian blockade lifted Wednesday. This vehicle was
the first outgoing bus to leave the German metropolis for the western zone after relaxa
tion of travel restrictions imposed nearly a year ago. Thta German sign on the front
reads: “Hurray, We Still Live.” (AP Wirephoto via radio from Berlin.)
Schools, Homes, Rest Rooms
C Of C Maps Future
GOP Pledges
Fight To Trim
U. S.
WASHINGTON — (ff)— Repub
lican leaders said today they will
carry on their fight to trim feder
al spending despite the licking they
took on the first major money bill
passed by the Senate.
j A measure appropriating *3.113.
068,503 to finance the Treasury and
Post Office Department* was pass
ed by the Senate * late Wednesday,
._. Final , approval was given by
voi
ce after various Republican-back
ed maneuvers to force a 5 percent
cut in the total were defeated.
As passed by the Senate, the bill
carries *40.250,600 more than the
House voted. If the House refuses
accept the increase, effort* will
made by conferees from the two
branches to work out a compro
mise.
Senator Bridges fR-NHl told re
porters there will be no let up in
the reduction campaign despite the
setback.
He promised that “every senator
U going to be on record a great
many times on how he stands on the
issue of economy before this ses
sion is over.” He called the Post
Office-Treasurery bill the most
difficult to cut” of all approplations
and predicted better luck on others
to eome.
Latest
News
ATLANTA —iA 3 ?-— A bleach
era section collapsed at a mass
meeting of striking Atlanta
trolley and bus drivers today.
First reports were that three
men were unconscious and sev
eral others were Injured.
Grady Hospital ambulances
were summoned. Reporters
were barred from the hall.
LAKE SUCCESS —MV- A
barrage of eggs spattered again
at the car of an Arab United
Nations delegate in New York
today, the delegate told a U. N.
committee session here.
He made the report as Arab
delegates sat in a U. N„ session
with delegates of the new state
of Israel. The Arabs, who had
stalked from the assembly hall
Wednesday night with the ad
mission of Israel as the 59th
member, all were back In their
seats today!
WASHINGTON —<A>>— The
House Banking Committee ap
proved 14 to 7 today the admin
istration’s proposal for a multi
billion dollar program of slums
clearance, low-rent hodalng and
farm housing aids.
The bill provide* for constr
uction of 1,050,600 low-rent hou
sing units In seven years, as
President Truman requested.
The Senate recently passed a
housing bill cutting the num
ber of these unit* to 310,000 In
six years.
The Griffin and Spalding County
Chamber of Commerce today an
nounced a program which it said
would, when accomplished, "make
Griffin a better city in which to
live and do business.”
The program is as follows:
RESEARCH AND SURVEY
“1. We v/'.l make a complete stu
dy of the resources of the city and
territory. We will include facts and
statistics on natural resources, ag
ricultural facts and “'possibilities,
facts of physical and civic assets.
"2. We shall study the'problems
0 f city limit extension and present
all facts in the matter. We will pre
sent a long range plan of extension
by designated areas
“3. We will supply data, . informa
tion spot and special surveys, as
INDUSTRIAL
“1. We shall compile a compre
hensive industrial servey to deter
mine the needs and adaptability of
industries.
“2. We will establish an Industrial
Council whose aim shall be to give
service to established industry and
acquaint the people of the com
munity with the value of our est
ablished Industries.
”3. We shall endeavor to promote
an industrial foundation fund to
encourage location of new plants
and assist industries from within.
”4. We shall continue to publicize
the advantages offered for plant
location in our community.
"5. We shall endeavor to Induce
local capital to invest In sound en
terprises.
AGRKULTIRE
ersified 7; Continue Afixiculturfll the If Chamber’s Proffrums div- nn
der the direction a competent
aericult ist
“2 SDonsor the North Oeonti*
Communitv Improvement contest in
Spalding County
"3 CooDerate P with existing 8 aaen * g
de .
“4. Promote a closer working re
lationship between business and ag
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riculture. ,
"5. Pimiento Pepper yield con
test.
"6. Calf Scramble to create In
terest In better livestock.
"7. Small Grain contest for 1950.
"8. Pasture improvement contest.
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
PROJECTS RECOMMENDED
”1. Public restrooms for shoppers
and visitors.
“2. A Civic Building sufficient to
accomodate large meetings, service
organizations and community act
ivities.
“3. Development of off street
parking facilities.
“4. Adequate housing facilities
for white and colored from either
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Police Probe Beatings
By Robed Men At Church
CHATTANOOGA, Term, —i/p —
Police were investigating today the
reported blackjacking' of six men
and boys at t church near here by
a group of robed and hooded men.
The victims, three of them teen
agers, told Sheriff Frank .Burns
they were beaten at s church In
Dolly Pond, 29 miles from here,
Saturday night. They said their
attackers wore Ku Klux Klan hoods
and robes.
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I 1st Methodist
Plans Week Of
Homecoming
I Th'e Griffin First Methodist
Ch urch will hold Homecoming week
i beginning Sunday with former pas
i j ers of the (hurch for the past 25
I - ve “ re murn u * as speakers,
| Bishop Arthur Moore of Atlanta
will speak at the aoncluding service
0 f the week long celebration. ’ Sun
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day .night. . , May 22. The
fi£nlce * wbI begin each n ’* ht at *
P. M.
1 The returning pastor Sunday
Big ht will De the Rev John F. Yar
brough of Decatur' Monday the
^ Fred L QUsson> Atlanta:
I Tuesday. Dr. Wallace Rogers.
, anU; WedaMd me Rev . Horace
„ Smith, _ ... Athens; . . _ rhursday, the
Rev ‘ Zack Hayes * Augusta; Friday,
the Rev ’ B ' rrank Plra Atlanta.
On Sunday, May 23, the Rev. L.
M. Twiggs, chaplain of the Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, will
be the speaker at the morning ser-
1 vice.
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j Spectacular Fire
Demonstration Here
The Griffin Fire Department was
scheduled to put on its most,spec
tacular demonstrations at the An
j naul Fire Fighting Zone School to
t j j The Afternoon's
Wer * schedlUed 10 be « in at 1:30 5 P.
M ‘ With * dem o>«tration of the
j proper extinguishing of butane and
kerosent Ilres - Follow ing the butane
j iv^* demonstration 8roup v,ai near scheduled the fire house
to go
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pump operation demonstration
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Maximum Wednesday 72
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Home Run Frees
Four From Prison
PLYMOUTH. Mass —(AT—
A home run “drove’ four pri
soners out of the Plymouth
House of Correction Wednes
day.
When a guard opened the
gate to retrieve a Dali that, had
been banged over Mu. fence by
a softball player, the prisoners
dashed out. They were headed
for the woods of Myles Stand
lsh reservation when last seen.
Sheriff Charles H. Robbins
said the guard, Robert Wood
ward, was .at a disadvantage be
cause guards are not allowed
to carry guru since the killing
of a‘'prisoner in an attempted
break several years ago.
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Spy Hunters To Quiz
Mystery Man ‘Mr. X’
WASHINGTON • (AP)
munist spy activities arranged
closed doors today to
"Mr. X."
Senator McCarran (D-Nev),
committee conducting the
clue to the man's identity.
Germans Hail
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Flags, Cheers
The World Today
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Russians ended their 317
day Berlin blockade today and
Westerners voiced hope that at ,
,
least one phase In the cold war was j
ended.
Jubilant Germans whooped it up
In the flag-decked city as ground
traffic flowed on through the day.
by rail and h.ghway, pouring sup
plies and passengers Into the form
er capitol.
Russian and Western military
men outdid each othe- in courtesy
1 as barricades went down a minute
ALSO IN THIS STORY:
Israel wins admission to C.
N.s
Commies within 71 miles of
1 Shanghai.
. after midmgnf. ending the block
ade and the allied "ounter-block
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Schools were closed today and
1 busine,ss houses panned *° sus '
peDd work narl y-
1 Tlie Post Office Department in
Washington announced that nor
! mal U. S. Mail service to Berlin
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resumes today. Actually this
on] y surface parcel post. Mail was
flown in regularly.
| Desplte genera l jubUat ion the
Western allies kept their fingers
! crossed. The airlift continued ttv
I, ing. .It is to keep n:i at least 30
days, building a stockpile of sup
plies and giving a chance to sound
1 out Russian intentions
1 The political split of the city re
mains as deep as ever East
West each Mill has Its o*n police
‘force, city government fire depart
ment and other services
Elsewhere 11 the world:
The Unl’eri Nations OeneraJ As
sembly approved Israel's admission
to the U. N Wednesday. nigl)t b . v 3
, vote of 37-12 with nine countries
abstaining. Irate Arab delegates
walked out c f the hall after the
i vote ’ but som '’ re ' urre ' 1 latcr '
Chinese communist forces push
ed to within 21 miles of
today. Two separata red attacks
, v ere under way
The nea-ev*. to the great Aslan
clt , was Jf Tal „ han(r 21 mUw to
tllf northwest. Another force-had
thrust to the hhmlet of Shlhutang
255 miles routhwest cf Shanghai
Government troops vere reported
holding.
The Shinshal gairison ordered
all government departments out of
the city within two weeks.
In London the House of Com
mons passed a bill Wednesday
night which keeps northern De
land in the United Kingdom—if
that country so wishes
In Dublin Irish Prime Minister
John Costello denounced the bl'l
'and said it might have
consequences: The Republic of
Ireland wants to annex the six
northern countries.
Pretty Runaway Girls
Are Ready To Go Home
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —OP)—Two
18-year-old tunaway girls arid their
parents who flew here to get them
are ready te go back home today
and forget their cross-country
venture.
Frtty Jeanette White and Bar
bara Rosenbaum, both of Atlantic
City, N. J, were reunited with their
parents Wednesday night. T h *
girls, who had left home to go to
New Orleans, wer* found by Mont
gomery police Tuesday night work
ing at,a drive-in restaurant.
Senate investigators of com
a Hush-hush meeting behind
a mystery witn they call
of the Judiciary Sub
refused to give the slightest
Subcommittee aides said the wit
atm summoned to the secret sea
don is "in danger of his life” and
cannot be named 'because of als
connections abroad.”
McCarran nid only:
“If he wasn't important, he would
not be brought before us; if he was
not very important, he would not
be brought before us in doted ses
sion.”
The wines* was called in eonneet
ion with hearings on a bill by Mc
Carran which calls for the depor
tatlon of any alien found to be en
gaged in Subversive activities a
galnst the United States. It also
is designed to stregthen the immi
gration barriers, 'j.
The bill. McCarran has said. Is
aimed particularly at foreign agent*
v ho come *nto the country under
the guise of representatives to the
United Nations and ether interna
tional groups.
At a public session late Wednes
day the subcommittee was told that
Dr. J. Vilfan, Yugoslavia's chief
delegate to the U. N., i* “the main
the top man for espionage in this.
country conr-ming the Yugoslavs”
The sworn testimony came from
Bogdan Raditsa. a former informa
tton officer at the Yugoslav Em
bassy In Washington. Raditsa said
he broke with the government of
MarsTSTTfto In and later re
entered this country ..* a displaced
person,
Earlier Raditsa had testified that
vilfan In Europe sent
o{ thousands of innocent Yugos
lavs” to ‘their deaths 4Th* witness
also said Vi'fan now is "develop
ing secret police network" from a
luxurious Ffth Avenue apartment
m New York.
Radista called Vilfan "a member
oI the Cen t ;a i Committee for the
Slovenian Communist party.”
In New York. Villen described
Rad ^ sa „ an unlmuonant man
w hose charges are absurd
Eat, Drink, Be Merry
. — - Tomorrow You Diet
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Eat ’ dnn * and bP merry i0T \
morrow you diet. Thats the predl
ction of Prof. Eugene G. Rochow
of Howard, who warns that if the
world aoesnt stop eating up its re
sources too fast, the world w 111 stop
eating-fast.
Just when we were entertaining
the idea of rosst duck we find out
' v «' re cooking our ow« goose. Ac-
ording to the pro
lessor, if you care
to stick around
for a few cent
uries you'll find
yoursslf dining
off any number
of by-products.
Our mouth dos
n't Water at the
prospect. We keep
thinking of all
tlte brand new
breakfast foods, which apparently
had the Idea before the professor.
The only good we see In them is the
box top.
We cant toy too much for the
brave new chemical world—no
meet, no eggs, no tenderloin steaks.
W* keep hoping the professor is
wrong about the resource*. We dld
nt know all wild life was disappear
ing; we thought it had just moved
to the elty
And poor little kids of tomorrow.
There’ll be no hot doge or ice cream
for you. If you' think spinach is
bad watt until all you've got is the
sand. Wt doubt If a diet of sand
derivitlves Is very a'ppettsinr. and
we never did think much of rock
sandy.
In tomorrow's world well all un
dress for dinner because well be
eating our .elothea. And what, pla-
Man Is Charged With
Selling Obscene Books
A man charged with selling ob
some literature to the school ohil
<iren of the city and county was ar
rested Wednesday by the Griffin
Police Department and is expected
to be brought to trial before the
June session of City Court.
Chief of Police Joe Bur son seid
today that Walter Kelt of East
Point was arrested and that obscene
comic books and other obscene
literature had been found in his
automobile.
These oooklet* of lewd drawings
have been circulating among the
teenagers of the city for some time
and the police have been on the
lookout for the pasawg.
Chief Bur son said that Kelt had
been spotted before 'he arrest Wed
nesday and the local police ap
prehended the man in his car on
Taylor street. *
“We have known about the pass
ing of the onoks for some time but
this type otierator Is difficult to
catch with the proper evidence,” ths
chief said.
The booklets at crudely drawn
cartoons have no Identification
indicating where they are
printed, but some of them have
been examined by the Federal Bu
rev j of Investigation. No report
has been received from the FBI by
the local police department. Det.
set. ^ Jimmy Hayes said today.
; Tj, ere u * federal law prohibit
ing Interstate transportation of
j obscene literature.
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1 __ Theres . a place , „ - for everything— ......
except your elbow when . you sit
between two fat people in a movie,
| A psychiatrist, says obesity is a
matter of one’s frame of mind. "I'm
feeling fat today—must have been
something I thopght.
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GRIFFIN FIRST
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nis 8 iif ft I1CW TrOCK n&V6 to to SB,y w
when she stUl complains she hasn’t
thing to wear? It won’t be
fault lf she gels hungry and eaU It.
AJs0 „ tong as weU be eating our
wardro bc wonder about the fu
ture styles. Give feminine fash
ions that long and well starve to
death right a ] ong w tth the moths,
In the world of tomorrow every
body will have indigestion or we'll
eat our hat right now. We may be
able to eat dirt cheap, but who
wants to eat dirt? Life won’t be
worth living. Come to think of it
we won’t be.
PATTER DATA—Edna Margar
et Hunt attending a house party
dance at Princeton University
last weekend. She was the guest of
Bobby Cummin*. . . Mrs. Robert
Pitta and Mrs. Charles Vaughn at
tending the Atlanta flower show
today . . Mr. and Mrs. Preston Col
lins moving to Griffin from Macon
and residing in the Macons Apart-
ments . . . Gwendolyn Grant, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Grant
of Experiment, joining the regional
office of the American Red Cross,
Atlanta, as a stenographer. Gwen
dolyn, a former Spalding High stu
dent, graduated from Drauhfan
School of Commerce last month
with an average grade of M
Rotartans making ready to attend
the District Assembly, which opens
this Sunday in Savannah. Attending
will be Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wsm
ell, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Swint, Mr.
and Mrs. I. F. Whatley, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse FutraL Dr. and Mrs. F.
H. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John Gab
ard, Mr. and Mr* R. M. Mitehefl,
Mr. and Mrs. It. G. Hunt, and Rieh
ter Smith, Ernest Hulsey, Lewis
Beck and Charles Sibley.
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ERNEST CARLISLE
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E. F. Carlisle
Appointed State To
Agency
A Grlffinite has been named to a
state agency and another dropped
from a state committee.
Ooveroor Harman Talmadge
Wednesday named Ejnest Carlisle,
Griffin to ths
State Judicial Council and dropped
Quianby Mellon, Jr, Griffin editor,
from the State Tax Revision Com
mittee.
The governor reorganised both
the Judicial Council and the Tax
Committee.
Other members appointed to the
State Judicial Council, an agency to
recommended changes in legal pro
cedures, are Roy Richards of Car
rollton, Charles Crisp of Americus
and A. 8. Skelton of Hartwell.
Also Wednesday Governor Tal
madge reorganized . the * State Tax
Revision Committee and set June
7 as a tentative date to begin a ma
jor overhaul on Georgia’s tax
structure.
He appointed nine new members
to replace nine others who had
been appointed by Governor M. E.
Thompson. Melton was one of ths
Thompson appointees who were
dropped.
1 The new Tax Committees are T.
| M. Forbes of Atlanta, executive sec
retary of the Cotton Manufactur
er * Association of Georgia; Wilmar
D ' Lanier - Augusta, attorney for
the American Federation of Labor;
Mrs. Fred Knight, Cartersville, past
president of the Georgia Congress
of Parents and Teachers; B. E.
Baker, Atlanta. Southern Bell Tele
phone Co.; Tom B. Haines, Daw
son, farmer and business man;
Raymond Nelson, Atlanta, insur
ance representative; DeNean Staf
ford, Tifton, automobile dealer;
Cart Rhodes, Quitman, wholesale
gracer, and James W. Waldrop.
Douglas, City Court Judge. ,
Erl* Cocke, Sr., president of th*
Fulton National Bank, was the only
Thompson appointee who was re
appointed.
The new appointments fissured
Talmadge dominance Ir. the tax re
vision undertaking.
Amos ‘N’ Andy Arc
Sued For $300,000
LOS ANGELES —UP) —Amos y
’Andy have been sued fer *.T"
The William Morris
Agency, which fl!e0 the
Wednesday, claims it lost
commission of *11,000 afte:
Mating a contract for the :
medians with Lever Bros. Ccm •y.
The suit alleges Amos ’N’ A::dy
sold their-program to the Columbia
Broadcasting System- for *2.000.000
last summer and tried to end com
mission payments to the agency,
contending the Lever Bros, contract
was terminated
But, the suit-disserts. Lever Broa
continued a* show sponsors.