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t griffin first Invest Your Moneti, Talent , Fowr Time, Fowr Influence In Griffin Member Of The Associated Press r* GOO o JLjveni Z vF 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. -♦ 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. *The Weather ... FORECA8T FOR GEORGIA —Mostly fair and mild tonig ht and Friday; warmer Friday. i dailWnews f:,y •:S: $ m - ; ?: ■ ■ > ■ IK: Y ' > * >. • V . 1 gjjn m 1 ••• ■*>. f * - . a : _ EL ITT ' hurra :'W ;.-y •: ii N Ik." * ,.V/ '■ j ■ ■ 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 • 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 —Please Turn Te Page Five 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. 1949. , 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 = 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. '. ...... 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 * pump operation demonstration • Local Weather • • • Maximum Today 68 Minimum Today 51 Maximum Wednesday 72 Minimum Wednesday 53 ★★★★★★★★ 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. T 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 BlockEndWith 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 . 8 *’ 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 ' 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 B v ROBFRTA BFf K ' 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. - ■ — * Barbs • • • " Blcycle Prices Down’-adverlse ™" t NoW ** THEMI „, 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. 'si i ■ BPS ■C L • 7 I WML GRIFFIN FIRST Invest Your Money , Fowr Talent , Four Time, Four Influence In Griffin . . Zt . . * * “ ' 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. Established 1871 T : A • ■ 4 ERNEST CARLISLE * 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.