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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your
* Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin
Member Of The Associated Press
One Of Escaped
Cons Is Nabbed
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By Quimby Melton
The Griffin High Band will
give an “appreciation concert”
Sunday afternoon on the lawn
of the Elks Club. The concert
will begin at 4:30 o'clock. The
public Is invited:
The local lodge of Elks gave
the Griffin High Band $3,000
and Spalding High * similar a
mount following a campaign,
staged by the Elks, to help both
the bands.
The Elks donations to the two
schools helped materially in
buying new instruments and hi
outfitting both bands.
One who likes good music,
and who does not, will have a
chance to hear Griffin High's
top ranking band Sunday aft
ernoon.
Here’s some good news.
Spalding High will install a
special course in textile voca
tional training next fall. The
course has been arranged by
Lewis Beck, manager of the lo
cal employment office, Spald
ing school officials and officials
of the Spa. ding Knitting Mills,
Griffin Hosiery Mills and J. P.
Burton and Son Knitting Mill
The first unit that will be
opened will be that of hosiery
looping. This oouree will be
open to senior girls and they
will be given a unit of voca
Monal training toward their
diplomas. Later other ctstrses
to textile training wtD be" of
fered.
In announcing the plans far
this course, Beck said “much
of the products of the local
mills has tc be sent away to be
, looped and this course will
train people to do that work
here at home. It will mean good
Jobs for local people and money
kept at home that te now spent
elsewhere. ’
Governor Herman Talmadgs
to oaUtng the newly appointed
Tax Commission to meet has
“ruled out” a general sales tax.
W# agree with him on that. .
A general sales tax places too
much burden on the person
least able to pay.
First we’d suggest that Mm
" tax dodgers” be ferreted out
and made to pay their just
share of the taxes.
Then we’d ' estimate how
much more money is needed
and with that to mind raise
Income taxes to oover. Income
taxes are the fairest taxes to
the world since a man is taxed
on his earnings. The man who
makes “big money” pays Mg
taxes. The man who makes leas
pays less in taxes.
Swans Get Red Light
On Poisoned Lake
OOEUR D'ALENE, Ida. —(IP—
A seaplane Is being used to enforce
’te "no parking law” against whist
ling swans oil lead-pclsoned lakes
to the Coeur d’Alene valley.
Hundreds at the swans were
killed last year-when they stopped
on the lead-poUuted takes on th*|r
way to Canada. S
Trite year the game department
seaplane te herding the birds past
the deadly lakes to unpolluted
waters farther north.
• The Weather . • •
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FORECAST FOB GEORGIA
—Partly cloudy and continued »
warm through Sunday; Num
erous thunder showers over
north portion and widely seat- •
tered thundershowers soatta por
Mon this evening and a rain
Sunday afternoon!
• Local Weather m • •
Today «
Minimum Today 61
Maximum Friday 88
Minimum Friday 65
5 Others Who i Escaped
At Milledgeville
Remain At Large
MADISON, Ga. — UP) — One of
six convicts who escaped from a
convict camp at Milledgeville, Ga„
was caught near Madison early to
day.
Sheriff G. P. Says said Ed Par
ker, who was serving a life term
for murder, gave up without a
struggle. Parker was spotted walk
ing down railroad tracks by a sec
tion gang, who called police. The
State Troopers from the Grif
fin Barracks of the State Pa
trol Joined in the manhnrt
Friday for six despera do es who
escaped armed guards in Mill
edgeville. Four Griffin Patrol
men combed roads in a grim
hunt near Forsyth until late
Friday night.
sheriff said Parker had stolen a
car In Milledgeville. which he
abandoned In Madison Friday
night when it gave out at gas.
Search for the other five ran into
a dead end in a swamp near Macon
this morning.
Sheriff Earl Hamrick of Twiggs
County said posses had failed to
find the men in a swampy area two
miles east of Dry Branch, Ga..
about 35 miles southeast of Mil
ledgeville.
The six fled from the Milledge
ville State Hospital farm Friday
with four shotguns and three pis
tols, seized from guards. In their
break, they dashed hot coffee into
the face of one guard and fired a
load of buckshot Into the shoulder
at another.
Sheriff 8aye said the actual cap
ture of Parker was by Cary Stapp,
chief of police at the small town
of Rutledge and his two sons. Rut
ledge te only a few mils* from hart.
caught, bt
fight. An itic shotgun was
found to the car. The sheriff said
the weapons apparently were taken
from the guards at the Milledge
ville camp.
Parker was held to the Morgan
County jail. Saye said Parker told
him he originally was sent to pri
son for burglary in Rome, Ga and
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that he later was sentenced to life
for killing a prison guard.
The sheriff said State Patrol of
ficers told him Parker stole the car
from In front of the Milledgeville
State Hospital Friday shortly after
the break.
Capture at Parker scotched re
ports that one of the fugitives
might have been wounded and left
behind. Five were known to have
fled in a car taken from a Baptist
minister.
Here’s A Cow,
Not Bull, Story
WACO —(AV- This te the story
og the bawling calf, the cow thief
and the mama cow.
Not so long ago, Roy Long. Mc
Lennan County farmer, bought a
cow. The cow not long afterward
had a calf. They were contented to
a green paature.
Roy went to a Waco eattl* auct
ion sale Friday.
A cow was run Into the ring. He
the looks of the cow. It re
midned him of the Uttle calf’s mo
ther at home. H* bought the cow
took it home.
Whan Roy arrived home he heard
the Uttle calf bawling.
What’s the matter with the little
he asked an* of hit men.
“Mutt have loat his mother,” the
said.
Roy turned the new cow loose to
pasture. The cow ran to the
The calf fin to the cow. The
cow nuzzled the calf, The calf
the cow.
This mad* Roy suspicious.
Yes sir, tt was the Uttle calf*
which had oeen stolen from
pasture and taken to the auct
ring. Roy. unknowingly, had
her twice.
Where doe sthe cow thief come
He will—just as soon as McLen
County Sheriff C. C. Maxey
lay hand* on him .
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MODERN LAW ENFORCEMENT is the theme of the
Spalding County Sheriff’s office. In the. upper photo,
. Sheriff J. D. Posey is shown placing e call through the two
way radio system in his automobile. Deputy Sheriff W. P.
Hanners (standing, bottom photo) and Constable Grady
Chappell"are shown studying the new file system. (Photo
by Warbeck.)
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County Officers Using
Modern Weapons To
Battle Crime
. The Spalding County Sheriff’s
office Is now in the forefront of
Georgia counties with iti modern
law enforcement facilities.
, Not only is the office routine
newly designed for efficient and
epeedy operation both locally and
In conjunction with other law en
forcement agencies, but each mem
ber of the department is instantly
available.
Sheriff J. D Posey has installed
a two way radio system in his car
that is set to the Georgia State Pa
trol radio system. There also Is a
receiver in Deputy Sheriff W. P.
i Press) Hanaers’ automobile on the
same frequency.
Grady Chappell, clerk and Spald
ing County constable, can imme'
diately contact Sheriff Posey when
he is on call by simply telephoning
the Griffin State Patrol station and
requesting that it cqntact Sheriff
Posey on f he radio. Or they can
either call Deputy Sheriff Hanners.
The state Patrol station also can
caU Spalding sheriff if it needs his
cooperation on a case
ConstaMe Chappell is In charge
of a newly organized filing system
that keeps an accuiafe record on
all the criminal cases handled
through the sheriff’s office.
Each person who is dealt with
through the office has his name,
charge and disposition recorded al
phabetlcaUy for future reference
Another branch of the filing
system’ consists of the filing of
warrants and other legal papers
that are currently ready to process.
Miss Christopher Wins
Journalistic Honors
• Georgia Belle Christopher, a so
phomore at Griffin High school,
has been announced the Georgia
winner In three classes of the na
QulII and Scroll high school
journalism contest. She placed
first to the state in the feature,
news story rnd editorial classifi
' Miss Christopher, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Claude Christopher,
been a member of the staff of
the Highlight, high school paper,
for the past two years, serving as
editor and feature writer.
Griffin, Go., Saturday, May 21, 1949.
Sheriff Forty said that through
*chase ^Uje-lneatS^ol Involving the the radio entire network county a
or larger can be carried on with
instant contact between the law
enforcement officers.
Also through the means of the
radio Information can be obtained
^ rom Atlanta and even Washing
j ton if the occasion demands.
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Senoia Widow
Dies At Home
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson,
! widow of Mr. L. L. Hutchinson, died
at her home In Senoia Friday.
Funeral services will be conducted
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at Sen
oia Baptist Church, of which she
was a member, with Dr. John Fau
lkner and the Rev. J. E. Holbrook
officiating. Burial will be in Sen
oia cemetery with Haisten- Broth
ers in charge. ’
Survivors ■ include two daughters,
Mrs. Annie Bell Draper and Mrs’
M ary Lee Worth, both of- Lake
Wales, Fla.; two sohs, J. B. Hut
chinson on Senoia and Andrew
Hutchinson of Anderson, S. C.; two
sisters, Mrs, J. B. Coppedge of At
! lanta and Mrs. B. D. Porter of
j J Fayetteville, five grandchildren arid
1 several nieces and nephews,
Spalding High Plans I
Training In Textiles
A course m textile" vocational
training will be installed at Spald
ing High 8chool beginning with the
fall session.
L. H. Beck, manager of the local
Georgia State Employment Sfervlce,
said today that the course will In
clude training for hosiery looping.
Beck pointed out that ther* afvays
Is a shortage of persons skilled to
looping and that employment pos
sibilities are high with relatively
good pay.
Trie initial oouree la looping wUI
High School Grads
Cost $179,771.60
Keep Our
Grads At Home
An Editorial
Thera tent a business man in Griffin who would waste $1,000. Yet
every time s high school graduate leavae this city or county we are
wasting more than that.
A reporter's digging turns up the fact that the cost of every graduate
this year from Spalding High School te $1,005.10 and the cost of every
Griffin High graduate te $1464.10.
So every time one of the graduate* leaves us we've lost s big Invest
ment, nearly all of It derived from our tax money.
Aside from other considerations, we submit that It te good business to
employ our high school graduates st home.
We here st the Griffin Dally News have done this for s number of
years. We’ve hired graduates directly from Spalding High and directly
from Griffin High. We’ve used them In every department where dif
ferent skills and specialties are required and Invariably we have found
them well prepared. *
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We've hired them for our editorial department where a good back
ground in English and other so called “arts" subjects are vital. We’ve
found them quick to learn and well grounded in their school subjects.
We’ve hired them in our business department where a thorough know
ledge of such subjects as bookkeeping, typing, etc., are important. We’ve
found them well grounded, enthusiastic and able.
We've hired them in our mechanical department where a knowledge
of machinery is necessary. They’ve been quick to learn, anxious to, do
a good job and well prepared.
We mention this not in a spirit of bragging, but as a recommenda.
tlon to other employers. It’s good business to hire our local graduates.
_QUIMBY MELTON, JR.
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Tiny Tacks Mark
Hospitai Corners
Tiny tacks mark the massive
acumen of the new Griffin hos
pital now under construction.
But beginning the latter part
of next week erecting will get
underway with the pouring of
cement.
H. P. Patterson, superinten
dent in charge of construction,
said today that the actual hos
pital site already'has been laid
out and tha excavation of the
“footing holes’’ U well under
way.
There will be 250 cubic yards
of cement lain for the cement
footings, to support the struct
ure, Patterson said.
It will be three to four mon
ths before the peak number of
workers afe brought to the pro
ject, he said.
Mental Treatment Is
Ordered For Hermit
NEW YORK —</Py— Mental tre
atment in a state hospital has been
ordered for Paul Makushak, the
Brooklyn hermit who was sealed
In a dark, walled-ln cubicle for 10
years, and his mother.
State Supreme Court Justice
Charles E. Murphy disclosed Fri
day that he had signed commit
ments for the pair, who are now to
Kings County Hospital where they
have been under observation.
Remember Peter Lorre?
He Files As Bankrupt
LOS ANGELES — (JP) — Peter
Lorre, film and stage portrayer of
sinister rols, has filed a voluntary
bankruptcy petition In federal
court. , .
be open to (senior girls and on com
pletion of the course they will be
given credit for the training on
their graduation record. Ho said
the course will not be required but
that those completing It will be as
sured of employment.
Beck pointed out that later on tt
1a hoped (that other textile courses
will be offered to conjunction with
this course. Witte the success of the
Initial venture, plan* will be made
to establish a fully equipped textile
Watering oo u ree as a part of Mu
Atlanta Liquor
Hearing To Be
Held In Griffin
A hearing cn an effort to close
a number of Atlanta liquor stores
will be held in Griffin at 10 A. M
June 11.
Eric (“Cracker") Nelson of At
lanta 1s making another attempt
to cloae a number of Atlanta liquor
stores and to halt what he terms
the sale etf mixed alcoholic drinks
in many Atlanta hotels and res
tauranta. a *
The Fulton Superior Court re
cently held it had no jurisdiction
in the case, since Nelson alleged
Revenue Commissioner Charlie
Red wine was a resident of Fuiton
CountY—and Redwine. actually re
sides In Fayette County.
So, Friday, Nelson filed his suit
in Red wine's home county of Fay
ette. Judge Chester A. Byers set a
hearing for 10 A. M June 11, at
Griffin.
Nelson alleges that a number of
Atlanta liquor stores are not keep
ing a registry of customers and are
otherwise violating the State law
He also charged that several ho
tel! and re'.taurantv are selling
mixed drinks In violation of the
law.
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The starched coUar for men 1s
coming back aay Style experts. Cut
ting remarks.
When the chicken population of
the country decreases It’s really
something to brood over.
Some .people, 1 Ught
according to a
ing engineer, are depressed by green
light. Until they get behind a wheel.
school curriculum.
The new course te being Bad* In
cooperation with Ben T. OlUff,
county school superintendent,
Georg* Patrick, Spalding High
principal, the official* of the Spald
ing Knitting Mills, Griffin Hosiery
Mills and J. P. Burton and Son
Knitting M1U.
Tha plan will be explained to de
tail Monday to the present junior
girls at Spalding High. Those de
siring the course will be registered
at that ttou.
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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Foitf
Influence In Griffin !
Griffin. Spalding County and An State o# Otenh Lava 8
tremendous financial as wail as moral inves tm e n t in tite 156
young men and women who will graduate from the two local
high schools in the next few days.
The 1 56 graduates this year tost the city, county and
total of $179,771.60. Although a large ahare of aehool fund*
come from the state, moat of the tax money for school* ante
paid by local taxpayers.
Street Fighting
Breaks Out
In Berlin
Tho World Toduy
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Street fighting broke out in Ber
lin today even as Big Pour foreign
ministers assembled In Parte for a
new attempt to settle the whole
German problem.
Hundreds were beaten In Mm
B erlin' clashes between striking
anti communist railway workers
ALSO IS THIS STORY:
Communist forces ring Shan
hai;
Next step In ending O rate
war up to Russia.
and Soviet-controlled railway po
lice. Young communist strike
breakers supported the police at
nearly a dozen stations of the mu
nicipal elevated railway.
The strikers, residents of Weak
Berlin, are demanding paymaat te
west marks, the only legal currency
in West Berlin. The railways are
Soviet zone controlled and the man
have been paid In 8oviet acne
marks which have only a fraction
the value of west marks.
Tha strike Mocked all Incoming
allied supply trains from wis t s en
Germany.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson and Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevln of Britain have ar
rived In Paris. They are holding
preliminary talks with French For
eign Minister Robert Bchuman
preparatory to the Big Four meet
ing with Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky
on Monday.
Deputies at the three Western
power ministers are submitting
recommendations to their chiefs
for final approval before tha Big
Four conference convenes.
Well-informed French source*
said the report embraces a project
for a provisional seml-unlfled Gar
man regime. It would provide a
committee that would be a liaison
between the West German state
•ind the regime being formed te
East Oermany. ___
Nine of the 11 West German
states have ratified the Bona con
stitution setting up a federal re
public In West Oermany. This
means that the constitution te ap
proved by more than two-thirds of
the states required and the new
federal state 1s expected to oome
into being In mid-July.
Communist forces ringed
Shanghai today and cut off the be
sieged city’s air escape routes.
Lungwha airport suspended opera
tions. Great fires biased across the
river to the east and north where
besiegers are on the attack.
Diplomats In Washington said
the next step In settling the Greek
civil war te up to the Russians.
They said that the United States
and Britain may hold the door
open to further talks If Russia la
still Interested.
Rualsa has proposed that the
United States, Britain and Russia
intercede to settle the fighting be
tween aommuntet guerrilla* and
the Athens regime. They would
do this by setting up a three power
commission, withdrawing ah aid,
and supervising a fra* alaetton. The
Western powers iwpked that Mm
metier te one for the United Na
tions to settle and that they would
not act without the approval of tha
Athens government, which has not
displayed much esfemeee tor Mm
idea.
From Cradle To Grtvw
PIERRE, S. D. —(W— A saved
year-old child Was arrested tor is
suing a bad cheek. Daring the same
month, an Si-year-old man wat
charged with contributing to Mm
delinquency of a miner. I
This is tew beeaws Spalding is
on* of Mm few oovntte* in
state that pays mom Mo tee state
taxes Misn 1$ Mm
.'♦ate la benefits.
H:nce every taxpayer te O el ff te
and Striding County has * (tenet
inveetmeol in every graduate teen
tteo ten high schools.
who do not pay direct tana hat*
an investment in Mm graduates ba
thers u no person who dpi
not pay some type of
cigarette# tax. amusomsnt
theater tickets, Ota.
In spite of the
vestment, financial as wel as
erwlia, many at Mm grada yto r id
past yuan have boon loosed te
leave the <*y and aounty to text
suitable senployemsnt. *
Although
stdered a dry subject, here ass
that make interesting reateny bs
esuse they are the story of an in
vestment in the future of
and daughters of this cNr.Md
oounty.
Consider them to a minute:
■ate of tha 92 student* who wMI
te a tew days at Rpald
$1,006.10 m tax mo nay—mon
B ha|J PWu tea of IB® ^iiaa«a CfttMflC Of - e wUI
aounty to educate their children.
total class of M represents so
investment at $06,466.30.
(Thsaa figures vita furnished
County Mead! Superintendent
OIlMr wtM reported Mist Mm a
varaye aost each year par pupil te
school to MMs county 1* $6040.
Mm average cost high aehool
pupil is $02.98 and Mm avaragt w*
at aehool bus taa iM p or tatlc n P«*
student te »WJ0.
K aost approximately $446410 te
•ducat* each at Mm M
who wiB graduate ai OrMte High.
OMg School Bd
Crudup Thus Mm total
investment to
this year te Iff1408.40.
It’s a large tovtatental mad* W
local taxpayers who aaa
not only In adu o ateon, but te
the future of MMs step, •oattap, MM*
and nation.
Lewta
has offered Mm complete
of hi* offle* to those graduate* who
will not attend ool l eg e and who te*
b* seeking job*.
"The employers, te moat
present the heaviest taxpayers and
have a large share te Mm Hnancial
Investment to these young nun and
women,” ha said. "I hop* that they
will take advantage at these young
people's' skill* and employ them ta
home, teto’v* exported some of
our beet brains and talents lor too
long.”
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She hod youth—
beauty—
But she didn't money—
want love
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TWI Mad oat whoa you
rood
Bewam of Romance
By Bobsrta Courdond
Starling Monday In
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