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Giant Safety Week Will
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By Quimby Melton
"two stories out of Washing
ton, one by James Marlow, the
other by Harold Ward, both
Associated Press reporters, start
off with these sentences: ;
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Says Marlow's story "Pres
ident Truman is putting the
heat on business.....”
Says Ward’s story: President
Truman put pressure on the
steel industry’s big three prod
cers today......”
That’s one trouble with our
nation today. Business, big and
* s small, has had no much "heat”
and so much "pressure” put on
it that business does not know
where it stands.
There's an old story about
“killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs,” with which all
are familiar.
There seems to be a mistaken
idea that “business" is just a
big ugly thing that seeks to
grind down workers, charge too
high prices, get out of paying
all the taxes they can, and all
that.
Business, far and large, is just
as patriotic as any other ele
ment of our national life.
During the war American
business showed it could step
out, and with cooperation of
loyal workers, produce the
things needed for carrying on
the war. Production here was
the highest ever seen in any
•ountry.
There seems to be an idea
that is increasing in our nation
to do away with the profit in
centive plan. Once this is de
stroyed look out for socialism
of the deepest hue. And the
groundwork will be laid for act
ual commumism.
The profit incentive keeps
business running. The same in
centive to make oneself so val
uable that higher pay will result
keeps workmen on the job and
making gains in the amount of
money they earn.
But It’s popular wish a lot of
people who do not think too
elearly when one “turns the
heat on business” or "put press
ure on business. ”
For America to prosper bus
iness a* well as workmen must
prosper too. It’s a combination
that works closely together.
Business can stand just so''
much "pressure" or “heat” and
continue to run.
Business It not to blame for
til the troubles of our nation.
The Roman Catholic church
has excommunicated all active
communists who are member of
that great church group
It might be a good idea for
Protestant denominations also
to “clean house.” There are com
munists, no doubt, in every
denomination.
One simply cannot reconcile
the communistic theory, that
denies God, with true reliigon.
A communist cannot be a good
Methodist, a good Baptist, a
good Presbyterian, a good Epis
copalian, a good Christian, or a
good member o< any church
founded on belief in God
Communists who belong to
any church are just using the
church to cloak their ideologies.
Methodist Lay Board
Meets Here Tonight
Ths Board of Lay Activity of the
Griffin Methodist district will meet
hare tonight to make plans for the
aonaing conference year. The dist
riat lay leader, four associate lay
leaders and the district "superint
endent, the Rev. H. H. Jones, will
plan a program for tha year.
The board members will be the
(, guests of District Lay Leader Qul
mby Melton at a supper at Harry
Diners at 1 o’clock.
9 The Weather . ..
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA
•—Considerable cloudiness and
continued warn and humid
tonight and Friday with scat
tered showers and thunder
storms mostly in afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum to
day 70, maximum Wednesday
86, minimum Wedn<'sday 72,
rainfall Wednesday 1.66.
GRIFFIN
DAI LYWNEWS
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The first five days in August
will be dedicated to safety in Grif
fin and Spalding County y^h the
largest local safety program in the
state to be held here.
Safety Week will open Aug. 1 and
will be climaxed with a giant par
ade on Friday, August 5. Invitat
ions are being extended to dignit
aries throughout the state^and the
Third Ai-my band already has
rangements to attend.
An automobile inspection program
will be carried on in the city and
county by joint teams of the Grif
fin Police and members of the
Georgia Highway Patrol.
Safety Week is being sponsored
by the Griffin Junior Chamber of
Commerce, the city and county law
enforcement officers and the Geor
gia State Patrol.
Wallace J. Musselman, chairman,
said that the safety program to be
presented here will surpass all oth
er programs presented in the state
The inspection of cars will be
to see that their operation complies
with the ordinances of the City of
Griffin.
The inspection will be made on
all cars passing through the city
during the inspection date. Each
car passing the inspection will be
given a sticker to place on the wind-'
shield. Operators of the cars not
complying with the city ordinances
will have the failures pointed out
by the daw enforcement officers.
Drivers who do not correct the
defects will be liable to arrest and
fine according to present city or
dinances.
Merchants in the city are being
contacted in order that they may
put floats in the parade boosting
already have been planned to bring
home the benefits of safety and the
dangers of negligence.
Guard Camp
Starts July 24
The Griffin unit of the National
Guard is busy with preparations
for the summer camp at Ft. Jack
son, S. C., beginning July 24.
Capt. Wayman Hutson, comm
ander of the company said today
that 05 men already have
up for the camp and he expects
more.
Local merchants and manufact
urers are cooperating by giving
guardsmen a vacation so they can
attend the two weeks of training.
Hutson said a few grades are still
vacant. Te said the company ur
qently needs more cooks.
The guardsmen will go to camp
with full uniforms and equipment,
capt. Hutson pointed out. He said
the unit will leave for camp the
night of July 23 by train.
How’d You
Catch Polly?
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. lAd—
Maybe he’s fed up with going by a
sissy girl’s name, but Polly that
Parrot knows when he’s well off.
For two days he has been on the
pdint where his owners, Mrs. Vir
ginia Morns, offered a $5 reward
today for an idea that will land
her baby son’s feathered pal back
in his cage.
Aided by Fire Chef Ait Wester
feld, she tried lots of things Wed
nesday, all in vain.
1— They squirted water from a
fire hose. That sent Polly scooting
to another tree top.
2— They rigged a crossbar perch
on the end of a fishing pole, baited
with food. Polly spurned it.
3— They set up an 85-foot aerial
ladder. Polly kept one tad feather
ahead of it.
4— They placed two caged parrots
outdoors as decoys. Polly screamed
"hello'’ from the tree tops.--------
Mrs. Morris doesn’t care for most
of the suggestions shi has received.
One person advised her to throw
a huge net over the tree.
Another said to stun the bird
with a BB gun.
A third said: "Shoot him.”
Griffin-Bantesville
Bridge Bids Asked
ATLANTA — i/P\— .State Highway
Director James L. • Gillis Wednes
day called for bids on 18 highway
projects estimated to cost $3,150,
000.
The projects include an overhead
bridge on the Griffin-BarnesvlUe
road in Lamar County.
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A PSYCHIATRIST, examining a pretty young amnesia
victim under hypnosis, has added more fragments to his
store of information about her, but has failed to learn her
identity. The brown-haired, blue-eyed girl, who is about
17-years-old, was found wandering along a highway out
side Chattanooga, Tenn., recently. Here Nurse Ruth
Eldgidgc (left) attends the amnesia patient. (NEA Photo)
Jim Hamilton Resigns
l Post /is City Engineer
Alert Saleman
Fips Police
j On Escapee
A traveling salesman, who was
warned about speeding turned
an escaped convict to the Crriffin
Police today.
Motorcycle Patrolman Woodrow
Holcombe had stopped the sales
man, driving a car with a Texas
tag. at the edge of town and warn
ed him about speeding, through
Griffin. The salesman had a man
I riding with him that he had pick
ed up on the road.
The salesman noticed his passen
ger got very nervous when the pa
trolman stopped them. On reach
ing the heart of the city .the sales
j ma n told his rider that he was
stopping in Griffin and when the
man left the notified Patrolman
| Allen Bryant.
After making the arrest the local
police department found that the
man was an escaped convict from
Atlanta. They notified the At
lanta police, who confirmed that
the man was an escapee.
Griffin May Be Allocated
Television Channel
Griffin will get a television chan
nel if new proposals are approved.
The Federal Communications
Commission proposes to provide
! broadcast channels in 32 Georgia
j cities. At present the proposals are
i pending in Washington and are
: subject to public hearing Aug. 29
with formal action by the end of
the year is possible.
Griffin would be on ultra high
frequency channel No. 29.
Mrs. Gregory’s Mother
Dies Today In Alabama
Mrs.- R, E. Stackhouse, mother
i of Mis. W. A. Gregory of Griffin,
died today In Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Stackhouse, who lived at Juna
luska, N. C., was visiting a daughter
in Montgomery.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day at the Dunbar Funeral Home
in Columbia, S. C.
• Barbs ...
A dude ranch is where it's too
painlul to :.de horseback by the
lime you learn how.
Uncle Sam is proud of the mon
ey he makes and u s doggone dan
gerous to try to compete with him
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Two Ohio boys nearly drowned
when their canoe turned over. Al
ways cliangj seats in a canoe be
fore you get in.
Even the most successful brush
isa.i.»uau will admit that at times
they have found the ntop mightier
than the brush.
Early to bed and early to r
makes a man healthy—and Un.
cle "tn wea thy
Maybe the men who work late
at the offlre so often hsve read
that most accidents occur in the
home.
Griffin, Ga.; Thursday, July 14, 1949.
Jim H. Hamilton, city engineer,
has resigned and W. H. "Bill” Wea
ver has been promoted to the pos
ition of building official and in
spector for the city.
A successor for Hamilton has not
been appointed yet, City Manager
Jack Langford said today. Langford
said he expects to announce the
appointment before the end of the
month.
Hamilton, who has served as
i city engineer for the last three
years> has accepled a with
wiedeman and singleton Water
WO rks and Sewage Engineers jf
| Atlanta.
Many improvements have been
made in the city during Hamilton’s
' period of service. The improve
ments include a 875,000 3
! sewage extension, a $165,000 water
.works improvements program, six
m ain paving projects totaling ap
proximately $115,000 and the new
j at Griffin an approximate Hl e h School cost stadium, of $52 built 000
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In addition to hik engineering
duties in the city, Hamilton has
served as building official for the
City.
Weaver, who succeeds Hamilton
as building official for the city, is
also Fire Inspector for the city. He
n as been a captain in the City Fire
Department for the past two and
j one half years.
City Manger Langford said tha,
Weaver "is a very deserving and
qualified person for his new duties”
and that he has made an outstand
ing records as fire inspector.
Weaver will administer the new
building code recently adopted by
the city and also the zoning ord
inance as it relates to buildings and
j alterations of buildings.
Inspector Weaver will continue
his work as fire inspector and work
in close cooperation with Fire Chief
Ellis Simonton in the prevention
of fire hazards in the city, Lang
ford said.
Hawkes Library Will
Reopen Monday Morning
Hawkes Library, fresh and clean
from extensive remodelling, will re
open Monday morning at 9 o'clock,
! Mrs. Logan Wallace, librarian,
announced today that work will, oe
j completed has been by that time. The libr
ary closed while the work
was in progress.
12 Negroes Here Are
j Eligible For Jury Duty
Spalding County has a dozen
Negroes eligible for jury duty and j
six Negroes eligible for Grand j
Jury duty, the clerk of Spalding
Superior Court said today.
A decision handed down by the
Qeorgla Supreme Court Wednes
day stated that Qeorgla oountles
with substantial Negro population
must use Negroes on the Grand
and Traverse juries.
No Negro has served on a Spald
ing County trial Jury within the
past few years.
The State Supreme Court point- |
ed out that M wm to
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Cheatham Calls Mills’
Outlook Here ’Good’
Mac Cheatham, vice prseideVt of Dundee Mill*, today de
scribed the outlook for the textile industry in Griffin as "good."
Addressing the Griffin Rotary Club at noon, Cheatham said.
It is true that some of our mills are operatnig on a curtailed
schedule, but the overall picture is a great deal brighter than
the average Griffin citizen realizes.”
He pointed out that the total textile payroll here from Jan.
1 to June 30, 1948, wa* $6,300,000 and that for the same
period this year it wa* $5,800,000 ‘‘or a decline of only eight
percent.
Kiwanis Club
Asks GHS To
Train Drivers
The Griffin Kiwanis Club to
day made public a request that
Griffin High School offer auto
mobile driving to ali eligible stu
dents.
The request was in the form of
a resolution passed at a regular
meeting of the Kiwanis dub’s
board of directors.
It states that "Wt recommed ro
the Board of Education of the
Griffin Public Schools that they
adopt and make available to all
eligible students the Driver’s Edu
cation Course now being sponsored
under the auspicies of the Depart
ment of Public Safety ’
Copies of the resolution were
inailed to members of the Board of
B’ducation and to Ed Crudup, sup
erintendent of public schools.
The Kiwanis Club’s resolution re
ferred to a program sponsored by
the State Department of Public
Salety and the Ford Motor Co
ford Motor com pany furnishes an
automobile and othm
and the schoo t ls required to fur
nisp instructor ”.. t ° ' .
' Crudup „ . said todav that . no steos ,
. have , taken , .
been , to secure the . pro
gram for Griffin Hign because the
i school has no avai able instructor
George Patrick,, principal
Spalding High, said the course
\ be offend there again next fall.
| Spalding was the second
school in the stale to ofler driver
| training w hen it was taught
the first time in 1947 under a
diffeent program,
; Patrick said that the present pro
; is better for the
1 gram students
titan the original one under w hiuh
Spalding operated in that now
there is no cost whatsoever to the
' students.
President To Set Up
Fai’t-Fnding Board
i WASHINGTON— (JP )—The White
House said today that President.
Truman will set up a steel fact
finding board Friday whether o
not thy ’big three’ producers yieid
j | in his pressure for them to go along
; with his plan to avert a strike Sat
urday.
l Charles Ross, presidential press
secretary, announced this after say
ing nothing has been heard from
Mr. Truman's latest message to ihe
three companies.
There wa.- no hint from Ross AS
! to yho the President has in mind
for the board- a group whose find
mgs and recommendations may be
, decisive on the issue of whether
i millions of American workers are
to have a fourth round of post-vir
! w age increase.
follow numerous decisions of the
U. S. Supreme Court that it is U
legal to try a Negro without some
member of his own race being on
the trial Jury.
The Jury lists in the state are
picked from the names appearing
on the county tax digest and the
Qrand Jury is picked from the
names on the Traverse Jury,
The jury pannels for each term
of court are drawn by the Judge,
clerk of the court and the shenll
before each term of court and a
’.1st ls prepared by the clerk.
Ru Bat of
Issued Daily Except Sunday and entered as second class matter
at the postoffice at Griffin, Ga., under act of March 3, 1879.
"Now,” he said, ”1 think that
compares most favorably with the
figures for the industry as a whole
as evidenced by the fact that in
May, the latest month for which
figures are available, it was off 26
percent oyejr the previous May of
1948. I am optimistic enough to
believe that we ll pick up that eight
percent in tile remaining six months
of this year.”
Cheatham said that "generally
speaking I believe that thF success
of our Griffin mills, or any mills
for that matter, besides having cap
able management and a good mech
anica * plant, depends on two lmpor
tant things: Good labor relations
and good community relations. Of
course, these two go hand in hand
for they can be accomplished more
effectively by the full cooperation
and understanding of Industry and
the community al large ••
He described labor and commun
ity relations in Griffin as "the
finest.’’
"We are in the cotton mill busi
! ness to make a profit for our stock
holders. However, I think our re
sponsibilities far exceed that group.
They extend to our employes, cust
°mers and to you as the community
at large, he said.
"As business and professional
leaders of Griffin, I earnestly ask
and seek your full support and in
return pledge >' ou our besl efforts
j 10 mage this community a better
• Place to work and live.”
I Cheatham traced , . the exodus , of
i the textile industry from New Eng
, j and to the South and pointed out
i that “today 77 percent of the spind
| les in place in this country are loc
ated in the Souh.”
1 In the number of Spindles, tie
said, "Georgia ranks third in the
nation, second only to North and
South Carolina."
The textile industry in Georgia
employs 105,000 people and last year
j Paid $239-million in wages, he
j | pointed out.
He blamed the exodus' of cotton
; mills from New England to the
South on three factors: Excessive
taxes, improper management and
hostile labor unions,
i The Dundee executive said that
he had visited deserted textile cen
ters in New England and described
j "the lifeless smokestacks, broken
windows and vacant old buildings.’
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Convict-Made Signs
Get City Confused
WOONSOCKET. R I IP—For
years residents and visitors alike
moaned about Woonsocket’s
lack of street signs.
A project was developed . to
remdy the defect. Signs galore
were made. But it just, brought
double trouble because signs
were printed for streets that
exist only on old city maps and
the names of several legitimate
streets, were spelled incorrectly.
The signs were made by con
victs at the state prison.
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jury duty are determined by a
Board of Jury Commissioners ap
pointed by the Superior Court
judge, according to the state law.
Each commissioner serves for six
years and cannot succesd himself.
The judge can remove any of the
'commissioners at any time he sees
fit.
The law requires Chat the list of
person* eligible to serve on the
Jury be revised every two or three
years. In Spalding the list ls revis
ed every two years. The last re
sirisa was made to tMR
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DAVID SELZNICK, motion picture producer, end Ae
tress Jennifer Jones were married Wednesday aboard tlw
yacht “Manona” at anchor a few miles off Portofino, Italy.
He gave Jennifer her start in the movies. UntU be discov
ered her, she was an unknown girl from Tulsa, Olcla., tty.
ing to get along in Hollywoo d. (A P Wriephoto.)
Navy Reserve Forms
Volunteer Griffin Unit
Pope Boots
Catholic Reds
Out Of Church
The World Today
■ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
) The lines tighetend today in the
I blttcr church-state conflict in
I Eastern Europe. Pope Pius XII is
sued a new decree ol excommuni- ,
j cation against all Roman Catholics j
w ho embrace communism !
j The official communist press i
j in Czechoslovakia, ignored it but-j
! IN THIS STOUT .
More London dock workers
leave jobs;
Russians ease road traffic :
regulations.
Prague reports indicated the com
i munists would use the Vatican ol
j der for propaganda purposes The
j government'Is that Vatican expected is to trying take the to
line the
cut off the people from their gov
ernn'nt.
The minister of in
Czechoslovakia already has issued
an ordinance declaring illegal ex
communications and other penal
ties imposed by tliy Catliotli hier
arcliy "tor political and not leligi
ou. reasons.”
The government reported priests
supporting the govcniinent-spon
sored Catholic action were
sit-down strikes and refusing
surrender their parishes
The war between church and
state became hotter in Catholic
Poland too. The official Polish
press blamed the Roman Catho
lie hierarchy for encouraging the
faithful to crowd into the eastern
Polish City of Lublin to witness a
‘weeping Virgin” portrait Tint
authorities said one woman was
killed and 18 other persons
injured in the stampede
Go vernm ent official s .raid per
sons spreading rumors about the
reported miracle would be prose
cuted. The communist-led Polish
government, like its aounterpans
in Eastern Europe is conducting a
bitter fight against, church author
tty.
More London doc* workers left
their jobs today despite declara
tions from Prime Minister dem
ent Attlee that the li-day-oki
strike Is sapping the strengsh
and life of the nawon The govern
ment, tinder smeigency regulation*
approved by Parliament, poured
800 soldier* and sailors into the
j docking area to unload ship*
| 1 Nearly 14,000 men are new idle
_4na.ee Ten Re ft
Established 1871
A volunteer
Naval Reserve was •ommisataned
here Wednesday night and M
enlisted in the unit.
Lt. Cmdr. John U Oabard, Math
Naval District Commandant's local
representative, aom missioned title
unit.
Lt. B. C OlUff im appointed
commandw of the unit Lt.
Cmdr John QoMuA wm tppom .
^ executlv# offlcer u ^
w M ma w
* icer and Lt. Cmdr. Alya R. Jens*
personnel officer.
un ’^ Plans to put on a ty
cruiting program, Cmdr, Oabard
said. He said the unit hops* to in
its membership to at least
100. All Navy veterans will be con
tacted during the campaign, Cmdr.
Gabard said.
Solons Rap
Truman Talk
WASHINGTON —<JP>— Praaident
TrumalVs sharp fttUck oa
interest urging drastic cuts” to fed
cral spending collided today with
both Democratic and Republican
criticism in Congress.
So did his assertion that many
people would like to have a depress
ion "for political reasons.”
On the other hand. Senator Pep
/per iD-Fla) called Mr. Truman's
arguments "reasonable common
sense and full of practical justifl
cation.”
The President spoke out Wednes
day night in telling the nation about
bls new program designed to
P and production and avert a more
! senbu -' business slump. He went
on both the radio and television,
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Capt. Virgil Potter of Clinton,
Okla . will become the command
ing officer of the Griffin Salvation
Army Pott August 8. He will be as
sisted by his wife.
LA. Augustus Me A bee and his
see now nerving ss officers of
tha Inewl post. Lt, McAbee took
over (he loaal poet when Capt. and
Mm. Oscar JtoUar were transferred
to the Carottna, Division.
Oapl and Ms*. Potter were sta
tioned aA CMnton, Otela, before h»
tog tranefesrsd to Griffin.
Need An Elephant?,
Need m u U p h —tT
Newd a pig?
Try a Nwtrs Want AA
Nothing’* too big.