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GRIFFIN FIRST \
Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin
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By Quimby Melton
The Griffin Police Depart
ment has joined the National
Safety Council's July safety
campaign that is designed to
impress on every automobile
driver the responsibility each
driver has to drive safely. The
local police is conducting a very
definite educational campaign
along this line.
Today there is a special in
terview with Police Chief Joe
Burson calling attention to the
fact that many an accident oc
curs when one tries to stop a
speeding automobile. One out
or every three traffic accidents
is the direct result of excessive
speed. A speeding car cannot be
stopped quickly or safely, Bur
son points out.
"Remember this,” Burson told
a News reporter, “the next time
you’re tempted to drive at an
excessive rate of speed you are
staking a few minutes you
might save against your life—
for ‘Speeders Lose’.”
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Walter Graefe, Griffin bus
iness leader, is one of fifty bus
iness men in the South who has
been nominated by Dixie Bus
iness for the honor of being
the "Southern Business Man of
the Year.” Twelve other Geor
gians have also been nomina
ted. There are nominees from
11 Southern States.
If the committee who makes
the final selection will investi
gate Graefe’s record, both as
a business man and as a civic
leader, there is no doubt but he
will be chosen for this high hon
or.
“More rain, more rest—good
Lord let it rain” used to be the
refrain that Negro farm hands
sang frequently in the old plan
tation days.
But It’s rained enough for al
most everyone.
Good Evening is almost mil
dewed—as are many others.
But the weather is "some
thing everyone talks about but
no one does anything about”
in the words of Mark Twain.
Solons Debate
Farm Bill, Pact
WASHINGTON UP) The House
epened debate today on the ad
ministration farm bill. The Senate
rocked through it* 11th day of
debate over the North Atlantic
Treaty. ,
Votes on both measures have been
set for Thursday.
The farm fight showed signs of
being a rough-and-tumble between
those for and those against govern
ment subsidy. Rep. Gore (D-Tenni
usually an administration support
er, led the opposition.
He predicted passage of his own
substitute bill continuing the pre
sent farm party program for an
other year.
Chairman Cooley (D-NCt of the
House Agriculture Committee just
as confidently *aid the admlnist
ration biii. revised -to .restrict a- pro
posed subsidy plan trial run to two
years, will v.in.
Administration forces offered to
, limit the trial run, proposed by
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan,
in a move to gain support for their
bill.
In addition to holding it to two
years’ duration, Cooley proposed
t limiting it to three commodities—
potatoes, egg and shorn wool.
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Monday 84, minimum Monday 1 ' 68,
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GOV. HERMAN ’ TALMADGE (left) addresses the special emergency session of the
Georgia Legislature in Atlanta Monday. He called on it to pass on bills designed to raise
$21,500,000 in new state taxes for expanded governmental services. (AP Photo.)
CommissionersDiscuss
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Police Question
Blind Vet Driver
GETTYSBURG, Pa. —(AV
State police today questioned a
blind driver whose five-ton
truck upset Monday on a back
mountain road killing his four
year old brother, Barry Schultz.
Barry was pinned under the
truck in the accident. Six other
members of the family sustain
ed minor injuries.
Policeman David James said
Nelson E. Schultz, 26, a veteran
blinded during World War two,
operated the truck with thei aid
of another brother, Merle, 11.
The trooper said the veteran,
sat behind the steering wheel
and operated the pedals, and
that Merle sat in his brother’s
lap, jterring the struck.
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C Of C Cue
1° I'eed 500
Plans are being made to enter
tain 500 people at the Chamber of
| Commerce barbecue Thursday, July
28, -at Dundee Lake, Bob Burns,
secretary, announced today,
: The barbecue will be given in
honor of the 97 new members of
the booster organization and their
wives. Notices of the 'cue were be
ing mailed out today. The new mem
bers and their wives will be the
guests of the Chamber of Commerce.
Old members of the chamber
will pay $1.25 for each ticket they
buy. Old members may bring their
wives or other guests by buying
tickets for each of them.
The ’cue will be cooked by Al
bert Griffin! barbecue king of
Spalding County. It will be served
with all the "trimmins’
A short program, with no long
I speeches, is being arranged by Pre
Slc ]ent Howard Collier of the Cham
b er of Commerce,
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NANETTE F A B R A Y
(above), Broadway musical
star, broke down and began
to scream in the midst of a
song before a packed house
at the Open Air Casino in
Fair Park, Dallas, Texas.
Miss Fabray had to be as
sisted off the stage and she
continued to weep for sev
eral minutes. The show was
stopped. The cause of Miss
Fabray’s histerics was be
lieved to be a sumraer bug
that hit her in the face and
fell into her bosom. (NEA
Telephoto.)
The Griffin and Spalding County
Commissioners, in a joint session
today, discussed the construction
of a $120,000 health center here.
No formal action was taken. At-‘
lanta was contacted and plans
were made for a meeting Saturday
morning with a representative of
the State Health Department.
The commissioners discussed the
advisabiliity of either building the
new' center or converting the pre
sent hospital to the needs of the
local Health Department.
The state organization approved
the health center Monday and made
plans to build the center under the
Hill-Burton act in which the fed
eral government will furnish $40,
000 and the state $40,000. The city
and county w’ill have to raise the
other third.
Man Charged
With Larceny
Robert Lee Mathis, Griffin Ne
gro, was under arrest today char
ged with larceny in connection of
the taking of money sent through
the mail to radio station WKEU.
Arresting officers W’ere Detective
J. E. Hayes of the Griffin Police
Department and F. C. Ellis, postal
inspector. The money tvas sent in
care of the radio station for sev
eral religious programs, Hayes
said.
The Griffin police said the ast
ion was not a federal offense be
cause the man had a key to the
mail box and therefore was an
agent of the station. He was an
employee of the station.
Griffinite Nominated As
Leading Business Man
ATLANTA Walter Graefe.
head of Pomona Products Corn
pany of Griffin has been nomi
nated as one of the 50 foremost
business men in Dixie. From this
50 will be chosen the 1949
Business Man of the Year."
The 50 leaders were chosen
the editors of Dixie Business,
Southern publication.
Other Georgians selected
the 50 are: Cason Callaway,
Dumas, Robert W. Grove,
M. Johnson, C. N. Martin, C. B.
McManus, Frank H. Neely, Law
rence W. (Chip) Roberts, FYank
O Wahlstrom, Robert W. Woodruff
and C. E. Woolman.
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Numbers racketeers are Just
bunch of fish, says a police
The big ones get away.
Burglars who stole a crate
corsets may be letting
in for a long stretch
How can some people have
much common sense when
keep passing it out ail the time?
University of Chicago
says civilization will last
years. In spite of bubble gum?
Some folks should be able to
jobs as caddies—they're so
to holding the bag.
Many men boast of being
made. Others have been
on more important things.
There are more and more
men drivers every vear—and
we have those unsightly fireplugs.
Griffin, Ga., Tuesday, July 19, 1949.
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Hospital Needs
Oxygen Tent
Some organization in Griffin
can fill a badly needed want of
the Strickland Memorial Hos
pital by purchasing an oxygen
tent at once.
Eric Barton, superintendent
of the hospital, said an oxygen
tent could be bought for “about
$630" and that it could be used
at the present hospital and then
moved to the new Griffin and
Spalding County Hospital.
“We need an oxygen tent bad
ly right now. And it can be
moved to the new hospital,”
if Barton said. Any organization
that will donate such an appar
atus to the hospital Is requested
to contact Barton or Walter
Graefe, chairman of the Hospi
tal Authority.
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SINGER DICK HAYMES,
30, pLints a kiss on the cheek
of his bride, Nora Edding
ton, 24, former wife of Er
rol Flynn, as the couple cut
their wedding cake in Hol
lywood, Calif. The crooner
and his wife, a fo i inti a terte
in a cigar stand, plan to
leave in a few days for Hon
olulu where they will spend
a three-weeks honeymoon.
(NEA Telephoto.)
Are You Mildewed Yet?
Weatherman Says It
Will Rain Some More
The sun came out this afternoon
to dispel some of the mildew hang
ing over Griffin.
As this was being written it had
not rained today—and these days
that, brother, is real news. But not
a guarantee. In fact, the weather
man at the federal bureau up in
Atlanta says there’ll be more
ers tonight and Wednesday.
It wasn't too popular > predict
ion. A few more days of rain like
the past week and Griffin con
tractors will be building arks in
stead of homes.
It all started last Wednesday,
June 13, back in the days before
Griffin was water logged. The*
Tax Fight Lines Form
In State
ATLANTA, — (AP) — Administration forces in the Geor
gia House gave a boost today to the first two tax proposals of
Governor Herman Talmadge, while the opposition pushed for
ward its first counter measure.
The boost to the governor’s $21,500,000 tax program came
with committee approval of the revenue measures increasing
the tax on beer and cigarettes.
The committee approved 25-10 a bill increasing the levy on
beer from two to four cents.
Drunken Girls
Raising Hell,
Mayor Claims
LAVALLETTE, N. J.—UP)—Drunk
and disorder, y teenagers have been
“raising holy hell,” with parades
of naked girls and aH-night beach
parties topping the list of "im
moral” activities, Mayor William
Chandler charges.
The mayor said Monday that
close to 1,000 boys and girls from
16 to 18 years old invade this tiny
beach resort each summer, renting
houses and staging a round of
parties “completely without morals
and without restraint ’’
Chandler said one large house
was rented this year by a high
school fraternity group and a sor
ority, which were supposed to oc
cupy separate floors of the house.
He said noise at the house prompt
ed him to stop in, where he found
a “brazen parade” of naked girls
heading for the shower room, in
full view of the boys.
Stories of drunken and indecent
beach parties were reported by
N<m Patrolman David Bendy.
Some of the girls’ groups bring
21 or 22-year-olds along as chap
erones. Chandler said, but they "are
worse than ,”the kids themselves.”
“Everybody is pretty upset about
it," Chandler said.
He said he plans to propose or
dinances at an August council meet
ing that would provide a parent,
of one of “he youngsters mlist be
present to act as a chaperone at
each cottage.
Self-Confessed Vampire
Sentenced To Gallows
LEWES, Eng. — (Ah— John Geor
ge Haigh, self-confessed vampire
slayer of nine, was condemned to
night to death on the gallows.
A jury of 11 men and a woman
, before
deliberated only 15 minutes
convicting the handsome, 39-year
old businessman of killing wealthy
Mrs. Olive Durand-Deaton last Feb-
18, drinking a glass of her blood
and destroying her body in a bar
rel of acid.
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I Ifs Canning
It’s canning time in Griffin,
| and there’s a place for hoUse
wifes to put up their own can
] ned goods for Vinter months.
Billy Knight’s 'Story on the
Farm Page today, page 4, tells
all about it.
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day 1.66 inches of rain drenched
th® c ‘ty and it wasn't so bad.
Then came Thursday and a meas- j I
ley .32 inch. Friday it was .52 and I
Saturday _ . . it .. dropped . . . back , to . ,32. „„ i
Sunday was a big day for rain with J !
l .14 inches. Monday it was .47 and
night it was .56.
That all adds up to 4 99 Inches of
rain in a week. Just to make it easy !
tp figure, let's call it five inches.
Divide that five inches into the j
49.5 that the Experiment Station ’
says is the average yearly rain- j
fall for quick Oriffin and you’ll see mig- j 1
hty that if things keep on
like they are hip boots and umbrel- \
las will be the most Important items j
GrtlOn stores, not to mention
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at the postoffice at Orlftln, Ga., under act of March 3, 1879.
By a vote of 21-5 the committee
also approved a measure to up
the cigarette tax from three to
five cents per package. \. •
During a brief committee hear
ing the opposition to the beer tax
was voiced by Stanley Jones of
Macon executive secretary of the
Georgia Beer Wholesalers’ Associ
ation.
He declared, “There are 98 coun
ties in Georgia where beer sales
are legal and there is a local sales
tax in almost all of them."
Jones added that if the proposed
revenue increase passes, the tax on
beer in some counties will range up
to nine cents. He said the insreased
tax will result in declining sales
and decreased revenues, for both
the state and county governments.
The committee vote came after
floor leader Frank Twitty told
memb ers, -you heard the gover
nor - s meS sage the measures
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! now before you are frankly a
hodge-podge, but the emergency
must be met now.”
AMENDMENT LICKED
Earlier the committee defeated
an amendment proposed by Rep.
Culver Kidd of Baldwin, which
would have limited to two cents
the amount counties or mrnicipal
ities could have levied on beer.
The committee’s action on the
cigarette tax came almost without
debate after administration forces
demonstrated their strength in
reporting out favorably the beer
j tax bill.
j The opposition to the tax pro
gram made its first show during
i the House session this morning I
with the introduction of a soft
drink tax.
The measure was the first coun- i
ter proposal to Gov. Herman Tal- j
madge's four point plan to ra’se 1
$21,500,000 in emergency funds for
schools, roads, hospitals and wel- '
fare payments.
OPPONENTS WHACK AWAY
Opponents also started whacking
, j against Talmadge’* proposed beer,
and cigarette tax increases in
hearings before the House Wavs
and Means Committee.
After receiving the soft drinks
tax biii as the only new measure
today, the House adjourned.
The Senate met for only lo min
utes.
j The Senate FTnanre Committee
«'®nt into closed session to begin a
probe of charges of graft and
ruption in the state
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook,
mad e the rhaig e s, w un t -a rW rr the
committee
The soft drinks tax was
sored bv Rep. Ro.scoe Coleman of
Augusta, a Talmade supporter,
\ who.said it had surprising support.
motor boats which probably would
replace automobiles In quick order.
Here are some interesting facts
,about the weather in Qriffin:
The weather man isn't a man
here but a lady, Mrs. J. M. Mat
hews . . . She measures rainfall
with a rain guage furnished by the
federal goverriment , . . and she
doesn’t predict the weather here.
They do that in Atlanta . . she
just records it and doesn't have
anything to do with whether or
not it rains . . . Just in passing it
may be interesting to note that the
average yearly temperature in
Griffin is 64.1 degrees—pretty nice
weather
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GRIFFIN FIRST .
Invest Your Money , Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin
Guatemalan Big Shot
Slain; Coup Gets Going
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JANICE
(above), of Carolina Beach,
N. C., was elected “Lions
Queen of the United States”
preliminary to the open
ing of the annual convention
of Lions International in
New York. The recent high
school graduate won the ti
tle over 13 other contest
ants. The beauty contest
was held in Madison Square
Garden. (AP Wirephoto.)
HighestCourt’s
Frank Murphy
Dies Today
DETROT Supreme Court
Justice Frame Murphy died at 7:45
A. M (EST) today.
Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital
said the 50-year-old jurist died of
coronary occulslon, a heart afflict
ion.
Murphy was appointed in 1940 to
the Supreme Court by the late
President Franklin D Roosevelt.
Prior to that, he had served one
two-year t tm as governor of Mich
igan. He was defeated for reelect
ion.
Before running for governor, j
Murphy served as the last govern- !
or . general „ f lhp p hU ippines. He
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UnJted su , et
The justice had been ill here for
some time but his condition was
not regarded as serious.
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ATLANTA '*- A sub >** na d,r -
fctin * Dr ' ~ amuPl GrPPn to brmR
Ku Kiux., K i in . records Into ■ court
was served on the Georgia Klan
chieftain Monday.
°™nd Green has been or
I dered to aporar in P^i.'torr Superior
Court Aug. 26 for an injunction
hearing. High Gilliland, a young
war veteran, has filed suit to en
Join Green fro minterfering with
him
Gilliland's attorneys Hal C. Ir
win. 21, and Samuel D. Johnson,
25, obtained a subpoena directing
the Klan leader to bring “records
of the Ku Klux Klan showing pur
chases of . arms and ammuntion
contributions r-reived by the
. . .
said Ku Klux Klan memberships
dues collected, initiation fees re
reived, accounts receivable and the
profit made by the allegedly bene
volent organization in the past
year "
President Flies To
Chicago For Speech
WASHINGTON —It Pi— President
Truman flies to Chicago today for
another statement on United State*
foreign policy. His immediate aud
ience is the Diamond Jubilee of
American Shriners
He speaks at 4 P. M. 'EST) in
Soldier Field. Thousands of fellow
members of the fraternal order were
already in Chicago from all parts
of the country for their annual
acitwooatton.
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The World Today j
By The - v^soci AteOHPBess
✓ A coup appeared to be underway i|
in Guatemala following the assas- I
stnation of the nation’s army chief
of staff. Armored troops were rs
ported fighting for control of the
national palace.
The assassination of the army
leader, Col. FTanclsco Javier Arana, !
touched off ;he violence in the cap
ital of the Central American repub
lie.
National Defense Minister JaoopO
Arbenz and his supporters war*
ALSO IN THIS STORY.
Bevin blames IT. S. farm sub
sidies for Britain’s plight;
Canada agrees to cot V. &
spending.
said to be holding the palace again
st troops loyal to President Juan
Jose Arevalo. The President was
reported barricaded in his own re
sidence.
The political background of ilia
trouble was hazy. Some observers
said a rift had been developing in
the Army for two years with army
leader Arana and Defense Minister
Arbenz ki rival camps.
A state of emergency has been
declared. A government spokesman
said government forces had the sit-,
uation under control early today.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
told the House of Commons Mon
day that if socialised Britain to A
welfare state so is the United
States. He said the United States
is developing a welfare state by
paying high subidies to fanners.
These huge payments are added to
the cost of food which Britain buys
from America and this is one of
the reasons for Britain’s dollar
crisis, he said.
Bevin was answering Conservat
ive criticism that the Labor gov
ernment had brought on the crisis
by overspending on its socialization
program and soaking the rich to
pay for it.
Canada, a dollar country and tta#
best customer of the United States,
has agreed along with six other
dominions to cut her spending i»
the U. S. by 25 percent to help ease
lhe currency situation.
London had its worst race riot
in many yeais Monday night. The
fight was between' Nigerians and
white unemployed Londoners in
the turbulent East End section of
Deptford. Two Negroes and three
policemen were injured seriously In
the melee. Eight white men and
' ,Rht Mr * 8ted . . -
The Labor government announc
. ®d „ more . troops . . wnn d u he p , l ace d „ , U t
the London waterfront areas to
I handle cargoes Another 2.000 tro-*
ops were alerted and Wednesday 9.
000 soldiers 'Vi 11 be on the job. The
| j work stoppage is in its 22nd day.
More than 15,000 dockmen are idle.
They refuse to work two strike
: bound Canadian shipi.
The communist prt.ss in Prague
said today that the Roman Catholic
hierarchy has organized an illegal
network -of communications to
foster anti-government resistance.
The communists charged Archbis
hop Josef Brian and his bishops
with plotting to disrupt the gover
nment.
Latest
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ATLANTA —UP>— Atty. Gen.
Eugene Cook outlined to a
Senate Finance Committee to
day hia investigation into four
specific cases of alleged cor
ruption in state government.
A state senator who sat in
the two-hour, closed door ses
sion, confirmed that Cook had
discussed the cases but declined
other details.
It was learned that Cook had
a 45-mlnute prepared statement
as he went,behind locked doors
with the committee and other