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GRIFFIN FIRST
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Talent, Your Time, Your
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Griffin Police' and the High
way Patrol have checked ! ‘ihore
than 3,000 automobiles in *con- -
nection with the Junior fcham
' bet's Safety Week fc^mpaign.
But they kre just about half
through. For there are 3.000
more automobiles that should
be cheeked.
The boys who wear the uni
form are ready, willing and an
xious to check every car in this
community, because a check
will reveal any deficiencies in
the automobile's mechanism and
will result in safer driving here. .
Last night as Good Evening
went to the ball game he not
iced the automobiles parked at
Tiger Park. About one in every
10 automobiles had the inspect
ion sticker pasted on its wind
shield. The other nine bore no
such sticker.
Don't put off having your au
tomobile inspected during this
Safety Week Campaign.
Speaking of the ball game.
There's a man in Griffin who
rarely misses a ball game. And
he always brings his family
along with him. He and his
girls have a swell time whoop
ing and hollering. When the Ti
gers win they are elated. When
they lose their morale is about
as low as the bottom of the
ocean.
Now yesterday was his birth
day.
He knows all the players and
is popular with them. They lea
rned it was his birthday and
promised him a doubleheader
win as a present. They won the
first game last night 2 to 0. sc
oring Griffin's first shutout
victory of the seasdn. And they
were Med up with Tailassee 1 to
1 when rain halted the second
game
He's told .the boys he'll set
tle for a double victory over
Hew nan Thursday night when
the Tigers meet the league lea
ding, pace setting Newnan Br
owns. i
Who is this fan? Earl Chap
pell.
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Speaking of baseball—
George Tomasic. who started
out the season as chiefly a re
lief hurler, came through last
night with a one-hit game and
held the Tailassee Cardinals to
a goose egg score. This gave the
locals their first shut-out vic
tory.
Tomasic and Ebetino, who
also figured ehiefly as a relief
pitcher at the first of the sea
son. are now as good pitchers
as the team has.
Oxygen Tent
Is Ordered
Griffin's Swickland Memorial
Hospital has placed an order for
an oxygen tent and it is expected
to arrive hi the near future.
The Griffin Lodge Elks and the
Griffin post of the Veterans
Foreign Wars pledged the amount
to pay for the t«nt. Each will pay
half of the estimated cost of $630.
The tent ic badly needed now
and K will be transferred to the
new Griffin - Spalding Hospital
when it ie completed.
• Barbs ...
England has, a post office on
wheels, but the letter paper Britons
use continues to be stationery.
German dentists make cavity fiU
lkigs out of artificial silk. What the
world needs m a drill made out of
It
There are more than 70(X) trotting
horses in the country We wonder
how many racking horses there are
i*n the race tracks.
*The Weather . ..
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA
Considerable clo
udiness and con
ers tinued scattered nd warm thunder- show- with %
storms tonight ...
and Thursday.
Local Wrather
—Maximum to- V'-,
day 80, minimum SHOWERS
today 70, Maximum Tuesday 83.
minimum Tuesday 70. Rainfall Tu
esday .88.
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ROY MIFFLETON KISSES his pretty wife in their home
at Washington in the same sort of way that cost him $10
for kissing her in public at Mayo Beach near Galesville,
Md. The beach resort has a rule against public kissing
and the owner’s wife voiced her objection to the Miffleton
kiss. Roy objected to her objecting. Then the police
came and Miffleton was arrested. Magistrate Norman
Hazard fined him $10 for disorderly conduct in arguing
with the resort owner’s wife. The Miffleton children, Ed
die (left), 12, and Arlene, 6, agree the beach kiss was just
like the home kiss. (AP Wirephotm)_
Tito Tells Balkans:
4 Quit Stooging
For Russia!’
f World Today
The
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Premier Mai shall T:to of Yugos
lavia is beckoning other Balkan
nations to walk out from Russian
Domination.
In a speech gt Skoplje, capital
of Cugoslav Macedonia, Tito pre
dicted Tuesday that Bulgaria and
ALSO IN THIS STORY:
Dutch, Indonesians order cea
se fire;
C. S. chiefs confer With Bri
tish.
Albania would quit the Moscow
led Cominform. and he offered
Yugoslavia's help in such a revolt.
Tito has been a bitter foe of the
Communist International Informa
tion Bureau since June 1948. This
was his most defiant speech. It was j
the first time he has called on j
neighboring communist nations to'
join his revolt against the Kermiin. j
Tito said the Burlgarian people
ultimately would ignore the "slan
ere against Yugoslav's and extend
their fraternal banc} lo us and we
will help them remove watever in
dividuals have so far put obstacles
in the path of the creation and
preservation of brotherly relations.”
He said this statement also applied
to Albania.
There have been recent purges
among comunist leaders in Albania
and ulgaria. The men ousted were
charged with "Titoism"-which has
replaced "Trotskyism" a.s the mod
prn communist heresy. Yugoslavia
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Starling Thursday In
GPFIH DAILY HEWS
"HIGH GRADING"
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"High-graders" are crooked
employes wlio steal from
gold mines. Mike McTaig
suspected these goings-on
al the Dark Angel mine, and
when Mike tried to find out
how thieves carried »IT 20
tons of ore a day he found
danger and romance. Read
CLIPPED ANGEL
By Clive GrierSOn Cornish
would like to control all of Maced
onia. now split three ways between
Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
Indonesian Republicans and the
Dutch today issued cease-fire or
ders to become effective at mid
night next Wednesday. Thus a
conflict which has been waged since
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Kiwanis To
Paint Buildings
At Fair Ground
Members ,, of the Kiwams .
will arid the finishing and coloring
touches to the three fair buildings
they have erected at the Fair
Grounds this year.
Three buildings with 17,000 squ
are feet of floor space will receive
their respective coats of paint from
s paint club composed of members
of the Kiwanis Club. The Rev. L.
W. Blaekwelder. past president,
head of the paint committee.
Members of the Kiwanis Club
who can get Saturday or a part of
Saturday off will dor. clothes fit
for any painter, take their brushes
and proceed to add a little color
to the county fair g-ounds. Those
who can’t make it m Saturday of
this week take their turn at it on
Wednesday of next weelr.
A horse show ring will be erected
thus week for the mule races and
bicycle r^ces that, will be. held at
thp county fair.
Since a building is not complete
without a coat of paint, the Kiw
anis Club will undertake the job.
Next Year they are planning to
build just 9 s many more buildings
at the fair grounds ss were bui't
this year.
Byrd Retains
Helm In Va.
RICHMOND, Va. — (/Ft— Quiet
conservative John Stewart Battle,
a state senator with 20 years of
legislative experience, captured
Tuesday's four-way Democratic
mary election for governor and
proved again the potency of the
Virginia political organization head
ed by Senator Harry Byrd.
. The 59-year-old Charlottesville
lawyer won the party nomination
that means election in November
with 23,000 votes to spare on the
basis of near-complete returns from
the state’s 1.768 precincts.
He swept the field—capturing
seven of the state’s nine congress
ional districts. And in so doing he
heat back his nearest competitor,
Franc's Pickens Miller, the anti
organization candidate and former
Army colonel ,who posed the first
,serious threat to the organization’s
supremacy tn the last 25 years.
3, 1949.
Million Buck Hooch Ring
In Griffin While
State Win ked — Redwine
A million dollar bootleg liquor ring flourished in Griffin and
throughout North Georgia “apparently under state protection."
Revenue Commissioner Charlie Redwine charged in Atlanta to
day.
Redwine said an Atlanta wholesale firm, in only six months,
sold the $1,000,000 in liquor to dry counties "all over North
Georga. ’
It was a far he said.
His agents raided the firm last
Friday, Redwine said, and seized (
more than 1,000 sales slips giving ,
names, dates and amounts of il
legal sales to bootleggers, social
clubs and others.
Redwine made the evidence pub- ■
lie today even as he turned it over
to Fulton County (Atlanta) Solici
tor Paul Webb for legal action.
Courthouse officials said the case
would go to a grand jury.
The commissioner's charges cov
ered part of the regime of Former
Flynt i
Solicitor General J. J.
Jr., of the Griffin Circuit went
to Atlanta this afternoon to get \
from Solicitor General Paul
Webb of the Fulton Circuit a
list of those in Spalding who
purchased liquor for resale in
this dry county.
Revenue Commissioner Red
wine has turned the list of pur
chaiers in dry counties over
to the Fulton solicitor General
for grand jury action. Solicitor
General Flynt will present the
matter to the Spa'ding grand
jury at October term, he said.
Gov. M. E. Thompson and his re
venue commissioner, Downing Mus
grove. Thompson and Musgrove
quickly denied any know ledge of
the affair.
Redwdne said state agents have
told him they were "under instru
iCtions” t not to bother .. the ring.
And he quo(ed the operator of
the wholesale firm as testifying the
State Revenue Department appro
ved the dry county operations "be- !
cause they needed the revenue.”
PLANT NAMED I
Redwine names the wholesale pi
an t as the Richmond Wholesale
Liquors, Inc., under a license to R.
jw. Best of Augusta. State law per
wholesaler to sell only to a
licensed retailer. |
He showed a stack of sales slips
covering the period between June
14, 1948 and last Jan. 5. Red-win"
said he closed the firm on Jan. 5
and has been investigating it every
since.
Redwine became revenue commis
sioner when Gov. Herman Talmad
ge swept Thompson out of office
last Nev. 15. It took him six weeks
to get enough evidence to close the
wholesale firm. Redwine said.
j Musgrove replaced Glenn Phillips
las revenue commissioner under Th
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j Congress Plans Major Aid
Overhaul Of Arms
WASHINGTON — i/P)— The ad
ministration’s $1,450,000,000 arm -
for-Europe program today seemed
in for a major overhaul by Congress
A House Republican commented
"The bill will be so changed when
( we get through with it that even
its mother wouldn't recognize it."
The bill has no mother, but two
men said to have helped draft it
were called before the House For
eign Affairs Committee today for
testimony.
Committee sources said the pair
Army Maj. Gen, Lyman Lemnitzer
and Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner of the
State Department “know all the
answers." and the committee mem
bers indicated they still had plenty
of questions.
FIVE PERCENTERS — Law ma
kers investigating reports of the
use of influence in getting govern
ment contracts turned their atten
tion, to the manufacture of Army
uniforms.
A House Armed Services subcom
mittee called on Stanlup J. Cum-
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City Has Laws
For Protecting
Bike Riders
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DON'T ride bike on sidewalks
when there are pedestrians or
playing children. Dismounting
and walking your bicycle around
them means safety.
(EDITORS NOTE: This is
one of a series of articles on
the most flagrantly violated
traffic ordinances of the City of
Griffin. The series is taken fr
om the ordinances prepared by
the. Griffin Police Department
ajndf adopted by the Griffin
City Commission Jan. 27, 1918.)
BICYCLES
Sec. 85. Traffic laws apply to per
sons riding bicycles. Every person
riding a bicycle upon a road way
shall be granted all of the rights
and shall be subject to all of the
duties applicable to the driver of
a vehicle by the laws of this state
declaring rules of the road applies
ble to vehicles or by the traffic ord
inances of this city applicable.to the
driver of a vehicle, except as to
special regulations in this article
and except as to those provisions
of laws and ordinances which oy
their nature can have no applica
tion.
Sec. 86. Obediance to traffie-con
trol devices, (a) Any’person opera
ting a bicycle shall obey the in
structions of official traffic-con
trol signals, signs, and other con
trol devices applicable to vehicles
unless otherwise directed by a po
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Congress Roundup
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minRSi e * ec4ltive secr etary of th”
National Association of Uniform
Manu{acturers , Inc ., to testify be
hind closed doors. ,
Rcp Hrberl (D . Lal said he a.sk
e d Cumimngs to testify' after hear
; mR a t thal James v Hunt
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had aslced , or $25 .000 a.s his fee for
trying to get an army order rela
ting to uniforms rescinded The deal
reportedly fell through.
Hunt, a former Quartermaster
Corps colonel, has been accused rf
offering to use his influence in ob 7
, alnlIlg g 0ver nment contracts for
a fee of five percent.
FOREIGN AID APPROPRIAT
| IONS — With neither side giving
an Inch, senators returned to their
battle over $5,647,724,000 foreign aid
bill.
| j Administration lawmakers want
to see the money bill passed with
| out amendments — tacked to it oy
i the Appropriations Committee —
j calling lor such things as aid to
Issued Daily Except Sunday and entered as second class matter
at the postoffice at Griffin, Ga., under act of March 3, 1879
500 Cars Flunk
More than 3.000 cars had been I
safety checked by the Griffin Po
lice Department and the State Hi
ghway Patrol through 11 o'clock
this morning.
All the cars being checked weren't j
from Spalding County. They have j
been coming' in from Bartlesville, ‘
Zebulon, Hampton and other places *
to have tljeir cars voluntarily ch
ecked by one of the two law- enfor
cement bodies here during Jvcee
Safety Week.
Patrolman Woodrow Holcombe
estimated that about 500 of the
3.000 cars had been turned down.
Some of them have had defects
that were pointed out by the check- !
ing officers ' corrected and have
been back to change the stickers
from yellow to white.
There are over 5.600 registered
vehicles of every description in Sp
alding County^a/i^ their owners
are cooperating with the law officers
by volunteering their cars for insp
ection. .
The volunteer stations originally
were scheduled for only two days,
but as long as the cars, come for
checking the stations will remain
open.
HEAVY DAY
The Griffin Police Department
had a heavy day again Tuesdy. but
it slackened a little this morning.
The State Highway Patrol Station
reporter a good day Tuesday and
cars still were coming in today.
Drivers will get a chance to vol
unteer for aptitude tests on Thurs
day.
A unit from the Motdr Vehicle
Association of Georgia, mounted on
a truck will be stationed in front
of McLellans 10 cent store all day
Thursday.
The unit will be here only one
day.
The series of tests will test a
drivers reaction time, color vision,
distance judgement, field of vision
glare acuity and steadiness. Bill
Johnson of the Motor Vehicle As
sociation of Georgia will be in ch
arge of the tests that are being
sponsored by the Griffin Jaycees.
j NO FATALITIES
There have been no traffic fn'
alities in Griffin and Spalding Cn
unty during the first three days of
Safety Week. However there have
beeh several minor auto accidents.
j Army To bring band, the a platoon week to of a foot close sol- an
j diers and a color guard has been
!secured from the Army. They will
[lead the parade here on Friday af
ternoon when Safety Week comes
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Spain and purchase of American
surplus crops.
The dispute, now in Its second
round 'the bill was sent bark to
committee once for rewriting > w u
resumed after passage of a $7,800,
000.000 independent offices appropr
iaUon meaM,re
Economy minded senators delay
Pd »M> ro v *' r,f ,ha ' blU for , ' vp
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days while they sought ways to trim
it. Instead, the Senate added $27,
000,000 to Ihe totl.
a UNIFICATION The House
Tuesday completed cogressional ac
tion on a fiill to give Secretary of
Defense Johnson greater control
over the Army. Navy and Ait Force,
and sent the measure to the White
House.
Besides strengthening Johnson*
hand — as requested by the secre
; tary. President Truman and the
Hoover Commission—the bill sets
up a new armed forces accounting
j system Intended to save money, and
\ creates a permanent chairman for
. the joint chiefs of staff.
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Restaurants
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i The Spalding County
Department was in the midst of
{ crackdown nr. eating establish
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| Bill Hansel sanitary
said it probably will be
1 i."fore the > backdown is completed
He explained that it is
to make two thorough
of the 85 cafes and 1> tchool
rooms in this county.
The first inspector: is mad"
oolnt out errors to the
he said. Th>- second i> made
grade notices are posted and
establishment are graded
inv to conditions existing at
tiirre of the second Inspection.
| ctvfcs all r-> tblishmer.ts a
j *o'make pa ing grade- 1 , he
out. .
Hansel] and Parx McKibben
sanitarian, already have
I jo establishments
"We have found greatly
p '' nrti,lon ^
I ed the food hand'er'- school
, we «>k Most, of the places we
inspected arc complying with
j standards,” Hansetl oeclared.
; He said that all 11 school
| ronms will he inspected and
prior to the opening of school
i during the first week of school.
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Mr*. Esley O. Anderson, Sr.
(left), 68, society matron
of Charlotte, N. C., was shot
to death Monday in her
fashionable Myers Park
home by a mysterious gun
man. Above is a view of
the death scene. The circle
indicates the bedroom in
which her body was found.
The killer also attacked Mrs.
Anderson’s Negro butler in
his quarters and wounded
him seriously by slashing his
throat and beating him. (AP
Photos.)
State Crisis
Was Political,
St. John Says
The recent special session of the
Legislature was called as the result
of a political emergency rather
than an 'economic crisis,' " M. L.
St. John, political writer of the
Atlanta Constitution, told the Kiw
anis Club of Griffin today.
';" ! there can he no criticism
as to how the money that will be
raised in ex ra taxes Is spent. For
no one object, to the expanded state
services that will result," he added,
Pr< ure fr m the old people of
Georgia. • whose pensions had been
cut. was chiefly responsible for the
1 "political emerpeney.' St. John
: stated.
j In passing the increased tax pro
y-'m the T ecisla created "an
other emergency,’* he said. "That
in.' . v . m be <•. • eq only by a
complete revision of Georgia’s ant
iquated tax structure.”
GREATEST NEED
I S’ John sa'd one of the greatest
| needs in G irgfa was a Legislature
that would not be bound' by pol
'tical alignments but would be fn
; j dependent and vote on the merits
of issues,
|f ; "In the eecrnt extra session, rtep
j sr,intent head sent onto the floor'
| of both houses to 'bring pressure'
on the members o th< v •• ;M 'vo'a.
. right. ’
j But "pie ,;i" was not only pra
cured-in the extra. <■ fm
: lonR bp( . n ,.. h said, "Dur
jnR the adm ... • ration of Fill
Arnall. when he wot putting thr
j 0URh hfe prbgram, hr Irpqti'T.'ly
j summoned legi tutors to hit i office
'for 'conferences '
"The greatest .'pre 'ire' on th*
Legislature, came when the two
governor cqntrover v was up Lead
ers of both groups actually vent
so far as to offer bribes, to get p o
ple to ‘vote right,’ he continued.
St. John expressed disgust with
men who are "so bitterly aligned,
in pelitics Uiat they vote right dov*
the line." And lie said his disgii-t
was not restricted to."pro-adminis
tration men" but also to "anti
administration men" who were ol
jmded by their political bitterness.