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Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, January 13, 1966 Yol. 95 No. 10
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By Quimby Melton
“Don’t you know there are some
sincere conscientious objectors,
who are unwilling to go to w’ar?”
asked a friend in commenting
on our Good Evening of Wednes
day in which we said draft card
burners and demonstrators ag
ainst Uncle Sam were not fit to
wear the uniform of the armed
services of the United States.
Certainly we know there are
conscientious objectors who are
sincere in their belief. But even
those have found, ways in many
instances, to contribute to the
nation’s victories by serving as
hospital aides, as ambulance
drivers, as Red Cross, Salvation
Army and YMCA workers, as
civilian clerks etc And they
have in no wise “given aid to
the enemy.”
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Here is a story, a true story,
about two men who were sin
cere conscientious objectors and
the roles they played in World
War One. Good Evening had the
good fortune to know them both.
First, there was no better
known soldier in the AEF than
, >;ine Sgt. Alvin York. He was pro
claimed the No. 1 hero of World
War One; and he single hand
edly killed more Germans and
took more German prisoners
than any other Man. He was re
warded by being awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor
and enough lesser decorations
to cover his big broad chest.
Yet, when the war broke out
Alvin York was a conscientious
objector. He so reported when
, he registered for the draft. He
was questioned at length and
then, maybe because the county
in which he registered was so
sparcely populated that there
was a shortage of men eligible
to be drafted, he was Inducted
into the service and sent to
Camp Gordon, then near Atlan
ta, as a recruit. Finally he went
overseas with the 328th infantry
after earning his sergeant’s stri
' pes for his proficiency as a
sharp shooter.
One day Good Evening, then a
young officer in the 82nd Divis
ion, had an occasion to introduce
Sgt. York when he came to our
battalion in the 325th Lnf. to talk
with our soldiers. The war was
over and Sgt. York was in great
demand at gatherings of service
men. Before I introduced him I
talked with him a few minutes
to “get background” for the in
troduction. I had heard that he
came into the Army a “con
scientious objector” and asked
him about this.
“Yes”, he said “I was a con
scientious objector and did not
like it when they refused to ex
empt me. I reported to C a m p
Gordon quite “peaved”, but de
. termined to do my best in train
ing. When we went to the rifle
r ange I led my outfit in qualify
ing; and when I saw what poor
shots some of the men In my
squad were, I realized that the
time might come when I could
save their lives by my marks
manship. Then we went into the
Argonne and I saw many Ameri
can boys killed, some killed by
snipers who hid in tree tops and
even in church steeples. I knew
the enemy would stop with noth
■ lng in their desire to wipe Am
erica off the map; the America
that stood for everything that
was descent and sacred. It was
then I became determined to
do my best to help save my
country.”
That’s the story of one con
scientious objector.
Another: When war was de
, dared on April 7, 1917, many of
the men in the editorial depart
( ment of The Atlanta Constitu
tion, Good Evening being one of
them, immediately went and en
listed, were given 30 days to
wind up their business and re
port for service. But there was
one young man, a reporter, who
did not rush out to enlist. He
simply said, “I cannot kill my
fellow man.”
Noticed several nights this re
porter, when we would catch up
on work for a little while, would
go into the file room and spend
Bometlme. One night It happen
ed we had to go into this room
to get a clipping and we noticed
him In one comer, down on his
knees. We backed out without
disturbing him.
A little later he came into the
news room. His face was wrea
thed in smiles and he said “I’m
ready to enlist now, I’ve gotten
permission from my comman
der-in-chief.”
He enlisted, went overseas and
fought in some of the bitterest
tattles; and no man, not Alvin
... 1 York, was a more loyal soldier
than he.
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Fire Chases Solons
From Atlanta Hotel
By ANTHONY HEFFERNAN
United Press International .
ATLANTA (UPI)—A fire in a
linen closet of the downtown
Georgia Hotel before dawn to
day sent an estimated 230 to
240 guests, including state legi
slators, scurrying from their
rooms, some dressed in their
nightclothes.
Some of the guests ran out
into 37-degree street tempera
ture but many remained in the
hotel lobby while firemen lo
cated and extinguished the
blaze.
There were no injuries and
the fire was extinguished with
in 15 minutes from the time the
hotel sounded the alarm at 5:35
a. m.
The alert came when thick
black smoke boiled up from the
3-Day
Cease Fire
For Viet
By MICHAEL T. MALLOY
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. forces
in Viet Nam will join South
Viet Nam government troops in
observing a three-day cease
fire during Tet, the Chinese
Lunar New Year which begins
Jan. 19, a U.S. Embassy
spokesman announced today.
The Viet Cong previously said
in a radio broadcast that
Communist troops planned a
four-day truce during the New
Year holiday.
The American spokesman
said the 190,000 American
soldiers in South Viet Nam
“will certainly go along with
the Vietnamese.”
The government-run news
agency, Viet Nam Press,
earlier in the day quoted armed
forces chief of staff Lt. Gen.
Cao Van Vien as saying South
Vietnamese forces would be
ordered to hold their fire
during most of the holiday
period—three days at least.
Habitual Truce
A Lunar New Year truce has
occurred for the past several
years. All have been informal.
Sporadic action and revised
casualty figures meanwhile
added 31 Viet Cong dead to the
total slain by 8,000 American
and ustralian tAroops involved
In “Operation Crim” 25 to 30
miles northwest of Saigon.
During the five days of the
operation in the Ho Bo Woods,
the allied task force has killed
138 Viet Cong, captured 80 and
detained 796 suspects.
The pause in the air war
against Communist North Viet
Nam entered its fourth week
tonight with no signs of
resumption. It came as Pres
ident Johnson pledged in his
State of the Union message
that U.S. forces would remain
in Viet Nam “until aggression
has stopped.”
Terror Attack Fails
At the U.S. air base in Da
Nang Wednesday night, two
terrorists threw a grenade r.t
an merican military billet but
it exploded harlmessly against
a wall. The bomb hurlers raced
away on a motorbike.
guard discovered a bomb
planted octside an merican
motor pool near Saigon’s Tan
Sn Nhut Airport, but It was
quickly disarmed. In the Saigon
suburb of Gia Dinh, three
civilians were wounded when a
grenade exploded outside a
Vietnamese dwelling.
A joint U.S. Marine-South
Vietnamese operation called
“Mallard” entered its third day
with only light contact reported
with Communist troops. Only
one Viet Cong has been killed
in the sweep 16 miles southwest
of the Da Nang air base.
Dr. Brandstadt.
School News.
Greenhouse.
Social Security.
Tax Resolution. Page 13.
State Briefs. Page 14.
Legislature.
New Schools.
Guarding Heart.
Comics.
Want Ads.
Mature Parent.
Hunt-Fish Fees. Page 20.
linen closet in the basement
through an elevator shaft and
filled the upper floors of the 15
story hotel.
About 60 guests are members
of the Georgia General Assem
bly, now in its first week of the
1966 session.
One guest, Rep. James H.
(Solppy) Floyd of Trion, said
the smoke was so thick in his
room that he opened a window
and called for help. Floyd re
cently suffered a heart attack.
He was rescued by State Sen.
Albert Moore, of Cedartown,
one of a number of persons aid
ing bellhops and the hotel’s
telephone operator in sounding
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TOWN MEETING TONIGHT
These Griffin High students backing the Affirmation: Viet Nam project look
over a bulletin board at school telling about a “town meeting” here tonight. It
will be held in the school auditorium at 7:30. The project will be explained and
a question and answer session on U. S. Viet Nam policy will follow. Shown are
(1-r) David Bolton, Elizabeth Thomas, Marjie Bowen and John Cecil.
Easy Sailing Seen
For Budget Bill
By ED ROGERS
ATLANTA (UPI)—The House
and Senate marked time today
while House Appropriations
Committee members debated
the relative merits of Thomas
ville and Bainbridge as sites
for mental health centers.
This debate and the continu
ing threat of demonstrations
against the House for having
refused to seat Negro Rep.
elect Julian Bond were the only
big diversions during routine
House and Senate sessions.
Re. B. D. (Brack) Blalock,
Appropriations Committee
chairman from Coweta County,
predicted that after debate end
ed the House would pass Gov.
Carl Sanders’ $18.5 million sup
plemental budget bill with little
change.
“I don’t think there are going
to be any major changes on
anything the governor has re
quested,” Blalock said. “I thipk
it will be substantially im
proved. That’s my opinion.”
But committee fighting over
the mental health centers and
earlier squabbles over outlays
for public school driver train
ing and education planning had
delayed committee work longer
Griffin Mayor Suggests
Building
the alarm. Moore broke into
Floyd’s room and led him to
safety.
Floyd complained of suffering
chest pains but took two pills
and said later he felt all right.
He joked with Rep. George
Bagby of Paulding County about
the fire.
“There’s a message in your
box,” Floyd told Bagby. “It
says there is a fire in the
hotel.”
Most of the guests had no
trouble getting to the lobby but
Asst. Fire Chief Steve Camp
bell said one guest, a legless
man, had to be brought down
in a wheelchair.
than expected.
House speaker George T.
Smith said he still hoped the
budget bill, the first order of
business for administration
leaders, would be passed In the
House and sent to the Senate
this week.
But lt was unlikely that this
would require a Friday session,
which is usually omitted for the
first week of a legislative ses
sion to give lawmakers time to
check with their voters on the
main issues.
If the assembly is in recess
by Friday, a threatened dem
onstration by Dr. Martin Lu
ther King Jr. head of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, protesting the oust
ing of Bond, will be held before
a closed House
The Senate held a brief ses
sion and adopted a resolution
by Sen. Frank Miller of De
catur calling on Congress to re
fund 10 per cent of the federal
Income tax to the Individual
states.
Miller said Georgians pay ap
priximately $1 billion annually
in federal income taxes and the
(Continued on page Five)
Extended
Auto Test
ALBANY, Ga. (UPD—Police
are looking for a man and a
woman who took a used car out
for a test ride Wednesday aft
ernoon. The car dealer says
they are still testing.
The Doughert County sher
iff’s office says the couple left
town with the car, a 1964 green
and white Chevrolet Impalla,
and hasn’t been heard from
since.
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LICENSED DUET
CHICHESTER, Eng. (UPI)
—Identical twins Susan and
Sarah Ballantyne, 19, who like
to do things in unison, passed
their driver’s test Wednesday
at the same time.
Country Parson
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“Quite a few folks seen*
to prefer going to church
only during the mourn
ing.”
POTENT DRUG
MARTINEZ, Calif. (UPI) —
Mrs. Mary J. Hosteny of
nearby Lafayette filed suit
Tuesday claiming that birth
control injections given her
purebred female Springer spa
niel rendered the animal
permanently sterile.
The suit, in Contra Costa
Superior Court, asks $8,800 tn
damages from the Upjohn
Pharmaceutical Co., two
narians and a drug distributor,
On State Of
City To Rotary
Mayor Louis Goldstein today
advocated consolidation of many
city and county services in his
"state of the city” report to the
Griffin Rotary Club.
It was the first such report he
has given since becoming chair
man of the City Commission and
mayor last month.
Mayor Goldstein said he would
support a bond issue that would
provide a new city-county ad
ministration building that would
include a jail for joint use, a fire
station, and separate city and
county offices to satisfy the
needs of the public.
“I would propose this building
be built with a bond issue and
maintained by the county with
the city leasing that portion of
the building it occupied. In all
probability, the rental by the
city would pay off the bonds
over a period of years,” Mayor
Goldstein said.
He continued:
“One of the greatest things
that could happen to our com
munity would be to tear down
the cotirt house, city hall and
county jail and sell the proper
ty. The court house is old and
dijapidated, crol, expensive hard to maintain, to heat and and
just about as out of style as long
swim suits.
“The county jail Is in the same
shape; the city hall is no differ
ent and all extreme!* inadequ
ate,” the mayor said.
He made it clear that he was
not advocating a merger of city
and county governments.
“I sincerely feel there is a de
finite need for both (types of
government) in Griffin and Spal
ding County. However, I do feel
that combining certain areas of
responsibility would benefit the
people of the city and county,”
he said.
This already has been done to
a certain extent when the school
systems were consolidated many
years ago, Mr. Goldstein said. .
It has been done more recent
ly with county water when the
county installed water mains
and entered into a contract with
the city for the purchase of wa
ter, maintenance of lines and the
administration, Mayor Goldstein
noted.
The library, airport, jails for
females and juveniles are among
the services already shared by
the city and county, he continu
ed.
Mayor Goldstein said that con
solidation of the tax offices here
would eliminate the duplication
of this service.
"I feel that garbage collection,
dog and pet problems, patrolled
police protection, streets with
asphalt and curbs, plumbing and
electrical regulations should be
provided in areas just outside
the city limits, Mayor Goldstein
said.
He said that the county go
vernment should not be called
on to underwrite these costs. The
city, with a minimum additional
investment, could provide the
same identical service at less
cost to the individual tax payer,
Mayor Goldstein said.
He predicted that by 1970, ab
out 90 percent of the people liv
ing in the community would be
in the city limits or in areas im
mediately adjacent to it.
He said this was in line with
the projection for the state.
Mayor Goldstein called for the
continued harmony between the
city and county governments in
working to build the future of
the Griffin - Spalding commu
nity.
He praised the cooperation of
County Commissioner David
Elder, Jack Moss and Z. L. Wil
son in working with the city in
many projects.
Mayor Goldstein noted that se
ven new off-street parking lots
had been added to the downtown
area during the past 12 mon
ths. This added 483 new park
ing spaces and brought the total
to 700, he said.
He reviewed the proposed pav
ing projects and noted that work
was progressing on completion
j of the water and sewer expan
sion program.
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Subways, Buses
Roll In New York
By JACK WALSH
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI) —Sub
ways and buses rolled today for
the first time in 12 days.
A strike by 36,000 transit
workers ended at 6:24 a.m.,
EST, when chief Transport
Workers Union negotiator Dou
glass MacMahon announced that
union leaders had accepted the
recommendations of Mayor
John V. Lindsay’s mediation
panel for a new two-year
contract providing a 15 per cent
wage increase.
The strike was estimated to
have caused a loss of $1.2
billion in business in the
nation’s largest city.
MacMahon said it was $70
million settlment, but the city
Transit Authority said $60
million would be more accur
ate. Observers said an increase
in the 15-cent subway and bus
fare was inevitable and predict
ed a 20 or 25 cent fare, which
would be more in line with
fares in other large American
cities.
All the principles in the
bitterly fought dispute gathered
at City Hall two hours after the
settlement was announced to
receive commendations from
Lindsay for agreeing to a
contract that was “best for the
workers, best for the city, and
best for the country.”
‘Fair Play’
Resolution
Is Approved
ATLANTA — A resolution call
ing for space to be provided for
Republicans in the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly was passed by
the Legislative Service Commit
tee Wednesday afternoon.
The resolution was introduc
ed by Rep. Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Spalding County Democrat.
Rep. Melton said he felt it only
fair that members of the Repub
lican Party be provided space to
handle their affairs.
Republicans now have 23 Hou
se members and nine in the Sen
ate.
LONG DELAY
LONDON (UPI) —Former
Shakespearean actor Herbert
Alfred Ellis, who hasn’t seen
his wife since they parted
presumed death. “Now I have
met someone I want to
marry,” the 63-year-old watch
repairman said. “I shall
propose formally in July if
Elsie does not turn up.”
Suspect Jailed
In Execution
Of Anne Frank
MUNICH, Germany (UPI) —
Police today arrested the Nazi
general accused of sending
Anne Frank to the gas
chamber.
Criminal police said they
arrested ex-Maj. Gen. Wilhelm
Harster and two aides, one of
them a woman, on suspicion of
complicity in mass murder in
wartime Holland.
Prosecutors said Harster
bossed the Nazi security police
—not gestapo—who rounded up
the author of “The Diary of
Anne Frank” and tens of
thousands of other Dutch Jews
and sent them to the Auschwitz
death camp.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy Friday.
Occasional rain ending tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 52, minimum today
36, maximum Wednesday 53,
minimum Wednesday 32. Sunrise
7:30 a.m., sunset 5:53 p.m.
Bond, Lewis
May Face
Investigation
ATLANTA (UPI)—A federal
prsecutor has asked the Justice
Department whether he should
investigate for possible viola
tions of the Sedition Act state
ments about U. S. involvement
in Viet Nam that cost Julian
Bond his seat in the Georgia
legislature.
Specifically, U. S. Atty. Char
les L. Goodson asked about an
investigation of Negro civil
rights leader John Lewis.
But Goodson said an inquiry
was also being made into pos
sible prosecution of Bond, young
Negro elected to the House in
Atlanta.
Lewis, chairman of the Stu
dent Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, last week critized
the U. S. Viet Nam war effort
as “aggression” and recom
mended evasion of the draft.
Bond, SNCC information direc
tor, endorsed the statement and
added he had no intention of
burning his own draft card.
The statements so incensed
the Georgia General Assembly
that the House voted not to al
low Bond to take his seat.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
head of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said his
group would lead a demonstra
tion at the Capitol Friday as
“an expression of indignation.”
King said the barring of Bond
was a “grave injustice” that
had "obvious racial overtones.”
“The right to dissent, like the
right to worship, is indelibly
etched into the framework of
this nation’s democratic govern
ment.”
Goodson indicated a charge of
sedition against Lewis might be
supported by Ttile 50, Section
462-A, of the U. S. Code which
forbids counseling a refusal to
serve in the armed forces.
He apparently referred to a
portion of Lewis’ Jan. 6 state
ment which said, “We are in
sympathy with, and support, the
men in this country who are
unwilling to respond to a mili
tary draft which would compel
them to contribute their lives to
United States aggression in Viet
Nam in the name of the ‘free
dom’ we find so false in this
country.”
Civil rights leaders reportedly
ran into difficulty Wednesday
in shipping up enough enthusi
asm to stage a protest parade.