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» I GRIFFIN 1 DAILY NEWS Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, January 13, 1966 Yol. 95 No. 10 T? GOOD f ^ Hi VENDS lj 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.” —+ — 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. k INSIDE TODAY Pages 2, 3. Page 4. Page 5. Club. Page 5. Page 5. News. Page 5. Pages 6, 7. Quiz. Page 8. Side. Page 8. of Union. Page 10. Stolen. Page 10. Rocket. Page 11. 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 .................................. wmmmm ,..... —..... Y — 3 s . Isi * m » si « ******* mm I ' * A r $ m - ..... * s: - j L m stiitf 1 mmmim > - USUI :: ^ ■ MM * ; t ; ' k liiiiiiiiiiiiiSiiii 1 - . as V- j ■X r \\ \ f\ jx£:j: F V $■■■ m r ■Zi V.f ~A r i..............i (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo.) 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. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 r i u n* “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. ";S * I k %«».* » FT" :■ •5-1 >■ ' j ,.;v V. V i m I ,N ♦ •w Mayor Goldstein 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.