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Jj T? GOOD VEND* \jr By Qtnmbjr Mdtoa Tuesday, Governor Sanders, In his State of the State address to the General Assembly, called for understanding and coopera tion by urban and rural com munities. Working together cit ies and rural communities can help each other and can build a better and more prosperous Ge orgia. Thursday, Griffin Mayor Lewis Goldstein, speaking to the Rot ary Club of Griffin, also called for cooperation between city and county and went Into details as to what the two governments, Griffin and Spalding County, should undertake as joint pro jects. His speech, reported in full in Thursday’s paper, as the lead story, for his ideas are well worth studying, includes among other suggestions building a city-county building to house both governments, a joint jail, a county courthouse, etc. The mayor is correct in say ing that the present courthouse, city hail and county jail are out moded, are expensive to keep up, and are too inadequate for a growing city and county. He suggests that the old buildings be sold and a modem building, in which both city and county activities would be operated, be built. Then he told the Rotarlans that he would favor a bond Issue for the project: and suggested that Spalding County be “land lord” of the building, with Grif fin renting quarters the city would need. He estimated that such rentals would In time pay off the bonds and their interest. Mayor Goldstein’s ideas are well worth studying: for Griffin and Spalding County will con tinue to grow, and as they grow, ♦he city and county governments must gemSfil keep pace « they are to be of service. - ' The new building, to replace at least three present county and city buildings, looks like a pretty good way to growing “start keep ing up” with the com munity. No one wants Griffin and Spal ding to stand still — for once a community starts this It’s not long before that city and county start to dry up. There were other things Ma yor Goldstein suggested that are well worth considering. If you have not thrown your Thursday paper away suggest you read that story once again. Many people have called Good Evening to tell him that they bad gotten letters from local men in Viet Nam thanking them for Christmas cards, and letters, and packages sent them by in dividuals and organizations here. Good Evening has gotten eeveral such “thank you” let ters; today he got one from a sergeant with the 1st Cavalry. Part of this letter Is well worth passing on to our readers. “It’s certainly nice to know that folks back home are inter ested in and concerned for you. There seemed to have been a trend among some to bum your draft card and forget the boys in Viet Nam. I don’t like being here, but if being here will help prevent this war from coming to America and preserve free dom for Americans, I’ll gladly Btay here for the duration.” Now that’s a statement from a young man. a very young man, who daily is exposed to the dangers of war, not a statement of some old timer, lika Good Evening, whose chances of be ing called back into the Army are nil. We’re glad that America has millions more young folk who, like this Griffin sergeant, are willing to play their part that “Americans remain free.” Country Parson iH i “It may take forever to win men’s minds by per* suasion—but that’s quick* er than you can do it by force.” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION * GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Jan. 15-16, 1966 Vol. 95 No. 12 % 1 “' 4~~ Jt ' I 4 5 ■F-i W i 1 m SB** 4 0 M A 4 P: ^ i I j I MARCH OF DIMES AIRLIFT (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo). If Robert Jackson (r) rides in an airplane here Sunday during the special March of Danes project, he’ll have to pay $3.42 for the trip. Weather permitting, the Griffin - Spalding Airport here is cooperating with the March of Dimes by offer* mg to ride people over the city for a penny for every pound they weigh. Mr. Jack* son weighs in at 342. He is shown here with Jackie Simpson, polio victim herself who is joining in boostmg the project. It will begin at 1 p. m. Sunday and con* tinue through the afternoon. * Army T akes Over In Nigeria LONDON (UPI) —The army seized power today in the African nation fit Nigeria and toppled prime minister Sir Abubakara Taf»wa Balewa in bloodless coup, iffcwas reported. Officials in Washington con firmed that junior grade Holiday Mail Set Record Here The Griffin post office handled nearly two million pieces of mail during the four-week Christmas rush Postmaster John Hammond reported today. The exact num ber of pieces of mail was 1,920, 000. During the same four weeks in 1964 the total was 1,730,000, an increase of 190,000. Postal re ceipts also showed a six percent gain. An interesting thing about the Christmas mail was the fact that fewer Christmas Cards were sent this year than in years before. But other mail and packages more than offset this decrease. The nearly two million pieces of mail handled during the four weeks does not tell the entire story for there are four other post offices in Spalding County, Sunny Side, Pomona, Experi ment and Orchard Hill. Candy Mossier Trial By CHARLES E. TAYLOR United Press International MIAMI (UPI) — Before she married a millionaire Candy Mossier did chores ran a Geor gia farm, won a five-year bat tle against paralytic polio, and ran a modeling school. As the wife of financial en trepeneur Jacques Mossier, she was his business associate as well as a social queen. She sat with him as a director of one of his five banks. She also found time to write a song, "Love Me.” In her own words, “the most awful moment of my whole life" came in the fifth hour of June 30, 1964, when she walked through her husband’s apart ment and found him dead on the dog’s mattress. What may be the worst of the ordeal Is still ahead for Candace Weatherby Johnson Mossier, blonde, vivacious and starting to show her wrinkles. On Monday she goes before officers in Nigeria’s military command swept Balewa from power and put him under house arrest in Lagos. A State Department spokesman said there were no reports of fighting in Lagos, but “some assassinations may have taken place in the provinces.” British Prime Minister Ha rold Wilson directed that he be immediately informed of all developments in the country, a member of the British Com monwealth which he left only three days ago. Tornado Alert In S. Georgia ATLANTA (UPI) — The At lanta Weather Bureau today is sued a tornado watch for por tions of southern Georgia, nor thern Florida and extreme southeast Alabama. The tornado watch was effec tive until 11 a.m. EST, the bu reau said. It said a few severe thunder storms with hail and damaging winds also were forecast. According to the Weather Bu reau, the tornado watch area included the section along and 50 miles either side of a line from 60 miles north of Panama City, Fla., to 30 miles north of Brunswick, Ga. Circuit Judge George E. Schulz to stand trial, accused as a murderess. Nephew Also Charged She will not be alone. Beside her will be Melvin Lane Pow ers, at 23 a man roughly half her age, with dyed black hair he likes to wear long and pocked skin. He Is big, dark and sullen, seemingly the tem peramental direct opposite of Candy. He is her nephew, the son of her sister. The state says it was Powers who bashed and stabbed the life out of 69-year-old Mossier, “because of his violent love of Candace and his passionate hate of Mossier, because Moss ier was interfering with his re lationhip with his aunt, Can dace.” Candy and Powers are equal ly charged in a grand jury in .dictment with first degree mur der, killing “by premediated design.” The accusation is that Candy helped plan it. Unconfirmed reports here said Nigerian Foreign Minister Jaja Wachuku also was placed under house arrest. In Paris, reliable reports from West Africa said the army had seized power in Lagos and arrested Balewa. The reports said the army attacked to “save the unity of the country and prevent a further deterioration of the political situation.” The reported coup was the third military takeover in Africa since the new year. The military seized power in the French-speaking Central Afri can Republic Jan. 1 and in Upper Volta Jan. 3. Freight Cars With Coal Are Derailed COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) — Three cars loaded with coal de railed just as a Central of Georgia freight was pulling out of town Friday when one car jumped the tracks. A power line was knocked down but there was little dam age and no injuries. MAJORTTY RULE W O L V E R HAMPTON, En gland (UPI) —The local council is dropping number 13 from street addresses because of complaints from superstitious residents. Both defendants have pleaded Innocent. Judge Schulz expects the trial to last six to eight weeks. In the attention being given It, the trial may rank with the Cleveland trial of Dr. Samuel Sheppard and the Los Angeles trials in 1959-61 of Carole Tre goff and Dr. Bernard Finch. In both the doctors’ wives were the victims, and in both there were convictions. Dog Only Witness Tie only known witness to the slaying of graying, good looking Jacques Mossier, be sides the killer, was his boxer dog, Rocky. Other tenants of the apart ment house on the suburban is land of Key Biscayen heard Rocky’s barking and a scream from the $170-a - month apart ment Mossier rented. They placed the time about 3 a.m. June 30. The woman who man aged the apartment reported seeing a shadowy figure come Bond Supporters To Keep Up Drive / w* First Baptist Eyes March 20 For Dedication The First Baptist Church hop es to begin using its new sanctu ary for worship the first Sunday in March. Tentative plans call for dedi cation services to be held Mar ch 20. The church was delayed about three months in moving into the new sanctuary by a fire last fall. The blaze damaged an ad ministrative section joining the new sanctuary with present edu cational buildings. 51 Killed In Plane Crash CARTAGENA, Colombia (UPI) —A Colombian airliner plunged into the shark-infested Caribbean Sea Friday night five minutes after taking off from this northwestern seaport, probably killing 51 of the 59 persons aboard. Launches from the naval base here criss-crossed the crash area for hours in a search for survivors directed by U.S. and Colombian planes, overcast skies and rough seas forced an overnight suspension of the search at 1 a.m. **>■ The four-engined, propeller driven DC4 sank almost imme diately after crashing into the sea, and many of its passen gers are believed to have been trapped in the cabin. The first survivors to tell their stories spoke of suddenly finding themselves in the water, indicating that they were thrown clear when the plane crashed. Rainfall Over Two Inches Here More than two inches of rain fell in the Griffin area during the last 24-hour reporting per iod, according to Horace West brooks, weather observer. Light rain fell most of the day Friday and continued through out the night and early today. The forecast for the area said the rain would end late t h is af ternoon. Sunday’s outlook is for cloudy and warmer weather. Weather: FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Rain ending late this afternoon. Sunday partly cloudy and warmer. LOCAL WEATHER — High today 48, low today 37, high Fri day 48, low Friday 41, rainfall over two inches; sunrise Sunday 7:39, sunset Sunday 5:55. from the direction of the Moss ier rooms and drive away quickly in a light colored car. It was not until after 4 a.m., however, that the crime was discovered, by Candace, her daughter Rita by a previous marriage, and three of her fos ter children. They said at one of several pre-trial hearings they had gone out about 1:30 a.m. to mail bills for which they had written checks assem bly-line fashion earlier in the evening — while Mossier teased, “You’ll break me.” Candace developed a mi graine headache and they stopped at a hospital ip Miami to get medicine. It was not un usual, Rita testified, for the, children to be up so late. June wa s to be a month of family vacationing before the kids were sent off to school in Swit zerland. .Body Discovered Rita was the first to find Mossier. His body was face- :ix> . P I §; SB mm 4. ■ m r tlte gf 1>I®I y V?** f fit J wm . p III :4 _ ■i : ft- ' | f | US m ■ III!! f ■ V : X Its! i MMP9 1 Ill m (Jim & Joe’s Photo). Rita Waller is shown being crowned “Homecoming Queen” of Pike County High by Peggy McCullough, last year’s queen. The ceremony was held in the Pike County High gym Friday night. Bedgood Opposed To School Measures ATLANTA (UPI)—Rep. Ran dall Bedgood is trying to per suade Gov. Carl Sanders to abandon two new measures of his education improvement pro gram because they would prove too costly to taxpayers. Bedgood, considered a possi ble candidate for lieutenant governor, said that because of a recent Supreme Court de cision he does not believe the measures are needed. They would bring far more revenue than first intended. Both of the Sanders’ pro posals are for constitutional amendments, one to allow rais ing the school tax rate above down on the rubber pallet where the dog usually slept, wrapped in an orange blanket. There were 39 stab wounds, and the skull was smashed. The blanket had been pierced only three times, leading police to believe the killer wrapped up the victim and then plunged his weapon into the body again. No weapon has been found. This is what the state says it has against Candy and Powers: —Fingerprints, a palm print and eyewitnesses to put Powers in Miami at the time of the kill ing, in the Mossier apartment the afternoon before the mil lionaire was killed, in a bar at the end of the causeway to Key Biscayne that night asking for an empty, king-size soft drink bottle, and then on a plane back to Houston when he had come a few hours after the slaying. 20 mills if need be to meet legal school support obligations, and the other to raise the maxi mum bonding capacity from 7 per cent of the total tax digest to 10 per cent. These measures were pro posed for the sake of counties where assessment valuations of taxable property were drastical ly lower than actual market value. Since the measures were first planned, .the Supreme Court has ruled in effect that all taxable property must be assessed on a uniform rate across the state, eliminating wide discrepancies —from 5 per cent to 40 or more per cent of actual market value. Uniform Rate The state revenue department has chosen 40 per cent as the uniform rate and will base this not on the valuation made by local assessors but on estimates made by the state auditor. Bedgood said the application of Sanders’ two amendments under these circumstances would be drastic. He has cited many examples to show why, Including the following: In Fulton, with a local assess ment valuation in 1964 of $27.2 million, the auditor’s valuation for 1966 will be $150 million. These apply to the county school system, not the property of the entire county. A tax boost to 20 mills in 1964 would boost the total taxes collected for schools by $544,029. But under the court ruling the boost, If made this year, would be $3 million. In Chattahoochee County, with the lowest total school property tax digest for schools in the state, the 1964 total was $739,- 107. A 20 mill levy would have boosted the tax to $13,782. Two Troopers Injured In Capitol Scuffle By AL KUETTNER United Press International ATLANTA (UPI) — Support ers of Negro Rep.-elect Julian Bond, barred from the Georgia legislature because of his veiws on Viet Nam, were scheduled to hold another demonstration today at the state Capitol. About 100 placard - waving demonstrators tried to push their way past state troopers following an orderly two-hour demonstration Friday. Officers stopped them from entering the Capitol building but two troop ers were injured slightly in the scuffle. Another group of about 150 demonstrators managed to get into city hall singing “You can do it Julian Bond, you can do it.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the mass march to the Capitol and told the crowd there was no Justification for the legislature’s action denying Bond his seat in the House. One of King’s aides, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who also spoke, threatened to “fill the House chamber” with demonstrators if Bond is not seated. Troopers Hurt Col. Lowell Conner, head of the State Patrol, said a ser geant was slammed in the face by a woman’s purse and anoth er trooper was Injured in the hand in a brief skirmish that took place as marchers tried to force their way into the Capi tol. No arrests were made. Conner said his troopers would be fully prepared “from now on.” He said troopers would be armed with billy clubs and would wear hard hats at future demonstrations. The head of the State Patrol also said his headquarters re ceived a bomb threat Friday. He said the caller told his of fice the bomb was in the Capi tol building but be did not be lieve it because the building was under heavy guard all day. Court Action Meanwhile, on the legal front, U. S. District Judge Lewis R. Morgan ordered the defendants in the Bond case to show why the Negro should not be seat ed in the Georgia House. Lewis ordered the five legislators who filed motions calling for Bond’s ouster from the House to ap pear in court “at an early date” before a three-judge pan el. It was an unusual ruling since federal courts, with the excep tion of reapportionmem, do not interfere with the operation of state legislatures. Morgan also ordered the plaintiffs—Bond, Dr. King and Mr. and Mrs Arel Keyes—to appear. Mrs. Keyes and King are registered voters in Bond’s 136th district and joined in the court action. Griffin Man Suffers Wound Coon Hunting Lee Roy Goodman, 24-year-old Griffin man, suffered a pistol wound in a coon hunting accident Friday night near Jackson in Butts County. He underwent surgery at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital early this morning. Mr. Good man first was taken to the Sylvan Grove Hospital at Jackson then transferred to the Griffin-Spald ing Hospital. His condition was listed as fair this morning. His mother said that he, Robert Scott and Chandellar Pitts, also of Griffin were hunting together when the accident occurred Mr. Goodman is employed by a refrigerating firm In Atlanta.