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By Qnlmby Melton
Good Evening likes nothing
better than to congratulate Grif
fin folk on honors won. And
Griffinitps have won local, state
and national honors.
So today we tip our hat and
congratulate Layman Hattaway,
chosen young educator of the
year, and Sam Bunn, chosen
, outstanding young man of the
year, by the Griffin Jaycees.
We also tip our hat to E n n i s
Parker, president of Pomona
Products Company, who Mon
day will become president of the
National Canners Association.
Parker is the second Griffin man
to be national president of this
organization. The first was the
late Walter Graefe. Both Grae
fe and Parker were presidents
of the Georgia Canners Associa
tion before being elected to na
tional office. Incidentally it’s
Grady Rainey of Pomona, who
is currently state president of
the canners. (So many Pomona
officials have served as presi
dent of the state organization
that we won't mention them,
for fear we might leave some
one out.)
\ And while we’re tipping our
hat.
Like Will Rogers — “I see in
the papers. ...”
Griffin’s Kiwanis Club has won
three first and two second place
plaques in state competition.
The awards were made at the
mid-winter conference of Kiwan
is Clubs held at Rock Eagle.
During the past year, when
'jack Smith was president, the
local club’s program in Educa
tion, Scouting, and Boys and
Girls activities were judged the
best in the state; and Public and
Business affairs and inter-club
programs took second honors.
Heads of the Kiwanis pro
grams that won state honors
were: Tom Boggess, Henry Smi
th. Ralph Gatling, George Dixon
and Roy Hill. Congratulations
■ to them and their committee
members.
For many years the Griffin
Kiwanis Club has set the pace
for other Kiwanians, not only in
Georgia but throughout Kiwanis
dom.
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•* Monday Good Evening told of
a couple living in California,
who visited Griffin last summer
and “Liked what they saw” and
were seriously considering mov
ing to Griffin to make their
home.
Last night a friend of long
standing, W. T. Atkinson, called
Good Evening and said his son
W. T. (Billy) Atkinson, Jr., and
his wife, who make their home
in California, were visiting him
and after reading Good Even
ing his son told him, “That’s no
thing. I’ll be retired in a short
time and I’m moving back to
Griffin as quickly as I can.”
The younger Atkinson was
born and bred “in the briar pat
ch” and as a member of Uncle
Sam’s Navy has traveled round
the world. And he still likes Grif
fin best. Today he is in charge
of Navy recruiting in a Cali
fornia city and it won’t be long
i before he retires. His wife, a
Texas girl, who has visited Grif
fin many times, also likes Grif
fin and agrees with Bill that
Griffin will make the ideal place
to live.
Good Evening was especially
interested in this former Griffin
ite and his desire to return to
Griffin and make his home —for
Billy Atkinson at one time,
many years ago, was a newsboy
on the Griffin Daily News.
Welcome home Billy, when
you retire after long and faith
ful service to Uncle Sam.
Country Parson
“If you want to help a
man improve, don’t start
by trying to show him you
•re better than he is.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo).
Bunn (top) and Hattaway honored by Jaycees here.
Hattaway,
Bunn Honored
Layman Hattaway, principal
oi Third Ward Elementary Sc
hool, was named the Outstand
ing Young Man in Education for
1965. Sam Bunn, Griffin busi
nessman and Jaycee leader, was
awarded the Distinguished Ser
vice Award which made him the
“Outstanding Young Man” of
1965.
The awards were presented by
the Griffin Jaycees Monday at
their annual “bosses night” pro
gram at the Moose Lodge.
Hattaway and Bunn were se
lected from nominations made
by the Griffin community. The
Jaycees, sponsor of the awards,
had invited nominations from
the public.
Barron dimming, Griffin at
torney, served as chairman of
the committee which selected
the education award. Carlton
Imes, air traffic control man,
served as chairman of the Dis
tinguished Service Award Com
mittee.
dimming introduced George
Patrick, Jr., superintendent of
the Griffin-Spalding School Sys
tem, who announced the award
to Hattaway. Mr. Patrick trac
ed the career of Hattaway here
and reviewed many of his civic
and community service accom
plishments.
Imes told of the civic and ser
vice accomplishments of Bunn
on which the award to him was
based.
Reviewing Mr. Hattaway’s
career, Mr. Patrick noted he
’
began his career in education
in Griffin in 1954 after teaching
a few months in Lumpkin Coun
ty High at Dahlonega. Mr. Hat
taway first was associated with
the system here at Spalding Ju
nior High. He was named prin
cipal of Third Ward in 1960.
Mr. Hattaway received his
BS degree at North Georgia Col
lege and his MS degree from
Mercer University in 1963.
Mr. Hattaway is one of two
teachers in the system who
was picked as a STAR teacher
from the elementary level. The
others have come from high sc
hool faculties.
He is married to the former
Nancy Schumacher and they are
the parents of two children. They
make their home at 1111 Russell
drive.
Mr. Hattaway and his family
are active members of the First
Methodist Church.
Mr. Bunn graduated from
Mary Persons High at Forsyth
and attended Georgia Military
College and Emory University.
He graduated from Emory in
1951.
He was commissioned an en-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, January 18, 1966
sign in the U. S. Navy while ser
ving a tour of duty with that
branch of the Armed Forces.
Mr. Bunn is active in the Elks
Lodge, Moose Lodge, the Ameri
can Legion, and Kiwanis Club.
He is an active member of the
First Methodist Church.
He has served as national pre
sident of the American Institute
of Laundering and secretary of
the Georgia Laundering and
Cleaning organization.
Mr. Bunn has held many offic
es in the local, state and nation
al Jaycee organization. He is
past president of the Griffin club
and was national director in 1964-
65.
He served senator to the Jay
cee Interational organization in
1964.
Mr. Bunn and his wife, Julia,
are the parents of four children.
Mr. Bunn is president and
manager of Griffin Laundry and
Dry Cleaning Co.
‘Affirmation’
House, Senate
Endorsed
ATLANTA (UPI>—The House
and Senate in joint session to
day passed a resolution endors
ing the “Affirmation Viet Nam”
movement by Georgia college
students.
Such resolutions are usually
passed separately in each
chamber but sponsors said they
thought this important enough
to pass in joint session.
The resolution endorsed U. S.
committment in Viet Nam and
urged “all citizens of Ga.” to at
tend a Feb. 12 “Affirmation
Viet Nam” rally in Atlanta
Stadium. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, a Georgia native,
will be principal speaker.
The resolution, sponsored by
several senators and represen
tatives, declared U. S. interven
tion in Viet Nam “pursuant to
lawful authority” but added
“world opinion has been un
fortunately affected by the vo
ciferous protests of a small
minority of our fellow citizens.”
“The nations of the world
must surely wonder at the
strength of conviction of the
vast majority who support the
national policy,” the resolution
said.
“Affirmation Viet Nam” was
started by a group of Emory
University students to demon
strate support among Georgia
college students for U. S. for
eign policy in Southeast Asia.
Legal Snarl
Slows Up
Candace’s Trial
MIAMI (UPI) —A defense
motion challenging Florida’s
jury system and seeking to
throw out more than 250
prospective jurors for the
murder trial of accused lovers
Candace Mossier and Melvin
Lane Powers was denied today.
Circuit Court Judge George
E. Schultz turned down the
motion without comment at the
start of the second day of the
trial. His action leaves the way
open for the battery of defense
attorneys for blonde Candy and
her nephew, Mel, to appeal in
both state and federal courts.
Still before Schulz was a
defense motion renewing a plea
for separate trials for the two
on charges of first degree
murder in the June, 1964,
slaying of Candy’s millionaire
husband, Jacques Mossier.
The judge heard nearly 90
minutes of argument at the end
of Monday’s session on the
motion challenging the constitu
tionality of a Florida law that
allows only women who volun
teer to serve on juries.
Trial of the widow and the
son of one of her sisters for
first degree murder bogged
down almost immediately in
selecting a jury from over 250
prospects who jammed the
sixth floor courtroom of the
Dade County courthouse. By
the end of the day, nine of 16
men questioned by State
Attorney Richard Gerstein
were dismissed because they
objected to capital punishment.
The two are charged with the
murder “by premediated de
si g n” of multi- millionaire
Jacques Mossier, who was 69
when he was stabbed 39 times
and smashed in the head until
his skull was crushed June 30,
1964.
Powers, says the prosecution,
killed Mossier because he stood
in the way of a "violent love of
Candace.” It was Candy and
four of her children who found
his body.
During her first day in court,
blue-eyed Candace shivered in
the air conditioning under her
white silk coat, tried to tell
newsmen she is younger than
they say, was embraced in a
courthouse hall by a cellmate
from her fortnight in the county
jail last summer, and was pho
tographed in a semi-circle of
patiently waiting newsmen as
she stepped out of a bathroom
in the Judge’s chambers.
She also exchanged glances
with the handsome Powers, sit
ting at the opposite end of the
defense table. She gave him a
cool ‘Hi, Mel” when they met
in the courtroom at the start
of the day.
Talking freely with newsmen,
Candy said her age is 39—until
Feb. 18, when she will turn 40.
She objected to stories that
have said she is 47. The prose
cution, however, has a passport
listing her birth date as Feb.
18, 1920, at Buchanan, Ga. That
would make her 45.
Powers, also seeking to set
the record straight, said he
turned 29 on Jan. 13.
Mossier left a fortune which
his widow said Monday totaled
some $28 million, includ i n g
holdings in Texas valued at
over $11 million. She made the
point to newsmen that under
Texas law, half of the holdings
in the state were considered
hers even while Mossier was
alive. He controlled five banks
and a chain of finance com
panies in four states.
Collins, Bolton
Head Merchants
Committee Here
Henry Collins and Herbert Bol
ton were elected chairman and
co-chairman of the Griffin Mer
chants Steering Committee for
1966 at a meeting this morning.
Members of the steering com
mittee chosen from five gen
eral classifications are:
Soft Goods: Felton Rainwa
ter, Henry Collins, Marion God
ard, Malcom Riner and Bob Gri
ner.
Hardware and Auto Supplies:
James “Red” Head and Herbert
Bolton.
Jewelers: Taylor Wynne.
Groceries: Herbert Owen.
Furniture and Appliances:
Charles Jones and Howard
Grubbs.
At a meeting of the Merchants
Association held prior to the
meeting of the Steering Commit
tee, plans were made for promo
tions during the year and a plan
to make an annual assessment
to finance promotions was ap
proved.
Lovell Fights Hike
Of Hunt, Fish Fees
Gov. Sanders, Bolton
Confer On Bond Case
Peach Conference
Ends Here
Experts in processing peach
products continued to paint a
picture of optimism for growers
as the conference on peach pro
cessing and utilization moved in
to its second and final day here.
It is being held at the Georgia
Experiment Station.
Phil Campbell, Commissioner
of Agriculture for Georgia, was
to address the peach men this
afternoon. He was among a num
ber of guests who attended the
banquet at the Stuckey auditor
ium Monday night.
Also scheduled this afternoon
was a meeting of the Georgia
Ennis Parker To
Head National
Canners Unit
Ennis Parker, president of
Pomona Products Co., in Grif
fin, is slated to become presi
dent of the National Canners As
sociation, next Monday when
that organization meets at Mia
■mi, Fla.
Mr. Parker has served as pre
sident of the Georgia Canners
Association on two different oc
casions.
He was elected second vice
president of the national argan
ization at San Francisco last
year and moved up to the vice
presidency after a death in the
organization.
The late Walter Graefe, for
wer president of Pomona Pro
ducts, also served as president
of the national organization of
canners.
Mr. Parker succeeded Mr. Gr
aefe as president of the Griffin
firm.
Lester Maddox
Campaigns Here
Lester Maddox of Atlanta was
in Griffin today passing out
campaign cards and shaking
hands in his campaign for gov
ernor.
Maddox has announced he
plans to run for the office this
year.
GOP Supports
Viet Policy But ■ ■ ■
By WILLIAM THEIS
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Re
publican congressional leaders
today stood firm in support of
presidential policy in Viet Nam
but charged the administration
was silently stealing $8 billion
yearly from taxpayers.
In a GOP “State of the
Union” declaration Monday, the
administration was blamed for
a 2 per cent rise in the cost of
living which was “the equi
valent of a secret sales tax that
silently steals some $8 billion
annually ...”
The declaration, delivered by
Senate GOP Leader Everett M.
Dirksen and House GOP Leader
Gerald T. Ford, produced
prompt Democratic rebuttals.
LBJ Dampens Thunder
President Johnson dampened
the GOP bid for attention by
releasing two major news
announcements just before the
Republicans went before color
television cameras in the
historic old Supreme Court
chamber.
National GOP Chairman Ray
C. Bliss, a dozen senators,
some 60 House members and
their wives listened in silence
as Dirksen replied to the
President’s foreign policy out
line of last Wednesday night.
The Illinois Republican of-
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Peach Council.,
George P. Donaldson, execu
tive secretary of the Georgia Ag
ricultural Commodity Commis
sion for peanuts at Tifton. was
the banquet speaker Monday
night.
The conference tnis morning
heard Hubert Harris of the Hor
ticulture Department at Auburn
University discuss refrigera
ted pasturized peach slices.
E.K. Heaton of the Griffin sta
tion told of development of the
peach puree drink. He said that
a nationwide survey, of 2,000 fa
milies indicated 79 percent of
them would buy the peach drink
if it were marketed at a reason
able price.
M. W. Hoover of the Food Sci
ence Department of North Caro
lina University described the
freeze drying process used on
peaches. Mr. Heaton is a former
associate of Dr. J. G. Woodroof
of the Griffin station and work
ed with him in several food pro
cessing research projects.
Mr. Hoover said that although
the demand for freeze drying
peaches was relatively small,
the process has good potential
for use in packaged dry cereals
and such.
G.R. Dimarco, of Rutgers Un
iversity, New York, discussed
evaluation of peaches for pro
cessing.
Dr. Woodroof of the Griffin sta
tion talked about work being
done on dehydro parturized pea
ches.
More than 150 peach growers
attended the secial two day
conference.
Gilmer Named
Shrine President
J. D. Gilmer, Jr., Griffin busi
nessman, was elected president
of the Griffin Shrine Club Mon
day night.
Other officers elected were:
Clifford Lee Taylor, first vice
president; Don Knowles, second
vice president; Araon Cain, Jr.,
secretary; and Jake Tinley, tr
easurer.
Directors elected were Glenn
Thomas, Emmett Chappell, Ed
Travis, Chester Golden and Dr.
Henry Foley.
fered this "rational course” for
the war in Viet Nam: continued
peace efforts combined with
intensified military action as
expert judgment deems this
necessary.
Ford, who handled GOP
comments on domestic issues,
was applauded more than 20
times by his partisan audience
when he laid into Johnson’s
Great Society programs.
Challenge to Democrats
He said the nation cannot
fight a costly war abroad
without “setting priorities at
home.” He challenged the
Democrats to help trim home
front spending.
The Republicans gave this
reply to the President’s ex
pressed concern for the nation’s
poor: “We will ncrt sacrifice
poor people. We will sacrifice
poor programs, poorly con
ceived and poorly carried out.
“We will sacrifice poor
administrators. We will sacri
fice poor arithmetic in public
accounting.”
Anticipating details of the
President’s forthcoming budget,
Ford said that, “We need truth
in budgeting by the White
House.” He said it already
appears that fiscal 1966 spend
ing "will be at $8 billion more
than we were told a year ago.”
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Carl
Sanders said today he will
reach a decision about an elec
tion to fill the House seat of
Julian Bond after he confers
with Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton.
“I have asked the attorney
general for any alternatives to
the election but apparently we
will have to have one because
the date of the federal court
hearing on the Bond case comes
beyond the 10-day period In
which I must call an election,”
Sanders said.
During an address at an
“Eggs and Issues” breakfast
sponsored by the State Cham
ber of Commerce, Sanders said
that “Georgia has turned a
corner . .. and a surprised na
tion has awakened to the fact
that the future greatness of
America lies in the South and
that Georgia leads the South.”
He said Georgia is no longer
content to be a "second rate
state.”
Sanders urged Georgians to
solve “the pressing needs of
modern society” at the local
level and warned that state and
federal governments would oth
erwise do the job.
Sanders said that during his
administration "we have refus
ed to follow those false di
sciples of strife and discord who
would have led our state into
blind alleys of hate, turmoil and
destruction.”
He said this policy paid off
last week with the handling of
the case of Bond, a 26-year-old
Negro who was rejected by the
House because of his statements
against the U.S. war effort in
Viet Nam.
Sanders said the position of
Bond supporters became “ab
surd” with their efforts on Fri
day to storm the Capitol.
“After their efforts to break
into the Capitol, I wonder if we
shouldn’t set up some kind of
kindergarten to teach manners
and common decency,” Sanders
said.
In his only other reference to
the Bond case in his prepared
remarks, the governor said that
"last week we had a little
chaos at the Capitol but every
thing seems to be on the track
this week.”
Scooter Rider
Killed In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI)—A 13-year
old boy, Mike Carpenter, was
killed Monday night in the col
lision of a motorscooter and a
car in northwest Atlanta.
Police said another boy, Rob
ert Kelly Fisher Jr., was criti
cally injured. Young Carpenter
was dead on arrival at a hos
pital.
Police quoted the driver of
the car as saying the accident
happened when the motorscoot
er attempted to make a left
turn into a driveway.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and cool
tonight and Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER Maxi
mum today 48, minimum today
28, maximum Monday 48, mini
mum Monday 26. Sunrise Wed
nesday 7:38 a.m., sunset Wed
nesday 5:57 p.m.
Diabetic Tests
Planned Here
The Grirfin - Spalding County
Health Department in conjunc
tion with the State Health De
partment, will sponsor a diabe
tic screening clinic. The clinic
will be held at the Griffin-Spald
ing County Health Department
on South Ninth street every Tues
day.
The hours of the clinic will be
from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon, and
from 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
The first one of these clinics
will be held on Tuesday, Jan.
25.
The test is free and will take
approximately five minutes with
the results known to be known
at that time. It should be taken
Adminstration
Backs Increase
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rep. Ful
ton Lovell of Clayton County
said today the administration
hunting and fishing bill would
cripple the north Georgia fish
ing business and he will seek
to have it amended.
Lovell, former Game and
Fish Commission director, said
the measure seeking license fee
increases would seriously de
plete mountain trout stocks.
Gov. Carl Sanders is strongly
backing the measure which
would among other things im
pose a special $3 fee on non
Georgians fishing for mountain
trout. The bill is designed to
raise revenue to develop addi
tional recreation facilities.
Lovell said his amendment
would require out-of-staters to
buy the regular fishing license
as well as the special license.
He also objected to the proposal
to allow non-Georgia youths un
der 16 to fish free, as would
state boys and girls under that
age.
The House had been expected
to take up the game and fish
proposal first thing, but it was
delayed when several minor
bills were allowed on the floor.
The course of the day’s Sen
ate action was thrown into
doubt when Floor Leader Julian
Webb decided to dealy action on
his bill to make possession of
a federal gambling stamp
prima facie evidence of violat
ing state gambling laws.
Webb said he wanted to study
further the implications of writ
ing such a measure into the
state’s criminal law.
Attempts in recent sessions
to boost license costs have died
in the House partly as a result
of a tangle of personality con
flicts that galvanized organized
opposition.
The cost boosts for residents
would be $1. Past bills have
called for bigger boosts.
With Gov. Carl Sanders plac
ing his own prestige publicly on
the line for the first time the
bill was ordered up by House
administration leaders as the
second order of business of the
session.
Passes Budget Bill
The House Monday passed the
governor’s $18.5 million supple
mental budget bill with little
change from the version adopt
ed by the House appropriation
committee.
The measure was sent to the
Senate appropriations commit
tee, where the governor’s pro
posals for beefing up his educa
tion and mental health pro
grams were expected to fare
equally well.
Sanders in past sessions has
been too busy precariously jug
gling his prestige to push
through Senate, Congressional or
House reapportionment meas
ures to support the game and
fish measures.
This time he has laid it on
the line in his state of the state
address that he wants the in
creases to finance development
of more public recreation areas,
hire more needed rangers and
attract more tourists.
Record Surplus
While there was no apparent
organized House opposition this
year, Sanders boasts of a good
chance to leave a record sur
plue for his successor, have
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about two hours after eating.
All persons were urged to take
the test with an especial appeal
to those in the main target
groups, namely, relatives of
known diabetics, people over 40.
people overweight, and women
who have given birth to babies
weighing nine pounds and over
at time of birth.
This is not a diagnostic clinic
but a screening clinic. If anyone
is found to be positive by the
test, this does not mean neces
sarily that that have diabetes.
However, any found positive will
be referred to his private physi
cian for diagnosis and treatment
if necessary.
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