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By Quiraby Melton
One who writes a daily column,
like Good Evening, frequently
“runs out of soap.” And when
one does they usually turn to
something they love and some
thing about which they should
know, if experience is the best
teacher.
So today Good Evening will
write his column about newspa
pers; for he loves the profession
and after 60 years in “the game”
he should have learned some
thing.
Recently came across a little
book, that tells of newsprint pro
* ductlon and use, circulation of
newspapers over the world,
etc.
In this book we found that
while the United States produc
es only 11.6 percent of the news
print, American newspapers use
42.3 of the entire world output.
America has 1,763 daily news
papers that use 8,450,000 tons of
newsprint. Of this Georgia dail
ies use 108,726 tons.
The 1,763 dailies published in
the United States had a combi
ned circulation of 60,412,266 in
. 1964 (the 1965 figures are not
yet available) and showed an
increase over the previous year
of nearly 2-Million.
The New York News has the
largest circulation in the United
States with 2,098,235. Other pa
pers in the “big five” are The
Wall Street Journal, The Chica
go-Tribune, The Los Angeles Ti
mes and the New York Times.
These fall in the 800,000 circula
tion class.
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The world’s two largest news
papers are published in Russia.
Fravda has nearly 7-Million cir
culation and Investia nearly 6
Million. Both are official govern
ment newspapers and each of
them is published, not only in
Moscow, but in 28 other Russian
Provinces. And there are few
other newspapers published in
t Russia.
I Next to the two Russian news
papers comes the London Daily
Mirror, with 4,951,000 circula
tion.
The New York News ranks
ninth among world newspapers
in circulation. But there is no
other nation with as many daily
newspapers, not to mention the
many thousand weekly and semi
weekly papers, as America. The
fact that Uncle Sam’s newspa
pers use almost half of the news
print the world produced shows
how the American public values
its newspapers. If one multiplies
the 60,500,000 total circulation of
dailies alone by 3.5 the size of
the average American family,
one finds that the dailies reach
better than 200-Million Ameri
cans. Add to this the circulation
of the weeklies and one will
see that newspapers are part
and parcel and play an impor
tant part in every America
home.
That the American public not
only looks to their newspapers
and other information media for
information, but look to them as
guides as to what to buy is bom
out by the amount of money
spent with them, by national ad
vertisers In 1964. Latest reports
show:
Newspapers: $4,952 Billion;
TV: $2,289 Billion;
Magazines: $1,107 Billion.
Radio: $833,900 Million.
And all of these showed an in
crease in 1964 over 1963,
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And while the Griffin Daily
News does not fall in th* class
of the big circulation newspa
pers, still it, like many other
newspapers in the 10,000 cir
culation class, plays an impor
tant part In informing and en
tertaining the American public.
And there is no group of news
papers that strive more to be
worthy of the confidence of its
readers than what is often re
ferred to as the “hometown
newspaper.”
More Seedlings
* Available Here
The Woman’s Division, Cham
ber of Commerce, has about 500
dogwood and 500 redbud seed
lings It would like to have Grif
finites plant.
TTtey are free for the asking.
The Woman’s Division distri
buted about 8,500 Of the seed
ings last Saturday as part of its
“make Georgia beautiful” pro
’ram.
The remainder of the seedlings
.re at the Chamber of Commer
ce office on West Taylor street.
They will be distributed (three
* t of each to each person) on a fir
st come, first served basis.
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Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
GI’s Phone. Page 8.
Food Guide. Page 9.
Hospital. Page 12.
Stork Club. Page 12.
State Briefs. Page 12.
Society. Page 14.
TV Cameos. Page 15.
Lyle Wilson. Page 15.
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As the trucks roll to battle in first light, prayer is often the unifying force.
Whose Side Is God (J, 9
By TOM TIEDE
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
BIEN HOA, Viet Nam —
(NEA) — Before battle, the de
vout, the skeptical and the mer
ely frightened turn to prayer
each in his own faith, each in
his own way.
They ask for courage and pro
tection. They ask for life itself.
They ask that God intercede
in the war. . . that He fight
alongside them, that He give
strength to one group of comba
tants but not to the other. They
ask that God take sides—their
side.
But will He? Whose side is
God on in this weary war?
Captain Jim Hutchins thinks
ours. Definitely and without
doubt, ours.
Hutchins is a combat chap
lain here, once wounded, many
times under fire. He is a pious
man who believes both armies
Kidnap Scandal
Rocks France
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press International
PARIS (UPI) —President
Charles de Gaulle’s government
today admitted “complicity” of
French secret agents in the
kidnaping and probable assas
sination of Moroccan opposition
leader Mehdi Ben Barka.
A communique issued after
today’s regular Cabinet session
called the Oct. 29 abduction on
a Paris street “a criminal
enterprise mounted from the
start from abroad and which
had the benefit of certain
complicity by agents of the
special services or of French
police officers.”
The kidnaping brought a new
crisis in France’s relations with
the Arab nations. The scandal
also shook De Gaulle’s new
government and threatened the
political future of some of his
Cabinet ministers and closest
advisers.
The Cabinet announced it was
replacing the head of the
nation’s secret service, Gen.
Teenage Boy Held In
Parents’ Murder
WHITEHALL, Wis. (UPI) —
A teen-aged boy, wanted for the
murder of his parents, was
arrested Tuesday night when
the family car stalled in a snow
drift 20 hours and nearly 800
miles from his burned out
Pennsylvania home.
“Didn’t you hear? was the
first question Jerry Lee Sander
son, 15, asked Sheriff Eugene
Boijold when he was brought in
because his age did not match
the one on the driver’s license
he was using.
Boijold said he had no Idea
what the boy was referring to.
But he told him, “Yes, but we
want to hear it from you.”
OPEN FINDS ANGEL
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — The
$12,500 St. Louis Women’s Open
golf tournament has found new
financial backing and will be
h pM June 3-5 despite poor
attendance last year. A savings
and loan association has agreed
t 0 underwrite the $12,500 in
prizes.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, January 19, 1966 Vol. 95 No. 15
Father Objects.
Mobley Trial.
Lighter Side. Page 16.
Commentary. Page 16.
Want Ads.
Comics.
Dateline Georgia.
Budget Review.
Cong Attack. Page 20.
in this fight are children of
Christ. But he feels the enemy’s
children have fallen from grace.
“I think,” he said recently,
“God is on the GI’s side.”
“Why?” he was asked.
“Because the enemy is largely
atheistic.’
“Aren’t some of us, too?”
“Yes, but our goal is a Chris
tian one — peace.”
“But if God wants peace, why
doesn't H e just stop the war?”
“Perhaps,” the chaplain said,
“one day He will.”
Jim Hutchins, a 31-year-old
Protestant from Kokomo. Ind.,
consults a heavily thumbed Bi
ble for his opinions. Does God
condone war? Does He favor one
nation over another? Will pray
er help?
He believes its all there, in
the Scriptures. Even the part
about God taking sides.
“I believe God answers pray-
ers,” he says. “And since we
are a Christian people and the
Communists are not, it’s logical
to assume He will answer our
prayers more often because we
pray more often.
“So you can extend this if you
have faith and believe He sides
with our nation more, if only be
cause We are daily showing our
reliance on Him while the non
believing enemy is not.
"As far as God helping indivi
dual soldiers, there are numer
ous instances in the Old Testa
ment where He commanded fol
lowers into war with the pro
mise that He would protect
them. David was one. God told
him to ‘go forth into battle’ and
that ‘no evil will befall thee. ’
"And since the Old Testament
is really just specific examples
of God’s teachings, we can safe
ly apply it to modem situations.
That is, we can believe that God
Rapid Transit
Tax Money Gets
Panel Okay
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Sen
ate Rules Committee today ap
proved a measure to permit the
state to spend tax money on
rapid transit programs.
The measure, sponsored by
Sen. Ben Johnson of Decatur,
cleared the committee with a
strong endorsement from Lt.
Gov. Peter Zack Geer.
Geer, chairman of the com
mittee, said state aid for rapid
transit is needed because high
ways cannot solve the congest
ed traffic problems in major
urban areas.
Johnson’s measure would re
quire a constitutional amend
ment.
The committee also approved
a constitutional amendment by
Sen. Brooks Pennington of Mad
ison to establish a uniform
method of tax assessment on
forest land based on the land’s
capability of production instead
of the growing crop, and a res
olution by Sen. Robert Smalley
of Griffin to abolish the house
hold goods ad valorem tax on
the county level.
A measure by Sen. Gene San
ders of Atlanta to make it easi
er for newcomers to vote was
sent to a subcommittee headed
by Sen. Hugh Gillis of Soper
ton. The measure would reduce
the residence requirement from
one year to 90 days.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
not so cold tonight. Occasional
rain Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 47, low today 23, high
Tuesday 47, low Tuesday 28.
Sunrise Thursday 7:37, sunset
Thursday 5:58 .
Paul Jacquiert, and putting the
organization under the control
of the Army Ministry.
Previously the secret service,
known as the SDECE (Society
De Documentation Exterieure
Et Contre-Espionage), reported
directly to Premier Georges
Pompidou but was semi
autonomous.
De Gaulle’s move came as
the clamor for a government
cleanup of the three-month-old
case and the Monday night
death of key witness Georges
Figon rose to a new pitch.
Two Paris police officers and
a longtime counter-espionage
agent already were behind bars
for complicity in the affair,
fanned by the French press
French sources said the Ben
Barka incident was mounted by
Moroccan government officials
to get rid of a dangerous rival.
Morocco has repeatedly denied
the French claims, but the
affair has severely strained
relations between the two
nations.
“Then, he confessed,” the
sheriff said.
Young Sanderson was using
the license of his father, Henry
L. Sanderson, 55, who was
found sprawled in a pool of
blood early Tuesday outside the
charred ruins of his farm home
in the rural hamlet of Keister,
46 miles north of Pittsburgh.
The remains of his wife,
Dorothy, 44, were found inside
in the debris.
After the boy confessed to
killing his parents, Boijold said,
“he was so sleepy we had to
put him to bed. We didn’t get
any more out of him.”
The elder Sanderson had been
shot four times with a 22
callber rifle. Butler County
Coroner Clinton Atwell said he
had been shot in the house and
then groped his way down a
lane near the house.
Police said Mrs. Sanderson
apparently was dead before the
house burned down. It had been
ignited with gasoline.
Cleared For New
i
Patrol Barracks
Call For Bids
On Project
Expected Soon
The Spalding County Commis
sioners today said that the way
had been cleared for construc
tion of a new home for the State
Patrol Post here.
They said a call for bids on
the project is expected to be
made soon.
The new home will be con
structed next to the Peace Offi
cers Annuity building on the
North Expressway.
The cost is expected to be ab
out $40,000.
The state 'will put up half this
amount the city and county com
missioners have agreed to put
up the other $10,000 each as the
local share.
Spalding Commissioners Da
vid Elder, Jack Moss and Z. L.
Wilson said that all details in
preparation to calling for bids
on the home had been cleared
in a conference with an official
of the Department of Public
Safety.
The commissioners emphasiz
ed that “there never had been
any lack of agreement locally
or on the state level” in their
combined efforts to secure the
new barracks.
They said many time consum
ing factors have been involved
in setting up procedures which
would assure compliance of state
laws governing expenditure of
both state and local funds for
the project.
These problems had been con
structed by some people as op
position to the project, the Spal
ding Commissioners said.
Bids on the new building will
be called for as soon as possible
by publication of notice to pros
pective bidders to be published
as required by law, the Commis
sioners said today.
Pike To Start
Kindergarten
Under Title I
ZEBULON, Ga. — The Pike
County Board of Education has
approved a project calling for a
county-wide kindergarten under
Title I of the new Elementary
and Secondary Education Act
of 1965.
The amount of this project to
tals $48,093.
Under this project all children
of economically deprived par
ents will receive free instruc
tion, free transportation, and a
free noon-day meal.
It is hoped that this program
can begin Monday, Jan. 24, and
continue until June 1, announ
ced Supt. Harold Daniel.
A program of remedial read
ing for educationally deprived
children was previously approv
ed and is under way. This pro
ject totaled $49,698. The Pike
County total allotment under Ti
tle I was $171,112.20, and this
leaves a balanace of $73,321.20.
Eight remedial reading teach
ers and thirteen teacher aides
have been employed under the
program. Plans are being made
for seven kindergarten classes.
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“It isn’t being stupid that
bothers us — it’s being
catrnht at it.”
will watch over those who sin
cerely accept Him and ask His
help.”
“But,” the chaplain was inter
rupted, “many Christian soldiers
die.”
“That’s true.”
“Can you give a reason?’
“Only that it’s God’s will.”
“Then prayer may not sway
God in combat?”
“Perhaps not. A soldier’s pray
er is not for God’s benefit —to
convince Him. It is for the sold
ier’s benefit, to give him some
thing to lean on and to streng
then and comfort his faith.”
Jim Hutchins paused, then
closed his Book. His point had
been made: He who rises from
prayer a better man, his prayer
is answered.
Thus, the GI here may die or
he may live.
But he does neither alone.
Not with God on his side, any
way.
Gambling stamp
Bill In Senate
By PAT CONWAY
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Senate
was expected to take action on
a so-called “gambling stamp
bill” today while the House
planned votes on two adminis
tration tax bills.
House leaders hoped for af
ternoon action on two key bills
— one to require payment of
auto property taxes when tags
are bought and the other to re
store full sales tax rebates to
merchants.
Senate Floor Leader Julian
Webb of Donalsonville introduc
ed as his personal project, and
not ail administration measure,
the bill to make possession of
federal gambling stamps prima
facie evidence of violation of
Georgia’s anti-gambling laws.
Webb said his intention was
to make it easier to prosecute
many persons who are known
to have bought the stamps to
comply with federal law and
gamble, sometimes with virtual
immunity because of difficulty
of gaining evidence of a state
violation.
The auto tax bill and the
sales tax rebate bill were top
priority Sanders measures.
The proposal to require pay
ment of ad valorem property
taxes on cars when the tags
are bought was intended to halt
a massive tax evasion estimat
ed to cost Georgia counties $5
million a year.
The sales tax rebate bill
would restore to all merchants
in Georgia their full rebate of
3 per cent of all the sales tax
they collect, as compensation
for the trouble and cost of han
dling the collections for the
state.
Sanders sponsored a law
which removed the rebate on
sales over $125,000 by a single
merchant in one year in order
to gain more revenue for his
education improvement pro
gram
Last January the General As
osembly restored 2 per cent of
the rebate for sales over the
$125,000 mark and the new bill
would restore the remaining I
per cent
Peach Men Plan
Big Promotion
Plans for cooperative promo
tion of peaches by growers in
Georgia and South Carolina were
announced Tuesday during the
national conference on peach
processing and utilization at
the Georgia Experiment Station
in Griffin.
While details of the promotion
are to be worked, Mr. Boyce
Dyer of the State Department of
Agriculture, said that $25,000 to
$35,000 for the two states com
bined will be involved.
The promotion will apply to
the 1966 peach crop. Mr. Dyer
pointed out that members of the
Georgia Agriculture Commodity
Commission for Peaches alrea
dy have approved expenditure
of their share of the promotion
fund, provided they make a 1966
crop.
Members of another peach
grower group, the Georgia Pea
ch Council, in business session
Tuesday afternoon voted to take
part in activities of the national
peach council by paying dues in
to that organization.
Promotion of peaches and
peach products is the major ac
tivity of the national council.
The Georgia Peach Council is
composed of some 300 peach
growers who control about 90
percent of the total peach tree
population in the state. The state
has 2,600,000 trees.
The group elected Nash Mur
ph of Marshallville president for
1966. Marion Porter of Cochran,
retiring president, was elected
vice president and C. L. Mason
of Madison was reelected sec
retary.
E. K. Heaton of the Griffin Ex
periment Station said that last
year about 100,000 cases of re
frigerated peach slices were sold
in supermarkets in five south
eastern and other states.
The refrigerated fresh sliced
peaches are becoming a favor
ite of American consumers, the
food scientist told the peach con
ference.
He said the slices were sold
without any special advertising
or promotion. The entire supply
of 100,000 cases was exhausted
in about six weeks, he said.
He said that a Marshalville,
Ga. firm produced more than
3,000 45-gallon barrels of peach
puree last year. A bottled peach
drink is also being marketed by
a firm at Statesboro, he report
ed.
Both peach slices and puree
were developed at the Griffin
station.
Gandhi’s Widow
India Leader
By JOHN BARTON
United Press International
NEW DELHI (UPI) —Mrs.
Indira Nehru Gandhi, a frail
widow with an illustrious
heritage, today was elected
prime minister of India.
Thousands cheered the an
nouncement in the streets.
The 48-year-old mother of
two, fighting back tears and
clutching a red rose in tribute
to her father, the late Prime
Minister Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, was chosen in a secret
ballot by 526 members o f
parliament from the ruling
Congress party.
Mrs. Gandhi became the
world’s only woman head of
government and India’s third
leader since Britain granted its
independence in 1947.
She received 355 of the 526
votes cast in defeating former
Finance Minister Morarji De
sai, 69. Desai had refused to
withdraw from the contest, but
after the results were an
nounced pledged his loyalty to
Mrs. Gandhi.
Results Acclaimed
Loud trumping and cheers
from the gallery greeted the
announcement of Mrs. Gandhi’s
victory. A swelling cheer rolled
across the thousands massed
outside parliament in brilliant
sunshine under cloudless skies.
Addressing party members in
the Hindi national language,
she said in a deep voice
betraying emotion:
“Our leader Lai Bahadur
Shastri died as a martyr for
the cause of peace. We still
stand by him and strengthen
the cause of peace.”
Mrs Gandhi, her white sari
dazzling in the sun, also was
greeted by an ovation when she
arrived. She did not vote, but
sat in the back of the building
beneath its great dome as
ballots were cast by legislators
in flowing robes.
Mrs. Gandhi succeeds Shas
tri, who succumbed to a heart
attack Jan. II. Although she
bears the same name, the new
prime minister is not related to
Mohandas K. Ghandi, the
revered spiritual leader during
India’s independence move
ment. She knew him well,
however.
As Mrs. Gandhi made her
way out of parliament, she was
almost smothered in flowers
from the mass of well-wishers
as she struggled to reach her
car.
Mrs. Gandhi faces almost
insurmountable problems as
she assumes leadership of the
world’s most populous demo
cracy. India’s birthrate is
figured at 1,100 births per hour
It is in the midst of its worst
drought. Pestilence and famine
are widespread. Communist
China is its northern neighbor.
Second To Ceylon
She is the second woman in
modern history to be named a
prime minister. Mrs. Sirimavo
Bandaranaike of Ceylon suc
ceeded her late husband in
September, 1959, but lost a bid
for reelection in April, 1964.
Widowed in 1960, the black
haired prime minister’s two
.sons, Rajeev and Sanjav. now
are attending Cambridge
University in England. Mrs.
Gandhi’s husband, Feroze, was
a lawyer. They were married in
1942.
Mrs. Gandhi once spent 13
months in jail, convicted by the
British of subversion during the
quest for independence. Her
late husband was imprisoned
with her.
Shastri, 12 hours before his
death, had signed a non
aggression pact with Pakistani
President Mohammad Ayub
Khan after an eight day peace
conference in the Soviet Asian
city of Tashkent. Under the
accord, Indian and Pakistani
forces are to withdraw behind
their borders by Feb. 25. Mrs.
Gandhi pledged to honor the
agreement made by Shastri.
Mrs. Gandhi may also carry
out Shastri’s scheduled visit to
the United States to discuss
long-range food planning. The
Shastri visit had been originally
set for February.
Not Quite So
Cold Tonight
The temperature plunged to
23 degrees in Griffin this morn
ing It was the second time this
winter that the mercury has
dropped that low, according to
Weather Observer Horace West
brooks.
The 23 reading earlier this win
ter occurred in December.
The forecast for this area call
ed for weather not so cold to
night. It said occasional rain was
possible Thursday and might be
gin tonight.
Possible snow was forecast for
some northern sections of the
state.