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By Quimby Melton
It’s good news that the Griffin
Post of the Georgia Department
of Public Safety is going to be
housed in new and modern
quarters soon.
Bids will be called for short
ly and construction of the build
ing will begin. The new bar
racks and headquarters will be
located on the Atlanta highway
adjacent to the State Peace Of
ficers Association building.
Griffin had the distinction of
having the first patrol headquar
ters and it was in Griffin that
the first unit was located and
sc.ved as a patera for the rest
of the state.
Before moving into the pres
ent quarters the Patrol was on
13th street just off Taylor and
then on Taylor street just across
the railroad bridge. In 1940 the
present quarters were built and
the Griffin Jaycees played a
most important part, first when
the Patrol was organized, in get
ting Unit No. 1 assigned to Grif
fin; and then in providing suit
able quarters.
When the present building was
dedicated some 26 years ago,
World War Two was being
fought and news from over there
was in the spotlight. Uncle Sam
had not yet gotten into the
fighting but the Spalding Grays
had been sent to camp; a home
guard was organized; and Grif
fin along with the rest of Am
erica was preparing “for an em
ergency.” But still news that
Griffin was to become perman
ent headquarters of District
One State Safety Patrol was
mighty good news to the folks
here.
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The weather man says that
there is little likelihood of snow
now. One young lady, who is in
junior high, thin’is this is bad
news— “If it just snowed enough
we’d get a little holiday,” she
commented.
Her parents must have told
her about January of 1940 when
It snowed so hard —five inches
in 24 hours, and the mercury
skidded to five degrees, and
they had to close down the
schools in both city and county.
Well snow or no snow, she and
the rest of the boys and girls
who have just completed their
nine week tests, will have a ho
liday Friday— the teachers?
They’ll have to spend the day
grading the papers.
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Noticed the other day where
a Harvard University professor
ha s advocated “teaching our
children the technique of social
drinking.”
| A man, supposedly an intelli
gent man, who advocates such
is even more dangerous than
those who advocate defiance of
the laws of the land.
Our youngsters have enough
temptation placed in their way
without having them taught “so
cial drinking technique.”
We remember a lot of things
the late Judge W. E. H. Sear
cy, Jr., said at various times as
he charged a grand Jury. But
there is one statement we’ll ne
ver forget. The Judge said:
“As long as alcohol is consi
dered an ingredient of hospital
ity in many of our so-called ‘bet
ter homes’ we’ll have broken
homes, broken hearts, hunger,
suffering and even murder.”
There probably is not a per
son who will read this but who,
if they think long enough, can
remember where some member
of their family, a friend or an
aquaintance, threw his or her
life away as the result of “soc
ial drinking.”
Here’s a simple rule on “the
technique of social drinking”_
don’t take that first drink and
you need not worry.
Country Parson
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“Peace is what we all
want — and would have if
we didn’t all want so much
else, too.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWi
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, January 20, 1966 Vol. 95 No. 16
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SNOW IN NORTH CAROLINA
WHILE SKI ENTHUSIASTS are champing at the bit up north, here is Ashe
ville, N. C., under a seven-inch snowfall. It’s the first snow of the year, with more
predicted.
Cong Snipe At ■
U. S.
Athens Senator
Says Sheriffs
Fight Measure
ATLANTA (UPI) — Sen. Paul
Broun of Athens today said
Georgia sheriffs are waging a
behind-scenes fight against his
bills to broaden investigative
and arrest powers of the state
police agencies.
Broun introduced two bills to
give the highway patrol and the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
new powers following an ex
haustive committee investiga
tion of auto theft rackets.
The Georgia Sheriffs Associa
tion is pressuring legislators to
oppose the bills because mem
bers do not like the idea of
having state officers conduct
raids and make arrests in their
counties without their knowl
edge or consent, Broun said.
Broun’s comment was this:
“It’s high time the sheriffs
start putting the people’s inter
est ahead of their personal in
erest.”
Broun’s Senate auto theft
study committee concluded
Georgia’s car - theft insurance
cost is the highest in the nation
because even diligent sheriffs
cannot effectively combat rack
ets operating across county
lines.
However, Broun added: ‘Auto
theft on this scale could never
have gotten started without the
knowledge of some sheriff or
wihout some sheriffs being so
lazy that they couldn’t find out
about It.”
One of Broun’s measures
would give state troopers more
power.
“Right now, by law, a patrol
man can see an unlawful act
and he doesn’t have the author
ity to take action unless it is a
violation of state traffic laws or
a roit or something of that na
ture,” Broun said.
Late Delivery
Of Yule Mail
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
American Christmas gifts to the
Vietnamese people, now stalled
in a Utah supply depot, will be
shipped to their destination by
the government “at the first
opportunity,” the chairman of
the gift project assured today
Russ Walton of the American
Christmas Train and Truck
campaign said millions of
dollars of gifts were detoured
to Utah because military
shipments to Viet Nam took
first priority.
TOKEN RUN
NEW YORK (UPI) —Fears
of an increase in New York
City’s 15-cent subway fare have
caused a run on tokens, but the
Transit Authority has countered
by rationing them to 10 per
person.
By MICHAEL T. MALLOY
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —Viet Cong
guerrillas appeared to single
out American troops for targets
today at the start of the
scheduled lunar New Year
truce period.
Apparently the Communists
considered the Americans ex
cluded from the conditions of
the temporary cease-fire. Re
ports received in Saigon
indicated the Viet Cong had
stopped shooting at everyone
else.
At 12:30 p.m. a squad of Viet
Cong gunners armed with
automatic weapons blasted
away at a U.S. Army HU1B
helicopter on a medical evacua
tion mission to the Ba To
Special Forces camp about 22
miles southwest of the capital.
This was 11 1-8 hours after
the time the Viet Cong had
announced the new year holiday
truce would begin.
A U.S. embassy spokesman
here said “deliberate ambigui
ty” had been noticed in the
Communist truce announce
ments. Apparently they had
been carefully worded to
exclude U.S. fighting men.
The spokesman said that for
the past three days, announce
ments and broadcasts by both
Hanoi Radio and the Viet Cong
“Liberation Radio” had been
very carefully checked.
He said there was not even
an indication that the cease-fire
would apply to American
soldiers, who had been ordered
to withhold hbq$s
He said there was not even
an indication that the cease-fire
would apply to American
soldiers, who had been ordered
to withhold their fire except in
self-defense.
The pilit said as he dropped
into the valley to land, from six
to eight automatic weapons
opened up at the chopper from
wooded slopes around the
camp.
The pilot said the Commu
nists missed. The helicopter
landed safely and completed Its
assigned mission.
Everyone but Yanks
When the Viet Cong an
nounced its cease-fire for
“Tet,” the New Year celebra
tion, it said guerrillas would
stop fighting South Vietnamese,
Australians, Koreans and New
Zealanders. But It failed to
mention Americans.
U.S. Air Force planes got in
two final licks against the Viet
Cong in the hours prior to the
o’cock noon.
In the morning hours, power
ful B52 bombers clobbered a
complex of Communist bunkers
and fortified positions about 69
miles northwest of Saigon in
Tay Ning Province.
And an American military
spokesman said that to his
knowledge the last U.S. offen
sive action before the truce
occurred south of Can Tho in
the Mekong Delta, when four
P100 Supersabre jets attacked
Viet Cong force hidden in a
mangrove swamp. There was
no Immediate indication of how
many Communists might have
been killed.
Gambling Bill
Virtually Dead
Senate Votes
To Send Bill
Back To Panel
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
senators today virtually killed a
bill that would have made mere
possession of a federal gam
bling tax stamp evidence of vio
lation of state gambling laws.
The Senate voted 26-15 to
send the bill to the Temperance
Committee where it was
expected to die if it cannot be
brought back to the floor.
Sen. Julian Webb of Don
aldsonville, the sponsor, said he
would try to have the Senate
reconsider its action Friday if
a quorum is present.
The motion by Sen. Robert E.
Lee Jr. of Elberton caught
Webb by surprise when the bill
was presented for debate.
“Let’s not attempt to kill this
bill through the back door,”
Webb pleaded.
Lee did no speak for his mo
tion. He already had assurance
of enough votes to send the
measure to committee.
The House today quickly rat
ified three executive orders re
moving sales taxes on certain
items including Bibles and then
went Into heated debate over
raising salaries of Appeals and
Supreme Court judges from
$22,000 to $30,000.
Rep. William Steis of Harris
County said the state’s highest
Judges should receive bigger
salaries than Superior Court
Judges, some of whom make up
to $28,000.
Rep. Robert Pafford of Lake
land led the opposition. He
charged many state salaries
are so low they cannot afford
to buy their children school
lunch stamps. He said the mon
ey proposed for the Judges
should be given to the lowest
paid state employes.
The House without dissent
ratified three executive orders
removing the sales tax from
Bibles, from the federal excise
taxes on purchases and from
property owned by persons
moving into Georgia.
House leaders later plan
ned to call for floor action a
key administration resolution to
allow local school systems to
consolidate across county lines
by local option.
Candace Mossier
Tells About
‘Ted’ Letters
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
United Press International
MIAMI (UPI) —Blonde Can
dace Mossier said today she
had received letters from
someone signed “Ted” who
said he knew who killed her
millionaire husband and prom
ised to step forward and “save
me” if a jury convicts her of
the murder.
The 46-year~old widow of
slain Jacques Mossier, 69,
talked about the letters and
“crackpot” mail during a
(Earlier story on page two)
recess in the fourth day of the
Circuit Court trial of her and
her nephew, Melvin Lane
Powers, 29, for the July 30. 1964
killing.. Candace, with her
Houston attorney, Clyde Woody,
sitting beside her, said she had
received four or five letters
during a four-month period
starting about a year ago. She
said the letters were signed
only “Ted” and came from
Miami and Hollywood, Fla.
“He said he knew who
committed the murder. He said
he had talked to the man
(murderer) at a bar. He said
that if were convicted, he
would come forward and save
me,” said Candace.
Woody said Police had been
told of the letters when they
were received and that defense
attorneys had made every
effort, unsuccessfully, to trace
the letters.
Wearing a brown dress and a
light tan gabardine coat,
Candace said she had received
about 300 other letters, some
for her and some against her,
since Mossler’s death.
She said one letter demanded
that she leave $130,000 in two
packages on a Houston street
corner “or the person who
wrote the letter would tell
things to put me in the electric
chair.”
Woody said the letter was
turned over to the FBI, but
that he knew of no arrests as a
result.
Inside the court room, Percy
Foreman, Texas defense attor
ney for Powers, Candace’s
alleged lover, continued the
battle with state prosecutors to
choose a jury with no prospects
hey would reach agreement
anytime soon.
The trial entered its fourth
day today and observers
predicted it would be next week
before a jury is seated.
Quill Didn’t Have
Heart Attack
NEW YORK (UPI) —Michael
J. Quill, leader of the Transport
Workers Union which struck
New York City’s transit system
for 12 days, suffered “conges
tive heart failure” during the
strike, “but not a heart
attack.” bis physician reported.
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K1WANIS CLUB WINS AWARDS
Plaques for first place s*ate awards won by the
Griffin Kiwanis Club during 1965 were presented at
the club's meeting Wednesday to the chairmen of
committees. Jack Smith, 1965 president^ chairman
Tap Bennett, Jr.
To Be
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Top
U. S. embassy officials station
ed in Santo Domingo during
last spring’s crisis have been
transferred quietly out of the
Dominican Republic, it was
learned today.
Ambassador W. Tapley Ben
net Jr., head of the embassy
team that unanimously urged
the controversial U. S. interven
tion in the Dominican rebellion,
is to be reassigned soon, sourc
es said.
After 22 months on the job,
Bennett, of Griffin, Ga., is to
be reassigned to another post
which will, if anything, carry
increased prestige, according to
authoritative sources.
Administration source said
the embassy staff turnover was
in no sense related to criticism
of its performance during the
April crisis. Officials said Pres
ident Johnson had the highest
praise for the envoys at the
time and still has high regard
for Bennett.
The shakeup was attributed
to normal rotation and promo
tions, personal and family
reasons and a desire to strengh-
District Elections Sought
For State School Doard
ATLANTA (UPI) — Sen. Ed
Kendrick of Marietta today pre
pared a resolution to have the
10 State School Board members
elected by voters of their dis
tricts and in turn appoint the
school superintendent.
The change from a board ap
pointed by the governor and a
superintendent elected by all
voters of the state would
require amendment of the state
Consitution.
The school board itself back
ed Kendrick in part Wednesday
with a resolution calling for a
board - appointed superintend
ent with board members them
selves appointed by the govern
or as they are now.
The vote was six for, two a
gainst, one abstaining and one
absent.
William Preston of Monroe
and Cliff Kimsey of Cornelia
voted against the resolution af
ter a vigorous debate over
whether having appointive su-
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en what has become a critical
post as normal vacancies occur.
Also, sources said, there was
a need to install some new fac
es not associated in Dominican
minds with the rebellion.
perintendents would "magic
ally” improve Georgia schools.
They also challenged the
proposition of Don Payton, new
board member from Decatur,
that the superintendent should
be freed of having to go before
voters for re-election every four
years.
They argued that school oper
ations at some point should be
responsive to voters’ wishes in
preference to trying to take
politics out of school operations.
“This is a most naive thing
in my opinion to say it can by
any stretch of the imagination
be removed from politics en
tirely, nor do I think it should
be,” Kimsey said.
Payton argued that the board
could not be elective because
few would choose to campaign
over some of the huge congres
sional districts for a Job whose
only pay is $20 per monthly
meeting.
Kendrick at first tried to get
of Scouting; Ralph Gatlin, chairman of Boys and
Girls and Tom Boggess, chairman of Kiwanis Educa
tion.
Snow Didn’t
Fall Here
The possibility of snow In tbe
Griffin area didn’t materialize
Wednesday night and early to
day.
Weather forecasters in Atlanta
had said that there was a 60 per
cent chance of snow beginning
with a line about 30 miles south
of Atlanta. This would have put
Griffin on the edge of the snow
line.
The possibility of snow dim
inished even more today. The
forecast said cautiously that
some light snow or sleet might
occur but there would be no ac
cumulation.
Some North Georgia sections
still might get some snow,how
ever, the forecast said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cloudy and cold late
tonight and Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 40, low today 29, high
Wednesday 42, low Wednesday
23. Sunrise Friday 7:38, sunset '
Thursday 5:59.
around this problem by having
the board members elected by
caucuses of either legislators or
local school officials of the dis
tricts, but concluded this would
not work.
Twilley’s Lake
Sold To Motel Man
Jesse Twilley who has operat
ed a fishing lake at Sunny Side
for a number of years has sold
it to an Atlanta motel operator.
Taylor Collier, Griffin real es
tate developer, handled the
transaction.
Jim Shugart, Jr. purchased
the lake site and house in which
Mr. Twilley had lived. Mr. Twil
ley expects to move from the
house within 30 days.
Mr. Taylor indicated that Mr.
Shugart’s plans for the Sunny
Side lake are rather indefinite
at this point.