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This is National Girl Scout
Week.
There is no organization in this
or any other community, that is
more important than Scouting.
More than three million girls,
of all creeds and races, are Sc
outs and more than three-quar
ters of a million adults are in
Scouting as volunteer leaders.
Every Scout and every volun
teer adult Scout leader are unit
ed by a firm belief in God. Girl
and adult alike dedicate them
selves to the highest ideals of
personal character, conduct, pat
riotism and service.
Every girl Scout, young and
old, takes the following Girl Sc
out oath:
On my honor, I will try:
To do my duty to God and my
country.
To help other people at all tim
es.
To obey the Girl Scout Laws.
The Girl Scout Laws which
they promise to obey are:
A Girl Scout’s honor is to be
trusted.
A Girl Scout is loyal.
A Girl Scout’s duty is to be
useful and to help others.
A Girl Scout is a friend to all
and a sister to every other Girl
Scout.
A Girl Scout is courteous.
A Girl Scout is a friend to ani
mals.
A Girl Scout obeys orders.
A Girl Scout is cheerful.
A Girl Scout is thrifty.
A Girl Scout is clean in
thought, word, and deed.
Everyone who knows the val
ue of Scouting is proud of the
program. But we in Georgia
have more than passing reason
to be interested in and to sup
port the Girl Scout program.
For it was a Georgian, Mrs. Ju
liette Gordon Low, who in Sav
annah organized the first Girl
Scout troop in America. Troop
One, USA, was formed in 1912
and became nation-wide in its
organization in 1215.
An encyclopedia has this to say
about Girl Scouting:
“GIRL SCOUTS: An organiza
tion of girls, very similar to, and
based on, that of the Boy Scouts.
It was founded in England by
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, origi
nator of the Boy Scouts, and is
known in British countries as the
Girl Guides. The name Girl
Scouts was adopted in America
in 1915 by an organization
founded in 1912 at Savannah,
Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon
Low (1860-1927), and previously
known as Girl Guides.
"Girls from 10 to 18 years of
age may become Girl Scouts.
There is also a younger group
for girls between 7 and 10, call
ed the Brownies. On reaching
the age of 10, a Brownie becom
es an intermediate Girl Scout,
and at 14 or on entering high
school a senior Girl Scout. The
local unit is the troop which may
be divided into patrols. Each
patrol chooses its own leader.
A troop is led by an adult.
“The badge of a girl scout is
the trefoil, the three-fold divis
ion of which reminds her of her
three promises: to do her duty
to God and her country; to help
other people at all times; and
to obey the scout law. This law,
as well as the motto, “Be Pre
pared,” is the same as that of
the Boy Scouts.”
There is no organization in
Griffin of which the general pub
lic is prouder than the Girl
Scouts. Fortunate the girls who
are enrolled in Scouting.
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GHS’s Department of Distribu
tive Education was well repre
sented in the State semi-final de
monstration contest in Atlanta
Saturday. In Monday’s paper
there was a picture of Frank
Thomas, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, congratulating
Lonnie Dutton on winning first
place and becoming eligible for
the state finals in April. In addi
tion to Dutton’s winning first
place, two other GHS students
were winners. Barbara Hamil
ton won fourth place in the
speech contest, and Charles Mc
Elroy fourth in the job interview
contest.
Congratulations to the three.
COFFINS BLOCK ROAD
SAN PIETRO VERNOTTCO,
Italy (UPI) —Forty empty
coffins blocked traffic for two
hours on a road near here
Monday. The coffins fell off a
truck during a seven-vehicle
traffic pileup caused by fog.
The carpenters who made the
coffins were injured in the
pileup, police said.
GRIFFIN
DAiE\r f NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, March 8, 1966 Vol. 95 No. 55
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo),
Mayor Louis Goldstein (r) presented a decorated
sledge hammer to Jaycee President Brack Pound
Monday night. The hammer is Goldstein’s symbol
in his campaign to tear down city hall and replace it
with a city - county administration building.
Goldstein Gives
City ‘Pep Talk’
Mayor Louis Goldstein gave
what sounded like a locker room
pep talk to the Griffin Jaycees
Monday, calling on the commu
nity to “get behind Griffin.”
He said the community was on
the threshold of growth and ex
pansion.
But the mayor cautioned that
many problems lie ahead which
must be solved in Griffin’s mar
ch into the future.
The mayor who has been ad
vocating construction of several
government buildings here took
a swipe at the lag in getting a
new post office building.
“We should have had anew
post office 20 years ago,” the
mayor declared. He said he had
not received any reply from Pre
sident Jhonson on a request he
made as mayor that considera
tion be given a new post office
here.
Brack Pound, president of the
Jaycees, told the club of a tele
phone conversation he said he
had recently with Rep. John J.
Flynt, Jr., of Griffin.
Pound said Rep. Flynt told
him he (Flynt) had turned down
the offer of a $275,000 post office
for Griffin more than a year ago.
“I rejected it because of infer
ior construction,” Pound quoted
Mr. Flynt as having said.
Pound also said in the same
conversation that Rep. Flynt
had said he was working for the
location of a federal building in
Griffin. Then the Jaycee presi
dent said he was surprised to
read last week in the newspa
per published in McDonough
that Rep. Flynt was working
to secure a federal building for
Henry County.
Mayor Goldstein called on the
people of the community to be
ready to act when a special stu
dy committee makes recommen
dations.
The 10-member committee was
appointed by the city and coun
ty commissioners to look into
building and other community
needs.
The committee is expected to
explore the possibility of con
structing a city-county adminis
tration building.
Mayor Goldstein has advocat
ed such a building to consolidate
the present city hall, courthouse
and county jail and put them un
der one roof.
Several new industries have
established here within the past
several years, Mayor Goldstein
noted. But he said Griffin could
not afford to be content with past
accomplishments.
“Let’s make our community so
desirable that we won’t be able
to accommodate all industry that
seek what we have to offer,” he
challenged.
Mayor Goldstein said that
two local industries were plan
ning sizeable expansions but he
declined to name them. He said
announcements about the expan
sions are planned soon.
The contributions of industries
which have been established
here over the years were prais
ed by Mayor Goldstein. He com
mended them for their interest
in the development of the Grif
fin area.
Following his talk, Tommy Le
wis of Griffin explained plans
he developed for a city-county
building as part of his work on
a masters degree in architec
ture at Georgia Tech.
Lewis said some of his ideas
might be of benefit to the com
mittee and government officials
looking into the possibility of
such a building here.
Rotary Plans
‘Customer’
Contest
The Buyer-Seller Relations
Committee of the Griffin Rotary
Club announced today that it
will sponsor a contest to select
the 10 most courteous customers
in Griffin.
Retail merchants in the fire
limits of Griffin will participate
in the contest.
Salesmen and clerks in down
town stores will cast ballots.
The Rotary Club will furnish
post-card ballots to all sales per
sonnel.
The 10 most courteous custo
mers will be honored by the Ro
tary Club on April 7.
Felton Rainwater is chairman
of the Buyer-Seller Relations
Committee of the Rotary Club.
A Nutty Report?
He Wasn’t Lying,
There Were Lions
MONTEREY PARK, Calif.
(UPI) —The caller wasn’t lying
when he telephoned police
saying, “I don’t want you to
think I’ve been drinking or
anything like that, but I just
saw myself a lion looking out
from the back seat of a car.”
Police went to the scene and
apologized to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Conners, explaining
that “police have to check out
all sorts of nutty reports.”
Mrs. Conners replied that the
"nutty report” was correct. In
fact, there were four lions
sitting in a car belonging to
friends, John Elrod, 26, and his
wife Lesley, 21.
The Elrods of Nutwood Street
in Anaheim, Calif., were en
route Sunday to the desert with
their pets—Tawny, Taussy,
Henri and Sampson —when
their car developed trouble.
Mr. and Mrs. Elrod decided
to stop at the home of the
Conners, where the unidentified
motorist saw the lions and
telephoned police.
The officer who checked out
the report consulted his law
books.
“There were ordinances
covering chickens, sheep, cows,
goats and pigs,” he said, “but
none on lions.”
The Elrods had their auto
fixed and resumed their trip
with the four lions in the back
seat.
The couple said they hoped to
develop an animal training
center and raise animals for
movies and television.
“I know some people think
Students Storm US
Embassy n Jakarta
LBJ Gets Blunt
With DeGaulle
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Johnson has bluntly
informed French President
Charles de Gaulle that the
United States will not bargain
away the foundations of the
North Atlantic Treaty Alliance
(NATO) behind the backs of its
other allies.
In a swift note to the French
president, Johnson re Jetted a
French proposal for immediate
Washington - Paris discussions
Aimed at eventual liquidation of
U.S. bases and supply lines in
France.
De Gaulle, who is fearful that
too close ties with the United
States might drag France into
a war it doesn’t favor
elsewhere in the world, wants
to get rid of NATO headquar
ters within the next two years.
Include NATO Allies
But Johnson said the other 13
NATO allies must have a voice
in any such move. He also
turned down De Gaulle’s
demand that any U.S. troops
remaining on French soil after
NATO headquarters are dis
banded must be placed under
French command.
The unusually swift and firm
American response to this
country’s oldest ally was in
reply to a French note in which
De Gaulle demanded early
renegotiation of a bilateral 1951
agreement covering the assign
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it’s strange that we travel with
lions in the back seat of our
car,” Mrs. Elrod said, “but
they just don’t understand lions
the way we do.”
A friend who took the lions to
a drive-in restaurant said he
“got the quickest service you
ever did see” when he ordered
10 raw hamburgers for his
“friends in the back seat.”
Man Listed
Dead By Police
Still Alive
ATLANTA (UPI) F. J.
Stapleton, 40, was pronounced
dead by police at the scene of
ah accident early today but
later was discovered to be
alive.
Stapleton suffered bums on 80
ner cent of his body when his
m r hit a power pole and a
transformer exploded, setting
his car afire.
He was listed as "very criti
cal” in an Atlanta hospital.
Weather:
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ment of U.S. forces to France.
The French note reached
Washington Monday. Four
hours later Undersecretary of
State George W. Ball called in
Ambassador Charles Lucet to
give him what was described
an “interim” answer.
In it, the United States
declared that the future of the
U.S. bases struck at the very
heart of NATO, which was
created in 1949 to guard against
the possibility of Communist
aggression in Western Europe.
Forceful Reply
A high administration official
said the President ordered the
unusually prompt reply because
he did not want France to
entertain any idea that the
United States would even
consider talking about the issue
behind the backs of the other
allies.
De Gaulle has said frequently
that although he wants to
retain some form of “Western
alliance” with the United
States, the NATO structure has
outlived its usefulness.
U.S. Ambassador Charles E.
Bohlen has reported in the past
from Paris that De Gaulle
apparently wants:
—The early removal from
French territory of NATO
headquarters, with the vast
military bureaucracy it ha§
built up during the past 17
years.
—The withdrawal of virtually
all American forces from
French bases, with any who
remain being placed under De
Gaulle’s command.
Gov. Sanders
Criticizes HEW
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ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Carl
Sanders today criticized the
U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare and
“clip joints” on Georgia’s
coast.
The governor, at a news con
ference, said complaints have
been received that clip joints in
some coastal counties lure tour
ists and Georgians into con
games.
He said Col. Lowell Conner,
public safety director, is on the
coast investigating.
“If we can’t get local help,”
Sanders said, “I will continue
to ask our officers to take
whatever measures are neces
sary to clearup these places.”
Sanders said he will have
state officials tear down clip
joints if necessary and risk
court suits.
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The face of Griffin continues to change. This filling station at Sixth and Solo
mon street is being torn down to make way for another business. Ralph Free
man will construct a fried chicken service on the site.
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A Logical
Explanation
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — Ron
ald Larry Lee, 26, Columbus,
Ga., had what he thought was
a logical explanation for police
Monday when a woman found
him inside a laundromat dryer.
He told officers he was “only
waiting for a couple of friends.”
Police found a pint of vodka
and a pint of gin in Lee’s
pockets. They arrested him for
being drunk.
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Strange Alliance
South’s Solons,
Powell
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
government’s new, stiffer
guidelines for desegregation are
forging some strange alliances
—between Harlem Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell and House col
leagues from the Deep South.
They agree that the new
guidelines, outlined Monday
with the threat of a cut-off of
federal funds to some southern
schools, do not hit hard enough
at the North.
Powell’s agreement with his
southern counterparts came to
light at the U. S. Office of
Education briefing on the new
rules for about 2,000 school
districts in 11 southern states.
Rep. Tom Gettys, D-S. C.,
told Education Commissioner
Harold Howe H: “I hope you
will devote more time to other
parts of the country and stop
whipping the South so hard.”
“I agree,” said Powell. He
pressed the point, telling Howe
that he wanted to know “what
is being done about de facto
segregation in the North.” Pow
ell is author of the concept
that federal funds should not be
used to support racial discrim
ination.
Howe replied that his agency
was investigating complaints to
the best of its ability. He said
he and his aides had always
emphasized that the North as
well as the South were covered
American Flag
Pulled Down
SINGAPORE (UPI) —A mob
of 200 to 300 leftist students
stormed the U.S. embassy in
Jakarta today, throwing stones
and Molotov cocktails, and
setting fire to American cars,
U.S. officials reported.
The leftists, carrying out the
first anti-American demonstra
tion since last fall’s abortive
Communist-backed coup, pulled
down the U.S. flag and ran up
an Indonesian flag. They
damaged the U.S. embassy seal
and molested but did not harm
an American woman, a repre
sentative of the U.S. State
Department reported.
While the leftists were
demonstrating at the American
Embassy an angry horde of
8,000 anti-Communist students
occupied the Indonesian foreign
ministry, burned the building’s
contents and shouted demands
for a new national cabinet,
rebel radio broadcasts report
ed.
They carried banners pro
claiming “Hang Subandrio,”
but pro-Communist Foreign
Minister Subandrio was across
town addressing a mass rally
of women. Subandrio gave his
and President Sukarno’s stamp
of approval to slogans denounc
ing U.S. actions in Viet Nam.
There also was an anti
American demonstration in
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of
Malaysia, to protest the arrival
of Undersecretary of state
William Bundy. A mob of 200
leftists tried to storm the
embassy but were blocked by
police.
The men and women march
ing on the embassy in Kuala
Lumpur carried placards in
English and Chinese reading,
“America get out of Viet Nam”
and “Down with Bunday.”
U.S. officials said there were
some Indonesian security
troops in armored cars in the
area but they appeared to be
“ineffective.” The students
demonstrated about 15 minutes
and then left.
Broadcasts by the clandestine
Voice of Free Indonesia said
the 8,000 anti- Communist
students seized the foreign
ministry although police fired
tear gas and warning shots.
The reports said six students
were overcome by gas fumes
and taken to a hospital.
by antidiscrimination law.
The answer was unsatisfac
tory to Powell who said his
House Education and Labor
Committee will push legislation
aimed directly at northern
cities which practice segrega
tion despite the law.
Powell’s proposal in this area
would set a four-year deadline
on the continuation of racial
imbalance in schools receiving
federal aid.
The measure would find ra
cial imbalance in a school
where the ratio of Negro to
white students is more than 20
per cent higher or lower than
in the total enrollment of the
school system.
Scores Of Lozenges
Banned From Market
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
U.S. Food & Drug Administra
tion today banned scores of
widely-sold antibiotic lozenges
from the market on grounds
they’re no good for sore
throats.
Affected by the sweeping
order are all antibiotic lozenges
which are sold “over the
counter”—that is, without a
physician’s prescription — for
treatment of sore throats and
other pains associated with
colds.
The FDA said that although
the preparations have been
widely used for the past 15
years, “there is no medical
evidence of their effective
ness.”
Dr. James L. Goddard, new
FDA commissioner, said the
agency also is conducting a
large-scale review of antibiotic
ointments, sprays, deodorants
and other preparations to
determine if they really do
what the manufacturers claim.
“Unless substantial evidence
of efficacy is found,” he said,
“these products also will have
to be withdrawn from the
market.”
The FDA acted under the
powers granted it by the so
called “Kefauver amendments”
to the pure food and drug laws,
pushed through Congress in
1962 by the late Sen. Ester
Kefauver, D-Tenn.
FDA officials said today’.*
order will affect 70 drug
manufacturers. Some have only
one antibiotic lozenge on the
market, while others have as
many as 10 different brands on
sale.
The order is effective immedi
ately except for one special
class of lozenges—10 products
sold over the counter containing
the antibiotic bacitracin.
Manufacturers of these pro
ducts have SO days in which to
file objections and ask for a
hearing.
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