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By Quimby Melton
A Tale of Two Ball Games.
One in Atlanta; the other In
Griffin.
One opened the National Lea
‘ baseball
gue season.
The other opened the Region
4-AAA season.
One was lost, one was won.
Both were “games for the book.’’
The one in Atlanta was lost by
the Braves 3 to 2 in the 13th inn
ing; it marked the opening of
Big League ball in the South,
and 50,671 persons were there
for the game. The opening game
attendance was almost 10 per
cent of the total attendance last
year wher Milwaukee was the
home town of the Braves.
There was similarity in the
two games. All five of the runs
scored in the 13 inning game
in Atlanta were the result of
home runs.
Here in Griffin the Eagles
‘ scored seven runs — all them
due to homers. Ronnie Pitts
furnished the heavy artillery for
Griffin with two homers — one
a two-run shot, the other a grand
slam.
Dan McLean hit a solo homer.
Incidentally, Strickland, who
went all the way for the Eagles,
struck out 15 and gave up one
■ lone single, and it was an infield
one at that. He held Forest Park
scoreless.
“Take Me Out to the Ball
Game” is a mighty popular tune
these April days — and whether
one chooses to go and see the
big league brand or stays at
home and watches high school
ball, one will certainly have a
good time.
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• A Tale of Two Visitors:
Tuesday Good Evening had
two visitors, in fact three, as one
of the visitors had another party
with him.
The first was Bill Hollberg,
Griffin student at Wheaton Col
lege in Illinois. Bill is a neigh
* bor and we’ve known the young
man since he was a wee baby.
Bill is getting ready, come June
and the close of college for the
year, to take a trip round the
world. He and his roommate at
Wheaton, plan to be gone three
months and will spend much of
their time in Asia and the Paci
fic Islands.
It was good to see this young
man and we enjoyed our talk
, with him.
Later in the day came our se
cond visitor.
It was Wayne English, Griffin
ite, just returned from Vi e t
N am. He was accompanied by
his mother, who was so deligh
ted to have him home once
more, and safe and sound at
that, that she could not, as she
said, “let him get out of my
Eight.”
Wayne came by to thank the
people, through the Griffin Daily
News, for the many letters,
cards and Christmas packages
he received while in Viet Nam.
He is home for awhile and will
report, after a short visit home
for reassignment.
“The folks at home will never
know how much toe men In Viet
, Nam appreciate letters and
newspapers from home,” he
Eaid.
There’s a story, written by Ja
mes Stewart in today’s paper,
that will give one an idea of just
how glad Wayne English is to be
back home once more.
(Incidentally, Wayne’s moth
, er, Mrs. Priscilla English, is the
only woman school bus driver
In Spalding County.)
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The Tale of Two High School
Students.
This Is the first year that there
has been a Distributive Educa
tion program at Griffin High.
The other night they held the
D-E banquet and awards were
handed out. D-E students go to
school half day and work In
Griffin stores In the afternoon.
Griffin merchants are coopera
ting In the program and report
that the students who work for
them afternoons and Saturdays
make excellent “help.”
The two students who were
given top honors were: Barbara
, Hamilton, outstanding D-E stu
• dent and Best Girl D-E student;
and Danny Hamil, Best Boy D-E
Student.
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Pfc English with mother.
Pfc English Back:
It’s A War
With No Front
By JAMES STEWART
It’s a war without a front.
That’s how Pfc. Wayne K.
English of Griffin sized up the
fighting in Viet Nam. He has
returned home for a visit after
completing a tour of duty in the
war tom country.
The 18-year-old Griffinite Is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
English.
He served with the 173rd Air
borne Brigade at Blen Hoa Air
Base.
His unit had one of the high
est “kill ratios” in battles ag
ainst the Viet Cong. English’s
outfit was credited with killing
308 Viet Cong while suffering
five casualties during a day
long fight.
The young Griffin soldier was
in several battles with the com
munists and saw some of his
comrades in arms dropped to the
City To Require
Insurance For
Public Events
The City Commissioners Tues
day night adopted an ordinance
to require sponsors of public as
semblages to have liability in
surance to cover people attend
tag.
The action was prompted by
the collapse of a stand at a
wrestling match here. Nineteen
people were injured, three of
them seriously. Two of the peo
ple still are in the Griffta-Spal
ding Hospital, according to city
officials.
The wrestling match was
sponsored by the ABC Booking
Co. of Atlanta. According to city
officials, the firm did not have
liability insurance to cover the
accident.
City officials said the injured
people might have to file suit
to cover the injuries they suf
fered.
Sponsors of assemblages such
as wrestling, boxing and other
types of entertainment must
file proof with the city that they
have adequate liability insur
ance before city permits will be
issued.
City Manager Jack Langford
explained that the ordinance al
so would cover other types of
public assemblages such as tent
meetings or any other activity
where a number of people will
be Involved.
In other action the commis
sioners took under advisement
a request from the Griffin Gun
smoke Club for $1,000 to help
with the construction of an in
door range.
Lamar Conner, spokesman
for the group, said that the club
had $1,000 it would use and the
County Commissioners had ag
reed to donate $1,000 worth of
supplies. They estimated the cost
of the project would be $3,000.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, April 13, 1966
ground by enemy fire.
“It’s a terrible thing,” Pfc.
English said of the war.
He arrived in the battle we
ary country last August. When
he entered the Army, English
trained at Ft. Benning. Then he
spent six weeks on Okinawa in
the South Pacific before being
assigned duty in Viet Nam.
“It’s good to be alive and be
back home, >> Pfc. English
smiled.
Members of *hls family are
happy, too, to have him back.
His mother said his brothers
and sisters were so happy to
have him back home that they
would walk up and put their
hands on him to see if he really
were their brother.
He telephoned his parents last
Wednesday that he had arrived
back in the United States.
“From then on we were on
cloud nin,” his mother beamed.
Mr. Conner said th e club would
welcome law enforcement offi
cers here to use the range for
training.
The commissioners authorized
Mayor Louis Goldstein and City
Manager Langford to execute
a 10-year lease with Mrs. Effie
B. Sibley for a strip of proper
ty at 120-122 West Bank Alley.
The property will be convert
ed Into a mall from state street
to the Eighth street parking lot.
The lease was for $100 per
month.
In a related action, the com
missioners approved a bid by
H. F. Sprayberry to remove a
portion of the building on the
Sibley property to make way for
the mall. The bid was for $1,
996.96.
Purchases of supplies and eq
uipment for the Light and Wa
ter Department totaling $47,044
were approved.
Country Parson
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“There are just two kinds
of people — those who
agree with you and the in
formed.”
DeGaulle Declares He
Won’t Wait ‘Forever’
One-Year Deadline
Is Turned Down
PARIS (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle said
today he will not wait “forever” for the United States
to decide when it will pull its troops and bases out of
France.
De Gaulle’s statement
reported by Information
tary Yvon Bourges after
cabinet session called to
the NATO crisis. He quoted
Gaulle sa saying “I see no sense
in letting indecision over
timetable drag on forever.”
De Gaulle made the
after Foreign Minister
Couve de Murville told
cabinet the United States in
note Tuesday rejected
Gaulle’s one-year deadline
withdrawal of troops and
from France as too short.
note said such haste
jeopardize the security
ests of all members” of NATO.
Britain meanwhile handed
note to France formally
ing France’s contention it
impossible to modify NATO
common agreement.
Hie British note replied to
communication from
French government of
29 which spelled out
Gaulle’s timetable for
withdrawal of French
from NATO’s integrated
mands and for the removal
American bases from France.
Similar notes were
from other NATO members.
The American note
that financial problems
volved in the pullout will
to be discussed and
France that French forces
Germany will lose their
nuclear weapons when they
removed from NATO
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What Did The
Dentist Say • • •
LONDON (UPI)
Forman, a dentist with
international practice,
fpund a way to overcome
language barrier.
Forman wrote a
booklet In seven languages
which includes such key dental
chair expressions as:
wider,” “this will have to come
out,” and “The fee is ... . ”
Before Forman’s book,
versation with Your Patient,”
dentist would have to act
what he wanted to say to a
patient who spoke a
language.
The result of these
dramatics, according to
Lux of the General
Practitioners Association, was
“that your receptionist
up with laughter and
patient thinks you have escaped
from a mental hospital.”
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French Turn Down
Permit
PARIS (UPI) —The French
government has refused for the
first time for 20 years to
permit a ceremony in Paris
this year in memory of
American soldiers killed in the
city’s liberation, in 1944.
Miss Marcelle Thomas, orga
nizer of the annual ceremony,
said today she received a
“brusque" letter from Defense
Minister Pierre Messmer in
forming her the ceremony
could not be held this year at
the Invalides, shrine of Fran
ce’s military heroes and tomb
of Napoleon.
Messmer gave no reason for
Americans In Viet Nam
Hope For Best...Run If Necessary
Tom Tiede Reports On Page 12.
Merchants Tell
Of Plans For
Special Events
Griffin Merchants were told
at a meeting this morning of
proposed city-wide promotions
that have been planned for 1966
by the Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce.
The first will be held Satur
day, May 28, and will be a
“White Elephant Sale”. It will
be held in the parking lot of the
Commercial Bank and Trust
Company. Individuals, clubs and
organizations not engaged in re
tail, manufacturing or whole
sale selling, may participate.
VACATION VALUE DAYS .
The annual Vacation Value
Days, preceeding the Fourth of
July, will be held June 28 throu
gh Saturday, July 2. Prizes will
be offered by the participating
merchants. First prize will be a
color T-V set. There will be 10
second prizes of $10 gift
cates, and 10 of $5 gift certifica
tes.
A feature of the awarding
prizes will be that one will
have to be present at a drawing
to win.
In connection with the Vaca
tion Value Days the Merchants
will issue a special tabloid sec
tion of the Griffin Daily News.
The Chamber of Commerce is
handling details of this and mer
chants who want to haye space
in the tabloid should contact the
Chamber.
The Merchants Division also
plans a “Back to School” pro
motion, Aug. 11, 12, 13; a “Har
vest of Value Sale,” Oct. 4 throu
gh Saturday, Oct. 8.
A Flee Market and Sidewalk
Merchants Sale is planned for
Sept. 10. Participating in this
will be individuals, clubs and or
ganizations and merchant mem
bers who will display and sell
goods from sidewalk stands.
BANDS TO PLAY
A feature of this promotion
will be a contest between local
Combo Bands held in the park
ing lot of the Commercial Bank.
First prize will be $35, second
$20 and third $15. All bands that
are accepted for the contest,
that do not win a prize will be
paid $10.00.
An after Thanksgving promo
tion, Nov. 25 and 26 is also plan
ned. Details of this evdnt will
be announced later.
the refusal, she said. She said
she has now transferred it to
the American military cemete
ry at Suresnes, near Paris.
The ceremony, held in
cooperation with the American
Legion’s Paris Post No. 1, has
been held each Jure 10 since
1945. It has become known as
“sergeant Kelly Day,” after the
first American to fall in the
liberation of Paris.
Sgt. Laurence Russell Kelly,
of Altoona, Pa., fell on the
outskirts of Paris on August 25,
1944. Miss Thomas, a pharma
cist, was the first to reach him.
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Griffin students named finalists and alternates for the Governor’s Honors Prog
ram are (seated, 1-r) Emily Brisendine, alternate, Donna Mostiler, Kerry Crawford,
Margaret Spangler, alternate, (standing) Ferrol Sams, Frank Thomas, Sammy
Kent, alternate, and Tim Savage.
Five Students Here Named To
Governor’s Honors
Five Griffin High School stu
dents have been selected to at
tend the Third Annual Gover
nor’s Honors Program this sum
mer.
Students named were:
Kerry Elaine Crawford, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Craw
ford of Hampton, foreign langu
ages; Timothy B. Savage, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sa
vage, Route Two, Griffin, social
science; Donna Annette Mosti
ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John L. Mostiler, 1102 Skyline
drive, Griffin, drama; Frank A.
Thomas, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank A. Thomas, Sr.,
1115 Pine Valley road, Griffin,
music; Ferrol A. Sams III, son
American Among
3 Storm Victims
NEW YORK (UPI) —Three
persons including one Ameri
can, lost their lives when the
Italian luxury liner Michaelan
gelo was battered by 45-foot
waves during a violent North
Atlantic storm. Ten others
were injured, two of them
Americans.
The 43,000-ton Italian line
vessel, bound from Genoa,
Italy, to New York was
pounded by the waves and high
winds for five hours Tuesday in
the storm which also battered
two merchant vessels, washing
five crewmen on one of them
overboard.
The dead aboard the Michae
langelo were identified as John
J. Steinbach, 58, an insurance
INSIDE
Dateline Georgia. Page 2.
Commentary. Page 3.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
TV Schedules. Page 4.
Sports. Page 5.
Bruce Biossat. Page 6.
Rebel Club. Page 6.
Society. Page 8.
Hospital. Page 9
Stork Club. Page 9.
Bank Charters. Page 10.
Finding The Way. Page 11.
Ray Cromley. Page 14.
Menu Tips. Page 16
Want Ads. Page 22.
Viet Nam War. Page 24.
Medal. Page 24.
Miners. Page 24.
of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrol A. Sams,
Jr. of Fayetteville.
Alternates named for the pro
gram are:
Margaret K. Spangler, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick B. Sp
angler of 405 Terrace street, Gr
iffin, art; Emily Brisendine,
daughter of Mrs. David Brisen
dine of 25 Terracedale, Griffin,
music; Sammy David Kent, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eu
gene Kent of Route Two, Griffin,
social studies.
The Governor’s Honor Pro
gram is scheduled June 13
through Aug. 5 at Wesleyan Col
lege in Macon. Students were
chosen on the basis of acade
mic achievement and artistic
executive from Chicago; Dr.
Werner Berndt, 56, of Ham
burg, Germany; and crewman
Desiderio Ferrari of Genoa,
Italy. Steinbach and Berndt
died of skull fractures.
The Italian Lines headquar
ers in Genoa reported it had
received a radio message from
the Michaelangelo saying Ferra
ri died today of injuries
suffered during the storm
which slammed scores of the
775 passengers into bulkheads
or knocked them off their feet.
Four passengers and six
crewmen were injured. The
injured Americans were identi
fied as Joseph Budger, who
suffered a broken rib, and Fritz
Glarner, who suffered a possi
ble fractured skull.
The other injured passengers
were identified as Mrs. Geltlud
Berndt, wife of one of the dead,
and Mrs. Silvia Borini of
Naples, Italy.
Among the injured crewmem
bers were Staff Capt. Claudio
Cosulich, second in command of
the Michaelangelo, and two
stewardesses. All were hurt in
falls, the line said.
Earlier Tuesday, the Liberian
merchant ship Rokos V with 43
crewmen aboard was temporari
ly in danger of sinking in the
violent storm.
The Michaelangelo reported it
had diverted its course to avoid
further buffeting from the
storm and would arrive in New
York on Friday, 24 hours later.
The British refrigerator ship
Chuscal, en route from King
ston, Jamaica, to Avonmouth,
England, radioed Tuesday morn
ing that five men had been
washed overboard and lost in
heavy seas.
The Coast Guard sent air
craft from Argentia, Nfld., to
search for the men but no
sightings were reported. The
Chuscal said it was leaving the
ability.
They will attend eight weeks
of creative study tuition free
learning from the best faculty
the state has been able to gath
er from in and out of Georgia.
More than 400 students from
throughout the state will attend.
To be nominated, students in
the academic areas were requir
ed to have a minimum I.Q. of
120. They had to be in the up
per 10 percent of their class,
have an overall B average and
an A average in the subject in
which they wish to concentrate.
Those who will be working in
art, drama and music were re
quired to appear for an inter
view and an audition.
scene because the wind and
rain cut visibility to less than a
mile and it would be unable to
effect a rescue. The 411-foot
Chuscal reported mountainous
waves and winds of 40-50 knots.
The ship is owned by Elders St
Fyffes Ltd., of Glasgow.
The Coast Guard resumed the
search for the missing seamen
early today.
The 669-foot Liberian freight
er Rokos flashed an SOS and
reported it was flooding and in
danger of sinking in 20-foot
waves.
Ditch Cave-In
Buries 2 Men
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
Two Gainsville men were
buried Wednesday as they \yera
installing new sewer pipe at a
hospital construction site.
Fellow workers dug th< out
In a few minutes and both mea
were sent to a hospital for ob
servation.
William Bruce, 18 apd Wayne
Arnold, 52, were ne^ply smoth
ered when a bank a$ved in on
them in the 14-foot flitch. Bruce
was partially covered and Arn
old was completely burled.
“If I had been under there
another minute I wouldn’t have
made it,” Arnold said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm with widely scattered
showers or thundershowers th
rough Thursday mainly in the
afternoon gjid evenings.
LOCAIt WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 82, minimum today
60, maximum Tuesday 80, mini
mum Tuesday 50. Sunrise Th-
6:10 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 7:05 p.m.