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By Quimby Melton
This is National Library Week.
Today in America alone there
Are more than 60,000 libraries;
and according to the Encylope
dia Britannica Americans bor
row more than half-a-billion
books every year.
Here in Griffin we have the
Hawkes Library, which is head
quarters for the Flint River Re
gional Library, which serves
Spalding and five other coun
ties. We also have libraries In
most of the schools, the largest
school library probably being at
Griffin High: and there are
many churches in our city and
county that also have libraries.
One of the largest libraries to
this part of Georgia is the one
at the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion.
Griffin and Spalding County
have plenty of good libraries,
all “stocked” with the best lit
erature. The question is do we
take advantage of the opportun
ity to read and study offered us
by our libraries?
How long has it been since you
have read a book?
One may conttav j their educa
tion, whether they finished high
school or whether they went on
to take a college or university
degree, if they will Just continue
their reading, to fact a formal
education Just prepares one to
continue developing one’s mind.
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Good Evening likes nothing
more than to read. And when
h has caught up on current
books he frequently turns back
time and gets out a book that
he has read in the past, and
reads It all over. The fact that
he inherited his father’s fine
library gives him a collection
of books that is equal to some
small public library.
Several weeks ago took down
Miss Millie Rutherford’s “The
South to History and Literature,”
published in 1907. Miss Millie,
at the time she wrote this in
teresting book held the chair
of Literature at Lucy Cobb In
stitute to Athens. The opening
sentence of Miss Millie’s book,
“It has been stated that no lit
erature of any value came from
the South before 1860,” aroused
our interest and caused us to
read further, for we knew that
Miss Millie was quick,
at all times, to come to the de
fense of The South. The para
graph continued, “Surely those
who made this statement for :
got that the ‘Prince of Ameri
, can Poets’ as Victor Hugo call
ed Poe, lived before that time."
Miss Rutherford then calls at
tention to early Southern auth
ors such as William Scott Key
who wrote "The Star Spangled
Banner,” and Theodore O’Ha
ra’s “Bivouac of the Dead”, and
Edward Coates Pinckney’s “I
fill this cup to one made up of
loveliness alone”, and Richard
Henry Wilde's “My Life Is Like
the Summer Rose”.
Before the 60s Miss Ruther
ford writes there were authors
In Dixie such as John Audubon,
Meeks and Prentice and Mira
beau Lamar. Frances Robert
Gouldtog wrote his “Young
Marooners,” before the 60 — a
book which has been called the
“Robinson Crusoe of America”.
Miss Rutherford’s history is
most interesting and we suggest
that if a copy of it is to the Llb
’ rary that those who would know
more of the South and her au
thors, borrow a copy and study
It.
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Miss Rutherford also com
ments on Southern authors who
lived and wrote after the War
Between the States. Surely no
section of America produced
more authors of real merit than
; did the South. And the good
old State of Georgia contribu
ted her share.
Consider Uncle Remus whose
stories will live forever, and
that trio of Georgia poets, Frank
L. Stanton, and Robert Love
man, and Sidney Lanier. Think
about Margaret Mitchell, whose
“Gone with the Wind" is pro
bably the greatest success, as
a money maker, of all novels.
And don’t forget Corra Harris,
began whosf “Circuit Riders Widow”
a long and successful lit
erary careen
There are many more Geor
gians, we mention just a few,
and there are many more South
erners who both before the 1860s
and since then have refuted the
arguments of some criticism
that the South has produced lit
tle of literary merit.
Happy reading to you all.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Barracks Groundbreaking
Cpl.C. jL Taylor, County Commission Chairman David Elder, Mayor Louis
Goldstein and Sgt. Gene Butler (1-r) were among those on hand this morning for
a brief groundbreaking ceremony for the new state patrol home. Other city and
county commissioners as well as construction officials were present. It will be
built on the North Expressway next to the Peace Officers building. Grading is to
begin next Monday.
Mansfield Calls For
Viet Peace Conference
WASHINGTON «JPI> —Sen
ate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield’s call for a general
Viet Nam peace conference on
Asian soil drew a measure of
bipartisan support today, but it
left one vital question unan
swered.
How does the United States
get there from here?
Even as the Montana senator
was making his proposal
Monday, Red China, a vital
element in any such peace
conference, was heaping scorn
on U.S. policy In Asia.
Peking characterized Secreta
ry of State Dean Rusk’s midly
hopeful statement of U.S. policy
toward China as a “mixture of
hostility and deception,” and
said it came against a
background of steady expansion
of the U.S. “war of aggression
in Viet Nam. . ."
Rusk himself, on numerous
occasions, has said that peace
feelers to Hanoi and Peking
have been rejected by the
Communists.
Mansfield, a leading Senate
authority on Far Eastern
affairs, told the Senate, “It is in
Asia wher e the peace must be
made and kept. It may well be,
therefore, that it is in Asia
where peace must now be—
directly and vigorously —
sought.”
He suggested that the admi
nistration abandon its efforts to
reach a paceful settlement
through the United Nations, or
through Britain and Russia as
co-chairmen of the long dor
mant Geneva conference on
Indochina.
“The trouble in Viet Nam is
deeper and more complex than
we have heretofore been
prepared to acknowledge,” he
said. “We would do well now to
face up to that fact.”
Mansfield said the basic
factor In U.S. policy is to
establish “conditions through
negotiations which will assure
and safeguard an authentic and
free choice” for the South
Vietnamese.
“Perhaps there is something
to be said for direct confronta
tion across a peace table
between ourselves and Hanoi,
Peking and such elements in
Child In Mother’s
Arms Shot Dead
TALBOTTON, Ga. (UPI) _
Talbot County authorities today
investigated the fatal shooting
of a six-months old child and
the wounding of its mother
Monday night.
Sheriff Jim Hendrioks said
the shooting occurred in the
Juniper community near the
town of Woodland. He said Ber
nice King, 22, was holding a
six-month-old child when her
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Changing Face Of Griffin
The face of Griffin continues to change with new buildings. This one is being
constructed on the Griffin High campus at Sixth and Poplar streets. The old
administration building, a Griffin landmark, can be seen at the right. The new
building will house classrooms and some administrative offices. It is expected to
be finished before school opens this fall.
Two Killed In
Auto Collision
Two people were killed and
two injured in a head-on collis-
1.2 miles north of Milner be
noon today.
They were identfited as Mrs.
Rusk, 31, of Redbone
in Lamar County
James Frank Doud, 74, of
Chicago.
They were dead on arrival at
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Injured were Mrs. Rusk’s hus
Tom J. Rusk, and Mr.
wife. Both were being
father, Clayton King, shot at
them with a shotgun.
The blast killed the baby and
wounded the woman. She was
admitted to the Columbus Med
ical Center in fair condition
with a gunshot wound in the
arm.
Hendricks said no formal
charges have yet been placed
against King, pending a more
complete investigation.
ATLANTA CUPI) Three
counties surrounding Taliaferro
County have informed the Tali
aferro School Board they will
accept no transfer students be
ginning next fall, State School
Supt. Jack Nix said Tuesday,
President Ends
Ranch Visit
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Johnson returned to the
White House early today,
tanned and smiling after the 12
day st:,y at his Texas ranch.
The President had little
scheduled work for today. He
conferred with Secretary of
State Dean Husk and cleaned
up paperwork Monday before
returning to the nation’s capitol
shortly after midnight.
In the Rusk talks, the
President discussed a number
of foreign policy matters before
the secretary departed for a
meeting of the Central Treaty
Organization (CENTO) in
Ankara, Turkey.
keeping of a peaceful settle
in that region,” he said.
treated at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
Investigators said one of the
vehicles was passing a car dri
ven by Albert Benge of Shelby
ville, Mich., when the collision
occurred.
They said the Benge auto was
pulling a house trailer.
Mrs. Rusk formerly worked
in Griffin for a ladies clothing
store.
Mr. Rusk is in the dairy busi
ness in Lamar County.
Reports said he and his wife
had just left the home of relativ
es in Lamar County after visit
ing with them.
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Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly Cloudy and
warm tonight and Wednesday
with widely scattered showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 75, minimum today
58, maximum Monday 78, mini
mum Monday 53. Rainfall .15 of
an inch. Sunrise Wednesday 6:03
a.m., sunset Wednesday 7:10
p.m.
Pickets At Cape
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
rocket electricians,
ignoring a government request
to reduce picketing, today
stalled two key moonport
construction projects for the
second day with the same lines
that turned away 500 workers
Monday.
The electricians, striking
against the United Technology
Center (UTC), maintained pick
et lines at all four main
entrances to the space center
despite a request that they
limit pickets to only one gate.
“The situation is Just about
the same as it was yesterday,”
said a spokesman fdr the Army
Corps of Engineers. About 45
per cent of the Cape’s 1,146
building tradesmen were again
off the job.
The spokesman said the
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All white students from Talia
ferro County were transported
to Green, Wilkes and Warren
counties last fall leading to ra
cial demonstrations in Taliafer
ro,
Nix said the action by the
three counties was taken sep
arately. He said that new fed
eral desegregation guidelines
probably were a significant fac
tor in the decision. The guide
lines say that students cannot
be transported across county
lines to avoid integration.
Nix said that the Taliaferro
School Board has been in
formed of the action of the
three counties. He will make a
report to Federal Judge Griffin
Bell later this week which he
said would deal with the Talia
ferro County situation. He
would not, however, reveal the
contents of the report.
The white children left Alex
ander Stephens Institute when
local school officials approved
admission of Negroes. But when
the Negroes showed up, all the
whites were gone and the
school was closed.
Several weeks of racial dem
monstrations ensued in Craw
fordvllle until a federal court
Schooner In
Trouble Off
Ala. Coast
PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPI) —
A 68 - foot twin masted schoon
er the American Eagle, report
ed it was in trouble today in
rough seas off the Alabama
coast.
The American Eagle had nine
persons aboard. Their names
4ere not available. The ship be
ongs to Spence Brothers Sea
food of Pensacola.
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from following the advice
we think others needs.”
strikers, members of the
International Union of Electri
cians (AFL-CIO), were ignoring
signs placed at each entrance
asking for a reduction in
picketing.
The Air Force and Federal
Space Agency Monday night
directed all UTC employes and
their suppliers to use only one
entrance today. The strikers
were requested to confine
picketing to that gate only to
clear the way for a return to
work by the construction
workers.
The Air Force said today that
since the directive was Issued
after working hours Monday,
all UTC employes may not
have been aware of it. The Air
Force said it expected the
picketing to be reduced later
, today or Wednesday..
ordered that Negroes be per
mitted t otransfer to neighbor
ing schools.
Coed Wants
Husband
For A Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI)
— The classified advertisement
in the Harvard Crimson read:
“One year marriage? Seems
to be the only way for a Cliffie
to get out of the dorm. I’ll
share expenses, am a good
cook, other details? We can
work it out. Contact Crimson
box 2,000.”
The ad was placed In the
university’s student daily news
paper Monday by an attractive
Radcllffe coed who is sick and
tired of living in a dormitory.
The girl, a 20-year-old Junior,
says she has just learned she
will not be one of the 30
Radcliffe seniors granted per
mission to live off campus next
year.
“I really intended the thing
as a protest against Radcliffe’s
policies, but I’m seroius,” she
said.
“I have to get married or I
don’t have a reason for living
off campus.”
The coed, who asked to
remain unidentified for fear she
would be expelled, said she
didn’t expect many answers
and “probably no serious
ones.”
But on (he first day, she
received more than a dozen
replies.
One read simply: "Well?"
with a man’s name and
address.
Another replied: “I was
about to advertise for a female
roommate but I’m not sure of a
one-year marriage, though. I
need a cook but you’ll have to
cook a test dinner, etc., of
course.”
The coed said a lot of her girl
friends at Radcliffe knew about
the ad and think it’s “kind of
funny.” She said her parents,
however, think she is "nuts.”
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Roof Damaged
Someone drove the American Business Club school
bus for exceptional children into the ticket office at
Memorial Stadium and knocked the roof off. The
bus had been left at the stadium entrance overnight.
School officials called it an act of vandalism. The
bus had minor damage. The building appeared to
have been hit twice deliberately, officials said.
Encounter
Only Light
Ground Fire
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —Two U.S.
Navy Jets struck into North
Viet Nam’s industrial heartland
blasting the vital Uong Bi plant
which furnishes about 30 per
cent of the power for the
Hanoi-Haiphong area, a milita
ry spokesman said today.
The Jets from the USS Kitty
Hawk encountered only light
antiaircraft fire as they
screamed in low in the dead of
night to within 14 miles of the
port at Haiphong—as close as
any American attackers have
gone.
It was the fourth raid against
the power plant in four months.
The pilots hit It Just about
every time the Communists get
It working again.
In ground action, U.S. forces
reported killing 52 Viet Cong.
The biggest kill was made by
elements of the U.S. 25th
Division sweeping an area
about 30 miles northwest of
Saigon in Operation Kahala.
They accounted for 28 of the
enemy dead.
Smaller Actions
Paratroopers from the 173rd
Airborne Brigade and elements
of a Royal Australian regiment
killed 15 guerrillas in Operation
Denver about 75 miles north
west of Saigon and Marines in
the northern provinces killed
nine in a series of small
actions.
Other Navy planes from the
Kitty Hawk and the USS
Ticonderoga hit military and
communications targets in
North Viet Nam near VInh,
Dien Bien Phu, Dong Hoi and
several other Communist cities.
One A1 Skyraider was shot
down by automatic weapons
fire near Tiger Island Just off
the North Vietnamese coast but
the pilot was rescued.
The intruders slashed in low
over the power plant Just
before midnight Monday and
then performed a “pop up,” an
abrupt climb to release their
bombs. Pilots said the plant
immediately went dark and the
sky was filled with "showers of
sparks.”