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By Quimby Melton
Miss Julia Elliott, for the past
19 years teacher of speech and
dramatics at Griffin High Sc
hool, has been chosen Griffin’s
Woman of the Year for 1965 .
Her selection will meet with
•popular acclaim for there is no
woman in our city who has done
more to help others, especially
our young people, than she.
Quiet, modest and unassum
ing, Miss Julia Elliott, was cau
, ght completely by surprise when
a committee called on her, in
her class room, and told her of
the honor that had been confer
red on her. She had never
dreamed that the community
would confer this high honor on
her. The surprise displayed,
'when she was informed of her
selection, the committee break
ing in on her as she taught a
| class, was genuine. And for once
“the teacher of speech was
speechless.”
Miss Elliott is known as “Ma
ma Eagle” by the students at
Griffin High. It has been she to
whom students, both boys and
girls, have turned when they
needed help or guidance. Ma
ma Eagle has locked in her
1 heart the secrets of many a per
son who came to her for gui
dance while a student at GHS.
She is a remarkable woman, an
asset to our community, and
we believe her selection as Wo
man of the Year will meet with
general approval.
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Once a habit is formed — es
i pecially a bad habit — it seems
impossible to throw it off. If you
don’t think so ask the Decatur
High School Bulldog baseball
team.
Back In the spring of 1953 the
Bulldogs started losing to the
Griffin High Eagles. And they
have lost steadily and consis
tently to Griffin since then.
This year they had hopes of
'i breaking the long string of da
feats. On paper they were “sup
posed” to play GHS a close
game with the odds in favor of
the Bulldogs winning. But De
catur had formed a habit of los
ing and the Eagles accommodat
i ed them by taking an early lead
in the first inning — 9 to 0; and
then going on to close out De
catur’s nightmare 14 to 2.
Looking back on the record
book and we find that Griffin
has won 30 consecutive games
from Decatur.
One of the happiest fans at the
.game the other day was D. T.
Smith who coached baseball at
GHS until he resigned to be
come principal of Crescent
Grammar School. During the
time “D.T.” was coach the Eag
les won 24 straight from Deca
tur; since then six.
Decatur used four pitchers _
Griffin one, Ken Strickland went
the route for Griffin giving up
four hits, and striking out se
ven.
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And Decatur is not the only
[ 4-AAA baseball team that knows
the strength of our Eagles. For
Wednesday afternoon Russell
High came to Griffin in the role
of “giant killer”, and left seven
innings later on the short end
of a 6 to 2 ball game.
The victory over Russell gives
the Eagles a 6-0 record for the
4-AAA season. Six victories and
no losses, that’s a fine record
for any ball club. It is not to be
expected that the Eagles win go
all the way without a single loss,
but It is already evident that the
boys of Coach Gene Kierbow
must be taken seriously by ev
ery AAA-High School in Geor
gia.
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Noticed In the paper the other
, day where three Griffin students
had been nominated as candida
tes for the annual Achievement
Awards given by the National
Council of Teachers of English.
The three are Jan Hammock,
Judy Jones and'Jerry Maynard.
Hats off to the three and may
one of them turn up as national
winner of the award.
VACATION 8POT
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
American spies may soon be
able to come in from the cold—
or the heat, as the case may
be.
The Central Intelligence Agen
cy asked Congress Wednesday
for permission to send Its
agents some place where they
can relax and get away from
| the “conditions” which prompt
, ‘ed the need for relaxation in
the first place.
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Buddhist Monk Gets Salute
MILITANT MONK Thich Tri Quang, key figure in the Buddhist-led political
convulsion in South Viet Nam, passes ranked troops on a mission to rebellious
Da Nang to urge a halt to anti-government demonstrations. Soldiers show respect
with clasped hands.
Milledgeville State Hospital
To Be Cut To 8 9 000 Patients
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— The director of the state
board of health’s mental health
division said Wednesday night
Milledgeville state mental hos
pital would be cut from 12,000
to 8,000 patients as soon as
possible.
Dr. Addison Duval told about
100 community leaders at the
local country club in a closed
meeting that the hospital also
treats 7,000 outpatients.
Milledgeville Mayor Walter
Williams said at a news con
ference after the meeting that
Duval’s comments “put our
Safecrackers
Get $3,000
In Thomaston
THOMASTON, Ga. (UPI) —
Local police and the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation search
ed today for sarecrackers who
stole approximately $3,000 from
an office at Wells Dairies late
Wednesday.
Police chief Roy Blount said
the burglars apparently used
crowbars to peel off the front
of the safe. Blount said the job
was done by an expert safe
cracker.
The burglars left behind a
large amount in checks which
were also in the safe.
Man Slain In
Attempted
Bank Break-In
BARWICK, Ga. (UPI) — Don
aid Mock 37, of Orlando, Fla.,
was shot to death by a Barwick
policeman early today as he
and a companion allegedly at
tempted to break into the Bank
of Barwick.
Mock’s unidentified compan
ion was wounded but escaped
in a car.
Slander Suit Puzzle
Secret Agents Immune To
Laws Of Nation?
BALTIMORE (UPI) —A fe
deral court judge here is faced
with a legal dilemma unique in
the annals of American Juris
prudence: Is a U.S. secret
agent immune from the ordina
ry laws Of the nation?
The question stems from a
civil slander suit brought by
Erik Heine, 46, of Rexdale,
Ont., a suburb of Toronto,
against Juri Raus, 39, of
Hyattsville, Md., an engineer
for the U.S. Bureau of Public
Roads.
Raus is national commander
of an Estonian emigre organiza
tion dedicated to freeing the
little Baltic nation from Rus
sian rule; Heine is also
prominent in the same cause.
Heine alleges that Raus
slandered him by telling other
Estonian emigre leaders that
he (Heine) was in reality a
Griffin, Ga , 30223, Thursday, April 21, 1966
minds at ease” about decentral
ization of the facility, largest of
its kind in the world.
Baldwin county residents de
pend on the facility for johs
and income from purchases the
hospital makes.
Williams said that the hospit
al was built to handle only 8,000
patients.
Dr. John Martin of the state
board of health said he could
not tell how long it would take
to make the reduction. He said
the reduction would be possible
when planned hospitals in Au-
Rape Suspect Held
In North Carolina
ATLANTA (UPI) — Police in
Albemarle, N. C. today were
holding a 28-year-old man for
DeKalb County authorities who
said they would seek to extra
dite him for the rape of a 19
year-old girl on Sunday.
He is also suspected in two
attempted sex offenses.
Authorities said William Pat
rick Clark, 28, was also being
sought in DeKalb County for
robbery by open force, another
capital offense, and sodomy and
auto theft. Clark was arrested
early today as a result of an
all-points bulletin put out by of
ficers in southern states.
He was arrested after four
persons gave descriptions to po
lice from which a police artist
made a composite drawing. The
drawings led police to believe
that the same man committed
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63, maximum Wednesday 77,
minimum Wednesday 59. Sunrise
Friday 6:01 a.m., sunset Friday
7:11 p.m.
double agent, serving the
Russians.
Heine told a dramatic story
of capture and escape, of
daring guerrilla raids against
the Russians in Estonia in his
capacity as one of the nation’s
leaders in the fight for
freedom, according to a copy
righted dispatch in the Washing
ton Evening Star.
But the case took an even
more dramatic turn when Raus
claimed immunity from the
slander suit, citing absolute
privilege as an official of the
U.S. government—not as an
engineer for the Bureau of
Public Roads but as an agent
tor the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
And, what’s more, the CIA, in
an unheard of move, Identified
Raus as an agent. It said that
he was acting in an official
gusta, Thomasville, Atlanta and
other places are built.
Former Rep. Carl Vinson,
who lives here, said it would
take two to three years and
that the community was “in
complete accord” with the re
duction.
Dr. John Venable, director of
the Department of Health, said
there was no discussion on Dr.
Irville H. MacKinnon who re
signed as director of the hos
pital March 14 after admitting
padding his state-paid gro
cery bill $360 in 18 months.
all three offenses.
Last Sunday a 19-year-old De
Kalb County girl on her way
home from church was raped
and tied to a tree. The assail
ant then took her watch from
her and stole her car. The sodo
my charge resulted from his at
tack on her.
Tuesday afternoon a 22-year
old housewife was driving away
from a shopping center when a
man brandishing a pistol
jumped in her car. She scream
ed and the man fired the weap
on point-blank. The woman was
not harmed and officers as
sumed it was a blank cartridge.
Later Tuesday, a man tried
to lure a young girl from her
apartment by telling her his
car had smashed into her ve
hicle. The girl’s boyfriend was
present and she asked him to
come with her. The man then
fled.
The three women and the
boyfriend gave similar descrip
tions of the assailant.
Atlanta police said Clark was
eliminated as a suspect in the
disappearance last November of
Mrs. Mary Shotwell Little. Po
lice said Clark escaped from
jail at Columbia April 13 after
serving time from Sept. 30, 1963
when he began serving two 10
year sentences on larceny and
pointing firearms convictions.
capacity when he allegedly
spoke against Heine, that it had
directed him to do so.
Beyond that, however, the
CIA would not go. In fact, the
agency directed Raus to say no
more about the matter.
It is there the matter stands
now. Raus has not even
formally claimed that what he
said about Heine was true. The
CIA asserts that it would be
“contrary to the security
interests of the United States”
to divulge any more informa
tion.
Thus U.S. District Court
Judge Roszel C. Thomsen Is
faced with the problem of
deciding whether the CIA and
its agents are subject to the
ordinary processes of law, or
are immune because of their
special role In the nation’s
defenses.
Marines Fight
As War Heats Up
Help South
Troops In
Big Battle
By BRYCE MILLER
SAIGON (UPI) -U.S. Ma
rines today swung into action in
support of South Vietnamese
forces battling a Viet Cong
battalion in the biggest ground
action since Saigon’s political
turmoil erupted six weeks ago.
A spokesman said the Ma
rines and South Vietnamese
troops had killed about 200 Viet
Cong in a fierce fight that
raged across a rice paddy
battleground 335 miles north
east of Saigon.
A Marine spokesman said the
Americans had counted 62
bodies and that others were
believed killed. The Vietnamese
claimed another 120 Communist
dead.
The air war against North
Viet Nam increased sharply
today and an armada of
American warplanes heavily
attacked a vast military
complex 48 miles southeast of
Dien Bien Phu, leaving 110
buildings in flames and destroy
ing much Communist equip
ment.
The ground action began
when South Vietnamese troops
flew in by helicopters and
surrounded a Viet Cong batta
lion of some 800 men protecting
a North Vietnamese headquar
ters complex. Heavy fighting
ensued and American Leather
necks were called in.
Communist guerrillas trying
desperately to defend the
facility fought back with
barrages of mortar, recoilless
rifle and machine gun fire and
held out despite the vicious
attack and strafing runs by
U.S. Marine fighter planes.
The headquarters was located
in a system of caves dug
behind heavy fortifications in
rice paddies about 335 miles
north of Saigon.
A military spokesman said
bodies of 111 Communists were
found during a lull after two
hours of fighting. Several heavy
weapons on the fringes of the
fortifications also were cap
tured.
In the air war, a U.S.
spokesman said today an
armada of American warplanes
blasted the large military
complex 48 miles southeast of
Dien Bien Phu and left 110
buildings damaged or de
stroyed.
“As we left the target area,
about 110 buildings were
burning,” said one of the pilots,
Capt. George W. Acree II oi
Westminster, Md. “It looked
like the whole area was on
fire.”
B52 bombers staged break
fast-time raids on Viet Cong
concentrations in “War Zone
D.” the Communist-dominated
jungle area 70 miles northwest
of Saigon.
A U.S. spokesman said
Communist fire downed one
Navy A4 Skyhawk jet from the
USS Kitty Hawk during the
raids against the North. The
pilot was missing and feared
dead.
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Tis The Season
There’s more to baseball than just hitting and run
ning as demonstrated by Randy Dougherty (1) and
Eddie Lovin. The two chomped on hot dogs and
sipped soft drinks while they watched the game
here Wednesday afternoon.
GOP Attacks Loan
Plan As Crap Game
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
House Republicans rallied to
day to attack a new administra
tion plan to pool government
loan programs and sell the
public shares in it. The GOP
called it “a gigantic crap
game.”
The plan, submitted to
Congress Wednesday by Pres
ident Johnson is aimed at
having private money replace
the $8 billion in public funds
now loaned by the government
through such agencies as the
Small Business Administration,
Farmers Home Administration,
Office of Education and the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
GOP critics, outnumbered 2-1
in the House, carried their
hopes of killing the measure to
the opening today of House
Banking Committee hearings on
the pooling plan.
Johnson said the government
had made the loans in the past
because the borrowers couldn’t
get the money elsewhere. But
he added: “Desirable as these
activities are, federal lending
can, nor should, shoul
der the entire job.”
The proposal provides for
federal guarantees on payment
of interest and principal to
those who buy shares in the
pool.
“Supplementary payments”
would also be provided to meet,
in some cases, prevailing
private interest rates when the
pool interest rates were lower.
Led by House GOP Leader
Gerald R. Ford, Mich., Republi
cans assailed the plan, saying it
only appeared to save money
but actually would cost the
government more in interest.
Ford called it a losing dice
game for the taxpayer. Rep.
William Widnall, N.J., ranking
GOP member of the banking
committee, called it a "federal
hockshop” proposal.
Receipts for pool shares
would show up in the govern
ment’s financial records as a
reduction in federal expendi
tures, thus lowering the budget
deficit.
Artificial Heart
Used First Time
HOUSTON (UPI) —Famed
surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey
today inserted an artificial
heart into a human being for
the first time in a last-resort
effort to save his life.
The artificial heart, a pump
with tubes that are inserted
into the chest to take over the
pumping function of an ailing
heart, was kept on a standby
basis as DeBakey and a team
of surgeons exposed the heart
of a patient at Methodist
Hospital.
Surgery was to replace a
valve in the aorta, the main
artery leading from the heart.
Shortly after the surgery
began, the hospital announced
that DeBakey was hooking up
the artificial heart.
A team of three other
surgeons and a group of
technicians were in the operat
ing room with him. Several of
the technicians were experts in
the working of the artificial
heat DeBakey heiped develop.
Not until the surgery was
well under way did the hospital
identify the patient as Marcel
L. Dorudder, 65, of 428 Dowiatt,
Westville, HI. Derudder, unem
ployed, was admitted to the
hospital April 14.
-Win $5*
How Many
Local Pix
This Month?
Last month the Griffin
Daily News published over
200 local pictures taken by
staff photographers. These
did not include numerous
pictures from news services
or local pictures such as
those of brides submitted
by other sources.
How many local staff
pictures will the Griffin
Daily News publish this
month which ends April
30? Be a sport. Make a
guess. Mail it on a postcard
to Picture Editor, Griffin
Daily News, Griffin, Ga.
Be sure to include your
address and phone number (
Postmark the card not
later than Saturday, April
23. Nearest guess wins $5,
and when you come by to
pick up your money, we’ll
take your picture and put
it in the paper. Members
of our staff and their kin
folks aren’t eligible.
Judge Banke
Decides He
Will Not Run
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) —
Because Clayton County Judge
Harold Banke has been in th e
legal profession “too long” to
change, Banke announced Wed
nesday he will not seek the con
gressional seat now held by Rep.
John Flynt, Jr.
In a statement that he would
not run in the September Demo
cratic primary, Banke said in
effect he did not want to chan
ge professions at this point.
INSIDE
Social Security. Page 2.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 2.
Fayette Courthouse. Page 3.
Beatles. Page 3.
Ray Cromley. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
School Columns. Page 5.
McDonough Plant. Page 6.
Military. Page 6.
College News. Page 6,
Society. Pages 8, 9.
Dateline Georgia. Page 10.
Campaign. Page 10.
Bruce Biossat. Page 11.
Sports. Pages 12, 13.
Hospital. Page 14.
Stork Club. Page 14.
Commentary. Page 15.
Working Mothers. Page 15.
Comics. Page 16.
Want Ads. Pages 17-19.
Buildup. Page 20.
One Fourth Of Mankind.
Page 20.
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“An honest man doesn’t
suddenly become dishonest
any more than a clean
field suddenly becomes
weedy.”