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By Quimby Melton
Sometimes the slightest clue
will lead a skilled detective —
is described in the “Who Done
It?” books — to a solution of the
mystery.
, Now Good Evening is not a de
tective but there was one little
clue that enabled him clear up
a mystery that had bugged him
all day Sunday.
The mystery was “Who’s got
Good Evening’s best pair of
pants?” the ones he had had
cleaned and pressed to w e a r
Sunday.
Here was the "mystery” and
the "solution.”
One day last week Good Even
ing took a pair of pants —slacks
they call them now — to a re
liable dry cleaner. Saturday
morning Good Evening called
for the pants and took them
i home and hung them in his clo
set.
Sunday morning getting ready
for the Sabbath, took the pants
out of the plastic bag and plac
ed them on his bed. We then sat
down and put on our sox and
shoes, then got the pants, or
slacks, and started to put them
on, something was wrong. We
couldn't get the first foot any
. further down than the knee. We
squirmed and wiggled — like
Red Skelton does when he is
pantomining a woman getting
into or out of her girdle —but to
no avail. Then we pulled the
pants off and examined them.
They were tailored pants and
evidently belonged to some much
younger, much slimmer, much
more "hep” party than this old
timer. We measured the wa
ist, and it was 28 inches — with
a struggle we can get into a 38
Inch pair of pants.
Those 1966 pair of pants,
slacks, trousers or what you
may call them, that we could not
get into, were made to fit snug
ly whoever wore them. They
i were so well tailored that Good
Evening wondered if they could
belong to some slim young lady.
Anyway it was evident they
were not made for him.
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Then Monday morning the
slim clue led to the solution of
the question “Who’s got Good
Evening’s best pair of pants?”
We had kept the plastic bag
that had protected the pants.
It’s the type bag that has the
warning “Don’t let little child
ren get hold Of this bag. to their
play; they might suffocate.” We
, came to town planning to call at
all dry cleaning plants until we
found where that bag came
from. At the very first one,
found that we had located the
one that had mistakenly given
us the tight fitting breeches in
place of our more comfortable,
and no doubt more appropriate
pants.
They had our pants in the of
fice. The party to whom the
smaller, tighter pants belonged,
had noticed the mixup when he
< called for his, had left them
with them, and had asked that
they try and locate the proper
garment. So the mystery was
cleared. Good Evening was puz
zled when he tried to put on
those tailored, slim pants, but
not inconvenienced. He Just
dug out a heavy pair of winter
pants and sweated out the day.
We hope that the younger, slim
• mer, more up-to-date
man we found young
— out it was a
young man — had not planned
to wear those pants, given us
by mistake, to some Saturday
night shindig.
Anyway the mystery was sol
ved by one slim clue— the bag
In which the trousers had been
placed.
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As Good Evening struggled to
get into those pants he thought
of pants that were popular with
the young men much earlier in
the century. They were called
peg-top trousers”. They were
modelled like the Dutch bloomer
pants and when a young man
could put his hands in his pock
ets, hold the pants way out and
be unable to pass through a
door, he was the last word in
, male fashions.
So don’t laugh at the present
day fashions — both boy a n d
girl fashions — remember when
“You and I Were Young, Mag
gie.”
COURT MEETS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Supreme Court meets today to
hand down opinions and orders
before starting the last week of
' arguments of the current term.
The court has about 30 cases
under advisement.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo),
Sgt. Winzell displays one of the certificates of appreciation from the Army he will
present to Griffinites. One is for the citizens of Griffin and another is for the citi
zens of Spalding County. They will be presented to city and county commission
ers as representatives of the people.
Sgt. Winzell
Home From War
“Blump, Blump. That was it."
That’s how S-Sgt. James Win
zell of Griffin described an ex
change of hand grenades with
Viet Cong in which he was
wounded.
He talked of the incident calm
ly this morning as he sat in a
cool breeze on the porch swing
at the home of his mother-in
law, Mrs. Opal Imes, at High
Bennett Date
Set For May 11
Tap Bennett, Jr., native of Gr
iffin and former ambassador to
the Dominican Republic, defini
tely will be in Griffin with h i s
father May 11 to be honored at
the Kiwanis Club.
Other civic clubs will be invit
ed to attend.
Otis Weaver, Sr., of the Kiwa
nis program committee, met
with the group today to work out
details of the affair.
Ambassador Bennett’s father
was former Spalding County
Agent.
He will be honored on his
birthday when he appears here
with his son.
The May 11 date was tenta
tive until it could be cleared with
the State Department.
Country Parson
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“Religion is what happens
to church people while
they are not in their pews.”
DAILY
Established 1871
land Mill community.
It happened on a ni ght am
bush patrol.
About 22 men from Sgt. Win
zell’s outfit paired off on the
patrol. He had been on hundreds
of them.
On this particular night, he
was paired with a Negro soldier
named Adams. Sgt. Winzell did
n’t recall his first name.
The patrol walked about a
mile and a half from its en
campment and set up for an am
bush. The sun had hardly set.
The Griffin sergeant and his
partner got into their position.
Almost before he knew it, an
unknown number of Viet Cong
were in the ambush trap.
“I broke the ambush,” Sgt.
Winzell recalled.
When he spotted the Cong, he
cut loose with his rifle. Three of
the Cong fighters fell. Then he
lobbed a hand grenade.
It exploded.
Gunfire rattled all around him
and his partner.
Just as Winzell’s grenade ex
ploded, here came one from the
Viet Cong.
The blast caught him and his
partner.
Shrapnel hit the Griffin fight
er in the arm and head.
Pieces of metal also tore into
his partner.
The whole thing didn’t last
more than a couple of minutes.
Then the U. S. patrol pulled
back.
Sgt. Winzell and his partner
joked and talked only as men
at war talk with each other as
they walked. Soon they were in
a clearing where helicopters
picked them up and took them
to a hospital.
Adams, the partner of the Gr
iffin sergeant for the patrol, al
ready has been discharged.
Sgt. Winzell is home on 30
days leave. He will report to Ft.
Bragg, N. C. when his leave is
up.
He arrived in Griffin early
Sunday night.
This morning he displayed half
dozen or so certificates of ap
preciation his commanding gen
eral asked him to deliver to Gr
iffinites.
They express appreciation from
the Army to the citizens of Grif
fin and Spalding County for
sending soap and clothing to or-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Go., 30223, Monday, April 25, 1966
Russell Asks
Policy Review
Says Citizens
Disagree With
Handling Of War
WASHINGTON (UPI) _ Sen.
Richard B. Russell, once a lead
er of Senate “hawks” In the de
bate over Viet Nam policy, said
today it may be time to “re
examine our entire position,
however painful that re-oxami
nation might be."
The Georgia Democrat, chair
man of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee and a long
time friend of President John
son, said that a majority of the
American people disagree with
the administration’s handling of
the war.
“I think the attitude of the
average person is that we
should go in and win—or else
get out," he said in a copy
righted interview in U.S. News
& World Report. “I don’t think
the present method of waging
war over there meets with the
approval of the majority of peo
ple I come in contact with.”
Russell said that if the United
States is “caught up there in
tides of religious controversy
and political controversy and
philosophical disagreements to
the point that the lives of
American boys are endangered
when they walk down the
streets of a city they have come
to save from the Communists
—if that’s the case — then it’s
time we re-examine our entire
position, however painful that
re-examination might be.”
Russell’s call for a new look
at U.S. policy in Viet Nam
came against a background of
increasing Republican criticism
of the Johnson administration’s
direction of the war effort.
Speaking of civil turbulence,
Russell called for a thorough
survey of public opinion in the
cities of South Viet Nam.
“If that survey shows that
the majority of them are anti
American, I think we should
withdraw now, because we can’t
possibly win if we are fighting
an enemy in front of us while
the people we ar e supposed to
be helping are against us and
want us out of their country,”
the Georgia senator said.
“It wouldn’t be easy for us to
extricate ourselves, but we
could do it,” Russell added.
“Having absolute command of
the seas and the air, we could
accomplish a withdrawal with
out great loss . . .”
Air Safety
Meet Tonight
The Federal Aeronautics Ag
ency (FAA) will have a flight
safety meeting for pilots in this
area here tonight.
It will be held at the commu
nity room of the Commercial
Bank and Trust Co., beginning at
8 o’clock.
All pilots in the Griffin area
have been invited to attend.
Lee J. Mercure, superinten
dent of inspection for General
Aviation Inspection office for
Georgia, will present the pro
gram.
It will be a speech-slide pre
sentation on air safety.
phans in Viet Nam.
Sgt. Winzell is responsible for
the drive in which the goods
were collected.
When he was home last Janu
ary on emergency leave becau
se of a death in the family, Sgt.
Winzell told of a group of Viet
namese orphans his unit had
“adopted.”
Griffinites responded quickly
to Sgt. Winzell’s appeal for sup
plies.
Soap and clothing came in
from all over the city and coun
ty and from some neighboring
communities. Students here
joined in the effort.
In a few days, Sgt. Winzell had
a living room full of supplies.
The next problem was getting
it to South Viet Nam.
Several Griffinites contacted
state and federal officials and
finally arrangements were made
for a Georgia National Guard
plane to fly the goods over.
Ed Crawford, juvenile proba
tion officer, took the supplies to
Warner Robins Air Force base
at Macon where they were put
on a plane and flown to V i e t
Nam.
Sgt. Winzell was waiting when
they arrived. He and some other
members of his outfit had a
truck.
They took the supplies to the
orphans. Smiles broke out on
their faces when they were giv
en the clothing and soap.
“The soap made a big hit"
Sgt. Winzell said.
The Vietnamese people like
Americans, despite the recent
demonstrations which have bro
ken out, the Griffin sergeant
said.
“We are winning them over
gradually,” he said.
The Viet Cong have been
there for years and years but
U. S. forces have been there
only about five, he said.
If the fighting stopped today,
there still would be terror strik
es and violence by the Viet Cong
for years to come, Sgt. Winzell
believes.
The Viet Cong are so well in
filtrated in South Viet Na m that
they will be there for some
time, he believes.
Terror strikes such as bomb
ing the enlisted man’s barracks
near Saigon will continue for a
long time, he thinks.
Thomaston Police
Report ‘Objects’
THOMASTON, Ga. (UPI) —
Five Thomaston. police officers
reported seeing a round, bright
ly glowing object hovering in
the sky for more than an hour
over this central Georgia city
early Sunday.
Sgt. Michael Webb said he re
ported the sighting to the Rob
ins Air Force Base which asked
the location and said it was
dispatching a fighter squadron
to attempt to make visual con
tact.
Base spokesmen, however,
said they had no information
on the object.
Webb said police were alert
ed to the object by several
boys about 5 a.m.
Lt. Kenzle Salter said he and
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Vol. 95 No. 96
Vandiver Talks Taxes;
Arnall Eyes Vote Reform II
Ex-Governor
Defends
Jim Gillis
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Gov. Ernest Vandiver spoke out
in defense of state Highway Di
rector Jim Gillis Sunday night
and hinted that lower property
taxes were needed.
Vandiver, who made it obvi
ous he was seeking a second
term as governor, spoke to an
estimated 1,500 persons at the
52nd annual convention of the
Georgia Association of County
Commissioners.
Vandiver’s defense of Gillis
brought three separate rounds
of applause from the delegates.
Ellis Arnall, Vandiver’s ma
jor opponent in the Democratic
primary, was not mentioned by
name, but it was obvious that
Vandiver was assaulting Arnall
for his recent criticism **' of Gil
lis.
"I resent the unwarranted,
demagogic, purely political per
sonal attacks on the state high
way administration in this state
eminating from certain quar
ters,” Vandiver said. “I resent
the frenzied, whining attacks on
its director, whose long and
honorable life has been notable
for honest, dedicated, efficient
and loyal service to the people
of this state."
Challenged to Speak
Arnall, who will speak to the
commissioners at noon today,
has said the Vandiver-Gills re
lationship will be a major cam
paign issue this summer.
Vandiver challenged Arnall to
speak out against Gillis to the
commissioners. “If this dastard
ly and cowardly brand of poli
ticking is to be pursued further
in Georgia, let those who would
pursue it, pursue it here and
now,” he said.
Gillis, who was seated at the
head table for the Vandiver
speech, received a round of ap
plause from the commissioners
when he was first introduced.
Vandiver said that property
taxes cannot be allowed to “de
stroy the firesides of Georgia.”
High Taxes Lashed
“You and I know that homes
have been taxed and taxed—
until they have been about
taxed out of existence,” he
said, “We cannot look much
further to homes as the source
of revenue needed to support
local needs; in fact some relief
for homes is indicated where
the levies have gotten out of
reason.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed
that the association’s Board of
Managers decided against in
troducing a resolution urging
the creation of a separate state
department of mental health.
U$ j ets> Navy
Drive Back
Post Attackers
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —U. S. jets
and naval artillery blasted a
Viet Cong attacking a govern
ment command post along the
central coast today hurling
back the attackers and killed 50
Communists.
The fighting started when the
Communists struck a govern
ment battalion in the Khanh
Hoa sector, about 200 miles
northeast of Saigon, just as it
was moving out on a search
and clear operation before
dawn.
The government troops held
them at bay and called for
help. U. S. fighter planes
screamed in on low level
bombing and strafing runs and
an American destroyer lying
just off shore opened up with
its big guns.
Two waves of the attackers
were hurled back before the
Viet Cong decided to break off
the engagement and leave.
Friendly casualties were light.
332 Claimed Killed
Government officials also
disclosed during the weekend
that 332 guerrillas were killed
in bitter fighting against allied
forces on several fronts.
In the air war. U. s. officials
said two Air Force F105
Thunderchiefs were shot down
for the second day in a row
during raids about 25 miles
north of the North Vietnamese
capital of Hanoi.
Officials refused to say how
they were shot down, but a
separate communique an
nounced that two pilots —Maj.
Jimmy L. Jones, 34, of Luling,
Texas, and Maj. Richard A.
Dutton, 36, of Las Vegas,
spotted four surface-to-air mis
siles during the raid and
flashed an alert to other pilots.
Lansdell Named
Comptroller
Of Hospital
George M. Lansdell has been
named comptroller-business of
fice manager of the Griffin-Spal
ding County Hospital. He suc
ceeds Lloyd McVaney.
Landsdell will assume his new
duties on June 1.
Bom in Atlanta, he served
four years with the Air Force.
He was associated with the Em
ory University Medical Labora
tories following his tour of duty
with the Air Force.
He received his bachelor of
business administration degree
from Georgia State College in
Atlanta where he majored in
hospital administration.
Landsdell is married to the
former Faye Lanier of Valdos
ta. They are the parents of a
daughter, Susan Lynn, two.
They are members of the Ep
worth Methodist Church of At
lanta.
Mrs. Lansdell received her de
gree in medical technology at
Emory University.
Lansdell and his family plan
to move to Griffin from Atlanta.
Weather:
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AREA — Cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with widely scattered
showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 78, low today 58, high Sun
day 78, low Sunday 57; su n rise
Tuesday 5:56; sunset Tuesday
7:14.
two officers went to the home
of J. C. Burke of Thomaston,
whose son, James Burke, had
reported the sighting.
Salter said they watched the
object hover in the sky about 300
yards up and that its brightness
changed in intensity.
He said it moved southeast
ward until it went out of sight.
Webb said he was able to
see the object from the police
station and that it changed from
white to red. He said it hovered
for about an hour, and moved
in small circles.
Officer John Callaway des
cribed the object as “reddish
on one side and greenish on the
other and had streaks of fire
over it, like sparklers.”
Simplify:
To Increase
Vote Lists
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Gov. Ellis Arnall today said he
would simplify and increase
registration and voting in Geor
gia if elected governor this
year.
He said in a speech pre
pared for delivery at the As
sociation of County Commission
ers meeting that less than 50
per cent of eligible Georgia vot
ers are registered.
“It is shocking,” Arnall said.
He said that while he was
governor the number of regist
ered voters was doubled to
more than one million by pass
ing laws that included lowering
the voting age from 21 to 18
and opening primaries and elec
tions to all citizens.
“There is nothing wrong with
government today that a good
dose of democracy will not
cure," Arnall said.
The forme? governor outlined
his campaign platform:
—Expand University of Geor
gia system, increase teachers*
salaries and retirement pay to
bring Georgia from 49th to at
least the national average in
education;
—Industrial expansion by co
operating with city and county
leaders;
—Complete over-haul of tax
structure to eliminate “unfair"
taxes such as the state income
tax on the federal income tax;
—Complete reorganization of
state government and a new
Constitution;
—Comprehensive fight against
crime to include the state sup
plementing by $10 a month
pay of policemen, firemen,
sheriffs, deputies, prison war
dens and prison guards;
—Revamp the Highway De
partment and put a professional
engineer in charge “and not a
professional politician.” (This
was a swipe at the present
highway director, Jim Gillis,
whom former Gov. Ernest Van
diver, expected to oppose Arnall
in the election, praised in a
speech Sunday to the commis
sioners);
—A new state Capitol build
ing;
—Recapture states’ rights
from the federal government by
assuming “state responsibili
ties;"
—Greater government control
on city and county levels.
“The only limitation on the
glorious future that lies ahead
for our state and our people is
the limitation which we impose
today by lack of courage, vigor,
and determination,” Arnall con
cluded.
Bloodmobile
Visits Tuesday
The bloodmobile will visit Gr
iffin Tuesday. Headquarters will
be in the Cheatham auditorium
of the First Baptist Church.
The bloodmobile will be here
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The American Red Cross has
said that this will be Grifflnites'
opportunity to aid the fighting
men in Viet Nam.
Blood factions are needed to
combat hepatitis and shock cau
sed by wounds. The factions are
available only from the United
States. Whole blood is available
in the Far East.
Several weeks are needed for
preparation of the factions before
they are ready to send to V i e t
Nam.
The Red Cross has been ask
ed to collect 250,000 units of
blood for factions.
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