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17 ■ Vl VENIN GOOD P VJ
By Quimby Melton
It took 12 innings to do it, for
Jonesboro was fighting our Eag
les every minute of the game.
Then here came Frank Hinson
with a triple that scored two
men and gave Griffin High the
Sub Region 4-AAA championship
Strickland, who had pitched a
masterful game and who seem
ed as strong in the 12th as when
he started, held the Jonesboro
nine scoreless in their half of the
12th and the title was ours.
Whom the Eagles will meet for
the region title was not known
when Good Evening wrote his
column, since there were three
teams in the other half of the
region who had rained-out gam-
1 es left to be played.
But we’re on our way to anoth
er championship.
♦
A friend commenting on o u r
reference to a long, long trailer
mobile home as it blocked traf
fic here the other day has come
up with a “suggestion” as to
how the dangers on “Killer
Strip” could be lessened. In fact
if this suggestion should be car
ried out it would make all our
highways much safer for all.
“I think all of us, including
myself,” said this friend, “are
prone to criticise the drivers of
other automobiles and overlook
the fact that we personally may
not be as good a driver as we
should be. We want to blame
‘that fool’ who was driving the
other car. Never for one moment
will many of us admit that we
probably were driving too fast,
were driving a car with mech
anical troubles, were taking a
chance, and such. It wasn’t our
fault. The other driver was to
blame.
“I have heard people go so far
’ as to say they pay more atten
tion to the other car than they
do to their own,” the conversa
tion continued. “It takes two to
tango,” was a song of some ye
ars ago. Well it almost invaria
bly takes two to bring a smash
up.”
This friend has no doubt hit
the /problem but how right in in the the world solar
pis'.Us,
w / .i they ever be able to convin
ce all — including Good Even
ing, that we are not safe, sane,
intelligent and careful automo
biles drivers, in fact better driv
ers than anyone else on the
road?
Of course one should be alert
to other cars but one should not
pay so much attention to them
that he neglects to handle his
'own car as he should; and ab
ove all If he is unfortunate en
ough to have an accident don’t
put all the blame on the other
fellow — he probably feels in
his own heart that the other fel
low is the one to blame.
Young Pilot
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Dies In Crash
LAGRANGE, Ga. (UPI) — A
LaGrange College student who
had soloed for the first time last
Wednesday was killed Friday
Eight when his rented plane
crashed on takeoff from Calla
way airport.
Authorities found the body of
Tom Gastona, Dover, Dela., in
the wreckage of the single
engine plane about three-quar
ters of a mile from the end of
the south runway.
Gastona took off alone in the
two-seat trainer about 11 p. m.
EST. The airport nightwatchman
said he heard a sound like that
of an automobile collision and
notified police.
Police, civil defense and vol
unteer searchers discovered the
wreckage about 1:30 a.m. today.
Country Parson
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“Fanners are smarter
than politicians — they
know they can’t be on two
sides of a fence at once
without getting hurt.”
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Just In Case
Just in case the sun comes out this weekend, Janet Glisson, pretty Griffin recep
tionist and secretary, has her sun glasses ready. She struck this striking pose for
the Griffin Daily News camera and seems to represent thousands of Griffinites
who are ready for the summer and sun season.
US Planes Continue
To Pound Commies
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) U.S. Air
Force and Navy planes fol
lowed up Thursday’s record
smash at North Viet Nam with
heavy bombing attacks Friday
on Communist-held territory
north of the border, U.S.
spokesmen said today.
A total of 82 missions were
Camera Visits
Griffin Jaco
The Griffin Daily News
camera this week visited
Griffin Jaco Mills to pho
tograph the people who
make T-Shirts and under
wear for men. Check this
interesting photo essay on
page three today of the
Griffin Daily News.
--Veteran Of Capital Hill Service
Miss Thelma Shocked At
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Back
in 1927 a West Virginia Con
gressman sponsoring a coal
mine bill offered to trade votes
with the late Rep. W.W. Larsen,
D-Ga., who needed support for
his “fertilizer bill.”
The vote swapping offer
shocked a young woman who
had arrived from Byron, Ga., in
July, 1917, to become one of the
few females on Congressional
staffs at that time.
In her decade of experience
she had never seen or heard of
such a thing. She said many
years later: “I nearly dropped
dead.”
Today Miss Thelma Williams,
69, has filled such secretarial
roles longer than any other
Georgia woman she knows and
is a veteran politician in her
own right. But the shock to her
sensibilities remains.
“Miss Thelma,” as she is
Griffin, Go., 30223, Saf. and Sun., May 14-15, 1966
launched against Communist
positions, 57 by the Navy and
25 by the Air Force. This was
not quite as large as Thurs
day’s record total of 135
missions.
An Air Force Phantom jet
piloted by Capt. Armand J.
Myers of Medford, Ore.,
successfully evaded a Russian
anti-aircraft missile near Dong
Hoi, but another Phantom was
lost in the same area. It was
not certain whether the downed
Phantom was hit by a missile
or by conventional ground fire.
The two crewmen of the lost
jet were listed officially as
“missing,” meaning they are
believed to be either dead or
captured.
A spokesman said that as of
May 11 243 U.S. planes had
been shot down over North Viet
Nam since attacks there began
on Feb. 7, 1965. He said 104
planes have been lost over
South Viet Nam since the first
of this year.
In another development Com-
known, has seen vote-trading be
come accepted but she is not
reconciled to It. In her view it
has helped diminish the stature
and power of Congress.
Watches National Scene
Miss Thelma, who watches
the national scene from the Sen
ate chaplain’s tiny office, be
lives Congress has slipped be
low its rightful place as one of
three equal branches of govern
ment.
She said vote-trading is one
of many possible causes. The
chief cause, she said, is the lack
of deep concern by most mem
bers for the issues before the
nation.
“I feel it,” she said. “I can
sit down and be so hurt when
I see the way they do certain
things that it sometimes breaks
mv heart.”
“I think the chief thing is
their attitude of being satisfied
about things. Or, if they are
going to do something, they
munist Guerrillas kidnaped a
U.S. soldier Friday on a
highway near the 1st Airborne
Cavalry division’s outpost at
Bong Son, according to U.S.
Army spokesmen.
They said the Communists
snatched the American off a
motorscooter he was riding on
National Highway 1.
The soldier had been listed as
AWOL until investigators
evidence “conclusively
ing” he was abducted, the
spokesmen said.
In the air war Navy planes
from the carriers Enterprise
and Kitty Hawk attacked
targets near Thanh Ho and
Vinh.
Flunked Again
BRISTOL, England (UPI) —
Miss Margaret Hunter, the 68
year-old former school teacher
who has been trying to get a
drivers license for more than 20
years, took her 41st test
Friday. She flunked.
ask, “What does the majority
Leader say?’ or they do what
the president asks.”
She said that one would think
Congress would be concerned
over a matter vitally affecting
itself, but Congress left it to the
courts to order needed district
reapportionment.
“You would think Congress
would have forty - eleven dozen
fits bul they more or less ac
cepted it,” she said.
Deep Pride
Miss Thelma is not one to ac
cept the role of chronic “sour
puss.” She asserted she is not;
she has a deep pride in Congress
and she has, with her criti
cism, t> constructive sugges
tion: Let the people speak!
When important issues racked
the Congress in her early days,
she said, Army trucks were
needed to bring them their
mail. But not today.
“I have long said, if the In
dividual citizen would value his
News At
A Glance
China Bomb
WASHINGTON -Red China
may have an H-bomb within
nine months says a congression
al expert.
★
Kidnap Search
SHADE GAP, Pa. —Police
and civilian posses are combing
a mountain area searching for
a missing teen-ager and her
abductor.
★
Draft Tests
UNDATED —Some 900,000
students taking tests for draft
deferment status face picket
lines.
★
Kosygin
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt
Soviet Premier Kosygin and
President Nasser of Egypt
continue their talks in an
atmosphere of mounting anti
Americanism.
★
Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. —Mississip
pi legislature votes to end the
half-century of prohibition in
the nation’s last legally “dry”
state.
★
Marantime
LONDON —A threatened
maritime walkout scheduled for
Sunday evening could strangle
Britain’s economy.
Posse Of 600
Pushes Search
For Kidnap Girl
By LEE LEONARD
United Press international
SHADE GAP, Pa. (UPI) —A
posse of about 600 men set out
again today in what could be a
last-ditch search through the
rugged Tuscarora Mountains
for 17-year-old Peggy Ann
Bradnick and her masked
kidnaper.
“I feel that with all the
searchers out this weekend that
if nothing turns up we can
assume they are out of the
area," said Lt. Edward Mitar
nowski, the State Police officer
leading the search.
The search, which entered its
fourth day, was centered in an
18-square-mile area of the
mountain range near this south
central Pennsylvania hamlet.
The huge posse, composed of
State Police, FBI agents,
National Guardsmen and civi
lians, swelled today with the
addition of men home from
their jobs for the weekend.
Mitarnowski asked for more
searchers, particularly hunters
and campers accustomed to
wild terrain.
government and the power he
can exercise and, no matter
what his thoughts are, express
them, that is the only thing in
the world that can do it,” she
said.
“If the people want Congress
to be strong and make lt
known, Congress would become
strong.”
In 1931 Georgia Congressmen
took a hand in reapportioning
their districts because the
state’s relative population had
dropped. The number of seats
were reduced from 12 to 10.
Miss Thelma said that during
that period she worked late in
her office drawing trial re
districting maps.
Miss Thelma got her educa
tion from Wesleyan College and
at the Georgla-Alabama Busi
ness College at Macon.
Year in Washington
Heading the business “allege
was the late Eugene Anderson,
j who later became associate
Vol. 95 No. 113
Russell Critical
Of Court Power
Georgia Commentary
GOP Rise Shakes
State Demos
By DON PHILLIPS I
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Democrats are scared, some to
the point of panic, by the
strongest Republican onslaught
they have ever faced.
This fright manifests itself in
various ways, but generally
Democratic officeholders and
those on the state payroll divide
themselves into two groups—
those who will not admit there
is a Republican problem and
those who consider themselves
and their ideas the Democra
tic Party’s only savior.
The former group is made up
mostly of appointed officials and
aides while the latter group is
composed of those actively cam
paigning for office.
There is a third group on the
fringes of the party which be
lieves in the adage, “If you can’t
lick ’em, join 'em.” Thei* ranks
are as yet small, at least of
ficially.
Few Democrats will admit
either publicly or privately they
are worried, but their fear often
breaks to the surface.
Pity the poor newsman who
walks up to a table of Demo
crats in the Capitol cafeteria
and jokingly says, "Well, what
are you people going to do when
Callaway goes in?”
Stony silence and dirty frowns
spew from the faces of these
usually friendly men.
The conversation then turns to
grumbles of “The people of
Georgia won’t fall for that tripe,
etc.”
Separate Party
Practical action is being
pushed in many areas to separ
ate the Georgia Democratic
Party from the national Demo
cratic Party which Rep.
Howard (Bo) Callaway will ac
tually campaign against. Many
Democratic sources say the
party will draw up a Georgia
platform which will separate it
from the national Democratic
Party.
This talk received a boost
from Comp. Gen. Jimmy Bent
ley when he announced for re
election. “Now the Democrats
will unquestionably be meeting
to draft a platform," Bentley
said. Party Executive Sec.
Travis Stewart admitted that a
Georgia platform was being
considered.
Democrats have had several
indications recently that worry
is in order. A poll by a Mobile,
Ala., professional polling con
cern is making the rounds of
GOP ranks. Exact percentages
are vague, but GOP leaders are
known to be overjoyed with
Callaway’s showing.
Party Deserters
There is also the case of
editor of the Macon Telegraph
and News. Anderson told Miss
Thelma a year in Washington
would be worth a year in col
lege.
She boarded a train and,
thanks to Anderson, Larsen, of
Dublin, met her at the station.
When the redistricting pitted
Larsen against his friend, for
mer Rep. Carl Vinson of Mil
ledgeville, Larsen retired.
Vinson got her a job as sec
retary for the House Naval Af
fairs Committee, of which he
was chairman. Later she was
secretary for the late Rep. B.T.
Castellow of Cuthbert, for Vin
son, and for Deputy Attorney
General Frank Chambers.
It was Castellow who plunged
her into campaign politics. She
said Castellow, independently
wealthy and independent-mind
ed, was a poor politician. She
managed what she called “a
terrible campaign.”
Miss Thelma would sit on
party deserters. Few Demo
cratic officeholders are expect
ed to officially leave the party,
but in the rural areas at least
it is becoming apparent that
many will stand silently by and
hope no one will remember they
are Democrats.
There is also a growing feeling
among the more liberal young
Democrats, who are openly dis
gusted with some of their elders
that a GOP victory would be
the best thing that could happen
to the Democratic Party.
“Maybe that would shake
them up,” said one high-rank
ing young Democrat, “We might
end up with a better party. It
might be the best thing that
could happen.”
Meanwhile, nearly every
Democratic candidate for any
thing has summed up the plight
of the party.
“The people are hungry for
fresh, new leadership,” they
say, “If we don’t give it to
them, they will look elsewhere.”
Two Arrested
In Robbery
At Moultrie
MOULTRIE, Ga. (UPI) — A
city police officer and his brother
were arrested Friday and
charged with the armed robbery
of $6,900 in cash and an unde
termined amount of checks from
a supermarket manager.
City Police Chief C. R. Ranew
said Harvey's Supermarket man
ager Drew Vickers was robbed
on his way to the bank with
three bags of cash and checks
in an area not far from the
police station.
Arrested in connection with
the robbery were Willie Walker,
a police officer with about eight
years service on the force, and
his brother, Steve Walker of
Amertcus.
Ranew said Willie Walker was
allegedly driving the getaway
Police and Conquitt Coun
ty sheriff’s deputies responded
to Vickers’ call and
found the money hastily hidden
some steps. They found
Walker hiding near by.
One bag which had been drop
in grass and spilled out
near the sidewalk tipped
off to the hiding spots,
reported.
A preliminary hearing will
be arranged today be
a justice of the peace, the
said.
apple crates and orange boxes
in town after town in the 3rd
District to “talk to ail those
farmers” and convince them
Castellow was the man to vote
for.
“I would follow those farm
ers down the plow row,” she
said.
Castellow won, and Miss
Thelma received much credit.
“1 loved It,” she said. “I en
joyed every minute.”
Miss Thelma has “retired”
cnce. She returned to Georgia
for nine months, intending to
stay. But she could not. She re
turned and since 1958 has been
secretary for Dr. Frederick
Brown Harris, author, lecturer
and Senate Chaplain.
Miss Thelma plans to “re*
tire” and return to her Byron
home again, but no time soon.
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Says Tribunal
Should Stop
Usurping
MACON, Ga. (UPI) -- Sen.
Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., has
charged that the trend of recent
U. S. Supreme Court decisions
amounts to an “unm is take able
assault on our constitutional
system and the doctrine of sep
aration of powers.”
Russell, chairman of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee,
said Friday it was high time
the court stopped usurping the
powers of Congress and of the
states and return to its oroper
constitutional role.
“I do not believe it is too
much to ask that the court in
terpret the Constitution as it was
written and not as some of the
Justices might wish it had been
written, Russell told an audi
ence at Mercer University law
day exercises.
The senator also lashed out
at citizens who demonstrate
against laws they feel are un
just.
He said these demonstrators
claim the right to disobey the
laws they deem to be unjust
“but there is clearly no such
right.” He said that if that right
existed we would not have a
government of laws. We would
have an open invitation to an
archy.
“We cannot pick and choose
among the laws, obeying those
we like and ignoring those we
don’t like,” he said. “Today this
cardinal tenet is being ignored
by some who enjoy the fruits of
our free society."
Criticizing the trend toward
centralization of power in the fed
eral government, Russell said
“the truth is that our constitu
tional system of government is
fully capable of coping with the
changes and meeting the needs
of 20th century America."
“What is required is not a
fundamental change in the sys
tem, but a determination to ap
ply the effort and resources of
federal, state and ofttimea local
government to common prob
lems,” he said.
“This is another way to say
ing that the urgent need is for
more federal collaboration with
the states and local government
and less attempt at federal dom
ination.”
Weather t
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
mild through Sunday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 77, minimum today
63, maximum Friday 69, mini
mum Friday 62. Total rainfall
for Thursday and Friday 1.63
Inches. Sunrise Sunday 5:39 a.
m.< sunset Sunday 7:28 p-m.