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By Quimby Melton
With science finding more
ways to do more jobs by auto
mation, one sometimes cannot
help but wonder if there could
come a day when the individual
may become less and less im
portant in making this and mak
ing that. But even modern
science cannot eliminate the
value of two human instruments
—the hand and the mind. Today
it’s as true as ever “the mind
of man is mistress of the world.”
And “The hand of man is the
instrument of instruments.”
Reading that second quote
from Lingus, a philosopher of
many years ago, set Good Even
ing to thinking of the way a 11
mankind has relied on the hand
to build and tear down, to esta
blish and to destroy, to bring Joy
and to bring sorrow.
We thought of the hands of a
newborn baby; we thought of
the “folding of the hands” that
comes with the end of life.
— * —
Algenon Swinburne (1837-1909)
said of baby’s hands, "The
sweetest flowers in all the world
—a baby’s hands.”
Leslie Savage dark, con
temporary American poet,
wrote:
“A Baby’s hands in Bethlehem
Were small and softly curled,
But held within their dimpled
grasp
The hope of half the world.”
— * —
Good Evening will never for
get, as he stood by the casket
that sheltered his precious moth
er, it was her hands, folded in
peace, that impressed him most.
For it was those hands that held
him when a baby in her sweet
embrace, that guided him throu
gh his youth, and were always
willing, and always ready, to
help him in any way she could
even when he grew to manhood.
Those hands were wrinkled and
bent in her last days, but those
hands were always tender and
beautfiul to her son.
There probably has been more
poetry written about the hands
of man than any other part of
the body. The Holy Bible itself
is full of references to the hand.
In Galatians Paul speaks of
the “The right hand of fellow
ship.” Would that all today ex
tended the hand of fellowship to
all others; not just to personal
friends, not Just to those who
can be helpful to one, but to the
less fortunate, to those in trou
ble and in distress.
In Psalms David sings of
"Clean hands and pure hearts.”
And Jeremiah refers to man
kind as “Clay in the potter’s
hands.” And Isiah warns that
one should “keep his hands from
doing evil.”
The definition of "hand” as
found in the dictionary says of
the hand “the part of the arm
below the wrist, used for grasp
ing.” But the hand is certainly
more than that. Lingus, whom
we quoted earlier in this column,
calls the hand "The body’s sol
dier; the blind man’s cradle; the
minister of wrath, and friend
ship’s sign.”
We’d like to complete the
quote from Leslie Savage Clark,
which we referred to earlier.
The complete poem “The Hands
of Christ” reads:
"Baby’s hands in Bethlehem
Were small and softly curled,
But held within their dimpled
grasp
The hope of half the world.
A Carpenter’s in Nazareth
Were skilled with tool and
wood;
They laid the beams of simple
homes
And found their labor good.
A Healer’s hands in Galilee
Were stretched to all who
came
For Him to cleanse their hid
den wounds
Or cure the blind and lame.
Long, long ago the hands of
Christ
I Were nailed upon a tree,
But still their holy touch re
deems
The hearts of you and me.”
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May we conclude this column
on hands with this quotation
from Ecclesiastes: “Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do it with
all thy might," and let’s pray
that what we do will not conflict
with the lessons we were taught
when our mothers led us by the
hand down the paths of right
eousness.
Griffin Police Chief Leo Black
well said today traffic lights
blinking red at nigh tare to be
treated as stop signs.
Chief Blackwell said drivers
approaching the lights on the
side blinking yellow should use
caution. He said by using the
word caution that he did not
mean for a driver to go ripping
through at 30 miles per hour.
Drivers on the red side of the
lights should pull to the light,
stop, make sure the way is clear
and proceed, Chief Blackwell
11 Injured
In Tornado
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
Shattered glass, uprooted trees,
and a courthouse spire tilted
crazily at a 45 degree angle
greeted citizens today in this
southwest city, battered Mon
day evening by a tornado and
severe thunder squalls.
Fire department rescue
squads and power crews
worked far into the night clear
ing trees from streets and re
placing utility lines so that traf
fic and power could be re
sumed. Eleven persons were
recovering from injuries re
ceived in the big blow.
No official estimates have
been made as yet of damages
to the city, but many reports
estimated hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of de
struction had been wrought by
the twister, which hit about
6:20 p.m.
Nine persons were reported
injured by flying glass during
the storm. No casualties were
listed at local hospitals. A 10th
man was hurt in a traffic ac
cident in the storm, and the
11th injury occurred in Phenix
City, Ala.
The statue of justice, blown
down from the courthouse top,
was still missing.
The largest part of the dam
age consisted of broken win
dows and twisted roofs. Trees
crunched into several houses
and littered roads, making traf
fic nearly immobile for several
hours. Pieces of house roofs
were wrapped around telephone
poles in the downtown section.
Tom Floyd, chief weatherman
here, said the tornado, with
winds of up to 100 miles per
hour, blew up suddenly at the
edge of town after thunder
storms moved east across the
Chattanoochee River from
Phenix City, Ala.
In the southern part of town,
near Hudson Street, several Ne
gro families were evacuated
from their houses because of
high waters. Some were taken
out in boats manned by the
rescue squads.
Floyd said the twister never
touched ground, and the main
force of the winds was several
feet above ground. Had it been
Tosses Hat In Race
Smith Refuses To Align
With National Demos
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press Internatio n aI
ATLANTA (UPI) House
speaker George T. Smith of
Cairo today announced his can
didacy for lieutenant governor
and refused to align himseS
with the national Democratic
party.
Smith, ending several months
of speculation on his candidacy,
said at a news conference, “I’m
a Georgia Democratic party
member. I’m not running for a
national office.
Smith’s major opponent, Lt.
Gov. Peter Zack Geer of Al
bany, wasted no time blasting
the House speaker, regarded as
a political moderate.
“The extreme left wing and
the professional disciples of the
Great Society have the privilege
of running any candidate they
see fit for the rffice of lieuten
ant governor,” Geer said in a
one-sentence statement that did
not mention Smith by name.
The House speaker refused to
comment on Geer’s statement.
Smith said he did not think
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said. Drivers on the other side
should use caution and check
traffic on both sides until people
get used to the lights, he said.
Chief Blackwell said if the
blinking lights did not work and
traffic accidents rise in the city
when they are blinking, they will
be put back on full cycle.
The blinking lights are being
used in the area where traffic is
light at night. Traffic lights on
main streets are continuing their
full cycle at night.
lower, Floyd said, "the dam
age would have been much
greater..”
The main destruction area
^■vas eral described as a strip sev
hundred yards wide and
about a mile and a half long.
The twister ripped its path
mostly within the city limits.
County Police Capt. C. B.
Faison reported not much dam
age occurred in Muscogee
County outside of the city area.
A city police officer, Don
Norwood, was on duty when he
saw "this big black cloud com
ing, and I knew it was a tor
nado.” He ran through the
streets shouting for people to
get inside, Norwood said. Sud
denly the twister struck and
blew Norwood about half a
block away. The storm lasted
only a few seconds and Nor
wood was unhurt.
The courthouse square, with
stately oaks akilter and trees
three feet in girth uprooted on
the lanw, “looked like a battle
field,” said one observer.
The ancient courthouse build
ing had jagged gaping holes
where windows used to be.
When the storm hit, city Judge
Oscar D. Smith had been hear
ing a misdemeanor case for
two hours, but called a recess
minutes before the courtroom
was blasted with high winds.
He, 12 Jurors, and witnesses
dived under benches in the hall
way, then returned to survey
the room they had vacated just
in time. It was strewn with
glass and rain poured in the
broken windows.
Weathers
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy to cl
oudy, warm and humid with
scattered showers and thunder
showers through Wednesday
occuring mainly in the after
noon or ev e nlng.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
62, maximum Monday 67, mini*
mum Monday 6f). Total rainfall
.69 of an inch. Sunrise Wednes
day 5:37 a.m., sunset Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.
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Legion Program
The American Legion Post 15 of Griffin Monday night held a program in mem
ory of chaplains representing three faiths who gave their lifebelts to other sol
diers when a ship sank during World War II fighting. Participating were: (1-r)
Sam Saul, Claude Williams, Werner Widmann representing the Jewish faith, the
Rev. J. K. Kelley representing the protestant faith; and Father Raymond Govern
representing the Catholic faith; Johnny Breen of Griffin, and John McCreary
of Macon, state chairman of the program.
Agena Goes Haywire,
Gemini Shot Cancelled
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
United Press International
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
An unmanned Atlas-Agena rock
et went haywire after liftoff
today and jinxed, for the
second time, plans to launch
two astronauts after a target In
space.
The mission of disappointed
Gemini 9 pilots Thomas Staf
ford and Eugene Cernan was
canceled.
“Oh shucks,” said Stafford,
who had this happen to him
once before while he was
copilot on Gemini 6.
“Oh no!, Oh no! Oh no!,”
echoed rookie Cernan as they
were brought out of their
waiting capsule atop a Titan
rocket.
Officials immediately sought
to determine what caused the
Agena to soar In a bright tail of
flame from the launch pad and
then, about eight minutes later,
to fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
Stafford pulled off his space
helmet and shook his head
disgustedly.
“You can’t get your hopes up
till that Agena comes across
the states (in orbit)," he said,
chewing on a stick of gum.
“I’ve been up here (on a launch
pad) a number of times
before.”
He and Walter M. Schirra Jr.
had the same experience when
an Agena target vanished last
October 25 while they waited on
the pad for liftoff to follow it.
First estimates were it would
take at least two weeks to re
schedule the Gemini 9 flight.
But Dr. George Mueller, chief
of the manned spaceflight
program, said it would proba
bly take three weeks.
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“Men of intelligence al
ways stand together — on
our side of the issue.”
Saturday by Rep. Charles Welt
ner, D-Ga. that the Republican
party carried the 1964 presi
dential election in Georgia by
exploiting the race issue.
Geer has not formally an
nounced his candidacy but is ex
pected to do so in about two
weeks. Another candidate for
the office, State Rep. Randall
Bedgood of Athens, has an
nounced.
Smith said that if elected he
would upgrade the lieutenant
governorship or quit in two
years if it is the will of the
people. He said he would not use
the office as a springboard for
the governorship and would ex
ert leadership rather than mere
ly preside over the senate.
“If after two years the neople
still think the only purpose of
this office is to preside over the
senate and run for governor,”
the speaker said, “then I would
not stand in the way nor block
any action on the part of the
legislature to present the mat
ter to the people on whether or
not to keep the office,” Smith
said.
Students Lined Up;
Shot By Ex-Cabbie
DETROIT, Mich. (UPI) —An
unemployed cab driver who
thought the country was
“overrun with Communists”
was under arrest today for
lining three college students up
against a wall and shooting
them, killing one and critically
wounding the others.
Police said Edward Waniolek,
40, vowing to “shoot some
Communists," walked h»to a
Socialist Workers party hall
Monday, asked for a book by
Lenin and shot the three young
men.
He was arrested Monday
night in the Detroit public
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Indicted In
Insurance Fraud
GREENVILLE, S. C. (UPI) —
Twelve agents of the Kennesaw
Life Insurance Company of At
lanta — including two Atlanta
residents — face charges of
fraud involving an alleged $100,
000 swindle of policy holders.
Indictments were returned
earlier this month against Mar
ion Lagerquist and Richard B.
Harding of Atlanta and 10 South
Carolina men.
All 12 were indicted by a
special session of the Greenville
County grand jury. They were
charged with fraudulently ob
taining funds in the form of
matured coupon benefits, divi
dends and accumulated interest
from policy holders of the
Francis Marion Life Insurance
Company.
The Francis Marion insurance
contracts had been assumed by
Kennesaw more than a year
ago.
Those indicted are expected to
be tried here in August.
Sniper Kills
FBI Agent
SHADE GAP, Pa. (UPI) —
An FBI agent was shot and
killed today by a sniper
believed to be the man who
kidnaped 17-year-old Peggy Ann
Bradnick near this mountain
hamlet. State Police reported.
The FBI identified the victim
as Terry Anderson, an agent
from the Harrisburg office of
the FBI.
FBI agent Ian D. MacLennan
said the sniper, believed to be
the "mysterious masked moun
tain man,” was under surveil
lance in an area known as
Burnt Cabin in Fulton County
about 10 miles south or this
hamlet in the rugged Tuscarora
Mountains.
“We are marshalling a force
to go up there,” the FBI said.
State Police said the missing
girl was spotted with the sniper
and apparently was unharmed.
library as he listened to a
recording of Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony. H e had a pistol and
rifle with him, and a knife
strapped to his leg.
Jan Garrett, 22, and Walter
Graham, 19, both hospitalized
with critical bullet wounds, told
Police Waniolek lined them up
against a wall, screamed
“you’re all a bunch of Commies
—put your money on the floor,”
and sprayed rifle and pistol
bullets at them.
Leo Bernard, 27, a senior
biology student at Wayne State
University vho hadn’t enrolled
since last September, was
killed.
Alert Marine
Kills Gunman
By ROBERT IBRAHIM
United Press International
HUE, South Viet Nam (UPI)
—A South Vietnamese lieutenant
fired two pistol shots today at a
U.S. helicopter carrying Pre
mier Nguyen Cao Ky’s area
commander away from a
riotous meeting with anti
government officers.
The helicopter’s American
machine gunner killed the
lieutenant.
Maj. Gen. Huynh Van Cao,
commander of South Viet
Nam’s 1st Corps, and the
others in the helicopter
including a U.S. Marine general
— escaped injury.
The machine-gun burst fired
by Spec. 4 James E. Fulton
wounded six South Vietnamese
soldiers standing near the
lieutenant.
The lieutenant fired two shots
at the helicopter from a
distance of 10 yards. Fulton,
who had loaded his M60
machine gun at the sight of the
officer’s raised 45-caliber pistol,
cut him down with a burst of
“six or seven shots.”
Fulton saw the lieutenant
fumbling with a .45-caliber
pistol and loaded his machine
gun. The lieutenant fired twice,
and Fulton opened up on him.
Cao came here as a
representative of Premier Nguy
en Cao Ky, whose marines and
paratroopers crushed anti
government forces in nearby
Dan Nang in a lightning
invasion Sunday.
The lieutenant’s motive in
firing on the plane was
uncertain, but it was assumed
he was a rebel sympathizer.
One of his two shots hit the
tail of the helicopter. The other
missed.
The lieutenant’s fellow offi
cers had given Cao a polite if
cool reception. They asked for
and received assurance that
Ky’s forces would not invade
Hue as they did Da Nang.
The new 1st Corps comman
der asked for cooperation in
restoring order to South Viet
Nam’s five northern provinces.
Americans in the helicopter
included Col. Archelaus Ham
blin Jr., deputy senior military
adviser to 1st Corps.
Buddhist monks in Saigon
among the strongest of Ky’s
political foes, accused “U.S.
generals” of helping Ky crush
northern rebels.
They emphasized the facts
that Cao was traveling in a
U.S. helicopter and that the
lieutenant who tried to assassin
ate him was killed by an
American.
The division has been a focus
of anti-government activity in
the northern provinces, part of
which Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
crushed by his lightning inva-
sion of Da Nang Sunday.
Ky assigned Cao to command
1st Corps Monday.
SNCC Rids
Itself Of
Lewis, Forman
ATLANTA (UPI) — Two of
the nation’s most militant civil
rights leaders, John Lewis and
James Forman, have been de
posed by the Student Non
Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). One source said they
were considered “too moderate.”
SNCC announced the changes
Monday.
Stokeley Carmichael, a found
er of the all-Negro “Black Pan
ther political party” in Ala
bama, was named to succeed
Lewis as SNCC chairman and
he promptly announced the or
ganization would “intensify its
efSorts in the area of independ
ent politics.”
A 24-year-old West Indies na
tive now living in New York,
Carmichael will be part of a rul
ing triumvirate including Execu
tive Secretary Mrs. Ruby Doris
Robinson of Atlanta and Pro
gram Secretary Cleveland Sel
lars of Denmark, S. C.
Carmichael, one of the origin
al “Freedom Riders” who
brought about desegregation of
interstate transportation facili
ties, accused the federal govern
ment of “inaction” in insuring
equal political rights for Ne
groes. He is expected to lead
SNCC toward greater activity in
voter registration and elections,
Lewis, 25, and Forman, 37,
remain on SNCC’s central com«
mittee, which was reduced from
21 to 10 members. The reor
ganization also provided for
three new secretarial posts to
be named by the chairman.
Carmichael designated Char
les McLauren, an organizer in
Sunflower County, Miss., as one
of the new secretaries.
SNCC said the shakeup occur
red at its sixth annual spring
conference near Nashville, Tenn.
The SNCC announcement said,
“we will struggle in the future as
we have in the past for human
rights and join with those around
the world who know the same op
pression we know and the same
deception on the part of the U.
S. government in its claims for
concern for democracy.”
Lewis and Foreman have led
SNCC since it was founded more
than five years ago to direct
the sit-in protests of young Negro
college students in the South.
Lewis became a controversial
figure last December when he
denounced U. S. policy in Viet
Nam in a SNCC statement and
called upon Negroes to evade
military service. State Rep-elect
Julian Bond, SNCC’s publicity
director, endorsed the statement
and the Georgia House refused
to seat him when it convened in
January.
Bond continued the legisla
ture acted against him because
he was a Negro, But Georgia
lawmakers said they also would
have barred a white man hold
ing such views. The case has
been appealed to the U. S. Su
preme Court.
Braves Denied
A New Trial
MILWAUKEE (UPI) — Circuii
Judge Elmer Roller today re
fused to set aside hts verdict
that the Braves move to Atlanta
violated Wisconsin antitrust law
and he denied baseball a new
trial in the historic case.
Attorneys Ray McCann and
Earl Jinkinson, representing the
Braves, had expected to be turn
ed down but wanted it on the of
ficial court record for a planned
appeal to the Wisconsin supreme
court.