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By Quimby Melton
Saturday Griffin’s VFW and its
Auxiliary will be calling on peo
ple to buy and proudly wear a
“Buddy Poppy”. All money rais
ed will go into the Veterans of
Foreign Wars special fund to
help meet the needs of disabled
veterans and their dependents.
The motto for this annual cam
paign is “To Honor The Dead
by Helping the Living.”
There’s no set price for the
“Buddy Poppies”, but if one
realizes the fine work done by
VFW for the disabled and their
dependents one will make a lib
eral contribution.
In connection with this Buddy
Poppy Sale it is appropriate to
publish once again the Poem
“In Flanders Field” written by
John McRea at the conclusion
of World War One.
In Flanders fields the poppies
blow
Between the crosses, row on
row,
That mark our place; and in
the sky
The larks, still bravely sing
ing, fly,
/ Scarce heard amid the guns
below.
We ar e the Dead. Short days
ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sun
set glow,
Loved and were loved, and
now we lie
In Flanders fields.
1 Take up our quarrel with the
foe:
To you from falling hands we
throw
The torch; be yours to hold it
high!
If ye break faith with us who
die
We shall not sleep, though pop
pies grow
In Flanders fields.
There’s another “In Flanders
Field” poem
IN FLANDERS NOW
Written at the close of World
War I, in answer to Colonel Mc
Crae’s well-known poem. “In
Flanders Now” was used at the
unveiling of the tomb of the Un
known Soldier in Washington.
Printed on a card with the Bel
gium National Anthem and sold
by the Federation of Women’s
Clubs, a million dollars was rais
ed and used for the restoration
of the Louvain Library.
As Good Evening read the
’ poem below he could not help
but remember how all, at the
end of World War One, were en
thused over the prospects of pea
ce, happiness and brotherly love.
The men fortunate enough to
come home were told “You’ve
made the world safe for demo
cracy; there’ll be no more war.
Well done and thanks.”
Then, man reverted to his age
old status of envy, hatred and
selfishness; and it wasn’t many
1 months after the victory, that
the seeds of war were once ag
ain sown. World War Two was
even more brutal than the first.
Today there is no peace; de
clared wars? No. But wars that
are Just as cruel, Just as evil,
Just as fatal to the youth of the
world, as any formally declar
ed war.
When we buy a poppy this Sat
urday let’s resolve to do our
part to make this poem true.
We have kept faith, ye Fland
ers’ dead,
Sleep well beneath those pop
f pies red
That mark your place.
The torch your dying hands
did throw,
We’ve held it high before the
foe,
And answered bitter blow for
blow,
In Flanders fields.
And where your heroes’ blood
was spilled,
The guns are now forever still
ed
And silent grown.
There is no moaning of the
nluln,
There is no cry of tortured
pain,
And blood will never flow ag
ain,
In Flanders fields.
Forever holy In our sight
Shall be those crosses gleam
ing white,
That guard your sleep.
Rest you in peace, the task Is
done,
The fight you left us we have
won,
And Peace on Earth has Just
begun,
• t in Flanders now.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871
INSIDE TODAY
Weltner. Page 2.
Fading The Way. Page 2.
Zoo Visit. Page 3.
Space Craft. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Viet Crisis. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Sports. Pages 7-9.
Military. Page 10.
School Columns. Page ll.
Farm Family. Page 12.
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Griffin High trophy winner, (In-) Gordon Davis, David Pat
Farming In
County Near
Standstill
Spalding County Agent
Smith said today that
operations in the county are
a near standstill.
Smith said the almost
ous rain has waterlogged
land and that it is impossible
some farmers to get
in their fields.
Almost all crops in the
need plowing, he said. He
some of the cotton in the
is dying because of the
logging. Cotton is a fairly
and sunshine crop, he said.
Smith said the weather
tions have been ideal in
fields for the growth of
diseases which attack cotton
other crops.
Hay needs to be cut, but
rot in the fields, before it
be raked and bailed. Hay
be nearly dry before it can
stored in bams.
Smith said it is impossible
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High School Geniuses
Make Their Own LSD
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
(UPI) —Police said Wednesday
that a gang of high school
“geniuses” burglarized chemi
cals and textbooks to set up
their own laboratory for the
manufacture of the hallucinato
ry drug LSD.
"The gang was planning to
make the drug and sell it at
scnool ar.d at junior colleges,
but they still lacked one
chemical,” said detective Lt.
William McCutcheon.
Three youths were arrested
on breaking and entering
charges and police said at least
eight others were involved.
More arrests were expected.
Several Implicated youths led
officers to a cache of 131 sticks
of dynamite to be used in a
proposed bank robbery, police
said. Money from the bank and
drug sales was to be used to
equip a chemical lab for
'■.legitimate" research.
“They apparently come from
good families and they really
mean no harm, but the
Griffin, Ga. f 30223, Thursday, May 26, 1966
You, Your Child. Page 12.
Hospital. Page 13.
About Town. Page 14.
Funerals. Page 14.
Gemini 9. Page 15.
Social Security. Page 17.
Dateline Georgia. Page 18.
Watts. Page 19.
Kidnap Sniper. Page 19.
Turncoat. Page 20.
Leisure. Page 21.
Want Ads. Pages 22, 23.
Exercise. Page 24.
Turner President
Griffin High Has
Honors
Richard Turner was installed
as president of the Griffin High
student body for 1966-67 at the
Honor’s Day program this mor
ning.
Turner succeeds April Dawn,
who presented the gavel of of
fice to him.
The Ralph Jones Cup for out
standing achievement in math
and science was presented to
Gordon Davis. Diane Gardner
arid Judy Jones tied for the Beta
Club Cup for the highest aver
age.
The Key Club Cup for the out
standing girl student was pre
sented to Patricia Grogan. The
Bill Jones Cup for the outstand
ing boy student went to David
Bolton.
Other awards presented were:
Utility Club Nursing Scholar
ship, Brenda Biles; Business and
potential of their minds and the
direction they were headed is
chilling—a big waste,” 6aid
McCutcheon.
The boys lived all over
Broward County and police in
several communities were in
volved in the roundup.
“I spoke to one boy and it
was like taking a statement
from Einstein himself, the way
he talks, his language-it’s not
my language,” said Detective
Herb Pugmire of Deerfield
Beach.
Two of the youths charged,
Norman Allen, 18, of Pompano
Beach, and Hugo Duras, 18, of
Deerfield Beach, were de
scribed as “laboratory geniu
ses” at highly rated Nova High
School and had received college
scholarships. They were
charged only with burglarizing
chemicals from a Junior high
school.
David Fitzpatrick, principal
of Nova, an experimental pub
lic school that advances pupils
by ability rather than by
grades, said Allen and Duras
Rains Delay Repair Of
City, County Roads
Professional Woman’s Club Sc
holarships, Virginia Pyron and
Cynthia Shivers.
Elks Club Nursing Scholarship,
Yvonne Goen; Elks Most Valu
able Student Awards, Susan Da
vis and Sam Stacey; runners-up,
Diane Gardner and Gordon Da
vis; Elks Leadership Awards,
Mary Fitzhugh and David Bol
ton; runners-up, Delle Harris
and Tommy Brake.
Daughters of the American
Revolution Good Citizen Aw
ard, April Dawn; DAR U. S. His
tory Award, Eric Sigman; Uni
ted Daughters of the Confeder
acy Essay Award, Eunice Jones.
Griffin Teen-Parents Club Sc
holarship, Thomas Brake: U. S.
History — Flynt Award, Ferrol
Sams; Bill Gregory Award, Pat
ricia Varnadoe; Music Club Sc-
were “very talented” and never
had been in any trouble at
school.
Pugmire said one of the
youths he questioned wore a
"suicide capsule” around his
neck, but made no attempt to
use it,
"It was two .22 caliber shell
casings notched together at the
open end with a needle encased
in glass inside,” Pugmire said.
“It had been dipped in some
kina of liquid which the boy
described as a ‘rare, exotic
poison’—the kind the Indians
dip their darts in.”
The Broward County sheriff’s
office said the case broke Sat
urday night with the arrest of
a boy dressed all in black In
connection with a series of res
idential “cat burglaries.”
“We found out later that the
gang had broken Into high
school and junior college
ratories all over the county and
stolen chemicals and textbooks
to try and find out bow to
make things,” McCutcheon
said.
holarship, Ricky Kimbrei:
Club Scholarship, Donald
ham.
WKEU Speech Plaques.
Rhodes and Mary Fitzhugh;
Speech certificates, Richard
lam and Jerry Maynard;
Club Outstanding Business
cation Student, Janice
wick.
Perfect Attendance Awards,
Judy Polk, four years;
Blisset, four years;
lone Brooks and Diane
ner, two years; Richard Brooks,
Ben Dupree, Larry Fields,
be Crosby, Patricia Grogan,
King, Danny Laney, Sheila
drick, Danny Nolan,
Middlebrooks, Linda Rollins,
bert Wix and Olliff Weldon,
year.
REA English Essay, Tom
vis, first; Jan Hammock,
cond; Grady Archer, third;
Home Economics Wynne
ard, Patricia McDaniel;
en’s Christian Temperance
ion Essay Award, Pam Worthy;
WCTU sponsored students to
tend conference, Miriam
and Jennie Dunn.
Glee Club, Outstanding
bers, Mike Tate, Darryl Chand
ler and Dick Brooks; Future
Teachers, Outstanding Member,
Medra Blalock.
University of Georgia Recog
nition of Junior Scholarship,
Bruce Huckaby, Sammy Kent,
Harry Kierbow, William
sey, Jerry Maynard, Carl Pres
ley, Tim Savage, Eric Sigman,
James Sullivan, Steve Wallace,
Cheryl Akin, Jan Hammock,
Margie Bowen, Lou Hiatt, Mar
garet Olson, Rebecca Patrick
and Mary Ann Pugh.
Certificates for outstanding
performance on the National
ucational Development Test,
Danny Clark, Lynn Cordell,
mas Eidson, Carol Hollon, Ann
Jackson, Jon Jackson, Elizabeth
Jones, Diane Searcy,
McLaurin, Rebecca Wallace,
Vera Ann Zager.
Honor Y Clubs, Senior
Trl-Hi-Y, Senior Beta
Junior Alpha Tri-Hi-Y,
Beta Tri-Hi-Y, Sophomore
pha Tri-Hi-Y.
Scholarship winners, Teresa
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Vol. 95 No. 123
Damage From
Wet Weather
Said Low Here
Heavy rainfall during the past
.several weeks has not caused
| any unusual damage to city and
county roads and streets, accor
iing to officials.
But the rainfall has almost
halted normal road and street
repair work.
City Manager Jack Langford
said that the rainfall had not
caused any unusual damage to
streets. He said that repairs that
were needed before the rain set
in have had to be delayed becau
se of the weather.
Drewry avenue is in bad shape,
Mr. Langford said. But he said
that work on the street started
before the rains came and the
weather has made it impossible
to make any headway on the
street.
As soon as the weather breaks,
Mr. Langford said that street
repair work will be resumed.
Thomas Lane of the County
Commissioners office said that
the rain has not caused any un
usual damage to county roads.
He said that the weather had
delayed normal repair work and
put the county behind schedule.
No bridges have been washed
out and no county roads have
been damaged extensively be
cause of the rain, Mr. Lane said.
Mr. Langford observed that
much of the road damage in
some sections of the state was
caused by the severe winter.
Such damage is not the result
of the recent rains, he observed.
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Poppy Sale Saturday
Mrs. J. E. Powell, Jr., pins buddy poppy on Mayor Louis Goldstein while Calvin
Davis takes his contribution to the VFW sponsored sale. It will be held Satur
day.
Spalding Clerk,
Two Others
Hurt In Wreck
Spalding County Clerk F. P.
Lindsey was injured in an auto
mobile accident Wednesday at
College and South Ninth streets.
Two other people were injured
in an accident north of Griffin.
Mr. Lindsey suffered lacera
tions to his face in the mishap.
He is a patient at the Griffin
Spalding County Hospital.
A car driven by Mr. Lind
sey, one driven by William La
mar Polk of 813 Springer drive
and another driven by Jack Noel
Prewitt of 642 Melrose avenue,
Griffin, collided at the intersec
tion.
The Griffin Police Department
Clouds, Rain
Shade Griffin
Most Of Day
Clouds moved into the Griffin
area on May 11 and each day
since has either been partly clou
dy, cloudy, overcast or rainy.
Records of Weather Observer
Horace Westbrooks shows that
clouds and wind moved in on the
11th and that it rained on t h e
12th and 13th. Rain also occur
red on the 16th, 18th, 19th, 21st,
24th, 25th and today.
Excluding rain since this mor
ning at 8 o’clock, the area has
received 5.6 inches of rain dur
ing the month. The normal am
ount for the month is 3.11 inch
es.
Only three days during the
month have had normal tempe
ratures. All others have been
below normal and the average
temperature for the month is
now 4.6 degrees below normal.
Mr. Westbrooks record .32 of
an inch of rain Wednesday and
early today. Rain received today
does not go on the books until to
morrow.
He said the month may go on
record as the coldest in the his
tory of Griffin. His records date
back to before 1900.
The morning of the 10th was
two degrees above the all time
record of 39 degrees and the 44
on the 11th matched the record
set in 1909.
Most of the days during the
month have been recorded as
cloudy, partly cloudy or rainy.
Mr. Westbrooks said forecasts
call for the rain to continue
through Saturday and possibly
even longer.
estimated damage to the vehicl
es at $2,350.
Two men were injured when a
foreign car driven by Archie
Wesley Young of 341 Main st
reet, Griffin, collided with a
tractor and mower being driven
by Emerson Bruce of 247 Lex
ington avenue, Griffin.
Both of the men were admit
ted to the Griffin-Spalding Co
unty Hospital.
Young suffered lacerations to
his head and Bruce suffered a
fractured shoulder blade.
The tractor Bruce was driving
was owned by the Griffin-Spald
ing County School System. Yo
ung’s car overturned.
State Patrol trooper B. R. Wil
son estimated damage at $2,300.
Traiii Wrecks
At The Rock
THE ROCK, Ga. — Eight
freight cars wrecked here early
today apparently when a trestle
gave way. Rail officials said no
one was injured.
Gets $1,100
ATLANTA (UPI) — A holdup
man wearing olive tennis shoes
robbed a suburban savings and
loan association today of an esti
mated $1,100.
The man, armed with a snub
nosed revolver, walked into the
Piedmont Savings and Loan As
sociation office and accosted
Bobby Burns, assistant vice
president. He ordered Bums,
who was standing at a teller’s
cage, to put stacks of money into
a bank bag
Game Postponed
The Griffin High - Camp
bell baseball game scheduled
this afternoon was postponed
because of rain and wet
grounds. The game was re
set for Friday at 4 p.m.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Considerable cloudi
ness and warm with scattered
showers or thundershowers to
night and Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
64, maximum Wednesday 71,
minimum Wednesday 62. Total
rainfall this morning .02 of an
inch. Sunrise Friday 5:32 a.m.
sunset Friday 7:36 p.m.