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Death Penalty Suit Dismissed ATLANTA (UPI) — The state Supreme Court has dismissed the case of a Pulton County man who argued that the Geor gia Constitution prevented the state from executing persons. George Charles Jones, con victed of murder in 1964 and SHOP AT THE RED SHOE STORE During the Going Out of Business Sale and enjoy WHOLESALE prices. The Family Shoe Store For Ladies - Men - Boys and Girls Ladies' and Girls' SANDALS $398 & $498 In All Colors. DRESS SHOES High, Medium and Stack Heels $598 To $10W FLATS & LOAFERS $998 To $898 Just Arrived! STRAW BAGS All Sizes. Up Men’s DRESS Loafers Ties SHOES and Wingtip $998 u P - Reduced! One Lot of Ladies’ SHOES & FLATS DRESS $388 Values to $10.98 OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT! THE FAMILY SHOE STORE A&P SHOPPING CENTER — FREE PARKING — COL SANDERS' RECIPE Kentmkij q ▼ DEO. U4. FAT. OFF. W fried P COPMIGHT!»»« ^kiiken »Y H/UUAND SANDIU North Chmim ftospifatify Disk... . .. 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Howell of At lanta, will now be resentenced. Law provides that he must re ceive the death sentence. Jones and two other men, all Negro, were convicted of killing Howell daring a holdup. Want Ads Pay Griffin Daily New* Bentley Squashes Reports Talmadge Will Back By DON PHILLIPS United Press International ATLANTA (UPI) — Reports that Ben. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., would endorse Albany newspaper publisher James Gray for governor hasb een squashed by Compt. Gen. James L. Bentley, a close friend of Talmadge. Talmadge has said he felt a conservative candidate would be a stronger. Democratic can didate against the probable Re publican challenger, Congress man Howard (Bo) Callaway. Gray is an outspoken segrega tionist. Sources close to Talmadge admitted Thursday that the senator and Gray have talked several times by phone but Bentley said Talmadge had said he would support all Democrats in the general election and "stay out of the primary." “The entries haven’t even closed yet. It’s absurd to choose now,” Bentley said. "It seems to me that folks should take him at his word.” However, at least one Demo cratic gubernatorial candidate wasn’t satisfied. Former Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd said he thought Talmadge should speak up and let it be known which candidate, if any, he favors. "I call on Senator Talmadge to once and for all clarify his position, and if he intends to participate in the gubernatorial campaign in Georgia that is his prerogative,” Byrd said. “But let him speak up publicly rath er than having messages leak out through self-appointed spokesmen.” Byrd said that State Party Secretary George Stewart and State Highway Director James Gillis should resign or else re main neutral in the campaign. Both Gillis and Stewart have been quoted as saying they fa vored Gray and he has been chosen by the so-called Tal madge “machine.” Byrd charged that Gillis and Stewart “have placed Sen. Tal madge in the position of inter fering with the gubernatorial campaign in Georgia.” Segregationist candidate Les ter Maddox said that Byrd be longed “heart and soul to Georgia’s Hubert Humphrey (Ellis Arnall)” and predicted a victory for himself in the pri mary and general election. Maddox said he did not be lieve Callaway would leave Con- 6 gress to run for governor. Meanwhile Lt. Gov. Zack Geer said he would port no one, including Gray, governor either m the primary or general election. "I have no intention of ning myself with any date,” Geer said. Geer, Gray, is an arch-conservative. DESERTER SURRENDERS VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) Communist soldier from Viet Nam who said he had deserted from a headquarters in South Nam surrendered to ment troops in Pakse day, it was reported today. The refugee, identified as Le Due Fu alias David Levin, told officers in Pakse that he deserted because of scanty food and constant, e x h a u s t ing marches. 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Charles Weltner, D-Ga., has in dicated he will not support a petition which seeks investiga tions of possible infiltration by Communists into national civil rights groups and of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Rev. Bill Beeny, a Bap tist preacher from St. Louis, said “several right wing groups” such as the John Birch Society and local white citizens councils helped collect the sig natures for the petition. The petition was presented Thurs day to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Weltner, a member of the committee who took part in hearings on the Ku Klux Klan, said he knew of no substantial reason for conducting investiga tions into the civil rights groups. He also noted that right wing groups wer e behind the latest action. “I am not inclined to support any petition prepared and sub mitted by the John Birch So ciety and the White Citizens Council,” Weltner said. Organizations named in the petition were the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence (SCLC) and its leader King, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Also named was the Black Muslims, which is not generally regarded as a civil rights organisation. House Approves, Wage Bill; May Be Amended WASHINGTON (UPI) —A minimum wage bill close to what the Johnson administra tion and organized labor want has emerged from the House, but slightly cut up. First aid may be forthcoming from the Senate. The House, after three days of hob-nailed debate, voted late Thursday 303 to 93 for a measure which would: —Raise the present $1.25 hourly federal minimum wage to $1.40 next Feb. 1 and to $1.00 Feb. 1, 1969 for 29.6 million workers now under the wage hour law and for 665,000 newly covered federal “blue collar” workers. Labor and the Pres ident had hoped for a 1968 date for the $1.60 step. —Extend minimum wage coverage, starting at $1 and rising to $1.60 by Feb. 1, 1971, for 6.8 million to 7.5 million service and retail workers now exempt from the law. CARLISLE & CO. 116 W. Poplar St. COMPLETE INSURANCE SERVICE Phone* 227-2258 — 227-2259 i 1 r >■ ••gjjj ■I si; ! ‘ 1 | Ben Dupree, winner of the VFW Voice of Demo cracy Contest at Griffin High, was presented a $50 bond by the local post. The bond was presented by Marvin Jenkins, VFW Voice of Democracy chair man. Mr. and Mrs. William Dupree watch the pre sentation to their son. NEED MONEY? AUTO LOANS FURNITURE LOANS REAL ESTATE LOANS FOR FAST, FRIENDLY SERVICE DIAL 227-5572 GRIFFIN LOAN SERVICE, INC. 114 WEST SOLOMON STREET