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By Quimby Melton
Another First For Griffin!
James Edward (Eddie) West
moreland will be Georgia Tech’s
top honor graduate this year.
He will have scored the high
est point average for his four
years at Tech;
And he is the first Tech gradu
ate to score on the point system
4.0 which is a perfect rating.
We’re all mighty proud of this
young man, his scholastic honors
are many.
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Westmoreland, a graduate of
Griffin High and his fine record
at Georgia Tech, calls to mind
an incident here some years
ago. A young college professor
hardly dry behind the ears was
speaking to a Griffin civic club.
He was discussing Georgia
schools and he was deploring the
fact that school systems in
“small towns like Griffin are
not up to the standards set in
the larger cities like Atlanta. We
see this frequently when gradua
tes from smaller city high
schools fail to make the grade
at college because they do not
have the proper high school
foundation” he said.
That statement brought one
local high school teacher to his
feet. Politely but firmly he told
this college professor that he
simply did not know what he
was talking about. Then he told
how boy after boy graduate of
GHS had gone on to the very
school in which this professor
taught and not only “made the
grade” but was above the aver
age.
The young professor embar
rassed that he had shown h i s
ignorance tried to smooth it
over by saying “The exception
proves the rule, of course I was
not talking about Griffin.”
Now, if we knew the address
of this young professor, by now
grown older and we hope much
wiser, we’d send him Eddie
Westmoreland’s record at Geor
gia Tech.
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Not only are we all proud of
Westmoreland's record but of
the record of every boy and girl
who will graduate from high
schools in this area; we’rd proud
of them for completing their
work; we’re proud of those who
were given special honors;
we’re also proud of those who
had to dig and work to pass.
The real heroes of a graduating
class are not always the honors
winners — but often those who
overcame handicaps, of one sort
or another, and have been given
diplomas.
And while we’re talking about
young people, let’s not forget
that tomorrow, Sunday, May
29th, is the birthday of President
John F. Kennedy. This martyr
ed President was bom on this
date in 1917. Had he been spar
ed the assassin’s bullet he would
have been 48 years old.
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Still speaking of you”": peo
pie:
Last Wednesday Good Even
ing sat in the audience at the
Georgia Experiment Station and
listened to Governor Carl Sand
ers dedicate the $750,000 food
processing building. The gover
nor dedicated it to Good Even
ing’s son, Lt. Fred Davenport
Melton, killed in action on Oct.
3, 1944 — killed by a sniper as
he attempted to bring a wound
ed soldier back to safety. The
sniper killed them both.
Of course Good Evening was
pleased that this young man,
who gave his life for his coun
try at the age of 21, was being
honored. We especially liked one
statement of the governor, him
self a young man, when he said:
“Fred Melton lived fewer than
21 years, a short, but worthy
i life. Although with only the
years of a boy, he truly served
his nation as a man. It is im
mensely fitting that we should
name this building, dedicated to
peaceful research, in honor of a
young man who died so that our
nation could live in freedom,
and so that our people could en
joy the benefits of free resear
ch,”
Good Evening would like to
thank everyone, at the Experi
ment Station, and in the univer
sity setup, and on the board of
regents and the governor, for
this honor. We also would like to
thank the literally hundreds of
people who have told Good
Evening how pleased they are
that this honor was confered on
our son.
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5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY -M2
NEWS
Established 1871
Confederates
To Salute Yanks
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) —
Confederates will pay tribute to
the Yankees in special wreath
laying ceremonies Sunday at
the cemetery where many
northern dead were buried.
The Memorial Day cere
monies will be conducted by
the Sons of the Confederate
Veterans.
Life’s Work Dream On Fence Gate
Col. Christopher Was
Really An
When Col. Claude Christopher
was a young boy growing up on
his father’s farm in North
Georgia’s Union County, he used
to prop on the gate and watch
judges and lawyers come by his
home on their way to Blairsville.
They always came by on Sun
day afternoon in their fancy
horse drawn carriages. This
gave them a night’s rest in
Blairsville before opening a
court session on Monday morn
ing.
The men in the legal profes
sion “seemed to stand tall, walk
erect and live well,” Col. Chris
topher recalls. Their way of life
impressed him so that he de
cided to become a lawyer.
Out of this boyhood experience
grew a career in the legal pro
fession that has made the Grif
fin attorney one of the most
respected and highly regarded
lawyers to be found anywhere.
And come January 1, 1967, he
plans to return full time to that
childhood yearning for the prac
tice of law. He will not seek re
election as solicitor of the city
court this year.
It is an office he has held sin
ce April, 1939. He was appoint
ed by Gov. Ed Rivers to fill the
vacancy when Sol. Chester By
ars was appointed judge of the
Griffin Judicial Circuit by Gov.
Rivers. Judge Byars succeeded
Judge W. E. H. Searcy who had
died. The late Judge Byars held
the office until he was succeed
ed by Judge John H. McGehee
of Thomaston.
During his career as solicitor
of the city court, Col. Christop
her had opposition for reelection
only twice. During other elec
tion years he was unopposed.
“The people of Griffin and
Spalding County have been good
to me,” Col. Christopher recalls
with humility.
Col. Christopher had been a
citizen of Griffin three years
when he became solicitor. Be
fore that he had practiced law
in Barnesville. Lamar was a
new county when he first hung
out his shingle as a practicing
attorney.
He studied law at the Univer
sity of Georgia and before that
at Mercer University.
Col. Christopher has seen the
case load of the city court solici
tor grow to four times the vol
ume of 1939. The natural increa
se in population accounts for
part of the growth but the in
crease in the crime rate also is
part of the picture, he said.
During the past few years, Col.
Christopher has had to handle a
growing number of cases involv
ing domestic trouble. The num
ber of abandonment cases has
increased noticeably to the vet
eran solicitor.
What’s the basic underlying
cause of most domestic cases
Col. Christopher was asked.
Without an instant’s hesita
tion he replied, “Drinking liq
uor.”
This conclusion has been rea
ched from interviews with thou
sands of people who have
ed out details of their troubled
marriages to him as he prepar
ed cases.
“I’m a little old fashioned,”
Col. Christopher said, “but I
lieve that a sober nation is
ter than a drunk nation.”
He recalled an incident
happened on a troop train
ing him home to Georgia after
World War I.
(Col. Christopher reached
rank of sergeant before his
charge. The title of colonial
an honorary one he has
by serving on the staffs of
mer governors of Georgia.)
The men on the troop
broke into loud cheers
they learned that the
amendment had beer- passed.
(It later was repealed.)
This indicated how the
felt about the problem of
ing then, Col. Christopher
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., May 28-29, 1966
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy, warm
and humid through Sunday with
a few widely scattered after
noon or evening thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 81, low today 62, high
Friday 81, low Friday 66; sun
rise Sunday 5:31, sunset Sunday
7:37.
VNELO, Holland (UPI)
Farmer M. Van Den Broek
digging in his garden found his
father’s golden wedding band 55
years from the day it was lost.
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COL. CHRISTOPHER: The job is four times as big
now.
called. But much of that think
ing has been changed today, the
veteran attorney said with a
somewhat note of sadness in his
voice.
An active Baptist layman, Col.
Christopher has been a Sunday
School teacher in the First Bap
tist Church here. He still is very
active in church affairs.
What would he say to the
young man entering the prac-
Baccalaureate
Services
Safety Plaques
Presented To
Mills Here
Safety award plaques were
presented to Lowell Bleachery
and Dundee Mill No. 2 Friday
afternoon at a meeting of super
visory personnel at Dundee Lake.
The plaques were presented
to the mills by the Georgia Tex
tile Association. The organiza
tion sponsors annual contests to
promote safety in textile plants.
John Newton, Dundee officer,
presented the cash awards which
accompanied the plaques.
J. M. Cheatham, president of
Dundee^ made a brief talk to
the Dundee leaders and Rep.
John J. Flynt, Jr. discusssd some
issues before congress.
American Soldiers Take
Heavy Toll On 0 Viet Nam
tice of law today?
“Keep the store and the store
will keep you,” was one of his
guidelines.
He added;
“You know what Lincoln said
about lawyers? He said ‘Lawy
ers work hard, live well, and
die poor. t »»
His subtle sense of humor
glowed through his smile as he
quoted the former president.
Baccalaureate services for
Griffin High and Fairmont High
will be held Sunday.
Griffin High will have its ser
vice in the school auditorium
Sunday night beginning at 8 o’
clack. The Rev. C. Edward Da
vis, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church, will be the speak
er.
Other ministers will partlci
pate.
The Fairmont service will be
held Sunday at II a. m. at the
school gymnatorium. The Rev.
E. G. Hinton, pastor of the Met
ropolitan Methodist Church of
Rome, Ga., will be the speaker.
Fairmont graduation exercises
will be Wednesday night at 8
o’clock at the gymnatorium. Ho
nor graduates will present the
program.
Griffin High graduation will
be Thursday night at Memorial
Stadium. Honor students will
present the program.
C. T. Parker, chairman of the
Griffin-Spalding Board of
cation, will present diplomas
graduates at both schools
ing graduation exercises.
466 Killed In
Anti-Guerrilla
Operations
6AIG0N (UPI) —American
soldiers in two divisional
operations killed a total of 466
Communist guerrillas '— more
than a full Viet Cong battalion
—during 12 days of fighting, U.S.
military authorities reported
today.
A spokesman said units of the
U.S. 25th Infantry Division
ended “Operation Wahiawa”
Friday night with a total kill of
155 Viet Cong. Ten other* were
captured during the 12-day
operation 35 miles northwest of
Saigon. U.S. casualties were
reported as light.
The U.S. 1st Air Cavalry
Division, sweeping the elephant
grass of the Vinh Thanh valley
275 miles north of Saigon in
“O p e ra t i o n Crazy Horse,”
killed a total of 311 guerrillas
during the same period.
The Division’s latest assault
came Friday when one of its
units intercepted a platoon of
attacking guerrillas 10
northeast of a special
camp.
The Communist attack on
camp was one of a series
the Green Beret
throughout South Viet Nam
may have signaled the
ning of the guerrillas’
vaunted “monsoon offensive.”
Two Viet Cong battalions
an American-Vietnamese
cial Forces camp at Dong Hoa,
25 miles west of Saigon and 10
miles east of the
border in one of the strongest
attacks in that area in months.
About the time the 1st Cav’s
artillery and flare ships
driving off the Communists in
the Vinh Thanh valley, units of
the 25th Infantry Division killed
five guerrillas and captured
three during an assault on an
infantry position 12 miles
northeast of the Du Co Green
Beret camp 215 miles north
Saigon.
Although all the attacks came
as a surprise to some military
observers, others saw method
in the Viet Cong assaults on the
small camps.
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Fly Your Flag Monday
Ronald Crouch (1) and Jack Landham, Jr., of the CAP cadets urge Griffinites
to fly their American flags Monday during Memorial Day. The cadets have ask
ed business firms as well as homes to display the colors.
Vol. 95 No. 125
Demos
Set Rules
For Primary
The Spalding Democratic Exe
cutive Committee today set June
15 as the deadline for qualify
ing for offices in the local pri
mary this fall. The local pri
mary will be held Sept. 14, the
same date as the state primary.
The local qualifying deadline
also is the same as the state.
Candidates for city court soli
citor and a county commissioner
are to be nominated this year.
The committee set qualifying
fees at $500 for each office and
if more than one candidate qual
ified in each instance, $100 will
be returned making the net cost
$400.
The committee voted to elect
two Democratic Executive Com
mittee members from each co
unty militia district and two
from each ward in the city. In
years past three committeemen
have been elected from county
districts and five from the city
at large.
Committee members will be
elected in the primary. Candid
ates for the committee will pay
a $1 qualifying fee.
Frank Lindsey, Jr., chairman
of the committee for the last
eight years, said he would not
offer for reelection to the com
mittee.
Candidates for court solicitor
and county commissioner may
qualify with Chairman Lindsey,
Secretary C. T. Parker or Treas
urer John O. Clements.
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but they won’t grow until
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MRS. GULLEDGE: A smile and a word of cheer.
Salavation Army Week
Army To Many Is
Mrs. Gulledge
To thousands of Griffinites, the
Salvation Army is a woman with
a perpetual smile who calls on
them weekly for a contribution
to support the organization.
Her name is Mrs. Rosalyn Gul
ledge, a widow, who has been
involved in Salvation Army work
about 25 years, most of it in G
iffin.
This week held a special place
in her heart. It was the nation
al observance of Salvation Army
Week. But the special week did
not change the pace she keeps.
She has hundreds of places to
call on seeking support for the
work of the Army.
Mrs. Gulledge distributes cop
ies of the War Cry, official week
ly publication of the Salvation
Army, as she goes about her
rounds.
She leaves a word of cheer, a
copy of the magazine, and a
“God bless you” to those who
support her efforts.
“There are not many people
who will do this type of work but
I like to do it,” Mrs. Gulledge
said.
“It is a blessing to ma and
both spiritual and gratifying. It
enables me to meet a lot of
people and withness to them,”
she said.
Not only does she pop in and
out of businesses houses in Grif
fin but she also makes regular
rounds to pool rooms and wine
shops asking for contributions.
“Well, if I have the money :or
a drink, I have money to donate
to you (the Salvation Army)”
is a typical quote Mrs. Gulled
ge often has heard.
Most people, on the whole, are
real nice, she said. Her presence
is easily recognizable and some
times when she enters an estab
lishment, activity stops and it
becomes quiet enough to hear a
pin drop, Mrs. Gulledge says.
Soliciting contributions is not
the only work she performs. She
helps with the distribution of clo
thing and conducts worship pro
grams. She is a Sunday School
teacher and sometimes helps
with street meetings.
A statement published weekly
1 n the War Cry says:
“Often a simple personal testi
mony is far more effective
than eloquent preaching.”
Mrs. Gulledge is a living testl
ment to that truth.