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IT* GOOD f ^
Jj VEISIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Today is Memorial Day — the
day when the nation pays tribute
to all men and women who have
fought for Uncle Sam in all wars.
It is a day when all who love
America should be grateful to
the men and the women, the
boys and girls, who have fought
that America might live.
We should not, we shall not
forget their devotion to this
land of ours that led them into
the fray. They offered their liv
es on the fields of battle, and
many gave their lives. "No
greater love hath man than he
lay down his life for a friend,”
one could convey that truth by
changing just on e word, making
it read “No greater lova hath
man than he lay down his life
for his country.”
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Good Evening is going to call
on patriotic literature to com
plete this column on this Me
morial Day, 1966.
James Russell Lowell says
“America’s Gospel” is:
"Our country hath a gospel of
her own
To preach and practice before
all the world —
The freedom and divinity of
man,
The glorious claims of human
brothethood,
And the soul’s fealty to none
but God.”
If we would be true to the
brave men and women in whose
honor we observe this Memorial
Day, we could do no better
to take this “Gospel,” to heart.
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Alston Oldham was not being
selfish, neither was he unrealis
tic when he wrote this verse of
“America First.”
“America first, not only in th
ings material,
But in things of the spirit.
Not merely In science, inven
tion, motors, skyscrapers.
But also in ideals, principles,
character.
Not merely in the calm asser
tion of rights,
But in the glad assumption of
duties.
“Not flouting her strength as
a g(ant,
But bending in helpfulness over
a sick and wounded world
like a Good Samaritan.
Not in splendid isolation,
But in courageous cooperation.
“Not in pride, arroganoe, and
disdain of other races and
peoples,
But in sympathy, love, and
understanding.
Not in treading again the old,
worn, bloody pathway which
ends inevitably in chaos and
disaster,
But blazing a new trail along
which, please God, other na
tions will follow into the
new Jerusalem where wars
shall be no more.
Some day, some nation must
take that path — unless we
are to lapse into utter bar
barism — ana that honor I
covet for my beloved Amer
ica.
And so In that spirit and with
these hopes, I say with all
my heart and soul, "Amer
ica First.”
Abraham Lincoln, concluded
his Gettysburg address:
“It is for us, the living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the un
finished work which they who
fought here have thus far so
nobly advanced.
“It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task re
maining before us; That from
these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion;
‘That we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have
died in vain;
“That this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of free
dom;
“And that government of the
people, by the people, and for
the people, Shall not perish from
the earth.”
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We believe our readers will
be interested in the special Va
cation section of today’s news
paper. The Griffin Daily News
is one of more that 100 Georgia
newspapers who have combined
in issuing this section.
One does not have to leave Ge
orgia to find ideal vacation spots.
The fast that hundreds of thou
sands of persons from other sta
tes come to Georgia for their va
cation speaks for itself.
Georgians have many delight
ful “discoveries” waiting them
U they will See Georgia First.
GRIFFIN
DAILY ^ NEWS
Established 1871
INSIDE TODAY
Hospital. Page 2.
Stwk Club. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Vacation Supplement. Page 3.
Brothers Held. Page 3.
Japs Protest. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Dateline Georgia. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Sports. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
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Science Fair Project
Cathy Noel, Clark Chambers, Ginger Stansell and Laurel Lynch (1-r) show
hampsters they displayed at the Fourth Ward Elementary School’s science fair.
The second graders raised the hampsters at school as part of a class project.
Mass Wreck Stops
500 Race
By ED SAINSBURY
UPI Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI)
— At least 16 cars cracked up
within seconds after the start
of the Indianapolis speedway
race today and the 50th running
Atty. Gen. Bolton
Will Speak To
GHS Honor Grads
The Griffin Exchange will have
its annual program honoring the
Griffin High honor graduates
Tuesday at the noon meeting of
the club.
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton of
Griffin will be the speaker this
year. Bill Cody has made arran
gements for the 49 honor grad
uates to be present.
The honor graduates this year
are:
Mary Miller Anderson, Shirley
Jan Batton, Deborah Yvonne
Beckum, Brenda Gail Biles,
Linda Ellen Black, Medra Faye
Blalock.
David Maddox Bolton, Sharon
Elizabeth Breen, Margaret Ann
Busbin, Marilyn Glynn Cartled
ge, Gordon Taylor Davis, Su
san Virginia Davis.
William Benjamin Dupree,
Mary Stuart Fitzhugh, Sandra
Elaine Fletcher, Patricia Kay
Foree, Rebecca Diane Gard
ner, Lillian Inez Gilleland.
Shir ley Lynn Glass, Patricia
Ann Grogan, Rebecca Diane
Grove, Gerrlt Gustafson, Helen
Lydelle Harris, Nancy Adeline
Hooper.
Judith Diane Jones, Linda Ir
ene King, Richard Melvin Les
ter, Deborah Edith Lewis, Les
ley Ann McConnell, Shirlee Lynn
McKneely, Emma Lura McLau
rin.
Teresa Yvonne Mills, Kenneth
Montero, Donna Susan Nolan,
Mary Virginia Pyron, Billy Ja
mes Reeves, Jr., Sandra Mae
Reid, Marsha Ann Rifkin, Tho
mas Gerry Smith.
Jamie Constance Snell, Sam
uel Vaude Stacy, Jeannette Gal
le Stephens, Mary Elaine Strick
land, Elizabeth Thomas, Marilyn
Sherri Tolen.
Nancy Jane Westmoreland,
Hedy White, David Hampton
Williams Susan Dianne William
son.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, May 30, 1966
Comics. Page 9.
Bruce Biossat. Page 10.
Red China. Page 10.
Heart Woman. Page 10.
TOO MUCH
EL PASO, Tex. (DPI- —
Bridge toll collector Henry
Kaplan, 38, was making too
much of a good thing. Kaplan
was charged with embezzling
an average of $30 nightly from
the toll boxes over the past
seven years.
of the motor classic was
stopped immediately.
Five spectators were injured.
The crackups occurred in a
mass of spins less than 100
yards from the start of the 500
mile race.
A mass of smoke from a fire
in the midst of the wreckage
blanketed the lower end of the
home stretch.
An early check of those
involved showed that two-time
winner A. J. Foyt, Dan Gurney,
Billy Foster, Cale Yarborough,
Arnie Knepper, Mel Kenyon
and A1 Miller were in the
mixup.
There was no immediate
report as to whether anyone
was killed.
There was a report that five
spectators were injured. They
could have been hit by flying
debris and they also were close
enough to be burned by the fire
in the car immediately against
the outside wall.
Ronnie Duman, who survived
the inferno which incinerated
Eddie Sachs and Dave McDon
ald two years ago In a pileup at
the northwest turn, also was
involved in today’s crash.
It appeared mat today’s
mixup was the worst at the
track since 1958, when 16 cars
were involved in a mass
collision on the northeast turn
on the first lap. Pat O’Connor
was killed in that accident.
Bank Charter
Petition Pulled
ATLANTA (UPI)—A charter
petition for the proposed Bank
of Griffin was withdrawn March
18, records was revealed today.
Robert Shapard Jr., one of
the proposed bank’s directors,
said in a letter to Secretary of
State Ben Fortson Jr. that the
petition was being withdrawn be
cause the man whose name had
been submitted as president was
forced to withdraw because of
his wife’s illness.
The petition had been filed
Dec. 21, 1965. The bank’s direc
tors were listed as Robert Sha
pard Jr., Robert Shapard III,
W. H. Beck Jr., George L.
Walker, George C. Bell and D.
Bartlett Searcy Jr.
Pioneer Robot Given
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3 Candidates
Qualify For
Local Primary
Two Griffin attorneys have
qualified for nomination as city
court solicitor. An incumbent
county commissioner qualified
to succeed himself.
These were the first candidates
to qualify for nomination in the
local Democratic primary set
for Sept. 14, the same date as
the state Democratic primary.
Howard Wallace and Tom Le
wis qualified for nomination as
city court solicitor. Incumbent
Col. Claude Christopher has de
cided not to seek reelection to
the post he has held since 1939.
David Elder qualified to suc
ceed himself on the Spalding
County Board of Commission
ers.
All three men qualified late
Saturday morning after the Spal
ding County Democratic Execu
tive Committee met to fix rules
for the local primary.
They set June 15 as the dead
line for qualifying. This is the
same deadline as the state party
has set for the primary.
Wallace, a native of Griffin,
has practiced law here and in
Clayton County. He served on
the staff of the Georgia Attorney
General.
Lewis has practiced law In Gr
iffin many years and at present
is judge of the City of Griffin Re
corder’s Court.
Elder first was elected a coun
ty commissioner In December,
1955, to fill the unexpired term
of Will Carreker who died before
completing a year of his six-year
term.
Mr. Elder was reelected to the
hoard in 1960 and is offering
for nomination again.
More Buddhists
Burn To Death
In Protest
SAIGON (UPI) —Two more
Buddhists, a monk and a young
woman, burned themselves to
death today in protest against
the military government of
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. It
raised to four the number of
self-immolations by Buddhists
in the past two days. Three of
them were women.
Surveyor I
Will Attempt
Soft Landing
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
United Press International
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
The United States sent a
Surveyor robot on a path
finding voyage to the moon
today to attempt a tricky soft
landing at a spot Apollo
astronauts may visit someday.
Riding along were the hopes
of U.S. scientists that Surveyor
would pave the way for the
landing of Americans on the
moon by 1969, and eliminate
some of the moonshot lead
Russia won with the first
successful unmanned lunar
landing four months ago.
Surveyor’s I’s chances of
complete success are admitted
ly slim. But the spidery space
machine passed the first key
test after 12 y 2 minutes of the
63-hour flight by extending its
three landing legs and swinging
away from its rocket.
An instant later, Surveyor
launch control reported that the
spacecraft unfolded its energy
giving solar panels on schedule.
The camera-carrying probe
began its formidable flight with
an unusually smooth countdown
that ended with a 10:41 a.m.
EOT blastoff.
“We have a very good flight
at this time,” a Space Agency
spokesman reported 21 minutes
after launch. He said the craft
had received the 23,500-mile per
hour push needed to send it on
its journey.
It is scheduled to set down on
the moon at 1:30 a. .m EDT
Thursday.
Thirty-eight minutes after
launch, the spacecraft wheeled
and pointed its solar panels
toward the sun —a critical
maneuver needed to supply
electrical power to its intricate
mechanisms.
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Soft drinks and umbrellas were the order of the day
for die white elephant sale sponsored by the Cham
ber of Commerce here during the weekend. Many
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It ’s Not Coming Down
They’re not tearing it down. It just looks that way. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Beal
have purchased this home on South Hill street and plan to renovate it. The roof
has been removed and construction crews now will begin to rebuild the home.
Citizens on South Hill have organized $o promote beautification of the street and
to preserve its landmark homes. Renovation of this home is part of the project.
Maddox Asks Gray
To Get Out Of Race
ATLANTA (UPI) — Guberna
torial candidate Lester Maddox,
has asked fellow conservative
Democrat James H. Gray to
drop out of the governor’s race
because Gray is a part of “the
now deceased Vandiver - Tal
madge sellout, Great Society
political machine.”
In a lengthy telegram to the
Albany publisher Sunday, Mad
dox said if Gray continued in
the race for the Democratic pri
mary nomination, he would split
the conservative vote, “doing
additional damage to the Dem
ocratic party that cannot sur
vive any additional damage,
and at the same time, play into
the hands of the liberal-sellout
clique” in Georgia politics.
Maddox urged Gray to “ig
nore pressure from the political
bosses who have lost thei* way”
and avoid being labeled with
"their kiss of death.”
The Atlanta segregationist de-
Griffinites spent a day trading in the parking lot of
Commercial Bank & Trust Co. Those who partici
pated agreed “a good time was had by aU.”
clared, “Mr. (Ernest) Vandi
ver is out of the race and Sen
ator (Herman) Talmadge is out
of the race but both still run
under the name of Mr. Gray of
Albany."
Maddox asked the withdrawl
by Gray, “feeling that you do
not wish to be a stooge of those
who have been denounced by
the good people of Georgia.”
Maddox, who up until now has
consistently denied he had any
major opposition in the guber
natorial contest, said, “in a fu
tile effort to rebuild the king
dom, they have clothed you in
die image and stigma that the
people of Georgia have repudi
ated.”
Maddox mentioned talk that
“through you, and your most
unlikely election, that Mr. Van
diver still has faint hope of be
ing named to the U. S. Senate
in the event a vacancy occurs
there.”
Temperature
Hits 86 Here
Tile temperature climbed to
86 here Sunday afternoon. Wea
ther Observer Horace West
brooks said it was the highest in
eight months.
He said the last time the mer
cury approached that point was
last Sept. 1 when it hit 90 de
grees in Griffin.
The veteran Griffin weather
observer said he believes that
the sunshine will continue for a
few days in Griffin.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and mild tonight
and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 83, low today 63, high Sun*
day 86, low Sunday 63; sunrise
Tuesday 5:30, sunset Tuesday
7:38.