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By Quimby Melton
As Good Evening read about
and heard about the million and
a quarter mile space trip of Ge
mini 9; of the walk in space by
Space “rookie” Eugene Cernan,
that lasted more than two hours
and four times as long as the
best of the other two space walk
ers, but that went sour when his
helmet visor fogged up and com
munications with the spaceship
itself became fouled; it was
decided the flight should be end
ed this morning, with the pair of
space men to be returned to
earth this morning.
(After Good Evening had writ
ten the above, UPI brought the
good news that Astronauts Staf
ford and Cernan had landed saf
ely and were aboard the US Car
rier Wasp. Their splashdown
was within 3,000 yards, less than
tw'o miles from the ship — the
closest to a landing target made
by any of their predecessors in
to space.)
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As Good Evening kept up with
what was going on in space, he
was struck with the “World
Wide Bible Reading” as listed in
The Upper Room, a daily devo
tional book he has found to be a
most interesting and helpful way
to start each day. This suggest
ed Bible Reading was Job 38; in
which “The Lord answered Job
out of the whirlwind. . . .”
If one reads this and gets the
same reaction we did one can
hardly help but wonder if t h e
questions asked Job could not
be asked today of those all out
scientists who are out to conquer
■ space — the earth and the hea
vens.
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Today, June 6, is an important
day in history. It was on this
date in 1944, twenty-two years
ago, that D-Day began, under
the command of General Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
D-Day was the beginning of
the end for Nazi Germany. Fi
nal victory was still a long way
off, American troops and their
Allies staged a great gamble—
for ed, had the this outcome D-Day invasion fail- j
of World War
Two might have been different.
As Good Evening thought of
D-Day, he could not help but
wish that the senile old fool, De
Gaulle, would remember that it
was this D-Day invasion, and
the many lives lost by his then
allies, that France was saved.
Yet, he has forgotten all that
and thinks of himself as the sa
vior of France. He can do more
to bring on World War Three,
by his arrogance than any group
of men alive.
1 Poor old chap. If he and he
alone would be affected, that
would be a tune of another tem
po, but there are millions of
others who may have to “pay
the fiddler” for DeGaulle’s mule
headed egotism.
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Today, June 6, is also an in
teresting anniversary of at least
two other things:
On June 6, 1755 Nathan Hale
, was born.
He was graduated at Yale Col
lege in 1773, and devoted him
self to the cause of the colonies
i the contest with Great Bri
tain. After the defeat of the
colonial army on Long Island,
he endeavored to obtain know
ledge of the enemy’s plans and
position for the information of
Washington. He obtained the
knowledge, but was arrested by
the British before he could re
turn. The papers containing the
information being found on his
person, he was hanged as a spy,
by order of Sir William Howe.
His last words were, “I only re
gret that I have but one life to
lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale was just 18 years
old when he gave his life for his
country.
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Today is also the anniversary
of a 10-inch snowfall in New En
gland. This was in 1816 and
was during the so-called year
“In which there was no sum
mer.”
, No one can blame the shenani
gans going on in atomic and nu
clear research for this.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and warm tonight and Tuesday
with widely s'-ttered thunder
showers in northern portions
Tuesday afternoon.
LOCAD WEATHER — High
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day 81, low Sunday 60, sunrise
Tuesday 5:29, sunset Tuesday
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo).
Scenic Spalding
Tliis scenic photograph brings to mind an era of yesteryear. It show's the old
Blanton Mill in Spalding County. The old waterwheel which furnished the power
for the operation is at the right.
New Sheppard
Trial Ordered
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Supreme Court today ordered a
new trial for Dr. Samuel H.
Sheppard, socially prominent
Cleveland osteopath, convicted
in 1954 of murdering his wife,
Marilyn.
Under the ruling, Cuyahoga
County prosecutors must re-try
Sheppard in 60 days or free
him permanently. The 1954
conviction was for second
degree murder.
Sheppard served nine years
of a life term when found guilty
of the fatal bludgeoning of his
pregnant young wife in the
couple’s fashionable Bay Vil
lage home on Lake Erie.
Sheppard, known in the
headlines as “Dr. Sam,” was
ordered released by Federal
District Judge Carl Weinman of
Chicago on the ground that
trial and pre-trial publicity
made a fair and impartial Jury
impossible. On May 5, 1965, the
6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals reversed Weinman but
let Sheppard stay at liberty
pending his appeal to the
Supreme Court.
Sheppard was awaiting an
early parole when released.
Justice Tom C. Clark spoke
for the Supreme Court. Justice
Cong Arrow Hits
Georgia Soldier
AN KHE, South Viet Nam
(UPI)—Lt. Bill Hughes, 24, of
Savannah, Ga., is bound for his
second Purple Heart.
The lieutenant, a platoon
leader of the U. S. Army’s 1st
Cavalry Division, was knocked
off his feet by an 18-inch wood
en arrow shot into his right
ankle.
But he did not have time to
think about the arrow until his
platoon completed its mission
of claiming a hill from a nest
of Viet Cong gunners.
Hughes pulled the arrow from
his flesh and set about the Job
of leading his 40 men up the
GRIFFIN
DAILY f NEWS
Established 1871
Hugo L. Black dissented but
wrote no opinion,
Clark said trial Judge Ed
ward A. Blythin of Cleveland
did not “fulfill his duty to
protect Sheppard from the
inherently prejudicial publicity
which saturated the community
and to control the disruptive
influences in the court room.”
Clark said, however, that
“reversals are but palliatives.”
“The cure,” he said, “lies in
those remedial measures that
will prevent the prejudice at its
inception. The courts must take
such steps by rule and
regulation that will protect
their processes from prejudicial
outside interferences.
Neither prosecutors, counsel
fo u defense, the accused,
witnesses, court staff nor
enforcement officers coming
under the Jurisdiction of the
court should be permitted to
frustrate its function.
"Collaboration between coun
sel and the press as to
information affecting the fair
ness of a criminal trial is not
only subject to regulation, but
is highly censurable and worthy
of disciplinary measures.”
hill through a hail of bullets to
capture the hill 10 miles south
of the 1st cavalry’s base at An
Khe in the central highlands.
By that time the lieutenant’s
whole leg was swelling from
the wound and a helicopter
came to take him to an aid sta
tion, where doctors patched
him up.
The arrow, which would mean
a second Purple Heart for
Hughes, was to keep him out of
action for a month, doctors
said.
The first honor was received
when he was wounded in the
sr.me leg by grenade frag
ments.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, June 6, 1966
Happy Spacemen
Hauled Aboard
Near Perfect
Splash Down
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON
(UPI) —Gemini 9 astronauts
Thomas Stafford and Eugene
Cernan splashed down to a
bullseye landing before the eyes
of millions today and were
hauled grinning and triumphant
aboard an aircraft carrier to
end their jinx-plagued space
flight.
A band boomed “Anchors
A weigh” aboard the aircraft
carrier Wasp in the western
Atlantic as they were fished
from the choppy water In their
heat - seared capsule and
emerged from it on the carrier
deck. They grinned and waved.
Stafford wiped sweat from
his brow. Both men obviously
needed shaves after three days
without a razor.
Crewmen cheered and yelled.
The astronauts just grinned and
waved.
Cernan appeared a little tired
and drawn as he emerged from
the capsule.
Television aboard the carrier
picked up the capsule as it
wafted down under a parachute
from its three-day space
mission. Stafford guided it
down only 3,000 yards from the
Wasp, apparently the closest
any of the 13 manned U.S.
space flights have come to
their landing target.
“Pretty close fro government
work” joked Paul Haney, the
voice of Gemini Control.
Right On Time
Stafford and his space
walking co-pilot splashed down
at 10 a.m. EDT at the end of
their 45th orbit and 1.125
million miles in space. They
were hauled aboard the Wasp
at 10:51 a.m. EDT from the
choppy sea.
Officials said they would be
flown to Cape Kennedy, where
they blasted off last Friday, at
about 4 p.m. EDT today. First
there will be medical examina
tions aboard the carrier.
Cernan’s record two-hour
spacewak was soured Sunday
when his visor frosted and he
could not use a back jetpack to
jet around in space. And Gemini
9 could not dock with a target
satellite because its protective
shroud had failed to come off.
But Stafford had demonstrat
ed three times the tricky art of
redezvous with a satellite,
coming to within three feet of
t. And both men, frustrated
twice by aunch difficulties
before they finally blasted off,
were understandably beaming
and happy as they emerged
from their dripping capsule.
The flight lasted exactly 72
hours and 20 minutes.
Stayed In Capsule
Stafford and Cernan elected
to be brought aboar d the
carrier while still in the
capsule. Television cameras
aboard ship relayed the events
to the mainland 350 miles away
via satellite.
Stafford fired his retro
rockets over the Pacific at 9:26
a.m. EDT to slow the 17,500
mile an hour speed of his craft
in orbit and begin the descent
to the atmosphere.
Precisly on schedule he hit
the atmosphere. The heat
shield on the blunt end of the
capsule pushed tlirough 3,000
degree heat in a fiery ball that
blacked out communications for
five minutes.
Air conditioning in the
capsule kept the space twins
comfortable.
Despite “G” pressure weigh
ing down on him, Stafford’s
voice was calm and even as he
emerged from the blackout and
reported “everything’s fine.”
Navy swimmers were in the
water as he hit under an 80-foot
orange and white parachute.
They quickly ringed the capsule
with a flotation collar to help
keep it afloat and got into
telephone contact with the
astronauts inside.
Stafford and Cernan gave the
traditional “thumbs up” signal.
Southern Bloc
Opens Battle
On New CR Bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Senate southern bloc launched
its formal attack on President
Johnson’s new civil rights bill
today with a claim that its hot
ly controversial fair housing
section would prove “unenforce
able.”
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. D-N.C.,
who opened the assault, said it
would disrupt the real estate
business but would not integrate
neighborhoods or housing. Hun
dreds of home owners will be
"harassed by suits incorporat
ing unprecedented federal court
claims,” he said, but “the
broad policy will be unenforce
able.’ ’
Erwin, generally regarded as
the southerners’ constitutional
expert, rejected most of the
bill’s other provisions as ex
pected. These include sections
which would permit the Justice
Department to initiate suits to
desegregate public schools and
facilities and would make it a
federal crime to do violence to
civil rights workers or support
ers.
But the North Carolina Dem
ocrat did accept the objective
of the bill’s first section—a uni
form federal jury system. He
called for the greatest care in
changing the present system,
however, “lest by our good-in
tentioned tinkering we adverse
ly affect the qualify of federal
justice.
Ervin’s attack on the meas
ure was contained in remarks
prepared for the opening of
hearings today by the constitu
tional rights subcommitte he
heads.
In his statement, Ervin called
on Congress to ignore political
pressure and defeat the bill. He
said that if the lawmakers "ca
pitulate again ... we will be
sharing in the denise of the
Constitution.”
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Stafford.
Rep. Melton
Plans To Seek
Another Term
Quimby Melton, Jr., announ
ced today that he plans to qua
lify Thursday to seek selection
as Spalding County representa
tive, Post No. 1.
“I am announcing my plans
in advance,” Melton said, “be
cause I intend to run an inde
pendent race without connection
with any other candidate tor of
fice. Various candidates have
been qualifying for other posi
tions day by day. Some more
probably will do so on Thursday
and between now and Thursday.
I have no affiliation with any of
them, and I wish them all ’good
luck.’ Whenever it is to the bene
fit of Spalding County people, I
will work with whoever else is
elected. But under present poli
tical circumstances in Georgia,
I believe that the best thing
right now is to steer an indepen
dent course. I plan to do j u s t
that.”
Melton continued, “The people
of Spalding County have eight
years seniority in the Georgia
House invested in me as a De
mocratic office holder. I plan to
utilize that seniority to the ut
most. Therefore I will qualify as
a Democrat. I will pay my own
qualifying fee ($500) as I have
always done and will not be be
holden to any special interest
group anywhere. I appreciate
the friendship and the votes of
the people of this county in the
past. I thank you for them ag
ain, and I respectfully come be
fore you seeking your approval
once more. Nobody ever has had
to wait until campaign time to
get in touch with me. You have
always been welcome in person
at my home or at my office, and
I always have been as near to
you as your telephone. I will con
tinue to be available to you as
your representative, and to ap
preciate your interest and your
friendship.”
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“A fellow who think he
has no faults has the great
est of all — that of look
ing down on the faults of
others.”
Rare Hurricane
Boils In June
MIAMI (UPI) — A Caribbean
low pressure area boiled up
quickly today into a rare June
hurricane named Alma and
pointed its 75 mile an hour
winds toward Cuba.
The Weather Bureau has re
corded only three other hurri
canes in June. An Air Force
hurricane hunter plane found
Columbus Man
Qualifies For
Third District
ATLANTA (UPI) Colum
bus attorney Jack Brinkley
qualified today to run for Con
gress from the 3rd Congression
al District, now served by Re
publican Howard Callaway.
Brinkley, 35, said his entry
did not necessarily mean that
State Sen. Jimmy Carter, whom
he called a “good friend,” was
preparing to leave the race and
run for governor. He said that
there was a “good chance” in
fact that Carter would stay in
the 3rd District race but that
he would run even then.
“I’m willing to do my part
to keep the mission of gov
ernment within lawful con
cepts,” Brinkley said, adding
that one of his main concerns
vould be to cut out unneces
sary spending and what he
called "shameful waste of the
tax dollar.”
INSIDE
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
Funerals. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Ray Cromley. Page 3.
Accident Charts. Page 3.
New Teaching. Page 3.
California Races. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Society. Page 6.
Polly’s Pointers. Page 6.
Viet Crisis. Page 7.
Viet War. Page 7.
Georgia Hero. Page 7.
Surveyor. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Sports. Page 10.
BAN ELECTION
DALY CITY, Calif. (UPI) —
Thomas F. Noonan, candidate
for San Mateo County assessor,
came out Sunday for the
banning of outdoor election
signs.
Noonan said all his election
signs had been broken or
stolen, including the one
crowning his headquarters. He
added that the ban would be
the only fair way “to put all
candidates on an equal basis.”
Alma — discovered Sunday as
a tropical depression off the
coast of Honduras — to be a
full - fledged storm by mid
morning today.
An 11 a.m. EST advisory cen
tered the hurricane about 340
miles south - southwest of Ha
vana near latitude 18.4 north,
ongtiude 84 west. Alma was
moving toward the north-north
east about five miles per hour.
It was more than 1,500 miles
from the Gemini 9 splashdown
area.
Gales fanned outward about
275 miles in the northern semi
circle and about 175 miles in
the southern semicircle.
The Weather Bureau warned
small craft in the northwestern
Caribbean to remain in safe
harbor, especially around the
Cayman Islands and along the
south shore of west and central
Cuba.
Chief forecaster Gordon Dunn
said that Alma is “apparently
going to take an unusual track
for June.”
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410-Pound Cake
For Astronauts
ABOARD USS WASP (UPI)
— Gemini 9 astronaut workhor
ses Tom Stafford and Gene
Cernan will be feted with 410
pounds of cake aboard the
recovery ve el USS Wasp in
the Atlantic this afternoon.
The short ceremony with the
Wasp crew will be after a lunch
with Adm. William N. Leonard,
chief of West Atlantic Recovery
Forces, and Wasp Capt. Gordon
E. Harttey.
Two huge cakes will be cut.
One weighs 285 pounds and is
tw’o by four feet. The other is
125 pounds in a two by two feet
chunk with a replica of a
Gemini 9 re-entry attitude.
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Driver Suffers
Head Injury
In Accident
A Griffin soft drink truck dri
ver suffered severe head injur
ies this morning in an accidenl
three miles east of Griffin on
Georgia 16.
He was identified as Tyler Po
wers. He is undergoing treat
ment at the Griffin - Spalding
County Hospital.
State Patrol investigators have
not been allowed to talk with
the injured man to find out de
tails of the accident. They said,
however, a tire apparently went
down on the truck. It overturned.
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