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S_J VENIN VJ
By Quimby Melton
How times have changed.
/ back in 1909, on this date,
June 7, Mary Pickford made her
moving picture debut in “The
Violin Maker of Cremona.”
Today if a young lady would
make her debut in pictures and
TV she must be a sexy little cat,
or a rough and ready gal who
can play spy In a suspense pro
duction.
We thought about this and how
times have changed when our
niece Mrs. C. E. McConnell, Jr.,
of Charleston, West Virginia,
came to spend the day with us
at Many Mortgages.
“Griffin has certainly grown,”
she said, as she drove up to our
home in time for dinner. She had
only seen that part of Griffin in
the Immediate neighborhood,
where she had lived when she
\ uelia Hi ’ just out of high
school, and came to Griffin to
make her home and become So
ciety Editor of The Griffin Daily
News.
“You ain’t seen nothing yet”—
the words of another old-timer—
A1 Jolson — was our reply.
If she had time to really make
a tour of Greater Griffin, before
returning to Macon where she is
visiting her mother, she would
have seen a city on the Go — a
city that is larger and finer than
the Griffin Leila onc e knew.
She would find more homes,
more schools, more churches,
more Industries, more business
firms, and all that. But she also
would find the same old friendly
spirit of Griffin people that has
always marked our community.
That’s an asset that times can
not change, and that’s our great
est asset In our opinion.
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Leila McConnell’s visit to us
today brought to mind a story
told many years ago about her
grandfather the late Tom Hooks,
one of the largest plantation ow
ners in South Georgia.
A big political gathering was
scheduled for Amerlcus. It was
to be an all-day affair, candida
tes ranging all the way from
justioes of the peace to U. S. Se
nate had been invited to attend
and speak. A big barbecue was
planned and preparations had
been made for a record crowd.
Tom Hooks, then a young man,
had grown up on the plantation
near Huntington. One of the
“hands” on the plantation was
an old Negro who had been with
the Hooks family since he was
a small boy. He was in charge
of the stables, looking after the
riding and carriage horses.
One day, while grooming a
horse for Tom Hooks to ride, this
old man commented on the poli
tical gathering that was to be
held in a few days in Americus.
He said he had never seen such
a thing and asked Tom Hooks
if he “could ride into town with
you and see just what the white
folk do at these meetings.”
Young Hooks was delighted to
take him along, for it was this
old man who had taught him,
when a boy, how to shoot, how
to trap, and how to ride a spiri
ted horse.
The day of the big shindig
came and here went the young
man and his elderly friend. Ar
riving in Americus they drove
to the large vacant lot where a
speaker’s stand had been erect
ed and tables for the barbecue
put up.
“Uncle Ned”, after unhitching
the pair of spirited horses that
had brought them to the city,
and after having tied them to a
tree with hay on the ground for
them to nibble on, disappeared.
Tom Hooks did not see h i m
until late in the afternoon when
he came back to hitch up the
horses for the trip home. But he
had not gone far away, he had
stood on the edge of the great
crowd and listened to every
speaker.
“How did you like the speak
ing?” asked Tom Hooks.
“Uncle Ned” thought a mo
ment, then replied “Them white
gentlemen certainly did speak
highly of themselves. Giddy up,
hosese, let’s ~‘t on horn-!.”
Weather:
FORECAST GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy, warm
and humid tonight un' Wednes
day. A v widely scattered
thundershowers.
LOCAL ... THER — High
today 88, low today 67, high
PTouJay 82, low Monday 62; Sun
rise Wednesday 5:29, sunset
Wednesday 7:43.
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Convention Bound
Jack Adams, Bill Bray and Gordon Dixon check as they plan their trip to t h e
national Key Club convention in Chicago. It will be held June 26-29. The boys
are members of the Griffin High Key Club, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
Flynt Makes Statement
On Federal Building
The increase in the cost of the
Viet Nam war has delayed ap
proval of a multi-purpose federal
building for Griffin, according
to Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr.
He said he had been assured
that the proposal would be in
cluded “in the next batch to be
sent up” to congress.
The building would include a
post office and would house oth
er federal functions.
In a three and a half page re
port on the building, Rep. Flynt
said he had sought it for 12
years.
He said an administration po
licy from 1954-61 prohibited con
struction of such buildings and
favored leased structures.
He said when the policy was
changed, Jan. 20, 1961, he renew
ed his request for a first class
building for Griffin, and that
there are more than 7,000 such
requests on file.
The proposed building would
cost an estimated $1,137,000. Rep.
Flynt said the amortized costs
show an annual savings of $31,
052 under the cost of comparable
rented space.
Flynt will request a modifica
tion of the prospectus, "at the
proper time,” to include a con
tingency plan to house a divis
ion of the United States District
Court.
“Whether leased or perman
ent, the history of federal build
ings and post offices shows that
they are used for 50 to 60 years.
If we are going to live with it for
50 years, I want it to be the
best building we can get,” Rep.
Flynt said.
“In late 1965, the Administra
tor of General Services came to
my office and told me that the
plans for a federal building at
Griffin had been approved and
that he would send it to congress
for final action,” Rep. Flynt
said.
Rep. Flynt said he was given
a typewritten five-page copy of
the prospectus on Jan. 9, 1966,
with a blue memorandum attach
ed marked:
“Hold to see how much Viet
Nam war increases fisal year
1967 budget. Cannot giv e exact
date this will be sent to congress
but it will be in the next batch
sent up.”
Rep. Flynt said he was advis
ed in September, 1963, that Grif
fin could have a leased, single
purpose post office, and that if
he agreed, it could V scheduled
for contract letting by 1966 with
construction to begin that same
year.
He said the anticipated annual
rental on the 19,000 square feet
leased building would be about
$38,000.
He said he asked about a fed
eral building and was told that
it would take a little longer but
that it had been placed in prior
ity category I. He said he was
told such a building could be
sent to congress sometime in
1966.
Rep. Flynt said he conferred
individually with city and coun
ty commissioners, the eity man
ager, many business and pro
fessional men, officers of both
banks, and officers and directors
of the Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce about the two plans.
“In every instance a prefer-
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ence was expressed for the fe
deral building as opposed to the
leased facility. Not a single per
son, after learning the facts, ex
pressed a preference for a lea
sed facility or had any doubt
about which is best for Griffin,
Ga.,” Rep. Flynt said.
He stated:
“I have not engaged in a con
troversy over this, certainly not
a public controversy. The duties
and responsibilities of your re
presentative in congress are
too demanding and time consu
ming to reply to all critical com-
Meredith Promises
To Resume March
By JAMES K. CAZALES
Unit c d Press lnternati°nal
HERNANDO, Miss. (UPI —
James Meredith made a rapid
recovery today from his brush
with death from a sniper’s
shotgun and promised to
resume a racial march through
rural Mississippi that was
interrupted by the shooting.
Meredith’s lawyer, A.W. Wil
lis, said he hoped the wounded
man would be released from a
Memphis hospital within “the
next two or three days.”
Meredith, shot shortly after
he began a walk from Memphis
to Jackson to stimulate Negro
voting enthusiasm, received
only superficial wound:; from
embedded shotgun pellets.
An unemployed white hard
ware contractor from Memphis,
Aubrey James Norvell, 40. was
trapped in the woods with a
shotgun in his hand and
admitted the shooting. He was
jailed overnight and was
scheduled for a hearing today
on charges of assault and
Rusk Issues
Blunt Warning
To France
3RUSSELS 'UPI) —Secre’v
ry of State Dean Rusk bluntly
warned France today that it
cannot expect i participate in
NATO military decisions after
pulling out of the military
s* ture <-* the Alliance.
The warning came in the
course of a brief exchange
between Rusk and the French
foreign minister in the NATO
council after the French
minister objected to the word
teg of a proposal to create a
new “Integrated” milita’- com
mittee at heado rarters.
France accepted without ar
gument NATO’s plan to move
its supreme military headquar
ters to Belgii”-'. France said
NATO’s political headqua rs,
tl council, is weliome to
remain in Paris ~ ance will
not object if It moves too.
ments.
“If I engaged in the spectacle
of a public controversy every
time someone called Jack Flynt
a bad name, I would have to
close all three offices from all
other public business. The
spectacle of such a public con
troversy can serve no useful pur
pose. It can only harm our great
city, drive away businessmen
interested in establishing new
industry here and arouss un
necessary doubts and suspicion
among our friends and neigh
bors, the citizens of Griffin.”
battery with intent to murder.
Secs Negro Leaders
The Meredith shooting stirred
anew all the anguish of the civil
rights movement and sent its
leaders rushing to the bedside
of the Negro who became
famous as the first of his race
to integrate the University of
Mississippi.
Dr. Martin Luther King, head
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, and
Floyd McKissick, leader of the
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) arrived in Memphis on
separate nights this morning
and went immediately to
Meredith’s bedside in the
William S. Bowld hospital.
Both said they would bow to
the wishes of Meredith as to
whether they would organize a
massive march through the
Mississippi backwoods delta
country on his behalf.
D.E. Hoxle, administrator of
th-; Bowld Hospital, told a
reporter Meredith’s condition
was good today.
“He spent a comfortable
night and had a normal
breakfast —no special diet,”
Hoxie said.
Reads Meredith Stat e mcnt
Willis, a Memphis NAACP
lawyer who was Meredith’s
special attorney during his
battle to enroll at Ole Miss.,
held a hospital news confer
ence, reading from a seven
page long - hand statement he
said had been written by the
wounded man.
his stutemei '".'a
said he had thought of taking a
weapon with him on his march
but discarded the idea and took
along a Bible instead.
He said his first reaction
when he was shot ’ .te Monday
afternoon on a forest road Just
after crossing into Mississippi
was one of e: -’•rassment. He
said he realized he could have
felled the man who shot him
and that if it had been his
(Meredith’s) father who was
the shooting victim, he would
have been armed and would
have fired back.
Meredith said he is deter
mined to resume his march
when he is released from the
hospital.
“We will arrive," he said.
Young Bandit Robs
Lenox, Ga
School Board
Qualifying
Dates Are Set
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education Monday night set
qualifying dates for the board
election as July 16 through Aug.
5. The election will be held Sept.
14, the same day of the Demo
cratic primary but it will be a
separate election.
Board members whose term
expires this year are Don Jack
son, Taylor Manley, C. T. Park
er and Bill Westmoreland.
Board members are elect
ed for four year terms.
Candidates seeking seats
from the city on the board will
qualify with the city manager’s
office. Candidates seeking seats
from the county will qualify witli
the county commissioners.
Alma Aims Winds
At Cuba Coast
By FRANK EIDGE
United Press International
MIAMI (UPI) —Hurricane
Alma buffeted th southern
coast of ba wit advance
gales today, but the slow
referring .j the state capital at
Jackson, his goal of the
projected 220-r.iile march.
Predicts Big March
McKissick r /dieted t e fourth
coming march on Meredith’s
behalf will be at 1 lara
as the 1965 Selma to Montgome
ry crusade which the federal
government protected with
armed troops am helicopters.
“It will be as big and it could
surpass it,” McKissick said.
Both the CORE leader and
King were enthusiastic about
getting a massive march
started, although neither had
been much interested earlier.
Meredith had only a few
supporters with him when he
set out for T ’ckson Sunday.
“Something has to be done to
give the Negro his justice,”
King said on his arrival from
Atlanta.
“We would want to do what
James Meredith wants to do,”
M " ;sick said. “W. will have
to discuss this. We have ah—ys
worked to r ”
“Those of us who know him
consider him as a friend with
respect and courage and we
\ "I respond in a as a
friend and in an organizational
sense.”
Country Parson
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“I wonder why folks feel
sorry for the women who
didn’t find a husband —
instead of the ones who
did.”
Vol. 95 No. 133
Sen. Carter, Callaway
Bound For Showdown
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—Stata Sen.
Jimmy Carter seems bound to
face Rep. Howard (Bo) Calla
way, a longtime political rival,
in one race or another this
election year.
Carter, a democrat who quali
fied to run for the 3rd District
Congressional office Callaway
now holds, is considering run
ning for the governorship,
which Callaway will probably
seek on the GOP ticket.
Carter entered the congres
sional race when he thought
Callaway would run for re-elec
tion and not for governor. But
now, when Callaway’s prospec
tive candidacy seems more and
more apparent, sources have
said that Carter would definite
ly run if he can be assured of
forward mov< nent of the
season's first storm lessened
the danger to ' Florida.
At mid-morning, weathermen
sa' the Is' Fines just south
(' Cuba /as ‘art’-CT to get
gale force winds, heavy rains
and high tic’ .
The Cuban Weather Bureau,
meanwhile, ordered the western
part of the Cor.....’nte 1 ’ ’and ,o
batten down from Las Villas to
Prio Provinces.
At 9 a.m., EDT, weathermen
located the 90-mile an hour
center of hurrica . Alma near
latitude 19.6 : th and longitude
83.8 west. This was about ”*
miles south-southwest of Mia
mi.
The storm was moving
toward the north at five miles
an hour and weathermen said
that “this slow movement
delays the threat * extreme
south Florida.” ~ -t forecasters
cau’.’onod all interests to ' o
in close tour'- with future
adv' ries storm.
Although Alma was _ut 275
miles south-southwest of Hava
na we' " r—"nr'
>
planes indicate- that gale-force
winds were fanning out 275
miles to the north ' the center
art 175 miles ’o the south.
“It’s moving pretty slow,”
said forecaster Raymond Kraft
of s e hurricane -mter, “and it
may even slow down more this
n.orr : -~.
The last major hurricane to
strike Cuba was Flora in early
October of 1963. The Miami
Weather Bureau estimated that
Flora killed more than 1,000
persons and r -used uncounted
millions of dollars in property
and crop damage. The Castro
government never released any
official reports in the storm’s
wake.
GOP Candidate
Announces For
10th District
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - State
Rer Roy Simkins, a ’publi
can, announced today that he
would run for Congress from
the 10th D‘ rict, now represent
ed by Democrat Robert G.
Stephens.
'ins, 32, prom' a c- -
pi lgn “the likes of which this
district has never seen.” He
based his platter m on fiscal in
tegrity, victory in Viet Nam and
a halt to "socialism.”
After making the announce
ment here Simkins left for
Athens, home of Stephens, to
speak there. He planned an
afternoon news conference in
Milledgeville, ar " -»• population
center of the distric'
adequate financial backing.
"I have given it some thought
and I have talked with several
friends. I don’t know what the
answer is at this time,” Carter
said Monaay.
The two fought their bitterest
battle over the fate of Georgia
Southwestern College at Ameri
cus. Callaway, then a member
of the state Board of Regents,
wanted the school to remain a
junior college. Carter fought to
made a four-year school — and
won.
Some say the rivalry dates
back to the time both men were
in school themselves—Callaway
a West Point cadet and Carter
an Annapolis midshipman.
Callaway in a speech Mon
day to the Atlanta Textile Club,
avoided the subject of Georgia
politics and talked instead
about the state departments’
Viet Nam policies.
The Republican congressman,
of Pine Mountain, praised the
military war efforts by U.S.
troops, but urged a firm stance
from the diplomats.
The State Department work
ers are “patriotic American cit
izens who have a genuine fear
of starting World War HI,” Cal
laway said. “But they also have
a don’t rock the boat’ philoso
phy. Every time we’ve been
firm, we’ve pushed war further
away.
Echoing the stand of Sen.
Richard Russell, D-Ga.. Calla
way urged closing of the port
of Hai Phong and enemy sup
ply lines.
Griffin-Spalding
School Budget
Gets Final Okay
The Griffin • Spalding Board
of Education gave final appro
val to a proposed budget for
1966-67 that will involve handing
nearly five million dollars.
The board will handle an esti
mated $4,917,259.50 in connec
tion with all phases of the school
program.
The board also asked Supt. Ge
orge Patrick, Jr., to pursue se
curing an ROTC unit for Griffin
High School.
An Army official who inspec
ted the Griffin High campus re
cently has said he expects the
school will quaK-V and be ap
proved for . unit.
High School classes for veter
a:.r also was approved by the
berrd. The y m here again is
qualified to offer training to qua
lified veterans.
The following teachers were
elected:
Tommy Jerry Ison, Spalding
Junior High; Miss Margaret
Simpson, G iffin High; Mrs. El
len W. Watson, Beaverbrook;
Miss Linda 'ludson, North
Side; Robert L. Rosenfeld, Spal
d’ Junior High; Pay*- d
Charles Brown, Kelsey Junior
High; Miss Carol Jenkins, Shock
ley; Miss Lutricia Phillips,
Moore; Charles F. Farrell, Four
th Ward; Mrs. Diane Taylor,
Wert Griffin.
Resignations were accepted
from:
Farris Smith, Franklin Strick
land, James Martin, Patricia
Chappell, Donald Warlick, Jul
ian Grantham, Spalding Junior
High; Miss Mary Bell, Miss
J- North Side.
Miss Barbara Garner, Miss
Donna Dollens, Crescent: Jam
es E. Moore, Mrs. Marlene
Moore, Robert Ramsey, Griffin
High; Mrs. Artella Reese, Wil
liam 'ro n, ’-.ey Junior High;
Mrs. Katherine Head Childs,
Fourth Ward; Miss Geraldine
Reid, James Tribble, Fairmont.
$ 20,000
Taken
In Robbery
LENOX, Ga. (UPI) — A young
holdup man with bleached blond
hair held up the hard-luck Bank
of Lenox today and fled with an
estimated 10,000 ash.
Bank President R. H. ” ‘n
son said the bandit was "ex
tremely” nervous and threaten
ed to kill the si., employes and
three customers "with the girls
shot first” unless they followed
his orders.
Robinson said he went to the
vault, as ordered by the holdup
man, put the money in a bag
and handed it to the bandit. The
robber fled in a gree Chevrolet
Impala, Robinson said.
It was the second time this
yee- that the Ba-of Lenox, in
south Georgia’s Cook County,
has been held up. On Jan. 10
desperado Jesse James Roberts
robbed the bank at pistol point
and fled with $38,300. On the
same day, Roherts attempted
to rob the nearby Bank of Alapa
ha. Roberts was captured, con
victed and sent j prison. About
$32,000 of the loot from that rob
brey was recovered.
Robinson said the holdup man
appeared to be about 20 or 21
years old, with bleached hair.
He wore a blue T shirt with a
yellow strir- and light tan trou
sers.
The bank president said the
bandit walked into the bank
around 11:30 a.m. and asked to
see “Mr. Robinson.”
"I noticed the bulge in his
clothes," Robinson said, “and
I figured he had a gun.
“He snatched out the pistol
and told me to get my hands
up. So I held them up.
“Then he called the employes
over and made us all stand
together on the platform (a
raised section of flooring).”
Robinson said the bandit was
very nervous. “He said that if
we didn’t keep still he’d kill us
and shoot the girls first.”
Three customers came into the
bank during the holdup, Robin
son said, and they also were
threatened if they did not follow
orders.
Republican
Announces For
Lt. Governor
ATLAN’j. V (UPI) — Georgia
had a Republican candidate for
lieutenant governor today, but
he faced an uphill battle just
to get his name on the ballot.
State Sen. H. E. (Gene) San
ders of DeKlab County an
nounced he would be a candi
date for the lieutenant govern
orship and said he would work
toward improvement of the state
including education, mental
health, the highways and tax
equalization.
However, for : Republican to
be placed on the statewide bal
lot in Novembe-- must either
run in a statewide primary or
obtain approximately 80,000 peti
tion signatures before Sept. 9.
State Republican lea ers have
strongly indicate ere will be
no primary.
Sanders, of Clarkston, said
that if the decision is definitely
made n>t to hold a primary, he
would mobilize the Young Re
publicans of the state to at
te: .it the difficult feat of obtain
ing the signatures.
- DeKlab Co—ty senator
said he wasn’t “in cahoots”
with anybody but said l e had
talked with pro. able GOP g b
ernatorlal candidate Howard
Calawsy early today. He refus
ed to disclose the nature of their
conversation, saying that Call
away could speak for himself.
Sanders disclaim any extre
mist support and said that al
thorgh he knew there were some
extremists in the Republican
camp, the party had no corner
on ouch elements. He menti i
gubernatorial candidate Lester
Maddox, a Democrat.