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17 GOOD f ^ 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. — + — 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. GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Established 1871 . J H . ■ | 1 §|§| ! HW1I i: r. ■ - w- H \ m i I is iia ■ M .' * 11 1 J ; w W/Z- PIISl * atm 1 * ** I j&S 'T I V m i ■<< ' ' T 'si.: ' v. \ v \ ; |; i-C * $ < 1! >■; .w i m M V." A HR 1 *. ..A. . (Griffin Daily News Staff I'hoto). 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- Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, June 7, 1966 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 j Ik ft lf| tV W 1 f=i I 6-7 “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.