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What Does Griffin Community Need?
Citizens, Leaders Give Their Views
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By Quimby Melton
Griffin’s ever busy Junior
Chamber of Commerce is mak
ing plans for their fourth annual
Fourth of July celebration.
The program will include a big
parade, a barbecue at the park,
a beauty contest, games of a 11
kinds, and will wind up with a
spectacular fireworks display.
A feature of the day will be the
distribution of 2,000 small Amer
ican flags. These known as
“hand flags” will be distributed
to the children in the hopes
that they will ask their parents
about the flag and what it means
thus giving them a better under
standing of its true significance.
Staging a city-wide Fourth of
July celebration is no simple
matter, and for one organization,
such as the Jaycees, to take on
that responsibility is an outstand
ing civic service. One may rest
assured that the event will be a
success, “a good time will be
had by all” and Griffin people
will wind up the day appreciat
ing America more than ever.
But there is one thing that all
should remember. To stage such
a celebration costs money; the
expenses of this will be too
much for any one organization,
especially an organization that
is always financing other civic
events.
Today’s Good Evening, Is writ
ten to tell folks of an enjoyable
and important event come July
4th, also to ask those who would
like to help the Jaycees stage
this event to send a contribution
to them. No contribution will be
too small to help and to be ap
preciated. Neither will any con
tribution be too large.
Come on Griffin;
Stand Up and Be Counted!
Counted as one who loves this
United States, its flag, and what
the flag stands for.
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In Good Evening’s opinion
some of America’s best litera
ture is little known, simply be
cause some was never publish
ed in book form, and some that
was published did not have wide
circulation. Much of this little
known literature was written
during the 19th century in t h e
south by southern authors. There
of course, was a reason for this.
The South was going through
the cruel Reconstruction days;
there were few if any book pub
lishers in the south. The largest
publishing concerns were in New
York, In Boston and in Philadel
phia. And these publishers, with
an eye to making money, for
business must make money to
stay in business, spent much of
their time turning out books
written by New England and
other northern authors.
Good Evening has in his lib
rary, several books handed down
from his father’s library, writ
ten by little known Southern au
thors. He finds tham most inter
esting. The first one he picked
up one day to read was “The
South in History and Litera
ture” written by “Miss Millie”
Rutherford, professor of litera
ture at old Lucy Cobb in Ath
ens. This was published In 1907
and refutes the statement that
the South did not produce any
Teally good literature during the
19th Century.
Another long-time ago pub
lished book (1898) we’re reading
is “Sketches of Country Life”
written by Frances Barton Lloyd
under the pen name of Rufus
Sanders, Lloyd was a writer on
the Selma Journal.
The book publishing concern
located in Birmingham, descri
bes the book as full of “Humor,
Wisdom, Pathos.” — And It liv
es up to this description.
Here’s Just one paragraph
from that book, published some
68 years ago. Rufus Sanders
might have been writing of Ge
orgia in this political summer
of 1966 when he wrote this story
“Politics on Panther Creek:”
“Comin on down to the present
time bein,” said Ben Chris Wea
ver the last night he spent with
me, “we have got things into a
rather bad shape down In the
Panther Creek range this sum
mer. To tell you the plain, un
washed truth, Rufe, we have had
too little straight work and re
ligion, and too dum much poli
tics and wet weather. It looks to
me like all the people In gener
al have cut loose and turned out
to rim the government. I have
never seen the like of grassy
crops, and family fuss, and
church feuds, and rising states
men, and fresh hatched patriots,
and backslidin, and cussin, and
wranglin, and tanglin in all my
born days.”
Sen. Carter
To Make Race
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UFI) —State Sen.
Jimmy Carter of Plains will
announce today or Thursday
that he is definitely a candidate
for governor.
Carter reached his decision
Tuesday night and told several
key state officials this morning
that he definitely will run and
will post his $2,500 qualifying
fee before next Wednesday’s
deadline.
When asked directly if he
would enter the race, Carter
said, “Things look favorable.”
It was learned that Carter
was drafting an announcement
and will hold a news confer
ence to make the formal an
nouncement.
Carter has spent the last two
days in Atlanta drumming up
financial support.
“I don’t want to enter the
race without financial support.”
Carter said before his decision
was reached. He said he was
Brown, Reagan Win
In California Vote
By DE VAN SHUMWAY
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) —
Actor Ronald Reagan won the
Republican gubernatorial nomin
ation in a landslide in his first
try for political office and
prepared today to battle
California’s two-term Democra
tic Gov. Edmund G. Brown in
November.
Reagan, one of Hollywood’s
leading men in the 1940’s and
more recently a television
personality, crushed former
San Francisco Mayor George
Christopher under a wave of
votes from populous Southern
California in Tuesday’s prima
ry.
Brown won renomination to
seek an unprecedented third
term as governor but his
margin of victory over Los
Angeles Mayor Samuel W.
Yorty was surprisingly slim.
With 16,437 of the state’s
30,586 precincts reporting, Rea
gan had 673,836 votes to 310,504
for Christopher and Brown’s
victory margin over Yorty was
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Republic Bound
Members of the “Sixth Street Six” will leave Thurs
day for the Dominican Republic where they will
entertain U. S. troops with musical programs. Their
visit was arranged through the Department of De
fense. They will return to Griffin next Tuesday.
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GRIFFIN
DAILY f NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, June 8,1966 Vol. 95 No. 134
Alma Strikes
Havana; Aims
At Key West
By CHARLES S. ALDINGER
MIAMI (UPI) —Hurricane
Alma tore into Havana with 90
mile an hour winds today and
aimed its fury across the
narrow Florida Straits toward
Key West and Florida’s lower
west coast.
“It now appears the center of
hurricane Alma could reach the
vicinity of Key West by early
this afternoon," the National
Hurricane Center warned.
The entire 150-mile length of
Florida’s island chain from Key
Largo south and westward to
Everglades City on the lower
west coast were put on an
emergency hurricane alert.
Weathermen said they proba
bly would extend the hurricane
alert by noon, EDT.
At 9 a.m., EDT, the center of
hurricane Alma was just south
of Havana and 230 miles south
southwest of Everglades City.
The storm —first of the 1966
season —was packing top winds
of 90 m.p.h., and was charging
toward the north-northeast at
15 m.p.h.
Although the weather bureau
called Alma a “minimal
hurricane,” it warned all
residents in the path of the
storm to take immediate
precautions to protect their
lives and property.
Alma began belting Cuba’s
Isle of Pines with hurricane
winds shortly after midnight,
and weathermen said Havana
— the seat of Fidel Castro’s
Communist regime —was get
ting hurricane-force winds of 75
m.p.h. at 9 a.m., EDT.
Havana’s three big commer
cial radio stations were all
knocked off the air early today.
CMQ and Radio Havana were
off the air all morning and
Radio Progreso went silent at
6:55 a.m., EST, in the middle
of a newscast.
Pickup 7th pgh: Tides on
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm with widely scattered
afternoon or evening thunder
showers today and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 90, minimum today
68, maximum Tuesday 86, mini
mum Tuesday 67. Sunrise Thurs
day 5:29 a. m., sunset Thursday
7:43 p. m.
confident he had the voting sup
port and that he was “working
on” financial support.
Carter said that as governor
he would project himself as a
progressive person trying to
move the state forward.
“The Democratic party needs
to project an image of youth
and vigor,” Carter said, “We
need to rise up and fight the
Republican challenge. We need
to approach the race with con
fidence rather than a defeat test
attitude.” He said that some
major Democratic officials had
already given up.”
Carter, a graduate of Anna
polis, will probably face GOP
Congressman Howard Callaway
a West Pointer, if he can win
the Democratic nomination,
where he has stiff opposition.
Carter had already paid his
fee to run for Congress from
the 3rd District. He entered that
race when Callaway was still
thought to be seeking re-election
to the post.
648,726 to 509,763.
Reagan, 55, a ruggedly
handsome but politically inex
perienced, faces seasoned cam
paigner Brown, 61, a veteran of
25 years in politics, for the
governorship of the nation’s
most populous state.
“I feel very proud and very
humble indeed,” Reagan said in
claiming victory two hours
after the polls closed. “I
believe in a Republican party
polarized around constitutional
principles.”
But Brown made it plain he
considered Reagan an “ultra
conservative” and said in a
victory statement: “I’ve never
been more anxious for a fight
in my entire life.”
Brown was expected to
campaign on his eight-year
record as governor and attack
Reagan as a political reactiona
ry. The governor had said
Reagan had a “feat of
government that could be
dangerous” in growing Calif or
nia.
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Adequate supply cited as vital to development of
community.
Skeleton Crews Man
Atlanta Fire Trucks
ATLANTA (UPI) — Hundreds
of firemen went on strike in a
wage and hours dispute and left
this city today with only skeleton
crews to battle fires and answer
a rush of false alarms.
The strike believed to be the
first of its type in a major city
since 1925, was called at 6 p.m.
Tuesday by the independent At
lanta Firefighters Union which
represents most of the 728 fire
men in this sprawling met
ropolis.
By early today, firehouses
were estimated to have be
tween 20 and 40 per cent of their
crews on duty — a force within
range of the minimum of 204
men needed to give adequate
fire protection to the city.
Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. said the
strike was “creating a public
hazard.” In a front-page edi
torial today, the Atlanta Con
stitution said: “Any Atlanta
fireman who threatens to leave
his post of duty is threatening
the safety of every man, woman
and child in this city.”
A spokesman for the union
said those remaining on duty in
firehouses included supervisory
workers and men with only short
periods until retirement. It was
also known that policemen were
stationed at some firehouses.
During the night, the skeleton
crews effectively fought several
minor fires. They also answered
what was described as a rash
of false alarms.
There was no indication, how
ever, whether the skeleton crews
intended to keep the firehouses
manned on an around-the-clock
basis.
Summer School
Registration
Registration for summer school
students, seven through twelve
grades, will be held Friday at
Spalding Junior High, Unit II,
in the cafeteria from 8:30 till
10:30.
The six-week session w'ill run
from June 13 through July 29
with the week of July 4 as a
vacation.
Bill Cody who will handle
the summer session asked that
registration be completed Friday
so schedules can be worked out
during the weekend.
Those who will make the trip are (front, 1-r) Fred
Girard, Tim Moore, Mike Pitts, (back) Howard
Foster, Rickey Kimbrel, Gerrit Gustafson, David
ChOders and McLean Tippins.
Bank Presidents
Emphasize Water
The editors and the staff of the Griffin Daily New*
are proud of the accomplishments which Griffin and
Spalding County have achieved and of the high type
community in which we are privileged to live. But
nothing is perfect. There are many areas in which the
community can improve itself, and in which it should
do so.
For many years the Griffin Daily News has pointed
out the numerous virtues of the community and will
continue to do so. Now it seems that we should take a
close look at ourselves and highlight some of our needs
in a constructive spirit of community planning and im
provement.
Therefore we begin today a series of articles based
on interviews with recognized leaders of Griffin and
Spalding County. The first are with the presidents of
Griffin’s two banks.
Parker
C. T. Parker, president of Com
mercial Bank &, Trust Co., be
lieves that increasing the avail
able water supply for industry
and residential development are
high on the list of things the
community needs to stress.
Mr. Parker outlined his views
on what he believes the commun
ity needs in the following re
marks:
The Griffin - Spalding County
Community is blessed with many
advantages both natural and
man made. Our schools, church
es, government, economy and
people are assets of the first or
der and create for our city and
county a community in which we
can all be proud.
“In addition to these attribu
tes, one of our greatest natural
resources is a plentiful supply
of water which results from a
generous average rainfall throu
ghout the Southeast. Inasmuch
as the Eastern and New En
gland States are being faced with
increasing shortages of water,
the Southeast is looked on with
growing interest by business
leaders and industrialists in the
North.
“This fact along with many
other assets such as transpor
tation, natural resources and,
again, the people themselves,
has created in the Southeast a
new frontier for opportunity and
growth.
“Griffin is located in the heart
of this dynamic section and be
cause of this, and because of our
proximity to Atlanta, truly the
Capital City of the South, we are
on the verge of unusual growth
and prosperity. There are many
needs to be met in preparing for
this growth, one of the most im
portant of which is the further
extension of water lines into the
County.
“At present there are 33 mil
es of lines in the county which
were put in at a cost of $700,000.
Work began on these in July of
1964, resulting from a bond is
sue of that year, and were com
pleted in the spring of 1965.
“Evidence of the need for in
creasing water service is the
fact that in the first four mon
ths of this year construction per
mits totaling approximately one
million dollars were issued in the
county. These consisted of 49
new homes 14 additions to exist
ing homes, 10 commercial struc
tures, and 10 structures of var
ious other types.
“Open land area in the city la
limited and therefore the great
est proportion of our residential
and industrial growth will be in
the county. To meet this growth
as well as existing needs will re
quire many more miles of wa
ter lines.
“Industrial development, whi
ch includes both new plants as
well as existing plant expansion,
is a matter of interest and con
cern to our entire community.
Our textile industry has been
and will continue to be the very
heart of our economic pros
perity. We must continue to pro
vide new and expanded servic
es to meet their needs and to
sustain an atmosphere conduc
ive to expansion. We have also
enjoyed in recent years an in
flux of other types of Industry
which has been most helpful in
diversifying our economy.
“Griffin and Spalding County
have attracted the interest of in
dustrial developers in recent ye
ars and is now looked on as one
of the prime locations in Geor
gia for growth and development.
(Continued on Fage Tea.)
Knowles
“Griffin and Spalding County
need to attract new industry, ex
pand its present industry, speed
the development of a county wa
ter system, a junior college and
a YMCA, Boys Club or other
youth organization,” said C. A.
Knowles, president of the First
National Bank of Griffin.
Mr. Knowles said new indus
try is needed if the community
is to continue its present econo
mic growth. Also, the commun
ity needs to strive for the expan
sion of existing industries.
He said for the two to come
about, Griffin will need to en
large its working force so as not
to pull employes from one com
pany to satisfy the employment
needs of another.
“Development of a county wa
ter system would aid in attract
ing new industry to the commu
nity,” he said, and added that a
county water system would
make property tracts in the co
unty available to industry as de
velopment property.
Many companies like to have a
tract of land large enough that
they can develop when they
move into an area, Mr. Know
les pointed out.
He said the county water sys
tem also would allow for the
man who would like to get away
from the city and build on a sm
all acreage plot.
Mr. Knowles praised the work
of the county commissioners In
getting the county water system
as far as they have into the
community.
The junior college is needed,
he said, to provide and educated
working force and to upgrade
the present 12 grade educa
tional system. He said the Voca
tional Technical school will add
a lot to the skilled labor in the
area.
Mr. Knowles said the YMCA,
Boys Club or other youth organ
ization is needed to supplement
the city recreation program and
would take many youngsters off
the streets and away from pla
ces where they gather in crowds
and show
He praised the work of City
Recreation Director Grady Mc
Calmon and said McCalmon is
doing one of the finest jobs he
has ever seen.
Mr. Knowles also praised the
work of the Griffin Police De
partment and other law enforce
ment officers in holding the
crime rate in the city and coun
ty to a minimum.
The city service departments,
according to Knowles, do one of
the finest jobs he knows about.
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“Many good ideas are re
jected because they have
come from people we
don’t like.”