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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo).
Mayor Louis Goldstein (r) presents Water Filter Plant Superintendent Lewis R.
Simonton his retirement certificate. Watching are Commissioner Carl Pruett (1)
and Harry Simmons, who will succeed Simonton.
City Honors Simonton
For 41 Years Service
Lewis R. Simonton, superin
tendent of tlie Griffin water fil
ter plant who retired today, was
honoied by the city at a din
ner Wednesday night at the Elks
Club.
Mr. Simonton has been asso
ciated with the water filter plant
more than 41 years.
Mayer Louis Goldstein presid
ed at the meeting at which many
city employes gave testimonials
NOTICE
Our Worehouse will be closed Satur
day noon, June 2nd, until Monday
a. m., July 11th for vacations.
H. V. KELL COMPANY
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Member Federal Reserve System and F. D. L C.
on Mr. Simonton’s work.
The mayor said Mr Simonton
has established a record for ser
vice with the water filter plant
that will be heard to equal. He
pointed out that Simonton, who
is referred to as the granddaddy
of water filtration in Georgia,
has made the Griffin water fil
ter plant a showplace in the
state.
He said Mr. Simonton also had
brought many state and nation-
at honors to the city for his work
in the field of water filtration,
Mayor Goldstedn presented Mr.
Simonton a retirement certifl
cate.
Commissioner Carl Pruett
said Mr. Simonton had been un
selfish and had trained a man
for many years to succeed him.
Harry Simmons, who was nam
ed assistant superintendent sev
eral years ago, will succeed Mr.
Simonton.
Commissioner Kimsey Stewart
missed the meeting because of
other engagements.
Simmons said no other man
could have done the job Mr. Si
monton has done with the wa
ter filter plant here.
Many other city employes, in
eluding City Manager Jack Lang
ford, gave testimonials of per
sonal friendship with Mr. Simon
ton.
Special guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Simonton, son and
daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.
Simonton.
Sealed Verdict
Considered In
By Ci: MILES S. TAYLOR
United Press International
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)—A se..l
ed verdict could be handed
down today in the civil rights
conspiracy trial of three of six
Ku Klux Klansmen accused in
coTin-!c‘'un with the 1964 shotgun
ambush death of Negro educa
tor Lemuel Penn.
The r~r- 3 of the first t'W
may not be known until the
completion of the second, ac
cording to court officials, who
indicated Wednesday night the
verdict might be kept secret
until all six defendants are
tried.
Judge William A. Bootle said
no decision had been reached in
the matte-.
The three on trial currently
for violating the civil rights of
Negroes, including Penn, are
Joseph Howard Sims, 43, Cecil
Myers, 26, and George Turner,
34. "0 be tried later are Dewer
Willis Phillips, James S. Lack
ey, and Herbert Guest. All are
from Athens.
U. S. District Attorney Floyd
Buford, who said earlier he
planned t complete the case
for the prosecution today, was
to continue introduc’-'T govern
ment witnesses. So far 21 per
sons have testified for the gov
ernment, including John R.
Howard, a Negro Army Reserve
officer who was with Penn when
he was slain by nightriders
along a dark Georgia highway
July 11, 1964.
Howard retold the story of
how shots canv* from a cream
colored car which had puled up
alongside the car carrying him,
Penn, and Major Charles
Brown, also a Negro,
Howard had testified in 1964
during the state court murder
trial of Sims and Myers, in
which both were acquitted,
He said they were returning
to Washington, D. C„ their
home, from summer duty at
Ft. Benning in tlie early morn
ing. Howard testified he was
dozing in the back seat when up!
he heard a shot and looked
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“Colonel Penn slumped over.
He fell over Major Brown,”
Howard said. Penn had been
driving the car, and the fright
ened Negroes struggled to re
gain control of it after Penn
“died instantly.”
Howard added that he had not
been able to identify the men
in the other car.
Earlier the government
showed the all-white jury three
large boxes full of weapons,
confiscated by Taliaferro Coun
ty Sheriff Milton Moore from a
car carrying blansmen during
tlie Crawfordville racial inci
dent last October. The group,
including Sims and Myers, was
arrested and freed on $200 bond
after a Taliaferro County Ne
gro farmer, George Turner,
was beaten.
Turner testified that white
men dressed in black shirts
and armed with clubs and guns
forced his car off the road
about the time when Negroes
were protesting segregated
schools at Crawfordville. He
identified Myers as the man
who beat him and said Sims
was present in the group.
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CUBAN ATHLETE DEFECTORS— Hector Rodriguez and (right)
Francisco Marti arrive in Miami, Fla., after defecting from
the Cuban contingent of athletes at the Caribbean and
Central America games in San Juan, PJto
Chevy Plans
Answer To
Mustang Auto
DETROIT (UPI) —Chevrolet
division of General Motors
Wednesday announced plans for
the new car it hopes will take
the 300,000 car “bite” out of the
new sporty-type market pion
eered by Ford’s Mustang.
The new car, to be named
“Canaro,” will go on the
market Sept. 29.
It will be built on a 108 inch
wheelbase, the same as Mus
tang, and will have an overall
length of 180 to 185 inches, said
Chevrolet General Manager E.
M. Estes. He said it would have
a number of unique features
not available on Chevrolet's
other lines, but declined to
discuss them.
The car will be built at
Chevrolet’s assembly plant in
Norwood, Ohio, and Los An
geles. Plans are to schedule a
run of 1,250 units a day, which
Estes said would amount to 12
per cent of the Chevrolet
output. At 1,250 a day, yearly
production would run approxi
mately 300,000 cars a year with
time out for model changes..
Thursday, June 30 , 1966 Griffin Daily News
FINDING THE WAY
All Honor to Our Flag
BY RALPH W. tOEW, D.D.
liUBii Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
On the day of national re
membrance, the flags fly in
many places, of especially on the
graves the men who servec
their country in times past.
Now, there for a brief moment,
is the renewal of the
symbol of respect. On such a
day, I remember Pedro.
I never knew him personal
high ly. He was a lad in a Chicago
school class, a Cuban by
his birth, who was now rebuilding
life in the crowded,
tumultuous neighborhood oi;
this large city. One day, he
handed in a paper, his re
sponse to an assignment. It
revealed so much of himself
that it is worth sharing on
this national holiday. He
called it:
THE FLAG
I hear some people say they
are too tired
Or they don’t want to salute
the flag.
When they come out of the
ROTC room
Or when they pledge allegi
ance.
Well, I mil tell you why.
I don’t mind to salute the
American flag.
The flag is not my own, but
I am
When Living under its protection.
I salute your flag, l
don’t think it like a piece
of cloth
Nor do I feel grievous.
I feel proud and safe,
And because 1 come from
another country
I Every time I see your flag
remember how many
people what have died for it
And some people still
do in many countries
To keep this flag free.
I tell you this because I know
it.
I saw it.
A boy no more than twelve
years old
flag Dying in the street with the
held high in his hand'
To keep it safe from dust
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and blood
To see it fly free.
Maybe know because you don’t
what this means,
And I hope you never ex
perience it,
You do not care.
Well, 1 tell you when I was in
I my think country the
same way, too.
But I tell you that if I see
my Every flag again
When 1 morning yiake
I will salute up flag.
Pedro’s my
essay is not mo
mentous as a literary docu
ment but it is his sincere
statement. In so brief a time,
he had seen so much, and
with having seen, looks about him
gratitude.
I hope that he has found
in this land,
this flag, who make
their patriotism a meaningful
experience. We need these
unashamed gestures of patri
otism, supported by citizens
give of their substance^
of their energy, ad
with a new lively
neighborhoods laboring within the
and
where places of the
millions of
such as Pedro
for something to re
devotion Every morning requires
to a quality of
that enables Pedro to
at salute!