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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
It’s A Brand New Year
Pat Gatlin reminds Griffinites to put 1967 on checks and other business docu
ments, now that the calendar has been turned and a new year is under way. Mrs.
Gatlin, a bank teller, says that a few people forget and put 1966 dates on their
checks.
E VENIN GOOD G
By Quimby Melton
(Good Evening is out of the
city. He will resume Ms column
later this week when he returns.)
Jaycees Seek
Nominations
For Awards
The Griffin Junior Chamber of
Commerce has bgun its an
nual search for the Outstanding
Young Man of 1966 and the Out
standing Young Educator for
1966.
Nomination blanks may be
picked up at the Chamber of
Commerce office on West Taylor
street for both awards. Blanks
for the education award also are
available at the office of School
Superintendent George Patrick,
Jr.
People receiving nominations
must be between 21 and 35 years
of age and citizens of Griffin or
Spalding County.
The awards will be presented
on the night of Jan. 23 at the
meeting of the Jaycees. Dead
line for nominations is Jan. 18
at midnight.
A committee will screen the
nominations from Griffin-Spald
ing citizens and select the aw
ard winners.
“Chubby” Williams is chair
man of the Young Man of the
Year Award, and Bob Scroggins
is chairman of the Young Edu
cator award.
SWINTON, England (UPI) —
Mink can be deadly, a police
loudspeaker proclaimed through
nearby farmlands Tuesday.
Police broadcast warnings to
thieves who killed three minks
at a mink farm to rush to a
doctor for antitetanus shots If
the animals had bitten them.
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“A pessimist is a fellow
who doesn’t trust his own
praying.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY
Established 1871
Daredevil Campbell
Killed In Jet Boat
CONISTON, England (UPI) -
British racer Don Campbell,
who set world records both on
land and water, was killed
today in a 310 mile-per-hour
crash of his jet-propelled
speedboat.
Campbell, who told of a death
premonition only hours before,
was killed while running the
hydroplane Bluebird on the final
stretch of a speed run at Lake
Coniston where several of his
records were previously set.
The jet-powered craft suddenly
flipped through the air, explod
ed and sank.
An official timer clocked the
boat at 310 miles per hour
moments before the accident.
That was 34 m.p.h. faster than
Campbell’s last record-setting
speed.
The pipe-smoking daredevil
was strapped into the cockpit of
the craft. His shoes, helmet and
oxygen mask later floated to
the surface.
“There Is no hope,” said
frogmen who dove to recover
the body.
A mechanic for the 45-year
old racer said Campbell had a
premonition of his death when
in playing card games recently
he turned up the ace of spades
and later the queen of spades.
“Mary Queen of Scots turned
up the same combination of
cards,” Campbell told chief
mechanic Leo Villa. “And from
it she knew she was going to be
beheaded.
GACC Asks For
Sales Tax Hike
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Geor
gia Association of County Com
missioners today joined the
state municipal association in
support of a one per cent in
crease in the sales tax but dis
agreed or. how the money
should be spent.
Dr. Bruce Schaefer, president
of the county commissioners
said if the Legislature did in
crease the sales tax to 4 per
cent his plan would award 1.5
per cent of the entire 4 per
cent to schools.
However, he said, he would
reduce to a maximum of 6
mills the property taxes for
schools. He said this could be
raised by local referendums.
The state average now is 18.2
mills for schools.
The Georgia Municipal As
sociation advocated a one per
cent sales tax increase with
cities getting all the new reve-
Griffin, Ga. f 30223, Wednesday, January 4,1967
Scotland Yard Recovers
Stolen Art Treasures
Thin Man’ Is
Suspected In
Super Theft
By JOHN MEEHAN
United Press International
LONDON (UPI) —Scotland
Yard today announced recovery
of $8.4 million in art treasures
stolen by a “thin man” burglar
Saturday in history’s biggest art
theft.
Scotland Yard said the
masterpieces—including three
Rembrandts and three Rubens—
were actually recovered Mon
day night. The announcement
apparently was withheld until
today for investigative reasons.
Recovery of the loot climaxed
a massive operation of raids,
throughout southern England.
Eight masterpieces in all were
stolen from the Dulwich College
art gallery by a burglar or
burglars who drilled a hole in a
door.
The painting were said to be
only slightly damaged. All were
found in London, some in the
Streatham Common area in the
suburban southern part of the
city where, the Dulwich Gallery
is located.
One report said Scotland Yard
Inspector Jack Friend recov
ered the bulk of the paintings
early today following an anony
mous telephone call to police
saying a parcel had been
dumped in a small public
garden at Streatham.
Friend was said to have found
the paintings dumped behind
some bushes.
The recovery announcement
came amid mounting fear the
eight masterpieces might have
been irreparably damaged or
even removed from Britain.
Shortly before announcing the
paintings’ recovery, Scotland
Yard said it could not confirm
or deny “at this stage” a
French newspaper report three
of the works had been
recovered.
Scotland Yard later today
revealed that only three of the
paintings were found Monday.
They said secrecy was main
tained to prevent the thieves
from destroying the others.
It was not immediately known
if there were any arrests. The
prime search targets have been
a slender man or woman and a
bushy bearded beatnik.
The daring theft of the three
Rembrandts, three Rubens, one
Elsheimer and one Dou ranks
as history’s second geratest
robbery.
The caper ranked second in
total loot value only to the 1945
theft in Bavaria of $9.8 million
in Nazi Germany gold reserves.
It also overshadowed Britain’s
$7.3 million great train robbery
of 1963.
INSIDE
Weather Summary. Page 2.
Medicare Forms. Page 2.
Invaders. Page 2.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Lighter Side. Page 5.
Sports. Page 6.
Muir-Army. Page 8.
Maddox-Callaway. Page 8.
Hospital. Page 10
Funerals. Page 10.
About Town. Page 10.
Stork Club. Page 10.
Vote Suit. Page 12.
Dateline Georgia. Page 12.
Property Transfers. Page 16.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Society. page 20
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and colder with
hard freeze tonight. Thursday
fair and cool.
LOCAU WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 47, minimum today
38, maximum Tuesday 56, mini
mum Tuesday 46. Sunrise Th
ursday 7:43 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 5:48 p.m.
“I know that one of my
family is going to get the chop.
I pray to God it is not me.”
Villa said Campbell told him
he turned up the queen of
spades today while waiting for
the water of the lake to calm.
The driver said the ace of
spades was turned in a recent
card game at Las Vegas.
The mishap occurred as
Campbell was trying to beat his
own water speed record of
276.33 m.p.h. He set that record
In 1964—the same year he
established what then was a
land mark of 403.1 m.p.h. at the
Bonneville Salt Flats In Utah.
The land mark later was
broken.
Campbell had brushes with
death before. In 1960, he
survived a spectacular automo
tive crash while traveling at 350
m.p.h.
Campbell’s 5,000 horsepower
craft had already completed a
run down the six-mile long lake
and was on the way back when
it crashed. The starboard
(right) sponson of the Bluebird
first rose from the water, and
then the nos eof the bullet
shaped craft began to lift.
“It happened almost opposite
to where I was standing on the
lakeside,” a woman witness
said. “The boat became air
borne, and somersaulted, and
then dropped onto the water
and sank within seconds. It
apparently blew up.”
nue.
Schaefer, a Toccoa physician,
said at a capitol news confer
ence that schools would not lose
any money under his plan. He
said it merely amounted to a
redistribution in fund resources
for schools but does give coun
ties more freedom to rais lo
cal property taxer for other
needs.
He said many counties are
now straining at the upper lim
its of their taxing abilities.
Schaefer said his plan may
“in the final analysis” mean
there would be no actual in
crease in over-all taxation.
"It would,” Schaefer said,
“provide a more equitable dis
tribution of our taxes for local
government services.”
He said the sales tax increase
would yield more than $100 mil
lion annually for schools.
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Dimes Girl
The March of Dimes is under way in Griffin this
month. Several special events have been planned in
cluding the annual Mother’s March. Chairman Steve
Squires is coordinating work on the program this
year. Sen. Herman Talmadge is shown with Donna
Dill, 5, who is the National March of Dimes Poster
Child this year. She lives in Hillsboro, Texas and
visited the senator during a tour on behalf of more
than 250,000 children bom each year in the U. S.
with birth defects. The National Foundation has
turned its efforts against such defects, now that polio
has been nearly licked.
US To Release 48 Fishermen
Two American Engineers,
Filipino Woman Set Free
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —The Viet
Cong today released two Ameri
can engineers and a Filipino
woman who had pleaded to be
captured when guerrillas seized
her husband six months ago.
The United States announced it
would release 48 captured
Chinese fishermen.
South Vietnam also was
reported ready to free a
number of North Vietnamese
prisoners of war on Tet, the
Asian lunar new year celebrat
ed in early February. But there
was no immediate, indication of
any link between the operations.
The American civilians freed
from more than six months
captivity were Thomas R.
Scales, 44, of Matamoras, Pa.,
and Robert W. Monahan, 41, oi
Brooklyn and Bellport, N.Y.
The Filipino woman was Mrs.
Ophelia Baza, the, wife of an
employe of Air America, a
cargo airline supported by the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agen
cy. Her husband died in Viet
Cong captivity only a week ago.
An American spokesman said
the three captives were picked
up by a Vietnamese popular
force company near the village
of Xuan Loc in Bien Hao
Province about 40 miles east of
Saigon. The spokesman said the
trio apparently was “not in too
good of a shape.” All were
hospitalized for examination.
An American spokesman an
nounced plans to release the
Chinese fishermen from the
Chinese island of Hainan in the
Gulf of Tonkin off the south
coast of China. They were taken
aboard an American destroyer
NEWS
Vol. 96 No. 2
on De,c. 4 but the pickup was
kept secret for several weeks.
The Americans said the
Chinese were taken aboard the
destroyer because their 80-foot
junk was in danger of sinking in
a storm that blew up in the
Gulf. The Chinese were brought
to South Vietnam and the junk
and a small dinghy were towed
to the port of Nha Trang.
While the State, Department
tried to figure out what to do
with them the Chinese were fed,
given innoculations and clothes.
Their junk was repaired and
fully outfitted for a sea voyage.
One fisherman a young man,
was operated on for a hairlip by
a U.S. aid doctor.
It was understood the United
States planned to release the
Chinese today but that the
Peking government had raised
certain objections which de
layed their release.
The Americans freed today
were employes of Pacific
Architects and Engineers, an
American firm under contract
to the government. They
disappeared May 27, 1966, en
route from Saigon to the
southern coastal resort city of
Vung Tau, 40 miles south of
Saign. Scales’ closest relative
was listed as Mrs. Helen Scales
of Matamoras and Monahan’s
as Mrs. Elizabeth Monahan of
Bellport.
The Viet Cong had announced
plans to release the trio as a
New Year’s good will gesture.
The South Vietnamese govern
ment announced, meanwhile
that it plans to release an
unspecified number of NorP
Vietnamese, war prisoners next
month In connection with the
South Viet Girl In US
Problem In Saigon:
‘Eat Tomorrow?*
By DARRELL MACK
HOUSTON (UPI) —The young
French school teacher slowed
the car on the empty Vietna
mese highway, as two men in
black pajamas stepped from the
Jungle with carbines cradled in
their arms.
The auto halted beside them.
One of the men—a Viet Cong
tax collector—stepped forward.
“How many batteries did you
bring?” he demanded of the
teen-aged Vietnamese gilr sit
ting beside the driver. She
pulled two from her purse,.
“No more?” the girl shook
her head. ‘Okay, but bring
more next time.”
The girl looked at him
nervously as he wrote out a
safe conduct pass covering their
trip from the mountain resort of
Dalat to Saigon. The man gave
the pass to the driver, the girl’s
brother-in-law Pierre. He shift
ed the car into gear and drove
away. The rest of the trip to the
capital was uneventful.
That is how Thu Nhi Do
Quang, 19, described one of her
many brushes with the Viet
Cong in an interview here with
United Press International.
“The VC always wanted
batteries,” she said. “We told
them we, could not carry more
than two ar jthree. It Is the law
because they are in demand to
make plastics.”
“Plastics” is the layman’s
word for a high explosive used
by the Vie.t Cong in their
terrorist bombings. The batte
ries are necessary for the
electric timing device.
As long as the French and
Vietnamese brought batteries
and paid a cash road tax, Thu
Nhi said, they were allowed to
travel the highway freely. But
with the Americans, it was
different.
“They kill Americans. They
would shoot Manford," she said,
glancing at Manford Foster, 31,
sitting beside her. Foster, who
spent six months in Saigon as a
start of the Asian new year
(TET). But there was no reply
to a Viet Cong proposal for an
eight-day Tet cease-fire.
U.S. Military sources dis
closed today that fighter-pilots
have been given a go-ahead to
more actively pursue Commu
nist MIG jets. Pilots were told
they could attack any of the
Soviet built planes sent aloft
over North Vietnam, but MIG
bases themselves remained “off
limits.”
“The rules now say we can
hit them (the f MIGs) the instant
their wheels leave the, runway,”
one official said. “So you can
look for more of this sort of
thing.”
Florida Governor
Squires Blonde
TALLAHASSEE, la. (UPI)
Florida Gov. Claude Kirk squir
ed a beautiful blonde. Miss
Erika Mattsfeld of Palm Beach
and Rio de Janeiro, to his in
augural ball Tuesday night.
Before the night was over,
the capital was buzzing with
rumors that the governor’s
mansion may soon have a new
first lady. Kiik is divorced
from the mother of his four
children.
The couple led the grand
march as thousands applauded
in the big auditorium at Flori
da State University here.
From the governor’s box,
Kirk, in answer to reporters’
questions on whether wedding
construction engineer, is respon
sible for her coming to thts
country. She plans to study
sociology at Sam Houston State
College in Huntsville, Tex.
When he returned from
Vietnam, Foster organized a
campaign to raise funds to pay
her fare and finance her
education. He has enough to pay
the first year, but is still
seeking help for the other three.
He is also seeking funds to
buy her an artificial limb to
replace a foot she lost after she
was hit by a truck last fall.
Thu Nhi, who made straight
A’s at the best French girl’s
school in Saigon, wants at least
a master’s degree in sociology
before returning home to work
with the children orphaned by
two decades of war.
“They have nobody to care
for them,” Thu Nhi said. “They
don’t have, a family. They don’t
know what is love.”
She said these children have
turned to crime to survive and
built a system of value where
the greatest virtue is to be
tougher than the rest.
"They go around stealing and
hitting people,” she said. “They
want to be like people in
American films. They want to
be tough, not to be sentimen
tal."
Dreamlike Quality
With the bustle and prosperity
of Houston as a backdrop, Thu
Nhi’s description of life in
Vietnam has a remote dream
like, quality to It. But it is still
very real to her. This and a
feeling that she has never really
left her home crept into her
answers to the, interviewer’s
questions.
Q—Do you suffer from the
war?
A—I don’t really suffer from
the war. I suffer because we
can’t find fresh vegetables and
meat we, want in the market,
because the VC cut the
(electric) lines and water.
Q—Do you feel the danger of
war?
A—Sometimes. We know the
Communists are at our door,
they are very near. They
infiltrate Saigon.
Q—Do the people think about
peace?
A —In my family, we think
about peace. The people on the
street think about money now.
Q—Why isn’t peace first with
them?
A—The people in the streets
don’t think. To live is very hard
in Saigon. They can’t live
because they don’t have much
money. They think how can
they eat tomorrow, not what is
happening to our country.
Q—What do the people think
about Americans?
A—People think many things
about Americans. There are
people who like the opportunity
to make money. Everybody
thinks, ‘please don’t leave,’
They know if Americans leave,
the economy and industry will
fall down. If Americans leave.
Communists will come in.
Everybody is scared about that.
bells would be peeling soon,
said, “I’ll let you know ff there
is any real news.”
Kirk has become the state’s
most eligible bachelor since
winning the governorship in No
vember. He had divorced, re
married and again divorced his
first wife.
Miss Mattsfeld has been stay
ing the past several days at the
Florida Hotel here according to
Kirk aides, and she has been
identified earlier as the “Mys
tery woman” seen with the
governor election night in Fort
Lauderdale.
The German-born Miss Matts
feld is said to be a Brazilian
national living in Bio de Ja
neiro.