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By Quimby Melton
The relations between Con
gress and a newly inaugurated
President; a Legislature and a
newly inaugurated Governor
during the first few months is
often referred to as a “honey
moon".
But after the President or the
Governor have delivered their
“State of the Nation”, and “The
State of the State” messages and
have submitted their proposed
budget; and all the social for
malities of a new administration
are through the “honeymoon”
ends and sometimes a “battle
royal” begins.
The ending of the “honey
moon”, especially those between
the Governor and the Legisla
ture, comes after the Governor
has outlined what he wants, and
has made appointments to var
ious offices and Jobs. Everytime
there is one place filled there are
dozens or more who are disap
pointed. There once was a Presi
dent who said “Everytime I
make an appointment I create
one disgruntled man and make
a dozen enemies.”
Here in Georgia the “honey
moon” is in full swing.
Over in Alabama It seems all
at present Is “Sunshine and
Roses”.
But there are at least two sta
tes, which recently inaugurated
governors where the “honey
moon” seems to have ended al
most as quickly as the “I do’s”
were exchanged. There Is little
connubial bliss in either Florida
or California.
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Florida’s Governor Claude R.
Kirk did little Jto promote a “ho
neymoon” when he announced,
without consulting either the
Speaker of the House or the Pre
sident of the State Senate, and
called a special session to write
a new state constitution. Anger
ed Assemblymen could not reach
him to protest, for the simple
reason that he had departed for
points unrevealed for a vacation.
And even before this, eyebrows
were lifted when the new gover
nor turned up at the Inaugural
Ball with a shapely German
born, Brizilian divorcee to lead
the grand-march.
But now the governor has tru
ly set many wolves on his trail.
He has employed a private de
tective agency to conduct a war
on crime in Florida. Many, es
pecially of course, of those who
have connections with the “sport
ing element” — that operate the
gambling places, the horse and
dog race tracks; and other
“businesses” that attract crim
nals; are raising a protest. Such
would be like secret police in
other lands, they say.
And, there are also many oth
ers, connected in no way with
the large criminal underground,
who see In this a threat that cou
ld backfire. They fear a Ges
tapo-like Frankenstein might be
created.
There’s little doubt but that
Florida is a safety harbor for
much of the criminal world. But
can’t the State of Florida deal
with the situation without hir
ing a private eye to be paid by
“unknown” who would like to
clean up the state?
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And, out In California Gover
nor Ronald Reagan, faced with
what he estimates will be half-a
billion dollar shortage with whi
ch to operate the state, has be
gun to pare appropriations. The
chief fly in the ointment is in the
fields of higher education. Not
only has the governor let It be
known that he will recommend
cuts of at least 10 percent In re
quests but that he will advocate
tuition fees for all students at
tending state universities and
colleges. (Out of state students
already pay tuition fees —but
not those who live in California.)
Reagan, according to reports
from California, is about as pop
ular among higher education cir
cles as a polecat would be at a
meeting of a church woman’s
auxiliary.
“Honeymoon” is described as
a period of perfect bliss and har
mony and understanding follow
ing the nuptial vows.
But even newly weds sometim
es scrap.
The end of the honeymoon and
the return from the wonderful
trip, is followed by a settling
down period in which the more
fortunate learn to understand,
forgive and even forget.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UPI)
—Sidney P. Haines parked his
car for about 15 minutes
Monday and returned to find It
had been burglarized.
Missing from the unlocked
car were two brief cases—and a
demonstrator burglar alarm.
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Is It Cold Outside?
The weather forecast for the Griffin area calls for 18 to 24 degrees tonight. This
seems quite cold, but is not nearly as cold as the below-zero room Mrs. Kay Waters
steps from in the Fred Melton Food Scien ce Building at the Georgia Experiment
Station. Most Griffinites are concerned with temperature outside and inside their
homes, but temperatures are a part of the business of the people at the Experiment
Station.
Cold Wave Grips
12-State Area
‘Rocket Bus’
Fills Pentagon
Radio Gap
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —A
Titan 3C “rocket bus” drove
eight military communications
satellites into space today to fill
gaps in the global radio network
linking the Pentagon with U.S.
forces in Vietnam.
The super-Titan faced a six
hour string of orbital acrobatics
to discharge its eight 100-pound
passengers around the equator
in high, slow-moving orbits now
shared by seven other relay
stations.
Col. Mitchell Goldenthal, com
mander of the Army’s Satellite
Communications Agency, said
the new moonlets should give
the Defense Department an
almost continuous, jam-free
radio link with ground stations
“where the action Is.”
The original seven swithboard
satellites, fired into the 12-day
orbits last June, are in range
for message relaying to any
specific station about 80 to 90
per cent of the time. The new
craft should eliminate those
remaining intervals.
The triple-barreled Titan 3C
began its complicated eight-in
one mission 19 minutes after
the scheduled 9 a.m. EST time.
Twin solid-propellant boosters
propelled the 700-ton space
machine into the partly cloudy
sky, leaving a geyser-like
column of bright yellow flame
and smoke.
The delay was required
because clouds obscured the sky
over downrange camera track
ing stations.
The two booster rockets were
Jettisoned on time, two minutes
after blastoff, and the rocket
raced toward its first prelimina
ry orbit.
Eighty • two seconds after
launch, the speeding rocket
passed the point where another
super-Titan carrying eight iden
tical satellites flipped out of
control and blew up last August.
That failure was blamed on a
faulty fiberglass nose cone.
Today’s Titan used a metal
cover.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, January 18,1967
By United Press International
The worst cold wave of the
winter drove temperatures to
record-breaking lows in parts of
a 12-state area from the
Rockies to Michigan today.
At Hibbing, Minn., it was 46
below zero at 9 a.m. EST. That
was the nation’s low. Records
were broken throughout Minne
sota and in North Dakota, it
was 40 below at Bismarck.
Twenty below temperatures
chilled millions of Midwester
ners. The deep freeze reached
as far south as southern Illinois.
It was colder in the middle of
America than in Alaska. The
temperature dropped to 31
below at La Crosse, Wis., when
it was 15 at Anchorage.
New England could expect a
rash of cold by dawn Thursday,
the weather bureau said, with
sections of northern Maine
reaching the 20-below mark.
An 80-year-old record fell
today when the resort town of
Detroit Lakes, Minn., reported
Maddox Moves To
Game - Fish
By DON PHILLIPS
By United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Les
ter Maddox, stung Tuesday by
his first political setback,
moved swiftly today to retali
ate.
Administration forces pre
pared a bill to strip power from
the State Game and Fish Com
mission, which refused to name
the Maddox-designate, former
Rep. George Bagby of Dallas,
commission director.
A bill was to be introduced in
the House, possibly today, to
turn the commission into an ad
visory committee with no pow
er. The measure would also al
low the commission to meet
when the game and fish depart
ment director convened it.
Maddox told the commission
ers Tuesday he wanted Bagby
a$ commission director, but the
commission decided to defy the
governor and seek a wildlife ex
pert rather than a political ap
pointee.
The bill to make the commis
sion powerless was drawn up
by Reps. Kent Dickinson of
Douglasville and Fred Dormlny
of Fitzgerald.
“This is a measure to show
US Bombers Drop
i Fire’ On Jungle
World War II
Magnesium
Weapons Used
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. B52
bombers using World War II
magnesium firebombs turned 18
square miles of Vietnamese
Jungle into a flaming hell today
to destroy Communist hiding
places. In North Vietnam U. S.
planes carried out a massive
airstrike Tuesday against the
Hanoi - Haiphong missile de
fenses.
The firebomb tactics, used
only rarely in the Vietnam war,
laid waste an area of the Iron
Triangle where the biggest land
operation of the war is pushing
steadily forward to destroy the
Viet Cong units which have
terrorized Saigon from tne
jungles 30 miles to the north.
American troops have killed
more than 500 Viet Cong in the
great sweep that has seen
thousands of villagers relocated
in government camps to the
south. The troops today cap
tured a vast two-story under
ground complex that was
believed to be a principal
military headquarters for the
Saigon area.
An American spokesman said
no villages were believed to be
in the area hit by the tons of
magnesium bombs which fell
like shooting stars into a section
previously defoliated by chemi
cal warfare. Viet Cong troops
who fled into the area were
believed dead in the searing
heat of the flames.
Fourth Of July
The bombs are dropped from
an altitude of approximately
20,000 feet. At 8,000 feet they
explode like a deadly Fourth of
July rocket spraying smaller
cannisters onto the jungle
canopy that masks much of the
troop movement below.
The skies cleared again over
North Vietnam after weeks of
monsoon rains and the Navy,
Air Force and Marine Corps
flew 103 missions—somewhere
between 300 and 500 strikes—
against targets in the north.
Russian - build surface - to - air
(SAM) missile sites were
special targets.
Hanoi reported Tuesday that
four U.S. planes were shot down
in the raids. A U.S. military
spokesman said today only one
plane was lost with its two-man
crew, a RF4C reconnaissance
model of the Phantom jet. Two
had been lost the day before.
One of the major targets was
the Thai Nguyen railroad yard
35 miles north of Hanoi. Wave
after wave of U.S. Air Force
F105 Thunderchiefs hammered
it for eight hours, cutting rail
lines, destroying anti-aircraft
positions and touching off 10
large secondary explosions that
sent brown and black smoke
billowing thousands of feet into
the air.
Bracket Area
The planes attacking from
bases in Thailand and South
Vietnam and from 7th Fleet
carriers at sea bracketed the
Hanoi-Haiphong area. They hit
the Thai Nguyen rail yard and
damaged five SAM sites in a 28
mile radius around Haiphong.
Military sources said the
strikes at Hanoi’s air defenses
could be a prelude to an even
more intense bombing of the
Communist military machine
around Hanoi and Haiphong.
Today the flak thrown up was
sp intense Maj. John D.
Underwood, 37, Herrin, Ill.,
said, “I could walk right down
to the ground on it.”
STERLING, Colo. (UPI) —
Phyllis Mae Quinn wanted to
back her car out of its angle
parking place, but was afraid
she would scrape the car
parked next to hers.
She din’t. When she stepped
out to get a passerby to help
guide her, she left the car in
reverse. It backed cleanly out
of its space, traveled all the
way across the street and hit
another car.
at 42 below. The metropolitan
area of Minneapolis-St. Paul
reeled under a record-breaking
31 below.
Northern Minnesota had no
relief in sight today. The best
the weather bureau could offer
were highs of 15 below.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
was locked in bitter cold. Sault
Ste. Marie got more snow,
adding to the cover left by a
blizzard that lashed across the
northern tier of states the past
two days.
Records fell throughout Iowa.
It was 41 below at Meadeville.
Teeth-chattering temperatures
were recorded as far south as
Atlanta. Florida, with its G9
degree reading at Miami, and
California’s southern coastal
areas had mild temperatures.
Tiie number of deaths related
to the two-day storm climbed to
at least a dozen today with
Minnesota reporting 5, Wiscon
sin 4 and one each in Montana,
Iowa and South Dakota,
them (the commissioners) they
are not the sole authority in
Georgia,” Dickinson said.
“We gave them their power
and we can take it away,” Dor
mir.y said.
The bill would take several
days to get through the Legis
lature and the sponsors said
the commission could keep its
powers if Bagby is named.
But the bill , did not get the
immediate backing of the
House leadership and a floor
fight could easily break out
over the power play by Mad
dox.
Despite this setback, Maddox
had his way on three other ma
jor appointments Tuesday, in
cluding the naming of Col.
R. H. Burson as head of the
Department of Public Safety.
DOESN’T PAY
FERGUS FALLS, Minn.
(UPI) — Two young con artists
taught 12 to 18 high school
students that crime doesn’t pay
over the weekend.
Police said the students paid
the men up to $4 each for what
they thought was marijuana.
The mixture turned out to be
green tea and tobacco.
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Thinking Revolution
REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH in turbulent Communist China march along sing
ing on the way to Peking, the capital city. The youth are called the “Thinking
Propaganda Team” for Premier Mao Tse-tung and are from the Transport School
in the northeast China province of Kirin.
Four Of Quints
Dead In Germany
DUESSELDORF. Germany
(UPI)—Four of the quintuplets
born to the 30-year-old wife of a
Duesseldorf engineer died to
day. Doctors said there was
“little hope” the remaining
child would live.
Dr. Johannes Bokelmann, who
delivered the quints Tuesday
morning, said the condition of
the remaining child was “very
bad.”
“We have little hope he will
live,” the doctor said.
The mother, 30-year-old Mrs.
Rosemarie Januschek, remained
in “very good condition.” Dr.
Bokelmann said she “used a
fertility drug” before becoming
pregnant.
Dr. Bokelmann said the quints
“were the first, as far as I
know, to be born in Germany.”
Mrs. Januschek and her 32
year-old husband Wolfgang,
knew she would have a multiple
birth. But Mrs. Januschek said,
"we never dreamed that I
would have quintuplets.” The
odds against the birth of quints
are 54 millio nto one.
Dr. Bokelmann had earlier
said one of the five tiny infants
might live. They were immedi
ately placed in incubators after
being born Just before noon
Tuesday in Dusseldorf’s city
clinic.
The first quint to die was the
heaviest, a boy weighing 2 lbs.,
7 ozs.
The girl was the lightest at 1
lb., 13 oz. The other three boys
weighed 1 lb., 15 oz.; 2 lbs., 1
oz.; and 2 lbs. 2 oz.
The Januscheks were married
in August, 1965.
Includes previous
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Partly cloudy and
much colder tonight with hard
freeze. Thursday partly cloudy
and cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
today 55, minimum today
34, maximum Tuesday 56, mini
mum Tuesday 30. Sunrise Th-
7:42 a.m., sunset Thurs-
6 p.m.
IRS Expands
Taxpayer Aid
Service Here
An expanded schedule, for
taxpayer assistance has been
announced by the Griffin Of
fice of the Internal Revenue ser
vice.
Additional personnel has been
assigned to provide assistance
and will be available on Mon
days from 8:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.
m. This service will continue
through April 17, 1967.
Telephone assistance is also
available on this day. The tele
phone number is 227-5129. Ad
dress of Griffin office is 231 D
South 10th street, Griffin, Ga.,
30223. I
INSIDE
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
Funerals. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Pictures. Page 5.
Bruce Biossat. Page 6.
Ray Cromley. Page 6.
Lyle Wilson. Page 8.
Defense Budget. Page 8.
LBJ Leaders. Page 8.
Society. Page 10.
Polly’s Pointers. Page 10.
State Briefs. Page 16.
Missile Thefts, Page 16.
Chile Crisis. Page 16.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Legislature. Page 20.
NO RICHER
CENTRALIA, Ill. (UPI) —
Burglars took a money collec
tion valued at $10,000 from Mrs.
Viola Eckley’s home over the
weekend but officials say the
money will not make the
thieves any richer.
Mrs. Eckley told police the
collection consisted of Confeder
ate money.
★ ★ ★ ★
Fortune Left
To Woman
In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI)— Mrs. Gla
dys M. Weidinger Tuesday took
in stride the fact that she has
been left the bulk of a $2,845,000
estate compiled by her uncle,
Joseph P. Henderson, a former
vice president and treasurer of
the Universal Leaf Tobacco Co.
in Richmond, Va.
Henderson’s will was probat
ed Tuesday in Chancery Court
in Richmond. He died Jan. 9 at
Tucker, Ga.
Henderson had lived in Atlan
ta for several years after retir
ing and moving from Rich
mond. He was 83 when he died.
Mrs. Weidinger said she had
made no plans for the .money.
“I’ll have to get it first,” she
said.
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SHORT DRAFT FUNDS
SHERMAN, Tex. (UPI)—It
was greetings from the Draft
Board for 55 young men, but
they smiled. The letters told
them not to report for induction
as scheduled Jan. 25.
The Grayson County Selective
Service Board’s February call
also was cancelled because of a
shortage in funds.
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