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By Quimby Melton
Griffin Junior Chamber of
Commerce Monday night at a
meeting held at the Moose Club,
named Griffin’s Young Man of
the Year and Griffin’s Outstand
ing Young Educator of the Year.
C.A. (Lon) Knowles, president
of the First National Bank of
Griffin, is the Young Man of the
Year; and Tommy Jones, prin
cipal at Beaverbrook Elemen
tary School, is Young Educator
of the Year.
Congratulations to these young
community leaders.
Knowles, who came to Griffin
two years ago to head up the
First National Bank, lost no time
in fitting into the life of Griffin.
He has served in many capaci
ties including activities at his
church, First Baptist, where he
is a deacon and teaches a Sun
day School class. He is a direc
tor of the Kiwanis Club and of
the Chamber of Commerce, is a
member of the executive board
of Boy Scouts, of the Mental
Health organization, and the Sal
vation Army board.
Tommy Jones, the Young Ed
ucator of the Year is an honor
graduate of Griffin High, Auburn
University and New York Uni
versity. He has been principal
at Sunny Side and North Side
Schools before going to Beaver
brook. With the exception of
three years in the Navy Tom
my Jones has devoted his life
to teaching and work with young
people. He is the type young
man who puts service to others
above personal gain.
While the Jaycees were honor
ing the two chosen Young Men
of the Year they also gave the
Griffin Daily News an apprecia
tion award from the local and
the national Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Thanks 1
Hundreds of mothers will call
at homes In the community to
night to raise money for the
March of Dimes. Now that polio
has been licked with vaccines,
the National Foundation has tur
ned Its efforts toward research
In preventing and treating birth
defects.
Certainly Griffinites will want
to support this. Have a contri
bution ready for the mother who
will call at your home tonight.
Although it’s called the March
of Dimes, there will be no objec
tion to some folding money or a
check as a contribution.
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Sunday will be National High
way Safety Sunday. Hiis will be
the second annual observance of
the day. Ministers of every fai
th are asked by the National
Foundation for Highway Safety
to join in the observance of the
day.
Sundays are supposed to be a
peaceful, happy day. But when
one realizes that last year there
were an average of 153 persons
killed on our streets and high
ways every Sunday, one won
ders just how peaceful and hap.
py have been our Sundays. And
when one adds the Saturday toll
to the Sunday toll the figures
are more appaling. (Incidental
ly, here in Georgia, there are 10
persons killed each week.)
Here are some intersting
“quotes” concerning Highway
Safety:
You don't break traffic laws;
they break you.
If you exercise your RIGHT
to drink, you forget your PRI
VILEGE to drive.
Don’t get caught dead sitting
on your seat belts.
We need a car whose breaks
get tight when the driver does.
It’s the quality of driving that
counts, not the cost of the car.
A driver blinded by your head
lights may dim them for you
With a head-on crash.
Car not working right? Tell
your repairman, not a judge.
It would be safer If auto mak
ers would brag about “stop po
wer” rather than the “go.”
A lot of traffic jams are cau
sed by pickled drivers.
Don’t gamble In traffic. The
CARS are stacked against you.
"You fool!” moaned the man
gled driver to the dying man be
side him ‘I had the right of
way.”
The nut at the wheel is res
ponsible for many an accident.
We could continue with many
similar quotes, but one of the
best summations of them all Is
"It’s better to be Safe than Sor
ry.”
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to on the front steps of the old Griffin High building. The warm
weather is expected to continue through Wednesday.
Additional $40-Million
Asked For Education
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Sctaol Supt. Jack Nix today
asked the state Legislature to
boost funds going to the Depart
ment of education $40 million
more than the budget recom
mended by Gov, Lester Mad
dox.
Nix, testifying before the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, asked that the department’s
orgiginal budget request be
granted for the next two years.
Two-Year-Old
Dies In Fire
ATLANTA (UPI)—A two-year
old child died today in a fire
that destroyed his family’s
home, authorities reported.
The child was identified as
James E. Miller. His mother,
Mrs. Thomas W. Miller, man
aged to save four other children
but smoke and flames prevented
her from re-entering the house
for James.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Partly cloudy and
warm tonight, becoming mostly
cloudy and continued warm
Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 73, low today 51, high
Monday 74, low Monday 51; sun
rise Wednesday 7:39, sunset
Wednesday 6:06.
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“A man who knows a great
deal is smart enough to know
he still can learn from folks
who know very little.”
Mothers To March For Dimes Tonight
Griffin, Ga., 30223,
Maddox recommended $838 mil
lion.
Nix made his plea in the face
of likely cuts in most state de
partments after testimony Mon
day that Maddox’s budget like
ly would produce a tax increase
in two years.
“I want you to realize at the
outset that our’s is a conserva
tive request,” Nix said in his
remarks prepared for the com
mittee.
“I want you to know that our
budget request...had the fat re-
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Dimes For A Mother
The Mothers’ March for the March of Dimes will be held tonight beginning at 7
o’clock. Volunteers will canvas the community in the door-to-door campaign.
Mrs. Mike Bryant is serving as chairman of the drive. Mrs. Ed Dingier (r) pre
sents information about the drive to Mrs. Stephen O. Squires. Griffinites have
been asked to leave their porch lights on to help the Mothers find their way to
homes easily.
moved before it was ever pre
sented to the Budget Bureau,”
he said.
Original requests for funds
were cut by $20 million before
the budget was approved by the
State Board of Education.
Nix pained a bleak picture of
the state’s educational needs,
saying the state was still suf
fering from a shortage of 473
teachers. He said Georgia still
ranked far below the national
average in money spent per
child for education.
Budget Weighted By
War Spending, Taxes
Social Security,
Postal Rate
Increases Asked
By JOHN PIERSON
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Pres
ident Johnson today sent
congress a record-smashing
$172.4 billion budget heavily
weighted with spending for the
war in Vietnam and higher
taxes to pay for it.
The spending total is the so
called cash budget, which
includes Social Security, high
way and other trust funds.
Johnson soft-peddled the tradi
tional administrative budget,
which excludes the trust funds
and comes to only $135 billion.
The cash budget also shows a
smaller deficit—$4.3 billion,
compared with $8.1 billion in the
administrative budget.
To prevent the deficit from
climbing any higher, Johnson
called for a penney-a-letter
increase in postal rates in
addition to his previously
announced 6 per cent income
tax hike.
The President’s program for
fiscal 1968, which begins July 1,
includes $5.5 billion more for
defense, $5 billion more for
Social Security, and $1.9 billion
more for the Great Society.
It also assumes that the
government can sell $5 billion in
mortgages and other financial
assets to help keep the deficit
down.
Vietnam Costly
Vietnam outlays alone would
total $2.4 billion under John
son's new budget, including $50
million in economic aid. Thir
teen cents out of every budget
dollar would be spent on
Vietnam.
Overall military spending
would be $73.1 billion, third
highest in history and topped
only by the peak World War II
years of 1944 and 1945.
Assuming the war doesn’t get
any worse than Johnson ex
pects, the new Vietnam funds
would bring to $487 billion the
total spent by the United States
in four years resisting commu
nism in the Southeast Asian
country. The total includes $1.5
billion of economic aid.
Johnson held out hope that
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Jones (1) and Knowles look over Jaycee awards.
Knowles, Jones Get
Top Jaycee Awards
Johnson’s Budget
Means Less
Take Home Pay
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Johnson’s new budget
means less take-home pay for
the average American family
provided Congress goes along.
Johnson announced in his
State of the Union message that
be wanted a 6 per cent
surcharge on personal and
corporate income taxes to help
pay for the Vietnam war.
That means more withholding
from workers’ paychecks start
ing July 1 if Johnson has his
way.
In his budget message, the
President said he not only
wants corporations to pay more,
but also faster. Noting that
Congress last year approved an
accelerated corporate tax sche
dule, Johnson asked the new
congress to impose an even
faster payment rate.
Hie surtax plan is designed to
pump another $4.7 billion a year
into the treasury over a two
year period.
For a family of four making
$7,500 this year, it would mean
a tax increase of about $21. In
other words, that family would
owe $707 on April 15, 1968,
compared with $686 this April.
Johnson also proposed an
average 20 per cent boost in
Social Security benefits. For
most people this also will mean
higher taxes.
Under the President’s formu
la, Social Security withholding
would rise in stages from a
total of $290.40 for a $10,800-a
year man in 1967 to $599 in 1974.
Here’s how the plan would
work: A worker now pays 4.4
per cent of the first $6,600 of his
salary, with the employer
kicking in an equal amount. On
Jan. 1, 1968 he would pay 4.4
per cent of his first $7,800. By
1974, he would be paying a total
social security and medicare
tax of 5.55 per cent cm his first
$10,800 in salary. Again, the
employer would match his
contribution.
A bank president and an ele
mentary school principal, both
graduates of Auburn, were pre
sented top honors by the Griffin
Jaycees here Monday night.
C.A. (Lon) Knowles, was pre
sented the Distinguished Service
Award and named Outstanding
Young Man of the Year for 1966.
He is president of First Nation
al Bank of Griffin.
Tommy Jones was presented
the Outstanding Young Man in
Education Award. He is princi
pal of Beaverbrook elementary
school at Sunny Side.
Bob Scroggins, chairman of the
Distinguished Service Award
committee, presented the award
to Knowles. Chubby Williams,
chairman of the Education Aw
ard committee, presented the
award to Jones.
The Jaycees also observed the
annual ‘‘bosses night” and re
cognized past presidents. Many
of the Jaycees brought their
bosses as guests. Carlton Imes
reviewed the history of the Jay
cees here from 1936 and introdu
ced the past presidents.
In accepting his award, Know
les expressed his appreciation
to the community of Griffin for
the way in which he and his fa
mily had been accepted since
moving here from Columbus two
years ago.
“If any of you Jaycees ever
have to move to another city, I
hope you will be received in the
same manner in which we have
been accepted here,” the 35
year-old bank president said.
In accepting his award, Jones
thanked the Jaycees for supor
ting the education profession in
the community.
Jones was bom in Rome, Ga.,
in 1934 and moved to Griffin
with his family in 1939. He was
an honor graduate of Griffin
High in 1952 and graduated from
Auburn in 1956 where he receiv
ed his Navy commission. He sp
ent three years on active duty
and returned to Griffin to be
gin a teaching career at Griffin
High. He has served as principal
at Sunny Side, North Side and
presently is Beaverbrook princi
pal.
Jones received his master’s
degree from New York Univer
sity in 1963 and is pursuing gra
duate studies during the sum
mer at Auburn.
He is married to the former
Eleanor (Bobi) Tober of War
wick, R.I. They have a son, Mi
chael, two.
He is a member of the First
Methodist Church, the Kiwanis
Club and the Lodge of Elks, 1207.
Jones served two years as pre
sident of the Griffin-Spalding
Education Association. He has
worked with the American Can
cer Association.
Knowles came to Griffin from
Columbus to become president
of First National Bank.
He is a deacon and Sunday Sc
hool teacher in the First Baptist
Church. He is vice president and
a director in the Chamber of
Commerce.
Knowles is a director and ser
ves on the program committee
of the Kiwanis Club. He is a
member of the executive board
of the Boy Scouts program and
is a director with the Mental
Health organization In Spalding
County. p
He is a director in the Credit
Bureau of Griffin and a salva
tion Army Advisory Board mem
ber. Knowles was chairman of
publicity for the 1966 United
Fund Drive. He is in the Elks
and Moose Lodges.
Besides being a graduate of
Auburn, he graduated from the
American Institute of Banking
and presently is enrolled in the
Stonier Graduate School of Bank
ing, Rutgers University.
Mr. and Mrs. Knowles are the
parents of an 11-year old son
and a nine-year-old daughter.
Jack Alverson who handles
publicity for the Jaycees, pre
sented awards of appreciation
to the Griffin Daily News, and
radio stations WKEU, WGRI
and WHIE for their support of
the Jaycees in 1966.
Wayne Smith, president of the
Jaycees, presided at the meet
ing.
Log Hits Can
Child Killed
WARRENTON, Ga. (UPI) —
A log crashed through the wind
shield of a car near here Mon
day, killing a two-year-old boy.
Officers reported the log
rolled off a truck as it passed
the car In which Michael Allen
Frye was riding. He was killed