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E VENIN GOOD G
By Quimby Melton
Today is the 85th anniversary
©f the birth of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, 32nd President of the
United States and the only Pre
sident to be elected to four
terms.
Much will be written about
this great leader of our nation
end world famed figure. But
here are three stories about him
that have not been given much
publicity. They have a very de
finite Griffin angle.
In 1937 when the President
was enroute to Warm Springs
his special train stopped at the
Southern Railway crossing on
West Solomon street. A crowd
was gathered there and little
Miss Henrietta Carlisle, all of
four years of age, was hoisted
to the observation platform of
the car, where the President was
greeting the Griffin people. She
had a large bunch of roses whi
ch she presented the President.
The little lady had been coach
ed by her mother Mrs. E. F.
Carlisle, then secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, as to
how she should conduct herself.
But naturally the four-year-old
Was awed by the President and
the large crowd that had gather
ed to greet him. So when he ac
cepted the roses and said “I bet
you don’t know to whom you are
giving these flowers,” she answ
ered “George Washington.” A
xnong the prized possessions of
Mrs. Hilliard Burt, of Albany,
for that is the young lady’s name
and home now, is a letter she re
ceived from President Roosevelt
thanking her for the flowers and
signed “Ytour Friend ‘George
Washington.’ ”
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Another former Griffinite —
Tap Bennett, the first county
agent Spalding county ever had,
who now lives in Camesville,
Ga„ was at one time manager
of a large farm near Warm
Springs owned by the President.
In his (Bennett’s) Reminiscen
ces of FDR” he tells this story:
“Another experience you will
remember was the closing of
banks because patrons were un
able to meet their obligations.
Only one bank was left in neigh
boring Harris County, Ga., and
its stock was sold in front of
the court house for $1.50 per
share. Mr. Roosevelt declared
the bank holiday. Later, Uncle
Henry Kimbrough was riding
vflth us and gave Mr. Roose
velt a copy of the bank statement
and said he would like to ask a
question, ‘but if you don’t want
to answer, it will be all right.’
And when Mr. Roosevelt asked,
*What is your question?’, Uncle
Henry said: ‘Where did you get
the idea of the bank holiday?
Our stock sold for as low as
$1.50 per share before the hol
iday and today it is selling for
$150 per .share.’ Mr. Roosevelt
replied: ‘Right here in Warm
Springs I had two banks burst
in my face. » »»
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And this portion of a speech
made by Roosevelt in neighbor
ing Barnesville on August 11,
1938, tells of the REA’s origin:
“There was only one discor
dant note in that first stay of
mine at Warm Springs. When
the first-of-the-month bill came
in for electric lights in my little
cottage I found the charge of 18
cents a kilowatt hour — about
lour times as much as I paid at
Hyde Park, N.Y. That started
my long study of proper public
Utility charges for electric cur
rent and the whole subject of
getting electricity into farm
homes.
“So it can be said that a little
cottage at Warm Springs, Ga.,
was the birthplace of the Rural
Electrification Administration.”
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GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, January 30,1967 Vol. 96 No. 24
Survival Of The ‘Unfit’
Crime Is For Viet Children
By TOM TIEDE
SAIGON, Vietnam — (NEA)
—From the beginning the bor
ed, brittle, blank-faced child
ren of this nation have a rough
go at existence.
A quarter of them die in infan
cy. Half fail before five years.
And, as for the ones who sur
vive the first 10 annuals of life,
at least 10 per cent are certain
of contracting pulmonary tuber
culosis.
But that’s only the first deca
de. The remaining 27 years of
life expectancy in this land are
often worse. Poverty, war, cruel
ty, slum living. . . a kid learns
the brutal way here and the only
law that endures in all the hu
man decay is to eat or be eaten.
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THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE is easily seen in Saigon streets. Trouble is, the
American influence, well-meaning as it may be, sometimes is turned in the wrong
direction by Vietnamese children.
Win In ‘Glassies’
Southerners
Check Strength
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)—South
ern conservatives in the House
are being cautious about the ap
parent beef-up of their ranks by
the 1966 “backlash” elections.
They admit the “Great Socie
ty” is not doomed.
There is an undoubted im
provement over their out-num
bered position in the last Con
gress. This has stirred moves
to revive the defunct southern
Democratic caucus, so it could
negotiate a coalition.
Vote counts in two opening
conservative victories indicated
a coalition of southern Demo
crats and Republicans held a
clear balance of power. It ap
peared old times were back
again.
It was a coalition vote that
denied a seat to Rep.-elect
Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.,
and another that repealed the
liberals’ “21-day rule”—a limit
on the time the House Rules
Committe could bottle up
Great Society bills.
Classic Issues
These were classic liberal
versus-conservative issues. In
both, the liberals took a lick
ing. But ever since, conserva
tive leaders have been studying
the vote with less and less sat
isfaction.
With Powell the issue was
not whether he should be de
nied a seat as a fugitive from
a judge’s orders to arrest him
for contempt or to punish him
for alleged misspending of tax
payer money on himself.
The House chose to make the
issue a simple partisan one:
Powell’s survival as a liberal
Democrat. On a liberal motion
to seat him pending an inves
tigation the Republicans were
solid—0-186.
The Democrats split 76-158.
Even southern Democrats split
13-78. But this appeared to give
the southern conservative Dem
ocratic bloc a 78-vote party
base for a potential 264-vote co
alition.
The “21-day” rule was an
even more “classic” issue. The
rule was adopted two years ago,
for a second time in history, to
prevent the House Rules Com
mittee from bottling up liberal
bills.
Here the vote was less com
forting. The Republicans voted
Small wonder then that hund
reds of thousands of hopeless,
hapless Vietnamese youngsters
have been more or less raised
a social cannibals.
Delinquents, they’re called.
And there is a whole generation
of them.
They are easily identified. In
the downtown streets they stand
near the pub doors in small, rag
ged clusters — and pick the
pockets of the American sold
iers who stagger by.
In the side districts they sit on
garbage cans at the front of dark
houses and yell out lewd propos
itions to the streetwalkers.
In the alleys they gather in
bands to plot savage acts again
st an unsuspecting citizenry in
156-26 in favor of repealing the
rule. Democrats outside the
South voted 7-141, a formal dis
play of the national party’s lib
eral leaning.
What concerned the southern
conservatives was a widening of
the split in the region’s Demo
cratic ranks. Their vote was
69-18. This indicated a hard-core
bloc of 69 southern Democrats.
Old-hand Southerners discount
even that strength. Liberals and
conservatives had been badger
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Georgia Toll
Reaches 16
By United Press International
Two multi-death accidents,
one in which five persons were
killed, boosted Georgia’s week
end traffic death toll to at least
16.
A flaming, head-on crash
near Cartersville late Saturday
night killed four Indiana college
students bound for Florida, and
a passenger in the other car.
Near Fairbum, a three-car
wreck Saturday night claimed
three persons and left six oth
ers critically injured.
Victims of the Fairbum crash
were identified as Mrs. Billie
Sue McBride of Scottsboro,
Ala., James W. Davis of Attala,
Ala., and William O. Hayes, 65.
Killed in the crash on U.S. 41
at Cartersville were Steve Mau
gans of Indianapolis, David
Merk of Laconia, Ind., Stepanie
Sowers of Miami and Richard
B. Bartischevic of Lyons, N.Y.
A fifth student, Kenneth A.
Heiner, was thrown from the
wreckage and survived. He told
officers six persons, including
himself, were in the vehicle,
but officers found only four
charred bodies.
Other weekend fatalities in
cluded:
George McClure, 32, of Dal
ton, driver of the other car in
volved in the accident that took
the lives of the four students.
Billy Parker, 10, of Dalton,
struck by a car while riding
his bicycle east of Dalton Sat-
the name of revenge, reward or
kicks.
And in Saigon police stations,
they sit unsmiling on benches,
suspected of robbery, rape, mur
der or collaboration with the en
emy.
Statistically, the outlaws do not
represent the majority of young
people in Vietnam. But they may
one day. In the capital alone,
the guess is that 200,000 children
are jail bait.
One of the latter is a boy na
med Tu Dinh, age 12. He shines
shoes, among other things. Am
ong the other things is stealing
equipment off U. S. military
trucks.
He was caught doing just that
recently.
Man Held In
Wife’s Shooting
Johnson Brittin, 49, of Route
Three, Box 416, Lamar County,
was held in Spalding County jail
today in connection with the
shoting of his wife.
Spalding Sheriff’s officials said
the shooting occurred in Lamar
County. The Spalding officials
went to the scene when called
about midnight because it was
not clear at the time if the inci
dent occurred in Lamar or Spal
ding County.
The Lamar County sheriff’s of
fice is handling the investigation.
Mrs. Brittin was transferred to
an Atlanta hospital for treatment
after being taken to the Griffin
Spalding Hospital.
urday.
David Veal of Commerce and
R. O. Walker of Danielsville,
fatally injured Friday night
near Commerce.
William Hardin and Charles
Hammond, both of Lyons, killed
in a wreck near Lyons.
An unidentified Negro woman
who was killed when hit by a
car in Savannah.
Charles Gillstrap, 13, Rocky
Face, killed when his bicycle
was struck by a car Saturday
near his home.
Henry Lee Dixon, 9, Way
cross, killed when he was
struck by a car in Waycross.
Three Brothers
Held In Death
DALTON, Ga. (UPI)—Three
brothers were held today on
charges of murder in the shoot
ing Sunday of 27-year-old Tom
Douglas Quarles.
Whitfield County Sheriff Jer
ry Mauldin identified the broth
ers as Gene Curtis, 30, Jack
Curtis, 36, and Raymond Curtis,
40.
Mauldin said the shooting oc
curred during an alleged rob
bery attempt that followed a
poker game at Quarles’ home
that involved Jack and Gene
Curtis and James Edgar Smith.
Smith also was shot but was
reported in fair condition today
in Hamilton Memorial Hospital
"Let me go,” he pleaded.
A Vietnamese policeman hit
him in the mouth.
The boy cried.
The cop pushed him down.
The boy got up and fled.
The cop roared.
It is hardly a laughing mat
ter, of course, and the local go
vernment says it is doing all it
can to correct the situation, whi
ch means, in the political ver
nacular of Vietnam, nothing.
In truth, local authorities can’t
afford much more than zero.
Saigon’s annual budget, for ex
ample, is only about $9 million,
of which two-thirds goes toward
official salaries. The remainder
allotted for city betterment to
tals about $1 per resident.
Regents Eye
Tuition Hike
Chairman
Renews Plea
For More Funds
By MARCIA RASMUSSEN
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—The chair
man of the State Board of Re
gents said today it might be
necessary to raise tuition at
state universities and colleges
if the General Assembly does
not give the regents more mon
ey.
James A. Dunlap made his
statement at budget hearings of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
“We’ve raised student fees in
many instances to keep quality
up when the General Assembly
did not give us enough,” Dun
lap said.
Sen. Bart Sheay of Savannah
asked Dunlap if he were threat
ening a tuition increase if the
General Assembly did not in
crease his budget appropriation.
Dunlap replied, "No, certain
ly not.”
But, Dunlap added, “We will
have to cross that bridge when
we come to it. If we thought it
would be necessary to keep up
quality we would certainly raise
fees.”
Dunlap also said that $14 mil
lion in enrichment funds cut by
Gov. Lester Maddox from the
budget proposed by former
Gov. Carl Sanders were not ac
tually enrichment funds but
were really “catch up funds.”
“These funds we need are not
an enrichment program,” Dun
lap said. “They are funds we
need to give you folks what you
want in education.”
University Chancellor George
L. Simpson said the cut in uni
versity allocation means Geor
gia will not be able to keep
pace with mounting student en
rollments much less meet
the recommendations of the
Governor’s Commission to Im
prove Education.
Without the $14.3 million,
Simpson said the universities
cannot bring the teacher - stu
dent ratios down to recommend
ed levels.
Simpson said the university
system will be short 495 teach
ers this fall and some 559
teachers in the 1968-69 aca
demic year if funds aren’t
available to hire additional
teachers and provide pay in
creases.
The Board of Regents met
with Maddox shortly after he
presented his proposed budget
for the next two years to the
General Assembly, but the plea
received little sympathy.
Maddox told the regents add
tional budget cuts may be
forced if state revenue did not
pick up from its January start.
He told the board to “tighten
up your belts somewhere.”
Several influential persons
and groups, however, have
come to the board’s defense in
getting at least part of the
funds restored. Among them
was the Georgia State Chamber
of Commerce.
The educational system is
somehwat encouraging. Saigon’s
schools teach nearly 150,000
youngsters a year. Yet even this
is woefully inadequate. Many
children learn to read through
sex magazines.
The United States, already
overburdened with local grief,
still tries to help the kids. U. S.
missions care for some of the
younger delinquents and U. S.
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dollars help some of the older
ones.
Yet the irony is, Americans
often do more harm than good.
Begging children would not re
main if Yanks refused them
handouts; young pimps would
not function if foreign residents
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On A Clear Day
A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER in New York happened to see this suspicious
episode at a fifth floor apartment. Police tracked down a very surprised Noel F.
Cueves, 26, and found loot valued at $104.
Bodies Of Astronauts
Take Their Last Flight
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
The bodies of America’s first
three Apollo astronauts were
taken into the sky today on
their last flight to resting places
among the nation’s heroes.
Under cloudless skies and
within sight of launch pad 34
where they perished in a flash
fire Friday, the flag-draped
caskets of Lt. Col. Virgil I.
(Gus) Grissom, 40, Lt. Col.
Edward H. White II, 36, and Lt.
Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee, 31,
were borne to a blue, white and
silver C135B military jet
transport.
The huge jet took off from the
"skid strip” in the Cape launch
area at 10:23 a.m. EST and was
to land at Andrews Air Force
Base, Washington at 12:15 p.m.
EST.
Dressed in their military
uniforms, Grissom and Chaffee
will be buried at Arlington
National Cemetery on Tuesday,
and White at the U.S. Military
Academy cemetery at Highland
Falls, N.Y.
Services Scheduled
Memorial services for the
shook their heads; youthful black
marketeers would not prosper if
GIs would quit giving away mil
lions of canned rati<ms every
year.
But the Americans won’t, tha
kids will, and thp problem wor
sens.
Money must be had for cigar
ettes and opium trips. Business
must be solicited for 29,000 Sai
gon prostitutes. A viper has to
expand as the inflation does if
he expects to survive in this
country.
Life is too short here as it is.
A kid can expect only 37 years.
And more and more of them
are doing whatever is necessary
to get even that.
dead spacemen were held In
Texas today and Sunday.
A minor mishap nearly
marred the final departure of
the astronauts from the Cape. A
tractor-towed yellow trailer
containing a generator to supply
electric power to the plane
turned over directly in front of
the plane. The incident occurred
lng on the skid strip, several
ing on the skid strip, severa
minutes before the arrival of
the caskets.
The trailer was quickly
moved away and the spot
washed down with water.
Honor guards of pallbearers
watched in silence as the
caskets were borne aboard the
C135B, but there were no
formal ceremonies at the skid
strip.
After the caskets were
aboard, the hearses pulled
slowly away. The bearers
stepped back to the visitors
area and stood at attention as
the plane wheeled around. The
pallbearers were led by Maj.
Gen. Vincent Huston of the Air
Force, Dr. Kurt Debus of the
Apollo program, and Gemini
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Plane Takes Off
The Huge plane roared down
the strip and off into the brignt
blue sky, leaving behind the
sorrowful space men at the
Cape to pursue their investiga
tion of the tragedy.
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Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair to partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 37, high Sun
day 59, low Sunday 29; sunrise
Tuesday 7:36, sunset Tuesday
6:12.
VENGEANCE
OSWESTRY (UPI) —Thieves
may regreat breaking into
investor David Price’s workshop
here.
Price, who holds several
patents for machines and gears,
said Sunday he had been robbed
of $140 worth of tools.
“I’m working on something
new for thieves,” he said. “A
new type at burglar alarm."