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By Quimby Melton
The week of March 19-25 will
be National Poison Prevention
Week, according to an announce
ment from the National Associa
tion of Retail Druggists. The
average American home is a
storehouse for poison; consequ
ently, poisoning is one of the
most common medical emergen
cies with children.
But accidental poisoning is not
limited to drugs. Fifty percent
are due to such substances as
furniture and floor polishes and
waxes, paint solvents, cleaning
fluids and bleaches, some cos
metic preparations and various
household things as ink, glue,
blueing and dyes.
Willard Simmons, executive
director of the national phar
maciticual association has said:
“The incidents of accidental
poisoning in the home are rapid
ly assuming the proportions of
a national catastrophe. We are
shocked when we read about the
rising death toll on our highways
and even a single airplane dis
aster. But we don’t seem to ge
nerate the same concern or dis
tress over accidental poisoning
even though such accidents are
occurring more frequently than
highway or airplane tragedies.
It is estimated that approxima
tely a million ingestions of po
tentially toxic substances from
household products or medicines
occur each year. Most author!
ties indicate this figure is low
since many cases are not repor
ted.”
Local druggists will observe
this special week and are anx
ious to help every family become
safety conscious. They make
these recommendations as to
medicines:
Keep all drugs stored where
they cannot be handled by chil
dren.
When you go to the medicine
chest turn on all lights and
make certain you have the bot
tle you want, since so many
containers are the same shape;
then read the label, and read
the directions irrespective of
how many times the medica
tions have been used in the past.
Check directions for any spec
ial precautions: after use, re
turn the medication to its stor
age area — preferably in a loc
ked cabinet or closet.”
There is no one in the commu
nity more interested in prevent
ing trouble that can come from
accidental poisoning than your
druggist.
No doubt every druggist will
be glad to furnish you with in
structions as to the proper anti
dote in case of accidental pois
oning, so don’t hesitate to call
your favorite druggist for the
list.
And remembering that 50 per
cent of the accidental poisoning
comes from many things that
are looked upon simply as house
hold helps. Be certain any of
these you may have "round the
house” are kept in places of saf
ety — especially from small
children.
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“Education” of the American
people on Soccer, popular
throughout the world it is clai
med, goes on. The first Profess
ional Soccer League in this land
of the free and the home of the
brave will begin its first season
In April. Among the teams in
the new league is one in Atlan
ta called “The Chiefs”.
The Chiefs are sending our
“missionaries” or “salesmen”
throughout the southeast. Those
who love sports seem interested,
since Soccer, if it is as exciting
as it is said to be, and if it cat
ches on as the promoters hope
it will, will give fans another
chance to sit in the stands and
get excited over the efforts of
a few men on the playing field.
Looking up “Soccer” in our
Encyclopedia of Sports, and
found many interesting things.
Many places claim to have been
the birthplace of Soccer. We also
found this amazing bit of his
tory — “It was in Chester, Eng
land, centuries ago when the
people played ‘Football’ (that
was what Soccer was originally
called), one Shrove Tuesday,
using as a ball the head of a
Dane who had been captured
and slain.”
If anyone gets the idea that
Soccer — kicking the ball — is a
tame affair just think of this
early game — kicking, in lieu of
a ball, the head of an enemy.
lbj Says Bombs
will Continue
By ALVIN SPIVAK
United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
President Johnson said today
that despite a recent of
peace feelers” there would be
no let-up in U.S. bombing of
North Vietnam until the Hanoi
government reduces hostilities.
The President, in his most
comprehensive and detailed
summary of the Vietnam war,
said in an address to the
Tennessee Legislature the Unit
ed States remains willing to
negotiate toward peace but only
when Hanoi shows that it, too,
is willing.
“The problem is simple,”
Johnson said. “It takes two to
negotiate . . . and to date,
Hanoi has refused.”
Without mentioning names,
the President replied to Sen.
Robert P. Kennedy and other
critics who have maintained
that the administration was not
pushing hard enough for negoti
ations, and should even halt
bombing of North Vietnam to
help get talks under way.
“We have just lived through
another slurry of peace fee
lers,” Johnson said. “Our years
of dealing with this problem
have taught us that peace will
not come easily.
“Reciprocity must be the
fundamental principle of any
reduction in hostilities. The
United States cannot and will
not reduce its activities unless
and until there is some
reduction on the other side. To
Griffin Men
Arrested In
Pike Still Raid
Two Griffin men were char
ged with possessing and manu
facturing non-taxed whisky in a
raid on a still in Pike County
Tuesday morning.
Arrested were Waymon H. Po
well of 313 Leola drive and Wal
ter Favors of 123 Third street.
Officers destroyed three 500
gallon stills, 1,500 gallons of
mash and 78 gallons of non-tax
ed whisky.
The still was in north Pike
County, east of Highway 19.
Participating in the raid were
State Revenue Agents Bobby
Imes and Roy Kent, federal ag
ents and Pike County Sheriff J.
Astor Riggins.
The officers said the still was
in operation when the raid was
made.
Burglars Get
Guns, Money
Guns and money were the ap
parent motives of burglars in
Griffin and Spalding County
Tuesday.
The Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department is investigating a
burglary at the home of R. L.
Mangham, Route Two, Calhoun
road. Burglars broke into the
home and stole guns, a piggy
bank, a gold wedding ring and
a gold watch.
Griffin police officers are in
vestigating the theft of two rif
les from Jimmy Johnson’s Pawn
Shop on North Hill street.
Guns missing from the Man
gham home were identified by
the Sheriff’s Department as: a
.22 automatic rifle, a .45 Colt
pistol, a .22 pistol on a .38 fr
ame, a .22 gauge automatic Br
owning shotgun and a 12 gau
ge pump Winchester shotgun.
Mangham told Deputy Davis
Peeples who is investigating the
burglary that the piggy bank
contained between $15 to $20.
The burglars entered the
home by tearing a screen and
raising a window.
The back door had been open
ed at Johnson’s Pawn Shop, po
lice said. They said two .30-.30
rifles were taken from the shop.
One was a Marlin and the other
Weather*
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
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cooler tonight. Thursday fair and
cooler.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
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61, maximum Tuesday 83, mini
mum Tuesday 58. Sunrise Thurs
day 6:51 a.m., sunset Thurs
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North Carolina Farmer
Finds Bride In Griffin
A North Carolina share crop
per who advertised for a wife
three years ago has found a br
ide in Griffin.
The happy couple beamed with
joy Tuesday afternoon as they
told of their romance from the
front porch of their home on
Seago drive in Experiment.
Wiley Massey of Marshall, N.
C„ who has been a farmer with
his bachelor brother all his life,
was married to Mrs. Eula Ro
berts, 62, of Griffin. The cere
mony was performed Monday
night by J. L. Hardwick, Jus
tice of the Peace, at his home.
“He didn’t charge them a
thing,” quipped a neighbor who
was present for the wedding.
“It was his gift to them”.
Mr. Massey arrived in Griffin
late Saturday after taking a bus
from Marshall, N.C. Ashville is
the nearest large city.
He met Mrs. Roberts with
whom he had corresponded a
few times. It didn’t take either
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Spalding Junior High School students Skip Kelley and Bill Butler will compete
in the State Science Fair to be held April 6 • 8 at the University of Georgia.
Both were named first place winners in the district science fair. In the physics
field, Kelley made a tuned elecmagnetic shield and gave the results of its
Griffin Ga., 30223, Wednesday, March 15,1967
Communists Pound US Base
With Russian Made Rockets
of them long to decide they
were meant for each other. Ar
rangements were made for a
Monday night wedding.
The chain of events that brou
ght the couple together started
Dec. 19, 1964.
Mr. Massey, a bachelor all his
life, advertised on a North Car
olina radio station "trading
post” program for a wife.
He wrote the station:
“Dear Friend, will you please
announce this for me? I would
like to get in touch with some
nice, respectable, decent kind of
a woman to marry her — one
who believes in farming as I do.
I am a non-drinker and don’t al
low no one around who does
drink. I believe in living the
right life. If anyone is interest
ed in marrying, please come or
write to Wiley Massey, Marshall,
N.C., Route One, Box 111.
United Press International car
ried a picture of the man on its
wire services and many news
papers published it along with
the story of Mr. Massey’s quest
for a wife.
Some 1,100 letters poured in to
the North Carolina farmer.
But he didn’t accept any of the
proposals.
A friend of Mrs. Roberts in
Griffin got hold of a paper
which carried Mr. Massey’s pic
ture and gave it to her. Mrs. Ro
berts, a widow, carried the pic
around in her pocketbook
Instant
Retaliation
Chases Cong
By ROBERT KAYLOR
SAIGON (UPI)—Communist
guerrillas bombarded the giant
U.S. airbase at Da Nang with
Russian-made rockets today.
But virtually instant American
retaliation chased away the Viet
Cong and limited damage in the
second assult on the post in 17
days.
U.S. spokesmen said the
guerrillas fired 15 140 mm. spin
stablied rockets in 74 seconds
from launch pads in the brush
on the Yen River banks seven
miles southwest of the base, the
keystone of American air power
in South Vietnam’s northermost
sector.
The rockets wounded 16
Americans, damaged three
planes including one jet taking
off to bomb North Vietnam and
ignited fuel, grass and electrical
fires, spokesmen said. They
credited the immediate counter
attack by Marine artillery and
gunships for cutting off the
assault with damage far below
that of Feb. 27 when 12
Americans were killed and 32
wounded in a guerrilla rocket
raid on the base.
American troops reported
killing at least 58 Communists
in fights along the Cambodian
border 225 miles northeast of
Saigon the past two days, U.S.
troops in the Central Highlands
killed 21 Communists Tuesday
in two actions. American
warplanes on 116 missions
struck North Vietnam’s south
ern panhandle supply routes and
Red River Valley industrial
area Tuesday.
Allied salvage crews pulled
700 Communist Chinese car
bines and 50 machineguns from
a 100-foot Communist gun
running trawler run ashore
after a gun duel with U.S. Navy
patrol craft Tuesday. U.S. Air
Force B52 Stratofortresses to
day bombed twice Communist
strongholds just west of the big
Da Nang base.
At 2:05 a.m., while the
Stratoforts’ tons of bombs
erupted in the distance, the Viet
Cong apparently tried to dupli
cate their Feb. 27 raid success
when they fired 57 rounds of the
big rockets into the base, killing
32 Vietnamese and wounding 39
others besides the Americans.
But today it did not work for
the terrorists.
The fact the Communists
fired from the launchers’
maximum, distance told in their
inaccurary. All the blasts hit
the runway area, far from the
crowded barracks sector of the
base which launches air raids
against North Vietnam and
funnels U.S. troops in and out of
South Vietnam.
for three years before doing any
thing about it.
Then this year, the day it
snowed, (that’s how she remem
bered the day), she wrote Mr.
Massey. About three exchanges
of letters followed afid then itp
popped Mr. Massey on the steps
of Mrs. Roberts house.
He said the bus trip from Mar
shall cost $8.
“But I already like Georgia
90 percent better than the place
I came from,” Mr. Massey srnil
ed.
Some 17 friends and neigh
bors of Mrs. Roberts came to
the wedding.
Following the ceremony, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Prince of Experi
ment gave a reception at their
home for the newlyweds.
Country Parson
“A fellow whose wife for
gives his first mistake isn’t as
likely to make another as
one whose wife keeps re
minding him of it.”
Vol. 95 No. 62
State Will Stay
On Standard Time
BW MARCIE RASMUSSEN
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)— The Geor
gia House of Representatives
today overwhelmingly passed a
compromise bill to keep the
state on standard time at least
through next Jan. 1.
The House voted 143-25 for the
bill and held no debate on the
issue. The Senate must now act.
The House then overwhelm
ingly approved a bill to exempt
farm machinery from sales tax
es and a measure to grant a
60-day delay in payment of tax
es at the time of purchase of
automobile license tags.
The House voted 145-1 to de
fer the payment if the governor
gave his okay. However, with
out the governor’s specific ap
proval the taxes would still
have to be paid immediately.
A joint House-Senate confer
ence committee Tuesday agreed
to a bill to keep the state on
standard time this summer
while most of the nation goes
on DST.
If at least three bordering
states were still on standard
time by then, the act would re
main in effect. If most sur
rounding states, however,
switched to DST the issue would
go back to the legislature.
Both the House and Senate
were expected to mull over the
decision of the conference com
mittee today. The state would
automatically go on DST, as
provided by federal legislation,
If the legislature takes no ac
tion by the end of the session
on Friday.
Sales Tax Debate Asked
And in the Senate a move
continued to get the local option
sales tax measure to the entire
chamber. The House-passed bill
was killed in committee.
Columbus Sen. Steve Knight
served notice he planned to ob
ject to the committee report
against the bill allowing cities
a 1 per cent local tax.
Gov. Lester Maddox has led
opposition to the measure, while
backers included House Speak
er George L. Smith and Lt.
Gov. George T. Smith.
That controversial lease of
the state-owned Western & At
lantic Railroad goes again to
the House today. The Senate
Tuesday insisted that the State
Properties Commission be al
lowed to offer bids on the lease
if it comes up again.
The House voted earlier to
refuse to allow more bids on
the Atlanta to Chattanooga,
Tenn., line. Southern Railway
overbid the Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad.
Time Battle Seen
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Butler’s project is in biology.
dead.
“This came up last year, it
came up this year and it will
be an issue next year,” said
Rep. Wallace Cato of Bain
bridge, a member of the con
ference committee and a stan
dard time proponent.
“We haven’t heard the last of
time.”
City Asked To
Open Pools On
Integrated Basis
The Spalding Commission on
Human Relations asked the
city to open pools at the Munic
ipal Park and Head’s Park on
an integrated basis Tuesday ni
ght.
The city commissioners took
the request under advisement.
About 20 members of the Hu
man Relation group showed up
to present a resolution seeking
to have the pools reopened. They
were closed in 1965 during inte
gration attempts.
Dr. Grover Sowell, a resear
cher at the Georgia Experiment
Station, read a resolution to the
commissioners. He said it had
been adopted by the Human Re
lations Commission Feb. 26.
The resolution said that “in
tegration of public facilities in
the city of Griffin and other ar
eas such as schools, restau
rants, motels, theaters, courts
and industrial and professional
endeavors has proceeded with
out incident or violence or un
favorable public reaction. ”
. .
It continued. . . .“The city of
Griffin has long been exemplary
in providing recreational facili
ties to all of its citizens (though
it is to be noted that during tha
years of operation of the Head’s
Park Pool, no filter system was
provided.”
The resolution concluded,
“Now therefore, be it resolved—
that the duly elected commiss
ioners of this city take such
appropriate action that will re
sult in the reopening of tha
swimming facilities owned by
the city so that all who wish to
avail themselves of the services
may swim at such times aa
formerly provided and thereby
facing squarely the former rea
sons for the closing and admit
ting now and for all time the
present non-existence of any of
these reasons.”