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Thursday, March 16, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Maddox Meets
On ‘Faith
ATLANTA (UPI)—-Gov. Xj6S
ter Maddox was to meet today
with representatives of a non
profit organization to discuss
development of “Faith City,” a
unique retirement community
for Georgia’s elderly.
One of the project’s support
ers, Johnny Beck of Atlanta,
said the representatives would
ask the governor if any state
land was available for the
“city.”
Beck said the community
would be aimed at helping
Georgia’s more than 100,000 se
nior citizens live out theid lives
with dignity.
“They’ll be living in homes
and not apartments or apart
ment houses,” he said. “We will
only accept those retired citl
zqps recommended to us by
churches. We don’t want any
drunks, reprobates, dope ad
dicts or bums.”
Beck noted Georgia has 93,000
elderly persons on welfare, add
ing that “on a maximum $75 a
month they simply cannot exist
unless they rely on relatives.
Thousands of them don’t want
this kind of charity.”
He said Faith City would help
the elderly “make their later
years a job—not dependency."
Church groups and founda
tions would be asked to fund
the project, Beck said, adding
his group would encourage
small industries to locate in the
community if they could pro
vide good Jobs for the elderly
residents.
Beck said the project has
some legislative support. He
said State Sen. Culver Kidd of
Milledgeville would join the
group at the meeting with the
governor.
Harllee Branch Dead
Was FDD Appointee
ATLANTA (UPI) — Harllee
Branch Sr., 87, chairiman of the
Civil Aeronautics Board under
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
died Wednesday.
Branch, a native of Polkton,
N. C., began his career as a
newspaperman which he inter
rupted in 1932 to develop south
eastern support for Roosevelt.
During the presidential cam
paign of that year, Branch was
executive adviser to national
party Chairman James A. Far
ley of New York. He became a
charter member and vice chair
man of the CAB In 1934 and in
1940 he was elevated to chair
man. He resigned in 1948.
In 1950 he quit government
work and became editor-in-chief
of the Panama Citiy (Fla.)
News-Herald until 1952 when he
retired and returned to Atlanta.
Before joining the Roosevelt
campaigin, Branch worked on
the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer,
Charleston (S.C.) Evening Post,
Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, Augusta
(Ga.) Herald, Augusta Chroni
cle and the Atlanta Journal of
which he was city editor and
Washington correspondent.
Branch’s survivors include his
son Harlee Jr., president of the
Southern Company, parent com-
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Col. John D. Sharp, Jr. has
been named commander of
U. S. Army Reservists in
Georgia. He assumes com
mand of the Georgia Sector
Command, with headquart
ers at XII U. S. Army Corps,
699 Ponce DeLeon avenue,
Atlanta. He succeeds Col.
Thomas L. Gordon, who has
been assigned to Korea. The
Georgia sector is composed
of more than 4,000 Army
Reservists in over 40 units
spread throughout the state.
pany of several southern power
companies. He is also survivied
by two other sons and three
daughters.
Graveside services will be
held Friday.
‘Bomb’ Joke
Bum Joke
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI)—A
passing, joking remark to an
airline stewardess about a
bomb in a briefcase put John
T. Lackey Jr. of Gainesville,
Ga., through a three-hour grill
ing by FBI agents Wednesday.
When it was over Lackey was
allowed back on the plane but
the 33-year-old businessman and
national Jaycee board director
said he wanted to forget the
whole thing.
Authorities said Lackey would
not be criminally prosecuted
but is subject to civil action de
pending on the outcome of an
interview with the stewardess.
Lackey was headed for Tulsa
for the annual board of direc
tors meeting of the U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Dateline
Georgia
Newsman Praised In Senate
ATLANTA (UPI)—Billy Wat
son, capitol bureau manager for
the Macon Telegraph and News,
was praised in a Senate resolu
tion passed Wednesday.
The resolution by Sens. Oliver
Bateman and Billy Adams of
Macon noted that Watson is
leaving to join the editorial
Morton Downey At
ATLANTA (UPI) Singer
Morton Downey, a popular ra
dio tenor of the 1930s and 1940s,
was recovering from surgery
today at Emory University Hos
pital.
The hospital would only say
Reinsch On Site Panel
ATLANTA (UPI)—J. Leonard
Reinsch said Wednesday he will
serve as a special consultant to
the site selection committee of
the 1968 Democratic national
convention.
Reinsch, president of Cox
Broadcasting Co., which oper
ates WSB radio and WSB-TV
Father Indicted In Bibb
MACON, Ga. (UPI)—A 22
year-old father was indicted by
the Bibb County grand Jury
Wednesday in the Jan. 26 slay
ing of Karen Diane Pyrz, 16.
Gerald C. Brickie also was in
dicted on a charge of assault
with intent to murder in the
shooting of Ruth Smith, 17, a
companion of Miss Pyrz.
Miss Smith, recovering from
two gunshot wounds, appeared
Boy Found After Wide Search
CLAYTON, Ga.
100 persons joined in a search
Wednesday for four - year old
Richard Turpin, who was found
safe after wandering away from
a family outing In a rugged
mountain area near here.
Georgia, Projects
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Appalachian Regional Commis
sion Wednesday approved three
Georgia projects totaling nearly
$500,000.
A vocational education build
ing at Dalton High School will
Find Skeleton
PANUCO, Mexico (UPI) —
University of Georgia anthro
pologists Donald F. Smith and
Alfred G. Howell have found an
800-year-old Indian skeleton
near the central Mexican Gulf
Coast, lt was reported today.
The scientists are digging in
a pre-Colombian cemetery near
$100,000 Found In
Savannah, Ga. (UPI) — Of
ficials locked the run - down
apartment of Miss Henrietta
Struck when the 91-year - old
recluse died Sept. 17 and no one
gave much thought to what it
might contain.
Court appointed officials said
Wednesday that when the apart
ment was finally searched
nearly $100,000 was found
stuffed In small paper bags
lying among stacks of old news-
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A FRIGHTENED CRY goes up from a little Vietnamese
girl, who can’t understand that Airman Second Class
David Prieto, 21, of San against Antonio, Tex., volunteered his
time to inoculate her disease, not to hurt her.
The scene was at a 102-member children’s orphanage in
Bien Hoa, South Vietnam.
SHOP GRIFFIN FIRST
staff of the Telegraph. It
praised him for his “fair and
impartial” reporting and his
“unambiguous and penetrating
news stories.”
Watson, 28, has been head of
the Atlanta office for the news
papers for four years.
the surgery was minor and that
Downey’s condition was fair. It
would not disclose the nature or
date of the operation.
Downey, a Wallingford, Conn.,
native, Is a former executive of
Coca-Cola Co., here.
here, has been affiliated with
Democratic conventions since
1944.
Reinsch said a formal an
nouncement would be made la
ter concerning his appointment
by Democratic National Chair
man John Bailey.
before the grand jury Wednes
day.
Brickie was accused of taking
the two high school girls to a
secluded spot and shooting Miss
Smith and beating Miss Pyrz
after they rebuffed his advanc
es.
An autospy revealed Miss
Pyrz died of drowning after be
ing left unconscious In a creek.
Richard is the son of Haber
sham County deputy sheriff
Fred Turpin. Turpin said his
son seemed "unconcerned”
about the fuss his disappear
ance had caused. The youngster
was missing about four hours.
cost $160,000. The same amount
will be spent for the Cherokee
County area Vocational Techni
cal School In Canton, and $156,
000 will go for construction of
Habersham Nursing Home in
Demorest.
Panuco. They also reported
finding cooking pots and other
artifacts near the skeleton,
which was dated through radio
activity tests with carbon-14.
Smith and Howell are investi
gating the living habits of pre
Coloinbian Indians of the Huas
teca region.
papers and piles of hatboxes.
They also learned that Miss
Struck had $16,000 In a safety
deposit box.
Officials said they could not
explain how the elderly woman
who appeared to have limited
means, had accumulated so
much money or why she left it
lying about the apartment.
Efforts were being made to
locate heirs.
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Viet Service Award
Nathan C. Fears (c) of Hampton receives certificate of achievement for civilian
service in Vietman from Col. A. J. McDermott, Jr., commander, Atlanta Army
Depot. Lt. Col. Louis A. Normand, (1) depot director for supply and trans
portation, looks on. Fears, a native of Hampton, has been employed at the depot
for eight years where he is a packer foreman. He is affiliated with Berea Christian
Church and the Hampton Lions Club.
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Bond Issue
Only Question
On Skidaway
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — A
proposed bond issue to build a
road and bridge to Skidaway
Island should be the only ques
tion posed In a coming referen
dum. Chatham County Commis
sion Chairman "obert F. Lovett
said Wednesday.
The island has been chosen
as site of a state oceanographic
research center, and Lovett
made the recommendation at
the urging or the Chatham leg
islative delegation.
Lovett had studied the pros
pects of adding bond proposals
to finance county roads, drain
age projects and a new juvenile
detention center to the refer- t
endum.
“This road and bridge to
Skidaway Island is just too im
portant to our community and
we shouldn’t do anything that
might put the project in jeopar
dy,” Lovett said. Location of
the center is contingent on the
building of the road and bridge.
The referendum will be called
after costs have been esti
mated.