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E VENIN GOOD G
* By Quimby Melton
> “Holy Week” began Sunday—
the anniversary of the Trump
hant Entry of Jesus into Jerusa
lem; the anniversary of the
day when the multitudes welco
» med Him, singing Hosannas and
shouted “Blessed is the king who
cometh in the name of the Lord."
2,000 years ago, Jesus sat with
His disciples in the Last Supper,
was betrayed, was arrested and
taken before Pilate, then Herod,
and back to Pilate, to be mis
e treated, falsely accused and
though neither Pilate nor He
rod found any fault with the
prisoner, was condemned to die
on the cross in response to the
demands of those who packed
the courtrooms. Then followed
the execution on the cross, and
burial and finally, Thank God,
the Resurrection on that Easter
Sunday.
Observance of Easter actually
starts 40 days before Easter Sun
day when Lent begins and runs
until Whitsiinday, on Penta
cost, seven weeks after Easter
Sunday.
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This layman knows no better
way to start his column this Holy
Week than to again reproduce
“There Is No Unbelief” written
by Elizabeth York Case (1840-
1911).
There is no unbelief;
Whoever plants a seed beneath
the sod
And waits to see it push away
the clod,
He trusts In God,
Whoever says when clouds are
in the sky,
“Be patient, heart; light break
eth by and by,”
Trusts the Most High,
Whoever sees ’neath winter’s
field of snow,
The silent harvest of the future
grow,
God’s power must know.
Whoever lies down on his couch
to sleep,
Content to lock each sense in
slumber deep,
Knows God will keep.
Whoever says “Tomorrow,”
“The unknown,”
“The future,” trusts that Power
alone
He dares disown.
The heart that looks on when
the eye-lids
close,
And dares to live when life has
only woes,
God’s comfort knows.
There is no unbelief;
For thus by day and night un
consciously
The heart lives by the faith the
lips deny.
God knoweth whyl
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Weekend notes:
Griffin is proud of another na
tive son “who has made good”—
he is Dr. Alton A. Ellis, who
has been elected president-elect
of the Georgia Education Asso
ciation and will serve during the
1968-69 school year. (The fact
that Dr. Ellis once delivered pa
pers for the Griffin Daily
makes his many well earned ho-'
nors all the more pleasing to
Good Evening.)
All Griffin was saddened by
the tragic accident that resulted
in the death of a three-year-old
boy, Boyce D. Sims, Jr., who
Sunday picked up a gun he thou
ght was a toy and shot himself.
The community “rang with
music” over the weekend. A
world famous high school band,
stopped in Griffin Saturday ni
ght and gave a concert. The
band was from Canton , Ill. It
stopped here to salute a former
member of the band, Jeff Wri
ght, son of the pastor of t h e
Christian Church here. Wright
was guest soloist for the concert.
Then Sunday afternoon 16
male choruses from various
churches in this area gathered
at Rising Star Baptist Church
and gave a concert.
And Sunday night the West
Georgia College (Carrollton)
Concert Choir, sang at the Fir
st Baptist Church.
These and special Easter pro
grams furnished by the choirs
of many local churches, made
the weekend one of sweet har
mony. The Easter season is
certainly a time of music, for
it was on the first Easter that
the Heavenly Choirs sang pro
claiming the Resurrection of Our
Savior.
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Dr. Earl F. Savage checks peach bud in orchard here.
Cold Snap Said Good
For
Cold weather has done a job
for peach farmers in Middle Ge
orgia that would have cost them
$1 per hour if it had been done
by hand.
Dr. Earl J. Savage of the
Georgia Experiment Station
said the cold weather had thin
ned the blooms on the trees. If
more peaches are produced on a
tree than it can take care of,
they are pulled off by hand, he
said.
Ten percent of the blooms are
considered enough to produce a
crop of peaches. Most of the
varieties checked in Spalding
County have more than 10 per
cent of their fruit still alive.
Dr. Savage saw, however,
another dip into the 20’s could
Exchange To Honor
Man Of Year Ramsey
William T. “Bill” Ramsey
be recognized as Griffin Man
the Year for 1966 at the
meeting of the Exchange Club
Griffin Tuesday. Ramsey
several years has been
tary-treasurer of the
Peace Officers Annuity and
nefit Fund, with offices in
fin, a position he has
to accept the post as manager
the Gflffin Federal Savings
Loan Association.
Ramsey is the 13th man to
chosen Griffin Man of the Year.
At the meeting Tuesday he will
be presented the National
change “Book of Golden Deeds”
and the Golden Deeds statuet
te. Many prominent state offic
ials have been invited to attend
the meeting.
All living former Men of the
Year, their wives, and the wi
dows of two Men of the Year will
be spefcial guests.
Ray Barron, president of t h e
Griffin Exchange Club, will pre
side and Dr. Deima Hagood,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church, of which Ramsey
has been a long time member
and official leader, will give the
invocation.
Mayor Carl Pruett and County
Woman, Infant
A 10-month-old infant and a 19
year-old woman were killed Sat
urday afternoon when the car
they were riding in wrecked on
the Birdie road, 5.8 miles north
of Griffin. ■¥
Kill»d were Jerry Wayne
Jr., 10-month-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Wayne Hall, Sr.,
of Route One, Griffin, and Karen
Elizabeth Banks, 19, of 4250 Oak
College Park, driver of
cut deeply Into the percentage
of living buds.
Some of the varities check
ed by Dr. Savage arter Sunday
morning’s freeze and their liv
ing percentages are: Cardinal,
57 percent; Keystone, 17 percent;
Elberta, 40 percent; Coronet, 18
percent; Dixired, 57 percent.
Dr. Savage was to make spot
checks in counties surrounding
Spalding today to determine da
mage. He said reports from Fort
Valley are about the same as for
the Griffin area.
He said most of the crop In
North and South Carolina have
been wiped out. Wire services
report that 75 percent of the
crop has been wiped out in the
high-producing Spartanburg, s.
Commission Chairman Jack
Moss will present special
mations making Tuesday “Bill
Ramsey Day.” Quimby Melton,
Sr., Griffin’s first Man of the
Year, 1954, will have charge of
the program, after President
Barron has welcomed the gu
ests. Elmer George, former Grif
fin City Manager, and secretary
of the Georgia Municipal Asso
ciation, will review Ramsey’s ci
vic record and present him
“The Book of Golden Deeds.”
Bob Scroggins, vice-president of
Exchange and chairman of the
Man of the Year committee, will
present the Golden Deeds sta
tuette.
The meeting will conclude with
the response by The Man of the
Year.
Former Men of the year are:
Quimby Melton, Sr., 1954; the
late Dr. Kenneth S. Hunt, 1955;
Prof. J. R. Berry, 1956: the late
Rev. L. W. Blackwelder, 1957;
Quimby Melton, Jr., 1958; Ro
bert P. Shapard, Jr., 1959; J.
M. Cheatham, 1960; C. T. Par
ker, 1961; Arthur K. Bolton, 1962;
George W. Patrick, Jr., 1963;
J. C. Owen, Jr., 1964; and
Warren Haisten, 1965.
the car.
Jerry Wayne Hall, Sr., a
senger in the car, told
Trooper J. B. Tuggle that
infant grabbed at the
wheel, causing the driver to
control. The car ran off the
side of the road and
broads!’ across the road
into a bank.
The infant was thrown
the vehicle, the state patrol
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, March 20,1967
C. area.
Dr. Savage said damage to the
crop came during the freezes of
Saturday and Sunday. Trees
were not affected by a dip to the
low 40’s this morning.
Producers in North and South
Carolina reported most of their
crops had been destroyed. They
said they would not have pea
ches for shipment this year.
The loss in South Carolina was
placed at $15 million. Damage
has not been assessed in Geor
gia and North Carolina.
Dr. Savage went into orchards
this morning and made fur
ther checks of the damage to
peaches here. He said, “I think
we are all right In this area.”
Showers May
Greet Spring
Here Tuesday
Spring will officially arrive in
Griffin Tuesday morning at 2:37,
according to Griffin Weather Ob
server Horace Westbrooks.
The forecast for Tuesday calls
for a high of 70 and a low to
night of about 50.
It also calls for spring show
ers, possibly starting tonight and
continuing into Tuesday. The
possibility of rain for Tuesday,
according to forecasters, is 60
percent.
Food Store
Here Robbed
At Gunpoint
Griffin Police today were seek
ing a man who robbed Thrifty
Food Store, 122 Spalding street,
Sunday night at gunpoint.
Officers who were reluctant to
give information on the robbery
said a man wearing a stocking
over his head entered the store
and robbed operator Roger Flet
cher at gunpoint.
The amount of money taken
had not been determined this
morning.
port said.
Trooper Tuggle said both of
the victims suffered massive
head injuries. Damage to the
car s estimated at $2,500.
The two fatalities Saturday
raised the toll for the five CO
unty area to cl7 for the year as
compared with six for the same
period last year. Injuries this
year are running the same as
last year at 78.
Ky Presses For
Escalating War
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Johnson Sees
Many Signs Of
Turning Point
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
NIMITZ HILL, Guam (TJPI)
—President Johnson today held
daylong conferences with South
Vietnamese leaders who pressed
for escalating the war against
the Communists. Aides said
Johnson avoided that topic and
stuck to his plan of discussing
chances of an “honorable
settlement” of the Southeast
Asian conflict.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
said South Vietnamese Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky raised a
number of military questions in
the second of the lunch,
afternoon and evening sessions.
Rusk said the questions were
not answered and the meeting
stuck to Johnson’s course of
reviewing pacification programs
and efforts to set peace
negotiations in motion.
Johnson e m p ha s i z e d the
peaceful purposes of the Guam
meeting and the allies ended
convinced *be war has reachei
a turning point favorable to
them.
Ky Pushec Ecca’ation
But Ky raised his questions
on escalation on the theory the
North Vietnamese must be hit
much harder before their
Communist leaders will be
willing to talk peace.
Ky clearly wanted heavier
blows against Hanoi to convince
his enemies the Communist
cause is hopeless.
“Only then will Hanoi be
ready to negotiate,” he said.
Rusk, Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara and Gen.
William C. Westmoreland, com
mander of U.S. forces in
Vietnam, agreed that matters
on tactices and specific future
military moves such as increas
ing armed manpower did not
figure in today’s discussions.
Ky and other Saigon leaders
were scheduled to return home
Tuesday morning. Johnson
planned to continue his talks
U.S. officials during part
of Tuesday, leaving Guam late
the day.
Meanwhile, Johnson an
Henry Cabot Lodge,
U.S. envoy to Saigon,
agreed to remain in
service as ambassa
dor at large.
Speaking at the ’art of the
afternoon meeting, Johnson
said. “There are many signs we
are at a favorable turning
point.”
Looking at Ky and his fellow
Vietnamese leaders, the Pres
ident continued:
“Your fighting men, aided by
your allies, now hold the
initiative and are striking heavy
blows against...the Viet Cong
and their North Vietnamese
masters. And in the villages,
the medicine of the revolutiona
ry development program is
beginning to take effect.
Viet Cong are turning
against that program’s
I think that is a
solid tribute to its
Ky’s official text of remarks
the afternoon meeting was
public long before John
official text. This had the
of spotlighting Ky’s
militant posture, much
the discomfort of U.S.
who insisted the
conference was not a
planning session.
Later, Rusk, McNamara and
talked with news
Rusk saw no chknge
in Washington’s thus
fruitless effort to get Hanoi
the peace table. Westmore
firmly rep»ated that
more American troops
Vietnam did not come up for
All the U.S. spokesmen said
felt recently increased Viet
assaults on reconstructed
in South Vietnam proved
the allied pacification
effective. was becoming increa- j
Boy, 3, Shoots
Three-year-old Boyce D. Sims,
Jr., accidently shot himself to
death Sunday afternoon in the
family automobile being driven
by his mother. Her mother-in
law and one of the youngster’s
four sisters were in the auto al
so.
Police said the victim appar
ently found a .38 pistol on the
floor of the back seat. The wea
pon apparently had slipped to
the floor from behind the back
seat.
The youngster apparently thou
ght it was a toy pistol, police
said. They said it was fully load
ed and one of the bullets struck
the boy in the head.
Mrs. Sims was headed into
Griffin Sunday afternoon and
stopped for a traffic light on Ge
orgia Highway 3 at Riegel’s Cur
ve. The accident apparently
happened shortly after she
passed under the traffic light,
police said.
Griffin Police who had been
sent to the scene thought they
were going to investigate an au
to accident. But when they ar
rived they found the tragedy.
They rushed the little boy to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Boyce D. Sims of 108 Mag
nolia (irive, Griffin.
Mrs. Sims was before her mar
riage Miss Edna Geraldine Ste
phens, daughter of Mr. L. E.
Stephens and the late Mrs.
Outnumbered
US Troops
Smash
By EUGENE V. RISIIER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. 9th
Infantry Division troops out
numbered 25 to I today
smashed an attack by a Viet
Cong regiment that drove to
within 15 yards of the American
positions. The six hour battle
cost the Communist 224 dead;
the Americans lost 5 dead and 34
wounded.
The Communist attack barely
30 miles north of Saigon was
one of the five major assaults
launched by the Viet Cong to
coincide with President Johns
son’s Guam conference. It was
the heaviest fighting in many
weeks and the cost to both sides'
was high.
The air war increased in
intensity and American planes
bombed the big Thai Nguyen
steel plant 36 miles north of
Hanoi for the second time in
two days, then returned and
attacked the Viet Tri thermal
power plant 29 miles northwest
of Hanoi.
An American spokesman re
ported three more planes were
shot down during the past three
days with a loss of one pilot
killed and three men missing.
The Communists also destroyed
or ■ damaged 16 helicopters
transporting troops to positions
near the Cambodian border.
The three planes shot down
brought to 653 the number of
U.S. planes reported lost during
the war—489 over North Viet
nam and 164 over the South.
Their total value is estimated
between $1.3 billion and $1.9
billion.
Lt. Gen. Jonathan O. Seaman
said American troops fighting
along the Cambodian border in
Operation Junction City battled
their way into the edges of the
Communist supreme headquar
ters in South Vietnam. He
called it the “Pentagon” of the
Red war effort—complete with
printing presses, radio stations
and recording studio.
A force of Viet Cong
estimated at 2,500 men attacked
a 100-man unit of the 9th
infantry Division on a road
clearing operation 30 miles
north of Saigon. The Americans,
from armored vehicles
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Recent snapshots of Boyce
Sims, Jr.
Stephens.
In addition to his parents, sur
vivors include the paternal gr
andmother, Mrs. W. B. Sims of
Griffin, four sisters, Sherry Ann
Sims, Mary Beth Sims, Donna
Denneen Sims and Lisa Boyce
Sims, all of Griffin.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock from Haisten Funeral
Home. The Rev. Alastair Walk
er will officiate and burial will
be in Oak Hill cemetery.
tactics remindful of wagon train
circles of the Old West, fought
off repeated charges until the
Communists broke off the
action.
Using their 50-caliber ma
chinegun-equipped armored ve
hicles like a wagon train circle
in the wild West, the Americans
battled for six hours against the
Communists, who vainly fought
for a propaganda victory to
coincide with President John
son’s Guam conference. Ameri
can air and artillery fire finally
drove off the Communists.
The combat 30 miles north of
Saigon climaxed fighting
stretching from the Demilita
rized Zone (DMZ), dividing
South from North Vietnam, to
the Mekong Delta. U.S. spokes;
men said a total of 32ft
Communists was killed.
American losses totaled 29
killed and about 130 wounded,
spokesmen said, in the fighting
Sunday and today.
The battling erupted near the
Cambodian border where guer
rillas planted artillery shells as
booby traps in a landing zone
and destroyed three U.S. Army
helicopters and damaged 13
others whirling in assault
troops.
It mushroomed in the Central
Highland’s coastal region where
more than a battalion of crack
U.S. Army 1st Air Cavalry
Division troops battled more
Communists- It grew just below
the DMZ where North Vietna
mese invaders laid down heavy
mortar barrages against Ma
rines guarding the northern
frontier.
In North Vietnam U.S. jets
walloped key industrial targets.
But it hit a peak at dawn today
when the bloodied guerrilla
regiment slunk away from the
battered but unbowed U.S.
troops who with air and
artillery help stood off the
horde through a long night of
death.
North of Saigon, an armored
squadron of U.S. Army 9th
Infantry Division troops were
surrounded as they made camp
for the night. The Viet Cong
regiment swirled aiound the
Americans and unleashed a
withering cross-fire of machine
guns and small arms spiced
mortar rounds.
Milk Trucks
Go To Market
Under Guard
By United Press International
Milk trucks moved to market
today in armed convoys for
protection against violence from
sympathizers of the National
Farmers Organization’s 25-state
effort to force the price of milk
up.
Oren Lee Staley, president of
the NFO, expressed confidence
that his group’s militant efforts
would pay off in shortages and
higher prices this week.
Dump Milk
NFO members and sympath
izers, trying to get a two cent I
boost in the price per quart of
milk paid dairy farmers,
continued to dump their milk, feed J
use it for fertilizer or hog
or tried to store it. In soma
areas they sought to curtail
existing supplies by buying up
all the milk displayed in I
groceries and destroying it.
In at least one area, retail
prices went up. Stores in
Omaha, Neb., reportedly raised
milk prices as much as four
cents a half gallon. However, L.
K. Muller, vice president of the
Alameto Dairies in Omaha, said
the fanners were not getting J
any more money and the price
increases were not connected
with the NFO campaign.
Claims Supplies Down
Staley said the holding action
is “riding high” at present and
milk eupplies “in most areas”
are "off 30-50 per cent.” He
said he had no idea how many I
farmers actually are participat
ing.
“All the heavy dairy areas
are doing a good job of
withholding,” he said.
The nation’s dairy state,
Wisconsin, was apparently har
dest hit by violence. The milk
house of Howard Stem, an NFO
member at Ixonia, Wis., was
dynamited. Extensive damage
was reported. At least 22
arrests were made, most of
them at Darlington where NOF
members tried to blockade a
bulk tank truck.
Dairy industry groups said
the market holding action was
curtailing supplies as much as
15 per cent but insisted normal
surpluses in spring production
would make up the loss and
there would be no milk
shortage.
Weather;
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Considerable cloudi
ness and warmer tonight and
Tuesday. Scattered showers Tue
sday, possibly beginning late
tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
40, maximum Sunday 58, mini
mum Sunday 30. Sunrise Tues
day 6:44 a.m., sunset Tuesday
6:51 p.m.
INCONVENIENCE
ST. GILES, England (UPI)—
George Clark will ride the bus
to work for the next few weeks.
Two robins built a nest under
his motorcycle seat.
“I must give them a chance
to lay their eggs,” he said.
“Spring will be over shortly
anyway, and they’ll all leave.”
Country Parson
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“A happy pauper probably
could be just as happy as a
rich man.”