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By Quimby Melton
Sunday was the birthday of
General William C. Westmore
land, commander of all Ame
rican forces in Vietnam. He was
born in our sister state South
Carolina.
Here is another Southern-born
General who is writing history
for our nation. He joins the
ranks of many other South
ern-born military leaders whose
names are enshrined in the
hearts of their countrymen.
In World War One General
John J. Pershing was in com
mand. He was born in Missouri.
During World War Two Gener
+ al Dwight D. Eisenhower, Tex
as-born, was in command in the
European theatre and General
Douglas MacArthur, Arkansas
born, in the Pacific.
Associated with General Per
shing in World War Two as
corps commanders were three
generals; one Charles Summer
all, was a native of Florida. Of
the other two — their names es
cape Good Evening’s memory
at this time — one was born in
Alabama and the other in Ohio.
When one thinks of General
Eisenhower and World War Two
several names come to mind.
One of these was Courtney Hod
ges, a native of Perry, Georgia,
and Oamar Bradley of Missou
ri, and of course Lucien D. Clay,
of Marietta, Ga.
When one thinks of General
MacArthur and the Pacific fight
ing, the names of Claire Lee
Chennault, bom in Texas, and
Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell,
native of Florida, come to mind.
And though one cannot claim
General George Marshall as a
native of Dixie —he was born
f in Pennsylvania — a biography
of him says he graduated from
the Virginia Military Institute.
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As Good Evening thought of
various Dixie-born military lea
ders, he recalled an Alabama
born general, a veteran of the
9 Confederate Army, who
was
active in fighting for Uncle Sam
In the Spanish-American War,
He was General “Little Joe”
# Wheeler, cavalryman, who led
Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Rid
ers” in the charge up San Juan
Hill.
» Incidentally, the City of Grif
fin owes a debt of gratitude to
"Little Joe”, for it was he, who
during the Battle for Atlanta, in
0 the Civil War, moved round the
flanks of the Federal Army and
took up a position in Griffin that
resulted in Sherman’s Army
f veering to the east of this city,
thus saving Griffin from the tor
ch with which the Federals bur
ned a path from Atlanta to t h e
ocean. There is a small granite
marker at the comer of S. Hill
and Wheeler Place where he pit
ched his tent during his stay
here.
Though Good Evening has ne
ver been able to verify this from
written history, he remembers
* well having heard that Sherman
Issued a “verbal order” that
said something like this, “In
your advance South avoid the
f army of General Joe Wheeler;
he is an able commander and
strategist, and can win more
battles, even with smaller for
ces than we are able to send ag
ainst him than any man in the
Confederacy army.”
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AREA — Tuesday mostly fair
and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 73, low today 56, high
Sunday 81, low Sunday 58, sun
rise Tuesday 6:35, sunset Tues
day 6:56.
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Giant railroad wrecker clearing wreckage north of Griffin.
Railmen Work To
Clear
Work crews moved in this
morning to begin clearing the
wreckage of 42 empty coal cars
that derailed three miles north
of Griffin Friday afternoon.
A spokesman for the railroad
said the crews most likely
would work first on the side of
the track where between 15 and
20 cars are blocking Georgia 3.
He said it is not known how
long the clean up operation wou
Obscenity Law
Constitutional
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
The State Supreme Court today
upheld the constitutionality of
Tennessee’s 1965 anti-obscenity
law and ruled correct a trial
judge’s decision prohibiting a
Memphis theater from showing
a controversial film.
The ruling was on a case
brought by the state against
Robert Arthur, Management
Corp., and involved the showing
of the movie, “Mondo Freduo,”
and an advertising trailer, "Ol
ga’s Girls.”
Shelby County Criminal Court
had found the movie and trailer
to be obscene under the 1965
act. The high court upheld the
lower court and said:
"We find the statute here in
qestion to be a valid statute
both under the constitution
of the state of Tennessee and
under the Constitution of the
United States; and we also find
this statute in the case at bar,
was not applied in an unconsti
tutional manner.”
Saigon Not
Believed In
Mortal Danger
SAIGON (UPI) —An official
U.S. military spokesman said
today there is nothing to
indicate that Saigon is in
"mortal danger” of being
shelled by Communist rockets.
Informed American and Viet
namese sources had said there
were intelligence reports of Viet
Cong Guerrillas constructing
rocket Emplacements around
the city and reports of
Communists bringing in 140mm
rockets.
But the spokesman said the
reports of emplacements being
built around the city had been
checked and proved false.
There has been some digging,
he said, "but It was for
agricultural purposes.”
March
Id take. He said the repair crews
came through Griffin on their
way to the scene early this mor
ning.
A wrecker (crane) was brou
ght to Griffin from Macon Fri
day night after the mishaps and
the Central of Georgia tracks
were cleared for train traffic.
The first train on the repaired
tracks passed through about
noon Saturday from Atlanta.
Rain might slow the clean-up
operation, the spokesman said.
He said the crane working in
the clean-up operation is side
tracking to permit train traffic
to pass. He said the crane wou
ld either side-track at Hampton,
Highland or come back into Gr
iffin.
He said the crew that came
through this morning brought
additional clearing equipment
with them.
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Glenn Cox (r) and Clint Roland were eye-witnesses
to the train wreck Friday afternoon. One of the de
railed cars stopped about 25 feet from where they
were working on a heavy equipment motor. Forty
two empty coal cars thundered off the tracks, block
ing Georgia 3 and a portion of Kilgore road. Rail
road crews worked through the night Friday to clear
the rails for Saturday train traffic.
Senators Ask For
Air War Step-Up
Panel Says
Restrictions
Too Costly
By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —A
prestigious Senate committee
today called for unleashing
American warplanes against
“more meaningful” targets in
North Vietnam. It said current
restrictions were too costly both
in loss of pilots and planes.
The second of a series of six
reports being issued by the
Senate preparedness subcom
mittee-one of the most know
ledgable military affairs com
mittee in Congress—was shar
ply critiical of “separate,
variable and restrictivie rules”
on conduct of the air war.
“The air raids over North
Vietnam have admittedly made
it more costly for the North
Vietnamese to wage aggression,
but it has been done through the
sacrifices of many
lives and aircraft losses extend
report said.
ing into billion of dollars,” the
At the same time, Sen. Stuart
Symington, D-Mo., a member of
the Senate Armed Services
Committee, said he favored
bombing four jet airfields in the
Hanoi area.
They have been off limits to
bombers—partly because of
concern that Red China might
enter the air war if North
V i e t n a m’s air force was
knocked out.
But Symington said some
American pilots told him on his
recent trip to the battle area
that Communist MIG pilots
have become more aggressive
and are much a greater threat
to bombers than pictured from
Washington.
Even as congress was in
Easter recess, the debate over
Vietnam policy continued to boil
during the weekend. Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
and Sen. Joseph Clark, D-Fa.,
got into a broadcast tiff with
Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., over
bombing.
Kennedy went along fully with
his brother, Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy, in calling for n
unilateral halt in bombing of the
North. Clark agreed with him.
Both urged an "open-end”
cessation of bombing to try
get Ho Chi Minh to the
table. They said if there
proof during a pause that the
Communists were
their feet about peace
building up their forces,
bombing could be resumed.
Scott insisted that this
unrealistic. “How much
fied strength accummulated
the enemy could we
before we then said—and
would very hard to say—we
stop the truce and we
bombing. What is the point?”
Tide Out 6 Miles
On French Coast
ST. MALO, France (UPI)
Hundreds of thousands
Frenchmen and curious
lined the Atlantic and
coasts of France today as
"tide of the century”
rolling back the sea for
miles to reveal treasures
the fish have seen.
From Dunkirk in the
east to Hendaye in the
south, fishermen,
scientists, treasure hunters
beachcombers watched
awe as the sea began its
retreat.
As the waters rolled back,
human sea began
across the sands and rocks,
hunting for possible treasures,
souvenirs and fish and shellfish.
Pickup 2nd pgh: President
Charles
TRIMMED
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—
Brian McCormick, a jeweler In
the mod-mad
section, needed some quick
cash.
He reluctantly cut his long,
wavy hair and applied for a
as a cab driver.
“You’re hired,” snapped
foreman. “But first get
haircut.”
Several of the cars that de
railed plunged down an embank
ment on the West side of Geor
gia 3 and damaged three trucks
owned by Glenn Cox, who wit
nessed the wreck.
Hundreds of Griffinites drove
by the wreck scene during the
weekend. The area was crowded
with spectators Friday after
noon.
Early Saturday railroad po
licemen roped off the area while
the wrecker was working.
No estimates of damage have
been made by the railroad.
Some of the cars were stacked
three high on the tracks. They
were two high on Georgia 3.
The spokesman said there was
only a minor delay in train frei
ght coming to Griffin. Trains
were re-routed through Jackson
to Macon Friday night while
the tracks were being cleared
and repaired.
Vol. 95 No. 72
One MIG Downed
Guerrillas Down
8 U.S. Copters
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —American
pilots destroyed their 38th
Communist MIG jet of the
North Vietnam air war in a
dogfight near Hanoi, but in
South Vietnam guerrilla gun
ners shot down eight U.S.
helicopters, military spokesmen
said today.
Eight MIGS intercepted Air
Force F105 Thunderchief and
F4C Phantoms striking for the
first time the sprawling Son
Tay army supply depot 23 miles
west of Hanoi, the spokesmen
said. An F105 downed one MIG
and the other Communist jets
iled. There was no reported
damage to U.S. planes.
In the Mekong Delta two
Americans were killed, 12
wounded and two listed as
missing as Viet Cong gunners
downed seven U.S. Army
helicopters whirling government
troops into a running battle in
which they killed 142 Commu
nists, spokesmen said. An
eighth U.S. helicopter, a medi
cal evacuation chopper from the
USS Princeton flying to aid
wounded Marines in the north
ern provinces, also was shot
down but with no injuries.
Heavy Northern Bombing
Over North Vietnam U.S. Air
Force and Navy pilots flew 98
missions Sunday, double the
number they flew during cloudy
Saturday. Communist gunners
shot down a Thunderchief just
north of the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) dividing South from
North Vietnam. The pilot was
quickly rescued, spokesmen
said.
White House Opens
Foe Easter Roll
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
White House threw open the
gates today to 3,000 little boys
and girls for the traditional
easter egg roll, which really
isn’t an egg roll at all.
Most of the children, who
milled about over the South
Lawn strewing paper and
smashing eggs and chewing
candy, wanted to get a look at
President Johnson, who wasn’t
home. One little boy, asked who
lived in the big house,
responded: “Peter Cottontail.”
This is a bash for the kids
that is held every year on the
Monday following Easter —
apparently just because nobody
ever decided to stop having it,
except for a time mostly during
the war years. It consists of
band music and candy
drinks for the kiddies —and a
nightmare for the White House
groundskeepers.
The White House doesn’t
furnish the eggs but this word
never quite gets around and
today, as before, there were
inevitably some youngsters who
came empty handed and
Traffic Down
After‘Rush r
Griffin traffic officers were
taking a breather today after
the heavy Easter weekend.
Officers operated traffic lights
In the downtown area Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. They
were stationed there to keep the
heavy onslaught of weekend tra
velers moving.
Traffic on Griffin’s North Ex
pressway was nearly solid in
both lanes Sunday afternoon as
Easter travelers began their
journeys home.
Today the traffic was about
Farther north, over Hanoi’s
air defense area, eight aging
MIG17’s, said to have been
supplied by Communist China,
battled Americans attacking
Son Tay for the first time.
The dogfight lasted a few
minutes and one of the MIGs
was shot down. The Phantoms
and Thunderchiefs then poured
their rockets and bombs on Son
Tay, destroying three large
warehouses and leaving a fourth
in flames.
Hit Transportation Targe*s
US pilots also hit a similar
depot near Dien Bien Phu, site
of France’s 1954 Indochina
military disaster, and supply
and transport targets up and
down the panhandle above the
DMZ.
Just across the DMZ, where
the USS Princeton’s helicopter
went clown, US Air Force B52
Stratofortresses struck Commu
nist positions Sunday night.
Today the heavy bombers
struck farther south, near the
coastal city of Qui Nhon to
support the army’s Operation
Pershing and, aiding Operaton
Junction City, near the Cambo
dian border. Spokesmen report
ed vicious fighting continuing in
the DMZ area between Marines
and North Vietnamese.
Less than a mile from the
DMZ a company of the 4th
Marinies came under fire
Saturday from Communists in
bunkers and trenches. The
Leathernecks charged and a
battle continued all night.
At dawn Sunday the Marines
counted 22 Communist corpses.
The Marines suffered five men
killed and 18 wounded.
required some comforting.
But eggs were the least of the
attractions. Back in the last
century, when the egg roll was
really an egg roll and consisted
of some kind of game of rolling
eggs down the hills of the
Capitol gronds, it got its
name.
But when it was transferred
to the White House, the egg
rolling was dispensed with. One
reason the event was switched
to the White House was that it
created such a mess on the
Capitol grounds that lawmakers
objected.
So today the big attractions
were the Navy band blaring
martial music, the special little
tents set up to dispense an
eggnog of sorts (which drew
mixed reactions at best from
the kids) and the confectionery
goodies that were passed out.
Johnson and his family
decided to avoid the whole
mess. The President, Lady Bird
and daughter Lynda spent
Easter Sunday at Camp David,
Md., and were timing their
return after the egg whingding
was over at midaftemoon.
normal In the downtown area.
It had thinned considerably on
the Expressway.
Officers said traffic was heavy
throughout the area all of last
week as college students made
their annual journey to Florida’s
beaches for the Easter holidays.
Only two accidents were re
ported Sunday by the Griffin
State Patrol and none were re
ported by Griffin police. “We
can con.slderourselves lucky that
we didn’t have more accidents.”
Griffin Man
Dies In Wreck;
Another Injured
A Griffin was was killed and
another was injured in an auto
mobile accident near Eatonton
Saturday.
Kirby Marion Goen, 53, of
177 F. Westmoreland drive died
in the accident, Jamerson (Hap)
Foster, veteran Griffin police
man, suffered suffered injuries.
Officer Foster was the driver
of the car.
Mr. Foster attempted to dodge
a car that had pulled out of a
traffic lane, investigators said.
When he did, his auto skidded
and overturned.
He suffered a broken collar
bone and other injuries and wa3
in fair condition at the Griffin
Spalding Hospital today.
Mr. Foster was taking Mr.
Goen to visit a relative in a
hospital.
Mr. Goen was born in Butts
County, but had lived in Griffin
most of his life. He was a vet
eran of World War Two and
was a member of the Church of
God on Palace street. Mr. Goen
was employed by the Spray
berry Enterprises Corporation
of Griffin.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Cook Goen; one dau
ghter, Mrs. Linda Thompson;
one son, Charles Mike Goen;
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kir
by S. Goen; two sisters, Mrs.
Martha Jane Gill, Mrs. John
Pickering, all of Griffin; three
brothers, William Goen, Joe
Goen, both of Griffin, Woodrow
Goen of Pittsburg, Pa.; and se
veral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conduc
ted this afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the Church of God on Pa
lace street with the Rev. Wal
ter A. Langdon, the Rev. C. B.
Dunson and the Rev. Wilson Ni
da officiating. Burial was in Oak
Hill cemetery. McDonald Cha
pel was in charge of plans.
Supreme Court
Orders More
Rail Hearings
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Supreme Court today put
another roadblock in the way of
a merger by the New York
Central and Pennsylvania rail
roads by ordering further
hearings.
In an opinion by Justice Tom
C. Clark, the court held that the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion (ICC) “erred in approving
the immediate consummation of
the merger without determining
the ultimate fate of the
protected roads.”
These are the Erie-Lackawan
na, the Delaware & Hudson and
the Boston & Maine.
The complex case was re
turned to federal district court
in New York with instructions
to relay it to the ICC for further
proceedings.
Clark emphasized that the
court was not ruling on the
validity of the merger or other
related legal points at this time.
one traffic officer said.
Peggy Phillips, 19, of Atlanta,
suffered a neck injury in an ac
cident 9.3 miles north of Forsy
th on U. S. 23 and Georgia 42.
Three cars were involved in
the chain-reaction mishaps.
No one was injured in the oth
er accident. Damage in the two
accidents was estimated at $1,
000 .
A rash of traffic accidents
were investigated by the State
Patrol Friday and Saturday.