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E VENIN GOOD G
By Quimby Melton
“A thing of beauty is a Joy
forever,” so sang British po e t
John Keats. (1795-1821.)
That line from “Endymion”
came to mind as Good Evening
rode to work down streets lined
with dogwood in full bloom, with
azaleas “bursting out all over”;
with other flowering shrubs and
with the leaves beginning to
take form on the trees.
We left our usual route to the
office and took time to drive in
to many sections of our city;
and everywhere we went there
were flowers and trees to glor
ify the day. Griffin is a city
where thousands of people sp
end much time in keeping their
homes beautiful with flowers
and shrubs and trees. And not
only do the people do this but
the city itself, inspired by what
the people do on their own, is
decidedly flower and tree mind
ed, beautifying the streets and
the parks throughout Griffin.
And as we thought of “A thing
of beauty is a joy forever” rent
embered that Keats continues
“Its loveliness increases: it will
never pass into nothingness.”
Lucky a man who lives in a
city like Griffin where beauty
of growing things is present sea
son after season, year after
year.
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And when one thinks of the
beauty of our city in the spring
one immediately gives a lot of
the credit to the daffodils and
jona.uills, and buttercups and
other flowers that come to life
from bulbs and roots that have
slept through the cold of win
ter.
Good Evening’s favorite poem
about the flowers that bloom in
the spring is “April Rain” writ
ten by a Georgia poet, Robert
Loveman, who made his home
in Dalton.
It is not raining rain to me,
It’s raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hills.
The clouds of gray engulf the
day
And overwhelm the town,
It is not raining rain to me,
It’s raining roses down.
It is not raining rain to me,
But fields of clover bloom,
Where any buccaneering bee
May find a bed and room.
A health unto the happy!
A fig for him who frets!
It is not raining rain to me,
It’s raining violets.
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There probably are a lot of
our readers who do not fully ap
preciate what an asset the beau
ty of our homes and our streets
and highways are to the com
munity. The truly beautiful ap
pearance of Griffin has brought
many compliments of Griffm
tors and the “image”
is excellent.
Here’s a personal experience.
Back in the 30s when Good
Evening was on the National Ex
ecutive Committee of the Am
erican Legion and was attending
a meeting in Indianapolis head
quarters he met the committee
man from Pennsylvania, a
chap named Carroll. When we
told him we were from Griffin,
Ga. he quickly said “O I know
Griffin, my wife and I have dri
ven through there several times
on visits to Florida. It’s th e
town between Atlanta and Ma
con that has those beautiful
parks, with trees and shrubs in
the middle of its downtown st
reets.”
His impression of Griffin was
a good one. Joy
“A thing of beauty is a
forever” — Let’s keep Griffin
beautiful.
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“Many folks try for be
havior they can defend—in
stead of behavior that needs
no defense.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Burglars broke into the home of the Rev. Raymond Chambers in Sunny Side Tues
day night and stole three rifles and a shotgun from a gun case. Deputy Sheriff
Franklin Pitts looks at some of the ammunition left in the case. The door of the
case was removed. The Rev. Chambers is on a tour of the Holy Land with the
T. L. Lowery Evangelistic Team. His wife spent the night away from home and
found the guns missing when she came back this morning.
Redwine Says
Maddox Seeks
Folk Hero
ATLANTA (UPI) — Morgan
(Bucky) Redwine said Tuesday
night Gov. Lester Maddox re
fuses to give Negroes jobs in
government or make other
“reasonable concessions” to
them because it would "mess
up his folk hero image with tfte
rednecks.”
Redwine, who resigned under
fire Friday as Maddox’s execu
tive secretary, warned that
Maddox would have to face the
problem of hiring Negroes in
state government before sum
mer.
"The governor told me he’d
be letting a million people down
if he hired any Negroes,” Red
wine said in an interview with
Southeastern Newspapers.
Maddox said he was surpris
ed by Redwine’s comments.
“I just don’t understand it,”
the governor said. "I never
made statements like that to
anyone.”
Redwine warned that if Mad
dox cannot satisfy Negro mod
erates he will rim into trouble
with militant Negroes and or
ganizations such as the Student
Non-violent Coordinating Com
mittee.
Redwine said he had asked
Negro leaders to give the Mad
dox administration six months
to get settled but he has now
concluded Maddox won’t pla
cate moderate Negroes “be
cause he has the redneck ele-
Developed In Georgia
New Cotton Strain May Put
South Back Into Business
ATLANTA (UPI) A new
strain of cotton has been pro
duced in Georgia that promises
to restore the Southeast as the
cotton capital of the country.
“We feel as though this puts
us back in the business,” said
State Agriculture Commissioner
Phil Campbell in an interview.
The new cotton, called “Atlas
cotton,” was produced through
a joint state-federal program af
ter years of research that be
gan r* the Coastal Plains Ex
periment Station in Tifton.
“Atlas cotton” should be
ready for general distribution
early in 1968.
Work toward the new, strong
er strains was begun by J. H.
Turner, who headed the cotton
breeding program at the Tifton
station. After Turner left, his
work was completed by Julian
Jenkins who is now with the
USD A in Tifton.
Campbell explained that "At-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, March 29,1967
ment to satisfy.”
Maddox, said . Redwine, “is
concerned with furthering his
folk hero image with excur
sions, sorties into Southeast
Georgia.
“He shows an over - concern
for his own image,” Redwine
added. “The governor will grab
at things without seeking advice
and make rash decisions.”
Redwine said Maddox feels he
must have a hand in everything
concerning state government
and is reluctant to delegate au
thority.
Weather*
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair to partly cloudy
and warm tonight and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 75, minimum today
57, maximum Tuesday 67, mini
mum Tuesday 59, rainfall .67 of
an inch. Sunrise Thursday 6:32,
sunset Thursday 6:58.
LUCKY THIEF
AMARILLO, Tex. (UPI) —A
burglar tried to break into Tom
Roberson’s gun shop Tuesday
but set off an alarm and was
luckily captured by the police.
Roberson thought the arrest
was lucky too. It seems the
store owner heard the man
coming and was waiting for him
in the shop with a loaded 12
gauge shotgun.
strain being developed in South
Carolina, would enable the
Southeast to compete with Cali
fornia and Arizona cotton which
now has much stronger fiber
than the southern variety.
“Over the long run, with the
eradication of the boll weevel
and this new cotton, you could
find the Southeast producing
more cotton, more cheaply than
western cotton,” Campbell ex
plained.
He said even southern cotton
mills were importing the more
expensive California and Ari
zona varieties and paying expen
sive freight bills rather than
buying southern cotton. He said
southern cotton was being bought
and stored under the federal
price support program and was
piling up surpluses.
“Instead of going into storage
our cotton will be used,” Camp
bell said. “A we had
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The Rev. Jimmy Chambers, brother of the Rev.
Raymond Chambers, looks at a room that was ran
sacked by the burglars. The burglars went through
each room of the home and ransacked drawers. They
apparently entered by breaking the lock on the back
door.
Looks Like State
On Daylight Time
ATLANTA (UPI) — The de
cision Georgia asked its sister
the greatest surplus of cotton
ever known.”
C. C. Murray, Dean of the
School of Agriculture at the Uni
versity of Georgia, explained
the new strain was superior to
earlier varieties mainly because
of its fiber’s strength.
"It is a strong fiber cotton,
much above the cotton norm
ally grown, and this is of great
importance to the spinner,”
Murray said, explainiing the cot
ton also was produced in about
the same quantity for the same
amount of seed.
After the original experimenta
tion at Tifton, further work was
done at the experiment stations
in Athens and Griffin and the
first full crop was grown at
Midville, near Augusta. The cot
ton is being grown on seven
selected farms this year and
the seed from these farms will be
in general distribution in early
1968.
City Supports
Realtors On
Joint Board
The City Commissioners offer
ed their 100 percent support of a
proposed city-county planning
and zoning board, Tuesday ni
ght.
The proposal was made In a
resolution from Griffin real es
tate men. They sent the resolu
tion to the city and county com
missioners.
In other business the commis
sioners:
—Approved installation of a se
Leo street from East Solomon
to East SlaTon alley.
—Approved installation of ase
wer lateral main on West Solo
mon street from 18th to Melrose
avenue. Notices were sent to
property owners 30 days ago.
—Approved a request to pave
a block of East Wall Alley from
Second to Third street.
—Approved the purchase of
light and Water Department po
wer poles at a cost of $1,796.
—Entered into the city minu
tes the suspension of the beer li
cense of G.H. Meyer, 302 South
Third Streep, for the DBA Pack
age Store. He pled guilty in city
recorder’s court Monday after
noon to a charge of selling beer
to minors. The suspension is for
30 days from March 21.
DIRTY POLITICS
LONDON (UPI) —Laborite
Sir William Fiske, leader of the
London Council, stepped Into his
garden Tuesday to inspect the
newly laid Cement path.
in the fresh cement, someone
had written: “Vote Conserva
tive.”
states to make for it was made
Tuesday — Georgia will go on
Daylight Savings Time April 30.
The General Assembly, un
able to settle the matter, pass
ed a law providing that Georgia
would be exempt from DST on
ly if four of its five sister states
were.
Alabama, Tennessee and the
Carolinas now have decided to
join most of the rest of the na
tion in pushing their clocks up.
And the Florida Legislature
does not meet in time to take
action.
The Uniform Time Act gave
states until April 1 to exempt
themselves or go on DST.
The time change became a
virtual certainty in North Caro
lina Tuesday when a House com
mittee cancelled a scheduled
meeting. The committee had on
ly a time exemption bill before
it, the duplicate of a measure
postponed indefinitely last week
by a Senate committee.
The Tennessee Senate at the
same time defeated a bill to
exempt the state from the Fed
eral act.
The Alabama Legislature
killed a resolution to leave the
decision up to the voters and
the South Carolina House passed
a resolution commending DST.
Vol. 95 No. 74
British Planes
Hit Oil Tanker
With Napalm
Attack Turns
Ship Into
names Again
By EDWARD J. SHIELDS
United Press International
LAND’S END. England (UPI)
-Thirty-seven British war
planes hit the shattered wreck
of the giant tanker Torrey
Canyon today with tons of
bombs, napalm and rockets in a
bid to put her below the waves
and burn her remaining 40,000
tons of crude oil menacing
British resort beaches.
A similar assault Tuesday
sank the bow of the giant U.S.
built and chartered ship, one of
the world’s largest. But the
stem remained afloat after the
barrage of 42 half-ton bombs
and 5.Q00 gallons of volatile
aviation fuel.
Today the government or
dered in new waves of Jet
fighters in the fight against
what it calls one of Britain’s
worst peacetime crises.
The Hunter Jet fighters
started the attack at dawn by
splashing fiery napalm over the
oil remaining in the Torrey
Canyon’s hold.
The ship turned into flames
once more. Heavy seas had
doused fires touched off Tuesday
Four more waves of jet
fighters laden with destruction
followed the first assault. First
came two more Hunters with
rockets, then eight Navy
Buccaneer bombers with 32
half-ton bombs, four more
Hunters with napalm and finally
a wave of 20 Hunters which
dropped their wing tanks loaded
with high-octane fjiel.
The attack turned the ocean
into a boiling inferno around the
Torrey Canyon which had
already leaked 50,000 tons of
slimy crude oil onto the ocean.
‘Tipsy’ Charge
Against Lawyer
Is Investigated
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Charg
es by Atkinson County, Ga.,
school officials that a federal
lawyer was “tipsy” during a
meeting concerning civil rights
was under investigation today.
The U. S. Education Office
said the charge against U. S.
Atty. Lawrence Davis was lev
eled by Supt. Elite Davis of the
Atkinson County school system
and School Attorney Vickers
Neugent.
The school officials said they
found Davis tipsy in his office
when they went to him to dis
cuss a civil rights case against
the school system Monday.
Neugent and Supt. Davis
made the charge to Chester
Relyea, chief of the general
counsel office’s education divi
sion.
The Georgians said the attor
ney was tipsy and harped on
possible Ku Klux Klan activity
in Atkinson. Davis denied the
charge.
The school system was charg
ed with failure to comply with
federal guidelines and not
transferring sufficient numbers
of Negroes to white schools.
Holcombe
To Command
Patrol Here
A Rome State Patrol corporal
has been promoted to sergeant
and will command the Griffin
Post.
“Hamp” Holcombe has been
named to succeed Lt. W. E.
(Gene) Butter. Butler was pro
moted to lieutenant this week
and will be assistant troop com
mander for posts in Northeast
Georgia.
Holcombe will assume his dut
ies as commander here on Sat
urday.
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Bill Beck, Jr., (r) with Mayor Carl Pruett at city
hall after resignation was announced.
Beck Resigns As
City Attorney
W. H. (Bill) Beck, Jr., who
believes he has been city attor
ney longer than any other per
son resigned that post Tuesday
night.
He read a statement to the
city commissioners at the regu
lar meeting held in the office
of City Manager Jack Langford.
His resignation is effective
March 31.
All three commissioners, Ma
yor Carl Pruett, Vice Chairman
Kimsey Stewart and Commiss
ioner O. M. Snider, Jr., thank
ed Mr. Beck for his service and
devotion to the city.
City Manager Langford and
many of the department heads
attending the meeting express
ed their appreciation to Mr.
Beck for his help.
Mr. Beck became city attor
ney Jan. 15, 1955. He recalled
that Carl fruett was chairman
at the time.
He thanked the city commiss-
Her Son Not Dead
Death Notice
Terrible Mistake
By JOHN J. SANKO
United Press International
DENVER (UPI) —Mrs. Pearl
M. Patt, a mother of 12
children, thought for a week
that her son had been killed in
Vietnam. She had planned to
attend his funeral today.
But it was all a “terrible
mistake” by the U.S. Army and
today she sent him a birthday
card instead.
Pfc. Robert E. Brown Jr. will
celebrate his 20th birthday
Thursday in Vietnam.
The funeral will be held at
another time, another place for
the unknown soldier originally
identified as Brown and shipped
to Denver.
Mrs. Pratt, 35, dressed in a
pink bathrobe and nervously
puffing a cigarette, shuffled
through telegrams sent by the
Defense Department saying her
son had been kilted by “hostile
small arms fire” March 20 in
Vietnam.
She lived sadly with the news
for a week before the Army told
her the body shipped to Denver
was not her son.
"The most horrible thing
about this is that they still don’t
know who that boy was,” Mrs.
Pratt said.
She said she talked by
telephone Tuesday night with
ioners and City Manager Lang
ford “for the cordial relations”
that had existed between h i m
and them during his service.
“And so, after more than 13
years as city attorney for the
city of Griffin, I herewith ten
der to you, Mr. Mayor, and
you, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Sni
der, my resignation to take ef
fect March 31, 1967, thanking
you again for the confidence you
have placed in me. For the
time I have left, I wish to de
vote to my private practice and
to my family,” Mr. Beck’s state
ment concluded.
He told newsmen after th e
meeting that since the first of
this year he had been at his of
fice downtown only half a day
instead of a full day.
With tongue in cheek, he re
marked about his “semi-retire
ment,” saying “I have been try
ing to do a day’s work in a half
day.”
her son. The young soldier said,
“mother, there has been a
terrible mistake. Don’t worry,
I’m all right.”
“I had a birthday card ready
to send him,” Mrs. Pratt said,
“but I took it out of the
envelope after they told me he
was dead. He will get his
birthday card, but it won’t be
on time.”
Robert was to have been
buried today. His nine sisters,
two brothers, grandmother,
mother and stepfather planned
to attend.
But Army Maj. James Wells
of Denver came to the modest
two-story Pratt home at 3:30
a.m. Tuesday to reveal the
mistake.
“He just told me, ‘Mrs. Pratt,
we have made a mistake.' I
couldn’t understand what he
meant,” she said. “I didn’t
believe it (the death) in the
first place. I was happy after I
found out it wasn’t true.”
Mrs. Pratt said she didn’t
believe her son was kilted even
when she received the first
telegram from Washington.
"I told the officer when he
first came out with the news
that it wasn't true —that he
was making a mistake,” she
said. “He told me, ‘Mrs, Pratt,
we don’t make mistakes.”