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E VENIN GOOD G
By Quimby Melton
Good Evening has just seen a
copy of The Georgia Journal,
for June 14, 1825. The Journal
was published in Milledgeville,
which at that time was capital
of Georgia. This copy is owned
* by Charlie L. White, who for
many years was ticket agent
at the old union depot, which is
now being torn down.
Despite its age the paper is in
good condition and contains
many interesting items.
The first thing that hit our
eyes was a two column adver
tisement on page one of Indian
Mineral Springs. Joel Baley an
nounces he has remodelled and
. enlarged his hotel. Improve
ments include a new dining room
where “the best food the county
affords will be served.” Dinner
is 50 cents and breakfast and
* supper 27.5 cents. And the Bar
“has the best liquor, wine and
beer.”
“The stables provide the best
*■ forage and an attentive osier.”
Those who wish to room in the
hotel were charged $1.25 a day
for the first day and then $1.00
* a day. This includes meals. And
for those who cannot be acco
mmodated in the hotel the man
agement has “tents that can be
* rented for from 12.5 cents to 25
cents a day.”
Then manager Baley tells of
the remarkable benefits from
t drinking and bathing in the mi
neral waters of the spring. “Re
markable cures have been noted
of breast and liver complaints.”
And as a special inducement
* he notes “bathing and washing
one’s face in the waters freck
les have disappeared.”
There is also a smaller ad of
v “Public Baths” in Milledgeville,
“well kept and clean” where
one may bath for 25 cents, or if
one wishes can get a season tic
ket for $5.00.
— * —
According to this paper Ge
orgia 142 years ago was having
• a problem financing its schools.
There are notices of lotteries,
authorized by the legislature for
Jasper Academy in Monticello,
and Salem Academy in Clarke
County.
There is a notice of a meet
ing of the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia Masons, to be held in Sav
* annah. It is signed by Louis H.
Furth, grand secretary.
There are the usual legals ads
calling for debtors to pay up
• estates etc. Also there are re
wards offered for the capture of
escaped slaves.
There is a notice calling for
• bids for a “wooden jail” to be
erected in Thomaston. This is
signed by John Bransford, John
Turner, Samuel Black and Eli
„ F. Walker, justices of the infer
ior court of Upson.
There are several notices sig
ned by Governor George M. Tr
oup, including one offering a
$250 reward for the capture of
a man, accused of murder, who
“with the aid of friends escap
ed from the jail at Jacksonboro.
The city of Monticello announ
ces that the city was free of sm
all pox and there had been none
in three weeks. It says steps
* have been taken to prevent its
reoccurance — clothing of the
last victim having been burned.
— •). —
• The Record also lists acts
passed by the Legislature whi
ch had just adjourned. Among
these were:
Acts changing the names of
several men;
Authorizing the justices of in
ferior courts in counties to in
certain cases draw for and dis
' pose of the dividends of the poor
schools to which their counties
might be entitled.
To exempt persons who are
• ferrymen from military duty.
To authorize the city council
of Augusta to make a loan.
To authorize the commission-
4 ers of Glenn County to establish
a public landing on a bluff at
Henry Gall creek.
To incorporate the city of Tho
, maston and declare it the per
manent seat of justice for Up
son County;
And to adopt a budget for the
year. the is taken
Much of paper up
with reports of investigations
of the murder of General McIn
tosh and steps taken to assure
• the Creek Indians that peace
and harmony will be restored.
, Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
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minimum Wednesday 57. Sunrise
* Friday 8:31 a.m., sunset Friday
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Woman Injured Here
A small foreign made car (right) struck an 83-year-old St. Paul, Minn., woman and
smashed into the glass front of a pharmacy in the East Solomon street shopping
center Wednesday afternoon. Injured was Mrs. Blanche L. Johnson who suffered
a broken leg and other injuries. She was in fair condition at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital today. The auto at right was driven by Mary Jane Elder of 310 Searcy
avenue and another car involved was driven by James Adams of 729 East Solo
mon street. Damage to the pharmacy front which was smashed was estimated at
$1,200. Auto damage was estimated at $430.
Vets Memorial Park
Proposed For City
Plans for creating a Veteran’s
Memorial Park in the triangle
formed between Memorial Drive
and East Taylor streets, were
unveiled Wednesday at the an
nual meeting of the Griffin Fe
deration of Garden Clubs by the
club’s civic committee.
The Memorial Park would be
come the permanent location of
three memorial monuments now
in uptown Griffin and any sub
sequent monuments.
Monuments that would be mo
ved from their present locations
on Hill street are The Confede
rate Monument, the Doughboy
(First World War) Monument;
and the World War Two Memor-
Call Girl Held
In Hoff a Case
By BEX SANDERS
United Press International
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
(UPI) —A call girl who filed an
affidavit in support of a new
trial for jailed Teamsters Union
leader James R. Hoffa was
arrested today for giving a false
statement.
Mrs. Patricia Ann Clark was
taken into custody by U.S.
marshals following her Indict
Hawes Says
Shakeup Only
‘Card Shuffle’
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Revenue Commissioner Peyton
Hawes said today a rumored
“shakeup” in his department
was simply a few personnel
changes.
“I am just moving a few peo
ple around,” Hawes said. “We
are just reshuffling the cards.
There is nothing drastic about
it.”
Gov. Lester Maddox had con
firmed at a Wednesday news
conference that some changes
were to take place in the
department.
This left the impression the
changes would be major.
Maddox said, however, they
would not be of the magnitude
of the changes in the Depart
ment of Industry and Trade.
Hawes said he was going to
call tn the persons involved for
a conference and solicit their
opinions on his reshuffle plan.
"We are Just correcting some
things that are not up to snuff,”
Hawes ssld.
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GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, March 30, 1967 Vol. 95 No 75
ial.
The civic committee is head
ed by Mrs. C. Robert Walker
who introduced City Manager
Jack Langford and landscape
artist Newton Bell to explain the
plans and then display a draw
ing by Bell of the park as it
would look when completed. The
Memorial Park will be just west
of stonewall Jackson Confede
rate cemetery.
City Manager Langford, in tell
ing of the plans, said not only
would the park provide a per
manent and appropriate place
for all war monuments but wou
ld by moving them make for
better traffic control on Hill
and Solomon streets.
He explained that it might be
necessary to round off the cor
ners of some of the parkways in
the middle of the street but prac
tically pledged “as long as I am
city manager and as long as
people like you back me up,
those parkways will not be des
troyed.”
Langford gave Mrs. Walker
credit for the idea and said the
city, if the people approved the
plan, would assume all the res
ponsibility for the work neces
sary to make Memorial Park a
fact.
Smalley Named
City Attorney
State Senator Bob Smalley of
Griffin has been appointed city
attorney. He will succeed W. H.
(Bill) Beck, Jr., who resigned
effective March 31.
Smalley will assume the of
fice April 1.
The appointment was announ
ced today by Mayor Carl Pruett.
He said the city commissioners
approved the Smalley appoint
ment unanimously.
In a letter to Smalley, Pruett
said, “We regretfully accepted
Mr. Beck’s resignation, but we
look forward to many happy re
lations with you. You have been
most helpful to us in the past
and we know that your knowled
ge of law and government will
be most helpful to our city in
the future.”
INSIDE
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
Funerals. Page 2.
About Town, Page 2.
Bolton Talks. Page 2.
Smith Talks. Page 2
Military. Page 3.
College News. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Finding The Way. Page 5.
Sports. Pages 6, 7.
Book Review. Page 8.
Social Security, Page 8.
judge In Skirts. Page 9.
Self Help. Page 9.
Ray Cromley. Page 10.
Integration. Page 10.
Horse Jump. Page 12.
Exemptions, Page 12.
Society. Page 13.
Maddox In '68. Page 15
Casualties. Page 15.
GHS Campaign. Page 18.
School News. Page 16.
Comics, Page 17.
Want Ads. Page* 18, 19.
Garden Club*. Page 20.
ment by a special federal grand
jury.
Hoffa’s request for a new
trial was based on the charges
the . judge and jury in his jury
tampering trial were biased.
His motion said the federal
government procured liquor and
prostitutes for seven male
Jurors to influence them and
bring about his conviction.
In her affidavit in support of
Hoffa’s charges, Mrs. Clark
said she had “sexual inter
course with some of the Jurors
only on one occasion and with
other jurors she had intercourse
on several occasions.”
She said each act of
intercourse took place on the
10th floor of the Read House
Hotel, where the Jury was
housed. She was “paid the sum
of $20 for each act.”
She also said she attended
two cocktail parties on the 10th
floor of the Read House, both of
which were attended by “jurors
and marshals.”
The indictment under which
Mrs. Clark was arrested was
returned by the grand Jury last
week and accused her with
"corruptly endeavoring to in
fluence, abate, and Impede the
due administration of Justice in
U.s. district court.”
The indictment also charged
that Mrs. Clark “wilfully caused
to be filed an affidavit
subscribed by her in support of
a motion for a new trial.”
She was to appear before a
U.s. commissioner later in the
day for bonding.
Hoffa, who is now serving an
eight year prison sentence for
Jury tampering, returns to
Chattanooga May 8 for an
evidentiary hearing on another
new trial motion. He is confined
at the federal prison in
Lewlsburg, Fa.
Plane Falls In
Cluster Of Homes
Maddox Wants
People To Decide
On Death Penalty
would probably ask the General
Assembly next January to call
a referendum to decide on the
death sentence although he said
he would insist that certain
crimes such as the murder of
policemen continue to be pun
ished by death no matter what
the vote.
Ironically, Maddox’ call for
the referendum came only six
days before convicted murderer
Robert Felton Moore is sched
uled to die in the electric chair.
Moore, convicted of the shoot
ing death of two men sent to
repossess his car last year, has
exhausted all avenues of appeal
unless Maddox should decide to
personally intervene.
“That is a decision for the
Pardon and Parole Board,”
Maddox said. "I plan no action
at this time.”
If Moore dies in the electric
chair Monday, it will be the
first execution in Georgia in
two and a half years. The last
was in October, 1964.
Shortly before he announced
his referendum call to newsmen,
Maddox signed a 30 - day re
prieve for convicted rapist De
Wayne Massey.
Maddox said his call for a
referendum was to fulfill a
campaign promise that he
would let the people decide the
issue.
Maddox told newsmen he was
personally in favor of capital
punishment, but he told UPI
this was because he could think
of no alternative.
“Capitol punishment is the
worst thing I have to face as
governor,” he said. “It is the
only thing that really bothers
me.”
Maddox said capitol punish
ment was absoutely necessary
for some crimes even if the
people should decide they want
to do away with the death pen
alty.
Maddox said the crimes he
had in mind were the murders
of police officers and prison
guards in the line of duty and
murders committed by pri
soners already under life sen
tences.
Reaction to Maddox’s pro
posal was favorable.
“I think it’s an excellent
idea,” said State Corrections
Director Asa Kelley. “Capitol
punishment is a controversial
area and the matter should be
submitted to the people for a
vote.”
Five In Family
Killed In Wreck
BAMBERG, S. C. (UPI)—Five
members of a Cheverly, Md.,
family, including an infant girl,
were killed near this low coun
try South Carolina town early
today when their station wagon
plowed into the side of an
asphalt tanker truck in predawn
darkness.
The dead were identified as
Carl E. Jackson, 36, his wife,
Edith Laveme, 34, and the cou
ple’s three daughters, Jennifer,
13, Debra, 10, and Gayloe, 10
months.
A sixth member of the fam
ily, seven-year-old Carl E. Jack
son Jr., survived the collision
with broken legs. He was taken
to a local hospital, where his
conditipn was listed as fair.
The truck driver, Harold
Brown, 52, of Aiken, escaped in
jury in the collision at the inter
section of Highways 31 and 301.
The South Carolina Highway
Patrol said Brown’s truck ap
parently ran through a stop sign
at the intersection, and Jack
son's station wagon ran into the
side of it before he was able
to stop. Most of the family was
asleep at the time of the wreck,
patrolmen theorized.
The truck was pulled com
pletely across the highway when
Jackson ran into It, the patrol
said.
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
Lester Maddox said today he
does not plan to delay the
scheduled Monday execution of
a convicted murderer despite
his call for a referendum to let
the people decide if they want
to keep capital punishment in
Georgia.
Maddox said Wednesday he
Earning Power
In Spalding
Shows Increase
Despite a small decrease dur
ing the third quarter of 1966 in
the number of persons employ
ed by Spalding firms who report
wages and hours to the State De
partment of Labor, those em
ployed were paid nearly $800,000
more than the year before a re
port from the department re
veals.
In 1965 there were 10,822 per
sons employed in covered firms
compared with 10,630 for the
same quarter in 1966, a decrea
se of 192. The 1966 payroll was
$10,715,738 compared with $9,
924,432 for the same quarter in
1965.
Manufacturing firms’ payrolls
totaled $7,306,763; with textiles
leading with $5,164,169. Apparel
manufacturing paid $698,688;
food processing $653,508; and
construction $379,061. Other man
ufacturing, including transpor
tation equipment, paid $790,396.
Wholesale and retail business
paid employes $1,701,511.
Spalding County’s composite
payroll of firms covered by the
State Employment Security act
ranked 15th among the 159 coun
ties in Georgia.
GRIFFIN AREA
Every county that touches Sp
alding, with the exception of
Pike, showed a large increa
se in its quarterly payroll. Clay
ton showed the largest total with
$9,294,908. Others in order of
their totals: Coweta $7,604,827;
Meriwether $3,512,755; Henry
$2,335,628; Lamaa- $1,945,314;
Butts $1,493,231; Fayette $1,106,-
316; Pike $309,011.
Neighboring Upson County
though it does not touch Spald
ing, is a close neighbor and
joined the ranks of those show
ing increased payrolls with a to
tal for the quarter of $7,316,335.
BIG FIVE
The Atlanta area — Fulton and
DeKalb Counties — led the par
ade with $513,382,914 and Cobb
(Marietta) came second with
$74,054,368; Chatham (Savan
nah) with $52,973,034 was third;
Muscogee (Columbus) fourth
with $44,726,707; and Bibb (Ma
con) fifth with $41,506,845. Rich
mond (Augusta) with $40,845,000
was barely nosed out of “the
big five.”
Country Parson
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“I don’t see why so many
folks I want to love make
themselves so hard to love.”
5 Crewmen; 14
Others Dead
By CARROLL P. TROSCLAIR
United Press International
KENNER, La. (UPI) —A
Delta Airlines DC8 plowed a
600-yard swathe through a
sleeping residential section to
day and exploded in an orange
fireball 300 feet from a motel.
Coroner Nicholas J. Chetta
said 19 persons were killed. At
least 10 were injured.
Five of the victims were in
the plane, which was on a
training flight with pilots and
pilot-trainees. The rest died on
the ground.
Nine Wisconsin high school
girls on a spring holiday
celebrating their forthcoming
graduation died in the burning
motel.
Engines whining, the plane
smashed through three houses,
demolishing one, snapped power
lines, and bounced over railroad
tracks and along the ground and
into a lot behind the Hilton Inn
Motel, where it struck a utility
building and exploded.
Delta identified the crew
members as William T. Jeter,
33, Norman, Ark.; Maurice E.
Watson, 45, Boggstown, Ind.;
George Piazza, 30, New Or
leans; David B. Posey, 25,
Brookhaven, Miss.; and J.S.
Morton, Covington, La.
The other victims included
Hilton Motel engineer Charles
Imhoff, the nine high school
girls from Juda, Wis.; a woman
and a 13-year-old boy in one of
the houses, and one other, all
not Immediately identified.
The Federal Aviation Agency
had announced an FAA inspec
tor also was on the plane, but a
spokesman said in Washington
he was “now reasonably cer
tain” that only five persons
were aboard.
Heavily Populated Area
The plane crashed within a
cluster of apartment houses and
homes in this suburb about 15
miles north of the New Orleans
City limits.
Residents of apartment
houses narrowly missed by the
hurtling plane saw a huge
fireball light their windows and
heard "terrible screaming.”
The plane apparently strad
dled a street, clipping houses on
either side. The demolished
home was the next to last one
on the block, which dead ends
on the Kansas City Southern
Railroad tracks.
Paul L. Clement, who lives
next door, said a man was
blown clear, his clothes burned
off and screaming'
“Help! Help! My wife and
baby are in there!”
Firemen could not get into the
home, which was engulfed in
flames and then collapsed,
Clement said.
Ten crash victims were
treated at Ochsner Foundation
Hospital, but only two were
kept after treatment.
A hospital spokesman Identi
fied them as Stephen Bogen,
who was believed from New
Jersey and was a guest at the
motel; and Carolyn Skaggs, a
young girl who suffered arm
injuries when the plane struck
her home.
ACLU Backs Youth
In Growing Beard
ATLANTA (UPI)—A 20-year
old Atlanta youth, fired from
his city construction depart
ment job after raising a beard,
has taken his case to the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union.
And the ACLU says his rights
to grow a beard are protected
by the U. S. Constitution and
sanctioned by religion.
The fired youth, David Ches
ter Buch, said he was warned
when he started growing the
beard three weeks ago that he
would be fired.
The letter dismissing him,
however, said he was fired be
cause of ’insubordination” and
“lack of attention” to his work.
Buch said he was discounting
those charge* because he had
papers signed by superiors a
few weeks before the beard
growing incident stating that
his services were entirely satis
factory and that he was recom
mended for permanent civil
service status.
Construction chief Ray Nixon
denied that the beard had any
thing to do with the firing of
Buch. He said, instead, that
Buch wouldn’t clean up.
Buch denied that he was dir
ty. He said he took a bath ev
ery day. Ho said he usually
wore levis and boots because
his work took him into drainage
ditches as well as into the of
fice.
He also denied that he was a
beatnik, adding that he got the
job to save money for college.
Bolton Files
Revamp Plan
With Courts
ATLANTA (UPI)—Georgia’s
reapportionment problem was
back before the federal courts
today.
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton filed
the new House and Senate plans
with a three-judge federal panel
here shortly after Gov. Lester
Maddox signed them into law
Wednesday.
A hearing is expected to be
held by the Judges before they
rule. It was not known whether
the group of local citizens
which brought the original suit
against the previous apportion
ment plans would challenge the
new ones.
Georgia was under orders by
the judges to reapportion the
legislature by May 1.
Maddox said he felt the Gen
eral Assembly had done the
best Job possible and “I think
we should wait to pass our
opinion until after the court
speaks.”
The House would be reduced
from 205 to 195 members with
five new seats given to urban
areas and 15 taken from rural
areas.
The Senate plan added two
more senators to urban areas
and juggled a few district lines.
Another Hike
In Gas Prices
Is Predicted
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) — The
Georgia Association of Petrole
um Retailers said today service
stations probably will have to
increase their gasoline prices
one cent a gallon.
The reason, said GAPR Ex
ecutive Secretary Jack Houston,
Gov. Lester Maddox’s fail
to exempt gasoline from
taxes on wholesale prices.
Houston said Georgia motor
may have to pay an addi
tional $10 million a year for
fuel.
Houston said the Sales and
Tax Act prohibits a retailer
from absorbing a sales tax and
it must be passed on to the con
sumer.
Maddox has not renewed
former Gov. Carl Sanders’ ex
order exempting certain
products such as fuel, cars and
from sales taxes on whole
prices.
Revenue Commissioner Peyt
Hawes said Wednesday he
the governor would
re-issue the exemption. He
this would mean an addi
$6 million in state in-