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VENIN lJ
By Quimby Melton
Today is April Fool’s Day; and
though the day will be well ad
vanced by the time the after
noon paper is delivered there
will still be time to be caught
napping.
Just who started this event,
the delight of youngsters, and
the pride of practical jokers?
April Fools’ Day or All Fools’
Day is the first day of April,
when for centuries it has been
customary to play irresponsi
ble tricks on one’s neighbors.
Many and varied explanations
have been vouchsafed for the
origin of this practice, but all
seem to lack the stamp of au
thenticity. The most convinc
ing surmise, however, is that
the custom owes its origin to the
French, who adopted the Gre
gorian calendar in 1564. Prior to
this date the French were wont
to pay formal visits to their
friends on April 1. On the chan
ge of the calendar these visits
took place on January 1, but
mock visits continued to be paid
on April 1, especially on those
who might forget the new order
of things. The French term for
this custom, poisson d’avril, is
more euphemistic and approp
riate than our own. It means an
“April fish” that is, a young fish
consequently one that is easily
caught.
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Friday night football fans who
turned out for the annual Green-
White game that ended spring
practice could not help but be
pleased with what they saw. Os
course nobne expected the game
to be as polished-as do games
in the regular season; but there
were a flock of boys out there
who were playing as though it
were a championship game; and
there w T as a lot of new talent,
up from Junior High and from
last year’s B team .that was im
pressive. These boys who are
young will bear watching. These,
added to the veterans from last
| year should make up a mighty
f fine Eagle squad.
Coach Dowis, who takes over
next fall, was present and no
doubt was pleased with the ma
terial he has with which to work.
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General Robert E. Lee said
“Duty is the sublimest word in
the English language.”
Dr. Frank Crane, whose “Four
Minute Essays” were a popular
daily feature in many newspa
pers years ago, once w r rote “Du
ty is the egg of all goodness.
Without it religion is hypocracy,
(kindness is cruelty.”
Every man has duties: among
which are Duty to his God, to
his family, to his community
and to his nation,
t
Here are some “guide lines”
—pardon us we don’t like the
modern day intrepretation of
“guide lines” — so we will say
here are some rules, which if
one will follow, will enable them
to live up to their duty. The
same Dr. Crane, referred to ear
lier in this column was the au
thor.
It is better to keep your word
than to speak pleasantly; It is
better to tell the truth than to
lie entertainly; It is better to be
loyal than to be affectionate;
It is better to earn your living
and take yourself off the backs
of other people than to be a sa
int or a genius; It is better to
pay your debts than to give to
the poor; It is better to do one
good act than to speak many
good words. <
In the column Dr. Crane wrote
years ago on the subject “Duty”
he likened it to the word “Ou
ght”. This reminds Good Bven
ing of a cook our family had
many years ago when we lived
in Oxford, Newton County. Time
and time again I have heard her
cay “Ought to, ain’t is.” Just
to know what one ought to do is
not sufficient; there are few
but who know what they ought
to do in any situation; but to
fail to do what one knows they
“ought” or should just “ain’t is”.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair and warm
tonight and Sunday.
LOCAL WEATHER —High
today 80, low today 51, high
Friday 76, low Friday 49.
US Infantrymen
Turn Back Swarm
Os Attacking Reds
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press Int e rnational
SAIGON (UPI) —About 2,500
Viet Cong with unprecedented
heavy artillery swarmed at
some 800 American infantrymen
near the Cambodian border
today. The U.S. troops killed a
near record 518 and sent the
rest fleeing, military spokesmen
said today.
The 90-minute battle erupted
in the same War Zone C area
where Amercans killed 622
Communists, and possibly as
many as 900 11 days ago in the
biggest single fight of the
Vietnam war.
The Communist regiment
today drove straight into a
battalion of the U.S. Army Ist
Infantry Division. The Gls
hurled them back and then
counter-attacked, leaving piles
of guerrillas dead behind them.
U.S. spokesmen said Ameri
can troops, who captured five
Communists and “many, many”
stacks of weapons, suffered a
surprisingly low nine men killed
and 32 wounded, according to
initial reports.
The crack Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese troops
stormed the American positions
at dawn from three sides,
moving behind the first 75MM
howitzer fire the Communist
have unleashed in War Zone C.
The beseiged battalion of the
U.S. Army Ist Infantry Divi
sion, First Brigade stood its
ground. They fired "all we had”
at the charging Communist
regiment. U.S. commanders
slammed in artillery barrages,
strafing planes and even mighty
air force 852 Stratofortresses
bombing as close as they could
to the GI positions.
'fPfe Communists took it for
an hour and a half. Then they
ran.
Gave Chase
The outnumbered Americans
went after them, spokesmen
said.
First reports said 28 Commu
Maddox Says
Hell Always
Be Democrat
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Dem
ocratic Party is “the party of
the people,” Gov. Lester Mad
dox said Friday, vowing he
would “always be a Demo
crat.”
“With all its faults, it re
mains the best political party
ever known to man,” Maddox
told a college Young Demo
crats forum at Georgia State
University.
He implied he would not bolt
the party in 1968 if it runs an
other Johnson-Humphrey presi
dential ticket as he did in 1964
to support Republican presi
dential hopeful Barry Gold
water.
“We have to look at history
to find that nearly every ma
jor economic advance in this
country has been accomplished
under a Democratic administra
tion,” Maddox said.
The party “has been good for
Georgia,” the governor said,
and “national Democratic ad
ministrations have provided us
the means for continuous
growth and progress.”
Two Killed
In Wreck
Near Forsyth
Two people were killed in an
auto collision 12 miles east of
Forsyth Friday at about 6:25,
the Griffin State Patrol Post re
ported today.
They were identified as Mrs.
Frances M. Copeland, 42, of Ma
con and Henry D. Bodie, 41, of
Batesburg, S.C.
Injured were Clarence R.
Copeland, 42, husband of M r s.
Copeland, and Mrs. Adel Aide
Bodie, 41, wife of Mr. Bodie.
The deaths brought to 21 the
number of people killed in the
five-county Griffin patrol area
this year. The total was eight
at this same time last year.
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871
nists had been killed. The count
was expected to rise dramati
cally when the Americans had
time for careful body checking.
There was no immediate word
on U.S. casualties.
The battle erupted in the
thick jungles 70 miles northwest
of Saigon where 50,000 Ameri
can troops are driving through
a longtime Communist sanctua
ry in Operation Junction City.
Today’s fight came a short
distance from the spot where a
week ago 600 to 900 Viet Cong
were killed in a record battle.
New Constitution
Thirty minutes away by
helicopter, in Saigon, Gen.
Nguyen Van Thieu, South
Vietnam’s chief of state, signed
into law a new' Constitution in a
palace ceremony. The new
basic law, a major step toward
democratic civilian government,
probably owed much of its
being to such actions as the
fight six miles from the
Cambodian border.
U.S. spokesmen said the
Communists apparently had
rested all night for the attack
after another losing charge
Friday. They said also Friday
U.S. warplanes flew 101 mis
sions against North Vietnam
despite bad weather.
The pilots destroyed 29 ships,
10 trucks, two anti aircraft
sites, a missile site and three
road segments west of Hanoi
and down the Communist
country’s southern Panhandle.
The Air Force lost one plane,
the 499th U.S. aircraft lost over
North Vietnam. But the pilot
was saved, spokesmen said.
Dishwasher
19th Victim
Os Jet Crash
By BILLY G. JAMES
United Press International
KENNER, La. (UPI) —The
death toll from Thursday’s
Delta DCB crash has risen to 19
with the discovery of the body
of an 18-year-old dishwasher
who was killed while hitching a
ride home.
The body of Clarence Johu
son, almost cut in half, fell
from the wreckage late Friday
when investigators pulled away
the tail section of the plane
from a passageway of the
Hilton Inn, where Johnson
worked as a dishwasher.
Johnson, who had begun
working at the Motel March 22,
was killed while hitchhiking
along a street adjacent to the
motel when the plane crashed
and skidded across the street.
He had stayed late to work at a
party given for the Juda, Wis.,
High School senior class which
was on its annual trip.
Flown Home
Nine girls of the 32-member
vacationing class were killed in
their motel rooms. A Delta
transport flew their bodies to
Madison, Wis., Friday night.
Ihe other victims included as
assistant engineer at the motel,
a mother and son in a house a
block from the motel and six
persons aboard the airplane.
The plane was on a training
flight to check out a DC9 pilot
and an engineer on the larger
DCS. A Delta instructor and a
Federal Aviation Agency Offi
cial were aboard to check out
the pilot and two Delta
engineers were checking out the
engineer.
Everything Fine
The Delta instructor, Maurice
Edward (Bud) Watson, told the
tower everything was fine as
the 135-passenger airliner came
in for a landing. David
Breeding, a 10-year veteran
with the FAA, told Watson from
the tower:
“Delta 9877 clear touch and
go (landing) or cleared to land
Runway I.’
“Okay. We’ll land straight in.
We’ll make another takeoff,”
Watson said.
“Okay. You want to take off
south?” Breeding asked.
“Be fine,” Watson said, the
last words spoken from the
craft.
That was 21-2 minutes and
five miles from the airport.
Watson was in the co-polits seat
and JamesM. Morton, making
his final checkout flight, was
the pilot.
Griffin, Go., 30223, Sat. and Sun., April 1-2,1967
Griffin By-Pass Contract
May Be Let By Early Summer
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Teaching Career Month
The Griffin-Spalding Education Association is joining other associations throughout
the nation in the observance of April as Teaching Career Month. The theme for the
month is “Teach Me ...” A poster contest was sponsored in the schools by the
GSEA on Teaching Career Month. The best idea was submitted by David Joiner
who is a student in Mrs. H. H. Tippins’ class at Third Ward School.
Man, Wife, Child
RohbedAtGunpoint
A man armed with a pistoi
and wearing a stocking over his
face robbed a service station
operator on the North Express
way this morning about 2:30, Gr
iffin Police said today.
The man took $Bl, in cash, they
said.
He held the station owner, his
wife and daughter at gunpoint
during the robbery, police said.
The robbery victims were Fel
ton Childers, owner of the sta
tion, his wife and their 10-year-
Maddox Asked
To Exempt
Gasoline
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI)—Gov.
Lester Maddox had before him
today a request that he bar col
lection of sales taxes on the ex
cise tax on gasoline, tires and
cars.
Two Chatham County legisla
tors Friday charged the Gerier
mqp Assembly was not told dur
ing appropriations hearings that
the Revenue Department in
tended to collect the taxes.
Rep. J. Robert Tye and Sen.
Bart Shea said the department
should have let the lawmakers
know it intended to collect the
tax which had been exempted
by former Gov. Carl Sanders.
Four Chatham lawmakers,
Tye, Shea, Sen. William Sear
cey and Rep. Arthur Gignilliap,
asked Maddox to issue an exec
utive order barring the tax un
til the General Assembly can
act next year.
“This wasn’t cricket,” Tye
said of the revenue depart
ment’s failure to inform the
legislators. “We heard nothing
about this in the House Appro
priations Committee.”
old daughter.
The robber told the three to
lie on the floor of the station.
“If you move, I'll blow your
. . . . brains out,” he told the
three.
After the man left, Mr. Child
ers called police. He said he was
getting ready to close the sta
tion and his wife and child were
waiting for him to finish when
the robber entered.
Flim-Flam On
Woman Works
For $3,900
ATLANTA (UPl)—Mrs. Helen
D. Henry of East Point Friday
told Atlanta Police she had been
swindled by two women and a
man of $3,900.
The victim said two women
approached her in a downtown
apartment store and showed her
$20,000 in cash they said they
had found.
One of the women claimed
she worked for a lawyer who
said the women could keep the
money after 30 days because it
had belonged to “gamblers.”
The women then told Mrs.
Henry they needed $3,900 im
mediately to pay the lawyer.
Mrs. Henry telephoned the
“lawyer” who verified the story,
Mrs. Henry withdrew the
money from her bank, gave it
to the women. She has not
heard from them again.
The woman told police she at
tempted to contact the "law
yer ” but he <could not be found
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Some Things
Don't Change,
Graham Says
AUGUSTA, G,i. (UPl)—Evan
gelist Billy Graham told a
packed audience of 6,000 per
sons Friday night there still are
some “absolutes” in this
world—and one of them is the
existence of God. \
“Let them sneer, let '’(hem
laugh — but there are some
things that remain and God is
one of those things,” said Gra
ham, here for the 150th anni
versary celebration of the First
Baptist Church.
Graham said there are more
absolutes—the Bible, the sinful
ness of man and the Christian’s
responsibility to his neighbor.
The week-long observance at
First Baptist ends Sunday.
Quirks
By United Press International
BILL BACKER BURGLARED
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Rep.
Brock Adams is the sponsor of
the Johnson administration’s
program for curbing crime in
the nation’s capital.
He returned to his Washington
home Thursday and discovered
burglars had ransacked it
during hfs absence for the
Easter recess.
At
COMES TRUE
CHICAGO (UPI) —While in
prison Gary Carl Horton wrote
a novel in which an armed
robber died in a gun battle with
a policeman.
Wednesday night, Horton, 25,
shot at Chicago policeman who
later died. As Horton and an
accomplice fled down an alley,
the dying policeman emptied his
revolver. At daybreak Thursday
Horton was found dead in a
v'arti nearby
Getting Land j
Not Seen As
Problem Here
The oft-delayed contract for
the Griffin U. S. Highway 19 by
pass could be let by early sum
mer, if funds are forthcoming, a
Third District highway engi
neer said this week.
Engineer John W. Wade said
that "in a matter of months,
probably by summer, we hope to
be letting the Griffin by-pass for
Highway 19.”
He said the by-pass would lea
ve the present dual Highways 19
and 41 in Griffin near the Ex
periment Station and move un
der that road. The by-pass will
take a route near the Spalding
Junior High and Vocational Te
chnical Training School build
ings and intersect with U. S. 19
at about the Pike-Spaldiug line,
according to Mr. Wade.
The by-pass will serve dually
as a U. S. 19 and 41 from the
Experiment inter-change to the
Pike line where a new U. S. 41
four-lane route is being brou
ght from Barnesvill.e
Mr. Wade said the southern
junction of the by-pass will be
in Spalding County about 1,000
to 1,500 fee't north of Pike Coun
ty line.
He said that’s all the Highway
Department has plans for at pre
sent toward improving the Nor
'th-South 19 route which runs
through Thomaston.
Mr. Wade’s comments appear
ed this week in the Thomaston
Free Press newspaper.
City Manager Jack Langford
in Griffin today said that right
of-way acquisition should not st
and in the way of a contract let
ting for the by-pass.
He said about 98 percent of
those involved had agreed to
terms for their land. In the last
few days one of the pieces of
property that was in dispute was
settled, Mr. Langford said.
Spokesmen for the Highway
Department have made estima
tes previously about when they
thought the by-pass contract
would be let.
The one before Mr. Wade’s
this week came last fall when
highway spokesman said they
thought the contract could be let
by last December.
Other predictions as to when
a contract would be let have so
far not materialized.
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Vo-Tech Money
The Episcopal Churchwomen of St. George’s Church
have presented two nursing scholarships to the Griff in-
Spalding County Area Vocational-Technical School.
The money is from the proceeds of a bazaar held
last fall. The gift will make it possible for two Griffin
women to enroll in the practical nursing class. Mrs.
James Skinner (r) presents the check to Griffin Tech
Director Edwin V. Langford, Sr. as Mrs. Robert
Crossfield, president of the Episcopal Churchwomen
looks on. The next class in practical nursing will begin
April 17.
Country Parson
“A fellow’s opinion of you
usually is the result of your
attitude toward him.”
Trade Study
Needed, Dirksen
Tells Textile Men
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (UPI)—
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-111.,
called today for a “top-to
bottom” reexamination of the
United States’ foreign trade ma
chinery which he said “ignores
the intent of Congress.”
The Senate minority leader,
in a speech prepared for deliv
ery this morning at the closing
session of the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute annual
meeting, said trade laws are
‘-‘outmoded and no longer serve
the purposes for which they
were designed.
“Our foreign trade program
is 32 years old,” Dirksen said.
“As this program grew to ma
turity we made piecemeal ad
justments in it, but the time
has come for a top -to - bottom
evaluation of what we are doing
and what we are trying to ac
complish.”
He said the United States is
not receiving reciprocity
in trade benefits.
“Can you call it reciprocity
when some 50 countries have
virtually excluded importation
of U. S. textiles by creating va
rious types of barriers?” he
asked. “Rather than relying on
tariffs and quotas alone, many
of these countries have devel
oped whole series of non-tariff
gimmicks which for practical
purposes exclude imports.”
He cited the textile industry
as an example of “how well
intentioned aid and trade pro
grams are threatening to under
cut an essential and vital Amer
ican industry.”