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VENIN vT
By Quimby Melton
The Constitution of the United
States was adopted by a Consti
tutional Convention that met in
Philadelphia May 25, 1787; twel
ve of the original 13 colonies
sent delegates (Rhode Island
was the missing colony).
The purpose of the Constitu
tion was stated in the Preamble
to the document that was final
ly agreed to on Sept. 17, and sig
ned by 39 of the 55 delegates.
It read “We the people of t h e
United States, in order to form
a more perfect Union, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquil
lity, provide for the common
defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the bless
ings of liberty for ourselves and
our posterity do order and es
tablish this Constitution for the
United States of America.”
Among the delegates to that
convention were William Pew
and Abraham Baldwin represen
ting Georgia. Other prominent
delegates included Benjamin
Franklin and James Wilson,
Pennsylvania: Alexander Ha
milton, New York; William Pat
terson, New Jersey; and James
Madison, Virginia. Constitution
al students are agreed that it
was James Maidson, to become
fourth president, who probably
did more than anyone else to
get final agreement.
When the Constitutional Con
vention met there were many
different opinions as to what was
needed. Historians report the
four chief ones were (1) con
flicting interests of the smaller
and larger states; (2) The ques
tion of slavery (human rights);
(3) Control over trade; (4) who
should tax whom.
And although the Consfltuion
itself provides how other Con
stitutional Conventions may be
called to amend or to rewrite
the basic law of our nation, this
has never been done. (Two-thirds
of the Congress, both houses,
can call such a convention, or
two-thirds of the State Legisla
tures can do so.)
Changes in the Constitution
have been many —all in the
form of Amendments. To am
end the Constituion, first t wo
thirds of Congress, both houses,
must approve the amendment,
then it must be ratified by three
fourth of the State Legislatures.
There has been so much agi
tation for changing some parts
of the Constitution, and so much
talk, not only of “ignoring” its
provisions, but also of openly
defying it, that already some
states have passed resolutions
calling for such a convention.
While complete figures are not
available, one national publica
tion says the total is nearing the
two-thirds mark.
Among other things, those who
favor a Constitutional Conven
tion are suggesting a curb on
the powers of the Supreme
Court, limiting it to rulings in
certain areas — particularly ci
vil rights and criminal matters;
and limit on income tax rates.—
a 25 percent limit being sugges
ted.
Good Evening is certainly not
a "Constitutional Lawyer”, thou
gh there are many who are
claiming to be such: often men
or women who haven’t even read
the Constitution, let alone stu
dy it, but we believe the safest
thing to do will be to continue
amending the Constitution, via
the regular route, two-thirds of
Congress, both houses, then
three-fourths of the State Legis
lature.
A Constitutional Convention
could bring on so much confus
ion with “way outs” actually
sabotaging the basic law of the
land. Let’s not rim such a risk,
but if amendments are needed
let’s bring them about by the
tested method —Congressional
approval, by a two-thirds ma
jority, and ratification by three
fourths of the State Legislatur
es.
MIXED DOUBLE
WIMBLEDON, England
(UPI) —lt was definitely a love
match for tennis aces Angela
Mortimer and John Barrett.
John, former British Davis
Cup-team captain, and Angela,
1961 Wimbledon Champion,
were married Monday not far
from the world famous courts.
The couple will only take a
two-day honeymoon. They are
already in training for this year
at Wimbledon, where they hope
to play as partners.
ALL MIXED UP
CEMENT CITY, Mich. (UPI)
—The Michigan Highway De
partment’s seminar for asphalt
plant inspectors was held here
Monday.
Trash Dumpers
Face Prosecution
Spalding County Sheriff Dway
ne Gilbert announced today that
from now on, he and his depu
ties will make a special effort
to catch people, who dump tr
ash on private property, in roads
or on road rights-of-way.
He said that his office has had
numerous complaints recently
from property owners and a
crackdown on violators of the
law covering such cases was ne
cessary.
“The county is attempting to
make it easier on home owners
and other people by creating tr
ash pick-ups in every militia dis
trict.
“In addition to the pick-ups
already created, home owners
and other people may dump tr
ash at the city dump on Satur
days.
“We ask the people to coope
rate and dispose of their garb'
age and trash in the proper man
ner.
“The county has provided se
veral trash pick-ups in an effort
to make the county look better
but some people are continuing
to dump trash on private pro
perty and on road rights-of-way.
2,000 Rose
Bushes Sold
In One Day
Roses, roses, roses and things
that go with Roses.
Akin Seed and Feed Store on
East Taylor Street, Monday sold
more than 2,000 rose bushes, and
a large amount of sprays, rose
fertilizer, etc., in a one day spe
cial.
The sale was conducted across
the street from the store in a va
cant lot.
“There was a steady steam
all day long and I know we sold
more than 2,000 rose bushes. We
actually ran out of some of the
varieties that were advertised.
That one day event was an eye
opener," a representative of the
firm said today.
Talmadge May
Face GOP Foe
ATLANTA (UPl)—The execu
tive secretary of the Georgia
Republican party said today the
GOP would have a candidate
for the seat held by Sen. Her
man Talmadge, D-Ga.
Mike Hudson said he did not
think the candidate would be
Howard (Bo) Callaway who lost
to Lester Maddox for governor.
Hudson said Talmadge and all
eight of Georgia’s Democratic
congressmen would have GOP
opposition in 1968.
He said chances were good
Republicans would win three
more congressional seats which
would give them five of the
state’s 10 representatives.
Hudson said he doubted Calla
way would run for Talmadge’s
seat. But he said this was his
own opinion.
“I think he would be a more
likely prospect for governor,”
Hudson said.
Maddox Likely To
Veto Radar Bill
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
—Gov. Lester Maddox has indi
cated he will veto a bill to
give cities and counties the
right to use radar for traffic en
forcement.
‘‘We are trying to wipe out
the speed trap image In Geor
gia and I am afraid of turning
those things loose and getting
that image again,” he said.
Maddox, here for the conven
tion of Georgia county commis
sioners, refused to say defin
ly he would veto the bill, saying
he would give it more study be
for making his final decision.
“I’ve been caught with those
things myself,” Maddox said.
“I know what they are. There
is no way to avoid them being
used as speed traps. They (po
licemen) have to hide to catch
you. That is a trap.”
Local governments have been
denied the use of radar and
speed timers since 1963 when
the legislature outlawed their
use by any one other than the
GRIFFIN
DAILY W" NEWS
Established 1871
“This is a violation of the law
and from henceforth, we will
make a special effort to catch
those people responsible. Peo
ple caught will be prosecuted.
“We hope the people will co
operate and we ask them to use
the trash pick-ups or the city
dump for disposing of their gar
bage,” the sheriff said.
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An ambulance and an auto collided this morning at Hill and College streets. One person was injured in the
wreck. The ambulance was making an emergency run to the Griffin-Spalding Hospital when the collision
occurred.
Ambulance, Car
Collide In Griffin
An ambulance taking a burn
ed man to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital and a car were
involved in an accident this mor
ning at College and South Hill
streets.
Mrs. Doris Barron was shak
en up in the wreck. She was
listed by the Griffin Police De
partment as driver of the car.
She was treated in the emergen
cy room at the hospital and dis
missed.
The ambulance was driven by
John Robert Carden of Haisten
Funeral Home.
The ambulance was taking Ed
die Fletcher of Griffin to t h e
emergency room at the hospital.
He was burned while pouring
gas from a glass container into
the carburetor of an automobile
in thelO block of West Broad st
reet.
Carden said the man was sit
ting up in the rear of the am
bulance and was not on the cot.
Capt. Gene Folds of the Grif
fin Fire Department said the
man suffered burns on his right
arm, right hand, chest and back.
The degree of the burns was not
known this morning.
Fletcher was being treated in
the emergency room. He was
state patrol. The 1967 legisla
ture passed a law, however,
that would give them the right
to use radar under strict provi
sions.
Maddox has said before he
probably would sign the bill al
though he did not necessarily
like it. However, his latest
statement indicates a change of
attitude.
“I see where in Atlanta they
are already buying some equip
ment,” he said. ‘‘Of course,
that won’t be the first money
they have wasted.”
TAKE HOME PAY
DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) —A gas
station attendant worked only
one day but he took home
$95.35.
The operator of an east side
filling station said he hired the
attendant Sunday. When he
came to work* Monday the man
was gone, but so was $62.85 in
receipts, seven cartons of
cigarettes, 5,000 trading stamps
and his uniform. It added up to
$1,085.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 4,1967
More Trash Dumps
Available In County
taken from the wreck scene to
the hospital. Another ambulance
took Mrs. Barron to the hospi
tal.
‘Scratching Off
Lands Pair In Jail
A scratching off spree on se
veral Griffin streets early Mon
day afternoon ended with the ar
rest of two men near the Grif
fin Police Department.
The two had abandoned a
car in the Spalding Courthouse
parking lot.
They were identified as Bruce
A. Thomas, 21, who gave police
several addresses, among them
Jacksonville, Fla., and Douglas,
Ga.; and Charles E. Lynch, 21,
of Experiment street, Griffin.
Thomas was charged with
driving in a dangerous and reck
less manner, no license, driving
the wrong way on a one-way
street, failing to stop for a po
lice officer, scratching off and
drunk.
Lynch was charged with vio-
Unwanted Dog
Named A Hero
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (UPD—
Browinie, a shaggy Collie dog
nobody wanted, saw the flames
shoot up in the McCall home.
He scratched, barked and
clawed at the door until he
awakened the family he had
adopted.
His instinct to protect his
mistress saved the lives of
Clifford McCall, his wife, and
their two children, Larry, 14,
and Martha, 15. The family was
unhurt but their home was
destroyed.
Brownie’s act of heroism oc
curred several months ago. He
recenly was named the “hero
dog of Georgia” by a dog food
company and will compete for
the national do ghero of heroes
of 1967.”
But his biggest reward came
from the McCall family. Un
wanted by McCall when he first
took up with the family,
Brownie stayed on because of
Mrs. McCall and Martha, who
slipped him bits of food.
"Now we’re going to keep
Brownie as long as he lives,”
saus Mrs. McCall.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Generally fair tonight
and Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 81, low today 57, high
Monday 85, low Monday 58, sun
rise Wednesday 6:25, sunset
Wednesday 7:02.
lating section 321, paragraph six
of the city code which deals with
aiding and abetting, police said.
They said Lynch was riding in
the car driven by Thomas.
Police started tracking the car
after it scratched off in front
of the Police Department on
East Solomon street.
The police switchboard soon
was buzzing with callers who
reported the car scratching off
on several Griffin streets.
Heavy traffic in the downtown
area kept officers from overtak
ing the car, Police Chief Leo
Blackwell said.
He said one patrol car was
within two cars of the vehicle
at one time during the chase.
Finally Thomas whipped the
auto into the courthouse park
ing lot where he and Lynch left
it.
Officer Lewis Law spotted the
pair on Solomon street near the
Police Department.
He whistled for them to halt
and they did.
He took them into custody and
escorted them across the street
to the jail.
They were still in jail this
morning.
State Asked
To End Local
School Taxes
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPD
— The Georgia Association of
County Commmssioners today
unanimously passed a contro
versial resolution to end local
taxation for education.
The resolution called on the
governor and the General As
sembly to conduct a study on
the feasibility of the idea.
Much education funds come now
from local property taxes
which the commissioners would
like lowered. The commission
ers want the state to provide
the money.
Vol. 95 No. 79
Bombers Fly
147 Missions
Over Vietnam
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPD —American
jet fighter bombers blasted
North Vietnam with 147 mis
sions Monday in the greatest air
raid of the year, an American
spokesman said today. The
onslaught followed the loss of
the 500th U.S. plane shot down
over the Communist Nation.
Gunfire from U.S. 7th Fleet
warships off North Vietnam’s
coast joined in the stepped-up
squeeze on the Hanoi war
effort. Tire heavy shelling
ripped into coastal defenses and
cargo craft that are a keystone
in the Communists’ line for
feeding troops and supplies into
South Vietnam.
Only light and v scattered
ground fighting was reported in
South Vietnam today.
American 852 heavy bombers
struck twice today along the
Cambodian border north of
Saigon where the most massive
American ground operation of
the war—Operation Junction
City — has been sweeping
through the crumbling Viet
Cong stronghold called War
Zone C.
Both raids were against
Communist base camps about
65 miles northwest of Saigon.
The targets lay within a few
miles of the weekend battle
ground where U.S. infantrymen
repelled a Communist attack
and killed 581 guerrillas in the
second largest triumphs of the
war in terms of enemy killed.
The 50th aircraft lost in
North Vietnam, an Air Force
FlO5 Thunderchiefs, fell over
the Southern Panhandle Sunday.
After a vain rescue attempt, the
pilot was listed as missing.
American pilots Monday
forged through low clouds and
drizzling and moderate anti
aircraft fire to record the year
high 147 missions while smash
ing bridges, storage areas,
trucks and other war machinery
in North Vietnam’s well
defended Red River Delta
industrial heart and the South
ern Panhandle.
Monday’s 147 missions were
the most flown over the north
by American pilots since Nov. 4,
1966, when 155 were logged.
In addition to the 50 winged
aircraft downed over the north,
five helicopters have fallen to
Communist soil as a result of
groundfire.
Additional Sites
Are Under Study
The Spalding County Commis
sioners said today that three
more sites have been approved
for trash pick-ups.
One site is off Highway 92 near
the Pirkle camp ground; anoth
er is in the Vaughn community
behind the community house,
formerly the Vaughn school;
and another is at Mt. Zion camp
ground.
Chairman Jack Moss said an
other site is under consideration
on the East Mclntosh road. He
said several other sites in other
militia districts and communi
ties are being considered.
Line Creek community was
the first to take up the commis
sioners’ offer to build trash pick
up sites throughout the county.
It already has been con
structed and is in use, Chair
man Moss said.
He said that If other communi
ties in the county will cooperate
as well as Line Creek, then
much can be done to eliminate
the unsightly trash dumps throu
ghout the county.
The county plans to pick up
the trash left at the sites perio
dically.
The commissioners decided
on the community pick-up plan
10 Paving Projects
Started In County
County Warden Floyd Wilker
son told the County Commission
ers this morning the county has
some 10 paving projects under
way at the present.
He said he hopes they can be
completed during the summer.
The county decided to include
six more streets in its paving
program this summer. Paving
on Ogletree road, Pickens drive,
Carolyn drive, Parrish street,
Edwards and Wilson streets was
approved.
In other action at the monthly
meeting the commissioners ap
proved the final payment for
the 1966 tax revaluation pro
gram. This was completed last
year and put into effect last
fall.
Curb Trips For
Drunks, Moss Says
Two Spalding County Commis
sioners today expressed concern
about the rising cost of taking
alcoholics to Milledgeville for
treatment. They said that many
of those taken are repeaters.
Chairman Jack Moss said that
he didn’t believe the taxpayers
of the county should be required
to pay for repeated trips for al
cholics to the state hospital.
Commissioner Z. L. Wilson ag
reed. Commissioner David El
der was at the Association Coun
ty Commissioners meeting at
Jekyll Island and didn’t attend
the monthly meeting here today.
Sometimes these people are
taken to Milledgeville for treat
ment and they are back on the
streets of Griffin in a few days
drunk again, Chairman Moss
said.
Bill Childers
Passes Bar Exam
Three hundred and sixty eight
students took the most recent
Georgia Bar examination. Only
sixty five passed. One of the 65
successful applicants to become
lawyers in Georgia is William
Reid Childers, Jr., of Griffin.
Attorney Childers is a Griffin
High School graduate. He ear
ned his bachelor’s degree at
Emory before entering the
Lumpkin Law School at the
University of Georgia in Athens
where he will complete his law
degree in June. Childers is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Child
ers of Griffin.
about a month ago. They had
become more and more concer
ned about trash dumps that
were popping up all over the
county.
Courtroom
To Get New
PA System
Spalding County Commission
ers today approved the purchase
of a new public address system
for the Spalding courtroom and
repair windows and ceiling.
The commission okayed
the purchase of new public ad
dress system equipment costing
$467. This was recommended by
Lt. Ed Tarleton, communica
tions expert for the Griffin Po
lice Department.
The commissioners had asked
him to check the equipment
and make recommendations.
The leaky roof at the courthou
se has caused some of the ac
oustic ceiling in the courtroom
to come loose. The commission
ers asked Warden Floyd Wilker
son to get this repaired also.
The commissioners agreed
to consider a request from Grif
fin area real estate men that the
city and county consolidate zon
ing boards.
The city commissioners last
week said they were willing to
look into the possibility.
The Griffin Real Estate Board
requested the consolidation in
a resolution to the two boards
of commissioners last month.
The commissioners received a
resolution from the Griffin Util
ity Club supporting proposals
for a new library here.
Tlie commissioners have dis
cussed the prospect of a new
library several times previous
ly.
He suggested the county might
put a limit on the number of ti
mes it will pay for trips to the
alcoholic ward of the state hos
pital.
Each trip costs the county
from SSO to S6O, he said.
The county has to finance from
seven to 12 such trips to Milled
geville each month, Chairman
Moss said. Some of these are for
people being sent there for men
tal treatment, he noted, but
some also are being sent there
several times to the alcoholic
treatment center.
Chairman Moss noted that the
Spalding County Health Center
has an out patient service for al
cholics. He suggested that this
service might be utilized more
fully and cut down some of the
trips to the Milledgeville alco
holic ward.
Country Parson
or
“Folks who think we’re
moving too fast these days
must have more time left
than I have.”