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MIG Bases Off Limits
WASHINGTON (UPI) —De
fense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara, countering congres
sional pressure for the bombing
of MIG fighter bases in North
Vietnam, says no such raids are
in sight “under present circum
stances.”
But the secretary added at a
news conference Monday, “this
belief can change as time goes
by.”
McNamara apparently aimed
his defense of the decision not
to bomb the MIG facilities
squarely at the growing chorus
of calls from Congress to do
just that.
One influential military ex
pert, Sen. Stuart Symington, D-
Mo., had elaborated on the need
for such a stepup just a few
Are Prisoners
Brainwashed?
WASHINGTON CUPI) —The
State Department says it is
concerned over the possibility
American prisoners in North
Vietnam are being subjected to
brainwash techniques aimed at
wringing "confessions” from
them.
Without verification by neu
tral observers that prisoners
are being treated according to
the Geneva Convention, “Han
oi’s professions of humane
treatment cannot be accepted,”
department spokesman Robert
J. McCloskey said Monday.
The statement was prompted
by photographs published in the
current issue of Life magazine,
recent news film from North
Vietnam and reports of Ameri
can prisoners being paraded
through Hanoi.
The Life article included a
full-page photograph of a
prisoner identified as Lt. Cmdr.
Richard A. Stratton, a Navy
pilot captured in January. He
was shown dressed in striped
pajamas, socks and sandals and
bowing to reporters at a North
Vietnamese news conference.
Chatham
Gets Grant
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
U. S. Public Health Service
Monday approved a $1,345
grant to fight air pollution in
Chatham County.
The money is earmarked for
continuation of a Chatham
County Health Department pro
gram to battle air pollution.
The department is headquart
ered at Savannah.
hours earlier on the Senate
floor, and another, Sen. John C.
Stennis, D-Miss., made the
same recommendation over the
weekend.
In brushing aside their
arguments, McNamara said the
U.S. aim was “to avoid
widening the war, to seek to
obtain our political objective,
which is a very limited
objective, with the smallest
possible cost in American lives.
“Under present circumstan
ces, and this belief can change
as time goes by, we think the
loss in U.S. lives will be less if
we pursue our present target
policy than they would be were
we to attack those airfields.”
Symington, a former Air
Force secretary, said the actual
Tne Life story, written by
free-lance photographer Lee
Lockwood, said someone who
said he was Stratton read in “a
voice unmistakably American”
a five-page "confession” over a
loudspeaker from behind a
curtained doorway.
Federal
Registrars
In Georgia
ATLANTA (UPl)—Federal
registrars, the first to be sent
into Georgia, have started reg
istering voters in Terrell, Lee
and Screven counties. The first
turnouts were reported light.
The registrars were ordered
into the three counties by Atty.
Gen. Ramsey Clark under the
provisions of the 1965 Civil
Rights Act which suspended lit
eracy tests for registration.
Negro leaders have claimed
that Negrc registration in the
three counties is below average
with Terrell County having only
11.1 per cent of voting age Ne
groes tegistered, Lee County
only 9.9 pdi 1 cent and Screven
37 per cent.
Mel Gheesling, a regional co
ordinator for the Civil Service
Commission, described the turn
out in the first two days as
"light” in Screven County and
"exceedingly light” in Terrell
and Lee.
He said exact figures on reg
istration would be released
from Washington.
loss of U.S. aircraft to the MIG
jet fighters was not the
important factor. It was rather
that the MIGs, “without firing a
shot or launching a missile,”
force U.S. planes to fly where
the concentrations of ground
fire are greatest, he said.
“This is the fire which has
accounted for the bulk of our
plane losses today,” Symington
said, suggesting that U.S. pilots
be called to testify in Congress
if the administration doubts the
risks of continued restrictions
on bombing.
The United States has bombed
certain North Vietnamese MIG
facilities under construction, but
has kept strictly away from
raiding operational bases.
Geer Pleads
Guilty In
Hunting Case
ALBANY, Ga. (UPl)—Former
Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer was
one of four men who paid $25
fines Monday after pleading
guilty to shooting ducks out of
season.
U. S. District Judge J. Robert
Elliott fined the men after au
thorities reported the four were
found in a party that had 40
ducks shot over a Brooks Coun
ty pond last Feb. 11.
Arrested with Geer, who left
office in January, were William
Olin Blair, Felix Bush and Don
ald Joiner, all of Brooks Coun
ty.
Two federal fisheries agents,
John Eadie of Tifton and Noah
H. Long of Williston, Fla., filed
the charges.
Convicted Killer
Turns Self In
ATLANTA (UPI) — Joseph
Lavender, the convicted wife
killer who turned himself in at
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived
as a fugitive for three months,
will be returned to Georgia au
thorities later this week.
Robert J. Carter, associate
director of the State Board of
Corrections, today said Laven
der is being held by Cincinnati
police pending his return to the
Buford, Ga., prison camp.
Lavender, 25, walked into the
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper
office Sunday and told reporters
he was turning himself in be
cause of his three - year -old
daughter and a woman he had
become interested in since his
escape.
Lavender said he has been
working as a short order cook
in a Cincinnati sandwick shop
since he fled the Georgia prison
farm in January.
“I’ve proved something to
myself,” he said. “I’m not crazy
and I can get along with people
and be respected for what I
am.”
Lavender said he was con
victed in October, 1965, of the
April, 1965, shooting of his
young wife.
The fugutive said he was will
ing to go back to prison—“the
closest thing to hell there is
on this earth."
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famous GS-400 is. (It’s the one in the background.)
And you also know you don’t get a GS-400 for peanuts.
It’s a great car. But it’s just a little rich for some people.
So we set to work and designed the GS-340. It has a
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Tuesday, April 4, 1967 Griffin Daily News
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FLASH!—Rep. Morris K. Udall (left), D-Ariz., has asked
the automobile industry to give the green light to a new
auto stop light designed to cut down rear end collisions. In
Washington, Dr. John Voevodsky (right), Tucson, Ariz., in
ventor of the lamp, explains how it flashes when the brakes
are applied. The quicker the stop, the faster the flashing.
Kindergarten In
Schools Asked
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) —
Rep. Lance Smith of Savannah
Monday urged the state to in
vestigate the possibility of es
tablishing a kindergarten sys
tem in the public schools.
"Since it has been pointed out
by leading educators that there
is a definite need to begin a
child’s education at an age
younger than 6,” Smith said,
“I think the study is definitely
in order.”
Smith said he asked House
Speaker George L. Smith to ap
point a legislative committee to
study the feasibility of adding
kindergartens to the public
school system.
The Savannah legislator said
he made the request in a letter.
Smith said many Georgians
cannot afford to send their
children to private kindergar
tens.
He said his letter also urged
the house speaker to push for
more state participation in the
field of mental health. Smith,
who headed the House Mental
Health Committee last year,
said the state “has as much
responsibility toward the retard
ed child as to the public school
student.”
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Bray Elected
President Os
Commissioners
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
—Harris W. Bray of Meriweth
er County is the new president
of the Georgia Association of
County Commissioners, succeed
ing Dr. Bruce Schaefer of Toc
coa.
Other officers elected at the
group’s convention here Monday
were: Jim Gillis Jr., Treutlen,
first vice president; Hugh Lo
gan, Clarke, second vice presi
dent and Trammell Carmichael,
Cherokee, third vice president.
Elected chairman of the
board of managers was John
Rigdon of Muscogee County.
Tom Calloway of DeKalb is
vice chairman.
Other new managers were:
Judge Robert Lovell, of Chat
ham; Raymond H. Morris of
Clay; Charlie Brown of Fulton;
Hays Arnold of Upson; Dan O.
Hall of Dade; Millard Copeland
of Glynn and W. T. Cunning
ham of Oglethorpe.
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