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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening wants some
help.
Somewhere among his readers
may be a man or woman who
will recall an incident that oc
curred in Griffin sometimes bet
ween 1929 and 1939. Here’s what
we want to know, and after ex
plaining what this is, we’ll tell
why we want the information.
On what date, and if one does
not remember the exact date,
in what year and in what season
of that year, did:
A French hero of World War
One, who moved to America and
joined the staff of an Atlanta
contracting firm, losing his pos
ition when the “big recession”
hit America, and spending se
veral years as a news vendor in
Atlanta die? The Griffin Post
American Legion, seeing a story
in an Atlanta paper that he was
to be buried in “the potter’s
field,”, sent to Atlanta, claimed
the body, brought it to Griffin
and gave the French hero a “de
cent funeral”. Good Evening re
members this much, Haisten
Brothers handled the funeral,
and the Frenchman was buried
in Stonewall Confederate Ceme
tery with full military honors;
the UDC giving permission for
the grave to be inside the fence
round the Confederate Ceme
tery.
If we can get the approximate
date, then we can search the fi
les of the paper, and find the
complete story.
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Now why is Good Evening anx
ious to get this date?
There is a move on foot —and
personally we are in favor of the
plan—to establish a War Memor
ial Park near the Confederate
Cemetery that will be the site
for all present monuments here
that are memorials to the men
and women of our community
who have fought in the various
wars. The Park will be attrac
tively laid out, with proper land
scaping, and will be kept clean
and neat. No doubt it will be
come a decided attraction to
many.
Now we would like for the
Memorial Association,, or who
ever handles the project, to in
clude in its plans properly mark
ing the grave of this Frenchman,
whom it seemed had no friends,
but after his death found that
Griffin abounds with people who
are friendly, even to strangers
they know not.
The other morning Good Even
ing, along with Guye Haisten,
went to Stonewall Ceme
tery and tried to locate the
grave. But all signs of it were
missing.
Good Evening can hardly wish
for such luck as this — there
may be someone who has a
clipping of the story of that fu
neral in their scrapbook. If
there is such a person we’d like
to know of it.
Thanks in advance for any in
formation anyone can furnish.
The slightest “clue” will be ap
preciated. That ten years bet
ween 1929 and 1939 is a long way
back on the calendar — but
this event was so unusual the
chances are that someone may
remember it.
Speaking of old times!
The other day Good Evening
came across a book “Carpet—
Baggery” a novel written by
Clifford Lanier, brother of the
poet Sidney Lanier. The father
of the two Laniers once lived in
Griffin and the poet, Sidney La
nier, was baptised in the Pres
byterian Church here.
This novel tells how “carpet
baggers” fleeced the people of
the South following the War
Between the States. We have
read some of the book and hope
to find time to complete it.
There was one sentence in an
early chapter that impressed this
reader. Clifford Lanier wrote
"It is by such boldness that in
war victory is frequently snat
ched from the giant and wr
eathed about the head of the
dwarf.” That should be encour
aging to “the dwarf” and should
be a warning to those who think
they are such “giants” they can
not be cut down.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and warm tonight and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 86, minimum today
58, maximum Tuesday 81, mini
mum Tuesday 57. Sunrise Th
ursday 6:23 a.m., sunset Th
ursday 7:03 p.m.
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Clarence Gifford, Amy Eastwood, her father and Mrs. Eastwood enjoy the Griffin
Golf Course.
New Yorkers Liked
Griffin; They Stayed
A New York couple on t'heir
way south for a three-week va
cation saw the golf course sign
at Taylor and Eighth streets.
They decided to drive by a n d
see what the golf course looked
like. They liked it and have been
in Griffin for two and one half
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Eastwood
of Johnstown, N.Y., were on
their way to Florida for some
sun and golfing when they saw
the sign in Griffin.
They turned right on Eighth
street in search of the golf
course. They missed a turn near
the Griffin - Spalding Hospital
and ended up at the airport
Someone there gave them dir
ections to the golf course.
They drove around the course
and liked what they saw. “It Is
much like the golf course at
home,” Mr. Eastwood said.
He said the decision to stay in
Griffin was Mrs. Eastwood’s.
"We are glad now that we stop
ped in Griffin and did not sear
ch further south,” he said.
After looking at the golf cour
se and making a decision to
stay in Griffin, the Eastwoods
went to the Chamber of Com
merce for assistance in getting
a room.
They rented an apartment
from Miss Thelma Powell at 111
West Poplar street.
Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood have
a daughter, Amy, who is a col
lege student in Cleveland, Ohio.
She had planned to join her par
ents in the “sunny south” on
their vacation. The stop in Gr
iffin did not change the plans.
“Amy flew from Cleveland to
Atlanta and we picked her up
at the airport there,” Mrs. East
wood said.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. East-
Hard Job
MADISON, Wis. (UPI) —Mrs.
Lee Zeldin registered as a
lobbyist for the “Committee for
Direct Action” Tuesday and
listed her occupation as “human
being.”
LOP SIDED
DELTA, Colo. (UPI) —The
Delta Panthers didn’t give up,
even though they were down 18-
0 after the third frame of their
baseball game with Grand
Junction Central.
It was in the fourth inning
they gave up. Grand Junction
Central scored 21 runs in the
fourth and was still at bat when
Delta threw in the towel. The
score at the time was 39-0.
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Established 1871
wood, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Gifford, also of Johnstown, N.Y.,’
were vacationing in Florida. The
Eastwoods wrote them about
Griffin.
Mr. and Mrs. Gifford left Flo
rida and have been in Griffin for
several days.
"Griffin rs a nice city and is a
little larger than Johnstown.
Johnstown has about 10,000 peo
ple,” Eastwood said. “The peo
ple here have been most coope
rative and friendly,” he said.
“We live 40 miles from Hyde
Park and have never seen the
home of Franklin Roosevelt
there, but Monday we took a
trip to Warm Springs and visi
ted the Little White House,”
Eastwood said.
Mrs. Eastwood said they are
planning to visit Stone Moun
tain and several other Georgia
tourist attractions on their way
home.
They will leave Griffin Friday
to return Amy to school in Cle
veland. The Giffords will return
home through Birmingham,
Ala., where they will visit
friends.
“We went to the Griffin High
football game Friday night and
enjoyed it very much,” Mrs.
Eastwood said. “It looks as if
Vocational Rehab
Office Set Here
A State Vocational Rehabili
tation Office will be opened in
Griffin within the next month.
This was announced today by
State School Supt. Jack Nix
and Dr. A. P. Jarrell who is in
charge of vocational rehabilita
tion programs for the Depart
ment of Education.
The new office will be at 231-
C, South 10th street. It will ser
ve Spalding, Pike, Newton, Hen
ry, Butts, Macon and Taylor
Counties.
The manager will be Marvin
Denton, Jr., of the Macon Dis
trict Office. He is making ar
rangements for the new office
and soon will transfer to Grif
fin.
Mr. Denton stated, “Vocation
al Rehabilitation is a public ser
vice program sponsored joint
ly by the federal and state go
vernments to restore disabled
people to the maximum physi
cal, vocational, social and eco
nomic usefulness of which they
are capable.”
The office will have a staff of
about four or five people at fir
st.
Presently Spalding County is
GRIFFIN
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Griffin is going to have a fine
team for the upcoming season,”
Eastwood said.
“We are sports-minded people
and enjoy almost all types of
sports,” Mrs. Eastwood said.
They have played golf at the
Griffin course almost every day
they have been in Griffin. “We
have watched as the trees ar
ound the course have begun to
bud,” Mrs. Eastwood said.
Mr. Eastwood said it was
snowing when they left John
stown and that the golf season
there would not start until about
the first of May. It ends in ear
ly September.
“This is the first year we have
been south that we did not burn
up the first day,” Mrs. Eastwood
said. “The climate here has
been perfect for our vacation,”
she added.
This morning when the group
was stopped on the golf course
for an interview, they were on
the tee at the fifth hole. Mrs.
Gifford took the morning off
from the golf course to go to the
beauty shop.
Mr. Eastwood said they had
had a most enjoyable vacation
in Griffin and are planning to
stop here when they come south
again.
served through the Macon office
for the Vocational Rehabilita
tion program.
Mr. Denton explained the ser
vices offered through the pro
gram as follows:
"Medical diagnosis (to help
evaluate work capacity); Coun
seling and testing (directs the
individual to the right job); Me
dical care (if needed to increase
ability to work); Training for a
job: Maintenance and transpor
tation costs during rehabilita
tion; Rools and equipment (if
needed); Job placement; Job
follow-up (to make sure both the
handicapped person and his em
ployer are satisfied).
“Services are available to all
people 16 years of age or older
who have a substantial physical
or mental job handicap, which
can be corrected or reduced with
a reasonable expectancy of em
ployment.
In the fiscal year 1965-66 Ge
orgia rehabilitated 8,010 disab
led citizens, 257 who were from
the counties to be served by the
new Griffin office, and these
counties served approximately
643 clients during the year.”
Nine Killed In
Cornell Fire
12 Injured;
Professor
Was Victim
By GARY EDWARDS
United Press International
ITHACA, N.Y. (UPI) —Eight
Cornell University students and
one faculty member were killed
early today when fire destroyed
a coeducational dormitory hous
ing outstanding students. Six of
the students were women.
About 12 others were injured.
Four of them, all students, were
hospitalized in satisfactory con
dition.
The names of the victims
were withheld pending notifica
tion of relatives.
Three of those killed in the
pre-dawn blaze at the brick,
two-story building known as the
Cornell Residential Club, were
freshmen members of Cornell’s
ne w experimental program
which leads to a Ph. D. degree
in six years.
The other five dead students
were seniors or graduate
students.
The first alarm was sounded
at 4:18 a.m. EST as flames
were spotted in the 15-year-old
building. There were a total of
71 persons in the dormitory at
the time, a spokesman at tire
Ivy League university said.
Many students in the exper
imental six-year Ph.D. pro
gram, begun only last fall, were
described as “outstanding”
scholars. “They were chosen
from across the country,” a
spokesman said.
The bodies were taken by
ambulance to a makeshift
morgue set up in the garage of
the university infirmary. Dr.
Norman S. Moore, a university
physician, said many of the
victims had been severely
burned.
“The cause of the fire is not
known,” a Cornell spokesman
said, “but an official inquiry is
under way. The university will
conduct a memorial service for
the victims of the fire on
Friday at 2 p.m. in Sage
Chapel.
“President James A. Perkins
is returning to Cornell from
Europe. Provost Dale R. Corson
has expressed the university’s
shock and grief and is extending
condolences to families of the
deceased.”
The dormitory is located in
the community of Cyuga
Heights but is still on the
grounds of the rambling Cornell
campus.
The entire center portion of
the dormitory was ablaze when
firemen arrived.
Harris Named
Line Coach
Coach John P. Harris of North
Clayton High School will be re
commended to the Griffin-Spal
ding Board of Education next
week as Griffin High line coach.
Supt. George Patrick, Jr., and
Principal D. B. Christie said
Harris had agreed to accept the
position. He will teach math at
Griffin High in addition to h i s
coaching duties.
He is the first addition to the
staff since Max Dowis accep
ted the head coaching position
at Griffin X-gh.
Country Parson
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“Proper punishment is edu
cational — like a smashed
thumb helps us learn how to
hit a nail with a hammer.”
Vol. 95 No. 80
Mrs. Cook Will Retire After
41 Years With City Os Griffin
Mrs. Raymond Cook will end
more than 41 years as a city of
Griffin employe when she retires
April 15.
It’s the only place she’s ever
worked since graduating from
the Macon Business College.
Mrs. Cook has served under
seven different city managers.
E. P. Bridges was in the office
when she was employed Oct. 1,
1926. Since then she has worked
with J. P. Persons, Perry Po
well, Richard Drake, Jack Lang
ford, Hill Healan, Elmer Geor
ge and now again with Mr. Lang
ford.
A native of Butler, Ga„ Mrs.
Cook was educated in the But
ler public school system. She
accepted a job with the city of
Griffin upon her graduation
from the Macon school.
When she came, most of the
city’s affairs were handled
from the office on the right hand
side of the city hall’s main en
trance.
The office to the left, now oc
cupied by City Manager Lang
ford, was police headquarters.
Mrs. Cook recalls that she and
about four other people worked
in the city manager’s office. The
Light and Water Department
business then was handled in the
same office. But years ago, it
had to be moved to separate
quarters because it had grown
so.
Mrs. Cook probably knows
more about the city accounts
and books than any other per
son around. It’s been her res
ponsibility to keep track of im
portant records and she has
done it well.
Included in her work is t h e
handling of city business license
accounts as well as some tax re
cords.
There are not many business
men in the city who have not
had some dealings with Mrs.
Cook, since the nature of her
job has brought her into contact
with them.
Mrs. Cobk started on the main
floor of the city hall and now
County Makes
Food Stamp
Application
The Spalding County Commis
sioners Tuesday made applica
tion to the state for a food stamp
program.
Chairman Jack Moss said that
it probably would take six mon
ths to get approval and then
some six weeks or more to set
up the program.
If the food stamp program is
approved, it will replace the pre
sent surplus food program for
low income families.
The county has been studying
the stamp program for sev
eral months.
Chairman Moss said that Com
mercial Bank & Trust Co. and
First National Bank of Griffin
had agreed to handle the stamps
for the county.
The Spalding Department of
Family and Children Services
will handle certification of fam
ilies.
Those found to be eligible will
be able to purchase food stamps
with which to buy groceries.
Chairman Moss said the pro
gram would work something like
this:
If a person with a low income
is found to be eligible for the
food stamps, he may purchase,
for instance, S2O worth of stamps
for say sl6.
The amount of stamps a per
son can purchase and at what
rates will be determined by ru
les set down by the state.
Those participating in the pro
gram would pick up their stamps
each month at one of the two
Griffin banks.
Under the present surplus food
program, qualified persons go
to the Department of Family
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Mrs. Cook at bookkeeping machine.
she works in one of top floor of
fices. As city administrations
have changed and the city has
made changes to keep up with
modern business methods, Mrs.
Cook has adjusted to them.
She can handle a modern book
keeping machine with skill and
her experience and background
in city service have been an as
set to the city for many years.
Mrs. Cook’s husband is Ray
mond Cook who has retired after
a long career with the Griffin
and Children Services building
to pick up their food supplies.
Under the stamp program,
they would be eligible to pur
chase food with their stamps
from stores which elect to par
ticipate.
Merchants will be given an op
portunity to participate in the
program when it is set up,
Chairman Moss said.
The mechanics of setting up
the program will be announced
when Spalding’s application is
approved. Chairman Moss said.
Until that time, the county will
continue to operate its surplus
food program.
‘Mellow Yellow’
Called Dangerous
ATLANTA (UPI) — Federal
Drug Administration Commis
sioner Dr. James L. Goddard
said his agency is studying
"mellow yellow,” an innovation
in the hallucinatory drug field
produced by smoking the
cooked residue of a banana
peel.
Goddard, here to address the
American Association of
Planned Parenthood Physicians,
said banana peels contain sero
tonium which can cause mental
distortions.
The commissioner also said
his agency must learn why
many young people have ac
cepted the use of “deadly” hal
lucinatory drugs such as LSD.
"This drug can be fatal,”
Fire Department.
It was while working at t h e
city hall that she met her hus
band.
The people around city hall
teased Mr. and Mrs. Cook, ac
cusing them of wearing out a
tree on the Sixth street side of
the building “while courtin un
der it.’’
Witn a sort of smile and slight
blush, she admitted there might
be a little truth in what they
say.
Six Races
Planned At
Harness Track
Six races will be held Sunday
afternoon beginning at 2 p.m.
at the Towaliga Harness Tract
three miles east of Hampton on
McDonough road.
Marion Moore, who operates
the track, said some of the trot
ting horses will be from Florida.
Harness racing is being intro
duced in the Griffin area for the
first time in 30 to 40 years. It is
one of America’s fastest grow
ing sports.
The track is three miles east
of Hampton on Georgia 20.
Admission will be $2 for ad
ults, $1 for children under 12
and children under six will be
admitted free. Parking will be
50 cents.
Goddard said, "and we must
ask ourselves why is it such a
dangerous, often deadly, drug
can gain acceptance by so
many people in this country.”
He told the convention about
six million American women
who take oral contraceptives and
added none of the pills on the
market are known to be harm
ful.
Goddard said an 11-year re
search test done on Puerto
Rican women showed no harm
ful effects from the pills but
this was inconclusive for Amer
icans.
“There will have to be con
siderable research and evalua
tion done in America before
we approve of that or any
other drug,” he said.