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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening’s faith in his
fellow man has been strengthen
ed:
Last week, in Macon attending
a wedding, ran into the son of a
friend of many years. He, we
and several other friends from
Americus were talking about
•‘the good old days.” During the
conversation Good Evening
said he wondered if there was
anything today like old-t im e
country cured ham. This friend
spoke up — “Sure and Sumter
County farmers still cure the
best country ham in all the
land.” Then he added “I’ll prove
it to you, I’m going to send you
one when I get back home.”
We thanked him, but we did
not expect him to live up to that
promise; thought he’d forget all
about it.
But he didn’t! Thursday here
came a 13 pound country ham.
We could hardly wait to get
home to see how good it was.
Had a slice for dinner, along
with grits and gravy, “red eye
gravy” that is, and fried sweet
potatoes. It was as good as he
had said.
Thanks for the ham, and
thanks for strengthening our
faith in mankind.
Noticed in the bulletin of the
First Baptist Church where the
congregation will observe the
fifth anniversary of “The Walk
ers' coming to Griffin.” The Rev.
Alastair Walker, his fami'y, in
cluding his father and his mo
ther, have proven, a valuable
addition to our community. It
was a fortunate day, not only
for the Baptists but for every
one, when they moved here.
This is a fast moving world.
It's so easy to be here this min
ute and a few hours later in Eu
rope or in Asia or wherever you
might want to travel.
Thursday we weife in the office
of the Thomas Travel Agency
asking information about a trip
we are planning to Europe this
summer. As we waited for the
young lady, with whom we wish
ed to talk, could not help over
hearing her end of a phone con
versation. She was making ar
rangements for several Griffini
tes to go to Tokyo, Japan. We
did not pay much attention to
the phone conversation until it
dawned on us she was making
arrangements for a fine Griffin
girl and her parents to fly to
japan where the young lady will
be married to a young American
who is stationed there with a
large American owned corpora
tion. We wish this young couple
every happiness.
— * —
We also found out that Good
Evening and his daughter-in-law,
who will accompany him on the
trip to Burope, can leave Grif
fin, fly to New York, then to
England, and after a few days
there can go on to Belgium and
Holland and to Paris, and be
back in America all within two
weeks.
This will not be the usual sight
seeing trip. The purjwse of it is
to visit the American-Nether
lands Memorial Cemetery at
Margraten, where our younger
eon, Lt. Fred Melton, is buried.
This is a trip we had hoped to
be able to take with “My Mary",
but circumstances beyend my
control made this impossible. So
we are taking our daughter-in
love, not just daughter-in-law,
with us.
—4" —
Talking about trips:
Next week will be the 46th an
nual Rose Festival Week in Tho
masville, Georgia. If one has
ever attended this event all that
is needed to start them Thomas
ville bound is to mention the
date. But to those who have ne
ver had the pleasure of witness
ing the spectacular Rose Show
and the Parade of Roses, we
say you’ll always remember a
trip there to see this event as a
most pleasant one.
The Rose Festival begins Mon
day — the big high point of the
week is Friday, May 28th, when
the parade will be held.
REMOTE CONTROL
THE HAGUE, Holland (UPI)
—There were two harsh com
plaints aimed at British hypno
tist David Berglas after a
demonstration on Dutch televi
sion of his powers.
They were made by viewers
who claimed they had been
hypnotized. One claimed he
didn’t snap out of it unti’
Berglas’ recorded voice broke
the spell.
Arrests Mount In
Greek Coup Wake
By GEORGE ANDROULI
DAKES
United Press International
ATHENS (UPI) —The Greek
army arrested major political
leaders and at least 8,500 known
leftists in their Friday coup
marked by sporadic shooting
but ilf e in Athens was slowly
returning to normal today.
Martial law remained in
effect and thousands of workers
remained home, fearful of the
uncertain situation. Ministries
of the government and schools
remained closed.
The Greek Army remained in
tight control backing a national
military government headed by
Premier Constantine Kolias,
former prosecutor for the Greek
Supreme Court.
Behind Kolias in the govern
ment is Lt. Gen. Gregory
Spandidakis, vice premier and
minister of defense who is
generally believed to have led
the army coup.
Others in the government are
Brig. Gen. Stylianos Patacos,
minister of interior (police);
Col. Nicholas Makarezos, coor
dination; and Col. George
Papadopoulos, head of press
and information and minister to
the premier’s office.
But it was still not clear
whether the army had the full
backing of King Constantine,
the navy and the air force.
Original broadcasts announcing
the coup said the army acted in
the name of the king to save
Greece from anarchy.
Unconfirmed reports said
Adm. Engafopoulos, head of the
navy, was arrested by army
leaders when he refused to
cooperate. Observers noted that
the infantry, navy and air force
were not represented in the new
cabinet.
Commercial airlines jamming
the international airport were
beginning to leave and others
still waited their turns. Passen
gers on the first planes told of
hearing bursts of machinegun
fire through the city during the
night.
Passengers said they heard of
at least three persons killed but
reports in Athens mentioned
only one, with 10 persons
wounded.
Troops in full battle dress
standing beside tanks blocked
off entrances to parliament and
guarded communication cen
ters. Traffic and public trans
portation were returning to
normal, and strikes were
outlawed.
Premier Kolias called for
calm and order and for citizens
to go about their business.
However, newspapers still were
not allowed to publish and the
armed forces radio station was
the principal source of informa
tion. The radio gave no clue as
to the next move in Greece.
World reaction to the army
coup was mounting and the
Soviet Communist Party news-
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA—Partly cloud to cloudy
and mild with sattered showers
and possibly a few thunder
showers today. Partly cloudy
with little temperature change
tonight and Sunday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 78, minimum today
68, maximum Friday 84, mini
mum Friday 54. Sunrise Sun
day 6:03 a.m., sunset Sunday
7:14 p.m.
Time Bill Among
Those Signed
ATLANTA (UPI) —The bill
that puts Georgia on daylinght
savings time for six months be
ginning April 30 is law today.
It was one of 36 that crossed
Gov. Lester Maddox’s desk dur
ing a marathon bill-signing ses
sion Friday, the deadline for
him to sign measures passed by
the 1967 General Assembly if
they were to become law.
Maddox also signed the mea
sure giving state grants to
cities and counties, but he ve
toed several bills.
The vetoed bills included ones
to provide:
—Slum clearance in Atlanta
and East Point. The bill would
have permitted cities to tear
down slums and assess the cost
to landowners.
—Taking away the right of a
DAILY - NEWS
Established 1871
paper Pravda attempted to
blame the takeover on the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA). Demonstrators in Copen
hagen demanded that King
Constantine be hanged and that
his Danish-born wife Anne-
Marie return home.
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Hospital Here Stays
On Accredited List
The Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital has been accredited for
a three-year period by the Joint
Commission On Accreditation of
Hospitals.
Hospital Administrator Carl A.
Ridley received notification of
the accreditation by mail.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
was inspected by Dr. Russell
H. Blood of the Joint Commis
sion, which is composed of the
American College of Physicians,
the American College of Surge
ons, the American Hospital As
sociation and the American Me-
Surveyor Makes
Furrow On Moon
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) —
America’s Surveyor 3 moon
prospector made an historic
mark on the moon today, using
its beak-like shovel to plow a
two-inch-deep furrow into the
lunar topsoil.
Scientists at the Jet Propul
sion Laboratory (JPL) here
planned more experiments with
their sophisticated toy and
hoped to have the shovel plow a
trench and possibly pick up a
small pebble spotted in photo
graphs of the site, in the Sea of
Storms.
child to decide when he
reached 14 which parent it
would live with in the cases of
divorce. About 50 legislators
sent Maddox a petition saying
a bill would be introduced in
the next session to increase the
age to 16.
—Disclosure of medical rec
orders under certain circum
stances and immunity to the
persons making the disclosure.
—Mandatory retirement of
Supreme Court justices and
court of Appeals judges at age
70.
—A joint airport authority for
Screven County and the City of
Sylvania.
—Authorizing the state reve
nue commissioner to issue a
decal with a car’s license num
ber - on it to be attached to the
vehicle’s rear window.
Griffin, Go., 30223, Sat. and Sun., April 22-23,1967
Killer Tornadoes Slash
Northern Illinois Area
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Administrator Ridley gives okay sign on hospital inspection.
dical Association.
“In order to attain this stan
dard of professional medical
care, much work is added to the
doctors and hospitals. It is a
mark of quality in the medical
and hospital services. It is a
symbol that guarantees that
your hospital measures up to
high standards of operations
in every major respect,” Ridley
said.
“Here is what it can do for you.
It can mean that your recovery
is speeded up, your hospital stay
shortened, your pocketbook sp
ared because physicians who
practice in your hospital prac
tice good medicine and become
deeply concerned with your
health. Well organized efforts
by everyone connected with the
hospital are directed to help you
get well,” he explained.
Ridley said accreditation can
mean a lot to the hospital.
“Physicians, nurses and allied
medical personnel seek the best
environment in which to follow
their professions and high cali
ber people are attracted to an
accredited hospital,” Ridley
said.
"To the community, the know
ledge that a hospital is accredi
ted is a source of pride, which
can be an additional drawing
card to new people and new bus
iness moving into the area,” he
said.
Members of the Griffin-Spald
ing Hospital Authority are: Carl
N. Richardson, chairman; Dr.
W. R. Gilbert, J. T. Doughtie,
James Head, Alyn Jones, Jack
Moss, O. M. Snider, Jr. and C. T.
Parker, secretary - treasurer.
The hospital is governed by the
authority.
More than 40 physicians and
dentists are on the hospital me
dical staff. Dr. Tom Hunt is pre-
Sprinkle Holds
Hope For Rain
Cloudy skies and a sprinkle of
rain in sections of the Griffin
area today gave Griffinites hope
that a 24-day drought would be
broken this weekend.
Weather Observer Horace
Westbrooks did not have enough
rain to measure this morning.
But the threatening skies gave
promise of some rain for parch
ed Griffin and Spalding resi
dents.
5-STAR WEEKEND
GRIFFIN
sident of the medical staff.
Many hours are contributed
each year to the hospital by the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital Auxil
iary. Mrs. Carl Beckham is pre
sident.
“There are those behind the
scenes without whose services
we could not have attained this
standard of excellence. This
group is the hospital staff who
is made up from many profes
sions which include administra
service, housekeeping, laundry,
maintenance and engineering,
pharmacy, technical areas such
as X-ray and laboratory servic
es and others which make up
the hospital team,” Ridley said.
Daughter Os
Stalin In US
For New Life
NEW YORK (UPI) —Though
heartbroken over having left
her loved ones in Russia, the
only surviving child of Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin today
began a new life in the United
States, the land she now calls
home.
“I believe one’s home can be
anywhere that one can feel
free,” said Svetlana Stalina in a
moving statement issued on her
arrival Friday.
Country Parson
SIIB
“Those of us who lack tal
ent serve the useful purpose
of helping the mediocre ap
pear brilliant.”
Vol. 95 No. 94
55 Known Dead;
Toll Expected
To Go Higher
By JAMES SHANKS
United Press International
CHICAGO (UPI) —The death
toll in the worst weather
disaster in northern Illinois
history climbed today as
workers uncovered bodies of
victims, many of them children,
buried by 18 tornadoes that
smashed dozens of communi
ties.
Authorities counted at least
sdead, nearly 1, injured and
feared the death toll would rise
even higher.
The tornadoes came out of
the west late Friday and spread
death and devastation from the
Mississippi River to Chicago.
Suburban Oak Lawn Mayor
Fred Dumke said at an
impromptu news conference
today an area around a
demolished trailer court had not
revealed all of its gruesome
story.
“There must still be bodies in
there and there must still be
people in there,” he said.
“There is devastation we
haven’t even seen yet.”
Dumke would give no dollar
evaluation of the damage.
“At this time we are not
worried about monetary value;
we are worried about our
people.”
“We need help,” he said. “We
need trucks and we need the
National Guard now.
Gov. Otto Kerner - and his
aides planned to tour the
stricken areas today. Officials
tance.
businessmen for federal assis-
Scores of children were
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55 miles northwest of Chicago.
Mayor Clair M. Hetland said he
feared the children, most
caught in school buses that
qualify home owners and
were crushed like so many
matchboxes, were dead.
Count Dead
Belvidere counted at least 20
dead. Oak Lawn, a southern
suburb of Chicago, had at least
28 dead.
Cook County Sheriff Joseph
Woods said the death toll in the
immediate Chicago area alone
probably would exceed 1.
Scavengers prowled through
debris in Belvidere and Oak
Lawn. Wood’s men and National
Guardsmen were ordered to
shoot looters on sight.
National Guardsmen were
mobilized to patrol against
looters in Chicago’s suburbs and
to clear debris and search for
bodies.
The 1-milie-an-hour storms
destroyed hundreds of homes
and injured thousands as they
ripped 175 miles from west to
east.
Fearful parents patrolled the
streets of Belvidere and Oak
Lawn with police today, hoping
to find children alive and
unharmed. The storms smashed
high schools in both cities.
Many of the dead were teen
agers.
Describes Scene
“They were lying all over,”
said Jean Cranston, a 15-year
old survivor of the horror at
Belvidere High School. “Their
faces were mostly covered with
blood.”
Authorities said today they
had searched the new Belvidere
High School and were sure no
more children were dead inside.
But they feared some of the
children had been blown out of
the building into neighboring
fields.
At Oak Lawn, the high school
was flattened, killing some of
the children, who had little or
no warning and were trapped
inside. A skating rink that was
hosting a party of children was
demolished.
Belvidere, the Boone County
seat with a population of 13,000,
was first hit at he giant
Chrysler Corp, assembly plant,
the town’s principal employer.
The tornado skipped on to the
high school and a shopping
center, killing as it went.
Director Makes
Pop Visit To
Wilkinson Prison
By JAMES K. CAZALAS
United Press International
MCINTYRE Ga., (UPI) —
State Corrections Director Asa
Kelley paid a “surprise” visit
Friday to the Wilkinson County
Prison Farm and later said it
was “not representative” of
Georgia’s prison camps.
He refused to say whether
Wilkinson was better or worse.
The inspection by Kelley and
a group of newsmen was trig
gered by four Negro escapers
who surrendered Sunday to Gov.
Lester Maddox during an open
house at the governor’s man
sion. They complained of bru
tality and intolerable conditions
at the camp.
It was also revealed for the
first time this week that a Ne
gro prisoner drowned in a pond
last December while acting as
a human duck retriever for a
guard.
The hour and a half inspec
tion tour of the 400 - acre farm
in rural Wilkinson County was
conducted by Warden R. T.
Bridges.
“I didn’t know Kelley was
coming until just a little while
ago, but I will be happy to
Soviets Plan
Spectacular
Space Voyage
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press International
MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet
Union will attempt to launch
two space ships manned by—a
total of four to six cosmonauts
within the next 48 hours,
informed sources said today.
The sources said the voyage
will include the most spectacu
lar Soviet space venture in
history, an attempted in-flight
hook up between the two
manned ships and a transfer of
crews.
Such a launch would put the
Soviet Union back in the
manned space race with the
United States after a lapse of
more than two years.
The launch will utilize a new
generation of space ships, the
sources said.
The new vehicles are reported
to be heavier, larger and more
sophisticated than their prede
cessors, the Voshkod (sunrise)
and Vostok (east) ships in
which Soviet spacemen made
their pioneer flights.
Soviet newsmen, photogra
phers and cameramen were
alerted to stand by for the
launch.
The crews are expected to
include three veterans, cosmon
auts Pvel Belyayev, Konstanton
Feoktistov and Valery Bykov
sky.
The Soviet press has carried
reports recently on the endur
ance, stamina and adaptation to
space conditions made by the
three early space men.
Presbyterians
Vote On Move
The First Presbyterian Chur
ch plans to vote Sunday on a pro
posal to move the church to an
other site.
The proposal has been under
discussion for a number of
weeks.
Members have discussed the
advantages and disadvantages
of the prposal and will decide
the issue Sunday with the vote.
show you folks around,”
Bridges said.
A few minutes earlier,
Bridges had ordered a photog
rapher to “stop taking pictures
until Mr. Kelley gets here.”
Kelley was shown through
spotless dormitories which were
supplied with toilets and hot
and cold water.
“They have it pretty good
here,” Bridges said.
Only two of the 22 prisoners
were available to talk to news
men. Both were Negro.
Asked if he was treated well,
convict Frank Greene, 32, of
Macon, serving time for at
tempted murder, answered,
“Yes sir, I eat beans, peas,
eggs and a lot of meat. I have
no complaints.”
The other prisoner, James
Robertson of Atlanta, said he
had seen no brutality. “I get
along pretty good myself,” he
added.
Both prisoners strolled from
a prison farm shed as the visit
ors arrived at the main build
ing to talk with Henry Patrick
Murphy, the guard who was
shooting the ducks that Willie
James Dudley was trying to re
trieve when he drowned.
“Tell these boys how the nig
' ger died," Bridges told Murphy.
Murphy said Dudley volun
teered to dive for the ducks
even though “I told him not
to.” Murphy said he tried to
push a plank to Dudley but he
pushed it back.
“There was another prisoner
there and I said to him ‘he’ll
come back up’ but that’s the
last damn time I saw him.”
Asked if he tried to swim to
Dudley, who was only 15 to 20
feet away, Murphy said, “No,
I did not. A fellow who is
drowning will grab any straw.
I wouldn’t have jumped in for
any amount of money.”
Murphy said he didn’t know
if ducks were in season last
Dec. 28 when Dudley drowned.
"I don’t pay attention to hunt
ing seasons,” Murphy said. I
have only bought one hunting
license in my whole life. I
think if a man takes a notion
to go hunting he ought to go.”
After the tour, Kelley declined
to answer reporters’ questions,
saying he would have a news
conference Monday. He added
he would meet Monday with
State Corrections Department
inspectors to map a program
for checking all 75 state prison
camps.
When asked if Wilkinson was
typical of Georgia camps, Kel
ley said, “It is not representa
tive. He refused to elaborate.
State Submits
Anti-Pollution
Regulations
ATLANTA (UPI) — New anti
pollution standards adopted Fri
day by the Georgia Water
Quality Control Board were en
route to federal officials today
to meet the mandate of the
1965 Federal Water Pollution
Control Act.
The act forces states to
adopt acceptible standards by
June 30 or have the government
intercede.
R. S. (Rock) Howard, execu
tive director of the Water Qual
ity Control Board, said most
polluters in the state will be
given up to five years to or
rect conditions except in emer
gency cases.
The rules adopted Friday will
apply initially only to interstate
waters but later will affect
every river and stream in the
state.