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VENIN O'
By Quimby Melton
Tomorrow, Sunday May 7th,
is the beginning of National Fa
mily Week. And the following
Sunday, May 14th, will be Mo
ther’s Day.
National Family Week will be
ushered in Sunday in many
churches throughout the land;
many having “Homecoming”
programs. Good Evening knows
of at least one church in this
community that will conclude
the day’s program with an old
fashioned Family Fellowship
picnic followed by the usual
Sunday night service when the
pastor will use for the evening
meditation the subject “Christ
Took What One Youth Had and
Blessed A Multitude.”
Not only does every commun
ity have its many homes, but
every church in every commu
nity is in fact the collective
home of the families that make
up their membership.
A community of strong ho
mes is a community of strong
churches:
A nation with strong churches
is a strong nation.
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“Be it ever so humble, there’s
no place like home” is undoub
tedly the best known and best
loved poem about home.
There are few things about
which more poems have been
written than Home. Probably
one that is quoted more than
any other is by Edgar Guest.
Few are familiar with the entire
poem, but thousands know the
opening lines:
“It takes a heap of living, to
make a house a home!”
Here is one that Good Even
ing ran across as he searched
his reference book “The Best
Loved Poems of the American
People”; it was written by
Charles Swain and is headed
“Home is Where There is One
to Love Us.” You may want
it for your scrap book, so here
it is:
“Home’s not merely
four square walls,
Though with pictures
hung and gilded;
Home is where Affection
calls —
Filled with shrines the
Hearth had builded!
Home Go watch the
faithful dove,
Sailing 'neath the heaven
above us,
Home is where there’s
one to love!
Home is where there’s
one to love us!
“Home’s not merely
roof and room,
It needs something to
endear it,
Home is where the heart
can bloom,
Where there’s some kind
lip to cheer it!
What is home with
none to meet,
None to welcome none
to greet us?
Home is sweet and
only sweet
Where there's one we love
to meet us!
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Here is a personal note to ev
ery home in the community: If
there are any homes here that
have sons, brothers, fathers,
husbands who gave their lives in
World War Two, whose earthly
bodies sleep in the Netherlands-
American Memorial cemetery
at Margraten, Holland, Good
Evening would like to know their
names, so he can, when he vis
its that sacred spot and the
grave of his younger son, he can
also visit their graves, place
flowers on them and if possi
ble get a picture of the grave
marker to bring home to the
families.
Please don't call on the phone,
but write us giving the name of
that loved one, his serial num
ber, and other information that
will make it possible to locate
the grave. And please include
the home address of the family
so whatever we can bring home
can be delivered.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm tonight and Sunday with
widely scattered thundershow’ers
Sunday afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER —High
today 72, low today 53, high
Friday 62, low Friday 53; sun
rise Sunday 6:49, sunset Sunday
8:25.
HSTMakes Each Day Count
By BILL OSTHOFF
United Press International
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPI)
—The once swift stride has been
slowed by arthritis. The jauntily
swung walking stick' has be
come a cane on which he leans
heavily.
Harry S. Truman will be 83 on
Monday and this year he will
not be there when the friends of
a lifetime gather at the Hotel
Muehlemach in Kansas City, as
they do every May 8, to
celebrate his birthday.
But his concern for the
republic remains as keen as in
the days when he was “giving
’em hell.”
“I think he’s trying to make
every day count,” said a long
time intimate who asked not to
be identified. “He wants to
record everything he can that
will be of help to future officials
and historians.”
Peach Growers From
Argentina To Visit
A dozen of the leading peach
growers in Argentina will visit
the Georgia Experiment Station
in Griffin next week to see what
is being done there in peach
research.
They will arrive in Griffin
Wednesday morning at the sta
tion. W. T Fullilove, station dir
ector, will welcome the group
at the Stuckey building. They
will begin their tour at the Fred
Melton Food Science building
where Dr. J. G. Woodroof will
show them what research is be
ing done on peaches.
The group will visit Pomona
Products Co. later in the morn
ing then will be guests of t h e
Won’t Prosecute
Draft Blockers
By DANIEL RAPOPORT
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Justice Department has no
plans to prosecute Stokely
Carmichael of other crusaders
against the draft so long as
their campaigns do not endan
ger the country.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Fred Vinson
told angry members of the
House Armed Services Commit
tee Friday that though they
may have been "outrageous,”
none of Negro leader Carmi
chael’s anti-draft statements
had violated the law.
Such dissent comes under the
protection of the First Amend
ment to the Constitution, he
SNAKE TRAP
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, N. J.
(UPI) —Some snakes in this
ocean county community are
living a people-type life, thanks
to the board of health.
Plagued with rattlesnakes, the
board built three macadam
patios behind the Brookwood
development in hopes the
reptiles sense the better life,
and bask on them, instead of
other neighborhood patios.
But there’s a catch, when a
rattler is caught sunning, a man
from the board of health, armed
with cyanide, does away with
his easy life.
Luna Orbiter 4 Heads
For Moon Orbit Monday
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) —
Lunar Orbiter 4 hurtled today
toward a moon orbit Monday
from which it will take
unprecedented mapping photos
of the lunar surface.
The spacecraft, launched
Thursday from Cape Kennedy
underwent a mid-course correc
tion Friday which aimed it at a
point some 1,800 miles below
DAILY
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat and Sun., May 6-7, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 106
He’ll Be 83 Years Old Monday
Truman, whose momentous
decisions reshaped world histo
ry, finds life fruitful, despite the
discomforts of arthritis.
Independence residents vivid
ly recall motoring down Tru
man Road early in the morning
and exchanging greetings with
their famous neighbor as he
took his daily strolls to the
nearby town square. Those
morning walks, for which
Truman was famous, were
abandoned some time ago.
But he continued to make
public appearances, travel at
intervals to New York to visit
his daughter Margaret, now
Mrs. Clifton Daniel, and his
four grandsons, and go daily to
his office in the nearby Truman
Library until late last summer
when he was hospitalized for a
colon disorder.
It was his fourth hospital stay
since leaving the White House,
and since then visits with
Griffin Kiwanis Club at noon at
the Elks Club.
They will be guests of the Ki
wanis International Relations
Committee.
The visitors will tour peach or
chards at the station during the
afternoon. Dr. E. F. Savage, and
Dr. Jeff Daniels of the station
staff will be with the group to
discuss technical aspects of ex
periments and developments In
the orchard tour.
They also will visit Southern
Fruit Orchards at gunny Side.
The following day the group
will go to Woodbury, Thomas
ton and Ft. Valley to see peach
orchards and talk with growers.
said.
“Let’s forget the First
Amendment,” boomed Rep. F.
Edward Hebert, D-La. “At least
the effort should be made. It
would show the American
people that the Justice Depart
ment and Congress were trying
to clean up this rat-infested
area.”
“The problem with that,”
Vinson replied, “is that a great
deal of the Constitution is
intended to protect minorities
and dissenters.”
The exchange occurred during
a committee hearing on extend
ing and revising the draft.
Vinson had been called to report
on enforcement features of the
draft law, which expires June
30.
One section provides impri
sonment for those who obstruct
or attempt to obstruct recruit
ment. A number of the
legislators said Carmichael’s
exhortations to resist the draft
did just that.
But Vinson said the Supreme
Court, going back to Oliver
Wendell Holmes, had ruled that
words by themselves were
protected by the First Amend
ment’s free speech clause
unless they constituted a “clear
and present danger.”
So far, he said, no anti-draft
statement had fit that category.
But he said he was not offering
blanket immunity, and that the
department might decide a
future utterance did endanger
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the moon’s southern pole.
The command was given by
controllers at Caltech’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory here.
The 860-pound photo probe,
constructed by Boeing, is
scheduled to begin photogra
phing 97 per cent of the lunar
surface on Thursday. Since this
requires a polar orbit around
the moon, the course correction
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
Truman have been limited to
close friends.
Residents living near the big
old Victorian house at 219 North
Delaware catch only occasional
glimpses of Truman entering a
car or returning home after a
trip to the barbershop, the
doctor, or perhaps, an afternoon
ride with his wife or an old
friend.
Not As Strong
“He just hasn’t the strength
any more to meet with all those
people.” a friend said.
Others who call at the home
say Truman, always a stickler
for propriety in such matters,
sometimes remains seated now
when visitors enter the room.
Recently he told a friend of
his wife’s that “they’re (the
years) all after me.”
Truman’s interest in -world
affairs —and happenings around
his home town —remains
foremost in his thoughts.
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JUST WAIT, for what probably seems like hours, is
all a worried Marine can do as he tries to comfort a
wounded buddy and keep a sharp eye on the skies
for the evacuation helicopter. In Vietnam’s heavy
fighting, the minutes are long.
Seven Arrested In
Anto Theft Hi ng
DALTON, Ga. (UPl)—Seven
men remained in jail today un
der bonds ranging up to $25,000
following their arrests on auto
mobile theft charges.
Whitfield County Chief Deputy
W. G. Tallent said the men
were members of a three
county auto theft ring that had
been operating for a year and
a half.
They were accused of operat
ing in Whitfield and Murray
counties in Georgia and Bradley
County, Tenn.
Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion agents and sheriff’s offices
in both Georgia counties cooper
ated in a seven-month investiga
tion which led to the arrests
and the recovery of 20 to 25
was necessary.
Like Orbiters 1, 2 and 3, the
spacecraft’s goal is to help
scientists select suitable landing
sites for Apollo astronauts.
However, it will map the
surface as a whole rather than
in limited areas as done by its
predecessors.
It also will try to take the
first pictures of the moon’s
dimly lighted polar regions.
NEWS
Recently he issued a statement
supporting President Johnson in
his handling of the Vietnam
situation.
Lt. Paul (Mike) Westwood, a
veteran of 32 years on the
Independence Police Depart
ment and Truman’s personal
chauffeur, takes the former
President on motor rides two or
three times a week.
“We just go wherever the
President wants to go,” West
wood said.
“He’s quite interested in
what’s going on around the town
and most often -wants to see
what’s hapening.”
Westwood, who has been
Truman’s personal escort since
the former President came
back home in 1953, is seen each
morning at the Truman Libra
ry. Almost daily, he and Miss
Rose Conway, Truman’s secre
tary, motor the short distance
—Truman called it a hundred
stolen cars and a large number
of parts, Tallent said.
The first arrests were made
a week ago and the final ones
Friday.
Being held were Ray Suther
land, 19; Glenn Quarles, 27; Al
len Hawkins, 19; Randall Dill,
18, and Johnny Gallman, 18, all
of Murray County, and Michael
Eisenhower, 19, and Jonathan
Hawkins, 19, both of Whitfield
County.
Tallent said an eighth mem
ber of the ring charged, Billy
Rollins, already was in prison
for violating probation on a pre
vious auto theft conviction.
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“Christianity suffers be
cause more people talk like
Christians than act like
them.”
swings of the cane —to the
Truman home where they
deliver the mail and gifts the
former President still receives.
Friends Remember
“There are a lot of people
around Independence who want
to be remembered to the
President,” one friend said.
“And I go to the house to give
him their regards. He remem
bers them all.”
Recently, another friend said,
he and Truman were starting
down the back steps of the
Truman home when he offered
the former President assis
tance.
“Here’s my arm Mr. Pres
ident, if you need it,” the friend
offered.
“No thanks,” Truman replied.
“I can make it on my own.”
Truman’s longtime friends
will celebrate his birthday
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North Viets Hit
Bloody Hill 881
With Mortars
Russia Passes
Word It May
Step Up Aid
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
United Pre s s International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —So
viet diplomats have passed
word that further U.S. escala
tion of the Vietnam war would
result in increased Russian
arms shipments to Hanoi.
They declined to predict what
type of weaponry might be
involved in any accelerated
Russian aid to North Vietnam,
but previously a number of
Russians have spread specula-
FBI Agents Get
Cal! In Probe
Os JFK Death
By M. GEN EMEARNS
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) —
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison’s
assassination investigation
reached into federal ranks
today with grand jury subpoe
nas issued for an FBI agent and
a former FBI agent.
Sheriff’s deputies served a
subpoena Friday on FBI agent
Regis Kennedy in his Federal
Building office. Deputies said
the FBI told them Warren
Debrueys had been transferred
to Washington.
Debrueys reportedly worked
with agent Kennedy in the New
Orleans investigation of the
assassination in 1963 and early
1964.
Assignments Ordered For
Married High School Girl
ATLANTA (UPD— Mrs. Lin
da Benson Bennett, a married
high school student, goes back
to school Monday armed with
a court order that teachers
must give her assignments.
U. S. District Judge Frank
Hooper ruled Friday Cobb
County school officials must
give the girl assignments and
a diploma if she passes the re
quired examinations.
Mrs. Bennett, a senior, had
asked to be allowed to attend
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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS are due former president
Truman, who celebrates his 83rd May 8 at at Inde
pendence, Mo.
tion such support could include
ground-to-ground missiles.
“There is a feeling in some
Soviet circles that we have not
been tough enough with you,”
one Russian diplomat told a
reporter Friday at a Soviet
Embassy reception.
“Your administration’s con
viction that you have a missile
lead over the Soviet Union
seems to have encouraged the
United States to take an
increasingly hard line in Viet
nam.
“This is very likely to make it
increasingly difficult to improve
relations between our coun
tries.”
U.S. officials acknowledge
that the renewed American
determination in the conflict is
a risk to the administration’s
“bridge building” policies in
Eastern Europe.
But they contend that they
are still not entirely sure just
how far the Russians might go
in rejecting the easing of East-
West tensions which President
Johnson called for last fall.
Until relatively recently the
Russians indicated in private
conversations that the Soviet
Union was willing to seek areas
of agreement even though the
public statements of Soviet
leaders were discouraging.
Now, even the private tone of
Soviet envoys is toughening,
particularly since the U.S.
bombings around the Haiphong
area. Some experts see this
development as a new form of
subtle pressure to get the
United States to ease off.
classes but the judge did not
rule on the issue. Attorneys for
the girl said they would study
the court order to determine
whether to appeal.
Mrs. Bennett was married
Feb. 12 to Army Pvt. Robert
A. Bennett who is stationed in
Germany. She was expelled
from school April 12 when
school officials learned she was
married
Mrs. Bennett testified that
the principal previously agreed
Three Planes
Lost Over
Hanoi In Raid
By EUGENE V. RISHEB
SAIGON (UPI) —North Viet
namese troops today slammed
round after round of mortar
shells on U.S. Marines who
wrested strategic Hill 881 from
them after 12 days of some of
the bloodiest fighting of the
war.
A spokesman said one Marine
was killed and six others
wounded before American coun
terfire silenced the Communist
guns.
In Saigon, military spokesmen
announced the loss of three
FlO5 fighter-bombers in raids
near Hanoi Friday. North
Vietnam said the raiders
actually hit the center of Hanoi
and claimed seven were shot
down.
Angry Crowds
The official Soviet news
agency Tass said in a dispatch
from Hanoi that captured
American pilots were led
through angry shouting crowds
in the Communist capital to a
news conference this morning.
It identified three of them as
Air Force Lt. Cols. James
Lindberg Hughes and Gordon
Albert Larsen and Lt. J.
Richard Shiverley. Hanoi also
released photographs of two
men, one wounded, it identified
as pilots shot down in Friday's
raids.
The U.S. spokesman said all
three planes were downed by
ground fire and the pilots listed
as “missing in action.” The
losses brought to 533 the total of
U.S. planes lost over North
Vietnam.
The raids Friday included the
first reported strikes against
the Ha Dong Army Barracks in
Hanoi’s southwestern suburbs.
to let her get assignments frotr.
teachers. She told the court
teachers refused to give het
specific assignment and indicat
ed to her any final test she
would be given would be very
difficult to pass.
School officials said they feel
a discipline problem can result
from having married students
in class. They described Mrs.
Bennett as “a very fine young
lady from a very fine family”
and a good student.