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VENIN VF
By Quimby Melton.
I Souvenirs, Mementos, Relics
■ire similar in that they are kept
Ho remind one of some visit,
Home experience in the past,
Hsome event worth remember
ing. And when one has an arti
cle that combines all the various
Hneanings of the three words, it
Hecomes valuable to the ow-
Hier at least.
I Good Evening Tuesday found
Huch a Souvenir, Memento, and
Htelic.
I It is as beautiful a specimen
Hf “ruby glass” we have ever
Heen. It is a round plaque of
■ üby glass and is beautifully et
ched. Across the top is the word
■ Griffin”, in the center of the
Bhrcle is a large 1, beneath whi
yh is etched a wreath of leaves.
■Even if it did not have a Grif
■fin connection we believe it wou
■d be what is called a “collec
■tor’s item.”
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I Now what is it? When did we
■come into possession of it? And
■how did we find it?
I Answering it in reverse order
■of the questions.
j Tuesday we called a friend
■who is in the business of repair
■ing antique furniture. At “Many
■Mortgages” we had a very old
I "secretary-bookcase” that had
■been in the family many years.
■Noticed that in one or two pla
ices the wood, having been dried
■ out by old age and a steam heat-
■ed house, was beginning to de
lvelop some cracks. We did not
■ want it to deterioate further, so
called this expert. He found on
examining the secretary-book
case that there was a lot of
Work that should be done, the
legs were loose and there was
danger of one giving way and
the whole thing crashing to the
floor.
We lifted the bookcase part,
which sat atop the desk and
sat it down to examine the desk
part. It was then that we found
this relic and souvenir. It, the
glass plaque, had been placed
on top of the bookcase many
years ago and forgotten.
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Now how did we come into
possession of it to begin with?
There are many in Griffin
who will remember a campaign
staged here during World War
Two to collect scrap metal and
rubber to be used in the war
preparations program. There
was a shortage of ir<sn and rub
ber.
Civic organizations joined the
Griffin Daily News in promoting
the collection. The response was
tremendous. The various things
collected were piled in the park
way between the old News buil
ding and the Imperial Theatre.
There were two “unusal” th
ings given.
One was an iron “calaboose”—
jail to you youngsters — that
was no longer needed by the
City of Sunny Side.
The other was a horse-drawn
fire engine the City of Griffin
no longer needed.
When the old fire engine was
brought to the “dump,” it was
accompanied by the late Fire
Chief J. J. Powell. Good Even
ing joined him as it was pushed
onto the scrap pile.
One either side of that fire
engine was a circular disc “Gr
iffin 1”.
“Uncle Sam won’t have any
use of these,” he said. “I’m go
ing to take one for a memento,
don’t you want the other?”
So there you are. The relic of
days gone by, itself a beautiful
specimine of the art of glass ma
kers and etchers of yester-years,
is now in our possession.
It’s just another reminder of
the fact that when Griffin is call
ed on to join in any patriotic ob
servance or campaign she ne
ver fails. Pictures of that big
pile of scrap metal and rubber
tires were taken and were used
in government publicity to show
"What one patriotic town can
do”.
There was a big scrap metal
and rubber dance in connec
tion with the campaign, held at
the old Everee Club, at which
admission price was some sc
rap metal or an old automobile
tire.
There was no doubt Griffin
was solidly behind Uncle Sam in
World War Two.
Worker Falls
To Death
ATLANTA (UPI) — Willie Lee
Satterwhite, 41, Carrollton, Ga.,
died Wednesday when he lost
his balance while working on a
building and fell 40 feet to the
ground.
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DOING HIS WASH during a lull in the Vietnam
fighting, Marine Tom C. Hall of Martinez, Calif., uses
a scorched tree limb for a clothesline for his socks.
Civil Liberties
Defends Right
To Rip U. S. Flag
Howe Relieved
Os Rights Duty
In Education
WASHNGTON (UPI) —Time
ly administration action shifting
civil rights responsibility away
from the Office of Education
appeared successful today in
lining up Southern support in
the house for the embattled
education bills.
HEW Secretary John Gardner
announced that civil rights en
forcement in education had been
taken out of the hands of Harold
Howe II and absorbed into ope
ration of the department.
Howe has came under fire
from many southern educators
for the “high-handed” manner
he has used in civil rights
compliance in schools.
Howe had served as U. S. Ed
ucation Commissioner under Se
cretary Gardner.
It was learned the House
Democratic leadership planned
to announce the authorization
bill for the $3.5 billion aid to
elementary and secondary edu
cation program would called
up for floor debate May 22.
The decision to turn loose the
bill was to be anno: — - after a
mid-morning meeting of Demo
cratic leaders with Speaker
John W. McCormack.
It would be the first major
great society program to be
tested in the new House, with
its greatly strengthened Repub
lican forces.
The administration fought
down opposition on two fronts in
arriving at a position where it
believed it had the votes to sew
up the education bill.
Republicans have vigorously
pushed an alternative, spon
sored by Rep. Albert Quie, R-
Minn., which would abandon the
present system of direct grants
to programs for poverty-area
pupils. It would substitute lump
sum grants to each state.
Chase Looked Like
‘Keystone Kops'
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
What may have appeared as a
scene in a “Keystone Kops”
movie ended early today with
the arrest of 22-year-old Donnie
Wayne Gilbert of Phenix City,
Ala.
Three Muscogee County police
cars went on a high speed
chase of Gilbert’s car from the
northern section of the county
to Columbus.
The chase, at speeds around
100 m.p.h., took Gilbert and the
police through a residential
DAILY t'NEWS
Daily Since 1872
(NEA Radio-Telephoto)
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Tire
American Civil Liberties Union
.says any law making It a
federal crime to rip, burn,
trample or spit on the U.S. flag
would violate constitutional
guarantees of free expression.
Lawrence Speiser, an official
of the ACLU, told Congress
Wednesday that offensive as
these acts are, they comg under
the first amendment protection
of “expression of opinion by a
symbolic act.”
In appearing before a House
Judiciary Subcommittee
Speiser injected a note of
caution into demands for
legislation which would crack
down hard on persons who
desecrate the flag.
Congressmen, angered by
recent flag burnings and
rippings by anti-war and anti
draft demonstrators, .have
urged penalties ranging up to a
SIO,OOO fine and five years in
prison for publicly defiling or
defacing the flag “by word or
act.”
Rep. Robert McClory, R-Hl.,
asked Speiser whether he
thought recent flag-burning
incidents might have had a
harmful effect on the morale of
U.S. troops in Vietnam.
They might, Speiser conceded,
but so might statements by
members of Congress critical of
the administration's policy in
Vietnam. Both, he said, are
part of the dialogue protected
by the first amendment.
“I believe Congress’ interest
is not the fear that the
government is in danger but
the tremendous offensiveness of
the act of flag burning to the
vast majority of American
people,” Speiser said.
He said he sympathized with
this indignation, but felt the
acts could not be made a
federal crime.
Speiser added that making it
a criminal offense to “cast
contempt” on the flag might
even ba applied to ’'critical
discussion of its design, failure
to salute it, or turning one’s
back on it as it passed during a
parade.
area, into a business section,
into another residential area—
police firing their pistols all the
while—and finally into down
town Columbus.
Officers had sped to a
grocery to investigate a bur
glary call and arrived just in
time to see a car roar away.
Gilbert was put in the Musco
gee County jail charged with
burglary. Officers found 85 car
tons of cigarettes and two cash
register drawers containing $l7O
in his bullet-riddled car.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Go., 30223, Thursday, May 11,1967
Youth Sent To Hospital
Police Warn Against
Glue Sniffing Rise
Griffin Marine
Killed In Viet
A Griffin marine who would
have been discharged June 15
has been killed in Vietnam.
He was identified as Cpl. Ja
mes Edward Harmon, 20, of
Route One, Griffin. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Har
mon, Sr., of Route One.
Virgil W. Whitehead, a Marine
Warrant Officer, came to Grif
fin today to tell the parents of
the Griffinite about the death.
He told them that Cpl. Har
mon was killed May 8 while
fighting in the Quang Tri area
of Vietnam. He was killed by
mortar fire, the Marine officer
said.
Cpl. Harmon was a member
of the Alfa Company, First Bat
talion, Fourth Marines.
He had been overseas about a
year.
Cpl. Harmon was a lifelong
resident of Spalding County and
educated in the public schools
here.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced pending the arrival
of the body.
He was the third Marine from
the Griffin area to give his life
for his country in the Vietnam
fighting.
James Thomas Harris, 19, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Evans
of 616 North Hill street, was
killed in action last December.
A former Griffin Marine,
Freddie Pitts, 20, was reported
killed this week in Vietnam. His
death was on April 30.
He was the grandson of Mrs.
Gladys Pitts of Griffin and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Pitts
US Casualties
Equal Record
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. forces
suffered a record-tying 274 men
killed and a near record 1,748
wounded in Vietnam combat
last week, American spokesmen
said today. Most of them fell
near the North-South Vietnam
border where Marines smashed
elite Communist forces trying
to push south.
Bulletin
DA NANG, Vietnam (UPI)—
U. S. Marines have captured
a North Vietnamese surface
to-air SAM missile inside
South Vietnam, it was learned
today. The missile was dis
c vered Wednesday by a Lea
therneck patrol sweeping a
long (he Demilitarized Zone
DMZ.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm Friday. Widely scattered
showers tonight, becoming heav
ier and more numerous Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 77, minimum today
58, maximum Wednesday 77,
minimum Wednesday 48. Sun
rise Friday 6:44 a.m., sunset
Friday 8:29 p.m.
Country Parson
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“Poverty is not being with
out things — it’s having no
hope of getting anything.”
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Cpl. James Edward Harmon
of Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Pitts
was reared in Griffin and at
tended public schools here. His
family moved to Florida two
years ago.
Cpl. Harmon is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Harmon, Sr.; one sister, Miss
Mary Ann Harmon; two broth
ers, Larry E. Harmon, J. B.
Harmon, Jr., all of Griffin; gr
andfathers, L. C. Beverly of Gr
iffin, William J. Harmon, Sr.,
of Atlanta.
Tl< Communists suffered
even heavier losses —1,903 men
killed in the same week,,
spokesmen said.
Heavy ground fighting conti
nued. American officials said
U.S. Marines Wednesday and
today caught and killed about
180 North Vietnamese 75 miles
south of the border. U.S.
casualties in the battle were 24
killed and 97 wounded.
But one U.S. strike plane’s
napalm bomb went awry in the
fight and the jellied gasoline
splashed into a Leatherneck
position, killing 5 Marines and
wounding 25, spokesmen said.
Fighting in the same area and
on the Cambodian border the
week ending March 25 resulted
in the previous record seven
day toll of 274 American dead.
The same campaigns in the
week ending March 18 produced
a record 1,874 U.S. wounded.
Pickup sth pgh; According to
Allied
Senate Panel Asks
Weaver To Testify
On Transportation
Otis Weaver, Jr., junior mem
ber of the Weaver Traffic Bur
eau of Griffin, has been invited
to appear before the U. S. Sen
ate Committee on Commerce
when it meets next week to con
sider legislation that will enable
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to require motor carr
iers to furnish better service to
smaller communities, especial
ly industrial centers now con
sidered “feeder” points by the
larger carriers.
Weaver, who is a licensed at
torney and who has been ad
mitted to practice before the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, and his father represent
many large and small industries
Vol. 95 No. 110
Brain Damage
Can Result,
Medics Say
The Griffin Police Department
today warned teenagers that
sniffing glue can be habit form
ing and cause permanent brain
damage.
The warning was made after
a Griffin youth, 16, was sent to
Central State Hospital at Mill
edgeville Wednesday as a result
of glue-sniffing.
A spokesman for the Police
Department said numerous Grif
fin youngsters who had been
picked up in the last several
weeks had been sniffing glue.
He said youngsters in Griffin,
mostly Negroes between the
ages of 10 and 18, have been
sniffing glue. He said the num
ber of people had increased in
the last several weeks.
The youngsters buy the tube
type glue used to put model air
planes together and put some in
a paper bag. They hold the bag
over their faces and breathe the
vapor. It leaves them in a
“drunken condition,” the spokes
man said.
He said the first time a young
ster sniffs glue, the effect will
last from 15 to 20 minutes. Each
time a person breathes the glue
he becomes more used to it and
the effect lasts longer. Even
tually, the spokesman said, the
glue-sniffing becomes a habit
and causes damage to the br
ain.
The spokesman said if a
person holds a bag to his face
long enough, the glue will knock
him out. He said only three or
four deep breaths of the glue is
enough to put a person in a
"drunken condition.”
The glue being used by the
youngsters is sold in most Grif
fin stores and can be purchased
by anyone, any age, he said.
The spokesman said if a par
ent sees his child sniffing glue
or in a drunken state, he should
call the Griffin Police Depart
ment.
The spokesman said, "This is
the type of thing you hear of
happening in large cities, but it
also is happening in Griffin, Ga.
Most of the youngsters, the
spokesman said, do not intend
to form a habit of glue-sniffing
or cause brain damage, but do
it for “kicks.” He said what
sometimes begins as an experi
ment (sniffing glue just to see
what the effect is) turns into
a habit and brain damage re
sults.
The spokesman said the youth
sent to Central State Hospital
Wednesday, apparently had suf
fered brain damage from glue
sniffing. He was sent to the state
hospital on recommendation of
the Spalding County medical of
ficer.
The spokesman said arrests
have been made in the last
several weeks on glue-sniffing
and that they will continue as
long as the youths sniff glue.
throughout the Southeast
Small shipments, through rou
tes and joint rates by motor
common carriers have been
the concern of shippers and the
commission for sometime. But
unless there is new legislation,
fear has been expressed that
the large carriers will make de
liveries at “their” convenience
and not that of the customer.
Concern also has been express
ed that unless something is done
to improve shipments to “feed
er” lines many small carriers
will be forced out of business.
Weaver has been invited to
testify at the hearing by Sena
tor Warren G. Magnuson, chair
man of the committee.
Moose Leader Sets
Visit In Griffin
Harold D. Ross, Supreme Gov
ernor, Loyal Order of Moose,
will visit the Griffin Moose Lod
ge on Saturday.
James Chappell, governor of
the Griffin Lodge, announced
that a large class of candidates
will be enrolled in his honor be
ginning at 7 p.m.
Governor Ross is from Mt.
Morris, 111. and has been an ac
tive Moose since 1936. He holds
the Pilgrim Degree of Merit, the
Order’s highest degree.
He has served as trustee of the
Mooseheart-Moosehaven Endow
ment Fund Board and was la
ter elected to the Supreme Co
uncil. He then was elevated
through the chairs to the office
of Supreme Governor.
He is vice president of the Ka
ble Printing Co. and has served
his community in many capa
cities. He was selected “Man
of the Year” in graphic arts by
the Graphic Arts Industry, Inc.
State and Regional Moose of
ficials also will attend and Con.
Values Stressed
Educator Believes
Students Feel
Shut Out Os Life
The name of the problem on
nany college and university
campuses today is alienation. It
is a problem in other phases of
society, too.
That’s how Bernard S. Mil
ler, New York educator, sized
up the situation in a talk to the
Griffin Kiwanis Club Wednes
day.
Many people feel they have
been cut off and shut out of so
ciety, nature, religion and oth
er phases of life and their ef
forts add up to zero, Miller said.
He is principal and associate
professor of education at Hun
ter College High School in New
York. The average IQ of stu
dents there is 145.
Educators today have address
ed themselves to the problem of
subject matter but not to values,
Miller said.
He commended Griffin High
School for pioneering in the
field of putting emphasis on hu
man values through humanities.
Miller was in Griffin this week
to work with the humanities pro
gram at Griffin High.
He said this program was one
of the few in the country and
that Griffin High was pioneer
ing in the field.
Discussing alienation. Miller
said that a religious approach
to the problem would be of little
use.
“Prayer and God are among
the things from which many stu
dents and other people feel cut
off,” Miller said.
He said on large university
campuses where enrollment rea
ches in the thousands, students
feel they are nothing more than
a number in an IBM machine.
Professors simply do not have
time to deal with students as in
dividuals, Miller said. In some
instances, professors are busy
“moonlighting” and can devote
little more their classroom time
to education, he said.
Miller deplored the fact that
some institutions spend more
money on housing, recruitment,
food service, buildings, books,
supplies and other things than
they do on the people who do the
teaching. This causes a slip
in quality, he said.
Another problem on the cam
pus today, Miller believes, is
“pressure cooker” atmosphere
in learning. There is pressure to
maintain high grades to get in
to graduate school and from
there on the pressure builds and
builds. Miller said.
He said that latest figures in
dicate 1,000 students committed
HAROLD D. ROSS
Supreme Moose Governor
John J. Flynt will be a guest of
honor.
suicide in one year and that an
other 9,000 attempted it.
Tire adages and answers of
former generations do not ans
wer today’s problems, he said.
Ben Franklin’s quotation ab
out early, to bed, early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise does not hold true for
the younger generation, Miller
said.
For all around them they see
most peofrfe go to bed early and
get up early, Miller said, but ne
vertheless they are sick, poor
and ignorant.
Each generation must find its
own answers, Miller said.
He said the society of the fu
ture which is just around the
corner is one both interesting
and horrifying to contemplate.
He said research in biology
is experiencing the biggest boom
on college campusess today.
Man is very near cracking the
code of life just as he cracked
the code of the atom a few ye
ars ago, Miller said. When the
code of life is cracked, then man
will be able to control the type
of persons who come in the wor
ld, he said.
“Think of what that will
mean,” he challenged. “What
kind of qualities will man de
cide that persons should have?
What will people be like when
the risk factor is removed?
What kind of society will they
live in?” he asked.
He said today that efforts are
being made so a man can keep
his money when he dies. He
said that for a fee of SIO,OOO a
person can arrange to have
his body frozen at death so that
when the cure for cancer, heart
disease or whatever kills him is
found, the body can be brought
out of its frozen state, cured,
and the person can go on living.
Some people already are sign
ing up, Miller said.
He said that educators today
must find away once again to
make life meaningful. Cram
ming students’ heads full of
facts and having them write the
answers on a test paper is not
education, he said.
They must be taught the val
ues in life and be led to see that
giving something to life is more
important than getting some
thing from it.
In a society where anything
goes, pretty soon everything will
go, Miller declared. He warned
against that trend in this coun
try today.