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By Quimby Melton
Monday and Tuesday we dis
cussed the Illinois Student Lea
ders .Prayer Breakfast at Spr
'ngfield, Ill.; telling of the more
han 600 student leaders who
i‘.tended, and of the scarcity of
■lder folk. It was strickly a yo
mg folks affair, conceived by
oung students, planned by yo
mg students, and run by young
students. The ten older folk,
Jood Evening was fortunate en
ough to be invited to be one of
• hem, sat, listened, marvelled
find applauded.
Tuesday we told of the speech
pt a radio network White House
porrespondent. Today we’ll dis
puss the speech of Governor Otto
Kerner.
Earlier in the year Governor
Kerner had held a Prayer
Breakfast similar to the one
held annually in Washington. It
so happened that some students
attended and began to ask “Why
not have a Student’s Prayer
Breakfast?” They kicked the
idea round, called on the gover
nor and asked him the same
question. “There’s no reason,”
he told them, then he sugges
ted they set up a committee and
g. t busy.
So that Prayer Breakfast Sat
urday morning was held. And
there were more than 600 stu
ci -nts from all over the state on
hand.
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Governor Kerner was intro
duced, after the radio man had
spoken, by the President of the
Northwestern University Stu
dent Body.
Governor Kerner, now in his
second term as chief executive
of the State cf Illinois, is a po
lished speaker. Prior to being
elected governor he had served
as state auditor and in the Gen
eral Assembly and had been a
superior court judge. Somehow
his deliberate delivery remind
ed Good Evening of the late
Georgia Senator ‘Walter F. Geor-
Ce.
Like any skillful public speak
er the Governor- warmed up his
audience by telling some stor
ies of his experience as a public
servant. He also managed to get
in a plug for some controver
sial bills he is backing in the
General Assembly, now in ses
sion. He told his audience of yo
ung people, “I have been accus
ed of arm twisting and all that.
If you believe in these bills how
about a little arm twisting when
you get home? We’ll need it.”
The highpoint of the Gover
nor’s address came when he told
what an important part Prayer
held in his life. “I’m not asha
med that I pray often; and I'm
not boasting that I pray. I know
that prayer is answered. When I
face an issue, either personal or
t-tate wide, I ask God’s guidan
ce, believing in my heart that
if God approves of that for whi
ch I pray He will help me.”
Here was a man successful in
the field of politics; a man who
held the highest office the voters
cf his state could give him; a
r.’.an, who though he denies he
has any such ambitions, has
been called a possible candidate
lor the Presidency in years to
come — he’s still a young man
and can ride out at least two
Democratic conventions before
considering the matter serious
ly — telling those 600 and more
student leaders to Pray; telling
them that faithful praying could
and would be answered.
This w-asn’t an evangelist tell
ing them to pray; it was a two
fisted, some say hard boiled,
successful politican, in a state
where often there are “no holds
barred” standing up before an
audience and saying the pro
blems of the individual, of the
state, of the nation and of t h e
world could be solved by pray
ing people.
There is no doubt in our mind
but that his speech made a pro
found impression on all those
young people.
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Thursday this column will
tell why Good Evening thinks he
did not waste his time in tra
velling 1500 miles to attend a
Prayer Breakfast; and will make
certain suggestions.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair with general
warming trend Thursday. Cool
and clear again tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 76 low today 52 high
Tuesday 73, low Tuesday 48,
sunrise Thursday 6:40, sunset
Thursday 8:33.
Weaver Pleased Senators:
Didn't Read Long Statement
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
plight of small industries in Grif
fin, Ga., was described to mem
bers of a Senate Commerce sub
committee as a symptom of a
breakdown in the nation’s mo
tor freight network.
Big truck lines are bypassing
small towns, spuming unprofit
able commodities and even try
ing to squeeze out small feeder
trunk lines in their scramble
for the most profitable cargoes,
witnesses said.
The subcommittee, headed by
Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio,
called in a Griffin transporta
tion expert to spell out the ef
fect of these carrier policies on
small businesses and small
towns.
Otis H. Weaver Jr. testified
“They will not be able to place
their goods in the market,”
making it difficult for the com
munities to attract new indus
try.
“This will place your smaller
cities on the verge of drying
up.”
Too Little Service
In Griffin, food processors,
textile plants and small indus
tries theoretically have services
of 20 motor carriers but in fact
only four will provide service,
witnesses said.
The subcommittee made it
plain this was not a problem of
Griffin alone, nor was it con
fined to any region. The panel
is conducting three days of
hearings on corrective legisla
tion.
Fire Sweeps South
Sa van na h Beach Area
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga.
(UPI)—A general alarm fire
swept through the south end of
the Savannah Beach pleasure
“strand” Tuesday night destroy
ing business establishments and
sending hundreds of revelers in
flight.
No one was seriously injured
in the blaze that at one point
threatened to destroy the half
mile long area of restaurants,
short - order establishments,
skill - game booths and night
clubs.
The posh motels on the beach
were not endangered by the fire,
which started, authorities said,
in a “hot dog joint.”
The historic Savannah Beach
pavilion, the scene of gala band
concerts before the turn of the
century, but condemned in re
cent years, was destroyed along
with a popular night spot, Rip
tide, a club overlooking the At
lantic Ocean.
The beach was packed with
visitors when the fire broke out,
but they had plenty of warning
and escaped injury. Two firemen
were overcome by smoke and
were taken to a hospital for
treatment.
The fire jumped from build
ing to building along the wind
swept coast, and authorities es
timated damage would approach
one million dollars.
Firefighters brought the blaze
under control shortly before mid
night, and officials said the
beach’s summer season would
not suffer after the area is
cleaned of debris.
JUSTICE BLIND
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) —
Police raided an apartment on
Boardman Place and arrested
two persons on narcotics
charges when they found a
complete drug factory, includ
ing beakers, vials of powder,
rubber tubing, ether and
distilling equipment.
The apartment is across the
street from the hall of justice.
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“Money must be easier to
save than time — at least I
never heard of anybody
leaving time to his survi
vors.”
DAILY tNEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, May 17, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 115
Why was Weaver called as
one of the lead - off witnesses
Tuesday, along with the chair
man of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and several
top state public utility officials?
Weaver, with his father, Otis
Weaver Sr., operates the Weav
er Traffic Department, believed
the only firm of its kind in the
United States.
Expert Assistance
For a score of Griffin indus
tries that are too small to have
transportation experts of their
own, the Weavers work out
routes and rates, deal with car
riers, audit the charges, expe
dite shipments, file damage
claims, and finally, appear be
fore the ICC to prosecute com
plaints when they believe car
riers break federal regulations.
Weaver told UPI he cannot
prove his firm is unique. But he
is active in five national trade
organizations and has never
heard another like it mention
ed.
The elder Weaver founded
the company in 1925 after gain
ing experience in the Central of
Georgia Railroad traffic depart
ment, but his son did not join
him until 12 years ago.
The younger Weaver, now 45,
started out on a high school
and college coaching career but
switched after getting legal de
grees at a night law school in
Atlanta, he said.
As a subcommittee witness,
Weaver pleased the senators by
Rusk Says U.S.
Got Best It
Could On Cotton
WASHINGTON (UPI) Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk says
U.S. negotiators at the Kennedy
round of talks got the best
agreement they could on cotton
without cutting tariffs on wool.
Rusk briefed congressmen
from New England, Eastern
and Southern states Tuesday on
details of the textile negotia
tions in Geneva.
The American Textile Manu
facturers Institute said today it
still had not been able to ob
tain enough details on the a
greement to assess its effect on
U. S. textile producers.
Rusk told the congressmen
the United States “couldn’t have
gotten a five-year extension of
the long-term agreement with
out more concessions than we
were willing to offer.”
A three-year extension was
negotiated with tariff reductions
of 15 to 20 per cent.
But wool was taken completely
out of the talks after Australia,
the largest supplier of raw wool,
refused to reciprocate with to
bacco concessions.
Undersecretary Eugene V.
Rostow said the United States
also was unable to get recipro
cal concessions on man-made
fibres.
“We began with a 50 per cent
cut,” he said. “But we couldn’t
get reciprocal concessions and
had to cut back drastically to
an average of 13 per cent — or
about 20 per cent if you include
chemical fibres.”
Domestic textile producers
have complained bitterly in re
cent months over the rising
flood of imports, blamed for a
loss of 200,000 jobs. They pri
marily blamed lax administra
tion of the existing cotton a
greement.
The congressmen were told
that some of the increase in
imports last year was due to
countries suddenly filling long
standing quotas never before
filled. The new cotton agree
ment provides that if quotas are
not used the exporting countries
cannot carry them over for a
nother year.
Rostow said full details would
not be known for four or five
weeks because of “the enor
mous task of putting it all to
gether and circulating it to the
other countries.”
Rep. Phil Landrum, D-Ga.,
chairman of the textile group,
said, “We see a threat to thou
sands of American jobs if the
cuts are continued. We can’t
live under it unless, along with
the cuts, we get some quantity
control.”
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summarizing his long, technical
statement instead of reading it
in full at the hearing as most
witnesses did.
While other witnesses under
went cross-examination, Weav
er got thanks and no questions.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Signing Time
The 1967 Griffin High yearbook, the Aerie, were distributed this week and stu
dents have been busy signing each other’s books. Frank Steele and Debbie Boyd
swapped books for signing this morning in front of the school.
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Miss Mary Grubbs (1) and Mrs. Della Vaughn grad
uated from old Griffin Hospital.
81 Years Os Service
Veteran Nurses
Started At Old
Griffin Hospital
Two registered nurses who re
ceived 20 year pins last week at
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital graduated from the Griffin
Hospital, which is now Haisten
Funeral Home.
The 20-year pins were presen
ted for consecutive service at
the hospital and do not repre
sent their total years of service
to the community.
The nurses are Mrs. Della
Vaughn, who graduated from
Griffin Hospital in 1920, and
Miss Mary Grubbs, who gradua
ted in 1927.
The two women were trained
in Griffin and have worked here
most of their careers.
Mrs. Vaughn has been a re
gistered nurse in the Griffin
community except for 10 months.
Miss Grubbs worked as a staff
nurse until 1932 when she resig
ned to study anesthesia at Char
ity Hospital in New Orleans.
France
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When Miss Grubbs complet
ed her training, she worked for
seven years at the Douglas Hos
pital, Douglas, Ga. She returned
to Griffin and continued the
practice of anesthesia. In 1957,
she transferred to the Nurs
in Service Department where
she has been for 10 years.
The late Dr. Kenneth Hunt
said when the hospital moved
from Strickland Memorial to the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal that Mrs. Vaughn and Miss
Grubbs are “as much a part of
the hospital as the plumbing and
fixtures.”
Miss Grubbs and Mrs. Vaughn
have watched the growth of the
hospital from its infancy to its
present 158 bed capacity.
Since the graduation from the
Griffin Hospital, they have re
corded a total of 81 years of ser
vice and not just the 40 repre
sented by their service pins.
New Warden
Blames Lack
Os Discipline
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—S. Lamont
Smith, named Tuesday to suc
ceed Warden A. L. Dutton at
Reidsville State Prison, said
corrective steps were under way
today to combat major disciplin
ary problems.
Smith accused Dutton of laxi
ty in allowing discipline to sink
to a low level at the prison.
“Discipline has become quite
a problem,” Smith said, “but
we are well on our way to get
ting this thing straightened out.”
Dutton was not immediately
available for comment.
He stepped down Tuesday af
ter little more than a year on
the job. Smith had been the pris
on’s institutional business man
ager.
Gov, Lester Maddox praised
Dutton and said he did not
blame the former warden for the
prison’s conditions.
“He is one of the most com
passionate people I have known,”
Maddox said. “He is the type
of man "we need more of in
state government."
But Maddox vowed at the
same time a campaign to clean
up “deplorable and intolerable”
conditions at the prison, which
he said included unnatural sex
acts forced on young inmates.
There were rumors of a shake
up at the prison, but both Mad
dox and State Corrections Direc
tor Asa Kelley insisted Dutton
quit voluntarily and for person
al reasons.
Some sources said Dutton was
frustrated with poor prison con
ditions and a lack of adequate
personnel and facilities.
Maddox blamed conditions on
lack of money. He called on the
legislature to appropriate enough
money in the next few years to
support a “major breakthrough”
in the prison system.
Smith, 57, has served at Reids
ville since 1952 when he was
named business manager. He
has served as assistant warden,
deputy warden and acting war
den during his tenure.
Strikes
DeGaulle
City Os Lights
Left In Dark
During Walkout
PARIS (UPI) — A 24-hour
general strike to protest Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle’s
demands for six months’
supreme authority switched off
the City of Light and much of
France today.
Labor unions claimed 10
million workers stayed at home
to support opposition against
Parliament’s granting De
Gaulle the power to rule by
decree for six months.
At 2 a.m. EDT the lights
began flickering out all over
France as work and play using
gas and electricity lost their
power source. The trains
stopped running at midnight.
Paris buses remained in
garages. Subway cars lay like
stilled snakes in underground
tunnels.
The army mobilied trucks to
take to work those Frenchmen
who still had a job to do and
wanted to do it.
But banks, restaurants, movie
houses and stores were shut.
There was no school because
teachers struck. Garbage piled
up uncollected.
Water pressure was expected
to be low throughout the day.
A parliamentary debate, on
the special powers bill had
been set for today. But It was
postponed until Thursday to
give members more time to
study the controversial mea
sure.
De Gaulle sought the measure
to bypass a sometimes squab
bling Parliament so his govern
ment could push through
priority economic and social
legislation.
An opposition censure motion
was coming Saturday and there
was no guarantee De Gaulle’s
government under Premier
Georges Pompidou could sur
vive it.
The unions were scheduled to
start back to work late today.
Police, Mobs Battle
On ‘Gohlen Mile’
By CHARLES R. SMITH
Unit e d Press International
HONG KONG (UPI) —
Communist-led Chinese mobs
battled more than 1,000 police in
a two-mile stretch of Hong
Kong’s “golden mile” main
shopping street today in the
worst violence yet in this riot
torn B'itish crown colony’s
struggle with Peking.
Thousands of Chinese hurling
bottles and stones set fire to
two banks, including a Bank of
America branch, a major
tourist hotel and a restaurant,
stoned firemen putting out the
blazes and felled at least 38
police with home-made wea
pons.
Defying police tear gas,
truncheons and barrages of non
lethal wooden “baton shells,”
the rioters burned automobiles,
barricaded streets, put up
posters of Chinese Communist
leader Mao Tse-tung and
demanded Britain submit to
Peking demands she bow to the
demonstrators.
Police said they had no way
of estimating the number of
injured in the flood of violence
sweeping the Kowloon district
and the glittering Nathan Road
shopping street running through
it.
The mobs tracked police and
bombarded them with bottles
from tenement windows. One
police sergeant leaped into a
taxi to escape. The Chinese
doused the cab with gasoline
and tried to ignite it. The
sergeant drew his revolver and
the mob retreated. Another
jpoliceman rushed in and
' whisked the sergeant away.
INSIDE
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Funerals. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Hospital. Page 5.
Bruce Biossat. Page 6.
Bay Cromley. Page 6.
Lyle Wilson. Page 7.
Paregoric Law. Page 7.
Tariff Cuts. Page 8.
Monkey Law. Page 8.
Space Delay. Page 8.
Legals. Page 10.
State News. Page 10.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 11*
Comment. Page 16.
Commetnt. Page 16.
Lighter Side. Page 16.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Society. Page 20.
Students, Police
Turn Campus Into
Battleground
By FRANK SCHULTZ*
United Press International
HOUSTON (UPI) —Students
firing rifles and shotguns from
darkened dormitories at a
predominantly Negro university
battled more than 650 police
today. A policeman was fatally
wounded before officers
stormed the dormitories and
arrested nearly 500 students.
Three other psrsons were shot
in the night of violence at Texas
Southern University.
Police besieged the campus
for nearly two hours. Then a
squad of 60 to 70 riflemen,
advancing 20 yards at a time
infantry-style rushed Lanier
and Bruce halls.
They smashed down doors
with fire axes, shot locks off
doors, hauled the students out
and had them lie face down on
the grass to be searched, then
took them to jail.
Rookie patrolman Louis Kuba,
25, was shot in the head as he
advanced on the dormitories
about 1 a.m. ’DT. He died eight
hours later in Houston’s Ben
Continued on page five
UPI correspondent Joseph Ma
spotted one gang of rioters
burning a green British sports
car where Nathan Road is
crossed by Saigon Street. The
crossroad delighted the rioters
who plastered up posters
reading, “debts In blood must
be paid in blood.” A major
Peking demand is that the
British bar Hong Kong port to
U.S. ships from Vietnam.
The rioting, which began
today with 500 demonstrators
howling at a court trying rioters
of previous days, spread
throughout the Kowloon district
and spilled beyond. One gang
invaded the exclusive Jockey
Club and smashed an air
conditioner.
They set up Mao-slogan
choruses outside Gov. Sir David
Trench’s office. They waved
copies of Mao’s books of
thoughts and copies of Commu
nist newspapers charging the
British with “conniving” with
America and Nationalist China
to apply ‘ white terror” to Hong
Kong.
Mobs smashed windows at
will, including those of the Hote
Fortuna—a favorite of visiting
U.S. Navy officers—before try
ing to burn it and a nearby
Chinese restaurant.
The rioting lasted throughout
the day. It flared into the
evening as authorities imposed
a curfew.
Riot police first tried reason
ing with the mushrooming mobs
of demonstrators who mustered
at a courthouse chanting Mao
Tse-tung slogans. The mobs
appeared after 20 accused
rioters jumped bail and failed
to show up for trial.