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By Quimby Melton
For the past three days Good
Evening has written this column
about the Illinois Student Lead
ers Prayer Breakfast, held last
Saturday in Springfield, Illinois.
As far as we can remember
this is the only time we have
written the column on a “contin
ued in the next issue” basis.
Today we conclude the series.
Why have we devoted so much
epace to one event? Especially
to one that was held some 700
Iniles away from our home base?
Answering this question, to our
mind at least, is easy.
We were interested in seeing
just what sort of a thing a Stu
dent Leadership Prayer break
fast would be; in seeing the type
students who would attend and
their reaction; and finding out If
such an event would be worth
while to hold in Georgia. We rea
lize now’, and always have, that
the hope of our nation and of the
world, lies today, just as it al
ways has, in the youth of the na
tion.
We were impressed with what
we observed at that Prayei
Breakfast. One of the chief fa
vorable impressions we came
away with w ; as that the Prayer
Breakfast was conceived by,
the program planned by, and
the Breakfast run by the stu
dents. There were more than
600 of them present and no more
than 10 older folk present, this
10 included the “keynote speak
er” chosen by the students, and
the Governor of Illinois, who was
co-sponsor with them of the
Breakfast.
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To say that Good Evening was
Impressed is putting it mildly.
That 1500 mile trip and the ex
pense attached to it, was well
worthwhile.
And we are convinced that it
would be good for such a Stu
dent Leadership Prayer Break
fast to be held in Georgia.
But there are certain things
that should be considered if
such a Breakfast is held. Os
course it is too late this college
year to have any such an ev
ent; with commencements com
ing it would be impossible to
properly plan it; so we would
suggest preliminary plans be
made this summer, or early in
the fall and Georgia’s Student
Leadership Prayer Breakfast be
held next college year.
Our first suggestion: The
Georgia Students Prayer Break
fast should be Student controll
ed, from the very first planning
right down to the conclusion of
the event;
Then we should caution, un
der no circumstance, should this
Prayer Breakfast be allowed
to have the least bit of a political
tinge;
This Student Prayer Break
fast should be open to Student
leaders of all Georgia colleges
and Universities — State opera
ted and independently operated,
regardless of color of the stu
dents; also institutions controll
ed by all various faiths.
Certainly such a Prayer Break
fast should not be attended by
just a "chosen few”.
In planning a Georgia Stud
ents Prayer Breakfast we must
take into consideration the fact
that there is not a college cam
pus in our state, nor in any oth
er state, but there are problems
and doubts and fears among the
students. It is to answer such
problems and to dispel such
doubts and fears that Student
Prayer Breakfasts are held.
We believe a Students Pra
yer Breakfast in Georgia will
bring together student leaders
who are sincerely interested in
solving the problems that con
front them today.
And don’t get any idea that the
students themselves, by and
far, are not just as interested in
solving the problems as are the
older generation.
Since the Prayer Breakfast we
attended last Saturday was held
in the home of Abraham Lincoln,
it might be appropriate to re
mind all students of a statement
made by Jefferson Davis, after
the close of the War Between
the States. Said the only presi
dent the Confederate States ever
had:
“May one whose political ca
reer draws near to a close, the
hope of America rests in our
youth; may I say to them, Draw
your inspiration from the foun
tain head of our national life
rather than from the lower st
ream poluted as it is by selfish
iavor-seeking politicans."
Textile Leader Says Tariff Cuts Tragic
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPD—
The president of the American
Textile Manufacturers Institute
today branded the new tariff
cuts for textiles agreed on at
the Kennedy round of trade
talks in Geneva as “tragic” and
bound to make the domestic
textile situation worse.
“It is tragic that our govern
ment has reduced tariffs in
view of the enormous volume
and increasing rate of textile
products and imports already
entering the U. S. market,”
said William J. Erwin, who is
Griffinite Killed In
Wreck On ‘Killer - Strip’
A car-truck collision on the
Griffin-Barnesville * ‘killer-strip”
early this morning claimed the
life of a Griffin real estate man
who had served his country more
than 20 years in the armed for
ces.
Killed was Thomas Lucius
Mann, 43, in an accident 2.6 mil
es north of Milner on U. S. high
way 41.
He was the only occupant of
the automobile. The driver of the
tractor-trailer truck was listed
as Jesse P. Evans, 46, of Chat
tanooga. He was not injured, a
state trooper said.
The Mann auto was traveling
north and the truck was south
bound, according to Trooper
William H. Stone of the Griffin
State Patrol Post.
Mann was thrown from the
auto and might have been
thrown through the windshield
but the trooper could not say for
sure.
He apparently was killed in
stantly.
Trooper Stone set the time of
the wreck at about 1:30 this
morning.
It brought to 26 the number of
people killed in the Griffin five
county patrol area. The count at
this time last year was 21 in the
area.
Mr. Mann was a native of
Griffin and attended the public
schools here. He graduated from
Furman University in Green
ville, S.C. During World War
Two he served in the United Sta
tes Marine Corps and for more
than 20 years saw military ser
vice, retiring in 1965 as a cap
tain in the US Air Force. Dur
ing his military service he re
ceived several medals, among
them the purple heart.
After his retirement Mr.
Mann returned to Griffin to
make his home and was asso
ciated with the Mann Real Es
tate Company. He was a mem
ber of the Griffin Lodge of
Moose, Griffin Lodge of Elks,
Meridian Sun Lodge 26 of Ma
sons.
Mr. Mann is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Frances Bishop
Mann, a native of Greenville, S.
C., and presently a teacher at
Beaverbrook School; a daughter
Laura Mann; a son, David
Mann; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. Ezra Mann; and one
Weather:
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AREA — Fair and a little warm
er tonight. F iday partly cloudy
and mild with a chance of a few
showers late in the day.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
56, maximum Wednesday 76,
minimum Wednesday 52. Sun
rise Friday 6: 1 a.m., sunset
Friday 8:34 p.m.
Country Parson
“It’s easy to feed a child
knowledge — the trick is to
make him hungry for it.”
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also chairman of the board of
Dan River Mills.
“Some representatives of gov
ernment and many interested
members of the Congress have
been diligent in their efforts to
avoid fu r ther damage to the
U. S. textile industry by tariff
cuts. We regret that their ef
forts were not more success
ful,” he added in a statement
released by ATMI headquarters
here and in Washington.
“The fact remains that any
level of tariff cuts increases the
vulnerability of our textile in-
sister, Mrs. Carl Cartledge, all
of Griffin.
Funeral services will be held
Friday morning at 11 o’clock
from Haisten’s chapel. The Rev.
Alastair C. Walker and Dr. Del-
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Security Tight
On Maddox After
Student Threat
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
troopers and GBI agents
clamped a tight security net on
Gov. Lester Maddox’s address
at Middle Georgia College
Wednesday after receiving re
ports a student had threatened
the governor’s life, but there
was no trouble.
Public Safety Director R. H.
Burson confirmed the reported
threat and described the stu
dent as a “bearded beatnik.”
There were also threats of
demonstration against Mad
dox, but the address proceeded
smoothly with the students un
der close surveillance.
“We didn’t put any credence
in it but we couldn’t ignore
it,” Burson said. He did not
identify the student.
Burson said he received re
ports from security police at
the college in Cochran on Tues
day afternoon that something
might be attempted, and or
dered from 12 to 15 agents to
the scene. He said some were
on campus while other troopers
stood by out of town.
Burson said the student him
self had never directly threat
ened Maddox and he was not
arrested or detained.
“We kept right on top of
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Go., 30223, Thursday, May 18,1967
dustry to low-wage foreign im
ports,” Erwin continued.
“During the life of the Trade
Expansion Act, we have seen
textile imports build up from
926 million equivalent square
yards in 1961 to a current rate
of 2.8 billion, a three-fold in
crease. What has happened at
Geneva can only make the sit
uation worse.
“The trade expansion act was
to be a vehicle for expanding
trade between the United States
and the Common Market. In
the case of textile products, it
ma Hagood will officiate. Bur
ial will be in the Woodlawn Me
morial Park cemetery in Green
ville, S.C. Mr. Mann’s body will
remain at Haisten Funeral
Home.
Daily News Staff Photo)
Communication by newspaper, telephone, letters and telegrams has been studied
by Mrs. Violet Brown’s class at Fourth Ward School. The group toured the Griffin
Daily News as a part of the unit. The class started its own newspaper telling of
events involving members of the class. A telephone system, connected so the stu
dents could talk to each other, was installed in the classroom. Students showing
some of the communications equipment are (I-r) Jan McGee and Laura Lisle, using
telephones; Danny Gilreath, Denise Street, Lisa Ross, reading newspapers; and
Randy Prince and Lynn Landrum, reading a letter.
him. We had a plainclothes
man on him all the way,” Bur
son said.
Sen. Hollings
Sees Job Loss
In Tariff Cuts
WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen.
Ernest F. Hollings, D-S. C.,
predicts that thousands of
American textile workers may
lose their jobs because of tariff
agreements made this week in
Geneva.
“The avowed purpose of
trade is for one nation to help
another,” Hollings said Wednes
day. “That simply is not hap
pening where the United States
is concerned, especially in tex
tiles.”
Hollings said that trade
agreements which limit the flow
of low cost foreign fabrics into
the United States have become
a “joke” and are not strongly
enforced.
is clear that the prime bene
ficiary will be Japan and other
low wage textile producing na
tions. These are the countries
that already are siphoning off
American jobs,” he charged.
Noting that specific details
were not available, Erwin said
ATMI understood that the Unit
ed States agreed to textile tariff
cuts averaging about 20 per
cent on cotton products, 13 per
cent on man-made fiber produ
ucts and “something substanti
ally more on man-made fibers
and yarn...” He said ATMI
Sabres Rattle
In Middle East
Parole Chairman
Itesigns Ilis Post
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — Pardon
and Parole Board member J.
W. Claxton has resigned as
chairman of the board of an
Atlanta restaurant chain, but he
strongly denied it was because
the State Revenue Department
demanded detailed financial and
personal information on the
chain’s officers.
Claxton said he quit because
he could not adequately devote
his time to the Pardon and Pa
role Board with such an out
side responsibility.
Records disclosed Claxton
submitted his resignation last
Friday and the personal records
required to get a state liquor
licbnse for the restaurant were
received Tuesday from all other
officers of the chain.
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton has
launched an investigation into
the Pardon and Parole Board
and it was understood Bolton
would check into Claxton’s deal
ings with the 7-Steers Restaur
ant chain.
Claxton said he was elected
to the board of directors May
6 but added he knew at the
time he could not devote the
required time to the position.
“I must give my full time to
the (Pardon and Parole) board”
he said. “I am interested in the
restaurant just as a stockhold
er.”
State Revenue Department of
ficials said the 7-Steers had op
erated without a liquor license
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since the first of the year, but
was warned It must submit its
license application if it was to
continue selling alcoholic bever
ages.
The restaurant’s president, C.
M. Brown, submitted the ap
plication May 8 but listed him
self as 100 per cent owner. He
later told revenue officials in
response to questioning that it
was a mistake and he listed
several other stockholders, in
cluding Claxton.
The revenue department then
demanded detailed personal rec
ords of all the restaurant’s of
ficers and this was supplied
four days after Claxton re
signed.
Claxton’s May 12 letter of
resignation addressed to Brown
did not indicate his reason for
quitting.
The revenue department’s de
tailed personal statement is re
quired routinely of all officers
of a business selling liquor. It
includes a thorough check into
the background of officers, in
cluding salaries he receives
from all employers, and his tax
record.
SMOKE ROUTS GUESTS
TOKYO (UPI) —Smoke from
a basement rubbish fire circu
lated through the Nikko Hotel in
downtown Tokyo Tuesday, chas
ing many American and other
guests into the streets. No
injuries were reported.
understood there were no cuts
on woolen products, other than
hand-loomed items.
“Apparently nothing was done
in Geneva about the nontariff
barriers which stand in the way
of U. S. textile exports to many
countries of the world; neither
did it eliminate the barriers with
which other countries keep out
imports from Japan and other
low-wage countries, thereby giv
ing further encouragement to
these countries to focus on the
American market,” the state
ment said.
Arab, Israeli
Troops Rushed
To Frontlines
By MICHAEL DENNIGAN
CAIRO (UPI) —The United
Arab Republic has demanded
the withdrawal “as quickly as
possible” of the United Nations
peace - keeping forces from
Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the
tense Israeli border, Cairo
Radio reported today.
The broadcast cameras sabres
rattled across the Middle East
with rival Arab and Israeli
armies rushing reinforcements
into frontline positions.
Tlie latest Middle East crisis
blew up over alleged plans by
Israel to launch aggression
against Syria. The U.A.R.,
Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and
Kuwait have pledged to support
Syria.
While tensions mounted,
Foreign Minister Georges Hkim
of Lebanon summoned U.S.
Ambassador Dwight Porter to
the Foreign Office this morning
and told him the U.S. 6th Fleet
is not welcome in Beirut at the
present time.
(The U.A.R. has charged that
the American fleet in the
Mediterranean is actually a
protective for Israel.)
The radio said U.A.R. Foreign
Minister Mahmoud Riyad sent a
cable to Thant Wednesday night
telling him the government had
decided to terminate the
presence of the U.N. emergency
forces la the United Arab
Republic and the Gaza strip.”
“Please take necessary steps
to withdraw these troops as
quickly as possible,” Cairo
radio quoted the note to Thant
as saying.
It quoted Riyad as saying the
3,400-man, seven-nation U.N.
force in Egypt along the
bristling 117-mile Egypt-Israeli
border was there only at the
approval of President Gamal
Abdel Nasser’s government.
Riyad said its continued pre
sence depended entirely on
U.A.R. approval.
The cable to Thant “ended
the presence of U.N. forces on
the Egyptian frontier with
Israel and in the Gaza strip,”
Cairo radio said.
Nasser Tuesday asked the
U.N. peace-keeping force to
withdraw to the Gaza strip, on
the Mediterranean, in light of
increasing tension. But today’s
order apparently sought to have
them removed completely from
the area.
At the same time, Israel put
her troops in the Sinai area on
alert. An official Israeli commu
nique in Tel Aviv said only its
forces “had taken measures to
meet the situation” as a result
of the Arab show of strength.
(The Soviet defense ministry
newspaper Red Star in Moscow
said Syria’s Arab friends would
help her against alleged Israeli
"provocations.” However, the
official organ omitted any
indication that Russia would
join in such an aid effort.)
(But in Berlin, informed
sources reported Communist
East Germany had promised to
supply Egypt with arms if
fighting breaks out with Israel.
They said East German foreign
minister Otto Winzer made the
arms offer in a visit to Cairo
earlier this month.)
“As a result of the new tex
tile tariff cuts, it is all the
more clear that the only solu
tion for the survival of a heal
thy, efficient, expanding textile
industry in American is a sys
tem of quantitative controls for
man-made fiber, man-made fi
ber products and woolen textile
products, together with effec
tive administration of the
cotton textile control arrange
ment, which we definitely have
not had in recent years.”
Commies
Pound
US Units
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist
forces assaulted key American
fortresses on the North-South
Vietnam border today with one
of their greatest rocket and
mortar barrages of the war. It
pushed American deaths in the
Vietnam war to more than
10,000.
U.S. spokesmen said a record
rocket and mortar assault on
Dong Ha, Marine headquarters
base in the battle for the
border .alone killed at least 11
Leathernecks and wounded 41.
From Jan. 1, 1961, through
Saturday, a total of 9,916
Americans died in combat,
American spokesmen said. Re
ported loses in the fight against
five North Vietnamese divisions’
units on the border and other
action this week pushed the
total killed over the 10,000
mark.
American commanders sent
flights of jet fighter-bombers
streaking over the border’s
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and
the North Vietnamese territory
beyond, striking the Communist
artillery units that bloodied the
Leatherneck defense line.
Spokesmen said Dong Ha,
seven miles south of the border,
took at least 150 rocket rounds
plus mortar shells. At the same
time Communist gunners hit the
Marine bastions of Gio Linh,
Camp Carrol and Cam Lo,
strung out only two miles below
the DMZ.
It was the third attempt by
the Communists since April 28
to knock out the Leatherneck
fortress chain.
Spokesmen said the U.S. jets
dealt a severe blow to the
Communist border buildup of
artillery in Wednesday’s raid
ing. Air Force and Marine F 4
Phantoms and FlO5 Thunderch
iefs slammed 500 pound bombs
onto the Red guns. They
reported destroying or damag
ing 11 artillery positions and
wiping out 17 anti-aircraft sites.
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About Town. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4-
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Society. Pages 6,7.
College News. Rage 8.
Military. Page 8.
Bruce Biossal. Page 19.
Commentary. Page 10.
Defection. Page 11.
French Return. Page 11.
Draft Reform, Page 11.
Ray Cromley. Pare 12.
Pen Pals. Page 13.
Great Society. Page 13.
Carmichael. Page 13.
Reporter Wounded. Page 14.
Fayette Prison. Page 14.
Finding The Way. Page 15-
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 15.
Slow Spring. Page 15.
Sports. Page 16-18.
Dateline Georgia. Page 19.
Lindbergh. Page 20.
Comics. Page 21.
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