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By Quimby Melton
Wonder how many weisen
heimers have said today —“lsn’t
this wonderful weather for
ducks.”
Modern day folk may laugh at
6uch a “wise crack” but when
Maggie was a teenager this was
considered quite “sharp”.
We like better what Robert
Loveman, who lived in Dalton,
Ga., said about rain:
It is not raining rain to me
’t’s raining daffodils
And Charles Kingsley wrote:
The world goes up and the
world goes down
And the sunshine follows the
rain.
Another poet wrote:
“When God sends rain, then
rain’s my choice.
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Just a bit of advice to other
senior citizens:
If you have not already done
so better get a birth certificate.
To old timers who were born
before there was such a thing as
reporting births, the certificate
you will get is called a “delay
ed” certificate. And that’s what
has happened to Good Evening.
So far his efforts to establish of
ficially that he was born on Nov.
17, 1890, in Chapultepec, Alaba
ma, have been delayed. We need
such a certificate to secure a
passport that will let us take our
long awaited trip to Europe and
get us back home. Don’t know
whether the delay is caused by
the fact that the little town —
Chapultepec has had its name
changed or not. But we’ve fin
ally established the fact that it
is located in Bount County, Ala
bama, and are hoping for the
“delayed certificate” in a short
time.
We’re right next door to com
mencement time. Our two high
schools, Griffin High and Fair
mont High, will graduate what
will probably be the largest
number of seniors in the history
of public education in Griffin.
To all of the seniors we wish
every success in life, in what
ever chosen profession or voca
tion they enter.
Certainly when one gets a
high school diploma they are
just starting their education, not
finishing it. For whether they go
on to college or not they can
keep right on studying. And
while we’re on the subject of af
ter high school—what?, we’ll call
attention to how fortunate we
are in this part of Georgia to
have a Vo-Tech institution with
us. More and more people are
learning just how important it
is to us. It will grow in favor
and usefulness, no doubt about
that.
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“Hope you had a happy Sun
day” Good Evening said to an
attractive young matron who
works uptown.
“I did,” she replied. “I took
my two young children to the
zoo; and though I’m mighty tir
ed out, from trying to keep up
with them, and wished this mor
ning I could have slept longer,
still I’m glad I took them, their
happiness rubbed off on me.”
Which reminds Good Evening
of a card that "purveyor of good
will”, p. y. Luther, handed us
Sunday. It read:
“Happiness is a perfume you
cannot pour on others without
getting a few drops on your
self.”
Then there was another Grif
finite, a man, whom we greeted
with “Hope you had a good
Sunday”. His reply:
“I was so tired and so stiff
Sunday I could do nothing much
but sleep and groan. Saturday I
decided it was time to clean up
end cart away a lot of rubbish
and trash that had accumulated
at my home. So I borrowed a
pickup truck from a friend and
started hauling it to the city-co
unty dump. I thought one load
would do. But it’s remarkable
how much stuff can accumulate.
I had put things away in the
back of the garage thinking 'this
will be useful some day’ and
this, plus a lot of things the Mrs.
“wanted to get rid of” made
me make three trips to the
dump.
"But my yard and garage and
basement are as spic and span
as they can be and in a few
days I’ll forget my aching mus
cles.
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Safety Magic
Lt. Carl Pike, a member of the Kent County Sheriff’s Department, Grand Rapids,
Mich., presented a “safety magic” program today at Spalding Junior High School.
He and Sgt. Lamar Polk of the Safety Education Division of the Griffin State Patrol
pull a safety banner from a box during the show. Students also participated in the
show which Lt. Pike has presented in 48 states.
Toll Feared High
In Belgium Fire
BRUSSELS (UPD—Fire fed
by a series of explosions en
gulfed Belgium’s largest depart
ment store during the lunch
hour today, trapping many per
sons on upper floods in a holo
caust that sounded like the roar
of a giant jet plane. A heavy
death toll was feared.
Shoppers leaped from the up
per floors of the seven story
L’lnnovation department store
with their clothes in flames. A
spokesman said no other persons
could have survived the heat
that could be felt a half-mile
away.
A police spokesman said at
least 15 persons were killed.
More than 100 persons were
treated for burns.
The fire, apparently started
by a butane explosion in the
carrying equipment department,
spread both upward and down
ward along the central well that
was ringed with galleries like
the old John Wannamaker store
in New York.
L’lnnovation was observing
“American Week” and the
flames also were fed by
cardboard posters of the event.
The blaze spread to the
nearby Priba department store
and it was ordered evacuated
along with the adjacent Bon
Marche. Schools in the vicinity
and office buildings in the heart
of the old city were ordered
cleared. By late afternoon every
floor of L’lnnovation was
ablaze.
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THE BODY OF DIANE MARIE SHIELDS, (left),
22, of Guntersville, Ala., was found stuffed into the
trunk of her car Saturday near Atlanta, Ga., where
she was employed. Mary Shotwell Little (right) van
ished on Oct. 14, 1965. Police wonder if there’s a
link between the two cases. (Story, page five).
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
7 Railmen Die
In Collision
Os Diesels
NEW YORK UPDSeven
railroad employes were killed,
two others were missing and at
least three injured today when
two New York Central diesel
engines collided headon and
burst into a “ball of flame” in a
Manhattan freight yard.
Four other engines and a
dozen freight cars being hauled
by the diesels were derailed in
the collision which occurred in
the West Side yard. A railroad
official blamed the accident on
"human error”, pointing out
that only one track was open
for use in hauling spare engines
and cars since the yard was
closed temporarily recently.
Rescue workers recovered
seven bodies within two hours
of the crash and railroad
authorities said two men were
unaccounted for. The injured
were taken to Knickerbocker
and Columbia-Presbyterian hos
pitals in serious condition.
The diesels were reported
going 30 miles per hour when
they collided. Motorists travell
ing on the nearby West Side
Highway witnessed the collision
and said a “ball of flame”
erupted second later.
Several men were hurled
from the wreackage with their
cloth®! in flames they said.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, May 22,1967
British Crack
Down On Riots
In Hong Kong
By CHARLES R. SMlftl
United Press International
HONG KONG (UPI) Britain
cracked down on Communist-led
rioters today after 10 days of
stiff upper lip restraint. Club
swinging police shattered jeer
ing, acid-throwing mobs in a
splash of blood, tears and little
red books of Mao Tse-tung
slogans.
Many persons were Injured
and police arrested scores in
what oldtimers described as the
worst rioting on Hong Kong
island in its 125-year history as
a British colony.
Police fired tear gas during a
dozen clashes with rioters in the
colony’s Kowloon district. But
the most vicious fighting
erupted on Queen’s Road, the
main street of Hong Kong
island’s central business dis
trict, where rioters hurled
bottles of acid.
The rioters ignored a formal
weekend warning no further
riots against the crown colony’s
British rulers would be permit
ted,. They massed between the
25-story Hilton Hotel and the
tall Communist Bank of China
for a march uphill to the
governor’s mansion.
Police warned them again,
got only jeers of "scum” and
“imperialist running dogs” in
response and charged into the
hundreds of men and women,
striking with clubs that sent
blood spurting into the noon hot
main street.
Police arrested at least 37 of
the first mob of rioters, 14 of
them women and most of them
smeared with their own blood.
But other mobs formed
throughout the rich colony
Communist China was trying to
humble as she did the nearby
Portuguese territory of Macao
earlier this year.
Hong Kong, once a placid
jewel in troubled Asia, rocked
with riot. Demonstrators hurled
acid at police from rooftops.
Bus drivers delivered loads of
rioters and headed back for
more.
Mobs jumped whole units of
police throughout the colony
which the Communists have
criticized for, among other
things, allowing U.S. Navy
warships to rest after Vietnam
war duty.
The rioting flared throughout
midday. By mid-afternoon a
relative calm had been wrought
by police tear gas and
truncheons.
Lower Court Gets
Hoffa Appeal Case
Eavesdrop
Evidence
At Issue
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
The Supreme Court today
ordered more lower court
proceedings in Chicago to
determine whether the 1964
fraud trial of Teamster chief
James R. Hoffa was tainted
by government eavesdrop
ping.
The unsigned opinion said if
the Chicago court finds the
conviction of Hoffa or any of his
six co-defendants improperly
obtained “new final judgments
should be issued. If the lower
court concludes that any
convictions were tainted, it
must accord those persons a
new trial.
Justice Hugo L. Black wanted
to hear arguments on the
appeal. Justice Byron R. White
did not participate.
Hoffa is already serving an
eight-year sentence in the
Lewisburg, Pa., federal penten
tiary on jury tampering char
ges. He was convicted in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
He drew an additional five
years on the fraud conviction
which could be added to his
prison term if the prosecution is
sustained.
The Justice Department ad
mitted that the FBI overheard
a conversation between co
defendant S. George Burris, a
New York accountant when
Burris caljed at the Miami
office of Benjamin Sigelbaum.
The FBI had Sigelbaum’s office
bugged from Jan. 21, 1964, to
July 12, 1965.
The department asserted
however that the eavesdropping
had no affect at all on any of
the defendants except Burris,
and even in his case, the
confidential attorney-client rela
tionship was not violated. The
department suggested at the
most a lower court hearing to
determine whether tainted
evidence may have been used
against Burris only.
Attorneys for Hoffa, who also
drew a $10,009 fine on the
Chicago conviction, gave the
Supreme Court a wide range of
reasons why they said he had
not received a fair trial.
They listed prejudicial pre
trial publicity, replacement of a
juror during the case, seques
tering the jury at a military
station, and mention of Hoffa’s
Chattanooga conviction while it
was yet on appeal.
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On The Job
BETTY FURNESS, President Johnson’s recently ap
pointed adviser on consumer affairs, traipses down
the aisles of a Washington supermarket. The former
television personality admitted a housekeeper had
previously done her shopping. From the looks of
things, though, Betty still hasn’t encountered the
shopper’s woe—long check-out lines.
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FLOYD W. LIVESAY (right), father of three, was
chosen “Mother of the Year,” by the Costa Mesta
(Calif.) Unified School District as a result of a con-
IrJIQI O/* test etter entered by his daughter April (second from
left.) Mrs. Livesay died in March and the girl asked
—. j- her teacher how she could enter the contest. “Write
B B-f about your Dad, he’s your Mom now,” she was told.
The family is shown as “Mother” prepares breakfast,
left to right: Holly, 11, April, 10, Roger, 15 and Mr.
Livesay.
Education Office
Told To Go Easier
On Southern Schools
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
House Appropriations Commit
tee put up $1.6 billion more for
federal school aid today and
told the Office of Education to
go a little easier on Southern
school systems in enforcing
desegregation.
“Testimony before the com
mittee Indicated clearly that the
department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare has gone
beyond the law in these
enforcement activities and in
requirements under the so.
called guidelines,” the panel
said in a report to the House.
“The committee cautions that
the department will be expected
to follow the law and will be
expected to administer the law
with equal firmness and fair
ness among all the states."
The language was thrown into
the committee’s report by
administration forces in re
sponse to Southern complaints
and in another bid for Southern
support for a $3.5 billion
measure which would expand
the two-year-old program of
federal aid for primary and
secondary schools.
Earlier, the administration
pulled Education Commissioner
Harold Howe II off integration
enforcement duties and handed
over to a separate office the
task of enforcing a 1964
congressional order to halt
federal aid funds for segregated
activities.
Other concessions to the
Southerners were reported un
der negotiation as the school
authorization bill, covering the
year starting July 1, 1968, came
to the floor. Today’s appropria
tion bill, carrying funds for the
year starting July 1, 1967, will
come up in the House later in
the week.
The school funds were carried
in a sl3 billion money bill for
the Health, Education and
Welfare Department (HEW),
the Labor Department, and
related minor agencies in the
new fiscal year.
The money bill overall was
cut by $lB5 million below
President Johnson’s budget
requests. By and large, the big
health research and welfare
grant programs managed by
HEW got pretty much what
they asked.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Rain and occasional
thundershowers briefly heavy
into tonight. Tuesday gradual
clearing and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
-54, maximum Sunday 80, mini
mum Sunday 60. Total rainfall
1.15 inches. Sunrise Tuesday
6:37 a.m., sunset Tuesday 8:36
p.m.
Commies Violate
Self - Declared
Buddha Truce
By EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist
forces violated their self
declared Buddha’s birthday
truce today when they killed 15
Americans and wounded 74
more in an attack in South
Vietnam’s Central Highlands,
U.S. spokesmen said.
UPI staff correspondent Tho
mas Corpora reported the
Communists attacked a U.S.
Army 9th Infantry Division unit
on the slopes of Chu Goungot
Mountain, 230 miles northeast of
Saigon, with mortar and small
arms fire at two minutes past 7
a.m. EDT, the time set by the
Viet Cong for their 48-hour
truce.
Military spokesmen said the
Americans fought back, killing,
at least 50 of the North
Vietnamese attackers.
The South Vietnamese and
American forces had agreed to
a 24-hour ceasefire starting at
midnight tonight.
The Soviet news agency Tass
reported a “massive” U.S. air
raid against Honoi today but
gave no details. There was no
U.S. confirmation but a U.S.
spokesman reported a heavy
raid Sunday against a nearby
power plant and MIG bases
with sight MIGs hit on the
ground.
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“The shape we’re in these
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cause of stretch pants and
mini-skirts.”