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By Quimby Melton
Writing; newspaper headlines
is an art.
One is supposed to “tell the
story” in the few words that
make up the headline. Often
this is not easy, for what would
be an explanatory and eye cat
ching heading is often too “fat”
to be crowded into the column
width available. As the years
roll by and the width of news
paper columns shrinks, to save
newsprint, writing good heading
becomes more difficult. Good
Evening can remember when
the column was 13 ems wide,
then 12 ems, and now they have
shrunk to 11 ems. (An “em” is
a measurement known only to
those in the profession.)
The other day we came across
a headline in one of our favor
ite newspapers. It was simple, it
fit in the one column space and
“told the story.”
The heading was “Spirit of 76”
and told of former President Ei
senhower being dismissed from
Walter Reed Hospital after hav
ing recovered from a gastric ail
ment.
Now Ike, the 24th President of
the United States, just happens
to be 76 years old.
All are familiar with the fam
ous painting “Spirit of ’76” whi
ch shows three men, bandaged
from wounds and all that, but
marching side by side, with a
drum and a fife, to furnish the
cadence of the march. The third
wounded soldier is proudly
carrying the American Flag.”
The three in the famous paint
ing were ready and willing to
join the army once more to keep
alive the liberty of Americans.
One of the first things former
President Eisenhower did, on
being dismissed from the hospi
tal, was to make a statement
backing his government in Viet
nam. And when he was asked if
he “would go to Vietnam?” He
responded quickly “If I can be
of any help certainy I will go.”
Would that some of the cri
tics of Uncle Sam had the same
love for America as this mod
ern example of “The Spirit of
76.”
Speaking of headlines: <
Good Evenign has, somewhere
among his books, a scrapbook
that contains examples of unus
ual headlines. Some of them
“amusing” and go to demonstr
ate how a misplaced or missing
comma or a missing apostrophe,
can change the entire meaning
of a word; sometimes making
that word convey even an inde
cent impression. Some of those
unusual headlines we would not
dare reproduce in this column.
Often, in the days gone by,
when editing a newspaper was
a more leisure job than it Is to
day, with the thousands of words
coming in over the tickers, those
who wrote headlines would try
and make them as alliterative
as possible — every word start
ing with the same letter. The
best example of this that we re
member was earlier in this cen
tury. There was a famous trial
under way in Virginia. The prin
ciple witnesses in the case was
a comely maiden. A rich “play
boy” was on trial, and he was
represented by his two brothers
who were lawyers. They tried in
cross examining the young girl
to confuse her, break down her
testimony, and pictured her as
a girl who was testifying from
spite, claiming that at one time
the relations between her and
the playboy-brother were not
what one could call exactly a
“platonic friendship.” But the
maiden, presenting a demure
picture as she sat in the witness
chair, did not budge from her
story-
Our recollection is vague of tne
story of the trial, which was the
muchly chronicled sensation of
the day, but we’ll never forget
that seven column, big type
headline. It read:
• Beautiful, Beluah Binford Baf
fles Beatty’s Brothers.”
And if our recollection serves
us well it was carried in a Rome,
Georgia newspaper.
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Carl Presley, Farrol Sams and Emily Brisendine, cup winners at the annual Griffin
High honors day program today.
Winners Cheered At
Annual Honors Day
Outstanding achievements by
Griffin High students during the
year were recognized at the an
nual honors day program in cha
pel this morning.
Students applauded with ap
preciation as many of their class
mates stepped forward to receive
awards.
The four cup awards made at
the end of the program climax
ed the annual affair.
D. B. Christie, principal, made
the presentations as follows:
The Ralph Jones Cup (science
and math) to Ferrol Sams; Beta
Club Cup (outstanding acade
mic achievement) to Carl Pres
ley and Farrol Sams (tie); Key
Club cup (outstanding girl) to
Emily Brisendine; and the Bill
Jones cup (outstanding boy) to
Carl Presley.
Other awards were as follows:
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club scholarship to Mar
garet Olson; 01ks Club most val
uable students to Cheryl Akins
and Richard Turner; runners up,
Jan Hammock and Ferrol Sams.
Elks Leadership awards to
Emily Brisendine and Carl
Presley; runners up to Marj
ie Bowen and Margaret Olson
(tie) and Jim Sullivan.
Mental Health Association es
say contest winners': Emily Clax
ton, first; Beverly Bridges and
Miriam Davis, tie for second;
Carl Pruett and Florrie Cope
land, tie for third.
The Bill Gregory award to
Donna Rhodes.
The DAR award in U. S. His
tory to Bea Finleyson and the
DAR Good Citizen award to
Emily Brisendine.
The Woodmen of the World U.
S. History award to Ann Sullins.
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy essay award to
Martha Jones.
The Flynt award in U. S. His-
Youth Charged
With Arson In
Savannah Fire
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga.
(UPI)—A 16-year-old boy was
ordered held Monday on a
charge of arson in the $1 mil
lion fire at a beachfront amuse
ment park last week.
The youth, whose name was
not released, was held in lieu
of $3,000 bond, pending grand
jury action.
Police Court Judge Anton
Solms, Jr., said there was suffi
cient evidence to have the
youth bound over for trial.
Six witnesses testified the boy
admitted setting the fire that
swept from one amusement
stand to another and sent hun
dreds of pleasure-seekers scur
rying. The historic old Savan
nah Beach pavillion also was
destroyed.
Seven defense witnesses testi
fied the youth was elsewhere
prior to and during the fire.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
tory to Phil Donehoo.
The Griffin Music Club Uni
versity of Georgia workshop
award to Frank Thomas and the
scholarship award to Emily Bri
sendine.
Two American Legion awards
were: Military Excellence Me
dal to Jackson Landham 111 and
the Scholastic Excellence Medal
to Phillip Davies.
Winner of the Civil Air Patrol
trip award was to Jackson Land
ham 111.
The WKEU Speech One im
provement award went to Ken
neth Bell and the Speech II im
provement award went to Gay
nelle Harbin.
The WCTU essay winner was
Brenda Folds.
The Senior Alpha Tri-Hi-Y
certificate of recognition for
outstanding service was to Emily
Brisendine, Marjie Bowen and
Jim Sullivan.
Winner of the Spanish Club
award was Robert Len Jones.
The Outstanding Business Stu
dent award by the Pilot Club
went to Teresa Jo Adams.
Carolee Allen and Jan Jackson
were winners of the essay con
test sponsored by the Central
Georgia Electric Membership
Corporation.
The Glee Club awards went to
Ann Blakeney and Billy Young.
Future Teachers senior awards
were presented to Gaynell Har
bin and Marianne Pugh.
Wynone Chambers won the
Outstanding Home Ec student
award and Jennie Dunn McSw
ain won the highest average aw
ard.
Outstanding FHA member was
Nadine Massengale.
University of Georgia certifi
cates of merit went to: Carolee
Allen, Janice Baker, Thomas E.
Chappell, Hugh Christie, Tho
mas Eidson, Ralph Gaskins, Mi
chael Wayne Gossett, Carol Mar
go Griffin, Carol Hollon, Joe
Potts, James Powers, Donna
Rhodes, Louis Vetere, Rebecca
Wallace, Jeffrey Wright.
Perfect attendance awards ac
cording to state registers: Mich
ael Akin, 7,8, 9, 11, 12; Perry
Baxter, 9, 10, 11 12; Louise Bell
11, 12; Carol Benford 12; Bev
erly Bridges 12; Charles Bridges
78, 9, 12; Larry Brooks 10, 11,
12; Lynda Callahan 8,9, 12;
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and cool to
night. Wednesday fair and
warmer.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 60, minimum today
50, maximum Monday 68, mini
mum Monday 54. Total rainfall
since Sunday 1.73 inches. Sun
rise Wednesday 6:36 a.m., sunset
Wednesday 8:37 p.m.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, T uesday. May 23,1967
Bob Giles 12, Tommy Greer 12,
Donald Hall 11, 12; Cheryl Ben
nett 12; Rona'd Hall 12; Patricia
Harris 12; Vance Hooper 7,9,
11, 12; Ronald Wayne Johnson
12; Linda Jones 8, 12; Virginia
McKay 8,9, 12; Jerry Parham
10, 12; Ricky Pound 9, 12; Mich
ael Queen 8,9, 11, 12; Ernest
Carl Smith 12; Jack Smith,
9, 12.
The Vocational Guidance Com
mittee of the Kiwanis Club pre
sented a S4OO check to Richard
Turner.
David Battson, new Key Club
president, presented Richard
Turner a check for SIOO.
Melton’s Panel
Recommends
New Building
ATLANTA (UPD—A legisla
tive subcommittee voted today
to recommend a new building to
house the Georgia legislature,
including the chambers in
which both houses would meet.
“We would move with a
sense of regret, but we simply
don’t have enough room to op
erate.,” said Rep. Quimby Mel
ton, Jr., of Griffin.
“I would hope the old cham
bers would be retained for their
historical significance and we
would move other agencies into
the Capitol.”
There was immediate opposi
tion from Lt. Gov. George T.
Smith, to moving the actual
meeting chambers out of the
Capitol although he is in favor
of having offices and committee
rooms in a new building.
“I’ll have to be sold on hav
ing the House and the Senate
chambers in the new building,”
Smith said.
Melton said it would be from
four to six years before the
legislature could move into its
new home, even if construction
began immediately.
Country Parson
H H 5-2 J
“it’s too bad so few fathers
and sons get to do chores to
gether nowadays — that’s
when some of the best talk
ing used to get done.”
Mid East Moves
To Brink Os War
Nassar Orders
Blockade Os
Gulf Os Aqaba
By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND
The Middle East moved to the
brink of war today, and
American tourists began fleeing
threatened Israel by plane and
ship.
The immediate threat
stemmed from President Gamal
Abdel Nasser’s announcement
he was blockading the Gulf of
Aqaba, Israel’s only sea outlet
to the south and east.
Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol
had said earlier such a move
would be considered an act of
war and that Israeli action
would come when and if Israeli
shipping is tampered with.
United Nations Secretary
General U Thant was flying to
Cairo on one of the most urgent
missions of his career to try to
prevent a repetition of the
bloody Mideast wars of 1948 and
1956.
Tire situation was so serious
the U.S. State Department
“advised” Americans to leave
such Middle East hot spots as
Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and
Syria, but did not order them to
leave.
The U.S. 6tb Fleet was
reported steaming somewhere
in the eastern Mediterranean
but was not assisting in the
evacuation of Americans. It was
known that one task force
including the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Saratoga and at least six
destroyers were near the
troubled areas.
The crisis began building
when Israel warned Syria it
would take strong action if
sabotage raids against Israel
were not halted. Previously,
Israel had struck Syrian and
Jordanian border positions in
retaliation.
Nasser replied with a threat
of war—a repetition of the 1948
Arab versus Jews confrontation.
He ordered the United Nations
peace-keeping force from the
117-mile long Israeli-Egyptian
frontier.
Both sides mobilized their
reserves and began massive
troop movements.
In London today British
officials said Nasser’s decision
to close the Gulf of Aqaba to
Israeli shipping had brought the
Middle East “to the brink of
war.” The British Foreign
Office also warned Britons to
leave the threatened areas.
However, authorities in Tel
Aviv said the 2,500-ton freighter
Amalia, flying the Panama flag,
passed through the Gulf of
Aqaba from the Red Sea
Monday and reached the Israeli
port of Elath today.
A spokesman at the Israeli
embassy in London said, “We
cannot allow the strait to
remain closed.”
His statement was the first
public comment by any Israeli
official reaffirming the Israeli
stand.
The U.A.R. broadened its
shipping ban today. It served
notice it specifically will bar oil
tankers of any nation from the
Tiran Straits leading into the
Gulf of Aqaba if they are
carrying cargo for Israel.
Officials in Cairo said the
U.A.R. called on Saudi Arabia
and Jordan to ask Iran to halt
its oil shipments to Israel. Iran
is not a member of the anti-
Israel Arab League.
While Americans formed long
queues in Tel Aviv to board the
first available ships and planes,
the Israelis remained calm,
confident and defiant.
Highly placed Israeli sources
said the nation was in a position
to keep the Tiran Strait open.
DIRTY PILGRIMS
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (UPI) —
Kenneth Tavares, manager of a
museum opening Friday, says
Monday is wash day because of
the pilgrims,
He says the pilgrim women
spent 65 days at sea aboard the
Mayflower and debarked on a
Monday. Tavares said they did
their washing immediately and
the tradition was born.
Vol. 95 No. 120
100 US Soldiers
Killed Or Wounded
By EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —The Com
munists killed and wounded
more than 100 Americans in
Buddha birthday truce viola
tions, U.S. spokesmen said
today.
The Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese in mine, mortar,
machinegun and assassination
attacks killed at least 10 and
wounded 77 Americans in
Monday’s half of the two-day
Vietnam war truce called by
the communist.
In more than 20 violations of
today’s truce—observed by both
sides—another 13 Americans
were reported killed and 14 in
jured. Defending themselves both
days, American troops killed 68
Communists, spokesmen said.
MIG2I Downed
In the air, in the hour before
the allied 24-hour truce went
into effect at midnight Monday
night, American pilots raided
North Vietnam, shot down a
MIG2I jet interceptor and
bombed and heavily damaged
an army barracks four miles
Two Children,
Locked In House,
Die In Flames
HALLANDALE, Fla. (UPI)
— Four children, left alone and
padlocked inside their house to
keep them “safe,” were trapped
by fire early today and two of
them burned to death before
rescuers could break down the
doors.
The father told police he
locked the house to keep the chil
dren “safe from molesters.”
Two motorists saw the fire and
broke in the door. They manage
to rescue two of the children.
One of them was seriously
burned.
The father, Charles Nowell,
was picked up later. Police said
his whereabouts during the fire
were not immediately estab
lished. He was charged with
child neglect and held for
further action by the state at
torney.
Officials said the fire in the
small frame house broke out
shortly before dawn. Two motor
ists stopped and ran to the
house and found its front door
padlocked. One kicked in the
front door and the other ran
around to the back and broke in
that door, which was also locked.
The house had four rooms in
a line. The children were found
in the middle room. Two of
them burned to death there.
They were identified as Char
les Nowell, Jr., 5, and Patricia
Nowell, 2.
Delore Nowell, 4, was hospital
ized in critical condition. The
fourth child, Willie James
Nowell, 3, was not harmed.
Police said Nowell and his wife
separated last week. The couple
had seven children but three of
them are living with the mother.
Machine Gun Bandits
Holdup Brink’s Truck
BROCKTON, Mass. (UPD—
Bandits toting a submachine
gun stole between $400,000 and
$500,000 today after hijacking an
armored car and locking its two
guards and a bank employe in a
bank.
The loot estimate was set by
Reginald T. Cole, president of
the First County National Bank.
Cole described the estimate as
“conservative.”
Bank officials said the loot
represented a large cash
shipment from the First County
National Bank to Plymouth
Home National Bank. Other
money taken included the night
receipts from the Raynham
Park dog race track at nearby
southwest of Hanoi and a key
transformer site seven miles
south of the capital.
During the raids one U.S. Air
Force F4C was shot down by
ground fire and another was
lost to “unknown causes,”
spokesmen said.
Os the total of four airmen in
the two planes, only one was
rescued by a helicopter. The
others were reported missing
and feared dead
A one-seat U.S. observation
plane also was shot down just
inside the North Vietnam
border. Two more airplanes and
two helicopters were shot down
by the Communists in South
Vietnam.
Men Attack,
Try To Kill
Atlanta Officer
ATLANTA (UPI)—An Atlanta
patrolman escaped injury early
today during a fracas with two
assailants who attempted to
shoot him with an unloaded
service revolver.
R. D. Rosselle, 22, said he
had pulled into a darkened
downtown alley to investigate a
suspicious person when a sec
ond man crawled up beside the
car and grabbed h i m around
the throat. He fired two shots
with a small .38 caliber pistol.
His radio message to call
help was interrupted.
“They pulled me out of the
car,” Rosselle said. “They were
choking me ... so I dropped
the micorphone and revolver.”
The officer said the service
revolver was not loaded and
the assailants did not notice
the loaded pistol.
“I crawled down the alley . . .
but there was no place to go,”
he said. “I rolled ... and the
first man hollered ‘shoot him.’
The second man hollered ‘l’m
trying’.”
Rosselle said he began car
rying the unloaded service re
volver after losing another re
volver in a fight. He said other
officers did the same.
Rosselle said he heard the
empty chamber click several
times before he struck his head
and was knocked out. The two
apparently fled then.
Another Atlanta policeman,
26-year-old Edwin B. Mitchell,
was shot and killed last week
during a pre-dawn investiga
tion.
Both Mitchell and Rosselle
were alone in their patrol cars.
FURRY AMBUSH
NEW YORK (UPI) — Visitors
to the Brooklyn Botanical
Garden have been warned to
beware of the squirrels.
Nine persons have been
attacked in the past two weeks,
including a guard who said a
squarrel ambushed him from a
tree and bit him on both ears.
Raynham.
Three or four bandits staged
the bold daylight robbery
shortly after the armored car
had made a stop at one bank
and was approaching another
bank.
The holdup was the second
armored car robbery on Massa
chusetts’ South Shore in less
than two months. Three gun
men, who still are at large,
looted an armored truck of
$600,000 April 1 at a shopping
center in Quincy, 15 miles from
here.
The two guards and the bank
employe, trussed by the bandits,
were released unharmed. The
bandits used the bank employe's
US Tourists
Told To Flee
Troubled Area
By ELIAV SIMON
JERUSALEM, Israel (UPI)
—The U.S. Embassy today said
Americans in Israel are being
evacuated due to the threat of a
full-scale Mideast war.
(At Washington, a State
Department spokesman said no
evacuation order had been
issued from Washington. He
said someone, apparently in
Israel, might be “misconstruing
something.” The department
Monday night advised U.S.
citizens against travel in the
crisis area.)
The evacuation began as
Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol
called an emergency meeting of
the nation’s security panel to
discuss what action to take on
Egypt’s decision to blockade the
Gulf of Aqaba.
His cabinet was meeting later
and the parliament was discuss
ing the war crisis.
The press attache at the
American Embassy said word
to evacuate American citizens
had been received byway of the
U.S. radio on the Greek island
of Rhodes. “That is good
enough so far as we are
concerned,” he said.
As he spoke, tourists already
were forming lines at shipping
and airline agencies. Ship and
plane carriers reported them
selves already booked to
capacity.
Israelis themselves were tak
ing the situation calmly. There
has been a moderate run on
grocery stores by families
stockpiling goods, especially
rice. But there has been no
panic buying.
Israel has enough food to last
for about six months and
enough farm production to hold
out indefinitely.
But the fate of the wheat
harvest seemed doubtful in case
of war.
Eshkol warned that Egyptian
attempts to block the port of
Elath in the Gulf of Aqaba will
be considered an act of war.
Arrest Os
Youth Clears
23 Burglaries
The Griffin Police Department
has cleared 23 burglaries with
the arreest of a 15-year-old Ne
gro boy.
Officers said the youth was
charged with 23 burglaries of ho
mes, schools and uptown busi
nesses. They said the burglaries
date back to November, 1966.
The youth, who already was
under probation on burglary,
is being held in Spalding
Couny jail.
The officers said the youth was
spotted apparently breaking into
a house Friday afternoon and
was lost in a chase. The youth
was arrested and identified la
ter, the officers said.
key to enter the bank.
While fleeing, the bandits
pulled the truck off the road in
nearby Abington where they
were surprised by an Abington
policeman in a cruiser.
The bandits disarmed the
policeman, William Donaldson,
ordered him to lie down and not
to move. The bandits took his
gun, ripped out the radio
equipment in the cruiser and
fled.
Donaldson said the bandits
were not masked and that two
of the bandits wanted to take
him along as hostage. However,
he said the apparent ringleader
overruled his accomplices.