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By Quimby Melton
Charles L. Vaughn had been
missing from his home in Grif
fin since Sunday. As this is
written, a body believed to be
his had been discovered, shot
slain and trussed up, hidden
beneath trash at a dump east
of the city. Identification at
this writing was "almost posi
tive” but not absolute. It seem
ed so certain, though, that fune
ral arrangements have been
made.
This young man of 22 planned
to begin his career as a school
teacher this fall, and to be mar
ried later in the summer to a
young lady who was his student
bays sweetheart.
Good Evening has known the
Vaughns for many years. The
parents are fine people highly
regarded in Griffin and with
numerous friends. Charles was
an only child. After he was re
ported missing there was the
usual speculation nearly always
coupled with missing persons
that he would show up some
place. But his friends kept say
ing, "That’s not like Charles.
He wouldn’t go off without tell
ing- anybody.” What they kept
saying was a tribute to his char
acter and disposition. They re
marked how thoughtful and con
siderate he was of his parents
and other people. Some 50 young
people volunteered and turned
out to search a wooded area
near which his car was found.
The place was miles from where
the body was discovered and
the search was fruitless, but
the presence of the young
men searching swamps in hot
weather bespoke the high re
gard in which his contempora
ries held him.
All Griffin sympathizes with
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn and with
Charles’ bride-to-be. May the
Good Lord give them strength
to stand their loss.
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Tomorrow, the third Sunday
in June, is Father’s Day.
Happy the children whose Fa
thers are still with them; and
fortunate the children, who
though sorrowful that Father no
longer lives physically, remem
ber Father and his unselfish love
for them.
There have been few poems
written extolling the unselfish
love of a Father for his brood.
But millions of sons and daugh
ters, not blessed with the talent
of writing a poem, have one in
their hearts, poems of thanks
that God in His wisdom
gave them the earthly Father He
did.
Father and Mother —a team
that working together — make
house a home and lead their chil
dren into the paths of righteous
ness.
And fortunate the Fathers
who on this special day can look
at their children and be proud of
them. A Father may not out
wardly show as much tender
love for his children as do their
Mother — but the love is there,
deep-seated and sincere.
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Os course this Father’s Day,
Just as always, there will be
some people who jest and ask,
“Why all this talk about the 'old
man’? Isn’t every day Father’s
Day; and especially the first of
the month when the bills come
rolling in?” But even these,
seemingly callous folk, and even
though they wise crack and call
Father “the old man” have a
love and respect for the man
responsible for their birth, and
are just trying to hide the sen
timental side of their life by
seeming indifference.
Whether you call him “Fath
er”, or “Pappa” or “Daddy” or
even if you refer to him as "the
old man”, "governor”, or any
other thing let him know you
love him this special day of his.
The name “Father” is to this
layman the favorite name of the
greatest Father of all mankind—
God Almighty. The Bible, not
only in the Lord’s Prayer, tells
us of His glory and His love and
His Power and mercy, time and
time again.
One of the favorite stories in
the Bible is about a Father and
a Son — the Prodigal Son; and
illustrates just how quickly God
the Father will forgive and for
get if one sincerely repents and
seeks God’s forgiveness.
Today, Father’s Day, let’s all
give thanks that we are the chil
dren of the Great Father —Our
Father in Heaven — and thank
Him for our earthly father —For
both of them love us and want
the best for each of us.
Sheriff Almost Sure Body
Is That Os Charles Vaughn
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Sol. Gen. Andrew Whalen, Jr., (1) and Det. Ronnie Irvin look over where body
was found.
Plans Talk With LBJ
Kosygin In US For
Anti-Israel Blast
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPD—Unsmil
ing and silent, Soviet Premier
Alexei N. Kosygin for the first
time set foot in the United
States today for summit talks
with President Johnson and to
lead an anti-Israel campaign in
the United Nations.
The Russian leader waved at
Soviet diplomats, only nodded at
his official American greeter
and stared at onlooking airline
mechanics at his Moscow
plane’s isolated comer of
Kennedy International Airport.
He then drove into the city for
a first view of America over the
shoulder of thousands of police
and security men.
Koysgin, a dedicated sightseer
during London, Paris and
Italian visits, stopped his
limousine short of the Soviet
mission and strolled the last 10
blocks up Manhattan’s Third
Avenue.
He looked at the skyscrapers.
He glanced into the windows of
the antique shops, delicatessens
and bars. He examined hard
ware stores, bookdealers and
apartment houses along the
avenue before turning into 67th
Street and entering the Soviet
mission.
On Third Avenue an occasion
al person hurrying to work on
almost deserted sidew a Ik s
glanced at the cluster of rubber
necking Russians. The visitors
attracted no crowd, and none of
the feared anti-Soviet demon
strators.
Kosygin’s airliner with its
hammer and sickle emblem
glinting in the early light
deposited the Russian in New
York only hours before the
United Nations was opening an
emergency General Assembly
session he called to condemn
Israel for last week’s Middle
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East war.
Seek® Arab Favor
Kosygin was meeting Johnson
sometime during his 10-day visit
for talks on the Middle East,
Vietnam, Soviet-American rela
tions and other topics. But
Kosygin came officially to
attack Israel and to curry Arab
favor and his welcome reflected
it.
There was no U.S. govern
ment greeter to welcome
Kosygin’s U.N. visit. New York
Deputy Mayor Robert W. Sweet
told the Russian leader simply,
"Welcome to New York City.
We hope your stay will be a
fruitful one.”
Kosygin nodded and walked
off.
Police motorcycles escorted
his 25-car motorcade through
deserted streets to the Soviet
mission in Manhattan’s high
rent East 67th Street.
Security arrangements for
Kosygin’s visit were rivalled
only by the 1965 visit of Pope
Paul VI and the 1960 appea
rance by ousted Soviet Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev.
New York is a stronghold of
pro-Israel sentiment and houses
many thousands of refugees
from communism. City, state,
federal and U.N. security
officials showed great concern.
Seeks Peaceful Solution
Kosygin himself traveled as a
self-styled peacemaker, hoping
to do better than his mediation
between India and Pakistan in
the 1965 Kashmir crisis.
"We want to find a peaceful
solution” for the Mideast, he
told newsmen in a Paris
stopover on his flight from
Moscow. The solemn Russian
faced a difficult task.
In the Kashmir dispute
Russia was a more or less
disinterested party. But in the
Middle East Kosygin was trying
mightily to win Arab influence
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GRIFFIN
by driving to have the U.N.
General Assembly name Israel
as the aggressor in last week’s
war with the Arab world.
Kosygin also faced the only
top-level Soviet-American meet
ing since the late President
Kennedy met Khrushchev in
Vienna in June 1961.
The United States opposed the
'.■mergency General Assembly
session on the Mideast crisis
demanded by Kosygin after the
15-nation U.N. Security Council
rebuffed Russian attempts to
condemn Israel.
Discuss Vietnam
In the Johnson-Kosygin meet
ing, understood to have been
arranged for sometime during
the Russian’s expected 10 days
in America, expected topics
included Vietnam. U.S.-Soviet
relations, growing colder in
recent months, was another
expected topic.
The Russians said they want
Israeli troops withdrawn from
occupied Arab territory. Soviet
sources said the Russians feel
Johnson has enough influence
over Israel to force the Israelis
to withdraw their troops.
But the Israelis were not
expected to give in to Russia,
especially at the U.N. session.
The Israelis have demanded
face-to-face truce talks with the
Arabs and have brushed aside
talk of U.N. mediation.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and con
tinued warm through Sunday
with chance of widely scattered
thundershowers in the afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 86, low today 67, high
Friday 86, low Friday 66, sun
rise Sunday 6:32, sunset Sunday
8:50.
NEWS
Victim Bound.
Bullet Biddled
A body believed to be that
of a missing college senior was
found on Dutchman road in
Spalding County late Friday
afternoon.
Spalding Sheriff Dwayne Gil
bert said just before noon today
that “we are almost positive”
the body is that of Charles
Vaughn, 22. He has been miss
ing from his home in Griffin
since Sunday night.
The body was found under a
sheet of tin formerly used as a
sign. The body also had been
covered with brush apparently
in an attempt to hide it.
The boy’s hands were bound
behind his back and his feet
had been bound and pulled up
toward his hands.
Sheriff Gilbert said that the
body appeared to have been hit
six times with bullets. Four of
the bullets appeared to have
entered the head and two others
hit the body, he said.
Sheriff Gilbert said that a set
of keys found on the body fit
Charles Vaughn’s automobile.
It had been found abandoned on
the County Line road earlier
this week.
Sheriff Gilbert said the cloth
ing on the victim also fit the
description they had been given
of Vaughn.
He said a crime laboratory
check of dental records was be
ing made in an effort to nail
down the identification positi
vely.
“There is no question in my
mind as to who it is,” Sheriff
Gilbert said.
The sheriff said that all evi
dence so far identified the body
as that of Vaughn but added
“We can’t be absolutely sure
until we hear from the dental
examination."
Vaughn was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Vaughn, 704 Wood
land drive, Griffin.
He had been the object of a
widespread search since early
Monday morning when he was
reported missing.
Relatives told police he h a d
last been seen Sunday night bet
ween 8:15 and 8:30 when he left
home in his car to get some
gasoline.
When he didn’t return home
Sunday night, his parents be
came worried and notified au
thorities.
Vaughn was a senior at West
Georgia College in Carrollton.
The 22-year-old Griffinite was to
have completed his work at West
Georgia this summer and begin
teaching this fall. He already
had been employed to teach at
Forest Park.
Vaughn’s automobile was found
on the County line road between
Ethridge Mill road and Sixth
Street extension.
Police could find no sign of a
struggle about the car or the
area in which it was left. The
ignition keys were missing and
windows on the left side had
been left down.
A locksmith was called in. He
made a key for the trunk of the
automobile. However, when it
was opened, nothing was found
to give investigators a lead as
to the whereabouts of Vaughn.
Tuesday afternoon under the
direction of the sheriff, a large
group of volunteer searchers
looked over the area in which
the car had been abandoned.
They did not come up with
anything that could lead them to
the missing young man.
The body was found by Willie
McCard and his wife, Annette,
late Friday afternoon just off
the Dutchman road. They told
investigators they were in t h e
area looking for scrap iron.
The area appeared to have
been used as a trash dump. It
is littered with scrap paper, beer
cans and other trash.
After they discovered the body,
the couple had to walk quite a
distance to the nearest telephone
to call the Spalding Sheriff’s of
fice.
Deputies Gray Pinson and
Franklin Pitts answered the call
and arrived at the scene about
8 o’clock. They immediately seal
ed off the area and soon a group
of investigators arrived.
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Charles Vaughn
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert was
summoned to the scene and
took charge of the probe.
Officials from the State Crime
Lab, and FBI were called in to
assist. GBI Agent Billy Darsey
who covers this area already was
there.
Police Chief Leo Blackwell and
Asst. Chief Bobby Joe Conner
headed a group of city investiga
tors W'ho assisted.
Dr. Larry Howard from the
State Crime lab came to per
form an autopsy. The body had
been removed from the scene
in an ambulance and taken to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital after
policemen had made photogra
phs and a preliminary investi
gation of the area.
The Griffin Fire Department
brought its large light truck to
the scene to light the area for
investigators Friday night.
Dutchman road is an unpaved
Spalding County road that lies
between High Falls road out of
East Griffin and the Jackson
road running east of the city.
Funeral Service
Planned Sunday
Though identification was not
absolute, it seemed so certain
that funeral arrangements were
planned.
Funeral services for Mr.
Vaughn will be conducted Sun
day afternoon at 4:30 at the
First Baptist Church. The Rev.
Alastair C. Walker will offici
ate. Burial will be in Oak Hill
cemetery.
Survivors in addition to his
parents include a grandfather,
J. B. Vaughn of Augusta.
His mother before her mar
riage was Miss Edna Childers.
Haisten Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
750 Test
Fallout Shelter
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD— It’s a
weekend without the Middle
East crisis, the Vietnam war or
assorted stories of rapes and
robberies for 750 Athens area
residents who won’t even face
those unpleasant television
commercials.
Basic problems of eating and
sleeping may arise, however,
as the group — whose mem
bers range in age from 6
months to 79 years — spends
two nights and two days in
eight rooms of a three-story,
yellow brick building.
Starvation In
Appalachia Said
National Disaster
. By SHIELA MORAN
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPD—Con
gress has promised an investi
gation of starvation in Appala
chia and the South that a team
of northern physicians reports
lias reached the proportions of a
“national disaster.”
Tlie doctors reported 2-and 3-
year-old children in parts of
Mississippi and Alabama were
“beyond medical help,” and
conditions in Appalachia were
termed “not one whit better”
than in the northern parts of
Kenya.
“This is a national disaster,”
said Dr. Robert Coles, a
Harvard University child psy
chiatrist and one of six
physicians who recently studied
hunger in the South for the
Field Foundation Inc., of New
York.
The physicians met Friday
with Chairman Joseph S. Clark,
D-Pa., of a Senate subcommit
tee on manpower, employment
and poverty.
Hearings Scheduled
Hearings by Clark’s commit
tee were tentatively scheduled
for July 11.
“The Agriculture Department
has disaster programs for hail
storms and floods. Why not for
starvation?,” asked Doctor
Raymond Wheeler, executive
committee chairman of the
South era Regional Council.
Wheeler, a Charlotte, N. C.
Internist, was one of four
physicians who visited 600 to 700
families “at random” in Missis
sippi’s Humphries, Leflore,
Wayne, Greene, Neshoba and
Clarke counties.
He described the area as a
“vast prison” where Negroes
have no one to turn to for help.
The condition of the children
there is “pitiful, alarming and
devastating,” he said.
“I was told before I went to
Mississippi that there was a
conspiracy to eliminate the
Negro,” Wheeler said. “Now I
believe it.”
Starvation Diet
He said it was "common” for
families to exist on biscuits for
breakfast, beans for lunch and
bread and molasses for supper.
Families without money could
not pay the $2 minimum cost
for food stamps, he added.
Dr. Coles said nine out of 10
children observed in Alabama
and Mississippi had never seen
a doctor.
“They are beyond medical
help, even if it were available,”
he said. “By the time they are
two or three they have suffered
irreparable damage to then
bodies and minds.
“They need food and vitamins
and every kind of rehabilitation
-particularly blood transfu
sions. Their teeth are so
Miss Georgia
Finals Tonight
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPD—Lin
da Kay Garrett, Miss Valdosta,
took talent honors during a
third night eliminations at the
Miss Georgia Pageant Friday.
Janet Sue Carter, Miss Savan
nah, won in the swimsuit divi
sion.
Miss Garrett, 18, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Min
or Sims. Her talent presenta
tion was a comic monologue
“The Waltz” in which she pre
tended to have been asked to
dance by the worst dancer in
school.
Miss Carter, 19, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Car
ter. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall,
weighs 120 pounds and has
brown hair and green eyes.
The entrants, after three
appalling it was hard to keep
examining their mouths.”
3 Children,
Father Die In
Doraville Fire
DORAVILLE, Ga. (UPD —
Three children perished with
their father early today when
fire raced through their frame
home as the family slept.
Dead were Leroy Thompson,
the father, two sons, Randy, 13,
and Billy, 7, and a daughter
Julie Ann, 4. The mother, Mrs.
Jean Thompson, escaped from
the inferno and was reported in
a state of shock and under a
doctor’s care.
Norcross firemen said the
house was too far gone when
they arrived for any rescue at
tempt. They said Mrs. Thomp
son had to be restrained when
she “Attempted to enter the
burning house where her family
was trapped.
The cause of the fire was not
immediately known.
The charred bodies of the
four victims were recovered in
the predawn hours after the
house was destroyed.
LOST IN SPACE
SAN MATEO, Calif. (UPD—
Hie fourth and fifth grade
students of Fiesta Gardens
School still don’t know what
happened to their spaceship
launched June 5.
The craft is known as
“Moloney III” and is made of
paper, aluminum foil and
cardboard and held up by
dozens of helium-filled balloons.
It was last seen floating
eastward across San Francisco
Bay.
Country Parson
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“I wonder why we resist
both chance and death—the
first a sign of growth and the
latter the end of it.”
nights of judging in talent,
swimsuit and evening gown di
visions compete tonight for the
title.
Miss Carter won half the hon
ors in the talent division Wed
nesday for a dance from “Tales
of Hoffman.” Winning the other
half of the talent division
Wednesday was Sheryl Melvine
Hutchinson, Miss Waycross.
A tie was also declared in
the swimsuit division Wednes
day which was won jointly by
Donna Gyle Stanley, Miss Lake
Lanier, and Janice Etoy Car
michael, Miss Moultrie.
Rosemary Neely, Miss La-
Grange College, won the talent
division Thursday and Gwynn
Carol Fain, Miss University of
Georgia, won the swimsuit di
vision.