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Tuesday, June 20, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Dixie Hill Built
Toward Explosion
By EUGENE MCNEIL
United Press International
■» ATLANTA (UPD—The little
Negro children playing in the
street stopped to watch me as
I passed. ‘‘Black power,” one
■» cf them shouted, and the others
took up the chant.
Adults gathered in clusters on
the treeless streets of Dixie
„ Hills. The sun bounced off the
asphalt in 90-dgree waves.
I was able to distinguish
words occasionally as they
drifted from the mumbling
groups. ‘‘lnnocent boy shot.”
“Police brutality.”
There was a feeling of sub
•> dued excitement. No outward
tension was evident Monday af
ternoon. but the undercurrent
was there. “This thing is gonna
blow wide open tonight,”
Warned the Rev. Joseph Boone.
This was an “underprivi
leged” housing project storing
* its resentment in the daylight.
This was Dixie Hills building to
ward a nighttime explosion.
The fuse was the shooting of
Georgia Methodists
Elect 5 Delegates
ATLANTA (UPD — Metho
dists meeting at Emory Uni
i versify Monday elected five
delegates to their denomina
tion’s general conference to be
held next April in Dallas, Tex.
t Named chairman of the min
isterial delegation was
Dr. William R. Cannon, dean of
Emory’s Candler School of The
f ology. Also elected on the first
ballot was Dr. Nat G. Long of
Decatur.
Chairman of the lay delega
tion is William A. Sutton. Other
’ lay delegates elected include
D. W. Brooks of Atlanta and
Mrs. Victor B. Yeargan of
Rome.
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a Negro youth by a Negro po
liceman at the Dixie Hills shop
ping center Monday afternoon.
The stories were conflicting.
The officer, Robert McKibbens,
said he had been attacked with
a broomstick. The youth, Doug
lass Richmond, contended he
was shot while “just standing
around.”
Boone, an official of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, said he felt McKib
bens, an experienced officer,
could have subdued the youth
without shooting him.
The West Atlanta area with
its 600-unit, brick apartments
housing several thousand Ne
groes has been a troublespot
for the past few days. The
shopping center has been the
sore point.
“Look at this,” said Wilkie
Jordan, an SCLC block leader,
pointing to the cement parking
lot, about the size of a football
field. “This is where the kids
play. It’s the only recreation
area there is around here.”
North Georgia Annual Confer
ence are electing eight min
isters and eight laymen to the
law - making conference. They
will serve with delegates from
31 nations to form Methodist
policy and law.
The first full working session
of the meeting at Emory was
scheduled today when 11 dis
trict superintendents present a
"state of the church” address.
It will be read by the Rev.
William H. Ruff of Athens,
superintendent of the Athens-
Elberton Methodist district.
The address will urge several
new approaches in church pro
grams and will also encourage
delegates to vote in favor of
two proposals on church union
and elimination of race from
church structure. The proposals
were scheduled for debate on
Friday.
NUTTY
CHICAGO (UPI —Police said
Monday someone stole 25,000
pounds of nuts and bolts—
roughly 53 million in all —from a
truck parked at a northwest
side terminal.
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Private Negro officers are the
security guard for the center,
and many of the residents ac
cused these guards of unneces
ary roughness in dealing with
Negroes.
Stokely Carmichael had been
arrested Sunday night for fail
ing to obey a policeman’s or
der to move on. He was re
leased Monday and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee promptly issued a news
release headlined: “Police Oc
cupy Dixie Hills (Atlanta Black
Ghetto.”
SNCC pledged to organize all
elements of the district into “a
variable unit to deal with its
just and legitimate demands for
liberation from oppressive forc
es."
As I left Dixie Hills, I saw
bus officials stopping buses and
routing them around the area.
“I'm not going to let the win
dows of my buses get broken,”
one explained.
No one, it seemed, was
anxious for night to come.
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Macon Police
Rule Deaths
Murder - Suicide
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — A
young Macon man and his wife
died Monday night in what po
lice termed a murder and sui
cide that resulted from a
domestic quarrel.
Mrs. Rosa Mae Bowdry, 20,
was declared dead on arrival
at a Macon hospital from a
wound in her chest.
Her husband, James, also 20,
died Monday night of a wound
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Tourists Spent
$496.3 Million
In Ga. Last Year
ATLANTA (UPD—The Tour
ist Division of the State De
partment of Industry and Trade
said travelers spent a record
$496.3 million in Georgia last
year.
The department said Georgia
has a total of 21,000 travel
related businesses, 600 more
than the year before.
Department figures show out
of-state visitors accounted for
50.7 per cent of pleasure trips
taken in Georgia while 49.3 per
cent were taken by Georgians
vacationing in their own state.
Florida leads all other states
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52 Inmates
Say Gassing
Was Justified
ATLANTA (UPI) — Some 52
Inmates of the Fulton County
jail signed a petition Monday
saying Chief Jailer Melvin
Bates was justified in using
tear gas on eight inmates.
Bates has been suspended
pending a grand jury investiga
tion called by Sol. Gen. Lewis
Slaton after it was revealed
eight pr ison ers had been
sprayed with tear gas to ex
tract admission to a petty
theft.
The petition said Bates had
always been consciencious and
tried to "stick to his rules.”
money spent by vacationers in
creased by a larger percentage
than the number of trips be
cause people are spending more
time and money in Georgia
than ever before.
The state benefited from trav
el spending by $39 million in
revenue tax in 1966, furnishing
6.4 per cent of Georgia’s total
revenue collections.
Two More
Georgians
Die In Viet
WASHINGTON (UPI) _ The
Defense Department Monday
identified 57 U.S. servicemen
killed in action in Vietnam, in
cluding two Georgians.
They were Army Staff Sgt.
Thomas A. Rivera, husband of
Mrs. Ingrid Rivera, of Colum
bus and Army Pfc Clarence W.
Rogers Jr., husband of Mrs.
Billie J. Rogers of Tunnel Hill.
DEPUTY NAMED
WASHINGTON (UPl)—War
ren M. Christopher, a one-time
law clerk to Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas, has
been nominated to be deputy
attorney general.
The Pr eside nt announced
nomination at the White House
Thursday.
Christopher, 41, a Los Angeles
lawyer, served in various
positions under former Califor
nia Governor Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown.
RE-TRIAL DENIED
CHICAGO (UPI)—A Chicago
magistrate Thursday denied
self-proclaimed American Nazi
Party leader George Lincoln
Rockwell a new trial.
Rockwell, who presented his
own defense before Magistrate
Maurice B. Lee, was convicted
May 15 of obstructing a law
officer, disorderly conduct and
criminal trespass after his
arrest outside the Cook County
sheriff’s office
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weekend shooting death of Miss
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Officers said the woman died
of shotgun wounds Sunday at
her apartment. Divine, arrested
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ATLANTA (UPD — Authori
ties were continuing a search
today for a man who robbed
the Industrial Boulevard branch
of the Peachtree Bank and
Trust Co. Monday of approxi
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Shopping Center • short time
after the robbery.
Hitt described the man as
about 40 years old, wearing a
white shirt, slacks and sun
glasses and badly in need of a
shave. The man pulled a pistol
on a teller at the bank’s drive
in window, he said.
JUNE SNOWBALLS
CHICAGO (UPD—Jack Frost
was put on ice Monday because
police said they found snow in
his pocket.
Forst was scheduled for a
hearing in narcotics court June
28 on a charge of possessing
SSOO worth of pure heroin.