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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. i Delegates attending the 101st • For Better SHOES SHOP A FREE! Y 9-Piece Set ANCHOR - HOCKING SORENO PARTY BOWL SET In rich Avocado Green Color 6 serving bowls 1 large salad server 1 spoon and fork set > '\ z - - • ' ■'K • ti > ‘ 0 FREE—with $20.00 in cleaning or Laundry between June 1 and August 31, 1967. See on Display or Call for Information O -IT- lonin Comjjfele Jofiiic Cale 210 E. Solomon St. Phone 227-5555 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. 7 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. /Sa a• . | 'si '>\M I '''? wwM 4 20TH CENTURY TIE, or Col larbar, is what Jim Jones calls his invention as he ad justs it on collar of Wallace Brazeal in San Francisco. It clips on, and comes in a wide choice of metals, colors and textured surfaces, this one being brushed silver. Jones claims it is first new item in men’s wear in centuries. 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 in his head. 30” WELLS BORED and PUMPS INSTALLED! DUFFEY’S NURSERY & WELL BORING CO. (FREE offer with first 100 wells) I have bought one of the fastest, most modern boring machines available; hired a driller with 15 years ex perience to provide fast, reliable well boring and pump installation. If you desire clear, sparkling water from dependable wells ... 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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 in the number of residents who travel in Georgia for vacation and recreation. Tourist Division Director Bill Hardman said the amount of 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 Today and Wednesday ■SUPERIOR OFF-BEAT, AND ORIGINAL! -n.y. times < ... M. ? W W & COLUMBIA PIC I URtsß 1 jaweswasoN ai3N Bares iwNlWiave [suggested for mature audiences] ■pis' Today and Wednesday “AFRICA TEXAS STYLES" Hugh O’Brien John Mills Atlantan Charged In Murder ATLANTA (UPD — Police Monday charged John L. Di vine, 23, of Atlanta, with mur der in connection with the weekend shooting death of Miss Joann Mathews, also of Atlanta. 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Monday of approxi mately SI,OOO. Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta FBI office, Frank V. Hitt, said a car believed to have been used by the bandit was found at the Cambridge National Root Beer Week Special! FREE MUG OF A&WROOT BEER WITH EVERY SANDWICH ORDER! Come on . . . give yourself a treat during National Root Week, June 18 through June 24! Drop in for a delicious sandwich and get a frosty mug of creamy, refreshing A&W draft root beer free! It’s the world’s largest seller. Then buy a take home quart or gallon, so you can share the fun with everyone. A&W DRIVE-IN MW Macon Hi-Way South WW «i O T «■ 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.