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By Quimby Melton
By the time our readers get
today’s paper, Good Evening
will be on his way to his long
anticipated trip to Europe. Dur
ing our stay over there, there
will be no daily column except
that we are writing in advance
the weekly Sunday School lesson
that we run on Friday.
Tonight, at 9:00 o’clock, East
ern daylight time, we will board
an Atalia super jet and be on
our overnight flight to London.
Before we return home we w i 11
have travelled 10,000 miles by
air.
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Our trip to Europe, accompan
ied by our daughter, has a
threefold purpose;
First we are making the trip
so we can visit the grave of our
younger son, who killed in ac
tion in World War Two, is buried
along with thousands of other
American soldiers, in the Amer
ican-Netherlands Memorial Ce
metery at Margraten, Holland.
Second; While in London we
will retrace the route of march
taken by the 325th Infantry, 82
Division, in that city in May of
1918, when our outfit was picked
to be the first American troops
to parade in London and be re
viewed by the King.
Third: To see if we cannot ga
ther interesting information for
columns we expect to write
when we get home.
On our two week trip we will
visit England, Holland. Belgium,
part of Western Germany, and
France. United Press Interna
tional through its headquarters
in London and other cities we
will visit have already arranged
interviews with some of the
most important persons in seve
ral of those nations.
Now Good Evening, even now
as he tries to arrange last min
ute things that will make tne
trip pleasant and profitable, can
predict what he will write the
very first day he gets bac k
home. It will run something like
this “As fine as was our trip,
the nicest thing about it all was
getting home —to Griffin, Geor
gia, USA.” For, quoting the-song
writer “There’s No Place Like
Home”, especially when home
is in “the best city, in the best
county, in the best nation in all
the world.”
Peach Crop In
Georgia Brings
Big Cash Returns
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — The
Georgia peach crop, spared the
damage that nearly ruined pro
duction in other states, is bring
ing big cash returns to grow
ers, a peach expert said today.
C. D. Spivey, horticulturist
with the University of Georgia
Extension Service, said early
varieties of Georgia peaches
have good size and color and
are above average in taste.
"Cold weather, which knocked
peaches for a loop throughout
most of the nation, somehow
spared the Georgia crop,” Spi
vey said.
He said most varieties have
been ripening about seven days
earlier than usual, giving grow
ers a week’s jump on the mar
ket.
He said prices were well a
bove average at the start of the
season and have remained
strong.
Peach growers were so happy
over the good market that they
plan to celebrate. The first an
nual Georgia Peach Festival
has been set for July 1 at Rey
nolds.
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Sheriff Gilbert with pistol found in Dundee Mill No.
5 pond Tuesday afternoon.
Five Indicted In
Robbery Os Church
Five young men were indicted
Tuesday by a Spalding County
Grand Jury on charges of rob
bery by use of offensive weapon,
kidnapping and rape. .They
face trial in Spalding Superior
Court next week.
The charges grew out of the
robbery of a church and the al
leged kidnapping and rape of
two young church goers.
Named in the Indictments re
turned by the Grand Jury were:
Winfred Johnny Parham, 19;
Joseph Anthony, 18; William La
mar Clontz, 18; Robert Lofton
Smith, 20, and Jackie Martin, 17.
Several indictments were re
turned against each of the young
Lamar Paving
Bid Due July 7
Paving on Brent Road in La
mar County is up for at the next
bidding session by the Georgia
Highway Department.
Scheduled to be resurfaced is
4.60 miles on Georgia 7, known
as Brent road, beginning at Fre
donia Church, southeast of Bar
nesville, and extending east to
tire Monroe County line.
The estimated cost of the pro
ject is $69,840.
Bids are due by July 7 when
they will be opened at the State
Highway Department in Atlanta.
US Troops Kill
77 Guerrillas
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—U. S. troops
today killed 77 more guerrillas
trying to flee from American
river gunboats in the Mekong
Delta swamps just below
Saigon. They disclosed that
heavily armed women
children guerrillas took part in
the two-day battle.
Three of the 249 guerrillas
killed since Monday included a
woman who pinned down an
army platoon with carbine fire
from a mud bunker, a 14-year
old boy who threw hand
grenades at advancing troops
and a Viet Cong woman medic
armed with hand grenades.
The action disclosed for the
first time the use of pint-sized
battleships and armored bar
racks boats complete with air
conditioners and an ice cream
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men.
All except Anthony are Griffin
ites. Anthony’s last known ad
dress was LaGrange, 111. He was
a former resident of Griffin.
Warrants were sworn out ag
ainst the five after the robbery
of Pleasant Grove Methodist
Church south of Griffin.
Two Negro girls were taken
from the congregation as hosta
ges.
The girls were found a few mi
les from the church. They told
law officers they were raped.
In other grand jury action,
Hardy Berry, 26, and Annie Jean
Berry, 20, were indicted on a
charge of assault with intent to
murder.
They were arrested in connec
tion with the beating of their two
year-old daughter. (Hardy Berry
is the child’s step-father.)
The grand jury remained in
session today, considering more
indictments.
Among indictments returned
so far are 24 no bills.
139 Gallons Os
Booze Seized
Spalding County lawmen Tues
day found 139 gallons of moon
shine in an abandonned pickup
truck on Kathryn road.
The non-tax paid whisky and
truck were confiscated. Lawmen
poured out the whiskey Tuesday
night.
parlor in the Mekong Delta
where the vessels caught and
cornered about 300 Viet Cong in
the dramaitc new strategy.
The Russian news agency
Tass reported a series of air
raid alerts in Hanoi today and
said two American reconnais
sance planes were shot down by
surface-to-air (SAM) missiles at
a high altitude over the North
Vietnamese capital. There was
no American confirmation of
the reports.
A military spokesman said
meanwhile the Communists
were building up in the Central
Highlands west of Pleiku and
near the Cambodian border for
a major offensive. 852 s struck
repeatedly against the Red
buildups.
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, June 21,1967
Smith’s Wife Also
Charged In Killing
Pistol Found
In Dundee
No. 5 Pond
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert this
morning announced that Carol
Jean Smith. 21, had been char
ged with murder in connection
with the slaying of Charles L.
Vaughn, 22.
The charge came one day af
ter her husband, Ronald Lee
Smith, 23, was arrested and
charged with murder in the same
case.
Mrs. Smith was picked up Mon
day and held in protective cus
tody until she was officially ch
arged with murder today.
Sheriff Gilbert Tuesday gave
a few more details about the kill
ing.
WITH HUSBAND
In answer to a question, Sheriff
Gilbert said that Mrs. Smith was
with her husband when Vaughn
was shot six times.
His body was found in a trash
dump off Dutchman road in east
Spalding County early Friday
evening.
The sheriff also disclosed that
some bullets and cartridge hulls
were found.
Lawmen Tuesday recovered a
silver-plated 7.65 mm (.32 cali
bert) automatic pistol from the
murky water of a pond at Dun
dee Mill No. 5 in East Griffin.
POND
Officers learned through their
investigation, that the weapon
had been thrown into the small
body of water.
The pond was partially drained.
Lawmen found the weapon af
ter a short search.
Sheriff Gilbert said ballistic
tests would be made as soon as
possible to determine whether
or not the weapon was used in
the killing.
SOLD WEAPON
Sheriff Gilbert, holding the
shiny automatic said: “we know
a person, who sold Smith (Ron
ald Lee) a weapon like this.”
Smith was arrested Tuesday
morning at his mother’s home
on Williamson road.
He was asleep when a group
of lawmen arrived to make the
arrest.
He was carried to the Spalding
County jail and charged with
murder.
NOT QUESTIONED
Sheriff Gilbert said Tuesday
that he had not questioned Smith
about the case.
Smith requested an attorney
be appointed to represent him.
John Carlisle, a Griffin attorney,
was appointed by Judge John
H. McGehee.
Vaughn was reported missing
Sunday, June 11. His car was
found Monday, June 12, on Co
unty Line road.
His body was located Friday
evening, June 16.
It was found by a Spalding
couple looking for scrap iron.
Sheriff Gilbert said Tuesday
that Vaughn was killed at the
trash dump. He could not pin
point the time but said the kill
ing apparently took place some
time Sunday night, June 11.
It's A Boy
For Nugents
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD—Luci
Johnson Nugent, younger daugh
ter of President Johnson, gave
birth to an 8-pound, 10-ounce
boy in Seton Hospital today.
“Luci’s fine,” her 23-year-old
husband Pat said, personally
announcing *he arrival at 7:59
a.m. EDT of his son, the
President’s first grandson.
Nugent said of his son, "and I
think the dimensions are 21
inches long.”
Luci, 19, was taken to Seton
Hospital, operated by the
Roman Catholic Daughters of
Charity of St. Vincent De Paul,
at 2 a.m. EDT.
Her husband drove her the
two miles from their home to
the hospital in about 5 minutes.
The hospital staff was ready; it
had been alerted to expect her.
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First Day Os Summer
Beverly Burnley, 5, soaks up sun on the first day of summer on the edge of a
private pool. Today was the first official day of summer, even though tempera
tures for several weeks have been in the high 80’s. Beverly is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Jerry R. Burnley of 1142 Cherokee Court, Griffin.
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Meet Hinted
UNITED NATIONS (UPD—
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
arranged a dinner meeting
tonight with Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko as
diplomatic officials reported
that they expected President
Johnson and Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin to meet before
the latter leaves the country
later this week.
Rusk invited Gromyko to a
dinner meeting at his hotel suite
to climax a day during which
Rusk will confer with French
U.N. representative Roger Sey
doux and a number of other
foreign dignitaries, Including
represanattives fro m Ar ab
states.
Contrary to earlier reports,
officials said the expected
Johnson-Kosygin meeting would
not be held in the New York
Student Shot;
Left To Die
On River Bank
ATLANTA (UPD—A college
student, John E. Martin, 25, re
mained in critical condition to
day after he was found Tues
day on a bank of the Chatta
hoochee River, shot four times
and left to die.
Police said his assailants had
bound his hands and feet with
belts.
Martin, of Decatur, was able
to give officers a sketchy de
scription of the three men he
said he had picked up along the
road between Athens and At
lanta.
Martin said the men left in
his car after dumping him in a
dense undergrowth of honey
suckle vines and poison ivy.
An officer said it was "pretty
obvious” Martin’s assailants in
tended to kill him. The Univer
sity of Georgia student was
found when residents of the
area answered his cries for
help.
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area and they objected to
designating it a “courtesy”
meeting. None, however, would
say where it would be held and
the White House said only: “No
arrangements have been made
for a trip to New York.”
Diplomatic officials said it
would probably take place
Thursday. Tire word being given
other delegations by Soviet
officials was that Kosygin
wanted to leave for home late
Thursday.
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Looking Us Over
Gary Powell (r) of the Griffin Chamber of Commerce shows Clifford Clarke,
executive vice president of Associated Industries of Georgia over downtown
Griffin. Clarke made a one-day visit here Tuesday to make notes and gather infor
mation for a talk here next week. He will give a picture of Griffin from an out
sider’s point of view to a chamber membership breakfast meeting at the Moose
Lodge here next Tuesday. He is expected to discusss some of the community’s
strong and weak points in attracting industry.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Miss Teen-Ager
Loses Her Title
ATLANTA (UPD — Diane
Wynns of College Park lost her
Miss Georgia Teen-ager title
by getting married, it was re
vealed Tuesday.
Marolyn Goff of Tifton, run
nerup in the contest last Au
gust, is the new titleholder,
said pageant Chairman David
Tysinger of Carrollton.
Allen Declares
Curfew In
Dixie Hills
By TEE DENT PONDER
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPD — Mayor
Ivan Allen Jr., declared a state
of emergency and imposed an
after-dark curfew early today in
a Negro “prestige slum”
district where one person has
been killed and at least nine
others injured in two nights of
rioting.
Police immediately enforced
the order, banning everyone
from the streets in Dixie Hills
until dawn. The area, in the
bright moonlight, resembled a
ghost town in the early
morning.
But hours earlier, gunfire had
crackled in the streets and one
Negro, Timonty Ross, 46, fell
mortally wounded while sitting
on the steps of an apartment
building. A youth, Reginald
Rivers, 9, was shot in the side,
Marion Ward, 34, was struck in
the face and Cathlerine Duncan,
51, wounded in the hand,
apparently in the same volley.
Boy Seriously Hurt
The child was listed in poor
condition initially but during the
morning he was placed on the
critical list. Ward and Mrs.
Duncan were not seriously hurt.
The violence occurred near
the Dixie Hills shopping center
where about 300 Negroes ained
bricks and bottles on police
Monday night after Stokely
Carmichael told a rally, “We
should be out beating heads.”
The Negroes had rallied largely
to protest the shooting of a
Negro youth by a Negro
policeman earlier Monday at
the shopping center.
State Sen. Leroy Johnson,
Georgia’s first Negro legislator
in modern history, had tried to
head off another night of
violence Tuesday by setting up
a youth patrol of Negro
teenagers to help keep peace.
Militant Negro leaders, howev
er, called them “black traitors”
and the patrol never actually
became a serious factor.
Stories Conflict
There were conflicting stories
from Negro witnesses and
police over the shootings. Ward
and Mrs. Duncan said a
policeman fired the shots.
Police officials contend it was a
sniper.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)