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Friday, June 23, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Web Os Mystery
Surrounds Killings
And Kidnapings
CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa (UPI)
—Authorities today began cut
ting through the web of mystery
surrounding the slayings of a
Woman and two men, the
kidnaping of two small girls,
and the man being held for the
crimes.
Only part of the mystery had
been cleared up.
The identity of the man
charged in connection with the
killings was established. He was
identified as Hubert B. McClel
land of Beaumont, Tex.
McClelland, who gave his
name first as Robert Joseph
Carter and later as Joseph
Robert Carter, was charged
with first degree murder
Thursday in the gun death of
Mrs. Gladys Schwab, 42, a
housewife from rural Belle
Plaine.
Leland Skoog, 55, and his son,
Garith, 25, also were shot to
death, apparently after trying
to play the part of good
Samaritan.
How McClelland, a bald,
deeply tanned man last seen
Friday In Beaumont, came to
travel to lowa or why the
Several Grants
Made In Georgia
WASHINGTON (UPI)— Sens.
Richard B. Russell and Her
man E. Talmadge Thursday
announced several federal
grants for Georgia.
The National Science Founda
tion awarded nearly $190,000 to
nine Georgia colleges and uni
versities to help strengthen
their science programs.
The schools and funds were;
Augusta College $2,000; Emory
University $2,800; Georgia In
stitute of Technology $45,264;
Georgia State College $6,600;
University of Georgia $90,969;
Morehouse College; $11,640;
Paine College (Augusta) $2,000
and West Georgia College
$2,000.
New Plant
To Locate
In Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPl)—Plans
were announced Thursday for
the construction here of a surg
ical bandages and dressings
plant that will Initially employ
300 persons.
The $5 million facility will be
built by the Kendall Co. to be
gin operations in about a year.
Gov. Lester Maddox and com
pany president Harold Marshal
were on hand for the announce
ment.
Maddox said the plant would
be "a major shot in the arm
to our expanding economy and
industrial growth.”
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woman and two men were killed
remained a mystery.
McClelland had asked his boss
for some time off last Friday so
he could buy a car In Beaumont
and hadn’t been seen again until
he was arrested here late
Wednesday night.
Cedar Rapids police quote
McClelland as saying he had
killed six people in all.
Authorities said they knew of no
other slayings in lowa. They
said McClelland did not appear
to be "hopped up on drugs or
liquor" when he was arrested.
Police also said he had told
them he was planning to rob a
bank in lowa.
Mrs. Schwab and the two men
were shot to death Wednesday
night. The killer forced the
woman’s daughter and her
niece, both 11, to accompany
him as he drove a stolen car
over back roads.
McClelland was arrested in
Cedar Rapids following the
three slayings late Wednesday.
Officers found the two girls
sobbing and huddled in the
trunk of the car.
The Bureau of Outdoor Rec
■ reatlon approved a grant of
' $19,900 to the State Department
I of Parks for the development
of Fort Mountain State Park
near Chatsworth. The funds
( will be matched by the state
of Georgia.
J. W. Bates & Co., Inc., of
Dallas, Texas, received a
$7,846,697 contract from the Sa
, vannah District Engineer for
construction of a signal school
facility at Fort Gordon consist
ing of 8 classroom buildings
and support utilities.
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Q — What state is often
called “the Flickertail
State”?
A—North Dakota, after the
many flickertail, or 13-striped,
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Q —What is heat lightning?
.A —A form of streak light
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A—Rigorous Tierra del
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LBJ, Kosygin Meet
To Reassure World
(Editor’s note: UPI chief
diplomatic correspondent Stew
art Hensley, who has covered
every East-West summit confer
ence since 1945, is in Glassboro,
N.J., for the meeting of
President Johnson and Premier
Kosygin. In the following
dispatch, he explains why the
meeting might contain less than
meets the eye.)
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
GLASSBORO, N.J. (UPI)-
Muslim’s
Sentence Due
June 30
ATLANTA (UPI) — U.S. Dis
trict Judge Sidney O. Smith has
set June 30 for sentencing of a
22-year-old Black Muslim con
victed Thursday on charges of
refusing to be drafted.
Sylvester Nelloms told a fed
eral court jury he was a for
mer choirboy in the African
Methodist Episcopal Church but
he’s now a practicing Muslim.
He said he ate only once a
day, went to church several
times a week and prays five
times dally.
A government witness testi
fied Nelloms sought conscienti
ous objector status only after
he received his Induction no
tice.
In answering questions by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles
Lewis, Nelloms said Muslims
do not participate in war, "es
pecially the Vietnam War”, but
they would fight if the nation
of Islam were given indepen
dent territory and if it were un
der attack.
I&T Dept
Refused Funds
ATLANTA (UPI) — A state
committee Thursday refused to
consider granting funds to the
Board of Industry and Trade
until someone—preferably Gov.
Lester Maddox—sends a “strong
explanation” of the board’s
policies and plans.”
Maddox was not on hand for
the Fiscal Affairs Committee
meeting.
The committee is composed of
legislators and private citizens
appointed by the governor and
is considered a clearing ground
for transfer of funds and new
funds during fiscal 1967 and
1968.
A FIRM STAND
MADISON, Wis. (UPl)—City
Atty. Edwin Conrad, in paving
the way for preferential treat
ment for veterans seeking city
employment, Wednesday ruled
that the United States is at war
in Vietnam.
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Participating in a Hanleiter Methodist Church groundbreaking were (1-r) A. J.
Cook, the Rev. Newton Scott, pastor; Harvey Duke, Verner Jimmerson, District
Superintendent Jimmy Moore, Woodie Smith, F. D. Chappell, Contractor John M.
Hayes and Arnold Thacker. They were among the leaders in the campaign for an
educational building program and budget financing.
President Johnson and Soviet
Premier Alexei N. Kosygin are
meeting here today to reassure
the world that they don’t intend
to blow it up.
That was about as far as they
could go. Administration offi
cials said arrangements for a
Soviet-American summit confer
ence had been forced by a
necessity for the two leaders to
get together unless they were
prepared to let the world
conclude that they were draw
ing apart.
U.S. officials, warned by the
White House to say nothing
which would downgrade the
meeting, nevertheless found no
reason to believe it would result
in any progress on the critical
issues dividing the two coun
tries.
They pointed out that the
United States had used calipers
Instead of statesmanship in
determining where the meeting
should be.
The decision to hold the
session at a point American
officials believe was halfway
between New York and Wash
ington indicated the sterility of
the discussions that were bound
to follow.
Well - Known
Musician
Dies In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rudolph
Kratlna, well - known musician
and artist, died in Atlanta at
the age of 76 Thursday follow
ing a lengthy illness.
A native of Dresden, Germa
ny, Kratina served on the mu
sic faculty at the University of
Georgia for many years before
his retirement. He had also
played Cello with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra and Atlan
ta Community Orchestra.
Kratlna was an accomplished
artist and restored numerous
paintings in Roman Catholic
churches in the area.
He played In a number of
symphony and opera orchestras
in Europe under such famous
conductors as Richard Strauss.
Kratina was married to the
former Marguerite Presley of
Augusta. Ga., whom he met
while she was in Europe with
her father, a diplomat.
He is survived by his widow
and one son, Dr. Frederick
Kratina of West Palm Beach,
Fla., and several grandchildren.
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Top American officials said
Johnson could be expected to do
nothing more than carry out the
“All American Boy” attitude
which has characterized U.S.
policy during the argument over
this particular summit.
American officials said they
were aware of the lessons of
history contained in the late
President Kennedy’s meeting in
Vienna with former Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1961.
They asserted, nowever, that
the United States had impressed
its policy on the Russians to a
point where Moscow had to
“fish or cut bait” in the terms
of the southern Democrats who
are giving the administration
the adrenalin it needs for this
project.
White House officials said
there would be the usual
communique on the meeting
today. It was hoped in
Washington that this would give
a more correct picture than
that issued in 1961, when
Kennedy’s press agents failed to
disclose that Khrushchev had
given the young American
President a six-month deadline
on getting out of Berlin.
Summit meetings, in the
words of one top American
official, are designed to calm
the nerves of the under
developed nations without,
however, committing the two
major powers to do anything
specific.
That, It appears, is about
what is happening in Glassboro,
N.J. today.
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A—No. The penguin and
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A—No place is more favor
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Q—What Civil War general
was accidentally shot by one
of his own men?
A—General Thomas Jona.
than (Stonewall) Jackson at
the Battle of Chancellorsville.
He died a week later.
Q —tn religious art, what is
the symbol for. St. Ignatius?
A—A lion, or pride of
ravening lions, because he
was thrown to the lions, and
so martyred.
Q —When was the National
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception completed?
A—The nation’s largest
Catholic church, and one of
the world’s largest religious
buildings, was completed in
1959 after 45 years of work.