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By Quimby Mellon
One who makes a trip to Eu
rope should include a visit to
Cologne, Germany, for not to do
so will be to miss one of t h e
most interesting cities in all Eu
rope.
Os course Cologne is chiefly
known for its cathedral. Build
ing the giant medieval cathe
dral was begun in 1248 and not
completed until 1880. One, who
has never been there and been
awed by its size, can get an idea
of it when told two of its spires
reach 512 feet skyward and the
cathedral is made up of dozens
of chapels and occupies an en
tire city block, and the city block
is no small thing in Cologne.
On our trip to Cologne fortun
ately we were assigned to the
Hotel Excellsior Ernst, which
opens on the wide street in front
of the cathedral. It was only a
few steps away to this famed Go
thic structure.
Not only is the cathedral more
than 700 years old, but it has
survived many wars. Even in
its early days roving bands of
vandals sought to destroy the
building, and by the time World
War One came, with the first
use of airplanes to bomb, it was
in danger. It was not until World
War Two that great damage was
done. To the Allies it was consi
dered off limits for bombing and
Allied planes kept across the
Rhine River — Cologne is on the
west bank — when on a bomb
ing raid. The Nazis, however,
did not fail to drop bombs close
to it and damage was done.
(Noticed one tremendous stain
ed glass window, made up of a
dozen or more individual panels,
that was so badly damaged it
had to be replaced.)
The Cathedral has the bones
of many martyrs entombed there
and we were told that one of the
chapels, named in honor of St.
Ursula, has beneath it the bon
es of 11,000 English virgjns, who
were massacred near Cologne
while on a pilmigrage to Rome.
(Columbus when he discovered
islands near Perto Rico in 1493
named them “Virgin Islands”
for these victims.)
One could spend a week in the
Cathedral at Cologne and still
be interested. But one must
move on. For it was from Colo
gne that we boarded a Rhine
River steamer for a day long
trip up the river to Weisbaden,
a trip that was so interesting
that it deserves a column by it
self.
Some day Good Evening would
like to visit Europe again and
specialize in visiting churches
and cathedrals on a more lei
surely schedule.
We would like to start with
Westminster Abbey, which we
visited in 1918, but which we
could not visit on our recent trip
since there was a state funeral
being held of some distant cou
sin of the royal family, and the
entire area was blocked off.
(We did manage to slip into one
part, being renovated, and stand
in what was one of the first
parts of the abbey.
We’d like to spend more time
at Christ’s Church, in Oxford,
and visit the little centuries old
church, near Avon, where Chur
chill is buried. (This church was
locked up and no one could en
ter.)
Then in Europe we would like
to spend a lot of time in the
Cologne Cathedral, we’d like to
stop at Coblentz, further up the
river and visit the cathedral
there (we also visited it in 1918).
and then on to Paris where No
tre Dame is the focal point of
all tourists.
We’d like to extend that trip
into other parts of France, into
Spain and certainly into Italy
where churches and cathedrals
are numerous; and of course
we’d like to top it all off with a
visit to “The Holy Land” with
its many relics, not only of ear
ly Christianity, but of Judaism
and of Mohammedanism.
That trip probably never will
be taken. But we’d like to advise
our readers to be certain and
include a visit to churches and
cathedrals in whatever land they
should visit.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warmer Wednesday with widely
scattered afternoon or evening
thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 87, minimum today
70, maximum Monday 83, mini
mum Monday 67. Total rainfall
.18 of an inch. Sunrise Wednes
day 6:49 a.m., sunset Wednes
day 8:43 p.m.
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Masked Gunman
Robs Supermarket
A masked gunman robbed '
Clark’s Super Market at 403 i
East Broadway of an undeter- i
mined amount of money Mon
day night. |
Officers said Irvin Clark, own- i
er of the store, and four men, <
who work for a janitorial ser- I
vice, were in the store at the 1
time of the robbery.
One of the men working for <
the janitorial service, Levis I
Jackson, went out of the build- i
ing to get a bucket out of a i
truck. The gunman approached
Jackson and put a gun to hi s -
back. ]
Jackson was ordered to put i
the bucket in the truck and en- 1
ter the store. Jackson did as he I
was told.
Clark was in the store office, i
Considine Will
Talk To Co-op
Bob Considine, nationally kn
own news commentator and wri
ter, will be the guest speaker at
the 30th annual meeting of the
Central Georgia Electric Mem
bership Cooperation at Indian
Springs State Park this year.
The meeting will start at 10 a.
m. Wednesday, Aug. 9.
Quimby Melton, Sr., publish
er of the Griffin Daily News, will
introduce the speaker. Quimby
Melton, Jr., editor of the Grif
fin Daily News, will be master
of ceremonies.
Mr. Considine Is associated
with the American Broadcasting
Company and has been doing
radio programs and television
specials more than 16 years. He
is a King Features syndicated
columnist and his column “On
The Line” appears in many
newspapers in this country.
The Central Georgia Electric
organization will elect three dir
ectors to serve the Butts County
area, Monroe-Bibb County area,
area. They will serve three-year
terms, each, beginning Aug. 9,
1967.
Valuable door prizes donated
by suppliers, appliance dealers
and other businesses will be giv
en away during the meeting.
“The Kitchen Kuties” from the
Henry-Clayton County area, will
provide the morning entertain
ment.
Talent groups from othgr ar
eas will perform after a barbe
cue lunch.
Navy Hurls Mighty
Force At Power Plant
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPl)—Navy war
planes and the mightiest guns
of the U.S. 7th Fleet blasted a
key North Vietnamese thermal
power plant in a simultaneous
attack, U.S. military spokesmen
said today. It was the first such
attack of the war.
The coordinated attack came
as Viet Cong terrorists kidnaped
five men and a woman from
their homes on the outskirts of
Saigon and executed them on a
major highway in true gangland
fashion—with a bullet in the
back of the head. It was a
warning to Vietnamese against
cooperating with the govern
ment.
The spokesman said the air
sea assault, the first simul
taneous attack on a major
target, hammered the Ben Thuy
thermal power plant on the
banks of the Song Ca River just
outside of Vinh in the North
Vietnamese southern panhandle.
Country Parson
“I don’t know anybody
who lives up to what he
preaches — but it’s seldom
the preaching that needs
changing.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
which is on a platform. The gun
man took Jackson to the office
and told Clark it was a holdup.
The robber made Jackson go
to another side of the office. He
called George Cloud and Arthur
Green, two other employes of
the janitorial service, to the of
fice.
Jackson, Clark, Cloud and
Green were forced to stand in
the small office space. The gun
man told Clark to give him the
money.
Clark had a box in the office
with money taken from the cash
registers. He gave that to t h e
robber. The robber then ordered
him to open the store safe and
take money from it. Clark did.
The robber then requested
Clark’s money from his billfold.
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Tickets for the barbecue will
■ be available In advance at the
, co-op office as well as from Fr
ank Eady Grocery, Cleghorn’s
l Grocery and W. C. Futral’s
i store, all of Route Four, Griffin;
■ and Neel’s Pharmacy on East
Solomon street in Griffin.
• Picnic grounds will be avail-
I able for those wishing to bring
• lunches.
Special invitations have been
■ Issued to newspaper editors, se
• nators, and representatives to
attend the annual meeting.
It was the second day In' a
row that pilots have bombed the
plant. It is a strategic facility
which supplies power for the
industrial and military installa
tions surrounding Vinh and for
the Ben Thuy port facilities.
Sky Hawks, Intruders and
supersonic F 4 Phantom jets
from the carrier Constellation
streaked in, knocking out flak
sites as they went, and the
heavy cruiser U.S.S. Saint Paul
opened up with its eight inch
guns.
Two destroyers—the U.S.S.
Barney and U.S.S. Blue
slashed in toward two Commu
nist shore batteries that fired at
the three warships and silenced
them with repeated salvoes
from their five-inch guns.
Then the destroyers helped
the cruiser In the naval
bombardment.
Spalding Deputy
Hospitalized
By Heart Attack
Spalding County Deputy Sher
iff Jack Taylor suffered a heart
attack Monday and was listed
in fair condition today at t h e
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal.
A spokesman for the sheriff’s
department said Taylor had
pains in his chest on the North
Expressway. He drove the pat
rol car he was in to his home at
120 Magnolia drive.
He used the telephone there to
call the sheriff’s department and
asked that someone be sent to
take him to the hospital.
Deputy Gray Pinson was in
the Highland Mill area and went
to Taylor’s home. He rushed De
puty Taylor to the hospital.
Griffin, Ga. # 30223, Tuesday, July 25,1967
Clark took the money from the
billfold and began counting it.
The robber told him there was
no need to count it.
The robber put the money in a
cigar box and told the men to
squat down in the office area
and not to raise up until he left
the store.
Clark said he waited about a
half minute to give him time to
leave the store and called the
Griffin police.
Eddie Williams, another of the
janitorial employes, lay on the
floor in the back of the store
during the robbery and was not
seen by the robber.
The money taken was in S2O,
$lO, $5 and $1 bills. He told Clark
he did not want any checks or
change.
The robber was described as
being of slim build, light hair,
five feet, eight inches to five
feet, ten inches tall, wearing a
black jacket and black pants.
He wore a blue and white mask
over his face. He also was wear
ing a black hat, believed by of
ficers to be the old wide-b r i m
style. Officers said the robber
possibly had a scar around his
right eye.
The robbery was the second
of a Griffin business firm in less
than a week. Last Thursday
night a lone gunman robbed
West Side Package store on Me
riwether street.
District Masons
To Meet In
Fayetteville
The Sixth Masonic District of
Georgia will convene Its 62nd
annual convention Wednesday,
at Fayetteville, Ga. The session
will be hosted by Fayetteville
Lodge No. 711.
Brother Edward N. Travis,
Treasurer of the Fayetteville
Lodge, is Worshipful Master of
the Sixth District.
Brother Travis is a Past Mas
ter of Fayetteville Lodge No. 711
and has held office in the Lod
ge since it was chartered in 1954.
The Sixth Masonic District of
Georgia contains the counties of
Fayette, Bibb, Butts, Clayton,
Jasper, Spalding and Upson,
and consists of 32 lodges.
The session will begin at 2 p.
m. with the regular business
session. A very well-planned
evening meal will be served at
6 p.m. by the Ladies of the Eas
tern Star. At 7:00 p.m. the ses
sion will be addressed by Most
Worshipful Master Paul Ponder,
Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia.
All qualified Master Masons
are urged to attend.
Griffarea Officers
To Attend NCIC
Briefing Here
All police officers in the Grif
farea are urged to attend a two
hour class on the functions of
the National Crime Information
Center to be held at City Hall
in Griffin Thursday at 2 p.m.
Bill Foster, public information
officer for the Georgia Depart
ment of Public Safety, will be
the speaker.
The class Is to familiarize po
lice officers with N.C.I.C. and
how it can help them do a more
effective job for the people whi
ch they serve.
INSIDE
Local News. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Georgia News. Page 5-
Want Ads. Page 6.
Comics. Page 7.
Society. Page 8.
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Coffee, Brewer
Wed; Live In Cocoa
ATLANTA (UPI) — An article
on the society page of Mon
day’s Atlanta Journal announc
ed the marriage of Miss Mary
Patricia Coffee to Miles Ashley
Brewer. They will live in Co
coa, Fla.
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Paratroopers Take
Control Os Detroit
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Library Bonds
Balloting was slow when the polls opened this morn
ing in the library bond election but picked up later in
the day. A check of polling places at noon indicated
the total ballot cast may be somewhat larger than
first expected. Voters have until 7 p. m. to mark
ballots for or against the bond issue.
EX - Oriffinite Police
Radioman In Detroit
William Rawls, a native of Sp
alding County, probably has :
been busy for the last several 1
days handling police radio calls i
in the Detroit area. i
He is assigned to one of the
precinct stations in the Michi- ,
gan city which has been hit with '
rioting in the last few days.
Rawls has been with the De- (
troit police department some 13
years. 1
He is married to a Detroit girl i
Will Not Tolerate
Lawlessness’: LBJ
By MERRIMAN SMITH i
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Johnson, faced with a 1
crisis at home as grave as any 1
overseas, has pledged that his !
administration will be relentless 1
in suppressing and punishing
rioters. (
“Pillage, looting, murder and ,
arson have nothing to do with
civil rights,” the Chief Execu- I
ive declared in a nationaly I
televsed and broadcast state
ment Monday night shortly |
after he ordered federal troops
into shattered Detroit.
“We will not tolerate lawless
ness. We will not endure ,
violence. It matters not by J
whom it is done or under what (
slogan or banner. It will not be
tolerated. This nation will do ,
whatever is necessary to (
suppress and punish those who |
engage in it,” Johnson said. (
“I call upon all our people, in
all of our cities, to join in a
determined program to main- .
tain law and order—to condemn •
and combat lawlessness in all of
Its forms—and firmly to show
by word and deed that riots,
looting and public disorder will ’
not be tolerated.”
Johnson said it was “with the j
greatest regret” that he issued |
the proclamation sending two
brigades of Paratroopers into 1
Detroit. But, he said, “The fact ]
of the matter is that law and i
order have broken down in •
Detroit.” i
The President referred repea- 1
tedly to the pleas of Michigan
Gov, George W. Romney and i
Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavan- '
augh. He said the federal 1
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whom he met during World War
II while he was in the service.
They have three children, two
of whom are married and the
other lives with them in Detroit.
Rawls attended Spalding High
School before entering the ser
vice in World War 11, He w a s
home recently to attend his fa
ther’s funeral. He was the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Geor
ge Rawls of Spalding County.
government had no alternative
but to respond since “it was
called upon by the governor of
the state and presented with
proof of his inability to restore
order.”
$50,000 Tag
Placed On
Gov. Kirk’s Life
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI)
— The underworld has put a
$50,000 price tag on Gov.
Claude Kirk’s life, according to
one of the governor’s aides.
Jack Ledden said in St. Pet
ersburg Monday a “contract”
to kill Kirk has been offered,
but he didn’t know if “the con
tract has been picked up.”
He said the governor’s agents
learned of a $25,000 contract
just before the Fourth of July
holiday.
“They apparently upped it.”
Ralph Kiel, an aide to George
Wackenhut, chief of Kirk’s
“war on crime,” said he knew
nothing of the reported con
tract.
Ledden said the $50,000 con
tract is the fifth threat made on
Kirk’s life since he began his
anti-crime war. He said Kirk’s
security guard has been dou
bled and federal authorities no
tified.
He said security around the
governor is so stringent that
“he doesn’t walk outside into
the street first any more.”
23 People Dead;
Hundreds Wounded
By HOWARD FIELDS
DETROIT (UPI) —Federal
troops today took control of the
nation’s fifth largest city,
ravaged by its worst racial
disturbance in a generation.
Snipers firing from the smoking
ruins of Negro riot areas were
answered with salvos from
tanks and machineguns.
The death toll in the three-day
riot stood at 23—at least three
of them white—and more than
1,500 persons were injured. The
wounded included police and
National Guardsmen augment
ing a force of 1,500 paratroopers
who moved into the city
Monday night under orders of
President Johnson.
Another 3,200 Army regulars
were on standby alert at
Selfridge Air Force base 30
miles outside of town.
Authorities today struggled to
bring a semblance of normality
to Detroit, but the state of
emergency imposed by Michi
gan Gov. George Romney
remained in effect. That includ
ed an all-night curfew and a
ban on the sale of beer, liquor
and gasoline.
Brilliant sunshine with tem
peratures in the 60s broke over
the city where the devastation
of racial insurrection began
Sunday morning with a “rou
tine” police raid on a Negro
after-hours saloon.
Heavy Shooting
Before the federal troops
moved in, bands of Negroes
opened fire on four police
precinct stations and a National
Guard command post. One of
the rioting wolf packs rattled
away with machinegun fire.
A National Guard officer said
Detroit’s insurrection was
changing from mass destruction
and looting to armed combat
waged by Negro outlaws.
Today, vast sections of the
Motor City appeared to have
undergone air raids. Little of
the city’s 139-square-mile me
tropolitan area was unaffected.
Damage was estimated at more
than S2OO million.
Sporadic sniper fire was
reported during the morning.
But thousands of police, guards
men and paratroopers of the
82nd and 101st Airborne Divi
sions for the first time were
answering the hidden gunmen
bullet for bullet.
Cyrus Vance, former deputy
defense secretary and civilian
chief of the federal troops here,
toured the city early today and
said that “on the whole things
appear to be relatively quiet.”
Romney remained in the
downtown area.
Border Reopened
The city opened its borders
with Canada for the first time
since the rioting began. The
bridge and tunnel linking
Detroit with Windsor, Ont.,
across the Detroit River were
operating normally.
Most small businesses re
mained closed and traffic into
the downtown section was light.
Paratrooper truck convoys
joined private automobiles mov
ing along the John C. Lodge
Expressway linking downtown
with the suburbs.
A white man was shot and
killed as a sniper when he
ignored a National Guardsmen’s
order to stop as he climbed
down from a rooftop. At least
one white looter was also killed.
Some whites have been seen
looting and hurling firebombs in
Negro areas, but police said the
vast majority of rioters were
Negroes.
Early today, snipers fired Into
an East Side street from a
building.
“I’ll give you to 10 to get out
of the building,” shouted a
Guard commander aboard a
tank.
Fires on Building
No one emerged. The guards
man counted loudly and quickly,
then opened up with heavy
machingun fire. Bullets shat
tered the building and five men
walked out and were arrested.
Racial disturbances als o
erupted Monday night and early
today in nearby Pontiac, In
Flint, and in Grand Rapids,
Mich. Trouble also was reported
in Toledo, Ohio, 70 miles to the
south of Detroit.
Two Negroes were killed In
Pontiac, 30 miles north of
Detroit, one by a state
legislator protecting his store
with a shotgun. In Flint, about
70 miles north of Detroit, Negro
Mayor Floyd McCree joined
police in attempting to quell
sporadic rock-throwing and fire
bombing.
Authorities in Grand Rapids,
the state’s second largest city
about 150 miles west of Detroit,
banned the sale of liquor after
roving gangs of Negro youths
went on a rampage over a wide
area of the business district and
fanned out into residential
areas.
900 Fires
Detroit Fire Chief Charles J.
Quinlan said more than 900 fires
had been started since the
rioting erupted early Sunday in
a Negro ghetto along 12th Street
on the West Side. The distur
bances then spread to the East
Side, south of the Detroit River
and to the fashionable North
Side.
Detroit city courts, operating
on an around-the-clock basis,
today were holding suspected
snipers in $200,000 bond. Alleged
looters were being held over in
bonds averaging $25,000.
Romney watched today as six
buses, each carrying 40 priso
ners, were loaded for a trip to
Jackson State Prison. The
occupants, having been ar
raigned, were being transferred
to the state prison until trials
can be arranged.
Government offices in Detroit
were reopened today and
Romney, Vace and Mayor
Jerome P. Cavanagh urged
other business places to reopen.
The three said business as usual
would help restore calm to this
city of 1.6 million residents, of
whom 33 per cent are Negroes.
Pickup at 15th pgh: Lt. Gen.
Racial Violence
At A Glance
By United Press International
The U.S. racial situation at a
glance:
Detroit, Michigan—Negro out
laws engage federal Paratroo
pers, National Guardsmen and
police in guerrilla combat. At
least 23 dead, blocks of property
destroyed.
. Pontiac, Mich.—Two persons
shot to death in racial violence.
City’s largest gun store broke
into and looted. There was also
violence in Flint and Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Rochester, N-Y. — Two
Negroes killed in violence oni
third anniversary of 1964 rioting-l
New York City—Two killed as
Puerto Rican youths battle
police from tenement roofs.
Gangs roam streets breaking
windows and lights.
Cambridge, Md—Negroes set
fires and break windows after
H. Rap Brown, chairman of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
committee (SNCC) was slightly
wounded by gunshot during
black power speech.
Englewood, N.J.—Police and
snipers exchange heavy gunfire.
There also was trouble In
Toledo and Lima, Ohio.
POOR EYESIGHT?
LONDON (UPl)—lndependent
television commentator Henry
Blofled, announcing a cricket
match Monday, told viewers
there was a man on a balcony
overlooking the ground wearing
only a bathing costume.
“That’s the way to watch
cricket,” he said. The cameras
zoomed In for a closer look.
Then fellow sports commentator
Crawford White said, “careful
Henry. That’s a woman.”
At the moment, the beautiful
blonde sunbathing in a topless
suit dashed inside her house.