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1 By Quimby Melton
g, Had intended to write today’s
column about our delightful trip,
jy boat, up the Rhine River; but
I since General Charles de Gaulle
fl s so much in the news these
W lays, being in Canada on a Vis
fl L we’ll write this column tell
fl ng what people, with whom we
B alked in Europe, seem to think
I; )f him.
U Now we did not have any of
ficial status on our recent visit
fl ,o Europe; we did not go with
■ he blessings of the Department
S as State as a member of a “fact
fl- rinding commission” or anything
■ like that. We were just a long
fl ime newspaper man who want
fl ad to find out what the average
fl persons though about De Gaulle,
fldor there are more “average”
fl citizens in every land than there
flare “higherups."
J; And though we are not an ex
fl perienced pollster still we be
fliieve the overall impression we
argot, after talking to literally
fl hundreds of people, is about as
fl true as any opinion based on a
fl professional poll.
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So here goes, country by coun-
B.try:
| In England, the first country
fl We visited, we found a major
fl ity with whom we talked resen
fl ted the French leader’s so-far
fl successful campaign to keep
flEngland out of the Common
fl Market. But we also found, both
fl here and in other nations, this
fl opinion — “You’ll have to hand
fl it to him, he has given France
fl a more or less stable govern
|| inent for the first time in
fl years.”
? One English newsman also
fl expressed this opinion:
“De Gaulle is doing his best
fl to form an alliance with Russia
fl similar to the age old one that
I exists between England and the
fl United States. But he is at times
fl wary for he knows that while
fl both England and America have
fl the greatest basic respect for
each other, Russia cannot be
f completely trusted.”
Across the English Chanel, in
J Holland—found seemingly a ge
neral desire to side-step ques
■ tions about the general. One
‘ person said “Why talk about
; him, we in Holland can’t chan
ge the French.” Then this same
; person added “What we are wor
* tied about is what will happen
; when De Gaulle is through.”
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The Belgian people were a lit
tle more inclined to discuss De
; Gaulle. For Belgium seems to
j be more interested in the Com
l mon Market than England or
Holland. The French people need
\ the Common Market as much
; as we, said one Belgian; but
De Gaulle has them hypnotized
■ into believing he knows all that
is best. However, even this cri
tic of the general added, “You’ll
have to give the devil his dues,
De Gaulle has brought a stable
government to the French peo
' pie; and we Belgians who have
' experienced unstable govern
ment time and time again when
we have been occupied by en
emy troops, know the importan
ce of this.”
In Germany, and it was here
that we found more people who
spoke clear and precise-English,
there seemed to be a general
tendency to “turn the subject”
when asked about De Gaulle.
One must take into consideration
that Germany and France have
been locked in war with each
other twice in this century and
there still is a lot of suspicion.
However we would sum up the
German attitude:
De Gaulle is an opportunist,
he believes that right now he
can strengthen France by team
ing up with the Russians. He is
more or less defying K>th Eng
land and the United States be
cause he believes this will plea
se the Russians and that it will
certainly strengthen his hand
with the communists in France.
When he finds Russia turning
luke warm and threatening him,
he’ll come running to America
talking about our debt to LaFay
ette. He’ll not mention America
rescuing France at least twice
in this century. De Gaulle is a
dangerous man.
Tomorrow, what do the Fren
ch think of him?
What is the attitude of Amer
ican business firms with bran
ches in France?
mini warning
BRUSSELS (UPD—The Bel
gian government has erected
signs along its highways depict
ing a motorist crashing into the
rear end of another car as he
turns to stare at a mini-skirted
girl. The signs warn, “Motorists
—Do not be distracted by mini
skirts.”
INSIDE TODAY
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Prison Visit. Page 5.
Tobacco Market. Page 5.
Hosiptal. Page 6.
Stork Club. Page 6.
About Town. Page 6.
New Church. Page 6.
Society. Page 8.
Commentary. Page 10.
Georgia News. Page 12.
Detroit Riotng. Page 12.
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Dog Days Coming
“Dog Days” begin Friday and will continue for 40 days. Old-timers believed it was
a period to take it easy and do little work. “Mountain”, a 220-pound St. Bernard,
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hines, doesn’t need “Dog Days” to take it easy; he
does it most of the time anyway.
Library Bonds
Defeated Here
Dr. Fitzhugh
Leaves For
Vietnam Duty
Dr. Stuart A. Fitzhugh, Griffin
pediatrician, left today for Viet
nam where he will serve a two
month tour of duty under a vol
unteer program sponsored by
the American Medical Associa
tion.
The AMA Volunteer Physic
ians for Vietnam is a program
for supplying medical care to
the civilians of South Vietnam
through the volunteer services
of U.S. physicians.
Physicians sent to Vietnam
under the program serve a 60-
day tour of duty at one of 16
provincial civilian hospitals.
Dr. Fitzhugh’s first Vietnam
destination is Saigon. He will be
briefed there then assigned to a
hospital somewhere in Vietnam.
Israel Rejects Proposal
On Suez Canal Shipping
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press International
The Israeli Defense Ministry
said today Egypt had rejected
its proposal for free movement
of shipping in the Suez Canal
and had balked at establishing a
cease-fire line at the waterway.
The announcement in Jerusa
lem following talks between
Defense Minister Gen. Moshe
Dayan and Norwegian Gen. Odd
Bull, head of the United Nations
Truce Supervisory Organization
brought a new crisis to the
Mideast.
Israeli military sources said
Tuesday Egypt was massing
tanks and artillery on the west
bank of the canal. Today’s
communique said “the refusal
DAILY
Daily Since 1872 Griffin.Ga.,3o223, Wednesday, Ju1y26,1967 Vol. 95 No. 174
Ray Cromley. age 13.
Stalin’s Daughter. Page 13.
Art In Sticks. Page 13.
Bruce Biossat. Page 14.
Lighter Side. Page 14.
Want Ads. Page 23.
New Cars. Page 24.
Tax Blame. Page 24.
David Poling. Page 24.
Lurleen Wallace. Page 24.
Spalding County voters decid
ed about 4 to 1 against a pro
posed $350,000 bond issue for a
new library building in a spec
ial election Tuesday.
The vote was 3,766 against and
827 for.
Not a single box or district
even came close to favoring the
De Gaulle
MONTREAL (UPI) — French
President Charles DeGaulle,
angered by a rebuke from the
Canadian government over his
conduct on his visit here,
decided to call off a scheduled
trip to Ottawa and to return to
Paris later today.
DeGaulle had been scheduled
to go to Ottawa this afternoon
and to confer Thursday morning
with Canadian Prime Minister
Lester Pearson and his cabinet.
of the Egyptians to agree to the
fixing of the lines means that
they do not properly honor the
cease-fire as decided by the
U.N. Security Council.”
Israel’s next step was not
known but military sources
Tuesday suggested two possibili
ties—lsraeli attempts to use the
Suez Canal and a probable new
outbreak of fighting, or a period
of watchful waiting with Egypt
denied use of the canal.
The communique made it
clear Dayan was taking a tough
line. Bull had been in Cairo
conferring with U.A.R. Pres
ident Gamal Abdel Nasser who
also took a tough line in a
speech Sunday night.
Israel has insisted that the
cease-fire line be drawn through
GRIFFIN
Rioting In Cities
Spreads Across US
proposal.
The closest was in the third
ward of the city which voted 728
against and 389 for.
The number of people casting
ballots Tuesday was greater
than many local election pundits
had expected.
Library Bond Vote
No Yes
City One 312 25
City Two 221 58
City Three 728 389
City Four 157 59
City Five 252 26
City Six 479 118
Absentees 21 13
Akin 126 11
Africa 241 21
Cabin 98 14
East Griffin 167 15
Experiment 413 32
Line Creek 80 1
Mt. Zion 87 4
Orrs 218 18
Union 166 23
Total
the center of the canal and that
its patrol boats be allowed to
use the eastern waters. Nasser
has rejected this approach and
without establishing a formal
cease-fire line insisted the canal
Is all Egypt’s.
Israel has been denied use of
the canal since the 1956 war
with the Arabs and this time is
determined to press the issue.
Israeli military sources said
they made the mistake the last
time of fixing a cease-fire line
short of the canal and will not
repeat the mistake.
There was speculation Egypt
needed a breathing spell follow
ing post-war finghting along the
canal and that Nasser’s refusal
to come to terms Immediately
might be a delaying tactic.
NEWS
Negroes Go
On Rampage
In Chicago
By United Press International
Soldiers and policemen using
tanks and machine guns fought
pitched battles with Negro
sniper squads in Detroit early
today and half a dozen other
cities reeled under racial
violence.
Negroes rampaged in Chica
go. Fire bombs and bricks flew
in Grand Rapids, Mich., Roches
ter, N.Y., and Phoenix, Ariz.
National Guardsmen were
called in to keep tense peace in
Cambridge, Md., and Toledo,
Ohio.
At least 35 persons were
killed—33 of them in Detroit.
More than 1,500 were Injured
and property damage was well
over S2OO million in Detroit
alone.
An alarmed Congress de
manded an end to the rioting
and a tense President was
interrupted in his sleep several
times to receive reports on the
violence.
Detroit a Battleground
Detroit, the nation’s fifth
largest city and the world’s
automobile capital, was a
battleground for the third
straight night.
Squads of Negro snipers—
more organized than in two
previous nights of trouble
drove police and National
Guardsmen out of a blackened,
rubble-strewn area stretching
200 blocks on each side, but
they returned with tanks,
automatic weapons and ar
mored personnel carriers to
engage the rioters in heavy
battle.
The night was filled with
booming gunfire, curses and
roaring fires and one policeman
said 25 officers were wounded
during the battling.
A west side Chicago neighbor
hood that had been quiet for a
year heated up Tuesday night.
Negroes roamed the streets two
miles from the loop, setting
fires and looting stores.
Anarchy Reigns
“This is anarchy,” declared a
police leiutenant as squads of
blue helmeted policemen
searched for looters. The
situation calmed before dawn.
Negro youths threw molotov
cocktails and bricks at police
men and firemen in Grand
Rapids, Mich., setting fires then
preventing firemen from putting
them out. About 40 persons
were injured, including four
policemen.
There also were these deve
lopments:
Rochester, N.Y. — Sporadic
firebombing and looting plagued
a wide area of the city as
groups of five to 10 Negro
youths roamed the streets.
Police called it quieter than two
previous nights of trouble.
Toledo, Ohio — Five-hundred
Ohio National Guardsmen, or
dered “to shoot to kill if
necessary,” took up positions
backing up state and local
police to prevent further looting
and firebombing. Sporadic gun
fire was heard in a four-square
block Negro area sealed off
from the rest of the city by
authorities.
Phoenix, Ariz.— Negro youths
attacked police with firebombs
and bricks. No major fires were
set.
Cambridge, Md. — Seven
hundred National Guardsmen
helped state and local police
keep a lid on this tense city
where rioting broke out Monday
night.
New York— Grieving Puerto
Ricans held a funeral proces
sion in Spanish Harlem for two
persons killed in Monday’s
rioting.
Sacramento, Calif. — Many
store windows were smashed by
gangs of Negro youths during
bottle and rock thrwing spree.
Force of 100 policemen ordered
into Negro neighborhood to
restore order.
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ENTIRE BLOCKS BURNED in widespread areas of Detroit while troops and
police stood vigil.
City Okays
Purchase Os
Water Pipe
The city commissioners mov
ed quickly Tuesday night to get
water pipe under the proposed
19-41 By-pass before road con
struction gets under way.
They approved the emergency
purchase of 20-inch pipe from
United States Pipe — Foundry
Co., at a cost of $4,360.88. The
concern was the only bidder that
promised prompt delivery which
was an absolute necessity, the
city said.
The city will be reimbursed
later during construction of the
highway.
In other business, the commis
sioners accepted a petition to
pave West Slaton avenue from
13th to 14th streets. The request
came from the Hanleiter Metho
dist Church and other property
owners which would be affected.
City officials said about 90 per
cent of the property owners had
signed the petition.
The church has under con
struction an educational build
ing addition.
A resolution on the death of
Griffin businessman W. Ennis
Parker was approved. Mr. Par
ker was killed last week in an
air plane collision near Hender
sonville, N.C.
Placed on second and final
reading was an ordinance to
zone property on South 13th st
reet for light commercial use.
Also placed on second and
final reading was an ordinance
to annex some property on Pine
Valley road extension.
Paper Says
Rifleman Shot
At De Gaulle
MONTREAL (UPD—The dai
ly newspaper Montreal Matin
said today a rifleman shot at
Gen. Charles de Gaulle Monday
night as the French leader
addressed a crowd from the
balcony of the city hall. The
shot missed.
The newspaper said the
unknown man presumably fired
one high-calibre shot at De
Gaulle which passed several
inches from his head.
Bentley
ATLANTA (UPD — Comp.
Gen. James L. Bentley indicat
ed strongly today he planned to
run for governor in 1970, thus
becoming the first potential
candidate to publicly hint his
intentions.
“Things look good across the
state,” Bentley said. “If they
continue to look good, we will
probably run.”
US Bombers Hit
North Vietnam
After 3 Months
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—For the first
time in three months U.S. Air
Force 852 s bombed North
Vietnam today. The giant jets
braved the threat of missiles
and struck just above the
North-South Vietnam border,
U.S. spokesmen said.
The Stratofortresses struck
twice, hitting North Vietnamese
invasion army positions threa
tening American Marines below
the border.
The main targets of the eight
engine strategic Air Force
bombers, which each carry up
to 60,000 pounds in bombs, were
the Communists’ giant 130 mm
artillery guns. Planted in deep
bunkers and caves, the big guns
have been raining shells with
deadly accuracy on the Leather
neck border fortresses of Con
Thien, Gio Linh and Camp
Carrol.
U.S. generals ordered the
Stratoforts away from North
Vietnamese targets three
months ago when the Commu
nists moved down to the border
the Surface to Air Missiles
(SAM) that formed the first
real threat to the giant
American planes.
Hit SAM Sites
After six weeks the 852 s
returned to pounding Commu
nist positions just below the
border. Smaller, swifter Ameri
can jets had been working on
the SAM sites.
The antimissile bombing paid
off today.
The big bombers are reported
to be the American weapon the
Communist troops fear the
most. They fly so high that the
only sign of their presence is
the explosion of their bombs.
Five of the giant bombers
have crashed since they entered
the war June 18, 1966. None has
been shot down by the
Communists.
The last previous 852 raid
against North Vietnam was
April 24.
Two smaller American jets
went down in other raids
Tuesday as American pilots
flew 126 missions against North
Vietnam. Tire raids hit trucks,
barges, transport routes and
supply dumps.
Two Planes Lost
U.S. spokesmen said a two
man Air Force F4C Phantom
and a Navy A4 Skyhawk were
lost to unknown causes. It
brought U.S. plane losses over
North Vietnam to 617.
The fate of the three airmen
aboard the two craft was
unknown and they were listed
as missing.
In the Saigon area, guerrilla
terrorists for the second time
within hours dressed in South
Vietnamese uniforms and at
tacked a capital suburb spokes-
I men said that Tuesday night a
Viet Cong band intercepted and
seized a government ambu
lance, filled it with armed men
and rode it like a Trojan horse
into a government army-police
post at Thoi Tam Thon Village
on the outskirts.
Bogus Bills
Printed Near
Secret Service
ATLANTA (UUPD—Testimony
during a federal court trial
Tuesday revealed that $1 mil
lion in counterfeit money was
printed within blocks of the Se
cret Service office here.
Dewey William Doss entered
a guilty plea to an indictment
charging him with producing
counterfeit S2O bills. Three oth
er men indicted with him en
tered pleas of “no contest.”
They could receive a maxi
mum sentence of 15 years in
prison and a fine of $5,000.
Doss told U. S. District Judge
Newell Edenfield that he had
printed the money. Edenfield
will pass sentence at a later
date.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Variable cloudiness
and warm Thursday with scatt
ered thundershowers, mainly in
the afternoon and evening.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
70, maximum Tuesday 86, mini
mum Tuesday 70. Total rainfall
.02 of an inch. Sunrise Thurs
day 6:50 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 8:43 p.m.
Country Parson
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“New ideas scare us be
cause they so often force us
to let go of some old, com*
foriable oom.”