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VENIN vT
By Quimby Melton
All aboard for a trip up the
Rhine River!
An all day trip from Cologne
to Weisbaden aboard a large,
hree decked, river steamer; a
steamer that stopped frequently
at towns, large and small, to let
Jff or take on passengers.
A trip that wound round
oends in the river, past scores
jf towns on either bank and past
nany islands that were the sit
es of towns themselves.
. A trip that passed through the
rich Rhine wine belt where vine
y-ards climbed the steep moun
;ains behind many of the villag
as. It was hard to imagine any
thing but a mountain goat climb
ng the steep hills, but several
times we saw people gathering
She grapes hundreds of feet ab
ive the river.
A trip that was unmarred by
‘modern” architecture, most of
the buildings seeemingly centur
ies old; a trip that passed many
old castles, many old churches,
a trip that seemed to go through
fairyland.
It was a most enjoyable trip
and Good Evening would sug
gest to anyone going to Europe
to include this on his schedule.
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There is a certain comradeship
that develops among passengers
on the river boat that makes the
trip all the more enjoyable. The
second deck of the boat is glass
enclosed and one can sit in com
fortable chairs and watch the
seenery unfold. Delicious meals
are served on the boat; and for
those who want to test the Rhine
wine, or a cocktail there is
a well equipped bar.
i In away this trip up the Rhine
reminded Good Evening of a tr-
■ ain trip he took many years ago
through the mountains of east
'Kentucky. On that trip the tr
ain would travel through moun
tain passes and suddenly come
upon what is known as a cove.
Here would be a small village
■ nestled in the mountains; on the
Rhine one would also turn a
5 bend and come across another
cove where there would be a vil
lage, a town or a city.
The hills back of the cove
towns in Kentucky were dense
ly covered with woods; the hills
back of the cove-towns in the
j Rhine were intensely cultivated
many with vineyards.
There was another difference.
In some of the Kentucky coves
' there would be a small wooden
church; in all Rhine coves there
would be two ancient church
buildings. Commented on this
to a woman who was returning
to India where she was a medi
cal (nurse) missionary. She told
us this;
“There are always two church
es, one is a Catholic Church,
the other a Lutheran Church.”
Then she handed us a pair of bi
noculars and said, "If you will
look carefully you will notice on
’ both churches there are cross
es; on one the cross is a typl
! cal cross, the other cross is sim
' liar save atop it is a cock, sym
bolic of the cock that crew when
Peter denied the Savior.”
The thing that impressed Good
Evening most came during the
afternoon when we rounded a
bend in the river and approach
• ed Coblentz. One of the reasons
we had made the river trip was
we wanted to visit Coblentz
again, having done so in 1919
when it was the advance point
of American troops after the
Armistice had been signed.
We were among some 200 sol
diers, who had been newsmen
before entering the Army, who
were taken on a tour of the bat
tlefields and the bridgehead
posts held by the Allied troops.
We travelled on a hospital train
by night from place to place.
The morning we came into the
railway yards at Coblentz got up
early and was watching the riv
er and the land on the other
side. We had been told that ac
ross the river from Coblentz was
a great German fortress — Erin
britenstein — that atop a moun
tain was held to be impregnable
—being reached only by a wind
ing road.
We looked across the river at
this fortress in 1919 and there
in the morning light was Old
Glory waving in the breeze. We
got a thrill then and in 1967 we
got another thrill —for Old
Glory still waves there, the for
tress being headquarters of
some U. S. NATO troops.
Now on to Paris.
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Story Os Game
Third- baseman Darrell Kitchens of Jackson scores the winning run with a homer
in the top of the eight to lead his team to a 3-2 win. Al Gilbert congratulates
him as Griffin catches Glynn Gossett watches. (Story and other pictures of
Little League Tournament on Page Five.)
French Papers
Snub De Gaulle
Statement
PARIS (UPD—AII of Paris’
morning newspapers today ig
nored the French government’s
statement pinning the blame for
President Charles de Gaulle’s
snub to Canada on the Canadian
government.
“There is no De Gaulle
problem, but a Canadian
problem,” authorized govern
ment sources said Thursday.
The semi-official news agency
Agence France Presse (AFP)
distributed the statement but
none of the morning newspapers
published it.
The statement said the
Canadian government knew
’something would happen” in
French-speaking Quebec if De
Gaulle visited there “but they
(Canada) persisted in inviting
the Chief of State.”
De Gaulle repeated the slogan
(“Long Live Free Quebec” to
crowds during his visit there
last week. The slogan is the
rally cry of a minority group of
separatists who want Quebec’s
independence from Canada.
Canadian prime minister Les
ter B. Pearson publicly repri
manded De Gaulle and said
“Canadians do not need liberat
ing.” Pearson reminded De
Gaulle that many Canadians
gave their lives liberating
France. De Gaulle then cut Ms
visit short and flew home
without calling on Pearson.
Only two of Paris’ six
morning newspapers today car
ried front page articles on De
Gaulle’s trip.
The opposition newspaper
L’Aurore said the prsident’s
trip was a “fiasco.” It said the
National Assembly should not
wait until the October session to
discuss the situation created by
the journey.
The newspaper Combat, also
an opposition journal, said, “no
matter how many excuses could
be found in favor of the chief of
state, it remains that De Gaulle
behaved in a ridiculous manner,
that he offended the allies of
France, that he now has almost
the whole world against him.”
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY # NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., July 29-30, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 177
Surplus May Mean
State Tax Dike
ATLANTA (UD— Georgians
might have escaped a tax in
crease for two years because
of a state budget surplus which
exceeded everyone’s expecta- :
tions by sls million.
Atlanta Bus
Accident Kills
Driver, Woman
ANNISTON, Ala. (UPD—An
Atlanta-to-San Francisco Grey
hound express bus overturned
down a 10-foot embankment
early today, killing at least two
persons and injuring 37.
The bus driver and a woman
passenger were killed but their
names were being withheld ,
pending notification of their I
families.
The injured were taken to i
hospitals at Heflin, Ala. and
Anniston. None was reported
critically hurt. ,
The Alabama highway patrol
said the bus crashed after I
colliding with a car which left
the scene of the accident.
The bus careened over the ,
embankment at a small bridge ,
apd overturned several times i
after being brushed by the car,
the Alabama highway patrol ■
said. '
The accident happened on U.
S. Highway 78 about 20 miles :
west of Anniston. 1
Country Parson ;
hUI
“It’s fortunate that most of
us keep thinking of better
things to do than we can
do.”
State Budget Officer Wilson
Wilkes told a news conference
Friday that the state’s surplus
for the fiscal year ending June
30 was $119.5 milion the re
sult of larger - than - antici
pated collections and $7.5 mil
lion in funds unspent by state
departments and agencies.
Wilkes said $50.3 milion of
the surplus had already been
appropriated for the present fis
cal year, leaving $69.2 million.
He said the legislature could
possibly avoid a tax ncrease
for two years by leaving at
least half of the $69 million in
the treasury when a new budget
is prepared in January.
Unless the General Assembly
acts prudently, Wilkes said, a
tax increase might be likely.
Okay To Check
License But
Not His Booze
Spalding County deputies and
a state trooper confiscated 10
gallons of non-tax-paid whisky
and a 1958 car Friday night af
ter a chase through Spalding and
Henry Counties. The driver got
away. »
The deputies were checking
licenses at a road check set up
by the state patrol on Georgia
3 at Pomona.
George Lewis Ford, 43, of 245
pulled out his license to show to
officers. He was told to pull his
car to the side of the road.
Instead, he ran through the
road check and led officers on a
chase that reached speeds of
more than 100 miles per hour.
Deputies Franklin Pitts and
Gray Pinson with Trooper B. R.
Wilson chased Ford for more
than five miles. w
The chase ended on a dead-end
road in Spalding County.
Ford jumped from the car and
ran. He had a gallon of whisky
in each hand.
The officers were continuing
their search for Ford, a Negro,
today.
He was charged with possess
ing and transporting non-taxed
whisky, failing to stop for offi
oers and speeding more than 100
miles per hour in a 50 mile
zone.
Death Toll At 26;
29 Planes Destroyed
By MIKE FEINSILBER
SAIGON (UPI)A four-hour
fire raged over the decks of the
carrier Forrestal today and
killed at least 26 American
officers and men, U.S. military
officials said.
The number - of injured
remained uncertain and there
was an undisclosed number of
sailors missing, mostly those
who leaped overboard to avoid
the flames.
The officials said a complete
count of dead and injured was
being made.
Acres Os Flames
The blaze erupted when a
U.S. warplane’s ruptured belly
tank spilled jet fuel over the
Forrestal’s decks. Acres of
flames pinned pilots in their
cockpits and exploded bombs
and rockets primed for momen
tary use against North Vietnam.
At least 29 multi-million
dollar warplanes were de
stroyed aboard the 76,000-ton
carrier which had 4,400 officers
and men aboard.
Some crewmen reportedly
leaped overboard to escape
firey death while others dashed
through sizzling flames to save
2,500 pound bombs from explod
ing.
“in the hour that followed the
start of the fire I saw more
heroic instances than I could
count,” said Rear Adm. Harvey
P. Lanham, Commander of
carrier division two aboard the
Forrestal.
Hurl Bombs Overboard
He said sailors and crewmen
hurled bombs, flaming fuel
tanks and debris from jets into
the Gulf of Tonkin 150 miles off
the North Vietnamese coast
where the 12-year-old carrier
had been launching around-the
clock strikes against vital
Communist targets.
The fire erupted at 10:53 a.m.
(10:53 p.m. EDT Friday) while
the Forrestal was swinging into
a 35 mile per hour wind in
preparation for launching a
wave of its 60 to 90 jets toward
North Vietnam.
A jet clustered among others
awaiting takeoff on the top-level
4.1 acre flight deck burst its
belly tank. The fuel flowed
down a ramp for the steam
catapaults used to launch the
warplanes and was ignited by
the heat.
Officials said the wind
whipped flames roared into a
holocaust in seconds, fully
engulfing loaded planes with
pilots at the controls and
sloshing down to the hanger
deck below where scores of
other jets were parked wingtip
to wingtip.
Sailors Brave Flames
Sailors in asbestos suits
plunged through the walls of
fire to bring the blaze on the
flight deck under control within
minutes. The fire below decks
was contained in about four
hours but still licked tauntingly
in some parts of the 1,039-foot
flattop.
Rushing to the Forrestal’s
aid to help rescue survivors
was the carrier Oriskany,
ravaged by a fire and explo
sions in the same Gulf of
Tonkin last October. The
Oriskany fire killed 43 pilot
officers and injured 16 others.
The Oriskany returned to the
Gulf July 14. The Forrestal had
joined it and the Bon Homme
Richard there only four days
ago.
The Forrestal’s two destroyer
escorts, the Tucker and the
Rupertus, pulled alonside and
sprayed steams of water onto
the massive $2lB million ship
the Navy called “capable of
strategic and tactical intel
ligence equal to that of any ship
or airfield in the world today.’
Helicopters whirled to the
scene from Da Nang and joined
those from the two other
carriers in ferrying doctors and
victims.
Lose Valuable Aircraft
Most of the Forrestal’s planes
were A4 Skyhawks, A6 Intru-
ders and F 4 Phantom jets. All
are supersonic, multi-million
dollar aircraft and among the
most sophisticated warplanes in
the U.S. arsenal.
Miami Beach
Recommended
For GOP Meet
MIAMI BEACH (UPD—A
Republican site selection com
mittee today chose Miami
Beach for the 1968 party
convention. The GOP was
expected to accept the recom
mendation.
Florida officials got the
official word from GOP Nation
al Chairman Ray Bliss at 1
a.m. They hoped to make it a
doubleheader. They theorized
that the major television
networks—hoping to save a few
million dollars by avoiding
duplication of expenses—will
pressure the democrats into
following the GOP into the
Miami Beach Convention Hall.
Chicago has been mentioned
as a strong contender for the
democratic party. There also
have been reports that the
White House wants it in
Houston.
Bliss made the announcement
early today hours after the 6:30
p.m. time he had scheduled a
news conference. The eight
member site selection commit
tee, stayed in closed session for
five and one-half hours.
Their choice must be ap
proved by the Republican
national committee, but there
was little doubt the okay would
be given.
Lt. Tarleton
Suffers Heart
Attack At Home
Police Lt. Ed Tarleton suffer
ed a heart attack at his home
Friday night and was in fair
condition today at the Griffin
, Spalding County Hospital.
Lt. Tarleton is in charge of all
communications for the city of
Griffin and is considered an ex
pert in his field.
Police Det. Ronnie Irvin was
dismissed from the hospital Fri
day after suffering a reaction to
a wasp sting at his home.
Deputy Sheriff Jack Taylor
suffered a heart atack earlier
this week while on duty and is a
patient at the hospital.
Bloodmobile
Here Aug. 8
The bloodmobile is scheduled
to come to Griffin Aug. 8. Head
quarters will be set up in the
Cheatham building of the First
Baptist Church. Donors may go
to the center from noon until 5
p.m.
Donald A. Young, chairman
for this district, said about 200
donors were needed for this
visit.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy to
cloudy, warm and humid tonight
and Sunday. Scattered showers
and thundershowers occuring
mainly during the afternoons
and evenings.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 86, minimum today
71, maximum Friday 87, mini
mum Friday 72. Sunrise Sunday
6:52 a.m., sunset Sunday 8:40
p.m.
Red Guerrillas
Shower Air Field
With Rockets, Shells
By EUGENE V. RISHER <
SAIGON (UPD—Communist 1
guerrillas showered more than <
250 rocket and mortar shells on <
a U.S. air field and a base
camp just north of Saigon today
in coordinated pre-dawn attacks i
that killed at least three I
Americans and wounded 25
others. 1
A major fire erupted aboard <
the aircraft carrier Forrestal :
off the coast of Vietnam today, <
The Defense Department said in
Washington the blaze had 1
destroyed at least 29 planes and
killed an undetermined number i
of crewmen. The Pentagon said i
the fire started when a fuel :
tank dropped off an A4E fighter :
during preparations to launch
aircraft and the flames, fed by ;
jet fuel, spread quickly to the I
deck below.
The shellings, second in three :
days against key American
bases around Saigon, came only :
13 minutes apart. No Viet Cong
1-75 Delay Slows
Henry Development
Delays in completing 1-75 are
holding up development in Hen
ry County, according to the
Weekly Advertiser, a newspaper
published in McDonough.
Federal funds for completion
of the route in Henry and Clay
ton Counties were diverted to
the 1-285 project which is the
Atlanta perimeter road.
Henry County officials hope
that the 1-75 contract will be in
j eluded in the next state letting,
i But they are not sure that oth
er delays may hold up the let
ting.
Rep. Ray M. Tucker of Henry
County said that the funds were
diverted to the 1-285 perimeter
project because all the right of
ways for the Clayton-Henry 1-75
route had not been secured.
Since the right of ways for the
1-285 project had been secured,
the federal money was diverted
there, Rep. Tucker said.
Tucker said highway officials
had promised that the Clayton-
Henry section of 1-75 would be
included in the next federal al-
Zebulon Gets
US Aid For
Water, Sewers
WASHINGTON (UPD—Feder
al assistance totaling $635,000
will enable the town of Zebu
lon, Ga., to make improvements
which will eventually create 185
new jobs in the area.
The Economic Development
Administration announced Fri
day that a $467,000 grant and
$159,000 loan would enable Ze
bulon to expand its water sys
tem and install a new sewer
system, allowing a food cannery
to expand its operation and two
other firms to establish plants.
United Fund
Budget Is Cut
Newton M. Penny, general
chairman of the Griffin-Spalding
County United Fund, announ
ced that the budget for 1968 is
$73,004.50. This is a decrease
from last year’s budget of S7B
-
He emphasized that “it will
take the help of everyone in Grif
fin and Spalding County in or
der to reach this goal.” The
dead were found although
retaliating American guns
quickly plastered their suspect
ed attack positions.
Marines Sweep DMZ
The stepped-up terrorism
came as U.S. Marines sliced
through the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) for the second time in
the war in an effort to knock
out Communist mortars and
artillery zeroed in on U.S.
outposts in northern South
Vietnam. 852 bombing attacks
earlier failed to silence them.
Military spokesmen said to
day’s two attacks around Saigon
hit positions of the U.S. Ist
Infantry Division at Lai Elbe, 29
miles north of the capital, and
the division’s aviation brigade
at Phu Loi, 14 miles north of
Saigon.
The Communists struck short
ly after midnight. The air base
was hit with about 200 rounds of
mortar and rocket fire during
an hour-long barrage.
s location, hopefully in Septem-
■ ber or October.
! “I am extremely hopeful that
1-75 will be included this fall. I
feel very strongly that comple
i tion of the interstate is vitally
• important to our county’s fu
i ture,” Rep. Tucker said.
Barnesville
Primary Set
For Aug. 15
Voters of Barnesville go to the
, polls on Aug. 15 to nominate
two members of the city coun
cil, a mayor, two members of
the school board and a member
j of city Democratic Executive
Committee.
. A general election will
. be held in September.
, Deadline for qualifying for the
, primary has been set for Aug. 1
- at 6 p.m.
Polls will open at 7 a.m. and
close at 6 p.m. Voting will be in
the Barnesville fire station.
The candidates for the school
board will be nominated for six
year terms and the member of
the Democratic Executive Com
mittee will be elected to a three
year term.
Councilmen will be nominated
■ for Ward One and Ward Two.
i
Babe Ruth
Tourney
All Set
| See Page 3
I fund supports the following ag
: encies: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
• Salvation Army, Department of
: Family and Children’s Servic-
■ es, Griffin Area Chapter and
■ Goldwire Chapter for Retarded
Children, Red Cross, Mental
1 Health and U.S.O.
This year’s General drive be
> gins Sept. 25, 1967.