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By Quimby Melton
Griffin is to be host to the
Southeastern Regional Babe
Ruth tournament this week. Te
ams having won the champion
ship in six states and the host
team — Griffin — will play for
the title and the right to go to
the Babe Ruth World Series whi
ch will be held in Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Play will begin Tuesday at the
Municipal Park. The first game
will be Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.
o’clock with DeKalb Memorial,
Georgia champs, playing Mo
bile, the Alabama titleholders.
Griffin, which gets into the tour
nament as the result of being
the host team, plays Sarasota,
Florida champs, in a game
beginning at 8:00 p.m.
Visiting players will be the
guests in the homes of Griffin
people; out of town officials will
be housed at hotels and motels.
The Babe Ruth program pro
vides baseball for boys 13, 14
and 15 years old. Leon Hub
bard is president of the Griffin
Babe Ruth League and is offic
ial host to the convention. The
team that will represent Griffin
is made up of all-stars from the
Babe Ruth teams playing here.
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Griffin always likes to enter
tain visitors. And when those
visitors are the type people we
will have with us this week it is
more than a pleasure, it is a pri
vilege to have them visit us.
There will be some 100 you ng
boys who will play — young
boys who have been taught the
lessons of clean sportsmanship;
young boys who are champs
themselves and will act like
champs. And with them of cour
se, will be the coaches, state
league officials, and probably
many doting fathers and moth
ers — there might even be a
grandfather or two along, drawn
here to see “son” play, whom
they feel certain is destined to
become another Babe Ruth.
It’s going to be a pleasure and
a privilege to have these base
ball players and fans with us
this week.
Tonight the Kiwanis Club of
Griffin will sponsor a Babe Ruth
banquet at the Stuckey auditor
ium in Experiment. At this the
players and all others will be
officially welcomed to Griffin;
but the welcome will not end
there, for all Griffin will wel
come them and will display the
true Griffin type of welcome
every day they are here.
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The city, the league Itself,
and many others have spent a
lot of time, labor and money in
getting the Babe Ruth playing
field, at the Park, in good
shape for the tournament. In
fact there were certain speci
fications as to the park that
had to be met before Griffin was
even considered in selecting the
home town for the big event.
Griffin wanted this tourna
ment — so Griffin got busy and
got the tournament. Now it’s up
to us all to demonstrate to the
visitors that not only did we
want them then, but we want
them now and they will always
be welcomed here.
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Good Evening had scheduled
another of his columns about his
trip to Europe for today, but he
is so enthused over the Babe
Ruth Southeastern Tournament
he delayed the article — on Pa
ris — until Tuesday.
Meantime don’t miss seeing
the fine brand of baseball that
will be played here this week.
It will be good, smart, heads
up, baseball; played by enthus
iastic youngsters all of whom
want to win and go on to the
Babe Ruth World Series in Al
aska.
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Leadership Camp
Spalding County Senior 4-H’ers (1-r) Kim Belvin, Mary Ann Ellis, Maribeth Castel
law and Mike Crowder attended the Leadership Camp at Camp Wahsega near Dah
lonega. They participated in group discussions on junior leadership, archery and
gun safety exhibits, records and recreation leadership. The week’s activities includ
ed recreation, nature hikes, tours, vespers, swimming and assemblies.
8 People Hurt
Griffarea Wrecks
Keep Them Busy
Eight people were injured in
traffic accidents in the Griff
area over the weekend.
Damage in the 20 accidents
was estimated at $4,560, not in
cluding one auto which was list
ed as a total loss.
McLean Tippins, 19, of 540
South Hill street, Griffin, was
admitted to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital Sunday night.
He suffered possible broken ribs
and shoulder injuries in an ac
cident on Everee road. His con
dition was listed as good today.
Joe Scott Montgomery, 19, of
431 South Hill street, Griffin, and
Robert L. Ritchey, 19, of 1150
Pine Valley road, Griffin, were
treated at the hospital and dis
missed.
The three were riding in a
jeep when Montgomery, who
was driving, lost control and it
overturned.
Sara Ruth Short, 39, of Route
Four, Griffin, suffered back in
juries in an accident at East
Mclntosh road and North Ninth
street. She was driver of the
only car involved.
Gloria Jean Boyd, 25, of Wil
son street, Griffin, suffered cuts
and bruises in an accident 1.9
miles south of Griffin Sunday.
She was driver of the car invol
ved.
J. W. Evans, 50, of 621 Cen
tral avenue, Griffin, was admit
ted to the Griffin Spalding Coun-
Damaged Carrier
Arrives For Repair
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
SUBIC BAY, Philippines
(UPl)—The supercarrier USS
Forrestal, knocked out of action
for six months or more by the
worst naval disaster of the
Vietnam war, arrived in the
Phillipines today. It appeared
the death toll from the fire and
explosions that crippled the ship
would climb to at least 146.
Overcast skies and intermit
tent showers provided a somber
setting as the 75,900-ton ship
arrived shortly before dusk at
this U.S. Naval Station.
The fires that raged through
the ship had been extinguised,
but rescue crews wearing
oxygen masks because of
chlorine gas, were still using
cutting torches to clear away
debris and hunt for bodies of
of missing shipmates.
DAILY
Daily Since 1372
ty Hospital after being run over
ed lacerations and internal brui
by a driverless car on the Mus
grove road Saturday. He suffer
ses. His condition was listed as
fair today.
State troopers said in a report
that a car owned by Mary Ann
Latta was being towed from a
ditch. The tow vehicle failed to
hold it. Evans was behind the
car and it ran over him.
Johnnie Lee Neill, Jr., of 107
Elm street, Griffin, suffered
bruises and abrasions in an ac
cident on Melrose avenue.
A car driven by Neill hit a
parked car owned by Pete L.
Pruett of 642 Melrose avenue, a
police report said. The Pruett
car was listed as a total loss.
Mrs. Johnnie W. Ingram, 30,
of 1171 Indale place, Atlanta,
suffered back injuries and se
vere bruises in a four car smash
up a mile north of Stockbridge
at U. S. 23-Georgia 42 and Geor
gia 138 in Henry County.
Drivers of cars involved were
listed as Grover L. Person, 27,
of Fairburn, Ga., Cecil William
Ingram, 29, of 1171 Indale place,
Atlanta, John Wesley Chester,
46, of Statesboro, and Michael
G. Mays, 17, of Stockbridge.
Fifteen of the 20 accidents
were reported by the State Pat
rol on Saturday. Troopers re
ported three Sunday and Grif
fin city police investigated two
Saturday.
There were 77 known dead
and 69 others missing and
presumed dead. The Navy said
that 78 sailors were injured.
At Da Nang, the northern port
city in South Vietnam, the U.S.
hospital ship Repose arrived
late today from the scene of the
disaster some 150 miles away
and unloaded dead and wounded
from the Forrestal. The Repose
carried 77 bodies. They were
lowered from the deck of the
hospital ship in plastic bags and
carried to waiting trucks.
Many Trapped
Officials doubted if any of the
missing men would be found a
live. Some of them were still in
compartments below the bomb
punctured, fire-buckled flight
decks, suffocated by smoke or
killed by the heat so intense it
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, July 31, 1967
Dr. Slade Will
Return From
Samoa Islands
Dr. Ira (Dutch) Slade, Jr., of
Griffin and his family will re
turn home in a few weeks after
serving 15 months as chief of
medicine for the hospital of Am
erican Samoa.
The public information office
for the government of Ameri
can Samoa said the Griffin na
tive was expected to resume his
practice here about Sept. 1.
In a special dispatch to t h e
Griffin Daily News, the Public
Information office said “All of
Samoa feels deep regret in see
ing Dr. Slade leave these islands
and it is with gratitude that we
thank him for the valuable con
tributions he has made towards
improved medical care for the
Samoan people.”
During the past 12 months in
his capacity as a specialist in in
ternal medicine, he has treated
10,000 patients in his medical cli
nic and has cared for 1,700 hos
pitalized patients.
Programs for control and
treatment of tuberculosis and
leprosy have been successfully
established. As a teacher, he
has instituted post graduate se
minars for the Samoan Medical
Practitioners and has taught two
classes a week in the School of
Nursing.
Five scientific research and
clinical papers have been pub
lished in leading national and
international medical journals on
subjects of diabetes, arthritis,
leprosy and a new method for
treatment of severe anemia.
Dr. Slade has served as act
ing director of Medical Services
for prolonged periods, has been
a member of the government
Board of Pardons and Paroles.
He has given high school sci
ence lectures via American Sa
moa's educational television sy
stem.
An official citation to Dr. Slade
from the Director of Medical
Services, Dr. Allen C. Service,
reads in part:
“During your term as Chief of
Internal Medicine, tuberculosis,
and Hansen’s sections of the hos
pital of American Samoa, you
have compiled an outstanding
record of achievement. The
quality of patient care and ef
ficiency of your organization has
improved 106 percent.
“In nearly 35 years of medi
cal practice, I have never been
associated with a more willing,
cooperative, alert and under
standing person. Your accurate
approach to medical and admin
istrative problems has been de
monstrated time and time ag
ain by the excellent results that
vou have obtained.”
NEWS
Thousands Here
For SE Playoffs
Some of the best 13, 14 and 15-
year-old baseball players in the
South arrived in Griffin today
to participate in the Southeast
ern Regional Babe Ruth Tour
nament which starts here Tues
day.
Five out-of-state teams, one
from Atlanta and Griffin make
up the entry list for the 1967
tournament.
The state champions are:
Charlotte, N.C., Mobile, Ala.,
Sarasota, Fla., South Haven,
Miss.; Nashville, Tenn., and
DeKalb Memorial, Atlanta, Ga.
Griffin will participate as the
host team.
The teams began arriving here
shortly after noon today. All
were scheduled to register at the
Griffin Community Center by 4
p.m.
BANQUET
The first big event on the
tournament agenda is the ban
quet tonight at the Stuckey au
ditorium, honoring all players,
coaches and officials. Eddie Gl
ennon of the Atlanta Braves will
be guest speaker.
Some 300 people are expected
to attend the banquet, which is
being sponsored by the Griffin
Kiwanis Club.
The visiting players will stay
in private homes while In Grif
fin. Coaches, managers and
other officials will stay in mo
tels and hotels.
DeKalb Memorial, the Geor
gia champions, will commute
each day.
TUESDAY
The double-elimination tour
nament starts Tuesday at 2 p.
m. at Babe Ruth Field at City
Park.
Mobile, Ala. and DeKalb Me
morial will play the opening
game.
Pre-game ceremonies begin at
1 p.m.
The second game starts
at 5 p.m. It will be between
Nashville and South Haven,
Miss.
The final game of the first
round is scheduled to start at 8
p.m.
That game has Griffin playing
Sarasota, Fla.
The North Carolina entry
(Charlotte) drew a first round
bye. Charlotte’s first game co
mes Wednesday at 5 p.m. The
opponent will be the winner of
the Mobile-DeKalb Memorial
game.
UMPIRES
Umpires from the Georgia
High School Association will
work the games. David Mayo of
McDonough is the umpire-in
chief.
There will be four umps for
each game, one behind the plate
and one at each base.
Advance reserve seat tickets
are $5. These tickets entitle the
holder to a reserve seat at each
game.
Tickets for one day (three ga
mes) are $1.50 for adults and 75
cents for students.
Tickets for the last game each
day are $1 for adults and 50
Money Taken
From 5 Homes
Five complaints were receiv
ed by the Griffin Police Depart
ment from residents of Carver
Heights and Lexington avenue
Saturday saying someone had
entered their homes and took
money from pocketbooks and
pockets after they had gone to
bed.
Officers said the homes were
entered Friday night and ear
ly Saturday morning.
A total of SSO was taken from
the five homes, officers said.
Entry was through windows.
At each home, screens were re
moved and windows raised.
Pocketbooks were found out
side windows at some of the ho
mes, officers said.
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cents for students.
COACH
Buster Smith, who coached
Booker Firestone to the Griffin
Babe Ruth championship, will
manage the Griffin tournament
team. Assistant coaches are
Turner Davis and David Smith.
Smith today announced a ten
tative starting lineup for Griffin.
The players and their batting
averages are:
David Shirah, second base
(.358); BiUy Tiller, right field
(.309); Rusty Ogletree, short
stop (.382); John Sikes, first
base (.596); Danny Tolen, cat
cher (.469); Butch Bell, pitch
er (.321); Donnie Robison, third
base (.341); Greg Vaughn, cen
ter field (.227); and Craig Boze
man, left field (.353).
Gov. Maddox
Will Try To
Attend Tourney
There is a good possibility
that Gov. Lester Maddox will
be in Griffin for the opening of
the Southeastern Regional Babe
Ruth Tournament.
A member ot the governor’s
staff told Dr. O. R. Butler,
chairman of the special arran
gements committee, that Gov.
Maddox would try to be in Grif
fin sometime Tuesday after
noon.
The governor has a speaking
engagement in Thomaston
Tuesday at 1 p.m.
A spokesman said Gov. Mad
dox would try to leave Thomas
ton in to time get to get to Grif
fin before the first game is
over.
However, the spokesman said,
if the governor can’t be in Grif
fin Tuesday he would try to at
tend at least one of the games
before the tournament ends.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and mild nights
today and Tuesday. Chance of
an afternoon thundershower
Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 86, minimum today
68, maximum Sunday 83, mini
mum Sunday 66. Total rainfall
Saturday .68 of an inch. Sunrise
Tuesday 6:53 a.m., sunset Tues
day 8:41 p.m.
Griffarea Churches
Have Peace Prayers
Ministers and laymen in Griff
area churches offered sermons
and prayers for racial peace ac
ross the nation Sunday in res
ponse to a plea from President
Johnson.
The president called on Amer
icans to pray for peace in the
wake of racial rioting in a num
ber of large U. S. cities.
In Griffin, the Rev. Orville
Wright, pastor of the First Chris
tian Church, said, “It is our
Christian desire and prayer that
all Americans should be law
and love abiding citizens.’’
In his prayer, the minister
said: “Thou who doth require
each of us to do justly, love mer
cy and walk humbly with Thee,
enable us by Thy grace to fulfill
an obedient Sonship, and the
responsibility and privilege of
our citizenship.”
The Rev. Homer Turner, pas
tor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
led the congregation in a pray
er for peace in the nation and
several officials of the church
offered prayer’s for racial peace
also.
The Rev. Turner serves as a
sort of "community pastor” for
several other churches in the
Griffarea.
The Rev. Douglas Winn, rec-
Violence Flares
In Milwaukee
By LANCE HERDGEN
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI)—
The National Guard was or
dered into Milwaukee today to
battle Negro rioters who looted
stores, set fires and pinned
down police with sniper fire. At
least two persons were killed.
The bodies of a man and a
woman were found in the ashes
of one of the first buildings put
to the torch by the rioters.
A state of emergency was
ordered and the city was sealed
off from the outside as racial
violence flared in the third
major northern city in as many
weeks. All highways were shut
off. Chicago Airlines cancelled
all flights to the city.
Nine different hospitals said
they had received 83 persons
injured in the rioting—including
seven policemen shot. Police
reported 180 arrested, most for
disorderly conduct, unlawful
assembly and for violation of a
curfew that kept all citizens off
the street.
Besiege Police
At one point during the
insurrection, which swelled dur
ing the hours just preceding
midnight and reached a scream
ing crescendo at 2 a.m., snipers
riddled the windows of the fifth
district police station, in the
heart of the near North Side
riot area.
Firemen reported at least 70
alarms, most of them in the riot
area.
Sheriff Edwin Purtell said his
deputies and state policemen
had sealed the city, shutting
down all main roads and the
system of expressways with
roadblocks where every car was
stopped. A driver had to have a
valid reason for entering the
city or he was turned away.
In the pattern of the civic
disasters of Newark and De
troit, stores were broken into,
buildings were put to the torch,
firemen answering alarms were
stoned, and harassed police took
cover from sniper fire spitting
from darkened buildings.
A pre-dawn thunderstorm and
the deployment of 1,600 National
Guardsmen appeared to cool
Milwaukee—famed as the city
of beer and gemutlichkeit—by
daylight.
Babe Built Name
Is Still Magic
See Story On Page Three
tor of St. George’s Episcopal
Church, prayed: “Save us from
violence, discord and confusion;
defend our liberties and fashion
into one united people the mul
titudes brought hither out of
many kindreds and tongues.”
Dr. Delma Hagood, pastor of
the First Methodist Church,
challenged the congregation to
try to see life from the other
person’s point of view. He took
his text from a quotation from
Ezekiel which said “I sat where
they sat.”
The Rev. Hartwell Kennedy,
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church, noted: “We are in a na
tional emergency and need as
a nation to return to God.”
The Rev. C. Edward Davis,
pastor of the First Presbyter
ian Church, prayed for peace
and that the chaos that had been
rampant last week would be set
tled.
“In the long run, let us exa
mine our own hearts to find out
if we are to blame and let us
strive as individuals to prevent
this from happening here. Let
us encourage those trying to do
something about the problem.”
Dr. Leon Latimer, former pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
who was guest minister here
The streets were cleared by
the order of the Mayor and the
force of policemen and National
Guardsmen who patrolled the
streets with shot guns bristling
from their car windows.
Smoke rose from burned out
buildings in the humid morning
air. Police stood guard over
stores with bashed-out windows.
Fruit, vegetables, glass and
cans littered the streets.
Two Snipers Arrested
Police said at least four
snipers had been in action and
two had been arrested—one a
51-year-old Negro who was shot
and wounded.
The Rev. Walter B. Hoard,
head of the Milwaukee chapter
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, said, “Milwaukee was
due—overdue” for a racial
uprising.
“It happened here because
Milwaukee wouldn’t listen,” he
told UPI. “No one can condone
a riot. But if one has to occur, a
city must try to understand it.
It happened here, I think—for
two main reasons—lack of open
housing and de facto segrega
tion.”
Maier imposed the state of
emergency, including a curfew.
He said the curfew would be
lifted selectively as National
Guardsmen, ordered into Mil
waukee by Gov. Warren P.
Knowles, are stationed.
Maier’s emergency order
embraced a city of 774,000, 12
per cent of whom are Negroes.
It ordered all persons off the
street. City streets were closed
to traffic. All taverns, liquor
stores, filling stations and
petroleum supply firms were
closed.
The Mayor imposed a curfew
on the city, ordering all
residents to go home. City
streets were closed to traffic.
All taverns, liquor stores, filling
stations and petroleum supply
firms were closed.
Police were checking reports
the injured included a white
Roman-Catholic priest, Father
James Groppi, who has been
the leader of the most militant
Milwaukee civil rights groups.
Sunday, spent some seven or
eight minutes reviewing events
of the past week that had promp
ted the president to call for pra
yer.
He prayed for a return of pe
ace across the nation and asked
that racial violence not spread
to other sections.
A spokesman for Sacred He
art Catholic Church said that
church laders here continued to
pray for racial peace. The
sokesman said church leaders
had made prayers for racial
harmony a regular part of wor
ship for a number of weeks and
continued the prayers Sunday.
The Rev. W. H. Brown, pas
tor of Heck Chapel Methodist
Church, said today he would of
fer special prayers for peace at
next Sunday’s services. He said
he didn’t know of the special re
quest by the president until the
program of worship had been
aranged for Sunday’s service.
Besides Rev. Turner and Rev.
Brown, several other Negro
churches here were contacted
for comments made Sunday.
But many of the churches have
pastors who live in other towns
and cities and they were not
available for comment.