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By Quimby Melton
The first time I saw Paris was
In the spring of 1918; and then
it was but a fleeting glimpse.
Aboard a troop train we skirted
the French capital and the only
reason we knew it was Paris
was that we could see away in
the distance Eifel Tower sticking
up into the air.
The next time I saw Paris was
shortly after the Armistice had
been signed, and was on my
way to Nice and Monte Carlo
for a week’s leave. Spent the
night in Paris and the next mor
ning stood on the sidewalk a few
blocks from the big Opera House
and witnessed a “Victory” Pa
rade. Remember King George
of England could not be present
and his son the Prince of Wales,
pinch hit for the mornarch.
The next time I saw Paris was
as we stopped over just long
enough to change trains from
Chaumont to Bordeaux where I
was to join the 325th Inst. and
return to the Good Old United
States.
So when I visited Paris just
recently, it was in many res
pects a new city to Good Even
ing. Only at the time we stop
ped over en route to the Medi
terranean Riviera, did not have
any time at all to do any sight
seeing.
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This time we seemed to sense
a certain resentment on the part
of many towards an American.
The first time I saw Paris and
all the time I was in France in
1918-1919 the French people look
ed on America as the nation that
had saved them from the Ger
man invaders. Nothing was too
good for the “Yanks”; the Am
erican uniform was a badge of
honor.
But this time it seemed differ
ent. Os course in the hotel and
in the restaurants and in the
better class of stores the people
were at least courteous. It was
in Paris that I saw the only
“Go Home Yanks” and similar
signs.
The attitude towards Ameri
cans, best describes as "sullen”,
was most evident on the part
of a guide who accompanied the
tourists in the big sight-seeing
bus. This was in contrast to the
guides in other lands. His atti
tude was “I’m getting paid for
this and I’m doing my job be
cause I need the money,” and
while the guides quickly answer
ed all questions from others,
even those who spoke English
but could be identified as not
being Americans by their talk.
But a couple, sitting across the
aisle from us, a couple from the
mid-west were quickly "put in
their place” when they asked a
question; not only did the guide
answer them bruskly but added
something like this — “Now I
hope I’ll, not be bothered with
any more silly questions like
that. There are other people on
the tour who have paid the
same price you have.”
But in spite of the bruskness
and almost open hostility enjoy
ed the visit to Paris and espe
cially the hours spent at Versail
les, the Louvre, and at Notre
Dame. And one has to admit
that when it comes to cooking,
the Parisian chefs are tops.
We wish we could have spent
sometime in France, visiting the
smaller towns and cities for we
cannot believe the Paris attitude
towards Americans is the same
one will find in other parts of
France.
There are many signs of Ger
man bombings and of Nazi oc
cupation left in Paris, but basi
cally it’s the same city we re
member from those short visits
in 1918-19. Our hotel was adja
cent to The Opera right in the
heart of the city, and there were
many interesting spots within
walking distance.
Our room at the Grand Hotel
was really an apartment. One
thing that hit us as overdoing
affairs was the fact that in addi
tion to the telephone in the bed
room there was a telephone In
the bathroom, along with some
unusual European plumbing.
Incidentally, when and if you
take a trip to Europe, be cer
tain and take a good supply of
soap. Even in this swanky Pa
ris “apartment” they left one
teeny-weeny cake of soap for
both lavatory and tub and they
did not replace it until the last
vestige of it had been used —
and even then we had to call
room service to get soap.
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Many Griffinites Monday became “foster parents” to
Babe Ruth baseball players, who are here for the
Southeastern Regional Tournament. Roman Schmitt
Babe Ruthers Welcomed;
SE Tourney Opens Today
The 1967 Southeastern Region
al Babe Ruth Tournament be
gan here today after the 90 play
ers, coaches and other officials
were honored Monday night at
a banquet.
Eddie Glennon, Director of
Area Sales for the Atlanta Bra
ves, praised the players for win
ning state championships and
for their part in baseball. He
told them that baseball had a
bright future for those good en
ough to become pros.
The players arrived in Griffin
Monday afternoon.
After registering at the Grif
fin Community Center, they were
briefed by local and Southeas
tern Babe Ruth officials.
The players were assigned to
their •“foster” homes by Mrs.
Genie Jones, who heads up that
committee.
Stock Brokers
Plan To Open
Office In Griffin
Thomson and McKinnon stock
brokers plan to open an office
in Griffin the first week in Sep
tember.
Carl L. Kelley will be man
ager of the Griffin branch. The
firm is more than 80 years old
and has offices throughout the
Southeast, including Atlanta and
LaGrange in Georgia. The home
office is in New York and the
firm belongs to New York and
American Stock Exchanges and
all other principal exchanges,
including commodity exchan
ges.
The manager of the Griffin of
fice has been in the brokerage
business more than 10 years and
formerly managed the Atlanta
branch. He and Thomson-Mc-
Kinnon have studied Griffin for
more than two years and con
cluded that the city has grown
sufficiently to support a local
office.
Mr. Kelley said that the office
in Griffin will include full facili
ties for transactions in both
stocks and commodities. These
will include a Dow Jones busi
ness service teletype, a stock
exchange ticker, and Standard
and Poor business library. It will
have a direct telephone line to
the Atlanta office and instant
connections with New York.
As soon as they sell their
home in Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs.
Kelley plan to move to Griffin.
They have a son, Randall Kel
ley who is employed by Delta
Airlines in Atlanta, and a grand
son, Randall, Jr., 1 year old.
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“The Foster Home Plan” went
off without a hitch. In fact, Mrs.
Jones had more “foster homes”
than she had boys.
Several people, who had offer
ed their homes, were notified
that all the boys were assigned.
It took less than 30 minutes for
Mrs. Jones to complete the as
signments.
The Southeastern Regional Bo
ard of Directors held a meeting
Monday night following the ban
quet and selected Cocoa, Fla. as
site for the 1968 tournament.
Jim Battiste of Mobile, Ala.
was unanimously reelected Sou
theast Region Director.
Billy Hankins of Cocoa was
elected assistant region direc
tor. He is presently state direc
tor for Florida.
The southeast directors also
Allies Crush
Cong Offensive
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—In the grea
test allied drive of the war in
the Mekong Delta, about 15,000
American and South Vietna
mese troops crushed a budding
major Viet Cong offensive and
killed about 350 Communists,
U.S. officials said today.
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Fred V.
Weyand said more than 10
American and 11 government
battalions, tipped off by intel
ligence agents, boated down the
Mekong River and charged into
tne muddy lowlands where
hundreds of Communists were
massing for the offensive 60
miles below Saigon.
The general said five Commu
nists prisoners said their unit of
700 men “had been decimated.”
“I can believe it,” he added.
Surprise Attack
The allied forces five days
ago slipped quietly into the mud
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Country Parson
“I wish men would form
beliefs from facts instead of
first getting opinions and
then hunting facts to sup>
port them.”
GRIFFIN
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
(1) and Mikle McClure of Sarasota, Fla. are the guests
of Dr. and Mrs. O. R. Butler.
voted a change in the tourna
ment schedule here.
Griffin will play Wednesday
at 8 p.m. whether it wins or los
es today’s game.
If Griffin had the misfortune
of losing its opening game, the
original tournament schedule
had them playing Wednesday at
2 p.m.
That part of the schedule was
changed and no matter what
happens to Griffin today, it will
play the 8 p.m. game Wednes
day.
The change was made for the
benefit of hometown fans and to
eliminate the possibility of Grif
fin being ousted from the tour
nament before North Carolina,
which drew a first round bye,
played its first game.
The first round remains the
and swamp “badlands” of
Asia’s richest rice bowl that for
10 years has been the home and
main recruiting grounds for
the Viet Cong.
Weyand kept the operation
secret until today as his men
and the South Vietnamese
slashed the guerrilla units who
had planned their own drive for
the first or second week of
August.
The allies struck so hard, so
fast and with such surprise that
spokesmen reported relatively
light casualties. Americans re
ported 18 men killed and 16
wounded. Weyand said the
Vietnamese bore the brunt of
the battling and suffered 27 men
killed and about 50 wounded.
In the air war U.S. Air Force
852 s today struck a major
Communist buildup in the
rugged mountains and valleys
of South Vietnam’s northwes
tern corner.
Hit Supply Trails
In two predawn raids, waves '
of Stratofortresses lashed guer- '
rilla trails from North Vietnam, j
supply dumps and Communist :
troop camp sites, military ;
spokesmen said.
The eight-engine bombers •
struck after intelligence reports
indicated the North Vietnamese
invaders were rebuilding a 1
major offensive force smashed 1
by Marines in heavy fighting in
May. 1
In North Vietnam, small U.S.
jets Monday bombed a large
storage area 25 miles north
northwest of Hanoi, spokesmen
said. The jets also hit targets :
through the North Vietnamese
industrial complex In the Red
River delta near Hanoi and
Haiphong.
same with Mobile, Ala. and De-
Kalb Memorial playing the open
ing game today at 2 p.m., Nash
ville and South Haven, Miss,
meeting in the 5 p.m. game, and
Griffin playing Sarasota, Fla. in
tlw: final game at 8 p.m. tonight.
Mayor Carl Pruett officially
welcomed the Babe Ruthers to
Griffin.
He wished all the teams luck
but said he was pulling for Grif
fin.
Mayor Pruett held up his “luc
ky” baseball (The one he threw
out at a Braves’ game) and
said he had written Fairbanks,
Alaska on it to bring Griffin
Babe Ruthers good luck.
The banquet was sponsored by
the Griffin Kiwanis Club.
Approximately 250 people at
tended.
Rail Freight
Rates Are
Going Up
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion (ICC) gave the nation’s
railroads permsssion today to
raise freight rates by S3OO
million a year.
Revenue Up
In Georgia
ATLANTA (UPD—State Rev
enue Commissioner Peyton
Hawes reported Monday that
revenue collections for July
were 5.6 per cent above collec
tions for July, 1966.
Collections for the month
were 47,990,369 compared to
$45,427,128 for July, 1966. This
represented an increase of $2,-
563,240.
Prison Poet
ATLANTA (UPD—When Gov.
Lester Maddox paid a surprise
visit to the Ware County state
prison branch last week, he
found that inmates can have
a sense of humor.
At least they think it was a
joke.
Attached to the bulletin board
was a crumpled piece of note
book paper with a poem en
titled “Mother’s Day.” It read:
“It was you who taught me
al! I know.
Like robbing banks and lay
ing low.
“It was you who taught me
forgery.
And also you who squealed on
me.
"And sent me to the local
pen.
Where now I’m doing five to
ten.
“Your son, Bob.”
Dundee Mills
To Hike Wages
French Press
Rips DeGaulle
PARIS (UPI) — President
Charles de Gaulle today stood
as a self-appointed champion of
French-Canadian liberty, equali
ty and fraternity. The French
press snapped at his helping
hand.
“De Gaulle launches a new
Franco-Canadian crisis. He
wants to liberate the Quebecers
—but from what?” said the
newspaper I’Aurore.
“De Gaulle goes too far,” said
the newspaper Combat.
At the end of an unusually
long cabinet meeting Monday,
De Gaulle issued a statement he
would help French-Canadians
“achieve the aims of liberation
they have set themselves.” He
did not say how he would help.
The statement followed and
revived the furor over his
abortive goodwill visit to
Canada last week. At Montreal
the French leader shouted the
French-Canadian separatist slo
gan “Long live free Quebec,” tc
an excited crowd.
Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson of Canada said the
action and the words were
“unacceptable.” De Gaulle
promptly called off scheduled
visits with Pearson and English- ]
speaking parts of Canada. ]
Almost no one had expected ,
De Gaulle to apologize. But few ’
expected him to say what he
did—that he really meant that
he believes French-Canadians 1
do not enjoy liberty, equality
and fraternity, the slogan of the
French Revolution of 1789.
Detroit Police
Probe Killings
DETROIT (UPl)—Three De
troit policemen were being
questioned today in connection
with charges that three Negroes
were killed in cold blood by a
National Guard officer during
the Detroit riot.
The three policemen were not
identified. Authorities said all
three were on duty in the area
of the Algiers motel, where the
victims were killed by shotgun
blasts early last Wednesday.
Homicide detectives also pre
pared to bring a Negro ex
paratrooper to Detroit for
further questioning. He said he
witnessed killings and was
threatened with death himself.
Robert L. Greene, 26, a
Vietnam veteran, told the
Detroit News Monday he was a
witness to a “cold-blooded
murder” of three Negro youths ;
in a Detroit motel during the i
rioting last week. ]
Greene’s story was confirmed
by three other witnesses. They
said a squad of 16 guardsmen
and police beat, cursed and
threatened other Negroes and
two teen-aged white girls at the
motel where the three youths
were killed with shotgun blasts
before dawn Wednesday.
S7O-Million Tax Digest
Expected In Spalding
The Spalding County gross tax
digest this year may run in the :
neighborhood of S7O-million. Di
gest figures are expected to be
ready for the County Commiss
ioners by the first part of Sep- '
tember.
This information was revealed
this morning when members of
the Spalding Tax Assessors Bo- 1
ard called on the County Com- 1
missioners. 1
They came to ask the county :
to consider installing a number
system for mobile homes. The
tax assessors said the system i
would help them keep better !
track of mobile homes.
The commissioners took the ,
request under advisement.
Al Hill of the tax assessors ,
staff said Glynn County has such
a system. He said Glynn Coun
ty required permits to be issued
wnen a mobile home was mov- ;
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Arsenal 1
Looking like a latter-day
Poncho Villa, a helicopter
gunner heads for his ship
wrapped in long strings of
40mm. grenades. This walk
ing arsenal is a member of
the 334th Armed Helicopter
Company based at Bien Hoa
Air Base in Vietnam.
A round-the-clock investiga
tion into the incident produced
its first charges Monday.
Melvin Dismukes, 24, a Negro
employed by a private police
agency, was charged with
felonious assault in the clubbing
of James Sortar, 19, one of 11
persons in the motel when the
slaying occurred.
In a copyrighted story from
Hopkinsville, Ky., where Greene
went after the shootings, the
News said the guardsmen and
police invaded the motel in a
search for snipers.
“This officer took one of the
boys into a room and I heard
him say, ‘take this knife and
defend yourself’,” Greene said.
“Then he pushed the boy out
of the room and shot him.
“Then he walked over to a
policeman and said, ‘Did you
see that guy kick when I shot
him?”
“The officer then took the
second youtn into a room across
from where I was standing and
shot him.”
Greene said he witnessed two
of the shootings. The third
youth already was dead, he
said.
ed and that all taxes on the
home had to be paid before a :
permit was issued.
P. W. Hamil and Johnny ■
Breene of the tax assessors bo
ard accompanied Mr. Hill to the
meeting.
While they were there, Chair- ,
man Jack Moss of the County •
Commission asked when the tax .
digest figures would be ready.
He wanted to know if the county ;
would have the Information in ;
time to set the tax rates by the
September meeting of the com- .
missioners. .
Mr. Hill estimated that the tax i
office would be ready to submit :
its digest for approval to state i
officials sometime in August and :
the information would then be
ready for the county.
The County Commissioners 1
and the Griffin-Spalding school
Increase
Effective
In September
J. M. Cheatham, president of
Dundee Mills in Griffin, announ
ced today that hourly paid em
ployes will be given raises dur
ing September.
The Dundee groups includes
all Griffin Dundee Mills as well
as the Lowell-Bleachery and
Rushton.
Some 2,300 employes will bene
fit from the wage increases, Pre
sident Cheatham said.
Notices about the increases
were posted in the Griffin mills
Monday afternoon.
Mr. Cheatham did not announ
ce an exact week in September
for the increases nor did he cite
any percentages of increase or
total payroll figures.
The last wage increase for
Dundee employes was on May
29, 1966.
The Griffin group of mills con
tinues to run three full shifts on
a five-day a week basis, the
Dundee president said.
Other Textile
Firms Announce
Wage Increases
GREENSBORO, N. C. (UPI)
—An industry-wide pay raise
for textile workers was in the
making today after five firms
in the Carolinas Monday an
nounced wage increases, effec
tive next month.
Burlington Industries, Green
wood Mills, Collins andAikman,
Deering - Milliken and Abney
Mills announced unspecified in
creases for thousands of mill
hands in the Carolinas and oth
er states.
Burlington, the world’s larg
est textile organization with 120
plants in 15 states, said its in
creases would be made by di
vision and Burlington President
Charles F. Myers Jr. said “It
looks like most of those will be
made during September.”
Greenwood Mills, wtih 16
plants in South Carolina, an
nounced increases for 6,000
workers.
Collins and Aikman said its
hourly workers in nine plants in
the Carolinas and its mills in
Georgia and Pennsylvania are
to get raises next month.
J. P. Stevens & Co. said it
was “studying the situation”
and Springs Mills said it had
no announcement at present.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and warm tonight and Wednes
day with chance of few widely
scattered thundershowers in the
afternoons or evenings.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 88, low today 70, high
Monday 87, low Monday 68; sun
rise Wednesday 6:54, sunset
Wednesday 8; 38.
board cannot set rates until they
have the digest figures.
Mr. Hill said he did not antici
pate any delays this year in get
ting the digest together.
The county was late in get
ting the digest and setting the
rates last year because the tax
office was in the process of go
ing through a revaluation pro
gram.
Things should be back on their
normal schedule this year, Mr.
Hill indicated.
The gross digest (before home
stead exemption) last year was
some S6B-million. It is expected
to go to about S7O-million this
year as the result of normal
growth, according to the esti
mate by Mr. Hill.
He said that it is difficult to
make an accurate estimate now
because there are some factors
that could change the total.