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Tuesday, August 1, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Maddox Says Leaders
Could Restore Order
THOMASTON Ga. (UPD—
Gov. Lester Maddox said today
law and order could be restored
In American cities In 30 days
“if our national leaders would
make up melr minds to restore
and maintain It.”
Maddox, speaking to the
Thomaston Klwanis Club, said
race riots were "communist in
spired and financed” and were
not being strongly opposed by
leaders.
"Lawlessness, crime, vio
lence and destruction of proper
ty are tearing up our land —
and this lawlessness and com
munist inspired and financed
rioting have not received the
strong oposition that our na
tional leader should be giving,”
the governor said.
"We could restore law and
order In America In 30 days if
our national leaders would
make up their minds to restore
and maintain it,” Maddox said.
"But in order to do this,
these leaders must be willing to
put what is right ahead of what
is politically expedient—ahead
of pressure and ahead of
votes.”
Maddox also pledged to con
tinue his drive "against cor
ruption” in Georgia.
He said his efforts would in
clude prison reform and at
tacks on crime, Sunday liquor
eales, slot machines and dis
honesty in government.
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“There are some folks who
are a bit disturbed,” Maddox
said. “Many of them have
wondered about our program of
honesty and efficiency and mo
rality in government and our
war on crime and our in
sistence on obeying the law.”
He said people have asked
Burson Declares
War On Hunger
ATLANTA (UPD—William H.
Burson, director of the State
Department of Children and
Family Services, says a
"shocking number of Georgi
ans” go to bed hungry and his
office is going to do something
about it.
Burson, whose department
administers public assistance
programs, announced Monday
a crash plan to distribute food
to more than 116,000 Georgians
in 60 counties.
He said a department survey
Indicated one out of 37 Geor
gians is “hungry right now.”
Burson said the survey was
the first of its kind in the na
tion and it revealed 116,000
Georgians are not receiving
adequate food.
He said his department would
try to sell counties on food dis-
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the question: "Where is the
governor going to draw the
line?”
Maddox said he would draw
the line “right down the mid
dle ... and we are separating
right from wrong, good from
bad, adequate from inade
qute.”
tribution programs and would
try to expand programs where
they have already been estab
lished.
If local governments don’t
measure up, Burson said the
federal government likely will
have to do the job.
Ben W. Fortson
Named ‘Character’
ATLANTA (UPD — Georgia
has produced many characters
over the years, but the state
now has an “official” one. Sec
retary of State Ben W. Fortson
has been named “Character of
the Year” by the International
Association of Characters, Ltd.
The association, which has
Jimmy Durante as its honor
ary president and Art Linklet
ter and Tennessee Ernie Ford
as honorary officers cited Fort
son’s "great and good charact
er.”
"Handicap and sorrow in this
man’s life have not stilled his
brave spirit, but have strength
ened his character,” the asso
ciation said, noting that Fort
son has been confined to a
wheelchair for many years.
Fortson’s fight against the
Starlings that invaded the Capi
tol and his sitting on the Great
Georgia Seal during the two-gov
ernor controversy of 1947 were
cited as the work of a “char
acter.”
Ebenezer Baptist
To Build Low
Rent Housing
ATLANTA (UPD—Dr. Mar
tin Luther King’s Ebenezer
Baptist Church will build a $l.B
million high rise low-rent apart
ment project as a “logical ex
tension” of its “interest in peo
ple.”
The integration leader and of
ficials of the Atlanta Housing
Authority Monday signed
papers necessary to go ahead
with the unprecedented church
project Monday.
“Ebenezer Baptist Church
has throughout its history pro
vided leadership and assistance
in obtaining social and econom
ic justice for people,” King
said. “The development of bet
ter housing is a logical and nat
ural extension of Ebenezer’s
interest in people.”
King said Negro workmen
would have an important role
in the project from start to fi
nish.
“Negro workers and archi
tects will be involved in all
phases of the housing pro
gram,” he said. “This project
can generate real economic op
portunity and provide new skills
for people in the community.”
The rights leader said un
skilled Negroes would be
trained for employment on the
apartment building, to be locat
ed in a slum area close to
downtown Atlanta.
The church purchased the
land from the housing authori
ty at a price of $50,000 to de
velop into low - rent living
units.
Mayor Ivan Allen issued a
statement of congratulations to
the church and King for being
selected to develop the area.
King is co - pastor of the
church with his father, Dr.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Representatives of the Feder
al Housing Administration,
through which the project will
be financed, the Atlanta Chamb
er of Commerce and Negro
State Rep. Grace Hamilton
were present for the signing.
Tobacco Prices,
Quality Up
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPD—The
Georgia - Florida Belt opened
its second week Monday with
prices higher and quality im
proved over Friday marketings.
Gains ranged from $1 to $4
per hundred pounds on prim
ings and nondescript varieties
of flue - cured tobacco, accord
ing to the Federal-State Mar
keting News Service.
Volume was heavy and more
good and fair tobacco was sold
as the percentage of nonde
script dropped considerably.
Revised gross sales for open
ing week totaled 25.9 million
pounds and averaged $65.84 per
hundred. The average was $2.12
under the record set the first
week of sales in 1966 when 25
million pounds returned $67.96.
Growers placed .5 per cent of
last week’s sales under govern
ment loan, as compared to .3
per cent during the same pe
riod in 1966.
Auction bid averages per hun
dred pounds on a limited num
ber of representative U. S.
grades and changes from the
previous day follow:
Leaf fair oranges, $72, un
changed.
Cutters—low lemon, $74, un
changed.
Lugs — good lemon, $74, un
changed; fair lemon, $73, un
changed; fair orange, $73, up
$1; low orange, s7l up sl.
Primings—good lemon, 73 up
$1; fair lemon s7l unchanged;
low lemon, S6B, 70 $1; good
orange. S7Z, up $1; fair orange,
S7O, up $1; yow orangs, S6B, up
$D fair green, $67, up $2.
Nondescript—best $62, up $3
poorest $55, up $4.
TROOP SPULL OUT
GATWICK, England (UPD—
Some British troops arrived
today from Aden in one part of
Britain’s withdrawal of military
forces in the Middle and Far
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Alan Ginsberg in the unofficial exchange visits of news
notables that often take place between the two coun
tries. Ginsberg is shown in London’s Hyde Park, in
tensely singing an Indian chant at a demonstration
staged in support of legalizing the use of marijuana.
Aide To Dr. King
Says lie Was Deafen
By ANN MOHR
ATLANTA (UPD—An investi
gation was under way today of
a charge by one of Dr. Martin
Luther King's top aides that
he was "sadistically” beaten by
a white Atlanta policeman.
King Monday called for the
suspension of officer R. D.
Marshall, but he was turned
down by Mayor Ivan Allen,
who promised a prompt and
thorough investigation.
Hosea Williams filed a com
plaint with the FBI and the
U. S. Department of Justice
Monday charging that his civil
rights were violated by Mar
shall Sunday morning during
an incident at Grady Memorial
Hospital.
Williams was charged by At
lanta police with drunkenness,
disorderly conduct and failure
to move on.
The King aide in the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference said he was attacked
by Marshall "for no reason” af
ter talking to two Negro women
who had been arrested. He said
he was at the hospital awaiting
word on the condition of his
three daughters who had been
involved in a minor traffic ac
cident.
"He sadistically beat, kicked
and stomped me for no rea
son,” Williams said.
King, Williams and key per-
New Third Army
General On
Duty In Detroit
ATLANTA (UPD—When Lt.
Gen. John L. Throckmorton re
turns from riot duty in Detroit,
he will assume command of the
Third Army at Ft. McPherson.
Trockmorton was named
commander of the Third Army
Monday to replace Lt. Gen.
Louis W. Truman, who becomes
the director of the Georgia De
partment of Industry and Trade
Sept. 1.
Throckmorton who was the
commanding general of the 18th
Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg,
N.C., was called to Detroit
when President Johnson or
dered federal troops into the
city during intense racial riot
ing.
At Ft. McPherson he will di
rect the activities of 250,000
military and 28,000 civilian per
sonnel in a seven - state south
eastern area.
Throckmorton is a 1935 West
Point graduate and a former
commandant of cadets at the
U.S. Military Academy.
Patrolman
Suspended
ROSWELL, Ga. (UPD — Pa
trolman B. H. Martin was sus
pended Monday in connection
with an investigation into the
fatal shooting of a dnink driv
ing suspect Sunday.
Witnesses said the victim, W.
C. Prichard, apparently hit
Martin when the officer tried
to arrest him in front of a ser
vice station. According to re
ports, the suspect was fatally
shot during an ensuing scuffle.
Royal Crown
Earnings Up
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPD —
Roya Crown Cola Co. Monday
announced net earnings of $3,-
050,714 for the six month period
ending June 30.
This compares with earnings
of $2,820,075 for the first six
months of fiscal 1966.
Royal Crown president Wil
liam E. Uzzell said dividends
of 82 cents per share were paid
on 3,719,193 outstanding shares
compared to 76 cents per share
for the first six months of 1966.
sons from the SCLC were sum
moned to the mayor’s office
Monday afternoon after Wil
liams made the charge and
filed the complaint.
Aiderman Richard Freeman
and Capt. E. O. Mullen, who
made a preliminary investiga
tion of the incident for the po
lice department, were also pre
sent.
Atlanta police chief Herbert
Jenkins, recently appointed to
President Johnson’s advisory
commission on riots, did not at
tend the meeting.
King said after the confer
ence he had demanded the su
spension of Marshall pending
an investigation because the in
cident added to problems in an
already-tense Negro commun
ity.
The integration leader said,
however, a two-day demonstra
tion against the Vietnam war
in Atlanta Saturday and Sun
day would be held as planned.
“This is a nonviolent demon
stration. We have never had a
nonviolent demonstration turn
into a riot,” he said.
"We cannot postpone de
mands for justice. What starts
riots is something beneath the
surface. That’s what we’re aim
ing at.”
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
an officer with the SCLC, said
Marshall was accused of beat
ing another King aide, Ben
Clark, in 1966 during the Boule
vard Street rebellion in Atlanta.
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Riots Build Up Resistance
To Improving Negro's Lot
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
(Second of a Series.)
. t-u v j v- - WASHINGTON (NEA)
The nation’s white leadership missed a great opportunity,
in the June, 1966, White House conference on civil rights, to
undertake an urgent commitment to the economic, social
and educational betterment of deprived American Negroes
The only valid theme constructed for that conference was
the notion that, across the land, white leaders in business
the professions, the church, labor and general civic affairs
should enlist themselves and their cities in tough, realistic
thoroughly financed programs aimed at major breakthroughs
for Negroes.
Despite all the fine talk in advance of that potentially his
toric meeting, the commitment never was made and the ur
gency never developed. The conference became, in consider
able part, an exercise in avoiding any embarrassment for
President Johnson.
The question today has to be whether, without the muscu
lar sanction of the White House, the nation’s white estab
lishment can be made to appreciate and to act upon the com
pelling facts of the Negro dilemma.
Riots convey urgency of a sort, but they also provoke
harsh response and provide excuse for resistance to programs
of betterment. Breaking down that resistance is not easy.
The middle-class white American and, indeed, his Negro
counterpart, already bear heavy money burdens from gen
eral support of the aged, the sick, the indigent and the un
employed. They are now being told they must shoulder far
heavier loads to help bring deprived Negroes to levels where
"equal opportunity” has practical meaning for them.
They are. even told they must finance “crash programs”
akin to Marshall Plan foreign aid, to provide truly preferen
tial treatment for Negroes until the balance in U.S. society,
now tipped badly against them, is thoroughly redressed.
Men like Whitney Young of the Urban League proposed
this. The venerable A. Philip Randolph, from the perspective
of decades of Negro leadership, suggests remedial outlays
ranging toward S2OO billion to accomplish the task.
Young, Randolph and the equally respected Roy Wilkins
say often that Americans in the white community must do
this becaus(*the Negro has suffered neglect and humiliation
for more than a century.
It is fairly plain, in the light of the blazes raging in many
U.S. cities, that if some solid portion of this massive task is
not done, the American society may pull apart at the seams.
But there is severe limit to the argument that the white
American, going about Ms business today under reasonably
heavy tax burdens levied by war abroad and social imbalance
at home, must feel personal guilt for the errors of others 50
or 100 years ago.
The man in the suburbs with four kids, a mortgage, a fin
gernail-biting job and a host of his own problems does not
look upon a Negro in 1967 and see a century of neglect for
which he is somehow responsible. He did not bring the slaves
to America, nor create the social deficiencies and economic
handicaps complained of.
It will serve no purpose to tell white Americans they must
do this to pay “their share” of the sins of nameless, neglect
ful Americans long since dead. They must act—but without
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