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By Quimby Melton
The most interesting visit we
made on our recent trip to Par
is, probably was to Versailles,
truly the show place of France,
tlie one time palace of French
kings; the place associated with
Louis XVI and his queen Marie
Antionette; the place where
Woodrow Wilson met with oth
ers and drew up the Versailles
Treaty following World War
One.
At Versailles there are acres
upon acres of landscaped gar
dens and hundreds of thousands
of square feet of tremendous
buildings, originally built as the
home of kings.
Versailles stands today a liv
ing example of the chief cause
of the French Revolution; and a
warning of the eternal struggle
between what is known as the
“haves” and the “have nots.”
For if ever there was a monu
mental example of the vast con
trast between the people who
make up a country, it is Versail
les.
That 16th century contrast bet
ween the “haves” and the “have
nots” was greater than it is to
day. For when Versailles was
at its heighth of splendor there
were very few “haves,” few if
any “middle class” but plenty
of “have nots.”
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It was to Versailles that Louis
XVI took his child bride, Marie
Antionette, whom he married
while the dauphin, when he be
came the ruler of France. It
was shortly after she became
queen that enemies of the crown
circulated libels accusing her of
intrigues in the interest of Aus
tria — her native land. It was
while here that the king urged
her to temporarily leave Fran
ce until “the storm clouds blow
away”, and she refused to leave
Unless he accompanied her. At
first he would not go but finally
he agreed and they sought to
get out of France. However, they
were captured, brought back,
and later the young queen was
guillotined. It was here that
Marie Antionette, when told the
people of Paris “had no bread”,
suggested, not facetiously but
sincerely, because she knew no
thing of the suffering of the
masses, “let them eat cake.”
It was the ignorance of the
court of the common people and
their plight that was responsi
ble for the French Revolution.
A study of history will bear this
out.
If and when any of our read
ers visit Europe Good Evening
suggests that they make a visit
to Versailles a “must”, for one
will sense the warning we today
are being given that unconcern
for others and the way they live
can bring on distrust, suspicion
and hatreds.
We made that trip to Versail
les along with our daughter-ln
love, and toured much of the
palace with its giant rooms and
beautiful gardens. Many of the
rooms were furnished in 17th
Century style; but little of it was
the same furniture that was
there when Marie Antionette
reigned with Louis XVI. (During
the French Revolution Versail
les was looted of its furniture
and it was sold to wealthy folk
in other countries. There is more
of the original, genuine, Ver
sailles furnishings in England
than in all France.)
But the restored Versailles is
a beautiful example of splendor
that existed in the days when
Louis and his girl bride ruled
France. One cannot fail to be
impressed and awed; but one
cannot escape the thought that
in the big rooms and in the
beautiful gardens there are
ghosts of days when France was
the show place of all Europe.
And there are lessons to be
learned by a visit to Versailles.
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One of the most impressive of
all the rooms in the palace was
the tremendous court room
where the king in olden days
had his throne and received vis
itors. This room runs down one
side of the main building. It is
more than a hundred feet long
and almost half as wide. It was
in this room that Woodrow Wil
son and others met for the Ver
sailles treaty discussions.
Another most impressive sight
is the Gardens of Versailles, re
stored to their original beauty.
Flowers, fountains, statues make
this a place one could spend
hours and not drink in all its
beauty. But these gardens, too,
demonstrate that a few cannot
live amid beauty and luxury
while millions live in hovels with
out crisis after crisis arising.
INSIDE TODAY
Georgia News. Page 2.
Bruce Biossat. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4-
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Girl Scouts. Page 6.
Commentary. Page 7.
Button Collar. Page 7.
Society. Page 8.
Racial Roundup. Page 10-
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Impressive ceremony opened Babe Ruth Southeastern Tournament in Griffin.
Sarasota Belts Griffin;
DeKalb, Nashville Win
Griffin learned Tuesday how
Sarasota won the Florida Babe
Ruth championship and what
their intentions are in the South
eastern Regional Tournament.
There are two reasons why Sa
rasota is here today.
One is Dave Bewley. The oth
er is Glenn Wilson.
Bewley, who pitched two one
hitters in the Florida State Ba
be Ruth Tournament, notched
his third straight near no-hitter
here Tuesday as Sarasota roar
ed by Griffin, 6-1.
Bewley spiced the brilliant per
formance with 18 strike outs.
Glenn Wilson, a 15-year-old
power hitter, shared the hero’s
role.
He hit a tremendous drive for
a three-run homer.
Griffinites called it the longest
home run ever hit here by a
Babe Ruther.
The ball cleared the right field
fence by at least 50 feet. And if
it hadn’t hit in a big tree, it
would have landed on the num
ber five fairway of the Griffin
Municipal Golf Course.
The shot carried at least 375
feet.
Wilson’s home run broke up a
1-1 tie and sent Sarasota coast
ing home with a 6-1 victory.
In earlier games, DeKalb
Memorial belted Mobile, Ala. 6-1
and Nashville, Tenn, picked up
a 12-3 victory ever South Haven,
Miss.
Today’s action has Charlotte,
N.C. playing DeKalb Memorial
at 2 p.m., Nashville, Tenn, play
ing Sarasota at 5 p.m. and Grif
fin against South Haven, Miss,
at 8 p.m.
The first two games are in the
winner’s bracket. The Griffin-
South Haven game is in the lo
ser’s bracket.
Griffin Recreation officials
said today that over 1,100 pay-
Thomaston Boy
Drowns In Flint
THOMASTON, Ga. (UPD—An
11 - year -old Thomaston youth
drowned Tuesday south of here
in the Flint River while swim
ming with members of his fami
ly.
Authorities identified the boy
as Danny Beverly. They said
he apparently stepped into wa
ter over his head.
The Thomaston Civil Defense
Unit recovered his body.
DAILY # NEWS
Daily Since 1872
GOP Attack. Page 10.
Moon Pictures. Page 10.
Canada-France. Page 11.
Sports. Pages 12, 13.
NORAD’s Eye. Page 15.
Weather Summary. Page 16.
Riot News Code. Page 16-
Want Ads. Page 19.
Comics. Page 27.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 28.
David Poling. Page 28.
ing customers saw the Tuesday
games.
A larger crowd is expected to
day.
BEWLEY
Bewley was the most effective
pitcher in the opening round.
The Sarasota fast-baller was
never in serious trouble.
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, August 2, 1967
6 US Planes Downed;
3 Attacks Accidental
After walking David Shirah,
to lead off the first, the 15-year
old righthander struckout the
next eight batters in a row.
He didn’t give up a hit until
Donnie Robison singled in the
fifth. That was Griffin’s first
and only hit.
Sarasota took a 1-0 lead in the
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Pre-registration for the fall quarter at Griffin Tech
will be held tonight from 7 to 9 p. m. The pre
registration is for all students who plan to enter the
fall quarter, but have not registered previously. The
fall quarter will begin Aug. 14. Coy L. Hodges,
(above), director of student personnel, will give
pointers on the 15 courses offered. Those interested
in the school may tour the facilities during the two
hour pre-registration.
third.
The score remained 1-0 until
Butch Bell walked in the fifth.
Donnie Robison singled. That
hit, plus a Sarasota error, gave
Griffin its only run.
Butch Bell, who went the dis-
continued On Page 12)
Vol. 95 No. 180
Army Troops,
Civilians
Mishap Victims
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. forces
today reported the shooting
down of six American aircraft
and three accidental attacks on
troops and civilians.
The roll call of Vietnam
misfortune also included the
Communist shelling of two
ocean-going ships in a Saigon
ship channel, guerrilla terror
raids against civilian refugee
centers and a Viet Cong
coached attempt by children to
bomb a key American fortress.
American spokesmen said a
Navy A4 Sky Hawk and an Air
Force RFIOI Voodoo reconnais
sance plane were downed over
North Vietnam during the
course of 113 U.S. raiding
missions Tuesday.
It raised to 629 the number of
U.S. planes lost over the North.
The Navy pilot was rescued.
But the Air Force pilot was
listed as missing.
In South Vietnam Tuesday
Communist gunners shot down
an Air Force FIOO Supersabre
aiding ground troops 100 miles
southwest of Saigon. The pilot
was killed. It was the 196th
warplane lost in action in South
Vietnam.
The U.S. Army reported three
of its helicopters were shot
down while supporting the
Mekong Delta sweep by more
than 15,000 allied troops who
killed an estimated 350 Viet
Cong. __
In the accidental attacks:
—Three Army helicopters
Tuesday night mistakenly fired
on men of the Army Ist
Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade.
They mistook the troops for
guerrillas, killing one and
wounding seven 15 miles north
east of Saigon.
-—Firing at guerrilla positions
near Le Chi village in the
Central Highlands, an Army
artillery unit today hit the
village, killing four Vietnamese
and Injuring 16, spokesmen
said.
—Air Force Supersabres hit
ting Viet Cong positions near
the allied airfield near My Thou
in the Mekong Delta late
Monday killed two civilians and
wounded six, spokesmen said.
Full investigations were or
dered for each accident.
The Communist terrorists
struck in a wave of revenge
attacks against Vietnamese
cooperating with the Americans.
They lobbed mortar shells and
fired machineguns into the Cam
Lo refugee camp holding 15,000
Vietnamese civilians just below
the North-South Vietnam bor
der. Guard units suffered
“heavy” casualties, spokesmen
said. The Communists, in an
attack against a Montagnard
tribesmen camp in the Central
Highlands, killed two refugees
and wounded four.
Milwaukee Chief Halts
Attack On Headquarters
By LANCE HERDEGEN
MILWAUKEE (UPD—Police
Chief Harold Breier stopped a
bitter sniper attack on his
command post in Milwaukee’s
riot-ravaged Negro district to
day and said the city was under
control at the end of three
nights of sniping, arson and
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy, warm
and humid tonight and Thurs
day with a chance of scattered
afternoon or evening thunder
showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 89, minimuum today
71, maximum Tuesday 89,
minimum Tuesday 70. Sunrise
Thursday 6:54 a.m., sunset Th
ursday 8:37 p.m.
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More Textile Mills
•Join In Wage Hikes
COLUMBIA, S. C. (UPD —
The number of textile firms an
nouncing wage increases rose
to nine today but at least one
union official looked on the an
nouncements with skepticism.
“In light of our long experi
ence with the nonunion plants
in this industry, we are watch
ing developments with a jaun
diced eye,” said William Pol
lock, president of the Textile
Workers Union of America,
AFL-CIO.
The union and the Southern
textile industry have had a
long, stormy battle over at
tempts to unionize mills.
The latest firms to announce
plans for raises in September
were Alice Mills of Easley,
Clinton Mills, M. Lowenstein &
Sons Corp, of Anderson and
Ware Shoals division of the Rie
gel Textile Corp.
The first announcements
came Monday from Greenwood
Mills, Burlington Industries,
Collins & Aikman Corp., Deer
ing-Milliken and Abney Mills.
looting.
But even though residents
were allowed to be legally back
on the streets at 5:30 a.m.,
Milwaukee’s sweeping curfew
was going to be clamped back
on at 7 p.m. because of the
city’s worst racial violence
ever. White resentment mount
ed.
Firebombings and gunfights
broke out through the night in
an 840-square block area of the
north and west sides, sealed off
by a force of 6,700 police and
National Guardsmen. Breier’s
command post in a school
building was the center of the
night’s assault.
Two sniping suspects were
taken into custody, a pair of
Negro males, but two more
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None of the firms said how
much the raises would amount
to but unofficial sources have
said they would likely be about
6.5 per cent of the present
scale.
Pollock said in the past “a
good number of Southern em
ployers have failed to live up
to industry announcements of
this sort.”
“The raises they have grant
ed have often fallen short of the
figures in their press releases,”
he said.
“We suspect that this move 13
being made more for the pur
pose of generating support be
hind congressional efforts to
provide textiles with relief from
rising imports than for the pur
pose of meeting economic needs
of textile workers.”
Pollock called the announce
ments “encouraging” but said
that even with the raises,
Southern textile workers are be
ing paid less than “what work
ers are receiving in major or
ganized industries.”
Country Parson
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“Folks used to look to a
minister for help—that was
before they started solving
all problems at the drug
store.”