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E good VENIN VT By Quimby Melton Monday’s paper had two “lead” stories. One was good news, the other sad news. One told of Griffin High’s new R.O.T.C. unit’s having been rat ed an honor unit. The other told of the tragic and mysterious death of Solicitor Ge neral Floyd Hoard of the Pied mont Superior Circuit. Both were “local” stories; for Solicitor General Hoard was a native of Griffin, best known to his many friends here as “Fuz zy”, that name dating back to the days when he was a s t a r football player at old Spalding High. “Why would anyone place a bomb in the automobile of Fuz zy Hoard that went off when he tried to start his car?” That’s the question all here are asking. The only answer anyone can even guess at is either that someone made a horrible mis take and the bomb was not meant for him; or someone an gered at "Fuzzy” for his work as solicitor general did this das tardly act to “get even”. There have been few solicitors general in the history of Geor gia courts who have been as en ergetic and as thorough in get ting evidence against criminals, nor who has pressed his cases so fearlessly as Hoard. As a practicing attorney, before be ing elected solicitor general, FuzzylToard made a specialty of defending "the little fellow” and often in doing so he unco vered “the man higher up.” This, in itself, may have creat ed enemies to the man who be lieved in the law and who believ ed in protecting the "little man” who might have been made the “goat” for the “higher up”. It is to be hoped that the per petrators of this Chicago-gang land-like killing will be quickly apprehended and made to pay for their act. — + — Now as to the good news. Congratulations to the Griffin High R.0.T.C.; to the corps of Army men, headed by Major Tom O’Connell; to the school of ficials; and to the entire com munity that so actively worked for and cooperated in getting the unit in shape for its first offic ial inspection last March. And we must not forget that much of the credit for this excellent showing should be given the ca dets themselves, many of whom had never had the first lesson in military training. To a great majority of them there was no difference between “right shold er arms” and “to the rear mar ch”. But they went to work with enthusiasm, learned the rudi ments of military training and then went on to polish up their parades, and drills and hit the “honors” mark. — + — Monday noon Good Evening attended the monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Sp alding Cancer Society at whi ch the young lady who has head ed the society for six years — stepped down and asked that a new president be elected. This six-term president was Miss Myrtle Higgins, and no head of any organization ever gave more devoted service to her organiza tion than she. Much of the pro gress the society has made in its fight on dreaded cancer is directly due to her untiring de votion. Dr. O. R. Butler, Griffin den tist, known to all as Dr. “Son ny” Butler, has a hard job to fill and he was smart when he told those who will serve on his board this year that he hopes and expects to “find plenty for Myrtle to do.” Dr. Butler, himself, is a bun dle of energy and a skilled lea der and no doubt, with a lot of help from Miss Higgins, the work of the society will keep right on getting results in it s fibht to educate the people on cancer. One of the best ways anyone can help this society is by the “double check” plan — have a yearly physical check up and send a check, a check for mo ney, to the society to finance its work. Weather: FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA Fair and mild nights. Partly cloudy and warm afternoons through Wednesday with a chance of thundershowers by Wednesday. LOCAL WEATHER Maximum today 89, minimum today 69, maximum Monday 88, minimum Monday 67, Sunrise Wednesday 6:59 a m. Sunset Wednesday 8:32 p.m. Federal Money Paying ‘Hate Whitey’ Rent WASHINGTON (UPD—The head of the Nashville, Tenn., antipoverty program admitted today that his agency, financed largely with federal funds, is helping pay rent of four persons connected with a “hate Whitey” school. He had denied previously that any antipoverty funds whatever went to the school. J. Paschall Davis, chairman of Nashville’s Metropolitan Ac tion Commission, described the rent payments in a telegram to chairman James O. Eastland of the Senate Judiciary Commit tee, which last week heard the Tennessean’s denial that money had gone to the so-called Liberation School. Conceding in his telegram that his testimony “is not quite correct,” Davis said his agency had agreed under contract to pay up to S2O a week each toward the rent of four young women, over a six-week period. He said the payments started July 27. The telegram did not indicate whether payments would con tinue over the full term. “Two are working as teachers and two as aides in the Liberation School,” the tele gram said, “and one is a member of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com mittee).” The telegram also said that Fred H. Brooks, director of the Liberation School, had used a station wagon leased by the metropolitan action commission. Davis’ denial last week was directed primarily at a charge by Capt. John A. Sorace of the Nashville police that the com mission made a $7,700 grant to Israel Cracks Down Dn Striking Arabs By WALTER LOGAN United Press International Israel cracked down today on the Arabs who staged a series of strikes in Old Jerusalem Monday and served notice it would not allow the situation to deteriorate into civil disobe dience. Norma! life returned to Jerusalem as Arab taxis and buses resumed services, but Amman Radio called for more strikes in Nablus and Hebron in what Israeli officials described as a “new incitiement camp aign.” UPI correspondent Eliav Si mon, quoting reliable sources in Jerusalem, said Israel will reappraise the situation in the occupied areas and reintroduce a measure of military govern ment. The sources said the Monday strike, which shuttered virtually all Arab shops, coninced the government of Premier Levi Eshkol that the wholesale restoration of civil liberties in “enemy territory” may have misfired. Israeli officials said the Radio Amman appeal for further strikes has “completely failed.” They blamed the Monday strike on Amman’s “financial and radio trouble making” and said they would concentrate on troublemakers known to be following Amman’s advice. In Belgrade the Yugoslav government confirmed reports President Tito will leave Thursday on a visit to Egypt, but the announcement said nothing about his reported plan to go to Syria and possibly Iraq. Tito was expected to discuss aid for the Arab nations. Some Address EL PASO, Tex. (UPD— Neither snow, nor rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night—nor an unbelievably casual address— could stay the postal couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. A man from El Paso wrote a letter to a friend vacationing with his parents in lowa. The letter was addressed: “H. Fred Whitt of El Paso, who is visiting his parents out by the highway kind of close to the old wooden bridge out in Melbourne, lowa.” Whitt got the letter. DAILY NEWS Daily Since 1872 Brooks, who also is nashville director of SNCC. Sorace said the Liberation School was de voted largly to teaching Neg roes to hate whites. U. S. Warship Shell Troops, Gun Batteries SAIGON (UPD—U.S. Navy warships shelled artillery batte ries and Communist troops in North Vietnam and the Demili tarized Zone (DMZ) Monday while U.S. Navy jets dive bombed army barracks on the outskirts of the port city of Haiphong, military spokesmen reported today. The destroyer USS Harry E. Hubbard, firing into the DMZ with such accuracy it picked off a speeding truck, blew up 16 gun emplacemts and damaged five others, a spokesman said. The gun emplacements were used to shell U.S. Marines just below the DMZ. The heavy cruiser USS St. Paul used its eight-inch guns against the Than Gia military complex 21 miles southwest of coastal Thanh Hoa city while the Australian cruiser Hobart and the destroyer USS Blue hit coastal defense sites nearby. The coastal bombardments were credited with helping clear the way for Navy jets streaking inland from aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, part of the 167 missions flown against the North. Several Feared Dead In Blast At Lake Charles LAKE CHARLES, La. (UPI) —One great explosion and a series of smaller explosions today shook the Cities Service refinery five miles southwest of Lake Charles and set off a raging fire. A spokesman for Cities Service said six or seven men were working in the area and he presumed they were dead. The main explosion, in one unit, spread to two other units and all three were fiercely burning at last report. Unoffi cial sources said five men were assigned to each of the three units and that none of the 15 had been accounted for. Rescue forces were unable to enter the burning units because of the heat. Sheriff’s deputy Breezie Ragu sa said, however, that he had no reports of anybody being killed “but there were numerous injuries of men at a distance from the initial explosion.” Two Lake Charles hospitals and a hospital in Sulphur, La., 15 miles from Lake Charles reported receiving 11 injured persons. St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles released two of the four persons brought there. “That plant is In a complex of plants,” Ragusa said. “We have it contained in this one plant. But there are underlying pipe lines burning and there is a danger of secondary explo sions.” Other plants in the complex are a Firestone Rubber Co. plant and a Hercules Powder Co. plant. Underground pipe lines connect all the plants but those to Firestone and Hercules were cut off, Ragusa said. The fire was being fought by an industry-community mutual aid system. Civil defense units stood by in case the fire threatened homes. Firemen poured foam on the burning units to keep the fire from spreading to catalyst units, the largest in the refinery. The firemen also pumped foam into the sewer system and the pipes that connect parts of the refinery. Broken windows were report ed all over Sulphur, La., some four miles west of the refinery. Burglar alarms went on all over Sulphur when the first explosion shook them. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 8, 1967 Seven GBI Agents Hunt Solicitor Hoard’s Killer .Qi fl I -HR* "if** 9* is. . (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo) Ready To Open Electronic instructor Robert W. (Bobby ) Donehoo checks equipment to be used in the electronics lab during the fall quarter at Griffin Tech. The fall quarter be gins Monday. Vacancies are available in most of the course areas. Fifteen courses will be offered in day and night classes at Griffin Tech. sl.l Billion Asked To Ease Tension In Ghettos WASHINGTON (UPD—A bipartisan plan was unveiled today to set up immediately a sl.l billion emergency fund to help ease tensions in the Highland Mill To Increase Wages Sept 11 Crompton-Highland Mill in Griffin will join other textile concerns in the southeast in wage increases. Jim Dough tie, who handles the Griffin operation of Crompton, announced the wage increases today. He said notices were posted in the mill stating that an upward revision of wages would be made Sept. 11. He said that Crompton offic ials still were reviewing the program to determine the de tails. A number of other textile mills including Dundee and Thomas ton announced pay increases last week. Country Parson I’m “Heaven must be filled mostly with folks who have scars on them.” nation’s big city ghettos. Sen. Charles Percy, R-111., and Sen. Abraham Ribcoff, D- Conn., announced plans to introduce legislation that would permit President Johnson to transfer up to two per cent of the non-defense budget into a neighborhood emergency fund. The money could be used to create more jobs, provide better housing, and improve law enforcement. Under the propo sal, a mayor could apply directly to the White House for financial help in carrying out a plan requiring immediate ac tion. Ribicoff and Percy made their announcement as the Solicitor Was Marked Man, Brother Believes “He was a marked man,” one of Floyd “Fuzzy” Hoard’s brothers told another brother Monday afternon in Jefferson. “They got him. They got him,” the grief stricken widow of the Piedmont Circuit solicitor gen eral told a Griffin .relative. These were among the com ments Griffin reltives of Floyd Hoard heard Monday when they went to Jefferson to see the fa mily. Sol. Gen. Hoard of Jackson County was killed early Monday morning when a charge of dy namite ripped apart his auto mobile as he turned the ignition keys. It happened at the Hoard home about three miles from Jefferson. Mr. Hoard was a native of Gr iffin where he grew up and studied at Spalding High School. He was a football star there. Joe Hoard, one of his six bro thm-s, had been making his home in Jefferson. He had help ed his brother with his chicken business and had been looking after a downtown apartment wh ich the solicitor general had ope rated. Troy Hoard, one of Floyd Vol. 95 No. 185 Senate Judiciary Committee took a break from its inquiry into this summer’s big city riots. The hearings will resume Thursday. A Newark, N.J. policeman told the Senate panel Monday that police had “unofficial orders” before rioting erupted there July 12 to make no arrests of black militants agitating for violence. Two liberals on the Judiciary Committee, Sens. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich. and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., planned to press chairman James O. Eastland today to expand the investigation beyond the testi mony of policemen. Hoard’s brothers who makes his home in Griffin and is employ ed at Dundee Mills, made the trip to Jefferson Monday after noon against the advice of his physician. Troy Hoard had suf fered a heart attack but he felt he should make the trip anyway so he did. He talked with his brother Joe, in Jefferson. Troy told his brother, Joe, that he had thought about coming to Jefferson last Friday for a week end. “Maybe if I had come, this wouldn’t have happened,” Troy Hoard said. “He was a marked man,” Joe replied. It might have delayed it a week or so but he was a “marked man,” Joe said. James Helms of Griffin, bro ther-in-law of the dynamite vic tim, drove one car with relativ es to Jefferson Monday. When Floyd’s wife saw Mr. Helms, she grasped him and said, “They got him! They got him!” She told Mr. Helms about see ing her husband off to work. She described it liked this: Mrs. Hoard went to see her husband off to the court house. Lawmen Have 2 Or 3 Leads By EDWARD McHALE JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI) — State Safety Director R. H. Burson said today GBI agents had turned up “two or three leads” in the booby-trap mur der Monday of crime - busting solicitor Floyd Hoard. Burson scheduled a trip here today with Assistant GBI direc tor R. H. McCutcheon to check on the progress of the investiga tion into tne slaying of Hoard, killed instantly Monday morn ing by a dynamite blast when he turned on the Ignition of his car. “We’re just getting into the investigation,” Burson said in Atlanta. “They’ve got two or three leads.” He said the seven GBI agents assigned to the case “have some things to run out. We’re checking every possible clue.” The state mobilized all of its investigative forces in an all-out effort to identify and appre hend the bomber who wired eight to 12 sticks of dynamite to Hoard’s car. Burson said he planned to put a “permanent organization of agents” in Jefferson “to pursue this thing.” He added: “We’re going to put in whatever is necessary.” Burson said an FBI agent in the area was aiding, along with a member of the State Motor Vehicle Theft Squad. The state safety director said he had blanket authority from Gov. Lester Maddox to use whatever forces were necessary in the investigation. He said the state considered the murder of Hoard in the same high-priority category as the slaying of three Gwinnett County policemen by car thieves in 1964. Hoard last year prosecuted more bootlegging and car theft cases than the court could han dle and asked the state to ap point an additional judge for his Piedmont Judicial Circuit to help handle the load. A reward of $2,000 was im mediately posted by Gov. Les ter Maddox for the killers of Floyd (Fuzzy) Hoard and other Jackson County officials here wondered if they were on the assassin’s list. Hoard, 40-year-old solicitor general for Georgia’s northern Piedmont judicial circuit, was killed instantly in the front yard of his home when he turned on his car’s ignition. Au thorities said the ignition may have exploded as many as eight sticks of dyamite placed be neath the automobile’s hood. Maddox said Hoard’s death She suggested he take the sta tion wagon and leave the other family automobile at home. She reminded her husband that their daughter, Peggy Jean, was to take a drivers license test that day. The solicitor general said he thought he would take the auto mobile anway. He said if he had to make a trip, he would ra ther have it than the station wa gon. Mrs. Hoard went back into the house and had reached a hall way when the explosion went off. “I knew what had happened,” she told Mr. Helms. Peggy Jean who was sleeping in the front part of the house was the first to reach her fath er. She said he still was breath ing and gave her a faint sort of smile. The daughter tried to give him mouth-to-mouth re suscitation. But her father was dead almost instantly. Had not Mr. Hoard insisted on taking the family automobile and leaving the station wagon, both his wife and daughter migh have been blown up with the dy namite, apparently meant for the solicitor general. “has all the earmarks of a hir ed killing and proves beyond a doubt that organized crime and unmerciful killers are at work in Georgia.” Maddox posted a $2,000 reward, the maximum SI,OOO allowed by state law and SI,OOO from his own pocket, for information leading to the kill er’s arrest. Officials here had other the ories. Some felt that Hoard, the father of four, was on to some thing “hot” or that the motive was revenge. Jackson County Sheriff L. G. Perry said be tween 25 and 30 persons had been convicted of auto theft since he and Hoard won elec tion on a crime-fighting plat form three years ago. He said “a good many who went to the chain gang since we’ve been in office have been getting out re cently.” Both Perry and Superior Court Judge Mark Dunahoo conceded that they, too, might be marked for murder because of their roles in what Perry called “the strong prosecution” of auto theft and bootlegging cases. “But if this was intended as a threat to warn the sheriff or myself, let me warn that we are going to double our efforts to eliminate this brutality and hoodlum tactics,” Dunahoo said. Perry, a tall, husky man with piercing eyes, said he was “not seeking protection from anyone but myself.” While the motive for Hoard’s death remained a mystery to day, so did his method of oper ation. Hoard’s frame colonial home was brilliantly lighted by a vapor lamp and three watch dogs usually barked loudly at intruders. Whoever killed Hoard appar ently crept to within 25 feet of the home sometime after the solicitor came home late Sun day night from his office, plac ed six to eight sticks of dyna mite under the car’s hood, ex pertly wired the explosives to the distributor and vanished in to the night. Hoard left his house for work at about 7:30 a.m., climbed into the car and, when he turned the ignition key, was hurled in to the back seat by the force of the explosion. The force of the blast tore limbs from near by trees, shattered windows in the Hoard home and mutilated the prosecutor’s body. Hoard’s wife and two of his children—Dick, 14, and Peggy, 16—were in the house when the bomb went off. Two smaller children—Vivian, 7, and Clau dine, 9—were visiting relatives. Peggy and Dick rushed to the car and tried to give their fath er mouth-to-mouth resucitation, but he was dead. “My entire house shook,” said Mrs. Cleo Thompson, a widow who lives nearby and who sometimes minded the Hoard’s children. “At first, I thought someone’s butane gas tank had exploded. After I found out what happened, I’ve just been too nervous to think.” Funeral Today For Floyd Hoard Funeral services for Sol. Gen. Floyd Hoard were to be held this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Jefferson, Ga., Methodist Chur ch. Burial was to be in a Jeff erson cemetery. The family requested that in lieu of flowers that contributions be made in his memory to the Jefferson Methodist Church par sonage fund. Mr. Hoard, a member of the church, had been interested in building a new parsonage for the church. He was working with a church committee on the project. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hoard, parents of the Griffinite, were not able to make the trip to Jeff erson for the funeral services. They were not physically able. Mrs. Hoard was dismissed from the Griffin-Spalding Hospital only last Friday.