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By Quimby Melton
Even those of us who learned
to drive an automobile back
when a Model T was the latest
thing in transportation, can
learn a lot about safe driving
from the younger generation,
who at the wheels of a faster,
more powerful car, face traffic
hazards never dreamed of in the
’‘good old days”.
If one of the older generation
does not believe this, let us call
their attention to a story car
ried in this paper two days ago.
It tells of an interview with two
young people, a boy and a girl,
who had just won the National
Teenage Safe Driver contest
sponsored by Ford and the Jay
cees.
Miss Marie Kaminski. 18-year
old dark haired high school stu
dent from Omaha, Nebr., sums
up her suggestions by saying
•‘Drive as if your life depends
on it — it does!”
And William Cobb, also 18,
whose home is in Reno, Nevada,
indulging in a bit of alliterative
eisphoism, suggests everyo n e
‘‘use Caution, Courtesy, and
Control. I call the three C’s of
good driving.”
Both Miss Kaminski and Cobb
took the driving training course
in high school and won their
way through local, state, and
district contests to move on to
the finals, conducted at the 16th
annual Jaycee Road-e-o on the
campus of the University of
Michigan at Ann Harbor.
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The story about these two
teenagers, judged the safest dri
vers in their field, as written by
Gay Pauley, UPI Women’s Edi
■ tor, also quotes Cobb as saying
one of the worst things any dri
ver can do is to “take his ten
sions” out on the highways.
He could have continued h i s
alliterative euphoism writing by
saying one, whether young or
old, should always be “Cool,
Calm, and Collected,” And cer
tainly not “Agitated, Angry, or
Aggravated.”
Driver education in the schools
is not a "cure-all” for the stag
gering highway toll, the two
teenage champs agree. For driv
ing education, like all education
is a continuous affair. When one
gets his or her driving license,
they agree, it does not mean
they know everything about safe
driving any more than when one
gets a diploma from school that
their education has ended. There
are lessons in safe driving one
can learn every time they take
the wheel.
The teen champions each won
a $4,000 college scholarship, the
use of a 1968 automobile for one
year and a chance to tour the
United States as ambassadors
of safe driving, giving demon
strations as they travel.
The young lady will use her
scholarship as a student at the
University in her home city,
Omaha, majoring in chemistry.
The young man will attend the
University of Nevada where he
will study business administra
tion.
Georgians will be interested to
note that the young man — Wil
liam Cobb, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tyrus Cobb. Whether his
lather is related to “The Geor
gia Peach,” Ty Cobb, of base
ball fame, we do not know. His
father is managing editor of the
Nevada State Journal, publish
ed in Reno.
Several days ago got a letter
from a friend which we have
been holding until the time when
we could include it in our col
umn. Recently in telling the
Impression we got as to what the
people of Europe think of Am
erica we wound up the column
with the question, “What do Am
ericans think of America?”
His letter reads:
You asked in Monday’s paper
what Americans think of Amer
ica.
I think America is beautiful,
robust, healthy and strong.
And though fraught with the
pains of adolescence, maturing,
confident and wiser by the day.
She plays her part in history
with a flair, sometimes right
and sometimes wrong. But al
ways with a sense of justice and
fairness and pride.
And lest we forget it in our
day to daily joust with life we
live in paradise.
That's what I think of Amer
ica.
Dynamite Death Os Fuzzy Hoard
‘We Don’t Want Him Around’
GBI Tells Sheriff In Probe
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FLOODED LOBBY of a Fairbanks hotel forced
visitors to wade. The hotel and other building were
evacuated as six-foot floodwaters of the Chena River
poured through the Alaskan city.
Fairbanks Left
In Devastation
By GORDON W. SCHULT
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (UPI)—
With 15,000 persons evacuated,
nearly every home and business
damaged by flood waters and
damage estimated at $l5O
million, Fairbanks was a
picture of devastation today.
Three persons were dead, in the
floods.
More rain was possible to add
to the misery of this Alaskan
interioor city of 30,000 that was
inundated Monday by the
flooding Chena River, which
snakes through its center.
But Alaskans met the third
day of their flood emergency
with the rugged, pioneer spirit
that built the 49th State and
sustains them through bitter
winters when temperatures hit
60 below.
“I’m rich—l don’t have a
home anymore, but I still have
my family, a car and a pickup
truck,” said a woman employe
of the Federal aviation agency.
Food, supplies and words of
cheer were pouring in from
every corner of the state. Hit
by a big earthquake in 1964,
Alaskans know what it means to
be a good neighbor.
But time is of the essence for
Fairbanks’ 30,000 residents to
begin the job of rebuilding.
“Winter Comes Ea>rly’"
“Winter comes early in this
country,” said Mayor H.A.
Boucher. “We have only about
six weeks before freeze to clean
up and repair.”
After heavy rain, the water
began spilling over the Chena’s
banks on Monday. The crest
was 18 feet at its worst.
The Weather Bureau at
Anchorage forecast occasional
rain today, but the crest was
£xpected to drop to 13 feet.
Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel
said Wednesday, “Fairbanks is
a goner” unless the federal
government provides massive
aid at once. President Johnson
was expected to declare the city
a disaster area today.
The downtown business dis
trict was awash in up to five
feet of murky water. Debris and
watersoaked merchandise from
broken store fronts bobbed
freely along the streets. Broken
power lines hissed and sparked
as they splashed into the water.
700 Live In Cars
Some 600 persons were flown
to Anchorage where they were
put up in private homes. An
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
estimated 700 residents took
refuge in their cars In high
ground.
The University of Alaska was
turned into a refugee camp
where 4,000 persons were
lodged. Others remained in
their water soaked homes or
emergency shelters.
Facilities were set up in
Anchorage and Camp Carroll, a
National Guard training area on
Ft. Richardson, for evacuees.
About 50 women and children
were taken to Camp Carroll
Wednesday night and they
reported that their homes were
ruined along with their posses
sions.
Those who remained in the
city were struggling for their
very existence. Many were seen
cooking on charcoal broilers on
the rooftops of several build
ings. When National Guardsmen
and volunteer rescuers rode
past in amphibious vehicles, the
residents smiled, waved and
held up their hands in v-for
victory signs.
Nearly every home and
business building in the city was
damaged by the flooding. The
city’s water supply was gone
and rail lines were impassable.
Air travel from the stricken
city was on a priority basis.
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“Almost every favorite dish
my mother cooked was
known by the name of the
person who taught her to
make it.’*
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 17, 1967
Social Security
Revision Ready
By MICHAEL L, POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
House was ready today to
approve a massive bill that
would increase Social Security
benefits across-the-board and
impose tight new restrictions on
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federal child welfare payments.
For the most part, the
measure, one of the most
sweeping in the 32-year history
of Social Security, was free of
controversy.
Democrats and Republicans
vied to voice their support of
the 12.5 per cent increase in
pension benefits for the 23
million older Americans on
Social Security.
But the 207-page bill contained
a snapper in its welfare section,
one that drew the fire of
Secretary John W. Gardner of
the Health, Education and
Welfare Department (HEW).
He said the proposed child
welfare restrictions would force
poor children “to pay for the
real or supposed sins of their
parents.”
A Bit Different
The bill the Ways & Means
Committee reported to the
House was quite a bit different
from the measure President
Johnson proposed earlier this
year. He had asked for a 15 per
cent minimum increase in
Social Security benefits and far
milder welfare changes than the
committee approved.
The committee’s goal was to
get the mothers of some 5
million children off welfare and
into jobs. To do this, it wrote
provisions into the bill that
would force states to set up
work-training, education, birth
control, foster care, and other
programs with federal aid.
But the panel also proposed
that a “freeze” be imposed on
the number of new illegitimate
children to be covered under the
aid to dependent children
program, which currently costs
the government about $1.5
billion a year. It estimated that
this would save S7OO million in
annual welfare costs by 1972.
It was this provision that
jarred Gardner, who said he
would seek to have the Senate
delete it from the final bill.
The bill actually arrived
before the House Wednesday
night under a procedural rule
that barred amendments, thus
insuring its passage late today
exactly as it emerged from
committee.
Checks By Christmas
Under the measure, the
increased benefits would begin
two months after President
Johnson signs it into law. This
could mean increased pension
checks by Christmas.
By ALVIN B. WEBB
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. Marines
today stormed and captured a
Communist fortress hill that
threatened the Leathernecks’
main supply line. They killed at
least 67 guerrillas and sent
hundreds more fleeing for their
lives, spokesmen said.
American officials also re
ported that U.S. forces last
week suffered the least number
o fcasualties in seven months.
They said 82 Americans were
killed, 748 wounded and nine
reported missing last week.
The Marines fought four
battles in two days around and
on the 1,700-foot-high hill near
coastal Highway 1, which is 350
miles northeast of Saigon. At
last report the Leathernecks
still were battling the fleeing
Communists.
U.S. officials said the Marine
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The bill called for a minimum
benefit of SSO a month to a
Social Security pensioner com
pared to the current $44. The
present range of payments from
$44 to a maximum of $142 a
month for a pensioner now on
Social Security.
The House measure would
increase this for people now
getting Social Security to a
maximum of $159.80. For
retirees in the future, the range
would go from a minimum SSO
to $212 a month.
The maximum $290.40 in
annual payroll taxes a worker
pays a year would go up over a
period of years to reach $448.40
by 1987.
In addition to higher benefits
—and higher taxes—and welfare
restrictions, the bill includes a
big, new $1.5 billion program of
child health care over the next
five years.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy to oc
casionally cloudy and mild to
night and Friday.
405 Enrolled In
Vo-Tech Classes
Four-hundred and five students
have enrolled in day and night
courses during the fall quarter
at Griffin Tech.
Edwin V. Langford, Sr., dir
ector, said a number of students
who were accepted for courses
did not report for the beginning
of the quarter Monday. He said
some of the students are expec
ted to report later.
Langford said 195 students are
enrolled in the day program and
210 in the night pogram. Fifteen
courses are offered in both the
day and night programs.
Students will be accepted for
most courses through the second
week In September. Langford
said after that time a person
would be too far behind to catch
up with the class.
Some of the classes have been
filled to capacity and vacancies
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Jackson Sheriff L. G. Perry.
are available in others. One of
the night classes had to be can
celled because an instructor
could not be found for it. The
course will be opened later if an
instructor is hired.
Each business subject in the
night programs is held for three
hours, two nights a week. Tr
ade area classes are held three
nights a week.
Students interested in pro
grams offered at Griffin Tech
may make application at the
school.
Classes in the fall quarter
will run through Nov. 20. The
only cost to students is for sup
plies and textbooks.
Griffin Tech was closed today
to honor Supt. George W. Pat
rick, Jr., who died Wednesday
and was buried this afternoon.
Mr. Patrick was chairman of
the Vo-Tech Board.
Night classes will be held to
night as scheduled and day
classes will resume on regular
schedule Friday.
Agents, Deputies
Destroy Four
Whisky Stills
Spalding County deputies and
state revenue agents raided and
destroyed four illegal whisky
stills eight miles north of Grif
fin off the Hosanna road.
The officers said each of t h e
stills was 1,500 gallon capacity.
They were box-type stills, they
said.
No arrests were made at the
stills, but an old military vehi
cle was confiscated.
The officers said the stills
were not in operation at the time
of the raid. The officers destroy
ed the stills and 4,500 gallons
of mash.
Officers participating in the
raid were Deputies Franklin
Pitts and Davis Peeples and
State Revenue Agents Bobby
Imes and Bobby Johnson.
Hosanna road runs north of
Teamon road between Sunny
Side and Georgia 155.
Maddox Might
Offer Amnesty
ATLANTA (DPI)—Gov. Les
ter Maddox says he •night a
gree to grant amnesty to per
sons connected with the gang
land style bombing murder of
Piedmont Solicitor Floyd Hoard
if they would testify for the
state.
But he told newsmen Wednes
day he would not consider
granting immunity to the per
son or persons who perpetrated
the crime. “This is a place
where the electr’3 chair is
needed,” the governor said.
The reward money offered
for information leading to cap
ture of Hoard’s slayers grew to
$3,500 when the Solicitors Gen
eral Association of Georgia
posted a SI,OOO prize for aid in
the arrest and conviction of
their murdered peer.
Professional
Killers May
Have Been Used
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Les
ter Maddox is seeking a legal
way to fire Jackson County
Sheriff L. G. Perry, sources in
the governor’s office said to
day.
The sources said Maddox’s
legal aides are trying to de
termine if there is away for a
Georgia Governor to fire a
county sheriff.
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI) —
GBI sleuths, barring Sheriff
L. G. Perry from their investi
gation, probed the possibility to
day that professional killers
specializing in the use of dyna
mite may have been hired to
murder Solicitor Floyd Hoard.
trBI Director Barney Rags*
dale said his agents were work
ing on the possibility that pro
fessional murderers were paid
to kill Hoard.
He said two agents were in
Greenville, S. C., checking into
a dynamite bombing there.
A detective from Danville -
Va., has arrived in Georgia,
Ragsdale said, to compare
notes. The home of Common
wealth Atty. Eugene Link in
Danville was dynamited last
year. Both Link and his wife
ran from the home before the
explosion and were not harmed.
The Greenville dynamiting in
volved a person who had infor
mation about an automobile
theft ring.
Ragsdale said his agents were
looking into the possibility that
all three bombings may have
been the work of hired profes
sionals.
Ragsdale said Jackson Coun
ty Sheriff Perry was barred
from the GBI investigation of
Hoard’s murder because he ig
nored for three months orders
to close up a bootlegging opera
tion.
Ragsdale told his agents to
“instruct the sheriff that we
have no more need for his serv
ices. We just don’t need him
any more. We don’t want him
around.”
He said “people might feel
freer to talk” if Perry were not
around.
Perry and the GBI had been
working together in the investi
gation of the death of Hoard,
killed Aug. 7 by dynamite rig
ged to the ignition of his car.
The crime-busting solicitor had
been involved in a continuing
crackdown on auto thieves and
illegal liquor operations in Jack
son County.
Ragsdale said Perry was or
dered last May to padlock two
bootleg liquor operations after
they were raided, but never got
around to it.
The closing order was signed
by Piedmont Circuit Judge
Mark Dunahoo at Hoard’s re
quest. Perry said the three
month delay in enforcing the
order was “an oversight.”
Ragsdale said GBI Capt. J. E.
Carnes, in charge of the inves
tigation of Hoard’s death, gave
Perry until 4 p.m. Wednesday
to close up the raided establish
ments. If he had delayed fur
ther, Ragsdale said, “we Would
have done it ourselves.”
Perry complied with the or
der Wednesday, closing a three
car garage equipped with ice
machines and a checkout coun
ter, and a small frame home
located in a wooded area of
Jackson County.
Following the raids on both
places last May, police said
they confiscated whisky, cham
pagne and beer valued at
$24,000, including 31 cases and
12 pint bottles of bonded whis
ky.
Although the law requires all
confiscated beverages to be
turned over to the State Reve
nue Department, agents said
only 12 pints and 12 cases were
turned over to them. Agents
quoted the sheriff as saying he
kept the remaining liquor
“around.”