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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
First let Good Evening remind
one and all that Griffin High’s
Eagles will play their first home
game of the 1967 football season
Friday night. Woodward Acade
my, of College Park, formerly
known as GMA, will be the visit
ing team.
Good Evening picks Griffin to
win. They showed enough enth
usiasm and love for the game
last week, when they lost to a
more experienced Decatur, to
guarantee an interesting season.
And with a week’s practice,
ironing out certain weaknesses,
polishing their offensive plays,
and gaining experience playing
together, they will field a team
destined to win.
Good Evening urges all to
give the Eagles a rousing re
ception with all stands filled,
for their first home game.
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The other day got hold of a
copy of “Publishers’ Auxili
ary” a weekly paper published
for the newspaper trade. It had
an interesting story, to Good
Evening, for it told of a recent
contest, limited to weekly news
papers, to select the editor with
the “Most Cluttered Desk.”
The story interested Good
Evening, because sometimes
there are visitors to his office
who ask “How on earth do you
find anything? Your desk is so
cluttered.”
We explain that what he, or
she, calls a “Cluttered Desk” is
our own, tried, and found good
filing system of things we will
need “sooner or later.” But
they only shake their head at
this.
The winner of the weekly con
test was Kermit Sayler, editor
and publisher of twin weeklies
in Rock Mount, Virginia. A pic
ture of Editor-Publisher Sayler’s
desk, shows two desks, placed
so as to form an “L”. His type
writer sits at the end of one of
these — he uses the typewriter
every day. On the other desk is
a pile of newspapers, letters,
clippings, books and on top of
them all two baskets of straw
berries. At one end of the desk
are two coffee cans and a per
culator. Beneath the desk are
books and other “things I may
need some day” piled.
— 4. —
The desk of Wayne Winters,
editor of the Tombstone, Ariz
ona, Epitaph, is an old fashion
ed roll top desk. The pigeon ho
les of the desk contain such th
ings as pictures, letters, bottles
of pills and samples of miner
als. It is impossible to identify
things on the desk, except that
peeping under the pile, at one
corner of the desk, is what ap
pears to be a telephone. The top
of the desk is stacked with books
and on top of them all is a dou
ble - barrel sawed - off shot
gun. This gun, according to Edi
tor Winters is essential as a de
terrant to those individuals who
still hold with the old school of
thought of Tombstone citizens,
that it is not only the “God-giv
en right”, but the bounden duty
to occasionaly attempt to hor
sewhip the editor. Another item
on his cluttered desk is a lower
plate (denture) that was turned
in to “hold for its owner,” fol
lowing a brawl one Saturday ni
ght in the Crystal Palace Saloon,
next door to the newspaper of
fice.
But the crowning thing of all
is a plug hat, brought over from
a previous editor, which the pre
sent editor U'ears in the photo.
He explains this is “to keep my
bald head warm.”
Second place winner Editor
Larry Stone, of the Central City,
Ky., Times-Argus says, “It’s a
lie. I did lose the telephone on
> my desk but not the typewri
ter.” He reports that his desk
has been condemned by the vil
; lage fire department as a fire
■ hazard, and by the health de-
■ partment as a health menace.
“And the Business and Professio-
1 nal Women’s Club wants to start
: every cleanup drive with my
desk.”
One contestant in listing things
■ one might find on his desk men-
■ tioned bottles of ulcer medic
ine, nosedrops, box of tranquil
ler pills and a giant size bottle
of aspirin.
Maybe our desk isn’t so clut
tered up after all. But reading
this story did not wait for Christ
mas, when we usually stage our
annual desk cleanup, but got
busy and today it is not as clut
: tered as usual.
Tomorrow? That’s a different
story.
NEA’s Tom Tiede In Georgia
Finds People Hungry In Crawford
By TOM TIEDE
KNOXVILLE, Ga. — (NEA)
—Processed dogfood has long
been a popular item on the shel
ves of many backland grocery
stores in this area of the nation.
It has nothing to do with the
pet population.
“The niggerfolk eat it all the
time,” explains a shop owner.
“They mix it with grits or oat
meal. Sometimes they just spoon
it from the can. It may sound
bad but, believe me, it’s better
than some things they eat.”
Improverished families here
have been known to swallow the
dead meat of almost anything.
Small children of the poor some
times search the sides of roads
for slaughtered cats, snakes and
forest varmints.
The reason for it all is simple:
Hunger hurts.
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By-Pass Construction
Workmen poured concrete Wednesday for a culvert between O’Dell road and U. S.
19 on the Griffin - Barnesville By-Pass. A culvert behind Spalding Junior High
School has been completed and work started on several others. The culvert work
is being done by Harry Holland Construction Co. of Gainesville, a sub-contractor
for Ledbetter-Johnson of Rome, general contractors. Much of the right-of-way for
the four-lane highway in Spalding County has been cleared.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Variable cloudiness
and mild tonight and Friday
with a chance of some light rain
tonight or Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
65, maximum Wednesday 79,
minimum Wednesday 61. Sun
rise Friday 7:18 a.m., sunset
Friday 7:57 p.m.
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DAILY ‘v NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, September 7, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 211 *
• It hurts the 1,300 Americans
who die annually from malnut
rition. It hurts the two million
southerners who are on some
kind of U.S. food assistance
plan. And it hurts countless oth
ers who hunger anonymously
and privately.
Today, in Georgia alone, hun
ger is hurting an incredible num
ber of people. State Welfare Dir
ector Robert Burson estimates
that “at least 116,000 men, wo
men and children go to bed hun
gry here every night.”
Heller Reese is one of them.
He’s 62 and says he can’t rem
ember when he had money in
his pocket or “my own grocer’
meat” on his table.
Ruth Gibson is another. She’s
29, has seven kids, no husband,
and admits to eating “lots of
peaches" because they can be
Hoard Probe
Gets Wider
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPl)—The
GBI says its probe into the
death of Solicitor Floyd Hoard
is going farther afield, with
more people involved in a
crime web than originally sus
pected.
However, said Capt. J. E.
Carnes, head of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation team
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stolen from trees.
Prentice Forbes is a third. He’s
eight and, according to his mo
ther, “don’t know more’n eight
or nine words” because he liv
es on hogshead, pigtails and oth
er garbage that fails to nourish
his growing mind.
These three — and the thou
sands of others — live in the 69
counties of Georgia which have
no programs for feeding the
starving. Despite the federal
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working on the case, “our pri
mary purpose is solving the
bombing.”
“This was Just concerning
the rackets in general — I’d
rather not elaborate any more,”
said Carnes.
Progress is being made in
out -of - state investigations of
bombings, he said, “but it’s
nothing that can be quoted be
cause it’s Just routine.”
A 10-man GBI team has been
delving into the dynamite slay
ing of Hoard since he was
killed a month ago. Hoard was
involved in vigorous prosecution
of car thieves and bootleggers
in Jackson County.
Carnes said he and Solicitor
G. Wesley Channell—Hoard’s
successor — have agreed not to
call a session of the grand jury.
“We don’t have anything ready
to go to the grand jury now,”
Carnes said.
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“Fathers want to mold their
children into their own image
— forgetting they are sup
posed to be made in God’s
image.”
money available (up to 75 per
cent of food plan costs), and des
pite constant state urging, the
counties refuse to co-operate.
Why?
“Well,” says Glascock Coun
ty Sheriff James English, “if
we handed out food they’d just
be niggers lined up there and
that’s all it’d do.”
His viewpoint, though wide
spread, is incorrect. Although
Negroes suffer more publicly in
Three Girls Slain;
Widow Wounded
Former Student
At University
Being Sought
By ROGER HAMMER
AUBURN, Ala. (UPD—A
rejected suitor kicked down the
door of his girl friend’s house
early today and stalked through
it with a gun and a knife, killing
three young girls and wounding
a 46-year-old woman, police
said.
“Where's Cathy? Where’s
Cathy?” the crazed youth cried
as he killed two of his girl
friend’s sisters.
Cathy Sinclair, a 20-year-old
college student, hid in a closet
and escaped harm.
Three murder warrants were
issued for Edward Albert
Seibold, 21, a dropout from
Auburn University and the son
of a Tulane University instruc
tor.
The victims were identified as
Mary Lynn Sinclair, 9, her
sister Sarah Elizabeth, 18, and
Mary Durant, 8, a professor’s
daughter who was spending the
night with the Sinclairs. Mrs.
Juanita Cathy Sinclair, the
girls’ widowed mother who was
also a teacher at Auburn, was
wounded by a shotgun blast in
the arm.
Police chief Fred Hammock
said Seibold came to the back
door of the tri-level house in
this quiet university town
shortly before midnight.
“He kicked the door in,” said
Hammock. “Kicked it right off
the hinges—right out from the
woodwork.” Mrs. Sinclair, he
said, had been asleep on a
couch in the downstairs den.
“Eddie, please don’t, please
don’t,” Hammock said she
cried.
“Seibold leveled a 12-guage
bolt action shotgun at her and
fired, wounding her in the
arm,” Hammock said. Mrs.
Sinclair lay still, the chief said,
and was not further harmed.
Hammock said Cathy Sinclair,
20, a student at Wellesley
College in Massachusetts and
the object of Siebold’s affections
was in a downstairs sewing
room. Cathy tried to escape
through a window but couldn’t
get one open he said, so she
locked herself in a closet.
“Seibold came in the room
but didn’t see her and left,”
Hammock said. “He then went
to the kitchen and pulled out a
drawer and grabbed a steak
knife, then continued through
the house.”
Hammock said Seibold then
started up the stairs toward the
bedrooms. At the top of the
stairs he encountered Sarah
Elizabeth and stabbed her to
death with the knife.
Then, Hammock said, he
found Mary Lynn and her
visitor, Mary, sleeping in the
same bed and shot .and stabbed
them to death.
“They apparently never woke
up,” Hammock said. Mary
Durant was the daughter of Dr.
Jack Durant, assistant profes
sor of English at Auburn
University.
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Vo-Tech Officers
James E. (Skeeter) Martin (back, left) was elected
president of the student body at Griffin Tech Wed
nesday. Other officers appointed by the student coun
cil are (front, 1-r) Henrietta Fields, treasurer, Judy
Brackett, secretary, and Randy Pritchett (back,
right), vice president.
Flint River Raptist
Association Meet Set
The 144th annual session of the
Flint River Baptist Association
will begin Sept. 18 at the New
Salem Baptist Church at
Vaughn.
The Rev. Hartwell E. Kenne
dy, pastor of Second Baptist
Church of Griffin, is the associa
tion moderator.
The two-day meeting will
move to Faith Baptist Church
on Tuesday, Sept. 19, and final
sessions Tuesday night will be
at the Second Baptist Church.
Reports on each phase of the
association’s work will be given
by different pastors and laymen.
Reports during the first ses
sion will include: executive com
mittee, trustees, Christian liter
taure, Radio and Television
Commission, American Bible
Society, Christian education.
The Monday night session will
Include reports on Missions at
Home, treasurers report, budget
and finance.
The Rev. Henry Crowe of the
Southern Baptist Home Mission
the South, the White population
has no immunity to hunger-po
verty and, in fact, may be’nu
merically worse off.
“It stands to reason,” says
Negro educator, Dr. Vivian Hen
derson. “There are more Whi
tes in the South, so there are
probably more White poor.”
One pitiful example is Louis
Bunn, 51, an illiterate who re
sides in the timbered area of
Crawford County. Bunn has 10
children, no job and, he says,
has “been living on the state
since nineteen and forty-two.”
Bunn stays in a two bedroom
shanty which is near a highway.
Tourists often stop, stare dum
foundedly, shake their heads and
dash off in disgust.
Because he is disabled “I got
the grippe real bad”), Bunn is
given $205 a month in aid to de-
Board, will speak Monday night.
Reports Tuesday morning at
Faith Baptist on Mclntosh road
will include: nominating commit
tee, benevolent ministeries, lo
cal department ministeries and
evangelism.
The afternoon reports will in
clude public affairs, Christian
Life Commission, temperance,
Baptist Foundation, stewardship,
Mercer Extension and Baptist
Student Union. The Cooperative
Program report, report on De
nominational Work, World Mis
sions Report.
The Rev. Wayne Wheeler, mis
sionary, will speak on “Serving
Christ In Honduras” at the Tues
day evening session at Second
Baptist.
Most pastors in the Griffin
area will be included on the
two-day program.
The annual meeting of the
Flint River Baptist Association
is a highlight of the Baptist year
in the Griffin area.
County
pendent children. “We eat a lot
of dried peas,” he says, to stret
ch the cash, “but If something
ever happens, I hurt.”
Recently, something did hap
pen. There was a pregnancy in
the family and the attending
physician demanded $l5O cash
before he would handle the for
malities. Bunn had no alterna
tive but to starve his family.
“The grocer helped out,” he
says, “but it weren’t much.”
To raise emergency money,
Bunn tried to get a job selling
newspapers. He bought a new
shirt and a hat to ward off the
sun. He lasted only a few hours,
wasn’t paid, and ended up even
further in the hole.
“I tried,” he shrugs, “God
(Continued on Page 20).
Man, Wife Held
On Bad Check
Charges Here
A man and his wife were ar
rested here after a Griffin mer
chant became suspicious of a
check they were trying to cash
at his store.
Police arrested Jackie Lee
Martin, 23, alias Larry Lee (Mi
ckey) Stanton, who gave a Rou
te Three, Hoffman, Okla., ad
dress, and his wife, who gave
the name Frances L. Peterson,
alias Mrs. Calvin Sutterfield, 23,
and gave 30 East 32nd Terrace
Kansas City, Mo., as her ad
dress.
Percy Cromartie, owner and
operator of Percy’s Supermar
ket in the Experiment Shopping
Center, became suspicious of a
check the pair tried to cash
in the store Tuesday night. He
got a description of the car and
called the Griffin Police Depart
ment.
They were arrested a short
time later and taken to the Grif
fin Police- station.
Police found seven other che
eks, ranging from $67 to slll in
their possession. The check they
tried to cash at Percy’s was
made out for $101.23.
The checks were made on the
Crossroads Motel in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Tire Hamilton County, Ohio
Sheriff’s Department said the
checks, a check writing mach
ine, and $125 in cash were tak
en from the motel in a burglary
a month ago.
The Martins had been stay
ing in a motel in Atlanta. Dur
ing questioning, Martin told of
ficers other checks and a check
writing machine were at the
motel. The checks and check
writing machine were confisca
ted at the motel and are being
held at the Griffin Police De
partment.
The Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation was called in on the case
and it was learned the Martins
are wanted in several states
from the east coast to the Roc
ky Mountains.
Martin told officers he is want
ed in several states on automo
bile larceny charges.
They were taken to Atlanta
Wednesday and turned over to
the FBI. They are being held in
Fulton County jail.
The Griffin Police Department
issued a hold order on them,
charging interstate transporta
tion of forged documents, inter
state transportation of a stolen
check writing machine and oth
er charges.
A three-year-old child in the
company of the Martins when
they were arrested has been
turned over to the Spalding Co
unty Department of Family and
Children Services.