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Pope’s Surgery
To Be Delayed
By DAVID L. DUGAS
VATICAN CITY (UPD—Pope
Paul VI almost certainly will
put off surgery for prostate
trouble until after an historic
synod of bishops next month,
informed Vatican sources said
today.
The Vatican mentioned the
possibility of an operation
Wednesday in the first signed
medical bulletin issued since the
69-year-old Roman Catholic
pontiff came down Sept. 4 with
infection of the kidneys, bladder
and urinary tract.
Vatican sources said that if
and when the papal physicians
decide to go ahead with surgery
the Pope appeared certain to
put it off until after the close of
the synod, a new “senate” of
bishops the Pope set up to help
him govern the church.
The synod opens Sept. 29 and
Is scheduled to end Oct. 24. The
synod secretary, Polish-born
Msgr. Wladyslaw Rubin, told
newsmen two days ago he
expected the Pope to preside
over the opening of the synod
and to attend various other
meetings through Oct. 24
despite his illness.
Although the medical bulletin
did not say so, Vatican sources
said the Pope’s aliment was
caused by an enlargement of
the prostate gland. They said
the infection was “most defi
nitely not cancer” because It
responded to antibiotic treat
ment.
The medical bulletin, signed
by chief papal physician Prof.
Mario Fontana and two specia
lists, said doctors were continu
ing with antibiotic treatment
but reserved “the possibility of
modifying It (the treatment) In
a surgical manner with the aim
of achieving the complete and
definitive cure of the august
patient.”
The doctors said the Pope,
who will be 70 on Sept. 26, had
“notably improved" since treat
ment began for an infection of
the urinary tract, bladder and
kidneys which has forced
suspension of all papal audien
ces for the past 10 days.
But the wording of the
bulletin Indicated that correc
tive or exploratory surgery may
be needed to avert recurrences
of the Illness.
Prostate surgery is a routine
but major operation. It can be
serious to any man who is the
pontiff’s age.
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The Vatican sources said if
the Pope does undergo surgery
it may be performed in an
operating room that has existed
in the Vatican since the days of
Pope Pius XII. But the room,
though modernized during the
final illness of Pope John
XXIII, would need more
modern equipment for surgery
as complex as Pope Paul might
need.
Another possibility mentioned
by the sources was that the
Pope would go to Gemelli
polyclinic on Rome’s Monte
Mario hill about a mile from
the Vatican. The polyclinic is
run by Rome’s Catholic Univer
sity.
Four SNCC Men
Guilty Os Trying
To Block Draftee
ATLANTA (UPD — Four
members of the Student Non
violent Coordinating Committee
could receive maximum sen
tences of 10 years in jail and
SIO,OOO fines for convictions
Wednesday on charges of block
ing a young Negro as he report
ed for military service.
The four were found guilty by
an all-White jury of interfering
with the Selective Service Act
in grabbing Verbon Grimes of
Atlanta, now an Army specialist
fourth class in Vietnam, as he
reported for induction last sum
mer.
Two other SNCC members
were convicted of destroying
government property in the
Aug. 18, 1966 anti-Vietnam war
demonstrations at the XII U.S.
Army Corps headquarters here.
Grimes, brought back from
the war zone as the govern
ment’s star witness against the
young Negroes, told the jury he
pleaded with the SNCC mem
bers to let him go
‘‘l told them over and over,
I had to, I had to,” Grimes
testified. He singled out John
Tillman, Donald Stone, Larry
Fox and Johnny C. Wilson as
the four who grabbed his trous
ers’ leg and overnight bag.
The two SNCC members con
victed on destruction of govern
ment property charges in the
demonstration were Michael
Simmons and Robert Moore. A
third Negro, Simeon Schutz,
was acquitted.
Burson Pushes
War On Hunger
ATLANTA (UPD — Georgia’s
warriors on hunger are striking
■out at “those whose hearts are
unmoved by the plight of
hungry children and malnour
ished senior citizens.”
State Department of Family
and Children Services Director
William Burson told a statewide
conference for feeding hungry
Georgians that those persons
callous toward the needy are
“a military minority not repre
senting the thinking ... of the
vast majority.”
Burson, whose workers were
thrown out of Glascock County
by the sheriff and a band of
angry citizens, wants to set up
some sort of food program in
the 48 of Georgia’s 159 counties
that don’t already have one.
If the state doesn’t do it, the
federal government will, he
added.
Gov. Lester Maddox sent
word from the Southern Gov
ernors Conference in North
Carolina that he was sympa
thetic with the aims of the
conference.
“As one who knows what it is
to be poor and to struggle to
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JUSTICE OUTRAGED
ALBION, Mich. (UPD—Sher
iff Joseph Liebherr is trying to
find the person who planted CO
marijuana bushes in a patch of
land here.
The land is owned by
Municipal Judge Theodore Van
Dellen.
TEACHER’S PET
FUNKHOUSER, 111. (UPD—
Schoolteacher Florence Koelsch
received a present from a
student Thursday.
Mrs. Koelsch opened the
coffee can handed to her by a
fifth-grader and found a foot
long alligator curled up inside.
put enough food on the table to
keep body and soul together,”
said Maddox, “I am disturbed
that in this era of plenty we
still have citizens who are com
panions with hunger.
“It bothers me particularly to
think of the innocent children
who do not have adequate diets
and who often go to bed
hungry,” the governor added.
Four Escape
Clarke Jail
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD —Four
Athens area convicts escaped
from the Clarke County jail
Wednesday night by breaking
through a stairwell leading to
the roof.
The escapers were identified
as Willie Kimbro, 20, serving a
20-year sentence for armed rob
bery; Glenn Cook, 19, and Billy
Price, 20, both serving five
years for armed robbery; and
Lewis Venable, a convicted bur
glar serving 10 years.
3 Powerful Lobby Groups
Line lip For Tax Increase
ATLANTA (UPD—Three pow
erful lobbyist groups have
jumped into the ensuing battle
over proposed tax inc rea s e s
which promises to come to a
head in the next legislative ses
sion.
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High Eagle patches being worn on the uniforms of
the ROTC cadets. Uniforms were issued to second
year cadets this week. First year cadets will be issued
uniforms later. The Eagle patch was designed by Sgt.
tion of County Commissioners,
botli of which sought statewide
sales tax increases to 4 per
cent last term without success,
and the Georgia School Board
Association have tentatively
agreed to join in seeking a tax
hike through the General
Assembly.
Spokesmen said w’ithin a
month concrete proposals would
go to Gov. Lester Maddox,
whose executive secretary,
Thomas Irvin, is to be the new
head of the school board group,
The group’s statements Wed
nesday ran headlong into oppo
sition from House Appropria
tions Committee Chairman
James (Sloppy) Floyd, who has
vowed to fight any kind of tax
increase, preferring instead to
pare the state’s budget to
match its income. He called the
planned effort “a bunch of hog
wash,” and predicted an
increase would never pass.
Julian Halligan of Savannah,
current president of the school
boards group, said even the oc
casion of the meeting marked
a “milestone,” since the three
groups are often at odds.
He said their intention was to
protect the over-burdened prop
erty owner, who through ad va
lorem taxes pays most of the
load of local schools and ser
vices costs.
Maddox has not yet taken a
firm stand on the idea of rais
ing the statewide sales tax, but
has promised to fight “with all
my being” a proposed local op
tion sales tax.
The local option bill earlier
this year passed the House but
died for lack of six votes in the
Senate after the governor made
his feelings known.
House Speaker George L.
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Rome Jury Balks
On Indictments
ROME, Ga. (UPD —A Floyd
County grand jury refused
Wednesday to indict two police
men charged by the parents of
two teen-agers pursued by the
officers for an alleged speeding
law violation last month.
The charges resulted from
gunshqts fired by patrolmen
Paul Rampley and Randy Gar
rett over the youths’ car when
they ignored warnings to stop.
The chase, at speeds up to 110
miles an hour, ended when the
officers rammed the youths’ car
with their police cruiser.
The parents of the two
youths, aged 14 and 15, claimed
the officers unnecessarily jeop
ardized the lives of their sons
by firing the warning shots.
PEACE PRIZE
Theodore Roosevelt was given
the Nobel prize for peace in re
cognition of his part as media
tor in arranging the peace terms
ending the Russo-Japanese war.
Smith have both said they fa
vor local option taxes as the
way to ease the burden on
property owners.
Earlier this month, two House
leaders expressed their chagrin
that Maddox is taking such a
firm stand against the local op
tion idea, which is being con
sidered by a new tax study
commission he requested and
heads.
Commission members Charles
Jones of Liberty County and
Mike Egan of Atlanta said they
would hold back tax increases
proposals of their own until the
commission makes a final re
port, probably in October, 1968.
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Audit Shows
Shortage Os
$1.55-Million
NEW YORK (UPD—A routine
company audit at a Wall Street
brokerage house has revealed
one of the largest losses in the
history of the financial district
—51.55 million in U.S. Treasury
bills.
The FBI reported Wednesday
it is conducting a worldwide
hunt for the negotiable bills that
disappeared from Hayden,
Stone, Inc.
The bills, ranging in denomin
ation from SI,OOO to $500,000,
mature Oct. 26 and are labeled
“pay to bearer.” Banks and
financial houses throughout the
world have been notified to be
on the lookout for the bills.
The .loss Is covered by
insurance, a company spokes
man said.
The bills were missed during
an audit Aug. 28 and the FBI
and police were given the serial
numbers Tuesday. The bills
were last seen July 27.
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Maj. Horace Pearl, a Griffin High ROTC instructor.
Biles checks the patches on the uniforms of Staff
Sgts. David Rhodes, Harry Murphy and Gregg
Vaughn.
Georgia Boy, 17,
Fares Cheat Charge
PRESQUE ISLE, Me. (UPD
—A 17-year-old College Park,
Ga„ youth, a native of Germ
any, wound up a spending spree
of several days in northern
Maine in the Aroostook County
jail at Houston Wednesday.
Richard R. Pelham, sporting
a blond moustache, pleaded in
nocent to two charges in
Presque Isle District Court.
Judge Julian Turner found him
guilty of unlawfully wearing a
U. S. Army uniform, and bound
him over to the November court
term on a cnarge of cheating
by false pretenses.
Pelham was fined $25 for
wearing the uniform, and when
he failed to pay the fine, the
judge ordered him to jail for
five days.
He was being held in lieu of
$750 bail on the cheating
charge, which police say stem
med from a check Pelham al
legedly cashed for S4O at the
Fort Fairfield store of Clarence
J. Lynch, where he bought a
.22 caliber gun on Tuesday.
Pelham reportedly arrived
here Monday and was arrested
by Houston police Tuesday
night in a taxicab en route to
the Canadian border. The sher
iff’s office said he had been
traveling in cabs for several
days and had cashed several
other checks.
They said he cashed one
check for S2O in the Northern
Aroostook Bank at Presque Isle
Tuesday, and, during the trans
action, the gun fell out of his
pocket. Police said he laid it on
the counter and explained to the
teller that it wasn’t loaded.
According to police, Pelham
had been medically discharged
from the U. S. Army, and also
spent two months in the Ma
rines when he was 15 years old,
after two sisters reportedly
signed his mother’s name al
lowing him to enlist.
Police said Pelham told them
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Bipartisian
Clash Shapes
Up In Macon
MACON, Ga. (UPD — In
cumbent Mayor B. F. Merritt
Jr. will face Republican chal
lenger Ronnie Thompson Nov 7
in the first bipartisan duel for
mayor in this middle Georgia
city in recent times.
Both were declared party
nominees in primary elections
Wednesday, when Merritt,
whose right to run was contest
ed in court, outballoted oppon
ent Ed Wilson 8,666 to 7,897 in
unofficial Democratic returns.
Thompson, 33, a gospel singer
and Republican Aiderman
swamped F. Royce Hobbs Jr.,
director of the Mercer Univers
ity associates program, 7,344
votes to 1,257 in the GOP’s first
mayor’s primary.
Merritt won the chance to
down Wilson, a Mercer law
professor and former mayor,
when the Georgia Supreme
Court ruled that a local law al
lowing mayors to have suc
cessive terms except for the
incumbent was discriminatory.
The law past during the pre
vious legislative session per
mitted mayors to hold consecu
tive terms, and if Merritt wins,
he would be the first to bene
fit.
Merritt served for two years
as mayor beginning in 1953 and
started his current term in 1963.
Wilson was mayor from 1959-
63 and made an unsuccessful
bid for the lieutenant governor
ship in 1962.