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By Quimby Melton
The Eagles looked much bet
ter Friday night in losing their
game with Cedartown by one
lone point — 6 to 7. A missed
' point after an early touchdown
was the difference in losing and
a tied ball game.
Griffin drew first blood short
ly after the game got under way,
Bobby Whitehead, Eagle line
backer, crashed through the
Cedartown line, batted down an
k attempted pitchout and knocked
it over the visitor’s goal. Then
with the agility of an Eagle
pouncing on a prey, the same
. Bobby Whitehead pounced on
the ball and a touchdown, with
its six points was on the board.
Good Evening felt “here it is”.
We were certain of a lopsided
victory for our Eagles. But
something happened.
What happened? We believe
the fired-up, hard charging Eag
les were slowed down by three
big panalties, of 15 yards each
—two of them coming “back to
back.” In an effort to avoid oth
er such big penalties they cool
ed down a bit and that was the
difference the rest of the game.
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We have one suggestion, with
which we believe many will ag
ree. Let’s get that scoreboard,
at the south end of the field fix
ed so it will operate; or take it
down.
When it functions properly
it is a big help to the average
, fan and enables him to keep up
with the game much better. We
do not know who is responsible
for keeping the scoreboard
with its many lights running cor
rectly. But please, whosoever
you are, get it fixed before our
next home game.
Thanks a million!
A friend has sent Good Even
ing a copy of 25 questions ask
ed the youth of one of our chur
. ches in a “Quiz on the Life of
Christ’*.
This awakened memories of
days gone by when Good Even
ing as a boy went to Sunday Sc
hool where the smaller children
used the “Catechism” as their
Sunday School text book. No dou
bt there are many others here
who will also remember their
"catechism”.
Remember such questions as
these were asked:
Who was the first man? Who
was the first woman?
Who was the wisest man? Who
was the oldest man?
And the boys in the class all
knew the answer to “Who was
, the strongest man?”
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< Good Evening looked over the
a questions asked in the 1967 quiz
| and then tried to answer all 25
I of the questions, without first
I “boning up” for the quiz. We fir-
I st read every question and said
to ourself —this is an easy quiz
—then we started writing down
the answers.
It was easy to answer most of
them; but we came to one that
was not as easy as we had thou
ght it would be. This question
was, “Can you name six of the
12 disciples?” “We’ll score 100
on that, we’ll name all 12,” was
our first reaction. It was easy to
name six, eight, and even 10 of
them. Finally we gave up and
had to look up the list in o u r
Bible for the other two.
How many of the 12 disciples
can our readers name — off
hand-without “boning up” by re
ferring to their Bible?
4 Many have been helpful to us
in trying to establish the history,
etc. of the nickname “Uncle
Sam”. Friday morning receiv
ed a letter from Miss Margaret
Howard, reference librarian of
the Flint River Regional Libra
ry. The letter was accompan
ied by a photostatic copy of a
page from “Oxford Companion
to American Literature” which
says Uncle Sam probably came
from the “U.S.” painted on the
side of Army transport wagons.
It also says that a one-time fa
mous clown, Dan Rice, did not
wear the customary clown suit
but a red, white and blue uni
form, with a high top hat like
those pictured in cartoons of Un
, cle Sam”. Thank you Miss Ho
ward.
SUPPORTS SMOKEY
CHICAGO (UPD—Cook Coun
» ty Commissioner Charles Bonk
said Tuesday he will vote for a
proposed 5 cent increase in the
price of cigarettes sold in
county forest preserves.
Bonk—who smokes—said to
bacco smoke “pollutes the clean
air and is contrary to Smokey
the Bear.’*
It Was Easy
CUMUBERLAND, England
(UPI) — An enormous traffic
jam in front of Mrs. Laura Bell’s
home on the A-7 highroad bac
ked up cars for miles. When lo
cal police told her by telephone
they had no men to spare for
traffic duty, the 60-year-old wl-
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Larry Chambers (25) is brought down after taking an 11-yard pass from quarter
back Wayne Westmoreland. The action took place in the second quarter. Some
Griffin coaches thought Cedartown should have been penalized 15 yards because
Chambers was hit hard after he was down.
Cedartown Nips
Griffin, 7-6
By ROGER DIX
The Cedartown Bulldogs, as
sisted by two 15-yard penalties
against Griffin, scored a touch
down in the second quarter,
kicked the extra point then held
on to eke out a 7-6 victory over
the winless Eagles here Friday
night.
The favored Eagles had gone
ahead early in the first quarter
when Bobby Whitehead, who
played a tremendous game, de
selected a pitchout and recover
ed the errant ball in the end
zone.
James Black’s extra point
kick was low.
The big play by Whitehead was
just one of several by the Grif
fin fullback.
FOILED
He foiled a Cedartown punt
attempt on the first series of
plays. The Cedartown punter
bobbled the snap and Whitehead
tackled him before he could get
off the kick.
YARDSTICK
Griffin (6) Cedartown (7)
First Downs. 10 12
Yards Rushing 114 197
Yards Passing 38 8
Passes Attempted 13 4
Passes Completed 5 2
Passes Had Int. 2 0
Yards Penalized 85 100
That actually set up the big
scoring play for Griffin which
took over at the Cedartown 28.
Whitehead gained one yard and
Wayne Westmoreland picked up
eight to the Bulldogs’ 19. How
ever, a 15-yard penalty killed
Griffin’s momentum.
PUNT
After a pass went astray, Don
nie Robison punted dead at the
Cedartown four.
That’s when Whitehead, who
plays end on defense, stepped
into the picture again.
Wendell Rhodes, Cedartown’s
quarterback attempt a lateral,
pitching to his fullback Frank
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY # NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Sept. 16-17, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 219
dow stepped out into the road.
“I waved my arms a bit first
in this direction, then in that,”
she said — and the jam was un
snarled. “Some of the motorists
thanked me as they passed,” she
chuckled as she headed back to
her kitchen.
Burgess. Whitehead deselected
the ball and it fell into the end
zone.
TOUCHDOWN
Whitehead fell on the ball for
a Griffin touchdown.
Black came on to attempt the
extra point. His kick was low,
leaving Griffin with a 6-0 lead.
After Griffin’s touchdown, the
red and white flags really be
gan to rain at Memorial Sta
dium.
A 15-yard penalty stopped Ce
dartown on the next series of
plays.
Griffin regained some memen
tus on its next chance on offen
se but a couple of five yard pe
nalties killed them.
BEGINNING
That was just the beginning.
The next time Cedartown got
its hands on the ball Griffin tw
ice was penalized 15 yards to
keep alive Cedartown’s drive to-
Continued on page five
Fairmont Opens
Home Season
The Fairmont Bears will play
their first home game tonight at
Memorial Stadium.
Ethel Kite High of LaGrange
will bring its unbeaten squad
here tonight to play the Bears
at Memorial Stadium beginning
at 8 o’clock.
Coach Hiram Whitaker of the
Bears said his team is in good
condition for the home opener.
“We have a few injuries but
none serious,” the veteran Fair
mont coach said.
“We are expecting a fine
game.”
Fairmont opened on the
•road with an 18-6 win over Hen
derson high. The Bears lost their
Georgia Senators Will
Push For Griffin P.O.
Griffarea
Scores
Gordon Mil. 16
Pacelli 0
Forest Park 24
Jonesboro 0
Thomaston 17
Grady 14
Jackson 6
Henry Co. 0
' second game of the season to
• Hunt High of Ft. Valley, 12-6.
Fairmont’s tentative starting
: lineup is:
Tight end—James Daniel.
Right tackle—Steve Beckham.
Right guard—George Daniel.
■ Center—Jesse Hamm.
I Left guard—Willie Willis.
Left tackle—Oscar Daniel.
: Split ena—Robert Mathews.
Quarterback—Raymond Mc-
Clendon.
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Fullback—Billy Mathis.
, Halfback—Thomas Berry.
Flanker back—Alphonzo East-
■ ling.
They’ll Ask
Three Projects
Be Restored
Georgia’s two U. S. senators
today said they would push for
money for a post office-federal
building in Griffin.
They said they also would ask
for money for federal buildings
in Waycross and Rome.
Land funds for the three pro
jects which had been approved
in the House were knocked out
by the Senate approrpiations
committee.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of Gr
iffin and Rep. W. S. (Bill) Stu
ckey, Jr. of Eastman have writ
ten letters to congressional lea
ders asking the funds be re
instated.
Stuckey represents the Eighth
District which includes Way
cross, Flynt represents the Sixth
which Includes his home town of
Griffin.
SEN. RUSSELL
Sen. Richard Russell said Fri
day he would ask the Senate to
restore the $3.1 million for land
money for the Griffin, Waycross
and Rome projects.
He is the top ranking Demo
crat on the Senate Approba
tions Committee which struck
out the three projects. Sen. Rus
sell was in the hospital with a
respiratory illness when the mat
ter was considered in commit
tee.
Knocked out by the Senate
committee were $520,000 for the
Griffin building, sl.l-million for
the Rome building and $714,000
for the Waycross building.
NO PROMISE
Sen. Russell said Friday he
would make every effort but
couldn’t promise to add the Ge
orgia projects in a Senate-House
conference committee.
The Senate version of appro
priations included $3.1 million to
buy land for a proposed $23.7-
million federal building in At
lanta. This was not a budgeted
item but was inserted in the Se
nate bill anyway.
In remarks prepared for deli
very to the Senate Monday, Sen.
Talmadge will thank the Inde
pendent Offices Subcommittee
for including the Atlanta pro
ject.
"However, I urge the conside
ration of three public projects
in the State of Georgia that were
approved by the House of Re
presentatives but subsequently
denied by the Senate Commit
tee on Appropriations,” Sen.
Talmadge will say.
LONG PLANNING
He also will say:
"These federal buildings in
Griffin, Rome and Waycross
have been long in planning. They
are meritorious and they are vi
tal to the continuance of effi
cient government operations in
these rapidly growing areas.
“I support these projects, and
I commend the members of the
Georgia delegation who were in
strumental in having them ap
proved in the House. I regret
very much that they were dele
ted by the Senate Appropria
tions Committee.”
The Georgia junior senator will
point out that the population in
the Atlanta area continues to
grow. He said the growth promp
ted him to ask on July 12 that
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to approve the funds for
the Atlanta building.
CONCLUDE
Sen. Talmadge will conclude
his remarks to the Senate Mon
day saying, “The Senate Appro
priations Committee approved
$3,141,000 for sites and expenses
for the Atlanta construction but
deleted the other three Georgia
items. I was surprised and sor
ry to see this happen. It was my
thought at the time — and it is
now — that all four of these pro
jects are badly needed and they
should be funded. It is my re
quest and earnest hope that the
funds for the Griffin, Rome and
Waycross federal buildings will
be restored by the House and Se
nate conferees.”
News In Brief
Saigon Military Purge
SAIGON (UPI) — The ruling military junta today
cashiered four generals and a colonel for “corrup
tion and inefficiency” in what official South Viet
namese sources described as the first stage of a sweep
ing military purge.
Nasser Reported Resigned
PARIS (UPI) —- Reports circulating in Paris to
day said President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt
has resigned. There was no confirmation from Cairo,
but a spokesman for the Egyptian Embassy here said
the diplomatic mission was unable to establish contact
with the Arab capital.
Alabama Asks Reversal
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) — Attorneys for
Alabama planned to ask a three-judge federal court
today to reverse its ruling that public school faculties
must be desegregated throughout the state.
Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace said Friday that results
of a poll showed parents overwhelmingly wanted
their children to have teachers of their own race. She
said this showed the court was wrong in ordering
faculty desegregation in its decree last March.
Auburn Suspect Arrested
MIAMI (UPI) — The FBI Announced today it
had arrested Edward Albert Seibold, 21, wanted for
the slaying last week of three girls in Auburn, Ala.
Doria Howls Toward
Chesapeake Bay Area
By DANIE LC. RIKER
OCEAN CITY, Md. (UPD—
Hurricane Doria howled toward
the Chesapeake Bay early
today, hammering the resort |
islands along the coast with :
fringe winds up to 80 miles an ’
hour.
“It’s coming right at us,” '
said Police Chief Jack Phillips 1
at Ocean City, He said his wind '
gauge recorded one gust of 120 '
mph.
Thousands lied inland before ,
the onrushing storm, first of the ,
fteason to strike ashore. Its eye '
was expected to pass over the !
space agency rocket station at '
Wallops Island, Va., at 7 a.m. '
EDT.
Doria, with sustained winds ]
up to 90 mph, was bearing down
on the Delaware-Maryland- •
Virginia coast—the famed Del- 1
marva poultry country—from ]
due East. No other hurricane on ’
record has approached the mid- '
Atlantic coast from that i
directon. Most roll up from the
‘Clean Sweep’
Planned Here
“Operation Clean Sweep’’ is
scheduled for downtown Griffin
Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 10:00 a.
m., Jim Mankin, Chairman of
the Downtown Appearance Com
mittee, announced.
Mankin said at 10 a.m. every
store or place of business in the
downtown area will be alerted
by a City Fire Truck. The truck
will circle the downtown area
with the siren on. This will be
the signal to begin sweeping,
weeding, and washing windows.
Store managers and employees
will line the sidewalks in front
of their stores putting their push
brooms and mops into motion.
Mankin said committee mem
bers will be riding the City Fire
Truck. The committee will su
pervise the sweeping activity. If
a store is found without a sweep
er out front, one of the commit
tee members will leave the fire
truck armed with a push broom
to do the job.
A captain has been designa-
South.
Motorboat Missing
The Coast Guard reported a
16-foot outboard boat with three
persons aboard was overdue
from a fishing trip at Bloods
worth Island in Chesapeake
Bay. A Coast Guard cutter
removed three persons from
Cedar Island and another was
en route to rescue a man
reported stranded on a small
island near Chincoteague Island.
The lightship in the mouth of
Delaware Bay was evacuated
and the Coast Guard unmanned
its station on Chincoteague
Island. Before the lightship was
evacuated it reported seas as
high as 35 feet.
Doria was only one of three
hurricanes churning in the
Atlantic. The Weather Bureau
warned residents of the Yuca
tan Peninsula in Mexico to
prepare for hurricane force
winds from Beulah later today.
The killer storm, already
counting 18 dead in a sweep
through the Caribbean, was
ted for each block in the cen
tral business district, Mankin
said. These captains will see to
it that each business is notified
of “Operation Clean Sweep”.
“Operation Clean Sweep” will
serve two purposes besides cl
ean sidewalks, Mankin believes.
First, it will make everyone
downtown conscious of efforts
to improve the appearance of
Griffin’s Central Business Dis
trict, and second, it will be a de
monstration by the downtown
business and professional men
that they are willing and ready
to cooperate.
Griffin Girl Is
Pro-Football Wife
See Magazine Story
Presbyterians
Consider Site
On Sept 24
The First Presbyterian Church
will consider moving to a U. S.
Highway 41 (south), site Sun
day, Sept. 24 at a church called
conference.
The conference will not be held
tomorrow as was previously an
nounced.
Letters went out this week to
the church members outlining
the recommendation of the Buil
ding Planning Council.
The council has an option on
five acres of land at the U.S.
41, East College and Futral road
intersections.
It has unanimously recom
mended the church move from
its present site to the new site.
The church congregation voted
earlier this year to relocate.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair today and Sun
day with mild afternoons and
cool nights.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
56, maximum Friday 78, mini
mum Friday 54. Sunrise Sun
day 7:24 a.m., sunset Sunday
7:45 p.m.
heading toward the peninsula
below the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Chloe was threshing
about 450 miles northward of
Bermuda.
The Weather Bureau reported
winds from 45 to 80 miles an
hour on the Indian River inlet
on the Delaware coast.
At Ocean City, a resort town
half a mile off the Maryland
shore, an estimated 70 per cent
of the 8,000 people on the island
had fled inland, Chief Phillips
said. A contingent of 30 state
troopers, along with three big
National Guard trucks, moved
in to combat the expected
flooding.
Tides were expected to run
six to eight feet above normal
when the dead-calm eye of
Doria moved inland. Red Cross
shelters were set up throughout
the area.
Three conventions, including
the Maryland Young Democrats
meeting, had been scheduled
for the weekend at Ocean City.
All were canceled.
Country Parson
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“A church is a group of
people who think each
should put his life on the line
— but not expect the group
to.”