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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Almost overlooked the fact that
Sunday, Sept. 17th, was the 180th
anniversary of the completion
of the draft of the Constitution
by the Constitutional Convention
held in Philadelphia. It was on
Sept. 17, 1787 that the Constitu
tion was approved and a ma
jority of the 55 delegates signed
it.
In looking up data on the Con
stitution came across the fa c t
that Sept. 17th is also an inter
esting date in American history;
for it was on Sept. 17, 1796 that
President George Washington,
refusing to allow his supporters
to seek for him a, third term,
made his farewell address and
warned the people against for
eign alliances.
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Since the Constitution was ad
opted it has been amended many
times. By 1791 the first ten am
endments had been approved,
the Eleventh in 1798; the 12th
in 1804. It was sixty one years
later, in 1865, that the 13th (Em
ancipation) amendment became
part of the Constitution; follow
ed in 1868 by the Reconstruction
amendment. In 1870 the 15th am
endment was passed and then
the Constitution remained as it
was until Feb. 25, 1913 when the
16th — Income Tax — amend
ment became part of the law of
the land.
The history of the income tax
Is interesting. Early in the 1890 s
a “boy orator” came to Con
gress from the state of Nebras
ka. He was William Jennings
Bryan, the only man in the his
tory of this nation to be nomi
nated for president three times
by a major political party. Am
ong other things he advocated
was an income tax. There was
little support at first but in 1894
Congress passed an income tax
bill; however, it was quickly
slapped down by the Supreme
Court. It was not until Congress,
in the closing days of the Taft
administration passed another
income tax measure, to be given
the Supreme Court “OK” Feb.
25, 1913, a few days before Wood
row Wilson was inaugurated,
that it became effective.
Those who pay income taxes
today — and who doesn’t? —will
be interested that when the fir
st income tax act was approv
ed the tax rate was very small,
the exemptions very large and
i all that; and that those who
opposed the income tax predic
ted that "some day the income
tax bite will be as big as 10 per
cent.” This prediction was met
with by laughs of derision.
“You must have been a beau
tiful baby,
"But baby look at you now”.
The man who wrote that old
song might have dedicated it to
the income tax.
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Going back to William Jen
nings Bryan and the part he
played in the income tax it’s al
so interesting to note that when
Bryan ran for President, the
first time, and again the second
time, his bitterest foe was none
other than Teddy Roosevelt. Ac
cording to his speeches, especial
ly in the 1900 campaign, Bryan
was a wild and wooly lad from
out in the wild, wild west. How
ever later it was none other than
the same Teddy Roosevelt who
out did Bryan in becoming a “li
beral” and in 1912 he, (T.R.),
left the Republican Party and
headed the Progressive (Bull
Moose) party in an unsuccess
ful big for the White House.
Also it’s interesting to note that
Woodrow Wilson, winner in the
1912 election, had in Bryan’s last
campaign in 1908, refused to
work for Bryan, but once elect
ed he paid Bryan for his active
support in the 1912 campaign by
naming him Secretary of State,
a position Bryan later resigned.
Noticed a small UPI story
from Spain that tells of the Sp
anish government d«*cidinp to
do something to help the econo
my of Spain has raised the min
imum wage to $1.60 —not $1.60
an hour, but $1.60 a day.
INSIDE
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Funerals. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Society. Page 5-
Want Ads. Page 6.
Comics. Page 7.
Georgia News. Page 8.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 8.
Train Accident. Page 8.
44 Dead, 600 Hurt In Soccer Riot
ISTANBUL (UPI) — Tough
Turkish troops today restored
order in the bloodstained streets
of Kayseri where rival soccer
team fans brawled with knives,
rocks, clubs and chains.
Ankara Radio said at least 44
persons were killed and 600
injured among the 15,000
spectators in Sunday’s rioting at
the central Anatolian town.
Some victims were hurled
from stadium grandstand balco
nies. Others got trampled when
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Peak For Pimiento
Pimiento processing reached a peak this week at Pomona Products as the bulk of
the red pepper crop began coming in. John Sanders dumps pimientos from one of
hundreds of boxes used for transporting them. Many tons of the peppers will be
packed this week as the plant operates seven days, day and night. Grady Rainey,
vice president, said the rainy weather kept the pimientos from ripening, but the
sunshine for the past few days had caused a peak in ripening and harvesting.
U. S. Jets Strike
Close To China
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. jets
struck closer than ever before
to Communist China, hit three
targets inside North Vietnam’s
largest port city of Haiphong
and bracketed its capital of
Hanoi with bombing runs, an
American spokesmen said ' to
day.
Hanoi Radio claimed three
American planes were lost in
Sunday’s raiding. But U.S.
spokesmen reported the loss of
only one, an Air Force RF4C
Phantom reconnaissance jet
downed by ground fire in “MIG
HEW Cuts Off
School Funds
In Lamar County
WASHINGTON (UPD— Fed
eral Funds have been termin
ated to four more Georgia
school systems, bringing the
state’s loss of U.S. education
funds to more than $3 million,
and 12 more cutoffs are pend
ing, officials say.
The U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
announced Sunday cutoff orders
were signed for Dooly, Jones,
Lamar and Tattnall counties,
and federal funds have now
been terminated in 19 Georgia
school districts for failure to in
tegrate.
The latest order included Flo
rence and Marion counties in
South Carolina, Franklin speci
al district in Tennessee and
Lawrence, Leland, and Walthall
in Mississippi as well as the
four in Georgia, HEW spokes
man said.
A federal hearing examiner
has ruled 12 more Georgia sys
tems are in violation of the in
tegration guidelines and the Ci
vil Rights Act and action to
terminate those funds was
pending.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, September 18,1967 Vol. 95 No. 220
panicked spectators stampeded
for the exits. One witness
described the scene as a
battlefield.
Premier Suleiman Demirel
postponed a scheduled mission
to Moscow from today until
Tuesday, sending his fierce
warriors to restore order and
summoning his cabinet.
alley” northwest of Hanoi.
The two-man crew of the
Phantom, 679th U.S. plane lost
over North Vietnam was listed
as missing.
More Phantoms led by Maj.
Kenneth A. Simonet, 42, of West
Palm Beach, Fla., streaked to
the 600-foot long That Khe
highway bridge 6.8 mies from
the Chinese border and de
stroyed the span across which
arms moved to North Vietnam.
Hit Missile Site
In more of Sunday’s 109
missions, Air Force pilots
bombed a missile site nine
miles from Hanoi and ripped
the rail tracks running to the
capital from Communist China.
U.S. Navy jets streaked over
Haiphong, mangling a huge rail
yard and blasting a bridge, both
within 1.7 miles of the center of
the port into which flows most
of North Vietnam’s war im
ports.
The Haiphong targets got
repeat performances. Navy jets
from 7th Fleet carriers had hit
them Sept. 11.
The dock areas of Haiphong
remained off limits to U.S.
bombers.
Hit Invasion Forces
In other war action, U.S. Air
Force 852 Stratofortresses
staged three more massive
raids against the estimated
35,000 North Vietnamese inva
sion troops massed on South
Vietnam’s northern frontier. In
mortar attacks Sunday night,
Viet Cong guerrillas wounded 34
U.S. soldiers and an undeter
mined number of South Vietna
mese 30 miles northwest of
Saigon.
At the U.S. soldiers’ rest
resort of Nha Trang, 200 miles
northeast of Saigon, a Commu
nist terror bomb Sunday night
ripped a non-commissioned offi
cers’ club, kiling one Vietna
mese civilian, wounding two
more and injuring 29 U.S.
servicemen, spokesmen said.
The increased air strikes
came as U.S. Secretary General
Texas Gulf Coast Gets
Warning About Beulah
Thant disclosed in New York
that he had unconfirmed reports
Communist China and Soviet
bloc nations were sending air
crews and other “volunteers”
to fight on Hanoi’s side. U.S.
officials here said they had no
knowledge of such a volunteer
influx.
Griff area Trio
Arrested In
Motel Robbery
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)
Three Georgians suspected of
robbing a motel of slOl were
arrested at Opelika Sunday, po
lice said.
Charged with robbing Doby’s
Motel at gunpoint were Demp
sey R. Chambers, 35, and Annie
E. Chambers, 38, of William
son, Ga., and Wayne Cardell,
25, of Griffin, Ga.
A. M. Roemer, night manager
of the motel, said the robbers
forced him into their car after
they got the money, and re
leased him 20 miles east of
Montgomery.
Opelika police stopped the car
carrying the three suspects on
Interstate 85 near the Phenix
City exit about two hours after
the 2 a.m. holdup.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair through Tuesday
with warm days and cool nights.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 85, low today 65, high
Sunday 84, low Sunday 60. sun
rise Tuesday 7:25, sunset Tues
day 7:43.
Resort Area
Takes Caution
With Calmness
By KENNETH ENGLADE
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (UPI)
—Airplanes flew over Texas
Gulf Coast fishing camps today,
dropping leaflets warning people
that Beulah, the killer hurricane
marching through the Gulf of
Mexico, was on the way.
But along the resort area of
South Padre Island, a narrow
strip of sandy beach, motel
operators took the news calmly,
watching progress of the storm.
The U.S. Weather Bureau’s
latest advisory put Beulah at
22.2 degrees north, 92.8 degrees
west, moving west-northwest at
around 12 miles an hour,
packing winds up to 105 miles
an hour.
That aimed the storm more
at Mexico than at Texas, but
the course has often been
erratic.
The Red Cross had emergen
cy centers set up in several
south Texas and coastal towns,
and civil defense directors put
workers on standby. The Naval
Air Station at Corpus Christi
had its men on alert and they
lashed down anything not in use
and in danger of being blown
away.
Breezes were rather quiet in
early morning.
At the speed and latest
direction of the storm, the
hurricane would take 30 hours
from early today to reach land
with its eye, but gale force
winds were still more than 100
miles from the center, meaning
several coast towns could get
severe winds in 20 hours.
A westward movement would
hit the Mexico port of Tampico,
northwest would aim at Brown
sville, Tex.
Beulah rampaged across the
Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
and two offshore islands Sun
day, killing four people. The
hurricane had taken 18 lives in
the Carribbean.
BUTTING PRACTICE
LICHFIELD, England (UPI)
—The Sherwood Foresters Re
giment of the British Army
announced today that its
regimental ram, Derby, has
completed his “basic training”
and will leave for service in
West Germany Wednesday.
No details of the “training”
were given.
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Top LPN Student
Mrs. Linda Gilbert was top student in a class of practi
cal nurses which graduated last week. The award was
presented by Griffin Tech Director Edwin V. Lang
ford, Sr. Thirteen nurses were in the class and nine
juniors were capped. A new class is scheduled to
begin Oct. 23.
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“Everybody seems to think
the most exciting kind of life
is what someone else is
doing.”
CLIMBERS KILLED
PONTRESINA, Switzerland
(UPI)—A rescue helicopter
Sunday found the bodies of two
German climbers missing for
several days in bad weather on
Mt. Bernina. A third member of
the party still was unaccounted
for.
Wounded Six Times
Griffin Green Beret
Awarded Silver Star
A Griffinite serving with the
Green Beret forces in Vietnam
has been awarded three medals
for valorous actions in combat.
Sp. 4 Ronnie Polk Stanfield has
been awarded the Silver Star,
Bronze Star and Purple Heart
medals.
He is the son of L. H. Stanfield,
1404 North Ninth extension; and
Mrs. Sara Proctor, 627 East
Chappell street. His wife is Mrs.
Diane Polk, who makes her
home with Mrs. Proctor.
(Although Army records carry
him as Sp. 4 Dewey R. Polk,
he is known in Griffin as Ronnie
Stanfield.)
The Special Forces announ
ced the Griffinite was award
ed the Silver Star for “excep
tionally valorous actions” on
April 18, 1967, during a search
and destroy mission near Ben
Soi.
The citation read:
“When a Viet Cong force was
spotted to its front, Specialist
Stanfield’s company was dir
ected to attack the insurgents
from the front while another unit
attacked from the flank.
"During the assault, the friend
ly force received intense fire
and the senior advisor was ser-
Notice
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cents per week effective Monday, Oct. 2. Two cents of the in
crease will go to carriers and deliverymen and the other three
to the paper.
The price starting two weeks from today will be 40 cents a
week. Single copy prices will be 10 cents instead of five.
Yearly, semi-yearly, quarterly and monthly rates both by
carrier and by mail will be adjusted accordingly. Anyone who
pays his subscription on an annual, semi-annual or quarterly
basis may renew it for not more than a year from Oct. 2 at the
present rate.
All prices include sales tax.
It will have been about a year and a half since the last price
increase of five cents per week went into effect in April of
1966. Since then the price of everything which goes into publish
ing a newspaper has increased steadily and heavily, just as the
cost of almost everything on the market today has gone up.
The newspaper’s five cents per week Increase will amount
to one-half a cent per day net to the paper since the other two
cents will go to the carriers. The adjustment is being made in
order to publish as good a paper as possible and is necessary
if this is to be done.
We appreciate the cooperation of every subscriber and thank
you for your interest.
— Quimby Melton
— Quimby Melton, Jr.
Ms
Ronnie Polk Stanfield
iously wounded. Specialist Stan
field took charge of the force and
organized a defense. He was hit
in the leg at this time, but dis
regarded his own safety to aid
the casualties, directed h1 s
men’s return fire, and radioed
for air support.
"He was hit in the other leg,
but still maintained control of
News In Brief
GM To Hike Car Prices
DETROIT (UPI) — General Motors Corp, today
announced prices of its 1968 model cars will be an aver
age sllO over “comparably equipped” 1967 models.
GM was the second major U. S. automaker to announce
price boosts in the past week.
Detroit Teacher Pact Ready
By United Press International
Detroit negotiators reached agreement today on a
contract to end the city’s 13-day teachers strike but in
New York, all night bargaining failed to break a dead
lock in a week-old walkout of teachers.
Billy Graham Ends Crusade
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — World-famous
evangelist Billy Graham ended his 10-day Heart of
America crusade Sunday with the lergest crowd ever as
sembled in municipal stadium, and possibly Kansas City.
Officialas estimated the stadium crowd Sunday at
53,000.
Opposes War Declaration
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Herman Talmadge
said today declaration of war on North Vietnam “would
only worsen an already bad situation.”
his force. When his radio opera
tor was killed, he removed the
radio and, despite his crippled
legs, crawled to a wounded in
terpreter, maintaining radio con
tact with supporting aircraft and
a reinforcing company.
“Specialist Stanfield was hit
again in both legs. Nevertheless,
he continued to direct airstrik
es for two hours until medical
evacuation aircraft and reinforc
ing troops arrived.
“Although wounded six times
during the fire fight, he very ca
pably directed all defense ele
ments and succeeded in inflict
ing numerous casualties on the
insurgents.
. “Sp. 4 Stanfield’s gallantry
in action was in keeping with
the highest traditions of the mil
itary service and reflects gr
eat credit upon himself, his unit,
and the United States Army.”
The Silver Star was awarded
I under the direction of President
< Lyndon Johnson.
Sp. 4 Stanfield is scheduled to
I return home from Vietnam Dec.
i 23.
1 After recovering from his
wounds, he was returned to ac
tive duty in Vietnam, Griffin re
t latives said.