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E good VENIN VF 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. — + - 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. — * - 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 - "HS ng ' liM ; ; !BE mI A\ zv e IMRjkW I wfiiO S ■ i| ■ ■ ■ -V-*. v.v.'.v.v.-.■.•••.•. .•.■.v7.-. , .v. . .v.... ....*. News Staff Photo) 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. W<<?*^!<<^y';s«s^^<«^9iWflf’;.<*? ,^>^.^k^?. '.;//.••>*.; • ■•.•.•• ‘.w-v.'-•-•■M.-.y.v.w.vAv.v.-.-. , " ■ ■i ' ■ . ' i : jgMßhk. Jr <&Sj, JBW' vA ’V?r - -a«- - ’ ' * .‘aftmljfe K I > * W wj' JBP#- ■ IFU : ; ?l h y ’ ** ... \ " -jw (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo) 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. Country Parson pgr ■LmKiRM “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 The price of the Griffin Daily News win be increased five 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.