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By Quimby Melton
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Hie Georgia Press Associa
tion with 219 newspapers mem
bers — 188 weeklies and 31 dail
ies — has issued Its 1968 Geor
gia Newspaper Directory. It is
a most attractive book and in
addition to giving information as
to the newspapers that make up
its membership, also gives some
important information about the
state and about each of the 159
counties.
For instance the information
on Spalding County, home of the
Griffin Daily News, says there
are 10,900 households; the coun
ty has a population of 38,400.
Retail sales for the past year
■were a whopping SSB-and-a
--quarter Million.
Os Spalding’s population 11,619
are' children under 14 years of
age. There is little difference
between the next three age gr
oups, 15 to 24 account for 4,822;
the 25 to 34 group for 4,361; the
35 to 44 jumps back to 4,823
(just one more than the 15 to 24
group.) There are 6,973 between
45 and 64 and in the “sky is the
limit” age group there are 2,806.
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It’s interesting to note for
what Spalding citizens spent
their money. Here as probably
everywhere in America, the
largest amount, $14,990,000 goes
in food; automobiles ran second
with $11,560,000; and gasoline
and oil to operate those cars
cost $5,601,000. General merch
andise runs $5-Million plus; Ap
parel nearly $4.5 Million; Furni
ture and Appliances nearly $4-
Million
Not only did the people spend
more for food than for anything
else but eating and drinking es
tablishments added $2,350,000 to
the general economy.
There are 10,900 housholds
In Spalding County, and 18,488
registered automobiles. Os these
14,893 are passenger cars. And
the figures do not include motor
cycles, nor motor bikes. Spald
ing is certainly “On the Go”.
Effective buying income by
hq> reholds, not by individuals,
sBA-S 24.7 percent in the lower
range, up to $2,500; about one
fifth have $2,500 to $4,000 to sp
end; the largest group, one
fourth have $4,000 to $7,000;
fourteen percent from $7,000 to
SIO,OOO and 17 percent more
than this.
This overall picture of Geor
gia’s economy does not Include
a breakdown on manufacturing,
payrolls, bank deposits, divi
dends or other income that
would be most Interesting to
our readers.
Now we do know this, from
having written many a story ab
out the quarterly reports of the
Department of Labor, that Spal
ding County continues to rank
never lower than 15th, among
the 159 Georgia Counties, when
it comes to payrolls of Industries
that are “covered” by the Fair
Employment Act — having to re
port their wages monthly. There
are some 29 Georgia counties
that account for the great maj
ority of the state’s payrolls and
Spalding falls in that class, ne
ver below the 15th spot.
When one takes into conside
ration the fact that Spalding is
one of the smallest counties, in
area, in the state this high rank
ing, is all the more remarkable.
If Spalding were larger with its
foundries extending into neigh
boring counties, we’d rank not
15th but much higher.
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Good Evening does not know if
William Jennings Bryan ever
visited Griffin, though he pro
bably did when he was on t h e
Chautauqua Circuit, but we thou
ght of a little known quote of his
as we wrote the above about
what a fine community the Grif
farea is. He said what the coun
try needed was a “Baptism of
Self Esteem.” Certainly we who
are fortunate enough to live in
Griffin, Georgia have plenty for
which to be proud.
Certainly it’s Great to Be A
Georgian.
And when one comes down to
the last analysis, It’s Great To
be a Gr if finite.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair through Wednes
day with warm afternoons and
mild nights.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 84, minimum today
65, maximum Monday 83, mini
mum Monday 65. Sunrise Wed
nesday 7:26 a.m., sunset Wed
nesday 7:41 p.m.
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The Rev. Willard MacAllaster (r), pastor of New Salem Baptist Church, welcomed
the Rev. Harold Graham (1), associations! missionary, and the Rev. Hartwell E.
Kennedy, pastor of Second Baptist Church and associational moderator, to the
144th annual meeting of the Flint River Baptist Association which opened Mon
day at New Salem.
Beulah Aims Winds At
U. S., Mexico Border
Hr KENNETH ENGLADE
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (UPI)
—Beulah the killer hurricane,
sending gale winds into Mexi
co’s important port of Tampico,
set aim again for the U.S.-
Mexico border at Brownsville,
Tex., at an excruciatingly slow
pace.
Mexican army vehicles in the
hundreds carried thousands of
Tampico residents from low
lying areas to higher ground in
the city and public buildings
filled with the evacuees, esti
mated at 8,000 to 10,000 with
dawn today.
At 8 a.m. EDT, the New
Orleans Weather Bureau put
Beulah’s center at latitude 23.5
north longitude 95.4 west,
moving almost exactly north
west and sending gale force
winds outward 250 miles and
hurricane force winds out 70
miles from the center. The
storm’s center at that time was
some 200 miles southeast of
Brownsville aqd its gale winds
were brushing the coast near
the U.S.-Mexico border.
Beulah’s death toll rose
Monday to 29-including 18 from
her swipe through the Carib
bean and 11 more from the
Yucatan Peninsula and its
islands.
Officers on the lower Texas
Gulf Coast' worked to complete
the evacuation of Padre Island
ahead of high tides ana waves
that washed across the beaches
and sand roadway to the dunes
beyond.
Boat owners lined up waiting
for crane operators to beach
their boats and lift them from
the water to put them on ballets
on high ground away from the
surge of surf. Concession stands
at Corpus Christi were pulled on
skids back from the beach. A
new million-dollar motel on
Padre Island was boarded up.
For days, light water craft
along the Texas coast had
moved to safe harbor and the
heavier boats were docked
deck-to-deck facing the oncom
ing storm. Down the Mexico
coast, the fishing .fleet of
Tampico sailed up the Panuco
River to get away from the
winds and five heavy freighters
were battened down to ride out
the hurricane.
An emergency hurricane
warning was posted for the
Texas coast from Brownsville
on the southern tip of the state
to Port Aransas about 150 miles
away. Gale warnings were in
effect from Port Aransas to
Galveston.
The force of Beulah, which
had already killed 29 persons,
sent gale force winds against
the northern Mexican coast
Monday night.
Light showers hit parts of
south Texas today, where tides
were about two feet above
normal.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, September 19,1967 Vol. 95 No. 221
About 10,000 persons were
evacuated from low-lying areas
in Tampico, Mexico Monday
because of the threat of the
hurricane.
The barometer was falling in
Tampico and although skies
cleared for a time at night,
rains returned today and winds
picked up to more than 40 miles
per hour at dawn.
Army trucks, buses and street
cars carried thousands of
residents from their homes to
higher ground.
Parking Lot
Grand Opening
Set For Oct. 25
Commercial Bank & Trust
Co. will have the grand open
ing for its new multi-level park
ing building Oct. 25.
Frank Jolly, vice president,
said the opening would feature
car and truck shows on all four
levels.
A new truck show will be held
on the ground level. A new car
show will be on the second level
and an antique car show will be
on the third. Racing cars will
be featured on the fourth level.
Franchised truck and car dea
lers in the Griffin areas will co
sponsor the new car and truck
shows. The Griftin Old Car Club
will sponsor • the antique car
show.
Mr. Jolly said the public will
be invited to inspect the new
parking facility and see the car
shows from noon until 8 p.m. on
Oct. 25.
Construction crews are put
ting the finishing touches on the
$250,000 structure.
Mr. Jolly said other details of
the grand opening program will
be announced, when they are
worked out.
Country Parson
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“The new theological think
ing isn’t going to ma k ea
whole lot of difference to
folks who didn’t understand
the old.”
Three Arrested
In Bombing
Os Synagogue
By ANDREW REESE Jr.
JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) —An
apparent dynamite explosion,
shattering the quiet of an upper
middle class neighborhood like
“a loud clap of thunder,” late
Monday night heavily damaged
a recently - integrated Jewish
synagogue. No one was hurt.
“This is a fear I’ve been liv
ing with,” said Rabbi Percy
Nussbaum of the Temple Beth
Israel.
The FBI arrested three men,
two of them identified as mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan, a
few hours after the synagogue
dynamiting in an Incident across
the city.
Sources said the three, Joe
Denver Hawkins, 49, his son,
Daniel Hawkins, 23, allege'd
KKK members, and J. L. Har
per, 23, all of Jackson, were
under suspicion in the bombing.
They were charged with assault
ing a federal officer.
The 10:30 p.m. blast blew out
a portion of a wall at the end
of the new concrete and brick
building that housed administra
tive offices and Nussbaumls
study.
Nussbaum said he had intend
’d to do some work in his study
Monday night, but had changed
his mind for no reason and
stayed home.
“Just think what would have
happened if someone had been
inside there,” said Mrs. Nuss
baum, surveying the study, Ut
tered with shattered plate glass
and plaster from a damaged
wall. '
Police and Nussbaum refused
to speculate whether the blast
was Intended to harm the rabbi.
Pictures of Nussbaum’s chil
dren and grandchildren on his
desk were not damaged.
The bomb was planted near a
small bathroom adjacent to
Nussbaum’s study, police said.
The bathroom fixtures were de
molished.
Nussbaum said the bomber
apparently forced his way in
side and “must have known the
building and where to go.” Sev
eral doors inside the structure
had been jimmied open.
The explosion sent residents
of the area in north Jackson
running into the foggy street.
They gathered in front of the
synagogue, but police roped off
the structure and kept all un
authorized persons out.
Talmadge, Flynt
Hold Hope For
Griffin Building
News In Brief
Newnan Gl Killed In Viet
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two Georgians were
among the 65 U. S. soldiers listed Monday by the
Pentagon as killed in the Vietnam war.
They were Army Cpl. Jessie C. Cofield, son of
Mrs. Kathem K. Gaddy of Newnan, and Marine Pfc.
Willis L. Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Wood
of Brunswick.
Terrorists Bomb Embassy
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist terrorists ripped
apart the Nationalist Chinese embassy with a bomb
and sniped at rescue workers from nearby rooftops to
day. Police officials said it may have been the work of
local Mao Tse-tung Red Guard fanatics.
Detroit Teachers Win
DETROIT, Mich. (UPI) —- Detroit’s teachers re
turned to their classrooms today after winning'sl,7oo
across-the-board pay raises but New York City’s
school system was still in turmoil after all-night bar
gaining failed to bring a solution in the teachers’ pay
dispute.
King Hussein May Visit U. S.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — There are “unofficial;’
indications that King Hussein of Jordan may visit
President Johnson later this month after he returns
from a trip to Moscow.
Rent Bill Approval Seen
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate was expect
ed to hand President Johnson a rare legislative vic
tory today by approving S4O million for the contro
versial rent supplement program and $537 million for
model cities.
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Set For Clean - Sweep
Chairman Jimmy Mankin (1) of the Downtown Improvement Committee and
Mayor Carl Pruett don overalls and man brooms in front of city hall to lead the
way for “Operation Clean-Sweep” to be held Wednesday. At 10 a. m. merchants
in the downtown area will join in an intensive clean-up program. They have been
asked to sweep sidewalks in front of their stores as a sign of support for the Down
town Improvement move.
Will Try To Get
Project Retained
Sen. Herman Talmadge to
day held hope that a Senate-Hou
se conference committee would
approve funds for a federal buil
ding in Griffin as well as money
for buildings in Way cross and
Rome.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of Gr
iffin said he was optimistic that
the conference committee would
approve the Griffin project as
well as the others.
Both Georgia lawmakers told
the Griffin Daily News this mor
ning they were optimistic about
getting the funds for the build
ings.
Sen. Talmadge, commenting
on the projects, said, “I think
Griffin Group
Discusses Action
On Station Funds
A group of governmental and
financial leaders met in Griffin
today to discuss the Georgia Ex
periment Station.
The meeting followed action
last week by the Board of Re
gents which governs the station
and other units of the University
System. The regents rescinded
a resolution which had been ad
opted in 1959 and which desig
nated the director of the Geor
gia Experiment Station in Grif
fin to receive federal funds.
The meeting, held at the Com
mercial Bank, was underway
at 1 p.m. A statement concern
ing it. is expected to be made
Wednesday.
we’ll get them.”
Rep. Flynt said he believes that
the Senate-House committee will
“hold (retain) the Griffin pro
ject.” He said he hoped the
committee would approve all of
the Georgia prajects, including
the Atlanta federal building.
Their comments came after
Sen. Talmadge asked in the Se
nate Monday that the Griffin,
Rome and Waycross projects
be approved as well as one for
Atlanta.
Rep. Flynt said he had hoped
that an amendment would be of
fered in the Senate Monday but
none was.
STORY INCORRECT
Sen. Talmadge said a news
paper story out of Washington
published in Georgia this morn
ing that he had been turned
down on his plea for the Griffin
building was incorrect.
The newspaper story said that
Sen. Warren E. Mangunson (D-
Wash.), the floor manager for
the measure, had brushed aside
the Talmadge request.
To set the record straight. Sen.
Talmadge had his press secre
tary, Gordon Roberts, read to
the Griffin Daily News, from the
Congressional Record that dealt
with the exchange in the Senate
Monday.
STATEMENT
The statement from Sen. Man,
gunson was:
“I will say to my friend from
Georgia (Talmadge), that the
committee found itself in a little
bit of a quandry as to how to
handle this matter. Normally
we have always been in a posi
tion where the House puts in pro
jects and we put in projects and
then we have a conference on
just our projects.
“Because the amount for the
Atlanta project was so high, $3,-
141,000 for sites and expenses
alone, while the other Georgia
projects are smaller items. Way
cross $714,000, Griffin is $520,-
000 and Rome is $1,118,000, we
thought the only way we could
deal with the House of Repre
sentatives and hope to hold At
lanta in would be to take the
others out, subject to a confer
ence, so that we could have
three million dollars as a round
figure on which we could have
a conference. That is the rea
son we did that. Otherwise, the
committee was in agreement
that the Atlanta project was a
much needed project. The oth
er items the House put in I sup
pose because ample testimony
indicated they were needed al
so.”
Then Sen. Mangunson asked
Sen. Gordon Allot of Colorado,
the ranking minority mimber
of the senate committee, to com
ment.
Sen. Allot said:
“That is quite true. We did not
know quite how to handle it. If
we put the Atlanta project in
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Five Prisoners
Escape From
Gwinnett Jail
LAWRENCEVILLE (UPI) —
Five prisoners, brought up from
the state prison at Reidsville to
appear in trials, sawed their
way through bars and escaped
from the Gwinnett County jail
Monday night.
The escapers were identified
as Eddie Palmer, Moultrie;
James Brick, Atlanta; Ray
Domongue, Doraville; Melvin
Bates, Conyers, and James
Simmons, no home address
immediately available.
Authorities said the five con
victs kicked out a downstairs
window and escaped after saw
ing through the bars in an up
stairs cell.
Sheriff Hoke Houston was
leading the investigation into
the escape, believed staged a
bout 10 p.m.