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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
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If one happened to drive up
town this morning around 10
o’clock one saw a sight that was
far different from the usual Wed
nesday morning one. For mer
chants and their sales people
were outside their places of bus
iness and when the word was
flashed (by the fire department’s
sirene) from the high command
“Brooms and Mops Away” they
started sweeping, mopping and
otherwise cleaning up the side
walks and fronts of their places.
It was the kickoff for “Opera
tions Clean Sweep” designed to
clean up, freshen up, paint up
and make the uptown part of
our city more attractive. Mer
chants and property owners of
uptown-Griffin have joined In a
campaign to make their area as
attractive and eye-pleasing as
any section of a thriving city can
be. Jim Mankin, both a merch
ant and a property owner, is ge
neral chairman, of the campai
gn.
There is little doubt but that
by nightfall the uptown section
will present a much more pleas
ing appearance than before; but
one must ask how long will this
continue? If it is left up to the
merchants Griffin will become
and will remain a “spotless city"
as far as their area Is concer
ned; but how about the folks
who come up town, or drive
through town, and throw cig
arette stubs, and chewing gum
wrappers, and paper cups and
other litter out of their cars?
The idea of a Clean Sweep
campaign is an excellent one.
We hope that the general public
will learn a lesson from the de
monstration this morning. Just
a little care on the part of us all
will bring about desirable and
lasting results.
Speaking of the Clean Sweep
project:
The other day a lady called
Good Evening and asked him
where in the Bible was the state
ment “Cleanliness is next to
Godliness.” We grabbed our
Bible and looked it up in the
concordance but could not find
it.
Reported this to her and ask
ed her to call the next day, we
wanted to consult a larger con
cordance and some other refer
ence books.
We found in Bartlett’s “Famil
iar Quotations” that John Wes
ley once said “Certainly this is
a duty, not a sin. ‘Cleanliness
is indeed next to Godliness.’ "
Bartlett also reports Francis
Bacon, who lived some 200 years
before Wesley, said “Cleanness
of body was ever deemed to pro
ceed from a due reverence to
God."
But we were still not satisifed
that these wise words did not
come from the Bible, so we call
ed a young minister, not too
many years out of seminary and
he told us “You won’t find it in
the Bible."
But whether it Is In the Bible
or not — it’s a mighty good
quote for all to remember.
While we were looking up the
reference to Cleanliness came
across this “A thing of beauty
is a joy forever”; from the pen
of John Keats.
And certainly nothing can be
more beautiful than a clean
city, kept clean by people
who love beautiful things.
Speaking of an attractive,
beautiful city:
Good Evening knows of noth
ing that makes uptown Griffin
an unusually attractive city
more than the center parkways
that run down Hill and Solomon
streets.
The parkways, with their trees
and shrubs and flowers are not
only attractive but is also unus
ual, because one finds few cities
in Georgia that have maintain
ed their uptown parkways.
Both Hill and Solomon streets
are wide enough to provide sp
ace in the center for these park
ways. They can be trimmed a
few feet on the ends of them, at
Hill and Taylor, to care for traf
fic that makes turns left at that
intersection, but there is no need
for such elsewhere — at Hill
and Solomon there are no left
turns allowed.
Good Evening hopes Griffin
will always be a city that visi
tors will remember as “that
beautiful city with the parkways
and trees uptown.”
Owen Knows Os No Plan To
Move Experiment Station
News In Brief
Adm. Sharp Against Bombing Halt
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Adm. Ulysses S. G.
Sharp, commander of U. S. forces in the Pacific, has
warned Congress that a halt in the bombing of North
Vietnam would be a “disaster” for the United States
that would extend the war indefinitely.
Red Guard Gang In Viet
SAIGON (UPI) — South Vietnamese police said
today that Saigon may be in the midst of a Red
Guard orgy of terror aimed at Nationalist Chinese and
local Chinese supporting the allied war effort.
High Vietnamese police sources said they were in
vestigating the possibility that a Red Guard gang has
sprung up in Saigon after terrorists followed up twin
attacks on Nationalist Chinese Embassy personnel
by assassinating a wealthy local Chinese businessman
Tuesday night.
Bombing Suspects Out On Bond
JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) — Three men arrested
following a tense showdown with federal agents in
vestigating the bombing of this city’s only synagogue
were free on bond today as federal, state and local
investigators probed for evidence in the dynamiting.
Calm Restored In Dayton
DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) —— Helmeted, shotgun
armed police patrolled the predominantly Negro west
end today restoring calm after bands of young
Negroes went on a spree through the five square mile
area throwing rocks, breaking windows and looting
several stores Tuesday night.
Hartford Police Use Gas
HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) — Police used tear
gas to beat back crowds of young Negroes hurling
barrages of bottles Tuesday night and early today in
the summer’s second outbreak of violence in the city’s
predominantly Negro north end. Forty persons were
arrested.
US Pilots Fight
Off MIG Challenge
By EUGENE V. BISHER
SAIGON (UPD—North Viet
namese artillery killed one U.S.
Marine and wounded 100 more
on South Vietnam’s northern
border, despite massive Ameri
can bombing, military spokes
men said today. In the air
American jets bombed a major
North Vietnam army camp
after shaking off Communist
Mlgs In a stunning display of
aerial acrobatics.
U.S. spokesmen said more
than 300 North Vietnamese
shells ripped into Leatherneck
frontier forts Tuesday. They
said U.S. artillery returned the
fire and giant Air Force 852 s
staged four saturation bombing
raids against the North Vietna
mese gunners.
But even what commanders
called the greatest concentra
tion of U.S. firepower in the
war failed to halt the Commu
nist guns which have killed four
Marines and wounded at least
132 in two days on the muddy
border. So intense has become
the Communist shelling that
some U.S. aircraft were report
ed moved back farther behind
the battlezone.
In the air, Air Force FlO5
Thunderchief pilots for 18
minutes warded off a mass
attack by eight Communist
MIGI7s. Pilots said they were
too close to use their missiles.
At times only 100 feet separated
a MIG from an American plane.
Standoff Air Battle
The Thunderchief's used their
recently installed cannon in the
MIG alley brawl just north of
Hanoi four times but reported
no hits. The MIGI7s also failed
to score despite their pack
attack that was one of the
greatest aerial challenges North
Vietnam has thrown up against
U.S. raiders.
The Thunderchiefs managed
to swirl through and under the
MIGs and dump their bombs in
the middle of 15 army barracks.
Air Force pilots flew 69
DAILY NEWS
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missions against North Vietnam
Tuesday, spokesmen said. They
reported no planes downed but
Hanoi Radio said ground fire
got one. Bad weather gave U.S.
Navy pilots a rare day of rest.
In other action, U.S. spokes
men disclosed two accidents
that left six persons dead and 33
injured. Early today an Air
Force F4C Phantom jet ac
cidentally dropped a 750-pound
bomb on My Luc Village, 280
miles northeast of Saigon. U.S.
spokesmen said the bomb killed
one Vietnamese civilian and
wounded eight.
Baptist
Adopts
Hie Flint River Baptist Asso
ciation has adopted the highest
budget in its history.
The budge* was adopted at the
annual two-day association meet
ing which concluded Tuesday
night at Second Baptist Church.
The budget for the next year
will be $44,368. This is almost
$9,000 more than the budget of
$35,720 for 1967.
The largest income ever also
was reported. Hie highest at
tendance ever at a meeting of
the association was reported on
opening day at New Salem Bap
tist Church near Vaughn.
The association voted to pro
ceed with enlargement of the
Flint River Baptist Camp near
Pomona. It also approved the
construction of an assoclational
missionary’s home at a cost of
$35,000.
The Rev. Hartwell B. Kenne
dy, pastor of Second Baptist
Church, was elected to serve a
second year as moderator. The
Rev. A. C. Stephens, pastor of
DeVotle Baptist Church, was el-
GRIFFIN
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‘Clean Sweep 9
Secretaries at the Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce swaped their typewriters for
brooms this morning during operation “clean sweep.” Owners and operators of
businesses were asked to sweep the sidewalk in front of their establishments. Mrs.
Grace Young (r) continued sweeping while Mrs. Mildred Sawyer stopped to talk
to members of the Downtown Improvement Committee who were riding on a fire
truck. A Griffin Daily photographer was on the truck and will report on the
“clean sweep” in Saturday’s paper.
Beulah Smashes
Into Texas Coast
by KENNETH ENGLADE
BROWNSVILLE Tex. (UPI)
—Hurricane Beulah heavily
damaged Brownsville today,
then churned along the Texas
Gulf Coast, spinning off tor
nadoes that killed four persons.
The Department of Public
Safety (DPS) said four separate
tornadoes, spawned by the
weather system of the hurri
cane, struck Palacios, on the
middle Texas coast.
The twisters were blamed for
four deaths and critical
injuries to four or five other
persons. Three homes were
destroyed and their debris
Association
Record Budget
ected vice moderator for a se
cond term. T. C. Williams of
Highland Baptist Church was
elected treasurer for another
year and the Rev. Jack Bridges
of McDonough was elected as
sociation clerk for his 11th year.
No new churches were repor
ted during the year. However,
the Rocky Creek Baptist Chur
ch closed during the year. This
gives the association a member
ship of 53 churches and two mis
sions.
Every active church in the as
sociation was represented at the
meeting.
Water Cook of Pike County,
James Elerson of Henry County
and Paul Wade of Spalding Co
unty were named to the Juven
ile Rehabilitation Committee.
The Rev. Robert M. Lloyd, who
was named a member of the Ju
venile Referee Court of Spald
ing County, will head the com
mittee. Efforts will be ma d e
through the association to ex
pand the Juvenile Rehabilitation
Program to Clayton, Fayette and
spread over three acres, the
DPS said.
Other tornadoes were report
ed at Port Lavaca, where a
state highway department build
ing was damaged and a man
was injured on a farm, and
near Hungerford.
The tornadoes at Palacios hit
the tiny communities of College
port and Tintio, but causing
little damage there. Houses hit
by the Palacios twisters were in
a residential section at the edge
of town.
Beulah roared along the
outline of the Texas coast,
north-northwestward aiming at
Lamar Counties.
A resolution opposing pari-mu
tual gambling and horse racing
in Georgia was adopted.
Another resolution supported
legislation to provide stiffer pe
nalties for drunk driving. The
association was told that the le
gislation will be proposed In
January.
Gov. Lester Maddox was com
mended in a resolution for his
stand in upholding the law con
cerning gambling, alcohol and
Sunday closing laws.
The position of the Executive
Committee of the Georgia Bap
tist Convention, on the Christian
education “crisis” was endorsed
in a resolution. The committee’s
position is ‘that we do not en
large our schools beyond our ab
ility to pay, that we maintain
our convictions concerning the
separation of church and state
as to aids and grants and that
our schools remain as distinc
tively Christian as possible sin
ce this is the reason for their
existence,”
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Corpus Christi, a city of 190,000.
At Brownsville, the Fort Brown
Motor Hotel was heavily da
maged and a group of houses
near the Cameron County
Airport had heavy roof damage
and many were unroofed.
The U.S. Weather Bureau said
at 10 a.m. EDt the hurricane
was at latitude 26.1 north and
longitude 97.3 west, near
Brownsville, moving at 10 miles
per hour. The storm was
partially on land and partially
in the Gulf, a combination that
might cause it to weaken during
the day.
The Red Cross said 30,622
persons in Texas fled the storm,
blamed for 34 deaths in the
Caribbean, Mexico, and Texas.
The big eye of the storm
brushed the Brownsville area.
Country Parson
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“Machines never will re*
place men unless they can
be made so they won’t do
exactly as they’re told to
do.”
He Opposed Shift
Os Funds Handling
A Griffin attorney who serves
on the Board of Regents for the
University System of Georgia
said today he knows of no plans
to move the Experiment Station
from Griffin.
To the contrary, Jim Owen,
said that Chancellor George
Simpson plans to recommend
additional land be purchased-In
the Griffin area so that the sta
tion’s work can continue here.
Mr. Owen, in a statement to
day, said he had opposed a Bo
ard of Regents action last week
that transfers the handling of
federal funds from the director
of the Griffin station to a cen
tral director.
He said he thought the move
was a "serious omen for the fu
ture of the Griffin station.”
Mr. Owen explained the situa
tion in the following statement
issued this morning:
RESOLUTION
Last Wednesday the Board of
Regents adopted a resolution de
signating the Director of the
three Agricultural Experiment
Stations of Georgia as the indi
vidual responsible for the re
ceiving, disbursing and account
ing of federal grant funds. Be
fore this action was taken, this
responsibility was primarily that
of the Director of the Georgia
Experiment Station at Griffin.
Not only did I oppose the adop
tion of this resolution at the
meetng, I looked on it as a very
serious omen for the future of
the Griffin Station. My concern
was increased by the fact that
the resolution was presented, af
fecting an institution in my home
town, without any discussion by
its proponents with me before
its introduction.
TALK
On Mondp- of this week, Sen.
Robert H. Smalley, Jr. and I
went to Atlanta to confer with
the Chancellor of the University
System of Georgia and to state
our concern regarding the ef
fect of this change in the policy
of handling Federal funds. I ap
preciated the explanation offer
ed by Chancellor George Simp
son that his failure to discuss
this matter with me before the
resolution was presented to the
Board was an oversight which
he sincerely regretted. The chan
cellor reiterated the statement
made by him at the last meting
of th Board of Regents that the
resolution was prompted by a
recent letter to him from an of
ficial of the Department of Ag
riculture in Washington insisting
on the clarification or correction
of the delegation of authority in
Georgia relating to responsibili
ties for handling Federal funds.
The three Agricultural Experi
ment Stations, each having its
own director, are located in Gr
iffin, Tifton and Athens, respec
tively. They are under the im
mediate supervision of the Dir
ector of the Georgia Agricultur
al Experiment Stations of the
College of Agriculture at the Uni
versity of Georgia in Athens.
Hatch Act and related Feder
al funds granted for the three
Experiment Stations in Georgia
have heretofore been received
and handled by the Director of
the Griffin Station under the dir
ection of the over-all Director of
the three Experiment Stations,
resulting in a joint resopnsibility
in certain areas of handling
these funds.
FUNDS
Last year these Federal funds,
aggregating $1,445,519 for the
three stations, were distributed
Went To Extreme
ATLANTA (UPI) — Robbers
traditionally wear disguises to
hide their identities but the
thief who escaped with more
than SSOO from Emile’s Case in
downtown Atlanta early today
went to extremes.
Witnesses told police the rob
ber, who acted “hysterical”, en
tered the restaurant wearing
cotton gloves, a floor-length red
gown and a paper sack over his
head. When last seen, he was
fleeing down a city street car
rying a large butcher knife.
as follows: $140,905 to the Athens
Station, $223,950 to the Tifton
Station, and $1,080,664 to the Gr
iffin Station. Last year, as in
prior years, the over-all Direc
tor of the three stations was
responsible for submitting a bud
get including the proposed ex
penditures of all these funds. Yet
the director of the Griffin Sta
tion was required to approve ex
penditures and certify payments
while having little or no control
over expenditures at stations oth
er than the station at Griffin and
in some cases without having
evidence upon which to base ap
proval and certification.
The Board of Regents desir
ed to designate one person as
being responsible for receiving,
disbursing and accounting for
all federal grant funds for all
three stations. They felt that this
responsibility should be placed
solely on the over-all director of
the three stations in Georgia in
preference to placing it on the
director of any one of the three
stations.
POLICY
Knowing the historical back
ground of the Griffin Experi
ment Station, which prior to 1933
and the establishment of the
Board of Regents was an auto
nomous agency of the State of
Georgia, I urged that the pre
sent policy of handling federal
funds be continued. I was thor
oughly convinced that the dir
ector of the Griffin Station cou
ld be furnished adequate docu
mentation upon which he could
base his determination requir
ed for the approval and certifi
cation of all such funds for all
three stations. The resolution
adopted last Wednesday dimin
ished the responsibility of the
director of the Griffin Station
and I am unalterably opposed to
any action, be it trivial or signi
ficant in nature, that decreases
the authority of the director of
the station in Griffin.
Throughout the years the Geor
gia Experiment Station at Grif
fin has made a vital contribu
tion to the growth and progress
of our State. It is a valuable as
set to the economical and cul
tural development of our com
munity. The people in the Grif
fin area have cherished the pri
vilege of having the station here
since its establishment by the
Georgia Legislature in 1888. I
have always opposed any sugges
tion that would lessen its opera
tions or effectiveness and I shall
at all times vigorously resist any
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Prisoner
Escapes From
Work Detail
A prisoner serving a 20-year
sentence for burglary escaped
from a Spalding County Prison
work detail on High Falls road
today.
Johnny Gordy, 25, of Stockbrid
ge, escaped from the detail.
Griffin and Spalding County
officers joined in a search for
him.
He was described as being
White, five feet, inches tall,
weighing 170 pounds, medium
build, black hair, blue eyes, rud
dy complexion and having tatoos
and scars on both arms.
A spokesman at the Spalding
County Stockade said his fath
er lives on, Route Four, LaGr
ange. His mother lived in Stock
bridge, but has moved, he said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Increasing cloudiness
and warm tonight. Thursday
mostly cloudy and warm with
a chance of rain in the after
noon or night.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 85, minimum today
66. maximum Tuesday 86, mini
mum Tuesday 65. Sunrise Th
ursday 7:26 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 7:39 p.m.