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E good VENIN VT By Quimby Melton ' I 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 Daily Since 1872 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 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, September 20,1967 K Ik* I r fl □■■c'7 i W ■ ox j HQ Wj . I; (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo) ‘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,” Vol. 95 No. 222 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 I “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 Continued on page 14 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.