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By Quimby Melton
An interesting letter from Al
len L. Gillett, president of the
Pioneer Building-Loan and Sav
ings Association of Troy, N.Y.
Sometime ago readers may re
member we wrote our column
about the origin of “Uncle Sam”
in connection with the United
States and reported that “Uncle
Sam” was a man named Samuel
Wilson, who was an inspector
of meats for the early Ameri
can army and lived in Troy, N.
Y. Also reported that it was a
writer for the Troy, N.Y. Post,
whose name was not remember
ed, who first used this expres
sion. Writing the editor of the
Troy Times-Record, now pub
lished in that city, and was told
there was no record in the archi
ves of that city that contained
copies of this early paper. The
Times-Record editor inclosed a
small folder, issued by the Troy
Building-Loan and Savings As
sociation, “The Origin of Uncle
Sam” in which the author told
the story of the man who was
the first “Uncle Sam.” Sent a
clipping to the president of the
Association and Monday got a
reply from him. He sent us se
veral copies of “The Origin of
Uncle Sam” and wrote:
“How I wish I could have re
ferred your letter and the clip
ping of your Good Evening to
the author of “The Origin Os Un
cle Sam,” Mr. J. J. Dunn (now
deceased) was the author. He
was an olive salesman for many
years and spent many of his
evenings on the road writing es
says on various subjects of in
terest to him.”
(Mr. Dunn and his habit of
writing essays at night, reminds
Good Evening of another travel
ling man — Griffin’s own P.Y.
Luther, who for many years was
a snuff salesman ..nd spent his
evenings memorizing poems of
interest to him.)
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The Savings Association pre
sident included in his letter co
pies of two other essays written
by Mr. Dunn. One of them is
“Our Country and Our Peo
ple.” Here it is:
Our National Declaration that
all Americans are endowed with
the divine right of humane lib
erty, freedom from oppressive
regulations and the privilege
of a prosperous life has the ap
proval of all our people.
Maintaining this established
tradition, overcoming many dif
ficulties, employing mental and
physical energy, we have ac
complished much and while our
achievements have not equall
ed our ambitions, we find con
solation in the fact that our Re
public form of government has
generously provided for our peo
ple in a practical and success
ful manner over a considerable
period of time.
Ours is a country with lofty
mountains, green valleys, beau
tiful lakes and treeclad hills
where melting snow and spring
time rains mingle with, Wgftty.
rivers finding their way down
to the sea. . . .
A place where the fragrance
of lilacs, and garden flowers pre
vail near a white cottage and
the delicate scent of wild roses
along a country lane leaves a
lasting memory. . . .
America is all of this: singing
birds, meadows of new-mown
hay and the drone of honey bees
over the fields of clover; the
corner grocery with its pleasant
odor of coffee and spices; the
drug store down the street with
its ice-cream soda, fragrance
of rare perfumes and mentally
alert attendant; summer out
ings, baseball games, and the
musically inclined patrons of the
barber shop singing the melo
dies of the Southland.. ..
Vast resources of mineral
wealth, high pinnacles on tall
buildings in the marts of trade,
with the National flag ruffling
in the summer sunshine. . .
A Nation’s harvesting abun
dance from fruit orchards,
vineyards, and wide fields of
grain; tremendous production
of cotton fields and tobacco plan
tations; herds of cattle and flo
cks of sheep grazing amid the
mountain ranges; oil wells, coal
mines, and electric power to
supply widespread industrial de
velopments, with a great sys
tem of transportation in a land
of pleasant residence. . .
Small towns and villages, gr
eat cities with wide boulevards
and acres of public parks, where
all are welcome; thousands of
churches and educational insti
tutions providing spiritual gui
dance and cultural development
>lor many millions. . . .
An energetic, mighty nation
of friendly and generous people,
j with good wishes and gracious
i greetings to all mankind.
City, County Balk On
Planning Committee
Group Seeks
Official Status
City and county commission
ers this morning balked at a
proposal that the Chamber of
Commerce Improvement Com
mittee be expanded and made
into a permanent City-County
Planning Committee.
However, both boards of com
missioners agreed to hear any
recommendations the Chamber
of Commerce committee might
make and act on those they
thought were within their reach.
The city and county commis
sioners met jointly at the Spald
ing Courthouse this morning.
Atty. John Goddard outlined
the proposal that the improve
ment committee be “given offic
ial status.”
He suggested if the two boards
would go along, then each of
them might want to appoint two
members additionally.
Jimmy Mankin, Griffin real es
tate developer, heads the Cham
ber of Commerce committee. It
has recently sparked interest in
a campaign to improve the ap
pearance of the downtown area.
Mankin said that the commit
tee, if given official status, could
expand its efforts.
He said the committee would
need some professional help and
might need some funds. Mankin
said later he was thinking in
terms of from SI,OOO to $2,000.
David Elder of the County
Commission said he thought the
idea of planning for the growth
of the Griffin-Spalding Commun
ity was a good one.
But he said he thought the
suggested committee was too
big and needed to be made up
of a grass-roots cross section of
citizens.
Experts sometimes come in
and lead a committee into re-
Buddhist Nun Dies
In Fiery Protest
By DANIEL SOUTHERLAND
SAIGON (UPD—A young
Buddhist nun drenched herself
with gasoline, struck a match
and died in a fiery protest today
against the government of
President-elect Nguyen Van
Thieu. A Buddhist official said
there would be more anti
government protests.
The suicide came just a few
hours after South Vietnam’s
national assembly turned down
by a vote of 58-43 demands that
the Sept. 3 election, be thrown
out because of irregularities.
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao
Ky,. the.. .vice • .president-elect,
promptly, issued.. a., plea to
Buddhists to, use “moderation”
in their disputes with the
government.
The nun, identified by U.S.
officials as Le Thai Cue, 20,
whose religious name was Tri
Diary Reveals Futile
Struggle To Survive
REDDING, Calif. (UPI)—
“It’s a bright and drippy,
drippy day. We are completely
soaked...”
That final entry in a
makeshift diary marked the
tragic end of a 54-day struggle
for survival by an Oregon
businessman, his wife and her
daughter.
It was written just four days
after Carla Corbus had printed:
“Today is my 16th birthday. I
want to be rescued today.”
The diary and the skeletal
remains of Carla and her
mother, Mrs. Phyllis Oien, were
found Sunday near the scattered
wreckage of a single-engine
plane that had been missing
since March 11.
The rugged Bully Choop
Mountain area 35 miles west of
this northern California logging
center still hides the body of
Alvin F. Oien, 59, a Portland
hotel owner who left his family
to seek help and never returned.
Hunter Discovers Wreckage
The grim discovery by a deer
hunter also ended a ceaseless
search by Oien’s son, Alvin Jr.,
32, a Delta Airlines pilot who
spent 107 days in the air over
northern California looking for
his father’s Cessna 195.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
commending “lofty ideas” that
are not practical, Mr. Elder ob
served.
He said he preferred for com
mittees to make suggestions and
present alternatives. Then let
the commissioners decide what
can be done and give some gui
dance of its own in approaching
the problem at hand.
Mr. Elder said he didn’t want
the commissioners to be bound
by any recommendations.
City Commissioner Kimsey
Stewart suggested that the
Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee function as it originally
was planned. He said it should
bring any recommendations or
suggestions it may develop be
fore the city and county commis
sioners to see what can be done.
Mankin agreed with Mr. El
der that the committee might be
too big. But he said he didn’t
think it could “get off the
ground” without the backing of
the city and county.
Mr. Stewart’s suggestion that
the Chamber committee func
tion as it should was coupled
with one that the city and coun
ty might jointly set up a plan
ning committee.
Mr. Mankin explained that the
Chamber group’s original goal
was to stimulate interest in im
proving the appearance of the
downtown area.
All three city commissioners,
Chairman Carl Pruett, Kimsey
Stewart and O. M. Snider, Jr.
as well as City Manager Jack
Langford and Atty. Goddard
were present.
County Commissioners pre
sent included Chairman Moss,
David Elder and Z. L. Wilson
along with County Atty. Jim
Owen.
Tuc Do, was a follower of
militant Buddhist leader Thich
Tri Quang. The monk last week
called for a “life and death”
struggle against Thieu.
Lieu Minh, an official at Tri
Quang’s pagoda headquarters,
today denounced the assembly
for upholding Thieu’s election.
He said the American people
and the world would come to
regret it.
"Since Thieu and Ky have
been elected, it means Pres
ident Johnson will lose the 1968
election,” Minh said. “This
election may be miserable for
the Vietnamese people now, but
if the American people re-elect
President Johnson it will be
miserable for the people of the
whole world.”
Minh said there would be
more demonstrations against
the Thieu-Ky government.
The younger Oien participated
in the initial 15-day search by
the Civil Air Patrol immediate
ly after the crash and continued
on his own throughout the
spring and summer. Sometimes
he flew within seven miles of
the crash site.
The diary, with entries by
both Carla and her mother, told
of the futile struggle for
survival. The first entry said:
“On leg of journey to Red
Bluff (Calif.). Plane on left side
in snowbank, 12:25 p.m. Fuse
lage broken. Door ajar. Win
dows on right side were broken
as well as windshield.”
Then the diary described the
injuries suffered in the flight
from Portland.
“Al” suffered a cut on the
chin, three cuts on the forehead,
a broken arm, crushed ribs on
the right side, and “pain in his
vertebrae.”
Phyllis was “delirious one
day,” suffering a broken left
arm, cuts of the right hand, a
broken left ankle and many cuts
and bruises, plus frost-bitten
feet.
Carla was less seriously hurt.
The diary noted she "hurt in
the back near her left kidney.
Sore right ankle. Cut on her left
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, October 3, 1967
Highway 16
To Be Closed
Wednesday
State Highway 16 west of Grif
fin will be closed Wednesday for
the construction of the Griffin-
Barnesville By-Pass.
John Reid of the State High
way Department said the route
will be closed at Carver road.
He said the route will be clo
sed during the daylight hours of
the day. It will be re-opened for
traffic Thursday.
Highway 16 will be the only
one closed for construction Wed
nesday, Reid said.
He said the detour route for
Highway 16 will be Carver road
to Williamson road, Williamson
road and Meriwether street to
12th street, 12th street to Poplar
street ar U. S. 41.
Five Paving
Projects
Delayed Here
A new state highway depart
ment requirement is expected
to delay paving five county
roads until next spring, the
Spalding County Commissioners
said today.
The requirement says that the
county must supply title certi
ficates on all the property con
nected with the roads.
County Atty. Jim Owen is se
curing the title Information but
it probably will not be ready in
time to meet the Oct. 15 state
shut-off date for such paving ag
reements. i
The requirement caught the
commissioners by surprise.
They had never before been
required to furnish such title cer
tificates.
Already graded and ready for
paving are Sapelo road, Mus
grove road, Oxford road, Hamil
road and Dutchman road.
Because, of the new ruling, the
county does not expect to be able
to pave these until next spring.
Bids Asked On
1-75 Markings
The State Highway Depart
ment has called for bids for di
rectional signs and traffic
stripes on the section of 1-75 be
tween Macon and Atlanta.
The informational and direc
tional signs and traffic stripes
are for the highway in Monroe,
Lamar, Butts, Spalding, and
Henry Counties.
The bids will be opened Oct.
27 at the state highway office
in Atlanta at 11 a.m.
knee."
Three days after the crash,
Carla tried to walk through the
snow but turned back.
“She returned because it was
snowing and foggy and no
visibility," the diary noted
dispassionately. “Her feet were
frozen and she lost her shoes.”
Food Runs Out
Oien left the scene at the
5,000-foot level of the mountain
five days after the crash, when
the diary said there was "one
glass ■of jelly remaining.” It
was the only reference to food.
A week later an entry written
by Mrs. Oien said: "Fear Al did
not make it for help. Getting
weak.”
Many entries only reported
the weather—two days of
sunshine and the rest snowy and
rain. The diary also referred to
attempts to keep the Interior of
the wreckage warm by putting
canvas and other materials over
the broken windows.
"The flaps keep blowing off,”
Carla wrote.
She made her birthday wish
on April 30, and the final entry
was dated May 4.
“It’s a bright and drippy,
drippy day. We are completely
soaked. . .
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A DOG’S LIFE seems to suit 7-year-old Rebecca Knorr of Washington just fine.
The displaced weimaraner is named Sanji.
Hurricane Fern
Aims At Mexico
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (UPI)
—Hurricane Fern, which had
been following the path Hurri
cane Beulah took across the
Gulf of Mexico two weeks ago,
veered west today toward the
Mexican coast and it appeared
south Texas might' be spared.
The New Orleans Weather
Bureau predicted Fern, with
highest winds of 85 miles an
hour near her center, would hit
the Mexican coast tonight and
warned that even the backlash
of torrential rain from Fern
would be serious because the
lower Rio Grande Valley is still
sodden from Beulah’s rains.
The hurricane was 200 miles
east of Tampico, Mexico, and
230 miles southeast of Browns
ville and was traveling west
northwest at a forward speed of
eight miles an hour.
“A change to a more westerly
course is indicated later today,”
a weather bureau advisory said.
“Indications are that the
center of Hurricane Fern will
move inland on the northeast
Mexican coast between Tampico
and the mouth of the Soto La
Marina River tonight.”
“A saturation point was long
ago reached and any new rains
would be entirely runoff and
Clothing Drive
‘One Os Best’
The Kiwanis Club of Griffin
today thanked Griffinites for
clothing they contributed during
the clothing drive Monday night.
The clothing will be distri
buted to needy children in the
Griffin-Spalding School System.
“This was one of the best
clothing drives we have ever
had,” Dr. Harry King, co-chair
man of the clothing drive com
mittee, said.
Dr. King said the quality of
the clothing donated during the
drive this year is better than it
has been in years past.
Dr. Henry Gold served as
chairman of the drive and Dr.
King as co-chairman.
They expressed their apprecia-
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“The easiest things to re
member are those which
were learned with the great
est pain.” .
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would result in a serious
matter,” said A. F. Bettel of
the International Boundary and
Water Commission.
Beulah was one of the three
worst hurricanes of history,
killing 44 persons in the
Caribbean, Mexico and Texas
and doing $1 billion damage.
Bloodmobile
Visits Oct 10
The next visit of the Red
Cross bloodmobile to Griffin
will be on Oct. 10.
Headquarters will be at the
First Baptist Cheatham build
ing. Donors may go to the
blood center from 11 a.m. till
5 p.m.
Donald Young, area chair
man, said the need for blood is
critical. He said that the Grif
fin-Spalding Hospital is getting
numerous requests for blood
and the blood bank is unable
to fill all their needs.
He urged all eligible donors
to plan to go to the bloodmo
bile Oct. 10.
tion to Dundee mills for provid
ing a place for storage and dis
tribution of the clothing. The old
nursery building at East Griffin
School is being used this year.
Dr. King said it would be some
time before the number of pie
ces of clothing collected Mon
day night is known. The clothing
will be sorted and mended by
the Home Economics girls at
Griffin High School.
“A lot of people said they did
not have their clothing ready
Monday night,” Dr. King said.
He said they can call 227-2428
and the clothing will be picked
up or it can be left at Saul’s
Department Store.
Anyone wishing to may make
a cash contribution to the drive,
Dr. King said. He said cash col
lected will be used to purchase
shoes for needy children.
Sixth District
GEA Convention
To Be Oct 16
The Sixth District convention
of the Georgia Education Asso
ciation will be held at Griffin
High School on Oct. 16.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert of Ma
con will preside.
Department meetings will be
gin at 9 a.m. and affiliate meet
ings will start at 10:15. General
meetings will be held at 11:30
a.m.
Sol. Gen. Slaton
Urges Crackdown
On Atlanta Gangs
ATLANTA (UPD—Fulton
County’s solicitor has urged a
police' crackdown' to break up
teen-age gangs in Atlanta be
fore they become organized.
“They must be curtailed im
mediately,” Sol. Gen. Lewis R.
Slaton said Monday.
“It appears now that these
gangs are just youngsters who
get together and decide on the
spur of the moment to commit
a crime or to harass,” he said.
“Now, there is no organiza
tion, no leaders as such and no
marked off territories. But it is
logical that from within these
loosely knit groups leaders will
emerge.
“When this happens they will
adopt gang names, territories
and will plan their violence
from day to day,” Slaton said.
Slaton said the young hoods
in the city at present are in
loosely knit gangs. But he said
indictments involving burglary,
robbery and auto theft by teen
agers in the city “are way up
this year.”
“Apparently they believe
there’s safety in numbers,” Sla
ton said.
“Most of this type of activity
is occuring in the areas where
there is high unemployment,
areas in which the broken home
is common and there is no
adult supervision.”
Access Road
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
Department of Transportation
has allocated $400,000 for Geor
gia Highway 66 to provide an
access to the Bald Mountain -
Brasstown area.
Thief’s Letter
Solves Mystery
CINCINNATI (UPD—A rum
pled, postage-due letter solved
a mystery Monday for a young,
newly-married couple.
The letter, with no stamp and
carrying only the return ad
dress of “East Elmhurst,
Queens, New York,” arrived
for Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Maciag of suburban Finney
town.
The young couple had their
New York honeymoon ruined
last month when a suitcase,
containing Mrs. Maciag’s cloth
ing, motion picture film, photo
graphs, their marriage license
and other wedding mementos,
was stolen from their car.
The mystery of the missing
suitcase was cleared up In the
penciled note on yellow, ruled
paper, which read:
“What I have done is terrible.
It was, nevertheless, completely
and totally necessary evil. I am
a hopeless drug-addicted bum. I
have been on drugs for 15 years
and I have to pay out about S4O
a day to a bunch of money
Project In
Long - Range
Planning
Griffin may be linked eventu
ally with 1-75 by a four-lane
highway.
This came to light this morn
ing when a Spalding County Gr
and Jury Committee visited the
County Commission meeting.
Walter Bugg, a member of the
committee, asked if Highway 16
entering Griffin from the west
would be routed down Taylor st
reet.
Chairman jack Moss of the
County Commission said it
would.
The route eventually may be
come part of a four-lane high
way that will link Griffin with
1-75 to the east, Chairman Moss
said. He said that this was in
the long range planning stages
and nothing definite has been
decided.
Serving on the grand jury
committee in addition to Mr.
Bugg were Richard Cox, E. C.
Hulsey, and Charlie Pitts.
They made a routine inspec
tion of the county commission’s
office as part of the grand jury’s
duty at this term of court.
The committee checked the
county’s current financial state
ment and found it had sufficient
funds to operate without having
to make a loan.
Commissioner David Elder po
inted out that the county had
not had to make a loan for ope
rating money since 1961.
Chairman Moss told the com
mittee the county picked up an
additional $26,000 for county ope
rations during the revaluation
program last year.
He pointed out the county ex
pects to pick up approximately
the same amount this year.
Chairman Moss said the gains
were part of the county’s na
tural growth.
Mr. Hulsey noted that the co
unty tax digest had increased
this year and that this would
give the county a broader tax
base.
A delegation of citizens from
the Midway Community met with
the commissioners about traffic
at the intersection of High Falls
and Highway 155.
At their request, the county
agreed to install four-way stop
signs at the intersections, al
though they are not legally bind
ing.
The county said it would in
stall the signs in an effort to
help reduce the traffic hazard
at the heavily traveled intersec
tion.
The county has similar signs
in a few other places about the
county where it has tried to re
duce traffic hazards.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
tonight and Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 82, low today 56. high
Monday 82, low Monday 54; sun
rise Wednesday 7:35, sunset
Wednesday 7:23.
grubbing vulchers called dope
pushers.”
“I am returning your mar
riage license and some photos.
(A wilted corsage also was in
cluded.) Some of the other
things I cannot return because
to do so would entertain the
possibility of my being arrest
ed."
“Again, I am sorry. If you
ever have the opportunity dur
ing your lifetime to aid an ad
dict, please do so. It may lead
toward the elimination of inci
dents of this kind happening to
you and others in the future.
“Good luck, happy honey
moon and a rosier tomorrow to
you.”
The letter was signed
“Thief.”
While disappointed that some
of her things were gone, Mrs.
Maciag reacted with mixed
feelings.
“Anybody who would take the
time to do this has some kind
of heart, some kind of feeling,"
she said. “I feel sorryjor him.*'