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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
The Spalding County Fair,
sponsored each year by the
Ciwanis Fair Association, opens
onight, and despite the heavy
•ains of Sunday night and drip
ping skies all day today, the
weather man promises clearing
ind colder weather for most of
he week.
So don't let the dark clouds
‘get you down” if the weather
nan is right, and we sincerely
hope he is — there will be plen
ty of pleasant weather left to vi
sit the fair, which we are assur
ed will be “bigger and better
than ever.”
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The Red Cross Bloodmoblle
will be in Griffin Tuesday— 1:00
p.m. till 5:00 p.m. — at the Chea
tham Building of the First Bap
tist Church. Everyone who can
possibly do so is urged to visit
the Bloodmobile and give a pint
of blood that someone else may
be helped — someone else may
be saved — thanks to your do
nation. And, it could be that the
very pint you give would be used
for some dear one.
One never knows WHEN a
transfusion spells the difference
between life and death; Just as
one never knows WHO it will be
whose life will be saved.
Friday night Good Evening,
on his way to the Griffln-Ther
rell football game stopped for
supper at the Howard Johnson
restaurant, near the big Atlan
ta Braves stadium. The place
mats at each table told of the
1968 Olymphic Games to be held
in Mexico City. As we waited for
our order to be brought read the
interesting information telling
how the U.S. team that will be
entered is chosen, and who
would represent Uncle Sam in
the International event.
It was Interesting to Good
Evening to note that among oth
ers will be Griffin’s Own Wyo
mia Tyus, graduate of Fairmont
High, and how she won the wo
man’s 100 meter dash as a mem
ber of the 1964 team at Tokyo,
Japan. Miss Tyus, whose moth
er lives here, has been called
the fastest woman runner ever
to race in the Olympics and
Griffin is proud of her achieve
ments.
— ♦ —
Miss Cardee Allen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Allen,
1316 West Poplar, will have a
poem of hers “The Poet’s Night”
published in an anthology of
American poems, The Voice of
America, soon to be Issued by
the National Poetry Press. The
best poems published, since 1937,
have been chosen for this spec
ial anthology.
Since 1937, when the National
Poetry Press was organized
thousands of poems have been
published; and to have a poem
selected from all these to be
published in the anthology is
quite an honor for this young
lady.
Griffin is proud of her.
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Make your plans to attend the
Griffin Ealges — Grady High
football game at Memorial
Stadium Thursday night; not
Friday night, the game having
been moved up one night. The
game with Grady and one with
Gainesville, on November 3, the
last game of the season, are the
only home games remaining on
our schedule.
There are two other games to
be played out of town. Oct. 20th
we travel to Thomaston for the
R. E. Lee game; and the next
week, Oct. 27, back to Cheney
Stadium in Atlanta to play
Southwest.
»
See you at the game Thursday
night — Don’t forget it will be
played Thursday, not Friday.
Bloodmobile
Here Tuesday
The Red Cross bloodmobile
Will come to Griffin Tuesday.
Headquarters will be set up in
the Cheatham building of the
First Baptist Church from 11 a.
m. till 5 p.m.
Donald Young, area chairman
for the blood program, urged all
donors to plan to go to the blood
mobile Tuesday. He said the
need for blood continues criti
cal.
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Ferris wheel goes up at fairgrounds this morning.
Spalding Fair
Opens Today
Rain that fell in Griffin over
the weekend has not dampened
spirits at the Spalding County
Fairgrounds.
A parade through downtown
Griffin this afternoon beginning
at 4:45 was to kick off the 21st
annual Kiwanis fair.
A spokesman at the fairground
this morning said the rain had
not damaged the area and the
fair would open on schedule.
Griffinite Aboard Plane
Witness Says Little Plane
Was 'Sucked In’ To Jet Liner
By LAWRENCE FALK
ASHEVILLE, N. C. (UPD—
A witness to the collision of a
Piedmont jet airliner and a
private ailplane that killed 82
persons testified Monday it
looked as if the smaller craft
“was just sucked in” to the Jet.
The private plane, a twin-en
gine Cessna, disintegrated into
“a large ball of flame, a large
ball of smoke, and a small
boom,” said Vance R. Davis,
an employe of Olin Mathieson
Chemical Corp at Henderson
ville.
Davis testified at a National
Transportation Safety Board
hearing into the July 19th dis
aster, the nation’s worst of 1967.
The planes collided over
mountainous country just after
the jet took off from the Ashe
ville - Hendersonville airport.
Among the passengers were
Rape Believed Motive In *
Shooting At Hazelhurst
HAZLEHURST, Ga. (UPD—
An intruder, apparently Intent
on rape, sneaked into a farm
house Sunday, shot a father to
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-M, 1967
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The gates at the fairground
will open at 5 p.m.
Community clubs and indivi
duals were hustling about the
fairground this morning getting
exhibits ready for judging.
Workmen were busy on the
midway erecting the many rides
ready for the opening.
Tuesday flowers will be Jud
ged and the first school day will
be held. The gates will open at
newly appointed Secretary of
the Navy John T. Me Naughton,
his wife and son.
(W. Ennis Parker, president
of Pomona Products in Griffin,
was aboard the airliner and was
among those killed in the acci
dent.)
“I’ve been watching planes
for a long time,” Davis said.
“I was watching the jet climb
and I saw the Cessna, but I
thought the Jet would be high
enough to go over it.
“The jet was flying straight
and then the little plane looked
like he was just standing still.
“He just stood on his tail. The
nose section looked like he got
by and then he looked like he
was just sucked in.”
John A. Bessilieu of Hender
sonville, another eyewitness,
said it appeared to him “the
Boeing came out of the clouds
death and critically wounded
his teenaged daughter. The
mother escaped by “playing
dead."
Jeff Davis County Sheriff
Marcus Hall said a neighbor,
Kenneth C. Spell, 33, was
charged with murder in the
death of Clayton Glance, 50,
and attempted murder in the
wounding of dance’s daughter,
Beth, 14.
Hall said Spell, the father of
a five-year-old son, had admit
ted going to the dance home,
but otherwise “doesn’t remem
ber everything.” He said a
hearing for Spell might be set
later today.
Hall said the girl was taken
to a Hazlehurst hospital with
three bullet wounds in her
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, October 9, 1967
3:30 on school days. Beef cattle
and swine also will be judged.
Wednesday will be another sc
hool day and the talent contest
for junior high, senior high and
adults will be held at 8 p.m. at
the pavilllon.
Thursday night SI,OOO In mer
chandise will be given away by
Griffin merchants. A special
event Is being planned for Fri
day night at 8 o’clock.
The fair closes Saturday night.
about 30 seconds before Im
pact.” Davis who was was
standing In another area, said
the jet never was hidden by
clouds.
The board was scheduled to
hear 24 witnesses in an expect
ed two-day hearing. The crash
occurred about 4,000 feet above
a highway Interchange at Hend
ersonville.
The McNaughton's were pas
sengers In a Boeing 727 Jetliner
flying from Atlanta to Wash
ington with stops here and at
Roanoke, Va. It carried 74 pas
sengers and a crew of five. The
small plane, a Cessna 310, car
ried three persons. All were
killed.
At the time of the crash a
number of congressmen sug
gested small planes should not
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back. Clance was fatally shot
once in the head.
The sheriff said an intruder
apparently entered a window in
to the girl’s bedroom early
Sunday and held his hand over
the girl’s mouth, ordering her
not to scream. The girl broke
away and ran from the room
into the kitchen, where her par
ents were.
Hall said the intruder shot
the girl in the back, and then
turned the gun on the parents.
All of the victims fell to the
floor, but the mother wasn’t hit
and “played dead,” the sheriff
said. The intruder left and the
woman ran to a neighbor’s
house to notify authorities.
Hall said the apparent mo
tive for the intrusion was rape.
Smith’s Trial
Is Postponed
Defense Lawyer
In DeKalb Court
In Another Case
The murder trial of Ronald
Lee Smith, 23, was postponed
this morning until further no
tice due to the absence of his
attorney, Reuben T. Garland, of
Atlanta.
Richard N. Lee, attorney, re
presented Mr. Garland.
He asked for a continuance on
behalf of Mr. Garland. Lee told
the court that Garland was in
volved with a case in DeKalb
County and was unable to be in
Griffin to defend his client,
Smith.
Judge John H. McGehee of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit said
Garland’s absence created an
almost impossible situation.
“If I order this case to trial,
I must appoint attorneys. And
they must have time to prepare
the case,” he said.
Judge McGehee delayed any
decision until Lee could contact
Garland and determine if, for
any reason, he couldn’t be in
Griffin next Monday at 9 a.m.
Lee told the court that the
DeKalb case involved robbery
and might be lengthy.
Judge McGehee said he could
n’t conceive of any lawyer’s
talking a week.
After Lee made a report to
Judge McGehee, the judge de
layed the case, possibly until
next Monday.
Sol. Gen. Andrew Whalen, Jr.
excused witnesses in the case.
He said a new trial date would
be set and "all witnesses are ex
cused until further notice.”
The murder case against Carol
Jean Cone Smith, 21, was not
called this morning.
The Smiths were indicted in
connection with the pistol death
of Charles L. Vaughn, 22, a Grif
fin college student.
Indonesia
Breaks Off
With China
JAKARTA (UPD—The In
donesian government today
broke relations with Communist
China, handing Peking the
worst diplomatic defeat in its
18-year history.
The break in relations was
announced after an emergency
cabinet meeting called by
acting President Gen. Suharto
and an emergency meeting of
Indonesian diplomats called
home from Asian countries by
Foreign Minister Adam Malik.
Two years ago Indonesia was
one of Communist China’s
closest satellites. It boasted a
Communist party that ranked
third only behind those in China
and the Soviet Union.
But a steady deterioration in
relations came when the Com
munists bungled a coup d’etat,
and were driven underground
by anti-Communist army offi
cers and widespread massacres.
It later resulted in President
Sukarno and his pro-Peklng
policies being ousted. He was
replaced by Suharto.
The foreign office announced
the suspension of relations. It
handed a copy of its commu
nique to the Red Chinese
Embassy to be transmitted to
Peking.
The beginning of the end
came Sunday, Oct. 1, Commu
nist China’s 18th anniversary
and the second anniversary of
the bungled coup, when anti-
Communist students sacked the
Chinese Embassy and beat up
20 of its diplomats.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and cooler to
night. Tuesday fair and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 75, minimum today
63, maximum Sunday 76, mini
mum Sunday 59. Total rain
fall .88 of an inch. Sunrise
Tuesday 7:39 a.m., sunset Tues
day 7:15 p.m.
Vol. 95 No. 238
Supreme Court
Lets Order On
Schools Stand
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
Supreme Court today denied a
hearing to Louisiana and
Alabama school authorities who
sought to block a sweeping
school desegregation order for
six Southern states.
The court acted in a brief
order, without opinion. This let
standing as final a March 29
decision against the states
handed down by the sth U.S.
Teachers Give
Gov. Kirk Until
Oct 22 To Act
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPD—
The Florida Education Associa
tion (FEA) today gave Gov.
Calude Kirk until Oct. 22 to set
a date for a special session of
the legislature on education or
face a mass resignation by
31,424 teachers.
FEA President Dexter Hag
man said the special session
must be convened on or before
Dec. 4 to meet the teachers’
deadline.
“A lot of them wanted to
resign yesterday,” said Hag
man.
He said no flat amount of
money has been set by the
membership as a legislative
goal but he said SSOO million in
addition to what the 1967 session
provided would be a “good
start.”
Hagman told a news confer
ence that the FEA has already
collected a total of 31,424 signed
but undated resignations and
the teachers gave the board of
directors authority to date them
and turn them in at any time.
He said a mass meeting will
be held Sunday, Oct. 22 at a
place not yet designated and he
called this date “the day of
decision.”
He said “no teacher is going
to chicken out” and that he
expects more resignations to
come in before Oct. 22.
The FEA imposed sanctions
on Florida during the summer,
charging that Kirk’s “pay as
you go” education program was
wrecking the state’s schools.
Joined by the National Educa
tion Association, the FEA
declared Florida off-limits and
urged teachers from other
states not to accept positions in
the state.
Kirk has refused to call a
special session until his special
committee on quality education
completes its 16-month study,
but last week he said he
expected such a session to be
held “around the first of next
year.” His office later said the
governor did not mean to imply
he has changed his position.
The problem lies in the base
pay provided by the state. The
state’s minimum foundation
program establishes a $3,950
base starting salary, leaving it
up to individual counties to add
to it. The FEA wants the
foundation increased to $5,000.
Bulletin
ATLANTA (UPl)—The State
Board of Pardon and Parole
today commuted the death
sentence of convicted rapist
William Patrick Clark to life
imprisonment after a special
sanity commission failed to
agree on whether he was le
gally insane
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Agriculture Department today
estimated this year’s cotton
crop at 8,089,000 bales, small
est since 1921 and down 96,000
bales from last month’s fore
cast.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
‘The sth Circuit’s ruling, by a
12-man court, directed each
state in the Deep South to bring
about “a unitary school system
in which there are no Negro
schools and no White schools—
just schools.” AU grades,
including kindergarten, were
ordered desegregated for the
beginning of the current school
year.
The opinion used guidelines
established by the U. S. Office
of Education for school systems
that accept federal funds. The
standards apply to students,
teachers, school construction
and school-related activities like
athletics.
Louisiana Atty. Gen. Jack P.
F. Gremillion told the Supreme
Court the result of the circuit
court decision is to “ ‘force
feed’ a certain section of the
country with a diet unpalatable
and unprescribed for the
balance of the nation.”
“Unless the decision of the
majority is overruled, the
school districts in this circuit
wiU be relegated to a test tube
in the laboratory of administra
tive social experimentation,” he
said.
Appealing the decision were
Caddo, Bossier, Jackson, Clai
borne and East Baton Rouge
parishes (counties) and the city
of Monroe in Louisiana and the
cities of Bessemer and Fairfield
and the county of Jefferson in
Alabama.
The Louisiana authorities
tried to get the Supreme Court
to block the order temporarily
so that it could be appealed.
But on April 17 the court
refused to do so.
Besides Louisiana and Ala
bama, the decree applies to
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
and Texas. About 1,761,000
Negro pupils in these states are
now supposed to have access to
schools of their choice.
The decision was the first to
apply to each and every school
in the circuit. Earlier rulings
dealt with the desegregation
problem on the case by case
basis.
Eight Arrested In
Booze Crackdown
Eight people were arrested
over the weekend after they had
sold non-tax paid whisky, beer
and tax paid whisky without
licenses to an undercover agent
of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax
Unit.
The undercover agent had cir
culated in the Griffarea for two
weeks and made purchases of
illegal whisky twice from some
of those arrested, a revenue ag
ent said.
He took warrants for the peo
ple he purchased the whisky and
beer from and they were arres
ted over the weekend.
All of those arrested have
made bond, except one, who was
in Spalding County Jail this mor
ning.
Those arrested and the char
ges against them were:
Lowe Miller, 53, of Pomona,
possessing and selling non-tax
paid whisky, SSOO bond; George
Green, 43, South Sixth street,
Griffin, possessing non-tax paid
whisky, selling non-tax paid
whisky, SSOO bond each charge;
Y. T. Morton, 54, of Pomona,
possessing and selling non-tax
paid whisky, SSOO bond; Frances
Ellison, 24, of Route One, Grif
fin, selling beer without a licen
se, SSOO bond; Tommy T. Elli
son, 31, of Route One, Griffin,
selling beer without a license
and possession of beer for pur
pose of sale, -SSOO bond; Annie
Mae Green, 42, of Route Three,
Griffin, possessing and selling
Vandiver Is
Disappointed
With Maddox
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Gov. Ernest Vandiver said to
day he was “pleasantly sur
prised” by Gov. Lester Mad
dox’s inaugural address last
January, but that otherwise the
Maddox administration has
been disappointing.
“Hiere have been times when
the public image of the state of
Georgia has not been served by
the chief executive,” said Van
diver, who had to drop out of
the governor’s race last year
because of poor health.
“I was very pleasantly sur
prised at his (Maddox’s) in
augural speech, but since then,
I will have to admit there have
been disappointments.”
Asked to be more specific,
Vandiver told a televised news
conference only that he felt
Maddox was “needlessly inter
fering” in the matter of school
consolidation.
At present, local school
boards have authority to con
solidate schools within Geor
gia’s various public school sys
tems, but Maddox wants the
1968 General Assembly to pass
a law requiring referenda be
fore any school merger. Van
diver said local school author
ities should have the final au
thority on consolidation.
On other matters:
SENATE — Vandiver said he
didn’t expect “the opportunity
to arise” when asked to com
ment on reports that Sen. Rich
ard Russell, D-Ga., would step
down if Maddox would agree to
appoint Vandiver to the U. S.
Senate.
TAXES — He doubted "neth
er the 1968 legislature would in
crease taxes, principally be
cause of uncertainty over a na
tional tax hike and 1968 legis
lative elections.
POLITICS — Vandiver felt
California Gov. Ronald Reagan
stood the best chance of any
major candidate in either party
of carrying Georgia should
presidential elections be held
today. Nor did he believe there
was any major opposition to the
re - election of Sen. Herman
Talmadge, D-Ga.
non-tax paid whisky, 300 bond;
O. C. Baker, 63, of Route Two,
Griffin, two charges of selling
tax paid whisky without a licen
se; and Lawrence Mitchell, 60,
of Route One, Hampton, poss
essing non-tax paid whisky, sell
ing non-taxed paid whisky and
transporting non-tax paid whis
ky .being held in jail.
Bond for Mitchell has been set
at S3OO on each charge.
A car Mitchell was driving was
confiscated when he was arres
ted on the transporting charge,
officers said.
Country Parson
Uli
“It’s a race to see whether
air pollution can do us in be
fore mind pollution does.”