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VENIN VJ
By Quimby Melton
Remember the football game,
etween Griffin High and Grady
[igh, will be played tonight and
ot Friday night. The game was
loved up a night at the request
f the Grady High officials. The
ame will be played at Memor
il Stadium and begins at 8:00
'clock.
See you at the game, looking
irward to a victory for Our
lagles.
■ Today, Oct. 12, is “Columbus
’lay” and marks the anniversary
f the day when Christopher Col
.mbus landed on one of the Ba
lama Islands, and discovered
unerica.”
Columbus set sail from Palos,
Spain, under the sponsorship of
jueen Isabella, on August 3,
vith three ships in his fleet —
he Santa Maria, the Pinta and
She Nina. There were 30 officers
nd 90 crewmen making the
rip. Their first stop was at the
Canary Islands and the seas be
ng rough and stormy there was
, near munity, but Columbus ma
laged to prevail on the men to
continue the trip.
From Aug. 3 to Oct. 12, when
and was sighted, the seas got
rougher, the food scarcer and
here were threats to throw Col
lmbus overboard and turn back
"or home. Oct. 11, brush was
sighted floating on the waves,
ndicattng land was not far
iway. Shortly after midnight
and was sighted, a cannon was
ired announcing the good news
tnd at daylight the men swarm
id ashore on an island that Col
lmbus named San Salvadore.
During this trip he later vis
ted what is now the eastern tip
if Cuba and a land called Espa
lola (now Haitli and San Dim
ngo) At the latter one of the
ships was wrecked and Colum
bus had a fort built from the
wreckage and left a small garri
son there: then returned home to
Spain, arriving March 15.
Columbus made four trips in
all across the Atlantic, still se
arching for the mainland of Asia.
On one of them he got as far as
what is now Panama and Mex
ico.
One who would know more ab
out this man, credited with dis
covering America, though
there were earlier explorers who
landed on the American main
land further north much earlier
—will find interesting reference
books in our library they can
study.
Griffin is always delighted to
have worthwhile conventions
held here, for Griffin is a friend
ly community and likes to enter
tain visitors.
This weekend saw one of the
best attended conventions held
here in many years. It was the
139th annual session of the Ec
heconnee Association of Primi
tive Baptist Churches. The Grif
fin church was host, with its pas
tor Elder Robert M. Torrance
of Warner Robins, as modera
tor. The first session, Friday,
was held at the Griffin church
on West Solomon street. Then
Saturday and Sunday meetings
were moved to the Spalding Jun
ior High auditorium to care for
the crowds. Lunch was served
both Saturday and Sunday and
our friend Clarence Elliott, who
is one of the most active mem
bers of the Griffin church, re
ports that more than 2,000 lun
ches were served. Elliott also
reports elders from “all parts of
Georgia” as well as from Ala
bama, Mississippi and other nei
ghboring states attended.
It was a pleasure to have these
fine people in our community.
Each year the annual session
rotated among member chur
ches of the association; twelve
years ago it was held in Griffin.
Griffin looks forward to the
next time, probably 12 years
from now, when the association
will once again favor Griffin.
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Have you yet made your con
tribution to the United Fund? No
contribution is too small, nor is
any too large.
Have you visited the Kiwanis
Fair? If you haven’t you are
missing a great affair.
And don’t forget the ball game
tonight, Memorial Stadium, 8:00
p.m.
US To Ask For
More Cotton
B(g LARRY D. HATFIELD
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
federal government, declaring
once huge cotton surpluses have
been eliminated, is calling for a
65 per cent increast in produc
tion next year.
In announcing that cotton sup
plies have finally been balanced
with demand, the government
also has warned congress that
it might have to change the
minimum cotton acreage allot
ment permissible under the law.
The Agriculture Department
announced its 1968 cotton price
support and production control
program Wednesday. The pro
gram, which must be approved
by cotton farmers in referen
dum, calls for an Increase in
production from this year’s 46-
year low of 8.1 million bales to
13.5 million bales in 1968.
Planted acreage would be in
creased by about 15 per cent
from 9.6 million acres to 11.1
million.
One of the most controversial
facets of the proposed cotton
program is the return to less
rigid “skip-row” provisions. This
means, in effect, that only rows
actually planted to cotton are
charged as part of the grower’s
allotment.
Under the tightened provisions
of the 1966 and 1967 programs,
idle land between series of rows
was also considered part of the
allotment.
The skip - row provisions,
which promote higher yield and
better quality cotton, have been
vigorously opposed by some
Texas congressmen and other
legislators from areas where
high quality cotton is grown.
Undersecretary of Agriculture
John A. ScHittker said the re
turn to the less rigid skip-row
privisions “increase the chance"
that the government may have
to reduce its 16-million acre
basic munimum cotton allot
ment.
To further encourage in
creased production, the depart
ment said it would offer lower
price support payments on acre
age left idle above the manda
tory 5 per cent diversion requir
ed to qualify for price supports.
Agriculture Secretary Orville
L. Freeman said cotton suppl)
and demand has finally been
balanced and expected produc
tion next year will meet all
INSIDE |
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4*
Dr. Branditadt. Page 5.
Casualties Dip. p age 5 '
BPW Week. p a g e 6.
Cincinnati Rampage. Page 6.
Rusk Encouraged. Page 7.
Hospital. p ag e g.
Stork Club. Page 8.
Funerals. Page 8.
School Columns. Page 9.
Ray Cromley. Page 11.
Bruce Biossat. Page 11.
Lighter Side. p a g e 12.
Sheriff Killed. Page 12.
Game-Fish Shift. Page 12.
Betty Canary. Page 13.
Georgia News. Page 15.
Comics. Page 17.
Want Ads. Pages 18, 19.
Military. Page 20.
Colege. Page 20.
House Okays Pay Hike
For Federal Employes
By GENE BERNHARDT
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
“economy-minded” House today
challenged the Senate’s big
spenders to accept a $2.6 billion
pay hike for two million federal
workers and in the process pave
the way for semiautomatic
salary increases for themselves
every four years.
The House voted 318 to 89
Wednesday night for the three
stage pay increases, contained
in a bill that would raise postal
rates to bring in another SB9O
million a year.
Eager House members, mind
ful of the political potency of
715,000 postal workers and 1.2
million white collar federal
employes, disregarded their
recent economy drive in which
they have cut administration
spending requests while the
Senate has increased them.
In fact, economy in govern
ment, the dominant theme of
House talk in recent days, got
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domestic and foreign demands.
He said that the surplus of 16
million bales of two years ago
will have been reduced to a
“realistic carryover” of 6.5 mil
lion to 7 million bales at the
end of the current marketing
year next July 31.
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hardly a mention in two days of
debate on the pay bill.
Refuse Cutback
On crucial roll call prior to
passage, members refused 211-
199 to send the bill back to
committee with instructions to
chop off the second and third
stage pay boosts and their own
semiautomatic salary hikes.
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of
the Ways & Means Committee,
chief architect of the House
economy drive, vainly urged a
moderate pay increase. He
wanted the members to accept
only the first of the three yearly
increases guaranteed in the
measure.
The first stage—6 per cent for
postal workers and 4.5 per cent
for white collar employes,
retroactive to Oct. I—would
cost $628 million. The two
additional boosts—one on July 1,
1968, and the other on April 1,
1969—would give postal workers
an additional 6.2 per cent boost
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, October 12, 1967
Pritchard Arrested On
Robbery. Check Counts
(Photo Courtesy American Red Cross)
Gainor “Gigi” Gunter of Griffin is one of some 100
American Red Cross Clubmobile workers serving in
Vietnam helping to boost the morale of American
fighting men there. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Gunter, 1114 Pine Valley road, Griffin.
A full page picture feature on her work in Vietnam
will be published Saturday in the weekend edition of
the Griffin Daily News.
Bomb Pause Offer
Thieu Plans Talks
With .\ortli Vietnam
By MIKE FEINSILBER
SAIGON (UPI) — President
elect Nguyen Van Thieu will
invite President Ho Chi Minh of
North Vietnam for face-to-face
peace talks and offer a bombing
pause if he accepts, a govern
ment spokesman said today.
It could be the start of a
major new peace offensive. But
it was considered more likely a
and white collar workers 12.7
per cent more.
A Contradiction
“I don’t feel like being in a
position where we tell the
President to cut back and then
vote for legislation under which
he would have to spend,” Mills
said.
In an unusual swipe at the
administration’s war on pover
ty, the house provided that the
pay boost could not go to the
2,800 employes of the Federal
Office of Economic Opportunity,
the antipoverty headquarters
Republicans and Southern De
mocrats want to abolish.
The postal rate increases
voted would raise first-class
letter and post card stamps one
cent each; airmail and greeting
cards two cents each; news
publications 23 per cent over a
three-year period; and business
mailings, including so-called
“junk mail,” 32 per cent in one
year, all effective next January.
move to put the Communist
Hanoi leader on the spot in the
face of mounting criticism
against the United States for
not stopping the bombing.
The spokesman said Thieu
would extend the invitation
shortly after he is sworn in for
his four-year term of office Oct.
30. If Hanoi accepts, he will
order the bombing stopped for a
one-week period which presuma
bly could be extended.
But if Hanoi rejects the
invitation, or simply ignores it,
the spokesman said Thieu will
not order the bombing pause
and air strikes presumably will
continue.
Even this would be a political
victory, of sorts, for President
Johnson to use against critics of
his Vietnam policy who demand
that the United States cease
strikes against North Vietnam
to pave the way for peace talks.
Thieu plans to tell Hanoi that
he has no objection to the
National Liberation Front
(NLF), the Viet Cong’s political
arm, sitting in on the talks as
observers.
And he plans to offer positions
in his government to Viet Cong
leaders if they will cooperate
with him, the spokesman said.
“Any high official of the NLE’
who wants to cooperate with the
government will be accepted,
welcomed back,” the spokes
man said. “If he’s good enough,
he could become a cabinet
minister.”
The spokesman said Thieu
would agree to the talks
starting at either a high or low
level. But he said the president
elect hoped the Hanoi Commu
nist leader would agree that
they "sit together and talk
about our common problems.”
Vol. 95 No. 241
Negroes Ask
Recall Os
Atlanta Board
By EDWARD M-cHALE
ATLANTA (UPI)—A coalition
of Negro leaders called today
for the recall of the nine-mem
ber Atlanta Board of Education
and a quick hearing on a suit
seeking the total desegregation
of the city’s public schools.
The proposals were made in
a news conference held by Sen.
Leroy Johnson, the first Negro
to serve in the Georgia legis
lature since Reconstruction, and
the three-member Atlanta Sum
mit Leadership Conference.
They also said they were
“shocked” by the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce’s appar
ent decision to support the pres
ent school board in a continu
ing education controversy.
To recall the present school
board, which includes two Ne
groes, it would be necessary to
obtain approximately 40,000 sig
natures. The Negroes said they
would soon begin an effort to
obtain the signatures of both
White and Negro voters on the
petition.
“We are convinced there are
many, many White voters who
will support this move,” said
the Rev. Sam Williams. “We
think the recall of all members
of the board is the thing to do
at this time. And if the Negro
members of the board submit
themselves to re-election, let
the public re-evaluate them at
that time.”
Joining Johnson and Williams
in the recall proposal were Al
dermen Q. V. Williamson and
Jesse Hill, members of the
SLC.
Williams said it was not the
idea to have more Negro repre
sentation on the school board
and “we are not so much in
terested in a Negro-White ratio
as much as we are in people
who are interested in justice,
who have new ideas and fresh
imagination.”
As for the federal school de
segregation suit filed last
month, the Negroes said New
York attorney Jack Greenberg,
head of the NAACP Legal De
fense Fund, would arrive in At
lanta tonight to discuss with
them a “speedup of court ac
tion ... to permanently protect
our children from the seem
ingly perpetual educational neg
lect ..
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Modern Bible
Available At
Ministers Booth
The Griffin-Spalding Minister
ial Association is distributing a
modern translation of the Bible
at its Spalding County Fair booth
this week.
The ministers purchased 1,000
of the books to sell at 25 cents
each. They are being distributed
through the American Bible So
ciety nationally.
Many Griffin churches already
had made copies of the transla
tion available to their congre
gations.
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Griffin To Clash With
Grady Here Tonight
By ROGER DIX
The Grady High Grey Kni
ghts will be in Griffin tonight for
their Region 3-AAA battle with
Coach Max Dowis’ Eagles. The
game will begin at 8 p.m. at Me
morial Stadium.
The Griffin-Grady game origi
nally was scheduled for Friday
night. The playing date was
changed at the request of Grady
High officials.
Although Grady is off to a dis
mal start, the Grey Knights are
expected to give Griffin a tre
mendous battle.
Griffin thrashed Grady 52-7 a
year ago and the lopsided defeat
Grand Jury Holds
Special Session
J. B. Pritchard of Griffin was
indicted and arrested today on a
charge of robbery by use of an
offensive weapon and numerous
counts of uttering and passing
forged checks.
Pritchard was indicted this
morning at a special called ses
sion of the Spalding County Gr
and Jury.
A bench warrant was issued
for his arrest by Judge John H.
McGehee of the Griffin Judicial
Circuit.
Pritchard was taken into cus
tody about 1 p.m. today by Capt.
Lamar Blackmon and Officer
Paul Short of the Griffin Police
Department.
Every law enforcement officer
in Spalding County had been
alerted to be on the lookout for
the Griffinite.
A half-dozen or more officers,
headed up by Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert, searched Pritchard’s
home and a radiator shop, look
ing for evidence in the cases.
More establishments were sc
heduled to be searched this af
ternoon in connection with the
case.
Pritchard was indicted on a
oharge of robbery by use of an
offensive weapon in connection
with the theft of some SB,OOO
from the home of the late Bill
Morris at Orchard Hill.
The uttering and passing for
ged checks charge was in con
nection with the passing of
Plane Falls
6 Miles Into
Mediterranean
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI)—A
British European Airways Com
et IV plunged Into the
Mediterranean from nearly six
miles up today moments after
the pilot sent a routine message
that all was well. All 66 persons
aboard were killed including
three Americans.
Apparently the seven crew
men and 59 passengers knew In
advance they were falling out of
control from 29,000 feet up.
Bodies recovered from the
water were wearing lifejackets.
Cause of the crash was not
known.
Attendance At
Fair Close To
Last Year’s Pace
Attendance is running almost
as high as last year at the Spal
ding County Fair, according to
manager Tom Boggess.
He said the fair was only a
few hundred less at this point in
the week than last year at this
time.
Last year’s attendance was one
of the best on record in the fair’s
didn’t sit too well with officials
there.
A couple of people accused Co
ach Ormand Anderson of deli
berately running up the score.
However, the Griffin coach
used every player who made the
trip to Atlanta. Reserves played
nearly the entire second half.
It was just a game where ev
erything fell Griffin’s way.
Two of Griffin’s Champ
Vance and Robert Rohm, netted
more than 100 yards in pass re
ceiving. Vance logged 133 yards
and Rohm 110.
Two backs, Kerry Phillips
and Marvin Martin, broke the
some 30 fake Crompton-Highland
Mill payroll checks.
Pritchard was booked at the
Spalding County jail early this
afternoon. He was allowed to
make a phone call before offi
cers placed him in a cell.
Judge McGehee told the grand
jury this morning that they were
called back into special session
“because of circumstances that
have arisen since you were dis
missed.”
The jury deliberated about an
hour before returning the indict
ments against the Griffin man.
About 20 separate indictments
were returned for Judge McGe
hee’s signature.
Sheriff Gilbert said Pritchard
would not be allowed to make
bond because one of the charges
is a capitol offense.
Pritchard is 48-years-old and
lives at 408 East Mclntosh road.
Sheriff Gilbert said the search
warrants were issued so officers
could conduct a wide-spread
search for counterfeit $lO bills.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
through Friday with mild after
noons and cool again tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 72, minimum today
46, maximum Wednesday 68,
minimum Wednesday 42. Sun
rise Friday 7:41 a.m., sunset
Friday 7:11 p.m.
Country Parson
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“I hope you don’t mind
being preached t o b y a
young preacher — it’s hard
to have mature ones without
having had young ones.”
21 years, he said.
Rain Monday night cut open
ing night attendance by several
hundred, Boggess said. But the
fair has had good weather so for
the rest of the week, he noted.
Opening time was moved up
to 3:30 this afternoon but will
remain on schedule for the rest
of the week.
100 yard mark rushing. Phillips
had 102 and Martin 121.
Griffin’t offensive attack has
n’t been nearly that potent this
season and the Eagles are rated
just a slight favorite.
The Eagles are fresh off a
loss to Therrell High.
Griffin moved the ball well ag
ainst Therrell but mistakes hurt
the Eagles' attack.
Coach Dowis was also very dis
appointed by Griffin’s defensive
showing against the Panthers.
“I thought we would play a
much better defensive game
than we did,” he said after the
loss.