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’Good Evening will miss the
\me Friday night with R. E.
ae in Thomaston. This will be
ie first game we will miss, but
e will be in New York that
»ght, and though there’ll be
lany miles separating this
pg-time Eagle fan and the
*en out there playing for our
fam we’ll be “pulling” for
pern.
! And we will not be surprised
tie bit if our office calls us at
ie Hotel Taft Saturday mom
ig and tells us the Eagles won
ie game. It takes a most im
artant date in New York to
lake us miss that game.
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But W’hy is the date so impor
ant?
. It so happens that the Eighty
econd Division will hold its
Oth reunion in New York on
aturday. This is the same div
sion to which Good Evening was
sslgned as a young captain
.’hen it was organized at Old
:amp Gordon, then located nor
h of Atlanta, in August of 1917;
nd it is the same outfit with
?hich he served throughout
Vorld War One and came home
vith and was discharged from
.fter some two years service.
50th anniversaries do not come
wery day in the year. We are
ooking forward to being there
ind hope to run into a lot of men
vho were with the 82nd — All
American ~ way back yonder.
To say we are looking forward
vith pleasure to the reunion is
jutting it mildly. We might say
ve are as excited as any bride
o-be as she thinks of her wed
ling day and honeymoon.
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The other day wrote our col
umn comparing prices of
groceries in Russia and in the
Jnited States. This morning
ooking through some newspa
pers and publications that come
to our desk and was interested
in a story published in “The
Mill Whistle,” weekly paper
published by The Jefferson
Mills, at Jefferson, Ga. It told
of an interview with a visitor
from Germany. He compared
prices and wages, and things
one buys, with those in Amer
ica and wound up saying the
people in Europe call America
•‘The land of unlimited possi
bilities.”
Then reading further in this
textile paper came across an
article stressing the impor
tance of the customer In all bus
inesses. Believe it well worth
passing on.
A customer is the most impor
tant person in any business.
A customer is not dependent
on us — we are dependent on
him.
A customer is not an interrup
tion of our work — he is the pur
pose of it.
A customer does us a favor
when he calls — we are not do
ing him a favor by serving him.
A customer is a part of our
business — not an outsider.
A customer is not a cold sta
tistic — he is a flesh-and-blood
human being with feelings and
emotions like our own.
A customer is not someone to
argue or match wits with.
A customer is a person who
brings us his wants —it is our
Job to fill those wants.
A customer is deserving of
the most courteous and atten
tive treatment we can give him.
A customer is the lifeblood of
this and every other business.
Tonight Good Evening expects
to attend the annual “Newco
mers Banquet” given by the
Woman’s Division of the Cham
ber of Commerce to many who
have moved to Griffin during
the past 12 months. The guest
list is made up from names fur
nished by members of the or
ganization.
Good Evening can truthfully
say to those “Newcomers” who
are present (and he was a
'“Newcomer” himself 42 years
ago) “You will like Griffin and
Griffin people and never regret
having moved to this commun
■ ity.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair tonight and Fri
j day. Cold again tonight with
chance of scattered frost.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
’today 67, low today 39, high
'Wednesday 67, low Wednesday
47, sunrise Friday 7:47, sunset
Friday 7:oa.
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(Kiwanis Photo by Ken Ford)
Life Saver
George Dixon (1) of the Kiwanis Club Business and Public Affairs Committee pre
sented a special citation to Donald Kilgore (second from left), Wednesday.
Kilgore, an employe of the Light and Water Department, was credited with saving
the life of his boss, David Kendrick. The truck on which Kendrick was working
became energized with electricity when its equipment hit a line. Kilgore freed Mr.
Kendrick and gave him artificial respiration. On hand for the presentation were
Arthur Fountain (third from left), and Charlie Smith (r), supervisors in the Light
and Water Department.
Peace Movement
Divided Over
Protest Rally
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
U.S. peace movement is deeply
divided over a mass protest
rally scheduled to take place in
the nation’s capital this week
end.
Some religious groups active
in previous antiwar demonstra
tions are having nothing to do
with this one. They fear it will
do their cause more harm than
good.
The same sentmient is
expressed by some of the
congressmen who have been
most critical of the Vietnam
war.
The National Mobilization
Committee to End the War in
Vietnam, which is organizing
the rally, predicts that 70,000
persons from all parts of the
country will take part in the
rally. It will begin Saturday
with a march from the Lincoln
Memorial to the Pentagon.
Some of the demonstrators
plan to camp on the Pentagon
grounds until Monday morning,
when they hope to form a
human barricade across the
entrance roads to keep the
building’s 27,000 employes from
reporting to work.
. Reach Impasse
Government officials have
offered a permit for the march
and for a mass meeting in the
Pentagon’s vast parking lot,
provided the demonstrators
clear out before the Monday
morning influx of workers to
the world’s largest office
building. Rally officials thus far
have refused to accept that
proviso, and the situation
contains the seeds of possible
violence.
Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch,
director of the Social Action
Center of Reform Judaism, said
major religious groups are “not
having anything to do with this”
although individual Protestants,
Catholics and Jews, including a
number of clergymen, doubtless
will participate.
“This demonstration was or
ganized and is being run
entirely by the radical left,”
said Rabbi Hirsch.
He said that although he is
strongly opposed to the Vietnam
war on moral grounds, “I can’t
go along with these folks who
think that everything the United
States does is wrong, and
everything Hanoi does is right.”
The Rev. John Wells, pastor
of Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church
in suburban Alexandria, Va.,
said he was involved in eari>
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discussions of the rally but
withdrew and is now advising
his congregation to give it a
wide berth. The Unitarian
minister said he was “deeply
disturbed about some of the
people who seem to be running
this show.”
Communist Chairman
Chairman of the National
Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam is Dave
Dellinger, 52, of Hampton, N.J.
Dellinger has publicly described
himself as “a non-Soviet type
Communist.” He is editor of the
pacifist Liberation Magazine
and served a prison sentence
during the 1940 s for refusing to
register with Selective Service
as a conscientious objector.
Dellinger visited Hanoi last
fall, and said he had a personal
interview with North Vietna
mese President Ho Chi Minh. In
1964, he visited Cuba and
expressed admiration for Fidel
Castro’s regime.
Plans for the forthcoming
rally were initiated at a
meeting of antiwar groups held
at a private school in Washing
ton last May 20-21. Among the
nearly 700 participants were
Arnold Johnson, national public
relations director for the
Communist party, and three
members of the party’s national
committee—Bettina Aptheker,
Archie Brown and James
Jackson.
Sheriff’s Hearing
Planned For Nov. (>
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
Lester Maddox Wednesday set
Nov. 6 as the date for a hear
ing on whether Jackson County
Sheriff L. G. Perry should be
dismissed for malfeasance in
the enforcement of liquor laws.
The hearing is required by
law. The Jackson County Grand
Jury Tuesday charged Perry
with failing to enforce the laws
and with conspiring with moon
shiners to control illegal whisky
sales in the county.
The date for the hearing was
revealed by a spokesman for
the governor. Maddox was
aboard the S.S. Independence
enroute to the Virgin Islands
and the National Governors
Conference when the jury is
sued its findings.
Maddox had earlier threat
ened to fire Perry when an in-
GRIFFIN
Australia PM
Sees Summit
Os Viet Allies
CANBERRA, Australia (UPI)
—Prime Minister Harold Holt
said a summit meeting of
Vietnam allies is likely to be
held in late November or early
December.
Holt told a news conference
the summit meeting probably
would be in Seoul, South Korea
or Bangkok, Thailand.
Pressed for details on the
summit, Holt said only that it
was necessary to pool informa
tion.
Most of the news conference
was given over to Australia’s
role in the war and the
possibility of Australian aircraft
taking part in air attacks
against North Vietnam.
Holt said his government had
no objection to such attacks.
“We are not looking for a
sheltered role for Australian
forces,” he said. “They play
their part with other forces in
Vietnam.”
Newsmen questioned Holt
about the use of Australian jet
pilots who, it was announced,
had been attached to a U.S.
Marine unit in South Vietnam.
The prime minister said the
Australians had not been
trained to fly from U.S. aircraft
carriers used as bases for
attacks against the north. But
he said Australia was buying
American Skyhawk jets, which
would be delivered to the
Australian carrier Melbourne
later this year.
vestigation of the Aug. 7 assas
sination of North Georgia Sol.
Gen. Floyd Hoard turned up
evidence against Perry. How
ever, Maddox decided to leave
the matter to local authorities.
Perry will have a chance to
defend himself at the hearing.
Then Maddox will decide
whether Perry should be re
moved from office.
The grand jury charged Perry
with having “knowingly failed
and grossly neglected to enforce
the laws of this state relating
to the sale of intoxicating li
quors.”
The jury made no recom
mendation on whether the sher
iff should be discharged but
said its findings should be
turned over to Maddox “for
such action that he sees fit.”
Second Grader
Killed In Mishap
Boy, 7, Ran
In Front Os
Automobile
A seven-year-old Griffin boy
died at the Griffin-Spalding Co
unty Hospital Wednesday night,
four hours after being struck by
a car on South Hill street.
Tom Whitehurst, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Whitehurst, Jr.
of 651 South Hill street, ran in
to the path of a car driven by
Nancy Louise Luke, 56, of 134
Ella street, Griffin.
Witnesses told officers he ran
Into the street and did not look
either way or stop. He suffer
ed massive head injuries.
The fatality was .the second
of the year in the city. A pas
senger in a truck was killed on
the North Expressway several
weeks ago.
It was the first pedestrian fa
tality of the year. One pedes
trian was killed in the city in
1966 and two in 1965.
Whitehurst was a second gr
ade student at Third Ward
School.
Survivors other than his par
ents, include, three sisters, Gail,
Wanda and Cherry Whitehurst:
six brothers, S4-C Jesse R.
"Rad” Whitehurst 111, USA, Al
aska, Mike, Greg, Mark, Grady
and Tyler Whitehurst, all of Gr
iffin; grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Abe Boyt and Mr and Mrs.
J. R. Whitehurst, Sr., all of Gr
iffin.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at Mc-
Donald Chapel at 4 o’clock. The
Rev. J. K. Kelley and the Rev.
C. Edward Davis will officiate.
Burial will be in Oak Hill ceme
tery.
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Tom Bradley Whitehurst
United Fund
At $46,900
Contributions to the United
Fund today reached $46,900. The
goal for Griffin and Spalding Co
unty is $73,003.50.
Nine agencies will share In
the funds collected through the
annual drive.
Solicitors working on the cam
paign have been urged to com
plete their calls so the drive can
be completed.
Newton Penny, Experiment
Station economist, is chairman
of the drive.
Country Parson
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“Most folks keep their
wardrobes more up-to-date
than their minds.”
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Leaf Time
It’s that time of year again. The weather is cooler and
leaves have begun to fall from most varieties of trees.
Mrs. Jack Ryan raked some of the first leaves to fall
in the yard of her home on Springer drive.
Senate Panel Bent
On Okay Os Quotas
WASHINGTON (UPI) — De
pite a heavy administration
barrage, the Senate Finance
Committee appeared today to
be bent on approving import
quota bills. But a move to tack
them onto a veto-proof Social
Security measure apparently
has been dropped.
Sen. George A. Smathers,
Fla., No. 2 Democrat on the
committee, said, “There just
aren’t enough votes to make
quotas a rider on Social
Security.”
“But,” he added, “I don’t
think there are enough votes to
stop the quota legislation.”
Led by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, the secretaries of
the Treasury, Commerce, Inter
ior and Agriculture warned
Wednesday that import-cutting
quotas would invite retaliation
by other nations, creating chaos
for the $56 billion in U.S.
overseas trade that provides
nearly three million American
jobs.
Rusk painted the darkest
picture, though the other
cabinet members were not
exactly lighthearted about the
quota threat. He said quotas
raised the spectre of depression
at home and disarray among
America’s allies abroad.
The committee resumes its
hearings today on quotas for oil,
steel, textiles, lead, zinc, meat,
dairy products and other items.
The administration estimates
that such quotas would affect $6
billion worth of imports and
that foreign countries would
retaliate by blocking $6 billion
worth of U.S. exports.
After the Cabinet delegation
had testified Wednesday, Sen.
Russell B. Long, D-La., Finance
Committee chairman, said,
“They put their case in the
strongest possible light—and
then they exaggerated it. I don’t
buy the extremes on either side.
The answer is somewhere in the
middle."
If passed by Congress, a
quota package faces almost
certain veto from President
Johnson.
Raps Demonstrators
Gen. Walt Sees
Long Stay In Viet
By ED MCHALE
ATLANTA (UPI) — The for
mer commander of U. S. Ma
rines in Vietnam says the Uni
ted States is going to be in
volved in the war “a long
time” largely because of Amer
ican peace demonstrators.
Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt told
a news conference that widely
circulated press reports of
American peace demonstrations
encouraged Hanoi’s belief the
Communists will “win this war
in the psychological and politi
cal arena.”
“They know they can’t win
this war on the battlefield,”
said Walt. “They think if they
prolong the war and kill enough
soldiers, they are going to
win.”
Walt said he felt one of the
most important steps in shor
tening the conflict would be “to
get all our American people in
back of our fighting forces over
there.”
He condemned the demonstra
tors as “a lot of people being
misguided by a few people.”
Walt also said a pause in the
U. S. bombing of the north
Griffin Man
Tells About
Losing Leg
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — A string
of witnesses told a bizarre and
often conflicting tale of the ac
tivities of former chief Reids
ville State Prison physician J.J.
Arrendale as he fought Wednes
day to get his job back.
The State Merit Board heard
more than six hours of testi
mony, then postponed a decision
on Arrendale’s appeal of dis
missal on charges ranging from
negligence and “sadistic” treat
ment of inmates to selling their
blood for a fee. He maintained
the charges were unfounded.
Much of the testimony cen
tered around the plight of
Tommy Lee Stewart, a former
prisoner who lost his leg after
receiving treatment at the hos
pital for a broken knee.
Another prisoner, James Wal
den DeVeau, told the Inquiry
board that an inmate identified
simply as “Pickelsimer” died
of what appeared to him to be
heart trouble after a stint of
solitary confinement the state
alleged was induced by Arren
dale as punishment for re
fusing to give blood.
Various state officials testi
fied in Arrendale’s behalf, Inclu
ding Jack Kennedy of the Cor
rections Board who said the doc
tor was fired after the board
was notified "the man” wanted
him dismissed.
Witnesses said Arrendal col
lected $1,212.50 in fees from the
Talmadge Memorial Hospital in
Augusta last year for handling
blood donations from prisoners.
But Dr. Rufus Payne, former
director of the hospital who
said he helped set up the blood
bank program before Arrendale
was employed by the prison in
1961, said hosiptal officials in
sisted on the fees ofter Arren
dale had volunteered to handle
the donations for free.
Stewart, 32, an unemployed
Griffin man and former taxi dri
ver, told the board he was
left basically unattended for
three days after a cast was ap
plied to his smashed kneecap
by Arrendals last April 25.
When the cast finally was re
moved, after another doctor
split it with a saw and left a
long gash in his leg. The limb
“was black with big blisters,
swelling, and no feeling,”
Stewart said. "It was told to
my family that the cast was ap
plied wrong. I was told it was
neglection and poor circulation
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would be as big a mistake as
believing American war dem
onstrators are in the majority
in this country.
“Any pause in the bombing
is going to lengthen the war
and cause more casualties
among our troops,” Walt said.
“I feel anything we can do to
stop the flow of materials, per
sonnel, artillery, arms and
equipment (from North Viet
nam) is going to shorten
the war and prevent casual
ties.”
Walt said that although battle
field victory was important,
the key to total victory in Viet
nam was pacification and re
vitalization of South Vietnam.
“I believe we can go on kill
ing Viet Cong and North Viet
namese for a long, long time
and not win this war,” he said.
“We’ve got to rebuild that na
tion and that’s why we’re going
to be there a long time.”
Walt predicted the South Viet
namese army would one day be
the “strongest army in South
east Asia,” and said this would
eventually release American
troops for pacification pro
grams.