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By Quimby Melton
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Good
Evening is here to attend the 50-
th anniversary of the organiza
tion of the 82nd Division.
This outfit was formed at Camp
Gordon, then located north of
Atlanta, in August of 1917, went
overseas the following spring,
fought in several camapigns,
the two chief ones being the St.
Michael and the Muese-Argonne
Forest.
Good Evening, leaving hi s
post as city editor of the Atlan
ta Constitution, enlisting in the
Army when war was declared
and was sent to the First Offi
cers Training Camp, at Fort
McPherson, graduated with the
rank of Captain. He and several
thousand other officers to be tr
ained at OTC were known as
"Ninety-Day Wonders” since the
training course lasted that long.
Along with many other OTC
graduates he was assigned to
the 82nd Div., a new outfit that
was to be part of what was kn
own as the National Army, as
signed to the 325th Infantry, he
was fortunate enough to be in
the same regiment, all through
the training, the fighting, the
long wait in France to return
home, and finally was dischar
ged from the service.
As far as his Army life is con
cerned it centered exclusively
round the Eighty Second Divis
ion. So he is looking forward
with a lot of excitement to the
reunion, which starts at 3:00 this
afternoon and will be climaxed
by a banquet tonight at the
Brass Rail on Fifth Avenue.
There were more than 42,000
men in the 82nd whan it reach
ed full strength, 22,000 being
combat troops, and went over
seas. Many of them were kill
ed in battle, many others have
died since then, some of them
from battle wounds. Fifty years
is a pretty long span of time
and time takes its toll, especial
ly for soldiers, despite the fa
mous statement of Douglas Mac-
Arthur, who said, “Old soldiers
never die, they just fade away.”
We’re hoping to meet many
of the “old gang” this afternoon
and tonight. Friday night we had
several of the "boys”, who
were in our original unit, Com.
K. 325th and their wives at a lit
tle party at our hotel — Hotel
Taft. Joseph Fratangelo, who
was a company bugler, and a
darn good one at that rounded
up the “boys”. Tonight, we hope
there will be men who were in
our battalion, 3rd Bn. 325th, at
the banquet. We commanded
this unit, as a major, during
much of the fighting in the Ar
gonne. But enough about this
old soldier.
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The 82nd Division, which after
the war was converted from
an infantry division to an Air
borne Division, has a history of
which anyone may well be
proud.
It was the 82nd Division that
was given credit for breaking
the last resistance of the Ger
mans before Sedan and it was
the 82nd Division that General
John J. (Jack) Pershing, com
mander in chief of the AEF said
“was in actual combat with the
enemy, longest in any one en
gagement, of all American un
its.”
We're proud of the 82nd and
proud that we played a small
part in its history. We hope to
meet a lot of the boys” this af
ternoon and tonight.
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Brent Norris (31) is knocked down by Dwayne Fallins (24) after a short gain
in the third quarter. Norris and the R. E. Lee Rebels beat Griffin, 19-0.
Lee Defeats Griffin
19-0 In Second Half
By ROGER DIX
The Griffin Eagles played two
games Friday night. The first
one ended in a scoreless tie. R.
E. Lee won the second, 19-0
Actually it was all the same
game. It just seemed like two.
Griffin looked great in the first
half as they played Lee right off
its feet.
The situation was opposite in
-YARDSTICK
Griffin (0) Lee(l9)
First Downs 10 14
Yards Rushing 93 202
Yards Passing 78 29
Passes Att. 10 1
Passes Comp. 6 1
Fumbles Lost 1
Punt Average 36 27
Yards Penalized 32.5 0
the second half. It was Lee
that was great.
Griffin’s first half offensive
show might have been the best
of the whole season.
SHOVED ’
The Eagles shoved Lee around
Matthews Field unmercifully but
couldn’t put any points on the
board.
However, Lee must be given
credit for holding Griffin score
less until they could regroup and
start a full scale assault to ward
off any possible chance of an
upset.
Griffin took the opening kick
off and shoved the ball right
down Lee’s defensive throat.
The drive died at the Lee 10
with a field goal wide of the
mark
Griffin came right back the
next time they got the ball. This
time the Eagles pushed and sho
ved their way to the Lee six.
Another field goal kick was
wide.
ALL GRIFFIN
It was all Griffin in the first
half.
Lee handled the ball only four
times from scrimmage and one
of those was a punt.
The young Rebels of Coach
Jim Cavan did not penetrate
Griffin’s side of the 50 yard
stripe but one time in the first
half.
The Eagles stopped that drive
at their own 40 with a fumble re
covery.
First half statistics show how
Griffin commanded the first half.
The Eagles led in first downs
9-4, in yards rushing 75 to 51
and in yards passing 61 to 0, and
in total yards gained 136 to 51.
MATCHED’
But Lee matched Griffin in the
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most important department
They didn’t score and didn’t al
low a point.
It was a slim crowd, consider
ing it was Griffin playing Lee,
that saw Richard Turner return
the opening kickoff to the Eag
les’ 27.
Fifteen plays later Griffin was
camped at the Lee 10 yard line.
Joe Grubbs started the drive
with a five yard burst. Wayne
Westmoreland and Larry Cham
bers kept it going when they
combined on a 21 yard pass good
to the Lee 37.
Grubbs, Chambers, Bobby
Whitehead and Turner kept up
a steady barrage of three and
four yards runs until the ball
rested at the Lee 10.
WIDE
After a Westmoreland pass
fell incomplete, Coach Max Do
wis sent in James Black to try
a field goal. It was wide.
Lee took over at its 20. Three
running plays netted the Rebs
seven yards.
Brent Norris got off a short
punt and Griffin was in busi
ness at the Lee 49.
Chambers kicked off a drive
that was to carry to the Lee six
with a 12 yard burst around end.
Turner got three, and Whitehead
five, Chambers three.
Bob Robbins, who did most of
the quarterbacking for Griffin,
hit Alton Askew with a nine yard
pass. Turner gained seven and
Whitehead made four to the Lee
six.
STOPPED
Chambers was stopped for a
three yard loss. Turner was
knocked down at the line of sc
rimmage.
In came Black again with the
kicking tee. His boot barely
missed.
At this stage, Griffin had run
26 plays from scrimmage to
Lee’s four.
Griffin didn’t threaten again
until the fading seconds of the
first half.
After Turner returned a Nor
ris punt to the Griffin 44, Cham
bers gained six to mid-field.
Griffin then pulled one of its
surprises.
Robbins passed to Westmore
land who lateraled to Joe
Grubbs. The old flea-flicker play
was good for 20 yards to the Lee
30.
Grubbs gained two yards to
the Lee 28. That was the closest
Griffin could get to the Lee goal
on this drive.
Turner was stopped for no
gain and Robbins was spilled
for a 12 yard loss as the second
quarter ended.
The second half was right
opposite from the first. It belon
ged to Lee.
It took the Rebels just 11 plays
to put six points on the score
board after accepting the second
half kickoff.
R. E. Lee, with Rick Thomas
and Norris doing the running,
ripped apart Griffin’s defense.
After hitting the off tackle ho
les for big yardage, Lee cross
ed up Griffin with a pass.
Barry Gordy hit Jerry Paul
Continued on page five
Cong Attempt
To Spoil
Voting Fails
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. and
government troops killed 318
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese soldiers in three battles
that spoiled Communist plans to
disrupt South Vietnam’s con
gressional elections Sunday,
military spokesmen said today.
South Vietnamese troops and
American bombers killed 197
Communists trapped on an
ancient burial ground in the
largest of Friday’s battles, U.S.
spokesmen said.
U.S. Army troops killed 75
more Communists nearby in the
jungles south of the North-South
Vietnam border. South Vietna
mese forces below Saigon in the
Mekong Delta caught and killed
46 Viet Cong.
The spokesmen said the
victories crippled North Viet
namese and Viet Cong units that
had been preparing to cripple
by terror raids voting Sunday
for South Vietnam’s House of
Representatives.
Fairmont Plays
Big Game Tonight
The Fairmont High Bears i
face tough Central of Newnan
here tonight in a game that i
could determine the subregion :
championship.
Coach Hiram Whitaker has ;
called it a “must” game for the i
Bears, who are 2-1 in subregion i
play
“We must beat Central to stay j
alive in the championship race,” i
the Fairmont coach said.
“Central has a 3-0 record and :
is the only team above us in the i
Capital Braced
For War Protest
Demonstrators
Clash With
Police In US
By United Press Internationla
Multitudes of antiwar and
antidraft demonstrators from
across the nation gathered in
Washington, D.C., today to wind
up a week of protest filled with
violence and blood.
While the masses of protes
ters gradually mushroomed in
the Capital Friday, demonstra
tors and police around the
country clashed again. Oakland,
Calif., wracked continually with
trouble during the week, had
the worst session Friday.
For the tense epilogue of the
week’s protest against U.S.
policy in Vietnam, federal
officials warned they would do
“whatever is necessary” to
keep the peace in Washington
this weekend. Behind the
warning stood 6,000 paratroo
pers, military police and other
regular army troops. Another
20,000 were on the alert nearby.
Pentagon Surrounded
Leaders of the weekend
demonstration, centered on the
grounds around the gigantic
Pentagon, estimated that up to
100,000 would join in speeches,
marches and a planned camp-in
to dramatize their opposition to
the war and the draft.
Leaders of one group served
notice that some Intended to
"engage in acts of civil
disobedience.”
From the North, South, East
and West the demonstrators
came. They came by bus, train,
plane and in automobile cara
vans. Many of them arrived
Friday while their comrades
held hometown demonstrations
in Cleveland, Eugene, Ore., Los
Angeles, Northampton, Mass.,
and other cities.
The troublesome week, which
began on campuses and in front
of induction centers Monday,
produced its most violent day
Friday in Oakland, Calif., where
it took 2,000 police from nine
counties to quell more than
4,000 demonstrators.
Overturned Autos
Cars were overturned, store
windows smashed and intersec
tions blocks in the area of the
Oakland induction center.
Twenty-three persons were
hurt, including six policemen.
The Friday injuries brought the
week’s toll to 45. The 21
arrested pushed the week’s toll
to 273.
While policemen and protes
ters tangled in U.S. cities,
tremors of protest were felt
from Europe. In Paris, the
French Communist party called
on its members to stage
nationwide anti-Vietnam war
protests in support of the huge
conclave in the U.S. capital.
In Munich, Germany, nearly
2,000 persons staged a torchlight
parade to the U.S. consulate
Friday night and burned a giant
caricature of President Johnson
dreaming of Adolf Hitler.
GOOD SALE
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPD—
Charges of drug law violation
were dropped Friday against
two St. Louis County youths.
They had been charged with
the sale of "grass,” a hippie
term for marjuana. A laborato
ry analysis revealed the sub
stance they had been selling
was grass.
standings.
“If we win tonight we stand a
good chance of taking the sub
region title,” he said.
Newnan has a potent offensive
attack and Coach Whitaker says
his Bears must play a flawless
game to win.
“We are physically and mental
ly ready offensively and defen
sively,” he said.
The big game comes off to
night at 8 p.m. at Memorial Sta
dium.
Joe Dutton Seeks
City Board Post
Joe Dutton, Griffin construe- ]
tlon contractor and retired pos- 1
tai employe, qualified for the
city commission race Friday af
ternoon.
Earlier in the day Mayor Carl
Pruett announced he would seek
reelection to the board.
Deadline for qualifying for the
city race is Tuesday at noon.
Dutton, 58, retired a few weeks
ago from the Griffin Post Of
fice after 31 years of employ
ment with the department, most
of them in Griffin.
He has been in the construc
tion business also for many ye
ars and continues his interest in
this.
A native of Griffin, Mr. Dut
ton was educated in the Griffin
public school system.
During World War II he ser
ved in the European theater
with the Army Post Office ser
vice.
Mr. Dutton is a member of
the First Methodist Church
where he attends the Men’s Bi
ble Class and serves on the of
ficial board. He Is a Mason,
Shriner and member of the Elks
and Moose Lodges. Mr. Dutton
is a member of the VFW Post.
He has a brother, Fred, who
also makes his home in Griffin
and two other brothers who live
in Texas. He has a sister who
lives in Virginia.
Mr. Dutton and his wife make
their home at 530 Pine Ridge
road.
Mr. Dutton said today he wou
ld announce some specific cam-
State Court Rules
Against Sales Han
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD—The Geor
gia Supreme Court ruled Fri
day that some portions of the
1967 law regulating Sunday
sales are "patently discrimina
tory.”
The high court ruled that the
law, which lists 24 retail items
not to be sold on Sunday, de
nied equal protection to R.
Whaley Hughes, manager of the
Furniture Discount store at Al
bany.
The 1967 law said a store
which sells both prohibited and
acceptable items may sell the
prohibited items on Sunday if
they constitute less than half
the store’s business.
Thus, said the court, a drug
store could sell a chair on Sun
day but a furniture dealer could
not.
Presiding justice Bond Al
mand said the law was "pa
tently discriminatory” because
it "arbitrarily or capriciously”
excepted items from Sunday
sales and did not prohibit the
manufacture of the items on
Sunday—or wholesale selling.
“It would seem that the
health, recreation and welfare
of the state would be more con
cerned about the sale of a book
or magazine containing parnog
raphy on Sunday than it would
be the sale of a chair or table
by a furniture dealer on Sun
day,” Almand said.
The ruling reversed a deci
sion by the Dougherty County
Suerpior Court in the Hughes
case.
Among the 24 items banned
for Sunday sale were furniture,
clothing, tools and hardware.
The action does not affect
other Sunday laws and leaves
standing a 1933 "blue law” pro
hibiting business “excepting ne
cessities and charities” in Sun
day.
But that law may be unen
forceable. District Court Judge
Lewis Morgan ruled last Feb
ruary against discriminatory
enforcement, at the same time
excepting gasoline, drugs foods,
movies, athletic events and
dance halls from the law.
paign platform planks within
the next few days.
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State Court
Rules Out
Milk Pricing
ATLANTA (UPD—With two
justices dissenting, the Georgia
Supreme Court Friday threw
out the price - fixing owers of
the state milk commission.
The high court ruled 5-2 that
the act empowering the corn
mission to fix milk prices was
unconstitutional.
The ruling upheld Fulton
County Superior Court Judge
Jack Ethridge’s decision that
commission chairman Clfton
Ward could not force five At
lanta groceries to raise their
milk prices.
“Before the General Assem
bly can authorize price - fixing
without violating the due pro
cess clause of our constitution,
among other requirements, it
must be done in a business
where the property involved
was ‘affected with the public in
terest,’ and the milk industry
does not come under that
scope,” the high court said.
The commission sought an in
junction last winter to keep five
grocery chains from lowering
milk prices. The chains, Winn-
Dixie, Colonial. Big Apple, Kro
ger and Little River Farms,
maintained they were within
their rights.
The high court’s ruling re
ferred to the Harris vs. Dun
can case which threw out price
fixing provisions of an earlier
law.
The General Assembly
amended the law in 1952 and
the commission contended that
the revised version gave free
dom of contract, letting the
parties involved arrive at a
price of their own choosing.
He Asked
Wrong Man
BRISTOL, England (UPD—
Seth Small shouldn’t have
approached the policeman in
the first place.
He asked the officer to help
him push his car.
The policeman, newly
equiped with a "breathalyzer”
for detecting drunk drivers,
caught a whiff of Small’s
breath. The breathalyzer con
firmed his susipcion. Small was
intoxicated. Further investiga
tion revealed that the 28-year
old Small:
—Had stolen the car.
—Had no driver’s license.
—Had no insurance.
Small said nothing Friday as
a judge sentenced him to 16
months in prison and forbade
him to drive for five years.
Ford, Union Put
Final Touches
On New Contract
By DAVID W. CHUTE
DETROIT (UPD—Negotiators
return to the bargaining table
today to work out the final
wording on a contract reported
ly giving some 160,000 Ford
Motor Co. workers record gains
of $1 an hour.
Talks resume at 11 a.m. EDT
today.
Ford and United Auto Work
ers bargaining teams put in a
gruelling 31-hour session ending
Friday, bringing them to the
brink of a full settlement of the
strike, now in its 45th day.
The two sides have agreed on
the basic wage and fringe
benefits package—totaling at
least $1 per man hour over the
three-year life of the contract.
But a hitch apparently deve
loped in translating the agree
ment Into specific contract
language.
Record Blackout
The news blackout—in its
record 12th day—continued.
Neither Ford nor the UAW
would say when they would
formally announce the end of
the strike.
The UAW, already planning
for an end to the strike, has
bought a special one-hour time
slot Sunday on a Detroit
television station featuring
union president Walter P.
Reuther and Ken Bannon, his
right-hand man in the Ford
talks.
The show would be beamed to
a Michigan audience covering
75,000 of the 160,000 striking
Ford workers. It was expected
to be a plea from Reuther for
quick ratification of the new
contract. The contract would
contain the biggest gains in the
UAW’s 30-year history of
collective bargaining.
A source close to the talks
told United Press International
that Ford and the UAW have
agreed to a pact giving
immediate pay raises of 20
cents an hour for most workers
and 50 cents for skilled
tradesmen who this year have
the power to veto any agree
ment.
Another Raise
All workers would get another
raise of 11 cents an hour the
second year and a 12 cent-an
hour raise in the third year of
the contract.
The source said the agree
ment contains a contract
clause under which auto work
ers get automatic pay raises
every time the government’s
cost-of-living index rises. But he
said Ford won an eight cent per
year limitation on cost-of-Uving
raises in hourly pay.
This would limit the raise to
24 cents an hour over the three
year life of the contract.