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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening is home from a
quick visit to New York City
where he attended the 50th an
niversary banquet of the 82nd
(All American) Infantry Divis
ion Association, at which he met
again many of the men who
make up that outfit that fought
in France in World War One.
It was a great and enjoyable
event for this one time soldier
The “boys”, most of them now
sporting “pot bellies” and if they
have any hair left it is gray, liv
ed again the days gone by and
"a good time was had by all."
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There were interesting s i d e
lights to the birthday party.
Word had been received, that
because of this being a gather
ing of veterans, plans were be
ing made to picket and demon
strate before the entrance of the
Brass Rail, on Fifth Avenue, be
fore and during the party, with
the possibility of some of the
“anti-war" demonstrators forc
ing their way into the meeting
and “breaking it up.” But there
was no disorder, precautions
had been taken and the meeting
was “fully protected”.
Meanwhile, we learned Sun
day morning, throughout New
York there were demonstrations
being held of people who still be
lieve in Uncle Sam and Amer
ica with four and five times as
many people taking part as
those misguided, foolish people
who were demonstrating ag
ainst Uncle Sam in Brooklyn at
a University.
All of which bears out Good
Evening’s opinion that by and
far most Americans still love
Uncle Sam, the flag of our na
tion. and the fundamentals on
which our nation was founded.
We return home encouraged
and most pleased with the over
all picture.
But as enjoyable as was our
flying visit to New York, it’s al
ways good to get home to good
old Griffin, Ga.
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Good Evening cannot tell of
the many pleasing things about
that trip, and the banquet, with
out writing column after column.
But here’s a short little sum
mazatlon.
The banquet was well plan
ned.
Richard Mcßride, chairman
of the event, who has been the
“wheel horse” of the associa
tion that has kept alive the as
sociations of the men who made
up this division, deserves much
credit. As long as Dick Mcßride
lives there’ll be an association.
Veterans, many with their wi
ves with them, came from all
sections of the nation. There was
one especially honored guest.
Mrs. Charles Fowler, who flew
in from California to be present
Her husband was killed on the
first day the 325th Inf. entered
the fighting in the Argonne.
There was a tremendous Bir
thday Cake, five feet long, four
feet wide, and three feet tall,
with the AA emblem on it, bak
ed especially for the occasion
by the management of the Brass
Rail.
Chaplain Father Gerhart, div
ision chaplain during World War
One, who remained in the chap
lain service, and who recently
was retired as a Brigadier Gen
eral, gave the invocation.
And a “fighting Irishman”,
who served as a First Sergeant
all during the war, and who was
the first president of the asso
ciation, welcomed the guests.
(We wrote his name down on a
slip of paper but somehow or
other mislayed it.) But when he
ended his welcome with a stir
ring call on all veterans to “de
fend the country against rabble
rousers”, and “keep alive the
principles of true American
ism” was greeted with a stand
ing ovation. This one-time top
sergeant set the tone for the
entire meeting.
We cannot, with the space we
have, mention many friends who
were there, nor recite any of
the fine achievements of
the Division. But suffice to say
the spirit of the 82nd still lives,
for which we Thank The Great
Commander-in-Chief of the Uni
verse.
Many who attended asked this
Georgian to remember Georgia
friends whom they knew during
the war. And all sent greetings
to “The State where we were
trained”.
Ho Won’t Talk Before U. S. '6B Election
By K.C. THALER
LONDON (UPl)—North Viet
nam will refuse to attend any
Vietnam peace talks before the
1968 U.S. presidential election
and will spurn any attempt
before then to get them to the
conference table by halting
American bombing attacks, a
highly qualified Communist
diplomatic source said today.
The diplomat said President
Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam
and feels there is no point in
Emergency Run
Preacher Made
It In Ambulance
To say that the Rev. Melvin
Bradley, minister of Education
at the First Baptist Church, was
in a sweat would be an under
statement. As he stood before
the congregation Sunday morn
ing, he mentally began arrang
ing a sermon to meet an emer
gency.
It arose like this:
The Rev. Peter McLeod, as
sociate pastor of the Second Pon
ce de Leon Baptist Church in At
lanta, who was to be guest speak
er in the absence of the pastor,
the Rev. Alastair C. Walker, had
called from Atlanta and said he
had car trouble.
The Rev. Bradley did some
quick thinking. He remembered
a ride in an ambulance with
DeWitt Simonton, one of First
Baptist’s members. He called
on Simonton who was assigned
as a greeter for Sunday School.
Simonton, who works part-time
for Pittman - Rawls Funeral
Employe
At Mill
Kills 6
LOCK HAVEN, Pa (UPI)—A
technician at a paper mill,
described as respected citizen
and school board member, “all
of a sudden and calmly” shot
and killed six of his co-workers
and friends today, state police
said.
The suspect, identified as Leo
Held, was captured in his home
town of Loganton 15 miles from
here following a blazing gun
battle with state and local
police.
Held was the object of a
massive manhunt after killing
five persons at the Hammermill
Paper Co., where he was
employed, wounding a woman
at the Piper Aircraft Co. airport
office, and killing a neighbor,
state police said.
Police said they converged on
Held after he shot and killed
Floyd Quiggle, 27, in the
victim’s bed, and wounded
Quiggle’s wife, Donna, 26, after
breaking into their home.
State police said Held armed
himself with more ammunition
from Quiggle’s gun cabinet,
then shot it out with authorities
before he was wounded in the
leg, and hand, and forehead and
apprehended.
He had shot his way across
the street to his home and into
his backyard before he was
gunned down.
Held was taken to Lock
Haven Hospital where three of
his victims at Hammermill had
been pronounced dead. They
were Donald Waldon and Allen
Barrett, Jr., both of Lock
Haven, and C.H. Edwards, Mill
Hall, Pa.
The two others killed at
Hammermill were dsecribed as
“so badly shot they were left
for the coroner.”
State police Cpl. Richard
Leach said Held, a laboratory
technician employe of Hammer
mill for 15 years, shot and
killed his “friends.”
“He just did it—all of a
sudden,” Leach said.
Roy Goodlander, an official at
Hammermill, said the shooting
there “happened so fast” Held’s
co-workers were “stunned.”
He said another employe saw
Held leave the building after the
shooting “so calmly and nor
mally the co-worker didn’t know
what had happened.”
Good lander said Held walked
into the laboratory office about
8 a.m. and opened fire with two
revolvers he was carrying.
Goodlander said the gunman
then walked through the manu
facturing plant, shooting at
people in there and then into
the factory office, still firing.
DAILY NEWS
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negotiating with President John
son’s administration. He said
Ho prefers to wait until after
the election, taking a chance on
a possible major U.S. policy
change.
The diplomat said Ho has put
a higher price on peace talks
than a mere cessation of
American bombing.
Ho wants advance recognition
by the United States of the Viet
Cong and its political arm, the
so-called South Vietnamese Na-
Home, got an ambulance and
rushed to Atlanta to get the Rev.
McLeod.
They arrived back In Griffin
at 11:20 as the Rev. Bradley was
finishing preliminaries of the
morning worship service. The
Rev. McLeod preached as sche
dulel.
The Rev. Bradley said this
morning that he did not know if
the Atlanta pastor would make
it in time for the service. The
Rev. McLeod had called from
Atlanta at 10 o’clock. Worship
service begins at 11.
He said the Rev. McLeod, who
is a native of Scotland, said the
car "conked out” on him. It had
been loaned to him by an auto
mobile dealer in Atlanta for a
“try-out.”
The Rev. McLeod told Simon
ton he had always wanted to
ride in an American ambulance,
but had never had the oppor
tunity until Sunady.
Mayor Glad
PO Funds Back
In Money Bill
. Mayor Carl Pruett today is
sued a statement of thanks on be
half of the city to Rep. John J.
Flynt, Jr., Sen. Herman Tal
madge and Sen. Richard Rus
sell for their help in getting a
congressional committee to re
store funds for a federal build
ing here.
Mayor Pruett said he had
worked closely with the three in
Washington.
The money had been deleted
along with funds for similar
buildings for Rome and Way
cross when the Senate commit
tee added a request for an At
lanta post office building.
The Senate-House conference
committee restored the Griffin,
Rome and Waycross buildings
and eliminated the Atlanta buil
ding.
“The citizens of Griffin are
deeply appreciative of these ef
forts on the part of our three
federal officials and most espe
cially to Congressman Flynt who
has so carefully guided this
bill thus far,” Mayor Pruett
said.
He said he felt "this public ex
pression of gratitude on the
part of the people of Griffin was
entirely in order and that the
actual site for the new federal
building would be selected very
soon, giving Griffin a new fa
cility for which all could be very
proud.”
The proposed building will
house a post office and other fe
deral offices which serve this
area.
Country Parson
“Modern theologians, like
some modern artists, must be
surprised when anybody
pays attention to them.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, October 23, 1967
tional Liberation Front, as a
full partner to any negotiated
settlement.
Ho’s demand is prompted by
the Communist thesis that
anything short of formal
recognition of the Communist
led faction &s a key factor in
South Vietnam, prior to peace
talks, would be tantamount to a
“kiss of death to the revolution
In Vietnam.”
The diplomat revealed Ho’s
Two Men, Girl Praised For
Saving Woman, Baby In Wreck
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Early years of aviation were recalled by hundreds of people who attended an an
tique “fly-in” Saturday at Hoffman field near Williamson. All types of planes of
early aviation were at the show. Some were former military planes that had been
renovated. Some of the pilots put on a stunt show for the audience.
Three Teenagers Held
In Jackson Robbery
JACKSON, Ga. — Three Ten
nessee teenagers were being
held in jail at Jackson today on
armed robbery charges. The
Butts County Sheriff and Jack
son Police Chief ran them down
east of Locust Grove Sunday af
ter they allegedly had robbed
Howell Freeman’s store-service
station on the Indian Srings
road near Jackson.
6 Gratitude s
Thousands Back
US Men In Vietnam
Americans throughout the
nation ended a weekend of
demonstrations to support U.S.
servicemen fighting in Vietnam
Sunday night.
Hundreds of thousands took
part in Operation Gratitude
with parades, marches,
speeches, vehicle headlights,
house lights and an all-night
Vigil.
The few scattered scuffles
stemming from the demonstra
tions occurred when demonstra
tors clashed with antiwar
factions. No injuries or arrests
were reported. Operation Grati
tude was designed to offset the
anti-Vietnam, antidraft rally in
Washington, D.C.
The biggest expressions of
gratitude were in New York
City and Newark, N.J., where
more than 100,000 took part in
parades and many more
watched from the sidelines,
wav'ng flags and signs to show
they agreed with the marchers.
“We are claiming the biggest
grassroots movement in the
history of this country,” said
Charesl W. Wiley, executive
From Out Os Past
Investigators said they got
$67.50 in the robbery.
Sheriff J. D. (Bud) Pope and
Police Chief W. L. (Cotton) Vau
ghn chased the three in separ
ate cars.
When the three were overtak
en, one of the young men held
a .22 pistol on Sheriff Pope while
the sheriff held a rifle on him.
director of the National Com
mittee for Responsible Patri
tism, which called for the
demonstrations.
Police estimated 50,000 took
part in patriotism parades
Sunday in Manhattan, Brooklyn
and the Bronx. Another 15,000
marched in a parade In the
suburb of Hempstead on Long
Island.
The biggest single parade was
in Newark, where an estimated
55,000 persons, led by four
Medal of Honor winners,
marched up Broad Street in
what officials said was the
longest parade in the city’s
history. Members of civic,
labor, fraternal, and veterans’
organizations took part in the
parade that included 19 floats
and six fire engines.
The lights on for the U.S.A.
part of the demonstrations
resulted in thousands of motor
ists keeping their headlights on
during the day Saturday and
Sunday and house dwellers
putting on their outside lights
during the night.
position while passing through
London.
In a remarkably frank
assessment of the Vietnam
situation the dilpomatic Infor
mant—ostensibly well acquain
ted with the Communist line—
also made these points:
—Hanoi reasons that once
Washington discontinues bomb
ing, it will be difficult for it to
resume it in the face of strong
world opinion.
—Hanoi itself, has, it must be
“I thought he was going to kill
me,” Sheriff Pope told Doyle Jo
nes, Jr., publisher of the Jack
son Progress Argus, weekly
newspaper at Jackson.
“If he had shot you, I would
have shot him,” Chief Vaughn
told the sheriff.
The three surrendered peace
fully, the officers said.
Freeman said one of the three
held a .22 pistol on him during
the robbery. He said they fled in
an auto. Investigators learned
it had been stolen from Moul
rie.
Two of the boys were 16 and
17 years old. The other, Robert
Groom, 18, was the only suspect
identified by name. The names
of the other two were not re
vealed because of a Georgia law
against publishing names of sus
pects under 18.
The November grand jury of
Butts County is expected to con
sider indictments against the
three when It meets Nov. 6.
Spalding Man
Shot In Face
A Spalding County man was
shot in the face early Sunday
night after an argument with se
veral other people, Spalding Co
unty Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
said.
Sheriff Gilbert said James Otis
Cook, 19, Os County Line Road
at Orchard Hill was shot once
in the face with a .22 caliber
pistol. He was in the front yard
of his home when he was shot.
Cook was treated at the Grif
fin - Spalding County Hospital
and transferred to an Atlanta
hospital.
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remembered, never made any
commitment to start negotia
tions as soon as a bombing
pause has been rejected. All
promises and suggestions to
that effect have come from
third parties, none of the them
binding on the North Vietnamese
government.
—Hanoi can continue to fight,
with both the Soviet Union and
Communist China forced, for
their own reasons, to support it
Vehicles Wreck
On Maple Drive
Two Griffin men were praised
by police officers today and
credited with saving the life of
a Milner woman who was pin
ned in a burning car following
a wreck on Maple drive Sun
day.
Jack Fields and Barron Cum
ming pulled Mrs. Inez Snyder,
56, of Route One, Milner, from
the burning car.
Capt. Kenneth Underwood
and Sgt. James Quick, who in
vestigated, said fast action by
Fields and Cumming saved the
life of Mrs. Snyder, who was
pinned head first under the dash
of the burning small foreign
made auto.
Capt. Underwood said Fields
rushed out of his home when he
heard the collision and tried to
pull Mrs. Snyder from the car.
Cumming rushed from the
home across th» street and aid
ed Fields.
They put the woman on the
Dutton Would
Seek To Make
Parking Changes
Joe Dutton who will seek a
seat on the board of city com
missioners today advocated
changes in the parking meter
program.
He proposed reducing park
ing tickets from 50 cents to 25
cents and cutting the late penal
ty payments from $2 to sl.
He also advocated that park
ing tickets not be given on
weekdays until after 9:30 a.m.
“If I am elected, I will work
toward that goal,” Mr. Dutton
said.
He said he was in favor of a
new building for the city jail and
police station, if it can be ar
ranged without additional taxes.
“I am not in favor of any new
tax at this time,” he said.
Mr. Dutton said he had no cri
ticism of the present adminis
tration of the city and would ad
vocate no change in the city per
sonnel.
“My relations with the present
city commissioners are very
good I am sure we would work
together very closely for the
good of the city,” he said.
Mr. Dutton announced his
candidacy late Friday. He re
tired from the Post Office here
a few weeks ago after Complet
ing 31 years with the depart
ment.
Mayor Carl Pruett earlier
had announced he would seek
reelectlon for another term on
the city commission board. His
present three-year term will end
in November.
A commissioner will be elec
ted in the Nov. 7 city election.
Sheriff Gilbert is seeking Bil
ly Horne, 25, of Barnesville in
connection with the shooting.
Larry O’Neal, 26, of Route One,
New Zebulon road, Barnesville,
is being held during an investi
gation.
Sheriff Gilbert said Horne
aparently did the shooting. He
fled after the shooting, Gilbert
said.
O’Neal was arrested a short
time after the shooting by Sher
iff Gilbert and GBI Agent Bil
ly Darsey.
with arms and other assistance.
—Another Insistence of the
Hanoi regime will be a firm
American undertaking, also in
advance of negotiations, to
leave South Vietnam, the only
concession being that withdra
wal need not be immediate and
in one move.
It can therefore be accepted
that Hanoi plans to continue the
fight, probably through the
year, the sources said.
side of the road and decided to
move her into Fields’ yard, so
that if the car exploded, she
would not be injured from the
blast.
Marna Kathleen Goldstein, 16,
of 908 East College street, who
was driving one of the cars,
pulled Jean Harned, 2, from
the burning car. The police of
ficers praised her for pulling the
baby out. Miss Goldstein is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
vin Goldstein.
Officers said they did not
know how Mrs. Peggy Jean Har
ned, 22, of Route One, Milner,
driver of the small car, and
Connie Perkins, 11, of Route
One, Milner, got out of the ve
hicle.
They said the Harned car
rounded a curve on the wrong
side of the road and struck the
car being driven by Miss Gold
stein almost head-on. The for
eign car struck the back of the
Goldstein car and jumped a
curb in front of Fields house.
The car burst into flames.
Mrs. Harned and Mrs. Snyder
were admitted to the Griffin-Sp.
aiding County Hospital where
their conditions were listed as
good today.
Connie Perkins was treated in
the emergency room at the Grif
fin-Spalding Hospital and trans
ferred to Henrietta Egleston
Hospital in Atlanta. She suffer
ed head injuries.
Jean Harned was treated in
the emergency room and dis
missed.
The officers estimated dam
age to the cars at $2,600.
Cumming, a Griffin attorney,
lives at 1210 Maple drive. Fields
who operates a laundry and dry
cleaning firm in Thomaston liv
es at 1207 Maple drive.
Search On For
Missing Girl
JACKSON, Ga. — A wide
spread search continued today
for LaVerne Stephens, 16-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Tribble Stephens of Route Two,
Jackson.
She has been missing from her
home since last Wednesday.
Her parents said the last
time she had been seen was ear
ly Wednesday morning when
she went out to feed the dogs
and ducks.
When she didn’t return in 15
or 20 minutes, her parents look
ed for her and couldn’t find her.
She was described as a 5-6
brunette weighing about 120.
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Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4-
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
State News. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Protest. Page 7.
Ford Strike. Page 6-
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
UFO Over Georgia. Page 10.
17 Killed. Page 10.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 10.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and warm Tuesday
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 75, low today 52, high
Sunday 75, low Sunday 49, sun
rise Tuesday 7:50, sunset Tues
day 6:58.