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By Quimby Melton
W Sir Walter Scott were living
Blay, and were to write his Lay
■ the Last Minstrel, he would
Mt tell of the man “as home his
Btsteps he hath turn’d, From
Hindering on a foreign strand’’
V who walks anywhere these
Hys? Not from town to town,
■d certainly not from "foreign
Mil” to home. Even the hitch
fleer hopes to "thumb” a ride.
flßut whether one walks, as did
fle man in Sir Walter’s poem,
returns home by jet plane
id automobile, the Scottish no
list-bard described the man
?11 when he wrote the travel
r’s “heart hath burn’d” as he
iared his hometown, if that
imetown is anything like Gris-
Sunday night, as Good Even
g was nearing home, from the
riffin-Atlanta Airport, he thou
it of this poem by Sir Walter
soft. As the lights of Griffin ap
■ared down the highway, glis
■ning like a string of bright je
els, his “heart burn’d” with
leer joy, for ahead lay the city
e loved, a beautiful city, of
?autiful homes, and of friend
people.
Ahead of us as we drove on
ty a city, modern enough to
ffer all the advantages of a lar
er city, but a city that has lost
one of the charm of a true
hometown.” A city where peo
le are busy, but not too busy
> be friendly: a people who
ejoice with others when others
ucceed, yet a city that sym
athizes with people when sor
ow or disappointments come.”
You just can’t beat this city
>f Griffin as a place to live, to
fork, to worship and to rear
>ne’s children.
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One cannot evaluate the me
lts and good points of a city by
eeding statistics into a compu
;er. One cannot estimate the
iegree of friendships, under
standing, compassion, or joy of
iving, by any mechanical de
vice. Only a grateful heart can
’ive the true answer.
Good Evening, arriving home
from an interesting trip to New
York, could hardly wait until
Monday morning to come up
town, walk around a bit and
greet old friend. Even, on a
Monday, usually considered the
hardest day of the week to "get
started”, people had time to
welcome this old timer back
home, though he had been away
less than 72 hours. And when one
was kind enough to say “I miss
ed you” that was the crowning
greeting of the day.
And Good Evening is not the
only Griffinlte who feels “the
best part of any trip is getting
back home.” One friend, whom
we did not see until Tuesday
morning, because he, too, had
been out of town, spending se
veral days in St. Louis, said as
we shook hands “Isn’t it great
to get home to Griffin.” And
this man had been in the Base
ball Capital of America, during
the World Series.
There was another friend
whom we met Monday morn
ing who said something like
this, “You know the longer one
lives in Griffin the more one
loves this community. I moved
here some ten years ago; I came
from a larger city and was sent
here by the company I repre
sent. At first I could hardly wait
until I would be ‘recalled’ to the
b'ig town, and I worked at my
job hoping to earn a ‘promotion’;
but the longer I lived here the
more I fell in love with Griffin,
and when the day came that I
was notified I would be ‘mov
ed up’, I said ‘No Thanks’ I
prefer to live right where I am.”
That, Good Evening believes,
is typical of many who once
were “newcomers”, but who
sooner or later learned to truly
appreciate Griffin.
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“We prefer to examine the
lives of others because it’s
kind of fun to find sin in
theirs — and painful to find
it in ours.”
Tornadoes Rake
Three States
FLORENCE, Ala. (UPI) —
Tornadoes broke out of a line
of squalls Tuesday night and
struck damaging blows in Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennes
see.
At least six persons were in
jured, apparently none serious
ly.
Police in Florence, said res
cue work carried out in drench
ing rain and among snapping
power lines showed that at least
14 homes and perhaps more
were demolished by a twist
er that hit the northwest corner
of town.
Another Alabama tornado
raked farm country on Wheeler
Mountain in Colbert County.
Barns were reported blown
down, power and telephone
lines disrupted and trees felled.
A twister struck around Bath
Springs, Tenn. Four persons
were hurt and an oil well and
several homes damaged. South
of Action, Tenn., another per
son was hurt when a twister
damaged several homes and
bowled over power poles.
In Mississippi, tornadoes ham
mered twice at the Corinth area
and once at Becker. One person
was hurt near Corinth. Movie
screens at Corinth and Wren
were blown over by high winds.
In Becker, a twister destroyed
or damaged four houses and a
barn.
Near Corinth and just inside
Tennessee, two homes across
the road from each other were
demolished.
A police official said there
had been no warning when the
twister struck just at the end
of the dinner hour at Florence.
Although it was nearly impos
sible in the dark to get a good
estimate of the damage toll, ob
servers said it was obvious that
rain which began falling when
the twister hit was accumulat
ing to depths of two to three
inches in the damaged houses,
ruining everything in them.
A number of families said
they were sitting at the dinner
table or in front of a television
set when the tornado whipped
by, taking off the roofs of their
homes.
One father said his five chil
dren were asleep in one bed
room when the roof left the
house but that no one was hurt.
The twister knocked out pow
er completely in northern parts
of the city and the power loss
was felt in five other small
communities: Hawk, Pride,
Spring Valley, Littleville and
Liggins Spring.
The first twisters came in a
pair rumbling over Corinth,
Miss. Power lines were downed
and trees blocked the highway.
The homes of Gene McCarter
and his neighbor across the
highway about three-quarters of
a mile inside the Tennessee line
were destroyed.
“I looked up and saw this
Berserk
Killer
Is Dead
By LEE LEONARD
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (UPI) —
Leo Held, 39, who went on a
rampage of death, killing six
persons and injuring six others
before he was felled by police
bullets Monday, died this
morning at Lock Haven Hospi
tal.
A hospital spokesman said the
tall-bespectacled slayer died at
6 a.m. of a pulmonary
embolism from wounds received
last Monday in a gun duel with
police.
Held had remained uncon
scious most of the time since he
was shot and had rambled
incoherently. Police never got to
question him on his reasons for
the mass slayings.
Dist. Atty. Allan W. Lugg of
Clinton County said Held
“evidently was mad at all of
them (the victims) for some
reason. But it wasn’t money or
a jealous lover or anything like
that. Apparently he was just
peeved at them for various
reasons and something set him
off.”
Sgt. Joseph Hefferon, head of
the six-man state police detail
handling the investigation, hint
ed there may have been a long
build-up of factors that were
bothering Held, who staged a
90-minute reign of terror over
an 18-mile area.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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funnel-shaped cloud and ran in
the house and grabbed my ba
by,” said McCarter. “It blew a
way practically everything I’ve
got.”
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On hand for the ribbon cutting were (1-r) Tilman
Blakely, Tilman Blakely, Jr., C. T. Parker, bank
Multi-Level Park Building
Grand Opening Held Today
The public got its first look
at Griffin’s first multi-level park
ing building this afternoon.
Commercial Bank & Trust Co.
which constructed the quarter
million dollar building held a
brief ribbon cutting ceremony
this morning at 11:30 a.m.
Mayor Carl Pruett snipped the
ribbon as a large group of Grif
fin businessmen looked on.
It signaled the beginning of a
one-day grand opening for the
212-space facility.
The building was constructed
at the rear of the bank and bet
ween the Spalding Courthouse.
It has four levels.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear and cooler to
night with scattered light frost.
Thursday clear and cool.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 68, minimum today
52, maximum Tuesday 78, mini
mum Tuesday 57. Total rainfall
.41 of an inch. Sunrise Thurs
day 7:52 a.m., sunset Thursday
6:56 p.m.
City Okays
Annexation
The City Commissioners Tues
day night approved an annexa
tion request to take in the
Grandview Apartments being
constructed on Grandview road
and Grantland road.
All the property owners invol
ved made the request.
The commissioners names Cl
aude Donehoo, a city employe,
as deputy election manager for
the Nov. 7 city commission race.
The city charter designates the
city manager, who is jack
Langford, as the election mana
ger.
The commissioners authorized
the city manager and Chair
man Carl Pruett to execute two
deeds with J. R. Beville of Eve
ree road to fulfill an agreement
with him concerning the con
struction of the Griffin By-Pass.
In 1958, Mr. Beville gave the
city the right-of-way through his
land, starting at Everee road
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, October 25, 1967
Sheriff Perry Resigns
Under Grand Jury Fire
An automobile and truck show
on all levels was featured dur
ing the opening. Visitors may
inspect the new building until 8
p.m. tonight.
On the ground level was dis
played new model trucks by Gr
iffin dealers. A 1968 new car
show was on the second level.
The Griffin Old Car Club spon
sored an antique car show on
the third level and racing cars
were displayed on the fourth
level.
An experimental electric car
by Westinghouse also was includ
ed in the display.
Egypt Shells Leave
Port Suez On Fire
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press International
Pillars of flame higher than
the pyramids and visible 40
miles away shot into the sky
above Port Suez today in the
aftermath of Israel’s massive
shelling of Egypt’s major oil
refining complex.
The dangerous new eruption
and extending west to the city in
dustrial area, with the under
standing that when the By-Pass
was established the city would
deed him any land between the
By-Pass and his land. A war
ranty deed for .51 of an acre and
a quit-claim deed for 1.04 acres
were Involved.
The commissioners approved
the purchase of 100 water met
ers at a cost of $3,362.
They put on second and final
reading ordinances to:
Widen, curb and pave Beck
street from Pimiento avenue
west to join existing paving whi
ch is about 600 feet west of Ann
street crossing.
Widen, curb and pave South
17th street from West Taylor to
West Solomon street.
Extend the city limits to in
clude Leola drive extension and
the rear of all property facing
the street on both sides.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
president; Carl Richardson, Jim Owen, Arthur Bolton
and Mayor Carl Pruett.
Several door prizes were to be
given away in connection with
the grand opening. Those who
registered today at the opening
were eligible. The bank was to
draw winners tonight and notify
them after the grand opening
had ended.
The new parking building will
begin operating Friday for the
first time.
The first two levels will be for
bank customer parking during
the day until the bank closes.
Then it will be available to the
public free of charge.
The third level will be for ren-
of Middle East fighting touched
off a clash in an emergency
U.N. Security Council session
between the United States and
the Soviet Union. The Soviets
demanded Israel be condemned
and made to pay for the attack.
The United States sought
condemnation of “any and all”
violations of the Mideast cease
fire.
The Cairo newspaper Al
Akhbar said the Israeli action
was “cowardice” and a “cheap
decision of retaliation” for
Saturday’s missile sinking of
the Israeli destoyer Elath.
On the other side of Israel,
Arab infiltrators crossed the
Jordan River into the occupied
Jordanian west bank and
clashed today with Israeli
troops, killing two and wounding
one other. One infiltrator,
armed with a Russian rifle, was
killed.
Two Refineries Hit
In Suez, 400 firemen battled
an inferno in two adjoining
refineries on the outskirts of the
city. Firemen swarmed in from
Cairo, Ismailia and other cities
to prevent the flames from
spreading to nearby storage
tanks.
Authoritative Israeli sources
said the attack knocked out 80
per cent of Egypt’s oil
production facilities. They asked
their Arab neighbors to take
stock of what Russia’s friend
ship has cost them so far—a
war lost, an army demoralized,
the closure of the Suez Canal,
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tal parking and the top level will
be for employes of the bank.
A spokesman for the bank said
today that as far as know, this
is the first multi-level parking
facility to be built in a Georgia
city in the Griffin population
class.
Other cities in the Griffin pop
ulation class have sent repre
sentatives here to see the new
building with the idea of con
structing something similar.
Bank officers and directors
were on hand for the ribbon cut
ting this morning and to kick
off the grand opening.
the evacuation of major canal
cities and now the loss of most
of the nation’s oil production.
Even Suez Gov. Hamid
Mahmoud said the refineries
represented 60 per cent of
Egyptian production.
Since 90 per cent of the
products from both plants goes
to Cairo, officials predicted
severe shortages of diesel fuel,
kerosene and butane cooking
gas in the capital.
But Mahmoud said, “If the
Israelis believe they dealt a
crippling blow to the U.A.R.
economy, they are wrong.”
Three Hour Battle
Israel charged Egypt started
the fighting with a small arms
attack on its forces that
escalated into a three-hour
artillery exchange. There was
no official indication that the
shelling of Suez was a direct
retaliation for the Egyptian
sinking Saturday of the Israeli
destoyer Elath. The ship was
sent to the bottom by four
Soviet-supplied missiles. Fifty
four of its crewmen perished.
The only hint that the shelling
was retaliatory came from
Israeli Ambassador Gideon Ra
fael in the Security Council, who
said "Reciprocity is the essence
of a cease-fire.” He stressed the
shelling followed the loss of the
Elath.
Gov. Mahmoud put Egyptian
casualties at three civilians
killed and 60 wounded in
addition to three soldiers killed
and five wounded.
‘Did Nothing To
Warrant Removal’
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI) —
Jackson County Sheriff L. G.
Perry resigned today under fire
from a county grand jury that
had charged him with knowing
ly failing to enforce liquor laws.
“I have done nothing to war
rant removal from office,” Per
ry said in a statement. "Howev
er, in view of all recent hap
penings I find it humanly im
possible to continue to perform
the same effective law enforce
ment as we did in the past.”
In addition to the grand jury,
Perry had come under fire
from the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation and Piedmont Sol.
Gen. G. Wesley Channell. Per
ry had been scheduled for a
hearing before Gov. Lester
Maddox Monday to decide
whether he should be removed
from office.
Perry charged the county po
litical power structure had
worked against him. He said he
had been denied a trained in
vestigator to look into criminal
activities in the county, yet had
managed to do an effective job
of enforcing tht law.
"The record of arrests during
my term in office is a public
one,” he said. “Arrests for all
criminal activities including
beer and liquor violations far
exceed those of any other coun
ty of comparable size.”
Perry also took credit for rid
ding the county of the car steal-
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Miss Roberta Beck Connolly
Granddaughter Os
Griffinite Wins
Miss Teen Title
Miss Roberta Beck Connolly,
granddaughter of Mrs. Lewis H.
Beck, 431 West Poplar street,
and the late Mr. Beck of Grifin,
is the new Miss Teenage Col
umbia. She was crowned at the
Columbia, S.C. pageant.
Her mother who was Roberta
Beck of Griffin before her mar
riage, was a former society and
associate editor of the Griffin
Daily News.
Miss Connolly is a talented,
ing racket.
Perry said it was apparent he
could expect no help from state
agents and said, "I cannot per
form my job as sheriff as it
should be done without the co
operation of the court officials.”
“It is apparent to everyone
who has read the newspapers
or listened to the news reports
that no such cooperation will be
forthcoming,” he added.
The controversy over Perry
first entered the news •<“hen Sol.
Gen. Floyd Hoard of Jefferson
was killed gangland-style by dy
namite wired to the ignition of
his car.
The GBI asked that Perry be
removed from the case for un
specified reasons and shortly
afterwards Maddox threatened
to fire the sheriff. However, af
ter a trip to Jefferson, Maddox
decided to leave the matter to
local officials.
The grand jury, using GBI ev
idence, then charged Perry with
consorting with known bootleg
gers to control the flow of ille
gal liquor in the county. They
said he would raid any illegal
liquor establishment that did
not do business with his friends.
After being Informed of Per
ry’s resignation, Maddox said
there would be no need to hold
a hearing.
"The grand Jury ras present
ed its evidence and it shows
the people are Interested in
their community,” he said.
vivacious and intelligent young
lady. She is president of the
student body at Irmo High Sc
hool, a cheerleader, member of
the Beta Club and Glee Club.
She is the 1967 secretary for
the South Carolina Youth Traf
fic Safety Council. She has re
ceived three certificates for ex
cellent scholarship and was
Chief Marshall for Irmo High's
1967 graduation.