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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening got his first
Christmas Card Monday. As a
matter of fact it came, not ad
dressed to him but to The Grif
fin Daily News, and was meant
for all the staff. It was especial
ly appreciated for it came from
a soldier in Vietnam, a young
Griffinite, who before he enter
ed the Armed Services was a
newspaper delivery boy for this
paper.
The card came from Sp-4 Fre
derick J. Grant, who has been
in the service about 18 months.
Everyone here at the paper re
members him quite well and in
turn wishes him a Merry Christ
mas.
If anyone here should like to
send a card to this young Grif
finite, who is fighting for us in
faroff Vietnam, his address is:
Sp-4 Frederick J. Grant,
RA 14932037,
109th Q.M. Co., Air Del.
APO San Francisco 96377.
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There are several organiza
tions here that are sending
Christmas cards to our men
“overthere.”
And there are many individual
who would like also to wish the
men and women a Merry
Christmas.
Anyone wishing to send Christ
mas cards or letters should send
them airmail and get them in
the postoffice by Dec. 18 or 19 if
at all possible. This will insure
delivery before or by Christmas.
And if one wishes to send par
cels, they should also send
them air mail and get them in
the post office by the weekend
beginning Dec. 16th.
Mail call at any army, navy,
air, or Marine post is always a
cherished event to those who get
mail, but a dismal day to those
who are told “sorry nothing for
you.”
So make it a point, if you can.
and see that there be no disap
pointed men, or women at any
mail call anywttiere "over
there”.
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And while we’re on the subject
of Christmas, let’s not forget the
important Empty Stocking Fund
program of the Griffin Jaycees.
This fine organization, of young
men, has sponsored the Empty
Stocking Fund for several years.
Its purpose is to see no child in
the community wakes up Christ
mas morning and is disappoint
ed that Santa has not paid him
or her a visit.
Now it takes money, a lot of
money, with which to finance the
Christmas Eve visit of Santa. So
each year the Jaycees hold a
special Empty Stocking solici
tation, giving everyone a chan
ce to have a part in this wor
thy, worthwhile Christmas pro
ject. Sunday, Dec. 10, will be
the day.
Come on Griffin!
Have a Heart!
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There are many organizations
that also have a part In making
this event a success. The Uti
lity Club receives applications
and checks them before making
up the list for Santa’s visits; the
Home-Ec and the Industrial Arts
departments at the High School
are repairing dolls and wheel
toys that Santa will find useful;
and other organizations are help
ing as well.
This is as near an All-Griffin
project as one can think of.
Good Evening is more than
just interested in this annual af
fair; for it was he, with the help
of the Utility Club and the Boy
Scouts, who started the Empty
Stocking Fund in Griffin Christ
mas, 1925, and continued it un
til World War Two. After the
war the Jaycees took it over,
and we thank them for having
done so, for they are better
setup to handle such an impor
tant event.
Help the Jaycees
Make this A
Merry Christmas;
For Many Boy and Girl,
Whom otherwise might
Find Christmas
Just Another Day
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Fayetteville Lawmen
Shoot Bandit's Car
LUTHERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)—
A gunman whose rear station
wagon window was blasted out
by police yesterday as he fled
the scene of the SIO,OOO robbery
of a Luthersville bank Monday
was being sought around the
state today and considered dan
gerous.
Authorities said the lone skin
ny Negro bandit, who wore a
red, white and blue ski stock
ing over his face when he
robbed the Luthersville Bank
ing Co. shortly before closing
time, fired at police in nearby
Fayetteville shortly after the
holdup.
Fayetteville police said a car
matching the description of the
get-aw’ay vehicle was seen
speeding in a school zone.
When police closed in, the driv
er opened fire and managed to
Spalding
Invites Prison
Inspection
A representative from the
State Department of Corrections
will be invited to inspect the
Spalding Public Works Camp
and make recommendations on
what must be done for it to meet
new regulations.
The new rules will go into ef
fect Jan. 1.
Warden Floyd Wilkerson of
the Spalding PWC went over the
list of new rules with the Spald
ing commissioners this morning.
He pointed out some of those
that would require changes in
the present prison set up here.
Among the new requirements
are providing a visiting area, a
fenced in recreational area, foot
lockers for each prisoner, water
coolers, three changes of cloth
ing, guard uniforms, and a gu
ard training program.
The commissioners agreed
they needed some specific infor
mation about compliance with
the new regulations. That’s why
they asked for a Department of
Corrections representative to
come here to check over the pri
son facilities.
Father Os Riot
Victim Frees
Ten Hostages
By BARRY BARKAN
DETROIT (UPI)—A Negro
whose son was shot to death
during Detroit’s July riots
surrendered to police today
after holding members of his
family hostage for more than 18
hours.
A drama that began with rifle
shots at midafternoon Monday
ended at midmorning today
when Eugene Ector, 52,
emerged from his two-story
frame house and talked to a
minister friend on his front
porch.
Members of Ector’s family
and two off-duty policemen in
plain clothes joined the huddle,
and talked the gray-haired,
gray - mustached Negro into
walking toward a police car.
He seemed to change his
mind part way down the
sidewalk, and police carried
him the rest of the way to the
car. He was taken to receiving
hospital.
Started With Five
Ector started with five
hostages. Four other members
of his family went inside the
near West Side house during the
night to urge him to come out.
All came out today except
Ector and a woman said to be
his common-law wife.
The Rev. Alphonso Campbell
of the Ethiopian Orthodox
Temple, said he worked with
Ector at a Ford Motor Co.
factory where Ector was a
pipefitter and had known Ector
for 20 years.
The Rev. Campbell talked
Ector onto the porch.
“He is a very nice fellow, but
he has different troubles,” the
minister said later. “I think he
is a little depressed.”
Ector’s son-in-law, George
Waters, who spent most of the
night inside the house, said
Ector never pointed a gun at
anyone, never threatened to kill
members of his family and
fired the rifle only to show that
the weapon was powerful.
Many Stores Open All Day Wednesday
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lose the pursuing' patrol car
while ducking bullets.
The light green late 1950
model station wagon was last
seen going north on Georgia
54, police said.
Witnesses to the holdup said
the gunman, about 6-feet-l and
weighing 160 pounds, walked
into the back 10 minutes before
closing time, stuck a chrome
plated .32 or .38-caliber revolv
er in the face of a cashier and
informed her, “this is a hold
up.”
One customer was forced to
lie on the floor behind the
teller’s cages, according to
bank prsident Jimmy Nesmith.
Nesmith said three or four
customers were present at the
time along with about seven
employes.
“Then he picked up a paper
sack and went down from cage
to cage asking tellers to put
money in the sack,” Nesmith
said.
One customer attempted to
pursue the fleeing bandit but
lost him, the bank president
said.
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Art Exhibit
Miss Marjorie McKenzie shows two of the new art prints to be on exhibit through
Saturday at the Flint River Regional Library.
26 Art Prints
Added To
Library Here
Twenty-six custom framed art
prints have been added to the
Flint River Regional Library col
lection and will be on exhibit at
the library through Saturday,
Dec. 9.
They will be made available
for loan to the public on Mon
day.
The additional prints increas
es the collection to 110 art re
productions and makes it possi
ble to extend the loan period
from four to six weeks.
Lending the prints has been
highly successful since the pro
gram was initiated in August.
Nearly 75 percent of the works
are on loan at all times.
The 26 additional works in
clude selections such as “Flow
erpiece” by Brueghel, “The Hay
Wain” by Constable, “Tiger Cub
and Bumble Bee” by Thompson,
“Maison Mimi” by Utrillo and
“Ground Hog Day” by Wyeth.
Mrs. Mark C. Kapiloff and
Mrs. Dan J. Smith, Jr. have as
sisted Miss Marjorie McKenzie
of the library staff in preparing
the new prints for circulation.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, December 5, 1967
Fifth Suspect Sought
In Hoard Assassination
County Plans Bill To
Authorize Fire Districts
Spalding Commissioners today
asked County Attorney Jim Owen
to draw up a bill that would au
thorize fire districts in the coun
ty.
The measure will be turned
over to the Spalding delegation
to the General Assembly with
the request that they seek ap
proval of it in the legislature in
the 1968 session.
Defector Reveals
Captured Americans
Dying Little By Little
By RICHARD V. OLIVER
SAIGON (UPI) — Captured
Americans are being killed
“little by little” under a
Communist policy of providing
them with too little food and
medicine, according to a report
today by a Viet Cong defector.
In a document made available
to United Press International,
the defector, Phung Van
Thuong, said the prisoners
resisted Communist “reeduca
tion” attempts and maintained
strong military discipline.
Thuong was questioned by
U.S. intelligence officials follow
ing his defection about a month
ago. He served as an interroga
tor for the Viet Cong’s “enemy
proselytizing committee.”
He said prisoners made
repeated attempts to escape
what he called “miserable”
conditions.
“There was not enough to
The measure would authorize
the county to set up fire districts
so taxes could be levied on the
people in trem for fire protection
Chairman Jack Moss of the
commissioners stipulated that
voters in the districts would
have to approve fire protection
in a referendum before it could
be offered.
Commissioners Z. L. Wilson
eat,” Thuong said. “There was
no medicine. Some of the
prisoners were sick for years.”
He told of an Army captain
who wighed 220 pounds when
captured and was down to Iss
than 100 pounds before he died.
“I feel it was the policy of the
NFL (National Liberation
Front, the political arm of the
Viet Cong) to kill the prisoners
little by little never attempting
to solve the problem of food and
medical shortages,” he said.
Thuong said he had contact
with six Americans during his
service with the Viet Cong.
Among them were Army Sgts.
Daniel Lee Pitzer and Edward
R. Johnson, two of the three
U.S. soldiers released by the
Viet Cong in Cambodia last
month.
The defector said that of the
remaining four prisoners two
died of malnutrition and lack of
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and David Elder agreed that the
matter should be put to a vote in
each fire district.
The commissioners said the
measure would not spell out fire
districts. They said these would
have to be decided after a study
of fire protection needs in the
county.
The fire protection would be
financed from a gross digest
tax levied on the people within
a fire district who vote appro
val of such a program.
Chairman Moss noted that
Clayton County levies a five mill
tax on the gross digest in fire
districts.
By putting the fire tax on the
gross digest, the homestead ex
emption does not apply, Chair
man Moss noted.
The commissioners indicated
they had no idea of how many
mills of tax might be required
for a fire district. They said it
might vary from district to dis
trict, depending on several fac
tors.
Chairman Moss said it might
be possible for the county to con
tract with the city for fire pro
tection in some of the areas
near the city. He said it might
be possible to contract with the
Dundee Volunteer Fire Depart
ment for protection in a coun
ty district.
Some residents from the Ken
drick subdivision area met with
the commissioners last month
to talk over the possibility of
fire protection in county areas.
The commissioners told the
group they had been working on
the matter several years but had
run into a number of problems
that had blocked county fire pro
tection.
Approval of the county mea
sure in the General Assembly
next year would open the way
for the county to make plans for
setting up county fire districts
and offering protection, the com
missioners indicated.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair and little
warmer tonight. Wednesday
partly cloudy and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 36, high
Monday 62, low Monday 29, sun
rise Wednesday 7:28, sunset
Wednesday 5:34.
medical attention and the other
two were presumably still in
captivity.
Instructed To Kill
The prison guards were under
instructions to kill their cap
tives if there was a danger they
would be freed by allied troops,
Thuong said. However, he said
the normal procedure was to
move the prison camp to
another area in the event troops
or helicopters moved too close.
It was virtually impossible for
an escaping prisoner to find his
way out of the thick jungles, he
said. One U.S. officer escaped
“three or four times,” he said,
“but he could not get out of the
jungle.”
He said prisoners were often
beaten as punishment for
attempted escapes, despite a
Viet Cong policy that encou
raged “reeducation” instead of
beatings.
Four In Jail
Awaiting Trial
By EDWARD MCHALE
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI) —
Law enforcement officers
across Georgia were under or
ders today to “arrest on sight”
George Iras Worley, one of five
men indicted by a Jackson
County grand jury in the Aug.
7 assassination of Piedmont Sol.
Gen. Floyd G. Hoard.
One of the most intensive
probes in Georgia crime history
produced its most spectacular
development yesterday when
the grand jury, acting on evi
dence collected largely by
Johnson County Sheriff Roland
Attaway, returned murder in
dictments against Worley, 40,
of Commerce, and four others.
Indicted along with Worley
were A. C. (Cliff) Park, 76, of
Pendergrass; George Douglas
Pinion, 40, of Jefferson; J. H.
Blackwell, 24, of Marble Hill in
Pickens County, and Lloyd
George Seay, 23, Dawsonville.
The five were to be arraigned
here Dec. 15 and tried before
Superior Court Judge Mark
Dunahoo on Dec. 18.
Sol. Gen. G. Wesley Channell
of Winder, appointed by Gov.
Lester Maddox to succeed
Hoard, will be assisted In the
prosecution by Luther G.
Hames of Marietta, solicitor
general emeritus of Cobb Coun
ty. They will seek the death
penalty for all five.
Unmarked police cars trailed
Pinion and Park and arrested
them shortly after the indict
ments were returned. They
were taken to undisclosed jails
pending trial.
Seay and Blackwell were al
ready being held on moonshine
charges.
Although the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation would not com
ment on the case, highly reli
able sources said the state
would try to prove that one of
the suspects paid another $5,500
to have the crime-busting pros
ecutor killed, and that the go
between hired three others to
do the job.
The sources would not say,
however, what roles the five
suspects allegedly played in the
slaying of Hoard, 40, who was
killed by 10 sticks of dynamite
wired to the ignition of his car.
Hoard, the father of four,
died when he started his car as
he was leaving his home to pre
sent to a grand jury evidence
against accused auto thieves
and bootleggers who he fought
during 2>/ 2 years in office.
While the GBI had assigned a
full-time team to the Hoard in
vestigation and announced
earlier it had two “prime sus
pects,’’ it was Attaway, whose
Wrightsville office is 120 miles
southeast of here, who trig
gered' the break in the four
month probe.
Attaway said Seay and Black
well set up an illegal liquor dis
tillery in the basement of a
Wrightsville home on Aug. 9,
two days after the Hoard slay
ing, and after gas bottles used
in the distillery exploded,
the home was burned to the
ground. Seay was arrested
Sept. 26.
It was while he was holding
Hoard's Relatives
Watch Developments
Relatives of the late Sol. Gen.
Floyd “Fuzzy” Hoard who make
their homes in Griffin today wat
ch developments in the investi
gation of his death.
State investigators announced
the indictment of five men in
Jackson County at Jefferson,
Ga. Tuesday afternoon in con
nection with the killing of Sol.
Gen. Hoard. A dynamite blast
ripped open his car on the mor
ning of Aug. 7 at his home near
Jefferson, Ga., killing the North
Georgia crime fighter.
Hoard who grew up in Griffin
Seay on the moonshining
charge, Attaway said, that he
was tipped that Seay and
Blackwell might be involved in
the Hoard murder. The sheriff
said Seay told him he “defin
itely knew something about the
murder.”
The GBI later questioned
Seay and Blackwell, who sur
rendered Oct. 9, to the FBI at
Gainesville after being sought
since January as a federal pa
role violator. Sourcesc said Seay
and Blackwell implicated the
other three suspects.
In Atlanta, Maddox called a
news conference to announce
the indictments and refused to
disclose the details of the slay
ing, saying “the proper forum
for any such disclosure is the
court to try those persons fac
ing indictment.”
Dunahoo issued a strict set of
guidelines for newsmen cover
ing both pre-trial and trial pro
ceedings. He banned the use of
cameras and tape recorders or
television equipment in or near
the courthouse.
Talmadge Says
France Should
Settle US Debt
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., to
day called on the United States
to increase efforts to require
France to settle her debts to
this country, instead of “build
ing up France by tearing down
the United States.”
Requiring payment of debts
from the De Gaulle govern
ment, Talmadge said in a
speech prepared for the Senate,
would be a step in the right di
rection toward easing the bal
ance of payments deficit and
the gold drain.
While increasmg pressure on
France, the junior Georgia sen
ator said, “the United States
needs to serve notice to the rest
of the world—and especially to
Western Europe—that America
does not intend to bear the sole
responsibility for the defense of
the free world.”
Country Parson
“A busy man may be no
happier than an idle one —
he just doesn’t have time to
notice it.”
had fought bootlegging and car
theft rings that flourished in the
Piedmont circuit which he
served as state prosecutor.
Joe Hoard, one of the solici
tor’s brothers who was making
his home in Jefferson at the
time of the death, has return
ed to Griffin to make his home.
A carpenter by trade, he re
turned to his home town se
veral weeks ago. He along with
the late solicitor’s parents and
several other relatives who
live in Griffin today watched de
velopments in the investigation
with interest.