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VENIN vF
By Quimby Melton
It’s Great to be a Georgian!
That slogan, first used by the
Georgia Power Company many
> years ago, still holds as true as
ever—.
And we started out the year
1968 with an award of which all
Georgians may well be proud.
Our float, built round the theme
of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone
With the Wind” won first prize
in the Tournament of Roses par
ade.
It’s interesting to know just
how the float came to be enter
-1 ed in the parade.
For several years the Tourna
ment of Roses authorities have
invited high school bands from
all over the nation to enter com
petition to choose the best such
bands and to have them in the
parade. Among other bands that
applied was the one from Hape
ville High. And in competition
with hundreds of other high sc
hool bands it was one of five
' such bands from out of the state
of California chosen to march
in the parade. The Hapeville
Band is under the direction of
> William Miller.
Governor Lester Maddox,
hearing of the selection of the
Hapeville Band, said Georgia
' must also have a float in that
parade. He instructed his aides
to arrange for such a float,
which they did.
That float, featuring an ante
bellum home, Spanish moss,
such as one sees on the Georgia
Coast, Camellias and Gardenias
' and other typical Georgia flow
ers was a winner. There were 60
floats that competed with Geor
gia in the classification “floats
1 from states other than Califor
nia, and floats not entered by
business concerns.”
The Hapeville High School
Band marched in front of the
Georgia Float playing “Hey,
Look Me Over” — and the thou
sands who lined the parade rou
, te in Pasadena, and the millions
f who watched it over TV, and
most important of all, the jud
ges did “Look Me Over” and
» Georgia was the winner!
I The cost of building the float
was $19,500 and Governor Mad
dox paid for it out of his special
1 emergency fund. And, as Gov
ernor Maddox pointed out, it
was the best advertising Geor
gia could get with which to
i start the New Year.
There were two beautiful Ge
orgia girls on the float — San
dra Mcßee, Atlanta, who had
k won the Miss Georgia crown;
and Angie Thompson, of Blak
ei? winner of the Miss See Geor
gia First contest. They graced
the float and added to its beau
ty.
The float was 55 feet long and
20 feet wide. It was in the 79th
position, about halfway, of the
parade and was greeted with
cheers and applause of admira
tion. This Is the first time that
i Georgia has entered a float in
the parade; It won first place!
Congratulations Hapeville High
School and Governor Maddox.
> It's Great to be a Georgian!
— ♦ —
Good Evening had intended
I to write today’s column along
the lines of here’s a New
Year, What will one do to make
it a good year for one's family,
L one’s community, one’s state
| and one’s nation? But he was so
thrilled when he learned of Ge
orgia’s winning that nation-wide
I award that he could not help but
r devote the column to this achie
vement.
We’ve always believed “It’s
I Great to be a Georgian!”; and
p we expect to believe that with
all our being as long as we are
here.
Country Parson
“Never measure a man’s
right to say something by
whether you agree with it.”
Paving County’s
Top Task In ’6B
The Spalding County Commis
sioners indicated today that a
big paving program will be one
of their main tasks during 1968.
This was brought out as the
commissioners met and organ
ized for the new year.
Warden Floyd Wilkerson told
the commissioners that at le
ast 25 miles of paving in the co
unty already is scheduled. He
estimated that 10 to 12 more mi
les could be added during the
year.
The warden, who supervises
all county paving projects, indi
cated the county would need two
new trucks and a traffic roller
used in paving. He also recom
mended that one automobile,
that used by Building Inspector
Sam Cobb, needed to be traded.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert told
the commissioners two patrol au
tomobiles were due to be trad
ed this year. He asked the com
missioners to consider new radio
equipment for patrol cars which
would put him in contact with a
wider area. He said it would
help law enforcement in Spald
ing County.
The commissioners asked him
to get the specifications on the
radio equipment to Purchasing
Agent Tom Lane so bids can be
sought.
Jack Moss was reelected
chairman of the County Com
missioners. Z. L. Wilson was re
elected vice chairman and Da
vid Elder continues as the
junior member of the board. The
commissioners follow the cus
tom of having the chairman and
vice chairman serve two-year
terms though they have to be el
ected at the beginning of each
year.
All other county employes were
reelected for another year. They
include Mrs. Maurlne Jackson,
clerk; Thomas Lane, purchas
ing agent; Jim Owen, county at
torney: Floyd Wilkerson, county
warden; Joel Stephens, deputy
warden; Sam Cobb, building in
spector; Dr. Virgil Williams,
physician for Public Works
Camp.
The commissioners approved
the following donations for the
year:
ASC Office Rent, S6O per mon
th; City of Griffin Recreation
Department, $550 per month;
Hawkes Free Children’s Lib
rary, SSOO per month; Veterans
Top Ten
News Stories
In 1967
ATLANTA (UPD—Here are
the top ten stories of 1967 as
picked by Georgia newspaper
editors and publishers and
radio-television news directors
(For complete wrap-up of
top ten news stories as pick
ed by Georgia newspapers
see page three).
in a United Press International
survey:
1— Gov. Lester Maddox elect
ed by the legislature.
2— Sol. Gen. Floyd Hoard of
Jefferson murdered.
3— Georgia nightclubs forced
to stop serving liquor at mid
night Saturday.
4— Atlanta race riots.
5— Prison reforms sparked by
four prisoners who turned up in
a receiving line at the govern
or’s mansion.
6— Georgia switches to day
light saving time.
7— Gov. Maddox surprises
state with moderate inaugural
address, hires more Negroes in
government than any other gov
ernor.
8— Georgia’s legislative reap
portionment problems.
9— Georgia’s budget crisis and
sagging financial condition.
10— pardon and Parole Board
scandals.
INSIDE
Local News. Page 2.
State’s Top Stories. Page 3.
Ray Cromley. Page 3.
Wallace. Page 3.
LBJ’s Trip. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Holiday Deaths. Page 5.
TV Review. Page 5.
Dollar Curbs. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Sports. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Top Stories. Page 10.
Georg*a Toll. Page 10.
Quints. Page 10.
DAILY 4" NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Office Rent, S4O per month; Ge
orgia Industrial Home, Macon,
$125 per year.
The commissioners set licenses
for carnivals, road shows and
similar entertainment at SI,OOO,
provided they are held outside
the city limits. Licenses for cir
cuses was set at SIOO per day
and not to exceed SI,OOO per
year.
The commissioners will contin
ue its ban against fortune tell
ing permits.
Russell Smith was reappoint
ted to the Vo-Tech school board
for a term running until Dec.
31. 1972. Chairman Moss was
reappointed to the Griffin-Spald
ing Hospital Authority for a term
running until Dec. 31, 1971. Pal
mer Hamil was reappointed to
the Board of Appeals for a term
running until Aug. 3, 1970.
Chairman Moss said that the
county finished 1967 in good
financial shape. He said that re
venue and expenditures had been
about as expected.
An audit report on the year’s
business will be presented when
Auditor Hope Hammond com
pletes a check of the county re
cords. This report will show
exactly how the county finished
the year financially.
Steel Dart
Barrage Kills
351 Commies
By THOMAS CHEATHAM
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. troops
killed 348 attacking Communists
with almost point blank barra
ges of tiny steel darts today in
a Cambodian border battle that
closed out the bloodiest truce of
the Vietnam war, military
spokesmen said. Moments after
the pause ended, American jets
resumed bombing North Viet
nam.
UPI correspondent Robert
Kaylor reported from Dau
Tieng, 60 miles northwest of
Saigon, that about 1,500 Viet
Cong smashed into a U.S. Army
25th Infantry Division artillery
fortress before dawn in the final
hours of a 36-hour New Year’s
Eve truce.
Fighting against being over
run, the Americans lowered
their artillery barrels and
boomed round after round of
“beehive” shells into the human
waves of guerrillas. Each
"behive” shell exploded into
hundreds of half-inch darts that
shredded the Viet Cong ranks,
Kaylor said.
American Casualties
The defense of Dau Tieng cost
the Americans 23 men killed
and 153 wounded, U.S. spokes
men said. During the New
Year’s truce 27 Americans were
killed and 205 wounded in all,
they said. South Vietnamese
troops suffered 44 men killed
and 132 wounded.
The Communists lost 546 men
killed and nine captured as they
violated the peace pause 177
times, Allied spokesmen said.
They said never before had so
many Communists been killed
in so many violations in a short
truce.
In the air, American spokes
men reported "normal” strikes
under way once more against
North Vietnam. “Toothless”
scouting flights during the truce
showed the Communists using
the pause, as expected, to flood
their supply lines with war
materiel before the American
planes came again, the spokes
men said.
When the truce ended, U.S.
Air Force, Navy and Marine
jets went promptly to work on
the railroads, bridges, roads,
supply dumps and water traffic
of North Vietnam, the spokes
men said.
No Truce Extension
The resumption of bombing
squelched speculation the Unit
ed States would prolong the
pause in hopes the North
Vietnamese would respond with
a willingness to talk peace.
During the truce in South
Vietnam, the Communists spoke
only out of the ends of their
guns. The greatest fight roared
for 10 hours as legions of the
Viet Cong’s 271st and 272nd
regiments—units battered by
U.S. forces the past two months
on the Cambodian border
stormed out of the jungle seven
miles south of Cambodia
They used mortars and
recoilless rifles in hopes of
destroying the 25th Division
artillery lase that threatened
their longtime guerrilla strong
hold area. The guerrillas then
launched the human wave
assaults.
GRIFFIN
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A Long Wait
Griffinites waited in a long line this morning to get low automobile tag numbers.
The tags went on sale at 9 o’clock at the Spalding County Courthouse. Some
people had waited at the courthouse since 2 o’clock this morning to be assured of
a low number. A long line filled the lobby. Some people approached the line,
shook their heads and turned away. The sale of 1968 tags will continue through
April 1.
Hoard Suspects
Plead Innocent
By EDWARD McHale
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI) —
Officials announced today that
76-year-old A. C. “Cliff” Park
would be tried alone, and first,
for the murder of Solicitor Gen.
Floyd Hoard.
Park was among four men to
be tried for the Aug. 7 dyna
mite slaying today, but as jury
selection began it was revealed
that the defendants evidently
would be tried separately, and
that Park’s trial would begin
first.
Park and Douglas Pinion, 40,
were arraigned before the jury
selection began. Both pleaded
innocent. Neither of the other
two, John H. Blackwell, 24, and
Lloyd George Seay, was present
as proceedings began.
The fifth man indicted in the
slaying, George Iras Worley, is
still at large.
The five were indicted Dec.
4 by a Jackson County Grand
ury. Trial was postponed from
Dec. 18 in hopes Worley would
Georgia's
Rose Bowl
Entry Wins
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) —
Georgia’s first entry in the an
nual Tournament of Roses float
parade won top national honors
New Year’s Day.
Pageant judges in the 79th
annual parade chose the $20,000
Georgia float, “ AState of Ad
venture” depicting an antebel
lum scene from “Gone With
the Wind,” as national trophy
winner.
Two Georgia queens adorned
the float, along with thousands
of white iceberg chrysanthe
mums and other flowers form
ing a stately southern mansion
surrounded by willow trees.
Honor guard for the float
was the Hapeville High School
band, whose entry in the pa
rade enabled the state to sub
mit its first float.
be captured. The others have
been in custody since their in
dictments.
A number of defense motions
were expected but lawyers
were cautious in revealing their
strategy. It was likely, how
ever, that either the state or
one or more of the defense at
torneys might request separate
trials.
Defense lawyers may also ask
for a few days’ recess before
the trial to study prosecution
evidence, which has been close
ly guarded.
Strict procedures have been
ordered by Judge Mark Duna
hoo for attorneys, witnesses
and newsmen.
Sol. Gen. Emeritus Luhter C.
Hames Jr., of Marietta and new
Piedmont Sol. Gen. G. Wesley
Channell of Winder were ex
pected to ask jurors to return
the death penalty.
Sources said the prosecution
will try to show that one of the
defendants paid another $5,500
to assassinate Hoard and that
the go-between hired three oth
ers to wire the ignition of the
prosecutor’s car with 10 sticks
of dynamite.
Park’s attorney, Wesley Asi
nof of Atlanta, won permission
earlier to question Pinion about
a report, attributed to an
anonymous agent of the Geor
gia Bureau of Investigation,
that “Mr. Cliff Park gave
Douglas Pinion money for the
purpose of having Floyd Hoard
killed.”
Asinof failed to gain a list of
prosecution witnesses. Dunahoo
said the list would not be given
to defense lawyers until the ar
raignment because Hames and
Channell argued that the lives
of their witnesses might be in
jeopardy because Worley is
still at large.
The assassination of Hoard,
40, the father of four, thrust
the small north Georgia town
and Jackson County into na
tional headlines. Hoard was on
his way to present evidence to
a grand jury about bootleggers'
and car thieves when he was
killed.
Vol. 96 No.
Auto Taxes
Slightly Lower
Spalding County automobile
owners will find assessments sli
ghtly lower on their vehicles
when they buy their tags and
pay their taxes.
Assessor Al Hill said that the
state had slightly lowered as
sessments on automobiles this
year.
He said that automobile deal
ers in Georgia had told Revenue
Commissioner Peyton Hawes
that assessments in 1967 were a
little higher than they should
have been.
The revenue commissioner in
vestigated, Hill said, and found
this to be true. The slight reduc
tion in assessments followed.
Many people who lined up at
the Spalding County Courthou
se this morning for a low num
ber license tag found their auto
taxes slibhtiy down from 1a st
year because of the lower assess
ment.
Deputies On
24-Hour Patrol
Spalding County was under 24-
hour protection with Sheriff’s
Department patrol units as of
Jan. 1, according to Sheriff
Dwayne Gilbert.
He announced the extended pa
trol service went into effect
Monday as had been planned.
The sheriff, with approval of
the Spalding County Commiss
ioners, beefed up his patrol for
ce during the fall in preparation
for the extended protection.
Under the new program, the
sheriff said that the county will
be under the watchful eyes of
patrolman on a 24-hour basis.
School Holidays
To End Wednesday
More than 9,000 students in the
Griffin-Spalding County school
system will return to their class
rooms Wednesday, ending a two
week Christmas holiday period.
Classes will run for a full day.
Donor Heart
Functioning
By NEIL J. SMITH
CAPE TOWN. South Africa
(UPD—Dr. Christian Barnard
today performed his second
successful heart transplant,
doctors announced at the Goote
Schuur Hospital.
It was the third such
operation ever performed, the
second by Barnard and the first
between members of the white
and colored races.
A team of surgeons under
Barnard gave retired dentist
Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 58, the
heart of a 24-year-old man of
mixed blood in a five-hour
operation.
Hospital superintendent J.
Burger announced the success
ful operation in a terse medical
bulletin.
It said simply the transplant
operation was completed about
4 p.m. (9 a.m. EST) and was
successful.
He added that although the
operation at that point was not
fully complete, “the donor heart
is functioning well.”
Barnard’s first transplant
operation Dec. 3 took seven
hours and the heart functioned
until 18 days later when grocer
Louts Washkansky, 53, died of
pneumonia. A heart transplant
operation in New York last
month to save a baby failed six
hours after surgery.
The man who received the
heart had been in critical
condition with a deteriorating
heart condition. He gave
permission for the operation
with the statement: “I’d like to
have a try. I’m feeling lousy.”
The man who gave the heart,
Clive Clive Haupt, 24, was from
the slums of Cape Town, a
smiling good looking young man
of mixed parentage who was
stricken with a brain hemor
rhage Monday while playing
touch football with friends at a
beach resort.
A hospital spokesman said
tissues and blood of the two
men matched “not perfectly,
but satisfactorily.”
The operation began shortly
after 11:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m.
EST) and took a little more
than five hours. The final stages
of sewing up and bandaging the
patient continued thereafter.
The drama of today’s opera
tion began on a sweltering
beach at the resort town of Fish
Hoek where Haupt had gone
with members of his family and
friends to escape the 80-degree
heat of this southern hemis
phere summer.
After the game of beach
football he lay down to relax. A
friend noticed he was “foaming
and bleeding from the mouth.”
Friends rushed him to the
little hospital in Fish Hoek and
then he was sent to the bigger
Victoria Hospital at Wynberg.
Doctors there said they realized
there was no hope for him and
that he was a potential heart
donor.
Haupt was sent to the Groote
Schuur Hospital soon after 5
p.m. Monday and by 8:30 p.m.
Barnard’s 30-man team of
surgeons and specialists began
their examinations. Their deli
cate tissue - matching tests
lasted until well after midnight.
Haupt, his breathing assisted
artificially, clung to life
throughout the night. The job of
preparing Blaiberg for the
operation started.
Haupt’s wife collapsed from
the strain and grief when he
died and it was left to his
mother, Muriel, to sign the
necessary permission for
Haupt’s heart to be used in the
transplant attempt.
Pneumonia Causes Death
Washkansky received the
heart of a 24-year-old traffic
accident victim and doctors said
it functioned normally until
death from pneumonia.
Under South Africa’s racial
apartheid laws Haupt is classi
fied as colored because he is of
mixed White and African
parentage.
Friends described the dentist
as a man with a burning desire
to live. He has a daughter living
in Israel, they said, and had a
son who died several years ago
under “tragic circumstances.”
When Barnard asked him if
he would submit to the
transplant operation friends
said he replied, “I’d like to
have a try. I’m feeling lousy.”
Barnard began the operation
less than a day after returning
from a trip to the United States.
GHS Student
Holds Purse,
S2OO For Owner
A Michigan woman who lost her
handbag with more than S2OO in
it in Griffin will get it all back,
thanks to a Griffin High stu
dent.
Ronnie Smith, 18, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Smith, of 514
West Poplar street, found the
bag on West Taylor street dur
ing the weekend between Peter
Pan Motel and Miss Georgia Da
iries.
He took the bag home and he
and his father attempted to lo
cate the owner. The bag contai
ned identification.
Not being able to find the ow
ner immediately, Mr. Smith no
tified police here that the bag
had been found in the event the
owner telephoned about it.
The bag belongs to Mrs. John
A. Donovan of Michigan. She
was on her way to Florida and
stopped at a Griffin restaurant
during the weekend.
Ronnie Smith has talked with
her on the telephone at Daytona
Beach and assured her the bag
will be waiting for her here when
she makes her return trip home.
Firemen Helpless
As Town Bums
By EDWARD RILEY
DUNREITH, Ind. (UPD-The
threat of lethal fumes and
explosions kept this town
evacuated and firemen at bay
today while a fire triggered by
the collision of two freight
trains burned out of control.
The townspeople, all 236, were
routed from their homes in this
east-central Indiana town on
U.S. 40 Monday night when
exploding tank cars carrying
gasoline, crude .oil, ammonia
and lethal gas, sent a concus
sion of shock waves and a sheet
of flame through much of the
town.
The first of two Air Force fire
trucks, equipped to spread foam
—about the only agent that
could dampen the chemical
fires—arrived this morning
from Wright Patterson Air
Force Base at Dayton, Ohio.
An Air Force spokesman said
no attempt would be made to
douse the fire until the second
truck arrived. And even then he
said he was doubtful the fire
could be snuffed.
Additional Threats
The threat of additional
explosions and the danger of the
chemical fumes left firemen
helpless in the face of the
holocaust.
While spectacular, the explo
sions and flames Inflicted little
personal injury. Only three
persons were reported hospita
lized, suffering from relatively
minor injuries.
Residents of a four-mile area
north of the town were also
forced to flee for fear that the
winds would blow the fumes and
smoke their way.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cloudy and cool with
considerable fog and occasional
light rain or drizzle tonight and
Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 44, minimum today
38, maximum Monday 41, mini
mum Monday 36. Total rainfall
.64 of an inch. Sunrise Wednes
day 7:42 a.m. sunset Wednes
day 5:46 p.m.