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VENIN IT
By Quimby Melton
The fighting In Vietnam was
brought closer to Griffin Friday
when news was received that a
local man —a young man, at
that, being just 19 years old—
— been killed in the raids sta
ged in Vietnam this week.
He was Gene Kenerly, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Kenerly, Bl
eachery street, in Experiment.
Only last fall, 15 days before
he left for Vietnam, he was mar
ried to Miss Glenda Wheeless,
of Thomaston.
Gene Kenerly graduated from
Griffin High School last spring
and entered the Army being tr
ained at Fort Benning. He was
assigned to the Military Police
and was serving with this organ
ization when South Vietnam was
struck by Viet Cong guerrillas
early on the morning of Janu
ary 31.
All Griffin joins in offering sin
cere sympathy to the young sold
ier’s parents, to his bride of a
few months, and other members
of his family.
The only thing Good Evening
can say to them, and words are
so idle when one is in such
deep sorrow as are they, is that
Gene Kenerly did not lose his
life, he gave his life, that they
and the rest of us here at home
might enjoy liberty and freedom.
Jesus Christ Himself said
“No greater love hath man than
to lay down his life for a friend”
and we are sincere when we say
that we believe that when a sol
dier “lays down his life” for his
country, that liberty and justice
and freedoms shall "not vanish
from the face of the earth”, he
is showing the same great love
as one who lays down his life
for a friend.
— + —
Griffin Police Chief Leo Black
well’s report to the Federal
Bureau of Invesigation of cri
mes and accidents in Griffin for
1967, published in Tuesday’s Gr
iffin Daily News, shows that
while crime in general showed
an increase of 8 percent over the
previous year, there was one
thing about the report for Which
the police must be given credit.
For instance the Griffin po
lice cleared 72 percent of all cri
mes, which is twice as good as
the national average of 35 per
cent. A breakdown of 1967 cri
mes shows three murders or ho
micides, one rape, 12 armed rob
beries or robberies by force.
Burglary accounted for a large
number of the crimes, there be
ing 158. Assaults, including cut
tings, stabbings and fights total
led 395. During the year 25 au
tomobiles were stolen.
— * —
At the same time Chief Black
well made public the 1967 report
on traffic accidents within the
city limits. There were a total
of 839 accidents during the year;
two persons were killed, one a
pedestrian and the other a truck
driver; 238 persons were injur
ed and property damage am
ounted to $319,529.
The report said most of the
accidents occurred between the
hours of 4 and 5 p.m. Chief cau
se of accidents in their order,
were: 166 failure to grant right
of way; improper turns, 123; fol
lowing too closely, 92; drinking,
57; improper driving, 41; speed
ing, 32; miscellaneous, 192.
Drivers in 20-25 age group
ranked third with 181; those bet
ween 25 and 34 led the list with
259; drivers between 34 and 44
were at the bottom of the list
with 177; but when the average
age moved into the 45-54 brack
et drivers were involved In 195
accidents which put them second
on the list. Male drivers were in
volved in better than twice as
many accidents as women dri
vers.
One can learn a lot about safe
driving by studying this report;
(1) don’t fail to grant right of
way; (2) don’t make improper
turns; (3) don’t drive too close
ly behind another car; (4) don’t
drive when drinking; (5) don’t
speed; (6) avoid all driving
you possibly can between the
hours of 4 and 5 p.m.
Let’s see if when the 1968 re
port is made we can’t have a
better record in traffic accidents.
And let’s tip our hat to the Po
lice Department which beat the
national average of crimes clear
ed for the year.
WEATHER
FORECAST FOI GRIFFIN
AREA — Rather cold again
tonight. Sunday fair and a little
warmer.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 56, low today 32, high
Friday 58, low Friday 45, sun
rise Sunday 7:34, sunset Friday
6:15.
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SEARCHING GLANCE is given barefooted Viet
namese woman and child standing in shambles of
their Da Nang home. First Cavalry trooper was flush
ing out snipers.
Freeze On Budget
Latest In Battle
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI)—Top House
leaders have placed a freeze on
Gov. Lester Maddox’s $874.5
million budget as their latest
strategy in an effort to cut
large slices from the governor’s
spending program.
It is a move which may
prove detrimental not only to
Maddox but also to the Senate,
which must act on the budget
after the House.
Although the “battle of the
budget” has been overshadowed
for more than a week by im
peachment proceedings, it be
came clear by the end of . the
week that action on the'* ap
propriations bill had come to
a halt.
The House Appropriations
Committee had held full scale
hearings during a recess the
week before, but had met only
once during the past week,
then only to hear from some
minor departments it missed
during the recess hearings.
Only one week remains be
fore another recess is planned
for the Senate Appropriations
Committee to hold hearings on
the budget as passed by the
House.
But the Senate committee
may be out of luck.
House leaders have decided
no budget bill will be passed
until at least the week after
the Senate recess.
That would leave two weeks
of regular sessions for the
House to pass the bill, the Sen
ate committee to act on it and
the Senate to pass it.
The freeze is to put pressure
on Maddox to compromise, to
leave as little time as possible
for Maddox to maneuver after
the House shows its hand and
to give the House time to
gather more ammunition.
The ammunition the House
seeks could be in the February
monthly report of state reve
nue. If the revenue report
drops, no matter how slight, it
could be used as an excuse for
Secret Diplomacy
Seeks To Free Ship
By LEON DANIEL
SEOUL (UPI) — U.S. and
North Korean negotiators will
meet again “within the next few
days” at Panmunjom in a new
phase of secret diplomacy to
free the USS Pueblo and its 83
crewmen, South Korean sources
said today.
u's. Rear Adm. John V.
Smith met with North Korean
Army Maj. Gen. Pak Chung Kuk
Friday in the second face to
face session since the Pueblo
was seized by North Korea last
week. There was no announce
ment on results of the closed
session.
The negotiations were ac-
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the cuts.
However, it is almost impos
sible for the House to wait for
the revenue report before act
ing, meaning House leaders
would have to count on some
cooperation from the Senate.
Compromise is no nearer now
than it was several weeks ago
when Maddox lashed out at
House Speaker George L. Smith
as a “power mad politician.”
Three of Maddox’s floor lead
ers, Reps. Tom Murphy, James
Parris and Jones Lane, met
with Smith Friday, but sources
said the meeting produced
nothing.
Although no one would con
firm the reports of a budget
freeze, House Appropriations
Committee chairman James
“Sloppy” Floyd hinted the
House might not complete ac
tion by the time the Senate Ap
propriations Committee holds
its hearings.
“The Senate committee can
have their hearings without the
bill,” Floyd said.
“The governor and his de
partment heads have had six
months to look at this thing and
they want us to ram it down
our throats in two weeks,”
Floyd said in defense of his
committee’s slowness to act.
Man Injured In
Switching Mishap
Jack Reynolds, 27, vs Atlan
ta, a railroad flagman, was in
jured this morning in a switch
ing accident at Imperial Homes
here.
Police said the man’s jacket
apparently caught a box car
being switched and pulled him
between a loading platform at
Imperial Homes.
He was taken to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital for a treat
ment.
companied by a second broad
cast "confession” of a Pueblo
officer and angry protests by a
high South Korean official
against the U.S. handling of the
crisis.
North Korea broadcast a
statement allegedly read by Lt.
Stephen Robert Harris of
Boston in which he apologized
for "a very dirty crime that I.
committed in the east sea of the
Democratic Peoples Republic of
Korea...”
The statement contained de
tails of what it said was the
Pueblo's mission in the Sea of
Japan and a biographical sketch
of
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
House-To-House Fight
Rages For City Os Hue
Cong Drive Broken;
Another One Feared
URGENT i
By EGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) — Allied
planes, tanks and troops today
drove fleeing, guerrillas into the
suburbs of Saigon but fought
house-to-house for South Viet
nam’s third largest city, Hue.
The allies declared the six
day-old Viet Cong drive broken
at last. But a high American
official warned another guerril
la invasion of the cities may be
coming.
Saigon’s two million residents
nervously emerged from their
homes to fetch food, aid
relatives and peek at the war
around the corner despite
sporadic sniper fire. But three
miles to the north, U.S. and
government troops reported
themselves locked in heavy
fighting against some 600 Viet
Cong trying to flee in sampans
and on foot.
Military spokesmen reported
fresh guerrilla assaults against
more than a score of cities and
towns Friday night and today.
But they said the pitch of battle
had fallen. Only at Hue did
major fighting roar.
There, in the shattered beauty
of the ancient imperial capital
400 miles northeast of Saigon,
U.S. Marines fought their way
into the Hue prison and found
the Viet Cong had freed 2,000
captive comrades. In Hue’s
walled “forbidden city,” about
1,000 Viet Cong were staging a
bitter suicide stand against
charging government marines.
The city that, on both sides of
the Perfume River, had been
South Vietnam’s master trea
sure exploded in flame and
battle.
The high-ranking American
official, briefing newsmen, said
about 36,000 Viet Cong had
thrown themselves against
some 35 cities and towns. The
Six American
Missionaries
Slain In Viet
By THOMAS CHEATHAM
SAIGON (UPl)—Six Ameri
can missionaries at a Vietna
mese leper colony were mas
sacred by the Viet Cong and
their leprosarium was “totally
obliterated,” military reports
said today.
Three of the dead were
women and other Americans
were reported missing from the
Ban Me Thuot Mission Hospital
where the attack occurred
earlier this week.
The Christian and Missionary
Alliance, which operated the
leprosarium, said some of the
bodies left behind were wired
with booby traps.
There was no report on the
fat® of the patients at the 200-
bed hospital, which was also
equipped to handle 2,000 outpa
tients. Ban Me Thuot is 170
miles north of Saigon.
Reports of the massacre
came from a U.S. Army
chaplain at Ban Me Thuot,
Richard Perkins, and from Mrs.
Marie Ziemer, formerly of
Toledo, Ohio, whose husband,
Robert, was killed. Mrs. Ziemer
was badly wounded.
The dead, in addition to
Ziemer, were Leon C. Griswold,
66, Orlando, Fla., and White
Plains, N.Y.; his daughter,
Carolyn, 41; the Rev. C.
Edward Thompson, 43, New
Kensington, Pa.; his wife, Ruth,
44, and Miss Ruth Wilting, 42,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Another missionary, Miss
Betty Olson, a nurse, fled into
the jungle and was believed
safe. Her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. Walter Olson of Seattle,
are missionaries in Africa.
Among those feared kidnaped
was Hank Blood, a member of
the Wycliffe Translations, a
missionary society based in Los
Angeles. His wife and children
were released and were report
ed safe.
NEWS
cost in blood so far was
announced as almost 13,000
Communists killed as against
983 allied soldiers, including 318
Americans, killed.
In Saigon, where the govern
ment partially lifted its nation
wide 24-hour curfew, residents
watched allied planes swooping
down to strike guerrillas
paddling sampans to get away
on the Saigon River to the
north. U.S. artillery left a trail
of Viet Cong bodies near he
river banks, and troops seized
Chinese-made machineguns left
behind.
Brig. Gen. John Chaison said
his fellow Marines at Hue had
with government forces cut
down the invaders to about 600
men plus the Viet Cong still
clinging to a corner of the
imperial citadel.
Matter of Time
“I’m convinced that with the
forces we have in there, it’s
just a matter of time. Within
the next day or two, we’ll have
Hue cleared,” he said. The
villa-to-villa Hue battle was
among the bitterest of the
drive. U.S. spokesmen reported
14 American civilians slain in
the city.
Other fighting raged from
Can Tho, largest city in the rice
bowl Mekong Delta, to just
below the northern frontier
where U.S. commanders pre
dicted up to 50,000 North
Vietnamese troops are poised
for a followup offensive they
said will dwarf all that has
come before.
Allied spokesmen said the
first 102 hours of the battle of
the cities produced the following
casualties:
Communist —12,704 killed,
3,576 suspected guerrillas cap
tured.
South Vietnam troops — 661
killed, 1,792 wounded.
Americans—3lß men killed,
1,639 wounded.
Other allies — four killed, 52
wounded.
Vietnam At Glance
By United Press International
SAlGON—Despite sniper fire
in the streets and heavy
fighting in the suburbs, Saigon’s
two million residents emerge to
fetch food, aid relatives and
peek at the war around the
corner. Americans still ordered
to stay indoors except for the
troops clearing out th esnipers.
HUE, Vietnam—South Viet
nam’s spiritual and educational
center, a once beautifiul coastal
center called the “Venice of the
Orient,” Is now heavily da
maged in allied drive to oust
guerrilla invaders. Viet Cong
fighting Marines house-to-house
on one side of Perfume River
and making suicide stand in
ancient Imperial citadel on the
other.
SAIGON — Allied spokesmen
report more troops—Communist
and American—have been killed
this week than in any previous
Man Dies Following
Fight In Pool Boom
A Griffin man was dead on ar
rival at the Griffin-Spalding Co
unty Hospital Friday night after
being driven around the city for
about an hour in a car.
Police said Charles Madaris
of 48 Crescent avenue, East
Griffin, and Gene Currington,
34, of 231 North 12th street, got
in a squabble at a pool room in
Experiment and Currington hit
Madaris twice. Madaris fell to
the floor with blood running
from his nose and mouth, police
were told.
An officer said witnesses told
police neither of the blows by
Currington were hard enough to
be fatal.
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Gene Kenerly of Griffin was
killed this week in the Viet
nam fighting. He sent this
picture of himself on duty in
Vietnam to his wife, the
former Glenda Wheeless of
Thomaston. They were mar
ried Aug. 20 and he left for
overseas 15 days later. He
graduated from Griffin High
last June and trained at Ft.
Benning. He was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Kenerly,
58 Bleachery street, Experi
ment. Notice of his death
from mortar fire on Jan. 31
came Friday.
seven-day period. Casualty rate
is running at almost 13
Communists killed for every
allied soldier slain.
BIRMINGHAM, England —
British Foreign Secretary
George Brown Friday night
appeared to Foreign Minster
Andrei A. Gromyko of the
Soviet Union to join him in
immediate call for ending the
Vietnam fighting. No reply from
the Kremlin.
TOKYO—Hanoi Radio heard
broadcasting appeal for South
Vietnamese to join Communist
sponsored alliance to oust the
Saigon government and Ameri
can forces.
TOKYO—Peking Radio re
ports Premier Chou En-lal of
Communist China Friday sent a
message to the Viet Cong,
congratulating the guerrillas for
their “brilliant victories” in
invading South Vietnam cities.
25, ot Collier road, Griffin, put
Madaris in Currington’s car and
said they would take him to the
hospital.
Instead, they took him to po
lice headquarters on East Solo
mon street about an hour later.
Officers could not find a pulse
on Madaris and called an ambu
lance to rush him to the hospi
tal. He was dead on arrival.
Officers said an autopsy wou
ld be performed today to deter
mine the cause of death.
Currington and Lynch are
being held on charges of viola
ting City Ordinance 321, Para
pranh One, which pertains to the
detriment of the health of oth
ers.
Heart Series
Starts Monday
Dr. Paul Dudley White of
Boston, author of the three-part
series entitled “As the Twig Is
Bent,” which starts Mdnday in
the Griffin Daily News, is wide
ly regarded as the world’s fore
most heart specialist.
Since his graduation from
Harvard Medical School in
1911, Dr. White probably has
done more than any living in
dividual to advance cardiology
and focus attention on the
needs of cardiovascular re
search.
In 1924, he was one of six phy
sicians who founded the Ameri
can Heart Association as a
professional society, later serv
ing as its president. His inter
est in the organization gained
new momentum with its transi
tion 20 years ago into a nation
al voluntary health agency.
Dr. White wrote this series for
Newspaper Enterprise Associa
tion and The Griffin Daily
News in observance of Heart
Honeywell Says
It Needed Dyer
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — One of
the nation’s major electronic
firms, Honeywell Inc., said to
day it needed the services of a
south Georgia chiroproctor to
market Its computers to city
and state governments.
The chiropractor, Dr. William
R. Dyer, is a political ally of 1
Gov. Lester Maddox. Honey- i
well won its first major con-1
tract with Georgia for $575,780
shortly after the chiropractor.
went to work for them.
Maddox hopes to name Dr. I
Dyer to the scandal - ripped
State Pardon and Parole Board,
but some Georgia legislators
question not only the chiroprac
tor’s qualifications for the job
but also his links to Honeywell
and the half-million-dollar con-!
tract.
The controversy prompted I
Honeywell to defend Itself and'
Dr. Dyer in a telegram from
Honeywell’s vice president for
its southern region, Fred
Kaiser.
Kaiser’s telegram to news
media said Honeywell needed
Dr. Dyer “as a consultant for
our southeast region to guide us
in developing a plan for Honey
well to market our computers
in the municipal and state gov
ernment market.”
The Honeywell telegram said
its hiring the Moultrie chiro
practor as a consultant “is a
common practice for compan
ies” entering new markets.
At the same time, Honeywell
denied, as does Dr. Dyer, that
the chiropractor “had anything
to do with the procurement of
the computer contract.”
The telegram said Dr. Dyer
had no contact “with any state
official in connection with this
contract."
The chiropractor was named
by Maddox earlier this week.
The Senate must confirm his
appointment to the Parole
Board. Dr. Dyer would replace
J. W. Claxton, who resigned in
the face of possible impeach
ment for alleged irregularities
in office ranging from granting
paroles under political influence
to pressuring employes for per
sonal loans.
Mrs. Rebecca Garrett, a sec
ond Parole Board member im
plicated in th econtroversy, was
asked to retire in a Senate res
olution introduced Friday. She
had refused to do so despite re
quests from Maddox.
Maddox defended his selection
of the chiropractor Friday, say
ing Dr. Dyer is “honest, capa
ble, reliable” and a Sunday
school teacher.
“They want me to get down
air
Dr. Paul Dudley White
Month and in support of the
1968 Heart Fund.
en my knees and say please ap
point so-and-so,” Maddox said
of legislators critical of the
Dyer nomination. Maddox said
the “silk stocking establish
ment” opposed the chiroprac
tor.
Dr. Dyer’s nomination was
expected to be given to the Sen
ate next week. A resolution and
requests from Senate members
have asked that the nomination
be referred to committee for
study.
Dr. Dyer said Friday his only
job with Honeywell was to help
the nationwide firm “avoid bot
tlenecks that were making it
difficult for them to secure
bids” with Georgia.
Maddox said the Honeywell
contract, with the State Public
Safety Department, was award
ed after he talked with the State
Purchasing Department to in
sure the contract- went to the
low bidder, in this case, the
governor said, Honeywell.
In other Georgia legislative
action Friday before the week
end recess:
—A House-Senate conference
committee was expected to be
named to settle disputes in a
liberalized abortion bill.
—The Senate passed and sent to
the governor two House bills
making obscene and threaten
ing phone calls a misdeamean
or and setting legal methods for
prosecutors to make court chal
lenges of literature to see if it
is obscene.
—The Senate passed legisla
tion extending honorary Georgia
drivers’ licenses to Vietnam
veterans: requiring all legisla
tion that would change salaries
of state officials to be intro
duced in the first 10 days of
each session; and tightening
safety laws on pulpwood trucks.
Country Parson
msmj
“A fellow who is interest
ed only in himself has his
eye on a bad example.’'