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By Quimby Melton
•‘History repeats itself.”
•‘Uneasy lies the head that
Wears the crown.”
Both are quotes that are fam
iliar to many.
And, as Good Evening reads
the news from Korea, where ne
gotiations are under way seeking
the freeing of an American na
val vessel, the Pueblo, and its
crew, which have been seized by
North Korea, he turned to his
history and read where harass
ment of American shipping and
seizue of American sailors, da
tes back to the early days of this
republic.
Continued arrogance of the part
of Great Britain, which stopped,
searched and sometimes seized
American sailors, forcing them
to serve in the English navy in
its wars with Napoleon, led to
the War of 1812.
It is to be hoped that the pre
sent crisis, brought on by the
pirating of the American Pueb
lo will not lead to more wars
than we are today fighting.
But the Pueblo and its crew
must be liberated — and in an
honorable manner — with North
Korea being censured for its pir
acy —or this incident may lead
to more seizures and eventually
to even greater wars than if we
“force” them to do so now.
If this nation of ours should
fail to protect American ships
and American sailors on the
high seas, America will lose the
respect of many — including
some allies — and though some
may say such respect comes
from fear, America must not
lose this respect.
— + —
James Madison, the fourth
President, was in the White
House when the War of 1812 was
declared. History records that
it was a “reluctant” President
Madison who asked for the de
claration of War, History says
a group of young members of
Congress, including such fam
ous men as John Calhoun, of
South Carolina, and Henry Clay,
of Kentucky, led the campaign
for the declaration. Such, equal
ly famous men, as John Randol
ph, of Virginia, opposed the de
claration, and the term “hawk”
(that’s a familiar expression to
day) was used in opposing Cal
houn and Clay.
History today is also repeat
ing itself in “peace parties”:
A manefesto was passed by the
lower branch of the Massach
usetts General Assembly calling
for formation of a “peace party”
and when the call was made for
the states to send militia units
in to the national army, Mass
achusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut refused to do so.
— + —
The political party that sought
to replace Madison, known as
the “Fusion” Party, which no
minated De Witt Clinton, of New
York, staged a vigorous cam
paign, but lost 128 electoral vo
tes to 80. Madison and his run
ning mate, Elbridge Gerry, of
Massachusetts, were running on
the Democrat-Republican ticket,
as the party of Thomas Jeffer
son was known at the time.
Sometimes, as one studies de
velopments of modem days it is
Interesting, and worthwhile to
study the history of our nation.
In studying the era of James
Madison, one can come to the
conclusion that had not the War
of 1812—called at that time “The
Second War For Independence”
been fought and, despite early
defeats, that led among other
things to the British capturing
Washington, the entire history
of America could have been
changed.
We find, for instance that at
the time there was fear, if the
war was lost, the then 18 states
in the infant U.S.A, would be
come provinces of Canada and,
if that had happened this land
of ours would have become part
of the British Empire. So st
rong was this fear at the time
that certain of the states plan
ned to secceed and try once ag
ain to set up a government.
Well, if England was seeming,
ly winning the war why did they
end the war with the treaty of
Ghent in 1814 which was favor
able to the United States?
England had been at war for
years and in the conflict with
Napoleonic France had suffer
ed much, both in men and ships.
The British people were cla
moring for peace. One important
factor was that British shipbuil
ders, which were among the lar
gest in the world, became im
patient at their lost business
and Joined in demanding an end
to the war with America.
INSIDE TODAY
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Board Troubles. Page 2.
Riots Study. Page 2.
Atlanta Super City. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
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Refueling Gets Choppy
SHIPS AT SEA get fuel and supplies in choppy water. Destroyer escorts are similar
to those in Navy task force set to Sea of Japan, off Korean coast, following seizure
of the Pueblo.
Joseph Kennedy
Better After
Brain Spasm
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD —
Former Ambassador Joseph P.
Kennedy, who suffered a brain
spasm Sunday at his winter
home, was sufficiently recov
ered today to have breakfast
with his son, U. S. Sen. Robert
Kennedy, before the senator
flew back to Washington.
A family spokesman said that
Kennedy, 79, “rested comforta
bly last night” and was “feel
ing fine” today.
The former ambassador suf
fered a crippling stroke in 1961
and has had at least three heart
seizures in recent years. Dr.
Saul Rotter said the most re
cent attack was “quite normal
in his condition.”
Kennedy, father of former
President John F. Kennedy, was
not taken to a hospital for treat
ment during Sunday’s attack.
“All the necessary equipment is
in his home,” said Rotter.
A Roman Catholic Priest,
Monsignor J. P. Mahoney, pas
tor of St. Edward Church in
Palm Beach, was summoned to
to the Kennedy home to admin
ister last rites Sunday night,
and first reports indicated Ken
nedy had suffered a “stroke"
and his condition was serious.
Later reports described Ken
nedy’s ailment as a “blood
spasm on the brain.” Rotter
referred to the attack as a
brain spasm.
Grand Jury
Begins Work
The February term of Spald
ing Superior Court convened this
morning with Judge John H.
McGee presiding.
Civil cases will be tried this
week and the criminal docket
will be taken up next week.
The Grand Jury was sworn in
this morning and Homer Grlsson
elected foreman. John Newton
was elected secretary.
DAILY # NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, February 5, 1968 Vol. 96 No. 30
About Town. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Picture Page. Page 6.
Woman’s Page. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 8.
Heart Habits. Page 10.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 10.
Bruce Biossat. Page 10.
Weekend Toll. Page 10.
Arsneic Suspect. Page 10.
Bill Provides
Fire Districts
For Spalding
The Spalding House delgation
this week was to introduce a
bill that would allow Spalding
County Commissioners to set up
fire districts and provide fire
protection in them.
Ths measure provides for re
sidents in the districts to vote as
to whether they want county fire
protection.
Spalding Commissioners have
been requested a number of ti
mes to work out some kind of
fire protection program for hea
vily populated areas in the coun
ty.
They asked the Spalding dele
gation in the General Assembly
to draw up a measure to permit
fire districts and provide for re
ferendums so people could vote
Pueblo Crew
Release Pact
Is Reported
TOKYO (UPD—The Japanese
news agency Kyodo and the
newspaper Mainlchi Shimbun
reported tonight from Seoul that
the United States and North
Korea have agreed to release of
the entire crew of the captured
intelligence ship USS Pueblo.
Kyodo said the release was
agreed upon after the United
States “virtually agreed” to
accept a North Korean condition
that it admit that the Pueblo
was in North Korean territorial
waters when it was captured by
four motor torpedo boats and
escorted into Wonsan.
The Malnichi, a leading
GRIFFIN
Cong Battalion Hits
In Heart Os Saigon
on fire protection.
The commissioners indicated
that those in the districts which
might vote for fire protection
would be expected to pay for the
service through a tax levied
for that purpose.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and cool
tonight and mild on Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 58, minimum today
31, maximum Sunday 61, mini
mum Sunday 33. Sunrise Tues
day 7:32 a.m., sunset Tuesday
6:16 p.m.
Japanese daily, quoted a Seoul
radio broadcast as saying four
crewmen reported wounded and
the body of a sailor killed in the
incident would be returned to
the Americans “in a day or
two." It said the conference at
Panmunjom still had not
decided on the release proce
dures for the others.
U.S. officials in Seoul have
had no comment on the reports.
A high State Department
official said in Washington
earlier today that “sorry to
say" there is no sign that North
Korea is prepared to free the
crewmen.
Police District
Under Attack
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—A battalion
of Viet Cong captured a police
substation in the heart of Saigon
tonight and then attacked a
nearby police district headquar
ters. The new outburst coincid
ed with human wave attacks by
North Vietnamese regulars
against the Khe Sanh area near
the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
The attack by a force
estimated at 400 men came just
after the start of the 7 p.m. to 8
a.m. curfew when Saigon’s
streets were cleared of all but
military and police patrols. The
V.C. quickly captured the
substation and then hit the
police district headquarters, one
of nine in Saigon.
Government forces rushed to
the scene and the new fighting
could be heard throughout
Saigon. The battle followed
daylong bitter House-to-house
fighting in the Chinese Cholon
quarter and on at least two
fronts just outside the city.
U.S. officials said the North
Vietnamese attacks on the outer
defenses of Khe Sanh could be a
start of a massive Communist
offensive all along the DMZ.
U.S. Marines entrenched on Hill
861 called In artillery fire and
the Red attacks were smashed
with heavy losses.
While Viet Cong forces
increased their stranglehold on
many South Vietnam cities and
towns, U.S. planes hit North
Vietnam Sunday in a very
heavy raid—ll7 missions involv
ing several hundred planes. The
principal targets were the Hoa
Lac airfield and the Thai
Nguyen steel complex north of
Hanoi.
In Saigon Vice President
Nguyen Cao Ky announced
plans for a civilian militia to
help drive back the Viet Cong
penetration of the cities and to
prevent future attacks. He said
the 600,000 men under arms was
not enough and 58,000 more
would be drafted.
Khe Sanh is only a few miles
from the border of Laos and
seven miles below the Demilita
rized Zone (DMZ). U.S. officials
have estimated up to 20,000
North Vietnamese are massed
there for an imminent attack
and another 30,000 stretched out
along the DMZ.
Bs2’s trying to stave off the
offensive carried out seven
raids along the border. But still
the Communists were able to
attack Hill 861—one of twin hills
guarding Khe Sanh—and to rain
rocket, mortar and artillery fire
on the main fortress.
Atop Hill 861, next to Khe
One-Arm Bandit
Savings Plan
SUNDERLAND, England
(UPD — Nine-year-old Leslie
Punshon hit the jackpot in more
ways than one when he asked
his father last week for a piggy
bank.
Father Punshon, owner of a
teenagers’ recreation club,
brought home just the thing—a
genuine one-armed bandit slot
machine to hold Leslie’s weekly
spending money.
“It really works,” said Leslie
Sunday. “Even when I win the
jackpot I usually put the money
back In. It’s more fun that
way.”
Bloodmobile
Here Tuesday
The Red Cross bloodmobile
will be in Griffin Tuesday. Head
quarters will be set up at the
Cheatham building of the First
Baptist Church from 11 a.m. till
5 p.m.
Sah, a small band of Marines
hurled back with machinegun
fire the first Communist as
sault. Spokesmen said the North
Vietnamese then charged in
human waves and broke
through the Marine defense
perimeter.
Call In Artillery
The Leathernecks buttoned
themselves into deep bunkers
and radioed for artillery. The
barrage struck the North
Vietnamese overhead. Spokes
men said the Marines emerged
and counted more than 100
Communist bodies dangling on
the barbed wire.
The assault against Khe Sanh
followed up, as U.S. generals
predicted, eight days of Viet
Cong strikes against 35 South
Vietnamese cities. Allied
spokesmen said the first six
days’ fighting left 17,000 Com
munist dead along with 1,447
allied troops killed including 471
Americans.
The fight in the cities raged
on. In Hue, 50 mlies below the
North-South Vietnam border,
U.S. and government troops
fought house-to-house against
guerrillas who had seized the
ancient former imperial capital.
Marines smashed through to
rescue 38 U.S. servicemen
trapped five days a football
punt’s distance from American
military headquarters at Hue.
The guerrillas blew up the
bridge on the Allied supply
route to the city.
In Saigon, American and
South Vietnamese troops battled
house to house in the capital’s
Cholon Chinatown. They battled
main force guerrilla units on
the main road to the Mekong
Delta to the south—two miles
from Saigon. They fought the
Viet Cong to the north, on the
road to Bien Hoa, the largest
American base in Vietnam 18
miles from the capital.
Hit Central Section
Allied spokesmen reported
renewed guerrilla strikes in the
central waist of South Vietnam.
They struck at the U.S. base at
Tuy Hoa, 235 miles up the
coast, but American troops
stopped them short of the
railway station.
In Hue, UPI correspondent
Alvin B. Webb Jr., reported
helicopters whirling in supplies
because of the bridge loss. He
said fighting for the ruins of the
city was fierce.
“Casualties are pouring out
by the scores—Americans and
Vietnamese civilians. We’re
getting the worst out by
chopper but there is no other
way since the bridge is out,”
Webb said.
In Saigon, UPI correspondent
Thomas Corpora reported
streams of refuges pouring into
the city center to escape the
Chinatown fighting where artil
lery was being fired in the
streets.
Despite the fighting, much of
Saigon moved to normal life.
Electric power was restored.
Shops opened.
Residents buried relatives in
back yards. Bulldozers shoved
piles of Viet Cong dead into
mass graves.
According to allied spokes
men, the battle of the cities’
first six days cost the Comma
nlsts 16,976 men killed—equi
valent to more than 30 per cent
of their strike force—and
almost 5,000 suspects caught.
Allied losses were put at 1,477
men killed and 6,075 wounded.
These included 471 Americans
killed and 2,744 wounded.
Saigon officials said up to
300,000 South Vietnamese were
left homeless in the guerrilla
strike which U.S. officials
admitted surprised them with
its intensity. Saigon hospitals
reported 2,400 civllias wounded
and at least 180 killed.
War struck missionaries hard
for the first time. Six American
missionaries were killed last
week at a leper colony 165 miles
northeast of Saigon and Friday
U. S. troops saved 34 mission
aries and family members,
including nine children, minutes
before the Viet Cong overran
their mission at Dalat, 145 miles
to the northeast. U.S. spokes
men said.
Demos Beat Down
Election Revision
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CHILD’S HEART-
Dr. Paul Dudley White, one
of the nation’s noted heart
experts and one of the Am
erican Heart Association’s
founders, today begins a
three-part series in the Grif
fin Daily News. It will tell
how habits formed in young
children can help protect
them against heart diseases
when they become adults.
Later in the week Dr. White
will write for the first time
about heart transplants, too.
The first in the series is on
page 10.
Autopsy Shows
Man Died Os
Hemorrhage
An autopsy showed that Char
lie Madaris, 37, of 48 Crescent
avenue, East Griffin, died of a
brain hemorrhage Friday night,
police said today.
The autopsy also revealed Ma
daris had a brain tumor “that
could have possibly caused dea
th in the future,” officers said.
They said, however, that the
tumor was in the cavity of the
brain and was not large enough
to pressure the lobes of the
brain.
Charges against Gene Curr
ington, 34, of 231 North 12th st
reet, and Charles Lynch, 25, of
Collier road, were dropped Sat
urday by Griffin police.
Currington and Madaris got
into a fight at a downtown pool
room and Currington hit Madar
is twice, police said. Madaris fell
to the floor with blood running
from his mouth and nose.
Currington and Lynch took
Madaris, who was unconscious,
for a ride about the city trying
to revive him. After he did not
regain consciousness, they took
him to to the Griffin Police De
partment, officers said.
An ambulance was called and
took him to the hospital where
he was pronounced dead.
First police reports that the
incident happened at an Experi
ment pool room were incorrect.
Funeral services for Mr. Ma
darsi, were conducted Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock in
McDonald Chapel with the Rev.
Hoyt McGhee officiating. Burial
was in Oak Hill cemetery,
Mr. Madaris had lived in Grif
fin for 20 years and was employ
ed at Dundee Mill No. One.
Survivors Include his widow,
Mrs. Ruby Allen Madaris; a son,
Gary Madaris, of Tifton; his
parents, John D. Madaris and
Mrs. Mattle Lena Madaris, both
of Griffin; a step-daughter,
Mrs. Sallie Neel of Griffin; and
a step-son, Billy Payne of Grif
fin; two sisters, Mrs. Vera Greer
and Mrs. Minnie Hattaway, both
of Griffin; one brother, John
ny Madaris of St. Petersburg,
Fla., four grandchildren; his
grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Ma
daris, of Griffin; several nie
ces and nephews.
McDonald Chapel was in char
ge of arrangements.
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD—The Geor
gia Senate today approved a bill
making it easier for cities to
annex outlying areas after Dem
ocrats beat down an attempt to
revise an important, House
approved elections measure.
Senators voted 29-10 in favor
of a bill by Sen. Kenneth Kil-
Patrick of Morrow which would
permit annexation if a majority
—or 51 per cent—of voters or
property owners in an area ask
to be taken into a city’s limits.
Annexation now requires a re
quest by 60 per cent of the af
fected residents.
Earlier, the Senate killed a
move to possibly amend an
elections bill giving the state’s
electoral votes to the candidate
with the most votes in a presi
dential election and also requir
ing only a plurality to carry the
state.
Present election laws require
a candidate to get a majority of
the vote to win.
Sen. Dan Maclntyre, R-Atlan
ta, called the House bill a move
to deliver Georgia’s 12 electoral
votes to former Alabama Gov.
George Wallace.
Maclntyre urged the Senate to
allow the House bill to be
amended on the floor during de
bate. But a 32-14 vote defeated
the Republican move and en
sured the bill cannot be amend
ed by the Senate, only passed
or defeated. Six Democrats
joined the eight Senate Republi
cans in voting to allow
amendments to the House bill.
Sen. Oliver Bateman of Ma
con, GOP floor lader, promised
a floor fight on the bill when
it comes to a vote. The measure
was referred to the powerful
Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency in Government Com
mittee headed by Democrat
Stanley Smith of Perry.
Maclntyre accused Democrats
of pushing the bill through the
legislature to help Wallace if he
campaigns for the presidency.
“You know President Johnson
can’t win in Georgia,” he said.
Maclntyre claimed that Geor
gia’s presidential voting this No
vember, if Wallace runs, would
be split between the former Ala
bama governor, President John
son and the Republican candi
date, with Wallace standing a
good chance of winning the
most votes, even if not a majori
ty-
in other legislative action to
day, a House-Senate conference
committee was expected to find
a compromise on a controver
sial bill to liberalize Georgia
abortion laws.
Today’s attempts by the com
mittee to iron out differnces in
two plans highlights the start
of what will probably be the
most explosive week for the
1968 Legislature.
Action is expected on reappor
tionment, a new ethics code and
Daylight Savings Time this
week.
In addition, rumblings are ex
pected on Gov. Lester Maddox’s
$874.5 million budget proposals,
although the budget plan will
probably not reach the floor of
the house until later in the ses
sion.
Country Parson
■s
“It’s hard for a kid grow
ing up with a credit card in
his hand to learn how to do
things for himself.”