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By Quimby Melton
. This is National Boy Scout
Week with the tempo of the ob
servance picking up during the
last part of the week. Already
many special Boy Scout displays
have been placed in many store
windows and Thursday night the
annual Father-Son banquet will
be held at Spalding Junior High
School. A special program, fea
turing a Cherokee Indian Chief
and his troop from the Cherokee
Reservation in North Carolina,
will be given.
Friday will be Boy Scout Civic
Day with Scouts taking over all
offices'in both city and county
governments. The Scouts, today
young men, will be city and
county officials in the years to
come and this will, be the first
taste many of them will get as
to how the city and county oper
ate.
Both city and county will be
in excellent hands Friday.
In addition to assuming civic
duties on Friday all Cubs, Sc
outs, and Explorers are to wear
their uniforms to school.
And Sunday many churches
will observe Boy Scout Day,
with Cubs, Scouts and Explor
ers, along with their leaders, at
tending the church of their cho
ice.
There is no more important or.
ganization in our community,
or elsewhere in the nation, than
the Boy Scouts of America. They
deserve from all, and are given
by a great majority of our peo
ple, full support in their pro
gram.
Griffin has been interested in
Scouting for more than half a
century; one of the first Scout
troops in Georgia having been
organized in Griffin early in the
present century. Today there are
living in Griffin several business
and professional men who were
charter members of this troop.
Griffin also has played an im
portant part in the development
of such Scout institutions as the
one at Camp Thunder, Boy Sc
out Camp, for the men who form
ed the first Scout troop here,
saw to it that the Scouts were
taken to summer camps — one
of the first summer camps be
ing held at Warm Springs.
Griffin appreciates Scouting,
and the young men who are Sc
outs and also appreciates the
men and women who give their
time in directing and leading the
Scout program here.
A salute to all Scouts and to all
Interested in them.
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There are still a lot of people
who haven’t thrown up their
hands in despair, thinking the
world will be blown up any min
ute; but who believe in the fu
ture of our nation and the world,
and make long range plans for
making this a better world than
it has ever been.
Among those who take a more
optimistic view of the days, and
months, and years to come, are
the directors of the Griffin Area
Chapter for Retarded Children.
They know that our community,
our state and our nation will
be much finer if those who are
retarded are prepared to play
their part in society.
It was this attitude that first
lead the Chapter to begin its
Play-to-Learn School, that has
been so successfully operated
for many years at the Episcopal
Church. Now the Chapter is pre
paring to expand its program
They will begin, as soon as pos
sible, a “Way To Earn" school.
Already the Chapter has pur
chased a four acre tract of
land, with two buildings on it.
Funds for which to operate the
Chapter’s schools are provided
through the United Fund, but
extra money is needed to pur
chase property, equipment and
the like.
Here is where others, not mem
bers of the Association, can join
the people who believe in the fu
ture of the nation, and in the
program to make the retarded
an asset to any community. Con
tributions will be welcomed.
And while the fact that such
donations may be deducted
when one makes out one’s in
come tax returns, this should
not be the motivating reason
for making a contribution; still
it is an interesting thing to
know.
Come on Griffin!
Help your community
Help the handicapped!
Dempsey Named Station Director;
Fullilove To Do Research Here
No Weight
Hazards In
System Here
Griffin - Spalding County
School Supt. D. B. Christie said
today there are no counter
weights on any doors in the
system such as the one that fell
in Atlanta Monday and killed a
Second grade student.
A check of buildings in the
system was made by admini
strative assistant Herman Nel
son.
The 20-pound weight in Atlan
ta fell, breaking a stop, on its
track, crashed through a sub
floor and ceiling and killed the
seven-year-old girl. It was used
to make it easier for students
to open and close a closet door.
Enraged Marines Tear
Down N. Vietnam Flag
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—Enraged U.S.
Marines ripped down a North
Vietnamese flag in the still
embattled city of Hue today and
ran up the Stars and Stripes.
But fighting spread in the
Saigon streets and the air war
blazed with new fury.
U.S. spokesmen said about 900
Viet Cong moved from the
flaming Cholon sector of Saigon
back into the center of the city
where street fighting broke out
anew. There were battles in the
suburbs and at the gates of the
Tan Son Nhut airport.
U.S. Marines fought large
scale engagements around the
coastal city of Quang Tri just
below the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) and outside Da Nang as
spokesmen warned the Commu
nists appeared to be trying to
isolate the big cities of Saigon,
Hue and Da Nang.
In the air war U.S. planes
battled Communist MIGs in a
series of dogfights near the
northern capital of Hanoi and
each side lost one plane shot
down. 852 s again hit the
Communist troop buildup near
Khe Sanh while other planes
pounded Communist positions in
South Vietnam with 782 sorties.
Costly Offensive
The Communist offensive that
began a week ago with start of
the Tet lunar new year
celebrations was proving a
costly one.
Spokesmen put the Commu
nist toll at 21,330 killed and
4,727 suspects captured—more
than a quarter of all the Red
troops lost in 1967.
Allied casualties were put at
1,729 dead including 546 Ameri
cans and 7,185 wounded includ
ing 3,084 Americans.
Untold thousands of civilians
were dead or wounded and
authorities estimated 300,000
persons were made homeless.
American authorities issued a
steady stream of warnings that
the Communists might renew
their offensive against the cities
at any time to back up the
expected onslaught across the
Demilitarized Zone against the
Marine bastion of Khe Sanh.
They did not want the
defenders to be caught napping
as they were when the
Sommunist Tet offensive start
ed. Many South Vietnamese
officers and men were on leave
when the Viet Cong struck into
40 or 50 cities and towns and
scored one of their great
propaganda victories of the
war.
Attacks Beaten Off
At Khe Sanh, seven miles
below the DMZ and only a few
miles east of the Laotian
border, the Communists rained
in more than 170 rounds of
mortars and rockets today,
killing one Marine and wound
ing five. But probing attacks
there Tuesday were thrown
back.
The U.S. Command disclosed
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Dr. Davison, Dr. Owen, Dr. Dempsey and Mr. Fullilove at station after announcement.
that 12,000 men—almost a full
division—had been shifted into
position just below the DMZ at
the western end of the line—two
brigades of the Ist Air Cavalry
and one brigade of the 101st
Airborne Division.
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Lions Club
To Meet
In Griffin
The Lions Clubs of District
18-E will hold a district conven
tion at the Griffin Moose Lodge
Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Over 550 Lions from through
out Middle Georgia will meet
in Griffin to welcome second
vice-president of Lions Interna
tional, W. E. Bryan of Doyles
town, Ohio.
Mayor Kimsey Stewart will
officially welcome Mr. Bryan
and his wife, and other Lions
Club members from the 18-E
District. Lemual Watkins, pres
ident of the Griffin Lions Club,
will be host. Bill Huele of
Thomaston, district governor
of 18-E, will conduct the assem
bly. Harry Davis of Griffin is
deputy district governor of re
gion 2-18-E.
Mr. Bryan was elected sec
ond vice-president of Lions In
ternational at the association’s
50th anniversary convention in
Chicago last July. As well as
holding every office in his lo
cal club, Doylestown Lions
Club, Mr. Bryan has been zone
chairman, deputy district gov
ernor, district governor and an
international director.
While district governor, Mr.
Bryan received the 100 percent
district governors award and
was chairman of the Ohio
Council of Governors as well as
chairman of the Ohio Interna
tional convention committee.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, February 6, 1968
President Urges
Investigation Os
Auto Insurance
WASHINGTON (UPD —
President Johnson urged Con
gress today to authorize a
federal investigation of the
nation’s "overburdened and
unsatisfactory” automobile in
surance system.
The proposal was included in
an eight-point program submit
ted by the President to insure
that the American consumer
gets a “fair and honest
exchange for every hard-earned
dollar.”
Johnson told Congress in a
special message on consumer
Interests the automobile isur
ance system has become a
national problem with rising
premiums and “arbitrary cover
age and policy cancellations.”
"Accident compensation Is
often unfair,” Johnson said.
"Some victims get too much,
some get too little, some get
none at all. Lawsuits have
clogged our courts.
Pardon, Parole Board
Institutes Self Reforms
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD— The State
Pardon and Parole Board, hold
ing Its first public meeting, has
voted to take Its activities from
behind closed doors and to in
stitute sweeping new self re
forms.
The three-member board vot
ed to accept more than half the
recommendations made by
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton after
an investigation of the board’s
activities, including a rule that
no one but licensed attorneys
may accept fees for represent
ing an inmate.
The board, now dominated
by appointees of Gov. Lester
Maddox, also voted to accept
Maddox’s demand that it bring
its activities into public view
and make all its decisions at
public meetings.
Maddox’s newest appointee,
Dr. William Dyer, sat in on his
first meeting although he has
not been confirmed by the Sen
ate and there is speculation the
senators may not approve him.
Board chairman J. O. Par
tain Jr. ruled that Dyer’s vote
will be recorded but will not
count unless and until he is ap
proved by the Senate.
Controversial Time
Bill Bue For Action
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD — A con
troversial bill to pull Georgia
out of the national Uniform
Time Act and put the state
back on standard time in sum
mer months was due for action
today in the House.
House Speaker George L.
Smith said the measure by
Rep. Ward Edwards of Butler
would be called up, and a heat
ed battle was expected to echo
last year’s fight. Edwards’ bill
would put Georgia on Eastern
Standard Time all year .round,
as it was before the 1967 Leg
islature voted to join neighbor
ing states in observing Daylight
Savings Time from April to the
end of October.
The Senate has passed a res
olution calling on Congress to
shorten the span of DST to
just the summer months when
children are out of school. The
major complaint against the
new time was that students
had to wait for school buses in
the dark.
The Senate was ready to take
up a new ethics code for state
employes and a reform bill re
quiring a unanimous decision
of the pardon and parole board
to parole a felon.
A bill was passed in the Sen
ate Monday to allow any for
eign exchange students who are
not Communists to take short
term state jobs while they at-
Maddox’s Senate floor lead
er, Sen. Frank Coggin, said
Monday Dyer will submit “all
information concerning his bus
iness activities’’ to the Senate
before it considers his appoint
ment.
Dyer, a Moultrie chiroprac
tor, has come under fire for
the fact he was a consultant
with a computer firm last year
when it got its first big state
contract.
Dyer Monday said he had
never contacted any state em
ploye about the computer in
stallation and denied a report
he had recently bid on an or
der of outboard motors for the
state.
“I’m sure if you check you
will find I have not bld on any
outboard motors and have in
fact taken my name off the list
of firms to be sent state bid
forms,” said Dyer, who also is
head of a Moultrie novelty
shop.
Dyer was appointed to fill
the vacancy left by the resig
nation of J. W. Claxton who
quit in the face of possible im
peachment.
The other board member,
Mrs. Rebecca Garrett, has also
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tend Georgia private colleges.
Exchange students in state col
leges enjoy the same privilege,
according to DeKalb Sen. Ben
Johnson, author of the bill.
The anti-Communist amend
ment came at the request of
two or three senators, includ
ing DeKalb Sen. Frank Miller
who argued Red infiltrators
might use the opportunity of
fered in the bill to advantage.
Miller said his son refused to
attend the University of Georgia
Law School because he charged
some of the professors em
braced Communism.
Panmunjom Talks
Anger S. Koreans
By LEON DANIEL
SEOUL (UPD—A high-rank
ing government official inter
vened today to end growing
resentment against the United
States at its secret Panmunjom
talks with North Korea. The
resentment has led to anti-
American demonstrations and
demands that South Korean
forces be withdrawn from
Vietnam.
The official, who requested
anonymity, met with South
come under fire, but has re
fused to resign. She was pre
sent and voting at Monday’s
board meeting.
Among the major reforms
enacted at the Monday meeting
were a provision that attorneys
must make a sworn statement
outlining the fees they were
paid for appearing before the
board.
The board voted to keep a
general register of all persons
who contact a board member
about an inmate and to cross
file the name in the inmate’s
file.
Rules governing the board
are now to be printed and
made readily available to the
public.
One of the attorney general’s
recommendations not approved
by the board was that each
board member put in writing
his reasons for turning down a
clemency request.
“That’s the one I’m scared
of,” said Mrs. Garrett, explain
ing the records might get into
the wrong hands and endanger
the safety of board members.
The board was to meet again
Wednesday to consider more
possible reforms.
Change To Be Made
On February 15
Dr. Hugh Dempsey today
was named resident director of
the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion in Griffin, effective Feb.
IS.
He will succeed Director Tom
Fullilove who will be trans
ferred to a full time research
position at the Griffin station.
Announcement of the change
was made this morning at the
Griffin station by Dr. Fred
Davison, president of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Station staff members and
department heads were called
to a meeting in the station au
ditorium at 11:30. The an
nouncements took eight min
utes.
Dr. Davison opened the ses
sion, stating that Mr. Fullilove
had submitted his resignation.
He said he would not leave the
station but would stay in Grif
fin to do full time research.
Mr. Fullilove said after the
meeting he did not know yet
what his research would be.
Dr. Dempsey has the full sup
port of the chancellor, the uni
versity president and the over
all director of the state’s ex
periment stations, Dr. Davison
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair tonight
and Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 61, minimum today
36, maximum Monday 55, mini
mhum Monday 31. Sunrise Wed
nesday 7:31 a.m., sunset Wed
nesday 6:17 p.m.
Korean newsmen and told them
the U.S.-North Korean talks on
return of the USS Pueblo
crewmen had not yet succeeded,
that South Korea had been
Informed of all developments
and that the meeting also
discussed South Korean mat
ters.
He said the first two meetings
discussed possible return of the
Pueblo crewmen and that the
third discussed the Communist
assassination attempt against
President Park Chung Hee.
South Koreans had been
angry because the United States
was putting more emphasis on
the Pueblo case.
He said the fourth meeting
would be held when the
Communists asked for It but
said no meeting was scheduled
for today.
The high official denied
reports by Japanese news
agencies and the Seoul newspa
pers and radio that North Korea
had actually turned over the
body of a dead Pueblo crewman
or that any arrangements had
been made for return of the
others.
The Kyodo news agency
quoted “informed South Korean
government sources” as saying
the rest of the 83-member crew
of the Pueblo would be released
through a ‘third party nation”
and that the ship’s wounded
would be released soon.
South Koreans grumbled
openly, students demonstrated
over what they saw as U.S.
appeasement of North Korea
and the South Korean govern
ment hinted it may make a
“serious move” if they are not
kept fully Informed about
negotiations in Panmunjom over
the Pueblo incident.
The secret talks have been
hid three times at Panmun
jom, the North Korean village
where the 1953 Korean armis
tice was agreed on. A fourth
meeting was expected but no
time was set.
said.
Dr. George Simpson is the
Chancellor and the top admini
strative officer for the Univer
sity System of Georgia. Dr.
John Owen is overall director
of the system’s agriculture re
search stations like the one in
Griffin. They are part of the
University’s College of Agri
culture.
Addressing the staff mem
bers, Dr. Dempsey asked all
personnel at the Griffin Station
to keep in mind the goal of the
station: that of a strong re
search program.
He said with the cooperation
of everyone at the Griffin sta
tion, this could be achieved.
Dr. Dempsey said there
would be a “cooling off period’’
so that stability and unity of
the staff can be achieved. He
told the station staffers to for
get about relocation.
He asked each of them to re
member their primary goal
and not to engage in anything
“that would be self-destruc
tive.”
The individual person will
have top priority in any relo
cations or changes that might
be considered in the future,
Dr. Dempsey said.
Asked by a newsman how
long the “cooling off” period
would be, he said probably
about a year.
Dr. Davison urged staff
members to keep in mind the
goal of the station and help to
make it a vital part of a grow
ing, expanding and important
research program in the uni
versity system.
He asked them to support
Dr. Dempsey and said “he is
worthy of it (your support.)”
He said he thought a round
of applause was in order for
the new director and the staff
members applauded.
Dr. Owen who was on hand
for the announcement said the
Griffin station has one of the
best staffs of researchers in
the nation. He said the future
for the station looked “tremen
dous.”
He joined in urging that Dr.
Dempsey have the full support
of the staff here and reiterated
that the administration of the
University System would back
the new director.
“You have a big job to do,”
he told the staffers.
Dr. Dempsey came to the
Griffin station in 1948 as a
member of the Horticulture de
partment. He has specialized in
research in Pimiento pepper
here and his work is recognized
over the state, nation and in
other countries.
Mr. Fullilove became direc
tor of the Griffin station in
May, 1957, following the death
of Dr. Frazier Cowart, a month
earlier.
Dr. Davison, Dr. Owen and
Mr. Fullilove held a conference
almost without interruption in
the director’s office at the sta
tion this morning from 8:30 un
till 11:30.
They conferred Monday and
Dr. Davison and Dr. Owen
stayed overnight in Griffin so
they could resume their con
ferences at the station this
morning.
Country Parson
“Daydreaming is not bad
— some of our greatest
achievements started that
way.”