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Griffin Daily New*
Terror In Textile Town
‘Good Neighbor*’
Held For Murder
By LAWRENCE C. FALK ,
GAFFNEY, S.C. (UPD—A
man described as “quiet” and
“a good neighbor” was held
today for the murder of a young
Negro girl, and residents of this
edgy textile community hoped
the reign of terror of the
Gaffney strangler was over.
Had golf pro Henry Transou
been less afraid the strangler
might attack his wife and
children, authorities might still
be looking for a suspect.
But Trans o u’s snooping
around dustry back roads led
police Friday to the body of a
15-year-old strangling victim
hidden in a dry creek bank.
Later Lee Roy Martin, 30, a
part-time textile worker, was
arrested for murder.
Martin, a father of three
described almost uniformly as a
“good neighbor,” and a “quiet
man,” was hustled from this
terrified town to Columbia,
more than 100 miles away, for
questioning.
Authorities said Martin was
charged with murder in the
kidnap-slaylng of Opel Dianne
Buckson, 15, who was shoved
Tuesday into the trunk of a car
as she waited for a school bus.
Her nude body, throttled with a
heavy pieace of woven fabric
called a “doffer’s band” used in
textile mills, was found Friday
crammed into a hole in the
bank of a dry creek bed and
WRONG DRAIN
BIRMINGHAM, England
(UPD — Pedestrians had to
Jump over a three-foot-wide
flood of beer pouring from
drains outside a local brewery
Friday.
The half a minion pints of ale,
worth 40,000 pounds ($96,000),
was being poured away because
the brewery had been hit by a
strike and the product could not
be put In casks.
“The operation was a com
plete success,” a brewery
spokesman said, "but we’d have
preferred it to have been
washed down a few thousand
throats."
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Community Singing
7:30 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
East Mclntosh Road
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EMMANUEL TRIO
and the Faith Baptist Church Choir
and Congregational Singing.
PUBLIC IS INVITED
Rev. Gene Turkett, Pastor
Sponsored by
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covered with brush.
Authorities indicated that
charges might also be brought
against Martin in two, and
possibly three, other stranling
cases here.
This textile town of 13,000
residents had been living in fear
since a week ago last Thursday
when the strangler called Bill
Gibbons, managing editor of the
Gaffney Ledger, and provided
information which led officers
to the carefully hidden bodies of
two local women who had
vanished.
The bodies of Mrs. Nancy
Parris, 20, and Nancy Rinehart,
14, were found—like that of
Miss Buckson—carefully hidden
in wooded areas, nude and
strangled.
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Rev. Clyde Callaway
Rev. Callaway
Will Speak At
Missions Study
The Rev. Clyde Callaway, for
mer superintendent of the Grif
fin District of Methodist Chur
ches, will speak at the First
Methodist Church Sunday night
in the Mission Study program.
He will talk during the inspi
rational session from 7:10 p.m.
until 8 p.m.
The school will begin at 5:15
p.m.
The session of adults will be
under the direction of Miss Sue
Snipes. The theme is “Beyond
Religion: God In Christ.”
The junior high group’s theme
will be "The Art Os Friendship”.
Mrs. Lamar Potts will be chair
man.
The senior session will have
as its theme “Your Faith and
the Spoken Word.” Fran And
rews, Cindy Bizzell and Nancy
Tippins will be program leaders.
Dr. Dehna Hagood is pastor of
the church.
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purposes.
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11l S. Hill St.
Phone 227-2561
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Rev. Don Clark
American Legion Post 15 of Griffin will observe “For God And Country” night
Monday at the post home on Jackson road beginning at 7:30. The annual pro
gram is dedicated to the memory of three chaplains who gave life jackets to other
men when their battleship was sunk. The chaplains represented three faiths. For
the program Monday night, the Rev. Don Clark, associate minister of the First
Methodist Church, will represent the protestant faith. Father James O’Malley, rec
tor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, will represent the Catholic faith. Sam Saul,
Legion official, will represent the Jewish faith.
Police Complete
In-Service
School
The Griffin Police Department
has completed an in-service sc
hool necessary to keep up with
latest methods in law enforce
ment, Chief Leo Blackwell said
The school was taught by FBI
agents, state patrol, Solicitor
Andrew Whalen and members
of the Secret Service.
• Subjects at the school includ
ed police courtesy and public
writing, crime scene searches,
collection and preservation of
evidence, techniques and mech
anics of arrest, searching of a
person, testifying in court, se
arches and seizures, recent Su
preme Court decisions, burglary
and bank robbery investigations,
shoplifting and con games, road
blocks, sex crimes and child
molesters, counterfeiting and
auto theft.
The school began in January
and concluded Thursday.
Chief Blackwell said mem
bers of the department were
taught the use of shotguns re
cently and will qualify on the
pistol range soon.
Death Penalty
Continued from page one
jealous.
Ronnie Smith took the stand
and made an unsworn state
ment.
NOT GUILTY
He told the court that he was
not guilty of the crime. He said
he never killed Charles Vaughn
or any other man. He told the
court that Carol Jean had threa
tened to commit suicide on three
occasions but that each time he
took her back.
He said he carried Carol
Jean to Kansas City because he
thought that might help her. He
said it didn’t.
He said they returned to Grif
fin on June 9, 1967.
He said he went from Griffin
to the home of Frank Rush in
Atlanta. He told of applying for
enrollment in a manpower tr
aining center and later enroll
ing.
He said he returned to Grif
fin and was arrested.
He said he had never made
any statements to anyone.
He testified that Carol Jean
said she loved him but would
have to destroy him to get her
self out of it.
He said he knew nothing ab
out a tire, gun or any statements
to Woodrow Newman.
He said that a speaker was
near his cell in the Spalding Co
unty jail and that deputies ne
ver heard him say anything.
NO ONE
He said he had no one to sp
eak for him.
He said that he never believ
ed anything like this could hap
pen.
He testified that he wanted his
three sisters and other relativ
es in the audience to know that
“I’m not guilty.”
The state and defense clos
ed their cases and Edward Gar
land presented his argument be
fore the jury.
Court was recessed at 11:17
p.m. Friday.
It reconvened this morning at
9 a.m.
INSUFFICIENT NOTICE
MALLERET, France (UPD—
Town Clerk Michel Devedeix
handed in his retirement letter
Friday but the council refused
to accept it. They said they
would all resign if he did
because he had not given them
enough notice.
Devedeix is 94 and has been
town clerk since Oct. 1, 1908.
PLASTIC
3 to 20 feet wide
4 and 6 mil thick
Newton Building
Supply Company
889 East Solomon Street
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The Flint River Baptist Association will have an
evangelism rally Monday at the First Baptist Church.
The Rev. Peter McLeod, associate pastor of the
Second Ponce deLeon Baptist Church in Atlanta; and
Dr. Malcolm Tolbert, professor of Greek and New
Testament at New Orleans Baptist Seminary will be
the featured speakers for the event. Sessions will be
gin at 3:30 p. m.„ 6 p. m. and 9 p. m. More than 50
churches in the Association are expected to partici
pate.
Town Troublemaker
Aeeused Os Setting
Fire That Killed 12
MOBERLY, Mo. (UPD—an.
ex-convlct police described as
the village troublemaker was
held In seclusion today after
being accused of intentionally
setting a fire that killed 12
tavern patrons Friday.
A can of gasoline was used to
ignite the inferno.
A 12-count, first-degree mur
der charge was to be filed
against William Coleman, 36,
who surrendered to police.
“Boy, I sure burned 'em out
over there,” one witness quoted
the tattooed Coleman as saying
when he surrendered at police
headquarters.
Coleman Transferred
Police Chief Wesley Slavens
said Coleman was transferred
to an undisclosed jail out of
town for his own safety.
Larry Williams, 31, a former
deputy, remembered Coleman
as “always being the team’s
troblemaker. He was in seventh
heaven when he was in prison.”
Coleman had been barred
from the tavern on the ground
Social Circle
Boycott Planned
By HENRY P. LEIFERMANN
SOCIAL CIRCLE. Ga. (UPI)
—Ah economic boycott of down
town businesses was planned
here today by Negroes who
have been protesting since mid
week against conditions at an
all-Negro school.
Willie Bolden of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (SCLC), leader of the pro
test group, said no demonstra
tions were expected at the
Social Circle Training School
during the weekend. But he
said demonstrators would be
“everywhere” Monday when
the protests resume at the ele
mentary school.
Bolden refused to meet with
members of the Walton County
School Board “until they come
to us.” He said he spent five
unproductive hours with the
board Thursday night and that
the members would have to
“offer concessions” if they
want the protests to stop.
Friday, white-helmeted state
troopers escorted school buses
along a back route to the school
to foil demonstrators who had
planned to throw themselves in
front of the vehicles.
It was the third day of pro
tests against alleged Inferior
conditions at the school. A total
of 44 persons, including 20 stu
dents and 24 adults, were ar
rested Thursday after being
dragged from the roadway by
troopers.
Friday afternoon, 72 demon-
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floor of the ancient Randolph
Hotel, a paint-chipped, three
story brick structure police
described as “very old.”
The hotel is in the low-rent
district just east of this
northeastern Missouri communi
ty's main business area.
Aot Was A Grudge
Fire Chief Leroy Willis, who
called the fire the “worst I’ve
ever seen here,” said Coleman
did It “as a grudge” because he
was barred from patronizing
the tavern.
The bodies of the 12 victims
were found stacked near a door
in a storage room at the rear of
the building. Their path to
freedom through the front door
was apparently blocked, Willis
said, by a wall of flames.
The victims, eight men and
four women all from the
Moberly area, were Identified
Friday night.
It took 40 minutes to put out
the blaze. Only the tavern was
gutted, although flames reached
three rooms of the 30-room
hotel.
strators, including seven white
University of Georgia students,
staged a two-block march to the
school. A single-file line of 30
troopers blocked an access road
and reinforcements ringed the
school. The demonstrators sang
but there were no arrests.
School board members have
refused to comment on the
demonstrations and local law
enforcement officers have re
fused to talk with newsmen.
However, Maj. Porter Weaver,
Georgia’s highest ranking uni
formed trooper, said the state
police “are here to maintain
law and order. We’ll see that’s
done.”
Walton County Sheriff Jessie
Still and Deputy Ronald Sorrels
roughed up Newsweek magazine
reporter Andrew Jaffe Friday
when he tried to take their
photographs.
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tween 9 a. m. and 5 p. m.
80 Jurors
Drawn For
Next Week
Eighty jurors were drawn Fri
day afternoon to serve during
the second week of the criminal
session of Spalding County Su
perior Court.
Jurors drawn for the first week,
except those on the jury hearing
the Ronald L. Smith case, were
dismissed shortly afternoon Fri
day.
The new jurors will report to
the court room in the Spalding
County Courthouse Monday mor
ning at 10 o’clock.
Judge John H. McGehee will
open court in Pike County Mon
day morning, adjourn it and re
turn to Griffin to continue the
criminal session.
The jurors drawn for next
week are:
Carlton C. Presley, Harry S.
Hammock, Lamar Ridgeway,
Frank Drewry, Buel J. Blalock,
J. Lyndon Daniel, Oliver Jones,
Thomas Eugene Gardner, Earl
LaPrade, Robert K. Griner, Ge
orge T. Farrer, E. C. Cross, Fr
ank D. Hazel, Henry E. Pitts,
Sr., E. R. Akin, W. O. Rape, Sr.,
Wallace F. Callaway, Sandy Al
len, Jr.
Sam Jackson, Bickley W. Smi
th, Roy L. Parrish, Thomas W.
Fetzer, Garnett Wright, Leon
Pullin, Jr., Russell M. Smith, J.
A. Wilder, Earl J. Bobier, J. M.
Bassett, Jr., John F. Clark, L.
Calvin Sledge, Jackie Eugene
Watkins, Harry Davis, H. G.
Dial, Thomas H. Blalock, Jam
es E. Thompson.
George S. Haley, R. O. Crouch,
Jr., Reginald Barlow, J. G.
Woodroof, Willard L. Kierbow,
Billy E. Peeples, William O. Pat
terson, Henry W. Lewis, Hor
ace Fuller, Joe Shannon, Wal
ter E. Pritchett, John S. Neel,
G. R. Robinson.
Julian Mobley, H. m. Baker,
Edward Shlrah, James A. O’Qu
inn, H. £. Grogan, John M. Gaf
rison, Stephen B. Bailey, Bon
nell M. Brown, Scott H. Searcy,
C. E. Hightower, E. B. Sikes,
Mrs. Seaton G. Bailey, B. Fr
ank Akin, W. W. Waldrop, D. L.
Shepherd, Harry L. Callaway,
C. M. Beckham, J. W. Bailey.
Harvey Walker, M. C. Chas
teen, W. F. Gossett, Everett
Chalkley, William H. Shapard,
John S. Shackelford, Jr., W. E.
Broome, Percy R. Cromartie,
J. Wells Howard, Richard Ir
vine, L. R. Chalkley, S. V. Sta
cey, Alton Leonard Goodson.
Funeral Sunday
For Mr. Stark
Funeral services for Mr. Jam
es S. T. Stark will be held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o’clock from
the Antioch Baptist Church. The
Rev. E. J. Jester, pastor, and
the Rev. F. E. Fuller will offic
iate. Burial will be in the Davis
cemetery.
Survivors include his mother,
Mrs. Etta Davis Stark of Grif
fin: a daughter, Mrs. Eamestlne
McKay; a son, Curtis Stark, both
of Homestead, Fla.; three bro
thers, John Stark, Lake Stark
ana George Bryant, all of Grif
fin; two sisters, Mrs. Ottie
Jackson of Atlanta and Mrs. Sy
nomia Bush of Griffin; a son
in-law. Owen McKay and a gr
andson, Carlton McKay, both of
Homestead, Fla.
United Funeral Home is in
charge of plans.
Rev. Johnson
Will Be Buried
The Rev. Robert L. Johnson,
76, of 626 Hammock street, died
at 8:30 Friday night at the Grif
fin-Spalding Hospital where he
was admitted Friday morning.
He was an ordained minister
of the Baptist Church.
He was a retired employe of
Dundee Mill No. One.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. D. W. Hand of Grif
fin, Mrs. Troy Holliday of Mon
roe, Ga.; two sons, Robert T.
Johnson of Hawkinsville and the
Rev. Rabon Johnson of Macon;
a sister, Mrs. Maggie Hoard of
Griffin; 16 grandchildren and
several great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 3 p.m. from the Fel
lowship Baptist Church. The Rev.
Wayman Merritt and the Rev.
Amos King will offifiate. Burial
will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
The body was carried to the
home of his son and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Hand, 1217
North Ninth street, this after
noon. It will lie in state at the
church 30 minutes before the
funeral.
Haitsten Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
TOMBS UNEARTHED
I ATHENS (UPD — Archeolo
gists today studied 20 tombs
they believe date from 400 B.C.
unearthed on the isle of Rhodes
by workmen digging foundations
for a refromatory school.
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Dr. Dick H. Hall, Jr.
First Baptist
Will Hear
Dr. Dick Hall
Dr. Dick H. Hall, Jr., former
pastor of the Decatur First Bap
tist Church which he served 25
years, will be the speaker at Gr
iffin First Baptist Church wor
ship services Feb. 18 and 25.
Dr. Hall has held almost ev
ery office in the Atlanta Baptist
Association. He has been presi
dent of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention and for several years
was chairman of the board of
directors for "The Christian In
dex,” Baptist news publication.
He was the first chairman of
trustees of a Baptist Village
for retired people and senior cit
izens and a leader in develop
ment of Georgia Baptist Hospi
tal.
Dr. Hall always has been ac
tive in Baptist missionary pro
grams, stressing this phase of
the Christian ministry.’
Menu
The master menu for the Grif
fin-Spalding County School Sys
tem for the week of February
19-23 is as follows:
MONDAY — Hot dog, potato
chips, cabbage, carrot and rais
in salad, bun, apple pie, milk,
butter.
TUESDAY— Stuffed eggs, cr
eamed potatoes, green beans,
tomato wedge, corn muffin, pe
ach pie, milk, butter.
WEDNESDAY — Fried chi
cken, rice and gravy, field peas,
stewed tomatoes, hot rolls, gr
apefruit sections, milk, butter.
THURSDAY — Beef-vegetable
soup, peanut butter and ho
ney sandwich, lettuce and toma
to wedge, saltines, cake with
cherry sauce, milk, butter.
FRIDAY — Dried blackeye
peas, stewed tomatoes, cole
slaw, corn muffin, peach pie,
milk, butter.
Rites Sunday For
Mrs. Underwood
Funeral services for Mrs. Min
nie Underwood of Route Two,
Griffin, will be held Sunday at
2 p.m. from the Mt. Hope Eddy
Creek Baptist Church at Milner.
Burial will be in the County
Line cemetery in Butts County.
United Funeral Home is in
charge of plans.
Griffin Airman
Thanks Red Cross
Ronnie Jimmerson of Griffin,
serving in the U. S. Air Force
in Vietnam, received a Christ
mas "ditty bag” from the Red
Cross.
He wrote a letter of thanks to
the organization.
The Red Cross commented that
it was one of the few letters it
had received saying thanks for
the Christmas remembrance.
Jimmerson is married to the
former Carol Gatlin of Griffin.
They are the parents of a son,
Brian Keith, four.
LEGALS
LEGAL 1575
NOTICE OF SALE OF REALTY
GEORGIA. Spalding County.
Pursuant to the power of sale
contained in the Deed to Se
cure Debt executed by Bud Hill
to Dundee Mills, Incorporated,
dated August 16. 1963, and re
corded in Deed Book 221, page
Nearing A Half Century of
Service to Families in
Griffin and Surrounding
Communities
1919 -1968
PITTMAN - RAWLS
FUNERAL HOME
633 MERIWETHER STREET
JAMES W. RAWLS
“THE HOME OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE.”
521, of the Spalding County Su
perior Court records; and by
virtue of default in payment ot
the indebtedness mentioned
therein, which has made the
aforesaid power of sale opera
tive, the undersigned, as attor
ney-in- fact for Bud Hill, will
sell at public outcry before the
court house door, in Griffin,
Spalding County. Georgia, on
the first Tuesday in March,
1968, during the legal hours of
sale to the highest bidder for
cash, the property described in
said deed, to-wit:
All that lot or parcel of land
situate .lying and being in Land
Lot 207, of the Second Land Dis
trict of originally Monroe, now
Spalding County, Georgia, and
being more particularly shown
and designated as Lots (126)
and (127) on a plat of survey
of "Property of Dundee Mills,
1nc.,,, dated May, 1963, made by
John W. Oxford, Jr., C. E.
(Griffin Eng. & Mfg. Co.), a
copy of which said plat is re
corded in Plat Book 6. page 311,
of the Superior Court records
of Spalding County, Georgia,
and which said plat, together
with the metes, bounds, cours
es and distances of said lot as
shown thereon, is incorporated
herein and made a part of this
description by reference.
Located on said Lot (126) is
one frame dwelling known and
designated as No. 89 Hillcrest
Avenue, East Griffin, Georgia.
NOTE: As a matter of infor
mation, it appears that record
title to the above property is
now vested in Roy Kenneth
Presley and (Mrs.) Mary Ann
Presley.
This February 9, 1968.
Dundee Mills, Incorporated,
Griffin, Georgia.
Cumming, Cumming &
Cumming,
Attorneys at Law,
Griffin, Georgia.
LEGAL 1578
NOTICE OF SALE OF REALTY
GEORGIA, Spalding Comity.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to the power of sale
contained in the deed to secure
debt executed April 1, 1961, by
Mrs. J. Grady Wilcher, as gran
tor, to Griffin Federal Savings
and Loan Association, as gran
tee, and recorded in Deed Book
195, page 248, of the Superior
Court records of Spalding Coun
ty, Georgia, which said security
deed, the property therein de
scribed and the rights and pow
ers therein granted, along with
the note evidencing the indebt
edness secured thereby, w'as
transferred and assigned on
February 8, 1968, to Arthur For
rer, the undesigned, which
transfer and assignment is re
corded in Deed Book 266, page
4, of said Spalding Superior
Court records, and by virtue of
default in the payment of the
indebtedness secured thereby,
which has made the aforesaid
power of sale operative and ef
fective, the said Arthur Forrer,
undesigned assigns of Griffin
Federal Savings and Loan As
sociation, as attorney in fact
for Mrs. J. Grady Wilcher will
sell at public outcry before the
Spalding County Courthouse
door in Griffin, Georgia, on the
first Tuesday in March, 1968,
during the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder for cash,
the property described in said
security deed, to-wit:
All that lot, tract or parcel of
land lying, being and situate in
the City of Griffin, Spalding
County, Georgia, known and
designated as Lot Number 33 in
Block “D” of the Evergreen
Forest Subdivision, as shown on
plat of survey of said subdivi
sion, recorded in Plat Book 5,
page 459, in the office of the
Clerk of Spalding Superior
Court, to which reference is
hereby made.
This February 9, 1968.
ARTHUR, As Assignee
Aforesaid.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mr. Charlie
Madaris wishes to thank
their many friends for their
prayers and comforting
words during his recent
death.
Many thanks to Dr. James
Skinner, The Rev. Joseph
Cardell, Rev. Hoyt McGee,
and also to McDonald Fun
eral Home for their most
kindness.
We wish to express our ap
preciation for the trays of
food and for the beautiful
floral offerings and to every
one who was so thoughtful.
May God bless each and
everyone.
Wife, Mrs. Ruby Allen
Madaris and Family.