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By Quimby Melton
This morning Good Evening
had the honor of speaking to one
of the Circles of the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of
his church. Usually Good Even
ing does not accept invitations
to attend meetings in the morn
ings, for it is that time that we
do what work we can on the pa
per. But the young lady w’ho
called and asked us, “caught us
off base’’, as it were, and put
her invitation in such a challeng
ing way we could not refuse.
The subject she assigned
Good Evening was “Lent.”
So we dug into our reference
books to back up the Bible story
of Holy week and the weeks pre
ceding. We also looked up the
definition of the word “Lent.”
This word is from the Anglo
Saxon “Lencten” and means the
coming of Spring. The Lenten
season begins on Ash Wednes
day, 40-week-days before Eas
ter. Tuesday of next week, Feb.
28 is Ash Wednesday. For many
the Lenten season is one of
fasting and penitence.
Why is the word “Ash” used
in connection with the first day
of the Lenten season? It is so
called in keeping with the com
mon custom of the Jews to wear
rough sackcloth garments and
sprinkle ashes on their heads in
time of deep sorrow, national
peril and penitence. Early
In the Bible we find such loy
al followers of the true God
as Mordecai, David and Lot sit
ting in sackcloth and ashes.
In older days when fasting was
practiced more vigorously than
today, one had but one meal a
day (Sunday’s excluded) and
this meal was restricted and con
sisted of simple food.
Looking up the "Perpetual Ca
lendar” published in the 1967
World’s Almanac, we find that
Feb. 28th was Ash Wednesday
way back in 1906 and did not
fall on this same day until this
year. Feb. 28th will be Ash
Wednesday again in 1979, 1990,
2001, 2063, 2078, (That’s about
as long as any of us living today
could possibly be here.)
Easter this year falls on April
14. The only other time this cen
tury it has been on April 14, was
five years ago in 1963. April 14th
will be Easter again in 1974,
2047, 2058 and 2069.
The only time in this century
that Ash Sunday has fallen on
Feb. 28th and Easter on April
14th is this year.
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During the past few weeks
Good Evening’s long-time friend
Dr. Leon Latimer has been sup
ply pastor at the First Baptist
Church. We hoped to hear him
preach during that time, but ser
vices at our own church and en
gagements made before we
knew he was coming prevent
ed this. However, we were pl
eased when he found time to call
at our office, just before he left
following his last sermon.
Why this reference to Dr. La
timer in connection with the Len
ten Season?
We talked about old days and
Good Evening asked him if he
had a copy of a sermon he de
livered many years ago as the
“keynote” address when the
Georgia Baptist Convention con
vened in Augusta Dec. 6, 1927.
A few days after he returned to
his home in Greenville, S.C. he
sent us a copy of this, in pham
plet form. The subject was "Di
vinely Commissioned.” We have
read it and studied it.
At the very first he mention
ed that those who had been in
terested in and active in suppor
ting "missions, education, and
benevolences” were “divinely
commissioned.”
He told interestingly of the
work of his bretheren in all
such fields. His address could
have been delivered to any
Christian group and carry a
message of encouragement to
his audience.
There are probably many to
day who consider what they are
doing to spread the Good News
of Jesus as being of little or no
Importance; but there is no one
who is having a part in this pro
gram. whether it be in the mis
sion field, in Christian education,
or in benevolences, and who
does it through their love for Je
sus Christ, but who plays an im
portant part. The Master’s in
structions “Go ye into all the
world and preach.the Gospel,”
was meant for even the “least
of us.”
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These three Chamber of Commerce officers show a
shiny new shovel that will be used in future ground
breakings for new businesses and industries. It was
displayed at the directors meeting Monday night.
A permanent band noting each groundbreaking will
be put on the handle each time it is used. Shown
pointing to the spot for the first band are (1-r) Presi
dent C. A. Knowles, Earl Millican, Jr. and Gene Cook.
Accrediting Sought
C Os C Backs
Station Here
Griffin Area Chamber of Com
merce directors adopted a re
solution Monday night pledging
its support for development of
the Georgia Experiment Station
in Griffin.
The resolution was presented
by C. A. (Lon) Knowles, presi
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce. It was adopted unani
mously.
“We take the same position
that our newspaper (The Griffin
Daily News) takes” he said re
ferring to an editorial several
weeks ago. “That is, let’s look to
the future and get on with the
job,” he said.
“Much has been said and
much has been written about the
station. But that is in the past,”
Mr. Knowles said. He urged Gr
iffinites to look to the future re
garding the Experiment station.
The resolution pledged full
support and cooperation to Dr.
Hugh Dempsey, who became re
sident director of the Griffin sta
tion last week.
It also expressed confidence in
the University System of Geor
gia, Chancellor George L. Simp
son, University of Georgia Pre
sident Dr. Fred Davison, and
Chairman of the Board of Re
gents John W. Langdale “that
they will continue to work for
improving the research program
at the Experiment Station.
The Chamber offered its as
sistance toward future develop
ment of the station.
Ed Cherry of the Southeastern
region for the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, discussed efforts to
have the Griffin Chamber of
Commerce accredited.
Jim Pridgen, Griffin hardware
dealer who is heading the accre
ditation effort here, said that
only the Chambers of Commer
ce at Rome, Atlanta and Tho
masville are accredited now in
Georgia.
Mr. Cherry said DeKalb Coun
ty is expected to meet accredit
ing standards soon, possibly by
March, and might become the
fourth in the state.
He said that Macon also was
working toward accrediting and
that Macon might be one step
ahead of Griffin in its goal.
Mr. Cherry said he thought Gr
iffin could meet the require
ments to become accredited.
He said that it would require
a lot of work, however, Mr.
Cherry said, “You don’t simply
go through the motions” of be
coming accredited. He said it
would require the local Cham
ber leaders to make a careful
examination of itself and its
goals.
Griffin’s application should be
in by November if it is to be ac
ed on during 1968, Mr. Cherry
said. He explained that once a
Chamber is accredited, a thor
ough review is held every five
years and that yearly reports
and checks are made to be sure
that standards were being met.
He said that accrediting was
offered because some organi
zations which call themselves
Chambers of Commerce are not
that at all. He said that since
Chamber of Commerce cannot
be patented because the term is
in the public domain, that al-
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most any organization can call
itself a Chamber of Commerce
when really it is not.
Mr. Pridgen said that the Grif
fin Area Chamber might not be
able to complete its accredita
tion program this year but he
said that efforts in that direction
could continue until the applica
tion is ready.
Arrest Warrant
Issued For
H. Rap Brown
WASHINGTON (UPD—An
arrest warrant has been issued
for black power militant H. Rap
Brown on charges of violating a
federal court order by traveling
to California, the Justice
Department siad today.
A spokesman said Judge
Lansing L. Mitchell of the U.S.
District Court in New Orleans
revoked Brown’s $15,000 bail on
a federal firearms charge and
ordered the leader of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee to appear before
him immediately.
Brown, who had been under a
federal court order not to leave
the New York City area without
specific permission, appeared at
a rally Sunday with black power
leader Stokely Carmichael in
Los Angeles.
A Justice Department spokes
man said Brown’s trip to
California was "completely
unauthorized” and said the FBI
was looking for Brown to take
him into custody.
A federal district court in
Richmond, Va., which has also
allowed Brown to remain free
on $15,000 bail pending the
outcome of extradition proceed
ings to Maryland, also ordered
Brown to put up SIOO,OOO bail by
Friday or go to jail.
Brown, 23, is fighting extradi
tion from Virginia to Maryland
where is under Indictment on
charges of inciting Negroes to
riot in Cambridge last July.
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“Our youngsters will have
to know how to decide
things we don’t understand
— don’t even know about
yet.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, February 20, 1968
Some Prisoners Taken
At Hue Face Execution
Legion Meeting
3 Faiths Stress
God And Country
“Let us seek to build bridges
of love, devotion and under
standing between all men, rath
er than walls of prejudice, hat
red and selfishness” Sam Saul
Griffin business man, told Bar
nett-Harris Post American Le
gion Monday night. He was the
first speaker on its God and Co
untry program. He represented
the Jewish faith.
“Where is thy brother?” God
asked Cain after hatred had led
Cain to kill his brother Abel,”
Rev. Don Clark, associate pas
tor of the First Methodist Chur
ch, speaking for the Protestant
Faith, said. He then brought the
story of the Good Samaritan up
to date and said that no man
can escape, even today, the fact
that he is his “brothers’ keep
er”. The Rev. Clark was in
troduced by Claude Williams,
chaplain of the post.
“We Americans should glory
in the fact that we are God’s cho
sen people and America is t h e
promised land. We all should do
Could Save Money
By Taking Bids
On Purchases: Nix
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD — State
School Supt. Jack Nix said to
day his department has not
asked for competitive blds on
equipment because ’we have
not had a mandate from the
General Assembly to do it.”
Nix, whose budget was cut
more than any other depart
ment’s in the House - approved
$858.1 million spending plan for
fiscal 1969, appeared before the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee and was questioned by Sen.
Paul Broun of Athens.
“We probably could save a
lot of money” if forced to ask
for competitive bids on school
purchases, Nix said. A 1967 law
gave the department authority
to ask for bids.
Broun specifically asked if
S4OO to SSOO could be saved
through blds on each of the
5,100 school buses used in Geor
gia. He said he Introduced
a bill requiring blds on buses,
but it was stymied by opposi
tion from automobile dealers.
Nix advised Broun to “keep
working” on the competitive
bidding bill.
Nix and budget officers also
presented figures from the Na
tional Education Association
showing Georgia teachers re
ceive about $605 a year less
than striking Florida teachers
and $7Ol less than the national
Social Circle, CR
Leaders Call Truce
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (UPD—
Civil rights leaders and local
officials agreed to a temporary
truce today, heading off further
street demonstrations in this
small textile town.
Willie Bolden, a field leader
for the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said
Negroes planned to hold off on
further demonstrations while
awaiting court action scheduled
Wednesday.
The suit seeks reinstatement
of three teachers, fired during
the controversy and an end to
what Negroes say is a dual
school system.
County officials agreed not to
arrest nearly 30 Negro parents
they had planned to charge with
allowing their children to miss
school.
Negro parents are demanding
changes in the Social Circle
Training School. The school,
with 434 students in kindergar
ten through eighth grade, has
operated without incident for
our very best to live like cho
sen people," Father James O’-
Malley, of Sacred Heart Catho
lic Church said. He called on all
to be loyal to their nation and
to their God and said "patriot
ism and religion are similar —
patriotism shows love for one’s
nation and religion shows one’s
love for God. True patriotism is
displayed when one uses God’s
gifts to man as God would have
them used.” He was introduced
by John Breen.
A large delegation from Ma
con Post No. 3, headed by Com
mander Jack L. Speed and
Chaplain John McCurry was pre
sent.
The special program opened
with a dramatic sound movie
that glorified the American flag.
At the conclusion of the program
Ben Saul read a resolution pass
ed by the Georgia House of Re
presentatives backing the forces
fighting in Vietnam. The resolu
tion was introduced by Rep.
Clayton Brown of Griffin.
average of $7,296. Georgia
teachers are paid an average of
$6,595, they said.
“I don’t think we’re going to
have a situation here like that
in Florida,” Nix added. “The
people of Georgia are too intel
ligent to let it happen.”
Education was expected to
take most of the committee’s
time today.
In addition, a subcommittee
studying disputed planning
funds was to meet to decide
whether to recommend that
the $480,000 for the State Plan
ning Department be restored,
as Gov. Lester Maddox wants.
Senate Education chairman
Battle Hall of Rome Monday
declared that education, which
spends about half of Georgia’s
tax money, got hurt the worst
when the House cut the budget
proposal submitted by Maddox.
Some $8 million in school
funds was whacked out, most
of it from a delay in the ef
fective date of the $558 teacher
pay raise.
Senate Minority Leader
Oliver Bateman of Macon,
meantime, said the House did
only about half the cutting job
needed to avert a tax increase.
“This budget is based on
sheer optimism that the econ
omy will continue at an un
precedented high rate and plans
to spend every dime of it,”
Bateman said.
nine years.
Negro parents say the school
has no substitute teachers,
inadequate teaching materials,
and takes students out of
classes to prepare lunch and
clean the cafeteria after lunch.
They also want the Negro
principal, C. C. Marr, fired.
The dismissal of three teach
ers—one of them White—earlier
this month brought the school
crisis to a head. A federal court
suit seeking their re-instatement
was to be heard in Macon
Wednesday.
Demonstrators hurled them
selves in front of buses bearing
students to the school for three
days last week.
State troopers arrested about
45 demonstrators last week.
Eight of them, all students,
were in a state boys home at
Jonesboro charged with school
truancy for refusing to return to
class after being released in the
custody of their parents.
Vol. 96 No. 43
‘Bonnie, Clyde’
Nominated For
Ten Oscars
HOLLYWOOD (UPD—“Bon
nie and Clyde” and “Guess
Who’s Coming to Dinner” head
the list of motion pictures
competing for Academy Awards
with 10 Oscar nominations each.
Both films were nominated in
the categories of best picture,
best actor and actress and best
director for the 40th annual
awards of the Motion Picture
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Spencer Tracy was nominated
posthumously for his third
Oscar for his portrayal of the
gruff newspaper publisher in
“Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner.”
Other nominees for best
picture are "The Graduate,”
“In the Heat of the Night” and
“Doctor Dolittle.” Best actor
nominees besides Tracy were
Warren Beatty (Bonnie and
Clyde), Dustin Hoffman (The
Graduate), Paul Newman (Cool
Hand Luke) and Rod Steiger (In
the Heat of the Night).
Katharine Hepburn, Tracy’s
costar in “Guess Who’s Coming
to Dinner,” was nominated as
the year’s best actress.
Competing with her for the
coveted statuette are Faye
Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde),
Dame Edith Evans (The
Whisperers), and two previous
winners, Anne Bancroft (The
Graduate) and Audrey Hepburn
(Wait Until Dark).
Pritchard
Case Goes
To Jury
The J. B. Pritchard robbery
case went to a jury this after
noon after the defendant took
the stand and pled innocent of
the charge.
Several members of Pritchard’s
family testified that the defen
dant was at home the day of
the robbery.
The case went to the jury
after Pritchard’s attorney, Jam
es Venable, and Sol. Gen. An
drew Whalen completed argu
ments.
Pritchard, along with three
other men, was accused in an
indictment of robbing the Mor
ris home last August.
Two men, both under indict
ment here in connection with
the robbery of Mrs. Bill Morris,
Monday admitted their part in
the crime.
The admissions came from the
witness stand during the trial of
Pritchard, who is under a simi
lar indictment.
Denvil R. Daniel of Trenton,
Ga., said he received approxi
mately $1,900 as his share of the
loot taken from the Morris home.
Daniel implicated Pritchard.
He also testified that Richard
Jenkins and Herman Saxton took
part in the robbery.
Jenkins was sentenced to 10
years in prison last week after
he pled guilty to a charge of rob
bery.
Saxton testified that he took
part in the robbery but refused
to name other participants.
“I better take the fifth on that,”
Saxton said when questioned ab
out others involved.
Saxton’s refusal to answer qu
estions caught Sol. Gen. Andrew
Whalen by surprise.
He told the court that he had
been entrapped by the witness
and asked for impeachment.
Judge McGehee ruled against
impeachment.
After a recess, Saxton was
recalled to the stand. He was
asked to give his account of the
robbery without calling any na
mes. He admitted he took part
in it.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
rather cold tonight and turning
colder Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 62, low today 31, high
Monday 54, low Monday 25, sun
irlse Wednesday 7:19, sunset
Wednesday 6:30.
Plan Reportedly
Has US Support
By EUGENE V. RISHER 5
SAIGON (UPD—The mayor 1
of Hue told U.S. officials today 1
a number of Viet Cong <
prisoners captured during the
siege of the ancient Capital 1
would be executed publicly by (
firing squads. The plan was (
reported to have the support of ,
top American advisers in Hue. j
Bad weather settled over the <
nothern part of South Vietnam •
and hampered air support at
Hue where U.S. Marines and
South Vietnamese troops have
battled inch by inch through the
city to try to dislodge a Viet
Cong force from the Citadel in
the heart of the old city.
UPI correspondent Richard
Oliver reported from Hue that
Lt. Col. Phan Dang Khoa, the
mayor of Hue and chief of Thua
Province, had told American
officials, ‘There will be summa
ry executions, public executions
of VC and hopefully some of the
infrastructure (Communist par
ty leaders).”
Police Chief Sought
He said one of those destined
for the firing squad was the
former police chief of Hue who
defected to the Communists
during the Buddhist uprising in
Hue two years ago. He since
has become an influential Viet
Cong leader.
Heavy fighting was reported
again today on the outskirts of
Saigon where Vietnamese Ran
gers supported by planes and
artillery tried to dislodge a well
entrenched Viet Cong force
hidden among the tombs of a
cemetery.
The Rangers, attempting to
cross an open cabbage field
toward the cemetery, were held
at bay throughout the day by
heavy small arms and rocket
fire. Air strikes produced no
noticeable effect.
George Powers of Helena,
Mont., an adviser with the 33rd
Ranger Battalion, said this
indicated the enemy positions
were heavily fortified.
The walled cemetery was in
the village of Ap Tan Hoi, just
west of Saigon. Other fighting
raged near the Binh Loi Bridge
just to the north and at Tan
Thoi Nhut, the small village
from which guerrillas shelled
the Tan Son Nhut Airport.
Sending Reinforcements
The Communists appeared to
be trying to send reinforce
ments into Saigon itself while
others were trying to cut the
city’s road communications.
As the suburban fighting
raged, government officials
more men you put in the more
might charge again into Saigon,
hit hard in the nationwide city
offensive the Communists
launched three weeks ago.
In Hue, South Vietnam’s
embattled second city, the U.S.
Marine commander said he will
not reinforce his casualty
depleted force until better
Suit Attacks
City Ordinances
Four Griffin city ordinances 1
have been attacked in a federal 1
suit filed in Atlanta. 1
It was filed by Carl Horton, '
Negro student at Morehouse 1
College in Atlanta. He said he
was one of several arrested in 1
Griffin in 1965 when Negroes I
attempted to enter the Com- <
munity Center at Municipal 1
Park. 1
The four Griffin ordinances 1
attacked in the suit deal with <
disorderly conduct, congrega
tion on streets and sidewalks, 1
conspiring, aiding and abetting <
in the violation of municipal 1
ordinances and complying with
the orders or directions of po- 1
lice officers.
Horton asked in his petition 1
to temporarily and permanent- 1
ly enjoin Griffin Police Chief
Leo Blackwell and other mem- 1
bers of his department from '
enforcing the ordinances. He I
asked the court for a declara
tory judgment that the ordi- 1
nances are unconstitutionally
"vague and overboard.”
The suit charged that the or
dinances are applied against 1
weather permits cover to
protect them in a stalled drive
against North Vietnamese sui
cide troops.
“In this kind of situation the
mire men you put in the more
casualties you’re going to take,”
said Col. S.S. Hughes, comman
der of the Ist Marine Regiment.
He said casualties had been
“heavy” because of the bad
weather.
Diplomat Says
Pueblo Crew
To Be Punished
MOSCOW (UPD—A North
Korean diplomat said today the
crew of the U.S. Navy
intelligence ship Pueblo “will be
punished.”
“Having committed crimes in
one country, they will get the
punishment provided by the law
of this country,” North Korean
Embassy Counsellor Zang le
Zoon told a news conference.
Pyongyang Radio previously
hinted that the crew members
might be punished but was not
as blunt as Zoon.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
has warned North Korea
against any punishment.
Heart Patient
Dies In India
BOMBAY, India (UPD-Sui
geons transplanted the heart of
a 20-year-old woman into a 35-
year-old man last Friday night
in the first such operation
outside South Africa and the
United States but the patient
died a short time later, doctors
said today.
Doctors said the operation,
performed at King Edward
Memorial Hospital in Bombay,
was “technically perfect” but
the patient died of a lung
infection.
The transplanted heart took
up a regular beat and func
tioned for 150 minutes, doctors
said.
INSIDE
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Local INews. Page 5.
Gov. Connally. Page 6.
Tornado. Page 6.
ABA Code. Page 7.
Teachers Strike. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Society. Page 10.
Negroes attempting to use pub
lic accommodations in Griffin,
but are not applied against
White persons attempting to
use the same facilities.
Mayor Kimsey Stewart told
the Griffin Daily News today
that the matter would be han
dled by City Atty. Robert Smal
ley. Sen Smalley was at the
state capitol today in Atlanta
and couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Mayor Stewart said that the
Community Center as well as
other facilities at the city park
have been desegregated in
compliance with federal civil
rights laws.
He said that young people
using the community center
are required to have a card in
dicating membership. But he
said that Negroes as well as
White students are eligible for
the cards.
He said he didn’t know of
any Negro who had applied for
a card and been refused one.
The center has been desegrat
ed and is open to all, the mayor
said.