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By RICHARD W. HATCH
DURHAM, N.C. (UPD—More
than 2,500 Negro youths, ap
parently organized by a “black
student movement,” demon
strated in nine southern cities
Thursday night to protest the
deaths of three Negroes at
Orangeburg, S.C., last week.
The Durham protest erupted
Into a melee that injued four
persons.
Police in this tobacco city
arrested three Negroes, includ
ing social worker Howard
Fuller, who was charged with
assaulting an officer. Three of
the injured in the shoving, brick
throwing and window-smashing
fracas were policemen.
Police Sgt. G.E. Lee said
Fuller struck him in the face
while trying, to prevent the
arrest of a student. Fuller
contended police “threw me on
a car and roughed me up a
bit." He was released under
S3OO bond.
Protest Coordinated
The demonstration was part
of a coordinated protest by
militant students in at least
nine cities in North and South
Carolina and Virginia. Many of
the demonstrators in the cities
carried black coffins to symbo
lize the deaths of three youths
at Orangeburg a week ago
Thursday night when police
fired at firebomb-throwing and
sniping Negro students at South
Carolina state College.
A reliable student source at
Chapel Hill, N.C., told United
Press International the protests
were planned and coordinated
by an organization called "The
Black Student Movement.” The
source said the demonstrations
were planned in Durham.
Leaders of the group were
circulating a paper which
claimed that "four black
students have been killed and
over 50 wounded by state
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CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST are
learning about the telephone in their classrooms. In addi
tion to regular Bell System teaching aids, Southern Bell
school representatives in some locations arrange for class
room visits by telephone installers.
The installer brings his truck and equipment to the school
for appropriate indoor or outdoor talks and demonstra
tions. He discusses the importance of communications and
courtesy; displays his truck, tools and supplies; and shows
how he climbs poles, installs telephones, and performs
many other daily operations vital to the community. Safe
ty gets special emphasis.
Telephone installers are expected to make more than a
thousand visits to Southeastern classrooms this year.
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Leaving the owner and installer handcuffed, the thieves
started back upstairs with the stolen cash. But they didn’t
get far. The installer calmly pointed to where he had put
the phone, and the owner lost no time in calling the police.
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(Repeated checks in Orange
t burg have failed to turn up a
■ fourth fatality.)
’ The demonstrations were
. quiet and well-disciplined in
Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston
i Salem, Greensboro and Chapel
. Hill, N.C.; Denmark end
Spartanburg, S.C., and Peters
, burg, Va. Only at Durham did
violence erupt and Fuller
I insisted it wasn’t planned there.
J "I think what touched off the
trouble was when they (the
■ firemen) turned those high
’ powered hoses on the people,"
( Fuller said.
Fire Hoses Brought
Durham police said about 300
L students gathered at a small
park at "Five Points” at the
center of the business district.
They said the students heaped
pine straw around a tree in a
, box planter and set it afire.
' Firemen doused it with a small
; hose.
! Then the students threw
’ burlap bags on one of their
symbolic coffins, set it afire and
’ joined hands around it to hold
' back the firemen. Assistant
' Police Chief William Julian
ordered the firemen to turn a
high-pressure hose on the fire.
Lee said "The demonstrators
■ were hitting officers and
‘ shoving firemen to keep the fire
1 from being put out. A large
hose was brought to bear on
! this crowd and they began
breaking up. As they ran from
the water, they threw rocks and
wood from the fire at the
officers and firemen. Many
‘ members of this crowd ran east
from the fire, breaking store
windows as they ran.”
SPEAKING OF INSTAL
LERS, we heard about one
who had just finished put
ting an extension phone in
the basement of a business
establishment. As he
climbed the stairs to the
street floor, he met the own
er of the business being
marched downstairs by two
men with guns. The installer
was invited to march back
down, too.
Assurance Firm
Sells 100,000
Stock Shares
ATLANTA (UPD—The Amer
ican Family Life Assurance Co.
of Columbus. Ga„ said Monday
that the Enterprise Fund of
Los Angeles, Calif., has pur
chased 100,000 shares of its
common stock and taken an op
tion on more than 200,000 addi
tional shares.
The president of American
Family Life, John B. Amos,
said th® West Coast firm paid
$840,000 for the shares and that
the option could raise its total
investment to $2,635,000. This,
he said, would still represent
"less than 20 per cent” of the
Columbus company’s outstand
ing shares.
At the same time, Amos an
nounced American has pur
chased, subject to ratification
by that company’s- stockholders,
the assets of Mid-South Life In
surance Co. of Nashville, Tenn.
Amos reported that 1967 was
the best year in American’s 12-
year history. He said assets
rose 58.6 per cent to $5,065,209,
gross premiums rose 25.7 per
cent to $7,297,867 and total life
insurance in force was more
than SIOO million.
Arsonists Set Fire
To Florida School
By BARBARA FRYE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPD— I
Arsonists today set fire to the :
main office of Miami Springs
High Schoo’., one of 6,000
Florida schools hit by the
nation’s first statewide teacher
walkout.
The fire was brought under
control at the school a few
hours before officials around
the state began mustering
substitutes and volunteers to try
to keep about two-thirds of the
state’s elementary and seconda
ry schools open for classes.
Schools were closed in 21
counties—including the cities of ,
Miami, West Palm Beach and '
Tallahassee—and were partially i
open in four other counties. In
the state’s remaining 42 coun- <
ties—including big population ]
centers such as Jacksonville, ;
Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando and the i
space center towns of Brevard !
County—schools remained open. ’
Miami Springs High School, :
where only 14 of the 102 I
teachers showed up Monday, <
Warden Named
For Ware Prison
ATLANTA (UPD — Hoke
Smith, former warden of the
DeKalb-Stone Mountain prison
branch, has bean named war
den of the Ware County prison
branch because of the suspen
sion of Warden Raymond
Douglas.
Gov. Lester Maddox an
nounced Monday that the State
Corrections Department had
suspended Douglas, presumably
because he allowed a prisoner
to make an unsupervised trip
home last Christmas.
"An Investigation revealed he
let a prisoner leave without
being under a custodial of
ficer,” said Maddox who added
that Douglas had been fired.
"When these things crop up,
we just have to take care of
them.”
A spokesman for the Correc
tions Department said It ap
peared Douglas drove the un
named prisoner, who was serv
ing five years for burglary, to
an unspecified destination at
Christmas, let him visit with
his family, then drove him back
to prison.
Douglas took over as warden
three months ago after .Maddox
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5 Generations
Five generations were present this week when little
Sandra Marie Wood of Nashville, Tenn., visited her
great grandmother and great great grandmother in
Griffin. Sandra is held by Mrs. L. J. Pritchard of 523
Brookwood terrace, Griffin, who is her great great
grandmother. Also present were Mrs. L. R. Langley,
213 Laramie road. Griffin, great grandmother; Mrs.
J. W. Wood of Nashville, grandmother; and Thomas
S. Wood IV of Nashville, her father.
was closed. Investigators said
the fire was confined to the
main office.
The arsonist, they said,
entered the building by smash
ing a window on a rear door. It
was the second school fire in
the Miami suburb since the
walkout was announced Satur
day. A fire was set in the office
of Miami Springs Junior High
Saturday night.
Between one-third and one
half of Florida’s 61,000 school
teachers, led by the Florida
Education Assocation (FEA),
resigned Monday to climax a
squabble with the Democratic
Legislature and Republican
Gov. Claude Kirk.
The FEA said the $250 million
education spending package
passed by a special legislative
session Friday was not suffi
cient to meet the state’s needs.
Kirk earlier had said he would
veto any budget that provided
for a tax increase that was not
tied to a referendum. The
education bill would be financed
fired former warden Roy Rit
chey who was accused by Atty.
Gen. Arthur Bolton of misap
propriating. supplies and using
inmates to trap quail for his
personal use.
Douglas’ suspension Monday
touched off a brief protest at
the Ware County prison branch.
But most of the prisoners re
turned to their work details
after Smith told them the dem
onstration might jeopardize
their time off for good be
havior.
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Man Found
Shot In Motel
MACON, Ga. (UPD-A Ma
con man with a long-time crim
inal record which included sev
eral charges of armed robbery
died Monday after being discov
ered wounded in a motel room
here.
Authorities said Freddie Daw
son, 30, was dead on arrival at
a hospital.
Police said they knew no mo
tives but had several suspects
in the death of Dawson, whose
criminal record extended over
10 years.
NO PROBLEM
LONDON (UPD—“This is
just an experiment to see what
food children really go for,”
said the man from., the
Carnation Milk Co. Thursday as
nine tots under five tucked into
a table-groaning array of soup,
chicken flan, hamburgers, cho
colate mousse and strawberry
mallow.
The stunt was obviously a
great success. The kids ate
everything in sight.
SPALDING COUNTY, GEORGIA
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
AND RECONCILIATION OF WARRANTS PAYABLE
JANUARY DECEMBER 31, 1967
CASH ON DEPOSIT — January 1, 1967 $ 324,993.77
RECEIPTS
Tax Commissioner:
1961 Taxes, Interest & Commissions $ 134.29
1962 Taxes, Interest & Commissions 323.29
1963 Taxes, Interest & Commissions 780.50
1964 Taxes, Interest & Commissions 4,100.43
1965 Taxes, Interest & Commissions 14,688.13
1966 Taxes, Interest & Commissions 468,751.61
1967 Taxes & Commissions 761,071.81
Commissions on Sale of Tags 5,839.75 $1,255,689.81
County’s Portion of Court Fines:
Solicitor’s Fees $ 22,177.92
Clerk’s Fees 21,667.74
Sheriff’s Fees 25,277.69 $ 69,123.35
Other Fees from County Officers:
Clerk’s Civil Costs $ 4,291.35
Clerk’s Recording Fees 12,636.85
Sheriff’s Civil Costs 1,188.00
Sheriff’s Office 5,638.56
Ordinary’s Office 9,306.35 $ 33,061.11
State of Georgia — Fuel Oil 21,950.09
State of Georgia — Aid for Roads 24,820.29
From State for Road Construction 33,257.69
Sale of Dynamite 1,462.45
Sale of Equipment and scrap 151.45
Reimbursement from State and Federal
Governments for Welfare Department 2,950.99
Airport Rent 350.00
Collections on Paving Assessments 24,361.72
Interest on Matured Savings Certificates 5,516.97
Building Permits 636.00
Health Department for Birth and Death
Certificates and Vital Statistics 3,103.00
Probation Officer 302.80
Reimbursements for Road Repairs 1,006.34
From City of Griffin Portion of Cost of
Constructing State Patrol Barracks 3,077.16
From State of Georgia Portion of Cost of
Constructing State Patrol Barracks 28,950.00
From City of Griffin Sale of 1-2 Interest
in Everee Road Property 4,993.00
From City of Griffin Sale of Lot 1,000.00
From State of Georgia — Grant 9,367.86
Sale of Rock Quarry — Dixie Lime & Stone Company 16,260.00
Crane Rental 396.00
Travel and Other Expense Reimbursements 1,697.08
Other Receipts, Rebates and Refunds 548.50
$1,544,033.66
TOTAL CASH AVAILABLE $1,869,027.43
EXPENDITURES:
Expenses of Administration $ 153,566.66
Public Buildings and Bridges 75,430.14
Expenses of Courts, Prisoners, Sheriff and Coroner 229,743.07
Roads 358.878.92
Public Health 3,003.54
Paupers 21,110.04
County Agent and Home Demonstration Agent 20,633.31
Welfare 91,594.67
Forestry and Conservation 3,794.79
Indigent Care 103,537.00
Airport, Public Parks and Library 15,954.55
Workmen’s Compensation 3,683.96
Road Bonds 20,585.00
Hospital Boncks 46,602.95
Water Bonds 42,045.92
General Fund 17,395.25
Total Expenditures January through December 31, 1967 $1,207,559.77
Add, Warrants outstanding January 1, 1967 40,641.16
Less. Interfund Transfer Warrant No. 11166 20.00
$1,248,180.93
Less Warrants Outstanding December 31, 1967 127,192.28
"$1,120,988.65
Cash on Deposit — December 31,1967 $ 748,038.78
This certifies that the First National Bank of Griffin, Griffin, Georgia, designated as County
Depository of Spalding County, Georgia, (for the year 1967) has this day deposited a detailed
statement with paid and cancelled vouchers aggregating the sum of $748,038.78, all of which
vouchers have been examined and found properly receipted and cancelled in terms of law.
We find further that the said Depository has charged itself as per receipt book and balance
from last statement to and from date thereof, the sum of $1,869,027.43, leaving a balance in
Depository December 31, 1967, of $748,038.78.
Jack Moss, Chairman
Z. L. Wilson
David P. Elder
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Georgia News
Savannah Fire
Burns 3 Stores
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPD —An
estimated $500,000 damage was
caused Monday when fire, of
undetermined origin, destroyed
three stores in a West Side
shopping center.
Parts Shortage
Idles GM Plants
ATLANTA (UPD—About 2,300
workers were idle today be
cause General Motors closed its
Chevrolet assembly line and
Fisher Body plants ere Mon
day because of an engine short
age caused by strikes at other
plants. A spokesman said nor
mal work schedules would re
sume Wednesday.
Woman Dies In
Atlanta Fire
ATLANTA (UPD—A 73-year- 1
old semi-invalid woman was
killed Monday when she be
came trapped in a fire which
swept through two adjoining
homes in southwest Atlanta.
Authorities said the burned
body of Mrs. Della Thomas was
found near a door where she
apparntly died while trying to
flee the flames.
PERSONAL THANKS
SALEM, Ore. (UPD—Marine
Sgt. Bruce Webster, 23, Cairo,
Ohio, went 1,000 miles out of his
way to thank women bank
employes for sending cookies to
troops in Vietnam.
Just back from Vietnam,
Webster flew from Los Angeles
to Salem, Ore., to tell workers
at the U.S. National Bank how
welcome their packages of
cookies, magazines, jellies and
cigars were to U.S. fighting
troops. The ladies have been
sending the gifts for the past
two years.
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