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By Quimby Melton
Thursday Is the anniversary
of the birth of George Washing
ton, commander-in-chief of Am
erican troops during the Revolu
tionary War and first President
1 of the United States.
When one thinks of George
1 Washington, one immediately
thinks “First in War, first in Pe
ace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.”
One also thinks of George
Washington and stories of his
f youth when he is said to have
| told his father ‘‘l cannot tell a
\ lie” when asked who cut down
that cherry tree; of his having
i been strong enough to throw a
silver coin across the wide Poto
mac; of his having opposed es
tablishment of a kingdom in
America and making him king;
; of his warning while President,
against foreign entanglements;
and of his refusing to allow him
to be elected for more than two
terms. (This refusal to perpetu
ate himself in office remained
“the unwritten law” until Fr
[ anklin D. Roosevelt broke the
’ barrier and was elected for a
I third and a fourth term.)
— * —
There is no doubt that Geor
| ge Washington W'as a great mil
■ itary leader, for he defeated the
i British and enabled the 13 col-
S onies to form the union; and he
was a great President because
he kept alive those Ideals of free
dom, liberty and democracy, the
* foundation on which the Infant
republic was built; refusing to
listen to those activate by selfish
or sinister interests.
1 Much will be written about
George Washington on his birth
day, all of it praising him, and
he deserves every word of pr
f aise that is written.
However, Good Evening want
ing to write something about Ge
orge Washington that may not
» be known to many, dug into the
early history of our country and
came up with a fact, that if we
i had known before, we had for
k gotten.
Even George Washington, the
soldier, was not above intrigue;
for in 1777-78 he was the target
» of a plot to “retire” him as com
mander of the American forces.
But this plot was short lived and
Washington vindicated.
* This little known plot was kn
own as the Conway Cabal —a
petty intrigue against George
Washington hatched up by one
Thomas Conway, Horatio Ga
jf tes, Charles Lee, Thomas Miff
lin, and James Lowell, all offi
cers of the Army. Their object
was to put General Gates in
■ command. Their plot was not un
masked until General Gates had
been named president of the
•'Board of War" in November
of 1777. (We imagine this ‘‘Bo
ard of War” might be likened to
our present Pentagon.) However
the Gates administration was
found so corrupt and his orders
so inefficient and purile, he was
removed and the cabal broken
up.
Now who was this Thomas
Conway?
j He was an Irish soldier of for
tune, who was a colonel in the
French army. He came to Am
erica and offered his services to
the Continental Congress, was
made a Brigadier General and
then Inspector General of the
Army. When his true colors
were disclosed he fled America,
1 returning to France and hired
himself to the Royalist forces.
But the French revolution was
brewing and when the Royalists
1 were thrown out, Conway fled
for his life. Where he went and
what he did until his death our
source does not reveal.
Here’s an interesting footnote
to the life of Conway while in
America. A young officer and
friend of General George Wash
ington, John Cadwalder, chal
lenged Conway to a duel, fought
near Philadelphia, in which the
soldier of fortune was wounded.
It was thought his wounds wou
ly be fatal. But Conway recover
ed and fled to France.
When Good Evening read of
the Conway Cabal, noticing that
among the other plotters was
one Charles Lee, dug further and
found that he, too, was a soldier
of fortune, coming directly from
England, and was in no wise con
nected with the Lees of Virgin
ia. As to Thomas Mifflin and
James Lowell, we did not take
the time to look up their history.
‘‘First in War (with the excep
tion of a few who selfishly sou
ght to replace him); first in Pe
ace and First in the Hearts of
his Countrymen” — that was
George Washington.
INSIDE TODAY
Sen. Fulbright. Page 2.
Kirk-Griffin. Page 2.
Senate Struggle. Page 2.
Georgia News. Page 3.
Pay Measure. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Sports. Pages 6,7, 8.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Apartment Damaged
A two-story frame apartment building on Meriwether street was heavily damaged
by fire, smoke and water Tuesday afternoon. The aparament building is owned by
J. A. Fortner. Three families lived in it.
Won’t Meet Demands
Os Teachers: Kirk
By BARBARA FRYE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI)
—Gov. Claude Kirk said today
he has no intention Os meeting
the demands of the 24,800
teachers striking in protest
against the state’s education
spending policies.
“This is a time for cool
heads,” said the Republican
governor, just back from a
western speaking tour.
For the first time since the
statewide teacher strike began
Monday, schools in Miami
began to open. More than 6,000
of the 9,000 teachers in Dade
County walked off their jobs
Monday but today, 101 of the
213 schools there were open.
State School Superintendent
Floyd Christian told Kirk that
the critical areas were in
Miami, St. Petersburg, Tampa,
Daytona Beach and Escambia
County. Duval County —
Jacksonville —the state’s se
cond largest county, was
keeping its schools open with
2,800 regular and 800 substitute
teachers in schools normally
manned by 5,500 teachers.
No Plans
Kirk disclosed no plans for
solving the crisis after a
meeting with education officials.
He said he might fly to Miami
and to Cross City, where Mrs.
Ruth Rains, the Florida "Teach
er of the Year,” is still on the
job.
Kirk said he did not intend to
call the legislature into special
session to consider teachers’
demands for more money and a
professional negotiations law.
“What I don’t need now is a
Democratic legislature,’ h e
said. But he refused to say
whether he would sign or veto
the legislature’s $254.5 million
education budget, which the
teachers say is “totally unac
ceptable.”
Hopes For Exams
Kirk said he hoped the
selective service boards would
examine the draft status of the
teachers who have quit their
jobs.
The walkout has seriously
hampered most of the state’s 67
school systems. The urban
areas around Miami, Tampa,
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Solicitations. Page 11.
Want Ads. Page 14.
Woman’s News. Page 18.
Hijack. Page 20.
Griffin Tech. Page 20.
Bruce Biossat. Page 21.
Ray Cromley. Page 21.
Wild Ride. Page 23.
Hollywood. Page 28.
Mature Parent. Page 28.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 28.
Jacksonville, and St. Petersburg
were the hardest hit.
Most counties scheduled clas
ses, but none was reported
operating at full capacity. Many
substitute and volunteer teach
ers were being used and paid
under emergency regulations
passed by the state cabinet
Board of Education Tuesday.
Broward (F«rt Lauderdale)
Pritchard
Gets 20 Years
J. B. Pritchard of Griffin was
found guilty of robbery here
Tuesday and sentenced to 20 ye
ars in prison.
Pritchard was indicted on a
charge of robbery by use of an
offensive weapon in the daylight
holdup of the home of Mrs. Bill
Morris at Orchard Hill.
In other court action Tuesday,
Joe Lewis Joiner pled guilty to a
charge of larceny after trust and
was given a two year sentence.
Joiner was indicted in con
nection with a theft from a lo
cal wholesale grocery firm.
Billy Horne went on trial this
morning.
He was arrested and indicted
in the shooting of Jimmy Cook
near Orchard Hill.
Switzerland
Recognizes
North Vietnam
BERN (UPl)—Switzerland to
day gave de facto diplomatic
recognition to Communist North
Vietnam.
Swiss Foreign Minister Willy
Spuehler told Parliament Swit
erland’s ambassador in Peking,
Oscar Rossetti, has been named
official "representative” to the
Foreign Ministry in Hanoi.
Government officials stressed
that Switzerland is not accord
ing full diplomatic recognition
to North Vietnam but that
Rossetti’s new duties involve
“purely technical contacts at
the present time.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, February 21, 1968
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Variable cloudiness,
windy and cold tonight with a
chance of snow flurries. Thurs
day partly cloudy, windy and
cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 42, minimum today
35, maximum Tuesday 62, mini
mum Tuesday 31. Sunrise Th
ursday 7:18 a.m., sunset Th
ursday 6:30 p.m.
County was the lone populous
county with a majority of
teachers still on the job. Only
125 of 4,464 teachers stayed
home Tuesday, and the Brow
ard County Classroom Teachers
Association voted 888-756 Tues
day night not to join the
statewide walkout. Broward
teachers apparently settled
most of their grievances in
negotiations forced by a local
walkout last fall.
The Florida Education Associ
ation (FEA), representing
50,000 of the state’s 61,000
teachers, led the walkout
Monday in protest against a
$254.5 million education package
approved by a special session of
the legislature. The FEA
contends only about a third of
the money actually would reach
the public schools, the rest
going for other educational
programs and property tax
relief.
FEA Executipe Secetary Phil
Constans predicted Tuesday
that more teachers would join
the walkout each day. “There Is
a ground swell moving through
the state.”
He said the resigned teachers,
which the FEA claims total
35,000, have been heartened by
letters of encouragement and
money from teachers in other
states.
State Education Department
officials said 24,776 teachers
were absent Tuesday.
Wedding For
Jackie Denied
NEW YORK (UPl)—Women’s
Wear Dally quoted “very
reliable sources” today that
Mrs. John F. Kennedy will
marry Lord Harlech Thursday,
but a spokesman for the former
First Lady denied it.
“That is absolutely not true,”
said Nancy Tuckerman, Mrs.
Kennedy’s secretary.
Mrs. Kennedy and the former
British ambassador to Washing
ton have been spending an
increasing amount of time
Explosion Rocks
Russian Embassy
No One Injured;
Office Damaged
By ROBERT J. TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A
bomb exploded outside the
Soviet Embassy early today,
shattering several windows and
heavily damaging the ground
floor office of a Russian
counselor.
-There were no injuries. It was
the second time in four days
that an explosion rocked a
Communist mission in a wes
tern capital.
The Yugoslav ambassador’s
residence in Paris was severely
damaged Sunday night when a
time bomb exploded in the
basement. One person was
killed and 14 were injured.
Officials said the bomb which
damaged the Soviet Embassy in
the predawn hours today
apparently had been planted on
a windowsill of the fortress-like
structure.
Police were .reported looking
for two suspects in connection
with the bombing, which
shattered windows in nearby
office buildings and blew out the
windshield of a car parked on
the street in front of the four
story brownstone building at
1125 Ith St. N.W.
The only person in the
building at the time of the blast
was a night duty officer, a
source said.
3 Killed
In Hotel
Fire
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
Three persons were killed, two
injured and a search was made
for other possible victims of
a fir© early today which swept
an old residence hotel in down
town Knoxville.
Two of the dead were Roose
velt H. Nipper, 68, and Charles
Hux, 72, both residents of the
third floor of May’s Hotel. The
other body had not been identi
fied.
Homicide detective Robert
Chadwell, one of the first offi
cers on the scene, said that
eight of the reported 10 resi
dents of the hotel had been ac
counted for.
“There may be one or two
more bodies in the rubble,”
Chadwell said. “It was a
inferno.”
Firemen carried six persons
to safety down ladders from the
three-story, brick-veneer build
ing.
Fire crews were unable for
several hours to enter the
smoking rubble inside the
gutted building to search for
other possible victims.
“It’s too dangerous in there
now’,” one fireman said about
5:30 a.m. EST, four hours
after the flames broke out on
the second floor and spread
throughout the building.
“It’s all caved in, and there’s
six feet of water in the
basement,” the fireman added.
Fire officials said the third
floor of the hotel caved in, and
that the other floors suffered
“severe damage.”
Authorities said 10 persons
were in the hotel at the time of
the fire.
together since their visit to
Cambodia last November, lead
ing to speculation of a possible
marriage. They were the house
guests of John Hay Whitney,
former U.S. ambassador to
Britain, and Mrs. Whitney at
their North Carolina estate last
weekend.
The former First Lady has
returned to New York and will
spend the Washington's birthday
holiday with her children.
Vol. 96 No. 44
The State Department promp
tly expressed regrets to Soviet
Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobry
nin and offered any assistance
that might be required.
A Soviet Embassy source
speculated that the bombing
might have been the work of
fanatics inflamed by the mock
trial of international Commu
nism which concludes today in
Washington.
Senators Take
Look At Budget
For Health Dept.
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
turned today to budget requests
of the State Helath Department.
Outside the meeting room a call
for cuts in the House - passed
fiscal bill was intensifying.
While the committee studying
the $858.1 million proposed 1969
budget heard State School Supt.
Jack Nix make a low - key
appeal to give teachers a pay
raise on Sept. 1 instead of Dec.
1, other senators Tuesday were
discussing the possibility of an
across-the-board budget reduc
tion to avoid a tax increase.
Two Republicans and a Dem
ocrat said support was growing
for a cross-the-board cut as
the “only alternative” to assure
fair treatment to all programs
in Gov. Lester Maddox’s budget
while avoiding a deficit.
Republicans
Set Precinct
Meetings Here
Republican precinct meetings
have been scheduled March 2 to
elect officers, committeemen,
and delegates to the Spalding
County convention, according to
Troy Mays, chairman of the
County Republican Committee.
The meetings have been sche
duled as follows:
City precincts two, four and
six, city hall court room; city
precincts one, three and five, co
unty court room; Africa, Africa
courthouse; Akin, Akin Court
house; Cabin, Ringgold commu
nity house; East Griffin, East
Griffin courthouse; Experiment,
Experiment courthouse; Line
Creek, Line Creek courthose;
Mt. Zion, Mt. Zion courthouse;
Orrs, Orrs courthouse; Union,
Union courthouse.
The mass meetings in Spald
ing County are scheduled to be
gin at noon.
Man Os Year
Nominations
Are Requested
Griffinites have been remind
ed that nominations for Man of
the Year are due by midnight
March 1.
Letters of nomination may be
sent to the Exchange Club, care
of the Chamber of Commerce.
President Bob Scroggins of
the Exchange Club said any citi
zen may make a nomination. No
special nomination forms are
required, he said.
The Man of the Year, an an
nual award sponsored by the
Exchange Club, will honor the
1967 winner at an Exchange
meeting.
Negro College
Riot Put Down
In Mississippi
LORMAN, Miss. (UPI)— I
Highway patrolmen using tear
gas and guns put down a wild
student riot early today at
predominantly Negro Alcorn
A&M College.
Authorities said three Negroes
were “slightly injured.”
Reports of the violence were
sketchy. A highway patrol
spokesman said about 50
helmeted troopers rolled onto
the campus shortly after
midnight when rioters began
wrecking Academic Hall, a
men’s dormitory.
They fired tear gas into the
building, quelling the riot there,
and put out a fire the students
had set.
But violence broke out again
at another dormitory later, the
spokesman said, when about 200
Negroes gathered and began
sniping with what sounded like
"at least one automatic, a
shotgun and other small caliber
weapons” and throwing bricks
and bottles at patrolmen.
“Tlie patrolmen found it
necessary to take cover and
return fire,” the spokesman
said. The resistance subsided,
he said, but sporadic outbreaks
of violence were reported until
dawn.
The trouble apparently start
ed Tuesday afternoon when
three students, dismissed from
the college earlier, returned to
the campus and took charge of
a student assembly. They re
portedly denounced college pre
sident J. D. Boyd and his policy
GARBAGE TROUBLE
POWELL, Wyo. (UPI)—It
cost Mrs. Flossie Myers SBS to
put her garbage can in front of
her house instead of the alley in
back of it.
Authorities said she was fined
that much for attacking the
police chief and an assistant
officer who tried to serve a
warrant on her for putting her
garbage can in the wrong place.
College Presidents
Rap "Invasions’
ATLANTA (UPl)—The presi
dents of six Negro colleges said
today “the American version of
storm troopers” in the form of
police and National Guardsmen
is being used to destroy and in
hibit the Negro campus.
The six men, all Atlanta Ne
groes and considered moder
ates, said in a statement that
they are urging police and gov
ernment officials “to protect
our colleges and universities
from armed invasion.”
‘‘Tlie invasions of college
campuses by various police
powers in the United States is a
trend which can no longer be
continued without public protest
by responsible educators and
other persons interested in pre
serving the freedom of Institu
tions of higher learning in our
country,” the statement said.
It was signed by Thomas D.
Jarrett of Atlanta University,
Vivian W. Henderson of Clark
College, Harry V. Richardson of
the Interdenominational Theo
logical Center, Hugh M. Glos
ter of Morehouse College, John
A. Middleton of Morris Brown
College and Albert E. Manley
of Spelman College.
The statement also said the
six educators are in ‘ full
awareness of the responsibility
of all citizens to obey the law
and to follow orderly processes
in seeking redress of grievanc
es."
Tlie statement was directed
to President Johnson, Attorney
Gen. Ramsey Clark, state gov
ernors and state and local po
lice officials.
“We urge Americans to re
move the poison of race from
our police policy which may re
of discouraging political activity
on the campus.
Charles Evers, 6tate NAACP
leader and a candidate for Con
gress in a special election Feb.
27, charged Monday that the
three were expelled for passing
out his campaign literature at
the college.
Boyd replied that their dismis
sal came when one was charged
with being drunk and the stu
dents cursed him when he tried
to talk to them. However, Boyd
said he did not want the col
lege to “get involved in poli
tics.”
The highway patrol said a
crowd of about 100 Negro stu
dents btgan hurling bricks and
bottles at campus security of
ficers Tuesday night and “scat
tered gunfire” broke out.
The spokesman said rioters
tore up furniture in Academic
Hall and broke out nearly every
window in the building.
Shortly after midnight, he
said, a group of patrolmen en
tered the building and “urged
them to halt their unruly behav
iour.” They were ignored, he
said.
“In order to prevent the group
from totally destroying the build
ing,” he said, troopers fired tear
gas into the building.
Meatime, another group of
patrolmen was sent to a store
near the campus to investigate
a report of a burglary. Four
young Negroes were seen as
they fled the stroe through a win
dow but were not apprehended.
The patrol spokesman said a
second outbreak of violence cam
came at another dormitory when
about 200 gathered and again
began throwing bricks and bot
tles and firing weapons. He said
bullets and shotgun pellets st
ruck trees near where the pat
rolmen were stationed.
"The patrolmen found it neces
sary to take cover and return
fire,” the spokesman said. The
violence was put down at that
point but sporatic outbreaks
were reported later.
sult in the murdering of stu
dents on and near their cam
puses,” they said.
The statement was prompted
by the deaths of three Negro
students during riots at South
Carolina State College in Or
angeburg, S. C. The three were
felled by highway patrolmen
who said they opened fire only
after Negroes appeared to be
attacking them.
‘‘Here in America we seem to
have adopted a ‘get tough’ na
tional policy based on the use
of armored and armed police
and guardsmen in killing Amer
ican citizens at the slightest
provocation,” they said.
‘‘We urge you to stop these
invasions of college and uni
versity campuses by the Amer
ican version of storm troopers.”
Country Parson
“It’s easier to forgive a man
for his sins than for his criti
cism of yours.”