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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Griffin, though her high school
basketball teams were knocked
out of the running in region tour
naments, can find a lot of satis
faction in the way our good nei
ghbors, Milner and Zebulon fair
ed in their tourneys. Zebulon
won the crown in the 3-B class
ification, and Milner romped
home champs of the 4-C aggre
gation.
These two teams have played
twice this season, each winning
one game. What a natural it
would be if they could, and
would, meet in a post-season
“rubber” game! And wouldn’t
It be great, if such a game was
played in Griffin High’s field
house?
Speaking of basketball: The
final curtain for the 1967-68 cage
season has not as yet been rung
down. For there is a game sche
duled here for March 11. This
will be a game between the At
lanta Falcons, with such stars
as Tommy Nobis, and a team
made up of faculty members at
G.H.S. including such stars as
Chris Jones.
The game will be sponsored
by the Key Club of Griffin High
and money will go into its spec
ial fund to promote club activi
ties.
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If one does not think winter is
on its last legs —for which this
man for one is most thankful —
and spring on its way— one
might be convinced this is the
fact when told that Spring Foot
ball practice opened at Griffin
High this week. Coach Max Do
wis, his staff of assistants, and
a flock of hopefuls, who hope
to be playing for the Eagles next
fall, will spend the next four
weeks getting in shape, learn
ing the fundamentals of the
game, and working out together
getting the feel of team play.
Good Evening who has follow
ed GHS football for some 43
years, and who has seen both
good and lean years, always fa
ces the coming season confi
dent it will be a good one for
GHS. And this year is no excep
tion.
G. H. S. has an excellent
coach and assistants and a lot
of potential players all "raring
to play.”
There are several important
dates this week:
Among others:
Tuesday evening the Griffin
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club will have its annual
meeting at the Elks Club. There
is no organization in the com
munity with a more construc
tive, community-wide program
than this. This will be the 21st
birthday of the Griffin club.
Wednesday at the meeting of
the Kiwanis Club, Tommy Eid
son and Mrs. Taylor Manley,
will be recognized as GHS STAR
Student and Teacher.
And Friday night, midnight,
is the deadline for nominating
men as candidates for the civic
honor “Man of the Year for
1967.” This is one of the highest
civic honors that can be confer
red on any man.
In order to be eligible for con
sideration a man must have liv
ed in the city or county for the
past 12 months. Nominations
should tell of things the nomi
nee has done during the year for
which the award is to be made.
Achievements of the nominee
can cover any field of activity
that has contributed to the grow
th and development of the com
munity.
The Man of the Year event
is sponsored each year by the
Exchange Club of Griffin and
the man who is chosen for the
honor will be honored by the
club on Tuesday, March 19 at
which time he will be present
ed the National Exchange Book
of Golden Deeds emblem. The
committee that will choose the
man, from those nominated, will
be made up of representatives
from various organizations in
the community.
It is highly possible that there
Is some man In Griffin who dur
ing 1967 actually did more for
Griffin than any other man, but
whose contribution is known
only to a few. He may not have
received any publicity whatso
ever, but still his contribution
has been most valuable.
It’s up to those who may know
of such a man, to forget all ab
out his modesty, and write a let
ter nominating him. But such
a letter should be postmarked
not later than midnight March
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Dart Gun For Humans Demonstrated
ATLANTA (UPI) — A short,
. stubby dart tipped with' a
needle three-fourths of an inch
long flashed through the air and
struck the man in the leg. I
One minute and 15 seconds
later the man felt a sudden
chill. He began to get glassy
eyed. His blood pressure drop
ped. In tw’o minutes, 45 seconds
he began to feel nauseated.
Five minutes later he was
acutely ill, stretched out help
lessly on a mattress.
Two police superintendents,
three Army officers, a repre
sentative of the Justice Depart
ment and other law enforce
ment officials watched as the
prone figure lay still for an
hour. A doctor and a nurse at
tended the dart victim.
This was a dramatic demon
stration of a new tranquilizer
gun and of the potency of the
drug in the hollow tip of the
needle. Its inventors hope that
eventually it will be widely
used in place of bullets to sub
due violent persons, such as
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Oratorical
Donna Mostiler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Mostiler, 1102 Skyline drive, won the district oratori
cal contest and will be in the area competition at Grif
fin High March 6. The state wide event is sponsored
by American Legion Posts. Miss Julia Elliott of Griffin
High who has coached a number of district, area and
state winners is Miss Mostiler’s coach.
Teachers Injured
Griffin Mechanic
Killed In Wreck
A Griffin mechanic was killed
and two Negro school teachers
were injured in a head-on collis
ion Sunday seven miles west of
Jackson on Georgia 16.
Killed was Emmett Newt
Mask, 48, who had moved to Gr
iffin from Eatonton only last
week. He was a mechanic at
Wesley Garage and Machinery
Co., on North Expressway.
Mask was on his way back to
Griffin from a trip to Eatonton
when the mishap occurred.
He died of head and chest in
juries, a state patrol report said.
Injured were Julian Russell,
Abortion Bill Sails
Through Legislature
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD—A bill malt
ing Georgia only the third state
In the nation to allow therapeut
ic abortions sailed through the
House and Senate today. One
Senate source said Gov. Lester
Maddox was being urged to ve
to the measure.
The bill, with three major
amendments, passed the House
144-11 and the Senate 39-11 with
little debate.
The amendment would re
quire that all records Involving
abortions be kept confidential;
would let osteopaths perform
abortions if they are licensed
for surgery and obstetrics; and
would require proof that a
woman was pregnant before an
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psychotics, and possibly in riot
situations.
The demonstration was held
during the weekend in a ground
floor room of the Emory Uni
versity Hospital. It was
conducted jointly by Dr. Wil
liam C. Conner, a psychiatrist,
and representatives of the
Palmer Chemical and Equip
met Co., Douglasville, Ga.
Automatic Injection
The pistol-shaped gun is pow
ered by a carbon dioxide cart
ridge. It fires an 18-gauge
needle, about the size used in
blood tests. The needle is at
tached to a cylindrical pro
jectile syringe which forms the
main body of the missile and
injects automatically on con
tact. Its effective range is 10
to 12 yards but research is un
der way on a longer-range,
faster-firing weapon.
Conner had previously shown
the effectiveness of the gun in
an appearance before the House
Judiciary Committee, law en
forcement officers and other in-
25, of 417 North Fourth street,
Griffin, a teacher at Fairmont
High School, and C. W. William
28, of Valley road, Jackson, a
teacher at a Jackson school.
Russell suffered head injuries
and Williams suffered injuries to
his right arm. Russell was ad
mitted to Griffin-Spalding Coun
ty Hospital.
Russell and Williams were re
turning from a foreign language
meeting in New Orleans, La.
Mask and Russell were listed
as drivers of cars involved. Da
mage was estimated at $3,000.
abortion could be approved.
The bill revises an 1876 law
which allows abortions only to
save the life of an expectant
mother.
The measure would allow
abortions to save the life or
preserve the health of a preg
nant woman; If there was a
chance the infant would be
physically or mentally mal
formed, or in cases of statutory
rape.
If signed by the governor,
Georgia would join Colorado
and North Carolina in liberaliz
ing abortion laws, although
supporters say the Georgia law
would more strictly regulate
such operations.
The Senate endorsed a consti-
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terested groups in Washington
last April. The main purpose of
the weekend demonstration was
to show the action of the drug
selected for use with the gun,
a morphine derivative called
apomorphine. Conner said it
was chosen because of its rela
tively fast immobilizing action
and its wide range of safety.
Pete Williams, 27, a first-year
Emory law student of Ander
son, S. C„ and Bill Earley, 24,
of Pittsburgh, a sophomore in
Emory Medical School, volun
teered for the demostration
and allowed themselves to be
shot with the gun.
The demonstration was filmed
for a national television news
program.
Described Symptoms
Williams was shot first with
the dart gun. A plexiglass
shield protected his body ex
cept for a four-by-six-lnch area
of his left leg. He then mounted
an exercise bicycle and began
pedaling, all the while describ
ing his symptoms to Conner,
US To Step Up Bombing
As Answer To Cong Push
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Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Hospital. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Woman’s Page. Page 6.
Viet War. Page 7.
Ray Cromley. Page 7.
Bruce Biossat. Page 7.
Moultrie Engine. Page 7.
Riot Report. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Georgia News. Page 10.
Canal Ships. Page 10.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 10.
Weekend Toll. Page 10.
Bands Here In
District Meet
Spalding Junior High won an
excellent rating and Griffin High
won a good rating at the sixth
district band festival during the
weekend. It was held at the For
est Park High School.
The honor band made up of
junior high and elementary stu
dents won an excellent rating.
Some 70 Griffin High band stu
dents and some 90 Junior High
students participated. About 60
band members made up the ho
nor band.
The Henry County High band
earned a fair rating at the
festival.
tutional amendment 44-8 which
would let Georgians decide
whether a state milk commis
sion should regulate the price of
dairy products. The House ap
proved 122-0 a bill to allow cit
ies and counties to use radar to
spot speeding motorists, and
another measure re-drawlng
House district lines.
Both the radar bill and the
House reapportionment bill now
go to the governor.
As the legislature hurried
through a crowded calendar, a
group of Senate Democrats
searched for economies is thp
fiscal 1969 budget by cutting
back on some proposed expen
ditures and adding others.
who recorded them and kept a
close secosd-by-second account
of their development.
When Williams was unable to
continue the exercise he was
helped from the bike and asked
to perform a finger dexterity
test. Finally, white-faced and
nauseated, he stretched out on
a sheet-covered mattress.
Earley, the second volunteer,
said the dart struck “like a
hard fist.” He reported feeling
the effects of the apomorphine
in one minute, 15 seconds.
One interested observer was
Dr. Edward Annis of Miami,
former president of the Ameri
can Medical Association and a
member of the AMA board of
trustees. Annis was enthusias
tic about the gun’s possible use
in riot situations.
“If you shoot three or four
people in a mob with this wea
pon and the others see the ef
fects of this, it is reasonable to
expect a rapid subsidence of
mob frenzy,” he said.
"To my mind, this is a fasci
nating possibility for the use of
‘Tried To Be
Nice But It
Didn’t Work’
By THOMAS CHEATHAM
SAIGON (UPD—The United
States ■will accelerate bombing
North Vietnam in the next two
months, American military
sources said today.
They said the heavier attacks
will be the allied reply to the
guerrilla invasion of South
Vietnamese cities and for North
Vietnam’s refusal to recognize
as a peace feeler the halt in
bombing around Hanoi and
Haiphong in late December and
early January.
“We tried to be nice and it
didn’t work," said a U.S.
command officer.
The stepped up bombing will
include striking targets pre
viously untouched and heavier
raids against targets already
hit. According to the sources,
only the clouds of the current
monsoon season have held up
the massive strikes.
Wait For Weather
“On the first nice day, you’re
going to see results,” one
military source said.
But the sources said the
stepped up bombing will go
ahead even if the monsoon
clouds are late in lifting. The
monsoon is expected to break
up over North Vietnam in late
March.
According to the sources,
most of the new targets have
been put already on the
“approved target list.” The list
is drawn up by the military and
approved by President Johnson.
U.S. officers for security
reasons decline to discuss
future targets. But the sources
said, “There are sufficient
targets yet to be hit that you
can expect to be hit.”
One of the major North
Vietnamese war facilities un
touched as yet is the port in
Haiphong, which handles more
than half of North Vietnam’s
shipping Military commanders
long have urged bombing the
docks.
Haiphong In Doubt
But it was considered likely
the U.S. jets still would avoid
the Haiphong docks for fear of
hitting the ships of "neutral”
nations docked there. Soviet
spokesmen frequently have
claimed U.S. planes hit their
ships in the Haiphong Harbor
area.
But there remain such
untouched strategic targets as
storage areas, rail yards, port
facilities and communications
bases, many of them tucked in
near Hasol and Haiphong.
On President Johnson’s or
ders, "U.S. pilots refrained from
bombing within 15 to 20 miles
from Hanoi and Hafphong for at
least two weeks prior to the
Asian Lunar New Year (Tet)
holiday at the end of January.
During that period, the Viet
Cong launched their urban
warfare.
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Six Os Seven
Griffin High Distributive Education students won six of seven first places in the
West Central District contests held Saturday at Griffin High. Griffin High win
ners were (1-r) Tony Kelley, Student-of-the-Year, Boy; Kay Adams, Student of
the-Year, Girl; Chip Perdue, salesmanship; Dawn Conner business speech; Ted
Tinley, job interviewer; Janice Anderson, business spelling, vocabulary. They will
compete in the state contest to be held in Atlanta in March. Johnny Lovin is co
ordinator of the DE program at Griffin High.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and cold
tonight and Tuesday with chance
of a few light snow flurries to
night and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 57, low today 33, high
Sunday 53, low Sunday 29, sun
rise Tuesday 7:12, sunset Tues
day 6:35.
Country Parson
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“If your cause depends
upon the self-denial of con
verts, plan it so it can be
done without much help.”
a non-lethal weapon to appre
hend juveniles or to terminate
the demagoguery very often
used to incite otherwise law
abiding citizens to riot.”
Protect Public
He said the effectiveness of
the weapon has been repeatedly
demonstrated in the lower ani
mals and that it now appears
that medical research has pro
vided “a relatively safe and ef
fective nonlethal means to pro
tect the public.”
Harold Palmer, president of
the gun firm, said the apomor
phine may be combined with
an acid, such as vinegar, giving
the effect of a bee or hornet
sting when the dart hits. He
said this would tend to im
mobilize a violent person al
most instantly.
Dick Hand, representing the
Justice Department, said the
gun "has a tremendous poten
tial for use by policemen in
subduing individuals and possi
bly in preventing a crowd from
forming.” ..
Col. Albert Landsmark of Ft.
Hope Held For
CR Agreement
WASHINGTON (UPD—
Senate leaders said today there
Is real hope of agreement this
week on a compromise civil
rights bill, including an open
housing provision in some form.
Democratic Senate leader
Mike Mansfield told reporters
he had agreed to keep the
pending bill before the Senate
after expected rejection later
today of a second motion to halt
debate that has tied up the
Senate since the opening of the
session.
The vote on the gag motion
cloture—covered two major
civil rights proposals—legisla
tion to protect Negroes and
other civil rights workers
against racial violence, and to
outlaw discrimination in the
sale or rental of housing.
The outlook for action on a
compromise bill brightened at a
meeting. Senate Republican
leader Everett M. Dirksen held
with Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-
N.Y., Howard W. Baker, R-
Tenn., Roman L. Hruska, Fl-
Neb., and later with Mansfield.
"I’m inclined to believe a
compromise can be worked out
—and completed this week,”
Dirksen said. "There comes a
time when you just can’t satisfy
everybody."
He said the compromise
McPherson, Ga., commander of
the 3rd Military Police Group,
said the weapon “possibly
would be useful in immobilizing
key leaders in a riot situation.’’
But he added that certain types
of gas would be more effective
in dealing with large numbers
of rioters.
“I hadn’t thought about it in
a riot situation,” commented
Atlanta Police Supt. J. F.
Brown. “But it might be of use
in a small room or a jail cell."
Others attending the demon
stration included Col. Paul R.
Westin, Ft. McPherson, opera
tions officer, 3rd Army provost
marshal; Col. Frank Grant, Ft.
McPherson, deputy provost
marshal; Sheriff Claude Aber
crombie, Douglas County, Ga.;
deputies David Shelden and Ed
ward Shields of the Erie County
(Buffalo) N.Y., sheriff’s depart
ment; Atlanta Police Supt. J. L.
Tuggle; and Dr. Selden Feurt,
dean of the College of Pharma
cy, University of Tennessee at
Memphis, a codeveloper of the
gun.
would contain some provision on
“fair housing” for Negroes and
other minorities. But he de
clined to spell out the details.
“Things are looking up. If we
get a bill you can thank him
(Dirksen) for it.”
GHS Students
Visit Capitol,
New Mansion
More than 40 students in gov
ernment classes at Griffin High
today visited the state capitol
in Atlanta to see the General
Assembly in action. They also
visited the new governor’s man
sion.
Asst. Principal Ormand An
derson and Mrs. Catherine Purs
ley of the Griffin High faculty
accompanied the group to Atlan
ta on a school bus.
The Business and Public At
fairs Committee of the Griffin
Klwanls Club sponsored the
trip. It was arranged by Mrs.
George Pope, Griffin High gov
ernment class teacher.