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By Quimby Melton
As a “lead" to today’s Good
Evening we’d like to say, “Hap
py Birthday Brother Bank
ston.” For Sunday was not only
the birthday of St. Patrick but
It was the 90th birthday of J. T.
Bankston, dean of the Sunday
School class of which Good Ev
ening has been a member for
many years. Ninety-year-old
“Brother Bankston” sets a fine
example for much younger men,
in that he never misses a meet
ing of his Bible Class unless he
is sick or out of town.
The meeting of banking repre
sentatives of seven nations, held
in Washington has agreed on a
formula that it Is believed will
ease the strain on world econ
omy brought on by a scarcity of
gold and rush to buy gold by
spectators. The solution Is
this: The seven nations will
“peg the price of gold at $35.00
an ounce, and none of those na
tions will sell gold on the open
market, allowing speculators to
buy and sell on an open mar
ket.
Following announcement Un
cle Sam’s dollar staged a decided
“pick up” In value throughout
the world; and speculators who
had bought gold on the open
market “took a beating,” the
open market price dropping
from $44.00 an ounce to $38.00.
There have been several quick
developments following the an
nouncement by Senator Robert
F. Kennedy that he will be a
candidate for the Democrat
tic nomination for President
when the party convention meets
in Chicago. One of these has
been revelation that Senator
Kennedy, or a representative of
his, made an offer to President
Johnson, or an administration
representative, that If the Pre
sident would meet certain condi
tions Bobby laid down, that he
would not oppose the President.
Reports are that the Senator
from New York wanted the Pre
sident of the United States to ap
point a special commission, to
study the Vietnam situation,
sending representatives to that
war torn country for “first
hand Information.” The senator
wanted to have a part In nam
ing this commission,- probably
loading It down with “doves,”
and wanted the President to
acknowledge that he was all wr
ong In the way he Is handling
the war.
The senator admits that cer
tain parties made certain sug
gestions but that reports had
been mlsinterpretated. Both the
senator and administration sp
okesmen commented on the mat
ter. And both expressed surprise
that there had been a “leak” of
the news to the press.
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Here Is what happened last
week:
Theodore C. Sorensen, long
time political ally of the Kenne
dy family, conferred with newly
appointed Secretary of Defense,
Clark M. Clifford, and sug
gested a new approach to
the Vietnam problem. (Sena
tor Kennedy has admitted such
• meeting was held.)
Sorensen suggested that con
duct of the war be turned over
to a "blue ribbon” commission.
A spokesman for the adminis
tration says that Secretary of
Defense Clifford relayed the
suggestion of Sorenson to the
President on Thursday and the
President flatly turned It down.
Senator Kennedy says that the
Sorensen matter had nothing to
do with his announcing as a can
didate against the President.
However, he announced the day
after the President had turned
down the idea.
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There are several words In the
dictionary that could be used in
describing Senator Robert F.
Kennedy of New York. The one
we like best is "arrogant.” Mr.
Webster says among other th
ings that “arrogant” is an "of
fensive exhibition of assumed su
periority.” In modern slang "big
head or "bust head.”
It’s hard to Imagine anyone
being such an “egomaniac that
he has the efforenty to seek to
“make a trade” with the Presi
dent of the United States! A trade
coupled with the implied threat
“If you don’t do as I suggest I’ll
run against you.”
Whether one likes Preldent
Johnson or not, he Is the Pre
sident of the United States, and
as such he would be betraying
his duties if he permitted any
one to make the President a pup
pet to be controlled by a string
puller behind the scenes.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Tuesday mostly warm
with scattered showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 75, low today 41, high
Sunday 6«, low Sunday 43. rain
fall Saturday .35 of an Inch; sun
rise Tuesday 6:48, sunset Tues
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George Gaissert reads resolutions to Spalding Republican convention.
GOP To Attempt
Local Primary
Spalding Republicans voted to
attempt to hold a party primary
and to try to get candidates to
run for every office to be filled
in 1968 elections
The proposals were contained
in resolutions adopted at t h e
county’s party convention Satur
day at the Spalding Courthouse.
Troy Mays, elected chairman
of the Spalding GOP, said “two
o three people” already had
expressed an Interest in being
Republican candidates.
"We need three or four more,”
the chairman said.
Mays stepped up to party
chairmanship last year when
Joe Cordell of Griffin resigned
because business affairs would
not permit him to serve.
The convention elected Mays
to continue as the county party
leader.
Some 35 delegates and alterna
tes who attended the convention
indicated in a straw ballot that
they favored Richard Nixon as
the Republican presidential no
minee. Tabulations showed 91
percent of those voting favored
the former vice president. Six
percent favored Gov. Ronald
Reagan of California and three
percent favored Barry Goldwa
ter, Republican presidential can
didate in 1964.
No one marked straw ballots
for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York, Sen. John Tower of
Texas and Sen. Charles Percy
of Illinois.
The straw ballot indicated de
legates thought law and order
should be the most prevalent
issue in 1968 campaigns. They
put the Vietnam war in the
number two place
Fiscal responsibility was rat
ed the third most Important Is
sue and the Pueblo incident the
fourth.
Asked if Republicans should
oppose Sen. Herman Talmadge
this year, 73 percent said yes
and 27 no.
The convention was divided as
to whether delegates to the na
tional convention at Miami shou
ld be pledged. Fifty-four percent
thought they should and 46 thou
ght they shouldn’t.
The resolutions were presen
ted by George Gaissert, former
county commissioner and for
mer state representative. He
was chairman of the resolu
tions committee.
The resolutions specifically
said Republicans should be sou
ght as candidates for county
commissioner, sheriff, ordinary,
coroner, tax commissioner, cl
erk of court, and legislative
seats.
Although primaries are not
held for city commissioners, sc
hool board members and justi
ces of the peace, the party ur
ged that people supporting Re
publican views should be back
ed in these elections.
The resolutions called for the
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Dollar Makes Comeback;
Speculators Scramble
party to back the presidential
nominee, selected in Miami.
This caused Henry Neel of Grif
fin to be the only person to vote
against the resolutions. He told
the convention he could not back
Rockefeller, should he be the
nominee.
Neel later also told delegates
he didn’t think Sen. Talmadge
should be opposed by a Republi
can candidate. He said that the
Georgia junior senator would
be hard to beat and pointed out
that many times he had voted
the conservative point of view.
Besides electing Mays, chair
man, other officers named were:
Ralph Dougherty, vice chair
man; Mrs. George Gaissert, vice
chairwoman; Miss Helen Kent,
secretary; and Frank Stovall,
treasurer.
Elected delegates to the district
convention In Macon April 20
were Mays, Stovall, Dougherty,
and Ivan Taylor. Alternates will
be Mrs. Betty Taylor, Mrs.
Mary Gaissert, Charles Neel
and Brack Pound.
Elected delegates to state
convention were Joe Cordell, Sto
vall, Mays and Dougherty. Al
ternates will be Mrs. Grace Dou
gherty, Ivan Taylor, Mrs. Betty
Stovall and Mrs. Betty Taylor.
Dougherty, who served as
chairman of the convention, said
it was a "sad day” when:
— The United States was in
volved in four wars in his life
time — all under Democratic
administrations.
—When the U. S. dollar had
shrunk to about 25 percent of its
value
—When law and order had
broken down across the nation.
—When the Georgia General
Assembly voted against a re
solution that would have allow
ed the people to elect a gover
nor instead of having the issue
decided by the legislature.
He called on party members
to call themselves Republicans
and not conservatives. He said
there were many “phonies” who
call themselves conservatives
when they are not.
The former governor of Ala
bama (George Wallace) is a
“phony” conservative, Dough
erty asserted. He said the for
mer governor was more socialis
tic than conservative.
He said Gov. Lester Maddox of
Georgia is the most socialistic
governor the state ever has
had.
Many Democrats call them
selves conservatives, Dougher
ty said. But he said "you can’t
be a conservative and a Demo
cat.”
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, March 18, 1968
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Chairman Mays reads re
sults of straw vote.
GEA President
Recalls Days
In Griffin
Dr. Alton A. Ellis, associate
superintendent of the Clarke Co
unty School System in Athens,
who assumed the presidency of
the Georgia Education Associa
tion on Saturday was a former
paper carrier for the Griffin Da
ily News in his younger days.
Dr. Ellis made his home in
Griffin for 15 years, graduating
from Griffin High School in 1932
as an honor graduate Dr. Ellis
remembers Griffin High School
and its faculty as being “very
outstanding in those days.” J.
H. West was principal and the
city schools were Independent
at that time. He recalls the qua
lity of teaching here as being the
highest and feels he was well
prepared for his entering college
because of it. "Living in Griffin
is not difficult to remember”,
Dr. Ellis recalled.
The new OEA president has
two aunts, Mrs. J. B. Poteet, Sr.
and Mrs. W. C. Butler, who
make their home in Griffin on
West Poplar street. John C. West
a member of the Griffin-Spald
ing Board of Education and T.
W. Allen of Griffin are cousins
of Dr. Ellis.
Dr. Baird To Be
Honored Tuesday
Dr. D. M. (Mac) Baird will be
honored as Griffin’s Man of the
Year for 1967, at the meeting of
(he Exchange Club of Griffin
Tuesday noon. He will be pre
sented with the Book of Golden
Deeds and the National Exchan
ge Club’s emblem as a leader in
civic affairs.
Civic leaders, state officials,
Griffinites
Injured In
Auto Collision
Three people were Injured in
a two-car collision one and a
half miles north of Griffin at Ge
orgia three and Vineyard road
Sunday morning at 9:15, the Gr
iffin State Patrol said.
The injured were listed as
Dr. J. G. Woodroof, 67, of Po
mona, who suffered lacerations
to his head; Mrs. Woodroof, 67,
who suffered lacerations to her
head and hands; and Mrs. Gra
cella Dougherty, of Route Four,
Griffin, who suffered a cut on
her head.
Dr. Woodroof and Mrs. Dough
tery were listed as drivers of the
cars involved. Damage was es
timated at $2,250.
Mrs. Dougherty is the wife of
Ralph Dougherty, who is an air
lines pilot She was on her way
to Atlanta to visit her daughter
who is a patient at Georgia
Baptist Hospital there. Her dau
ghter, Kathy, was on the Grif
fin High basketball team.
Dr. Woodroof is former head
of the Food Science Division of
the University of Georgia and
former head of the Food Science
Department at Georgia Experi
ment Station.
Country Parson
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“That you agree with a
man’s cause doesn’t mean
you must approve everything
he does.”
Vol. 96 Ho. 66
Tot Os People
Have Been Hurt’
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
LONDON (UPD—The hard
pressed dollar staged a strong
comeback on European markets
today as result of the weekend
crisis talks In Washington. Gold
Gold Price In
Paris Drops
PARIS (UPD—The price of
gold dropped sharply on the
Paris bullion market today—the
first decrease since speculators
began a buying spree that
threatened the world’s money
system and the American
dollar.
Gold, which reached $44.36 an
ounce on Friday, slipped to
$40.01 today. The official price,
maintained unchanged by the
Washington central banks con
ference this weekend, is $35 an
ounce.
former Men of the Year and
their wives, and a list of special
guests, furnished the club by the
honoree, will be present.
Bob Scroggins, president of
Exchange, who himself was re
cently elected' “Young Man of
1967” by the Griffin Junior
Chamber of Commerce will pre
side.
Dr. O. M. Sell, head of the De
partment of Animal Science at
the Georgia Experiment Station,
the department with which Dr.
Baird is associated, will be the
principal speaker. He will tell of
Dr. Baird’s contribution to the
community.
Dr. Baird is the 14th man to
be named to the Exchange ho
nor list. The Man of the Year
project began in 1954 with the
selection of Quimby Melton, Sr.
Since then the award has gone
to the late L. W. Blackwelder,
tlie late Dr. K. S. Hunt, Prof. J.
R. Berry, Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Robert P. Shapard, Jr., J. M.
Cheatham, C. T. Parker, Arthur
K. Bolton, the late George Pat
rick, Jr., J. C. Owen, Jr., War
ren Haisten and Bill Ramsey.
Safety Belt
BELLEVUE, Mich. (UPD—
Police Chief Paul Sadoskl
“buckled up for safety” when
he went out on patrol. It was a
good thing he did.
He curbed a car for a traffic
violation and one of the
occupants fired a gun at him.
“It didn’t hurt me,” Sadoskl
said. “The shot hit me in the
(safety) belt buckle.”
Speculators Shut Out In
Switch To 2 - Price Gold
By JAMES L. RODES
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
United States hoped today to
maintain the purchasing power
of the dollar at a stable level at
home and abroad although its
ties to gold were partially cut.
Shifting to the defensive
against those who have attacked
the dollar, America and her six
European financial allies have
locked their vaults to further
sales of gold to speculators or
other private interests and, in
effect, switched to a two-price
system for gold.
By agreement, the price will
remain at $35 an ounce in
transaction among cooperating
governments. But gold will be
permitted to seek its own price
in the private markets of
Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Speculators bid the price up to
more than $44 an ounce last
speculators took a heavy
beating In Pals and Zurich.
“This Is a good day for the
dollar,” one Paris dealer
commented. “A lot of people
will have been hurt.”
Britain took the heat off the
American greenback, closing
the gold market for two weeks
to give the dollar a respite from
new onslaughts by gold specula
tors.
The overheated London gold
market, scene of a wild
stampede for the metal last
week, was ordered to remain
closed until April 1 in the wake
of Sunday’s agreement by
cental bankers in Washington
to set up a two-price system to
help both the dollar and the
pound.
When it reopens it will be
strictly for business between
private speculators only. The
United Sates and its six
international gold pool partners
agreed not to feed it any longer
with metal from their reserves.
Intended Effect
The agreement and the two
weeks’ closure of the market
appeared to have the intended
effect. Both the dollar and the
pound suged back, the pound
regaining it $2.40 level.
In Paris, where the much
smaller gold market remained
open, the price of gold slumped
and speculators began a new
rush —to unload the gold they
panicked to buy at inflated
prices last Friday.
Speculators got their comeup
pance in Zurich too. Bankers at
first bought gold from them at
$43 an ounce, compared with
the official price of $35. But
speculators scambled to unload
and the price tumbled fast to
S3B.
Griffin Girl
Will Be In
‘Miss Georgia’
Miss Hedy White, sophomore
at Middle Georgia College, was
crowned “Miss Middle Georgia”
at Hawkinsville Saturday night.
She will represent that area of
the state in the “Miss Georgia”
contest at Columbus this year.
Miss White, a graduate of Grif
fin High School, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. White of
George circle, Griffin.
She was named college home
coming queen and has been ac
tive in many campus activities.
She was homecoming queen at
Griffin High when she was a se
nior.
Friday In Paris; it could go still
higher today.
But despite the "unofficial”
price of gold, the seven—which
include the leading money
powers of Europe except for
France—pledged to "cooperate
fully to maintain the existing
parities” in foreign exchange.
That is, they agreed to maintain
the value of the dollar in terms
of British pounds’ and other
currencies.
The new arrangement, which
spelled the end of the ‘‘gold
pool,” was announced Sunday
night following two days of
emergency meetings here by
the monetary authorities of the
seven nations.
At the same time, Britain
agreed to keep the London gold
market—largest in the world
closed until April 1, though
banks and stock exchanges in
Troop Build-Up
May Mean Call
For Reserves
By DARRELL GARWOOD
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
"moderate” troop build-up in
Vietnam expected to be ordered
soon by President Johnson has
raised the strong possibility that
some Reserve forces will be
called to active duty.
The anticipated troop build-up
also could mean that some Air
National Guard units will be
sent to Vietnam or Thailand,
according to highly informed
sources.
Although the increase in
manpower is now virtually
certain, it does not appear, at
least at present, that Johnson
will call for a general mobiliza
tion of Reserve forces.
The President was reliably
reported over the weekend
ready to order a moderate
increase in the number of
American troops in Vietnam,
but they quoted him as calling
some reports of a possible
200,000 man increase as "dove
scare tactics."
The sources said the increase
would be higher than the
presently authorized 525,000
man level, which will be
reached within a month. But
other sources said Johnson may
be thinking in terms of an
increase of only about 10,000
men.
Speculation immediately
pointed towards the 82nd
Airborne, stationed at Ft.
Bragg, N C., which still has
about that number of men
available. About 4,500 Airborne
personnel were airlifted to
Vietnam after the start of the
Communists’ Lunar New Year
offensive on Jan. 29.
The reason the two remaining
82nd Brigades at Ft. Bragg
seem most likely to be sent is
that Gen. William C. Westmore
land, commander of American
troops in Vietnam, is known to
want seasoned combat troops
from major units. He is
reported to have specifically
mentioned the 82nd.
But it is argued in some
military quarters that sending
the rest of the 82nd to Vietnam
would leave the United States
without a major paratrooper
unit for use in possible
emergencies at home. The
paratroopers were used last
summer to help quell the
Detroit riot.
The 101st Airborne Division,
the nation’s only other paratroo
per outfit, is already in
Vietnam. Formation of a new
airborne division would take
several months.
Other possible sources of
man power for any Vietnam
build-up include the Ist and 2nd
Armored Divisions at Ft. Hood,
Tex.; the sth Mechanized
Division at Ft Carson, Colo.;
the 6th Armored Brigade at Ft.
Meade, Md.; or a brigade from
Ft. Ord, Calif.
the United Kingdom are to open
today.
The action of the seven
members of the now-defunct
gold pool provided the United
States and Britain with what
amounted to a breathing spell
to set their fiscal houses in
order In the case of Britain,
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
planned to present a new save
the-pound austerity budget to
Parliament Tuesday.
A similar move, to cut
expenditures and increase
taxes, appeared to be already
under way in Washington. Pres
ident Johnson chose the first
day of the gold pool meeting
here to disclose that he had
offered a new proposal for
cutting government spending in
an attempt to get his long
stalled 10 per cent income tax
Increase through Congress.