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Griffin Daily News
At Khe Sanh Fortress
Marines Keep Quiet
About Minor Wounds
By NAT GIBSON
KHE SANK, Vietnam (UPD—
U.S. Marines at the heavily
bombarded Khe Sanh fortress
often keep quiet about minor
wounds, avoiding medical atten
tion and the Purple Heart that ,
goes with it.
Most of the non-reported
wounds are minor shrapnel
injuries known as “dings.”
Some are more serious. One
Marine, for instance, used his
own penknife to carve a hunk of
steel from his leg.
It was the Marine’s third
wound since arriving in South
Vietnam and he wanted to stay
with his buddles at the
surrounded outpost. This feeling
coupled with a desire not to
worry families back home seem
to be the main motivating
factors behind the Marines’ ,
recluctance to report wounds.
Under Marine regulations, a
man’s family is informed each
time he is hurt. After three
battle injuries, he is automati
cally rotated back to the states.
Khe Sanh’s commander, Col.
David Lownds, 47, of Plantation,
Fla., said he has heard reports
of his men resorting to self
treatment, but believes the
practice was not widespread.
Men in the line tell a different
story.
“I have heard a lot of guys
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SPECIAL TAX NOTICE
APRIL IST is the deadline for filing your 1968 PRO
PERTY TAX RETURN and claiming your HOME
STEAD EXEMPTION.
HOMEOWNERS who moved into their homes during
1967 must file application for homestead exemption
by April Ist in order to qualify for Homestead Ex
emption under the Georgia Homestead Exemption
Act.
Please come in as early as possible to avoid the last
minute rush.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO
HOMEOWNERS OVER 65
Homeowners over 65 years of age, with income of
$3,000.00 or less. If your gross income from all
sources (which includes Social Security, retirement,
property sales, gifts, interest and all other sources) is
$3,000.00 or less for the year 1967 and you have
title to your home you are eligible for a $4,000.00
Homestead exemption. The State requires that appli
cation forms for this special exemption be filled out
each year. Failure to claim this exemption each year
and sign the State Application form by April Ist will
Disqualify you for this exemption. If you are eligible
for the Special Exemption please come by the office
by April Ist and sign the State Application form.
Please give this your prompt attention in order to
avoid your having to stand in long lines the last week
in March in order to meet the State deadline of April
Ist.
Ruby C. Hill
Tax Commissioner, Spalding County, Georgia
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Tuesday, March 19, 1968
doing it,” said S. Sgt. Bryson
Allen, 26, of Wichita, Kan. “If
they have a major wound, they
go to the medics, but not for
any of these petty things.”
Allen should know. Since the
siege began on Jan. 21, he has
been hit by shrapnel three
times but reported none of his
injuries to the medics.
“They were nothing but
scratches and I do not want a
Purple Heart,” he said. “They
can give me any medal they
want, but I can do without a
Purple Teart.”
About Town
KIWANIS CLUB
Senator Robert H. Smalley will
present a resume of the 1968 Ge
orgia General Assembly at the
regular meeting of the Griffin
Kiwanis Club on Wednesday, at
12:15 pm. at the Elks Club.
BARBECUE
The Griffin BPW Club will
sponsor a barbecue Saturday,
March 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at
the Rurbal Urban Center. Home
made pies, cakes and candy will
be sold. Tickets may be purchas
ed from any member of the
club or at the door.
DE Students
Attend State
Leadership Meet
Griffin High Distributive Edu
cation students are attending
the annual state leadership con
ference of the Georgia Associa
tion Distributive Education Clubs
of America at the Biltmore Ho
tel in Atlanta March 17-19.
The conference is bringing to
gether the local and district win
ners of the various DECA con
tests. These students are com
peting for state honors and the
opportunity to try for national
contests.
Griffin winners participating
in the state finals include: Jan
ice Anderson, business spelling;
Dawn Conner, business speech;
Floria Coogle, window display;
Ted Tinley, job interview; John
Davis,, advertising; and Chip
Perdue, sales demonstration.
Chip Perdue was selected as
the district representative; Mar
garet Sorrells, reporter of the
year; Kay Adams, student of
the year; and Tony Kelley, stu
dent. of the year. John Davis is
campaigning for the 1968-69 DE
CA president.
James Langford, campaign
manager for Davis, and Morgan
Harvill, two Griffin High stu
dents, are attending the meeting
as voting delegates.
John Lovin is the DE coordi
nator at Griffin High and is at
tending the conference with the
students.
Kindergarten Plans
Registration Day
Registration for the four and
five - year olds entering the
Hampton Methodist Kindergar
ten for the 1968-69 term will be
held on Wednesday, March 27 in
the Fellowship Hall of the chur
ch, beginning at 8:30 a.m. until
12:30 p.m.
Working parents should regis
ter their children from 3 to 6
p.m..
The sergeant said the criteria
for Purple Hearts should be
raised. Presenting them to men
with minor wounds diminished
their significance, he said.
Another Marine, who declined
to be identified because his
parents think he is stationed in
Da Nang, said he did not report
his wound because he wanted to
stay in Khe Sanh and feared the
medics would want to evacuate
him.
“I have a lot of good friends
here,” he said. “I want to see it
through to the end with them.”
Guidelines
Now Applied
Over Nation
WASHINGTON (UPD—
School desegregation “guide
lines,” previously aimed only at
the South, now are to be applied
by the federal government to
the entire nation, especially the
North and West.
The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare an
nounced Monday that it was
scrapping the antidiscrimination
guidelines, or standards, creat
ed in 1965 to speed desegrega
tion of schools in 17 Southern
and border states and adopted a
new policy requiring equal
enforcement in all states.
The new policy statement,
which goes into effect next fall,
has already gone to the 50 state
capitals for distribution among
officials of the nation’s 20,000
school systems.
“There isn't any question in
my mind that school systems in
the North and West are not in
compliance with these policies,”
said F. Peter Libassi, the
assistant HEW secretary in
charge of civil rights programs.
Stork Club
LITTLE MISS ELLIOTT
Mr. and Mrs. Fed Douglas El
liott of 728 South Eighth street,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
daughter on March 18 at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal.
TAYLOR TWINS
Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon Taylor
of 228 North 15th street, Griffin,
announce the birth of a son and
daughter on March 19 at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal.
Griffinites
Attend State
Moose Meeting
A number of Griffinites attend
ed the Mid-Winter conference of
the Georgia Moose Association
in Athens during the weekend.
The delegation was headed by
Joe Akin, president of the state
association; and Roger Bevil, se
cretary and treasurer, both Grif
finites.
Others attending were Mrs.
Joe Akin, Mrs. Roger Bevil, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Cecil, Mr. and
Mrs. James Chappell, Ray Ro
binson, Mrs. Lillie Dell Maddox,
Ben Hoard, Mrs. Bonnelle Br
own, Mike Shackelford, Mrs. Da
vid Dotson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Coker, Ben Saul, Tom Carson,
Dr. and Mrs. Leroy Harris, Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Staple, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Crawford, Mrs.
Shirah Shelley, George Imes,
Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Mack Durham,
John W. Nixon, Royce Sang
ster, Mrs. Betty Taylor and Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Chalkley.
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G. R. Robinson, Mgr.
Worsham New
Manager Os
Flint River PCA
Grover Worsham, Jr., has been
named general manager and se
cretary-treasurer of the Flint
River Production Credit Asso
ciation, according to President
Hubert Hancock. Harold D. Fal
lin has been named assistant
general manager to succeed Wor
sham. The vacancy in the of
fice was created by the death of
Rhodes Murphy.
Mr. Worsham is a native of
Lamar County and attended sc
hool in Forsyth before attending
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College at Tifton.
He previously was engaged in
dairying near Culloden before
joining the PCA in 1952.
The new PCA general manager
is a member of the official board
of the First Methodist Church
and a captain in the Georgia Na
tional Guard having formerly
been commanding officer of the
Thomaston unit.
His wife is the former June
Deavours, a teacher at R. E.
Lee, and they have two child
ren, Wayne, six, and Wanda, se
ven. The Worshams own their
home at 107 Woodlawn place,
Thomaston.
Farmer-owned, the association
serves Butts, Clayton, DeKalb,
Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Lamar,.
Monroe, Pike, Spalding, Taylor
and Upson counties with the
home office in Thomaston and a
branch office in Jonesboro.
Girl Scout
Troop 46 Has
Camping Trip
The Junior Girl Scouts of
Troop 46 spent the weekend at
Camp Cecil Jackson. The girls
enjoyed hikes, cooking out of
doors, games, dancing and story
telling.
Girls making the trip were:
Daye Vining, Joan Childres, Ro
chelle Triplett, Diane Boggs,
Debbie Hembree, Kim Stinch
comb, Colleen Butler, Lona Mob
ley, Donna Mclntyre, Katrina
Dixon, Donna Norton and Em
ily Corley. The leaders, Mrs.
Adelia Dixon and Mrs. Dorothy
Stinchcomb accompanied the
girls.
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New Manager
Calvin Dixson (1) accepts keys to Grant’s store from
George Dixon who has been transferred to Grant
City at Charleston, S. C. where he will be operations
manager. Dixson became manager of the Griffin
store Monday. He and his wife will move here soon
from Atlanta.
Hospital
The following were admitted
to the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital Monday:
Mrs. Ruth Allen, Henry Bray,
Mrs. Gloria Elliott, Mrs. Claris
Ison, Mrs. Imogene Lewis, Mrs.
Adell Gant, Mrs. Annie Greer,
Mrs. Betty McPherson, Mrs. Eli
zabeth Clark, Lester Collier, J.
E. Landers, Mrs Emma Man
gham, Eddie Kinard, Michael
Smith, Kevin Jones, Ben Sher
man, Mrs. Hattie Holmes, Mrs.
Annie Nix, Alford Long, Johnny
Fox, Terrance Mullins, Mrs. Wil
lie Taylor.
The following were dismissed:
Mrs. Jo Anne Hollingsworth,
Mrs. Lucille Washington, Lonnie
Mitchell, Chandler Barnes, Mrs.
Brenda Preston and baby, Mrs.
Helen White, Mrs. Virginia Gass
es and baby, Sam Ridley, Jam
es Grant, Jonah Phillips, Mart
ness Mitchell, Joseph Allen, Mar
vin Stephens.
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It could be a great summer.
Mrs. Cotton
Dies In Atlanta
DECATUR — Mrs. Avalyene i
Smiley Cotton of Griffin died un- I
expectedly of a heart attack at
the home of a relative in Deva
tur Monday where she was visit
ing.
Mrs. Cotton lives at the Grif
fin Hotel and was vice president
of Carpets of Georgia. She was
the widow of William A. Cotton.
Besides nieces, her only survi
vor is a sister, Miss Nell Smiley
of Atlanta.
Funeral services will be at the
graveside Wednesday at West
View in Atlanta at 11 a.m. Tur
net’s Funeral Home of North
Decatur road, Decatur, is in
charge of arrangements.
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New Trial
Ordered For
Lamar Negro
The U. S. Supreme Court Mon.
day overturned the murder con*
victlon of a Lamar County Ne*
gro.
The court reversed the convic
tion of Julius Sullivan on grounds
that the jury which tried him
was choosen from a segregated
tax digest.
Sullivan was found guilty of the
murder of Phillip Jackson in
1967 and was sentenced to death.