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By Quimby Melton
With Presidential primaries be
ing held, with party conventions
coming up soon, and with the
National election "just around
the corner” folks are interested
in the campaigns, the issues, the
candidates, and news concern
ing them.
With this in mind Good Even
ing has dug out some interest
ing things about our Presidents
and their wives that may be of
interest. Many of these little kn
own things are found in the Rea
der’s Digest Almanac for 1967.
When Thomas Jefferson was
President, the official dining
table was circular so that all
seats were of equal importance.
During General Lafayette’s vi
sit to the United States in t h e
summer of 1825, he left his live
pet alligator in the East Room of
the White House.
On Washington’s birthday, 1837
President Andrew Jackson, kn
own as "The People’s President”
provided for his guests a giant
cheese, weighing 1,400 pounds
end being 4 feet by 2 feet.
John Tyler was the first Pre
sident to marry while in office.
His bride, Julia Gardiner, estab
lished the custom of playing
"Hail of the Chief” whenever
the President appeared at a pub
lic gathering.
Sara Polk was private secre
tary to her husband.
Abigail Fillmore established
the first library in the White
House.
When the Prince of Wales (la
ter King Edward VII) visited the
White House, President Buchan
an slept in the hallway and tur
ned his bedroom over to the
Visitor.
President Grant, had the sm
all stables at the White House
enlarged and bought many hunt
ing and racing horses.
The wife of President Ruther
ford Hayes was the first wife of
a President with a college edu
cation.
President Hayes was the fir
st President to visit the west
ern states going all the way to
the Pacific coast.
A secret operation was perfor
' med on President Cleveland on
i a vessel out in the Chespeak Bay
to remove a cancerous growth
in his throat. The secret was
i well kept and little known until
after he ended his second term.
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt,
who won fame as a cavalryman
in the Spanish-American War,
I often slipped out of the White
j House, saddled a horse and
[ dashed through the gates in an
effort to get away from the se
curity guard organized to pro
tect him, following the assassi
nation of President McKinley.
President William Howard Taft
weighed 332 pounds at his inau
! guration and got stuck in t h e
I White House tub his first night
| after being sworn in. A new
f king-sized tub was built, large
I enough to comfortably hold four
average sized men.
President Woodrow Wilson,
; during World War One, had a
flock of sheep grazing on the
‘White House lawn.
President Harding one sum
mer went on a crash diet to
lose weight and for a month ate
nothing at lunch but a slice of
watermelon.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn
Into office by his father, Colonel
John Collldge, a notary public,
in the middle of the night, after
being notified of the death of
President Harding.
Franklin D. Roosevelt intro
duced the radio "Fireside Chat”
as away to keep in touch with
the people.
President Truman awoke ev
ery morning at 5:30 a.m. and
went for a brisk walk. His im
promptue press conferences dur
ing these walks provided plen
ty of good copy for reporters en
terprising enough to get up at
this early hour.
President Eisenhower intro
duced two innovations in his pr
ess conferences — he allowed
T-V cameras and he allowed re
porters to directly quote him.
President Kennedy was the
first Preident to arrange lunch
eon meetings, state by state, to
which newsmen from those sta
tes were Invited. (Good Even
ing was fortunate enough to at
tend one of these shortly after
the program was started.)
INSIDE TODAY
Ray Cromley. Page 2.
Washington Window. Page 2.
Commentary. Page 2.
Woman’s Page. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Sports. Pages 6. 7.
War. Page 8.
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Gloria Coogle (1) and Janice Anderson show trophies they won at State DE
Leadership Conference.
Woods Fire
Threat To
Camp Thunder
The Flint River Council Boy
Scout camp, Camp Thunder, was
threatened by a woods fire Tues
day night. It started in Upson
County Tuesday morning.
The Spalding County Forestry
Commission sent its first truck
to answer the call at 10:45 a.m.
Four units from Griffin, two
units from Upson and three un
its from Coweta were called in
to help extinguish the fire which
burned approximately 80 acres.
The fire was within three qu
arters of a mile of Camp
Thunder. Tractors and earth
movers were used by the rang
ers to cut fire brakes, to help
bring the fire under control
Tuesday night about 7:30 p.m.
Explorer Post One of Griffin
was among the volunteers from
Spalding, Upson and Coweta who
went to Camp Thunder to as
sist the rangers.
The rangers were called to
another woods fire in Upson ab
out 3:45 p.m. Approximately 15
acres were burned. Also a woods
fire in Concord and one on the
Ellis Vaughn road were report
ed. The Butts County unit was
called in, as the Spalding and
Upson Units were busy in Up
son County.
No Money This Year
Spalding Keeps Trying
For Water Line Money
Spalding County will not get a
federal loan or grant for water
lines during the current 1967-68
fiscal year.
It plans to submit a new re
quest in hopes of getting an ear
ly appropriation when the new
federal fiscal year begins in
July.
Jack Moss, chairman of the
Spalding County Commissioners,
said the new request would be
for some $600,000 for about 25
miles of water lines in heavily
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Rights Bill. Page 8.
Politics. Page 10.
Elks Bank Check. Page 10.
Kidnap. Page 10.
Georgia News. Page 11.
Two Arrested. Page 14.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Maddox Probe. Page 20.
Truman. Page 20.
DeGaulle. Page 20.
Embezzling. Page 20.
Griffin High DE
Wins Trophies
The Griffin High Dsitributive
Education Club Drought home a
number of trophies and other
honors from the State Leader
ship Conference held in Atlanta
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Gloria Coogle won first place
in display. She was presented a
trophy and a SIOO cash prize.
She will go to Houston, Tex., to
compete for national honors in
May.
Janice Anderson won third pl
ace in the state business spell
ing-vocabulary competition.
Tony Kelley and Kay Adams
received Sears-Roebuck Foun
dation awards for being Griffin
High’s outstanding boy and girl
DE students.
The Griffin club was rated
among the top in the state.
The club brought home three
trophies, two plaques, two me
dals, five ribbons and $125 cash.
Also attending the convention
were John Davis, Ted Tlnley,
Chip Perdue, Dawn Conner, Ca
meron Smoak, Morgan Harvill
and James Langford.
The students were accompan
ied by Johnny Lovin, teacher
coordinator of the Distributive
Education program at Griffin
High.
populated county areas.
The request made last year
out 70 miles of lines.
Chairman Moss said the com
missioners would approach the
county water lines in several
phases instead of one big pro
ject as it attempted last year.
The county feels It may get
more favorable consideration for
a smaller request by federal
officials.
Making the smaller request
does not mean the county will
Griffin, Go., 30223, Wednesday, March 20, 1968
108 Dwellings Found
Unfit For Habitation
Earth - Mover
Overturns;
Driver Hurt
J. D. Stewart of Route One,
Griffin, suffered a dislocated
shoulder and bruises Tuesday
when an earth-moving machine
he was operating overturned
near the Griffin city limit on the
North Erpressway.
Stewart was admitted to the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal for relocation of the shoulder.
He operates the machine for
earth-moving contractor Glenn
M. Cox, also of Route One, Grif
fin.
Cox said Stewart pulled the
machine too close to the edge
of a pile of dirt and it skidded
sideways and turned over on its
side. Stewart was injured when
he tried to jump from the mach
ine.
He was moving dirt on the lo
cation of the new Ranch House
Restaurant near the north city
limit.
give up on the original 70-mile
water line project, Moss said.
He said the county now has in
mind seeking to cover the same
was for some $1.3 million for ab
ground in three steps instead of
one.
Ike Wheeless, head of the Fe
deral Housing Administration of
fice which serves Spalding Co
unty, handled the federal appli
cation for the water lines money.
He has told the Spalding Com
missioners that all money for
such loans and grants for this
Owners Told To
Meet Standards
More than 100 houses have
been condemned as unfit for ha
bitation since the city began its
war on slums a month ago and
officials expect the number to
increase in the next few weeks.
Harold Buckalew, building in
spector, this week started con
demnation proceedings against
19 more units.
Property owners were told to
make necessary repairs to their
dwellings or face legal action.
“We have surveyed 116 units,
and condemnation proceedings
are under way against 108.
“These owners have been no.
tified to bring their property up
to city requirements within 60
days or face legal action,” Buck
alew said.
“Most owners are cooperating.
We have issued several build
ing permits for bath rooms and
for tying onto city sewer lines.
“We feel many owners will
repair their property. However,
we expect many sub-standard
houses to be torn down rather
than repaired,” Buckalew said.
Although Buckalew said most
property owners are cooperating
with the drive, some are object
ing. However, the complaints
are few.
Mr. Buckalew is also continu
ing to notify tennants of their res
ponsibility.
“I told one tennant Tuesday
that she must clean up her
yard and house or legal action
will be taken against her,” Bu
ckalew said.
A city spokesman said several
Griffinites were continuing to st
udy the possibility of construc
ting low rental units.
City officials expect some fam
ilities to be displaced by the war
on slums.
Mayor Kimsey Stewart and
other officials are concerned
over this possibility,
Mr. Buckalew said the city
could use 100 new low rent un
its now.
Country Parson
“Your church doesn’t need
enlarging — its influence
does.”
present fiscal year has been us
ed. There is no chance of Spal
ding’s loan and grant being ap
proved this year, Mr. Wheeless
said.
The Spalding application was
reviewed’several times this year
by federal officials and several
conferences were held on the
proposal.
Federal officials said the Spal
ding proposal had several points
that made it unique as far as
money for water lines was con-
I cerned.
Vol. 96 No. 68
South Georgia
Farmers Plan
More Hog Kills
BLACKSHEAR, Ga. (UPI) —
Angry South Georgia farmers
hoped to drive up hog nrices
with another mass livestock
execution today, a gory demon
stration likened by one protest
leader to the Korean battle of
Pork Chop Hill.
Farmers in Brooks County,
about 100 miles southwest of
here, shot more than 100 hogs
to death and buried them in
trenches Tuesday because of the
poor market for porkers.
"As any farmer can tell you,
his stock and his crop are two
of the most important things in
his life,” said Dwayne Carden,
chairman of the Brooks County
National Farm Organization
(NFO). "If he destroys them,
you know then something is
wrong.
“It took the same guts to bury
these hogs as it did to raise the
flag on lowa Jima and to en
gage in the battle of Pork Chop
Hill in North Korea.”
Carden, a dirt farmer who
bought a hog so he would have
one to kill, said the demonstra
tion here today would follow
the same pattern as Tuesday’s
slaying near Quitman. He esti
mated nearly $7,000 worth of
hogs were destroyed.
Georgia Agriculture Commis
sioner Phil Campbell doubted
that the pig slaying would solve
the price problem, saying, "It
dramatizes the situation, but it
seems to offer no solution.”
“The reason for this demon
stration is to show the American
people the situation that sur
rounds the farm today,” said
Carden, who raises cotton, to
bacco and peanuts. "Our cost of
production is continuing to in
crease, while our prices seem to
decrease.
"Meat packers are very big
and strong and they have
caused one farmer to compete
against the other,” Carden said.
"They’ve used this to keep our
prices down."
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It’s Spring
Griffin High students Rhonda Parrish and Grady Pierce took their books outside
this morning and enjoyed the first day of spring. Spring arrived this morning at
8:22 with the temperature at 62 degrees. The thermometer hit 80 Tuesday for
the first time since Oct. 15.
College Students
Plan Straw Poll
By ESTELLE FORD
ATLANTA (UPI) — A student
leader here predicts young
Southerners are going to sur
prise political observers with
their presidential choices — and
that the nation is going to know
about it.
“The young people are not go
ing to vote for Wallace,” Sam
Williams, 23-year-old Southeast
ern director of Choice ’6B, said.
"They’ll disprove the old ‘status
quo’ pattern in the South.”
Students under 21 will get
their say for the first time in a
“national collegiate presidential
primary” April 24. Williams,
Georgia Tech student body
president, coordinates the pri
mary, called Choice ’6B, in the
Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Al
abama and Mississippi.
Williams insists the nation is
going to sit up and take notice
when more than 90 per cent of
the nation’s students, 70 per
cent of them under the usual
voting age, mark their ballots.
“We are confident we can get
a national television show for
the count,” Williams said. “I
know of two companies we al
ready have lined up that would
sponsor us.” The cost for the
hour-long show alone would be
$300,000.
“People are beginning to real
ize that students are the work
horses of a political campaign,”
the Obion, Tenn., native said,
referring to the Goldwater cam
paign in 1964 and the recent
New Hampshire primary, where
student enthusiasm and bell
ringing helped Sen Eugene
McCarthy land 42 per cent of
the Democratic vote.
Choice ’6B will poll 5% million
students in 2,300 schools, but
Williams predicted traditional
student radicals of both right
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and left will be overshadowed.
“I don’t think there’ll be a
big swing either way” towards
Democrats or Republicans, Wil
liams said. He discounted any
great changes with the candida
cy of New York Sen. Robert
Kennedy.
Choice ’6B is paid for by
Time, Inc., but its directors
work independently.
The ballot contains the names
of 15 candidates, some unan
nounced, who the directors
think will pull at least 5 per
cent of the student vote.
Students will also vote on how
the war in Vietnam should be
pursued, what the United States
should do about bombing North
Vietnam, and how the govern
ment should spend its money to
ease the urban crisis.
Williams said the poll was be
ing taken seriously by students
and older adults as well, and
that the results will focus at
tention on the national drive for
18-year-old voting.
The board of directors met
Feb. 13 with President Johnson,
asking questions about the war
and domestic problems in a 75-
minute session, the longest non
governmental audience the
President has held while in of
fice.
"You can’t run a war by
polls and you can’t run a peace
by polls; but you can’t be ob
livious to public opinion,” John
son told the group.
Would students vote against
the war in Vietnam for fear of
the draft?
“It’s an emotional question,
and college people are thinking
about it a lot more than oth
ers,” Williams said. He predict
ed the vote would be more for
the war than students protests
have indicated.
Spring
Brings
Poem
For first annual Griffin
Daily News spring poem,
see “Chuckling With Ye
Editor” on the editorial
page, 4.