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By Quimby Melton
» Once again the war in Viet
nam has been brought close to
home. Relatives here have re
ceived word that Pfc. Monte
, C. Kinasz has been killed in
action. This 21-year-old Grif
finite, graduated from Griffin
High and then attended college
in Americus. He entered the
Army last May, was sent to
Vietnam last October, and was
killed on March 25, while fight
ing with a tank division. His
• career as a soldier was short
lived—just ten months. In those
ten short months, he attained
full manhood, accepted the re-
. sponsibilities of an American
who was willing to lay down
his life, if needed, to preserve
the things most Americans hold
dear and sacred.
Good Evening extends to his
relatives the sympathy of the
community; and says to them,
• no doubt realizing that he gave
his life, and did not lose his life,
will find comfort and will be
proud of his devotion to the
. land we love.
Sunday is the fifth Sunday In
, Lent—called “Passion Sun
day”. Between now and Easter,
two weeks away, one will read
and hear much about the last
days of The Master on earth, of
• His being the supreme sacrifice
for sinful man, and of His Glor
ious Resurrection. No doubt
there will be many editorials
• and sermons stressing Jesus’
“seven words from the cross”
Including His Prayer, “Father,
forgive them for they know not
» what they do.”
But the Resurrection, the
greatest event in history, did
not end the words of Jesus. Ap
*■ pearing to His disciples, to the
women who loved Him, He told
them among other things:
“Fear Not.” Certainly a war
torn, sin-aursed world needs
that message today.
He told the 11 "Peace be unto
, you." And there can be peace
in one’s heart, even in time of
war and rioting, if one accepts
the Holy Spirit of Jesus and
His Father as their Comforter.
• Why should we not be afraid?
Why should we believe In the
peace that “passeth under
standing”?
« Because Jesus Christ lives,
today as always—lives in the
hearts of all who believe in
Him and accept His blessings.
, And let’s not forget the final
instructions He gave His dis
ciples, instructions that are as
applicable to us today as to
those who accepted Him 20
• centuries ago—“Go into all the
world and preach the Gospel.”
Those instructions are not to
the ministers and the mission-
• aries alone, but to every one
who professes Him as Savior
and Lord.
,— + —
Friday’s paper announced
construction soon would begin
on a 128-bed Nursing Home to
■ be built on Everee and Airport
Road. This nursing home will
meet all Medicare and Medic
aid provisions and will be of
great service to this entire part
• of our state.
The Griffin Medi-Center will
be staffed with trained person
nel, giving employment to some
• 75 persons.
One thing that Good Evening
liked about the announcement
that we are to have such an
t, important facility here is that
Griffin was chosen for its loca
tion by people who live in and
around Griffin. The head of
, Griffin Medi-Center is a long
time resident of nearby Hamp
ton. Associated with him will
be others from Hampton and
Griffin. These people know the
”* many advantages of this part
of Georgia; they also know our
limitations. And weighing them
all, Griffin was chosen.
' This project is no quickly
planned one. For more than
two years the men who first got
the idea have been working
, with the Griffin Area Chamber
of Commerce, city and county
officials and others in the plan
ning.
B This welcomed addition is
another demonstration that
county lines, such as are on
the maps of Spalding and Hen
ry Counties are nothing more
’ than lines drawn by the map
makers. There are no lines be
tween the good people of this
community and the good peo
r pie of neighboring communi
ties, such as Hampton. What is
good for one is good for all.
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DUAL PRESIDENCY exists in Panama where the National Assembly impeached
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to recognize the Assembly’s decision and the National Guard is backing him.
Jordan - Israel
Fighting Brings
Emergency Meeting
By PHILIP L. NEWMAN
United Press International
The U.N. Security Council
called an urgent meeting today
to consider the latest outbreak
of fighting between Jordan and
Israel along a 70-mlle stretch of
their Jordan River Valley
ceasefire line.
The council was to meet at
10:30 a.m. EST.
Jordan and Israel both
requested Friday night that the
council convene on the new
warfare between the Sea of
Galilee and the Dead Sea.
Israeli jets blasted Jordanian
positions in what Israel said
was retaliation for Jordanian
shelling. Hie Israeli government
said Jordanian guns shelled six
civilian settlements in Israel
held terrtory.
The council last Sunday
unanimously approved a resolu
tion condemning Israel for a
March 21 punitive attack on
terrorist bases in Jordan and
deploring the Arab guerrilla
attacks on Israel.
Violent Outbreak
The new violence flared along
the Jordan River, the ceasefire
line established after the June
5-10 Mideast War. It was the
worst since the March 21
outbreak of fighting.
An Israeli spokesman said the
Jordanian shelling began shortly
after four Israeli farmers were
killed and an American worker,
Frederick Rosenfeld, 27, of
Washington, D.C., injured when
their tractor struck a mine near
the Jordanian border.
A Jordanian military commu
nique from Amman said Jordan
Anti - Commie Revolts
Break Out In Vietnam
Man Charged
(
With Murder
In Shooting
A warrant charging Grady \
Pyron of 130 North Second
street with murder in the death
of his wife, Dorothy Pyron of •
1461 Boyd row, was taken Fri
day by her father, Talmus Le
mon of 1461 Boyd row.
Police said Friday that Py- i
ron told them he killed his wife
with two bullet wounds in the
chest and then shot himself in
the chest.
He was treated at the Griffin-
Spalding . County Hospital and
transferred to an Atlanta hos
pital. She was dead on arrival
at the hospital.
Officers called the double
shooting an apparent murder
attempted suicide.
5-STAR WEEKEND
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., March 30*31, 1968 Vol. 96 No. 77
shot down seven Israeli Jets
during attacks on 13 Jordanian
villages. Jordan claimed to have
destroyed 17 tanks, 22 armored
vehicles, seven artillery posi
tions and killed 100 Israeli
soldiers.
Jordan said it lost three men
killed and 18 wounded along
with some armored equipment.
Civilians Shelled
Israeli said it inflicted "da
maging hits” on Jordanian
positions, knocking out at least
one long-range artillery position.
The Israeli communique said
Jordanian guns shelled six
civilian settlements in Israel
held territory 20 miles south of
the Sea of Galilee.
In Washington, U.S. officials
said the United States was
-watching the border conflicts
between Israel and Jordan
“with concern.”
The resolution the Security
Council approved last Sunday
carried a warning that further
violations could bring the
Imposition of sanctions—politi
cal, economic or even military
measures to force compliance—
on Israel which had previously
been condemned for similar
actions.
In Brussels, Foreign Minister
Abba Eban of Israel said his
country’s policy toward the
Arabs was reciprocity—in peace
or in violence.
In Amman, King Hussein
again appealed to King Faisal
of Saudi Arabia to agree to an
emergency Arab summit to
consider unifying against Israel.
Saudi Arabia so far has been
reluctant to attend such a
conference.
By JACK WALSH 1
SAIGON (UPD—Antl-Commu- j
nist rebellions have broken out ,
in guerrilla-controlled sections ,
of South Vietnam’s northern ,
provinces, Amer ic an intel
ligence officers said today.
At Da Nang, largest Ameri
can bastion in the area, the
intelligence officers said revolts 1
against Communist authority 1
have been reported in at least ;
three villages.
Few details of the reported ’
revolt were available as yet.
But the intelligence officers said
the rebellions showed signs of a
“groundswell” among Vietna
mese civilians against the Viet 1
Cong.
In other war developments, 1
U.S. Air Force 852 Stratofor- ]
tresses three times today ■
bombed the North Vietnamese
troops surrounding the marine
fort of Khe Sanh on South .
Vietnam’s northern frontier— ;
just above the embattled area ,
where the rebellions were j
reported.
In North Vietnam, American i
jet pilots Friday flew 106 i
bombing missions and—for the !
first time in six weeks—battled '
Country Parson
iofcS
“The fellow who expects
others to say something nice
about him usually beats
them to it.”
Callaway Mills
Are Sold To
Deering-Milliken
LAGRANGE, Ga. (UPD —Of
ficials of two textile companies
announced the sale of Callaway
Mills. Co. in LaGrange and
Manchester Friday, in a multi
million dollar sale.
Exact amount of the sale to
Deering-Milliken Co. of Spartan
burg, S. C., was not announced.
Fuller E. Callaway Jr., whose
father founded the firm in La-
Grange near the turn of the
century, and Roger Milliken,
whose company purchased the
two mills, which have a com
bined work force of 6,000, re
vealed the transaction.
Russian-built MIG fighters. An
Air Force F4C Phantom piloted
by Col. Wesley D. Kimball, 41,
of Canton, Okla., was credited
with “probably” shooting down
a MIG2I.
Disappears In Clouds
Kimball and his fellow
crewman sent a missile slam
ming into the deltawinged MIG,
fastest used by the Communists
in Vietnam. Pilots watched the
Communist craft spin down out
of sight, streaming smoke. The
MIG disappeared in the clouds
lying over the dogfight area
northeast of Hanoi. It was
presumed shot down.
None of the other MiG’s that
flitted near the American
raiders chose to give battle. No
American planes were touched,
U.S. spokesmen said.
Among the U.S. strike planes
Friday were five FIIIA swing
wing jets. They hit Communist
military targets near the Mu
Gia pass, gateway to the
guerrilla’s Ho Chi Minh supply
trail south. The sixth of the new
superjets that joined the Air
Force combat strikes Monday
was lost Thursday.
Payroll Money
Taken From Safe
$520.58 Taken
During Noon Hour
Payroll money was stolen
from the safe at Crossfield Ice
Co., on West Solomon street
Friday afternoon between noon
and 12:45.
Police said the money, $520.-
28 in cash, was in a green Com
mercial Bank and Trust Co.
bag.
Officers said the safe door
was closed, but that it was not
locked. Bob Crossfield, owner
of the ice company, was in and
out of the office during the time
the money was taken.
Nothing was taken other than
the money, officers said.
Hie safe was described by
officers as the normal type of-
France Stands
Alone In
Money Talks
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
STOCKHOLM (UPD—France
stood in defiant Isolation in the
showdown phase of the Stock
holm monetary talks today. But
conference officials remained
hopeful for agreement without a
French walkout of a revolution
ary plan to create “paper
gold.”
Finance ministers of the
‘group of 10”—the free world’s
10 richest nations—met for the
final day of their two-day
conference on monetary reform.
Represented were the United
States, Great Britain, France,
West Germany, Italy, Belgium,
The Netherlands, Sweden, Cana
da and Japan.
Before them they had a plan
for creating a new form of
manmade money — so-called
“Special Drawing Rights” or
“SDRS” in the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
Ease Shortage
The object was to help
ease a growing worldwide gold
shortage and remove some of
the heat from the U.S. dollar
and the British pound sterling.
But at the opening session
Friday, French Finance Minis
ter Michel Debre refused to
agree unless the others met a
number of French demands
most of them found unaccepta
ble.
Sweden’s economics minister,
Krister Wickman, chairman of
the conference, told newsmen,
“France stands isolated on
several points. However, I see
no danger of the French
delegation walking out before
the conference Is over.”
Crucial Issues
The crucial Issues were these:
—France Instates the United
States and Britain retire their
balance of payments deficits
before the special drawing
rights plan goes Into effect. The
United States, Britain and most
other delegations said the plan
should be launched as soon as
"substantial progress” has been
made In correcting the deficits.
—France wants a clause
included in the agreement that
would enable her to "opt out”
of the plan Is she desires. But
Paris still wants a vote in
running the plan. The United
States takes the line that
anyone wanting a voice in a
corporation must get In on the
ground floor and buy stock.
—France opposes a provision
in the plan that would make
possible “voluntary transfers”
of special drawing rights—that
Is to say, that blocks of the
“paper gold” that a country
does not need Itself could be
transferred to other members
of the plan.
French Filibuster
On Friday the conference first
heard Debre filibuster against
discussion of the SDR project at
all until the nations had
reviewed the whole problem of
world monetary reform.
He found himself in a
minority of one and finally
agreed, though reluctantly, to
discuss tile SDR plan.
fice safe used In businesses.
They said Crossfield was in
and out of the office to wait on
customers purchasing ice.
The thief apparently entered
the office and took the money
while Crossfield was waiting on
a customer, police said.
Drag Race
Collision
Kills Two
By United Press International
A drag race and a high speed
crash In which the victim was
thrown into the side of a house
killed three persons on Georgia
roads in the early weekend
hours.
The state patrol said a drag
race between two cars on U.S.
29 in Fulton County Friday night
ended in a collision and two
deaths. Three others were in
jured.
The victims were identified
as James Edward Stallings, 21,
of Fairbum, a driver, and Mar
tha Ann Hunter, 20, of Union
City, a passenger. Officers said
one of the speeding cars lost
control and hit the other, and
both overturned several times
in the wreck .5 miles west of
Palmetto.
Ronnie Dale Sennell, 21, of
Dallas, lost control on a curve
as he sped along U. S. 278 and
rolled his car several times.
The impact threw him from the
vehicle and into the side of a
house, the Patrol reported. The
crash occurred about 3.3 miles
west of Dallas early Saturday.
Anti - Poverty
Worker’s Wife
Found Shot
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD — Offi
cers today were investigating
the shooting death of Mrs. Jac
queline Lee Colville, 42, wife of
an antipoverty official.
Police said Mrs. Colville’s
body was found Friday with
“numerous” bullet wounds in
the head and chest from a .22
caliber weapon. She was the
wife of Joe Colville, who works
with the Neighborhood Youth
Corps project in the area.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Variable cloudiness
and continued warm through
Sunday. Chance of widely scat
tered showers Sunday after
noon or evening.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
57, maximum Friday 78, mini
mum Friday 59. Sunrise Sunday
6:30 a.m., sunset Sunday 6:59
p.m.
DIT Rumbles
Grow Louder
ATLANTA (UPD — Rumbles
of trouble in the State Depart
ment of Industry and Trade
grew louder today after the de
partment’s research director
walked out of that department
and into another state job.
Department director Louis
Truman huddled behind closed
doors with Gov. Lester Maddox
Friday following the resignation
of Jim Hardy. Maddox discount
ed rumors of staff dissatisfac
tion with Truman, saying the
conference was “just a meet
ing.”
Maddox said after the meet
ing that Hardy would become
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What Did He Do?
Find out on Page Six.
Youth Assembly
Delegates Quiz
Lt. Gov. Smith
By ROBBIE HOLMES
AND LAURA THORNTON
The 23r<j annual YMCA State
Youth Assembly spent Friday ;
in session debating and voting '
on bills. Other activities for
those attending were the gov- ;
ernor’s dinner and reception .
and tours for press delegates. 1
The governor’s dinner and '
reception was held Friday 1
night in the Dinkler-Plaza ball- <
room. Guest speaker was Dr. '
Michael H. Mescon of Georgia
State College in Atlanta. i
He spoke on capitalism and i
free enterprise. Entertainment j
was provided by Ron and Pat- ]
ricia Owens, concert artists.
Press delegates were grant- i
ed a conference Friday with Lt. :
Gov. George T. Smith. Asked '
about Gov. Lester Maddox’s '
statement against the war on
poverty in his speech Thursday, :
Mr. Smith said he does not
agree that the war on poverty
is a war on free enterprise. i
Asked if he thought that
Sens. Eugene McCarthy and :
Robert Kennedy were giving '
aid and comfort to the enemy, i
Mr. Smith said he did. He also .
Demos Set Fees,
Qualifying Dates
The Spalding County Demo
cratic Executive Committee to
day set Sept. 11, as the date of
the county primary. This is the
same date for the state pri
mary.
Candidates for county offices
may qualify between May 16
and June 7 at noon.
The committee set the follow
ing fees for candidates: Clerk
of Superior Court SSOO, Sheriff
SSOO, Ordinary SSOO, County
Commissioner S4OO, Tax Com-
executive director of the gov
ernor’s new citizens’ commis
sion to investigate Georgia pri
sons.
“I can’t work under a mili
tary regime," Hardy said just
after resigning his Job. He ac
cused Truman of muzzling de
partment members to keep
them from talking to the press.
Truman, who denied that any
more than "one or two” per
sons were dissatisfied with
their positions. "They are
happy,” Truman said of his
staff, while admitting that any
efforts to talk to the press had
to be cleared by him.
said, however, that he feels
that one can respect Sen. Me-
Carthy even If one does not
agree with him on the war in
Vietnam.
Later in the day, press dele
gates were taken on tours of
Atlanta news media. One group
toured White Columns, home of
WSB-TV and radio. The others
toured the Atlanta Journal and
Constitution building and
WQXI-TV.
Those who went to WQXI-TV
appeared on the station’s after
noon movie program. Griffin’s
press delegates were on the
program.
Youth Atty. Gen. Steve Du
gan of Ft. Valley flew to Wash
ington Friday in connection
with his suit against the U.S.
Government.
Dugan has filed suit against
for damages incurred during
the Civil War which he says
was unconstitutional on the part
of the U.S. He sued for sl.
While in Washington, he
spoke with Rep. Fletcher
Thompson of Georgia who has
sent word of the suit to U.S.
Atty. Gen . Ramsey Clark.
missloner SSOO, Judge of City
Court SSOO, Coroner SSO, Jus
tices of the Peace and consta
bles $25.
These fees are the same as
those set for the last Democra
tic County primary.
The committee voted, how
ever, not to make any refunds,
should more than one candi
date qualify for an office. In
previous years, part of the
qualifying fee has been refund
ed in cases where there was
more than one candidate for
an office.
To meet the increased ex
penses of holding elections, the
committee voted to pay poll
managers S3O and clerks $25
and in the event of a runover
managers will receive $25 and
clerks S2O.
This decision was tentative
and subject to change, if neces
sary, by the executive com
mittee.
C. A. Collier, Griffin textile
man, was elected from the
First Ward to fill a vacan
cy created by a death.
Committee members will not
be elected this year. They will
be elected in 1970.
Jim Goolsby, chairman of
the Spalding committee, pre
sided at the session.
Candidates may qualify with
either the executive committee
chairman or with Secretary
John Q. Clement*.