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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
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Remember the little ditty ab
out "Ten Little Indians?”
The one that told how one was
knocked off the line “And then
there were nine”; then continu
ed eliminating one after the
other until ‘‘And then there were
none.”
Thought of this when thinking
about the Presidential race.
"Ten hopeful candidates sit
ting on the line,
Romney was ‘‘brainwashed”
and then there were nine.
Nine still hopeful, standing at
the gate,
Then "Rocky” bowed out, and
then there were eight.
Eight who were "willing”
wanting a slice of the melon,
But Percy was bashful, and
then there were seven.
Seven likely runners, confused
In the mix,
Till Reagan stayed on his job
and then there were six.
Six with hopes very much still
alive,
Another "balked”, and then
there were but five.
Five "native sons’ with trial
balloon a-soar.
One, counting the cost, pull
ed out, and then there were four.
The four got together,. but
could not agree,
Another dropped out, and then
there were three.
Three still running, then there
was one who
Though his chances too slim,
and then there were two.
Two In the limelight, still bright
as the sun,
But one couldn’t stand the glare,
and then there was one.
One little candidate, not strong
enough to rim,
So he left the race, and then
there was none.
— ♦ —
The race track was ready, the
starter had his gun, For come
hell or high water the race had
to be run.
The horse that was favored
said “strike my name,”
I think it is best to retire from
the game.
Tills opened the starting lists
all over again,
And suddenly you could count
the would be nags by the score,
For there were more would be
champs
Than there ever before.
Silly! Yes but it fills todays al
lotted space.
Silly! Yes!
But if this silly “verse?”
Can bring a little smile,
It may bring about another
View
Os politics “gone wild.”
INSIDE
Drug Abuse. Page 2.
Ray Cromley. Page 2.
Textile Speaker. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
Stork Club. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Viet War. Page 7.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 8.
Admission Plan. Page .8
Woman’s Page. Page 9.
Military. Page 10.
College News. Page 10.
Path To Peace. Page 11.
Draft. Page 12.
Georgia News. Page 13.
Sports. Pages 14, 15.
Youth Page. Page 16.
Comics. Page 17.
Want Ads. Pages 18, 19.
Bruce Biossat. Page 20.
Backstairs. Page 20.
Commentary. Page 20.
City Commission
Meeting Tonight
Hie City Commissioners will
meet tonight instead of the re
gular meeting time next Tues
day night.
The meeting will begin at 7:30
at the city hall.
The city officials voted at their
last meeting to move the meet
ing up because one of the com
missioners would not be in town
next Tuesday night.
Weather:
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Lady President
Tommie Allen (1) has been elected student body president at Spalding Junior
High for 1968-69. She defeated Susan Ahl in the general election this morning.
She is shown the gavel of the office by Steve Bozeman, this year’s president. She
will take over at the final chapel program of the year.
Twelve Killed
Tornadoes Suck
Asphalt Off Road
By ROBERT L. GILMARTIN
STAR CITY, Ark. (UPI) —
Tornadoes spun out of a
succession of thunderstorms in
Arkansas, Kentucky and Ten
nessee Wednesday night, knock
ing down buildings, peeling
pavement from highways, and
killing several persons.
The death toll rose to 12 with
discovery of two more bodies in
Atoka, Tenn., and two near
Owensboro, Ky. There were
four killed in Atoka, five died
between Star City, Ark., and
Monticello, Ark., another was
killed in Paragould, Ark. More
than 50 persons were injured by
the twisters.
Other tornadoes touched down
in Hernando, Miss., Soco, Mo.,
and in or near the Tennessee
towns of Millington and gift.
The weather system that
caused the tognadoes swept
through lowa as well, bringing
tornadoes there, but none was
reported in populated areas of
lowa.
Two persons were killed and
Tifton Leaves
Ward System
TIFTON, Ga. (UPD —This
city has become the first in
Georgia to comply with Mon
day’s Supreme Court decision
extending the “one-man, one
vote” doctrine to city and coun
ty governments.
By a vote of 408 for to
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
LBJ To Plan Strategy
At Honolulu Meeting
at least 16 Injured early today
when a tornado slammed
through sections of western
Kentucky. Hardest hit was the
Hardin-Dexter area in Calloway
and Marshall Counties.
The twisters sucked asphalt
from roadbeds and pulled up
trees three feet thick. They
hurled television sets through
walls of homes and flattened
houses. Cars were blown into
Arkansas woods.
M.B. Socla, a towerman for
the Arkansas Forest Service,
said he saw 30 feet of highway
where the blacktop had been
ripped away and blown into the
woods. He said trees, some up
to three feet in diameter, were
strewn across the highway.
“The path of the tornado was
not wide but it pretty well
cleaned up where it went,”
Socia said.
The first tornado touched
down on the flat farmland near
Star City and skipped along the
ground for nearly 25 miles.
Lincoln County Coroner Grant
310 against, Tifton residents
Wednesday abolished the ward
system of city government. The
turnout represented about 25
per cent of the registered vot
ers—about normal for a non
general election ballot.
As a result of the election,
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, April 4, 1968
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Griffin said the area was lightly
populated, mostly cotton and
rice farms.
“A number of cars were
blown off highway 81, south of
Star City, into the woods and a
search is being made for people
that may have been blown or
sucked out of cars,” Griffin
said.
As the first tornado was
dispersing near Star City, other
twisters were reported in
northeast Arkansas. At least
one person was killed there. The
body of P.E. Pillows, 67, was
found 200 yards from his
partially destroyed home in
Paragould.
A tornado ripped through the
L.A. Darling Co., a plant which
makes mannequins, and caused
an estimated $1.5 million
damage.
Communication and power
lines into the damaged areas
were severed. An Arkansas
Power and Light spokesman
said at least 10 communities in
the state lost power.
city commissioners henceforth
will be elected on an "at-large”
system.
Wlille the election came only
two days after the Supreme
Court decision, it was only by
coincidence. The Tifton election
had been scheduled for some
time.
South Korea Chief
To Attend Sessions
By MERRIMAN SMITH
1 I’l White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Johnson prepared today to
fly to Honolulu to discuss
Vietnam peace moves with top
U.S. officials from Saigon and
South Korean President Park
Chung Hee.
Park, whose troops are
fighting alongside U.S. forces in
South Vietnam, apparently will
be the only foreign chief of
state taking part in the weekend
strategy conference.
South Vietnam’s President
Nguyen Van Thieu was not
scheduled to take part in the
Pacific meetings.
The United States, having
swiftly accepted Hanoi’s unex
pected agreement to “establish
contact,” was seeking further
information through diplomatic
channels on a possible time and
place for a meeting.
Likely Place
Geneva, site of the 1954
conference that ended the
French Indochina war and a
traditional international meeting
ground, was considered a likely
place. There were reports in
London that the meeting might
be held in Moscow.
Johnson already has said his
prime negotiators would be
Ambassador-At-Large W. Aver
ell Harriman and Llewellyn E.
Thompson, U.S. envoy to
Moscow, two veteran cold war
negotiators.
Meet Saigon Officials
Top American officials from
Saigon were to meet in Hawaii
with the President, Defense
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Secretary ofState Dean Rusk
was expected to join them
toward the end of the week; he
has been attending a Southeast
Asia Treasy Organization (SEA
TO) meeting in New Zealand
for the past several days.
President Nguyen Van Thieu
of South Vietnam was not
expected to take part in the
Pacific meetings, according to
the White House. But Rusk told
newsmen at Wellington, N.Z.,
early today that if and when the
war moved from the battlefield
to the conference table "the
government of South Vietnam
will play a very large and
important part in any negotia
tions.”
North Vietnam’s offer Wed
nesday to establish contact with
U.S. representatives was ex
tremely limited in scope, but it
raised peace hopes around the
world because it marked the
first sign of willingness on the
part of Hanoi to meet on any
terms short of a complete halt
to the U.S. bombing of the
north.
Broadcast Answer
The Communist statement,
broadcast in Vietnamese and in
English by Radio Hanoi Wed
nesday morning, was in re
sponse to Johnson’s Sunday
night speech in which he
disclosed that he had ordered
an end to bombing attacks
north of the 20th parallel. This
freed about 90 per cent of the
North Vietnamese population
and a good part of its territory
from the threat.
Officials here were guarded in
their assessment of the possibi
lities for real progress toward
an end to the war. Some
believed that the contacts could
ark the beginning of a process
-admittedly long and torturous
—that would eventually lead to
full-scale peace talks.
But many believed that Hanoi
simply felt itself forced to make
the offer in order to prevent
any major shifts in world
opinion in the light of the
President’s Sunday speech.
Thus the general atmosphere in
official circles here and in the
allied capitals was one of
considerable caution.
Continue Critical Stance
The reason for that caution
was plain. Officials noted that
North Vietnam’s offer to hold
limited preliminary talks came
in the course of a lengthy
statement full of the usual
harsh condemnation of the
United States and repeating the
Communists’ long-standing as-
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sertion that final peace in the
south could come only on the
basis of the principles of the
National Liberation Front, the
political arm of the Red-led Viet
Cong.
The hope was there, however,
in a portion of the North
Vietnamese broadcast which the
President read to an afternoon
news conference Wednesday on
the White House driveway.
The President quoted:
"However ror its part, the
government of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam declares
its readiness to appoint its
representative to contact the
United Statss representative
with a view to determining with
the American side the uncondi
tional cessation of the United
States bombing raids and all
other acts of war against the
Democratic Republic of Viet
nam so that talks may start.”
Judge Suggests
Sterilization
ATLANTA (UPD— A Superior
Court Judge advocated compul
sory sterilization Wednesday for
any parent of more than one
illegitimate child.
In an address to a fraternal
order, Fulton Judge Charles A.
Wofford said he feels that any
person who produces a second
illegitimate child should Be’ster
ilized “to make sure they don’t
bring any more into the world
for society to take care of.”
Wofford said thousands of
bastardy cases are tried yearly
in the state’s courts and said he
once tried a case involving a
37-year-old woman who had 19
illegitimate children.
“This is an isolated case,” he
said, “but 15 or 18-yer-old girls
with three to five illegitimate
children are not so isolated.”
Saturn Rocket
Engine Fails
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
The second unmanned Saturn 5
rocket failed a prime objective
today when its orbiting top
stage refused to restart its
engine and fly toward an
imaginary moon.
The failure, which followed
engine trouble suffered on the
Saturn’s way into orbit, cast a
serious shadow over the ability
of the Apollo 6 mission to
qualify the nation’s moonship
launcher for manned .opera
tions.
The primary goal of the flight
was to achieve orbit and then
shoot off toward a point
representing tne moon 320,000
miles deep in space. Full
success would have accelerated
the nation’s Apollo moon launch
timetable.
The third stage, with its
robot-controlled Apollo space
craft still attached, soared into
a preliminary orbit and circled
earth twice. Then, at 10:13 a.m.
EST, the orbiting rocket was to
have restarted its engine to
zoom toward a point in space
where the moon will be some
other time.
“We did not have ignition of
our third stage engine,” a
spokesman at the mission
control center reported. This
was considered a very impor
tant flight objective.
The Apollo spacecraft then
separated from the misfiring
rocket and fired its own engine
to increse its altitude to about
13,820 miles, close to what was
planned.
He Knew How To
Manage The Queen
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI) —Mr.
and Mrs. B. C. Holland enter
tained royalty here Wednesday,
and it took combined efforts of
the police, the fire department
and Albert S. Blanks to rid the
couple of their hosting obliga
tions.
A swarm of bees, around 100,-
000 of them followed their queen
into a plumbing hole in a out
side wall of the Holland home.
Sen. Talmadge
Sets Talk Here
Sen. Herman Talmadge will be
the guest speaker at the quar
terly breakfast meeting of the
Griffin Area Chamber of Com
merce membership.
The meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, April 16, at 7:45 a.m.
at the Moose Club.
Arnold Smith, chairman of the
Committee, said the meeting of
chamber members would be
open to the public with inter
ested citizen's invited. Tickets
must be obtained in advance at
the chamber office. The price is
$1.75 each.
Smith said the Chamber plan
ned to despense with much of
the business normally conduc
ted at such quarterly meetings
to allow more time for Senator
Talmadge’s message.
Serving on the chamber com
mittee in charge of the breakfast
are Arnold Smith, John Carlisle,
Carter Greenway, Flynt Lang
ford, Charles Hammock, Jack
Smith and Hugh Turner.
The spacecraft was to return
to a Pacific Ocean recovery
fleet later in the day.
Before the third stage engine
failure, Apollo Program Direc
tor Samuel Phillips said it
would take a number of days of
examination of tracking data to
see whether the rocket could be
“man-rated.” It was not known
immediately what effect the
second failure would have on
those plans.
HHH Out?
Biossat
Thinks So
See Page 20.
Country Parson
-
“A fellow doesn’t need to
succeed as much as he needs
to feel that he could.”
In an effort to disperse the
buzzing visitors, Holland stuck
a stick in the hole. Thousands
of bees landed on the stick,
much to the chagrin of police
and firemen who were called to
the scene.
Blanks, who is a bee expert,
was summoned. He retrieved
the queen, dropped her into an
empty wooden hive and went
home carrying royalty and sub
jects.
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Sen. Talmadge
US Accused Os
Dropping Bombs
North Os Hanoi
TOKYO (UPI) —Radio Hanoi
said American planes bombed a
populated area northwest of
Hanoi today. This would be far
above the bomb limit outlined
by President Johnson.
A broadcast monitored in
Tokyo said the planes made
three raids on an area 30 miles
west of the capital of Lal Chau
province between 8:40 and 10:40
a.m. Lal Chau Is one of the
northernmost provinces near
the border of China.
The area mentioned In the
broadcast Is 60 miles south of
the border town of Lao Kay and
as much as 200 miles north of
the 20th Parallel line set as the
northernmost bombing limit.
The broadcast did not men
tion the 20th Parallel limitation
set out by Johnson March 31
and did not single out the
alleged raids In a report that
listed two other targets—both
definitely below the 20th Paral
lel.
It said the other two targets
were Thanh Hoa, capital of
Thanh Hoa province, and the
city of Vinh, capital of Nghe An
province. Than Hoa is about 200
miles above the Demilitarized
Zone and 85 miles below Hanoi.
Vinh Is about 80 miles south of
Than Hoa.