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By Quimby Melton
Tomorrow Is Palm Sunday, the
anniversary of the day when Je
sus Christ, made His triumphal
entry into Jerusalem, and was
greeted by the crowds as The
Messiah. Some of the people
who welcomed Him were soon to
join with others in demanding
that He be crucifiel.
Good Evening will devote his
column for today and part of
next week to reproducing an
Easter sermon that was preach
ed some 70 years ago by his gr
andfather, the Rev. Isaac Quim
by Melton. The message today
is the same as it was then “He
Lives”.
Grandfather Melton, came
out of the Confederate Army,
when yet a boy and earned his
living as a shoe “cobbler.” He
worked at his bench with a Bi
ble propped up in front of him
and as he studied it “heard the
call to preach.”
His text was Luke 24:34
“The Lord is risen indeed, and
hath appeared unto Simon.”
Here is the first installment of
the sermon.
The doctrine of the resurrec
tion of Christ is an exceedingly
important article of our faith.
Because, if Christ be not ri
sen, then there can be no re
surrection of the dead.-then our
preaching is vain, or to no pur
pose.-Then we are yet in our
sins,-Then our faith is vain,-Then
all the pious dead who sleep in
Christ are perished and our hope
of meeting them In heaven has
also perished, and like the hea
then, we may mourn for them
without hope.
A belief in the resurrection of
Christ is one of the conditions
of our Salvation. It is written,
“If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.”
Our text speaks of the resur
rection of Christ as a fixed fact,
as a certain reality.
—The resurrection of Christ
was not an impossibility. Becau
se we have never seen one rais
ed from the dead, is no good
reason, or argument against the
possibility of the resurrection of
Christ, for if nothing is possible
but what is according to our
own experience, and observa
tion, then indeed there are a
great many impossibilities.
—ls there existed a necessity
for the resurrection of Christ,
then it is not impossible or un
reasohable to believe that God
raised Him from the dead. He
that believes in the existence of
God and that He made all things
at first out of nothing, will not
find it unreasonable, or diffi
cult to believe (on good and suf
ficient evidence) that God rais
ed up His Son from the dead.
Hence,
—The resurrection of Christ
was a necessity. His character
must be vindicated from the
charge under v hi ch it lay. Christ
was charged by the Jews of
being an imposter and as being
guilty of blasphemy. Had He not
been raised from the dead by
the Glory of the Father, then His
enemies would have considered
it as the completion of their tr
iumph. They had charged Him
with being a deceiver and blas
phemer: they had put Him to
death as a malefactor. Had He
not been raised from the dead,
then they would have consider
ed that their sentence on earth
was justified in heaven and div
ine providence by leaving Christ
in the grave would have seem
ed to ratify their violent deal
ing in their treatment of Him.
If Christ had not been raised
from the dead He might justly
have been regarded in the light
and character of an impostor;
because He had frequently de
clared that He would rise from
the dead on the third day. When
His enemies said to Jesus:
“What sign showest thou unto
us, being that thou doest these
things.” Jesus answered and
said unto them “Destroy this
temple, (meaning the temple of
his body) and in three days I
will raise it up.” While Christ
lay in the grave the Chief Pr
iests and Pharisees came toge
ther unto Pilate, “Saying, Sir,
we remember that that deciever
said, while He was yet alive, af
ter three days I will rise again.
Command therefore that the sep
ulchre be made sure until the
third day, lest his disciples come
by night, and steal Him away,
and say unto the people He is
risen from the dead. So the last
error shall be worst than the
first. Had He not risen from the
dead He would have falsified His
word.
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Dial-A-Life
Mrs. George Murray, Jr., a volunteer worker, checks
out “Dial-A-Life” phone message center at the
Spalding County Cancer Society’s headquarters on
Meriwether street. Griffinites may dial 227-7777 and
get a message about the seven danger signals of can
cer. Chairman George Thomas of the funds-educa
tion crusade said the phone service would be offer
ed about two months.
North Vietnam
Waits On LBJ
ALGIERS (UPD—North Viet
nam said through its deputy
foreign minister Friday it was
still waiting for President
Johnson to answer its offer to
meet U.S. representatives.
Voang Van Lol accused Johnson
of “lending a deaf ear” to
Hanoi’s three-day-old proposal.
Van Loi, in Algiers on the
first leg of an African tour,
spoke to a news conference
restricted to representatives
Algerian news media.
The government-controlled Al
gerian news agency (APS)
quoted Van Loi as saying North
Vietnam is “still waiting with
patience” for an answer from
Johnson.
Van Loi chided Johnson for
saying the United States would
be prepared to paticipate at
once at any place for talks
hopefully leading to peace
negotiations.
Meets With Soviets
“Three days after we gave
our agreement to send repre
sentatives to discuss with those
of the United States, there are
still no repercussions and we
are still waiting for an answer
from Johnson and we are
waiting with patience,’ APS
quoted Van Loi as saying.
Van Loi has been meeting
5 Killed In
Two Crashes
By United Press International
Two separate airplane crashes
had taken a death toll of five
in Georgia by today, including
three serivicemen who died
when their helicopter plunged
into a wooded area near Savan
nah and burned.
The crash brought to nine the
number of Hunter Army Air
field servicemen killed in air
mishaps there since last Au
gust. An Army spokesman said
the helicopter was on a routine
training mission when it
crashed about 20 miles from
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“No wonder it’s so hard to
find a place to park — so
many people don’t seem to
be going anyplace.”
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
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GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., April 6-7, 1968 Vol. 96 No. 83
with ambassadors of the Soviet
Union, North Korea and Com
munist China. He had originally
been scheduled to leave Friday
for Bamako, Mali but postponed
his departure until Tuesday.
In Hanoi, the North Vietna
mese foreign minister charged
the United States has continued
bombing important parts of
North Vietnam despite Pres
ident Johnson’s order limiting
bombing of the north. Hie
Hanoi statement asked that it
be stopped.
Charges Swindle
Communist China today cha
racterized Johnson’s order re
stricting the bombing “a big
swindle and trick’ carried out
in collusion with the Soviet
Union and said the fighting
must not’be stopped.
The Peking position was in a
broadcast by the New China
news agency and heard in Hong
Kong.
Communist forces in Vietnam,
the broadcast said, "must
persevere in fighting and fight
to the end.’
“The true characteristics of
the American imperialists will
not change,” the broadcast said.
“They definitely will not aban
don voluntarily their Invasion of
Vietnam.”
Savannah.
An aircraft tail spin near
Stone Mountain claimed the
lives of two others Friday. Wit
nesses said the aircraft went
into a tail spin and tumbled
through a clump of pine trees
near Possom Lake Rd. on Geor
gia Highway 78.
The victims of both crashes
died at the scene.
Victims of the helicopter
crash were identified as 2nd Lt.
Kenneth W. Birdwell, 28, a stu
dent pilot from Savannah
Beach: 2nd Lt. Willard R.
Woody, 25, also a student pilot,
Clinton, N.C., and Capt. Francis
J. Silvert Jr. instructor pilot,
Williamston, N.J.
Killed in the second crash
were Robert Jerre Donaldson,
33, Decatur, Ga., and Jimmy G.
Barfield, 35, Lawrenceville, Ga.
Officials said the two had
rented the plane from nearby
Gunn Field and were on a plea
sure flight when the crash oc
curred.
Weather;
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair and cool
tonight. Sunday partly cloudy
and warmer.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 63, minimum today
37, maximum Friday 67, mini
mum Friday 56. Total rainfall
.03 of an inch. Sunrise Sunday
6:21 a.m., sunset Sunday 7:04
p.m.
Manhunt
On For
Killer
By DUREN CHEEK
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPD—A
massive federal manhunt
spread through the South today
for the assassin who killed Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. and
plunged the nation into mourn
ing.
It appeared that the sandy
haired, sharp-nosed rifleman
had fled Tennessee with a
$155,000 price on his head. Atty.
Gen. Ramsey Clark said the
investigation has “spread sever
al hundred miles from the
borders of Tennessee.”
FBI agents, he said, were
following leads in “several
parts of the country.”
Clark announced Friday that
“we are very close to making
an arrest.” But a day and a
half after the 39-year-old Nobel
Peace Prize winner fell dying
on the balcony of his hotel
room, his spinal cord svered
by a bullet, there had been no
arrest.
Eventual Arrest
Memphis Police Chief Frank
L. Holloman said he, too, was
optimistic about an arrest but
he used the phrase “eventual
ly.”
King's body was to lie In state
at a women’s college in Atlanta
today until the funeral Tuesday
at Ebenezer Baptist Church,
where the civil rights leader
and his father were copastors.
Federal flags were ordered
flown at half staff but in nearly
50 cities across the nation
mourning turned to violence. A
dozen persons died, scores were
injured and troops were called
In to aid police in many cities.
Rewards totaling $155,000
were posted in Memphis for
King’s killer.
In addition, a group of
businessmen put up $25,000 in
an effort to settle the sanitation
worker’s strike that brought
King to this Mississippi River
port city. The money was to
pay for a union dues checkoff
system for six months for the
garbage collectors.
A dues checkoff and union
representation are the sticking
points in the strike, which
began early February. The
garbage collectors, most of
them Negroes, contend the city
is discriminating against them.
Offer Rejected
The businessmen’s offer,
however, was rejected by union
officials who said they would
not settle for a six-month
solution to the problem.
King had arrived in Memphis
Wednesday to lead another
mass march in support of the
strikers to prove that nonviolent
demonstrations still were possi
ble. A march of 5,000, led by
King, flared into violence that
killed one person and Injured 62
others when Negro youths broke
from the marchers in a
vandalism spree.
King checked into the Lor
raine Hotel, a two-story struc
ture in a Negro district about
four blocks from famed Beale
Street, scene of most of the
rioting connected with his
march. On his previous trip,
King had stayed at a luxurious
motel near the river.
About three hours before King
was shot, a clean-shaven, sharp
nosed white man checked into a
“flophouse” across from the
Lorraine. He was neatly dressed
in a black suit, white shirt and
narrow, dark tie.
“He registered under the
name of John Willard and had a
silly smile,” said Mrs. Bessie
Brewer, 44, the blonde landlady
of the rooming house.
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Police believe the shot that killed Dr. Martin Luther
King was fired from one of the windows in the build-
Unrest Plagues
American Cities
Westmoreland
Opens Talks
With President
WASHINGTON (UPD—Gen.
William C. Westmoreland and
President Johnson began imme
diate top level strategy talks
today within minutes after the
U.S. commander in Vietnam
returned to Washington for
consultation.
Westmoreland—who is due to
return to Pentagon duty as
Army chief of staff in three
months—had no comment on his
arrival at Andrews Air Force
Base or when he landed at the
White House grounds by heli
copter.
Johnson and Westmoreland
paused briefly for photogra
phers before starting their
conference. When a reporter
called out to ask how he felt,
Johnson replied with a wan
smile: “No sleep for the
weary.”
Measles Shots
Scheduled Here
An immunization program ag
ainst measles will begin in Grif
fin and Spalding County April 19.
Teams of physicians, nurses and
technicians will go to elemen
tary schools to immunize suscep
tible children in the first and se
cond grades.
Pre-school youngsters and
those in the first and second gra
des who miss the school clinics
will have an opportunity for the
shots at clinics on April 27.
The clinics will be set up at the
Spalding Health Department, 613
Magnolia drive, Griffin; at Nor
th Side School, 502 North Hill
street, and Vineyard school,
Vineyard road.
The free clinics will be open
from noon until 4 p.m.
The Griffin Jaycees will coop
erate in sponsoring the clinics
here. Dr. Tom Lipscomb, heal
th officer for the Spalding Heal
th Department, arranged for
the immunizations through the
State Health Department.
The clinics are part of a state
wide effort by the Georgia Heal
th Department to eradicate me
asles.
Dr. Lipscomb explained the
program like this:
Children who have had “red”
or “seven-day” measles, or who
have already had the vaccine,
are not susceptible. However,
if there is doubt as to whether
or not a child has had the dis
ease or the vaccine, parents are
advised to have the child immu
nized, as a second immunization
is not harmful.
Prior to the school clinics on
April 19, permission slips will be
sent home to parents, and no
Ministers Make
Statements On
King’s Death
Protestant and Catholic spokes
men here today issued state
ments following the death of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., in
Memphis.
The Griffin-Spalding County
Minsterial Association called
a special meeting Friday after
noon to discuss the matter.
They felt they should issue a
joint statement to the people of
the community.
The statement follows:
“We express our shock, shame,
and sorrow at the assassina
tion of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., in Memphis, Tenn. In these
testing days of civil and spiritual
crisis, we call upon all of our
people in peaceful good will and
faith to seek Divine Guidance.
Only as people of all races turn
to Jesus Christ as personal Sav
ior and accept His example in
daily living and in all inter-hu-
child will be vaccinated without
the parent or guardian’s consent.
Pre-school children who are
brought to the Saturday, April
27 clinics must be accompan
ied by a parent or guardian.
Administered with the modern
jet injector which is virtually
painless, and which permits ra
pid immunization of large num
ber of children, the vaccine of
fers protection for life from "se
ven day" or "red” measles. The
disease, once considered a harm
less experience of childhood, can
have serious complications, in
cluding pneumonia, encephali-
Woman Killed In
Wreck .V ear Hampton
An Omega, Ga., woman was
killed and three others Injured
in an automobile accident 2.3 mi
les north of Hampton on U. S.
41 in Henry County Friday.
Killed was Nora Louise Jones,
40, of Omega, Ga.
A Griffin state patrolman said
the car apparently ran out of
control, hit a soft shoulder and
flipped end over end. The dead
woman was listed as the driver.
Injured were Julia Goode, 49,
of Route Six, Tifton, Ga., who
suffered cuts on her face and
right wrist; Kay Goode, 14, of
Route Six, Tifton, Ga., who suf
fered injuries to her right shoul
der and right arm; and Lois
Golden, 43, of Omega, Ga., who
ings at the left. King was standing on the balcony of
his doMintown motel (right) when hit by the bullet.
man relationships will we enjoy
justice, mercy and peace in our
nation and throughout the wor
ld.”
Father James O’Malley, pas
tor of Sacred Heart Church, sp
oke for the Catholic faith. His
statement said:
“The Catholic Church of Grif
fin wishes to extend its sympa
thy on the occasion of Dr. Mar
tin Luther King’s death to all
peace minded people of the city.
We deplore the senseless death
of Dr. King as we deplore the
death of Christ. We hope with
you that some good will come
from this death as good as come
from the death of Christ. This
action increases our responsi
bility to bring a quality and love
to all men and to respect God’s
right to make men the color He
chooses.”
tis, mental retardation, deafness,
and blindness.
Sponsored by the Spalding Co
unty Health Department, Medi
cal Society, County School Sys
tem and the Jaycees, the “End
Measles” campaign is being im
plemented by the Vaccination
Assistance Project of the Geor
gia Department of Public Heal
th, with the assistance and ap
proval of the Medical Associa
tion of Georgia, the Georgia
Chapter of the American Aca
demy of Pediatrics, and the
Georgia Jaycees.
suffered back injuries and cuts
on her face.
The fatality raised the toll for
the year to 15 in the five county
Griffin district, seven less than
the 22 who were killed in the
same period last year.
Troopers estimated damage to
the 1966 model car at SI,OOO.
Rachel P. Heath, 49, of Route
Two, Jackson, suffered back and
neck injuries in an accident 2.7
miles north of Jackson U. S. 23-
Georgia 42 in Butts County. She
was treated at Sylvan Grove
Hospital in Jackson.
She and Ernest L. Sims, 47, of
272 Buchanan street, Jackson,
were listed as drivers. Damage
was estimated at SI,OOO.
Death Toll
Mounts To
20 In Nation
By United Press International
Police and national guards
men exchanged shots with
snipers firing from a high-rise
housing project in Chicago early
today. Negro unrest after the
murder of Dr. Martin Luther
King still plagued more than
two-score American cities.
In Washington, under guard
by 6,000 federal troops, a fragile
calm returned after a day of
widespread looting and burning.
At least 20 persons lost their
lives in racial unrest that swept
numerous metropolitan ghettos
since King was assassinated
Thursday night. Ten were dead
in Chicago, five in Washington,
two in Detroit and one each in
New York, Minneapolis and
Tallahassee, Fla.
One of the Chicago deaths
occurred when a Molotov
cocktail thrown through a first
floor window landed in the crib
of a 10-month old child. The
child perished in the flames.
Snipers, crouched behind
darkened windows or hiding on
the rooftop of a housing project,
shot at firemen battling stub
born blazes set by looters and
arsonists on Chicago’s West
Side. Police and national
guardsmen immediately re
turned the shots.
President Johnson Friday
ordered federal troops into
Washington to help local police.
The guard also patrolled in
Detroit and Greensboro and
Raleigh, N.C. Boston and
Pittsburgh also were hit hard
by racial violence.
Troops Called
More than 2,000 paratroopers
moved into the nation’s capital
today to reinforce the army and
national guard forces. Presiden
tial troubleshooter Cyrus Vance
said early today the situation
“appears to be in hand.” But a
dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed
late Friday continued today.
After the curfew, incidents of
looting dropped sharply.
Thoops cordoned the streets
around the White House and a
machine gun post was erected
on Capitol Hill. And despite the
presence of 6,000 troops, looting
and disorder were so wide
spread that authorities arrested
more than 800 persons.
Scores Injured
In Chicago, 3,000 national
guardsmen patrolled the Negro
West Side, where scores were
injured, five killed and dozens
and dozens of fires set in street
violence Friday.
Half the city’s firemen battled
widespread blazes. More than
280 persons were arrested, and
for five minutes just before
midnight, snipers fired 20
rounds that pinned down
policemen in a stationhouse,
wounding one.
In Detroit, scene of racial
rioting that killed 43 persons
eight months ago, police said
one looter was fatally shot and
nine persons injured during a
renewal of violence.
Mayor Jerome Cavanagh mo
bilized the city’s 4,200 man
police force after bands of
youths smashed windows and
hurled rocks and bottles at
cars. Gov. George Romney
dispatched 400 state troopers,
sent 3,000 national guardsmen
and ordered 9,000 more on alert.
An 8 p.m. to dawn curfew was
Imposed.
Peach Trees
Not Damaged
Peach trees in this area es
caped weather damage Friday
night. Freezing weather and fr
ost which had been feared didn’t
come off.
Dr. E. F. Savage, peach ex
pert at the Georgia Experiment
Station in Griffin, recorded a
reading of 32.5 degrees in the
station orchards for about 30
minutes Friday night.
He reported no damage to
trees in the orchards.