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By Quimby Melton
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(This is the second installment
of an Easter Sermon preached
some 70 years ago by Good
t * Evening’s grandfather)
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Having seen that the resur
rection of Christ was necessary
• we will consider some of the evi-
• dences of his resurrection. These
evidences are of two characters, -
direct and indirect.
, Consider first the indirect
< evidences we have of the resur
rection of Christ.
If Christ rose not from the
dead, then what became of his
, body? The death of Christ was
witnessed by thousands; his bur
ial in the tomb of Joseph was
publicly known. The Pharisees
‘ ’ and Chief Priests sealed the
' stone of the tomb, and placed
a guard before it, that none
should take the body away. For.
• “Pilate said unto them, Ye have
• a watch: go your way, make it
as sure as ye can. So they went
and made the sepulchre sure,
' . sealing the stone and setting a
4 watch.”
Can the enemies of the resur
rection, produce the body? Or
give an account of what became
, ‘ of it? The absence of the body
Is an evidence of the resurrec
tion, unless they can tell what
became of it. They say, that the
• soldiers said that the disciples
• came by night and stole away
Jesus’ body while they slept.
This Is a most improbably st-
• ory, and it carries its own con-
• tradiction on Its face, because,
who would believe that so many
Roman soldiers slept in the open
t air while on guard, on a cold
, * night, especially on such an oc
casion when there was so much
excitement and so much depend
ed upon their watchfulness and
, “ especially knowing that the pen
alty of sleeping on guard was
death. As we perceive in the
case of those soldiers who guard-
• ed Peter and who when Peter
If could not be found, at the com
mand of Herod, were put to dea
th.
If the disciple had stolen the
, body, we cannot believe that
they could have gone about it in
so deliberate a manner as to
take off from him the grave clo-
• thes and place the linen clothes
in a place by themselves; and
the napkin in a place by itself.
This does not look like the work
• of thieves. Wherefore it is impo
ssible to believe that the disci
ples stole Him away by night.
The timid disciples would not
, have ventured to have forced the
Roman soldiers. They who fled
from the mob while Christ was
alive would not likely have ven
tured upon the Roman soldiers
• when Christ lay in the tomb.
But they seemed to have little
or no expectation of His resur
rection. See the conduct of the
' two Marys. They prepare fresh
spices and go to the sepulchre
for the purpose of embalming
the body afresh. And on the way
• they ask who shall roll away the
stone from the door of the sep
ulchre for us?
And when the two angels said
, unto Mary: “Woman, why weep
> est thou? She salth unto them,
because they have taken away
my Lord and I know not where
they have laid Him.”
When Jesus said unto her,
“Woman, why weepest thou?
Whom seekest thou? She, sup
posing him to be the garden
' » er, saith unto him. Sir, if thou
have borne Him hence, tell me
where thou has laid Him and I
will take Him away.”
, We observe also that the dis
ciples were slow to believe in
the resurrection of Christ even
after it had been affirmed to
them that He had risen from the
• dead. When Mary Magdalene,
and Joanna, and Mary the Mo
ther of Jesus, and other women
that were with them, told the
' disciples that their Lord had ri-
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14 Charged With
Arson In 4 Fires
Fourteen Griffin Negroes ar
rested Sunday have been char
ged with arson in connection
with fires at four businesses
Thursday and Friday nights, Po
lice Chief Leo Blackwell said to
day.
Chief Blackwell said they were
arrested in connection with fir
es at Hutson Grocery, 603 East
Chappell street, Newton Build
'ing Supply Co., 889 East Solo
mon street, both Thursday night;
Stanfield Grocery, 404 North Se
cond street, and Slaton Stanley’s
Grocery, 219 East Chappell st
reet, both Friday night.
Chief Blackwell said fires at
each of the buildings were set
by fire bombs.
Damage was light at Stan
field’s, Hutson Grocery and Sla
ton Stanley’s, Chief Blackwell
said. The fire at Newton Build
ing Supply Co., caused heavy
damage, he said.
The first fire Thursday night
was at Hutson Grocery and the
second, at Newton Building Sup
ply Co., was about 15 minutes
later, Chief Blackwell said. The
first fire was started about 10:40.
Friday night, the first fire was
started at 9:12 and the second
at 9:15, Chief Blackwell said.
Griffin firemen brought the
fire at Newton Building Supply
Co. under control in an hour,
but stayed at the building for
several hours.
Three of the 14 arrested are
juveniles. Their names cannot
be published under Georgia law.
Chief Blackwell identified the
others arrested as:
Samuel (Sammie) Shepherd,
Jr., 28, of 109 North First st
reet; Larry Render, 18, 826 East
Wall alley; M. C. Talley, 19,
510 South Eighth street; Andrew
Lyons, Jr., 20, 123 Cleveland av
enue, Samuel Lindale Head, Jr.,
18, 514 East Slaton avenue; Carl
William Johnson, Jr., 18, 841
East Solomon street; Perry Leon
Smith, 17, 841 East Solomon st
reet; Larry Willis, 19, 507
East Taylor street; Albert
Chambliss, 17, 119 Pearl street;
Napolean Holmes, 17, 732 East
Solomon street; and Brian Dion
Crafter, 17, 610 East Wall alley.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
mild Tuesday with scattered
showerS tonight and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 75, minimum today
55, maximum Sunday 63, mini
mum Sunday 51. Sunrise Tues
day 6:19 a.m., sunset Tuesday
7:05 p.m.
Negroes Credited
With Saving Stores
Two Griffin Negroes have been
credited with saving two
buildings that were fire bomb
ed Thursday and Friday nights.
Police Chief Leo Blackwell said
today that Otis Head of 512 East
Chappell street kicked a fire
bomb away from the Hutson Gro
cery building, 603 East Chappell
street, Thursday night.
The fire that resulted from the
bomb caused only minor dam
age to the building.
Chief Blackwell also praised
Warren Pugh, Jr., of 544 North
Third street. He is a graduate
Death Penalty In
Kidnaps Ruled Ont
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
Supreme Court today ruled
unconstitutional the death penal
ty provision of the Lindbergh
kidnap law, holding that it
Impairs a defendant’s right to
trial by Jury.
The court by a 6-2 vote struck
down the part of the law which
authorizes only the jury to
impose the death penalty. The
rest of the statute Is left
standing.
Justice Potter Stewart wrote
the majority opinion.
“Whatever the power of
Congress to impose a death
penalty for violation of the
federal kidnaping act, Congress
cannot impose such a penalty In
a manner that needlessly
penalizes the assertion of a
constitutional right,” Stewart
said.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Chief Blackwell said the sus
pects are being held in city jail
while the police department is
continuing its investigation of
the fire bombings.
The suspects are scheduled to
face the charges at the June
term of Spalding County Super
ior Court, Chief Blackwell said.
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Blake Kelley (1) and Dan Gustafson look at their science project which won third
place in physical science, junior division, at the Georgia State Science Fair at the
University of Georgia over the weekend. The project tells how sound can be
transmitted through light. Kelley and Gustafson are students at Spalding Junior
High School.
BLOATED BIRD
TEIGNMOUTH, England
(UPD—Watch out for Blghty
boy, the missing parrot with a
beer belly.
“He’s an avid beer drinker,”
said his owner Frank Howard
Sunday. “We’ve had him almost
four years and he must have
drunk crates of the stuff in that
time.”
The Howards figure Bighty
boy, who disappeared Saturday
from his cage, “is too fat to fly
far.”
Most Aboard Jet
Survive Crash
By JOHN SIMS
LONDON (UPD—A British
Overseas Airways Corp.
(BOAC) Boeing 707 jetliner,
of Tuskegee Institute.
Pugh crawled through a hole
knocked in a plate glass door
by a fire bomb at Slaton Stan
ley’s Grocery, 219 East Chap
pell street, Friday night, smoth
ered out a fire, and threw the
fire bomb out of the building.
Chief Blackwell said a blind
couple lives in the back portion
of the grocery and might have
been killed, had the fire not
been smothered. He said the fire
bomb was thrown through the
door and against a wall separa
ting the store and the apartment.
Justices Byron R. White and
Hugo L. Black dissented.
Justice Thurgood Marshall did
not participate in the ruling.
The test case arose in New
Haven, Conn., where kidnaping
indicments were brought
against Charles "Batman”
Jackson, Glenn W. A. De
Lamotte and John A. Walsh Jr.,
charged with abducting John J.
Grant IH.
The Lindbergh law was
invoked against them because
the victim was taken across
state lines from Milford, Conn.,
to Alpine, N.J.
Under the statute, named for
the famous aviator whose infant
son was kidnaped and murdered
35 years ago, the death penalty
may be Imposed if the victim is
harmed and a Jury recommends
it.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 8, 1968
U. S., Hanoi Seek
Time And Place
Project Wins Third
300 Walk Here In
Memorial Service
Some 300 Negroes walked si
lently for several blocks in down
town Griffin Sunday afternoon in
a “memorial peace march” in
honor of the late Dr. Martin Lu
ther King.
The student body at Fairmont
High School today held a spec
ial memorial chapel program in
honor of Dr. King.
spewing wreckage and dropping
an engine near Windsor Castle,
struggled to a flaming crash
landing at London Airport today
shortly after takeoff. Most of
the persons aboard survived.
BOAC said at least 103 of the
115 passengers and all of the li
man crew survived. At least
five bodies —three men, a
woman and a child—were pulled
from the wreckage by heroic
firemen who braved flames and
a continuing series of explo
sions.
Capt. Charles Taylor, the
pilot, radioed a mayday distress
signal seconds after he lifted
the plane into the air on a flight
destined for Sydney Australia.
He reported the right wing on
fire and that a jet engine
dropped off as the plane circled
near Windsor Castle.
Taylor made a herculean
effort to return to the airport.
He threw the plane into a steep
left bank and headed for the
airstrip, while witnesses report
ed flames licking along the
fuselage and chunks of wreck
age falling from the wing.
The pilot slammed the plane
onto the runway as the burned
out left wing—filled with fuel
for the first leg to Zurich—
simply fell off. The plane split
open and the dazed passengers
and crewmen fled into the open
and safety.
Relatives of the passengers,
Including 11 adults and 13
children embarking for a new
life in Australia, were still
standing on the sundrenched
observation deck at London
when the engine fell off and
thudded to earth a few miles
from Windsor and 23 miles
from the heart of London.
Queen Elizabeth II was in
residence at Windsor at the
time.
The walk through do’-mtown
Sunday climaxed a memorial
service held at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church on Memorial drive. An
uncle of the Rev. King previous
ly served as pastor of that chur
ch.
The Rev. O. H. Stinson, pre
sent pastor, was the memorial
speaker. Making remarks dur
ing the service were Dr. C. C.
Releford, a Griffin physician,
Otis Head and A. C. Touchstone,
Griffin businessmen.
Following the church service,
the group walked from the chur
ch four abreast down Taylor st
reet to Hill. They turned north
and walked to Solomon street
where they turned east and walk
ed to the Spalding County Court
house.
The group gathered at the st
eps of the building where the
Rev. A. G. Conyers, pastor of
St. Phillips AME Church, led in
prayer. The walk resumed down
Solomon street to Mt. Zion chur
ch where the service ended.
Negro leaders got permission
for the memorial march late
Saturday after discussing the
matter with city officials. Such
walks require permits to be is
sued under city ordinances.
Griffin Police escorted the me
morial marchers along a route
previously marked off.
One of the highlights of the
Fairmont chapel program this
morning was a “candlelight”
passing.
Dan Johnson, student body
president, said a lighted candle
representing the non-violence ad
vocated by the Rev. King was
passed among several students.
He said that this was a symbol
that the non-violence which the
Rev. King advocated would be
continued.
Police Shoot Tire In Chase
That Ends On Country Road
Two Griffin men were arres
ted Sunday morning after a po
lice chase that began at Broad
and 10th streets and ended in a
field off the North Pomona road
north of Griffin.
Police said two officers on rou
tine patrol spotted a car at Br
oad and 10th streets early Sun
day morning. They attempted
to stop the car and it sped from
a red light.
The car turned on Experiment
street and the officers followed.
Between Ellis road and the en
trance to the Georgia Experi
ment Station, the officers pulled
beside the 1959 model car in an
attempt to get the driver to pull
over. He would not, the officers
Vol. 96 No. 84
Strategy Meeting
Set At Camp David
By STEWART HENSLEY
WASHINGTON (UPD—
President Johnson said today
Hanoi has formally agreed to
work at a time and place for
U.S.-North Vietnamese talks.
Johnson said Ambassador
Ellsworth Bunker is flying home
from Saigon to join U.S.
officials for policy talks which
will begin Tuesday at Camp
David, Md.
Bunker is expected to arrive
in Washington Thursday.
Johnson said the United
States was notifying its allies
about receipt of an official note
from Hanoi.
Without going into details
about the message from North
Vietnamese leaders, Johnson
said: “We shall be trying to
work out promptly a time and
place for talks.”
Other Participants
Johnson told reporters the
other participants would in
clude Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and Defense Secretary
Clark M. Clifford.
Johnson said he planned to go
to Camp David tonight with key
White House staff members.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
said today North Vietnam has
“chosen Cambodia” as the site
for preliminary talks with the
United States.
Shortly before his announce
ment, Radio Hanoi said North
Vietnam was willing to meet
American representatives at
Double Loss
LIVERPOOL, England (UPI)
—The weary Thirlmere Soccer
Club eleven straggled into the
locker room Sunday after a 5-1
defeat—to find that not all the
foul play had been on the field.
Thieves had made off with
their watches, gold rings, cash,
and —worst of all —several pairs
of trousers. A special bus was
called to save the unfortunates
a cold walk home.
Israeli Column
Hits In Jordan
AMMAN (UPD—An Israeli
armored column backed up by
jet fighters and helicopters
struck today into Jordan south
of the Dead Sea, a Jordanian
military spokesman said.
“The Israeli forces was
immediately engaged by Jorda
nian forces,” the spokesman
said.
He reported fighting under
way more than two hours after
the thrust across the cease-fire
line below the Dead Sea.
(In Jerusalem, Israeli spokes
men said they had no comment
on Jordan reports of battling on
the Jordan River.)
Israel sent 15,000 troops into
Jordan March 21 on a 15-hour
raid against Arab terrorists
based in Jordan.
(The U.N. Security Council
passed a resolution condemning
said.
The chase had reached speeds
of 85 to 90 miles per hour.
The driver pulled his car into
the side of the police car when
the officers pulled up beside it.
This happened several times
between Ellis road and Georgia
3.
The car made a right turn on
Georgia 3 and continued to run
at a high rate of speed.
The officers opened fire on the
car north of Crompton Highland
Mill. They shot the right rear
tire on the car between there
and the Vineyard road.
The car continued at 65 to 70
miles per hour with the flat tire,
the officers said.
Phom Penh or any other
mutually agreeable city for
preliminary talks.
Since the United States has no
diplomatic relations with neu
tralist Cambodia—and thus no
embassy in Phnom Penh—it
would prefer to hold the talks in
Burma o'. India.
As the United States and
North Vietnam move toward
“establishing contact,” there
were indications that both sides
may have begun some recipro
cal reduction in the scope of
their military operations.
Pickup 2nd pgh: Following the
Donna Loses In
Oratorical
Donna Mostiler, Griffin High
student who went further in the
American Legion’s Oratorical!
Contest than any other student
in the history of the school, lost
out today in semi-finals at Elk
ins, W. Va.
A spokesman for the high sc
hool said a boy from Mississippi
won first place.
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Israel by name for the raid.
The council rapped unnamed
others for their part in violence
along the cease-fire lines left
after Israel’s victorious June 5-
10 war. But Israel spumed the
U:N: action and its leaders
said they would strike again if
need be.)
According to the Jordanian
spokesman, the Israeli armor
crossed the border at Al-Dahl,
28 miles south of the Dead Sea.
The armor headed for Hemra
El Fedal, seven miles inside
Jordan, and Feinna, 12 miles
inside Jordan, the spokesman
said.
Earlier, a Jordanian spokes
man had announced a 45-minute
tank and artillery duel across
the Jordan River. Israel had
seized the west bank of the
river in the June fighting.
The car made a right turn at
Baptist Camp Ground road at
Pomona and a turn to the left
several hundred yards later.
After a chase at 20 to 30 miles
per hour over several country
roads, the chase ended in a field
off the North Pomona road.
Driver of the car, Thomas R.
Dukes, 20, of North 17th street,
Griffin, was charged with driv
ing in a dangerous and reckless
maimer, failure to stop for po
lice officers, no license, drunk
and assault with an automobile.
Charles David Dukes, 25, of
Bell street, Griffin, was char
ged with aiding and abetting
Thomas R. Dukes.
Violence
Plagues
Cities
By Unitel Press International
Racial violence unleashed by
the murder of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., has struck
more than four-score American
cities in a destructive orgy of
staggering proportions.
Since King’s assassination in
Memphis, Term., Thursday
night, including the Palm
Sunday national day of mourn
ing proclaimed by President
Johnson in honor of the fallen
civil rights leader, at least 85
cities were visited by violence.
The macabre box score
accompanying the most wide
spread racial unrest in Ameri
ca’s history:
Dead: at least 30.
Injured; more than 2,000.
Arrested: 8,879.
Troops: 19,900 federal, 30,100
National Guard.
Damage ran into countless
millions. Fire destruction in
Chicago and Washington alone
totaled at least $lO million
each; Other cities assessed
wreckage in many millions
more.
The hardest hit cities, Balti
more, Chicago and Washington,
maintained a fragile peace
today-under the stern hand of
thousands of federal troops and
National Guardsmen supple
menting local police.
Pittsburgh-Hit Hard
In Pittsburgh, where bands of
Negroes ran for three nights
through the Hill District ghetto,
3,000 guardsmen were on duty
and 1,500 others were on
standby alert through western
Pennsylvania, ready for a
renewal of the trouble.
Chicago had 11 riot-related
deaths, Washington 8, Baltimore
5, Detroit 2 and Minneapolis
Memphis, Tallhassee and Oak
land 1 each.
Washington had more than
half the arrests and two-thirds
of the injured, as the nation’s
capital remained in the tight
control of more than 13,000
federal troops.
Despite the day of mourning
Sunday, Baltimore and Pit
tsburgh experienced sharp vi
olence.
In the first major racial
disorder in the history of
Pittsburgh, much of a 20-square
block Negro ghetto was ran
sacked, looted and burned. At
least 712 persons were arrested,
24 injured seriously enough to
require hospital treatment, and
188 fires were set. A police
spokesman said it was impossi
ble to assess damage.
Troops In Baltimore
Riot-trained federal troops
with bayonets attached to rifles
patrolled the Negro sections of
Baltimore today after what Fire
Chief John Killen Sunday said
was the most serious civil crisis
the city has faced since the
great Baltimore fire of 1904.
Gov. Spiro Agnew appealed to
President Johnson for federal
troops, and the White House
dispatched to Baltimore the
1,900 soldiers who had been on
standby alert at Andrews Air
Force Base in the event they
were needed in Washington.
At least 400 persons were
injured in Baltimore, in addition
to the five deaths. There were
1,200 arrests and nearly 1,000
persons had been injured in
Washington, Including 50 police
men, 18 firemen and 6
servicemen. There were more
than 4,800 arrests, and in the
first 48 hours of unrest,
insurance companies estimated
damage at $lO million.
In Chicago, there was spora
dic looting and several fresh,
apparently deliberate fires dur
ing the night, but It was a good
deal quieter than it had been
any time since Friday after
noon.
In Hagerstown, Md., while the
bulk of the state’s law
enforcement officials tried to
quell the outbreak in Baltimore,
Negro inmates at the Maryland
Correctional Institute rioted and
attacked White prisoners during
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