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By Quimby Melton
Before too long the new Griffin
High School library will be com
pleted, dedicated, and students
there will find it playing an even
more important part in their ed
ucation.
When it has been opened Good
Evening believes it would be a
pretty good idea to have one sec
tion devoted too books written
by authors who have lived in Gr
iffin or who have had connec
tions with Griffin.
Suggest that others who might
be interested in such a Griffin
collection begin checking to see
if they have any books authored
by Griffinites. Believe one will
be surprised at the large number
of Griffinites who have had
books published.
Just off hand Good Evening
can think of several. He h a s co
pies of some of these which he
will be glad to donate to the lib
rary.
Some of the books that would
be of special interest are histor
ies of various churches, clubs
and of the city and county.
There are also many books,
authored by Griffinites, that
have had pretty wide circulation.
Included are books by Charles
Mills, the author of several; the
late Miss Jessie Pearl Rice, “The
Old Hokum Bucket" by the late
Ernie Rogers, several written by
Douglas Kiker, one-time mana
ger of the Spalding High School
football team; and numerous
books written by Dr. Charles Al
len, who lived in Griffin as a boy
when his father was pastor of
the Griffin Circuit of Methodist
Churches.
Then there are books about for
mer Griffin people such as "Doc
Holliday”, who was born in Gr
iffin. Baptismal records of the
First Presbyterian Chur c h
here show he was baptized as
an “infant” on March 21, 1852.
It is to be presumed that this
date was close to his birthdate.
Records also show that the Hol
liday family owned property on
West Solomon street before mov
ing to Valdosta.
Also, probably, there are peo
ple here who have books, or
letters, or clippings that tell
something of such men as the
Georgia poet, Sidney Lanier, who
born in Macon, was living here
with his parents, when he w a s
christened at the Griffin First
Presbyterian Church. His broth
er Clifford was born here.
Then there may be some pa
pers, letters or such that tell of
"Little Joe” Wheeler, Confede
rate cavalry commander, who
had his headquarters here when
Sherman staged his march to the
sea; and of James Stoddard Bo
ynton, who became governor of
Georgia, when "Little Alex” St
evens died; and of others.
Then there may be papers, let
ters or such that tell of Griffin’s
many colleges in days gone by,
such as Marshall College, Grif
fin Female College, the Synodi
cal College, and one of the
first medical colleges in Georgia,
founded in 1858 by Dr. E. F.
Knott, and the old Sam Bailey
Institute.
The Griffin Female College
was located in the corner of W.
College and Eighth, where the
Colonial Stores now stands; the
Synodical College was on South
Sixth where Griffin High is lo
cated; the medical college was
on Broadway, the building still
standing just across the tracks
from the Central of Georgia fr
eight depot; and original Sam
Bailey building, still part of the
Griffin High facilities.
Then, too, there are histories
of Griffin by Judge Lucien
Goodrich, published in the Cen
tennial edition of the Griffin Da
ily News in 1940; and a history
of Griffin written by Quimby
Melton, Jr., editor of the Griffin
Daily News.
It is possible, with the coopera
tion of others to create a Grif
fin section in the new GHS lib
rary that would be of tremend
ous interest and value to our
community.
Country Parson
“I guess folks are just as
happy as they ever were—
they’re just too busy to
notice it.” ,
The Policeman’s Side Oi Story
By TOM TIEDE
NEA Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO — (NEA) — Frank
Crawford sags back into a chair.
He twists a bit to allow for the
gun on his hip, and he folds his
hands into his lap.
Frank Crawford’s a cop. Chi
cago P.D.
It’s a lousy job, sometimes.
The pay is too short, the hours
too long, and somebody is forev
er trying to shoot a hole into
somebody else’s head.
A husband and wife brawl. The
wife calls a cop. The cop arrests
the husband. Next morning, the
cop goes to court to find the
case dismissed. The husband
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Toxic Mold
Found In
Peanuts
By ED ROGERS
WASHINGTON (UPD—Toxic
mold, capable of producing can
cer in young poultry, has been
found in 32,358 tons of peanuts
harvested so far this year.
The Agirculture Department
said Monday hot, rainy weather
boosted by as much as 15 per
cent the amount of toxic mold
found in this year’s harvest.
Peanuts with toxic mold are
dumped from the market and
kept from human consumption.
A department spokesman said
that of 513,549 tons checked in
the Georgia - Alabama - Florida
peanut belt this year, 31,092
tons were dumped because of
mold.
In Texas, 1,266 of 47,403 tons
of peanuts were found to have
toxic mold. The national aver
age was estimated at 5.7 per
cent of about 561,000 tons.
To check peanuts for the
mold, samples are taken as each
load is brought from the farmer
to the sheller. One contaminated
peanut means the entire load is
thrown out.
Additional after-shelling tests
are used as a safeguard.
The Agriculture Department
said a scare several years ago
over toxic insect sprays used
on cranberries prompted new
methods to check peanuts for
the toxic mold.
Marketing agreements made
in 1965 handle the problem of
disposing of such peanuts by
the government buying molded
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Daily Since 1872
and wife have made up and are
instead filing charges of police
brutality.
“Never fails,” Officer Craw
ford sighs. “The cop always tak
es the rap.”
Franklin Delano Crawford, age
31, voices the near unanimous
opinion of the 12,000-man Chica
go police department when he
laments the policeman’s plight.
Many cops here feel they have
become little more than society’s
kicking dog.
The feeling has been festering
for years. But it has ripened to
an open wound since the events
of the Democratic National Con
vention. Police action then evok-
Sports Criticizes
William Norton For
Long Count Charge
ATLANTA (UPD—State Dem
ocratic executive secretary Joe
Sports charged today that Wil
liam L. Norton knew he was
10,000 votes behind in the State
Court of Appeals race at least
two days before he began blast
ing Sports for a “long count.”
Sports said a friend of Nor
ton’s, John Zeller of Atlanta,
spent Friday afternoon going
over the official returns, then
called Norton to tell him
he was running behind incum
bent George P. Whitman.
Norton said early this week
he feared he had been "counted
out,” and hinted he thought
some irregularities might be in
volved in the slow count.
“I regret that he (Norton)
feels I am persecuting him, but
I assure him I am not,” Sports
said.
Party officials said Monday
the final vote count would not
be known until today.
In another close judicial elec
tion, Chief Justice W. H. Duck
worth of the State Supreme
Court was declared the primary
winner without a runoff when
late votes were counted Mon
day.
Duckworth had 6,078 votes
more than needed for a major
ity with all except a few Bul
lock County votes tabulated. The
Bullock votes were not enough
to change the outcome.
Duckworth had 384,198 votes
to John Westmoreland’s 312,504
and William Steis’ 65,616.
In the Appeals Court contest
between Norton and Whitman,
it had appeared Norton was the
winner after many returns were
counted in Wednesday’s pri
mary.
But when party officials be
gan counting the votes during
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Besco Products Co., of Zebulon is having to dump hundreds of tons of pimientos
because the strike-bound plant is not in operation. Besco has filed million dollar
damage suits against Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a
labor union in Pike County Superior Court as a result of the strike. It started as
part of a school boycott in Zebulon but has continued after the school dispute
was settled. Pickets in front of the plant daily carry signs saying employes are seek
ing union recognition. The pimientos, purchased under contract, had been stored in
refrigeration units at Macon but plant officials have decided they will be unable
to process the mhtis season and decided to dum pthem near Zebulon.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, September 17,1968
ed national condemnation. And
Chicago cops have been bitterly
stung by it.
Six years on the force and Of
ficer Crawford has had it all. The
robberies, the murders, the
punks torturing the winos for a
few cents change. Sick. He dig
ests his dinners on the shrieks of
women who have been raped.
Crawford is supposed to stop
the rapes, stop the robberies, the
murders, the punks. It doesn’t
work out that way.
Says Officer Crawford: “I’ve
been called everything. . .pig,
monster: Why? I did my job,
that’s why. I am paid to help
preserve law and order in the
the weekend, Whitman turned
out with a 10,000-vote lead.
“Os course, I’m waiting to
see, but I have great fears that
somehow or another, I’ve been
counted out here,” Norton said
Monday.
“Naturally, when something
takes this long, people begin to
wonder about the correctness of
the information that we’re get
ting from these counties,” Nor
ton said of the later returns.
Clothing Drive
Planned Here
On September 30
The Griffin Kiwanis Club will
sponsor its annual clothing drive
Monday, Sept. 30, beginning at 7
p.m.
Lee Roy Claxton will be chair
man.
Assisting Kiwanis members will
be Boy Scout troops and Key
Club members.
They will call house to house
and gather usable clothing for
school age children in the Grif
fin-Spalding System. The sc
hool system maintains a cloth
ing bank for students who need
help.
Clothing is distributed by fac
ulty members.
Kiwanis Club members have
asked that Griffinites begin now
to gather the clothing they can
contribute to the drive.
“Have your clothing packed
and ready to be picked up and
leave your porch light on Sept.
30 so the drive can be finished
quickly,” Chairman Claxton ask
ed.
NEWS
city and during the convention I
did it the best way I could.”
The way Frank Crawford pre
served law and order during the
convention was to use "minimal
force and follow orders.” As a
member of the elite Tactical Unit
division, he says he did exactly
this throughout the street brawl
ing.
He denies he was brutal. He
denies he overreacted. He ad
mits he used his nightstick on
occasion, but never without pro
vocation.
This is his side of the story.
He says he was snarled in a
number of incidents during that
week, but the one he remembers
best was “the flagpole affair.”
He believes it best illustrates the
tactics the police tried to use.
Crawford’s eight-man Tactical
Unit received a call to investi
gate a gathering at the band
shell in Grant Park.
On arrival, the police observed
“8,000 to 9,000” people clustered
around the bandshell. The people
WEATHER
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cloudy and warm
with scattered showers and th
undershowers tonight and Wed
nesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
68, maximum Monday 81, mini
mum Monday 63. Total rainfall
.02 of an inch. Sunrise Wednes
day 7:25 a.m., sunset Wednes
day 7:43 p.m.
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Move Library
Members of the Junior Woman’s Club of Griffin helped transfer books from the
old library to the new library at Third Ward School. It was one of the club’s pro
jects. Helping move the books were (1-r) Mrs. Rhett Glover, Mrs. Robert Branch,
Mrs. Douglas Bell and Mrs. Charles Wynne. Principal Layman Hattaway watched
as they placed books on shelves in the new library, which was completed this
month.
Gov. Maddox Proposes
Wallace, Daley Ticket
Vol. 95 No. 222
were mostly young, but Craw
ford recalls some adults also
mingling in the crowd. The cops
set up observation 50 yards aw
ay.
At 2:15 p.m., according to Cr
awford, an unidentified speaker
began to talk about “the rebirth
of the nation.” The speaker call
ed for the tearing down of the old
nation, beginning with the signs
and symbols of the old nation.
At that time, Crawford says,
the speaker pointed to a large
American flag (Chicago city
property) and enlisted some
of the crowd to help him “burn
it down” and raise instead the
red flag.
On the order, Crawford says,
the crowd surged for the flag.
The police immediately radio
ed for instructions. An area com
mander told them simply to
“protect the flag.” Eight police
men hustled to the pole.
Crawford remembers that the
Continued on page six
N. Viet Troops
Kill 25 Marines
By JACK LOFTUS
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Les
ter Maddox has proposed a
George Wallace-Richard Daley
ticket and said Monday he
would back the former Alabama
governor and the Chicago may
or.
Maddox, who had dodged a
formal Wallace endorsement for
weeks, said under questioning
by reporters Monday he endors
es Wallace and will campaign
for the third party candidate.
Os Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey, the Democrat nom
inee, Maddox said, “Humphrey
is dead. He’s out of the picture.
There’s no chance for him.”
He predicted Humphrey would
carry five or six states. Mad
dox gave Republican Richard
M. Nixon 30 states, but said he
would campaign as strongly
against Nixon as against Hum
phrey.
None of this, Maddox contend,
ed, will take him out of the
ranks of the Democratic Party.
He has vowed to remain a Dem
ocrat.
“So far, I’ve never been a
part of the national Democratic
Party. They claim they don’t
want us,” Maddox explained.
He said Wallace “is speaking
the voice of what most Ameri
can people want.” The Georgia
governor introduced Wallace to
a rally Saturday in Albany as
“the man I would support if I
were you as the voters of this
country."
When asked Monday if his Al
bany statement should be con
sidered an endorsement of Wal
lace, Maddox replied, “I sup-
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A MISSILE left its mark on Gregory Kyritz, 21, a
cop who had to undergo plastic surgery.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
pose so. I’m not opposing my
friend, George Wallace.”
“I’ll be going to many places
to speak on his behalf,” Mad
dox said. He later amended that
remark to say he would stump
“on behalf of the conservatives
and against socialists and liber
als.”
He also said he might try for
the 1972 presidential nomination
in the Democratic Party. He
tried it briefly this year but
pulled out when half his dele
gate slate to the Democratic
National Convention was re
fused seats and replaced by a
slate led by Juian Bond, a Ne
gro state representative from
Atlanta.
Wallace
On Wisconsin
Ballot
MADISON, Wis. (UPD—Third
party candidate George C. Wal
lace will be on the Nov. 5 bal
lot in Wisconsin where he cap
tured 34 per cent of the vote
as a Democrat in the 1964 pres
idential primary.
Wallace backers filed a peti
tion with the secretary of
state’s office Monday, one day
before the deadline. The peti
tion was accompanied by 17,000
signatures, although only 3,000
were needed.
126 Wounded
In Surprise
Attacks
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON UPD—North Viet
namese troops In two surprise
attacks killed 25 U.S. Marines
and wounded 126 near the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Mon
day and routed an entire South
Vietnamese Ranger battalion
which fled for its life near Dan
Nang early today.
U.S. advisers with the South
Vietnamese said there w’as
mass confusion in the dark and
that they also had to flee
through rice paddies and rivers
in the confused action which
killed 27 South Vietnamese.
Another 200 men in the
battalion were reported missing.
The advisers said the batta
lion had begun to move to a
new position 10 miles south of
Da Nang when it was hit with
rockets and a ground attack in
the early morning darkness.
The Communists charged with
grenades and the South Vietna
mese broke and ran.
The North Vietnamese used
the same tactics against the
U.S. Marines on a ridgeline four
miles south of the Demilitarized
Zone —a heavy mortar attack
followed by a ground assault.
The Marines held and killed 27
of the North Vietnamese,
driving them off.
An American adviser with the
South Vietnamese, one of four
attacked to the unit, said the
South Vietnamese had killed
more than 200 North Vietna
mese in battles during the past
few days but buckled under the
surprise attack.
“We started out after dark to
move across a field and then
they hit us with rockets and the
whole operation fell apart,’’ a
U.S. survivor said.
“The South Vietnamese
wouldn't move during the day
and when they tried moving
after dark they got completely
messed up.”
Under a hail of rocket fire
two squads of Communists
charged through the South
Vietnamese positions throwing
grenades. The allied troops
scattered in every direction and
the Ranger command post was
overrun and radio communica
tions were knocked out.
The four Americans fled into
a field, swam across a river
where one of them nearly
drowned and then crawled to a
sister unit, the 21st Ranger
Battalion.
Committee
Approves
Abe Fortas
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
controversial nomination of Abe
Fortas to be chief justice was
approved 10 to 6, today by the
Senate Judiciary Committee
and sent to the floor. But its
fate was uncertain because of t
threatened filibuster.