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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
It was an exciting ball game
Friday night those injury-plag
ued Eagles of ours played, that
i resulted in a 21-21 tie.
Despite the fact that several
key players were handicapped by
injuries from which they had not
, completely recovered; despite
the fact that several who were
in good condition for the game
became so injured during the
first half and could not play at
• all during the second half; the
fan-packed stands saw one of
the most exiting games ever
■ played at Memorial Park.
• We’re not alibing one bit, just
reporting the facts.
Neither are we discounting the
strength and ability of the visit-
• Ing Gordon team. They will bear
watching. Their quarterback
whom it was said is a “fresh
man”; coupled with several
, hard running backs and good
ends, and that giant lineman who
might be properly called “Man
Mountain” — as once was a big
wrestler in Georgia — make up
• a team that will give others in
the region plenty of trouble.
Good Evening believes Griffin
fans have every reason to be pr-
• oud of the Eagles and the game
they played last night. He cer
tainly is.
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• Thursday morning Good Even
ing had an unusual and most
Interesting interview with an at
tractive young lady who came to
, our office.
Recently she graduated from
one of Georgia’s leading colleg
es, where she had spent four ye
ars after completing her high
• school education at GHS. She is
a native Griffinite.
During her years at college
, she searched for true happiness
• and one day suddenly awakened
to the fact that true happiness is
more than just excitement and
pleasure. It was then she fully
• accepted The Master, and pled
ged to “go where you want me
to go.” As a result of this she
has volunteered for service in
_ “The Campus Crusade for
• Christ” and will soon leave for
Crusade headquarters in Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Before coming by our office
• this young lady had called us at
home to make an appointment.
She said “I have good news I
want to share with you.”
• I’m glad she called and made
the appointment; I’m glad s^e
kept the appointment; and I’m
glad she told me the "good
, news”. If ever Good Evening has
seen a young lady as radiantly
happy, as thoroughly convinc
ed, as determined to witness for
' The Master, it was this Griffin
‘ born girl. This young lady is no
“hippie, yippie, or screwball”.
She is a beautiful, talented girl
who is convinced that her mis-
• sion in life Is to “tell the world”
of her experience, while a stud
ent at college, that has brought
her true happiness and a re-
• warding life.
Good Evening has always be
lieved that, in spite of the pessL
mistic viewpoint of some others,
the young people of today are
just as sincere, just as good
and clean, just as anxious to do
their part to make this a better
• world in which to live, as any
generation of youth has ever
been.
We pin our faith on them, con-
• fident that they will live up to
our high estimation of them.
And this is in spite of the fact
that the antics of a small minor
o ity of youth, who because of over
exposure publicly, have created
an “image” of a generation out
to destroy the decent, bury the
good, neglect the unfortunate,
° and lead the nation and world in
’ to destruction.
And it is just such young lad
ies as the one who called on
’ Good Evening Tuesday morning
who are examples of just how
fine our young folk are.
Country Parson
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“I’m afraid it’s getting so
more folks have the courage
to speak than have the wis
dom to listen.”
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A pass from Donnie Robison to Larry Chambers (25) is broken up in the second
quarter. The play was controversial. Some players and fans thought Chambers
was hit before the ball arrrved and that interference should have been called.
Eagles, Gordon
Knot At 21-21
By ROGER DIX
“Have you ever seen a football
team fall apart like this?”
The question was asked by a
member of the Griffin Eagles
Friday night and it pretty w e 11
summed up the general feeling
of the entire squad.
The Eagles battled the Gordon
Generals to a 21-21 tie but the
players realized they were push
ed all over Memorial Stadium.
Gordon won the game every
where except the score.
“We didn’t deserve to win af
ter playing like this,” an Eagle
said as he left the field.
Gordon out rushed the Eagles
141 yards to 73. Gordon outpass
ed the Eagles 190 yards to 132.
Gordon made 17 first downs to
Griffin’s five.
Gordon had a whopping 331 to
tal yards to Griffin’s 205.
Although the Eagles led 14-7
at halftime, Gordon had the up
per hand in the statistics.
The Generals ran up nine fir
st downs, 37 yards rushing and
126 yards passing in the first
24 minutes. Griffin had one first
down, 51 net yards rushing
(those came on a beautiful 58
YARDSTICK
Griffin . Gordon
First Downs 5 17
Rushing 73 141
Passing 132 190
Passes Atte m pted 17 24
Passes Completed 5 16
Fumbles Lost 11
Interceptions 5 2
Penalties 25 44
Punt Averages 30 39
yard touchdown run by Kenneth
Hand) and three yards passing.
Griffin handled the ball only
five times from scrimmage in
the first quarter. Gordon handled
the ball 18 times.
The Eagles handled 13 snaps
in the second quarter to Gor
don’s 24.
Kenneth Hand, who played a
fine game, scored two of Grif
fin’s touchdowns. James Black
made the other.
The Eagles’ first TD came
early in the second quarter.
The Gordon punter dropped the
snap from center, picked up the
ball and tried to run but was
knocked down at the Gordon two
by Quimby Melton.
Hand plunged over for the sc
ore.
Hand scored again in the se
cond quarter on a fine 58-yard
run.
Gordon’s first TD came on a 44
yard pass from quarterback Ron
nie Pearce to end Butch Tippins.
Griffin’s final score came af
ter Johnny Baker intercepted a
Gordon pass and returned it to
the Eagles’ 37.
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Donnie Robison hit Baker with
a 10 yard strike, and Black gain
ed one yard on a plunge before
Robison and Jeff Allen teamed
on a 48 yard pass to the Gordon
three.
Black plunged over two plays
later. He kicked the extra point
and Griffin had a 21-7 lead mid
way of the third.
However, the Generals weren’t
out of the game. Gordon took the
kickoff and drove 71 yards for a
touchdown. Most of the yards
came on power running of Ron
nie Luisford.
A three yard pass from half
back Gary Vance to Regie Elk
ins was good for the score.
Gordon drove 64 yards for the
tying TD. It was the running of
Luisford and Jimmy Addison
that ate up most of the yardage.
Luisford scored the TD on a 14
yard sweep. The PAT was good
and the score was tied 21-21 with
three minutes 25 seconds left in
the final quarter.
The Eagles tried for a last
second comeback but a field goal
kick by Black sailed wide.
A 52-yard pass from Robison
to Larry Chambers set up the
last second field goal attempt.
Although the Eagles Intercep
ted two passes, one by Baker and
the other by Chambers, Pearce
picked the secondary to pieces,
especially in the first half.
He completed 10 of 14 passes
for 126 yards in the first half. A
couple of passes were dropped.
The Eagles’ defense had trou
ble rushing the passer and Pe
arce was able to pick the open
receivers.
Part of Griffin’s ineffectivenes
was caused by the growing in
jury list.
Craig Bozeman, the Eagles’
top linebacker, did not play.
Quimby Melton, who made
three big plays in the first half,
Francine Stayed Home
NEW YORK (UPD—Francine ’
Gottfried, the girl the girlwatch
ers watch on Wall Street, took ,
the day off Friday and if the :
market didn’t crash, it buckled, j
Police estimated the crowd at 1
10,000 along the crooked streets
near the New York Stock .
Exchange, on rooftops, in
windows. The metal roofs of
four cars crumpled under the
weight of staid stockbrokers
who climbed on top for a better
view.
They waited in vain for
Francine, a 21-year-old compu
ter operator from Brooklyn
whose 43-25-37 figure has driven i
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Sept. 21-22, 1968
suffered a shoulder separation
and will be sidelined for at least
six weeks.
Melton set up Griffin’s first
touchdown when he dropped the
Gordon punter at his own two
yard line.
He was injured when he tack
led the Gordon quarterback for a
six yard loss.
He was taken to the Griffin-Sp
alding Hospital where the shoul
der separation was treated. He
returned to Memorial Stadium
late in the second half after le
arning that the injury would
keep him out of the lineup about
six weeks.
Bruce Colwell suffered an ank
le injury in the first quarter and
was sidelined the rest of the
game.
The absence of Melton, Boze
man, and Colwell was a tremen
dous blow to Griffin’s defense.
And, in addition to those, sev
eral players are nursing lesser
injuries.
HO-HUM
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD—It
was all in a day’s work for
police inspector Harold Suslow.
He was doing paper work
Friday in police headquarters
when he heard of a wild chase
by police of a stolen car
heading his way at speeds of 80
miles an hour. Suslow walked
outside and shot out the left
rear tire of the stolen car as it
sped by. He then strolled back
inside.
Officers quickly caught up
with the vehicle and arrested
Jerry Bonds, 20, on suspicion of
car theft.
Wall Street daffy.
On Thursday, 5,000 turned out
to watch her stroll in a tight
yellow sweater and red skirted
from the BMT subway station
to her job in a nearby bank.
But for sanity’s sake, she
stayed home Friday.
“It’s all crazy,” the 5-foot-4,
brunette said. “These people
have all the responsibility of
handling millions of dollars and
they act like they’re out of their
minds.”
Francine said she has had
inquiries from film studios,
talent agents and television
shows, including a TV talk
Reds Scatter
Under Pounding
Enemy Was
Poised For
Saigon Attack
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON UPI) — Two-thou
sand U.S. Marines pushing
south from the border of North
Vietnam today reported only
faint traces of the 7,000
Communist troops their intel
ligence officers said were
massing in the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ).
North Vietnamese units ap
parently avoided the dragnet by
slipping into the rugged moun
tain terrain in the western
sector of the buffer zone. The
Marines went into the six-mile
wide strip Tuesday to find
Communists said to be poised
there for an invasion of the
South.
South Vietnamese troops re
ported killing 148 Communist
troops today at an outpost 40
miles northwest of Saigon.
Allied troops reported killing at
least 270 Reds today and Friday
in heavy fighting around the
capital and close to the nearby
Cambodian border.
Captured Communist do
cuments have indicated the
Reds planned to begin a third
offensive on the capital Monday.
The DMZ operation began
Tuesday when helicopters air
lifted assault teams from the
4th and 9th Regiments of the
3rd Marine Division to the
banks of the Ben Hai River
which runs through the center
of the buffer strip. The
operation was disclosed Friday.
The leapfrog tactic, unortho
dox by comparison with pre
vious DMZ probes which swept
up from south to north, put the
Leatherneck force between the
reported Communist force and
their North Vietnamese sanc
tuary.
The Marines reported killing
110 Communists and capturing
500 rifles in the first four days of
the southern sweep. U.S.
casualties were described as
“light.” Some Marines keeled
over from the effects of the 110-
degree heat.
U.S. 852 bombers supported
the operation with their deepest
raids into North Vietnamese
territory. Spokesmen said pilots
dropped two million pounds of
bombs on Communist positions
as far as 10 miles north of the
buffer strip.
Government spokesmen in
Saigon said South Vietnamese
Marines and regional forces
today crushed the second Red
Assault in two days at their
outpost 40 miles northwest of
Saigon. They said the defenders
killed 173 Communists in the
two defenses at a cost of 14
killed and 60 wounded.
In other fighting near the
capital reported today, a U.S.
infantry patrol trapped a
Communist platoon near Tay
Ninh City, 53 miles to the
northwest. They reported killing
19 Communists at a cost of two
wounded.
show.
; “They asked me to wear the
l same sweater I wore yesterday
[ and to bring in a knitted dress
i as well,” Francine said. "It’s
insane. There are thousands of
> girls on Wall Street and they
act as though I’m the only
one.”
’ Most of the 10,000 persons
; who caused traffic jams for
[ blocks around the corner of
. Wall and Broad Streets were
men, but many women also
waited to see Francine.
I “We’re just as curious as the
, men are,” said one pretty
i secretary. “We’re just as nice
: as she is—just not as big.”
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Wayne, Bill and Larry Shivers.
Three Pike Brothers
Are State Patrolmen
Three Pike County brothers i
are the first three brothers to
become Georgia State Patrol- (
men. Two are stationed in Gris- ,
fin and the other is stationed ,
in Manchester. (
Wayne, Bill and Larry Shivers ]
are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. El
ton Shivers of Route One, Zebu- j
lon. i
Bill and Larry are stationed at
Post One in Griffin and Wayne ’
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Man Bitten In
Snake Battle
STATENVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
Paul Hennison lost a skirmish
in his fang and bottle battle
Friday with a rattlesnake, but
doctors said he probably will
win the war.
Hennison, 34, said he was
driving when he spotted the rat
tler crawling along the highway.
Hennison stopped his car, got
out and attacked the snake with
a soft drink bottle.
As Hennison flailed away with
the bottle, the rattler struck
back, biting Hennison on the
right index finger. Undaunted,
Hennison persisted, finally do
ing in the snake.
He drove to a nearby house
and called police, telling them
of the snake bite, and was
rushed to a hospital.
COSTLY BARGAIN
ALBRIDGE - BROWNHILLS,
England (UPl)—The local Town
Council bought for $2.40 an
unused railway bridge it wanted
disposed of. But councilmen
learned Thursday it will cost
them $3,600 to have it demo
lished.
is stationed in Manchester.
Wayne was stationed at the
Griffin Post for a short while as ;
a license examiner. Larry also ,
was a license examiner at the
Griffin Post. Both have been .
promoted to trooper.
Bill was stationed at Canton
before being transferred to Gr- ■
iffin.
They were born and reared in :
Pike County and graduated from 1
HHH Offers
Nixon Talc
By United Press International
Hubert H. Humphrey, trying
to seize the offensive against
Richard M. Nixon, says he’s
going to send Nixon some
talcum powder to cure “the
saddle sores he must be getting
from all that straddling” of the :
issues.
"Now wait a minute,” de- '
manded Nixon as he faced ,
another hostile critic in his race .
for the White House.
The comments came Friday i
in the increasingly ascerbic
presidential campaign. ,
Humphrey, in Louisville, Ky., ,
stepped up his “give ’em hell”
attack on Nixon by describing
the GOP candidate as leader of
a party of “slow learners who (
are hard of hearing.”
He said Nixon was handing ;
Americans “a generous bundle ■
of generalities and a plentitude .
of platitudes.” He said Nixon’s
policies would “make a bowl of ,
Jello look like cement.”
Nixon Accused (
Nixon meanwhile faced a
Philadelphia television announ. ]
cer who accused the Republican
presidential candidate of “being
so amorphous on Vietnafn
Pike County High School.
Bill and Larry live with their
families on Route One, Zebulon.
Wayne and his family live in
Warm Springs.
Bill is married to the former
Rosa Bennett. They have two
children, Tim and Kim. Larry is
married to the former Shirley
McLean. They have a daughter,
Lynn. Wayne is married to the
former Jerri Carson. They also
have a daughter, Kristal.
(that) it really is tantamount to
your asking the voters to the
ballot box and vote for you in
response to nothing but a wink
and a smile.”
Nixon’s response to TV
personality Jack McKinney,
prefaced by a stout “now wait a
minute” was a strong stand
against any settlement in
Vietnam that would “impose by
negotiation a coalition govern
ment with Communists” on
South Vietnam. “That will be an
encouragement not only to the
North Vietnamese but to the
Communist Chinese and the
Soviet Union to try it again,”
Nixon said.
Draws Crowd
Nixon drew an estimated
250,000 to 300,000 in downtown
Philadelphia Friday, a city in
which he must do well if he
hopes to capture Pennsylvania’s
important block of 29 electoral
votes. Nixon’s crowd was bigger
and more enthusiastic than one
for Humphrey 10 days ago
estimated at 125,000.
In other political develop
ments:
George C. Wallace—The thlrd-
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