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By Quimby Melton
Thursday afternoon Good Even
ing was present when the Grif
fin Area Chapter for Retarded
Children dedicated their new-
* est project - - The Sheltered
Workshop for Older Youth — lo
cated on Hamilton Boulevard.
Many people, interested in the
* fine program of the Chapter
were present, and many others,
who could not be present becau
se of prior engagements, sent
> words of congratulations.
It was a wonderful meeting.
Those present, seated beneath
large pecan trees that skirted a
> four acre tract that had been
purchased for this project, were
thrilled at the prospects of work
of the Chapter being expanded,
i» so as to help additional handi
capped children.
And as the audience listened to
civic leaders pledge their person
” al, and their organization’s sup
port and aid of the Chapter, one,
If they had the same reaction as
did Good Evening, felt assur-
* ed of the success of this venture
into new fields of service.
(One could not help but recall
how some years ago a small gr
oup of people started the "Play
to Learn” school here, in one
small room in a private home,
how the work progressed, and
* how today the school is held at
the Episcopal Church. Already
the Chapter has grown into one
of the greatest assets our com-
* munity has — the horizon of
continued achievement in this
worthwhile program lies bright
ly ahead.
During the dedication exercis
es, Thursday afternoon, Ralph
Dougherty, chairman of the
Chapter, who acted as master of
» ceremonies, extended a three
fold invitation to those present.
One of them hit this man right
between the eyes.
’ He said that he wanted to in
vite all to attend the meeting
next year, after the “Shelter
ed Workshop” has finished its
first year, and expressed the
hope that by that time “we will
at least have the foundation laid
for a building that will enable us
■> to have all of our activities on
one campus.”
Though his statement was just
tn “invitation” to be present,
4 and in no wise was a "challen
ge” for all to help the Chapter
in erecting such a building, still
to this one it was truly a chal
, lenge.
We know of no greater invest
ment one can make than to join
Chapter members in this pro
ject. “Investment?” Yes. An “in
’ vestment” in an unselfish pro
gram that will result in as great
a forward step in the overall en
largement of the work of the
> Chapter, which has brought to
Griffin one of its greatest assets.
Come on Griffin,
Have a Heart!
— ♦ —
Here is an example of Ameri
' canism at its best.
, Thursday evening more than
1,000 people attended a dinner at
an Atlanta hotel to honor Dr. Lo
uie Newton. He, long affectiona
tely known as “Mr. Baptist”, is
' retiring as pastor of the Druid
Hills Baptist Church.
Now, honoring Dr. Newton is
nothing new, for this minister
’ has a bushel basket full of aw
ards; honorary degrees enou
gh to paper a wall.
What sort of a crowd was It
»* that met this time to honor him?
The man who presided was re
tired Bishop Arthur J. Moore, of
the Methodist Church. He and
- Dr. Newton are longt 1m e
' friends;
Those present included Pro
testants, of many denomina
tions, Catholics, and Jews. The
’** president of the Georgia Baptist
Convention gave the Invocation,
a Jewish Rabbi read the Scrip
i) ture — the first Psalm; and a
' Catholic priest gave the benedic
tion. That will give one an idea
of how the various faiths joined
to honor Mr. Baptist.
Dr. and Mrs. Newton were
presented a silver service as a
token of love. Dr. Pierce Harris,
Methodist, made the presenta
' tlon. Engraved on the service
was “They have personified
everlasting principles and eter
nal values.”
Joining together of those of
' many faiths to honor Dr.
and Mrs. Newton is an illustra
tion of “One Nation Under
. God”. Under God’s leadership
and with all men working toge
ther in harmony that goal can be
obtained.
Good Deed Foils Crime
WHITTIER, Calif. (UPD—AII
the guy was trying to do was
rob a bank.
And all the little old lady was
trying to do was a good deed.
She saw this young man about
25 park his car in the lot of the
Crocker-Citizens branch, and
noticed he left his keys in the
ignition switch.
So she grabbed the keys and
trailed him into the bank where
she found him talking to a
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WHAT SEEMS to be football goal posts in front of the Capital in Washington
are steel supports for a camera stand for the upcoming presidential inauguration.
Wallace In Montgomery
Nixon Hits At War Issue;
HIIII Raps ‘Stormtroopers’
Maddox Blames
‘Outsiders’
In Waycross
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPD—The
week -old city school boycott
by Negro students got a week
end respite today, amidst
charges that the protest, call
ing for speedier Integration, was
being led by “professional agi
tators.”
“Some people from outside are
involved down there,” declared
Gov. Lester Maddox Friday, as
the walkout by nearly 2,000 Ne
gro public school students went
into its fourth day.
He charged that “profession
al agitators are trying to cre
ate a disturbance,” and said
residents should “not be led in
to a situation harmful to their
city and their state.”
The boycott, which has includ
ed pickets at nearly all of the
schools and a sit - down demon
stration Thursday at the city’s
busiest intersection, has re
mained peaceful.
Demonstrators have listed five
grievances, saying that school
officials have been lagging in
desegregation.
The school board promised
this week to resolve one of the
grievances, reassigning students
so that some Negro pupils would
not have to walk three miles
to school. But, other than that,
they said the integration plan
currently in effect had been ap
proved by federal authorities.
“We hope to have a settle
ment soon,” said School Supt.
S. C. Adamson, but he added
that there had been no official
overtures on either side to set
tle the problem.
Waycross Police Chief Ray
Pope, who suffered a stroke
during Thursday’s street sit-in,
meanwhile, was reported “im
proving” Friday at Baptist Hos
pital in nearby Jacksonville,
Fla.
Hospital officials said the po
lice chief, who underwent sur
gery for "subdura hematoma,”
or bleeding in the area of the
brain, responded to the opera
tion successfully.
Friday only 116 Negro stu
dents of some 2,000 in the city
school system attended classes,
while white attendance was at
95 per cent.
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teller.
“Young man,” she scolded,
“somebody’s going to get their
car stolen if they don’t stop
leaving the keys.”
What she didn’t know was
that the young man had just
told the teller he had a gun and
wanted a lot of money.
The robber stared at her—and
gave up. Snatching the keys, he
dashed out of the bank, got in
his car and drove away.
By United Pr c Ss International
Richard M. Nixon, campaign
ing Friday in Kentucky, Tennes
see and Florida, told 10,000
cheering backers in Chattanoo
ga that during his eight years
as vice president, “we ended
one war and kept us out of
another.”
The GOP nominee contrasted
the Eisenhower-Nixon adminis
tration with the Johnson-
Humphrey administration that
he said had Invested enormous
sums of money and men in
Vietnam only to get bogged
down in an unpopular war.
Hubert H. Humphrey, cam
paigning in Portland, Ore.,
countered the Nixon claim by
charging that the nation had
experienced three recessions
during the Eisenhower years
and warned that a vote for the
Republican candidate in Novem
ber would be a vote for “Back
to McKinley” economic policies.
On a different note, Hum
phrey also said he was being
systematically harassed by well
organized “stormtroopers ...
American style Hitler Youth.”
The vice president, angered by
about 250 shouting hecklers
during an evening rally at
Portland, vowed that the
demonstrators who have been
plaguing him around the coun
try would not “drive me from
the platform.”
Nixon, bidding for votes in
the South, said any voters who
vote for Wallace because they
believe there are no differences
between the two leading pres
idntial contenders, would be
wasting their ballot.
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“Some folks do great
things singlehandedly — be
cause it’s easier than finding
someone willing to help.”
5-STAR WEEKEND
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Sept. 28-29, 1968
Weather:
—
PARTLY CLOUDY
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair tonight
and Sunday. Cool again tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 83, minimum today
63, maximum Friday 83, mini
mum Friday 60. Sunrise Sunday
7:32 a.m., sunset Sunday 7:28
p.m.
“It would ne a mistake for
any angry Americans to throw
away their vote on a third party
fling,” Nixon told 8,000 persons
in Tampa, Fla.
Wallace, meanwhile, conti
nued to rest in Montgomery,
Ala., where he was at the same
time consulting aides in prepa
ration for a campaign trip into
industrial areas of the midwest
and northeast next week.
In other political develop
ments:
Spiro Agnew—The Maryland
governor told newsmen at the
National Press Club in Washing
ton that the Fortas nomination
would never have caused such
an uproar in the Senate if Chief
Justice Earl Warren, a Republi
can, had waited until after the
general elections to announce
his retirement. Agnew said
Warren was a fine judge but
that he owed his high position to
the GOP and should have
spared the party embarrass
ment over the Fortas nomina
tion.
Edmund Muskie—The Demo
cratic vice presidential candi
date, stumping in Michigan,
said “we must risk Injury in
order to build justice in urban
America.” The Maine senator
told lunchtime crowds in the
industrial cities of Midland,
Saginaw and Bay City that
violence, injury and unrest are
endemic to social change and
that “too many Americans have
forgotten this is the way we
built a great country.”
Clothing Drive
Monday Night
The Griffin Kiwanis Club will
stage its annual clothing drive
Monday night beginning at 7 o’-
clock.
Scouts, Key Club members and
Kiwanis members will report to
the Kroger Parking lot to begin
the drive. Officials have asked
that Griffinites leave their por
ch lights on so those calling for
the clothing can make their
rounds quickly and safely.
Clothing collected during the
drive will be repaired where ne
cessary, cleaned and stored in a
Griffin-Spalding clothing bank. It
NEWS
Commies Shell
Green Berets
Defenders Call For
Charlie Ridge Hits
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—Communist
soldiers shelled a northern U.S.
Special Forces camp and tried
overrunning three South Vietna
mese outposts around it today.
The defenders threw them back
and called in 852 bombers to
break up the guerrilla masses
on “Charlie Ridge.”
The attack on the Thuong Due
Green beret camp 300 miles
Patterson
Denies Split
With Tarver
ATLANTA (UPD — Eugene
Patterson has denounced as
“Inaccurate” a New York
Times account that he resigned
as editor of the Atlanta
Constitution this week in a
dispute over editorial freedom.
"I want the staff to know,” he
said in a statement Friday,
“the Sept. 27 New York Times
story on my resignation is a
lamentably inaccurate ac-
Count.”
Patterson has been named
editor of the Washington Post.
The Times said Patterson
resigned because of a dispute
with Jack Tarver, president of
Atlanta Newspaper Inc., over
the endorsement of a candidate
for the U.S. Senate and because
of a story questioning a rate
increase planned by Georgia
Power Co.
Patterson said Tarver had
given him “freedom to make
the paper’s editorial policies”
and had supported his decision
not to endorse a candidate in
the race between U.S. Sen.
Herman Talmadge and May
nard Jackson, an Atlanta
Negro.
“It would be grossly unjust to
him and needlessly damaging to
the paper if untrue speculation
were to continue in the face of
these facts,” Patterson said.
“It does injustice to Jack
Tarver which I cannot in
conscience permit to stand.
“To take some of the charges
specifically, he never infringed
but rather stoutly supported my
right to make the decision
which withheld the Constitu
tion’s support from both candi
dates in the Talmadege-Jackson
Senate race, a decision that was
my own.
“Nor did he demand at any
time that the power company
piece be removed from the
paper.
“During this transition, I am
very anxious that none of you
be guided by such misrepresen
tations. Mr. Tarver gave to me,
as I told you truthfully in my
statement of resignation, free
dom to make the paper’s
editorial policies and for that I
was profoundly grateful.”
In New York, the Times said
it would have no comment on
Patterson’s statement.
will be distributed, as needed, to
students in the system.
The Kiwanis Club said those
who wish to give cash contribu
tions may do so. They said shoes
would be purchased with this
money.
Some Griffinites already have
gathered clothing for the drive
and turned it in.
Lee Roy Claxton, chairman of
the campaign, reported some
clothing already has been brou
ght to his drug store. ■
Charles Mobley, chairman of
Vol. 95 No. 232
north of Saigon was the third in
four days on scattered Special
Forces outposts whose Ameri
can occupants rely on Vietna
mese irregulars for support.
U.S. spokesmen, announcing
the attack, said the Communists
hit the Green Beret outpost with
two mortars and recoilless rifle
barrages while trying to capture
the lightly defended camps
surrounding it.
But, the announcement said,
the South Vietnamese parried
the thrusts, which broke off at
daybreak. Allied casualties were
"very light,” spokesmen said.
No Communist bodies were
found.
' The 8525, apparently diverted
from other targets, swept
quickly over Thuong Due and
unloaded their 20-ton bombloads
on nearby "Charlie Ridge,” a
Communist supply base for
forays toward Da Nang 30 miles
away.
Guerrilla soldiers operating
off the 1,000-foot ridge overlook
ing Thuong Due shot down a
U.S. spotter plane looking for
them Friday, the war commu
nique said. The ridge derives its
name from U.S. soldiers’
nickname for the Viet Cong—
" Charlie.”
The spotter pilot, Ist Lt.
Urbin F. Reinhart, brought his
plane down safely but had to be
cut from the wreckage by
rescue helicopter crews.
Helicopter gunship crews res
cued his backseat man, Spec. 4
Robbin Hunter. Both men
escaped in good shape, but
Reinhart was hospitalized, the
announcement said.
Reinhart’s plane and an Air
Force FIOO Supersabre shot
down on South Vietnam’s coast
Friday brought to 305 the
number of U.S. planes downed
in the South. The FIOO pilot,
although Injured, was rescued.
Floyd County
Junior College
Site Selected
ROME, Ga. (UPD—The site
of a new junior college for
Floyd County will be located six
miles south of Rome at the Six
Mile community, the State
Board of Regents announced
Friday.
The 200-acre tract, located on
U.S. 27 and including Parris
Lake, will be developed through
a $2 million construction alloca
tion by the county.
The county commission said
it would meet Tuesday to ap
prove a resolution placing a
bond issue for the college on the
November ballot.
the Underprivileged Children’s
Committee which sponsors the
drive, said the need for clothing
is as great this year as it ever
has been.
He said the clothing bank of
the system is empty and with
cold -weather just a few weeks
away, the need will be intensi
fied soon.
He urged Griffinites to get
clothing together this weekend
and have it ready for a Kiwanis
club representative when he calls
Monday night.
Raymond Head To
Seek City Post
The city commission race to
day was a three-man battle.
Raymond Head, Jr„ 47-year
old Griffin businessman, quali
fied for the race late Friday af
ternoon at city hall.
Former commissioner Carl
Pruett and attorney Barron
Cumming announced for the of
fice earlier this week.
Mayor Kirnsey Stewart announ
ced at the city commission meet
ing this week he would not seek
reelection. He has served two
three-year terms.
Oct. 21 at noon is the dead
line for qualifying for the city
commission election.
In announcing his candidacy,
Mr. Head Issued this statement:
“I am entering the race for the
City Commission of Griffin, be
cause I feel I can give the citiz
ens of Griffin a greater choice in
this race.
“I agree in part that Griffin is
on the ‘Go.’ However, I feel we
need to look at the total picture
of our city. We must not do as
so many cities and towns are
doing by side stepping or sweep
ing under the rug the many pro
blems that plague the entire na
tion, as well as our town. I am
very much for whatever it ta
kes to make Griffin a real pro
gressive city. There is one thing
I know we must do to work to
ward keeping Griffin on the ‘Go’.
That is to reason with good will
and work toward eliminating the
ills that exist in our city and
county.
“I am married and the fath
er of two daughters and a son.
All are away in school. My wife,
Ceola Johnson Head, is a third
grade teacher at Crescent Ele
mentary School. I received my
high school diploma from Tus
kegee Institute High School and
Southern Solons
Win Round In
School Battle
By WILLIAM B. MEAD
WASHINGTON (UPD—South
ern lawmakers have won an
important round in their battle
to stop the government from
enforcing school desegregation
"guidelines” by threatening to
withhold federal school funds.
A conference committee, ne
gotiating differences between
the House and Senate versions
of an $lB billion appropriations
bill, adopted amendments for
bidding use of federal money to
promise “busing” of students or
to upset "freedom of choice”
school plans under which a
parent decides which school his
child shall attend.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.,
charged the agreement "virtual
ly nullifies efforts of the federal
government to overcome racial
segreation in our schools, and
makes enforcement of Title VI
(schools) of the Cvll Rights Act
most difficult.”
Javits said Friday he would
ask the Senate to "reject the
conference report.” The com
promise bill cannot be amended
and Javits’ only hope Is
rejection of the entire bill,
which would send It back to
conference committee for anoth
er try.
His chances could be hurt by
the Senate filibuster against the
nomination of Abe Fortas as
chief justice, which has shunted
aside other business. Another
factor working against the
Javits move would be the
reluctance of many Senators to
vote for a tactic which might
prolong the session even furth
er.
The bill in question appro
priates money for operation this
fiscal year of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
the Labor Department, the War
on Poverty and several other
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Raymond Head, Jr.
B.S. Degree from Tuskegee In
stitute, Tuskegee, Ala.
“I am a member of the Heck
Chapel United Methodist Church
and have served as treasurer
and trustee for the past 20 years.
I am a member of the Asbury
Hill, Inc., Home for the Aged
and Nursing Home Trustee Bo
ard in Atlanta, Georgia; quar
termaster of the Vaughn-Blake
V.F.W. Post No. 8480; convener
of the Spalding Commission on
Human Relations; a member
of the Spalding, Pike, Upson Co
unty Georgia Department of La
bor Advisory Board.
“I have genuine interest in our
city and pledge to work toward
this end. I ask for the support
and votes of the citizens of Grif
fin so that together we can
truly make Griffin a City on the
‘Go.’
agencies.
Most of its provisions were
being kept secret although it
was hammered out Thursday
night. But sources said Friday
It includes $1,948 billion for the
poverty war, down $232 million
from President Johnson’s re
quest.
Plunkett Says
Let ‘Locals’
Solve Problems
ATLANTA (UPD—The chair
man of the powerful Senate Ap
propriations Committee says fi
nancial help for local govern
ments in Georgia Is "probably
our greatest need.”
Lamar Plunkett of Bowdon, in
an Interview Friday, said that
there are two ways to solve the
problem, and he prefers letting
the local governments do it, not
the state.
"I believe that maybe if you
give taxing powers to local gov
ernments, they could be more
responsible within themselves,”
Plunkett said.
Twice in the past two years,
the legislature has turned down
the local tax option proposals.
Gov. Lester Maddox, who dis
agrees with Plunkett, has
placed his pledge to win a share
of a state sales tax increase for
cities and counties on the top
of his budget priority list. He
wants to raise the tax one cent,
giving half to the cities and one
quarter to the counties.
Plunkett also said he does not
believe a tax increase next year
is as inevitable as Maddox
thinks.
But, he added, without such
an increase some services
would have to be curtailed.