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By Quimby Melton
Saturday published schedule
for mailing letters and packages
to men and women in our Arm
ed Services overseas as a guide
to those who will want to send
Christmas greetings and gifts to
them. No sooner had this “hit
the streets” than Good Evening
had many suggestions made by
persons interested In not only
having their “boys and girls” re
membered, but also that every
one from our community get evi
dence from home that all are pr
oud of them.
One suggestion was that we
publish the names and address
es of every one who is “over
there”. This is a good suggestion
but it might result in someone's
name not being included in the
list, also there might be a chan
ge in someone’s address and the
letters, card or gift would not
be addressed correctly.
Pondering this over have come
to the conclusion that the best
way to handle such a thing is to
suggest:
Those interested in joining in
a Griffin project to let them all
know we are “thinking of them”
at Christmas, will be for all in
terested parties to ask at t h e of
fice of the church they attend for
the names and address of over
seas men and women from that
church. Good Evening receives
the church bulletin from several
of our churches and has noticed
from time to time they carry
such a list. And we are sure if
there are churches that do not
list the names and addresses in
their bulletins there is such a list
in the church office.
Now if there is someone here,
with loved ones over there who
is not affiliated with a local chur
ch, suggest they contact the
church nearest them and give
them the names and addresses
of the men and women they wou
ld like to get Christmas Mail
•‘from home.”
Once again we call attention to
the schedule for mailing.
Ordinary mail — known as
“surface mail” should be mail
ed not later than November 9;
“Space available” mail bet
ween Oct. 21 and Nov. 21. But
suggest that such be considered
“surface mail” and not run the
risk of space being available for
faster mailing.
Parcels to go by air mail
should be put in the post office
between Oct. 21 and Nov. 30;
the earlier the better.
Airmail letters and cards
should be in the mails not later
than Dec. 11.
We sincerely hope there will
not be a single man or woman
from this area who will not
have Christmas made a little
happier by their getting mail
from home.
Over the weekend there have
been "unofficial” reports that la
ter this week there will be an
“understanding” reached by this
country and North Vietnam that
will bring a change in Vietnam
fighting plans that could lead to
an end to the war.
Hope this is not just a rumor,
nor a political “.smokescreen”
that will be blown away by
winds of reality.
There is one thing about the
“report” that we do not like one
bit. This is that the present gov
ernment of South Vietnam has
taken the stand they will not "al
low” Uncle Sam to stop the
bombing.
Since when has a foreign pow
er, that Uncle Sam has helped,
at great loss of life and expen
diture of billions, the right
to Interfere with our foreign po
licy? With our battle strategy?
Tuesday, if everything goes as
acheduled, the three men who
have been travelling through sp
ace for nine days will return to
earth.
Sunday, the 39-year-old widow
of President Kennedy, became
the bride of 62-year-old Aristotle
Onassis Greek billionaire. The
ceremony was performed on the
wholly owned Onassis island Sk
orpois. The bride left the little
church "her eyes sparkling,
looking very happy.”
Her two children, left after
the ceremony to return to pri
vate schools In New York.
As they left the church the
younger of the two, John, Jr.,
seven-years-old, “held on to his
mother’s hand with his head
bowed.” The family said he was
“shy” — can’t help wondering If
he was "ashamed” of the whole
affair.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair tonight
and Tuesday with mild days and
cool nights.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 76, minimum today
51, maximum Sunday 75, mini
mum Sunday 51. Sunrise Tues
day 7:49 a.m., sunset Tuesday
7 p.m.
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Miss Betty Buford (c), president of the Association
of Classroom Teachers of the National Education
Assoication, talked with Mrs. Thelma Davis (1) of
Griffin, former president of the Classroom Teachers,
Man Held In
Kidnaping Os
His Own Son
ATLANTA (UPD—Atlanta po
lice arrested a 27-year-old Ro
chester, N. Y., man here Sun
day night and said he had kid
naped his own 5-year-old son
and then demanded $25,000 ran
som from his ex-wife’s new hus
band.
Police Identified the suspect
as Mike Zeola. They said the
boy, Mike Jr., had been left
with some people in Morrow,
Ga., who were unaware that the
boy had been allegedly kid
naped.
Police said Zeola apparently
beat up his ex-wife and her hus
band last week in Rochester
and then fled with the boy to
Atlanta.
He was arrested at a down
town Atlanta telephone booth
while making a call to Roches
ter, police said.
Dad Tried To Save
Children With Hose
PARIS, Tenn. (UPD—Five
young children burned to death
Sunday while their father fran
tically played a garden hose on
his blazing five - room frame
home.
The Paris Fire Department
College Night
To Be Tuesday
College night will be held at
Griffin High Tuesday night be
ginning at 7:30. Representatives
of most Georgia institutions of
higher learning will be on hand
to tell students and their parents
what their respective schools
have to offer.
The annual program is held to
offer students and parents infor
mation on what is available at
Georgia colleges and universi
ties
Sponsors of the night hope the
first hand Information will help
students in picking the college or
universty they wish to attend.
The Griffin High PTA also has
scheduled a meeting in conjunc
tion with the College Night pro
gram.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
District Teachers Hear
Reports From Leaders
Grant's Closed
Following Fire
Grant’s Department Store on
East Solomon street in the down
town area will remain closed un
til company officials can decide
what to do about the heavy da
mage the store suffered in a
weekend fire.
Calvin Dixson, manager of the
store, said company officials
would have to come here and in
spect the situation before decid
ing what to do.
He said no estimate on the da
mage was available.
Dixson said fire was discover
ed in the lay-away storage sec
tion Saturday afternoon. He said
when he opened the door to the
area, heavy smoke boiled out
did not respond to the alarm af
ter receiving a second telephone
call saying the house was “too
far gone.” The caller, a neigh
bor, was unaware that the chil
dren were still inside the burn
ing house.
The bodies of the children
were found in a corner bedroom
where they shared the same
bed. Killed were Nancy Mae
Millikin, 6; Robert Earl, 4;
Howard, 3; Carrie Sue, 2; and
Jasper Edward, 1.
Millikin, his wife, Mae, and
two other children escaped the
blaze, but Mrs. Milllkln and a
daughter, Arnita, 20 months,
were hospitalized with minor
burns.
Fire officials said they did not
know the cause of the blaze,
but speculated it centered in a
wood-burning stove used to heat
the home.
The home was located in the
Cottage Grove community of
Henry County, about 10 miles
from Paris. Paris firemen will
answer calls from outside the
city if the structure is covered
by a local subscription fire in
surance, or if personal Injury is
involved.
“We would have gone, insur
ance or no insurance,” a Fire
Department spokesman said.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Go., 30223, Monday, October 21, 1968
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
and Mrs. Catherine Ward of Clayton County who has
been named to the Professional Practices Commission
of the State of Georgia.
and quickly filled the store.
There was no panic and custo
mers filed out of the building qu
ickly, Mr. Dixson said.
Ray Ussery, manager of J.C.
Penney next to the Grant buil
ding, said his store had only
minor smoke damage.
A little water from the fire
fighting next door got through
but not enough to cause much
damage, Ussery said.
He said his store was cleared
of customers, too, as a precau
tion but he was open for business
within about two hours.
Firemen got the alarm at
12:25 and had the blaze under
control by 1:50. The fire depart
ment is a half block from Gr
ant’s. Firemen kept a truck at
the scene until 6 p.m. and fire
personnel kept checking for pos
sible “hot spots” in the building
as late as 10,30 p.m. Saturday
night.
Heavy smoke boiled out of the
building from both the front and
back. Firemen had to wear sm
oke masks inside the building to
keep from being overcome by
the heavy fumes.
A Griffin Light and Water De
partment man arrived to discon
nect main electric lines while
the building smoldered Inside.
He climbed a ladder truck and
pulled main switches on a power
pole next to the building.
Fire Chief Leonard Pitts said
Bee Burning
Blamed In Fire
Someone apparently attempt
ing to burn out a bee tree was
blamed for causing a woods fire
on North Ninth extension Sun
day, according to the Dundee
Volunteer Fire Department.
The fire fighters answered the
alarm at 3:10 p.m.
They put out the blaze quickly.
NEWS
that the heat Inside the building
was so intense that it bent heavy
steel beams, He estimated the
temperature had to be 1,800 de
grees to do this.
Chief Pitts said it was neces
sary to knock holes in the roof to
ventilate the building so firemen
could enter It. He said the ven
tilation helped remove the sm
oke and reduce the heat.
Smoke and water gushed from
both ends of the building.
Spectators crowded a parking
lot in the rear of the building and
others watched fire fighting op
erations from the front.
Many climbed to the third and
fourth stories of a bank parking
building to watch the fire fight
ers.
Most or tne action centered in
the rear of the building where
the blaze originated.
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D. B. Christie, superintendent of the Griffin-Spalding
School System; Dr. Alton Ellis, president of the Geor
gia Education Association; Jim Jeters, chairman of
the State Department of Education; and Jack Nix,
Vol. 95 No. 251
Educators
Talk Shop At
District Meet
Thousands of educators from
the Georgia Sixth District were
in Griffin today to talk shop ab
out their profession.
They heard reports from state
and national leaders and attend
ed workshops featuring profes
sional looks at several phases of
education.
Among the educational officials
on hand for the meeting were:
Jim Peters, chairman of the
State Board of Education; Jack
Nix, State Superintendent of Sc
hools; Ernest L. Stroud, Sixth
District Director, GE A; Dr. Al
ton Ellis, president of the GEA;
Margaret A. Kilian, Director of
Information and Research, GEA
and Dr. Carl V. Hodges, execu
tive secretary, GEA.
Lt. Gov. George T. Smith stop
ped in Griffin and visited teach
ers at the meeting. He did not
make a speech.
The teachers attended depart
mental meetings this morning
and held a general meeting at
11:30. Lunch was served in the
Griffin High cafeteria.
“The hope of the world rests on
education,” Miss Betty Buford,
president-elect of the Associa
tion of Classroom Teachers of
the National Education Associa
tion, said this morning.
In an interview, she said chil
dren in the United States today
are receiving the best education
possible unde current condi
tions, meaning that some of the
school systems in the nation are
operating on a basis of what ed
ucation costs and not the quality
of education their children re
ceive.
Miss Buford, a high school tea
cher in Plainview, Tex., said
that the school teacher is under
paid. “These people have de
dicated their lives to teaching or
they would not be working for
the salaries they are receiving,”
she said.
"This is one of the reasons that
we do not have more people en
tering the teaching field. It is
much easier for them to m a k e
more money in other profess
ions,” she said.
Miss Buford said that is almost
impossible for a man teacher to
make a living in the education
field. She said that approxima
tely 40 percent of the men in ed
ucation have their master’s de
gree or better. She said about 25
percent of all teachers have
their master’s degree or better.
She said that the greatest pro
blem facing the classroom tea
cher today is having the voice of
the classroom teacher heard by
the board of education, by the
administration and by the
community — the people.
“There has been a failure to
recognize the teacher as a pro-
Continued on page two
Three Signed As
Deadline Passes
For City Election
The deadline for entering the
city commission race passed at
noon today with three candida
tes signed up.
The three are: former com
missioner Carl Pruett, business
man Raymond Head and attor
ney Barron Cumming. Head and
Cumming are seeking public of
fice for the first time.
They will be seeking the of
fice to be vacated by Mayor
Gladys Set Record
At Hampton Center
Hurricane Gladys caused the
Atlanta Air Traffic Control Cen
ter at Hampton to set a record
in the number of flights handled
during one day last week.
J. B. Smith, director of the
center, said the center at Hamp
ton handled a total of 4,003 fli
ghts last Thursday. A normal
day’s traffic amounts to about
3,200, he said.
Much of the air traffic in t h e
Florida area was rerouted to ot
her airports because of the wea
ther, Mr. Smith said. The rerout
ing put an unusually heavy load
of air traffic on the center at
Hampton.
Mr. Smith also noted that the
Hampton center expects to go
over the million mark in flights
handled in a year during the
month of October.
Traffic centers at Chicago,
New York, Cleveland and Wash
ington now are in the million a
year class, he said. The Hamp
ton center is expected to crack
into that group this month, he
Country Parson
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Some folks who think they
love their friends really just
distrust strangers.”
(Griffin Dally News Staff Photo)
state school superintendent (1-r) look over the pro
posed budget of the State Department of Education.
They attended the Sixth District GEA meeting this
morning at Griffin High-
Kimsey Stewart. He announced
a few weeks ago he would not
seek reelection.
Mayor Stewart is completing
his sixth year on the city board.
The election will be held Nov.
5, the same day of the national
general elections.
Only voters in the city will be
eligible to cast ballots in the
city race.
said.
However, two other traffic con
trol centers, Fort Worth, Texas
and Indianapolis, also are expec
ted to show gains, Mr. Smith
said.
He said Atlanta now ranks se
venth nationally in the amount
of traffic handled. Chicago is the
busiest with New York, Cleve
land, Washington, Ft. Worth, In
dianapolis and Atlanta following
in that order.
Mr. Smith said that Atlanta,
Indianapolis and Ft. Worth are
close in the amount of traffic
they handle.
Georgia To Get
Seven Projects
For ‘Jobless’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Seven
Manpower Development and
Training Act projects to train
340 jobless in Georgia were an
nounced today by the U. 6. De
partment of Labor.
The agency said the projects
would cost $409,000, of which
$393,000 was federal funds.
Two hundred jobless or under
employed will be trained for 10
weeks in employment orienta
tion with an MDTA grant of
$129,864 at the center in Albany.
A $42,000 grant to the Macon
MDTA center will train 20 com
bination welders for 26 weeks,
and another $31,000 grant will
train 40 combination welders for
48 weeks.
Swainsboro MDTA center will
receive grants totalling $70,000
to provide 48 weeks’ training in
body repair work for 20 jobless.
The Thomasville MDTA cen
ter will train 20 persons for 36
I weeks as carpenters at a cost
I of $51,000.