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Griffin Daily News
Wobbling Down Road
He Stopped Tractor
In Wild West Style
ROYSTON, Ga. (UPD — Po
lice said they suspected some
thing was wrong when Woodrow
McCurry’s tractor went "wob
bling” down main street, Out
that was before the tractor start
ed to chase them.
When it was all over, one
police car was demolished, one
car was "well dented,” one of
ficer suffered injured ribs, and
the 55 - year -old McCurry, a
farmer, was in jail.
"I was just going home and
you folks wouldn’t let me,” he
explained.
Police officers Cecil Reno and
Judson Barton spotted the trac
tor "wobbling” down main
street, U. S. 1, before dawn Fri
day and stopped to question the
driver.
When they got out of their
patrol car, however, the tractor
started up, turned around, and
Float Winners
The Griffin High Science Club’
float "War Os Worlds” won fir
st place in the Homecoming
Parade Friday afternoon.
Second place went to the Sop
homore Beta Tri-Hl-Y float of
"Mutiny on the Bounty.” Third
place winner was the "Moby
Dick” float by the DCT Club.
Siren Call
CHICAGO (UPD—Two car
thieves are ready for a fast
getaway. They made off Friday
with a Civil Defense ambulance,
complete with siren.
ASK ANYONE WHO HAS
HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
CHECK THE RECORDS
IN THE OFFICE OF
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT
SPALDING COUNTY
And I Am Sure You Will Get A Ready Answer On
The Able, Efficient and Courteous Manner In Which
F. P. Lindsey and His Employees Operate This
Office.
CAST YOUR VOTE NOVEMBER STH
TO CONTINUE WITH EFFICIENCY
AND EXPERIENCE
BY RE-ELECTING
F. P. LINDSEY
Clerk of Superior Court
Paid Political Advertisement
CARL PRUETT
I Is A Vote For The Following Program I
1. TO SERVE ALL CITIZENS FAIRLY, HONESTLY, AND WITH RE
SPECT, AS I HAVE ALWAYS DONE.
2. TO SEEK AND BRING NEW INDUSTRY, NEW JOBS, NEW TAX
PAYERS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
TO SUPPORT 100% LAW, ORDER, AND PEACE IN OUR CITY.
4. TO GET A POLICY ADOPTED ON LOCAL PURCHASE ORDERS K
THAT WILL FAVOR LOCAL TAXPAYERS.
5. TO ATTEMPT TO WORK OUT 4 WAY LEFT TURNS AT HILL
AND SOLOMON STREETS.
6. TO ATTEMPT TO FIND EVEN MORE OFF STREET PARKING.
For the sake of our taxpayers we MUST preserve the downtown
shopping area from where we now get a large share of the tax in
come, which in turn holds the tax bill down on our homes.
7.1 WILL STAND FIRM AND DO MY BEST TO HOLD THE LINE ON
CITY TAXES.
8. I WILL ATTEMPT TO ARRANGE FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN
FUTURE CITY ELECTIONS.
9. I WILL FULLY SUPPORT OUR EXCELLENT RECREATIONAL
PROGRAM. This program is already serving all age groups. I am
hopeful we can find ways to expand it even more.
10. 1 WILL NOT VOTE TO REOPEN THE SWIMMING POOLS AT THIS
TIME. We have many urgently needed projects which cannot now be
undertaken and I am NOT going to see a huge sum of money wasted here
when we cannot resurface streets that are in bad repair; we cannot buy
fire equipment that has been needed for many years; and when we can
not give 100% treatment to sewage — all because of lack of money.
I IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT I
I WORK FOR- SUPPORT - VOTE FOR I
I CARL PRUETT
I YOUR CITY COMMISSIONER I
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Sat. and Sun., Nov. 2-3, 1968
headed straight for them, forc
ing the officers to flee to safety
behind the police car.
The tractor crashed into the
car, backed up and crashed into
it twice more.
Officer George Strickland,
who heard the policemen’s radio
call for help arrived on the
scene within minutes, but things
were not improving.
The tractor headed for him.
He threw the patrol car into re
verse and the tractor chased
him "backwards” for 50 yards
before catching up and crash
ing into the second patrol car.
Responding to the emergency
call for help this time were a
state patrol car from Toccoa,
two more patrol cars from
Atlanta, a Hart County sheriff’s
car, two Madison County sher
iff’s cars, city police Chief Don
ald Cole’s personal car and two
trucks.
They all headed south along
Wild Cat Bridge Road, in pursuit
of the tractor.
A double barreled shotgun
and pistols were fired at the
tractor. “But we couldn’t make
it stop,” declared Cole.
Finally, 12 miles and an hour
later, officer Reno ran along
side the tractor, which was
traveling about 30 miles an
hour, and jumped aboard. He
suffered rib Injuries as a re
sult, but stopped the tractor.
McCurry was booked on about
a dozen charges from two coun
ties, Including driving while un
der the influence of intoxicants
and trying to run over officers.
No bond was set Immediately.
Jackson Man
Victim Os
Hit-And-Run
A Jackson man was struck by
a hit and run vehicle Friday ni
ght after the car he was driving
and another had collided two
miles north of Jackson on Geor
gia 42 in Butts County.
Zollie McKissick, 49, of Route
Four, Jackson, was admitted to
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital. His condition was listed as
serious this morning.
McKissick was turning into a
road leading off Georgia High
way 42 when the car he was dr
iving and another collided. As he
got out of his car, a third car,
traveling in the direction of Jack
son, struck him and knocked him
to the pavement.
The car went down the road
and stopped and then took off.
The accident was investigat
ed by the Georgia State Patrol
and the Butts County Sheriff’s
Department.
The car that hit McKissick was
believed to be red with a black
top.
An Albany man was injured in
a wreck in Lamar County Fri
day. He was treated at the Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital and
dismissed.
Danny R. Flournoy, 21, of Al
bany, suffered lacerations to his
head.
Flournoy was a passenger in
a car driven by Charles F. Smi
th, 19, of 15 Ninth street, Barnes
ville. Damage to the car was es
timated at S2OO.
City Issues
Nine Permits
For New Homes
Building permits were issued
by the city of Griffin for the
construction of nine single family
residences in October, according
to a report from Harold Bucka
lew, building inspector.
The nine permits were for a to
tal of $185,400.
Two permits were issued for
the construction of commercial
buildings. They were for $45,000.
Five miscellaneous permits
were for $2,565.
Fifty-five permits were issued
for additions, alterations and
conversions to residences. They
were for a total of $62,616. Sev
en were issued for additions, al
terations and conversions to com
mercial buildings. They were
for $16,870.
Four permits were issued for
the erection of signs. They were
for a total of SBOO. One permit
was issued to move a residence
and seven were issued to demo
lish houses.
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Hospital
The following were admitted to
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital Friday:
Henry McCreless, Tommy
Coussons, Homer Hambrick, Pa
tricia Douglas, Terry Turner,
Mrs. Alice Ponder, Mrs. Carol
Cromartie, James B. Pitts, Mrs.
Mabel English, James Moore,
Douglas Davis, Kendrick Daniel,
Mrs. Linda Foster, Mrs. Annie
Curry, Zollie McKissick, Mrs.
Mary Jo Brown.
The following were dismissed:
Donald Perkins, Mrs. Virginia
Hollon, Mrs. Peggy Scott, Mrs,
Jonnie Newman, Mrs. Judy Hun
nicut and baby, Donna Rooks,
Mrs. Pauline Coe, Mrs. Telitha
Daniel, Mrs. Winifred Goodman,
Mrs. Louise White, Edwin Rog
ers, Frankie McMillan, Mrs.
Mattie Dixon, Mrs. Sally Scott,
Shawn Hudson, Grady Peurifoy,
Sidney Clark, Dexter Cook, Mrs.
Dannetta Brown and baby, Wil
liam Gordy, Gregg Brown.
Menu
The master menu for the Grif
fin-Spalding County School Sys
tem for the week of Nov. 4-8 is
as follows:
MONDAY — Wiener, French
fries, cabbage and carrot salad,
bun, peach pie, milk, butter,
TUESDAY— Holiday.
WEDNESDAY — Beefaroni,
green beans, tomato slice, rolls,
jello and cookie, milk, butter.
THURSDAY — Dried lima be
ans, stewed tomatoes, green sa
lad, corn muffin, potato souffle,
milk, butter.
FRIDAY — Baked fish square,
creamed potatoes, cole slaw,
hot biscuit, cake with sauce,
milk, butter.
Stork Club
LITTLE MISS BROWN
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Brown
of 1424 Lee street, Griffin, an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
Nov. 2 at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
Mrs. Annie Duke
Dies Here Friday
Mrs. Annie Pullin Duke of 329
ScAitli Ninth street, widow of Mr.
Robert L. Duke, died Friday af
ternoon after an illness of sever
al months.
She was born in Spalding Co
unty, daughter of the late Joseph
Pullin and the late Mrs. George
Stillwell Pullin. She was a mem
ber of the Midway Methodist
Church.
For several years she was se
cretary to the late Dr. T. I. Haw
kins.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. J. S. Heflin of Griffin; a
brother, Jim Pullin of Locust
Grove; several nieces and nep
hews.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o’-
clock from the Chapel of Pitt
man-Rawls Funeral Home. The
Rev. Ed Kelley and Dr. Delma
Hagood will officiate. Burial will
be in Oak Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Duke’s body wdll remain
at Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home.
Friends may visit the family
at the home of Mrs. J. S. Heflin,
320 South Ninth street, Griffin.
The family request that flowers
be omitted and those who desire
may make a contribution to the
Georgia Heart Association.
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I have not relied on any experienced
politicians to write my ads. I want you
as a voter to know me as a candidate.
VOTE FOR
SAM F. COOLEY
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
NOVEMBER sth
(Paid Political Advertisement)
Strike Hits
Bethlehem In
Mideast Crisis
By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND
United Press International
School girls chanting "Pales
tine is Arab!” led the first
general strike in Bethlehem
since the 1967 Middle East War
today. They protested the 51st
anniversary of the declaration
that pointed the way to the
formation of the Jewish state of
Israel.
In Cairo, Egypt charged
Israel "opened a new door” in
the Middle East confrontation
when it launched a raid deep
into the heart of Egypt Friday.
Egypt threatened to retaliate in
kind.
Security forces dispersed the
school girl demonstrators in
Bethlehem, Israeli sources said.
They said the security troops
took up position near the
basilica of the Nativity Church,
the site of Christ’s birth.
Arabs had threatened demon
strations in the Israeli-occupied
west bank of the Jordan river in
protest against the anniversary
of the Balfour declaration.
Issued in 1917 by Foreign
Secretary Lord Balfour of
Britain, the document pledged
Britain to support efforts to
found a national Jewish home
land.
On Israel’s western front
Friday night, Israeli and
Jordanian forces fought a heavy
artillery duel. Sources in
Amman said Israel started the
25-minute exchange shortly af
ter Arab guerrillas launched
rockets into the Israeli city of
Beisan.
The Jordanians said they
suffered no casualties. A
broadcast identifying itself as
Radio Israel and monitored in
Beirut said four Israeli soldiers
were wounded.
As the opposing sides fired
new charges at each other in
the Middle East and the United
Nations, American naval au
thorities scheduled an exercise
to demonstrate the presence of
Soviet naval forces in the
Mediterranean. The Soviets
have sharply built up their fleet
in the area since last year’s
Mideast war.
The warning of retaliation
against an Israeli raid into the
Nile Valley Friday came in
Cairo from the semi-official
newspaper Al Ahram. It said if
Israel could make such raids,
"others certainly can.”
In Jerusalem, an official
communique said Israeli com
mandos struck into Egypt,
hitting two bridges and a power
station straddling the Nile River
at Nag Hammadi, only 143
miles below the giant Aswan
Dam. The statement said the
raid was a reaction to "grave
and systematic" violations by
Egypt of the Suez Canal cease
fire line.
In New York, the U.N.
Security Council held an urgent
meeting Friday night to discuss
the new incident. Israeli Ambas
sador Joseph Tekoah said the
raid was made to convince
Cairo it must observe the cease
fire line. Egyptian Ambassador
Mohamed Awad El-Kony asked
the council to enforce a U.N.
resolution calling for Israel to
withdraw from captured Arab
territories.
The council adjourned Its
session until Monday.
■Die U.S. 6th fleet invited
newsmen to observe an exercise
in which it attempted to locate
in the Mediterranean an 18,000-
ton Soviet helicopter carrier
which entered the sea a month
ago. The exercise was Intended
to illustrate how a NATO
Submarine tracking Com
mand will work when It goes
into operation Nov. 21.
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THE U.S. MARINE CORPS will mark Us 193rd anniversary Nov. 10. These photos
•how Marines in action: Training at Camp Lejeune, N.C., top; keeping the peace in
Korea, bottom left; and patrolling along flooded rice paddies in Vietnam.
HHH Within
Three Points
Os Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPD —
Hubert H. Humphrey has
moved to within three percen
tage points of Richard M. Nixon
and if he gains two or three
more before Tuesday the
election could be thrown into
the House, according to pollster
Louis Harris.
The Humphrey gain could
make the race too tight for
Harris to predict a winner.
Harris reported Friday that
Nixon now led Humphrey—in a
poll taken just a little more than
a week before the Nov. 5
election—by 40 per cent to 37
per cent. The poll showed a
gain of two points by Humphrey
in the two weeks preceding.
Third-party candidate George
C. Wallace’s latest showing was
only 16 per cent, a drop from 21
per cent in mid-September.
Harris said Nixon still leads
in every region outside the pro-
Wallace south, but that Hum
phrey has made gains at the
Republican nominee's expense
among independents, the young,
and the college-educated. The
poll was taken before the
current bombing halt was
announced.
Harris said that if Humphrey
could gain two or three more
points in the week before the
election, "He could pass Nixon
in the East and close enough in
the Midwest to deny the
Republican nominee an elector
al majority.”
In that event, the election
would go to the House of
Representatives for a decision.
North Winship,
US Diplomat,
Dies At Macon
MACON, Ga. (UPD —North
Winship, a Macon native and
longtime U. S. diplomat, died
Friday at the age of 82.
Winship, who began his dip
lomatic career in 1910 as U. S.
consul to Tahiti, served in posts
including that of Ambassador to
South Africa. He was in the
diplomatic corps for 40 years.
Other appointments included
consul to Milan, Copenhagen,
and Poland, w'here he was sta
tioned when Germany invaded
Poland in 1939.
He also served as consul in
Warsaw and consul general of
Toronto and Montreal. After his
retirement as ambassador to
South Africa, he returned to his
Macon home.
Graveside services will be
held at 11 a m. Monday at the
Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.
MIXED WIRES
MANILA (UPD—A stereo hi
fi fan is in trouble with
government investigators.
They said a public works
official in Rizal province
apparently spent 8,500 pesos
($2,150) for a hi-fi set for his
office that showed up on the
Inventory as an office intercom
munication system.
FOOD TOWN
Lucky Register
Tape Numbers
for Friday
6587,6181,4358
Must be claimed 3 days
after purchase.
Saigon Will
Boycott
Peace Talks
By DANIEL SOUTHERLAND
SAIGON (UPD — President
Nguyen Van Thieu today said
South Vietnam will boycott
scheduled Paris talks with the
United States, North Vietnam
and the Viet Cong’s political
arm, the National Liberation
Front (NLF).
As Thieu spoke to a wildly
cheering session of parliament,
North Vietnam announced over
Hanoi Radio that it and the
NLF would be attending the
talks set to open Wednesday.
U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth
Bunker, busy for two weeks
trying to get Saigon's coopera
tion with President Johnson’s
drive for peace talks, sat taking
notes in the parliamentary
session while one lawmaker
repeatedly shouted "Down with
the American imperialists!”
Striding from the hall, the 74-
year-old Bunker told newsmen,
"I have no comment on the
president’s speech.” Thieu
said conditions are not right for
Saigon joining the Paris talks.
"The Republic of Vietnam
government is very sorry that
such conditions for direct and
serious talks between us and
Hanoi, as just said above, have
not yet come about.
“And therefore, the Republic
of Vietnam government cannot
participate in the present Paris
conference,” Thieu said in one
of his rare emotional speeches.
Diplomatic observers said the
speech signaled very real
trouble for the Johnson peace
drive.
Thieu told 150 lawmakers in a
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special joint parliamentary ses
sion that for Saigon to take part
in talks, Hanoi must meet three
conditions, they were:
—Hanoi must give Saigon
“firm and unequivocal assuran
ces” it Is ready and willing to
enter “direct and serious” talks
with Saigon.
—Direct Hanoi-Saigon talks
will form a "completely new
phase” of negotiations and not
be an extension of the sixth
month-old U.S.-North Vietnam
talks in Hanoi, to which—
according to Johnson,—Saigon
and the NLF have been invited.
—The NLF in the talks must
be part of the Hanoi delegation
and not a separate entity. Thieu
scroned recognition of the NLF.
POINTLESS PANIC
CHICAGO lUPD—A teacher
at the Mary Maples elementary
school hit the panic button
Friday when he saw two
students playing with a hand
grenade, but his fears were
groundless.
The grenade was a souvenir
from which the explosive
charge had been removed.
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