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In Floyd Hoard Case
Georgia Court Studies
Pinion’s Appeal
ATLANTA (UPD—The Geor
gia Supreme Court has taken
under advisement an appeal for
a new trial by one of five men
convicted in the dynamite
murder of Piedmont Circuit Sol.
Floyd Hoard.
At the same time, it appeared
that A. C. “Cliff” Park, con
victed as the man who master
minded the slaying and sen
tenced to death in the electric
chair, may get a new trial by
spring.
The Georgia Supreme Court
Monday heard an appeal for a
new trial from George Douglas
Pinion, 34, of Jeffersonville, one
of the five convicted conspira
tors, and took the appeal under
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mrs. Vivian
Dickins would like to thank
Dr. Lamar King, Dr. Alex P.
Jones and the staff of The
Griffin Spalding County Hos
pital and McDonald Funeral
Home, Billy Anderson, pas
tor, and special thanks to
the friends and relatives who
prepared food and sent floral
arrangements.
Daughters:
Louise and Elsie Dickins,
Mrs. Elva Johnson,
Son:
George Dickins.
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Wesley Channel, outgoing
Piedmont solicitor, opposed Pin
ion’s appeal saying “We think i
Pinion was properly and legally :
convicted. He should be very i
happy that he got life in prison i
Instead of the electric chair.” i
Only Park, whom the state
pictured as the man who or- i
dered Hoard’s slaying because i
the solicitor was cracking down i
on his illegal liquor operation, i
was sentenced to death in the 1
Funeral Wednesday
For FDR’s Pilot
FORT WORTH (UPD — The
body of retired Col. Henry Tift
Myers, pilot for Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Har
ry S. Truman during the World
War II years, will be flown
Wednesday to Tifton, Ga., for
burial after a funeral service
at a Fort Worth Funeral home.
Myers, 61, died Sunday of a
heart attack. The plane that
takes his body back to his home
for burial will land at Henry
Tift Myers Airport, named for
him.
Myers is survived by his son
George Myers, a student at the
University of Oklahoma. Myers
retired in the summer of 1967
from American Airlines, to
which he returned after his mil
itary flying years.
He had been a flier since
1932 and went to work for
Amer i c an Airlines in 1933.
When World War II broke out,
he returned to active duty in
the Army Air Corps.
At first, He was assigned as
an aide to Brig. Gen. Harold
George, boss of the Ferry Com
mand.
Myers barged into George’s
office one day and said: “Sir,
I don’t want to drink tea and
dance with generals’ wives
while they (generals) dance
with cuties. I want to dance
case.
The U. S. Supreme Court
Monday refused to hear Park’s
appeal, which in effect left
Park facing another trial or
dered last summer by the Geor
gia Supreme Court on technical
grounds.
Park contended that he had
not been allowed to confront his
accusers, several of his fellow
defendants who turned state’s
evidence and testified against
him.
with the cuties myself.”
“You like to fly, don’t you?”
George asked. “How’d you like
to be my pilot?”
Myers went to work as
George’s personal pilot but
soon was promoted to flying
the so-called “Sacred Cow” for
FDR. He flew Roosevelt to the
Yalta Conference and almost
collided with a Russian fighter
plane.
Myers’ reminiscenses of fly
ing the high and mighty about
contained more stories about
Truman than Roosevelt.
He said that once he was fly
ing Truman about in a C 54
while there was a crowd on top
of the White House watching a
Washington Air Show.
“Do you suppose we could
make a dive at the White
House?” he said Truman asked
him.
He said he told Truman that
a pilot could get grounded for
flying over the White House,
let alone buzzing it.
“I’ve got broad shoulders. I’ll
take all the blame,” Truman
said.
“So we roared in like four
buzz saws,” Myers said. "I
aimed the awkward plane at
the roof of the White House and
we didn’t pull out until we hit
500 feet. We climbed, banked
and dived again.”
Myers said everybody on the
roof was frozen with fear ex
cept Mrs. Truman and the Tru
mans' daughter, Margaret, who
waved happily.
Myers never could get Tru
man to take the controls of the
“Sacred Cow.” When he asked
Truman to take the controls,
Truman would always say:
“You stay out of politics and
I’ll stay out of flying.”
Sir Winston Churchill, Bri
tain’s prime minister during
the war years, flew the Sacred
Cow with one hand. The other
hand clutched a snifter of
brandy.
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Firm Trying To
Track Down Source
Os Poison Beans
OSAKA, Japan (UPD—The
exporter who sent Jewelry
decorated with poisonous beans
to the United States said today
the beans came from the
Philippines or Brazil, perhaps
illegally.
A spokesman for the Chatani
Jewelry Co., which sent the
deadly brooches to American
retail stores, said the company
was trying to track down the
origin of the beans.
Chorles R. Gunn, a U.S.
government botanist, spotted
the beans in a Sears, Roebuck
and Co., store in Silver Spring,
Md., on Nov. 23 and alerted
store officials who quickly
recalled the brooches.
Gunn identified the bean as
the jeouirity bean, so toxic that
Jungle tribes in the tropics use
it to make poison for the tips of
hunting spears and arrows.
“According to preliminary
reports the beans must have
MINI-FARMS IN PERU
LIMA, Peru (UPD—Mini
farms in the Andean Peruvian
state of Puno pack a big wallop
for hundreds of thousands of
Indian families, the Ministry of
Agriculture reports.
The mini-farms, known as
“minifundios,” average 12 to 15
acres in size and give subsis
tence on an average to 300
persons each, the report said.
come from either the Philip
pines or Brazil,” a Chatani
spokesman said. “The sacks
they came in carried the mark
‘Olhinhos’ but we don’t know
what it means.”
He said Japanese law forbids
the import of such beans.
Child Dies
In Auto Wreck
MABLETON, Ga. (UPD —A
young mother, attempting to
keep her 3-month-old daughter
from falling off the front seat
of her car, crashed into a tree
Monday, and the child was
killed.
The infant was identified as
Frances Lee Kilpatrick, daugh
ter of Mrs. David Kilpatrick of
Mableton. The accident hap
pened on Austell Road in south
Cobb County.
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News
Rocky Will
Run For
Governor
NEW YORK (UPD—Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, senior
governor in the nation in terms
of service, says he will seek a
fourth four-year term in 1970.
Rockefeller’s press secretary,
Leslie Slote, said Monday night
the governor plans “to run
again ... as of the moment,
subject to further change.”
If he wins in 1970, the 60-year
onl Rockefeller will set a recard
for service as governor of New
York. Former Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey served three terms,
from 1943 until 1955.
Two Arrested
In Lottery Raid
ATLANTA (UPD — A lottery
raid on a Decatur apartment
Monday resulted in the arrest
of two persons and seizure of
a vast assortment of lottery
paraphernalia.
Arrested and charged with
operating a lottery were Betty
Jean Holloway of Decatur and
Mrs. Cecil Cosby Brewer of
Scottdale.
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Jim Garrison Free
To Set Shaw’s Trial
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NEW ORLEANS (UPD—Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison today was
free again to set the fourth date
for the trial of Clay L. Shaw on
charges of conspiring to kill
President John F. Kennedy in
1963.
The U.S. Supreme Court
Monday gave Garrison the
green light to try Shaw when it
refused to hear a countersuit
filed against Garrison.
The high court refused to
grant the 55-year-old New
Orleans businessman a hearing
on the suit that asked, among
other things, that the Warren
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binding on all courts.
Dist. Judge Edward Hagger
ty, who has refused to accept
the Warren report as evidence,
said Monday the date of the
trial is at the discretion of
Garrison’s staff.
Assistant Dist. Atty. James
Alcock, who has handled most
of the courtroom work in the
case, said a quick trial would be
set. But Alcock said he
anticipated Shaw’s attorneys
would file additional pleadings
in the state courts to further
delay the trial.