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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Shakespeare in his “All’s Well
That Ends Well” describes time
• as moving on “inaudible and
noiseless feet.”
Some years ago there was a
moving picture feature and a
• radio program that wound up
with “Time Marches On.”
But whether “time moves on
noiselessly” — slips up on one,
( or passes with the noise of mar
ching feet — time can breed fa
ith and confidence, or fear and
despair.
t Thought of this Tuesday mor
ning when a bulldozer started
grading for the addition to the
present plant that will house
the new press and other equip-
• ment that will keep the paper
“On the Go” towards a better
newspaper, one that will keep
step with a growing Griffin and
( Georgia.
And we take this step forward
with faith and confidence in our
community and the people who
t make up the community.
— ❖ —
Forty-four years ago, Feb. 1,
Good Evening moved to Griffin
to make his home. He bought
• the Griffin Daily News for two
reasons — he liked Griffin and
her people; and he had full con
fidence Griffin and Spalding
• would continue to grow, and a
good newspaper would grow
with the city and county.
That confidence has never wa.
4 vered.
When we bought the Griffin
Daily News it was a well estab
lished newspaper having been
• founded in 1872. But its mech
anical equipment was small
and inadequate. The circulation
was less than 1,800, and in addi-
• tion to the daily issue a weekly
issue was printed.
Soon we made additions, an
other Linotype, and a new press,
« which used rolls of newsprint in
stead of the old style sheets;
were bought, and we had as fine
a set up as any newspaper in a
4 city the size of Griffin.
We thought at that time that
we were “fixed” for many ye
ars. 1
The circulation rose steadily,
• advertising increased, and short
ly after the end of World War
Two, it became necessary to
take another step forward.
• We moved into a new building,
erected for a newspaper plant
and installed a 24 page press.
New Linotypes, and other new
, equipment were included in the
program. Again we felt we were
“fixed” to keep up with the
growth of our community for
many years to come.
Then came the present time.
More than a year ago it was
decided that while we could st-
• lek to the old method of print
ing a paper, that if we were to
kc-.p pace with our community
we should make another big im-
« provement.
A thorough study of modern
developments in the newspa
per industry was made and it
t was decided that we would make
the forward move.
The circulation' of 1,800 when
we bought the paper had increa
sed year by year until it had
• passed the 9,000 mark; our st
aff in all departments had been
more than doubled;'news cover
age had been expanded, many
• improvements had been made,
but we still were not satisfied.
We wanted to give our commu
nity the very best daily newspa-
« per possible.
So we laid plans for such a
program.
Tuesday the ground was bro
ken for the addition to the plant,
and the big new press is being
built by the Goss Company. This
will be ready for installation this
spring or early summer.
• Time marches on! Griffin jo
ins the march! And the Griffin
Daily News has joined the Mar
ch of Progress.
Country Parson
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“I can’t always tell whether
a fellow is bragging because he
hasn’t sinned—or complaining
that he missed some chances.”
Copyrijht 1969, by Frank A. Clark
INSIDE TODAY
Sports-. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Sirhan Trial. Page 5.
Hospital. Page 6.
Funerals. Page 6.
About Town. Page 6.
Ray Cromley. Page 8.
Woman’s Page. Page 10.
Dean Acheson. Page 11.
Viet War. Page 11.
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RUBBER TREES provide an archway of shade for
members of the U. S. First Cavalry as they patrol an
3 Jackson Men
Killed In Wreck
Early Today
Three Jackson men were kill
ed this morning when their car
rammed into the rear of a lar
ge gravel-hauling truck near
the Monroe-Bibb County line on
Georgia 87.
The men were identified as
William Pierson (Pete) Books,
59, of Routh Three, Jackson, Jo
seph LaFayette Reeves, 45, of
Route Four, Jackson, and Her
man L. Cawthon, 52, of Route
Three, Jackson.
The fatalities were the first of
1969 in the five county area co
vered by the Griffin Post of the
Georgia State Patrol. The coun
ties include Spalding, Lamar,
Monroe, Butts and Henry.
The three men were dead on
arrival at a Macon hospital, ac
cording to investigating troopers.
They were enroute to work at
the Overnite Trucking Company
in Macon where they were em
ployed.
Mr. Brooks was a lifelong re
sident of Butts County and a
member of the Liberty Baptist
Church.
He. is survived by his w i-f e,
Mrs. Jennie Tingle Brooks; two
daughters, Mrs. Lewis Weldon
of Jackson and Mrs. Jean Camp
bell of Tampa, Fla.; a son, Wil
liam T. Brooks of Houston, Tex.;
two sisters, Miss Ora Belle
Brooks of Forsyth and Mrs. Sal
lie Mae Maddox of Jackson;and
seven grandchilrdren.
Mr. Reeves was a member of
Liberty Baptist Church and a
lifelong resident of Butts Coun
ty.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Mary Aline Faulkner Reev-
Continued on page six
New Program Starts
Police Department
Training Recruits
The first in a series of recruit
training classes began this week
at Griffin Police Department,
according to Chief Leo Black
well.
Chief Blackwedl said Det.
Capt. Ronnie Irvin was named
training officer for the depart
ment after his graduation from
the FBI Academy in Washing
ton, D. C.
Police recruits will receive
the basic training during the
two month recruit school, Chief
DAI LY NE WS
Daily Since 1872
Demo Leader. Page 12.
Interest Rate. Page 12.
Baggs Dead. Page 12.
Black Socialism. Page 16.
Prison Reforms. Page 16.
W’ant Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Georgia News. Page 20.
Middle East. Page 20.
Tammy Buried. Page 20.
They Are About Same
Louisiana Flu
Hong Kong Cousin
By CHARLES E. WEBB
ATLANTA (UPD—The Hong
Kong flu has an equally devas
tating American cousin, the Na
tional Communicable Disease
Center (NCDC) disclosed Tues
day. The name is Louisiana
Flu.
But the NCDC said the Lou
isiana flu is “so similar to the
original Hong Kong flu, that for
practical purposes, it can be
said to be the same virus.”
There have been reports, the
NCDC said in discounting them,
that a new flu strain had
cropped up in the South.
“Any confusion that has aris
en may be due to the routine
practice of labeling influenza vi
ruses according to the location
in which they are isolated,” the
NCDC said. "Thus, the virus
found in Louisiana was called
A2 Louisiana.”
Dr. George E. Hauser, direc
tor of Laboratories for the Lou
isiana State Health Board, iso
lated the virus in New Orleans
from the throat cultures of two
Baton Rouge children.
“Since some of the cases of
influenza being treated in the
state have proven to be ex
tremely severe, there is always
the possibility that the Louisiana
strain of virus may be capable
of producing very severe at
tacks,” said Hauser.
The Hong Kong flu, which has
swept the nation, appears to
have peaked in much of the
East, Midwest and West, but
seems on the rise in the South.
Houston is one of the newer
stricken cities. One department
store reported absenteeism
among employes double the nor-
, Blackwell said. The school will
; be held two days each week.
, Following the formal in-class
• training, the officers will receive
two weeks training on the fir-
. ing range at the National Guard
I Armory on Zebulon road.
Fifteen men are enrolled.
i Chief Blackwell said that the
• program will keep “raw” police
men off the streets.
s “We are hoping that a bill will
s be passed in the General Assem
f bly to set education standards
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, January 8, 1969
Weather:
PARTLY CLOUDY
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cloudy and warmer
tonight and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 57, low today
29, high Tuesday 52, low Tues
day 35. Sunrise Thursday 7:43
a.m., sunset Thursday 5:52 p.m.
area around Phuoc Vinh, near the Cambodia border
in South Vietnam.
mal rate, and Dr. Lester Ka
rotkin said, “Every doctor I
know is seeing lots more peo
ple with flu and flu - like ill
nesses. . .”
The number of flu cases
jumped nearly 50 per cent in
Alabama with 5,559 cases of all
kinds. Dr. Durward Blakey,
head of the Mississippi prevent
able disease control center,
called the flu a regional epide
mic and predicted it would
sweep Mississippi before peak
ing in about three weeks,
Chicago, on the other hand,
reported a "marked decrease”
in absenteeism among workers,
policemen and students, and Dr.
Morgan J. O’Connell said, “I
would have to assume that we
have passed our peak.”
Health officials in Massachu
setts, Minnesota, Missouri and
California also cautiously ven
tured the worst was over in
their states.
THOUGHT IT WAS LOADED
FREEPORT, lowa (UPD—A
youth about 20 entered Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Telferd’s store,
pointed a metallic object at
Mrs. Telferd and demanded
money.
Mrs. Telferd pointed her
finger at the youth, said, “bang,
bang!” he fled.
OUT ON A LIMB
MONONA, Wis. (UPD—Fire
Chief Rober Brettell says six of
his men and $50,000 worth of
equipment and answered six
calls to get cats out of trees in
the past month.
He said the men will not go
out on such calls anymore.
for all police officers. We also
are hoping for the passage
of a bill that will set minimum
pay standards for policemen,”
Chief Blackwedl said.
“The recruit training school is
different from any of the in
service or re-training schools we
have had in the past,” Chief
Blackwell said.
Capt. Irvin will continue his
duties in the detective bureau
while conducting the training.
City, County
Within Income
Hunter Dies
Os Heart Attack
In Spalding
A Fairburn man died of an ap
parent heart attack between 7
and 8 o’clock while rabbit hunt
ing in a swamp near Flint Riv
er in Spalding County this mor
ning.
Oscar Bryant, 29, of Fairburn,
was stricken in the wooded sw
ampland two and one half miles
off the Vaughn road.
Deputies David Bridges and
Clyde Pierce said Bryant was
hunting with Shirley Baynard
and his son, George M. Bay
nard, both of Fairburn.
Baynard told the deputies that
he was about 100 yards from
Bryant when he heard Bryant
moan as if he was in pain. Bay
nard told the deputies he start
ed to look for Bryant and found
him on a small dry spot in t h e
swamp.
• Baynard and his son walked
out of the woods and called the
Spalding County Sheriff Depart
ment.
The two deputies went to the
area and helped carry Bryant’s
body out of the swamp. They ar
rived at the hospital with the
body at 11:35.
An autopsy was being perfor
med by doctors at the hospital
this afternoon to determine the
cause of death. However, it was
believed that he died of a heart
attack.
The deputies said Bryant had
just started a two-week vaca
tion. He was meat-cutter with
A & P.
He had been hunting Tuesday,
but had not complained of any
pain, Mrs. Bryant told the de
puties.
Rep. Barber
Will Discuss
Aide Post
COMMERCE, Ga. (UPI) —
State Rep. Mac Barber says he
will meet with Gov. Lester Mad
dox soon to'discuss taking over
as the governor’s executive sec
retary.
Barber, the man the governor
wants to replace outgoing sec
retary Thomas T. Irvin who will
become state Agriculture Com
missioner, said Tuesday he has
made no decision.
The lawmaker said he would
not want to leave his county
without a representative in the
legislature if it would mean tak
ing the job before the close of
the 1969 General Assembly.
Vol. 96 No. 6
Both Meeting
Current Bills
Without Loans
Although neither the govern
ments of Griffin and Spalding
County have money to burn,
they are meeting current ex
penses and are within their bud
gets, a check with leaders here
indicated today.
Leaders in both the city and
county noted the financial crisis
which has developed in DeKalb
County where current expenses
are being met with warrant
payments. DeKalb has run out
of operating money.
A spokesman for Spalding
County Commissioners said the
county finished 1968 “about neck
and neck” with no threat of a
money crisis at the present.
Several years ago the county
always had to borrow money
to meet monthly bills until tax
revenue started to come in
near the end of each year.
This has not been the practice
in recent years, however. Th
rough tight spending and bud
geting, the county has been able
to build up funds in the early
part of a year to carry it through
until new tax money is received.
Eliminating the loans saved
the county some money, the
commissioners noted.
Although the audit of 1968 has
not been made, the commission
ers figure they finished within
the budget.
One or two heavy expense
items in 1968 will not be recur
ring, one commissioner pointed
out.
The county’s bond indebted
ness is about $1,070,000 at the
present time. This is on two
hospital bond issues and one
for water lines.
Mayor O. M. Snider, Jr. said
that spending in the city is run
ning within the budget. He noted
the budget was more than $3-
million and the city expects to
finish the current fiscal year
within the proposed operating
outlay. The city’s fiscal year
runs from July 1, to June 30.
The city’s total bond indebt
edness now is about $4.5-mil
lion.
The city plans to ask voters
to approve a $2-million bond
issue within the next month
or two for some programs the
commissioners feel need im
mediate attention.
Mayor Snider said that should
the voters approve the bond
issue, the city would have about
reached its present bonding cap
acity. But he noted that this
capacity could be increased with
the increase of a broader tax
base.
Mayor Snider in a talk last
week indicated the city does not
believe it will have to increase
taxes within the next few years.
He pointed out that the city’s
income from the Light and Wat
er Department continues to hold
down the tax rates here.
Tech Opens Joint Program
With Four Negro Colleges
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Tech and four predominantly
Negro colleges in Atlanta said
today a major program de
signed to educate black students
as engineers will begin this
week.
The program unites the pre
dominantly white engineering
school, the nation’s third larg
est, with the Atlanta University
Center, a complex of four pri
vate colleges with the largest
combined Negro enrollment in
the nation.
The institutions will begin a
program that allows students
from the four schools to attend
Campbell’s Name
Popped Up First
In Kansas City
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — Outgoing
State Agriculture Commissioner
Phil Campbell may owe his new
federal appointment partly to a
meeting of a high school
farm club, for he is told that’s
where his name was first men
tioned for the job.
Campbell Tuesday told news
men he understood the move
ment that eventually ended with
his being named undersecretary
of Agriculture for President
elect Richard Nixon “originated
out in Kansas City, Mo., much
to my surprise.”
It was during a recent nation
al meeting for the Future
Farmers of America, a nation
wide high school club, that a
group of dairymen and poultry
men—plus some of Nixon’s
workers — got together and dis
cussed who might be the new
agriculture secretary.
“They brought up someone
from out there (in the midwest)
and then someone said how
about Phill Campbell of Geor
gia,” Campbell said he was
told. That conversation related
to the secretary’s job, but
Campbell said “I never thought
I’d be considered. I never had
any thoughts or illusions about
that.”
He said he felt the secretary’s
job "belonged to the midwest”
where Nixon was strongly sup
ported.
Campbell, who currently has
no plans to take aides with him
when he goes to Washington af
ter the Senate confirms his
nomination, said the first defi
nite contact he had about the
new job came on Christmas
Day.
Campbell, 51, a Democrat
turned - Republican, said Ag
riculture secretary - designate
Clifford Hardin had actually
been calling him from Nebras
ka since the previous day, but
Georgian Helped
Remove Grenade
From Man’s Leg
BONG SON, South Vietnam
(UPI) — Spec. 6 Roy Judkins
of Augusta, Ga., received 22
weeks of training in how to dis
arm mines and booby-traps—
but he didn’t expect to find
them where he does now.
Judkins has been working
with a doctor from New Zea
land in removing live explosives
lodged in war victims.
Recently the two men re
moved a hand grenade from the
leg of a Vietnamese man in this
town’s tiny hospital. They
work ed quickly, depositing the
grenade in a sandbag after it
was removed.
“It’s been an incredible week”
said the young soldier, explain
ing that only four days earlier
he had helped remove a gre
nade from the head of another
Vietnamese.
“They sure never taught us
anything like these operations,”
Judkins said.
their own colleges for three
years, then transfer to Georgia
Tech for two more years, and
graduate with a bachelor of sci
ence or bachelor of arts degree
as well as a bachelor’s degree
in enginetring.
A grant of $265,000 from the
Olin Mathieson Charitable
Trust will finance the start of
the program. It will be used to
support about 85 students dur
ing the next three years, with
other grants expected to come
from other sources.
The program was initiated by
representatives of Morehouse
Campbell’s telephone was out of
order and he did not get the
call until Christmas.
Campbell said he caught a
plane Dec. 26 to Lincoln, Neb.,
only to rim into more troubles.
The airport was closed because
of bad weather and Campbell’s
plane landed in a small town
40 or 50 miles from his destina
tion. He took a bus for the final
leg of the trip, arrived late and
was offered the nation’s No. 2
farm job.
“I told him( Hardin) I was
very interested and that I had
some problems but would ac
cept,” Campbell related. "Hard
in will be a great secretary of
agriculture.”
Asked if he was pleased with
his state job successor, govern
or’s executive secretary Tommy
Irvin, Campbell said, "I’m not
unhappy with anything at this
stage of the game.”
Campbell said of Irvin, "I’m
sure he has the abilities for the
job. It’s just a matter of devel
oping a knowledge of the de
partment—l didn’t know it when
I came in.”
Campbell reminisced about
the events that sparked his 20-
year career In government. “I
was bom in security on Lump
kin street (in Athens), not on a
farm ” he said.
But his father was instru
mental at the national and state
level In the agricultural exten
sion service and county agents
setup.
Campbell, set on a political
career, began farming himself
after one semester at George
Washington University. He
transferred to University of
Georgia and rented land for a
farm “so I’d always have food
in the kitchen regardless of
what happened in politics.”
He paid five bales of cotton
to lease some land neighboring
his family’s farm in Oconee
County, and after graduating
from Georgia, quit a post
graduate scholarship in prefer
ence for his farming and politi
cal goals.
“We didn’t even have elec
tricity for the first six years”
on the farm, Campbell recalls.
He hauled ice to cool the milk
he milked by hand from his 29-
cow dairy and “today, I can’t
even conceive of it.”
He won his first election and
a legislative post by a 25-vote
margin (“That almost terminat
ed my career right there”) and
was off to Atlanta to be "where
the decisions were being
made.”
Campbell went on through six
legislative years to become
agriculture commissioner for 14
years.
“I’m very happy with what I
think has been my contribution
to the advancement of this
state,” Campbell said. "I have
accomplished my objective.”
Campbell described the na
tional farm scene as a "tedious
situation” and said the top farm
problem now is “the type of
farm programs that will be
recommended to Congress.”
College, also a member of the/
University Center, early this
year. The other Negro colleges',
Spelman Morris Brown and
Clark, joined the talks.
“Although the Georgia Insti
tute of Technology has been
open to Negro students since
1961, the number of blacks
among its graduates is still
very low,” the announcement
said.
“The dual degree program
may well become the first sig
nificant and realistic step tak
en to place black graduates in
the center of America’s tech
nologically based society.”