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Griffin Daily News
Two Newnan Heroes
Get Top U. S. Honor
WASHINGTON (UPD —Four
U. S. servicemen, two of them
from the same small town in
Georgia, receive the nation’s
highest military decoration to
day when President Johnson
presents them with the Medal
of Honor for heroism in Viet
nam.
The awards, being made ear
ly this afternoon at a ceremony
in the White House, probably
will be the last from Johnson
before he leaves office Monday.
They were also believed to ba
the first ever presented simul
taneously to two men from the
same town.
The two Georgians, from
Newnan about 40 miles south
west of Atlanta, are Marine
Maj. Stephen W. Pless, 30, and
Air Force Lt. Col. Joe M. Jack-
Bon, 46.
Honored with them will be
Army S. Sgt. Drew D. Dix, 44,
of Pueblo, Colo., and Navy Lt.
Clyde E. Lassen, 26, a pilot
from Fort Myers, Fla.
Pless, decorated many times
before for valor and currently
stationed in Pensacola, Fla.,
was honored for "exceptional
airmanship" exhibited in 1967
while flying a helicopter in
South Vietnam.
Hearing that four wounded
American soldiers were under
attack on a beach below, Pless
"launched a devastating attack
against the enemy force, killing
or wounding many of the enemy
and driving the remainder back
into a treeline.” Minutes later,
he swooped down and rescued
the four Gls as Viet Cong forc-
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Thursday, Jan. 16, 1969
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es fired at them.
Jackson, now stationed at the
Pentagon, was honored for a
daring air rescue mission last
May. Piloting a C 123 through
enemy fire, Jackson managed
to reach a partially blocked
landing strip near Kham Due
and pick up a stranded three
man Air Force combat control
team.
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard
Constitution Revision Sought
City Sales Tax Measure
Ready For First Votes
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPD — Measures
to give Georgia’s cities the right
to levy a one cent sales tax and
to revise the state’s outmoded
constitution were readied for
initial action in the General As
sembly today.
Both houses of the legislature
met jointly at 12 noon to
hear Gov. Lester Maddox’s long
awaited budget message. The
governor will ask for a budget
of sl.l billion to keep the state
"moving forward.” He already
has said he will ask the legisla
ture for $214 million in new
taxes.
Before the governor’s speech,
however, both houses are ex
pected to give first reading to
tax bills and a constitution re
vision resolution.
Atlanta Rep. Mike Egan has
Introduced a bill that will give
of two men from a small town |
getting the Medal of Honor at
. the same time,” said Dr. Na
thaniel Glover, mayor of Newn
i an.
"We’re tremendously excited
I and making plans to properly
: recognize them,” the mayor
• said.
I Pless, 30, was born in Newn
and graduated from Georgia
I Military Academy in College
cities and counties the right to
levy a one cent sales tax. Un
der the measure the state would
collect the tax money and distri-1
bute it to the municipalities.
School systems will get one half
the money with the remainder to
be distributed to the cities and
the county in which it is lo
cated on a pro - rata basis.
Egan's bill carries the co-signa
tures of six other powerful
house leaders.
The constitutional revision res
olution was introduced in the
Senate by Sen. Julian Webb of
Donalsonville. The measure calls
for establishment of a 28-mem
ber constitutional revision com
mission headed by the governor
and would draw up a new con
stitution by Dec. 1.
A House caucus of Democrat
ic members Wednesday went on
record in favor of a broad study
| Park, an Atlanta suburb. His
father lives in Atlanta, his step
father in Roswell, another
Atlanta suburb, and his mother
in Miami.
Jackson, 46, graduated from
high school in Newnan and en
listed in the Army Air Corps in
1940. His mother, Mrs. Effie
Jackson, lives in Newnan, and
three of his five brothers are
postal employes in Newnan.
of constitutional revision.
Also, State Sen. Bob Smalley
of Griffin said he planned to
' ask the legislature to override
gubernatorial votes on bills
which would have placed the
State Pardon and Parole Board
and the Board of Corrections
under the State Administrative
Procedures Act.
In the House, at least three
bills to tighten the state’s ob
scenity laws are scheduled for
first reading. Generally, the
bills would tighten the penalty
against the sale of obscene
pictures, books or other such
material to minors. Different
obscenity measures were offer
ed by Reps. Elliot Levitis of
Atlanta, Carr Dodson of Macon
and Harold Clarke of Forsyth.
Dodson also had ready for
first reading a bill to exempt
the state sales tax on the state
gasoline excise tax. Another
sales tax exemption measure
would eliminate the tax on med
icine prescribed by physicians.
Rep. Levitis also Introduced a
bill to eliminate the state plan
i ning board and in its place
I establish a department of com-
I munity affairs.
A group of legislators from
urban areas held a caucus Wed
nesday and set up a permanent
steering committee. The urban
legislators also voted to estab
lish a subcommittee to conduct
research on all measures that
might affect urban areas. They
voted to Invite all legislators in
terested in urban affairs to join [
the urban coalition.
HIGH BALL
LIVERMORE, Calif. (UPD—
A lost ball and a nerve
wracking experience shook up
Russell Marley’s golf game
Wednesday.
While approaching the first
green at Las Positas Golf
Course, he drove the ball 75 feet
in the air where it crashed
through the cockpit of a light
plane making a landing at
nearby Livermore Municipal
Airport.
The pilot, Navy officer Bryan
Pownall, was hit on the head
but landed safely.
Marley, who usually shoots In
the low 80s, finished with a 94.
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19 Arrested In Sylvester
As Demonstrations Continue
SYLVESTER, Ga. (UPD —
Nineteen persons, including a
Negro minister and 12 youths
under 17, have been arrested In
the latest in a series of inci
dents protesting the sentencing
of two Negro girls on juvenile
delinquency charges.
Georgia Hijacker
Veteran Os Berets
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPD —
Army authorities say the al
leged hijacker of a United Air
lines jet to Cuba last weekend
was a 15-year veteran with the
elite Green Berets and a former
"soldier of the month.”
"I would rather think he went
to Cuba to do in Castro rather
than think of him as a defec
tor,” said Logan Dixon, reserve
unit commander for Robert Me
-1 Rae Heliney, who was charged
|by the FBI Wednesday with
piracy of an airliner.
Helmey, a Savannah native in
his 30s, is accused of forcing
United’s Jacksonville-to - Miami ■
flight last Saturday night to
land at Havana's Jose Marti
Airport. There were 19 persons
aboard the plane.
The FBI said Helmey left
some of his reserve unit's train
ing manuals in a briefcase on
board the plane when it landed
i in Havana.
Dixon said Helmey, a mem
ber of the 11th Special Forces
Airborne Green Beret Opera
tional Detacthment B -2, Com
pany E, had been selected "Sol
dier of the Month” from his
Police Chief Gordon Young
said the group, arrested
Wednesday near the predomi
nantly white Worth County High
School, was charged with ob
structing the sidewalks and
demonstrating without a permit.
Bond was set at SIOO for minors
unit in February 1967.
•'He was a good soldier who
would do anything militarily,’’
said Dixon.
According to the FBI, Hel
mey boarded a Delta flight in
j Savannah and apparently in
tended to take a National Air
lines flight to Miami, but in
stead borded the United Airlines
plane.
A local cab driver told au- j
thorities he drove a man fitting
Helmey’s description to the air- i
port and the man told him he
was going to hijack a plane to
Cuba, “but I thought of course
he was joking.”
Mrs. Helmey said Wednesday
she hadn’t seen her husband
since Saturday morning, but
later she refuced to comment
on the hijacking.
A United stewardess was
forced by the hijacker to take
him into the cockpit after he
brandished a -38 caliber pistol.
He told the pilot, M. D. Guyot,
to divert the plane to Cuba and
“tell Fidel, Red is coming.”
The FBI said Helmey’s nick
name is "Red.”
and $250 for adults on each:
charge.
A total of 78 Negroes were I
arrested during demonstrations
last week.
According to police, the dem
onstrators marched through the
downtown section of Sylvester,
clapping hands and singing and
were arrested two blocks from
the high school where they
planned to demonstrate for the
second time in two days.
The demonstrations have fol
lowed the arrest and conviction
of two young Negro girls on
charges of juvenile delinquency.
The older girl, 14, was sent to
a state training school and an
11-year-old was put on proba
tion. Protesters have claimed
the sentences were racially
motivated.
The Rev. Samuel Wells of At
lanta, a representative of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference led the marchers
across Georgia Highway 82.
Police warned the group to
disband or be arrested. Wells
and the others, according to au
thorities, boarded a bus and
were taken to the county jail.
The police chief said minors
in the group were transferred to
lan Albany juvenile detention
home.
Police said the arrests were
made to avert a serious inci
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| youth dashed past Mrs. Edna
Jones, 66, and grabbed her
purse Wednesday, she just kept
walking, boarded her bus and
went to work.
It was the sixth time in the
I past tw’o years Mrs. Jones’
purse has been snatched.
This time she carried her
I money elsewhere and the purse
I held her lunch—a piece of
chicken, cookies and a cupcake.
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ASSASSINS KILL FIVE
MANILA (UPD — Assassins
ambushed and killed five men,
including a town mayor, as they
walked away from a cock fight
Sunday, the Philippine constabu
lory reported Monday. The dead
official was Gabriel Bientipo,
58, of San Juan in Abra
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