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Griffin Daily News
$200,000 Bid
For Hotel Lease
ATLANTA (UPD—Jamestown
Shopping Center, Inc., of Geor
gia has submitted the best bld
of (200,000 a year to lease the
state - owned Henry Grady Ho
tel here and the State Proper
ties Control Commission recom
mended approval of the lease.
The commission Tuesday also
proposed that a public auction
be held to sell the old govern
or's mansion, and it reversed
a previous recommendation that
the state buy $1.3 million worth
| of railroad sidings under an op
tion in the lease of the state’s
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Now it is up to the legisla
| ture to take action.
Under terms of the lease for
II the downtown hotel, Georgia
would receive $200,000 annually
for 99 years, plus a 1 per cent
escalation, beginning in 1972. The
Jamestown firm also promised
I to make improvements to the
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1 Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1969
i property costing at least $3 mil
- lion.
I The commission decided to re
i verse Its stand on the planned
• purchase of some $1.3 million
■ worth of railroad sidings from
■ the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road when Its present lease on
i the Western and Atlanta expires
in December because the L&N
appeared “too anxious” to sell.
The commission also said the
federal Instate Commerce Oom
mission would protect Georgia's
Interest in the property if the
lease ever changes hands.
ADJOURED DEBATE
LONDON (UPD—The Greater
London Council adjourned a
debate on a proposed rent
Increase for 10 minutes Tuesday
night after three stinkbombs
were tossed from the specta
tors’ gallery just behind the
Conservative party seats.
Mass Demonstration Planned
Feb. 22 In Worth County
ATLANTA (UPD -Represent
atives of more than a dozen
civil rights groups have banded
together In an alliance aimed
at bringing regional and nation
al attention to the tense racial
situation in Worth County.
The new group, formed Tues
day and named the Committee
of Concerned Citizens for Worth
County, immediately announced
a "massive demonstration” in
the county on Feb. 22, Wash
ington’s birthday.
The date is also the birthday
of a 14 • year -old Negro girl
whose arrest and sentence to a
state training school on charges
of juvenile delinquency prompt
ed more than two months of
demonstrations and the arrests
of some 150 Negroes and Whites.
The meeting Tuesday was
called by the Georgia Council
of Human Relations and attend
ed by more than a dozen civil
rights groups, including the
- Southern Christian Leadership
i Conference, the National Asso
-1 ciation for the Advancement of
1 Colored People, and the Ameri-
- can Civil Liberties Union.
1
Meanwhile, trials for some of
those arrested continued one-by
, one Tuesday in the. Sylvester
’ Recorders Court, where Judge
[ Everett Clayton handed 10-day
l suspended sentences to virtual
, ly all the defendants.
“We want to make sure re
' sponsible national leaders who
1 have been our allies in the past
1 are informed,” said the Rev.
’ Thomas M. Stubbs Jr., presi
' dent of the Georgia Council of
' Human Relations, announcing
’ that telegrams had been sent to
selected members of Congress
* and the federal government.
I
Included were President Nix-
I on, Secretary of Health, Edu
: cation and Welfare Robert H.
Finch and Sen. Edward M. Ken
nedy, D-Mass. Stubbs said the
message to Finch reminded the
new HEW secretary of “his de
partment’s responsibility to law
and order," and said that law
and order had broken down in
Worth County.
Negroes have contended that
the arrest of the 14 - year -old
girl, who is now in a state train
ing school at Sandersville, was
“arbitrary and capricious.”
Among civil rights leaders at
tending Tuesday's meeting was
State Sen. Leroy Johnson, who
told the group that "massive
demonstrations” were the only
way to get results in Worth
County.
■‘They’ve been arresting most
of the 15 - to - 20 member
groups and there’s not a jail in
the area where they can arrest
500 people,” Johnson said.
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(middle) and Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, national aecurity adviser—both new on the scene.
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HERE IS THE PATTERN of President Nixon’s European trip, and some ot the leaders he
will see. First stop, Brussels (1), for a NATO talk, including ground chief General Lem
nitzer and sea chief Admiral Holmes, then London (2), Bonn <3l, West Berlin (4), Roma
(5), Paris (tt). and back to Rome to see Pope PauL
Blaze Destroys
College Dorm
MOUNT VERNON, Ga. (UPP i
—Fire swept through a vacant ■
boys’ dormitory on the campus :
of Brewton-Parker College here |
Tuesday night. There were no I
injuries in the blaze.
Witnesses on the scene said
the fire gutted the three story
hall, one of the largest and old
est on the campus of the Bap
tist-affiliated church school.
“The smoke's coming out ev
erywhere,” said student Jerry
Purcell from a telephone 100
feet from the burning building.|
“It’s gutted three floors.” He.
reported flames were leaping
200 to 250 feet In the sky.
Cause of the fire was not j
known immediately.
Volunteer firemen from
Mount Vernon, Vidalia and Ai-1
ley rushed to the scene, but ■
were having trouble ge 11 in g
enough water pressure to quell
the blaze.
“It’s too late,” said Mrs. M.
W. Vaughn, who was a house
Jill St. John
To Seek Divorce
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Ac
tress Jill St. John and singer
Jack Jones have separated after
18-months of marriage. Miss St.
John plans to get a Mexican
divorce.
Jones said In Honolulu Tues
day the demands of his career
and the traveling involved were
a factor in the breakup. .
’’We just didn’t see each
other very much,” he said. “We
parted friends ... the love
involved is sometimes not
enough.”
Miss St. John, 27, said she
would go to Acapulco for the
divorce decree.
It was the third marriage for
the actress and the second for
Jones.
| mother when the dorm, now:
i undergoing remodeling, was in
i use last year. “All they can do
i is let it burn down.”
I The building, Denton Hall,
i was built in 1904 and last year
Vaughn said.
Students from surrounding
dormitories stood watching the
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i blaze. All buildings near the
burning structure were evacu
;ated.
“The whole sky is afire with
ashes,” Purcell said, and fire-
I men were unable to enter the
building because of the heat of
■ the flames.
The building was constructed
:i of wood with a brick exterior.