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By Quimby Melton
Saturday, Feb. 22, is the an
niversary of the birth of George
Washington. Many stories have
been told of this great American,
“Th» Father of our Country.”
Every year on Washington’s
birthday editorials and feature
stories are featured in newspa
pers and magazines.
The other day came across an
interesting book, that contained
many editorials written by the
late Wiliam Randolph Hearst,
founder and builder of one of the
largest and most powerful
•‘chain” of newspapers this na
tion has ever known. The book
was edited by his son and pub
lished shortly after his father
died.
Hearst wrote many “must” ed
itorials, The “must” meaning
they should be carried, under his
signature, in every one of his pa
pers. Thumbing through the book
was attracted by that section in
which Mr. Hearst wrote about
leading American people. Here is
what he wrote in 1932 about Ge
orge Washington.
Washington stands in history
us one of the greatest men of all
countries and of all times.
He more than any one man
was responsible for the founding,
preserving and guiding to its sp
lendid destiny the greatest na
tion in the world.
He led the meagre, ill-armed,
ill-fed, ill-clad Continental Arm
ies to complete victory in our
fight for freedom.
He became me nation’s first
President and guided this nation
in the troublesome years which
followed the war to solvency and
safety.
It may be truthfully said that
this Nation of ours would not
have come into permanent exis
tence without the Inspiring and
sustaining leadership of George
Washington.
Frederick the Great called Ge
orge Washington “the greatest
general of his time” and in a 11
probability without the supreme
military genius of Washington
the Colonies could hever have
overcome the tremendous diffi
culties of their situation and the
enormous odds of wealth and
arms against them.
George Washington’s states
manship was as gredt as his gen
eralship and the United States,
having come into being as a Na
tion through Washington’s hero
ism and military genius, was
made to endure through his pat
riotism and wisdom and far-see
ing statesmanship.
He left for the guidance of his
countrymen in later years not
only the great example of his
life and labors, but the wise in
junctions of his Farewell Ad
dress, which have been almost
without variance the guiding
chart for the political course of
our country.
Truly was George Washington
the Father of his Country and
the sponsor of those principles
upon which his country has gr
own to supreme greatness in the
world.
The Empires of Rameses, of
Cyrus, of Alexander, of Charle
magne, of Napoleon, dissolved
eoon after the death of these
great founders because these
were reared upon the unstable
base of force alone.
But the great Nation of ours
was built on the cornerstones of
liberty and justice, of opportun
ity and Independence.
It not only has endured but has
grown continually in extent, in
power, in importance, and in be
neficent influence throughout the
world.
Country Parson
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“A fellow too busy to meditate
will be even busier correcting
his mistakes.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A Clark
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This is one of four soybean cars involved in the freight derailment Wednesday night about
10:15 just off the East Mclntosh road. No one was injured. The wreck occurred on the
Southern Railway tracks between Griffin and McDonough. Other cars carried sand, lumber,
wood shavings and other materials.
US Asks Return
To Geneva Pact
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPD—The United
States called today for a return
to the 1954 Geneva agreements
which ended the French Indoch
ina War and said there must be
a mutual de-escalation of the
Vietnam War if there is to be
peace.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge said the de-escalation
was “an absolutely essential
first step." And he impatiently
rejected once again the Commu
nist demand the Americans pull
out of Vietnam, unconditionally,
as a first step.
Backed by South Vietnamese
chief delegate Pham Dang Lam,
Lodge accused the Communists
of hampering the progress of
the conference by failing to
make concrete proposals while
insisting on demands they knew
were unacceptable.
“The United States believes
that the essential elements of
the 1954 accords, which we have
all said we support as the basis
for a future settlement, provide
common ground on which to
build the structure of peace in
Vietnam,” Lodge said.
The Geneva agreements were
a set of documents which ended
the French colonial war in
Indochina. The United States,
which did not sign them,
nevertheless, supported their
provisions.
Lodge urged the Commnuist
delegates to discuss with the
allies such key provisions of the
accords as the establishment of
a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
along the 17th parallel, the
disengagement of opposing mili
tary forces, the cessation of
hostilities, the non-intervention
by the South and the North in
3 Virginia Colonels
Lead Charge On Reds
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. Marines
led by three colonels from
Virginia killed 105 North Vietna
mese soldiers today in a series
of savage close quarter battles
atop the unnamed mountains
dominating the Communists’ A
Shau Valley supply route from
Laos.
The Marines lost nine men
killed and 17 wounded today
when they clawed their way up
the mountains in 100 degree
heat and fought the North
Vietnamese who died rather
than surrender their maintain
guns. The Leathernecks cap
tured two, killing the guncrews.
Some of the battles were
fought within two miles of the
Laotian border and it was clear
the Marines had won a strong
toehold in the campaign to win
control of the 30-mile long A
Sahau Valley that funnels
Communist troops and materiel
from Laos to the Da Nang area.
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one another’s internal affairs
and the impartial international
policing of the agreements.
On the Communist insistence
on a U.S. military pullout Lodge
said the Hanoi and Viet Cong
negotiators “obviously recognize
that the solution of military
issues is an absolutely essential
first step for the creation of
conditions in which the political
problems can be resolved.”
Lodge said, “your side and
our side seem to agree that
military issues and particularly
the question of withdrawal of
military forces are of key
importance to an overall
settlement.
INSIDE
Commentary. Page 2.
Income Tax Revamp. Page 3,
Senate Caucas. Page 3.
Gwinnett Revamp. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Sports. Pages 5-7.
Student Unrest. Page 8.
Pueblo Probe. Page 8.
Iraq Executes 8. Page 8.
Cromley. Page 9.
Biossat. Page 9.
Woman’s News. Page 10.
Sirhan. Page 11.
Nixon’s Trip. Page 11.
Baptists. Page 11.
Hospital. Page 12.
Stork Club. Page 12.
Fune r als. Page 12.
Tax Q & A. Page 13.
Social Security. Page 13.
Pou th Pages. Pages 14, 51.
Comics. Page 16.
Want Ads. Pages 17-19.
Gina. Page 20.
The month old operation so
far has killed 844 Communists,
most of them in the past week,
and cost the Marines 70 dead
and 312 wounded. The cam
paign, Operation Dewey Can
yon, is the largest In recent
months and appeared to be the
most successful.
UPI correspondent David
Lamb who has accompanied the
Marines on the sweep said the
three battalion commanders
from Virginia had urged their
sweltering troops up one moun
tain after another, leaving
snipers behind to protect their
flanks. They were plunging into
Communist defenses in bunker
to-bunker battle.
“There is none of this
nonsense with fancy command
posts out here,” said Col.
Robert A. Barrow, 47, of St.
Francisville, La. “They’re on
the ground with their rifle
companies. They’re cool heads
and they’ve displayed as many
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, February 20, 1969
Prison Reform
Package Goes
To Ga. Senate
ATLANTA (UPD—The Mad
dox administration sent its pris
on reform package to the Sen
ate Wednesday, containing a
measure that would permit an
incompetent member of the
Pardon and Parole Board to be
dismissed without action by the
General Assembly.
The package of nine bills was
sub mll te d by assistant
floor leader Mike Padgett of
Mcßean.
One of the measures would
allow impeachment by a com
mission composed of the gov
ernor, the lieutenant governor
and the speaker of the House.
Other proposals would give
the chairman of the controver
sial board complete control
over the group’s internal
affairs.
The board would be required
to hold a hearing before grant
ing a parole and would have to
put in writing the facts on
which any decision is based.
Prisoners would be allowed to
visit outside the prison and in
mates would be classified by
their age, health, and status as
first offenders or habitual crim
inals.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
little warmer tonight. Cloudy
and mild Friday with slight ch
ance of rain.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 59, low today
31, high Wednesday 57, low Wed
nesday 29; sunrise Friday 7:18,
sunset Friday 6:31.
heroics as any man in the
outfit.”
One battalion commander, Lt.
Col. George Laine Jr., of
Virginia Beach, Va., radioed
Barrow that his Marines “have
caught the spirit of the thing”
as they clawed and scratched
their way up Tiger Mountain, a
peak soaring 3,700 feet above
the floor of the A Shau Valley—
the only peak in the area with a
name.
Farther south, Lt. George
Smith of Springfield, Va., and
Lt. Col. George Fox of
Warrenton, Va., were leading
their 1,000 man battalions over
jagged ridgelines near Laos and
into some of the toughest
fighting of the year.
The capture of the two
artillery pieces today was
believed to be the first time
U.S. troops have captured such
weapons in the war. They also
took a five ton racked vehicle
used for hauling the weapons.
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Laird Says Russia
Is Testing ABMs
Sees Need
For Defense
Against China
WASHINGTON (UPD—
Defense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird said today the Soviet
Union is going forward with
“tests on a sophisticated new
ABM (antiballistic missile)
system.”
Laird, testifying before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, said that because of the
potential threat from Red China
and Russia, he would be remiss
in his duties to protect the
national security if he commit
ted himself against deployment
of the U.S. Sentinal ABM
system.
The Sentinal system as
devised during the Johnson
administration was designed to
provide a "thin” ABM defense,
largely against the threat of a
limited Chinese missile attack.
Laird said, as he has before,
that he believed the Chinese
would fire a test intercontinen
tal ballistic missile (ICBM) “in
18 months” and by 1975 would
have out 20 to 30 missiles “that
could hit the United States.”
Laird assured senators,
however, that the Defense
Department was undertaking a
“serious, thorough and complete
review” of the Sentinal system.
He said it had not yet made a
decision on whether to resume
deployment of the controversial
project.
Work in connection with
deployment of the Sentinal
system, originally designed with
sites near some major metropo
litan areas, was suspended
recently pending a review of the
program.
Laird told of Soviet tests on a
new ABM system while at
tempting to explain the reasons
for last year’s decision to begin
construction on a U.S. system.
“The Soviet Union is going
ahead with tests on sophisticat
ed, new ABM system, according
to our intelligence,” Laird said.
He did not give any additional
information on what the system
would Include, or how effective
it might be against U.S.
ICBM’s.
As for the Sentinal system,
Laird said “we’re looking at all
the options.”
He denied some published
reports that the Pentagon was
not even considering the possibi
lity of abandoning the system.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photos)
Rail repair cibws were busy this morning clearing the tracks of wreckage. Alton Askew,
1123 East Mclntosh road, who lives near the wreck scene, said it sounded like a roll of
thunder when the cars left the tracks. Several houses are about 200 yards from the wreck
scene.
4 We Protest’
CHICAGO (UPD —Today’s
Chicago Tribune carried no
news about student protests. It
carried a front page editorial
“We Protest,” explaining why.
“It is the fashion now to
protest. Everybody seems to be
doing it,” the Tribune said.
“For this day we choose to
follow the fashion. We protest
the attention, concern and
indulgence that have been
accorded to student protesters
on university campuses all over
the world. We think they have
generated news out of all
proportion to their numbers and
Ex-Bunny Girl Held
In Surgeon’s Death
ATLANTA (UPD —Dr. War-
Warren Franklin Brown, one of
the South’s leading young plas
tic surgeons, was shot to death
Wednesday in the apartment of
his office assistant, a former
Playboy Club bunny.
Police said the woman, Mrs.
Jackie Hendrickson, 28, had
been charged with murder.
Police Lt. E. F. McKillop
said Mrs. Hendrickson contend
ed the shooting occurred acci
dentally during an argument.
Brown died of a gunshot wound
in the chest.
Officers said Brown, 37, the
father of two children, tele
phoned a hospital after he was
shot and reported, “I think I
am dying. Need A -negative
blood. Am on the way.”
Bagby Seeks Federal Help
To Save Deer Hunt Refuge
ATLANTA (UPD—The head
of Georgia’s Game and Fish
Commission Wednesday sought
the help of congressmen in sav
ing the 33,000-acre Piedmont
National Wildlife Refuge for
deer hunters.
Commission Director George
T. Bagby sent telegrams to Sen.
Herman Talmadge and Richard
B. Russell, and the 10 U. S.
representatives, asking them to
oppose a possible takeover of
some of the acreage by a pri
vate timber firm, Georgia Pa
cific Co.
The telegrams were in re-
importance.
“As a demonstration of our
protest we are refraining from
printing any news about protest
ing students today. Tomorrow
we shall go back to reporting
this story. It is our responsibili
ty to print the news whether we
find it pleasing or repugnant,”
it said.
“This is our moratorium,” the
Tribune said. “To campus
radicals we recommend a
moratorium and a slogan that is
a variant of one of their own:
‘Make peace not war’.”
Mrs. Hendrickson told police
that she administered mouth-to
mouth resuscitation and other
first aid measures while wait
ing for an ambulance.
The woman, who said she
worked at a Playboy Club be
fore being employed by Brown
last year, said the pistol dis
charged twice after Brown
grabbed her. One of the shots
struck the surgeon in the chest.
Brown, a native of Dayton,
Tenn., had studied at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Mrs. Hendrickson told offi
cers she had a special deputy
sheriff badge from Fulton Coun
ty and was issued a gun permit
because she had to make late
calls.
i sponse to a recent newspaper
i article hinting Georgia Pacific
t might ask for the Georgia lands
- in exchange for forest property
t it lost when Congress created
• the California Redwood Nation
al Park.
J The Piedmont refuge, located
. about 25 miles north of Macon,
1 holds one of the state’s largest
. populations of deer and is
> opened annually to hunters to
f trim down surplus herds.
“Loss of any land from Pied-
• mont would mean losing some
of the best public deer hunting
- in the state for Georgia sports-
Pafford Says
State Practices
‘Favoritism’
ATLANTA (UPD—Rep. Bob
by Pafford told members of the
House Properties and Institu
tions Committee Wednesday
that the state was guilty of
“tremendous favoritism” in
awarding architect contracts.
Pafford spoke at a hearing on
four bills he has drafted to
eliminate the alleged favorit
ism.
The Lakeland representative
charged that, during the past
four years, the two firms of A.
Thomas Bradbury, Atlanta, and
Jones and Fellers, Augusta, had
received most of the state con
tracts, amounting to more than
$6 million in fees.
He said the firms were charg
ing fees 30 per cent higher than
rates set by the American In
stitute of Architects.
His bills would provide for
competitive bidding, set the fee
limit at 6 per cent of the cost
of construction, and provide
that plans drawn under con
tract for the state would be
come the property of the state.
Ralph Pettit, president of the
legislative committee of the
North Georgia Council of Archi
tects, praised Pafford’s bills
and suggested the state set up
a board to oversee the award
ing of contracts.
The board would inspect
work, draw up a fee schedule,
and determine criteria to allow
firms dealing with the state to
do their work properly without
overloading themselves.
• men,” Bagby said.
'■ He added that not all of Pied
-1 mont’s land would be taken in
j the proposed exchange.
Bagby also noted that the
1968 Redwood bill stipulates
that only California lands could
be used in exchange for private
’ property lost by creation of the
" national park.
i Georgia has only two other
national refuges, including the
. Okefenokee Swamp which is not
• open to hunters. Only archers
I are permitted to hunt deer on
■ Blackbeard Island.