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By Quimby Melton
Onoe again our community
has paid a heavy installment on
the heart-breaking cost of
war. The parents of Pfc. Jimmy
Tyus, 21-year-old 1967 graduate
of Milner High were notified
he has been killed in ac
tion in Vietnam. In this time
of their deep sorrow, wmch can
not be tempered even with rea
lization that their boy gave his
life for his country, we extend
to them the sympathy of the en
tire community.
Marine Jimmy Tyus was the
fifth graduate of Milner High to
be killed in the Vietnam war.
That small Lamar County city
knows first hand the horrors of
war.
Have you ever noticed? How
so many speakers at banquets,
at civic clubs, at almost every
gathering, often talk of “these
trying times”, “these critical
days," “these changing times,”
and all that. And we’ve even he
ard some preachers dwell on
such things.
To hear them talk and to hear
them preach one gets the idea
that in their opinion such world
conditions are something new;
and they seem to approach their
subject with almost a defeatist
attitude.
They lose sight of the fact that
the world has been “troubled;”
has been “changing”, and that
crisis after crisis has arisen with
every generation since the days
of Adam and Eve.
— * —
Well, Tuesday night, attending
the Griffin BPW Club’s 22nd an
niversary banquet, heard a tal
lented, sincere speaker, who did
not paint, even suggest that the
world is in a “mell of a hess” as
some old timers used to say. We
enjoyed and appreciated the
message this speaker brought to
those present.
The speaker was Mrs. Margar
et B. Johnson, of Thomaston,
president of the Georgia Fed
eration of Business and Profes
sional Women’s Clubs. She told
of the program and alms of the
organization; she told how wo
men could work for a better and
finer community, nation and
world. She spent none of her
time trying to “window dress”
her speech with high sounding
phrases. She did not try to hold
the attention of her audience
with a lot of corny jokes. Her
sincerity, her devotion to things
worthwhile spoke for themsel
ves. Stripped of the time con
suming “picture painting,” of
ten indulged in by many speak
ers, she made her speech, and
sat down.
As we listened to this gifted,
sincere woman, it seems to us
that her’s was a challenging
speech. A challenge to everyone
present to do his very best in
every way, hopefully and with
faith, that they could bring their
aims to fruition.
Then and there we made up
our mind that a good way to des
cribe the world today, rather
than saying it is troubled, mix
ed up, baffled with crises, that it
would be a better descrip
tion if one would call it a
CHALLENGING world.
Also thought as we listened
to Mrs. Johnson of a story told
last week by the Rev. Bruce
Morgan, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, when he spoke
to the Methodist Men’s Club.
Brother Morgan said a young
man, once applying for a new
job, was asked the question:
“Have you always done your
best? And if not, why not?”
Faced with a “Challenging
World” all might ask “Have I
always done my best? And if not
why not? And resolve in our he
arts that we will from now on
out strive to do our best in ev
ery situation.
A challenge can be met or
brushed aside.
We all are challenged, every
day of our lives.
Country Parson
Ila
MB
iriu:
“I guess folks still believe in
hell—an air-conditioned hell.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A Clark
| INSIDE TODAY
Postmaster General. Page 2.
Worth Funds. Page 3.
Viet War. Page 3.
TV Review. Page 3.
Gas Cost Hike. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Brace Biossat. Page 5.
Ray Cromley. Page 5.
Woman’s News. Page 6.
Woman Backed. Page 7.
Pueblo Probe. Page 7.
Hijacking. Page 8.
Commentary. page 8.
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Textile Contracts
Said Nixon ‘Payoff’
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Nixon administration was ac
cused Wednesday of giving big
Pentagon contracts to "segre
gationist” Southern textile mills
by Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-
Minn.
Mondale told a news confer
ence that the contracts were
awarded to Burlington Indus
tries, J. P. Stevens and Dan
River Mills as part of a payoff
for Southern election support.
Mondale said Deputy Defense
Secretary David Packard was
the “villain” in the situation.
Mondale urged Labor Secretary
George P. Shultz to overrule
Packard and cancel the textile
contracts.
Mondale charged that Pack
ard “knowingly ignored” for
mer President Johnson’s 1965
executive order banning federal
contracts with firms which
practice employment discrim
ination.
Gas Tax Centers
On Urban Fight
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPD—The House,
in a tax-passing mood, refused
today to reconsider its approv
al of a $33 million income tax
increase. A move to reconsider
a V/ 2 cent gas tax increase was
withdrawn before a vote could
be taken.
Both bills now go to the Sen
ate for action.
The House then began debate
over what the gasoline tax in
crease would be spent for. The
fight shaped up as an urban
battle over a proposed SIOO mil
lion bond issue for urban road
repair.
Rep. Elliott Levitas of De-
Kalb County withdrew his mo
tion to reconsider the gas tax
bill, because'he feared the bill
would be redrawn to withhold
funds from urban areas. The in
crease is expected to yield $34
million a year.
He said he made his decision
“knowing the forces and pres
sures that have been applied to
some legislators for passage of
the bIU.”
The vote against another de
bate on the income tax bill was
57-110.
The Senate passed a bill to
allow service stations and other
establishments to stage give
away games. The bill, intro
duced by Sen. Culver Kidd of
Milledgeville would overcome
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Income Tax. Page 10.
Social Security. Page 10.
Hospital. Page 11.
Stork Club. Page 11.
Funerals. Page 11.
Youth News. Page 12.
Students. Page 13.
Home Rule Taxes. Page 13,
Sports. Pages 14-15.
Pictures. Page 16.
Military. Page 17.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Library Prison. Page 20.
“It's well known that there
• was a Southern white strategy
in the November campaign to
assure Southern white racists”
that federal pressure for school
and employment, desegregation
would be eased, he said.
“It’s my guess that this is
part of the payoff.”
Mondale urged Shultz in a
telegram to cancel the three
contracts and to direct the De
fense Department “not to enter
into contracts with any of dhe
eight largest Carolina textile
mills until they have submitted
a program for compliance with
the (executive) order satisfac
tory to you.”
Mondale’s office said the
other five firms involved were
Cannon Mills, Cone Mills, Deer
ing Milliken Corp., Fieldcrest
Mills, and Spring Cotton Mills.
His complaint concerned only
the companies’ mills in North
and South Carolina.
an attorney general’s ruling
that the games violated Georgia
law.
The urban road building pro
ject would be financed at a cost
of s6'/ 2 million annually from
the additional revenue provided
by the tax hike. But city law
makers wanted to vote first on
the road building plan. When
that move failed, many voted
against the gas tax hike.
The urban road building pro
ject would be financed at a
cost of s6i/ z million annually
from the additional revenue pro
vided by the tax hike. But city
lawmakers wanted to vote first
on the road building plan. When
that move failed, many voted
against the gas tax hike.
If the road bond bill fails to
win passage today, it would put
more money in the pot for road
construction and repair on a
statewide basis — including
rural areas.
The House also passed an in
come tax revision bill aimed at
producing $33 million addition
al money. This, coupled with
the gas tax hike, means Geor
gians could be socked with a
tax increase totalling $67 mil
lion, plus another $1,135,000 tax
increase imposed on the wine in
dustry.
The vote on the gas tax was
121-64, and that on the income
tax measure 102-81. The latter
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, February 27, 1969
Makes Triumphal Visit
Nixon Pledges West
To Keep Berlin Free
Colds Delay
Apollo Shot
Until Monday *
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
UPI Space Writer
CAPE KENNEDY (UPD—
The launch of Apollo 9, toughest
spaceflight man has ever
attempted, today was postponed
until Monday even though the
three astronauts appeared to be
recovering from colds.
The launch of astronauts
James A. McDivitt, David R.
Scott and Russell L. Schwelck
art on a 10-day earth orbital
flight test had been scheduled
for 11 a.m. EST Friday, but on
Wednesday they came down
with sore throats and stuffed
noses.
“The Apollo 9 launch was
rescheduled for 11 a.m. Monday
after project officials reviewed
medical reports,” reported a
space agency spokesman.
bill shifts a heavier income tax
burden onto single Individuals,
imposes a 1 per cent tax in
crease on corporate Incomes
and ties the state tax return
to the federal reurn. Georgia
taxpayers, in effect would pay
as their state income tax a per
centage of their adjusted gross
federal income tax.
Legislators opposed to the two
tax hikes served notice they
would seek another vote on the
measures. The defeat of the
one-cent per pack cigarette tax
proposal Tuesday also will come
up for reconsideration.
With the vote Wednesday on
the cigarette and income tax
bills, the House completed ac
tion on Gov. Dester Maddox’s
$214 million new-revenue pro
posals. None of the governor’s
bills remained unchanged. His
cigarette tax proposal was kill
ed by the House and the heart
of his tax program, a $95 mil
lion sales tax hike, was defeat
ed in the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The Senate, in its busiest day
of the year, acted on 23 bills.
DeKalb Sen. Frank Miller’s
newest attempt to win a Sun
day closing law aimed mainly
at large discount stores failed
by a vote of 26-20.
8,000 Cheer
President
During Speech
By EUGENE V. RISHER
BERLIN (UPI) — President
Nixon made a triumphal visit to
West Berlin and the Communist
wall today and warned the
Soviet bloc the West will never
bow to pressure from any
source and will keep the city
free. He emphasized the point
by bringing the leaders of West
Germany with him.
And ip an emotional speech to
8,000 cheering workers at West
Berlin’s vast Siemens electro
nics plant he told the people of
the city “in the sense you stand
for freedom and peace, all the
free peoples of the world are
truly Berliners.”
Left-wing extremist groups
had threatened to spoil the visit
with massive anti-American
demonstrations but there were
only a few minor outbreaks as a
force of 8,000 police maintained
order in the snow-covered city.
Police arrested 36 demonstra
tors who tossed firecrackers
after the Nixon motorcade
passed.
Instead there were cheers
from an estimated 250,000 West
BerHners who held up welcome
fiign'S broke through police
lines to greet him in a burst of
enthusiasm that unnerved Nix
on’s security guards. He waded
into the crowds to shake hands
and at .one point climbed to the
top of his limousine so he could
be seen.
It was a warm welcome
though not as furiously emotion
al as the visit by the late
President John F. Kennedy In
1963. But it was the biggest
welcome Nixon has received on
his five-nation tour that has
taken him to Brussels, London
and Bonn. He goes to Rome
tonight and Paris Friday before
visiting Vatican City.
In the second of two major
speeches so far during his tour
the President told the Siemens
electrical workers what he has
told officials in the other cities
—there will be no retreat from
the NATO commitments to
defend West Europe from
aggression.
“Let there be no miscalcula
tion, no unilateral act, no form
of pressure from any source
which will shake the resolve of
the Western powers to defend
their rightful status as protec
tors of the people f free
Berlin,” he said.
In a major deviation from the
prepared text Nixon said:
"Sometimes you must feel
you are very much alone. But
always remember we are with
you and people who are free
and want to be free are with
you. In the sense that the
people of Berlin stand as a
guarantor and a symbol for
freedom and peace, all the free
people of the world are truly
Berliners.”
Nixon received a massive
standing ovation at the end of
the speech. The workers,
waving bright yellow hard hats,
started shouting:
“Ha-ho-hay! Nixon is okay!”
The President, waving and
smiling, came back to the
platform and shouted to them:
“Ha-ho-hay! Berliners are
okay!”
Then with a final wave he
shouted in German: “Danke
schoen und auf wiedersehen”—
thank you and goodbye).
Shortly before Nixon flew the
110 miles inside East Germany
to West Berlin the Soviet Union
delivered a new blast against
West Germany’s plans to hold
its presidential election at a
meeting of the electoral college
in West Berlin March 5. The
Communist party newspaper
Pravda said “it must not take
place.”
East Germany said the
elections violate the four power
agreements governing Berlin
and increase tensions. The
Communists have threatened
the city’s supply lines and
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Pfc Tyus
Pfc Tyus Died
Os Wounds
In Vietnam
Pfc James Drewry (Jimmy)
Tyus, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps,
age 21, died Feb. 23, 1969, from
wounds suffered in action in the
Quang Nam Province of South
Vietnam.
A native of Spalding County,
he had resided in the Milner
community of Lamar County
most of his life. He was a 1967
graduate of Milner High School.
He entered the service in De
cember of 1967 and had been
stationed in Vietnam since June
1968.
He was a member of the Mil
ner Baptist Church.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Tyus
Sr. of Milner; three sisters, Mrs.
Mollie Shiver of Barnesville,
Mrs. Linda Kosar of Norfalk,
Va. and Miss Miriam 'tyus of
Milner; his paternal grandmoth
er, Mrs. Robert Tyus, Sr. of
Milner.
Friends may visit the family
at the residence near Milner.
Funeral plans will be announ
ced by Haisten Funeral Home
of Barnesville pending the arri
val of the body.
He was the fifth Milner High
student to be killed in the Viet
nam war and the 11th Lamar
County man to be killed in t h e
fighting.
Marijuana: From Seed To Schoolroom
Youngsters Get It
Like Chewing Gum
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
third of four articles dealing
with the wide use of marijuana
in the United States, including
its primary source, how it
reaches the country, its popula
rity and effects on users.
By JOAN HANAUER
NEW YORK (UPD—Marijua
na is as easy for Dallas teen
agers to acquire as chewing
gum—and it is the 13 to 15 year
old group that is most
interested in trying it.
In Portland, Ore., marijuana
parties have replaced beer
busts when high school boys are
looking for “kicks."
The editor of an Albuquerque,
N.M, high school paper esti
mates 25 per cent of the student
body has at least tried
marijuana.
A 15-year-old high school coed
in Edinburg, Texas, says “more
and more kids are getting
picked up on narcotics char
ges.”
In New York City, a 16-year
old high school girl summed up
the attitude of many teen-agers
Murder Suspect
Caught In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPD—Gene Lew
is, who escaped from a Chicago
jail while awaiting arraignment
oh two murder charges, was
captured here today after a po-
Hampton Elects
Councilmen
And Mayor
HAMPTON, Ga. — Voters in
Hampton reelected Mayor Glenn
Mitchell to a new term and a
new city council member in
Wednesday’s voting.
Mitchell in a three man race
polled 255 votes. Bill A. Hearn
received 152 and Don L. Over
street 15.
Roger W. Betsill Sr. with 204
votes was elected as a new
member of the city council. In
cumbents returned to office were
Alfred Conrad with 242 and Ben
O. Sims with 296.
Others in the council race were
Edward Garrett with 167, Jam
es D. Little with 129, and Rob
ert L. Sutton with 87.
Both the mayor and council
members were elected for t'w o
year terms.
Griffin - Lakeside
Tickets On Sale
At Griffin High
Tickets for the Griffin-Lake
side basketball game scheduled
for the North Clayton Gym Sat
urday night at 8 o’clock are
available at the Griffin High
office.
Tickets are $1 each.
Tlie advance ticket sale will
continue through Friday.
Griffin school officials today
urged k ?al fans to purchase tic
kets in advance.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy to cl
oudy and warmer tonight and
mild again on Friday with a
chance of showers Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 62, low today
34, high Wednesday 57, low Wed
nesday 31. Sunrise Friday 7:10,
sunuset Friday 6:36.
when she said: “Adults drink
booze. We smoke pot."
Other Names
Call it by any other name—
and those names include “pot,”
“grass” and “weed”—the sweet
smell of marijuana is pervading
colleges, high schools and even
junior highs literally from coast
to coast.
Exact figures are difficult to
arrive at, since smoking mari
juana is an illegal activity. Dr.
Joel Fort, in the October, 1968
issue of the magazine “Psychia
tric Opinion.” says, “It is
estimated that in the United
States 15-20 per cent of college
students and 20-40 per cent of
urban high school students use
or have used it.”
A United Press International
nationwide survey revealed
there was some marijuana use
among teen-agers in almost
every community sampled. And
even where teen-agers said
marijuana smoking was very
limited, the young people
responding added that it was
readily available to those who
wanted it.
lice chase at 100 miles per
hour.
Atlanta police said they spot
ted Lewis’ 1969 car with Illinois
tags and gave chase.
Detective P. F. Johnson said
Lewis’ car wrecked against an
apartment building and he at
tempted to escape on foot.
Johnson said police fired a shot
at Lewis, but he did not pull
his .38 caliber pistol.
Lewis was captured a short
time later, running down a
road.
Johnson said Atlanta police
knew Lewis had a girlfriend
here and that they had been
working on the murder cases
for about two weeks.
Police said they had been
looking for Lewis, 38, since they
received word from Chicago
that he might be headed for At
lanta.
Lewis walked out of the crim
inal court building in Chicago
Wednesday by posing as anoth
er prisoner and posting SIOO
bond.
Pre - School
Registration
Set For March 5
The elementary schools in the
Griffin-Spalding County system
will hold pre-school registra
tion on Wednesday, March 5,
from 8:30-3:00.
Due to the necessary planning
for the reorganization of the
school system, it is extremely
important that parents pre
register their children for the
1969-70 school year, officials said.
First grade children will regis
ter in the school in their geogra
phical area or according to the
present bus route schedule.
Those students affected by any
bus route changes will be noti
fied. Questions should be refer
red to school principals.
State law requires that pup
ils entering the first grade must
be immunized against diptheria,
pertussis (whooping cough), te
tanus, poliomyelitis, smallpox
and measles.
A certificate of immunization
is required.
Immunizations are free at the
Spalding County Health Depart
ment or are obtainable from
one’s family physician.
Dr. Henry Brill, director Os
Pilgrim State Hospital in West
Brentwood, Long Island, part of
New York State’s department of
mental hygiene, is an expert on
marijuana and a former vice
chairman of the state narcotic
addiction control commission.
He said in an interview:
Mysteries of Life
“Marijuana and, drug taking
in general is a disorder of youth
and of young males. It reaches
it peak in the middle or late
teens.”
He said drugs are a problem
“at the age of puberty and
beyond.”
“Why this suddenly happens
is one of the mysteries of life,’
he added, “Just as it is a
mystery why juvenile delinquen
cy, schizophrenia—even stutter
ing—suddenly develop at this
point, and much more so among
boys than girl.”
Attitudes of the young people
themselves vary.
Teri Allen, 13, of Dallas,
says: “No, I’d never take
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