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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
1 If we have ever seen what we
believe is a demonstration of an
Easter that depicted what might
be called Nature’s reaction to
Easter it was this year.
Saturday was a dismal day
With rain, occasionally broken
by brief moments of sunshine.
Easter morning broke with low
ering skies which forced sunrise
services indoors; but even then
at times the sun broke through
the clouds and by afternoon had
won its fight.
It was as though Mother Na
ture first was weeping, trying to
hold back the tears (rain) with
her hopes for bright weather be
ing dampened. Then in victory
over darkness, finally came the
• glorious light and a beautiful
Easter afternoon.
Saturday morning noticed a
few azaleas and dogwood that
> showed signs of “wanting to
bloom” in our garden. Early
Sunday morning they showed a
little more color — and by after-
i noon several of them were in full
bloom.
The hope of Nature, like the
hope of Man, at times lessens as
clouds bring doubt and fear.
Even those closest to Jesus —His
disciples — “left Him” when
He was crucified on Calvary.
1 But when the Resurrection was
revealed to them those doubts
and fears vanished as the light
of “His Love” became apparent.
And so it was in Griffin this
Easter: Mother Nature herself
attested that the living light of
God can wipe away doubt and
fear and bring forth beauty in
full bloom.
1 The week just past was high
lighted with the final rites for
former President Eisenhower
and the story of the funeral train
i en route from Washington to Ab
ilene, Kans. (Old timers recall
ed that it was just 24 years ago
this week that the funeral train
of President Franklin D. Roose
velt, came through Griffin en
route from Warm Springs to
Washington and Hyde Park.)
’ Fighting continued in Vietnam
with reports from the meeting
in Paris anything but encourag
ing. There were anti-war demon
■> strations in this land.
The week also was the anni
versary of the death, by an as
sassin, of Dr. Martin Luther
’ King, an advocate and worker
for better understanding between
Americans of all races and
who stoutly opposed violence.
Here in Griffin there were de
monstrations of young people
protesting abandonment of two
city swimming pools by the city.
There were some “incidents”
but finally a plan was offered for
the city to donate the land and
private citizens to raise money
■ with which to build a new pool.
If this plan is followed through
there is reason to believe this
will be the first step toward a
program of improvement in rela
tions between our people.
The weekend also brought
many automobile accidents with
> some of them fatal in their re
sults.
Easter has come and gone for
this year.
Reports from over the commu
nity tell of record turnouts at all
churches. May the spirit of Eas
ter and may the resolves of
many to follow the Easter spirit
of love and forgiveness not fade
as the year rolls on.
, Country Parson
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Navy Training
R. C. Wallace (1) of Lithia Springs and R. H. Swint, Jr. of Orchard Hill empty
ammunition boxes that have been in their squadron’s jet fighter aircraft. The
squadron logged more than 300 rocketry and gunnery missions over the south
western Arizona weapons range. The Naval Air Reserve’s top fighter squadron,
VF3182, is undergoing two weeks of annual training at the Marine Corps Air
Station, Yuma, Ariz. Also participating in the exercise from the Griffin area are
Cmdr. D. M. Triplett and Aviation Structual Mechanic Second Class W. R. Reid.
Tag Extension Didn't
Help Full Year Trucks
Truckers who have operated
their trucks during the first
three months of the year are
not eligible to purchase three
fourths of a year tags, despite
the extension of the deadline for
purchasing tags and paying ad
valorem taxes.
Charles L. Skinner of the Geor
gia Motor Trucking Association
said full year tags must be pur
chase for all trucks operated
during the first three months of
the year.
He said the only way a firm
could qualify for the three-four-
US Not Considering
Immediate Withdrawl
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Se
cretary of State William P. 1
Rogers said today the United '
States was not considering “any
immediate, unilateral withdraw- 1
al” of troops from Vietnam j
but he did not rule out this 1
possibility at a later time.
In his first full dress news 1
conference since taking office 10 :
weeks ago, Rogers said he 1
hoped the allies and Commu- i
nists could reach some agree- i
ment whereby both sides would
withdraw a portion of their
forces this year. 1
He would not rule out, ;
however, the possibility the :
United States might begin
withdrawing some of its own
Natural Heart Replaces
Man-Made Plastic Device
By DARRELL MACK
HOUSTON (UPD—Dr. Denton i
A. Cooley took a man-made :
dacron and plastic heart from i
the chest of an Illinois man 1
today and replaced it with the i
healthy “God-given" heart of a i
40-year-old Lawrence, Mass.,
woman.
“I am optimistic about the 1
outcome,” Cooley told other '
doctors as he stitched closed the 1
chest of Haskell Karp, 47, of 1
Skokie, Hl.
The heart transplant was 1
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
ths year, half-year and quarter
year tags was not to operate the
trucks until that period of t h e
year.
Skinner said the extension of
the time for purchasing tags and
paying taxes did not affect the
period for which truck tags must
be purchased. He said that
truck tags are purchased for the
time the truck is operated in the
state and not on the time of the
year purchased.
The three-fourths year tags,
half year tags and quarter year
troops without an agreement on
the part of the Communists to
withdraw some of theirs.
On another major issue,
Rogers took sharp issue with
Defense Secretary Melvin. R.
Laird’s opinion that the Soviet
Union was “without question”
building up its strategic nuclear
missile strength in prepearation
for a pre-emptive “first strike”
against the United States at
some future time.
“I have difficulty in believing
that the Soviet Union would
initiate a first strike,” Rogers
said. He explained that “any
leaders in sound mind know
that it would probably result in
the destruction of mankind.”
another medical first for
Cooley, who has performed
more of the operations than any :
other physician. It was the first i
time a completely artificial
device was replaced by a living i
heart in a human body.
Tedious Task
The famed surgeon, who only
last Friday stunned the medical
world by implanting a synthetic :
heart into Karp, started the
tedious task of replacing it with
a human heart about 8 a.m.
EST in a delicate operation at
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 7, 1969
tags are primarily for trucks
purchased during the year, Skin
ner said.
He said those trucks operated
on or after Jan. 1 in the first
quarter of the year must pur
chase a full year tag no matter
when the tag is purchased.
Skinner indicated that the
trucking industry would not
save as much as $175 per truck
with the extension of the dead
line.
The first day three - fourths
year tags may be purchased is
May 1. However, trucks operat
ed before that day must pur
chase full year tags.
Man Injured
In Auto Mishap
A Griffin man was injured Sun
day morning when a car he was
working on fell on him at a gar
age on Experiment street, ac
cording to police.
An officer who was called to
the scene said James Booth of
633 Wright street had taken his
car to the shop at Tommy Yo
ung’s Used Cars on Experiment
street to work on the drive
shaft.
He said Booth apparently was
trying to come from under the
car when the jack gave way.
The rocker panel under the fr
ont door trapped Booth across
the chest.
He was admitted to the Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital.
St. Luke’s Hospital.
Cooley replaced the artificial
heart with the human donor
organ in Karp’s chest at 9:30
a.m. and started it beating with
one electric shock.
“It started beating with good
rhythm,” a hospital spokesman
said.
Cooley finished stitching shut
Karp’s chest at 10:15 a.m.
“It’s been supporting his
circulation for 30 minutes and I
am optimistic about the out
come,” Cooley said.
Cong Offered
Viet Amnesty
Thieu Would
Put Them
On Ballot
By KATE WEBB
SAIGON (UPI) — President
Nguyen Van Thieu and his top
peace negotiator in Paris
offered the Viet Cong amnesty
and a place on South Vietnam’s
ballot today if they quit fighting
and change their name.
“Those now fighting against
us who renounce violence,
respect the laws and faithfully
abide by the democratic proces
ses will be welcomed as full
members of the national
community,” Thieu said in his
state of the nation address.
That would include “full
political rights,” he said.
His top man at the Vietnam
peace talks, Pham Dang Lam,
told a Paris newspaper that the
Saigon government is willing to
face the Viet Cong in elections
provided the Communists stop
fighting and change their name.
Moves Closer
The two statements moved
the South Vietnamese govern
ment closer to accepting the
Viet Cong as a political force to
be reckoned with, something
Saigon adamantly has refused
to do in the past.
Thieu . rejected any peace
proposed toy the Communists in
Paris, warned politicians in his
government against criticizing
him too strongly and said the
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese had been beaten on the
battlefield.
“We sincerely hope the
political struggle will be substi
tuted for war,” Lam said in the
copyrighted Le Figaro Inter
view. “And we are ready, as
soon as the fighting stops, to
accept general elections—under
international control if necessa
ry—whatever the results may
be.”
He added: “Nothing prevents
the members of the (Viet Cong)
from taking part in general
elections if they change their
label.”
Thieu in his speech to the
nation’s national assembly pro
posed a two-party system for
South Vietnam and outlined a
peace proposal containing six
points already presented by
Lam in Paris.
He promised that his govern
ment “will not hand the people
of Vietnam into the hands of the
Communists directly or in
directly.”
Os the two-party system.
Thieu said those “who agree
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Vol. 96 No. 81
Talmadge Watches Children
Eat Biscuits And Eggs
Says School Feeding Key
To Eliminating Welfare
By ESTELLE FORD
MACON, Ga. (UPI) —Sen. :
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga, 1
watched school children eating i
biscuits and eggs today in a 1
federally funded program and
said that feeding children in 1
school was the key to eventually i
eliminating the welfare system, i
“The only way we can end
the welfare cycle is by educating :
them so thay can acquire a
skill,” said Talmadge, who is
on a tour of urban and rural i
Georgia schools to investigate i
food programs.
Talmadge said the way to 1
keep children in school was to
make certain they had adequate :
food to enable them to concen
trate on their studies. He said :
I
Georgia Obscenity
Law Struck Down
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The :
Supreme Court today struck
down Georgia’s obscenity law,
which makes private possession .
of obscene material a crime.
The opinion, written by Jus
tice Thurgood Marshall,
emphasized that the states
“retain broad power to regulate '
obscenity." 1
“That power simply does not :
extend to mere possession by
the individual in the privacy of ;
his own home,” the opinion >
said. 4
The case stemmed from the ■
conviction of Robert Eli Stanley, i
whose home police entered with i
a warrant to seize gambling ;
paraphernalia. In the course of :
the search they came upon three
reels of motion picture film in ;
a desk drawer of an upstairs -
bedroom. ]
They found a projector and i
screen and viewed the films.
Stanley, a bachelor, was sen
tenced to a year in jail. He has
been free on bail pending his
appeal.
Georgia contended that since
obscenity is not protected by the
First Amendment’s guarantee
of free speech, a state may deal
with it in any way it sees fit. :
But Marshall said the state’s ■
interest in the problem does not
mean that in every circumstance .
it is “insulated from all const-
(Griffin Dally News Staff Photo)
Blood donor cards were presented to the employes of Lowell Bleachery for the
Bloodmobile visit here Tuesday. Headquarters will be set up in the Cheatham
auditorium of the First Baptist Church. Wayne Brown (1) presents cards to Ernest
Wimbush, Robert Hudgins, Ralph Steele, Louise Cowan, J. T. Hawkins and
Hugh Allen.
the breakfast program was even i
more important than the school 1
lunch program “because they
start off the day with full .
bellies.” i
“I know what it’s like to go i
to school on an empty stomach
and it grumbling,” Talmadge •
said. i
Talmadge visited school child- 1
ren at Alexander No 2. Elemen- ;
tary School.
He was to. visit another Bibb l
County school at noon and then i
go to an elementary school in 1
Peach County and to Taylor :
County High School.
Taylor County is considered :
representative of the 43 school :
systems in Georgia that have
had federal funds cut off, thus .
itutional protections.”
Stanley, the opinion noted, is
"asserting the right to read or
observe what he pleases — the
right to satisfy his intellectual
and emotional needs in the pri
vacy of his own home.
“He is asserting the right to
be free from state inquiry into
the contents of his library,”
Marshall added.
“Whatever may be the justi
fications for other statutes reg
ulating obscenity, we do not
think they reach into the pri
vacy of one’s own home,” the
opinion declared. “If the first
amendment means anything, it
means that a state has no busi
ness telling a man, sitting alone
in his own house, what books he
may read or what films he may
watch. Our whole constitutional
heritage rebels at the thought
of giving government the power
to control men’s minds.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and mild tonight.
Tuesday fair to partly cloudy
and warmer.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 71, low today
48, high Sunday 75, low Sunday
59. Total rainfall Saturday .71
of an inch. Sunrise Tuesday
6:20, sunset Tuesday 7:05.
eliminating funds for the school
lunch program.
Such schools must depend on
Agriculture Department funds
and local funds to feed children
at lunch.
The tour continues Tuesday
with Talmadge visiting the Com
modity Foods Distribution Cen
ter in Atlanta and two more
schools.
Talmadge is a ranking mem
ber of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, which has jurisdic
tion over the National School
Lunch Act, as well as a mem
ber of the Senate Select Com
mittee on Nutrition and Human
Needs.
The junior senator from Geo
rgia has been critical of federal
desegregation guidelines which
have forced a cutoff of funds in
many Southern schools not
meeting the guidelines. The cut
off in some instances has meant
an elimination of the school
lunch program.
This, Talmadge contends,
makes needy school children
suffer for something over which
they Jia ve no control.
“I want to examine the pro
gram firsthand to see what is
being done now, and to deter
mine what needs to be done in
order to better insure that no
child who comes to school hun
gry in the morning goes home
hungry that afternoon,” said
Talmadge.
“I hope through this trip and
by meeting with local officials
to secure more insight into the
nutrition problems experienced
by needy school children, and
hopefully to formulate plans for
correcting these problems
through legislative or adminis
trative regulations.”
One correction he intends to
make, Talmadge said, is to in
troduce legislation making
school lunch funds exempt from
the federal aid money halted by
the Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare when it
finds school systems not in com
pliance with desegregation guide
lines.
Talmadge was to be accom-
School Supt. Jack P. Nix, State
School Supt. Jack P. Nig, State
Welfare Director William H.
Burson, and Russell James, dir
ector of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Consumer and Mar
keting Service for the South
east.