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By Quimby Melton
Easter Sunday afternoon sitting
in the living room at home and
as we read came across this qu
ote from E. Stanley Jones, one
of the greatest missionaries who
has ever lived. Dr. Jones is quo
ted as having said:
“In the pure, strong hours of
the morning, when the soul of the
day is at its best, lean upon the
window sill of God and look into
His face and get the orders for
the day. Then go out into the day
with the sense of a Hand on your
shoulder and not a chip.”
If one follows this advice then
one can go to work and not be
come a grouch to those he meets
on the way to work or after he
gets there.
How often is the whole day
spoiled because one gets out of
bed "on the wrong side!” That’s
a time worn excuse of some who
would throw a damper on oth
ers who are in a brighter, hap
pier mood.
Sometimes, however, it’s ra
ther difficult to maintain a hap
py view on life when one meets
someone and wishes them a
“Good Morning”, only to be
greeted by a grouch who growls
back “What’s good about It?”
The only thing to do is to go
right on, as though you did
not hear him and hope you don’t
run into him any more that day.
One of the chief troubles with
the world today is that far to o
many start the day “with a chip
on their shoulder”. For such a
person Is looking at everything
with the Idea the other chap is
“out to get him.” There are two
ways to get rid of that chip —get
it knocked off by someone
who does not like your sullen at
titude, or have God remove it
and replace it with His loving
hand.
Often when Good Eveffltfg is
pondering “what shall I write
about today?” he remembers
something he has read and us
ing this as a spring board laun
ches the column. This was the
case of this column. That state
ment of E. Stanley Jones about
“the chip on one’s shoulder, was
the idea.
We wrote tne aoove part Wed
nesday and stopped when news
came of the sudden death of our
good friend Werner Widmann,
and since this friend was one
who never “had a chip on h 1 s
shoulder,” and was always
friendly and in a good humor be
lievd the rest will be a good con
clusion.
Never through the years we
have known Werner have we
ever found him In a bad humor.
He was always most optimistic
and if he had any doubts or fears
he kept them hidden in his he
art. It always was a pleasure
to talk with him. We always left
him feeling better for having
done so.
He was a man with a keen sen
se of humor and always had a
good story to tell to Illustrate his
point. Had he chosen to go on
the stage, rather than enter the
merchandising field, he would
have become a widely acclaim
ed comedian. In fact, to this
friend, he seemed to have all the
talent of a Groucho Marx and he
did not need a cigar in his
mouth to do so. Werner Widman
had another characteristic that
endeared him to Good Evening.
He was about as unselfish a man
as we have ever known. His in
terest and participation in many
forms of organized charities here
—not to mention times he helped
the unfortunate by himself —
and the time he spent in youth
activities, being especially Inter
ested in the Boy Scout program,
attest to this. Werner Widmann
may not have attained fame as
an actor, nor he may not have
been another Marshall Field nor
a M. Rich, but he lived a most
useful life, endearing himself
to those who knew him best.
He was a good man, a good
friend and we along with many
will sadly miss him.
God Rest His Soul in Peace I
QUAKE SHAKES TOKYO
TOKYO (UPD—An earth
quake described as fairly strong
shook Tokyo and its vicinity for
more than 30 seconds Wednes
day morning. The quake was
recorded In cities as far as 100
miles from Tokyo, but no
casualties or damage was
reported. Nurses said, however,
the tremor was sharp enough to
cause panic among patients in
the Yokohama General Hospi
tal’s maternity ward.
Meeting Hears
School Complaints
Griffin Negro leaders gave a
progress report to about 300 of
their fellow citizens at a meet
ing at Heck Chapel last night.
Most of the meeting was devo
ted to discussing events follow
ing last week’s demonstration’s,
but toward the end a number of
those present protested occur
rences in the local school sys
tem.
Those who brought up the sc
hool matters appeared to be
younger teachers and some stu
dents. One said that in prepar
ing for full integration of the
Griffin-Spalding System next
year, experienced teachers are
being transferred to what are
primarily White schools now,
“leaving us with green ones. By
’green’ I mean straight out of
college."
Another said tnat the Fair
mont High School PTA had pre
pared a list of grievances and
that nothing had been done ab
out it.
A. C. Touchstone, who presid
ed at the meeting, said that a
committee will present the list
to the Board of Education.
A woman teacher said she felt
that as a teacher she could go
directly at any time to the Su
perintendent of Schools or the
Board of Education with any
problems that she might have,
then added, “That’s what you
should do."
The meeting was harmonious
until the school system was
brought up. It began with the
singing of a hymn followed by
a prayer by insurance man Hor
ace Fuller. Another insurance
man and long-time Negro lead
er in Griffin, A. C. “Lon” Touch
stone, served as chairman. Mr.
Touchstone and subsequent
speakers stood at a table cover
ed with a green top which was
placed before the altar,
Rev. O. H. Stinson, pastor of
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, was
the first speaker. He said that
when he was a young man in
high school and in college, he
learned as a baseball player that
Fire Destroys
Farm Center
At Newnan Today
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI) —Fire
destroyed a farm center and an
oil distributing plant early today,
but fast work by firemen kept
the gas tank from exploding.
All residents in a four-block
area were evacuated as the fire
swept through the R..inbow
Farm Center and the adjoining
Milliard C. Farmer Co., a dis
tributor for oil, gas and other
products.
Firemen poured foam over
the fuel tanks, some above
ground and some underground,
and kept them from exploding.
Firemen said both the bus
inesses, located near the center
of this mid-Georgia town, were
completely destroyed. The dam
age was estimated at $235,000.
INSIDE
Youth Pages. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Gr a ham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Ray Cromley. Page 5.
College Fees. Prge 5.
Woman’s Page. Page 6.
Heart Controversy. Page 7.
Ike’s Will. Page 7.
Hospital. Page 8.
Stork Club. Page 8.
Funerals. P a ge 8.
NATO Talks. Page 9.
Russia Builds. Page 9.
Social Security. Page 10.
Bar Ruling. Page 10.
Joe Maddox. Page 10.
Ingrid Back. Page 11.
Sports. Pages 14-16.
Comics. Page 17.
Want Ads. pages 18, 19.
Military. Page 20.
Private School
Meet Tonight
A public meeting will be held
tonight at 7:30 in the Rural Ur
ban Center in the Courthouse to
discuss a private Chirstian sc
hool in Griffin.
Reports from a fact finding
committee will be given. Ques
tions about the school will be
answered and discussed.
The Rev. Claude E. Johnson,
pastor of The First Assembly of
God Church, will conduct the
session.
DAILY W" NEWS
Daily Since 1872
“the athlete who can remain
calm and cool in the tightest sit
uation can do his best thinking
and perform at his best.” He
said that God endowed both
Black men and White men with
certain talents, and that Black
athletes had proven thet they
could compete successfully, “not
as blacks but as men.”
For 300 years, he said, Neg
roes have been second class cit
izens in America and they are
not willing to wait any longer
to become first class citizens.
“We do not ask for pity,” he
said, “When you get pity you are
no longer an equal man. We
ask for a chance to develop our
God-given abilities and to per
form not as Black men but as
men.”
He continued, in his deep and
resonant voice, “It is not our
position that violence on the
part of any man, White or
Black, can solve the problem.
. . . Nor can violence still our
voices. When violence ends, men
of reason must sit down togeth
er and solve our problems. . . .
We do not want to be enemies.
We want the White people to
know that we do not want to be
enemies, that we want to be
friends. We cannot live togeth
er in a society as enemies. We
must be friends or it will fail.
It is in this spirit that we have
.called you here. We are concer
ned for the welfare of all the
citizens of our community. We
are encouraged (with events fol
lowing the demonstrations) and
hope that soon the time will
come when Griffin is truly a city
on the go in race relations.”
The second speaker was Otis
Head, Griffin businessman and
an official in Atlanta with the
State Department of Family and
Children Services. Mr. Head
gave the background of how the
demonstrations developed. "We
had met constantly with the city
commissioners,” he said. “We
had asked for black appoint
ments to boards. Then on Jan.
24 we read in the paper the ap
pointments which they had
made. No Negroes. But we did
see our segregated recreation
boards which we detested very
highly. We were not disappoin
ted with those appointed, but
with the segregated boards. We
decided it was time to do some
thing about it. Eight of us met
and decided to air out our grie
vances at a public commission
meeting.”
They prepared a resolution,
he said, and presented it to the
City Commission on Feb. 25.
One of the grievances was the
fact that swimming pools at
Head Park (named for his fa
ther) and at the Municipal Park
had been closed for several ye
ars and the city did not plan to
reopen them this summer.
“We waited and waited,” he
declared. “They met again in
two weeks but we did not hear
from them. We thought they
might need more time so we
waited some more. Then later
we got a phone call, not from
the city, telling us they were
filling the pools up with dirt.
Why couldn’t they have told us
they had decided not to open the
pools but to fill them up?. . . .
We decided to go back and let
them know we really meant bus
iness.”
On March 25 several hundred
Negroes attended the commis
sion meeting at City Hall. Will
iam Dukes, insurance man and
four-year Marine Corps veter
an, read a resolution there. He
read it again last night. After
Mr. Dukes read it last night, Mr.
Head continued, “It was at this
time that the students became
involved. They participated at
the meeting.”
He said that one of the grie
vances presented to the commis
sion which “they had a hard
time understanding” was the
use of courtesy titles. "We don’t
want to be called ’Mister’ and
‘Mrs.’, but if they call other
people that, then we want to be
called it, too. We just want to be
treated like everybody else.”
After the commission meet
ing, he said, the demonstrations
started. “Then things got to the
point that we had to decide,
‘Which way should we go from
here?’ "
On Thursday of last week the
student demonstrators marched
through Griffin and there was a
brief scuffle between police of
ficers and some of them. Neg
roes said two of the students
were hurt. (There were no ar
rests.)
Thursday night, after the inci
dent of that afternoon, Negroes
met at Heck Chapel.
Raymond Head, Griffin busi
ness man and tailor, spoke
next. (He and Otis Head are
brothers. They are second-gen-
Continued on Page 20
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, April 10, 1969 Vol. 96 No. 84
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Variable cloudiness
and not so warm with showers
and thundershowers tonight. Fri
day fair to partly cloudy and
a little cooler.
LOCAL WEATHER - Esti
mated high today 75, low today
58, high Wednesday 77, low Wed
nesday 51, Sunrise Friday 6:16,
sunset Friday 7:07.
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President
Griffin High School junior Mike Kent has been
elected president of the student body for the 1969-
70 school term. He defeated Hal Elder in a runoff
election. Kent will succeed Jeff Allen. He will be
presented the gavel of office at the Honors Day
Program in May.
Raps Negatives
Maddox Hints Ear
To Special Call
ATLANTA (UPD-Gov. Lest
er Maddox today termed the re
cent General Assembly a body
made up of “negative forces"
which played havoc with the
state’s future.
Maddox strongly indicated he
was awaiting a call from the
people for a special session of
the legislature to pass tax leg
islation to finance his pet pro
grams.
In an address to the Georgia
Bankers Association, Maddox
said that rather than calling for
continued progress, “too many
on Capitol Hill have cried,
’Hold the line’ or ’Let’s beat the
governor.’ ”
“These negative forces, each
standing alone, would have done
little damage—but in combina
tion they have created a politi
cal tornado which has dipped
here and there in Georgia’s
programs for progress and
played havoc with this state’s
future."
Maddox said, “We are now in
the eye of the storm and the
worst is yet to come unless
those Georgians who are con
cerned about the future of our
state take a stand now for po
sitive action.”
Rabid Bat
Found Here
A rabid bat has turned up in
Spalding County, the Health De
partment reported today.
The Spalding Health Center
said the State Health Depart
ment diagnosed the bat as being
rabid. It was found here April 3.
The Health Center said it was
the first rabid animal reported
in this county in quite a few
years.
The Health Center gave these
suggestions in handling such ani
mals:
“Do not touch or attempt to
handle any bat found on the
ground or seemingly “tame.”
This warning should be strong
ly emphasized to children.
“Anyone discovering a dead
bat is asked to wrap the animal
in a paper or plastic — without
actually touching it — and take
it to the local Health Depart
ment for examination.”
Although no case of transfer
of rabies from bats to humans
or other animals has been repor
ted in Georgia, the local center
said extreme caution is requir
ed to prevent this from happen
ing.
Flooding Forces
2,000 To Flee
Payrolls Here
Continue
To Show Gains
Payrolls in Spalding County
continued to show growth during
1968, according to the latest re
port of the Employment Secur
ity Agency of the Georgia De
partment of Labor. This
report is for the third quarter of
the year.
In 1968, third quarter, Spald
ing’s total payrolls, of firms co
vered by the Georgia Employ
ment Security law, was $12,007,-
252. Total for the same quarter
of 1967 was $10,874,585, an in
crease of $1,132,670. Total num
ber of persons employed by Sp
alding firms in Sept, showed an
Increase of 126 over the same
month of 1967.
Fulton-DeKalb led the state
with ' 'obb second, Chatham
third, Muscogrj fourth, Rich
mond fifth and Macon sixth. Sp
alding ranked 16th in the entire
state.
Missing ‘T’ Mystery Solved
Tech President Got It
...By CHARLES TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPI) —Georgia
Tech students vandalized school
property and demonstrated by
the thousands, but received an
immediate promise of amnesty
from President Edwin Harrison.
The reason—the students were
demonstrating their affection for
Harrison.
About 3,000 students milled
around the school quadrangle
Wednesday to celebrate “Wond
erful Ed’s Day”—a pun on the
day of the week—in honor of
Harrison, who is stepping down
as head of the engineering
school.
A group of students who call
themselves “The Sup.er Seven”
put their engineering know-how
to use in removing a letter from
the “Tech” sign that graced a •
Mississippi
Pounds Against
Communities
By United Press International
More than 2,000 persons were
forced to leave their homes
when flooding tributaries of the
Mississippi River pounded
steadily against levees and
dikes in scores of Midwest
communities.
A slipping dike at Sioux Falls,
S.D., protecting a large indus
trial area and an 18-block
residential section of the city,
was reported to be washing
away at the bottom.
Floods have already caused
three deaths.
The major trouble areas were
at Sioux City, Akron and
Hawarden on the Big Sioux, at
Cherokee on the Little Sioux
and at Estherville on the Des
Moines River.
While the floods continued
their silent inroads in the upper
central river basins, gusty
winds, sometimes forming into
funnel clouds, and rain or hail
lashed portions of some Interior
states.
Rains up to four inches fell on
northeastern Arkansas. Hail, at
times reaching egg size, spotted
an 80-mile long strip from near
Harrison to Batesville. High
winds downed some power lines
in Hot Springs.
The U.S. Weather Bureau said
hail fell on other areas of
southwestern Arkansas, south
Texas, central Mississippi and
southeast Missouri.
During the night, heavy rains
were reported from other parts
of a southwest and southern
storm area.
The Weather Bureau mea
sured one and a tenth inches of
rain in 20 minutes at Bertram,
Tex., 30 miles northwest of
Austin, and almost an inch in
less than an hour at Meridian,
Miss.
Other precipitation Included
an inch and a half at Huntsville,
Ala., about an inch and a
quarter at College Station, Tex.
and more than an inch at
Columbus, Miss., and Crossville,
Tenn.
Skies cleared over most of the
area across the Rockies to the
Great Plains and pleasant
weather was indicated for most
of the nation.
Missing Man
Sought Here
Robert Morris, 78, of 917 Ex
periment street, Griffin, has
been missing from his home for
about three weeks, according to
police.
Police today asked Griffinites
to join in the search for the miss
ing man. He was last seen in
Griffin on March 22 by a taxi
driver.
Morris, who weighs about 200
pounds, always had a stool with
him, police said.
Police said they had checked
with relatives in Aiken, S.C., and
Cleveland, Tenn., but they did
not know his whereabouts.
90-foot tower in the center of
the campus.
The first letter, 100-pound “T”
was presented to Harrison, who
will become executive vice pres
ident of the J.P. Stevens textile
firm on July 1, and plugged into
a socket on a stage where Har
rison stood. The sign glowed a '
bright yellow.
The seven students, who had
lowered the letter by rope and
pulley at night, had hidden
the letter for a week. But
Harrison forgave them.
"Os the nearly 3,000 college
president in this country I guess
I’m the only one that’s been
given a demonstration of this
kind,” said Harrison, who gained
popularity during his 11 years
as president by liberalizing the
academic courses and giving
more voice in the administra-
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Moon Date
Apollo 10 astronauts who have a 10-day orbital date
with the Moon beginning May 18, stand by the launch
tower at Cape Kennedy. They are (from left)
Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Ceman.
Riot Squad Clears
Harvard Building
By United Press International
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About 500 state and local ,
police in full riot gear and :
brandishing nightsticks waded ■
into more than 300 students at
Harvard University early today i
and then cleared out the i
administration building which ;
the militant Students for a :
Democratic Society seized Wed- i
nesday.
The police arrived in a small
armada of cars, buses and
paddy wagons at 5 a.m. The
students, who were sitting on
the steps of university hall in
historic Harvard Yard, were
chased off in seconds. At least a
dozen were hit with nightsticks.
Their injuries were not immedi
ately known.
The 200 students inside the
administration building were
taken away by police who
arrived on campus accompanied
by Cambridge Mayor Walter
Sullivan.
“Back in the dorms those who
don’t want to get knocked out,”
Sullivan shouted to the students.
On Wednesday, some students
marched to the home of
Harvard President Nathan L.
Pusey and taped a list of
demands to his door. They
included lower rents in universi-
ty-owned housing and a promise
not to destroy more homes in
expanding the medical school in
Boston or in building the John
F. Kennedy Memorial Library.
Meanwhile, black students at
Southern University cl New
Orleans vowed to strike today
and continue flying a “black
liberation’* banner in place of
the American flag.
Country Parson
“I think I’d rather see folks
critical of the church than un
aware, of it.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
tion.
“Not that there were never
disagreements— but he was al
ways responsive and progres
sive,” said one student leader.
A long-haired trio equipped
with tambourine, banjo and el
ectric bass entertained the stu
dents, who were given an hour
from classes for the student
government - arranged celebra
tion.
“Here’s to you, Dr. Harrison,
Jesus loves you more than you
can know, ho, ho, ho,” the trio
sang, adapting a popular song
that voices the younger gener
ation’s sympathy with the older
generation.
“You’re without a doubt the
most wonderful group of college
students in the United States and
probably the world,” said Har
rison.