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By Quimby Melton
Nine large buses loaded with
happy youngsters pulled out of
the Griffin High parking area
Tuesday afternoon bound for
Washington, D.C. This was the
annual trip to the national capi
tal for sixth grade children, an
event dreamed of by the boys
and girls since the day they fir
st entered school.
Arriving in Washington today
they will spend the rest of t h e
week visiting places of interest.
They will go to the White House,
the Capitol, the Smithsonian In
stitute, Arlington National Ceme
tery, the Wax Museum, Mt. Ver
non and other places of interest.
This trip to Washington is an
education in itself and one we
hope our children will never lose
the chance to make.
Good Evening remembers a
conversation he had years ago
with Sam Gardner, then the su
perintendent of the city schools.
A Griffin business man asked
him if he could take his children
out of school for a week and
take them with him on a trip to
Washington and New York. Gar
dner told him to go ahead and
take the children, “such a trip
to places of interest is worth
more than a week in school” he
told the man.
Sunday the boys and girls who
are on this trip will be back
home. Os course they will be
sleepy and tired and will want
nothing more than a bath, a good
home cooked meal, and plenty
of sleep.
As Good Evening writes this
column he cannot help but won
der, if we continue to make pro
gress in modes of travel, isn’t it
possible that children or grand
children of those boys and girls
who are now visiting Washing
ton, will be taken on trips to
London and other foreign lands
for a week’s visit. Who knows!
In the meantime we’ll settle for
the annual bus trip to Washing
ton, D.C.
And writing about our school
children:
Monday night Good "vening
attended the concert given by
the joint choirs of Griffin and
Bpaiding High Schools. It was a
most enjoyable event to this old
timer for much of the program
was devoted to songs soldiers
have sung in various wars in
which Uncle Sam has fought.
The program was called “War
and Peace”, the last part fea
tured songs that are being play
ed and sung today by the young
er generation.
Good Evening not only enjoy
ed the singing but he admired
i the amount of talent that was
; shown. Even when it came to
the closest harmony the youth
' ful voices rang true; we didn’t
detect a single discordant note
and we believe we have a pret
ty keen ear when it comes to
harmony of song.
It was quite evident that the
some 80 young people who sang
and the young ladies who play
ed the piano, the director, Mrs.
Gretchen Cumming, and others
had spent long hours rehearsing;
for it was as perfect a perfor
mance as one could wish to see.
Good Evening, as he enjoyed
the concert Monday night, and
as he heard the happy laughter
and chatter of the younger boys
and girls as they boarded the
buses Tuesday afternoon, was
Impressed with the important
part our young people play in
the lives of us all; and of the
great asset they are to our com
munity. Those boys and girls
who sang, those boys and girls
who are in Washington along
with other boys and girls in our
community are our greatest as
set. As they “pan out”, so goes
the nation and the world for
that.
And we for one have the great
est confidence in them; if we did
not we’d feel like “the wing in
the sponge” and “calling the
game because of darkness.”
Roses In Bloom
At Station Here
Dr. Curtis Jackson, director of
the Georgia Experiment Station
here, has invited the public to
see the rose gardens at the
station while they are in full
bloom.
They are located behind
the horticulture building.
The experimental data from
the roses already has been ga
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LOTS OF PEOPLE PREFER A “Good Address”
and this probably is about as good as you can get in
Palatine, 111.
Two Arrested
In Pike Today
ZEBULON, Ga. (UPD—Two
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference field workers were
arr-sted today as Pike County
school officials made another
futile effort to get boycotting
Negro students back into school.
Willie Bolden was dragged off
the grounds of the Negro
Pike County Consolidated High
School by a sheriff’s deputy and
a state trooper after he argued
with Superintendent Harold
Daniel at the school door.
Anther SCLC worker, John
Bascom, was arrested about 30
minutes later. Both were held
under SSOO security bond on
charges of disturbing a public
school while in session.
About 15 of the 23 teachers
at the predominantly Negro
school who were suspended
Tuesday for failure to go to
class were back at the school
Night March
Was Peaceful
ZEBULON — A march and
demonstrations at the Pike jail
and in the street beside the
courthouse went off without in
cident last night in Zebulon as
Negroes pressed their demands
that D. F. Glover be rehired as
principal of Pike Consolidated
High School at Concord.
Tile marchers were jeered and
taunted by white bystanders.
However, there were no incid
ents and no arrests.
The Rev. James Jones, a Sou
thern Christian Leadership Con
ference (SCLC) official spoke at
a mass meeting at Mt. Hope
Baptist Church and led the mar
ch from the church to the Pika
jail.
From the jail, the marchers
returned to the church, which is
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i today. Their suspensions had
i apparently been revoked.
Daniel sent about a half doz
■ en school buses back on their
’ rounds today with deputized
: white truant officers. However,
they were able to find only a
f j handful of black students.
, The argument between Dan
iel and Bolden came as Dan
iel ordered about 10 students
into the school.
Daniel turned to Deputy
Sheriff Billy Riggins and told
him to arrest Bolden on the
1 same charges he had been ar
-1 rested on twice before—disturb
ing a public school.
Riggins grabbed Bolden by
the arm, but Bolden said, “I’ll
go, but you don’t have to touch
me.”
i A state trooper then grabbed
the other arm and Bolden went
i limp. He was dragged away by
the deputy and the trooper.
serving as headquarters to Neg
roes taking part in the boycott
of the high school in support of
Glover.
Except for jeers from bystan
ders, who gathered at street cor
ners, the march was silent un
til it neared the jail, where five
demonstrators have been held
since last week.
They are charged with disturb
ing the conduct of a public sc
hool while in session. Bonds
have been set at SSOO.
The Rev. Jones and Willie Bol
den, who is coordinating the boy
cott, led marchers to a drive
way leading into the jail yard.
There they were halted by hel
met State Troopers.
The Rev. Jones spoke briefly
after the crowd sang two songs.
The five girls in jail joined in
the singing.
The Rev. Jones told the mar
chers: “We must all learn to
live together or we will all die
separately. That might be soon
er than we all think.”
After a brief silence following
the speech, the State Troopers
parted .and allowed the march
ers to walk through the jail yard
and out another driveway.
The Rev. Jones then led the
marchers around the courthou
se.
Before entering Highway 19
to return to Mt. Hope Church,
the crowd stopped. Hie Rev. Jo
nes led them in prayer as byst
anders heckled them.
“We have survived another
night without a major Incident,”
Capt. Herman Cofer said after
the march.
Capt. Cofer, who is In charge
of the patrol detachment assig
ned to keep law and order in
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, May 14, 1969
Steam Picking Up
For June Session
Compromise
Said In Works
On Sales Tax
ATLANTA (UPD—The likely
hood of a special session of the
legislature in June has picked
up steam on two fronts.
The House urban caucus, a
confederation of city law
makers will meet today to dis
cuss what was described as a
new compromise proposal for a
sales tax increase.
And Gov. Lester Maddox, aft
er naming 10 men to round out
the constitutional revision com
mission, instructed his legal
aide to set a meeting date for
it which would not conflict with
any special session.
Maddox said that if he calls
a session in an attempt to raise
more money for state pro
grams, “it will be in June or
not at all.”
Telegrams were sent to mem
bers of the urban caucus steer
ing committee and other mem
bers in the Atlanta area Mon
day summoning them to today’s
meeting in Atlanta.
The telegram, from Rep. Joe
Mack Wilson of Marietta, acting
caucus chairman during the
regular session, said Wilson had
been approached by unnamed
sources about a compromise for
a sales tax program. The ap
proach was believed to have
been made by the governor’s
office.
The General Assembly In
regular session refused to pass
a one cent increase in the sales
tax which was sought by Gov.
Maddox. The governor said the
increase would raise SIOO mil
lion In new taxes for redistri
bution to cities, counties and
systems to help relieve
the burden on property tax pay
ers.
The 10 members named by
Maddox to the 25-member con
stitution revision commission
were:
Macon attorney Charles Bloch,
State Sen. Billie Shaw Abney
of LaFayette, Rep. Tom Mur
phy of Bremen, Sen. Frank Cog
gin of Hapeville, Board of Re
gents executive secretary Henry
Neal, Fulton County attorney
Harold Sheats, Gwinnett County
Ordinary Alton Tucker, Ameri
can Independent Party execu
tive committee member Carter
Pittman of Dalton, Georgia
Municipal Association attorney
Clifford Adams and Superior
Court Judge Walter McMillan of
Sandersville.
The commission was created
by the General Assembly to
draw a proposed new constitu
tion which will be sent back to
the lawmakers in 1970. If ap
proved by the legislature It
would be submitted to the vot
ers the following November.
Weather:
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AREA — Partly cloudy to oc
casionally cloudy through to
morrow with chance of showers.
Vietnam Hero Will Have
Medals Before His Wedding
MADISON, Ind. (UPD—A
classified advertisement in the
Madison Courier focused some
high level attention upon
Marine Lt. Gavin K. Lodge, 22,
a wounded Vietnam veteran
who wants “to buy, borrow or
rent” two service medals for
use In his military wedding.
Publisher Don H. Wallis saw
the ad Saturday and contacted
House Republican Leader Ger
ald Ford, R-Mich., with whom
Wallis served aboard the
aircraft carrier Montery in the
Pacific for 36 months during
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City Says It Promised
Only Land For Pool
Pentagon Halts
Gas Shipment
For More Study
WASHINGTON (UPD —The
Pentagon has stopped its
controversial plan to ship 27,000
tons of poison gas cross country
until the nation’s most eminent
scientific body decides whether
the operation can be done
safely and effectively.
The Defense Department, :n
the face of mounting congres
sional and public protests,
backed down Tuesday and
announced it would not begin
moving the nerve gas and other
lethal agents until the national
Academy of Sciences completed
“an independent review of our
plans.”
Tlie academy is a private,
congressionally chartered orga
nization made up of the
country’s outstanding scientists.
Although it advises the govern
ment from time to time, it has
acquired a reputation for telling
the government what it should,
rather than what it wants, to
hear.
Rep. Richard D. McCarthy,
D-N.Y., disclosed the operation
last week to begin a railroad
movement of surplus and
obsolete gas from four facilities
in Denver, Colo., Edge weed,
Md. Anniston, Ala., and
Lexington, Ky. to a naval
ammunition depot in Earle,
N.J.
Ford’s office went to work to
arrange for the National
Defense Medal and the Vietnam
Campaign Medal to be present
ed to Lodge before his wedding
at Danville, 111., next Sunday to
Marcia Main.
Lodge was disfigured by
burns from a land mine
explosion while on patrol In
Vietnam. Most of the members
of his group were killed. Lodge
is still in the service but cannot
be assigned and said that as a
rule he should not get the
medals until he has completed
Vol. 96 No. IB
Back From Viet Duty
Tlie city commissioners last
night made it clear that the only
thing they had promised in get
ting a new swimming pool
here was that the city would
provide the land.
Frank Thomas, Griffin meat
packing executive, and Raymond
Head, who operates a dry
cleaning and tayloring firm
here, asked the commissioners
several questions about the pro
posal.
They are members of a 15-
man citizens committee attemp
ting to raise money through pub
lic subscription for a swimming
pool.
Thomas served as spokesman.
He wanted to know about who
would operate the pool, once it
was constructed. Mayor O. M.
Snider, Jr., said that was not
discussed when the city made
the promise to provide the
land.
Later in the discussion, Tho
mas asked for some guidance on
the city’s thinking as to who
should operate the pool.
Mayor Snider said he thought
the city would consider accept
ing the pool and operating it,
provided the pool is adequately
constructed and if fees were
set high enough to make it self
supporting.
Commissioner Joe Dutton said
he would favor the city’s giving
top consideration to increasing
city employes’ salaries before
the city took on any new pro
jects.
Commissioner Barron Cum
ming suggested that a board or
group be set up from the 15-
member committee to operate
the pool and that it be made
self-sustaining.
his tour of duty.
But Lodge wants to wear the
medals to his wedding to Miss
Main, whom he met while
attending Wabash College at
Crawfordsville. They became
engaged while Lodge was
recuperating from his wounds
at a burn center in San
Antonio, Tex. The ad said:
"Wanted to buy. Wanted to
borrow or rent—one Vietnam
Campaign Medal. Need these
for military wedding. Call 265-
2452 after 12 noon, Gavin Lodge
Jr.”
levels of activity on the big vessel and reveals some
of the ship’s big guns.
Thomas wanted some guidan
ce as to the pool’s size and cost
estimates. He noted the city had
suggested it would cost $130,000
and that a University of Geor
gia study had suggested SBO,OOO.
Mayor Snider said that a Tex
as city similar in size to Griffin,
last year built a pool and the
investment was nearly $130,000.
This was the basis for the esti
mate.
Commissioner Dutton suggest
ed that the pool committee look
into construction details with
contractors engaged in this type
of business.
Thomas wanted to know if
someone representing the city
could give the committee gui
dance, on what might be accep
table. Cumming said he didn’t
think it would be necessary.
The commissioners said that
Grady McCalmon, recreation
director, probably could give the
committee some information ab
out the pool size and other re
quirements.
Thomas asked about the loca
tion of the pool and the commis
sioners said this had not been
decided. They said it would de
pend on the size of pool and oth
er factors.
Thomas noted that the Univer
sity study outlined plans for a
pool on the Quilley street pro
perty leased from Dundee for
recreation.
City Manager Jack Langford
said the plan was not feasible.
He said there were problems of
rock formations and other fac
tors that would make the site
unsatisfactory for a pool.
Thomas asked if the city would
bo responsible for handling
money collected for the pool in
a fund raising drive. He said
this might help the committee
get a ruling from Internal Re
venue Service on making such
contributions deductible on fed
eral income taxes.
Mayor Snider said he didn’t
know if the city could accept
such funds.
Cumming said he didn’t think
the city could accept the funds.
Those contributing to it should
be willing to do so, regardless of
whether a tax allowance is
made, Cumming said.
Tire city would be criticized
from both sides if it participat
ed in any way in the fund rais
ing, Dutton said.
Thomas thanked the commis
sioners for talking over the pro
posal. He said he had not come
“to put anyone on the spot”
with the questions but was seek
ing information for the commit
tee he represented.
Peace Hopes
Are Centered
On Nixon Talk
By EUGENE V. KISHER
WASHINGTON (UPI) De
spite disavowals it will reveal
anything spectacular, President
Nixon’s television speech to
night on the prospects for
Vietnam peace focused more
attention on him than at any
time since his inauguration.
By the time Nixon begins his
nationwide address at 10 p.m.
EDT, he will have conferred
with the top U.S. officials both
on the battlefield and the
negotiating table.
Nixon cleared his appoint
ment calendar today and
waited for the arrival of U.S.
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
from the Paris talks. Earlier
this week, Gen. Creighton W.
Abrams, U.S. commander in
Vietnam, returned for his first
conference with Nixon.
Private Meeting
The White House said Lodge
would meet privately with
Nixon Thursday, then sit in on
a joint session of the National
Security Council and the
Cabinet for a further review of
Vietnam policy.
He will fly back to Paris in
time for the regular negotiating
session with representatives
from Hanoi and the National
Liberation Front on Friday.
White House officials warned
that Nixon will disclose “no
major breakthroughs” in his
first formal report to the nation
and will not announce any U.S.
troop withdrawals.
But they described Nixon’s
talk as a "major address with
“new material” on Vietnam.
Nixon may use the occasion
to respond to the NLF’s 10-
point peace proposal, which is
endorsed by Hanoi.
NLF Proposals
The proposal calls for uncon
ditional withdrawal of U.S.
forces without firm provisions
for the corresponding withdra
wal of North Vietnamese
forces; dissolution of the
current South Vietnamese
government, and creation of an
interim coalition government
which would supervise drawing
up a new constitution and
holding elections.
Although some points in the
plan were termed not accepta
ble, administration experts saw
some hope in the fact the Viet
Cong appeared for the first
time to indicate a willingness to
negotiate a political settlement.
Previously, they had demand
ed that any such settlement be
on Viet Cong terms.