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VENIN Vs
By Quimby Melton
GOOD EVENING FOR SAT.
“In the '“ross of Christ I Gl
ory”, written by Sir John Bowr
ing, is our choice for this week’s
Hymns we love to sing. This
hymn, like the Isaac Watts
hymn ‘‘When I Survey The Won
derous Cross” is based on Ga
latians 6:14, “But God forbid
that I "should glory, save in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
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Bowring was a business man
all his life. He was a member
of the Unitarian Church and
though this denomination dif
fers in some respects from oth
er Protestant denominations this
Browning written hymn is incl
uded in the hymn book of many.
The chief difference between
the Unitarian and other Protes
tant denominations is the Uni
tarian believe that God is o n e
being, but does not believe in the
Holy Trinity. Unitarian doctr
ine also gives to each church
complete control of its affairs.
(There have been four Presi
dents of the United States who
were Unitarians — John Adams,
his son John Quincy Adams,
Millard Fillmore and Willi am
Howard Taft.)
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John Bowring had he lived to
day would have been listed in
“Who’s Who as “philanthropist,
publicist, biographer, statesman,
historian, finiancer, poet, lin
guist, manufacturer, etc.
He was bom Oct. 17, 1792 at
Exetern, England, the son of a
manufacturer of woolen goods.
He died at Exeter Nov. 23, 1872,
one of the most successful bus
iness men England has ever
known. He left school when 14
and entered his father’s busi
ness. Because in his business
he dealt with people from many
lands he studied and became an
expert in Spanish, Portugese,
Italian, German and Dutch be
fore he was 16 years old. It is
said that eventually he became 1
expert enough in 100 languages I
to carry on a conversation with
them.
In spite of his success in I
commerce he was more inter-!
ested in politics. Much travel in |
connection with his business br
ought him into contact with
various political thoeries In oth
er lands and he soon became
known as a liberal. He edited a
political paper, was elected to
Parliament and was appointed
several government posts in
foreign lands, among them con
sul to Canton, China and gover
nor of Hong Kong.
In 1854 he ■was knighted by
Queen Victoria.
One biographer says Os Bowr
ing, “He was a Unitarian, thou
gh in faith and spirit he was
nearer to orthodoxy than the
radical wing of his own denomi
nation. He was on the side of
everything good and true.”
John Bowring himself once
wrote in the preface to one of j
his books of Vesper hymns:
"I have often witnessed, with
complacency and delight, the
consoling influence produced by
recollection of some passage of
devotional poetry, under circum
stances the most disheartening,
press’ve. Should any fragment
cf this little book, remember
ed and dwelt upon in moments
of gloom and anxiety, tend to
restore peaae, to awaken forti
tude, to create, to renew, or to
strengthen confidence in heaven,
I shall have attained the boon
for which I pray — the end to
which I aspire. To be useful is
my first ambition; that obtain
ed, I am indifferent to the rest.”
At least three hymns written
by Sir John Browning are inclu
ded in modem day hymnals in
addition to “In The Cross of
Christ I Glory, the other two
are "God In Love His Mercy
Brightens” and “Watchman Tell
Us of The Night.”
Country Parson
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“Our worst sinners are the
ones, who think they are be
having as well as they know
how.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA—Mostly cloudy and mild
tonight and Sunday with show
ers or thundershowers likely.
LOCAL WEATHER—Estimat
ed high today 75, low today 62,
high yesterday 77, low yester
day 60. Total rainfall 1.37 inches.
Sunrise Sunday 6:39, sunset Sun
day 8:33.
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BU FTON PRESSING and switch turning apparently is the thing when operating
the Apollo 10 Command Module. This is astronaut John W. Young in maze of
controls in the simulator. In actual flight takeoff he would be on his back looking
up at the controls.
Three Arrested
At Pike School
Three people were arrested
yesterday when they and about
90 other demonstrators rushed at
Pike County High School during
an afternoon protest in front of
the predominately white school.
They were charged with distur
bing the conduct of a public sc
hool while in session.
Sheriff J. Astor Klggins listed
them as Robert Curtis, 30; Mel
vin Lamar Blackmon, 17, and
Milton Franklin Earl Clovers, 17,
all of Pike County.
They were released a few
hours later on SSOO bonds.
Demonstrators, who rushed at
the school, stopped short of the I
building. They sat down about I
halfway between the building
and Highway 19, which runs in
front of the school. i
They were told by helmeted
choice of walking back to the
choice of walking back to he 1
road or being carried.
(
Most of them got up and left. I
A few were carried.
Lane Gives Blank Check For Clean-Up
By ESTELLE FORD
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — The
banker who began a revolution
ary program to revitalize the
slums of Savannah has written
a blank check for the Georgia
Plan.
Mills B. Lane ‘ has given me
a carte blanche”, said Bill Van-
Landingham, director ■of the
Georgia Plan who was tapped
by Lane, president of Citizens
and Southern Bank of Georgia,
to carry-out the free enterprise
slum program in Savannah last
year.
VanLandingham directed a
massive ‘‘spring cleaning” of
108 blocks of old Savannah,
which was founded in 1733 by
James Oglethorpe, after which
Lane wrote a check for $1 mil
lion for the Community Develop
ment Corporation, to provide
capital for new, high risk bus
iness ventures, and to write
second mortgages for slum
dwellers to buy homes.
The Savannah Plan won the
city the title ‘‘All - American
City" this spring from the Na
tional Municipal League and
Look Magazine.
Now the plan will spread to
DAILY
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., May 17-18, 1969 Vol. 96 No. 116
SHOT, ROBBED, ARRESTED
MODESTO, Calif. (UPD—On
Thursday, Merle Shelton was
shot following a barroom brawl
from which he was fleeing in a
pickup truck.
Friday morning, he was
robbed while tending bar by a
bandit wielding a sawed-off
shotgun. Later Friday, he was
arrested when investigation
revealed he was wanted on a
traffic warrant.
Curtis, Blackmon and Clovers
were arrested. They reportedly
led the demonstration.
After the three were lodged in
Pike County jail, the marchers
showed up there. They demon
strated about 10 minutes before
returning to Mt. Hope Baptist
Church, headquarters of the
school boycott.
Negro students and parents
held a mass meeting last night
at Mt. Hope Church. However,
they did not hold a night mar
ch.
The boycott started a month
ago when the Pike County Bo
ard of Education did not renew
the contract of D. F. Glover,
Negro principal of Pike Consoli
dated High School at Concord.
Negro leaders have said the
boycott would continue until the
principal’s contract is renewed.
Attorneys for the Pike Board
of Education have filed an ii»
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12 other Georgia cities, where
‘‘spring cleanings" will be fol
lowed with an ‘‘unlimited”
amount of money being provid
ed through the Community De
velopment Corporation, a state
chartered organization whose
personnel are C & S bankers.
"If we need sls million, we’ve
got sls million,” said the 31-
year-old Vanlandingham, who
was a purchasing officer and
vice president of the bank for
three years before being named
director of the program. "What
ever is needed, we’ll make it
available.”
"If the Savannah Plan is suc
cessful,” said Lane when he
presented the plan to the di
rectors and stockholders of the
bank, "and if it is repeated
throughout the county, we think
that it can change the face of
America."
"This is the closest thing to
social and economic revolution
I’ve ever seen,” said urban
planner Carl Ware of Atlanta,
who attended a conference here
with Atlanta and Macon officials
recently in order to plan their
awn cities’ drives.
Spring cleaning, in which old
WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
Helium Leak Repaired;
Apollo 10 Ready For Trip
Chief Cautions
Drivers About
Making Points
Motorists who are ticketed
with traffic violations in the city
of Griffin face the possibility of
losing their licenses under the
state’s point system, Police
Chief Leo Blackwell said.
He said a record of every traf
fic case Is being sent to the
Georgia State Patrol. He said
that the city began sending the
records to the patrol May 1.
Chief Blackwell said that some
o fthe motorists would probably
be hearing from the State Patrol
if they violate traffic laws in the
city.
Chief Blackwell said that po
licemen would tighten up on tr
affic offenders. He said there
were too many wrecks in t h e
city being caused by failure to
grant right of way.
He said that the officers al
ready were in a crackdown to
stop such offenses. However, he
said there would be more pres
sure applied in an effort to c u t
the number of auto accidents.
furniture, cars, appliances and
trash are removed with donated
vehicles and volunteer help, be
gin May 3 in Valdosta and Al
bany, May 10 in Macon, Augus
ta and Savannah, and May 17
and 18 in Athens, Atlanta, Dub
lin, Newnan, Thomaston, Bruns
wick and LaGrange.
The visitors from Macon and
Atlanta got a look at what the
program had done since May,
1968 when Savannah experienced
its huge house cleaning.
On that day 10,000 volunteers,
including many ghetto residents,
cleared out rubbish from the
city’s east and west side slums.
VanLandingham said that be
sides changing the face of the
slum areas, there was a psy
chological change as well.
"They took those brand new
garbage cans and put them in
their homes after painting their
names on them,” he said. "And
they’re still there.”
The bank also gave away
American flags which are flown
faithfully every legal holiday,
VanLandingham said. Tire com
pany bought 10 miles of chain
link fencing that was put up
over the summer and fall re-
NEWS
Launch Scheduled
Sunday At 12:49 p.m.
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
CAPE KENNEDY (UPD—A
tiny helium leak was traced to
a loose sensor in the Apollo 10
moonship early today to clear
the way for Sunday’s start of
the final trial run for a manned
lunar landing this summer.
The leak was quickly and
easily repaired without inter
rupting the countdown for the
12:49 p.m. EDT launch of
Thomas P. Stafford, John W.
Young and Eugene A. Cernan.
Die astronauts, meanwhile,
took today off. Hiey rested up
for the climactic final hours of
preparing for the mission the
United States hopes will pave
the way for a moon landing by
Apollo 11 in July.
Weather Satisfactory
Weathermen continued to
predict satisfactory conditions
for the moonport Sunday and
all other aspects of the mission
were reported “go.”
Apollo 10 is scheduled to orbit
the moon a record 32 times and
carry Stafford and Cernan to
within 50,000 feet of the pock
marked lunar surface in a
dress rehearsal for a landing.
The helium leak, first report
ed at 9:10 p.m. EDT Friday,
was the first and only
potentially serious problem to
develop during the long count
down.
For four hours, officials did
not know what effect it would
have on Sunday’s launch plans.
But it was traced about 1 a.m.
to a loose pressure sensor in
the command ship’s piping that
was tightened on the spot.
“After it was tightened, no
further leakage was detected,”
said a space agency spokes
man.
The leak was slight and
reduced pressure from 44
pounds to 37 pounds per square
inch during a three-day period
in the system used to force
propellants into the command
module’s vital reentry control
rocket. It was considered
serious enough to require
correcting before launch.
Cernan was expected to visit
with his wife Barbara and their
six-year-old daughter Teresa
during some of his free time
today. They are staying with
friends nearby and plan to
watch the shot.
The wives of Stafford and
Young remained in Houston and
the spacemen indicated they
would spend a good part of the
day at their spaceport quarters.
Several mission officials were
invited to lunch with the Apollo
team.
The three astronauts put on
their spacesuits Friday for a
final dress rehearsal in space
craft simulators for their
blastoff on the riskiest space
mission so far.
Before winding up their
training, Commander Stafford
and his crewmen also reviewed
the key points of the mission
and went over lunar topography
maps once more to be sure
they know what to look for.
Maddox Eyes
June 2 Or 7
For Session
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATI,ANTA (UPD — Even as
Gov. Lester Maddox makes
plans to call the General As
sembly back into special session
next month, some legislators
are drawing resolutions to end
it on the first day.
The governor, after huddling
with his legislative leaders Fri
day, said it now is only a mat
ter of when, not whether, he will
call the session in an attempt
to raise additional revenue for
cities, counties and school sys
tems.
The dates of June 2 and June
7 are the probabilities, and
some say the governor already
has decided on the earlier date.
Maddox said he would make a
final decision next week.
But two state senators, Frank
Miller of DeKalb and Brooks
Pennington of Madison, and
soma House members, including
Rep. James “Sloppy” Floyd of
Trion, reportedly are ready to
call for adjournment as soon as
they meet.
Maddox met with his floor
leaders, Sen. Frank Coggin and
Rep. Tom Murphy, and their as
sistants for over two hours Fri
day to discuss what tax pro
grams he would include in his
call.
He also is scheduled to meet
Tuesday with Lt Gov. George
T. Smith and House Speaker
George L. Smith.
After the Friday session, Mad
dog told reporters “I feel I
would be derelict in my duties
if I did not call a special ses
sion,” and added he could fore
see no circumstances which
“would cause me to change my
mind”
Maddox also said he might
present his program in advance
to the House Ways and Means
Committee so they could thrash
it out before the session begins.
The governor is expected to
call for increases in the sales,
beer, cigarette and, possibly in
come taxes to raise the money
he feels is needed to provide
relief for ad valorem tax pay
ers. He also wants to raise
more money to help finance im
provements in state prisons and
for highway safety.
placing dangerous, unsightly
sheet metal barricades. More
clean-ups followed during the
next several months for areas
that were missed on the first
go-round.
“The main thrust of the cam
paign is home ownership,” said
VanLandingham. “If a guy
owns a piece of dirt, he’s going
to have more pride in his area.”
Since the CDC was formed, 24
new businesses have been fi
nanced, 40 homes have been
bought by residents who could
n’t afford a down payment be
fore, and rennovations have been
started on 800 units of rental
property in the slums.
The bank made a $1 million
loan to the city’s largest slum
landlord, who has plans to im
prove 550 units, Work on 60 of
those has already begun.
"You’re going to have some
bad loans but the good is going
to far outweigh the bad,” said
VanLandingham. “I’m not
naive enough to say it’s the
solution but I believe it’ll start
a trend — I’m naive enough to
believe that.”
Lane set out to show that peo
ple could pull themselves up by
the bootstraps, without aid from
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District Winner
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Maribeth Castellaw has been named district winner
of the 4-H Farm Business Project. She will receive a
10-day trip to the American Institute of Cooperation
at Purdue University in Indiana. She is a student at
Griffin High School.
Soviet Capsule
Parachutes Into
Venus Atmosphere
MOSCOW (UPD—The Soviet-
Union parachuted a space
capsule into the atmosphere of ’
Venus today 180 miles from
where Venus 5 dropped into the
planet’s cloud bank one day
earlier.
According to the announce
ment from the news agency
Tass, Venus 6 ejected a capsule
which floated 51 minutes
toward the surface and com
pleted its mission.
“For the first time, studies of
the Venusian atmosphere were
federal programs, which Negro
leaders feel have left ghetto
dwellers “disillusioned."
“At first they were unbeliev
ing,” says the Rev. Cameron
Alexander, one of the Negro
leaders instrumental in selling
the Negro community on the
Savannah Plan. "But the lines of
communications opened up and
the message began traveling.”
The Savannah Plan, the origi
nators say, provided the tools,
and the people provided the
muscle.
VanLandingham recalls how
Jimmy Washington walked in
and told VanLandingham he
was the best cook in Savannah
and wanted to borrow money
to open a restaurant. That was
on Wednesday.
"He had it all figured out,
but I wanted to check on his
claim to being the best cook,”
said VanLandingham. “I check
ed and found out, by gosh he
was about the best cook. He
worked for a shipping company
as a cook at that time. We
made the loan on Thursday and
he opened up on Saturday —
Jimmy’s Soul Food restaur
ant."
carried out practically simul
taneously in two of its areas,"
Tass said referring to the
Venus 5 and Venus 6 missions
which began in early January.
In virtually an instant replay
of the Venus 5 shot, Venus 6
today relayed back information
of the planet’s atmosphere,
temperature, atmospheric pres
sure and density to Soviet
scientists.
Like Venus 5, Tass said,
Venus 6 "dliivered” to Venus a
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That ghetto dwellers are able
to obtain money faster for
worthwhile projects is one of
the greater accomplishments of
the program, but VanLanding
ham sets down a few stand
ards, making sure the borrow
er is making a practical choice.
Before making any loans,
whether through the bank or
the CDC, the bank goes over
his finances with him to make
sure he can pay back the
money, but usually gives him a
much longer time to pay it
back. And after making loans,
the CDC has ran a bookkeeping
service for five of the busines
ses.
But the interest is the same
VanLandingham says the bor
rowers appreciate ttse fact that
it’s not a handout, but that they
pay the same rate of interest
as other borrowers.
Lane hopes the Savannah
Plan will have taken root in
the state within five years, and
after that it will become a na
tional one. Bankers all over the
nation have shown an interest
in the plan, and some have
taken actual steps toward mak
ing their own.