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By Quimby Melton
It was with mixed feelings
Monday that Good Evening
stood and watched experts hoist
and move Into the new annex
large units of the new Goss off
set printing press that will be in
stalled.
There was a feeling of pride
that our community has grown
to such an extent and our cir
culation has kept pace to the ex
tent that warrants the very best
and most modern machinery
that will enable The Griffin Da
ily News to publish a better prin
ted and more interesting news
paper than before.
There also was a feeling of
sadness, nostalgia, as we realiz
ed that the coming of the new
means the parting with the old.
For the new equipment as much
as we welcome it means much
of the old equipment will be re
placed. Even a thing as imper
sonal as printing machinery can
become mighty dear to one.
But we’ve gone through this
same experience several times
since coming to Griffin in 1925.
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When we bought the Griffin
Daily News the mechanical part
of the paper consisted of one
tired old Whitlock, hand-fed
press, an equally ancient hand
fed folder, two linotypes, a sm
all, quarter page, casting box,
and fonts of headline type.
As soon as we could “see
daylight” we added a third lino
type, then a full page casting
box, and a Goss Comet printing
press that eliminated the dou
ble run hand-fed, hand-fold ope
rations. “Old Betsy” as this pr
ess became affectionately kn
own In its latter days, cut the
press time considerably and ser
ved us well until 1949 when we
moved into the new plant.
When we njpyed into the new
plant the press whs a Hoe stero-
with complete stero
type equipment, which later
was modernized by addition of
the very best, all planned to cut
down the time required to get
the plates on the press and the
press rolling.
tye also added several Lud
lows, a strip caster, three new
model linotypes, equipped with
teletypesetters, a complete ph
otographic department and other
equipment that made us the best
letter-press type newspaper of
our size in the state.
But time moves on and impro
vements are made in every type
of machinery. So though we will
miss that press and the rest of
the printing machinery that
have been our "pride and Joy”,
we welcome the changeover to
a better and more modern man
ufactured product.
Npt air of the present equip
ment will be immediately replac
ed, but as the improvement pro
gram moves on other more mo
dern equipment will be added to
the plant.
It is with confidence that this
old-time printer, who remem
bers the days when there were
few linotypes except in the lar
ger cities, when there were no
such things as Ludlows and Tel
etype-setters; and engraving pl
ants in any but the larger cities,
welcomes the change over to a
more modem plant, but one can
not blame him if he also has
some feeling of losing old
friends.
This confidence is in our com
munity, in our state and nation;
it is in the men and women who
make up our organization and
their ability to have the skills to
operate the new setup; our con
fidence in our son who has been
given complete authority in op
erating the paper, and in our
selves to change with the times
and accept a better type of
operation.
Country Parson
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“I wish the church could
find away to influence lives
as much as advertising does.”
Copyright 19M, by Frank A. CM*
NOTICE
Effective Monday, June 2, the price of the Griffin
Daily News will be 50 cents per week, which in
cludes sales tax. The price of everything necessary
to produce a newspaper has increased constantly,
but this is the first price adjustment in the cost of the
paper since September 12, 1967. Practically all of
the increase will be used to improve the earnings of
independent carriers and distributors and to provide
better delivery service. The price of single copies,
which are not delivered, will remain the same, 10
cents.
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Ransom Note
Read In Court
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
DECATUR, Ga. (UPD — A
state prosecutor today read
aloud the chilling details of a
ransom note that threatened
death by suffocation for Miami
heiress Barbara Jane Mackie
unless $500,000 ransom was
paid.
The three-page ransom note
was read in a hushed court
room by Asst. Dist. Atty. Den
nis Jones over the objections of
defense attorney James Ven
able, who is defending Gary
Steven Krist, accused of the
kidnaping.
Jones read from reproduced
copies of the actual ransom
note which was apparently hand
written on legal-size paper. The
note was found beneath a rock
near the Mackie home In Miami
on Dec. 17, the same day that
the 20-year-old Miss Mackie was
kidnaped from a motel room
near the campus of Emory Uni.
verslty In Atlanta where she
was a student.
The note began “Robert
Mackie, sir, your daughter has
been kidnaped by us. She is
quite safe, if somewhat uncom
fortable.”
Pike Seniors Continue
School Boycott Today
Three Negro seniors returned
to Pike Consolidated High Sc
hool at Concord today. Two of
them left immediately, saying
they weren’t “in the mood” to
attend classes.
The highly effective school
boycott hit the predominately
black school after the Pike Bo
ard of Education did not renew
the contract of D. F, Glover,
principal.
Students are boycotting the
school at Concord and East Pike
Elementary in Zebulon in sup
port of Glover.
It was expected that the boy
cott would be partially broken
today by seniors.
The Negro principal report
edly met with 21 of the school's
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Presidents of the nine Y-Clubs at Griffin School have been elected for the 1969-
70 year. They are (front, 1-r) Alexis Fitzhugh, Beverly Thomas, Charles Busbin,
Emma Starr, (back row) Pam Butler, Gary Laster, Janet Rawls, Jacque McKnight
and Cole Cartledge.
Written in erudite fashion and
using English not commonly
employed, the note Informed
Robert Mackie that his daugh
ter was alive “inside a capsule”
buried beneath the ground. But
it warned that batteries furnish
ing life - supporting air would
automatically cut off in seven
days and Barbara would suffo
cate.
It also warned that this would
be her fate unless the ransom
were paid.
Mackie did attempt to deliver
the money but a policeman who
had not been Informed frustrat
ed the kidnapers’ attempt to
pick it up. The money was later
paid, and most was recovered
when Krist was arrested a few
days later.
"You don’t want to catch us,
for to do so would condemn
your daughter to death,” the
ransom note said.
The note gave explicit direc
tions as to how the ransom
should be prepared and gave
the exact size of the suitcase
in which the money was to be
placed. It specified that the
money should be in SIOO bills
and include a great variety of
35 seniors yesterday and told
them he saw no way they could
get signed diplomas unless they
returned to school.
The principal said some of the
seniors indicated they would re
turn to class.
“I left the decision up to each
individual,” he said.
Despite the fact that most se
niors’ diplomas are in jeopar
dy, the boycott continued today.
Glover said that 14 of the sen
iors already have completed 18
academic units, the number ne
cessary for graduation
The boycott has been in effect
21 school days. There are eight
more left.
Harold Daniel, county school
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, May 21,1969
Apollo 10 Crew Heads
Into Moon Scouting
serial numbers, and said the
money would be subjected to
chemical and physical tests.
Father Threatened
Mackie was told to take the
case toward “three short flash
es of light from a flashlight”
and put it in a box It warned
“any deviation from these in
structions will result In your
death.”
William O’Dowd, financial
vice - president of the Mackie
owned Deltaona Corp, of Miami,
said Tuesday he was called to
the Mackie residence the day of
the kidnaping and asked to stay
there by the family.
He said shortly afterwards he
received a long - distance call
from Atlanta. The caller asked
him to tell Robert Mackie, Bar
bara’s father, to “look under a
palm tree at the northeast corn
er of the house under a rock
about two inches down.” A
three-page note was found at
the spot about an hour later,
O’Dowd said.
The court also heard testi
mony from Mrs. Robert Mackie
and the motel night clerk
Walter W. Perkins, who was on
duty when the kidnap occurred.
superintendent, Indicated last
week that he would not sign dip
lomas unless the boycott was
stopped immediately.
The Rev. Ralph David Aber
nathy, head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (SCLC) confirmed yester
day that he would head a rally
Sunday in Zebulon "to raise the
whole question of quality educa
tion in Pike County.”
Willie Bolden, SCLC represen
tative in charge of the "Zebulon
Project” is reportedly visiting
many Middle Georgia cities or
ganizing support for the Sunday
rally.
One silent march was held
yesterday in Zebulon.
NEWS
Spacemen Give
Studying Tips
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) —Students of all ages
take note: Apollo 10 astronauts
gave some tips on the need for
studying Tuesday, even on a
moon voyage thousands of
miles from earth.
The astronauts, during a
television broadcast, told view
ers they had been studying
their flight plan for the lunar
approach. "You never get away
from studying,” said astronaut
Eugene A. Cernan.
Commander Thomas P. Staf
ford also hammered home the
point. “You know you can study
all your life and you never
finish studying. Here we are a
Roosevelt Puts Up
Bail For His Wife
GENEVA (UPD—Mrs. James
F. Roosevelt, who faces possi
ble trial on charges of
attempted murder in connection
with the stabbing of her
husband; was granted provision
al freedom by a Geneva court
today on ball of $12,500.
Her lawyer said Roosevelt
would put up the ball.
Mrs Roosevelt, third wife of
the eldest son of the late
President Franklin D. Roose
velt, was moved later from the
criminal ward to a private
room at the Bel-Air psychiatric
clinic.
Her lawyer, Dominique Pon
cet, told the court that Mrs.
Roosevelt had been highly
disturbed because of her
husband’s suit for divorce filed
on May 14, the day before the
stabbing.
"She was of the conviction
that her husband wanted to get
rid of her for another woman.”
Poncet said.
Roosevelt was stabbed in the
back in his Geneva villa last
Thursday night and has been
hospitalized since. He was
scheduled to return home
Thursday but said today his
doctors told him "the infection
is not completely cleared up
and they advised me to remain
Vol. 96 No. 119
Stafford, Cernan
To Ride ‘Snoopy’
By EDWARD K. DELONG
DPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPD—For Apollo 10’s astro
nauts, the easy part was over
today.
Commander Thomas P. Staf
ford and crewmen John W.
Young and Eugene A. Cernan
slept late as they finished their
third day in space. They were
less than 20,000 miles from the
moon, their destination for 61
dangerous hours of scouting the
terrain.
The three astronauts, hurtling
faster and faster In the grip of
lunar gravity, were to pass
behind the moon at 4:37 p.m.
EDT. They then fire a blast of
their rocket engine to drop Into
orbit around It at 4:45 p.m.
Their mission was to spend
2>/ 2 days circling the moon in
the Apollo spacecraft nick
named “Charlie Brown.”
Stafford and Cernan will cut
loose Thursday in the “Snoopy”
lunar landing machine and
skim twice within 10 miles of
the lunar surface, carefully
studying possible landing sites
for Apollo 11 which hopes to
touch down on the lunar
surface in July.
At 10 a.m. EDT, Apollo 10
was 19,879 miles from the
moon, more than 230,000 miles
from earth, and closing on the
moon at 2,699 mph. The
astronauts passed the “Great
Divide” of Interplanetary space
quarter million miles from
earth and we are still
studying,” he said.
The message was specially
directed toward Stafford’s two
daughters who are taking final
exams this week.
"This is his way of saying
get to work’ ”, Cernan said.
At one point, astronaut John
W. Young was shown upside
down perusing a manual.
"Here’s a message to kiddles
around the country—ls they
can’t get their homework right
side up, go upside down. They
might be able to absorb more
that way,” said Stafford.
until Saturday.”
He also said he was “very
happy” that the court had
granted his wife bail and
added: "As you know, my
attorneys supported the re
quest.”
Poncet said his appeal for
bail was based purely on
medical grounds. He said Mrs.
Roosevelt requires deep sleep
treatment which was impossi
ble In the criminal ward of the
clinic.
Paratroopers Finish Off
Commies On Hamburger Hill
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPI)U.S. para
troopers today snuffed out the
last pocket of North Vietna
mese resistance atop Hambur
ger Hill, killing 12 guerrilla
snipers left behind from the
Communist regiment that sur
rendered the peak Tuesday.
The snipers apparently were
assigned to keep the troopers of
the U.S. 101st Airborne Division
occupied as the Communist
survivors of the 10-day battle
headed for Laos where they
would be immune from ground
pursuit.
The paratroopers captured
where moon gravity overcame
earth gravity at 2:46 a.m. EDT
while they were sleeping—the
last long rest they will get until
they are safely on the way
home Saturday morning.
They were 11 minutes behind
schedule to the moon—princi
pally because their original
flight trajectory was so accur
ate they skipped three of the
four course adjustments they
could have made on the way.
Ground controllers today re
vised the time of the “lunar
orbit insertion” rocket firing
from 4:34 p.m .to 4:45 p.m. but
said the discrepancy was of no
consequence.
As they drew closer to the
moon today at 1:09 p.m., they
planned to transmit what
promised to be the most
spectacular of their color
television transmissions. Staf
ford said the astronauts would
point their tiny color camera
first at the looming moon and
then at the tiny blue-white ball
of earth.
He said the camera would be
left on while the spacecraft
enters the lunar night, a period
taking at least two hours.
Astronomers around the
world trained telescopes on he
lunar surface In order to
compare notes with the astro
nauts. Their sightings will go
directly to the Smithsonian
Institute and Houston Manned
Space Center and the astro
nauts might be asked to fbok at
the same places from lunar
orbit.
The only problem on Apollo
10, and it was minor, was
bubbles of hydrogen In the
drinking water.
“I feel great; we all feel Just
great,” Stafford said late
Tuesday night before the three
spacemen turned In. Scheduled
to awake at about 9 a.m., they
were told to sleep late if they
chose. They did.
The astronauts were awa
kened at 10:50 a.m. EDT today
to the strains of “On A Clear
Day You Can See Forever,”
piped up to them from the
ground.
"Reveille, reveille, up all
hands. Clean down, fore and
aft,” acknowledged Young, a
Navy commander, from the
spacecraft. “That’s beautiful.
Sounds like we got stereo.”
Apollo 10’s initial orbit around
the moon will be a long, looping
one. The astronauts will fire
their engines again later to
circularize It at about 70 miles.
Late In the day, Cernan will
climb through a connecting
tunnel to the lunar lander,
attached nose-to-nose to the
spacecraft, and check It out.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair to partly cloudy
and warm tonight and to
morrow.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 85, low today
63, high yesterday 86, low yes
terday 63, sunrise tomorrow
6:37, sunset tomorrow 8:36.
the peak on their Uth assault
Tuesday The entire battle cost
55 Americans dead and about
300 wounded. Communist los
ses, according to spokesmen,
were 400 deod. As the
paratroopers clashed with the
snipers, U.S headquarters in
Saigon reported fighting Tues
day on two familiar fronts—
along the border Demilitarled
Zone (DMZ) and on Saigon’s
outer defense ring. It said 63
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese were killed against
American losses of three dead
and 15 wounded.
The Communists shelled 21
towns and Allied camps over-
INSIDE
Thursday Moon Orbit. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
About Town. Page 3.
Stork Club. Page 3.
Editorials. P a gc 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Georgia News. Page 6.
Dance Recital. Page 6.
Sports. Pages 8, 9.
Session. Page 10.
Soil Testing. Page 10.
Woman’s News. Page 12.
Betty Canary. Page 12.
B a boon. Page 13.
Campus Trouble. Page 14.
Poor March. Page 16.
Bruce Biossat. Page 20.
Ray Cromley. Page 20.
Want Ads. Page 22.
Comics. Page 23.
Onassis Loses. Page 24.
Togetherness To End. Page 24.
Georgia GOPs
Say Cut Costs;
Oppose Tax Hike
ATLANTA (UPD—Two House
Republican leaders called today
for an economy drive rather
than a tax Increase when Gov.
Lester Maddox calls a special
session of the General As
sembly.
House Republican Caucus
Chairman James Westlake of
DeKalb County and Rep. Carr
Dodson, minority leader from
Macon, said a 5 per cent econo
my drive would release $45 to
SSO million for reallocation In
needed areas.
“We feel that the concensus
of opinion, both from the voters
and the legislators, to be decid
edly opposed to a special ses
sion which Is called for the sole
purpose of Increasing taxes,”
the leaders said In a statement.
Westlake and Dodson said the
direct costs of a special legis
lative session would run to
more than SIOO,OOO per week.
They said that to debate tax is
sues at such a meeting "does
not have appeal to the people
nor to the legislators.”
“Let’s not have a tax in
crease session. If we have one,
let’s have a session to econo
mize and curtail was tein state
government,” they said.
They also said there would be
more funds available at current
levels of taxation than antici
pated.
ELIMINATES CARD
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Internal Revenue Service has
decided to eliminate “Form
1040A,” the computer - sized
punch card used by 20 million
persons to file their tax returns
this year. It will be replaced by
a single sheet of paper to be
used both by the people who
used the old card form and by
those who use the standard
deductions. The agency said
half of the 75 million Individual
tax returns made this year
could be filed on a single sheet
under the new system.
night, sending a 12-round rocket
salvo into the town of Tam Ky
on the northern coast in the
costliest attack. Saigon govern
ment spokesmen listed four
civilians dead and eight wound
ed.
Paratroopers searching the
abandoned Communist bunkers
atop the hill found three-inch
communications wires leading
through it from Loas to other
Communist positions in South
Vietnam, indicating it was
Indeed a major North Vietna
mese headquarters.
The fights along the DMZ and
near Saigon were the only other
actions reported.