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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Trying to summarize the most
important happenings over the
week is a difficult thing to do
this Monday morning. There
were so many things of top in
terest that one must bypass
some so as not to run longer
than space allotted this column.
Nationally, the appointment of
Judge Warren E. Burger, of the
Circuit Court of Appeals, to be
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, must share the spotlight
with the spectacular flight of Ap
olio astronauts/ Both these ev
ents will have ar-reaching and
long time infir ence on this na
tion and the
Appointment of Justice War
ren Burger tv succeed Chief
Justice Earl Warren, came
more or less as a surprise. He
is described as a “constitution
al conservative” of the type
that President Nixon, as a can
didate, said he would name. Due
to the forced resignation of Jus
tice Abe Fortas, Congress will
study closely the record of the
new appointee but it is expect
ed he will fie confirmed.
Meanwhile, President Nixon is
faced with the responsibility of
naming another member to the
high court; for the vacancy cr
eated when Fortas resigned
must also be filled. "Informed
sources,” and they can be wr
ong as they often are, say the
President will name a man
from some lower court in the
federal system.
As this is being written the
three astronauts are on their
way home from their trip so
close to the moon that they
could, and did, send back pic
tures clear enough to give some
idea of what those who land la
ter will find way out there. They
are due to splash down early
this afternoon.
Statewide, there is still the
guessing game of when Gover
nor Maddox will call a special
session of the General Assem
bly. It seems certain he will call
one and Lt. Gov. George Smith
has said it probably will be
called to meet June 16. Mean
while, following meetings with
the Speaker, Lt. Gov. and Mad
dox leaders in both houses, the
Governor is this week calling in
members of the two houses for
breakfast or luncheon meetings
to discuss the session with them.
Whether he will reveal just what
he plans to ask or will wait un
til the session begins to inform
them is not known.
Locally preparations for end
ing the school term and for gra
duating exercises are being
made. There will be 443 yo
ung men and young women gra
duating from the two high sc
hools.
The week closed out with the
demonstration at Zebulon Sun
day when some 1,000 persons
marched from the church to the
home of Superintendent Harold
Daniel and then back to the
courthouse to wait the arrival of
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president
of the SCLC, who spoke to
them, on the courthouse lawn,
promising continued support of
their efforts to have former prin
cipal D. F. Glover reappointed
and urging them to continue
their demonstrations and meet
ings but to avoid violence. He
said plans called for an intensive
voter registration drive. (Neg
roes out number whites In Pike
County and if they register in
proportion could control the el
ection results.)
There was some heckling of
the speaker, a din of noise from
whistles and bells, but there
were no "incidents” until after
the speaker had left. Later there
was some disturbance centered
chiefly at Williamson, but high
way patrolmen, broke it up.
Under the circumstances the
entire matter was restrained, for
which we all have every reason
to be grateful.
INSIDE
Vietnam War. Page 2.
Weekend Deaths. Page 2.
Golf Mishap. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
About Town. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Burger Support. Page 5.
Mississippi Appeals. Page 5.
Reparations. Page 5.
Woman’s Page. Page 6.
Sports. Page 7.
Want Ads Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Policy Os Demos. Page 10.
Cutoff Battle. Page 10.
Straw Ship. Page 10.
Moon Scouts Blaze Home
From Luna Close-Up Trip
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Astronauts back from moon exploration.
Abernathy Talks,
Despite Noise
The Rev. Ralph David Aber
nathy, head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(6CLS) appeared briefly yester
day at a mass rally in Zebulon.
His five minute message to the
1,000 protesters went unheard
for the most part.
His talk was drowned out by
constant blasts from air horns,
an air hammer beating on an
empty acetylene tank and blasts
from auto horns.
Although people standing more
than a few feet away couldn’t
hear him because of the noise,
the Rev. Abernathy, delivered
his five minute message. He ar
rived two hours late for the
march.
"Don't worry aoout the noise
because this is supposed to be a
free country but the world can
see from this noise that this is
not a free country. They are put
ting Zebulon on the map. This
will be the headlines tomorrow
in Russia,” the Rev. Abernathy
said.
The Rev. Abernathy said he
came to Zebulon to be with “this
qualified and efficient principal”
whose contract was not renew
ed for the next school term. He
referred to D. F. Glover of Pike
Consolidated.
“I want him to know that the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and Ralph Aberna-
County Plans
Mobile Home
Hearing Here
The Spalding County Commis
sioners plan to have a public
hearing on changing regulations
for mobile homes.
The date has not been set.
The commissioners will give
public notice 15 days prior to the
meeting.
A mobile home park develop
er, Charles W. Carey talked
with county officials during the
weekend about proposed regu
lations.
Carey has about 13 acres on
the Patterson road west of Bir
die Community he plans to de
velop into a mobile home park.
He said he already has eight
homes on the site and believ
es he can have up to 100.
Carey said he was concerned
about regulations which the
County Planning and Zoning
Commission have recommend
ed.
The Spalding County have
these and other suggestions un
der study.
James "Red” Head is chair
man of the Planning and Zon
ing Commission Serving with
him are: N. V. Davis, Hollon
Mobley (Inactive at the present)
Pat Jones and Emmett Powell.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
thy are behind this struggle here
in Zebulon.”
He continued:
"Let me caution you now to
keep your movement always
non-violent but to stand up for
your constitutional rights.
"When you go home tonight,
don’t throw any bricks, or any
rocks or any bottles because you
are civilized. Only uncivilized
people act like these people are
acting over there. (The Rev.
Abernathy was referring to the
bystanders, who were interrupt
ing his speech with the make
shift noise makers.)
“We’re going to tighten up our
boycott. And we’re going to el
ect officers, because we’re go-
Nix Cautions
About Harm
To Education
ATLANTA (UPI) — Jack Nix,
state superintendent of schools,
warned today that if a special
session of the legislature is
called in the name of education
and fails to do the job, “im
measurable harm will be
done.”
Nix made the statement at a
gathering of top Georgia educa
tion officials. J. I. Davis Jr.,
president of the Georgia School
Boards Association, called the
meeting an effort "to sing the
same song” on education needs
at the next session of the Gen
eral Assembly, whenever it
meets.
The group voted to ask the
legislature to increase the bud
get for education by $58.3 mil
lion in the special session ex
pected in June.
This would include a salary
increase for teachers of about
V/2 per cent, costing about $15.2
million.
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, May 26, 1969
ing to conduct a voter program
o£ registeration and political ed
ucation and we’re going, to elect,
officials, who will put people like
that in jail for disorderly con
duct.
“You see, we know what our
rights are and we’re going to
exercise our rights. They’re not
going to stop us. We planned
our meeting for this courthouse
lawn and this is where we’re go
ing to have our meeting.
“Now may God bless you and
may God strengthen you as you
keep this movement non-violent
so that we can put an end to
war, can put an end to poverty
and we can stop sending our
sons to Vietnam to die.
“We are going to fight and
die, if necessary, here in Geor
gia.”
The protest march was about
an hour late.
The marchers left Mt. Hope
Baptist Church. The march rou
te carried them first to the
home of Harold Daniel, Pike Co
unty school superintendent. Af
ter leaving Supt. Daniel’s house,
the protesters marched by the
home of a justice of the peace,
whom protest leaders contend
will not issue warrants against
whites.
They returned to the courthou
se square for the mass meting.
Following his talk, the Rev.
Abernathy got in a blue Cadal
lic and left. The meeting broke
up and the protesters marched
back to Mt. Hope Baptist Chur
ch.
There were no incidents of vio
lence during the protest.
However, after the protest,
a group of blacks aln d
whites got into a cursing argu
ment in Zebulon.
A white man, who reportedly
was threatened, punched a black
man, who was seated in a car.
Sheriff J. Astor Riggins said
the argument between the two
had been brewing for sometime.
The car with the Negroes in it
left Zebulon. Two or three cars
of whites followed.
A rock and bottle throwing sp
ree erupted in Williamson bet
ween about 30 or 40 whites and
the same number of blacks.
Lawmen, who had kept the
peace in Zebulon, rushed to Will
iamson and stopped the rock and
bottle battle.
Some 15 to 20 shots were fired
late last night in Concord.
No one was arrested but two
Negro men were taken into cus
tody on drunk charges.
The racial turmoil started in
Pike County about a month ago
when the Pike Board of Educa
tion did not renew the contract
of D. F. Glover, principal of the
black high school in Concord.
The school boycott continued
in effect today. Only 80 students
showed up at East Pike Elemen
tary, the Negro grammar school,
and no students reported for
classes at Pike Consolidated.
NEWS
Clear Way
For Apollo 11
Trip In July
By EDWARD K. DELONG
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI)—Apollo 10’s three moon
pilots, successful scouts for
man’s conquest of the moon,
came blazing home today to the
warm South Pacific from
orbiting the arid lunar seas.
Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene
A. Cernan and John W. Young
brought back "110 per cent”
success in the most successful
space flight America has ever
flown.
Next up was mankind’s date
with destiny—Apollo 11, and a
manned landing on the moon
July 20. Without Apollo 10 it
could not take place.
Flashing one last dazzling
view of (the approaching globe
and telling its inhabitants,
"nothing is impossible. . .it’s up
to your imagination,” the three
astronauts shot squarely down
the earth’s atmosphere.
In eight days since they
roared aloft from Cape Kenne
dy May 18, they had traveled
three quarters of a million
miles in space, orbited the
moon 31 times, and mapped a
landing site on the moon’s Sea
or Tranquility for Apollo 11.
' Stafford and Cernan flew
Within 9.5 miles of the lunar
surface in the type of bug-like
landing craft which will touch
down there with Apollo 11
astronauts Neil A. Armstrong
and Edwin E. "Buzz” Aldrin.
Apollo 10 wound up its flight
one day after the eighth
anniversary of President John
F. Kennedy’s message to
Congress committing the Unit
ed States to a manned landing
on the moon by the end of the
decade.
For Mrs. Faye Stafford, Mrs.
Barbara Cernan, who was "just
waiting for the chutes to open,”
and Mrs. Barbara Young, who
was just hoping “the ocean will
be there,” it was the end of
eight days of prayers and
fortitude.
For the army of people
around the world who guided
the astronauts through space
and stood by to pick them up in
the Pacific, it was the end of a
mission with the highest marks
yet—llo per cent of its planned
objectives according to flight
director Glynn Lunney.
For astronauts Armstrong,
Aldrin and Michael Collins, it
was "go” for the moon.
Stafford, Cernan and Young
put on the last of their color
television transmissions while
they were 41,000 miles out,
bringing to 7 hours and 3
minutes the total TV time,
more than all previous black
and white transmissions by
American spacemen.
Happy and clean-shaven, they
also paid tribute to the Charlie
Brown spacecraft which took
them to the moon and back and
the Snoopy lunar lander which
took Stafford and Cernan
skimming the lunar surface.
Newton Named
Sixth District
Legion Leader
Preston Newton of Griffin was
elected Sixth District Comman
der of the American Legion, Ge
orgia Department, in Macon
Sunday.
He Is serving as junior vice
commander of the district this
year.
Newton and other district of
ficers will be sworn In at the
state meeting In Savannah July
11-13.
He Is past commander of
the Barnett-Harris Post 15 in Gr
iffin and currently Is serving as
adjutant.
Newton is employed by the
Georgia Experiment Station in
Griffin.
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Krist Defense
Begins Today
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI> —De
fense attorney James Venable
said today he has 15 to 20 wit- ,
nesses that he may put on the .
stand in the trial of accused .
kidnaper Gary Steven Krist.
Venable did not indicate who j
the witnesses were. He said he .
had made no decision yet as ,
to whether he would put Krist
himself on the stand.
The second week of Krist’s
trial on charges of kidnaping ’
heiress Barbara Jane Mackie
for $500,000 got under way this ]
morning with the prosecution
entering an impressive array of
exhibit evidence against Krist. 1
Venable made objections to 1
practically every state exhibit 1
but Judge H. O. Hubert Jr. 1
overruled most of them. 1
Krist sat at the defense table
busily writing on a legal sized i
pad and appeared not to take :
much Interest as the evidence
was introduced.
If Krist does take the stand ]
in his own defense, under Geor- :
gia law he can decide whether
to make a sworn or unsworn
statement. If he chooses to
make an unsworn statement, he
will not be subjected to cross
examination by the state.
Some of the evidence intro
duced today included a three
page ransom note, pictures of
Krist’s Volvo station wagon,
three telephone books, a regis
tration card from the Clermont
Hotel in nearby Atlanta, photo
graphs of Krist and his alleged
accomplice, Ruth Eisemann-
Schier, a Venetian blind cord,
a roll of two-inch adhesive i
tape, and photostat copies of all
the ransom money.
Testimony by the 20-year-old
Emory University junior closed
out the state’s case Saturday
against Krist, charged with ;
burying the girl alive for 82
hours while he negotiated with
her millionaire father for
$500,000 in ransom.
The court-appointed defense
for Krist, 24, a former
University of Miami marine
researcher, was to begin its i
case teflay in De Kalb County :
Superior Court. Krist’s alleged ]
Griffin High ROTC
Rated ‘Honor Unit’
The Griffin High School ROTO
has been designated an honor
unit, according to Maj. Gen.
William H. Craig of the Third
Army.
He notified Supt. D. B. Chris
tie of the honor in a letter re
ceived here today.
The honor Is reserved for those
units “that are clearly maintain-
accomplice. Honduras - born
Ruth Eisemann-Schier, 26, will
be tried in June.
Miss Mackie identified Krist
and Miss Schier as the persons
who kidnaped her Dec. 17 from
an off-campus motel room,
where her mother was caring
for her because she was sick
and couldn’t get in the
university infirmary during an
Asian Flu outbreak.
During her 30-minute testimo
ny, the girl told publicly for the
first time her harrowing
experience at the hands of the
two kidnapers.
The ordeal began with a
knock on the door before dawn
by a man who shouted he had
news of a traffic accident,
apparently involving a boy
friend of Miss Mackie.
“Mother, don’t open the
door,” Barbara warned, too
late.
“This heavy set man came
in. This small figure came with
him.” The “big man” pushed
her onto a bed and held a gun
to her head. The “small figure”
tied her mother. They took the
girl to a car, where they
gagged her but heeded her plea
not to chloroform her.
“This is going well, extreme
ly well," the man said as they
sped away.
“I suppose you know why
you’re here. You’ve been
kidnaped,” he told Barbara.
“If you’ll be good, we won’t
hurt you,” the woman said.
But she had her doubts when
they arrived at a wooded spot,
walked to a hole and one
kidnaper said, “It’s dug too
deep.
“That really scared me,” the
girl testified.
Then they showed her an
eight - foot long, two- foot wide
and deep box and said they
were going to bury her in it.
“Please, I’ll be good. I will. I
won’t cause any trouble. My
father will pay you the money.”
she pleaded with her captors.
They told her she would be
safe, and explained how to
operate a ventilation fan, a
light and a water pump
powered by a 12-volt battery. If
ing exceptionally high standards
of military and discipline,”
Gen. Craig said.
He said the honor also "was
indicative of the exceedingly
high standards of performance
of the cadets and staff at your
institution and reflects your In
terest and support for reserve
officer training.”
anything went wrong, she was
told, a red light would come on
in a house nearby. They would
; come and check on her every
two hours.
She was told to “read the
instructions” placed in the box
and given “a shot” in the hip,
apparently a drug.
“Then they lowered me down.
I begged not to be put in the
ground. I’ll be good.” She heard
the dirt being shoveled on top
of the box. “It sounded scary.”
It was “pitch black dark”
inside. “I’m afraid of the dark.
I always have been.” She
turned on the light and started
counting the seconds until she
figured two hours had passed.
When the kidnapers didn’t
return, she began to lose hope.
“I began to think I never
would get out of there alive.”
As time went by, she tired to
convince herself she would
survive because she hadn’t
been harmed.
FBI agents, following tele
phoned directions given by the
kidnapers after Florida land
developer Robert Mackie of
Miami paid the ransom, found
Barbara 82 hours after she was
buried. She was “moderately
dehydrated,” but in “fair to
good” condition.
Krist, who was captured in
the Florida Everglades and
most of the ransom recovered,
said he expects to be sentenced
to death. He suggested the
state could save money by
burying his body in the eight
foot box.
It’s better built, he said, than
the $97 coffins the state uses.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and not
' much temperature change to
night and Tuesday. Slight
chance of afternoon or evening
thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
i mated high today 85, low today
65, high yesterday 87, low yes
terday 61. Sunrise tomorrow
6:35, sunset tomorrow 8:40.
Christie said this is an honor
for Griffin High School and Sp
alding County.
He praised Griffin High Prin
cipal Bill Cody and the military
personnel, teachers and other
staff members for making the
honor possible.
Maj. Gus Pelt Is director of the
school’s ROTO program.