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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening likes to quote
people who are in a position to
speak with authority about th-
I ’ Ings they certainly are in a posi
tion to know about what they
are talking, especially people
who are not self-appointed “ex
| * perts.”
This being the case would like
to pass on to our readers some
statements made recently by 40-
I • year-old Clayton McElroy of
nearby Newnan.
McElroy has been chosen Ge
orgia Truck Driver of the Year
• by the Georgia Truck Driver
Association. He was chosen by
others in the same profession
as he, and not self appointed.
McElroy has been driving au
tomobiles for 24 years; during
the past 17 years trucks. During
this time he has driven trucks,
small and large, over Georgia
roads and highways. He has dri
ven them more than a million
• miles and has never figured in
an accident. A wonderful re
cord, one of which all Georgians
may be proud.
• In a recent statement McEl
roy said certain things we would
like to pass on to our readers of
all ages and of both sex. What
• he said may open the eyes of a
lot of us.
First: He said about women
drivers, often the butt of jokes
< told by those of the opposite sex,
“A lot of women drive a lot bet
ter than a lot of men.” He attri
butes this to his belief that “wo
, men are more cautious” than
men when they drive their au
tomobiles. The words “cautious”
and “careful” are closely akin.
He probably also had in mind
I ’ the fact that women are more
aware of the rules of safe driv
ing and follow them more close
. ly than men.
. * McElroy also commented on
the way our teenagers drive. He
says that many of them “scrat
ch off” too much and mistreat
' • their automobiles; but adds
“They are not too much differ
ent from what they were when I
was one of them.” Mr. McElroy
I , calls this a “product of today’s
prosperity.”
Ladies, may we suggest that
you keep on “being cautious”,
and try even more than before
to observe all the rules of safe
driving, and set an example for
us men drivers.
Teenagers, may we suggest,
’ that you realize, as McElroy
has, the folly of “scratching
off” and abusing your automo
biles.
• And to us men drivers and us
older drivers, may we say it’s
easy for us to criticise others,
the fairer sex and the younger
* generation, when we ought to
spend less time criticising others
and more time improving our
driving.
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Now as to truck drivers:
Good Evening has long been
of the impression, formed by
■ many years of driving himself,
that as a whole truck drivers
are the most courteous and the
most careful drivers on our high
, ways. Os course there are excep
tions, but they are few in o u r
opinion. There are more drivers
like Clayton McElroy than the
other type.
Here’s an incident told to us
this week by a friend. He was
driving home on a super high
way. He had been to another
’ Georgia town on a business trip.
Somewhere before he got home
his automobile began to give him
trouble, the motor became over
• heated and he managed to drive
to the side of the highway. He
like a lot of us drivers is not a
mechanic and he did not know
! « what to do. So be sat there baff
led as to what he should do.
A large truck drove up, the
driver noticed this Griffinites
. prediciment, pulled to the side
of the road and came back to
the stalled car and asked “can
I help you?”
, To make a long story short,
finding that the water hose had
broken, thus overheating the
motor, he took the Grifflnlte to
the nearest town where a wreck-
I * er service was called, with the
Grifflnlte aboard it drove to the
car, towed it to the town. It was
found the damage from the over
-1 ' heated motor was more than
could be quickly repaired. He
left the car there; got a taxi and
came on home. The next morn-
* Inga Griffin wrecker was sent
and towed the car to Griffin for
whatever repairs were necess
ary.
• Here’s another Grifflnlte who
believes truck drivers are cour
teous and helpful.
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Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Polite Gunman. Page 6.
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Golden Mirage, a nine-year-old stallion owned by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. “Dusty”
Rhodes of North Second street extension, has been named 1968 Georgia State
Palomino champion. The double-registered champion (Tennessee Walker and
Palomino) received the honor last Saturday after accumulating the most points in
his class. Golden Mirage is the point leader so far this year and stands a good
chance of winning the honor two years in a row. Mr. Rhodes, a pilot with Eastern
Airlines, and his wife, Vail, are shown with the state champion and some of the
trophies and ribbons the horse has won.
Benning Soldier
Killed; 2 Hurt
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI) —
A soldier was killed and two
others injured Tursday night
when two artillery shells strayed
off course during an exercise
and exploded near some
bleachers.
An Army spokesman identif
ied the dead man as Spec. 5
Michael F. Rehby, 23, of Miami,
a slx-year-veteran of Army ser
vice.
Rehby was standing in a truck
near the bleachers when the 105
mm artillery shells exploded
nearby. The two injured were
in the bleachers.
The injured men, Spec. 4 Phil
lip M. Hall, 27, of Farmville,
N. C., and Spec. 5 Terry E.
Kuhn of Zanesville, Ohio, were
not seriously hurt. Hall was ad
mitted to the post hospital with
a laceration of the right hip.
Kun was treated for an injury
to his left shoulder.
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GRIFFIN
DAILY #“ NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, June 18,1969 Vol. 96 No. 143
Maddox. Page 6.
Georgia News. Page 8.
Body Found. Page 11.
Summer Food. P a ge 12.
Campus Rioting. Page 14.
Viet War. Page 15.
Want Ads. Page 18.
Comics. Page 19.
Woman’s Page. Page 20.
State Champion
The accident happened about
10:30 p.m. during a demonstra
tion exercise showing a mech
anized rifle company in a de
fensive position.
Lester Or Virginia?
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
—Promising to “curl some hair
and shuck some com”, Gov.
Lester Maddox Tuesday told
the Georgia Municipal Associa
tlon that either he or his wife
Virginia would be in the 1970
gubernatorial race.
Maddox, obviously stung by
his recent defeat in the special
session, said he wasn’t through
as governor yet and would con
tinue to push for his tax and
budget programs.
The governor again blamed
former governor Carl Sanders,
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen and
the Atlanta newspapers for the
overwhelming defeat, saying
they were motivated by a hat
red for Lester Maddox and the
desire to elect their own man
governor.
Maddox told the assembled
city officials if he didn’t get the
tax programs through while he
was governor, "some other
people may have a chance to
vote for Virginia."
"If Virginia gets In the race,
almost nobody no matter how
many television stations they
own will know who’s going to
Law-Order Candidates
Nominated In New York
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
The demonstration is held an
nually for students of the Army
Infantry School, Military Acade
my cadets and Reverve Officer
Training Corps students.
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•ed,” Maddox said.
Maddox didn’t explain how It
might be possible for him to
run for governor in defiance of
the state constitution, but he
openly warned Sanders and Al
len to “quit their dirty politics
and join with me, or I’m going
to wreck their politics in the
Lindsay Will Run
On Liberal Ticket
By JUDSON RANDALL
NEW YORK (UPI) — Law
and-order candidates, riding the
crest of a backlash against New
York City’s labor and crime
troubles, Tuesday won upset
victories in mayorlal primaries
over Republican Mayor John V.
Lindsay and former Democra
tic Mayor Robert Wagner—both
liberals.
Lindsay, who still will be in
the Nov. 4 general election as
the liberal party candidate,
vowed he would win then
because “the voices of doubt
and fear cannot be permitted to
govern this city. He joins
Republican John J. Marchi,
who defeated him, and Demo
crat Mario A. Procacclno, who
downed Wagner. But for
Wagner, whose latest job was
U.S. ambassador to Spain
during the Johnson administra
tion, it appeared the end of a
political comeback some pun
dits had predicted might lead to
the U.S. Senate.
Mailer Also Loses
Another loser was Pulitzer
prize winning author Norman
Mailer, who ran for the
Democratic nomination on a
platform based on turning New
York Into the 51st state.
Mailer, many of whose
supporters were too young to
vote, lost with the same humor
as he had campaigned. When
asked at one point if his
candidacy were serious. Mailer
replied: “Have you seen the
other candidates?”
With all 5,286 precincts
counted, Marchi had 111,725
votes and Lindsay 106,358 in the
Republican primary.
In the Democratic Primary,
with all 5,286 precincts counted,
Procacclno had 252,283, Wagner
221,605, Mailer 41,136, Bronx
Borough President Herman
Badillo 215,381 and Rep. James
Scheuer 38,631.
With both the Democratic and
Republican candidates running
on the same law-and-order
platform, it appeared Lindsay
would be a substantial candi
date in November. Many liberal
votes from both parties that
had been scattered in the
primaries were expected to go
to him almost as a bloc, while
Procacclno and Marchi battled
for the conservative votes.
Supporters of Wagner, Badillo,
Scheuer and Mailer were
expected to back Lindsay.
Wagner, who served as
mayor for 12 years until
Lindsay’s election four years
ago, said in conceding defeat
“It’s a sad day for the
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Gov. and Mrs. Maddox.
year 1970.”
Sanders had earlier compared
Maddox and his troubles with
the legislature of King Charles
I of England who had his head
chopped off by parliament.
Charles couldn’t understand,
Sanders explained, why parlia
ment would not pass his taxes
when the need was so obvious.
Democratic party—for all par
ties. Lindsay has been awful,”
he added, “But gee, imagine it
under Procaccino.”
Unperturbed By Defeat
Lindsay appeared unper
turbed by his defeat, vowing to
keep his job in the general
election. “They will be repudi
ated in the fall. We are going to
win that fight. We will win it
because the voices of doubt and
fear cannot be permitted to
govern this city.”
Marchi, a 48-year-old state
senator also running under the
banner of the conservative
party, said “We’ve given the
people a choice and they’ve
made their selection. This is a
city in a tragic pattern and we
propose to reverse it.”
Procaccino, a rotund, 56-year
old Italian immigrant, said “I
am proud that prejudices have
been cast aside in my election
and we have proved once again
that only in America can a man
of humble origins be chosen by
a great political party to be its
candidate for mayor in the
greatest city in the world.”
Procaccino based his entire
campaign on a simple theme:
“A safe city, a clean city and a
great city.”
The nomination of Marchi
and Procaccino followed a
pattern set in recent local
elections in Los Angeles and
Minneapolis. In Los Angeles, a
strong white backlash vote kept
Mayor Samuel Yorty in office,
helping him defeat a Negro
opponent. In Minneapolis Police
Det. Charles Stevig was elected
over a more moderate op
ponent.
In other primary elections,
Abraham Beame easily defeat
ed three Democratic opponents
to win the party nomination for
controller, a post he held four
years ago, while Fioravante G.
Perrotta won the Republican
nomination. For City Council
president Sanford D. Garelik, a
high-ranking police officer, won
the Republican nomination and
U.S. Rep. Hugh L. Carey the
Democratic. Perrotta and Gare
lik were Lindsay’s running
mates.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Considerable morning
fog tomorrow. Otherwise fair
to partly cloudy and warm to
night and tomorrow.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 88, low today
69, high yesterday 88, low yes
terday 59. Sunrise tomorrow
6:29, sunset tomorrow 8:50.
"Parliament listened to the
people back home who did not
want to pay more taxes re
gardless of how well the money
could be used by the King,”
Sanders said.
Maddox retaliated to the
former governor’s ridicule in
kind characterizing him as “a
man who used to be in the
statehouse and wants to go
back.”
“Sanders is running for gov
ernor and he’s willing to He for
it or buy it,” Maddox said at
a later news conference.
Sanders, however, brushed
aside charges he had influenced
lawmakers against Maddox’s
request for slls million in new
taxes.
“As a matter of hard, cold
political fact, nothing would be
better for the next governor of
Georgia, whoever, he might be,
than for taxes to be raised in
1969 rather than 1971,” Sanders
reasoned.
"If taxes were raised now,
the next governor could take
credit for spending the new rev
enue, without suffering the
blame for having raised taxes.”
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Griffin Beauty
Hedy White, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
White of 1121 George Circle, was crowned “Miss
Stay And See Georgia” last night in Savannah. She
will act as the state’s official tourist hostess for next
year. She was sponsored by Radio Station WHIE
and the Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce. Miss
White was picked from 20 contestants at the conclu
sion of the Georgia Assoication of Broadcasters.
Kerry Bode, 19, sponsored by WRLB-TV in Colum
bus was runner-up.
Rep. Melton Named
To Tax Revision
Study Committee
ATLANTA (UPI) —Members
of a joint legislative-citizens tax
revision study committee were
to be named this afternoon by
House Speaker George L. Smith
and Lt. Gov. George T. Smith.
High Capitol sources identified
eight of the legislative members,
all members of the House Ways
and Means Committee, as well
as nine citizens to serve on the
group.
The House members, chosen
by the speakers, include Rep.
Quimby Melton of Griffin, chair
man of the Ways and Means
Committee; Reps. David C. Pet
erson of Kathleen; Mike Egan
of Atlanta; Bill Lee of Albany
L.L. Phillips of Soperton; Way
ne Snow Jr. of Chicamaunga;
Burton Womble of Cairo and Joe
T. Wood of Gainesville.
The sources said Sens. Horace
Ward of Atlanta and Oliver
Bateman of Macon would be
among the members chosen by
the lieutenant governor.
The citizens include William
L. Lanier of Metter, president
of the Georgia Farm Bureau;
Sen. Al Holloway of Albany,
president of the State Chamber
of Commerce; Mayor Howard
Atherton of Marietta, president
of the Georgia Municipal Assoc
iation: Gordon Jones of Atlanta
president of the Fulton National
Bank; Mrs. M.E. Richardson of
Decatur, president of the Geo
rgia League of Women Voters;
Hugh Logan of Athens, president
of the Georgia County Commis
sioners Association; James A.
Jacobs, Atlanta, assistant com
ptroller of Southern Bell; Jack
May of Atlanta, president of the
State School Board Association;
and William C. Rogers, Swains
boro, vice president of the Geo
rgia Press Association.
The citizens were named by
both Smiths.
Speaker Smith said the failure
of the legislature to pass Gov.
Lester Maddox’s sales tax in
crease in special session last
week was only temporary. He
proposed combining the state
sales tax hike with an optional
local sales tax, with revenues
flowing directly back to the
point of origin.
Maddox commenting on the
committee, said “taxes can be
studied and restudied, but what
we need is positive legislative
action.”
Rioting Hits
Kansas Prison
LANSING, Kan. (UPD—Riot
ing broke out among the 1,392
prisoners in the Kansas State
Penitentiary today, bringing a
call for 100 state troopers to
help.
The Lansing Police Depart
ment confirmed prisoners were
rioting but said it had no
details except prison officials
had sent out a call for gas
masks.
The 100 troopers were put on
a stand-by basis near the prison
which is located only a few
miles from the Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary.
Police said the disturbance
erupted about 7:30 a.m. The
number of prisoners and the
number of cell blocks Involved
was undetermined, police said.
Country Parson
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“Folks usually don’t ac
complish much more than
they expect to.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Ctartt