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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Wednesday as Apollo 11 took s
off for its round trip to the moon ‘
it was estimated more than a s
million people viewed the blast- t
off from vantage points at or
near Cape Kennedy. And mill- (
ions more watched it over TV t
heard it over radio, and read
about it in their afternoon news
papers. Never has there been an
event better reported and bettei
illustrated than this.
As Good Evening heard the
roar of the blastoff that launch
ed Apollo into the air, he w a s
reminded of a true story about
a would be “astronaut' (though
that word had not been coined
then) and his attempts, more
than half a century ago, to turn
the skies into a highway to be
travelled by man. Several tim
es he tried to soar “like a
bird”. History does not tell o!
his efforts and when be die
climb into his homemade con
traption there were few present
to cheer him on and certainly no
reporters on hand.
However, this is a story of whi
ch we can vouch with confidence
that the facts are true. The sc
ene was a small mountain in
the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains near Front Royal,
Virginia. Good Evening, with his
parents, spent a summer vaca
tion there, camping out In an ab
andoned farm house near the
spot where he experimented
with flying. The "pioneer” in
space travel was a Jeweler in
Front Royal; he had attended
Peabody College in Nashville,
Tenn., at the same time as both
our father and mother, and it
was on his invitation that we
spent that happy summer month
on his "country place."
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This Front Royal Jeweler was
among one of the many early
aviation enthusiasts who believ
ed that man could bul’-d a mach
ine that would fly. There were
many such who received little
publicity at the time and whose
“dreams” were considered more
or less absurd, some even shak
ing their heads “that such a
good man will spend his time
chasing impossible rainbows.”
Here is the story as told Good
Evening by some of the people
in Front Royal. The man him
self was loath to talk about his
failures.
He had inherited a place In the
country where an old fashioned
gristmill had operated, the pow
er being supplied by a big water
wheel on a small creek. He con
verted the abandoned mill into a
workshop and there built what
would be called today a "glid
er”. He was not at that time
interested in how a "flying ma
chine" would be powered. He
built this "contraption” with
wings and modelled after those
of a big hawk, which he had
shot and mounted and had it in
his shop.
One day he called in two young
men whom “he could trust with
his secret”, climbed aboard and
they pushed him off the h 111.
The "thing” managed to “take
off” for a few feet than landed
in the creek below. Undauted he
pulled it out of the water and
made -certain "adjustments" and
tried again. The results were the
same. A third time he tried ag
ain and still was disappointed.
He decided to wait a little
while, study his model and try
try again.
Then came word that the
Wright Brothers had invented
and tried out the first airplane
that flew for any time. He then
abandoned his project.
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The Wright Brothers, Orville
and Wilbur, history tells us,
flew the first heavler-than-alr
mechanically powered airplane.
On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright
flew the first time his craft re
maining aloft 12 seconds and tra
velling 120 feet. This was near
Kitty Hawk, N.C. Later that day
his brother Wilbur flew for 59
seconds and traveled an amaz
ing 852 feet —about the leng
th of a Griffin city block.
Local Weather
local WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 90, low today
-68, high yesterday 88, low yes
terday 67. Sunrise tomorrow
6:42, sunset 8:47. Rainfall yes
terday .15 of an inch.
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Daily Since 1872
She’s young Again
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (UPD— "Suddenly I’m
young again,” smiled 58-year
old Mrs. Joanna du Plessis.
Mrs. Du Plessis, who discov
ered she was pregnant only
three hours before giving birth
to a five-pound girl Wednesday,
said today she had to borrow
dolls’ clothes from one of her 10
grandchildren to dress the
unexpected baby.
Mrs. Du Plessis became the
oldest woman on record to give
birth to a child. Doctors have
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Rotary Contribution
The Griffin Rotary Club has made a donation to the Griffin Rvc <
ment to help purchase and install lights on cne of two softball f- ;
Community Park on West Quilly street. Acting Recreation Depar
Larry Neill (1) accepted the money from Everett Beal (c) and !
the Rotary Club. Two softball fields will bo constructed at the park.
: Atlanta Crime
1
Concerns Maddox
By TOM GREENE
' ATLANTA (UPD — Gov. Les
-1 ter Maddox today threatened to
’ move nearly 200 state police
' into metropolitan Atlanta unless
■Camp Pirkle
ft
35th Session
a
' Opens Tomorrow
s
3 The 35th annual camp meeting
B at Pirkle Memorial Camp Gr
■j ound here will open tomorrow
and continue through next week.
Speakers will be the Rev. Jake
B Norris of Gainesville and the
Rev. Louis James of Carrollton.
, The Rev. James F. Tompkins of
. Talladega, Ala., will be the
t choir director.
. Services will be held daily at
10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.
r m.
f Forest Bateman is Camp
9 Ground chairman.
Ruth Rise maim - Srliier
; Interviews Turned Ihmia
I-
v ATLANTA (UPD — The State
Board of Corrections has de
layed action on two requests for
interviews with Ruth Elsemann-
Schler, now serving a seven
year sentence for helping in the
■ 1968 kidnap of Florida heiress
Barbara Jane Mackie.
One came from the Stern pub
. llshlng organization, a Europe
. an firm which presented its re
, quest through one of Miss Eise
, mann-Schler’s attorneys, Leroy
, C. Hobbs.
Hobbs and his colleague,
Thomas Elliott, formally re-
been treating her for eight
months for stomach pains.
One specialist recommended
radium treatment for suspected
stomach cancer. But she
refused, probably saving the
baby’s life.
"I had pains again yester
day after my husband left for
work. Eventually I decided I
must be having a baby and
called the doctor,” she said.
Mrs. Du Plessis has eight
other children, three of them
adopted. The oldest is 39.
local officials do something to
curb crime.
“Right here in Atlanta, we’re
threatened with the ruin of one
of the truly great cities of the
world,” the outspoken governor
told members of a Fraternal
Order of Police seminar.
“Prostitution, dope and drugs,
gambling, numbers rackets and
unlawful handling of both tax
paid and nontaxpaid whisky
have gained such a stronghold
that in my Judgment, city and
county officials, law enforce
ment officers and the courts
cannot or will not stop its
growth or turn it back,” Mad
dox said.
Cleanup Threat
"Unless real war Is opened on
crime In metropolitan Atlanta
(estimated population 1.3 mil
lion) soon, then I'm going to or
der some 80 Georgia Bureau of
Investigation men and 100 (out
of uniform) highway patrolmen
into Atlanta for some three to
six weeks.
• quested the board to apnrove
■ the interview which would be
• published in Europe only. The
■ revenue would go toward pay-
• ing the legal fees owed the at
i torneys by Miss Eisemann
; Schier.
The board voted to have the
attorneys appear before them to
discuss the interview in more
detail.
The board also tabled a re
quest for an interview by an
Atlanta Journal reporter, who
said the Interview would deal
mostly with Miss Eisemann-
Griffin, Ga.
Apt Course
For On Moon
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MOSCOW (UPD
Inna 15 "moon
Inp went into o: I
moon today, b
sources .-aid th<
not attempt an o.
landing in Ru
t(-cover moon soil
Apollo a stronuut
Sir Bernard I.os ;;
of Britain’-. Jo(tr(-ll
Observatory, • t
orbit was two bolt
assess that the H'i .:
cheekin'.; the
niqnes prior to
landing."
Russian soen
said the i>.»< >< i ■
the m
before Luna 15
landing to try to coot' -o'-
moon soli and hr
earth.
■ Schler’s backgro ■
i involve no paymc
•'She’s down th- "
ought to be for
than she ought to b
■ we made too much n;
folks,” said b ;
Jack Rutledge
She and Gary
were convicted o‘
20-year-old 1 > ' ’
coed from a rn
keeping her bo
• they received ; 1 -
from her wealthy ! '
is serving a life ■' '
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Roundup time on the freewak. Policemen had cowboy
when a dozen head of cattle spilled from an overturned truck
< 'i to the freeway. The truck was moving more than 100
ongview to Fort Worth area.
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afternoon with
’:=<i Aldrin sche
on its surface
? end Ay.
. .c-ttiar launch
uiedy Wednesday
oon-landing trip, the
had a quiet day
.ugh space at
■ as 3,600 miles
t Transmission
a t rocket firing
~ to make sure
correct, and a
n at 7:32
-.. r. 1.000 miles
.loonscraper”,
: d.-d the moon
.rbit around it
scientific sour
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i for about. 24
try to land, ,
moon soil and
■-y long on the
r craft could ,
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- Armstrong. .
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July 24. ,
news agency 1
first official
the orbiting .
ift, called it (
n- ■ artificial .
.-. I not elaborate
-.lientor Bruce
the Houston
.<i the astro-
► progress
nomine “news
reported to
, u th. worldwide
own flight.
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• 114,204 miles
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t .bat active.”
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Heart Transplants
Doctors Seek
Better Matches
By CRAIG A. PALMER
WASHINGTON (UPD —The
number of heart transplants
has declined in recent months,
because surgeons are trying to
find better matches between
donors and recipients, the
director of the National Heart
Institute (NHD said today.
This reduces the pool of
potential donors, Dr. Theodore
Cooper said in an interview.
Cooper said n good match
requires taking samples from
donor and recipient and match
ing them against known anti
gens.
Antigens, usually proteins,
f.imulate the production of
antibodies introduced into the
body. The antigens is recog
nized by the body’s defense
mechanism as foreign.
Evidence Reduces Pool
"The scientific evidence on
immunological aspects has re
duced pool of potential donors
because of what has been
learned about matching,” Coo
per said.
“You match because the body
rejects foreign tissues. You try
to provide a tissue graft as
close as possible to the
patients’s. ’’
Information Officer William
Ih»«4 Aliark* Ilan
On Downtown Ntreel
A pet German Shepherd dog
that bit a Griffin buinessm a n
downtown yesterday morning
was under observation at the
city dog pound today.
Lester Kitchens, pound master,
;a;d the dog didn't appear vic
ious today. He said the dog pre
viously had been tagged and in
oculated but would be kept se
ven days to make sure it did not
have rabies.
Paul Sifen was bitten on the
front right hip and leg on South
Hill street. When the attack oc
curred, a man and woman sit
ting in an automobile on South
Hill near Solomon street called
to Mr. Sifen to get into their car.
He did to flee from the attack
ing dog.
A jewelry store owner called
police.
An unidentified man who liv
es near the animal’s owner came
from an optometrist’s office and
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Inside Tip
Smiles
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E. Sanders said NHI records
- show only one transplant
; performed this month, a
, transplant in Berlin July 10.
i The recipient died within
i several hours, he said.
Two tnaijsplants wer per
formed in June and three In
Mav, and all recipients are
surviving. In April, however,
eleven transplants were per
formed, with three patients still
surviving; in March, four, with
one survivor; in February, six,
, with one survivor, and in
January eight, with no survi
vors.
Not Exact Match
“You are never going to get
an exact match, but you can’t
match a donor to a recipient
closely enough so that the heart
is not going to be assaulted as
heavily as if you did not take
this precaution.”
Sanders said one Canadian
surgeon has called a morator
ium on transplants because of
the number of patients he has
lost.
Heart transplant surgery
dates from Dec. 3, 1967 when
Dr. Christiaan Barnard per
formed the historic operation at
Groot Schuur Hospital in
L Capetown, South Africa.
; calmed the dog. He put it in the
i dog pound truck. The dog appar
; ently had followed him to town.
: A crowd of about 40 or m or e
people quickly gathered, Mr. Kit
, chens said. He said the crowd
■ eseemed to excite the dog and
• asked people to stay away from
- the truck.
Mr. Slfen said he had gone for
t a cup of coffee and noticed the
dog lying in front of the optome
j trist office. When Mr. Sifen was
i returning to his store on South
. Hill, he said the dog attacked.
- He got a tetanus shot and had
1 the dog bites treated by a local
1 physician.
Police reports listed the dog’s
• owner as Charles Barr of West
Poplar. Mr. Kitchens said the
I owner had been to the pound to
check on the animal.
Mr. Kitchens said the dog had
j no complaints of viciousness ag
i ainst it before now.
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