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By Quimby Melton
President Nixon, the throe
astronauts, and Senator Edward
Kennedy held the spotlight of the
news during last Week.
President Nixon after having
welcomed the moon - walkers
home, began his rOund-the-world
tour that took him to many
countries, including a visit to
Vietnam, and a visit to Roman
ia, an old-line Communist nation,
where he was given a great
welcome; On his way -home he
stopped over in England and
and while the plane was being
serviced met with England’s Pr
ime Minister Wilson, at the Lon
don airport.
The President arrived back
home in Washington Sunday ni
ght. Mrs. Nixon accompanied
him on his globe circling trip
and reports are that she “add
ed much” to the good will that
was created.
The President’s trip to Roma
nia was cheered by both Roman
ian and Yugoslavian newspapers,
but Moscow and East Germany
papers were caustic.
President Nixon, arriving In
Washington from the 8 - nation
trip said, “deep differences
divide the world, but as we saw
very dramatically In Bucchar
est (Romania) those things whi
ch unite men and women In the
world are much stronger than
those that divide us.” He ex
pressed the hope “this trip may
have served the purpose of br
inging people closer together.”
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The three astronauts, still in
quarantine, continue very much
in the news as they will for a
long time. The world Is just be
ginning to realize how great was
their accomplishment. Mean
while, Mariner 6, followed by
Mariner 7, sent back pictures
from within 2,000 miles of the
planet Mars, and scientists
studied carefully rocks and soil
brought back from the moon
by Apollo 11.
Senator Edwin Kennedy retur
ned to his seat in the U. S. Se
nate announcing he would run
for a second slx-year term next
year and removed himself as a
possible candidate for President
In 1972.
However, the Kennedy affali
has not been completely clos
ed. Efforts continue to bring ab
out further investigation. The
latest would have the body of
the young lady, companion o1
the Senator, who died when
the car plunged off a bridge Into
a tidal pool, exhumed and a post
mortem performed to determine
If she drowned or not.
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The federal government nam
ed the State of Georgia and the
Georgia Board of Education de
fendants In a suit In a U. S.
court seeking elimination of dual
schools and desegregation of all
schools In the public school sys
tem. No such a suit has ever
been filed in connection with the
integration of schools ordered
by the U. S. Supreme Court
in 1954.
The Board of Education says
it has no power to force the lo
cal school boards to comply.; Go
vernor Maddox is planning a na
tion-wide series of petitions that
he says will result in the laws
being changed so that the free
dom of choice can be restored.
One immediate reaction has
been the closing of an all-black
high school In College Park by
the Fulton County Board of Ed
ucition.
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Locally the voters showed lit
tle Interest in whether or not a
Small Claims Court should be
established. Less than ten per
cent of the registered voters
cast ballots. The new court was
approved 795 to 447.
The VFW honored the Gold
Star Parents at a special ser
vice and the American Legion
laid plans for the state Legion
baseball championship playoff
this week.
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“Folks seldom seek advice
unless they are in
trouble—we're not as keen to
keep out of trouble as to get
out.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
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Wrecks In Area
Kill 2; Boy Dies
Two people were killed in
weekend traffic accidents in
Griffarea, according to the
Georgia State Patrol.
In addition, a six-year-old Grif
fin boy who was struck by a car
on East Solomon street Wednes
day afternoon died Saturday in
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital. .
Seven people were injured in a
single car accident last night on
North Expressway and Lyndon
avenue.
Herbert Daniel Waldrip, 40; of
2363 Spring court, Decatur, was
killed Sunday iti an accident 5.6
miles east of Jackson on Geor
gia 36. He was driver of one of
two cars involved.
Waldrip was dead on arrival
at the Sylvan Grove Hospital in
Jackson. He suffered a crushed
skull.
Betty Louise Ball Coleman, 27,
of Jackson suffered multiple la
cerations and internal injuries.
She was treated at the Sylvan
Grove Hospital also. She was
listed as driver of the other car
involved.
Damage was estimated at
$4,000.
A state patrol report said the
cars collided in a side-swip
ing fashion on the center line
on a curve.
Billy Steely, 43, of 7179 Lady
Heidi court, Jonesboro, was kill
ed in a single car wreck 8.2 mil
es north of McDonough on Geor
gia 351 in Henry County late Sat
urday morning.
He suffered multiple Injuries
over his body. He was dead cfn
arrival at South Fulton Hospital
in East Point.
A state patrol report said the
car driven by Steely ran out of
control on the right side of the
road in a curve, plowed through
a wooden fence, and struck a
pine tree.
Damage was estimated at SBOO.
Andrew Barkley, six, of 407
East Quilley street, died Satur
day at the Griffin-Spalding Co
unty Hospital of injuries suffer
ed when struck by a car in the
800 block of East Solomon street
Wednesday afternoon.
He suffered massive head in
juries when struck by a car
driven by Vera Martin of Ho
gansville. He ran into the path
of the car, police said.
Barkley was the second fata
lity of the year in the city. A girl
was killed in an accident on Nor
th Sixth street earlier.
The two fatalities recorded by
the State Patrol raised their toll
for the year to 36 compared with
34 for the same period last year
in the five county area.
Seven people were Injured in
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the two-car collision at North
Expressway and Lyndon avenue
at 9 o’clock last night. Two were
admitted to the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital where their conditions
were listed as fair today.
James W. Crampton of 513
Moultrie street, Albany, suffer
ed head injuries. He was listed
as driver of one car.
Arthur Cannedy, 23, of Keesler
Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss.,
suffered Injuries to his head,
right side and right hip. He was
a passenger in Crampton’s car.
Both were admitted to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Henry Lee Andrews, 17, of
Route Three, Jackson, driver of
the other car, suffered head in
juries.
Passengers in Andrews’ car
who suffered injuries were:
James A. Gardner, 17, of Rou
te Three, Jackson, injuries to
his stomach and right side; John
ny Berry, 15, of Route Three,
Jackson, head injuries; Eugene
Andrews, 15, of Route Three,
Jackson, cuts to his head; and
James Berry, 17, of Route Three,
Jackson, head injuries.
Nixon Back Home
Says Apollo Mission
To Help Bring Peace
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Nixon, his path around
the world lighted by America’s
historic moon landing, says the
success of Apollo 11 will bridge
geographic and political differ
ences to help bring peace to the
world.
There was little doubt, from
the morning he left the deck of
the USS Hornet and the three
intrepid Apollo 11 astronauts,
until the moment he arrived
back home Sunday night, that
the drama of man’s first visit
to the moon would leave the
way for a successful 26,655-mile
trip.
“. . . The spirit of Apollo
transcends geographical bar
riers and political differences,”
Nixon told a rain-drenched
crowd at Andrews Air Force
Base at the close of his trip
which took him to eight nations.
"It can help bring the people of
the world together in peace.”
Calls Leaders For Briefing
Nixon called the leaders of
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, August 4, 1969
Artists’ gripe
ROVANIEMI, Finland (UPI)-
Angry artists are planning to sue
the police chief of this polar
town for damaging a piece of
“sculpture” they ’had erected.
The police chief ripped off
allegedly pornographic pictures
from Swedish magazines that had
been attached to the sculpture,
made of a shovel, an axe, leather
mittens and brushes stuck in
the sand.
The pictures were part of the
sculpture, claimed the artists.
‘lmmoral,” claimed the po
lice chief.
They were treated at the Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital.
Damage was estimated as $1,200.
A bus driver was injured in an
accident north of Ellis road on
North Expressway.
Joe N. Hobbs, 36, of 122 South
Love street, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
suffered head and shoulder in
juries. He was driving a Grey
hound bus.
A pick-up truck involved in the
wreck was driven by Robert
Stanley, 58, of 34 Blossom street,
Palmetto, Ga.
A police report said the truck
driven by Stanley was going
north in the southbound lane of
the four-lane highway. Damage
was estimated at SSOO.
Loral Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 64, high Sunday 74,
low Sunday 69, rainfall Sunday
.97 of an inch; sunrise tomorrow
6:53, sunset tomorrow 8:35.
both parties in Congress to the
White House today to brief
them on his trip. Among those
invited was Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., who along
with other leaders of both
parties was at Andrews to meet
Nixon Sunday night.
The President was sure to
concentrate for the next few
days on domestic affairs now
that his trip is over. Congress
was scheduled to vote later
today on a compromise mea
sure extending the 10 per cent
income tax surcharge until Dec.
31 and the Senate planned to
vote Wednesday after a month
of floor debate on Nixon’s
Saleguard antiballistlc missile
proposal. The Chief Executive
was also certain to work on an
address he Is scheduled to
make Thursday to outline new
welfare legislation.
Nixon described his journey
as a "trip in quest of peace.”
And during the course of his
visits to eight nations, he found
a great prospect for accommo
dation with the Soviet bloc and
Heart Care Unit
Ready In Month
Fulton Ordered
To Eliminate
Dual Schools
ATLANTA (UPI) — Fulton
County, of which Atlanta is the
county seat, was ordered today
to “totally disestablish” the
dual school system within two
years.
The order was nanded down
by U. S. District Judge Albert
J. Henderson Jr., who noted at
the same time that the Fulton
school system had made signifi
cant steps toward complete de
segregation.
Henderson’s ruling came in a
suit brought by a group of Ne
groes. He said, however, that he
had determined that per-student
spending at all-black schools
generally was higher than at
white schools.
The complaint cited alleged
differences in expenditures be
tween predominantly black and
white schools on buildings and
school lunches, books, sanitary
facilities. Henderson said this
was “not supported” by evi
dence.
Additionally, he said he found
teacher pay was greater in the
all-black schools.
The court tentatively ap
proved the county’s plan for
continued operation of nine all
black schools for the 1969 -70
school year.
gained a new appreciation how
deeply Asian countries fear
Ccrnmunist China.
Whatever the solid accom
plishments of the journey may
turn out to be, there was little
doubt Nixon’s visit behind the
Iron Curtain, to Romania, was
a personal triumph. Sunday an
estimated one million persons
poured onto the sidewalks and
streets in Bucharest to glimpse
the President whose nation had
sent a man to the moon.
Nixon responded with an
almost euphoric warmth, wad
ing into the crowd three times.
Tne Romanians wore little “A
--11” pins commemorating the
moon feat and children held up
pictures of the moon astro
nauts.
The Bucharest reception was
the first real warmth Nixon
received from crowds in the
street. Spirits in some of the
Asian nations he visited pre
viously may have been dam
pened somewhat by the mon
soon season which prevailed
over much of his route.
Four Bed Center
Being Installed
Maddox Calls
For Conference
On School Suit
ATLANTA (UPI) —Gov. Les
ter Maddox, who has vowed to
fight the federal government’s
school edict, to
day incited congressmen and
school officials of 10 Southern
states to join him AUg. 6 to
discuss the problem.
Maddox said the only answer
is “federal aid without federal
control of public education.” He
said federal control of schools
leads only to chaos, and listed
Washington, D.C., as an exam
ple.
The Justice Department Fri
day filed suit against Georgia
in an attempt to force the state
to come up with an acceptable
desegregation plan. Maddox said
he would use every legal means
to fight.
Atlanta Meeting
The governor sent a letter to
officials of Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North and South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas and Virginia,
urging them to meet with him
in Atlanta to talk over the sit
uation.
He gave the topic as: “Fed
eral aid without federal control
and restoration and preservation
of local control of education.”
Maddox asked U.S. senators
and representatives, stat e
school superintendents, state
school board members and
board chairmen of the Individ
ual school systems of the 10
states to attend.
Time for Action
In his letter, he said the time
had come for “positive and bold
action by elected public officials
and educators if we are to fully
meet our responsibilities to our
people and prevent happening
to our children, their education,
their teachers, their schools and
their communities what has al
ready occurred in the school
system in our nation’s capital
and in other systems where
local educators and elected of
ficials have volunteered to ac
cept, or have been forced to ac
cept, federal control of public
education.”
Maddox said that in most
cases where federal participa
tion and direction increased in
public education, the situation
resulted in a lowering of the ed
ucational level and an increase
in crime, violence and attacks
on students and teachers.
“The fate of our Children,
their education and the fate of
their teachers and their commu
nities can be no different if we
fail to unite as the leaders we
profess to be and thus turn
back the threat,” Maddox said.
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airport - * ,u K e new facility
will sen hc 26 states and will be
e< ii cal, ‘d Aug. 6. Penney presi-'
I.. Wright and Georgia
' Lester Maddox will be
among those participating in
dedication ceremonies.
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The Harry C. King Memorial
Coronary Care Unit at the Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital will
be ready for patients before the
first of September, hospital ad
ministrator Carl A. Ridley said
today.
“Progress on the unit is mov
ing along at a good pace and we
hope to be accepting patients in
it in the next three weeks,” Rid
ley said.
Instruments for the unit are
being installed this week. Sheet
rock has been installed on t h e
walls and the coating for them
is being put on.
Carpets for the floors will be
one of the last things to be in
stalled. The special carpet will
not generate sparks. Ridley said
that the special carpet was ne
cessary because of the use of
oxygen in the unit.
Monitoring equipment is be
ing Installed. The console for
nurses to monitor heart actions
of patients will be installed.
“We are doing most of the
work with out own people and
they are doing a real good Job,”
Ridley said. He said that some
times it was necessary for them
to pull away from the unit to do
other work.
When completed the unit will
have four beds for extreme co
ronary patients. They will be
monitored 24 hours each day
and will be in view of a nurse at
the nurse station within the unit.
Ridley said that the unit will
be one of the finest in the South.
It will be op the first floor of
the hospital near the emergen
cy rooms. It was named in me
mory of the late Dr. Harry C.
King.
Ridley said most of the equip
ment for the unit has arrived
and is being installed. It will
take a couple more weeks to
have it installed.
The final week of preparation
will be for installing Carpeting,
setting up the foul* beds and che
cking out the equipment.
Most likely
car killer
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
The motorist most likely to be
involved in a fatal accident is one
under 25 years old driving on a
Saturday or Sunday in clear
weather during the hours of
darkness.
This profile of a traffic fa
tality was drawn by the National
Automobile Club from accident
statistics for 1968.
More than 55,000 persons
were killed on U.S. highways
last year. One-third of the fatal
accidents involved a driver under
25, 40 per cent of the deaths
occurred on weekends, 80 per
cent on dry roads in clear
weather and 55 per cent at night.
New Menace
For Mailman
ST. LOUIS (UPI)
Mailman Harry Beck was de
livering the mail in suburban
Kirkwood when a rooster attac
ked and spurred him.
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Life On Mars.
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Moon Men Food.
Doctor.
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Humphrey.
North Vietnam
Announces
Release Os 3
MOSCOW (UPl)—North Viet
nam announced today it had
released three American priso
ners of war—two U.S. Navy
fliers and a sailor, the Soviet
news agency Tass reported
from Hanoi.
The same announcement was
broadcast by Radio Hanoi
which said they were turned
over to a committee of seven
American pacifists who Kid
gone to Hanoi to pick up the
men.
Tass reported the Americans
as U.S. Navy Lts, Robert
Frishman, 29, and Wesley
Rumble, 26, both fliers, and
Douglas Hagdul, 23, an enlisted
man from the cruiser U.S.S.
Canberra.
Tass said the American
servicemen thanked the main
political department of the
North Vietnam Armv, the
Hanoi government and the
Vietnamese people for setting
them free and for their
“humanitarian treatment of
prisoners at the prisoner of war
camp.”
In Vientiane, Laos, an Inter
national Control Commission
(ICC) plane was a Waiting
clearance from Hanoi sot an
expected Tuesday flight to pick
up the three prisoners. Hanoi
said the men were being turned
over by “The Vietnam Commit
tee for Solidarity with the
American People.”
Jack Perdue
Is Candidate
ATLANTA (UPl)—Jack Per
due, former chief deputy state
insurance commissioner, an
nounced today he is a candidate
for comptroller general in next
year’s election.
Perdue said he was jumping
into the Democratic primary
race a year in advance because
“I have not had any political
exposure prior to this time and
if I am to wage a winning cam
paign, I must start now.”
The race is expected to at
tract a crowded field. Incum
bent James L. Bentley is not
expected to seek re-election, but
is a probable candidate for the
Republican nomination for gov
ernor.
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