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By Quimby Melton
' For the third consecutive
year Griffin will be host to the
Georgia American Legion Base
ball State Champion tournament.
Play will begin Wednesday and
run through Saturday. There
will be six teams playing; five
are area champions, and Gris-
. fin the host team.
Organized baseball for boys
was first sponsored by the Am
erican Legion in 1928. This was
■ before other youth baseball or
ganizations were even dreamed
of. The first year of Legion base
ball Griffin entered a team in
the state tournament held in
Macon. Good Evening remem
bers that tourney well, for he at
tended, almost got into a f e w
fights, since the smoothly oper-
• ating program of today had not
been attained at that time. Inter
est was keen, fcames were close,
and men, now 40 yearj older
* than then, were inclined to be a
little “aggressive."
The tournament will be offic
ally opened Wednesday with
, dinner at the Recreation Center
at Municipal Park. The Rev. '
Jimmy Waters, of Macon, will
be the keynote speaker.
The games will be played on
1 the Babe Ruth Field and will
call for double elimination.
The host to the state tourna
ment is Barnett-Harris Post 15,
* Jim Heddermann, commander.
All Griffin will welcome the
young ball players and their
fans. There’ll be plenty of good
' baseball here this week.
Speaking of the American Le
gion. This year, the 50th anni
versary of its birth, the nation
al convention will be held in At
lanta. This will bring hundreds
of thousands of visitors to o u r
Capitol. City. Among the many
from all parts of the nation.will
be drum and bugle corps, drill
teams and bands, that will
compete for national honors and
■ will march in the big parade.
And, take it from this old Le
gionnaire who has attended half
a dozen national conventions and
. hopes to attend the one in At
lanta for at least one day, the
Legion parades are larger, more
spectacular and more interest-
. ing than any other parades held.
Among the hundreds of drum
and bugle corps that will attend
the convention and compete for
the championship will be one in
I which Griffin will have more
than a passing interest. And this
organization is from far off Cali
fornia.
• Then why will Griffin have an
interest in. this drum and' bugle
corps? For the simple reason
that Griffin has played a part in
> making it possible for them to
come to Atlanta.
Two weeks ago Good Evening
got a letter from Garden Gr
.■ , ove, California. It told how the
Kingsman High School Drum
and Bugle Corp, wants to come
to Atlanta but could not find
, housing. It happened that the
man who wrote this letter was
• 9 talking about the problem when
a former Griffin woman now
living there, and a present Grif
fin women visiting her, told
iS' him to write Griffin and we
would help.
S The Band Booster Club had
g| ' raised $30,000 to pay for the trip.
H There are 120 boys and girls,
J between the ages of 15 and 20.
What was needed was a gym
-9 ■ nasium or large hall with bath
K and toilet facilities. The young
g -musicians w’ere bringing their
9 sleeping bags and could “camp
». . out” in the gymnasium or hall.
j 9 Atlanta was unable to furnish
j W the needed housing. So they ap-
E pealed to Griffin.
H Getting the letter called Gene
I B * Cook, president of the Cham
!■ ber of Commerce. He called
I | • Gerry Powell, secretary-man-
9 ager, and a search for suitable’
jffi housing began. The high school
11 gym was not available — it
| would be in use for football
19 practice. The Recreation Cen-
ts < ter was booked up. But it was
;■ found that Camp Calvin, near
>■ Talmadge’s Farm, could be
I1 used. ‘Arrangements were made
II . and the boys and girls from Cal
|| ifornia will be there and Griffin
■ will be rooting for them to walk
K off with raVoral honors.
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Expo Writes
Success Story
In Red Ink
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Staff Correspondent
MONTREAL—( N E A )-
Expo ’67 applied a little dif
ferent grease paint and came
strutting out in 1968 and 1969
as Man and His World.
Never before has a world’s
fair had an encore. And it
may never happen again.
Expo lost $250 million. The
next year, Man and His
World dropped $5 million,
which was pretty good com
pared to the year before but
nothing really to write home
about. This year the-fair
will probably Josd even less
(the deficit was-$2 million at
the end of July with just over
a month to go). Yet the
fair may close after this
year because, even as for
the likes of J. Paul Getty,
there’s‘a bottom to its welL
It must be emphasized,
however, that the loss of
such sums was not startling
to fair officials.. In fact, esti
mates had Expo losing at
least $l3B million before the
fair opened.
Whfere Canada, the prov
.ince of Quebec and the city
of Montreal stood to gain
financially — and did — was
in other areas; 51 million
people visited Expo and
many of them were tourists
who spent money in shops
and hotels, restaurants pnd
shoe shine parlors. And it
brought an employment
boom—Canadians worked at
Expo from construction to
selling Minirail tickets.
It was believed that Expo
was worth $1 billion to
Canada, Quebec and Mon
treal. Though losses have
been iess with Man and His
World—very little construe*
• tion of p a v i 1 i o n s, for ex
ample—so have ancillary
profits.
This year, season tickets
(called “visas”) are
cheaper, parking is free,
children under six are ad
mitted without charge and
tickets to such rides as the
Gyrotron, the Antique Car
rousel and the always
modern Ferris wheel in La
Ronde, the amusement
center of the fair, have been
lowered. Expo ran for six
months; Man and His world
has been reduced to three.
And still it is not drawing
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Daily Since 1872
Student, 14, Saves Boy From Motel Pool
By JAMES STEWART
A 14-year-old Gordon Military
High School student saved the
life of an employe of the Holiday
Inn last night \'iv-n the employe*
dived into the motel swimming
pool.
Mike Alexander, son of night
auditor Clifford Alexander of
Barnesville, jumped into the
pool shortly after 10 o'clock and
pushed the body of Zack Hutch
erson to the surface.
Alexander seid Hutcherson
told him he was going swimming
in the pool. Alexander warned
as well as last year, when
12.5 million persons showed
up to try sukiyaki at the Jap
anese pavilion, listen to the
steel drums at the Trinidad
tent and inspect replicas of
Martians and UFOs in the
cave-like, eerie 'Strange,
Strange World parvilion. By
the end of July, less than
three million persons had
come to savor the delights
of Man and His World.
The decision to retain Man
and His World rests with the
Executive Committee of
Montreal, a seven-man
policy-making group. The
chairman is Lucien Saulnier,
who is considered by towns
folk as a combination Bern
ard’Baruch and mother hen.
Mayor Jean Drapeau, said
one resident, “thinks up
ideas and scheme s—like
Expo and like getting a
major league team, the
Expos, in Montreal, and
Saulnier goes back to his
office, figures up the reali
ties with a pencil, and re
turns with a decision.”
It was Drapeau who
dramatically said Expo
would continue or he would
resign. The fair was, like all
other world’s fairs, supposed
to close shop after its
scheduled run, until Drapeau
issued his ultimatum.
“We cannot say yet
whether Man and His World
will close after this year,”
said Saulnier. “We won’t
know until sometime after
tabor Day, when the fair is
.closed for the year, and we
measure its success or
failure.
“Sure, the fair itself con
tinues to lose money. But
all the leading hotels are
booked solid. And business
in Montreal remains lively.
Much of that is due to Man
and His World.
“It has done so much for
the community. And it has
been the most successful
enterprise of its kind in the
world. You know, Disney
land only draws about eight
million a year, and it is open
12 months. And Hemisphere
’6B in San Antonio drew only
six million in six months.
Man and His World has
topped every other fair in
history, including Brussels,
New York, Seattle—every
thing but Expo.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 5, 1969
him not to go in, since the pool
closes at 10 p.m.
Hutcherson came out of t h e
kitchen at the motel and strip
ped off his shirt and shoes and
dived off the diving board. He
had told Alexander that he
could not swim.
Alexander watched Hutcher
son under water for sometime.
He noticed that Hutcherson did
not surface and began floating
toward the deep end of the pool.
Without pulling off his cloth
ing, Alexander dived into the
water and made an effort to re-
Hippies 1 hrow
Bricks In Raid
ATLANTA (UPI) — Between
100 and 150 hippies, many
screaming "The revolution is
about to start,” hurled bricks
and bottles at policemen and
state agents during a narcotics
The Country Parson
“Time changes—what only
a few years ago was your fu
ture now is your past.”
Copyright 1969 by Frank A Clark
GRIFFIN
trieve Hutcherson’s body. H i s
first effort was unsuccessful.
Alexander surfaced for air and
dived again. This time he man
euvered under Hutchercon’s
body and pushed him to the sur
face.
Frank Miller of Detroit, Mich.,
a guest, helped pull Hutcherson
out of the pool.
Alexander’s father also h a d
come to the poolside and saw
the heroic efforts of his son. Mr.
Alexander pulled Hutcherson’s
tongue from his throat.
Miller gave Hutcherson artifi-
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cal respiration and his breath
ing resumed. Hutcherson
was not breathing when his body
was pushed to the surface by
young Alexander.
Miller and Mr. Alexander
continued artificial respiration
until an ambulance arrived with
oxygen. Hutcherson was taken
to thfc Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital where doctors said he
was out of danger.
Young Alexander weighs bet
ween 110 and 125 pounds and
Hutcherson weighs between 175
and 200 pounds.
raid Monday night.
About a half-dozen officers
! were struck, but none was in
j jured seriously.
Police arrested 33 persons on
’ charges ranging from violation
of state and federal narcotics
laws to Inciting to riot.
Maj. Barney Ragsdale, head
.of the Georgia Bureau of Inves
tigation; said 33,000 pills were
confiscated in two houses in the
hippie district. The pills gener
ally were codein, marijuana
and hashish, he said.
The. raids grew out of two
months of investigation by un
dercover agents into narcotics
and dangerous drugs traffic in
the area, officers said.
As agents began raiding the
two houses, located on either
side of the headquarters of the
underground newspaper, “The
Great Speckled Bird,” a crowd
began to gather.
“No more pigs. . . .. the po
lice,” the bystanders yelled.
“You’d better watch out. The
revolution is about to start,”
others screamed.
The jeering bystanders began
throwing rocks and bottles at
officers as the arrested persons
were loaded into patrol wagons.
A brick struck detective P. L.
Spicer on the hand. Patrolman
D. W. Hight was hit on the
head. Another missile struck
■ GBI agent J. F. Davis. Several
other officers reported being hit
by beer bottles and soft drink
bottles, but no one was badly
hurt.
Police reinforcements sped to
the scene and dispersed the
rowdy crowd.
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Hutcherson had been employ
ed at the motel for three years.
His mother, Bessie, also works
at the motel.
Young Alexander often goes to
the motel with his father on
Monday nights. He was in the
area of the pool last night when
Alexander said he was going for
a swim.
W. P. Rampey, manager of the
motel, said he could not praise
Alexander enough. “Hutcherson
would have been dead today, if
young Mike had not jumped in
to the water and pushed hi s
Griffin’s Hill Says
Enforce Tax Laws
On ‘lntangibles’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Al S. Hill,
chairman of the Georgia Asso
ciation of Assessing Officials
legislative committee, told the
Legislative Tax Revision Study
Committee Monday that the
state’s intangible tax laws
should be more strictly enforced
and the rates increased.
He also called for higher tax
rates for small loan companies.
Under Georgia’s current in
tangible tax law—which includes
savings accounts and bank de
posits — "the honest taxpayer
pays and those who wish to
evade this type of tax •do
so with little or no interfer
ence” because the state revenue
department does not have ade
quate power to enforce it, Hill
said.
He said he had information
indicating that during one re
recent year intangible taxes
, were paid to the state on bank
deposits totaling a little more
than $1 billion, while more than
$5 billion was actually on de
posit at the first of the year.
Small loan companies, Hill
said, pay taxes only on their
furniture and, fixtures and any
real estate they may own. But
most of them, he added, while
“doing millions of dollars of
business” actually own. little
real property and "pay only a
few dollars in property tax.”
Hill also urged the removal of
household furnishings and per
sonal effects frjrn state prop
erty taxation.
The GAAO has advocated ex
emption of household furnishings
for many years, he said, be
cause ‘‘it is almost impossible
to.value this type of property
with any degree of equity.”
The tax revision committee is
studying Georgia’s state and
local tax structure in an at
tempt to make revision recom
mendations for the 1970 General
Assembly.
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body to the surface,” he said.
Rampey said he told Mike of
the dangers of diving for a body
in the water. “Mike said he did
not think of them at the time,"
he said. •
Mr. Alexander had a scratch
on his finger where Hutcherson’s
teeth cut it when he was trying
to pull the victim’s tongue from
his throat.
Millei and several other guests
were sitting around the pool
when Hutcherson dived from the
diving board. They watched as
young Alexander saved Hutch
erson’s life.
16 Aboard Plane
Missing In Storm
By MARTIN P. HOUSEMAN
SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI)—A
world War 11-vintage U.S. Navy
transport plane carrying 15
Americans and a Filipino
disappeared in a storm over the
four-mile-high Andes Mountains
and was preseumed to have
crashed, Chilean authorities
said today.
The twin-engine propeller-’
driven C 47, military version of
the DC3, was on a nonstop 700-
mile flight from Santiago to
Buenos Aires Monday night
when it vanished after failing to
make a scheduled radio check
about 100 miles south of the
Chilean capital. •
A squadron of military and
civilian aircraft from the
United States, Argentina and
Chile prepared to begin search
at daybreak for the missing
U.S. naval mission plane, based
at Valparaiso, Chile.
The C 47 carried two four-man
flight crews—one was an extra
to ferry back another plane
from Buenos Aires—two other
Navy men, and six women
dependents, including the Filipi
no.
Cmdr. Ralph J. Touch, pilot
of the missing C 47, last radioed
15 minutes after takeoff he was
at 12,000 feet,, flying on
instruments in a rainstorm and
climbing to 17,000 feet, the
altitude at which he planned to
take the Mala rg u e Pass
through the Andes.
It Was snowing in the Andes,
whose peaks so'ar to more than
20,000 feet, and in the pass,
known as an airplane grave
yard.
Army Brig. Gen. Richard
Allen, head of the U.S. Military
Mission in Buenos Aires, said:
"We don’t know for sure what
happened. The plane is missing
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and we’re trying to track it
down. That’s as far as we can
go.”
Allen said the C 47 was flying
to Buenos Aires to undergo a
routine maintenance checkup at
Ezeiza. Airport, outside the
Argentine capital. He said it
; was not unusual for planes on
such missions to carry nonmili
■' tary personnel, such as depe
: dents.
In Santiago, today’s search
i plan called for a Chilean air
force C 47 to follow the same
route as the missing plane. Two
helicopters were to make low
level sorties along the route
and a training plane with
mounted high-power binoculars
was to fly at intermediate
altitudes.
Bad weather prevailed over
the zone early today.
Girl Scouts
Enter Suit
Against Poster
NEW YORK (UPD—The Giri
Scouts have taken a dim view
of a pop poster advertising the
scouting motto: "Be Pre
pared.”
The color poster shows *
pregnant Girl Scout with the
motto across her chest. It was
printed by Personality Posters
Mfg. Co. Inc. of Manhattan.
The Girl Scouts have filed *
$1 million libel suit for “false
representation —a deliberate
and intentional design to
destroy the association’s pur
pose and program."