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By Quimby Melton
After 38 happy years living at
“Many Mortgages”, 612 East
College street, Good Evening
has moved. He has sold the hou
se he loves and moved into an
apartment. The house, which
was built for Good Evening and
his family and in which no oth
er family has lived until today,
was simply too large for one per
son and it was too hard to find
proper help to keep up the yard
and garden, and the house it
self. We could not stand to see
the home deteriorate and even
tually become dilapidated.
Today there is a new owner,
a young couple, the John Wileys,
who with their three sons will
make good neighbors and will
see that the home and the
grounds are taken care of. Good
Evening wishes for them as
much happiness as he and his
family had while living there.
Good Evening hadn’t moved
since 193*1 when we moved from
a small house on East College
street that was built for us by
Mrs. Lee Manley when we came
to Griffin in 1925. And we had no
idea of what it involved. We did
not dream of how difficult it
, would be to find a place for the
furniture from a nine - room
house, not to mention the books
that filled the shelves in the liv
ing room, nor how much senti
mental stuff, letters, clippings,
manuscripts, old mementoes
could accumulate. But we man
aged, somehow or other, to get
’ moved and are now in the pro
cess of getting settled.
Living in an apartment, even
in one as fine as the Grand
View, is quite different from liv
ing in a large house, located on
a large lot. But even an old tim
er, “sot in his ways” can and
will become acclimated and “live
happily everafter” — we hope,
we hope, we hope.
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Just a word of advice to our
young readers. Early in y 0 u t
lives you probably will move
many times; every time you
make a move don’t "save” a lot
of things you’ll never need, dis
pose of them, or if you don t
there’ll come a day when you’ll
have so much “this and that”
accumulated that moving will
be a puzzling chore.
INSIDE
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
BilV Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Woman’s Page. Page 7.
Hospital. . Page 9.
Stork Club. Page 9.
Funerals. Page 9.
Mars. Page 10.
Prisoners. Page 10.
School Suits. Page 10.
Georgia News. Page 14.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 16.
Consumer Quickies. Page 16.
Food For Americans.
Pages 18, 19.
Family Lawyer. Page 20.
Comics. Page 21.
Want Ads. Page 22.
Showbeat. Page 24.
Personal Finance. P a ge 24.
Local Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 66, high yesterday
84, low yesterday 65; sunrise
tomorrow 6:54, sunset tomorrow
8:34.
Green Beret Leader
Held In Viet Murder
By BERT W. OKULEY
SAIGON — (UPl)—The U.S.
Command said today the
former chief of the U.S. Special
Forces (Green Berets) In
Vietnam and seven of his
subordinates have been arrest
ed on a charge of planning and
carrying out the murder of a
Vietnamese civilian.
A U.S. spokesman said Col.
Robert B. Rheault, 44, of
Vineyard Haven, Mass., com
mander of the Special Forces,
was relieved of his duties July
21. He is a 1946 graduate of
" West Point and holds the
Legion of Merit with two Oak
Leaf Clusters.
The eight men, seven officers
*’ and a senior noncommissioned
officer were Jailed at Long Binh
Army post near Saigon under
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Administration
Cool On 'Reform*
By NORMAN KEMpsTER
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Nixon administration is worried
the tax retorm bill about to be
passed by the House will retard
efforts to control inflation
because it would cost the
Treasury $2 billion more than it
would bring in.
But a high official told UPI
the administration has not yet
decided if it will risk the
political consequences of asking
the Senate to bring the measure
into balance either by increas
ing the revenue or reducing the
proposed tax relief.
The tax bill, when fully
effective, would produce $7
billion in new revenue by
closing some loopholes and
reducing some preferences. But
this would be more than offset
by tax relief to the poor, a
reduced ceiling on high bracket
earned income, a general
reduction in income tax rates
and other cuts. These provi
sions would cost the Treasury
$9 billion.
Likes The Bill
The administration likes the
bill in general—including most
of the tax relief—but it thinks
the battle against inflation
could go either way and a few
billion dollars could be decisive.
This official, one of the
President’s top economic advi
sers, voiced confidence that the
economy will cool noticeably by
fall despite the fact most
current economic indicators
point to further price increases.
He said the stock market
decline has wiped out some of
the purchasing power of inves
tors, retail sales have declined
slightly, unemployment is up a
bit and the "real” rate of
growth of the Gross National
Product has slowed.
If the slowdown does not
materialize, he said, the
administration will attempt
deep new cuts in federal
spending in an effort to
increase the anti-inflationary
federal budget surplus. He .'/id
stronger measures, such as an
additional tax boost, would be
avoided if possible.
Leave Less Money
New budget cuts could leave
less money for the President’s
charges of premeditated mur
der and conspiracy to commit
murder.
It was the largest group of
American officers to face trial
in the Vietnam War.
Does Not Explain
The Army declined to tell
exactly what happened but said
the men were accused of
shooting to death a Vietnamese
man near the central coastal
city of Nha Trang 188 miles
northeast of Saigon June 20.
As commander of the U.S.
sth Special Forces group,
Rheiult was in charge of all
Green Beret troops in Vietnam
until relieved of his command.
Spokesmen said the investiga
tion had been ordered by Maj.
Gen. G. J. Maybry, command
ing general of U.S. Army
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
domestic program, to be
announced in a nationwide
broadcast Friday night.
So far, the administration’s
chief anti-inflation weapons
have been extension of the
income surtax, tight restraint
on the growth of the money
supply and occasional orders to
federal agencies to cut spend
ing.
Congress has approved a slx
months extension of the surtax
at 10 per cent. The official said
he expects the lawmakers to
approve the administration’s
request for an additional six
months extension at 5 per cent
when they return from their
summer recess in early Sep
tember.
PEEKABOO. Behind a sea
of fiberglass yarn, techni
cian at a California plant
checks product flow as it is
pulled together to form tool
handles.
support troops in Vietnam and
that the investigation would
determine whether the men
would be court martialed. They
said it was not known how long
the investigation would take.
At Rheault’s summer home
on the island of Martha’s
Vineyard off Massachusetts,
Mrs. Rheault said, “There’s a
mistake somewhere. My hus
band has had a long and
honorable career in the Army.’’
She said he was serving his
second tour of duty in Vietnam
and had been there since May.
The other time was almost
five years ago, she said.
Others Charged
Also charged along with
Rheault were:
Maj. David E. Crew of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; Maj. Thomas C.
Middleton Jr. of Jefferson,
S.C.; Capt. Leland J. Brumley
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, August 6, 1969
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Scout Founder
In Griffin
Back For Visit
Col. Clayton Earl Wheat (U.S.
Army Retired) of Ormond Bea
ch, Fla., founder of the Boy
Scout program in Griffin, visit
ed Griffin yesterday on his way
to Kentucky. He is 88.
Col. Wheat, brought the idea
of scouting to Griffin. He w a s
then minister of the Episcopal
Church.
The first patrol received
certificates of membership on
March 11, 1911, col. Wheat was
the scoutmaster for the patrol
and David J. Bailey was the as
sistant scoutmaster.
Col. Wheat retired from the
staff of West Point in 1946 where
he was a chaplain and head of
the English Department.
The first Boy Scout camp in
the area was at Warm Springs
which was then a resort. The
camp was named Camp Clay
ton Earl Wheat in honor of t h e
founder of the original Scout
troop in Griffin. Records show
that it may also have been the
first troop in Georgia.
The first troop held its meet
ings at St. George’s Episcopal
Church where the Rev. Wheat
was.rector. The Rev. Wheat was
succeeded as scoutmaster by
the Rev. E. B. Andrews, who
succeeded him at St. George’s.
of Duncan, Okla.; Capt. Robert
F. Marasco of Bloomfield, N. J.;
Capt. Budget E. Williams of
Athens, Ga.; CWO Edward M.
Boyle of New York City and
Sgt. I.C. Alvin L. Smith Jr. of
Naples, Fla.
The Army described all of
them as “former members of
the U.S. sth Special Forces
group.’’
The Special Forces, probably
the best-known troops in
Vietnam because of songs and
stories about them, are para
troopers who get intense
specialized training. They have
been in Vietnam officially since
the early 1960 s operating in the
more remote regions and
gathering intelligence on Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese
troops. There nickname comes
from the green caps they wear.
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BEAUTY in the square.
Italian film star Sophia
Loren walks in Moscow’s
Red Square during shooting
of a scene from a new
movie. Despite plainness
of her costume, Miss Loren
drew approving stare from
man in background.
Boone’s Burial Place
FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) -
Daniel Boone and his wife, Re
becca, are buried here atop a
cliff overlooking the Kentucky
River and the Kentucky state
capitol.
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Phone Rate
Hikes Would
Hit Griffarea
Private Line
Increase
Average $1.25
By TOM GREENE ..
ATLANTA (UPI) — Southern
•Bell Telephone Co. asked the
Georgia Public Service Commis
sion Tuesday for statewide in
creases that would cost private
line users an average of $1.25
more monthly and party line
customers an additional 40
cents.
If approved by the Commis
sion, the increase would raise
the cost of telephone installa
tion form $7 to $lO and boost
long distance rates within Geor
gia anywhere from 5 to 65
cents.
Here in Griffin the proposed
residence subscriber increase
would range from $0.65 per
month for multi-party service to
$1.25 for individual line service.
Business service increases
would range from $1.25 per
month for multi-party service
to $2.25 for individual line ser
vice.
Other proposed increases in
clude: installing new residence
telephones, up from $7 to $10;
long distance calls within Geor
gia, ranging from 5 to 65 cents,
with built-in incentive for custo
mers to save money by dialing
their station-to-station calls over
the “direct distance dialing” net
work; increases in miscellane
ous and special services such as
mobile telephone service and
private line services.
Southern Bell, which has not
had a statewide rate increase
since 1951, said the new prices
would bring in an additional
$29.7 million per year.
The Commission must hold
public hearings before reaching
a decision on the rate increase
request.
Jasper Dorsey, Southern Bell
vice president for Georgia, said
increased construction costs,
higher wages and the higher
cost of borrowing money for
construction have meant that
“our rate of earnings on our
Georgia investment has been
going down for several years.”
Southern Bell’s planned con
struction program in the next
three years will total $460 mil
lion, Dorsey said. He said wage
increases since the lost state
wide rate hike have added SSO
million to the company’s annual
wage cost, and they will go up
another $4.4 million in 1970.
Southern Bell officials said
other increases included in its
request would cost business us
ers from $1.25 to $2.25 more per
month and there would be in
creases in miscellaneous and
special services.
The Savannah exchange, com
pany officials said, would be
affected by slightly greater in
creases than the rest of the state
because Savannah has grown
into a higher rate classification.
Arsonists
Strike Near
Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
The Hall County sheriff’s office
said arsonists set two fires and
attempted to set another late
Tuesday night and early today
near the community of Cler
mont, 10 miles north of here.
Officers said a vacant house
in which hay was stored was
fired about 10 p.m. Tuesday
and burned to the ground. It
was owned by Hayward O’Kel
ly of Clermont.
An hour and a half later a
barn filled with hay and located
on the same highway—Georgia
283—burned.
Then about 12:45 a.m. today,
someone attempted to set fire
to a vacant house owned by A.
K. Staton. Sheriff’s deputies
said two different fires were
started, in the house but burned
out with little damage.
The state fire marshal’s office
was called to investigate.
Vol. 96 No. 184
Sl2sl I
Nixon Rejects
Welfare Group
As ‘Brokers’
By CRAIG A. PALMER
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Nixon administration has re
jected a plan to use a militant
organization of black welfare
mothers as a "broker” in
dealing with disadvantaged
slum dwellers. The organization
promptly said the administra
tion did so because of “political
fears.”
“To me it raises serious
questions about whether HEW
plans to have positive relations
with grass roots organizations,”
said George Wiley, executive
director of the National Welfare
Rights Organization (NWRO).
The plan’s rejection by the
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare almost on the
eve of a major administration
message Friday on welfare
reform canceled several
months of delicate negotiations
between HEW and NWRO.
It was learned, however, the
rejection may be only tempora
ry. HEW is considering a long
range plan to form working
relationships with grassroots
organizations such as NWRO.
The proposal called for a
grant of SIOO,OOO a year for
three years to the National Self-
Help Corp., an agency esta
blished by NWRO. The money
would have been used to guide
persons with physical, emotion
al and other disabilities to state
vocational rehabilitation agen
cies.
An HEW spokesman said the
grant was not considered
favorably because it did not
come under the framework of
rehabilitation for the disabled.
Rather than continue the
negotiations indefinitely, the
department decided to reject
the plan. It could be reconsi
dered later.
NWRO is made up of about
35,000 persons, almost entirely
black mothers on relief.
Although Wiley called the
HEW rejection "unfortunate”
and "political” he said NWRO
still was working with the
department “on trying to get
them to toughen their (welfare)
Police Raid
‘Cowboy’ Movie
ATI. ANTA (UPI) — Police
raided a movie theater showing
Andy Warhol’s “Lonesome Cow
boys’’ Tuesday night, closed the
Ansley Mall Mini-Cinema, and
tried to take pictures of the au
dience.
The manager, James Russ, 28,
was arrested and charged with
exhibiting obscene pictures.
Hinson McAuliffe, Fulton
County Criminal Court solicitor,
said the film was in its third
week, but authorities did not
learn of its contents until this
week. McAuliffe said investiga
tors viewed the picture and “de
termined the film was very ob-
Inside Tip
Lawyer
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enforcement procedures.”
Many states have shown no
evidence of adjusting their
welfare standards to reflect the
cost of living as required by a
federal regulation, Wiley said.
SB,OOO Raised
For Workshop:
$40,000 Needed
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton has
reminded Griffinites of a drive
here for $40,000 as the local
share for construction of a shel
tered workshop for handicapped
and retarded children.
The remainder of the SIBO,OOO
project would be financed throu
gh government funds.
To date, some SB,OOO has been
raised in local funds.
Bolton is chairman of the fund
raising drive. Letters solicitin'?
contributions from business
firms and individuals have been
sent here, outlining the program
and requesting support.
Anyone wishing to mail a con
tribution may send it to Griffin
Area Chapter for Retarded Chil
dren, Box 232, Griffin.
The Country Parson
Much sorrow is the result
of people trying to have a
good time.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
score and we determined to
raid the theater.’’
Some 70 patrons were in the
theater when officers went in.
One officer stayed at the front
door while others went to the
projection room to arrest Russ.
When the theater-goers walked
out after the show was stopped,
the officer at the front took pic
tures.
Louis Osteen, vice president
of Modular Cinema of America,
Inc., which owns the theater,
denied the picture was obscene.
“I want to find out why we
were raided and see if we can
rectify the situation,” he said.