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Weekend Notes:
The three Spacemen — Arm
strong, Collins and Aldrin — af
} ter a 21 day quarantine that
started the moment they land
ed safely after their history mak
ing trip to and walk on the moon
has ended, and they are enjoying
a short vacation with their fam
ilies. The vacation will be of
short duration for the three are
soon to begin a triumphal tour
to many parts of a proud na
tion, proud of their achievement.
There is a “price” attached to
j everything, and the price these
three must pay is that from now
on there will be little if any pri
vacy in their lives. They now
belong to the nation and to t h e
* world. And their families must
share in paying the price for
there will be little time for nor
mal family living.
• During the week, in Washing
ton, Congress passed a revolu
tionary tax reform bill that will
i emove some from the tax pay
t ing rolls, give five percent relief
to some in the lower income bra
ckets, and close “lookholes.”
They also voted to extend the 10
percent surtax.
President Nixon, for the first
time after getting home from his
globe circling trip, went on T-V
and radio Friday night and told
of his domestic program. Among
other things he would share fe
deral income with cities and sta
tes, reform the welfare pro
gram; and provide federal mo
ney for a nation-wide system of
mass rapid transit.
Nature played an important
part in the week’s news;
Tornadoes struck with devas
tating results in several sections
and there were power failures
along the Florida east coast and
reduced power service in Grea
ter New York.
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Here in Georgia, a federal
court upheld the Pike County
Board of Education declaring
there was no evidence introduc
ed that bore out the claim the
contract of Principal D. F. Glo
ver was not renewed because he
is a Negro; but ruled that his
successor must be a Negro if a
• capable one can be employed in
time for the opening of school;
and if it is necessary to fill the
vacancy with a white man the
contract shall be a short term
one. More litigation is probable.
Governor Maddox invited of
ficials from the southern states
, to meet in Atlanta and make
plans for united opposition to a
federal “takeover” of education.
To date response has not been
' as great as some believe it
I 1 would.
And the week brought a great
loss to Georgia.
> Chief Justice William H. Duck
worth died Saturday. He was 71,
and for 31 years had been a
member of the Georgia Supre
, me Court, 21 of them as C h i e f
Justice. There has never been a
more plain spoken man on the
Georgia bench than he. He ren
dered his decisions in such a
way that there was no chance
of twisting what he said to suit
the twister. He did not clothe
them in legalistic mumbo jum
; • bo but in plain words that even
the humblest layman could un
derstand.
Justice Duckworth will be sad
ly missed.
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Here at home there was much
going on.
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A 14-year-old student saved a
boy from drowning.
II
The “Spalding Grays”, Nation
al Guard Unit, left for summer
camp at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Savannah defeated Athens to
win the Georgia State American
Legion baseball championship
and will represent Georgia in
. the Legion’s “World Series.”
(Post 15, led by Commander Jim
’ Hedderman, and the commun
ity, did a fine job taking care of
the visiting players and fans.)
1 Eighty eight-year-old Col.
Clayton Earl Wheat, the man
who organized the first Boy Sc
out troop in Griffin, when he was
, rector of St. George’s Episco
pal Church, returned for a vi
sit here and was greeted by
some of the “boys” who were
! members of that troop.
It was announced that Griffin
is lagging on the campaign to
’ provide a sheltered workshop
■ here for handicapped and retard
ed children. $40,000 must be rais
ed locally — $9,000 has been so
i far —if Griffin is to receive fe
, deral and state grants for the
SIBO,OOO project.
Better news— It won’t be so
long now before the first unit
• of the special Heart treatment
setup at our hospital will be in
operation.
DAILY NEWS
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INSIDE TODAY
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Stork Club.
Funerals
About Town.
Sports
Editorials.
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Attack Arabs After seeing
Near Lebanon Double Agent S on's Body
By United Press International
Israeli jets today attacked
Arab guerrilla bases in a
heavily wooded area in the
foothills of Mt. Hermon in
southeast Lebanon, touching off
a series of explosions. It was
the second time Israeli planes
attacked Lebanon since the 1967
War.
An Israeli spokesman said in
Tel Aviv “a number” of planes
carried out a 30-minute attack
on the area where the
guerrillas have built seven
bases for attacks on Israeli
settlements and military posi
tions across the border.
The raids began a few hours
after two Israeli soldiers were
wounded when two mines
exploded on the western slopes
of Mount Hermon 500 yards
from the Lebanese frontier. It
also followed by a few hours a
grenade attack which wounded
eight Israeli soldiers near
F.ebron, 18 miles south of
Jerusalem. The grenade was
thrown into an Israeli army
truck.
The Tel Aviv spokesman said
guerrillas launched 21 attacks
on Israel from their bases in
this heavily wooded country in
July and that the attacks had
increased greatly in the first 10
days of August.
Moon Men Relax At Home;
Released From Quarantine
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
Rookies need drilling
NEW YORK (UPI) -
The average recruit entering the
armed forces requires eight to
nine hours of dental treatment,
says the American Dental Asso
ciation.
The Country Parson
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'We want leaders with
Christian courage—if they will
behave just like the. rest of
US.’’
Copyright 1969 Dy Frank A Clark
Page 2. Vietnam.
Page 2. poverty War.
Page 2. woman’s Page
Page 2. Comics.
Page 3. want Ads.
Page 4. Georgia News
Page 4. Duckworth.
Page 4. Bruce Biossat.
Page 4. Berlin
Page 5. Ft. Gordon Deaths
Page 5.
by KATE WEBB
SAIGON (UPD—A civilian
attorney defending one of eight
U.S. Green Beret troopers
charged with killing a South
Vietnamese national said to
night the alleged victim was
double agent.
"I hope they can find the
body because when the facts of
this case are disclosed I believe
you will find this person won’t
be the old lady that you heard
about as the victim of many
things in this war,” George
Carolina state senator, said.
He said the victim was “a
double agent and this agent was
wrongfully trusted with infor
mation.”
Gregory is the attorney for
Maj. Thomas C. Middleton, of
Jefferson, S.C., and visited with
his client for several hours
today at Long Binh, the U.S.
Army headquarters base 15
miles north of Saigon where the
accused former Special Forces
members are being held.
Middleton and seven other
men including the former
commander of U.S. Green
Beret troops in Vietnam are
being held in the case. The ex-
Green Beret chief is Col.
Robert P. Rheault, 44, of
(UPI) —Three modest men who
braved the unknown of another
n world relaxed at home today
before lasing', a tumultous
public acclaim they would
rather not receive.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong,
e Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr.
a and Michael Collins — pro
; nounced “perfectly healthy”
’’ after their exposure to moon
dirt three weeks ago—had only
one day of privacy with their
““ families.
j Tuesday, they report to a
proud nation on Apollo 11 and
man’s first lunar landing.
Wednesday they go forth to
Georgian Just Out
Os Army Drowns
BAMBERG, S. C. (UPI) — A
37-year-old Millen, Ga., man
i Just out of the Army drowned
today when the car In which he
r was riding plunged into a canal
' on heavily traveled U. S. 301.
> Authorities identified him. as
Willie Jackson Jr., who had
1 been discharged from the serv
ice only two weeks ago.
A companion escaped injury
when the vehicle sank in 14 feet
of water, about four miles south
of Bamberg.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, August 11, 1969
More Suspects Sought
In Filmland Murders
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Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Gregory held a news confer
ence tonight at the Caravelle
Hotel in downtown Saigon. He
said earlier he now had “all the
facts” of the case and had read
the files on the alleged murder.
He said he could not discuss
precise details of the case but
ar’ded the military was “not
going to try my client in a
Vfcc ...im.”
He criticized as an “injus
tice” the lid of secrecy clamped
on the case by the U.S.
military.
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accept traditional honors af
forded heroes — ticker-tape pa
rades and banquet.
The astronauts were released
from the Lunar Receiving
Laboratory’s antiseptic 31-room
isolation suite Sunday night
after a government committee
of medical specialists concluded
they carried no extraterrestrial
germs that would endanger
earth.
Plan Haircuts
One of the first things they
planned to do today was to get
haircuts. They had not had
their hair trimmed in nearly a
month and there were no
barbers in the quarantine
quarters.
At 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, the
astronauts tell newsmen and
television viewers across the
nation—using pictures they shot
—what it was like to explore
the celestial sphere orbiting
earth a quarter million miles
away.
The spacemen will set out
early Wednesday on an unpre
cedented national tour in
President Nixon’s jetliner. They
will receive a ticker-tape
parade in New York in the
morning, another in Chicago in
the afternoon and wind up the
day with a state diner with the
President and 1,700 celebrities
in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Anna Patrick Pullin, 92,
. of Locust Grove went to Pitt
, man-Rawls Funeral Home Sun
day night about 7 o’clock to see
the body of her son, Leon W.
Pullin Jr. of Jackson road, Grif
fin, who had died Saturday night
of a hear attack.
Mrs. Pullin was in the room
with the body and had been talk
ing with relatives. She sat down
in a chair and took a deep brea
th. She fell dead, the apparent
victim of a heart attack.
Attendants at the funeral home
rushed to an ambulance to get
oxygen and a nurse who was
visiting with the family checked
Mrs. Pullin’s pulse. She could
not feel one.
Mrs. Pullin was rushed to the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospi
tal where she was dead on arri
val.
Mr. Pullin was dead on arrival
at the hospital Saturday night.
Local Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 89,
low today 63, high yesterday 89,
low yesterday 74, sunrise to
morrow 6:59, sunset tomorrow
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Vol. 96 No. 188
Police Check
Two More
Stab Deaths
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (UPD—Au
thorities widened their search
today for someone “involved in
a personal way” with starlet
Sharon Tate and four other
persons brutally murdered in
the aftermath of a party at a
rambling Bel Air estate.
Even as police pressed their
search for one, two or possibly
three killers, a couple in the
Silverlake district 15 mil e s
away were found stabbed in a
double murder strikingly simi
lar in several respects to the
slayings of Miss Tate and her
friends Saturday.
In both cases words were
scrawled in blood in the homes.
In the Tate murder, the word
“pigs” was written in blood on
the front door. In the Silverlake
slayings, the words “death to
pigs” were left in blood on the
refrigerator door in the kitchen.
The man at Silverlake had
the word “war” carved on his
chest.
Police assigned to the Tate
case were seeking a second
suspect today for questioning,
but said as many as three
persons could be involved in the
bizarre murders.
Lives In Guest House
The name of the unidentified
suspect came up during police
questioning of William E.
Garretson, 19, a caretaker at
the home who lived in a guest
house. He was the only person
alive when detectives arrived at
the scene Saturday.
Garretson underwent an hour
long polygraph test Sunday.
Although police said they were
not “entirely satisfied” with his
answers, a spokesman said “if
we can get some physical
evidence checked out, we will
probably release him today."
He did not elaborate.
Police had not established a
motive for the intruder or
intruders who apparently cut
the telephone lines into the
home sometime after 10 p. m.
Friday, then murdered the five
occupants with knives and
guns.
The victims:
—Miss Tate, 26, wife of film
director Roman Polanski, eight
months pregnant with a baby
boy, died of multiple stab
wounds of the chest and back.
Polanski flew here Sunday from
Europe and immediately went
into seclusion.
—Abigail Folger, 26, San
Francisco, heiress to the Folger
coffee fortune, described as a
“rich hippie” who attended
seance sessions, died of stab
wounds in the chest.
Dies Os Stab Wounds
—Jay Sebring, 35, innovator
of hair styling for men, once
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replica of Atlas was constructed
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Smyrna, Ga., health spa. It was J
hauled through the streets here ' l ’Mk
today on Its w a y to Atlanta. The
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19 Receive
Diplomas Here
The Griffin-Spalding Summer
School closed this morning with
19 seniors receiving their diplo
mas.
Supt. D. B. Christie and Grif
fin High Principal Bill Cody
talked to the graduates in a br
ief ceremony.
Principal C. W. Daniels of
Fairmont expressed appreciation
for the administration for assis
tance received in conducting the
sessions.
A total of 220 students attend-
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ed summer sessions.
The 19 graduating seniors
were: Arnold Blanks, Kay
Champion, Delores Crowder, El
aine Dewberry, Clifferdine Ful
ler, Sheila Goen, Richard Har
ris, Cynthia Hastings, Nora
Jane Head, Debbie Lee, Jane
Moore, Steve Moss, Patrick Mur
phy, Frank Parks, Brenda Prit
chard, Debbie Smith, Nina Smi
th, Alfred Weems, and Jerry
Wood.