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By Quimby Melton
• Weekend Notes:
The three Apollo 11 heroes, re
leased from quarantine, having
been declared uncontaminated
• by germs gathered from the
moon, received roaring welcom
es during parades in New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles, and
• were guests of honor at a state
dinner given by President Nix
on in the West Coast movie cap
ital.
, The President presented med
als to the three and thanked
them “for their courage.”
Among the dignitaries attend
ing the state dinner was Geor
gia’s governor Lester Maddox.
Meanwhile, Congress heard of
plans being formulated by the
Nixon administration to change
• welfare, job training, and taxa
tion programs; then adjourned
for a vacation. One member of
the Congress, Georgia’s Senator
• Herman Talmadge, will spend
his vacation in the Atlanta hos
pital, recuperating from an op
eration. He expects to be back
• in Washington when the Senate
meets in September.
Sharp fighting broke out anew
in Vietnam with some speculat
, ing this might be the beginning
of a new offensive. However it
was announced that an addition
al unit of troops would be mov-
from Vietnam.
Fighting in Northern Ireland
between religious factions grew
so serious the British govern
t ment was requested to send
' troops to restore order.
And a figure, long in the news
of the world, Dr. Philip Blaiberg,
who has lived for more than a
•year and a half with a “borrow
ed heart” died in a Capetown
South Africa, hospital. A retir
ed dentist, Dr. Blaiberg, lived
»longer, after a heart transplant,
than anyone else.
Here in Georgia: a suit was
filed in federal court as".-.'* at
a reapportionment of Georgia’s
Congressional districts be order
ed before the 1970 elections. The
petition was filed by seven per
sons living in Fulton and De-
Kalb Counties and would base
the reapportionment on estimat
ed population and not wait for
the 1970 official census.
Governor Maddox entertained
a group of officials from south
ern states that set up an organ
ization to "protect education ag
•ainst federal school guide lines.”
Those attending included Gov.
John Bell Williams, of Mississ
ippi, and Ernest Stone, Alabama
state school superintendent, who
were named to set up a perman
ent organization. The State of
Mississippi had the largest dele
gation present. Among Georgians
attending were four congress
men, Robert G. Stephens, John
J. Flynt, Jr., Fletcher Thomp
son, and Elliott Hagan. Gover
‘nor Maddox called the meeting
“not a protest meeting” but one
“to provide the best education
possible for our children.”
' Also last week a prominent
Georgian died — Dr. Hugh Hodg
son, 76, professor emeritus of
music at the University of Ge
orgia.
Locally it was announced that
the Rev. Forest L. Traylor had
.accepted a call to become pastor
of the Griffin First Presbyterian
Church and would assume h i s
duties Sept. 1. The Rev. Traylor
is a graduate of the University
of Georgia and Columbia Theo
logical Seminary and comes to
Griffin from the Wee Kirk Co
ventry Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta.
Two 14 year old North Caro
lina boys, led police of three
counties a merry chase that fin
'ally wound up with their crash
ing into a utility pole inside the
City of Griffin, totally wrecking
their sports model car. They
were injured but not seriously.
During their flight, which origi
nated near Jonesboro in Clayton
County, they hit speeds of 100
>miles an hour, and managed to
get through road blocks in Hen
ry and Spalding. The two boys
were on their way to Florida and
the car they were driving belong
-1 ed to the father of one of them.
They have been returned to Nor
th Carolina where they will
face several charges. Fortuna
'tely traffic was light on the high
way when the chase was staged
was involved in the crash.
Local Weather
Estimated high today 86, low
"today 71, high yesterday 88, low
yesterday 70. Sunrise tomorrow
7:03 sunset tomorrow 8:11.
DAILY
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HURRICANE
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I NEW ORLEANS — One man • '/J,
| drives from his home near the '% ■
I Industrial Canal and Poland
I avenue through swirling
H water with his daughter and
I luggage. Rains from hurricane fly
I Camille caused the levee to I'-X*''
I leak and send residents from ’■iajL
I their homes.
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Hit-Run Kills
Barnesville Man
BARNESVILLE — A Barnes
ville man was killed last night
about 11:15 when struck by a
hit-and run automobile as he
was walking along the Piedmont
road, eight miles west of Barn
esville in Lamar County.
John M. (Buck) Smith, 59, of
Route One, Barnesville, was the
victim. He died of multiple in
juries to his head and body.
The hit-and-run death is being
investigated by Trooper M. L.
Carothers of the Griffin S tate
Patrol Post and Lamar County
Sheriff J. C. Waller and his de
puties.
Trooper Carothers worked on
the incident until the early hours
of the morning today.
Officers were continuing their
search today for the hit-and-run
auto and its driver.
Mr. Smith is survived by h 1 s
wife, Mrs. Edna McMahon Smi
th; a son, Ronald Smith; a dau
ghter, Miss Shirley Smith, all of
Barnesville; two sisters, Mrs.
Bessie Vaughn of Jackson and
Mrs. Ophelia Dickerson of Mil
ledgeville ; a brother, Albert
Haynsworth Gets
Nod For Court
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
SAN CLEMENTE, Cali f.
(UPl)—President Nixon nomin
ated U.S. Appeals Judge
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., a
South Carolina Democrat, to
the U.S. Supreme Court today
succeeding Abe Fortas who
resigned under fire.
The announcement was made
by Press Secretary Ronald
Ziegler at the White House
press headquarters in Laguna
Beach, 17 miles north of the
Nixon compound here. Neither
Haynsworth nor the President
was present for the announce-
Smith of Flovilla; and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock from the Calvary Bap
tist Church with the Rev. Cle
veland Scoggins officiating. Bu
rial will be in Greenwood ce
metery. Hubbard Funeral
Home is in charge of plans.
Highway Bids
ATLANTA (UPl)—One of the
largest Georgia highway open
ings in 20 years has been
scheduled for Aug. 29 when
bids will be opened on 61 high
way projects.
The estimated total value of
the letting is $14,970,289 and in
cludes two interstate highway
projects, 10 other federal-aid
contracts and 49 state-aid con
tracts, most of the latter under
the bond-financed highway au
thority program.
met.
The 56 -year -old nominee
would fill the vacancy left on
the high court by Fortas
following disclosure of the
justice’s fee arrangement with
a foundation controlled by
financier Louis E. Wolfson, who
now is imprisoned.
On Minority Side
In his 12 years on the 4th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which covers Virginia, Mary
land, West Virginia and the
Carolinas, Haynsworth has been
frequently on the minority side
of opinions.
In his early opinions, he
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, August 18, 1969
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Betty Canary. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Check-Up. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Did Sharon Know? Page 5.
Personal Finance. Page 5.
Hurricane Pictures. Page 6.
Sports. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Want Ads. Page 10.
Transplant. Page 11.
Georgia Toll. Page 11.
Beret Case. Page 11.
Troubled Isle. Page 12.
Doctor. Page 12.
indicated his belief that the
Supreme Court had not intend
ed that school desegregation
should be compulsory. In later
decisions he has modified this
view.
Haynsworth also differed
from his fellow justices who
ruled that hospitals accepting
federal funds could not main
tain segregated facilities.
By contrast he recently
handed down a decision favora
ble to militant Negro civil
rights advocate H. Rap Brown
in an extradition case, and he
once ruled against the North
Carolina Dental Society which
allowed white-only membership.
NEWS
Camille Socks
Gulf Coast
12 Killed;
Fires Burn
Out Os Control
By WILLIAM L. VAUGHN
GULFPORT, Miss. (UPI)—
Hurricane Camille, kicking off
deadly tornadoes in her path,
shrieked across the gulf coast
early today with 190-mile per
hour winds and flood tides,
laying waste to entire cities and
killing at least 12 persons.
Countless others were in
jured, missing or feared dead
in the wake of the worst
hurricane ever recorded by
man. Damage ran into the
hundreds of millions of dollars.
In at least two cities, Bay St.
Louis, Miss., and nearby
Waveland, fires burned out of
control in the downtown areas
and threatened to level the
entire business districts.
“We have at least 10 dead in
Biloxi and we haven’t even
begun to check,” said Mayor
Danny Guice. “It’s just terri
ble. There’s millions of dollars
in damage.”
High Tides
Gulfport, 15 miles southeast
of Biloxi, was reported even
harder hit when Camille
slammed ashore in the pre
dawn hours. Tides of 18 to 20
feet swept through homes and
businesses, sucking out furni
ture and clothing which was
scattered along the resort
beachfronts.
"My God, my house is
demolished,” sobbed a Biloxi
woman who ventured out of a
motel in the cold grey light of
dawn to survey the damage.
Ironically, a neighbor’s house
was virtually undamaged, but
that was uncommon. Civil
defense officials in Biloxi
reported nearly every house in
Biloxi was damaged and fires
raged out of control.
In Biloxi, as along much of a
100-mile stretch of the coast,
normal communications were
out, Tall trees splintered like
dry twigs in the onslaught of
the storm, and wood and other
debris choked all streets and
roads. There was no drinking
water. ______
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Hurricane and gale force
Winds remained in effect from
New Orleans eastward to the
Florida Panhandle, but Camille
spent her punch at mid-morning
in the gently-rolling Mississippi
hill country, spawning tor
nadoes ahead of her torrential
rains.
Coast Guard helicopters
bucked still savage winds at
dawn, dipping low across the
ocean-fronts hardest hit by the
storm in a search for survivors
or persons in distress.
More than 1,200 Mississippi
National Guardsmen were acti
vated to guard against looting
and help in rescues. Many
guardsmen rode amphibious
vehicles through streets inun
dated with water and otherwise
impassable.
In the Gulf of Mexico, an
unidentified Danish freighter
limped toward St. Petersburg,
Fla., with only two crewmen
still on board battling to save
the ship. Five crewmen were
removed to a nearby vessel
when the ship began to list at a
45 degree angle.' The Coast
Guard cutter !D i1 i g ence
ploughed through rough seas,
trying to reach the stricken 192-
foot cargo vessel.
Rare Report
In one of the few reports out
of Gulfport, Police Supt. Ray
Decell said, “Downtown Gulf
port is demolished.
Os the hardest hit towns and
cities, only Biloxi reported any
communications with the out
side and they were tenuous at
best.
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Maddox Sees
Regional
School Pressure
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Gov. Lester Maddox predicts
the formation of a sort of huge
regional pressure group which
will help “restore freedom of
choice and local control of edu
ation” as a result of a 10-state
meeting.
Maddox, who called the meet
ing Saturday “mervlous”, said
there will be another one, prob
ably in late September, which
he believes will attract even
more people to get the as yet
unnamed group finally organ
ized.
“The national government has
responded from pressures from
the socialists, welfare staters,
and sometimes, the criminal el
ements of this country,” he said
after the meeting at the palatial
governor’s mansion here.
Maddox hopes to form “a
group of concerned American
Citizens—educators, public offi
cials, and parents—to petition
elected officials to restore free
dom of choice and local control
of education.”
Maddox insists that formation
of the group "has nothing to do
with black or white, or segre
gation or integration," but that
it is based solely on concern
over the state of public educa
tion which he feels is being
“wrecked by pressures from the
federal government.”
The regional meeting Satur
day attracted, by the govern
or's count, 146 persons from 10
Southern states. Most of the del
egates were members of local
boards of education who have
come under the hammer of the
U. S. Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare over school
desegregation, and the over
whelming majority-over 50 of
them —came from Mississippi.
Only one other governor, Mis
sissippi’s John Bell Williams,
and five congressmen attended.
The congressmen were Geor
gians Jack Flint, Robert Steph
ens, Elliott Hagen, and Fletcher
Thompson, and Rep. John Rar
ick of Louisiana.
Maddox, Williams and Ala
bama State School Supt. Ernest
Stone were named as an execu
tive committee.
Vol. 96 No. 194
Georgian Aboard
Copter Downed
Over North Korea
By JAMES KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (UPI)—
The United Nations Command
(UNO today asked North
Korea for the return of an
unarmed U.S. Army helicopter
and its three-man crew downed
by ground fire in the latest
Korean truce front incident.
The fate of the crew was
unknown.
A UNC spokesman said the
pilot of the 0H23 helicopter
“had become disoriented” Sun
day and accidentally flew over
North Korean territory while on
a training mission south of the
demarcation line spearatlng
South and North Korea.
"The helicopter had been
observed from the ground
flying on a course which would
have taken it over North
Korean territory,” the spokes
man said.
The 0H23 was last heard
from when the pilot radioed
“his location was unknown, he
was being fired upon, was hit
and was going down,” accord
ing to the spokesman.
U.S. Marina Maj. Gen. Arthur
W. Adams, UNC senior dele
gate to the Korea Military
Armistice Commission, sent a
message to his Communist
counterpart, North Kor ea n
Ary Maj. Gen. Ri Choon-Sun,
asking the return of the
helicopter and crew.
There was no immediate
response from the North
Korean military.
The only Communist com
ment was a Pyongyang Radio
broadcast monitored in okyo
that the North Korean army
“shot down an American
military helicopter which had
intruded deep” into its territo
ry.
U.S. military authorities iden
tified the crewmen aboard the
downed helicopter as Capt.
David H. Crawford of Pooler,
Ga.; WO Malcolm Leopke of
Richmond, Ind.; and Spec. 4
Herman E. Hofstatte of
Lowpoint, 111.
It was the third time in six
years a U. S. military aircraft
had been shot down by North
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Korea.
Most observers predicted
Sunday’s incident would not
cause a major international
crisis such as triggered by
North Korea’s seizure of the
USS Pueblo Jan. 23, 1968.
At the same time ,a Seoul
daily newspaper, the English
language Times, said the
worsening Sino-Soviet conflict
would prevent North Korea,
from provoking a new war on'
the Korean Peninsula because
of lack of outside assistance.
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