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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
President Nixon said that
while he still hoped to be able to
end the war in Vietnam some
time during 1970, that such
things as the bill introduced in
Congress by a Republican
Representative from New York,
setting a deadline on with
drawal of American troops
from Vietnam, was making it
more difficult to accomplish his
goal as quickly as he would like.
Also Secretary of State Ro
gers and Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Gromyko met in New York
and discussed what could be
done to bring about lessening
the tension in the Middle East.
Premier Golda Meir of Israel
was a visitor at the White
House, it was reported she and
President Nixon were in accord
on some things, that she had
asked more airplanes and other
weapons, and in a press con
ference said, in answer to a
question, America was Israel’s
friend, but was the enemy of no
nation.
In Washington President Nix
on asked Congress for $662
Million to begin study of how to
build airplanes that would fly at
the rate of 1,800 miles an hour;
Senate Republican elected
Hugh Scott, of Pennsylvania,
minority leader to take the
place of Senator Dirksen,
defeating Dirksen’s son-in-law
Tennessee’s Senator Howard
Baker, Jr.
In the House many Republi
cans and Democrats joined in
backing President Nixon’s re
quest for larger Social Security
benefits. The President has ask
ed the increase by Spring but
the Congressmen have set Jan.
1 as their goal.
The nation was shocked by
the murder of four women when
a savings and loan firm was
robbed in Cincinnati. The
robbers got away with $275.
Atlanta spotlighted news in
Georgia:
The grand jury, at the request
of Police Chief Herbert Jenkins,
was investigating a riot at Pied
mont Park the Sunday before.
Hippies charged Police bru
tality.
Georgia Attorney General
Arthur Bolton filed suit in
federal court to dismiss a U.S.
suit to require the State Board
of Education to integrate all
public schools; maintaining the
state board was not permitted
to control actions of local
boards of education.
Governor Maddox called
conditions at the woman’s pri
son in Milledgeville “intoler
able”.
Representatives of the Pres
byterian Church met in Atlanta
to discuss reunion.
Atlanta moved closer to its
city election with charges flying
all over the city of misconduct
by supporters of various candi
dates.
And Atlanta “clinched” a tie
for the western division
National League championship
Sunday by winning the final
game with San Diego.
Locally: The Small Claims
C-ourt was activated, Judge Cle
ments naming Ray Sutton as
baliff. He was sworn in by Or
dinary George Imes.
A Griffin man, William
Collins, died of burns received
when his clothing caught fire as
he cleaned the floors of his
apartment with gasoline;
Discovery of a plane crash
near Williamson solved the
week long mystery of what
happened to a plane that took
off from Americus bound for At
lanta. The pilot was found dead.
And Griffin football fans con
tinued to dream of champion
ship teams. Griftin’s Eagles
won their third straight Friday
night here at nome and Fair
mont its 4th at Fairburn. Griffin
won in the closing moments 16-
14; Fairmont won 13-6.
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GRIFFIN
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Two Griffin men who are
neighbors found out it’s a small
world, after all. They met in
Vietnam where they are serving
with the U.S. forces.
Airman First Class Frank
Rowell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Rowell, 412 Dora
Street, ran into his neighbor,
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Enemy Units
Said Leaving
Saigon Area
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI )-U.S. military
intelligence officials today re
ported division-sized Viet Cong
and North Vietnamese units
pulling away from Saigon
toward retreats along the
Cambodian frontier.
There was no indication this
was in response to American
calls for the Communists to
scale down the fighting in
answer to President Nixon’s
cutback of U.S. troops in the
war zone.
One of the intelligence
officials said the reason for the
pullback was to let the guerrilla
soldiers “refit and recoup their
losses.” Eight wave of 852
bombers raided their bivouacs
overnight.
The officials said the division
sized Communist units left
behind smaller, local forces
that are expected to continue
shelling attacks and ground
probes through mid-October.
A Viet Cong division consists
of approximately 10,000 troops,
with a full North Vietnamese
division running up to 12,000
troops, according to U.S.
Command estimates.
The area these main force
units have left is defended by
troops of the 82nd Airborne
Division scheduled to leave
Vietnam by Dec. 15 under
President Nixon’s latest pullout
of 35,000 men.
Clothing Drive
Here Tonight
The Griffin Kiwanis Club will
have its annual clothing drive
tonight for needy children in the
Griffin-Spalding School System.
The drive will begin at 7 p.m.
and officials hope it will be
completed by 9 p.m.
Scout Troops and members of
the Key Club will assist Kiwanis
teams in collecting the clothing.
It will be cleaned, repaired
and placed in a school clothing
bank for distribution by faculty
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Airman First Class Gary
Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Moore who live near the
Rowells.
Airman Rowell had hardly
unpacked his gear when he ran
into his fellow Griffinite.
They are practically neigh
bors in Vietnam now.
Moose Planning
State Meet Here
The Georgia Moose
Association will hold its annual
convention in Griffin Oct. 9-12.
Wallace L. McNair of Hamp
ton, president of the State
Association, will preside over
all business sessions.
Roger C. Bevil of Griffin, is
the association secretary.
Ralph Moore, General
Governor, will represent the
Supreme Lodge at the con
vention.
Frank L. Ray, Regional
Director and Dowell L. Bartley,
State Director, will also attend.
Serving as the official visitor
for the Women of the Moose to
the women’s conference will be
Nell Dorsey, Grand Regent, of
East Point, Ga.
An enrollment ceremony at 8
p.m. at the local Moose Home
will highlight the first day’s
activities.
The second day’s agenda
includes a state officers meet
ing at 1 p.m. and a club party at
8 p.m. Both will be held at the
local Moose Home.
The third session starts with
the confering of Fellowship
degree following the Pilgrim
and Fellows breakfast at the
Moose Home.
A business session is slated
for 10:30 a.m., ritual and civic
affairs synposium at 3 p.m., the
president’s banquet at 8 p.m.
and the convention ball at 10
p.m.
The final session includes
breakfast at the Moose Home at
members to needy students.
Clothing for youngsters bet
ween the first grade and 12th
grade levels is needed, accord
ing to Lee Roy Claxton, chair
man of the drive.
Griffinites have been asked to
have clothing ready for pick-up
by 7 p.m. and to leave their
porch lights on so collectors can
make their rounds quickly.
Kiwanis members and others
Griffin, Ga, 30223, Monday, Sept. 29, 1969
Pike Grand Jury
Goes Into Session
Nell Dorsey
9 a.m., a memorial service at 10
a.m., a business session at 11
a.m., lunch at 1 p.m. and a
Pilgrim robing ceremony at 2
p.m.
The Country Parson
“Mankind can never solve
his world's problems — any
more than he can fly to the
moon and back.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
helping with the drive will get
their assignments at the Kroger
parking lot at 7 p.m. tonight.
Teams will be assigned areas
throughout the Griffin-Spalding
area to cover.
The clothing will be stored at
West Griffin elementary school
until it is classified and made
ready for distribution.
The drive has been an annual
affair sponsored by the club for
several years.
Six Injured
In Accident
In Henry County
Six people were injured in a
three-car accident Sunday at
8:20 p.m. eight miles north of
McDonough on Millers Mill
Road, the Griffin barracks of
State Patrol reported.
Henry County Deputy Sheriff
James O. Ingram, 47, of Route
Two, McDonough had stopped a
vehicle driven by Elbert
Willingham of McDonough for a
routine vehicle check. The two
vehicles were parked in a
traffic lane, patrolmen said.
A car driven by Roosvelt Holt,
17, of Stockbridge collided with
the rear of the sheriff’s car,
knocking it into the other
vehicle.
Injured in the accident were:
Holt and Jimmy Goggins, six,
of McDonough who were ad
mitted to Grady Hospital in
Atlanta; Angela Goggins, five;
Veronica Goggins, four; Tyron
Goggins, six months; and
Moses Goggins, 14. All were in
the car driven by Holt.
The deputy and the driver of
the other car were not injured.
Victor Dan Brandenburg, 18,
■ of Route Three, Box 225 Griffin,
was injured when his small
foreign made car ran out of
control on Georgia 362 nine
miles west of Griffin Sunday at
10:50 a.m.
He was passing another car
when a dog ran in front of him,
causing him to lose control of
the car. He was admitted to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital for
treatment of head and chest in
juries.
A vehicle driven by Benny
Fambro of 335 West College
Street, ran into a house at 806
Pool Road Saturday at 6:48
p.m., police said.
The 1959 model car he was
driving was listed as a total loss
($400) and damage to the house
and furniture was estimated
near SI,OOO.
No one was injured.
Vol. 96 No. 230
School
Incidents
Reported
The Pike County Grand Jury
met in special session today to
investigate racial problems in
the county.
As the jury met, several
racial incidents were reported.
Many Negro students left
Pike High School in Zebulon and
Pike Junior High in Concord
this morning.
Students marched at the high
school and in the downtown
area. Students milled around
the junior high school.
Rocks were thrown at some
school buses. A couple of win
dows were knocked out at the
Junior High School. At least two
people were taken into custody.
There was one incident on a
school bus. The driver stopped
the vehicle and the “trouble
makers” were removed and
taken to school in a patrol car
where they were turned over to
the principal.
One veteran lawman said
racial tension “is running
high.”
“However, everything is rela
tively quite now,” he said.
Pike County’s racial pro
blems began early this year,
just before school dismissed for
the summer.
The Pike School Board did not
renew the contract of D. F.
Glover, principal at Pike Con
solidated, which was then a high
school.
A court ruling upheld the
board’s decision.
The latest trouble started last
week when some 30 students
walked out at Pike Junior High.
The School Board closed the
schools for a two day cooling off
period.
Classes resumed today. So did
racial incidents.
The Pike County Grand Jury
began a special session this
morning. It reportedly is in
vestigating the racial problems
in an effort to come up with de
cisions that may ease tension.
Tape Player
A two-track tape player
valued at S2O was reported
stolen from an auto belonging to
Paul Singletary of 617 Drewry
Lane, Saturday morning at
12:15.
Singletary said his car was
parked at the service station on
West Taylor Street where he
works. He said the player and
tapes were taken from his car
while he was waiting on a
customer.
Burglars Pull
Roof Robbery
At Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Burglars during the weekend
bored through the roof of the
State Bank of Fayetteville and
into the concrete vault, and
took an undetermined amount
of cash after disarming alarm
devices.
Bank President W. F. Farr
discovered the burglary when
he opened the bank for business
today.
Farr said outside auditors
had been called in to determine
how much money had been tak
en.
“The cash is fully covered by
insurance and the bank is open
for business,” Farr said.
Fayette County Sheriff J. A.
Jones, Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation agents and the FBI
were investigating the burglary.
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in file photo), who des
jp. tile Pacific edition of the
military newspaper Stars and
Stripes as ,he “Hanoi Herald,”
has been relieved of his post as
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in Vietnam. Campbell had said
M battle reports in the paper con
gstituted “treason.” (UPI)
Flynt Says Berets
Being "Bailroaded*
HOGANSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)—
U. S. Rep. John J. Flynt, D-Ga.
said he would meet today with
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird
and possibly President Nixon
in efforts to have the trial of
six Green Beret officers ac
cused of murdering a Vietnam
ese national moved to Ameri- :
ca—even though he considered
his chances for success “negli
gible at this time.”
Flynt, speaking to a group of
American Legionnaires here
Sunday, charged top Army of
ficials were trying to “deny
these men a fair trial.”
“We have no hope that our
request will be honored,” he
said of his and several other
Congressmen’s desire to move
the court martials from Saigon.
“We expect the trials to be in
Vietnam.”
Flynt said he was convinced
the six Special Forces officers,
including Capt. Budge Williams
of Athens, accused of murder
and conspiracy to murder “are
being railroaded” and “cannot
get a fair trial in Vietnam be
cause of command influence
and command pressures that
Gen. (Creighten) Abrams and '
Gen. (G. L.) Mabry would
exert. '
“They have picked what they 1
call a blue-ribbon court and
they have given the members
of this court instructions to con
vict, regardless of what evi
dence or extenuating circum
stances” are revealed about the
case, he charged.
He said Secretary of the
Army Stanley Resor and the
generals were “not only trying
to influence and inflame
the American public opinion (
against” the accused soldiers.
Flynt said from information 1
he and others had gathered, <
“and the Army does not admit <
this,” that Vietnamese national
Thai Khac Chuyen was suspect
ed by the Green Berets of be- i
ing a double agent. I
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Former Special Forces com
mander Col. Robert Rheault,
one of the six now charged,
consulted with a “responsible '
official” of the Central Intelli
gence Agency.
Flynt said Rheault “asked
them to take Chuyen off the
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hands of the Green Berets, to
take physical possession of him
and fly him to a remote island
and keep him there until the
end of the war.”
The man had information, he
said that could result in death
to an entire battalion of the
Special Forces, “2,500 - 3,000
American lives.”
“Unfortunately,” Flynt con
tinued, the CIA said it had no
facilities for detaining the man
in that manner. “Rheault asked
what he should do and the an
swer given him was ‘that’s
your problem—not ours’.”
When Rheault and his men
were later arrested and
charged, Flynt said, he and
other Congressmen tried to get
information in the case from
Resor and “we received some
of the vaguest and most inac
curate answers a group of Con
gressmen ever received.”
Flynt charged Resor “deliber
ately tried to mislead” mem
bers of Congress in the matter
and was “in the process of try
ing to deliberately mislead the
American people.”
“There is no doubt that these
men did participate in the kill
ing, and mind, I said killing
and not murder,” Flynt added.
“I don’t think they’re guilty of
murder.”
Newton Handles
Sixth District
Legion Meeting
The Sixth District Convention
Os the American Legion and
Auxiliary was held on Sunday,
at the John I. Todd Post 152,
Hogansville, Ga., with the
Commander Preston Newton of
Griffin presiding.
An overflow crowd of Legion
aires, representing posts
throughout the district were
present. Posts 15 and 546 repre
sented Griffin at the meeting.
During the business session,
Department Senior Vice
Commander C. B. “Pete”
Burke, indicated a workshop on
inembership would be held at
Post 15, Griffin, on Thursday,
October 9, at 8 p.m.