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By Quimby Melton
5 There’s an old rule in the
newspaper game that dates
back to the days when papers
began to run pictures. It was,
“If you don’t have a good ‘spot’
news picture for page one, run a
picture of a pretty girl or of a
child with a pet.” And in “the
good old days” there were
plenty of front pages dressed up
and made interesting with the
picture of a pretty girl or a
small child and pet.
Back in those days only the
largest newspapers were eq
uipped to take local action
pictures and make the en
gravings needed to print them.
Today many newspapers not
only have the proper equipment
but can also “process” the
pictures for printing; and many
newspapers, like ours, have a
wire news picture service that
brings pictures into the office
shortly after they are taken
anywhere. (Our UPI machine
runs night and day seven days a
week.)
Sometime ago it became evi
dent that a picture of a pretty
girl did not have the once popu
lar appeal of years gone by; the
. girl had to be doing something
different, something tied in with
some sort of a campaign. For
awhile the picture of a girl in a
■ miniskirt “caught the eye”. But
today miniskirt pictures are “a
dime a dozen.”
But a picture of a small child
with a pet still ranks high in at
tracting attention of readers of
newspapers.
All of which leads Good Even
ing up to the following true
story.
There is a certain young lady
who attends Crescent School.
She rides the bus from her home
in the country every school
morning.
During the summer a puppy
“took up” living at her home.
This puppy was so skinny and so
. weak it seemed to be on its last
legs. But the little lady took
care of it, fed it milk from a
bottle, like it were a baby hu
>,man rather than a baby dog,
and by the end of summer it was
as frisky as any puppy ever
was. The little lady named the
>puppy “Blackie” for it was
black from the tip of her long
tail to the tip of her nose, which
had a white spot.
’ And did that puppy love the
little lady! Almost as much as
she loved the puppy. It followed
her round like a baby chicken
follows the mother hen.
When school opened this de
votion on the part of Blackie
, created a problem. The dog in
sisted on following the little girl
across the road to the school bus
and several times it was almost
« “run over as it tried to follow
the bus down the road”.
So the little lady decided to
find a home for Blackie where
’there would not be the temp
tation to run after the school
bus. She ran a want ad in this
paper offering the puppy “free”
'and had many calls People
called and asked “what kind of
a puppy is it?” When told a
“sweet puppy” they evidently
" were looking for a blue ribbon
dog. Some also asked, “Is it a
boy or girl dog?” When told a
“girl” they also hung up.
Finally, a couple called on the
phone, then came to the house
and brought their one-year-old
, twins to see the puppy. The
twins and the puppy “hit it off”
and when they left with the pup
py, the little lady though rather
< sad, smiled and said “Blackie
will be safe now and she will
make those two little boys
happy, so I’m happy too”.
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FANTASTIC HONEYMOON
LONDON (UPl)—Cub Scout
« master Norman Wellens, mar
ried Friday, celebrated the
beginning of his honemyoon
with his Cub pack.
’ He had promised them an
annual outing for the weekend,
so he and his bride took the
Cubs from Manchester to
’ London for sightseeing.
“It’s been a fantastic honey
moon,” said his bride, May,
„ wistfully.
DAILY W*NEWS
Daily Since 1872
US Will Withdraw
6,000 From Thailand
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
United States will withdraw
6,000 of its 48,000 troops from
Thailand “as expeditiously as
possible,” the White House
announced today.
A statement said the withdra
wal would begin within a few
weeks and would be completed
by next July 1.
Most of the Americans in
Thailand are airmen assigned
to air bases supporting the U.S.
effort in Vietnam.
The White House statement
said:
“The two governments have
agreed that approximately 6,000
U.S. military personnel, from
the Air Force and the Army
are to be withdrawn from
Thailand.”
The announcement added that
the United States and Thailand
had completed “bilateral talks
to arrange for an orderly
reduction of U.S. forces” in the
south Asian country bordering
on South Vietnam.
“They will be withdrawn as
expeditiously as possible concis
tent with operational require
ments related to the Vietnam
conflict,” the White House said.
As for the remaining 42,000
Americans, the statement said:
“The two governments will
9-Year-Old
Tries Out His
New Credit Card
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (UPI)
— The credit boom reached new
heights Monday when a 9-year
old Marblehead boy received a
credit card from a Boston
bank. But when he attempted to
take advantage of it, he was
only partially successful.
Roger Gilpey and his father
Kenneth took the unsolicited
card to a Marblehead bank and
attempted to obtain a S3OO cash
loan supposedly available to
card holders. But the bank
manager turned the boy down,
saying he was “under 21 and
should not have received one of
these.”
Father and son went next
door where Roger had better
luck, purchasing a $1 tie with
the card. The clerk’s only
comment: “You’re the youn
gest one that ever bought
anything with one of these.”
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low yesterday 56. Sunrise to
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7:18.
Medical Researchers Know
What A Dream ‘Looks Like’
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR Jr.
ATLANTA (UPI )-Medical
researchers now know what a
dream “looks like” and the pic
ture they have developed is so
promising that more and more
money is being diverted into ex
periments on sleeping and
dreaming.
The payoff, if it comes, will
be the shedding of new light on
the causes and possible cures of
mental illness.
Most persons spend 25 per
cent of their sleep time dream
ing, and researchers now can
pinpoint when the dreaming oc
curs and how long it lasts, ac
cording to Dr. Gerald W. Vogel,
chief of the Sleep and Dream
Research Laboratory at the
Georgia Mental Health Institute.
The pinpointing of dreams is
done with a machine called an
electroencephalograph. Elec
trodes are attached to the top
of the sleeper’s head, both sides
of the eyes and the chin. When
dreaming occurs, rapid bursts
of eye movements begin and
continue to evaluate the level of
U.S. armed forces in Thailand
in light of their assessment of
developments in the Vietnam
conflict.”
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Laird Asks Congress
For ‘Lottery’ Draft
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
fense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird today asked Congress to
grant “urgently needed” au
thority for a lottery-type draft.
He challenged arguments that
the Nixon administration plan
could lead to bigger draft calls.
Laird testified before the
House Armed Services Commit
tee, which is considering
Nixon’s proposal to select
draftees by lot and to limit,
each registrant’s vulnerability
to the draft to one year.
Nixon has already announced
Quake Kills
11 Africans
CAPE TOWN (UPI)-South
Africa’s worst earthquake in 37
years jarred the coast from
Cape Town to Durban Monday
night, killing at least 11 persons
and injuring dozens more.
Newsmen who visited the
worst affected areas around
Wolseley said, “the whole
country is rumbling and it looks
very grim.” They reported
huge brushfires.
these are indicated on the elec
troencephalograph by sharp di
vergent lines. When there is no
dreaming, there are no rapid
eye movements (REM) and the
record of eye movements does
not show divergent lines.
Best Since Freud
The “picture” that scientists
now have of dreams was the
first major breakthrough in the
50 years since the discoveries
of Freud in the study of dreams
and their possible connection
with mental illness, Vogel said.
The technique also destroyed
the long-held theory that
dreams last only a split second.
In reality, some people’s
dreams last as long as 45 min
utes.
Vogel, while with the Depart
ment of Psychiatry at the Uni
versity of Chicago, wrote a pa
per which was published in the
Archives of General Psychiatry.
In it he offered evidence to sup
port his belief that not having
dreams is not harmful and that
schizophrenia, a serious mental
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1969
Gl Accused Os Heading
Service Club Racket
lowered draft calls for the rest
of the year and has said he will
limit the draft to 19-year-olds
by executive order unless
Congress acts.
Some members of the com
mittee expressed concern that
the bill might lead to a
decrease in enlistments and in
the Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC), and thus result
in an increase in draft calls.
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ailment marked by delusions
and hallucinations, is not an
“eruption of the dream or REM
state into wakefulness.”
But he said, “There is, how
ever, considerable evidence that
depression is characterized by
disorders of the sleep cycle. In
deed, it is quite possible that
REM sleep and anti-depressant
activity are controlled by
closely related biochemical
mechanisms.” Vogel explained
this to mean that dreaming
sleep is reduced by the same
drugs that doctors use to treat
depression.
Dreams and Illness
But Vogel says there are
“many similarities between
dreams and the symptoms of
psychosis, particularly schizo
phrenia.
“Both often display hallucina
tions, delusions, loss of capacity
to test reality, implausi
ble thoughts and implausible
thought connections...”
Vogel believes there is a via
ble hypothesis in the dictum ex-
Dallas Sniper
Kills One,
Wounds 6
DALLAS (UPI)-A man who
said he was going hunting
Monday night stepped on his
porch with a shotgun, killed a
passerby and wounded six other
persons before police shot him
to death.
Police said Johnny lee
Thomas, 26, told his grand
mother he was going hunting,
then walked from his home in a
low income section near down
town Dallas and killed Frank
Henry Buford, 40.
Thomas also wounded his
stepdaughter, Aljewell Wesley,
16, his mother-in-law, Ruby
Mitchell, 52, and four police
officers before he was killed.
Lt. R. E. McKinney said
Thomas “apparently went ber
serk and started shooting.”
“It was just one of those
things, he probably had a bad
day and was upset,” added
McKinney.
pressed by Huglings Jackson, a
great British neurologist of the
19th Century, who said “Find
out about dreams and you will
find out about insanity.”
More and more scientific
probing is being done into the
twilight world of sleeping and
dreaming and there now is a
national organization of re
searchers interested in this
field, the Association for the
Physiological Study of Sleep.”
It has 350 members.
Sleep and dream investiga
tions are going on in such
learning centers as the Univer
sity of Chicago, Stanford Uni
versity, the National Institutes
of Health, and Harvard Univer
sity.
So much importance is at
tached to this research that for
several years a significant per
centage of the money granted
by the National Institute of
Mental Health has been ear
marked for sleep and dream in
vestigations.
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Athens Green Beret
Holds No Bitterness
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Pink
champagne flowed here when
the parents of Special Forces
Capt. Budge E. Williams heard
the Army had dropped charges
against their son in the Green
Beret murder case.
Army Secretary Stanley R.
Resor announced in Washington
Monday that all charges had
beendismissed against Williams
and five other Special Forces
officers accused in the murder
of a Vietnamese national report
ed to be a double agent.
“We are grateful the charges
have been dropped and that he
is getting reassigned,” Charlie
Williams, 52, said after getting
the news about his son. “Budge
still wants to be a part of the
Army.”
The elder Williams said
Budge wrote in his last letter
home that “he will have no bit-
Operation Netted
$350,000 A Year
By WILLIAM B. MEAD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Army’s top enlisted man was
accused today at a Senate
hearing of heading a “criminal
conspiracy” which allegedly
skilled up to $350,000 a year
from slot machine operations at
US. military service clubs in
Germany.
Irvin E. Beard, a former
military investigator, testified
that his investigation of service
club scandals was covered up
by the Army to keep from
embarrassing Gen. Harold K.
Johnson, then Army chief of
staff.
Johnson had appointed Wil
liam O. Wooldridge as the
Army’s first sergeant major—
the No. 1 enlisted man—in July,
1966.
Beard, testifying before the
Senate permanent investiga
tions subcommittee, said his
investigation from the fall of
terness toward the Army” and
“feels this whole thing was
caused on the part of two men.”
Williams said he personally
blamed only one man — Gen.
Creighten Abrams, U. S. com
mander in Vietnam—and added,
“I’m not an anti-war person in
that respect and I still feel
we’ve got to defeat these Com
munists.”
Budge’s mother is a changed
woman,” Williams said.
The soldier’s gray - haired
mother, who said she was
elated over the news, added,
“We’ve had a pretty rough
time.”
Williams was mowing the
lawn at his home when the
news broke.
A friend who lives across the
street from the small grocery
store the family operates, heard
a television report that the
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convinced him that Wooldridge
headed “a tightly knit clique of
high-ranking noncommissioned
officers” that ran Army service
clubs in Augusburg and Munich,
Germany.
Beard said he conducted the
investigation for the Army into
reports of irregularities in
operation of service clubs on
military bases. He has since
left the Army.
Beard said his investigation
showed “these men were
engaged in a criminal conspira
cy which involved systematic
larceny of nonappropriated
funds, properties and services
of the club system for their
own benefit and enrichment.”
Two senators also said
military authorities covered up
for a group of sergeants who
allegedly pocketed large
amounts from the reported
service club racket.
MATHENS, GA—Mr. and Mrs.
■ Charles Williams and attorney
■I Guy Scott (c) held a news con-
■ ference after learning of the
■ Army’s decision to drop
■ charges against their Green
■ Beret Son, ( apt. Budge E.
■ Williams. Capt. Williams was
■ one of eight Green Berets
■ charged with conspiracy to
J commit murder in Vietnam.
! ■ Arn >y announced yesterday
■ that they were dropping
■ charges against the Green
■ Beret officers. Charles
3 Williams says his son won’t be
H bitter about the case...and still
■ wants to be part of the Army.
S■The men are to be reassigned
■ out of Vietnam.
charges had been dropped and
dashed into the store to tell
Mrs. Williams, who was watch
ing the business in her hus
band’s absence.
The friend and Mrs. Williams’
mother, Mrs. Cora Cross, took
over the store while Mrs. Wil
liams rushed home to tell her
husband.
“We are laughing about it
and then we are so glad that
we start crying,” said Mrs.
Cross, 69.
Williams disclosed Monday
that his son had marked his
28th birthday only two days be
fore, and a lot of neighborhood
women had made up packages
of cookies and sent them to him
in Vietnam.
“I hope he got them in time,”
he said.
Williams said he expected to
get a telephone call from his
son soon.