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Columbus March
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI)-
Some 500 high school students
took to the streets Tuesday to
protest further integration in
the Muscogee County schools.
The students began their
march at Jordan High School.
As they passed two other high
schools, they picked up rein
forcements. At their destination,
the Muscogee County School
Board building, the students re
mained until 3:30 p.m., the time
their march permit expired.
Student leader Stanley Stal
lings and another student, Mike
Britton, conferred with County
School Superintendent Dr. Wil
liam H. Shaw during the sit-in.
Destroying
ATLANTA (UPl)—Education
committee hearings were high
lighted Tuesday by an East
Point pilot, who testified sex
education in the public schools
was “destroying the basic mo
rality” of America.
Al Leake, who also is chair
man of the Georgia Basic Edu
cation Council, told the House
Education Committee sex edu
cation encourages students “to
go out and experiment and do
anything their little hearts de
sire.”
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Ousted
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)-
Columbus Enquirer Associate
Editor Charles Black was oust
ed and reinstated at the pre
trial hearing of Lt. William Cal
ley Jr. Tuesday.
Two of Black’s recent articles
dealing with the alleged My Lai
massacre were entered into the
court record before the trial
judge, Lt. Col. Reid Kennedy,
asked Black, 46, to leave the
courtroom.
Kennedy said Black had vio
lated the spirit of a court order
banning statements by potential
witnesses in the Calley murder
trial. Calley is charged by the
Army with the premeditated
murder of 102 civilians at My
Lai.
Monday
ATLANTA (UPI) - Federal
Judge Frank Hooper has sched
uled a final hearing in the At
lanta school desegregation case
for Monday.
Hooper said the main purpose
of the hearing was to consider
whether student integration
should be implemented at the
beginning of the spring quarter
March 5 or in September.
Agnew Protest
ATLANTA (UPI)—An anti
war group said Tuesday it al
ready has firmed up plans for
a war protest demonstration to
coincide with the Feb. 21 visit
of Vice President Spiro Agnew.
The Atlanta Mobilization Com
mittee to End the War in Viet
nam, said it will demonstrate to
show Agnew it is “not buying
any Vietnamization, any hand
ful at a time troop withdrawals,
any secret timetables or secret
peace plans.” ,
Agnew will come here to
speak at a Republican fund
raising dinner.
Identified
ATLANTA (UPI) - Police
said today a human skeleton
found in a vacant lot has been
tentatively identified as that of
Levy Jackson Owens.
Owens, about 53, was the
father of an Austell woman,
police said. His daughter, whose
name was not released, said he
had been missing “for some
time.”
The Fulton County medical
examiner’s office, where the
skeleton was kept for further
investigation, said Owens had
apparently been dead six to
seven months.
The bones were found late
Sunday by some children play
ing in the field along Stewart
Avenue. They were partially
covered by dirt.
GED Tests Will
Be Included In
Adult Program
The Griffin-Spalding Multi-
County Adult Education
program has expanded its ser
vices to include testing for the
General Education Develop
ment (GED) exam.
Successful completion of the
GED exam will qualify a person
for a high school equivalency
certificate issued by the State of
Georgia. Adults may qualify for
the test if they are at least 20
years old and are a bonafide
resident of Spalding County.
The exam is regularly
scheduled for the last Friday
afternoon and Saturday mor
ning of each month. Two
sessions are necessary because
of the 10 hours required to
complete the entire battery of
tests.
The fee for scheduled tests is
six dollars. In emergency cases
the exam will be scheduled on a
individual basis as needed.
Fee for the exam under this
condition will be 11 dollars. An
appointment must be made
prior to the day of the test. Jeff
Key, coordinator of Griffin-
Spalding Schools may be con
tacted for further information.
First Offensive Battle
The United States launched
America’s first offensive
battle of World War II on
Aug. 7, 1942, when U.S.
Marines landed on Guada
canal in a campaign which
ended in the defeat of the
Japanese the following
February.
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I Funerals
Mrs. Sims
Mrs. Cora Colwell Sims, 93, of
Route Three, Jackson, widow of
Mr. Charles B. Sims, died at 11
o’clock last night at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital where she
had been a patient three weeks.
Mrs. Sims was a lifelong resi
dent of Butts County and was a
member of the Towaliga
Baptist Church.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. W. E. O’Neal of
Conyers, Mrs. Mary S. Welden
of Roswell; a daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Martha R. Sims of
Jackson; two sisters, Mrs.
Coral Whitaker and Mrs. Jewel
Thaxton, both of Jenkinsburg; a
brother, E. P. Colwell Sr., of
Jackson; five grandchildren,
eight great grandchildren,
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 2 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon at Haisten Funeral
Home in Jackson. The Rev. J.
C. Parham will officiate. Burial
will be in the Towaliga Baptist
Church cemetery.
Mr. Wilder
Mr. Jady L. (Buddy) Wilder,
55, of Route One, Hampton, Ga.,
Clayton County, died yesterday
afternoon at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital where he had
been a patient three days.
He was a farmer. He was the
son of the late Mr. James
Douglas Wilder and Mrs. Lelia
Mae Shivers Wilder.
He is survived by his mother,
a brother, Sam Wilder; a sister,
Mrs. J. R. Hall, Jr., all of Route
One, Hampton; several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral serivces will be held
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in
Haisten’s Chapel. The Rev.
Cecil Dix, and the Rev. Jimmy
Chambers will officiate. Burial
will be in the Shivers family
cemetery.
The body is at Haisten
Funeral Home in Griffin.
Peach Council
Plans Meeting
At Jekyll Island
JEKYLL ISLAND - Some 200
of Georgia’s approximately 350
peach growers will meet here
Feb. 1-3 for the annual con
ference of the Georgia Peach
Council.
Most of the sessions will be
educational and will deal with
production and marketing
problems, said C. D. Spivey,
horticulturist with the Coopera
tive Extension Service. But
Spivey added there will also be
time for a peach daiquiri party
and seafood buffet Sunday
evening, a golf tournament
Monday afternoon and a ban
quet Monday night. Featured
speaker at the banquet will be
Bill Simpson, director of public
relations for the University of
Georgia.
The council will hold a brief
business meeting at 9:10 a.m.
Feb. 3, with President Joe
Meadows of Cochran in charge.
This will be followed by a
meeting of the Georgia Agricul
tural Commodity Commission
for Peaches.
Headquarters for this year’s
event will be the Buccaneer
Motel, and registration will
begin there at 3 o’clock Sunday
afternoon.
Meadows will open the formal
meeting at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 2. One
of the highlights of the first
session will be a panel dis
cussion on “Marketing Georgia
Peaches.” The moderator will
be J. W. Fanning, vice president
for services, University of
Georgia.
Also appearing Monday
morning will be Harry Neufeld,
director of the Southeastern
Agricultural Research
laboratory at Athens. He will
tell what the new laboratory
will mean to the peach industry.
Other educational topics to be
presented Monday and Tuesday
concern sod culture, research
programs, tree surveys, soil
compaction, mechanical
harvesting and producing
peaches for processing.
One of the highlights Tuesday
morning will be a talk by James
L. Carmon, director of the
Computer Center at the
University of Georgia. His sub
ject will be “Computers - A New
Tool for the Peach Industry.”
Real swingers
HAVANT, England (UPI) —
Twenty-five teen-agers swung on
swings for 72 hours nonstop to
raise 100 pounds ($240) for
charity.
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Hospital
The following persons have
been admitted to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital:
William Ridgeway, Mrs.
Dorothy Jean Littlejohn,
Charles Dickinson, Mrs. Maude
Mcßorie, Willard Williamson,
Frank Stephens, Mrs. Rhu Mae
Jennings, Mrs. Leona Redding,
Mrs. Carol Strobeck, J. V.
Parker, Mrs. Minnie Joiner,
Raymond Cash, Willie Warner,
Mrs. Betty Short, Mrs. Jennie
McSwain, Renee Smith, Mrs.
Mary J. Hagans, Roger Sims,
Mrs. Harvey L. Howard Sr.,
Lonny Hall, Mrs. Deborah Jean
Parker.
The following were dis
missed:
Mrs. Geraldine Skipper, John
E. Wortham, Mrs. Cindy
Mangham, Mrs. Helen Sanders,
and baby, Mrs. Maude Martin,
Miss Phyllis Johnson, Mrs.
Bessie Fox, Mrs. Eunice Ellis,
Mrs. Salister Ann Williams and
baby, Mrs. Mary Will Ross,
Mrs. Lillian Kapiloff, Ted
Hardy, Mrs. Elizabeth Godwin,
Mrs. Mattie Walker, Jessie
Lloyd Storey, Jackson Richard
son, Mrs. Geneva Gardner,
Mrs. Leola Ison, Albert Daniel.
About Town
MARCH OF DIMES
Mrs. Nell Darsey, Mothers’
March chairman for the March
of Dimes, has requested that all
volunteer workers pick up their
materials at the Community
Room, Commercial Bank and
Trust Co., on Monday, Jan. 26,
between 5 and 7 p.m.
ROTARY CLUB
Noah Langdale, president of
Georgia State University, will
be guest speaker at the meeting
of the Griffin Rotary Club on
Thursday, at noon, held at the
Elks Club.
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Beverly Thomas, a Griffin High
senior, has been awarded the
Daughters of the American
Revolution Good Citizenship
Award for 1969. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Thomas, 1115 Pine Valley road.
Fire Destroys
Pump House
The Dundee Volunteer Fire
Department answered a call
this morning at 12:25 a.m. to
Zetella road, a pump house, on
the property of Grady Strick-'
land.
Fire destroyed the pump
house and firemen reported the
cause was undetermined.
Bed, Mattress
Damaged In Fire
The Griffin Fire Department
answered an alarm yesterday
at 11:17 a.m. to 327 Melrose
avenue, the residence of Har
mon E. Caldwell.
Damage was reported to the
bed and mattress in one room.
The cause was undetermined.
Mail Appeals
Go Out In
Drive For Dimes
A stamp and a check can
bring new hope to a child
penalized by a crippling birth
defect, Ronnie Cook, 1970
March of Dimes campaign
director, said today.
“Our mail appeals are on
their way into homes through
out the community,” he said.
“Please take those five minutes
to fill out a check and place a
stamp on the return envelope.”
According to Mr. Cook, who
represents March of Dimes
volunteers throughout Spalding
County, contributions aid the
progress in research,
education, patient care ana
community services conducted
throughout a nationwide net
work of 111 Birth Defects
Centers.
“Only an enthusiastic public
response can continue these
gains,” Mr. Cook said. “The
future is in your hands - and
your checkbook.”
New Appeal
Is Planned In
Smith Case
A new appeal will be filed in
the case of Ronald Lee Smith
convicted and sentenced to
death in the slaying of Charles
L. Vaughn, Griffin college
student.
The U. S. Supreme Court has
turned down a request to review
the case.
Smith was sentenced Feb. 16,
1968 after he was convicted in
Spalding Superior Court of the
murder of Smith.
Reuben Garland and his son,
Edward Garland who handled
the defense of Smith said a new
appeal would be filed.