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By Quimby Melton
Last week Good Evening got a
letter from a lady who lives in
Pike County, who has worked at
the Georgia Experiment Station
some ten years. Here is part of
that letter:
I wish you would write some
thing about the sign the Atlanta
Gas Light Company has on its
entrance gate. The sign reads
“Glad You Are Back S A F E.”
The lady says she has noticed
this sign every day as she drives
to her home and believes if at
tention is called to it, through
this column, that it “just might
make some drivers take an ex
tra second to think, before tak
ing a chance.”
Picking up the telephone call
ed Don Young, one of our
several friends at the gas com
pany and asked about this sign.
He said it is over the entrance
gate to the lot in the rear of then
building where they park their
service trucks. And he told us
that the reverse side of the sign
reads “Please Button Your Seat
Belt.”
Chatting with him was told
that these signs are used on
gates of all Atlanta Gas Light
service parking lots throughout
the territory served by his com
pany. That the company has a
fine safety record and he ex
pressed delight that someone
other than a gas company em
ploye has noticed the sign.
No doubt other large com
panies that operate on a state
wide basis, such as Coca-Cola,
The Telephone Company, and
others have similiar signs. For
they, too, recognize the impor
tance of safety.
With the hazardous driving
conditions that have prevailed
here during the past weeks, and
with driving on the highways
posing danger even in the best
of weather, throught this might
be a good day to comment on
this letter from this Pike County
woman, for in doing so Good
Evening might cause someone
to stop and think and not care
lessly “hit the highway.”
“Glad You’re Back SAFE”,
reads the sign about which this
lady wrote Good Evening. It is
aimed at the men who drive the
service trucks of the Atlanta
Gas Light Company.
But it could be hung at the
front door of every home, for
the world today is full of dan
gers to life and limb. The strain
and stress of keeping up with
the fast tempo of today taxes
the strength of even the young
est and strongest and some
times one, who leaves home
seemingly in good health, does
not live long enough to arrive
home safely at the end of the
day.
Some will remember in “the
good old days” many homes in
America had hung on the wall in
the “living room” a framed
“Sampler” that read “God
Bless Our Home.” This was a
kind of household prayer and a
reminder that God could and
God would bless the home.
The “Sampler” in form of a
painted sign at the entrance of
the parking lot at Atlanta Gas
Light is both a wish (prayer)
that the driver will return Safe,
and is also a reminder that the
driver can and should do his
part to make that trip a safe
one.
Abortion Backers
Helped Mother
Obtain Abortion
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Citizens for Hospital Abor
tions has revealed it collected
about S7OO to obtain an out-of
state legal abortion for a
27-year-old mother of two.
Mrs. Judith Bourne, chairman
of the group, said Monday the
woman, an Atlanta Negro iden
tified only as “Mrs. L,” was
sent to the Washington-
Maryland area for the abortion.
The woman has to work to
provide for her other children
and would have been forced to
“give up her job” if she had a
third child, Mrs. Bourne said.
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Gov. Lester Maddox
Criticizes Rep. Melton
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Les-'
ter Maddox said yesterday
House Ways and Means Chair
man Quimby Melton was “less
than honest” in his attack last
week on the governor’s
proposed sales tax increase.
Melton, in leading the fight
against House adoption of the
proposal, criticized Maddox for
straying into areas with which
he was not familiar.
He said Maddox “misled peo
ple that an increase in the sales
tax would reduce property
taxes.” Melton also said the
tax would “hit the little man
the hardest.”
Maddox said, “He (Melton)
knew when he said it that he
was being less than honest and
that under my proposal the real
little man would pay less sales
tax than he now pays.”
Maddox demanded that Atlan
ta television stations give it
equal play. He said the stations
last Thursday carried lengthy
excerpts of Melton’s attack on
him and “I want this covered
on television” the same way.
Senate Bill
Prohibits
Transfers
ATLANTA (UPI)-A bill to
prohibit the transfer of students
to achieve racial balance in
schools was approved today by
the Senate Education Commit
tee.
As it passed the House Mon
day, the so-called “New York
Plan” measure would also have
banned transfers of teachers for
integration, but the committee
deleted that provision.
Both plans are based on a
bill passed last year by the
New York Legislature which
has been upheld in state courts
there.
Chairman Robert Andrews of
Gainesville said his committee
also would approve the House
version so that one of the bills
can be passed before the Gen
eral Assembly session ends Sat
urday.
Andrews said the bill “has no
racial overtones. This is one
area in which we can
get together—both blacks and
whites.”
The committee action was un
official because the legislature
was in recess today in honor of
the late Speaker Pro Tem Mad
dox Hale.
“Being against things
wouldn’t be so popular if
more folks were for the right
things.”
Copyright 1970, by Frank A. Clark
GRIFFIN
DAILYfNEWS
Daily Since 1872
Rep. Melton
Answers Governor
Here is what I said on the
floor of the House on Thursday,
Feb. 12, about Governor
Maddox:
“There are many things
about Governor Maddox which I
admire. I think he is honest,
clean, straight, conscientious
and sincere. I think that he
could have gone down as one of
Georgia’s greatest governors if
he had confined himself to areas
with which he is familiar. I
refer specifically to welfare,
prison reform, and his great
rapport with the people. His
Tittle people’s day’ fills a big
need and is one of the finest
things that has happened in
Georgia in a long time. Un
fortunately, he has gone into
other areas.”
I said that although I think the
Governor is sincere, he has
misled people into thinking that
an increase in the sales tax
would reduce ad valorem
Wife, 2 Daughters
Slain At Ft. Bragg
Foster's Hope
For Early
Hearing Dim
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI)-
Hopes for an early hearing for
Roger Foster, charged in the
deaths of a charter boat cap
tain and his son seven years
ago, dimmed today with notifi
cation that the prosecuting at
torney would be out of town
until next week.
State Attorney Ralph Cun
ningham wrote defense lawyer
Henry Carr of Miami that he
would be back next week but
that he had begun contacting
potential witnesses from across
the nation.
A sanity hearing for the Grif
fin, Ga., physician’s son was
delayed a week ago to allow
both sides to compile reports
from a mental hospital where
Foster was confined in Septem
ber 1963.
Foster, 24, faces arraignment
on murder charges in the
deaths of charter boat skipper
Douglas Trevor and Trevor’s
son and first mate, Edward, if
he is found presently sane.
Foster told Coast Guardsmen
who found him alone on the
blood-spattered decks of the 32-
foot boat Dream Girl that he
had knifed the Trevors and
thrown their bodies overboard
off the coast of Cuba April 12,
1963.
A letter from the superintend
ent of the mental hospital to
Circuit Judge Acquilino Lopez
Jr., prompted the hearing a
week ago.
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Tuesday, February 17, 1970
(property) taxes. It would not
necessarily do so. I said further
that the sales tax hits the little
man the hardest.
I wish to emphasize at this
time that the Governor has
offered no guarantee whatso
ever that an increased sales tax
would reduce property taxes.
Unless and until some guaran
tee is forthcoming, I will con
tinue to oppose increased sales
and other taxes as vigorously as
I possibly can. Otherwise, we
would be raising taxes on the
person who could afford it the
least without relieving the small
property owner in any way. The
fact is, the State sets sales
taxes, but the counties and the
municipalities - not the State -
set property taxes.
I reconfirm this statement
and ask the people of Georgia to
judge for themselves whether it
is, as the Governor declared, “a
vicious and unwarranted attack
on the Govemnor of Georgia.”
FT. BRAGG, N. C. (UPI)-
The wife and two daughters of
an Army captain were found
slain in their Ft. Bragg quar
ters today and military author
ities said it appeared to be “a
ritualistic murder.”
Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald,
who was wounded in the attack
on his family, told military po
lice that the four were ter
rorized and assaulted by two
white men, a Negro, and a
blonde woman who burst into
their quarters Monday night.
MacDonald barely had the
strength to telephone author
ities. When they arrived at the
family’s quarters on the base,
they found MacDonald wounded
and partially conscious next to
his wife, who was dead of stab
wounds. The word “Pigs” was
written in blood on the head
board of their bed.
The two daughters were
.found stabbed to death in their
bedroom.
Investigators found an ice
pick and a club outside the
quarters in Corregidor Courts.
MacDonald said the blonde
wore a floppy hat and carried
a candle during the ordeal.
MacDonald was stabbed in
the stomach. He was taken to
Womack Army Hospital where 1
he was listed in satisfactory
condition.
MacDonald is a doctor as
signed to the preventive medi
cine section of the 6th Special
Forces at Ft. Bragg.
The post, in eastern North
Carolina near Fayetteville and
about 60 miles east of Raleigh,
is headquarters for the 18th
Airborne Corps, the 82nd Air
borne Division, and the Green
Berets.
City Pushing
For Bond Money
Liberals Hope
To Block
Stennis Plan
By STEVE GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Northern liberals hope to win
Senate approval today of a pro
posed year-long study of school
desegregation and block a
Southern-sponsored proposal to
extend educational integration to
all parts of the country.
Sens. Walter F. Mondale, D-
Minn., and Jacob K. Javits, R-
N. Y., planned to call up an
amendment to the four-year,
$35 billion Elementary and Se
condary Education Act that
would create a select Senate
committee to study policies and
laws dealing with school dese
gregation.
They planned to offer their
proposal as a substitute to an
amendment introduced by Sen.
John C. Stennis, D-Miss., and
backed by all Southern and a
few Northern senators.
The Stennis amendment would
make it national policy that de
segregation guidelines be ap
plied uniformly in all regions of
the country “without regard to
the origin or cause of such se
gregation.”
Desegregation efforts have
been aimed primarily at.
Southern states where segrega
ted school systems were created
by law rather than in the North
where they have resulted from
ethnic neighborhood patterns.
Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-
Conn., said last week the North
was guilty of hypocrisy.
Stennis predicted “good and
full debate” on the two pro
posals and no vote is expected
until late today. If the Senate
approves the Mondale - Javits
amendment, which will be voted
on first, the Stennis amendment ’
dies.
The House faced a similar
civil rights struggle.
The House Rules Committee
met today to clear for floor
action, probably Wednesday, a
$19.8 billion Labor and Health,
Education and Welfare appro
priations bill that has been
trimmed to meet President Nix
on’s objections but contains
antibusing and freedom of
choice language.
Monday night Stennis decided
to reverse the order he will
offer his two amendments. His
other amendment would ban
busing of students to achieve
racial balance, and permit par
ents to pick schools their chil
dren attend.
Stennis said the Javits-Mon
dale amendment, at least, gives
“recognition that something
must be done.”
House Praises
Jack Langford
The Georgia House of Re
presentatives has approved a
resolution commending the
civic and spiritual leadership
demonstrated by Jack Langford
who has retired temporarily as
city manager of Griffin.
The resolution was sponsored
by Rep. Clayton Brown Jr. of
Griffin.
Mr. Langford in late Decem
ber retired temporarily as city
manager with the understand
ing with the city commissioners
that he would return to his dut
ies within three months if his
health permitted.
He was retained as an advisor
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sections of Cherokee County for H
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Two Girls
Found Alive
CANTON, Ga. (UPI) - The
Cherokee County sheriff’s office
said today that two small girls
missing for two days have been
found alive in woods about
three miles from their home.
The girls were taken immedi
ately to the Canton hospital.
The condition of the children
was not known.
The sheriff’s office said
2-year-old Brenda Lee Richard
son was unconscious; Teresa
Mae Epp, 3, was conscious.
Brenda was lying on the
muddy ground and Teresa was
standing beside her.
Officials said they were found
in a wooded area about three
miles from their home in the
Rose Creek community area.
Two National Guardsmen, on
foot, found the children.
Cherokee County sheriff’s of
ficials said more than 200
searchers turned out at day
break. More were arriving and
a helicopter was called in to
fly at treetop level in hopes of
spotting some sign of the chil
dren.
Dragging operations begun
Monday afternoon around the
edges of nearby Lake Allatoona
were continued. Officials said
there was no indication the
toddlers ever got near the lake,
but that possibility was not
ruled out.
Eight jeeps of National
Guardsmen joined the volun
teers and Civil Defense workers
searching in the rural wooded
to the commissioners.
Rep. Brown’s resolution noted
Mr. Langford was graduated
from old Boy’s High School and
later attended Emory Univer
sity.
It said he was a dedicated
husband and father of three fine
sons. (Two of them, Flynt and
Robert, are Griffin business
men, and another, Jack, is a
juvenile judge in Fulton
County.)
The resolution noted Mr.
Langford’s leadership in
American Legion activities. He
served in World War II in the
Signal Corps.
area around Lake Allatoona,
while bloodhounds were with
drawn from the effort. Officers
said the area was “too tracked
up” for the hounds to be effec
tive anymore.
A steady rainfall for more
than 24 hours hampered search
operations Monday.
He Wasn’t
Joking
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI)-Po
lice said the young man who
asked the receptionist at an
automobile dealership for sales
man Joseph D. Green because
“I want to shoot him” wasn’t
joking.
Officers said A. W. Wall Jr.,
26, of Dacula was jailed on a
murder charge Monday.
Detectives said the reception
ist, who thought the man was
joking, pointed him to Green’s
office. They said he walked in,
pulled a pistol and shot Green
four times in the chest, killing
him instantly.
Officers said the assailant
then put down his .38 caliber
pistol and asked another em
ploye of the auto dealership to
call police.
Green, 30, lived in Chamblee.
He was a salesman for Strother
Ford Co.
No motive was known for the
shooting.
Mr. Langford has held many
offices in the First United
Methodist Church of Griffin and
continues to take an active in
terest in the affairs of his
church, the House resolution
continued.
It noted he was a charter
member and second president
of the Griffin Kiwanis Club and
had held many offices in that
organization. From 1946 to 1950
and from 1957 till 1970, he serv
ed as city manager and under
his leadership, the community
experienced development and
growth, the resolution said.
Inside Tip
Carswell
See Page 10
Summer
Funds
Eyed
Federal spokesmen indicated
to Griffin city officials yester
day that a half million dollars in
municipal bond money is ex
pected to be available here after
July 1.
City officials talked with
Housing and Urban Develop
ment (HUD) people about the
city’s efforts to get bond money
from the federal agency.
HUD indicated the money
should be available after the
new federal fiscal year begins
in July. The city would be able
to get a half million dollars at
five and three-eights percent in
terest. This would be within the
five and a half limit set when
city voters last year approved
the nearly two million bond
issue.
Griffin commissioners have
been told that federal sources
limit bond money to a half
million each year. But officials
here believe they will be able to
get that much again next year
by making new applications.
HUD people said they could
only make bond money commit
ments on a year to year basis.
The city has been having
trouble selling the bonds on the
open market because of the high
interest rates. Mclntosh Trail
APDC staffers helped make
federal contacts for the city
about the federal money for
bonds at a rate within Griffin’s
reach.
Homer Davis, acting city
manager, said that HUD of
ficials went over Griffin’s bond
situation in detail yesterday
with city officials in Atlanta.
The part of the sewer im
provement and extension pro
gram the city believes is most
critical right now is construc
ting a new lift station to serve
the subdivisions and business
development area on the North
Expressway just north of Mcln
tosh road.
This work along with replac
ing some worn out lines in the
Cabin Creek disposal complex
will fit within federal regula
tions, making it possible for the
city to qualify for the cheaper
bond rate money.
The way Mr. Davis figured it
with federal officials yesterday,
the phase of the sewer improve
ment project discussed would
cost some $561,400. He said the
city had a “cash on hand” set up
which was reflected in the bond
issue data presented last sum
mer.
This amounted to some
$13,000 and the city could dip
into this for the $61,400 needed
for the first phase.
Mr. Davis said that the
Georgia Water Quality Control
Board must approve the pro
posal before HUD can act on
Griffin’s application for the
federal bond money.
The Georgia board has been
pushing the city for work on the
pollution problem at the Ison
Branch lift station.
The state board has pointed
out that at times the city sewer
system has to dump raw sewage
into the stream there. This
feeds into High Falls State
Park, causing a water pollution
problem.
City officials will explain to
the state board in a meeting
Thursday why the work in the
Mclntosh road area should be
done first. They hope the state
water board will go along with
the city’s thinking.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 55,
low today 40, high yesterday 56,
low yesterday 52. Total rainfall
.99 of an inch. Sunrise tomorrow
7:21, sunset tomorrow 6:21.