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Thank God! The two little
Cherokee County baby girls
* have been found and are safe in
the Canton hospital. Reports
are they are already showing
t signs of speedy recovery from
the ill effects of the long ex
posure to the elements while
wandering round in the cold,
« wet woods for 40 hours before
being found.
There is joy in Canton; There
is joy throughout Georgia;
* there is joy in the hearts of all
decent people, wherever they
may be, who have known of the
search for the missing girls.
• Three-year-old Teresa Mae
Epps, and her two-year-old cou
sin Brenda Lee Richardson,
wandered away from their
‘ home sometime Sunday after
noon. When they left and why
they left no one knows. For 40
, hours a search was made for the
two. Finally, Tuesday morning
the two were found, in tears be
neath a tree about three miles
«from their home. They were
found by a National Guardsman
and a neighbor of the parents of
the girls. Quickly taken to the
• hospital they were united with
their parents.
Concern over what could have
happened to the two and where
• they were quickly spread
throughout the community and
the day and night search that
4 was to last for parts of three
days began. Members of the
National Guard, of Civilian De
fense, sheriff and police of
t ficers, the state safety patrol,
Boy Scouts and the Civilian Air
Patrol, as well as just plain
neighbors joined in the search.
• If ever there was a community
that was united in any under
standing it was Canton.
The first reaction is one of
* thanks that the two little girls
are safe and at home.
Then one cannot help but be
thankful that there were or
* ganizations available that could
and did head up the search for
the two;
, Then one cannot help but be
ever more thankful that even in
this day and time when many
communities are split wide
• open over various things, that
all difference of opinion, all ill
feeling, all prejudice is laid
aside and the people unite in
• helping neighbors whose hearts
were breaking when they found
their two baby girls missing.
As we think about this story
’ with its happy ending we can’t
help but be thankful that right
here in Griffin we have National
Guard, Civilian Air Patrol,
’ Civilian Defense, Boy Scouts,
efficient state, county and city
peace organizations that are al
, ways ready to go on emergency
duty. And that backing up these
are people who have de
monstrated time and time again
« that Griffin “has a heart.”
Sometimes we take such fine
people as these for granted.
They don’t ask for praise, but
• they are entitled to it, plenty of
it.
Speaking of having a heart!
’ Next Tuesday the Griffin-
Spalding Red Cross Blood Pro
gram begins a new year; with
t the Bloodmobile making its first
visit of the year here.
Last year the response here
resulted in 1152 pints of blood
. being donated — 96 percent of
our quota. It is planned to make
the record for this year even
better. Those in charge of the
« program are seeking 200 pints
on the first visit.
The Bloodmobile will be at the
Cheatham Building, First
• Baptist Church Tuesday bet
ween 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Come on Griffin —
Have a Heart!
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I WASHINGTON - The Senate
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Southerns See
Direction Shift
By WILLIAM B. MEAD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
modem civil rights movement,
born in 1954 and nurtured by
Congress and the courts, has
suffered its first major setback
in a Senate vote hailed by
Southern leaders as the harbin
ger of “a change in direction.”
“It’ll have to be done
gradually, and with more
consent on the part of the
parents, black and white,” Sen.
John C. Stennis, D-Miss., said
of future school integration.
“We’ve opened a new gatew
ay,” Stennis said. He credited
growing Northern distaste for
school integration as the
primary factor in his 56 to 36
victory Wednesday. Stennis won
with support from 11 Northern
Democrats led by Sen. Abra
ham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., and
including Senate Majority Lead
er Mike Mansfield, D-Mont.
“There’s a conservative
movement under way in this
country,” warned Sen. Walter
F. Mondale, D-Minn., leader of
the defeated Senate liberals.
“There’s a fear about being
courageous on racial matters.”
Mondale said Stennis’s
amendment would slow South
ern integration rather than
speed integration of Northern
schools.
Significantly, debate during
the final days included few of
the fervent pleas for support of
black aspirations that charac
terized Senate civil rights
debates of the 1950 s and ’6os.
Even in endorsing a rival
amendment over Stennis’, the
White House said it was doing
so to “give validation to de
factor segregation in the South
in the same measure that it is
constitutionally permissible in
the rest of the country.”
The rival was defeated, 48 to
46, with Sen. Sam. J. Ervin Jr.,
D-N.C., turning florid as he
thundered, “Amend for the
Stennis amendment!” Then a
proposal by Sen. Jacob K.
Javits, R-N.Y., to weaken
Stennis’ amendment went down,
50 to 41.
The Stennis proposal, cospon
sored by 19 other Southerners,
would declare a policy “that
guidelines and criteria esta
blished” under civil rights laws
“shall be applied uniformly in
all regions of the United States
in dealing with conditions of
segregation by race, whether de
jure or de facto, in the schools
of the local educational agen
cies of any state without regard
to the origin or cause of such
segregation.”
It thus abolished the distinc
tion between “de jure” segrega
tion —that resulting from law,
the only kind affected by court
and HEW orders so far —and
“de facto” segregation, which
results from neighborhood pat
terns and is prevalent in
Northern cities.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Stennis said the vote was
“the first, the very first” South
ern victory in the civil rights
field since the Supreme Court
decision of 1954 outlawing
school segregation.
Congress passed a voting
rights law in 1957, another vot
ing bill in 1960, and a constitu
tional amendment repealing the
poll tax in 1962. In 1964, it pass
ed a major civil rights bill cov
ering public accomodations,
schools and employment. It
added another voting rights law
in 1965 and an open housing
statute in 1968.
In an interview, Stennis said
racial violence in schools, the
passage by the New York legis
lature of an antibusing law, de-
State Board Asks
‘Modification’
ATLANTA (UPI)- The Geor
gia Board of Education voted
unanimously Wednesday to seek
a modification of federal court
orders demanding total deseg
regation of 81 Georgia school
districts.
The board authorized School
Superintendent Jack Nix to at
tempt to modify the plans along
“neighborhood school” lines.
The decision affecting the Geor
gia counties was handed down
last December by the sth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
A desegregation order con
taining “anything less than
freedom of choice and children
attending schools nearest their
homes could not work in a
democratic nation,” Nix
charged.
The Georgia board will seek
a modification similar to a rul
ing handed down by a Florida
appeals court panel Tuesday.
That decision defined a “unita
ry school system” as one in
which children attend schools
Maddox Sees Tight’
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Les
ter Maddox said Wednesday he
believed the light at the end of
the desegregation tunnel was
coming into view, although “it
has been a long, hard fight.”
Maddox applauded announce
ments by President Nixon and
the sth U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The Nixon administration said
it has no objections to school
segregation resulting from hous
ing patterns, and the court
handed down a decision uphold
ing neighborhood school deseg-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Feb. 19, 1970
segregation orders by California
courts and recent Supreme
Court decrees ordering immedi
ate integration in many South
ern districts prompted a shift
in public opinion.
“It built up mighty fast in
the last six months,” he said.
“It all pointed up that educa
tion in this nation is in a cri
sis, and integration is part of
it—not all of it but part of it.”
He said his amendment “will
lead to restoration of education
as the primary purpose of
schools, rather than social
change.”
“There’s a change in direc
tion,” Stennis said. “I don’t
know to what extent yet, but
it’s coming.”
nearest their homes.
In the December ruling un
der which the 81 Georgia school
districts are bound, desegrega
tion reflecting the racial com
position of the school district
has been ordered.
Ji
“Thoughts are like high
ways, the more you've been
over them the more comfort
able they are to follow — and
the least likely to take you
anyplace new.”
Copyright IWO, by Frank A. Clark
regation.
“I said for years this would
happen when the mothers and
the fathers saw what would
happen with their children,”
Maddox said. “The President,
the courts, the Congress would
not respond until these people
insisted on it.”
But while Maddox lauded the
Nixon announcement, he said he
believed the President could do
even more. He said Nixon
should proceed beyond just the
neighborhood school announce
ment “and insist on HEW
NEWS
District Meet
Os ABC Here
Saturday
Sessions
Scheduled
Leaders of American Busi
ness Clubs in five Georgia cities
and communities surrounding
them will be in Griffin Saturday
for a district meeting.
The Griffin Chapter, ABC,
will be host for the meeting.
The District which is 1-A in
cludes Atlanta, Augusta,
Savannah, Macon and Griffin.
Wilson Cooper, president of
the Griffin Chapter this year,
will be host president for the
meeting. He estimated more
than 50 club leaders would be
here to talk over ABC business
and make plans on the district
level.
The meeting will be held at
Holiday Inn.
Registration will begin at 8
a.m. and the business sessions
will begin at 10 a.m.
Louie Zorn of Savannah, dis
trict governor, will preside at
the sessions.
ABC-ettes in Griffin will be
hosts to visiting wives of ABC
members.
They have scheduled a tour of
Griffin and a fashion show at a
Griffin store.
After a banquet dinner, the
club members and their wives
will be entertained at a dance at
the Elks Club.
Six Students
Will Attend
Drug Conference
The Griffin Kiwanis will send
six high school students from
this area to the Operation Drug
Alert Conference in Atlanta this
weekend.
It will be held at the Dinkier
Plaza Hotel Feb. 20-21.
Students to be sponsored by
the Griffin club include Otis B.
Head Jr. and David Ogletree, of
Fairmont High; David Riggins
and Jim Hill Jr., of Pike County
High, and Bill Cole and Jim Hill
Jr., of Griffin High.
Mrs. Jennie Pyron is the
faculty advisor and Grady Nor
ton is the Kiwanis Club re
presentative handling the local
project.
Students from all over the
state will attend the conference
to learn about drug abuse pro
blems.
This is a Kiwanis Internation
al project for the year and the
Georgia Division is sponsoring
the conference as one of its
main efforts.
The theme of the meeting will
be: “Drugs — Use, Misuse and
Abuse.”
Nationally known experts will
speak during the series of con
ferences.
The high school students will
return to their respective
schools to tell fellow students
about the dangers of drug
abuse.
Students can communicate
better with fellow students, ac
cording to Gov. Mark Smith of
the Georgia Kiwanis organiza
tion.
(Health, Education and Welfare
Department; following through
...in support of what he says
ought to be the policy of edu
cation.”
In addition to endorsing the
neighborhood school concept,
the administration announce
ment also stated opposition to
federally-ordered busing of stu
dents to promote racial
balance.
Maddox said Nixon would
have “my total support if he
means it, and I believe he does.
This is what I have been trying
to get the President to do.”
Vol. 97 No. 42
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Budget Veto
Threat Dims
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPl)—Final legis
lative approval of the billion
dollar budget for 1971 was ex
pected today, and all indica
tions were that a threatened
veto by Gov. Lester Maddox
would not materialize.
Conference committee mem
bers worked all day Wednesday
on drafting a compromise bud
get, and said it was going
smoothly, if slowly.
Sources said the committee
met with Maddox in efforts to
reach agreement on the por
tions of the budget proposal
over which he threatened a
veto, and barring “irreconcila
ble differences,” there would be
no problem.
Maddox wanted funds re
stored for a new women’s
prison and a work release pris
on center in Atlanta. Part of
the money was cut by the
House, and the Senate changed
the way it would be spent.
Classroom Size
Otherwise, the Senate was ex
pected to consider education
bills, including one to reduce
the teacher-pupil ratio in ele
mentary grades from 1-28 to
1-25.
The Senate Wednesday turned
down a compromise proposal on
ST. LOUIS — It takes two re
gular size nurses, Barbara
Corrao (1), and Barbara Tho
mas (r), to assist Max Palmer,
the giant evangelist, on a walk
around Barnes Hospital. Pal
mer is an unusual man who
stands 7 feet, 8 inches tall and
weighs 385 pounds. He is a for
mer alcoholic, wrestler and sa
loon bouncer turned evangelist.
In St. Louis for a rest and treat
ment of a foot injury, Palmer,
43, who makes his home in Mid
west City, Okla., considers the
Rockport Baptist Church in Ar
nold, Mo., his home church and
spends most of his time travel
ing, speaking at churches
across the country. “God gave
me my size so I could draw
people into his house,” Palmer
said. “People who have never
darkened a church door in their
life will come in to see the giant
and when they come they hear
the word of God.” (UPI)
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a bill intended to help smooth
the way for state aid in low
cost housing.
The bill would allow trucks
carrying 14-foot-wide modular
housing units to use Georgia’s
12-foot highway lanes. The Sen
ate wanted the same privilege
extended to trailers and mobile
homes.
The State Pardon and Parole
Board would be swelled from
three to five members under a
Senate bill that was sent to the
House. The controversial board
had problems earlier this year
when the illness of one of the
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three members caused a back
log of cases.
The House approved a bill to
let the legislature budget funds
for local schools to reduce the
required local share of educa
tion costs under the Minimum
Foundation Program.
The Senate sent to the gov
ernor a measure requiring a
prominent notice on the en
velope when material showing
nudity or sexual acts is sent un
solicited through the mail.
Yet another effort to re
establish a Milk Control Com
mission failed in the House, 82-
69.