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“Wake me early Mother dear,
for I’m to be Queen of the May”,
so said the young lady told of in
the May Queen poem by Lord
Tennyson. Had this happy
young girl, who had been chosen
to reign at the May Day court
lived today, no doubt she would
have gone to bed confident that
she would awaken on time —
daylight savings time that is.
But regardless of how early or
how late one awakens in the
morning it will be May first and
will usher in a new month, with
many anniversaries and 31 days
of opportunity to make it a great
month.
May is the birth month of two
Presidents.
Harry S Truman, 33 presi
dent, was bom on May 8, 1884.
He will be 86 a week from to
morrow.
John F. Kennedy, 35th Presi
dent, was born on May 29, 1917.
Had it not been for his
assassination Nov. 22, 1963, he
would celebrate his 53rd birth
day this year.
May is also the birth month of
a former vice-president Hubert
H. Humphrey, born May 27,
1911. He will be 59 this month.
May 1 is observed in many
countries as a day when com
munism displays its strength
with parades, demonstrations
and the like.
May is the month of the Mid
night Sun, when on May 13 in
some lands like Norway there
will be 24 hours of sunlight.
It is the month when children
and grandchildren throughout
America join in honoring their
Mothers and Grandmothers.
Sunday, May 10 is Mothers Day.
The first Mothers Day was ob
served in Philadelphia, when in
1908 Mrs. Anne Jarvis request
ed her church in Philadelphia to
hold a special service honoring
all Mothers of all the nation.
Saturday May 2 will see the
running of the Kentucky Derby,
one of the greatest sporting
events of all times.
May 3 begins National Music
Week.
May 6 is the anniversary of
the first postage stamp, issued
in 1860 in England.
May 11 begins National
Salvation Army Week; and Sun
day May 17 is Whitsunday or
Pentacost Day.
Strange as it may seem May
19 is the anniversary of the day
when in 1902 all U. S. forces
were withdrawn from Cuba and
Cuban Independance was de
clared. The Cubans of today
have forgotten it was Uncle
Sam who defeated the Spanish
and won freedom for the island.
Unfortunately other countries,
like Cuba, have forgotten the
many times Uncle Sam has
come to their aid in times of war
and disaster and famine.
May 16 is Armed Forces Day;
and Sunday, May 30 is National
Memorial Day when tribute will
be paid to all veterans of all
wars this nation has fought.
This is one day that there should
be no north, no south, no east
nor west; no race, no creed, no
color, no economic status, no
educational barrier between
Americans.
Grandsons of veterans who
fought with Grant and Sherman
will join grandsons of men who
fought with Lee and Stonewall
Jackson in honor of all veterans
of all wars. The record of past
strife and prejudice must be
wiped out, forgotten and a unit
ed America must work in har
mony that true justice, freedom
and democracy will bless our
land.
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“I like your advice — if it
doesn’t interfere with what I
was planning to do.”
Copyright WO. bv Frank A Clark
House Builder Cites Land Need
A lack of land suitable for
housing is the key to the Griff
area housing shortage, ac
cording to Imperial Homes
President Gus Gustafson.
In a Griffin Daily News in
terview, Wednesday, Gustafson
talked of foe stumbling blocks
which dot the road to improved
housing in Spalding County.
“Without sewerage in the
county and with very little land
available in the city, there is
just no place to build
economically,” the home
manufacturing chief said.
Gustafson added that a high
land cost, shortage of labor, and
a low per unit return on in
expensive building are other
factors contributing to the lack
of interest by builders in
housing.
Imperial Homes produces
manufactured single and multi
family homes at their semi
automated Kalamazoo Drive
plant
Nixon Faces Job
Os Quieting Fear
By STEWART HENSLEY
UPI Diplomatic Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon, in a television
report to the nation tonight,
faces the task of quieting
widespread fears that the
sudden Allied military thrust
into Cambodia may widen the
war in Southeast Asia.
The President was expected
to justify the American-support
ed South Vietnamese drive
against Communist forces in
eastern Cambodia as an opera
tion vital to the security of U.S.
and Allied forces in South
Vietnam for protection against
foe possibility of flank attacks
from foe Communist troops
just across the border.
Administration officials, pre-
Mayor Allen
Eyes Leaving
Hospital
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica (UPl)—Former Mayor Iv
an Allen of Atlanta may be suf
ficiently recovered from his
bout with sleeping sickness to
leave a hospital this weekend.
Mrs. Louise Allen, said
Wednesday her husband was
“feeling much better—in fact,
he is getting restless.”
She said she had talked to
foeir son in the United States
and “I was able to give a favor
able report. The doctors said he
is doing well. We both expect
him to be out of the hospital by
foe weekend.”
Allen contracted sleeping sick
ness from the bite of a tsetse
fly while on safari in Botswana.
He was admitted earlier this
week to Feber Hospital here.
Tripp Took
Curtain Call
Tripp Neel of Griffin took a
curtain call bow with the cast of
“Hello Dolly” last night at the
Atlantic Civic Center.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Armon Neel of Griffin. He and
his parents went to the perfor
mance featuring Pearl Bailey
and Cab Callaway.
As the cast was taking one of
its 15 curtain calls last night,
Pearl Bailey went into the
audience, swooped up Tripp
who was standing near the
stage, and took him back up to
take a bow with her. He stood
between her and Callaway.
After the show, the Griffin
youngster got her autograph.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
“Even though our type of
housing allows for tight cost
control and quick assembly,
without foe necessary land to
build on, Griffin will probably
continue to feel a housing
pinch,” Gustafson remarked.
Gustafson emphasized that
the greatest demand for
buiilding still lies with single
family units.
“There are many federal
programs which have money
available for home building, but
because commercial and multi
family (apartments) units can
bid higher for labor, it is harder
for builders to construct single
family housing,” Gustafson
explained.
Faster production of homes is
only available through
automation at a central point of
construction, and that is what is
being done in manufactured
housing, he said.
Manufactured housing
consists of building major parts
paring the way for Nixon’s
address, were already hammer
ing hard on this theme and
attempting to minimize the
risks involved in the operation.
They sought to give the
impression the South Vietna
mese thrust with U.S. “combat
support” was a single strike
operation and did not represent
the opening of a new phase in
the war with wider political and
military ramifications.
These officials acknowledged,
however, foe Allied drive might
well be followed by more such
thrusts in an effort to destroy
foe military capability of North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong
forces in east Cambodia.
The White House said Wed
nesday that the sudden Allied
military operation was not a
response to Cambodia’s plea for
large-scale American aid
against the Communist troops.
However, officials acknow
ledged any successes achieved
against the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong forces would
have the effect of lessening the
threat they posed to the
Cambodian government of Pre
mier Lon Nol, which ousted
Prince Norodom Sihanouk as
chief of state.
The American-supported
South Vietnamese drive came
as a shock to most congress
men, who had assumed Nixon
would want to avoid any U.S.
intervention in Cambodia—even
in the combat-supporting role—
lest Hanoi be spurred to
intensified efforts throughout
Indochina.
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MEDIUM HAS MESSAGE
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)-The
U.S. sth Circuit Court of
Appeals denied Wednesday the
peition submitted by Larence
Conklin, an inmate of the
Florida State Prison who asked
the court to enjoin prison
officials from refusing to
furnish sufficient writing paper.
Conklin said the paper was
needed to prepare writs and
other legal documents.
The court said Conklin had
access to “10 sheets of white
bond paper per day” and
denied his petition. The court
did say, however, that Conklin’s
petition, filed on 4% feet of
toilet paper, was “resourcefully
attention-getting.”
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Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 90,
low today 67, high yesterday 85,
low yesterday 67. Sunrise
tomorrow 5:54, sunset
tomorrow 8:12.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, April 30, 1970
Gustafson watches Jerry Step
hens operate equipment at
Imperial Homes.
South Viet Troops
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Push Into Cambodia
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPl)—Three tank
led columns of 7,500 South
Vietnamese troops pushed up to
15 miles into Cambodia today
with U.S. air, artillery and
advisory support. Two Ameri
can advisers were reported
wounded, the first U.S. casual
ties in the widening Cambodian
conflict.
Government field comman
ders reported their men had
slain 445 Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese troops and had
plans to stay in Cambodia
“many days.” The guerrillas
were said to be using comman
deered Cambodian army cars
to evacuate their wounded.
South Vietnamese losses were
put at 32 killed and 112
wounded, 55 of the wounded
suffered when U.S. helicopter
gunships opened up on a
Ranger unit by mistake. The
American command said it
would not identify the two
wounded U.S. advisers.
The three drives into the
Parrot’s Beak section of
Cambodia, an area of Commu
nist base camps that juts to
Handling the signing of >155,000
worth of city bonds are (1-r)
James Helms, Atty. Bob Smal
ley, Mayor Joe Dutton and City
Manager Homer Davis. The
bonds were signed for delivery
to the buyer yesterday. The
money will be used to finance
construction of a third city fire
station. It will be between South
Hill and South Ninth streets
near Crescent School. The city
hopes to call for bids in a few
weeks.
within 35 miles of Saigon, was
coordinated with the Cambo
dian army to the extent that
nearly a dozen Cambodian
troops linked up with the Allied
troops and led them to old
guerrilla baseareas.
From Phnom Penh, the
Cambodian government said it
knew nothing about the opera
tion but could not approve it
“because we are a neutral
nation.”
President Nixon was going on
television and radio at home
tonight to explain his decision
giving the go-ahead for Ameri
can involvement in Cambodia.
Preliminary official explana
tions in Saigon said the purpose
was to protect the safety of
Allied troops in Vietnam.
The Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese denounced the
move-in the Paris peace talks,
saying the United States would
meet united resistance from
North Vietnam, the Viet Cong,
foe Pathet Lao and the people
of Cambodia.
Hanoi’s Communist party
leader was reported in Peking
seeking more Red Chinese aid.
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of a home into a package which
is shipped and assembled at the
foundation.
“People ask the advantages
of buying manufactured homes
as opposed to mobile homes and
I tell them that the former’s
value will go up and the latter’s
value will go down,’’Gustafson
quipped.
Permanent homes have
several marked advantages,
according to the Imperial head.
“Interest which is paid on
single family housing is tax
deductible, but rent is gone
along with equity,” Gustafson
added.
Gustafson recommended the
permanent home as the best
investment a young couple can
make because of foe increasing
costs of housing.
Referring to the costs of
.conventional home building,
Gustafson compared
“economies of scale” between it
and a manufactured housing.
Field reports said the imme
diate goal of the Allied drive
across foe border was to wipe
Russell Bitterly Opposed
To U.S. Action In Cambodia
By United Press International
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-
Ga., powerful head of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee,
says he is “bitterly” opposed to
U. S. involvement in Cambodia.
Junior Sen. Herman Talmadge
shared Russell’s views.
“Each new development con
firms that our involvement
there has been a grave
mistake....,” Russell said
Wednesday from his Winder
home. Russell said he was
against sending American
troops to Southeast Asia “in the
first place.”
Talmadge said there had been
no concerted effort to achieve
victory in Vietnam and “we
“We are able to considerably
lower the expense of design and
labor by prorating them among
foe many homes of a particular
style that are built,” he said.
Looking to the future, the
Imperial Homes chief sees a
greatly increased use of
manufactured homes with more
than 50 per cent of all single
family dwelling being of this
type within five years.
“Very soon we will start to
build sectional units which can
be ‘zipped’ or put together in
two or three days, once they
reach the lot,” Gustafson said.
As the automatic nail drivers
and saws pound and buzz in the
background, Gustafson shows
no fear of what the future holds,
only the slight smile of a man
who knows he will be a par t of it.
“Better quality and lower
cost in housing is what will
come from our operation and
those like it,” he said.
out base camps which until the
ouster of Prince..-? Norodom
Sihanouk in Phnom Penh on
have no business being” in
Cambodia. He said he “regret
ted” President Nixon’s plans to
send arms to Cambodia.
“Every military, leader worth
his * salt has always advised
against getting into a land war
in Asia, and I fully concur with
this principle.”
But Reps. Ben Blackburn and
Robert G. Stephens Jr. backed
foe Nixon move. Blackburn said
foe Communists in Cambodia
are foe same ones we have
been fighting in Vietnam and
“now we have got the right to
fight them in their own sanctu
ary.”
Stephens said he would back
other steps to bring the “matter
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American bombing or Allied
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to < conclusion.”
Rep. John J. Flynt Jr. of
Griffin recalled that Nixon’s
move was almost precisely the
way the United States became
involved in Vietnam 10 years
ago and said he is “bitterly op
posed” to the new administra
tion plans.
Rep. Jack Brinkley expressed
“great concern” about further
involvement in Southeast Asia.
“I am greatly troubled,” said
Rep. Phil Landrum, “that this
may be a subtle way of getting
us sucked deeper into another
Vietnam.” He said he favored
giving no support to Cambodia
at the present time.