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By Quimby Mritoa
How a cartoonist, who draws
a daily comic strip for news
papers, is able to find “situa
tions” of sufficient interest to
keep building the number of his
readers, has long puzzled this
newspaper man. But there are
many cartoon strips that live on
year after year.
Readers of The Griffin Daily
News have followed the daily
life of Major Hoople and
characters in Out Our Way
almost since “Heck Was a
Pup.” Another long time favor
ite has been Freckles. From
time to time the artist who
draws this strip, Henry Form
hals, introduces new characters
to help Freckles hold on as, a
favorite.
His latest addition is a cute
little expressive eyed Indian
girl, “Honeybee”, whose billy
goat is supposed to tring good
luck to one who pulls his whisk
ers. Among other things Honey
bee is crusading for, and almost
every cartoon character gets to
crusading sooner or later, is to
have New York (Manhattan)
restored to the Indians.
Manhattan, you will remember,
or so history tells us, was sold
by the Indians to the Dutch for a
few beads and trinkets.
Honeybee will more than like
ly step up her campaign follow
ing news that a group of people,
who claim to be descendants of
Polish General Count Kasimere
Pulaski, have filed a claim with
the State Department to 850
acres of land they say was given
the Polish Revolutionary War
hero. The attorney who is hand
ling the claim is of Polish des
cent.
The 850 acres of land, which
they are claiming, lies
somewhere along the Potomac
River, which is the boundary
between the National Capital
and Virginia. It is possible, they
believe die 850 acres they claim
was given Pulaski as a reward
for the part he played in the
Revolutionary War, might
include property on which are
located die White House, and an
area around it with its many
parks, monuments and govern
ment buildings.
An interesting sidelight to the
Pulaski claims is that the
youthful young count was never
married. This makes it much
harder for persons who might
be entitled to the property, if it
is found they are entitled to it, to
establish their relationship. The
woods will be full of Polish
, “descendants” of the Revolu
tionary hero. If he had been
married and the father of child
ren, the family tree would be
• much easier to follow than to
determine how many distant
cousins, and who they are, are
entitled to any property given
' him some 190 years ago.
Who was Pulaski?
He was bom in Poland and as
a young man helped his father
• lead a revolt against King
Stanislau. He was forced to flee
for his life and came to Amer
ica. He joined the army of
George Washington and
distinguished himself at the
Battle of Brandywine. However
, he did not shine as much in New
Jersey battles. He was then
transferred to South Carolina
where he organized Pulaski’s
• Legion, a cavalry unit. This was
the first American cavalry unit
and he is known as the “father
of our cavalry.”
• Pulaski was killed when the
British were driven out of
Savannah. Georgia in honoring
his memory named a county as-
' ter him. Hawkinsville is the
county seat of Pulaski County.
And the ladies of this part of
, Georgia have honored this
dashing young Polish cavalry
general by naming the Griffin
Daughters of the American
• Revolution chapter Pulaski
Chapter.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A dynamite explosion on a demolition training range killed seven green
beret soldirs at Ft. Bragg yesterday. Articles of clothing (dark objects in background) and boots
were blown off the victims* bodies. Five other men were injured. (UPI)
Smyrna Green Beret
Among Seven Killed
By GUY OLSON
FT. BRAGG, N.C. (UPI) -
All demolition training for
Green Berets has been stopped
until the Army can make a
“complete check” of proce
dures involved in an explosion
that killed seven soldiers and
injured five others.
Gen. E. M. Flanagan Jr.,
commander of the John F.
Kennedy Center for Military
Assistance, ordered the halt
Monday following the prema
ture explosion of 20 pounds of
TNT on a demolition training
range.
Flanagan called the blast,
which occurred during an
exercise involving 10 trainees
and two instructors, a “regret
table tragedy.”
The squad was learning the
kinds and uses of explosives
late Monday morning on a
range in a remote section of
this Army training center
in North Caroli-
na.
The 10 trainees, part of about
121 Green Berets completing
their final week of training,
were in a circle with two
pounds of TNT in front of each
man. The men were to attach
negative and positive wires to
each explosive and then retire
to a nearby bleachers to watch
the detonation.
But one wire apparently was
“hot” and triggered the TNT
prematurely, blasting the boots
and clothing off the men and
gouging a hole three and one
half feet by one and one-half
feet in the ground.
Seven soldiers were killed by
concussion and debris and the
other five were injured, two
seriously. One of the injured
lost a leg and the other a foot.
The Army identified the men
killed as Sgt. 1C Ernest J.
Bryan, 37, and Sgt. Phillip N.
Schnicke, 22, both of nearby
Fayetteville; Spec. 4 Ronald E.
Puckett, 23, of Smyrna, Ga.;
Sgt. Michael C Keller, 21, Fort
Wayne, Ind.; Spec. 4 Donald B.
Kingsley Jr., 23, Warwick, R.1.;
Sgt. John D. Pierce, 23, Flint,
Mich.; and Sgt. Lester E. Park,
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Jr., 20, Cherry Creek, N.Y.
The identification of the
wounded men was being
withheld until their families
were notified.
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NUERNBERG, Germany -This arsenal (top) of pistols, brass knuckles, and a knife were used by
eight young Czechoslovakians who hijacked an airplane from that country and forced it to land
here. Two of the young people involved, along with their two-year old child, are seen (below) as
they enter a police car for questioning. The hijackers asked for political asylum saying that they
could no longer tolerate the economic and political conditions in Czechoslovakia. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, June 9, 1970
The Army said the explosion
happened despite safety precau
tions, which included a safety
wire on each detonating cap.
School Budget
$6.2 Million
Steve Dial
Appointed
To West Point
Stephen (Steve) Grady Dial,
19, of Griffin has been appointed
to the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point. He will report July
1.
Dial is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Dial of 727 Woodland
drive.
He graduated from Griffin
High School in 1969 where he
was an outstanding football
player and a member of the Key
Club.
He was a freshman this year
at the University of Georgia.
Dial took ROTC training at the
university and took it three
years at Griffin High School.
The future cadet has lived in
Griffin since he was four years
old. He and his family moved
here from Marietta when
Kroger Copany transferred his
father here to operate the store
in Griffin. Mr. Dial is manager
of the Kroger store here.
Steve attended Third Ward
and Crescent elementary
schools before entering Griffin
High.
One of his favorite subjects at
Griffin High was math.
Rep. John J. Flynt Jr. of
Griffin made the appointment
to the academy. This was the
12th appointment he has made
this year and Rep. Flynt be
lieves that might be a con
gressional record.
Vol. 98 No. 110
Steve Dial
Gov. Maddox
Faces Surgery
Wednesday
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Leser Maddox, who ate a hearty
breakfast today and is in “good
spirits," will undergo an opera
tion Wednesday for removal of
a kidney stone.
Zell Miller said hospital tests
showed the presence of the
stone and the necessity for sur
gery.
The operation meant Mad
dox’s plans to call the General
Assembly into special session
would be delayed by a few
weeks, possibly until the middle
of July.
Maddox, who has been
pleagued by recurring kidney
problems and thought he had
passed a kidney stone two weeks
ago, entered Georgia Baptist
Hospital Monday evening.
“It looks like I am heading
for a major operation,” the 54-
year-old governor said. “I have
seen a lot of birthdays and
sometimes your parts wear
out.”
C-P Renews Requests;
Board Stands Firm
A group known as “Con
cerned Parents” renewed its
push to get the Griffin-Spalding
School System to rezone some
districts for a closer racial
Hanace here last night.
A delegation met with the
school board at its June
meeting.
The board said that Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW)
officials would not make any
zoning plan changes unless
overcrowding develops when
school opens in the fall.
An HEW official plans to visit
the school system here this fall
during the first two weeks of
school. If overcrowding is a
problem, some adjustments
might be made, the school
board said it was told by HEW.
However, any changes would
have to be approved by the
federal agency.
The C-P group read a letter to
the board from Mrs. Joann
Keadle, chairman.
It stated:
“In answer to your letter
concerning the petition
presented by the Concerned
Up $600,000
Over Last Year
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education adopted a budget of
$6,200,000 for the 1970-71 school
year last night. This was an in
crease of some $600,000 over
last year’s outlay of $5,600,000.
School administrators ex
plained that the increase was
due to teacher raises voted by
the state, retirement benefits,
Social Security coverage and
the addition of three days leave
for every professional staff
member. All of these increases
were made by the state, the loc
al board pointed out. Otherwise,
expenditures on the local level
will be about the same as they
were last year, the admin
istration pointed out.
Before adopting the budget,
the school board ordered a
$60,000 cut in the preliminary
figure handed it last month.
This was done before the board
adopted the budget last night.
The cut was necessary, the
board said, to avoid another in
crease in school taxes.
Supt. D. B. Christie said the
addition of the three days leave
for professional staff members
came from the state leyel. It
will cost the local system some
$15,000 and the state made no
money available for this, Mr.
Christie said.,
The chargeback 'formula
under which Minimum Educa
tion Funds are figured also
increased the amount, of local
money the school system here
must put up for next year’s
operation.
These items plus additional
retirement and Social Security
coverage all figured in the total
budget increase, according to
Mr. Christie.
In other business handled at
the monthly meeting, the board
heard a report that the building
program was running slightly
behind schedule due to rain last
week. But the time loss can be
overcome, construction men
have indicated.
The two major projects under
way now are construction of the
Jackson Road elementary
Parents, we want to thank you
for the requests you granted.
“However, you fail to mention
our first and foremost request
of racial porportions in each
and every school in the system.
We request immediate action on
this matter of re-zoning.”
Supt. D. B. Christie then
reported on a telephone con
versation he had had with an
HEW official in Atlanta.
The HEW spokesman said
one of its representatives would
come here during the first two
weeks of school in the fall.
He told Mr. Christie that the
purpose of the visit would be to
verify the system’s imple
mentation of the federally
approved desegregation plan.
Mr. Christie was told that racial
ratios were not required and
that no changes in the present
plan would be made for one
year unless overcrowding
develops.
After hearing Mrs. Keadle’s
letter and a report on the
telephone call to HEW by Mr.
Christie, the Griffin-Spalding
Board took no action on the C-P
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school and the new building on
the Griffin High campus.
Resignations were accepted
as follows: Mrs. Agnes Beatey,
Charles Hawkins, Mrs. Dorothy
Lott, Mrs. Betty Schomaker,
and Mrs. Glinda Wilson.
The following were elected:
Morris Lee, Griffin High
Science; Mrs. Patricia Tiggler,
Griffin High librarian; Henry
Barksdale, Griffin High math;
Miss Frances Worden, Spalding
Junior High physical education;
Aqeel Ahmed, Spalding Junior
High math; Richard Milam,
Atkinson fifth grade; Mrs.
Rosemary Lokey, Atkinson
second grade; Mrs. Sharon
Jones, Beaverbrook primary
grade; Mrs. Joanne Sowell,
East Griffin fourth grade; and
Miss Linda Sell, Orrs first
grade.
The board agreed to write a
letter of thanks to the First Bap
tist Church, thanking the
people who sponsored
the special kindergarten
program in three elementary
schools from February through
May. The church will sponsor
the program again beginning
next fall.
ROTC Here
Again
Honor Unit
The Griffin High School
ROTC has been designated an
“Honor Unit,” according to an
announcement from Third
Army Headquarters.
This is the fourth consecutive
year the unit has earned the
honor.
Maj. Augustus (Gus) Pelt is
commander of the Griffin High
Unit.
Only units that are clearly
maintaining exceptionally high
standards of military training,
discipline, and management
are considered for the honor
rating, Maj. Gen. B. F. Evans
Jr., of the Third Army at Ft.
McPherson in Atlanta wrote
Maj. Pelt.
i request.
The C-P group charged
today that the decision was
made “without an open vote.”
C-P spokesmen today said
they hoped to meet with HEW
officials soon and go over the
proposed desegregation plan for
the system here, asking what
changes can be made to achieve
racial balance in every school.
The C-P group contends that
some schools have up to 88
' percent white students while
others have a 70 percent black.
The C-P has contended that the
system should have a 70-30
white-black ratio here to match
its white-black enrollment.
The C-P said it would cir
culate petitions which favor
more equal white-black ratios.
The petitions will be presented
to the local school board and to
HEW,tiie group said.
The C-P also noted the school
board postponed again action on
a request for school bus trans
portation for. students in the
West Griffin area being trans
ferred to the Moore-North Side
area.