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Weekend Notes:
President Nixon, Governor
Maddox, and numerous other
office holders and would-be
office holders were featured in
last week’s news.
When President Nixon,
speaking to the National Jaycee
Convention in St. Louis, con
cluded his speech “What is
Right About America” he was
given an enthusiastic standing
ovation. He asked the young
business men of that organiza
tion to “help bridge the genera
tion gap”. Prior to going to St
Louis he had singed the voting
act that enables 18-year-olds to
vote throughout the nation.
The President, after
negotiations with the Japs to
lessen the flow of cheap textiles
to America had broken down,
came out favoring U.S. imposed
textile quotas.
Governor Maddox, recupera
ting from his operation had an
active week. He filled several
speaking engagements, in
cluding the meeting of the
Georgia Press Association at
Jekyll Island. Prior to leaving
for that convention he an
nounced he was lifting the ban
on Atlanta newspapers being
sold on the state capitol
grounds, saying the Constitu
tion and Journal had been fair
in the way they had “covered”
his banning of them and
picketing of their building. He
said it was good for newspapers
to check on public officials and
good for a governor to check on
newspapers.
In New York former U.S.
Supreme Court justice Arthur
Goldberg won the Democratic
nomination for the U.S. Senate;
and long-time Harlem District
Congressman, Adam Clayton
Powell lost the Democratic
nomination to State Represen
tative Charles Rangel, also a
black resident of Harlem, by a
small margin.
Here in Georgia political
races began to warm up. There
were enough rumors flying
round to keep a high powered
rumor mill working day and
night
“Overthere”:
Plans to withdraw all
American ground troops from
Cambodia by Tuesday night
were unchanged; with the
enemy seeming determined to
hit both Cambodia and Vietnam
all tiie harder in hopes Uncle
Sam “might change his mind.”
In the Mid-East Egypt’s
Nasser scoffed at President
Nixon’s efforts to get a cease
fire from Egypt, Israeli and
Jordan while the U.N. Security
group tried to work out a
solution of the troubles. And in
Ireland women and children
have been moved from two Irish
cities where tension is so taunt
the country seems on the
verge of a revolution.
Here at home:
Miss Lisa Segio, noted
scholar, writer and world
traveler, told the “bosses
night” meeeting of BPW,
America has muffed its
chance to bring harmony to the
Middle-East because she had
lost the respect of the people
there who held America and its
people have abandoned many of
the moral values that had made
it great.
Judge Jack Langford, of the
Fulton Juvenile Court, told
Kiwanis the breakdown of
family life was largely
responsible for juvenile
delinquency.
Superior Court ended its June
session.
Garton Stubbs, 30, and John
Phillip Morone, 27, were killed
on their way to the ABC national
convention. Stubbs was vice
president of Griffin ABC and
news director of Radio Station
WHIE; Moronewas representa
tive of Griffin Memorial Gard
nes and son of a UPI photo
grapher.
Griffin’s Jaycees continued
getting ready for their annual
Fourth of July celebration.
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Sa ' ?' ■ ill
Judge Tanksley
Exchange Speaker
Jeptha C. Tanksley, Judge of
Superior Court, Fulton County
will be the speaker at the
regular meeting of the Ex
change Club tomorrow.
Judge Tanksley graduated
from North Georgia College and
earned degrees from the United
States Military Academy at
West Point, Emory University
Law School, and Georgia State
College.
He served with distinction as
an officer in the U.S. Army
during World War II and was
awarded the Purple Heart, the
Combat Infantry Badge, and
the Silver Star for galantry in
action.
Judge Tanksley has served on
the Board of Directors of the
West Point Society of Atlanta as
president of the North Georgia
Alumni Association of Atlanta,
as president of Emory Univer
sity Law School Alumni
Association, and as (resident of
the National Alumni
Thousands Head
For Byron Show
BYRON, Ga. (UPI)-Traffic
crept along Georgia Highway 49
at the Middle Georgia Raceway
today as youngsters from
across the nation came to this
small town for a weekend pop
festival.
Authorities estimated as many
as 5,000 already had moved into
a wooded camping ground
across from the festival
grounds, living in tents, trailers,
camper buses and other make
shift homes.
Advance predictions for the
three-day Atlanta International
Pop Festival, which starts Fri
day, have placed the expected
crowd at anywhere from 50,000
to 100,000 or more.
On the raceway grounds,
mountains of cases of soft
drinks dot the area. Methodists
in nearby Warner Robins set up
a first aid station which soon
became an interdenominational
project A spokesman said they
were “going to listen as well
as talk.”
Concession stands sprouted
along Highway 49 leading north
and south of the town.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
An early morning fire Sunday damaged the Faith Temple church building on North Ninth exten
sion. Dundee Volunteer firemen brought the blaze under control but not before a section of the roof
had collapsed. An unidentified man who lives across the street from the church spotted the fire
and called firemen about 6 a.m. Ray Howard of the volunteer group was inside the building
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Judge Tanskley
Association of Georgia State
College.
Judge Tanksley recently
qualified as a candidate for
governor of the State of Georgia
in the upcoming Republican
primary election.
Those in the camping area in
cluded youths from California,
Idaho, Kansas, Texas, New
York and Florida. A free kitch
en was set up to feed those who
came unprepared, and some lo
cal people contributed food.
More Troops Ordered
Into Troubled Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPl)—The death toll in a
weekend of death and destruc
tion in Northern Ireland rose to
six today when one of the
victims of Catholic-Protestant
rioting died in a hospital.
Shotgun blasts by snipers
wounded two more British
soldiers today.
Prime Minister Edward
Heath called his cabinet into
emergency session in London
and announced he was sending
3,000 more troops into Northern
Ireland to try to enforce peace.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, June 29, 1970
Temperature
Drops To 59
An all-time record low of 59
degrees for this date was set
today.
The previous record of 63 de
grees was set in 1933.
Horace Westbrooks’ weather
records also show the low of 59
degrees Sunday came within a
degree of matching the all-time
record for that date. The record
of 58 degrees was set in 1968.
The forecast for Griffin calls
for more warm days and cool
nights.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 82,
low today 59, high yesterday 80,
low yesterday 59. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:37, sunset
tomorrow 8:45.
The Country Parson
Bril j* -
“It’s one thing to envy a
man for his swimming pool
—and quite another to envy
him because he has a hunk
of bread."
Copyrlaht 1970, by Fr.r* A. Clbrk
Previously 8,000 troops had
been sent there.
An army spokesman said in
addition to the two soldiers hit
by snipers another six soldiers
were injured in Belfast and 32
in Londonderry during clashes
Sunday night. Police said
“hundreds” of persons were
being treated in hospitals,
many for gunshot wounds.
Rioting erupted when Ber
nadette Devlin, 23, member of
parliament and civil rights
leader of the Catholic minority
in Northern Ireland, was sent
helping to man a hose when part of the roof came tumbling down. He suffered burns to his right
hand. The wooden pews and some other furnishings were saved. The blaze apparently started
near a water heater.
U,S. Troops Out Os Cambodia
Full Day Ahead Os Schedule
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI) -The United
States today completed with
drawal of U.S. troops from
Cambodia one full day ahead of
President Nixon’s deadline for
the pullout of American forces
involved in a two-month opera
tion against Communist sanc
tuaries, military sources said.
Nearly 1,700 American troops
slogged on foot through mon
soon mud to cross into South
Vietnam from Cambodia’s Fish
Hook sector northwest of
Saigon, the sources said.
They said some 300 American
advisers remained in Cambodia
with South Vietnamese units.
Military spokesmen said the
advisers would be removed
from Cambodia on Tuesday.
Cropduster
Pilot Killed
OCILLA (UPl)—The pilot of
a cropduster aircraft burned to
death Monday when his plane
crashed and burned after strik
ing a tree, police said.
Tommy Campbell, 21, of Fitz
gerald, died when his plane hit
the treetop and burst into
flames.
He was operating the aircraft
from a Fitzgerald airstrip and
was dusting crops at the time
of the accident.
to prison Friday for six months
for her part in rioting last year.
The new trouble in Belfast
was brief and lers serious than
Friday and Saturday night
rioting which police said caused
five deaths and 221 injuries,
injuries.
In Londonderry, police
clashed with demonstrators and
at one point a mob threw
gasoline bombs on the roof of
tile post office. Postal workers
threw the bombs back.
Some police officials speculat
ed the death toll was higher.
Vol. 98 No. 128
There were 39,000 South Vietna
mese troops in Cambodia and
their leaders said they were not
observing the American dead
line.
Os the 1,700 American troops
left in Cambodia at dawn
Monday, one rifle battalion of
tiie Ist Air Cavalry Division
was lifted out by helicopter.
The rest of the Gls swept
through the overgrown and
dripping jungle terrain on foot,
searching for Communist sup
ply caches as they worked their
way toward the border of South
Vietnam. Some had been on the
march four days.
Surtax End Will Fatten
Pay checks A Few Dollars
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
weekly paychecks of the
average American will be a
dollar or so fatter next week
and middle income groups will
soon get an even bigger boost
in take home pay as the surtax
and some Social Security
withholding come to an end.
Although government econ
omists minimized the effect of
the added overall ■".enasing
power on the economy, others
believed it would only add to
the inflation still plaguing the
nation.
The first tax reduction occurs
midnight Tuesday when the
surtax, imposed to defray costs
of the Vietnam War, expires. It
is expected to put an additional
$2 billion into the collective
pockets of the nation’s taxpay
ers.
The surcharge was 5 per cent
for the first half of this year. It
was originally 10 per cent of
regular income tax bill from
April 1, 1968 until Dec. 31,1969.
Even more significant for
middle-income groups is the
annual phase out of Social
Security contributions that will
begin in mid-August for those
earning 312,000 a year and
early July for those earning
$15,000, adding sll and sl4
Weather Forecast
Fair
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U.S. commanders earlier had
moved more than a score of
artillery bases out of Cambo
dia. Some were set up in South
Vietnam near the frontier.
Their guns boomed all day,
protecting the South Vietnam
bound infantrymen.
As the Americans moved to
the South Vietnamese border,
they blew huge holes in roads
and felled trees in an effort to
slow Communist attempts to
haul new supplies to the border.
They also spread a crystalline
type tear gas that lingers from
two weeks to six months in
Communist bunkers, supply
respectively to their take-home
pay.
Each worker covered by
Social Security is taxed 4.8 per
cent of the first $7,000 he earns
in a year. After the income
ceiling is reached, the worker
pays no more Social Security
taxes for the rest of the year.
Administration economists
contend the present inflationary
trend is caused by the “push”
of rising costs —including labor
—on the price of finished goods
than it is by the pull of
excessive demand in the form
of spendable income. They say
inflationary pull, in the form of
excessive buying power bidding
up the price of scarce goods,
has been brought under control
through monetary controls and
resulting unemployment.
But other economists believe
the present round of tax
reductions is ill-timed and will
only slow down efforts to halt
inflation.
The government has been
reported considering new
“value-added” taxes which
would affect the consumer
much as a sales tax, but they
would not be applicable until
next year at the earliest if
enacted.
The Nixon administration has
bunkers and along trails.
Allied communiques said
today the operation into Cambo
dia which began in late April
had captured or destroyed
29,627 weapons, more than
11,000 tons of munitions and
more than 8,500 tons of rice.
They said 14,488 North Vietna
mese and Viet Cong had been
killed and 1,427 captured.
American spokesmen said the
United States lost 339 men
killed and 1,509 wounded in the
Cambodian operation with
South Vietnamese casualties of
866 killed and 3,724 wounded.
estimated the federal budget
will show a deficit of $1.3 billion
during the business year that
begins Wednesday.
Utilities
On Agenda
T onight
The final City Commission
meeting scheduled for June will
be held tonight at the city hall
beginning at 7:30. The meeting
was not held last week because
commissioners were at the
Georgia Municipal Association
meeting at Jekyll Island.
It was scheduled tonight in
stead of tomorrow night so city
officials will be able to attend
the Chamber of Commerce
accreditation dinner tomorrow
night at the Junior High
Building Two.
Mayor Joe Dutton said that
the proposal to furnish Shapard
Industries with utilities for a
plant planned just off Searcy
avenue will be on the agenda
tonight.
Those for and against it have
been invited to express them
selves at tonight’s meeting, the
mayor said.