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Mrs. John Izard, the former
Miss Mary Bailey of Griffin,
speaking to .the Exchange Club
of Griffin Tuesday, expressed
hope that Griffin would never
lose its identity, and become
just a small part of a strip city
running from Gainesville to
Macon. If this should happen,
she said, Griffin would lose
much of its beauty. Comfortable
and well kept homes would be
crowded out by multi party
homes and apartments; lawns
and flower gardens would
cease; trees and parkways and
municipal parks, would be
things of the past only to be
dreamed of; and playgrounds
would be unknown.
Such is the trend throughout
the nation and in Georgia she
said.
Mrs. Izard spoke as an official
of the Georgia Conservancy,
Inc., and interestingly told of
the program of that society that
seeks to put a stop to destroying
the beauties and bounties of
Mother Nature with which we
have been endowed.
The former Griffin girl who
was introduced to the club by
her father Nathaiel (Nat)
Bailey, program chairman for
the day, answered the question
“Why a Conservancy Organiza
tion?”
“Most of us,” she said “are
acutely aware of our recent
scientific and technological
progress, but few realize the
dangers threatening our en
vironment. The success of ours
and future generations rests
largely upon our ability to blend
scientific advancement with
wise use of Nature’s gifts.
“The role of the Georgia
Conservancy is to unite
Georgians in this task by
creating an awareness of
problems and issues in con
servation: providing informa
tion for the individual to act
wisely on these situations: and
organizing educational
programs to create an ap
preciation for the total natural
resources.”
Then she told of some of the
things the organization has
accomplished,
“The Georgia Conservancy
has influenced major conserva
tion questions in the state.
Important conservation issues
have called us to Waycross to
testify for the Okefenokee
National Wilderness Area and
to Savannah to protest
phosphatae mining on the
Georgia coast without proper
research. The Conservancy has
alerted Georgia citizens to the
hazards of channelizing the
Alcovy River and other dangers
to our environment.”
Following her interesting talk
a motion picture was shown of
various parts of the state telling
how Georgia is losing its pure
and fresh water supply; how its
mountains are being eroded and
destroyed, and how even the
seacoast is losing out in the rush
to keep pace with “modern
trends.”
Mrs. Izard said that the
Georgia organization had
grown from a few members to
more than 4,000 who are active
in the work to preserve the
resources of nature.
During her talk she praised
Griffin’s Dundee Mills for their
program to eliminate pollution
from the waste water they feed
into the streams.
TAKES OWN CENSUS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Census Bureau said Rep. Bill
D. Burlison’s Missouri District
lost 32,636 persons during the
19605. So Burlison is taking his
own census.
He is mailing a census survey
io all postal patrons in the
Southeastern Missouri District
to determine whether anyone
was overlooked. He said he
would forward the results to
file Census Bureau so it can
conduct a “missed persons
campaign.”
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If properly used, the U. S. 19
and Griffin By-Pass intersec
tion is safe, according to Archie
Burnham, traffic engineer for
the State Highway Department.
He passed along some trips to
local drivers today which he
said would help them dear the
intersection.
First of all, Mr. Bumham
pointed out, the present stage of
ttie road is preliminary to its
final operation.
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Court Ponders Private Schools
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPI) - A three
judge federal panel Wednesday
took under consideration the
school desegregation plans of
seven Georgia school districts
and indicated a ruling might be
issued on some of the plans
within two days.
Debate centered around the
rapid increase in private schools
as the justices heard arguments
involving the discrepancies be
tween plans submitted by the
districts and guidelines submit
ted by the regional office of
Health, Education and Welfare.
One of the judges, U. S. Dis
trict Court Judge Newell Eden
field of Atlanta, expressed con
cern that future court rulings
might have to be altered slightly
to handle the rampant growth in
private institutions.
“One of these days,” he said,
“some court, and it may have
to be this one, is going to have
to sit down and say: Our duty
Citizens Help Police In Thomasville;
Sex Maniac Suspected In Rape-Death
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (UPI)-
Private citizens augmented po
lice patrols Wednesday night in
the wake of the savage rape
murder of a 70-year-old woman,
termed the work of a “sex
maniac,” who lived alone in a
well-to-do section of this south
Georgia city.
The killing of Miss Dora Lav
itt, which came within a month
of four break-ins at the homes
of other women who lived
alone, touched off a run on the
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Here's How To Cross By-Pass
today will be different when the
By-Pass is fully operational in a
few weeks.
One of the major changes
when the road is fully opera
tional will be that U. S. 19 traffic
no longer will have the right-of
way. This will be a departure
from a pattern that has existed
for many years, the engineer
pointed out.
The By-Pass traffic will have
the right of way when the route
is fully operational.
is to bring about desegregation
and our duty is to stop reseg
regation.”
The districts involved in
Wednesday’s hearings were
among 81 Georgia systems un
der court orders to desegregate
by fall. Seventy-four have al
ready had plans approved.
Another judge, Sidney O.
Smith, said the court was aware
at the outset that the order
would hurt public education by
prompting whites to flood sub
urbs in order to escape integre
gation. “But I don’t see any
way we can avoid it,” Smith
said.
Smith was referring to the pan
el’s order last December setting
up a ratio of 75 per cent of
Hacks to be in an integrated
situation.
Williams Blanks, a school at
torney arguing for the Macon
County plan, warned that fail
ure to approve his district’s
sale of protective devices such
as burglar bars, spray chemical
irritants and alarms.
Members of the local citizens
band radio club organized a
night patrol of 20 cars, donat
ing their own time, while police
strengthened their patrolling of
the city.
At a meeting of city officials,
lawmen and citizens Wednes
day, a reward of more than
$3,000 was raised for informa
tion leading to the arrest and
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, July 9, 1970
Secondly, Mr. Burnham
pointed out, drivers should not
attempt to cross the By-Pass in
one step at the U. S. 19 intersec
tion.
The cross is designed so that
drivers should plan to cross one
section at a time. This will re
quire a stop in the middle of the
four-lane strip, the engineer
continued.
A driver attempting to cross
the By-Pass without a stop in
the middle is taking a chance,
dress-up her hamburger, under the watchful eyes of a group
of Canadian youngsters, during a beach barbecue. (UPI)
plan might result in a “mush
room” development of private
schools.
He said the Macon plan was
offered in good faith, but he
charged that other district’s of
fered “tongue-in-cheek plans
and some even intended to
abandon their public school
systems.”
In a separate desegregation
case, Judge W. A. Bootle ruled
at Macon tha,t Washington Coun
ty, Ga., must set up a ratio of
51 per cent Negroes to whites
even if compulsory school as
signments had to be made.
Bootle made it plain that he
had in the past voiced his pref
erence for a freedom of choice
Irfan rejected by the sth U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals. He
said the court “has no other
choice” but to order the com
pulsory assignment.
conviction of the killer.
Police Capt. R. T. Alley said
the slaying was the work of a
“sex maniac” and the “worst”
he had seen in 28 years on the
Thomasville police force.
Miss Lavitt, who lived on the
fashionable northeast side of
this city of about 20,000 in a
two-story white-columned home,
was found lying nude in a pool
of blood Tuesday, bedclothes
wrapped around her neck.
An examination showed she
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A shirker often is some
one who wasn’t given some
thing very important to do ”
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had been sexually molested.
Sheriff C. A. Rehberg said
death could have been caused
by strangulation or by a severe
blow to the head. The woman’s
nose and a cheekbone were
shattered by her attacker who
also apparently ripped the door
off the utility room in which her
body was found.
The body was discovered by
police after a neighbor, seeing
the lights on and the front door
ajar at Miss Lavitt’s home,
the highway official said.
He will make it through in one
shot only if he is very lucky, Mr.
Burnham said.
The two distinct phases of
crossing the By-Pass on U. S. 19
are: first dear the traffic to
your left in one direction of
traffic only then proceed to the
middle of the facility; there
clear the traffic from your right
then proceed on across.
The third suggestion Mr.
Burnham made was that driv-
U.S. General,
Six Staffers
Missing 2 Days
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPl)—The com
manding general of the U.S. Ist
Air Cavalry Division and six
subordinates have been missing
for two days in a helicopter
crash, military spokesmen said
today.
Scores of American aircraft
were aloft searching for them.
The U.S. Command simul
taneously announced 61 Ameri
can servicemen died in Indochi
na last week, the lowest weekly
GI death toll in more than
three and a half years.
Spokesmen said Maj. Gen.
George W. Casey’s helicopter,
presumed to have crashed, was
last heard from at 10:10 a.m.
Tuesday (10:10 p.m. EDT
Monday) as Casey flew to visit
wounded men of his division in
South Vietnam.
Military spokesmen did not
pinpoint the locale of the search
for security reasons. Casey, 48,
of North Scituate, Mass.,
maintained his headquarters at
Phuoc Vinh, 36 miles north of
Saigon.
There are large U.S. Army
medical facilities in Saigon and
at Long Binh, 17 miles
northeast of Saigon, where his
wounded men might have been
hospitalized.
The U.S. Command was
believed to have withheld
information on Casey’s disap
pearance for security reasons.
Also aboard Casey’s helicop
ter and listed as missing were
Capt. John A. Hottell 111, of St.
Bethlehem, Tenn., Casey’s
aide; Ist Lt. William F. Michel,
of Monreo, Mich., the pilot;
Sgt. Maj. Kenneth W. Cooper,
of Colorado Springs, Colo., the
sergeant major of the division;
Spec. 4 William L. Christenson,
of St. Paul, Minn., door gunner;
Spec. 4 Ronald F. Fuller, of
Providence, R.1., crew chief,
and Spec. 4 Vernon K. Smolik,
of Garfield Heights, Ohio,
called her brother who notified
police.
Officers determined she had
died between 2 and 3 a.m.
Tuesday and neighbors later
recalled they had heard screams
and dogs barking about that
time. However, the police were
not notified of the noise.
Rehberg and police Sgt. R.D.
Barkley said there were signs
of a struggle in the house but
robbery did not appear to be
the motive.
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ers on the By-Pass should travel
with the flow of traffic. This is
more important than the speed
factor, he said.
Drivers should attempt to re
main in the cluster of traffic
they happen to catch on the By-
Pass. Differences in speed
make judgments hard in chang
ing lanes, the engineer pointed
out.
The rule is to drive with the
traffic, he said.
Bk’,
Cassey
Casey’s stenographer.
South Vietnamese losses rose
last week to 371 and 1,027
wounded from 307 killed and
1,607 wounded in the previous
week. Communist losses were
reported at 1,395 dead last
week, compared with a toll of
1,549 in the previous week.
Battle communiques reported
the most lopsided American
victory in South Vietnam in
almost a year. U.S. helicopters
and infantry caught a North
Vietnamese unit in the open
south of the abandoned U.S.
base at Khe Sanh and killed 139
of the guerrillas. Four Gls were
killed and seven wounded.
POSTAGE DUE
CONCORD, N.H. (UPI)-Gov.
Walter Peterson’s office had to
shell out six cents Wednesday
to read a letter from Gov.
Claude R. Kirk of Florida.
The letter, mailed July 2,
arrived with a postage due
stamp on it. An aide to
Peterson remarked, “I guess
this is just the height of fiscal
economy.”
The officers said they found
also that phone lines leading to
the house had been cut with a
handsaw taken from a toolshed
in the rear.
Officers recalled Mrs. Lavitt
had kept her doors locked and
that she had reported some
screens being cut by a prowler
three weeks ago.
In recent weeks, four middle
aged women living alohe in the
same area had reported break
ins between midnight and 5 a.m.
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He cautioned drivers to stay
within a lane when driving on
the By-Pass. Not being in the
lane properly can be a safety
hazard, he said.
The By-Pass is designed to al
low a car traveling up to 80
m.p.h. enough distance to stop
before hitting something, Mr.
Burnham said.
He noted that the speed limits
on the By-Pass are 60 in the
daylight and 50 at night.
Jury
Pick
Near
Attorneys completed
questioning today the 71 jurors
drawn for the special session of
Saplding Superior Court in their
attempt to seek a change of
venue for the trial of Ronald
Smith. Twelve jurors to hear
the case were expected to be
chosen this afternoon.
The questioning began Tues
day morning and continued all
day yesterday and until around
11 p.m. last night.
Smith was convicted and
sentenced to death in the June
1967 slaying of Charles Vaughn,
West Georgia College student.
The case was appealed the the
State Supreme Court which
ruled that another jury re
consider the sentence and
decide between life im
prisonment and death in the
electric chair.
Again
HICKMAN MILLS, Mo.
(UPI)—For the fifth time in
four months, voters have
rejected an increased school
tax levy. The school board says
it will submit the proposal
every 17 days until it is
approved, because classes
cannot resume in September
without additional funds.
The 70-cent operating levy
and 75-cent building levy were
defeated March 10, May 12,
May 28, June 17 and once again
Tuesday.
and one woman was beaten to
the extent she required hospit
alization. None could identify the
attacker.
The Lavitt home was located
only a few blocks from the
downtown section and just a
half-block from an old oak tree
which is one of this city’s fa
vorite tourist attractions. Thom
asville is also known as the city
of roses for the thousands of
rose bushes which annually add
a bright bloom to the spring.