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By Quimby M«hoa
Do you know what grown
woman had the smallest waist?
Or who the Chinese avow was
the oldest man next to Methusu
lah?
Silly questions to ask in a
daily newspaper column that
should be more interested in
writing on current happenings,
some will comment.
Silly! Yes, unless it causes
people to forget for a moment
the hatred and tension that
grips the world today.
So here goes with answers
found in a paper backed book
recently published by Bantam
Books. It’s name is Quinnesses
Book of Information. A friend
let me see his copy recently.
Here’s some of the answers
given to some questions that
may be lurking in ones mind.
First of all the woman with
the smallest waist was a full
grown woman who lived in Lon
don early in the present cen
tury. Although she possessed a
small waist that measured just
22 inches she entered a beauty
contest, and since “hour glass’’
figures were considered the
height!) of feminine pulchritude
in those days, she began dieting
and tightening her corset to the
limit. It is reported finally her
waist measured just 13 inches.
Whether she entered and won
the contest is not reported.
As to the oldest man next to
Methusulah, who is said to have
lived 969 years (Genesis 5:27)
there have been many claims.
But the one that “takes the
cake” came just a few years
ago — 1933 — from China. A
news dispatch from a Chinese
news agency said a man had
died who was 256 years old. His
name was Li-Chung-Yun. No
tice the name — Li —. Could it
be that some Chinese reporter
had a warped sense of humor,
and omitted to spell the name of
the reported aged man correct
ly. Could it have been that some
old man who had died was ac
tually LiE-Chung Yun?
Here are some pretty well
authenticated facts that may in
terest.
Who was the heaviest man in
file world? Robert Earl Hughes,
Monticello, Ind., when he died
in 1958 weighed 1041 pounds.
The heaviest woman died in
Baltimore in 1888 weighing 850.
Og, the Amorite king, was
said to have been 13 feet 2%
inches tall; and Goliath, whom
little David slew, 9 feet, 6% in
dies. In more modern days
Robert Pershing Woodlow, born
in Indiana in 1918 is living and
stands 8 feet 8% inches tall.
Miss Doroles Ann Pollard, of
Louisiana who now is confined
to a wheel chair, measures 7
feet 9% inches.
Our lady readers may be
interested in knowing that the
most expensive perfume comes
from Spain and sells for as
much as 1185 an ounce.
Sports fans might be interest
ed in knowing the Astrodome in
Houston is the largest arena in
America.
Speaking of size, an English
woman who suffered from gall
bladder trouble was taken to the
hospital, an operation was per
formed and a 15 ounce gall stone
removed.
And all Georgians will be in
terested to know that the high
est price ever paid for an auto
graph was the $55,000 paid in
1927 for the signature of Button
Gwinnett. He along with Lyman
Hall and Geo. Walton, were the
Georgians who signed the
Declaration of Independence.
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Fatal apartment fire
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
—About 12 persons died in an
early morning fire that swept
through an apartment building
in downtown Minneapolis today,
Fire Chief Kenneth Hall said.
The three-story building, with
stores on the ground floor and
apartments above them, still
was smoking three hours after
the first alarm was turned in.
“The hallway was full of
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Illegal trash dumps such as this one on Dutchman road worry the Spalding County
Commissioners. They are considering hiring deputies to police such areas.
Chamber backs
no candidate
The Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce made it clear today
that it did not engage in par
tisan politics and campaigns.
President Homer Sigman
issued a statement in which he
declared:
“We support no political
party and no political candi
date, whatsoever.”
The statement was in reply to
the accusation by J. B. Stoner
that the Griffin Chamber of
Commerce was “controlled by
Jews.”
Stoner was reported to have
made the statement on a tele
vision interview program. He
was being quizzed about racial
problems in Griffin.
The statement apparently
was interpreted by some black
citizens to indicate support of
Stoner by the Chamber of
Commerce.
Stoner has pitched his
campaign for governor on an
anti-Jew, anti-Negro theme.
Mr. Sigman’s statement in
Sextuplets given little chance
ROME (UPl)—Four of the sextuplets
bom three months prematurely to a
previously childless Italian housewife died
early today within 12 hours of birth.
Doctors said there was little chance the
two surviving infants would live.
The mother was reported in good con
dition.
Mrs. Antonio Petrone, 35, gave birth to
three boys and three girls, Italy’s first
sextuplets, in a 35-minute span Tuesday
night She had been treated with a fertility
drug after 11 childless years of marriage
to a S4O-a-week laborer.
One boy and one girl died three hours
after birth. The deaths of another boy and
GRIFFIN
DAI LY & N EWS
Daily Since 1872
fire,” Hall said. “They had no
place to go.”
All of the victims were found
on the top floor of the building.
The exact number of dead was
not immediately known, Hall
said.
He discounted reports that as
many as 16 had died, however.
The fire started in the back
of the building, possibly in
trash in the alley, Hall said.
full is as follows:
“On behalf of the Board of
Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce, I would like to issue
the following statement:
“The Chamber of Commerce
of Griffin Spalding County is a
non-partisan organization
composed mostly of business
and professional people whose
prime purpose and concern is to
promote the general economic
welfare and economic develop
ment of Griffin, Spalding
County and to promote the civic
interests and general welfare of
the community.
“We support no political
party and no political candidate
whatsoever!
“I would like to appeal to all
of our citizens to keep their
calm and to not support or listen
to any radical or hate groups
either white or black, Tightest
or leftist. I would encourage
everyone to use their good
common sense and always
strive for harmony and a policy
Griffin, Georgia 30223 Wednesday, August 5,1970
Stoner faces arrest
if he rallies here
of “love thy neighbor”.
“We have made great strides
in the last 10 years toward cur
ing our social and economic ills.
Let’s keep in mind that we can
not eliminate all our problems
overnight, but most of all let’s
not be so foolish as to throw
down the drain all that we have
accomplished. Instead let us
continue to build toward greater
success.
“Let us remember that in
God’s eyes we are all
brethern.”
U.S. FLAG A ‘HAZARD*
HARPER WOODS, Midi.
(UPl)—Police ordered Leo
Shea Tuesday to take down the
“attractive nuisance” — an
American flag—he had hung on
a wire between two trees in his
front yard.
Police said the flag was a
traffic hazard at the intersec
tion where he lives. He said
he would appeal to the city
council.
girl were announced at midmorning.
The surviving babies were kept under
constant watch in oxygen-filled incubators
and were reported breathing laboriously.
Neither weighed more than two pounds.
Petrone visited his wife in her room this
morning and held her hand as they
chatted. Other women patients in the
hospital gathered around her bedside in a
gesture of sympathy.
“Any child this weight and size would
have a job staying alive,” said Prof.
Modesto Mendicini, who led the fight to
save the babies. “The added fact they are
sextuplets brings their chances down to
practically nothing.”
Mrs. Romney
maintains
slight lead
By United Press International
Mrs. Lenore Romney re
mained slightly ahead today in
vote counting for the Michigan
Republican nomination for sen
ator.
But the surprisingly large
vote piled up against her by
State Sen. Robert Huber was a
blow to her hopes to unseat
incumbent Democratic Sen.
Philip A. Hart if she does win
the GOP nomination, and was a
setback for the political pres
tige of the Romney name in
Michigan. Hart was unopposed
for the Democratic nomination.
The vote for Mrs. Romney,
wife of Housing and Urban
Development Secretary and
three times Michigan Gov.
George Romney, fluctuated at
slightly above the 50 per cent
level in voting outside Detroit.
In downtown Detroit a compu
ter breakdown delayed the
count.
Mrs. Romney lost heavily in
suburban Detroit, however,
where a controversy arose
during the election over a
report that her husband was
preparing a plan to force
integration on predominantly
white suburban areas of the
city.
Incumbents Favored
The Romney-Huber race was
the featured event Tuesday
among primary elections in
four states—Michigan, Idaho,
Missouri and Kansas—which
generally saw incumbent sena
tors, governors and congress
men win renomination.
Democratic incumbent Stuart
Symington, the only other big
name in the primaries, easily
won renomination to the Senate
in Missouri. State Attorney
General John C. Danforth won
the Republican nomination to
face Symington in the Novem
ber elections.
Vol. 98 No. 159
Awaits court hearing
BUGG plans
no street tests
Freddie Phillips, head of the
Black Unity Group of Griffin,
said today he didn’t plan any
tests of an injunction against
the BUGG until a hearing is
held here Aug. 21 on the tempor
ary restraining order.
Phillips said he thought the
best place to test the legality of
the injunction was in court.
He said he didn’t plan any
mass meetings or marches to
test the strength of the injunc
tion.
Phillips said he had talked
with Hosea Williams of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) about the
injunction.
The BUGG is affiliated with
SCLC.
Phillips said Williams also
advised that the proper place to
test the injunction was in court.
In signing the temporary
injunction, Judge Andrew Wha
len, Jr. of Spalding County
Superior Court set Aug. 21 at 9
a.m. as the time for the hearing
on the court order.
Phillips said that no mass
meetings or marches are
planned for the moment “be
cause tension is too high.”
He said his group “would like
to see things quieted down.”
Asked what action the Better
Unity Group planned if J. B.
Stoner came to Griffin this week
to hold rallies, Phillips said he
had advised his group to ignore
him.
He said he had advised Black
Unity members to avoid any
area where Stoner might have a
march or rally.
“Ignore him (Stoner) if he
comes to town,” Phillips said he
had advised his group.
Stoner is a candidate for
City won’t issue
rally, parade permit
J. B. Stoner may be the first
gubernatorial candidate arrest
ed in Georgia this year if he
comes to Griffin and defies a
Superior Court injunction or the
laws of the city of Griffin.
The White supremacist
gubernatorial candidate has
said he would be in Griffin for
an open air rally Friday or
Saturday or both days.
When asked about Stoner’s
plans to hold a rally in Griffin,
Mayor Joe Dutton said:
“If Mr. Stoner chooses to defy
a Superior Court injunction and
the laws of the city of Griffin by
marching or having an unlawful
assembly in the dty of Griffin
without a permit, he and any
other persons with him intent on
creating disorder will be arrest
ed.
“The Board of City Com
missioners does not intend to is
sue permits to any groups,
white or black, for marches or
any other assemblies that might
create disorder.
“This decision by the Board of
Commissioners to preserve the
peace in the city was certainly
not directed at any one group.
“We are sincerely hopeful
Mr. Stoner’s crowd keeps away
from Griffin.
“We feel the Police Depart
ment is capable of keeping the
peace and we intend to back
them to the limit.
“If the Stoner motorcade
governor. He announced from
Savannah that he intended to
come here this weekend.
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Meanwhile, a meeting bet
ween older and younger leader
ship of black citizens of this
community was planned to
night.
Who would be present and
what would be on the agenda
was still being worked out to
day.
The meeting was set for 8
p.m. at Achaia Baptist Church
tonight but was not a mass
meeting. Only those in leader
ship capacity were to attend, a
spokesman said.
The Griffin City Commission
ers requested the temporary in
junction after factions of oppos
ing groups jeered and scuffled
with each other here Saturday
afternoon.
The injunction forbids inter
fering with lawful picketing and
prohibits groups from gathering
to do such.
It also prohibits profane, vul
gar or provocative language on
the streets and restrains groups
from acting in any violent or
tumultuous manner toward an
other.
Meanwhile, relative quiet
prevailed over Griffin last
night.
Monday night blacks met at
the Achaia Baptist Church on
East Solomon street. Some
gathered in groups across the
street in a shopping center
parking lot but remained in
small clusters and didn’t
congregate in a mass meeting.
Griffin Police were reinforced
with sheriff’s deputies and State
Troopers and observed the
Achaia scene from dty hall.
Inside Tip
Celia
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should come through Griffin it
will be escorted by the Police
Department through town and
out and not allowed to stop.”
Petree,
Ansley
guilty
ATLANTA (UPI)-A Fulton
County Superior Court jury has
found an Atlanta aiderman and
an attorney guilty of soliciting
a bribe to influence zoning leg
islation.
Aidermanß. A. (Pete) Petree
and attorney B. Hugh Ansley
were sentenced to serve one
year prison terms, but were
freed on appeal bond pending a
motion for a new trial.
The jury, one of its members
absent because he suffered a
stroke deliberated for five
hours after the six-day trial.
Petree and Ansley were ac
cused of asking for $30,000 from
a Texas firm to influence the
alderman’s vote on a proposed
zoning change on property in
north Atlanta. Both denied the
charge and said the money was
for a fee for Ansley.
James F. Crist Jr., president
of a consulting firm who said
he represented Beck Companies
of Dallas, testified that Petree
and Ansley asked him for the
money to influence Petree’s
vote.
The two were arrested in a
motel room near Atlanta Air
port last March, where Crist
said the alleged payoff was to
be made.
R. Kennedy, Jr.
S. Shriver 111
arrested
HYANNIS PORT, Mass.
(UPl)—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
16, son of the late New York
senator, and R. Sargent Shriver
HI, 17, son of the former
ambassador to France, were
arrested Tuesday night in drug
raids, it was disclosed today.
The two boys were among 17
persons seized in raids by local
police in the Hyannis Port area,
according to authoritative sour
ces. The charges involved
marijuana, the sources said.
Authorities said the youths
over 18 would be arraigned
today in district court. Those
younger are to appear Thurs
day in the juvenile session of
the same court.
Under state law, juvenile
court proceedings are privi
leged. Massachusetts law states
that persons under 18 are
considered to be juveniles.
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