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Monday we wound up our
weekly roundup column by tell
ing how our friend Dr. Pierce
Harris said during a speech
here last week “Wouldn't it be
wonderful ( if all people would
Love as strongly as they Hate?"
Pierce Harris has been a
longtime friend of Good Even
ing's, and we'd like to pass on a
partial report of what Pierce
Harris had to say when he spoke
to a Methodist District Lay
man's meeting at Mt. Zion
Camp Ground.
One might say the keynote of
his address was the statement
that America and her churches
had spent more time in creating
neighborhoods than they had in
creating brotherhood.
It was a true story of some
thing that happened some years
ago that impressed Good Even
ing most Pierce Harris was
telling how no one was “so in
significant", so limited in
talent, that he “did not count"
in his church, in his community,
and in the overall program of
God Almighty.
“Some years ago when I was
pastor of the First Methodist
Church in Atlanta there was a
project presented to our church
in which I was most interest
ed," our friend said. (We now
omit the quote marks for we did
not take the statements down
word for word, but we give you
the story as we remember it.)
Though the project was
worthwhile the church did not
have the money in its budget
with which to finance it. But I
had faith in our congregation so
presented it to them. They liked
the idea and it was decided that
two weeks later, at the evening
service, we would take a special
collection for donations and for
pledges.
That night came and I was de
lighted to report that advanced
gifts were most gratifying.
Then the collection plates were
passed. Before the plates could
be handed over to people to
count the returns so the people
could be told whether we had
“gone over the top”, a young
lady rose and said die wanted to
make an announcement. She
told how a group of young
women, stenographers, clerks,
teachers and housewives had
decided to pool their donations
and how they planned to make
the total larger than one might
expect.
They did without lunches,
they did without Coca Cola, they
walked and saved street car
fare, they stayed home from the
movies, etc., turning in the
money they had saved to be
given the church. Then the
speaker for this group handed
Dr. Harris “more than S9OO they
had collected in two weeks.”
But that’s not all of the story.
Pierce Harris told how the late
Asa G. Candler, the Coca-Cola
millionaire, stood up and said
that while he was not boasting
he wanted the congregation to
know that his contribution was
to the tune of $55,000. But, said
Mr. Candler, If I were to mort
gage to the hilt everything I own
and turned it over to this project
my contribution would fall
much short of being as pleasing
in the sight of God as does this
contribution made by these fine
young women.
Talk about the "widow’s
mite". Here’s a modern exam
ple of how one who is willing to
do without and share with
others can please God Al
mighty.
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‘ Forriveness is more ef
fective than nuclear weapons
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Spalding gets nearly half million
in federal money for water lines
Order restored
in Barnesville
By EUGENE POYTHRESS
BARNESVILLE. Ga. (UPD-
About 2,000 blacks, angered by
the arrest of a black youth on
a school bus, went on a rock
throwing, window-smashing
rampage Monday night until a
force of 35 state troopers ar
rived.
Several persons, including
Police Chief B. H. Usrey, were
struck by rocks, but no one was
believed seriously hurt.
The troopers, under Maj.
Porter Weaver, quickly estab
lished order and all but about
15 troopers were withdrawn
late Monday night.
Two persons were arrested on
charges of violating a 9 p.m.
curfew and failing to obey a
lawful order. They were re
leased on bond.
Mayor Herman Andrews said
the root of the trouble appar
ently was black disgruntlement
over a federally-approved seg
regation-by-sex program in pub
lic schools. The Lamar County
school system has been racially
desegregated, but boys and
girls go to separate schools.
Andrews said a black student
at Lamar High School was
charged with resisting arrest
when troopers took him off a
school bus for allegedly harass
ing the driver.
Later, about 20 blacks went
Blacks tell Sanders
to prove charges
ATLANTA (UPI)-The con
versation went something like
this:
“Keep working hard,” said
Jimmy Carter.
“How about that TV debate?”
asked Carl Sanders.
“When we can debate the is
sues. not personalities,” an
swered Carter.
So the two candidates for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation passed about 15 seconds
when they met Monday night at
an Atlanta radio station where
each had appeared on separate
half-hour news conferences.
Sanders, displaying his “new”
image of a shirt open at the
throat and no coat, contrasted
sharply with Carter who wore
both a tie and a coat.
The former governor said he
had received a “warm” re
sponse to his revised appear
ance. He had been portrayed as
the dapper, wealthy ex-governor
in advertising before he finished
a poor second to Carter in last
Wednesday’s primary.
Carter said he intended to
keep up the same type of cam
paigning which almost got him
the nomination without a runoff.
He said he, his wife and mother
had shaken about half a million
hands in the past four months.
Earlier, Carter indicated he
was laying plans for unified
support from top Democrats for
the campaign against Republi
can gubernatorial nominee Hal
Suit, who won the GOP primary
without a runoff.
He met with conservative po
political figure Roy V. Harris in
Augusta and plans to huddle
later with House Speaker
George L. Smith. Harris, who
headed George Wallace's 1968
presidential campaign in Geor
gia, said he had voted for Car
ter.
Carter said he intended to
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to Usrey and demanded the
youth’s release. Usrey said he
explained to the group that the
case was out of his jurisdiction
since the arrest was made by
troopers beyond the city limits.
Around 200 to 300 “young hot
heads", according to Andrews,
gathered at a baseball park
near the business district Mon
day evening and refused to dis
perse. The crowd swelled to
about 2,000 and started throw
ing rocks at passing motorists.
Usrey said he was struck on
the head by a rock when he
tried to calm the crowd. An
drews said he also went to the
ball park to talk with the
crowd, but “I accomplished
nothing." Usrey then issued a
call for troopers.
Before the troopers arrived,
the blacks roamed through a
business district near the down
town area, smashing store win
dows and damaging cars. A
laundromat was damaged by
flames from a “poorly-made
molotov cocktail” the fuse of
which was a woman’s slip, Us
rey said. About 10 stores were
damaged.
Order was restored within
two hours after the outbreak of
violence, Usrey said, and over
half of the troopers were sent
home before midnight.
Weaver said the curfew would
remain in effect indefinitely.
seek Smith’s help in gaining the
support of unopposed state leg
islators for the gubernatorial
election. The Plains peanut
farmer said he had also met
with Gov. Lester Maddox to dis
cuss legislative plans.
Sanders promised Monday to
support Carta- and other Dem
ocratic candidates if he lost the
Sept. 23 runoff but Carter
hedged when asked if he would
do the same for Sanders.
He said he would like the
former governor to make a fi
nancial statement first to re
lieve “what I think would be a
crippling handicap....if he does
not do that, I’d have to reserve
judgment,” he said.
Meanwhile, the statewide
Black Leadership Coalition an
nounced Monday it had found
“no basis or proof” to back up
Sanders’ charges that Carter
and civil rights leader Hosea
Williams had joined in an “un
holy alliance” to deceive Geor
gia voters.
The Coalition called on San
ders to produce proof of his al
legations or retract them be
cause “we would not want to
think Mr. Sanders has resorted
to the low ebb of demagoguery
to win an election."
The Negro organization said
it is considering supporting can
didates in the runoff depending
on how they deal with issues
“relevant to the black and poor
community.”
However, the Coalition said,
it was “possible” activities
might be limited to a campaign
to get out the vote.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
89, low today 66, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 63. Sunrise to
morrow 7:26, sunset tomorrow
7:38.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1970
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DETROIT—A still to be completed General Motors automobile on a stopped final assembly line,
and a worker’s gloves and power tool tell the story of the United Auto Workers strike against
General Motors. The strike began at midnight when negotiators failed to agree on a new contract
(UPI)
Guard shoots hijacker
By DUSTON HARVEY
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-A
hijacker who took over a TWA
jet en route to San Francisco
was shot by a security guard
aboard when the plane landed.
No one else was hurt.
The attempted hijacking oc
curred on the final Los Angeles
to San Francisco leg of a flight
from New York.
The hijacker, identified as a
white man, demanded that the
pilot take him to North Korea.
But when the plane landed
sheriff’s cars parked in front of
the aircraft.
About a half hour later it was
reported that the hijacker had
been shot by a Brink’s guard
who was aboard the plane.
Henry County sticks
to grade pairing
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (UPI)-
The Henry County School Board
has decided to stick to a grade
pairing desegregation plan over
the objections of angry white
parents.
County School Supt. H. F.
Baker said Monay night that a
four hour meeting with about
seven parent spokesmen ended
in a virtual stalemate, with the
school board reaffirming its
present plan and the parents
“not satisfied.”
Baker said the parents, who
object to the desegregation plan
that puts their children in a
formally all Negro school, did
not indicate what they intended
to do next.
The meeting followed a aeries
of marches and boycotts by the
NEWS
It was the first hijacking
attempt since the President
ordered U.S. flights protected
by armed marshals.
An airline spokesman said the
guard, identified as Robert
Denisco, was not one of the
government’s hired jet guards
but was travelling as a
passenger.
The plane was on the last,
Los Angeles to San Francisco
leg of a flight from New York
via Chicago when the hijacker
made his bid.
Shortly before landing the
pilot radioed that he had a man
aboard who wanted to go to
North Korea.
The jet parked on a
whites angered over the mising
of all the county’s white and Ne
gro fifth and sixth graders in
the Smith - Barnes Elementary
school.
Under the pairing plan, the
formerly white Stockbridge Ele
mentary School is used for the
second through fourth grades.
Protesting parents charge
Smith-Barnes is in an “unsafe”
Negro neighborhood. Baker said
the schools are actually about
one mile apart and the parents
are upset because their children
are being bused a bit further.
They want all the county’s ele
mentary school students of both
races placed in Stockbridge Ele
mentary, which they say could
be accomplished by utilizing five
classrooms they say are vacant.
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secondary runway at the
airport and was immediately
surrounded by sheriff’s cars
and other emergency vehicles.
The hijacker allowed 35 of the
passengers — women, children
and military—to leave the
plane. Then, during a tense half
hour, he negotiated with
officials.
About an hour after the jet
landed, airline officials said the
hijacker had been shot and
disabled.
During the drama, other air
traffic continued at the termin
al, although some flights were
turned away as vehicles sped
across the landing areas to the
scene.
The Federal Aviation Admi
nistration in Washington said
the hijacker was in critical
condition from the gunshot
wound.
GM strike
idles 9,000
Georgians
ATLANTA (UPI)—A national
strike by the United Auto Work
ers Union against General Mo
tors Corporation will affect
more than 9,000 workers in At
lanta with an estimated weekly
payroll loss of $1.4 million.
A GM spokesman said the
strike would shut down all of
the firm’s production operations
in Atlanta. GM facilities in At
lanta produced 322,991 vehicles
last year.
Union officials said pickets
would be stationed at the three
GM plants in Atlanta starting
with morning work shifts today.
Proposal would add
70 miles of lines
Nearly a half million dollars
in federal funds for water lines
has been approved for Spalding
County.
It cleared the way for
Spalding County Com
missioners to complete work on
a million dollar plan which
would add 70 miles of water
lines in the county.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin, Sen. Herman Talmadge
and Sen. Richard Russell made
the joint announcement that the
federal money had been ap
proved.
The Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) division
approved the grant. It was for
water and sewer lines and for
construction of additions to
existing water systems in
cluding transmission mains and
distribution lines.
Spalding’s three com
missioners, Z. L. Wilson, David
Elder and Jack Moss, have been
working on efforts to secure the
federal money for several
years.
They hope to raise the other
half of the million dollar project
through revenue certificates.
Through this method, the
county would be able to finance
this local share with revenue
from the water lines in the
county.
Already an engineering firm
has worked out a tentative
proposal for locating the mains
and other distribution lines.
“We’ll have to take a hard
look at the specifics of the
proposal,” one commissioner
said. When final decisions are
reached, he said, then the
county could move toward
completing financial
arrangements and asking for
bids on the project.
The commissioners will ask
the engineers to estimate the
potential revenue from the
porjected water line locations.
Then the commissioners could
determine if the revenue cer
tificate plan would be sufficient
to cover the remainder of the
cost.
Although specific location of
the lines has not been pin
Phone
open
house
Southern Bell’s Griffin
Manager Albert Harrell today
announced open house for the
public tomorrow from 3:30 p.m.
til 5:00 p.m. for the new
business and employment office
at 436 South Hill street.
The new office building has
been in operation since July 1
when it was moved from the
main central office building at
232 South Hill street to make
way for expanded equipment
facilities at the old site.
“The expanded facilities at
the old location is in keeping
with Southern Bell’s 500 million
dollar construction program
over the next years”, Harrell
said. The Griffin expansion is
necessary to keep up with the
growth here which directly
influences the need for more
telephones,” according to
Harrell.
The new office building is a
structure of Williamsburg
design and was by C. A.
Kendrick Construction Com
pany and designed by Gerald L.
Bilbro, architect.
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pointed, roughly the areas
expected to be included are
Sunny Side, Jackson road, High
Fall road, Ethridge Mill road,
South on U.S. 41 to some extent,
Williamson road, Highway 16,
Ellis road and Highway 92. One
commissioner said the county
hopes to provide lines to heavily
populated subdivisions near the
present city limits which are not
now served by water lines.
The County Commissioners
plan to work closely with the
City Commissioners in ham
mering out the construction
details.
Under the present county
water system, the dty of Griffin
handles meter and billing as
well as other administration of
the system. The county hopes to
extend its working agreement
with the city in expanding water
lines in the county.
The County Commissioners
were unable to say today when
actual work might get started
on construction of the new
water lines. But they indicated
they would begin immediately
to complete arrangements for
financing the local share of the
project, and get bids lined up so
the project would be ready to
move when the weather per
mits.
Fall and winter weather limit
the type and amount of work
that can be done on construction
of water lines, one com
missioner observed.
Elliott
pulls out
THOMASTON, Ga. - Marvin
Adams of Thomaston apparent
ly will be nominated for Post
One in the Upson, Pike, Lamar
House District without a runoff.
Nall Elliott who had run second
in a three man contest an
nounced he would withdraw.
Adams polled an unofficial to
tal of 3,870 votes against 2,377 by
Elliott last week. O. W. Burns
polled 1,821 votes. All three
Thomaston men were seeking
the post vacated by Johnny
Caldwell of Thomaston who ran
for Comptroller General.
Caldwell is in a runoff contest
with Mac Barber for the state
post.
In the contest for Post One in
the Upson, Pike and Lamar
House district, Incumbent J. R.
Smith polled 5,225 against 3,085
for C. L. (Sam) Simpson. Both,
men live in Barnesville.
Demo
panel
elected
The following candidates
were elected to the Spalding
County Democratic Executive
Committee in last week’s pri
mary:
Africa, Joe Akin, W. S.
Brewster and Reid Childers;
Cabin, S. C. Mitchell; Orrs,
Vernon Ritchie and Norma G.
Taylor; Mt. Zion, Sara Blanton,
and Mrs. J. B. Barfield; Ex
periment, Amos L. Gaddy and
J. L. Hardwick; Griffin, John O.
Clements, Jim Goolsby, C. T.
Parker, Carl Pruett and J. W.
Warren.