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By Quimby Melton
Norman Clapp, Medina,
Wash., who is president of the
Boy Scouts of America, speak
ing recently at that organiza
tion’s national convention,
commenting on the role the Boy
Scout program should play in
modern day America,
suggested certain changes be
made in Scouting to make the
program more revelant — more
interesting to boys of Scouting
age.
Some of the suggestions made
by the head of this great or
ganization will be called “ridi
culous" by some, who still be
lieve a horse drawn surry is
good enough and that all
automobiles should be banned
from the roads and all airplanes
from the sky. Here is one of his
suggestions:
Stop teaching a Boy Scout
how to start a campfire should
he get “lost” in some wilder
ness while on his way to some
fishing spot. A good Scout was
supposed to become an expert
at starting this fire with sparks
generated by rubbing two sticks
together. The Indians who were
here before our fathers arrived
were adepts at this practice, the
Scouts were told.
Boy Scouts of this modem age
are not interested in such
things. Because they know they
won’t “get lost”, unless it is lost
on some by-pass of the modern
highways; and should one be
come lost, he need not send up a
smoke signal, as the Indian
would have done. He would pull
up on the side of the road and in
a few minutes here would come
a Safety Patrolman, ask his
trouble, and start him on his
way on the right route. And, if
the modern Scout had to pull
aside on the highway because of
some motor failure, the patrol
man, ascertaining his trouble,
would notify the nearest service
station, by the way of radio, and
he would come help.
“Playing Indian” may be
okay for a very young boy, but
by the time they get into kinder
garten they want to know much
more than how to start a camp
fire.
The campfire, rub-two-sticks,
an old fashioned Scout feature,
is used just as an example of
how much the Scout program
needs changing.
And while we’re touching on
the speech made by National
President Clapp, may this old
timer, born and grown before
Boy Scouting was introduced in
Griffin, offer this suggestion?
Stop referring to our boys and
girls as “kids”. They are not
kids. A kid is a goat Many to
day are “making a goat" out of
our young people, by blaming
them for everything that is
wrong with the world, when
they should lay the blame on a
lot of adults who act like a
jackass more than the boys and
girls act like kids.
Chief commends officers
for work in Holmes case
Chief Leo Blackwell com
, mended the Griffin Police De
partment for the job well done
in their assistance in the in
vestigation of the county case
1 involving the death of Roy
Bryant, night watchman at
Lowell Bleachery.
The cooperation of concerned
citizens, in this case more es
pecially, led to the arrest of the
t suspect, Napolian H (rimes, the
chief said.
He pointed out that the of
fense occurred on Feb. 27, and
the information received in the
f \investigation conducted by Maj.
K. E. Irvin, Lt. Lewis Law, Sgt.
Wallace Pitts, and Sgt. Marvin
Barrow led to the arrest two
days later on Mar. 1.
“Man is a slave to his
intelligence—there are many
things he can’t do because he
knows better.”
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Chancellor says college
won’t affect station here
The chancellor of the Univer
sity System of Georgia has
reiterated that whether or not a
junior college is located in
Spalding County will have no ef
fect on the status of the Georgia
Experiment Station here.
P. W. Hamil, Spalding County
farmer, and some other mem
bers of the Spalding Farm
Bureau, went to Athens to talk
with Dr. William Flatt. He is in
charge of all Experiment sta
tions including the one in
The investigation continued
with the officers working hand
in-hand with Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert and GBI Agent Mike
Carothers. Since Holmes’ es
cape on Mar. 2, the officers
have worked constantly running
down leads on Holmes where
abouts.
Last Thursday, Maj. Irvin re
ceived a tip that sparked an in
vestigation into the early morn
ing hours of the next day.
This investigation led Sheriff
Gilbert, Maj. Irvin and Agent
Carothers to Los Angeles and
within approximately seven
hours Holmes was arrested.
Maj. Irvin is a personal friend
of Chief Howard Earl of the L.A.
County Sheriff’s office and tele-
GRIFFIN
DAI LA NEWS
Daily Since 1872
League didn’t show up
to debate college issue
Carlisle makes statement at courthouse this morning.
Griffin.
Rep. Clayton Brown, Jr., of
Griffin, accompanied the Spald
ing delegation on their trip to
Athens.
Mr. Hamil said that Dr. Flatt
was unable to assure the Spald
ing Farm Bureau delegation
that money from the sale of sta
tion land in Griffin for the col
lege site would be used to build
buildings for the Animal
Science Department at the
Griffin station.
phoned Earl, asking him to
check the leads on Holmes’
whereabouts.
Chief Earl called back and
stated that as Holmes was stay
ing in the Watts area of Los
Angeles, it would be strongly
adviseable for the Griffin offi
cers to fly there and organize a
plan to draw Holmes from the
Watts area.
After their arrival, a plan was
set in motion and Holmes was in
custody a few hours later.
Chief Blackwell said the
Griffin lawmen had high praise
for the cooperation they receiv
ed from Chief Earl and the L.A.
sheriff’s and police depart
ments.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, June 3, 1971
(The land the Griffin Station
offered to sell for the college
site is used presently for animal
science research.)
Mr. Hamil said that Dr. Flatt
indicated that if the land were
sold, that the money would be
used at all Experiment Stations
on a priority basis. Mr. Hamil
said Dr. Flatt indicated that
there was a real need for
laboratory improvement at the
Griffin station, but not once did
Dr. Flatt indicate that the Ani
mal Science department would
be reestablished.
The Griffin Daily News con
tacted the head of the Univer
sity System at his office in
Atlanta. Chancellor George
Simpson said that whether a
Junior College is established in
Griffin or not will have no effect
on the present status of the
Georgia Experiment Station, or
on the status or location of any
of its several departments.
The Station is a part of the
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University of Georgia and is
governed by the Board of Re
gents of the University System.
If established, the college would
be a separate and independent
unit of the University System,
also governed by the Board of
Regents. Chancellor Simpson is
the chief officer of the board
and of the system.
Grads get
diplomas
tonight
A total of 372 seniors are
scheduled to receive their diplo
mas tonight from Griffin High
School. The graduation exercise
will be held at Memorial Sta
dium beginning at 8:30 p.m.
School officials had their
fingers crossed for clear
weather tonight. Scattered rain
showers cut short the baccalau
reate services in the stadium
last night. The Rev. Orville
Wright, pastor of First Chris
tian Church, obviously had to
cut short his talk to the seniors
because of the rain.
Supt. D. B. Christie will bring
the superintendent’s message.
Principal Ormand Anderson
will present the graduates and
C. T. Parker, Chairman of the
school board, will hand out the
diplomas.
Vol. 99 No. 131
LPNs back
college
The 18th Division of the
Licensed Practical Nurses
Association has endorsed the
establishment of a Junior
College in Spalding County.
“While many of the benefits
are obvious, we want to point
out the not so obvious benefits
that the hospital and its patients
will receive from the Junior
College as an excellent source
of additional trained personnel.
We urge everyone to help
themselves by helping to ex
tablish toe Junior College in
Spalding County,” toe nurses
declared.
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J. W. Coates who operates a pet shop in East Griffin displays a seven-foot coachwhip snake he
purchased from Thomas Reese who caught the reptile on Vineyard road. Mr. Coates put the snake
on display in his shop.
The Spalding County Tax
Payers League didn’t show up
to debate the Junior College
committee this morning at the
Spalding Courthouse.
Chairman John Carlisle of the
college committee had an
nounced he would be at the
courthouse at 10 a.m. to debate
the issues in the June 8 college
bond issue. He invited the Tax
Payers League to come for a
debate. The Tax League is
opposed to the junior college
bond issue.
George Gaissert, chairman of
the Tax League, had said
earlier he didn’t see any point in
the debate. The League’s direc
tors had announced they
wouldn’t debate.
Mr. Carlisle was on hand at
the courthouse at 10 a.m. ready
to debate. About a dozen other
people, most of them junior col
lege committee member and
supporters, were there, too.
Mr. Carlisle waited 22 minu
tes for someone from the Tax
League to show up.
Then he read a statement,
saying he regretted that the Tax
League had not seen fit to de
bate the issue.
“I am very disappointed that
the Tax Payers League refused
again to discuss the junior col
lege issue in the light of day. It
does, however, conclusively es
tablish three things: (1) their
arguments against the college
are based on fear and false
rumors that can’t stand the
light of honest examination (2)
the more facts the voters are
exposed to about the college, the
more inclined they will be to
support it (3) that they (tax
League) admit their ads and
newsletters are false and inten
tionally misleading.”
Mr. Carlisle said the time had
come for the League to step out
of the shadows of anonymous
ads and phone calls.
He said it was an example of a
vocal minority trying to intimi
date the silent majority.
Mr. Carlisle said he wanted to
make it clear that his purpose
was not to attack Mr. Gaissert.
Prior to his defeat while run
ning for public office, Mr.
Gaissert was a progressive and
dedicated servant, Mr. Carlisle
went on.
“Since his defeat, which
coincides approximately with
the birth of his League, he has
evidently become a very bitter
man and I sympathize with that
situation,” Mr. Carlisle said.
Mr. Carlisle said that after
the dust of this election settles,
he hoped he and Mr. Gaissert
would continue their long
friendship.
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Mr. Carlisle passed out copies
of two statements during the 10-
minute session at the court
house.
One was from Al Hill of the
Tax Assessors office. The other
was from Jim Owen, Spalding
County attorney.
Mr. Hill’s letter showed how
the county tax digest had grown
from sl4 million in 1948 to SBS
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He said that the statement
that “the tax digest has increas
ed over the past 20 years mostly
due to raising value on property
already built” is erroneous and
false.
Mr. Owen said that a constitu
tional amendment approved by
Spalding voters would provide
the means for them to approve
bond money for the junior col
lege. He said in no way would
junior college bonds affect the
Griffin-Spalding school tax
program.
Mr. Carlisle passed out in
formation sheets he said refuted
point by point the assertions
made by toe Tax League in a
newsletter distributed here.
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WHO’S in charge of this
lineup? Three baby owls in
the temporary care of
Lewis Rus, Pa., woodcut
ters who disturbed their
natural home give the pho
tographer Forres Stewart
the eye. The nine-week-old
birds, two weeks short of
flying age, are members of
the great horned species,
have a preference for
chicken and never drink.