Newspaper Page Text
Forecast
Hot
Map Page 11
Egood/^ 1
VENIN VJ
By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Last week there was more
talk about and more printed
about the Junior College bond
issue election than there has
been about any other election
here in many a year.
Proponents and Opponents
shored up their defenses and
sharpened their offensives
getting ready for the showdown
which will come tomorrow,
Tuesday, June 8. In addition to
voting yes or no on a Junior Col
lege, some 14,000 registered
voters will vote on extension of
city water into the county.
With all the interest seeming
aroused pro and con on these
two matters there seems to be a
certain degree of lethergy on
the part of many. Some es
timate the total vote will go no
larger than 3,400. More optimis
tic are predicting a total of as
high as 5,000 to 7,000.
Meanwhile in an effort to get
out as large a vote as possible,
the Board of Registrars has
kept its office open every day so
persons could secure absentee
ballots. The response has been
“rather light”.
There has been other news of
general interest here.
Griffin High graduated 372
seniors.
Napoleon Holmes wanted in
connection with the death of a
night watchman at Lowell
Bleachery, sought since March
2 when he escaped from jail
here, was arrested in Los Ange
les, Calif., and brought back to
Griffin to be held for grand jury
action.
The city opened a Civic Cen
ter, which will be operated by
the Griffin Police Department,
offering recreation to the youth
of the city.
Announcement was made
that Griffin would be included in
the “Regional Postal Service”
within a short time. This means
that persons mailing letters ad
dressed to local parties should
be very careful into which slot
they drop mail at the post office
or it will be bundled up and sent
to Atlanta for routing. This will
tend to delay delivery it is said.
A small car Friday right
collided with a large truck load
ed with dynamite and other
explosives. This happened near
the Georgia-Alabama border
town of Bremen causing a
“block buster” explosion. Five
persons were killed, a hugh
crater was left in the highway,
and much property damaged.
On top of this disaster came an
explosion at a mid-town Atlanta
cafeteria that killed four
Atlanta firemen.
Senator Herman Talmadge in
a speech at Decatur said he
would seek to setup a Rural
Bank to finance “rural rene
wal” in America.
President Nixon announced
he would launch a “national
offensive” on harmful drugs.
Juan V. Corona plead “not
guilty” to charges of wholesale
murder in Yuma City, Calif.
Western Union employes
went on strike and Penn Central
(RR) announced it would sell 10
blocks of New York prrperty —
the old Penn station is in the
middle of this. Value of the
property is estimated to exceed
One Billion Dollars.
An epedimic of cholera was
reported in India; and the war
in Indo-China showed little
hopes of settlement.
May Good Evening wind up
this column on “What Happen
ed Last Week” by urging every
registered voter who possibly
can, turn up at the polls to
morrow and vote.
Vote as You Please:
But Please Vote!
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
89, low today 66, high yesterday
92, low yesterday 66. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:34, sunset
tomorrow 8:38.
Voters go to polls tomorrow
to settle two bond issues
Sample Ballot
(Not to be voted)
SHALL WATER SYSTEM BONDS
IN THE AMOUNT OF $650,000
BE ISSUED BY SPALDING
COUNTY?
YES
NO
SHALL JUNIOR COLLEGE
BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF
$3,325,000 BE ISSUED BY
SPALDING COUNTY?
YES
NO
“Most folks who are worrying
about the future aren’t as busy
with the present as they should
be.”
Cosmonauts
dock with lab
By JAMES 0. JACKSON
MOSCOW (UPl)—Three So
viet cosmonauts today esta
blished the first orbital space
laboratory, docking their Soyuz
11 spacecraft with the orbiting
scientific station Salyut. At
least two of them entered
Salyut to begin the era of
manned scientific study in
space.
It was the first time a crew
has been transported to an
unmanned scientific station in
space, and scientific sources in
Moscow said one or more
manned spaceships may go
aloft soon to join the space
complex as prelude to a
permanent orbital laboratory.
“The crew of Soyuz 11 has
boarded the station Salyut,”
Tass said. “A Soviet manned
orbital scientific station is
functioning in space.” However,
a television broadcast from the
laboratory said Viktor Patsayev
and Vladislav Volkov scrambled
through the linking pass and
commander Georgi Dobrovol
sky remained behind to super
vise the operation.
Salyut has been orbiting for
seven weeks with no one aboard
following the apparent failure
of an earlier linkup attempt by
tlie three-man spaceflight Soyus
10. There were indications at
the time that effort was
terminated when one cosmon-
GRIFFIN
DAI IJV N EWS
Daily Since 1872
Griffinite dies in wreck
A Griffinite was killed last
night when he was thrown from
his car as it failed to make a
curve and overturned several
times.
Troopers at the Griffin State
Patrol Post identified him as
John Henry Kendrick, 38, of
Route Two, Walker’s Mill road,
near Orchard Hill.
The accident happened 1.7
miles east of Griffin on the
aut developed space sideness.
A Soviet television round
table of scientists and cosmon
auts discussed the achievement
for Russian audiences.
“We are witnessing a qualita
tively new step in cosmonautics
—a long term orbital station
has been built,” space scientist
Boris Ruschenback told the
round table.
“The questions of scientific
technical control of such
stations present big complica
tions ... this station should
permit multiple docking. They
must sometimes receive not
one but another ship ... and it is
necessary to control the docked
apparatus.”
Tass said the combined
weight of Soyuz 11 and Salyut
was more than 25 tons.
Soyuz 11 roared aloft Sunday
and chased the unmanned
Salyut capsule to orbital
rendezvous today. Dobrovolsky,
43, is a space rookie, flight
engineer Volkov, 45, was flight
engineer on Soyuz 7. Test
engineer Patsayev, 37, also is a
space rookie who is a pilot
trained design engineer.
Tass said the Soyuz made an
automatic approach to within
100 yards of the Salyut and the
cosmonauts completed the
docking manually.
After the two vehicles were
mechanically coupled, their
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, June 7, 1971
Wrecked auto in which man died.
Rehoboth road at 7:10 p.m.
Patrolmen said Kendrick
suffered severe head injuries
and died instantly.
This was the 16th traffic
fatality of the year recorded in
the three-county area of
Spalding, Butts, and Henry
patrolled by the Griffin Post.
Kendrick, a painter, was the
only person in the car.
Mr. Kendrick was bom in
electrical and hydraulic com
munications were connected.
The crew then checked the
connecting tunnel for air
tightness and Patsayev led
Volkov into the Salyut.
Tass disclosed the enormous
size of the airtight portion of
the space vehicle—about 60 feet
long and 12 feet in diameter
with a capacity of 130.80 cubic
yards. In addition there were
many scientific apparatuses
outside the airtight compart
ment.
Jetliner,
fighter
collide
AZUSA, Calif. (UPI)-An Air
West DC9 jetliner collided
Sunday with a Navy fighter
plane 12,000 feet over Mt. Bliss,
killing 49 persons. There
apparently was just one survi
vor.
The two planes plowed into
the rugged mountain in the
Angeles National Forest, spred
ing wreckage a mile over the
almost inaccessible terrain.
The known survivor was a
Marine first leiutenant who
parachuted to safety seconds
after the collision.
Spalding County and lived here
all his life. He was a painter by
trade.
Survivors include a daughter,
Miss Della Kendrick; a son,
Kim Kendrick, both of Griffin;
his mother, Mrs. Idell Standard
of Griffin; sister, Mrs. Evelyn
Parker; two half-brothers,
Bobby McCard and Charles
McCard, all of Griffin and
several nieces and nephews.
SALUTE
X LINKUP AND
Ml CREW
tran sfer
ED I\\
Strike stalls New York
NEW YORK (UPI) -Thou
sands of striking municipal
workers tied up traffic on
heavily traveled commuter
arteries today by stalling city
owned trucks on highways and
opening drawbridges over the
Harlem River.
“We are on strike. This is
only the beginning. It’s going to
escalate,” Bernard Stephens, a
spokesman for District 37 of the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Em
ployes said.
Three locals of the union, the
largest in the state, and a
Teamsters local began the
surprise strike just before the
morning rush to protest reports
the union’s pension plan had
been rejected by the state
Vol. 99 No. 134
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 3 o’clock in Mc-
Donald Chapel. The Rev. C. F.
Speer will officiate. Burial will
be in Beulah Baptist Church
cemetery in Pike County. The
body will remain at McDonald
Chapel.
Friends may visit the family
at tlie home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Parker on Searcy avenue.
legislature in Albany as it
drives toward adjournment.
Mayor John V. Lindsay
directed City Corporation Coun
sel J. Lee Rankin to seek
immediately an injunction
against the union in State
Supreme Court. He denounced
the strike as “an inrresponsible
act” and said it was “doubly
outrageous” that the union was
taking its anger at Albany out
on New York City.
A police spokesman said the
department was taking “all
necessary action,” including
towing away the stalled trucks
but he urged drivers to leave
their cars at home. Police
Commissioner Patrick V. Mur
phy surveyed the tieups from a
police helicopter.
Spalding County voters will
settle two bond issues to
morrow.
One proposes $650,000 for ex
tension of more than 50 miles of
water lines into the county.
The other proposes a
$3,325,000 issue for a junior col
lege.
Supporters and opponents of
the junior college bonds battled
down to the wire today on the
eve of the vote.
The junior college issue has
drawn most of the attention in
the last several weeks with both
sides putting on intensive cam
paigns.
The polls will open tomorrow
at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Voting machines will be used
throughout the city and county.
Voters flip a switch for or
against the water bond issue
and for or against the college
bonds.
These will be the only two
items posted on the machines.
A total of 14,292 people are
registered and eligible to cast
ballots.
Using absentee ballots, a total
of 154 ballots out of 168 issued
had been voted by early this
morning. Some more were ex
pected to be received during the
day, the last day on which
absentee ballots may be cast.
Election eve brought a state
ment from the Spalding County
Commissioners saying:
“Our position stated simply
is: vote as you please, but
please vote.”
Commissioners David Elder,
chairman; Jack Moss, vice
chairman; and Sandy Morgan
said:
“During the course of the
campaign for a Junior College,
much has been said by the
proponents and the opponents.
“Some of the statements
made with regard to the County
Commissioners’ position on the
issue has been misleading or
misunderstood by some people,
and we feel our position should
be clarified.
“Both sides have been fur
nished information on which
they have built some of their
arguments, either for or against
the bond issue.
“There has developed very
vigorous support for the bond
issue, as well as, very vigorous
opposition.
“We feel that the voters have
been given pertinent facts by
both the proponents and op
ponents of the bond issue, and
that the voters should be in a
position to know whether or not
they favor the bond election for
the Junior College.”
In another development the
Black Unity Group of Griffin
(BUGG) said it opposed the
junior college for Griffin at this
time.
“We feel that this is not the
As of 7:30 a.m., police
reported, 19 roadways were
blocked by stalled vehicles and
24 to 25 drawbridges left open
over the river which runs
between the boroughs of the
Bronx and Manhattan. The
drawbridges carry part of the
flow of commuter traffic from
suburban Westchester County
into midtown Manhattan.
Victor Gottbaum, head of the
union’s 120,000-member District
37, warned recently that if the
pension agreement reached
with the city was not ratified
by the legislature members
would stage a “job action”
aimed not at city residents but
at commuters.
Lindsay convened his emer
gency control board Sunday
Inside Tip
Biossat
See Page 6
time to burden poor people with
an additional tax increase.
“All indications at this time
show that maybe at a later date,
Griffin will be able to support a
junior college,” the Black Unity
Group said.
The B.U.G.G. said it ap
preciated the Junior College
Committee’s efforts. However,
it said these same efforts should
be used in trying to attract new
industry to Griffin.
The group said that Griffin
and Spalding County could not
provide jobs for all graduates of
Griffin Tech.
The Black Unity Group said
Griffin and Spalding needed
many things much more than it
needed a junior college. It listed
some of the improvements as
schools, kindergartens to
provide early advancement,
paved streets, preventing the
flow of drugs into the city,
better housing and better fire
and police protection.
The statement was signed by
Ben Jackson, Jr., president of
the Black Unity Group of
Griffin.
Two other citizens added their
opposition to the junior college
bond issue.
Mrs. Ira H. (Dorothy) Slade,
Jr., Route Three, Box 126, the
mother of five, said she thought
the community should “make
what we have the best before we
make a bigger mess of what we
have.” She referred to the
schools here and said the
community should seek to
improve the quality of the
schools already located here.
Mrs. Carolyn Sams, 333 South
Ninth street, said she was op
posed to the junior college
because: “anything that raises
my taxes I am against.”
Plane
slams
«
houses
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI)-
An Allegheny Airlines plane,
with 29 persons aboard, crashed
and burned today after slam
ming into five unoccupied
waterside cottages during an
approach to New Haven Munici
pal Airport.
At least 20 persons were
killed.
Witnesses said the twin
engine Convair 508 enroute
from Washington, D.C., to
Connecticut veered to one side
after apparently hitting over
head wires.
The crash occurred shortly
after the plane took off from
New London, its first stop, 50
miles away.
night in response to reports of
a possible strike.
“Although the unions’ quarrel
is with Albany and the antidty
legislators, it is doubly out
rageous that a heretofore
responsible union is taking out
its frustrations and anger on
New York City and people who
are for New York City,” he
said in a statement from his
Gracie Mansion residence
where he met again this
morning with the board.
The workers on strike during
tiie morning rush were mem
bers of District Council 37
locals representing laborersand
motor vehicles and parks
workers and a Teamsters local
which operates the drawbridg
es.