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By Quimby Melton
Good Evening makes it a
practice whenever possible to
write the copy for his column
the day before it is published.
He does this for two reasons,
first that the copy may be set at
a time in the afternoon when the
load of news is not too great thus
freeing the facilities for hand
ling local, state and national
news the day they “break”;
and, too, it gives Good Evening
a chance to check the copy, af
ter it is set, and make any cor
rections necessary.
We are writing the copy for
our Tuesday column the day be
fore, as usual.
And we are writing it about
the election that will be held
Tuesday. Writing it before the
polls are opened, before we
have any indication as to what
sort of “election day” weather
we will have; and certainly
without any knowledge of how
many will vote and how the vot
ing will come out
We have never claimed to
have a “crystal ball” which
would “tip us off” to what would
happen.
But we do have certain hopes
as to what will happen on Tues
day, June 8.
First, we hope the weather
will be “fine;”
Second, we hope the turnout
of voters will be large;
Third, we hope that the win
ners will not GLOAT excessive
ly over their victory;
Fourth we hope the losers will
not GRIPE too much over de
feat
Fifth, We hope winners and
losers will close ranks, forget
any hard feelings that may have
been generated in the hard
fought campaign and present a
solid front in everyone’s desire
to make this a finer place in
which to live, rear our children,
and worship our Heavenly
Father.
Fire kills
couple,
4 children
HOLTON, Midi. (UPI)-A
rural couple and four of their
five children died early today
when fire swept their 100-year
old wood frame home north of
here.
State police said the one
young girl who survived without
injury told them she and the
other children had been awa
kened by their parents and told
to flee the blazing home.
The victims were identified
as Robert Reddinger, 45, and
his wife Mary, 34, and Mrs.
Reddinger’s four children by
previous marraiges: Iva Cha
ney, 11; Ann Chaney, 10; Rich
Chaney, 6; and Mary Sagulis, 2.
Linda Chaney, 9, was found
by police some distance from
the burning home in a field.
Gl’s leaving
Viet faster
than scheduled
SAIGON (UPl)—American
soldiers are being pulled out of
Vietnam at the rate of more
than 19,000 a month, about 40
per cent faster than necessary
to meet President Nixon’s with
drawal’s schedule.
An analysis of U.S. command
figures shows that if the
present withdrawal pace is
maintained through Dec. 1, end
of the current pullout phase,
fewer than 136,000 troops will
be left in Vietnam. Nixon has
set the goal of 184,000
servicemen left in the country
by the Dec. 1 deadline.
The command announced that
as of last Thursday, 250,900 Gls
still were in Vietnam. That
means 22,500 soldiers have been
sent home in 35 days.
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Warm weather means a return to the out of doors for most Georgians and this scene will be
typical on many at the state’s lakes. This craft is shown heading out for a cruise on Lake
Allatoona north of Atlanta. The lake is a popular Georgia spot for boating, fishing, and other
summertime activities.
Highway Dept, makes
intersection changes
The State Highway Depart
ment says it has completed
work on signings, pavement
markings and traffic island
adjustments at the Griffin
Bypass and Highway 19 South
intersection.
Leland S. Veal reported the
work had been completed.
He is the planning engineer
for the department.
Mr. Veal said that W. S.
Derrick, traffic and safety
engineer, believes the in
tersection should operate
900 dead in 10 days
Cholera
EDITORS: A cholera epide
mic continues to sweep through
East Pakistani refugees who
fled to safety in India.
Correspondent Robert Kaylor
filed this report from one
Indian village where 900
refugees have died in 10 days
from cholera.
By ROBERT KAYLOR
KARIMPUR, India (UPI)-
Their road began in East
Pakistan and ended in a lush
green field a few miles inside
India, where cholera struck
them down.
About 900 civil war refugees
from Pakistan lie here in mass
graves dug during the past 10
days as the disease ravaged the
men, women and children
fleeing to safety in India.
Some of them were brought
to the improvised graveyard
from the town dispensary. But
most of the corpses were
picked up along the road where
they collapsed from weakness
and died as their relatives
continued to plod along in
search of shelter.
Gray monsoon clouds scudded
overhead one recent day and
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satisfactorily when motorists
entering the area are normally
cautious in observing signs and
pavement markings.
Mr. Veal said that it appears
signilization of the intersection
could be warranted and a
permit granted to Griffin and or
Spalding County, should local
officials desire.
The Department cannot
purchase, install or operate
signilization devices, Mr. Veal
advised. He said the depart
ment could advise on a permit
epidemic continues sweep
the wind brought an occasional
whiff of the disinfectant poured
into the graves. The local police
commandant, Sgt. Inspector
Amal Bhattarcharjee, has the
job of collecting the bodies and
supervising their burial. He has
had time for nothing else.
“You can’t imagine what it
was like,” he said. How many
bodies in each grave? “Thirty
here,” he said. “Maybe 50
there. We just put them in as
the trucks brought them.”
The only sign to mark the
graves was a bamboo tripod
atop one of the piles of earth
with a chunk of wood dangling
from a string in the middle. It
was, Bhattacharjee explained, a
scarecrow-like device to keep
animals from digging into the
graves.
In one case along the
highway, said Bhattarcharjee,
“a mother had already died
from cholera and we found a
baby still sucking milk from
her breast.” The child was
taken in by Indian villagers
near where the mother had
fallen, he said.
The epidemic the refugees
brought with them appeared to
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, June 8, 1971
and the type of equipment
which would answer the needs
at the intersection.
(Spalding County Com
missioners have turned down
State Highway Department
proposals to install signal
devises before. The com
missioners said they thought
this was a Highway matter, that
they had pointed out the
dangers of the intersection
before it was built, and had said
they thought an overpass or
underpass was needed there.)
be on the wane in Kalimpur,
butnevertheless Bhattarcharjee
had to pick up 17 bodies from
the dispensary and 20 more
from along the roadside during
the morning.
At midday, there still were
five bodies left along the
stretch from Kalimpur to
Bettai, 15 miles to the south.
Two were sprawled under a
free in one place. The others,
shrivelled from the body
dehydration which kills when
cholera strikes, lay in the open.
Wisps of discarded bedding
and clothing lying in the mud
diowed where others had fallen.
The 900 victims were a small
pert of the 200,000 refugees who
have entered Kalimpur since
the start of the exodus from
East Pakistan. They were
moving on the road, sitting in
improvised camps along its
shoulders and taking shelter on
the porches and verandas of
every house at its side.
In Khrishnagar a group of
about 50 persons moved along
the road, chanting and beating
drums. A young girl at the
head carried a plate to collect
donations of money.
Mr. Veal said he had had a
study made of U.S. 19 beginning
in Upson (Thomaston) County
from north of Thomaston
through Pike County and into
Spalding to the Bypass.
He said the study centered on
capacity and sight distances on
vertical and horizontal curves.
He said the findings indicated
an immediate need for four
lanes north of the city limits of
Thomaston for almost two
miles.
He said the department’s
The money was not for the
refugees but as an offering to
pacify the Hindu goddess Maaa
Sitaala, for when Maaa Sitaala
becomes angry, cholera and
smallpox strike.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
91, low today 68, high yesterday
90, low yesterday 66. Total
rainfall .01 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:34, sunset
tomorrow 8:39.
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Even if we could feed the
world’s hungry, we’d need to
give them something better
han food to live for.”
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evaluation revealed that no
other significant improvements
will be needed until 1980 or
beyond unless traffic increases
far exceed forecasts.
Mr. Veal siad the department
would confer with Upson of
ficials about the widening
project north of Thomaston.
Griffin-Spalding officials
have been seeking im
provements at the Griffin
Bypass-Highway 19 South in
tersection because of the
number of accidents there.
Open bridges
snarl traffic
in New York
NEW YORK (UPl)—Traffic
into New York City, snarled
Monday by a wildcat strike by
bridge tenders that resulted in
the worst traffic jam in the
city’s history, eased somewhat
today as many commuters
apparently used public trans
portation to get to their jobs.
Mayor John V. Lindsay
viewed the main arteries into
the city from a helicopter this
morning and reported the
traffic situation was “much
better than it was yesterday.”
The unexpected strike by 318
bridge tenders left 28 of the
city’s 29 vital drawbridges open
and inoperable. The strike was
supported by about 6,000 other
municipal employes to back
their demands for legislative
approval of increased pension
allowances.
Gov. Carter doubts
ruling simplified
reapportioning
ATLANTA (UPI)-Key Geor
gia legislators believe the task
of reapportioning Georgia will
be simplified by Monday’s U.S.
Supreme Court ruling upholding
multi-member districts but Gov.
Jimmy Carter has his reserva
tions.
The court voted 5 to 3 to re
verse a two-year-old lower
court decision requiring single
member districts in the Indiana
legislature. The court said
blacks in urban ghettos have no
right to be guaranteed their
own representatives in the legis
lature.
In fact, the court said inner
city blacks may be lumped
with suburban whites into a
large district represented by
several legislators elected at
large.
House Speaker George L.
Melton, Smalley
named advisers
ATLANTA (UPI) - Sixteen
legislators have named by Gov.
Jimmy Carter to help him
achieve his Goals for Georgia
program.
Carter listed eight categories
in his program and named a
senator and representative for
each.
Lawmakers and their categor
ies included Rep. Bob Barrar of
Atlanta and Sen. Hugh Carter,
Plains, educaionand intellectual
enrichment; Rep. Clarence
Vaughn of Conyers and Sen.
Earl Patton of Atlanta, trans
portation and communications;
Court frees man
from death row
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI)—A
federal judge today ordered
Edgar Smith freed from the
Trenton prison where he has
spent 14 years on death row,
but gave the state 24 hours to
file an appeal.
Judge John J. Gibbons
ordered Smith freed on $5,000
bond after an hour-long bail
hearing attended by columnist
William F. Buckley Jr., who
has championed Smith’s fight
for freedom for eight years.
State attorneys said they
would not only appeal Gibbon’s
bail order but the judge’s order
of May 13 dissolving Smith’s
murder conviction on grounds
authorities had coerced him
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Karen Stanford (1) and Brenda Clark posed this picture ata
voting machine today to remind Griffin and Spalding citizens
to cast ballots in the junior college and water bond
referendums. They didn’t vote together in the same booth —
that would have been against the law. Radio Station WKEU
will cover the election tonight until returns are final. Radio
Stations WHIE and WGRI, daytime stations, will report
returns until signoff at local sundown time.
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Smith declared the court deci
sion will make reapportionment
“much easier.”
Rep. Bill Williams of Gaines
ville, chairman of the House
Reapportionment Committee,
said: “I am delighted. The
multi-member districting con
cept will make our job much
easier.”
Sen. Frank Coggin of Hape
ville, chairman of the Senate
Reapportionment Committee,
also praised the ruling.
Carter acknowledged that the
ruling will give the General As
sembly “more flexibility” but
said “conflicting rulings from
one week to another create
more confusion.”
He said his latest understand
ing was that single-member dis
tricts would almost certainly be
required. “Now we’ve got an op
posite ruling,” he added.
Rep. Virgil Smith of Dalton and
Sen. Bobby Rowan of Enigma,
physicaland mental health; Rep.
Grace Hamilton of Atlanta and
Sen. Cy Chapman, Smyrna,
social development.
Rep. Mac Pickard, Columbus,
and Sen. Al Holloway, Albany,
economic development; Rep.
Billy Lee of Albany and Sen.
Julian Webb, Donalsonville, pro
tection of persons and proper
ty; Rep. Howard Rainey, Cor
dele, and Sen. Bob Smalley,
Griffin, natural environment;
Rep. Quimby Melton of Griffin
and Sen. Paul Broun, Athens,
general government.
while undergoing questioning
for the slaying of a 15-year-old
girl.
Smith grinned broadly when
the judge announced his deci
sion and Buckley, sitting next
to Smith, reached over and
shook his hand in congratula
tion.
“I never had the opportunity
to shake his hand,” Buckley
said. “It was always through
one of those glass partitions.
This was the first time I’ve
seen him in the flesh.”
Smith, a self-educated author
of a best-seller, has awaited
execution longer than anyone in
American history.