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Check forger
arrested here
Griffin Police were holding a
convicted check forger who told
them he needed the money to
support his S3OO a day heroin
habit.
Detective Sgt. Marvin
Barrow identified him as
Gerald McKenty, 34, of 1004
Juniper street, Atlanta.
McKenty is charged with steal
ing some checks from Emmett
& Irene’s Ceramics, 124 West
Solomon street, and forging and
cashing three of them totaling
$1,050.
Sgt. Barrow said the suspect
cashed the checks at three
different drive-in windows of a
local bank on the same day. The
tellers at the bank wrote the car
license number on the back of
the checks as the suspect drove
away. Later when it was
discovered that the checks had
been forged, police were able to
trace the car to an Atlanta
woman who said she sold the
car to McKenty.
He was arrested at his apart
ment by Atlanta Police Wednes
day and transferred to Griffin
the same day on a warrant
taken by Emmett Powell,
owner of the ceramics store.
Officers said McKenty came
to Griffin and went into the
ceramics store to buy a soft
drink. They said he walked out
Burglary
arrests made
Griffin Police have made two
arrests in connection with a
burglary at the Broadway
Package Store last week and
are looking for a third man.
Held in the city jail were
James Bradshaw, 51, of 212
East Central avenue and John
Ridgeway, 40, of 420 North
Third street. A lookout has been
posted for Charlie Evans of
Third street who may have left
the area.
The burglary occurred on the
night of Sept. 16. A plate glass
window was broken and several
bottles of wine were taken.
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with the checks.
McKenty is originally from
Chicago. Police said he served
13 years in a penitentiary there
for forging checks and is on
probation from another prison
for the same offense.
He told officers he started us
ing marijuana when he was 11-
years-old and by the time he
was 13, he was a main-liner
heroin user. He said that the
habit cost him S3OO a day and
that he forged the checks to
support the habit.
His bond was set at $5,000.
Flimflam
artist
gets clocks
A Griffin businessman fell
victim to a flimflam artist
yesterday and was tricked out
of 17 antique clocks valued at
some $2,000, police said.
Detective Sgt. A. L. Truitt
said Jimmy Johnson Jr., who
operates an antique shop on
Meriwether street, reported
that a man who identified him
self as Jim Landis came into his
shop yesterday afternoon and
asked to trade a large diamond
ring for some antiques. He said
Johnson took the stranger to a
local jewelry store where the
ring was appraised at $3,400.
They returned to the shop where
the man picked up 17 clocks and
cfrove away.
Johnson then discovered that
the stranger had switched rings
and had left him with an
inexpensive duplicate of the
diamond.
He said the man was driving a
1971 model Pontiac with Cali
fornia license plates. He had
sandy blond hair, a mustache
and moles on the left side of his
face. He was wearing leather
boots.
An Arab
patriot
in Israel’s
service
Abdul Aziz
Zuabi finds no
contradiction
in furthering the
cause of his
Arab brethren
and voting, below,
in Israel's
parliament.
Patriotism, he
says, can
accommodate
both.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The
author is a correspondent
for the large Israeli news
paper, Yediot Aharonot.)
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By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM — (NEA) —
The first Arab to reach a
top spot in the Israeli
government has to be some
thing special.
And that is as good a cap
sule description as any of
Adul Aziz Zuabi, deputy min
ister of health and firm be
liever in the practicality of
combining Arab and Jewish
patriotism.
At 45, his appointment to
the cabinet was a victory for
those in Israel who have in
sisted that coexistence is
possible despite the intermit
tent warfare between the two
peoples for the last five
decades.
“I am against patriotism
that is based on hate for an
other nation,” said Zuabi re
cently in his modest Jeru
salem office. “I oppose the
Arab federation among
Egypt, Syria and Libya be
cause the only thing that
unites those countries is
hatred for Israel. Patriotism
means defending the rights
of your people, while recog
nizing the rights of other
people.”
From the mountains of the
Lower Galilee, Zuabi made
his way to the Israeli parlia
ment and to national promi
nence while the older gen
eration of Arab leaders in
Israel is considered “spine
less,” Zuabi has been known
as a frank—but moderate—
Arab leader.
He talks in one breath
about his Arab brethren and
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AN ARAB PATRIOT, Abdul Aziz Zuabi is also an
Israeli government official (below, voting in the
Knesset). He finds no contradiction in the roles, speak
ing in one breath of his brethren and his country.
about his country Israel. Al
though he considers himself
an Arab patriot, Israel has
sent him on three visits to
the United States. On his
most recent visit he told
Hadassah, a Zionist women’s'
organization, that “The peo
ple of Israel and the Arab
peoples shall forever live in
the Middle East — not in
America, not in the Soviet
Union, not in Asia or Africa
—only in the Middle East."
He also cautioned the wom
en at their national conven
tion to “forget about peace
that will be only good for the
Jews, just like the Arabs
should forget about peace
that only suits the Arabs.
Peace can be reached only
by a compromise.”
Born in Nazareth, Zuabi
completed high school stud
ies in Jerusalem during the
British Mandate over Pales
tine. He worked for the
British Regional Commis
sioner in the north of the
country. As soon as Naza
reth was captured by the
Israelis in 1948, Zuabi joined
the Israeli civil service. In
1955 he gave up civil service
for political life by joining
the small left-wing Mapam
party.
Mapam has played a lead
ing role in advancing the
participation of Arabs in
Israeli political life. The
party has wanted Zuabi to
join its ministry of health
team for two years now.
Mapam’s big brother in the
nation-governing coalition —
Premier Golda Meir’s Labor
party—objected.
Ironically, one of Zuabi’s
chief political foes has been
his cousin Seif ed-Din Zuabi,
former deputy speaker of the
Kenesset (parliament) and
an affiliate of the Labor
party.
In his Kenesset role, Seif
ed-Din held the highest posi
tion of an Israeli Arab. Thus,
an appointment of Abdul
Aziz as deputy minister
would have meant a political
setback for Seif ed-Din—a
setback clearly unacceptable
to the powerful Labor party.
So, it was only after Seif ed-
Din had been made mayor of
| Deaths |
| Funerals |
Mrs. Willoughby
Mrs. Amy Willoughby of
Atlanta died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. John Law of New
York City yesterday.
Among her survivors are a
daughter, Miss Gussie Johnson
of Atlanta; four sisters, Mrs.
Ruth Jordon of Molena, Mrs.
Willie Jones of 554 South Ninth
street, Griffin, Mrs. Lucille Law
of New York City, Mrs. Mattie
Barnett of Milwaukee; three
brothers-in-law, John Law of
New York City, the Rev. 0. C.
Jordon of Molena, William
Barnett of Milwaukee.
She was a member of the Mt.
Olive Baptist Church in Molena.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by United McDowell
Funeral Home.
Mr. Duke
Mr. Manley Duke, Jr., of 715
East Slaton, died this morning
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
after several weeks of illness.
He was the son of Mrs. Irene
Duke.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Nazareth, the largest Arab
city in Israel, that the road
was cleared.
When Abdul Aziz Zuabi
talks about national coex
istence, he does not think
about it merely in political
terms. For him it is personal.
His wife is a Sabra, or na
tive-born Israeli. She worked
at the Mapam party office
as a secretary, where she
met Zuabi.
They hesitated before de
ciding on marriage because
in Israel only religious au
thorities have the right to
perform marriages. Thus a
Jew cannot marry a Moslem
because both religions for
bid intermarriage. Eventual
ly, however, the Arab poli
tician and the Jewish secre
tary flew to Cyprus for a
short civil wedding cere
mony. They now have two
young children who are being
raised as Jews.
Zuabi is optimistic about
Israel as a future home for
his children.
“Millions of Arabs have
realized that war is not a
solution. Not that they sud
denly love Israel, but they
simply face the political
realism.
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F urniture
stores
promote
Seven Griffin firms have join
ed in a nationwide furniture
promotion program Sept. 26-
Oct. 9, featuring new furniture
design and beauty.
Participating stores here
include Cain’s, Carden Furni
ture, Goode-Nichols, Jones
Harrison, Maxwell Brothers,
Purser and Rhodes.
Griffinites were invited to
register at any of the stores for
a national contest being held in
connection with the promotion.
jar EKE EKS E
Hospital Report
The following persons were
admitted to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital:
Mrs. Jean King, Mrs. Eunice
Dunn, Tammy Paris, Mrs. Opal
Weaver, Mrs. Glenda Huckaby,
Jack Thrower, James H.
Taunton, James Goodman,
Mrs. Peggy Thomas, Lamar
Blackmon, Donnie Dorsey, Mrs.
Patricia Goen, John Thomas
Watts, Mrs. Suzanne Dodd.
The following were
dismissed:
Mrs. Sureatha Duffey and
baby, Mrs. Judy Smith, Renye
Newman, Eugene Riggins, Mrs.
Pauline Nelms, Mrs. Lois
McKay, Mrs. Betty Jane
Stemberger, Mrs. Edith Smith,
Mrs. Annie Bell and baby, Mrs.
Shirley Coggins, Mrs. Dorothy
Roberts, Mrs. Barbara
Robinson, Miss Deborah
Compton, Mrs. Sara Gunter,
Mrs. Dorothy Moore.
— Griffin Daily News Friday, Sept. 24, 1971
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HOLLYWOOD — Comedian
Billy Gilbert whose trademark
was an ability to sneeze with
violence, died yesterday at the
age of 78 in a convalescent
home. (UPI)
Youth program
resumes here
A supervised recreation pro
gram will be resumed tonight at
the Salvation Army gym on 13th
street.
Capt. Gary Cook, director,
said that the center would be
open each Friday from 6:30
until 9:30 in the evenings.
The program was discontinu
ed through summer.
Restaurant man slain
ATLANTA (UPI) — A restaurant operator in northwest
Atlanta was shot to death about midnight Thursday in an
apparent robbery.
Detective R. L. Fitzgerald identified the victim as
Charles Holcomb, 34. He was found in a parking lot near
the restaurant with gunshot wounds in the head and chest
Fitzgerald said about $2,000 was missing from the
restaurant.
F. Thomas
is honored
Frank A. Thomas, president,
general manager and chairman
of the board of the Thomas
Packing Co., of Griffin, was
honored by the Atlanta Metro
Agri-Business Council as an
agri-leader of the year in the 23-
county Atlanta trade area.
The Griffin leader was
recognized for his contributions
to the business and civic affairs
of his community.
Mr. Thomas has served as
president and a director of the
Griffin Rotary Club; president,
vice president and committee
chairman of the Griffin Cham
ber of Commerce; district
finance chairman of the Boy
Scouts; chairman of the STAR
student program in the Sixth
District and a member of the
State Chamber of Commerce
Council of 100. He is a deacon in
the First Baptist Church.
Each year, six agri-leaders
are named by the Agri-Business
Council in cooperation with the
University of Georgia Coopera
tive Extension Service.
Stork Club
LITTLE MISS THOMAS
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley P.
Thomas of Route One, Griffin,
announce the birth of a
daughter on Sept. 23 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.