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By Quimby Melton
November is the month that
brings National Thanksgiving
Day, and is the month in which
five Presidents and a Vice
President were born, and four
states were admitted to the
Union in the month of Novem
ber. Clocks will have been turn
ed back an hour and we will be
on Standard Eastern Time.
November is also “One
Nation Under God” Month with
celebrations sponsored by
National Exchange Clubs in
every state.
The five Presidents bom in
November: James Knox Polk,
11th President, born Nov. 2,
1795; Warren G. Harding, 29th
President, bom Nov. 2, 1865;
James A. Garfield, 20th Presi
dent, born Nov. 19, 1831;
Franklin Pierce, 14th Presi
dent, bom Nov. 23, 1804; and
Zachery Taylor, 12th President,
bom Nov. 24, 1784.
November is also the birthday
month of Vice President Spiro
Agnew. He was born Nov. 2,
1918.
November 1889 was a record
breaking month when it came to
states being admitted into the
Union. There were four of them.
Two were admitted on the same
day, Nov. 2. North Dakota
became the 39th state and South
Dakota the 40th. In less than a
week, Nov. 8, Montana became
the 41st; and three days after
that the State of Washington,
the 42nd.
November 2, the first Tues
day in November, is always
national election day in the
UJSA.
Other dates of interest in
November are:
Youth Appreciation Week —
Nov. 8-14. Optimist Clubs are
sponsoring this event to salute
“the great majority of young
people who are leading con
structive lives of service in the
home, church, schools and com
munity.”
Nov. 10 marks the opening of
Nation Christmas Seal cam
paign to raise money to fight
pulmanory diseases.
Nov. 10 is the birthday of the
U. S. Marines. The first unit was
formed Nov. 10, 1775.
Nov. 14-20 is National Child
ren’s Book Week.
The same week is National
Fellowship Week, sponsored by
the YM.C.A.
Nov. 16-22 is National Family
Health Week.
Japan will celebrate its
version of Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 23.
Nov. 25 is celebrated in New
York as the anniversary of a
banquet given in 1783 by Gover
nor Clinton for George Wash
ington in Frauncces Tavern.
This banquet was in apprecia
tion for Washington’s having
driven the British out of
Manhattan during the Revolu
tion.
Nov. 25 is also National
Thanksgiving Day and World
Wide Bible Reading in the
U.S.A.
Advent begins Sunday, Nov.
28. Advent includes the four
Sundays before Christmas.
And the month closes with St.
Andrews Day in Scotland. St.
Andrews is the patron saint for
that land.
An interesting month, a busy
month, a challenging month is
this month before Christmas.
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AUGUSTA,Ga. (UPI)-About
100 prisoners at the Ft. Gordon
stockade rioted Tuesday night,
burning down one barracks and
damaging another before the
disturbance was brought under
control about two hours later.
Lt. Kenneth T. Walsh of the
Fund
reports
United Fund Leaders today
urged solicitors who worked in
the campaign to report their
pledges and contributions as
quickly as possible.
Frank Jolly, chairman of the
drive, said that some $70,000
had been pledged or contributed
toward a goal of $86,850.
Solicitors were asked to
telephone Fund headquarters at
the Chamber of Commerce
office and report the status of
their ‘calls.
Fund officials are anxious to
wrap up the program as quickly
as possible and need all reports.
Hancock problems mainly economic
By RANDALL H. HARBER
SPARTA, Ga. (UPI)-Blacks
and whites in rural Hancock
County agree—their problems
are mainly economic.
Recently the county drew na
tional attention when blacks
and whites became involved in
an apparent race to buy ma
chineguns.
But a closer look shows the
highly publicized arms race is
only a tiny part of the county’s
problems and that the financial
problems of the residents of
Hancock County are similar to
those of rural areas throughout
the South.
The county’s 80 per cent
black population lives in pover
ty.
Most of the county’s land is
forest land with the trees used
to feed paper mills in Augusta.
The remainder of the land is
used in general farming.
The county’s two industries—
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
City lists requirements
a
for Northgate shop center
base information office said
nine prisoners and two guards
suffered slight injuries.
He said one of the inmates
apparently was struck by shot
gun pellets, possibly fired in the
air by the guards, but none
broke the skin.
Sen. David Gambrell will speak
to the annual Griffin Area
Chamber of Commerce meeting
Jan. 24 at Spalding Junior High
Unit II cafeteria. The meeting
will begin at 7:30 p.m.
a furniture factory and a gar
ment plant—never employ more
than 450 people.
As a result, Hancock county’s
population tumbled from 9,979
in 1960 to 8,759 in 1970.
Both black and white teen
agers leave the county at the
earliest opportunity. Most find
they are ill-equipped to handle
the challenges of city life.
“People graduate from high
school and they leave,” said
Leroy Wiley, the county’s black
clerk of court. “There’s really
nothing going on here.”
Whites agree.
“There’s not a problem in
Hancock County that 600 good
jobs wouldn’t cure,” asserted
white School Superintendent
W. M. Andrews.
The black community is not
waiting for those 600 jobs to
appear. Last year Negroes
flocked to the ballot boxes and
took control of the county court-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971
The rebellion was touched off
by the refusal of the Army to
grant a “home-parole” to Pvt.
Jesse Simmons of Memphis,
Tenn., and involved about one
third of the' 308 prisoners.
Another 22 men refused or
ders to come out of a building
Red China delegates expected
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)-
Communist China may send its
delegation to the United Na
tions within the next few days.
There were numerous reports
both in the United Nations and
in world capitals of what the
Chinese planned to do. Howev
er, there was no official
confirmation either by the U.N.
leadership or from Peking
itself.
So far, Secretary General
Thant has not received a reply
to the cablegram he sent at
midnight Monday informing
acting Communist Chinese
Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei
that the General Assembly had
house.
The county commission and
the school board are both pre
dominantly black. Additionally,
Negroes hold the posts ot coun
ty ordinary and clerk of court.
But, more importantly, Ne
groes are pinning their hopes
on self-help industries that one
day promise them economic
quality.
The black attempt for politi
cal, economic and social equali
ty has been uncertain. The
drive to free Hancock County
from the inertia that has held
the area in a rural, backward
grasp has had many spinoffs,
among them 26 straight days of
marching and the arms race. .
For many, like Superintend
ent Andrews, the awakening of
the Negro community has been
a blessing.
A stout, freckle-faced man
whose friends call him Red,
Andrews says the county’s de-
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for about three hours more but
surrendered before an organized
party moved to go in after
them.
Walsh said an investigation
was underway and “appropri
ate disciplinary action” would
be taken against those involved.
voted 76-35 to grant them entry.
At the same time, the
Assembly ousted Nationalist
China from the United Nations,
handing the United States a
major diplomatic setback. The
Americans, led by U.S. Ambas
sador George Bush, had fought
a last-ditch battle to save a
U.N. seat for the Nationalists.
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pressed conditions have given
him control of “the best labora
tory for testing teaching meth
ods anywherte in this nation.”
The school system’s racial
breakdown, 97 per cent black
and 3 per cent white, has al
lowed Hancock County to cash
in on a bounty of federal aid.
“We have a tremendous bat
ting average on grants,” said
Andrews, “We’ve received four
or five hundred thousand dol
lars in grants for education.”
Last August Andrews was the
target of the marathon marches
as blacks protested overcrowd
ing in some county schools.
He emerged philosophically
unchanged and recalls the situ
ation now by saying only, “I’m
not a conservative or a liberal.
I’m an opportunist, a pragma
tist.”
Illustrating his points by
doodling on a scratch pad, An
drews listed the accomplish-
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The Griffin City Com
missioners laid down four
requirements for approval of a
site plan for the Northgate
Shopping Center at their
meeting last night at city hall.
The center has been in the
planning stages for several
years here. Plans call for it to
be located at North Expressway
and Mclntosh road on some 21
acres of land.
The commissioners stipulated
that:
—Backs and sides of buildings
are to be at least 25 feet from
crest of fills, base of cuts or
property line, whichever is
farther, so adequate maneuver
room exits for modem fire
fighting apparatus.
—Considering that there are
two 24-inch, two 18-inch and one
15-inch culverts beneath U.S. 41-
19 and a 36-inch culvert beneath
West Mclntosh road already,
contributing to storm run-off
volume, developer and builder
should replace the 60-inch pipe
beneath Moran road with
sufficiently large capacity to
insure run-off and prevent
pooling of the increased volume
of storm water caused by new
paving.
—Satisfactory prior
arrangements be made with the
city Light and Water and Sewer
Department which grants
easements for electric
distribution lines and water
lines, that satisfy water needs
for fire protection.
—That final plans, including
electrical plumbing and
construction details be sub
mitted to the building inspector
five working days before
building permit is desired.
Lee Benson, Atlanta real
estate man, wrote the city
commissioners about plans for
development of the center.
He indicated he hoped to start
construction as soon as
possible. But he did not indicate
when this might be.
Benson indicated that the
center called for a Woolco
building of 80,155 square feet, an
Eckard’s Drug Store with 1,200
square feet and room for ex
pansion, a Big Apple super
market with 19,200 square feet,
a men’s shop, a shoe store, a
jewelry store, an optical ser
vice, and a beauty shop.
Long range plans call for
providing 1,585 parking spaces.
Benson indicated that the
initial development would in
volve 17 acres and that more
than 22 would be involved in the
final project. During the
development, some four acres
of land would be used for 500
parking spaces.
ments his school system has
made:
—“People have been saying
for a long time that black kids
from a rural environment can’t
learn the same as black and
white kids from an urban envir
onment. Well, we’ve proved that
not to be true. Os course we
have some kids who can’t cut
the mustard. But we have some
who blow the lid off anything
they touch.”
—“Here in this school system
we have a non-graded elemen
tary program, a departmental
ized primary program and a
high school on the quarter sys
tem. They don’t even have that
in Atlanta.”
—“You talk about dropouts
and the dropout problem. We
don’t have any dropout problem
here. We’ve had between 38 and
41 people to come back and get
their degrees since we started
this program last year. These
$2,000 gift
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (UPI)—A young woman who
“really meant to remain anonymous” walked into a
hospital here and left a $2,000 cashier’s check for a small
boy who may be paralyzed because of an accidental
shooting.
Northside Hospital Administrator Joe Taylor said the
donor, a “hippie type” woman wearing a peasant dress,
moccasins, and long brown hair, said she wanted to help
Jerry Brown, left the check and walked out
Jerry, the 11-year-old son of an Alpharetta pulpwood
cutter, was accidentally shot in the spine by his brother
last week while the two were playing with a rifle.
“The money was brought to the business office in the
form of a cashier’s check which does not require a
signature,” Taylor said. “She really meant to remain
anonymous.”
Neither Jerry not his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Brown, saw the woman and were unaware of the gift until
told by newsmen.
Jerry’s bills have already run up to $1,300 and doctors
say it will be another four to five weeks before he can
return home.
They have also told the boy he may never walk again,
but Jerry refuses to believe them.
“He believes the Lord will let him walk,” says Jerry’s
mother. The Brown’s have 12 other children.
Speaker says demands
would mean tax hikes
William Tate, retired dean at
the University of Georgia, will
speak to the Mid-Georgia Beef
Cattle Association here Nov. 4.
The meeting will be held at the
Moose Club beginning at 7:30
p.m. with some 300 people
expected to attend. The
association covers the counties
of Spalding, Lamar, Monroe,
Pike, Upson, and Talbott. The
meeting here will be a ladies
night affair.
were people who only lacked
one unit to finish.”
Andrews is most proud of his
high school quarter system. The
plan allows students to take two
subjects each day for three
months while holding down night
diift jobs—many of which An
drews arranges.
The changes brought by the
new Hack political power in
Hancock County have put one
man in a unique and difficult
position—Sheriff J. T. “Slim”
Walton.
Walton is a white sheriff in a
“black county” — the man
caught in the middle between
the Negro community and Spar
ta Mayor T. M. “Buck” Patter
son.
In fact, Walton said the only
violence of occur in Sparta hap
pened when he and Patterson
ended up in a first fight over
the right of blacks to march
down Main Street.
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ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Jlouse speaker George L. Smith
said Tuesday that demands for
teacher pay raises and local
government requests for bigger
state grants could require the
next General Assembly to boost
both sales and income tax.
Smith said he was not advo
cating the tax hikes but, “I’m
just talking about the realities
of life.”
He said, “I think the people
of the state would go along
with an increase in sales taxes
provided it’s tied to certain
spending and a lowering of ad
valorem taxes.”
Smith said an income tax
hike should be included with any
sales tax increase, “to make it
just and equitable” by hitting
“the higher income brackets.”
He said any increase in state
grants to local government
should be followed by a man
datory decrease of local proper
ty taxes.
Smith said a need for state
operated kindergartens could al
so push taxes up. “If we’re go
ing to have a good education
system, we’ve got to let our
children have some training be
fore the first grade,” he said.
As George Lott, a black who
is chairman of the county com
mission, remembers it, Patter
son attempted to halt a school
march by pulling a city fire
truck across Main Street.
Lott said Patterson “began
waving a hand gun” and Walton
stepped in. A fist fight followed.
“The only violence we have
ever had in the county was
when the mayor tried to put me
in jail,” said Walton.
Black and white leaders alike
said the “arms race”, in which
Patterson played a major part,
is a minor incident.
One white official, who said
he would “fill in the back
ground” if his name was not
used, said a small group of city
officials decided shortly after
the 26 days of marching to pur
chase 10 submachineguns with
money originally donated by pri
vate citizens to buy radio equip
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