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By Quimby Melton
Reaction to United Nation’s
voting Communist China in and
Taiwan China out varied.
The Communists are elated.
News from China tells how
Pricing celebrated. Newspapers
and radio alike reported in de
tail a speech of one high
Communist leader who called
the results “a major defeat for
tte United States.” They also
linked Japan with the United
States as "arch enemies” of
“The people.”
From Taiwan comes news
that President Chaing Kai-shek
called United Nations a “den of
iniquity” and told his people
“The destiny of our nation does
not rest in the hands of the
United Nations but in our
hands”, and he defied the U.N.
Here in Griffin a young lady
who last year visited Taiwan
where she has friends told Good
Evening “When I read how the
U. N. had treated Taiwan it
made me sick at my stomach.”
In Tuesday afternoon’s
Griffin Daily News we publish
ed what might be called the
“box score” of the voting. This
listed the 76 members of U. N.
who voted against Uncle Sam.
The 35 voted with us and the 17
who “abstained” — in other
words “straddled the fence”
There were three nations whose
representatives were not pre
sent when the vote was taken.
One of these was Nationalist
China. Its representatives
walked out when it became
apparent they didn’t have a
chance.
Reaction to this “box score,”
over the state and throughout
the nation also varied.
There are those who hold the
names of all those nations who
voted “against” Uncle Sam
should be cut off the list of
nations we are helping, or have
helped, with foreign aid money,
but some who do not believe we
should be so drastic. Also some
believe we should “quit” United
Nations “before we get kicked
out,” and some who said “we
cannot afford to lose our U. N.
membership; for as one sports
fan, Vice President Agnew put
it “It helps if we can be present
in the huddle when the quarter
baric is calling signals for the
next play.
There were those who said
Unde Sam always had paid
more than his share of U. N.
expenses and we should reduce
the amount we pay.
President Nixon is reported
as saying the vote last Monday
could result in Congress voting
to cut both foreign aid and
payments to the U.N.
Washington also reports there
will be no change in the Presi
dent’s plans to visit Red China
and Red Russia. These trips are
scheduled for early next year.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox of
Georgia has written President
Nixon asking him not to make
these trips “hat in hand as it
were.”
One thing that happened after
the vote was taken irked this
American citizen. Russia’s
Premier Alexia N. Kosygin sent
a wire to President Nixon from
his plane flying over the United
States on its way to Cuba.
Russian news agency Tass
reported the message was,
“Flying over the territory of the
United States of America I avail
myself of the opportunity to
convey greetings to the Ameri
can people and to you, personal
ly and from the people of Soviet
Russia and its leaders.”
Just what sort of “greet
ings”?
Was he saying to traitor
Americans who are more than
sympathetic of Communist
aims “The next time I send
greetings from a plane flying
over American territory, it will
be a command to attack.”
Or was he trying to intimidate
the 'President of the United
States?
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WASHINGTON—President Nixon welcomed President Tito of Yugoslavia with unusual military
fanfare and ceremonial honors today, calling him a world statesman of the first rank. Camera
angle in this picture makes it appear as though the two leaders are forehead-to-forehead as they
exchanged greetings during the ceremony on the White House lawn. (UPI)
Patrolmen to present
drug abuse program
Lt. Lamar Polk and Cpl. Ed
Tanner of the Education
Division of the Georgia State
Patrol, will present a drug
abuse program tomorrow at
Atkinson and East Griffin
Elementary Schools.
The programs will be video
tapped and if the tapes are good
quality they will be left in
Griffin for public use.
Michael
convicted
Wayne Jerome Michael, 25,
formerly of the Marion Apart
ments, was found guilty
yesterday in a court trial in
Washington D.C. of assault with
intent to kill in connection with
the stabbing of an undercover
Metropolitan police officer.
Sentence will be set when a pre
sentence investigation has been
completed.
The undercover narcotics
officer was stabbed in
Washington on Sept. 27 ? 1970.
Michael was taken into custody
in Griffin the following
November and gave a
statement to Police Detective
R. E. Irvin and GBI Agent Mike
Carothers. They both flew to
Washington to testify in the
trial.
Sparta arms race halted
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Senior Editor
The arms race has been
halted in Sparta, Ga.
The story of Sparta’s arms
race—why it began, how it
developed, and where it might
have led—is relevant to every
American community, and in
deed to all nations.
Sparta is a small town in
central Georgia, about halfway
between Atlanta and Augusta.
It has a population of 1,800,
predominantly white. It is the
seat of rural Hancock County,
which has a population of about
9,000, predominantly black.
The arms race seems to have
been touched off last fall, when
about 1,000 blacks staged 26
days of demonstrations to
protest what they called
Hancock County’s failure to
comply with national guidelines
of desegregation of public
schools. The demonstrations
were accompanied by a black
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It is the first time such pro
grams will be video tapped and
made available for public use.
On display during the drug
abuse program will be all types
of drugs.
The narcotics, which are
valued at SIO,OOO on the black
market, are kept under lock at
all times.
The drugs were confiscated.
The display consist of pills,
10- 2
“Folks seem to be quite
willing to go broke in their effort
to look richer than their
neighbors.”
boycott of stores and other
business establishments run by
whites.
Racial tensions rose to a
dangerous level when Sparta’s
white mayor, T.M. Patterson
Sr., tried to block street
marches, but found his edicts
ignored and his roadblocks
circumvented by blacks.
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At about that point, druggist
Leroy Napier, a white member
of the City Council, and several
like-minded white men conclud
ed that Sparta’s six-man police
force should be armed with
rapid-fire military weapons.
They bought 10 submachine
guns.
Black leaders responded by
ordering 30 submachine guns.
They also formed a “hunting
club” which financed the
purchase of high-powered rifles
for its members.
The situation was deteriorat-
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Oct. 28, 1971
marijuana, hashish, LSD,
heroin.
Lt. Polk and Cpl. Tanner will
explain how the innocent abuse
of drugs may lead to addiction.
The program will be present
ed to the Atkinson fourth, fifth
and sixth graders at 9:30 a.m. A
similar program will be
presented at East Griffin
beginning at 10:45 a.m.
Lottery
cracked
MACON, Ga. (UPI) - Bibb
County deputies claimed today
they had broken a $1 million-a
year lottery ring with the arrest
of five persons, one a juvenile,
at a local shopping center.
Sheriff J. S. Bloodworth said
the suspects were picked up at
a parking lot, used as a lottery
pickup station, on Wednesday
after a two weeks investigation.
He said more arrests were ex
pected.
The adults were identified as
Arthur Leon Jackson, 26; Bes
sie Mae Haugabrook, 38; Rob
ert H. Jackson, 24, and Mary
Jackson, 25. The juvenile,whose
name cannot be used under
Georgia law, was 15 years old.
ing rapidly toward a bloody
racial shootout when moderate
men of both races enlisted the
peacemaking intervention of
Georgia’s progressive white
Gov. Jimmy Carter, and the
U.S. Department of Justice.
Between them, the governor’s
office and the Justice Depart
ment were able to arrange a
negotiated settlement under
which both sides agreed to
return their submachine guns
to the sellers, and the blacks
disbanded their “hunting club.”
Recent inquiries by this
reporter indicate that race
relations in Sparta and Hancock
County are still a long way
from sweetness and light. But
there is evident relief on both
sides that the reckless arms
race was stopped before it led
to civil war in the community.
This episode in a small
Georgia town might contain a
lesson for other American
communities—and perhaps for
nations.
City will use
paper ballots
The city of Griffin will use
paper ballots in the commission
election Tuesday.
City officials figure they will
cost less than using the voting
machines.
Claude Donehoo, assistant
election manager who has been
handling arrangements for the
election, recommended the
paper ballots to city officials.
They agreed to use them.
The city would have had to get
the voting machines from the
county, get trained people to
handle them, place them in
eight voting places in the city,
then return them to their
storage place.
The eight polling places will
be:
Precinct One at West Griffin
School, Precinct Two at Fire
Station One in the city hall;
Precinct Three at the Spalding
County Courthouse; Precinct
Four at Fourth Ward School,
Precinct Five at the Stucky
building in Experiment;
Precinct Six at Orrs cour
thouse; Precinct Seven at the
National Guard Armory next to
the fairgrounds on South Hill;
and Precinct Eight in Melrose
at' the Masonic Lodge 413
building on West Poplar street.
The city code designates the
city manager as the election
manager.
The polls will open at 7 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m.
A total of 9,188 people are
eligible to cast ballots.
There are two candidates in
each of the three races.
Louis Goldstein and Kimsey
Stewart, both former com
missioners and mayors, are
seeking the post of com
missioner-at-large which
carries with it the chairmanship
and honorary title of mayor.
Jimmie McGee, auto dealer,
and “Skeeter” Norsworthy,
locksmith, are candidates for
Post Four. Both are offering for
public office for the first time.
Will Hill Newton 11, real
estate man, and Raymond
Head, pressing club operator,
are offering for Post Number
Two.
All voters in the city of Griffin
will be eligible to cast ballots in
all three of the races, regar
dless of where the voter lives.
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HONG KONG—Clad in British Army fatigues, Britain’s Princess Anne tries her hand at firing a
.30 caliber machine gun from atop an armored car during a visit to King’s Hussars camp. (UPI)
U.S. renews POW push
PARIS (UPl)—The United
States called on the Communist
Vietnamese today to follow
South Vietnam’s lead and
release prisoners of war “held
by Hanoi and the Viet Cong.”
The Viet Cong called Saigon’s
announcement that it would
free almost 3,000 Communist
prisoners “an impudent
maneuver” and demanded the
release of all prisoners held by
the South Vietnamese.
Before the start of today’s
session deputy Saigon negotia
tor Nguyen Xuan Phong said
Saigon hoped its release of
prisoners of war would get the
deadlocked peace talks moving
again.
U.S. Ambassador William J.
Porter told newsmen after the
Halloween
Saturday
Griffin City Commissioners
today asked that youngsters in
this community observe Satur
day night as Halloween “trick
or treat” time instead of Sunday
night, the regular holiday.
Gov. Jimmy Carter led the
state in recommending the
Saturday night observance.
The governor also warned
youngsters not to go to strange
neighborhoods nor accept treats
from persons they do not know.
134th session of the Vietnam
talks the United States consi
dered the South Vietnamese
gesture “a constructive and
humanitarian move.”
“If the Communist side could
find it possible to reciprocate in
some form, that too would be
most welcome and have proba
bly a very good effect on the
atmosphere surrounding these
talks,” the tall, silver-haired
ambassador said.
Deputy Viet Cong negotiator
Nguyen Van Tien dismissed the
Saigon move.
“It is an impudent maneuver
designed to turn public atten
tion away from the fascist
character of the Saigon regime
with its tiger-cage prisons,”
said Tien.
“On our side, we insist the
United States and Saigon
liberate immediately all pa
triots held illegally by them,”
Tien added.
The prisoner of war question
was not raised in any of the
formal speeches by the four
sides during the three and a
half hour meeting. The South
Vietnamese brought up the
subject during additional re
marks made by the negotiators
afterwards.
Porter said no progress was
being made because Hanoi and
the Viet Cong refused to
negotiate seriously.
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CHINO, Calif.—Dr. Bernard
Finch (top) who spent the past
12 years in prison for the
murder of his socialite wife
Barbara Jean Finch, will be
released tomorrow to pick up a
new life. Finch and his flame
haired mistress Carole Tregoff
(bottom) were convicted of the
slaying of Mrs. Finch. Miss
Tregoff, now 34, was paroled in
May, 1969, after 10 years in
prison. (UPI)