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* I The month of May is nearly
■ This is the month of the
Blundering hoofs as the
Birough breds race round the
Back at Churchill Downs,
Bxiuisville, Ky. in the Kentucky
Berby and of the noise of
Bevved up auto engines as
Baring drivers vie for the
Bhampionship at the Indianapo-
Bs. Ind. Speedway.
; I It is also the month when
Buder noise than ever came
Bom a Derby or any auto race,
Baited for a few moments and
Bien broke loose once more in a
Bymphony of hate and selfish-
Bess that has not ended 27 years
Bter. This was on VE Day in
■945. On May 8,1945 representa-
Bves of Adolf Hitler notified
Beneral Dwight D. Eisenhower
Biey wanted to surrender.
■Hitler had been killed in an
Bnderground “bomb-proof”
Bielter on May 1. It has been
Baid he died in the arms of his
Bustress.)
I May is also the birthday
Bnmversary of many prominent
Bmericans.
I Harry S Truman, 33rd Presi-
Bent of the United States, was
Born May 8,1884. Truman, alive
Boday and 88 years old, has seen
Bnany changes in American
Bustoms and laws.
I May is also the birthday
Bnniversary of another Ameri-
Ban, whose record as an
•■‘educational reformer” is
■mown to few. He was Horace
Bfann, born May 4, 1796. Mann
Bdvocated great changes in the
Bhen infant school systems of
Bhe nation. He served two terms
Bn the Massachusetts legisla
ture and introduced bills calling
Bor an end of slavery, bills to
Bimit the sale of alcoholic bever-
Bges, and was the founder of the
Blassachusetts Board of Educa-
Bion, which has been a storm
Benter since those days.
I Sunday, May 7 is “Mothers-
Bn-Law Day”.
I Sunday, May 14 is “Mother’s
■Jay.”
I May 1 is National I>aw Day
■when judges of all our courts
Bare to be honored. And May 1 is
■also “May Day” when in older
■times fair ladies danced round
■the May Pole. But in recent
■years it has become a day when
■Communists and others have
■demonstrated “in honor of the
■working man.”
I May 22 is National Maritime
■Day and the famous old ship
■“lronsides” will be the emblem
■of the day.
May 25,1803 was the birthday
■of the American poet Ralph
■Waldo Emerson, and May 31 the
■anniversary of another, Walt
■whitman.
] May 11 is the anniversary of
■the admission of Minnesota to
■ the Union. This state was ad
■mitted in 1858 and became the
132.
Charles Lindberg was the
I first pilot to fly from America to
I Paris. He accomplished this
■ flight in the plane “Spirit of St.
■ Louis” May 21, 1927.
May 20th will be Armed
I Forces Day.
Monday, May 29, will be
I Memorial Day.
I Memorial Day for many
I years was May 30. But
I Memorial Day can be moved
I about since Congress passed a
I law to allow this to prolongue
I weekend holidays.
If one wants to “keep up with
the time” they should
remember to set their clock up
one hour Saturday night. Of
ficially this change is made at
2:01 Sunday morning. But there
is no reason why one, who
retired before midnight on April
30 should not do this earlier.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
74, low today 42, high yesterday
78, low yesterday 51, high
Wednesday in 60s, low Wed
nesday in 40s. Sunrise tomorrow
6o’clock, sunset tomorrow 7:10.
Grimy astronauts
on their way home
By AL ROSSITER JR.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) —Apollo 16’s astronauts
escaped the dominance of the
moon’s gravity today and sped
faster and faster toward Earth
with a treasury of rocks that
scientists think may include
long-sought pieces of the
primitive lunar crust.
John W. Young, Thomas K.
Mattingly and Charles M. Duke
flowed the bright, gray-white
moon receding behind them
during an early morning
impromptu telecast. They were
reported on target for a
splashdown in the Pacific
Ocean Thursday afternoon.
Young and Duke walked on
the moon, but today was
Mattingly’s day. His schedule
called for an hourJong spacew
alk to retrieve 6,500 feet of film
from two mapping cameras in
the spaceship’s moon observato
ry.
The three astronauts rocketed
out of moon orbit Monday night
and, with that critical
maneuver behind them, report
ed their morale had shot up “a
couple of hundred per cent.”
They entered tiie pull of
Earth’s gravity at 9:36 a.m.
EST when they were 216,001
miles out and heading home at
about 2,900 miles per hour.
“I’ll tell you, we can hardly
wait,” said Young, veteran
commander of the mission that
went from near-failure to
success in five days.
Spaceflight meteorologists re
ported that weather in the
landing area 1,400 miles south
of Honolulu was expected to be
satisfactory at 2:44 p.m.
Thursday.
Duke buoyed the hopes of
geologists when he reported the
245-pound collection of moon
rocks stowed in Casper did not
seem to contain volcanic
samples. Instead, the rocks
Another
remap
suit filed
ATLANTA (UPI) - The U.S.
Supreme Court has stayed fed
eral court orders for reappor
tioning Georgia’s House and
Senate districts but that hasn’t
stopped the flow of court cases.
Another suit was filed in U.S.
District Court Monday, attack
ing redistricting in Cobb and
Paulding counties. And at least
three other suits are pending in
the courts.
The newest legal action was
filed by John T. Perren and
Radford H. Johns, residents of
multi-member House Districts
19 and 21 and by Homer
Leggett, who lives in single
member District 18 in Haralson
County and part of Paulding.
The suit is a class action and
names state Democratic and
Republican party leaders as
well as Georgia officials. It said
there was no “rational purpose
or public benefit to be derived
from the creation of said one,
two and three member dis
tricts.”
It charged the reapportion
ment plan drawn up by the Gen
eral Assembly violated constitu
tional guarantees of equal pro
tection in all three districts. The
suit said the districts were cre
ated “solely to perpetuate the
election of incumbent repre
sentatives.”
The plaintiffs asked that a
three-judge panel hear the case,
that all three districts be reap
portioned into single-member
ones and that the court bar any
elections until new lines are
drawn.
Other pending suits involved
the 56th House District in De-
Kalb County, DeKalb’s 43rd
Senate District and the 4th
House District in Fannin and
Gilmer counties.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 25, 1972
appeared to be older, beat up
specimens that could unlock
some of the moon’s remaining
mysteries.
The three pilots began their
day today when ground commu
nicator Henry Hartsfield gave
them a wakeup call at 9:39
am. EST.
Before leaving lunar orbit,
the astronauts cast off the
ascent section of their lunar
module Orion. But they failed
to set a critical switch and the
spacecraft tumbled out of
control, ruining a chance to
crash it near the Apollo 16
landing site. The impact was to
have created an artificial
moonquake to be recorded by
the seismometer Young and
Duke left behind.
But the astronauts successful
ly deployed a little satellite
Letter to congressmen
described as ‘arrogant’
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
White House has described as
“arrogant” a letter from Viet
Cong negotiator Madame Nguy
en Thi Binh to members of the
U.S. Congress urging the
lawmakers to help stop the
bombing of North Vietnam.
Gerald Iv. Warren, assistant
press secretary to President
Nixon, said Monday Mrs. Binh’s
action was a “presumptuous
effort” that was “folly on her
part.”
“We feel that this arrogant
effort by Madame Binh won’t
work,” Warren said.
In her letter, Mrs. Binh also
said the United States should
return to the Paris conference
“with a real desire to
negotiate.” The United States
and South Vietnam suspended
the conference March 23.
Rep. Charles S. Gubser, R-
Calif., accused Mrs. Binh of
treating Congress “like a
monkey at the end of her
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Douffhtie, Busbin, his father, fickle (l-r)
Busbin winner of scholarship
John Rollin Busbin of Griffin
has been named recipient of the
1972 college scholarship
awarded by Crompton-
Highland Mills under the
Crompton Scholarship
program.
Mr. Busbin was selected by
the committee of judges
comprised of Miss Anne Hill
Drewry, Sen. Robert H.
Smalley, and E. T. Cody.
He is the son of Harvey
Lamar Busbin, Sr. 314 Main
street, Griffin and Melba W.
Busbin, Route four, Griffin. The
GRIFFIN
designed to measure radiation
and magnetic forces around the
moon. Dr. David W. Stangway,
chief geophysicist at the
Manned Spacecraft Center, said
an identical satellite left behind
by Apollo 15 “has told us a lot
of very exciting things” about
the pecularities of the moon.
The astronauts were so
impressed by the view of the
moon as they sped away that
they beamed a 15-minute
telecast 240,000 miles to Earth.
“You know Pete, if you took
this view you just saw of the
moon and put it in a movie
everybody would say you were
just faking it,” Duke told
ground communicator Don Pe
terson. “You can’t see any
stars, just pure blackness and
that white-gray body sitting out
there.”
string” and Rep. Wayne D.
Hays, D-Ohio, said he would
throw the letter in the
wastebasket when he received
it.
But the bombing of North
Vietnam was criticized in a
Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing by former Defense
Secretary Clark M. Clifford,
who questioned whether Nixon
has the authority since the
repeal of the 1964 Gulf of
Tonkin resolution. Clifford was
defense secretary during the
last year of the administration
of President Lyndon B. John
son.
“Now that that resolution has
been repealed, what authority
exists today to continue on and
even expand in some directions
the military activity in Viet
nam?” Clifford asked.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-
N.C., said he agreed and that
was why “I voted against
repeal.”
scholarship was presented by J.
T. Doughtie, Vice President,
and Paul C. Mickle, plant
manager, of Crompton-
Highland Mills, where Lamar
Busbin has been employed since
1947.
The 17-year-old winner, who
expects to graduate from
Griffin High School this June,
hopes to attend the University
of Georgia and major in
business management and
possibly enter law school.
He has maintained an ex
cellent record throughout his
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BENEDICT, Md.—This 50-foot high, 130-ton frame house,
being moved from Charles County to Montgomery County,
Md., floats serenely down the Patuxent River on a barge.
Bing’s Oscar
stolen, replaced
with a mouse
SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI)-An
Oscar won by Bing Crosby in
the film “Going My Way” was
stolen and replaced with a
three-inch statue of Mickey
Mouse, Gonzaga University
officials said Monday.
The gold-plated statuette was
taken from the Crosby Library
at the Catholic school he once
attended. None of the other
memorabilia on display was
disturbed, police said.
Crosby has donated many of
his awards, including his gold
records, to the university.
high school career, serving as
class parliamentarian and
playing baseball. For the past
two years he has held a part
time job after school at
Crompton-Highland Mills. His
hobby is raising and training
beagles and his dogs have won
him a number of trophies and
ribbons.
The Crompton Scholarship
Program, established in 1967,
provides six four-year
scholarships each year,
distributed geographically
Vol. 100 No. 97
Inmates help gather
Columbus garbage
By United Press International
The city of Columbus used 14
inmates from the public works
camp plus some returning sani
tation workers to man garbage
trucks today in the second day
of a walkout over union recog
nition.
A city spokesman said about
22 of some 40 trucks were oper
ating in comparison to only 10
Monday when more than a third
of the sanitation workers failed
to show up.
The strike was the second in
Georgia over union recognition
with a similar dispute at
Albany entering its seventh
day.
among the subsidiaries of
Crompton Company Inc., 1071
Avenue of the Americas, New
York, for the benefit of
Crompton employees’ children.
Each scholarship consists of
annual tuition payments of up to
SSOO per year and an additional
amount of $l5O per year to cover
books and supplies. Last year’s
winner at Crompton-Highland
Mills was Miss Patricia Ann
Glanton who is now enrolled at
Clayton Junior College,
Morrow, Ga.
Veteran house mover E. B. (Tex) Gamblin handled the
difficult job. (UPI)
Columbus Mayor J. R. Allen
said Monday that “notices of
dismissal were being drawn for
employes who willfully refuse to
work. He added that under a
state law striking workers may
be fired.
The International Molders
and Allied Workers Union, AFL
CIO has been attempting to or
ganize sanitation workers at Co
lumbus and reportedly signed
about 50 to union cards. The
union also said it is seeking pay
raises for the workers.
It was the second work stop
page in Columbus in about a
month. An earlier walkout end
ed when the metro council
Emory history expert
researches buildings here
Historical Society
buys old med school
The Spalding County
Historical Society has closed
out a deal for the purchase of
the old medical college building
at Broad and Fifth streets. The
Society plans to extensive
renovation and restoration
program to make the structure
a tourist attraction.
Newton Bell, president of the
Society, said the 100-member
organization has an option on
the house next door. He said
legends say the father of Doc
Holiday lived in the house and it
has some other historical value,
Ford recalls
436,000
DETROIT (UPI)-Ford Mo
tor Co. announced today it
plans to replace the rear axles
and bearings on 436,000 1972
model Mercury Montegos and
Ford Torinos to ease the minds
of their owners.
Ford had announced the
recall of 396,000 of these
vehicles April 17 to install
bearing retainer plates as a
safety feature for the present
axles and bearings. The new
figure represents all the 1972
models sold thus far both in the
United States and abroad.
It is the second biggest recall
in Ford history —a campaign
which some observers estimat
ed will cost the company nearly
S3O million. Ford’s biggest
recall was in 1967 when 447,000
new Mustangs were brought in
for replacement of steering
wheels.
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warned that workers who failed
to report to work would be
fired.
The walkout idled about 20
garbage trucks at Columbus.
Dan Culpepper, a spokesman
for the Muscogee County Public
Works Department, said about
60 of the 151-man sanitation
force failed to up for
work. Other sources/pegged the
number at about 100.
Striking workers pave been
maintaining picket lines at
three locations in Albany where
city officials said eight?'garbage
collection trucks were being
manned on about half of the
city’s 13 routes by supervisory
personnel and non-strikers.
too. The Society might purchase
the house and include it in the
restoration project.
The Society has engaged Dr.
Elizabeth Lyon of Emory
University to do some historical
research on 10 Griffin area
homes.
The Society will use the in
formation she gathers on these
in its plans to preserve and
restore places of historical
interest.
The 10 houses and buildings in
the study by Dr. Lyon include
Sam Bailey school building,
Hawkes library, medical
college, the old Goodrich home
on North Hill, the Kurtz home
on South Hill, the Hollberg
home at Double Cabins, the
George Gaissert home at
Rover, the Pittman-Rawls
Funeral home, the brick
building on West Solomon street
housing presently the Boy Scout
headquarters, the Mills home at
Hill and Tinsley.
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“A miracle isn’t a freak
occurence — it’s as
commonplace and
unexplainable as life itself.”