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By Quimby Melton
When we read this week that
.ere are more than 45-Million
»Veek-End Boaters” in these
United States and that the
nited States Coast Guard was
-eatly concerned for their
ifety, we thought of several
lings.
One of them was that a great
jmber of Georgians have
irned to boating as a new form
pleasant recreation.
iAnother thing we thought of
as that they should know and
How all the rules of safety.
Then we thought of two River
ile men who just last week lost
eir lives when their semi
ibin boat went over the dam at
ake Jackson and both were
lied.
And then, we recalled the
agedy that happened that day
■ 1904 when the excursion boat
eneral Slocum capsized in the
ast River at New York. The
>at pulled away from the dock
ith almost twice as many
jople aboard than should have
sen. All safety rules for
>ating were thrown aside. The
ocum, a large one, was loaded
om stem to stern with men,
omen and children who had
ught relief from a swelterning
ew York City heat wave. They
>arded the excursion boat with
nches and expected to have a
>od time as the ship cruised up
id down the river.
But tragedy struck and more
an 1,000 lost their lives. This
agedy hit in 1904 many years
;fore most of our Georgia
easure boating devotees
ere born. But one of the
irdinal safety rules that would
ive prevented that tragedy is
ist as true today — Don’t
zerload your boat.
Rear Admiral Austin C.
Pagner, of the Safety Division
. S. Coast Guard, suggests that
lose interested in safe boating
st and read a booklet issued by
ie Coast Guard entitled
Everything you ever wanted to
now about boating but was
shamed to ask.” This can be
scured by writing Safety
•ivision, U. S. Coast Guard,
Washington, D.C. Rear Admiral
Wagner says the Coast Guard is
sriously concerned about the
icreasing number of boating
ccidents and hopes that an
ducational program will be
ufficient to improve condi
10ns. He warns that if this is not
ien it may “ become mandatory
a pass strict laws calling for all
.oat operators to stand
xaminations and only those
ound competent be issued
censes to operate the boat—
arge or small.”
Happy and Safe Boating one
nd all!
Georgian survives
By MATT FRANJOLA
PLEIKU (UPI) — When North
Vietnamese tanks and infantry rumbled
up to the Tan Canh headquarters
compound of the 22nd Infantry, Capt. Ray
mond H. Dobbins and a small group of
Vietnamese scrambled out of the
command bunker and hid.
That was at 8 a.m. Monday. Dobbins, 35,
of Marietta, Ga., had a long day ahead of
him, he related in an interview with
newsmen late Tuesday.
But he was luckier than six other
members of the 11-man advisory team he
worked with who were killed aboard a res
cue chopper, shot down after initially
escaping to nearby Dak To, he said.
“I was staying in the TOC (Tactical
Operations Center) when the NVA started
coming,” he said. “They hit us from two
directions— tanks followed by infantry
from the south, and tanks along from the
north. It was too much for our people.”
Dobbins said a reconnaissance company
along the Southern perimeter reported
killing more than 100 North Vietnamese
before the tanks crunched through the
barbed wire perimeter and overran its
bunkers.
The base perimeter was supposed to be
prepared for a tank attack — “We had one
bunker set up with 106’s (106 mm recoilless
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Faces after the primaries
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By STEVE GERSTEL
United Press International
Sens. George S. McGovern
and Hubert H. Humphrey
forged to the lead as chief
contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination today
on the strength of individual
primary victories in Massa
chusetts and Pennsylvania that
all but knocked out Sen.
Edmund S. Muskie as a
winning prospect.
Muskie, the early frontrun
ner, nosedived to the status of
also-ran with a weak showing in
both of Tuesday’s big state
primaries but pledged to stay
in the fight to convention time.
And Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace continued to show his
vote-getting appeal in Pennsyl
vania where he appeared to
have nosed out Muskie and
McGovern for second place
with 21 per cent of the ballots.
Humphrey, winning in a pres
idential primary for the first
time in his career, netted 35
per cent of the Pennsylvania
total.
McGovern emerged as the
rifles) along the likeliest tank approach,
and we had LAWS (Light Anti-Tank Weap
ons) on the others,” he said.
“But the psychological effect of a tank
attack cannot be duplicated in training,
and they hit the 106 bunker with those
wireguided missiles.”
The missiles were used for the first time
in the Vietnam war, and “you could see it
and hear it coming in. It had a real weird
noise,” he said. “For them to use that kind
of weapon, it was really amazing.”
Some of the LAWS also misfired. “One of
our advisers had a tank right in his sights
with a LAW, and when he went to fire it, it
wouldn’t go off,” said Dobbins.
Within an hour of the first assault, the
Communist tanks moved through the
minefields and barbed wire on the perim
eter, Dobbins said. Two battalions of
infantry followed and the tanks began
sweeping the base from bunker to bunker.
“The TOC had taken a whole series of
hits, three from artillery and two direct
hits by the tanks,” he said. “We had to get
out. We split up into small teams and ran
outside to hide.”
Dobbins stayed under cover throughout
the day, while the North Vietnamese swept
the base. His boss, Col. Phillip Kaplan, 43,
of St. Louis, Mo., and eight other men
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big psychological winner howev
er.
McGovern Takes Lead
The South Dakotan over
whelmed Muskie in Massa
chusetts, 51 to 22 per cent, and
apparently swept all 102 of the
state’s delegates to move ahead
of Muskie in the number of
pledged convention votes. He
ran stronger than expected in
Pennsylvania.
McGovern now has 235
delegates sewed up to Muskie’s
138 and Humphrey’s 78.
Wallace, who made only a
minimal gesture in Pennsylva
nia, jubilantly viewed his
showing in the Keystone state
as “one of the most phenomen
al victories we’ve ever had. We
came into this state only one
day and made only one major
speech and have ended up in a
dose race for second place.”
He predicted he would defeat
Humphrey in the Indiana
Democratic primary next Tues
day with Ohio balloting on the
same day.
Muskie Setback Meaningful
Muskie returned to Washing-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, April 26, 1972
Humphrey
ton to reassess his position
after the twin defeats. In the
two vital eastern seaboard
states, he was whipsawed by
Humphrey and McGovern.
Humphrey rode to victory on
hdavy labor and black voter
margins in Pennsylvania. Mc-
Govern won on a parlay of
fresh antiwar sentiment and
economic concern in Massa
chusetts.
Beyond the popular figures,
Muskie sustained a more
meaningful setback in his bid
for delegate strength. In
addition to failing to collect a
single delegate in his neighbor
ing state of Massachusetts, he
faltered badly in the same area
in Pennsylvania where he had
been backed by Gov. Milton
Shapp and the state organiza
tion.
Late returns indicated 57 of
the delegates were pledged or
favorable to Humphrey, 37
were in McGovern’s corner, 29
were for Muskie, two were for
Wallace and 12 were uncommit
ted.
Despite strong talk of staying
in the primaries to the end,
Muskie, once an odds-on
favorite for the nomination,
now may have to look to a
deadlocked convention as his
best chance to become Pres
ident Nixon’s challenger in
November.
Muskie Won’t Quit
Although both McGovern and
Humphrey face dangerous
hurdles in the remaining
primaries, they seemed headed
for a showdown in California’s
winner-take-all election June 6.
Student couple held in thefts
A Fort Valley State College
student has been charged with
the recent armed robberies of
two Griffin Handy Andy stores
in which a money order
machine, money order blanks
and cash were taken. His wife,
also a student at the college,
was charged with forgery in
connection with the stolen
money orders which police said
involve several thousands of
dollars.
Charged with armed robbery
was Robert L. Brown, 25, of
Fort Valley. He is being held in
the Fort Valley jail on a viola
tion of parole charge but soon
will be returned to Griffin to
face the robbery charges.
His wife, who gave her name
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Muskie refused to give up
despite the grim news flashed
to his Philadelphia campaign
headquarters as the votes
rolled in, showing Humphrey
with an unbeatable lead in
Pennsylvania and McGovern
with an overwhelming edge in
Massachusetts. In addition,
Muskie appeared headed for
fourth spot in Pennsylvania,
behind McGovern and Gov.
George C. Wallace.
In a conference call to his
campaign workers in Boston,
the senator pleaded: “Run with
me, stay with me” and pledged
to go on to the Ohio, California
and New York primaries and
then to the convention itself.
Humphrey’s First Win
“The challenge won’t be
decided until we decide (at
Miami Beach),” Muskie said.
“It’s either going to be Ed
Muskie or he (the eventual
winner) is going to have a
helluva time taking it away."
He didn’t say who might win if
he didn’t.
Addressing his jubilant cam
paign workers, McGovern de
clared:
“This is victory for peace,
not war. This is a victory for
peace and love, not fear and
division; for truth and candor
rather than deception and
manipulation. We are going to
make this the great and good
country that we know it can
be.”
Humphrey, the “happy war
rior,” who had never scored a
primary win since he first went
after the presidency in 1960,
broke through solidly in Penn-
as Lutrell Studstill, 21, was held
in a Covington jail where she
was arrested when she at
tempted to cash a forged stolen
money order at a bank there.
Brown was arrested with his
wife in Covington.
On Mar. 26 a lone Negro
robbed at gunpoint the operator
of the Handy Andy Store on
East College at Fifth street. He
took a money order machine,
some 44 Travelers Express
money order blanks and the
currency from the cash
register.
The next week, on Apr. 6, a
man, thought to be the same
person, robbed the operator at
Handy Andy’s on West Solomon
at 13th street of eight money
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Sylvania, trouncing Muskie,
McGovern, Wallace and Sen.
Henry M. Jackson.
He called it “a wonderful
uplift for me—the sort of thing
we had hoped for. I really
believe it will give us the
momentum to go on.”
Ohio Next Test
Wallace, although he cam
paigned neither in Pennsylvania
nor Massachusetts except for
hit-and-run missions, showed
that he has a reservoir of
support even when it is not
actively encouraged.
The next big test comes next
week in Ohio where all the
leading candidates will be
competing for that state’s 153
delegates — and in Indiana
where Humphrey and Wallace
are in a head-to4iead race.
There was no Republican
preference primary in Pennsyl
vania and President Nixon
easily picked up the state’s 50
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order blanks.
Police recovered the machine
in Hapeville. Some of the money
order blanks were recovered at
a Forsyth motel on 1-75, and
some 25 to 30 carbon copies of
the money orders, which had
been cashed, were recovered at
the time of the arrests.
Det. Maj. Ronnie Irvin of the
Griffin Police Department said
none of the money orders were
cashed in Griffin but were
cashed in several other middle
Georgia towns including
Hampton, McDonough, Locust
Grove, Byron, Reynolds and
Covington.
Maj. Irvin said that thousands
of dollars probably will be in
volved as most of the 25 to 30
Muskie
delegate votes.
But in Massachusetts—de
spite a lopsided win in the
popularity poll—Nixon gave up
13 per cent of the GOP vote to
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey of
California, an antiwar candi
date who withdrew more than a
month ago but remained on the
ballot.
“It’s not unusual to find good
people on bar stools — or bad
people in front pews.”
money orders which were
cashed were made out for
around $l5O. Also, he said, there
is a connection between this
case and the theft of around 100
Nationwide money orders
which were stolen in south
Georgia.
The cashed money orders
were made out to a Clara
Harris. Richard Harris was the
name used as purchaser.
Both suspects are students at
Fort Valley State College and
were expected to graduate soon.
Griffin detectives were work
ing with lawmen from other
towns in the investigation which
is continuing.
Inside Tip
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Griffin city commissioners
last night cleared the way for
development of a shopping
center and apartment complex
on the North Expressway.
Objections by some residents
in the Crestview Heights area
were withdrawn when the
developer agreed to leave a 30-
foot buffer zone between the de
velopments and the residential
area.
The commissioners put on
second and final reading the
annexation of a 13-acre area
and zoned it to permit the
shopping center and apart
ments.
Bernard Halpern, a shopping
center developer from Atlanta,
purchased the land from Griffin
Associates.
Kimsey Stewart, one of the
members of the Griffin
Associates, handled much of the
transaction with Mr. Halpern.
Mr. Stewart, a former city com
missioner and mayor, attended
the city commission meeting
last night. Mayor Louis Gold
stein recognized him as a visitor
and former commissioner.
Mr. Halpern has developed
several shopping centers in the
Atlanta area.
Roy Inman, city manager,
read into the record of the meet
ing, a letter from Mr. Halpern
in which he agreed to provide
the buffer zone, leaving the
strip in its present natural state.
Tom Newton of Oak View
drive in Crestview Heights,
speaking for a group of people
living in the area where the
diopping center and apart
ments will be, said they would
withdraw their objections with
the buffer zone stipulation.
Last month, the city com
missioners annexed some
property in the Maddox Road
residential area, zoning part of
it for development of a shopping
center opposite the Griffin-
Spalding Airport. Ben Brown
who owns the property had
circulated petitions for the
annexation.
He has indicated he intends to
develop the center.
In other action last night the
commissioners approved
rezoning for commercial use
the lot behind the new Chrysler-
Plymouth building on West
Taylor.
The commissioners approved
installation of a sanitary sewer
line for Dan Smith and Fred
Smith to their business property
on West Taylor street for an SBO
tap fee.
Griffin Engineering Company
was contracted to do survey
work for construction of the
Potato Creek and Ison Branch
sewer lines. Estimated cost of
the survey work was $2,588.54.
The accounting firm of
Greenway, Robinson and
Company was the low bidder to
handle city audits. The low bid
was $lB per hour for CPA time,
$lO per hour for staff time and
$6 per hour for typing,
assembling and proofing.
Light and Water Department
supplies and equipment were
approved at a cost of $7,120.74.
The commissioners approved
an agreement with Arthur Pew
Construction Company to install
the sewer line to serve Ameri
can Mills on U. S. Highway 41-19
Bypass, estimated at a cost of
$25,854.10, and a line to serve a
Texaco Station west to 18th
street at a cost of $6,503.70.
Dr. Grover Sowell of the
Spalding Human Relations
Council asked the com
missioners about programs to
encourage the use of the new
dty swimming pool at the city
park by both black and white
people.
The commissioners said plans
for the facility’s operation are
bn worked out.