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vo Spalding County veteran
:e holders announced they
Id retire from office.
ank Lindsey, who has held
office of clerk of the
erior Court for 51 years, will
seek reelection. John Lind
his son, has qualified as a
iidate in the Democratic
lary.
avid Elder, who for 17 years
been a member of the
Iding County Board of Com
sioners, also will not be a
di date. To date the only
>on who has qualified to
:eed him is Bobby Dunn,
ist week was graduation
b for local schools. A total of
Griffin High seniors
eived their diplomas on
rsday night.
am Chalkley, daughter of
and Mrs. Everette L.
Ikley, was the winner of the
idee Community Associa
’s George Niles Murray
ege scholarship.
oters in Spalding County
lost forgot an election held
Tuesday. The election was
pprove changes made in the
■tion of members of the
rd of Education.
nly 573 votes were cast: 452
and 121 against. There were
45 eligible voters.
en Fortson, Georgia Secre
' of State, was the Memorial
r speaker on Monday,
iresentatives from Fort
’herson and Fort Benning
led Griffin veterans or
dzations and Gold Star
hers in observance of the
resident Nixon returned to
shington Thursday night
•r a 13 day trip to Austria,
isia, Iran and Poland. He
i accompanied on the trip by
;. Nixon.
'he President addressed a
it session of Congress and
1 of the trip. He was most
imistic and said it was possi
that America and Russia
Id lead die way in limiting
h aggressive and defensive
apons and lead the way to a
aningful and lasting peace.
'hree Japanese terrorists,
ing for Palestine guerrillas
med fire at the Tel Avie
port, killing 23 and injuring
Ore of the guerrillas killed
oself, one was killed by
aeli police and the third
jtured.
i gunman fired at random in
Charlotte, N.C. shopping
iter, killed three, wounded
ht, then killed himself. A
rth Carolina candidate for
Senate was shaking hands
h people when the attack
ne. However, there was no
inection between this event
I the one in a Maryland
ipping center when Gov.
orge Wallace of Alabama,
npaigning as a candidate for
Democratic nomination for
jsident, was shot and badly
unded.
rhe U. S. Supreme Court let
ind a decision of California
urt outlawing the death
nalty. The California decision
lied such a penalty a violation
a man’s rights and as
ihuman punishment.”
Senators George McGovern
d Hubert Humphrey met face
face in debate, campaigning
• the California Democratic
imary — Tuesday. California
II have 271 votes in the
tional party convention. And
der California law the man
nning the most delegates will
ve the entire delegation cast
eir votes for him.
FBI arrested 35 persons in the
lanta area and charged them
th violating lottery laws.
The Duke of Windsor, the man
ho gave up the British throne
or the woman I love”, died in
ris. His body was flown to
qgland for burial.
Jonesboro kidnap
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) -
“A lot of prayer” and help
from some strangers enabled
23-year-old Joseph LaChapelle
to get free of four escaped
prisoners Sunday who kidnaped
him and drove his car to Ken
tucky.
LaChapelle, in a telephone
conversation from Carlisle, Ky.,
to Clayton County Sheriff Ro
bert Deyton Sunday, described
his abduction as a “story of
horror you might see on tele-
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WELLESLEY, Mass.—Richard Hall, of Hanover, Mass., gives up his umbrella to keep his 2-year
old Irish Wolfehound “Mephi” cool while waiting competition in the 55th Annual Dog Show of the
ladies’ Dog Club at the Stigmatine Seminary. (UPI)
Commies nearly made
direct hits on ship
SAIGON (UPI)-Two Com
munist artillery rounds Sunday
nearly scored direct hits on a
U.S. guided missile destroyer
off North Vietnamese waters,
causing “moderate shock da
mage” but no casualties,
military spokesmen said today.
In South Vietnam, North
Vietnamese troops retreated
under a barrage of South
Vietnamese gunfire Sunday and
government troops walked un
opposed into a Kontum church
that had been used as a
Communist headquarters for 11
days.
Spokesmen said U.S. Marine
jet fighter-bomber crews flew
260 strikes across North Viet
nam Sunday under improved
weather conditions. The crews
reported using 3,000-pound elec
tronically guided “Smart”
bombs to destroy the 150-foot
long Tria Hut railroad bridge 85
Beasley takes over in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)
Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley today as
sumed the duties of the Ala
bama governorship, a responsi
bility assigned to him under
the state constitution until Gov.
George C. Wallace returns to
Alabama.
Beasley, 36, received autho
rity to take over the governor’s
duties in a telegram from Sec
retary of State Mabel Amos be
cause Wallace had remained out
of the state more than 20 days.
Beasley took no oath of office
to assume the duties of gover
nor.
Wallace has been confined to
Holy Cross Hospital in Silver
Spring, Md., since May 15
when he was shot during a
political rally at a Laurel, Md.,
diopping center. Wallace left
Alabama the morning of May
GRIFFIN
DAI LY N EWS
Daily Since 1872
Clayton Junior College student gets free
vision” and told a reporter
later, “I think a lot of prayer
got me out of this.”
According to the account he
gave the sheriff, LaChapelle
was going fishing at a lake
near his church camp in Jones
boro Saturday when the kid
napers, escapees from the Clay
ton County jail, overpowered
him and took his car.
The Clayton County Junior
College student said his ab
ductors were “boozed up” for
miles from Hanoi on the
northwest rail line to China.
They also knocked out the
snaller Dong Khai bridge in
the same area.
The U.S. command said in
Saigon a U.S. Marine F 4
Phantom fighter-bomber
“crashed and was destroyed
from unknown causes” Sunday
near Phy My, 265 miles north
of Saigon. The two crewmem
bers were reported killed.
Elsewhere in the air over
South Vietnam, spokesmen
reported three U.S. helicopters
were shot down and a fourth
was crippled by Communist fire
but managed to return safely.
Only one crewman was wound
ed in the four incidents,
spokesmen said.
Radio Hanoi, monitored in
Saigon, said today a U.S. plane
was shot down Sunday over
North Vietnam about 20 miles
15 to campaign for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
The last time an Alabama
lieu tenant governor assumed the
duties of governor was in 1967
when Albert P. Brewer took
over for a few hours while the
late Gov. Laurleen B. Wallace
was confined to a Texas hos
pital. She returned to the state
shortly after Brewer took over.
Elvin Stanton, Wallace’s as
sistant press secretary, said in
Silver Spring that he had no
indication when Wallace would
be able to return to the state.
The constitution provides that
the governor resume his duties
when he crosses the state line
to return home.
Stanton said he was certain
Wallace was aware that Beas
ley was about to assume his
duties, “but he did not mention
it” during a Sunday night visit
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, June 5, 1972
most of the long drive to Ken
tucky and at one point threat
ened LaChapelle with his fish
ing knife.
One of the kidnapers had re
latives in Carlisle where they
brought and also
got possession of a pistol, rifle
and tear gas gun, the sheriff
related. At one point while the
prisoners were away, LaChapel
le persuaded the relatives to
help him escape by hiding him
in a barn.
northeast of Hanoi. The report
gave no other details. Other
U.S. warplanes based in Thai
land Sunday flew raids into
North Vietnam, knocking out
ground installations and cutting
the tracks on the Hanoi-China
railroad line in six places.
The U.S. command said
Communist frogmen early to
day blew up two South
Vietnamese landing craft on a
river 48 miles northwest of
Saigon in Tay Ninh Province.
Two seamen were reported
missing.
The Navy said none of the 354
crewmen aboard the USS
Joseph Strauss in Sunday’s
near hit was injured and the
ship remained in the Tonkin
Gulf. The destroyers USS
Bausell and USS Sarsfield were
also fired on by Communist
shore batteries but were not
hit, spokesmen said.
in Wallace’s hospital room.
When he received official no
tice that he was to assume the
governorship, Beasley was at
the three bedroom old brick
home in East Montgomery
where he lives with his wife,
Sara, and three children, Jere
Jr., 11; Julia Ann, 9; and Linda
Lee, 6.
Appearing to take the new
responsibilities calmly, Beasley
said “It’s not exactly a sad
dSy, but it is not happy by any
means. I don’t like the circum
stances. I would much prefer
the governor to be here.”
Beasley, from Wallace’s home
town of Clayton, had been at
odds with Wallace much of the
time since they took office in
1971, but the assassination at
tempt on Wallace appeared to
bring improved relations.
The kidnapers returned,
searched unsuccessfully for La-
Chapelle, then left. The rela
tives notified police, who re
scued the kidnap victim un
harmed but were not in time to
capture the fugitives, who re
mained at large.
They were identified as Larry
Craig, 23, Middletown, Ky., and
Stephen Wallace, 19, Chatta
nooga, Tenn., both charged with
interstate car theft; Leonard
Governors
Southern rebellion
against McGovern
HOUSTON (UPl)—Democra
tric governors from some
southern and border states
openly rebelled today against
the possible nomination of Sen.
George S. McGovern. They
contended that his support for
defense spending cuts and a
federal minimum income would
doom the party to defeat.
The governors complained
that McGovern’ forces were
“unfairly” filing hundreds of
credential challenges under the
reform procedures instituted by
the McGovern Commission last
year. They said it was an
attempt to put together the
1,509 delegates McGovern needs
to win the nomination. The
Democratic governors confer
ence got underway here today.
“We are faced with a very
seriously disruptive potential as
we approach the convention,”
Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia
said of McGovern’s use of the
delegate credential challenge
procedure. “I don’t want to see
this develop into another
Chicago,” he said, referring to
the credentials fights at the
party’s 1968 national conven
tion.
Carter reiterated his belief
that should McGovern win the
nomination it would mean
“disaster” for other Democra
tic office-seekers throughout the
South. “I don’t think his
massive welfare program and
defense cuts are acceptable to
the majority of the people,” he
said.
Carter’s complaints were
echoed by Gov. Wendell Ford of
Kentucky. “There are a lot of
other governors who have the
same gut feeling I have on the
problems of a McGovern
candidacy,” he told UPI.
Ford has been maneuvering
behind the scenes among other
governors disturbed over Mc-
Govern’s positions on the
issues, hoping to mount a
“holding action” to keep
McGovern from winning a first
ballot victory. He said he hoped
to build support for an
alternative to McGovern, per
haps Sens. Edmund S. Muskie
“Governor Wallace and I
never had any personal dis
agreements,” he said. “Now is
not the time to let any dis
agreements with his people
stand in the way. The condition
of the governor and his health
are paramount.
“I don’t plan to move into
the governor’s office,” Beasley
said. “I don’t plan to make any
changes.”
The disagreement came when
Beasley attempted to prevent a
strong Wallace backer from
taking over as temporary pre
siding officer of the State Sen
ate in his absence. As lieuten
ant governor, Beasley is pre
siding officer of the Senate.
Wallace retaliated by re
ducing Beasley’s office staff
and taking away the state
trooper who was Beasley’s
chauffeur and body guard.
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Meadders, 22, Gadsden, Ala.,
charged with a previous escape
attempt from the jail; and
Michael Moore, 19, whose home
town was not immediately avail
able and who was being held as
a federal prisoner in transit.
The men escaped by over
powering a guard at the jail in
Jonesboro. A fifth prisoner,
Joseph Evans, participated in
the escape Saturday, but later
turned himself in.
of Maine or Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota.
While neither Ford nor Carter
would say how many Democra
tic governors shared their
views, it was known that Govs.
Dale Bumpers of Arkansas,
Robert W. Scott of North
Carolina, John C. West of South
Caolina, Warren Hearnes of
Missouri, William Waller of
Mississippi and Marvin Mandel
of Maryland were among those
who held similar reservations
about McGovern?
Carter declared his concern
Sunday over the growing
number of credential challenges
during a caucus of the
Democratic governors attended
by Lawrence O’Brien, Demo
cratic national chairman. Ob
servers at the closed-door
session said other governors
voiced similar fears that
McGovern was using the
credentials procedure to gain
thus far, “and almost all the
challenges are by supporters of
Senator McGovern.”
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Standing amid broken merchandise and crushed brick, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Powell survey the
wreckage of their ceramics shop at 889 East Solomon street after an automobile plunged through
the front of the building early Sunday morning, leaving a 20 foot wide hole. Powell said he was not
notified of the damage to the store until Sunday evening.
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RAKERSFIELD, Calif. —Sen. George McGovern speaks
from his “Victory Special” train as one of those on hand at
the Bakersfield railroad station holds up a “Nixon for
President” sign. In foreground a woman wears a McGovern
campaign hat. (stories Page 3.) (UPI)
Seven injured
in area accidents
At least seven injuries were
recorded over the weekend in
Griffin area traffic accidents,
including those of a Griffinite
who suffered cuts and abrasions
when his car plunged through a
building on East Solomon street
early Sunday morning.
Police said that James Lamar
Dillard, 44, of No. 4 Park
avenue, lost control of his auto
and it crashed through the front
wall of 889 East Solomon street.
The building is owned by Will
Hill Newton II and was leased to
Emmett Powell for Emmett
and Irene’s Ceramics.
Officers said the small
compact auto went into the
building and heavily damaged
the contents. They set the
damage to the merchandise and
building at between $1,500 and
$2,000.
The accident happened at 1:45
a.m.
Donald Franklin Barnett, 36,
of Dutchman road, was treated
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
for abrasions and lacerations of
the forehead following an ac
cident yesterday at 6 p.m. on
the Jackson road near
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Musgrove road.
He told Georgia State Patrol
men that he ran off the road to
avoid a collision with another
car which was passing a vehicle
and was meeting him head-on.
Earl James Reid, 26, of 612
North Ninth street, suffered a
broken wrist Friday about three
miles north of Griffin near Sun
set Strip.
He told patrolmen he swerved
to miss a dog and lost control of
his auto. It traveled some 300
feet and overturned, troopers
said.
Marion Moore Head, 35, of
Route Four, Jackson, suffered
massive head injuries Saturday
night when his auto traveled
some 600 feet out of control and
hit a culvert. He was taken to
Sylvan Grove Hospital.
The accident happened about
two miles south of Jackson on
Ga. 42.
Three men were injured in a
wreck Saturday near Locust
Grove on Jackson street.
Patrolmen identified them as
the driver, Willie Claud
Cleveland, 25, of Elm street,
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