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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Congratulations, Jaycees, on
another fine Fourth of July
celebration. Even the weather
cooperated with you; though it
poured down in torrents late in
the evening in parts of the city,
the rain held off until the
festivities had been concluded.
Good Evening saw the parade
and then went to the park as a
guest of a dear family that was
having a picnic; and as usual
could not resist eating too
much. We’ll go on a fast for a
few days to make up for this.
As far as we know there were
no tragedies associated with our
community, for which we are
most thankful.
Parades and Fourth of July
speakers were featured in many
parts of the nation. The special
message of President Nixon,
delivered from the Western
White House, called to the
American people to begin
making plans for celebrating
the nation’s Bicentennial in
1976.
United Press International in
its report of the speech said the
Nixon speech reminded many of
the “fireside chats” of
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
The President said the speech
might bear the title “Land of
the Open Door.” President
Nixon urged all Americans to
prepare to “open the nation’s
hearts and open their own
homes to foreign visitors”
during the 200th birthday of the
nation. He said there likely
would be as many as 28-million
foreign visitors to come and
help celebrate our birthday.
There will be three “themes”
stressed during the
celebration,” he said.
“The Heritage of 76” which
will deal with our history:
“Horizons of 76” which will
deal with the goals for the third
century;
And “Festival U.S.A.” which
will be a campaign to increase
tourism.
The President called on
airlines to cut down the cost of
travel and all American firms
to cut down the cost of lodging
and meals.
The Spirit of 76, he said should
be one of “oneness, brotherhood
and peace;”
“We can share with all
mankind the eternal message of
the Fourth of July — liberty,
opportunity and human
dignity.”
We hope that when the
bicentennial comes America
will be a nation whose “dream
has come true” and that
America will be a nation
“united under God” and worth
preserving.
Much can be done right now to
prepare us for such a “spirit of
76”, and a good place to begin
will be at the Democratic
convention that opens next
week and at the Republican
convention to follow. If either or
both of them should erupt into
riots and unhealing wounds of
hatred, who will want to visit
such a land? Except those
undesirable people who will
want to join in the total
destruction of America and all
the decent things for which it
stands.
But in the words of the late
Arthur Brisbane. “Don’t sell
America Short.”
We always have weathered
every national crisis, and there
have been many. And we’ll
weather this one, too.
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“I admit some church
members don’t behave very
well — but Tye never known
how much worse they might be
if they weren’t members.”
McGovern,
Daley lose
court round
Two sets of twins j
born at hospital j
Two sets of twins, both with
the same names and who live a
block apart on the same street
were born within two days of
each other at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital over the
Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Their families are not related.
A daughter and a son were
born on July 1 to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Lewis Brown of 205 East
Tinsley street. Identical twin
sons were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Charles Brown of 328
East Tinsley street on July 3.
The twins are the only
children for both sets of
parents.
As Mrs. Raymond Brown’s
maiden name also was Brown,
both of her sons’ grandparents
have the same name. The are
Mrs. Mattie Falls Brown and
the late Jim Henry Brown of 549
North Sixth street, and paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Gordon becomes
junior college
Gordon Military College i
cadets stood down as a unit
today following ceremonies j
which brought the institution ,
under the operation of the State i
Board of Regents. (
A 44-year-old tradition of
short haircuts, salutes, dress
codes, and marching for- )
mations ended at noon when
Godon officials turned the keys (
to the college over to newly- (
named President Jerry
Williamson.
At the end of the ceremony, J
Gordon Military College
became Gordon Junior College, (
a full partner in the university ,
system. (
The change to “Civilian
status” for the school was
announced after the Georgia
Board of Regents approved the
Gordon Trustee’s request that
the state take over operation of i
No jobs lost at post office
Nobody working for the
Postal Services lost his job after
a recent crash Griffin
retirement program effective
up to June 30, according to
George Prothro, officer in
charge of the Griffin Branch of
the Post Office.
Prothro was appointed officer
in charge after the resignation
of Postmaster, Ed Dye. Prothro
has been with the Postal Ser
vices 21 years and has worked
as Superintendent of Mail for
the past three years.
“When others retire, you’ve
got to put somebody in their
places,” Prothro said. “The
excess superivory personnel
took up the slack, therefore
nobody lost any jobs,” he
continued.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
78, low today 66, high yesterday
88, low yesterday 67. High
tomorrow near 80, low
tomorrow in low mid 60s. Total
rainfall .32 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:40, sunset
tomorrow 8:44.
GRIFFIN
DAILTvtNEWS
Daily Since 1872
A. Brown of Blakely.
The boys have been named
Byron Baxter and Myron
Matthew. They weighed in at
four pounds, one ounce and
three pounds, nine ounces. They
were born at 7:19 p.m. and 7:22
p.m. Monday.
Their father teaches seventh
grade math at Spalding Junior ;
High School, Unit 111.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Lewis Brown has been
named Fatabia Telece. She
weighed five pounds, 14 ounces.
Her brother is Rico Deman and
weighed five pounds, eight
ounces. They were born six
minutes apart at 1:42 a.m. and
1:48 a.m. Saturday. Their
faither is employed by Southern
Railroad.
The grandparents are Leroy
Greham of 205 East Teamon
road and Mrs. Della Brown of
Locust Grove road.
the indebted institution.
When the school’s doors open
in September, 500-700 students
will find the field pieces and
tanks which once dotted the
campus, replaced by flowers
and trees.
Boys and girls attending
under the college’s new
management will study in a
two-year liberal arts
curriculum geared toward
preparing them for upper-class
study in four-year colleges and
universities.
Perhaps the biggest change
on campus will be a dramatic
increase in the number of co-ed
enrolled for classes.
While last year saw only three
co-eds living on the Gordon
campus., college officials
already are preparing a 130 girl
dorm for this fall.
All appointments are on a
temporary basis for Griffin
until the Postmasters
Examinating Board will deem it
time to make another ap
pointment of a Griffin Post- 1
master. 1
The Postal Services earlier
stepped up a retirement
program for all eligible per
sonnel to retire in order to trim
branches throughout the nation.
Increases in pension were of
fered on a limited time basis for
those eligible persons to act as
an inducement for their i
HHH says steamroll stopped
MIAMI BEACH
Hubert H. Humphrey’s cam
paign manager and chief stra
tegist today claimed that Sen.
George S. McGovern’s attempt
to “steamroll” the Democratic
presidential nomination has
been totally stopped.
Jack Chestnut, putting the
final touches on Humphrey’s
convention planning, said “part
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, July 5, 1972
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A fe
deral appeals court refused
today to uphold Sen. George S.
McGovern’s claim to 153
California delegates denied him
by the Democratic Credentials
Committee, and remanded the
case to a lower court for
further deliberation.
The court, overruled U. S.
District Court Judge George L.
Hart Jr., who had upheld the
credentials committee action,
and instructed Hart to hold
further hearings on the case.
At the same time, the
appeals court issued an injunc
tion barring Mayor Richard J.
Daley from bringing further
action in Illinois state courts to
reinstate himself and 58 other
members of that state’s delega
tion to the national convention
starting Monday.
On the Daley case, the three
judges of the U. S. Appeals
Court for the District of
Columbia were unanimous in
voting to bar the Chicago
mayor from seeking a state
court order preventing the
seating of a group challenging
his delegation.
In the California ruling, the
appeals court reversed Hart’s
ruling that he lacked jurisdic
tion on the delegate challenge
and said the matter “is hereby
remanded to the District Court
for the District of Columbia for
further proceedings.”
Pompidou
named
PARIS (UPl)—French Pres
ident Georges Pompidou today
named Pierre Messmer, former
minister of overseas depart
ments and territories, as the
new prime minister to succeed
Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
Chaban-Delmas and his 40-
man cabinet resigned earlier in
the day to allow Pompidou to
build a new cabinet to meet
expected strong opposition in
next March’s National Assem
bly elections.
retirement.
When the result of the crash
retirement program are con
sidered the Postmasters
Examining Board will set about
appointing another Postmaster
for the Griffin Branch.
Congressman Jack Flynt,
who previously appointed the
postmaster for Griffin, will
have nothing to do with the
decision of the board. “We have
nothing to do with it, for it is a
separate public corporation and
no longer a part of the federal
government,” he said.
of the steamroller was puff.
They were counting delegates
they didn’t have.
“I think the attempt to steam
roll the nomination has been
clearly stopped. That’s (steam
rolling) a two-edged sword.”
Humphrey was the first of the
major candidates for the Demo
cratic (residential nomination
to send his campaign team into
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Peggy Jones, 19, was crowned Miss Griffin last night at the
city park to climax Fourth of July activities sponsored by the
Jaycees and Jaycettes. At right is Lisa Lawalin of Rome, the
current Miss Georgia. She was in the annual Fourth of July
| Lost ring found |
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A class ring lost nine and a half years ago has been
$: found. :g
g Mrs. Ruth Ridgway, 710 Hale avenue, told the story like g
g this: g
g Her son, Darwin, now 32, and living with his family in g
Montgomery, Ala., was visiting at home in Griffin nearly g
g 10 years ago. His son, John Glenn, then 15 months old, took
g the class ring from a dresser and went to play with it in the
yard. It was lost. g
g It was a 1962 Young Harris College class ring Mr. g
g Ridgway had come to cherish. g
$ Yesterday Horace Mangham, working for the Ridgway g
$ family in Griffin constructing a cement patio, found the g
I ring in the yard.
Mrs. Ridgway’s son who has become a saleman in g
Montgomery after completing a contract with the g
government as a civilian instructor of pilots for the Air g
Force, will be visiting here soon. She plans to turn over the g
s long lost ring to him then. g:
g John Glenn who lost the ring now is 10 and a half years g
g old.
g He was named after Amerca’s first astronaut shortly g
g after splashdown and the completion of his three orbits in g
g space. g
Savannah Beach
It has two mayors, two chiefs,
angry wife, court challenge...
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga. ,
— This resort town of 1,800 has
two mayors, two police chiefs, 1
an angry wife, a court chai- 1
lenge and an impending show- ]
down. i
The mixup is the result of an
the convention city. Humphrey,
resting up at his lakeside home
in Waverly, Minn., was due
Friday.
McGovern, Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie, and Gov. George C.
Wallace, the other leading con
tenders for the nomination and
the holder of most of the com
mitted delegates, also were to
fly in Friday and Saturday for
Vol. 100 No. 155
April 3 election in which W.
Allen Hendrix defeated incum
bent Mayor Michael J. Couni
han by four votes. Counihan,
however, challenged 90 votes in
in a superior court suit.
Counihan said his attorney
what could become a tumultu
• ous, and perhaps explosive, na
> tional convention.
The city council is expected to
vote, once more, whether Zip
pies, Yippies, Hippies and other
| demonstrators can set up a
campsite at Flamingo Park or
i the par three golf course, both
on the beach.
parade and spent the day at City Park, participating in the
day’s activities. Miss Georgia was one of the beauty contest
judges, too. (Other pictures of winners on page 5.)
Animal science day
at Griffin station
Farm animals and the men
who work to improve them will
occupy the center show ring at
the Georgia Experiment Station
here Wednesday, July 12. A
special Animal Science day will
combine the best features of
modern scientific research with
those of the old fashioned
county fair.
Special attractions for rural
and city folks alike will be the
displays of animals in special
stalls to study metabolism, and
of steers with picture windows ;
in their sides to permit “inside”
observation of the animal’s
digestive system.
Other visual activities will
include an exhibit of early
weaned beef calves, a
demonstration of how to build
good fences, an animal proof
watering trough, and special
equipment used in scientific
research with animals.
A special “Then and Now” i
display will dramatize how far
man has come in improving the
quality of meat animals through ]
animal nutrition research. This I
told him until the court acts on
the case he still is mayor.
Consequently, when Hendrix
went to assume office Monday
he found City Hall locked up.
Hendrix got a notary public to
swear him in on the City Hall
steps. Then, using what he
called the authority of the city
charter, he fired Police Chief
John Price and appointed Law
ton Daley as acting police
chief. He claimed Price was
“too involved in politics.”
Several minutes later, while
talking with friends, Hendrix
was approached by Price’s
wife. Witnesses said she called
Hendrix a choice name and
slapped him in the face.
“She knocked the devil out of
me,” said Hendrix. But he add
ed he could understand her
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display will feature pigs fed a
1972 ration compared with pigs
fed a ration similar to the first
experimental ration used at the
Georgia Station in 1890 when
swine research was begun in the
state.
Dr. M. E. McCullough, head
of the animal science depart
ment, said everyone, whether
he raises farm animals or not, is
welcome to come to the Animal
Science Day. The program will
begin at 9 a.m. in Stuckey
auditorium. Here members of
the animal science department
will discuss their latest
research findings in swine
production, parasitology,
winter pastures, increasing
beef cattle productivity, silage
and rumen fermentation. New
areas of animal science
research will be presented also.
A general question and answer
session will conclude this
program.
To make everything official,
Mayor Louis Goldstein has
proclaimed July 12 Animal
Science Day in Griffin.
anger since the controversy in
volves her husband, and he de
clined to press any charges
against Mrs. Price.
Price, contending he was the
victim of “a plot,” refused to
step aside for Daley.
“I’m appointed by the mayor
and aidermen and I will re
main until such time as the
mayor and aidermen see fit to
relieve me of my duties,” he
said, and vowed to arrest any
one trying to take over his job
a- the city jail.
There’s “going to be bad
trouble” if such an attempt is
made, he warned.
Hendrix, however, appeared
unimpressed.
“When it comes time to
move, we’ll move without hesti
tating,” he said.