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By Quimby Melton
Many years ago the society
editor of the Griffin Daily News
was Miss Leila Hooks. She was
the niece of Mrs. Melton’s and
when she came to Griffin from
Americus she made her home
with us.
There are some of the older
readers of this column who will
remember Leila. We believe an
air mail letter from her post
marked New Delhi, India will
interest her friends.
But what is Leila doing in
India? She is there with her
husband C. E. (Ted) McConnell
Jr. Ted, a vice president of
Union Carbide, headquarters in
Charleston, W. Va., is in India
on official business for his firm.
Leila writes that shortly after
reaching India she wrote a “fan
letter” to Indria Ghandi, Prime
Minister of India.
Leila said she did “not
mention political ideologies but
just told her how much she
admired all she was doing for
her country, especially for the
women.” Leila said she had no
idea whether the letter would
ever reach the Prime Minister’s
office but hoped it would. So she
asked “if someone at
headquarters would be kind
enough to notify her of the next
time she would make a public
appearance so the McConnells
would be present and join the
crowd that witnessed the event.
Just to add to the personal
touch Leila told the Prime
Minister how much she enjoyed
a commencement address
delivered by Santha Roma Rou,
a first cousin of the Prime
Minister, delivered at Wellesley
when her daughter Leila Crisp
McConnell graduated.
Imagine my surprise and
delight when I received a letter
from Indria Ghandi’s social
secretary telling me an appoint
ment had been made for the
next morning at 8:30 o’clock for
my husband, my son Teddy, and
me.
“Early, yes! But we’d have
made it had it been 4 a.m. Ted’s
car and driver picked us up and
drove us to her residence at No.
1 Akbar. Guards stopped us but
gates opened when we gave our
name, and whisked us through
other guards and dropped us off
at a private side entrance.
“We were given the red
carpet and ushered through
connecting rooms to a closed off
private living room. We sat
there and waited about 15
minutes and then she came in
alone (2 men were behind her
just outside the door). She later
closed them off and the four of
us sat and chatted about 10
minutes as casually as if it were
a reunion of old friends!
“When I get back home and
have time and space and
typewriter, I’ll write you. I did
not dare take notes — it was an
audience, not an interview. No
great news in the making — no
great shakes — but a great thrill
and honor and I still can’t
believe it happened — but it did!
She had to get up and leave us to
preside over an ancient Hindu
festival rite on her front
veranda. I came right back to
these rooms and wrote down my
impressions and all I remem
bered she said so I can share
with all when I return. Here we
can only use these aerogram
mes (uncancelled stamps on
mail get stolen between
mailbox and P. 0.)”
“You’ll never find a man who
has done well — unless you’ve
found one who wants to do
better.”
Two Isrealis said killed
Arab vengance squad
seizes Olympic hostages
International games suspended
By DARRELL MACK
MUNICH (UPl)—The 20th
Olympic Games were tempora
rily suspended today after an
Arab vengeance squad shot its
way into the Israeli quarters of
the Olympic Village, killed two
Israeli men and seized nine
Israeli hostages.
The guerrillas threatened to
kill their captives unless they
were allowed to fly them to an
Arab country.
They set one more deadline—
-5 p.m. As the deadline
approached dozens of police,
some carrying machineguns,
surrounded the complex and
took up battle positions.
A number of Israelis were
able to escape through the
heroism of two who died.
Wrestling coach Moshe Wein
berg, 33, fell in front of the
Israeli building when he ap
parently intercepted the raid
ers. Referee Joseph Gottfreund
was said to have leaned against
the door shouting an alarm
until he was riddled by bullets
fired through it.
Avery Brundage, president of
the International Olympic Com
mittee, ordered suspension of
the games for 24 hours or until
the hostages were freed—as
had been demanded an hour
earlier by Israeli Prime Minis
ter Golda Meir who summoned
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MUNICH—West German Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich
Genscher (third from left) and other officials listen to
unidentified Arab guerilla (r) putting forward demands for
Tax rates 9 ambulance service, water
Garbage equipment due any day
County garbage collection,
water main construction, tax
rates, ambulance service, and
grading and paving were topics
of discussion at today’s regular
monthly meeting of the
Spalding County Commission.
Commissioner Sandy Morgan
reported that, although tagged
with a Sept. 1 delivery date, the
garbage truck and 70 containers
ordered to provide county
garbage service had not
arrived.
The $48,355 worth of equip
ment is expected to arrive “any
day”, according to Morgan.
Requests for state work or
ders to pave Steele, Crabtree,
and Moon roads were approved.
Board Chairman David Elder
explained that the following
water lines were completed and
operational to date:
S.R. 16 - Zetella to City
Limits; Pine Hill road - South
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an emergency session of the
Israeli Parliament to discuss
the situation.
West German Chancellor
Willy Brandt flew in from Bonn
to head the negotiations with
the guerrillas personally. He
appealed to the world Arab
leaders to intervene to try to
seek the release of the Israelis.
The incident threatened the
future of the Olympic Games
themselves—and Egypt an
nounced it was withdrawing
from the current games.
American swimmer Mark
Spitz, winner of seven gold
medals in the swimming
events, was under guard by
U.S. military police in a Munich
hotel nine miles from the
Olympic village so that he
would not become a target of
any Arab guerrilla attempt.
Spitz is a Jew.
The assault by the band of
extremists, who call themselves
the Black September Group and
who perpetrated the Lod
Airport massacre in Tel Aviv,
shocked the 10,000 competitors
and officials in the Olympic
village into the realization that
this might be the last Olympic
Games.
Many said as demonstrations
broke out in the village that
this meeting could mark the
end of the modern games,
from S.R. 16.
Expressway to Mailer road.
School road - Expressway to
end of line.
S. R. 92 - Henry Jackson Road
to Westmoreland drive.
Laprade road,
Manley road,
Birdie road from expressway
to Mobley road,
Wood road,
Mailer road.
Elder explained that between
40 and 50 per cent of the water
mains were now operational or
approximately 28 to 30 miles.
The total water main network
will run 58 miles.
Commissioner Jack Moss
said that the commission is still
committed to providing am
bulance service for Spalding
County by Jan. 1.
Moss noted that the com
missioners were in contact with
a private South Fulton County
ambulance firm to see if they
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which were revived in 1896.
In San Clemente, Calif.,
President Nixon expressed “a
sense of deep outrage” over the
incident.
United Nations Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim said he
was “profoundly distressed”
when he heard of the “dastard
ly act perpetrated against
Israeli athletes in the Olympic
Village in Munich.”
The suspension was an
nounced by Brundage and by
Willie Daume, the German
organizer. They said all events
would be suspended today—
except for events already
underway. They did not say
when or if the games would
resume.
“The Olympic peace has been
broken by an act of terrorism,”
the two men said in a
statement. “The whole world
regards this with disgust... The
events of this afternoon have
been suspended.”
They also announced a
memorial service for Wednes
day morning in the 84,000-seat
Olympic Stadium so athletes
and officials can pay tribute to
the Israeli victims.
“This ceremony should make
clear that the Olympic ideal is
stronger than terror and
force,” the two men said.
Brandt held an emergency
release of Israeli Olympic team hostages outside quarters of
Israeli team in Olympic Village. (UPI)
would be willing to extend
service to Spalding County. No
reply had been received by the
time of the meeting.
He pointed out that if the
county finds it necessary to
furnish all ambulance service
itself, the cost may be $250,000 a
year; equal to a 2.5 mill tax
increase.
The commissioners said they
are hoping to be able to secure
state and federal funds for the
service, or engage a private
company for approximately
$50,000 a year.
State regulations concerning
ambulance service are still
unclear, making it difficult to
estimate Spalding County’s
needs, according to Moss.
“One thing is for sure, under
the new system, people who
have been riding free are going
to be faced with a S3O and S4O
fees for a trip to the hospital,”
Moss said.
cabinet meeting in Bonn and
then flew to Munich for talks
with Brundage.
Shortly afterwards Brundage
announced they would be
suspended for 24 hours. Until
his announcement the athletes
had gone through their paces
today apparently oblivious of
the tense drama being enacted
in Olympic Village where West
Germans were bargaining for
the Israelis’ lives.
It was the first suspension of
the Olympics in modern times.
Witnesses said there were as
many as eight or nine
guerrillas. One policeman said
they climbed over a village
fence about 4:30 a.m. but
German technicians said they
thought the group were athletes
returning late to their quarters.
The “Black September” guer
rilla organization, a small and
militant organization though to
have only about 100 members,
said it carried out the raid to
force Israel to treat Palesti
nians more humanely.
The raid bloodied the greatest
and richest Olympics in history
and horrified athletes.
“It is unbelievable,” said
Seek Babacar, a Senegal
basketball player. “War at the
Olympics! ”
The games continued more or
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Turning to fixing the county’s
new tax rate, the commission
noted that no action could be
taken until the new tax digest is
completed.
The digest is prepared to
stand up under possible court
tests, according to the com
missioners.
Chairman Elder added that
he hopes the tax rate can be set
later this month
“We already know that the
school board will ask for 20
mills (maximum) and the
Griffin Area Vocational
Technical School will ask for
three-quarters of one mill, a one
quarter increase over last
year,” Moss said.
Although the commission
agreed that a tax cut was im
possible this year, they added
that they hoped to be able to
hold the tax rate at its present
level.
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MUNICH—Crowd gathers at fence immediately outside the apartment complex housing the
Israeli team. Team lives in the first and second floor of the building (directly behind the tall tree in
the center of picture.) They occupy the quarters fifth from the right end of building. (UPI)
Enrollment
increases
Enrollment in the Griffin-
Spalding School System today
continued to increase. Today it
was 72 over this same point last
year
Total enrollment stood at
9,304 today.
Enrollment by school was:
Atkinson 723
Beaverbrook 670
Crescent 645
East Griffin 305
Fourth Ward 541
Jackson Road 426
Moore 490
North Side 264
Orrs 558
Third Ward 276
West Griffin 283
Spalding 111 855
Spalding II 890
Spalding I 786
Griffin High 1,596
Total 9,304.
Doughnuts
BOISE, Idaho (UPI)-Rock
ford is a rooster with an
appetite for doughnuts.
Scott Whipple, who found the
rooster wandering in the
downtown area and took him
home, said Rockford starts
crowing “whenever he gets
hungry.”
“He really likes doughnuts. I
throw him half a doughnut
every morning,” Whipple said.
“I forgot to feed him (one
morning) and he walked right
up to my door and crowed.”
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 69, high yesterday
93, low yesterday 67, rainfall
yesterday .39 of an inch;
estimated high tomorrow low
80s, estimated low tomorrow
low 60s; sunrise tomorrow 7:20,
sunset tomorrow 7:52.
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Maj. Kenneth Underwood
Major Underwood
resigns force
Maj. Kenneth Underwood has
resigned from the Griffin Police
Department effective Sept. 15.
Maj. Underwood who has
been with the force more than 21
years said he had several
business opportunities under
consideration.
In his resignation to Chief Leo
Blackwell, Maj. Underwood
wrote:
“There comes a time in ones
life when they must stop and
reflect on the direction they are
going. They must derid* -
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whether to continue on their
present course or to make a
change in another direction.
“After much thought and
deliberation; I have decided I
must make a change in the
direction I plan to pursue in the
future.
“Therefore I hereby submit
my resignation from the Griffin
Police Department to become
effective Sept. 15, 1972.”
The department announced
nn nians for his replacement.