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Sheriff needs your help
in war against burglars
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert today
called on the citizens of this
community to help in a cam
paign against thefts.
It will involve an extensive
and intensive educational
program to attack the problem
an two fronts.
The sheriff will ask neighbors
to help neighbors in cutting
down on house burglaries. He
also will emphasize practical
ways in which people can take
precautions against burglaries
in their homes as well as busi
nesses.
Already Sheriff Gilbert has
contacted local banks and got
their cooperation. The banks
agreed to include information
on burglary prevention when
bank statements are mailed.
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EL PASO, Texas—Managua earth quake refugee, Klaus Schuwpp, 4, receives a comforting hand
and a cookie during arrival here from Managua. Klaus was one of 47 children and 57 adults who
arrived here aboard a German military aircraft Most of the IM persons are from Germany.
Klaus suffered a bruised forehead. (UPI)
Assessors making
spot tax checks
The Spalding Tax Assessors
office has begun spot checks of
inventories, furniture, fixtures
and equipment of businesses to
see if they are the same as
reported on state income tax
returns.
Al Hill of the assessors said
some spot checks already have
turned up wide differences in
some figures reported to their
office as against those listed on
the same firm’s income tax
Torture death probed in Butts
The Butts County Sheriffs
Department today was in
vestigating the torture-beating
death of one man and the
beating and torture of another
who was being treated at a
Jackson hospital.
The dead man was identified
as Grady Thomas Smith, 44, of
219 Oakland circle, Flovilla.
The man being treated at
Sylvan Grove Hospital in
Jackson was listed as Jason
The sheriff said that Dundee
Mills has agreed to help
distribute the information to
their employes when pay
checks are distributed.
Other industries and busi
nesses will be asked to help, too.
Bumper stickers and small
decals for display at homes will
put would-be thieves on notice
that they had better be careful,
the sheriff said.
One of the most important
phases of the program will be to
get neighbors to help each other
keep an eye on their respective
homes so anything that smacks
cf a burglary can be reported to
lawmen.
People can help each other
through the program, the
return.
He said where differences are
found, the firm officials have
written a letter, under the
Georgia code, stating the dif
ferences and asking the owners
to show cause as to why the
county tax records should not
show the same figures as in
come tax returns.
Hill said that in spot check
cases, investigators go back
through the past five years and
Coleman, 35, of Flovilla.
Two men were being
questioned in connection with
the incident, the sheriffs office
said. No arrests have been
made.
Both men had been tortured
with what appeared to be the
hot ends of sticks that had been
heated to a glow then jammed
onto the chest and other parts
of the bodies, officials in
dicated.
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check records.
He said that differences are
called to the firm owners at
tention and they will be held
responsible for the taxable
difference, plus penalties and
interest.
Investigators for the Spalding
assessors office take local
records to the State Revenue
Department in Atlanta and
check against income tax
returns, Mr. Hill said.
John Sherrel, Butts County
coroner, said an inquest into the
death of Smith would not be
scheduled until more informa
tion is available.
He said two men from the
State Crime Laboratory in
Atlanta came to Jackson
yesterday to investigate the
death.
The two men were found in
the back of an automobile at a
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 28, 1972
sheriff said.
Tips on making sure a home is
protected by proper locks will
be part of the program, the
sheriff said.
Sheriff Gilbert estimated that
70 percent or more of the locks
on homes in this community are
the “10 second type.” That is,
they can be opened in about 10
seconds with a screwdriver and
plastic credit card by someone
who knows what he is doing.
The information the sheriff
will distribute will explain that
mortise and deadbolt locks are
the best for preventing
burglaries in homes.
The sheriff said he was not
attempting to sell locks but was
making an effort to make
homes safe from burglaries.
They’ll answer
crash reports
of cannibalism
SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI)-
Survivors of the Uruguayan
military plane crash in the
Andes two months ago char
tered a jetliner today to fly
home to reply to rescuers’
reports of cannibalism.
Their dramatic return to
civilization, praised by joyous
relatives as a miraculous
Christmas gift, has now become
a nightmare.
Chilean professors and theolo
gians searched for the answer
to whether cannibalism was
ever justified. The government
and opposition press argued
editorially over publishing re
ports of the case.
Cesar Charlone, Uruguayan
charge d’affairs, said the 13
remaining survivors and their
families would leave for Monte
video later in the day aboard a
special Lan-Chile jetliner.
Three survivors have already
returned to the Uruguayan
capital.
Charlone said the survivors
would make “an official and
final statement” in Montevideo
on the cannibalism.
“They are not going to hide
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
59, low today 33, high yesterday
54, low yesterday 27, high
tomorrow in mid 60s, low
tonight in mid 30s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:45, sunset
tomorrow 5:36.
“Having no food to eat will
take your mind off most other
troubles.”
Flovilla home of Mrs. Dovie
Preston.
The crime lab investigators
have not completed a report nor
indicated the cause of Smith’s
death.
A spokesman for the office of
Butts Sheriff Hugh C. Polk said
that the investigation was in the
preliminary stages and officers
could make no statements at
this time.
The sheriff plans to saturate
the community with the in
formation.
Sheriff Gilbert was picked to
participate in the National
Sheriffs’ Association’s program
against burglary and larceny in
a national effort.
The national program will be
known as “Operation Neighbor
hood Watch.” It will be sup
ported through a federal grant
from the Department of Justice.
The national sheriffs organiza
tion will administer it.
Larceny and burglary are
national problems and the
sheriff’s organization plans a
strong attack on them with the
help of citizens across the
country, the sheriff said.
anything,” he said.
Before departing, the 13
remained in seclusion at their
suburban hotel. They refused to
answer telephone calls and
newsmen’s questions.
Guillermo Silva, chief of the
civilian Andean Rescue Squad,
said a three-man rescue patrol
found “chopped-up pieces of
human remains” near the
wreckage of the Uruguayan Air
Force F 27 turboprop.
The plane was chartered by
the Old Christian Brothers
rugby team of Montevideo. It
vanished Oct. 13 with 45 aboard
on a flight to Santiago from
Mendoza, at the Argentine side
of the Andes.
Two wandering survivors
were rescued Friday. They led
Chilean Air Force helicopters to
the crash site on a 13,500-foot
slope of Tinguiririca Volcano,
about 120 miles southeast of
Santiago.
Blast
kills
girl, 10
A 10-year-old girl died this
morning after being shot at her
home. Spalding Sheriff’s of
ficers were questioning her 16-
year-old brother in connection
with the incident.
The child, Patty Hooks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GL.
Hooks of 223 Roberts street, was
shot in the head with a 410 gauge
shotgun about 10:30 this mor
ning. She was lying on the
kitchen floor and was dead on
arrival at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
Since her brother is 16 years
old, he will be treated as a
juvenile and his name cannot be
published under Georgia law,
investigators said today.
She was in the fifth grade at
Crescent Elementary School.
Escapee back
after one day
A Griffinite who escaped from
the Pike County work camp was
back in custody after a day of
freedom.
Lonnie Will Wilson, 20, of
North Second street, was ser
ving a 10-year-sentence in Pike
County for burglary. He
escaped Tuesday night but was
picked up at his Griffin home
yesterday by local police of
ficers.
He was returned to Pike
County.
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Sheriff Gilbert asks neighbors to help.
Truman is buried
in rose garden
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.
(UPI) —Harry S Truman, the
straight-talking son of a Mis
souri horse trader who rose to
the presidency and led his
country during two wars, was
to be buried today in the Rose
Garden of his presidential
library.
Only his family and closest
friends were included in the
ceremony to bid the 33rd
president a final farewell.
Truman himself selected the
burial spot in the grassy
courtyard. He looked out on it
often from the glass wall of his
library office where he spent
his last years happily surround
ed by his White House
momentos.
“I want to be buried out
there so I can get up and walk
into my office if I want to,” he
once told Army funeral plan
ners.
In death as in life, his desire
for simplicity prevailed and his
state funeral, embellished with
military flourishes, Taps and a
21-gun salute, still was a
modest tribute from a grateful
nation to a courageous leader.
Casket Placed in Lobby
Truman’s mahogany casket
was brought to the library, high
on a knoll, and placed in the
lobby on a black velvet-draped
catafalque to lie in state
Wednesday until noon EST
today.
Thousands of persons, the
rich and the poor, the famous
and the unknown, workers
wearing dungarees and aprons
and men carrying babies, lined
the streets of Independence as
Truman’s cortege proceeded to
the library Wednesday.
Military bands played “Ruf
fles and Flourishes” and
“Vanquished Army.”
President Nixon, Truman’s
old political foe, and former
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Truman’s close friend and ally,
came separately, placed
wreaths and left. Neither
returned today for the private
funeral for Truman, who died
Tuesday at the age of 88 after a
three-week illness.
After placing wreaths, each
of Truman’s successors paid
calls on Bess Truman, 87. She
did not leave the century-old
home on Delaware St. where
she and Truman lived during 53
years of marriage.
The greatest tribute to
Truman was not the fleeting
visits of past and present
presidents. It was long lines of
plain folk who stood waiting for
hours Wednesday and today to
file by his bier.
From the time the doors
opened at 3 p.m. Wednesday for
the public viewing, thousands
passed the flag-draped coffin,
some solemn, some stopping to
nrav silently, men in uniform
saluting sharply.
The slow-moving procession
continued through the night as
those who once knew him as a
$3-a-week helper in the corner
drug store, and Americans
from far away who knew
Truman as “Give ‘em Hell
Harry” came to say their final
farewells.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fosaaen
drove 400 miles from their
Inwood, lowa, farm, because,
“We’ve seen him and heard
him speak, and we’ve always
admired him. He was for the
common man—for humanity as
a whole.”
When the procession from the
Carson Funeral Home arrived
at the Truman Library a mile
and a half away, 21 Air Force
jet airplanes flew over at low
altitude.
Members of Battery D who
served under “Captain Harry”
during World War I boomed a
21-gun salute. Many mourners
cried openly.
Those who grieved were of all
Woodruff retires
as IRS agent here
Ernest T. Woodruff is retiring
as Internal Revenue Agent after
some 36 years with the federal
government.
His retirement date is Jan. 9
but in effect Mr. Woodruff
already has completed his
service. He is taking some leave
time he had accumulated.
A Griffin resident for some 23
years, he plans to open a tax
and bookkeeping service at 523
East Taylor street.
As IRS agent in Griffin, he
was local representative of the
Internal Revenue Service Com
missioner in charge of ad
ministration of the office here.
The office serves some eight
counties in this section of the
state.
A native of Vienna, Ga., Mr.
Woodruff started to work for the
federal government with the
Department of Labor. After
three months in that depart
ment, he transferred to the
Internal Revenue Service.
His service with IRS was
interrupted twice when he went
on active duty with the U. S. Air
Force. He served four years
during World War 11, seeing
duty in the Pacific as well as in
the United States. He was called
to active duty again during the
Korean conflict and served 21
months. When he retired from
the Air Force reserve in 1968, he
had reached the rank of
lieutenant colonel, having
begun his military career as a
buck private.
Mr. Woodroof attended
elementary and high school in
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generations. The very old,
white-haired, leaned on canes.
The very young, long-haired,
stood tall and straight.
Eight pallbearers carried the
casket into the Truman Library
lobby. The casket was sealed
permanently Tuesday, a few
hours after Truman’s battle
against failing heart, kidneys
and lungs ended.
Mrs. Truman, who made
daily trips to Research Hospital
during her husband’s last three
weeks, stayed at home and
greeted Nixon and Johnson
Wednesday. But as the cortege
passed by the Truman home, a
17-room Victorian mansion built
more than 100 years ago, she
pulled open a single window
shade and watched the casket
of her her husband pass.
Among the 220 guests invited
to the private funeral in the
small auditorium of the library
were Truman’s relatives, for
mer White House advisers and
friends, all of them a part of
the Truman era.
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Ernest Woodruff
his home town of Vienna, then
studied at Middle Georgia
College, Georgia Military
College, and The Draughon
School of Commerce, then
located in Atlanta.
Mr. Woodruff’s first IRS
assignment was in the Atlanta
office. Later he served in Rome,
Ga., Savannah, Augusta,
Columbus and Americus before
being assigned to Griffin.
His wife is the former
Frances B. Martin, a native of
Thomaston. They have two
children, a son, Beryl, 19, who is
a student at Valdosta State
College, and a daughter,
Christie, 14, who is a student at
Spalding Junior High School.
The Woodruffs make their
home at 901 Mockingbird lane.