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By Quimby Melton
Last week Good Evening gave
up the space allotted him on
page one so we could run the
daily Billy Graham feature that
usually appears on our editorial
page. We did so gladly because
we believed and still believe
that as a result of the Graham
Georgia Crusade great good
could come to our people. Today
the Graham column returns to
the editorial page and Good
Evening is back to his regular
schedule.
Today’s column is the usual
“weekend” review.
By the end of the week it
became apparent that the June
term grand jury had returned
enough indictments that unless
there are many please entered,
it will keep the criminal session
running many days.
In addition to the indictments
the grand jury made some re
commendations which Good
Evening approves.
Here’s an editorial from
Friday’s edition of our paper
with worth reproducing in our
column.
“The Spalding County Grand
Jury which met this week
worked hard and long, con
sidered numerous cases, and
came forward with present
ments which renewed earlier
recommendations that a
juvenile detention home be
established here. Also it noted
the illegal and indiscriminate
use of firearms and recom
mended that every effort be
made to prevent their abuse.
“There can be little doubt that
juvenile facilities are needed
and that they would provide a
means by which young of
fenders could be held without
placing them in jail with adults.
“Likewise, there is little if
any doubt that all too many
people abuse the privilege of
owning and keeping firearms.
Pistols, rifles, and guns are
proper safeguards, and the
right of honest and lawabiding
citizens to keep them for protec
tion or legitimate sport should
not be abridged.
“On the other hand, then
ready accessibility and avail
ability without restraint has
made it much too easy for
criminals of every description
and intent to obtain them.
Proper and reasonable regula
tion is in order; somewhere
there is a balance between the
rights of good citizens to keep
and bear arms and provision for
preventing insofar as possible
their abuse by criminals. The
Grand Jury’s point was well
taken.”
During the week the city
moved its offices into the
building next door to the old city
hall. The city hall will be
remodeled and the Police
Department moved from the
Civil Defense building into it.
The city may raise taxes,
licenses and garbage collecting
fees.
A 10-year-old boy was killed
when the horse he was riding
fell on him at his home in
Milner.
MARTA strike tied up Atlanta
traffic.
The Georgia Power Company
asked for an SB6-million rate
increase.
A Black Muslim and an
Atlanta police officer were
killed in a gunbattle in down
town Atlanta.
Soviet Communist Party
Chief Leonid Brezhnev and
President Nixon agreed that it
was time for the cold war to
end. The two held week long
talks on the summit level in
Washington and later at the
California White House.
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“That he’s never tempted to
do wrong doesn’t mean a
’ fellow’s perfect —it means he’s
dead.”
Across America:
a common thread
By ROBERT COCHNAR
NEW YORK - (NEA) -
Can a nation have a mood, an
essential feeling which
changes as events change?
Can we honestly announce, as
politicians so often do, that
“the people are fed up,” or
“the people demand a
change,” or “the people are
frustrated and confused”?
As a nation, we are proba
bly not so homogeneous to
accept such sweeping general
izations without careful scruti
ny. And yet there are common
concerns. The national sur
veys and polls attest to that.
In fact, the pollsters have long
assumed the role of national
assayer but their conclusions
are couched in the bloodless
ness of statistics.
More than a few national
observers of considerable re
pute have taken the pulse of
the nation and have deter
mined that the tragedy of
Watergate may be the wat-
Miss Georgia
coming here
Gail Bulloch, the new Miss
Georgia who was crowned
Saturday night in Columbus,
will be in Griffin for the Fourth
of July.
She will ride in the holiday
parade and help with the
selections of winners in three
beauty contests.
The Griffin Jaycees sponsor
the annual day here.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox also
plans to attend and participate.
Plans are being completed for
the day’s program, to be cen
tered around the municipal
park after the downtown
parade.
Bloodmobile
to visit
tomorrow
The blcadmobile will be in
Griffin tomorrow.
Headquarters will be set up in
the Cheatham building of First
Baptist Church from 11 a.m. till
5 p.m.
The Griffin BPW, Spalding
BPW and the Woman’s Com
mittee of the Spalding Farm
Bureau will sponsor the event.
The three organizations are
competing to see which can
recruit the most donors.
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Gov. Jimmy Carter and Rev. Billy Graham share a lighter moment as the conclusion of the
evangelist’s week-long crusade, where the Governor defended Graham’s approach to religion.
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ershed of a general American
malaise. They may be right.
Or wrong.
Our own soundings, how
ever, suggest other conclu
sions. In a special series of
articles, which begins tomor
row, reporters and columnists
at newspapers in 12 American
cities consider the mood of
the people they know best,
their neighbors.
And, interestingly, there is
a common thread.
In San Jose. Calif., "Water
gate, inflation, the new moral
ity, the energy crisis tend to
be deplored pro forma — and
lived with as tolerable irri
tants rather than impending
tragedies.”
In Wilmington, Del., "Wat
ergate fascinates and troubles
us, but it may be peripheral to
the more immediate question
of how well we are able to
live.”
In Tacoma, Wash., where
citizen action groups are
growing in size and number,
The three beauty contests will
be Miss Griffin, Junior Miss
Griffin and Little Miss Griffin.
Court docket
called today
Most of this morning’s
Spalding Superior Court’s
criminal session was taken up
with calling the docket to find
out which defendants wanted to
enter guilty pleas.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.,
called the docket in an effort to
speed the session. It is expected
to be a long one because of the
heavy case load.
District Attorney Ben Miller
said the first case expected to
be tried was that of Tommy Ray
Pate of Birdie Road. He is
charged with attempted arson
and possession of an incendiary.
He allegedly was involved in
the throwing of a molotov
cocktail at the home of Shellie
Furlow, on Jordan Hill road
Oct. 30.
Several people charged with
the violation of Georgia drug
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, June 25, 1973
“there seems to be a nagging
suspicion by politicians that
the general public would rath
er just be left alone ...”
In San Antonio, Tex., where
the energy crisis pushed Wat
ergate temporarily off front
pages, the crisis “reinforced a
disenchantment with govern
ment that has been typified by
reaction to the White House
scandal.”
For many, then, Watergate
is considered to be just anoth
er complication in an already
complicated existence. Many
wish life could be simpler, but
they are realistic enough to
know that the clock isn’t
about to be turned back.
These 12 reports reflect a
persistent optimism. As San
Jose’s Wes Peyton puts it,
“the good life is not only
something a person can hope
to attain, it is something he
can define for himself with a
minimum of interference
from his neighbors.”
The contests will be held in the
evening at the Babe Ruth base
ball field in city park.
abuse and control laws are
expected to go to trial Wednes
day, court sources indicated.
Missing
boy found
Searchers found Jonathan
Flemister, two, of 841 East
Solomon street, Griffin, this
morning some three miles east
of Senoia.
The tot had been missing
since yesterday. He was visiting
with relatives in the Senoia area
yesterday when he was lost.
The Senoia Police Depart
ment, Coweta Sheriff’s office
and the Griffin CAP joined with
volunteer searchers yesterday
and today seeking the
youngster.
Searchers said the lad ap
peared to be all right but took
him to a hospital for a checkup.
The mood of America A
Dean gives his
Watergate version
WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
mer White House counsel John
W. Dean 111, said today the
Watergate scandal grew out of
the Nixon administration’s “in
satiable appetite for political
intelligence.”
Dean, who claims personal
knowledge of the depth of
Nixon’s involvement in the
burglary and wiretapping of
Democratic national headquar
ters in June 1972, made the
characterization of the
“climate” in Nixon’s White
House at the start of his
televised testimony before the
Senate Watergate Committee.
A 98-page segment of his
prepared statement—he was
expected to fill the entire
hearing day reading it—was
given reporters in advance.
Said Dean:
“To one who was in the White
House and became somewhat
familiar with its interworkings,
the Watergate matter was an
inevitable outgrowth of a
climate of excessive concern
over the political impact of
demonstrators, excessive con
cern over leaks, an insatiable
appetite for political intelligen
ce, all coupled with a do-it
yourself White House staff
regardless of the law.
“However, the fact that many
of the elements of this climate
culminated with the creation of
a convert intelligence operation
as a part of the President’s re-
Crusade ends
10,000 decisions
made for Christ
ATLANTA (UPI) - BiUy
Graham closed his Atlanta cru
sade Sunday, recording one of
the largest domestic week-long
campaigns.
Graham preached seven ser
mons in Atlanta stadium to a
total of more than 250,000 per
sons, his staff reported. The
daily average attendance of
about 38,000 turned out despite
a city bus strike and rain.
Graham noted the crowds
would have more than filled
Madison Square Garden.
With 50,000 seats however, the
stadium was never filled. The
largestcrowd was 44,000 and the
smallest, 31,500 on Saturday
night, the next-to-last night of
the crusade.
Os those who attended, some
10,000 made “decisions for
Christ” after Graham’s ser
mons. The majority of those
were under the age of 25,
Graham’s staff said.
During the final service,
Graham recalled that his last
Atlanta crusade 23 years ago
was a historic one for him. It
was then, he said, his weekly
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election committee was not by
conscious designs, rather an
accident of fate.”
In the first few pages of his
statement, Dean sketched a
portrait of a President and a
White House staff nearly
obsessed with gathering intelli
gence on opponents —political
and ideological.
In May, 1971, when Vietnam
Veterans Against the War were
demonstrating in Washington
and just before a massive
antiwar rally, Nixon asked
Dean for close intelligence.
“Accordingly, we prepared
hourly status reports and sent
them to the President,” he
said.
Nixon’s concern was so
intense that nothing missed
him, Dean said. He recalled
one instance in the late winter
of 1971 when the President
objected after looking out the
window “and saw a lone man
with a large 10-foot sign
stretched out in front of
Lafayette Park” —across Penn
sylvania Avenue from the
White House.
Weather
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tomorrow near 90, low tonight in
mid 60s.
Hour of Decision radio broad
cast began, starting with 56 sta
tions and “we thought we were
talking to the whole world.”
Now the weekly program goes
to about 900 stations.
Graham’s final sermon dealt
with the home. He said studies
of divorces indicate that only
one in 500 divorces goes to
Christian partners who read the
Bible and pray together.
Airlines
pilot, son,
killed
PALMETTO, Ga. (UPI) — A
Delta Airlines pilot and his 14-
year-old son were kUled Sunday
when the wings fell off then
single - engine plane and it
crashed near here.
Thomas Lee Stevens, 40, of
CoUege Park, and his son,
Tommy, were pronounced dead
at the scene.
The Federal Aviation Admin
istration said it would conduct
a fuU investigation today.
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Happy birthday, Mr. Smith
Mr. Frank Smith, well known Griffin businessman who has
retired, celebrated his 87th birthday at his lake home on
Carver road Saturday. A number of friends and relatives
were on hand to help him celebrate. Among them were: Mr.
and Mrs. L. I. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. George Jones, Miss Ethel
Tyus, Mrs. Mary Tyus Butler, Mrs. Lois Tyus, Mrs. Cora
belle Davis, Mrs. Lena Penn, Mrs. Marie Casey, Mrs. Sara
Swatts, Mrs. Jewell Sikes, Mrs. Mattie Swint, Mrs. Edith
Domingoes, Mrs. Esta Johnson, Mrs. Grace Hobbs, Mrs.
Sara Turner and Mrs. Mattie Graves.
Court rules against
parochial school aid
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court struck down as
unconstitutional today state aid
to parochial schools in the form
of tax credits, tuition reim
bursements and maintenance
payments.
The ruling came on programs
adopted in Pennsylvania and
New York.
The practice had been at
tacked as an infringement on
the First Amendment, which
says “Congress shall make no
law respecting an establish
ment of religion or the free
exercise thereof.” The states
are also bound by the amend
ment.
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Opinions by Justice Lewis F.
Powell Jr. in the two cases
noted that the tuition reim
bursements if given directly to
sectarian schools would violate
the first amendment and
declared the fact that they are
paid to the parents rather than
the schools does not eliminate
the unconstitutionality of the
practice.
Os New York’s proposal for
allowing parents tax credits,
Powell said there seems to be
little difference in terms of
advancing religion between
such tax benefits and outright
tuition grants to parochial
schools.