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Pate goes on trial
in firebomb case
The fate of Thomas Ray Pate,
23, of Birdie road, Sunny Side,
was in the hands of a Spalding
Superior Court jury late this
morning. Pate had been
charged with attempting to
commit arson and possession of
an incendiary in connection
with the attempted burning of
the Jordan Hill road home of
Shellie Furlow and her six
minor children on Oct. 29.
The State’s witnesses were
Mrs. Furlow, Criminal In
vestigator Richard Cantrell of
the Spalding Sheriff’s Depart
ment and Terry Skinner, a
former deputy sheriff.
Cantrell testified that late on
the night of Oct. 29 he received a
call from an informer, who was
not identified, that a fire bomb
would be thrown at the Furlow
home. He and Deputy Terry
Skinner rushed to the house,
awakened Mrs. Furlow and her
children and led them out of the
house to her car where they
were told to lie down out of
sight.
Cantrell continued:
He and Deputy Skinner hid
and minutes later a car
carrying four persons drove by
slowly. The car returned two
more times. The last time when
it neared the house, the car
stopped and the passenger next
to the driver got out, walked to
the rear of the car, lit a
homemade bomb, and threw it
toward the house. He said
Deputy Skinner, who was hiding
behind a tree, ordered the
subject to stop. Instead, the
person ran back to the car and
got in next to the driver. The
lawmen fired several shots and
gave chase for a short distance
when the car stopped and the
three other persons jumped out
and ran, leaving the person next
to the driver’s seat in the auto.
Cantrell said that person
slipped into the driver’s seat
and drove a short distance
before the officers stopped the
car and arrested the driver,
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Call Wayne Edwards 228 2744
who Cantrell identified as Pate.
Cantrell said the homemade
bomb fell about 10 feet from the
Furlow residence and burned a
small area of grass. It would
have burned the house had it
hit, he said.
He described the bomb as a 12
ounce soft drink bottle, filled
with a flammable liquid, such as
gas or kerosene, and having a
rag wick stuck in its neck.
The defendant made an un
sworn statement as his only
defense.
He said that he was at home
that night watching television
with his father when a man
phoned him to come to the John
Hall home off Teamon road to
discuss politics. He said that
last year was an election year
and he was an “extreme
Republican” and liked politics.
After a second call, he went to
the Hall residence (where he
had never been before) and was
surprised to find some men in
the house with masks over their
faces. He said he did not know
what was going on but they
wanted to hear his ideas about
the Republican campaign and
discuss his acquaintance with a
black man, whom he described
as a good friend.
When he was about to leave,
one of the men asked if he would
take three others back to
Griffin. He said that, as they
were riding, the men began to
get violent and one grabbed him
around the neck while another
told him to move over and let
one of them drive. Pate said he
was afraid they would beat him
up, tljat he did not understand
what was going on. The car
stopped, one of the men got out,
and Pate said he heard
something. He said the man ran
back to the car saying
something about the law’s being
there and they sped away for a
short distance when the car
stopped again and the three
men jumped out and ran toward
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Sheriff’s deputies escorted Ronald Lee Smith from Spalding County jail for transfer to the
Diagnostic and Classification Center at Jackson yesterday afternoon. His sentence to death was
changed to life imprisonment under a Supreme Court ruling on capital punishment. Smith was
convicted of the murder of Charles Vaughn, college student here, and has been confined to the jail
more than six years while his case went through a series of appeals.
some woods.
Pate said he was in his new
car and he started to drive away
when he looked in the rear view
mirror and saw the police car
lights. He said he stopped and
walked back to the officers
where he was placed under
arrest
Pate told the jurors that he
knew his story sounded fan
tastic and he begged them to
believe that he did not do it. He
said he was not a violent person
and had never been in any
trouble before.
In rebuttal to the unsworn
statement, Cantrell read a
signed statement Pate made at
the Spalding jail the night
following his arrest
In this statement, Pate said
that Johnny Knowles had called
him to come to the Hall home to
a Ku Klux Klan meeting to
discuss his (Pate’s) conduct
Teachers
attending
workshop
In order to keep up with the
latest teaching methods for
pre-school children, (4 and 5
year olds) the Hammond Drive
Baptist Church is sending, Mrs.
Diane Davis, Mrs. Diane
Blalock, Mrs. Barbara
Buchanan, Mrs. Maude Butler
to the intensive kindergarten
workshop at the Georgia
Baptist Assembly at Toccoa,
Ga.
This is one of the best staffed
schools in Georgia, using well
trained instructors in child
education from colleges in the
South.
The pastor, the Rev. Brady
Blalock, stated that the kin
dergarten at Hammond Drive
has a few vacancies for the 1973-
74 term. He urged anyone with a
child to register to do so at the
earliest time. »
Mrs. Sawyer
completes
Institute
Mildred Sawyer, ad
ministrative assistant for the
Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce, has completed a
one-week personal development
program at the University of
Georgia.
More than 225 people par
ticipated in the Institutes for
Organization Management.
They represented more than 20
Chamber of Commerce
organizations in Georgia.
This is the fourth Institute
Mrs. Sawyer has completed.
unbecoming a Klansman. He
said he went to the meeting
where his unbecoming conduct
was discussed, then he said on
order of Knowles, drove in his
car with the three masked men
to the Furlow house. He said
another man drove and a man
sitting with him in the front seat
got out at the house.
Pate took the stand for the
second time and said that he has
never been a member of the Ku
Klux Klan and never would be.
He said that when he made the
statement at the jail that he had
not eaten or slept since his
arrest the day before. He said
that he had been put in the
drunk tank for all of that time
and was so nervous and afraid.
The jury, composed of 11
whites and one black man,
began its deliberations around
noon today.
Pate is represented by
Atlanta Attorney James
Venable.
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Hospital Report
The following persons were
dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital yesterday:
Donna Sue Brown, Mrs.
Kathy Gresham, Mrs. Sherry
Clifford and baby, Mrs. Brenda
Skelton, Mrs. Teressa Askin,
Clinton Murphy, Mrs. Jeannette
McCarty, Mrs. Rosa Reeves
and baby, Mrs. Geraldine
Parker, Charlie Hall, Mrs. Iris
Fonfield, Willie Johnson Jr.,
Mrs. Mildred Dial.
Stork Club
MASTER KENT
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Kent
of Route One, Box 361-A,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
son, Charles Matthew, on June
20 at Georgia Baptist Hospital
in Atlanta.
MASTER LUMMUS
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lum
mus of P. O. Box 271, Jackson,
announce the birth of a son on
June 25 at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
MASTER COLE
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cole of
Route One, Milner, announce
the birth of a son on June 25 at
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
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| Deaths-Funerals |
Mrs. Hamilton
Mrs. Eunice Ham Hamilton,
74, of 2800 Sophia street,
Jacksonville, Fla., wife of
Henry G. Hamilton, died
Monday evening at Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Mrs. Hamilton and her
husband were on a visit with her
niece, Mrs. Opal Boykin of
Route one, Milner when she
suffered a heart seizure and
was admitted to the hospital 12
days ago.
A native of Cedartown, Mrs.
Hamilton was a member of the
First Baptist Church in Griffin
where she lived as a young girl.
She made her home in Atlanta
until 1950, moving to
Jacksonville and has resided
there since then.
Survivors include her
husband and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be
conducted Wednesday morning
at 11 o’clock in Haisten’s
chapel. The Rev. Samuel J.
Lawson will officiate and
burial will be in Crawley family
cemetery. Friends may visit the
family tonight at the funeral
home from 7 until 9 p.m.
Haisten Brothers in charge of
plans.
Mr. Gunn
Mr. William Lester Gunn of
321 North 10th street was dead
on arrival at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Monday
night.
Mr. Gunn had made his home
in Griffin for 40 years and was a
retired employe of Thomaston
Mills, Griffin division. He was a
member of Masonic Lodge 413
and Pythagoras Chapter, No.
10.
Survivors include two
daughters, Mrs. Winfred
Harper and Mrs. Roy Polk, both
of Griffin; two sons, William
Gunn and Durell Dunn, both of
Griffin; two sisters, Mrs.
Blanche Coker of Decatur and
Miss Vesta Gunn of
Milledgeville; four grand
children and several nieces and
nephews.
McDonald Chapel is in charge
of funeral plans. Friends may
visit the family at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Polk, 516
Hallyburton street.
Mrs. Aldridge
Mrs. Silas L. Aldridge of
Cohutta died Sunday night. She
was the mother of Silas L.
Aldridge, Jr. of Milner.
Funeral services will be
conducted Wednesday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock from the
Love Funeral Home in Dalton.
About Town
KIWANISCLUB
Lynn Hughes, assistant
football coach of University of
Georgia, will be guest speaker
at the Wednesday meeting of
the Griffin Kiwanis Club, held
at the Elks Club at 12:15 p.m.
He will be introduced by Scott
Searcy.
MOOSE LODGE
The regular semi-monthly
meeting of Griffin Moose Lodge
1503 will be held tonight at lodge
rooms. Governor Ben Hoard
will preside. Business session
will begin at 8 p.m.
- Griffin Daily News Tuesday, June 26,1973
Page 7
Mrs. Mozee
Mrs. Susie Stinson Mozee of
230 Corley street, N.E. Atlanta,
died yesterday at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Annie Mae
Crowder of 125 Brawner street,
Griffin.
She is survived by her
husband, Kilmer Mozee of
Atlanta; three daughters, Mrs.
Florestine Mozee Gross of
Washington, D.C., Mrs. Martha
Jean Adams of Colorado,
Texas, and Miss Annie Bale
Mozee of Atlanta; three sons,
Kilmer Mozee, Jr., of Cin
cinnati, Marion Mozee and
Marshall Mozee of Atlanta; a
sister, Mrs. Annie Mae Crowder
of Griffin; four brothers, Will
Stinson, Fred Douglas Stinson,
the Rev. Lance Stinson and
Louis Stinson, all of Griffin;
four sisters-in-law, Mrs.
Flemmie Stinson of Atlanta,
Mrs. Pauline Stinson, Mrs.
Odessa Stinson and Mrs. Ruby
Stinson, all of Griffin.
Miller’s Funeral Home will
announce arrangements.
Colonel Sanders
CHICAGO—It all started 43
years ago when he opened a
restaurant in the hills of Ken
tucky.
And for anyone else it would
have ended about 20 years ago
when the highway past his
restaurant was relocated. He
sold it for almost nothing and at
age of 66 began teaching others
his process for chicken and
providing them with his secret
recipe of 11 herbs and spices.
From this modest beginning
came Kentucky Fried Chicken,
the world’s largest retail food
service system. Colonel
Harland Sanders, was honored
as “Restaurateur of the Year”
by his peers attending the
National Restaurant
Association exposition in
Chicago.
Colonel Sanders, 82, was
touched by the award, made by
the outgoing president of the
NRA, Robert Flickinger,
Buffalo, N.Y. Also on hand was
U.S. Senator Marlow Cook (R-
Ky.), a friend of the Colonel’s.
The several hundred
restaurateurs were recognizing
that the Colonel had developed a
meal that is served to nearly
one billion people a year.
Fame as the king of chicken
has obscured the fact that the
Colonel is an all ’round good
cook and has never run
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Crown Hotel in Kansas City,
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barium and 60-foot-high ceil
ing. A temperature of 72
degrees is maintained, and
an automatic sprinkler pro
vides the equivalent one inch
of rainfall a week.
anything but a full-service
restaurant. He’s been an NRA
member since the Depression
days of 1930, when it took all his
little restaurant’s revenues for
a day to pay the sl2 mem
bership fee.
Even to this day the Colonel
operates a restaurant next to
his modest country home near
Shelbyville, Ky. People come
from all over the world to eat
his Chess pie, and wade into
eight vegetables and his
seafood, beef, ham and, of
course, chicken dinners.
Sanders has been cooking
since he was six, shortly after
his father died. His mother had
to work and young Sanders had
to take care of his three-year
old brother and baby sister.
This meant doing much of the
family cooking.
Although he was forced to quit
school in the sixth grade, he has
a great reverence for education.
He, himself, attended Cornell’s
School of Hotel and Restaurant
Administration and later a food
service school at the University
of Chicago.
The Colonel still travels
250,000 miles a year, presiding
over his ever-growing domain.
Retirement and vacations are,
in his words, “words that were
invented since I left school.”