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It’s over
Commies ride into Saigon in captured American Jeeps
By LEON DANIEL
SAIGON (UPI) - A trium
phant Communist army riding
tanks, trucks and captured
American Jeeps took over
Saigon today and raised the
Viet Cong flag over the
presidential palace in what the
Communist world hailed as a
great victory of historic impor
tance.
The Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese troops — jubilant
over the unconditional surren
der that ended 35 years of war
against American, French,
Japanese and South Vietnamese
forces—seized Saigon radio and
announced they were renaming
the South Vietnamese capital
“Ho Chi Minh City.”
Law Day programs
will be tomorrow
, A two part program planned
for Law Day tomorrow will, get
under way at the noon Rotary
Club luncheon.
• William Ide, president of the
Young Lawyers’ Section of the
Georgia Bar Association and
president elect of the Young
• Lawyers’ Section of the
American Bar Association, will
speak.
• The event will be sponsored
by the Griffin Circuit Bar
Association and the Griffin
Legal Secretaries Association.
• The second part of Law Day
begins at 4 p.m. in front of the
Spalding Courthouse with Judge
Andrew Whalen, Jr., Atly Larry
Evans, the Rev. Billy
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The occupation of the city
three hours and a half after the
last Americans were flown out
in U.S. Marine helicopters was
mostly peaceful, but there were
some sporadic firefights in the
capital as last ditch defenders
fought suicide battles.
One by one, the Viet Cong
and North Vietnamese troops
overwhelmed the holdouts and
gained complete control of all
of Saigon. They crashed tanks
through the wall at the
presidential palace and hoisted
a huge Viet Cong flag—red on
the top, blue on the bottom
with a gold star in the center.
President Duong Van Minh was
reported in custody.
UPI photographer Hoang Van
Southerland, Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert and City Manager Roy
Inman scheduled to participate.
The program will be spon
sored by the Chamber of
Commerce, at the request of the
Bi-Centennial Committee.
Before the program, begin
ning at 3:30 p.m., the Griffin
High band will present music.
Judge Whalen, will make
opening remarks. Atty. Evans
will talk on “Law and How Law
Governs Our Constitution and
Our Daily Lives.”
“Moral and Spiritual Values
as They Relate to Our Con
stitution” will be the Rev.
Southerland’s topic. He is
pastor of the Second Baptist
Virginia Adams
They asked about future of community
54,000 people by 1995?
The Griffin-Spalding com
munity will have a population of
some 54,000 people by 1995
under plans being developed
under the eyes of the federal
Environmental Protection
Agency.
This was one of hundreds of
points brought out last night at
the first public hearing on the
plan which will influence
growth here for the next 20
years.
More than 100 people attended
the hearing in the Spalding
Courthouse.
Alfred Bolton who heads
Griffin Engineering firm
outlined the work done so far in
a brief opening statement. The
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Virginia Shapard
Cuong rode one of the Russian
made tanks into the presiden
tial compound surrounded by
approving, smiling soldiers who
shouted “Press guys, good.”
The Viet Cong made no
attempts to interfere with
picture taking or news covera
ge.
One noisy fight broke out in
front of the presidential palace
—now the Viet Cong headquar
ters—as UPI correspondent
Alan Dawson was attempting to
make contact with senior
Communist officials to discuss
news and photograph opera
tions.
Dawson spent 10 minutes
tucked between two Viet Cong
behind a tree. The Communists
Church and is president of the
ministerial association.
Sheriff Gilbert’s topic will be
“What Law Enforcement Is and
How Law and Law En
forcement Provides Freedom
for Each Citizen”.
“What America means to
each of us and how we must
each individually defend,
uphold and respect the freedom
we have, lest we lose it”, will be
discussed by Mr. Inman.
Chamber President Scott
Searcy and Atty. Gene Dabbs,
representing the Griffin Bar
Association, were working on
the plans, along with Doug
Hollberg, Bi-Centennial
chairman.
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rest of the 87-minute session
was taken up with questions
from the audience.
City and County Commiss
ioners hired Bolton’s firm to
make the study and develop the
designs.
Ivan Taylor of Carver road
opened the question session. He
wanted to know if the plan
would allow the federal govern
ment to tell people what they
could do with their land and how
much they could get for it.
Bolton said this would not be
the case. He said there was a
positive side to planning. He
suggested it might not be done
so extensively if Congress had
not passed federal legislation
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put out a tremendous volume of
tank, machine gun and rifle fire
and Dawson was able to pull
out after about 10 minutes.
Other fighting was reported
underway with holdout para
troopers near the Saigon Zoo at
the north edge of Saigon and
with Special Forces troops at
the southwest edge.
When a boatload of persons
tried to set off down the Saigon
River to the South China Sea, a
Viet Cong officer ordered a
tank to fire a round across the
ship’s bow. The boat turned
around and returned to the
Saigon dock.
There was no comment in
Washington from President
Ford other than the statement
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requiring that it be done.
Bolton said the federal
government wants local people
to have a say in what happens.
That’s why die public hearings
are being held and why Bolton
appointed a 12-member citizehs
committee to help. All of them
attended last night’s session.
Bolton said three public meet
ings had been scheduled but
more would be held if needed.
Sydney Wynne, president of
the League of Women Voters,
wanted to know about land use
and Bolton said this would
figure in the plan, since it in
volved primarily treatment
facilities (water-sewage).
Frank Harris, outdoor ad
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that the American evacuation
“closes a chapter in the
American experience.” Secre
tary of State Henry A.
Kissinger admitted that the 14
years of American involvement
in Vietnam “did not achieve the
objectives of those who started
the original involvement.”
The Communist victory dealt
a stunning setback to the
United States, which spent $l5O
billion and lost more than 50,000
lives in a futile effort to save
the South Vietnamese govern
ment.
Former President Nguyen
Van Thieu, in exile on Taipei,
maintained silence
Soviet Tass commentator
Sergei Bulantsev said that after
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Mayor Louis Goldstein today
said he would resign frbm the
recreation board if Spalding
County Commissioner Reid
Childers would do the same.
The views of the two com
missioners have often been in
conflict in the long running
dispute over the joint recreation
program.
“. . . . In the interest of
recreation, I will agree to resign
from the recreation board, if
Mr. Childers will do like-wise.
The only other stipulation I
have is for the city commission
ers to appoint another com
missioner and I would like to
recommend Commissioner
Emest (Tigs') Jones. I insist
on a representative from city
government being a voting
member of the board,” Gold
stein said.
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more than 30 years of fighting
“at last, conditions were
created that peace should reign
in the long-suffering land of
South Vietnam, and a most
dangerous seat of international
tensions and military conflict
have been liquidated.”
The Viet Cong’s Provincial
Revolutionary Government
delegation in Paris hailed the
capture of Saigon as an historic
victory over the Americans and
hinted privately that the war
divided country may soon be
reunited. It was divided into
North and South Vietnam after
Ho Chi Minh’s victory over the
French at Dien Bien Phu.
In Hanoi, jubilant North
Vietnamese went into the
vertising man, rose to say he
thought developing plans would
be good and had confidence in
those working on the job.
Earl Griffin of the Spalding
Planning (zoning) board
wanted to know about mobile
homes and how they would fit
into the plan.
Bolton said they would be
considered as residential units
just like housing. He said
preliminary data showed some
3,000 developed but unsold lots
were in the community. Sixty
one percent of these were
concentrated in the
“perimeter” area. The
perimeter area is a rough circle
where 87 percent of the people
streets and held the noisiest
and most joyous celebration of
the long, drawn-out war, the
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug
reported. Hundreds of thou
sands of people clad in their
best clothes attended a victory
rally marked by the sound of
loudspeakers, firecrackers and
rockets.
In Peking, the embassies of
North Vietnamese and the
Provisional Revolutionary Gov
ernment (Viet Cong) were
decorated with flags and
banners and hundreds of
firecrackers celebrated the
Communist victory, Tanjug
reported.
In Saigon, crowds greeted a
victory parade through down-
“I hope this will settle the
recreation situation — if it
doesn’t, then I don’t know what
will,” the mayor added.
“There is no one wanting the
recreation problem settled
more than I do,” he said in a
statement today.
“The meeting held on April 17
between Mr. Childers, Mr. (P.
W.) Hamil, and Mr. (Preston)
Bunn, led to statements causing
the offer of resignations from
most of the recreation board
members.
“The Griffin Daily News
quoted Mr. Childers as follows:
‘The present board has not
assumed its responsibility.’ All
three of these men were quoted
as agreeing that a new recrea
tion board is needed and they
were seeking more business
men and fewer athletes.
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“However, Mr. Bunn now
says he backs the recreation
board and does not want the
board members to be the scape
goats. It’s good Mr. Bunn
clarified his position on the
matter,” the statement con
tinued.
Goldstein noted the county
now said it had the money to
finance its full half of the
recreation budget.
He called that good news.
He said the board of city com
missioners strongly backed the
city appointees who are Bob
Braddock and George Reid.
Goldstein said though the city
commissioners had no say so
over county appointees, it also
extended full support to them.
They are Mrs. Carolyn Harris,
Frank Touchstone and Henry
Walker.
Ivan Taylor
now live and where water lines
now extend.
Spalding Commissioner P. W.
Hamil wanted to know how
Bolton got the authority to
appoint the 12-member citizens
committee.
Bolton said he was not
required to appoint one but
thought it would be a good idea
to encourage citizen participa
tion and communication in
development of the plans.
Hamil noted the city and
county each put up SIB,OOO for
the development of the plans.
Development and construc
tion of the plan will be on a 75
percent federal, 25 percent local
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town Tu Do street apprehen
sively. Many persons waved at
the Communist troops, and
some of the soldiers waved
back. The Communists laughed
and cheered and shouted
“hello, comrade” to bystanders
from tanks bearing the red,
yellow and blue Viet Cong
flags.
But there was no overall joy
among the populace. Radio
Saigon announced a 6 p.m. to 6
a.m. curfew, and said today
would be a day of celebration
to mark the Communist vic
tory. No program was announ
ced.
The eventful day began with
the final U.S. evacuation, at
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