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Mercer students get first-hand history accounts ATLANTA (AP) — A Navy man on watch when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a member of “Hitler Youth,” a British diplomat and an aide to Gen. George C. Marshall. All are part of an “oral history” course at Mercer University in Atlanta, designed to give students who weren’t bom when the United States entered World War H a living account of the historic events. The idea for the course, which began in March and ends May 24, came from a group of students interested in the war. “They came to me over a year ago and pointed out that a number of people with firsthand knowledge of the war are retiring and dying,” said Henry Curry, a professor of history. “I wasn’t even bom until 1943, so all of my knowledge is second hand,” he said. Curry contacted a nearby army base and the Japanese, German and British consulates to find persons who could give the students a first hand account and several businesses provided funds. William M. Foster, 50, a former Navy officer who was on duty at Pearl Harbor in 1941, said he didn’t realize they were under attack “until I saw concrete chipping up around my feet.” Foster, who now works for an Atlanta fuel company, recalled that he shot at Japanese fighter planes with his .45-caliber pistol. “I don’t know what I hoped to accomplish, shooting at them with a .45,” he said. “But it kept me from doing something foolish, like running away and hiding. I didn’t have time to be afraid.” B. Robert Curson, 63, a retired member of the British diplomatic corps now living in Atlanta, told students of his mother’s refusal to cancel her traditional Sunday dinner — even though bombs were dropping on London, destroying nearby houses. “She had dinner on the table at 1 p.m. as usual,” he said, “and so we watched the bombing on London through the window as we ate.” Scheduled to address the students are Dr. Joseph G. Mayton, 80, of Atlanta, who accompanied Gen. George C. Marshall to the Yalta Conference; Dr. Lothar L. Tresp, a native of Ortelsburg, Germany, who was a member of the “Hitler Youth” squad and was court martialed for listening to a BBC broadcast on a short wave radio, and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now an inter national law professor at the University of Georgia. Lecturers have come from as far away as Carmel, Calif., and include Gen. Charles Homer, who participated in the Allies’ North African campaign and George H. Gay, a crewman on a torpedo bomber that was shot down at the Battle of Midway. Hamilton Lokey, 67, an Atlanta attorney, who was caught in the Japanese attack while aboard a Navy carrier in the Pacific, provided students with a lesson he learned when communion was held as it appeared the crew would have to abandon ship. Lokey, who was reared in what he describes as a “totally segregated society” in the South, recalls taking communion “with the black mess boys on either side of me, drinking out of the same cup, and realizing it didn’t bother me.” It was, said Lokey, “a turning point in my life.” 1,? ~ i Er ‘ '*"—— fl ® ■ ~ t -- r i ■;.y ? \ ;r-Ik T , -■ Big cat Mike “Sparerib” Stinchcomb recently caught this large channel catfish in a private lake in Spalding County. Silence the bells ERLANGER, Ky. (AP) — Bill Young says he can’t take the late-night rounds of an ice cream vendor and he wants the City Council to silence the ped dler’s bells. “I am not against Mr. Soft ee,” Young complained to the council on Wednesday. “I am just against him at twenty (minutes) to 10.” Young said his two children heard the ice cream vendor pass at 9:40 p.m. the other night and the kids “were up screaming for ice cream. It was like a Pavlovian response.” Mayor Orville Sorrell said he wasn’t sure if anything could be done to silence the bell-ringers and no action was immediately taken. Stork Club CRAWFORD TWINS Mr. and Mrs. Marvin F. Crawford, Jr., of Fawnbrook circle, Griffin, announce the birth of twin sons on May 4 at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. MASTER KUHN Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Kuhn of Route 2, Locust Grove, announce the birth of a son on May 4 at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. LITTLE MISS RELTHFORD Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Relthford of 402 Lakewood drive, Griffin, announce the birth of a daughter on May 5 at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. * *rw^ 'jsß * j ** ,i< '(IIiBBBiigraSBBHHHH imm 11 B II •J Jr jETSii? 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Hill St. 1 SOUTHSIDE-1103 Zebulon Rd. QF GR| FF | N> GEORGIA MEMBER FDIC T ’’’WP * ■ Hospital Report Dismissed from the Griffin- Spalding County Hospital Wednesday: J. C. Eppinger, James Chambers, Jr., Richard Joseph Phillips, Ann L. Ware, Hugh Wallace, May L. Berry, Wally Crime roundup Lawmen looking for bull killers Spalding County lawmen were looking for cattle rustlers who shot and killed a valuable bull Tuesday night. Investigators said “Shorty” Garrison found what was left of a dead bull Wednesday morning in his pasture off the Williamson road. The large animal had been shot twice—in the left side with a shotgun and in the right side with a highpowered rifle. The culprits took a portion of one hind quarter and left what Eder. Rhea Potter, Vickie F. Elder, Suzanne White, Edward Lee Cook, Curlie H. Glass, Lynn Huckaby, Mattie L. Stamps, Robert L. Raybon. remained of the carcass. The bull was valued at SI,OOO, lawmen said. Two boys, 10 and 11 years old, were charged with criminal trespass after being caught inside the fenced lot at Spalding Concrete Co. on North Hill street. A lace fern in a miniature wash pot was stolen from a residence on Melton street, police said. Students register to vote One-hundred and eighty-four Griffin High students registered to vote this week when workers in the Spalding County Registrar’s office visited the school. Anyone who will be 18 within the next 6 months will be eligible to vote in the upcoming November school bond referendum if he or she signs up. According to Georgia law, the deadline for registering is one month before any election. Those 1,636 Spalding County residents whose names were purged from the lists during March because they neglected to vote during the past 3 years can also register. Officials said 1,883 people were notified their names would be purged if they did not reregister; 1,636 did not. Spalding County presently has some 17,000 registered voters. Weldon honored John Weldon of Griffin has been nominated to Phi Kappa Phi honor society at the University of Georgia in Athens where he is a zoology major. He will get his first degree in June and has been accepted in the graduate school to study ecology. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Weldon of 1412 West Poplar street. Page 3 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 5,1977 JFTiaf’.s happen ing Yard sale The Wesley Sunday School Class of Kincaid Memorial United Methodist Church will hold a bake sale and a yard sale Saturday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at 1373 Experiment street, across from Experiment Shopping Center. Bake sale A bake sale will be held all day Friday at Kroger’s, sponsored by the WMS of the First Wesleyan Church. Proceeds will go toward assisting the church softball team. Rock-a-thon The Youth Department of Kincaid United Methodist Church will hold a rock-a-thon Friday beginning at 8 p.m. for 12 hours, at the church. Usher and Deacon boards of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church will sell fish and chicken dinners at the church on East Mclntosh road Friday, beginning at 6 p.m. The plates will be $1.50. Dinners Dinners will be sold at the Eighth Street Baptist Church annex all day Friday and Saturday; sponsored by the Church.
