Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, June 17, 1977, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text■ " V E& L t \ A-wl Aif \i ME Er* P The Rev. Frank Jenkins, new Griffin District Superintendent. Methodists announce changes in district The Rev. Frank Jenkins has been appointed to succeed the Rev. Neal Windom at district superintendent of the Griffin District of the United Methodist Church. The Rev. Windom will return to the pastoral ministry as senior minister of the First United Methodist Church of Sandy Springs. The appointment of the district superintendent and other pastoral changes were announced today at the North Georgia Conference at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the Emory University campus by United Methodist Bishop William R. Cannon. The Rev. Colin Dacus has been appointed minister of the Highland- Pomona churches. He comes to Griffin from the Hopewell-Bethel Church in the Gainseville District. The Rev. Eugene Walton who had served Pomona-Mt.Zion will be serving the Yorkville Circuit in the Rome District. Stuart Greene will be the new pastor of the Hollonville-Mt. Zion charge. He is a student in the Candler School of Theology. The Rev. Randy Healan will be moving from Midway to the First United Methodist Church of Dallas. The Rev. Shelby Cook will succeed the Rev. Healan at Midway. He comes to Griffin from Kresge Memorial United Methodist Church in Cedartown. The Rev. Scobie Branson will be moving from Flippen to Kresge Memorial. He will be succeeded by the Rev. Roy Major who comes form St. Luke in Augusta. The Rev. Wallace Strock will be the new pastor of the Lovejoy-Mt. Cannel churches. The Rev. James Early II will serve the Haralson-Carmel churches. Fincher-Molena charge’s new minister will be the Rev. David Nottrott. The Rev. Gerald Meredith will pastor the Inman-Brooks charge. The Rev. Dusty Rhodes will go to the Elbert Circuit in the Athens-Elberton District. The new pastor of the Williamson Parrish will be the Rev. Moses Blanton. He succeeds the Rev. 0.8. Boone who is retiring. The new ministers will assume their pulpits on Sunday, June 27. They will move to their new parsonages on the preceding Wednesday or Thursday. D/KII.V Daily Since 1872 All appointments are for a one-year tenure and are reviewed by the superintendent, bishop and cabinet annually. The Rev. Windom has served six years as superintendent of the Griffin District and has been reassigned according to the discipline of the church which limits the tenure of the district superintendent. The Rev. Jenkins was bom in West Virginia and raised in Talbot County, Ga. He has served appointments in the North and South Georgia Conferences. He is married to the former Polly Little of Bostwick, Ga., and they are the parents of two sons, Frank E. Jenkins 111, and attorney in Atlanta, and Morris Little Jenkins, a resident physician at Charleston Medical Center in Charleston, S.C. The Rev. Jenkins graduated from High School in Morgan County, attended the Unversity of Georgia and received his bachelor of arts degree from Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky. He received h his divinity degree at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He began his ministry with the Culloden charge and moved from there to the Ellenwood charge. Other appointments include First Methodist Church of Gowdon, First Methodist of Tucker, First Methodist of East Point, St. James of Athens. Prior to the Griffin District appointment, he was pastor of Sam Jones Memorial Methodist Church in Cartersville. The new superintendent will live at the District Parsonage in Griffin and will work out of th district headquarters office on West Taylor street. Camp survivor objects to Nazi parade July 4 SKOKIE, Hl. (AP) — Concentration camp survivor Sol Goldstein says a Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for Nazis to march in a July 4 parade protects the spread of hatred rather than free speech. “We have 6,000 to 7,000 survivors of the holocaust living in Skokie, and they’re not going to sit by idly while Nazis march in the street,” Goldstein said Thursday. “This is not a matter of free speech. This is a matter of protecting somebody’s freedom to spread hatred, something we don’t need,’’ said Goldstein, who lives in this Chicago suburb and is president of “Remnants GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, June 17,1977 Grand jury may check progress on drug war The Spalding County Grand Jury is expected to check up on the drug war in this community when it meets next week for the June court term. The jurors gave notice of their intention to keep up with the situation following a called session earlier this spring. Foreman Mark C. Kapiloff called the special session when concern arose here about the increased drug traffic. The jurors met and made some recommendation including the hiring of people in the sheriff’s department for drug investigation. The jurors recommended the city and county coordinate their efforts against drugs. They said they intended to review the matter when they met next. The June term of court is scheduled to open Monday with grand jurors reporting for duty as the civil session gets under way. Ben Miller who was the district attorney before being appointed a judge in the circuit worked with the grand jurors. Since his appointment to the bench, however, he said he would not be prosecuting any more cases in the circuit. He is due to take the judicial oath a few days before his appointment becomes effective July 1. Paschal English of Thomaston is the assistant district attorney. A check with Gov. George Busbee’s office today showed the DA vacancy had not been filled. People ••• and things Two deer meeting nose to nose this morning just off North Sixth and County Line intersection, as if to talk things over. Shirtless jogger flexing muscles in park as he takes a break in the heat. Neighborhood children stampeeding ice cream truck when driver rings his school-like bell. Who was he? Who was the peace officer who helped rescue a man from a burning apartment house on South Hill street late Saturday night? The Griffin Daily News attempted to find out before publishing a story about it Thursday. The Spalding Sheriff’s office checked and couldn’t find any deputies who were on the scene. Eagle Scout Bill Scott who lives across the street spotted the fire, called firemen, then made his way with an unidentified peace officer to the second story where they rescued a man from the fire. Scott didn’t get the officer’s name. We’d like to know his name so we can publish it and give him proper recognition for his part in the rescue. of the Holocaust,” a group of 16,000 concentration camp survivors. The National Socialist Party of America plans to have members from across the country gather here on July 4 for the parade and a “white suprem acy” rally. Skokie is Chicago’s most heavily Jewish suburb. “The idea that we shouldn’t have free speech rights in Skokie because of some holocaust is just Zionist propaganda hogwash,” said Frank Collin of Chicago, the national coordinator of the National Socialist Congress. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Skokie could not permanently bar the Nazi organization NEWS mbUmH VI ERVF ’Rm ML I -2P 6 ’ 1 —^^JEEa>uJBHIRIVHHHHHfIVIVV|RVVEHEB^VEMRm iNW ' < Late model Space pioneer is dead WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Wemher von Braun, the German-bom rocket pioneer whose talents helped the United States put men on the moon, died Thursday after a long bout with cancer. He was 65. Von Braun had been in poor health for sometime. He underwent surgery in 1975 for removal of a malignant liver tumor and had maintained a sharply curtailed schedule since that time. He died at Alexandria Hospital in suburban Virginia. Last year, he had a recurrence of cancer, coupled with an infection that developed following surgery. He spent long stretches in the hospital, including a final stay beginning last October. Even while hospitalized he continued limited work on his job as vice president of engineering and development for Fairchild Industries. He joined Fairchild in 1972, and worked mainly on space projects until he retired last Jan. 1. Von Braun spent much of his time in the hospital reading, visiting with family and friends and selecting papers for a permanent collection that will be exhibited at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Once bitterly hated by the Free from holding a rally in the city after the group appealed a lower court ban of the demonstration. The high court said free-speech rights could not be adequately protected if the Nazi group were barred from demonstrating during a long legal battle. Despite the high court ruling, Harvey Schwarz, Skokie village attorney, said he expects three recently passed or dinances that bar marches in military uniforms to prevent the Nazis from coming to Skokie. “This was a major victory for the First Amendment,” said David Hamlin, executive director of the Chicago American Civil Liberties Vol. 105 No. 143 Production line workers at Ford Motor Plant in Hapeville were surprised to see this 1914 Model T travel the assembly line. Riding in the car as part of the company’s 75th an niversary celebration, are Hapeville Mayor Frank Coggin (1) and plant manager John Lantini. (AP) ■n ■ / \ll ■- • - / \I f __ i' ? > jTgg Von Braun World, von Braun became its top rocket expert after he and 129 other German rocket experts surrendered to the United States shortly before the end of World War 11. The man who once helped design the dreaded V-2 rocket for Adolf Hitler designed the U.S. Army’s Jupiter C rocket that allowed his new country to recoupe some of the prestige lost when Russsia launched the first space satellite in 1957. Von Braun told President Dwight D. Eisenhower well before the Russian Sputnik launching that his team had the capability of putting a satellite into orbit around the earth. But Eisenhower wanted to use a rocket developed for nonmilitary uses for the first effort to emphasize the peaceful uses of space and von Braun was turned down. Sputnik and the subsequent failure of (Continued on page 3) Union, which represented the Nazis in court. He said he expected the three ordinances to be declared un constitutional. “It showed that no matter how un popular a cause is — and it was very distasteful to most of us here — the First Amendment still works.” Hamlin said Thursday he hoped that the threats of a counter-demonstration *by anti Nazis wouldn’t occur. “The Jews have a legitimate com plaint that in Germany nobody spoke up when Hitler began his rise, and they feel they must not be silent now,” he said. “I just hope we can have free speech on all sides — the Nazis and the Jews — without any violence.” Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA— Continued warm with thundershowers likely through Saturday. Low tonight near 70. High Saturday in mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER—Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 61, high Thursday 86. Senate rebuffs pullout WASHINGTON (AP) — Expressing its own views on foreign affairs, the Senate is unwilling to President Carter’s proposal to with-* draw U.S. ground troops from South! Korea. Senators also don’t want to impose l preconditions on talks which could lead! to normalized relations with Cuba, and,' are making it clear they are not' prepared to accept any administration i proposal for aid or reparations to! Vietnam. j The Carter administration has not recommended any such assistance for the communist government in Viet nam. The Senate made its views known on foreign affairs on Thursday during a 10- hour debate on a State Department authorization bill. The measure passed 64-21. The Senate dropped from the bill a provision recommended by the Foreign Relations Committee endorsing the timing and wisdom of the proposed pullout of ground forces from Korea. Instead it voted 79-15 that any reduction or withdrawal should be ordered only after a “joint decision by the President and Congress.” The provision was written by Majority Leader Robert Byrd. The vote made it clear that the Senate wants to be consulted on any with drawal, a concept on which it is still sharply divided. The Country Parson by Frank Clark ■fl J Ji “A good marriage is one in which both partners are at least as happy to get home from work as they were to leave for it.”