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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 24, 1962.
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Pistol Battle
Takes Place
On TV Tower
Monroe, Ga. — A blazing early
Monday pistol duel, as mysterious
as it was intense, felt a man and a
U. S. Must Remain
Strong to Keep
Peace—T almadge
Atlanta, Ga. — The greatest de
terrent to war is a superior ca
pacity to wage it, Georgia’s U. S.
youth at the University of Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge declared in
educational TV tower on Turkey an Armed Forces Day speech at
Mountain. i Warner Robins.
Steve Shannon, 28, university His appearance at Air Force Base
student and TV techinican who j climaxed a week-long observance in
slept m the tower told Sheriff C. J.' Georgia of the "Power for Peace”
Sorrells that Gerald Hanson, 17, of theme which attracted an estimated
Monroe shot him in the head and
body after telling him he had been
hired to kill him.
One 22 pistol bullet lodged in
the base of Shannon’s skull but it
missed vital spots and did not ap
70,000 persons to modern military
equipment and other service dis
plays.
“The only peace we can expect in
a world torn between freedom and
slavery is that which we who live
pear to have inflicted a critical j n freedom enforce thru strength,”
wound. The technician, desipte his Talmadge asserted. "Peace in our
own injuries, managed to fire five time cannot be had through either
disarmament or appeasement but
rather thru superior military
shots from a .32 pistol into the boy
but none of the wounds seemed
serious.
Sorrells was far from satisfied
with available explanations of the
gunfire. He and other officers
pressed intensive investigations into
several directions.
strength, and those who are so
weak-minded or weak-kneed as to
think otherwise are indulging in a
fatal illusion.”
Observing that the entire philoso
rnL U ■" -HHancnn tmH Mm 1 ph y of Communism “is based on
The sheriff said Hanson told him j exp i 0 iting weakness,” the former
he wen . us. „ ar and Georgia Governor maintained that
borrow tools to repair his car and strength . g the ,. one thing the Com .
dld k X3 h L h / P H h h ra !pv P r , rnunist understand and respect.”
™ n ; ™. e SS “ ♦ J?-™’- rnt nf He said the record is clear that
^ a t thi s dld liav ( e ra f .£ i in areas where the United States
truth because the youth had tools . exhibited strength and stood
of his own in the cai r - 'firm in defense of its position, it
Shannon, the sheriff related told hag trium ^ ed where ^
him: Hanson, upon gaining access ^ or compromised it has failed
to the tower made him kneel and
told him he was going to kill him.
He asked why and was told that
the youth had been hired to kill
him. He asked who hired him and
Hanson said he could not tell be
cause” I’m going to kill them, al
so.”
j Dates Set for
'Receiving Road Bids
Atlanta, Ga. — Low bids expect
ed to total about $18 million will be
received by the Georgia State High
way Contract lettings scheduled for
May 31 and June 1, Jim Gillis,
chairman of the State Highway
Board, announced Monday.
The May 31 contracts will in
clude about $8 million in road im
provement projects under the third
increment of the Vandiver admin
istration’s $100 million highway au
thority bond program. These 45
contracts will cover improvements
to 869 miles of primary and secon
dary highways in 65 Georgia coun
ties. The final group of lettings in
the third increment will come in
July and August, Gillis said.
The June lettings will consist of
one interstate contract, four federal
aid primary contracts, one forest
higway contract, 13 federal aid sec
ondary contracts aid five 100 per
cent financed contracts and five 100
per cent financed contracts under
regular state-aid program for new
road construction.
Get Maniacs Off
Georgia’s Roads,
Editor Insists
Atlanta, Ga. — Commenting on a
Ga. Department of Public Safety
report which showed 12,088 driver
licenses were revoked or suspended
during the first three months of the
year for various traffic law viola
tions, Editor Turner Rockwell of
the Valdosta Times placed the
blame for Georgias’ rising traffic
death toll squarely on the should
ers of the drivers, themselves.
In a recent column headed “Get
Maniacs Off the Road” Editor Rock
well concluded his observations
with these pungent words:
“These figures show that the two
major factors for suspension and
revocation of driver licenses have
been drunken driving and speed
ing. These violations, of course, are
the cause of a majority of the motor
accidents and fatalities in oui
state.
“Thus it is apparent that Geor
gia’s disgraceful traffic record lies
directly by the door of the men
and women who drive the motor ve
hicles that traverse our streets and
highways. These cheating drivers
are a menace to themselves and the
general public. They do not have
to drive while drinking and they
do not have to drive at excessive
speeds. Yet they deliberately choose
to ignore the simple rules of safe
i driving.
"A motor vehicle is a letha weap
on when the driver fails to observe
the traffic regulations. It can kill
and injure on all sides.
FOR SALE
1956 Model 420, wheel type John Deere Tractor with
heavy duty front and loader (bucket & log boom).
Excellent condition.
1962 International Scout Pickup, low mileage, like new.
Has radio, positive traction rear end, and mud grip tires.
Will take small amount of equity and you assume
payments; or straight cash sale on either of these pieces
of machinery.
T. C. Bailiff Talbotton, Ga.
Telephone 665-4975
P. 0. Box 121
1,000 To Vie
At Benning
As Marksmen
Ft. Benning, Ga. — More than
1,000 rifle and pistol marksmen rep
resenting every major Army com
mand throughout the world will
compete in the 1962 All-Army Rifle
and Pistol Championship June 7 to
15 at Ft. Benning.
The championships are the final
test of the Army’spast year's prog
ress in shooting, coaching and
training skills and techincal ad
vancement in the small-arms field
technique of training. This is a test
in the soldiers’ basic skill-pro
ficiency in arms.
The major commands thru area
competition have selected teams to
represent them. The teams bring
the Army’s most proficient shooters
together in competition.
Governor’s Race
Costs to Skyrocket?
Augusta, Ga. — Georgia’s guber
natorial race this will be a “million
dollar battle,” Roy V. Harris of Au
gusta said Monday.
“The campaign in Georgia for
1962 is going to be much more ex
pensive than any other campaign
in the South this year or at any
time in the near future,” the former
House speaker said.
Harris said “from now on its go
ing to take a million dollars to run
because the candidates must make
a fight for every vote in every
county in the state since the fed
eral courts “outlawed the county
unit system.
"Heretofore, it has been possible
to run a race for governor or U.S.
Senator in Georgia for approxi
mately $250,000,” Harris added, cit
ing the county unit system as the
reason for holding down campaign
Harris said if the trend continues
“we will soon reach the point where
only a Rockefeller or a Kennedy
can afford to run.”
He cited Lebanon, South Vietnam
and Berlin as examples of the form
er; Laos and Cuba as examples of
the latter.
Sen. Talmadge called for the de-
devopment by the United States
of balanced armed forces “capable
of fighting war on any scale our
enemies care to provoke.”
He said the nation must have air,
ground and sea forces “so powerful,
so completely equipped and so
thoroughly trained in all weapons
and techniques of war that they
speak for themselves of our de
termination to defend ourselvesc
and the Free World whenever,
wherever and however our freedom
is threatened.”
These regular forces, he added,
must be backed up with “equally-
well equipped and trained Ready
Reserve and National Guard units
ready for active duty on short
notice.”
The Georgia Junior Senator ex
pressed particular gratification over
the progress being made in develop
ing and improving the nation’s air
lift capacity and congratulated
Robins Air Force on the important
role it is playing in that regard.
He said he had long advocated
the capability to put combat units
into action at any spot on the
globe within 24 hours and voiced
the hope that the present program
will have ultimate result. He noted
that adequate air transport will be
required by the U.S. “No matter
what degree of sophistication it
achieves in our future weapons sys
tems,” according to Mr. Talmadge.
The Senator was high in his
praise of the City of Warner Robins
and Robins Air Force Base for the
“significant contributions" they are
making to the economic advance
ment of Georgia and the defense of
the nation.
DEFEND
FREEDOM
BUY as.
Record Georgia
Vote Expected
Atlanta, Ga. — Gov. Vandiver
predicted Monday a record vote of
nearly a million in the Sept, 12th
Democratic primary in which a
governor and other state officials
will be nominated.
While predicting an all-time high
total of votes, he had no forecast
on who will receive the bulk of
them. Vandiver again professed neu
trality in the governor’s race in
which Sen. Carl Sanders and for
mer Gov. Griffin are major candi
dates.
“I have no intention of becoming
embroiled in the political situation
at the present time,” Vandiver said.
He added belief that the people
of Georgia were capable of sizing
up the candidates and their rec
ords and “I am certain that they
will make the right decision.
The governor had nothing to say
on a statement by Griffin that the
State Highway Department will be
plunged into politics because the
Board Chairman Jim Gillis has
publicly endorsed Sanders. Gillis
was for Garland Byrd, until the
lieutenant governor withdrew last
week because of a heart ailment.
RE-ELECT
ZACK D. CRAVEY
COMPTROLLER GENERAL
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
The nation envies Georgia’s record of fire
safety under Zack D. Cravey. Not one Georgia
child has been killed or maimed in a school fire
and not one Georgia hospital or nursing home
patient has been burned to death or injured.
Meanwhile over 3,100 school children and ill
people have perished in fires in sister states. z#ek Crsv#r
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