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WHY are they talking
about
me?
Because America is no
longer ashamed to talk
about Rickie and the
hundreds of thousands of
youngsters like him with
birth defects.
Through March of Dimes
treatment and research
America is doing something
to stop birth defects.
We triumphed over polio
with the March of Dimes.
Now let’s conquer an
even greater menace
to our children.
FISHT BIRTH DEFECTS Ju MARCH OF DIMES
It Gives Us Great Pride
To Add Our Congratulations To
THE PEMBROKE STATE BANK
ON ITS SHOWING OF ITS
OF THEIR NEW BANK BUILDING
Best Wishes and Congratulations From
ROSCOE DENMARK
HINESVILLE, GEORGIA
. Former Liberty County Representative |
Congra filiations
PEMBROKE STATE BANK
Our New Bank Is Completely Equipped
With Our Newest Modern Dial Telephones
CONGRATULATIONS
PEMBROKE TELEPHONE COMPANY- INC.
Congratulations
THE PEMBROKE STATE BANK
On Their Fine New Banking Home
The Larg Iron Trusses And Other Iron Work
Needed For The New Bank Building
Was Furnished By Us
BLOOMINGDALE IRON WORKS
Wallace H. Shuman, Owner
Half Way Between Pooler and Bloomingdale on Route 80
Slain Man's
Fiancee Sobs,
Picks Suspect
By ORVILLE GAINES
An Atlanta girl cried out.
“Oh. no." and burst into tears
Friday afternoon when she got
her first view of a police line-up
which included a suspect in the
slaying of the man she planned
to marry.
The girl. Miss Judith Ann
Starkey, 19. sobbed as she was
lead away from a room where
the line-up was held at At
lanta police headquarters. Short
ly thereafter, she partly re
gained her composure and re
turned to view the line-up.
Homicide Detective F. L. Rus
sell said Miss Starkey picked out
John Robert King, 33, of 3753
Green Hill Drive, Chamblee, an
engineer, as the man wanted
by police in connection with the
slaving of Robert Terry Lackey,
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I 24, of Hapeville.
j Mr. King was surrendered at
the police station early Friday
I by attorney William Hall.
BEFORE the police lineup.
Mr. Hall told a newsman that
he’d prefer that Mr. King not
make a statement for the time
1 being.
Detective Russell said that
' i Mr. Lackey was shot and killed
/ last Tuesday in the presence of
I 1 Miss Starkey at 901 Argonne
Avenue NE. her residence at
the time.
1 Attorney Hall indicated to po
। lice that he would waive a hear
ing for his client in municipal
court, a move that would allow
the presiding judge to bind the
defendant over to the grand
jury, Detective Russell said.
Investigators said that Mr.
Lackey died of a gunshot wound
in the upper chest.
Miss Starkey said she plead
ed. “Terry, please don’t die.”
and he squeezed her hand and
answered, “I love you,” before
dying of the gunshot wound in
his chest.
Mrs. Rebecca Corder, with
whom Miss Starkey lived at the
Argonne Ave. address, has
told police that she joined two
i men on Peachtree St. and rode
i with them in a car to a Ponce
। de Leon Ave. restaurant, De-
I tective Russell said.
।
THE OFFICER said the wom
an also related that they left
the restaurant and went to a
motel parking lot. There, she
i got in a station wagon with one
of the men and he drove her
home.
Later, police were told, a man
knocked on a door at the Ar
gonne Ave. address and asked
Mrs. Corder if he could come
in. She refused the request. The
man left but returned some five
। minutes later.
Mr. Lackey, a visitor there,
interceded when the man ap
peared again and a struggle en
sued during which a shot rang
out.
Police said Mr. King was
lodged in jail on a charge of
disorderly conduct - murder.
Gemini Crews
Were Scouts,
Five Eagles
Among the thousands of boys
joining the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica about 25 years ago were a
scattered 25 who little realized
that some day they would be
among the select group of astro
nauts slated for Gemini space
flights.
Members of all scheduled Ge
mini flights—crews and backup
crews—were Scouts in Indiana,
Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, Okla
homa, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, Arizona, and Texas.
The crew listed for the seven
day Gemini flight is made up of
Major L. Gordon Cooper, a Life
Scout; and Lt. Comdr. Charles
Conrad, Jr., a Cub Scout for two
years. The backup crew members
are Neil A. Armstrong, an Eagle
Scout, and Elliot M. See, Jr.,
also an Eagle Scout.
Twenty-five of the 28 astro
nauts have been active in Scout
ing as boys or leaders—some as
both—and five have been Eagle
Scouts.
The Gemini astronauts aver
aged over 3 years in Scouting
as' boys, and three earned the
.Eagle Scout rank, Scouting’s
highest award.
The record of the 27 astronauts
who have been active in Scouting
I shows the following:
Congratulations
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die
Pembroke State Bank
As You Grow Our Community Advances
Toward A More Prosperous Future
Best Wishes To You And Your Staff
Bryan's Sheriff Extends Greetings
To Our New Banking
House
And Their Board of Directors and Officials
This Is Just An Indication Os Bryan's Progress
Congratulations From
KYLE D. SMITH
I Soldier Who Went on Strike
Wins Honor on Battlefield
By PETER ARNETT
BEN CAT, South Viet Nam
' iff! — Six months ago a
i university graduate named Win
| stel R. Belton staged a seven
: day hunger strike at Ft. Ben
ning. Ga.,, to dt^njatize his dis
taste for beulf drafted and his
refusal to light.in Viet Nam.
Thursday, a big. proud smile
। flashed acMUSs Belton’s face as
I he was promoted to private first
' class on a battlefield in South
Viet Nam.
Looking just as proud was his
i company commander, Capt. R.
E. Spriggs of Mexico. N.Y., a
| professional soldier who hated
everything Beltons hunger
strike had stood for.
I Spriggs was furious last No
vember when he returned to his
unit after recovering from a ।
bullet wound to find Belton as
signed there.
Spriggs said Thursday he
would take the 26-year-«ld Win-:
slow, Arizona, soldier into com- 1
bat with him any time, any
where. i
• I
Belton arrived in Viet Nam
with a 12-month suspended jail
sentence hanging over his head
because of his hunger strike in
mid-August. A court-martial
had given him a bad conduct
discharge, total forefeiture of
pay and the jail sentence.
But he was also given a
chance.
Belton, a Negro, was told that
if he went to Viet Nam and
proved himself, he would not
have to serve his jail sentence.
If he failed, he would serve it.
His old unit, the U.S. Army’s
Ist Cavalry Airmobile Divi
sion, wouldn't take him back.
The Ist Infantry Division ac
cepted him.
Spriggs was the only man in
“A” company of the 2nd Battal
ion. 28th Regiment, who knew
that the new radio telephone
operator was the hunger striker
Bolton. i
Lt. Gus Berzines, a weapons!
platoon commander from Kala- 1
Imazoo, Mich., recalled talking
, with Bellon one day about var
ious things and finally saying,
“You mean you're that Bel
ton?”
More and more men in the
i unit began realizing that Belton
Thursday, February 23,1966,
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PFC. W. R. BELTON
Has Felt the Honor
had publicly protested what,
they themselves had accepted
as a patriotic duty. None of'
them brought up the subject
i with him except the company
commander, and few ever dis
cussed it among themselves.
“That was his business.” said
Sgt. Frederick Range of Dallas,
Tex. “We treated him like any
other soldier.”
Belton, holder of a bachelor of
science degree in education,
was initially cold and reserved
with his buddies. But the heat of
battles in December and Janu
ary melted his attitude and
forged ever-tightening bonds with
Spriggs and the other men in
the company.
Initially given the job of lay
ing wires between the compa
ny headquarters and the pla
toons, he began carrying
Spriggs’ radio.
Early in January, he proved
he had what it takes.
Spec. 5 Larry Kabrie! of Sum
merfield, Kan., recalls that the
company was under heavy fire
near Trung Lap and an urgent
call came over the radio for
Capt. Spriggs.
The radioman shouted back:
“The captain s not here. He's up
front. There's heavy fire, I can't
reach him."
Karbriel said Belton shouted
out, “It's your duty to get up to
the captain,” crawled over te
t h e reluctant radioman,
grabbed the apparatus and
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movea up under tire to his cap
tain.
Spriggs has used him as his
i radioman ever since.
“Belton in his conduct and
bearing has been above average
as a soldier and a valuable as
set.” Spriggs said. “He has
worked in very well socially and
he has got along with the men.
“I am personally satisfied
that he now honestly believes
his actions in the past have not
been consistent with being a
soldier or a man.
“I personally wrote to the
commanding general recom
mending that he be promoted
and his sentence remitted. Bel
i ton has seen men fight and die
for his country, and he has felt
the honor that comes when you
do fight.”
Spriggs tried to promote Bel
। ton two months ago. but the
Army wanted to wait longer.
Spriggs was told he must be
. absolutely sure Belton had
changed his ways.
“I told Belton he deserved to
be promoted.” Spriggs said. I
knew he was happy. I knew he
. felt he had made it.”
Red Trade Admitted
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
Feb. 18 <4’l—Prime Minister
Keith J. Holyoake Friday con
firmed reports that New Zea
land is trading with North Viet
Nam. But he denied this trade
could in any way assist Com
munist aggression against the*
south.
For thoae who shun ele
vators, there are 1,860 steps
to the top of New York City’s
Empire State Building . . .
The oldest capital city in
North America is Mexico
’ City, which dates to 1325 . . .
Chatham Hospital in Silver
' City, North Carolina, gives
nurses caps to little girl pa
tients—the idea is not only
to keep the little girls happy,
but perhaps plant the seed of
interest in the nursing pro
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