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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Over the weekend England an
{nounced it was devaluating the
Pound Sterling, reducing its ex
•change value on the foreign mar
! ket from $2.80 to $2.40; and the
Bank of England announced it
was raising its discount rate
from 6-and-a-half percent to 8
percent.
Following this action our
Federal Reserve Board announ
ced a hike in its discount rate
from 4 perdent to four-and-a-half
percent, explaining this action
was taken to prevent an “inor
i dinate flow” of American dollars
overseas seeking higher inter
est, and at the same time could
be a help in fighting inflation
here.
— —
There is no reason in the wor
ld for anyone to become unduly
excited over this news from
England and from The Federal
Reserve Bank.
Good Evening remembers well
; a statement made by the late
Dr. “Sub” Johnson, professor
of economics at old Emory Col
lege. He was probably one of
the best informed economists
in the nation at the time. One
day in discussing “money” he
said “There are few people in
the world who really understand
I money.” This was before uni
versities began turning out "ex
perts” on every phrase of life.
And it’s interesting to note that
even these learned “experts”
cannot agree on “money.” There
are as many theories advanced
about money and how it should
be used to accomplish “this
and that” as there are experts.
So, Good Evening, admitting
he knows little about money per
se, except that the American
dollar is respected throughout
the world and if one has enough
of them he can buy anything un
der the sun — that is anything
material — makes this comment.
There is no reason under the
sun for any of us to worry ab
out our money, especially the
money we may have on deposit
in a Federal Deposit Insured
Bank, such as are our Griffin
banks and a great majority of
the banks in Georgia. Neither is
there any reason to worry ab
out money in a Federal Savings
and Loan institution, for they,
too, are members of a Federal
Deposit Insurance organization.
There once was a day and
time when news such as this
from England could set off a
“run” on some bank, and that
a weak bank might not weath
er the storm.
But thanks to the system of
banks and Savings and Loan or
ganizations we now have, that
day is gone. For which one and
all should be thankful this
Thanksgiving week.
Saturday saw a day long ser
ies of Griffin football games,
played under the auspicies of
the Griffin Recreation Depart
ment. Beginning early Saturday
morning and running until late
that night teams of youngsters,
battled it out for the champion
ships.
Griffin fans, and many attend
ed one or more of the games,
got a chance to see some boys
who a few years from now will
be starring on the GHS varsity.
To the winners of champion
ships we say congratulations.
To the losers we say you have
nothing for which to be asha
med.
Every boy who was out there
playing is to be praised.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
tonight. Tuesday variable cloudi
ness and mild with chance of
light rain.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 66, low today 39, high
Sunday 66, low Sunday 36, sun
rise Tuesday 7:14, sunset Tues
day 6:37.
Country Parson
“A better police force is
one way to reduce crime —-
justice for everybody is an
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Turkey Talk
WITH A WHOLE LIFETIME AHEAD of her, Ruth Ann Brakenridge of Park
Forest, 111., a Chicago suburb, finds it’s a difficult decision to make just one wish.
One Nation Under God
Minister Stresses
Nation’s Heritage
Dr. Delma Hagood, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, one
of the many Griffin ministers
who preached Sunday on “One
Nation Under God”, told his con
gregation Americans must not
live “In” the past, but “By” the
past, if they are to “live victor
iously.”
He told how God had blessed
America and how from the very
first this nation and its people
had put their trust in God. In this
phrase from the Oath of Allegi
ance, “One Nation Under God”
he said, “We find the secret of
America’s success —a united
people relying on and trusting in
God given heavenly strength.”
He called attention to the May
flower Compact, drawn up and
signed by the Pilgrims when
they set foot in 1620 on the roc
ky shores of New England. This
compact begins with the words,
“In The Name of God.”
Stressing the need for unity,
the minister quoted Benjamin
Bama In Cotton Bowl;
Tennessee In Orange
By GENE STEPHENS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD —
The University of Alabama ac
cepted today an invitation to
play in the Cotton Bowl in Dal
las on New Year’s Day.
The Crimson Tide will be
playing its 21st bowl game, the
ninth in a row, when it meets
the to-be-decided Southwestern
Conference champion.
The opponent will be either
Texas A&M, Texas or Texas
Tech.
Alabama president Frank A.
Rose made the formal accep
tance at a news conference,
joined by head coach and ath
letic director Paul Bear Bryant.
“It is a great honor for the
University of Alabama to ac
cept this invitation to play in
the Cotton Bowl,” President
Rose said. Bryant said he was
“highly honored that the Cotton
Bowl feels that our team is
worthy of bowl consideration.”
Cotton Bowl president James
H. Stewart and Selection Com
mittee Chairman Field Scovell
extended the invitation on be
half of the Cotton Bowl Associa
tion.
Alabama has a 7-1-1 record
with one remaining regular sea
son game to be played against
Auburn in Birmingham Dec. 2.
A win by Texas A&M on
Thanksgiving Day against Texas
would give the Aggies the South
western Championship and the
bowl nod.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Franklin who said, “e must
indeed all hang together, or else,
most assuredly, we shall all
hang separately.”
“We are called a ’Liberty
loving people,’ but too many Am
ericans today are taking liber
ties with their liberty. And too
many have forgotten the guaran
tee of liberty found in unity un
der God,” he said.
There are four definite quali
ties that are needed to preserve
our liberties as Americans,
he pointed out. Then Dr. Ha
good listed them as: obedience
to the laws of the land; loyalty
to our country; respect for our
leaders; and dependence on God
Almighty.”
TUESDAY’S PROGRAM
Tuesday the One Nation Under
God program of the Exchange
Club will be continued with the
noon meeting being devoted to
that subject. Quimby Melton,
Sr., a member of the club for 42
Mississippi
Gets Sun Bid
EL PASO, Tex. (UPD—The
Sun Bowl committee announced
today the University of Missis
sippi had accepted an invitation
to play in this year’s Sun Bowl
football game Dec. 30.
Sun Bowl officials said four
teams, including the University
of Texas at El Paso, were still
under consideration for the host
team slot.
School Bus Hit;
Car Driver Killed
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—An automobile slammed into
a loaded Washington County
school bus at the crest of a hill
on a rural highway near here
today, killing the driver of the
car instantly. No one aboard
the bus was injured.
The State Patrol said Sam
Smith of (Rt. 2) Harrison, was
fatally injured when his car
passed the crest of the hill and
struck the ear of the stopped
bus.
The accident happened on
Georgia Highway 242, about
eight miles east of here.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, November 20,1967
years, will be the speaker.
Wednesday morning, the
week’s program will come 4o
a climax when the Club will pre
sent a Freedom Shrine to the
Griffin-Spalding School system.
The Shrine will be presented
by President Bob Scroggins, of
Exchange and received by Reg
gie Griffin, president of the
Griffin High student body.
Lt. General J. L. Throckmor
ton, commanding general of the
Third Army, will be among those
who will attend the presenta
tion. It will be made at the 8:30
a.m. chapel service in the GHS
auditorium. Gen. Throckmorton
will come to the early morning
presentation by helicopter, land
ing on the practice field at Grif
fin Memorial Stadium. He will
be welcomed to Griffin by the
Griffin High R.O.T.C. unit, un
der command of Maj. Gus Pelt,
senior instructor, officials of the
Exchange Club, and others.
By WALT SMITH
KNOXVILL’ , Tenn. (UPD—
Second-ranked Tennessee today
accepted an invitation to meet
seventh-ranked Oklahoma New
Year’s night in the Orange Bowl
in Miami.
The announcement came at a
news conference at the Tennes
see athletic department, mak
ing official one of the worst
kept secrets in sports history.
Jack Baldwin, chairman of
the Orange Bowl Committee,
was present for the ceremonies,
which included a telephone
hookup with the University of
Oklahoma. Baldwin had been
here for the past two days com
pleting arrangements for the re
match of the 1939 Orange Bowl
which Tennessee won, 17-0.
Tennessee wrapped up the
bid Saturday with a 20-7 win
over Mississippi in Memphis,
while Oklahoma came from be
hind with a fourth-period touch
down to defeat Kansas, 14-10.
Both teams are 7-1 for the
year. Tennessee’s only loss
came in the opening game when
the Vols bowed to UCLA is Los
Anglees, 29-16. Oklahoma has
won five in a row since losing
to Texas, 9-7.
The game will mark Tennes
see’s third straight bowl ap
pearance under coach Doug
Dickey. The Vols defeated Tul
sa, 27-6, in the 1965 Bluebonnet
Bonnet Bowl in Dickey’s second
season, and downed Syracuse,
18-12, in the Gator Bowl last
season.
Tennessee has played in 13
bowl games and stands 6-7 for
the post-season extravagnzas.
LBJ Watches US
Pass 200-Million
Sees Mighty
Challenges
Ahead In Growth
WASHINGTON (UPD—
President Johnson, introduced
as “the leader of 200 million
Americans,” watched the cen
sus clock tick off that milestone
in U.S. population today and
said the nation faces “mighty
challenges” in its third century.
Johnson spoke at a ceremony
in the lobby of the Commerce
Department building where the
population clock turned to 200
million at 11:04 a.m. (even the
government admits it probably
is running behind the actual
total).
The President said the biggest
challenge now facing the
country is “shall we be a great
nation?”
“We know that two races can
live in the same country but we
have not seen yet that they can
live together harmoniously and
constructively," he said.
He added that this was among
the “mighty challenges” that
confront the nation “as we go
from 200 million Americans to
300 million—as we begin our
third century of life.”
“These are the mighty
challenges—hurled at us by the
past, and by the swift march of
progress.”
The President interrupted his
brief speech as the clock
stopped on the 200 million
mark.
“I understand that the census
misses some people in its
count,” the President said,
“and that the 200 millionth
American happened some time
ago. I appointed a commission a
few weeks ago to find out who
that lucky baby was.
“He was born June 21, 1967,
at Seaton Hospital in Austin,
Tex.”
Johnson laughed as he an
nounced the hand picking of his
grandchild, Patrick Lyndon
Nugent, for the honor.
Commerce Secretary Alexan
der Trowbridge also spoke at
the ceremony.
Man Charged
With Assault
Using Auto
A Griffin man has been releas
ed from Spalding County jail
under SSOO bond on a charge of
assault with an automobile.
Ben T. Hardwick of Route
Four, East Vineyard road, Grif
fin, charged Jerry Dunn, 19, of
327 North 18th street, Griffin, in
a warrant.
The warrant charged: "Sub
ject tried to run his automobile
on me. I was walking south on
Old Atlanta road. He drove all
the way across the road trying
to hit me with his car.”
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Devaluation
WEATHERMAN Horace Westbrooks scratches his
head and ponders the devaluation of the British
pound during the weekend. Here he displays a five
pound note and a one pound note from his collection
of coin* and currency. (Stories on Page 16).
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Talk About War
PRESIDENT JOHNSON and Gen. William West
moreland, chief of U. S. forces in Vietnam, discuss
problems during a walk in White House Rose Garden
in Washington.
Allies Take Peak
Near Dak To Battle
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—Allied forces
killed 360 Communists and
captured a peak in the Central
Highlands near embattled Dak
To, military spokesmen said
today. U.S. spokesmen reported
four American jets lost in raids
against North Vietnam’s Hanoi-
Haiphong area and two downed
over South Vietnam.
U.S. strike planes and artille
ry first softened up the North
Vietnamese bunkers atop Hill
1416, nine miles north of the
allied bastion at Dak To. Then
South Vietnamese troops and
U.S. advisers charged up the
steep slopes and smashed
through the Communist lines to
the summit after an all day
battle Sunday, spokesmen said.
Fierce Fight
It raised to almost 1,300 the
number of Communists slain in
their 18-day-old attempt to seize
Dak To and a strategic foothold
in the highlands 280 miles north
of Saigon. Communist fire still
proved so fierce in the area that
eight U.S. helicopters were shot
down Sunday and today.
Elsewhere in South Vietnam,
two U.S. strike planes were shot
down Sunday, spokesmen said.
They said four planes were lost
during Sunday’s strikes against
North Vietnam in which the jets
hit a key bridge inside Haiphong
and a large concrete factory
and barge-building yard in
Hanoi’s suburbs. The- Hanoi
targets were hit for the first
time.
Eight fliers were reported
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
killed or missing in the six
downed U.S. planes. One
member of a two-man crew of
an Air Force F4C Phantom,
downed near Dak To, was
rescued, spokesmen said.
The losses raised to 757 the
number of U.S. aircraft lost
over North Vietnam, including
eight helicopters. Ten planes
were lost over the Communist
nation the past four days.
Losses over South Vietnam now
total 215 airplanes.
In the Dak To battle, U.S.
spokesmen reported American
troops found 66 more Commu
nists after other hill fights near
the bastion today.
Car Out Os
Control Hits
House Here
A car rounded a curve on West
College street at a high rate of
speed, ran out of control and hit
the front of a house Sunday mor
ning, police said.
Virgil Long, 17, of Williamson,
a passenger in the car, suffered
injuries to his nose, face and ab
rasions and contusions.
Driver of the car was listed as
Thomas Jackson Wilder of Boggs
Trailer Court on Georgia 16,
west, Griffin.
The car ran into the front of a
house owned by Roy Brown. Da
mage to the house was estimat
ed at $1,500. Damage to the car
also was estimated at $1,500.
Wilder was charged with driv
ing in a dangerous and reckless
manner, collision, and destroy
ing private property. Long was
charged with permitting Wild
er to drive while drinking and
drinking under age.
Griffinites Hurt
In Atlanta Wreck
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mel
ton of 1129 East College street,
Griffin, and their grandson, Ter
ry Goen, were injured in a traf
fic accident at South Express
way and Central Avenue in At
lanta Saturday.
Melton, who works for Thomas
Packing Co. in Griffin, suffered
broken ribs and internal injur
ies. Mrs. Melton suffered lace
rations on her forehead, chin
and right knee. The child suffer
ed a broken jaw.
Melton and the child are pat
ients at Grady Memorial Hospi
tal in Atlanta. Mrs. Melton re
turned to Griffin early Sunday.
It was reported that Melton
had stopped his car on the exit
ramp at Central avenue and was
waiting to enter the Expressway.
Gray Says RFK
Might Be On
Demo Ticket
ATLANTA (UPl)—President
Johnson may dump Vice Presi
dent Hubert Humphrey in favor
of Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y.,
on next year's Democratic pres
idential ticket, State Democrat
ic Chairman James Gray said
today.
“There’s a possibility that
Vice President Humphrey may
not be on the ticket,” Gray said
during a televised news confer
ence, adding that it will depend
on whom the Republicans nomi
nate.
Gov. Lester Maddox, appar
ently annoyed by the predic
tion, vowed in a comment fol
lowing the address, “If they put
little Bobby in there, I may
have to go elsewhere and I
may make a lot of noise." Mad
dox declined to elaborate on the
comment. In the past he has
said he would not support a
“third party” movement.
Maddox also termed “a
bunch of bull,” a statement by
Gray that the state Democratic
Party machinery was geared to
support the national ticket next
year. The governor declared
“It is not geared to support any
liberal group of candidates.”
Gray said a GOP ticket head
ed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
of New York would be the big
gest incentive for a “dump
Humphrey” move. Kennedy, he
said, could bring back the big
city industrial support that
would go to Rockefeller if he
gets the nomination.
Gray also said Rockefeller
looked like the No. 1 Republi
can in line for the nomination
and that if Gov. George Rom
ney of Michigan appeared
strong at convention time, form
er Vice President Richard Nix
on would throw his support to
Rockefeller.
Gray pointed to Nixon’s two
major political losses in the
1960 presidential race and in the
1962 California gubernatorial
contest and said they had
doomed his chances for the
presidency.
“Losers don’t just happen to
come back to be president,”
Gray said.
On the Georgia Democratic
scene, Gray said he did not
know how much support Gov.
Lester Maddox would give a
presidential ticket headed again
by Lyndon Johnson, but said
the state party “will actively
support him and the vice presi
dential nominee.”
It is up in the air, according
to Gray, who will get the sup
port of the state’s delegation at
the national Democratic conven
tion.
He Indicated Georgia’s nation
al committee members might
“have a favorite son; it could
possibly be Gov. Maddox or
Sen. Richard Russell,” Gray
said.
He said that while he did not
know how much, if any, support
Maddox would give to a ticket
headed by President Johnson,
the governor “wants to remain
in the Democratic Party and
would like to fight for his views
within the party.”
One vehicle was changing lan
es and hit another. The vehicle
that was hit, slammed into the
Melton car, knocking it against
a bridge abutment.
Also in the car with the Mel
tons and the child were Mr.
and Mrs. Gayron Goen, the
child's parents, and Mrs. Linda
Snow. Mrs. Goen and Mrs. Snow
are the daughters of the Mel
tons.
The reports said Melton appar
ently was thrown against the
steering wheel, breaking his ribs
on one side. The broken ribs ap
parently punctured one and pos
sibly both lungs.
The child and Mrs. Melton ap
parently were thrown against
the windshield. The others in the
back seat were shaken up but
not injured.