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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day.
In the United States it is a day
—Fourth Thursday in Novem
ber — set aside for giving thanks
to God for his bountiful mercies
and blessings.
Thanksgiving Day has an inter
esting history. Everyone knows
the first Thanksgiving Day was
proclaimed after the scant 1620
crops had been gathered by the
Pilgrims. Some of the farmers
more than likely felt there was
little for which to be thankful—
but the day was observed.
There was little uniformity as
to Thanksgiving Day following
the first. In fact, as the nation
grew and new settlements were
founded in states other than
Massachusetts, there was no
national Thanksgiving Day, the
governors of the various colonies
designating the date for their
people.
And during the Revolutionary
War sometimes there was more
than one Thanksgiving Day for
the struggling young nation.
The first official Thanksgiv
ing Day was proclaimed by Pre
sident Abraham Lincoln in 1863
when he declared August 6 "as
a day for national thanksgiving,
praise and prayer.”
The following year and until
1939 the last Thursday in Nov
ember was proclaimed National
Thanksgiving Day by the Presi
dent. In 1939-41 President Roose
velt by proclamation moved
Thanksgiving Day up to the
Third Thursday in November;
but in 1942 Congress passed an
act that made Thanksgiving
Day the Fourth Thursday in No
vember.
There is a short history of
Thanksgiving.
Now we in America are prone
to believe that Thanksgiving Day
was first observed by the Pil
grims, nearly 350 years ago; but
there were Thanksgiving Days
long before this continent was
discovered, even centuries be
fore there was little of the kn
own world save what is now call
ed “The Holy Land”.
For Instance: In Leviticus, the
third book of The Bible, we
find rules one should follow in
offering their sacrifice of Thanks
giving. One of these rules is
“When ye will offer a sacrifice
of thanksgiving unto the Lord,
offer it at your own will” — not
offer thanks just because it is
Thanksgkving Day, but because
there is thanks in your heart to
God for His Mercies and Bless
ings.
There are many references as
to Thanksgiving to God found in
the Bible. Some of them say
show your thanks “by singing”;
In Psalms we are told “Enter
into His gates with Thanksgiv
ing,” and “Magnify Him by
Thanksgiving.”
In the New Testament we find
much about being thankful; and
just as in the Old Testament we
frequently find the word
“Thanksgiving.” Paul, convert
ed on the road to Damascus, in
his Epistles called for Thanksgiv
ing. In II Corinthians, 4:15; and
9:11-12, as well as Philippians
4-6 we find Paul using the word
Thanksgiving.
But probably the greatest and
best loved chapter of the Bible,
that calls on man to give thanks
to God is the 136th Psalm, kn
own as “The Mercy Psalm”.
If one would catch the true
meaning of Thanksgiving day
we suggest they read this Psalm.
It would make a mighty appro
priate Thanksgiving Day Bible
reading at family worship.
Weather:
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AREA — Showers ending Wed
nesday followed by colder.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 65, low today 41, high
Monday 65, low Monday 39, rain
fall .47 of an inch, sunrise
Wednesday 7:15, sunset Wednes
day 5:37.
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College Night
Donna Britt (1) and Marlene Culpepper, Griffin High
seniors, check over some-of the college literature to
be on display at College Night at the school tonight.
Hundreds of students are expected to come to the
school at 7:30 to talk with college and university
representatives about entrance requirements. A bar
beque will be served between 5 p.m. and 7 p. m. at
the school cafeteria at $1.25 per plate in connection
with the program.
Devalued Pound
Passes Ist Test
By JOSEPH W. GRIGGG
LONDON (UPD—Prime Mi
nister Harold Wilson put the
devalued pound on the money
market for the first time today
and it came through with flying
colors.
It got off to a strong start,
well above the new parity of
$2.40 set by the government
Saturday. Formerly it was
worth $2.80.
A powerful boost from the
United States and other major
financial centers helped when
London markets opened after
being closed Monday.
Wilson was reliably reported
planning a major cabinet
reshuffle design to shore up his
government’s sagging prestige.
The pound’s first devaluation
test came when banks and the
London Foreign Exchange
market reopened this morning.
Heavy initial buying pushed the
opening rate to nearly $2.42.
This was partly due to the
prospect of standby credits of
$3 billion the British govern
ment expects to get from the
International Monetary Fund
and foreign central banks.
Financial experts had been
optimistic about the new
pound’s reception on the market
and the opening was encourag
ing. Buyers were offering
$2.4195 and sellers were asking
$2.4200.
It was still holding this level
after midday. Speculators
cashed in some of their millions
One Nation Under God
Exchange Club To Present
Freedom Shrine Wednesday
Griffin’s observance of "One
Nation Under God” Week will
be completed Wednesday morn
ing with the 8:30 a.m. chapel
service at Griffin High Auditor
ium.
At this meeting, Bob Scroggins,
president of the Exchange Club
of Griffin, will present a Free
dom Shrine to Reggie Griffin,
president of the GHS student
body, who will represent the en
tire school system.
One Nation Under God Week
is sponsored nationally by Ex
change Clubs and presentation
GRIFFIN
DAILY W" NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, November 21,1967 Vol. 95 No. 275
of pounds of profits resulting
from selling the old pound and
buying the new.
The Bank of England as usual
set dealing limits between
which the pound may be traded,
a two-cent leeway either way.
This means the pound will be
allowed to fluctuate in the
market between $2.42 and $2.38.
C Os C Names
Six Directors
The Griffin area Chamber of
Commerce this week elected six
new directors to serve during
1968. They are: Homer Sigman,
Felton Rainwater, C. A. Know
les, Bill Pridgen, J. T. Doughtie
and Floyd Newton, Jr.
They will serve with holdover
directors who are: Gene Cook,
Herbert Bolton, Otis Blake, Jr.,
C. T. Parker, E. E. Millican,
Jr. ana Henry Walker.
Carl Richardson, president this
year, will serve on the board as
immediate past president in
1968. Kimsey Stewart of the city
commission and Jack Moss of
the county commission will be
ex-officio members represent
ing the city and county govern
ments.
of Freedom Shrines is a feature
of all Exchange programs dur
ing that. week. The Freedom
Shrine is a reproduction of 28
authentic historic documents
that have figured in the estab
lishment and growth of Amer
ica.
The chapel program will be
gin under the auspices of the
student body and then be turn
ed over to Exchange for the pre
sentation. Many people other
than the GHS student body are
expected to attend the service
which begins at 8:30 a.m. and
US Copters Evacuate
Wounded From Dak To
Crash Kills 64
Os 82 On Plane
By TERRY FLYNN i
And ROBERT T. WESTON
CINCINNATI (UPD—Federal ’
investigators today recovered !
the flight recorder and voice 1
tape recorder from a Trans 1
World Airlines "substitute” 1
passenger jet which crashed 1
near the Greater Cincinnati
Airport during a landing ap- 1
proach, killing 64 of the 82
persons aboard.
Most of the 18 survivors were '
injured seriously.
The investigators hoped the !
recorders, which were sent to
Washington for study, would
help solve Monday night’s air
disaster, the second at the
airport in two years. A 1965 ;
crash killed 58 persons aboard
Burglars Strike
Homes, Stores
Burglars entered two stores <
and two homes in Spalding Coun- i
ty and a store at Brooks Mon
day and Monday night. Burg- •
lars attempted to enter another ;
Spalding store, but failed.
Each of the store burglaries ,
followed a similar pattern. The
locks were broken off the doors.
The burglars entered the homes i
through windows. i
The burglars entered J. F.
Eady’s store four miles east of '
Griffin on the High Falls road.
Deputy Davis Peeples reported
that possibly a few small items
were taken.
A few packs of cigarettes, not
believed by deputies to be as
much as a carton, and an un
determined amount of money,
believed to be between $lO and
sls was taken from Boynton’s
store in Sunny Side. The burg- ;
lars broke the lock off the front
door.
The burglars broke a lock off
the door at Strawn’s store on
Georgia 16, eight miles west of
Griffin, but did not get in. Ase-
LBJ’s Tax Increase
Bill Taken Off
By MICHAEL L. POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPD—Con
gress took President Johnson’s
tax increase off the shelf today
after the Chief Executive
promised to cut spending $1 for
every $1 in new taxes. Its
passage remained unlikely this
year.
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-
Ark., of the House Ways &
Means Committee, gave the
administration another chance
to argue for its 10 per cent
income tax surcharge. He
scheduled a hearing next
will not last more than 45 minu
tes.
Among prominent Americans,
who have accepted an invita
tion to be present at the chapel
service is Lt. Gen. J. L. Throck
morton, commanding general of
the Third U.S. Army. He will fly
to Griffin by helicopter from Fort
McPherson. An honor guard
from the Griffin High R.O.T.C.
under command of Maj. Gus
Pelt, senior instructor, will meet
the helicopter which will land at
the GHS football field, adjacent
an American Airlines jet.
The four-engine TWA Convair
880, carrying 75 passengers and
seven crewmembers, crashed
minutes from touchdown in a
light snow fall in an apple
orchard across the Ohio River
near Hebron, Ky.
The plane, flight 128, was
pressed into service in Los
Angeles when a sister ship
which was to make the flight
developed a faulty door. It was
bound nonstop from Los An
geles to Cincinnati, then on to
Pittsburgh and Boston.
Trees Sheared Off
At dawn today observers on
the scene saw the tops of trees
sheared off for about one-half
mile from the spot where the
cond lock prevented them from
entering the store.
The burglars took the locks
with them from the doors at
Boynton’s and Strawn’s, Depu
ties Jack Taylor and Clyde Pier
ce said.
An electric radio was taken
from the Charles Thompson
home on Coleman road in Bir
die Community Monday while
he was at work. The burglars
entered through a window. Depu
ties Peeples and Pierce said the
house was ransacked.
Two rifles and a shotgun were
taken from the Lyn Jones home
on Cheatham road. The burglars
entered through a window. De
puties Peeples and Pierce inves
tigated.
Burglars entered Langford’s
store at Brooks and possibly
took a small amount of money.
They entered by breaking the
lock on the door. Fayette Coun
ty Chief Deputy James Jones
and GBI Agent Billy Darsey are
investigating.
Tuesday to hear the President’s
plans for reducing government
outlays.
Mills rejected in advance the
administration’s latest ar
gument, as outlined by White
House press secretary George
Christian, that a tax increase
was even more imperative now
because of Britain’s devaluation
of the pound.
“Whenever the going gets
tough for a public economic
policy proposal,” Mills said, “its
supporters call in the balance of
payments and protecting the
to the High School. General
Throckmorton, a combat veter
an with service in Korea and
Vietnam will be present at the
chapel service as a representa
tive of the national government.
CLUB PROGRAM
Today at noon, the Exchange
Club, at its regular weekly
meeting, devoted the program
to the One Nation Under God
theme. Quimby Melton, Sr., a
member of the club for 42 years
and a veteran of World War One
was the speaker.
plane crashed.
One of the survivors, Sheila
O’Brien, 26, Kansas City, Mo., a
stewardess on the plane, said
that just before the crash she
thought she was in “an
ordinary, rough landing.”
“I thought we were on the
runway,” she said.
Another hospitalized survivor
also thought the plane was on
the runway.
“But then the ceiling col
lapsed and pinned my wife in,”
he said.
“Will you tell me I did the
right thing in leaving my wife
behind?”
A spokesman for TWA
estimated the plane was travel
ing at about 166 miles per hour
over gently rolling terrain at
about the same altitude as the
runway it was headed for when
the crash occurred.
Found In Tail
The flight recorder, a metal
sphere which continuously re
cords the plane’s heading,
altitude, air speed and vertical
acceleration, was recovered
from the plane’s tall section.
The voice tape recorder,
which recorded all conversation
in the cockpit in the final 30
minutes before the crash, was
found in other debris.
The FBI in Washington sent a
five-man “disaster squad” to
aid in identification of the
victims.
The crash happened less than
a mile from the spot where an
American Airlines Boeing 727,
also on a flight to Cincinnati,
went down two years ago,
killing 58 of the 60 persons
aboard. The two crash sites are
less than a mile apart.
Only two weeks ago a TWA
Boeing 707 cracked up at
Greater Cincinnati Airport when
the takeoff was aborted. The 37
persons aboard escaped serious
injury, but an elderly woman
died later of complications.
Shelf
dollar and international moneta
ry system.
“The fanciful notion that a
tax increase of the sort
proposed will have any signifi
cant effect on our balance of
payments in the reasonably
near future and that it might
contribute to the strengthening
of the pound is completely
without support of fact,” he
said.
Although Mills appeared will
ing to hear again administration
arguments for a tax hike, he
said in a Hot Springs, Ark.,
speech Monday that delays in
proposing spending cuts had
made it “impossible” to win
approval of a tax bill this year.
The Ways & Means Commit
tee shelved the 10 per cent tax
increase on Oce. 3.. pending
agreement between Congress
and the White House to cut
spending by about the same
amount to be raised by the
proposed extra taxes. White
White House said Monday that
Johnson now had met this
condition.
Although Mills did not reveal
the administration’s new econo
my plans, a member of his
committee, Rep. James A.
Burke, D-Mass., said Treasury
Secretary Henry H. Fowler
would tell the panel next week
that $4 billion to $5 billion would
be saved in the remainder of
this fiscal year.
Mills has been pressing for a
dollar spending reduction for
every dollar in new tax
revenue. The $4 billion to $5
billion estimate appeared to
meet that test.
Bombs, Napalm
Clear The Way
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. helicop
ters flew in behind a stream of
bombs and flaming napalm
today and evacuated American
casualties from the side of a
jungle-covered hill where strong
North Vietnamese rorces had
pinned down about 1,000 U.S.
paratroopers for three days.
As the helicopters began
shuttling out the wounded, the
men of the 173rd Airborne
Brigade launched another as
sault against the Communists,
dug in atop Hill 875 near Dak
To in the Central Highlands.
U.S. pilots earlier slammed
tons of high explosives and
napalm into the Communist
stronghold to relieve the para
troopers trapped with supplies
of food, arms and medicine
running low.
The paratroopers had made
repeated assaults since Sunday
to rout the North Vietnamese
from the strategic heights,
about 14 miles southwest of Dak
To and two miles from the
Cambodian border. But the
Communists laid down a
withering fire o rockets,
mortars, machinegun and rifle
fire and hurled the attackers
back.
U.S. medical officers reported
scores of wounded paratroopers
were suffering from exposure
after three days of waiting in
the jungles for evacuation.
Reports said every one of the
medics with the force had been
killed or wounded since the
battle flared.
The Communist fire had
driven off fleets of helicopters
attempting to reach the para
troopers earlier, damaging at
least 10. One American helicop
ter did get through and took out
five wounded Gls and Maj.
William Kelly of Chattanooga,
Tenn., who said:
“There’s not an officer in
there without a scratch on him.
In fact, there are not many
people in there without a
scratch.” Brig. Gen. Leo H.
Schweiter, the quiet, bespec
tacled commander of the 173rd
Airborne Brigade, looked at the
hill battle and almost whis
pered, “My heart suffers for
them.”
In the air, U.S. jets hit the
Hanoi-Haiphong area of North
Vietnam in a massive 175
missions Monday—the most in a
month, spokesmen said. But a
Communist supersonic MIG2I
shot down, an Air Force FlO5
Thunderchief—the 300th U.S.
plane lost over North Vietnam
this year, an average of one a
day.
Another American plane, an
RF4 Phantom, was lost to
unknown causes. It brought to
759 the number of American
aircraft, including eight helicop
ters, lost over the Communist
nation.
In South Vietnam, U.S. planes
brought both hope and tragedy
Yule Parade
Will Feature
Eight Bands
Eight bands will be featured
in the Christmas parade in Grif
fin Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 6:30
p.m.
The bands to appear in the 62-
unit parade were announced to
day by Chairman Ray Esary.
Visiting bands will be Russell
High School Band of Atlanta,
McDonough High School Band,
Gordon Military High School and
College Band, Third Army Band
of Fort McPherson, and the
580th First Air Force Band of
Warner Robins AFB.
Local bands will be Griffin
High School Band, Fairmont
High School Band and Spalding
Junior High School Band.
The Third Army Band will
lead the hour-long parade and
the Griffin High Band will be
escorting Santa Claus.
The Robins Air Force Band
will present an hour-long concert
following the parade at the Grif
fin High School gymnasium at
8:30 p.m.
to the two battalions of the
173rd caught on the slopes just
100 yards below the Communist
fortress, on Hill 875 the eye of
the central highlands’ battle.
Mrs. Kefauver
Collapses, Dies
Os Heart Attack
WASHINGTON (UPD — Nan
cy Kefauver, 56, widow Os Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
collapsed and died of a heart
attack Monday night during a
banquet at the Mayflower Ho
tel.
Only minutes after her death,
President Johnson, a longtime
friend, made a surprise appear
ance at the dinner to pay trib
ute to Senate Republican Lead
er Everett M. Dirksen. The
President did not know of her
death.
Mrs. Kefauver slumped for
ward at a banquet table and
was pronounced dead of a coro
nary seizure a few minutes la
ter. Many of the guests were
unaware of what had happened.
Mrs. Kefauver, whose hus
band sought the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1952
and ran for vice president qp
the ticket with the late Adlai
E. Stevenson in 1956, had con
tinued to make her home in
Washington after his death in
1963.
A talented artist, she was
employed as a consultant on art
by the State Department. Her
oil portraits of their children
hang in almost every room of
her home.
She is survived by her four
children: Linda, 26, who works
for Time, Inc., in New York;
David, 21, a student at the Uni
versity of Tennessee; Diane, 19,
a student at Boston University;
and Gail, 17, a student at Mt.
Vernon Seminary.
Brooks Saga
Nearing End
REIDSVILLE, Ga. (UPD —
The running saga of Georgia’s
now Infamous prisoner, John
W. Brooks, may be drawing to
a close.
Brooks is back at Reidsville
today after being whisked from
Shreveport, La. to Atlanta by
chartered plane, then on to the
state prison here.
He was serving a four year
prison sentence in Georgia
when his shoulder was smashed
during an escape attempt.
Out of state treatment for the
shoulder was granted Brooks,
but after he had been sent to
Louisiana for this treatment,
State Corrections Director Asa
Kelley nearly lost his job.
Gov. Lester Maddox called
for Kelley’s resignation after
learning Kelly played a key
role in getting the out-of state
treatment for Brooks.
It was later learned that
Georgia hospitals could have
provided the same treatment.
A U.S. district court judge
denied a series of defense mo
tions that would have blocked
Brooks’ extradition from Lou
isiana, and the U.S. Fifth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals upheld
the district court ruling.
Only last week, Brooks
jumped bond in Louisiana and
failed to appear for his appeal
hearing. He was recaptured the
following day after a running
gun battle with Louisiana game
and fish officials.
INSIDE
Local News. Page 2-
Georgia News. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 6.
Society. Page 7.
Sports. Page 8.
Patrol Cars. Page 9.
Want Ads. Page 10.
Comics. Page 11.
Partain. Page 12.
Gov. Mniidsa. Page *B.