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By Quimby Melton
Tuesday Good Evening was
esent at the Exchange Club
eeting when one of his favorite
ograms was given.
It was the annual concert of
e Griffin High Glee Club, with
rs. Joe (Gretchen) Cumming,
ector. We always enjoy this
nual pre-Christmas event.
Those boys and girls can cer
inly sing.
If ever Gretchen Cumming
ould decide to enter the na
>nal entertainment field and
t some records of their sing
g, they would sell like the pro
rbial hot cakes.
Should she make a record or
cords of the entire chorus they
ould be billed as “Gretchen’s
teat and Glorious Glee Club”.
Should she record only the
aging of the young ladles they
ould be billed as “Gretchen’s
lamorous Gals.”
And, if the recording was only
the young men, billed as
Iretchen’s Gleeful Gents.”
Just a suggestion to this talen
d instructor who knows how
teach and direct singers in
ich away that even a high sc
>ol group performs like profes
onals.
Note to Gretchen Cumming:
you should decide to go into
ie recording business and use
ay of the above suggested ti
es of your singing group, we’d
ke to be agent for the group
nd, of course, collect the usual
gent’s fee of ten percent. We
ould retire on our commission:
That group is Number One on
rood Evening’s Hit Parade.
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Speaking of Christmas Music:
From time to time there are
ew Christmas songs that be
ome popular for awhile and
aen fade away. Some years ago
veryone was singing or whist
ng “Rudolph The Red Nosed
leindeer.” Now it is seldom he
rd. But there are Christmas
ongs that were written many
ears ago that are as popular
oday as they ever were and
re sung every Christmas sea
on. And just like all things of
rue value they will be sung as
ong as there are people who
ove Christmas.
One of the most beloved of
hem all, and a favorite of Good
Evening’s is “Silent Night, Holy
Slight”; Another is “Joy To The
World,” and still another “Hark
The Herald Angels Sing.”
Looking through old files of
joems Good Evening’s father,
;he late Dr. W. F. Melton, wrote
:or his column “Along Life’s
Road”, published in the Griffin
Daily News, came across a
Christmas poem “Tidings Os
Great Joy to All the People”,
though never, as far as we know
set to music, makes an appro
priate song at this time of the
year. Here it is.
Os old the herald angels sang-
Their choir-loft was the sky-
Good tidings to a sleeping earth,
While silent stars sped by.
Os old the humble shepherds he
ard
The message meant for them,
And, straightway, went and
found the Babe
In quiet Bethlehem.
Os old the wise men from the
east
Followed a meteor,
And brought rich gifts to the
Baby King
The whole world waited for.
Today the angels in our choirs
Sing tidings ever new;
And humble workers find the
Christ
Just as they used to do.
Today the wise ones bring their
gifts-
Such as they can afford-
And join the world-wide spirit
In adoring our Lord.
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Commentary. Page 2.
Hospital. p a ge 3.
Stork Club. Page 3.
About Town. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Viet War. p a ge 5.
Heart Transplant. Page 5.
Steel Prices. Page 5.
Lighter Side. Page 6.
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At Court
Auto Workers,
GM Quiet About
Bargaining
By DAVID W. CHUTE
DETROIT (UPD—The United
Auto Workers and General
Motors Corp., working under a
self-imposed “news blackout,”
today bargained toward a Dec.
14 “target date” on a national
contract covering 406,000 work
ers.
GM and the UAW agreed to
“refrain from public discussion
of matter under negotiation at
the bargaining table” after
announcing Tuesday they were
near agreement on money
matters and would make a
“major effort” to clean up the
noneconomic issues before Dec.
14.
The “target date” was set by
the union as a deadline for
settlement of the national
contract but not as the date for
a strike.
The date, however, will be
treated “as though it were in
fact a strike deadline,” a
statement by the UAW and GM
said.
UAW President Walter P
Reuther returns to the GM
headquarters this morning as
main-table bargaining resumes
following several days oi
subcommittee meetings.
GM said the union was
“studying” a wage proposal
submitted to it Sunday “which
in its broad outlines conforms to
the economic settlements
reached at Ford Motor Co. and
Chrysler Corp.” Those wage
settlements called for an hourly
increase averaging sl.Ol in
wages and fringe benfits over
a three-year period.
Noneconomic issues will re
quire extensive work to resolve
before a national agreement can
be reached, both sides agreed.
One of the toughest nonecon
omic matters revolves around
the issue of subcontracting—the
problem of how much work a
plant can farm out to workers
who don’t belong to the UAW or
are not employed directly at the
plant. The problem has trig
gered sporadic plant-level dis
putes in the past.
Another matter the union
wants settled is the problem of
“wage inequity” to bring
certain job classifications up to
uniform standards within GM
and up to the standards of other
companies. Claims workers
doing similar jobs are paid at
different ratgs and wants this
corrected.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, December 6, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 287
The Wedding. Page 6.
Sports. Pages 8-10.
Society. Page 12.
Bruce Biossat. Page 18.
Ray Cromley. Page 18.
Kohler To Leave. Page 20.
Deficit. Page 20.
Health Bill. Page 20.
Want Ads. Page 22.
Comics. Page 23.
Georgia News. Page 24.
, (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
The revolving door at the east entrance of the Spalding County Courthouse made
its last revolution this morning. The door was taken down and modem, swing
type doors were installed. Swing-type doors also will replace the revolving door at
the front entrance. The door change was approved by the County Commissioners
last month. Left picture, Mrs. Gray Pinson (1) and Mrs. Davis Peeples go through
the revolving door for the ast time. Right picture, Mrs. Gary Hines (1) and Mrs.
Farrell Boggs try the new doors. They are employed in courthouse offices. <
She Thinks Husband
Will Turn Self In
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI)— I
Mrs. George Iras Worley—wife
of one of the five men indicted
in the August assassination of
Mayor Blushes
At Light Vote
TRENTON, Ga. (UPI) — A
city election was held here
Tuesday, but no one would say
how many voters did their du
ty.
Mayor A. L. Dyer said he
was reelected, but declined to
say how many votes he re
ceived. He said the small turn
out was embarrassing.
Dyer and city recorder
Charles Gray were unopposed
in the election.
Mayor Dyer said three incum
bents, J. B. Geddie, Don Gross
and M. H. Hutchison were re
elected to City Council. The
mayor, still declining to give
vote totals, said Jack Mullins
defeated Claude Harrison for
the other seat.
“I’d just rather not say what
the figures were,” Mayor Dyer
said. “The governor was up
here last week, and after every
thing that was said about prog
ress the turnout was kind of
embarrassing.”
Trenton, the county seat of
Dade County, has a population
of 1,300 and 530 registered vot
ers.
House Panel Checks
School Ring Prices
ATLANTA (UPD—A special
House subcommittee has
begun an investigation to find
out if Georgia’s high school
seniors are paying more for
school rings than they should.
The subcommittee, headed by
Rep. Robin Harris of DeKalb
County, opened the probe Tues
day with testimony from a
ring salesman indicating that a
few select companies have a
monopoly on the sale of high
school class rings, and are
charging inflated prices.
Gerald C. Murff, salesman
GRIFFIN
Maddox Fires Blast
At Lt. Gov. Smith
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Sol. Gen. Floyd Hoard — says
“there’s n 0 doubt” her husband
will surrender shortly.
Worley remained at large to
day but the other four men are
in custody.
“I talked to him Monday
night,” Mrs. Worley said Tues
day. “I didn’t know where he
was and I didn’t want to know.”
Mrs. Worley said she asked
her husband to come on in
and see what it was all about.
I have n 0 doubt he will come
in.”
Mrs. Worley said her 40-year
old husband “had nothing to do
with it and can’t bear the
thought of going to jail for
something he did not do.”
The indictments, returned
Monday, climaxed an intense,
four - month investigation Into
the dynamite slaying of the
crime-busting solicitor.
The four already in custody
are Lloyd George Seay, 23, of
Dawsonville; J. H. Blackwell,
24, of Pickens County; George
Douglas Pinion, 40, of Jeffer
son, and A. C. (Cliff) Park, 76,
of Pendergrass.
Bulletin
NEW YORK (UPl)—The se
cond human heart transplant in
history was performed today at
Brooklyn’s Maimon>des Hospi
pital, according to informed
sources. There was no imme
diate report on the success of
the operation.
for John Roberts Manufactur
ing Co., told the subcommittee :
his firm could offer rings iden
tical to those now being sold,
for about $7 less per ring.
He said a handful of com- ;
panies have contracts with vir- ,
tually every high school in the
state and are keeping a tight 1
hold although other firms could :
sell rings for less.
Harris’ subcommittee asked :
School Supt. Jack Nix to deter- i
mine if the Board of Education
could impose any controls on i
ring sales at the local level.
Stolen Auto
Wrecked In
Spalding County
Two juveniles haye been tur
ned over to Clayton County au
thorities on charges of larceny
of an automobile Tuesday after
noon.
The automobile wrecked 6.7
miles east of Griffin at Georgia
16 and Locust Grove roads.
State troopers reported the
car stolen about 4 o’clock Tues
day afternoon from a bank park
ing lot in Jonesboro. It wrecked
at 5:15.
The two juveniles, both of Jo
nesboro, were not injured.
They were 13 and 14 years old.
Their names cannot be publish
ed under Georgia law.
Owner of the car was listed as
William D. Powell of Jonesboro.
Damage to the car was esti
mated at SSOO and damage to a
road sign was estimated at $25.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Scattered showers to
night and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
46, maximum Tuesday 66, mini
mum Tuesday 36. Sunrise Th
ursday 7:28 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 5:34 p.m.
This is not being done now, Nix
said, because no state funds are
involved.
Nix said it is possible that
some high school principals
simply did not know they could
get rings cheaper. He said if
Murff’s allegations were true,
high school seniors could save
more than $350,000 a year.
Four companies are under
federal indictment on charges
of monopolizing the class ring
market. They are L. G. Balfour
Co., Herff-Jones, Josten’s, Inc.,
and HRT, Inc.
Gap Widens
On Backing
Demo Party
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Les
ter Maddox said today anyone
who suggests going right down
the line with the national Dem
ocratic party, as Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith did In a re
cent speech, is “either stupid,
a fool, a coward or a traitor.”
It was the strongest denunci
ation of a state Democratic of
ficeholder by a Georgia govern
or in years and dramatized the
widening ideological gap be
tween Maddox and Smith.
In reply, Smith said: “If he
was talking about me, I won’t
dignify it with an answer.” The
lieutenant governor said the
election of a Republican sheriff
of Richmond County Tuesday
bore out his prediction that
Democratic officeholders in
Georgia had better close ranks
behind the national party or
risk political suicide.
•In a paraphrase on the 23rd
Psalm, Maddox said Smith in
effect was saying:
“My party is my shepherd. I
shall not want.
“Even though it lead me
down the paths of looting and
rioting . . and flag-desecration.
Yea, I shall follow my party..
“Surely crime and corruption
and "graft and waste shall fol
low me all the days of my life,
but I shall dwell in the house
of my party forever.”
Maddox was referring to an
address last week by Smith
saying Georgia Democratic of
fice-holders would face major
defeats unless they supported
the national Democratic lead
ers.
Smith at that time said Geor
gia Republicans praised their
leaders and tried to identify
with them while Georgia Demo
crats did nothing but criticize
the leaders of their party. He
said this was only helping the
Republicans.
Maddox’s attack on Smith
was one of the most violent a
governor has made on a fellow
Georgia officeholder In many
years. He did not appear to be
angry, but made his statement
almost matter-of-factly.
Maddox Would
Freeze Home
Assessments
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Gov.
Lester Maddox says he will
seek legislation next month to
freeze tax assessments on homes
at 40 per cent of the fair mark
et value.
Maddox told a joint Lions
Club meeting that recent ad
valorem tax increases came as
a result of actions taken before
he became governor, and said
his administration would do
every thing possible to keep
taxes equitable.
“When the General Assembly
meets, I will take the initiative
to find some solutions to this
tax problem,” he said. One of
the steps, he said, would be
proposed legislation freezing as
sessments on homes at 40 per
cent of the fair market value
rather than the 100 per cent be
ing proposed in a pend
ing court suit.
Earlier Tuesday Maddox
spoke at a luncheon meeting of
the Georgia Association of Soil
and Water Conservation Dis
trict Supervisors.
He said he would work during
the next term for legislation on
workmen’s compensations, pen
al reform and school consolida
tion.
Maddox also pledged his ad
ministration would continue try
ing to preserve the nation and
protecting it “from slavery of
a one-world government.
“We are determined to re
store many of our liberties
which have been lost to power
mad politicians and the U. S.
Supreme Court,” Maddox said.
Malaria Spoils
Hawaii ‘R And R’
What was to have been a 1
Christmas holiday in Hawaii for i
a Griffin paratrooper, now in
Vietnam, and his young bride, ,
will have to be delayed because |
Asian malaria stepped in and j
sent the soldier-husband to a ,
hospital.
Spec-4 Bobby Hill, who has
been in the thick of the fighting ■
in Vietnam, had been told he
would be given a special R and
R leave and could fly to Hawaii ■
and spend the time there “Rest- ,
ing and Relaxing” if he choose.
This he chose. He notified his ,
wife, the former Miss Len Ai
red, of the vacation. They be
gan planning for her to join him
there.
Plans were completed and she
was due to have flown to the
coast and on to Hawaii last Fri
day; then Asian malaria step- <
ped in and sabotaged their pl
ans. With her grip packed and
tickets in hand Mrs. Hill receiv
ed a wire from her young hus-
Stop Draft Move
Gains Momentum
By United Press International
Nationwide "stop the draft
week” protests gathered
momentum today with the
largest demonstration — 5,000
protesters—expected in New
York City where the 28,000-
member police force stood
ready.
On the second day of the
demonstrations Tuesday, 264
persons were arrested at the
New York City induction center
in what was described as a
“rehearsal” for today’s rally.
Protesters stormed police barri
cades at the University of lowa
and small bands of pickets
appeared elsewhere across the
nation.
Demonstration leaders in
structed followers in New York
today to “actively interfere with
the war machine.” There was
little violence Tuesday.
Doctor Spock Arrested
Thoese arrested in New York
included Dr. Benjamin Spock,
the author-pediatrician; Allen
Ginsberg, the poet, and authors
Susan Sontag and Terry South
ern.
They were part of a group of
1,000 persons who tried unsuc
cessfully to disrupt operation of
the induction center and the
neighboring financial district.
On the campus of the more
than 18,000-student University of
lowa Tuesday, an estimated 300
protesters tried to storm a
barricade and forcibly evict job
recruiters for Dow Chemical
Co., a firm making napalm for
use in Vietnam.
The barricade fronting the
Memorial Union Building was
knocked down, but the youths
were turned away by police who
sprayed mace, a riot-control
chemical, into the faces of the
angry protesters.
Eighteen were arrested on
charges ranging from disorderly
conduct and resisting a police
officer to inciting a disturbance
and conspiracy. Two of the
eighteen were not enrolled at
the school.
Chemical Repels Demonstrators
The lowa students gathered
later in front of the campus
po”'- station where mace again
was used to repel them.
Elsewhere, 100 business col
lege students heckled 150
antiwar demonstrators picketing
the induction center at Buffalo,
N.Y., about 250 antiwar and 250
prowar pickets heckled each
other at San Fernando Valley
State College in Northridge,
Calif., and other demonstrations
were held at Princeton, N.J., St.
Louis, Mo. and Wilmington,
Ohio.
The Western Michigan
University student senate Tues
day voted 24-4 to approve a
resolution calling for the
removal of Gen. Lewis. B.
Hershey as director of the
band. “Delay trip. In hospital
at Phangrang with malaria.”
There went the two weeks to
gether she and her soldier hus
band had looked forward to. But
Mrs. Hill hoptes their reunion will
not be too far away. Last word
from the hospital in Vietnam
was that her husband would be
a patient there for 10 days or
two weeks. And it is believed he
may then go on to Hawaii for a
“Rest and Relax” period. It is
even possible that Hill may be
returned to the States for recov
ery.
Specialist Hill, a paratrooper,
has spent much of his time while
in Vietnam out in the swampy
jungles where malaria is com
mon.
Hill is the son of Mrs. Fran
ces Hill, 335 West Mclntosh road.
Mrs. Hill is a former Griffin girl
whose parents live in Forest
Park. They moved there from
Griffin a short while ago.
Selective Service System in
opposition to his policy of
reclassifying draft-deferred
students who protest the war
and the draft.
In New York City, in an
apparently unrelated event
Tuesday, Kenneth D’Elia, 20,
New York, set himself afire at
the United Nations. He was
listed in critical condition.
M-Day Gifts
Being Gathered
At C Os C Here
Griffinites were' reminded to
day that they mey send Christ
mas gifts to Central Stare Hos
pital patients at Milledgeville
through the annual Mayor’s Day,
known as M-Day.
Georgia cities led by their ma
yors are calling on citizens to
send gifts to patients at the hos
pital.
In Griffin the program is be
ing coordinated through the
Chamber of Commerce. Some
gifts already have been brought
to the office on West Taylor st
reet.
Packages should be wrapped
and labeled as to contents. If the
article donated is clothing, its
size and whether it is for a
man, woman, or child should be
indicated.
City officials will take the gifts
here to Central State Hospital
on Dec. 13 and gifts designated
for children at Gracewood Hos
pital in Augusta on Dec. 14.
Hundreds of mayors from oth
er Georgia cities will join in the
program by taking gifts from
their citizens to the patients at
the two Georgia hospitals.
The program makes it possible
for every patient to receive a
Christmas gift this season.
Country Parson
“Advice is a good thing t<
hear—even if you don’t in
tend to heed it.”