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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Did the Jaycees find you at
home Sunday when they called
asking your help in filling Emp
ty Stockings here?
Or were you not there and did
they leave a small stocking and
a note hanging on the doorknob?
If they left such a reminder
have you mailed in your con
tribution?
Just another reminder—there
are many stockings that will
be "hung with care” here
Christmas Eve that can be emp
ty unless you and I help the
Jaycees fill them.
Come On Griffin
Have a Heart!
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No doubt in many churches,
as it was at the one of which
Good Evening is a member,
there were special Christmas
programs Sunday night, produ
ced by the young people of the
church. And if they were not
held Sunday they will be held
before Christmas Day.
We older folk should make it a
point to attend such, even if we
do not have children or grand
children taking part. Our young
people deserve the support of
the older folk. Attending a spec
ial Christmas program, put on
by them, will go a long way in
demonstrating that we older peo
ple do not all criticise them or
find fault with them, but want
to encourage them in every way
we can.
Our youth needs understand
ing and friendship — not harp
ing criticism.
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Speaking of special Christmas
events put on by our young peo
ple.
Good Evening has received an
invitation to attend one that he
wishes he could, but this pro
gram comes on a night when he
has already accepted an Invi
tation to another affair.
This special Christmas event
is a Christmas Concert to be sta
ged by the Griffin High School
"Eagle” Band, 8:00 p.m. next
Thursday night. Good Evening
has heard this band many times
at football games and he can
truthfully say he always enjoys
their playing and marching.
Director Richard Turner was
kind enough to write Good Even
ing a special invitation. Please,
Director Turner, tell all those
young people how much he re
grets that he cannot be present.
We know we would enjoy the
concert — we’ve always loved
band music — especially the
kind of music the Eagles play.
Incidentally, not only does
GHS have an excellent band, the
Spalding Junior High band, un
der the direction of Mrs. Rich
ard Turner is also tops on our
hit parade. We’re fortunate here
in Griffin to have the Turners
directing our bands.
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Just a reminder.
If you plan to send Christmas
greetings to some man or wo
man “over there” don’t put it
off any longer. Hurry on down
to the post office and send it air
mail, which will insure it gets to
its destination by Christmas.
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Went by the hospital Sunday
afternoon to say “hello” to our
friend Ed Crawford, who had
as a Christmas present, more
or less, major surgery earlier
this week. Ed, who is Spalding
Probation Officer, was propped
up in bed wearing a pair of Red
pajamas. Ed is a little too skin
ny to look like Santa Claus, but
he asked that Good Evening
wish everyone a Merry Christ
mas.
The nicest thing about that
visit: Ed's mother, who is a tr
ained nurse at her home in Miss
issippi, was there with her son.
No matter how old a man may
get his mother never forgets him
as her little boy.
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And don’t forget the Red
Cross Bloodmobile will be at
the First Baptist Church Tues
day.
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Students at Griffin Tech are being urged to donate blood to the Red Cross Blood
mobile when it visits in Griffin Tuesday. Headquarters will be in the Cheatham
Building of the First Baptist Church. Becky Clark, Hulette Moore, Jr., Joyce
Williams and Gerald McNally (1-r) hold a large poster declaring “Operation Big
Drop Needs You.” The goal for Tuesday’s visit is 200 pints.
Joiner Named
Youth Director
For Baptists
Griffin busineesman J. M.
(Jim) Joiner has been elected
youth activities director for the
Flint River Baptist Association.
He will assume his duties on
March 1.
Joiner, vice president of Spal
ding Real Estate and Construc
tion Co., will be in charge of the
youth camps, juvenile rehabili
tation program and the coffee
house ministry, which he has
been instrumental in organiz
ing.
Joiner is chairman of the Cof
fee House Ministry study com
mittee. Recommendations for it
were presented to the Associa
tion’s Executive Board and
approved. It is expected to
open in a building on South
Sixth street in January or Feb
ruary.
Joiner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. (Dub) Joiner, Jr., has
been in the real estate business
in Griffin for a number of years.
He also has been active in the
Flint River Baptist Association
for several years.
Blast Kills
Trooper’s Son
The son of Griffin State Pat
rol radio operator John W. Eller
bee, Sr., was killed shortly af
ter noon Saturday when a shot
gun he had been handling was
dropped and discharged.
John W. Ellerbee, Jr., who
would have been five years old
Dec. 17, was killed by a blast
from a .410 gauge shotgun. The
blast hit the child in the head.
The five-year-old boy had been
handling the shotgun and his
eight-year-old step-brother tried
to take it away from him. The
gun was dropped and it dis
charged.
The shooting happened at the
Ellerbee home in Macon.
Ellerbee was not on duty when
the shooting occurred. He was
at the home. Mrs. Ellerbee, who
works at night, was asleep.
The Bibb County coroner said
Saturday that no inquest had
been set. He ruled the shooting
accidental.
Funeral services were held
this morning at 11 o’clock in the
Chapel of Crestlawn Funeral
Home in Macon. The Rev. J. W.
Harwell officiated. Burial was in
Macon Memorial Park.
Several Griffin State Patrolmen
and their wives attended the fu
neral.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Showers ending tonight
followed by partial clearing and
cooler late tonight and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER _ Maxi
mum today 66, minimum today
53, maximum Sunday 66, mini
mum Sunday 59. Total rainfall
2.15 inches. Sunrise Tuesday 7:32
a.m., sunset Tuesday 5:35 p.m.
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France Offers Arms
To Arabs; Israel
Calls Ambassador
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press International
Israel called its ambassador
to France home for consultation
today on French President
Charles de Gaulle’s courting oi
the Arab bloc with an offer of
arms sales.
In Paris Premier Youssef
Zayyen of Syria, the most
militant anti-Israeli Arab nation
was meeting with Premier
Georges Pompidou.
In Jerusalem informed sour
ces said today an official
announcement was expected
shortly that Israeli Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol will visit
Washington in February for
talks with President Johnson
and other top U.S. officials on
the Middle East siutation.
The sources said the an
nouncement would be made
simultaneously in Washington
and Jerusalem.
Prepare Agenda
In Cairo the Arab foreign
ministers were winding up their
presummit conference after
compromising on the wording of
the agenda to satisfy those
states that did not want the
U.N. resolution on the Mideast
specifically mentioned.
At the Jordan River’s Allenby
bridge, Israel, in exchange for
the return Saturday of the body
of a pilot it claimed parachuted
Man Held Here Not
Shooting Suspect
A Negro man being held in
city jail on charges of larceny
of an automobile from a used
car lot a block from the City jail
on East Solomon street has been
eliminated as a suspect in t h e
shooting of a 26-year-old state
trooper in Eastman Friday af
ternoon.
Fredrick Smith Davis, 22, of
Jonesville, S.C., was arrested
Friday afternoon about 6 o’clo
ck on 1-75 south of Forsyth in
Monroe County. He had stopped
at a service station to have the
car filled up and drove off with-
Doctors Rap
Narrow, Unlined
County Roads
The Spalding County Medical
Society believes that many Spal
ding County paved roads are
dangerous because they are too
narrow and have no center line
markings.
They adopted a resolution ask
ing the Spalding County Com
missioners to look into the
matter.
The resolution did not name
any specific roads.
The doctors said they thought
the unsafe road conditions are
" unnecessarily endanger
ing the lives' of people using
these roads.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, December 11,1967
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
safely Nov. 21 but was beaten
and stabbed to death by
Jordanians, reopened a check
point to resume the program of
reuniting Jordanian families.
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban told his cabinet Sunday
that the French decision to
supply arms to Iraq while
maintaining an embargo to
Israel was a “matter of
concern.” Eban recalled that
Iraq bombed Israeli villages
and towns in the June 5-10 war
without provocation.
Ministers Confer
He said Ambassador to
France Walter Eytan conferred
with Foreign Minister Maurice
Couve de Murville in Paris and
would return today for consulta
tion.
Upon his arrival in Paris
Zayyen paid tribute to De
Gaulle for his pro-Arab stance.
At a recent news conference De
Gaulle branded Israel the
aggressor and called for Israel
to withdraw from Arab lands
occupied in the June war.
The composition of Zayyen’s
top-level delegation and the
schedule of visits during his
stay suggested France might
contemplate negotiations of oil
exploration rights in Syria.
France engaged in such negotia
tions during a recent visit by
Iraqi leaders.
out paying for the gasoline.
He was in the car he had sto
len from Jester and Hooper Us
ed Cars on East Solomon street,
Griffin.
Griffin Police Chief Leo Black
well said the time factor invol
ved would eliminate Davis in
the shooting of Trooper Robert
L. Jones of the Helena Patrol
Post.
Davis was arrested in Griffin
Friday morning for running a
red light and driving without a
license. He was released from
jail on bond and allegedly stole
the car about 1:30 p.m.
Officers discovered the car
Davis was driving when arres
ted Friday morning had been
stolen in South Carolina. He al
so is wanted in South Carolina
on burglary charges.
15 Pound, 3 Ounce
Baby Born Today
HOUSTON (UPI)—A 15-pound
3-ounce boy, who was mistaken
for twins before birth, was bom
Sunday to Mrs. Dorothy Fischer
—prematurely. He was the 14th
child for her and her husband,
Jim.
A hospital administrator said
the size of the child was
“incredible.” The heaviest birth
ever recorded was that of a 24-
pound Infant born June 3, 1961,
in Turkey.
“Everybody thought I was
having twins,” said Mrs.
Fischer, 38.
NEWS
2 Dead; 250 Hurt
Florida Panhandle
Gets New Alert
Georgia Gl
Injured;
Wife Killed
By JAMES C. FELDER
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla.
(UPl)—Tire weather bureau
issued a new tornado watch
today for the Florida panhandle,
already reeling from tornadoes
which killed two persons and
dealt the area its "worst
disaster.”
The weather bureau said “the
threat of one or two tornadoes”
would exist until midafternoon
in southeastern Alabama, north
ern and western Florida and
part of south Georgia.
Authorities feared more vic
tims would be found in rubble
stretching over a 150-mile
coastal area hammered by
tornadoes Sunday. At least 250
persons were injured and
hundreds of homes and build
ings destroyed in Florida and
Alabama. Several persons were
still missing.
Three-year-old Joan Coker,
daughter of Air Force M. Sgt.
Herman Coker, died late
Sunday in a hospital of injuries
received when a tornado
flattened her home. Only a few
hours earlier, here mother gave
birth to her seventh child in a
nearby hospital.
The new tornado watch came
only a couple of hours after a
tornado alert from Florida to
Mississippi was lifted.
Civil engineers at Tyndall Air
Force Base near Panama City,
Fla., said damage to a 2>/2-bl°ck
area of enlisted men’s homes
was estimated today at more
than $1 million.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry
Byrd, 36, of Lafayette, Ga., re
mained on a hospital critical
list with injuries suffered when
a twister struck his home.
Byrd’s wife, Laveta, 29, was
killed but their infant was not
injured.
Thirty duplex homes housing
108 families in the Tyndall area
were destroyed and 24 others
were heavily damaged. Almost
400 persons were left homeless.
Gov. Claude Kirk, after an
inspection tour o fthe wreckage
Sunday, declared it a disaster
area and said federal help
would be requested.
Roaring "like giant locomo
tives,” the tornadoes struck
communities from Panama
City, Fla., to Elberta, Ala.
Additionally, a huge waterspout
damaged homes at Youngstown,
Fla., and high winds damaged a
shipyard at Oyster Bay, Ala.
Fort Walton Beach and
Panama City suffered the f>runt
of the blows. Damage in the
Fort Walton Beach area was
estimated at $3 to $4 million in
what officials called the “area’s
worst disaster.”
About 220 homes and nine
buildings were destroyed in a
swath about a mile wide and
five miles long through the Fort
Walton Beach area.
28 Counties In
Georgia Alerted
ATLANTA (UPI) — The U. S.
Weather Bureau’s torna d o
watch for the Florida panhan
dle and extreme southwest Ala
bama also included 28 south
Georgia counties.
The tornado watch extended
with the threat of severe thun
derstorms and hail 60 miles
either side of a line from
Gainesville, Fla., to Dothan,
Ala.
The weather bureau said the
watch would continue in effect
until 3 p.m. EST.
It listed the 28 Georgia coun
ties as: Baker, Brooks, Cal
houn, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur,
Dougherty, Early, Grady, Mil
ler, Mitchell, Quitman, Ran
dolph, Seminole, Terrell, Thom
as, Tift, Worth, Stewart, Lee,
Berrien, Charlton, Clinch, Cook,
Echols, Lanier Lowndes and
Ware.
The line from Gainesville to
Dothan includes the cities
of Donaldsonville Bainbridge,
Thomasville and Quitman In
south Georgia. ,
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THIS MONTAGNARD BOY swathed in bandages
is one of the fortunate to live through the massacre at
Dak Son, South Vietnam, where the Viet Cong went
into the village with grenades and flamethrowers and
massacred 114 civilian men, women and children.
M-Day Gifts
Due Tuesday
Griffinites who want to send
Christmas gifts to patients at
Central State Hospital at Mill
edgeville or Gracewood Hospi
tal at Augusta have until 2 p.m.
Tuesday to get them to the
Chamber of Commerce office.
City officials will take them
to Milledgeville Wednesday
morning.
Many gifts already have been
left at the Chamber office for
the annual M-Day’s program.
Mayors and city officials from
all over Georgia will take gifts
from citizens to the Central
State Hospital Wednesday.
City Manager Jack Lang
ford and Commissioner-elect Joe
Dutton take the Griffin gifts Wed
nesday. Those designated for
the children at Gracewood will
be separated at Milledgeville
and transferred to the Augusta
hospital.
Gifts should marked as to whe
ther they are for men, women,
boys and girls and if the article
is clothing, the size should be In
dicated.
The program was started se
veral years ago to make sure
that every patient at the men
tal institutions is remembered
at Christmas.
Griffin Man
Killed In Wreck;
Wife Injured
Roscoe Spohn, who operated
a rug and carpet cleaning ser
vice in Griffin, was killed in an
automobile accident this morn
ing near Lake City, Fla. His
wife, Rebecca, was injured and
taken to a hospital in Lake City.
The mishap occurred this mor
ning about 8 o’clock. The Spohn
auto skidded out of control and
wrecked.
Mr. and Mrs. Spohn had been
to Tampa, Fla., to visit friends
and were returning home to
Griffin.
Mrs. Spohn is a licensed prac
tical nurse in Griffin. They made
their home at 509 West Taylor
street.
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Way cross Fires
Not Related
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI)—Two
fires which occurred minutes
apart Saturday night, one of
which killed the wife of Ware
County tax receiver C. L. Mc-
Cleskey Jr., apparently were
not related, according to city
fire officials.
Fire Capt. C. V. Strickland
said the cause of the fire which
gutted the Ware Milling Co.,
and the blaze at the McClesky
home were not known.
“But we have no reason to
believe they were related,” he
said.
McCleskey was injured in the
fire which killed his wife. Au
thorities said an autopsy was
ordered on the body of Mrs.
McCleskey.
Boy, 14, Killed
On Electric Line
WARNER ROBINS, Ga.
(UPI)— A 14-year-old boy was
electrocuted and two others in
jured Sunday when they tried
to retrieve a toy rocket from a
high tension power line at War
ner Robins Air Force Base.
Authorities identified the dead
youth as Ralph Southerd, a de
pendent of Sr. M-Sgt. O.G.
Bliesmer,
Country Parson
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“I see Protestants give an
average of $77.75 a year—
which must mean there are
isome very large givers.”
Oh Little Town,
Where Is Thy Tree?
BETHLEHEM, N.H. (UPI)—
There’s a Christmas tree thief
in this little town of Bethlehem.
Members of the Women’s
Civic Club were going to trim
the spruce tree Sunday which
they planted last year but
someone had cut it down and
hauled it away.
Five Charged
With Violating
Sabbath Here
Three store managers and two
sales clerks were charged with
violating the Sabbath Day in
warrants taken against them by
a Griffin jewelry store opera
tor Sunday.
Charged in the warrants were
William E. Cohen, manager of
Clark’s Discount Department
Store on Memorial drive; Cal
vin E. Terrell, manager of T &
S Discount House, 211 North Hill
street; M. L. Morris, manager
of Friedman’s Jewelers 110
North Hill street; and Barbara
Peurifoy and Marilane Ballard,
both sales clerks at Friedman’s.
All were arrested by the Sp
alding County Sheriff's Depart
ment. Each post a SSOO bond.
J. Taylor Wynne, operator of
Wynne’s Jewelers, 114 North Hill
street, took the warrants. He
charged those named with vio
lating Georgia law 26-6905 which
reads: "Any person who shall
pursue his business or the work
of his ordinary calling on the
Lord’s Day, works of necessity
or charity excepted, shall be gu
ilty of a misdemeanor.”
Mr. Wynne who took out the
warrants was acting with a gr
oup of merchants in Griffin.
They said they would meet this
week to make plans to take out
warrants against other estab
lishments operating on Sunday.
The two sales clerks were
charged with selling a charm
to Artis Lewis for $1.50. Morris
was charged with supervising
the sale of a dinnerware set to
three women.
The other managers were
charged with supervising Sun
day sales in their stores.
The cases are scheduled to be
handled at the March term of
Griffin City Court. Judge John
Goddard is the judge.
Griffin Stores
Begin Special
Yule Hours
Many Griffin stores today be
gan observing “suggested hours”
for closing their stores during
the last two weeks of the
Christmas shopping season.
The “suggested” program of
the Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce include
open all day Wednesdays, and
every night, except Saturday,
remain open until 8:30 p.m. On
Saturday night stores will close
at their usual hours.
On the Saturday before Christ
mas, which falls on Monday, st
ores will “remain open as they
wish”.
In spite of heavy rain many
shoppers were uptown today,
judging from the number of cars
parked along the streets and in
the parking areas.
INSIDE
Funerals. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham, Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Ethics Code. Page 5-
Sales Tax. Page 5.
N-Biast. Page 6.
Woman’s Page. Page 7.
Escape. Page 8.
City Violence. Page 8.
Sports. Page 9.
Want Ads. Page 10.
Legala. Page 12.