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By Quimby Melton
As one joins in singing Christ
mas songs there probably is
one sung more than “O Come,
ill ye faithful, joyful and trium-
Ihant; o come ye, o come ye,
Io Bethlehem! Come and behold
ylim born the King of angels; O
ome, let us adore Him—Christ
lie Lord.”
Scholars of sacred music ag
ee that this song of adoration,
irst known as “Adeste Fidelis”
ras sung in Germany ana Fr
,nce as early as 1600,
It has been sung for more than
50 years and has been the
allying call for Believers.
! Certainly Christmas is a sea
on when songs of praise and
deration are most fitting. From
he first of the world people have
expressed their joy and thanks,
ind have given praise in song.
F’or the coming of Jesus Christ
wrought “Joy To The World” as
told in another Christmas song.
It is more than likely that ne
per before have so many peo
ple here in our community read
:heir Bible as are doing so this
Christmas season.
(We make that statement be
jause of the city-county wide
:ampaign to place a new trans
ation of the New Testament,
‘Good News For Modern Man”,
in every home in the commun
ity.
The campaign has been put on
by the ministers of the commu
nity with the help of many lay
men. This “Good News” edition
is of the New Testament only,
and was first published by the
American Bible Society to be us
ed in telling the story of Jesus
and His Promises of Salvation
and Life Everlasting to those
who had never before seen a
copy of the Holy Bible. The story
is told in away that anyone can
understand. The original editions
sold for 25 cents.
The first edition was hailed by
those who love their Bible, and
the truths therein, and met with
such favorable reaction, that
millions of copies were printed
for distribution right here in
America; and the printing press
es have been running day and
night to supply the demand.
Even those who have read their
Bible time and time again, want
ed copies for their own read
ing and to give to friends.
Right here in this commun
ity, thanks to the ministers and
laymen, thousands of copies
of “Good News” have been sold
this Christmas season.
“Good News for Modern Man”
' tells the story in such away that
even the smallest child can un
derstand.
Good Evening has seen copies
of this “Good News” in many
places. Just this morning he
saw a young lady reading her
copy as she had coffee and a
doughnut in a restaurant here.
He has seen boys and girls with
copies of the “Good News" am
ong their school books and has
been told by teachers that many
boys and girls read them dur
ing their lunch hour or during
recess. The “Good News” is cer
tainly at the top of the best sell
ars here.
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Not only will “Good News”
bring the glorious promises of
Jesus Christ and his disciples
to many, but it will awaken in
the hearts and minds of many
a desire to read the Old Testa
ment as well.
The laymen and ministers who
have made the campaign here
the success it has been are to
be thanked by everyone for the
time they have spent obeying
the command to tell the story
“to all people.”
Incidentally, to those who
might want to read their Bible
“from kiwer to kivver”, Good
Evening passes this on:
If one will start with the first
chapter of Genesis end read
three chapters every weekday
and five on Sunday, they will
complete the entire Bible in one
year.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Increasing cloudiness
and cool with rain beginning
late tonight. Friday cloudy and
colder with occasional rain.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
49, maximum Wednesday 69,
minimum Wednesday 41. Sunrise
Friday 7:34 a.m., sunset Fri
day 5:36 p.m.
Injunction Sought
On Sunday Closing
A petition will be filed here
Friday in Spalding County Su
perior Court asking for a tem
porary Injunction restraining 28
merchants from operating their
stores on Sunday.
Included in the group are
drug stores, grocery stores, dry
good stores and department sto
res.
Sol. Gen. Andrew Whalen told
of the petition at a merchants’
meeting this morning.
The solicior said he had been
presented signed affidavites ag
ainst 28 stores and that they
would be included as evidence
in the petition.
Judge John H. McGehee is
scheduled to be in Griffin Fri
day morning. The petition will
be presented to him.
A hearing on the petition for
a temporary injunction will like
ly be set for Dec. 22.
Judge McGehee will decide
then whether or not to issue the
temporary injunction, restrain
ing the merchants from operat
ing their businesses on Sunday.
Sol. Gen. Whalen explained
that a permanent injunction
must come from a jury.
The Griffin Judicial Court sol
icitor met with the merchants to
explain the Sunday closing law.
He said the law had been in
effect some 100 years and the
constitutionality of it had never
been challenged. However, he
said the law was vague and that
a Sunday closing law recently
enacted by the Georgia General
Assembly had been ruled uncon
stitutional by the courts.
Solicitor Whalen said after the
meeting that he did not gather
the affidavites. They were pre
sented to him.
“It is my duty now to pursue
the matter,” he said.
The meeting was called by a
group of “merchants interested
Canada's PM
Pearson Quits
OTTAWA (UPD—Prime Mi
nister Lester B. Pearson today
announced his resignation from
the leadership of the ruling
Liberal party.
Pearson told a news confer
ence he would stay on as prime
minister until a national conven
tion was organized to pick a
successor.
“I will, of course, continue to
serve as leader of the party
until that convention has chosen
my successor,” Pearson said.
In a letter to Sen. John
Nichol, presiden tof the Liberal
Federation of Canada, Pearson
said he had reached his decision
“with great regret, but I am
convinced that it is the right
one.
“I will soon have been in
public service for 40 years, 19 of
those years as member of
Parliament for Algoma East,
and for the last 10 I have had
the great honor and privilege to
be the leader of the Liberal
party; and for nearly five years
the prime minister. of our
country,” the 70-year-old Pear
son wrote.
HEAVY FLOODING
ALGIERS (UPD — Heavy
rains for two days in northern
Algeria have resulted in the
deaths of 30 persons, caused an
iron mine to cave in and
washed out a bridge, the
government said today.
Republican Calls
For Impeachment
On Parole Board
By DONALD PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD—A republi
can lawmaker has vowed im
peachment proceedings against
two State Pardon and Parole
Board members in a move that
could throw the issue before the
1968 General Assembly next
month.
Rep. Killiaen Townsend of At
lanta made the declaration
Wednesday, following a blister
ing report on alleged unethical
practices on the board, deliver
ed by the state attorney gen
eral.
He said he was hopeful a
prominent Democrat whom he
did not name would bring
the impeachment proceedings
against board members J.W.
Claxton and Mrs. Rebecca Ga
rett, but if the legislator did not
do so, Townsend declared, he
would. The two board members
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in seeing that the current Sun
day closing laws are upheld.”
Taylor Wynne presided. He
explained that he was acting for
a group of merchants.
Sol. Gen. Whalen was invited
to the meeting to explain the
present law.
About 50 people attended. It
lasted 30 minutes.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Christmas lights at Hill and Solomon streets glitter
as Griffin awaits the arrival of Christmas day. The
traditional community Christmas tree is decorated
Gls In Vietnam Send Help To
Blind Girl In ‘War Os Youi-Own
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPD—
Linda Thurman, 16, has a $412
Christmas present from some
fighting men in Vietnam to help
her fight “a war of your own.”
Linda has been blind since
stricken with encephalitis last
January. She is confined to a
wheel chair and her medical
bills are climbing.
The Noblesville Ledger told
Linda’s story last October and a
copy of the newspaper reached
the 412th Munitions Mainten
ance Squadron of the 12th
Tactical Fighting Wing sta
tioned at Cam Ranh Bay.
This week Linda received five
money orders totalling $412 by
special delivery registered mail.
There was also a letter from
the 220 men of the 412th.
It read:
“We have taken it upon
ourselves to offer this small
contribution to a very brave
young girl.
“We understand that you are
now fighting a war of your own
much different than the one in
which we are engaged.
“We realize our war has a
definite purpose to put a stop to
aggression and to neutralize
international conflict but yours
is one of personal conflict and
self-adjustment.
“Linda, do not feel that you
were singled outWor criticism
involving the report.
Under Georgia law, impeach
ment charges must be brought
by the House, but cases are
tried before the Senate with the
chief justice presiding.
In one instance in the report,
Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton said
Claxton borrowed $11,600 from
some parole board employes
and that two employes had been
asked to loan him SI,OOO each
after he allegedly told them
their jobs should "certainly be
worth SSO per month.”
"I gathered there is sufficient
evidence they are not qualified
for the job,” Townsend de
clared.
Bolton, in issuing the report
called for wide-range reforms in
the state’s pardon and paroles
system.
GRIFFIN
Senate Reverses OK
On Social Security
All Decked Out
are alone. Although we are
thousands of miles apart, we
are with you in thought and
prayer.
“Please accept this small .
contribution as a token from
your fighting men in Vietnam
Greenhouse, Lab
For Station Okayed
A $65,000 federal grant for con
struction of a greenhouse and
small laboratory at the Ex
periment Station in Griffin has
been approved.
The facility will be construc
ted under a regional program
and will be in connection with
work done on plant introduction
at the Griffin station.
Regent Jim Owen of Griffin
said approval of the grant from
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture was acknowledged at the
Board of Regents meeting in At
lanta Wednesday.
Dr. John Owen, director of Ge
orgia’s Experiment Stations,told
the Griffin Daily News from his
Athens office today that the gr
ant came under a federal pro
gram dealing with research on a
regional basis.
During the Regents meeting
in Atlanta Wednesday, President
Fred Davison of the University
"k® bi tfuliU
Artist’s rendering of the new Bank of Griffin building which is
under construction at West Taylor and Eleventh streets, and is
scheduled for completion in spring, 1968. The architect is Gerald
L. Bilbro of Griffin and Newton Coal & Lumber Company of
NEWS
with lights and shown in the center of the picture.
This view faces north on Hill street at the Solomon
intersection.
and remember that we are
behind you 100 per cent in your
war.”
Linda’s mother, Mrs. William
J. Thurman, said the money
will be used for Linda’s medical
expenses.
System of Georgia, as well as
Chancellor George Simpson,
gave reports on the Georgia
Experiment Station.
Dr. Davison reported on a two
day visit he made here within
the last month to talk with sta
tion personnel and to gather
information about the station’s
programs.
It was pointed out at the Re
gents meeting that Department
heads at the station were hold
ing monthly meetings wi’h Dr.
Owen in Athens. The station
here is part of the College of Ag
riculture of the University in At
hens.
The Regents stood pat Wed
nesday on its decision to trans
fer control of federal money
from the Griffin station to Ath
ens. A move to keep control of
the money under the Griffin sta
tion was killed, 11-2.
How New Bank Will Look
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Country Parson
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“We ought to treat every
body as a friend—but not
expect everybody to act like
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one.
Griffin is the general contractor. Directors of the newly organized
bank are R. P. Shapard, Jr., chairman, J. L. Savage, president,
William H. Beck, Jr., George C. Bell, D. Bart Searcy, Jr., Robert
P. Shapard, 111, and Dr. George L. Walker.
Another Vote
Scheduled Friday
By PATRICK J. SLOYAN
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
Senate shouted approval of a
record Social Security benefit
increase today, but promptly
reversed itself at leadership
urging and scheduled a final
vote at 11 a.m. Friday.
The voice vote at the
unusually early opening of the
Senate caught by surprise
Senate liberals who have been
battling the bill because of its
freeze on welfare payments.
Only one of them was present,
and the action escaped his
notice.
Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield, angered by the end
play against the liberals,
promptly requested and re
ceived unanimous consent to
reconsider the action, tied with
the agreement for a Friday
vote. This took away the last
weapon of the liberals, who had
considered a filibuster. They
lack the votes to defeat the
measure.
The bill carries Social Securi
ty benefit increases totaling $3.6
billion a year for 23.8 million
persons. Increases of 13 per
cent across the board are tied
to a rise In the minimum
monthly payment from $44 to
$55.
Mansfield rebuked the Senate
for its sudden action on the
measure, saying he was una
voidably absent and that “when
the majority leader is called out
on official business, he deserves
some consideration.”
He also said the vote “raises
most serious questions about
the rights of any individual
senator.”
Sen. Joseph S. Tydings, D-
Md., took the blame for the
liberals’ defeat. He had been
assigned to guard against any
surprise action, and explained
he was engaged in conversation
in the rear of the chamber
when the voice vote came.
This made it apparent to him,
he said, that first-term senators
“learn the hard way.”
Welfare restrictions the small
liberal bloc opposed were
written into the landmark
measure by the House, which
took final action on the
compromise version Wednes
day.
The House passed the bill by
an overwhelming vote of 388 to
3.
Senate liberals fought the
measure because of a section
that would, beginning July 1,
1968, freeze the proportion of
persons getting help under the
aid to families with dependent
children at levels prevailing
Jan. 1, 1968.
In major cities this would
force cutbacks in AFDC enroll
ments or increases in local
costs for the federal-state
program.
In addition, House-Senate
negotiators who worked out the
compromise bill also dropped
provisions offered by Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y.,
which would have exempted
AFDC mothers with preschool
children from the measure’s
mandatory work-training pro
grams.
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Rev. Melvin Bradley
Rev. Bradley
Accepts Call
Os Texas Church
The Rev. Melvin Bradley, min
ister of education and associate
pastor of the First Baptist Chur
ch, has accepted an invitation
to become minister of educa
tion for the First Baptist Chur
ch at Wichita Falls, Tex.
His resignation in Griffin is ef
fective Jan. 1.
The Rev. Bradley first served
the Griffin church from 1947-50
then returned in 1965 to serve
until now.
The Wichita Falls church has
a membership of 6,000.
The Rev. and Mrs. Bradley
will move to the Texas city
early in January. Their two dau
ghters, Jane and Alice, will con
tinue as students at Tift College
in Forsyth.