Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, December 14, 1967, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text? T7 GOOD JLj VENIN VT 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. — 4. — 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 DAILY Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 14, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 294 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. KI |MJ rY ill --«-*■ "4m (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 S SHOPPING DAYS LEFT j >1 Zv I I I i. I CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and | \ other RESPIRATORY DISEASES j C CHIISTMAS JM7O- O CIIETIMC3 ll»7 J Country Parson A “We ought to treat every body as a friend—but not expect everybody to act like ««« » 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. Jr B B W / y - HNHF ■w y E ? 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.