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By Quimby Melton
A group of friends were sit
ting in a circle talking about
Christmas when one said “I was
leading my Bible this afternoon
and in the 15th chapter of John
read where Jesus said 'lf I had
not come.’ That started me to
thinking what a miserable world
peopled by miserable people this
world would be without the Bl
essed Assurance the birth of Je
sus Christ has brought.”
Later that night Good Even
ing thought a lot about what
conditions would be today if Je
sus had not come. And the more
he thought about this “if” the
more he thanked God for the
Advent of His Son.
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Good Evening has already
gotten many Christmas cards
from friends this Christmas and
all have brought a spirit of good
cheer that will help make this
man’s Christmas a Happier One.
In addition to cards and letters
from folk here in our hometown
and from over the state, we
have been blessed by getting
cards from men, and women,
who are wearing Uncle Sam’s
uniform, many of them “over
there.” That these young men
and young women took time to
remember Good Evening is a
most pleasing Christmas gift.
Among other Christmas let
ters we received from out of the
state was one from a long-time
newspaper friend, Al Kuettner,
one time UPI star who now liv
es in California, where he is se
nior editor of a magazine “PA
CE”. In his letter there is one
sentence that Good Evening
would like to share with his rea
ders; he wrote “Our magazine
digs for the truth, searches for
people who have something to
say that challenges and inspir
es and makes the decent th
ings people do more exciting
than the negative and indecent
things.”
We have never seen a copy
of Al’s magazine and we do not
know what PACE means, but in
this day and time when there
are so many magazines that
play up the “negative and in
decent things” people do, it
will be like a breath of fresh air
if it lives up to the description
of it given by friend Al Kuett
ner.
We’d like to think that
PACE means “Peace And
Courage Everywhere".
Peace that passeth understand
ing; And
Courage to stand up for what
is right and just and fair,
Everywhere — not only in this
land of ours we love but in the
nations even to the "uttermost
parts of the world.”
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Speaking of Christmas letters:
Good Evening would like for all
of the readers of this column to
consider the following a person
al letter from him to You.
May this Holy Christmas br
ing you —
Health, Wealth and Happiness.
Above all a Healthy mind that
will enable you to meet the pro
blems of each day with a faith
that assures you that God in His
Heaven loves you and yours and
will give you the strength to
overcome the depest sorrow or
disappointment.
Wealth — realization that the
love of dear ones and friends,
and the Love of God Almighty
Himself for even the worst of
us, is supreme wealth; and the
realization that in our Ameri
can citizenship we all possess
wealth that people in other
lands do not have.
Happinss — Not the frothy
kind that, when Good Evening
was a youngster, was known as
“Whoopie”, but true happiness
that comes to one who does his
or her best to be true to the two
great commandments “Love
Thy God and Thy Neighbor,”
and demonstrates this happiness
by doing everything he or she
can to make this community
and nation of ours one where
“justice, freedom and liberty”
is universal.
To those who may be lonely,
who may be in deep, sorrow, or
who may be so frustrated they
feel "they do not have a friend
in the world" may Good Even
ing remind them they have a
friend, a friend so close to them
and so interested in them, that
“He walks beside them”. One
who realizes this will never
“Walk Alone.”
A Merry Christmas with true
Health, Wealth and Happiness
to all is our Christmas wish.
4 Georgia Students
Drown Scuba Diving
TRENTON, Fla. (UPI) —
Sheriff’s deputies said today
four young scuba divers drown
ed when they ventured 700 feet
into a narrow, murky cave in
deadly Jennings Springs and
couldn’t find their way out.
Only three of the four victims,
all University of Georgia stu
dents, were recovered.
The victims were identified
as Joe Lawrence Alston, 19,
and Richard Boone Ross Jr.,
19, members of prominent La
grange, Ga., families; Asbury
Lindwood Moody, 22, Black
shear, Ga., and Pete Morris
Mitchell, 21, Brunswick, Ga.
Sheriff’s Deputy Shellie Down
who led a team of six rescue
divers into the erie under
water cavern to recover the
bodies, said the victims had en
tered a cave 75 feet below the
surace of the springs and ven
tured 700 feet into it.
Out of Air
They apparently ran out of
air before they could find their
way out, Downs said.
"The three divers we found
were entangled in a safety line
they had attached to a rock at
the mouth of the cave," Downs
reported. “It appeared they had
kicked up a lot of silt in the
cave and they got lost when it
became murky and they got sep
erated from their safety line.
All of their air tanks were
empty.
“The three victims we found
looked like they had gotten
tangled up in the safety line
while trying to unravel it and
find their way out of the cave.
None of them was attached to
the line, though.”
The deputy said the main
cavern is about seven feet in
diameter at the entrance and
gets narrower as it progresses.
There are several smaller pas
sages running off, he said.
“We figure the fourth victim
saw some clear water in one
of the smaller passages and
headed into it figuring this was
the way out,” Downs said.
"We’ve got to wait for the murk
and silt to settle before we can
look for the fourth victim.”
Fourteen Victims
The accident brought to 14
the number of scuba divers who
have drowned in Jennings
Springs, Downs said.
The deputy said none of the
victims recovered was wearing
a diving watch, which would
have made it very difficult for
them to judge how long they
had been under water.
“They may have lost track of
time and panicked when they
started running short of air,”
Downs said. He said it appeared
none was an experienced cave
diver "because they didn’t have
the proper equipment.”
He said they were wearing
tanks that would last for about
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
warm tonight and Friday with
showers and scattered thunder
showers beginning tonight and
ending Friday. Clearing and
turning colder Friday afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
60, maximum Wednesday 75,
minimum Wednesday 59. Sun
rise Friday 7:38 a.m., sunset
Friday 5:38 p.m.
Country Parson
“No nation ever faced a
more powerful enemy than
hunger and want among its
citizens.”
Spalding Porter
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In Ladies Room
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DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
25 minutes at the depth they
were being used. For cave div
ing. he said, double tanks
should be used.
The four victims had been
camping with four other youths
on their Christmas holiday.
They had only enough scuba
gear for four divers, so they
drew lots to see who would
dive into Jennings Springs.
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Santa Visits Seniors
S aU t visite d wit . h “«•<>«• citizens at a party held for them Wednesday night
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86, Arthur Hahn, 80, and Neal Wilson, 80. ’
L&M Submits
Only Bid For
New Rail Lease
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Louis
ville & Nashville Railroad sub
mitted the only bid today for
rental of the state - owned
Western and Atlantic pailroad,
apparently winning a 25 - year
extension on its present lease
at a cost of about $32.5 million.
The L&N submitted the very
minimum bid of $1 milloin per
year, plus a near minimum 2.5
per cent escalation clause,
which the State Properties Con
trol Commission said it would
accept for the railroad. It pro
vides for a 25 - year extension
on the lease which the L&N
and its predecessors held for
the past 75 years.
Warm Reception
Set For Winter
Cloudy skies and warm tem
peratures are expected to greet
the first day of winter.
Winter officially begins here
Friday at 8:17 a.m.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
predicts showers or thundersho
wers Friday morning with a low
temperature in the 60’s. The high
is expected to reach 70.
The forecast also calls for cl
earing and cold weather Friday
afternoon.
Horace Westbrooks, Griffin’s
official weather observer, has
measured several high tempera
tures this week that broke all
time records and came close to
matching some.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 21, 1967
Iris Blooms In
December Here
The unseasonably warm wea
ther in the Griffin area appar
ently is the cause of an early
blooming iris.
Mrs. Hubert Crawford of 416
North Eighth street reported'an
iris plant in her yard which us
ually blooms during the Easter
season burst into bloom this
week.
She said it never had bloomed
this early before.
Heart Transplant
Patient Is Dead
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
(UPl)—Louis Washkansky died
today of pnuemonia and there
were no signs that his body had
rejected the heart of a woman
transplanted in historic surgery
18 days ago, doctors announced.
Doctors performed an autopsy
on the 55-year-old grocer who
had lived for 18 days with the
heart of a young woman killed
in a traffic accident beating
firmly in his chest. The autopsy
disclosed that pneumonia was
the cause of death.
Dr. Christian Barnard, who
performed the original heart
transplant and the autopsy
today, said pneumonia had
affected Washkansky’s lungs
over the weekend and that the
pneumonia had spread, bringing
death at 7 a.m. (midnight EST)
today.
It was the first heart
transplant operation in history
and doctors worked against
forces still only dimly under
stood by medical science. One
phenomenon is' the tendency of
the human body to reject any
foreign organ which might be
transplanted into it, and it was
believed at first this was what
killed Washkansky.
Dr. J. Ozinsky said Washkan
sky had been conscious until
almost the end and that his
pulse rate was strong until
Fake Santa Claus
Holds Up Bank
GRANT, Mich. (UPl)—"Here
comes Santa Claus,” one of the
tellers at the Grant State Bank
said Wednesday she saw a man
in a red suit and white whiskers
stroll into the bank.
But "Santa” pulled a sawed
off shotgun out of the
carton he was carrying and
pointed it at a teller.
“I’m Santa Claus. Fill it up,”
he told the teller.
The teller deposited $12,000 In
the carton and Santa left,
driving off in a 1961 car with
Murray Moves Out
From Control Over
Experiment Stations
death.
He said both Washkansky’s
lungs had been affected by
pneumonia patches and that the
infection had spread slightly to
an area below his chest. Aside
from the infection caused by the
pneumonia the autopsy showed
nothing else wrong with the
patient, Ozinsky said.
That meant the transplanted
heart which had started beating
“just like switching on the
ignition of a car” was sound
until the infection ended Wash
kansky’s life.
The post mortem findings
"completely vindicated the prin
ciple of heart transplants,
showing that it was the lungs
and not the transplanted heart
that finally succumbed,” OZin
ski said.
Barnard said at the time of
the operation, “I don’t know
what I’m dealing with; I don’t
know what the prognosis is.”
Begins Sentence
THE HAGUE (UPI)—A moth
er o 14 children Wednesday
began serving a six-year jail
term for poisoning her husband
by putting weed-killer in his
beer at his birthday party.
muddy license plates, police
said.
State police and Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents
later arrested a suspect identi
fied as Arthur Cass of Ravenna.
Police said Cass rented a
Santa Claus Costume from a
store in the Muskegon area
Wednesday and red threads
were found in his car.
The suspect was picked up
near Ravenna, a small commu
nity about 10 miles southwest of
Grant.
Vol. 95 No. 300
More Changes
Expected Later
Dean C. C. Murray of Athens
will move out as boss of the Ge
orgia Experiment Station in
Griffin on June 30.
The University of Georgia an
nounced today that Murray,
dean of the College of Agricul
ture, has been appointed to a
new position, that of Regents
Professor. As dean, he heads
the agricultural experiment sta
tions in the University System,
including the one in Griffin. His
successor has not been named.
The University’s announce
ment did not say so, but addi
tional personnel changes on a
lower level are expected at a la
ter date.
ORGANIZATION
The organizational structure
at the Experiment Station in Gr
iffin runs like this:
At the top is the Board of Re
gents of the University Sys
tem of Georgia and its Chancel
lor. They head all units of the
system. Next is the President
of the University of Georgia of
which the College of Agriculture
is part, then the Dean of the
College of Agriculture. Imme
diately under the dean is Dr.
John Owen, coordinator and
head of the stations in Griffin,
Athens and Tifton. The resident
directors of the three stations
come under Dr. Owen’s direc
tion. The resident director in
Griffin is Tom Fullilove.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The announcement from the
University of Georgia was as
follows:
Dean C. C. Murray of the
College of Agriculture of the Uni
versity of Georgia, has been na
med Director of Inter-Institutio
nal Programs in International
Affairs for the University Sys
tem of Georgia.
The Board of Regents of the
University System has establish
ed the new position and has ap
proved Dean Murray’s appoint
ment, effective June 30, 1968.
At the same time, the board
approved President Fred C.
Davison’s recommendation that
Dean Murray be named Regents
Professor of International Edu
cation.
NEW POSITION
The creation of this position
has been made necessary by
the growing involvement of un
its of the System in various, ty
pes of personnel training pro
grams for foreign service, and
in actual development pro
grams in such areas as health,
agriculture, industry, and man
agement.
Increasingly these activities,
require the efforts of more
than one institution. The impor
tance of institutional coopera
tion is emphasized by the Inter
national Education Act of Con
gress, which requires the coop
erative efforts of a consortium
of institutions, in all programs
falling under that act.
COMMITTEE
For several months a commit
tee representing several Univer
sity System institutions and
private Institutions in Georgia
has been at work, in regard to
this act.
One of Dean Murray’s assign
ments will be to serve on this
committee as the full implica
tions of this act are being clari
fied.
SIMPSON
University System Chancel
lor George L. Simpson, Jr., said
“Dean Murray is especially
well qualified for this position.
Agriculture itself is a major ele
ment in international affairs,
bearing directly on the world
food shortage and the world ten
sions related to this shortage.
“He has administered several
programs in recent years in Sou
theast Asia directed at raising
the level of agricultural educa
tion and production. He has been
active on a large r?'.le in Geor
gia in the development of agri
business activities that provide
a large p-.rt of the state’s in
come, and these patterns are of
major importance in foreign co
untries.”
Dr. Murray first came to the
University in 1936 as an assis
tant professor of agronomy. In
1939 he was promoted to assoc
iated professor and remained in
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Dr. C. C. Murray
this position until 1944 when he
became a cotton improvement
specialist with the Agricultural
Extension Service.
DIRECTOR
He became director of the Ge
orgia Experiment Station at Gr
iffin in 1948 and was named dean
of the College of Agriculture in
1950.
He was educated in public sc
hools of North Carolina, where
he was born Aug. 5, 1907.
He received BSA and MSA de
grees from the University of Ge
orgia and a Ph. D. Degree from
Cornell University.
He is a member of a number
of honorary, scholastic and pro
fessional organizations.
He has held national offices in
several agricultural groups.
Food Stamp Seen
Here By March 1
County Commission Chairman
Jack Moss said today that if all
goes well, the food stamp pro
gram in Spalding County should
be in operation on or about
March 1.
People who are receiving food
through the suplus commodity
program will be eligible to
qualify for the food stamps.
Moss said the stamps will be
handled through the Commer
cial Bank and Trust Co. and the
First National Bank.
He said the County Commis
sioners have been informed by
state officials that it will take
about 60 days after county ap
proval for the program for it to
go into operation.
Moss explained:
“I would like to point out that
most persons receiving surplus
food at the present time will
Johnson Gets
Backing On
Vietnam Policy
CANBERRA (UPI) — Pres
ident Johnson got Vietnam
policy endorsements from allied
leaders today before attending
last rites for Australian Prime
Minister Harold Holt and flying
off on a Shangri-la journey that
might take him to Vietnam,
Thailand or Vatican City.
Fatigue etched itself deeply
on the President’s face after a
day-long flight from Washington
and something of a bit-by-bit
summit in rounds of allied
talks.
Crowds of several hundreds
clapped and cheered Johnson,
whose October 1966 visit un
leashed a flood of riotous
applause in the streets. Today
Australia and the U. S. leader
were almost solemn, in honor of
Holt who vanished swimming in
shark-infested waters Sunday.
35 Years Os
College Work
Completed Here
The University of Georgia has
offered college classes in Grif
fin for the past 15 months. Thir
teen different courses have been
taught: English, mathematics,
history, psychology, economics
and accounting.
One hundred and sixty-five ad
ults have enrolled in one or more
classes. Collectively, they have
earned 1570 hours of credit. This
amount of credit is equivalent
to nearly 36 years of college
work or enough for 9 degrees—
at a cost of $13,760 plus some
$3,000 spent for text books.
One full year of college work
can be done off campus. Several
students have completed the ma
ximum number of hours at the
Griffin Center, A large group of
1967 graduates enrolled during
the summer quarter, entering
college in the fall with two cour
se credits.
In addition to the above, tea
chers have taken courses in lib
rary education and science edu
cation. Data processing has
been offered at the Georgia Ex
periment Station.
Registration for the winter qu
arter will be held at Griffin High
School on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 6
p.m. Adults is the area are ur
ged to take advantage of this
opportunity to take college work.
Teachers of the courses have
at least a masters degree and
are certified by the University.
As the program grows the fa
culty must be expanded also.
Qualified applicants for these
positions are desired.
qualify for food stamps. Our
understanding of the program is
that any person qualifying for
the food stamp program with
the Department of Family and
Children Services can go to eith
er local bank and purchase the
amount of stamps for which they
have geen certified.
“As an example, a person cer
tified for $22 in food stamps can
purchase these stamps for sl6.
This means a bonus of $6 in food
stamps. All merchants can qua
lify to handle these stamps, whi
ch will be the same as money
for food purchases.
"I would like to see our mer
chants take advantage of the
program and we do expect full
cooperation from the merchants.
A representative of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture will
be in Griffin to explain the role
of the merchants in the pro
gram, and what they must do
in order to participate.
“This program does not mean
anyone will purchase food at a
discount. The bonus stamps will
mean a person with a low in
come can purchase more food
with the money available to
them for food purchases.
“I believe the program will be
a great improvement over the
surplus commodity program we
now have. It will be better for
the economy of the county and
also help those persons who are
unable to provide adequately
for themselves.”
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