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Food For Needy
Capt. Travis Israel of the Salvation Army packs one of the 125 food boxes to be
distributed to needy families in Griffin for Christmas.
LBJ Expected
To See Pope
UP IWhite House Reporter
KARACHI, Pakistan (UPD—
President Johnson paused here
briefly today enroute from
Vietnam to a possible meeting
with Pope Paul VI at Vatican
City.
There was no official confir
mation as yet concerning the
Vatican visit. But there ap
peared no doubt among John
son’s staff that the President
and the pontiff would see each
other before Air Force One re
turns to Washington. The unpre
dictablity of Johnson’s travel
plans however did not rule out
a last-minute change of itiner
ary.
Johnson, making a president’s
first round-the-world flight,
landed in Karachi in his silver
and blue Air Force One jet that
took him to memorial services
in Melbourne for former Austra
lian Prime - Minister Harold
Holt, to U.S. fliers in Thailand
to Cam Ranh Bay in South
Vietnam.
Johnson used the refueling
stop here for talks with
President Mohammad Ayub
Khan of Pakistan. Ayub Khan
dashed in from Lis capital at
Rawalpindi for the talks with
the U.S. chief executive.
The two men walked together
into the airport building for
what aides called an informal
talk.
Johnson will have covered
more than 27,000 miles when he
reaches home for Christmas in
the White House. Clearly, the
visit to Vietnam, his second,
touched him deeply.
•‘lt’s not the shortest route
No Paper
Monday
The Griffin Daily News
will observe Monday,
Christmas Day, as a holi
day and will not publish
a paper that day. Regular
publication will be re
sumed Tuesday.
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Dec. 23-24, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 302
back to the White House
through Vietnam. But because
it is almost Christmas, and
because my spirit would be here
with you anyway, I had to
come,” Johnson said at Cam
Ranh Bay, standing atop a
flatbed truck with 2,450 Gls
mustered around him under a
tropical sun.
The American warriors
cheered.
Travels To Pakistan
After his visit Johnson flew to
Karachi, Pakistan, for brief
talks with Pakistan President
Mohammad Ayub Khan. Pakis
tani officials said Johnson,
before reaching the White
House, would stop also at the
Vatican for talks on peace with
the Roman Catholic Pope.
He waved the troops in closer.
“I can bring you the assurance
of what you have fought to
achieve. The enemy cannot win,
now, in Vietnam...you—each of
you—has seen to that,” he said.
The Gls stood holding their
steel helmets under the tropical
sun. They cheered their Pres
ident.
“We have set our course.
We’re not going to yield. We’re
not going to shimmy and we’re
going to be there to the end—
until we achieve peace with
honor,” he said.
The President told his war
riors, “I wish I could have
brought you some tangible
symbol of the pride people feel
in you back home—some gift
that would wrap up the care
and concern of your families
and loved ones.
Message From Home
“All the debate you read
about cannot obscure that pride.
The slogans and the signs
cannot diminish the power of
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair today and Sun
day; continued cold tonight and
little warmer Sunday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 45, low today 23, high
Friday 62, low Friday 39; sun
rise Sunday 7:39, sunset Sunday
5:39.
that love,” he said.
The President pinned medals
on his soldiers. He greeted
Nguyen Cao Ky, South Viet
nam’s vice president; “Keep it
up. You are doing a fine job,”
he said.
Then Johnson waved goodbye.
His silver and blue Air Force
One jet zoomed away.
There was speculation he
might visit Pope Paul VI at the
Vatican on his way home. The
Roman Catholic pontiff, in the
midst of a struggle for world
peace, was reported making
plans in case Johnson came to
Vatican City. But there was no
confirmation the President
would stop on his way home to
the White House for Christmas.
The Gls he left behind were
clearly impressed. “There
wasn’t much you can say to a
President,” said Spec. 4 Charles
Page of Los Angeles, on whom
Johnson pinned a Silver Star.
Ex - Peace Corpsman
Makes Santa Trip
IRON RIVER, Mich. (UPD—
“Santa Claus never comes
here,” a little boy told a
Michigan Peace Corps volunteer
three years ago In Zamoramo,
Honduras.
But Santa’s on his way to the
Zamoramo Valley in the Central
American republic today. He’s
driving a huge truck loaded
with tons of toys and clothes
collected in Michigan’s upper
peninsula.
The volunteer, Willie Wales,
34, of Iron River, worked
among the people of the
Zamoramo Valley for two years
In 1963 and 1964.
Wales said he once asked one
of the Spanish speaking children
what Santa Claus brought him
for Christmas.
“He never comes here”, the
hoy said.
When he returned to his
home, Wales vowed to see that
Griffarea Ready
For Christmas
Highways
Clogged
With Traffic
Highways in the Griffin area
were clogged with traffic today
as holiday travelers made their
way to different places for
Christmas.
Griffin’s main arteries, U.S.
19 and U. S. 41, and Georgia 16
have been heavily traveled most
of the week. Policemen have
been stationed at main intersec
tions at times to handle the in
flux.
The Georgia Department of
Public Safety has estimated that
21 people will die on the state’s
highways this weekend. The
weekend period began Friday
at 6 p.m. and ends Monday at
midnight.
Troopers of the Griffin State
Patrol will be on duty through
out the weekend.
Only minor wrecks have
been reported by the State Pat
rol this week, despite heavy fog
and rain slick highways. Several
minor wrecks have been report
ed in the city.
Special programs are being
planned by many Griffin chur
ches Sunday. Some will have
plays and others will have their
annual Christmas tree programs
where gifts are exchanged.
Santa Claus will pay his an
nual visit to the children of Grif
fin and Spalding County Sunday
night. He is expected to fill most
of their stockings with fruits and
toys.
Some of the underprivileged
children of Griffin will receive
gifts donated to Santa through
the Empty Stocking Fund and
the Salvation Army. Toys for the
Empty Stocking Fund program,
which is sponsored by the Grif
fin-Spalding Jaycees, were re
paired and painted in the Home
Economics and Shop Depart
ments at Griffin High School.
Both organizations also will
distribute food baskets to needy
families.
Most Griffin businesses and in
dustries will be closed Monday.
Some will reopen Tuesday and
others Wednesday and Thursday
The Griffin Fire Department
urged Griffinites to remove all
decorations when taking their
Christmas trees down. Chief
Leonard Pitts said lights on a
tree should be turned off when
no one is at home.
He said caution should be ta
ken with Christmas gift wrap
ping paper and heaters. He ur
ged that caution be used with
candles and electrical devises.
Santa did pay a visit to the
people Wales had worked
among.
With the help of radio station
WIKB in Iron River and
Veterans of Foreign Wars posts
in Iron River and nearby
communities, Wales collected
six tons of toys and clothes in
three weeks.
Tuesday, the gifts were
loaded onto a banana boat
belonging to the United Fruit
Co. at New Orleans.
The boat steamed down the
Central American coast, docked
at Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and
workers unloaded the toys and
clothes.
Another truck was waiting to
take them to the Zamoramo
Valley.
Wales got a telegram from
the valley on Thursday.
“Felices Pascuas” it said—
“ Merry Christmas."
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Christmas Story
This manger scene in the front yard of the Bill Taylor home, 1315 Greenview
drive, tells the story of the birth of Christ. It is one of the many Nativity scenes
at homes in Griffin and Spalding County.
Power Failure
Leaves Four
States Dark
SALT LAKE CITY (UPD—A
massive power failure plunged
the major population areas of
Idaho and parts of Utah,
Wyoming, and Oregon into
darkness for more than 30
minutes Friday night.
Power was partially restored
at Boise, Idaho, 36 minutes
after the blackout but lights
were still flickering and dim.
Power to parts of other areas of
the three states had still not
been restored by 11:40 p.m.—
about 45 minutes after an
apparent break i n a major line
between twin falls and Pocatello
in southern Idaho.
The blackout struck at about
10:55 p.m. MST.
W. F. Carter, division mana
ger of the Idaho Power Co.,
said, “We lost system wide our
power south to Salt Lake City,
west to Ontario and Vale, Ore.
Wo don’t know what the whole
problem might be.”
Carter indicated the problem
was “pretty much” within
Idaho Power Co. facilities.
Service was reported out for
nearly an hour at Pendleton, Le
Grande, Baker and Vale, Ore.;
Pocatello, Twin Falls, Idaho
Falls and parts of north Idaho.
Power was interrupted as far
east as Rock Springs, Wyo.,
Carter said.
The Boise dispatcher for the
Idaho Power Co., said the
trouble was caused by a failure
in a 230,000-volt power line west
of Boise. “But what actually
happened we don’t know,” he
said.
(■r if finites Among
500 Kin To Marine
Killed In Vietnam
[ ATLANTA (UPD—The death
, of a Marine from California
killed in Vietnam will be felt in
' this Yuletide season by at least
( 500 relrtives in Georgia, an un
cle said today.
The Marine was Cpl. Charles
, .Sorrow Jr., killed by a Viet
’ Cong sniper Thursday night.
Sorrow, nearly 21, was the
■ son of Judge Charles S. Sorrow
, of Santa Barbara, Calif.
“But he must have 500 rela
i lives living in Georgia, all the
' way from Swainsboro (in south
1 Georgia) to Social Circle (In
north Georgia),” said Rolf Dar-
■ win, of Atlanta. Young Sorrow
was the nephew of Darwin’s
wife, Ruby.
“And I guess there will be a
bunch of us fly out to California
when they bring his body
home,” Darwin said.
The sniper victim was the
grandson of the Rev. Howard
Sorrow of Atlanta, a retired
Holiness minister.
Rev. Sorrow made his home
in Griffin about 15 years before
moving to Atlanta. He was an
evangelist in Griffin and did not
serve any particular church as
a minister.
Darwin said relatives in
Georgia had been advised that
the corporal, a member of the
■ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, was
killed while on patrol near Con
; Thlen.
"In his last letter he said he
had a premonition that he
would be killed because a bud-
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
dy had stepped on a booby
trap and was blown up, and ne
had stepped on one and nothing
happened,” Darwin said.
Among the relatives in Geor
gia of the young Marine were
Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon Sorrow
of Rome, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Sorrow of Swainsboro, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Sorrow Jr., of
Chamblee, Mr. and Mrs. David
Sorrow of Cedartown, John-Hen
ry Sorrow of Warner Robins,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Perry Jr. of
Griffin, and the Rev. and Mrs.
Clark Sorrow of Social Circle.
Mrs. Perry of Griffin said
the father of Cpl. Sorrow, who is
Judge Charles Sorrow, is her
brother, making the Marine
her nephew.
Country Parson
“Some folks never are con
tent with making one mis
take—they make another by
denying the first.”