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By Quimby Melton
Looking forward to Thanksgiv
ing Day one Is apt to overlook
the fact that just one month from
today will be Christmas Day. Of
ficially the Christmas shopping
season will not begin until next
week, when on Dec. 5 the annual
Christmas parade will be held;
and if everything goes as plan
ned this will be one of the finest
such events ever staged here.
Already some of the Christmas
decorations are being put up and
stores have special Christmas
displays in their windows. Adver
tising has taken a positive Christ
mas atmosphere and the mer
chants are ready for the early
Christmas shoppers — and those
who shop early have a much wi
der choice than those who wait
until the last minutes before the
big day.
Thousands of dollars are be
ing paid to those who were far
sighted enough to join special
Christmas Savings clubs here;
and many of them realizing how
fine away this is to be “ready
for Christmas” are joining the
1969 Christmas Clubs.
There’s every reason to belie
ve this will be one of the best
Christmases Griffin has ever
bad.
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With Thanksgiving on Thurs
day, the first official holiday of
tn fall, there are some things
which Good Evening would like
to call to the attention of all.
One is that unless everyone ta
kes every precaution as they
drive the highways there could
be an accident that would make
Thanksgiving and Christmas a
sorrowful time for many.
Another is that unless all, who
would like to see every child
here have Merry Christmas, ful
ly support the Jaycee Empty
Stocking Fund project, there will
be a lot of unfortunate children
to whom Christmas will be just
another doleful, disappointing
day.
There is no city-wide event that
Good Evening endores more
heartily than this.
Come On Griffin;
Have a Heart!
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Over the weekend there have
been few people but whose he
arts have gone out in sympathy
the people of the small min
g town of Mannington, West
rginia, where mine explosions
ive trapped at least 75 miners.
>sc;ie workers have finally pe
tmed that part of the m i n e
lere the men have supposely
er.' trapped for six days. Con
ct with this part of the mine
s been made by lowering a
nsative microphone, through
.übe that has been bored throu
i the rock and dirt, in hopes
me evidence of life could be
ard. The only report of any
und so far has been the drip
ping of water from the undergr
ound prison. “Drip, Drip, Drip”
is all that has been heard. And
each “Drip” has increased the
fear and reduced the hope to
which those at the mine have
clung in desperation.
If there is a lesson that can be
learned from this incident, we
believe it can be found in com
ment made the other day to
Good Evening by a friend.
He said “I would not be one
bit surprised if this explosion
was set off by someone being
careless. Someone who having
been many times down in the
mines disregarded the order “no
smoking”, or some other rule
of safety. Just one match could
have started it all. One can be
come so familiar with their sur
roundings that one can become
careless,” he concluded.
The lesson that can be learn
ed?
Don’t we all become more or
less careless around the home?
—And more accidents occur in
homes, or in the places one
works, both places one consid
ers safe, than even on our high
ways.
So don’t we all sometimes be
come careless as we drive along
familiar streets and highways?
So please “watch your step”
and don’t forget the dangers
that can suddenly arise from
careless driving. This is no time
to “Take a Chance”.
We hope this will be a Happy
Thanksgiving and a Merry
Christmas for all — unmarred
by tragedy.
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Det. Capt. Ronnie Irvin looks at the mailboxes found in a wooded area off Grant
land drive this morning.
Correr lions Board
Number Two Man
Wants Ont Os Post
COLLINS, Ga. (UPI) — The
No. 2 man on the State Board
of Corrections said today he is
resigning because of philosophi
cal differences “from time to
time” with Gov. Lester Mad
dox.
“From time to time there is
such a difference in our philoso
phy that I don’t think I Should
even aspire to being reappoint
ed,” said R. Jack Kennedy,
vice chairman of the board.
Kennedy, who declined to say
what those differences were,
said his term would have ex
pired at the end of this month.
He has been on the board for
four years.
He said he wrote Maddox “a
couple of weeks ago” following
the November meeting of the
board notifying him of intention
not to seek reappointment. He
said that he has not heard from
Maddox.
“I don’t think it would have
been fair to seek reappoint
ment,” Kennedy, who owns a
local feed store here, said. “I
was not one of his staunch sup
porters.”
Kennedy said that during the
summer, 1967, conflict between
Maddox and the board over
former Corrections Director
Asa Kelley, he was one of
Maddox’s firmest opponents.
More Georgia Lawmakers Join
In Opposing Tax Increases
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
needs spending reforms and ef
ficient government more than
it needs a tax increase, sever
al senators have suggested in
yet another omen that any 1969
tax hike proposals will face a
critical legislature.
Athens Sen. Paul Broun, in a
weekend interview, summed his
feelings this way: “I think we
need to do an awful lot of belt
tightening before we raise
taxes.”
Broun said he would support
a tax increase “only if it were
absolutely necessary and if we
were using the present income
to the fullest extent.”
Enigma Sen. Bobby Rowan
pointed to a recommendation
made some years ago by the
Bowdoin Commission as it stud
ied efficiency in government.
He said the commission report-
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“He wanted Kelley fired, and
I was instrumental in not get
ting Kelley fired,” Kennedy
said. Kelley came under fire
from Maddox after it was dis
covered that gunman John W.
Brooks, who had been granted
a medical reprieve for treat
ment in Louisiana, could have
been given the same treatment
in Georgia.
INSIDE
Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Viet War. Page 8.
Hijacks. Page 8.
Ambassadors. Page 8.
Maddox Talks. Page 8.
Czechs. Scouts. Page 10.
Sound Dollar. Page 10.
Birth Control. Page 12.
Kidnap. Page 12.
Want Ads. Page 14.
Comics. Page 15.
Woman’s Page. Page 16.
ed Georgia could save S9O mil
lion a year by reforming state
purchasing procedures
“Nobody has done anything
about it,” Rowan said. “Before
we increase taxes, we ought to
do some things like implement
ing this report.” He said he
would not want to support a
tax hike “until we’ve made
some corrections in the expen
diture of the present taxes.”
Washington Sen. Sam McGill,
a member of the state Tax Re
vision Study Commission which
is due to make reform recom
mendations next month, said he
would back an increase "if we
would exercise economy in gov
ernment and not just expand
with additional revenue.”
He suggested if the state con
centrated on luring industry to
rural areas, thus stemming the
tide of country people to the
cities, then *'our economy could
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, November 25, 1968
Morning Visit
Period Added
At Hospital
Visiting hours have been in
creased at the hospital. Begin
ning Dec. 1, 1968, there will be
morning visiting hours from 11
till noon. Afternoon and evening
visiting hours will not be chan
ged. The afternoon visiting hours
are from 2 till 4 p.m. evening vi
siting hours are from 7 till 8:30
p.m.
Due to the crowded conditions
at the hospital, it will be neces
sary to limit visitors to two per
patient at any one time.
If too many visitors are pre
sent in a patient’s room, it can
work a hardship on the doctors,
nurses, and/other personnel in
giving care to patients, a hos
pital spokesman said.
CAGE-IN
ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI)—
Visitors to the Como Park Zoo
Sunday viewed a rare collection
of animals on display in a cage
formerly occupied by a gorilla.
Members of the metropolitan
zoo emergency committee sat in
the cage to dramatize the plight
of the zoo, whose funds have
been cut by $22,000.
STUCK WITH ADOG
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)—
Avelino Cervantes’ garage was
burglarized so many times
Cervantes decided to buy a
German Shepherd watchdog to
guard his business at night.
Saturday night the garage
was robbed again. This time the
burglar stole the watchdog.
increase fast enough to get by
with a very small tax in
crease.”
Gov. Lester Maddox has said
he would seek a $215 million
tax increase next year to fi
nance a billion - dollar budget
for 1970, but legislative leaders
predicted the General Assem
bly’s mood won’t be that ex
pansive and a tax hike proposal
could face much opposition.
Atlanta Sen. Horace Ward
said he had an “open mind” on
the issue, “but I see a need
for real tax reforms before we
start increasing the taxes we
have.”
DeKalb GOP Sen. Frank Mil
ler said he would oppose an in
crease unless it provided for a
permanent ceiling on ad valor
em property taxes. Otherwise,
he said, “the same people
would wind up paying all the
bills.”
Stolen Mailboxes
Found In Woods
Vandals
Strike At
Seven Homes
Six of seven mailboxes stolen
from in front of homes on the
south side of Griffin were found
in a wooded area off Grantland
drive this morning by a resident
of Grandview apartments who
had taken her dog for a morning
walk.
Police said the woman, who
was not identified, went to a
home on Grantland drive and
told the owner about the mail
boxes she had discovered. He
called police.
The mailboxes were stolen bet
ween dusk Saturday night and
dawn Sunday morning, police
said.
A police officer said it appar
ently was an act of vandalism
by teenagers.
The boxes had been ripped
from their posts. One box and
post had been pulled from the
ground. Ivy growing around the
post was found with the box and
post this morning.
Name plates on the boxes had
been broken and destroyed.
Some of the flags had been bent.
It appeared from the mount
ings that some of the boxes had
been on wrought iron posts. One
of the wrought iron posts had
been broken and part of it was
attached to a box.
The wooded area where the
boxes were found is behind Gr
andview apartments between
Grantland drive and a small br
anch.
The boxes were taken from in
front of the homes of Etta Bel
vin, 648 MacArthur drive; C. C.
McKibben, 128 Finley street;
C. B. Elliott, 536 Brook circle;
H. A. Tonkin, 497 Pine Valley
road; H. K. Collins, 1016 East
College street; J. H. Brannon,
1447 Pine Valley road; and Fr
ank Thomas, 1115 Pine Valley
road.
One of the boxes found this
morning was a newspaper box
that had a name plate across the
top of it. One of the stolen box
es has not been located.
Detectives took the boxes to
police headquarters to check
them for fingerprints and other
clues that might lead to the id
entity of the vandals.
The boxes were found piled
close together and appeared to
have been thrown into the wood
ed area from an automobile.
Some of the name plates appar
ently had been thrown further
than the boxes.
Parts of one of the name pla
tes were found on Grantland dr
ive near where the boxes had
been thrown.
Weather:
FAIR AND WARMER
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cool again tonight.
Tuesday partly cloudy and a
little warmer. Chance of rain
Tuesday night.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 39, high
Sunday 64, low Sunday 49, rain
fall .01 of an inch; sunrise Tues
day 7:19, sunset Tuesday 5:39.
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“We’re so in the habit of
hurrying to get someplace
that we forget we already
are someplace.”
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Students in Mrs. Shirley Mobley’s reading classes at Fourth Ward School have
been studying the FBI. GBI Agent William N. Darsey gave them some demonstra
tions of work done by the GBI and FBI. Gloria Drawford and Donna Pitts watch
as Darsey fingerprints Eddie Jones.
Dad Worried About
Space For Quads
DEARBORN, Mich. (UPD—
In 24 minutes Sunday Gustave
Pulter went from a father of
two to a father of six as his
wife, Pamela, gave birth to
quadruplets.
The father said he is
exhausted.
While Mrs. Pulter, 31, and her
four black-haired babies—three
daughters and a son—slept
peacefully, Pulter was worrying
Atlanta Mill
Will Train
250 Jobless
ATLANTA (UPD—An Atlanta
cotton mill won a $754,865 fed
eral contract to train 250 job
less dis advan tag e d people
through a new program com
bining government and private
business efforts, officials said
Sunday.
The program was one of sev
eral federal projects announced
for Georgia. The Blue Ridge
Area Vocational School won
$47,364 for a man-power train
ing program, and three Geor
gia cities were awarded grants
or loans from the Department
of Housing and Urban Develop
ment.
Pulton Cotton Mills of Atlan
ta, a division of Allied Pro
ducts Co., will hire and train
250 unemployed persons for a
year’s worth of on-the-job train
ing at an average cost of $3,000
per man, said William Norwood
of the regional U.S. Labor De
partment office.
The program is a part of the
Job Opportunities In the Busi
ness Sector (JOBS) project, a
joint effort of the Labor De
partment and the National Alli
ance of Businessmen. Its objec
tive is to find jobs for 500,000
poor people in the nation’s 50
largest cities by June, 1971.
Project officials hope to hire
100,000 jobless men by next
January. The Atlanta program
wall select participants through
various agencies, including the
State Employment Service.
The trainees will learn 10
cotton-mill skills on permanent
full-time jobs with wages of
$2.12 to $2.75 an hour.
Fingerprints
about beds for the infants, the
extra bedroom he wants to
attach to his three-bedroom
suburban home and how his two
older sons will react to the
army of “little additions.”
Brian, 6, “is very happy,”
Pulter, a Ford Motor Co.
employe said. “I know he’ll be
glad to have his mom back
again.”
Pulter said he and his wife
learned of the possible multiple
birth in late September and
since then Mrs. Pulter has
spent about four weeks in the
hospital.
For the time being, the babies
—who weighed 3 pounds, 4
ounces to 4 pounds, 12 ounces at
birth—will be placed in one
bedroom.
“I can’t afford to move,”
Pulter said. “We’ll put an
addition on as soon as
possible.”
The Pulters don’t have any
cribs or bassinets for the
babies. For a long time they
weren’t sure if Mrs. Pulter
would be able to carry them.
“I’m just hoping maybe the
stores will send us some
things," he said.
Asked if he and his wife
planned to have any more
children, Pulter replied empha
tically, “I hope not.”
Who Hacked Up
Body Os Woman?
ASHBURN, Ga. (UPD—Au
thorities turned over to the
State Crime Laboratory today
the hacked-up parts of a White
woman’s body found floating in
plastic wrappings in a farm
pond.
“It was a very crude job,”
a policeman said. “It looked
like someone took a hatchet
and started chopping away.”
In Atlanta, Dr. Larry How
ard, assistant director of the
State Crime Laboratory, said
the lab received today parts of
the woman’s body that have
been found so far —two legs.
He said there was not much
the crime laboratory could do
until the remainder of the wom
an’s body is found or her iden
tity is determined.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Gold Buyers
Begin New
Rush On Paris
By LOREN JENKINS
PARIS (UPD — Speculators
began a new rush to buy gold
on the Paris market today and
the Bank of France was
reported throwing in gold from
France’s dwindling stocks to
hold down the price and combat
the newest threat to the franc.
President Charles De Gaulle
took the first step to impose
currency control regulations to
prevent speculators from taking
francs abroad to dump them for
safer currencies. He sent
carloads of jackbooted Republi
can Security Company riot
police to the borders to enforce
controls.
De Gaulle’s refusal to devalue
the franc despite pressure of
the world’s richest trading
nations was accompanied by a
plea to speculators to end their
“odious” attack on the franc.
That plea went ignored today as
speculators bought gold.
The price of a gold ingot (2.2
pounds) rose 300 francs (S6O)
today and would have risen
higher had not the Bank of
France acted swiftly. A kilo
gram of gold was quoted at
6,448 francs ($1,289) Tuesday
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“All we’ve got now is two
legs,” he said. He added that
the laboratory probably would
be able to calculate the height
and weight of the woman, per
haps the color of her hair, and
get her blood type but little be
yond that until more is known
about the case.
The discovery was made Sat
urday by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Carvy of Ashburn, who were
fishing at the secluded pond
when they saw sections of a
White woman’s legs floating in
plastic wrappings.
Police drained the pond Sun
day to seek the rest of the mu
tilated victim’s body and to
look for the murder weapon,
possibly an axe or hatchet.
Police said the body had been
in the pond for two or three
days before it was discovered.