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By Quimby Melton
Thanksgiving Day: — The Lin
coln Library, a one volumn re
ference book, with more than
2,000 pages — Good Evening’s
favorite reference book — has
this to say about the origin of
Thanksgiving Day:
“In the United States, a day set
apart annually and appointed by
the president and by the gover
nors of the various states for giv
ing thanks to God for the good
things and mercies of the year
past. It is essentially a harvest
festival and owes its origin to
the Pilgrim Fathers. Despite the
lean harvest of the summer of
1621, Governor Bradford decreed
a day of thanksgiving and rejoic
ing after the scanty crop had
been gathered in.”
Harvest festivals were no new
thing. They had been held by the
Druids, by the ancient Greeks,
and even by the Chinese of cen
turies before the birth of Jesus
Christ. But in those ancient fes
tivals the thanks were given to
the many and varied gods whom
they worshipped.
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Thanksgiving Day, in the
opinion of many, began with that
first Thanksgiving in 1621.
But this layman is of the belief
that the first genuine Thanksgiv
ing Day came before that.
Where did we get the idea? Turn
to the second chapter of Luke
and read the story of “shepherds
abiding in the field, keeping wat
ch over their flock by night”.
“And, 10, the angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory
of the Lord shone round about
them. . . And the angel said un
to them, ‘Fear not; for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in
the City of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord.”
“And suddenly there was with
the angels a multitude of the hea
venly host praising God, and
saying, ‘Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men.’ ”
That song of the heavenly host
was the first truly Thanksgiving
song —a song to God “who lov
ed the world” despite its stiff
necks disregarding of Him and
His Mercy.
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If ever a man lived who has
so much for which to be thank
ful it is Good Evening. And am
ong the many blessings for whi
ch we are thankful is that some
44 years ago we moved to Grif
fin.
We liked the town then, we
love the city now.
There may be a few who do not
share this pride in and love for
Griffin with us. If so they might
study what E.W. Glover wrote
about some disgruntled person
who lived in some other city.
“It Isn’t The Town, It’s You”
is the title, and it runs:
If you want to live in the kind of
a town
That’s the kind of a town you
like,
You needn’t slip your clothes in
a grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You’ll find elsewhere what you
left behind,
For there’s nothing that’s real
ly new.
It’s a knock at yourself when
you knock your town
It isn’t your town — it’s you.
Real towns are not made by
men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead
When everybody works and no
body shirks
You can raise a town from the
dead.
And if while you make your st
ake
Your neighbor can make one,
too.
Your town will be what you want
to see,
It isn’t your town _ it’s you.
Weapons May Be
Registered
Wednesday
A federal law officer will be
at the Spalding County Sheriff’s
office Wednesday to register
weapons considered illegal un
der a new law.
Weapons such as machine
guns, sawed off shotguns, ba
zookas, hand grenades and such
must be registered before Dec.
1.
The official will be at the she
rifff’s office between 10 a.m.
and 5 pun. to register these
weapons.
415 Prisoners To Get
An Early Thanksgiving
ATLANTA (UPI) — A total of
415 Georgia prison inmates will
have reason to celebrate
Thanksgiving a day early this
year with their early mass re-
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Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Franc. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Maddox. Page 7.
Sinatra. Page 7.
Air Guard. Page 7.
Local News. Page 8.
M-H. Page 9.
Ray Cromley. Page 9.
Atlanta Transit. Page 9.
Jurors. Page 9.
De Gaulle. Page 10.
Miners, Page 11.
Nixon. Page 12.
Upton Sinclair. Page 12.
Truman. Page 13.
Europe Bankers. Page 13.
Want Ads. Page 14.
Comics. Page 15.
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Hotel Keeps Its Cool,
Despite Nixon’s Treat
By TOM TLEDE
NEW YORK — (NEA) — Tire
woman is walking out of the Pi
erre as the man is walking in.
The woman stops and watches
as the man, hidden by photogra
phers and cops, hurries throu
gh the hotel lobby.
“Who’s that?” the woman won
ders.
“Richard Nixon,” a friend an
swers.
“Oh, .really,” the woman nods,
buttoning the top of her fur
collared coat. She turns away,
touches the back of her hair
gently and tugs at her neat sue
de gloves. “Well,” she asks,
“shall we go to lunch?” .
The woman’s cool appreciation
of the sight of the President-el
ect of the United States is sur
prisingly common here in the
elegance of Fifth Avenue’s Ho
tel Pierre, site of Nixon’s pre-
White House headquarters.
So what if the world’s most
currently scrutinized and poten
tially important personality is on
his way to the 39th floor? At the
Pierre life goes on soberly and
expensively.
As the future President walks
to his elevator, there is little ex
citement. A man in a camel’s
hair coat sleeps through the ev
ent on a Louis XIV chair. A tall
lady is preoccupied with kissing
a white poodle on its ears.
Even a bellman is unimpress
ed. He remains at his post, re-
Schools Here To Battle Attendance Drop In Cold Weather
The Griffin-Spalding School Sy
stem will make a “concerted ef
fort” this year to keep up aver
age daily attendance during the
winter months.
Eugene Kierbow, visiting tea
cher for the system, noted that
ADA (average daily attendance)
usually drops during winter. Bad
weather, colds, flu and similar
illnesses are contributing factors
Kierbow said.
The visiting teacher said, “We
are in no way suggesting that
children should come to school
DAILY # NEWS
Daily Since 1872
lease Wednesday in ceremonies
at the State Capitol.
It will be the fourth such
mass release in a program in
augurated for good behavior
prisoners by Gov. Lester Mad
dox.
“We’re bringing these men
and women to Atlanta this time
to try to get a 100 per cent
success rate,” said Maddox.
“We had only about a 10 per
cent failure last year.”
This fall's early release will
be the first time adult prison
ers will be brought to the Ca
pitol’s House chambers for the
discharge ceremonies. Until
now, the chambers have been
used only for the release of ju
venile offenders.
Although some 415 inmates,
including 30 youthful offenders,
31 women, and 22 out-of-state
prisoners will be released, only
191 of them will be at the Ca
pitol for the ceremonies due to
"logistics,” problem said the
governor’s press secretary.
Wednesday’s release will be
the second this year, following
fusing to peek around a corner
at the next occupant of the wor
ld’s most powerful office.
“Well,” the bellman explains,
picking lint off his uniform, "you
have to remember that every
body at the Pierre is used to see
ing important people.”
He counts on his fingers:
“Prince Philip of England, J.
Paul Getty, Baron von Roths
child. . . ” He says Aristotle On
assis has a permanent suite high
in the building and so do many
other rich people.
"Naturally,” the bellman shr
ugs, “one has to be rich to live
in the Pierre.”
The Hotel Pierre, built in 1920
at a cost of sls million, rises 42
stories above the edge of Cen
tral Park in the high-rent dis
rict.
Rooms at the inn begin at S3O
a night. Some suites are nearly
$5,000 a month. A party of four
can easily spend $75 in one of
three restaurants. The valet
charges $3 to press a suit. Sha
ve, haircut and shine go for
$7.50.
Even tipping is expensive. An
executive salesman from the
Midwest complains that 50 cents
is the minimum gratutity. “Any
thing less in a place like this,”
he says, “and I feel like I’ve got
a hole in my pants.”
The rugs in the lobby tell it all.
Patrons do not sink down in
them, but are supported an inch
and a half above marble floors.
sick but there is a great differ
ence in being sick and ‘just
feeling bad.’ ”
Students who are “just feelinv
bad” probably will be better off
in school than at home because
in many cases, parents are at
work and no one is left at home
to take care of children.
Parents go to work regard
less of whether they feel good or
not, Kierbow said. He said that
while children are in their for
mative years, it is important to
instill this sense of responsibil-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, November 26,1968
a discharge earlier this fall of
youthful offenders from the
State Industrial Institute at
Alto.
It will also serve as both a
Thanksgiving and Christmas re
lease for the first time, unlike
the one last December in which
more than 500 prisoners were
set free on the promise of good
behavior just before the Christ
mas holidays.
“These results were really
amazing,” said Maddox. “No
body would have believed it if
we hadn’t tried it.”
Corrections officials have cit
ed a low incidence of returnees
among those released in the
three previous programs.
“We will continue this pro
gram during the Maddox ad
ministration and perhaps even
enlarge upon it as long as we
can have this kind of success,”
said the governor.
Os those who will be released
Wednesday, there are prisoners
who would normally have been
discharged between Nov. 27 and
Feb. 28, 1969.
“The rugs are pure wool,”
says one hotel guest. “I suppose
they cost about S3O-S4O a square
yard. I’ve never seen anything
like them in hotels. There are
some nice carpets at the Hilton
in London, but nothing like this.”
Many of the guests at the
Pierre are world travelers. Many
are versed in varied subjects, in
cluding politics. But many wou
ld rather talk about the texture
and price of broadloom than the
proximity of a new president.
They sit in the lobby, these gu
ests, chattering in many langu
ages, dressed in diamonds and
vicuna, waiting for cabs or com
panions. Aloof dignity.
“Oh,” says a man from Atlan
ta, “it’s interesting to see all the
police and the reporters and the
Republican notables, but I’m in
town on business and I have no
time to be rubbernecking at cel
ebrities.”
“Well,” says one of the hotel’s
permanent guests, “I think it’s
a treat that the new President is
staying here, but I just hope it
doesn’t cause any trouble or,
well, you know, any trouble.”
“To tell the truth,” says a por
ter filling water pitchers, “I ne
ver was much for Nixon and I’m
really more interested in the ru
mor that Aristotle Onassis is
coming to town and maybe Jac
kie will stay in his suite.”
A man with a cane is reading
the Times. A woman in blue sun
glasses is smoking a thin cigar.
ity in them.
Kierbow pointed out that a
child out of school costs the sys
tem about $1.75 a day in state
funds, allocated on attendance.
If 100 students are absent 10
days, this would cost the system
$1,750, Kierbow noted as an
example.
Being absent often puts a stu
dent behind in his school work.
This sometimes leads to discour
agement and eventually a drop
out, he said.
High school dropouts earn ab-
Hanoi Accuses US
Os Bombing North
ROTC Boss
Will Visit
Griffin High
Col. G. R. Finley, Deputy Chief
of Staff for Third Army ROTC
Units, will visit Griffin High
Wednesday and confer with sc
hool officials.
He is expected to arrive here
about 9 a.m. and spend several
hours at the school checking
over the ROTC program.
Col. Finley is in charge of all
ROTC programs In the Third
Army, including junior programs
on high school campuses and
senior programs on the college
level.
Col. Finley expects to talk with
the ROTC faculty here, Princi
pal Bill Cody and Supt. D. B.
Christie. He may make a field
inspection of the cadets and che
ck equipment.
The visit to Griffin is one of
many Col. Finley is making to
campuses throughout the nine
state Third Army in the South
east.
He visits individual schools to
get first hand information on
programs and offer the help of
the Third Army where it might
be needed.
Elks Lodge
Memorial
Service Sunday
The Griffin Lodge of Elks,
1207, will have its annual me
morial service Sunday to honor
members who have died during
the year. The service will be
held at the First Christian Chur
ch beginning at 3 p.m.
Jack Smith, Spalding County
agent, will be the memorial sp
eaker.
Participating on the program
will be Elk officers: Wyman
Mathews, exalted ruler; Calvin
Perry, esteemed lecturing kni
ght; LaFayette Beck, esteemed
royal knight; Lemuel Watk
ins, esteemed lecturing knight;
G. Doug Whitaker, esquire; Fr
ancis D. Hunt, secretary; Rob
ert W. Branch, Jr., chaplain.
Elk members who have died
during the year are: Lewis R.
Simonton, John W. Hammond,
Jr., James G. Berry, Arthur J.
Copeland, R. L. Sheffield, Sam
E. Drewry, and Guy W. Hayes.
The public is invited to the me
morial service.
Country Parson
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“Folks choose up sides and
then approve everything
their side says — whether
they agree with it or not.”
out $63,000 less during a lifetime
than a high school graduate, Ki
erbow said studies show.
Last Friday, nine juvenile cas
es were carried to juvenile court
for violation of the state compul
sory attendance laws. Kierbow
said.
One girl and three boys were
sentenced to training school and
the other five were put on pro
bation, he said.
Judge John J. McGehee warn
ed those placed on probation that
if they were broubht into juven-
Vol. 95 No. 282
New Theatre
Planned Here
Two Griffin businessmen today
announced the development of
Parkwood Ma al Shopping Center
at the intersection of West Tay
lor and West Solomon streets.
The first business to locate in
the new center will be Park
wood Cinema, a plush theatre
that will seat between 400 to 500
people.
The shopping center and thea
tre is being developed by Jimmy
Goolsby and Joe Johnson, own-
Probe Os
CSA Costs
Sought
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen.
William Proxmire, D-Wis., to
day demanded a General Ac
counting Office investigation
and a full Pentagon task force
study of “the enormous cost
overruns” involved in produc
tion of the CSA cargo plane by
Lockheed Corp.
Proxmire, chairman of the
joint congressional economic
committee, asked the GAO to
take whatever steps are neces
ary to stop the Pentagon from
signing an option under which
it would pay $2 billion more
than the original $3 billion con
tract ceiling for production of
the transport.
Named the Galaxy, the plane
is the world’s biggest—a jet
able to accommodate huge mili
tary payloads, either of men or
equipment. It is undergoing
flight tests from Lockheed’s fa
cilities at Marietta, Ga.
“In my opinion it would be a
dereliction of duty for The Con
gress and the GAO to permit
the federal government to obli
gate itself to pay such an ex
orbitant increase in contract
costs without scrutinizing the
reason given for the increases
and, indeed, the entire circum
stances,” the senator said in a
letter to Comptroller General
Elmer B. Staats, head of the
GAO.
The option for payment of the
excess costs, Proxmire noted is
to be exercised no later than
Jan. 31, 1969.
Proxmire said "there is some
evidence that poor management
on the part of the contractor
may be a significant cause of
the increase in cost..."
Training Bill For
Law Officers Eyed
Spalding County Sheriff Dway
ne Gilbert said this morning that
it is possible a bill will be in
troduced in the 1969 session of
the Georgia General Assembly
to set standards and educational
reouirements for law officers.
Sheriff Gilbert is a member
of the Georgia Study Commis
sion on Law Enforcement Offi
cer Standards and Education. A
meeting of the commission, whi
ch includes the state’s top law
enforcement and education offi
cers, is scheduled Dec. 10 at the
Georgia Police Academy in At
lanta.
He said the commission has
ers and operators of Jim and
Joe’s Photographic Center on
11th street.
The theatre, when completed,
will be one of the most modern
in this area of Georgia.
It will have over 400 rocking
chair-style seats plus the latest
in projection and sound equip
ment.
“The new theatre will be ultra
modern in every respect,” Gools
by said.
The development of Parkwood
Ma 11 Shopping Center also calls
for the construction of a grocery
store plus several small special
ty shops.
Tlie center is located on two
and a half acres of wooded pro
perty.
“We plan to maintain the na
tural beauty of the land as much
as possible,” Goolsby said.
Goolsby, who has 15 years ex
perience in theatre operation,
said the construction of Park
wood Cinema is an extension of
his firm’s slogan “everything in
photographic and sound equip
ment.”
Parkwood Cinema will be the
first theatre built here in many
years.
Price Os Gold
Drops As Franc
Grows Steady
PARIS (UPl)—Persistent re
ports that France would slash
$1 billion from its 1969 budget
steadied the franc today and
drove the price of free-market
gold downward.
Government sources said
Premier Couve de Murville
would outline the drastic
measures in a speech before the
National Assembly spelling out
President Charles de Gaulle’s
efforts to prevent devaluation of
the 20 cent franc.
Gold fell to $41.02 an ounce
from a Monday high of $42.26.
The U.S. dollar was slightly
weaker on the Paris foreign
exchange market following the
budget slashing report. It closed
at 4.9550 francs compared to
4.96 Monday. Par value is 4.937.
until 1970 to make recommen
dations for a bill that would set
minimum educational and other
standards, such as age, health
and pre-employment.
He said the requirements will
be needed more and more as
new laws are passed.
Sheriff Gilbert said the Safe
Streets bill passed by the 1968
Congress will apply more pres
sure on the law officers. He al
so said it provides funds for the
education of law officers and
officials.
Gilbert is president of the Ge
orgia Sheriff’s Association.
ile court again because of non
attendance, the probation would
be revoked and students sent to
training school.
Parents can depand on sc
hools’s being in session every
weekday, regardless of weather
conditions, according to Supt. D.
B. Christie. He said he did not
anticipate any early closings or
late openings or closing because
of bad weather.
Clarence Huff, district direc
tor for the Department of Edu
cation, has stated, “When you
Says Attacks
Violate LBJ’s
Bomb Halt
By LOREN JENKINS
PARIS (UPl)—North Vietnam
said today U.S. warplanes had
attacked North Vietnamese
territory with bombs and
rockets in violation of President
Johnson’s bombing halt.
North Vietnamese spokesman
Nguyen Thanh Le told a news
conference the United States
also ignored a series of direct
protests lodged with the Ameri
can delegation to the Paris
talks.
Le said the air attacks were
“a flagrant violation of Pres
ident Johnson’s Oct. 31 state
ment stopping the air strikes on
North Vietnam.”
Le said two air attacks took
place Friday. He said at 10:30
a.m. Hanoi time U.S. planes
carried out a rocket attack in
Nghe An province where a U.S.
reconnaissance plane was shot
down by North Vietnamese
gunners.
He said at 1:30 p.m. Hanoi
time other American planes
dropped bombs in Quang Binh
province where another recon
naissance plane was downed.
Le's statements did not jibe
with reports from Saigon.
American spokesmen reported
a reconnaissance plane, a
Phantom jet, shot down Satur
day near Dong Hoi, 50 miles
north of the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ), the first such loss since
the bombing halt.
Two planes were shot down
Monday in separate incidents
and U.S. planes carried out
bombing and strafing missions
against antiaircraft guns firing
at rescue planes. The North
Vietnamese also used Surface
to-Air (SAM) missiles and MIG
jets against the American
planes.
Whether the North Vietna
mese charges would affect start
of the expanded peace talks was
not immediately known. Most
diplomatic sources had predict
ed the talks would start
immediately with the arrival of
a Saigon representative.
And with the talks expected to
start shortly Communist China
suddenly announced it wants to
resume its diilomatic talks with
the United States.
A Peking Radio broadcast
heard in Tokyo said the Chinese
Communists have agreed to
meet American diplomats in
Warsaw on Feb. 20.
From 1955 until last January
the United States and the
Peking regime held periodic
talks in the Polish capital. The
State Department said Nov. 18
it had been seeking renewed
contacts, with Feb. 20 as the
last suggested date.
Quoting a New China News
Agency dispatch, Peking Radio
said that by February "the new
U.S. President will have been in
office a month and the U.S. side
will probably be able to make
up its mind.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and little warm
er tonight with increasing cloud
iness. Wednesday cloudy and
mild with chance of showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 40, high
Monday 64, low Monday 39; sun
rise Wednesday 7:20, sunset
Wednesday 5:35.
pay for a full day’s instruction,
no one wants only a half day.”
He said any time a school has
to dismiss early, the State De
partment would require that the
entire school day be rescheduled.
Christie said that the Griffin-
Spalding System intends to com
ply with the State Department
of Education rules and that ear
ly dismissals or non-scheduled
holidays would not be granted
unless a road hazard emergen
cy arises.