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By Quimby Melton
A small group of people are
protesting special Christmas
postage stamps saying they are
now "too religious”; as long
as they pictured doves and
trees they did not protest; but
now they have raised a hue and
cry.
This is a revival of the old
move to Take Christ Out of
Christmas.
Without Jesus Christ as the
central theme of the Christmas
season this beloved event would
become nothing but a mad sc
ramble to go into debt for gifts;
frayed nerves from rushing ro
und and driving miles to far
away places to "celebrate”, and
badly taxed digestive systems.
The heart that denies Christ as
the inspiration of Christmas, the
mind that refused to admit Am
erica needs to be "Under God”,
is lost. One may be the richest
person in the world, when it co
mes to material possessions; one
may be the most powerful per
son in the world when it comes
to worldly authoriay; but when
all is said and done they are the
most miserable for their fate
is sealed and they are doomed,
unless they recognize what fools
they really are.
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Several times a year Good
Evening receives a copy of “Se
nic South” published by the St
andard Oil Company. This al
ways contains many beautiful
pictures of Dixieland, including
historical places.
The November-December is
sue featured "The Hermitage",
near Nashville, Tenn., the home
of Andy Jackson, one of the most
outstanding soldiers who ever
became President of the United
States.
"The Hermitage" has always
been a spot of interest to Good
Evening, for it was there his
father and mother became en
gaged to marry. Father was at
tending Peabody College on a
scholarship from Alabama, Mo
ther on a scholarship from Lou
isiana. The afternoon after they
graduated they drove out to the
Hermitage and it was there
Father gave Mother the engage
ment ring.
As we looked at the pictures of
this famous place, now restored
as a shrine, thought of our friend
C. B. (Red) Nichols, who we
felt sure would be interested —
he attended Vanderbilt Univer
sity and coming from Tennessee
loves the history of that state.
So we mailed it to him.
Thanksgiving night Red called
Good Evening and as we talk
ed about The Hermitage learn
ed something we had not known
before.
Red says that back when Andy
Jackson lived there a group of
officials from Paris came to
New Orleans, then up the Miss
issippi and the Cumberland Ri
vers by boat to The Hermitage.
They wanted to pay their res
pects to Andrew Jackson at his
home.
Red’s story of the visit was au
thentic for he told us how his
grandfather told him that his
father, Red’s great grandfather,
took him to the Hermitage that
day. Jackson had issued an invi
tation to everyone in Tennessee
to join him in welcoming the
Frenchmen. Thousands, includ
ing many Indians who had fou
ght with Jackson at New Orle
ans and elsewhere, were on
hand. And evidently Red’s gr
andfather was able to picture vi
vidly that great day at the
Hermitage, for Red’s story was
so graphic Good Evening felt al
most as though he, too, had
been there.
All of America is rich with his
tory and tradition. Here in the
South this is especially true and
we should strive at all times to
restore and preserve as shrines
our historical places.
Topless Dancer,
Three Children
Killed In Wreck
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (UPI)
—Mrs. Gaye M. Spiegelman,
who built a bare-bosomed
career in West Coast nightclubs
as “Mama Spiegelman” and
“The Topless Mother of Eight,”
was killed Friday in an auto
accident with three of her
children.
Mrs. Maddox Wouldn't Hesitate To Run
By CAROLYN LINDEN
ATLANTA (UPD—If Mrs.
Lester Maddox soon announces
that she’ll run for governor
when her husband’s term is up,
Georgians’ won’t be a bit
surprised.
Gov. Lester Maddox has'
hinted as much, and in Georgia
such hints in the past have been
prophetic.
The Maddoxes have a record
of partnership. The governor,
an admirer of former Alabama
Gov. George Wallace, whose
wife succeeded him in office,
has said he doesn’t see why
"Virginia shouldn’t have a
chance, too.”
Wouldn’t Hesitate
"I’d hate to get anything
started too early,” said Mrs.
Maddox, 50, an attractive, soft
spoken mother of four grown
children, who has tried to stay
in the background of her
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CANNY REMINDER to motorists pleads for clean
highways. The “scarecrow” of tin cans was created
by 4H club members after they picked up litter
setrewn along the road running through Harden
ville, Mo.
Hearn Keeps Up Fight
For Hamption City Post
Evidence On
Troup Prison
Said Scant
LAGRANGE, Ga. (UPI) — A
special meeting of the five-man
Troup County Commission Fri
day indicated there was scant
evidence to support a dozen
charges of deplorable conditions
at the county public works
camp.
Troup County Prison Warden
Charlie Whitaker was present at
the meeting and met each of the
charges one by one. The alle
gations were made by two form
er guards at the work camp and
published in an Atlanta newspa
per.
The commission also unani
mously decided to request a re
calling of the November grand
jury, in order to conduct a tho
rough investigation of Whitak
er’s prison.
Among the allegations were
the sale of whisky at the camp
to pprisoners, serving of poor
food, having convict crews work
on private rather than public
property, and detaining inmates’
mail.
Whitaker said there was lit
tle or no evidence to substan
tiate these charges.
S-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY # NEWS
Doily Since 1872
Governor’s Wife Likes Lawrence Welk But Not Grits
husband’s administration. "But
no, I wouldn’t hesitate.
"I feel like my husband,” she
said, “anything I can do to help.
I’m willing to sacrifice and do
it.”
Mrs. Maddox, born Virginia
Cox Aug. 7, 1918 in Birming
ham, Ala., has worked hard
behind the scenes in the
governor’s mansion, and when
she refers to the time period
since Maddox’s election, it is
called “since we took office.”
Maddox, a Democrat who
supported Wallace’s third party
candidacy for president, cannot
legally succeed himself. But he
doesn’t deny that Wallace may
have offered him the key to
succession anyway, the example
of running his wife for the high
office.
Mrs. Maddox’s philosophy,
like her husband’s, is optimism.
"If you ever make up your
Bill Hearn, 40-year-old Hamp
ton roofer, planned today to
keep up his fight against city
hall.
He said he would take his pro
test of Wednesday’s city council
election to the council itself. If
they turn him down, Mr. Hearn
said he plans to take the matter
to the Henry County Superior Co
urt.
Mr. Hearn ended up low man
by one vote Friday afternoon af
ter a retabulation in the town’s
fire station.
He received 185 votes, while
Bill Sims and Aldred Conrad re
ceived 186 each. George Luna
was the high man in the race
with 235. Sims, Conrad and Lu
na are incumbents and Hearn
was offering for election for the
first time. The top three men in
the race were to be elected for
two year terms.
Mr. Hearn contended today
that one disputed ballot had all
four names on it stricken off and
the name of “Bill Hearn” writ
ten in. Election officials said it
was improperly marked.
Mr. Hearn said he would ask
the city council to allow the bal
lot for him and throw the elec
tion into a three-way tie and
make a runoff necessary. He
said he would go to ourt if his
request is not granted.
Mr. Hearn spent Thanksgiving
night in the Hampton city hall to
make sure no one tampered with
the vote records.
Griffin, Go., 30223, Sat., Nov. 30 - Sun., Dec. 1, 1968
Jackson Center
Tentatively
Gets Doctor
JACKSON, Ga. — A psycisian
has been hired tentatively at the
new $6-million Georgia Diagnos
tic and Classification center
near Jackson in Butts County,
according to Robert Ballard,
head of the prison.
He said the physician would
come to the prison next week to
make final arrangements. Bal
lard did not announce the name
of the new physician.
Opening the system on an ac
celerated basis has been delay
ed a couple of months because
a doctor could not be found for
the staff. The prison complex ho
pes to begin operation on a lar
ger scale in January. The cen
ter has been in operation sever
al months on a limited scale.
Prisoners coming to the
center will be given a series of
physical and mental tests to de
termine what kind of rehabilita
tion program they should have.
Ballard, a native of Texas who
once lived in Atlanta, formerly
was in charge of processing and
security at the Diagnostic Cen
ter of the Texas Department of
Corrections. It is considered one
of the best in the countty.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
little temperature change to
night and Sunday. Chance of a
little light rain or brief show
ers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high for today 62, low
today 44, high Friday 58, low
Friday 40. Total rainfall this
morning .04 of an inch. Sunrise
Sunday 7:23 a.m., sunset Sun
day 5:34 p.m.
Country Parson
11.30
“Alimony is paid by men
who didn’t give proper
thought to some of their
decisions.”
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Gov. and Mrs. Maddox photographed in Griffin
earlier this year when governor spoke to Kiwanis
Club. Mrs. Maddox was a special guest.
U. S., South Viet
Battle Guerrillas
Cong Order
Calls For
Annihilation
By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr.
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. and
South Vietnamese troops battled
guerrillas along the Cambodian
border into a fourth day today
and reported 184 more Commu
nists slain.
The Viet Cong’s clandestine
radio meantime broadcast today
an order for Communist troops
to “annihilate” allied soldiers
and pacification workers.
In Saigon, Pleiku and Da
Nang, the South Vietnamese
government opened prison gates
to 140 Viet Cong prisoners in
the biggest mass prisoner
release of the war.
“Down with Communist ag
gressors,” yelled the prisoners
in unison before they left the
lockups.
The series of battles Friday
and today along the Cambodian
border brought to at least 501
the number of Reds killed in
four days of fighting against a
30,000-man guerrilla buildup
that U.S. intelligence described
as a “substantial” threat to
Saigon.
At least seven U.S. soldiers
died and 16 were wounded in
the fighting. South Vietnamese
headquarters described its los
ses as “light.”
No Connection Seen
Senior American officials said
the Communists’ “annihilation”
order and the fighting along the
Cambodian border north and
northwest of Saigon apparently
had no connection.
“There is no papttern of any
Communist initiative,” a U.S.
military official said. “There is
no indication at all of any effort
by North Vietnamese or the
Viet Cong to launch a major
offensive.”
U.S. embassy analysts inter
preted the Viet Cong broadcast
as an effort to heighten
guerrilla morale at a time when
full peace negotiations appear
nearly at hand in Paris.
Hanoi Radio at the same time
accused the United States of
bombing North Vietnam despite
President Johnson’s bombing
halt. The broadcast monitored
in Tokyo said five F 4 Phantoms
dropped “steel pellet bombs” on
three North Vietnamese villages
on Wednesday.
Dug in and Waiting
Biggest of the Cambodian
border battles occurred Friday
78 miles north of Saigon when
U.S. armored personnel carriers
and footsoldiers moved up a
hill. Communist soldiers were
dug in, waiting.
The Reds opened up with
everything they had—antitank
rockets, mortars and machine
guns, spokesmen said, while the
American soldiers called for air
power—the divebombers and
helicopter gunships.
Vol. 95 No. 285
mind and are determined, you
can succeed in anything you
try.”
Virginia Maddox, unlike her
husband however, has no
burning passion for politics.
Once, unable to fathom his
almost fulltime devotion to
duty, she showed up at the
governor’s office on “people’s
day” and got in line to visit
him.
Likes Welk
Mrs. Maddox, now a frosted
champagne brunette, who likes
Lawrence Welk but not grits
because they’re fattening,
spends a 16-hour day at being
Georgia’s first lady.
She personally conducts tours
through Georgia’s new $1
million governor’s mansion six
days a week. It’s a year old
now, and has had more than
100,000 visitors.
Maddox likes to say “this is a
Rocks Crack
W indshields
Here Again
Rocks were used Thursday ni
ght to break the windshield of
one car and back window or an
other in the city of Griffin, ac
cording to the Police Depart
ment.
The Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department reported Friday
morning that windshields were
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NIXON AIDE — Robert F.
Ellsworth (above) will be a
top aide to President-elect
Nixon. Ellsworth, 42, is a
former Kansas congressman.
Shoppers Bustle
In Griffin Stores
Thousands of shoppers were in
Griffin stores today as the
Christmas shopping season went
into its second day. Indications
were that the season was off to
a good start.
Stores here were crowded Fri
day on the first post-Thanksgiv
ing sale day.
The damp weather today didn’t
keep shoppers out of the stor
es.
Merchants Friday began the
heavy sales season with
special promotions and sales.
Some stores started their spec
ial holiday closing times, keep
ing their stores open much la
ter so shoppers would have
more time.
Merchants had been planning
for the opening of the season for
many weeks. They had stocked
their stores with merchandise
ready for business Friday morn
ing.
Most of the city’s off street
Viets
broken in two refrigerated trucks
and an automobile.
A rock was thrown through the
windshield of the car of Paul F.
Banks of 348 North 17th street,
Griffin. He had parked the car
at North 13th and Quilly streets
Thursday night.
He returned from work Friday
morning at 8 o’clock and found
that a rock had been thrown
through the windshield.
Another rock was thrown th
rough the rear window of an au
tomobile owned by Ray Chamb
ley of 511 Bell street, Griffin. He
reported to police that the rock
was thrown through the window
between 10 p.m. Thursday night
and 8 p.m. Friday morning.
A concrete block was thrown
through the window of an auto
ry of North Second street exten
sion. The incident apparently oc
curred early today.
Dewberry had the car up f o r
sale bedause he is entering the
Army.
The Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department reported Friday that
rocks were thrown through the
windshields of two trucks at
Shackelford Sausage Company
at North Hill and East Mrlntosh
road. A concrete block was
thrown throhgh the windshield of
an automobile at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Key on East
Mclntosh road.
Officers of the Griffin Police
Department and the Spalding Co
unty Sheriff’s office are investi
gating the vandalism acts.
parking lots downtown were
packed Friday. Traffic was hea
vier than usual all through the
day and early into the evening.
The heavy shopping is expec
ted to continue here through Dec
24.
Elks Service
To Be Sunday
The Griffin Lodge of Elks,
1207, will have a memorial ser
vice Sunday at 3 p.m. at the
First Christian Church to honor
lodge members who have died
during the year.
These include: Lewis Simon
ton, James G. Berry, R. L.
Sheffield, John W. Hammond,
Jr., Arthur J. Copeland and
Sam E. Drewry.
Jack Smith, Jr., county agent,
will be the speaker.
people’s administration.” Mrs.
Maddox likes to say, "this Is
the people’s.”
When she’s not conducting
tours, Mrs. Maddox frequently
can be seen accompanying her
husband on his almost daily
trips around the state, where he
denounces the federal govenr
ment, anarchists, hippies and
Communists and sometimes
lumps them all together.
Mrs. Maddox’s politics are
not so well defined. She knows
just that she agrees with her
husband and would like to see
his work continued. So she
would not “hesitate” if asked to
run.
"There’d be a lot of work,”
she said. "Some people com
plain about having too much
work. Well, I always say I’m
happy to be able to work.”
Gifts Sought
For Patients
At Central State
TTie Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce is cooperating with
the City of Griffin in the annual
Christmas Gift Motorcade to
Central State Hospital at Mill
edgeville. This is a state-wide
event promoted by the Georgia
Municipal Association. On Dec.
11 Christmas gifts will go to
Central State Hospital by motor
cade from all over the state.
C. A. Knowles, president of
the Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce said: "We hope that
more citizens in this area will
participate this year. This pro
gram is one of the best ways I
know for our people to show the
state’s mental patients that they
are not forgotten.” The program
this year will be officially only
at Milledgeville, but gifts will
also be collected to be sent to
Gracewood State School and
Hospital near Augusta, and to
Southwestern State Hospital in
Thomasville.
Gary Powell, executive direc
tor of the Chamber, asked gifts
be brought to the Chamber of
Commerce office at ill West
Taylor street any time between
now and 2 p.m. Dec. 10th. Wrap
ped packages should be labeled
as to their contents and, if de
sired, include the name and ad
dress of the donor. Also, if t h e
package, is specifically for Gr
acewood or Southwestern State
Hospital, it should be so mark
ed.
Mayor Kimsey Stewart stated
that this is the 10th straight year
that the Chamber of Commerce
has cooperated with the city of
ficials to help bring Georgia’s
greetings and gifts from concer
ned citizens. Last year’s ev
ent resulted in more than 40,000
gifts being collected and deliv
ered to Milledgeville and Grace
wood. Southwestern State Hospi
tal at Thomasville has been add
ed this year.
Suggested items are: Womens
and mens wearing , apparel
(both indoor and outdoor), shoes,
smoking supplies, good groom
ing items (non alcoholic after
shave lotions) edibles, books,
games, and recreational suppl
ies such as playing cards, puz
zles, checkers, dominoes, cray
ons, paint by number sets and
any toys suitable for children.
Combs, hair brushes, rollers
and roller bonnets, hand and
body lotion, cleansing tissues,
bath powder, face powder, toi
let soap, hair spray, lipstick,
bobby pins or any other cos
metics will be acceptable.
Men’s billfolds, womens bill
folds, stationery, ballpoint pens,
pencils, costume jewelry, head
scarfs, socks, slipper socks and
coin purses. Children’s clothes
or stuffed animals will be suit
able for small children and can
dy and nuts packaged will also
be suitable.