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By Quimby Melton
Lest we forget!
It was 27 years ago today, "A
Day of Infamy” was recorded on
the pages of history.
It was on that day the Japan
ese staged the surprise, sneak
attack on Pearl Harbor. The at
tack coming on the very day
high envoys from Japan were in
Washington to discuss increas
ing tensions between America
and Japan. This visit was timed
to coincide with the scheduled
attack, for no other reason than
to lull us into a false sense of
security.
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian time,
1:25 Washington time, over 100
Japanese planes and several
midget submarines, attacked the
U.S. Pacific Fleet (66 ships) ba
sed at Pearl Harbor.
The Battleship Arizona was
sunk, four others damaged be
yond repair, as were three des
troyers; Damaged, but could
be repaired in time, three war
ships, three cruisers and other
ships including a dry dock.
The Jap attack st-uck U. S.
airfields and before pilots could
board them and take to the air
177 were destroyed.
That “Day of Infamy” 2,340
American soldiers and sailors
were killed, 960 were reported
missing in action, and 1,263 were
woun Jed.
America was plunged into
World War Two.
On this 27th anniversary of
that day we must not forget, we
shall not forget, the men and
women, who fought at Pearl
Harbor that day; many to be
killed, many reported missing,
many wounded; nor must we
forget the pall of sorrow that
engulfed the homes of America.
We must not, we shall not, for
get the wives left widows, the
children left orphans, the grand
parents left bereaved by that
“Day of Infamy.”
Neither must we forget the
days that followed when high
and low alike throughout our
land had every reason to fear
that the end of this nation, as
we knew it and loved it, was
drawing near. It was in the
days that followed Pearl Harbor
that America as a whole display
ed its greatest courage and de
termination.
The Japs, with full approval
of, and assistance from Hitler’s
Germany, had laid plans to com
pletely exterminate America.
But they failed to take into
consideration the Spirit of Am
erica; the Spirit to survive, the
will to win.
Nor must we not, and we shall
not, forget, the years that fol
lowed; when Uncle Sam stagger
ed from the floor, sent his sons
and daughters into both enemy
continents and joined in defeat of
the devil-spawned enemies of
all that is decent and good.
Before victory came hundreds
of thousands more of our best
young people were killed and
many more were wounded and
today are handicapped and crip
pled by their wartime exper
iences.
There’s hardly a home in all
this nation of ours but knows the
Borrows that World War Two,
and the wars that have followed
in its wake, have left.
Even today 27 years after that
"Day of Infamy” we are still
fighting for our very lives, fight
ing both the known enemy and
the enemies that lurk, many cl
ose at home, under the cloak of
selfishness and gnaw away at
the foundation sills on which
our nation has been built.
“God Bless America” should
be the fervent prayer of all.
“Help us to be worthy of those
who have given their lives for
us; and grant we will never for
get them; but with determina
tion to make right the master of
all mankind rather than might;
that hatreds be replaced with
love; and our nation may tru
ly become “One Nation Under
God,” we will move on.
Lest we forget!
We shall never!
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SAN FERNANDO, Calif.
(UPD—“When w» got married
we said we wanted four
children,” Jim Gallion said.
“But we didn’t expect this
much at once.”
Gallion’s 22 year old wife,
Lorraine, Friday gave birth to
health quadruplets—three girls
and a boy.
The children were born at San
Fernando Valley Hospital and
later transferred to County-USC
medical center, where they
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— December 7th —
Day Os Infamy
27 Years Ago
By EDWARD INOUYE
PEARL HARBOR (UPD—It
is 27 years since the “day of
Infamy” when the bombing of
Pearl Harbor plunged the
United States into World War
11.
Each year the anniversary
passes quietly.
A brief ceremony today on
the USS Arizona Memorial was
specially authorized by the
Navy to allow a group of state
legislators to pay their respects
to the 2,409 Americans who died
on Dec. 7, 1941.
Two years ago, on the 25th
anniversary of the attack,
hundreds of Pearl Harbor
survivors gathered here for
memorial services.
“Normally there is no formal
ceremony on Dec. 7,” a naval
officer explained. “This is
because of all our nation’s war
dead are honored on Memorial
Day.”
The gleaming white Arizona
memorial rests above the
famous battleship at the spot
where she went down —the
victim of a 500-pound bomb
which dropped through her
stack into the fire room.
The bodies of more than 1,000
Maddox Would Have Cities
Share In Sales Tax Hike
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Les
ter Maddox says he will pro
pose a constitutional amend
ment designed to ease the city’s
revenue problems by guarantee
ing them a set portion of state
sales taxes.
Maddox, a strong opponent of
local option sales tax bills that
fizzled in the past two General
Assemblies, also said he would
be in favor of a bill that would
allow cities to raise their sales
taxes a half cent to finance
mass transit systems.
The governor Friday also
praised proposals by the re
search director of the state Tax
Revision Study Commission that
included a one-cent state sales
tax hike, an increase in the
state income tax, and a 1.5 cent
increase in the per-gallon tax
on gasoline.
Maddox said he would seek
an amendment to guarantee
one-half of one cent of the sales
tax to cities, and thus take the
burden off homeowners, by pro-
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Sat. and Sun., Dec. 7-8, 1968 Vol. 95 Na. 291
. were reported doing ■well.
Gallion, an SB,OOO a year
’ foreman in a sheet metal shop,
. already has two older children,
1 James, 4, and Bruce, 2. The
family lives in a two bedroom
home in nearby Sylmar.
> The Gallions anticipated one
> more child when they learned
Mrs Gallion was expecting
1 again. It escalated to two a few
1 months later. Friday the
’ obstetrician called Gallion in
t and told him to look for triplets.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Dolls to be distributed to needy children at Christmas through the Jaycees Empty
Stocking Fund has been repaired in the home economics department at Griffin
High. Showing some of the dolls are (1-r) Lynn Pearl, Denise Caston, Mrs. Bess
Hoskins, instructor; Brenda Ellis, Donna Purser, Regina Festerman, Elizabeth
McKibben and Cindy Bizzell. The Jaycees will hold their fund raising drive Sun
day morning. The goal is $2,500.
of her crewmen remain en
tombed in the ship and oil still
seeps to the surface from her
rusting hull.
The sneak attack jolted the
world and enraged the Ameri
can people.
Honolulu radio stations play
ing breakfast music broke the
calm of a Sunday morning with
the startling announcement:
“The islands are under attapk .
. . this is not a drill.” Many
mainland Americans were lis
tening to a pro football game
when the stunning news flash
came.
Three-hundred and fifty-three
Japanese war planes roared
over pearl Harbor in three
waves. Forty-nine big bombers,
each lugging a 1,600-pound
anchor-piercing bomb, came
first. They were followed by 40
torpedo bombers and 51 dive
bombers. Squadrons of zeros
flew overhead and on the flanks
for protection.
There were 97 ships in the
harbor, which was an inferno in
minutes. Os these, 46 were
warships of destroyer size or
larger. Eighteen of the warships
were sunk or heavily damaged
in the attack, which lasted two
hours.
viding means other than prop
erty taxes for financing city
services.
In a meeting the same day
with city officials and legisla
tors from the five-county metro
politan Atlanta area, Maddox
said he would back a payroll
tax or a local option sales tax
if the funds were earmarked to
help solve the city’s transporta
tion problems.
Maddox pledged cooperation
with efforts to bring some type
of rapid transit system to the
metropolitan area, although he
was opposed to the plan of the
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority which was
defeated at the polls in Novem
ber.
He said the plan was defeat
ed because it was tied to an in
crease in property taxes, to
which he is opposed.
"We must have new tax
sources to support rapid transit
plans,” he said.
In the same meeting he said
5-STAR WEEKEND
GRIFFIN
Weather:
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FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and cold by
tonight. Fair with freezing to
night. Sunday fair and contin
ued cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 53, low today
49, rainfall .26 of an inch; high
Friday 62, low Friday 33.
Sunrise 7:30 a.m., sunset 5:34
p.m.
Federal Prisoner
Guilty In Kilting
ATLANTA (UPD—A federal
jury here deliberated five hours
before returning a guilty ver
dict for a prisoner in the At
lanta Federal Penitentiary ac
cused of strangling another
prisoner and hurling him 40 feet
from a prison catwalk.
The jury, which deliberated
all Friday afternoon, found
James Vernon Lewis Jr., “guil
ty as charged without capital
punishment.”
Testimony in the trial, in
which Lewis was accused of
strangling and pushing Alvin
Otto Holt from a fifth-level cat
walk, ended Thursday after an
ex-convict said he saw Lewis
and another inmate “running
down the catwalk” following
Holt’s fall.
The inmate, Eugene Balogh,
also told the court he was "kid
naped” by a U. S. marshal who
got him out of jail in Pitts
burgh, Pa., where he was be
ing held in "lieu of bond” to
testify in the Lewis trial.
Another former convict, Ben
ny Ray Barfield told U. S. Dis
trict Court Judge Albert Hen
derson, Jr., who presided at the
trial, that federal prison offi
cials had forced him to give
false testimony at the trial.
Henderson sent the jury out
Wednesday to hear Barfield’s
he would support a 1.5 cent gas
tax hike for the purpose of
building more highways, but
would not go along with a full
two-cent tax increase as pro
posed by the state highway de
partment.
Maddox urged proponents of
rapid transit to aim for a larg
er area when designing pro
gram routes and trying to
make use of the existing rail
road lines that come through
Atlanta.
Dr. James Papke proposed a
$2115 million tax increase in
the report lauded by Maddox.
He figured that $93 million
would be raised annually if the
state sales tax were increased
from three to four per cent of
the dollar, and that an increase
in the graduated structure of
the state income tax would net
the state another $92.5 million
per year.
If the state gas tax were in
creased 1.5 cents per gallon,
s3l million would be gained an
nually, Papke said.
Nixon Sees U. S.
‘Spirit Crisis’
statement. He called in two of
the accused officers, Assistant
Warden J. W. Land and Lt.
Richard R. Engle, only to hear
them state that Barfield had
volunteered to testify. Hender
son then ordered the U. S. dis
trict attorney’s office to investi
gate Barfield’s charges.
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Sgt. L. J. Miller (1) and Patrolman Calvin Huggins
of the Griffin Police Department Friday poured out
120 gallons of moonshine they caught on a car on
the North Expressway this week. Two men were ar
rested and charged with possessing and transporting
non-tax paid whisky.
Lt. Gov. Finch
Hinted On Cabinet
By EUGENE V. RISHER
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPD
—President-elect Richard M.
Nixon emerged from five hours
of strategy sessions with
Republican governors at a plush
desert hideaway Friday and
said the challenge of his
administration was to renew the
American spirit.
Speaking to about 1,000 of the
nation’s top Republicans and
their ladies at a banquet of the
GOP governors conference,
Nixon said the crisis in America
—once material—was now spiri
tual.
“Never has a nation been
richer...and more determined to
share its wealth evenly,” he
said. “But today the crisis one
of the spirit...it is whether the
nation can again be united.”
California Lt. Gov. Robert
Finch meanwhile virtually con
firmed he would be a cabinet
member in the Nixon dminis
tration.
At a Los Angeles dinner
Thursday Nixon referred to
Finch as “Secretary Finch”
giving credence to reports that
he would get the post of
secretary of health, education
and welfare.
Strong Implication
Finch, on Friday, gave a good
humored interview in which he
made comments such as
“California and New York will
be well represented” in the
cabinet and “The bulk of the
cabinet has pretty well been
worked out.”
But he said final word will
have to come from Nixon, who
is expected to make the
announcement next week.
The president -elect spent
most of the afternoon sitting on
a terrace overlooking a private
golf course of the 200-acre
estate of Philadelphia publisher
Walter Annenberg and talking
with 24 present and future
Republican governors.
He particularly sought their
advice, a Nixon aide said, on
how the federal government
should help states solve their
problems. He also reviewed
some of the programs he plans
to put forward after Jan. 20,
and his cabinet selections of
which will be made from the
group here.
Nixon met with the governors
in small groups and then held a
separate private session with
New York’s Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller during which they dis
cussed, among other things,
Rockefeller’s proposal that the
federal government assume a
greater responsibility for taking
care of the poor.
Asks Federal Financing
Rockefeller’s plan, outlined
here Thursday would have the
federal government take over
complete financing of welfare
programs, now shared jointly
with the states, and set
standards for welfare recipients
throughout the country.
Herbert G. Klein, Nixon’s
director of communications,
refused to comment on a report
by the Washington Post that
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.,
had declined an offer from
Nixon to become his Defense
Secretary.
US Guns Slam
Reds In DMZ
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. guns
slammed dozens of shells into
the biggest band of Communists
seen in Vietnam’s Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) since the bombing
of North Vietnam stopped 37
days ago, military spokesmen
said today.
The announcement came as a
joint session of South Vietnam’s
Senate and House of Represen
tative s overwhelmingly ap
proved sending a delegation to
join expanded talks in Paris
aimed at ending the Vietnam
War. Headed by Vice President
Nguyen Cao Ky, the delegation
planned to leave today.
American headquarters said
allied gunners fired three times
into the DMZ Friday when
spotter pilots saw evidence of
Communist violations of the
zone. It brought to 38 the
number of what U.S. spokesmen
called “significant incidents’’ in
the zone since Nov. 1.
One spotter said one group of
Communists — the biggest
band since the bombing halt
began—“popped” smoke gre
nades and tried to use the
smoke as cover to keep him
from directing allied shells
accurately.. He said he was
unable to determine how many
were killed.
U.S. headquarters pinpointed
the Communist location as two
miles northwest of the allied
combat base at Gio Linh, on
South Vietnam’s extreme north
ern coast.
20,000 In Laos
In neighboring Laos, Ameri
can sources said about 20,000
North Vietnamese troops, or
two divisions, had pulled out of
South Vie tn a m’s northern
reaches since the bombing of
North Vietnam stopped.
The sources said some of the
Communists were camped in
Laos within quick striking
distance while others were
headed north on the Ho Chi
Minh supply trail toward Hanoi.
Donald Crowder
Has Appetite
Like A Horse
Donald Crowder said Friday:
“Tell the folks in Griffin I’m eat
ing like a horse.”
The Griffin man is in isolation
at Emory University Hospital re
covering from the transplant of
a kidney to him from his broth
er, Ferrell Crowder. His broth
er has been dismissed from the
hospital and has been spending
a few days in Griffin with rela
tives.
Mr. Crowder explained that
he was in isolation because his
operation necessitated the stop
ping of his white corpuscles
from functioning for a while.
This means he cannot resist in
fections.
His wife who had been with
him at the hospital throughout
the surgery and recovery period
was not permitted to see him re
cently because she had a cold.
The Griffin man said he was
doing fine. He doesn’t know
whether he’ll make it home for
Christmas.
New Satellite
Will Map Sky
CAPE KENNEDY (UPD—
The United States orbited a $75
million Stargazer satellite today
in an ambitious attempt to give
man a new look at the secrets
of the universe and map the sky
for future space travelers.
The two-ton Orbiting Astro
nomical Observatory (OAO) is
circling earth like a giant bat,
waiting to serve as a 480-mile
high platform to give 11
telescopes a view of starlight
that cannot be seen from the
ground.
But, the sources said, the flow
of supplies southward to the
war zone on the trail has not
diminished.
U.S. Marines south of the
allied base at Da Nang called in
the battleship New Jersey to
bombard the Communists sup
ply buildup and reported
capturing 37 North Vietnamese
in the process.
Military spokesmen said the
New Jersey “put a reported 90
per cent of its 16-inch shells
directly on target... Every shell
plowed directly into the target”
12 and 13 miles south of Da
Nang on the northern coast.
Reservists,
Guardsmen Out
Before Yule
WASHINGO N(UPI) — An
early release plan adopted by
the Army means Christmas at
home in 1969 for all but a
fraction of the 38,000 reservists
and National Guardsmen called
to active duty following the
seizure of the USS Pueblo last
January.
The plan, announced Friday,
assures that the last of 20,000
Army National Guardsmen and
reservists activated in April for
a maximum two-year tour will
be out of uniform by Dec. 15,
1969—at least five months early.
The first releases, beginning
next spring, will go to Vietnam
veterans.
Since the Air Force and the
Navy already had announced
similar early release plans,
approximately 37,000 of the
38,000 men mobilized as a result
of the Pueblo incident will leave
the service ahead of schedule.
The Navy has not yet decided
when it will release 1,028
Seabees, all serving in Vietnam.
If conditions in Vietnam
permit, the Army said “con
sideration can be given at a
later date to a final release of
all Army reserve members and
Guardsmen earlier than Decem
ber, 1969.
But the Army also said draft
calls starting next spring will be
“adjusted by an amount to
cover the releases,” indicating
a hike in the monthly call-up
from 25,000 to 28,000 men.
The Army announcement
provided that reservists and
guardsmen who serve in Viet
nam will be given their walking
papers as soon as they finish a
one year tour of duty there.
Thus, about half of the 20,000
men will be let out between
Dec. 1 and Dec. 15, 1969.
The 16,250 Air Force reser
vists called up for a two-year
maximum tour will be released
seven to 17 months early and
about 3,000 of them will be
home before Christmas this
year. The rest are scheduled to
get out no later than June 30.
The Navy has already re
leased all but a few of the 600
Air reservists it called up
immediately after the Pueblo
was captured by North Korea.