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VENIN VF
By Quimby Melton
Reports from the Griffin Jay-
Cees are that their canvas for mo
ney with which to finance this
year’s Empty Stocking Fund vi
sit of Santa Claus was good and
with the usual 11th hour dona
tions — that will be made by
people who were away from
home when the Jaycees called—
there will be enough money to
see that no children will be for
gotten.
There is no event staged here
that brings more happiness to
more people than the Empty Sto
cking Fund, and we are glad
that the Jaycees, and others,
who work with them, find time
from their busy pre-Christmas
schedule to remember the unfor
tunate children of the commun
ity.
This is just another commun
ity event when Griffinites dem
onstrate that this city of ours
Has a Heart!
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Speaking of a community
•‘with a Heart”:
Good Evening wants to take
this opportunity to thank the
many people who were kind en
ough to call him Sunday night,
and this morning, to express
their sympathy to him in the
loss of a great nephew —Keller
(Bo) Melton, 111, who was killed
when the airplane he was pilot
ing crashed in a wooded area
near Stone Mountain. The plane
crashed Thursday but had not
been discovered until Saturday
night. We got our first news of it
Sunday morning.
“Bo”, an autopsy revealed,
was Instantly killed. He was 20
years old, and a student at De-
Kalb Junior College. He had
been taking flying lessons, had
soloed several times, and was
planning to continue flying until
he graduated from college and
then enlist in the U.S. Air Force.
The date of this young man’s
tragic death was the 28th anni
versary of the day in 1940 when
his grandfather, Keller F. Mel
ton, Good Evening’s only broth
er, was killed in a plane crash
at Chicago.
When one has sorrow hit them,
Griffin always comes through
with a sympathetic reaction.
Thank you all.
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Country Parson
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“Mankind is like a huge
body with many parts—and
a pain in any part hurts all
over.”
1. S. Supreme Court Rejects
Appeal In Park Conviction
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
supreme court refused today to
hear the appeal of A. C. Park
of Jackson County, Ga., who
sought to be freed of a murder
charge on grounds that hearsay
evidence was admitted in his
first trial.
The Court acted in a brief or
der, which leaves Park facing
another trial.
Park was convicted of mur
der by a Jury in the death of
Floyd G. Hoard of Jefferson,
solicitor general of the Pied
mont Judicial Circuit, whose
Supreme Court Opens Way For
JFK Assassination Plot Trial
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At The Controls
Tommy Thornhill, 15, of 411 South Eighth street, got the thrill of his life Satur
day when he took a trip to Atlanta in the engine of the Nancy Hanks passenger
train. The president of the company granted him special permission to ride in the
engine. Thornhill, a railroad buff with a large model train collection, has been in
terested in keeping the Nancy Hanks run ning. He appeared at two hearings in At
lanta during discussions of the proposal to take the train off. The Griffin young
ster boarded the train in Griffin. His mother made the trip on the same train as a
regular passenger.
Senate Rules Change
Expected To Get Okay
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN 1
ATLANTA (UPD—When sen- .
ators caucus Dec. 18 in prep- i
aration for the 1969 General
Assembly they will be deciding
a key rules change — handily i
defeated in 1966 — but now :
given a good chance of victory.
The measure, which would
have senate committee chair- ;
men named by seniority rather
than by arbitrary appointment,
has every chance of winning at
the meeting, according to in
formed sources.
It was defeated at a similar
caucus two years ago when sen
ators took the move to be a
power play by forces favoring
former Senate President Peter
Zack Geer, who was defeated :
by Lt. Gov. George T. Smith.
Smith this time is viewed as
Bloodmobile
Here Tuesday
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in Griffin Tuesday to col
lect blood.
Donors have been asked to
come to the bloodmobile at the
Cheatham building of the First
Baptist Church between 11 a.m.
and 5 p.m.
This is the last visit the blood
mobile will make to Griffin un
der the chairmanship of Donald
A. Young. He has held the post
several years and will be suc
ceeded in 1969 by Lee Roy Clax
ton.
car w’as dynamited on Aug. 7,
1967. Park was sentenced to be
electrocuted.
In an appeal to the Georgia
Supreme Court, Park contended
that alleged coconspirators in
the killing had been allowed to
give hearsay testimony about
conversations implicating him.
The state high court rejected
his request for an outright re
versal of the conviction on
these, grounds, but ordered a
new trial because Park’s attor
neys had not been allowed the
opening and closing arguments.
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the key man in the Dec. 18 i
caucus and reportedly has giv- 1
en the proposal his blessing, al- i
though it would cut into his au
thority to name committee '
chairmen at will. He success- 1
fully led the fight to defeat it i
in 1966.
While the rules change is con- i
sidered an important one, it :
will not have a major effect un- :
til 1970, since most of the cur
rent chairmen will serve until
then. Only two chairmanships, i
where one senator failed to run :
again and another was defeat
ed, would be influenced by the
change. <
A second key issue to come :
up at the meeting will be the i
hotly disputed race for presi- i
Jury Drawn For
Pritchard Trial
J. B. Pritchard of Griffin went
on trial for robbery this morn
ing in a special session of Spal
ding Superior Court.
Pritchard was tried and con
victed of the same charge ear
lier this year, but a new trial
was ordered by the Georgia Su
preme Court.
The high court ordered the tr
ial for Pritchard after his motion
for a new trial was denied by
Spalding Superior Court.
Pritchard, along with three
other men, was arrested and
charged in the robbery of the
The state asked the U. S. Su
preme court to reject the ap
peal because lower court action
was incomplete.
In seeking Supreme Court in
tervention, Park charged that
hearsay evidence had violated
his right to be confronted with
witnesses against him.
The Georgia high court, in re
jecting this argument, said un
der Georgia law, once a con
spiracy has been shown, such
testimony by persons identified
as coconspirators is admissa
ble.
GRIFFIN
dent pro tem between incum
bent Julian Webb and challen
ger Hugh Gillis.
Some senators backing Webb
view the fight as one not only
between the two named conten
ders, but also one involving pos
sible repercussions in the 1970
governor’s race and the in
fluence of State Highways Di
rector Jim Gillis.
Webb has publicly charged
that Gillis is applying pressure
to aide his son’s cause, and
some other senators have pri
vately confirmed it.
Although Junior Gillis is gen
erally acknowledged to be the
frontrunner, some sources say
a secret ballot could swing the
tide against him.
home of Bill Morris at Orchard
Hill.
It took more than an our to
select a jury this morning and
the first witness, Denvil Ronald
Daniel of Trenton, Ga., was not
called until shortly after 11 a.m.
Woman’s Purse
Stolen At
Store Here
The purse of a Thomaston wo
man who was shopping in a
Griffin store was stolen over
the weekend, according to Grif
fin police.
A police report said Linda
Watson of 216 Fifth avenue, Tho
maston, was shopping at Cl
ark’s Discount Department Store
on Memorial drive when the pur
se was taken.
She left the purse in a shop
ping cart and went into anoth
er aisle to look at items. When
she returned, the purse was
missing, the report said.
Police said the purse contain
ed s9l in money and credit
cards and her personal check
book.
The purse was described as" be
ing a biege strap purse with a
black rim. The wrist strap on
it was leather.
Injunction To
Halt Trial Denied
WASHINGTON (UPD—The !
Supreme Court today opened ’
the way for the State of
Louisiana to try Clay L. Shaw ;
on a charge of conspiring to i
assassinate President John F. :
Kennedy. 1
In a brief order, the high i
court affirmed a July 23 <
decision of the U. S. District i
Court at New Orleans denying
an injunction to stop the <
prosecution. The district court, 1
however, delayed the trial i
pending outcome of the Su- :
preme Court appeal. i
In appealing, Shaw—a 55-year i
old retired businessman —1
charged that New Orleans Dist. 1
Atty. Jim Garrison was using <
him "as a pawn and a patsy” in .
a bad faith prosecution aimed
solely at “securing a judicial I
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Campbell Says i
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‘lmprobable’ i
ATLANTA (UPD — Agricul- <
ture Commissioner Phil Camp
bell today all but ruled himself
out of any chance that he will
be named agriculture secretary
in the Nixon administration.
Campbell, in a telephone con
versation from Memphis, Tenn.,
told Atlanta radio station WSB
that it "seemed rather improb
able” that he would be picked.
Campbell was one of five top
state officials who announced
last September that they were i
switching from the Democratic
to the Republican Party.
Campbell said that tradition
ally the agriculture secretary i
has come from the Midwest and :
the interior secretary from the :
West. He added that "no one
from the Nixon headquarters i
has contacted me about this i
job at all.” I
Yule Gifts ;
For Patients
Due Tuesday
Tuesday is the deadline for
taking Christmas gifts to the j
Chamber of Commerce for pat- ,
ients at Central State Hospital
in Milledgeville. A motorcade
will take the presents to Milled
geville Wednesday.
This is a state-wide event pro
moted by the Georgia Municipal
Association. This is the 10th st- ,
raight year that Griffinites have
participated.
Gifts may be brought to the
Chamber of Commerce office,
111 West Taylor street. Wrapped
packages should be labeled as to :
their contents and, if desired, in- ,
elude the name and address of j
the donor. ;
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair with slowly rising >
temperature through Tuesday.
Freezing again tonight. 1
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 48, low today i
23, high Sunday 42, low Sunday ;
25; sunrise Tuesday 7:31, sun
set Tuesday 5:35. ,
Color Comics
To Be Expanded
Griffin Daily News readers will
get a Christmas present early
this year.
Beginning this weekend, the
color comic section for weekend
editions will be expanded to ei
ght pages. Three well known co
mic strips will be added.
“Tarzan” by Edgar Rice Bur
roughs which has proved pop
ular among adult and young
forum for his attacks on the
Warren report.”
Shaw was indicted by a grand
jury on March 22, 1967, on a
charge of conspiring with Lee
Harvey Oswald and David W.
ferrie and unnamed others to
assassinate Kennedy. He plead
ed innocent. Ferrie died shortly
afterward.
Shaw also asked the Supreme
Ciurt to declare the Warren
report, which found Oswald
alone responsible for Kennedy’s
slaying, to be “valid, accurate
and correct, binding and con
trolling upon all courts of the
United States.” The assassina
tion report was prepared by a
commission headed by Chief
Justice Earl Warren.
In addition, Shaw asked the
Supreme Court to declare un
constitutional the Louisiana
conspiracy law, its jury sys
tem, and portions of its crimin
al procedure.
If the court refused to block
his trial, he asked it to order
Garrison to furnish "certain
particulars of the crime alleged
ly committed” so that he could
prepare a proper defense.
The lower court rejected all
of Shaw’s requests.
In seeking Supreme Court
intervention, Shaw accused Gar
rison of "conducting a reign of
terror” in an “illegal, useless
and fradulent probe of the
assassination.”
He cited a previous Louisiana
case where the Supreme Court
took the rare step of interfering
in a state criminal proceeding
on grounds it created a
“chilling effect” on freedom of
expression and threatened irre
parable damage.
His own rights, Shaw claimed,
“are being violated by a
calculated, deliberate state as
sault, resulting in irreparable
injury, clear and imminent.”
Shaw charged that Louisia
na’s conspiracy statute was
unconstitutionally vague and
broad. Further, he said, if he
were brought to trial, only nine
out of a jury of 12 would need
to agree to reach a verdict. He
said this was contrary to
Supreme Court decisions.
In a short reply brief,
Garrison denied Shaw’s charges
he had been singled out for
persecution as part of a
publicity drive by Garrison to
discredit the Warren report.
130 Low-Cost
Apartments
Planned Here
Dan Smith of Smith Brothers
Realty announced that filing has
been made with FHA for build
ing 130 low-cost apartments on
Smith Brothers property on Nor
th Hill street.
These apartments are expect
ed to be built under the FHA
rent supplement program. FHA
now has the application and is
holding it, subject to being fund
ed.
The application for these un
its was filed by Fickling & Wai
ker, Inc., of Macon, Ga. Apart
ments manufactured by Imper
ial Homes are expected to be us
ed in this development.
readers will be added to the
weekend color comics.
Detective “Kerry Drake” by
Alfred Andriola and “The Wiz
ard of Id” by Parker and Hart
will join the expanded comics.
The additions are part of a
. continual program to expand
features of the Griffin Daily
News for its readers.
SILENT NIGHT
The Story of Christmas
by John J. Stewart
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First of a Series
“The Lord Shall Come Down from Heaven”
Better than mere words can, the peaceful, soothing
strains of “Silent Night” convey the wonderful magic of
Christmas—the happy feeling of brotherly love and kind
ness that seems to permeate the very air we breathe.
There is an excitement in the air too, as of great expecta
tions. It is as though we were about to experience for one
shining moment all the true, the good and the beautiful
there is in life.
This enchantment of pleasant anticipation at Christmas
time, is it not the devine spark, the immortal spirit in each
of us responding anew to that glorious message of old:
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and
shall call His name Emmanuel—God with us .... And His
name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty
God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace!”
Is it not the joy of wayward children reassured that a
kindly father, from whom we have become estranged, still
loves us with an everlasting love ?
“For God so loved the world that He sent His only be
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have eternal life.”
In the great council in heaven before the earth was creat
ed, Jesus offered to come down to earth in the meridian
of time and give His lift, His perfect life, as an atoning
sacrifice for the sins of the world.
“With power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth . . .
shall come down from heaven among the children of men
. . . working mighty miracles, such as healing the sick,
raising the dead . . . and He shall cast out devils, or the
evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men
. . . that salvation might come unto the children of men
through faith on His name.”
Longingly, anxiously men awaited the coming of this
great Messiah. Yet, like so many of the important things
in life, this greatest of events, the birth of the Christ Child,
though anticipated, came unexpectedly.
Few there were who recognized and accepted this great
gift of a loving Father. In keen disappointment Jesus would
say, “I came unto My own and My own received Me not.”
And yet the gift was not withheld, but freely given.
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