Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, December 26, 1968, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEgood I^* VENEV VJ By Quimby Melton ' Yes, Virginia, and Mary, and Laura and Leila, there is a Santa Claus! Once again he came to Griffin to “see the ' good little boys and girls”, not to mention at least one old-timer whose record since last Christ mas fell short of being as good . as that of the much younger. Take our word for it —There Is a Santa Claus! For we saw him several times right here in * Griffin Christmas eve and then on Christmas Day itself. In fact he spent so much time in Grif fin we wonder how on earth he * managed to get to all the other towns and cities round the wor ld. When did we see Santa Claus? My little friends and skeptical older ones may wonder. We saw him time and time ag » ain: We saw him in the eyes of a young mother, who, ending a long day of work was checking * out to go home and trim the tree for her one-year-old baby girl. The young mother was we ary, all but her eyes, they shone * with the light of love for the lit tle girl whose birthday was just two days before Christmas. , We saw him in a fireman’s uni form, in police uniform, in that of a state safety patrolman all giving up their Christmas to serve others; we saw him dress * ed in white of a nurse and oth er hospital personnel, and in the garb of ambulance driver, all teamed up to care for the * sick and the injured. We saw him in ministerial dr ess and Salvation Army uni , form, ready to comfort and help any in distress. We saw him everywhere we turned both Christmas Eve and * Christmas Day. Not only did we see Santa Cl * aus but we heard him. Not the ‘‘Ho, Ho, Ho” usually associated with St. Nicholas, but in the happy laughter of child ren; in the voice of the girl at the telephone company who helped us get through some long distance calls. » We heard him in the voice of many who were thoughtful en ough to call Good Evening to r wish him a Merry Christmas. And we are quite positive he was present at the candlelight vesper communion service at our * church, joining in thanking God for the gift of His Blessed Son, whose birthday is Christmas. Santa Claus Is a spirit, Just as * is the One whose birthday we ce lebrate; and Santa Claus is the Spirit of Love, Just as is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. * (One of the best proofs that Santa Claus came to Griffin we witnessed Christmas morning, when Good Evening, discovering 0 the gauge on his gas tank stood at “empty” drove to a filling sta tion that was opened. There was one attendant here, a man who * had reached the “golden age” of life. He was filling our t a n k when about a dozen boys and girls rode up on new bicycles. , They didn’t want to buy anyth ing; Just wanted him to check their tires. And he took time to carefully check each bike, and wish the happy youngsters a * Merry Christmas.) As long as there is the Spirit of Love in the world there will » be a Santa Claus, Just as there will be a Savior whose birthday we celebrate on Christmas. 9 This was one of the happiest Christmases Good Evening has ever had. Any lingiering doubt in , his mind that Santa Claus might not have time for this old-timer, was dispelled. Our friends, including fellow * workers, our neighbors, and our family, though all busy with “getting ready for Christmas”, had time to remember him. * And they did so in many ways, all greatly appreciated. The crowning event of Christ mas day was when our family ** gathered at “Many Mortgages” for Christmas dinner. We’ve ne ver enjoyed one more because the Spirit of Love was there. * Os course we believe in Santa Claus — and you would, too, if you had the many happy exper iences this old timer had this * Christmas. We hope all did — and we wish everyone a Happy New Year. INSIDE TODAY Sports. Pages 2, 3. Editorials. Page 4. Billy Graham. Page 4. Television. Page 4. Peanuts. Page 5. Lt. CoL Burdeshaw. Page 5. Woman’s News. Page 6. Hospital. Page 8. Stork Club. Page 8. Funerals. Page 8. Plane Attacked. Page 9. Betty Canary. Page 10. U. S. Toll. Page 10. |||||| • ' JF/ • h99HHShPPP: GREETINGS FROM SPACE — The three A pollo 8 astronauts sent back these photos via tele vision during their Moon trip. From left: Frank Apollo Races Down Cosmic Corridor SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — America’s Apollo 8 moon pilots today raced down the cosmic corridor leading to a successful end of a voyage without equal in the annals of man. Only man’s fastest re-entry into earth’s atmosphere and a safe Pacific Ocean recovery Friday morning remained be tween Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders and the completion of the six-day flight in which they orbited the moon 10 times. “If you’ll get the people to spread out one of the banners on the target area we’ll try to break it as we come through it,” Borman joked with ground control center as the astronauts set their sights on a bull’s-eye splashdown. “Ok, Frank. We’ll call one of the paper companies to see if we can find a roll big enough,” replied ground communicator Jerry Carr. “It won’t take a big roll. Just about 30 feet,” quipped Borman. He and his crewmen were sounding more cheerful than ever since launch last Saturday on their daring six-day adven ture. The moonship’s course was so accurate that another steering correction was cancelled today and only a slight adjustment will be made about two hours before Apollo 8 slashes into the atmosphere at 24,695 mph. “We’re already in the corri dor and, even without any mid course corrections at all, we have satisfactory entry condi tions,” reported flight director Milton Windier as Apollo 8 entered its sixth and final day of flight. Steering Apollo 8 into the 28- mile wide corridor leading to a safe re-entry into earth’s atmospheric blanket was a price guidance feat executed flawlessly by the astronauts with the help of earth tracking stations. If the moonship were to slice into the air at too shallow an angle, the astronauts would skip far out into a distant orbit and run out of oxygen. If Apollo 8 came in too steeply—at an angle greater than 7.5 degrees — the astronauts might be crushed by excessive gravity forces or IJ. S. Lost Face On Pueblo Release See Ray Crowley Column On Page 21 DAILY NEWS Daily Since 1872 Pope Paul. Page 10. Nose For News. Page 11. Transplant. Page 11. Brooklyn Chef. Page 12. Czech Out Os Job. Page 12. Maddox’s Year. Page 13. Plane Crash. Page 14. Pueblo Debrief. Page 14. Georgia Toll. Page 20. Girl Abducted. Page 21. Want Ads. Page 22. Comics. Page 23. Weather. Page 24. incinerated by severe re-entry heat. Lovell, Apollo B’s navigator, was keeping a close watch on course calculations radioed up from the ground. Several times today he said his figures agreed witli those from earth compu ters. “You want to just shut off the radioes and come on back without us?” Carr joked. At 11:25 a.m. EST, Apollo 8 was 129,475 miles from earth and heading home at 3,783 mph. “We’re happy to report the earth is getting larger,” radioed Borman. According to the latest calculations, Apollo 8 will splash down in the Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii at 10:54 a.m. EST. A midday weather forecast called for satisfactory condi tions in the remote landing area with scattered clouds at 2,000 feet and a visibility of 10 miles. The seas were expected to be rolling at a moderate four feet. Forecasters said there was a small possibility of showers at splashdown time, Borman asked for a weather report earlier in the day and said, “don’t make those waves too high. We’re going to have to sit in this thing for about 45 minutes, I guess.” The astronauts are scheduled to land before dawn and plan to remain in their spacecraft until first light. Recovery aircraft were scheduled to circle the bobbing spacecraft as soon as possible, but barring an emer gency, swimmers were not expected to jump into the seas until daylight. Although Apollo 8 will be making man's fastest re-entry, the Apollo spacecraft has been tested twice unmanned under similar conditions. In both cases the ships were rammed back into earth’s atmosphere at speeds duplicating the lunar return velocity. The three astronauts ap peared well rested today and reported they each had had about seven hours of sleep since their break away from lunar orbit early Christmas morning. The prime goal of the $3lO million Apollo 8 mission was to blaze the trail for the landing of Americans on the lunar surface next spring or summer. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 26, 1968 Area Planning Unit Talks Set Jan. 22 Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, tak ing break from flight tasks to express greetings. I j ’Hi HI Hi 1 - \ ?v \ < ■*, y jSgf y * if IB iSfvP&P' as MOTHER EARTH looks a bit frowzy in this photo televised by Apollo 8 from about 200.000 miles. The North Pole is at the left, the South Pole at the right. Griffarea Had Safe Holiday Christmas 1968 was one of the safest holidays in many years for the Griffin Post of the Geor gia State Patrol. One accident was reported during the 30-hour holiday period beginning Tues day at 6 p.m. and ending at mid night Wednesday. No one was injured in the one car accident four miles east of Griffin on the Dutchman road. Damage was estimated at S3OO. The mishap was Wednesday morning. Traffic in the Griffarea was heavy Tuesday afternoon and evening and again Wednesday. The Griffin Post covers five counties: Spalding, Butts, Hen ry, Monroe and Lamar. The troopers assigned to the Griffin Post were assigned to ex tra duty to patrol the highways in the area. Weather: FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Fair to partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Friday partly cloudy and warmer with slight chance of showers. LOCAL WEATHER — Esti mated high today 56, low today 30, high Wednesday 48, low Wednesday 26; sunrise Friday 7:41, sunset Friday 5:42. ★★ ★ ★ City Prisoners Get Christmas Off From Jail Prisoners were released from city jail to spend Christmas with their families. All returned to the jail at city hall at the end of the day. Nine prisoners were released. Two of them had completed their sentences and did not have to return. The other seven retur ned on time. Three out-of-county prisoners were not released and another prisoner was free to go home, but remained in jail, a spokes but remained in Jail. He had no place or home to go. It has been a custom in Grif fin to release prisoners for Christmas Day so they can be with their families. Agreement is made before they are released that they return to the jail at the end of the day. Each of the prisoners kept his part of the bargain. ★★ ★ ★ Yol. 95 No. 306 Seven Counties Invited To Meet Representatives of seven counties will meet in Griffin Jan. 22 to discuss the formation of an area planning and development North Viets Demand Talks Begin Now By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS (UPl)—North Vietnam and the Viet Cong demanded today the Paris talks open immediately. They warned that Washington and South Vietnam must bear “full responsibility” for any further delay. In their first joint declaration on record, Hanoi and the Viet Co n g’s National Liberation Front (NLF) cautioned the United States that the Saigon regime "will sabotage the Paris conference.” They demanded its overthrow and its replacement by a "peace cabinet.” The statement was issued as Tran Buu Kiem, the Viet Cong’s acting foreign minister, met with French Foreign Minister Michel Debre in a new step to press for international recogni tion of the NLF. The meeting itself was a diplomatic victory of sorts. “If the United States really wants the Paris conference to open in order to proceed rapidly for substantial discussions lead ing to an honorable peace in Vietnam as it has often declared, the representatives of the United States and of the Saigon administration must immediately sit at the circular table proposed by the delegation of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the NLF,” the joint statement declared. The statement, composed in Paris after consultations be tween the Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations, again rejected seat ing arrangements proposed by Washington and Saigon which would characterize the confer ence as a two-side affair in which the Viet Cong would not have separate status. The statement urged the United States to dump the Saigon regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky who were elected to their jobs more than a year ago. U.S. negotiators in Paris already have flatly rejected previous Communist demands for formation of a South Vietnam “peace cabinet.” The Americans called it a “Commu nist propaganda which does not merit any comment from us.” Disregarding the U.S. refusal to tamper with Saigon politics, the Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations said: “Tlie South Vietnam people are passionately fighting far the overthrow of the Thieu-Ky- Huong clique and the immediate establishment of a peace cabinet that would approve of talks with the NLF and of the participation in the four party conference in order to find a peaceful settlement of the South Vietnam problem.” Country Parson H V Vy'J | “We think about steward ship with our pocketbooks instead of our minds.” commission. The meeting will be held at Bo nanza Restaurant on the North Expressway. Spalding County Commission Chairman Jack Moss will be the host. The counties participating in the formative planning of the commission are Spalding, Fay ette, Lamar, Butts, Newton, Rockdale and Henry. The Griffin meeting will be a follow-up to a preliminary meet ing held in November at Emory at Oxford near Covington in Newton County. The planning and development commission, if formed, would have a consultant and research staff to make projections, com pile data and statistics pertain ing to the area. It would maintain contact with the State Planning Bureau and would advise the counties of funds available for projects through state and federal agen cies. Spalding County Commission Clerk Tom Lane said a deve lopment and planning commis sion would have been an aid to Spalding County in its applica tion to extend the county’s wa ter system. The data, projections and stat istics would point out areas where projects should be initia ted and what funds would be needed to carry out the projects. Gary Powell said that an area planning and development com mission would not over-ride the functions of the Chamber of Commerce. Powell is manager of the Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the establishment of an area planning and develop ment commission. Powell said that the Chamber of Commerce would make re commendations to the commis sion and that the commission would do the planning. He said that the Chamber would act as a group to push projects in ar eas where they are needed. Spalding County Sheriff Dway ne Gilbert called a meeting of officials from five counties, Sp alding, Butts, Lamar, Henry and Fayette, to submit an applica tion for funds being provided through the Omnibus Crime and Safe Streets Act. The funds were to be distribu ted to counties through area planning and development com missions. None of the counties are in an area planning and de velopmet commission and Gil bert did not want them to miss out on the funds. $9,000 Okayed For Five-County Area Federal funds have been ap proved for planning in five co unties under the Omnibus Cr ime and Safe Streets Act, accor ding to Spalding County Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert. Sheriff Gilbert called meet ings of officials in the five coun ties, Spalding, Butts, Lamar, Henry and Fayetete, to submit an application for the funds. He said the funds were being distributed to counties through the State Planning Bureau and State Planning Boad through area planning and developmet commissions. The counties Gil bert called together are not members of a planning and de velopment commission. The State Planning Board ap proved $9,000 for planning in all areas of criminal justice needs, Gilbert said. The money is for the develop ment of a plan for securing more money for law enforcement in the five counties. He said that the group proba bly will be absorbed by a deve lopment and planning commis sion, if one is formed. Gilbert said the officials held two meetings in one week to get an application in to the State Planning Board before the Dec. 19 deadline. The application was approved and $9,000 okayed for planning in the counties. Rep. Udall Is Candidate For House Speaker WASHINGTON (UPl)—Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., announced today his candidacy for speaker of the House. He said he has the greatest respect for Speaker John W. McCor mack but that new leadership is required. Udall became the first announced challenger of McCor mack although a number of dissatisfied younger members have been quietly plotting a revolt against the Veteran Massachusetts Democrat. McCormack is 77 and his age is offered as the main argument against his retention of the powerful House post when the 91st Congress convenes on Jan. 3. McCormack has asked Demo crats for their support and aides say he has received more than enough pledges to assure his reelection. The 46-year-old Udall said there are other House Demo crats as well qualified as himself, or possibly better qualified, to succeed McCor mack. Among them, he men tioned Rep. Carl Albert, D- Okla., who is majority leader. But in his announcement letter to all Democratic mem bers, Udall said Albert and others are unwilling to oppose McCormack. For this reason, he said, he will oppose McCormack at the Democratic caucus on Jan. 2, the day before the new Congress opens, and that if he wins he will immediately vacate the nomination and call for another vote. That would enable others, like Albert, to get into the race, Udall said. All Back GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) — Police Chief Hoyt Henry report ed another success today in his release of city jail prisoners for the Christmas holiday. Henry turned loose all five prisoners in the jail on Christ mas Eve, with the agreement that they return to their cells on the day after Christmas. Four prisoners returned to the jail today and a fifth, who asked for a one-hour extension, was reported on his way back. It was the 17th consecutive year that Henry has released prisoners for Christmas. Each year the prisoners have kept their end of the bargain. Once the initial planning Is completed, another application will be submitted and if it is ap proved, action funds will be pro vided for law fnrocement and criminal justice needs in the five counties. The five counties may be Join ed by Newton and Rockdale. Sheriff Gilbert said there is a possibility that a planning of ficer will be employed by the five counties to do planning and make recommendations in areas where there are needs for im provement. “If we hire a person, he w i 11 not be like most of the people who come In, do a study, and leave. He will be a planning of ficer and may continue for five years or more,” Sheriff Gilbert said. “The counties involved in our effort here and four other coun ties in the state are not mem bers of area planning and deve lopment commissions and I rea lized that we would miss out on the funds if something were not done,” Sheriff Gilbert said. The planning grant was appro ved for the next nine months. After that, the counties will have to submit an application for an action grant. Another meeting of the five county group is scheduled for Jan. 8.