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By Quimby Melton
Tonight, at midnight, the world
will, to use an age-old cliche,
“stand on the threshold of a
New Year.”
We’ll face the future, the past
will join history.
H. G. Wells, the British writer,
in 1933 published a book that
describes the future in its ti
tle — “The Shape of Things to
Come.”
And what will be the "shape”
of the future?
Recently a young minister
said, “We do not know what the
future holds; but we do know
who holds the future in His
hands.”
He may have had in mind
the hymn written by American
poet John Greenleaf Whittier —
I know not what the future hath
Os marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies,
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
With this in mind there are
none of us but can face the fu
ture unafraid with hope in our
hearts and a song of joy on our
lips.
An old Sanskrit writer tells us
to look well to every day. “Yes
terday is only a memory and to
morrow is only a dream; today
well-lived makes every yester
day a pleasant memory and ev
ery tomorrow a dream of hope.”
Shakespeare tells us of the
yesterdays, "What is past is the
prologue” of the future.
Prince A. Taylor, Jr., of New
Jersey, suggests as a Thought
for January, which begins 1969
this:
An eminent teacher advised
one day, "In times of great cri
ses one should read philosophy
and listen to good music.” His
advice was good as far as it
went. There are so many things
in life that we cannot do much
about; at best we can endure
them. And the professor felt
that reading philosophy and lis
tening to good music would pre
pare one to face the inevitable
with poise and confidence.
But it is not enough merely to
endure, however calmly one
may do it. If one does not have
a sense of divine commitment
and commission, he is likely to
do one of three things: resign to
whatever fate may come; as
sume that life has taken advan
tage of him and become cynical
and bitter; or become a frustra
ted, fanatical crusader motiva
ted by fear and confusion.
As the disciples of Jesus stood
on the frontiers of the new faith,
they saw the need for strength
which they did not possess. And
thus they prayed in perhaps the
earliest recorded prayer in the
Christian church: “Enable Thy
servants to proclaim Thy word
with fearless courage.”
And only last Sunday, in the
International Sunday School Les
son, stress was laid on the word
“new”. We w’ere told of a new
world, a new heaven, a new holy
city, the home of God’s Child
ren, who had been blessed with
the new birth.
So as we face the New Year
let’s do so with confidence, fai
th and hope.
The “prologue” of things to
come may cover a long list of
short-comings, but the dawn of
a New Day, is brightened with
hope, to those who seek the new
way with all their heart, all their
spirit and all their being.
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The month of January was na
med for the pagan god Janus,
whom, it was said, had two fa
ces, one looking at the past, the
other at the future. We cannot
change the expression of the
backward looking face of Janua,
but we can make the forward
looking face beam with joy and
expectation.
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Hoover Charges SDS
Aim Is To Destroy
U. S. Government
By IS A B ELLE McCRAIG
HALL
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
basic objective of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), the
core of the New Left move
ment, is “To completely destroy
our form of government,” FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover said
today.
He reported a marked in
crease in recent months in
bombings and burnings of public
Classes Resume
Here Thursday
Students in the Griffin-Spald
ing School System will resume
classes Thursday after taking
two weeks off for the Christmas
and New Year’s holidays.
Thursday will be a regular sc
hool day. Buses will operate as
scheduled.
In announcing the reopening of
school, D. B. Christie, superin
tendent, said:
“All students are expected to
return to classes Thursday. We
need the support of all parents
in seeing that this is done. Us
ually children are slow in retur
ning following the holidays. Let’s
make an exception this year.
“This time of year is most im
portant because the A.D.A. in
our system will be determined
shortly by the State Department
of Education, and money will be
allocated for the remainder of
the school year.
"The higher our A.D.A., the
more money we will earn. Last
year our attendance was off con
siderably and we lost both mo-
No Paper
Wednesday
The Griffin Daily News
will observe Wednesday,
Jan. 1, as a New Year’s
Holiday, and will not pub
lish on that day.
Regular publication will
be resumed Thursday.
Griffinite Will Remember Hijacking
When memories of 1968 are
tucked away, one that is likely
to linger with Phillip Williams in
years to come is his trip to Cu
ba this month.
He and Bruce Smith, both Grif
finites, were on board a jet air
liner that was hijacked Dec. 3.
The two men were on a sales
trip for Southern States of Hamp
ton where they are employed.
Mr. Williams sat comfortably
on a sofa in his home at 736 Clay
street and recalled some of the
highlights of the trip.
The two Griffin men were am
ong the 38 passengers on the
huge jet headed for Miami. The
plane already was in the final
stages of landing and the wheels
had been lowered before the
hijacker made his move.
The Cuban had boarded the
plane with his left arm seeming
ly bandaged. He took one of the
plane’s four stewardesses, held
an automatic pistol to her neck,
and marched her down the aisle
toward the pilot’s cabin. The Cu
ban had taken a seat in the rear
of the plane after he boarded
and remained there until he de
cided to make his move.
A hand grenade appeared to
dangle about his shoulder as he
made his way toward the front
of the plane with the steward
ess.
When he reached the front, he
let the stewardess go and seized
another as a hostage. They en
tered the plane’s pilot section
where the Cuban was to remain
throughout the entire hijacking.
The jetliner cancelled its land
ing at Miami and within a few
minutes, the pilot came on the
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buildings and other acts of
terrorism, with selective service
boards and Navy and Army
Reserve Offlc e r s’ Training
Corps units foremost among the
targets.
“New Left leaders have
constantly exhorted their follow
ers to abandon their traditional
role of ‘passive dissent’ and
resort to these terroristic
tactics as a means of disrupting
the defense efforts and opposing
ney and teachers.
"And too, children need to be
present because it is near mid
term exam time and some stu
dents can not afford to miss the
review work.”
UN Expected To
Condemn Israel
UNITED NATIONS (UPD—
The U.N. Security Council
moved today to condemn Israel
for its commando raid against
Beirut Airport. The vote was
expected before midnight.
Diplomats said there was
near agreement on a resolution
that would condemn Israel for
Saturday’s raid and make some
reference to Lebanon having a
"right of redress.”
But they said the resolution
would not specifically call for
Israel to pay for the $56-to SIOO
- damage done in destroy
ing 13 Lebanese airliners in the
raid. Further, Russian calls for
U.N. sanctions against Israel
appeared doomed.
The council hurried toward
the vote because Wednesday,
New Year’s Day, will bring the
replacement of five of the 15
council members. The new
member nations might delay
the vote because of a need to
study the Issue, diplomatic
observers said.
public address system and told
passengers:
“We have a gentleman aboard
with an automatic and hand
grenade. He wants to go to Cu
ba and we’re going to take
him.”
The passengers remained
calm.
The plane was running low
on fuel and it had to land in Key
West for more.
Word had flashed to Key West
that the hijacked plane would
make a stop there and many
people had gathered along the
fences at the airport run way
to watch.
The plane didn’t pull up to the
terminal but remained out on the
field.
A fuel truck approached and
was allowed to refuel the plane.
The truck had one driver. The
hijacker permitted the plane’s
navigator to leave the craft and
supervise the refueling.
Night had fallen and spotlights
from the airport played on the
plane during the operation. It
was the most tense part of t h e
hijack.
Passengers were apprehensive
about what might happen.
One passenger wanted to go
out of the rear exit. A steward
ess explained that opening the
door would set off signals in the
pilot’s cabin. This might excite
the hijacker, she said, and the
passenger returned to his seat.
When the refueling was com
pleted, the plane took off the
short runway for Cuba. It took
about 15 to 20 minutes to make
it to Havana, the capital of the
Castro ruled island.
established authority,” Hoover
said in a year-end report.
He said publications of the
New Left are replete with
articles proposing the bombings
of draft boards and other
government installations, plus
detailed diagrams and instruc
tions for making incendiary
devices.
The nucleus of the New Left
movement in the United States
is the Students for a Democra
tic Society, and organization
which became well known in
1968 for its disrputive tactics at
a number of universities,
Hoover said.
Though two of its leaders
have identified themselves pub
licly as Communists “with a
small c,” Hoover said, the
distinction “is irrelevant to the
rest of America because the
basic objective of both New
Left and old line Communists
and their adherents in our
society is to completely destroy
our form of government.”
He said the “pro-Chinese,
violence-prone, Marxist-Leninist
Progressive Labor Party” has
made progress in concentrating
its youth program mainly
toward infiltration of SDS.
Hoover said Ame r i ca’s
stepped-up military commit
ment in 1968 caused “draft law
violations and deserter-fugitive
type investigations to increase
considerably.” More than 11,000
deserter-fugitives were appre
hended during 1968, an increase
of some 3600 over 1967, he
reported.
“These cases are no longer
confined to the failure to report
for physical examination, fail
ure to report for induction and
other similar matters,” Hoover
said, “But involve to a great
extent the burning of draft
cards, interference with the
administration of the Selective
Service Act, demonstrations and
other widespread protests.”
Nearly 800 persons were
convicted of violating the
Selective Service Act in 1968.
Most notable among them were
pediatrician Dr. Benjamin M.
Spock, Yale University Chaplain
William Sloane Coffin Jr., and
two others for conspiring to aid,
abet and counsel evasion of the
draft. A fifth accused co
conspirator in the case was
acquitted.
The hijacker thought he was
being taken to the U. S. Navy
base in Cuba. He talked with Cu
bans on the ground via radio.
They pointed out a landmark
near Havana and reassured the
man he soon would land at Hav
ana.
The jetliner settled down on
the runway and pulled up to the
terminal at Havana. A Russian
airliner and a British plane were
there also.
The hijacker left the pilot’s ca
bin with his hostage and retur
ned to his seat in the rear of the
plane. Immigration officials bo
arded the craft and took his pis
tol and granade. They whisked
him off the plane and he never
was seen again.
The Griffinites later learned
that he was what is known as a
“one ticket” rider. That is, he
had left Cuba for the U. S. with
the understanding he would not
return. Most Cubans who return
in hijacked planes are taken to
work camps until it is decided
what to do with them, Mr. Will
iams and Mr. Smith later were
told.
Six immigration officials, dr
essed in army like fatigues that
have come to symbolize Castro’s
regime, took charge of the
passengers.
They left the plane and were
offered Expresso Coffee, pineap
ple juice and cigarettes. Then a
sort of snack and souvenior shop
were opened for them. Some of
the passengers bought cigars, ci
garettes, beverages and souven
irs. When they returned to the
United States, these items were
confiscated because it is illegal
South Viet Troops
Rescue US Officer
Georgia Float
Wins Again
DALLAS (UPD—For the sec
ond year in a row, Georgia has
won the grand prize in one of
the nation’s major football bowl
parades—this year, the Cotton
Bowl.
“Georgia, a Peach of a
State,” took top honors Monday,
and will be preceded during the
Cotton Bowl parade New Year’s
Day by the 125-member Doug
las High School Band.
Last year, the state’s float
took the national prize in the
famed Rose Bowl parade in
Pasadena, Calif., with a similar
theme; but that one, in flowers.
The 1969 Cotton Bowl winner
sports a typical Southern ante
bellum mansion with garden,
mountains and peach trees.
The trees alone took more
than a month to build and were
hahd made.
Riding in the float will be
Linda Garrett, Miss "See Geor
gia First,” Jenny Lynn An
drews, Miss Atlanta, and Nancy
Bartholomew, Miss Georgia
World.
Some 20 million persons are
expected to view the New
Year’s Day parade over nation
al television.
Country Parson
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on the wrong side of every
question.”
to purchase them and bring
them back into this country.
The passengers were treated
with courtesy throughout their
stay.
They were told their passage
back to Miami was being arran
ged and that they would be ta
ken by bus to Varadero. The bus
trip was about three hours.
On the way through Cuba, the
two Griffin men noticed a large
sports arena. It was lighted and
some sort of athletic contest ap
peared to be in progress. A bull
ring they passed was empty.
There were not too many au
tomobiles on the streets. Most of
them were banged up old models
made in the United States and
in need of repair.
Asked where the immigration
people got their fatigues, they
told the Griffin men from Red
China. The Griffin men obser
ved the officials had pistols that
appeared to have been made in
the U.S.
“Don’t you people have any
paint?” Mr. Williams wanted to
know. He had observed many
buildings and homes in the Ha
vana looked run down.
“Yes, but we are using most
of it on a housing development
inland,” they said.
Where is the Bay of Pigs?”
the immigration men were ask
ed.
They pointed in the direction
of the now famous bay and pr
oudly told the Americans that
was where the Cubans had de
feated the “American imperia
lists” in 72 hours. “We’ll defeat
them in less time than that next
time,” they said proudly.
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the light and dark areas.
Dr. Harry King
Dies At Hospital
Dr. Harry C. King, 51, of 531
Crescent avenue, died at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospital
early this morning. He suffered
a heart seizure on Dec. 17 a n d
had been confined to the hos
pital since that time.
Dr. King was born in Toccoa,
Ga., son of the late W. R. King,
Sr., and Mrs. Emily Ella Craw
ford King. He had been a prac
ticing physician in Griffin since
1945. Dr. King was a member of
the First Baptist Church, Griffin
Lodge of Elks 1207 and the Ki
wanis Club.
He attended Tennille High
School in Tennille, Ga., and Em
ory University where he receiv
ed his MD degree. He was a
fellow of the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
a member of the Spalding Coun
ty Medical Association and the
American Medical Association.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lois Campbell King; two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Phillips
of Atlanta and Miss Linda King
of Griffin; a son, Lt. Harry C.
King, Jr., U. S. Army, Fort Bl
iss, El Paso, Tex.; his mother,
Mrs. W. R. King, Sr.; two bro
thers, Dr. W. R. King, Jr., and
Dr. J. Lamar King, all of Grif
fin.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at the graveside in Oak
Hill cemetery Wednesday after
noon at 3 o’clock. Members of
the Spalding County Medical As
sociation are requested to serve
as honorary escort and are ask
ed to meet at the cemetery at
2:45 p.m. Dr. King’s body will
remain at Haisten Funeral Ho
me.
Seeing no aerials, one passen
ger asked if Cuba had televis
ion.
“Os Course, we have televis
ion,” one answered. “I have a
television set, a house and a
car,” be said proudly.
“You’d make a pretty good
capitalist,” one of the Americans
said.
The immigration official didn’t
smile.
The bus arrived about mid
night at what appeared to have
been a plush hotel in its day but
now was in need of repairs.
The passengers were given a
meal and told they would have
to stay overnight because anoth
er plane would have to come
from the U.S. for them.
The jet on which they had ar
rived had been taken back by
the plane’s crew. A stewardess
who was off duty but was on the
plane slipped into her uniform
and returned to the U.S. with the
plane’s regular crew.
The hotel had many young
couples as guests. One official
explained they had earned the
two weeks government paid va
cation for their good work for
the Cuban government.
Many of the couples were on
their honeymoons. They get mar
ried in Cuba at an early age so
they can get on a housing “wait
ing list”.
Mr. Williams whose daughter,
Jan, collects menus, asked for
one as a souvenir. The waiter
asked his superior if he could
have one but the request was de
nied. Mr. Williams said the pri
ces for the food were high. A
good meal could run about S2O.
Was Held
Captive
Over 5 Years
By NAT GIBSON
SAIGON (UPD—South Vietna
mese troops today found a U.S.
Special Forces lieutenant held
captive by the Viet Cong for
more than five years, military
spokesmen said.
The lieutenant, in "an emactl
ated condition,” ran into the
Saigon troops in the U Minh
forest, a Communist stronghold
deep in the Mekong Delta south
of Saigon, the announcement
said.
“We think he might have
escaped from the V.C. (Viet
Cong) and run into the South
Vietnamese, but we still do not
have any solid details,” a
spokesman said.
The lieutenant’s name was
withheld until his next of kin
are notified. His condition
officially was described as
"satisfactory.”
Units of the South Vietnamese
21st Infantry Division picked
him up in the forest, a giant
swamp on the southern tip of
South Vietnam dotted with Viet
Cong base camps and possibly
jungle prisons, during a search
for Communist troops.
The man’s green beret unit
apparently was one of the first
American contingents in Viet
nam since the special forces
arrived in the country before
large-sized regular units came
in 1965.
U.S. headquarters said there
was no connection between the
recovery of the lieutenant and
the release of American priso
ners of war promised by the
Viet Cong.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
much colder tonight with a
slight chance of some snow
flurries. Wednesday clearing
and very cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 45, low today
40, high Monday 57, low Monday
34. Total rainfall .21 of an inch.
Sunrise Wednesday 7:41 a.m.,
sunset Wednesday 5:45 p.m.
Shrimp cocktail was $3. This
may be one of the money mak
ing features of hijacking, the
Griffin men speculated.
Who paid for the lodging and
meals was not made clear dur
ing the trip. The passengers
were not charged.
The luggage the passengers
had brought with them was ta
ken back to Miami in the hijack
ed plane. They had only the few
personal items they had brought
to the plane’s cabin.
Mr. Williams borrowed a razor
from Mr. Smith. “But I couldn’t
borrow a toothbrush,” he quipp
ed as he talked in his living
room at home.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Williams
ate a good breakfast along with
the other passengers.
‘‘What if these are duck eggs,”
cracked Mr. Smith as they ate.
The plane to pick up the pas
sengers was delayed several ti
mes and the passengers ate a
noon meal at the hotel while they
waited.
One elderly man on the hijack
ed plane had just undergone sur
gery and his incision still was
draining. His wife who came
along with him, was worried
that complications from the sur
gery might develop. But none
did.
Finally a prop driven plane
came and picked up the hijack
victims.
The trip back to Miami took
about an hour.
Mr. Williams phoned his wife,
Alice, in Griffin to tell her he was
okay. He and Mr. Smith would
complete their sales business be
fore returning home.
AU the excitement yea over,