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By Quimby Melton
There probably is no better
known, nor more loved Christ
mas Carol than “Silent Night,
Holy Night,” written by Joseph
Mohr, a Catholic priest.
The words of this carol were
written by Mohr and given to his
friend Franz Gruber as a
Christmas present in 1818.
The presentation was made
on Christmas Eve when pre
perations were being made for a
celebration to be held in the
school house at Armsdorf where
Gruber was a teacher.
When the author gave the
words to him, the teacher im
mediately composed the music
and gave the song the name
“Stille Nacht.” This song was
sung that Christmas Eve by the
author and composer and
several friends who were pre
sent with the music being play
ed by the composer on a guitar.
Since then this Carol has been
sung round the world in many
tongues and the music being
played on every imaginable
type of instrument.
“Silent Night, Holy Night,”
has been played and sung in the
largest cathedral in the world,
in small log churches; in
palaces and in humble homes,
aboard ships at sea and on plan
es in the air; was sung by
soldiers fighting on both sides,
as they sat round campfires
that marked the battlefields in
the Civil War. From one room
school houses to the ivy halls of
great universities “Silent Night,
Holy Night” has been sung; and
mothers of all nations, races
and creeds have hummed the
sweet tones as they rocked their
babies to sleep.
Wherever Christmas has been
observed, “Silent Night” has
been sung.
We believe all will agree with
Good Evening this is the most
beloved Carol of them all.
Joseph* Mohr was born in
Salsburg, Austria, Dec. 11, 1792,
and died at Wagrein, Dec. 4,
1848. He was ordained a Roman
Catholic priest in 1815, and
spent all of his lifetime serving
churches in his native land.
Whether or not he wrote any
other hymns is not known. This
is the only one that has been
translated into English. The
Carol was introduced into
America in 1871 when Charles
L. Hutchins published it in his
“Sunday School Hymnal.”
Franz Gruber, who wrote the
music, also was an Austrian. He
was born at Hockburg, Nov. 25,
1787, and like his friend Joseph
Mohr, lived not far from Sals
burg. He was a schoolmaster in
the little village of Arnsdorf and
served as parish organist,
where his friend Joseph Mohr
was priest. There is no other
record of any music that he may
have written and had published.
He died June 7, 1863.
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fault to hide a multitude of
virtues.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
Money Grows On Christmas Trees
Plastic and aluminum pose
very little threat to the future of
live Christmas trees, says
Georgia Agriculture Experi
ment Station Assistant Forester
Turner Davis.
“A living tree is a symbol of a
living Christ and as long as
people remember that the word
Christmas comes to us from’
Christ’s mass, Martin Luther’s
idea will stay with us,” Davis
said.
Some historians trace lighted
Christmas back to Martin
Luther, prior to 1546, when he
used candles to reproduce an
outdoor scene of evergreen
trees sparkling in the moon
light.
Davis, who heads Christmas
tree research at the Griffin
station, said his findings lead
him to believe that Georgia has
great potential in the Christmas
tree growing industry.
“Artificial tree sales are on
the decline now and we do not
expect them to increase in the
near future,” Davis said.
Arizona Cypress, Virginia
Pine, Eastern Red Cedar, and
Eastern White Pine are the
types of trees Davis has found
grow well in this area and make
good Christmas trees.
“Georgia uses more than
1,000,060 trees each Christmas,
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Mclntosh To Ask Airport Be Woolman
The Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission announced today
that it will recommend At
lanta’s second carrier airport
be named the Collett Everman
Woolman Airport in honor of the
late C. E. Woolman, Delta Air
lines founder and chief
executive.
Dale McLaren, planning
director for the commission and
proponent of the Henry County
site, acted as spokeman in
making the announcement.
“Wherever the new airport is
located, we feel it should bear
the name of this air pioneer in
Georgia,” McLaren said.
Delta airlines presently
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but we produce only about 10
per cent of them within the
state. This leaves 900,000 trees
being imported from other
areas that could be grown
locally,” Davis added.
The possibility of fire deters
some families froma real or
brings more than $80,000,000 in
payroll to the state’s economy.
Eastern Airlines’ Eddie
Rickenbacker was considered
along with Woolman, but
because Eastern’s operations
are not Georgia based, the com
mission felt that Woolman was
the logical choice, McLaren
said.
Woolman began his love
affair with the airplane when, in
1910, he took a cattle boat to
France to see an air show.
Following his graduation
from the University of Illinois,
Woolman took a job as a County
Agent in Louisiana where he be
came interested in the control of
one of the South’s worst
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Sat. and Sun., Dec. 20-21, 1969
Griffin Researcher Believes
“live” tree during the holidays.
“Trees which are bought
fresh and whose stems are kept
submerged in water are com
pletely safe,” Davis concluded
following tests made by his
department.
Davis found that keeping the
enemies - the boll weevil.
Remembering an attempt to
spray insecticide from the air to
combat worms which were
damaging trees in Cleveland,
Ohio, Woolman and Dr. B. R.
Coad formulated a calcium
arsenate powder which could be
sprayed on cotton from a low
flying aricraft, thus forming
Huff Daland Dusters, the
world’s first commercial crop
dusting organization.
In 1924, Woolman moved his
company to Macon, Georgia
where he dusted areas north
and west of Macon reaching
through the Spalding County
dis-
Because of the smallness of
tree watered and not leaving
tree lights turned on for long un
attended periods were excellent
methods of keeping a tree from
drying out and becoming
flamable.
The end of the stem should be
cut away to allow fresh wood to
be in contact with the water
Davis added.
“Over the years, Georgia has
acquired a bad national name in
Christmas trees, because
farmers have planted trees on
poor soil and left them uncared
for until harvest time, thus pro
ducing a very poor quality
tree,” Davis said.
Intensive management, in
cluding weed control, tinting
with industrial dye, and proper
pruning, in requisite to suc
cessful Christmas tree farming
Davis noted.
“Pruning or shearing must be
done about once a season after
the first year to grow a tree that
is dense and well-shaped
enough to have consumer ap
peal,” he said.
Davis added that Christmas
trees can be a good money
crop if they are correctly
managed yeilding S2OO to S4OO
per acre net profit each year
the fields near Macon, Woolman
was later forced to return to the
Mississippi Delta from which
his airline gets its name.
Woolman’s concern turned
from crop dusting to mail routes
in the early 1930’s when the Post
Office Department awarded
Delta its first air mail contract.
From then on, Woolman’s air
line saw tremendous growth as
it added more routes and ser
vices while continuing to main
tain, until 1966, crop dusting
planes in operation.
When many lines were setting
up clubs and lounges to lure
passengers, Woolman insisted
that on-time flights were a
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from the time the trees are
planted until they are harvested
four to six years later.
Congress - Nixon
Eyeball To Eyeball
By WILLIAM B. MEAD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Con
gress and President Nixon
engaged in a contest of wills
today over the size of the
appropriation for the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW), as Congress
pushed on toward holiday
adjournment.
Faced with Nixon’s threat to
veto the HEW money bill
because the lawmakers had
made it too big, Senate-House
negotiators responded late Fri
day by making the cuts—but
cuts that were largely artificial,
and, in one case, out of a Nixon
budget item.
Three issues faced Congress
before it quits Monday or
Tuesday for a three-week
Christmas vacation.
Action was scheduled today
on one—a $1.86 billion foreign
aid spending bill. Sen. J.
William Fulbright, D-Ark., said
he would urge defeat of the
whole package because it
includes $54 million to give
Nationalist China’s air force a
squadron of jets.
The second, and by most
accounts Congress’ most impor
tant action of the year, was an
omnibus tax relief and reform
bill. It gradually increases the
personal exemption from S6OO
to $750 during the next four
years, and carried provisions
letting poor people pay little or
no taxes and increasing Social
Security benefits 15 per cent
effective Jan. 1.
New Finances
Approval by both houses was
considered certain, with the
House voting Monday and the
Senate later the same day or
Tuesday.
The compromise bill was
unveiled Friday after five days
of House-Senate negotiation.
The fate of the third item
was unknown pending word
from the President.
Griffin Man
Is Missing
The Spalding Sheriff’s
Department has posted a
missing persons lookout for Bob
Parris, 58, of 318 Hammock
street.
He has been missing from his
home since Dec. 13.
The Griffin man is five feet,
seven inches and weighs 230
pounds. He has blue eyes.
As a tip for would-be growers,
Davis said, “Don’t plant more
trees than you can care for be-
Mrs. O. Maddox
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I am proud of Griffin because God has blessed
us with the best of doctors and nurses in the South
east. Without them Griffin would not be the town
it is today.
The Griffin police force is the best anywhere.
Griffin people believe and live by the Golden
Rule.
In the thirty-six states I have visited in not one
town equals good old Griffin, Ga. It is a joy to live
in Griffin and a pleasure that we could rear our
daughter in Griffin who now lives in Hickory, N. C.
Mrs. Oscar Maddox
1133 East College Street
Won’t you help promote community pride?
Complete this in ICO words or less, mail it to the
Griffin Daily News, Griffin, Ga., and we will pub
lish it. Response has been so great that the series
will continue through December instead of ending
with November as originally planned.
I am proud of Griffin because - - - ”
Tax Relief Plan
In A Nutshell
WASHINGTON (UPI)-In a
nutshell, here’s the tax relief
plan:
Personal Exemptions
Each taxpayer will be able to
subtract from his total income
the following amounts for
himself and each dependent:
For income earned in 1969,
the amount is S6OO. For 1970 it
rises to $625; 1971, $650; 1972,
$700; 1973 and on, $750.
Standard Deduction
In addition, each taxpayer
will be able to deduct from the
remainder of his income at
least the following amounts for
interest and state taxes paid,
contributions, etc., before his
income becomes subject to
taxation:
For income earned in 1970—
$1,100; 1971 - $1,050; 1972 -
Inside Tip
Review
See Page Seven
cause there are only two types
of Christmas trees; sold and un
sold.”
SI,OOO. It may pay, however, for
the taxpayer either to itemize
expenses if they are more than
the above figures or to take the
following standard deductions if
those deductions are more than
the above:
For income earned in 1969,10
per cent of income after
exemption, or SI,OOO whichever
is higher; 1970 10 per cent of
income after exemptions or
$1,100; 1971, 13 per cent of
$1,500; 1972, 14 per cent, or
$2,000; 1973 and on—ls per cent
or $2,000.
The Wealthy
Wealthy taxpayers will be
subject to a maximum tax rate
of 60 per cent in 1971, and 50
per cent thereafter on earned
income—minus $30,000 in tax
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