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By Quimby Melton
One would think at Christmas
time it is easy to write a daily
column such as this, what with
the Christmas stories and with
current happenings that de
monstrate that man at this holy
season comes nearer to living
up to his finest potentials than
at any time in the year.
And it is not only an easy
thing to do but it is an enjoyable
thing to do. But now we’re run
into a little “difficulty”. And it
is all brought about by “Chang
ing times.”
For years Good Evening on
Christmas Eve has run the
same Good Evening column —
The Words Merry Christmas,
spelled letter by letter down the
column and at the bottom this
sentence:
* ‘And in the words of Tiny Tim
‘God Bless Us Every One!’ ”
For years everyone has
known the true “Tiny Tim” is
the youngster who played a
most important part in Charles
Dicken’s Christmas Carol.
But today, we are afraid there
are some who know nothing of
that youngster. They think
“Tiny Tim” is a long haired,
falsetto singing man who re
cently got married on TV to a 17
year old girl, in a ceremony that
featured marriage vows that he
[ and the bride had written.
But we’ll run the risk of
“writing above the heads of
some” and have the real Tiny
1 Tim, say “God Bless Us Every
one One.”
Speaking of Christmas
stories; here is one Good Even
ing read Monday morning in
The Upper Room. The Bible
selection for the message was
“Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my
breatheren, ye have done it unto
me.” (Matthew 24:40.) The
message, written by Nellie
Thompson, of Nebraska, is
headed, “A Quite Different Cup
i of Cheer,” and reads:
She came out of the past, so
changed that I did not recognize
her until she said, “I saw a
1 candle in your window, and I
felt that you would welcome me
now as you did then.”
The first time I saw her was
on a Christmas Eve years ago.
After stopping at every house in
the neighborhood where holiday
, cheer was being served, she had
stumbled up our steps and said,
“I saw a candle in your win
dow.” The cup of cheer we of
fered had been quite different.
She gripped my hand in both
of hers as she said: “Your
.candle has lighted my pathway
through the years. That night
you gave me
the feeling of Christmas,
•which is peace;
the spirit of Christmas, which
is hope;
the heart of Christmas, which
’is love.”
This stranger, drawn once
more by a lighted candle in our
window, brought a precious gift
out of the past —a strengthened
meaning of Christmas.
. And speaking of the Christ
mas Spirit:
We’d like to mention Bob
Hope and his troupe of en
-tertainers who have gone on the
annual Christmas trip of good
cheer to American Gls in Viet
nam and other Asian countries.
•This is not the first time the
comedian has made these trips
and he’s always welcomed.
But there was a bit of com
‘ment in one of the papers we
read that we did not like. A
Washington correspondent
speaking of what goes on at the
White House this time of the
year referred to the Washington
home of the President as “The
,Presidental Palace.”
It’s not a “Palace.” Palaces
are where kings and dictators
live, not where the chief execu
tive of a genuine republic
abides.
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proposed
Mrs. Wheeless
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I am proud of Griffin because it has given me
the precious privilege to have been associated with
innumerable fine young people through the years
in our ambitious public schools. The deep faith that
I and many other faculty members have had in the
potential of these youths is so often rewarded.
It is thrilling to see the awkward, insecure “ugly
duckling” of junior high age change into a self
assured beautiful swan of high school or a patriotic
proud serviceman or later to a competent, worth
while citizen or leader.
Mrs. I. W. Wheeless
Harris Asks That
Rusk Not Be Hired
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
Board of Regents member Roy
Harris has called for withdraw
al of former Secretary of State
Dean Rusk’s name from ap
pointment to the University of
Georgia law school faculty.
“All he knows is politics,”
Harris said of Rusk Monday
night, “and we don’t need any
broken down politicians teach
ing politics in law school.”
University of Georgia presi
dent Fred Davison declined to
withdraw Rusk’s name, saying
he’d rather let the regents settle
it.
As Harris objected to Rusk,
another regent endorsed him.
James A. Dunlap of Gaines
ville said Rusk would be “a
very fine appointment. He
would add prestige to the Uni
versity of Georgia and would do
an outstanding job in the field
of international law.
“I know of no one who would
be more knowledgeable,” Dun
lap added. Other regents said
privately they would support
Rusk if the appointment comes
up at the board meeting Jan.l4.
Harris said Rusk had no legal
training or background for a
job such as the Samuel Sibley
professorship in international
law, as Davison had proposed.
“Another reason is, this man
is one of the most controversial
politicians in America, and his
politics will divide the regents
and split the legislature down
the middle and cause continual
controversy in the state,” Har
ris said in a telephone interview
from his Augusta home.
Harris, a staunch segregation
ist, admitted that the marriage
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“The world would be a
much happier place if folks
were as quick to express ap
preciation as they are to
voice displeasure."
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of Rusk’s daughter to a Negro
“makes him controversial with
some people, but that isn’t the
determining factor here.”
He said southerners consider
ed Rusk controversial before he
became secretary of state for
the late President John Ken
nedy and former President Lyn
don Johnson.
“He belonged to that ADA
(Americans for Democratic Ac
tion) crowd and is ‘mongst the
most radical folks in the coun
try,” Harris objected. “They
shouldn’t have handed it to us
just before Christmas.”
Harris said “plenty” of the
other regents agreed with him.
He also charged that Chancellor
George Simpson had carried the
Rusk appointment “in his vest
pocket” since October because
he is “scared to bring it up be
fore the board.”
Atlanta, Fulton
Merger Asked
By House Panel
ATLANTA (UPI)-A special
House study committee has
adopted a report calling for the
immediate merger of Atlanta
and Fulton County.
The report said merger was
necessary because local com
munities are incapable of solv
ing their own problems. The
study will be turned over to the
General Assembly with a spe
cific recommendation for laws
requiring an urban area with a
population in excess of 600,000
to “adopt a unified government
within its boundaries.”
“While it is already late, it is
not too late, to begin the attack
on the problems of the urban
crisis in Georgia,” said the re
port prepared by Rep. Dever
eaux McClatchey of Atlanta.
“The interests of the entire
stale demand action and this
would also be strongly in the
best interests of all of the citi
zens in the local areas involved.
Failure to act now can only
make later solutions more diffi
cult.”
Rep. Harold Clark of Forsyth,
chairman of the committee, in
dicated the committee may try
to accomplish the merger
through constitutional amend
'• rather than a simple leg
islative act.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Tuesday, December 23,1969
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Nixon Almost Certain
To Sign New Tax Bill
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON UPl)—Pres
ident Nixon may ask Congress
to take back some of its
generosity to the American
taxpayer, but he is considered
virtually certain to sign into
law the tax reform bill. It
would begin cutting everyone’s
taxes 10 days from now.
By margins so swollen they
almost defied a veto, both
chambers Monday capped a
year’s effort in an afternoon’s
oratory and sent to Nixon one
of its major achievements of
the year —a bill that eventually
cuts taxes by $9.1 billion, raises
Social Security benefits by 15
per cent and narrows some tax
loopholes that have been the
target of reformers for years.
The House, acting first,
approved the bill 381 to 2. The
Senate followed that, 71 to 6,
with the “no” votes coming
from Republicans who consi
dered the bill too inflationary
and too costly.
If Congress adjourns this
week as planned and returns
Jan. 19, Nixon has 10 days from
when the bill actually reaches
him to decide its fate. If he
does nothing, the bill would die,
the victim of a pocket veto.
Requires Two-Thirds Vote
It would require a two-thirds
vote by each house to enact the
bill into law over a veto.
Nothing in the bill affects the
taxes the average individual
will pay next April 15 on
income he earned this year.
But taxpayers would start
seeing the bill’s effects reflect
ed in their first paychecks in
January when the income tax
surcharge, now 10 per cent,
falls to 5 per cent. After six
months at that rate, it expires
for good.
Moreover, the bill ultimately
recoups .3 billion a year for
the gove.&nent by killing the
investment tax credit —a 7 per
cent tax subsidy for the
expenditures by businesses and
farmers on expansion, equip
ment and modernization. The
administration is eager to end
the tax credit.
Privately, members of both
parties thought Nixon would
sign the bill but warn he may
have to ask congress to tone
down the bigger personal
exemption before it fully goes
into effect.
Could Ask Extension
Or, if inflation proves stub
born, he could ask for yet
another extension of the surch
arge.
Besides the tax cut and Social
Security provisions the bill cuts
taxes for the poor, the near
poor and the unmarried;
continues the 7 per cent excise
tax on new cars and the 10 per
cent tax on telephone service;
liberalizes moving expenses
deduction rules; imposes a
minimum tax on investment
NEWS
Airport Noise No
Spalding Problem
income which now escapes all
taxation; cuts the 27.5 per cent
oil depletion allowance to 22 per
cent, the first cut ever.
It also raises capital gains
taxes for persons with gains of
more than $50,000; narrows real
estate, banking and “hobby
farming” loopholes; subjects
foundations to a tax of 7.5 per
cent of their income from
investments and requires them
to pay out to charity at least 6
per cent of their next worth
each year and subjects busines
ses operated by churches to the
48 per cent corporation tax,
among other things.
Griffin Man
Dies In Atlanta
Traffic Accident
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gerald Je
rome Pittman of Griffin was
killed Monday when the auto
mobile in which he was riding
struck a bridge abutment on In
terstate 85 near Central Ave
nue.
Pittman’s brother, Paul, 18,
was treated at Grady Hospital
for lacerations.
Patrolman J. W. Sams said
an investigation showed that an
other automobile forced Pitt
man’s car into the abutment.
The second car did not stop, the
officer added.
Mr. Pittman, 22, was born in
Fulton County and had made his
home in Griffin for eight years.
He was a member of the Church
of Jesus Christ, Latter Day
Saints. He was employed by
Stallings Construction Co.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Williams; eight sisters, Mrs.
Elizabeth Pincus of Davidson,
Md., Mrs. Jolena Brownlow,
Miss Shelia Pittman, Miss
Martha Pittman, all of
Chamblee, Mrs. Linda Ander
son of Atlanta, Mrs. Dora
Murphy, Mrs. Estelle Wiley,
both of Griffin, and Mrs.
Lanelle Porter of Roswell; six
brothers, Danny Pittman,
David Pittman, Buddy Pittman
and Donald Pittman, all of
Griffin, Stanley Pittman of
Barnesville and Sgt. Jack Pitt
man, U.S. Air Force, Colorado
Springs, Colo.; and grand
mother, Mrs. Dobie Anderson of
Aragon, Ga.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDonald Chapel.
Post Office Open
The Griffin Post Office will be
open until 5 p.m. tomorrow
Postmaster Ed Dye announced
today. Ordinarily the window is
closed on Wednesday after
noons but will remain open to
morrow because of the Christ
mas rush.
Proposed Atlanta Air Center .. V / '
which will be located between
the new and old airports. '•?
Freight Train
Kills Man
Near Home
An Orchard Hill man was
killed instantly this morning
when he was struck by a Central
of Georgia freight train near his
home.
Douglas Evans, 59, of Route
Two, Griffin, was dead on arri
val at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital shortly before 8
o’clock this morning. Sheriff’s
officials said he walked directly
in front of the train without
looking.
The accident happened at the
Flynt road crossing at Orchard
Hill.
Mr. Evans was a lifelong resi
dent of Lamar County and was
employed by the Orchard Hill
Mill. He was a member of the
Unionville United Methodist
Church in Lamar County.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Dilria Mae Evans; seven
sons, Walter James Evans,
Fred Morris Evans, Williams
Henry Evans, Tommy Lee
Evans, Willie Lewis Evans,
Robert Leee Evans, all of
Griffin, Ralph Eugene Evans of
Florida; four daughters, Mrs.
Rosetta Chapman, Miss Rose
Mae Evans, Miss Mary Ann
Evans, Miss Kathey Dianne
Evans, all of Griffin; his
mother, Mrs. Estelle Evans of
Barnesville; two brothers,
Andrew Jackson Evans of
Barnesville and China E. Evans
of Plainsfield, N.J.; three sis
ters, Mrs. Gladys Swain of At
lanta, Mrs. Mamie Albritten
and Mrs. Mary Louise Gaston,
both of Plainsfield, N.J.; and 13
grandchildren.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
New Tax Bill
Creates Four
Loopholes
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
tax reform bill passed by
Congress does not begin to
close all the loopholes. In fact,
it creates four new ones.
These new tax preferences—
which is what loopholes always
are called at first—aimed at
stimulating the installation of
antipollution equipment, the
modernization of railroad equip
ment, the rehabilitation of old
residential housing and the
adoption of safety equipment in
coal mines.
But unlike most other prefer
ences, these four all carry an
automatic termination date five
years from now.
Vol. 96 No. 301
Report Was Based
On 13 Points
Noise from the proposed
Atlanta second carrier airport
will not spill into Spalding
County if the facility is con
structed in Henry County on the
site recommended in the R.
Dixon Speas Associates report
to the Atlanta Aldermanic
Board.
(Map of proposed airport
location on Page 8.)
By projecting noise contours
(patterns) from the Henry
County site, Speas found that
even by 1988, under present
sound levels, only Butts and
Henry Counties would receive
any substantial amounts of dis
turbance.
In personally presenting his
company’s findings following
an exhaustive series of studies
over the last two years, Speas
outlined 13 basic points of con
sideration used in making their
recommendation.
WHICH
Generally, Speas’ first point
was to determine which of the
four proposed sites was a rea
sonable alternative for
Atlanta’s second carrier air
port. He concluded that the two
north Fulton County sites, as
well as the Henry County site,
represented good locations.
Capital cost and initial finan
cial commitment found all three
sites running close to one-half
billion dollars but land acquisi
tion in Henry County would cost
substantially less than either of
the Fulton County sites.
The air center concept, the
use of a separate staging area
for passengers to park cars and
leave luggage, should be built
between the existing airport
and the new airport, no matter
what site was selected, to re
lieve congestion in the airport
area. Speas added that only the
Henry County site could have an
air center that would serve both
airports.
NORTHERN
As planned, the air center
would be located in northern
Henry County and would be
connected to both airports by a
high speed ‘Radipo’, a rapid
transit device capable of speeds
of more than 100 m.p.h. The re
port said a passenger could ride
to the airport and back to his
car for about $.60. The trip from
the air center to the airport,
once on board the ‘Rapido’
would take about 10 or 15 minu
tes.
Speas studies show that by
1975, the present Atlanta airport
will be unable to handle the con
gestion created by the overload
of flights and passengers caus
ing greater waiting times and
delays.
Os all sites under considera
tion, only the Henry County site
can be developed and opera
tional by that time, Speas said.
AIR USERS
Although the report showed
that many more air users live
north of Atlanta and would have
increased over-all traveling dis-
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tance to the Henry Co. site,
Speas’ found that more than
two-thirds of the passengers
served by the present Atlanta
airport are transfers, people
who do not live in this area.
Because the present airport
has some fog problems, Speas
did a study of the weather at all
four sites and concluded that
the Henry County site had the
best possible weather con
ditions.
STOL
Speas also found that the air
center, the first to be put in
operation in its pure form in the
world, would be suitable for
STOL (Short take off-landing)
aircraft operations. STOL plan
es fly at the same speeds as con
vential aircraft except they are
capable of becoming airborne
after only a short take-off run.
lastly, Speas said community
dislocation as well as air space
priorities and general aviation
would be least disturbed by use
of the Henry County site.
Following the report, when
asked if it looked as if the Henry
County site was the logical
choice all the way, Speas said,
“We remained objective until
the very end, considering all
factors involved. We then re
commended that we believe is
the best site for the greatest
number of people.”
FREEMAN
Aiderman Richard Freeman,
chairman of the Atlanta Aider
manic Board’s Aviation Com
mittee, said, “We are still a long
way from a final decision until
we hear what the air carriers
(airlines) have to say.” Free
man said he expected to have
the carriers’ answer by late
January or early February.
Mayor-elect Sam Massell,
who presided at the special
meeting of the Board, respond
ed to a question concerning
possible consolidation of the
areas where the air center and
airport will tentatively cover,
by saying, “Consolidation often
follows where people are and
surrounding an airport there
are bound to be a great number
of people, however, this does not
mean that consolidation will
always follow. Lockheed is a
prime example of this, being
Atlanta’s largest single em
ployer. There has been no move
by Atlanta to consolidate this
part of Cobb County,” Massell
said.
VICTORY
Dale McLaren, planning dir
ector of the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission, following the an
nouncement that the Henry
County site had been re
commended said, “This is a
great victory for the Mclntosh
Trail Area.”
The Mclntosh Trail Com
mission recently recommend
that the new airport be named
for the late C. E. Woolman,
Della founder and Georgia air
pioneer.