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ART CLASS is a time for concentration as these photos taken at a Kingsport, Tenn., elementary school show.
Brushes, paints and an eye for composition help, but apparently there’s nothing like a well-co-ordinated tongue to
make everything go just right for these first- and second-graders. One youngster would rather not look at the
results of his efforts.
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O, Holy Night, when all the world was still.
There, in the distance, shone a mighty star
with a luster that burns brightly now in the
hearts of all men of good will. May thoughts of
that first Christmas bring peace to all.
oz a«Z you for your generous consideration.
Collins
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Congressmen
Take Home
‘Mixed Bag’
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -With
an election year directly ahead,
congressmen took home for
preliminary voter inspection
today a mixed Christmas bag
of successes and failures.
House GOP Leader Gerald R.
Ford, perhaps in a harbinger of
Republican campaign tactics
for 1970, labeled the yearlong
session a “do nothing” Con
gress. He said it had done
almost nothing about President
Nixon's legislative program.
But Senate Democratic Lead
er Mike Mansfield called the
session “most productive”. He
gave Congress good marks not
only for its legislative attain
ments but its start toward
redirecting national priorities
from the Vietnam War to
homefront needs.
The first session of the 91st
Congress, which ground to a
halt at 3:10 p.m. EST, Tuesday,
accomplished more than most
observers thought likely when it
convened Jan. 3 with Demo
crats in charge on Capitol Hill
and a Republican about to take
office as president.
Some political standoffs did
develop and for a time
threatened to keep Congress in
session through the holidays.
But in the end tax loopholes
had been narrowed, taxes for
everybody reduced, and Social
Security payments increased by
15 per cent, effective next
month. Draftees hereafter will
be selected by lot.
But basic draft reform was
put off until next year, at a
second session that won’t start
until Jan. 19. So was action on
President Nixon’s plan to get
the mails moving by raising
rates and abolishing the Post
Office Department. Nixon’s
anticrime package—for whatev
er it was worth and Democrats
said that wasn’t much—lay
untouched in House and Senate
committees.
The new President’s tradi
tional honeymoon with the
Congress lasted longer than
most people expected, consider
ing Nixon’s many past political
struggles. But by adjournment
"time politics was dominating'
the scene.
A hint of the political tack to
be taken by liberal Democrats
came from Rep. Charles A.
Vanik, D-Ohio, who said in a
statement, “It seems clear that
the administration’s efforts
were clearly directed for the
fat cats and not the average
American.”
NOT BEING WARNED
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
“substantial number” of women
taking birth control pills are
not being warned of health
hazards or side affects connect
ed with the contraceptives,
according to Sen. Gaylord
Nelson, D-Wis.
Nelson said his Senate small
business subcommittee on mon
opolies will begin hearings on
the subject Jan. 14. He said
drug companies are required to
supply printed inserts warning
of adverse reactions, but the
warning is often not passed on
to doctors who are prescribing
the pill for their patients.
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Georgia News
‘Unpopular War’
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Herman E. Talmadge said to
day the war in Vietnam is prob
ably more unpopular than any
war in American history and
its unpopularity has grown
more severe each passing
month.
Nontheless, the country
should support the President in
attempting to bring the war to
a timed and orderly conclusion,
Talmadge added.
“To persist in demonstrating
against the government gives
United Asks Routes
ATLANTA (UPI)-United Air
Lines has asked the Civil Aero
nautics Board for authority to
operate nonstop flights between
Atlanta and Detroit, giving At
lanta passengers the first com
petitive nonstop service between
the two cities.
2 Georgians POWs
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
list of 132 American prisoners
of war in Vietnam issued by
the Women’s Strike for Peace
Tuesday contains the names of
two Georgia men.
Friday Legal Holiday
ATLANTA(UPI)—FridaywiII <
be a legal holiday in Georgia. i
Gov. Lester Maddox an
nounced late Tuesday night his ]
intention to declare the day a ;
holiday in order to extend the i
Manpower Programs
ATLANTA (UPI)-Three new
federally financed manpower
training programs, at a total
cost of $194,919, have been ap
proved for Augusta, Columbus
and Macon.
All the projects are sponsored
by the Georgia Labor Depart
ment and the vocational divi-
Man Charged
ATLANTA (UPI)-Police say
they have charged Tony C. By
ers, 26, with murder in the
shotgun death of Robert Lee
Whitten, also 26, a former
schoolmate.
Investigating officers said the
Carrollton Gl Killed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - An
other Georgian has died an ac
tion in Vietnam, the Defense
Department said Tuesday.
BETTER RAT TRAP
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio
(UPl)—The “better rat trap” of
the future may turn out to be
“the pill.”
Dr. William B. Jackson,
biology professor at Bowling
Green State University, says he
is testing oral contraceptives as
a possible key to controlling the
world’s rat population.
Jackson, however, said the
effectiveness of oral contracep
tives in rats, designed to
slerlize the rodents, is limited
because of the lack of an
assured method of administer
ing the drug.
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Wednesday, December 24, 1969
aid and comfort to the enemy,”
the junior senator said in a
newsletter. “It further stymies
our efforts in Paris. It pushes
further away the date when the
last U.S. combat soldier can be
removed from the battlefield.
“Increased division among
our people will make this goal
all the more difficult to attain.
We all hope and pray for peace
in 1970, and the stronger and
more unified we are, the better
will be our chances.”
The service would begin with
four round trip flights daily in
96-passenger Boeing 727’5, Uni
ted said. The airline predicted
that, by 1971, there will be
more than 300 persons daily fly
ing between here and Detroit.
They were Giles Roderick
Norrington of (1833 Owens Ave.)
Albany and Thomas Vance Par
rott, (1230 Valencia Dr.,) Dal
ton.
observance of Christmas an ex
tra day for state employes.
Maddox’s announcement fol
lowed President Nixon’s order
giving federal employes Friday
off.
, sion of the Education Depart
ment.
The Augusta program will
train 40 licensed practical nurs
-1 es. The Columbus project will
train 20 nurses aides and the
Macon project is to train 20
welders.
two had words by telephone be
fore Whitten appeared at Byers’
1 apartment with an open pocket
! knife prior to the shooting early
Tuesday.
Whitten was shot in the head,
! police said.
He was identified as Spec. 4
Larry L. Wood, husband of Mrs.
Patsy A. Wood, Carrollton, Ga.
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Griffin, Georgia
Ghost Os
Scrooge
By PETER J. SHAW
LONDON (UPI) — Tucked
away among postwar office
buildings near the Bank of
England is a slice of London
that Charles Dickens used as
the setting for “A Christmas
Carol.”
Dickens, who died 100 years
ago next summer, wrote as
Ebenezer Scrooge bemoaned
the cost of Christmas in his
chilly counting house:
“The ancient tower of a
church, whose gruff old bell
was always peeping slyly down
at Scrooge out of a Gothic
window in the wall, became
invisible (in the fog) and struck
the hours and quarters in the
clouds, with tremulous vibra
tions afterwards ... ”
The windows of the belfrey in
St. Michael’s parish church of
Cornhill are now slatted and
streaked with soot. The bell no
longer tolls the quarter hours
but the four blunt spires still
poke into the mist and
disappear in the fog.
“Scrooge took his melancholy
dinner in his usual melancholy
tavern ... and went home to
bed. He lived in chambers
(which) ... were a gloomy
suite of rooms in a lowering
pile of building up a yard,
where it had so little business
to be ... ”
In George Yard, where such
a building might have stood,
bulldozers gouge the earth so a
postwar insurance company
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good friends and patrons, we extend,
with sincere appreciation, warm
wishes for a most memorable holiday.
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building can expand. Asphalt
covers the old cobblestones.
Footsteps still have a centu
ries-old ring in Castle Court,
Bengal Court and St. Martin’s
Court around the old church.
Ladies in black dresses fluff
up napkins on tables in a bow
windowed chop house off the
courtyard. An ornate Victorian
gas lamp hangs unlit over the
entrance, its globe shattered by
vandals. A barrel of vegetable
peelings sits near the heavy
wooden door.
Soft voices come from
somewhere high behind black
ened roofs. No noise is heard
from busy streets just yards
away.
IN MEMORY
In loving memory of our Mot
her, Annie L. Pryor at Christ
mas.
Dearest Mother, how we miss
you,
Since from us you went away,
And our hearts are aching for
you,
As we think of you today.
We think of the thoughtful
things
That you have said and done,
And loving you eternally,
Dear Mother, for each and
everyone.
Always Remembered.
Myrtice Hance
Paula GiU
Rene Gaskill
Cecile Sealy
Coggin Pryor
Ruel Pryor
Clarence Pryor