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December 28 will be the last
Sunday in the month, in the year
and in the decade. And the title
of the International Sunday
School lesson is “God’s
Herald.” Background Scripture
is Malachi 3:1-4; Matthew 3:1-
12; 11:7-10. (Malachi is the last
book in the Old Testament, and
Matthew the first in the New
Testament.
The Memory Selection is
“The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, prepare ye the way
of the Lord, make his paths
straight” (Matthew 3:3.)
This lesson tells of the min
istry of John the Baptist, whose
role as the forerunner of the
Messiah was foretold by the pro
phet Isaiah. The mother of
Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and
Elizabeth the mother of John
the Baptist, were cousins, which
made their sons cousins. The
birth of both Jesus Christ and
» John the Baptist were miracles;
Jesus being born of a virgin,
and John having been born of a
barren woman and an aged man
in answer to their prayers.
The Bible tells us of no man
who was more loyal to God the
Father and His Beloved Son
than was John the Baptist.
One of the first things one
, learns about John the Baptist is
that he was in no sense a “show
off.” He did not dress in priestly
garments, and he did not pro
• claim that he was anything but
the herald sent to announce that
the long promised Messiah had
come.
• He did not rent a large hall
and advertise his meetings; he
just went out by the side of the
river, where the poor were wont
* to gather. He did not preach
“powerful sermons”, he simply
said Jesus was the Messiah and
he delivered his message in
such away the humblest could
understand. The very earnest
ness of his message caused the
, people to believe, and at the
same time caused the leaders of
the temple to worry about this
“strange man". They could not
• understand why such a rough,
uneducated, character could
make such an impression on so
many people. And when John
• that day, when Jesus Himself
came near, proclaimed here is
“the Lamb of God who taketh
away the sins of the world,”
* they realized they must do
something about him. It was
then that John signed his own
death warrant.
No one can doubt the sincerity
and the loyalty of John to His
God. He could have become a
, popular preacher of his day and
time; he could have become im
ensely rich by holding crusades
in the city; he could have soft
• peddled criticism of the church
leaders. But he preferred to
play the role of herald to His
Master— Jesus Christ.
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It seems to this laymen this
lesson points out the fact that
the world, as we approach the
’ dawning of a new decade, needs
faithful heralds to proclaim to
the world the glorious Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
And there is no one regardless
of how humble they may be, but
who can make an acceptable
, and effective herald if they will
just accept Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior and turn their
lives over to Him to guide and
» direct.
One of the chief dangers to
everything that is sacred is the
fact that so many of us who
» claim to be Christians are part
time followers of the Master, or
are lazy Christians — wanting
the other fellow to do the work
’ we should be doing.
Hope it was a Happy Christ
mas for one and all and that 1970
% will be the year in which you
and yours will find true happi
ness — the happiness that
“passeth understanding” and
« comes only through the grace of
God.
Weather
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 50,
low today 33, high yesterday 38,
«. low yesterday 31, rainfall .85 of
an inch; sunrise tomorrow 7:45,
sunset tomorrow 5:30.
Walter Reeves, Jr.
Is Proud Os Griffin
Recause - »
I am proud of Griffin because of policemen like
officer Homer Williams who is kind to children of
all races. The Griffin people are kind as a whole,
although some are not. I am proud of Griffin be
cause of Kelsey Junior High School. The principal
Mr. Walker, and the teachers all are nice, and will
help you with any problem you have. Griffin is a
town that is growing larger each day. Griffin has
many textile factories, stores, and churches, well
organized school system, and a wonderful hospital.
I am proud to be a part of a growing town like
Griffin.
Walter Reeves, Jr., age 12
Kelsey Junior High School
Yule Tornadoes
Kill 1, Injure 15
By United Press International
Tornadoes dipped out of grey
Christmas skies in Georgia,
Florida and Louisiana Thurs
day, killing one person, injur
ing at least 15 and causing
heavy damage.
An 81-year-old woman, Mrs.
Rivest Veazey, was killed by a
tornado that threw her body 300
yards from her wrecked home
at Kaplan, La. Eight other per
sons were injured in Louisiana
and seven in Georgia.
Damage at Kaplan was esti
mated at $250,000. Another twis
ter wrecked much of a two-by
three block business district at
Quincy, Fla., causing damages
estimated at SIOO,OOO.
At least nine tornadoes ripped
through Florida’s panhandle,
one struck in Georgia, and one
or more in Louisiana. Seven
waterborne tornadoes were
sighted in the Gulf of Mexico
off Florida’s west coast, but
they did not come ashore.
Within a 90-minute period, eith
er the Kaplan tornado, or
others spawned by heavy thun
dershowers, roared across the
small Acadian County towns of
Loreauville, Youngsville and
Plaquemines.
“It was a most terrible
Christmas Day,” said Mrs.
Ophey Trahan of Kaplan, who
escaped injury along with her
husband when the roof was lift
ed from her home.
Seven injuries occurred near
Albany, Ga., where a tornado
cut a four-mile path through
rural Lee County and heavily
damaged a plantation. None
was hurt seriously.
The twister that hit a busi
ness district in Quincy swooped
out of a thundersquall late
Thursday afternoon.
The Gadsden County sheriff’s
office reported the tornado
damaged the Quincy Lumber
Co., the Quincy Pulp Co., the
M and R Trucking Co: and a
seed mill.
“The damage to these busi
nesses will be roughly SIOO,-
000,” a sheriff’s department
spokesman said.
Three tornadoes dropped out
of the squall line within a 10-
mile radius of the rural Liberty
Air Center Key To New Concept
No matter where Atlanta’s
second airport is located, it is
clear that an air transportation,
a separate area used to shuttle
passengers from one airport to
the other from a central point,
will be part of the plans.
“The air transportation
center is a new concept that has
never really been applied be
fore anywhere else in the world
in its pure form,” a Mclntosh
Trail spokesman said.
The main points of contention
between those who want the
new airport to locate in Henry
County and the north Fulton
County site proponents has been
GRIFFIN
Doily Since 1872 Griffin, Georgia 30223 Friday, December 26, 1969
County town of Bristol. Several
trailers were overturned and at
least three homes were un
roofed.
Three small tornadoes struck
at Bay County, including one at
the Panama City airport that
damaged the landing gear of a
Southern Airlines plane and
overturned several pieces of
airport service equipment. A
twister struck a trailer park in
northwest Gainesville, overturn
ing one mobile home and dam
aging several others.
One unoccupied building was
demolished and another dam
aged by a twister that struck
near the town of Woodville just
south of Tallahassee.
A tornado that snapped tall
Georgia pines “like match
sticks” demolished two houses
and injured seven persons at
the Oakland plantation. One of
the houses was ripped up and
carried several feet from its
foundation before being shat
tered as it hit the ground.
The twister also killed an un
determined number of regis
tered cattle at the plantation.
Near where the cattle were
killed, trees were uprooted and
spread about the countryside.
A trailer house was destroyed
at Loreauville, two homes were
demolished at Youngsville and
five homes lost their roofs at
Bayou Sorrel near Placquemine.
The Vermilion Parish sheriff’s
office estimated damage at
Kaplan at $250,000. A Red Cross
representative was there late
Thursday surveying the wreck
age.
Three of the eight persons in
jured in Louisiana had to be
hospitalized. One boy was in
serious condition.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
CHICAGO (UPl)—Mrs. Jes
sie Sharp, 40, and her family
dropped into the South Chicago
Police District Thursday and
served up a full turkey dinner
for about 30 policemen.
“It was delicious,” one
officer said, “but now I suppose
someone will have us investi
gated for accepting gratuities.”
convience to north Atlanta air
users.
“Up until recently, the
question of added milage for
most air travelers in getting to
the airport has been the big
minus mark against the Henry
County site, Mclntosh Trail
said.
The spokesman continued,
“However, with the rapid
transit or ‘Rapido’ system
connecting both airports, actual •
travel time is cut to about one
third.”
The air transportation center
will consist of huge multilevel
parking buildings surrounding
No Matter Where New Airport Goes
Griffin Textile Man
Sees Price Squeeze
Second Half Os 1970
Seen As Better
A Griffin textile official
believes that 1970 will see a con
tinuing squeeze on profits but he
and other leaders in the in
dustry look for improvement in
business conditions beginning in
the second half of the year.
Floyd C. Newton Jr., presi
dent of the Georgia textile
Manufacturers Association and
vice president and treasurer of
Dundee Mills, Inc., Griffin, pre
dicts that 1970 will not be as
vigorous for the industry as the
Floyd Newton
Two Shot;
Griffin Man
Killed In Wreck
Robert Barkley, 116
Ijexington street, was listed in
good condition today at the
Grffin-Spalding Hospital where
he was being treated for a gun
shot wound in the chest.
Griffin Police said the inci
dent occured at 12:30 a.m.
Christmas at Barkley’s home.
Miss Joanne Coleman was
shot in the foot during the inci
dent. She was treated at the
Griffin-Spalding Emergency
Room and dismissed.
Barkley told police the
shooting occurred after Miss
Coleman refused to dance with
an unidentified man.
Miss Coleman was among
those who were at a Christmas
party at the Barkley home.
Police said warrents had been
issued for the unidentified man.
Elsewhere in Griffin, Police
released 10 prisoners to be
home with their families for the
Christmas holidays.
All except one had returned
and police were looking for him
today.
The Georgia State Patrol
reported a Griffin man, Joe
Thomas Gresham, of Route
One, was killed in a traffic acci
dent in Barnesville on Christ
mas Eve.
He was the only holiday
fatality report in this area.
the rapid transit system.
“The passenger using the air
center would drive into one of
the buildings, park his car and
leave his luggage at a drop off
point; and if he had phoned
ahead; pick up his tickets from
an attendant near the entrance
point for the ‘Rapido’ trains,”
the spokesman said.
“Since his baggage will be
computer coded with his
parking space number, it will be
returned to his car following his
return flight,” the spokesman
added.
Once the traveler has picked
up his ticket, he will be rushed
past few years have been.
INVENTORIES
“Inventories have begun to
accumulate in some lines and
foreign imports have continued
to increase,” Mr. Newton
pointed out. “The effect of wage
increases (the textile industry
has passed on nine general
wage increases in the past eight
years) during 1969 will be fully
felt in 1970, with little chance for
recovery of the increase
through the improvement of
prices.”
Mr. Newton also pointed out
that an “acute labor shortage in
most parts of Georgia” is ad
ding to the expense of
operations. Employment
figures in 1969, according to the
Georgia Department of Labor,
inncreased slightly, showing a
gain of 500. Total employment
in the Georgia textile industry
reached 117,500 in September,
1969, compared to 117,000 for
September, 1968.
INCREASE
Textile employment in the
state constitutes 24.9 percent of
the total manufacturing em
ployment and has increased 13.4
percent over the past 10 years,
according to the department.
Total annual wages for
Georgia textile employees
during 1970 is expected to ex
ceed $550 million. Average
hourly earnings in the textile in
dustry have increased 39 per
cent over the past ten years,
compared to 37.7 percent for all
manufacturing.
Joseph L. Lanier, chairman
and chief executive officer of
West Point Pepperell, stated at
a December meeting:
PROFITS
“Profits in 1969 were not up to
expectations. Unfortunately,
the continued pressure of im
ports higher wage, supply and
utility costs, the chaotic sheet
market, and the dislocation in
our apparel fabrics operations
as its markets have undergone
radical changes, were too
strong to permit recovery of
profits as we had hoped. These
problems will continue with us
into the present fiscal year.”
A noteof optimism appeared in
Mr. Lanier’s statement as he
referred to the decade of the
1970’5: “With a reasonable and
measured control on imports,
with the large increase in the
number of Americans in the age
group 20 to 35 years (and it is
this group that is the largest and
most important user of con
sumer and apparel textiles,)
with continuing technological
development and with the many
new fiber possibilities, there
should be exceptional op
portunities for growth and pro
fits in the textile industry.”
to his departure airport by one
of the 100 m.p.h. “Rapido”
trains.
“When the train stops, the
passenger will simply step out
and walk directly on to his
plane,” Mclntosh Trail said.
The spokesman added that
when the passenger returns to
Atlanta, he would not have to
worry about returning to the
wrong airport and being left 40
miles from his car.
“With the air center con
cept,it wouldn’t matter which
airport he returned to because
his car is still parked at the air
center,” Mclntosh Trail said.
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LB J Says HHH Lost Agnew
In Salt Lake City qiT Tour
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -For
mer President Lyndon B.
Johnson believes Hubert H.
Humphrey would be in the
White House today had it not
been for a few words Hum
phrey spoke at Salt Lake City,
and the “few thousand votes”
those words cost him.
Johnson gave his views of the
climactic 1968 election cam
paign in an interview to be
carried Saturday by CBS-TV at
7:30 p.m. EST. The interview
is the first of “hree hours of
Johnson interviews with Walter
Cronkite of CBS News. The
second installment will be
shown Feb. 6.
Johnson showed flashes of
sarcasm and resentment at his
treatment by the press, but his
references to Humphrey were
matter-of-fact, tinged perhaps
by regret.
Has Deep Doubts
Johnson thought, as far back
as 1955, that it would be a
mistake for him to seek the
presidency. Once in office after
the death of President John F.
Kennedy, Johnson had deep
doubts about running in 1964.
When he did he was elected by
a landslide over Barry M.
Goldwater of Arizona. Then, on
March 31, 1968, he told an
amazed country he would not
Mclntosh Trail said they see
the air center as the hub be
tween the two airports.
When asked what effect the
air center concept would have
on the surrounding area, the
spokesman said, “Commerce
undoubtly will develope around
the air center with industry
locating around the airport site
itself.”
“Freight will not be moved by
the high-speed trains, only
passengers and their luggage,”
the spokesman said.
R. Dixon Speas and
Associates, the airport planners
engaged in studying possible
Vice President Agnew and wife
board plane.
accept renomination.
What went into this final,
startling decision? LBJ said:
“I was positive I could not
get a peace conference, get
them to a peace table ...
positive that I could not get a
tax bill ... positive I could not
coo] the cities as a candidate
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Also, he said he felt he should
not run because his Southern
background and upbringing had
seriously handicapped his abili
ty to unite and inspire the
naton. “I have never really
believed that I was the man to
do that particular job,” he said.
LBJ said there was no doubt
whatever in his own mind that
he would have been elected had
he stood for re-election in 1968.
He professed “great admira
tion” for Humphrey, acknow
ledging that the Humphrey
campaign had insufficient mo
ney and the candidate was
burdened by opposition to the
Johnson administration.
Crucial Turning Point
Johnson regarded Hum
phrey’s Salt Lake City speech,
as a crucial turning point of the
campaign. The speech was
made late in October and went
beyond Johnson’s policies in
proposing steps to end the
Vietnam War. And LBJ felt this
“detracted from his possibili
ties.”
airport sites, is presently
studying the possibility of ex
tending the ‘Rapido’ system
into downtown Atlanta to allow I
passengers easy access to the
central city.
Speas will work closely with
Atlanta’s MARTA (Metropoli
ian Area Rapid Transit
Authority) in planning down
town connectors.
In their Monday report, Speas
and Associates added that the ;
most effective way to reduce air ;
travel cost to date is to add
more passengers to each flights i
as with the new “Jumbo Jets” I
which will carry several him- i
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew
leaves today on a 37,000-mile
mission of personal diplomacy
that will take him from Guam
to Australia.
Agnew and his party, includ
ing his wife, were to leave
Andrews Air Force Base at 10
a.in. EST.
President Nixon has already
laid out the general purpose of
the trip: To discuss the post-
Vietnam future of the nations
he visits, with emphasis on
Nixon’s doctrine for more
economic and military indepen
dence from the United States.
Bloodmobile
Here Tuesday
Lee Roy Claxton, chairman of
the blood program here,
reminded Griffinites that the
bloodmobile would be in Griffin
next Tuesday for its last 1969
visit.
He said that during the holi
day season with so many high
way accidents, the demand for
blood will be acute.
He urged all donors to make
plans to visit the bloodmobile at
the First Baptist Church’s
Cheatham auditorium between
11 a..m. and 5 p.m..
dred passengers.
“These new larger aircraft
will be using the new airport
because of the longer run
ways,” Mclntosh Trail said.
“Because of the air center,
the new airport will most likely
become the first state-wide air
facility with STOL (Short take
off and Landing) aircraft
shuttling passengers to the air
center’s short runways from
all over the state,” the
spokesman said.
For local air travelers, heli
copter services from all parts of
the Atlanta area to the air
center will be added.