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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Once again the Jaycettes will
send Christmas Cards to Griffin
men and women in the Armed
Services. Os course many of
these will receive such cards
from personal friends and their
kith and kin—but the Jaycettes
do not want a single one of them
to be forgotten this Christmas.
In order to get the proper ad
dresses the Jaycettes request
everyone in Griffin who has a
member of his family or a
friend in the service to send the
name and address to Mrs.
Shirley Watson, 116 Scott
avenue, Griffin, Ga. 30223.
If these cards will reach the
party to whom they are being
sent in time for Christmas, they
must be mailed from Griffin by
Dec. 1. That is two weeks away
so don’t put off sending in the
name or names to Mrs. Watson.
These cards will be signed by
the Jaycettes and will say in
effect to those who receive
them, “Here is an organization
in your home town that is proud
of you and wants you to know
they wish you a Merry Christ
mas.
Here is a suggestion that
might interest some: In addi
tion to furnishing the Jaycettes
with names and addresses; why
not also send a Card yourself,
signed by you?
Also, if your neighbor or the
person who works at the same
(dace as you has a relative in
the service, get his or her ad
dress and send him or her a
card.
Christmas is a time when all
should be Happy.
Let’s see that every Griffinite
in Uncle Sam’s uniform gets
many Best Wishes cards this
Christmas.
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“I’m pretty sure half of what I
do isn’t worth doing — but I
don’t know which half.”
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Minister battles ‘gate’
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — Rev. Gordon
McAttee believes he has gained a measure
of success in his campaign against a row of
three houses on Elm Street he calls “the
Gates of Hell.”
McAttee led a group of local clergy in a
preaching and singing campaign near the
houses for five straight nights. Sometimes
a Salvation Army band went along and
played “Oh, Why Not Tonight.”
McAttee said that as of Tuesday night
the three houses appeared to be closed
down, the parking lots in the rear were
empty and the women inside “weren’t
evensticking their noses out of the doors.”,
McAttee, a 34-year-old graduate of Bob
Jones University, said the alleged houses
of prostitution had been operating for
decades.
“These places have been in business for
40 to 50 years and a lot of politicians have
come and gone since then,” McAttee said.
“Just because it’s been going on that long
doesn’t mean it has to continue.”
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This window front at Capri Restaurant was one of the targets.
Health board opposes axe
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (UPI)-
Gov. Jimmy Carter Wednesday
night recommended the abolish
ment of four state boards, in
cluding the prestigious State
Health Board, and forming a
new and massive Department
of Human Resources.
Carter made his proposal as
he toured the state with the
Pre-Legislative Forum spon
sored by the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce.
The governor admitted that
his plan to abolish the State
Health Board has met with op
position from the board.
He said he held a meeting
with the board Wednesday
morning and that board mem
bers generally were opposed to
the abolishment of their agency.
The Health Board supervises
the state Health Department.
Carter said the Health De-
McAttee, who ministers the Bible
Mission Church and manages the Athens
Bible Book Store, began his campaign Sat
urday night after the University of
Georgia-Auburn game in this university
city.
Traffic was bumper to bumper in the
area, he said, but most of the cars kept
going after spotting the preachers, a group
of newsmen and the Salvation Army band.
He said others were dissuaded from going
into the houses and “thanked us for
reminding them of the true Christian,
way.”
“One of the house moms, or madams or
whatever, came out into the street,”
McAttee said. “We must of really been
hurting her business because she stopped
cars right on the street and said, ‘this is the
way.’”
McAttee said his group has not asked for
help from the city government because “if
the publicity keeps up, we’re hoping the
places will close themselves.”
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
partment along with the De
partment of Family and Chil
dren Services, the Corrections
Department, the Prison and
Probations agency and Voca
tional Rehabilitation would form
the Human Resources Depart
ment.
The governor proposed the
outright abolishment of the
State Welfare Board and the
Board of Children and Youth,
and said a constitutional amend
ment will be sought in abolish
ing the Corrections Board which
supervises prison system activi
ties.
A super-board, to be called
the Human Resources Board,
would replace the four recom
mended for abolishment, ac
cording to Carter, and the
board would appoint a commis
sioner to head up the new de
partment.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1971
The governor said he had
considered letting the state
health board remain as a sub
ordinate to the Human Re
sources Board. However, he
said he came to the conclusion
that the department could be
operated better with a single
board.
Carter was critical of some
phases of the State Health De
partment’s operation. He said
the department has not ac
complished much in the direc
tion of treating mental patients
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Police Sgt. J. L. Suber talks with two youngsters who were allegedly
offered for sale by two Oklahoma city men. Police arrested William O’Hara and Robert
Westenhaver on charges of attempting to sell the children. The two men identified the children as
Butch Cox, 2, and Teresa, 3, children of Mrs. Mrs. Dorothy Cox of Oklahoma City. (UPI)
Big parade planned
The annual Christmas parade here is expected to be one
of the biggest ever, according to Chairman Don
Rainwater.
He said five bands including the Third Army Band from
Ft. McPherson will be featured.
There will be 12 commercial floats and 12 amateur
floats. Santa will be on the last float in the parade.
The amateur floats will compete for first, second and
third place prize money. The first place winner will get
on the community level, he
criticized the department for
what he called a lack of an
effective local dental program
and said the State Health Board
was slow in coming to the
realization that methadone was
needed in treating heroin ad
dicts.
He also said the Health Board
was wrong in making the de
cision to build regional mental
health hospitals in Rome and
Columbus.
Carter said that if he had
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become governor earlier, he
would have cancelled plans for
the two hospitals. Both facili
ties are now under construction
with funds approved by the
1970 session of the legislature
and recommended by the health
board.
Carter said the “millions of
dollars” being spent for the
two hospitals could be put to
better use in establishing com
munity centers to treat mental
patients in their home areas.
SIOO, the second place winner SSO and third place will get
$25.
The commercial floats will not be in competition.
Shriners will be in the parade again this year. City and
county officials will be featured in lead cars.
Some 20,000 people came to the parade last year. At
least that many are expected again this year.
The parade will be on the night of Nov. 30 beginning at
6:30.
Vandals went on a shooting spree last night and shot out
windows in businesses from one side of the county to the
other.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said the culprits used a shotgun
and fired through windows in stores from Sunny Side to
Orchard Hill.
A truck driver was asleep in the truck he had parked at
Shell Inn on the North Expressway, when someone shot
the windows out of his truck and the plateglass windows at
the truck stop.
Other places hit were the Towel and Tog Shop, Daniel’s
Outlet Store, Grandma’s Pig, and the Capri Restaurant,
all on the North Expressway; Barfield’s Grocery and
Boynton’s Brocery at Sunny Side; H. B. Horton’s Store,
Ga. 92, Deason’s Grocery, Vineyard road; Dutton’s
Grocery, Herford road, Orchard Hill; Tinsley’s Store,
Orchard Hill; Dairy Queen No. 2, Old U.S. 41; and a drink
box at Holman’s Store at the Birdie and Steele roads.
Deputies said other businesses may be added.
Sheriff Gilbert said the shots were heard at the Capri
Restaurant around 3:30 a.m. and he speculated the
vandalism took place approximately between two and
four.
He said that some places had been fired upon at close
range and some from a distance. A rifle also was used at
Daniel’s Outlet Store.
Apparently, all of the shooting took place in the county.
This morning the Broadway Package Store, 503 East
Broadway, reported that someone used a pellet gun to
break the front plateglass window there. The shots hit a
florescent light in the building. Lawmen said there is no
connection between this and the vandalism in the county.
Fish needs
more help
The Fish organization con
tinues to pile up a record of
service to people in need but it
could use some more volunteer
helpers.
Mrs. Robert Crossfield and
Mrs. Jim Strong know the
program is answering com
munity needs from the success
stories they hear.
Fish volunteers helped take
care of some children who were
involved in an accident on 1-75
while other relatives were
treated in the hospital here.
Fish volunteers were called in
They sold children
for as low as $5 each
MANILA (UPI)—An ex-con
vict said today he and his wife
kidnaped 17 children in Manila
and sold them to buyers for as
little as $5 each.
Emesoo Tigue, 31, was
arrested Saturday in his
squatter’s shanty where he
lived with his common-law
wife, Adelaida Cruz, 41. A
woman who had lost a boy, 2,
and a girl, 4, identified Tigue as
one of the kidnapers.
Tigue, whose upper body is
covered with tattoos, spoke
with UPI through jail bars and
told how he and his wife
kidnaped 17 children, ages 1 to
7, from the streets of Manila
and peddled them to buyers,
mostly childless couples living
in the provinces.
Tigue, a slender, bushy-haired
Filipino, said the real culprit
was his wife, who still is at
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to help with a narcotics pro
blem, too.
One person contemplating
suicide called and talked for a
long time with a Fish volunteer
worker. The person never was
identified but Fish people
believe the talk helped to stop a
suicide attempt.
A Fish number is listed in the
telephone directory for people
in need of help.
Mrs. Crossfield and Mrs.
Strong said they need more
volunteer helpers to keep the
service going.
large.
“I don’t know why she sold
the children,” he said. “But she
told me it’s because she hates
the mothers.”
Tigue said he got out of the
Philippine National Penitentiary
in 1967 after serving two years
and two months for a robbery
he claimed he did not commit.
“I know what it is to be in
jail at hard labor. That’s why I
was trying to go straight. But
my wife involved me in this
case
Jaycettes
send cards
to military
Christmas cards will be sent
to men and women in the ser
vice again this year by the
Griffin Jaycettes.
For the last several years the
club has had this as a project.
Relatives and friends of
servicemen and women are
asked to send complete names
and addresses of Armed Forces
people to Mrs. Shirley Watson,
116 Scott avenue, Griffin, Ga.
30223.
The cards must be mailed
before Dec. 1.