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By Quimby Melton
Yesterday in writing about
the month of December men
tioned a song about that month
that was popular back in the
“Roaring Twenties”. This
ballard was “Will You Love Me
In December As You Do In
May?”
A much more appropriate
song for December is “Silent
Night”. This in Good Evening’s
opinion is one of the sweetest
Christmas songs; probably the
best known of all Christmas
Carols.
Here is this song published
with the hope that it will cause
everyone to catch the true
Christmas spirit even before
Christmas Day.
Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and
child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven
afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia;
Christ the Savior is born!
Quist the Savior is born!
Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy
face, With the dawn of redeem
ing grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
Silent night, holy night,
Wondrous star, lend thy light;
With the angels let us sing,
Alleluia to our King;
Christ the Savior is born,
Christ the Savior is born.
Nixon promises help for aged
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon pledged today to
work for a minimum annual
income for older people and to
press for programs to reverse
the “growing sense of isolation
and insecurity” among people
over 65.
In an address to the White
House Conference on Aging, on
the last day of a five-day
meeting, Nixon also promised
the 3,500 delegates to seek tax
relief for the elderly.
Other pledges were improve
ment of private pension sys
tems, upgrading of nursing
home care, and expansion of
programs to allow the elderly
to continue contributing to
society after retirement.
Moments before Nixon ad
dressed the conference, the
delegates approved resolutions
asking for a minimum annual
income of $4,500 for an aged
couple. They also asked for
greater food stamp benefits,
liberalized retirement laws and
Carter fires back at two
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jim
my Carter fired back today at
two department heads who lev
eled criticism at his govern
ment reorganization proposals.
Carter, in a news conference,
said statements made by School
Superintendent Jack Nix in a let
ter to the gover- 3/ ’ were “based
on misunderrtJding on his
part.” M
Thq governor said he did
not want to honor Labor Com
missioner Sam Caldwell by an
swering Caldwell’s criticisms. ■
“I don’t have any comment
and I probably won’t ever have
any comment, on any state
ment made by the commission
er of labor,” he declared.
Carter also said he hopes nei
ther health Department Direc
tor Dr. John Venable nor mem
bers of the state Health Board
will resign because he needs
their help in carrying out reor
ganization.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Everybody knows that country and
western singer Roy A cuff (1) can balance his money maker, a
fiddle bow, on his nose. But not everybody knows that
construction worker Chester Chapman of Smithville, Tenn,
can balance his money maker, a shovel, on his nose. Well,
would you believe his chin? Acuff and Chapman are at the
construction site of the Roy Acuff Music Museum at
Opryland U.S.A. a S2B-mlllion complex, which will be the
home of the American Music and is scheduled to open April
29. (UPI)
national health insurance.
These resolutions will be sent
to Nixon as a part of the report
of the conference, which Nixon
called.
Dignified Image Needed
The President told the
delegates: “As we consider
your suggestions, we will be
guided by this conviction: Any
action which enhances the
dignity of older Americans
enhances the dignity of all
Americans. For unless the
American dream comes true
for our older generation, it
cannot be complete for any
generation.
“This country will have to be
at its best if we are to meet the
challenge of competition in the
world in the 19705. And we
cannot be at our best if we
keep our most experienced
players on the bench.
“Yet in recent years a gulf
has been opening between older
Americans and the rest of our
people. This gulf is the product,
ing the Health Board and Trans
ferring the department to a new
Department of Human Resour
ces. Health Board members
have vowed to fight the propos
als and have voted to ask for
Venable’s resignation.
Carter said while there have
been deficiencies in the Health
Department the blame cannot
be placed on either the board
or Venable.
The governor said he was to
meet with health board chair
man Dr. Beverly Forrester of
Macon later today to discuss
their differences.
Nix wrote Carter a lengthy
letter Wednesday saying he in
tended to veto Carter’s reorgan
ization proposals affecting the
education department. The reor
ganization bill passed by the
General Assembly earlier this
year gives constitutional depart
ment heads veto power over
changes affecting their depart
ment.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
in large measure, of a great
social revolution - which has
weakened the traditional bonds
of family, neighborhood and
community. For millions of
older Americans, the result has
been a growing sense of
isolation and insecurity.
“We must change that.
Younger and older Americans
need one another. We must find
ways to bring the generations
together again.”
Minimum Annual Income
Nixon said it was important
that Congress approve “without
delay” his welfare legislation,
which he said would establish a
minimum annual income for all
older Americans.
He said his bill would allow
Social Security recipients to
earn more money from their
own work and that it would
raise benefit levels, especially
for widows.
The superintendent is unhap
py with several of the gover
nor’s proposals, including
amending the constitution to
provide for the appointment
rather than the election of the
state school superintendent.
That proposal, Nix said, “de
nies the people a direct voice in
the governance of education...”
Carter said Nix was laboring
under the presumption that his
final reorganization plan has
been drawn. It has not, he
said, but probably will be print
ed Saturday and distributed to
department heads next week.
As for the appointment of the
superintendent, Carter said, “I
personally think the superinten
dent should be free from run
ning for office.”
Caldwell wrote Carter criticiz
ing what he called the gover
nor’s “surreptitious” meeting
Tuesday afternoon with Elliot
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1971
Hampton man beaten
police probe mystery
A Hampton businessman,
who was collecting accounts in
Griffin last night, was robbed,
beaten and left unconscious in
some tall weeds at the rear of a
house on Lynn street.
Jasper Earl Pendley, 50, of
Route One, Hampton, was in
serious condition at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital this morning.
He has not been able to tell
police what happened.
Mr. Pendley operates the
Village Trade Mart on Main
street in Hampton. He left
Hampton yesterday afternoon
to collect some accounts in
Griffin. A resident of Lynn
street, near the spot where he
was found, told police he came
to her house between 8:30 and 9
last night. She is the last person
known to have seen him. He was
found unconscious at the rear of
a nearby house around 4 a.m.
today. He had been beaten
severely about the head.
His car was parked on Lynn
street, near North Hill, and
police think he was attacked as
he left the house and was
walking toward the car. One of
his shoes and his glasses were
found in front of the house, near
the car. The other shoe was at
the rear of the house, near him.
He apparently had been
dragged behind the house.
Police said that Lt. Ray Ward
and Officer John Nolan were
patroling the area around
midnight and noticed the car
with its parking lights on.
Around 4 a.m., they saw that the
car was still there and called
headquarters to check on its
ownership. Mrs. Pendley had
called to report that her hus
band had not come home and
die had given a description of.'
the car.
The officers checked the area
and found Mr. Pendley lying on
the ground at the rear of a
house.
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Richardson, secretary of the U.
S. Department Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
S. Department Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
He said Carter is attempting
to “establish a little HEW“ in
Georgia.
The governor retorted that he
was merely trying to “eliminate
red tape” from HEW financed
programs in the state and gain
mere control over their use.
“The state ought to have max
imum control of the programs
involving the Georgia people,”
he said.
Carter also said he feels state
Sen. Stanley Smith’s announce
ment that he plans to hold pub
lic hearings on Carter’s reorgan
ization proposals will be a “good
thing.”
Smith, of Perry, said he will
conduct hearings on Dec. 13-15,
to hear from department heads
and others affected by reorgan
ization.
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Spalding man injured in this auto.
Spalding man
hurt in wreck
A 20-year-old Spalding County
man was in critical condition in
an Atlanta hospital with injuries
he suffered in a traffic accident
on the West Mclntosh road this
morning.
Trooper Don Duke of the
Griffin State Patrol Post identi
fied him as Mike Samuel Taylor
of Route Five, Box 33. Taylor
suffered severe head injuries
and after treatment in the
Judge
pulls self
off MARTA
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI)-With
in the space of a minute, De-
Kalb County Superior Court
Judge H. 0. Hubert disqualified
himself today from hearing an
other case in the controversy
over rapid transit in the Atlanta
metropolitan area.
Attorney Moreton Rolleston,
who brought the suit on grounds
the Fulton County election super
visor, William Graham, lives in
DeKalb, asked: “I would like to
make an oral motion that you
disqualify yourself, your hon
or.”
He had barely gotten the
words out when Hubert replied:
“If that’s what you want, I con
sider myself disqualified.”
Rolleston is contesting the fa
vorable vote for the Metropoli
tan Atlanta Rapid Transit Au
thority (MARTA) in both De-
Kalb and Fulton counties in a
Nov. 9 referendum. Citizens of
the two counties voted to levy
a one per cent sales tax on
themselves to finance the $1.3
billion rail-and-bus transporta
tion plan.
Rolleston said he didn’t feel
any judge in the Stone Moun
tain Judicial Circuit was quali
fied to hear the case because
their counties were involved in
the referendum, meaning Gov.
Jimmy Carter may have to ap
point another judge.
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Griffin-Spalding Hospital
emergency room, was tran
tferred to Crawford W. Long
Hospital in Atlanta.
The accident happened about
3.7 miles west of Griffin near
the Cheatham farm on the West
Mclntosh road at 7:40 a.m.
Trooper Duke said that
Taylor was attempting to pass a
car and met another vehicle
headon. Witnesses said that
when he saw the oncoming car,
Senators shout
over tax fund
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen
ate Republican leader Hugh
Scott, in a shouting match with
Sen. Fred R. Harris, D-Okla.,
accused Democrats today of
“being partisan without prin
ciple” in pushing for taxpayer
financing of the 1972 presiden
tial election campaign.
The exchange erupted when
Scott sarcastically noted that
fewer than half a dozen
senators were present for the
final round of debate on the
nomination of Earl L. Butz to
be agriculture secretary. He
compared this to almost
unanimous attendance during
consideration recently of the
public financing program
pushed by Democrats.
“Y ou get a far bigger crowd
for the sweet smell of green
Nobody's
pigeon
BRISBANE, Australia (UPI)
—Cattleman Jim Tuite said
today he found an exhausted
homing pigeon which had a
Hanover, Germany, address
strapped to its leg.
Hanover is about 10,000 miles
from Tuite’s ranch at Til
booroo, Cunnamulla, 500 miles
west of Brisbane.
“I found the bird in the
stables at the back of the
homestead,” Tuite said. “It
looked ready to drop dead it
was so exhausted.”
Taylor cut back too short into
his traffic lane. His car went out
of control, left the road, and
crashed broadside into a small
concrete building. The 1968
model vehicle was demolished.
Trooper Duke said that
Taylor was traveling toward the
sun and speculated that the
glare may have prevented him
from seeing the approaching
car until too late.
money,” Scott remarked. Har
ris demanded if Scott was
accusing foes of Butz of
partisanship.
“No, we’re not accusing you
of being partisan,” Scott
touted. “We’re accusing you
of being partisan without
principle. We’re accusing you of
being partisan in raiding the
U.S. treasury—of the clear,
cold ruthless, sharply cutting
effect of being able to slice
enough funds from the treasury
to finance yourselves.”
Scott continued that President
Nixon would veto his own tax
reduction bill if it contained—as
it did while House-Senate
conferees were continuing to
work on a compromise bill—the
$1 per taxpayer checkoff
authorization for campaign
financing.
Harris yelled back, “Well, let
me tell you, if he does veto that
bill, there’s not going to be any
tax bill this year.”
The chairman of the con
ferees, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-
Ark., said Wednesday that the
compromise bill being worked
out by conferees would contain
the Democratic financing plan.
Nixon had objected to more
than sl2 million in additional
tax cuts added by the Senate
and the conferees eliminated
most of those.
But the administration insist
ed that Nixon would stand by a
threat he made Monday to veto
the bill if it reached him with
the financing feature still in it.
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4 agencies
study split
of sales tax
ATLANTA (UPI) - Four as
sociations with lots of political
heft meet here next week in an
effort to decide how to split up
the money—if and when a pro
posed one cent sales tax in
crease is passed.
Representatives of the Geor
gia Municipal Association, the
Association of County Commis
sioners of Georgia, the Georgia
Association of Educators and
the Georgia School Boards As
sociations are expected to be on
hand for the meeting on Dec.
10.
Two of the organizations, the
GMA and county commission
ers, are jointly pushing for a
one-cent sales tax increase, the
money to be redistributed to
local governments and school
boards under a complicated
formula.
The GAE would like for at
least 60 per cent of any new
revenue from a sales tax in
crease to go to education while
the school boards want the
money to go directly into the
state treasury to be appropri
ated by the general assembly
without earmarking for specific
purposes.
The meeting is “to see if we
can’t get together on what we
can agree on,” one source said.
The GMA-county commission
ers proposal calls for the state
to collect the increased sales
tax with 50 per cent of it re
maining at the point of collec
tion and the rest redistributed
to counties as grants.
Forty per cent of the money
remaining at the collection level
would go to local school boards
with the remaining 60 per cent
to county and city governments
on a population basis.
Jack Acree, director of the
school boards association,
claimed in a position paper this
week that the proposal would
wreck the state’s minimum
foundation program of educa
tion. He said the state needs
more money for education and
other purposes but that the pro
posal would make the rich
richer and the poor poorer.
Acree said that another pro
posal by the GMA-commission
ers to force local governments
to reduce their ad valorem
taxes by the amount they re
ceive in the proposed grants
would “be just a swapping of
monies.”
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“If folks are more critical
these days, it may be because so
much is done for us — we
usually are less critical of what
we do for ourselves.”