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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Rain, sleet and snow which
featured much of last week
faired off enough Tuesday night
for the big Christmas parade. It
seems each year this event gets
better and bigger and the one
this past week was no excep
tion.
There were five bands, sever
al marching units, and floats
and special cars galore. First
prize in the float division was
won by the Griffin Police
Auxiliary; second place went to
the First Baptist Church and
third to the GHS CoEd Club.
The Griffin Daily News
published names and addresses
of many men and women in the
Armed Services so that Christ
mas Cards could be sent them;
it also began publishing Letters
to Santa Claus and announced
the annual Christmas picture
coloring contest for children.
Meanwhile Good Evening got
into the Christmas picture by
asking his readers to help him
choose the five most popular
Christmas Carols. (Already
answers are coming in.)
The dark side of the picture
for last week included
discovery, after months of
undercover work, that Griffin
was used by drug smugglers as
a place to bring dope and trans
fer it to pushers and peddlers. A
huge amount of “pills” was
confiscated and a Tennessee
man and woman arrested.
Local, state and federal of
ficials are delving further into
the alleged use of this commun
ity as a “transfer point.”
Atlanta’s rapid transit system
won a case in court when Marta
was approved by Fulton County
voters by a margin of 471 votes,
an increase over the original
count by 10 votes.
The U. S. Senate approved
appointment of Earl Butz to be
Secretary of Agriculture. The
vote was rather close.
The White House announced
some of the plans for President
Nixon’s visit to China. Feb. 21 is
the date that has been set. The
President will be accompanied
by his wife “Pat” and in addi
tion to visiting Peking he will
visit Shanghai and Hanghow.
(Billy Graham told a Texas
Crusade audience that the
President might take Mrs. Gra
ham, his wife, with him as an
intrepreter. Mrs. Graham is the
daughter of Dr. Bell, a mission
ary doctor who spent many
years in China. She was bom in
China and was almost grown
before she learned to speak
English fluently.)
Meanwhile people from many
nations began coming to Wash
ington to talk with the President
before he left for China. One of
these visitors was Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir.
Tension readied the breaking
point in Egypt when Jordan’s
Prime Minister Wasfi Tel was
assassinated. He was in Egypt
to attend a meeting of the Arab
defense council. It was reported
he was killed by four Jordan
Guerrillas. King Hussein of
Jordan immediately named Ah
med Louiza as his susccessor
and a strong security guard was
ordered to protect him.
Pakistan-India war continued
to flare with India saying they
only want to make it safe for
Pakistian refugees to return to
their homes. India has been
overrun with refugees and is
either unwilling or unable to
care for them and they are
dying from hunger and thirst.
Russia in the U. N. Security
council “vetoed” plan to have
U. N. take action there or in the
Mid East.
Weather
COLDER
estimated high today
52, low today 38, high yesterday
39, low yesterday 35. Total
rainfall .39 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:30, sunset
tomorrow 5:27.
India pushes
for quick win
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Post office
open longer
for Yule
The Griffin Post office will be
open for the next two Wednes
day afternoons and the next two
Saturday mornings to help
handle Christmas mailing,
according to Postmaster Ed
Dye.
On the Saturday mornings of
Dec. 11 and 18, the post office
will be open until noon or longer
if needed, the postmaster said.
He said on the Wednesdays of
Dec. 8 and 15 the post office
would be open in the afternoons.
Mr. Dye asked Griffinites to
mail their Christmas packages
and cards early in the day so the
employes can process it and get
it on the way to its destinations.
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House panel
will visit
station
The Georgia House Com
mittee on Agricultural
Research will visit the Experi
ment Station here Thursday.
Plans call for the committee
members to tour the station
between 1:15 and 3:30 p.m. so
the committee will have an
opportunity to see and hear
about research programs.
Stocking
deadline
extended
The Jaycettes will take ap
plications for Empty Stocking
aid one more day. The deadline
was extended because of the
weather over the weekend.
The Jaycettes will have a
team to take applications
tomorrow from 4 p.m. until 7
p.m. at the Chamber of Com
merce.
Any family planning to ask
for empty stocking help this
year may go to the Chamber
during that time and fill out an
application.
The Jaycettes believe that
many persons could not make it
to the Chamber during the
weekend because of the
weather. Therefore the deadline
was extended.
"Armament is an important factor in
K VW A war, but not the decisive one . . . Man,
not material, forms the decisive factor."
—Mao Tse-tung
"The population of the People's Repub*
lie of China numbers 740,000,000."
—United Nations estimate
China’s wealth, China’s riches are its people and its 4,000 years of recorded his
tory. But (’Jiina remains, to this day, an enigma to the west. In an exclusive, 18-
part story strip which begins today in this newspaper, Writer Don Oakley and
Artist John Lane examine the turbulent, twisted history of
CHINA ONE FOURTH OF MANKIND
Starts today page 12
GRIFFIN
daily#news
Daily Since 1872
By United Press International
India recognized the Bangla
Desh rebel government of East
Pakistan today and reported its
troops, with almost total air
supremacy, were moving rapid
ly through East Pakistan in
hopes of a quick victory.
India reported major victo
ries in southern Kashmir where
it said a Pakistani tank force
was defeated with destruction
of 23 Pakistani tanks and said
its air force struck the harbor
at Karachi again today and
found the waterfront in flames.
Pakistan Radio reported it
had captured up to 20 Indian
border posts and carried out
widespread air attacks against
Indian military positions and
air fields and reported victories
in the Poonch sector of western
Kashmir.
Dacca Cut Off
Most of the victory claims
came from India, especially in
East Pakistan where it report
ed new bombings of Pakistani
ports and said East Pakistan
was now isolated from resupply
by West Pakistan. The capital
city of Dacca has been cut off
from its supply routes, India
reported.
Two waves of Indian planes
carried out low level bombing
and strafing attacks of Dacca’s
international airport today,
imperiling but not hurting a
group of 10 British women and
children who had just arrived
there for evacuation aboard a
United Nations mercy flight.
Another group of 250 Ameri
can and other refugees in the
Inter-Continental Hotel in Dac
ca took refuge in the hotel
corridors and were not hurt.
The U.N. had asked for a two
hour cease-fire to permit two
chartered U.N. planes to fly in
from Bangkok.
Members Cheer
India’s decision to recognize
the rebel Bangla Desh govern
ment was announced in Parli
ament in New Delhi. Members
began cheering and thumping
their desks even before Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi finished
her announcement.
The India-Pakistan war stems
from the decision of Pakistani
President Agha Mohammad
Yahya Khan last March to
bring in West Pakistani troops
to put down a rebellion by the
Bangla Desh movement which
declared itself independent of
West Pakistan. The Awami
League in East Pakistan had
won a majority in the Pakistani
Parliament in elections late last
year but Yahya Khan prevented
the league from taking its
seats.
There was rebellion, civil war
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, Dec. 6, 1971
and the flight of 10 million
refugees into India. India called
the flight of the refugees a
threat to Indian security and
gave moral support to the
Bangla Desh.
Today Mrs. Gandhi told
Parliament: “Now that Pakis
tan is waging war on us, the
hesitation which the govern
ment was feeling in according
recognition to the Bangla Desh
government has lost signifi
cance.”
She did not break relations
with the military government in
Rawalpindi but Pakistan imme
diately broke off diplomatic
relations with India. Although
they had been fighting a major
war neither had severed
diplomatic relations.
Maj. Gen. J. F. R. Jacob,
chief of staff of the Indian
Eastern command which in
cludes East Pakistan told
newsmen in Calcutta today his
forces were moving very
rapidly through East Pakistan
and that the air force had
gained almost total supremacy.
Some 10 million East Pakista
ni’s fled to India after the start
of the civil war, straining
India’s resources.
Airport
option
taken
ATLANTA (UPI) - The At
lanta Board of Aidermen’s avi
ation committee voted today to
exercise an option on property
in Dawson County for the loca
tion of the city’s second airport.
Chairman Hugh Pierce said
the committee would recom
mend to the full board later to
day that the property be pur
chased for $5 million.
Pierce said the committee
considered the location—about
50 miles northeast of downtown
Atlanta—the“bestavailable”for
easing the burden on the pres
ent Hartsfield International Air
port in south Atlanta.
He said two other cites for
merly under consideration in
Henry County and north Fulton
County had to be dropped for
economic and political reasons.
The airlines opposed the Hen
ry County location and the resi
dents of north Fulton were
strongly opposed to putting the
airport at that site.
According to estimates, it
would take $515 millicm to make
the proposed new airport opera
tion and the final cost was fig
ured at $1,386 billion.
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Indian troops take up positions near border town of Darsanva.
Wreck injury
list grows
Bennie James Burr, 326 West
Oak street, was treated in the
emergency room of the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital this morning
for head injuries he received
when he lost control of his car at
College and Ninth streets. He
was not thought to be seriously
injured.
Junior L. Clanton, 46, 1014
West Poplar street* suffered
head and chest injuries when he
lost control of his car and it
crashed into a tree and
shrubbery last night. Police
said he was backing from his
driveway and ran into the yard
of a neighbor.
Three persons were injured in
a collision of two cars and a
pickup truck Friday at 6:35
p.m. on Memorial drive at
Harlow avenue. All three
vehicles were demolished.
Mrs. Willie P. Gilmore, 512
Brook circle, was driving one of
the cars. She suffered chest and
knee injuries. Lee Edward
Chadwick, 23, Route One, Zebu-
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lon, another driver, was treated
for head injuries. His
passenger, Rebecca Frie, 23, of
the Town and Country Trailer
Park, suffered back and leg
injuries. All were treated in the
emergency room of the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Robert Archie Spencer, 55,
713 Forest avenue, was driving
the pickup truck. He escaped in
jury.
A 71-year-old pedestrian,
Floyd Crowder, of 125 Brawner
street, suffered injuries to his
wrist, spine and hip Friday
when he was hit by a car that
was backing across the lot of
Goldstein and Sems on Slaton
Alley.
The driver of the car was Mrs.
Carol Goldstein, 948 Springer
drive. Both told police that they
did not see the other. The acci
dent was termed unavoidable.
A three-year-old child suffer
ed head injuries and abrasions
in a headon collision Friday on
the Fayetteville road, some five
miles west of Griffin.
State Patrolmen identified
him as Patrick Harrell of Route
One. He was a passenger in a an
auto driven by Robert Lee
Harrell, 18, of the same ad
dress.
Arthur Leon Stephens, 25,
1325 Maple drive was driving
the second car involved.
Troopers said Richard O’Neil
Jones of Hampton was treated
at the local hospital for head
injuries when his pickup truck
clipped a utility pole on the
Fayetteville road at Third
avenue Saturday.
Thefts continue
in Griffarea
Griffin Police Officers on
patrol about 6:10 this morning
found the rear door pried open
at Johnson’s Package Store, 215
North Hill street.
Among the missing items
were three shotguns, rifle,
brass knuckles, 18 cartons of
cigarets, transistor radio and
some change.
Thieves broke into Beaver
brook Elementary School in
Sunny Side during the night and
took about two dollars in change
from the drink machine in the
teachers’ lounge.
Spalding Sheriff’s Deputies
said thieves entered by break
ing a glass in the door, then
reached in and unlocked the
door. Nothing else was reported
missing.
Charles Barnes, 315 West
College street, reported that
sometime Saturday night
thieves stole the battery and
two tires from one car and one
1 our oj nomes
beats weather
The Griffin Historical Society
said its weekend tour of homes
and antique show were a huge
success in spite of the weather.
An estimated 500 to 600 per
sons toured the six homes
Saturday and Sunday after
noons and well over 900 went on
the candlelight tour Saturday
night. At one home, persons
from 35 cities and towns
registered.
All of the ticket sales were not
in this morning, but a spokes
man said the society will clear
over $5,000. The money will be
used for a community project.
The Historical Society said
Vandals hit
three homes
Three residents reported that
vandals broke windows in their
homes over the weekend.
Someone used a BB gun and
shot out the bathroom and
kitchen windows in the apart
ment of Brenda Vickers, 709
Ann street.
The Charles Riders, who live
next door, said they were
watching TV and heard two of
their kitchen windows being
shot out.
Vandals threw two rocks
through windows in the home of
Ernest Barlow, 526 North Third
street. A neighbor saw someone
running from the house.
tire from another auto which
were parked at his house.
Burglars broke into the home
of Cleveland Smith, 217 Ken
tucky avenue, and took a tape
player, tape, piggy-bank con
taining about S4O in change, and
about $lO worth of groceries.
Police said they entered the
house by breaking a window.
Gladiola Talley, 108 Lynn
street, reported that someone
took a roll of bills from her coat
pocket during the night Friday.
She said the coat was hanging
on the closet door. About S6O
was taken.
A tape player, two speakers
and three tapes were stolen
from an auto parked at Griffin
Vo-Tech Friday. The owner was
Thelma F. Palmer of Route
One.
An air wrench, valued at
about $l7O was taken from
Wilder’s American Oil Service
Station, 1104 West Taylor street.
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that over 500 Griffinites worked
on the project and expressed its
gratitude for their support.
Dead man lay
in night rain
A Negro man who lay out in
the rain all Saturday night, died
about five minutes after being
brought to the emergency room
of the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Police think he is Jimmy
Mack Smith who has no per
manent address.
Mrs. Hattie Ellis of 421 North
Fifth street, called police
yesterday about 10 am. and
reported that he was lying in
' her yard. He had been there
since 11 p.m. the night before.
As soon as the officers
arrived, they called an ambu
lance which took him to the
emergency room. The officers
said he was conscious and
talked to them.
He died about five minutes
after reaching the hospital.
Davis fund
tops $4,000
Contributions to the James
Davis Fund passed the $4,000
mark today.
Doug Washington who is help
ing with the fund reported that
the total climbed to $4,044.53
during the weekend.
The fund is being sponsored
by the Second Baptist Church.
Mr. Davis, a Griffin business
man, had open heart surgery in
an Atlanta hospital last week.
He is reported to be in good
condition. He hopes to be
dismissed from the hospital
before the end of the customary
17-day hospitalization for such
surgery.
OKS-ac
“I believe he’s a better nun
who does both good and evil
than he who does neither.”