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By Quimby Melton
When the GHS Glee Club
closed its Christmas Carol
songfest at the Exchange Club
meeting Tuesday they sang
“We wish you a Merry Christ
mas” and in this old timer’s
opinion the club has never sung
better. Directed by Mrs. Joe
(Gretchen) Cumming they
performed like professionals;
and, on top of that, they sang
with a warmth and with a joy in
their voices that was inspiring
and contageous.
The program featured sever
al old favorite Carols and
several more modern Carols
such as “Sing Around for
Christmas”, “The Marshmel
low Song”, and one about true
love and the sprig of mistletoe.
We have never enjoyed their
anging more than this year.
Their director Mrs. Joe
(Gretchen) Cumming not only
is skilled at teaching them how
to sing but also how to appreci
ate good music. We’ve never
heard them sing better than
they did Tuesday. When there
are 50 young voices blending in
perfect harmony, singing with
the enthusiasm displayed by the
GHS singers Tuesday one can
enjoy the program from open
ing to finish.
Fortunate Griffin to have
such an organization as the GHS
Glee Club.
At the conclusion of the pro
gram Mrs. Cumming told Good
Evening that the young people
had talked about their favorite
Carol and that Silent Night was
found to head the list with Joy to
the World a close second. (We
are scoring 50 points in our
tabulations of the poll being
conducted to determine the
favorite Carol here in Griffin.)
Speaking of favorite Carols; a
young mother has said “I heard
my little girl singing the other
day. She was happy and I was
busy with housework and. as
long as she seemed happy and
was close to me I did net pay
much attention to what she was
singing. Then, she tugged at my
dress and sang looking up at me
‘Jesus Loves Me This I know,
‘Cause the Bible Tells Me So.’ ”
We agree with that young
mother there could be no
sweeter Christmas Carol than
this.
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles fire department was
placed under fire alert status as fires fanned by high winds
swept through the city. Numerous brush fires erupted and
fire department switchboards were swampted with calls on
School bus
bridges here
reported safe
All bridges in Spalding
County which are used by
school buses are safe, according
to Herman Nelson, administra
tive assistant with the school
Empty Stocking
drive is Sunday
The Griffin Jaycees will have
its annual door to door canvas
for money to support the Empty
Stocking program Sunday
Cannon sets
pay increase
KANNAPOLIS, N. C. (UPI)-
Production employes of Cannon
Mills in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia have been
notified they will receive a
wage adjustment this month.
Company officials posted no
tices of the raise in its plants
Tuesday. Although the amount
of the hike was not revealed,
officials said the adjustment
would be within the guidelines
set by the Pay Board under
Phase n of President Nixon’s
economic policy.
The federal guidelines provide
for a maximum adjustment of
5.5 per cent.
Officials said timing on the
adjustments would vary from
plant to plant and with shifts in
the plants. More than 20,000 em
ployes will be affected by the
raise.
90 percent
vote turnout
TWIN CITY, Ga. (UPI) -In
what could be a modern day
record, 90 per cent of the voters
turned out in this small Eman
uel County town Tuesday to
re-elect John Whetsell mayor.
Whetsell received 276 votes to
218 for his opponent, J. Howard
Quarles.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
system here. He is in charge of
school buses.
Mr. Nelson said he had gone
over all the routes in the system
and found all bridges to be safe.
morning.
Jaycees will begin making
calls at Griffin area homes at
7:30 a.m.
Charles H. Head, chairman of
the drive, asked Griffinites to
have money ready when a
Jaycee representative calls
Sunday morning.
The Empty Stocking is
largely dependent on the money
raised on the annual campaign
drive.
Clarence Williams is
president of the Jaycees this
year. He joined in urging
Griffinites to support the drive
again this year as they have
done in the past.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
62, low today 43, high yesterday
70, low yesterday 48. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:32, sunset
tomorrow 5:27.
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“Before we produced so many
fine things, a fellow could be
poor without noticing it.”
reported fires. Most fires were brought under control with
little damage but this home suffered damage in excess of
$40,000. No injuries were reported. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1971
This was done prior to the
opening of school as a matter of
routine safety checking, he
said.
Mr. Nelson said that the
school system would not permit
a bus to use a bridge that was of
questionable strength or safety.
The Griffin-Spalding system
operates 42 buses and handles
5,500 students daily.
The Griffin Daily News asked
Mr. Nelson for the report after
the State Highway Department
put out a report there were 370
crossings in the state that are
structually suspect.
Mr. Nelson said he par
ticipated in a survey on which
the report was based. All
systems in the state were
contacted about school bus
bridge safety, Mr. Nelson ob
served.
Floyd Wilkerson, warden of
the Public Works Camp here
who is in charge of road and
bridge construction and
maintenance, told the County
Commissioners in a report
yesterday that two bridges were
in need of some work. .
The Ellis Branch bridge on
West Mclntosh road needs some
work and the warden recom
mended that some state help
be sought on this job. He said
work on two other bridges in the
county could be done by county
labor.
The State Highway report on
bridges over the state said all of
the suspect bridges were in 96
counties and were crossed daily
by school buses loaded with
children.
The report said some of the
bridges were in such bad shape
that they could be expected to
fall in at any time.
The 370 bridges cited in the
state report are on roads
maintained by counties and that
the Highway Department didn’t
have the authority to close
them.
The department will double
check findings then recommend
to counties and county com
missioners which bridges
should be replaced or cir
cumvented.
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Ed Langford (1), director of Griffin Tech, accepts certificate
of accreditation from Dr. Lawrence Cunningham of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The
organization met in Miami and accredited in Georgia. Dr.
U.N. Assembly to ask
India-Pakistan to stop
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)—
The U.N. General Assembly
voted overwhelmingly after
nine hours of nonstop debate
Tuesday night to call on India
and Pakistan to observe a
cease-fire and withdraw their
troops from each other’s
territory. Diplomats said today
India would ignore the resolu
tion.
Stepping in after the Security
Council deadlocked three times
in efforts to act on the five-day
old Indo-Pakistani war, the 131-
member assembly voted, 104-11,
with 10 abstentions to adopt the
cease-fire resolution introduced
by Argentina and endorsed by
31 other nations.
The Soviet Union vetoed two
nearly identical resolutions in
the council Saturday and
Sunday.
Russian rocket on Mars useless
MOSCOW (UPI) -A Soviet
scientific robot sat disabled and
apparently useless on hurri
cane-swept Mars today, having
seen man’s first television
signals from the surface of the
planet.
Tass news agency reports
said the robot explorer had
parachuted into black hurricane
of dust driving across Mars at
speeds of up to 300 m.p.h. when
it descended from the Mars 3
Hearings set on revamp
ATLANTA( UPl)—Three days
of public hearings, at which
state department heads will get
a chance to be heard, have
been scheduled next week on
Gov. Jimmy Carter’s govern
ment reorganization plan.
Sen. Stanley E. Smith Jr., of
Perry, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Economy, Reor
ganization and Efficiency in
Government, said the hearings
would begin Monday at the
Capitol.
All aspects of the massive,
controversial proposal will be
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Four Speakers Scheduled
The assembly will revert
today to its scheduled debate on
another theater of conflict. The
Middle East. Israeli Foreign
Minister Abba Eban was the
last to speak on the issue
Monday and at least four others
were scheduled.
Indian Ambassador Samar
Sen said his government would
study the truce resolution
carefully but said, “What is
unrealistic about it is that if it
is implemented, the West
Pakistanis could go on killing
the Bangla Desh (East Pakista
ni) people.”
Several diplomats close to the
Indian U.N. delegation said
India would ignore the resolu
tion. Israel for four years has
disregarded a resolution by the
Security Council—which, unlike
mother ship Dec. 2. Its mission
was to probe for life forms.
“Hurricanes of such force
never hit the earth,” Tass said.
Tuesday’s delayed reports on
the soft landing said the
nameless robot ship signaled
back to Mars 3 only briefly,
then fell silent.
The reports did not say what
caused the blackout, but they
dwelled upon the wind condi
tions and said the Soviet Mars
discussed, Perry said, including
the expected $60.8 million in an
nual savings.
Carter’s proposal would abol
ish some jobs and sets up new
categories for others. It would
streamline 65 presently budget
ed agencies and departments
and nearly 250 other govern
mental bodies into only 20 de
partments.
The governor’s proposals have
drawn considerable criticism
and is expected to be the main
topic of debate in the 1972 Gen
eral Assembly session.
Cunningham is chairman of the new division in the
accrediting organization set up to handle vocational and
technical schools.
the assembly, has powers of
enforcement—calling on it to
withdraw from the Arab
territory it seized during the
1967 war.
Pakistani Ambassador Agha
Shaki said the assembly vote
was “a great decision for the
future. The assembly has taken
action with overwhelming sup
port, and the membership has
shown that it is determined to
assert itself.”
Dissatisfaction Expressed
Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhu
ry, chairman of the unofficial
rebel East Pakistani U.N.
delegation, expressed dissatis
faction with the resolution and
said, “Nothing short of indepen
dence of Bangla Desh ... will be
acceptable to the people of
Bangla Desh.”
Pakistan, the United States
sputniks, Mars 2 and 3, had
assumed the research burden
from orbit.
“The video signals received
from the surface of Mars were
brief and suddenly disconti
nued,” Tass said.
It made no mention of any
other types of signals coming
from the lander and all reports
omitted the stock phrase “all
systems are functioning nor
mally,” by which the Soviets
Scheduled to be heard during
the opening sessions are High
way Director Bert Lance,
whose department would be
lumped with two other agencies
into a new transportation de
partment, Pardon and Paroles
Chairman J. O. Partain Jr.,
and Welfare Director Jim Par
ham. The latter two agencies
would join the Health Depart
ment in a new department of
human resources.
Health Director John Venable
will appear on Tuesday as will
Jack P. Nix, state school su-
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and China voted in favor of the
measure. India, the Soviet
Union and its East European
satellites—with the exception of
Romania and Yugoslavia—
voted against the resolution.
Britain and France led the 10
nations which abstained. Five
members were absent.
Chiao Kuan-hua, China’s vice
foreign minister, charged the
Russian backing of India was
aimed at “controlling the whole
of the Indo-Pakistan subcon
tinent and the Indian Ocean in
order to contend with another
superpower for world hegemo
ny.” The other “superpower”
was a reference to the United
States.
The Nixon administration also
has labeled India the aggressor.
usually indicate a mission is
still active.
“Exploration of the planet
Mars and near-Mars outer
space will be conducted on
essentially different orbits by
the orbital stations Mars 2 and
Mars 3,” Tass said.
“If that soft-lander were still
operating,” one Western
science expert in Moscow said,
“they wouldn’t be focusing on
the sputniks.”
perintendent.
Nix’s position and that of
State Treasurer William H.
Burson, both presently elective,
would be abolished under the
Carter plan. The school super
intendent would become an ap
pointive job and the state treas
urer’s office done away with.
By virtue of a law passed
during the last session, Carter
must submit his reorganization
package to department heads
30 days before the start of the
legislature on Jan. 10.