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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Silent Night is Griffin’s
favorite Christmas Carol, Away
in a Manger second and Joy to
the World third. We have
published the words of the first
place and runner up winners.
Here is Joy to the World, third
place.
Joy to the world!
the Lord is come:
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart
prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven and
nature sing.
Joy to the world!
the Savior reigns:
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods,
rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding
joy.
No more let sins
and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make
his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as the curse is found.
He rules the world
with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of
his righteousness,
And wonders of his love,
And wonders of his love,
And wonders, wonders of his
love.
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Beth Sullins, Griffin High graduate, helped Santa distribute gifts to children from Pine Mountain
Children’s Home at the Rotary Chib meeting this week. The children were guests for the chib’s
weekly meeting in Griffin. The children’s home is in Pike County at Meansville.
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55, low today 29, high yesterday
53,10 w yesterday 51. Total
rainfall .22 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:38, sunset
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SALINAS, Calif.—Mailman Ivan Brannon takes a “warm
break” in sunny California where frost blanked the area in
unseasonably cool weather.
Golfing great
Bob Jones dead
ATLANTA (UPI) - Golfing
immortal Bobby Jones died
today at the age of 69 following
an extended illness.
Jones, who played as an
amateur and retired from
competitive golf 41 years ago at
the age of 28, was the only man
ever to win the U.S. and British
Open and the U.S. and British
Amateur—the grand slam—all
in one year. He accomplished
that feat in 1930.
His family announced the
death, but released no immedi
ate details.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. marked
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Federal building here
gets committee go sign
his 69th birthday on March 17,
1971. In the 41 years since his
retirement from tournament
golf, two generations have
come along which knew of him
only through the memory of
their elders.
But despite the span of years,
there are still many who
consider Jones the first golfer
of all times. They recognize
that numerous fine golfers have
appeared on the scene since but
argue that considering the
equipment and playing condi
tions of his day, he was the
best.
5-Star Weekend Edition
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Dec. 18-19,1971
A new post office and federal
building complex for Griffin
moved a step closer to con
struction this week.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin announced that the
House Committee on Public
Works favorably reported on a
bill that contains a provision for
the structure.
It would cost some $1,690,000
and be located in the Crossfield
Ice Company area at Solomon
and Eighth streets.
The General Services Ad
ministration expressed the
belief letting the contract for
the building can begin within 30
days after final congressional
action on the bill.
The Griffin project, one of 63
buildings in the bill, is among
the very first which will be
constructed under the measure,
according to the Griffin
congressman.
Final House action on the bill
is expected shortly after the
new session of congress opens in
January, he added.
The major change in the
original proposal was that the
complex will be constructed
under a lease-purchase
agreement, Mr. Flynt said he
would have preferred that the
building be constructed as
originally planned without a
lease agreement but accepted
the lease-purchase plan to avoid
any further delay.
The building in Griffin has
been authorized and funded but
construction on this and similar
buildings was suspended by
executive order.
The project was fully
authorized in the House and the
Senate concurred in 1966. The
next session of congress which
opened in 1967 recommended
the first funds for construction
of the buildings.
Following congressional
authorization, land acquisition
and engineering design plans
were begun.
Later in 1967 President
Lyndon Johnson by executive
order froze funds for all federal
building construction. The
order was renewed in 1968 and
President Nixon continued the
freeze in 1969, 1970 and this
year.
• Rep. Flynt said that the
Vietnam war was the cause for
the executive orders freezing
the funds.
This year the General Ser
vices Administration proposed
that the 63 buildings including
the one in Griffin be built on a
lease-purchase basis in order to
expedite the construction which
had been stopped by executive
order. This would permit these
buildings to be built without the
capital outlay which would be
involved if they had been
constructed federally.
Rep. Flynt believes there are
lease-purchase bidders who will
be interested in submitting bids
on the Griffin proposal.
Dewitt Simonton, executive
vice president of the Griffin
area Chamber of Commerce,
said construction of the building
downtown would help with plans
for revitalizing the downtown
area.
The Chamber has been
pushing several downtown
project ideas including a mall.
Mr. Simonton said the project
might provide the incentive for
other downtown projects.
NEWS
Envoy
called
home
By United Press International
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakis
tan’s fiery foreign minister
designate and opposition leader,
was summoned back to Is
lamabad today for the apparent
imminent formation of a new
government to replace the
regime of President Agha
Mohammas Yahya Khan.
The action came less than 24
hours after Yahya Khan agreed
to an Indian cease-fire on the
western front, ending a 14-day
India-Pakistan war which re
sulted in the formation of a new
country —the People’s Republic
of Bangla Desh.
In New Delhi, Indian Defense
Minister Jagjivan Ram told
parliament India would try to
negotiate “a new relationship
with Pakistan” through bilater
al talks.
The Press Trust of India
(PTI) news agency also report
ed at least six Pakistan
violations of the cease-fire. The
PTI quoted a western command
spokesman as saying the
violations were “major at
tacks” but details were not
immediately available.
Ram said India wanted a
relationship “based not on
conflict but on cooperation
guaranteeing to us a security of
our borders and vital road
communications and an assur
ance to the peoples of the two
countries of freedom from fear
of recurring wars.”
Carter sees biggest fight
over human resources unit
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter indicated Friday
he might compromise on some
of his state government reor
ganization proposals but he
promised that if the entire re
organization package is ap
proved he will propose no tax
increases next year.
Carter, addressing a gather
ing of state legislators here,
also said his proposal to merge
the Health Department into a
new Department of Human Re
sources probably would meet
the most resistance of any of
his proposals.
The governor said, however,
the “ total rehabilitation” for un
fortunate Georgians is impossi
ble as long as “fragmentation
“If you’ve found out
something that will prevent
your loving a fellow human
being — you’ve learned too
much.’’
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DETROIT—HarIey Schwartz, owner of the Great American Dream Corp., found himself in
a kind of a nightmare when an agent of the U.S. Secret Service confiscated 50,000 of the
company’s “Nixon dollars” that Michigan Democrats have been circulating to spoof the
President ami his economic policies. The bogus dollars, about one third larger than the
regular bills, bear the likeness of President Nixon and the inscriptions “The Inflated State
of America” and “One Frozen Dollar.” (UPI)
continues to exist in state gov
ernment.”
In other developments relat
ing to the reorganization plan:
— House Republican Leader
Mike Egan said he would sup
port most of the governor’s
program and indicated other
GOP House members would do
likewise.
— Many legislators at the
session here said their constitu
ents were objecting to some of
the proposals and one repre
sentative, Ward Edwards of
Butler, said persons in his dis
trict were concerned particular
ly about the proposals dealing
with the Health Department.
— Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell charged in an Atlanta
radio interview that Carter has
insinuated to legislators he will
work against their re-election
if they oppose the reorganiza
tion plan.
Carter told the legislators that
although he would not propose
higher taxes next year, he still
could seek salary increases for
state employes, including teach
ers, and expand public health
programs.
He said the money would
come from within the present
tax structure and through sav
ings under reorganization.
The governor said that if the
General Assembly rejected any
of his proposals he would be
ready to meet with legislators
and use their suggestions.
He said he would go along
with a plan to keep the state
Health Board in an advisory
capacity if such a move was
introduced in the legislature.
Carter has proposed abolishing
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HALLS, Tenn.—High School English teacher Cathl Adams
jumped into the lap of Santa to tell him her wishes for the
season. Little Fran Anderson, daughter of the high school
principal, awaits her time. (UPI)
Inside Tip
Nixon
See Page 6
the board as part of the re
organization.
Carter also outlined his plans
to overhaul the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation and bring the
GBI up to a level “at least”
equal to that of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation. He said
certain conditions in the GBI
were “disgusting.”