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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Several small children were
talking about how good Old
Santa was to them this Christ
mas; they were bragging about
the many find gifts they receiv
ed.
This old timer was tempted to
interrupt them and do a little
bragging himself. For if ever
people “remembered” him at
Christmas it was this Christmas
of 1971.
If we set out to formally thank
everyone with a letter our
postage bill would be stagger
ing; and the thank you letters
would not convey the real ap
preciation we would like. As a
matter of fact, since thank you
notes are supposed to be hand
written those who received
them could not read them.
Penmanship has never been an
asset and as the years have
rolled by our writing has gotten
less and less legible.
If you see an old man strut
ting down the street dressed in
festive array it is Good Even
ing. He may stumble as he
struts but he’s as proud of that
sport coat and the fancy tie he is
wearing as is any girl of the
engagement ring she was given
this Christmas.
One present we got, for which
we are especially grateful is a
three-way floor lamp that we
have put beside our easy chair.
The bright light this lamp gives
enables Good Evening to read
better than in a long time. And
we like nothing better than
reading.
And for reading, we got
subscriptions to several maga
zines, several books — one
being a large print Analytical
edition of the Bible. This will be
a big help in preparing the
weekly Sunday School lesson for
this column.
Pictures of dear friends, and
one that shows two small boys
wearing their daddy’s favorite
college sweat shirts were ap
preciated.
Boxes of fancy assorted
cheese, cookies, and candy, all
posed a threat to our waist
line, and caused us to forget
our diet. But wasn’t that
forgetting pleasant.
An umbrella will replace the
one we had lost.
And there were beautiful
poinsetters to brighten our
apartment.
Shaving lotion, after shave
cologne, razor blades to make
us look better and smell good;
shirts, ties, handkerchiefs and
the like added to the long list of
appreciated gifts.
And Christmas Cards, galore,
many of them with an added
message to the usual Christmas
verse.
It was a marvelous Christ
mas. And we take this method
of thanking one and all for
“remembering” this old timer.
The only attempt to formally
thank anyone that we will at
tempt will be letters to several
friends who live in other states
and who will not get this paper.
Most of them are men who were
with Good Evening back in
World War One Days when they
were overseas with the 82nd
Division of Infantry.
To you who “remembered”
and who will read this “Thank
You” column “Thanks a
Million”. You made this Christ
mas one we will remember as
long as we live.
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“The danger lies not in being
s unhappy when you can’t keep
up with your neighbor — but in
being happy when he can’t”
City honors
2 policemen
Griffin City Commissioners
closed out 1971 last night with
business license amendments,
cemetery lot price increases
and increasing the number of
taxi licenses.
The commissioners capped
off the 15-minute session with a
tongue-in-cheek award to two
policemen. They were made
charter members of the Griffin
Police Department’s Stork
Father, 2 sons,
killed in plane
CALHOUN, Ga. (UPI) — A
father and his two sons were
killed Tuesday in the crash of
their light plane in a wooded
area near Carter’s Dam in
northwest Georgia.
The victims were identified
as Richard L. Carver, 43, of
Harrisburg, 111., Richard L.
Carver Jr., 16, and Tommy
Carver, 14. The father was an
automobile dealer in Illinois.
The Carvers were reported
enroute from Florida to Mem
phis, Tenn., when the crash oc
curred in rolling hills near the
Gordon-Murray County line.
The location of the wreckage
touched off a dispute over tak-
Ashbrook
announces
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Rep.
John M. Ashbrook of Ohio, a
conservative Republican, an
nounced his candidacy for the
presidency today to oppose
what he termed the “leftward
drift” of President Nixon’s
policies.
The 43-year-old House mem
ber described himself as “a
serious candidate,” saying he
hoped to get a “serious
response” in the presidential
primaries, beginning in New
Hampshire and Florida the first
two weeks in March.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
66, low today 52, high yesterday
73, low yesterday 57. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:44, sunset
tomorrow 5:36.
Forest Traylor can’t get show
business out of his blood.
At the age of 81, he still enjoys
presenting “The Pitch,” a
medicine show spiel he develop
ed and refined over the years to
keep it current.
Mr. Traylor has made his
home in Griffin several years.
He came here when his son, the
Rev. Forest Traylor, Jr., ac
cepted the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian Church. The
family moved here from
Atlanta where the Rev. Traylor
was serving as a minister.
The senior Mr. Traylor lost no
time in becoming active in
community affairs. One of his
first projects was to help Mrs.
Robert Crossfield and Mrs. Jim
Strong get the Fish program or
ganized.
(Fish is a free service offered
to people in need of help in an
emergency. The organization
continues to be active in Grif
fin.)
Active in the Griffin Kiwanis
Club, Mr. Traylor has been a
lieutenant governor of Kiwanis,
American War Dads president,
Boy Scout deputy commission
er, and a patron of Mu Phi
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Club, since they had delivered a
baby in answering an
emergency call.
Policemen Ben Giles and Earl
Ethridge didn’t know why they
had been assigned to attend the
commission meeting.
After the commissioners ran
through the regular agenda,
Mayor Louis Goldstein called
the two officers to the front of
the auditorium.
ing pictures of the crash site
and brought the arrest of two
photographers.
The cause of the crash was
not known but Peeple’s Funeral
Home in nearby Chatsworth re
ported a woman had called
them to say she heard what
sounded like an aircraft engine
sputtering shortly before the
crash about 5:20 p.m.
A dam construction worker
was quoted by authorities as
saying he saw the single en
gine plane “spiral in and
crash.”
A spokesman for the Federal
Aviation Administration said the
Carvers, flying in a foreign
made Siai-Marchetti plane, had
checked in with the control
tower at Atlanta about 13 min
utes before the crash and re
ported no malfunctions at that
time.
The two photographers, Rich
ard Roach of the Dalton Daily
Citizen News and Max Caylor
of the Chatsworth Times, reach
ed the scene shortly after the
crash.
Mark Pace, editor of the Citi
zen News, said they were told
by a Gordon County deputy to
stay on a nearby road and not
to make pictures.
Pace said they did so but later
Murray County Sheriff Julian
Poag obtained permission from
a Gordon County commissioner
for them to make pictures and
they did so.
The Gordon County deputy,
who was not identified, re
turned and arrested the two
photographers for obstructing
justice. He brought them here
but Sheriff Poag followed and
signed their bonds for a March
9 appearance in court.
Forest Traylor still going whole hog
musical sorority. He has been a
deacon in the Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. Traylor has had a varied
career in the business world but
its base is show business.
He was born in Petersburg
Ind., the son of Gip Traylor,
circus man, scenic painter and
for many years conductor of the
Al G. Fields orchestra.
He has presented “The Pitch”
to almost every civic club in
Griffin and is in demand in
other communities as an enter
tainer.
Mr. Traylor has skipped the
agent’s route and is handling his
own bookings.
“The Pitch” is a shrewdly put
together patent-medicine show
that keeps audiences in
laughter. Besides its entertain
ing aspects, the show is a neat
and effective appeal for toler
ance and understanding.
Mr. Traylor has given the
performance more than 500
times and manages to keep it
fresh by inserting current joke
lines and current events into the
act.
The skit had its beginning
years ago when Mr. Traylor
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1971
The policemen still didn’t
know why they had been called.
Then the mayor began to read
from a citation, telling how the
two men answered an
emergency call and found a
woman in the final stages of
labor. The two officers deliver
ed the baby then took mother
and child to the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital. The grateful mother
named the youngster Ben Earl
for the two policemen.
The officers credited the
training they had received at
the Georgia Police Academy
with helping them to be
prepared for the emergency.
Commissioner “Skeeter”
Norsworthy pinned bow ribbons
on the two officers. They
breathed a sigh of relief.
One ribbon was pink, the
other blue. One had a pacifier
on it and the other a miniature
stork.
Earlier the commissioners:
—Approved a sewer line on
West Taylor from property
adjoining Randall & Blakely
west to 18th street.
—Amended the business
license ordinances to put credit
associations on a par with
banks, provide for incinerator
licenses, and put coin operated
washers on a gross receipts
basis.
—Allowed taxi licenses for
every 1,000 people in the
community, increasing the
limit from the present 34 to 40.
—Approved a medical cover
age policy for city employes
with the city to pay half the cost.
—Approved Light and Water
Department chargeoffs totaling
$5,305.67.
—Approved rates now in
effect for the Griffin Coaxial
Company operating acabel
television service here.
—lncreased the cost of
cemetery lots ranging from SSO
to S4OO, depending on the
number of graves in a lot and its
location.
—Okayed a SSOO study by
Griffin Engineering Company
concerning improvement of
water service to Highland Mill.
—Gave their blessings to
three dams on Flint River as
recommended by an Army
engineering study.
—Approved payment of
Georgia Municipal dues totaling
$2,516.06.
—Announced that city offices
would be closed Dec. 31 for a
New Year’s Holiday.
was a showboat pianist and
circus sign painter.
He has run through the 20-
minute patter for church groups
as well as civic clubs.
“It’s so clean I could give it at
prayer meeting. It will never
contain anything suggestive or
off-color,” Mr. Traylor told
Bish Thompson, a writer for the
Press, a newspaper published
by Scripps-Howard at Evans
ville, Ind.
At that time, Mr. Traylor was
with Servel, a firm that
manufactured refrigerators.
Mr. Traylor attended school
at Evansville. He studied music
in Cincinnati and played piano
on excursion boats.
He made a piano record for
the old Columbia Phonograph
Company.
In 1910 he composed “Rago
logy,” a piano novelty widely
used by “stunt” pianists. It
went big in many vaudeville
houses with its double header
climax —two tunes going at
once, one on each hand.
Mr. Traylor still plays the
piano in presenting his act.
He was a demonstrator, a
salesman, then sales manager
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Half way round
world—wrong way
LONDON (UPl)—The man at the check-in counter
stared hard and long at Jose Caytania’s ticket. He
scratched his head.
“Where do you think you are?” he asked.
Jose smiled. “Tokyo. I’m in Tokyo and I’m waiting to
catch my plane to Manila. I just got in from Los Angeles.”
Sure enough, there was the ticket: Los Angeles-Tokyo-
Manila. Jose obviously had boarded the wrong plane at
Los Angeles, the official said, and flown the wrong way
halfway around the world, landing Tuesday at London’s
Heathrow Airport.
Caytania shook his head. He looked around the transit
lounge, full of Japanese passengers waiting for their flight
to Tokyo. Just a coincidence, said the official, and booked
the wayward world traveler a seat on a flight to Hong
Kong, where he could pick up a connection to Manila.
Bloodmobile gets 142 pints
A total of 142 pints of blood
were collected during the
bloodmobile’s visit yesterday.
Eighteen prospective donors
were turned down because of
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minor physical illnesses.
This was the last visit of the
bloodmobile here this year,
according to Chairman Lin
Thompson of the local program.
New subdivision
to have golf course
R. A. Dougherty and P. W.
Hamil are planning a real
estate development between
North Second street and Jack
son road that will include a golf
course and clubhouse, picnic
and recreation areas, long
bridle path, and a mile and a
half paved street that will cross
two lakes.
“I believe this will be one of
the finest subdivisions for
family-type living to be found,”
Dougherty, a pilot for Eastern
Airlines, said.
The 300 acre development will
be located on land already
owned by Dougherty and
Hamil, who is a Spalding
County farmer.
The development is not a joint
venture but the two Spalding
men have coordinated their
efforts in planning the sub
division.
The nine-hole golf course al
ready has been roughed out.
“We hope to open it in July,”
Mr. Dougherty said. Future
plans call for the golf course to
for the American Piano Com
pany. Later in Atlanta he was
associated with Cable Piano
Company.
One evening at Henderson,
Ind., where he was playing a
theater engagement, Mr.
Traylor met an attractive high
school girl, Bradie Priest
Talley. A year later they eloped.
She attended high school in the
morning and during lunch hour,
Mr. Traylor talked her into
getting married that afternoon.
His bride finished high school
eight years later in a Nashville
boarding school. The Traylors
at that time were living on the
campus in the home of Dr.
Richard G. Cox, school presi
dent.
In Nashville, Mr. Traylor sold
pianos during the day and at
tended Vanderbilt Law School
at night. Two nights a week he
played with a dance band.
It was in Nashville that their
son, who was to become a
Presbyterian minister, was
born.
Besides selling pianos, Mr.
Traylor got in some experience
as a sign painter, circus man,
coordinator for DuPont during
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be expanded to 18 holes.
Besides the golf course, other
recreation facilities will include
picnic areas, bridle path for
horseback riding and facilities
for boarding and training
horses. In addition, some of the
lakes in the area will be avail
able for limited recreation use.
The 300 acre development will
include over 150 lots. Each lot
will be approximately three
quarters of an acre.
The subdivision will be highly
restricted with houses in the
$35,000 to $40,000 range.
The paved street, which will
run mostly through woods, will
be known as Cabin Creek Drive.
It will cross two dams and will
split about half way with large
trees on the island in the mid
dle. “We plan to preserve as
many trees as possible,”
Dougherty said.
AH utilities along the street
will be under ground. “I believe
this wiH be one of the most
colorful streets anywhere,”
Dougherty said.
World War I, claim adjuster for
a chain of New York depart
ment stores, and resident
manager for the Metropolitan
Opera Company.
He received letters and
photos from Caruso, Scotti,
Galli, Curci and other opera
stars of the era.
He often entertained the late
President Franklin D. Roose
velt at informal affairs. Mr.
Traylor was a member of the
late president’s six-member
committee which established
Warm Springs Foundation.
During World War II years,
he was at Evansville and often
entertained servicemen and
women at USO and Red Cross
Canteen shows.
He had promised his wife he
would give up show business.
But he broke that promise
unintentionally when he
received a fee for playing at
meetings conducted by the late
Gypsy Smith.
“As long as it’s broken, I
guess I might just as well go
whole hog,” Mr. Traylor
remarked.
He’s still going whole hog to
day.