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VENIN U
By Quimby Melton
“O Love Divine, That Stooped
to Share” is a hymn written by
Oliver W. Holmes, American
poet (1809-1894). This hymn
tells how Love Divine, the Love
of God, came down in years
gone by to help man bear his
cares and burdens.
Just as this Love Divine
“stooped” in the past, so today
when man is pessimistic and
full of doubts and fears, God will
send this Love Divine to help
man bear his burdens and will
bring hope and optimism.
Here is the hymn:
0 Love divine,
that stooped to share
Our sharpest pang,
our bitterest tear,
On thee we cast
each earthborn care;
We smile at pain
while thou art near.
Though long the weary
way we tread,
And sorrow crown
each lingering year,
No path we shun,
no darkness dread,
Our hearts still whispering,
“Thou art near!”
When drooping pleasure
turns to grief,
And trembling faith
is changed to fear,
The murmuring wind,
the quivering leaf
Shall softly tell us
thou art near!
t On thee we fling
Our burdening woe,
0 Love divine,
forever dear,
Content to suffer
while we know,
Living and dying,
thou art near!
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Wife of Hughes book writer who cashed the checks. She was the mystery blonde. (UPI)
Hijacker wants
$300,000; trip
Trailer, sunshine
bill up for debate
ATLANTA (UPI) — Action is
expected in the General Assem
bly next week on two highly
controversial pieces of legisla
tion — one requiring all govern
ment bodies to meet openly
and another allowing 14 - foot
wide mobile homes to be trans
ported over Georgia roads.
The Senate Highways Com
mittee recommended passage
Friday of the Mobile home bill,
but it was given little chance
of passage in the upper chamb
er when it comes up, possibly
next week.
In the House, Speaker George
L. Smith said he will bring up
the so - called “sunshine” bill
Monday, saying “I anticipate
considerable debate and con
troversy” on it. That bill,
sponsored by Rep. Larry
Thomason of Decatur, would
prohibit any public body from
meeting in private.
100-page edition
coming Monday
for centennial
Preparations for publication photo.
Monday of the 100-page cen- Gov. Jimmy Carter and
tennial edition of the Griffin Georgia House Speaker have
Daily News were in the final written letters commending the
stages today. newspaper on reaching this
Plans call for the press to historic milestone. They will be
begin rolling at mid-morning, reproduced in the paper
This will allow extra time for Monday, too.
final assembly of all sections of The edition will have a tone of
the paper. Also it will put the community nostalgia and will
huge edition into the hands of t a k e readers through many of
carriers and others in the cir- t h e highlights of the com
culation more time to get the munity’s history.
paper into the hands of sub- The paper will be packed with
scribers. pictures from yesteryear as
The front page of the special we n as stories about the
edition will feature a full color development of the community.
DAI IA NE WS
Daily Since 1872
Rep. Quimby Melton Jr. of
Griffin, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
said Friday he will ask Gov.
Jimmy Carter to veto a one
cent increase in statewide sales
taxes to help finance a pro
possed “World Congress Cen
ter” in Atlanta. The Senate, at
the insistence of Sen. Eugene
Holley of Augusta, tacked an
amendment onto a House
passed measure allowing local
governments to tax hotels and
motels for local revenues.
“In my 14 years in the House
I have never seen a more fla
grant example of special inter
est legislation,” Melton said.
The House restored a series
of vetoes made in Gov. Carter’s
governmental reorganization
plan. One of them placed a new
nine - man board in charge of
the Public Safety Department.
5-Star Weekend Edition
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., Jan. 29-30,1972
NEW YORK (UPI)-A man
hijacked a Trans World Airlines
Boeing 707 over the midwest
today, demand $300,000 and
indicated he wanted the plane
to fly to Europe.
A spokesman for the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA)
tentatively identified the hijack
er as Garrett Brook of
Waltham, Mass., and said he
was believed to be carrying a
time bomb. An airline spokes
man earlier identified the man
as George B. Trapnell.
The hijacker demanded
$300,000, a pardon for a
previous crime, and clemency
fbr the hijacking, according to
the FAA. The man indicated he
wanted the plane refueled and
that he wanted to be flown to
somewhere in Europe, an FAA
spokesman said.
TWA said at 9 a.m. that the
hijacker was permitting the 94
passengers to disembark. About
an hour after the Los Angeles
to-New York flight landed at
Kennedy International Airport
the hijacker asked that buses
and ramp equipment be
brought to the plane.
Talks to Psychiatrist
Earlier the hijacker 4 was
reported to be demanding the
release of a George Padilla, a
man he said was in jail in
Dallas, Tex.
It was learned that after
landing at Kennedy the hijacker
talked by telephone to Dr.
David G. Hubbard of Dallas, a
psychiatrist who has written a
book about the motivations of
airplane hijackers.
At the request of the
hijacker, whom he had treated
two years ago, Hubbard ar
ranged for a man named
Padilla to be brought to his
office to talk to the hijacker by
phone.
A Miami lawyer identified as
Nathaniel L. Barone Jr., was
reported flying to Kennedy. The
hijacker had demanded earlier
to talk to Barone and to
another attorney, Stuart A.
Markus, also of Miami, by
telephone.
In Miami, records showed
Wife of Hughes book writer
turns out to he mystery blonde
NEW YORK (UPI) -Author
Clifford Irving has solved one
of the mysteries surrounding
his “autobiography” of Howard
R. Hughes by admitting that
his pretty blonde wife was the
“Helga R. Hughes” who depo
sited and withdrew $650,000
publishers thought they were
paying the billionaire.
The key questions that
remain to be answered today
are whether Irving, the author
of a book called “Fake,” which
in the subject of a $155 million
libel suit, did indeed personally
interview the eccentric recluse
more than 100 times as he has
claimed, or whether he was
gulled into believing that by
someone impersonating Hughes.
Some of those answers may
come Monday when Irving
appears before a New York
County grand jury at 10 a.m.,
then a federal grand jury.
Subpoenas for those appearan
ces were served Friday.
He also has been ordered to
show cause Feb. 9 why he
should not be cited for
contempt of court. That order
came because Irving, while
meeting with the district
attorney, missed a court
that a man named Garrett
Brock Trapnell had a police
record including involvement in
a series of Canadian bank
robberies. He had been charged
in a SIOO,OOO jewelry robbery in
the Bahamas but was ruled
mentally incompetent. Bad
check charges also were
dismissed.
“James Bond type”
An FBI agent who testified
about him last fall in a civil
case over ownership of a yacht
described Trapnell as “the
James Bond type,” and said:
“The first time we busted
him was five years ago. He was
in a hotel with an ice box full of
filets, good booze, a check
writing machine and what were
supposed to be CIA creden
tials.”
During the conversation with
Hubbard the hijacker reported
ly told the psychiatrist he
wanted to go to Denmark,
Sweden or Spain as a “political
exile.”
New girl in Ray Conniff bai
chills White House with plea
WASHINGTON (UPI) -As
President Nixon with 150
guests, watched a White House
social event Friday night, a
woman entertainer pulled a
small silk banner from the low
cut bosom of her blue evening
gown and displayed it.
“Stop the killing,” the black
letters on a blue background
said.
Carol Feraci, 30, a member
of the Ray Conniff Singers, then
spoke into the microphone on
the small stage in the East
Room of the White House—a
room decorated with gold
drapes and huge portraits of
George and Martha Washing
ton.
“Mr. President, stop the
bombing of human beings,
animals and vegetation,” she
said. “You go to church on
hearing in connection with the
libel suit against him. Fernand
Legros, a Swiss art dealer, said
he was libeled in “Fake.”
The tall, slim Irving, 41, met
for three hours Friday with
Leonard Newman, head of the
New York County district
attorney’s fraud office.
Irving Meets Newsmen
Grim-faced and silent be
cause of laryngitis, Irving then
met with newsmen outside. His
lawyer, Maurice Nessen, said,
“he told the assistant district
attorney that Mrs. Irving,
under the name of H. R.
Hughes, had deposited the
money in a Swiss bank account
and that she had voluntarily
told Swiss authorities a few
days ago that she opened this
account in Switzerland.”
A spokesman for the district
attorney’s office said Irving
had told Newman the money
was “substantially intact and
available" at another bank.
No explanation was provided
as to why the Swiss-born Edith
Irving, 36, deposited then
withdrew three checks totaling
$650,000 McGraw-Hill had given
Irving to pass on to Hughes in
return for his collaboration.
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Carol Feraci (c) of the Ray Conniff Singers waved a sign asking President Nixon to stop the
bombing in Vietnam. (UPI)
Sunday and pray to Jesus
Christ. If Jesus Christ were in
this room tonight you would not
dare to drop another bomb.
Bless the Berrigans and Daniel
S. Ellsberg.”
Nixon listened to the state
ment seated in the front row
with his wife and Mr. and Mrs.
Dewitt Wallace, co-chairmen of
Readers’s Digest and the guests
of honor, who had been invited
to the White House to receive
the Medal of Freedom.
Conniff Somewhat Confused
Somewhat confused, band
leader Conniff led his group
into their first number, “Ma,
She’s Making Eyes at Me.”
When it ended, there were
groans, boos and a shout of,
“You ought to throw her out.”
Conniff asked Miss Feraci to
leave, and she did so.
The checks were endorsed “H.
R. Hughes.”
(The New York Times,
however, reported that a source
close to the investigation said
Irving had told authorities
Hughes himself suggested Mrs.
Irving play such a role and had
provided a fake Swiss passport
for her.
(Irving has stated in affida
vits that he personally handed
two of the checks to the man he
knew as Hughes, and gave the
third to a close associate to
pass on to “Hughes,” who later
acknowledged getting the
check.)
Swiss authorities, who have
asked the Irvings to appear
there for questioning, have
issued an international warrant
for the arrest of Helga Hughes.
They had no comment today
on Irving’s disclosure.
Harold W. McGraw Jr.,
president of the publishing firm
which planned to put out a
hardcover edition of the “auto
biography” in March, said he
was shocked by Irving’s disclo
sure. “Until this moment we
have had no indication that
Mrs. Irving was implicated,”
he said.
Conniff band
She told reporters she lived in
Los Angeles but was a
Canadian citizen, who was born
in Toronto. An intense woman
with shoulder-length black hair,
she said she was a professional
singer but took the job with
Conniff only a week ago so she
could come to the White House.
“We shouldn’t be in Viet
nam,” she said. “I thought I
would get national publicity. I
think it was time someone had
tlie courage to say these
things.”
Before being allowed to go
her way, Miss Feraci was
questioned for an hour and 15
minutes in a room near the
White House library by three
Secret Service agents.
“A New Girl”
Conniff said Miss Feraci was
“a new girl.”
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Author Clifford Irving talks with newsmen. He said his wife
used the name of H. R. Hughes to handle transactions in
Swiss bank. (UPI)
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“Oh, my God, it was a
terrible shock," the bandleader
said. “I could have gone
through the floor.”
Comedian Bob Hope de
scribed the incident as “a
shameful thing.”
“It’s terrible for anyone to
take advantage of the President
like that,” Hope said. “I feel
sorry for the leader (Conniff.)”
Nixon went up and congratu
lated the performers after they
completed their final number,
“God Bless America.” He noted
the entertainers included mem
bers of the U.S. Marine Corps
Band and said he was proud
“especially of those Marines,
many of whom have fought in
Vietnam.”
The room erupted in ap
plause.