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By Quimby Melton
February 1, 1972: And Good
Evening, the oldest member of
the staff, both in years and in
length of being connected with
the firm, takes this means of
saying “Thank You” to those
who helped make the paper’s
100th birthday a happy one.
There were letters and phone
calls and persons who came by
to wish us “Many Happy
Returns of the Day.”
There were flowers, and
birthday cakes. One of them
had a single candle and letters
saying “Happy First Century.”
Another had 100 tiny red
candles and appropriate let
tering. Both wa'e delicious.
Maybe the firm that sent the
one with the 100 candles had
“cornered” all the small red
candles in Griffin.
Both cakes were delicious.
There were about 100 persons
present when the seven unit
Goss offset press started to roll.
Good Evening’s youngest
granddaughter, Miss Leila,
pushed the button that started
the presses rolling. After the
full color picture on page one
had been perfectly registered,
Good Evening was given the
first issue. The circulation
manager marked it No. One,
and initialed it. He did this with
the first 100 copies and each
person present was given a
numbered and initialed paper
as a souvenir. Os course, those
an the staff who were present
first also got certified first run
copies.
Among others who visited the
paper during the morning were
members of the Griffin High
journalism class. Julian
Russell, who teaches the class,
was with them. Incidentally, the
class arrived before all the
birthday cake had been eaten —
and among those young men
and young ladies, there are
several who had second help
ings. Os course, they were most
welcomed to visit us, see the
press roll, and help us enjoy the
delicious cakes.
Believing there would be a
demand for extra copies we ran
1,000 more copies than our usual
run. And the way the extra
papers were sold Monday after
noon, most are now gone. In
cidentally, we used more than
eight tons of newsprint in this
centennial edition and that’s a
lot of newsprint.
Good Evening not only wants
to thank all who made the day
such a happy one. And not the
least of these were those on the
paper’s staff who “put out” to
make the big edition a success.
Please don’t criticize Good
Evening for devoting so much
space to this 100th birthday.
Remember one does not get to
celebrate such a birthday very
often.
As we checked the paper
yesterday and on into the night,
we stopped frequently to think
again of some of the many in
teresting things that have
happened during our lifetime in
Griffin. By and far the things we
remembered were good things.
Before we crawled into bed
for a night of pleasant dreams,
we thanked the good Lord for
our many blessings, one of the
greatest of these being the
number of friends we have in
this city.
Hospital panel
meets tonight
The hospital complaint com
mittee made up of citizens will
hold its first public meeting
tonight at city hall beginning at
8 o’clock.
The Rev. Walter Langdon,
pastor of the Palace Street
Church of God, is chairman.
Persons with problems con
cerning the hospital have been
invited to attend the meeting
and state their cases.
The committee in its or
ganization policy statement
said it would attempt to work
out problems brought to its
attention by consulting with the
hospital administration, the
medical staff and others in
authority at the hospital here.
Neill awarded
Jaycee honor
Larry Neill was presented the
Distinguished Service Award
last night at the meeting of the
Griffin Jaycees at the Moose
Club.
He is director of the Griffin
Recreation Department and a
past president and active
member of the Jaycees.
Eddie Freeman, chairman of
the committee handling the
award, presented the plaque.
More than 150 people were on
hand for the presentation.
Sergeant to retire
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Army will allow its former
highest-ranking enlisted man to
retire without being court
martialed for his part in a
scandal over operation of
unlisted men’s dubs.
Sgt. Maj. William O. Woold
ridge, 49, who was appointed
the first sergeant major of the
Army in 1966, will retire today
at Ft. MacArthur, Calif., the
Pentagon said. Wooldridge has
completed 30 years service.
Warrants taken
for writer Irving
NEW YORK (UPl)—The
inquiry into possible fraud
involving the “autobiography”
of Howard Hughes spanned the
Atlantic today with arrest
warrants for author Clifford
Irving issued in Switzerland
and the promise of an official
investigation made in the
United States.
In Zurich the situation was
more serious for Irving, an
American citizen, and his
Swiss-born wife Edith, 36.
Officials there issued arrest
warrants for the couple on
“urgent suspicion of fraud,
falsification of official do
cuments, and investigation of
these crimes.”
In this country where the
couple arrived Thursday, U.S.
Attorney Whitney North Sey
mour and New York County
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The Griffin Rotary Club has donated $3,000 toward
construction of a new community library. Shown discussing
the project are (l-r) the Rev. Douglas Winn, chairman of the
library board; Dr. Denny Hall, chairman of the fund raising
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Clarence (Chubby) Williams,
president of the Jaycees,
combined the meeting and
made it the annual bosses night
and past president, too.
Woody Smith introduced past
presidents and told some of the
highlights each had ac
complished during their year.
Those present included:
Robert Shapard who was the
first president when the club
was organized in 1936-37,
George Imes, John Goddard,
Henry Walker, Brack Pound,
Wayne Smith, Richard (Buddy)
Irvine, Larry Neill and Douglas
Brown. \
Other past presidents in
clude: Kenan White (deceased)
Doug Hollberg, Warren
Haisten, David Brisendine
(deceased) Preston Bunn, Paul
Mitchell, O. M. Snider, Jr., Bart
Searcy, Dr. William King,
Amon Cain, Jim Ford, Glen
Martin, Tom Payne, Howard
Wallace, Dick Walters, Bill
Edwards, Jim Murray, Scott
Searcy, Sam Bunn, Jim Skrine,
District Attorney Frank S.
Hogan conferred on possible
federal charges of wire and
mail fraud and state charges of
fraud and perjury against
Irving.
Zurich District Attorney Pe
ter Veleff said today that
although they have issued the
arrest warrants they needed
the cooperation of U.S. police to
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“One drawback in religious
structure is that so many folks
who become pillars of the
church shouldn’t”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Feb. 1, 1972
Ronnie Cook, Dr. Tom Lip
scomb, and Leonard Erwin.
Tyndall McMillan handled
presentation of the bosses.
A three-member citizens
committee picked Neill for the
award from nominations
submitted by the public.
Membership in the Jaycees was
not required for consideration.
Freeman noted that Neill was
born in Newnan, Ga. Feb. 3,
1937 and moved to Griffin five
years later. He attended public
schools here and graduated
from Griffin High. He attended
the University of Georgia.
Neill has been vice president,
director and president of the
Jaycees. He was named out
standing president of the Eighth
Region of Jaycees.
Freeman said Neill’s
nomination reviewed his work
with young people in the
community, both in and out of
the recreation program.
Neill is married to the former
Sandra Rhodes and they have a
Daughter, April.
solve the “autobiography mys
tery.”
His announcement followed
police investigations which
turned up $442,000 in cash and
securities in a branch of the
Swiss Bank Corporation.
The bank, one of Switzer
land’s largest, is located across
the street from the Swiss
Credit Bank, where Irving’s
wife cashed $650,000 in checks
issued to Hughes.
By Irving’s own admission,
his wife used the name “Helga
R. Hughes” on a falsified Swiss
passport as identification for
cashing the checks, by the
publishing firm McGraw-Hill to
Hughes for the rights to his
“autobiography.”
Irving said she did so on
instructions from the billionaire
recluse, with whom he also said
he collaborated in writing the
book. However, Hughes has
issued denials of Irving’s
statements.
Veleff said he has not yet
decided whether to ask for
extradition of the Irvings to
Switzerland.
committee for the library; Dr. James Dunaway, Rotary
president; and Gene Cook, chairman of the Rotary
Community Service Committee.
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Looking over plaque are (1-r) Clarence (Chubby) Williams,
president of the Griffin Jaycees; Eddie Freeman, chairman
of the Distinguished Service Award Committee; and the
Taxwriters
see new tax
hike brewing
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
spite claims from Treasury
Secretary John B. Connally that
the administration plans no tax
increase this year, House
taxwriters believe President
Nixon will propose a hike later
this year.
Conally and Nixon Budget
Manager George P. Shultz
insisted Monday before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee that there are no plans
for tax hikes to lower soaring
budget deficits.
But Acting Committee Chair
man Al Ullman, D-Ore., said he
believes Nixon will propose a
value-added type tax—a form
of national sales tax—sometime
later.
In an interview, Ullman said
the request probably will come
too late for congressional action
before the November election.
He also said it might be tied to
reduction of onerous property
taxes and for the financing of
local schools.
Ullman said higher taxes are
necessary to cut anticipated
budget deficits of $38.8 billion in
this fiscal year ending July 1,
and $25.5 billion for the
following 12 months.
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Reagan attacks Nixon’s
new welfare plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Gov.
Ronald Reagan of California
attacked President Nixon’s
welfare reform plan today—
particularly what he described
as its guaranteed income
provision—as a “giant step
toward a welfare state.”
Reagan, long a foe of the
program and its key Family
Assistance Plan (FAP), testi
fied before the Senate Finance
Committee against the House
approved bill. One of its former
chief proponents, Sen. Abraham
A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., also
expressed renewed reserva
tions.
Reagan said, “I consider the
welfare problem the gravest
domestic issue our nation
faces” but added that he had
“serious reservations about
several approaches” embodied
in the Nixon plan.
He centered much of his
criticism on the FAP which
would provide an annual
income of $2,400 for a family of
four with a relatively small loss
of income if the head of family
refused to accept an available
job.
Reagan said able-bodied reci
pients should be required to
work on community service
projects if they had no other
jobs.
“It is commonly understood
Nixon asks
for prayers
of nation
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon today urged the
nation to pray that he will be
“on God’s side” during his
coming trips to Peking and
Moscow.
The President, addressing an
estimated 3,100 government and
civic leaders at the 19th annual
National Prayer Breakfast,
pledged that the United States’
role in the world will be “to
build a new structure of
peace.”
“Will you pray primarily that
this nation, under God, in the
person of its President, to the
best of our ability, be on God’s
side?” Nixon said.
The President appeared as
the final speaker on a program
which included members of
Congress, Federal Reserve
Chairman Arthur F. Burns,
Supreme Court Justice Byron
R. White, Washington Mayor
Walter Washington and evange
list Billy Graham.
winner of the award, Larry Neill, a past president of the
Jaycees and an active member.
that a government guaranteed
income not based upon indivi
dual productivity, is a giant
step toward a welfare state
with its inherent loss of
individual identity and pride,”
Burglars
busy here
Police said today that the
weekend burglaries at two drug
stores on South Eighth street
were the work of professional
thieves. Large quantities of
hard drugs were taken in two
break-ins at Haskell’s Prescrip
tion Shop, 566 South Eighth
street, and some drugs, money
and watches were taken from
Beal’s Professional Pharmacy,
504 South Eighth street.
Police said the first break-in
at Haskell’s was reported
Saturday morning. They said
that that the rear door which
contained double locks was
jimmied in such a smooth way
with the apparent use of
professional tools that no marks
were made and the break-in
could not be seen on a normal
police check.
Taken were 800 to 900 Per
codan tablets, two or three 20 cc
vials of morphine sulphate, two
or three 30 cc vials of demorol,
10 cc new morphine, 500 Seconal
capsules, about 20 key chains
and money clips with Kennedy
half-dollars, and about $35 in
cash from the cash register.
The second burglarj' at
Haskell’s was reported Sunday
morning. Entry was made by
breaking a window in Dr. Philip
Boswell’s office which adjoins
Haskell’s. The office was
ransacked, but nothing was
reported missing from there.
The thieves then tore a hole in
the ceiling of the dentist’s of
fice, crawled through a loft
area, and tore another hole into
the ceiling of the drug store.
This time more drugs and a .38
caliber English Wimbley pistol
was taken.
Police said the front door of
Beal’s Professional Pharmacy
also was jimmied by pro
fessionals who knew their busi
ness. No marks were made on
the door. About two pints of a
cough syrup which contains
codeine and a few pills of the
barbiturate type used by ad-
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the conservative California
governor testified.
“Some argue this (bill) is not
a ‘guaranteed income’ ... this
argument is fallacious. ”
diets were the only drugs taken.
Forty Timex watches, valued
at between S7OO and SBOO, about
SSO from the cash register, and
approximately the same
amount from a drink machine
also were taken.
Other weekend burglaries
included Mays Hardware on the
Everee Inn road in which
shotgun shells, rifle bullets,
cigarets and change were
taken; Hicks Grocery, Turner
and 13th streets, in which
cigarets and change were
taken; the treasurer’s office of
the Second Baptist Church
Educational Annex Building in
which a metal box containing
$31.01 was taken; and two
break-ins at Piedmont Equip
ment Co., 1312 West Taylor
street, and Spalding Gas Co.,
415 West Solomon street, in
which nothing was taken but the
offices were ransacked and
filing cabinets damaged.
Newspaper vending machines
of both the Griffin Daily News
and the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution were reported
broken open at the following
places, Colonial Stores,
Krogers, Blue Goose Case, Post
Office, Handy Andy on College
street, and the boxes at Hill and
Solomon streets. An undeter
mined amount of money was
taken.
Last night police received a
report of a burglary at Chap
man Electric Co., 552 Experi
ment street. Missing were about
two dollars in change, four
boxes of electric cable and a
drop cord, valued at S7B.
Thieves apparently failed in
their attempt to enter the Little
Star Service Station at 13th and
Experiment streets. Officers on
patrol found a broken window
and frame there this morning.
A mini-bike was taken from
the carport of the home of Bruce
McKemie, 1513 West Poplar
street, last night. The bike was
gold with crome fenders and a
black seat. Its valued was $250.