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By Quimby Melton
Thanksgiving Day is more
than two months away. But we
have so much for which to thank
our Heavenly Father every day
in the year we have chosen a
Thanksgiving hymn for this
week’s column about Hymns
We Love to Sing.
This was written by Martin
Rinart (1586-1649).
Now thank we all our God
With heart and hands and
voices,
Who wondrous things hath done,
In whom His world rejoices;
Who, from our mothers’ arms,
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
And still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God,
Through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
And blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace,
And guide us when perplexed,
And free us from all ills
In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God
The Father now be given,
The Son, and Him who reigns
With them in highest heaven,
The one eternal God,
Whom earth and heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
Motorists packing
interstates in area
The Griffin area entered the
Labor Day weekend with no
major traffic accidents, ac
coring to Griffin State Patrol
Post.
A spokesman said the heavy
holiday traffic was taking High
way 1-75 and that traffic on other
routes in this area was about
normal.
The Griffin CAP joined other
units over the state in helping to
patrol traffic. CAP pilots were
linked with state troopers and
other law enforcement officers
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 85,
low today 62, high yesterday 85,
low yesterday 66, high
tomorrow mid 80s, low tonight
mid 60s, sunrise tomorrow 7:18,
sunset tomorrow 7:56.
Slay suspect roundup begins
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) — <jodd county authorities say
it will be a month to six weeks before they will have all
seven suspects in the slaying of a couple, both prominent
Cobb County physicians, in custody.
One of the seven, James Edward Creamer, 42, of
Greenville, S. C., was being held without bond in the Cobb
County jail in connection with the death of the doctors.
Cobb District Attorney Ben Smith said Friday he
suspected robbery as the motive for the May 7, 1971
killings, although authorities had ruled out robbery at the
time of the crime.
It is believed Dr. Warren B. Matthews, 69, was attacked
as he went to his garage early in the morning. Authorities
also think Mrs. Matthews, who practiced under her
maiden name of Dr. Rosina Vincenzi, apparently saw the
attackers and fired at them with a .38 caliber pistol,
hitting at least one of them.
Busing order in force
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Su
preme Court Justice Lewis F.
Powell Jr., reasoning that Con
gress has not specifically
banned busing, has refused to
delay a school desegregation
plan for Augusta, Ga.
Powell, in a decision issued
Friday, held that a lower court
order requiring Augusta to de
segregate 29 elementary schools
did not collide with the so
called Broomfield amendment
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MAKING FRIENDS is usually no problem for the very young of any species,
as demonstrated by Elise Caplan, 4, and the young assistants of organ-grinder
Tony Bruno. Bruno was hired to ballyhoo the opening of a new movie in New
York, and stole the show as far as some people were concerned.
to spot speeders and other
traffic law violators. The planes
also were being used to spot
people in other types of travel
trouble along busy routes.
The Griffin Post of State
Patrol had all troopers on patrol
and five additional men during
the holiday weekend.
Troopers especially cautioned
motorists to be careful during
Monday afternoon and evening
hours. They said that many
people would be ending outings
and returning home tired, thus
increasing accident potential.
State Department of Public
Safety officials have estimated
27 people will die on Georgia
roads during the final summer
holiday weekend.
because the order was aimed
at ending segregation, not at
establishing a “racial balance.”
Powell had refused the stay
earlier in the week. But he did
not make public his decision
until Friday. The justice acted
in the case in his capacity as
the high court member who
hears cases from the Fifth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court thus far,
Powell said in his opinion, has
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Daily Since 1872
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WASHINGTON—John N. Mitchell swore he had no advance
knowledge of the alleged bugging of Democratic
headquarters that investigators have linked to the Nixon
reelection campaign he headed at the time. Mitchell is shown
as he arrives to give his deposition to Democratic lawyers.
New legal maneuvering cut short his session with the
lawyers, however. (UPI)
upheld the use of busing as a
tool to desegregate schools.
The Broomfield amendment,
named after Rep. William
Broomfield, R-Mich., was
passed by Congress with the in
tention of effectively postponing
the spread of court-ordered bus
ing.
It said that busing orders
“for the purpose of achieving a
balance among students with
respect to race” did not have
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to be carried out until final
court appeals are exhausted.
Powell said the wording of
the amendment indicated “it
does not purport to block all
desegregation orders which re
quire the transportation of stu
dents. If Congress had desired
to stay all such orders it coulcj
have used clear and explicit
language appropriate to that
result.”
By EMIL SVEILIS
MONTREAL (UPI)-Police
said 42 persons at a country
and western nightclub were
killed Friday night in a fire
started by a Molotov cocktail
hurled by three men who were
evicted earlier from the club.
Four persons were taken into
custody early today, police
said.
Police said 70 to 80 other
persons were injured in the fire
that raged through the Blue
Bird Case and panicked the 350
patrons.
The three persons believed to
have started the fire were
arrested in a Montreal res
idence along with another man
who was found in the house,
police said. The men were not
identified, but all were in their
late 20s and were believed to be
from Montreal.
They could face “42 counts of
murder, arson and complicity,”
a police spokesman said.
Most Were In Their 20s
“Most of the victims were in
their 20s—about half girls and
about half boys,” police said. A
fireman who was one of the
first inside the smoldering
building said the victims “were
piled up all on the second
floor.”
He said they apparently
panicked and fell on top of each
other trying to get out.
Police said 40 persons were
taken in ambulances to Mon
treal hospitals, some in serious
condition. Forty others, some
with their clothes ablaze, ran
screaming from the case and
hailed passing motorists for
rides to hospitals.
Police Inspector Armand
Chaille said there were 350
patrons in the club.
Chaille said the three sus
pects had left the club at about
TO p.m. EDT. “Just after 11
p.m. people at the club said
they saw the three men driving
away fast. We put two and two
together.”
Police Lt. Jean-Guy Paquette
said it was his understanding
that the three suspects had
been thrown out of the club
earlier in the evening.
“This is the worst thing of its
kind I’ve ever seen,” Paquette
said. “A lot of people threw
themselves out the windows
and stampeded down the
stairs.”
Most of the victims were
found on the second floor where
the combination night club and
cocktail lounge had its band
and dance floor. A narrow
stairway led from the street up
to the dance floor. In addition,
there was a fire escape leading
down from the second story.
A Big Jam Up
“We could not run,” said
George Lancia, 28, of Montreal
who described himself as a
long-time patron of the club.
“There was a big jam up.
People ran over each other.
“Two people fainted and the
others were just stepping over
their bodies. People were
pushing. Some just fell off the
back railing. There was a lot of
screaming.”
folks are right when
they’re against things — but
they’re at their best when
they’re for something.”
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MONTREAL—The Blue Bird Case, a Montreal Country and Western night club, was bombed by
three men who allegedly had been thrown out of the club earlier in the evening. Shown are police
and firemen carrying out one of the victims. (UPI)
Viet announces it
will release POWs
TOKYO (UPl)—North Viet
nam said today it will release
three captured American pilots,
including one who has been held
as a prisoner of war for more
than four years. It hinted that
more might be released in the
NEW YORK-Mrs. Edith Irving (1), wife of author Clifford
Irving, arrives at LaGuardia Airport along with her two
children, having vacationed in Florida. An attorney (r) is
accompanying them. Justice officials in Zurich said that it is
not certain whether Edith Irving will be arrested as soon as
she arrives in Zurich. (UPI)
M-D drive under way
A group of Griffin young
people were downtown today
soliciting funds for the national
Muscular Dystrophy campaign.
Griffin officials are coor
future.
The Communist Vietnam
News Agency (VNA), in a
broadcast monitored here, quot
ed a North Vietnamese Foreign
Ministry statement as saying
the three men would be
dinating their puii for funds
with a national effort which will
feature a national telethon with
Jerry Lewis Monday.
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released to “a U.S. social
organization animated with
good will and a desire to bring
about an early end to the U.S.
war in Vietnam.”
The statement did not elabor
ate or say when they would be
released, but did say the action
was in honor “of the national
day, Sept. 2, 1972.”
A more complete statement
broadcast later by Radio Hanoi
said no U.S. POWs had been
released recently because of
public statements made by a
group of three servicemen who
were freed in July, 1969. The
men claimed they and others
had received harsh treatment
in North Vietnamese camps.
“It is for this reason that
such a release has been
temporarily suspended,” Radio
Hanoi said.
The broadcasts added feat
“in the interest of the families
of U.S. pilots captured in North
Vietnam, it (the United States)
must stop using fee released
pilots to slander the Democra
tic Republic of Vietnam and
further the U.S. policy of
aggression in Vietnam.”
The three men named by the
Communists were:
—Navy Lt. (JG) Markham
Ligon Gartley, born May 16,
1944, in Kentucky, captured
Aug. 17, 1968, in Nghe An.
—Navy Lt. Norris Alphonzo
Charles, born Aug. 4, 1945, in
Florida, captured Dec. 30,1971,
at Ha Ting.
—Air Force Maj. Edward
Knight Elias, born Jan. 16,1938,
in Arkansas, captured April 20,
1972, in Quang Binh.
Imprisonment Confirmed
The Defense Department in
Washington confirmed that all
three men were prisoners of
war but said it could release no
other details on them, including
their home towns.
But in Greenville, Maine,
Gerald A. Gartley, father of
Markham Gartley, said he had
learned of the news and
shouted “feat’s my boy.” He
said, “It’s too good to be true,
just too good to be true.”