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Troopers
keep eye
on speeders
The Georgia State Patrol has
predicted that there will be 28
traffic fatalities in the state
during the 120-hour
Thanksgiving holiday period
which begins at 6 p.m. tonight
and ends at midnight Sunday. In
addition to the fatalities, the
patrol says there could be 560
injuries in more than 1,400
accidents during the period.
Agt. A. W. Murphy of the
Griffin post said that his men as
well as those all over the state,
will patrol their area of
Spalding, Henry and Butts
Counties in full force. The
troopers will not give warnings,
but will issue tickets during the
period, he said.
A Civil Air Patrol plane with a
local trooper and equipped with
radio contact with the patrol
cars will watch the main high
ways around Griffin and in
Henry and Butts Counties.
The local patrolmen also will
use Vascar and radar to ap
prehend speeders.
Public Safety Commissioner
Col. Ray Pope said
Thanksgiving usually is one of
the worst holiday periods but he
is hopeful the extra heavy en
forcement combined with drive
safely pleas to the public will
keep the death toll down.
Carrollton
gas tanks
explode
CARROLLTON, Ga. (UPI) —
Two gasoline storage tanks ex
ploded and caught fire here to
day, but firemen quickly
brought the blaze under control
without damage to surrounding
buildings.
Fire officials said two full
20,000 gallon tanks were ablaze
at a Standard Oil storage plant
and were expected to burn
throughout the day.
The tanks, located near a
school in a residential area,
caught fire shortly before dawn.
Officials said the cause of the
fire was still unknown, but one
report said the explosion came
while a gasoline truck was
being filled.
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Special towels noting the 6AAA championship of the 1972
Griffin High Bears were presented to the team, coaches and
cheerleaders in a pep rally at the high school this morning.
The towels were manufactured for the ocasion by Dundee
Last year 29 fatalities and 393
injuries occurred in 1172 ac
cidents.
Free-lance
agent
accused
CLARKSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
A free - lance narcotics agent,
who posed as a long - haired
hippie to seek out youthful drug
pushers in north Georgia, has
been indicted for kidnaping and
rape, it was disclosed today.
Harry Ray Shouse, 25, of
Adel, was charged on the basis
of warrants sworn out by three
boys and a 17-year-old girl, all
from Pennsylvania. They con
tended they were “arrested”
by Shouse and an unidentified
man, the boys placed in jail
and the girl taken to a motel
where she was raped twice.
Gov. Jimmy Carter took a
personal interest in the case
after receiving a letter from
an attorney representing the
youths.
District Attorney V. D. Stock
ton of Habersham County said
the alleged incident took place
last August and Shouse was in
dicted Nov. 16.
Shouse had served as an “un
dercover agent” for three North
Georgia sheriffs at the time
and participated in more than
50 drug cases, reportedly being
paid as much as $125 a week
to spot drug pushers, then call
in authorities.
Stockton said Shouse had
“hair down to his shoulders, a
long beard and wore hippie
clothes so he could mix with
drug users, and you’d see him
about every day wheeling
through town and the country
side in that old junker of his.”
The “arrest” of the four
youths came while they were
returning to Pittsburgh from a
vacation at a family hotel in
Florida.
Pittsburgh attorney Norman
G. Haywood wrote Gov. Carter
that the boys were jailed here
for three days and the girl was
taken to a motel “by Shouse
and his accomplice and forcibly
raped” twice.
GRIFFIN
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Daily Since 1872
First immigrants
By DAVID POLING
This year, Thanks for the Pilgrims.
As a people and nation, Thanksgiving
has been that time of annual inventory for
all the blessings we have received. For the
thoughtful, believing community, it has
been thanks to God for his bountiful crea
tion, expressed in all the gifts of life. For
the Christian. Thanksgiving traces its his
tory all the way to the Old Testament,
with a very meaningful pause at Plym
outh Colony and its New England setting.
In a day when most racial and ethnic
groups are finding new joy and pride in
;heir traditions, it is proper to remember
the power and determination of America’s
first minority, the Pilgrims. Too often, of
late, these ancestors with white bonnet
and stove-pipe hat have been mocked,
criticized and abused for their sturdy con
victions and unbending theology. Today,
those values are being rediscovered and
reworked, like an old gold mine with a
new vein of productive ore.
Why thanks for the Pilgrims almost
four centuries later? For one thing, in a
society and world choked with conform
ity and mass-mentality, they moved home
and family, broke ties of place and belong
ing in the Old World, to pursue more
clearly their vision of God and his love.
And in this hour of instant gratification,
this day of immediate reward and re
sponse required by so many impatient and
indulgent citizens, it is well to remember
that the Pilgrims remained in Holland for
nearly 12 years, gathering energy and
vision and resources for their final desti
nation: America.
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ATLANTA—Perhaps if early America had been inhabited by
giant ostriches instead of turkeys we might have had a
different traditional dish on Thanksgiving. “Pilgrim” Frank
Evans of Lion Country Safari in Henry County confronts the
large but flightless birds which may grow seven feet tall and
weigh over 300 pounds. (UPI)
Mills. Shown with the towels are (kr) Kenny Hattaway,
Henry Walker, general manager of Dundee Mills,
cheerleader Sandy Perry, Head Coach Max Dowis, and
David Woolforlk.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, November 22, 1972
And surely we are thankful for their
virtues expressed in family and their de
termination for self-government, free from
European aristocracy. And such a family.
In that first winter, broken by disease and
sickness, hardly 50 of the original 100 sur
vived. In his classic study, “The Pilgrim
Way,” Robert M. Bartlett reveals that at
the height of their tragic first winter, no
more than six or seven persons were well,
caring for the rest in every detail of their
daily need. Only three married couples
survived and only five out of 18 wives
lived to raise their children.
And their relations with Massasoit and
the Wampanoag Indians remains as a
classic friendship between two entirely
different, but mutually appreciative, clans.
The first Thanksgiving, which lasted three
days, including much praise, food and
sporting contests, was not an isolated
event but marked the beginning of 55
years of amity and mutual regard.
The start of self-government and the
foundations of civil agreement, were
marred by the tragic Salem witch trials.
Yet clearly this was a global aberration,
with mass executions in Europe and the
British Isles. Plymouth Plantation had two
such trials, but no executions and no pur
suit, of such fantasies of sick minds.
It is time to lift up the people of the
first Thanksgiving. It is proper to be
thankful for them and their grand begin
ning. Having suffered for their religious
and civil convictions, they refined and
created a new community that ultimately
meant diversity. And even that was good,
so Pastor Robinson wrote: “We must ac
knowledge but one brotherhood of all.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Bond issue
for library
next spring
Spalding County Com
missioners agreed to hold a
bond issue vote in the late
spring to finance a new library
here.
The commissioners met with
the steering committee of the
library board yesterday to
discuss the matter.
Dr. William King is the new
chairman of the steering com
mittee.
Mrs. Bobby Shapard,
chairman of the Flint River
Regional Library Board, said
the steering committee was
thinking in terms of a half
million dollar bond issue.
She said dates and details of
the proposal would be an
nounced when they are worked
out.
Lawmen nab suspect
in Pike rob attempt
An Atlanta man was arrested
within five minutes after he
allegedly attempted to take
some money from the cash
register of a Pike County
grocery store early yesterday
afternoon.
Richard Colbert, 24, of
Simpson street, Atlanta, was
charged with attempted rob
bery and aggravated battery.
He remained in the Pike County
jail this morning.
Pike Sheriff J. Astor Riggins
Griffin area merchants
set for Holiday shopping
Thousands of shoppers are
expected to be in Griffin Friday
to open the Christmas Season
shopping.
Sane 55 Griffin firms have
joined in the annual after
Thanksgiving promotion
through the Merchants Division
cf the Chamber of Commerce.
Stores have been busy
stocking their shelves during
the last few weeks in
preparation for the season’s
opener.
Traditionally the shopping
areas of the community are
packed the day after
Vol. 100 No. 275
A little closer this year
Kissinger has talk
with Indonesia leader
By United Press International
Henry A. Kissinger conferred
today with President Suharto of
Indonesia in Brussels before
returning to Paris for a third
session of his peace talks with
North Vietnam’s Le Due Tho.
Kissinger went to the Belgian
capital Tuesday night for
consultations with Suharto,
leaving Paris within hours after
the close of Tuesday’s meeting
with Tho.
Conference sources said Kis
singer and Suharto discussed
the role Indonesia would play in
any peace settlement that
might result from the talks in
Paris. Suharto and Indonesian
Foreign Minister Adam Malik
were in Brussels as part of a
European tour.
Indonesia, along with Poland,
said that the suspect went into
the H. W. McLeroy Grocery
Store on the Zebulon road and
attempted to purchase a
package of headache powder
with a five dollar bill. When the
store owner opened the cash
drawer, the suspect told him he
had the correct change. He
threw some pennies on the floor
and asked Mr. McLeroy to pick
them up, Sheriff Riggins said.
While McLeroy was picking
up the money, the sheriff said
Thanksgiving as people swing
into the Holiday Season.
Bargains of all sorts will greet
early shoppers.
Participating firms include:
Saul’s, The Gentry Shop,
Sigman Buick-Opel, Inc.,
Morrow-Powell, Smith-Roberts,
The Bonnie Shop, Tonkin
Casuals, Jim Pridgen Hard
ware, O’Kelley’s Furniture
Company, Griffin Hardware
Company, Fashion Shop.
The Furniture Shop, Maxwell
Bros. Furniture, Batton &
Jackson Quick Tire, Hensley
Office Equipment Co., Cain’s,
Canada and Hungary, has
agreed to take part in an
international commission to
police the cease-fire in Vietnam
once the fighting stops.
In Washington, presidential
press spokesman Ronald Zie
gler said another session of the
talks was scheduled later today
after Kissinger’s return from
Brussels.
At the conclusion of Tues
day’s session of the talks in Gif-
Sur-Yvette, 15 miles outside of
Paris, neither side revealed the
status of the negotiations.
Kissinger left the two-story
house which is owned by the
Communist party and smiled
and waved. Tho, the North
Vietnamese Politburo member,
left the house with his
negotiating team a few minutes
the suspect reached in the cash
drawer and attempted to get
some bills. He said McLeroy
reached for his pistol and the
man hit him on the hand, at
tempting to knock the pistol
away.
He then sped away in his car
and was picked up on the Griffin
By-Pass, near the Williamson
road exit, less than five minutes
later by Cpl. Bill Shivers and
Trooper Don Halstead of the
Griffin Patrol Post.
Akins Feed & Seed Co., Clax
ton’s Pharmacy, RBM Motors,
Buy-Wise.
Jones-Harrison Furniture
Co., Godard Clothing Co.,
Griffin Electronics Center, Star
Chevrolet Co., Goode-Nichols
Furniture, Purser Furniture
Co., Crouch’s, Sears Roebuck &
Company, Hightower’s Gulf
Super Service, Rhodes Furni
ture Co.
Southern States Printing
Company, One Hour Mar
tinizing, Lights of Griffin,
Bishop Clothing Co., Cartledge
Furniture Co., Whitmire
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later and grinned but had no
comment.
Midway through the session,
Kissinger and his deputy, Gen.
Alexander M. Haig Jr., walked
in the garden of the villa with
Tho and Xuan Thuy, chief of
North Vietnam’s delegation to
the semipublic weekly peace
negotiations.
Thuy and Tho briefed Ma
dame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet
Cong foreign minister, and her
delegation after the private
meetings, the Vietnam News
Agency said.
Newsmen congregated
outside the house where the
talks are going and cameramen
borrowed tables and garbage
cans from nearby householders
in their efforts to see over the
nine-foot-high wall surrounding
the villa.
No paper
tomorrow
The Griffin Daily News will
observe Thursday as a
Thanksgiving Day holiday and
will not publish on that day.
Regular publication will
resume Friday.
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“I really don’t expect a man
to level with me while I’m lying
to him.”
Jewelry Co., Carden Furniture
Co., Ben Franklin Variety
Store.
Diana Shops, Roses’, Jones
Harrison Furniture, Jerrie &
Don’s, Easterwood Shoes, Tom
Smith Texaco Service Cento-,
Coates Foreign Car Service,
Randall & Blakely, Winn-Dixie
Store, Leonard’s, Ralph’s
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Commercial Bank & Trust
Co., First National Bank of
Griffin, The Bank of Griffin,
Griffin Daily News, WGRI,
WHIE.