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Newspaper Page Text— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 21, 1973 Page 22 LJCKY SAVE! Griffin Merchants' Annual City-Wide After- qstj< Thanksgiving vW( FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NOV. 23-24 The Biggest Sale In Griffin 1973 — Every Store Is Packed Full Os Bargains And Ready To Offer You Values - Savings And Service On Your Every Purchase The Below Listed Griffin Merchants Are Making This Event Possible FIRMS PARTICIPATING IN AFTER-THANKSGIVING PROMOTION: Cartledge Furniture Co. Tonkin Casuals O’Kelley’s Furniture & Upholstery Rhodes Furniture Co. Randall & Blakely, Inc. Buy-Rite Claxton's Pharmacy Hensley's Office Equipment The Furniture Shop Jones-Harrison Furniture Co. Jim Pridgen Hardware Co. Star Chevrolet Co. Ben Franklin Variety Store Akins Feed & Seed The Oxford Shop Griffin Sales & Service Cooperating in Promotion: P .... n .. „ First National Bank of Griffin Griffin Daily News wrR . The Bank of Griffin Commercial Bank & Trust Co. WKEU OKS \vJxT / /Jp \rJ ( \ \ I JiP i.y|>/\/\ x/- z < Southern States Printing Co. Morrow-Powell Clothing Co. Smith-Roberts Easterwood Shoes Whitmire Jewelry Co. Kentucky Fried Chicken Goode-Nichols Furniture Co. Fashion Shop Leonard’s Diana Shops Crouch's The Fabric Center & Annex Batton & Jackson Quick Tire, Inc. Lights Os Griffin, Inc. Griffin Gallery Maxwell Furniture Co. Carden Furniture Co.* The Gentry Shop Saul’s Wynne’s Jewelers White’s Auto Store Griffin Hardware Co. Godard Clothing Co. RBM Motors Fisher Hardware Co. The Bonnie Shop Clark’s Supermarket Fashion Shoes Spalding Gas, Inc. Toyota Os Griffin Cain's Gene Hayes Motor Co. JFK: the memory is still there By Ira Berkow WASHINGTON, D.C. - (NEA) — Even after 10 years, there are still requests for the eulogy Sen. Mike Mansfield gave before the coffin of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was given Sun day afternoon, November 24, 1963, in the echo-filled rotun da of the Capitol, with the light filtering in dustily from the high dome windows. Jac queline Kennedy, who knew her husband’s admiration for the man, asked Mansfield to give the eulogy. “Every week we get several requests for it,” Peg gy DeMichael, administra tive-assistant to Mansfield, said recently. The eulogy, nine short paragraphs, began: ‘‘There was a sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.” Mansfield says he remem bers staying up most of the night writing it and still takes it out and re-reads it often. “The times have changed tremendously in 10 years,” said Mansfield, in his office, “but the memory is still there.” It was mentioned that many young people have very little knowledge of President Kennedy and of the trauma the nation endured when he was assassinated. “There is a fading with the passage of time,” said Mansfield. “And new genera tions keep coming to crowd out the details of what hap pened. In away, it is like ask ing Germans today about Hitler. It is the past. New events being to obscure the old.” Midway through the eulogy, Mansfield said, “A piece of each of us died at that moment. Yet, in death he gave of himself to us. He gave us a good heart from which the laughter came. He gave us a profound wit, from which a great leadership emerged. He gave us a kind ness and a strength fused into a human courage to seek peace without fear.” They were stirring words at the time, but they don’t seem to hold up 10 years later. “Well,” said Mansfield, “I think Kennedy was on the C • 7 A PHONE 227-1584 Erwin Insurance /Agency l Business <— Home Farm ~ Auto Life 115 N. 6th STREET CHILDERS BLDG., SUITE 203 GRIFFIN, GEORGIA 30223 ■ \ IN OBSERVANCE OF JfcL thanksgiving ° ur off,ce ' | B WILL BE CLOSED mOTF V tew i V /|\ THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, J NOVEMBER 22-23, 1973. THIS WOULD SEEM TO BE AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS TO YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP - - - AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE A MOST PLEASANT THANKSGIVING. IN THE EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT OR LOSS I CAN BE REACHED AT HOME - - 599-3554, OUT DIGBY WAY . . . Leonard F. Erwin ERWIN INSURANCE AGENCY verge of greatness. Had he had a second term, we would have seen some wonderful things from him. “But he did lay the ground work for the Great Society, and President Johnson car ried through with some of the plans, like the civil rights leg islation.” Mansfield added that President Kennedy’s youth and vitality “had inspired great hope in young people throughout most of the world. And I think he began to restore confidence in politics. “There has been a change, though, in the last decade: There is now a disillusion ment, a spirit of apathy. I think the assassination of President Kennedy would be a proper place to pinpoint a changing in attitude in this country from optimism to pessimism. “Then the Indochina war sunk us even deeper in pessimism.” (In 1962 Mansfield returned from a tour of South Vietnam and reported to President Kennedy that he felt it a mistake to send any more U.S. troops there; he believed then that it would hurt our prestige abroad and not help South Vietnam. In the book, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” President Kennedy is quoted as saying to his assis tant, Ken O’Donnell, “I got angry with Mike for dis agreeing with our policy so completely, and 1 got angry with myself because I found myself agreeing with him.”) Mansfield said that Presi dent Kennedy’s death was perhaps the moment in which Americans began to take a different view of themselves. “It seemed that Providence withdrew its arm from around our shoulder,” he said. “And for the first time, we were not the world’s savior, as we had thought during and after the two world wars. We had to face up to the fact that we had some terrible condi tions internally. I think the assassination brought the American people up short.” Mansfields eulogy con cluded, “He gave us of his love that we, too, in turn, might give. He gave that we might give of ourselves, that we might give to one another until there would be no room, no room at all, for the bigo- try, the hatred, prejudice and the arrogance which con verged in that moment of horror to strike him down. “In leaving us — these gifts, John Fitzgerald Ken nedy, President of the United States, leaves with us. Will we take them, Mr. President? Will we have, now, the sense and the responsibility and the courage to take them? “I pray to God that we shall and under God we will.” M — ~ mu IT ■rTTT~~I— ~ Have we? Mansfield said, “The dollar has been devalued, we have inflation, there have been race wars, the Watergate thing, and, well, since the assassination, there has never been a period of real peace.” In rereading the eulogy to day, would we have changed anything in it? “Not a word,” he said, “not a comma.” < NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)

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Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, November 21, 1973, Page Page 22, Image 22