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Forecast Colder Map Page 3 kJ? 4\ | * — r i • <W _.W~y* i • A - * "*r vT’^ : . ate *, • < <, .<< C ■*• w* k \ fj Jr tot &yg.f IL; "> "*w tdXfr»Brjt *•> frirl* The world’s “oldest” dental assistant, Miss Joy Middlebrook, (1) received flowers from Mrs. Jo Dreyer and met Griffin’s “oldest” assistant, Mrs. Alice Ball. Dentists honor oldest assistant If you had a toothache around noon yesterday and are wonder- • ing why you couldn’t find a Griffin dentist, all 10 of them, along with their 28 reception ists, assistants, and hygiepists • were at the Holiday Inn meeting Miss Joy Middlebrook. Miss Middlebrook, who is 83 and a newcomer to Griffin, • holds a world record of being the oldest dental assistant. She began working for Dr. C. E. Chapman in Des Moines, lowa, 57 years ago and stayed with him until July of this year when they both retired and she , moved to Griffin. There is no record anywhere in the world of any other dental assistant working for the same • dentist for so long a period. Miss Middlebrook is the aunt of Mrs. Marcus Sharp and moved here in July to be near Weather • ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 67, low today 59, high yesterday 65, low yesterday 52, high t tomorrow near 60, low tonight near 40. City mailing tax notices Some 6,000 city tax notices have been mailed and another 2,000 are yet to be sent out. A spokesman for city hall today said taxpayers may elect to pay in three installments if they wish. The first payment was due Oct. 20 which already had pass ed before the notices were Death toll climbs in airliner crash By JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) - A Lufthansa Boeing 747 airliner with 157 persons aboard fal tered seconds after liftoff today and dropped tail first into a muddy field where it exploded into flames and burst apart, killing many of the passengers. Airport authorities said the death toll was estimated at between 60 and 70 and that between 87 and 97 persons GRIFFIN Vol. 102 No. 274 the Sharp family. Mrs. Jo Dreyer, a dental hygienist with Dr. Bill Scott, read an article in the Griffin Daily News last month about Miss Middlebrook and arranged for yesterday’s luncheon, so those in the Griffin dental Senate panel to recommend Rockefeller WASHINGTON (UPI) - The chairman of the Senate Rules Committee said today the panel will recommend Friday that Nelson A. Rockefeller by confirmed as vice president. Chairman Howard Cannon, D- Nev., told reporters after a brief meeting of the committee that the panel’s vote on Friday “will be favorable.” But Cannon said a full Senate vote will come after Thanksgiv ing “to give members a chance to read our report.” Democrat ic Leader Mike Mansfield said Tuesday he hoped the vote could come before the Thanks giving recess. “I think the Senate will vote to confirm Mr. Rockefeller, based on what we know now,” he said. “There has been nothing new that has come up to effect our decision.” mailed. The second installment is due Dec. 20 and the third and final one will be due Feb. 20. Taxes not paid by then will be subject to penalties. The city hall spokesman said payments of taxes at this point were about normal. survived. Most of the victims were West Germans and there were no reports any Americans were aboard. It was the first crash of a 747 Jumbo Jet since they went into service five years ago. It is considered by pilots to be the safest passenger plane in the world and the cause was not known. There was speculation the big Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, November 20,1974 profession could meet her. The luncheon set a record, too, as it was the first time those attending could recall having all the local dentists and all of their helpers together at the same time. Dr. Sonny Butler gave a short welcoming address. Miss Middlebrook said when she first took the job, she in tended to work about three months, then go on to nursing school. Instead, she ended up staying 57 years. Dr. Butler laughingly told her that it wasn’t too late, she could enroll in the nursing program at Gordon, only 15 miles away. Griffin’s “oldest” dental assistant also was recognized. Mrs. Alice Ball has been with Dr. Tom Hopkins and his father, the late Dr. L. B. Hopkins, a total of 37 years. She helped in the late Dr. Hopkins’ office for an additional two years while she was in high school. Miss Middlebrooks was presented with an arrangement of fresh flowers and a large vase in her favorite color, blue. She said she will use the flowers tonight when she enter tains “her doctor”. He and his wife will be dropping in on their friend when they pass through Griffin on their way to Florida. JFjB “We shouldn’t have to reward folks for being good — if we just wouldn’t make it so attractive to be eviL” jet engines lost power on takeoff for a flight to Johannes burg and that the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing. The pilot was quoted by the Kenyan News agency as saying: “I was taking off normally...the plane broke up and was suddenly going down. I don’t know what happened.” An airport worker said it appeared that the pilot tried to Many Griffinites thought emergency was real thing The people responsible for providing emergency service in the event of a community disaster will assess the surprise drill they called yesterday. A noon luncheon will be held at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital for officials who handle the pro gram. The drill yesterday was so real that it caused alarm and concern among many citizens. The practice centered around a make-believe explosion in the boiler room of Dundee Mill in Experiment. Very few people in the emergency organization knew the drill was planned. Response to the calls for the most part came from people who thought they were answer- Woodbury tornado injures 15 WOODBURY, Ga. (UPI) - Fifteen persons were injured early today and six mobile homes destroyed near here as a tornado raked across central Georgia, touching down in several places. Six mobile homes at the Ed Wells Trailer Park on Georgia 85S about a mile south of here were overturned and heavily damaged by the high winds accompanying the twister. Paul Fuller, a resident of the trailer park, said he saw the tornado approach about 7 a.m. “It never did touch down completely,” said Fuller, who was thrown from his mobile home but not seriously injured. Mrs. Billy B. Carroll said her 12-year-old son was asleep in their trailer when the twister hit. She said the trailer began shaking and then overturned, pinning her under a wall. She said her son freed her from the debris and she suffered only a scratch. Nineteen people, including several children, were left homeless at the trailer park. Earlier, a tornado reportedly touched down in two places in Troup County south of LaGran ge, destroying a bam, damag ing three houses and a mobile home and destroying a pulp wood truck. There were no reports of injuries. Upson to serve part of Pike with ambulances A public ambulance service being set up in Upson County will serve the southern part of Pike County. Spalding Ambulance service already serves the northern part of Pike. Upson funeral homes have notified county commissioners they want out of the ambulance set the jetliner down as smoothly as possible in an emergency landing once he knew he had lost power. Nairobi hospital said 21 survivors were under treatment there, some of them undergoing emergency surgery. One was reported in critical condition. Tom Lisson, manager of the Nairobi Hilton Hotel, said all 71 others, “a little grubby but in pretty good condition,” had ing a real call. The practice drill was so real that in some instances people thought it was the real thing. All Griffin ambulances rushed to the boiler room scene and began administering aid to some people who had been sent there to act as victims. Word spread to some people in the mill that an accident had occurred and they thought it was for real. Mrs. Evelyn Shackelford of 313 C. South Hill wrote the Griffin Daily News today she thought the drill was the “scare of the year.” “I think it was handled in an idiotic manner by un-caring people in charge,” she wrote. One woman got word that her brother had been injured in the boiler room explosion and was at the emergency room of the Griffin-Spalding Hospital. She rushed there and found it was not true and the report resulted from the drill. She was furious when she learned her fear for her brother’s safety was ground less. Dundee’s Volunteer firemen responded to the drill. The Griffin Fire Department had been alterted to stand by if needed but they were not called. Gene Folds, head of the Civil Defense organization here, never received a notice that the drill was under way. Some people in the Griffin Police Department called the Spalding Sheriff’s office to find out what was going on. The Sheriff’s office told them it was a drill. Some traffic was clogged in the early stages of the drill. Kenneth Roberts who heads the Dundee Volunteer firemen said it looked like the drill went smoothly. The drill called for 14 people to be injured in the boiler blast. One dummy placed on top of the boiler was pronounced “dead at the scene” by Coroner Emmett Chappell. Responding to the call, too, was Miller’s Funeral Home, the only funeral home still offering ambulance service here. The Griffin-Spalding Hospital must conduct two such drills a year to meet certification standards. One pulled earlier this year centered on a make-believe air plane crash at the Griffin- Spalding Airport. service business entirely. They would not consider convales cent service. The Upson funeral homes have stipulated they will not discontinue their service until the public ambulance system is working. Upson plans to buy three ambulances and operate them out of the Upson hospital. turned up at his facility. The minister of communica tion, Omolo Okero, had told newsmen earlier that 97 bodies had been taken from the wreckage of the blue, yellow and silver jet which was flying from Frankfurt to Johannes burg with German tourists and businessmen. Witnesses and survivors said the aircraft took off in bright and windless weather and had Daily Since 1872 Santa gets lift MINNEAPOLIS—The commercialization of Christmas has been criticized for years, but from all indications it won’t be relaxed this year. One indicator is this mannequin, dressed as Santa, being carried to a window display store here last week. (UPI) Now comes season’s first Bah! Humbug! CHICAGO (UPI) — Santa Claus, the kindly old dispenser of Christmas cheer, is really a slick huckster who has taught greed, not love, to millions of children, it was charged today. “Let’s leave Santa at the North Pole” writes Catholic layman John Mahoney in the December issue of U.S. Cath olic. “How often do you see a Santa who is not serving as an outright huckster?” Mahoney asked in the Sounding Board section of the Clarethian Fathers monthly magazine. “Whereas the true lesson of Christmas is a message of divine mercy and sacrifice, Santa is the front man for greedy corporations and the tutor in greed for millions of American children. He is the saint of Gimme... “A couple of generations back Santa was a relatively innocent imposter, but today he has become a total sellout to materialism and greed. He is in the pay of the big toy manufacturers and department stores.” Mahoney said he was once shattered when told there was no Santa Claus and vowed his children would not have to suffer such a blow. Later, he said, he found better reasons “for puncturing this over inflated figure.” “Young children, whose un formulated motto in life is ‘what’s in it for me?’, can just cleared the runway when trouble developed. The plane settled and the five-story tail smashed into the ground at around 190 miles an hour. There were thunderous noises as the giant plane ripped apart and skidded hundreds of yards through the mud, finally bursting into flames. Survivors said the fuselage broke up like a gigantic eggshell and that they escaped ®A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper I Contests scarcely overlook that, accord ing to the information they have received, it is the Jolly Old Elf rather than the Babe who delivers the tangible goods.” Mahoney maintains the “Santa myth” means unhappy children. “A greedy child is never appeased. A spoiled child appreciates nothing. An over indulged child is convinced that the major figure of Christmas is not Christ, but himself.” He noted that a quarter , century ago a movement to “put Christ back in Christmas” failed because “we failed to take Santa Claus out of Christmas.” The magazine cautioned a prepublication survey showed 57 per cent of readers checked disagreed with Mahoney that Santa teaches children to be greedy. A total of 60 per cent felt Santa should be retained as a myth and 80 per cent said they did not believe they had suffered any harm from believ ing in Santa Claus. Commented Mrs. Donald Wenger, a reader from Bir mingham, Mich., “Let’s not blame childish greed on a lovely, mythical old man who labors year round to make others happy. The average adult is the ‘saint of Gimme’ and our children are astute learners.” Pritchett ineligible for pension HIGH POINT, N.C. (UPI) - The attorney general’s office has ruled that High Point Police Chief Laurie Pritchett is ineligible for a disability pension. Assistant Attorney General Keith L. Jarvis’ opinion, which concurs with that of city attorney Knox Walker, was sent to city officials Tuesday. Pritchett, who has said he will resign from the post but requested a disability pension, was the subject of a recent city investigative hearing into al leged irregularities in the police department. Pritchett has been in and out of North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, suf fering from hypertension, since the hearings began in late September. Pritchett’s attorney, John Harworth, argues that Pritchett suffers from hypertension be cause of his job as police chief. But city attorneys and Jarvis contend the retirement benefits are for officers injured in the line of duty and not for officers suffering from illness. the broken-up airliner through the openings and ran away. Lisson said the ones that turned up at his hotel “look like they’ve come in from a hectic safari.” Another survivor, who de clined to give his name, said “there was a sudden dive soon after the aircraft took off. The plane hit the ground and slid for several hundred meters...l saw a sudden opening near my seat and jumped out.”