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Nation headed toward
safest Thanksgiving
By United Press International
The traffic death toll for the
holiday weekend passed the 200
mark early today, and ap
peared to be heading toward
one of the safest Thanksgiving
weekends in six years.
However, even the reduced
number of deaths —attributed
in part to lower highway speeds
—offered little comfort to
families whose holiday was
blackened by traffic tragedy.
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By HOWARD A. TYNER
LONDON (UPI) — He was one of the world’s most
instantly recognizable figures, with his seemingly ever
present cigar, his bulldog jaw and his magnificent turn of
phrase.
Today, 100 years after his birth and nearly nine years
after his death, Britain remembered Winston Churchill
the statesman.
Members of the late prime minister’s family —
including his 91-year-old widow, Clementine —gathered
for a private luncheon at Blenheim Palace, a mansion not
far from London owned for generations by Churchill’s
ancestors.
It was there that he was bom Nov. 30,1874, and it was a
mile away in the village of Bladon that he was buried next
to his parents after he died Jan. 24, 1965.
The country has been flooded with Churchill
memorabilia recalling the man who inspired England
36 to 35: We Bear-ly lost
Continuing stories of twisted
wreckage —in one case claim
ing the lives of eight persons —
were a steady reminder of the
dangers facing holiday trave
lers.
Before the holiday began, the
National Safety Council es
timated this would be the safest
Thanksgiving in six years. The
Council said traffic accidents
would claim between 525 and
625 lives and injure up to 32,000
persons.
As with all holiday warnings,
the council issued a standard
appeal that motorists wear
automotive safety belts, a move
which the council said could
save an additional 100 lives.
However, in many cases the
appeal apparently went un
noticed.
A United Press International
count showed 200 traffic deaths
between 6 p.m. local time
Wednesday and 1 a.m. EST
Saturday.
Winnie: Britain remembers
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A breakdown of accidental
deaths:
Traffic 200
Fire 11
Plane 8
Other 24
Total 243
New York reported 16 traffic
fatalities, California 14, Florida,
Alabama and North Carolina
each counted 10. Georgia,
Texas and Indiana had 9.
The worst single accident of
the holiday period so far
occurred on Thanksgiving Day
when a car carrying eight
persons smashed into a high
way overpass abutment near
Leeds, Ala. All eight were
killed.
In Scott County, Ind., Thurs
day a young mother and her
daughter —on their way to the
home of the mother’s parents
for a holiday dinner —were
killed when a state police car
pursuing a fleeing car plowed
into their automobile.
during the darkest days of World War II with such moving
phrases as “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears
and sweat” and “We shall fight them on the beaches...we
shall never surrender.”
There were Churchill postage stamps at $13.20 per set,
Churchill medallions at $19.20 each, Churchill busts for
s7l, and full sets of fine bone Churchill dinner services for
$4,200.
Wreaths lay piled at the ninefoot Churchill statue in the
square opposite Parliament where he served so many
years. Memorial dinners were held throughout the
country.
The British Broadcasting Corp, planned to broadcast a
dramatization of Churchill’s life Sunday. The actor chosen
to portray the late statesman in the pre-recorded series
was Richard Burton, who touched off a controversy.
Burton told the New York Times last week that
Churchill was a coward comparable to Hitler and accused
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“Winners are losers who
didn’t put anything off until
tomorrow.”
Got opportunity
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Two policemen responded to a
burglar alarm at a woman’s
home and found nothing mis
sing.
However, when the officers
returned to their patrol cruiser,
they did get an opportunity to
make a theft report. Their car
was gone.
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Rich man
Hunt dead
DALLAS (UPI) - He walked
with a stoop, wore ready-to
wear suits and carried his
lunch in a paper bag. He was a
grade-school dropout whose
fortune was estimated at
anywhere from $1.5 billion to $5
billion.
H. L. Hunt, who worked as a
farm hand and a muleskinner
before amassing a fortune in
oil, died Friday of complica
tions arising from old age. He
was 85 and some say he was
the richest man in the world.
“Money as money is no
thing,” Hunt once said. “It is
just something to make book
keeping convenient.”
Someone once asked Hunt
about his youngest son, Lamar
Hunt, who owns the Kansas
City Chiefs of the National
Football League among his
sports interests.
“Mr. Hunt, your son Lamar
has lost $1 million a year
supporting his professional foot
ball team. Doesn’t this worry
you?”
“Certainly it worries me,”
Hunt replied. “At that rate he
will be broke in 250 years.”
the wartime leader of wanting to destroy the entire
German race.
Churchill, Burton wrote in the article, was “among
history’s other great killers.”
The remarks brought swift and continuing criticism in
this country.
Opposition leader Edward Heath told a memorial
dinner Friday night Churchill had been a great performer
on the world’s stage, “and an infinitely greater
performer, by the way, than the actor who recently had
the honor of portraying him.”
Members of Parliament expressed disbelief and anger.
“It is more a reflection on Mr. Burton than on Sir
Winston,” one said.
Churchill’s daughter Mary said she was “furiously
angry and distressed” by Burton’s remarks.
The BBC said it had no plans to change broadcast of the
program, which was televised in the United States Friday.
Daily Since 1872
Blast destroys
half of plant;
two people killed
BEAUMONT, TEX. (UPI) -
-An overheated chemical tank
at a synthetic rubber plant
caught fire and exploded five
times in one hour Friday night
killing two persons and injuring
10 others. The blasts destroyed
half of the huge $5 million
Goodyear Co. plant and da
maged homes six miles away.
The Jefferson County sheriff’s
office said firefighters found
two bodies in the raging inferno
early today.
The fire and explosions
overheated lines carrying toxic
gases. Police evacuated the
populated area immediately
south of the plant, 10 miles
west of Beaumont, and plant
officials turned off the valves
feeding the gasses into the
lines.
The fire melted one 180-foot
tall distillation tower.
“The heat softened it and it
just fell over,” said C. T.
Winchester, the plant’s techni
cal superintendent who was in
charge of the plaht’s opera
tions. He said the fire was
caused by a leak “but we don’t
know where.”
Winchester said the fire
broke out in the part of the
factory where the company
makes isoprene, a flammable
substance used in making
synthetic rubber. The area
covers two square blocks.
There were 15 men on duty in
the unit at 8:05 p.m., when the
first explosion rocked the plant,
and 10 of them were injured.
Three men earlier were
reported missing but later were
accounted for.
Winchester said the men
were trying to contain the fire
when the first blast struck
sending flames and fireballs 500
feet into the air.
“I was looking toward the
plant,” said Buddy Woods, who
lives six miles north of the
plant. “There were two im
mediate explosions that rocked
my house and damaged the
wall in my den. There was
wind with it and two more
smaller flashes not as violent
as the first.”
A gynasium more than 10
miles from the plant was
rocked by the explosion during
a college basketball game.
The Department of Public
Safety said the blast was heard
or felt as. far away as 35 miles
from the plant.
Christmas shopping
starts with bang
Christmas shopping started with a bang in Griffin
yesterday and merchants described it with such words as
“fantastic" and “fabulous.”
Traffic was heavy and sales were brisk downtown as
well as in the shopping centers where automobile tags
from numerous Georgia counties showed that Griffin has
become a major shopping center for this part of the state.
Christmas lights have been turned on in Griffin and the
annual Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus parade is
scheduled for 6 o’clock Tuesday night.
A check of parking lots downtown and at shopping
centers this morning showed automobiles from numerous
Georgia counties, mostly Spalding, Pike, Lamar, Henry,
Butts and Fayette. Others included Meriwether, Newton,
Clayton, Monroe, Crawford, Coweta, Taylor, Upson,
DeKalb, Fulton, and Houston. One car had a Lowndes
County (Valdosta) license plate.
City permits fall
under SIOO,OOO mark
Building permits issued in the
city of Griffin in November fell
under the SIOO,OOO mark for the
first time in many months.
Total permits issued were
valued at $98,933.
One permit for a single family
home was issued valued at
$24,000.
Commercial construction
permits totaled $33,000. One
Wallace to use mini
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) —Gov. George C. Wallace
intends to use the Democratic party miniconvention to his
own advantage, aides say, regardless of whether the
delegates fight or have a show of unity.
Wallace, who is expected to announce soon that he will
run for president in 1976, will address the miniconvention
and warn the party not to move to the left.
He also wants to see proportional representation
adopted and so do a lot of other Democrats. Proportional
representation would require states to award delegates
based on the number of votes a presidential candidate
receives.
Is the engagement off?
VILLANOVA, Pa. (UPI) - The 29-year-old fiance of
millionaire spinster Rachel Fitler, 76, packed up his bags
Friday and left her Villanova mansion leaving much
speculation about their engagement.
Miss Fitler refused to say whether her engagement to
Welchman Michael Wilson was off, but a member of her
staff told UPI, “Don’t call anymore. Everything is over
here.”
The two met last summer while Miss Fitler was staying
at a Palm Beach, Fla. hotel where Wilson worked as a
waiter. The son of a Welsh coal miner was later hired by
Miss Fitler to work as her chauffeur in Villanova. A short
time later they announced their engagement and said they
would be married in December.
Stands unopposed
DUBLIN (UPI) — Judge Cearbhall O’Dalaigh, a soft
spoken lawyer with a love of languages and horses, stood
unopposed today for the presidency of the Irish Republic,
virtually certain to succeed the late Erskine Childers.
. Leaders of the major political parties decided Friday to
nominate O’Dalaigh as an agreed candidate and thereby
avoid a presidential election.
Childers, 69, died Nov. 17, several hours after suffering
a heart attack. He had served as president for 18 months.
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permit was to Newton Crouch
for a $15,000 structure at 890
East Solomon street.
Another was to M & B Mini-
Warehouse at 1145 Anne street
valued at SIB,OOO.
One permit for a swimming
pool was for $7,500 and one for a
sign was for $4,865.
The rest were for alterations.
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