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Mrs. Jimmie Ann Gill and daughter, Cheryl, 7, of Woodbury, Ga., were among the many
shoppers in Griffin today to kick off the Christinas shopping season. Cheryl seems to be
trying to make up her list for Santa as she studies toy selections.
So far, so good
on holiday here
Griffin and Spalding County
were relatively safe as the long
Thanksgiving holiday weekend
began. But such was not the
case in other parts of Georgia
and the nation.
There were no traffic
fatalities in this area, according
to local law enforcement
people.
But in Georgia, the holiday
toll had risen to seven already.
State Patrol officials
predicted there would be 26
deaths over the holiday period
ending Sunday night.
A Warner Robins, Ga.,
woman, two Rochester, N.Y.,
residents and two Cedar Ra
pids, lowa, children are now
just numbers in the four-day
Thanksgiving holiday death
count.
A United Press International
count at 9 a.m. Friday showed
at least 92 persons had died in
traffic accidents since the start
at the holiday period at 6 p.m.
local time Wednesday.
A breakdown of accidental
deaths:
Traffic 92
Fire 15
Plane 1
Other 5
Total 113
The National Safety Council
estimated 450 to 550 persons
would die in traffic accidents
from 6 p.m. local time
Wednesday through midnight
Sunday.
Nancy Doster, 38, of Warner
Making a list
Robins, Ga., burned to death
Thursday when a jar of
gasoline exploded in the utility
room of her home.
Mrs. Doster accidentally
knocked over a glass jar of
gas, which broke and exploded
when it was exposed to a small
gas heater in the room. The
woman’s clothing and body
were engulfed in flames and
her husband, Bill Doster, was
unable to rescue her.
Kim Bandener, 25, of Iron
dequoit, N.Y., and Walter
Smith, 26, of Rochester, N.Y.,
were killed when a car went
through a red light Wednesday
and smashed into the car
Bandener was driving. Police
were searching for the driver of
the vehicle which caused the
accident.
Roxanne Lynn Schowalter, 5,
and her sister Jessica Louise, 7,
sustained fatal burns when fire
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“An intelligent person is one
whose opinions are supported
by facts.”
swept their two-story frame
house in Cedar Rapids, lowa,
early Thursday.
Tis the season
to mail early
Postmaster James Chappell said today that “tis the
season to mail early.”
To insure proper delivery of Christmas packages, they
should be mailed by Dec. 10. He said Christmas cards
need to be in the mail by Dec. 15.
10 hours old and she needed a fix
By THOMAS FERRARO
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) — Jennifer was 10 hours old
and needed a fix.
She screamed. Her body shook with pain and stiffened.
She gasped for breath and let out a screeching cry.
Jennifer was born a methadone addict. Her system was
laced with the drug before birth through her mother, an
addict for six years.
For nearly two weeks, Jennifer went through with
drawal. She was irritable. Eating and sleeping were
difficult.
Finally, doctors managed to detoxify her with the aid of
a tranquilizer, thorazine, and near round-the-clock
nursing by her mother.
The brown-haired, blue-eyed Jennifer was among 60
“addict babies” bom in the past four years at the Medical
GRIFFIN
DAI I A NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Watch for letters to Santa Monday
Court overturns
kidnap conviction
ATLANTA (UPI) - A three
judge federal panel today
overturned the conviction of the
admitted kidnaper of former
Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg
Murphy on grounds of pretrial
publicity and prejudicial argu
ments by the government.
The panel ordered a new trial
for William A. H. Williams,
who was sentenced to 40 years
in prison for extorting $700,000
in ransom for the release of
Murphy after holding the
newspaperman captive for 49
hours in February, 1974. Mur
phy was released unharmed.
The sth U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals panel said it was not
willing to reverse the conviction
on either of the two issues
alone, but ruled they acted “in
concert to deprive appellant of
his right to a fair and impartial
trial.”
Murphy, editor and publisher
of the San Francisco Examiner,
was enroute to San Francisco
after spending Thanksgiving
with relatives in Georgia and
could not be reached for
comment on the ruling.
The decision, written by
Judge Homer Thornberry and
concurred in by Judges Lewis
R. Morgan and Elbert Tuttle,
said that news media reaction
to the kidnaping was “virtually
instantaneous and the met
ropolitan Atlanta area was
blanketed with radio, television
and newspaper coverage from
almost the moment the ransom
message was delivered...
“In addition to Murphy’s
identification, appellant’s prior
criminal record, his poor credit
rating, excerpts from his diary
which had been confiscated by
the FBI, his overwhelming anti-
Semitism, impressions of his
friends and neighbors, and in
short every aspect of his life
became grist for the reporter’s
mill.”
The judges also said that the
government’s closing argu
ments to the jury “unduly
confused the issue” of Wil
liams’ mental responsibility.
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Giving Santa
a hand
They especially were thankful
By United Press International
A critically ill child, jail inmates, Vietnamese refugees
and a man whose murder conviction was overturned all
found much to be thankful for during Thanksgiving, 1975.
Doctors diagnosed that Jacquelyn Packheiser, 7, of
Rolling Meadows, 111., had Reyes Syndrome, a brain
damaging disease, when she was admitted in critical
condition to Wyler Children’s Hospital in mid-November.
But she opened her eyes Thanksgiving eve and asked to
see her mother. The hospital sent her home for a very
“thankful” holiday.
Sammy Garrett, 26, was released from Stateville Peni
tentiary just 14 hours before the holiday began. His
murder conviction —for which he had served five of a 20-
to-40-year sentence — had been overturned.
“Thanks. That’s what I feel,” Garrett said. “I, often
wondered if any humanity remains. Well it does.”
Nguyen Van Tuoc, a former lieutenant colonel in the
South Vietnamese military, sat down with his wife and
their eight children to celebrate their new life in Chicago
with an old fashioned turkey dinner.
“Thanksgiving is a day of thank you to God,” Tuoc’s 10-
year old daughter Dung said.
Jail inmates had special turkey dinners but at Cook
College of Virginia and treated at the facility’s Adolescent
Medicine Clinic.
She was among the majority who lived. Today she is
three years old.
“Without special treatment there’s a good chance a lot
of these kids wouldn’t have made it,” said Dr. Ted
Abernathy, codirector of the program which includes pre
natal care and counseling of the mothers and children.
“All the babies are happy, healthy kids today,” he said.
“But we don’t know what the future holds for them.
“We don’t know whether being born addicts will make
them more apt to become addicts when adults,” Aberna
thy said. “We’ll have to wait and see.”
The clinic is believed to be the only one in the nation
which conducts regular checkups of the children,
Abernathy said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-F.8.1. Chief Clarence M. Kelly, with
some assistance from Santa Claus, throws the switch to
light up the Christmas lights at the Country Club Piazza
section of Kansas City, No. Kelly was in town to celebrate
Thanksgiving holiday with his family. (UPI)
County Jail in Chicago, they went without drumsticks.
Bones more than I’/z inches long are considered potential
weapons.
Thousands of volunteers served Thanksgiving dinners
to the sick, disabled and poverty stricken.
The U.S. Army — the largest single turkey customer in
the nation — dished up 347,000 pounds of turkey, 52,000
pounds of shrimp and 74,000 pounds of mince meat and
pumpkin pies to servicemen around the world.
President and Mrs. Ford and their daughter, Susan, sat
down to a traditional feast. The rest of the First Family
celebrated elsewhere.
A handful of reporters spent combed New York City’s
Central Park for live turkeys. They’d been sent there to
cover a “turkey trot” sponsored by the Borough of
Manhattan Community College.
“Seen any turkeys around here,” a reporter asked a
pretzel salesman. “Turkeys? We got pigeons and
squirrels; no turkeys,” he replied.
The turkeys — dead and wrapped in brown paper bags
— were finally found. It turned out the college’s students
and faculty were doing the trotting. The turkeys were
prizes.
Os the 60 “addict babies,” about 50 were born to former
heroin addicts on methadone. The mothers of the rest
were active heroin addicts.
All of the babies born to mothers on methadone lived, he
said. Three heroin addicts gave birth to stillborn children.
Jennifer’s mother, 26, an unmarried high school
dropout, was on methadone when she became pregnant.
“I wanted a child more than anything,” she said. “I
wanted to get big, to be a mother.”
She said she felt guilty about being on drugs when
pregnant and the problems addiction would cause her
child. “But I did my best to overcome it.
“She’s a beautiful baby and I love her,” she said.
“We’re happy.
“I’m not too strict with her,” she said, “but there’s is
one thing I’ll never let her do, so help me — drugs.”
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