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Quake toll 3,000
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death toll from an earthquake that
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leaders and politicians to be
more righteous than the rest of
us.”
America gave thanks in many ways
By United Press International
Telephone calls to friends and
relatives, swapping the armchair with
children as television changed from
cartoons to football and that stuffed
feeling from overeating — Thanks
giving.
Or was it parades, efforts to feed the
poor and remembering the forgotten?
Most people took the day off, even
President Ford and President-elect
Jimmy Carter.
Ford relaxed at Camp David, Md.,
and took a dip in a heated outdoor pool
despite snow surrounding the rustic
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rocked eastern Turkey Wednesday
topped 3,000 today.
Officials feared the death toll may
rise even higher as relief workers
battled snow, sleet and landslides to try
to reach the injured and homeless in
remote villages.
“The number of bodies recovered
from the ruins in Muradiye and
surrounding villages in the disaster
area has reached 3,024,” Van province
deputy Gov. Burhan Yavuz Yilma said
today.
The quake was the strongest in
Turkey in 37 years.
Three towns — Muradiye, Caldiran
and Ercis — and 80 villages of mostly
one-story mud huts were devastated,
local officials said.
“Muradiye is a shambles,” said Aziz
Griffinite shielded himself from the rain this morning with this huge package.
The rain didn’t seem to bother most shoppers who went ahead filling their
Christmas gift lists as the shopping season began.
lodge. And, he watched football. Carter
spent a quiet Thanksgiving with his
family at Plains, Ga.
The streets of Manhattan were lined
by thousands for Macy’s 50th annual
Thanksgiving parade, complete with
comic-strip characters. In Detroit, an
estimated half-million people turned
out for the Santa Claus parade.
In a Los Angeles suburb a restaurant
made a Thanksgiving gesture to
patrons by offering free dinners on a
firstcome-firsVserved basis, expect for
senior citizens who were allowed to
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, November 26, 1976
Celikezer, a survivor. “Everybody
there is dead.”
People
...and things
Pre-schooler racing to mailbox at
usual time, finding it empty, then
remembering the mailman had
Thanksgiving Day off.
Second grader getting into the spirit
of the season, leading three neighbor
children in Christmas song.
Lots of brown bag lunches filled with
turkey sandwiches this morning.
make reservations. The proprietor of a
New York restaurant held a
Thanksgiving party for “homeless
stewardesses.”
The needy weren’t forgotten. The
Salvation Army in Chicago — as did
other charitable organizations in
hundreds of cities — provided meals for
the destitute. Four-thousand showed
up.
Down-and-outers were given free
turkey dinners at Los Angeles Skid Row
missions. At one establishment, the
Church in the Home Mission, chicken
was served when the turkey was
Shopping begins
despite rain here
Rain this morning didn’t seem to slow
Christmas shopping in Griffin one bit.
Hundreds of people were downtown
this morning and in shopping centers
about the community to take advantage
of after Thanksgiving sales.
This is the day that traditionally
kicks off the Christmas shopping
season in Griffin.
Many stores which normally close at
6 p.m. planned to be open tonight until
8:30. Most will be open on Wednesday
afternoons through the season.
The sales today are part of the long
Thanksgiving weekend observance in
Griffin.
Several hundred people gathered at
the First Presbyterian Church
yesterday morning for the annual
community union worship service.
Central church ministers shared in
leading the service. The Rev. Douglas
Winn of St. George’s Episcopal Church
delivered the sermon.
For most Griffinites the holiday was
a time for family gatherings.
Many former Griffinites came back
to their home town to be with relatives
for the day.
Others visited with relatives in
distant cities.
Two auto accidents, one in the city
and another in the county, sent four
people to the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
for treatment.
The county accident injured three
young people and the one in the city
injured a Barnesville woman.
Otherwise, the city and county traffic
people reported only light traffic
movement in the community Thursday.
Offering goes
to Salvation Army
The offering taken at the community
union Thanksgiving service at First
Presbyterian Church went to the
Salvation Army Christmas program.
The Rev. Forest Traylor, host pastor,
announced before the offering was
taken that the host church board had
voted to give the money to the Salvation
Army to help with its Christmas work.
The minister, reporting on the
Salvation Army work last year at
Christmas, said more than 1,700 people
received help.
The offering yesterday amounted to
$201.44.
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gobbled up. No one seemed to mind.
The Army said troops around the
world were treated to traditional feasts.
A spokesman at Ft. Sheridan, 111.,
estimated that soliders there consumed
41,556 pounds of shrimp, 277,040 pounds
of turkey and 58,871 pumpkin and mince
pies.
But not all events were happy. Bonnie
Emmerich told her 3-year-old daughter
in Independence, Mo., that her daddy,
Richard, was working. Actually, he had
been arrested earlier in the week on a
six-year-old charge of desertion from
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Big apple not
hitting panic
NEW YORK (UPI) - Mayor
Abraham Beame has a new billion
dollar headache, but the atmosphere at
City Hall is no longer panic but
the Marine Corps.
Despite the numerous activities
many paused long enough to recognize
the meaning of Thanksgiving, as did a
Tai Dam refugee from Laos who
arrived in the United States just over a
year ago.
Duyen Baccam and 18 members of
his family sat down to dinner at his new
home in Des Moines, lowa, but before
eating he offered grace this way:
“Our hearts are heavy for those
around the world who cannot enjoy this.
We thank you, Lord.”
On line
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 66, low
today 40, high yesterday 60, low
yesterday 39, high tomorrow in upper
60s, low tonight in low 50s.
FORECAST: Considerable
cloudiness and mild through tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
showers Sunday through Tuesday.
Cooling trend beginning northwest
Sunday and over the state by Tuesday.
Line Coach Sam Marra, often seen pep
talking Griffin High players when they
come out of the game briefly, pitched in
this morning to help line off the field for
tonight’s game with Peachtree.
assurance the problem can be solved.
Mayor Abraham Beame lunches
privately today with Arthur Richen
thal, the lawyer for the Flushing
National Bank, to work on a plan to pay
off up to |1 billion in city debt by Dec.
15.
It was that bank whose suit led the
state Court of Appeals to strike down
the city’s moratorium on repayment of
|l.B billion in short-term municipal
bonds.
Under the moratorium, which began
a year ago, bondholders were given the
option of either waiting three years for
repayment of the principal or ex
changing their bonds for new notes
issued by the Municipal Assistance
Corp., created by the state last year to
float city paper.
The moratorium was a major prop in
the city’s three-year financial recovery
plan, and the high court’s ruling last
Friday stunned city fiscal experts and
even forced Beame to cut short a
Mediterranean vacation.