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Christmas eve baby
looking for Santa
Getting home for Christmas
this year is not expected to be as
close as it was last year for little
Shelly Kay Goodman.
Shortly after her birth at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital, she
was put aboard a U.S. Army
helicopter and taken to the
Medical Center at Columbus for
special treatment.
She was dismissed from
Columbus just in time to get
home on Christmas eve, 1975.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Goodman, 1428 West
Mclntosh road, is a healthy
youngster today, having just
celebrated her first birthday.
Personality spotlight
Griffin B. Bell
By United Press International
Griffin B. Bell, selected by
fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter
as the nation’s next attorney
general, is considered a judicial
conservative who handled more
civil rights cases than probably
any other judge in the South.
Bell, 58, resigned as a judge
on the U.S. sth Circuit Court of
Appeals last March, saying he
was "tired” after 15 years on
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Shelly Kay Goodman
the bench. He said he was
returning to private law prac
tice in Atlanta to make more
money.
Two of his partners in the
law firm of King and Spalding
are Charles Kirbo and Jack
Watson Jr., two top advisors to
the President-elect.
When he resigned from the
bench, Bell complained that
federal judges are overworked.
Job interview
is important
WASHINGTON (AP) - Job
hunters should be most con
cerned about the impressions
they make, according to the
Bureau of National Affairs. The
results of a personal interview,
says the Bureau, have become
the most important reason for
hiring non-managerial employ
es as the use of pre-employ
ment testing declined.
Most companies still give
pre-employment physicals and
almost half give psychological
tests. A few require lie detector
tests for sensitive jobs.
Nine out of ten companies re
ject a candidate for lying on his
job application or will fire him
if lying is discovered later. Al
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(93 per cent) verify previous
employment, and 53 per cent
verify education background.
He also said there was “too
great a trend to take things to
court. There should be some
system of arbitration —a way
to give people an inexpensive,
quick hearing.”
He handled such a heavy
volume of civil rights cases
involving Deep South schools
that he once described himself
as a “regional school superin
tendent.”
In November, 1969, the U.S.
Supreme Court chided the sth
Circuit Court for tolerating
delay in the desegregation of
Mississippi schools. Bell, along
with two other judges, immedi
ately ordered 27 school districts
to desegregate by New Year’s
Eve.
The order received wide
spread national attention.
Bell was bom in Americus,
only nine miles from Carter’s
hometown, Plains.
Bell received his law degree
from Georgia’s Mercer Univer
sity and was an Army major in
World War 11.
He began practicing law in
Savannah, Ga., in 1948 and
later practiced in Rome, Ga.
He moved to Atlanta in 1953 to
become a partner in the King
and Spalding law firm.
He served as chief of staff to
former Georgia Gov. Ernest
Vandiver from 1959 to 1961,
when he was appointed to the
federal bench by President
John F. Kennedy.
They’ll
perform
tonight
These students at Beaverbrook
Elementary will be among
those in the “Christmas in
Poem and Song” program
tonight at the school. At left is
Jamie Smallwood and below (1-
r) are Todd Turner, Alfred
Evans, Kent Threatt and Carl
Grubbs. The program will begin
at 7:30.
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Increase in reported paralysis
cases expected this week
ATLANTA (UPI) - Federal health
officials expect a sharp increase this
week in reported paraylsis cases
because of the investigation and
publicity surrounding a possible link
between Guillian-Barre syndrome and
the swine flu program.
Dr. J. Donald Millar, coordinator of
the Center for Disease Control’s swine
flu immunization task force, Sunday
said the center’s 50-state nationwide
surveillance network was progressing
as planned.
CDC staffers met Saturday on the
investigation of Guillian-Barre, a rare
form of paralysis, in a “touch-base
meeting to be sure that things are going
the way they should,” Millar said.
“We asked states to go out and report
to us all cases of Guillian-Barre,” he
said. “It’s going to take a few days for
all those reports to get in.”
The last official count showed 107
cases of the disease, six of them fatal,
had been reported to the CDC.
NAACP opposes
Bell’s nomination
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
NAACP said today it opposes
President-elect Jimmy Carter’s
nomination of Griffin Bell of
Georgia as U.S. attorney
general because of Bell’s civil
rights record while a federal
judge.
An NAACP spokeswoman
said the organization told
Carter it was opposed to Bell
“because of his civil rights
record while on the federal
appellate court in Georgia.”
Bell sat on the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for 15 years.
The spokesman, Margaret
Bush Wilson, chairman of the
NAACP’s national board of
directors, said the group
informed Carter of its opposi
tion to Bell in a telegram sent
to the president-elect Sunday
night.
The telegram read: “Greatly
disturbed by reports that
Griffin Bell is being considered
seriously for appointment as
attorney general of the United
States.
“Such an appointment would
be keenly resented by those of
us deeply involved in the civil
rights movement and concerned
about the role of the courts in
securing and protecting the
rights of black Americans.
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that we be given the opportuni
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our grave concerns in this
regard.”
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Millar said the figures were “not very
meaningful” yet because the CDC
would have to check into each case to
“find out what these people are
reporting.
“We expect at this point that anybody
with a tingling in a toe or a headache
will report that they have Guillian-
Barre,” he said.
“I’m sure that there are more cases
than that because they’re being
reported and coming in and being
assimilated all the time.”
State health officials are forwarding
the CDC their findings of all paralysis
cases since Oct. 15.
The $135 million nationwide swine flu
immunization program was halted
temporarily last week to allow an in
vestigation of possible links between
Guillian-Barre and the new vaccinne.
Officials are doubtful the program will
resume unless there is an outbreak of
swine flu.
Winter quarter
begins Jan. 4
Griffin Tech’s winter quarter
will begin January 4.
There are openings in most
day and evening programs. An
aptitude test is required for
students applying for day
programs. The test is given
each Wednesday at 9 a.m. The
test is not required for evening
programs.
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— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 20, 1976
Wrong man
Not bitter
at anyone
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
Robert Wilkinson, who spent 14
months in prison for a crime
another man has now confessed
to, says he is not bitter at
anyone. He just wants his wife
to come back.
The 27-year-old mechanic,
who had been jailed for a
firebombing that killed five
persons, was released last
Thursday after posting $5,000
bail.
A Common Pleas Court judge
today will hear testimony from
several witnesses, including
David McGinnis, 19, who last
Wednesday admitted he fire
bombed the home of Radames
Santiago on Oct. 5,1975.
“I’m not bitter towards
anybody,” Wilkinson said. “He
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What’s
happening
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
The Eighth Street Baptist Church will
present a Christmas pageant, “His
Birth-A Path to Calvary”, Wednesday
night, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Rev.
M. M. Solomon is the pastor.
FAMILY, CHILDREN SERVICES
The board of Spalding County
Department of Family and Children
services will meet Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
at the agency.
NATIVITY SCENE
A live dramatization of the birth of
Christ will be presented by the
Children’s Church pre-school division
at Rehoboth Baptist Church tonight,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. The church is
ocated at the corner of Rehoboth and
Barnesville roads in Spalding County.
The drama is under the direction of
Johnny and Mary Kelly.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
“No Room for the King’’ will be
presented Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at
the East Griffin Holiness Tabernacle by
the Children’s Church, under the
direction of Mrs. Judi Bell. The Rev.
Kenneth Bell is the pastor.
BPWCLUB
The Spalding Business and
Professional Women’s Club will have
its Christmas luncheon tomorrow at
noon at Holiday inn.
(McGinnis) should have come
forward the first time, but I’m
not bitter.
“When you leave (prison)
everything’s different, like the
whole world changes.’
But he is concerned about his
wife, who left him a “couple
months ago.”
“I talked to my wife on the
phone,” he said. “She was up
to see me every week and
couldn’t wait to see me when I
got out. But the last couple of
months there’s been a big
difference. But Christmas ... I
want to talk her into coming
back.”
In the meantime, Wilkinson
said his old job fixing auto
radiators is “waiting for me.”