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Santa Claus is busy;
so is Bethlehem
United Press International
Yes, children, there is a Santa Claus.
It’s in southern Indiana, about 100 miles
from Bethlehem. There also is a North
Pole — three of them to be exact.
From Oregon’s Christmas Valley to
Florida’s Christmas, from North Pole,
Alaska, to North Pole, N.Y. — neigh
bors help postmasters make the holiday
season a bit more special by imprinting
their local postmarks on tens of
thousands of cards and letters from
City waives
fee for dog;
owner sought
The city of Griffin is willing to waive
a $6 fee so a mute man can have a dog
that apparently is trained to help people
with a hearing loss.
The black shepherd dog which weighs
about 80-90 pounds was picked up by the
city apparently after it broke its chain.
A man who could not speak or hear
came to the city pound to pick up the
animal. He didn’t have the (6 fee.
Jean Chambers of the pound staff got
City Manager Roy Inman to waive the
charge in the spirit of Christmas.
Now pound officials are trying to get
the man and dog together again.
What’s in a name?
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - What’s in a
name? Research by a Tulane
University psychologist suggests
academic achievement may hinge in
part on students' names.
“A name is one of the things most
frequently and intimately connected
with a person," said Dr. Gray Gar
wood. "From the minute a child has a
name, people make associations and
assumptions about him on the basis of
It."
Intrigued by earlier research that
GRIFFIN
DAI LY 4p NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Carl Robinson (I), plant manager for the Griffin division of United-McGill Corp., shows
P.A. Bond, Mrs. Mildred Sawyer and Bill Ramsey of the Chamber of Commerce a booklet
about the company’s operation. The firm located at 1501 Kalamazoo drive in Griffin and will
be in the sheet metal business here. The firm here will produce sheet metal primarily used
in air moving systems such as for heating and air conditioning. Company officials officially
were welcomed at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Griffin Country Club.
around the world.
In all, the U.S. postal directory lists
nine Bethlehems, four Nazareths, three
North Poles, three variations of
Christmas, as well as a Mistletoe, Santa
Claus and Noel.
At least three of the post offices —
Christmas Valley, Ore.; Nazareth,
Tex., and Bethlehem, Ind. — are run
out of family grocery stores. Others,
such as North Pole, Colo.; North Pole,
N.Y., and Santa Claus, Ind., are year
round tourist attractions where mail is
handled on an assembly-line basis.
Connecticut’s Bethlehem calls itself,
The Country Parson
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“A bad law should be changed
— not evaded."
identical essays were graded dif
ferently by teachers when submitted
under different students’ names,
Garwood conducted research to
determine whether the variance held
true in actual classroom situations.
He asked teachers in eight schools in
Georgia and Florida to classify names
as desirable or undesirable. He found
John, James, Johathan, Craig, Jeffery,
Patrick, Thomas and Richard were
among the desirable names.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, December 22, 1976 Vol. 104 No. 303
“The Christmas Town” — but it has
competition from Bethlehem, Pa.,
which refers to itself as “The Christ
mas City.” And then there’s "Noel,
Mo., the Christmas City in the Ozarks.”
Mrs. R.B. Couch, who, with her
husband, is postmaster in Mistletoe,
Ky., said she gets about 1,000 letters a
day during the holiday season. “The
majority of people want it marked
Christmas Day, and we oblige them.
But it means working all day and night
before the holidays.”
In Bethlehem, Ind., (population 75)
Postmaster Freda Statesman, who
operates the office out of the family
grocery store, uses her husband and six
children to help cancel each of 10,000 to
12,000 letters three times by hand:
Each gets a postmark, a stamp of the
three wise men and a stamp of the star
of Bethlehem.
In the tiny southwest Missouri town of
Noel, Walter Ritter, 87, spends most of
December sitting in a blanketdraped
chair in the post office lobby, stamping
his community’s special imprint — an
outline of a Christmas tree in green
with a star on top — on 10,000 pieces of
mail.
The post-marking operation in Noel
(pronounced “Noll” by it 800 residents)
began as a volunteer project by local
World War I veterans.
Desirables: John, James, Jonathan, Craig, Jeffery, Patrick, Thomas, and Richard
Undesirable: Bernard, Curtis, Jerome, Donald, Gerald, Horace, and Samuel
Undesirable names included Bernard,
Curtis, Darrell, Donald, Gerald,
Horace, Maurice, Jerome, Roderick
and Samuel.
Subsequent tests of the students
showed those with undesirable names
often received poorer grades and ex
pressed less loftly career expectations
than those with desirable names.
"Often the kind of behavior we expect
from other people is the kind of
behavior we get," he said. "Name
Color contest winners page 19.
One of hostages stabbed
Man surrenders
after hijack try
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A would
be hijacker, who slashed one of his
hostages during a night of terror
aboard a United Airlines jet, surren
dered early today after a siege of more
than 14 hours at the UAL maintenance
base.
Palm J. Hinnant, 37, a mentally
disturbed airline mechanic, turned his
Luger pistol over to two friends who
boarded the jet, then called for a
woman friend, who came out to the
plane. He and his friends were taken
aboard a van and taken to an un
disclosed place.
Hinnant had seized two other airline
employes and boarded the jet at the big
UAL base Tuesday afternoon. He
demanded food, brandy, fuel and a
flight crew. But authorities stalled and
cautiously rejected his demands during
a tense night of negotiations.
Several times Hinnant stabbed
Richard Funk, 38, one of his two
hostages.
“I’m bleeding all over the cock
pit.... Please send someone out,” Funk
pleaded.
Authorities then granted the
hijacker's demand for auxiliary power
to heat the aircraft. Funk was not
believed to be seriously hurt.
Shortly after 6:30 a.m., when the 6,000
employes of the airbase began
arriving for work, Hinnant released
one of his hostages and two friends went
aboard.
A few minutes later, one of the
friends sent word that “We’ve got the
gun in our hand right now. We’re
coming off. We are going to have some
coffee and eggs and sit down and talk.”
Lawrenceville fussing
about Carter boulevard
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
Local merchants are up in arms about
county officials’ decision to name
a nine-mile route Jimmy Carter
Boulevard.
The Gwinnett County Commission
acted promptly Nov. 9 to become the
first county to name a street after the
President-elect and area merchants
are worried about advertising.
The name was adopted after the new
classified telephone book came out with
business listings under the old street
addresses.
“I waited three months for this
location on a well-known street,” Dave
Campbell said. “The location is the
same but the street isn’t.”
Sandwich shop owner Jim Dowd said,
“I’ve got $2,000 worth of advertising to
redo, and I’ve been open only a few
expectations are bound to have some
influence on the way a teacher interacts
with a student named Richard or
Roderick.”
The study also showed teachers from
different ethnic groups reacted dif
ferently to some names.
"Spanish speaking teachers saw
Mabel as a very desirable name,
whereas blacks and whites did not," he
said.
looking beyond school performance,
City, county
asked to accept
$168,850 bid
The Griffin-Spalding Recreation
Board recommended that the city and
county commissioners consider plans
from Structural Steel of Fayetteville
for the proposed Fairmont Recreation
Center.
The action came during a called
meeting of the board this morning.
Structural Steel's bid was $168,850,
compared with earlier estimates of
around $200,000.
The building would contain 15,030
square feet, which is some 1,500 square
feet smaller than earlier plans.
A handball court, stage, two dressing
rooms and concession area were
eliminated in an effort to bring the
price closer to the $160,000 figure the
two governments had set.
City Commissioner Ernest “Tiggy”
Jones, who serves in an exofficio
capacity on the recreation board, said
the city feels an architect would not be
necessary for such an open type
building and that fee could be used
toward a better facility instead.
Apparently the county is hesitant about
not having an architect, he said.
The recreation board rejected two
rough architectual drafts, including one
of 11,000 square feet which was termed
inadequate and another of around
13,000 feet which would cost an
estimated $200,000, he said.
weeks.”
The boulevard includes portions of
six other roads which had been known
by different names. It is part of a five
lane highway linking Peachtree In
dustrial Boulevard in Gwinnett county
and Mountain Industrial Boulevard at
the DeKalb County line.
Some signs on Carter Boulevard have
already been changed. Other signs with
the new name have been ordered.
County officials said the change will be
“phased in” over the next year.
County Commissioner Ray Gunnin, a
friend of Carter and the backer of the
change, said he felt it was “great to
honor Jimmy Carter for something no
other Georgian has done.”
And at least one small merchant,
craft shop operator Christine
McGlasson, said she felt it was “quite
an honor.”
Garwood commented on possible voter
reaction to the candidates’ names in the
recent presidential election.
"Jimmy is a good name and Gerald is
not a desirable name, at least in this
study,” he said.
"I would say Gerald probably tends
to have a less than desirable stereotype
and that may have influenced some
people, although not in any meaningful
way because they’ve had greater ex
posure to Gerald Ford and the effect of
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
today 12, high yesterday 31, low
yesterday 20, high tomorrow in low 40s,
low tonight in upper 20s.
FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness
and not as cold tonight. Clearing and
turning colder again tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Clearing
and colder Friday. Warmer Saturday.
People
...and things
Santa Claus, wearing regular busi
nessman's hat, fumbling for his car
keys in subfreezing night weather on
North Expressway.
Shopper slugging parking meter
downtown, even though they are free
this week.
New cedar tree just planted in front
of the State Patrol post in Griffin to
replace a dead one, whose brown limbs
had been adorned for Christmas.
13 children,
teacher die
in bus mishap
LYON, France (UPI) — A school bus
carrying mentally retarded children
home from a joyful pre-Christmas class
lost its way in dense fog and crashed
into the icy Rhone River Tuesday,
killing 13 of the children and a teacher.
Poljce said 9 persons —7 children,
the bus driver and another teacher —
were pulled from 16 feet of frigid water
and survived. Only 1 child and the
driver remained in the hospital today.
Police said they had not established
yet exactly how many children boarded
the bus and said a search continued for
more possible victims in the river.
Eleven children died in the water
filled bus. Firemen lifted two out alive
but they died in Edouard Herriot
hospital a few hours later.
The children, aged 6 to 12, attended
school at the Edouard Seguin
Childrens’ Institute. The bus was
transporting them home after a festive
class in which they made Christmas
tree ornaments of paper.
Bus driver Jean Paul Maury stopped
the bus to let off an estimated dozen
children and then headed into the
suburb of Port Edouard Herriot, which
was blanketed by a dense fog.
Enter
winter
with bite
Griffinites felt the icy grip of winter
here this morning when the
temperature dipped to 12 degrees.
Winter officially began yesterday
shortly after noon. The temperature
was below freezing at the time.
Yesterday’s official low was 20
degrees and the temperature did not
climb above the freezing mark until
this afternoon.
his public work would probably have an
offsetting effect.
“Ford also prefers Jerry, and Jerry
as a nickname for Gerald is a positive
name."
Garwood also said the results of his
research may not hold true in all cases.
“The findings of research are
summaries," he said. “The findings are
general and do not have a bearing on
every case. I think people should be
cautious not to interpret data in those
ways."