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By Quimby Melton
This Sunday the International
Sunday School lesson is “G o d
Is Living Spirit.” The back
ground Scripture is John 16:7-15;
Acts 2:1-4; Romans 8:9-27; and
X John 4:13-21. The Memory Se
lection is "Hereby know we that
We dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his
Spirit. (I John 4:13.) This lesson
should encourage all professing
Christians to diligently seek the
Holy Spirit and be guided by it
In all things.
At the beginning of this com
ment on the lesson may this lay
man say that the most impor
tant word in the Subject is “Liv
ing”. We know that in the Book
of Genesis, in the second verse,
the statement is made “And the
Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.” But that
was thousands of years ago. Now
in this lesson we not only know
that the Spirit of God continued
to live, but Jesus Christ Him
self tells us that The Spirit of
God lived and was active in his
day, and would be until the end
of time.
Notice the first verse in the
printed part of the background
Scripture begins with the sen
tence “Nevertheless I tell you
the truth”. This statement of
Jesus Christ to His disciples, br
ings to mind another statement
of Jesus “If it were not so, I
wo"M have told you.” Jesus pro
mised that God’s Spirit would
come into the lives of all who
truly believe.
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This layman has for many
years had the belief that in ev
ery human being there is a sp
ark of God’s Spirit; that it is
planted in mankind when one is
born, and that for a better word
we call it “the soul.” Now, we
also believe that in even the vil
est person that spark of God ex
ists always. It may be corroded
with sin, it may be suppressed
by evil, but that spark is still
there — waiting to be fanned- in
to a flaming desire to be the
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child of God and to serve and
worship him.
We do not believe that anyth
ing can extinguish that spark of
God’s spirit.
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We find Jesus using the
word “Counselor”. The same
word In Greek means
ate". This same Greek word al
so means “one called to the aid
of someone.”
j In the Eighth Chapter of Ro
mans we find Paul referring to
the Holy Spirit In several ways:
jThe Spirit of God, the Spirit of
;Christ, The Spirit of Him who
raised Christ from the dead. This
Is not surprising to God, Son
and Holy Spirit are one.
i The word “spirit” is found, not
| only in the Holy Bible, well. but We in have se
cular writing as
i read of “The Spirit of ’76”, and
jeven of today newspapers on the sporting some teams pag
es
iere said to "have the will-spirit
•_to win.” We also at times
bear of someone who has
his spirit", or “lost his pep”, or
has a “broken spirit.” Once that
happens to one, one assumes an
attitude “what’3 the use” and
gives up. Spirit of
But remember “the
God” lives in every human be
ing, and even the corrosion of
sin cannot completely extinguish
It.
j Now It is not likely that any
of us, as much as we might de
sire it, will ever have the thrill
ing experience that came to the
disciples on that Pentecost Day,
nor will we ever have the equal
ly thrilling experience that was
Paul’s on the Road to Damas
cus. But remember in the Bible
we read where God, when He
spoke to Elijah, came as a
, “still small voice”.
Jesus Himself says we can re
ceive the Holy Spirit in all it’s
glory if we will only give God a
chance to come into our life.
Let’s not forget Jesus said “I
stand at the door and knock.”
This lesson winds up the ser
ies on “God” and thank God we
are told and should believe that
God, not only is a Spirit, but a
LIVING Spirit.
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A Bag Of Dimes
The Griffin High Future Homemakers of America presented Mark Foster, treta*
surer of the March of Dimes in Spalding County, $521.82. The money -was
collected in the schools of the county .The project has become an annual one for
the FHA. Presenting the money to Foster were (1-r) Mrs. Bess Hoskins, home
economics teacher and FHA advisor; Mirian Davis, FHA treasurer; Jane Taylor,
project chairman; and Ellen Smith, FHA chaplain • •
Junior Collge Site?
i Griffin Gets
Another Look
Eight Killed
In Hotel Fire
At Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (UPI) —
Fire swept historic Astor Hotel
in downtown Green Bay today.
Eight persons died.
The fire, which broke out
about midnight in a wooden
addition used for storage, shot
up through the 3-story, 60-year
old brick structure.
Thirty-eight guests were regis
tered in f'e hotel, once Green
Bay’s most famous. Many of
them fled into the freezing
temperatur 3S in the darkness
clad only in night clothes.
Fire Chief Dave Zuidmuder
said the bc^y of Mrs. Edna
Colle, 40, of Luxemburg, Wis.,
was taken from the flaming
building shortly after the fire
started. The other bodies were
removed later from the rubble.
Only the shell of the building
was left standing. The third
floor and the roof were
destroyed. The first and second
floors received water damage.
One man crawled out a third
floor window and shimmied
down a cable that held the
marquee above the ground
floor. He stood on the marquee
until he vao rescued by
firemen on a ladder.
Five others "-nbed out of
second story windows onto the
marquee and were rescued.
Weather:
WEATHER
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AIJF \ —» Fair and continued
cold tonight and Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum tcv* 43, minimum today
ll, maximum Thursday 44, mini
mum Thursday 21. Sunrise Sat
urday 6:29 a-m., sunset Satur
day 6:14 p.m.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, February 4, 1966
Radio Station
Off Few Hours
WHIE Radio Station was off
the air this morning for about
three hours after a transmitter
was reported to be burned out.
The Fire Department answer
ed the alarm at 8:15 a.m. Dam
age was to the transmitter only.
The station was operating again
at 11:10 a.m. but on reduced
power, according to radio station
spokesman.
Officials of the University Sys
tem of Georgia are taking an
other look at the possibility of
establishing a junior college in
Griffin.
They are doing this at the re
quest of Spalding County Repre
sentatives Quimby Melton, Jr.,
and George Gaissert who con
ferred with them at the S t a t e
Capitol in Atlanta this week.
Chancellor George Simpson
and community colleges direc
tor Dr. Harry Downs confirmed
that Griffin’s application has
been neither accepted nor reject
ed.
A year ago the Board of Re
CLOSEB APPRAISAL
IPSWICH, England (UPI) -
The council here is going to
do some checking with experts in
the future before it sells any
more of its paintings. A
painting brought $2,590 a t a
local auction. It later wa3 sold
at Sotheby’s for $6,720.
Nominations For
Man Of Year Asked
The Exchange Club today call
ed for nominations for Man of
the Year in Griffin for 1965.
Letters of nomination should
be mailed by Feb, 28, care of the
Grdffin-Spalding Chamber of
Commerce, West Taylor Street,
Griffin.
A selection committee made
up of representatives of civic or
ganizations in the community
will review the nominations and
pick the man for the honor.
He will be announced when the
committee meets March 3 to re
view the nominations.
The person receiving the honor,
along with his family and spec
ial guests, will be honored at the
March 15 meeting of the Exchan
ge Club.
Bill Ramsey, president of the
Gun Stash Suspects
Caught J n Griffin
gents placed it In a special cate
gory along with requests from
Rome and Thomasville. At that
time, none of the three localities
met the established requirements
for a University System college.
However, all three are growing
areas and tiwas thought that at
some future date they could
meet requirements.
The Spalding representatives
told the Chancellor and Dr.
Downs that Griffin and Spald
ing County are growing fast and
particularly are anxious to have
the college. Also, they pointed
out that the citizens of Spalding
County already have authorized
the County Commissioners to
call a bond election to finance a
college.
The chancellor and the direc
tor said that they would reex
amine the situation in Spalding
County and report to the repre
sentatives. The two legislators
said today that they will report
to the people of Spalding County
as soon as they hear from the
University System officials.
Exchange Club, urged Griffinlt
ies to begin now planning letters
of nomination.
The nominee must have been
a citizen of Griffin or Spalding
County during 1965. The award
will be based on civ'c and com
munity contributions.
The annual program was be
gun in 1954 with the selection
of Quimby Melton, Sr., p-blish
er of the Griffin Daily News, as
“Man of ♦*>«» Year.”
Others who have been honored
with the award include: the late
Rev. L. W. Blackwelder, the
late Dr. K. S. Hunt, Prof. J. R.
Berry, Quimby Melton, Jr., Ro
bert P. Sharard, J. M. Cheat
ham, c. T. Parker, Arthur K.
Bolton, Ge-rge W. Patrick, Jr.
and J. C. Ow n.
Alert Police
Spot Car On
N. Expressway
Two “hot suspects” were un
der arrest today in a prison es
cape plot that went wrong and
ended with the shooting of four
Reidsville prison inmates.
The two suspects were captur
ed in Griffin Thursday after a
state-wide lookout was issued on
a 1966 yellow Ford and its occu
pants.
The two suspects and two com
panions were taken into custody.
They offered no resistance when
Griffin Police stopped their car
on the North Expressway.
R. H. Burson, director of state
prisons, said one of the suspects
arrested in Griffin was a former
inmate at Reidsville and that
both had been seen recently in
the area.
Burson and Griffin Police Chief
Leo Blackwell identified the
suspects as George B. Allen, 27,
who was released from prison
on June 2, 1965, and Russell Da
niel, 18.
Their home town was not im
mediately learned. The car stop
ped in Griffin had a DeKalb Co
unty license plate on it.
Burson said the suspects have
been charged with aiding and
abetting an escape attempt and
assault with intent to murder.
Burson said Daniel and Allen
are still being questioned by
GBI Agents at the Toombs Coun
ty Sheriff’s office.
A woman and her son, riding
in the car with the suspects,
were released after it was de
termined they knew nothing of
the attempted prison break.
Four prisoners at Reidsville
suffered slight wounds in the foil
ed escape plot. They are being
held in a prison hospital.
Burson said three shotguns
had been buried for the escape
attempt in the area of a pond
under construction for the pri
son sewage system.
After the prison escape was
foiled, GBI Issued a lookout on
the yellow 1966 Ford.
Burson said one of the prison
ers, Caul Gene Ray, 25, of Har
lan, Ky., doing 40 years for ar
med robbery, dug up one of the
shotguns Thursday while a mem
ber of a 38-man work detail, and
ordered guard Audie Spikes to
drop his weapon. The other three
prisoners grabbed the remain
ing guns.
But several guards opened
fire, wounding the four convicts,
whom Burson described as “se
curity risks.”
He said no guard or other
prisoners were hurt in the brief
skirmish.
The other prisoners wounded
were identified as Kenneth L.
Wood, 25, Lincolnton, N.C.; Don
ald Bennett, 40, Polk County,
Ga.; Ralph Williams Souther
land, 34, Muscogee County, Ga.
Wood was serving sentences
totaling 33 years for burglary,
auto theft and escape, Bennett
was serving long terms for burg
lary and forgery and Southerland
was serving 25 years for sodomy,
according to records.
Officer Billy Payne spotted the
car in Griffin. He and Officer
Tom Malsbay stopped it near
Baker’s Motel on the North Ex
pressway.
Before stopping the car, the
officers radioed for assistance.
By the time Payne and Mals
bary stopped the car two or three
other Griffin police were on the
scene.
The four occupants in the car
offered no resistance.
They were taken to the Griffin
Police Department where they
were photographed and finger
printed.
Chief Blackwell said Officers
Payne and Malsbary called for
aid because “we didn’t know
whether the suspects were es
capees or what."
“The lookout only stated that
the people travelling in the car
were wanted by Reidsville GBI,”
he said.
Chief Blackwell said GBI Ag
ent Perry Brown of Reidsville
came to Griffin to question the
suspects and return them to
Reidsville.
The police chief said he was
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Affirmation Motorcade
Gerit Gustafson (1), one of the leaders in the “Affirmation: Viet Nam” project
here, checks with Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert about a motorcade. It will form at Grif
fin High School Feb. 12 at 11 a. m. and {O to Atlanta stadium. Sheriff Gilbert
will lead the Griffin delegation. Dean Rusk will be the featured speaker at the «•
mass rally called to demonstrate support of the U. S. commitment in Viet Nam.
The Griffin student leaders have asked Griffinites to join them in the motorcade.
The stadium program will begin at 1 o’clock.
133 Feared Dead *
In Crash i
By KIM WILLENSON
United Press International
TOKYO (UPI) —An All
Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet
airliner with 133 persons aboard
crashed into Tokyo Bay tonight
only four minutes from a
landing in perfect weather. All
aboard were feared dead in the
worst single airplane disaster
in history.
The plane carrying 126
passengers from a northern
Japan snow festival and a crew
085 of 7 fell into the bay seven
miles from Tokyo as the
veteran World War n pilot was
circling for a routine landing.
A search boat of the
Maritime Safety Agency sight
ed several chairs and articles
of clothing floating in the water
at 11:40 p :n. (9:40 a.m. EST)
and they were identified as
Liquor Ad Bill May
Be Timber ‘Wedge*
ATLANTA (UPI) — A rural
faction today planned to
use a Senate-passed bill out
liquor advertisements in
Georgia as a lever to pass a
tax-exemption measure,
a spokesman said.
Rep. Sid Lowrey of Rome
said he will sponsor the liquor
ad bill in the House to force
urban members to give at least
help needed to get the tim
ber tax measure on the floor
debate.
A Senate - passed resolution
called for a constitutional
amendment to allow a special
classification for timber
was sent back to the House
and Means Committee
A public hearing is
coming from the missing
plane. Search ships operating
with spotlights and an occasion
al flare from American planes
overhead converged on the
scene southeast of Tokyo and
found the wing of the plane
floating in the water where a
light mist hovered Just above
the surface.
At 11:50 p.m., the agency
said its search boat spotted the
floating body of a man and a
book explaining how to use
lifesaving equipment aboard
the plane.
It was the fourth fatal crash
of a Boeing 727 three-jet
airliner within a year and
already Japanese officials were
reported raising questions
about the safety of the sleek
craft in widespread use on
airlines in the United States.
scheduled Tuesday.
The liquor bill would outlaw
advertising of alcoholic bever
ages in Georgia except in news
papers and magazines pub
lished outside the state. Such a
measure could cause a dent in
advertising revenue of news
papers and broadcasting media.
Lowrey charged some news
papers have presented a dis
torted picture of the timber
tax proposal by claiming it
would increase taxes for home
owner£.
Lowrey said if urban law
makers at least allow the tim
ber tax measure on the floor
for debate, he and his backers
would not push the liquor ad
bill.
There was no clue as to what
happened. Fishermen had re
ported seeing a plane trailing
dense clouds of smoke and then
a ball of fire as the plane
apparently hit the waters of the
bay. But the pilot had given no
indication of possible trouble.
Sgt Winzell %
Returns To
War And Orphans
S-Sgt. James Winzell of Grlf-1
fin left Thursday to return to
his fighting unit in Viet Nam. t>
He hopes the clothing and soap ■<
Griffinites donated to some Viet i
Nam orphans will be in that 1
country when he gets there so | ■
he can help with its distribution.
When the Griffin sergeant was
home cause of on a emergency death in the leave family, be-1 i
he orphans. asked The Griffinites 60 youngsters to help the |
were
found search when and destroy his unit mission was on a f
in
Viet Nam.
Griffinites responded so gen
erously that the sergeant was
faced with the problem of get
ting the soap and clothing to "*i
Viet Nam.
Juvenile Probation Officer Ed
Crawford along with Rep. Quim- j
by Melton, Jr., and Rep. Geor
ge Gaissert of Spalding County
went to Gov. Can Sanders about
the matter. They asked the help
of the Georgia Air National
Guard flying the goods to Viet
Nam.
The governor set the wheels
in motion to get the flight ar
ranged.
As soon a? a tonage clearance
is issued in W^-bington, the
Guard will be ready to fly t h e
goods to the battle tom country.