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By Qulmby Melton
Opening paragraphs of Page
One story in Atlanta Journal:
“Dr. T. J. J. Altizer, the 38
year-old Emory professor of Bi
ble and religion, was dressed In
a camel - colored coat and dark
pants, with hair in wild disorder,
as he defended his ‘God is
dead’ theory before 1,000 peo
ple Monday night.
“His opponent at the Emory de
bate was Dr. Mack B. Stokes,
64, associate dean of the Can
■ dler School of Theology. Dr. Sto
kes, who supported the orthodox
Christian view of God, wore a
conservative blue suit and dark
tie.”
(Dr. Mack Stokes some years
ago was supply pastor of the Fir
st Methodist Church here in Gr
iffin following the death of the
pastor, the Rev. Mack Elrod.)
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We’d like to ask Dr. T. J. J.
Altizer these questions:
Who art thou man? to say
• “God is Dead!”
When all round you the hosts
of Heaven and Earth
Sing, night and day, “He lives,
He Lives.”
Who art thou man? To say
“God is Dead!”
When all round you live those
who know,
Not just believe — He lives in
all His Glory, Might and Power.
Who art thou man? To say
“God Is Dead”!
When the heavens declare the
glory of God,
Today, Tomorrow and Always.
Who Art Thou Man? To say,
“God Is Dead”!
When there are those to testi
fy He lives
Since it was He who wiped
away their tears
And gave them strength to
face the future unafraid.
Who Art Thou Man? To say,
“God Is Dead”!
Hath “too much learning made
thee mad”?
Hath thou forgotten lessons
learned at sainted Mother’s
knee?
Who Art Thou Man? To Say,
“God Is Dead”!
Have you ever waited on the
battlefield for morn to come,
fearful of what might happen
when daylight breaks?
And have Him say “Fear not,
lo I am with you always”. i
Who art thou man? To say
“God Is Dead” I
Have doubts and fears, hath
Satan’s wiles
Led thee astray?
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If God be not alive, then never
was there God;
If God be not alive, then those
who believe and hope and strive
to please God, and pray Him for
forgiveness are wasting their
time following a ghost of one
who never lived.
Twenty-two years ago my fa
ther died. (He was a professor
at Emory for 20 years and had
as many degrees as the Emory
professor who says “God Is
Dead”.) As death came near he
took my hand and whispered in
clear sweet words:
“I know not where God’s Is
lands
Lift their fronded palms In air,
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.”
All the theologians in the world
will never convince this layman
my father referred to a God that
is dead.
May I suggest to the man who
proclaims “God Is Dead” that
he join me in a sincere prayer
“God Be Merciful to Me, a Sin
ner.”
Country Parson
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protected by those who
gave birth to them no mat
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She’ll Be 100 Friday
Mrs. Lillie Crawford Lynch of Digby community will celebrate her 100th birth
day Friday in the house she has made her home since she began housekeeping
as a bride of 17. She flashed this big birthday smile and put on her favorite red
bonnet for the Griffin Daily News camera to commemorate the event.
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Walker Heads
United Fund
Organization
J. Henry Walker III, an offic
ial of Dundee Mills, was elected
president of the United Fund for
1966 at the board of directors
meeting Wednesday.
He succeeded George Patrick,
Jr., school superintendent, who
headed the organization last
year.
Other officers elected were:
E. E. Millican, Jr., treasurer;
and Ray E. Brokaw, secretary.
Members of the board who
will serve this year include: Bill
Cody, David Elder, Kimsey Ste
wart, Mattie Myrle Statham,
Henry Walker, Bill Shapard, Fr
ank Jolly, George Patrick, Jr.,
J. T. Doughtie, J. H. Cheatham,
Jr., Bill Ramsey and E. E. Millt
can.
Chairman and co-chairman of
the 1966 campaign will be elect
ed to plan the solicitation pro
gram.
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Hospital. Page 2.
State News. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
TV Schedules. Page 4.
College News. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Bird Dog Patrol. Page 7.
Washington Window. Page 7.
School Columns. Page 9.
US Carrier. Page 10.
Dr. Brandstadt Page 11.
War Against Crime. Page 12.
Toward The Stars. Page 12.
Mature Parent. Page 13
Jobless Problem. Page 13
Billy Rose Dead. Page 14
John Wayne. Page 14.
Old Scouts. Page 15.
Humphrey Arrives. Page 15.
Sophie Tucker Dead. Page 16.
Legislature. Page 16.
Comics. Page 17.
Want Ads. Pages 18, 19.
Atlanta Slums. Page 20.
Commentary. Page 20.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Increasing showers
and possibly a few thunder
storms tonight and Friday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
49, maximum Wednesday 58,
minimum Wednesday 47. Sunrise
Friday 7:25 a.m., sunset Friday
6 :19 p.m.
GRIFFIN
DAILY W NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Go., 30223, Thursday, February 10, 1966 Vol. 95 No. 33
House
Okays
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
House Judiciary Committee in
quick action Wednesday approv
ed a bill to take legislators off
their present $50 - per - day pay
and give them $4,200 annual
salaries.
While this would raise their
base pay it was believed it
would save the state money in
the long run by depriving the
lawmakers of extra pay for in
terim committee work, except
for expenses.
Some members who devote
much time to interim work now
draw up to $9,000 or $10,000 a
year.
The bill itself was the product
of a study committee, but its
members were citizens who
drew no pay except expenses.
There were no legislators on
the committee.
Lovell Warns Of
‘Political Grave’
ATLANTA (UPI)—State Dem
ocratic Party leaders were
warned Wednesday that a re
cent reorganization may have
been a step toward the political
grave.
“This will be like a cancer.
It’s eating now,” said State
Rep. Fulton Lovell of Clayton
County.
Lovell and other 9th District
politicians met with Democratic
Executive Director Travis Stew
art and National Committee
man William Trotter to protest
the change.
Stewart and Trotter contend
ed the rules changes adopted
last December by the executive
committee would make the par
ty “more democratic” and were
not designed to “purge” any
one.
There were accusations the
reorganization was to weed out
“Goldwater Democrats” and
would move the party “farther
away” from the people.
“This will hurt the Democrat
ic party worse than Goldwa
ter,” said Rep. W. M. Williams
of Gainesville.
The new rules, which take ef
fect next September, provide
for this makeup of party ma
chinery:
County executive committees,
now elected in primaries, will
Bill
The measure would not affect
the pay of any of the lawmak
ers voting on it unless they are
re-elected. It would go into ef
feet on Jan. 1, 1967.
The House Indutsry Com
mittee killed a bill that would
outlaw the use of trading
stamps in the state.
Rep. Jimmy NeSmith of Man
Chester, wh 0 introduced the bill,
said he had been “misled” and
asked the committee not to ap
prove it.
He said he had been told that
only 5 to 10 per cent of the
trading stamps given away
with purchased merchandise
are redeemed by customers but
later learned it was the other
way around.
NeSmith apologized for mak
ing an “error” in introducing
the bill.
be selected by this method —
Democratic “courthouse offi
cials” automatically become
members and they will name
an equal number of other mem
bers. This group will nominate
20 more from which the state
chairman will make an undeter
mined number of adidtional ap
pointees.
District committees, a new
group, will be named by the
county committees.
Peach Outlook Still
Good, Expert Says
Georgia still has a peach crop
so far, according to Dr. E. F.
Savage of the Georgia Experi
ment Station.
The peach expert who return
ed today from the National Pea
ch Council meeting in Charlotte
said that this area of the state
had lost the Keystone early var
iety of peaches during the sev
ere cold weather.
But he said the outlook for oth-
County Areas k
J 1 i re Rezoned
Petition From
Sunny Side Okayed
The Spalding County Commis
sioners Wednesday rezoned
three sections of the county at
a hearing at the courthouse.
Two of the sections were re
zoned from M-l (agricultural)
to R-2 (residential) and one was
zoned from R-2 to C-l (commer
cial).
One of the sections rezoned
from M-l to R-2 was the contro
versial area in Sunny Side
where a dispute boiled for sever
al months over the location of a
trailer court.
The rezoning in the area chan
ges it from agricultural to resi
dential which will limit building
in the area to single and two
family homes.
The rezoning hearing Wednes
day afternoon on the Sunny Side
property was the result of a pet
ition signed by approximately 90
members of the community. The
petition was presented to the
Spalding County Commission
ers in July.
The area affected by the re
zoning includes that west of the
Central of Georgia railroad and
another area to the east of the
railroad. The area to the west
includes properties from a line
just south of the dam to Twil
ley’s Lake to 500 feet north of
Malier’s Mill road and west to
the Union-Africa Militia District
line.
An area 500 feet wide on each
side of the expressway was zoned
for commercial. Hie area was
extended on the east side of the
expressway to the railroad.
The area to the east of the
railroad includes properties
bounded by a land lot line near
Slaughter road on the north, a
line with the railroad crossing
south of Sunny Side near Min
ter road and extending approxl
lna tely 3,000 feet to the east.
Russell Smith, J. D. Gilmer
and ® en t°n Boynton appeared
at 01,5 hearing to support the
rezoning. N 0 one appeared op
P° sln 5 the move,
Griffin Attorney Barron Cum
ming also was at the hearing.
He sald he is interested in a
tract of Property near the area
P ein S rezoned,
Bart Searcy ni and Jimmy
Murray, Griffin realtors, appear
ed t0 support rezoning of an
area off West McIntosh road for
the location of a proposed drive
* n theater,
The property north of Mcln
tosh road measures 550 feet by
390 feet. Searcy and Murray
said the rezoning would square
the area with property now zon
ed commercial in the city limits.
The commissioners also rezon
ed a tract of land on Carver
road and an area where the
Griffln-Barnesville By-Pass will
be located.
An area 500 feet on each side
of the by-pass will be zoned com
mercial. The other area was re
zoned from M-l to R-2.
The area changed from agri
cultural to residential is bound
ed on the south by County Line
road and on the north by Lenox
road and O’Dell road. The area
extends approximat ly 3,000 feet
west of Carver road.
No one appeared at the hear
ing to support or oppose the re
zoning of the area on Carver
road.
Commissioners Jack Moss
and Zach Wilson were present
f 0 r the hearing. Commission
chairman David Elder was out
er varities here and over the
state is good at this time.
The kill percentage ranged
between five and 25 percent dur
ing the cold, Dr. Savage estima
ted.
He said there may be some
tree damage also.
Elberta and Dixie Red varie
ties still are in good shape for
the year, Dr. Savage said.
of town. Also attending the hear
ing was Thomas Lane who ser
ves as clerk of the commission.
Real Life
Court
Drama
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press International
MIAMI (UPI) —The scene is
a courtroom. Elegant, as
courtrooms go, heavily carved
wooden beams overhead and
ceiling-high burgundy drapes
covering the huge windows
along one wall.
The subject: Murder. Secon
dary theme: Incest. Time:
Late Wednesday.
The Mossier murder trial is
in its 18th day. Present are
pale-strawblonde Candace Moss
ier, the aunt, and strapping,
hulking Melvin Powers, her
nephew. The state alleges they
were lovers and that they killed
her husband Jacques, a million
aire, June 30, 1964, because he
was interfering with their
affair.
On the stand: Earl C. Martin,
34, of Houston, a Negro
handyman who worked for
Powers in 1963 in Webster,
Tex., at Powers’ trailer sales
office. Martin’s tan shirt is
open at the neck under his
brown suit; he talks high
pitched, sometimes mumbling.
He has a story to tell as a state
witness . . .
“Miz Mossier come out in a
blue Lincoln Continental ... I
saw Mr. Powers ar.. Miz Candy
sitting out there in the Lincoln
kissin’ and huggin' . . .
“One morning I come to
work and the lights was off and
he (Powers) got there, and I
told him. The bill was pretty
high. Then, we were running
short of money. I asked him
how we was going to get the
light back on, and he asked me
. . . (here Martin describes an
unconventional sex act with a
woman) ... so we left, and the
next morning the lights was on.
“I asked him did he do it. He
said, yes, he did and I told him
I didn’t believe it. So he said.
‘I’ll call and show you.’
.
Mrs. Mossier answered the
phone . . . I picked up the other
line . . II
Did Powers know he was
listening? “Yes, sir, he did it so
he could prove what he do.”
At this point, Martin says,
the conversation proved it, and:
“We started to laugh and she
said, ‘who is that on the line?’
He said, ‘Nobody.’ She said,
‘don’t lie to me, baby’.”
MASCULINE AFFRONT
ABERTILLERY, England
(UPI) —About 130 garbagemen
and gravediggers have been on
strike for a week. They staged
the walkout because a foreman
allegedly swore at them in the
presence of women.
OBJECT LESSON
LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) —The
featured movie at the state
penitentiary this weekend:
“Young Dillinger.”
Coronet may be a little loW,
he added.
People in the Ft. Valley area
are optimistic about a good crop
this year, the Griffin horticul
ture expert said.
He said that the peach grow
ers in Georgia near the Florida
line are beaming with the pros
pect of an excellent crop this
year.
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Frank Thomas (1) talks with McLean Tippins about
the “Affirmation: Viet Nam” rally to be held at
Atlanta stadium Saturday.
C Of € Head Backs
Affirmation Rally
Griffin - Spalding County
Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent Frank A. Thomas today
presented McLean Tippins a
statement supporting “Affirma
tion: Viet Nam.”
Thomas said the “Affirmation:
Viet Nam” rally to be held Sat
urday at the Atlanta Stadium
“is an expression of confidence
in our country.”
Thomas said he had visited
Russia, Poland and other coun
tries and that none of the com
munist countries could match
the American free enterprise sy
stem.
The rally will be held Satur
day at 1 p.m. at the stadium.
The Griffin motorcade will as
semble Saturday morning at 11
o’clock. It will be led by Spal
ding County Sheriff Dwayne Gil
bert.
Tippins said adults were being
urged to join the youth in the
community in showing their sup
port to the lighting men in Viet
Nam.
The text of Thomas’ statement
follows:
“To the members of the Cham
ber of Commerce and the other
citizens of our community.
‘"Ittie Viet Nam Affirmation
Motorcade presents an excellent
opportunity to show our youth
that we support them in worth
while endeavors. This Is an ex
pression of confidence in our
Country, In our free enterprise
system, of the right of the peo
ple to choose their form of gov
ernment.
“I realize that there are those
who disagree with our govern
ment’s approach to the solution
of some problems, but we, as
Americans, have methods of ad
vising our representatives when
we either agree, or disagree,
with our government’s policies.
Under Communism there would
be no such freedom. In fact, so
much of the freedom which we,
as Americans enjoy, is based
on our Free Enterprise ystem.
“These young people — who
are working so hard to make
this expression of confidence
in our government’s committ
ment to offset the damage to the
morale of our boys who are fight
ing over there, to reiterate their
faith In this Great Country of
ours-deserve our support. These
young people axe our leaders of
tomorrow. May I urge you to en
courage them by your support."
Empty Building
Damaged In
Atlanta Fire
ATLANTA (UPI) — A three
alarm fire in downtown Atlanta
early today heavily damaged
an unoccupied building on
Whitehall Street, and investigat
ors indicated they suspected ar
son.
The fire broke out in an old
dairy company structure but
firemen had it under control
before it could spread. There
were no injuries and no immed
iate estimate of damage.
Fire department investigators
searched for signs of arson.
One investigator commented:
“It looks like a suspicious fire.”
Small Car Tags
Run Short Here
Small car owners in Griffin
and Spalding County will have
to be patient to get their license
tags for 1966.
Ordinary George C. Imes, Jr.
said Wednesday that his office
is temporarily out of the “D”
series tags, but is expecting
shipment shortly.
Imes said the supply of tags in
the other series Is holding up.
He said 1,000 of the tags for
small cars had been sold and
about another 1,000 to 1,500 will
be needed.
The “D” series tags sell for
$5 each and are for cars lighter
than 2,500 pounds.
BARELY SCRATCHED
ROSCOE, Ill. (UPI) —Donald
hurt one of his fingers
when a freight train
ran over It. His car was
by the train at a
crossing. He Jumped
the vehicle first, but a
of a freight car caught
finger as he rolled from the
Doctors said the finger
squashed, but not per
damaged.