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By Quimby Melton
“Man Is A Sinner” Is the topic
of this week’s International Sun
day School lesson. It is the se
cond in a series on the general
theme “Man In God’s Purpose.”
The background Scripture is
Genesis 3:1-13; Romans 1:18
through 2:11; Mark 7:14-23; and
1 John 1:5-10. The Memory Sel
ection is “If thou LORD, should
est mark iniquities, O Lord, who
shall stand? But there is for
giveness with thee, that thou
mayest be feared.” (Psalms
130:3-4.)
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Since the day when Adam and
Eve committed the first sin, dis
obedience of God, right down to
the present and on into the fut
ure, all men have been and will
continue to be sinners; all but
one man — Jesus Christ, who
when He came to earth and took
the form of man though tempted
Just as are people today, remain
ed spotless and without sin; for
He was God in human form.
Sin corrupts life, but God has
provided cleansing power to
wipe away sins of all who hon
estly profess their sins, repent
•of their sins and “throw them
selves on the mercy” of G 0 d
Almighty.
That all men are sinners is a
fact, not merely a theological
assumption. In I John 1:8, we
read “If we say that we have
no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us.” Then
in the very next verse we read,
“If we confess our sins, he (God)
is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.”
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Some years ago when Good
Evening was teaching the Men’s
Bible Class of his Sunday School,
and the lesson was on the Ten
Commandments ,he told the
class, “There is not a man in
this class who has not broken
1 the Ten Commandments. And,
since we are told in the Bible
that if one breaks one of the
Commandments one is guilty
of breaking them all, everyone
of us has broken every one of
those commandments of God
Almighty.”
When we made that bold state
ment, noticed that some of t h e
older men were startled, and
after the class one of them chal
lenged our statement. “Y o u
may have broken the command
ments, but I have never broken
one of them,” he said. “I have
not committed murder, I have
never stolen anything, I’ve ne
ver lied, and I have always ho
nored my father and mother.”
We then asked him “Can you
say that you have never looked
at a woman with lust?” He tur
ned red and stomped away.
In that same lesson we remem
ber adding, “but regardless of
how many of the command
■ ments, we have ever broken
and regardless or how many
times we have broken them, re
member “God so loved the world
that He sent His Only Begotten
Son” to bring all the good news
that by His death on the Cross
he had wiped away all sin, of all
men who honestly repent and try
to live their lives patterned af
ter His teachings.
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This lesson tells us that the
sins of man originate from with
in the man, “out of the heart of
man.” It also tells us very em
phatically that all men are sin
ners, that no man can “earn”
salvation ,but thank God, God
can and wants to provide salva
tion for all.
If one does not believe that the
world is full of sin all one has to
do is to look at his daily news
paper. Crimes, corruption run
rampant. And while the sins of
today seem, in many instances,
more revolting than ever, still
sin always has existed and al
ways will, for man in frail and
too easily yields to temptation.
Many years ago Good Even
ing heard of a Sunday School
teacher who was a prominent
physician. One day, the story
went, he, in discussing the Ten
Commandments “diagnosed”
what he called “the greatest
disease of mankind” — Sin. Then
he gave a prescription for this
sickness. He took that prescrip
tion from the Holy Bible and
said man would recover from
this disease (sin) if he:
Loved the Lord with all his
might and his neighbor as him
self.
GRIFFIN
DAILY
Established 1871
INSIDE
Sports. Page 2.
News Quiz. Page 3.
Ray Cromley. Page 3.
Lyle Wilson. Page 3
Editorials. Page 4.
T Schedules. Page 4.
Dateline Georgia. Page 5.
Ellavllle Trial. Page 5.
Mossier Trial. Page 5.
Hospital. Page 6.
Stork Club. Page 6.
Salvation Army. Page 6.
Carnegie Sing. Page 6.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 7.
Lockheed Plane. Page 7.
Draft Fight. Page 8.
Flu On Coasts. Page 8.
Bruce Biossat. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Want Ads. Pages 10, 11.
Society. Page 12.
Salary Hike
Bills Okayed
Two local bills, raising the
base salary of county and city
officials, have passed the Geor
gia House and Senate and are
awaiting the signature of Gov.
Carl Sanders.
One bill approves salary ad
justments for Spalding’s elected
officials.
Offices affected by the legisla
tion are coroner, county commis
sioner, sheriff, tax commission
er, ordinary and clerk of court.
The other bill combines the
base salary and expenses of city
commissioners.
Man, Wife Hie In
A man and his wife were
ed in an automobile
one-tenth of a mile west of
nesville Thursday, according
the Griffin State Patrol Post.
The dead were identified
troopers as Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Belcher of Auburn, Ala. Mr.
cher was 69 and his wife,
trude, was 65.
The accident occurred at
intersection of U. S. 341 and
orgia, 36 just outside the
ville city limits.
Mr. Belcher was driving one
the cars involved. The other
driven by Carl Edward Edward
son of Toledo, Ohio. Damage was
estimated $1,900.
Mr. and Mrs. Belcher were
their way from Auburn to
Mrs. Belcher’s siser in
th. The sister was not identified.
Trooper R. T. Ray investigat
ed the mishaps.
No one was injured in an acci
dent eight-tenths of a mile north
of Griffin on North Hill at Kath
ryn road.
Drivers of cars involved were
listed as Thomas Polk Reese of
College Park and Billy Gibson
of Route Four, Griffin.
C. L. and
$mW) Ring
Thief Not Batman <99
Didn’t Have
TORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
(UPI) —It was easy to tell It
wasn’t the “real Batman” that
stole a $100,000 diamond ring
from Mrs. Cantor, police Lt.
William McCutcheon said. ‘‘He
wasn’t wearing a cape.”
Mrs. Samuel Cantor, 60, also
knew it wasn’t the real Batman
that held a “big black gun” on
her in a restaurant parking lot
at 6:15 p.m. Thursday and
snatched a 15-carat blue-white
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“With heaven so praised
and the world so criticized,
it’s a wonder more folks
aren’t in a hurry to make
the move.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, February 18, 1966
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photos.) Tony Sharp (I) and Skip Kelley were first place James Black (r) and Bill Butler first place
Bea Finleyson (r) holds up a surgical bottle used in winners in the physical science division of the Spald- were
her project in the Spalding Junior High Science ing Junior High Science winners in the biological science division. Black’s
Fair. Her project of simulated Fair. Both of the students project was about watar. Many of the projects at
a artificial kidney entered projects on electronics. The first, second the fair were concerned with the growth of plants
won a first place in the biological science division. third place winners in the fair will participate in the and their construction. Several projects concerned
Standing with her is Ellen Sams who also was a District Science Fair to be held at the Spalding the effects of different substances white mice.
winner in the biological science division. Junior High gymnasium March 12. on
on First place winner was Debbie Stelzner.
Trooper J. T. King estimated
damage to the two cars at $250.
Smalley Opposed
Salary Measure
ATLANTA Sen. Robert
Smalley of Griffin today voted
against a measure that gives
legislators a $4,200 yearly salary
and $25 per day expenses dur
ing the general assembly ses
sions.
The measure passed in the
Senate 35-15. The senate put one
amendment on the House-pass
ed bill. It went to conference
committee.
Sen. Smalley said he favored
a revision of the legislative com
pensation system and opposed
the per diem pay basis used un
til now. However, he said he
thought the measure passed in
the Senate and House was too
much and cast his vote against
it.
The bill had been opposed in
the House by Spalding Rep. Qu
imby Melton, Jr., and Rep. Ge-
diamond ring from her finger.
“He called me by name,” she
said.
The bandit looked like the
Batman, though.
He was wearing a Batman
type mask, a tight black shirt
and tight black pants. He also
had a big black gun and
escaped in a speedy black car,
which turned out to have been
stolen just hours before the
robbery.
"The guy sure had a lot of
guts, like Batman,” added
McCutcheon.
Mrs. Cantor told police the
bandit approached her and her
husband in the parking lot,
pulled the gun, and said: “Mrs.
Cantor. I want that ring.”
“He ordered us to get into
our car and said that “if you
make a move, I’ll kill you’, she
said.
Then he snatched the ring
from her finger, leaped into his
car, roared out of the lot and
vanished in traffic. Police found
the car abandoned several
blocks away.
"He was wearing gloves and
didn’t leave any fingerprints,”
McCutcheon said. “We tried to
make a composite picture of
him, but that mask made lt a
bit difficult.
“But the guy made a mistake
by calling Mrs. Cantor by
name. ‘We’ll get him.’*
Wait Till Next Year 9
Library Board Asked
Commissioners Say
Issue Wouldn’t Pass
Spalding County
ers today asked directors of the
public library here to wait until
next year to seek a bond issue
for a new library.
The commissioners told the
board they did not believe any
type of bond issue would pass
this year.
They said people in Griffin and
Spalding County are unsettled
as to what will happen when the
tax revaluation program is put
into effect this year.
The commissioners said they
do not believe voters will ap
prove any type of bond issue un
til the find out how the revalua
tion program will affect their
tax bills.
Members of the library board
disagreed. They said that the
need for adequate library facili
ties to serve this communiy is
now and that providing them
should not be delayed.
However, after a discussion
with the commissioners, the bo
ard accepted the offer to try
for a bond issue in 1967.
The library board met with the
commissioners this morning in
the courthouse to discuss their
request for a bond issue of over
a half million dollars. They
made the request at the Novem
ber meeting and asked for the
session with the commissioners
to discuss the matter again this
morning.
David Elder, chairman of the
commissioners, pointed out that
the county is facing several pro
jects that will require large ex
penditures of money.
He said that the present board
of commissioners feels that top
priority should go to bond mo
ney for water lines in the coun
ty.
Mr. Elder also noted that
there may be a request for a
hospital bond issue. He said that
when Medicare goes into effect
in July, more people may be put
in the hospital under the pro
gram.
If the number of patients in
creases as expected, then an ad
dition to the Griffin - Spalding
Hospital will have to be consid
ered, the chairman said.
He also noted there was consi
derable enthusiasm for locating
a junior college in this county.
This also would require more
bond money, Chairman Elder
said.
Mr. Elder said that the county
has about a million and a half
dollars bonding capacity left. He
said that the county would pay
in 1966 $100,000 on its bonded in
debtedness. The county’s total
bond debt at present is $1,821,000
the chairman said.
Dr. John Clouse, chairman of
the library board, said that the
need for new library facilities is
now.
Even if the present building
were repaired it would provide
only a fourth of the space need
ed to serve the community, he
said.
Bob Dixon, a member of the
library board, said that people
he had talked to about a bond
issue for a library had indicat
ed they would support one.
Commissioner Jack Moss said
that people who had talked to
told him they would not support
it.
Commissioner Z .L. Wilson ex
pressed sympahy for the library
board’s problem. He said he had
always supported bond issues
for the county but added that
“the commissioners are on a
hot spot, too.”
Chairman Elder said that the
board of commissioners realized
that a new library is needed for
the community and was in sym
pathy with what he library bo
ard was trying to provide the
community in the way of library
services.
But he asked that the board
bear with the commissioners and
wait a little while before asking
for the bond issue.
On hand to discuss the project
with the commissioners this mor
ning were Chairman Clouse, J.
H. Cheatham, Jr., Jerry Bilbro,
Lewis Thomas, Bob Smith, lib
rary direcor; Bob Dixon, Mrs.
Edna Olson, George Patrick, Jr.,
and Mrs. Will Hill Newton HI.
Weathers
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and cool
tonight and Saturday, occasional
light rain Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 4(, low today 38, high
Thursday 56, low Thursday 37;
sunrise Saturday 7;l7, sunset
Saturday 6:26.
Vol. 95 No. 40
Senate Backs Angry
Sanders On Ga
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Geor
gia Senate today backed up an
angry Gov. Carl Sanders and
rejected the watered down
House version of an anti-gambl
ing package on the last day of
the 1966 General Assembly ses
sion.
The Senate voted 35-8 to In
sist on its version — the one
wanted by Sanders — to make
possession of a federal gambl
ing tax stamp evidence in it
self that a person violated
Georgia’s gambling laws.
The House exempted slot ma
chines and pinball machines,
and Sanders angrily charged
this took the teeth out of the
measures.
Sanders called a news confer
ence Thursday immediately aft
er the House action, demanding
a re-vote. But his leaders today
decided against that in fear the
entire bill would be defeated.
The fight between the two
chambers places the fate of the
bill in the hands of a confer
ence committee which will try
to work out a compromise.
Foes of the bill were mount
ing a campaign to block the
Senate version. They said they
thought the measure would be
unconstitutional.
Rep. Johnny Caldwell of Up
son County opened the attack
on the House floor by moving
for a re-vote at the end of the
long calendar. It would have
been difficult to consider the
bill before the session officially
ends at midnight. Caldwell’s
move was defeated 125-17.
The House, in a quickie voice
vote, passed the weaker bill
which was proposed by Rep.
Glenn Thomas Jr. of Jesup. It
would simply provide that
stamp issues for slot machine
operators be called to the at
tention of local authorities for
prosecution.
Sanders, in a news confer
ence called after the House
vote, said there would be no
more voice votes if his floor
leaders could help it, only roll
votes.
He also said, “We’re going to
resist any amendment
would destroy this bill and
nure to the benefit of slot
chine and other operators
this state. I call on all the
ple of Georgia today as well
the members of the
Assembly to help us p»-s
legislation and demonstrate
once and for all that we
not tolerate organized
ing.”
Thomas, in debating his
stitute on the House floor,
he wanted to insure the
ure’s constitutionality and
broaden it to include
machines.
The quick vote on the
Second Mortgage
Bill Approved
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Carl
Sanders today receives a bill
aimed at curbing loan sharks in
the second mortgage industry
who charge usurious interest
rates.
The General Assembly passed
the bill Thursday, ending a bit
ter four-day battle which pro
ponents said pitted the interests
of the “little people” against
those of unscrupulous members
of the second mortgage Indus
try.
The bill survived three at
tempts to kill it in the Senate
Rules Committee. The Senate
version of the measure passed
the full Senate 37-2. The bill
was then returned to the House
where it won 143-0 approval.
Another House-passed bill, an
- pay-for women proposal"
was passed by 48-0 Senate vote
while attractive female lobby
ists, speaking for the women of
Georgia, looked on approvingly,
Sen. Joe Salome of Atlanta,
who led the fight against the
bill, was defeated on
attempts to amend the measure
extend its 6 per cent limit
interest to all types of loans
credit transactions.
Besides the limit on interest
the bill would limit the
ing bill came during a long
and full House day, during
which House members passed
32 bills—an eight year record
for the number of bills passed
in one day.
Other controversial bills
passed Thursday included a
measure to allow cities in wet
counties to vote themselves dry,
and to require that all private
banks submit to regulation by
1968.
The liquor bill will be recon
sidered today also. House at
torneys pointed out that it
would also permit cities in dry
counties to vote themselves wet.
extra charges on mortgage
loans to 10 per cent..
After senators turned back
Salome’s frontal assault on the
measure, they approved anoth
er amendment of his which
would set the effective date of
the bill at four months after lt
is signed into law by the gov
ernor.
But it was discovered later
that the approved amendment
was to the original House bill,
sponsored by Rep. Milton Jones
of Columbus, and not to the
substitute. The amendment was
declared invalid,
The equal pay bill provides
that women doing work comp
arable to that done by men be
given equal pay. The bill sup
Piles legal remedies for dis
crimination on account of sex
and an employer who violated
lb® act would have to pay the
employe the affected amount in
unpaid wages and would be
subject to a $100 fine,
The Senate defeated a bill de
to give youthful offend
ers a chance to go through life
a criminal record. The
by Rep. Bill Alexander of
was filled by a 23-15
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