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By Quimby Melton
This week ths International
Sunday School lesson is “Living
With Others”. This is the fifth
lesson in the series on “God’s
Purpose for Man.”
The background Scripture is
from Romans 12:3-21; 13:8-10;
Ephesians 4:25-32; 1 Peter 4:7-
11; 1 John 4:7-21; and James 2-
17. The Memory Selection is
“Let love be without dissimula
tion. Abhor that which is evil;
Cleave to that which is good. Be
kirdly affectionate one to anoth
er with brotherly love; in honor
preferring one another. (Rom
ans 12:9-10.)
First let’s realize that no man
lives alone. And with modern
communications and modern
mode of travel, one’s “neigh
bors” can be thousands of miles
away. So how we feel about oth
ers and how we treat others con
, cerns not only those in our own
community, those of our “kith
and kin” but every person who
lives in our day and time.
Man has lived as a social
creature since the day of t h e
creation. In Genesis we are
told that after God had made
Adam, He said “It is not good
that man should be alone; I will
make him a helper for him.”
And God made Eve.
Centuries later Jesus Christ
combined two O’ ‘ Testament
teachings into what we know as
the Great Commandment. He
taught “You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul and with
all your might,” as found in
Deuteronomy 6:5 joining it with
“You shall love thy neighbor
as thyself,” found in Liviticus
19:18. Then when He gave this
Great Commandment He explai
ned just who one’s neighbor
was and is today. (In preparing
this lesson turn to the story of
the Good Samaritan and ask
if you ever pass on the other side
of the road,” closing your eyes
to the needs of others.
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In that part of the printed Sc
ripture lesson Ephesians 4:25-
32, we learn that one of the first
things one should do is “spread
the truth” so that others may,
know the greatness and the com
passion and the wisdom and po
wer of the “Ever Living God.”
One of the greatest sins of whi
ch one may be guilty is failing
to carry the “good news” of Je
sus death on the cross as t h e
supreme sacrifice sufficient for
the forgiveness of the sins of
man. The Christian religion is
certainly not a selfish religion,
but is one that all should not
only be willing but anxious to
share with all others.
There is no man living but who
is the child of God. Maybe a
wayward son, maybe a disobe
dient son, but not beyond forgi
veness and salvation.
There’s a verse in this lesson
which is of interest to this lay
man. Paul in hi s letter to the
i Ephesians wrote “Be ye angry,”
recognizing that to become an
gry is not in itself a sin, but that
the sin is not to forgive. “L e t
not the sun go down on y o ur
wrath.” When one forgives, and
we are told to forgive not seven
times but seven times seventy.
Then later we find Paul telling
them “Let all bitterness, and
wrath and anger, . and evil
. .
speaking, be put away from you
. • . and be ye kind one to anoth
er. . . forgiving one another,
■even as God for Christ’s sake
hath forgiven you.” If one is un
willing to forgive then how can
one expect God to forgive?
Sometimes it may be hard to
forgive — and forget — but if
one will just consider how many
times one has given God____ cause
to be angry with one then o n e
should be glad to forgive others.
Then James says very frank
ly that Just to forgive and do no
thing else is not sufficient, For
instance, if one sees another in
want “naked and destitute of
food,” and says to brother or
sister (not just blood relations)
“Depart in peace and be ye
warm and filled,” and let us stop
at that, then one falls far short
of treating others as Jesus
Christ would have them treated.
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One who is just concerned ab
out the plight of others and does
not do his or her part to reme
dy the condition, need not expect
God to be pay very much atten
tion to their plea to Him for
help.
One might well sum up the
whole teachings of this lesson by
remembering the Golden Rule—
“As ye would that that men
should do unto you, do ye also to
them.” (Luke 7:31.)
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GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Look’s Like Spring
Scenes such as this one are a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. F. L.
Kent (1) and Richard Green are shown talking and soaking up warm afternoon
sunhine on a park bench at Hill and Solomon streets. Spring will arrive in Grif
fin officially March 20, at 8:53 p. m.
‘Mrs. Griffin’
One of five finalists in the
“Mrs. Griffin” contest will be
crowned at the “Mrs. Griffin"
pageant to be held tonight at 8
o’clock at the Griffin auditorium.
Finalists in the contest are
Mrs. M. F. Dodgen of Hampton,
Mrs. James Dukes of Griffin,
Mrs. Durward Lee Foster of
Barnesville, Mrs. Clifford L.
McSwain of Thomaston and Mrs.
$1 Bill Passed
As $20 Bill Here
The Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department today issued an al
ert for store owners and opera
tors to be on the lookout for a
white woman and small boy who
are passing $1 bills altered to
look like $20’s.
Deputy Sheriff Gray Pinson
said the woman, about 25, and
the boy, about four, passed one
of the bills Thursday at Hand’s
Grocery at Bleachery and North
Ninth streets.
Pinson said the woman had
clipped the corners off the $1 bill
and had taped on the corners of
a $20 bill.
Deputy Pinson said the b i 11
had “One” all over it, but was
not noticed by the store owner.
He said all store owners in
the area should check all $20
bills coming into their stores to
make sure they have not had
the comers clipped.
Country Parson
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“I can put up with a fel
low who has too high an
opinion of himself — but
he must sometimes be a
disappointment to h i m
self ”
Griffin, Go., 30223, Friday, March 11, 1966
Graham Mitchell of Hampton.
This morning the ladies de
monstrated their homemaking
ability at the office of the At
lanta Gas Light Company on
West Taylor street. The ladles
brought with them to the gas
company this morning cake they
had baked at home and a dis
play of their sewing.
They cooked the main dish
for a meal and made a flower
arrangement also.
Jack Moore, administrator of
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital, will serve as master of
ceremonies. He will be assisted
by Mrs. Jack Landham, “Mrs.
Griffin of 1965.“
The finalists, their husbands
and the judges were honored by
Atlanta Gas Light Company at
a banquet Thursday night at
the Holiday Inn.
Winner of the “Mrs. Griffin”
contest tonight will* represent
the Griffin area in the “Mrs.
Georgia” contest to be held 16
Atlanta.
Griffin Kiwanis
Wins Top Award
The Griffin Kiwanis Club has
been declared winner of the Ac
hievement Award for 1965 in Ge
orgia in the Gold Division. This
division includes the largest
clubs in the state.
The award was made based
on activities of the club under
the presidency of Jack Smith,
county agent.
It will be presented to him of
ficially at the District Conven
tion in Augusta in September.
The award makes the Griffin
club eligible for national compe
tition. The Griffin club has won
the award in Georgia five times
since it has been in the gold
division.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair and warm
er tonight. Saturday increasing
cloudiness and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
39, maximum Thursday 62, min
imum Thursday 3l. Sunrise Sat
urday 6:52 a.m., sunset Satur
day 6:42 p.m.
Griffinite
Wounded In
Viet Action
Sergeant James A. Landers of
Griffin has been wounded in ac
tion in Viet Nam. He has been
presented a purple heart.
Sergeant Landers, a veteran
of 16 years with the U. S. Army,
was wounded on Jan. 25. H e suf
fered Injuries to his legs, arms
and face when a land mine ex
ploded.
He is at a hospital in Viet
Nam.
Sergeant Landers, who has
been in Viet Nam since Septem
ber 1965, is assigned to Company
B, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry,
1st Infantry Division.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Landers of Route Two, Re
hoboth road, Griffin.
Sergeant Landers and his wife,
Joyce, who lives at 130 Spalding
street, Griffin, ar e the parents
of two children, Debra Anne and
Greg.
Who Could
By TOM TIEDE
AN KHE, Viet Nam —(NEA)
—The news of Maggie’s death
shocked and saddened her
friends here in the First Caval
ry Division. And she had many,
GIs all, tough and hard, but
gentle when it came to her.
She had been through peace
and war with them.
On two continents.
At a dozen campsites.
Over land and water and half
way around the world.
What a gal she was, every Inch
a lady. A bit stubborn, admitted
ly. They think it was something
of a hereditary nature. But,
when it came to kicks, Maggie
had no equal in any of the ser
vices. 1
She was pals with the big and
the small, the brass and the
bumpkins. It made no difference
to her who they were as long as
they’d share their C rations and
scratch her flanks on the long
hot afternoons.
Indeed, wo could ever forget
her?
“What a glutton,” a guy will
joke.
“Yeah, she was getting fat
there toward the end.”
“But she was still beautiful.”
Green Berets Killed
500 Reds Before Fall
Two Regiments
Needed To
Overrun Camp
By MICHAEL T. MALLOY
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —The U.S
Special Forces and Vietnamese
mountain tribesmen at the A
Shau outpost killed an estimat
ed 500 Communist troops before
the camp fell under a two-day
onslaught by North Vietnamese
regulars, an American military
spokesman revealed today.
The spokesman also disclosed
it took two full regiments—
more than 5,000 troops—to
overrun the camp 375 miles
northeast of Saigon on the
Laotian border. The defenders
were a handful of the elite U.S.
“green beret” troops and
several hundred Montagnard
and Chinese Nung tribesmen—
about 380 men in all.
At least four of the Americans,
and possibly more, survived the
assault. U.S. Marine helicop
ters, flying toward the muzzles
of the North Vietnamese guns,
evacuated 69 defenders before
the camp was surrendered
Thursday.
Two ’Copters Downed
Two of the helicopters were
shot down and five of the eight
Americans aboard killed in the
rescue mission.
“They stacked up Communist
bodies like cordwood on the
wire perimeter,” the U.S.
spokesman said of the bitter,
hand-to-hand fighting at A
Shau. At least 100 of the 380
men in the camp survived.
Spec.5 Wayne H. Murray, 23,
oi San Diego, Calif., was one of
them, “They didn’t take the
camp,” he said at Da Nang.
“We were evacuated. They
didn’t take it away from us.”
Murray was shot in the leg
and took mortar fragments in
his left side, left arm and hand.
“On the second day, they
came in waves, 50 or 60 of
them at a time, hitting from all
sides,” he said. “They finally
got over the We were still
fighting them pretty good when
we got the radio message that
we were being evacuated.”
. Little Action Reported
Little significant ground ac
tion was reported today in
South Viet Nam, but Viet Cong
terrorists hurled two grenades
into a restaurant at noon
Thursday, killing seven persons
and wounding 54 others. The
restaurant was located near
Binh Duong Ci.y, 16 miles north
of Saigon. All of the victims
were civilians, a Vietnamese
government spokesman said.
U.S. Navy and Air Force
pilots flew only 11 missions
over North Viet Nam Thursday
because of poor weather, it was
reported today. The planes hit
highways and storage areas
south of Vinh along the
panhandle.
“You bet.”
“That gray coat of hers.. . re
member?’
“And those eyes.”
“Go’wan!”
“Naw, Im not kidding. Mag
gie had sex appeal.’
“You’re kidding.”
"Oh, yeah Remember that
time in Columbus, out in the
field?”
Yes, what a gal. Such laughs.
The guys still giggle today over
the fact that all these years she
had been carried on the unit ros
ter. Hal
And those times they smug
gled her from post to post back
In the states. To Ft. Campbell,
to Ft. Knox, to Ft. Stewart.
First class, too.
Maggie never traveled any ot
her way.
Even when the division came
to Viet Nam she was given the
finest accommodations available
on the aircraft carrier. Guys
were assigned to clean up her
quarters, prepare her food, keep
her company, even give the old
girl a bath now and then.
She liked the baths best of all.
Used to grin and show her
teeth all during the soaping part.
And then, afterwards, shake like
Vol. 95 No. 58
Coming Up • • • •
The Griffin Da3y News camera this week visited
two Dundee Mills in East Griffin for a report on the
people employed there.
This will he the second in a series of pictorial
essays of Griffin industry.
Be sure to watch for it.
Also
The Griffin Daily News will include a special 16
page tabloid section on the new First Baptist Church
in the Saturday publication. The section is a “keep
sake” edition Griffinites will want to read and keep.
It will include pictures, stories and other information
about the past, present and future of the historic
church.
Sanders Threatens
To Ax Clip Joints
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Carl
Sanders has ordered a crack
tions in Georgia and has threat
ened to have violators’ estab
lishments chopped down with
axes if local authorities will not
prosecute.
Beginning today, troopers will
be stationed outside suspected
clip joints in Long, McIntosh
and Bryan counties to warn
patrons of possible flimflam
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THE BEST DAMN MULE: Sgt. Paul Miles gazes
sorrowfully at the still body of Maggie.
hell to get the water off. Too bad she had to go and
What times. What yuks. get killed.
ming.
Sheriff Leslie Mitcham of
Long County said Public Safe
ty Director Lowell Conner can
send in as many troopers as he
wants as long they don’t block
traffic. Mitcham has been high
ly critical of Conner’s accusa
tions.
Conner said the troopers
would warn teurists but would
not try to keep them from en
tering.
The guys had warned her not
to go near the perimeter at
night. But she could be obstin
ate. She’d get chewed out one
day for wandering off and then
next morning there she’d be, big
as you please, hoofing it out on
the perimeter again.
She’d been shot at several tim
es, but all of them missed. Ex
cept this last time.
It happened that night the en
emy cut the outside wire and six
or seven of them sneaked into
camp and killed a guard. Th"t,
of course, put every sentry in
the division on edge.
So, when one fellow heard a
noise on the road, he leveled his
weapon and hollered: “Halt,
who goes there?”
Well, Maggie couldn’t answer,
of course, and so he shot.
They found her the next mor
ning, two holes in her side. Ev
erybody was broken up about it.
All the guys recalled stories of
her and talked about what a
charmer she had always been.
Maggie was the best damn
mule the Army had ever had.
‘Pro’ Burglars
Take $1,000
At Lexington
LEXINGTON, Ga. (UPI) ■=•
The Citizens Bank of Lexing
ton was burglarized Thursday
night “by professionals’’ who
apparently hauled off about
$1,000 in coins but failed to
crack the bank’s main money
chest.
W. E. Evans, president of the
bank, and the FBI confirmed
that the known amount of mon
ey missing is about $1,000 in
dimes, nickels and pennies, in
three cloth bags.
In addition, 28 safe deposit
boxes were ripped open and
rifled. An inventory of the con
tents of the private boxes “will
take some time to complete”,
Evans said.
The bank president, who said
‘‘ th is was my first and I hope
my last burglary”, emphasized
that all losses would be fully
covered by insurance,
He said the burglar or
burglars apparently entered the
one - story bank in downtown
Lexington through a skylight on
the roof and worked at leisure
through the night trying to get
at the “folding money” inside
the vault.
Evans said a welding torch
was used to cut through the
door of the half-inch steel en
trance to the vault. The hole,
about two feet wide and eight
to 10 inches deep, was large
enough for a small man to
squeeze through.
“A tear gas device was at
tached to the door in the area
of the combination but these
wer e professionals and they
didn’t go in that way,” Evans
explained. “They went through
the bottom of the door and
then apparently took off the
combination from the inside.”
Inside the vault is the money
chest, protected by several
inches of steel. Evans said “ex
tensive efforts” were made to
get the chest open “but they
never could get the main door
open.”
The president posted a notice
on the bank door: “Temporari
ly closed due to burglary” and
turned the place over to FBI
agents and bank staff members
who began cleaning up the
debris.
“Papers were scattered all
over the floor and stuff was
pulled out of safe deposit box
es,” Evans said. “I had some
personal papers, stock certifi
cates and similar papers, in
one of the boxes that was
rifled.”