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A good news story has a ‘‘lead
—opening sentence, or a para
graph — that “tells all”. An old
rule taught cub reporters was in
writing a story to state in the
lead “Who, When, What. Where
and Why.” If this rule was fol
lowed then one could go into
more detail in the rest of th%.
story, but if the story had to be
“cut” in making up the page—
and cutting a story always be-
4 gins with the bottom of the story
and moving up as many para
graphs as necessary to make the
story fit—the essential facts of
the story would still be there.
An interesting speech, so stu
dents of speech are taught,
should have a “punch line” —
maybe several such. Punch lin
es keep the audience interested
and awake. Punch lines also
give the speaker a chance to
change the tempo of his speech
and the level of his voice. The
■ next time you hear a polished
speaker watch for the punch
line.
Sometimes punch lines are us
ed to open a speech, sometimes
they are thrown in later and in
some instances they wind up a
speech, leaving the audience
with something to remember.
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Well, this morning Good Even
ing got a letter from Louis Cas
sels, religion editor of United
Press International. In closing
this letter Cassels wrote one of
the greatest closing punch lines
We have ever read.
• Some weeks ago Good Even
ing, in commenting on the “God
Is Dead” movement asked the
Emory professor —
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!”
And then we continued for se
veral paragraphs asking similar
questions. When we published
(this in our column sent a copy
to Cassels, sent it to the Atlanta
UPI office with the request that
it be forwarded to him.
In his letter Cassels among ot
her things said “In the long run
the likes of him and Hamilton
and van Burem may do the
Church a great service, merely
by provoking a debate about
the reality of God. I am pro
Roundly cent faith convinced is not nearly that compla
as strong
nor as contageous as faith that
has triumphed over some real
muscular doubts.
Then came the closing punch
line:
“God has survived a great
many more eloquent and origi
nal pallbearers than Altizer.”
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Last Sunday, our pastor, prea
ched one of the greatest ser
mons We have ever heard. His
text was from Romans 1:16, and
2 Timothy 1-12. “For I am not
ashamed of the Gospel of
( Christ; for it is the power of sal
vation to everyone that believe
th . . . and “for I know whom
I have believed and am persu
aded that he is able to keep that
which I have committed unto
him unto that day.”
In that sermon that had all the
power of an evangelistic sermon
the preacher had a “punch
line”. He made the statement
that he believed the statements
of Paul, as expressed in the
text, with all his heart and mind
»and added “If I did not, if there
was any doubt in my mind that
these statements are true, then
I would not be here in the pul
pit preaching to you.”
To this minister, as to thou
sands of other ministers, God’s
existance and greatness and
goodness and power are not bas
ed on "theology” but on person
al experiences.
Country Parson
“It’s easy to love others
until you run Into one who
might harm you, might tor
ture you — might nail you
to a cross.”
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By United Press International
WEIGHT WATCHERS
STERLING, Colo. (UPI)—
Anyone who gains weight fast
may be in trouble with Sterling
police. Hungry thieves broke
into an elementary schotfl, but
ignored money, tape recorders,
record players and other
expensive equipment.
Instead, they stole 40 pounds
of hamburger, five pounds of
hot dogs, 40 pounds of butter,
15 dozen eggs, seven loaves of
bread and 24 ice cream bars.
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LENTEN BLOOD
DALLAS (UPI)—James S.
Cleaver bleeds each year for
lent.
He contributed a pint of blood
to Parkland Hospital’s blood
bank Tuesday and said he has
made it a habit to give a pint
each lenten season for years.
Cleaver is a director of the
Dallas Heart Association.
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AIM PLEASES
LONDON (UPI)—Prime Min
ster Harold Wilson was deliver
ing a campaign speech here
Tuesday night when a youth
tossed a crumpled up election
pamphlet at him. It hit the
microphone.
“Your aim is better than
your material," quipped Wilson.
Two Killed In
Watts Violence
By EDWARD O’CONNOR
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —
Police with shotguns and rifles
at the ready patrolled in the
streets of Watts today hopeful
of preventing a renewal of
bloodshed in the district’s
second Negro riot in eight
months.
Two persons were killed,
more than 25 were injured and
at least 31 persons were
arrested in Tuesday’s flareup
of shooting, looting, burning
and beating, authorities said.
Sporadic incidents continued
into the predawn hours of
today.
Preliminary steps toward
mobilizing California National
Guardsmen were taken but the
troops were not ordered out.
At least 12 fires were ignited,
apparently by Molotov cocktail
firebombs, late Tuesday night
and early today. Arsonists tried
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, March 16,1966
MacKinnon Accused
Of ‘Grocery Pad’
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—Atty. Gen.
Arthur Bolton said today Dr. I.
H. MacKinnon, who earned
$27,540 a year as head of Mll
ledgeville State Hospital quit
after it was learned he padded
his grocery bill by $20 a month
for 18 months.
Bolton said MacKinnon has
repaid the $360 to the State
Health Department. The widely
respected psychiatrist had an
unlimited family maintenance
expense account but had to turn
in receipts to be reimbursed.
The receipts amounted to $20
a month more than his actual
grocery bill, officials said.
Bolton said in a statement,
“After a rather extensive in
vestigation including sworn af
fidavits from numerous witness
es and statements made by Dr.
MacKinnon, this department
concluded that MacKinnon had,
in fact, padded his maintenance
allowance.”
Dr.^.John Venable, state
health director, said the investi
gation followed accusations last
Thursday by Milledgeville news
paperman Karl Hall. He said
MacKinnon came to Atlanta
Monday to turn in his resigna
tion and seemed “extremely
anxious and disturbed.”
Venable said the resignation
was written on the spot in long-
three times before they succeed
ed in burning down one
building. Fire vehicles, travel
ing in convoys under police
guard, dashed in and out of the
Negro district quelling the
blazes. Six persons were
arrested with fire bombs in
their possession.
Like last August’s Watts riot
and holocaust, ’ the violence
Tuesday was triggered by the
arrest of a Negro. This time it
was for throwing a rock at a
white motorist. Last summer it
was for a traffic infraction.
Tuesday, a white school
teacher driving through the
area was the target of a rock
hurled by a Negro youth. Police
arrested a suspect in a barber
shop just as a large group of
Negro students were discharged
from Jordan High School,
swelling the crowd watching
the incident.
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giving “personal reasons”
the cause.
MacKinnon’s daughter said in
N. C., today that he
expected at her home there
afternoon. She had been
of the charges before
of Bolton’s announce
Hall, editor of the weekly
said he had
rumors that MacKinnon
and his wife were padding their
bill by picking up re
other persons had
on the floor of a su-
Junior High
Distributes
1966 Annuals
Hie 1966 Spalding Junior High
annual, the Warrior, is being
distributed this week at Junior
High School. Approximately
1250 annuals have been made
up.
The Warrior staff was compos
ed of James Black, editor in
chief; Anne Sullins, associate
editor; Bea Finleyson, ninth gr
ade editor; Scott Moore, ninth
grade editor; Polly Dempsey,
eighth grade editor; Kim Beaty,
eighth grade editor; and Nan
cy Strong, seventh grade edi
tor. Faculty advisors were Mrs.
Henri Wheeless and Mrs. Jim
my Cole.
Carol Ann Betzold designed
the unique cover design, a white
Indian symbol on a blue back
ground.
The crowd grew sullen.
Someone threw a rock. Then
more rocks and bricks. The
violence was triggered.
At the height of Tuesday’s
disorders, at least 600 Negroes
were involved, screaming, shov
ing, throwing rocks and bottles
—and some assaulting motorists
and looting businesses.
"Blood” was scrawled across
the windows of some shops—
just as it had been during last
August’s rioting to tell the
rampaging youths the business
was Negro owned.
Both fatalities were men cut
down by gunfire. A Mexican
American truck driver, La
wrence Gomez, 30, was hit by
an unknown sniper. Joe Craw
ford, 33, a Negro, was hit—it
was uncertain by whom—at an
intersection where a Negro
crowd gathered and police
opened fire.
Rookies
Soar
Calmly
by AL ROSSITER Jr.
United Press International
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) —
Gemini 8 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and David Scott
blasted into orbit from a
storybook liftoff atop a Titan
rocket today and sped into a
107,000-mile chase of a target
satellite launched ahead of
them.
The rookie astronauts calmly
soared from the launch pad on
a burst of smoke and flame at
11:41 a.m. EST, precisely on
schedule despite minor techni
cal difficulties during the long
night of preparation. They went
into space 101 minutes after the
unmanned Agena target blasted
off on a trail of flame.
“You’re looking good, 8,”
ground control reported.
Gemini 8 went into an initial
orbit between 98 and 178 miles
six minutes after liftoff. The
Agena was on a circular orbit
of 185 miles and catchup for
man’s first docking maneuver
in space was coming up a little
more than six hours later.
‘‘Good liftoff,” mission con
trol crowed.
“We saw the fireball (second
stage ignition) out there,” a
voice came back from the
spacecraft. Presumably ft was
Armstrong, who was doing
most of the talking.
“All looks good,” Gemini
control reported and settled
back for the long wait to the
rendezvous and • dockttjg qf
Gemini 8 and the 26-foot target
rocket soaring on ahead.
When Gemini 8 went into
orbit, the target rocket was
1,200 statute miles ahead of it,
and the chase was on at speeds
between 16,500 miles an hour
and 17,500 miles an hour.
“Looking good up here,”
Armstrong radioed.
In bursts of flame on two
launch pads, the most spectular
American space effort yet,
including a space walk by
Scott, got underway with
perfect countdowns despite
minor problems that plagued
technicians almost to the last
moment.
The rookie astronauts aimed
for man’s first linkup with an
object in space, a key step in
the manned conquest of the
moon. The 20-foot Agena
satellite lifted off 101 minutes
before them.
Russia brought down its two
space dogs after 23 days aloft
just before the United States
began its latest manned space
effort, but the double-barreled
American effort far outshone
the Soviet feat.
The Titan 2 booster rocket
belched smoke and glided off
Launch Pad 19 with Armstrong
and Scott in their capsule on its
nose.
It angled off into a clear blue
sky and Gemini control report
ed “he looks good.”
Hall said on Feb. 24, with co
operation of the supermarket,
he planted six marked tape re
ceipts on the floor and saw.
Mrs. MacKinnon pick them up.
He said last Thursday he
came to the Health Department
to see MacKinnon’s grocery re
ceipts. Hall said he was told
they were still in Milledgeville
and the department then asked
Bolton to investigate.
Bolton sent to Milledgeville
Asst. Atty. Gen. George Hearn
III and investigator Jack Coon
ey and they impounded the hos
pital records. Hall said, find
ing five of the marked tapes.
The editor said he got wind
of the action after he began a
series of articles last January
criticizing the management of
the hospital.
Venable insisted the hospital
under MacKinnon “made tre
mendous progress.” He added
MacKinnon is still “a highly
regarded psychiatrist.”
Venable said “this has had no
affect whatsoever on patient
care.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and cool
er tonight and Thursday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 55, low today 51, high
Tuesday 63, low Tuesday 56, sun
rise Thursday 6:46 a.m., sunset
6:46 p.m.
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Cookie Sale All Set
These Girl Scouts are all set to open the annual cookie sale here Friday. They
are (I-r) Beth Jones, Susan Mitchell, Terri Mays, Tommie Allen and Mary Hed
derman. Money raised will be used for the new camp at Meansville and to sup
port other Girl Scout programs.
Vol. 95 No. 62
Head Start’
Kindergarten
Sought Here
The Griffin-Spalding Board
of Education Tuesday night ap
proved making an application
for a kindergarten program
through the Head Start federal
program.
The board also asked that Spal
ding County be made the head
quarters for a special education
al services program for five
counties.
In another major action, the
board agreed to have a team of
educators visit here during the
1966-67 school year to evaluate
the system.
The team will come from the
University of Georgia about one
day a month.
The kindergarten program
seeks to start the project here
this summer for about 500 stu
dents.
George Patrick, Jr., superin
tendent, said times and places
have not been worked out.
The entire program will be un
der the supervision of the school
board, Mr. Patrick explained.
The Griffin city commissioners
had turned down a request ear
lier this year to sponsor such a
project.
Details will be worked out
2hen and if the application is
approved, Mr. Patrick said.
The evaluation program will
be headed by Dr. Doyne Smith
of the University of Georgia. He
will head a team of 12 educators
who will visit the system one
Only Kibitzing,
Playgirl Says
By MYRON FEINSILBER
United Press International
OTTAWA (UPI) —Playgirl
Gerda Munsinger says she was
only “kibitzing around” with
those Tory cabinet ministers.
“If a man sees an attractive
woman, they want to chase
her,” she explained.
But as for spying for the
Russians:
“I would never even move
a little finger for them.”
The beautiful blonde who
came to Canada 11 years ago
a household domestic and
week became a household
in a spy-and-security
told her story to this
fascinated nation Tuesday night
television. A member of
Parliament tried, but failed to
the show.
Climaxes Event
The television interview cli
maxed a dramatic series of
triggered last Thursday
by Justice Minister Lucien
accusation that Mrs
was a one-time spy
trysted with ministers in
cabinet of former Prime
day a month through the next
school year.
The Griffin-Spalding System
was one of two in Georgia selec
ted for this pilot method of eva
luation. Gainesville, which had
a similar evaluation program
last year, and the system here
will be the only two in Georgia
participating this year.
The Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools is pioneer
ing in this type evaluation.
Spalding County would be the
headquarters for special educa
tional services furnished by the
State Department of Education
under an application approved
by the local board.
Other counties that would par
ticipate would be Pike, Lamar,
Butts and Fayette.
Specialists in such fields as
reading, science, social studies
and other areas would make Gr
iffin their headquarters and ser
ve the five-county area from
here.
In other action at the board
meeting Tuesday night, the
members discussed at length
ngw guidelines for desegrega
tion announced by the U. S. Of
fice of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Hie board went over many
points of the new guidelines.
They asked Supt. Patrick to con
tinue a study of them and how
they might be applied to the sys
tem here.
Minister John Diefenbaker. The
charges that the former cabinet
ministers jeopardized security
for the sake of sex set off four
days of stormy debate in
Parliament.
Diefenbaker’s Conservative
party demanded the resignation
of Cardin and launched torrents
of angry charges in an effort to
topple the government of
Liberal Prime Minister Lester
B. Pearson. Over Tory opposi
tion, Pearson succeeded Tues
day in setting up a judicial
inquiry into the justice minis
ter’s charges, taking the
politically volatile case out of
Parliament.
Mrs. Munsinger, on televi
sion, pooh-poohed the allegation
that she was, in effect,
Canada’s Christine Keeler. She
scoffed particularly, at the
suggestion that a question of
national security was involved
in her relationship with the
cabinet ministers.
Spy for Russia?
“The Russians ruined my
life,” Gerda said.