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By Quimby Melton
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There are two persons who fi
gured in the last days of Jesus
here on earth about whom we
Would like to know more. The
two are Nicodemus and Joseph
of Arimathea.
What became of these two
men after the Resurrection? Jos
eph of Arimathea is the follow
er of Jesus who claimed his
body and placed It in a new
tomb, cut into solid rock.
In Matthew: Joseph is descri
bed as “also Jesus disciple,”
and as a “rich man.” There are
four verses in Matthew about
Joseph.
In St. Mark: Joseph Is descri
bed as “an honorable counsel
ler who also waited for the
Kingdom of God.” There are
but two verses in St. Mark
about this man but there are
two words: He “went boldly” to
claim the body of Jesus, of in
tense Interest.
In St. Luke: Joseph is called “a
counseller, a good man and
Just.” Joseph "also watched for
the Kingdom of God." There are
four verses in St. Luke about
Joseph.
St. John describes Joseph as
a "disciple of Jesus, “but secret
ly for fear of the Jews.” This
last statement Is in contrast with
the one in St. Mark that Joseph
“went boldly” and asked for
the body of Jesus.
Contrast, yes, but no conflict
In those two statements. St.
Mark was describing Joseph as
he was after the crucifixion. St.
John before.
No doubt, Joseph was among
those who witnessed the execu
tion of Jesus; his faith in Jesus
as the Messiah probably waver
ed when he witnessed this world
shaking event. But with Jesus’
dying words, Joseph, like the
centurian, felt in his heart burn
ing conviction “This is the Mes
siah, the Son of God.”
We wish we knew more about
Joseph of Arimathea. What be
came of this rich man, this
counseller, this disciple of Jes
us?
The other man mentioned in
this story of Jesus and the
tomb is Nicodemus “who first
came to Jesus by night.’’ How
ever, this time he came boldly in
the daytime. If there were some
way to find out what became of
Nicodemus and Joseph it would
be most Interesting — at least
to this layman.
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There are at least four men
named Joseph who are told of in
the Bible. ,
The first is Joseph, the son of
Jacob, who spent much of h i s
life in Egypt, part of it as lea
der.
The second is Joseph the ear
thly father of Jesus, the hus
band of the Virgin Mary.
The third is Joseph, also call
ed Barabas, whose surname was
Justus. He was one of two men
* who were considered as possible
replacements for Judas Iscariot.
The other man, Matthas was
chosen.
And the fourth Is Joseph of Ar
imathea.
We once heard someone say
that Joseph of Arimathea and
Joseph Barabas could be the
same. But this hardly holds wa
ter; Joseph of Arimethea at that
time was a secret disciple of Je
sus because he was afraid of the
Jews; and evidently the other
Joseph was an out-in-the-open
disciple or he never would have
been considered fit to fill the va
cancy in the original twelve.
But Joseph of Arimethea, once
he had witnessed the death of Je
sus and had heard those round
the Cross ridiculing Him, was
convinced with all his heart and
mind that the Man on the Cross
was in truth the Son of God and
the long awaited Messiah; so
he stepped boldly forward and
made all arrangements for the
funeral. He gave of his best, a
new tomb prepared for him
when he died, And Joseph and
Nicodemus attended to the de
tails of the last rites providing
fine linen and the most costly of
spices.
How Joseph of Arimethea must
have rejoiced on the first Eas
ter morning when Jesus was Re
surrected from the dead.
Weather t
FORECAST FOB GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and cool Wednes
day afternoon. Fair and cold to
night with frost Low tonight 28
to 34; high Wednesday 62 to 66.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 65, low today 35, high Mon
day 67, low Monday 52; sunrise
Wednesday 6:20, sunset Wednes
day 7:00.
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Detroit Promises
Safer Automobiles
By PATRICK J. SLOYAN
United Pres* International
WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's automakers
promised to make their cars safer today, but warned
that President Johnson’s proposals to regulate vehicle
design could disrupt the industry and have “adverse
effects” on the U. S.
The cautionary note was
sounded by John S. Bugas, a
vice president of Ford Motor
Co. and chairman of the
industry’s Safety Administra
tive Committee, in a statement
prepared for a Senate Com
merce Committee hearing on
the administration proposals.
Representatives of General
Motors, Chrysler and American
Motors—together with Ford,
the “big four” of the industry
appeared with Bugas before the
Senate panel.
Bugas said the industry
endorsed those sections of the
administrations legislation
aimed at Improving state and
local safety programs, high
ways, and the collecetion of
accident statistics. But, he said,
SIX LETTERS to LUCILLA)
To My Beloved Wife Lud.Ha:
The incident of which 1 wrote you
yesterday, that strange procession I en
countered in the city street, was with
me in tny mind as I awakened this
morning. At first this angered me—for
what bother is this of mine, a Roman
dtizen, what these people do?—this
rabble in an obscure old town here on
the ragged outskirts of the great Roman
Empire?
After my bath, which not only re
freshed me greatly but washed away
such gloomy thoughts, I was waited
upon by a centurion named Cams who
declared he had come from the Procura
tor and was to act as my guide if I so
desired. Intelligent, though light-heart
ed, he reminded me of your younger
brother, Marcus, and I was happy to
accept.
“I am in your hands," I said. “Whence
shall we first go—to the market place?"
Carus laughed. "Not unless it is your
plan to study the human race in only
two varieties—wolves and sheep. I
would suggest the Temple because all
manner of folk are encountered there."
Sound advice, indeed!
As we approached the Temple we
were made aware of a considerable dis
turbance taking place at its door. Sev
eral villainous-looking fellows, in obvi
ous fright and clutching cages contain
ing sacrificial doves, scampered by us.
Then I saw the tables of the money
changers—those greedy fellows who are
the same everywhere !— had been over-
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 5, 1966
posed a provision which could
lead to federal regulation of
their industry for the first time
in its history.
Bugas zeroed in on provisions
authorizing the secretary of
commerce to impose national
safety standards on automa
kers. The secretary could, at
his discretion, set the standards
if Detroit failed to make
adequate advances in car
safety within two years.
Hie Ford executive said this
section gave the secretary
"virtually unlimited power to
establish safety standards af
fecting the design and develop
ment of motor vehicles.” He
said there is no precedent for
this “with respect to a high
volume
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turned and the dealers in coins were
scrambling about after the bits of silver
which rolled everywhere.
I looked up and — behold, Lucilla!—I
could hardly believe the testimony of
my eyes! There, standing above that
motley crew in righteous wrath was the
Person I saw being so greatly honored
just yesterday!
He spoke and, Lucilla, I shall never
forget those words: "Is it not written,
My house shall be called of all nations
a house of prayer? but ye have made it
a den of thieves."
1 would have stayed but Carus urged
we depart lest we become involved in a
local controversy. Due to the sketch of
the temple scene which I append, i have
no more space so I must close this letter.
Until tomorrow—
Youth faithful husband,
ARIUS.
Vi Unrest INSIDE
am Hospital. Funerals. Stork Club. Faro Fare 2» 2.
About Town. Pare 2.
World Briefs. Fare 3.
Hazing-. Fare 3.
Worries Johnson Editorials. Fare 4.
TV Schedules. Fare 4.
Cordele. Pare 5.
Society. Fares 6, 3.
Sports. Fares I, 9.
Want Ads. Fare 10.
Comics. Pare ll.
Viet Nam Unrest
Worries Johnson
Easter Hats. 12.
Public Support
May Be Damaged
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Johnson administration
officials were concerned today over the possible dam
age the continuing political turmoil in South Viet Nam
might do to American public support of the anti-
They said the unrest and
uncertainty in Saigon undoubted
ly would hamper the war effort
if it continued. At the same
time, they acknowledged that
U.S. public support of the
Registration
Of Voters Up
Registration of voters at the
Spalding County Courthouse was
reported to be “moving right
along,” according to Reigstrar
O. M. Snider, Sr.
Snider reported 22 people had
been registered by mid-morning.
Most of those being register
ed, he said, were Negroes.
Forty-seven people were regis
tered Saturday morning, Snider
said.
The increase in voter registra
tion is due to a campaign by the
Griffin Chapter of the NAACP
and the Griffin Voter eLagus.
The campaign is expected to
last six weeks, according to the
Rev. J. N. Shopshire, president
of the Griffin chapter and pas
tor of the Heck Chapel Metho
dist Church.
The registrar’s office Is open
all day Tuesdays and until noon
on Saturdays.
Country Parson
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“A good farmer works as
hard today as a poor one
intends to work to
morrow.”
American war effort eventually
might be weakened by the
spectacle of recurrent political
chaos.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
said Monday that the war
effort had not yet been affected
by South Viet Nam’s political
crisis. But, he added, “obvious
ly anything that detracts from
the solidarity of the South
Vietnamese people is a diver
sion of effort from the main job
at hand.”
No U.S. official, for the
record, would comment on
possible damage on the Ameri
can home front. They said
privately, however, that there
was a danger of a substantial
decrease in the U.S. public’s
sympathy for the aims of the
nine-month-old government of
Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, who
apparently has been unable to
enlist widespread popular sup
port in South Viet Nam.
President Johnson’s deep
concern over the situation was
illustrated by his action in
authorizing use of American
transport planes to fly Ky’s
forces to Da Nang to put down
the unrest in the port city.
The United States was
anxious to avoid the impression
it was attempting to direct
Saigon’s political affairs. But it
was plain Washington was
hoping Ky would gain control of
the situation and avoid another
long series of governments
such as followed the overthrow
and assassination of Ngo Dinh
Diem in November 1963.
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On Campaign Trail
Lester Maddox was in Griffin today on a whirlwind stop in his campaign for
governor. He popped into the Spalding County courthouse, visited in several
offices to shake hands, and passed out campaign literature to a small group of
people on the courthouse steps who had come to a sheriff’s sale. He is shown here
on the courthouse steps.
Man Has Tinkered With
Weather For Centuries
By HARR? FERGUSON
UPI National Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
There is a legend that in the
11th century a man named
Canute embarked upon a power
struggle with mother nature.
He tooke his throne down to a
British beach and, by the
authority vested in him as King
of England, Norway and
Denmark, commanded th e in
coming tide to stand still.
Somehow the message failed
to get through. The tide kept
coming in, the water swept
over Canute’s knees and as ha
Vol. 95 No. 79
Florida Tornadoes
Kill 9, Injure 198
By ORVAL JACKSON
United Press International
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI)—Hundreds of central Florida
families sifted through splintered remains of their
homes today, salvaging small treasures along the paths
of death-dealing tornadoes.
The roaring black funnel
clouds rode ashore from the
Gulf of Mexico on a squall line
Monday and danced destruction
northeast to Cape Kennedy on
the Atlantic, killing at least
nine persons and injuring 198.
Preliminary damage figures
totaled a conservative $6 mil
lion. About 350 homes were
completely smashed and nearly
500 more damaged in 10 cities
and towns.
Three victims died in Tampa
and six at Lakeland. At least
48 persons were hospitalized.
Damage is Heavy
Disaster officials of the Red
Cross and Civil Defense
put damage In Hillsborough
County (Tampa) alone at $3 to
$4 million and $1.8 million in
the Lakeland area, not includ
ing the city itself, which was
one of the hardest hit.
The citrus crop, its Valencia
oranges just ready for the pro
cessing plants, was dealt a
hard blow. One observer at
Lakeland said the “ground is
orange” from fruit ripped off
the trees.
Gov. Haydon Burns inspected
the damage from the air and
in a personal ground tour. He
declared Hillsborough and Polk
Counties state disaster areas.
"I saw devastation at its
Ida in Tampa was buckled and
partly blown away, but there
were no serious injuries to
retreated he could reflect on
the fact that even an absolute
monarch had no authority over
the elements.
Ever since then men have
been tinkering around in an
attempt to control the weather.
The nows today is that
President Johnson has sum
moned us to a new assault on
the problem. The President
says that in addition to fighting
poverty, crime, hunger, disease
and unemployment, we must
sally forth to battle against and
attempt to subdue the weather.
Johnson outlined this part of
his Great Society in a recent
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World Brien. Pege 3.
Hazing. Page 8.
Editorials. Page in
TV Schedules. I’m 4.
Cordele. Page 5-,
Society. Page: a. '1.
Sports. Pages 8. 9.
Want Ads. rm to.
Comics. Pege 11.
Easter Hols. Psge 12.
worst,” he said,
The governor also appealed
to the White House to declare
Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk,
Osceola and Brevard counties
“a national disaster area.”
Guard on Duty
National guardsmen were on
duty here and in Lakeland
throughout the night, but police
said there were only a few
scattered reports of attempted
looting.
School buses were overturned
at Tampa, Lakeland and Cocoa.
The one at Cocoa was empty
and children in the other two
were not seriously injured. The
bus at Tampa turned over in
the air two or three times, ac
cording to Davonna Butcher,
16, one of the riders. “Kids,
seats, everything went flying.”
The roof of a girls’ dormitory
at the University of South Flor
some 300 coeds inside.
The Lakeland victims were
identified as Earl Mauldin, the
husband of a nurse at the hos
pital who was trapped in his
home when a tornado struck;
five-week-old Jerry Hatchcock;
three-week-old Johnny Brooks;
Florence McDowell, 87; Connie
Craig, 20, a pregnant woman,
and her unborn child.
Tampa General Hospital said
its three vicitms were Johnny
Dochstaber, 5, Loretta Molesky
and Delia Green.
message to Congress: “Highly
encouraging steps are being
taken toward establishing safe
and effective programs for
modifying the weather. We can
now begin to see the day when
such programs may become
operationally feasible.”
Cites Science Report
The President was talking
about a report prepared by the
National Science Foundation
urging the appropriation of
money for a sustained effort to
achieve such things as fog
dispersion, seeding of clouds to
produce rain, suppression of
hall and redirecting the paths
County Approves
Forest Ranger
Budget Share
County Commissioners today
approved Spalding’s share of the
area Forest Ranger budget for
1966-67.
The unit serves Spalding, Fike,
Lamar and Upson Counties.
These pay one third of the total
budget and the state pays two
thirds. The total budget is $67,-
282.
The four counties pay $32,427
.33 of the total. Spalding, Lamar
and Pike pay 21.33 percent of
this amount which is $4,784.50.
Upson, which has more forest
land, pays 36 percent which to
tals $8,073.84.
All four counties have appro
ved their share of the 1966-67
budget.
In other action the commis
sioners approved a contribution
of $200 to the Babe Ruth lea
gue here this summer.
They okayed an agreement for
a county contract through the
state to pave about two miles on
the Blanton Mill road. Mobley
road and Lakeside road also will
be paved under similar agree
ments. However, work on these
projects is not scheduled to be
gin until sometime later, the
commissioners said.
The commissioners accepted
as a county road a new one cut
off U. S. 19 south of Griffin. It
was named Clark road.
A letter from Midway Commu
nity Club expressing their inter
est in county garbage disposal
sites was received by the com
missioners. The county still has
under consideration setting up
several disposal sites in the co
unty.
Quirks
HOMING PIGEONS
PUEBLO, Colo. (UPI) —
Whoever stole Herbert Thorn
ton’s 18 pigeons better keep an
eye on them. Thornton told
police 12 of the birds are
homing pigeons.
★
NEEDED PROTECTION
ERIE, Pa. (UPI) —Two Erie
youths were apprehended by
police early today while prying
open several soap machine coin
boxes in a laundromat
When one of the youths was
asked why he had in his
possession a hammer, crowbar
and ax, he answered: “These
tools are weapons to protect
myself. There’s a lot of crime
in Erie, you know.”
of storms toward drought
areas.
Scientists, like mere mortals,
are either pessimistic or
optimistic by nature. The
optimists are fired with enthu
siasm to the point where It is
only a slight exaggeration to
anticipate some sort of bulletin
as this from the United States
Weather Bureau:
“One inch of rain bas been
scheduled between 1 and 2 p.m.
tomorrow for Missouri, eastern
Kansas, Oklahoma and north
ern Texas. Unless there aT«
last-minute requests for preclpl
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