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By Quimby Melton
“Jeroboam Makes Israel Sin”
9 Is the title of the International
Sunday School lesson this week.
The background Scripture is
found in First Kings 12:25 throu
gh 14:20. The Memory Selection
is "Be not deceived: God is not
mocked; for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap."
(Galatians 6:7.)
This lesson tells of the begin
ning of the history of the North
ern Kingdom and its first king—
Jeroboam; it warns that the de
sire for personal gain can cor
rupt a person, a nation and even
the church.
(Before trying to discuss this
lesson, may Good Evening say:
that the Memory Selection —
\ ) “Golden Text” to us old timers—
has always worried him. And
were it not for his conviction
, that the blood of Jesus Christ
can wipe away all sins this lay
man would be most miserable,
for there are few, if any, who
do not sow — “to the flesh.”)
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“Who’s Who In The Bible”
tells us very little about Jero
boam except (hat was "the son
of Nebat” and first king of the
< Northern Kingdom.”
So if we would know more
about Jeroboam we must study
both Solomon and Jeroboam.
We find that Jeroboam was a
capable man. He had been en
trusted with much of the build
ing done during the reign of Sol
omon. As director of the build
ing program he became famil
iar with the forced labor tactics
of Solomon, probably revolted
against them, which may be the
reason he was exiled to Egypt,
and called traitor to the king.
While he was in exile he so im
pressed Pharoah with his ability
that be was given the sister-in
law of Pharoah to wed. History
says that from this union came
Abljah — the man who in last
week’s lesson prophesied that
Jeroboam would become king.
As quickly as Jeroboam got
the news of the death of Solo
mon he hurried back to his
homeland, which he had loved
all during the time of his exile..
I Remember last Sunday we
were told that Jeroboam was
among those who came to Reho
boam, the son of Solomon, who
by the “divine right of kings”
was supposed to become king;
remember they asked Rehobo
am to be a more understanding
king than his father. Rehoboam
after taking their request under
i consideration finally told the
people that they could expect
even harder life than they had
experienced under Solomon.
It was then that Jeroboam was
proclaimed king of the ten north
ern tribes.
Those who wrote the Books of
Kings were most critical of Je
roboam, and one can get the
idea that he was an evil king.
I , This layman prefers to consider
him a foolish, rather than wick
ed king. His purpose it w o u 1 d
seem was to unite the people of
the Kingdom of Israel; and he
relied on his ability as an effic
iency expert, rather than seek
God’s guidance. There is little
doubt but that his intentions
were good — but "hell is paved
with good intentions.”
; One of the first thing that he
if did was to fortify Sechem, to be
his capital and Penuel near the
border of Judah. Then he had
two calves of gold made. (The
writers of Kings called them cal
ves in contempt; they actually
were bulls). Jeroboam probably
excused himself by thinking that
! he wa s providing two shrines
where people would worship and
not have to go to Jerusalem, in
enemy territory. He probably
looked on the golden bulls as a
place where people could wor
ship — and since the bull was
considered in connection with
fertility, he looked on them as
a symbol of God’s promise that
the people of Israel would mul
tiply and prevail over their ene
mies. Some historians say that
the golden bulls were not to be
worshipped as idols, that they
■! were not the representation of
God, but as the pedestals for
God’s throne. They were not gra
ven images, some students hold,
but were like the cherubims in
the holy of holies.
But whether or not Jeroboam
considered them just rallying
points where his people could
worship the true God, the lesson
of this lesson, to this layman, is
that here we have another exam
ple of a man who trusted in his
own wisdom rather than seeking
the help of God Almighty.
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Future Teachers At Work
Medra Blalock, Elaine Shockley and Margaret Busbin of the Griffin High Future
Teachers organization taught school this week as part of their training. The
school observed Future Teachers of America Week with a proclamation signed
by Principal D. B. Christie. These three seniors joined other future teachers in
taking over teaching duties for a short while.
INSIDE
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2
Funerals, Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Sports, Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham, Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
One Fourth, Page 5.
Man Sought. Page 5.
Dean Probe - Page 5.
Dateline Georgia, Page 6.
Fair Fire Page 6.
Society. Page 7.
Georgia Politics. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Want Ads. Pages 10, 11.
Bruce Biossat. Page 12.
Ray Cromley. Page 12.
Viet Nam War. Page 12.
State Health Board Supports
State Hike
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—The State Board of Health
Thursday to support a
budget increase of $6 million
for Milledgeville State Hospital
and heard a recommendation
a qualified hospital ad
ministrator be hired for the
state institution,
The board, in its monthly
meeting here, recommended
that the patient expenditures at
the hospital next year be raised
up to the national average.
This would require a $6 million
budget hike for the 12,000 pa
tient mental hospital.
The new budget would be
$26,280,000 as compared with a
planned budget of $20.5 million
for this year.
Dr. B. W. Forester of Ma-
Camera Visits
Crompton - Highland
The Griffin Daily News camera visits Crompton
Highland Mill in Griffin this week.
The people who make velveteens and other fabrics
for the U. S. and world markets will be featured in
the weekly picture essay in Saturday’s paper.
Watch for this and other interesting features in
the weekend edition.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, April 22,1966
Woman Injured In
Accident
A College Park woman was in
jured in an accident Thursday in
Monroe County on U. S. 341,
involving two cars, a bus and
two tractor-trailer trucks. Da
mage was estimated at $16,175.
The woman was identified as
Margaret Ann Morse of Route
One, College Park. She suffered
a neck injury.
This is how Cpl. C. L. Taylor
of the Griffin State Patrol ex
plained what happened:
A car of Negroes had stopped
in the highway. A car driven
by Carl F. Moore of Winston,
Fla., the bus driven by Charles
J. Norton of Atlanta and anoth
er car driven by Margaret Ann
Morse of College Park had stop
ped behind them.
A tractor-trailer truck driven
by Samuel R. Briley of Forest
Park approached the line of traf
fic and was unable to stop.
con, chairman of the mental
health committee, told the
board that a highly qualified
hospital administrator should be
hired to relieve the Milledge
ville superintendent of his many
administrative details.
Forester indicated that such
a man would have to be paid
at least $20,000 a year.
The hospital has been the
target of intensive study since
the resignation of superinten
dent Dr. I. H. MacKinnon, who
was found to have padded his
state-paid grocery bill.
Action on the budget also
came as a result of the in
vestigations into the hospital
and its facilities. Mental Health
Director Dr, Addison Duval
said the extra money would be
Man Made Heart
Keeps Him Alive A
Physicians
Fear Damage
To The Brain
By PAUL FREEMAN
HOUSTON (UPI) —The first
artificial heart ever successful
ly Implanted in a human being
kept a 65-year-old Illinois coal
miner alive today but he
remained unconscious and phy
sicians feared he may have
suffered brain damage.
In a 6 a.m. CST (7 a.m. EST)
medical bulletin, physicians
emphasized the fact that
Marcel L. de Rudder was still
unconscious and that because of
this fact, “physicians fear there
may be some brain damage."
Famous Dr. Michael DeBa
key, the cardiovascular surgeon
who operated on De Rudder for
five hours Thursday, and his
staff remained all night in De
Rudder’s room.
DeBakey, up about 24 hours
when the 6 o’clock bulletin was
issued, planned to rest a couple
of hours and go ahead with the
operations he had scheduled for
today.
De Rudder’s heart failed on
the operating table Thursday
and DeBakey had to massage it
back to life with his hand.
Physicians generally consider
that if a brain is without a
fresh supply of blood three
minutes in a heart failure, the
brain begins to suffer damage.
The bulletin said it was too
early to tell what effect the
possible brain damage would
have on his post-operative
course.
“The left ventricular bypass
(artificial heart) continues to
function normally. His blood
pressure remains stable. Pulse
is within normal range and the
chest is clear in X-rays
processed in the last hour,” the
bulletin said.
The artificial heart, beating
85 7.' times a minute with a
thump-thump” somewhat loud
er than a real heart, took over
most of the workload of De
Rudder’s faltering heart.
DeBakey said the artificial
heart, Implanted about midway
in the chest of De Rudder in a
five . hour operation Thursday,
had taken over 60 per cent of
t h e work of the heart > s left
ven tricle. The left ventricle
does 90 cent of the work of
faring ^giving blood to the
^ody,
The surgeons felt the pump,
lf lt continued to keep De
Rudder alive, would allow his
pattered heart to heal itself,
The last medical report at
9; 3 o p.m., CST (10:30 p.m.,
EST ) Thursday said De Rudder
"continues to follow a normal
post operative course and
exhibits no evidence of heart
failure.”
DeBakey began the quest for
an artificial heart some 16
years ago. Armed with $4.5
million grant and a blue-ribbon
staff that included some of the
world’s foremost heart specla
lists, DeBakey decided Thurs
day to try his device on De
Rubber, a man doomed to die
without lt.
Briley drove the truck into the
left lane colliding with the
Morse car. The truck then col
lided with the bus.
The tractor-trailer spun side
ways in the left lane. The front
of the truck struck the Moore
car and the rear struck another
tractor-trailer driven by Ira
Everett Mounce of Orlando,
Fla. The auto overturned.
Mounce had driven his truck
into the ditch of the right lane
when he saw Briley’s truck on
his side of the road.
Damage to Briley’s truck was
estimated at $3,000. Mounce’s
truck had $10,000 damage. The
damage to the bus was estima
ted at $2,000. The Morse car had
$1,000 in damages and Moore’s
car had $175 of damage.
The Negroes in the first car
which had stopped in the road.
left the scene and had not been
located by mid-morning today.
used for an increase In psy
chiatric and professional care,
reduction in attendant hours
and expanded programs.
The board went on record as
favoring the increase for the
fiscal year beginning July 1,
but any increase before then
would have to be approved in
a special session of the Gen
eral Assembly. Gov. Carl
Sanders has said no such ses
sion would be held until at
least after July 1.
Huck Finn-Style Adventure
Boxcar Ends For Youths
By LANCE HERDEGEN
United Press International
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) —
Their Huckleberry Finn-style
adventure over, two North
Carolina boys who survived on
stale beer while trapped for 13
days in a sealed boxcar return
home today to plenty of home
cooking provided by their
anxious mothers.
But one thing the boys hope
won’t be served when their
families gather for the reunion
is beer—especially Milwaukee
beer.
“Don’t mention lt,” said tow
headed David Harvey Jr., 12,
throwing up his hands and
making a face when newsmen
asked how the boys enjoyed the
beer. “I don’t even want to talk
about it.”
David and freckle-faced Wil-
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Pole Truck Overturns
James Wilburn Graham of Valdosta suffered a back injury this morning when the
tractor-trailer truck he was driving overturned south of Griffin on U. S. 41. Gra
ham was treated at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. State Trooper Ray
Wilson estimated damage to the truck at $1,500. The truck was loaded with
utOity poles.
Pope Cancels
Pilgrimage
VATICAN CITY (UPI) —
Pope Paul VI said today he will
not make a hoped-for pilgri
mage to Poland, apparently
because of worsening relations
between its Communist govern
ment and the Roman Catholic
Church.
The pontiff, in a letter
addressed to Polish Primate
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and
the Catholic faithful of the
nation, said, “We are deeply
pained that we cannot accept
the desires of the (Polish
Catholic) hierarchy and the
Catholics who wanted our
pilgrimage.”
Rainfall Near
Three Inch Mark
Griffin was saturated with
nearly three inches of rain
Thursday.
Horace Westbrooks, Griffin’s
official weather observer, mea
sured 2.77 inches of rain.
In addition to the heavy rain,
Thursday was the warmest 24
hour period of the season. Mr.
Westbrooks said the mean tem
perature was 70.5 degrees, whi
ch is eight degrees above nor
mal.
Today’s forecast called for
continued cloudy skies. The pro
bability of rain was 30 percent
this afternoon and tonight, in
creasing to 50 percent Saturday.
liam Waddell Jr., 13, were
found hungry and thin, but
unharmed, early Thursday
when a workman at the Jos.
Schlitz Brewing Co. opened the
car for unloading at the
brewery yard here. They told
authorities they had lived on
the dregs from empty beer
bottles during their 13-day
ordeal.
Bored With Life
The boys, “bored” with life in
Fayetteville, N.C., ran. away
from home on April 8, Good
Friday, outfitted with one
sleeping bag and five bottles of
soda pop. They slipped inside a
boxcar on a siding near their
home and were locked in when
the door was slammed shut by
railroad workmen.
After being discovered, the
boys were rushed to Milwaukee
County Emergency Hospital
GrifHnites Can Help
Blood Factions
Needed In Viet
Griffinties will get a
to lend a hand to the fighting
men in Viet Nam when the
bloodmobile visits on April 26,
according to the American
Cross.
The bloodmobile will set
headquarters in the Cheatham
Auditorium of the First
Church and will be, open from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m.
"One thing is certain, Ameri
can servicemen, many from
own community, are fighting,
bleeding and dying every day.
We can give these men
in a very personal way by
donation of blood,” the Red
Cross said.
The American Red Cross at
the request of the Department
Defense is collecting blood to
be processed into factions gam
ma goblin to fight hepatitis whi
ch is a great threat in Viet Nam,
and serum albumin used in the
treatment of shock caused by
wounds.
Unlike whole blood, these fac
ions are in short supply and
the neetl is Increasing daily,
rhey cannot be obtained in the
Far East.
Whole blood is supplied by the
military through collections in
the Far East. This has produc
ed an adequate supply of the
perishable commodity and sav
es expensive cost and time
where they were described as
“thin and scraggly,” but in
surprisingly good condition.
Both were able to walk. Billy
had the only injury, a slight
scrape on his chin.
David was wearing wash
pants, a sweat shirt and tennis
shoes. Billy wore levis, a polo
shirt and tennis shoes.
The boys spent the night in
the Milwaukee County Child
ren’s Center after being re
leased from the hospital. The
Red Cross took over plans for
getting them home.
Travel Arrangements
A Red Cross spokesman said
the boys would leave Milwauk
ee at 4:55 p.m. EST today
aboard Northwest Orient Air
lines flight 308. They were to
change planes in Washington,
and fly via Piedmont Airlines
to Fayetteville, arriving at
from the United States.
However, vital blood factions
can be supplied only by the Uni
ted States.
Processing of factions is ex
pensive and time consuming.
Blood donated will not be in fac
tions for many weeks. The Viet
Nam crisis has drawn heavily
on the stockpile of factions.
The American Red Cross has
been asked to collect 25,000 un
its of blood for factions. More
than 59,000 units have been col
lected.
College students have been the
top donor groups. They have
donated more than 40,000 un
its to be used for factions.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
mild with scattered showers or
thundershowers tonight and Sat*
urday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 78, minimum today
64. Total rainfall 2.77 inches.
Sunrise Saturday 5:59 a.m., sun
set Saturday 7:12 p.m.
10:14 p.m. EST.
"It was a fool trick to run
away,” said Billy. “We had
done it about six months ago
and got only about 45 miles.
That’s when our parents didn't
want us to play together
anymore.”
"We’re still going to be
friends," Billy said, “but we
aren’t going to play together
anymore.”
The war veteran father of
Billy said he’d probably “hug
the boy to death” when they
are reunited.
“The first two days they
were gone I was ready to tar
and feather them,” said retired
Army chief warrant officer
William R. Waddell. “Afte*
that I decided I’d bug them to
death if I ever found him;
again.”