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By Qulmby Melton
“The Fall of Samaria" is the
subject of this week's Interna
tional Sunday School Lesson.
Background Scripture is from 2
Kings 17; 18:9-12; Hosea 13
and Amos 8.
The Memory Selection is, “The
ways of the LORD are right, and
the just shall walk in them: but
the transgressors shall fall there
in. (Hosea 14:9.)
This lesson should help one to
realize that the true power and
strength of a nation depend on
the spiritual strength and inte
grity of the people; and s h 0 u Id
raise the question in the minds
of all, “Have we substituted
man-made power for God-given
strength"?
In the very first verse of t h e
printed background Scripture we
read “And the children of Israel
did secretly those things that
were not right. . . Notice that
word “secretly”. They thought
they could hide their acts and
their thoughts from God. Man
can often “get by” and fool his
fellow man, but every word,
thought and act of man is known
by God. One could teach the en
tire lesson on this word "secre
tly.”
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This lesson brings us to the
days of the last king of the Nor
thern Kingdom — Hoshea was
his name — who became so puf
fed up over his importance that
he revolted against Assyria and
turned to Egypt for help. Shal
maneser, king of Assyria, besei
ged Samaria for two years, re
ducing that land to as pitiful a
state as one can imagine. Fin
ally the people were carried
into captivity.
As one studies this lesson let’s
not confuse Hosea, the prophet,
with Hoshea, the king. The only
difference in the spelling of the
names is that the king has the
letter “h” in it. But there was a
vast difference in the two.
One, Hosea was a prophet of the
Lord who proclaimed “The ways
of the Lord are right” and war
ned his people; while the king,
Hoshea, forget the “Word of the
LORD” and brought his people
into slavery.
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What became of the tribes that
made up the Northern Kingdom?
They were scattered through As
syria and they became so dis
organized they became known
as the “Ten Lost Tribes”. There
has been much research in an
effort to know what became of
them. One theory is that they
migrated through Asia to a point
where that continent almost tou
ches North America — Alaska—
continued their migration south
and that the Indians, both in
North and South America are
the remnants of that once migh
ty people.
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Commentators on this lesson
mention many of the things that
caused the downfall of the Nor
thern Kingdom. In the field of
international relations, they
point to political “double deal
ing”; making all sorts of alli
ances with this and that nation
then “double crossing” their
ally.
Others point to domestic pro
blems and the disregard of hu
man misery and even life; and
wholesale philandering by those
in power.
Hosea, the prophet-historian,
gives the real reason for the
downfall of the kingdom. “The
People Forgot God.” They sub
stituted many false gods and
turned their backs on Jehovah.
We might well ask ourselves—
Whom Do I Trust? The one and
only true God, or do I put my
faith in false gods, money, pow
er, reputation, position?
Am I, like the king of Samar
ia, such an Egomaniac that I
think I do not need God?
And as we individually reval
uate our relations with God, it
will be well for us as a nation
to do the same. Are we, the peo
ple of the United States, running
the risk of following the people
of Samaria into slavery and
misery? Are we putting faith
in the “chariots” of heathen
lands, rather than in God Al
mighty?
SECOND CITATION
LONGMONT, Colo. (UPI) —
Harvey D. Rothenberg told the
state trooper who gave him a
safe driving award it was his
second citation in a week. The
first, he said, was for a traffic
violation.
GRIFFIN
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Trestle Gave Way
Five freight cars loaded with sand tumbled to earth Thursday when a trestle a
few miles from Zebulon gave way. One of the cars then fell into Potato creek
and the others were scattered about. N o one was injured. In photo above
caboose can be seen landing at the top of the bank. Freight car in foreground
in creek is turned upside down. Picture below shows one of the cars leaning
against the trestle. Repairmen moved into the area today to begin clean up and
repair work.
Missing Boy, 2,
Found in Muddy
Peachtree Creek
ATLANTA (UPI) — The body
of two-year-old Alexander Bryne,
missing since Sunday, was found
today after a heavy rain lifted
the muddy waters of Peachtree
Creek, into which he apparent
ly fell.
The body was seen and recov
ered after the water, which rose
an estimated three feet during
the night, had receded and left
it atop a pile of debris. The
scene was about a mile down
stream from the Bryne home.
Thousands of persons had
taken part in daily searches for
the body, along a 10-mile stretch
of the creek.
Four employes of a plastics
firm located on the creek bank
at Piedmont Road saw the body
this morning. The firm presi
dent, W. W. Quigley, named
them as Cecil Anthony. Aaron
Johnson, A. V. Fritz and Roy
Lee Robertson.
He said employes of the firm
had made a practice of checking
the creek regularly this week.
He credited the disturbance from
the rain with dislodging the body
from a hidden snag.
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Armed Robber
Gets 20 Years
Judge John H. McGehee of
the Griffin Judical Circuit sen
tenced Rufus Chance to 20 years
in prison this morning for the
armed robbery of a package
store on North Hill street.
Cloudburst Brings
Athens Flooding
Westmoreland
Top Tech Grad
James Edward (Eddie) West
moreland III of Griffin will be
honored as the top Georgia Tech
graduate at the Honors Day
program to be held June 2 at 11
a.m. in the Van Leer Electrical
Engineering Auditorium.
Westmoreland acquired a 4.0
point average out of a possible
4.0. The point average is the
highest recorded at Tech in the
last 10 years, and may possibly
be the highest under the present
grading system.
He will be presented the P h i
Kappa Phi Scholarship Cup at
the Honors Day exercises.
Vernon Crawford, director of
the School of Physics, said in a
letter:
“He is an exceptional young
man in many ways. His charac
ter and personality are as out
standing as his scholarship. We
have been privileged to have
him as our student.”
Crawford’s letter, however,
said Westmoreland’s record is
not perfect. He had three grades
of B and if the point average
were carried out to significant
figures, it would drop below 4.0.
Westmoreland will receive his
bachelor of Science degree in
Physics at Tech in June.
An outstanding student at Grif
fin High, he was Georgia’s STAR
student in 1962. As the state’s
top student that year, he toured
Europe.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Westmoreland, Jr. of
625 Kincaid avenue, Griffin.
Chance entered a plea of gu
ilty before Judge McGehee.
Gary Smith of Washington,
D. C., was sentenced to five
years in prison for burglary of
Griffin Lanes. Smith also en
tered a plea of guilty.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy, warn
and humid Saturday with scat*
tered showers and thundershow
ers mainly in the afternoon and
evening.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 80, minimum today
64, high Thursday 73, low Th
ursday 64, rainfall .02 of an inch.
(May rain total 5.97 inches.)
Sunrise Saturday 5:31, sunset
Saturday 7:37.
Vol. 95 No. 124
Wounded Viet Vets
Turned Away From
Hotel Show
By WESLEY G. PIPPERT
United Press International
CHICAGO (UPI) — For a
group of wounded Viet Nam
veterans out for a night on the
town, the “Stop and Go-Go”
musical ice revue at the
Conrad Hilton Hotel was
srtictly “go-go.”
Then the hotel said “no no.”
The hotel refused to let the
GIs attend the revue in its
swank Boulevard Room Thurs
day night because it feared
their presence might “depress”
other customers.
“I was astonished,” said
Ralph Shields, a suburban
township official who with
Mundelein (Ill.) Mayor Richard
M. Foss shepherded the young
veterans on their night out.
The GIs, recovering from
their war wounds at Great
Lakes Naval Hospital, began
their evening with a church
supper in Mundelein, took in a
movie in Chicago’s Loop and
settled for a late-night snack at
a North Side restaurant instead
of the Hilton revue.
Quick Reaction
Reaction to the rebuff was
not long in coming. The
Decatur (HI.) Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars fired
off a telegram to Conrad Hilton
and Chicago Mayor Richard J.
Daley calling the action a
“betrayal" of all veterans and
threatening to do no more
business with the hotel chain.
The commander of the
Illinois VFW said he would call
the matter to the attention of
the National VFW, which held
its 1965 convention in the Hilton
here.
Shields said some of the 96
GIs and about 20 girlfriends
were upset about being turned
away.
“My personal opinion is that
these are about the greatest
bunch of boys I’ve ever seen,”
Gray Qualifies
As Candidate
ATLANTA (UPI) — Albany
publisher James Gray, former
chairman of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee and a
prominent “Democrat for Gold
water” in 1964, qualified today
as a candidate for the Georgia
governorship.
Gray promised to align the
conservative wing of Georgia
Democrats behind his campaign
and was reported to have strong
support from leading party
members, including former Gov.
Ernest Vandiver.
Vandiver dropped out of the
race because of a heart attack,
opening a mad scramble for
post positions in the Sept. 14
party primary. The winner like
ly will face Rep. Howard (Bo)
Callaway, the Republican
It Was A Good Place To
Stop And Have A Baby
By WILLIAM CLAYTON
United Press International
DALLAS (UPI) —Tom Rubio
sped toward the hospital
Thursday, honking his horn at
every intersection. Finally his
expectant wife, Ercella, said,
“the baby’s coming.” Rubio
slammed on the brakes.
The car stopped in front of a
bottling company plant.
Rubio saw people standing
round the plant’s parking lot.
“Help me! My wife’s having
a baby!” Rubio shouted.
“Well, you’ve come to the
right place,” a man said.
By then, the birth of Tom
Rubio IV had begun.
he ssfd. “If I was a cash
customer at the Conrad Hilton
or anyplace and a group of Viet
Nam veterans came in, I would
be honored. And 95 per cent —
if not 100 per cent—of all
Americans would feel that
way.”
Porter Parris, hotel manager
and a Hilton vice president,
informed Shields and Foss on
Thursday that the GIs could not
attend the Boulevard Room ice
revue.
“We were willing to pay our
way at the Conrad Hilton,” he
said. “It wasn’t a matter of
cost.”
Expects Complaints
“We know we will get
complaints if we do this (have
wounded veterans there),” Par
ris said. “I know this from my
experience as manager of the
Hilton Hotel in Long Beach,
Calif., after World War II.
People come in and pay cover
charges and high prices and
they want relaxation and things
pleasant. Most of them resent
things like this.”
Parris also said the group of
veterans had asked to come on
48 hours notice. “It’s prom
season, too,” Parris said.
“Those kids will be filling up
the room.”
The hotel manager offered
the entire Boulevard Room to
up to 600 Viet Nam veterans
for a matinee—“a private show
sometime by themselves” —at
a future date. But Shields said
it was doubtful the GIs would
take the hotel up on its offer.
“These guys want a night out
on the town,” Shields said.
“They don’t want a matinee.
That sounds like a ladies tea.”
About two months ago,
Mundelein city officials spon
sored a trip out of other Viet
Nam veterans. They took in an
ice show at Chicago Stadium
and “were welcomed with open
arms,” Shields said.
choice, in November.
Former Gov. Ellis Arnall, At
lanta segregationist Lester Mad
dox and former Lt. Gov. Gar
land Byrd, also carrying the con
servative banner, are making
the governor’s race so far.
Comptroller General James
Bentley may get in later.
Bentley tried to smash re
ports that Sen. Herman Tal
madge would support Gray’s
campaign.
Gray, a native of Westfield,
Mass., is 50 years of age and a
graduate of Dartmouth Univers
ity.
He came south in World War
II for airborne training at Ft.
Benning. He had enlisted in the
Army as a private and was dis
charged a major.
“I looked up and my car was
surrounded by pregnant wo
men,” Rubio said.
“Now where did you all come
from?” asked Rubio.
Mrs. Evelyn Wormser, a
registered nurse, took over
from Rubio.
She explained to Rubio that
she was just getting ready to
conduct a weekly class in
“preparation for childbirth”
sponsored by the Dallas Associ
ation of Parent Education at
the plant’s auditorium.
Mrs. Wormser works in
obstetrics but had never
delivered a child in the front
seat of a car before. She said
Water Swirls
6.5 Feet On
Some Streets
ATHENS, Ga. (DPI) — A
cloudburst early today dumped
an estimated seven to eight
inches of rain on the western
section of Athens and caused
flash flooding that sent water
swirling as much as 6 V 2 feet
deep through some city streets.
Several residents of a Negro
section had to flee from the
swift-rising water. The floods
washed a gaping hole — 12 feet
across and about 14 feet wide
at one intersection in a new
white subdivision, severing a
sewer line.
No injuries were reported but
police said there were some
close calls for unwary motorists
and a dare-devil collegian. There
were no immediate estimates of
damage.
Near the Clarke County line,
motorist Randall David Austin,
20, of near Athens, drowned
when his car ran into deep water
on the Kings Bridge road. Au
thorities said he was on his way
to work.
Policeman Gerald Flanigan
said motorists were rescued from
two automobiles that ran past
police barricades, plunged into
water and sank out of sight
Flanigan also said a Univers
ity of Georgia student, attempt
ing to demonstrate his swim
ming skill, was swept along by
a wall of water and was finally
rescued after grabbing and hang
ing to a tree limb for two hours.
Police radio operator James
Bradberry said he had a call
that water ran through houses
on Wadell Street and some of
the flooded areas were 100 feet
wide.
The floods subsided on the
streets almost as quickly as they
came. Fire department crews
turned out at daybreak to wash
mud off the streets.
The sudden rainstorm appar
ently began in the center of the
city about 11 p.m. and moved
westward before slacking up
about 2 a.m.
By contrast, the Weather Bu
reau station east of Athens meas
ured only 214 inches of rain.
Among the businesses dam
aged was the Belgrade Manufac
turing Co., a textile firm that
manufactures trousers. Belgrade
owner John Wilkins declined to
speculate on the damages pend
ing a close examination. Water
appeared to have been as high
as 214 feet inside a warehouse
section.
A dam on a pond at the Puri
tan cordage Mills apparently
washed away before tons of
water but no other damage was
apparent.
Crei&t Bureau
Meets Tonight
Ed Hiles, Georgia business lea
der and public speaker, will talk
to the annual meeting of t h e
Credit Bureau of Griffin tonight.
It will be held at the Elks Club
beginning at 7:30.
Mr. Hiles will speak on the
subject “What’s Happening To
The Spirit of America?”
she was glad the Rubios
decided to stop at thai
particular moment and ask foi
help.
“It was rather a good place
to have it, wasn’t it?” she said
Mrs. Rubio and Tom Ruble
IV, who weighed 6 pounds 14
ounces, are doing all right
today at Baylor University
Medical Center.
The Rubios have two girls,
both born in hospitals with help
of anesthesia and doctors and a
hospital bed.
The color film of birth Mrs.
Wormser planned to show hei
class may turn out to be boring
when the group meets again.