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By Quimby Melton
“■Our Response to Christ” is
the title of the International Sun
day School lesson this week. The
background Scripture is Luke
7 and 8; the Memory Selection
is “Take heed therefore how ye
hear; for whosoever hath, to him
Khali be given; and whosoever
hath not, from him shall be tak
en even that which he seemeth
to have.” Luke 8:18. As you
read the Memory Selection
please notice the words “-which
he seemeth to have”; we’ll com
ment on this later in this col
umn.
Commentaries on this lesson
publish only part of the back
ground scripture; this layman
suggests that before one pro
ceeds further he should read the
entire Luke 7 and 8.
We find in Chapter 7 that Je
sus had healed the centurian’s
servant; had restored life to the
dead son of the widow; and that
John’s disciples, who came to
eee Jesus, witnessed “many mir
acles” including sight restored
to the blind, the lame’s being
able to walk, lepers healed, the
ears of the deaf’s being opened
and “the Gospel preached to the
poor.” We also find that Jesus
had gone to the home of a Phar
isee and while there a woman—
probably Mary Magdalene —had
annotated Him with precious
ointment; this act of hers being
criticized by many who witness
ed her devotion.
Then Jesus told the parable
(story) of the sower who sowed
good seed on four different kinds
of soil. This parable is most
often called the parable of the
sower, or the parable of the
seed, but it more correctly should
be called the parable of the
Boils. It was the same sower and
the same seed but there were
four types of soil on which the
seed fell.
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Jesus, in explaining to his dis
ciples the meaning of the par
able, tells of four different re
ceptions of the seed (Word of
God.)
The first type soil He likened
to hearers whose hearts are so
filled with other things that they
simply do not “have the time”
to listen. The message of Jesus
“goes into one ear and out of the
other” if it is listened to at all.
The second type soil are those
who though they received the
Word at first with gladness soon
are so concerned with “this and
that” that the seed which spring
Into life soon withers away.
The third type are the people
who live a cluttered life, a life
without any objective. Outward
ly they may seem to be Chris
tians, but inwardly they are in
different — to say the least.
Then comes the “good soil”,
deep and rich and free from
weeds and thorns. This depicts
the life which hears the Word
and treasures the Word, and cul
tivates the Word and bears much
fruit.
Floyd Filson sums up this par
able by writing.” The meaning
of the parable can be put anoth
er way. Though the gospel mes
sage faces many obstacles that
keep it from yielding fruit in
many lives, still the sowing of
the message of Jesus and His
disciples will yield a great har
vest.”
Charles Layman likens the fir
st type soil to an “iron curtain”.
“No admittance” he says is the
sign by this rocky road, just as
the sign “Verbieten” stands
near the wall that separated
West and East Germany. Too
many people, close their minds
to the truth, being content witn
their philosophy of life; they just
cannot Imagine that they could
be wrong about anything.
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Now before our space runs
out, let’s return to those words
“which He seemeth to have”
contained in the Memory Selec
tion.
This layman admits that this
entire verse has been one that
has been hard to understand. It
seemed to be like the modern
day saying “them that hath,
gets.”
Then, one day, this thought
came to us. The things that will
be taken away are the things
that “seemeth” of value to us;
but are of no real value. When
we are told “to him that hath
shall be given”— we believe that
when Jesus says “to him that
hath shall be given” He meant
one who has faith, and love, and
understanding, shall have more
faith and more love and more
understanding.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 20,1967 Vol. 96 No. 16
INSIDE TODAY
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Sanders Balks. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Sports. Page 5.
Socieiy. Page 6.
Tom Tiede. Page 7.
Georgia Briefs. Page 7.
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State Patrol Moves
Sgt. W. E. Butler began the task of refliag records in his office in the new State
Patrol Barracks on North Expressway today. The patrol began the move into the
new post this morning and expected to have it completed by nightfall. The new
barracks has been complete for some time, but furniture did not arrive until this
week. Paving and yard work are yet to be completed.
Game-Fish Bill
3 Weeks
ATLANTA (UPI)—A bill de
signed to take away the powers
of the Georgia Game and Fish
Commission will not be intro
ducted for at least three weeks,
its sponsors said today.
Reps. Kent Dickinson and
Brad Dorminy said they had
Ashmore Believes
Hanoi Won t Talk
Till Bombs
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —A
former Pulitzer Prize winning
editor just returned from Hanoi
says he thinks North Vietnam
may send a delegation to an
unofficial peace conference but
doubts formal negotiations to
end the war could start until the
United States stops bombing the
north.
Harry Ashmore, one-time
editor of the Arkansas Gazette,
personally invited North Vietna
mese Premier Ho Chi Minh to
the proposed world peace
meeting next spring and said he
was “encouraged” by the
reaction.
Ashmore, now associated with
the Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions, re
turned from Hanoi three days
ago. He told a news conference
Thursday he believed the North
Vietnamese never would agree
to formal peace negotiations
until the United States first
stops bombing raids on their
nation.
Announce Conference
Formal announcement of the
Tighten Belts. Page 7.
Sales Tax Hike. Page 7.
News Quiz. Page 8.
Tax Hike Opposed. Page 8.
Winter. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Want Ads. Pages 10, 11.
Bed Chiefs. Page 12.
Revolution. Page 12.
Finding the Way. Page 12.
Commentary. Page 12.
worked out a deal with the
Maddox administration to with
hold the bill until after the
three - week legislative recess
which starts today. They said
Gov. Lester Maddox had prom
ised his support for the meas-
projected peace conference was
made Thursday night at a
Beverly Hilton Hotel dinner by
center President Robert M.
Hutchins. The center is an
educational organization, head
quartered at Santa Barbara,
Calif., and operated by the
Fund for the Republic Inc.
Hutchins said it was hoped
that representatives of both
North Vietnam and Communist
China would attend the peace
convention scheduled for May
23-28 at Geneva, Switzerland.
Russia already has indicated it
will send emissaries.
Ashmore, reporting on his
trip, said he agreed with
reports by other Western
observers that American bom
bers have hit nonmilitary
targets, including schools, in
raids on North Vietnam.
Assesses Bomb Damage
“It is my considered Judge
ment that this would not be
anything I would characterize
as accidental bombing,” he
said.
US T roops Uncover
Cong Attack A Plans
ure if no suitable arrangement
could be worked out during the
recess.
The Game and Fish Comis
sion refused to name Maddox’s
choice, former Rep. George
Bagby of Dallas, a wildlife di
rector and Dickinson and Dor
miny submitted the bill to cur
tail the commission’s powers
shortly afterwards.
Dorminy said he might be a
candidate for the position him
self if Bagby should withdraw
for any reason. But he said he
did not think Bagby would with
draw.
The bill would take away all
the powers of the commission
and turn it into merely an ad
visory board to be called to
gether at the request of the di
rector.
Meanwhile, a constitutional
amendment was introduced In
the House to provide that the
game and fish director shall be
elected by popular vote at the
same time the governor is
elected. This proposal if
passed, would have to be voted
on by the people in the 1968
general election.
The proposed constitutional
amendment was introduced by
Reps. Harry Magoon of Hart
will and Norman Doster of Ro
chelle.
“We have agreed,” Dickinson
said, “to hold the bill out of
the hopper until we can meet
with the Game and Fish Com
mission. But we will introduce
it the first day we return if
nothing can be worked out.
“We have talked with the
administration floor leaders and
the governor just this morning
and the administration has said
it will support us if we can’t
work out a compromise.”
Map Found
In Maze Of
'Hobo’ Tunnels
By BRYCE MILLER
SAIGON (UPI) — U.S. troops
poking through an underground
maze of tunnels below the Hobo
Woods Just north of Saigon to
day discovered a detailed map
pinpointing U.S. billets in the
capital and a master plan for
destruction of the Ton Son Nhut
Airport.
The discovery in three-mile
long tunnels at the edge of the
Iron Triangle was announced as
Air Force spokesmen disclosed
American planes charged up
Hanoi’s danger-packed “MIG
Alley” Thursday to within 15
miles off the off limits buffer
zone separating North Vietnam
from China.
Reports from the 196th Light
Infantry Brigade whose tunnel
rates are sweeping through the
Communist stronghold said
even the Continental Hotel, a
Saigon landmark dating from
French colonial days, was
marked in blue pencil on the
detailed chart It is a commer
cial hotel now and its wide ver
andas are mostly Jammed with
U.S. newsmen and other civil
ians.
The 196th Light Infantry
discovered the vast tunnel two
days ago and has made Its
discovered the vast tunnel two
days ago and have made its
way only about halfway through
it. It Is located in the Hobo
Woods—long a Communist sanc
tuary—and on the fringes of the
Iron Triangle 40 miles north
west of Saigon.
Brig. Gen. Richard T.
Knowles, commander of the
196th, described it as a main
base camp for guerrilla bands
operating in the capital area.
The United States launched its
biggest operation of the war
against the Red sanctuary Jan.
8 and so far has killed more
than 600 Viet Cong in Operation
Cedar Falls.
Knowles said his men found a
detailed plan of the Dec. 4
attack on the Tan Son Nhut
Airbase, the most important
U.S. and Vietnamese military
facility in Vietnam, with details
of how best to destroy the
sprawling complex.
In the Dec. 4 raid about 60
guerrillas invaded the airbase
before dawn and actually
penetrated the perimeter before
being hurled back by U.S.
military police and Vietnamese
guards. More than 20 guerrillas
were killed trying to reach the
long lines of sleek jets parked
in revetments along the airport
aprons.
Two underground forts were
among a score of base camps
uncovered by troops in Opera
tion Cedar Falls.
Military spokesmen reported
585 guerrillas killed by actual
body count and estimated E52
strikes had killed perhaps 200
more. But the real story of the
success of the operation lay in
the number of fortifications and
amounts of food and ammuni
tion seized.
The main purpose of the
operation is to deny the
Communists their main head
quarters for the Saigon area
and make it forever unusable to
them as a safe haven. Huge
bulldozers are moving out
ahead of the advancing troops,
ripping out huge sections of the
jungle for lanes for gunfire and
future landtag zones.
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“We used to have an old
cow that kicked when I
milked her — thus helping
me appreciate more the
others that didn’t.”
Anti-Mao Leaders
Dead In Suicides
By CHARLES R. SMITH
HONG KONG (UPI) —Two
high-ranking Communist Chi
nese officials, including the
former head of the Chinese
army, have committed suicide
and two others have attempted
to kill themselves, it was
reported today. All four were
opponents of party Chairman
Mao Tse-tung.
Other reports from Red China
said Red Guards in Peking have
crushed a plot to overthrow
Defense Minister Lin Piao,
Mao’s heir apparent, and
arrested a top Chinese military
leader.
The reports from Japanese
and East European correspon
dents in Peking identified the
suicides as Gen. Lo Jui-ching,
the former army chief of staff,
and Vice Premier Po I-po, a top
government economics expert.
The correspondents also re
ported that Communist party
Secretary General Teng Hsiao
ping and Supreme Court Pres
ident Yang Hsiu-fang attempted
suicide but failed. Teng and
President Liu Shao-chi are
considered co-leaders of the
drive to oust Mao from power
Both men have been attacked
for following a pro-Soviet line
and Liu was believed under
Flag Ceremony, Prayer
Kept At Cage Games
D. B. Christie, principal of Gr
iffin High School, today issued
the following statement:
“Griffin High School proposes
to teach values as well as subject
matter. Among the more impor
tant values are: reverence for
God; patriotism for counry; and
loyalty to school.
“The flag ceremony at the be
ginning of the girls game will
be conducted as usual and a pra
yer will be given before the
boy’s game.
“Other activities have been
temporarily cut out in an effort
to keep someone from getting
hurt.
“Again, everyone is urged to
support the Eagles, yell with the
cheerleaders, stay off the court
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Materials For MH Clinic
Materials to be used for working with children in the Mental Health Clinic at the
Griff in-Spalding County Health Center have been purchased by the Griff in-Spald<
ing County Jaycettes. The materials, including a drawing board, brushes, paints,
paper and a drying rack, were presented by Mrs. Wayne Smith, chairman of the
Jaycettes Mental Health Committee, to Eugene Anderson, director of the clinic*
house arrest in Peking.
The Yugoslav news agency
Tanjug, in a dispatch from
Peking, also reported that pro
Mao Red Guard youngsters
have seized Vice Premier Ho
Lung, an army marshal who is
vice president of the people’s
defense council.
Ho was accused of plotting
with “reactionary elements” in
the army, air force and navy to
overthrow Lin, Tanjug said.
Lin was reported by Hong
Kong newspapers to be working
for the past few weeks to swing
all of China’s military forces to
the Lta-Mao side. So far he has
not succeeded and the army has
remained neutral in the purge
sweeping China.
Bulletin
HONG KONG (UPI) —Peking
Radio said tonight the op
ponents of Chinese Communist
Party leader Mao Tse-tung had
mobilized “great numbers” of
peasants and sent them into
Shanghai to attack the pro-Mao
forces.
The broadcast said clashes
had occurred between the
farmers and the. pro-Mao
workers in the city of 10
million.
and do not heckle the opposing
team.”
The statement was issued in
connection with some school po
licies announced this week to stu
dents in connection with conduct
at basketball games.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Rather cold again to
night. A warming trend Saturday
with increasing cloudiness late
in the day.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 51, minimum today
30, maximum Thursday 53, mini
mum Thursday 41. Sunrise Sat
urday 7:41 a.m., sunset Saturday
6:02 p.m.
House Clears
Way For Burson
In Safety Post
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)— The Geor
gia House recessed for three
weeks today after passing with
out debate a bill that would al
low Col. R. H. Burson to be
named Georgia Public Safety
Director.
The bill, introduced at the re
quest of Gov. Lester Maddox,
passed the lower chamber by a
vote of 113 to 15. It had al
ready passed the Senate and
was expected to be signed into
law later today.
The measure will allow the
56-year-old Burson, the current
Director of Corrections, to be
named Public Safety Director
by upping the legal age for the
job from 55 to 60.
Burson is expected to succeed
Col. Lowell Conner. Conner will
become a deputy director of
corrections.
Former Albany Mayor Asa
Kelly is expected to be named
to Burson’s post as Director of
Corrections.
The House recessed until
Feb. 13 without taking action
on a controversial bill to strip
the Georgia Game and Fish
Commission of its powers and
convert ft to an advisory board.
Reps. Kent Dickinson and
Brad Dormtayn the sponsors of
the measure, said they had
worked out a deal with the ad
ministration to withhold the
measure until after the recess.
Christopher In
Atlanta Hospital
Col. Claude Christopher has
been transferred to Piedmont
Hospital in Atlanta for treatment
of a leg injury he suffered in a
fall at his home Thursday.
He was admitted to the Griffin
Spalding Hospital and transfer
red later Thursday.
Col. Christopher was solicitor
of city court for many years be
fore giving up the post in De
cember to devote his full time
to the practice of law.