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By Quimby Melton
•‘Christ’s Mission and Ours”
Is the title of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School lesson.
The background Scripture is
Luke 9 through 10.
The Memory Selection: “Who
eocver will save his life shall
lose it; but whosoever will lose
his life for my sake, the same
Shall save it.” (Luke 9:24.)
The title of this lesson is two
fold; it tells of Christ’s Mission,
and of OUR Mission.”
First: Who was — and is —Je
sus Christ?
Some in his day and time
thought him to be various per
sons. Some thought He was “an
other prophet” but Peter ans
wering for the disciples when
He asked them “but whom say
thee that I am?”, saying “Thou
art the Christ of God.” The
Greek word “Christ” and the Je
wish word “Messiah” both mean
“annointed.” But we have even a
better explanation of who Jesus
Christ was. Remember: “This
is my beloved Son — hear him.”
And “This is My Beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased.”
These were the words of Got
Himself.
Now God, like Jesus, has been
called by many names, but this
layman likes best of all “Fath
er”; Not Just the Father of
Jesus Christ by MY Father.
Now, why was Jesus sent to
the world, to teach, to preach,
to heal, and to die on the cross
and then be resurrected? God
in His wisdom sent Jesus to take
the form of man, to suffer, to
be scorned, to be crucified be
cause the world then, and the
world today, was so sinful that
the only way man could be sav
ed was by the precious sacrifi
cial blood of Jesus Himself. He
died, not just to save sinners of
his time on earth, but to save
sinners of today, tomorrow and
always.
Christ’s Mission was to save a
sinful world.
But what of the Mission of
each of us? This layman belie
ves that not a mother’s son of
us was bom without a ‘ ‘Mission. ’ ’
The common mission of every
man is to serve God, to worship
God, to honor God and so love
our fellow man. We are given
our “Mission orders” by Jesus
who said the most Important
commandments are to love God
with all our being and our neigh
bor as ourselves.
This layman does not believe
that God “predestines" in what
field one’s individual "mission”
will be. We do not believe that
every baby born is chosen to he
a preacher, or a missionary. We
do not believe that God the Fa
ther selected the profession or
the vocation one should follow.
For there is no field of endeavor
that is without It’s opportunity
to serve and honor God. We
can’t all be spiritual leaders,
there Is room for service to God
as “drawers of water and hew
ers of wood."
Jesus Christ chose as his apos
tles men in various fields of
work; Peter was a fisherman,
Matthew was a tax collector.
And later, though not of the
twelve, were Luke, the physic
ian; and Paul, who as Saul had
been a leader in the orthodox
synagogue and until his experi
ence on the Road to Damascus
an avowed enemy of Jesus
Christ.
Anyone who thinks in his heart
that “he does not count”, or
“there’s nothing I can do to be
profitable to my Master” is as
far wrong as one can be. May
be the “light” of our lives is no
brighter than the light of a sin
gle candle —but combined with
the light of other candles brings
a light that will help lighten the
world.
It takes a lot of folk to build
a home, be it humble or be it a
“skyscraper” apartment. The
people who cut the trees from
which the lumber comes, the
people who spin the wire from
which the electric power will be
carried into the homes, the peo
ple who make the brick, the
nails, the other things that
go into the building are impor
tant. Then the carpenters, the
electricians, the brick masons,
the plumber, and so on are im
portant in following the plans of
the architect, in erecting a fine
building.
We are all potential workers
for God Almighty.
Don’t sell yourself short, when
it comes to being a possible as
set to God. Whether or not you
are —is up to you.
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Rev. Walker records daily devotional in church
‘Dial-A-Prayer’
Phones Stay Busy
Here Day And Night
The response to the “Dial-A
Prayer”’ ministry offered by the
First Baptist Church in Griffin
has been so great that a second
phone line has been installed to
handle the heavy demand.
“Many residents of Griffin
have expressed their gratitude
for this ministry of help and
spiritual encouragement,” ac
cording to the Rev. Alastair Wal
ker, pastor.
"Some who have found it Im
possible to sleep will call the
number, 227-7381, and have found
Man Charged
With Larceny
After Trust
A Griffin wholesale grocery
firm has charged one of its sal
esmen with larceny after trust.
Tilman T. Blakely, Jr. of Grif
fin Grocery Company swore out
a warrant against Joe Lewis Jo
iner. A check of Joiner’s records
showed a shortage of $18,000,
the warrant said.
The warrant was served by
the Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department. Joiner has been
released on a $10,000 bond retur
nable to the February term of
Spalding County Superior Court.
Man, 22, Charged In Death
Of Girl; Shooting Of Another
MACON, Ga. (UPI)—Authori
ties early today charged a 22
year-old man with murder in
the drowning of a 16-year-old
high school girl and the critical
wounding of her I7-year-old
girl friend.
Both had defended their hon
or in a remote wooded area
near here after being picked up
on their way home from school,
officers said.
Authorities identified the mur
der suspect as Gerald Brickie,
22, of Macon. He was arrested
about 11 p.m. at his home and
whished off to jail.
Sheriff Jimmy E. Bloodworth
said that Karen Diane Pyrz,
16, was hit on the head and
either was thrown or fell into
a creek. An autopsy showed the
girl drowned.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871
Just the help they needed,” he
said.
The ministry is non-denomi
nationai. People in other cities
call the number regularly. It is
estimated that nearly 400 calls
are made for the service each
day.
A new message and prayer by
the First Baptist pastor lasting
about two minutes is recorded
about 8 a.m. each day.
Electronic devices attached to
the two special telephones re
cords and transmits the mes
sage when the number is called.
When the “dial” ministry was
first started, the Rev. Walker
said no general public announ
cement was made. The congre
gation was reminded that the
service was available and word
spread that the number could
be called, the Rev. Walker said.
However, a small advertise
ment in the Griffin Daily News
published a couple of times
brought quick response, the Rev.
Walker said. He said that the
one phone which had been in
stalled at first could not handle
the heavy traffic on the line.
Another phone had to be install
ed and both stay busy constant
ly day and night.
The Rev. Walker records his
meditations and prayers on the
equipment in his office at the
church. He records with both
telephone receivers at the same
time.
He props a receiver on each
of his ears then starts the re
cording mechanism by pressing
buttons on the phone bases with
the toes of his shoes.
Her girlfriend, Ruth Smith,
17, was shot twice in the chest
and was in critical condition to
day in a hospital here. She was
able to reconstruct the after
noon of terror for authorities in
a limited interview from her
hospital bed.
Officers said she told them
she and Karen were leaving
school where both were sopho
mores about noon when the
man enticed them into the
truck with an offer of a ride to
their homes five miles away.
But instead of driving them
home, the girls were taken to a
remote wooded area where the
man made advances, officers
were told.
When they resisted, Ruth was
shot twice in the chest. Karen
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 27,1967
Indigent Need Help
In Mental Health,
Venable Tells Solons
Tornado
Injures
6 People
ITTA BENA, Miss. (UPI) —
A small tornado dropped out of
a bank of thunderstorms mov
ing across Mississippi Thurs
day, injuring at least six per
sons as it bulled through this
small Leflore County town.
The twister brushed past a
school, tore a section away
from a cotton compress and a
cotton gin and bowled over sev
eral house trailers. None of the
injured was believed seriously
hurt.
Funnel - shaped clouds later
were spotted near Columbus
and Newton, but no other tor
nadoes touched down. Hail and
heavy rain pounded several
areas of the state and when the
thunderstorms passed out of the
state the watch was lifted
about 8 p.m.
Injured were Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Mangun, an elderly couple
whose trailer near the Berclair
community was toppled and
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bennett,
who live near the compress
area. Two employes at the
compress and cotton gin, Nutt
Johnson and Willie Lee Cole
man, also were Injured.
All were treated for minor in
juries.
The twister blew down a new
scoreboard at the football field
at the Leflore school and shat
tered seven windows, but chil
dren at the school escaped in
jury.
Otis Pigott, principal of the
school, said it was a ‘‘miracle
that there were no injuries to
children at the high school and
elementary sohool complex.”
He said teachers ushered the
children into the hallways when
the storm was sighted. The
students remained calm and
laid on the floor when the
storm hit.
The twister hit the Itta Bena
cooperative cotton compress
and the Blue Top Gin, just west
of the school. One end of the
compress was blown away and
falling timbers broke a gas
line, allowing gas to escape
into the area.
A witness said the twister
“picked up 500 pound bales of
cotton and tossed them up and
down like yo-yos.” The gin also
suffered some damage.
The tornado scattered tin and
debris over several hundred
yards of the 2,000 population
Delta town located seven miles
southwest of Greenwood.
Power Outage
Scheduled
For Sunday
The Light and Water Dept, an
nounced today that an outage of
electricity is scheduled for ab
out 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Sunday,
Jan. 29, weather permitting.
The area affected will be rela
tively small and will be roughly
bounded by Oak street. South
Sixth street, Milner street and
South Hill street.
In addition, the entire Hillan
dale and Terracedale areas will
be included.
The Light and Water Dept,
said the work Sunday morning
will add circuit capacity for the
area and release substation cap
acity at the same time.
It has been suggested that
those in the area using electric
alarm clocks should set them to
compensate for the hour they
will not be running.
Industry - Trade
Probe Sought
By DONALD PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—State Sen.
William Searcey of Savannah
today asked for an investigation
of the Department of Industry
and Trade which overspent its
budget by more than $150,000
last year.
Searcey echoed sentiments of
many members of the House
Appropriations Committee who
criticized department officials
during budget hearings.
Searcey said he wanted to
find the official “responsible
for the misuses of funds,” but
added he was not accusing any
one of a criminal act.
He asked Atty. Gen. Arthur
Bolton to look into the deficit.
State Auditor Ernest Davis
outlined numerous inadequacies
in the department, including
poor bookkeeping systems, but
said he thought the situation
had been corrected.
Some legislators talked of
calling in bonds on the officials
of the department and collect
ing the remainder of the deficit
from members of the Board of
Industry and Trade. But there
was no formal move made in
this direction.
Davis said he would favor do
ing this if the department
showed a deficit again.
Industry and Trade Director
James Nutter admitted his de
partment’s Shortcomings but
blamed them on its rapid ex
pansion in the past few years.
“Today I am called on to de
fend something that is indefen
sible,” Nutter said. He added
that personnel in his agency
had increased from 73 to 166 in
two years and that the depart
ment was operating piecemeal
out of six different locations
around the capitol.
Nutter took full responsibility
for the deficit but Industry and
Trade Board Chairman Peter
Knox said the board would
have to share the blame. He
said board members were tak
ing steps to insure there would
not be another deficit.
Among the reasons for the
deficit brought out during the
hearing was that the governor’s
office and other state depart
ments had been able to incur
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fled and was chased by the as
sailant who missed her with his
gun. Catching her, he hit her
with the gun, the sheriff was
told.
Miss Smith said she played
dead and the man drove away.
She then managed to drag her
self to a road and help from a
passerby who called police.
Police said the slaying of
Miss Pryz so inflamed her
brother that he armed himself
and went looking for her killer.
Officers were able to persuade
him from the hunt, however,
and he was taken home.
Miss Pryz was the daughter
of Mrs. Dorothy McMullen of
Pensacola, Fla., and had been
living in Macon with her grand
mother.
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Peace Winners
Winners in the Griffin Lions Club Peace Essay con
test were announced at the club’s Thursday night
meeting. Jan Hammock (second from left) won
first place and Ann Blakeney (1), was first runner
up. C. V. Glisson, (third from left) of Ft. Valley,
and Harry Cooper, president of the Griffin club,
check over the awards presented to the winners. Miss
Vof. 96 No. 22
Tells Of Faulty
X-Ray Equipment
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Health Director Dr. James
Venable charged today the
Georgia Legislature is doing
nothing to help the indigent in
the field of mental health.
“Sooner or later Georgia is
going to have to do something
for the indigent,” Venable said
in summing up his budget re
quest before the House Appro
priations Committee.
He said social security helped
persons tinder 21 and Medicare
took care of many over 65 but
local communities must still
bear the entire burden of hos
pital care for indigent persons
between 21 and 65.
Venable had asked for $2 mil
lion during the next two fiscal
Vears for this purpose but the
money was cut out early during
budget hearings.
“It’s never been in any gov
ernor’s budget,” Venable la
mented.
He said he realized there was
no hope to get the money in the
budget now under consideration
but said he wanted the law
makers to keep in mind this
pressing problem for future
budgets.
Venable testified Thursday
that patients at Milledgeville
State Hospital, “Georgia’s 20th
largest city,” are needlessly ex
posed to radiation from faulty
X-ray equipment.
He said this was a glaring
example why his department
needed all of the $180.3 million
it requested.
Venable told the House Ap
propriations Committee that the
exposure to radiation was not
'necessarily dangerous but is an
example how any cuts in the
budget “would delay us in get
ting a level of health care we
desperately need.”
Dr. P. K. Dixon, chairman of
the State Board of Health, said
Gov. Lester Maddox’s propose
budget* for health was inade
quate to finance the state’s
mental health program.
“After 116 years of neglect,
the health department has in
herited a bad situation,” Dixon
said.
Dixon urged the lawmakers
to restore at least a part of
the $35 million lopped from the
bills in the name of the Indus
try and Trade Department.
One expenditure was for 30
pairs of gold cufflinks at $400
ordered by the governor’s office
for promotion.
Prior to taking up the Indus
try and Trade department bud
get request, the committee was
told by Dr. John Venable, state
health director, that the Legis
lature is doing nothing to help
indigents in the field of mental
health.
Quirks
UP IN SMOKE
PASA ROBLES, Calif. (UPI)
— An old furnace, which had
kept the congregation warm at
a Mennonite Church for many
years, was recently declared
faulty by the city building
Inspector.
Church officials Installed a
new furnace, as ordered. The
church burned to the ground
Thursday. A faulty furnace was
listed as cause of the blaze.
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NO PROBLEM
CHAMPAIGN, HI. (UPI) —
Television station WCIA was
knocked off the air in the
middle of newscast Thursday
night when power went off
because of an lce-sleet storm.
A newsman at the station said
he and his colleagues were not
concerned too much. Most of
their would-be viewers didn’t
have any electricity either.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and much
colder with near cold wave and
hard freeze tonight. Saturday
fair and cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 63, minimum today
38, maximum Thursday 74, mini
mum Thursday 54. Total rainfall
.49 of an inch. Sunrise Saturday
7:38 a.m., sunset Saturday 6:09
p.m.
budget request by former Gov.
Carl Sanders and Gov. Lester
Maddox.
Venable told the committea
there was a 1,700-person wait
ing list for Gracewood Hospital
and the institution now houses
1,792 patients.
“There is a one person per
bed waiting list,” he said.
In other legislative action
Thursday:
— New State Patrol Col. R.H.
Burson said he may ask Mad
dox to decrease the number of
new troopers provided in his
budget and use the extra mon
ey to increase starting salaries.
He said an increase was need
ed to get high caliber men.
Troopers start now at $402 a
month.
—Sen. Horace Ward of Atlan
ta told the House, Judiciary
Committee that proposed new
treason and insurrection laws
contained in the criminal coda
were “dangerous” and prom
ised to fight them In the leg
islature.
—The State Game and Fish
Commission refused to knuckle
under pressure and again re
jected George Bagby, Gov. Les
ter Maddox’s hand-picked can
didate for director of the wild
life department. However, the
commission did not name a
new director to replace Rosser
Malone.
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“A man’s worth can be
measured by what he’s will*
ing to give up to rescut
others from want.”
Hammock’s essay had been forwarded to other Lion
officials for regional competition. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hammock, 750 Hale avenue.
Miss Blakeney is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Blakeney of Route One, Brooks. Both are seniors at
Griffin High.