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By Quimby Melton
“Love Beyond Measure” is
the subject of the International
Sunday School lesson this week.
And this is Palm Sunday, us
hering in Holy Week. Before
one begins the study of this les
son we suggest they read Chap
ter 11 of St. Mark. This tells the
story of Palm Sunday, when the
multitudes greeted Jesus Christ,
as he rode into the city, shout
ing a welcome and singing, “Ho
sanna! Blessed is he that come
th in the name of the Lord.”
But don’t stop, read on a n d
you will read of Jesus enter
ing the Temple and being an
gered at what he found, driving
out those who were desecrating
the holy temple, saying "My
house shall be called of all na
tions a house of Prayer — but
ye have made it a den of thiev
es.”
Now, Jesus Christ had alrea
dy earned the hatred and en
mity of most of the leaders of
the temple, who saw in Him a
threat to their authority and
easy living. Could it be that
when these demanded His cruci
fixion, those “money changers”
of the temple joined them in de
manding nothing less than the
death of the Master?
Now let’s get on to the lesson
for this Palm Sunday. Read all
oi Chapters 22 and 23 of St.
Luke. These tell of the Last
Supper, the betrayal of Jesus
by Judas, His sg-called trial, and
His cruciiixion.
The Memory Selection for this
lesson is “Therefore doth my
Father love me, because I lay
down my life, that I might take
it again. No man taketh it from
me, but I lay it down myself.”
(John 10:17-18.)
That part of the background
Scripture that is printed as the
basis for this lesson begins by
telling of Jesus going to the
mount of Olives; and praying
there. In Luke 22-verse 44, we
read that Jesus “prayed more
earnestly, and his sweat was as
it were great drops of blood fall
ing down on the ground.” As this
layman read this he could not
help but think that we of today
when we “pray more earnestly”
Usually do so as tears course
down our cheeks; tears of sor
row, as when we lose a dear
one; and tears of sorrow when
we realize how many times we
have failed to obey the will of
God.
— + —
There are two things, rather
two statements of Jesus Christ,
that to this layman are the keys
to the entire lesson.
One was when Jesus, after
asking God to “remove this cup
from me,” added “nevertheless
not my will, but thine, be done.”
How many of us arq willing,
when we pray, to say, and real
ly mean it “not my will but
thine be done?”
The second thing that always
Impresses us was the attitude of
the two thieves who were cruci
fied with Jesus — one on the
right and the other on the left.
One, remember, cursed Jesus
and said “save me”; the other
rebuked the cursing thief, saying
“we’re getting our just deserts”
and then confesses his many
sins, but had hope enough to
add “Lord remember me when
thou cometh into thy kingdom.”
Jesus replied “This day thou
shalt be with me in Paradise.”
How similar is this to statements
by Jesus time and time again
“Thy faith hath made thee
Whole.”
And we must not forget that
in spite of all the suffering
Jesus experienced His love for
man did not weaken. One of the
last things He said as He hung
On the cross was “Father for
give them for they know not
what they do.”
There are so many things of
Importance and interest in this
story by Luke. For instance we
find that Jesus was first taken
before Pilate, who “finding no
fault”, however, did not set Him
free, but sent Him to Herod’s
court; and Herod in turn retur
ned Jesus to Pilate.
In this modem day we would
say that both Bilate and Herod
were “passing the buck.”
Then, too, in this lesson we
are told that Joseph of Arimath
aea claimed the body of Jesus
and placed it in his (Joseph’s)
own tomb. We have often wish
ed that there was more about
this “just man” in the Bible.
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Established 1871
Outside USSR , It Can Be Told
In Moscow “t
By FRED SPARKS
NEW YORK — (NEA) —Now
that I am out of the Soviet Un
ion I can report that a momen
tous power struggle is shaping
up in the Kremlin, triggered by
critics of Russia’s foreign policy,
particularly its relations with
North Vietnam.
My own observations, plus
what I was told by numerous
Western diplomats and other
foreign residents, lead to expec
tations that before the struggle
is resolved the two-headed dic
tatorship of Premier Alexei
Kosygin and party boss Leonid
Brezhnev will be replaced. And
Kosygin and Brezhnev would va
nish from the political scene like
Nikita Khrushchev, suddenly,
overnight, without fanfare.
I wouldn't have dared cable
this from Russia, where report
ing that the dictatorship is sha
ky is the No. one sin. If the ab
ove were written by a resident
correspondent in Moscow he
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Truly Irish *
In a true Irish spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, Sandra O’Brien looks for a four leaf
clover which she hopes will bring her some luck. Irishmen over the world are pay
ing tribute to their patron saint today. Most Irishmen will be dressed in green, as
Sandra was when she looked for a clover. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton O’Brien of 226 Laramie road.
Guam Talks Aimed
At More Pressure
On North
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Pres
ident Johnson’s forthcoming
Guam conference is expected to
produce an order for another
turn of tlie screw intensifying
military pressure on Hanoi and
the Viet Cong.
According to authorities here,
this will consist of adding a few
more industrial targets to the
list to be attacked by Navy anil
Air Force planes and plotting
the most effective use of troop
reinforcements being sent into
tlie conflict.
Top administration officials,
encouraged by increasing
evidence of lower Communist
morale and supply difficulties,
are hoping that the gradual
increase in punishment will
crack Hanoi's refusal to talk
peace on acceptable terms.
While emphasizing that Hanoi
still has given no “signal” that
it is willing to scale down the
tempo of the conflict and come
to the peace table, officials say
there is evidence the North
Vietnamese may be moving in
that direction. They declined to
disclose the evidence.
Officials declare tiiat there is
no foundation to speculation
that the Guam meeting will
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It is an accepted fact of life in
Moscow that Soviet foreign po
licy is in tatters. China, the
most populated Communist co
untry, is now an enemy. East
ern Europe is rapidly drifting
farther away from Moscow’s do
mination. Even North Korea
shows alarming independence.
And if this wasn’t enough to
undermine any government,
there is the impossible problem
of Vietnam. My excellent sour
ces in Moscow told me that im
portant members of the Presi
dium personally blame Kosygin
and Brezhnev for getting the
Soviet Union involved in that
hopeless mess “where Russia
had nothing to gain and every
thing to lose.”
“Everything to lose” means a
confrontation with the United
States, which is the last thing
anyone inside the Kremlin wants.
Particularly at this time when
Red China is making warlike
noises on Russia’s borders.
lead to any major escalation of
the war. And they say that no
consideration is being given at
the top ievel here to pushing
American troop strength beyond
the estimated 47,000 in Viet
nam by the end of 1967.
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“We seem to think we
could love our loved ones a
little better if they’d be like
we want them instead of like
they are.”
Communist heavyweights rap
ping Kosygin and Brezhnev say
that shortly after they replaced
Khrushchev in 1964 they made
their first irrevocable error:
They encouraged North Vietnam
to invade South Vietnam in or
ganized force without antici
pating the violent American re
action.
Khrushchev had learned, dur
ing the Cuban missile crisis, that
Americans are quick on the
draw. He had done little to en
courage Hanoi to expand its ef
forts beyond guerrilla warfare.
Critics of the current, dicta
torship say it gave Hanoi the
O.K. to “get tough” as part of
its campaign to woo Red China
back into Mother Russia’s arms.
They wanted to prove that, un
like Khrushchev, they approved
revolution and invasion as a me- ■
ans to advance world revolution.
Khrushchev’s theory of “peace
ful co-existence” was downplay
ed by Kosygin and Brezhnev
when parleying with the Chinese.
Henry County
To Vote On
School Bonds
The Henry County Board
Education this week called
tiie passage of a school bond
sue to be voted on Wednesday.
The $80,000 would be used
complete the million
construction program.
The $80,000 is the
amount of bonds that can be
sued by the school board at
time.
Polls In the county’s 14 militia
districts will be open from 7 a.
in. to 7 p.m. Voters will either
mark a yes or no bracket beside
the proposal: “Shall there be
authorized to be issued $80,000
Henry County School District
Bonds.”
A majority is needed to either
approve or reject the bonds.
School Superintendent Charlie
A. Waits said the money
be used to purchase furniture,
make necessary repairs on
dings, pay for furniture
ed for new cafeterias and
and /or necessary items,
as a hew boiler at Henry
High.
Kosygin made a pilgrimage
to Peking where he preached
brotherly, Communist love and
was feasted at massive ban
quets where rivers of sharks’
fin soup flowed like borscht in
Moscow.
Besides the soup, Red China
gave Kosygin nothing but the
war in Vietnam. And since the
Americans entered the conflict
with such considerable force,
Kosygin and his partner in dic
tatorship have been in an un
enviable position.
They dare not risk war .with
the United States by bailing out
Hanoi with Russian airpower
or ground troops.
They have not yet been able
to get Hanoi to negotiate, part
ly because the Red Chinese are
pressuring Hanoi to be ever
more belligerent.
Caught in the middle, helpless,
Kosygin and Brezhnev are send
ing a dribble of military hard
ware to Hanoi while they make
Footlighters
To Stage Play
In Studio Here
lodrama “Arsenic and Old Lace,” a me
first presented in 1941,
will receive an entirely new and
unique production this spring at
the Mezart Studio on Bucksnort
road, officers of the Griffin Foot
light Players announced today.
The groups’ fifteenth produc
tion, a combination of profess
ional and amateur efforts, will
be seen on a set especially de
signed and built for the play by
Ted and Genevievf Meza, co-ow
ners of Mezart itudio, which
produces sets, backdrops and
props for professional enter
tainers.
An invitation extended to the
local theatrical group by the Me
zas is the basis of this joint ven
ture.
“We heard the local group
needed a stage because of fire
regulations imposed on the old
high school auditorium,” explai*
ned the Mezas, “and we were
anxious to have a performing gr
j cup lire studio use our is facilities.” the place Though where
sets and props are designed, bu
ilt and painted for professional
use, its basic design is that of a
theater with a spacious, panell
ed lobby, auditorium and rais
ed stage area.
“All who have participated in
the preliminary plans feel that
this will be the best show yet.
said Howard Wallace, newly
elected president of the Players.
"Ted has us convinced that this
will be better than summer sto
ck and better than barn thea
ter. He calls it “Exposed Thea
ter’ of a kind never attempted
before.”
“Arsenic and Old Lace” is the
story of tile balmy Brewster fa
mily who have 12 victims, 13
counting an accidental death,
buried in the basement of the
family home in Brooklyn. Three
performances are scheduled
May 4, 5 and G.
Herb Brioges, the director, will
conduct readings in the parlor
of St. George’s Episcopal Chur
ch on 10th street Monday night
prior to casting the play. It has
three female and 11 male parts.
He said no dramatic experience
is necessary and all interested
in becoming members of the
group, as performers or in a
backstage capacity, should at
tend the readings.
The Mezas, who live just over
the county line in Butts County,
have conducted their business
in Spalding County ever since
tire expansion of the Atlanta Air
port forced them out of Clayton
County two years ago. Both are
former headliners with “Holi
day on Ice” and both are exper
ienced in every phase of show
business. Although their props
and scenic paraphenalia are cur
rently on lease all over this
country, examples of their work
in the local area can be found
at Stone Mountain State Park
and at Lakewood Park.
Other 1967 officers of the play
ers are Jack Robbins, vice pre
sident, and Mrs. D. G. Lewis,
secretary. Dr. Sonny Butler anil
Mrs. Seaton Bailey are new bo
ard members. The Griffin Foot
light Players is a non-profit cor
poration supported solely by gate
rcceits and patron dues. Those
interested in becoming patron
members should contact Mrs.
Bailey.
Vol. 95 No. 64
thundering speeches threaten
ing to hit the Americans with
everything but the Bolshoi Bal
let.
These warlike proclamations,
winked at in sophisticated Mos
cow, are primarily directed at
the rest of the Communist
world where Soviet prestige is
low, thanks to Vietnam. The
East European press, for exam
ple, much freer than Moscow’s,
has slyly made it clear that the
Russians are standing by, hands
and tongues tied, while a small
Communist country is getting
pounded by an “imperialist.”
It would be folly for anyone to
venture a guess as to whom
will succeed Kosygin and Brezh
nev if they should fall. This
business is yet in its early stag
es and the Kremlin is not inclin
ed to publicize differences in the
Presidium. However, one thing
appears certain: The current
dictatorship has suffered stun
ning reverses, it has lost Rus-
Solons Hassle
On Taxes
Assassination Probe
Ex- Prosecutor
Indicted On
1
By THOMAS K. HARVEY
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—Dean
Andrews, a suspended Louisiana
prosecctor who told the Warren
Commission he had been
approached to represent Lee
Harvey Oswald shortly after
President Kennedy was mur
dered, has been indicted for
perjury.
Andrews, who was free on
$1,000 bond today, was the first
person connected in any way
with the Garrison investigation
to be indicted in the case. He
was suspended Wednesday from
his post as assistant district
attorney of Jeffe 'son Parish
(county) and surrendered to
authorities Thursday night.
Meanwhilie, a preliminary
hearing to determine whether
New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim
Garrison had enough evidence
to bring businessman Clay L.
Shaw to trial for conspiracy to
assassinate Kennedy continued.
Tells of Plot
Perry R. Russo, 25, a Baton
Rouge, La., insurance salesman,
ended three days of testimony
Thursday. He said he had heath
Shaw, Oswald and David Ferric
plot to kill the President. Russo
also said Garrison had him
hypnotized prior to questioning.
Andrews, in an interview with
television station EDSU-TV,
said he did not know why he
had been indicted by the New
Orleans Grand Jury, but added
he had expected it.
Andrews had been before the
grand jury Thursday and had
been subpoenaed before it
March 9. The grand jury
Educators Cheer
Maddox, Allen
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Les
ter Maddox and Mayor Ivan
Allen Jr. of Atlanta, two long
time political adversaries, have
agreed to work hard in at least
one field—betterment of educa
tion.
Both men were vigorously
cheered when they spoke to the
annual meeting of the Georgia
Education Association Thurs
day. And Maddox poked some
good natured fun at the mayor.
"Ivan, I seldom ever get to
see you,” Maddox said while
speaking to the 1,100 GEA del
egates. “I visited your office
and you were out. And you visit
ed mine and I wa^busy. I hope
we will have much more time
together in the future.”
Maddox, in a serious vain,
promised to help Georgia make
great strides in education and
added "It is important that we
recognize the fact that much
more remains to be done.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pulit
zer Prize-winning corres
pondent Fred Sparks,
who has covered the cold
war since its inception 21
years ago, has just con
cluded a reporting tour
inside Russia for News
paper Enterprise Associa
tion. Now that he is free,
as he says, “of the stulti
fying, clammy, unnerving
atmosphere of the police
without* s t a t e^” inhibition he writes the
on
Soviet Union, 1967. His
first dispatch concerns
h i s t o r ic developments
that might well oversha
dow all news out of Rus
sia in the months ahead.
sia’s immense prestige, it is
wounded — and the wolf pack
is in full pursuit.
indicated the alleged false
statements were made during
these appearances.
“I testified to the best of my
ability,” he said. “Garrison has
an alleged plot under investiga
tion. I have no knowledge of
such a plot. I did the best to tell
the truth. They just called it the
other way.”
Andrews told Garrison and
the Warren Commission a man
who idientifieid himself as “Clay
Bertrand” called him shortly
after Oswald was arrested and
asked that he go to Dallas to
defend Oswald. Andrews said he
was ill at the time and could
not take the case.
Claims Alias
Garrison has claimed that
Clay Bertrand and Clay Shaw
are the same man.
Another figure Thursday en
tered the increasingly complex
atmosphere surrounding the
probe. Arthur E. Strout, 26, a
Boston dishwasher reportedly
flew to New Orleans Thursday
night.
The Boston Traveler said
Thursday Strout had a picture
of Oswald and Jack Ruby
together in Ruby’s nightclub a
month before Kennedy’s assas
sination.
Before leaving the stand
Thursday Russo testified:
—Ferrie had outlined several
assassinatioin plots using two or
three men. Some of the
assassins would, “of necessity,”
have to be sacrificed Russo
reported Ferrie as saying.
—He had no violent feelings
against President Kennedy and
contributed nothing to the plot.
Allen said the growth of Geor
gia’s school system had been
“slow and tortuous.”
“We have learned the pain
ful truth that the only thing
more expensive than education
is ignorance,” the mayor said.
Lt. Gov. George T. Smith
said it is hard for Georgia to
catch up to the rest of the
countr yin education because
the other states “just aren’t
waiting for us, but instead are
accelerating their educational
efforts, too.”
Weather*
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Hard freeze warning
tonight. Saturday fair and cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
39, maximum Thursday 69, min
imum Thursday 37.|j Sunrise
Saturday 6:48 a.m., sunset Sat
urday 6:49 p.m.
Legislature
Ends Session
Tonight
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—The histor
ic 1967 Georgia General Assem
bly, only hours away from ad
journment, continued to hassle
today over such controversial
bills as Daylight Savings Time,
reapportionment and the local
option sales tax increase.
Gov. Lester Maddox, who
was elected by the Legislature,
signed into law two major bills
--the budget and the pay raise
measure for state troopers.
As he did so, he strongly in
dicated he would veto the sales
tax bill.
A conference committee
agreed on a time bill which
would have Georgia go on day
light time if four of five bor
dering states did. But the meas
ure needs to be approved by
both houses.
The House attached an
amendment to the reapportion
ment bill which meant it went
back to the Senate for confir
mation. A fight in the upper
chamber was possible.
Hie House voted 123-35 to
switch Candler County from the
4th senatorial district to the 21st
at the request of Rep. Hines
Brantley of Candler. The repre
sentatives then voted 167-2 to
approve the bill in its entirety.
The legislators have until
midnight to finish their business
but if they need more time the
official clock can be stopped
before midnight. This happened
last year when the Senate final
ly adjourned at 3 a.m. Satur
day morning.
But leaders of both houses
were predicting an early finish.
House Speaker George L. Smtih
planned to wrap up things at 5
p.m. and Lt. Gov. George T.
Smith set a 7 p.m. deadline.
The 1967 General Assembly
will probably be rememebred
most as the Legislature that
elected Maddox governor and
then gave him almost every
thing he wanted in the way of
a legislative program.
Maddox was elected on the
second day of the session after
neither he nor Republican Ho
(Bo) Callaway received a
majority vote in the general
election.
Maddox’s success with the
legislature continued Thursday
when lawmakers gave him
practically the budget he want
ed. The budget called for rec
ord spending of $785,339,708 dur
ing fiscal 1967-68, just $137,682
less than was recommended by
Maddox.
Still unsettled is the budget
for fiscal 1968-69. The legisla
ture passed a skeleton bill with
to come back next Janu
ary and hammer out the final
budget program.
Maddox was elated when the
budget was approved 179-0 in
House and 44-9 in the Sea
ate.
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