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By Quimby Melton
“And there were certain
Greeks among them that came
Up to worship at the feast. The
same came therefore to Philip,
which was of Bethesda of Gal
ilee, and desired him, saying.
Sir, we would see Jesus.” (Math.
12-21.)
Many artists have attempted
to paint a portrait of Jesus
Christ. And while there is a cer
tain similarity in some of the
paintings still (here is no one
that one can feel positive any
of them actually picture the
Master.
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The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion
Ledger recently printed an arti
cle that may give one an Idea of
Jesus and his appearance. This
follows:
Christ Vividly Described
Of the millions of followers of
Jesus there is probably not one
who has not wondered about His
physical being and personal ap
pearance. Reliable traditions in
sist that one Publius Lentulus,
the Governor of Judea, wrote a
letter to Tiberius Caesar, who
was then Emperor of Rome in
which he described Jesus Christ
as follows:
"There lives, at this time, In
Judea, a man of singular vir
tue whose name Is Jesus Christ,
whom the barbarians esteem a
prophet, his followers love and
adore him as the offspring of
the Immortal God. He calls back
the dead from the graves, and
heals all sorts of diseases with
a word or touch.
“He is a tall man. and well
shaped, of an amiable and re
verent aspect: his hair of a co
lor that can hardlv be matched,
the color of chestnut full ripe,
falling in waves about his
shoulders. His forehead high,
large and imposing: his cheeks
without spot or wrinkle, beauti
ful with a lovely red: his nose
and mouth formed with exouls
it.e symmetry: his beard thick
and a color suitable tcTirfs hair
reaching below his chin. H i s
eyes bright blue, clear and ser
ene, look innocent, dignified,
manly, and mature. In propor
tion of body, most perfect and
captivating, his hands and arms
most delectable to behold.
“He rebukes with majesty,
councils with mildness, his whole
address, whether in word or
deed, being eloquent and grave.
No man has seen him laugh, yet
his manner Is exceedingly plea
sant: but has wept In the pre
sence of men.
“He is temperate, modest and
wise: a man, for his extra-or
dinary beauty and divine perfec
tion, surpassing the children of
men in every sense.” —
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One may not have noticed it,
but Spring officially came to
Griffin this morning at 2:37
o’clock. Whether it was 2:37
Standard Eastern Time, or
Eastern Daylight Savings Time,
or even old fashioned “Sun
Tiine” we will not venture to
state — however since the con
fused time situation has not yet
been unmuddled, and probably
won’t be by April 1, we’ll Just
skip it; except to state; It’s fine
to be alive when Spring comes
slipping in.
Robert Browning years ago
sang as Spring came to England
The year’s at the spring
And the day’s at the mom;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His Heaven—
All’s right with the world!
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"We shouldn’t resent criti
cism—it simply proves the
critic has a real interest in
us.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Trash Pick-Up
The first of the county’s community trash pick-up points went into operation this
morning on Sandy Lane road in Line Creek District. Land for the pick-up was do
nated by M. E. Sansom (r). It is two-tenths of a mile off Fairview road. A fence
and trash barrels were furnished by the county. The pick-ups are proposed for
each militia district. Mr. Sansom looks at the new dump with County Commission
er Jack Moss.
Dixie Solons Report
Home Folks Want
Full Viet
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Eight
freshmen House Democrats—all
southerners—said Monday their
home folks want full pursuit of
military victory in Vietnam.
Using the House of Representa
tives as their forum, they called
for an end to anti - war
debate and demonstrations,
‘'unilateral” truces and other
one-sided peace moves.
Rep. G. V. (Sonny) Montgom
ery, Miss., who arranged the
presentation, said he believed
the speeches represented “the
feelings of the people.”
“These members won hotly
contested elections without the
benefit of seniority,” he said.
“In every race the war in Viet
nam was a major issue.”
The other speakers included
Reps. John R. Rarick, La.,
W. S. (Bill) Stuckey and Jack
Brinkley, Ga.; Nick Galifianak-
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Pre-School Registration
Pre-school registration will be held Wednesday in each of the elementary schools
m the Gnffm-Spalding System. Parents are urged to bring their child’s birth certifi
cate and record of immunizations. Billy Laster holds the door for Mary Jo Darsey
and Julie Mobley (1-r) as they get their first look at Beaverbrook School which
they will attend next year. Last year, pre-registration was held over a several week
period on different days at each school.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, March 21,1967
is, N. C.; Ray Blanton, Tenn.;
and Tom Bevill and Bill Nicho
las, Ala.
“There is no substitute for
victory,” Rarick said. “We can
no longer regard Vietnam as a
diplomatic training exercise.
The harder we hit the sooner
it will be over.”
Stuckey said he believed cur
rent Viet Cong peace feelers
may be sincere ones and the
government should make every
effort to find out. But he oppos
ed a further truce or bombing
halt unless the enemy actually
comes to the peace table.
Brinkley said his people know
the war “intimately” from cas
ualty lists. “They do not under
stand Americans who would
burn their draft cards and
would offer medical supplies
and blood to North Vietnamese
who have sworn to destroy us,”
he said.
“In the 30 months I spent
campaigning and since then 1
have found the people of my
district to have a resolve...that
the war must be won in Viet
nam or it will have to be fought
over again in other countries—
perhaps even our own,” said
Galifiatiakis.
Nichols said the people are
getting tired of delay while
“here at home political leaders
call for an end to the aggres
siveness with which we have
carried the war to the enemy.”
“I submit,” Bevil said, ‘There
is more concern with our do
mestic opposition than with the
enemy.”
Blanton said, “I believe our
President is correct. Munich
taught us the folly of appease
ment, the Korean War taught
us the mistake of negotiating
from weakness.”
LBJ's Peace Talk
Offer Is Rejected
423 Cong
Killed In
Furious Battle
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) —Troops of
the U.S. 4th Infantry Division
defeated a Viet Cong regiment
of nearly 1,500 men in a furious
battle today and sent them
fleeing back into Cambodia,
leaving 423 dead on the
battlefield. It brought Commu
nist dead in two days of War
Zone C fighting to 711.
It was perhaps the greatest
Allied victory of the year and it
cost the Americans 30 killed,
109 wounded and three men
missing. But it crushed Hanoi’s
hopes of a propaganda victory
during President Johnson’s
Guam meeting.
A spokesman disclosed that a
battalion (up to 1,500) of U.S.
Marines made a joint helicopter
and amphibious landing Monday
just south of the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) to protect Ameri
can 175 mm Long Tom artillery
pieces from an enemy attack.
The Communists struck with
600 rounds of mortar and rocket
fire in an extremely intense
barrage but were unable to
harm the big guns in their first
aeross-the-border attack. The
Long Toms fire from Gio Linh
20 miles across the DMZ into
Norih Vietnam where the Reds
have massed three divisions.
Three Marines were killed
and 71 wounded. Enemy losses
were not known.
With the ground war gaining
in intensity U.S. warplanes
bombed the giant Thai Nguyen
steel plant 36 miles north of
Hanoi for the fourth time in 11
days while B52 bombers,
striking while Johnson was still
on Guam, hit four suspected
Viet Cong hideouts in South
Vietnam.
Bill Ramsey Saluted Today As
Griffin’s Man
W. T. (Bill) Ramsey, former
coach, teacher, principal and
now successful businessman, to
day was honored as the 13th per
son to receive the “Man of the
Year” award in Griffin.
His wife and three children
were on hand and beamed with
pride as the Griffin Exchange
Club and fellow citizens paid tri
bute to Mr. Ramsey.
Quimby Melton, Sr., publish
er of the Griffin Daily News and
the first man to receive the aw
ard when it was started, served
as master of ceremonies. He in
troduced a number of special
guests and friends of Mr. Ram
sey who had come to join in the
salute to the Griffinite.
Ray Barron, president of the
Exchange Club this year, welco
med the guests.
Mayor Carl Pruett read a city
proclamation declaring it “Bill
Ramsey Day” in Griffin. County
Commission Chairman Jack
Moss read a county proclama
tion praising Mr. Ramsey and
citing his service to the commu
nity.
Elmer George, a former Grif
fin city manager and now execu
tive secretary of the Georgia
Municipal Association, reviewed
the achievements of Mr. Ram
sey.
He presented a bound book of
memories containing copes of
proclomations, letters from a
number of government leaders
and other officials; along with
some pictures.
Bob Scroggins, chairman or
the “Man of the Year” awari
for the Exchange Club, presen
ted the Golden Deeds Statuette
from Exchange International.
In response, Mr. Ramse
thanked those who had arranged
the program in his honor.
He thanked members of his
family for standing beside him
throughout the years and said
that they should share in any
honors that might come his way.
“It is wonderful to have friends
and family to stand behind, be-
Vol. 95 No. 67
Weather*
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and cooler
tonight. Wednesday fair and
mild
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum Monday 64, minimum Mon
day 40, maximum today 74, mini
mum today 68. Total rainfall .15
of an inch. Sunrise Wednesday
6:43 a.m., sunset Wednesday
6:42 p.m.
13 Hurt In
Bus, Truck
Wreck
WASHINGTON, Ga. (UPI) _
Thirteen persons were injured
today in the crash of a Grey
hound bus and a tractor-trailer
truck about a mile from here.
Four bus passengers were
hospitalized at Wilkes Memorial
Hospital in Washington and bus
driver Donald C. Leavitt of Ma
rietta was transferred to a
Marietta hospital with multiple
injuries.
Eight other passengers were
treated and released at Wilkes
Memorial.
The truck driver, Johnnie Al
len Mixon of Thomson, was not
injured.
Police said Mixon's rig jack
knifed on Highway 378 and 78
and the bus slammed in<o the
vehicle.
In good condition were
dette DeLaigle, 19, of Statham,
Ga., and three Charleston, S.C.,
residents, Mrs. Katherine Bow
en and her 5-year-old son Clar
ence, and Catherine Glascock.
Officers said the bus driver
was pinned in the vehicle for
an hour before rescue workers
could free him.
side and with a person,” Mr.
Ramsey said.
Mrs. Ramsey, the former Pat
Arnali of Griffin, and their three
child-n, Rick, 17, Tom, 15, and
Sally, 8, were on hand for the
affair.
Mrs. Ramsey’s mother, Mrs.
P. E. Arnali, and her aunt, Mrs.
Leslye Putman, were among the
special guests. Included were
Mr. Ramsey’s brother, Talmad
ge Ramsey, and his wife, both
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Tom, Sally and Mr#. Pat Ramsey with Man of the Year Bill Ramsey.
Proposal Made
To Ho Chi Minh
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House
HONOLULU (UPI) —Pres
idant Johnson proposed
peace talks between the United
States and North Vietnam in a
letter to President Ho Chi Minh
on Feb. 2, it was disclosed
today. Ho rejected the offer.
Hanoi Radio broadcast the
Johnson offer and Ho’s reply
the President stopped here
briefly on a fueling stop en
route from his conference on
Guam to Washington.
It coincided with disclosures
in Saigon today by South
Vietnamese Premier
Cao Ky and Chief of State
Nguyen Van Thieu that Saigon
also had made direct peace
overtures to Hanoi and that its
offer also was rejected.
Before leaving Guam, John
son said the United States was
making “substantial progress”
on every front in Vietnam but
that the end was not in sight
and extra hard work remained.
Hanoi Radio disclosed that
Johnson had made his peace
offer through Moscow nearly six
weeks before he called the
Guam meeting of U.S. and
South Vietnamese leaders. The
Ho reply was dated Feb. 15.
Ho called for the uncondition
al cessation of the bombing of
North Vietnam and the end of
“other war aggression” as
pre-condition to peace
tions, Hanoi said.
“In your message you have
proposed direct talks
the Democratic Republic
(North) Vietnam and the United
States,” Ho said.
“If the U.S. government truly
desires such a conference the
U.S. government must first of
all halt its bombing against the
Democratic Republic of (North)
of Statesboro, and several aunts
and cousins nf '*>. Ramsey’s.
Mr. Ramsey was until last
wee.....""tary-treasurer of the
Georgia Peace Officers Annuity
and Benefit fund. He also was
secretary-treasurer of the Geor
gia Sheriff’s Retirement Fund.
Both are administered from the
Griffin office.
However, Mr. Ramsey last
week resigned the peace offic
er’s position which he has held
for 12 years to become executive
Vietnam.
“Vietnam will never submit
to talks under the threat of
bombing.”
Another Hanoi broadcast car
ried a North Vietnamese
Foreign Ministry statement on
the exchange of messages in
which the North Vietnamese
charged that Johnson had
"resorted to a trick in
extending the halt of the
bombing of North Vietnam alter
the Asian lunar new year.
The statements did not
directly mention the South
Vietnamese peace proposals
reported in Saigon earlier
today.
Bamesville
Soldier Killed
In Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Defense Department Monday i
dentified 91 U. S. servicemen
killed in action in Vietnam, in
cluding four Georgians.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Edward L. Moore,
husband of Mrs. Katherine H.
Moore, 287 Spencer St., Barnes
ville.
Sgt. Ronald B. Price, husband
of Mrs. Shirley A. Price, Route
4, Millen.
PFC Ralph T. Woodall Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T.
Woodall Sr., Route 1, Screven,
And Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Dean
Smith Jr., son of Mr. ar ! Mrs.
Dean Smith, 533 East 41st St.,
t Savannah.
manager of Griffin Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association.
He is to assume the position
by April 15 or earlier.
Others who hav- received the
honor in addition to Mr, Melton
were: the late Dr. Kenneth Hunt,
Prof. J. R. Berry, the late Rev.
L. W. Blackwelder, Quimby Mel
ton, Jr., Robert P. Shapard, Jr.,
J. M. Cheatham, C. T. Parker,
Arthur K. Bolton, George W.
Patrick, Jr., J. C. Owen, Jr., and
Warren Haisten.