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E VEIN GOOD IN G
By Quimby Melton
Although Jesus Christ knew
full well the cruel death that
awaited Him, He did not go into
seclusion to weep and mourn
over His fate. Following His tr
iumphal entry into Jerusalem
He went daily to the temple and
taught the people.
One can imagine, had anyone
asked Him why He was doing
this He would have answered,
as He did that day when He was
12 years old, “Wist ye not that I
must be about my Father’s bus
iness?” And that He also said
“I must work the works of Him
that sent Me, while it is day; the
night cometh, when no man can
work.”
Right up until the night Jesus
was betrayed and taken before
Pilate, He continued to work—to
teach — to heal — to point the
way. Not only did Jesus work
hut the leaders of the temple
Worked just as hard trying to
offset the impression Jesus was
creating among the people. They
did not dare seize Jesus as the
people looked on, but they ha
rassed Jesus at every opportun
ity, asking leading questions,
which they thought could not be
answered.
Jesus answered them every
time and His answers were so
true and impressed the common
people to such an extent that as
one of the Gospels puts it they
dared not ask Him anything el
se.
One translation of the Bible
“Good News for the Modern
Man” says of the multitude that
gathered every time Jesus made
His appearance, “The people lis
tened to Him, not wanting to
miss a single word.”
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Among the other things men
tioned in connection with the
daily appearance of Jesus in the
Temple — after He had clear
ed it of “the thieves”, were:
The “leaders” questioned His
authority. He confounded them
by asking them what authority
did John the Baptist have to
back up his preaching? They
dared not answer for they knew
the people believed John. So
they tried to sidestep.
Then, Jesus told the parable
cf the vineyard and the evil te
nants, who finally killed the
“heir”; and to further confuso
the “leaders” who realized the
parable was directed at them,
Jesus reminded them of the
passage from the Old Testament
about the “stone which the buil
ders rejected has become the
chief corner stone.”
Then they thought they cer
tainly could get Jesus in hot wa
ter over taxes. They asked Him
if He would pay taxes to Caesar.
Remember that reply which has
been frequently used since then
“Render unto Caesar the things
which are Caesar’s and to God
the things which are of God.”
We can imagine the Sadducees
saying to the Pharasees, who
probably had been asking most
of the questions “Let us try
Him.” So they asked Him ab
out the resurrection and recit
ed the old Jewish law about
raising up children for a broth
er who died without fathering
any: and told of a widow who
was married in turn to seven
brothers. Jesus’ answer dumb
founded and then stopped ques
tioning him.
Jesus, also during these days,
warned against the “Leaders of
the Law” who liked to parade
their importance and threw theii
weight around as head of t he
church; and He told the story of
tiio widow’s mite.
There was another thing that
happened then that it is easy to
overlook, Jesus wept over Jeru
salem, grieved that the “Holy
City” had turned its back on
Him and on the chance to re
coive the blessings of Almighty
God.
Does Jesus weep today over
America?
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In need of a way to end wars
as a way to prevent them.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Forsyth Signs Not Directing 1-75 Traffic Forsyth
To By-Pass Barnesviile - Griffin Route Interchange
By JAMES STEWART
Rumors circulating in Griffin
that a sign in Forsyth is direct
ing most of the traffic coming
north off the new section to take
1-75, Georgia 42 and U. S. 23
through Jackson to Atlanta have
been found to be untrue.
A check with the Forsyth Po
lice Department, the Monroe Co
unty Sheriff’s Department and
the State Highway Department
shows that no sign of this na
ture has been erected.
The rumors had it that the
sign said travel 42 and 23 “for
your own safety.”
The only signs found in the
Forsyth area by a Griffin Daily
News reporter were ones dir
ecting traffic either on U. S. 41
through Forsyth and Barnesviile
to Griffin or to U. S. 23 and Ge
orgia 42 through Jackson to At
lanta.
Officers In Forsyth said the
traffic had been splitting about
50-50 coming off 1-75. This was
confirmed by the State Highway
Department.
The State Highway Department
spokesman said if traffic did not
split, U. S. 41 between Forsyth,
Barnesviile, and Griffin would
not be able to handle it. He said
there had been a definite increa
se in traffic since last year and
that it is expected to be even
higher in the summer months.
U. S. 41 exits about one-fourth
of a mile before the temporary
end of the new Interstate rou
te. Traffic continuing to the
temporary end is routed on U.S.
23 and Georgia 42.
During a half-hour traffic co
unt Tuesday afternoon, the Grif
fin Daily News found vehicles,
including trucks carrying gra-
Max Dowis Accepts
Max Dowis, who produced
three of North Clayton’s great
est football teams, and who is
now head coach at Elberton
High, has been elected Griffin
High’s new head football coach.
He accepted the Griffin offer
this morning in a telephone con
'versation with Supt. George Pat
rick, Jr.
Coach Dowis was in Griffin
Tuesday, at the request of Prin
cipal D. B. Christie and Supt.
Patrick, for final talks concern
ing the coaching job.
The University of Georgia gra
duate had been under serious
consideration for sometime and
became the number one candi
date when Coach Howard “Doc”
Ayers, frosh coach at Geor
gia, rejected the Griffin offer
because of commitments to the
University.
Coach Dowis was offered the
position Tuesday and phoned his
acceptance to Supt. Patrick this
morning.
Coach Dowis is familiar to
many Griffin football fans, es
pecially those who avidly follow
high school football.
Griffinites remember him as
the coach who led North Clay
ton High to three of its best sea
sons.
Coach Dowis' 1962, 1963, and
1964 North Clayton teams com
piled a remarkable 27-3 record.
One of the three losses was to
Griffin in a hotly fought contest
at Memorial Stadium.
The 1964 North Clayton team
compiled a 9-1 record. Coach
Griffin, Ga. # 30223, Wednesday, March 22,1967
vel for work on 1-75, went to the
end of the route and continued
on U. S. 23 and Georgia 42. Six
ty-five vehicles turned on U. S.
41 through Forsyth.
Of the vehicles counted travel
ing U. S. 23 and Georgia 42, 54
were out of state, 20 were Geor
gia cars and five were trucks.
The count on U. S. 41 included
38 out of state cars, 15 Georgia
cars and 12 trucks, of which 10
were out of state.
A spokesman for the Forsyth
Police Department said traffic
in Forsyth on U. S. 41 had been
slowed by a turn at the square.
He said tractor-trailer trucks
were a major cause of the slow
down.
He told the Griffin Daily News
that traffic in Forsyth on U. S.
41 on weekends is heavy and of
ten backs up several blocks at
the traffic lights.
The spokesman said Forsyth
is experiencing what Barnesviile
has been coping with for sever
al years.
The U. S. 41 exit is well mark
ed. Signs are posted nearly one
mile south of the exit and are
closer together nearer to it.
Signs on 1-75 do not mention U.
S. 23 and Georgia 42. The first
such signs are on a ramp lead
ing from the temporary end. This
one tells of a ramp Junction with
U. S. 23 and Georgia 42.
After traffic is on U. S. 23 and
Georgia 42, signs are posted with
arrows that read “To North I-
75”. Under that is a sign that
reads: “U. S. 23, Georgia 42.”
Several of the cars counted
Tuesday afternoon as traveling
1-75 to its end and on U. S. 23
and Georgia 42, turned at the
junction with Georgia 42 and U.
Dowis’ 1963 team was 8-2 and
the 1962 squad had a perfect 10-0
record.
Elberton High lured Coach Do
wis from North Clayton last
year. He coached at Elberton
one year.
Prior to becoming head coach
at North Clayton, Coach Dowis
was backfield coach at Jordon
High in Columbus. Prior to that
he was assistant frosh coach at
the University of Georgia.
Coach Dowis has a brilliant
football background.
He played football at Lavon
ia, his hometown, before enter
ing South Georgia College. He
was a quarterback at South
Georgia lor two years.
He transferred to the Univer
sity of Georgia but ran into in
jury trouble and did not play
with the Bulldogs.
However, he remained at the
University as assistant frosh co
ach under Coach Spec Landrum.
He went from Georgia to Jor
don High where he coached the
backfield for four years.
From Jordon, he shifted his
talents to North Clayton as head
football coach. He was at North
Clayton six years, the last three
being his most successful.
His North Clayton teams were
runners-up for the state cham
pionship two years in a row.
Supt. Patrick said that Coach
Dowis comes to Griffin with
high recommendations.
Coach Dowis told the Griffin
Daily News this morning that he
S. 23 and made their way back
to U. S. 41.
The spokesman for the State
Highway Department said: “We
are in the process of erecting
more signs, giving directions to
U. S. 41 and to U. S. 23 and Ge
orgia 42.”
Traffic entering Forsyth on the
old U. S. 41 route from Macon
has been cut to a trickle by the
new section of 1-75. Only a few
cars were seen on the route
Tuesday afternoon. Most of those
were local.
The State Highway Department
spokesman said traffic flow on
U. S. 41 from Forsyth to Bar
nesviile and Griffin had been
cut only a small percentage with
the increase in traffic. He said
some of the vehicles traveling
U.S. 42 would have been travel
ing that route whether it had
been at the end of 1-75 or not.
INSIDE
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Tire Pressure. Page 2.
When To Die. Page 3.
Dateline G e orgia, Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5
Funerals. Page 5.
Sports. Pages 6, 7.
Society. Page 8.
Iloople. Page 9.
Out Our Way. Page 9.
Hope For Peace. Page 10.
Comics. Page 12.
Lighter Side. Page 12.
Commentary. Page 14.
Lyle Wilson. Page 19.
Want Ads. Page 23.
Draft Boss Jeered. Page 24.
Maddox Optimistic. Page 24.
was “thrilled” to be coming to
Griffin,
“I’ve known Griffin and its
football teams many years.
Some of my teams played Grif
fin and I was impressed with
the town, people and school.
“I’m looking forward to work
ing with the football team, Mr.
Christie and Mr. Patrick,” he
said.
Coach Dowis was a physical
education major in college and
he will work with the PE pro
gram at Griffin High.
The Griffin PE program is pre
sently handled by Coach Chris
Jones.
Supt. Patrick said some ar
rangement probably would be
worked out where both coaches
would work in the program.
Coach Dowis was assured by
Griffin school officials that he
could hire one or two assistant
coaches.
The 36-year-old coach told the
Griffin Daily News that he would
start looking for an assistant or
two soon. He said he had no par
ticular people in mind. “This
has all happened too fast for me
to consider assistants,” he said.
Coach Dowis is married to the
former Miss Joyce Craft of Col
umbus. They have four children,
Dorinda, 7; Deidre, 5; Mays, 3;
and Emily, 20-months.
Coach Dowis said he hoped to
move to Griffin in early June.
He will assume his coaching
duties in August — with the be
ginning of fall practice.
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Patterson (1) and Conley cars involved in accident on U. S. 41 this morning.
Injured In
3 - Car Smashup
Three people were injured in
a three-car smashup three mil
es south of Griffin on U. S. 41
this morning.
Injured were Janie Ethel Con
ley, 42, of Milner, Lee Otis Pat
terson, 50, of Panama City Bay,
Fla. and Jess White, 43, of Lynn
Haven Bay, Fla.
Patterson, who is a colonel in
the Air Force, suffered a cut
on his lip. Injuries of the other
two were not known today at
noon.
Trooper G. W. Word of the
Georgia State Patrol said the
Conley car ran off the road and
spun out of control. It struck a
car driven by Keith D. Dobson,
33, of Oscoda, Mich., and then
skidded down the road back
wards.
The back of the Conley car
struck Col. Patterson’s car head
on.
Trooper Word said she was
alone in the car. White was rid
ing with Col. Patterson. No one
was injured in the Dobson car.
Trooper Word estimated da
mage to the three vehicles at
$3,700.
Traffic on the two-lane route
was back up more than a mile
each way while a wrecker tried
to clear the wreckage. The Dob
son car moved on under its own
power.
Trooper Word investigated an
other accident that happened
while the wreckage was being
cleared. No one was injured.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
through Thursday with mild af
ternoons and cool nights.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
37, maximum Tuesday 74, mini
mum Tuesday 58. Sunrise Th
ursday 6:42 a.m., sunset Th
ursday 6:53 p.m.
Vol. 95 No. 68
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House Burns
To Ground
A house owned and occupied
by the D. M. Cadenhead family
on the Zebulon road burned to
the ground Tuesday afternoon.
No one was at home when the
fire broke out.
It was reported at 4:45 p.m. to
the Forest Ranger unit in this
area. The house is some two mi
les north of Zebulon on Highway
19.
Revamp Decision
Still Pending
ATLANTA (UPI)—A decision
is still pending on whether to
challenge in the courts Geor
gia’s latest reapportionment at
tempt.
A spokesman for a group of
Atlanta attorneys, who asked
not to be identified, said the
group has not decided its next
move because of dissention on
what action may be needed.
Gov. Lester Maddox has not
yet signed the reapportionment
plan into law. After he does, it
will be submitted to a federal
three-judge panel for approval
hefore a May 1 deadline set by
the court.
It was reported that some of
the attorneys do not agree with
the plan, especially Senate re
districting which would increase
the chamber from 54 to 56
members pending approval of
the voters.
However, the election to fill
the two new seats would come
in 1968 at the same time as the
referendum to approve the plan.
If the amendment fails the elec
tion would be voided.
GI’S Smash Cong;
Fire Point Blank
B EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —American
troops outnumbered five to one
lowered their cannons to point
blank range and smashed five
Communist battalions in a
savage four-hour battle for one
of the greatest U.S. victories of
the Vietnam war, military
spokesmen said today.
They said the beleaguered
American infantrymen, at
tacked at dawn Tuesday by
more than 2,500 Viet
charging from three sides and
reaching to within 10 yards of
the U.S. command post, killed
more than 600 of the Commu
nists and sent the rest fleeing
toward Cambodia.
Gen. William C. Westmore
land, U.S. commander in
Vietnam, Just back from his
Guam conference with Pres
ident Johnson, toured the
battlefield. He said as many as
200 more Communist bodies
may be found in the War Zone
C Jungles northwest of Saigon.
The American victory claim
came as Communists struck
back with mortar attacks to the
north in the Central Highlands,
killing or wounding about 100
Americans, spokesmen said.
The stunning success came in
War Zone C 70 miles northwest
of Saigon where U.S. troops
found more Viet Cong bodies as
they chased remnants of the
guerrillas' elite 272nd Regiment
smashed by outnumbered Amer
ican infantrymen Tuesday.
But farther north, in the
blood-drenched Central High
land battlegrounds, North Viet
namese elite army troops
launched lightning and effective
mortar assaults Tuesday and
today against other units of the
U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division
that won the War Zone C battle.
Bad Week For Reds '
However, American military
officers said the lopsided
Communist losses indicated the
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese were suffering one of
their worst weeks of the war.
Further, the Communists’ first
major offensives in months all
were failing, they said.
The fighting in South Viet
nam, stretching from the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
down to the Saigon area, roared
as U.S. jets flew 62 missions
against North Vietnamese tar
gets Tuesday, spokesmen said.
In South Vietnam, the War
Zone C victory cost Americana
31 killed and 109 wounded. Also
an Air Force F100 Supersabre
jet’s bombs fell on American
positions, killing two U.S. troops
and wounding 10. And both men
aboard a tiny U.S. Army OlE
Birddog spotter plane were
killed when guerrilla gunners
shot down their craft, spokes
men said.
Head For Border
But 4th Division chasing units
and 117 air strikes kept the
Communist cowed and running
toward the Cambodian border in
the fight in War Zone C, which
holds the guerrillas’ “Pentagon”
jungle headquarters. However,
to the north around Pleiku and
Kontum 280 miles north of
Saigon, two divisions of North
Vietnamese troops hammered
away with mortar units.
A battalion of the 4th Infantry
Division’s 1st Brigade managed
to snare a North Vietnamese
company near the Cambodian
border in the highlands and
killed 18 Communists. But the
Americans suffered nine killed,
29 wounded and three missing.