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By Quimby Melton
The Cross — chief symbol of
Christianity — has not always
been the emblem of hope and
the sign of unbounded love and
forgiveness: the cross was the
emblem of shame and the tool
of torture until Jesus, executed
as a common criminal, turned
the cross from an emblem of
despair into a shining sign of
man’s hope.
And the Latin Cross, with whi
ch we are most familiar, is not
the only type cross known to
man. Among others there are
the Greek Cross, St. Andrew’s
Cross, Lorraine Cross, the one
Joan of Arc bore into battle; the
Maltese Cross and so on.
But even before the Latin
Cross was made infamous by
the Romans there were various
types of crosses that were consi
dered sacred emblems, some of
them have been found in ancient
ruins, such as those discovered
In ruins left when the Spanish
conquerors came to South Am
erica.
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Probably the most beloved of
all songs about the Cross is “The
Old Rugged Cross,” but another
“Must Jesus Bear The Cross
Alone?” is almost as well known
and beloved. Thomas Shepherd
in this hymn asks;
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there’s a cross for everyone,
And there’s a cross for me.
How happy are the saints above.
Who once went sorrowing here!
But now they taste unmingled
love,
And Joy without a tear.
The consecrated cross I’ll bear,
Till death shall set me free;
And then go home my crown to
wear,
For there’s a crown for me.
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Probably the most profilic
writer in all the world is “An
onymous” or “Author Unknown”
There are many beautiful stor
ies and poems the author of
which will never be known,
their contribution to worthwhile
literature can never be credited
to them.
Now here’s an Easter inspir
ed poem we came across the
other day: its author Is Mr. or
Mrs. “Author Unknown.” The
title of the poem is “The Cross
Was His Own” and reads:
They borrowed a bed to lay His
head
When Christ the Lord came
down; t h
They borrowed the ass in e
mountain pass
For Him to ride to town;
But the Crown that He wore and
the Cross that he bore
Were His own —
The Cross was His Own.
He borrowed the bread when
the crowd He fed
On the grassy mountain side;
He borrowed the dish of broken
fish satisfied; . „ .
With which He
But the Crown that he wore and
the cross that he bore
Were His own —
The Cross was His Own.
He borrowed the ship in which
to sit
To t°"“h the multitude:
He borrowed a nest in which to
rest, crude
He had never a home so
But the Crown that He wore
and the Cross that He bore
Were His Own —
The Cross was His own.
He borrowed a room on His way
to the tomb,
The Passover Lamb to eat;
They borrowed a cave for Him
a grave; borrowed winding
They a
But the Crown that He wore and
the Cross that He bore
Were His own—
The Cross was His own.
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Some 2.000 years ago today Je
sus and His Disciples met in the
upper room for The Last Sup
per. Today is known as Maundy
Thursday: the word Maundy has
as its derivltave the Latin word
which means Commandment. It
was at the close of the Last Sup
per that Jesus said to his dls
ciples, Just before they left for
tl-" Garden, “A new command
ment I give unto you, That ye
love one another; as I have lov
ed you, that ye also love one an
other (John 13:34).
ROME (UPI) —Italian securi
ty agents today began checking
300 persons including Americans
named by accused spy Giorgio
(The Flying Madman) Rinaldi
as part of a fantastic Soviet spy
network stretching from Somali
land to Scandinavia.
Rinaldi, a parachute cham
pion and James Bond fan who
police said confessed to running
the ring along with his chubby
wife, supplied the names under
questioning at Turin Wednes
day. counter-intelligence sources
said.
Rinaldi's 300 names might
include actual spies, persons the
Soviets listed as possible
espionage recruits or persons
who might be cultivated lor
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Tag sales clerks (1-r) Mrs. Judy Hines, Mrs. Joan Young and Mrs. Cleo Street show
some of the thousands of tags yet to be sold in Spalding County. People who have
not purchased their tags have been given a 30 days extension until May 1.
Tag Deadline Extension
To Cost Spalding $ 1,000
The 30-day extension granted
Georgia residents on paying
their automobile taxes and pur
chasing tags will cost Spalding
County approximately $1,000,
Tax Commissioner Ruby Hill
said.
Tha lRPifay extension has been
granted by Gov. Lester Maddox.
Mrs. Hill said the addition $1.
000 would be necessary to pay
employes and to maintain the
tag office in the Spalding Coun
ty Courthouse for another mon
th.
Henry County
Voters Okay
School Bonds
Henry County voters Wednes
day approved an $80,000 school
bond issue for the completion of
a $l-million plus construction pro
gram.
The issue was approved 573 to
408.
School Superintendent Charlie
A. Waits said the money will be
used to purchase furniture, make
necessary repairs, pay for fur
niture purchased for new cafe
terias and gyms and for other
necessary items, such as a boi
ler at Henry County High.
The $80,000 is the most that can
be issued in bonds at the pre
sent time.
Weather*
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and mild Friday. Cool again to
night.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 75, low today 40, high
Wednesday 68, low Wednesday
37; sunrise Friday 6:40, sunset
Friday 6:52.
James Bond Fan Tells
Of Russian
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, March 23,1967
Mrs. Hill said she and her per
sonnel had prepared for the last
minute rush and were getting
ready to close the tag section
after April 1.
She said the extension is un
fair to those people who already
have purchased their auto tags
and paid their taxes.
In addition to the $1,000 addi
tional costs to the county, the
extension will cause a delay
in the preparation of the tax di
gest due July 1.
Case AgaillSt
. Lamar Schools _ . .
Overruled
The Office of Education failed
to prove that the Lamar County
school desegregation plan was
defective, according to a federal
examiner.
Federal officials earlier had
recommended that aid to the
county be discontinued because
of segregated facilities. The
county was placed on a deferred
financial status.
Federal examiner William Du
val said in his decision “a start
in the faculty desegregation has
been made and there is no in
formation in the record on such
questions as the availbility of
teachers who are willing to tea
ch in desegregated situations. .”
Bob Cloer, director of federal
state relations for the Georgia
Education department, said he
had not had time to study a copy
of the ruling.
Cloer sard the federal agency
can file an appeal with Harold
Howe, U. S. Commissioner of
data on North Atlantic Treaty
Organization bases in Europe,
Africa and the Middle East,
they said.
The sources said it appeared
baffling one spy could know so
many names. “But the whole
organization of this ring was so
uncommon that anything is
possible,” one security official
said.
They said details of Renaldi’s
ring matched the cloak and
dagger Impact of the James
Bond mysteries found in the
accused spy's home.
As Rinaldi talked, Soviet
Embassy diplomat Yuri Pavlen
ko, expelled for his part In the
network, left Rome with his
wife and six-year-old son on a
Mrs. Hill said the extension will
cause her office to run from one
month to six weeks behind on its
work.
She said almost all governmen
tal bodies In Georgia had sent
telegrams and letters to the go
vernor urging that the extension
not be granted.
Mrs. Hill said those people who
would have been standing in
line on April 1 to purchase their
tag and pay taxes will be there
on May 1.
Education. He said he thought
the county would remain on a
deferred basis if an appeal is
filed.
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Unexpected
Entertainment
ACAPULCO, Mexico (UPI) —
A pretty German tourist provid
ed unexpected entertainment
for thousands of tourists jam
ming Acapulco beaches Wednes
day in the Easter week rush.
She was bein'* towed along
the waterfront by a speedboat,
dangling several feet over the
water from a parachute at the
end of a cable.
Her swimming suit fell off.
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Czech airliner. Italian sources
said agents caught the Pavlen
kos collecting microfilm Rinaldi
had cached near Rome.
They said Rinaldi, using his
reputation as a parachutist and
his teaching career as a cover,
spied on four American bases in
Spain including the nuclear
powered submarine installation
at Rota, near Cadiz.
Rinaldi, 38, his wife, Angela,
a 52-year-old former Mussolini
era woman soldier, and their
alleged courier-chauffeur, Ar
mando Girard, 40, faced prison
terms of 16 years If convicted of
espionage and life terms if
sentenced for stealing “state
secrets."
Casualties Up
On Both Sides
Seven-Day
Totals Show
Heavy Fighting
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) —American
and Communist troops suffered
the heaviest seven-day casualty
tolls of the war last week, a
U.S. military spokesman report
ed today. Hfe put the figures at
2,092 Americans killed, wounded
or missing and 2,675 Commu
nists killed.
The totals reflected the heavy
fighting along the Cambodian
border and in the area just
below the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ). Battling in those areas
intensified this week and a
series of major American
victories already has made this
the bloodiest week of the war
for the Communists,
The latest Communist setback
came Wednesday when a half
dozen U.S. Air Force planes
“dropping everything we had”
caught a band of Viet Cong
soldiers in the open and killed
160 of them In the coastal areas
near Quang Ngai city.
That and a new offensive by
two South Korean divisions is
expected to run the Communist
death toll well above the 3,000
mark tills week. It is the deadly
answer to the new Communist
strategy of coming out to fight
pitched battles instead of
sticking to guerrilla tactics.
There are no figures for
Communist wounded which nor
mally would run many times
higher than the figure for those
killed.
The Korean operation called
Oh Jak Kyo began March 8 but
was not announced until today.
So far the Koreans have killed
149 Communists and captured
150 as the elite White Horse and
Tiger divisions carried out a
road clearing operation In the
central coastal plains. They
faced several thousand Viet
Cong.
The bloodiest week of the
Vietnam war did not include the
great battles this week In which
one fight alone killed 600 to 900
Viet Cong.
But military spokesmen said
last week’s fighting along the
Cambodian bordre and near the
North-South Vietnam border
killed 211 Americans, wounded
1,874 and left seven listed as
missing.
The previous record week for
U.S. casualties was the seven
day period ending March 4
when 1,618 Americans suffered
death, injury or were listed as
missing or captured, The
previous record week for
Communists killed was the one
ending Feb. 25 when 2,449
Communists were slain.
Although suffering more total
casualties last week, the num
ber of U.S. forces killed did not
exceed the record 240 men slain
in one week’s fighting in the
November, 1965, la Drang
Valley battle.
The Communists’ losses conti
nued to far outstrip allied
casualties. U.S. spokesmen said
that since Jan. 1 allied forces
have killed more than 19,500
Communists—the equivalent of
two Viet Cong divisions.
The fighting that produced the
record tolls come as the
Communists, switching tactics,
came out and fought. Gen
William C. Westmoreland, U.S.
commander in Vietnam, said of
tlie recent Communist move
toward combat, “The Viet Cong
hopes to win, some victories,
and make some big headlines
and perhaps regain some of
their lost prestige."
Speaking of fighting this
week, which may well produce
even greater casualty figures,
the general said the Commu
nists also hoped to spoil
President Johnson’s just ended
war conference on Guam.
Only Tuesday a battalion of
420 American Infantrymen,
largely draftees, killed 600 to
900 members of an elite Viet
Cong regiment that surrounded
and tried to overrun them near
tbs Cambodian border in War
Zone C. Wednesday six U.B. jets
streaked out of the run and In
treetop level bombing and
strafing raids killed 160 Com
munist# near the coast.
Vol. 95 No. 69
Ohio Youth Wrecks
During Police Chase
A 16-year-old Ohio boy who
led Bamesville and Lamar Co
unty officers on a 120-mile-per
hour chase on U.S. 341 in in La
mar County jalt on numerous
traffic charges.
The Incident happened this
way:
A Griffin police unit stopped
the youth and took his drivers
license. He was told to follow the
patrol car to the police station.
He followed the unit to Fourth
and Solomon streets. The police
car turned left and the boy tur
ned right.
While police gave chase, La
mar County and Bamesville of
ficers were notified to be on
the look out for the sports car.
A unit of the Lamar County
Over Half Of All
Who Ever Lived
Here In Griffin
Live Here Now
(See Editorial On Page 4)
Country Parson
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“The word ‘more’ may
mean a great deal or very
little, as in the statement: As
men earn more they give
more to the church.”
Doctors Deplore
‘Killer
The Spalding County Medical
Association has adopted a reso
lution on the Griffin-Barnesville
“killer strip” that will be pre
sented before the Medical Asso
ciation of Georgia.
The resolution points specifi
cally to the stretch of U. S. 41
between Griffin and the U. S.
341 By-Pass at Bamesville.
It said the section of highway
is improperly marked and that
the unsafe stretch of highway
has been the site of an unusual
ly high number of accidents and
traffic fatalities.
The resolution points out that
255 accidents occurred on the
stretch of highway since last
April. Ninety people were injur
ed and 14 were killed in those
accidents, the resolution states.
The resolution calls for the
Traffic Safety Committee of the
Medical Association of Georgia
to seek proper warning signs
and that they be placed on such
stretches of highway by the
State Highway Bourd.
The resolution also calls for
other medical societies in the
state to notify the Traffic Saf
ety Committee of such highways
in their areas.
One Griffin doctor contacted
this morning said more action
Sheriff’s Department spotted the
car on U. S. 41 and chased it.
The youth refused to stop.
The chase was joined by the
Bamesville Police Department
on U. S. 341. The youth reach
ed speeds of more than 120-mi
les-per-hour on the new four
lane route.
He tried to make a turn off U.
S. 341 on Georgia 36. He lost con
trol of the car and It spun into a
sign post. The officers caught up
with him there.
Lamar County and Bamesville
officers have charged him with
numerous traffic violations. The
Griffin Police Department has
placed a hold order on the
youth on the charge which start
ed the chase.
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Shaw Indict e d. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
Stork Club. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Sun Vs. Smog. Page 5.
Society. Pages 8, 9.
Sports. Pages 10, 11.
You, Your Child. Page 12.
Beauty on Campus. Page 13.
School Columns. Page 14.
Alabama Ord e r. Page 16.
Russian Boat. Page 16.
Drugs. Page 17.
Tag Deadline. Page 17.
Bruce Biossat. Page 18.
Ray Cromley. Page 18.
Mrs. Georgia. Page 19.
Want Ads. Pages 21-23.
Military. Page 24.
on the "killer strip” is planned
by the Spalding County Medical
Association.
He said the doctors of Griffin
work the emergency room at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospital
and know what is happening In
the many wrecks on the high
way.
The doctor said, “Almost ev
ery time I get a call to go to the
hospital emergency room on a
wreck, 1 can tell you before I
get there where the accident
happened.”
He did not disclose what other
plan of action the Medical Soc
iety is planning on the “killer
strip.”
The doctor indioated that the
resolution, which will be presen
ted to the House of Delegates of
the Medical Association of Geor
gia, Is the beginning of a cam
paign for action by the State
Highway Department on the
"killer strip.”
The resolution reads:
WHEREAS: There exists in
the State of Georgia unmarked,
unsafe stretches of highways wh
ich have been the site of an un
usually high number of accidents
and traffic fatalities.
AND WHEREAS: These stret
ches of highways are insuffic-
Price Fix?
GHS Ordered
Rings From
One Of Them
ATLANTA (UPI)— A federal
grand jury Wednesday indicted
four firms and three individuals
on charges of conspiring to fix
the prices of graduation rings,
invitations and announcements
in Georgia.
U.S. Atty. Charles Goodson
said the firms were L. G. Bal
four Co., of Attleboro, Mass.;
Herff Jones Co., of Indianapo
lis, Ind.; Jostens, Inc., of Owa
Some 250 members of the
Griffin High senior class or
dered rings from the Balfour
Co., one of the three indicted
Boys rings here sold for $31.50
and girls rings sold for $28.50.
They have not yet been deliver
ed to the school.
tonna, Minn., and H.R.T. Ii:c.,
Decatur, Ga.
Individuals indicted were
identified as Thad Wilkin of At
lanta, Ray Isenbarger of Attle
boro, and Herbert R. Thompson
of Decatur.
They were ordered to appear
before U.S. District Judge Sid
ney O. Smith on March 31.
Goodson said.
The indictments charged the
firms and Individuals engaged
in a conspiracy since 1962 that
was “in unreasonable restraint
of interstate trade and com
merce.”
Goodson said maximum pen
alties for each person if con
victed would be a $50,000 fine
and one year in jail. The firms
would be subject to $50,000 fines
if convicted.
H.R.T., Inc., is sales agent
for Josten which is owned by
Thompson, Goodson said.
Wilkes and Isenbarger are as
sociated with Balfour, the in
dictment said.
The three major firms, the
indictment said, agreed not to
submit identical bids, but set
only small differences in prices.
They handle about 90 per cent
of the graduation business in
Georgia.
iently marked to alert unsus
pecting drivers.
AND WHEREAS: Such a strip
of highway exists In Spalding
County and includes U. S. 41
South to U. S. 341 By-Pass, tru
thfully called killer strip.
AND WHEREAS: 255 acci
dents, 90 injuries and 14 fatali
ties have occurred on this strip
of highway since April 1966.
BE IT RESOLVED: That the
Traffic Safety Committee of the
Medical Association of Georgia
actively seek proper warning
signs be placed on these high
ways by the Highway Board of
The State of Georgia.
AND BE IT FURTHER RE
SOLVED: That component raa
dical societies notify the Traffic
Safety Committee of the exis
tence of such highways In their
areas.
AND BE IT FURTHER RE
SOLVED; That the Medical As
sociation of Georgia bring to the
attention of the public the exis
tance of these highways and the
number of unnecessary accidents
and deaths caused by improper
or insufficient warning signs.
Dr. James Dunaway is presi
dent of the Spalding County Me
dical Society.