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» By Quimby Melton
“Ye Shall Be My Witnesses”
*- is the title of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is Acts
Chapter 1.
The Memory Selection is “Ye
shall receive power, after that
the Holy Ghost come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses unto
, me both Jerusalem, and in all
Judea, and in Samaria, and un
to the uttermost part of the ear
th.” (Acts 1:8.)
» Sunday we begin a new quar
ter in Sunday School and for the
next 13 Sundays we shall study
the Book Acts of The Apostles.
As a matter of fact we will stu
* dy this book until Sunday Sept.
24, when the third quarter will
end.
The Acts of the Apostles as
» well as the Gospel of St. Luke
was written by Luke — both
were either written as letters
to or, were “dedicated” to one
• Theopolis, an early Christian
friend of the author who is not
mentioned in any other book in
the New Testament.
The first part of Acts records
the experiences of St. Peter, the
latter chapters that of St. Paul.
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• The lesson this week tells of
Jesus’ last meeting with Hi#
disciples and giving them His
final instructions as to what
they should do — witness for
• Him. In this he tells them they
should witness both in Jerusa
lem — their home base — and
In all Judea, the surrounding
• area, and in Samaria, a more
distance land, and finally unto
“the uttermost parts of the
earth.”
We today, who would witness
for Our Master, might bring this
up to date by saying Jesus wants
us to witness first in Griffin;
then in Georgia, then in the Uni
ted States and finally “unto the
uttermost parts of the earth.”
Our lesson also tells us after
Jesus had been taken up to hea
ven, “behold two men in white
stood by the disciples and
said “Ye men of Galilee, why
stand ye gazing into heaven?”
It’s easy to believe that what
they were saying to them was
“get going” about the Master’s
business; you have your instruc
• tions from Jesus Christ Him
self.” And they may have add
ed “The harvest is truly plente
ous but the laborers are few”
(Mat. 9:2 7) or “Put in the sic
kle for the harvest is ripe”
(Joel 3:13; and Revelations
14:15.)
One fault that can be found
r with many Christians, those of
today and those of years gone
by, is that we are “Lazy Chris
tians.” Do we like Felix, the
P Roman governor, who after Paul
had told him "concerning Christ”
wait for a “more convenient
I L time?” to obey the Master and
witness for Him.”
Can one imagine the results
that would come if everyone who
confesses Christ as his Savior
)• would consider today, right witness now,
a "convenient time” to
for Jesus Christ.
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No greater compliment was
paid the disciples than when Je
sus told them He wanted them
to “witness” for Him. And the
compliment is just as great to
• day when we have an opportun
ity to “witness” for Jesus?
When one thinks of witnesses
one naturally thinks of the
i * courts we have where “witness
es” are called to testify. Some
times these are “character wit
nesses” and certainly there has
i, been no man who ever lived
whose good character can be
as fully endorsed as that of Je
sus Christ. St. Luke qualifies as
0 an “eye witness"; He actually
saw Jesus Christ and witnessed
the many miracles He did; and
heard with his ears the things
that He said.
Now none of us today have
ever actually seen Jesus Christ;
but there are none of us but who
can attest (witness) to His good
I* ness, to His patience, to His un
dying love. Every true Christian
should be glad at every oppor
tunity to “take the stand” and
P as a witness testify as to whom
Jesus Christ is; as to His mer
cy and His Love, His patience
and desire to save all mankind;
L and to attest as to the never fail
ing reward that comes to those
wno trust Him; love Him; and
obey Him.
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—Dr. John Schillinger said
Thursday the best way to foil
the female cereal leaf beetle is
to develop wheat varities with
hair-like bristles which makes it
so uncomfortable for her that
ft she cannot settle down to lay
her eggs.
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HYOGO, Japan (UPI) — During heated city coun
cil debate over finances three assemblymen decided
they needed pep pills.
Assemblyman Yuji Miyakawa offered the trio pills
which they accepted and swallowed.
The trio promptly fell asleep, having taken sleeping
pills, _ officials reported today. ”
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Educated Chicks
Chickens are being hatched in the sixth grade room others are expected to hatch soon. Showing the chicks
at North Side School, Tony Jones (second from right) are (1-r) Sherry Queen, Danny Lankford, Susan
and his father constructed an incubator and eggs Woodward, Beverly Phillips, Tim Snow, Tony Jones
were put in it. Six chicks have been hatched and the and Keith Tate.
Atlanta Center
Reports Three
’Pox Imports
ATLANTA (UPI)— Three
cases of imported smallpox
have been identified in Europe
and 15 persons exposed to the
disease entered the United
States, the U.S. Communicable
Disease Center reported today.
The CDC said 15 passengers
known to have been on a plane
flight from India, where small
pox has reached an epidemic
stage, entered the United States
on March 24. They proceeded
to destinations in Maryland,
Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia and
Puerto Rico.
Three others traveled to Can
ada and Venezuela after in
transit stopovers at the John F.
Kennedy Airport in New Yprk,
the CDC said.
The center said that on
March 27, the names and ad
dresses of the exposed persons
were provided to the individual
state health epidemiologists,
who ‘‘immediately arranged
with local health officers to lo
cate these individuals and insti
tute surveillance procedures.”
“Surveillance will include
daily health status inquiries
and temperature recordings
through April 8, 16 days after
last exposure to smallpox,” the
CDC said.
Other persons on the flight,
Air India Flight 107, who travel
ed to other countries have been
identified and the information
passed on to pertinent health or
ganizations through international
channels, the CDC said.
The latest smallpox case re
ported in Europe involved a
Hanover, Germany, dermatolo
gist, the third known European
victim of the disease since
March 5.
The CDC said he apparently
became ill two days before leav
ing Bombay on March 23 and
had facial lesions on arrival in
Hanover the same day. Small
pox virus was recovered from
these lesions, the CDC said.
The dermatologist’s travels in
India included visits to New Del
hi and to Yaitur, where he was
reported to have been exposed
to smallpox.
The victim gave a history of
revaccinations in 1966 and in
February, 1967, both accompan
ied by minimal reaction, accord
ing to the CDC.
Robbers Hit %■ i
P. 0. Again
ATLANTA (UPI)— Two gun
men wearing Halloween-type
masks late Thursday hand
cuffed four branch post office
employes in a vault and stole
“several thousand dollars.”
Postmaster Walter Camp said
today an audit was not com
pleted and there was no way
to tell exactly how much mon
ey was stolen.
It was the second time in
two months the 14th Street
branch had been robbed. More
than $57,000 was stolen Feb. 21.
Atlanta police said the four
employes remained locked in
vault for nearly two hours until
one found a screwdriver and
pried off the handcuffs. He
called police.
The post office closed at 5
p.m. as usual but mail fore
man R. T. Parham and clerks
B. R. Vandergriff, H. L. Jack
son and George Charles were
working inside. Thg doors were
locked.
Parham, working in the rear
of the building, looked and saw
a masked man with gun in
hand standing nearby.
‘“Get your hands up,’” Par
ham said the gunman warned.
The other gunman appeared
and rounded up the other three
employes. They were brought to
a lounge where they were hand-
Courts Here Await
Word On Jury Bill
Spalding County court officials
were awaiting copies of a new
state law before deciding what
to do about jury selection here.
Gov. Lester Maddox signed in
to law Thursday a bill that re
quired jury lists to be compiled
from voter registeration lists.
Previously they had been selec
ted from tax digests lists.
The General Assembly pass
ed the measure after the Sup
reme Court outlawed the prac
tice of compiling lists from tax
digests.
Prank P. Lindsey, Sr., veteran
clerg of Spalding County Super
ior Court, said he had discussed
the matter with Judge John H.
McGehee. Judge McGehee said
he could do nothing until he had
received a copy of the bill.
Mr. Lindsey pointed out that
the Spalding Jury lfst was re
vised last December and the
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cuffed together.
The two gunmen apparently
went into the building before it
closed and then hid.
The employes said one of the
gunmen pried open a cage at
the vault. They said they could
hear him fill a “tub” or hand
truck with cash and stamps and
go outside.
The two gunmen were
35 to 40 years of age. One was
six feet and the other was con
siderably shorter. They wore
similar plastic Halloween-type
masks.
Country Parson
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“The more we learn how
to do, the more important it
is that we learn what to do.”
jury commission spent eight
days on t'te job. He said the re
vision was delayed from last Au
gust because tax digest lists
were not available until later be
cause of the revaluation pro
gram.
Court officials here predic
ted a big headache would re
suit if a new jury lists has to be
drawn from voter registration
lists before court sessions in
June.
Both City Court under Judge
John Goddard and Superior Co
urt under Judge McGehee have
to have jurors.
Legal authorities at the state
capitol feared that the new law
might cause complicated judic
ial problems.
One capitol source said a fight
was expected from persons con
victed of crimes by juries cho
sen under the old method.
Mediators
Heading Off
Rail Strike
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Government mediators ap
peared successful today in
heading off strikes that threa
tened to shut down most of the
nation’s rail service this week
end.
Sources close to the Federal
Mediation Board (FMB) said an
announcement
temporary no strike agreement
when the unions involved back
up verbal promises with tele
grams.
The disputes involve contract
negotiations between the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen
and the Union Pacific Railroad,
and the Order of Railway
Conductors and Brakemen and
70 railroads in all sections of
the country except the South.
Even if the mediation board’s
apparently successful effort to
secure voluntary agreements
not to strike fell through, the
government would have the
legal machinery to fend off a
walkout by either union.
Each could be put off for at
least four months under provi
sions of the National Railway
Labor Act. Both unions had set
a 12:01 a.m. EST Saturday
strike deadline.
Negotiators meantime conti
nued separate contract talks
Thursday in another rail dispute
considered much more serious
in terms of the possibility a
strike might eventually occur.
That dispute Is between six
shopcraft unions who are
negotiating contracts with some
95 per cent of the nation’s
railroads. The unions are set to
yvalkout April 12.
The government has exhaust
ed all legal processes which
could stop a strike by the six.
Only Congress could force the
men back to work.
The Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen’s dispute with the
Union Pacific concerns work
rules. The union wants contract
security provisions for train
baggagemen. It represents 750
on-train employes.
The conductors and brake
mens dispute involves the wage
and work provisions of a
proposed contract. It has 14,000
members.
The strike by the six
shopcraft unions, representing
135,000 roundhouse employes,
would shut down nearly all of
the nation’s rail service in
every part of the country.
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Could Have
Handled
MIG Fighters
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Pentagon said today U.S. war
planes have bombed an airfield
under construction in North
Vietnam which would be
capable of handling MIG
fighters when completed.
The field, at Baithoung, 80
miles southwest of Hanoi, was
hit by Navy planes March 22, a
spokesman said. Unconfirmed
reports said it also was hit last
fall and again last Monday.
So far the United States has
not attacked North Vietnam’s
major operational MIG bases,
although U.S. pilots and milita
ry officials have strongly urged
this step.
The administration has been
concerned that bombing tne
operational bases would drive
the MIGs back to Red China. If
they operated from China, the
United States could find itself in
a new confrontation with
Peking.
North Vietnamese MIGs have
shot down 10 U.S. planes over
North Vietnam so far in the
war while U.S. planes have
downed 38 of the MIGs.
North Vietnam is known to
have been building at least two
new airfields capable of handl
ing the Communist jets. Anoth
er, at Hoalac, west of Hanoi,
has become operational in the
past 45 days, U.S. sources said.
Throughout the air war U.S.
planes have attacked small
airstrips in Nortji Vietnam.
Sources said :.,o planes were
at Baithuong when it was hit.
Alabama Gets Ready
For Battle ‘Order’
By RANDOLPH PENDLETON
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)—
The federal courts had the word
from Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace
today: “They have made their
decree, now let them enforce
it.”
In a defiant speech wildly
cheered by a joint session of the
Alabama Legislature and car
ried live on television through
out the state Thursday night,
Mrs. Wallace pledged to use all
her powers as governor “to
prevent the destruction of our
public school system.”
Gov. Wallace’s speech came a
day after a federal appeals
court decision requiring total
desegregation of schools in
Alabama and elsewhere In the
South by next September.
She asked the Legislature to
consider giving her or sharing
jointly with her, control of the
state’s public schools if an
appeal should fail.
Police Power
While not specifically spelling
out what ultimate actions she
might take, Mrs. Wallace asked
for authority to invoke “the
police powers of the state” and
Griffin Gl Writes
Few Are Willing To
Fight For Freedom
“It seems to me that everyone
wants more and more freedom,
but no one is willing to fight for
it.”
That’s a common statement
but when it comes from a Grif
fin soldier, serving in Vietnam,
it carries a special meaning.
Sp-4 Jerry Durham, who
volunteered for duty in Vietnam,
told the Griffin Daily News in a
letter that he was proud to ser
ve “my country over here. I am
glad I volunteered for this as
signment."
The Griffin soldier, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Durham of
Dobbins Mill road, has been In
Vietnam five and a half months.
Before that he served in Ger
many for 19 months.
He volunteered for his present
duty and is in one of the biggest
operations of the Vietnam war.
Sp- 4 Durham said in his let
ter:
“I ain proud to serve my coun-
Textile Men
Rap Imports
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (UPI) —
The loss of thousands of jobs in
America’s import-ridden tex
tiles industry is part of the
price paid for U.S. leadership
in world trade development,
according to the chairman of
the International Trade Com
mittee of the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute
(ATMI).
Halbert M. Jones, speaking at
the institute’s annual meeting,
said from 300-400,000 jobs in
textiles and related industries
are being displaced by an im
port rate of 2.8 billion square
yards of textiles a year.
Jones called for:
—No reduction in tariffs on
textiles and fibers in the Ken
nedy-round negotiations soon to
conclude in Geneva.
—Renewal of the long-term
cotton textile arrangement for
five years without charge and
the return to firm administra
tion under the LTA, including
the bilateral agreements.
—Development and establish
ment of effective procedures for
restraining the growth of im
ports of man-made fibers and
fiber and wool textile products.
—Government efforts to seek
equal treatment for domestic
textiles in overseas countries.
Jones said the industry is
willing to do its share to im
prove industrial conditions in
for the Legislature consider
increasing the number of state
troopers.
“I ask you, in the event a
stay is not granted, or an
appeal be unsuccessful, to
consider placing in the governor
of the state of Alabama or in
the governor and the Legisla
ture, all powers heretofore
vested in the state superinten
dent of education, including, but
not limited to, supervisory
control with regard to our
various local boards of educa
tion,” she said.
The governor asked the
legislature to meet as a
committee of the whole and
hear testimony from educators
and parents whom, she said,
had not been given an
opportunity to defend them
selves in federal court.
Take Action
“The proposed committee of
the whole would afford them an
opportunity to present their
case and you an opportunity to
determine whether this legisla
tion is warranted,” she said. “1
ask you to determine what
additional action may be
required.”
try over here and am glad I vol
unteered for this assignment.
“It seems to me everyone
wants more and more freedom,
but no one is willing to fight for
it.
“It started with the war for
freedom from England, and has
continued through the years —
World War One, World War
Two, Korea and now Vietnam.
"Freedom is something, if the
U.S. wants, it is going to have
to fight for for a long time to
come.”
Sp-4 Durham said he was pr
oud to be doing his part to keep
freedom alive.
“If we don’t fight here today,
it could be in the states tomor
row.
“I would like today’s children,
and mine, if I marry, to be
brought up free, to vote for
whom they please, and to work
at the Job they like.”
under - developed nations, but
“we are completely unwilling to
have the growth of our markets
usurped by imports, or to have
present productive capacity and
employment displaced by im
ports.”
Earlier, two members of an
informal house committee on
textiles warned of the effect of
the fast-rising, low-priced im
ports.
Rep. William J. B. Dorn, D
S.C., said the industry “is con
fronted with unfair low-wage
imports in every increasing
quantity. Importers have stolen
or appropriated part of our
market and now want to nego
tiate for more.”
Rep. Phil Landrum, D-Ga.,
committee chairman, said “the
urgency of the threat of these
increasing imports makes it
essential that we do something
about it before it consumes us.”
Both men said they expected
some congressional action dur
ing the current session.
Better Days
Seen For
Industry
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (UPI) -
Despite present marketing prob
lems and increased competition
from imports, better days are
ahead for American textile
mills, the outgoing president of
the industry’s central trade or
ganization said today.
“We are on the threshhold of a
big, dramatic and exciting
growth,” declared William J.
Erwin at the opening session of
the annual meeting of the Amer
ican Textile Manufacturers In
stitute (ATMI). But he also
warned the challenges will be
“more demanding than anything
we have experienced in the
past.”
Erwin told more than 1,000
textile executives the future will
demand they not only be “ex
pert, in the bread-and-butter
techniques of production and
selling goods,” but that they al
so have “the capacity to sense
the temper of the times” in or
der to meet the needs of a so
ciety changing “at breakneck
speed.”
Erwin, chairman of the board
of Dan River Mills, Inc., Dan
ville, Va., suggested today's
problems of how to dispose of
products may be replaced by the
problem of “how to build the
capacity to produce the products
...which the American public
will demand.”
Citing estimates of 225 million
Americans by 1975 with an econ
omy half again as large as
now, he said textilists should ask
“can we develop the technology,
can we generate the financing
to satisfy a market half again
as large as today?”
Before the industry can even
start the expansion, however,
the increasing tide of imports
must be halted, Erwin said.
“They eat away at the pros
perity and well being of the
people who grow the fibers, spin
the yarns, weave the cloth and
fashion the apparel, the ones
least able to withstand this de
bilitating process,” he said.
Weather:
forecast for griffin
AREA — Partly cloudy tonight.
Increasing cloudiness Saturday,
warm in the afternoon and mild
at night.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 78, minimum today
49, maximum Thursday 71, min
imum Thursday 55. Sunrise Sat
urday 8:29 a.m., sunset Satur
day 6:Wp.m.
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