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By Quimby Melton
We continue the study of the
Book of Acts during May and
this week’s Sunday School les
son will be “A Witnessing Fel
lowship.” It so happens that
Sunday will be the beginning of
National Family Week: and to
Good Evening it seems appro
priate to couple “Witnessing
Fellowship” with the family.
For we must remember we all
are members of the Family of
God and that Jesus Christ Him
self has told us to witness for
God “throughout all the world.”
The background Scripture is
Acts 4:23 through 5.11, The Me
mory Selection is “They were
all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spake the word of God
boldly ” (Acts 4:31).
The purpose of this lesson is
to convince all who claim to be
Christian.'- that they can best
witness effectively if they are
in fellow-ship with others who
also would do this.
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Dr Sayne . Oates, on the
faculty of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, in an in
troduction to today’s lesson says
discipline plays a most impor
tant part in the life of a family;
the right sort of discipline, not
the type discipline which, “in
the hands of harsh and vindic
tive people, has gotten a bad
reputation.”
The discipline he means is (1)
learning that sustains charac
ter: (2) discipline that applies
to all members of the family
from father and mother to the
baby; “Discipline”, he writes
“is everybody’s personal res
ponsibility. When anything goes
wrong, everyone to some extent
is responsible.”
There is no greater organiza
tion in all the world that is a
better witness to the power and
the glory and the love of God
Almighty than a truly Christian
home where God’s law reigns.
The Scripture we study this
week begins “When they were
released.” This refers to Peter
and John after they had been
held “in hold” over night by the
religious leaders. After the ru
lers had told them they must
not testify anymore and Peter
had told them boldly that this
was impossible, even if they
wanted to be silent — “We can
not but speak the things which
we have seen and heard.” —Pe
ter and John “went to their
friends.” They realized that
even though they had answered
the rulers “boldly” being “filled
with the Spirit”, that they shou
ld report back to their fellow
workers and with them make
plans for what might come.
It was very much as though
Peter and John had gone out as
a reconnaissance team and had
contacted the enemy and won
the first skirmish; they knew
that the enemy, those who would
wipe out all who believed in Je
sus Christ, would attack again.
So Peter and John met with
their friends, and made plans
for the battle that was sure to
come in a short time. One might
even carry this parallel further
by saying that Peter and John,
though strong in their faith, se
cured additional “ammunition”
by praying with their fellow
Christians.
Remember the early Christian
Church had to fight every foot
of the way for its survival. But
survive it did, and grow it did;
until today the church that Is
sincere in its love for Jesus
Christ and His program of faith
and love, stands between Hea
ven and Hell itself urging all
to respond to the call of Jesus
Christ — “come unto me.”
You can have your United Na
tions: your NATO (North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization), your
various pacts and alliances; but
these alone, as worthy as are
their fundamental ideals, can
never settle the problems of the
World.
They are Man-made. And man
when he saw fit has always
found an excuse to tear up "that
scrap of paper” and start a war.
In 1945 Franklin Delano Roose
velt prepared a Jefferson Day
speech which he did not live to
deliver. It contained these
words “Today we are faced
with the pre-eminent fact that
if civilization is to survive, we
must cultivate the science of
human relationship — the abil
ity of all peoples of all kinds to
live together and work togeth
er in the same world, at
peace.”
How can this be brought ab
out?
The answer is simple. Make
the world one of Christian fam
ilies.
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WHERE IT HURTS is plainly labeled on this wound
ed Marine for quick treatment by the medics, who
lately have had their hands full of casualties caused
by some of the most savage fighting of the Vietnam
hostilities.
Five Suspects Won't
Fight Extradition
The Spalding Sheriff’s office
today was notified that five
youths wanted in a church rob
bery here have waived extradi
tion and will not fight efforts
to have them returned here.
They were placed in the hands
of Texas authorities after fed
eral charges against them were
withdrawn. This cleared the
way for their return to Georgia.
The five, unkept, unshaved
youths, dressed in blue prison
uniforms stood before a U. S.
Commissioner’s desk in El Pa
so, Tex., Thursday. He read
them the terms of their SIO,OOO
personal recognizance bonds.
“We might as well go back to
Georgia,” one of the youths
said.
The youths are accused of
stealing $25 from a collection
plate in a small Spalding County
church April 23, and then rap
ing two 18-year-old choir girls.
The girls were found later,
bound hand and foot, along a
country road.
The five youths signed the
recognizance bonds Thursday
as a preliminary step to being
taken back to Georgia for pros
ecution. Spalding authorities
said they expect to return the
five here within a few days.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert said
today he would leave Monday
Merger Evolves
At Church Meet
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI)
—A proposed merger of 10
Protestant denominations in
volving 25 million members and
68,000 ministers has evolved
from a four-day meeting of the
Consultation on Church Union
(COCU).
The shortcut plan to unity,
with details to be worked out
during the coming year, calls
for the 10 denominations to
merge under an interim govern-
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“The most miserable folks
are those whose consciences
are punishing them for things
they won’t admit to them
selves they’ve done.”
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morning for El Paso to pick up
the prisoners. Tire sheriff is in
Washington this week with sc
hool patrol members and will re
turn home w’ith them Sunday
morning.
The youths are Joseph Floyd
Anthony, 18; William Lamar
Clontz, 18; Winfred Johnny Par
ham, 19; Jackie Wayne Martin,
17, and Robert Lindsey Smith,
20, all of Griffin.
They were captured a week
ago at a roadblock at Salt Flat,
Tex. Federal authorities have
been holding them on charges
of unlawful flight to avoid pros
ecution.
U. S. Commissioner Fred
Morton said that signing the
bonds was a preliminary step
so federal charges could be
dropped and they could be re
turned to Georgia for trial on
rape and robbery charges in
state court.
Parham asked whether there
was a time limit during which
Georgia authorities must claim
the youths or let them be re
leased U. S. Deputy Marshal
Jack Graves said he thought it
was ten days after extradition
proceedings.
“They (Georgia authorities)
might get lost in the desert on
the way out here,” Parham
said.
ing council without waiting to
draft a formal constitution
“We are much more closely
bound together and more
determined to remain that way
than ever before,” said the Rev.
Dr. David G. Colwell at the
close of the Thursday meeting.
Colwell, chairman of theCOCU
and pastor of the First
Congregational United Church
of Christ in Washington, said
the delegates “floundered
around at first,” but later
showed “less partisanship than
was present at some of four
previous meetings and a greater
sense of unity.”
The COCU achieved a consen
sus of 10 “guidelines” or oasic
principles of organizational
structure to be reflected In the
eventual constitution of the
United Church.
Colwell said it would take
“considerably less” than 20
years to consumate the union.
The guidelines emphasize
flexibility in organization and
readiness to adopt new forms of
church life which may better
serve an urban society than the
traditional parish-congregation.
Because the church is com
missioned by Christ to serve
mankind, the document said
"its structures must be adapted
to a changing world.”
It strongly affirms the laity’s
right to a voice in church
government.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, May 5, 1967
Marines Cheer As They
Take Hill 881 In Viet
Hanoi Reports
Bombing Raids
By EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. Ma
rines completed the conquest of
Hill 881 North today then broke
into cheers at climax of another
one of the bloody battles that
have become Marine legends.
As they did Hanoi radio
reported U S planes were
bombing and strafing the center
of the Communist capital.
Hanoi Radio said seven planes
were shot down in today's raid
and "several” American pilots
captured. It said the planes
were downed while they were
strafing and bombing both the
capital and its industrial
suburbs.
Hanoi called the raid another
“serious escalation of the war”
and said U.S. planes machine
gunned and bombed two heavily
populated Hanoi suburbs and
some commercial installations
in Hanoi proper. Previously it
had reported raids near the
heart of Hanoi.
The radio also reported three
U.S. planes were shot down
Thursday. The United States
said one plane was lost to
ground fire but said Col. Robin
Olds, a World War II fighter
ace, shot down a MIG2I
Thursday to become the first
American pilot to shoot down
two in this war. His victory
came in a series of seven
dogfights over North Vietnam.
Costly Battle
The 12-day battle for Hill 881
North was a costly one with
each side suffering around 1,000
casualties. But most of the
Communist casualties were
dead. The Marines lost 164
killed and 738 wounded; the
North Vietnamese lost around
1,100 killed.
Despite the victory Gen
William C. Westmoreland, com
mander of U.S. forces in
Vietnam, flew into the big
Marine base at Khe Sanh, near
the battle scene, and sounded a
note of caution: “I don’t think
the battle is necessarily over.”
“It is obvious that where the
enemy is coming from is Laos,”
he said. “Some came across the
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) but
most came from Laos.” Hill 881
North and the nearby peaks of
Hill 881 South and 861 are only
a few miles from Laos and tile
DMZ.
As an indication of further
battles to come U.S. Marine
pilots bombed and strafed
infiltration routes near Hill 881
North today and 852 bombers
carried out two attacks on
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near the captured hills.
Walt Under Fire
Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt, the
Marine commander in Vietnam,
visited Hill 881 North Wednes
day when the Marines wrested
control of the hill from the
North Vietnamese but came
under fire himself from snipers
who had regained the summit.
The Marines pulled back from
the summit when snipers
popped out of bunkers that had
stood a savage aerial and
artillery bombardment and
when the Communists opened
fire with mortars from nearby
ridges. Planes dropped 2,000
pound blockbusters to tear up
deeply dug bunkers covered
with layer after layer of logs.
The Marines began moving
back Thursday against sniper
fire that killed three of their
men. They lost four more today
after the snipers who had
somehow withstood four days of
bombardment. When they
reached the crest they found
only three North Vietnamese
and seven weapons.
Walt also said the battle
blocked Communist plans to
score a major victory by
cutting off the Leatherneck
bastion of Khe Sanh and
(Continued on Page Five.)
6 A Sermon?
Advanced Review Os Book
Soon To Be Published
“Friday night I will not prea
ch a sermon,” said Dr. Jess
Moody, evangelist conducting
the revival at the First Baptist
Church. “I will give an advan-
He Has A Reason
To Sing His Best
Wendall Kitchens, guest so
loist from Atlanta’s Second
Ponce de Leon Baptist Church,
had every reason to sing his
very best Thursday night at
the revival in progress at the
First Baptist Church.
Shortly before he entered
the sanctuary he was called
to the telephone and told that
the stork had visited his home
in Atlanta and left a beautiful
baby girl. She is the first child
of the Kitchens.
Vol. 95 No. 105
Romney Used
Dull Tools
Columnist Bruce Biossat
sizes up Gov. George
Romney’s visit to Atlanta
today on page three.
Judge Declares
Milk Price Law
Unconstitutional
ATLANTA (UPl)—Fulton Su
perior Court Judge Jack Ether
idge today declared the price
fixing powers of the Georgia
Milk Commission unconstitution
al.
Clifford Ward, commission
chairman, said his group would
meet next week to decide
whether to appeal to the State
Supreme Court. There was lit
tle doubt it would.
The commission has the pow
er to fix milk prices throughout
the state on grounds of keeping
the dairy industry in Georgia
stable.
ced review of a book I h av e
written that will be published
this fall by Doubleday and
Company.
The book is “The Rise and
Fall of the American Empire ”
The evangelist, who has had
many books of sermons and me
ditations published borrows
most of the title of his new book
from the classic “Rise and Fall
of the Roman Empire,” by Car
lisle.
Dr. Moody explained that his
message tonight could not be
broadcast nor taped because of,
an agreement with the publish
ers. Doubleday and Company
already has made arrangements
with a large motion picture com
pany to make a picture of the
book for both theatre and TV.
The meeting tonight will begin
at 7:30 o’clock.
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at this morning’s chapel program. Little Red Riding Hood (Dawn Johnson)
shows surprise (right) to find the wolf (Eric Sigman) in her grandmother’s
bed. Wood chopper Bob Jones (left) shows the hide of the wolf to grand
mother (Delores Jones) and Little Red Riding Hood after it had been killed.
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Carp
Harold Edwards of Griffin shows off the one that
didn’t get away. Edwards, whose father operates the
pumping station at Flint River, caught this 34| pound
carp Thursday morning on a set hook in the river near
the pump.
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA—-Mostly cloudy and mild
tonight and Saturday with chan
ce of scattered showers begin
ning about Saturday afternoon
or evening.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
53, maximum Thursday 64, mini
mum Thursday 55. Total rainfall
1.28 inches. Sunrise Saturday
6:50 a.m., sunset Saturday 8:24
p.m.
OLD GRANDDAD
1f BORGER, Tex. (UPI) —Sam
Morgan became a grandfather
the hard way this week. His
daughter was more expectant
than he thought when he
returned to his farm Thursday.
Morgan, 59, delivered his new
grandson. Mother and child
were reported doing well. So
was grandfather Sam.