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By Quimby Melton
“A Man of Faith” is the title
of this week's International
Sunday School Lesson. The back
ground Scripture is Acts 6:1,
through 8:1.
The Memory Selection is “I
can do all things through Christ
which strengthens me.” (Phil
iupians 4:13.)
This lesson should help profes
sing Christians proclaim and
defend their convictions even
though criticism may be heaped
on them by others.
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Here we have the story of Ste
phen.
Reading the entire background
chapters we find that Stephen
was one of seven men selected
to look after the administrative
side of the early church so that
the apostles could continue in
their witnessing and preaching.
Stephen is described as being
“full of faith and power.”
Stephen and the six others
were chosen after certain mem
bers of the early church, the
Greeks, complained that they
were being overlooked, charging
that their widows were not ca
red for. In verse one of the
6th chapter of Acts we have the
first intimation of a division am
ong the early Christians. The
Hebrew’s were the Jew's who
lived in Palestine, the Hellenists
were those who had lived in oth
er parts of the Roman Empire,
they spoke Greek, had Greek
names and followed Greek cus
toms. It was the latter that sou
ght equal rights and their com
plaint brought about the choos
ing of the seven administrators.
Stephen was of the Hellenist
group; and the fact that he could
and did speak boldly of Jesus
and did remarkable miracles
was all the more puzzling to the
orthodox church leaders. So they
summoned him, questioned
him, but they could not get ar
ound his testimony. So they re
sorted to a “frame up”, bring
ing in “witnesses” who said
they had heard him speak blas
phemous words against Moses.
Blasphemy is defined in the dic
tionary as “reviling”; but in the
New Testament we find it also
to mean “mocking” or “slander
ing”.
That was all they needed, this
trumped up charge; so they
roused the people to the point
that they took Stephen out a n d
stoned him to death.
This layman has always thou
ght of a mob throwing small sto
nes at their victim. But a pic
ture in one of the books we stu
dy, shows the people standing
over the martyr and dropping
hugh lumps of stones on his
head. At least the torture of be
ing stoned to death was short.
As Stephen stood before the
self-appointed judges he told
the church leaders that they
and their predecessors were a
“stiffnecked” people, refusing
to admit the truth, and killing
those w’ho spoke it. “Stiffneck
ed” might be translated into mo
dern talk by saying they w’ere
“sot in their ways”.
But even as the mob stoned
Stephen he remained calm and
continued to glorify Jesus Christ.
His closing words were similar
to those of Jesus dying on the
cross. Stephen said “Lord, lay
not this sin to their charge.”
Jesus said “Father, forgive
them for they know not what
they do.”
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This story of the death of Ste
phen tells that among those
who stood by was one Saul.
Those who stoned the victim laid
their clothes at his (Saul’s)
feet. Thus the man who was la
ter to be converted was “con
senting” to the mob’s violence.
This must have made an im-.
pression on Saul. In fact it
probably was the beginning of
Saul’s ultimate conversion. But
m spite of this Saul, probably in
desperation, fighting against ac
cepting the truth, increased his
persecution of the early Chris
tians. He secured authority of
the church leaders to carry on
his persecutioa, not only in Jer
usalem, but throughout the coun
try. It was on his way to Dam
ascus that he finally “saw the
light” and became the greatest
Christian missionary the world
has ever known.
Just how stiffnecked are we
modern day Christians?
Do we relish a “comfortable"
Christian life?
Or will we be full enough of
faith and love for Jesus Christ
to accept criticism and even
death if necessary to witness
for Jesus Christ?
Rather alarming questions!
How will we answer them?
School Outlay
For Next Year
Tops $5.5 - Million
The Griffin-Spalding Board
of Education expects to spend
more than five and a half mil
lion dollars for the school sys
tem’s program during 1967-68.
This was indicated in a budget
proposal the school board has
under study. The total outlay
calls for $5,688,592.86.
It is one of the largest outlays
for schools ever planned in the
history of the community.
The proposed budget has been
cut to the bone and dangerously
close in some places, according
to George Patrick, Jr., superin
tendent.
“In some places where we
needed new buses, they were
not put in the budget,” he ex
plained. There were some oth
er needs which the board have
left out in an effort to hold costs
to a minimum, he explained.
Adjustment in the chargeback
formula affecting the system
here will cost the system some
$95,000 more alone, Mr. Patrick
explained. This is a factor over
which the local board has no
control at all, he pointed out.
This automatically increases
fixed charges over which the
board has no control, the super
intendent pointed out.
The teacher raises the Gen
eral Assembly approved which
will average some S7OO each will
be reflected in the budget, he
said. The local system will have
to pay for 30 per cent of this and
the state the other 70 percent,
he said.
The local effort required throu
gh adjustment of the chargeback
formula will be $466,994. This is
an increase from the $371,521
required last year.
The teacher pay increase ap
proved by the state will cost
$277,707 in the Griffin-Spalding
and the local system will have
to pay $78,793 of this amount,
Mr. Patrick explained.
Fixed charges will be increa-
Crompton Buys
Pilot Mills In
Raleigh, N. C.
Crompton Co., Inc. has reach
ed an agreement in principle for
the purchase of the assets and
business of Pilot Mills Co., Ral
eigh, N. C., Howard Richmond,
president of Crompton Co., an
nounced today.
Pilot Mills is a manufacturer
of fine colored yarn fabrics of
combed cotton and polyester-cot
ton blends. It is fully set up for
carding, spinning, weaving, dye
ing and finishing to produce fab
rics for men’s, women’s and
children’s wear.
Pilot will operate as a fully
owned subsidiary of Crompton
Company, Inc.
Mr. Richmond said “this is
the first time since 1881 that
Crompton has deviated its tex
tile manufacturing out of the
piled fabric field, This acquisi
tion of Pilot Mills will provide
Crompton Co. with additional
products to serve our present
customers as well as new ones.
We believe this marks an im
portant milestone in the growth
of Crompton”.
Crompton, the oldest cotton
textile company in the United
States, is the largest producer of
velveteen and the second largest
manufacturer of corduroy in the
country. It has manufacturing
plants in Arkansas, Georgia and
Virginia, sales and factoring sub
sidiaries in New York and sal
es offices in most American cit
ies.
Crompton operates the Cromp
ton-Highland mill in Griffin.
Country Club Okays
Newnan Road Site
Members of the Griffin Coun
try Club voted Thursday night
to accept land offered as a gift
on the Newnan road as the site
for its new club facilities.
The some 90 members who
attended the meeting at the
Stuckey auditorium at the Ex
periment Station voted by a good
majority to accept the land.
It was offered by the Shoal
Creek Development Corp. It will
involved some 150 to 200 acres
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
sed some $23,000. The local bo
ard has no choice in this but to
accept them, the superintendent
explained.
Another item in the budget af
fected by minimum wage legis
lation on the federal level will
be the janitor salaries.
Minimum wage requirements
will increase this item some $16,-
582, the superintendent said.
School officials at this point
cannot estimate what the tax
levy for school purposes during
1967-68 will need be because
they do not have digest and as
sessment figures yet. They will
not be available from county tax
officials until later in the year.
The board of education has
been struggling with the budget
for many weeks now and has un
der advisement the present pro
posal.
The board hopes to be able to
adopt a budget at its June meet
ing.
Film Shatters
Second Gunman
JFK Theory
By JACK V. FOX
MAURICE SCHONFELD
United Press International
Copyright 1967
LEXINGTON, Mass. (UPI) —
An amateur motion picture of
President Kennedy’s assassina
tion showing what bears a
resemblance to a second
gunman aiming a rifle has been
found by one of the nation’s top
photographic laboratories to be
an illusion.
An analysis released by the
Itek Corporation disproved one
widely circulated theory that
the Warren Commission erred
in finding that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone in the
slaying of the President in
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Itek made the months long
study as a public service.
Several second gunman theo
ries have een advanced by
proponents of a conspiracy in
public lectures and in publica
tions. One had been based in
part on an 8 mm color motion
picture shot that day by Orville
Nix, one of the spectators in
Dealey Plaza.
It shows th-' President be
hit by the fatal ullet and Mrs.
Kennedy climbing onto the back
of the convertible. In the
background is a grassy knoll
and. atop It a wooden picket
fence and a white concrete
pavilion with a low wall. The
knoll is below and to the left of
the Texas School Depository
Building from which Oswald
fired.
Enlarge me nt of certain
frames of the Nix film rings
out what to the naked eye
resembles a man with one
elbow resting on the roof of a
station wagon behind the wall
and squinting down a gun barrel
at Elm Street where Kennedy
was shot.
Several persons in Dallas who
were eyewitnesses to the
assassination have reported
seeing smoke or flashes from
the knoll area - even more
thought they heard shots from
that direction
Nix first turned his film over
to the FBI and it was used,
among other things, to deter
mine for the Warren report the
position of the President’s car
at the moment the fatal bullet
1 struck his head.
of land for the country club and :
its 18-hole golf course. In addi- i
tion a 50-acre lase will be in the
area but will not be part of the i
country club property.
John Newton who is coordina
ting the organization of the ’
club said the members voted to '
proceed to ask members who
have signed up to pay their ini- :
tiation fees soon so money to st
art the building can be secured.
The club approved a recom- :
mendation from the board of di- i
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, May 19,1967
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US, South Viets
Invade DMZ Area
By EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —American
and South Vietnamese forces
invaded the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) while U.S. jets bombed
a key power plant today only 1.1
miles from the heart of Hanoi
and shot down three Communist
MIG interceptors.
U.S. Marines and South
Vietnamese paratroopers invad
ed the DMZ between North and
South Vietnam Thursday for the
first time in the war. The strike
by land, sea and air was
designed to wipe out Communist
forces using the neutral zone as
a sanctuary and war base in
violation of the 1954 Geneva
agreement.
While the Leathernecks and
their Allies pressed in on an
estimated 5,000 North Vietna
mese in the DMZ from three
sides, U.S. Navy jets streaked
deep into the Communist
country to hit Hanoi.
Today was North Vietnamese
President Ho Chi Minh’s 77th
birthday.
Flying through heavy anti
aircraft fire and Communist
MIGs, the Navy planes pounded
hitherto untouched power plant
in the heart of Hanoi, military
spokesmen said. They said the
plant produced about 20 per
cent of North Vietnam’s electri
cal power.
They also hit the Van Dien
army depot about five miles
south of the Communist capital
rectors that no construction be
started until $250,000 is in hand.
The club members believe that
a membership of 275 will be
needed to begin the program.
The club now has 230 mem
bers. They will be urged to help
with a membership solicitation
program to bring the club up to
275.
The property which the direc
tors recommended is west of Gr
iffin on the Newnan road just
outside the present city limits.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Griffin Music Club received six first place trophies at the Georgia Federation of
Music Clubs convention in Athens. Trophies received were: music in hospitals,
Mrs. Tom Fetzer, chairman; hymn of the month, Mrs. James M. Moore, Jr., chair
man ; achievement records for club with membership under 50, Mrs. Barney
Hawkins, chairman; individual programs for motion picture music, international
music and contemporary American music, Mrs. W. T. Scott 111, chairman. Show
ing the trophies are (1-r) Mrs. Barney Hawkins, Mrs. Dale Carley, club president;
Mrs. James M. Moore, Jr. and Mrs. W. T. Scott 111. Attending the convention from
Griffin were Mrs. Webster Chandler, Mrs. Charles W. Henderson, Mrs. O. N.
Mathis, Mrs. W. T. Scott 111, Mrs. Jack May, Mrs. C. W. Kuhn and Mrs. Dale
Carley. The club received a special commendation for publicity given it by the
Griffin Daily News.
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city.
Pilots from the carrier Bon
Homme Richard accounted for
all three MIGs in dogfights over
Hanoi. It boosted to 63 the
number of MIG kills by
American airmen over the
North.
Freeze Cut
Peach Crops
By 39 Percent
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — The
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture said today the peach crop
in nine Southern states is ex
pected to be 39 per cent below
the 1966 harvest because of
mid-March freezes.
The nine-state crop was fore
cast at 456 1 million pounds, 38
per cent below average.
The report said peaches were
nearly wiped cut by freezes in
north Georgit and some varie
ties were damaged in central
Georgia.
Only Alabam- and Mississip
p. of the nine states expect
larger crops this year than in
1966, the department id.
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He is creating him.”
Vol. 95 No. 117
Out Os Hospital
Ike Willing To
Go To Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower emerged
from a 13-day hospital visit
today expressing willingness to
go to Vietnam if President
Johnson still wanted him to.
Eisenhower looked a bit pale
from his bout with stomach
cramps—more specifically, gas
troenteritis—but said he was
willing to undertake a trip
abroad if his doctors gave the
okay.
Johnson had suggested such a
trip by the former President
during a visit with Eisenhower
a few months ago when the
latter visited Johnson at Bethes
da Naval Hospital after the
President’s gall bladder opera
tion.
Eisenhower subsequently un
derwent a gall bladder opera
tion, too, and has been
recuperating since then.
The 76-year-old five-star ge
neral did not flatly commit
himself to any foreign mission
but said if it did come off, he
probably would stop in Vietnam.
He gave no indication that
Johnson had raised the question
at any time recently.
Chatting briefly with repor
ters outside a side entrance of
Walter Reed Army Hospital
before motoring to his farm in
Gettysburg, Pa., Eisenhower
said in reply to a question about
a possible trip that he would be
ready to go later although “I
don’t feel quite up to it now.”
He said however, that if he
did go abroad, he would want a
long extended tour, including
the trip to Vietnam, ‘‘where I
could visit old friends.”
“It’s up to the doctors,” he
remarked. “But I’d be ready to
go if I was wanted.
Eisenhower said in talking
with Gen. William C. Westmore
land during his recent visit
home from his command in
Vietnam, the general told him
the war was going better,
although he said he needed “a
little more strength.”
"It’s a nasty war,” Eisenhow
er said. “We’ve never had a
nastier war and I can under
stand why there are some
differences of opinion. But I
believe we must win.”
Os the current antiwar
demonstrations, the general
said “the protesters are in the
minority and they’re misguiding
many people.”
He said he felt It was
presumptuous of any civilian
without first-hand knowledge of
the Vietnam situation and of the
military strategy involved <.to
“give a formula on anything
this serious.”
During his hospital confine
ment, Eisenhower underwent
his yearly physical check-up
and reported “it was fine.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm tonight and Saturday with
a few showers mainly during the
day Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER - Maxi
mum today 85, minimum today
61 maximum Thursday 80 mini
mum Thursday 56. Sunrise Sat
urday 6:39 a.m., sunset Satur
day 8:34 p.m.
Middle East
War Tense
By MICHAEL DENNIGAN
CAIRO (UPI) —Arab and
Israeli forces today mobilized
for war and signs grew that
U.N. peace-keeping troops were
bowing to United Arab Republic
demands and pulling out from
between the foes, reports from
throughout the Mideast said.
Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan
and tiny but rich Kuwait
already have announced they
are preparing for action and
Cairo voiced threat of an Arab
“holy war” to drive the Jews
from Israel once and for all.
(In Jerusalem, reliable sour
ces said Israel had begun a
“partial mobilization" of its
forces. At the same time Israeli
reports from its Egyptian
frontier indicated the 3,400-man
U.N. force was preparing to pull
out in a day or two.)
The long tension between
Israel and her Arab neighbors
reached its worst point since
the 1956 Suez crisis. One
misstep could plunge the
bristling region into war.
US Calls
Meeting Os
Non-Commies
By BRUCE W. MUNN
United Press International
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) —
With “serious misgivings,” Se
cretary General Thant today
ordered the withdrawal of the
U.N. Emergency Force from
peacekeeping duty in the tense
Middle East.
The United States promptly
called non-Communist members
of the U.N. Security Council to
a meeting at U.S. delegation
headquarters to discuss the
situation. Canada was reported
calling for a general Mideast
debate in the 15-nation council.
The U.N. Emergency Force
(UNEF) of 3,400 men took up
stations in the Sinai Desert of
the United Arab Republic and in
the Gaza Strip to help keep
peace between Israel and the
UAR.
Thant received Thursday the
formal request from the govern
ment of President Gamal Abdel
Nasser in Cairo for immediate
withdrawal of the UNEF.
After meeting with his UNEF
advisory committee and ambas
sadors of the seven countries
maintaining troops in the force,
Thant gave his reply to UAR
Ambassador Mohamed el Kony
early Thursday evening for
-transmission to Cairo.
Since UNEF entered Egyptian
territory only with Cairo’s
consent, it could not remain
after that consent was with
drawn, Thant said in a report to
the General Assembly.
He issued the order pulling
out the troops.
He disclosed that some UNEF
troops had been ousted from
several positons by UAR troops
which then took over the posts.
“In all frankness,” Thant told
Cairo, “may I advise you that I
have serious misgivings” about
the troop withdrawal.
“I believe that this force has
been an important factor in
maintaining relative quiet in the
area of its deployment during
the past 10 years and that its
withdrawal may have grave
implications for peace.”
Nevertheless, he said, in view
of Cairo’s message, “your
government’s request will be
complied with.”
He said the withdrawal of the
UNEF troops would be “order
ly” and “without delay.”
Diplomatic sources said any
meeting of the Security Council
on the subject was unlikely
during the weekend.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur J.
Goldberg was reported arrang
ing private meetings with the
Soviet and Bulgarian members
of the council.
World powers were reported
working virtually round-the
clock behind scenes to keep
Israsel’s 275,000-man forces and
Arab armies twice that size
from rolling. But the cry of war
was in the air.
Egypt’s new commander
along the 117-mile frontier with
Israel said Thursday night his
troops are ready for the “holy
war” they had awaited for
years. “Now is the time to
fulfill their dream,” Gen. Abdul
Mohsen Mortage told newsmen.
Ready to Hit
U.A.R. Vice President Abdel
Hakin Amer said Egypt rolled
tanks and troops to the frontier
because of fears Israel would
attack its defense partner,
Syria. He vowed Egypt’s troops
are ready to “hit hard.”
(At Jerusalem, Israel, where
the tourist business still boomed
and coffee shops remained
crowded an Israeli army
spokesman said, “Our forces
have taken measures to meet
the situation.”)