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By Quimby Melton
“A Growing Church” Is the
title of this week’s International
Sunday School lesson. B ack
ground Scripture is Acts 11:19-
30. The Memory Selection is
"The hand of the Lord was with
them: and a great number be
lieved, and turned to the Lord.”
(Acts 11:21.)
This old world has many ax
ioms — maxims — defined as
self evident truths or a general
truth. One of these is that no
thing stands still very long, that
the status quo is a danger; that
unless something grows it even
tually leads to extermination
and that anything that remains
stationary, soon stagnates and
becomes worthless.
This axiom can be applied to
the Church, individual churches
or churches collectively.
It’s interesting to consider how
the early Christian Church
grew and developed. This grow
th was certainly attained in spite
of many handicaps, including
ostracism (withdrawal of fellow
ship) from the orthadox church,
boycott (turning a cold sholder)
and even persecution that some
times lead to martyred death.
However, the early Christians,
in spite of all this, worked stea
dily and rejoiced as they saw
the Church grow.
Had the early Christians had
less zeal, less faith, less love for
Jesus Christ it may have been
that the orthodox church, which
denied Jesus was the Messiah,
might have temporarily prevail
ed, the early Christians been
blocked and it could have been
centuries later that the Chris
tian Church would be revived.
We of today owe much to the
early Christians.
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The first dozen chapters of
Acts tell of the spread of the
Gospel outside Jerusalem and
Judea. This week’s lesson brings
to a climax the spread of Chris
tianity to the Gentile people. Pr
ior to this Christian converts
had been gained in certain gen
tile families — that of Corne
lius for instance ■— but in this
lesson we find a 100 percent Gen
tile city where one of the largest
groups of believers were to or
ganize a church. The impor
tance of this Church in Antioch
is evident when one reads that
it was here “The disciples
were called Christians first in
Antioch.”
The chief character in this les
son is Barnabas, who was to be
come one of the most faithful co
workers of Paul. Some of the
apostles in Jerusalem, hearing
how this gentile community of
Antioch was accepting the Gos
pel, sent Barnabas there to in
vestigate and report back. When
he arrived he was immedia
tely impressed with the sincere
ity of the new converts and
preaching boldly caused more
people to come into the fold.
Our lesson tells us that Barna
bas was "a good man, full of
the Holy Spirit and of faith.”
The combination of these three
virtues is far too rare. He was
a “good man” — And as such
he went to Antioch with an open
mind; he did not condemn the
other apostles who had obeyed
the command “go ye into all the
world”; he went to see just what
had happened and whether the
movement there rang true or
not. He was pleased with what
he found.
Also he was “full of faith.”—
He did not believe that the Gos
pel could bring salvation, even
to the gentiles — He Knew it
could. There is a lot of difference
in believing and in faith. Faith
is confidence and not only will
ingness, but the resolute desire
to follow God’s guidance.
One might well ask himself
two questions: One — Is my
church growing or is it compla
cently developing spiritual dry
rot?
Two— What am I doing as a
member of the congregation to
help my church grow? Grow
not only in membership but
grow in usefulness to its mem
bers, to the community and ab
ove all useful in God’s program.
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When one thinks of growth
one probably thinks how one’s
children have grown. This grand
father would not be surprised if
there are not many homes in the
community where on the fram
ing of a closet door there are
many pencil marks, like dash
es. They were put there at var
ious times when mother or dad
was “seeing how tall you are
today.” These marks are a re
cord of the growth of their child,
and as such are left even when
the door is being repainted.
What does your record of grow
th in your church show. Is there
steady growth recorded by the
imiginary pencil marks?
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Dr. Lytton W. “Peanuts” Boyle checks peanut plant for disease.
Dr. Boyle To Retire
Call Him ‘Peanuts*
Dr. Lytton W. “Peanuts” Boy
le will retire from the Georgia
Experiment Station July 1 where
he has become known through
out the south for his work on
peanut diseases.
Dr. Boyle, a plant pathologist,
has worked primarily in the
area of disease control in pea
nuts, but also has passed along
ideas to growers that have in
creased yields.
“Disease peanuts cannot be
controlled solely by the applica
tion of an insecticide, but must
be done through a combination
of events,” Dr. Boyle said. He
said for disease to be controlled
properly a grower must start
from the preparation and work
his way up through planting, cul
tivating, herbicide treatments
and spraying for diseases.
Dr. Boyle is working on a new
idea that spraying according to
the weather can be helpful in
preventing diseases in peanuts.
Most peanut farmers, he said,
spray on a schedule of once each
week or every 14 days. But, he
said, in some instances, accord-
Country Parson
“Humility is difficult be
cause it’s so much easier to
remember what we’ve done
than what we haven’t.”
NOT SO SLY
METROPOLIS, 111. (UPI)—A
fox in a pig raid on the Harry
McGhee farm near here was
more foolhardy than sly.
McGhee found a dead fox this
week in a pig farrowing pen in
his barn. The fox apparently
was the victim of an angry
sow protecting his young.
Cleve Williams
Glad He Lost.
See Page Six
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Ing to the weather conditions, a
farmer may not need to spray
but every 21 days or he may
need to spray once each week.
One of Dr. Boyle’s biggest pro
blems has been getting peanut
farmers to understand his ideas
and put them into use. It is hard
to change a man’s way of farm
ing, which was taught to him by
his father and has become a tra
dition in an area, Dr. Boyle said.
One producer told Dr. Boyle
after hearing him speak: “What
kind of nut has the Experiment
Station hired to think a man can
produce two tons of peanuts per
acre.” The man changed hi s
mind when he produced more
than two tons per acre on his
farm, following ideas passed to
him by Dr. Boyle.
Dr. Boyle has been associated
with the Georgia Experiment
Station in Griffin more than 20
years. He joined the station staff
in June, 1947 as an assistant bo
tanist. He was promoted to full
professor in 1957.
Dr. Boyle, born in Tocoma,
Wash., in 1899, earned his bach-
College Students
Double In South
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
Southern Regional Education
Board reported today the num
ber of students in Southern col
leges and universities doubled
since 1955.
The board said, enrollment
was 670,000 in 1955 and had
jumped to 1,386,000 by 1965.
In the South and nationwide,
an increasing share of the stu
dent population was found at
public rather than private in
stitutions, the board said, and
the most dramatic growth in
creases were noted in junior
and senior colleges rather than
universities.
Rapid growth was shown in
junior colleges with the excep
tions being Arkansas and Mis
sissippi, where junior college en
rollments lagged.
The junior college boom was
noted particuarly in Florida.
The report said in 1965 at least
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, June 16,1967
elor of science and master of sc
ience degrees at Washington Sta
te College. He received his doc
torate at Wisconsin in 1932.
He worked with the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture in Ore
gon, Idaho and North Dakota
before coming to the station m
Griffin.
Dr. Boyle, who has not made
definite plans for his retirement,
said he and his wife may move
to the Southwest, in an effort to
obtain relief for Mrs. Boyle’s
arthritis.
He has been offered an oppor
tunity to work in Mexico in an
advisory capacity in producing
peanuts and controling peanut
diseases.
He also has been contacted by
another company, who wants
him. Dr. Boyle said he and Mrs.
Boyle most likely will continue
to live in Griffin.
Dr. Boyle was a pioneer in dis
ease control in peanuts. His id
eas have increased the yields of
peanuts and controlled many
diseases which plagued the pea
nut grower several years ago.
59 per cent of first-time collegi
ate enrollments were at public
community (junior) colleges.
Another 5 per cent were at pri
vate two-year schools.
The junior college growth was
accounted for by tightened ad
mission standards at senior col
leges and universities in the
South, the board reported.
The SREB said 41.6 per cent
of Georgia’s student population
was enrolled in public senior
colleges in 1965, as compared
to 24.9 per cent in 1955.
State - operated universities
lost their share of the student
population during the period.
The report showed 21.7 per cent
enrolled in public universities in
1965, as compared to 35.8 per
cent in 1955.
In Georgia in 1965, 73.3 per
cent of students in higher edu
cation were enrolled at public
institutions with the remaining
27.7 per cent at private schools.
In 1955, the figures were 68.1
and 31.9 per cent.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warm tonight and Saturday with
widely scattered afternoon or
evening thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 84, minimum today
66, maximum Thursday 84, min
imum Thursday 65, Sunrise Sat
urday 6:32 a.m., sunset Satur
day 8:50 p.m.
Grim Kosygin
Stops In Paris
Russian May
Ask DeGaulle
To Make Trip
By ALLAN PRIAULX
PARIS (UPI)—A grim-looking
Soviet Premier Alexei N
Kosygin stopped off today in
Paris for talks with President
Charles de Gaulle on the Middle
East crisis. Informed sources
said Kosygin would try to
persuade de Gaulle to Join him
at the special U.N. General
Assembly meeting in New York.
France and the Soviet Union
had adopted similar positions on
the Arab-Israeli dispute and
Kosygin was reported anxious
to have de Gaulle’s personal
support for the anti-Israeli
drive before the world body.
A decision by de Gaulle to
attend the assembly could
result in a Big Four summit.
Reports from London said
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
will go to New York If a
summit conference was ar
ranged. But there was no
indication yet whether President
Johnson would attend although
talks with Kosygin were not
ruled out.
The Soviet premier flew in
from Moscow with the 50-man
delegation he is leading to the
U.M. to spearhead the anti-
Israeli drive before the world
body.
He was scheduled to continue
his flight to New York and the
United Nations tonight, arriving
early Saturday.
Secretary General Thant
called the special assembly
session for 9:30 a.m. EDT
Saturday after Belgium became
the 62nd nation to vote for the
meeting.
A bare majority of the 122
member nations was all that
was needed to convoke the
assembly as requested by the
Soviet Union.
In Moscow, it was considered
virtually certain Kosygin would
hold summit talks with Pres
ident Johnson. The White House
said Thursday Johnson would be
"happy” to talk to any of the
foreign dignitaries who came to
the United States for the
assembly meeting.
Kosygin’s ILIB turboprop air
liner landed at Orly Airport and
taxied past an El Al Airlines jet
preparing to take off on a flight
lo Tel Aviv.
He was greeted by
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
de Murville and other high
French government officials. A
red carpet was extended from
the Salon of Honor at Orly,
lined with four Soviet hammer
and sickle flags.
Russian officials said Kosy
gin, accompanied by his daugh
ter, would spend about 10 days
in America. Before boarding
his plane, he joked with fellow
Kremlin leaders about his
“vacation.”
Kosygin led a 50-man Soviet
delegation in an Ilyushin-18
turbo-jet to the U.N. General
Assembly session the Russians
called for after the United
States and Britain frustrated
their attempt to impose sanc
tions against Israel in the
Security Council.
Informed sources said Kosy
gin planned his stopover in
Paris in hopes of having De
Gaulle join him at the United
Nations. If successful, Kosygin
could start a race by world
leaders to the summit.
If Kosygin and Johnson meet,
as was unofficially predicted
here, it would be the first
Soviet-American summit meet
ing since ousted Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev and the late John
F. Kennedy talked in Vienna in
1961.
Kosygin has never been to
America before. His visit was
the first by a Soviet leader to
the United Nations since Khrus
chev thumped his shoe there
during a 1960 attempt to oust
the late Dag Hammarskjold as
secretary general.
With Kosygin in the 466-mile
an-hour plane, a Soviet model
the North Atlantic Treaty Orga
nization has nicknamed the
“coot,” went Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko, who
oanged a shoe along with
Khrushchev seven years ago,
and Deputy Foreign Minister
Alexander A. Soldatov.
Vol. 95 No. 141
★ ★★★★★★★★★
Tommie Cleared;
Now On A Diet
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPI) — I
Once upon a will there were j
three principal heirs to a $250,-
000 estate—two canaries and a ■
fat tomcat.
They lived in the proverbial (
lap of luxury in a big house •
with a caretaker to answer ,
their every whim. (
Then one day last month the (
body of one of the heirs, “a ■
sophisticated French canary” ,
named Gigi, was found by the
housekeeper.
William H. Abernathy, the at
torney for the estate, was
quickly notified.
Since Gigi was an heiress
and there was a possibility of
foul play, Abernathy ordered a
post-mortem by Dr. Richard A,
Freund, a veterinarian.
It didn’t take a Sherlock
Holmes to figure out who the
prime suspect was, and Co-Co,
★★★★★★★★★
American Forces
Sock Red Units
By EUGENE V. RISHER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) — American
land, sea and air forces
hammered at Communist units
struggling to make a comeback
in South Vietnam’s embattled
northern provinces, military
spokesmen said today.
South of their Da Nang basion
thousands of Marines stormed
into Communist strongholds and
killed 60 guerrillas in two fierce
battles, spokesmen said. The
Leathernecks suffered 15 men
killed and 31 wounded.
U.S. warships and planes
teamed to pound Communist
targets along the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) dividing North and
South Vietnam.
U.S. jets flew 136 missions
over North Vietnam. They
concentrated on supply routes
and storage areas In the
southern panhandle, spokesmen
said.
One Air Force FlO5 Thun
derchief was shot down and its
pilot reported missing. It was
the 584th American plane lost
over North Vietnam.
Other aircraft, including 852
heavy bombers, pounded North
Vietnamese troop buildups
‘Baldy’ White
Stricken 111
During Talk Here
The Rev. Hubert A. “Baldy”
White, well known after-dinner
speaker, was stricken ill here
Thursday night while making a
talk to the Luella Agriculture
Club.
He was taken to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital and admitted.
The Rev. White who is an as
sociate minister at First Metho
dist Church in Atlanta had been
talking about five minutes to the
club when he turned to the mas
ter of ceremonies and said: “I’m
sick, I’m sick.”
He was- taken outside for some
fresh air then to the hospital.
The Luella Club was holding its
quarterly ladies night affair at
the Bonanza restaurant when
Mr. White was taken ill.
The Rev. White often is ac
companied by P. Y. Luther of
Griffin when he talks in other
cities across the nation. Mr. Lu
ther, retired salesman who has
made a hobby of memorizing po
etry, often travels with the Rev.
White.
the other canary, was watched
pretty closely for fear Tommie
the tomcat would become the
sole heir.
Things were kind of tense un
til Freund made his report
Thursday. His studies, he said,
showed “no visible cause of
death due to gross change of
tissue.” In other words, Gigi,
who was 12 years old, died a
natural death.
Tommie was cleared. But he
had other worries.
“They’ve had to put Tommie
on a diet,” said Abernathy.
“He was eating too well with
all that king crab meat, lobster
and chicken livers.”
Tommie, 12, Co-Co, 10, and
Gigi were the heirs of Mrs.
Andree O. Montet, 63, a child
less and lonely widow who died
Oct. 9, 1965.
along the DMZ. U.S. destroyer
fire hit at least seven barges
carrying supplies to the Com
munists in the DMZ. The 7th
Fleet destroyer USS Theodore
E. Chandler traded barrages
with a Communist gun battery
just north of the DMZ,
spokesmen said.
Ground action centered south
of Da Nang, where U.S.
Marines ana Army troops
pressed three related actions to
clear vital supply routes serving
the American bases strung
along the coast.
Officials said Communists
were coming back to the coastal
areas from their mountain
hideouts further inland after
suffering a series of devastating
defeats last year. The American
offensives were designed to
secure supply lines between the
bases at Da Nang, Tam Ky,
Chu Lai and Due Pho.
Further north along the
border dividing the Vietnams,
evidence of a North Vietnamese
buildup menacing South Viet
nam’s northern provinces was
evident despite record Commu
nist losses there last month.
852 bombers dropped their
huge loads of high explosive on
Communist mountain strong
points near the American base
at Khe Sanh for the sixth
straight day.
Khe Sanh occupies a strategic
position just south of the border
and overlooking the Communist
infiltration trails from Laos
only five miles west.
U.S. pilots who raided the
southern part of North Vietnam
Thursday reported destroying a
number of trucks carrying men
and supplies toward the border.
Police ‘Strike’
Begins To Fizzle
By MICHAEL CONLON
DETROIT (UPI) —A police
men’s "sick call’’ strike waned
today in the face of a stern
court ban. But nearly 100
policemen remained off the job.
Officials said only 13 officers
in the 700-man overnight shift
called in sick compared with 63
Thursday. On this morning’s
shift 85 absentees were listed
compared with 142 Thursday.
More shifts begin at various
times today and police spokes
men declined to say whether
the early figures indicated the
walkout was ending.
Thursday more than 300
policemen of the city’s 4,780-
man force called in sick.
A second court hearing was
called today by Wayne County
Circuit Court Judge Thomas J.
Foley, who ordered the police
men back to duty Thursday
night. Foley said police "stand
June Term Os
Superior Court
Has Big Docket
The criminal session of Spald
ing County Superior Court whi
ch opens June 26 shapes up to be
one of the biggest here in many
years.
The Spalding Grand Jury will
open its session next Monday,
June 19, to begin considering in
dictments and handling other
business. The civil session of
court opens on the same day.
A total of 307 witnesses have
been subponaed to appear before
the grand jury. This number
could increase before Monday.
During the June term of court
last year, 121 witnesses were
called before the grand jury.
This might be considered a nor
mal load for one term. But the
307 people called to be witness
es next week indicates a havy
work load for the grand jury.
This will be a new grand jury
and not a carryover from the
February term of court as was
the practice. The new jury list
the practice. The new jury was
drawn because the jury list had
to be revised from voter regis
tration books.
Georgia turned to this system
after the Supreme Court ruled
against selecting prospective ju
rors from tax rolls.
Some 119 cases are scheduled
to go before the grand jury.
This is more than double the 47
cases considered at the June
term last year.
The grand jury will be asked
to consider the cases and where
they think there is evidence for
a trial, they will be asked to re
turn indictments.
Those indicated face possible
trial or other court action in the
criminal session opening June
26.
Five brothers chagred in con
nection with the death of a man
in Orchard Hill earlier this year
will have murder charges again
st them to be considered by the
grand jury.
Five youths being held in con
nection with the robbery of a
church and the alleged rape of
two girls are scheduled to have
their cases considered by the
grand jury. If indicted, they mi
ght be tried during the crimi
nal session of June court.
Cases to be considered by the
grand jury are as follows: lar
ceny after trust, nine people; as
sault with intent to murder, 11;
larceny of a dog, two; larceny
of a vehicle, 13; furnishing beer
to minors, four; arson, one; lar
ceny from store, three; burgl
ary, 23; robbery, one; armed
robbery, five; kidnap and rape,
five; possessing and manufactur
ing non-taxed liquor, two; pass
ing worthless checks, three; mo
lesting a female, one; larceny
from house, eight; indecent ex
posure, one; possessing non-tax
ed liquor, three; assault with a
deadly weapon, one; forgery,
one; passing counterfeit money
and possessing drugs, three; no
serial plate, one; possessing dis
tillery apparatus, one; larceny
from vehicle, five; contributing
to the delinquency of a minor,
one; and murder, five.
between chaos and tranquility”
and must do their duty.
A spokesman for the Detroit
Police Officers Association
(DPOA) said Foley’s order
would be appealed. He said it
upset "a delicate balance in a
labor dispute."
The policemen, seeking higher
wages, nicknamed their unde
clared strike "the blue flu” and
a spokesman predicted that
1,000 officers would be sidelined
by Monday. His forecast,
however, was made before
Foley’s order.
The State Police and National
Guard were alerted for possible
duty if the incidence of illness
showed any signs of cutting
down the effectiveness of the
police department.
The undeclared strike was
believed the first police walkout
against a major city since the
Boston strike of 1919.