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By Quimby Melton
“Responses to the Gospel”
Is the subject of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School les
son. Background Scripture is
Acts 16:11-40. The Memory Se
lection is “Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
caved, and thy house.” (Acts
16:31.)
This lesson tells of Paul and
hL companion’s being in Philip
pi where they visited a “place
of prayer.” It tells how the Gos
pel they preached was receiv
ed; by Lydia in faith and com
plete dedication; by the owners
of the slave girl who consider
ed it — the Gospel —a new doc
trine that would interfer with
the money they were raking in
by exploiting the girl.
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An interesting thing about this
incident, to this layman, is the
fact that Paul and his associa
tes told the glorious message of
Jesus Christ not in the synago
gue, but in a “place of prayer”
by the riverside. Evidently it
was not on a Sunday, for it was
Paul's practice to be on hand in
the synagogue every Sunday,
like Jesus “it was his wont” to
attend regular Sunday services.
This meeting might be liken
ed to mid-week prayer services
of the modern Christian church
es. And, also, it is interesting
to note that those who attended
this “prayer meeting” were
mostly women. It is more than
likely that Paul, guided by the
Holy Spirit, came to Philippi on
the very day the prayer meet
ing was being held so he could
preach to the women of that
city; for as we know women
were not allowed to have any
part in the orthodox synagogue
services; and we find Paul him
self rather critical of women
having any part in such servic
es. However Paul, even with his
ingrown orthodox ideas of a
“woman’s place” realized that
women had great influence so
he took the message to them
that day.
It is also, interesting to note
that Lydia, the business woman
who accepted Jesus Christ as
her Master was not a Jewish wo
man — rather she was a Gen
tile, thus bringing out the point
once more that Jesus Christ
came, not just to one group, but
to all mankind.
Everyone who is familiar with
his Bible knows the story of Ly
dia and we suggest that every
one read this once again and
get the proper background for
this important lesson.
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Only recently Good Evening
was asked by a friend, much
younger than he, who is proper
ly concerned with “what’s going
on in the world” this question:
“What’s wrong with the
world? What can I do to help
Straighten out things that have
erupted into riots, lootings, mur
der and wholesale anarchy?”
No doubt many of our younger
generation are also asking this
question; for it will be their task
to do all that they can to restore
sanity to a sin cursed world fill
ed with selfishness and hatreds.
Dr. Billy Graham says on the
tomb of Karl Marx, the father
of communism, are these words,
“The philosophers have only
interpreted the world; the point
Is to change it.”
Marx, whose writings are lar
gely responsible for world con
ditions today advocated “chan
ging the world” by violence by
defying Jesus Christ, His Fath
er and the Holy Spirit. And he
has sown seeds of hatred that
have brought the world close to
the point where there is no love
for the decent, for the truth, for
God Himself.
But on the other side of the
picture is Jesus Christ, whose
life and teachings will utimately
change the world into what it
should be — change it by win
ning the hearts of mankind.
Jesus Christ looks to those of
Us who claim to be Christians
to do our part — to display the
same enthusiasm for His Gospel
ns the wicked display for the
teachings of Carl Marx.
Read the story of Esther —it
may be that we of today “art
come to the kingdom for such a
time as this?"
Then as one thinks of his or
her responsibility suggest they
lead all of Romans Chapter
Eight, especially noting such
verses as “If God be for us who
can be against us?”
It may be that God in His wis
dom sent each of us “for such
a time as this.” The question is
shall we do our best to play the
part in life God would have us
play?”
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Chicago Travelers
George Dixon (1) of the Griffin Kiwanis Club presents plaque to Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Frederick of Chicago who were the “Welcome Travelers” guests of the club
Thursday. The couple was returning home from Florida. They were picked at ran
dom from travelers through Griffin and stopped by a policeman. City and county
officials welcomed them at a supper in their honor Thursday night.
Work, Pray For Racial Peace,
LRJ Asks In Talk To Nation
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Pres
ident Johnson, calling upon all
Americans to work and pray for
racial peace, has created a
special top-level panel to study
the causes of the riots that have
wracked the nation’s cities.
At the same time, the Chief
Executive announced expanded
and improved riot control
training for the National Guard,
a target of criticism recently
because of its performance in
Detroit and Newark.
But the general thrust of his
18-minute, 1,500-word address to
the nation Thursday night on
radio and television was a plea
for an end to violence and
terror.
Johnson designated Sunday as
a “national day of prayer for
peace and reconciliation,” and
asked that every public official
and every family join in
praying for peace in America
and for a nation free from
hatred and bitterness.
Violence Must Stop
“Let us resolve that this
violence is going to stop. We
can stop it. We must stop it. We
will stop it,” he said, his
somber mien adding emphasis
to his words.
“Let us clear the streets of
rubble and quench the fires that
hatred set. Let us feed and care
for those who have suffered at
the rioter’s hands. But let there
be no bonus or reward for those
who have inflicted that suffer
ing,” he said.
The 11-member presidential
commission, headed by Illinois
Gov. Otto Kerner, a Democrat,
is to investigate the origins of
Fayette Prison
Said Improved
Conditions at the Fayette Coun
ty public works camp have been
improved, according to a state
inspection team’s second report.
Some deficiencies were noted
in the House Penal Subcommit
tee’s report on its first visit.
“There is quite an improve
ment of the over-all condition
of this camp since our first in
spection,’’ the report said.
The team noted the camp in
terior had been painted and sc
reens had been replaced where
needed.
It found a well balanced menu
and an ample supply of meats
in the freezer as well as a good
supply of canned foods.
Dorms, kitchens and other fa
cilities were found clean, the re
port said.
700 Hee From
Chlorine Fumes
LEESBURG, Fla. (UPI) —
About 700 persons fled their
homes today when a railroad
tank car began leaking deadly
chlorine gas fumes.
Sound trucks drove through
this central Florida city of
16,000 warnig all residents to be
prepared to evacuate in case of
a wind shift, but only families
near the railroad car were
immediately evacuated.
DAILY W* NEWS
Daily Since 1872
urban violence and make
recommendations to “prevent
or contain” it in the future.
New York Mayor John V.
Lindsay, a Republican, was
named vice chairman of the
panel, which included two
Senators, Negro Edward W.
Brooke, R-Mass., and Fred R.
Harris, D-Okla.; two house
members, Reps. James C.
Corman, D-Calif., and William
M. McCulloch, R-Ohio; two
representatives of labor and
management, steel workers
union President I.W. Abel and
Charles B. Thornton, president
and board chairman of Litton
Industries, Inc.; a state official,
Kentucky Commerce Commis
sioner Katherine Graham Pe
den; a civil rights leader, Roy
Wilkins, executive director of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People; and a policeman,
Atlanta chief Herbert Jenkins.
FBI To Investigate
Johnson said the commission
would have access to all the
facts gathered by the FBI,
which would continue to “exer
cise its full authority to
investigate these riots in
accordance with any standing
instructions, and to continue to
search for evidence of conspira
cy.”
“. . . Let there be no mistake
about it —the looting, arson,
plunder and pollage which have
occurred are not part of a civil
rights protest,” the President
said. “There is no American
right to loot stores, to burn
buildings, to fire rifles from the
rooftops.
Ruling To Re Asked
On Sunday Liquor
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPl)—Atty. Gen.
Arthur Bolton will be asked to
give his opinion soon on wheth
er # some Georgia areas can
serve liquor on Sundays, while
others do without.
However, State Revenue Com
missioner Peyton Hawes said
Thursday that the courts might
ultimately have to decide if
Georgia’s murky mixed - drink
laws allow cities to pass “local
option” ordinances permitting
bars and private clubs to sell
liquor on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Hawes said he
was going ahead with a state
wide crackdown on liquor law
violators, beginning with 135
establishments in 10 counties
which are now violating Sunday
closing laws, selling liquor to
minors and selling liquor in dry
counties.
He said some violations had
occurred in Fulton County but
refused to name other affected
areas.
The crackdown follows a
promise by Gov. Lester Maddox
to dry up all Georgia counties
on Sunday.
The conflict mainly involves
the sale of mixed drinks past
midnight Saturday in Atlanta
and other cities, a practice
which is legal under some local
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, July 28, 1967
(Kiwanis Photo)
“That is crime—and crime
must be dealt with forcefully,
swiftly, certainly—under the
few . . . fear and bitterness
have been loosed which win
take long months to erase."
But Johnson warned that the
sternest police action and the
most effective national guard
troops could not create lasting
peace in the nation’s cities.
Causes Must Be Attacked
Instead, he said, there must
be genuine, long-range attacks
on the conditions that breed
despair and violence.
He listed some of the
legislation backed by his
administration to achieve “a
decent and more orderly
society,” including such items
as the Model Cities Act, rent
supplements and the National
Teacher Corps.
Johnson said he would con
tinue to press for anti-violence
laws now pending in congress,
including the Safe Streets and
Crime Control Act and the Gun
Control Act.
Johnson underlined his belief
that most Americans, Negro
and White, were not involved at
this point in hateful violence,
although in recent days innocent
people of both races had died
because of it.
“Let us condemn the violent
few,” said the President. “But
let us remember that it is law
abiding Negro families who
have suffered most at the hands
of the rioters. It is responsible
Negro citizens who hope most
fervently and need most urgent
ly to share in America’s
prosperity.”
ordinances, but apparently ille
gal under state law. Bolton will
be asked to determine which
tew takes precedence.
Hawes said his department
would “move when called upon
by the governing bodies or of
ficials of the city or county."
“If they do not make the re
quest and this department i%
being openly flaunted, we will
notify the local officials of our
knowledge,” he said. “If they
still refuse to correct a situa
tion that exists, it is incumbent
upon this department and other
enforcement agencies of the
state to enforce the law where,
to our knowledge, it is being vi
olated.
“If people are selling liquor
and beer on Sunday, we will
make cases,” Hawes said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly warm and
humid tonight and Saturday with
widely scattered afternoon and
evening thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 87, low today 72, high
Thursday 87, low Thursday 70,
sunrise Saturday 6:51, sunset
Saturday 8:41.
Marines Probe
No Man’s Land
Communists
Using DMZ
For Attacks
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) —U.S. Ma
rines moving by foot and by
helicopter today invaded the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) se
parating the warring Vietnams
in search of Communist artille
ry and mortar positions that
have taken a heavy toll of
American lives.
North Vietnamese artillery
stationed illegally in the
DMZ have zeroed in on Marine
artillery batteries just below the
zone with such accuracy the
Leathernecks have been forced
to resort to living in trenches
and bunkers reminiscent of
World War I.
A Marine spokesman said the
invasion force making its
second sortie into the zone,
surprisingly met no enemy
resistance in the first 12 hours.
The attack was launched by the
9th Marine Regiment just hours
after the Reds hit a Marine
outpost at Con Thien, killing
two men in three separate
artillery and mortar attacks.
UPI correspondent Thomas
Corpora reported from the area
that three companies of Ma
rines moved in on foot to “try
to find out just what the hell the
North Vietnamese are doing in
there.” Helicopters whirled in
reinforcements.
The six-mile wide DMZ runs
straight across the 17th parallel
from Laos but wanders irregu
larly northward near the coast,
following the course of the Ben
Hai River which is the actual
marker. The Marines did not
'cross the river into the North
Vietnamese half of the zone, a
spokesman said.
It is theoretically a no man’s
land where neither side is
supposed to penetrate. But the
North Vietnamese have used it
as a sanctudby in the past to
mass troops and artillery. U.S.
fighter-bombers and 852 heavy
bombers have hit these buildups
repeatedly and both American
and South Vietnamese have
swept in in search of the
enemy.
It was the second American
drive into the DMZ. On May 18
Marines and South Vietnamese
troops plunged into the zone on
a similar search and destroy
mission that killed 600 North
Vietnamese in 10 days.
The DMZ was set up as a
buffer zone by the 1954 Geneva
Conference accords which ended
the French-Indochina war and
divided Vietnam between North
and South.
There was no immediate
report from the combat forces
of any contact with the
Communists in the latest
plunge.
The Marines went into the
DMZ after the Communists
unleashed three separate mor
tar and artillery barrages
earlier today at Con Thien, the
barren sprawling Leatherneck
bastion less than two miles
below the DMZ.
In recent weeks the Commu
nists have repeatedly unleashed
barrages from the DMZ despite
intensive U.S. bombing and
strafing attacks.
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“I don’t think I’d like to
live in a neighborhood where
there was no chance for win
dows to be broken by a bat
ted baseball.” (
Vol. 95 No. 176
Racial Brush fires
Continue To Burn
By United Press International
Racial brushfires erupted in
15 cities Thursday night and
early today but the Detroit
holocaust waned as soldiers and
police tried to mop up the last
hard-core snipers.
Firebombingss, rock-throwing
and other incidents were
reported in Waterbury, Conn.;
Poughkeepsie and Albany, N.Y.;
San Francisco and Sacremento,
Calif , Newark and Passic, N.J.;
Philadelphia; South Bend, Ind.
and five Ohio cities, Cincinnati,
Toledo, Dayton, Lorain and
Spraingield.
For the second time this week
President Johnson went on
nationwide television Thursday
night to denounce the rioters.
He appointed a special commis
sion to find the causes and
cures of the turmoil and he
announced that the National
Guard will undergo new,
tougher anti-riot training.
But even as the President
spoke Negro gangs harrassed
cities from coast to coast.
Tension ran high in other
cities. In Cambridge, Md., scene
of violence earlier in the week,
the Wlste and Negro communi
ties faced each other across a
line of 700 national guard
bayonets. In Memphis, Tenn.,
Negroes planned to march from
dusk until dawn tonight to
protest the job situation. In
New York City, Mayor John
Lindsay made another walking
tour of Spanish Harlem where
violence flared two nights ago.
Detroit, with 37 dead and
property damages of at least
SSOO million, was slowly growing
quiet although small gangs of
die-hard snipers still harrassed
paratroopers, National Guards
men and police with occasional
sorties among the blackened,
smoking ruins of the 200-square
block riot area.
There also were these deve
lopments:
San Francisco-Roving gangs
of young Negroes smashed
windows and looted stores for
the second consecutive night.
South Bend, Ind. — Negro
youths firebombed a furniture
store, then stoned firemen who
arrived to fight the blaze.
Albany, N.Y.—Negro youths
smashed windows and harassed
motorists on the fringe of the
business district but helmeted
Titillating Typos
Misprint Collection Shows
Pregnancies Cause Rirths
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON (UPI) — “A study
by three physicians showed that
perhaps two out of three births
in the U.S. result from pregnan
cies.” — Ohio newspaper.
Denys Parsons, drat the man,
is here again with another of
his collections of humor in mis
print called this time “Funny
Ho Ho and Funny Fantastic.”
It’s getting so a reporter, edi
tor or linotype operator cannot
make an honest error without
this tall, unsmiling scientist
leaping upon the result for one
of his anthologies (of which this
is the ninth.)
“The match was unfinished
owing to measles. Craghurst was
compelled to scratch.” —Eng
lish magazine.
Parsons already is at work on
his 10th book. He thinks it pos
sible world tensions are respon
sible for the tangled syntax now
cropping up more frequently
than ever in the public prints.
These are sent him by friendly
contributors.
In “Funny Ho Ho and Funny
Fantastic” Parsons has match
ed his "howlers” — as the Bri
tish call misprints — with equal
space tor unusual news events.
He says these are increasing
too, as per this interview with
a young victim of an assault in
Britain;
police kept control.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. — About
200 Negro youths went on a
rampage after a dance, break
ing windows, looting liquor
stores and harassing police.
Philadelphia—Mayor James
Tate declared a “limited state
of emergency” to cope with
violence by Negro youth gangs.
NEWARK, N.J.—Cars, buses
and trucks hit by bricks and
bottles tossed by young Negroes
but police moved in quickly to
disperse the gangs.
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“He hit me on the temple with
his fist and I was knocked into
the ditch. While I was lying
there dazed something made me
say to him: “Thank you very
much!’ He replied in quite a
refined accent: ‘Oh, don’t men
tion it.’ ”
Or this, again from Britain:
“A neurotic man who, during
fits of depression, takes his fal
se teeth out and jumps on them,
is to get half the cost of a new
set from the Dorset Health Com
mittee ‘on the grounds of hard
ship’ ”,
Or this from Romania:
“Mourners at the burial of An
na Bochinsky were astonished
to see the ‘dead’ woman jump
out of her coffin while it was be
ing carried — as is the custom
in Romania — with the lid open
from the cemetery to the grave.
She ran into the road and was
run over and killed by a motor
car.”
But the staple of the new book
is still the lexicographical ab
surdity:
“Among the side reactions of
this mercurial drug the most
important is the death of the
patient shortly after the injec
tion.” — New York Medical
Magazine.
“. . . and remember you can
make a wonderfully nourishing
broth from the remains if you
have an invalid in the house.”
Safety Meeting
Held In Griffin
Some 150 people from engi
neering and maintenance offices
of the State Highway Depart
ment were briefed on safety ru
les at a meeting in Griffin
Thursday.
The meeting was held at the
maintenance office in Griffin on
the Zebulon road.
Jere Moore of the Employe
Safety Department and Ji m
Keenan, a safety equipment ex
pert, conducted the briefing.
They reviewed many funda
mental safety rules and pointed
out their relation to highway
work. >
Mrs. Ruby Reithmiller qf
Williamson displays one of
her “delicious” variety
apples pulled from a tree at
her home. She said it was
one of the largest she had
ever pulled from her trees.
Unfortunately, the Prime
Minister had left before the de
bate began. Otherwise he would
have heard some caustic com
ments on his absence.” —En
glish newspaper.
“A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Blank last week. Con
gratulations, Pete" — Ameri
can newspaper.
“Order your nuts now, If you
have any difficulty, drop me an
envelope addressed to yourself
and marked ‘nuts’.”—Garden
ing column.
"This is a genuine offer — no
connection with any other firms
who are selling rubbish.”—Ad
vertisement.
“What is more beautiful for a
blonde to wear for formal dan
ces than white tulle? My ans
wer — and I’m sure you will ag
ree with me — is ‘Nothing’.”—
Fashion column.
“20 Year Friendship Ends at
Altar.” —Headline.
And the following complaint
from a teacher (not of English):
“I have the honor to resignafe
as my works are many and n%jf.
salary are few. Besides which
my supervising teacher makes
many lovings to me to which I
only reply; ‘Oh not, Oh not’.’*