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By Quimby Melton
“The True and Living God” is
the subject of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is Acts
17.
The Memory Selection Is, "God
that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that He is
Lord of heaven and earth, dwel
leth not in temples made with
hands, neither is worshipped
with men’s hands, as though He
needed anything, seeing He give
th to all life, and breath, and
all things.” (Acts 17:24-25.)
This lesson tells the story of
Paul when he visited Athens, the
center of Greek culture, and
preached to the council of Greek
leaders the true God.
Paul at the very start of this
lesson described Athens as a city
where all were “too supersti
tious” and as such worshipped
every one of the known gods of
that time. He also told them that
they, wanting to play it safe, al
so had one altar dedicated, ac
cording to its inscription, to "The
Unknown God”. (Many theolo
gians hold that there might have
been an altar to “many unknown
gods”, but this layman prefers
to believe the King James ver
sion of the Bible which flatly
says the altar was dedicated to
"THE unknown God.”
The subject of this lesson
"The True and Living God”
could easily be changed to read
"The True and LOVING God”
for it was the LIVING God that
"So LOVED” the world and all
mankind that He sent His Only
Begotten Son to wipe away the
sins of all.
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There is a challenge to us of
the modem age in verse 30 of
the background Scripture—“ And
the times of this ignorance God
winked at; but now commande
th all men to repent.” The Re
vised Standard version says
“The times of Ignorance God
overlooked” — which simply
means to this layman that be
fore Jesus Christ came as the
promised Messiah, God made
allowances for man searching
for a god; but now that Jesus
Christ had come man could no
longer hide behind his “ignor
ance” of the True God. The
whole life, the death and the re
surrection of Jesus Christ is pos
itive proof that there is but
One True God. So all of us, af
ter some 2,000 years of preach
ing and teaching the Gospel of
Jesus Christ are expected to,
and are required to accept Jesus
Christ and His Father and the
Holy Spirit as the genuine Trin
ity of Hope and Salvation.
Even in modern courts “ig
norance is no excuse” for break
ing the law.
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Paul warned the Athenians,
and at the same time warned us
of the great day of judgment.
He told those who listened to
him that day on Mars Hill, that
God hath appointed a day when
all men would face the great
court and would be "judged by
that man whom he hath ordai
ned.” “That man” is none other
than Jesus Christ Himself. And
when "That man” presides at
the court He will not only be the
judge — but Thank God He will
represent each and every sinner
as their attorney. And we are
firmly of the opinion that Jesus
Christ as the defense attorney
for those who trust Him and
believe in Him and repent of
their sins will be saved from et
ernal damnation.
Remember, Jesus Christ Him
self, tells us He came to save
sinners.
And sinners are we all.
Even the original 12 disciples,
chosen by Jesus Himself, were
sinners at times. One of them,
Judas, betrayed Him for thirty
pieces of silver;
Peter denied Him though he
had pledged undying support to
the Master; and when Jesus was
taken prisoner in the Garden
that night all of the disciples
fled with fear.
Judas is considered the great
est sinner of all times. Recent
ly I heard a minister, whom I
trust and admire, make the
statement that had Judas, even
after betraying the Master, come
to Jesus, repenting and confess
ed his sins and asking forgive
ness for his dastardly act, Jesus
would have welcomed him back
into the Christian fold.
No doubt that is a startling
statement to many. But nothing
was, is or ever will be impossi
ble for Jesus to do.
He is the hope of all mankind.
Why do we hesitate to accept
Him as our Personal Savior?
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What’s It?
See picture on page seven.
American Jet
Set Record On
Viet Missions
By EUGENE. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD — American
jets flew a record 197 bombing
missions against North Vietnam
Thursday, U.S. military spokes
men announced today.
The record raiding involved
strikes by as many as 800 to 900
fighter-bombers.
U.S. spokesmen reported the
loss of a single jet, the 635th
American warplane lost in
action against the Communist
country.
The 197 mission assault
surpassed the 175-mission mark
set by American jets Oct. 14.
It came on the crest of a
rising wave of American air
assaults against the arsenal of
Communist forces.
An American spokesman in
Saigon, asked the reason for the
record assault, said, “good
weather and aircraft available.”
The Air Force and Navy
pilots’ efforts were especially
pleasing —and remarkable—in
view of the loss to action Friday
of the giant 7th Fleet carrier
Forrestal, victim of a fire at
sea that sent the super vessel
back to the repair port in the
Philippines.
The lost Air Force FlO5
Thunderchief was the 14th
American plane downed over
North Vietnam in 14 days. The
pilot was reported missing in
action. Hanoi Radio claimed he
was captured.
It was the sole note of cheer
on the Communist side.
The massive raiding struck
military targets up and down
and across North Vietnam.
U.S. pilots divebombed and
destroyed one of the Commu
nists’ prized 155 mm guns used
to fire across the North-South
Vietnam border at American
Marine positions.
More jets dumped 3,000 pound
bombs on the big Bac Giang
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Artillery Mishap
FALLING APART, a United States Caribou hit by
its own artillery plunges earthward carrying a load of
ammunition. Three crew members were killed in the
accident near Ha Phan, South Vietnam.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
rail and highway bridge 27
miles northeast of Hanoi. It
carried the main train traffic
between North Vietnam’s two
main industrial centers, the
capital of Hanoi and the port of
Haiphong.
Continuing the aerial on
slaught into South Vietnam,
U.S. Air Force 852 Stratofor
tresses struck five times late
Thursday night and today.
These giants of the air war,
each carrying up to 30 tons of
bombs, aimed especially at the
North Vietnamese invaders
building an offensive base in the
A Shau Valley on the Lao
border.
Lamar EMC
Annual Meet
Set Aug. 11
The Lamar Electric Member
ship Corporation of Barnesville
will hold its annual meeting Fri
day, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. at the
Lamar County Fairgrounds,
three miles south of Barnes
ville on U. S. 341.
Registration for the meeting
will begin at 7 p.m.
Business will include reports
from officers, directors and
committees; the election of four
directors; presentation of by
laws for approval.
Nominated to serve as direc
tors of the corporation for three
years are A. P. Massengale,
Greenville, Ga., Hugh B. Cro
mer, Forsyth, Ga.; E. O. Cald
well, Zebulon, Ga. and E. J.
Martin, Jr., Zebulon, Ga.
Entertainment will be furnish
ed by 4-H Clubs in the service
area of the Lamar Electric
Membership Corporation.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, August 4, 1967
LBJ’s Tax Hike Request
Faces Doubtful Future
Don't Bet On
It, Tax Panel
Member Says
By MICHAEL L. POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pres
ident Johnson’s proposed 10 per
cent tax increase faced a
doubtful future today in a
congress skeptical of his "cut,
tax and borrow” system for
financing Great Society pro-
Reaction. Page Six.
grams and the Vietnam war.
Asked about the measure’s
chances of getting through the
key House Ways & Means
Committee, a highly placed
member of the tax-writing
panel said," don’t bet on it.”
As usual, Rep. Wilbur D.
Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the
panel and a vital figure in any
tax battle, was noncommital but
willing to hear the arguments of
Treasury Secretary Henry H.
Fowler and Budget Director
Charles L. Schultze when
hearings open Aug. 14.
The President said he needed
the additional revenue to
finance rising war costs—
including the dispatch of 45,000
to 50,000 more U.S. troops to
Vietnam —ease domestic unrest
and hold down the biggest
budget deficit since World War
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The increases, in the form of
a surcharge amounting to a 10
per cent tax on each tax bill,
would expire June 30, 1969, "or
continue for so long as the
unusual expenditures associated
with our efforts in Vietnam
require higher revenues,” John
son said Thursday.
He also proposed accelerating
tax collections from business
firms and delaying scheduled
cuts in federal excise taxes on
automobiles and telephone calls,
all in an effort to raise $7.4
billion in revenues the first
year.
At a White House news
briefing he conducted personal
ly, Johnson predicted with a
grin that "We’ll have a lot of
speeches on nonessential expen
ditures”—a reference to persis
tent GOP and some Democratic
demands that he give first
priority to reducing federal
spending.
“Most . . . unpleasant”
"Most of it is unpleasant,”
the President told newsmen
almost plaintively. "I wish we
didn’t have to do it.” His
problem, he explained, was
having to "cut, tax and borrow”
to finance the war and needed
civilian programs.
He told Congress in his
special message that without
his tax measures, the federal
budget deficit for the current
fiscal year could top S2B billion,
not counting S7OO million in
added interest on the public
debt by then.
Spalding Prison
Rated Excellent
The Spalding County Public
Works Camp has received an
excellent rating from state heal
th officials.
County Commission Chairman
Jack Moss today received a
copy of the report. It was made
by Roy J. Boston, director of the
Environmental Branch Division
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of the State Health Department.
The only blemish on the in
spection report was in the dairy
operation of the Spalding stock
ade. The report noted that the
dairy did not pasteurize its milk
but used it raw.
Otherwise, facilities at the
prison were rated excellent.
Chairman Moss noted the da
iry operation was rated as clean
and met other standards except
the serving of raw milk.
This was the third inspection
the prison has had in recent
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The Rev. Clifford Chandler shows some beans he
grew in his garden. One of the beans measures 25J
inches long. Seed for the beans were given him by a
friend, Emmett Gunnells. The Rev. Chandler, who
is pastor of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church on Zebulon
road, has a garden as a hobby.
Journalist Says LIB.I Promised
Withdrawal Os Israeli Troops
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press International
Egypt’s most influential jour
nalist today said President
Johnson promised in a message
to an Arab leader that Israeli
troops would withdraw from
conquered Arab territory.
Hassanein Heikal, editor of
the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram
and a confidant of Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser,
said Johnson made the promise
to an unidentified Arab Chief of
State with a warning, "patience
is necessary.”
In Jerusalem, observers inter
preted three consecutive days of
Jordan River cease-fire viola
tions as an attempt by Jordan
to display continued beligeren
cy toward Israel while Arab
foreign ministers are meeting in
Khartoum.
Israeli and Jordanian forces
again traded shots across the
river Thursday about 10 miles
north of Allenby Dridge. Nor
way’s Gen. Odd Bull, the United
Nation’s chief cease-fire repre
sentative, was investigating the
gunbattles.
weeks. A General Assembly in
spection team first found the
prison facilities in excellent
shape when it visited several
weeks ago. Then the fire inspec
tion team that checked facilities
recently found the camp safe.
The sanitation inspection by
Health Department officials bet
ween July 20-28 was the third
state inspection this summer.
A number of state agencies
have inspected prisons across
the state following disclosures
that some were not up to stand
ards.
Gov. Lester Maddox who has
sparked the campaign to clean
up prisons has promised to
close those which do not "shape
up.”
Discussing the Spalding Coun
ty report on prison sanitation,
Chairman Moss said the county
probably would take another
look at its dairy operation, since
this was the only blemish on an
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There was no official com
ment in Cairo on Jersualem
reports Bull had secured
Egyptian agreement to his
proposal for both Egyptians and
Israelis to stay out of the Suez
Canal for a month.
In Cairo, Egyptian “popular
resistance” forces began a 24-
hour series of field exercises
which included use of explo
sives.
The students, workers and
other civilians who comprise the
forces are usually only given
training with rifles, submachine
guns and grenades.
In Khartoum, Saudi Arabia’s
favorable initial response to
Egypt’s proposal to end thqi
Yemen civil war spurred
chances foi*a long-delayed Arab
summit conference.
Sources at the Arab foreign
ministers session said the Saudi
delegate said his nation “wel
comes the Egyptian proposal”
to settle the * five-year-old
Remen crisis and thereby free
some 20,000 Egyptian troops for
joint Arab action against Israel.
otherwise excellent report.
Dairies are inspected against
standards required of commer
cially operated milk suppliers,
Chairman Moss said. He said
the county has known for some
years that it did not meet the
milk processing.
The Griffin By-Pass road soon
to be constructed through the
prison land will take some of the
pasture, Chairman Moss. The
Spalding Commissioners might
look into the possibility of cut
ting out its dairy operation and
turning to commercial suppliers
in view of the expected loss of
pasture land, the chairman said.
He said he didn’t believe it
would pose a financial problem
for the prison operation.
Spalding County always has
tried to maintain high standards
at the county prison, Chairman
Moss said, even before the re
cent interest in Georgia prisons
was renewed.
Just Add 10 Pct.
WASHINGTON (UPD —lt
won’t be any fun paying
President Johnson’s proposed 10
per cent income tax surcharge.
But it will be simple. To figure
out how much more you’d owe,
just add 10 per cent to your
current tax bill. For example if
your taxes are SI,OOO now, your
new taxes would be SIOO more
or $l,lOO in all.
Looking at it another way, if
your boss withholds SSO a week
from your paycheck, he’ll be
withholding $5 more, if Con
gress goes along with Johnson’s
request.
The President wants Congress
to raise taxes starting Oct, 1.
The surcharge would remain in
effect at least until June 30,
1969, or longer, if the war in
Vietnam continues past that
date.
Thus, the higher taxes would
affect the last three months of
1967, all 12 months of 1968 and
the first six months of 1969.
This would have the effect of
boosting your tax bill 2.5 per
cent in 1967, the full 10 per cent
in 1968, and 5 per cent in 1969.
Some 82 million Americans
would have to pay the
surcharge, while about 16
million taxpayers in the lowest
brackets would be exempt. A
single person would not have to
pay it until his income exceeded
$1,900 a year.
A couple with no children
would escape the surcharge
until they earned more than
$3,600. A couple with two
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA. Partly cloudy and warm
With scattered thundershowers
today and Saturday, likely be
coming less numerous by Sat
urday afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER. Maximum
today 85, minimum today 72,
maximum Thursday 88, mini
mum Thursday 70. Total rain
fall .40 of an inch. Sunrise Sat
urday 6:56 a.m. sunset Satur
day 8:35* p.m.
Griffin Out
Os Tourney.
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Riot Control
CHEMICAL WARFARE may be the answer to hold
ing down big-city riots, according to police in several
cities that have experimented with the “Mace.” It
comes in a spray can, hangs from a policeman’s belt
and is supposed to replace the nightstick. One whiff
causes eye irritation and body collapse for 15-20
minutes, without aftereffects.
children would not be subject to
the tax hike until their Income
rose above $5,000.
Country Club
Makes Plans
For Construction
The Griffin Country Club re
ported that 193 members have
paid their initiation fee and
that it is confident the club will
be ready to begin final construc
tion plans shortly after the first
of September. September 1 is
the deadline for charter mem
berships.
The club has a site within a
736 acre tract, three miles west
of downtown Griffin, extending
from Georgia Highway 16 north
to Ellis road.
Plans include a club building
designed for entertaining and
family recreation, a swimming
pool, tennis courts, and an 18
hole golf course. Nine holes will
be constructed at first with a
second nine to be completed la
, ter.
The development group plans
a residential area around the
club with the construction of the
two projects to proceed simul
taneously.
Country Parson
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“By practicing something
over and over you get so
you can do it right — even
if it’s wrong.”