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By Quimby Melton
“Amos: God’s Spokesman for
Justice” is the title of this
week’s International Sunday Sc
hool lesson. Background Scrip
ture is Amos Chapter 1, verse
1; and Chapter 7. The Memory
Selection is “The Lord God hath
spoken, who can but prophesy?
(Amos 3:8.)
The purpose of this lesson is
to help professing Christians
apply prophetic inspiration to
conditions of today.
The prophet Amos was a lay
man, a shepherd, who lived ab
out five miles south of Bethle
hem. There is no evidence that
Amos was well educated, but
he, having been called by God
to witness and prophesy for
Him, was one of the clearest
thinkers and most devout pro
phets who ever spent his life in
the service of God Almighty.
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When Amos was called by the
Lord, he like the child Samuel
(1 Sam. 3-10) no doubt said “Sp
eak; for thy servant heareth”,
and like Paul asked “Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do?” Evi
dently the Lord Instructed Amos
to leave the quiet little village
In which he lived and go to the
urban centers of the kingdom
where his field of usefulness
would be far greater. When he
arrived there he found many
who spent their time predicting
things that were pleasing to the
king. He even “had the nerve”
to predict the evil king
“shall die by the sword” becau
se of his wicked leadership —
and he prophesied this in no less
a place than the chapel of the
king himself.
Amaziah, the priest who min
istered to the king, told him of
Amos preaching, saying Amos
was conspiring against him. He
threatened the life of Amos, but
the true prophet, unafraid^'con
tinued to preach; so the priest
“suggested” to Amos that he
leave the city and go to another
part of the kingdom and preach
there — We can imagine the
priest implied "Or Else.”
Amos paid him no heed. Like
Peter (Acts 5:29) he felt “We
ought to obey God, rather than
men.”
There were three things that
Amos believed with all his be
ing;
(1) He believed in the true
God; (2) He believed that God
Himself had called him; (3) He
believed the rotten conditions
that existed in the kingdom
would lead to its destruction un
less corrected.
In this lesson we are told that
God showed Amos a “plumb
line” —a line with a weight at
tached to the bottom, that is
straight and true when held up.
A wall that is built, with all
parts in perfect line with a
plumb line, stands straight. A
plumb line is the guide for ver
ticle things just as a square is
the guide for corners and things
horizontal. (Someone has said
the Cross of Jesus Christ combi
nes the plumb line and the sq
uare by which one should try
to build their life.)
This lesson calls Amos “God’s
Spokesman for Justice”. All are
familiar with the pictures of
“Justice”, holding a scale that
when justice prevails is prefect
ly balanced. We might add to the
plumb line and the square the
scales of justice in studying this
lesson.
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As we think of this lesson it’s
Interesting to remember that
Amos was a simple shepherd.
Many of God’s greatest spokes
men have been of humble origin.
Dwight L. Moody, one of the
greatest evangelists of all times
was a shoe clerk; Billy Sunday,
another great evangelist, was a
baseball player; and Arthur
Moore, who preached in Griffin
two weeks ago, was a railroad
flagman when called by God
to serve Him.
And don’t forget:
Jesus Christ Himself was a
carpenter.
This should be encouraging to
layman. If one is filled with a
true desire to serve God, if one
loves Him with all their heart
and mind and being, and one’s
neighbor as well, one does not
have to be a graduate of a theo
logical seminary to be a pro
fitable servant and witness for
God Almighty and His Blessed
Son.
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Build More Traps
MORE DEATH TRAPS are being placed on the Communist side of the Berlin
Wall. East German soldiers are digging trenches to supplement already present
grim obstacles — such as steel dragon teeth (foreground) and electrical fences—to
prevent persons escaping to the West.
Martha Raye
Collapses In
Show For Army
SAIGON (UPD — Actress
Martha Raye collapsed on the
stage today while performing
for 300 American soldiers under
a blistering sun.
She was carried off, put in an
ambulance and taken to a U.S.
Army Hospital in Saigon.
Miss Raye is one of the
favorite performers in Vietnam.
She likes to go into the
boondocks and perform before
small groups of servicemen who
may otherwise never see a
show.
On several occasions, she has
put on shows for units as small
as a half-dozen men in jungle
camps manned by Green Berets
in the heart of Viet Cong
country.
She was performing at Camp
Davis today. A stage had been
set up on a basketball court at
the camp on the outskirts of
Saigon.
The show had been under way
for about an hour when Miss
Raye, 51, came on stage,
started singing "Hello Dolly!”
and slumped to the floor.
An officer at the camp said
she had complained that she
was not feeling well, but
Insisted that sne go on with her
performance.
Chicago Set For
‘Blizzard Babies' 1
CHICAGO (UPD—Nearly nine
months after the heaviest snow
storm in history, Chicago
hospitals are expecting a
blizzard of babies.
The birth rate was expected,
by some, to jump as much as 30
per cent.
With an eye toward th
increased number of pregnant
mothers, obstetricians and nur
ses have made “snow baby” an
integral part of their shop talk.
The blizzard of ’67 began in
the windy city Jan. 26. For five
days the city stood still, stalled
in its tracks by mounting drifts
of snow.
"For many, it was a forced
retreat into the home, if not the
boudoir,” said Dr. Arnold
Divorced, Remarried Same
Woman So He Could Join Army
Comes Borne With Medals
GADSDEN, Ala. (DPI —
Franklin Beggs, a 27-year-old
warrior who could get to Viet
nam only byway of a divorce
court, has returned home on
leave, his chest full of medals
and his mind on relaxation.
The Army warrant officer
figures he deserves it. He’s
been divorced, remarried to the
same woman, fought a war and
become a father for the second
time in two years.
Beggs came home Thursday
night wearing two Distinguished
Flying Crosses, two years after
telling his wife he was going to
divorce her so he could join the
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DAILY NEWS
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Maddox Says lie’s
Fighting Tax Hike
AUGUSTA, &a. (UPD—Gov.
Lester Maddox, who has waved
the prospects of a tax increase
at Georgians recently, says he
is actually fighting higher
taxes.
“This administration is de
termined to find away to re
lieve taxpayers who are bur
dened by the trend toward
higher ad valorem taxes and
are undergoing hardships be
cause of increased demands,"
he said Thursday night.
In a speech prepared for de
livery at the Augusta Rescue
Mission, an alcoholic rehabilita
tion center, the governor also
said his administration is try
ing to save Georgians from
other evils.
Maddox said his administra
tion is trying to rescue “many
of our liberties which have
been lost to power-mad politi
cians, federal courts and those
who would rather sell out than
stand up for what is right.”
“We are interested in finding
a cure for the philosophy that
makes bums and welfare ad
dicts out of our citizens."
“We want to salvage our
schools and other institutions
that are being destroyed by
those who put integration ahead
of the best interests of our
children,” Maddox said.
In an Interview, Maddox said
that the fact he spoke out a
gainst higher ad valorem taxes
“does not mean that we won’t
Abrams, a Loyola University
professor of psychology, late
Thursday.
“Under certain stresses,
people reaffirm and create
life,” Abrams said.
Abrams predicted a 25 per
cent increase in births the latter
part of this month, based, in
part, on a similarly high rate of
births after the blackout in New
York City and the Northeast
two years ago.
Hospital administrators said,
cautiously, they are prepared
for new influx of babies. Some
of them forecast birth increases
in late October and early
November of up to 10 to 15 per
cent over this period last year.
Some went as high as 25 to 30
per cent.
Army, learn to fly and go to
Vietnam.
He was unable to enlist in
1965 because ba had one too
many dependents—a 4-year-old
boy, and no previous military
service.
In a telephone interview,
Beggs said “the only thing I
could do to get in was divorce
Linda, join up and then remar
ry.” His wife was agreeable
and they were divorced in late
September of that year.
“My wife had enough faith in
rile to respect my desires and
wishes. She feels the same way
I do and I know things will be
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 6, 1967
have a tax increase.
holds,” Maddox told Bob Jame
son of radio station WGAC. "It
depends upon the economy of
the country and what the reve
nue receipts in Georgia area.
“I hope we can soon increase
homestead exemptions to all the
people in our state. “I want to
try to get legislation passed to
freeze it (property tax) at the
present 40 per cent assessment
of the real value or market val
ue rather than let it get up to
100 per cent.”
Widow Awarded
Damages In
Husband’s Death
Mrs. Minnie D. McGee, widow
of Byron McGee who died of
gunshot wound suffered at Am
vets Post No. 4, Inc., American
Veterans of World War Two, has
been awarded $24,885.01 in a
damage suit.
The award was made this week
by a jury during the civil term
of Spalding Superior Court. Mrs.
McGee had asked $26,732.65 in
the suit against Arnvets Post
No. 4, American Veterans of
World War Two.
The suit said the damages ask
ed were for medical bills, burial
and other expenses incurred af
ter the shooting.
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“Our members would rath
er go home and talk about
the preacher than what he
•aid.”
a lot better for us now that I’ve
gone, than if I had turned my
back on it,” he said.
Beggs spent three months at
Ft. Benning, Ga„ for basic
training and then shipped out to
Texas for flight training. Dur
ing this period, he and Linda
were remarried.
The next stop was Vietnam
and a Huey helicopter. A pilot,
Beggs said he was “in combat
flying almost every day."
Mrs. Beggs, a talented singer,
kept busy singing in a trio with
two sisters and taking care of
her two children. A second son
was born in 1966.
U. S. Embassy
Plane Crashes
Women, Children
Among Passengers
SINGAPORE (UPD—A plane
from the U.S. Embassy in Jak
arta with 14 Americans on board
crashed in flames today killing
one and injuring the rest, four
of them critically.
The crash occurred as the
twin-engined C 47 took off from
Singapore’s Paya Lebar Inter
national Airport.
A spokesman for the U.S. Em
bassy in Jakarta said that all of
the persons aboard were U.S.
military personnel or depen
dents. Names were withheld un
til relatives could be notified.
An airline pilot who witnessed
the crash said that the plane
lost one of its engines, caught
fire, and crashed in flames.
Several of the victims were re
ported to be children.
The survivors were rushed to
Singapore General Hospital. A
security guard was set up
around the crash site.
Witnesses said the plane
suddenly veered to the right
after take off and then plunged
to the ground and burst into
flames. It came to rest only 30
yards from a crowded village at
the edge of the airport.
The U.S. embassy in Jakarta
later issued a passenger list
which identified the confirmed
fatality as U.S. Marine Gunnery
Sgt. John F. Voycak of Chicago.
Others aboard were:
Marine Capt. Walter J.
Livengood and his wife, Mrs.
Patricia Livengood, of Bridge
ville, Pa., Air Force Capt.
Randall D. Peat of Mt. Carroll,
Hl., Marine Gunnery Sgt.
Carle A. Albert of Trimble,
Tenn., all crew members (ex
cept Mrs. Livengood.)
Passengers—Air Force Lt.
Col. Leslie H. Armin and his
wife Elaine, of Oakland, Calif.,
Army Lt. Col. Frank *E.
Gallagher and his son Kevin, 13,
of San Diego, Calif., Mrs.
Margaret W. Hughes and her
daughter Catherine, 5, the wife
and child of Army Maj. Robert
K. Hughes of Beech Island, S.C.,
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Sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Viet War. Page 5.
Astronaut Killed. Page 5.
Georgia News. Page 6.
Tax Signals. Page 7.
Hospital. Page 8.
Stork Club. Page 8-
About Town. Page 8.
Funerals. Page 8.
Sputnik. Page 9.
Want Ads. Page 11.
Society. Page 12.
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Named “Men of the Year In Conservation” by the
Towaliga Soil Conservation District Thursday night
were (front, 1-r) Millwood Ferguson, accepting for
his father, Will Brown Ferguson of Upson County;
Thomas McKown of Fayette County; Jack Pilken
ton of Pike County; Claude Maddox of Butts County;
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Navy hospital Mate Edward u.
O’Neil of Miller Place, N.Y.,
Mrs. Jeane King, wife of
Marine Lt. Col. Charles F. King
of Fayetteville, N.C., and
Marine Sgt. Walter J. Zipkas of
Greenport, N.Y.
College Profs
Home Damaged
In Explosion
JACKSON, Miss. (UPD A
predawn explosion today caused
extensive damage to a cottage
occupied by a White faculty
member at predominantly Ne
gro Tougaloo College.
Roy Moore, agent in charge
of the Jackson FBI office, said
his agents and the Madison
County sheriff’s office were in
vestigating the blast at the
home of Tougaloo Dean William
T. Bush on the college campus,
a few miles north of here.
Moore said an explosive of a
“high order” apparently was
placed on the back step of the
Bush home. In the 1 a.m. ex
plosion. The rear door was de
molished and windows shattered
but there were no injuries.
The FBI said the blast was
“similar” to one which occur
red at the Jackson Jewish
synagogue, Temple Beth Israel,
late on the night of Sept. 18.
Moore said the explosive’s
upward thrust demolished the
eaves of the back side of the
cottage and also shattered win
dows of a nearby faculty home.
He said the cottage was near
an entrance road to the shady
campus, which indicated the
persons responsible could have
driven onto the campus un
noticed.
There have been no arrests
in connection with the syna
gogue bombing, although three
men, two identified by the FBI
as active members of the Ku
Klux Klan, were arrested sev
eral hours later in another part
of the city on a charge of as
saulting a federal officer.
Joe Denver Hawkins, 49, a
self-employed painter and con
tractor, and his son, Joe Daniel
Hawkins, 23, were identified as
active Klansmen. The third was
J. L. Harper, 23, a painter.
Two FBI agents testified at a
preliminary hearing Monday
they were en route to question
one of the three at the Hawkins
house about the bombing when
a tense high speed chase ended
with their arrest.
Conservation Awards
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VICTIMS of a $1,500,000 robbery, millionaire Willis
du Pont, his wife and 4-year-old son were unharmed
after being tied up while five armed men ransacked
their 42-room home in Miami.
$200,000 Bansom
Offered For Coins
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
MIAMI (UPD — Millionaire
Willis Harrington du Pont today
offered to pay $200,000 in cash
to ransom his $1 million
Russian coin collection taken by
five bandits who forced their
way into his estate.
Du Pont said he has hired
private detective William Stan
ton to act as a go-between in
attempts to recover the coins.
The FBI, in charge of the
investigation of the theft early
Thursday, had no comment.
A sophisticated infrared warn
ing system guarding Du Font’s
$3 million estate on the Coconut
Grove bayfront was not in
operation when the robbery took
place. Du Pont said the
elaborate electronic burglar
alarm had not been on for
several weeks, but he refused to
say why.
Coins a Bonus
The coin collection may have
been an unexpected bonus for
five hooded gunmen who
invaded the 42-room Du Pont
mansion early Thursday and
made off with the largest haul
in Miami history.
The wise-cracking bandits,
held Du Pont, his beautiful
Spanish wife, their son and two
servants at gunpoint while
spending two hours ransacking
the showplace estate.
Another son, a year old, slept
through the robbery.
While rounding up rare U.S.
coins valued at about half a
million dollars, jewelry and
other valuables, the bandits ran
across material describing the
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(back) H. P. Leverett and Gene Leverett of L a m a r
County; R. W. (Bob) Cheatham of Spalding County;
Robert S. Watson of Monroe County; and Franklin
Maddox of Butts County. The awards banquet was
held at the Stuckey auditorium of the Georgia Experi
ment Station in Griffin.
Russian collection.
Du Pont said he believes the
bandits did not know about the
collection and thought up the
ransom scheme as they went
about their looting. They told
him he could have the coins
back for $200,000 in cash, with
the arrangements to be made
through his lawyer.
The ransom set by the
bandits, if paid, would be one of
the largest ever collected.
Coins Priceless
Authorities say fencing sever
al hundred priceless Russian
coins and medals would be
virtually impossible. Selling
them back to the owner would
be the only way the- thieves
could show a profit.
Friends said Du Pont had the
warning system installed more
out of fear of kidnapers than
burglars. He and his wife,
Miren, 29, have two sons,
Victor, 4, and Lammot, 1.
Police had few clues, but a
scrap of red material, believed
to be off a mask, was left
behind.
Du Pont said the intruders
could have come in through an
unlocked patio door.
The bandits, sometimes po
lite, sometimes gruff, chided Du
Pont for not working for a
living "like everybody else” as
they loaded up his valuables.
On their way out one dropped
a SIO,OOO bill. They also forgot
to take one of the suitcases
filled with rare coins. They
made their getaway in a red
Cadillac owned by Du Pont. It
was abandoned a few blocks
from the mansion.