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By Quimby Melton
“The Lord of History” is the
title of this week’s Internation
al Sunday School lesson. Back
ground Scripture is Amos, Chap
ters 1 and 2; and Chapter 9:7-8.
The Memory Selection is “God
reigneth over the heathen; God
sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.” — (Psalms 47:8)
This lesson was chosen to help
true believers have faith that
history is in the hands of God,
and to help them realize that
even they can play an impor
tant part in the making of his
tory by faithful Christian wit
ness.
Have we learned the lessons
of history?
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Everyone who known anything
at all about the meaning of
words can tell you what the
word "history” means. Webs
ter’s dictionary devotes much
space to defining the word. Ab
out half way down one finds (4)
the record of past events espe
cially in connection with the hu
man race; then in (5) we read
“history tells the acts, ideas, ev
ents that will or can shape the
course of the future.” So we see
history began when God made
the world, and history will last
as long as time, also what has
happened can and does influence
what is happening today and
will happen tomorrow.
Amos sought to teach the peo
ple of Israel that the God they
worshipped is the King of His
tory (of all times) and the king
of every nation. In the days of
Amos every nation had its own
god or gods. Many of the Israe
lites evidently looked on God as
“just another” of the many gods,
and time after time they went
so far as to erect altars where
they worshipped false gods. Even
the staunchest follower of t h e
True God had an idea that God
was interested only in them, and
cared nothing for the people of
other lands. They could not, or
would not, recognize the omni
potence and omnipresence of
God Almighty.
Charles Laymon in discussing
this lesson refers to a play that
ran on Broadway several sea
sons ago: “Stop the World, I
Want to Get Off”, and to a ser
mon topic that appeared on a
Church bulletin board: "Keep
ing Sane in a Mad World.”
And speaking of a play Good
Evening is reminded of that
famous quote from Shakespe
are. “All the world’s a stage,
and all men and all women mer
ely players”.
Many today are prone to be
lieve that the world today faces
the greatest crisis in its history;
and with this in mind may feel
like refusing to accept the
part on the stage of life that
God would have them play. Some
would rather “Stop the World”
so they could get off the merry
go-round. But others, realizing
that God Himself is the author
of the drama of life, will do their
best to “Keep Sane in a Ma d
World” and with guidance of
God Himself play a part in re
storing sanity to a mad world.
Conditions today even here in
America are very similar to
those in Judea in the days of
Amos. "Thus sayeth the Lord,”
Amos reported, "I will not turn
away the punishment thereof;
because they have despised the
law of the Lord, and have not
kept his commandments, and
their lies caused them to err.”
. . . Society then was rife
with injustice, and heathen prac
tices — they even approved
prostitution in parts of the tem
ple. There was abuse of the
poor, neglect of the sick, and
wholesale corruption and disho
nesty among those in power.
The people of Judea practiced
what we call an isolation policy.
Today there is even less room
for such, since the jet airplane
has made neighbors of all peo
ple in all lands. No part of the
world is immune to what hap
pens in any other section of the
world.
Remember this, America does
not have exclusive rights to the
promises of God Almighty.
Good Evening, admitting his
faults and failings, is glad that
God is the master of all the
world. Frankly we could not wor
ship a God who was interested
only in me and in mine.
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Jesus Christ, in whom we place
our hope and trust, arid his Hea
venly Father, are not “teeny
weeny, small-time gods, their
| arms are long enough and st
rong enough to encompass the
nwhole world, the universe; and
«in Their tender embrace we hope
Oto find “The peace that passeth
understanding.”
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and little warmer
tonight. Saturday variable cloud
iness and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 76, low today 50. high
Thursday 74, low Thursday 46,
sunrise Saturday 7:42, sunset
Saturday 7:10.
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Larry Chambers (No. 25 on the ground) plunged one
yard for Griffin’s only points against Grady here
Thursday night. The official signals a touchdown.
Griffin Falls
To Grady, 7-6
By ROGER DIX
The Griffin High Eagles out
rushed and outpassed Grady
High School here Thursday night
but it all went for naught.
Grady led in the only depart
ment that counts — score.
The Grey Knights beat the
Eagles, 7-6.
The smallest crowd of the sea
son watched the Eagles take a
6-0 lead the first time they went
on offense. That 52 yard scor
ing drive, which was climaxed
midway of the first quarter when
Larry Chambers dived in for the
TD, was the beginning and end
ing of Griffin’s scoring thrist.
Yardstick
Griffin (6) Grady (7)
First Downs 12 8
Yards pushing 174 162
Yards Passing 59 29
Passes Completed 4 2
Passes Attempted 14 5
Yards Penalized 20 20
Fumbles 4 2
Fumbles Lost 1 2
Griffin started a couple of oth
er marches toward Grady’s goal
but for one reason or another
they never reached it.
The final and futile effort to
turn defeat into victory came
with three or four seconds left.
It faded away when a field goal
kick by James Black was wide
of the mark.
SECOND WIN
The game was over and Grady
had its second victory before the
ball struck the ground.
Grady won the toss of the coin
and elected to receive. A slim
crowd of about 1,000 saw Steve
Miller return James Black’s
kickoff to the Grady 22. Grady
opened with a pass from Rod
ney Perry to Miller. It was good
for 20 yards and a first down at
the Grady 42.
Bob Bedford gained one yard.
Perry picked up nine more on
the next play. However, he fum
bled and Griffin claimed the ball
at their own 48.
Richard Turner and Larry
Chambers gained three and five
yards. Turner ripped 16 to the
Grady 28 to put Griffin in scor
ing position.
Chambers, Turner and Bobby
Whitehead began to batter the
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Grady defense for short yard
age. It took eight plays to tra
vel the 28 yards. Chambers fin
ally scored from the one.
Black’s extra point kick was
wide and Griffin led 6-0 with
over five minutes remaining in
the first quarter.
With time running out in the
second quarter, Griffin had Gr
ady pinned at its own 24 yard
line.
56 YARDS
One 56 yard run by Miller sol
ved that situation for the visi
tors and Grady was in the sha
dow of Griffin’s goal.
Perry and Bedford rammed the
ball to the Griffin nine.
A pass fell incomplete.
Miller took a handoff from Per
ry and started to his left. He
dropped the ball. Perry picked
it up, spotted Phillip Watson
standing alone in Griffin’s end
zone and tossed him a nine
yard scoring pass.
Bedford kicked the extra point
with 46 seconds left in the first
half.
EXCHANGE
Griffin and Grady exchanged
penalties, punts and fumbles in
the second half. Neither could
muster a serious threat until the
last minute of the fourth.
Grady had Griffin in a hole at
its own eight.
Chambers and Bob Robbins
were knocked down for short
losses. Joe Grubbs raced 12
yards for a key first down.
After Chambers gained five
yards and a pass went astray,
Wayne Westmoreland and Rich
ard Turner teamed up on a 40
yard pass to the Grady 36.
Griffin fumbled and Grady re
covered on the following play.
Miller gained six yards and
Grady fumbled back to Griffin.
Westmoreland picked up four
yards, Chambers gained seven
and Westmoreland tacked on six
more to the Grady 20.
CLICKED
Westmoreland and Chambers
clicked on a six yard pass. West
moreland kept for nine yards
and a first down at the Grady
five.
Griffin hastily lined up for a
field goal attempt as the clock
ticked away the final seconds.
When it reached three seconds.
Black booted the ball. It w a s
wide of the mijyk.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 13,1967
Regents Order Study
Os Station Property
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Grady went ahead late in the second quarter and won
the game, 7-6.
US Navy Planes Hit
Haiphong Shipyards
1)y EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) — U. S. Navy
warplanes, tightening pressure
on North Vietnam, bombed two
shipyards in Haiphong for the
first time and left their
drydocks and other facilities a
mass of raging flames, a U.S.
spokesman said today.
The previously immune ship
yards were among five targets
hit in stepped up raids Thursday
against the vital port area.
Pilots also bombed a military
complex where Soviet helicop
ters and other war weapons are
being assembled. The raid was
before dawn, when there was
less chance of killing Soviet
technicians believed to be
working there.
The American raiders, flying
from 7th Fleet carriers in the
Gulf of Tonkin, also hit the Cat
Bi MIG base taken off the
restricted target list and
bombed for the first time
Tuesday, and hammered the
Uong Bi thermal power plant
which furnishes electricity to
the port.
Enforce Rusk Statement
The Pentagon declined to call
the raids an “escalation” of
war. But it clearly was part of
the policy of gradual intensifica
tion outlined in Washington by
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
on Thursday as one of the
strongest “incentives to peace”
and getting Hanoi to the
negotiating table.
The two shipyards, 1.2 and 1.6
Big Crowds
See Spalding
Fair This Week
One of the largest crowds of
the week was at the Spalding
County Kiwanis Fair Thursday
night.
Thousands packed the f a Ir
grounds to see the exhibits, visit
the midway and participate in
other special events.
With the exception of Monday
night when it rained, the weath
er again this year has been fa
vorable for the fair.
Another large attendance is ex
pected again tonight and Satur
day night.
miles from the center of
Haiphong and less than two
miles from the port’s main
docks, still immune because of
third nation shipping, were the
latest of a recent series of
targets taken off the restricted
list by President Johnson and
his advisers.
Even as warplanes slashed
through three layers of thick
clouds and heavy antiaircraft
fire, South Vietnamese Pres
ident-elect Ngueyn Van Thieu
was offering a bombing pause.
He said when he is sworn into
office Oct. 30 he will send a
letter to North Vietnam’s
President Ho Chi Minh and
Invite him to face-to-face peace
talks.
Most observers doubt that
Hanoi will accept.
The Soviet technicians repor
tedly have been working in the
military complex one mile south
of the heart of Haiphong as part
of the expanded military aid
agreements Hanoi signed with
the Soviet Union and Commu
nist China.
Believe Damage Heavy
The complex, and other
targets, were hit in wave after
wave of Navy A4 Skyhawk and
A6 Intruder jet attackers during
the day’s 143 missions.
It was too dark at the time to
tell how much damage was
caused at the complex, but it
was believed considerable.
Country Parson
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“A committee’s solution
often is a compromise which
pleases none of its mem
bers.”
Vol. 95 No. 242
Highways
Figure In
Land Picture
The University of Georgia Bo
ard of Regents today called for
a complete land study at the Ex
periment Station in Griffin.
The board wants the survey
made so it can decide what land
might be sold and what might
be bought for the Griffin station.
The survey will be made by
the staff of the chancellor’s of
fice, Regent Jim Owen of Grif
fin said today.
He was in Brunswick, Ga.,
where the regents held their re
gular meeting Thursday and to
day.
Mr. Owen told the Griffin Da
ily News today that he thought
having the study made was "a
very good approach”.
He explained the regents want
ed to know exactly what land
the station has now, what it
rents, what might be sold, and
what might be needed for the fu
ture.
Discussion of new highways in
the Griffin area figured in the
regents talks about the Griffin
station today.
Mr. Owen noted that the new
Griffin By-Pass as well as some
new construction of Highway 16
in the Griffin area would figure
in the overall picture of station
property.
No timetable was set for com
pletion of the study, Mr. Owen
said. He Indicated the study
would be made soon so the re
gents could decide on what to
do about property for the Grif
fin station.
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Beaverbrook school has won the Fire Prevention Achievement Banner for the
second straight year during National Fire Prevention Week. The school also has
had the winning fire prevention poster. Each school in the system participates in
the poster contest. The contest is sponsored by the Griffin Fire Department and
local insurance agencies. Posters are on display at Fire Station Two. Robert Hardy,
who made the winning poster and Mrs. Minter Dupree, his teacher, show the
achievement award. «
Shrine Parade
Here Saturday
Shriners will stage their an
nual parade in downtown Grif
fin Saturday.
It will begin at 11:30 a.m. from
the East Solomon street shop
ping center.
Many units from the Atlanta
Temple as well as other Geor
gia clubs are expected to partici
pate.
From the shopping center the
parade will go arong East Solo
mon street, North Hill, West
Broad, North Eighth, South Hill
and to the Griffin High campus
Attorney Appointed
For J. B. Pritchard
J. B. Pritchard, who was in
dicted and arrested here Thurs
day on charges of robbery by
use of an offensive weapon and
uttering and passing forged che
cks, has asked for and received
a court appointed attorney.
Judge John H. McGehee of the
Griffin Judicial Circuit appoint
ed John Carlisle to represent
Pritchard.
Judge McGehee called the Oct
ober Grand Jury into special
session Thursday to consider ca
ses against the 48-year-old Grif
fin business man. Hie jury met
in regular session last week and
was recessed after handling rou
tine matters. Hie special ses
sion was a surprise to jurors.
After the jury returned 20 in
dictments against Pritchard,
Judge McGehee issued a bench
warrant for his arrest. He was
taken into custody by Capt. La
mar Blackmon and Officer Paul
The Winners
where it will disband.
Thousands of Griffinites are
expected to crowd the streets of
Griffin Saturday to see the an
nual event.
The parade will be the only
public feature of the annual
Shrine Day in Griffin this year.
A spokesman for the Griffin
Shrine Club said that the organ
ization was sponsoring its own
charities this year and not ask
ing for public contributions
through some project.
Short of the Griffin Police De
partment. He was booked at the
Spalding County jail.
Numerous searcn warrants
were issued and law enforce
ment officers, led by Sheriff
Dwayne Gilbert, searched Prit
chard’s home on East Mclntosh
road, his cabin at Jackson lake,
his place of business and the old
Amvets Club on Teamon road.
Officers would not disclose this
morning what, if anything, was
found during the numerous
hunts.
The indictments against Prit
chard grew out of a robbery at
the home of the late Bill Morris
in Orchard Hill. The robbers
took some SB,OOO from a wall
safe.
Pritchard was also indicted in
connection with the uttering and
passing of fake Crompton-High
land Mill payroll checks.
He is being held without bond.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)