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By Quimby Melton
“God Demands Righteous Re
lationships” is the topic of this
week’s International Sunday Sc
hool Lesson. Background Scrip
ture is Amos 3 through 6; and
while only a small part of this
is included in the printed text.
It will be well to read all four of
these chapters and get the back
ground.
Sunday is being observed by
many Churches, as “World Or
der Day” and while observance
is held on the Sundaj’ nearest
Oct. 24 — the date the United
Nations was organized — this
observance does not mean that
United Nations, as such, is en
dorsed by any group or nation,
however it does mean that in
this day of international anar
chy, there must be a realization
on the part of all that it will
take the cooperation of all men
•‘of good will” to bring about a
settlement of differences and a
spirit of helpfulness and Chris
tian Brotherhood, if the world
is to be saved. This is a neces
sary principle of the Christian
faith. And with this in mind
one must admit that all w’ho tr
uly worship God must realize
that God is not the God of any
particular people, nation or
race. Rather, He is the God of
all mankind.
Amos stresses this idea time
and time again.
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The Memory Selection of this
lesson is “Seek good, and not
evil, that ye may live: and so
the Lord of hosts, shall be with
you. (Amos 5:14.)
As we read the entire back
ground Scripture we find that
Amos tells how God had become
discouraged by the stiff-necked
attitude of the people, who re
fuse to truly worship him; and
how he has even tried to inflict
dire punishment on the people
hoping they would repent and
seek to live as He expected them
to.
Then in Amos 5-4, we read that
God, still loving man, in spite
of His disappointment, says
“Seek ye me, and you shall be
saved.” Turning back to days
before Amos, back as far as
when Moses was doing his best
to lead the Children of Israel in
to obedience to God’s will, we
find in Leviticus 26:12. “I will
be your God, and ye shall be my
people."
The biographies of the true
prophets, as well as the biogra
phies of Jesus and of Paul, tell
of a time when each of them
made the same declaration of
complete obedience to God, “Not
my will but thine be done.”
(See Amos 7:10-17) Isiah 6; Je
remiah 1; Jesus in the Wilder
ness and Paul on the Road to
Damascus.) It was with such a
statement they began their min
istry. Thus, then, as today do
true leaders of Christianity, call
on all men to take this solemn
pledge, without revocation, with
out trying to “interpret” God’s
will to suit their own idea, their
schemes, their prejudices.
One who will pray “Thy will”
and mean it 100 percent begins
a "Righteous Relationship,” not
only with God the Father, but
with one’s fellow man.
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One commentator on this les
son says, if one would diagram
the relationship that exists bet
ween God and man, and bet
ween man and his fellow man,
one should draw an equilateral
triangle, with God at the top po
int, one's self at the left point of
the base, and the rest of man
kind at the right point. He then
tells how God’s love for man
flows, like an electric current,
down one leg of the triangle
from God to the individual, then,
across the base of the triangle
to one’s fellow man, and then
continues on up the third 1 e g
back to God. This makes a cur
rent of love and understanding
that runs, like an electric cur
rent round and round the trian
gle. But if the individual breaks
his contact with God, or the line
between him and his fellow man,
the flow of current is short-cir
cuited and the flow of God’s love
stopped.
If one thinks of this triangle,
with God at the apex, and a cur
rent of power flowing round and
round the triangle, one can go
further with this idea and liken
God to a great power plant. But
as strong as is the power, gen
erated by God, it cannot be
transmitted to man if there is
a break in the line.
But, thank God, even a short
age on this power line, can be
repaired if one who has caused
the breakdown, repents, asks
forgiveness and seeks to serve
God with all one’s strength, po
wer and being.
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‘TOT GUARD’ is one company’s answer to safety belts for youngsters in today’s
automobiles. The device sits atop a regular seat, in any part where a conventional
lap belt may be fastened around it. Ford researchers designed the front shield as
a writing board as well as a safety shield.
Mississippi Jury
Finds Seven Guilty
By HENRY P. LEIFERMANN
MERIDIAN, Miss. (UPD—An
all-White Jury found seven men,
including a deputy sheriff and a
Ku Klux Klan chief, guilty
today on conspiracy in the 1964
slaying of three civil rights
workers.
The jury returned innocent
verdicts on eight others, and
declared themselves deadlocked
on the remaining three.
“I very heartily endorse the
verdict of this jury, particularly
in respect to Mr. (Alton Wayne)
Roberts,” one of those convict
ed, U.S. District Judge Harold
Cox said from the bench.
Cox accused the 28-year-old,
one-time nightclub bouncer of
trying to “intimidate the jury”
by talking of dynamiting the
jurors if they returned guilty
Ford Gears Up
For Production
By DAVID W. CHUTE
DETROIT (UPI) — Mainten
ance workers today geared
Ford Motor Co. assembly lines
for immediate production as
negotiators for the company
and the United Auto Workers
pushed toward the 24-hour mark
in a marathon bargaining
session. Settlement of the 44-
day-old auto strike appeared
imminent.
The Detroit News reported
today that the UAW and Ford
“wrapped up a tentative agree
ment today on the largest
contract package in the history
of the auto industry."
The News quoted unidentified
sources as saying the three-year
contract package “contains
wage and fringe benefits that
would total slightly more than
$1 an hour.
But there was no confirmation
of this from either side and
bargainers continued a session
which began at 11 a.m.
Thursday.
Both sides continued a news
blackout which has shrouded
the talks in secrecy since Oct.
10.
But Ford called secretaries to
work in the middle of the night
and negotiators breakfasted at
the bargaining table as they
pushed toward settlement of the
longest strike in Ford history.
Maintenance crews made up
of UAW members reported for
work at Ford’s transmission
plant in Livonia, a Detroit
suburb, under a special ar
rangement with the union,
readying machinery for imme
diate production.
More maintenance men were
scheduled to report Monday.
At 10 a.m. EDT, bargainers
had been closeted for 23 hours,
the longest session since the
strike began at midnight Sept. 6
when Ford’s 160,000 UAW
members walked off their Jobs.
So far the strike has cost the
workers about S7O million in
lost wages. The company has
lost about 320,000 cars and
trucks from its production
schedule.
Ford was prepared to get
some of its plants back into full
operation within a week to 10
days. Many of the assembly
lines were filled with unfinished
cars when the strike by 160,000
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verdicts.
Cox ordered U.S. marshals to
immediately jail Roberts and
Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff
Cecil Price, whom he accused
of the same threats.
Among those convicted, with
Roberts and Price, was Samuel
H. Bowers, imperial wizard of
the White Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan.
The government accused Bow
ers of conceiving the plot which
resulted in the slayings on
Father’s Day in 1964.
The victims, slain in rural
Neshoba County, were Michael
Schwerner, 24, Andrew Good-
Man, 20 — both White New
Yorkers—and James Chaney,
22, a Meridian Negro.
After 44 days of searching by
hundreds of FBI agents and
naval personnel, their bodies
UAW members in 25 states
began at midnight Sept. 6.
Although Ford estimated it
would take up to six weeks to
resume complete production,
many of the needed parts
supplies have been stockpiled at
warehouses during the strike
and others are in boxcars on
railroad sidings, ready for
unloading.
The UAW was expected to use
the Ford agreement as a
pattern in negotiations with the
other auto companies.
Chrysler Corp., the nation’s
No. 3. auto maker, presumably
would be the union’s next
target. Chrysler and General
Motors Corp, have continued
production despite the fact their
contracts with the UAW expired
at the same time as Ford’s.
Mystery Object
Seen Over State
THOMSON, Ga. (UPI) —An
unidentified flying object which
drafted up and down while
changing shape and color was
reported today by police in half
a dozen towns over a 300-square
mile area of east Georgia.
Authorities at Warner Robins :
Air Force Base said they were ;
investigating the sightings but
had no idea, shortly after day- ,
break, what the object may
have been.
Early reports, credited to the i
Air Force base and the weath- :
er Bureau, that the object may <
have been a weather baloon
were denied by both agencies.
The Highway Patrol station ;
at Thomson, which coordinated ,
the reports, said observers re
ported it changing shape from (
a ball to a four-leaf clover, and i
changing color from red to :
green. The last report of the 1
object, it said, came from the
police department at Bowman, :
Ga., shortly before dawn.
Highway Patrol radio opera- ;
tor Robert L. Stevens at Thom- 1
son said observers apparently i
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 20,1967
were found buried under 15 feet
of red clay on a farm pond dam
near Philadelphia, Miss.
The conviction marked the
first time that a White man has
been found guilty of a major
civil rights crime in Mississippi.
In addition to Bowers, Price,
and the muscular Roberts, the
Jury of seven women and five
men convicted Horace Doyle
Barnette, 31-year-old truck driv
er; Jimmy Snowden, 33-year-old
service station operator, and
Jimmy Arledge, 29-year-old
stock worker.
Conviction on the conspiracy
charges carries a maximum
sentence of 10 years in prison
and fines of $5,000 each. Cox
said he would pronounce sen
tence next Friday.
The jury delivered its verdict
after 15 hours of deliberation.
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wanting too much—he’d be
hard to bribe.”
associated no noise with the ob
ject, and its only reported
movement appeared to be up
and down.
Stevens said the object first
was reported by the Milledge
ville Police Department at 4:40
a.m. EDT. Milledgeville police
said three persons had alerted
them to the object. A unit was
dispatched to “spot” the object.
“Milledgeville ‘police de
scribed the object as bright red,
about 25 feet in diameter and
moving due west,” Stevens
said.
Later, Stevens said, Milledge
ville reported the object chang
ing from red to green and from
a ball shape to a four-leaf clov
er shape.
Reports subsequently came in
from Sandersville, Bowman,
Greensboro and Dublin, as well
as Thqjnson and Milledgeville,
Sanders said.
Then, at 6:22 a.m., Sanders
said he was advised by the
weather bureau that a balloon
had been released near Jack
son, Miss. The report said the
balloon was descending, Sand
ers said.
Griffin PO Money
Restored In Bill
No Longer
Matter Os
Controversy
Money for the first step in get
ting a new federal building for
Griffin has been put back into
an appropriations bill in Con
gress, according to Rep. John J.
Flynt, Jr.
The House-Senate conference
committee restored $520,000 for
the first step on the building
Thursday afternoon.
Also restored was money for
similar buildings at Rome, and
Waycross. Funds for an Atlanta
post office building were not in
cluded.
The appropriations bill now
must go back to the House and
Senate for a final vote. Then it
must have President Johnson’s
signature before becoming fi
nal.
NO CONTROVERSY
Rep. Flynt said the commit
tee’s action Thursday means
“the Griffin project no longer is
a matter of controversy.”
The Griffin congressman said
he did not anticipate any furth
er snags for the proposal.
The proposed new building for
Griffin would house the post of
fice and other federal agencies
which have offices here. Even
tually the building will cost more
than a million and a half doll
ars.
NEXT STEP
When the appropriations mea
sure finally clears Congress, and
the money is made available,
the next step will be to get a re
port from the. site selection gr
oup. It came to Griffin this sum
mer and studied sites for the
building.
No recommendation can be
made from the committee until
the money is appropriated, Rep.
Flynt explained.
Federal buildings for Griffin
and Rome originally were bud
geted items in the House appro
priations measure and one for
Waycross was added.
ATLANTA
When it went to the Senate,
however, Sen. Herman Talmad
ge added a request for another
federal building for Atlanta.
The Senate committee knock
ed out the Rome, Waycross and
Griffin projects approved in the
House and inserted the Atlanta
building.
Later committee members
said they did this so the confer
ence committee would have
something with which to bar
gain.
When the Griffin, Rome and
Waycross building were knock
ed out, Rep. Flynt wrote letters
to and talked with key congres
sional leaders, explaining that
the Griffin item was one already
budgeted in the House bill. He
asked their help in getting the
item back in the appropriations
measure when the Senate-House
conference committee met.
CHAIRMAN
Letters went to Rep. George
H. Mahon, chairman of the Hou
se Appropriations committee
and Rep. Joe L. Evins, chair
man of the Independent Offices
Subcommittee on the appropria
tions committee.
Sen. Richard Russell of Geor
gia who served on the confer
ence committee was asked to
assist in getting the Griffin and
other House approved projects
restored.
Sen. Herman Tglmadge also
made a plea that the House Ap
roved projects be restored.
Soldier Slept
With A Cobra
DI AN, South Vietnam (UPI)
—First Lt. James Harrod of
Pine Bluff, Ariz., who has
enough to worry about with the
Viet Cong, spent Thursday night
sleeping with a cobra.
Sgt. William Gatchy of
Garden Grove, Calif., sleeping
in a cot next to the young
officer, woke up and saw the
deadly, five-foot snake coiled on
Harrod’s stomach.
Gatch quietly summoned a
medic, but before he arrived
the cobra began to move and
when Harrod awoke it struck,
missing him by inches.
Other soldiers later killed the
snake with a shovel.
Vol. 95 No. 248
Mayor Pruett
Seeks Reelection
Mayor Carl Pruett announced
today he would seek another
term on the city commission.
He was the first to qualify for
the vacancy on the board to
be filled Nov. 7 in a city elec
tion.
Mr. Pruett will complete his
15th consecutive year as a city
commissioner at the end of No
vember.
He will seek election for his
4ixth-three-year term as a com
missioner.
The deadline for qualifying
for the office is next Tuesday
at noon.
In asking for another three
year term as a commissioner,
Mayor Pruett issued this state
ment:
“First, I would like to thank
the citizens of Griffin for the
privilege of having served you
during the past years. While any
community service takes a great
deal of time from one’s busi
ness and family — when we
look back at what we have ac
complished in working together
for the good of the community—
it makes all the effort seem
most worthwhile.
“During the time I have ser
ved you we have seen our city
more than double in both area
and population. We have seen
new industry come with more
job opportunities. Our citizens
have supported the plans for
more water, more sewage treat
ment facilities; and in many ot
her ways built the foundation
for more opportunity for our peo
ple.
“It makes me very proud to
have had a part in this great
program of progress in Griffin.
I am also thankful for the co
operation we have had in a 11
these programs, and particular
ly for the law abiding attitude
of our people. This kind of co
operation makes a better home
town for all of us.
“A good community might well
be compared to a growing
tree. It either grows and mov
es forward, or else it will with
er and die away. I am especial
ly proud of the attitude of our
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Holiday Plans
A demonstration on Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations will be held Wed
nesday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Stuckey auditorium
at the Georgia Experiment Station. The program will be sponsored by the Wist
eria Garden Club. Proceeds will be used for the beautification of downtown Griffin.
Mrs. Jim Murray (1) and Mrs. Warren K. Scoville make arrangements for the pro
gram.
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5,000 Paratroops
To Defend Pentagon
By ROBERT J. TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (UPD—ViB.
authorities were building up a
5,000-man force of paratroopers
today to defend the Pentagon
against possible violence during
a giant antiwar demonstration
Saturday and Sunday.
As the vanguard of a
predicted 70,000 demonstrators
poured into the city and began
training in nonviolent resistance
techniques, planeloads of com
bat-attired troops from the 82nd
Airborne Division at Ft Bragg,
N.C., were arriving at nearby
Andrews Air Force Base.
A massive security plan
drawn up by federal and city
officials calls for the Paratroo
pers to keep order at the
Pentagon across the Potomac
River in Virginia while another
5,000-man force of National
Guardsmen, police, U.S. mar
shals, and other law enforce-
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Georgia News. Page 2.
Governors. Page 2.
LA Trouble. Page 2«
Flower Arrangements. Page 3.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 3,
Lighter Side. Page 3.
Bugging Out. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5»
Stork Club. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Ray Cromley. Page 6.
Bruce Biossat. Page 6.
Society. Page 8.
Mariner Five. Page 9.
Sports. Pages 10-12.
Legals. Page 13.
Want Ads. Page 14.
Sheriff’s Hearing. Page 16.
Burson Raps 80. Page 16.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and warmer to
night. Saturday partly cloudy
and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 42, high
Thursday 65, low Thursday 39,
sunrise Saturday 7:47, sunset
Saturday 7:01.
ment officers controls the
. demonstration during its Wash
l ington phases.
> As far as was known, security
i forces would carry only their
; customary sidearms. The dis
i trict police force included a
canine corps unit.
. Agencies Prepare
i Government agencies that
■ normally work round the clock
• were setting up special proce-
I dures to prevent disruption of
, their operations by demonstra-
■ tors who might try to block
building entrances.
i Early arrivals from war
■ protest groups gathered on local
• college campuses for outdoor
: classes on how to protect
: themselves from injury when
■ police try to break up a crowd,
and how to fall down and go
■ limp in resistance to police
■ efforts to clear an area.