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By Quimby Melton
“God’s Unwavering Compass
ion” is the subject of this week’s
International Sunday School les
son. Background Scrpture is Ho
sea 11 and 14. The Memory Sel
ection is “Yea, I have loved thee
with an everlasting love: there
fore with lovingkindness have I
drawn thee. (Jeremiah 31:5.)
In this lesson Hosea pictures
God as the Father — Heavenly
Father, whose compassionate
love for mankind begins when
man is born and continues throu
ghout life, in spite of man’s dis
obeying Him and worshipping
false gods.
The One and Only True God
In whom there is not the least
vestege of sin, was then, is now,
and always will be so stead
fast in His compassion — the
highest form of love — that
even when an individual, or a
nation, sins He stands not only
willing, but anxious to forgive
and welcome the sinner into the
fold.
Let’s think about the story of
the Prodigal Son; in it we have
a parable, told by Jesus Christ,
that holds out hope to every sin
ner in the world that he, like the
prodigal son, can wake up to
his sinful life, truly repent, ask
forgiveness and be welcomed
home by a forgiving father.
And while we think about that
parable lets remember Luke
11, and the story of an earthly
father giving good things to his
son, which winds up with verse
13 asking the question, “If ye
(earthly father) then, being evil
know how to give good gifts unto
your children; how much more
shall your Heavenly Father. . .
There are many names by wh
ich God has been called. But
this layman’s favorite is “Fa
ther.”
That God considers His rela
tionship as a Father to ma n
most important, is illustrated in
the story told of David, God’s
anointed, who when being told
that his son Absolom, who had
led a revolt against him, had
been killed, cried out “O my son
Absolom, my son, my son Ab
solom! Would God I had died for
thee, O Absolom my son, my
son. (2 Sam. 33.)
God does love man with an
Intense compassionate love that
nothing, but man himself, can
stop God from showing. If one
does not believe the magnitude
of God’s love let him remember
that beloved verse “For God so
Loved the World (Man) that He
gave His Only Begotten Son. .”
Can anyone imagine any love
greater and more impelling than
this?
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Lets think again about the st
ory of the Prodigal Son:
No doubt you noticed that the
earthly Father did not stand on
his front porch and wait for the
Son to come to him; he rushed
out to meet hinfi, to welcome
him home. Nothing was too good
for this repentant son; they put
a ring on his finger, new cloth
es on his back, and gave a big
party in his honor.
God, to this layman, is much
like that. He does not wait for
man to travel all the way
“home.” Once man is sorry
for his sins, truly sorry, and
asks God’s forgiveness, God will
meet him more than half way.
As a matter of fact we are told
that Jesus Christ, the Son of God
and God Himself, stands at the
door of everyone’s heart and
seeks admission. One does not
have to arrange an appointment
with God nor His Son to discuss
the “possibilities” of joining
Their forces. There is a stand
ing Invitation, direct from Jesus
Christ, "come unto me. . . and
I will give you rest.” And back
In the days of the old prophets
God issued a blanket invitation
to all mankind saying if anyone
would obey Him, “They will be
my people and I will be their
God.”
Very often when one gets a
formal invitation to some ev
ent here on the earth there is
this note down in one corner
“RSVP’ These initials from the
French “Responde Sil Vous
Plait’ and is a request to notify
the sender if you will accept the
Invitation.
No man, nor woman, has ever
received a more important invi
tation than the one from God.
And these invitations are not to
be treated lightly. One should
RSVP without putting it off one
moment. It may be later than
one thinks and an answer “at a
more convenient time” may
come too late.
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Eyeball To Eyeball
Jepp Childs (1) quarterback for the Vikings, and Bobby Hunt, quarterback for the
Falcons, will face each other Saturday in a showdown battle for the Senior League
football championship. The game will be one of seven in the third annual Foot*
ball Bowl at Memorial Stadium. Childs and Hunt guided their teams to the Senior
League finals. (Youth Football Bowl Story on Page Three.)
‘One Nation Under God’
Minister Tells What
His Citizenship Means
"Next to the Holy Bible, the
greatest book is this one,” said
Dr. Alastair Walker, holding up
a small black book. “It con
tains a passport to enter Amer
ica. And next to my marriage
certificate, the most sacred docu
ment is my naturalization pa
pers," the Rev. Walker, pastor
of the First Baptist Church said.
He was speaking at the cha
pel service of Spalding Junior
High.
“I am an American by choice
and I’m proud to be an Ameri
can,” said this minister who
was born in Scotland, at the cha
pel service that marked the
opening of the Exchange Club’s
"One Nation Under God” week.
Officers of the Exchange Club
were present.
Steve Bozeman, president of
the Spalding student body, pre
sided. As head of the 1000 stu
dent body he accepted an Amer
ican Flag presented the school
by Mrs. Edmund Mullins, for T.
W. Mitchell Camp Woodmen of
the World. Mrs. Mullins is the
wife of a former camp comman
der who is now secretary of the
lodge.
The chapel service was con
ducted by the students. The de
votional was conducted by Ray
Allison, Susan Worthy and Bon
nie Byrd.
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Winners in the Spalding Junior
High short essay contest on “One
Nation Under God” were Tim
Scott, son of the Rev. and Mrs.
Newton Scott, first, Bobby Hunt,
Rail Lease
Compromise
Is Approved
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) The State
Properties Control Commission
today approved a compromise
bidding formula for the lease
of the state - owned Western
& Atlantic Railroad that will
guarantee the state at least s3l
million over the 25 - year lease.
The formula, changed at the
request of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad in a special
meeting, apparently will pre
vent a recurrence of last year’s
legislative floor fight which pre
vented the L & N or the South
ern Railway Co. from getting
the lease.
Rep. Tom Murphy of Brem
en, who led the successful floor
fight against acceptance of
Southern’s high bid, said after
the meeting he would raise no
objections this year, no matter
who submitted the high bid un
der the new formula.
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son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O.
Hunt, runner-up.
It was announced that winners
at Kelsey Junior High and at
both senior high schools, Griffin
High and Fairmont High, would
be announced at chapel ser
vices at the respective schools
and prizes given. First place at
each school is $lO and runner-up
prize is $5.
Bart Searcy, Jr., chairman of
the Exchange Essay Commit
tee, said the final judging at
one of the senior high schools
has not been finished but an
nounced the winners at Kelsey
Mooncraft Lifted
Off Luna Surface
PASADENA, Calif. (UPD—
The Surveyor 6 mooncraft early
today was lifted off the lunar
surface by means of rocket
power and moved about 10 feet
laterally scientists at Jet
Propulsion Laboratory here
reported. It was the first time a
rocket had been launched from
the surface of the moon, a
spokesman said.
A JPL spokesman said the
three-legged spacecraft was in
flight for about B*/ 2 seconds and
reached an altitude of some 10
feet. The rocket firing took
place at 5:32 a.m. EST.
At 6:07 a.m. EST Surveyor
began transmitting pictures
from its new location in the
Conflicting Claims
Cloud Gestapo Charge
By WILLIAM H. GORISHEK
PANAMA CITY (UPl)—West
German authorities today
pressed their charge that an
insecticide and wine peddler
who claims to be an American
is really ex-Nazi Gestapo chief
Heinrich Mueller.
The U.S. consul in Belem,
Brazil, meanwhile discredited
the peddler’s story that he was
Francis Willard Keith of Webb
City, Mo.
The cosul, Louis Goels,
denied Keith's claim that he
had obtained a passport in
Belem identifying him as an
American.
"There is no reference in the
consulate archives that a
passport was issued in the
name of either Francis Willard
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, November 17,1967
Junior High were Deborah Py
ron, and runner-up was Richard
Garland.
In addition to the address by
Dr. Walker, chairman Jack Moss
of the county commission and
Mayor Carl Pruett of the city
commission, made short talks
and proclaimed this “One Na
tion Under God Week.” Presi
dent Bob Scroggins of Exchange
made a short explanation of the
meaning of the “One Nation Un
der God” program, and urged
the junior high students to sup
port, love and honor their co
untry and the flag. ‘
moon’s Central Bay region. The
spokesman said the three
original imprints of Surveyor’s
landing feet were clearly visible
in the photographs.
“Between the footprints could
be seen the surface area
scoured by the exhaust from the
three rockets,” the spokesman
said.
Surveyor 6 landed on the
moop last Nov. 9 and has
returned 12,764 pictures.
Scientists said by pairing the
new pictures of the moonscape
with those taken prior to the
engine firing they will obtain a
"stereo” effect because of the
two positions of the television
camera.
Keith or Heinrich Mueller,”
Goels said.
In Bonn, a justice ministry
spokesman said West German
authorities are "making the
greatest effort to prove he is
Mueller.”
"We must assume the one
time chief of the Gestapo was
clever enough to prepare his
escape cover story even during
the war,” he said.
Keith, 61, remained in Pana
manian custody pending a
decision by West Germany on
whether or not it would drop its
extradition request.
The spokesman in Bonn said
the request would stand until
there is official proof that Keith
is not Mueller.
He rejected as “a piece of
•vidence, nothing more,” a
Dinkier’s Robbed
Bandit Finishes
Job With Kiss
Jewelry Loss
Estimated
At $350,000
By MATTHEW T. KENNY
MIAMI (UPD—Two masked
gunmen held up hotel tycoon
Carling Dinkier and his wife in
their penthouse apartment to
day, robbed them of an
estimated $350,000 in jewels,
kissed Mrs. Dinkier goodbye
and fled.
Police said the gunmen,
wearing masks fashioned from
the legs of women’s slacks,
slipped Mrs. Dinkier’s SIIO,OOO
diamond ring off her finger.
Det. Capt. C. O. Huttoe said
the two bandits operated with
an air of elan similar to that of
the three gunmen who recently
held up the Willis Du Pont
family and made off with their
$1.5 million Russian coin
collection.
The amount of the robbery In
Dinkler’s sprawling apartment
was first estimated at over
SIOO,OOO, but was revised
sharply upward after Dinkier
checked on the missing jewels.
Huttoe said there were reports
that only the SIIO,OOO ring was
insured.
Mrs. Dinkier had taken the
pear-shaped, 22-carat gem from
a bank vault Thursday to wear
to a charity ball Thursday
night. The bandits were waiting
in their apartment, which
covers half of the top floor of
the block-long Palm Bay Club,
when they returned at 3 a.m.
Dinkier told officer that his
wife was in the kitchen when
the bandits, brandishing pistols
with silencers, sprang out at
him and announced "this is a
holdup.”
“We’re being held up, honey,”
the 48-year-old Dinkier said
to his wife.
Dinkler’s wife, Connie, told
police the bandits were firm but
spoke "very nice.” They
dumped her and her husband on
twin beds and bound their hands
with tape.
Then they ransacked the
apartment, ripping mattresses,
overturning furniture and pull
ing pictures off the walls.
Taped Mouth Shut
Before they left, Dinkier said,
one of the bandits taped Mrs.
Dinkler’s mouth shut, slipped
the ring off her finger and
kissed her lightly on the cheek,
saying “when we leave, you can
turn over and use the phone.”
Mrs. Dinkier said she had to
struggle for nearly an hour to
get the tape off her mouth and
use the bedside telephone.
Huttoe said the peculiar
masks worn by the black-gloved
bandits were similar to those
worn by the three men who
barged into the Du Pont
residence last month, tied up
Du Pont, his wife and their
servants, ate their pork roast
and twitted the millionaire for
not "working like other people
do.”
Panamanian finding that Keith
was really an American citizen
from Webb Ciyt, Mo., who has
been peddling wine and insecti
cides on Panama City streets
since 1941.
A one-day investigation by
Panamanian authorities pro
duced evidence that when
Mueller was engineering the
extermination of millions of
Jews, Keith was a "chauffeur,
helper and steam locomotive
operator” for the Panama
Canal Co., police said.
Suspicion centered on the
grizzled old man when cloak
and dagger investigators, be
lieved to be Israelis and
Belgians, convinced. West Ger
man authorities he was Mueller.
West Germany requested his
arrest and extradition.
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Workmen lay conduits for local service and toll cables.
More Telephone Lines
Being Installed Here
Southern Bell Telephone Co.
in Griffin has started a quar
ter million dollar project that
will provide additional local ser
vice to the North Expressway
and Vineyard road areas.
The project, expected to cost
approximately $246,00, also will
provide additional long distance
lines to Hampton and Senoia.
Work began this week on lay
ing conduits from the telephone
office at South Hill and Poplar
to West Solomon and 10th st
reets. The conduits will be laid
from the office west on Poplar
street and north on Poplar to
West Solomon.
The cables will be run above
the ground from that point.
Bomb Halt Won’t
Bring Peace: LB J
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Johnson said today
that peace would not come in
Vietnam simply by a halt in
American bombing of North
Vietnam since Hanoi has shown
no indication it would respond.
Johnson told a news confer
ence that in view of North
Vietnam’s unyielding position
the "hopes and dreams” cf
what he called "idealistic
people” seeking peace solutions
through a bombing pause only
serve to "mislead and confuse
and weaken our position.”
The President said Hanoi’s
leaders have not significantly
changed their position since Ho
Chi Minh laid out a hard line in
a letter to Johnson many
months ago.
Johnson said the Communist
leaders have given no hint that
if the United States stopped the
bombing, it would lead to
negotiations.
He cited both Ho’s letter last
February and his rejection last
weekend of Johnson’s appeal for
a conference “on a neutral ship
in a neutral sea” as examples
of the North Vietnamese
intransigence.
No Indication
Nor, Johnson said, have the
Communists given any indica
tion they would not use a
bombing pause to build up their
forces in South Vietnam.
As for his attitude towards
peace negotiations, Johnson said
W. F. Myers, manager of Sou
thern Bell in Griffin, said a 900-
pair cable will increase service
in the Vineyard road and North
Expressway. However, he said
the line could be tapped any
where from West Solomon and
10th streets for additional ser
vice.
The 900-palr cable, which has
1,800 wires, can provide service
for 900 private phones, 1,800 two
party phones and 3,600 four-par
ty lines.
A 100-palr cable will be r u n
from Griffin to Hampton and a
50-pair line from Griffin to Se
noia.
The increased number of lines
serving the North Expressway
he preferred that they should be
handled “through diplomatic
channels”—"through trained di
plomats” —rather than trying
to enter Into any bargaining
from a public forum.
While he stressed that the
United States was ready at any
time to meet with the Hanoi
leaders, he pointed out that
North Vietnam remains ada
mant against beginning talks
unless the United States ceases
its bombing of North Vietnam
unconditionally and forever.
Johnson said Hanoi would be
making “a serious misjudg
ment” if it thought it could
wait for anothr U.S. president
to come to office and then make
some deal with them.
This prompted a reporter to
ask whether Johnson plans to
run next year. The President
replied: “I will cross that
bridge when I come to it,” the
answer he has given to the
same question before.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Partly cloudy and
warmer tonight. Saturday part
ly cloudy and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 67, low today 39, high
Thursday 58, low Thursday 33;
sunrise Saturday 7:12, sunset
Saturday 5:38.
and Vineyard road areas is ex
pected to take care of anticipa
ted growth for several years.
A total of 1,234 phones have
been added to the Griffin ex
change in the last 22-months.
This number was increased
more than 6,000 since 1960. Grif
fin had 8,151 phones in 1955 and
3,146 in 1945. It now has 16,150.
This is the second largest pro
ject to be initiated by Southern
Bell in Griffin within a year. The
other was the metro-informa
tion center, which began opera
tion in the spring. It employee
nearly 100 operators.
The information center hand
les calls for Griffin, portions of
Atlanta and metro-Atlanta areas.
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Jaycettes
Want Names
Os Servicemen
The Jaycettes today asked for
the names and addresses of Grif
fin-Spalding men and women in
the service so they can mail
them Christmas cards.
The Jaycettes want to make
sure all of them get a season’s
greetings from their home town.
They asked the names and ad
dresses of the people in service
be mailed to Box 691, Griffin,
or brought to Easterwood Shoe
Store on East Solomon street.
The cards will be mailed Dec.
5 so the Jaycees asked that na
mes be submitted before then.
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“A committee doesn’t de
cide an issue, its members do
— people think, committee*
don’t.”