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By Quimby Melton
“Can There Be Peace On Ear
th?” is the title of this week’s
International Sunday School les
son.
Good Evening, a layman who
daily prays “God be merciful to
me a sinner” can answer this
question without the shadow of
doubt with a responding Yes!
Os course I do not know when
that great day will come, and
there is no one else who can do
so. It may be tomorrow, it may
be next month, or year, or cen
turies from now.
But with the Second Coming
Os Jesus Christ "The Lord shall
reign from henceforth, even for
ever.” Micah 4:7. And those over
whom He will reign will know
the "Peace that passeth all un
derstanding.” Philippians 4-7;
and “Peace I give unto you. Let
not your heart be troubled, nei
ther let it be afraid.” John 14:27.
In this day and time when pe
ace on earth seems almost im
possible, with selfishness and
greed, and hatred, and intol
era”.e seeming to be the pat
tern of many, those who believe
in the Lord and in His Blessed
Son Jesus Christ, can find gr
eat promise in what God and Je
sus Himself have promised to
those who “Love the Lord with
all their being and their neighbor
as themselves.”
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The background Scripture for
this lesson is Micah 4. The Me
mory selection is “He shall jud
ge among many people, and re
buke strong nations afar off;
and they shall beat their swords
into ploughshares, and their sp
ears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn
war any more.” (Micah 4:3.)
In both Micah 4 and 5 the pro
phet, whom we might call the
“Country Parson”, tells us of
the Messianic age. Some Bible
scholar has called this a “book
let of comfort”. It begins with a
description of universal peace.
It is interesting to note that we
find the same in Isaiah (2:2-4.)
Israel, in the days of Micah,
based its hope on the promises
of God, just as we today do,
and just as coming generations
will base their hope.
Micah and Isaiah and the oth
er true prophets were familiar
with the Hebrew word “shalom”,
which means “complete” peace,
not just an ending of wars. True
peace means more than just
that. It means moral purity, obe
dience to God’s will, absence of
fear and mistrust. It also means
a very close and meaningful re
lation with one’s God.
When that “Peace that passe
th all understanding” comes, one
will know that when God jud
ges, those who believe in Him
and His Blessed Son, will have
Jesus Christ representing them
before the throne of judgment.
And this layman is convinced
that Jesus Christ will be right
there, before the Throne as the
representative, the attorney, for
those who love Him, asking
God’s mercy, which is unlimit
ed. And Jesus Christ has never
yet lost a case and never will in
that court.
God Himself, the prophets of
old, and Jesus Christ have told
us plainly what we should do,
how we should live, “What God
Requires” of mankind was the
subject of a previous lesson.
Then why do we put off trying
to meet those "requirements?”
That is a question all of us
should honestly answer.
The greatest trouble with this
sinful world is that far too many
of us, who know God’s Com
mandments and the lessons tau
ght by Jesus Christ, want to "in
trepret” them to suit our own
selfish ideas.
“God’s in His Heavens” sang
the poet of old; and he adds,
“All’s right with the world”.
The last part of that poem —
"All’s right with the World” can
be true only when the world rea
lizes that a just God, a loving
God, a merciful and a patient
God, not only is in Heaven but
in the world itself, and try to re
turn His love “with all our be
ing.”
That word “patience" is, to
this layman, one of the greatest
attributes of God. He has been
patient with the world and with
this layman always.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
mild tonight and Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 65, minimum today
55, maximum Thursday 69, mini
mum Thursday 52. Total rainfall
.06 of an inch. Sunrise Saturday
7:30 am., sunset Saturday 5:34
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She’s Queen
Miss Hedy White of Griffin was crowned Home
coming Queen of Middle Georgia College, Cochran.
As a freshman last year, she was maid of honor and
was elected Queen this year by the student body.
Linn Yeager of Ellenwood was her escort. Miss White
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. White, 1121
George Circle, Griffin.
Hoard Death Trial
Ready For Dec. 15
WINDER, Ga. (UPI) — Sol.
Gen. G. Wesley Channell said
today court proceedings against
four men indicted for the mur
der of Sol. Gen. Floyd Hoard
will begin Dec. 15, even if the
fifth man accused in the case
is not captured before that
Hearn Favors
Guard Call-Up
MACON, Ga. (UPl)—The di
rectors of Georgia’s National
Guard says that specialized
units of the guard should be
called up to fight in Vietnam.
Maj. Gen. George J. Hearn
said Thursday that while he
does not favor calling up the
Georgia guard or units from
any particular state, certain
specially trained units should
be activated for duty.
“Maybe a lot of people would
not appreciate this,” Hearn
said in a radio interview, “but
I think they should have called
in the National Guard a long
time ago.”
Giv. Lester Maddox reacted
sharply to the adjutant gen
eral’s statement.
“We need Gur national Nuard
at home,” Maddox declared.
Hearn said he favors the call
up because it would provide a
way to get more troops to Viet
nam faster than by drafting
men and having to train them.
Sen. Hill Implicated
In SSOO Parole Check
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith has called for
immediate enactment of a Sen
ate ethics code, following dis
closure that Sen. J. Render
Hill received SSOO for helping a
prisoner get a parole.
Smith said that while Hill’s
action was not a violation of
law, he would submit a report
on the matter to the Senate
when it convened.
He called for an immediate
ethics code for the upper cham
ber and said, “I think one will
be enacted next session.”
A special Senate investigating
committee Thursday wound up
hearings on the controversial
payment, announcing that all
parties involved, including Hill
and the prison warden, had
acknowledged the transaction.
In a report, the committee
said Hill explained the check
was merely a token of appre
ciation for help in getting a pa
role for convicted auto thief
Bobby Leonard Black.
“I accepted it in that spirit,
endorsed it and deposited it,”
Hill's statement said. “I then
forgot about the matter.”
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Fr
time.
Channell said he expects at
torneys for the four men to ask
for separate trials, the first to
start Dec. 18, and that George
Iras Worley, 40, subject of a
federal warrant for unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution,
could not be tried until he was
found.
The warrant was issued
Thursday in an effort to locate
Worley, indicted with the four
others Monday by a Jackson
County grand jury for the dy
namite assassination of Hoard
on Aug. 7.
The FBI said Channell had
submitted evidence that Worley
had placed out-of-state calls to
his wife, to justify federal in
volvement in the search.
The four other men indicted
in the murder charge are now
in custody. Named in the in
dictment were Lloyd George
Seay, 23, of Dawsonville; J. H.
Blackwell, 24, of Marble Hill;
George Douglas Pinion 40, of
Jefferson; and A. C. (Cliff)
Parks, 76, of Pendergrass.
One of Park’s attorneys, Wes
ley Asinoff of Atlanta, today
charged that Georgia Bureau of
Investigation agents had preju
diced Jackson County residents
against his client.
“From my investigation so
far, I have discovered mem
bers of the GBI have been wag
ing a campaign to inflame feel
ing in the county against Cliff
Park,” Asinoff said.
Black, 24, was paroled Dec.
12, 1966, after serving about
four years of 13 to 15 years in
sentences. The release was six
months after the check to Hill
was drawn, the report stated.
But a dispute remained over
the intent of the payment.
Warden Maynard Keith of the
Mer iwet h e r State Prison
Branch, who forwarded the
payment to Hill, said the check
represented a campaign con-
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INSIDE
Hosp’tal. Page 2.
Scout Awards. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
About Town. Page 2.
Georgia News. Page 2.
Sports. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Commentary. Page 5.
Election Reform. Page 5.
Splinter Demos. Page 5.
Woman’s Page. Page 6.
Comics. Page 7.
Want Ads. Pages 10, 11.
Social Security. Page 12.
Dalton Explosion. Page 12.
Cat Charms
Quail Covey
Griffin automobile salesman
Tom Jester has found away to
have a bird supper without
firing a single shot.
On his way home to lunch
Thursday, he spotted 11 quail
in the road and stopped his car.
He got out and picked one of the
quail up.
A cat was sitting on a bank a
short distance from the quail.
He said the cat apparently had
the birds “charmed”.
A truck passed and the other
10 birds got away. Jester said
he might have been able to pick
up more of the birds if the cat
had not run when the truck pass
ed.
Jester picked up the bird on the
Henry Jackson road between El
lis road and Mclntosh road.
He released the bird on his
way home from work Thursday
afternoon.
Strike Closes
GM Plant At
Doraville
DORAVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
The General Motors assembly
plant here was shut down to
day as 3,200 production work
ers struck over 200 work stand
ards grievances and 200 disci
pline complaints.
Officials of United Auto Work
ers Local 10 said they expected
the pickets to continue all day,
and that local personnel man
agement had not met with the
strikers to settle the dispute.
A union spokesman said there
were 200 grievances about over
loaded jobs in three months,
which the management alleged
ly had failed to correct. Also
to be settled were 200 com
plaints of disciplinary actions
for persons discharged and ac
cused of violating shop rules.
General Motors management
had charged careless workman
ship.
Company officials said they
expected the strike to continue
during the second shift this af
ternoon.
tribution.
But, Black denied it was ei
ther a contribution or a bribe
to get a parole. He refused to
explain its purpose.
The controversy erupted
when State Parole and Parole
Board member J. O. Partian
Jr. revealed that he had been
told by a prisoner that a mem
ber of the legislature who was
not a lawyer had received the
SSOO payment for aiding in a
parole.
In a statement today, Partain
insisted again he had never in
sinuated that Hill had broken
any law and said such a code
of ethics as suggested by Smith
should result in “much good for
the state, of a permanent na
ture. . .”
A prisoner at the camp, Wil
laim Ray West Jr., also in a
statement, informed the com
mittee Hill was the lawmaker
and said the money was to
“guarantee him (Black) a pa
role by Christmas of this past
year.”
The committee made no rec
ommendations and the lieuten
ant governor said he would sub
mit the report to the Senate
without recommendations.
iday, December 8, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 289
Wilson Plans
‘Peace Trip’
Will Visit
Moscow Early
Next Year
By K.C. THALER
LONDON (UPI) — British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
is planning a visit to Moscow
early in the new year in a new
Vietnam peace bid, political
sources said today.
The Moscow trip is to follow
Wilson’s talks with President
Johnson in Washington, proba
bly late in January and early
February, the sources said.
The visit will be in return for
Soviet Premier Alexei N.
Kosygin’s visit to London last
February when the Vietnam
peace issue dominated their
talks.
What Wilson could achieve
toward a Vietnam settlement in
view of Hanoi’s reported firm
refusal to negotiate remains
doubtful.
But Britain and the Soviet
Union co - chair the Geneva
Conference which in 1954 settled
the Indochina war. They remain
in principle responsible for the
execution of the settlement.
No firm date has been fixed
for Wilson’s Moscow trip. The
two governments were reported
talking about a suitable time.
The Wilson-Johnson meeting
has yet to be formally fixed.
Officials said it will be one of
the regular annual or biannual
“little summit” meetings which
the two leaders have been
holding for the past few years.
This meeting will deal largely
with the so-called special Anglo-
American relationship, consi
dered here to have virtually
ended. Britain now seeks an
alignment with Europe, almost
at any cost, despite French
President Charles de Gaulle’s
attempts to block it. The
meeting also will deal with
wider economic problems.
Last February Wilson and
Kosygin spent more than a
week during their London talks
in an effort to get Vietnam
negotiations going on the basis
of an American bombing pause.
The deal failed. Hanoi refused
to make a reciprocal offer for
halting its infiltration of the
South if the Ameriaans quit
bombing of the North.
Students
Swap Smoke
For Candy
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — So
far, 50 students at Savannah’s
Groves High School have quit
smoking in an experiment they
find hard to resist.
The idea, according to the
school’s student government
which instituted the experiment,
is to give the students some
thing for quitting. That some
thing is candy.
“We’re exchanging two Cs for
one C,” explained student coun
cil president Billy Tyre.
Tyre said the two Cs were
cigarettes and the danger of
cancer and the one C was can
dy.
Soldier Killed
In Collision
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) — A
19 - year -old Ft. Stewart pri
vate was killed and four of his
companions seriously injured in
the collision of their car with
a truck near here Wednesday
night. ,
The victim was identified as
James M. McCann of Wichita
Falls, Tex.
Toccoa Mayor
Is Reelected
TOCCOA, Ga. (UPl)—Mayor
commissioner Neil Pruitt won
re - election Thursday by de
feating Dave Bell, who former
ly held the job, by an unoffi
cial vote count of 755 to 350.
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Commended
(NEA Telephoto)
OUT OF JAIL after a two-day stretch, Arkansas
State Police Director Lynn A. Davis is congratulated
by Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller. Locked up after re
fusing to tell a grand jury his sources of information
on gambling activities, Davis was ordered freed by
the state supreme court.
Fulbright
Viet War
By WILLIAM THEIS
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Sen.
J. William Fulbright opened a
new attack today on President
Johnson’s Vietnam policies,
charging that it is “an immoral
and unnecessary war” in which
the only thing America is
proving is its willingness and
ability to kill people.
Fulbright, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, said even if the war is
won, this country could not take
pride or satisfaction in the
outcome because it could have
been avoided.
“We still would have passed
up opportunities which . .
would have spared us and the
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100 Years Old
Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Memorial drive will observe its 100th anniversary
next week. The exact date of its charter and organization are not known, accord
ing to the Rev. O. H. Stinson, pastor. But the church has followed the custom of
observing the church’s anniversary at this time each year. A series of special ser
vices has been planned. The present church building was constructed in 1929 after
a fire destroyed the one on West Solomon street near the rail grade crossing in
1927.
Says
Immoral
Vietnamese the present ordeal,”
the Arkansas Democrat told the
Senate in a speech prepared for
firing up new war debate.
Taking issue with Fulbright
on the morality of the war was
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn.,
one of the Senate’s war
“hawks.” With advance notice
that Fulbright planned to speak,
Dodd said in his prepared text
that critics like Fulbright fail to
say where they would draw the
line against Communist expan
sion.
Insisting the United States is
committed to a “moral cause,”
Dodd pleaded: “Let us not seek
an easy way out, because there
is no easy way out.”
Maddox Raps
Attempt To
Take Authority
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Lest
er Maddox warned today the
legislature was attempting to
take more power from the gov
elnor’s office than it should.
“There is some authority that
has to stay in the governor’s
hands,” said Maddox, comment
ing on a committee report
recommending the Senate be re
quired to confirm his Interim
appointments to the state’s two
high courts and constitutional
offices.
“The position they’re getting
the executive department in,
and have been for some while,
is crippling the effectiveness of
good sound government,” Mad
dox said. “If we are to have
sound, orderly government, the
governor has to have the au
thority to go with the respon
sibility.”
It was Maddox’s first public
statement against a rising tide
of legislative independence that
started last year before he was
elected.
Tne legislature named its own
speaker this year and has
shown a stubborn resistance to
many programs the governor
has indicated he wanted.
Country Parson
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“If we cared much for our
grandchildren, we wouldn’t
be doing so many things for
which they will have to
pay.”