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By Quimby Melton
Sunday is New Year’s Eve and
the International Sunday School
lesson is "Man’s Response to
God’s Call.” Background Scrip
ure is from the last Chapter in
the Old Testament — Malachi 3.
The Memory Selection is “Br
' Ing ye all the tithes into the st
orehouse, that there may be food
in my house, and prove me now
herewith, saith the Lord of
[hosts, if I will not open you
the the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing, that
there shall not be room enough
to receive it.” (Malachi 3:10.)
Charles M. Laymon, one of our
favorite commentators on the
Sunday School lessons, says the
purpose of this year-end lesson
. is to help one evaluate their ste
wardship in the light of God’s
gift of redeeming love in Christ.
Every living person, whether
« they profess belief in God, or in
ignorance even deny God, is a
steward, for God has given to
each at his birth the spark of
, life, which only God can give,
And that God-given spark exists
right to the end of life.
Good Evening, a layman and
certainly not a learned theolo
* gan, has long believed that this
spark of life is in itself a little
bit of God Himself that is even
present. We believe that one’s
• soul is that part of God Almigh
ty and as one lives it can either
grow stronger in faith and trust
and love for God, or may be so
• corroded by sin, and selfishness,
and hatred and stiffnecked re
fusal to accept the blessings of
God, that no one but God Him
, self realizes that it still lives,
and that by truly accepting Je
sus Christ as one’s personal Sa
vior, that spark of God can be
freed from the evil that has sou
* ght to snuf it out. A combination
of faith and service, of believing
and repenting; which is a total
response to God’s redeeming
' love, will strengthen one spiri
tually and bring at the end of
life a reward that passeth the
understanding of man.
•
Recently Good Evening saw
for the first time a little book,
*> about the size of the small book
containing stamps that one can
buy at the post office. This is
called ‘Spiritual Vitamins” and
, contains a short quotation from
the Holy Bible.
Directions are, “Take one a
day, preferable before breakfast,
mixed well with faith. The first
* Vitamin is from Mark 11:24,
“Therefore I say unto you, What
things soever you desire’, when
you pray, believing that ye re
* ceive them, and ye shall have
them. For with God nothing shall
be impossible,” Luke 1:37.
“For with God nothing shall
« be impossible," nothing, even
redemption for the vilest sinner
on earth.
For, in another of these “Spiri
• tual Vitamins”, we read that be
loved verse "For God so loved
the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever
e believeth in Him should not per
ish, but have everlasting life.”
:John 3:16.)
When one’s doctor, in whom
one has faith, prescribes vita
” mins to build up one’s physical
strength, one follows the doc
tor’s instructions. Then why
should not we — all of us —fol
• low the prescription written by
The Great Physician and streng
then our Spiritual being?
This chapter from Malachi is
well worth reading and studying
There are many verses in it of
, hope and promise, but there is
one sentence in the 7th verse
of this chapter that says that in
spite of the fact that “Even from
4 the days of your fathers ye
have gone away from my ordi
nances, and have not kept them,
Return unto me, and I will re
turn unto you, saith the Lord of
■ hosts.”
God stands willing and is anx
ious to redeem His people.
It’s up to each of us to Return
• to Him; Return in faith and love,
repenting and asking His for
giveness.
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Stork Club. Page 3.
• Funerals. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television, Page 4.
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Comics. Page 7.
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Woman’s Page. Page 10.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Construction has begun on two of the building projects in the Griffin-Spalding
School System. A new cafeteria is being built at West Griffin School (below)
and a new library is being built at Griffin High (above). Other projects on the
drawing boards call for the construction of a new elementary school on Jackson
road and another on the Spalding Junior High Campus. The footing has been
poured and construction started on the West Griffin building. The footing and pre
liminary work is being done on the Griffin High project.
Auto Workers
Get Wage Hike
In New GM Plant
DETROIT (UPD—Members
of the United Auto Workers
Union ratified a new contract
with , General Motors Corp,
today that will boost the annual
pay of the average auto worker
by $1,700 by the end of 1970.
With ballots counted from all
but one of the UAW’s 168
bargaining units at GM, the
UAW declared the past ratified
and effective Jan. 1.
Negotiators agreed on the
settlement Dec. 15.
Production workers approved
the contract by a 5-1 margin,
and skilled trades workers by a
7-2 margin, UAW Vice Pres
ident Leonard Woodcock said.
Skilled trades workers had veto
power this year for the first
time.
Ratification ended a four
month period during which
about 380,000 UAW members
worked without a contract with
the No. 1 automaker. It all but
completed the current round of
auto industry negotiations that
won’t recur until 1970.
UAW members of the Ford
Motors Co. and Chrysler Corp,
ratified similar contracts this
fall. Only American Motors
Corp., the smallest of the
automakers, still was negotiat
ing with the union.
HHH Leaves For
Goodwill Trip
To Africa
By WILLIAM THEIS
ENROUTE WITH HUM
PHREY (UPD—Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey left
Washington today on a nine
country African goodwill trip to
show America’s commitment to
“peaceful development and
human opportunity.”
First stop on the whirlwind
12-day tour Is the Ivory Coast,
one of the most pro-Western
African nations. The second is
Liberia, where the Vice Pres
ident and Mrs. Humphrey will
head a delegation attending the
sixth Inaugural Jan. 1 of
President William V.S. Tubman,
a staunch American friend.
Supreme Court Justice Thur
good Marshall and Edgar
Boneman, New York business
man, accompanied the Hum
phreys as members of the
Tubman delegation.
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Interview
Cambodia
WASHINGTON (UPD—U.S.
officials today were studying
unexpected word that Cambodia
would not intervene in certain
circumstances if U.S. forces
cross its border in pursuit of
Vietnamese Communists. It was
a diplomatic development that
could ease the growing dispute
over denying the enemy sanc
tuary.
As late as Thursday Cambo
dia’s position had been that any
crossing of its border by
American forces would be met
with armed resistance accompa
nied by a call for material help
and manpower if necessary
from Red China, the Soviet
Union and other nations.
But in a copyrighted cable
interview in today’s Washington
Post, Chief of State Norodom
Sihanouk modified that stand.
No Military Obstruction
He said his position now was
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Problem
that Cambodia would not
intervene militarily if American
forces entered the country to
fight Vietnamese Communists
illegally present in “outlying
and uninhabited regions.”
Protests would be lodged with
both sides in that case, he said,
but military force would not be
resorted to unless incurlons or
bombings took place in inhabit
ed areas of the country.
If military intervention had to
be initiated, Sihanouk said,
Cambodia would at the same
time take its case to the U.N.
Security Council.
Sihanouk opened another un
expected avenue to better
relations with the United States
in the interview by saying he
would welcome an envoy from
President Johnson to discuss
the rising controversy over use
of Cambodia as a sanctuary by
North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong forces.
Jurisdiction Motion
Filed In Hearing On
Sunday Closings Here
Efforts To Reach
Agreement Fail
By ROGER DIX
A hearing on a request for a
temporary injunction restrain
ing 28 Griffin businesses from
doing business on Sunday was
moving along smoothly this
morning until the question of
jurisdiction arose concerning
three of the defendants.
The hearing on the tempor
ary injunction was recessed
this afternoon and will be
continued Jan. 19.
Judge McGehee reserved a
ruling until it is determined
whether or not to continue
with the proceedings or let
them go to City Recorder’s
Court.
If the proceedings are ac
cepted by the Recorder’s
Court, they will only apply to
those businesses Inside the
city limits.
Judge John H. McGehee tried
unsuccessfully to work out an
agreement whereby the stores
could remain open while an ap
peal in the case was pending.
Several store owners agreed
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly fair and cold
tonight. Saturday increasing
cloudiness and cool with chance
of rain beginning in afternoon.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 47, low today 32, high
Thursday 44, low Thursday 39,
sunrise Saturday 7:42, sunset
Saturday 5:43.
Country Parson
4 ‘Science won its race with
religion by showing us how
to destroy ourselves before
religion could train us not
to.”
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to such a proposal.
However, an attorney for one
of the defendants did not agree
and filed a motion on jurisdic
tion.
The jurisdiction motion eras
ed the efforts to work out an
agreement.
Judge McGehee explained
that the suits must be brought
in the county where the corpo
ration’s charter fixed its prin
cipal place of business.
Judge McGehee said charters
apparently fixed the principal
places of business of three of
the defendants outside Spald
ing County.
He said he would not make a
ruling until he saw the charters.
However, he said that if t h e
charters showed the defen
dants’ principal place of busi
ness was in another county that
Spalding County Superior Court
would not have jurisdiction.
A temporary injunction rest
raining the 28 establishments
from doing business on Sunday
had been requested. Sol. Gen.
Andrew Whalen, Jr., asked for
the hearing today after affida
vits against the 28 firms were
submitted to him.
An attorney for local movie
theaters asked that part of the
original petition be dismissed
because the theaters were ope
rating with permission from the
City of Griffin.
The court was told that thea
ters were granted permission
to operate on Sunday many
years ago, provided permission
was given by the governing
body of a city.
The attorney had a certified
copy of the document granting
theaters permission to operate
on Sunday in Griffin.
Georgia Files
For Appeal In
‘General’ Case
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UPI)
—The state of Georgia said
Thursday it will appeal a U.S.
district court ruling which dis
missed its suit to regain pos
session of the Civil War loco
motive “The General.”
Georgia Atty. Gen. Arthur K.
Bolton filed notice of his inten
tion to appeal with the clerk
of the court here.
Judge Frank Wilson ruled
Nov. 30 he was without juris
diction in Georgia’s suit to get
the famed locomotive back
from the city of Chattanooga,
which seized it in a Sept. 12
raid.
Wilson dismissed the suit and
told Georgia officials they must
join an attachment suit filed by
the city of Chattanooga against
the L&N Railroad if they want
ed to fight for the engine in
federal court.
Hayes Blaines
Short For
Loss Os Job
ATLANTA (UPI) — Thomas
Hayes, fired Thursday as pub
lic information assistant to the
state welfare director, says
he’s going to appeal the dis
missal to the State Merit
Board.
Hayes charged Thursday, he
was fired because of an inci
dent with the governor’s press
secretary.
His former boss, however,
Welfare Director William H.
Burson, refused to comment on
the dismissal except to say it
was “in the best interest of the
state.”
Hayes charged that the gov
ernor’s press secretary, Bob
Short had ordered Burson to
fire him because he had re
peated a rumor about Short’s
possible political ambitions.
“If he wants me to call him
a liar, I’ll call him a liar,”
Short replied, angrily denounc
ing the allegation.
Marines ]
Shot In ]
By THOMAS CHEATHAM
SAIGON (UPI)—A U.S. Ma
rine battalion braving daylong
sniper fire swept today through
a Vietnamese cemetery below
Da Nang and found the bodies
of 11 of their comrades, shot in
the head one by one where they
fell in Thursday’s helicopter
assault.
A Marine spokesman said the
Marines all had been killed
before the Viet Cong adminis
tered the coup de grace.
The Marines reported they
killed 31 Viet Cong in the
Thursday assault that almost
ended in disaster for the
Leathernecks. That ran to 770
the number of Communists U.S.
military spokesmen have re
ported killed in four days of
fighting since the Christmas
truce ended monday.
There were no accurate
reports of American and South
Vietnamese losses in the four
days of fighting through Thurs
day but their losses were
thought to be comparatively
light. The battle for An Hoa, 25
miles southwest of Da Nang,
cost the lives of 17 Marines;
another 26 were wounded.
In the air war, American
fighter-bombers flew with in
struments through driving rains
to bomb a North Vietnamese
MIG jet base near Hanoi and a
key bridge on the fringes of the
port city of Haiphong.
The allied ground forces ran
into fierce resistance from
entrenched Communists when
they launched three helicopter
assaults along the coast—U.S.
Marines landing at An Hoa,
about 25 miles south of Da
Nang; South Vietnamese slam
ming into an area near Duy
Xuyen just to the south; and
American Infantrymen dropping,
down about 20 miles farther
south near Tam Ky.
In the fighting, some of which
lasted all day, at least 64
Communists were killed. The
death toll was expected to rise,
officials said.
Viet Cong forces dug into a
Vietnamese graveyard near An
Hoa were waiting when giant
helicopters swirled in with
American Marines called in to
set up a blocking force for
South Vietnamese troops to the
south.
The Viet Cong opened fire
with automatic weapons, gre
nade launches and mortars even
before the Leathernecks could
get out of the helicopters and
dash for cover.
At least 15 Marines were
reported killed, seven of them
in the first five minutes,
according to UPI correspondent
Thomas Corpora.
The Marines, however, pushed
grimly into the face of the
Communist fire and finally
routed the Viet Cong from their
spider holes, bunkers and other
entrenchments in the cemetery.
Maddox Keeps Up
Holiday ‘Watch’
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Lest
er Maddox, fuming over holi
day absenteeism of state em
ployes, is ‘‘watching and ob
serving to see if people aren’t
on the job” today as the long
New Year’s weekend begins.
Maddox let it be known that
he would be watching how state
workers heed his Thursday
memorandum to stop leaving
work early or else ‘‘no longer
expect fulltime paychecks.”
At least one steno wasn’t im
pressed with the stern warning.
‘‘l think the same thing about
it that I think about everything
he does—nothing.”
“. . . . his highness,” de
clared another secretary, com
plaining that her department
had to work on the “dullest
days of the year,” the Friday
and Tuesday surrounding Christ
mas weekend, while other state
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e STOCKHOLM (UPI) — Four
j young American sailors who
._ deserted ship in Japan to
protest the Vietnam war
arrived today from Moscow
y seeking political asylum. They
e said they had $4,000 and wanted
:t to start a newspaper to continue
e their denunciation of the war.
0 The money was given them by
j. a Soviet peace organization,
>. they said.
if A Swedish spokesman said the
s sailors would probably be given
temporary residence permits
valid only for a few days while
e authorities make a decision on
11 their asylum request.
r “The police chief can, of
!• course, put the Americans on a
e plane back to Moscow without
y ceremonies, but this is very
5 unlikely,” the spokesman said.
He said their only papers
i; were "passports” issued by the
Soviet Red Cross.
Sporting goatees and wearing
n Russian-made winter coats,
'* Richard Bailey, 19, of Jackson
-3 ville, Fla., John Barilla, 20, of
e Catonsville, Md., Michael Lind
ft
ener, 19, of Mt. Pocono, Pa., and
Craig Anderson 20, of San Jose,
Calif., talked briefly with
n newsmen after their Scandana
n vian Airlines System (SAS)
n flight.
r “We hope to get permanent
;. visas in Sweden,” they said.
i, They said they were looking
a forward to getting jobs here and
i- eventually planned to start a
y newspaper.
d “We will go on protesting
g against the war in Vietnam,”
r they said. “We regard it as z a
most immoral engagement.”
The four were taken in two
11 police cars to a police station
4 where they will be detailed until
e they are granted by the
! > government provisional, or per
manent residence permits, or
a refused permits, in which case
n they would be returned to
it Moscow.
h Tlie four deserted the U.S.
o aircraft carrier Intrepid in
r Japan. They said repeatedly in a
e pacifist film and in Soviet
newspapers and television inter
e views that they deserted
because of their opposition to
n the Vietnam war.
d Commission Decides Fate
d Whether they will be allowed
to remain in Sweden is up to
e the Swedish Aliens Commission,
n which was expected to decide
5, later today.
it The flight to Stockholm
capped an odyssey that began
d with a trip in civilian clothes to
e Tokyo where the pacifist film
y was made and a secret journey
r to Moscow for a series of
r television and newspaper inter
’. views.
• workers got the days off.
• ‘‘l was barraged with requests
■ for leaves around New Year’s
• Including my own,” noted a top
. departmental administrative as
; sistant.
“I think half the people tore
; them (Maddox’s memos) up be
fore they read halfway through
’ them,” remarked another high
ranking assistant.
Maddox did not indicate he
would make a personal check
• of various departments in sev
eral buildings surrounding the
. state capitol.
But he declared, ‘‘We must
end part - time service to the
taxpayers of Georgia, or else
no longer expect full-time pay
checks.” He said quitting early
i and returning late on holiday
weekends was “a fairly com
mon practice” he planned to
stop.