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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
“Man’s Weakness and Christ’s
Power” is the subject of this
week’s International Sunday Sc
hool lesson. Background Scrip
ture is John 4:45 through 5:47.
The Memory Selection is “The
works which the Father hath
given me to finish, the same
works that I do, bear witness of
me, that the Father hath sent
me.” (John 5:36.)
This lesson tells first the story
of “a certain nobleman” who
when he heard that Jesus was
In Cana, came to Him and be
saught Him to come to his hou
se and heal his son, who was at
the point of death. Jesus told him
his son would live, saying “Go
thy way, thy son liveth.” The
man believed Jesus and started
home. On the way he was met
by a servant who told him, “Thy
son liveth”. The nobleman ask
ed at what hour the son began
to "mend”, and was told “at
the seventh hour.” The father
knew it was at this hour Jesus
had said “Thy son liveth.”
The end of this story says “He
(the nobleman) and his whole
family believe.” This nobleman
was a Roman officer. He had
faith tn Jesus at first, then this
faith was confirmed when he got
home and found his son was out
of danger.
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Our lesson tells of Jesus’
going to Jerusalem for a feast
of the Jews. As he went towards
the temple he passed by a pool
where many crippled, blind and
halt people were assembled. Am
ong the crowd was a man who
had been impotent (lacking all
strength) for 38 years. It was
known that at certain times an
angel went down to the pool and
the water became agitated; the
first person who got into the wa
ter was healed.
Jesus, looking with compas
sion on the helpless man, asked
If he would be healed. The man
sadly told how he had been
taken, or crawled, to the pool
day after day and year after
year, but to no avail; for when
the waters were disturbed some
one, helped by a friend, got to
the pool first and the healing for
that day was over.
This man had no friend to put
him Into the waters, and no dou
bt was disconsolate. But Jesus
proved to be a true friend and
told him “Rise, take up thy bed
and walk” and “immediately the
man was made whole.”
This miracle was performed
on the Sabbath, and church lea
ders who met the man as he
walked erect and had the streng
th to carry his bed, asked him
If he did not know he was break
ing the law, carrying a burden,
on Sunday. Now though the chur
ch leaders who condemned him
surely knew who it was that had
performed this miracle of heal
ing, asked him whom it was.
And he answered he did not
know. He did not know for after
performing the miracle Jesus
walked away.
Later Jesus met him in the
temple and the man recognized
Him. Jesus told him that while
he had been healed that he shou
ld avoid sin or something worse
might happen to him.
The man then and there be
came a believer In Jesus Christ
and did not hesitate to tell the
Jews that it was Jesus who had
healed him.
This Incident ends with the
statement that the Jews increas
ed their attempts to persecute
Jesus and even sought to kill
him, saying that He not only had
broken the Sabbath but that He
said God was His Father.
They admitted that He had
performed a great miracle no
one else could perform; they ad
mitted that He was an unusual
person and went so far as to
say He was a prophet. But they
refused to admit that Jesus
Christ was the long-promised
Messiah and The Beloved Son
of God Almighty.
There are some today, who,
like those temple leaders, will
admit that Jesus came to earth
and that he was a great teacher,
a great physician, — but they
will not submit that Jesus was
what He said He was The
Son of God.
One cannot compromise in
their opinion of Jesus Christ. Ei
ther He is a member of the Trin
ity, either He is the Son of God,
either He Is God Himself, who
came to earth in the form of
man, or He was the greatest
fake in all history; and His pro
mises to those who believe were
a cruel hoax.
Thank God, Jesus Christ is,
was and always will be the Bles
sed Savior who by his death on
the cruel cross brought salvation
to all who believe.
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King Os Ball
Carl Richardson, president of Rushton Cotton Mill, has been named king of the
Auxiliary Ball to be held Feb. 23 at the Elks Club. The queen will not be an*
nounced until the night of the ball. The theme of the ball this year will be “The
Regency Ball”. Mrs. Morris Goldstein (1 ), chairman of the ball, and Mrs. Homer
Grissom, publicity chairman, show Richardson the crown he will wear at the ball.
Pardon , Parole Appointee
Dyer Denies He Helped
Get State Bid For Firm
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — Pardon
and Parole Board appointee
William R. Dyer says there
was no wrongdoing in his em
ployment to help a computer
firm dealing with the state to
avoid “bottlenecks that were
making it difficult for them to
secure bids.”
“There seems to be some
misunderstanding about my re
lationship with Honeywell,
Inc. the Moultrie chiropractor
and novelty manufacturer said
Thursday night in response to
reports of growing opposition in
the Senate against confirmation
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This picture of Kenerly was
lifted from his wedding pic
ture made last fall.
Gene Kenerly
Killed In
Viet Fighting
Gene Kenerly, about 19, of Gr
iffin was killed in Vietnam fight
ing this week.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Kenerly, 58 Bleach
ery street in Experiment.
The Griffin GI was serving in
the Military Police and was kill
ed by mortar fire at 4:10 a.m.
Jan. 31.
The death message was deli
vered by Sgt. William A. Con
nally who is assigned as an Ar
my advisor to the National
Guard Unit in Griffin. The Army
asked him to personally notify
the family.
Other details of the death
were not known at this time.
Kenerly graduated from Grif
fin High School last spring and
trained at Ft. Benning. He was
married last fall to Glenda
Wheeless of Thomaston in a
ceremony performed by the
Rev. A. C. Stephens, pastor of
DeVotie Baptist Church.
The ceremony was performed
15 days before the Griffin soldier
left for Vietnam, the Rev. Step
hens recalled.
In addition to his parents, sur
vivors include two brothers,
Tommy Kenerly of Warner Ro
bins, and Charles Kenerly, stu
dent at Spalding Junior High;
and a sister, Janice Kenerly, Gr
iffin High student.
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DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1072
of his appointment.
Several Influential senators
said privately serious doubts
were raised as to Dyer’s quali
fications and connections with
Honeywell, which won a $575,-
280 contract with the Depart
ment of Public Safety last
August. Dyer was a consultant
for the firm from June X to
Dec. 1, 1967.
Gov. Lester Maddox defend
ed Dyer, who he appointed
Wednesday shortly after ac
cepting the resignation of J.W.
Claxton from the troubled
board, as an “honorable, hon
est, clean, capable person.”
Maddox said Dyer’s connection
with Honeywell was unknown
to Maddox “until one hour and
10 minutes before I swore him
in.”
Maddox said he personally
intervened in the bidding of
the Public Safety contract when
he learned another firm was
about to be selected although it
had not offered the low bid.
“I discussed it with the Pur
chasing Department and the
Public Safety Department,"
said the governor. “The de
cision was made that the low
bid should be taken” and thus
People Misled About
Cong Strength: Percy
By STEVEN GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Sen.
Charles H. Percy charged today
that the Johnson administration
has deliberately misled the
American people about the
“great strength” of the Viet
Cong.
The Illinois Republican joined
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield in calling on Pres
ident Johnson to "reassess the
whole picture" of U.S. involve
ment in Vietnam.
Percy said the current
Communist offensive against
Saigon and other key South
Vietnamese cities was dramatic
evidence that “what we have
been told about the strength of
the enemy—their weakening
position—is simply not true.
“I think it was a matter of
government policy not to tell
the American people what was
going on,” Percy said. “I think
they (the Viet Cong) have won
a tremendous psychological
victory.”
Percy said the attacks should
“impress on the American
people that they really haven’t
been told the full story” about
the strength of the Viet Cong.
“The fact that they could
mount as many attacks as they
have demonstrates the great
strength that they have," he
said.
“They’ve demonstrated they
have strength not only through
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, February 2, 1968
Honeywell won the $16,000 a
month contract to rent the de
partment a computer system.
Romney Says It’s Time
LBJ Gave Straight
Answers On Pueblo
By FRANK RYAN
OSHKOSH, Wis. (UPl)—Re
publican presidential candidate
George Romney Tuesday night
said it was about time the
Johnson administration gave the
American people "some straight
answers on the Pueblo incident.”
The Michigan governor, who
is on a barnstorming two-day
tour of Wisconsin, criticized the
administration for not making
“adequate information” availa
ble on the hijacking of the
American spy ship Pueblo last
week.
“I believe the administration
needs to give the American
people some straight answers
on the Pueblo incident,” Rom
out the countryside, but they
can attack at will even in areas
we consider secure,” Percy
said.
Percy said that when he
visited South Vietnam in
December, "it was certainly
apparent to me there was a
disparity between the official
briefings and the general tone
of optimism, and the briefings I
arranged on my own with other
officials and the workers out in
the field.
“I think the press is trying to
tell a very conscientious story
and trying to report accurate
ly," Percy said. “But they
constantly have to try to see
through and penetrate what the
real story is as opposed to
official figures.”
Mansfield told reporters that
on the basis of the Viet Cong
offensive this week, “we must
take a new look and a harder
look at the situation in
Vietnam.”
Asked if he agreed the
administration should re-eva
luate the situation, Percy said:
“I don’t think there is any
question about it.”
Mansfield said “A lot of
things are going to have to be
gone into,” including the Viet
Cong’s ability to carry out
coordinated nationwide raids in
South Vietnam despite the fact
allied commanders had advance
warning.
Cong Attacks Fail,
Allied Leaders Say
Viets, Marines
Fall Back At Hue
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPl)—Allied lead
ers said today the five-day-old
Viet Cong invasion of the cities
had failed, but the Communists
still held Saigon in a state of
siege and guerrillas holding the
heart of Hue beat back attacks
by Vietnamese and U.S. Ma
rines with heavy losses.
The Communists were paying
a fearful price as TJ.S. and
government forces struck in the
cities with divebombers and
tanks and rolled artillery into
Saigon to use against a V.C.
strongpoint near the home of
Gen. William C. Westmoreland.
Allied spokesmen said that in
the first four days of the battle
of the cities the Communists
lost 10,593 killed, 3,076 suspects
captured and 2,000 weapons
seized. They said 917 allied
troops were killed and 2,817
wounded—including 281 Ameri
can dead and 1,195 wounded.
Untold thousands of civilians
were killed or wounded in the
Viet Cong offensive that swept
into every major city along a
600-mile line from Quang Tri
near the Demilitarized Zone to
the Mekong Delta. President
ney said.
“I have stated that adequate
information regarding the in
cident and actions taken by the
administration in its aftermath
was not available, and definitive
public comment was therefore
unwise,” Romney said.
“But over a week has passed
and we still don’t know whether
the Pueblo did violate North
Korean territorial waters,”
Romney said. “We don’t know
what messages were sent
during the one hour and 45
minutes from the first contact
with enemy patrol boats to the
actual boarding.”
The U.S. government said the
Pueblo with 83 men aboard was
The Montana senator’s com
ments to reporters followed
release Thursday of a gloomy
assessment of the war by
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara in his eighth and
final annual report to Congress.
Formidable Enemy Force
The departing secretary said
that after 2!4 years of major
U.S. involvement, Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese forces still
pose a formidable military
problem in South Vietnam.
And despite military, econom-
Hoard’s Widow
Asks $1,272,000
In Park Suit
JEFFERSON, Ga. — Mrs.
Floyd Hoard, widow of Sol. Gen.
Floyd Hoard of Jefferson, has
filed a suit asking $1,272,000
from A. C. Park in connection
with the solicitor’s death.
The suit was filed by her at
torney Jack Davidson asking the
full value of the life of the for
mer Griffin man.
Hoard was killed when dyna
mite exploded in his car Aug.
8 at his Jefferson home.
Park was convicted of mur
der in connection with the dea
th.
Vol. 96 No. 28
Nguyen Van Thleu put the
Saigon toll alone at 1,882
civilians killed or wounded.
A U.S. military communique
said the thousands of invaders
“are rapidly being driven out”
of the cities. Thieu, in a
nationwide broadcast said the
Red offensive had failed. U.S.
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
went on the radio to deny Viet
Cong claims the United States
is willing to make a deal with
the Communists and get out.
The heaviest fighting was
reported from Hue where UPI
correspondent Richard V. Oliver
said Viet Cong units entrenched
in the ancient imperial capital
beat off South Vietnamese and
U.S. Marines for the third
consecutive day and pinned
down one Marine force near the
Perfume River.
The Americans stormed
across a bridge and into the
Communist-held area but were
driven back by mortar and
machinegun fire from the
citadel, the fortress in the
center of the city. They were
pinned down in a six square
block area, braced for an
expected counterattack tonight.
operating outside North Korea’s
territorial waters when it was
seized.
“We are uninformed about
why U.S. ships are sent on
missions in North Korea which
can risk or provoke a crisis in a
period of heightened tension and
militancy there," Romney said.
“Similarly, we do not know why
help was not sent to the Pueblo
in time, or if help was available
to be sent.”
“We wonder why it apparent
ly took four hours to inform the
President after the Pueblo first
reported trouble, and following
the crucial military decision to
divert the Enterprise task
force,” Romney said.
ic and political progress, he
said, a nation-building spirit
essential for South Vietnam to
stand on its own feet has not
evolved in the people.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and cooler
tonight. Saturday fair and cool.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 58, minimum today
45, maximum Thursday 58 mini
mum Thursday 46. Total rainfall
.20 of an inch. Sunrise Satur
day 7:35 a.m., sunset Saturday
6:14 p.m.
Groundhog Predicts More Cold
GOBBLER’S KNOB, Punxsu
tawney, Pa. (UPl)—Keep shov
els handy and don’t store winter
clothing or snow tires yet—the
nation is in for six more weeks
of troublesome snow and frigid
temperatures.
A small, furry creature,
emerged from his burrow at
7:29 a.m. today, perched on a
large stump near his lair and
saw his shadow to portend
another six weeks of winter’s
gloom.
Today was Groundhog Day In
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Ho to)
Chamber of Commerce secretary Mrs. Sandra Neill
shows report.
Economic Profile
Os Griffarca Out
Industry leaders considering
Griffin and Spalding County as
possible sites for new plants will
find a wealth of information ab
out this area in the “Economic
Profile of Griffin,” a publication
with more than 40 pages of
information, maps and pictur
es.
Gary Powell, executive vice
president of the Griffin Area
Chamber of Commerce, said 100
copies of the report have been
secured here. He said about 20
already have been sent to indus
try leaders considering Griffin
as possible expansion sites.
The report contains accurate,
up to the minute statistics and
data on all factors of the econ
omy an industrial prospect wou-
Spalding GOP
Plans Meetings
Os Precincts
The Spalding County Repub
lican Party has made plans for
a mass precinct meeting March
2.
The GOP Committee in Spald
ing County held a meeting this
week to help organize precincts.
Troy Mays, chairman of the
Spalding organization, said
the precinct meetings are de
signed to allow any voter, re
gardless of race, creed or color
to participate in the organiza
tion of their voting precinct and
participate in affairs of the Re
publican party.
Chairman Mays said each Sp
alding precinct was represent
ed at the committee meeting.
Precinct chairmen expect a
good turnout for the March 2
meetings, Chairman Mays said.
Saw His Shadow
the small western Pennsylvania
community of Punxsutawney,
nestled in the foothills of the
Allegheny Mountains which
boasts of being the world's
weather capital.
According to tradition, the
little animal, sometimes called
the woodchuck or whistle pig,
crawls from his lair each Feb. 2
to take a look at his shadow. If
he sees his shadow, the story
goes. It will be six weeks before
galoshes and tire chains can be
stashed away. No shadow
Id want to know.
Among the things covered are
highway, railroad and airport
connections here, motel and ho
tel accommodations, climate, in
dustry already established here,
labor availability, city and co
unty government organization,
tax structures and rates, health,
home and church institutions
and many others.
The report was compiled by
the Industrial Development Di
vision of Georgia Tech, the Ge
orgia Department of Industry
and Trade and the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber here thinks the
100 copies will last about a
year. The report will be revised
and brought up to date each
year so the information can be
kept current, Mr. Powell said.
The Industrial Development
Committee cooperated with the
Chamber staff here in compiling
the report.
Country Parson
“Peace of mind come.' from
helping to relieve suffering
—or from not knowing there
is any.”
spring is just around the corner
In hushed silence following n
ceremony by the Punxsutawney
Groundhog Club and its entou
rage of members garbed in
frock coats, striped pants and
high silk hats, the seer of seers
poked his nose from his burrow
and predicted 42 more days of
icy blasts and snow.
The weather prophet, who has
been forecasting the weather
for more than 85 years, wasted
no time in returning to his den
for six more weeks of slumber.