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By Quimby Melton
“Life’s Hunger Satisfied” is
the subject of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is John 6.
The Memory Selection is “I
am the bread of life: he that
cometh to me shall never hun
ger: and he that believeth on
me shall never thirst.” (John
6:35.)
Only part of the background
Scripture, starting with verse 35,
is printed in the commentary
we have; but one should read all
of Chapter six.
For instance, earlier in this
chapter we read where Jesus fed
more than 5,000 persons who
were following him; and He did
this with only five pones of bar
ley bread and two small fishes,
that a little boy, whose mother
had been farsighted enough to
provide as a lunch for him, had
with him.
Take notice of this — Jesus,
when the bread and fish had
been brought to him, gave
thanks. Wonder how many of us,
used to having bountiful meals
three times a day, take time to
say “Thanks” before we start
eating? Or, do we, strangers to
hunger, start eating without
thanking God? If this comment
will do nothing more than re
vive “saying grace” before ev
ery meal, then the space has
been well used.
There Is another lesson in
connection with this feeding of
the 5,000: Jesus had only just
enough food to feed one little
boy, but after He had blessed
the food it became enough not
only to give everyone of the
5,000 “as much as they would”
—satisify their hunger, but,
when they had eaten the discip
les gathered up 12 baskets
full. We do not know if these 12
baskets of food were given the
small boy or not — but if they
were there was food enough to
supply his whole family for se
veral meals.
When Good Evening was a boy
there was an expression often
used in describing a man who
looked after his family — he was
called a “Good Provider”.
God is certainly a “Good
Provider” for His children who
love Him and obey Him.
In this same chapter, before
we arrive at the printed part on
which the lesson is based, we
read of Jesus walking on the sea;
of the great tempest that pre
vailed, and of his disciples see
ing him, thinking it was a ghost,
were afraid.
“It is I, be not afraid”, Jesus
told them. The waves ceased
and once again they were con
vinced that come what may, Je
sus Christ would look after His
people.
Jesus must have liked the seas
and lakes that dotted his native
land. We read often of Him
talking to the multitudes by the
sea; and there was the time He
slept in the boat, and the discip
les becoming alarmed at the
storm, woke Him and He com
manded the sea to be calm; An
after the Resurrection, remem
ber, Jesus appeared to Peter
and the other disciples, after
they had fished all night and
caught nothing, and telling them
to cast their nets out once
more. He prepared a meal for
them, on the seaside, as they
fished and made a record catch.
The lesson then tells us that
Jesus told His disciples “I am
the bread of life.”
Bread has always been con
sidered “the staff if life”; it br
ings strength to the eater, it con
tains the nutrement, the vita
mins, the minerals needed to
rebuild one’s body.
“But man does not live by
bread alone,” Jesus said several
times. That is life eternal does
not come from bread, but contes
from belief in and obedience to
God through Jesus Christ.
There is another verse in this
lesson that stands out to this
layman: Jesus said, “And this
is the will of Him who sent me,
that every one which believeth
on Him may have everlasting
life; and I will raise him up on
the last day.**
But even then there were those
who "murmured" against Him,
They simply could not compre
hend the breath and the heighth,
and the magnitude of Christ’s
love for mankind.
Every promise Jesus Christ
made, as recorded in the New
Testament was not a boast of
His power, but a promise He
could and would keep — if we
will let Him.
US Jets Smash Commie
Tanks Near Khe Sanh
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—Marine jets
smashed a Communist tank
column with bombs, rockets and
flaming napalm Thursday near
the embattled U.S. fort of Khe
Sanh on the North Vietnam
border, American spokesmen
said today. At the same time
Leathernecks on the ground
hurled back probing attacks
nearby.
A U.S. spotter plane sighted
four tanks rumbling six miles
southwest of Khe Sanh, near the
Lang Vei Green Beret camp
Communist armor overran two
days ago. The jets screamed in
and destroyed at least two of
the tanks, the spokesmen said.
Minutes earlier North Vietna
mese troops hit Khe Sanh,
Western anchor of the allied
defense line under the border,
with their heaviest rocket and
mortar barrage of the war and
sent infantry storming at the
perimeter. U.S. Marines report
ed they hurled back the
Communists, killing at least 124.
Use Big Bombers
Today waves of Air Force 852
Stratofortresses dropped hun
dreds of tons of bombs on the
Wallace Worries
Democrats, GOP
By RANDOLPH PENDLETON
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPD
—Former Gov. George C. Wal
lace launched his campaign for
president as a third party force
Thursday, and it worried Demo
cratic and Republican leaders.
“I think there’s a very real
prospect of the presidential elec
tion being thrown into the
House,” said Rep. Bob Wilson,
R - Calif., chairman of the
House GOP campaign commit
tee.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana said
Wallace probably would hurt
Republicans in the South, but
he said there was doubt about
Wallace’s popularity with the
Northern “man in the street.”
Wallace announced his candi
dacy in Washington Thursday,
stating there was little differ-
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Senate Fires Salvo In
Sunday Business Battle
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD—The stub
born State Senate has fired
another salvo in the hotly con
tested battle over Sunday busi
nesses—but it’s expected to be
only a dud when It hits the
House.
Despite being rebuffed by the
House on a similar measure
earlier, the Senate passed, 31-
12, Thursday a' new Sunday
closing law that would close all
businesses except restaurants,
bakeries, farmers markets, rec
reational facilities and '‘small”
establishments (employing four
or less persons) which are at
least partially owned by the
persons running them.
The bill was a substitute for
one that was defeated earlier
in the House and most observ
ers indicated they felt the new
bill wouldn’t have any more
success in the lower chamber
than the first one.
The Georgia House devoted
much of its time Thursday to
pulpwood and timber trucks;
finally voting, after a full day
of spirited debate and confusing
parliamentary tangles, to put
weight and length restrictions
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North Vietnamese divisions—up
to 20,000 men, U.S. intelligence
reported—ringing Khe Sanh, the
fort U. S. generals said must
and will be held.
Smaller jets streaked north of
the border and pounded the
supply lines feeding the five
divions the North Vietnamese
have massed on the frontier for
what American commanders
said will be the Communists’
largest offensive of the war.
In Saigon, South Vietnam
decreed speeded up mobilization
with draft of civil servants,
veterans and students to meet
the Communist invasion of the
nation’s cities.
On the northern frontier,
American commanders reported
the North Vietnamese troops
engaged in a campaign to nibble
away the defenses of Khe Sanh.
They warned the big Commu
nist push could come at any
time.
Heavy Bombardment
Marines at the embattled
fortress reported the Commu
nist guns bristling on the hills
around them slammed 650 high
explosive shells into their
works, about 100 more than the
North Vietnamese gunners had
ence between the major parties,
and he indicated he didn’t want
either party running the gov
ernment for another four years.
He said he would run as a
candidate of the American In
dependent Party and that five
Alabama state officials would
resign to take full - time jobs
with his campaign staff.
Wallace later returned home
to be greeted by a cheering
crowd, which shouted “Mr.
President.”
He said his was “a movement
of the masses of the people of
our country.”
Wallace cited the Vietnam
war and the “breakdown of law
and order” as the top issues
facing the nation. He said his
first act as president would be
to seek indictments against any
one advocating a Communist
victory in Vietnam.
Much Southern reaction to
Wallace’s candidacy was pre
dictable.
“Wonderful. He’s a great
man. I wish he were presi
dent,” said Georgia Gov. Lester
Maddox.
“They’ll know he’s in the race
before it’s over,” said Rep.
Thomas G. Abernethy, D-Miss.
“I think he will easily carry
Mississippi.”
“It’s a sad thing,” comment
ed E. D. Nixon, president of
the Alabama branch of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
House Republican Leader
Gerald Ford of Michigan said
Wallace’s campaign could be
decisive in the presidential elec
tion.
“It’ll do more to re - elect
President Johnson than any
thing else I can think of,” he
said.
on these trucks for the first
time.
The measure, adopted 122-56,
would, in general, place pulp
wood and timber trucks under
existing state truck laws.
75-Foot Limit
The bill would limit the
trucks to a weight of 18,000
pounds per axle with a 13 per
cent tolerance, set an over-all
weight limtl of 72,280 pounds
and restrict lengths to 75 feet.
However, it would allow these
trucks, under special permits,
to be longer than 75 feet if
haulding poles, logs, pilings,
lumber, structural steel, piping
and pre-stressed concrete.
All other trucks are limited
to 55 feet.
An amendment to the bill
would allow automobile carriers
to be 60 feet long — which
most of these trucks are al
ready.
Rep. Tom Murphy of Bre
men, in support of the bill,
pointed out that 10 persons have
been killed in recent weeks by
logging and pulpwood trucks —
six in a single accident near
his hometown.
“If this bill had been law and
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fired in one assault before.
The Communists then sent
troops crashing into the outer
lines of coiled barbed wire. For
two hours the fight went on.
Then the North Vietnamese fell
back. U.S. spokesmen said the
Marines suffered 21 men killed
and 27 wounded.
The Khe Sany, defenders had
more than North Vietnamese to
handle. About 5,000 to 6,000
refugees from South Vietnam’s
northwestern corner clamored
around the base for safety.
American commanders began
planning how to ferry the
refugees out of harm’s way, to
the south.
Little of South Vietnam was
out of harm’s way today. Allied
spokesmen reported fighting in
dozens of spots, in the rice
paddies and in the cities where
the Viet Cong Invasion went into
Its 12th day.
Communists Claim Victories
From Hanoi, North Vietnam’s
defense minister, Vo Nguyen
Giap, broadcast claims of
“brilliant victories” in the
urban warfare. He said it
“marked a new and very
important step” in the war.
In Saigon, President Nguyen
Van Thieu of South Vietnam,
tears in eyes, sketched the lists
of casualties for a joint session
of the National Assembly.
Allied spokesmen said the
urban fighting has killed 26,621
Communists. They said 2,295
Allied soldiers were wounded
including 4,117 Americans.
Thieu said 3,971 civilians have
been killed and another 7,945
men, women and children
wounded.
He decreed upping the figure
of Vietnamese fighting manpow
er above the 700,000 mark that
now is the goal for year’s end.
He set no end figure. Thieu also
decreed added emergency pow
ers for a year to meet the
threat in the cities, continuing
censorship and martial law. He
also demanded continued bomb
ing of North Vietnam.
Outside the former French
opera house, the parliament
building where he spoke,
fighting raged in the streets.
City Fighting Continues
Men of the U.S. Army 199th
Light Infantry Brigade stormed
by helicopter into the heart of
Saigon’s Chinatown and fought
against guerrilla forces battling
and burning near the race
track, four miles from Saigon’s
center.
More American troops killed
more than 100 guerrillas in
battles, north, west and center
of the city limits.
To the south, in the Mekong
Delta rice bowl, guerrilla trooos
hit at least three provincial
capitals and allied airfields. To
the North, U.S. and South
Vietnamese troops reported
killing hundreds of Communists
just south of Da Nang, in Hue,
the former imperial capital just
above Da Nang and 400 miles
north of Saigon, North Vietna
mese troops clung to nests in
the city.
Hundreds of thousands of
refugees in the cities hunt
food and security. Government
homelsss were being fed in
Saigon alone.
the trucks had been complying,
these people would not have
died,” Murphy said. "Do you
put the interest of the people
at heart or the pulpwood in
dustry?”
State’s Largest
The pulpwood industry is re
ported to be the state’s largest
business. Opponents of the bill
charged it was designed to put
the small pulpwood farmer out
of business.
Supporters of the measure,
claiming some pulpwood trucks
load over 36,000 pounds per
axle, charged the overloaded
trucks were tearing up the
highways and are a menace to
traffic.
The State Highway Depart
ment sent so many people to
support the bill that they were
asked to leave the floor at one
point in the debate.
The Senate had a spirited de
bate over a bill to prohibit
prison nurseries from compet
ing with private florists by sell
ing ornamental shrubbery. Op
ponents charged the Senate
would be bowing to special in
terests by passing the measure
but it carried anyway.
Three Killed, 36 Hurt
In Orangeburg Clash
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He’s eligible for national awards.
Jeff Wright Wins
Leadership Honor
Jeff Wright, Griffin High sen
ior, today was named state win
ner of the Elks Leadership aw
ard in the boy’s division.
He will be eligible for consi
deration of national honors.
Wright is the son of the Rev.
and Mrs. Orville Wright. The
Rev. Wright is pastor of the Fir
st Christian Church.
He has been active in many
campus organizations at Grif
fin High. Among them are the
Beta Club which he serves as
president; the Senior Hi-Y whi
ch he serves as chaplain, and
the Majyc Cyrkle and Key Club.
Plane Crew Foils
Hijack Attempt
By ROBERT KAYLOR
DA KANG, Vietnam (UPD—A
U.S. Marine dressed in a black
leather jacket, blue jeans and
cowboy boots held the crew of a
commercial airliner at gunpoint
for almost three hours today in
an apparent effort to hijack the
plane and its 83 passengers.
Gen. William C. Westmore
land, commander of U.S. forces
in Vietnam, was reported
personally to have ordered the
Red Cross Hits
Inhuman Acts’
In Vietnam
GENEVA (UPD—The Inter
national Committee of the Red
Cross today denounced the
"inhuman acts” it said were
being committed by both sides
in Vietnam.
The committee, guardian of
the Geneva War Conventions,
demanded the belligerents "ob
serve the basic rules of
humanity.”
11 protested particularly
against civilians being subjected
to aerial attacks and summary
executions, torture and repri
sals.
“The International Committee
of the Red Cross has the duty of
reminding all those that partake
in the conflict that in all
circumstances they are bound
to observe the elementary and
universally recognized rules of
human treatment,” the state
ment said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clear to partly cloudy
and continued cold tonight and
Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 49, minimum today
27, maximum Thursday 46, mini
mum Thursday 28. Sunrise Sat
urday 7:28 a.m., sunset Satur
day 6:20 p.m.
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Wright moved to Griffin in 1966
when his father was named pas
tor of the First Christian Chur
ch in Griffin.
He has a sister, Margot, who
is a junior at the University of
Georgia and another sister, Wen
dy, a third grader at Crescent.
A native of Monmouth, Hl.,
Wright spent most of his early
life in Canton, Hl.
Bill Reeves, chairman of the
committee which handled the
Leadership entries for the Grif
fin Lodge of Elks, announced
Wright’s selection for the state
award today.
plane held on the ground for
fear the hijacker might force
the pilot to fly to some
Communist country.
The plane was a Pan
American DC6 chartered by the
government to fly servicemen
to Hong Kong for rest and
recuperation. The sandy-haired
gunman apparently was trying
to go to Hong Kong himself—
without informing Marine au
thorities.
He was eventually disarmed
by the crew as air policemen
wheeled stairways up to the
cockpit windows and stood
ready with Ml 6 automatic
rifles. Others rushed into the
passenger compartment and
loosed clouds of tear gas.
The would-be hijacker was
taken to U.S. air police
headquarters at the Da Nang
base for questioning.
A Marine spokesman said he
was Marine Pfc. William Lee
Clark, attached to an artillery
battalion with the Ist Marine
Division.
His home address was not
known immediately.
The crew said Clark boarded
the plane just before it was
scheduled to take off. He told
{he crew his name was James
Lee Evans and said he wanted
to go to Hong Kong.
When told his name was not
on the manifest, crew members
said he pulled a .45 caliber
automatic pistol, locked the
cockpit door and said he would
kill them unless they took off.
He released a Pan American
ground crew member who was
in the cockpit. The crewman
notified military authorities who
cleared the passengers from the
aircraft.
Air policemen moved an
ambulance in front of the plane
to prevent it from moving and
closed in with Ml 6 rifles and
machineguns mounted on jeeps.
The commotion distracted the
gunman momentarily and he
was disarmed by co-pilot Eric
L. Archer of Beeville, Texas,
and flight engineer Robert H.
Clack of Midland, Mich.
Classes Suspended
After Bloody Battle
By ROBERT M. FORD
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (UPD
—South Carolina State College
suspended classes and urged
students to stay in their
dormitories today in the wake
of a bloody battle between
highway patrolmen and Negro
students that claimed three
lives and injured 36 persons.
It was the worst such racial
clash in the South, in terms of
lives lost, in modern times. The
University of Mississippi riots
of Sept. 30, 1962, while much
larger and more intense,
claimed two lives. The injury
figure in the Ole Miss riots ran
into the hundreds.
South Carolina State College
President N.M. Nance said he
was in “a state of shock” over
Thursday night’s violence.
He said he was trying to find
out exactly what led to the
tragedy, and would meet later
with trustees to discuss the
situation.
Troopers Posted
Six hundred state troopers
and National Guardsmen are on
duty in Orangeburg, but they
were withdrawn from the
campus area at daybreak in
hopes the situation would return
to normal.
“We don’t know who shot
first,” said Nance. “Right now
all we know is that law
enforcement officers did shoot.”
Police said snipers on campus
opened fire on them.
A spokesman for the National
Guard said the guardsmen did
not use their guns.
State troopers opened fire
after the shouting Negro youths
gathered near the front gate to
the college and hurled fire
bombs into nearby buildings.
Police charged up a grassy
slope after them, routing most
of the students, but others stood
their ground and did battle with
clubs. At least one officer was
hurt.
The campus was quiet this
morning, but Nance said “the
situation is very tense.”
Thursday marked the third
straight night of violence,
sparked originally Tuesday
when students clashed with
police over being turned away
from a segregated bowling alley
near campus.
Sellers Arrested
Among the injured, two of
whom were listed as critical,
was Cleveland Sellers, an
official of the Student Nonvi
olent Coordinating Committee
Budget ‘Fat’ Cutback
Won’t Hurt Programs
ATLANTA (UPD— Gov. Les
ter Maddox’s $874.5 million bud
get has enough "fat” in it to
enable it to be cut without hurt
ing his programs.
That’s what a special sub
committee composed of House
and administration leaders told
the House Appropriations Com
mittee Thursday.
The two factions, working to
gether in search of a compro
mise, said they have made
"significant progress” in seek
ing ways to cut the budget
without harming Maddox’s pro
posals.
However, said one House
leader, it may be necessary to
give Georgia teachers a small
er pay raise than the $558 Mad
dox promised them.
House leaders have called for
S3O million in cuts and the Ap
propriations Committee has
voted to back them. Sources
say the subcommittee already
has found sls million that
either can be cut or which
might never be spent if includ
ed in the budget.
"The subcommittee has found
some areas where some chang
es can be made without anyone
being hurt," said Rep. Tom
Murphy of Bremen, Maddox’s
floor leader.
The subcommittee was named
when it appeared the two fac
tions were headed for a battle
on the floor of the House. "The
meetings have been very con
genial and we think progress is
being made,” said Rep. James
"Sloppy” Floyd of Trion, chair
man of the Appropriations Com-
(SNCC), who was arrested on &
number of charges at a hospital
emergency room and jailed.
“Stokely (Carmichael) will
probably come down if they
incarcerate me,” Sellers had
told newsmen earlier Thursday.
Sellers, who has been organiz
ing a “black awareness”
committee on the campuses,
was charged with inciting to
riot, destruction of property,
arson and assault and battery
with intent to kill. State trooper
David W. Shealy, who was
hospitalized with a facial
wound, said Sellers struck him
with a club. Sellers suffered a
minor wound.
It was the third night of
violence in Orangeburg, where
Negroes have been trying to
integrate the town’s only
bowling alley.
Firebomb Buildings
Students lined a grassy knoll
overlooking a street at the main
gate to South Carolina State
Thursday night and tossed
firebombs into buildings across
the way. Officers doused the
fires before they could do any
damage, but they did not cross
the street onto the campus until
Negroes started a grass fire
and sniper fire cracked in the
darkness.
About 50 guardsmen and an
equal number of troopers and
plainclothed agents of the South
Carolina Law Enforcement Di
vision (SLED) moved up the
knoll. Gunfire broke out and a
number of students fell. Some
attacked officers with clubs and
sticks.
Three Negro youths were
killed. They were identified by
Orangeburg County Coroner Joe
A. Dickey as Sam Hammond,
18, Henry Smith, 18, and Delano
Middleton, 17.
Newsmen, kept a block away
from the campuses, heard 40 or
50 shots.
Col. R. L. McGrady, in charge
of the National Guard force, said
many of the shots were fired
by snipers. Another officer said
the sniper shots sounded like
small arms fire, but he said he
saw no students with guns.
McCrady said guardsmen had
been issued only one clip of .30
caliber ammunition and were
not given permission to load
their carbines until the sniper
fire.
“They were being fired upon
and in danger of their lives,”
he explained. He added, howev
er, that no shots were fired by
guardsmen.
mittee.
The House majority leader,
Rep. George Busbee of Albany,
said the committee found $2.2
million in funds budgeted for
teacher salaries that would not
be spent because some teach
ing positions would be lost next
year.
He added there would be an
other $3.3 million in funds left
from this year beyond that
Maddox had counted on and
that it appeared another $3.85
million would "probably” be
unspent from the present bud
get.
District 18-E
Lions To Meet
Here Tonight
W. E. Bryan of Doylestown,
Ohio, second vice president of
Lions International, will address
Lions Clubs of District 18-E at a
district convention to be held to
night at 7:30 at the Griffin Moose
Lodge.
Over 550 Lions from through
out middle Georgia will be here
for the meeting.
Bryan will be welcomed to Gr
iffin by Mayor Kimsey Stewart.
Lemuel Watkins, president of
the Griffin Lions Club, will ser
ve as host.
Bill Huele of Thomaston, dis
trict governor of 18-E, will con
duct the assembly. Harry Davis
of Griffin is deputy district go
vernor of region 2-18-E.-