Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Egood f VENIN VF By Quimby Melton (This is the third installment of an Easter Sermon preached more than 70 years ago) — + — Let us examine some of the direct evidences of the resur rection of Christ. (1) We have the writings of the evangelists and the apostles who testify that Christ is risen Indeed. Luke speaking of our Lord’s appearing after his re surrection, says, "Unto the ap ostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many Infallible proofs being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” We have an account of at least eleven tim es in which he appeared to his disciples after his resurrection and before his ascension to his Father and our Father, to his God, and our God. Let us enu merate them: On the very day he arose he appeared to Mary Magdalene. Then he appeared to her in company with the other Mary. Afterward he showed himself to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, he appeared to all the disciples except Thomas who was ab sent from the prayer meeting. After eight days he appeared to all the apostles, Thomas then being present with them. Then our Lord gave Thomas all the evidence he could ask. "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hit her thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believ ing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God.” "After these things Jesus showed himself again to the dis ciples at the sea of Teberias.” Then we read of his appear ing to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee. Then Paul tells us that he ap peared In Galilee to about five hundred brethren at once. In Ga hilee he had spent most of his life; his person was well known there. These five hundred wit nesses would soon spread the news aboroad. After that he was seen of Ja mes. And then on the day of his as cension he appeared to all his disciples, on the Mount of Oli ves. The great mission of the dis ciples was to bear witness of the resurrection. Let us hear Peter’s testimony of the resurrection of Christ. He said: "Him God raised up the third day and showed him open ly: not to all the people, but un to witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he comman ded us to preach unto the peo ple, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of the quick and dead.” And it is said of all the apostles, that with great power they gave witness of the resur rection of the Lord Jesus. We may notice under this head the place where they began to bear witness of the resurrec tion. It was Jerusalem where Christ had lived and suffered and died. These things were not testified of in some obscure cor ne of the earth. We may notice also the time where they began to bear wit nesses of the resurrection of Christ. It was 50 days after his resurrection on the feast of Pen tecost, When the Jews were ga thered in Jerusalem from all ner of the earth. Nevertheless, they persisted in their testimony of the resurrec tion of Christ in the face of ev ery opposition, even in the face of death itself for it is believed that all the apostles except John, suffered a violent death at the hands of the enemies of Christ and that John alone died a na tural death. We also notice that there was no ground or reason why the apostles should try to decieve the people concerning the resur rection. If the resurrection was a falsehood, then the apostles had every thing to loose, and nothing to gain. On this supposi tion, the apostle Paul exclaims, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” But he adds, "But now is Christ ris en from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that sl ept.” (To be continued) Hr pUgfei w i s ''iHl uHg||||§g/ (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo) Flames shoot skyward at building supply firm. Fire Levels Building At Griffin Supply Firm A building at Concrete and Building Supply Company was destroyed Monday night in a blaze that broke out about 9 o’clock. The concern is on West Col lege street behind Haisten Fu neral Home. Destroyed in the blaze was the building, about a half freight car load of lumber, a truck, some tires and other building materials. Arthur Fluornoy, owner of the business, said he had checked the building some 15 or 20 minutes before the fire start ed. He was at work in the office of the business when he notic ed the flames shoot skyward. Griffin firemen had the blaze under control soon and kept it from spreading to other build ings nearby. The business is the old Jones Construction Company which Mr. Fluornoy purchased in December of 1966. An old horse drawn wagon belonging to the original found er of the firm was in the build ing that burned. The wagon was used by the late Mr. Charles E. Jones, Sr. when he first organized the firm. Three More Charged With Arson Three more Griffinites were arrested Monday and charged with arson in connection with several fires in the city. Those arrested Monday were Riley Henley, 17, of 831 North Hill street; Larry McDowell, 829 North Hill street; and a 14- year-old Juvenile, whose name cannot be published under Georgia law. Fourteen persons were ar rested Sunday and charged with arson in fires Thursday and Friday. Chief Leo Blackwell said the 14 arrested Sunday were charged with arson at Stan field’s Grocery on North Second street, Newton Building Supply Co. on East Solomon street and Hutson Grocery and Slaton Stanley’s Grocery, both of East Chappell street. All of those arrested are scheduled to face the charges at the June term of Spalding County Superior Court. Country Parson ... “The church will find itself ministering to no one unless it ministers to victims of our social problems/' DAILY NEWS Daily Since 1872 Hanoi, Peking, Moscow Split Over Peace Bid By K. C. THALER LONDON (UPl)—The Com munist alignment of Hanoi, Peking and Moscow has suf fered a major split over Vietnam peace moves, diploma tic sources said today. Hanoi’s peace feelers have been made without prior consultation of Communist Chi na and the Soviet Union. The regime of President Ho Chi Minh did not seek prior formal approval for his sudden willing ness to meet American repre sentatives for a Vietnam peace probe. Both of North Vietnam’s key allies have been taken by surprise by Hanoi’s decision, the sources said. This explains the prolonged silence which followed Hanoi’s decision. Withholds Comment The Kremlin took five days of consultation before it decided to back Hanoi. Peking took longer and, unlike Moscow, withheld support while denouncing the American peace offer as a fraud. The regime of Mao Tse-tung was reported to have, in effect, warned Hanoi it would withdraw its support in the event of any compromise peace arrangements. The sources said a major split has occurred which Moscow is trying to cover up as best it can. Hanoi surprisingly has not made any formal effort to hide the split. It has not once referred to Communist solidari ty and has almost gone out of School Board Meeting Building Contract For Additions Gets Okay The contract for additional classrooms at three elementary schools was awarded to Jones Construction Company of Grif fin Monday night. The Griffin-Spalding Board of Education announced the Grif fin concern was the low bidder with a quotation of $118,642. The three buildings are to be completed in 180 days. The contract calls for the construction of a circular build ing addition on the Crescent elementary campus. The circu lar structure will be adaptable to team teaching. Movable walls can convert the building into one, two, three or four classrooms, depending on the needs. Two conventional classrooms will be added to Fourth Ward and two to Beaverbrook. In other board action, Supt. D. B. Christie announced that $64,632 would be available for tha system to provlda a six GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 9, 1968 its way to demonstrate its independent strategy. Diplomats said considerable “soul searching” preceded Han oi’s positive response to Pres ident Johnson’s peace offer. The “doves” were understood to have prevailed largely on strategic grounds, because war losses were understood to have become intolerably large and prospects of victory over the Americans to be receding. Hanoi, according to the informants, then apparently decided to go ahead on its own accord to avoid being swayed or impeded in its decision by anticipated conflicting reaction from Peking and Moscow. Could Chanye Position The sources warned, however, that the danger of a reversal has by no means been removed. Much will depend on the outcome of the first peace talks at the conference table. Both Peking and Moscow, the sources indicated, have differ ing motives in the Vietnam war and in any peace moves. Peking, starting from the premise that liberation wars pay, sees its entire policy endangered by a peace settle ment. It also wants the Americans Indefinitely pinned down in a costly war while Peking develops its own nuclear potential. Moscow wants the war scaled down, because it is very costly to the Russians and because It fears possible confrontation with the United States in the event of further escalation. week summer program for pre school children. It will be de signed for students who have had no kindergarten or other School Report organized pre-school training. The program will be set up at Fourth Ward, Mr. Christie said. Funds for the program will be available under Title One. This is a federal program. The $64,632 was considerably more than the system here had ex pected to receive. United States Contacts Hanoi Dr. Altizer Resigns Emory Position ATLANTA (UPI)—Dr. Thom as J. J. Altizer, the Emory University religion professor who announced in 1965 that "God is dead” will leave the church-related school for State University of New York at Sto neybrook. Altizer, whose tneory that “to say God is dead is to say Christ is totally alive” rocked orthodox believers, said Mon day he has taken a fall teach ing position at the school. He will go from being associate professor of religion at Emory to teaching English. "I have sort of completed a cycle of life and at this stage in my career it is important for me to enter a new kind of work and vocation,” Altizer said of his move to the secular campus. "There is no theology school or chaplains or chapels there. My philosophy will probably be pretty much ignored,” Altizer, who has been at Emory 12 years, said. The theologian who started the “death of God” theology has, by his own admission, be come comparably less radical in the two years since his philo sophy was first expounded. University off icl al s chose rather to let the controversy run its own course when Alti zex’s ideas were causing fury in the religious world. Hie profes sor denied that any pressure from them was causing his de parture. "People are interested (in the theory) because it is real, and not a fantasy like orthodox leaders are living in,” Altizer said in a 1966 speech, one of many across the nation he made in the wake of the con troversy. NAACP Appeals For Calm NEW YORK (UPl)—The Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People appealed to Negroes throughout the nation today to reject vio lence and “the shrill contention of the militants that they are taking over the Negro com munity.” The NAACP drive also includ ed a program to get Jobs for the unemployed by improving community relations. Mr. Christie told the board that the system here would show a net gain of $56,613.42 from the state over last year. This was pointed out during fi nancial discussions. Mr. Chris tie said the board would re ceive the budget for 1968-69 at the May meeting. Tommy Jones, principal of Beaverbrook school, wa>s named to the new post of di rector of Instruction beginning in the 1968-69 term, provided the system can finance the pro posal. He will coordinate the curri culum on elementary, junior high and senior high levels. Creation of the post was rec ommended by the instructions Committee, under chairman Miss Anne Hill Drewry. The board also approved these recommendations made from the committee: —That sustitute teacher pay Continued on page five Vol. 96 No. 85 (Griffin Daily News Staff Photo) Some drivers ignore these signs. Drivers Told To Stop For School Buses Some drivers are ignoring stop signals on school buses, the Griffin-Spalding Board of Education was told Monday night. Herman Nelson, administra tor who handles the system’s transportation, said complaints from school bus drivers about such violations had increased. Apparently some drivers do not know that they are sup posed to stop for school buses, regardless of whether they are approaching the bus from the front or rear, the school board was told. One school board member ob served that city and county traffic officers always had co Last Rites Held For Dr. King By H.D. QUIGG UPI Senior Editor ATLANTA (UPl)—The last rites were held today for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the “drum major for Justice,” before his family, his friends and the nation’s leaders while 50,000 persons jammed the streets outside his church. After the funeral the vast thong was to march behind King’s casket, on a mule-drawn wagon, four miles to Morehouse College for public services. But the march started before the funeral. An official of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence (SCLC) said "things got too tense’ in the massive crowd awaiting the funeral, and ordered the funeral march begun. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and ail the presiden tial candidates crowded into the red brick Ebenezer Baptist Church while the bells tolled mournfully the anthem of the slain leader’s civil rights movement —“We Shall Over come.” King’s successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, began the service with scripture "Men die yet he shall live,” Abernathy intoned. operated with school bus driv ers in inforcing traffic laws. He said apparently many of the violations are occuring in the county. The board was told that the sheriff’s office would station deputies on buses in areas where violations occur fre quently and make cases in an ef fort to curb safety abuses. The school board emphasized the importance of all traffic’s stopping when a school bus stops to load or unload stu dents. Not doing so can result in serious accidents and injury to innocent children, the board said. The family —King’s black veiled widow, his four children, his mother and his father — entered the church as the organ played the anthem. Five-year-old Albertine King bit her fingernails but she stopped when her mother spoke to her. Through the medium of tape recording. King spoke his own eulogy. He said he wanted to be remembered as a “drum major for justice’ —not as the man who won a Nobel Peace Prize marching on the dusty roads of the South. Police estimated 50,000 per sons were crowding around the church 45 minutes before the servi c e began and said, “There’ll be more. An estimated 60,000 persons had viewed the body as It lay in state, first at Spelman College since Saturday, then through the night and into today at the church. The services inside the church were televised to the nation. After the memorial service at the college quadrangle, the body was to be taken to be entombed in a mausoleum bearing the legend: "Free at last, Free at last, thank God Almighty, free at ia*L v Peace Talk Sites Believed In Message By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter THURMONT, Md. (UP) — President Johnson announced today that the United States contacted Hanoi early today — presumably suggesting possible alternate sites for American- North Vietnamese talks. Johnson made the announce ment during a brief break in high-level talks on Vietnam at the presidential retreat at nearby Camp David, Md. He said the United States had been in contact with its allies since receiving a direct message from Hanoi Monday and had replied today looking toward arrangements for an ambassa dorial-level meeting with Hanoi representatives. No time or place has yet been announced for the meeting. There was no official word on the language or content of the U.S. message but it was presumed to contain suggestions for alternative sites for the meeting. The Untied States originally suggested Geneva as the best place. North Vietnam has suggested Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. U.S. officials said in response to private reports of North Vietnam’s desire for a Cambo dia meeting that this govern ment was not anxious to send Ambassador Averell Harriman and the rest of the U.S. delegation to any area where this country did not have secured communications back to Washington. However, Washington was not likely to quibble over Phnom Penh as the meeting place if Hanoi insisted. Snipers Fire At Guardsmen, Federal Troops Ify United Press International Sniper fire at federal troops and National Guardsmen wor sened Baltimore’s three-day riot emergency early today. Wil mington, Del.; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Youngstown, Ohio, Joined the lengthening list of communi ties struck by violence since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated. On the day of King’s funeral, at least 110 communities from coast to coast had been hit by the Negro disorders. In addition to the first outbreaks in Wilmington, Buffa lo, and Youngstown, burning and looting rekindled Monday night in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Columbia, S.C. Thousands of police, National Guardsmen and regular Army troops kept a fragile peace in Washington and Chicago, where major violence erupted during the weekend. Patrol In Helicopters In Pittsburgh, disorder mush roomed from the embattled Hill District to other sections of the city. National Guardsmen whirl ing in helicopters at rooftop levels maintained a shaky peace after four days of racial violence, first in Pittsburgh’s history. Minor Negro disorder also broke out Monday night in Wheeling, W.Va., for the first time. Weather: FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Mostly cloudy and mild Wednesday. Chance of showers ending Wednesday. LOCAL WEATHER — High today 82, low today 59, high Monday 77, low Monday 55, sunrise Wednesday 6:17, sunset Wedaasdjur 7:os,