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VENIN VX
By Quimby Melton
(This is concluding part of an
Easter Sermon preached more
than 70 years ago by Good
Evenings’s grandfather, the late
Rev. Isaac Quimby Melton.)
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The resurrection of Christ in
sures our resurrection. Per
haps there is none of us, who
have not buried friends, and re
latives. We took our last look of
them, and followed them mour
nfully to the grave. But they
will rise again, and we shall see
them by and by for Christ be
came the first fruits of them
that slept, and those who sleep
in him will God bring with him.
Hence, the burial places of our
dead are called cemeteries,
sleeping places.
There their bodies rest in their
graves until the resurrection.
Ever keep their memories green
in your hearts. We are only pil
grims here. This is not our final
resting place.
We seek a home beyond the
stars. “The land of rest, the Sa
ints delight, the heaven prepar
ed for us."
Let us then live as pilgrims,
looking for that city which hath
foundations whose builder and
maker is God. Let us prepare
fnr our home in heaven. The
taking to heaven of Enoch de
clares this fact. The transla
tion of Elijah demonstrated it,
and the resurrection of Christ
confirms it.
Let us then with Peter bless
God for it. “Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten
us again unto a lively hope by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead.
“To an inheritance incorrputi
ble and undefiled, and that fade
th not away, reserved in hea
ven for you, who are kept by
the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be re
vealed in the last time.” Have
we received life from spiritual
death? Have we felt the po
wer of Him who is the resurrec
tion and the Life? Are we in
Christ now?
Then for us there is peace in
the present, and a brilliant hope
for the future; and a Christian
may go down into the grave
with the same joy with which
he lies down on his bed; know
ing it is but the sleep, the last
' sleep, that will be everlasting re
freshment.
We know that what betides us
in this world is from our hea
venly Father, and when he tak
es from us those whom we love,
it is only the Shepherd taking
from the sheep, the lamb, that
the sheep may follow him who
has taken it and when our loved
ones enter the gates of glory a
portion of the sunshine that is
emitted from the opening gates,
falls with refreshing brightness
upon our spirits.
Hope grows and nestles in the
heart of the Christian not as a
mere expectancy, but as an ear
nest full of glory.
Every step that we take is a
stage nearer to the end. every
event that passes by brings us
nearer to glory. And one won
ders, if Christians feel the truth
of all the bright things, and the
glad things; and the happy th
ings that God has promised to
them that love him, and how
they can desire to remain be
hind amid the aches, the ills,
the changes, the losses, and the
crosses of an eventful world;
and are so reluctant and so in
disposed to unfold new wings
and take their flight to that bet
ter land where the sun never
sets, where the sky has no sha
dow, and all things are made
new.
“There the King, our Redee
mer
The Lord whom we love.
All the faithful with rapture
behold;
There the righteous for ever
Shall shine as the stars,
In that beautiful city of God.”
While the resurrection of Christ
(Continued on page Two)
Country Parson
“If you must be unkind to
someone, put it off until to*
morrow.”
Bonds Set For 10
In Arson Cases;
Seven Cases Dropped
Seven men and three juvenil
es have been charged with ar
son in fire bombings at four
Griffin businesses last Thursday
and Friday nights. Seven others
booked at the Griffin Police De
partment on arson charges have
been freed for lack of evidence.
The 10 who were charged in
warrants are being held in Spal
ding County Jail, Their bonds
have been set at between $lO,-
000 and $40,000.
Those being held, excluding
the juveniles whose names can
not be published under Georgia
law, are: Samuel (Sammie)
Shepherd, Jr., 28, of 109 North
First street; Carl William John
son, 18, of 841 East Solomon st
reet; Andrew Lyons,,Jr., 20, of
123 Cleveland avenue; Albert
Chambliss, 17, of 19 Pearl st
reet; Larry Render, 18, of 826
East Wall alley; M. C. Talley,
19, of 510 South Eighth street;
and Larry Willis, 19, of 507 East
Taylor street.
Bond for Shepherd has been
set at $40,000. Bond for Lyons,
Render and Talley was set at
$20,000 and at SIO,OOO for the
three juveniles and Willis,
Chambliss and Johnson.
Among those released for lack
of evidence were: Riley Henley,
17, of 831 North Hill street; Lar
ry McDowell of 829 North Hill
street; Perry Leon Smith, 17, of
841 East Solomon street; Brian
Dion Crafter, 17, of 610 East Wall
alley; and three juveniles.
No one has been charged in
the fire at Concrete and Build
ing Supply Co., on West College
street Monday night. Several
people were questioned about
Demonstration In Athens
Co - eds Want Right To
Stay Out Late, Drink
ATHENS, Ga. (UPl)—About
150 students, demonstrating for
equal rights for women—includ
ing the right to stay out late :
and drink liquor—continued an ,
all-night sit-in in the University <
of Georgia’s Academic Building
today.
Dean William Tate said he 1
didn’t know what to do with the
students. 1
“This is different than any- 1
thing I have seen since I have :
been at the university,” Tate
said. :
Estimates as td the number '■
of students participating in the ’
sit-in varied. A student source i
said that as many as 450 were <
involved when it began Wednes- i
day night.
However, the number dwin- i
died during the night to about <
60 or less. :
University officials made no
attempt to remove the students.
“The routine of the Universi
ty of Georgia offices in the Aca- '
demic Building is running <
smoothly and students are not
intsrferring with our normal '
duties,” Tate said. <
An organization calling itself
“The Committee of 12” passed '
out leaflets today spelling out a
five-point program.
Under the heading "Apathy is i
Dead," the leaflets said the stu- i
dents were demanding that all •
curfew rules be abolished by ]
April 17, that all rules govern- 1
24,500 Reservists
Get Call-Up Orders
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Defense Secretary Clark M.
Clifford announced today the
immediate call-up of about
24,500 Army, Navy and Air
Force reservists. Some 10,000 of
them will be sent to South
Vietnam.
Clifford made the announce
ment at his first formal news
conference since becoming Pen
tagon chief on March 1.
He said the Army is calling
about 20,000 men in 76 National
Guard and Army reserve units,
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the fire, but no charges have
been made.
The Griffin Police Department
and the Spalding County Sher
iff’s Department are continuing
an investigation of the fire.
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Students Make Hats
U was Easter hat day today for many students at Crescent Elementary School.
They made the hats themselves. Some samples of their work are modeled by
(front, 1-r) Connie Reeves, Kathy Gibson, Regina Mays (top) Janet Smalley,
Michael Lynch and Mary Kendrick.
ing students shall apply equally t
by the summer quarter, that
university drinking rules be i
made consistent with Georgia
state law, that present functions ;
of the Women Students of the :
University of Georgia Associa- <
tion (WSGA) be transferred to
the Students Association of the '
University of Georgia (SGA) :
and that no disciplinary action :
be taken against those involved 1
in the demonstration.
Apparently the demands were
aimed, in part, against the :
strict 11:15 p.m. curfew for
women living in dormitories :
and against strict rules forbid
ding drinking by women stu- 1
dents.
University Vice President ]
George S. Parthemous told stu
dents in the building Wednesday
night that failure to move :
"could subject you to disciplin
ary action.” 1
Dean of Women Louise
Mcßee was jeered by the dem
onstrators.
Many of the students took tel
evision sets, record players, ra- ,
dios, musical instruments and
coffee percolators to the col
umned building.
Students wanted to discuss
with University President Fred
C. Davison their demands that
curfew for women be lifted in a ’
week and that women be no 1
longer subjected to rules dis- ’
tinguishing them from men 1
The Navy is calling up
approximately 1,000 men in two
reserve units. These men will
be available for rotation be
tween Southeast Asia and the
United States.
The Air Force is calling about
3,500 men in 10 Air National
Guard and Air Force reserve
units. About a third of these will
be sent to Southeast Asia under
current plans.
Clifford said the length of
service for all of these men will
not exceed 24 months. He said
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, April 11, 1968
No Relief In Sight
For Crowded Hospital
students.
A petition protesting a re
quirement that coeds under 21
not be allowed to live off cam
pus is reportedly under advise
ment by the school’s adminis
tration.
Miss Mcßee warned that she
would order house mothers to
notify parents of girls who
stayed out beyond curfew. A
local representative of the
American Civil Liberties Union
said legal action might be taken
if she did so.
A portable microphone was
set up, over which students
were encouraged to stay on,
and most of them appeared to
be prepared to stay the whole
night. Some brought blankets,
books and food.
“He’s always been so in
accessible to students,” one
student complained of Davi
son.
US Rejects
Warsaw Site
By STEWART HENSLEY
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
White House Indicated today
that the Polish capital of
Warsaw is not acceptable to the
United States as the site for
notifications were already being
sent to all units involved. Each
man will have a minimum of 30
days’ notice before reporting.
Only two units from Georgia
were listed.
The 413th Finance Section of
Atlanta will be mobilized at Ft.
Benning, Ga., the Defense De
partment said. It has a comple
ment of 41 men.
Ths 319th Transportation
Company, a light truck unit
based at Augusta, Ga., with 74
officers and men, will also be
sent to Ft. Benning.
Griffinites
May See Moon
Eclipse Friday
If the weather is clear Friday
night, Griffinites will be able to
observe a total eclipse of the
moon. The penumbra, the part
ly lighted area surrounding the
moon as the shadow from the
earth is seen, will begin approxi
mately at 9:11 p.m. local time.
The shadow will be more ap
parent at about 10:20 p.m., and
the total eclipse will be at ap
proximately 11:22 p.m. The mid
dle of the eclipse will occur at
11:47 p.m., and the total eclip
se ends at 12:12 a.m. The
moon will leave the earth’s sha
dow at approximately 2:24 a.m.
This will be the last eclipse
of the moon ccservable locally
until 1971, according to Wea
ther Observer Horace West
brooks.
talks between American and
North Vietnamese representa
tives.
George Christian, President
Johnson’s press secretary, said
the United States was still
attempting to reach agreement
with Hanoi on a "neutral” site
for talks with North Vietnam.
While the United States
maintains diplomatic relations
with Poland, the broad implica
tion was that the United States
was against Warsaw as the
talks site since it Is a capital of
a Communist nation.
Neutral Atmosphere
“In serious matters of this
kind, it is important to conduct
talks in a neutral atmosphere
fair to both sides,” Christian
said.
“The United States Govern
ment has proposed a number of
neutral countries as possible
sites for contact and we have
not yet had any response to this
proposal,” Christian said.
"The selection of an appro
priate site in neutral territory
with adequate communications
Continued on page two
Vol. 96 No. 87
Patient Load
Running Heavy
There is no relief in sight for
the crowded conditions that have
prevailed this week at the Grif
fin-Spalding County Hospital,
administrator Carl A. Ridley
said today.
Ridley said that no emergen
cy patients are being turned
away, however, some elective
surgery patients are having to
wait one and two days to be ad
mitted to the hospital.
“We try to hold six beds in the
hospital for emergencies, but
we are having to use some of
these for other patients,” he
said.
The patient load at the hospi
tal this week has been above
143 each day. The hospital is de
signed to handle 156 patients.
The patient load today at the
hospital reached 162, one less
than the high of 163 several
weeks ago. Ridley said the 162
patients include 149 adults and
13 babies.
Ridley said the high patient
loads have become constant and
are not varying up and down
as in the past.
He said he is not expecting the
patient load to decrease in the
summer months as has been the
trend for several years. He said
the high occupancy this w r eek is
not due to an epedimic or an
outbreak of a communicable dis
ease.
“If we should have an epede
mic right now, we would be in a
lam. However, we would do our
best to handle the situation,”
Ridley said.
He said some of the rooms
have been converted from pri
vate to semi-private with the ad
dition of a bed and other facili
ties. Some additional beds were
purchased when the occupancy
was 163 several weeks ago.
“Some of our personnel, nur
ses and office people, are work
ing overtime to insure that we
are providing the best medical
care possible for the patients,”
Ridley said.
“We can change schedules to
give good, uninterrupted ser
vice, no matter what the patient
load is," he said. Some of the
schedules have been changed so
some of the personnel are work
ing on what would normally be
their day off.
Ridley said there is not a
shortage of personnel at the hos
pital, however, several nurses
will be needed during the sum
mer months when vacations st
art. He said there was an open
ing for a registered laboratory
technician.
“Other than this, we are fully
staffed and are not expecting
any personnel shortages,” Rid
ley said.
Application has been made to
the State Department of Health
for state and federal funds to
help construct an addition to the
hospital. However, such funds
are not expected to be available
Waycross Chief Says
Lawmen Need Training
The police chief of Waycross
tola the Griffin Kiwanis Club
Wednesday that Georgia needs
to set training requirements and
other qualification standards for
lawmen.
Chief Ray Pope who is presi
dent of the Georgia Peace Offi
cers Association said a measure
aimed in that direction would
be sought in the General Assem
bly next year.
He asked citizens across the
state to express themselves to
their representatives on the mat
ter.
“If you want qualified lawmen
to be available when you need
them, then talk to your legisla
tors and ask them to support the
bill,” Chief Pope said.
“If you don’t want trained
lawmen, then tell them to kill
the bill,” he said.
Chief Pope said he thought a
high school education should be
required for every lawman and
they should have at least 200
hours of training in a police aca-
for two to three years. i
Ridley said the Griffin-Spald- |
ing County Hospital is 22nd on
the list for the funds.
Should the funds be approved, ,
it would take six to nine mon- ,
ths for planning and to get bids
and let contracts and from nine
months to a year for construc
tion.
This means that it will be
three to four years before an
addition can be ready for pat
ients, Ridley said.
INSIDE j
Hospital. Page 2.
Stork Club. Page 2.
Funerals, Page 2.
Rights Bill. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Legais. age 5.
Viet War. Page 6.
Trouble With Gold. Page 7.
Woman’s News. Page 9.
Sports. Pages 10, 11.
Pictures. Page 12.
Youth Page. Page 13.
Want Ads. Page 14.
Military. Page 16. j
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 16. !
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Uniforms
Tom Boggess (1), manager of the Kiwanis fair last
year, and Dr. D. M. Baird, (r), president of the club
last year, present a check for SI,OOO to Richard
Turner, band director at Griffin High for new uni
forms. The money was taken from profits from the
fair.
demy.
The program will cost money,
he said, but he added that a
community cannot afford to have
untrained men serving in law
enforcement.
A barber who must meet st
rict requirements before he gets
a state license might gap a cus
tomer's hair if he is not skilled
in his trade but that will grow
out, he said. However, an untr
ained lawman who makes a
mistake can damage a commu
nity and it will take years or ge
nerations for it to recover, he
said.
The chief said that city and
county governments cannot ex
pect to get qualified people in
law enforcement with low pay.
A community that pays its
lawmen $l5O a month can’t ex
pect too much, the chief said.
Law enforcement practices
and techniques have changed
very much in recent
said.
Supreme Court decisions have
Zoning Change
In County
Is Denied
The Spalding County Commis
sioners have turned down a Be
quest that an area between O’-
Dell road and Kalamazoo drive
be rezoned.
Lewis Woodruff had petitioned
the zoning board requesting that
the zoning be changed from R-l
to C-2.
A delegation of property ow
ners in the area showed up at
the public hearing with a peti
tion representing about 75 per
cent of the property owners re
questing that the zoning change
be denied.
The commissioners were un
animous in the decision again
st rezoning the area.
Weather;
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA Fair and cool tonight.
Friday fair and mild.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 82, low today 44, high
Wednesday 72, low Wednesday
. 53, rainfall .01 of an inch; sun
! rise Friday 6:16, sunset Friday
I 7:07.
made law enforcement a com
plex profession, he said. He was
quick to say that he did not con
demn all tire decisions relating
to police work that the U. S. co
urt had handed down. He said
some were for the good and
when Implemented would upgr
ade law enforcement.
Chief Pope said there could
not be a double scale of jus
tice.
Bootleggers as wel 1 as up
standing citizens of a commun
ity have to live under the same
laws, he said, and are entitled
to the same protection.
Chief Pope was Introduced by
Flynt Langford, past president
of the Griffin Kiwanis Club and
program chairman for the day.
Langford is executive secretary
of the Peace Officers organiza
tion with headquarters in Grif
fin.
Chief Leo Blackwell and Spal
ding Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
were guests of the club for the
program on law enforcement.