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By Quimby Melton
“God Loves All People” is the
title of this week’s International
Sunday School lesson. Backgro
und Scripture is the entire Book
of Jonah.
The Memory Selection is: “I
know that thou art a gracious
God, and merciful, slow to an
ger, and of great kindness.” (Jo
nah 4:2)
The Book of Jonah is one of the
shortest in the Old Testament—
just four chapters — but Jonah
is a man, the story of whom is
known by many, starting with
young children. Ask who he was
and most everyone will respond
quickly by saying, “He was the
man who was swallowed by a
whale.”
But he was more than that. He
was a prophet who lived during
the Eighth Century B.C. who dis
obeyed God’s instructions, belie
ving that he (Jonah > knew bet
ter than God where he was need
ed most. The name Jonah me
ans “dove” and by the time one
reads the whole book of Jonah
one will arrive at the conclusion
that Jonah was the greatest for
eign missionary, excluding of
course Paul, in Biblical history.
The outstanding theme of the
Book of Jonah is “God’s Mer
cy.”
As one reads Jonah one is led
to divide the book into four sec
tions :
(1) Disobedience and flight of
Jonah;
(2) Jonah and the “great fish”;
(3) World’s Greatest revival;
(4) The wideness of God’s mer
cy.
It is interesting to note that it
was not until in Matthew 12:30
the “big fish” that swallowed Jo
nah is identified as a whale.
Then Jesus Himself said “For
as Jonah was three days in the
whale’s belly; so shall the Son of
man be three days and three ni
ghts in the heart of the earth.”
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In the first chapter of Jonah
we find where the word of the
Lord came to him saying, “Ar
rise, go to Nineveh, that great
city, and cry against it; for
their great wickedness is come
before me.” But Jonah did not
want to go there so he “flea
from tlie presence of the Lord,
and went down to Joppa;” and
he booked passage on a ship bo
und for Tarshish.
Then we have the story of the
great storm that threatened the
ship and Jonah finally admitted
he disobeyed the Lord and beg
ged them to throw him off the
ship so they could be saved.
They did this and we find the gr
eat fish swallowing Jonah. Jonah,
repenting of his disobedience,
prayed from the belly of the fish
for three days and finally was
vomited up on the beach.
Then the Lord spoke to Jonah
for the second time and told
him to go on to Nineveh and
“preach to them the preaching
that I bid thee."
This time Jonah obeyed the
Lord. But even when the people
of Nineveh repented and turn
ed to the Lord, Jonah, instead of
praising God, was "displeased”.
Had not he prophesed that Nine
veh would be wiped out. Jonah,
it ih quite evident, preferred that
a whole city be destroyed as he
had prophesied, rather than be ■
saved by the mercy of God.
Jonah thought more of his
reputation as a prophet than he
did of God’s approval. But com
ing to his senses, Jonah prayed
to the Lord for forgiveness ana
begged, “Take my life from me,
for it is better for me to die than
live.”
Then said the Lord, “Doest
thou well to be angry?”
Jonah left the city and made
him a booth and sat in its sha
dow, still believing the city shou
ld be destroyed, as he had pro
phesied. He still couldn't com
prehend God's-mercy, to the
people and to him.
Then the Lord caused a goard
to grow up by the side of the
booth to provide shade from the
hot sun. Jonah was glad of this
and again thanked God. But
when morning came the guard
vine had withered and Jonah,
once again, was in doubt. The !
sun beat down on him and he
once again asked God to kill
him.
It’s a long, but Interesting st
ory, showing how God gives man
kind chance after chance to re
pent, even in the closing minu
tes of life when one even prays
for death to end his misery.
In the New Testament we find
Peter saying it is better to obey
God than men.
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Scout Donkey
Scout Executive Tommy Fletcher and Hoyt Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian F.
Cook, talk about “Pedro” the donkey. The donkey will be one of the attractions
at the Spalding-Butts-Fayette-Henry Scout-O-Rama to be held Saturday at t h e
Kiwanis Fairgrounds on Zebulon road. Other features will include scout exhibits
and demonstrations.
Eagles To Open
At Home Tonight
The Griffin High Eagles will
open their home football season
tonight and the weatherman is
promising fair to partly cloudy
skies.
A large crowd is expected to
see Eagles meet Gordon of De-
Kalb County, the first of nine
straight region opponents.
Game time is 8 o'clock.
Gordon brings a 1-1 record to
Griffin. The Generals opened
with a 14-0 loss to Walker High
then defeated Columbia, 7-0.
The Eagles are 0-1. The 28-0
! loss came last week in Decatur.
Although the Eagles are 0-1
they are favored.
Coach Max Dowis has experi
mented with a new alignment
this week and its very possible
he will use it tonight.
The new system has Johnny
School System
Organizes
Adult Education
The Griffin-Spalding School
System has organized adult edu
! cation classes for adults who
have been unable to complete
J their education in public schools.
The classes offer reading, writ
ing, English, History, science
and other areas of interest.
Completion of the courses pro
vide preparation for the GED
Exam for the high schoal equi
valency certificate.
The classes are non-competi
tive and are geared to the indivi
dual needs of the students.
There is no cost for lessons or
materials. The materials and
equipment are up-to-date.
Classes will meet Monday
and Thursday nights from 7 till
10 p.m. at Griffin High math
building, Fairmont High School
and Atkinson Elementary Sc
hool. Day classes will meet on
Mondays and Thursdays from 9
a.m. till noon at the old Rushton
School building next to Oak Hill
Baptist Church on Lyndon ave
nue.
For further information, call
228-1015.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, September 20,1968 Vol. 95 No. 225
Baker, a pass catching whizz at
flanker and Larry Chambers, a
junior, at fullback.
Coach Dowis says he will
rhake the decision whether or
not to use the system just be
fore game-time.
If Rickey Clark, Griffin’s num.
ber one fullback, is operating at
full strength, the coach may
stick to the alignment that start
ed in Decatur.
If Clark is not ready, Coach
Dowis likely will start Chamb
ers at fullback and Baker at fl- ,
anker.
For the time being he lists Ba
ker as an end and Chambers
as a halfback with Clark and
James Black as possible start
ers at fullback. 1
Craig Bozeman, who is consi
dered by many as Griffin’s top :
Sanders To Stay
With Demo Party
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Gov. Carl E. Sanders said
Thursday night that he has no
intention of standing idly by
while the strength of the Demo
cratic Party in Georgia is frit
tered away.
Reacting to the defection to
the Republicans by five top
elected officials, Sanders said in
a speech to the Georgia High
way Department Engineers As
sociation that he is proud of the
Democratic Party’s achieve
ment in Georgia.
“I will not sit idly by and see
it frittered away,” the former
governor said.
“I firmly believe that when
the alternative is between wear,
ing the same party label as
some candidate who may have
different views, and abandon
ing the state party, the best al
ternative is to stay within the
state party and fight. And if
one’s views are minority views
in his party, he should fight to
make them majority views.”
Sanders said that when he
was governor, “I often spoke
out on the matter of party loy
alty. I attempted to provide
strong leadership for my party
because I know that weak
leadership within the party re
sults in instability, not only for
the party but in the state gov
ernment as well.
“As a Georgia Democrat, I
am determined to see that my
party takes the long view. We
GRIFFIN
defensive player, is still on the
doubtful list.
Bozeman’s knee, which was
severly cut last week in Deca
tur, will be taped and coaches
feel he will play some. However,
they aren’t sure he can maneu
ver properly with the tightly
bandaged knee.
If Bozeman cannot play, Coa
ch Dowis plans to shift Luke
Nichol to linebacker and use
Quimby Melton at middle guard.
The tentative starting offen
sive has Baker and Jeff Allen
at end, Bill Cody and Sonny
Folse at tackle, Bruce Colwell
and Luke Nichol at guard and
Henry Arnold at center.
Donnie Robison, who comple
ted 19 of 36 passes last week, will
be at quarterback. Kenneth
Hand will be at halfback.
need to look beyond November
and the immediate future.
"We need to speak out now
and make it clear that we are
not going to let a party with a
record of achievement in Geor
gia go into political limbo.”
Absentee Ballots
Available For
Runoff Primary
Absentee ballots will be avail
able for the runoff voting in the
Democratic primary to pick a
nominee for Spalding County
Commissioner next week.
The runoff will be between in
cumbent Jack Moss and challen
ger Louis Goldstein. The vote
will be cast Wednesday.
Today was the last day the
Department of Registrars could
mail absentee ballots more than
300 miles. Voters who will be
out of town next Wednesday may
go to the Registrars Office in the
Spalding Courthouse and vote
absentee before the election.
This must be done by Tuesday.
The office reminded sick or
disabled persons seeking an ab
sentee ballot for health reasons
must have a doctor’s certificate
to get a ballot.
FBI Rescues Boy
Held For Ransom
Two Men, Woman
Accused In Kidnap
By JAMES K. DORSEY
CHICAGO (UPD—FBI agents
today rescued the 7-year-old i
grandson of a wealthy manufac
turer and arrested two men and
a woman accused of kidnaping
and holding him under threat of
death two days ago.
The agents closed in on an :
apartment on Chicago’s West 1
Side and found Hillard Willis
Marks, who was abducted while
walking home from school in <
the fashionable suburb of Oak
Brook Wednesday and held for :
$12,000 ransom.
When Hillard was reunited i
with his parents at FBI i
headquarters in Chicago, the ’
first thing he said was, “Did we i
have the party?” He was
talking about the party for his
seventh birthday, which would i
have been held Thursday. i
Rugged Son
“No,” Mrs. Mary Lou Marks ’
said as she hugged her son I
“But we’ll have it soon.” <
The FBI said Hillard was
found at the apartment of
Robert Steven Marin, 24, a :
machinist, and his wife, Ethel '
Marie, 26. i
They were arrested, along
with a former gasoline station
dealer, Daniel C. Pieler, 30.
The abduction had been :
known to Chicago news media
since Wednesday night. Repor
ters had been keeping a 24-hour
vigil at the Oak Brook police
station, but no word of the
kidnaping had been printed or
broadcast because the abduc
tors had threatened to kill the
boy if word of the crime leaked ■
out.
Hillard is the son of William
E. Marks, 34, a furniture
manufacturer, and is the
grandson of his namesake,
Hillard Marks, the founder and
president of Perfect Plus
Hosiery, Inc.
The boy had just alighted in
Oak Brook from a bus which i
brought him from the Monroe
School of suburban Hinsdale
Wednesday when a green
Chrysler containing two persons ’
Eastern Jet
Hijacked
To Cuba
MIAMI (UPD—A jetliner
with 53 persons aboard was
hijacked and taken to Cuba
today after departing the Isla
Grande Airport at San Juan,
P.R. on a flight to Miami.
It was the 15th plane hijacked
to Cuba this year.
Paul Boatman, regional su- 1
pervisor of the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), said the '
Eastern Airlines Boeing 720
finally landed at Havana’s Jose '
Marti Airport at 9:45 a.m. EDT.
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It was commandeered about '
two hours after it departed '
Puerto Rico.
Boatman said the plane, 1
Flight No. 950, was about 40 i
miles southwest of Nassau,
Bahamas, when it suddenly 1
made an unscheduled turn i
toward the southwest and i
headed for Havana. 1
The plane, piloted by Capt. W. <
T. (Slim) Babbitt of Miami, was j
scheduled to land here at 9:35 ,
a.m. It departed San Juan at .
about 7 a.m., Eastern officials
said. j
“We are working with the 1
State Department to return the
passengers as quickly as we ’
possibly can,” Eastern spokes
man Bill Wooten said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair to partly cloudy ;
and warm Saturday. i
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi- <
mum today 80, minimum today '
69, maximum Thursday 80, mini
mum Thursday 65. Sunrise Sat- ’
urday 7:27 a.m., sunset Satur- 1
day 7:39 p.m.
pulled to the curb beside him.
“They asked me my name,”
Hillard told his mother. "They
said they were my friends. And
I got in the car.”
2 Other Children
His family’s ordeal began a
few hours later. The Marks live
in a rangy, one-story ranch
home a few blocks from the
point where Hillard was picked
up. They have two other
children, Judy, 1, and Barry, 4.
They knew all too well that
Hillard was missing before they
received the first of four
telephone calls. The first call
sounded tape recorded and the
voice of the caller was
distorted. The caller said,
“We’ve got your kid.”
Another call came. The caller
said the price for Hillard’s
safety was $12,000. Police told
reporters the caller said the boy
would be killed if any word of
the kidnaping appeared in print
or was broadcast over radio or
television.
The caller asked Marks, “Do
you have that kind of money?”
When Marks said he did not,
the caller said, “We feel sorry
for you.”
There were two other calls
after that, but their nature was
not immediately disclosed.
Marks called police immediate
ly after the first call. The FBI
took over the case Thursday
afternoon.
This morning, Hillard ran into
his parents’ arms, his wide open
smile showing the absence of
two front teeth. He was in fine
shape.
“What did you do?” his
mother asked.
“Just watched television,” he
said.
While Mary Lou Marks
ruffled her son’s light brown
hair, the boy was asked, “Did
you go to their place?”
“No, to someone else’s
place.”
“Did they treat you okay?”
“Yeah.”
“Did you tell them any
thing?”
"I wanted to go home.”
Marks dandled his son on his
knee and laughed happily, “He
sure didn’t lose any weight.”
Hillard said he had been doing
fine on peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches. The boy appeared
completely unimpressed by the
uproar in FBI headquarters
just anxious to get home and
have his birthday party.
Congressmen Put
Crush On Grapes
By GENE BERNHARDT
WASHINGTON (UPI)— The
congressman from New York
told the congressman from
California: “I like your grapes
but not the sentiment behind
them.”
The exchange of words and
grapes between Reps. James
Scheuer, D-N.Y., and Robert
Mathias, R-Calif., produced a
near riot Thursday that crushed
both people and grapes In the
corridor outside Mathias’ office.
The freshman lawmaker from
California’s San Joaquin Valley,
a two-time Olympic decathlon
gold-medalist, sent bags of
muscat and white Imperial
grapes to all of his colleagues. ,
Some were accompanied by a
bumper sticker that read: “Eat i
California grapes—the forbidden
fruit.”
Scheuer and Rep. William F. :
Ryan, another New York ;
Democrat, personally returned ;
their grapes. Six other House <
Democrats sent theirs back
when they interpreted the move :
as a slap at the labor boycott on :
California grapes in support of i
Western pickers who seek union
recognition. I
“We gave out potatoes last
year and none were returned” :
said a puzzled Mathias in a :
confrontation with Scheuer.
"How come?” i
“This time the grapes came '
with a sticker that delineated
the issue,” Scheuer said.
“I’m surprised that the
Pruett Seeks
City Post
Carl Pruett who served 15 ye
ars as a city commissioner dur
ing five consecutive terms today
qualified to seek reelection to
the board in November.
He was the first to qualify
as the city opened its books to
candidates who wish to seek the
office.
Deadline for qualifying for the
post is Oct. 21 at noon at the
city hall.
Pruett qualified shortly after 11
a.m. this morning at the city
hall.
He issued this statement:
“I have today qualified for el
ection to the office of City Com
missioner, in the election to be
held Tuesday, Nov. 5.
“Many of you know that I
have served you in the past in
this office. During that time I ne
ver hesitated to give of my time
or talent at every opportunity
when it came to helping our
community move forward in the
right direction. You also know
that I never hesitated to oppose
any movement that was not for
the good of our people. I shall
forever be grateful to you for
this privilege of service to my
community, in the past. Togeth
er we developed even further,
the finest City in Georgia.
“Every community in the na
tion is faced with problems to
day. Griffin is no exception at
all. If we continue to move for
ward with progress and prospe
rity we will have more of these
problems which must be faced
by every one of us. It will take
the support and effort of every
good citizen of Griffin, if we con
tinue to build and develop the
type community that we want
for the coming generation.
"In the election on Tuesday
Nov. 5, if you wish for me to ag
ain serve you in building an
even more desirable community
for all of us, you will have the
opportunity of casting your bal
lot for me.
“If you elect me to the Board
of City Commissioners at that
time, I pledge to each of you
that I will give freely the subst
antial time that is required to
get the job done; that I will do
my best to accomplish the fur
ther growth and development of
our City to where all our people
will have greater opportunity an
boycott got involved in what I
thought was a thoughtful
gesture,” said Mathias, sound
ing innocent.
Police sought to clear the
corridor of the fast-growing
crowd of congressional aides,
newsmen and a small group of
Mexican-Americans who said
they spoke for the grape
pickers. The Democratic study
group, an organization of about
150 liberal House members,
conducted a telephone campaign
to get a big turnout of grape
returnees.
One girl, who could not be
identified, took the grapes from
her plastic bag one by one and
crushed them in her fingers,
letting the ooze drop into a box
hurriedly provided by Mathias
to receive the “forbidden fruit.”
Just one office down from the
scene, Rep. Albert Watson, R-
S.C., lounged in his doorway,
munching grapes with an air of
contempt for the protesters.
A burly, shirtsleeved young
man who said he represented
Rep. Bill Nichols, D-Ala.,
shouted over the crowd, “We’re
with you Bob. We’ll take all the
grapes ya got.”
In addition to Scheuer and
Ryan, Reps. Daniel Ronan of
Illinois; James Howard of New
Jersey: William Ford of Michi
gan; Henry B. Gonzalez of
Texas; Joseph Resnick of New
York, and Frank Thompson of
New Jersey—all Democrats—
returned their grapes.
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especially even more job oppor
tunity; and that I will give
untiring support to the programs
of all types that will be of bene
fit and interest to the fine peo
ple of Griffin.
Pennington
Quits Demos;
Joins GOP
MADISON, Ga. (UPD—State
Sen. Brooks Pennington has an
nounced he will switch to the
Republican Party and will sup
port Richard Nixon for presi
dent.
Pennington became the first
state legislator to switch parties
in the wake of a mass defection
of top Democratic state of
ficials.
Pennington said when he qual
ified to run for office on May
22 that he would not support
national Democratic nominees.
“I haven’t been a Democrat
since May 22,” Pennington said.
“I’m glad to see other Demo
cratic officials renounce the
Democratic Party and the
things for which it stands,” he
said. “I’m doing it facing an
election.”
Pennington said Hubert Hum
phrey was “too soclialistic” for
him.
Spalding Still
On Display At
Marietta Fair
One of the feature attractions
at the North Georgia Fair, whi
ch opened Monday at Marietta,
is a 20-gallon moonshine still
seized in Spalding County.
The Spalding County still is
one of two on display at the fair.
Although the stills are comple
te with fermenting mash, the
clear liquid that pours from
them is water, not Georgia’s fa
med “mountain dew.”
Country Parson
“Any man alive will some
times be insulted by his
preacher — unless he has a
poor preacher.'*