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By Quimby Melton
“Assurance to the Faithful” is
the topic of this week’s Interna
tional Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is Reve
lation 4, 5 and 7. Only part of the
background Scripture is printed
In the lesson text, in fact only
parts of Chapter 7. One who
would get better understanding
of the lesson should read all
three chapters, 4, 5 and 7.
The Memory Selection is “Bl
essings, and, glory, and wis
dom, and thanksgiving, and po
wer and might, be unto our God
for ever and ever, Amen”. (Re
velation 7:12.)
This portion of Revelation is
most assuring and comforting
to believers. Not only does the
Golden Text depict the Glory of
God; but in Revelation 7, verse
17, is a sentence that has com
forted countless millions —“And
God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.”
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From ancient days right on un
til today man has needed assur
ance and reassurance. Children
and young people need it just
as much as do the middle aged
and those who reach “the twi
light years.”
Who am I? Where am I head
ed? What will I find? the young
er ask;
The middle aged, many of
whom feel frustrated, disappoin
ted, and baffled, need reassur
ance that they have a most im
portant part to play in life;
And the old folk often need
assurance that they are still
needed, are still respected, and
loved.
“Reassurance”, wrote Charles
Laymon, must be realistic, how
ever, or it becomes wistful think
ing.” And then he tells of a re
mark made by an older friend
when he was asked, “How’ is the
outlook?” He replied "The out
look is dark, but the uplook is
wonderful.”
So, regardless of one’s age, he
who looks upward and onward,
and strives to live a worthwhile
life, can feel the real impact of
“The sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be com
pared with the glory which shall
be revealed to us,” (Romans 8:
18;) for, "All things work toge
ther for good to them that love
God.” (Romans 8:28.)
This layman suggests that all
read every word of that belov
ed Eighth Chapter of Romans.)
And as one reads it, we venture
the guess that he will find ring
ing through his heart the song
“Blessed Assurance Jesus Is
Mine.”
In the very first verse of t h e
printed background Scripture we
are told of "a great multitude,
which no man could number,
of all nations, and kindreds and
people, and tongues” who were
gathered to praise God. In this
lesson and throughout Revela
tion John, when predicting the
doom that awaits many, inter
rupts his message to break
through the dark prophesy and
picture the glorious future that
awaits those who trust and try
with all their might to obey
God.
One of the greatest true stor
ies of faithful service to God and
to one’s fellow man that came
out of World War Two, is of the
four chaplains —two Protestant
ministers, a Catholic priest, and
a Jewish rabbi — who gave their
life belts to four soldiers when
the American cargo-transport
Dorchester was torpedoed and
sank in February 1943. These
four servants of God went to
their watery grave with a com
mon prayer on their lips. They
prayed in unison "Our Father
Which Art In Heaven” with their
last breath attesting to the Uni
versal Fatherhood of God.
In memory of these four br
ave men a commemorative st
amp was issued. The inscrip
ture read “Interfaith, In Ac
tion!”
As we approach Christmas —
that Holy Day — we all may re
jojice that with men of all faith
in God, working in harmony, the
fears and doubts of the future
can be blown away and the sun
shine of hope dawn bright on the
world.
And, added to this, when one
realizes the birth of the Baby at
Bethlehem, brought to the wor
ld “the way, the truth and the
light”; then, why should any be
afraid of tomorrow?
Commies Shell Three
Saigon Area Towns
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UNICEF Card
TWENTY YEARS AGO, a small girl in the first grade of a public school in Cze
choslovakia painted a picture of children dancing around a maypole. The child
little realized that her painting (top left) would become the first UNICEF Christ
mas card, which in 1949 was the forerunner of a series that today is sold world
wide to support needy children. The young artist, Jitka Samkova, is shown as she
appeared in art class (bottom photo) at the time she made her symbolic painting,
and today (top right) in southern Bohemia where she lives with her husband and
children.
US, North Delegates
Discuss Proposal To
Get Talks Under Way
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPD—American and
North Vietnamese negotiators
met today in secret to discuss a
new allied compromise proposal
for getting the expanded Viet
nam conference under way.
Cyrus Vance, deputy chief of
the American delegation, met
with his Hanoi counterpart, Col.
Ha Van Lau, shortly after 3
p.m. (10 a.m. EST). Site of the
conference was not disclosed.
Procedural disputes over the
seating of the four delegations
have delayed start of the talks.
Hanoi was reported demand
ing a square table with a side
each for the North Vietnamese,
the Viet Cong, the United States
and Saigon. The new plan was
reported to envisage two
semicircular tables to avoid
giving recognition of the Viet
Cong as would be implied by
putting its delegation at a
square table.
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Both the United States and
the South Vietnamese govern
ment refuse to recognize the
Viet Cong as a separate body.
As the meeting got under way,
Mme. Nguyen Thl Binh, the
sharp-tongued representative of
the National Liberation Front,
the political branch of the Viet
Cong, accused Washington and
Saigon of “deliberately sabotag
ing the conference” by intensi
fying their "war of aggression.”
"They do not want to end their
aggression in South Vietnam,
Mme. Binh told a luncheon of
diplomatic correspondents.
“They do not -wish to bring
peace to Vietnam.”
Her statement coincided with
reports in Saigon the Commu
nists were massing for possible
new attacks on Saigon and other
cities.
Lau attended the luncheon but
hurried away for his meeting
with Vance, Hanoi sources said.
The Americans do not confirm
such meetings until after they
are over.
The North Vietnam delegation
said it had been invited by
American diplomats to study
the U.S.-South Vietnamese plan
.. .And That’s No Bull
ROME, Ga. (UFI) —Rome po
lice found a 400-pound bull in
the back seat of an automobile
Thursday night—and that’s no
bull.
Police said they noticed a car
traveling very slowly along a
city street and decided to in
vestigate. They stopped the car
and found three men inside,
along with the bull.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, December 13,1968
later today.
The Hanoi delegation said it
would attend. But they said
they would reject any plan that
gave the Viet Cong less
conference room status than the
United States, South Vietnam
and North Vietnam.
American officials said the
plan was designed to end the
wrangling over conference room
arrangements that has been
stalling the opening of the talks
since Nov. 6.
They said the plan centered
on how the delegates would sit,
an issue based on communist
demands —spurned by Washing
ton and Saigon—that the Viet
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Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Saturday partly cloudy
and cold.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 62, low today
44, high Thursday 52, low Thurs
day 28; sunrise Saturday 7:34,
sunset Saturday 5:36.
The three were arrested and
held for investigation of theft.
They were identified as Fred
erick A. Ivey, 24, of Douglas
ville; D. L. Dittmore, 18, and
Jimmy Dittmore, 23, both of
Cedartown.
The bull was placed in a pen
and is now waiting for its own
er to claim him.
Forces On Alert
For Red Assault
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
SAIGON (UPD—The Commu
nists shelled three Saigon area
towns today. U.S. 852 s dropped
3.5 million pounds of bombs on
the guerrilla positions and South
Vietnamese forces stood alert
for a Red assault on the capital.
Military spokesmen said the
shelling of Sa Dec, Loc Ninh
and Khanh Hung killed at least
10 persons including three
civilians, and wounded 24 more,
including 10 civilians.
They said the shellings
continued a rising tide of such
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese activity north and west of
Saigon since Nov. 1 when the
United States halted the bomb
ing of North Vietnam.
The 852 s struck the area,
between Saigon and the Cambo
dian border, in 10 raids
Thursday night and today. The
explosions rattled windows and
doors in the capital.
The bombs hit the Viet Cong
base camps, bunkers and supply
dumps that have sprung up in
the rubber plantations and rice
paddies since Nov. 1. For a
second day government troops
and police in Saigon kept on
their alert to meet what Saigon
military officials said would be
"some sort” of Red attack.
The shelled towns lie between
Saigon and the Cambodian
border, 80 miles away. They sit
astride guerrilla routes toward
the capital.
The area is a southern
terminus of the Ho Chi Minh
trail from North Vietnam. U.S.
spokesmen said one of the 852
raids hit a guerrilla arms dump
that erupted in 11 major
explosions.
It was the heaviest 852
raiding since Nov. 26’s raids in
the same area.
This was the area from which
guerrilla strikes are launched
against Saigon. South Vietna
mese military sources said they
expected the capital to be the
target of a guerrilla drive
planned to coincide with the
700 Deaths Reported
Nation On Brink
Os Flu Epidemic
Smith Hearing
Called Off;
Lawyer 111
A hearing on a motion for a
new trial for Ronald L. Smith,
who was convicted in the mur
der of Charles Vaughn, a Grif
fin college student, has been
postponed.
A hearing on the motion be
gan this morning at the Upson
County courthouse in Thomas
ton. However, it lasted less than .
30 minutes.
Ruben Garland, Smith’s attor- :
ney, became ill and could not •
continue the bearing.
In addition, the motion was i
amended and Judge John H. 1
McGehee, took the amendment
under advisement.
A new date for the hearing
was not set.
Post Office
Open Till 5
Ed Dye, postmaster, announ
ced today that the stamp and
parcel post windows at the Grif
fin Post Office would be open
Saturday afternoon until 5 o’clo
ck to help with the Christmas
mailing rush.
The extended hours were pro
vided so Griffinites could have
an opportunity to get their Holi
day mailing caught up, the post
master said.
Vol. 95 No. 296
Dec. 20 eighth anniversary of
the Viet Cong’s founding.
Kidney Surgery
Will Cost More
Than SIB,OOO
Medical expenses for a kidney
transplant for Donald Crowder
are expected to be more than
SIB,OOO, according to Henry Hol
liman, commander of the Post
15 of American Legion here.
The post has been running a
campaign to help the Griffin
man with his medical expenses.
So far, the Legion has received
S6OB in gifts for the drive.
Dundee Mill Number Five em
ployes contributed $312. Mr. Cr
owder worked there before he
was stricken with the kidney ill
ness.
His brother, Ferrell Crowder
of the U. S. Navy, donated a kid
ney to his brother for the opera
tion. Surgeons at Emory Univer
sity Hospital performed the op
eration.
Donald Crowder hopes to be
home in Griffin for Christmas
but doctors want to make sure
he is all right before letting him
come. They have been bothered
with some high temperature
Mr. Crowder has shown for the
last few days, the Griffinite told
the Legion commander.
The brother who donated the
kidney for the transplant has
been visiting in Griffin for sev
eral weeks. He came through the
surgery without a hitch and is
making a good recovery.
Commander Holliman said the
Legion might complete its cam
paign for the Crowder fund just
before Christmas. He suggested
any Griffinite wishing to contri
bute to it should contact any
member of the Post.
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPD—About 700
deaths from flu and pneumonia
have been reported in the
United States recently and
officials at the National Com
municable Disease Center
(NCDC) said today the nation is
on the threshold of an epidemic
of the Hong Kong flu.
The A2 Hong Kong 68
influenza strain has actually
reached epidemic proportions in
only one area—the western
mountain states—but is close to
the epidemic level elsewhere,
the NCDC spokesman said. At
least 33 states have experienced
some degree of flu illness.
“It appears we’re at the
beginning of a national epidemic
—not at the peak of it,” the
spokesman said. He said the
peak was expected in mid-
January.
Colorado, one of the Western
states, has suffered a border-to
border outbreak of the virus,
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The Griffin Daily News Presents:
SILENT NIGHT
The Story of Christmas
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Fifth of a Series
“Thou Shalt Call His Name Jesus”
As Mary and the baby Jesus slept peacefully in the hay,
Joseph, bearded and stalwart, stood careful watch over
them.
A carpenter he was by trade, but that was the least of
his roles in a life that had suddenly become most unique
and challenging. He was Mary’s protector, husband-in
waiting, “midwife,” and the early guardian and foster
father of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The road that had brought him here to this moment in
a stable in Bethlehem had not been an easy road for a man
to travel. It had led him not only through sunlight but
shadows.
Happily he and his beautiful young cousin Mary had
been betrothed, and eagerly he had looked to the day
when they would become husband and wife.
Then much to his surprise and puzzlement Mary had
suddenly left Nazareth, the village where they both lived,
and had gone to visit her aged cousin Elisabeth near Jeru
salem. She had hardly even said good-bye to him, and had
behaved most strangely for one betrothed. Did she no
longer love him, no longer wish to marry him?
Week after week he had patiently awaited her return to
Nazareth, but still she did not come, nor send him word.
Three months passed before one day he learned that she
was back in town. Why had she not come to see him?
Then it was, through relatives, he learned that Mary
was with child. The news of it sent him reeling. A mixture
of emotions surged wildly through him: shock, hurt,
anguish.
Mary had been promised to him. Under the law it was
for him to do with her as he saw fit. Grimly he considered
what action to take.
“Then Joseph, being a just man, and not willing to make
her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph,
thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy
wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy
Ghost.
“ ‘And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call
His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their
sins.’
“Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel
of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife.
And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn
son.”
Next—“On Earth Peace, Goodwill Toward Men”
New Color Comics
Watch for the Griffin Daily News new and ex
panded color comic section out tomorrow. The
section has been increased to eight full pages and
four comic strips have been added.
The four strips joining other popular comics al
ready carried regularly are: Tarzan, Kerry Drake,
The Wizard of Id, and Emmy Lou.