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VENIN
By Quimby Melton
“The Kingdom Shall Come”,
is the title of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School 1 e s so n.
Background Scripture is Reve
lation 21 through 22.
The Memory Selection is “He
said unto me, It is done, I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end, I will give unto him
that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely.” (Reve
lation 21:6.)
The closing chapters of Reve
lation, and the closing lesson for
the year, assure us that regard
less of how dark and dismal th
ings may seem today throughout
the world, God’s plan will bring
complete victory and joyful life
hereafter to those who have fai
th in Him.
Revelation 11:15 tells us “the
kingdom of the world” will “be
come the Kingdom of our Lord
and of His Christ.” And in Re
velation 21:1-2, there will be “a
new heaven and a new earth”
with the new “holy city, Jerusa
lem, as the home of God’s chil
dren.”
What “blessed assurance” is
given us in this last lesson for
1968.
There are many differences
between many “religions” and
the religion of God Almighty and
His Only Begotten Son. Chief
of these is that others worship
many gods. True religion wor
ships just One God, who creat
ed man in his own imagine, the
world, the firmament and all. In
this lesson God is called “Alpha
and Omega", (the first and last
letters in the Greek alphabet.)
That means that God began all
creations, including man, and
until the very last, when His
Kingdom will be established, has
ruled the universe.
Another difference is that oth
er religions picture their gods as
being far off in some unknown
place; while true religion knows
that God is ever present, that
"He walks with” man "He talks
with” man, “He tells them He
is their own.”
The fact that God "knowns all
about us” is sometimes a frigh
tening fact for none of us but
must confess there are things
about the best of us, that we
wish we could hide from God.
But at the same time there is
great joy in knowing that in sp
ite of our imperfections, God
Loves us and is not only willing,
but anxious, to forgive, and wipe
away “all tears” that come to
one’s eyes when one fully realiz
es how sinful one has been and
is.
“God with us” is fully docu
mented in the birth of Jesus
Christ, who as Immanuel came
to earth, in the form of man, to
be with us, to teach us, to set an
example for us, and to demon
strate that “God so loved the
world. . • .”
God Almighty is as close to
each of us as we will let Him
be.
He is there in time of tempta
tion, of sorrow, of frustration;
just as He is in time of joy.
Death and what follows has
always been a mystery to t h e
mind of man. But God, through
His Son, has conquered death.
One who believes in God Almi
ghty and His Forgiving Grace,
need not fear death.
And one who loses a loved one,
need not let the sorrows of that
death, cause them to lose their
faith in God. For there is a bet
ter day when all who believe in
God will be reunited in heaven,
and the joys of that reunion will
eclipse even the greatest joys of
earth.
During the Christmas
season we all joined in singing,
or heard others sing, many
Christmas carols. One of the
most beautiful is the Carol wr
itten by Charles Wesley, expres
sed beautifully in the line
“God and sinners reconciled.”
All mankind, even the “sin
ners” are children of God.
So, as we approach the New
Year and think of the many re
solutions we will make, let’s
make one, and strive to keep it,
that we will act like loving, ob
edient children of God.
If we do, then we will be wel
comed home when the Kingdom
of God is firmly established; wh
ich it will be. No doubt of that!
Apollo 8 Astronauts Blaze
To Bull’s-Eye Splashdown
Three Men Sought
In Pike Robbery
A Pike County grocery store,
service station operator was
robbed of between S4OO and
SSOO this morning by two Negro
men who ordered a can of Spam,
according to Pike County Sher
iff J. Astor Riggins.
Sheriff Riggins said the two
men entered Homer Morris’ st
ore and service station four mil
es south of Zebulon on U.S. 19
and robbed him of the money
from the cash register and his
billfold.
Morris operates the combina
tion business under the name
Pine Mountain Service Station.
Sheriff Riggins related the rob
bery like this:
The two men ordered the can
of Spam then pulled pistols on
Mr. Morris.
One held a pistol in Mr. Mor
ris’ ribs during the robbery.
The other hit Morris across the
head with his pistol. The wound
did not require treatment.
The men took a .38 Smith and
Wesson pistol from beside the
cash register.
One of the men had a d a r k
complexion and the other a light
complexion.
Edmund Named
Speaker For
C Os C Meeting
Willis H. Edmund, executive
consultant of the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Company, will be
the speaker for the annual meet
ing of the Griffin Area Chamber
of Commerce.
It will be held Jan. 11 at 7 p.
m. at the Spalding Junior High
School Cafeteria Number Two.
Carl Richardson, chairman of
the committee for the annual
meeting, announced that Mr.
Edmund “is one of the top speak
ers in the country. He travels an
average of 70,000 miles each
year, making more than 150 per
sonal appearances on the speak
er’s platform and on television.”
Reservations are due with the
Chamber office on West Taylor
street by Jan. 9 at noon.
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Flu Deaths. Page 3.
Postal Rates. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Society. Page 6.
Pictures. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Peace Talks. Page 10.
Pueblo. Page 10.
Mideast Crisis. Page 10.
Body Found. Page 10.
Georgia News. Page 10.
Plane Attackers. Page 10.
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“Make everybody you
meet glad they ran into
you.”
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They fled in an old model au
tomobile that had been parked
approximately 300 yards north
of the store. The car was head
ed north.
A third man had the car en
gine running and ready to go
when the two men who robbed
Morris got to it.
Morris told Sheriff Riggins that
the car was possibly a 1952 or
1953 Plymouth.
Morris does some mechanic
work at his store and has a
knowledge of automobiles, Sher
iff Riggins said.
The store had been open ab
out 10 minutes when the two
men entered.
They did not take any items
from the store other than the
money from the cash register
and billfold and the pistol.
Flight Called
‘Triumph Os
The Squares’
By EDWARD K. DELONG
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPD—The actung head so the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) today
called Apollo B’s historic flight
to the moon “a triumph of the
squares” and its successful
return "the beginning of a
movement that will never
stop.”
“Man has started his drive
out into the universe,” said Dr.
Thomas O. Paine.
Paine said the United States
may follow the historic Apollo 8
flight in moon orbit with two
lunar landings next year and
two more before the end of
1970.
But he cautioned that even
after the success with which
Frank Borman, James Lovell
and William Anders carried
mankind to the alien world of
the moon, the deadline pressure
remains for meeting resident
Kennedy’s goal of a lunar
landing before the end of the
decade.
Apollo 8 proved the moon
flight mothership can do its job,
Paine said. But the lunar
landing goal will remain an
uncertainty until the craft that
will set two men on the moon’s
face passes its first test with
astronauts during Apollo 9 next
February or March.
Apollo 9 will fly in earth orbit.
The next mission, Apollo 10, is
scheduled to send the entire
moonflight machine to the moon
in May and two astronauts on
that flight will probably take
the landing craft down within 10
miles of the moon’s face
without an actual touchdown.
Paine said the landing Itself
remains unlikely on Apollo 10,
but that it could take place
during Apollo 11. This flight
might go to the moon in July or
August, landing two men for a
24-hour stay.
Apollo 8 proved the moonship
could do the job it was designed
for and, in addition, provided
new navigation data without
which no landing flight could be
made. But Paine said the
mission’s significance goes be
yond this.
The real significance, he said,
lies in a basic drive for
mankind to explore the un
known.
“This is the beginning of a
movement that will never
stop,” he said. “Man has
started his drive out into the
universe.
“A hundred thousand miles
from earth there is no room for
a space race, no place for
Russian-American competition.
This is something for all
mankind.”
GRIFFIN
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Chamber of Commerce President C. A. Knowles, Jess L. Mouchet (seated, 1-r);
City Manager Jack Langford, Mayor O. M. Snider, Jr., and Chamber of Com
merce executive Gary Powell (standing) look over plans for Mouchet Corpora
tion which will move here.
Textile Related Firm
Will Move To Griffin
Jess L. Mouchet, president of
the Mouchet Corporation, an
nounced today plans to construct
a 50,000 square foot building in
the industrial district owned by
the city of Griffin.
A six acre site on Industrial
boulevard has been purchased
by the firm to move their Atlan
ta based operation to Griffin.
The new Griffin industry will
employ 18 persons according to
Mr. Mouchet. Construction on
thte building is expected to begin
around Jan. 1. Reddick Const
ruction Company of Thomaston
has been awarded the contract.
The Mouchet Corporation was
founded 35 years ago with opera
tions involving the buying and
selling of textile wastes and oth
er textile products.
Mr. Frank Mouchet, who is a
partner in the firm and serves
General
Assembly
Overspends
ATLANTA (UPI) —The 1968
General Assembly overspent it
self by nearly $20,000 in fiscal
1968, a state audit revealed.
The assembly actually over
spent itself by $265,205.45, but—
unlike other state agencies—
was not required to lapse $282,-
627 of unspent funds back into
the state treasury at the end of
fiscal 1967, and thus covered
most of the funds shortage.
The audit showed that as of
June 30, 1968, the legislature
had $10,062 in cash on hand, but
owed some $29,805 in outstand
ing bills.
Anticipating that it had spent
about a quarter of a million
dollars more than it had bud
geted itself, the legislature
hired a fiscal officer for the
first time in August.
While no set of records has
been kept on the legislature’s
operations, the auditor’s office
noted that a fiscal officer had
been hired and that one of his
duties would be keeping “the of
ficers of the legislature in
formed of the expenditures and
commitments made from the
funds appropriated so as to pre
vent any overspending in the
future.”
NEWS
as vice president, will move to
Griffin soon after the building is
completed. This is expected to
be June 1.
Griffinite Larry Capel is also
associates with the firm.
Mr. Jess Mouchet’s son, P. J.
Mouchet, will join the firm in
February. He is currently serv
ing in the U. S. Navy as a lieu
tenant (j.g.) and will be reliev-
Jury Probes Plot
To Assassinate
Nine Justices
CHICAGO (UPD—A federal
grand jury in Cleveland is
investigating a plot to assassin
ate the nine justices of the U.S.
Supreme Court. It may involve
a former Chicago policeman
who belonged to the Ku Klux
Klan.
Donald Heath, former Chicago
policeman and avowed member
of the Klan, is one of five
persons being investigated in
the plot to detonate explosives
in the justices’ Washington
courtroom, it was learned
Thursday.
It was uncertain whether the
plot was foiled by federal
authorities or abandoned.
Heath, 31, was among a
number of men fired from the
Chicago police force last April
after disclosure that he was the
leader of a Ku Klux Klan cell in
the department.
Heath, who spent some time
in Georgia, where the KKK
national headquarters are, and
then in Akron, Ohio, appeared
before the grand jury in
Cleveland Dec. 18, month after
the date the purported assassin
ations were to have occurred.
After Heath was discharged
as a patrolman in the predomin
antly Negro Fillmore district he
was elevated from Illinois
leader of the KKK to midwest
Imperial Dragon.
A woman aide of the Imperial
Wizard of the National Knights
of tile KKK said, however, that
Heath had been banished from
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ed from active duty the latter
part of January.
Griffin was selected as the site
for the firm’s operation two ye
ars ago. The Mouchet family mo
ved to Griffin soon after and
built a house at 1004 East Col
lege street.
Mr. Mouchet commended city
county and Chamber of Commer
ce officials for their cooperation
and assistance.
the Klan in September for
“misconduct.”
Center Names
O’Neal Vo-Tech
Director
Lee Roy O’Neal has been sel
ected as director of Vocational
and Technical Education at the
Education Services Center here.
O’Neal who was superintendent
of Butts County Schools will as
sume his duties in early Janu
ary. A contract is to be negotia
ted between systems served by
tlie Educational Services Cen
ter and the State Department of
Education.
The selection of O’Neal for the
position was announced by Dr.
Robert E. Flanders, director of
the Educational Services Cen
ter.
The center serves the Griffin-
Spalding, Butts County, Barnes
ville City, Fayette County, Hen
ry County, Pike County and
Monroe County School Systems.
O’Neal will study, implement
and coordinate programs in the
area of Vocational and Techni
cal Education in an effort to
meet the needs of the pupils.
The Educational Services Cen
ter is funded by the participat
ing systems and the State De
partment of Education.
Spacecraft Lands
Close To Ship
By WEBSTER K. NOLAN
ABOARD THE USS YORK
TOWN (UPl)—America’s amaz
ing Apollo 8 astronauts blazed
perfectly to a bull’s-eye Pacific
Ocean splashdown from a yule
tide journey around the moon to
day and reported it was now
“made of American cheese.”
The lunar pioneers tore into
the upper fringes of the air
surrounding the “good earth” at
nearly 25,000 miles per hour and
streaked across the dark sky
like a roller coaster to a landing
only 6,000 yards from this
veteran aircraft carrier.
They were safe, sound and
happy at the end of the half
million mile Christmas journey
that took them around the
forbidding moon 10 times. It
was an odyssey unprecedented
in the annals of man.
The astronauts remained In
their gently bobbing, charred
command craft for more than
an hour in the pre-dawn
darkness. A cabin light shone
through a window while the
pilots waited for enough day
light to safely leave the
moonship.
Beaming proudly in the first
rays of the dawn, the spacemen
left their craft at 12:04 p.m.
EST and stepped out on the
deck of this proud old ship 20
minutes later while its sailors
cheered.
“We can’t tell you how much
we really appreciate being here,
and how tremendous it is to
take part in this event,” said
Borman, who shaved with a
small electric razor in the
helicopter before going aboard
the carrier. His two companions
wore heavy beards.
In the Houston control center,
an American flag was unfurled
over the tracking board, and the
room blossomed with smaller
flags on every console, and
erupted in cheers.
“We’ll have steak and eggs,
the same as we had before we
left,” one of the astronauts
radioed when asked by the
Yorktown what they wanted for
breakfast.
President Johnson, who fol
lowed the finale to the six-day
mission at the White House,
telephoned the wives of the
three space heroes 25 minutes
after the 10:51 a.m. EST
splashdown.
“The President told them how
the whole country and its
prayers had been trying to
insure the success of the
mission,” said a space agency
spokesman.
The journey blazed the trail
for a landing of Americans as
early as next June on the gray,
pitted surface of the moon.
“It’s not made of green
cheese at all,” reported Borman
as the spacecraft floated in the
rolling seas, waiting to be taken
aboard the carrier. “It’s made
of American cheese.”
It was a remarkable end to a
mission that followed the book
as closely as any in American
spaceflight history.
“Hello there, Houston, how
you doing?” Lovell said when
the space center established
contact with the astronauts,
floating on the foiling seas.
“This is something for all
mankind,” said Dr. Thomas O.
Paine, acting director of the
U.S. Space Agency, at the
Houston space center. “Man has
started his drive out into the
universe.”
The six-ton Apollo cabin
slashed into earth’s atmosphere
at an estimated 24,530 mles per
hour and flashed across the
night sky above the eastern
Pacific leaving a trail of fiery
gases in its wake.
The return was some 7,000
mph faster than previous earth
orbital re-entries, and super
heated air boiled off the ship’s
heat shield at an estimated
4,740 degrees.
The astronauts’ return was
marked by the calm, business
like behavior displayed ever
since Apollo 8 blasted from
Cape Kennedy last Saturday on
a mighty Saturn 5 rocket.
The crew was chipper,
confident and relaxed. When a
rescue helicopter hovering over
the spacecraft asked Borman,
“What the moon is made out
of?” he responded:
"It’s not made out of green
cheese at all. It’s made out of
American cheese.”
The astronauts rolled up a
staggering list of “firsts” for
both space and mankind—first
men to leave earth’s gravita
tional field, first men to orbit
the moon, fastest and farthest
from earth men have ever
traveled.
Apollo 8 began its historic
return to earth at 10:37 a.m.
EST and splashdown came 14
minutes later.
The Yorktown, the “Fighting
Lady” of World War 11,
immediately steamed toward
the heat-blackened spaceship
after it hit the sea.
The landing came one hour
and 19 minutes before dawn in
the remote area of the mid-
Pacific—some 550 miles from
Christmas Island. It was the
first time Americans had
landed from a spaceflight in
darkness.
The ship, however, was rigged
for a night landing, and a
flashing strobe light was sighted
even before Apollo hit the
water.
Because the astronauts were
in satisfactory condition and
their ship was "floating quite
nicely,” said a spokesman at
the Houston control center, they
would remain in the water until
first light.
Communications with the
pilots were at first obscured by
static. But then Borman’s voice
could be heard as he talked via
radio to rescue teams.
Borman asked the pilot of a
helicopter hovering over the
spacecraft if “anyone had seen
the spacecraft on main chute.”
“That was the beginning of a
continuous conversation,” said a
Houston control spokesman. It
appears Borman is making
quite a bit of small talk with
the helicopter.”
Family Os
Four Killed
In Crash
TIFTON, Ga. (UPD—A fami
ly of four from Bridgewater,
Mass., was killed today
when their single-engine plane
crashed before dawn while ap
parently trying to make an
emergency landing in a corn
field.
Although the accident occur
red about 100 yards from a well
traveled highway, the wreckage
was not discovered until about
9:30 a.m. A stopped watch in
side the plane indicated the
time of the crash was about
5:30 a.m.
The dead were identified as
David Kenly, 35, his wife Sally,
34, and two daughters, Regine,
13, and Melinda, 9.
Information found in the
wreckage indicated the flight
apparently originated in Boston
and was bound for Tifton. The
Kenlys had relatives in Lenox,
about eight miles south of
Tifton.
The mother and two daugh
ters were found inside the
wreckage of the plane, a Waco
four seater. The father was
thrown clear.
Weather:
■ FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Tonight cloudy and
mild with showers likely. Show
ers ending with partial clear
ing and little cooler Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 55, low today
39, high Thursday 54, low Th
ursday 30; sunrise Saturday
7:41, sunset Saturday 5:42.