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By Quimby Melton
The International Sunday Sc
hool lesson this week continues
the study of Mark. The title is
•‘What is this New Teaching?”
Background Scripture is Mark
1:21-45.
The Memory Selection is ‘‘No
man also seweth a piece of new
cloth on an old garment; else
the new piece that filleth it up
taketh away from the old, and
the rent is made worse. (Mark
2:21.)
Charles M. Laymon, one of
our favorite commentators on
Sunday School lessons, in an in
troduction to this lesson writes
in part:
‘‘Change has characterized mo
dern life. Sometimes it occurs
so rapidly that we have difficul
ty keeping up. The Red Queen
in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the
Looking Glass’ was more proph
etic than she realized when she
said, ‘lt takes all the running
you can do, to keep in the same
place. If you want to get some
where else, you must run twice
as fast.’
‘‘ln religion, however, it is of
ten assumed that there is no pl
ace for anything new.
‘‘This lesson, however, con
fronts us with the inevitability
and opportunity of change, as
we observe Jesus bringing a re
freshing change to the legalism
of official Judaism. The Phari
sees, bound by tradition, were
startled; even the common peo
ple were amazed. As one stud
ies this, (and subsequent les
sons), one should ask, ‘how can
the good news brought by Jesus
help me face change and keep
growing?’ ”
Laymon, as well as other
students of the Bible, stresses
the fact that the teaching of
Jesus did not change the eternal
truth, did not weaken it one bit,
rather added new strength.
— * —
The lesson starts by telling
how Jesus "went into Caperna
um” with His four disciples —
Simon, Andrew, James and
John; and, immediately on the
Sabbath, He entered the syna
gogue and taught.” This relfects
the synagogue practice of invit
ing a visiting teacher to take
part in the service. (Paul, too,
followed this practice.)
We read “He taught as one
having authority." Phillips’ tr
anslation says, “with the ring of
authority.” And no wonder, for
Jesus, the Son of God, spoke
with authority from God His Fa
ther.
When Jesus had finished his
teaching He then displayed his
divine authority by healing a
man with an “unclean spirit.”
This startled and amazed all
there, who said “he commands
even the unclean spirits and they
obey him.” And Phillips again
says, "and his fame spread like
Wildfire.”
We then have the story of His
healing of Peter’s mother-in-law,
who was sick with the fever.
This miracle so amazed the
people that many people, suffer
ing from every disease imagi
nable were brought to Him and
“He healed them.”
No wonder the people were
amazed!
— * —
As one studies this lesson, and
others to follow, one must rem
ember that Jesus Himself said
He did not “come to destroy the
law or the prophets”, but to
make a new covenant with man
kind, a new convenant that did
not destroy the old covenant, but
that “brought it up to date” one
might say. This new covenant
stressed God’s compassion for
all mankind.
The main feature of it was
that salvation is available to
any and all who will seek to
keep their part of the covenant
—(contract.)
The basis of this was Love.
First Love God, then Love ot
hers.
Although this was a “new” co
venant still this layman consi
ders it a reaffirmation, a renew
ing of the “old" covenant.
This layman never reads of
the “new” covenant that he does
not think of the statement in Mi
cah 6:8 “And what does the
Lord require of thee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with God.”
And he takes great joy in verse
17, of this week’s Scripture, when
Jesus said, “I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to re
pentance.”
The "new” covenant does not
replace the “old” covenant, it
just enlarges it to include “sin
ners” who will “come and follow
me.”
This certainly is “good news”
to all.
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Plan Bloodmobile
Lin Thompson, Lee Roy Claxton, and Jim Owen (1-r) talk over plans for the next
visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile to Griffin. It will be Feb. 7 at the Cheatham
building of the First Baptist Church. Leaders in the blood program here will make
a concerted effort to increase the amount of blood collected here. They have re
minded Griffinites that the need continues to be high. The Griffin-Spalding Hospi
tal relies heavily on the Red Cross for blood.
Veteran Astronauts
Named For Apollo 11
By EDWARD K. DELONG
UPI Space Writer
WASHINGTON (UPD—Two
veteran spacewalkers and the
pilot who brought Gemini 8
through the nation’s only
emergency in orbit will try to
carry mankind to the surface of
the moon, perhaps by mid-July.
The space agency Thursday
named these men—Gemini 8
pilot Neil Armstrong and
spacewalkers Michael Collins
and Edwin “Buz” Aldrin—as
the crew for the first U.S. lunar
landing spaceflight, Apollo 11.
Their mission now carries the
GMA Endorses
One-Cent Hike
In Sales Tax
ATLANTA (UPD— The Geor
gia Municipal Association has
endorsed a one-cent increase in
the state sales tax, stipulating
that half of the increase be re
turned to the cities.
Republican Mayor Ronnie
Thompson of Macon, who pro
posed the resolution adopted by
the group, said cities “are fac
ing an unprecedented financial
crisis and absolutely do not
have the means to finance the
ever - increasing demand for
services by their citizens.”
The proposal called for half
of the increase, estimated at
SSO million, to be distributed to
cities on a per capita basis.
One fourth of the funds would
go to schools on the basis of
average daily attendance, and
a fourth would go to counties
on a per capita basis.
GMA President Mayor Rich
ard B. Ray of Perry called the
meeting which was attended by
the mayors of Savannah, Co
lumbus, Augusta, Valdosta, Ai
ley and Marietta among other
municipal officials.
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“A man with nothing becomes
miserable only when he real
izes he must continue having
nothing.”
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
entire focus of the $25 billion
Apollo program, aimed at
fulfilling the goal of a moon
landing in this decade set more
than seven years ago by the
late President John F. Kennedy.
If Armstrong, Collins, and
Aldrin make it in July they
would meet this goal with
months to spare. Plans call for
Armstrong and Aldrin to
attempt the actual landing,
while Collins circles the moon
69 miles above them in the
Apollo command ship.
Busy Day
Naming of the astronauts for
the most ambitious space
mission man has ever planned
capped a day filled wtih space
activity in the nation’s capital.
Earlier the Apollo 8 astro
nauts, who orbited the moon 100
times during their Christmas
week spaceflight, made their
first public report on that
mission. They said the most
impressive view they saw was
the blue ball of earth rising
over the chalk-white, rugged
lunar landscape.
Moonflight heroes Frank Bor
man, James Lovell and William
Anders received gold medals
and congratulations from Pres
ident Johnson in a White House
ceremony, spoke to a joint
session of Congress and held
their first post-flight news
conference in the afternoon.
The announcement of Apollo
Il’s crew came as a surprise
addition to this schedule. Two
members of the moon-circling
crew—Lovell and Anders—were
on the backup crew for Apollo
11, and hours after the
announcement they were still
Unless Budget, Tax Hike Passed
‘They Can Shut Statehouse’
By MARGIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD— Gov. Les
ter Maddox has suggested that
unless his budget and proposed
$215 million tax increase is
passed by the legislature the
state capitol may as well shut
down.
“They can shut that state
house down if they want to,”
Maddox said in response to a
charge by House Speaker
George L. Smith that $75 to SBO
million in “fat” could be cut
from Maddox’s proposed sl.l
billion budget.
“I cut out $145 million my
self, some of it fat, most of it
lean,” Maddox said. “If you
just want to cut, you can cut
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 10, 1969
unsure whether they could talk
freely about the new assign
ment.
Fifth Mission
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
will be flying the fifth manned
Apollo mission. Their mission
could start as early as July 11,
when a moonshot launch
“window” that lasts until July
22 will open.
Armstrong, who flew Gemini
splashdown in the Pacific Ocean
after a wildly-firing control
rocket spun it out of control in
1966, is a 38-year-old civilian.
Collins, the spacewalker of
Gemini 10, is an Air Force
lieutenant colonel. He was
originally on the Apollo 8 crew,
but a neck operation before the
mission forced him to be
replaced by Lovell.
Aldrin became the world’s
first successful working space
walker during Gemini 12 in 1966.
An Air Force colonel, he will be
39 on Jan. 20.
Armstrong and Aldrin, the
two men who will land on the
moon, have spent more time
than any other astronauts in the
landing training vehicle which Is
now indefinitely grounded be
cause of a crash. An early
model of this craft crashed once
before with Armstrong at the
controls, but he escaped unin
jured.
Two Apollo missions stand
between the moon-circling flight
and the moon landing. Apollo 9
next month will be the moon
lander’s first test with men.
Apollo 10 in April or May will
circle the moon, coming within
10 miles of the surface.
Governor Maddox Suggests:
North Vietnam’s Hand
In Talks Strengthened
Egypt Reveals
Peace Plan
For Mideast
By United Press International
The semi official Cairo
newspaper Al Ahram outlined
details of the Soviets’ new
Middle East peace plan today
and said President Johnson was
expected to make a “positive
response" before he leaves
office in 10 days.
Similar to the U.N. Security
Council peace plan, the Soviet
proposal calls first for the
withdrawal of Israeli troops
from the Arab lands they
occupied in the 1967 war and
then proposes an end to the
“state of belligerence,” Al
Ahram said.
Further, the newspaper said,
it calls on the United Nations to
set up Arab-Israeli borders in
the Middle East and to establish
an international force to police
them. The United Nations also
would work out refugee prob
lems and disputes over use of
the Suez Canal.
From Moscow, the Red Army
newspaper Red Star urged "the
leading western powers” to
accept a peaceful solution in the
Middle East.
“Success or failure of the
current more active exploration
of peaceful ways of settling the
Middle East crisis may be
strongly Influenced by the
positions of the leading western
powers," Red Star said.
Even if the Johnson Adminis
tration does not reuly to the
Soviet plan, Al Ahram said the
Kremlin had hopes President
elect Richard M. Nixon would
give the proposal a chance
following his inauguration as
president.
Details of the Soviet plan
came as Lebanon’s premier
designate, Rashid Karaml, be
gan a second day of choosing 10
men to fill his cabinet, expected
to be the most antl-Israeli in
Lebanon’s history. ‘
INSIDE
Sports. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
Funerals. Page 3.
Stork Club. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
New Constitution. Page 5.
Sweden. Page 5.
Women’s News. Page 6.
Democrats. Page 7.
Ray Oromley. Page 7.
Bruce Biossat. Page 7.
Surtax. Page 7.
Want Ads. Page 8.
Comics. Page 9.
Georgia Industry. Page 10.
Plane Hijacked. Page 10.
Sirhan Trial. Page 10.
Flu. Page 10.
S2OO million, but if you want
Georgia to move forward, you
can’t cut $25 to SSO million.”
Maddox confirmed he had
temporarily junked a statewide
pilot kindergarten program, a
$750,000 budget item, and added
$232,000 to his proposed budget
for a Department of Air Trans
portation.
Maddox said that he could
not get the State Department of
Education to accept less than
$750,000, the amount the depart
ment wanted for the pilot pro
gram. Citing kindergartens es
tablished successfully in sever
al cities, he said he could not
see a statewide kindergarten
school program as a “pilot”
NEWS
project.
Maddox said he felt proper
safeguards would be kept in his
proposal for an air transporta
tion agency to guard against
abuse of its planes.
The aviation department,
which was approved but not
funded by the 1968 legislature,
would pool existing state air
craft through a central distribu
ting point, allowing more de
partment heads to use the
available equipment and pilots.
“I think it should be tried for
a couple of years,” Maddox
said, adding that the depart
ment would work, “if we can
prevent planes being used, for
other than state needs. This is
the only fear I have.”
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GROUNDED BATTLESHIP will never go to sea. It’s
a replica of the old Japanese battlewagon, Nagato,
which is being constructed on a beach in Japan for
use in a movie covering events leading up to the Pearl
Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. The ship has been de
signed so that it’s surrounded by water when viewed
through the camera at ground level.
Ticker Tape Storm
Greets Astronauts
By THOMAS CORPORA
NEW YORK (UPD—Ameri
ca’s trio of moon explorers rode
in a glorious ticker tape
blizzard up New York’s “Can
yon of Heroes” today, chilled by
icy winds but warmed by the
cheers of hundreds of thousands
of proud New Yorkers.
The big city’s welcome
followed the astronauts historic
day of honor in the nation’s
capital but Washington's wel
come could not compare with
the traditional progress up
lower Broadway which had been
enjoyed in past years by
Charles A. Lindbergh and
astronaut John Glenn. The blare
of martial music echoed from
the sheer sides of financial
section skyscrapers from whose
windows rained New York’s
unique paper tribute.
The sun shown on Frank
Borman, James A. Lovell and
William A. Anders as they rode
in 26 degree temperatures
further iced by 25-mile wind
gust in a motorcade from the
Battery with Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller and Mayor John V.
Lindsay. After the 25-minute
procession they received the
City Hall welcome reserved for
celebrities and three gold
medals of honor.
Security was heavy. There
were 75 airport and city police
at LaGuardia Field’s Marine
Terminal where the Apollo 8
crew arrived by plane from
Washington. An eight-car motor
cade took the party through
Queens and down New York’s
East Side to the Battery where
many of the 5,000 police
assigned to keep the celebration
orderly were detailed.
The astronauts and their
wives changed to two bubble top
limousines, one of which was
used by Pope Paul VI on his
visit, so the crowds could get a
better look at them. Dr.
Thomas Paine, acting director
of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and city
greeter John “Bud” Palmer led
off with the space explorers as
the police department’s Emer
ald Society Bag Pipers Band
struck up “East Side, West
Side”.
Christmas
Is Saturday
For Huckabys
Christmas will be celebrated
Saturday night at the home of
the Rev. and Mrs. Allen Huck
aby, 125 Woodlawn avenue.
Their two sons will be home
and the family delayed Christ
mas celebration until now so the
family could be together.
S-Sgt. Gary E. Huckaby, 25,
has returned home from Viet
nam after a year there with the
Air Force.
His brother, Larry A. Huckaby
is scheduled to arrive here this
weekend from Oklahoma City,
where he completed a six-week
training program as an air traf
fic controller. He will go to
work with the Atlanta Air Traf
fic Control Center in Hampton.
The Rev. Huckaby said the
family would have a Christmas
tree up, and gather round it
to open their Christmas gifts
Saturday night.
The celebration will be a little
late but well worth waiting for,
the Rev. Huckaby' said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and cold tonight
and Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 43, low today
21, high Thursday 63, low Th
ursday 43; sunrise Saturday
7:43, sunset Saturday 5:54.
Sweden
Recognizes
Hanoi
By GEORGE SIBERA
FARIS (UPD—North Viet
nam’s hand in the Paris war
talks has been greatly streng
thened by Sweden's decision
today to great Hanoi full
diplomatic recognition, high
diplomatic sources said.
The sources said the Swedish
move may soon be followed by
other capitals in Scandinavia
and possibly elsewhere. There
was speculation Stockholm had
discretely tipped off its Scandin
avian neighbors before taking
the decision.
North Vietnam was expected
to hail the move as a massive
breakthrough. But the Hanoi
delegation withheld immediate
comment pending instructions
from its capital.
The Swedish move was
certain to cause dismay in
allied quarters which are
engaged in a test of wills 'with
the North Vietnamese and the
Viet Cong over how to organize
the expanded Paris talks.
American officials said the
recognition was “unrelated” to
the negotiations and sought to
minimize its impact.
(In Washington, the State
Department said it had no
comment on Sweden’s decision.
Washington maintains an em
bassy in Stockholm and the
Swedish government still offici
ally recognizes South Vietnam.)
(In Saigon, Nguyen Qui Anh,
the No. 2 man in South
Vietnam’s foreign ministry,
said, “This policy has favored
the Communists. We are not at
all surprised at their decision.”)
The Swedish announcement
said, “as the negotiations in
Paris are now entering a stage
which, it is hoped, will be
decisive for peace in Vietnam,
it would appear that the time
has come to establish diploma
tic relations” with North
Vietnam.
U.S. officials in Paris said,
“We recognize the existence of
North Vietnam ourselves en
ough to engage with them in a
negotiation, even though we do
not give them diplomatic
recognition.”
Western diplomatic quarters
seriously considered today the
possibility of a third party
mediation to try and break the
procedural deadlock blocking
the expanded Vietnam talks.
Both allied and Communist
sources shrugged off the idea
for the present as impractica
ble. They believed any media
tion at this point would embroil
the mediator in a political
quarrel far deeper than the
present one over the shape of a
conference table.
But influential western diplo
matic sources said the impasse
between the allied and Commu
nist sides had hardened into a
problem larger than the mere
geometric shape of a negotiat
ing table and that third party
intervention might be useful.
The latest broadsides in the
daily round of hostile state
ments came Thursday from
President Nguyen Van Thieu of
South Vietnam and Nguyen
Thanh Le, the chief spokesman
for the North Vietnamese
delegation at the talks.
Thieu said in Saigon that the
South Vietnamese would not sit
at any table where the Viet
Cong had an equal status. Hanoi
refused to consider any confer
ence arrangements that did not
give an equal role to the Viet
Cong.
France, the host of the drawn
out talks, was believed to be
cool to the idea of mediating the
quarrel, though it had offered
its services for a later stage of
the conference when substantive
issues involving the future of
the Indochinese peninsula will
be at stake.
Western diplomats, favoring
the idea of a mediation to get
the talks started, agreed there
was a dearth of truly neutral
countries in the prolonged
Vietnamese conflict.
The majority of Western
countries were clearly aligned
with Saigon, while the Commu
nist camp for years has been
supplying diplomatic and milita
ry aid to Hanoi and the Viet
Cong.