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By Quimby Melton
We have chosen the hymn
“Ju s t As I Am Without One
Flea” for this week’s column on
Hymns We Love.
This hymn, written by Miss
Charlotte Elliott in 1834, was fir
st published in the 1836 edition of
"The Invalids’ Hymn Book",
to which, in various editions,
she contributed more than 100
hymns.
There have been many stories
of the circumstances that caused
Miss Elliott to write this hymn,
which has become greatly belov
ed throughout the world, and
which is often used by many de
nominations during revival ser
vices. But the story that is be
lieved to be true as to why she
wrote it was told by a niece.
In 1834 Miss Elliott was living
with her brother, the Rev. H.V.
Elliott at Westfield Lodge, Brigh
ton. Her brother was arranging
for a church bazaar to raise mo
ney to help build a college where
daughters of the poor clergymen
could be educated at low expen
se. Miss Elliott, deeply interest
ed in the proposed college, had
been an invalid for many years,
worried because she could not
help at the bazaar, lay on her
bed, tossed about “With many
a conflict, many a doubt”. The
next day while other members
of the family were attending the
opening of the bazaar, a feeling
of peace and contentment came
over her, and she wrote the
words for this hymn.
Here is what her brother had
to say about this hymn “In the
course of a long ministry, I
hope I have been permitted to
see some fruit of my labor, but
I feel that far more has been
done by a single hymn of my sis
ter's.”
Charlotte Elliott was born at
Clapham, England, March 18,
1739. She died at Brighton, Sep
tember 22, 1871. Most of her life
she was an invalid but this did
not prevent her from writing. At
one time she wrote a short state
ment for the Invalids’ Hymn
Book, that read:
“My Heavenly Father knows,
and He alone, what it is, day af
ter day, and hour after hour, to
fight against bodily feelings of
almost overpowering weakness
and langour and exhaustion, to
resolve, as He enables me to do,
not to yield to the slothfulness,
the depression, the Irritability,
such a body causes me to long
to indulge, but to rise every mor
ning determined to take this
for my motto, “If any man will
come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross daily,
and follow me’.’’
It was this resolve and this
faith of an invalid woman that
gave the world this great hymn,
“Just As I Am Without One
Plea.”
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that thy blood was shed for
me.
And that thou bidd’st me come
to thee,
O Lamb of God, I Come!
Just as I am, tho tossed about.
With many a conflict, many a
doubt,
Fightings within, and fears with
out,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Those are the first and third
stanzas of this greatly beloved
hymn.
The music for “Just As I Am”
was written by William Backel
der Bradbury, an American mu
sician who born in Maine spent
much of his life in Massachus
etts.
Country Parson
Bl 'I ’
“The church suffers by hav
ing menjbers who can do its
work but won’t—and others who
can’t but will.”
Copyright 1969, by Frank A. Clark
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It’s Spring Again
WORTHINGTON, MINN., Fire Department members untangle ice at a park foot
bridge to let the flood flow on downstream. Southwest Minnesota and Northwest
lowa are getting their annual spring overflow from rivers in the region.
Midwest Floods
Chase 8,000
From Homes
By United Press International
The governor of North Dakota
has asked President Nixon to
declare the state a disaster
area due to floods. Minnesota
and South Dakota have made
similar requests and the flood
situation in many areas ap
peared to be worsening.
The spring floods have chased
nearly 8,000 persons from their
homes and threatens thousands
more with evacuation.
North Dakota has reported at
least 3,350 evacuees, Minnesota
2,000, South Dakota 1,650, lowa
730 and Wisconsin more than
two dozen. Minnesota and
Wisconsin expect to be hit much
harder within the coming week.
Flooding also has been
reported in the East where the
Connecticut River flooded in
Massachusetts and the Saranac
overflowed at Plattsburgh, N.Y.
No evacuations have been
reported in Massachusetts but
secondary roads and 12 miles of
U.S. 5 were expected to be
closed today.
Texas, in a zone of the
Southwest that has received a
heavy dosage of rain the past
few days, was experiencing
flooding, with water running up
to four feet deep through
Victoria.
The same storm system
spawned tornadoes along the
Gulf Coast, injuring at least 20
persons Friday at Sargent and
Bay City in Texas.
The thunderstorms rumbled
across the Southwestern states
from Arizona to Louisiana and
into Colorado today. Tornadoes,
hail, windstorms and torrential
rains lashed Texas where the
U.S. Weather Bureau has
warned Austin and the nearby
hill country of the possibility of
flash floods.
The James Rivqr, which flows
into the Big Missouri River at
the border of South Dakota and
Nebraska, merged with the
Pipestem River at Jamestown
Friday, pulling down two
bridges northwest of town and
forcing more than 2,100 persons
to flee.
Kidnap Suspect
On Hunger Strike
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) —Gary
Steven Krist, accused of kid
naping Florida heiress Barbara
Jane Mackie, is on a hunger
strike in DeKalb County jail,
officials said Friday.
Sheriff Lamar Martin said the
23-year-old Krist began refusing
food March 27, claiming jail
officials were attempting to poi
son him, and has not eaten for
two weeks.
Krist faces a sanity hearing
April 21 on a special plea. If
he is adjudged sane, he will be
tried May 19 for the abduction
and burial of Miss Mackie, who
lived underground for nearly
WEEKEND
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Politicos Court
County Boards
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR JR.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) —
The Association County Com
missioners of Georgia, still polit
ically potent despite the inexor
able shift of power to urban
areas, holds its 55th annual
meeting here Sunday, courted
by most of the state’s top poli
ticians.
The lineup of political leaders,
some of whom planned to get off
their first big shots in the 1970
governor’s campaign, Include
Sen. Herman Talmadge and
Gov. Lester Maddox.
Dean Drewry
Will Receive
Brenda Award
Journalism Dean John E.
Drewry of the University of Ge
orgia will be presented the Br
enda Award by the Atlanta Chap
ter of Theta Sigma Phi, nation
al society for women in commu
nications.
Dean Drewry is a native of Gr
iffin.
He will receive the award Ap
ril 26 at the Dinkier Hotel in At
lanta.
Dean Drewry will retire in
June after 47 years at the Uni
versity. He will be presented the
Brenda Award “in recognition of
47 years of instruction and Inspi
ration”.
Robert L. Sherrod, a native of
Thomas County and a 1929 jour
nalism graduate, will be the sp
eaker. Sherrod formerly work
ed on the Atlanta Constitution.
He was Far East correspondent
for Time and Life and the Sat
urday Evening Post. Later he
was editor of the Post and them
vice president of Curtis Pub
lishing Company. He is working
on his sixth book “The Conquest
of the Moon,” and divides his
time between NASA headquar
ters in Washington, Houston and
Cape Kennedy.
The awards dinner will be
open to the public. Tickets are
$6 each and are available throu
gh Mrs. Henry Bimbrey, 1121
Vestavia Circle, Decatur.
four days in a coffin-like box.
His alleged confederate, Ruth
Eisemann-Schier, is also in the
jail and will be tried after Krist.
Martin said Krist is offered
meals every day ‘‘but he won’t
touch a bite.” He said a phy
sician had examined Krist, who
weighed 200 pounds when ar
rested last December and gained
weight in his first three months
in jail.
The sheriff said the physician
had told jailers the accused kid
naper would be all right as long
as he continues to drink water.
Martin said a nurse checks his
condition frequently and reports
her findings to a physician.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., April 12*13, 1969
The commissioners will elect
new officers at the Monday ses
sion for the 1969-70 term. Cur
rently Jim L. Gillis Jr. of
Treutlen County is president;
Hugh Logan of Clarke County,
first vice president; Trammel
Carmichael of Cherokee Coun
ty, second vice president; and
John Rigdon, Muscogee County,
third vice president.
At their opening session Sun
day, the commissioners will
name their “Man of the Year.”
Last year’s recipient was At
lanta Police, Chief Herbert Jen
kins.
Others are former Gov. Carl
Sanders, former gubernatorial
contenders Republican Howard
Callaway and Jimmy Carter
and State Comptroller General
James Bentley. The last four
have been mentioned promin
ently as possible candidates for
governor next year.
Also expected to attend the
convention, although they were
not listed as speakers, were
House Speaker George L. Smith
and Lt. Gov. George T. Smith.
Talmadge was scheduled to
speak at the convention’s first
general session Sunday night.
Gov. Lester Maddox will key
note the Monday afternoon ses
sion with the subject “Rural
and Urban Development — A
Partnership Approach."
Following the governor will
be Carter, a former state sen
ator from Plains who ran a
surprisingly strong race for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation in 1966. Carter is cur
rently president of the Georgia
Planning Association. He will
speak on “A Practical Ap
proach to Financing Local Gov
ernments.”
Bentley’s subject will be
“Georgia’s Greatest Problems.”
Bentley, a former Democrat,
switched to the Republican Par
ty last year.
At the final convention ses
sion on Tuesday, Sanders
heads a list of speakers who
will discuss problems’ in local
government. The former govern
or will discuss the role of city
and county governments in halt
ing migration from the country
side.
Callaway will speak on “Im
proving the Image of County
Governments."
Planning Unit
Appoints
Committees
The Upper Piedmont Area
Planning and Development Com
mission has decided to meet tw
ice monthly for the next two
months to expedite organization
al details.
A nominating committee has
been appointed to make recom
mendations at the April 24 meet
ing. It will be held in McDonou
gh.
A committee was appointed to
draft some by-laws to be consi
dered at the meeting.
Counties setting up the organ
ization include Spalding, Fayet
te, Henry, Lamar, Butts and
Newton.
Legislators Cool
To Maddox’s Offer
Some Think Call
Would Be Flop
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Lest
er Maddox’s offer to resign if
the General Assembly would go
back in special session and pass
his ambitious tax program was
hardly well received by the leg
islators.
“You know, he sometimes
changes his mind,” said Rep.
George Busbee of Albany. The
House majority leader withheld
comment until Maddox actually
called a special session.
“It sounds a little childish and
illogical to me,” said Rep. Carr
Dodson of Macon, Republican
min9rity leader in the House.
Sen.'Oliver Bateman of Ma
con, GOP minority leader in the
Senate, called the surprise move
“another indication of the per
secution complex the governor
seems to have.”
“His resignation wouldn't af
fect anybody,” said Bateman.
Maddox Friday flew to Bruns
wick for a routine speech at
Brunswick Junior College. On
the way he called a state pa
trol station on the plane radio
and told his office to inform the
news media he would make a
speech offering to resign "un
der certain conditions from the
District Says
Good Faith
Not Good Enough
NEW ORLEANS (UPD—The
sth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals has given notice to school
boards in six Southern states
that “good faith” no longer is
good enough and that class
rooms and faculties must be
desegregated “now.”
“We repeat the obvious,” the
circuit court said Friday in a
Mississippi decision. “It is an
affirmative duty of each school
board in this circuit to abolish
the vestiges of state-compelled
segregation and to establish a
unitary system which achieves
substantial desegregation.”
“They must meet one single
criterion,” the court said of de
segregation plans by school
boards under recent Supreme
Court rulings. “They must work
now.”
The court is the stepping
stone to the U. S. Supreme
Court for Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Texas and the Canal Zone.
The decision Friday rejected
desegregation plans at In
dianola, Miss., incorporating
both “freedom of choice” and
geographic zoning, the basis of
most school desegregation in
the South. The plans failed to
send one white student to a
Negro school or one black pupil
to a white school, the decision
said.
“We do not impose any abso
lute ratio or percentage re
quirement, but we are firm
that a point has been reached
in the process of school dese
gregation where it is not the
spirit but the bodies which
count,” the judges said.
“Not one child in the In
dianola school district received
an integrated educational ex
perience during the 1968-1969
school year,” the opinion said,
although the school system had
been under court orders to de
segregate since 1965.
In the sth Circuit, “the bur
den on a school board today is
to come forward with a plan
that promises realistically to
work, and promises realistical
ly to work now,” the court said.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair to partly cloudy
and not much temperature
change tonight. Sunday increas
ing cloudiness with rain likely,
possibly beginning tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 78, low today
50, high Friday 80, low Friday
56. Sunrise Sunday 6:14, sunset
Sunday 7:08.
Vol. 96 No. 86
General Assembly.”
“There may be a special ses
sion this year,” Maddox said in
the speech. “I hope we do. The
news media and some of the
members of the General As
sembly would like to see me out
of office. If the Geenral As
sembly does go Into special ses
sion and pass my programs,
they won’t have to throw me
out.
“I will resign immediately and
walk out.”
Maddox could call the legis
lature back into special session
or it could call itself back.
When asked if he would call a
session, Maddox said, “Maybe
I will. Maybe I won’t.’’
Maddox had proposed a $214
million tax increase program,
including a one cent sales tax
increase and an income tax in
crease. The legislators threw
out the Maddox budget and
started from scratch, drawing up
and passing a $933 million bud
get which excluded funds for 100
new state patrolmen, grants to
cities and counties, and large
funds increases for mental hea
lth and education.
There was little indication the
legislators intended to take Mad
dox up on his offer to resign.
Despite antagonism, House Spea
ker George L. Smith allowed
that Maddox was “a courageous
fighting man, sincere in his be
liefs.”
“I know he feels very deeply
about these tax measures and
his budget,” said Rep. Jones
Lane of Statesboro, Maddox’s
assistant House floor leader.
“What,fie is saying is his pos
ition as governor is not as im
portant a the welfare of the
people of Georgia.”
Lt. Gov George T. Smith said
he had “no reason to believe
that anything worthwhile could
be accomplished by a special
session.”
“Neither I nor the members
of the Senate with whom I have
talked have found any unfavor
able public reaction to the ac
tions of the General Assembly
on the tax and appropriations
bills,” Smith added.
House Speaker Smith said that
the mood of the General Assem
bly was no more favorable to
Maddox's programs now than
when it was in session.
At least one official was
willing to take Maddox up.
Macon’s Republican Mayor,
Ronnie Thompson, said he would
start a campaign for a special
session if only he could have
the resignation in writing.
“If he will give me his re
signation in writing, we in Macon
will start a* campaign to get the
General Assembly in session and
let him .resign,” said Thompson.
“It would be a credit to the
state.”
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Tornadoes Strike
Gulf Coast; 20 Hurt
By United Press International
At least 20 persons were
injured in damaging tornadoes
along the Gulf Coast Friday and
property damage was expected
to run into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the Bay
City, Tex., area alone.
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Guy Goolsby
Named Director
At Patrick Park
The Griffin Recreation Depart
ment announced today that a
regular Park and Recreation Su
pervisor will begin duties Tues
day at Patrick Park. The park
will be under the direction of the
Recreation Department and a
full program of activities is
planned for this summer.
Recently money was approp
riated by the Spalding County
Commission for financing this
service to the youth of the East
Griffin Area.
Guy Goolsby will begin work in
Patrick Park and will develop a
program of recreation activities.
Goolsby called on the parents
in the area to volunteer and as
sist him in planning the pro
gram. The park supervisor will
be on duty each afternoon and
will have recreation equipment
available for the boys and girls
to use.
The summer schedule will be
announced in early May and
may be picked up from Mr.
Goolsby at the park office. Day
camp, playground and athletic
clinics will hignngnt this pro
gram.
Three twisters struck at Bay
City, and another touched down
at Wadsworth, 10 miles south.
The most damaging tornado
smashed into a row of beach
houses and trailer homes 22
miles southeast of Bay City at
the resort area of Sargent.
Twelve persons were hurt at
Sargent, none critically.
At least eight persons were
hurt at Bay City, none
seriously.
In Victoria, Tex., winds
reached as high as 70 miles an
hour, uprooting trees. The
strong winds caused only minor
damage, however.
In Western Texas, Odessa
reported high winds which
overturned trailers, tore the
roof from one building and
smashed several windows.
Heavy rains brought more
than four inches to near
Victoria in southeastern Texas
causing some local flooding
Friday. The Guadalupe River
rose to bankful stage.
Thunderstorms today conti
nued to rumble across the
Southwestern states from Arizo
na to Louisiana and north to
Colorado today. The storms
weakened over Texas late
Friday night, after lashing the
Lone Star State with hail,
windstorms and torrential rains
in addition to the tornadoes.
A flash flood warning was
posted for Austin, Tex., and the
nearby hill country after
continuing heavy rains west of
the city. Hail accompanied
thunderstorm activity in many
parts of Texas, including San
Antonio, Midland and Austin.
One of the heaviest hailstorms
pelted the Pecos area of
Western Texas with hail the
bureau reported.
Clear weather was the rule
across most of the rest of the
nation today, although parts of
the Midwest and Northeastern
states experienced flooding.
Temperatures in the 20s were
common early today from the
Great Lakes to snow-covered
parts of northern New England.
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