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By Quimby Melton
“Now when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem. . there came wise
men from the east. . . Saying
where is he. ... for we h a v e
seen his star. ..."
Everyone, familiar with the
Christmas story, knows how
the three wise men came to
"worship the king" and discov
ered that while He was bom a
baby, that He was in fact T he
Messiah and the Hope of the
world. This was the greatest
"discovery” that man has made
since the world was created.
Now, without being sacrellg
ious, may we say once again
three wise men, Neil Armstrong,
Michael Collins, Edwin Aid
din, have traveled far and
have made another great disco
very, the greatest discovery sin
ce that of the three “from the
east” some 1969 years ago.
For the trip to the moon by
three other wise men can result
in the discovery of away that
mankind as a whole can realize
the folly of his ways, how futile
are his efforts when he relies on
his own strength and wisdom,
and doing an about face, form a
lasting alliance with The Master
that will bring on “peace on ear
th good will toward men.”
Three brave men — Armst
ron, Collins, Aldrin—have made
the discovery. It’s up to the wor
ld, to make it “pay off” in a
worthwhile way.
— ♦
When Special Month events
were planned, who would have
thought? National Sandwich
Month would have come at the
time when Apollo 11 had landed
the first man on the moon and
left certain typical American
things there? Wonder if they left
a hamburger sandwich?
One charactertistic of Ameri
can industry has long been that
it knows how to "strike when the
iron is hot”. This is the case
today, everyone is talking about,
thinking about, wondering about
the great accomplishment of Ap
ollo 11 and its crew of three.
So what does one of America’s
largest industry do?
It has announced the ingre
dients for “Missile Burgers”.
Seeking publicity on this, with
the view of selling more of their
products, newspapers have been
sent a news release, prepared by
Evlyn Reese, of the H. J. Heinz
Co. In part it reads:
For a space-age treat during
National Sandwich Month, tr y
Missile Burgers —developed in
the test kitchens of the H. J.
Heinz Company.
Missile Burgers are a tasty tri
bute to the spectacular efforts
of our astronauts. You may not
be able to take a trip to the
moon, but you con enjoy an “out
of-this-world” sandwich, right
at home.
Missile Burgers are a combi
nation of ground beef chuck, He
inz Ketchup, Worcestshire Sau
ce and Mustard. American che
ese slices, cut to indicate the
shape of a missile, garnish the
top of the sandwich baked in the
oven until the sandwich is h o t
and the cheese melted, these tas
ty Burgers will appeal to the yo
ung and old “spacemen" at your
house.
Thus ends the “news release.”
We understand there is an eat
ing place not too far away that
felatures on its menu as a
“Space Special”—A Moon-Burg
er; a Brew-Burger and Moon-
Shine.
Unfortunately for the State of
Georgia, if figures that have
been announced are true — Ge
orgia can supply the moon-shine
not only for all the Moon-Burg
ers Georgians can eat but also
to eating places in neighboring
states. Leading in production of
moonshine is one distinction that
Georgia can well afford to get
along without.
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As everyone says "everyone is
talking about it” — The Apollo
11. And the talk ranges from A
to Izzard, as they said in pre
moonshot days.
Our attention has been call
ed to a little jingle that, it is
said, appeared in a book of Nur
sery Songs published way back
In 1805,
Here is that jingle:
What’s the news of the day,
Good neighbor, I pray?
They say the baloon
js gone up to the moon.
Girl, 8. Drowns
At Marietta
ATLANTA (UPD—An 8-year
oid Marietta girl, Laura A. Phil
lips, drowned in an apartment
swimming pool Tuesday, au
thorities said.
The victim was the daughter
Os Mr. and Mrs. Earl Phillips.
Authorities said she and several
friends were seen crawling over
the fence surrounding the pool
before it opened. Her body was
found shortly afterward by the
resident manager of the apart
ment building, Sherry Simpson.
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Bob Harrington preaches that
Christianity is a joyous way of
life. He testifies to that convic
tion with the smile he wears.
Christianity somehow got the
tag, the Rev. Harrington says,
of being long faced, sad and
dressed in a dark suit.
He wears a bright red tie and
matching socks to dispell such
notions. They have become his
trademark. He wears them when
he preaches. He wears them
when he walks the streets down-
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Well Stacked
WASHINGTON — Torrential rains which swept through the Washington area
caused major flooding in parts of Northern Virginia. In nearby Shirlington, Va.,
an estimated 100 new automobiles stored on a lot were swept down the banks
of Four Mile Run and some were stacked up in this fashion. The heavy rains also
cause postponement baseball’s centennial year All-Star game.
Apollo 11 Crew
Halfway Home
By EDWARD K. DELONG
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPD—Apollo 11, speeding
faster and faster at the urging
of earth’s gravity, passed the
halfway point in time today on
its 60-hour return from the
conquest of the moon.
Astronauts Nell A. Arm
strong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.,
and Michael Collins, lightheart
ed and joking after completing
the historic landing and walk on
the lunar surface, still were
anxiously looking forward to
their splashdown in the Pacific
Thursday.
Despite their obvious good
health and good humor, Arm
strong summed up the crew’s
feelings as they faced just one
more full day in space: “No
matter where you travel, It’s
always nice to get home."
World Shares View
A world that watched spell
bound as Armstrong and Aldrin
put man’s footprints on the
Always With A Smile.... That’s Bob Harrington
town. He wears them every
where he goes.
They seem to compliment his
smile.
The "Chaplain of Bourbon St
reet” in New Orleans, as he is
known, talked about his minis
tery with the Griffin Daily News
yesterday afternoon as he sat
pool side at the motel he calls
home in Griffin.
His heavy crop of dark but
graying hair glistened in the
sunlight. He clutched his 9 x 12
dusty lunar surface Sunday
night shared that view and
wished their recovery 1,040
miles southwest of Honolulu
was complete.
During a late evening televi
sion broadcast Tuesday that
showed “kids of all ages” what
it’s like to work, eat and drink
water in space, the astronauts
asked about the weather
forecast for the recovery zone.
They were told it should be
fine when they streak back to
earth a little after dawn (12:49
p.m. EDT) toward the Hornet
where President Nixon will be
waiting to welcome them.
But the President will have to
see the astronauts through the
closed window in the end of a
35-foot, aluminum trailer be
cause their first reward for
their epic flight is 18 days in
isolation.
Eerie Noise Heard,
This is on the outside chance
they might have picked up
some unearthly germ during
their 21 hours, 36 minutes on
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the dusty, rock-littered moon’s
surface.
At one point Tuesday an eerie
screeching noise—sort of a
cross between a New Year’s
celebration and the soundtrack
of a horror movie—came over
the astronauts’ radio frequency.
"You sure you don’t have
anybody in there? We had some
strange noises coming on the
downlink and thought you had
some friends up there,” radioed
controller Charles Duke.
“Where does the white team
(of flight controllers) go during
its off hours, anyway?,” Collins
shot back.
The astronauts never did
admit they were playing tapes
of way-out "space” sounds as a
prank on ground controllers.
Before their 17-minute, next
to-last telecast from space,
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
were out of radio contact for 40
minutes.
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inch Bible as he talked. He al
ways carries it with him.
The trouble with the organiz
ed or institutional church today
is that it concentrates on build
ings and projects and forgets
about preaching Christ and prea
ching to people, the Alabama na
tive believes.
"We need to preach Christ and
return to fundamental Christian
princinles,” he said.
Just as quickly, however, he
comes to the defense of the or-
City Budget Is
Nearly $4-Million
The Griffin City Commission
ers adopted a 1969-70 budget last
night totaling $3,970,811, an in
crease of $493,455 over last
year.
The budget provides pay rais
es for city employes amounting
to an average of 10 percent.
Part of the salary increases
will be financed through a $1
Inside Today
Nixon Tour. Page 2.
Okinawa Gas. Page 2.
Georgia News. Page 3.
Catfish. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television Page 4.
Hospital. Page 5.
Stork Club. Page 5.
About Town. Page 5.
Funerals. Page 5.
Woman’s News. Pages 6,7.
Sports. pages 8-10.
Stabbings. Page 13.
Schools. Page 13.
Smokers. Page 13.
Space Station. Page 13.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 15.
New Wrinkle. Page 15.
No Cal Cake. Page 18.
Summer Punch. Page 19.
Comics. Page 21.
Want Ads. Page 22.
Showbeat. Page 24.
Monty. Page 24.
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The Country Parson
‘An idea is impossible to
hoard—if you like it, you are
compelled to share it.”
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NEWS
ganized churches.
“I always point out that I was
brought up in a Methodist home
and now am a Baptist minister,”
he said.
(His father, after his conver
sion at 56, studied at Emory Un
iversity in Atlanta and became
a Methodist preacher in Alaba
ma. This was shortly after the
conversion of his son, Bob, at a
Baptist Church revival in Sweet
water, Ala,, his home town.)
The Rev. Harrington said he
Employes Get
Raises Os 10 Pct.
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finds that the Baptist style of
evangelism more to his liking
and that’s why he chose that de
nominational “tag” as he likes
to call it.
A person’s tag, or religion or
church doesn’t concern him as
much as whether that person is
saved or lost.
“There are a lot of good peo
ple in churches who are going
to hell because they have not
been saved,” the Rev. Harring
ton declared.
garbage fee which will bring
in an estimated $93,000.
The commissioners said the
salary adjustments would cost
the city $230,00.
In presenting the budget, City
Manager Jack Langford stated,
“Although the city of Griffin has
taken several forward steps in
searching out additional reven
ues, instead of increasing pro
perty taxes, we are still faced
with the need for additional in
come to maintain the level of
maintenance and growing pub
lic services being demanded. To
the best of my knowledge, there
is no ’dead wood’ in the employ
ment of the city. I think the city
and the public can be proud of
the loyalty and services render
ed by our employes. Unfortuna
tely, we have lost some good
employes in the competitive job
market. It is believed the salary
and wage adjustments included
in the budget will help hold our
good employes and enable us to
interest better replacements as
necessary.”
The eight mill tax levy which
the city plans to continue for
another year will bring in an es
timated $404,038. A total of 3.7
mills or $186,867.57 will go f o r
bonded debt and about 4.3 mills
or $217,170.43 of tax money will
go for general government op
erations.
General government income
will total $944,300 and the Light,
Water and Sewerage department
will make an estimated $2,454,-
950. Approximately $650,000 of
the funds taken from the L, W,
& S Department will go toward
operating other general govern
ment functions, while $1,481,340
will be needed for operation of
the department. Some $305,340
will go for water and sewer
bonds.
Commissioner Joe Dutton said
he thought it was a good budget
and was proud of the fact that
city employes were raised. He
said there was only about $40,-
000 in the street-paving budget,
however, he added this would
only be a start. He said the city
Contfriued on page five
Vol. 96 No. 172
State School Board
Asks Justice Dept.
What To Do, How
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPD—The State
Board of Education today told
the U.S. Justice Department
that it would “do everything
within our legal authority and
power” to see that local school
boards abide by school desegre
gation laws if the Justice De
partment will tell them what to
do and how to do it.
In a six-page letter to Jerrls
Leonard, chief of the depart
ment’s civil rights division, the
board said that its powers are
limited and that federal deseg
reation policies have been so
ambiguous that it would not
know which one to adopt.
Leonard two weeks ago wrote
State School Supt. Jack Nix,
giving the board 15 days to
come up with a statewide
school desegregation plan or
face possible federal court ac
tion.
He said the department had
received complaints from par
ents of Negro school children
that they were being discrimi
nated against because of race
and added that the state school
board had not carried out its
responsibilities under the feder
al Constitution to insure equal
education for all.
Unanimous Decision
The answer to Leonard from
State School Board Chairman
James S. Peters, which was
drafted by Asst. State Atty.
Gen. Al Evans and unanimous
ly approved by the board,
asked for copies of the com
plaints "so that we may be in
a position to use our best ef
forts to adjust the specific mat
ters complained of ... to which
we presently have no knowl
edge whatsoever."
The letter admitted that the
school board has certain powers
to adopt statewide regulations
and policies, but that those pow.
ers are limited by the state Con
stitution and laws.
The letter said local boards
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When he was converted at the
age of 30, this was the point the
evangelist’made that drove home
the message to the Rev. Harr
ington. The speaker was the
Rev. Paul Williamson. The Rev.
Harrington will never forget the
sermon. It led to his spiritual
birthday which he lists at April
15, 1958.
Three days later he was prea-
Continued on page five
are not compelled by law to fol.
low those policies and the only
means of enforcement is to
threaten withholding of state
funds.
The letter added, "The power
of the State Board of Educa
tion to regulate does not extend
to the internal administration of
local school systems.”
Laws in Conflict
The letter said that while Con
gress has twice said specificly
that the federal school desegre
gation laws do not require ra
cial balance in schools, the U.S.
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare seems to say
racial balance is required.
It added, “The courts, too,
seem to go in different direc
tions.”
Local Weather
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 88, low today
72, high yesterday 87, low yes
terday 71. Total rainfall .06
of an inch. Sunrise tomorrow
6:45, sunset tomorrow 8:45.
Four Escapees
Still At Large
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Four Fayette County public
works camp escapers, who
overpowered a guard and made
off with a car and a .32 caliber
pistol Tuesday, are still at large
today.
Authorities identified the four
as Melvin Gay, 22, of Fayette
ville; William Thomas Davis,
27, of Clanton, Ala.; James
Kenerson, 18, of St. Petersburg,
Fla.; and Charles Lee Jackson,
34, of Warrenton, Mo.
The fugitives have been
charged with robbery, auto
theft and escape, said county
sheriff James A. Jones.