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By Quimby Melton
•‘Savior, Thy Dying Love” by
Sylvanius Dryden Phelps, is our
choice for the hymn we will dis
cuss this week. It was written in
1862 and published in The Wat
chman and Reflector, a Baptist
publication. The music for the
hymn was written by Dr. Robert
Lowry, who named it ‘‘Some
thing for Jesus.”
In 1871 it was published along
with several other hymns of Dr.
Phelps in “Pure Gold”, and in
1875 in Gospel Hymns No. One.
Both these publications were edi
ted by Dr. Lowry.
When Dr. Phelps reached his
seventienth birthlay, Dr. Low
ry wrote him: "It is'worth living
seventy years even if nothing
comes of it but one such hymn
as
Savior thy dying love
Thou gavest me;
Nor should I ought withhold,
Dear Lord, from thee.
Continuing Dr. Lowry wrote
“Happy is the man who can pro
duce one song which the w o r Id
will keep on singing after its au
thor has passed away. May the
tuneful harp preserve its strings
for many a long year yet, and
the last note reach us only when
it is time for the singer to take
his plac° in the heavenly choir.”
Dr. Phelps in reply said “Dr.
Lowry has given wings to my
hymn.”
Sylvanius Dryden Phelps was
born at Suffield. Conn. May 15,
1816, was educated at Connecti
cut Literary Institute. Brown Un
iversity and at Yale Theological
Seminary. Fo- 28 years he w a s
pastor of the First Baptist Chur
ch, New Haven, Conn. At o n e
time he was editor of the Chris
tian Secretary published at Hart
ford. He published several books
of poetry and prose, his Holy
Land b°ing published through
nine editions. He began writing
hymns in his college days, his
first efforts being temperance
hymns for young peonle. Os his
many gospel hymns “Savior, Thy
Dying Love.” is the best known
and best beloved.
Dr. Phelps died at New Hav
en, Nov. 23, 1895.
The man who composed the
music for the hymn "Savior,
Thy Dying Love” was Robert
Lowry, D.D. born March 12, 1926,
at Philadelphia. He was a Bap
tist preacher, a college profes
sor, an administrator of great
ability and in great demand as
an orator. He did not study mu
sic seriously until he was 40 ye
ars old. He then began writing
music and was the author of
many songs that were most pop
ular in the last half of the cen
tury. He wrote both music and
words for many and when asked
if he wrote the tune or the words
first said he had no fixed pat
tern. “Sometimes the melody
comes first, sometimes the
words.” But they fit in somehow
or other.
Dr. Lowry often said he would
rather preach a gospel sermon
to an appreciative, attentive con
gregation than write a hymn, yet
his hymns and tunes have been
remembered long after his best
sermons have been forgotten.
There are few hymns better
known and better loved than the
hymn “Savior, Thy Dying Love”,
written by Dr. Phelps and s e t
to music by Dr. Lowry.
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This is how a restaurant looked at Hill and Taylor streets when Papa John Willis
opened it in 1931 on Thanksgiving Day. A fire seven years ago damaged the
building which then housed a cafeteria 01 the ground floor and a hotel on the se
cond floors. Two retail stores now occupy the one-story building.
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Hulette Goodman
GOLD STAR MOTHERS will be special guests at a Memorial Service Sunday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, in the Chapel at the First United Methodist Church.
Griffin s VFW Post No. 5448 and Auxiliary are sponsors of the event and state
officers will conduct the service. On the program will be Hulette Goodman, past
Department Commander, Mrs. Dot Moore, VFW Auxiliary Music Director, and
Rev. Riley Milam, Georgia VFW Chaplain.
Schoo! Suit
Angers Maddox
By TOM GREENE t
ATLANTA (UPI) —Georgia :
officials reacted with angry (
words Friday after the U.S. De
partment of Justice carried out j
its promise to take the State j
Board of Education into federal (
court unless it submitted a suit- ]
able statewide desegregation j
plan.
Charging the board had failed (
to t.ake “adequate steps to dis- ,
establish the dual (school) sys- (
tern,” the Department filed the (
first school desegregation suit ,
against a state education board ,
under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ,
Gov. Lester Maddox immedi- (
ately branded the lawsuit “a
sham and a farce” and said the ]
demands were "identical to j
those made by Communist j
enemies both within and without f
this nation.” j
Georgia’s U.S. senators, Her
man Talmadge and Richard B.
Russell, said they doubted the
legality of the suit but both
agreed the state education sys
tem would fare better under the
courts than under the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW).
“I would be less than frank,
however, if I did not say that
the authority of the courts is
preferable to the unwarranted ]
and arbitrary influence that the !
fanatical bureaucrats of HEW !
have been exercising over our 1
schools and the children of both 1
races of Georgia,” Russell pro- 1
tested in Washington. <
“The legal foundation fnr this
shotgun approach is shakier ’
than any similar action in the 1
recent history of assaults by the
federal judiciary on the con- i
stitution,” he added. (
The Justice Department said t
the suit would permit restora- 1
tion of federal aid to 30 dis- ]
tricts whose funds have been
cut off by HEW.
But HEW said the fund resto
ration would come only after a
final court order, and that
would be at the end of a legal
battle that could last for two or
three years. Meanwhile, Geor
gia can continue to resist inte
gration of its public schools
pending a final decision.
The suit was seen as a test
case of the Nixon Administra-
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Dot Moore
tion’s policy of using law suits
instead of fund cutoffs to
achieve school desegregation.
By Maddox, it was seen as
just another in the “never-end
ing attacks on the constitution
and the rights of citizens by the
parents of Washington who
have created a monster.”
“They violate the Constitution
of the United States and de
mand that others fall in line or
else lose their schools, their
teachers, their education and go
to jail,” said Maddox, who has
recently declared he’ll go
behind bars before submitting
to federal guidelines.
The suit was filed in U. S.
District Court here by Beverly
Bates, a civil rights lawyer.
Named as defendants were the
state of Georgia, the State
Board of Education and its
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Electricity Off
Sunday Morning
The Griffin Light and Water
Department announced today a
scheduled electric power out
age by the Georgia Power Com
pany Sunday. It will affect city
of Griffin electric customers
from the western half of the el
ectric system.
Weather permitting, the ser
vice will be off from 6:30 a.m.
till about 7:15 a.m.
The area affected lies west of
a line running south along the
Central of Georgia Railway tr
acks to a point opposite North
10th street; south along 10th to
Meriwether; west along Meriwe-
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members, and State School
Supt. Jack Nix.
It was threatened about three
weeks ago when the Depart
ment gave Georgia officials 15
days to agree on a voluntary
plan to integrate public schools
across the state. The state
board replied that the guide
lines were confusing and asked
■clarification.
The department’s only re
sponse was the suit which
charged that 159 of the state’s
192 school systems operated
last year on a segregated basis.
The government claimed 116 of
the system had no definite plan
for eventual integration, even
though 26 were involved in liti
gation.
The suit set no deadline for
compliance.
‘ the.r to Pimiento avenue; south
i along Pimiento and continuing
across the golf course and air
port to the intersection of Air-
' port road and Highway 19.
► All areas lying south and west
of this approximate line will be
affected.
In addition there will be affec
ted a small area lying east of
the Central of Georgia tracks
and north of Thomaston Mills
and an area in the general vic
inity of Meriwether and South
Ninth streets.
ident Nixon arrived in Romania
today on the first U.S.
presidential visit to a Commu
• nist capital and pledged the
United States was ready to
“.respond firmly and positively”
to East European proposals for
security arrangements.
Nixon and his wife Pat flew
into Bucharest in a bright
sunlight to a roaring welcome
from thousands of cheering
Romanians, some leaping onto
each others’ shoulders for a
better glimpse of the American
First Family.
Nixon arrived from Pakistan
where the President said the
United States would act in Asia
against Communist aggression
but would strive to avoid any
more Vietnams.
As far as Eastern Europe
was concerned, the President
told an airport throng of 5,000
the United States is ready “to
respond firmly and positively to
sincere and concreted initiatives
that others may take” in moves
toward reducing tension be
tween East and West.
Local Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
89, low today 67, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 69; rainfall
.05 of an Inch; sunrise Sunday
6:52, sunset Sunday 8:37.
Traffic Moving
After Derailment
Wreckage
Is Cleared
During Night
Traffic on two Griffin streets
was blocked for several hours
last night following the derail
ment of several cars of a South
ern Railway freight train.
The derailment was at the
junction of the main lines near
Thomaston Mills.
The cars that derailed were
near the engine. The engine
didn’t derail. Cars behind those
blocked the grade crossings at
Broad and Solomon streets. They
could not be moved until the
wreckage was cleared.
City workmen set up barrica
des on the two streets. City po
licemen rerouted traffic.
Officers said the derailment
occurred about sundown. The
freight train was on its way to
Atlanta. It had entered Griffin
on the tracks from Fort Valley.
A spokesman for the city Pub
lic Works Department said it ap
peared that a long section of tr
ack was torn up by the derail
ment. He did not know how
how many cars had derailed.
Officials of Southern in Grif
fin could not be reached for com
ment this morning.
The wreckage was cleared dur
ing the night and traffic was run
ning on regular schedule th i s
morning. The two streets were
blocked until about midnight.
The city spokesman said he
did not know what had caused
the derailment.
Motorists Asked
To Stay Off Road
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) — A
public plea was issued Friday
for motorists who persist in us
ing a section of the 1-285 per
imeter highway under construc
tion between the Stone Mountain
Freeway and 1-85 in DeKalb
County.
Rep. Harry Geisinger of De-
Kalb said cars whizzing over
the unopened section at express
way speeds are endangering
workmen and equipment. He
said there have already been
“several close calls.”
The highway is expected to
open Oct. 1.
Mars:
And
3v TOM TIEDE
NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK—-(NEA)—lt’s
not mere coincidence that
most space authorities are
now promoting Mars as the
next new world for mankind
to visit.
According to the consensus,
Mars may in fact be the only
new world (beside the moon)
that mankind can visit.
The reason, simplified, is
this: Everything else out
there—and there’s a lot out
there—is, based on present
thinking, either too hostile
or too far away for immedi
ate manned-flight planners
to consider.
A chief proponent of this
belief is Dr. Robert Jastrow,
director of the Goddard
Institute for Space Studies.
He admits man’s ultimate
space exploration may in
deed be boundless, but, as
things currently stand, he
feels the manned - landing
possibilities are quite
limited.
He explains it this way:
“Os the nine planets that
are in our galaxy, only Mars
is fit for any kind of a
manned landing. Mercury is
too close to the sun. The
surface of Venus is hot
enough to melt lead. Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
—all 100 to 300 times the
mass of earth—have gravi
tational forces that would
crush any landing astronaut.
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Pop’s Prop
LAGRANGE, Ga. — Army Sgt. Johni? (Pop) Abraham of Comstock, Calif., and
Ft. Benning, Ga. steps out with a cane during a parachute jump above the La-
Grange Airport in a demonstration of sport jumping. The nickname “Pop” led
Abraham to adopt the cane, which he says helps him off the field ocassionally after
a rough landing.
Man s Next
Only Coal —Now
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Dr. Robert Jastrow,
The final planet, Pluto, is
frozen, barren and four bil
lion miles away.
“As for the other bodies in
this galaxy, there are any
number we can think of.
This galaxy has about 100,000
million stars bound together,
including the sun. But the
sun is naturally too hot for
man (about 10,000 degrees
Fahrenheit on the surface).
And the next nearest star is
Alpha Centuri, which is some
25 trillion miles away. It
would take 100,000 years, at
rocket speeds of five miles
per second, to reach it.
“And this barrier of dis
tance is even more evident
when we consider inter
galaxy travel. Again, there
are any number of other
galaxies—we know of at
least 10,000 million others,
each with 100,000 million
stars. But they are just too
far away. The nearest neigh
boring galaxy, Andromeda,
is two million light years
away (a light year is six tril
lion miles—and that’s thous
ands of travel years from our
earth.’’
These observations, Dr.
Jastrow adds quickly, are
rooted to contemporary
knowledge only. The barri
ers may not be everlasting.
And Jastrow believes man
will eventually overcome
many of these shackling
problems.
In fact, the scientist adds,
man must overcome these
problems.
“According to calcula
tions,” he says, “ the earth
probably will be able to sup
port life for five billion more
years. After that, the sun
will have become a red
giant, swollen into a vast,
distended sphere of gas 180
times its present radius—and
heat the surface of the earth
to 4,000 degrees.”
So, the physicist explains,
this planet will eventually
have to be abandoned. And
some other place found to
support continuation of earth
life.
It’s certainly nothing to
lose any sleep over right
now, Jastrow admits; it’s
only a problem for those liv
ing 200 million generations
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hence.
For the present genera
tion, of course, the problem
is considerably less massive.
Just to get to Mars. And Dr.
Jastrow has no doubts it will
be done. Probably, as many
space authorities agree, in
the 1980 s.
The Mars journey, as
Jastrow sees it, will take
about five months. He says
it might be accomplished
faster, but any increase in
speed would necessitate an
unwise and unprofitable de
crease in payload.
Jastrow says nuclear rock
ets, presently under develop
ment, will probably be used
on the Mars ship. And he
thinks the cost for the trip—
at present currency value—
will be anywhere from SSO
billion to SIOO billion.
But the Mars expedition,
despite the enormous cost
and unimaginable difficul
ties, is, as Dr. Jastrow sees
it, worth any human effort.
Says he: “There are
certain critical moments in
history that are necessary
for human advancement.
One was fish first coming
out of water unto land.
Another was man’s going to
the moon. Still another may
be the first communication
with life on a world other
than our own.
“From many standpoints
of reasoning, it is probable
that life does exist on other
worlds.