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By Quimby Melton
“Breaking Faith Wiv a Goa is
the subject of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School les
son.
Background Scripture is Num
bers chapters 13 and 14. The
Memory Selection is “So we see
that they could not enter in be
cause of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:
19.)
This is the second lesson in
the series "A Nation Emerges
Under God” and tells of the He
brews’ arriving at the borders of
the Promised Land and how
near they came to failure becau
se their faith in God and H i s
covenant waxed faint.
The lesson begins with an ac
count of the Lord’s telling Moses
to send twelve men, one from
each of the tribes, to "search
the land of Canaan, which I give
unto the children of Israel.”
The printed part of the back
ground Scripture tells how Mo
ses instructed the men what
they were to look for. The mis
sion was weQl planned even the
smallest detail. They were to co
ver every part of Canaan includ
ing the barren wastes of Negeb.
That a thorough serach was
made is borne out by the length
of the time it took them. They
were in Canaan forty days.
And when they returned they
did not come empty handed. Not
only did they bring back infor
mation as to the richness of
much of the land but they
brought some of the fruit. Am
ong other fruit they brought was
a “branch” of grapes, it was so
tremendous that it had to be
carried by two men, who sus
pended it from a long pole
they carried tandem fashion on
their shoulders. They also brou
ght figs and pomegranates.
No doubt the people were
impressed and we can imagine
the returning men were greet
ed with apiplause and many in
the crowd began urging immed
iate passage over and occupa
tion of Canaan.
But eleven of the 12 men who
had spent 40 days there threw
cold water on the project. Only
Caleb advocated Immediate pos
session of the land. The other el
even said there are giants there,
they are too strong, let’s for
get all about the matter.
The people immediately began
to grumble and gripe and, turn
ing their backs on God, express
ed a desire to return to Egypt,
and, but for the pleading of Mo
ses and the faith of Calebl, there
is no telling what might have
happened. However, God lis
tened to Moses and Calebl and
gave the people a second chan
ce.
Once again we would like to
comment, that in the opinion
of this layman one of the finest
traits of the God he worships is
His remarkable patience with
man, Including the writer.
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There is one thing about this
lesson that has always puzzled
the writer. We are told that Ca
leb was the only one of the 12
who urged Immediate possession
of the land. That means that am
ong the eleven who did not fully
trust God, was Joshua. And la
ter, remember it was Joshua
who was chosen to lead the peo
ple across the river and round
the city of Jerico until the walls
fell down and the conquest of
Canaan was well on its way.
Could it be that the faith of Ca
leb so impressed Joshua that he
in turn became filled with faith
in God’s power and might? Could
it be that God seeing in Joshua
the making of a great leader
sent the Holy Spirit into his
heart to prepare him for the
mission?
We’ve never so far heard
anyone try to explain just what
caused Joshua to become a
changed man, changed from the
timid coward that said “we are
not strong enough” to a leader
of such faith that he challenged
the people to “choose whom ye
will serve” and added “As for
me and my family we will ser
ve the Lord.”
The Children of Israel faced a
crisis when they heard the re
port of the 12 “spies”. The sit
uation was tense as a taut fiddle
string. But the unlimited and
abiding faith one man (Caleb)
had in God was sufficient to
change the whole picture, from
one of desapire to one of hope.
' Today the overall situation is
just as tense. What the world
needs most Is men and women,
young and old, with complete
and abiding faith in God Our
Father.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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Hedy White of Griffin invites her fellow home town
citizens to “Stay and See Griffin” first. Here she
demonstrates the fun of fishing on one of several
hundred lakes in Spalding County. The Griffin girl is
serving as “Miss Stay and See Georgia’* this year. She
Development Expert Says:
Griffin Needs Land
For Industry Growth
Griffarea’s biggest need at the
moment in its effort to attract
new industries is land.
This was pointed out today by
Gene Cook, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, in the
monthly news letter.
He reported several sites re
cently made available have help
ed the situation. He added that
the Chamber hopes to develop
a new industrial park to s h o w
prospective industries which
might locate here.
F. E. “Andy” Andrews of the
Industrial Development of Geor
gia Power Company spent a day
last month in Griffin, Cook re
ported.
He was here to assist with in-
She Wanted A Pony
---And Got One
1 (UPD—A
10-year-old girl wrote to the
Internal Revenue Service and
asked them to stop deducting
money from hrt - father’s
paycheck for a week so he
could buy her a pony.
They didn’t do that, but they
did the next best thing. They
took up a collection and bought
h»« the pony. It will be
delivered today to Marcia
Kessler of suburban Meadow
brook.
A few weeks ago Marcia
dashed off a note to the
"Director of Intemeial Revnuy
(sic)” in Washington and stated
her case.
The letter read:
"Please do not make my
father pay Income tax just for
one week so he can buy me a
pony. Please? Just for one
week because I really want a
pony!
“Please? Just one week
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‘‘Stay An See Griffin ’
dustrial development.
Andrews is familiar with Grif
fin and what it has to offer in
dustry. He has brought several
prospects to look over the com
munity.
“From the standpoint of what
most industrial prospects are
looking for in a community, Gr
iffin seems to meet every test
except one: you have a site pro
blem,” Andrews said.
He said Griffin should make
long range plans to establish a
certified industrial park which
would contain several hundred
acres. For the immediate future,
he said at least a half dozen sit
es of about 100 acres should be
made available.
that’s all.
“I am 10 year old and I
would give any thing for a
pony.
“Please????”
The letter was printed neatly
on three by five index cards
and sent off to begin a trip
through governmental red tape
which ended at the local IRS
headquarters.
The letter came up at a staff
meeting of local director
Seymour Friedman, the assi
stant director and four division
chiefs. The men discussed the
letter and then dipped into their
own pockets for 3100 to
purchase a white, 8-year-old
pony.
Mrs. George R. Kessler, the
girl’s mother, explained that
her daughter read an ad for
ponies in the paper and asked
her father to buy her one.
“He said no, he couldn’t, he
had to pay too many taxes.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, August 15, 1969
has a full schedule of tourist promotion events which
will keep her busy. She’s the subject of tomorrow’s
Griffin Daily News Magazine cover story. Be sure to
see it
Cook showed Andrews 70 acres
owned by the city and county
which should be available for in
dustrial development soon.
“This should put you in busi
ness,” Andrews commented.
Cook said the Chamber got a
boost this week when nearly 70
acres were made available for
new industry. It came When
the Chamber had only one suit
able site left to show, Cook
said.
One of the new sites is a 29.
acre tract owned by the city. It
is adjacent to the airport and
.runs parallel and east of the pro
perty owned by United Co 11 on
Goods, Heisdorf & Nelson and
Universal Cottons.
The site could accommodate
one or several industries and is
served by all utilities.
Another site of about 40 ac-
The Country Parson
“It s so satisfying to raise
crops that it’s a wonder man
kind ever developed so many
other activities.”
Copyright 1%9, by Frank A. Clark
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
res was made available by the
Spalding County Commissioners.
The property, formerly the Cou
nty Work Farm, has frontage on
the four-lane Griffin B-Pass and
Carver road. It has water ahd
electricity available.
Cook said that new sites
would help the flow of Industrial
prospects to this community.
“Most of our industrial pros
pects are brought here by deve
lopers who operate on a state
wide basis. These developers are
familiar with the site situation
in each community. Only cites
with existing sites which meet
the land requirements of the
prospects are visited.
Your Chamber is continuing to
seek additional sites, especially
those which may be served by
rail,” Cook said.
Sen. Talmadge
Textile Policies Lead
To An Influx Os Imports
ATLANTA (UPD - Sen. Her
man Talmadge, D-Ga., said to
day this nation’s textile trade
policies lead to an influx of im
ports but provide practically no
outlets for the Industry.
Talmadge singled out Japan,
which he accused of flooding
the American market with low
wage textiles while setting up
barriers against products from
the United States and other
countries.
In a speech before an institu
tional business seminar, Tal
madge pointed out that the na
tion’s textile industry—Georgia’s
top employer—has suffered a
trade deficit every year since
1957, including a $1 billion loss
last year.
The senator laid a large part
of the blame on Japanese trade
restrictions.
Vol. 96 No. 192
Griffin, Macon
Back Henry Site
For New Airport
South Site
Would Have
14,000 Acres
The Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce has announced its
-backing of a site in Henry Coun
ty for the location of a new At
lanta airport.
The Macon Chamber of Com
merce has expressed an inter
est in the location of the n e w
facility. The Macon Chamber
supports its location south of At
lanta and “the nearer to Macon,
the better.”
Sites in Henry, Gwinnett and
Fulton counties are under consi
deration for the new airport.
Three of them are north of At
lanta and the Henry County site
is the only one south of Atlanta.
“The Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce is vitally interested
in the possibility that the second
Atlanta airport might be locat
ed near Griffin, and officials are
backing Henry County 100 per
cent in their efforts,” a Cham
ber statement said today.
The Griffin Chamber cited one
advantage of the Henry County
site is that a recent land cost
survey, prepared by the Atlanta
Department of Aviation, shows
the site south of McDonough, ab
out 15 miles northeast of Griffin,
to be substantially less costly
than the other sites being consi
dered.
The proposed site in Henry Co
unty would cover some 14,000 ac
res.
In supporting the Henry Coun
ty bid, Macon officials said the
site south of Atlanta would be
advantageous to Macon.
The airport committee of the
greater Macon Chamber of Com
merce voted' to draft a resolu
tion seeking the location of the
airport south of Atlanta as close
to Macon as possible.
Dan E. (Sweat) Jr., director of
governmental lalson for the city
of Atlanta, said that a decision
on an airport site is several
months away.
“The city does not have a
preferential site. It is entirely
possible that the studies and
research now under way would
dictate any one of the four:
possible sites to be chosen," Sw
eat said.
“Perhaps the most important
factor in the selection of a site
is that of proper air space con
sideration. The Federal Aviation
Administration is working wth
Atlanta to Identify and evaluate
the air space problems that
will be encountered at each site.
These discussions are continuing
and ft will probably will be sev
eral months before decisions are
made.”
Local Weather
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 85, low today
70, high yesterday 85, low yes
terday 66. Sunrise tomorrow
7:01, sunset tomorrow 8:15.
“Japan has become the sec
ond largest Industrial nation in
the free world, but it shows lit
tle or no inclination to take on
the resposibllities which go
with its position in the family
of nations, Talmadge said, add
ing that Japan, “which benefit
ted so much from our policy of
aiding less developed countries,
is not willing to share its great
wealth with countries which to
day are still underdeveloped.”
“The Japanese economy is
booming, yet it wants more and
more of the American texti
le trade. Most of the foreign
textiles are coming into this
country not because they are
better or any prettier and more
efficiently produced. They are
entering this country because
they are produced for wages
More Troops
Sent To Belfast
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Rev. Taylor
Rev. Taylor
New Pastor
Os Presbyterian
The Rev. Forest L. Traylor Jr.,
has accepted the pastorate of
the First Presbyterian Church in
Griffin and will assume duties
on Sept. 1.
The Rev. Traylor has had pas
torates at the Austell Presbyter
ian Church, Austell, the First
Presbyterian Church in Bay Mi
nette, Ala., and the Wee Kirk
Covenant Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta, prior to moving to
Griffin.
He attended the University of
Georgia and the Columbia Theo
logy Seminary. Before going into
the ministery he was personnel
supervisor with Georgia Power
Co., and was director of youth
activities at the First Presbyter
ian Church in Johnson City,
Tenn.
The Rev. Traylor’s wife is the
former Dorothy Reese and they
are the parents of three children,
Mrs. Barbara Lanier of Atlanta,
Miss Jane Traylor and Samuel
C. Traylor, who will be a junior
in- high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Forest L. Tray
lor, Sr., will make their home in
Griffin also with their son and
his family.
and under working conditions
that would be illegal in this
country.”
Talmadge said Georgia textile
mills provide some 1X4,000 jobs
with 68,000 in the related appar
el industry. Nationally, almost a
million people are employed by
mills in 42 of 50 states.
“It has created countless jobs
at a time when this has been
one of the most critical needs
of our country. When we reach
the point that low-wage compe
tition is threatening the future
of one of our basic job-produc
ing industries, we must take an
other look at the situation,” he
said.
Talmadge called for voluntary
textile import agreements at
the earliest possible moment.
But if those fail, he said, Con
gress ought to legislate con
trols.
Inside Tip
Moon
See a ,e 6
By WILBORN HAMPTON
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPD—The British government
announced it was flying another
600 troops to Northern Ireland
today to restore law and order
at bayonet point if necessary.
Four days of Catholic-Prote
stant fighting has killed six
persons and dragged the
country close to civil war.
Britain has 600 troops already
in Northern Ireland and today
it alerted another 1,200 in
England for possible weekend
movement to Northern Ireland
to end the fighting that pitted
Irishman against Irishman with
gasoline bombs, sniper fire and
even machine guns.
Police said 54 persons includ
ing three policemen were
wounded by bullets when the
ancient religious hatreds esca
lated from stone and Molotov
cocktail it o ssi ng. Unofficial
Catholic sources put the death
toll as high as 10, and police
said 134 civilians and 58 police
had been wounded, 68 of them
hospitalized.
It was the worst Catholic-
Protestant battle since the Irish
Rebellion began in 1916 and led
eventually to establishment of
the Irish Free State and
Northern Ireland in December
1925.
Five of the dead were
reported shot to death in a
gunbattle that erupted between
rioters and police in Belfast. A
sixth person died of gunshot
wounds in the nearby city of
Armagh. Two of the victims
were shot to death accidentally
as they sat in their homes.
Arabs Blast
Oil Pipeline
By United Press International
Arab guerrillas blew up a
pipeline in the Israeli industrial
city of Haifa today, setting off
a fire and a power failure in
the harbor area.
The U.N. Security Council
convened on a request to
condemn Israel for attacking
Lebanon.
Arab guerrillas blasted a
section of crude oil pipeline
about four miles from the heart
of Haifa, a city of 290,000.
The blast and fire not only
blacked out the city’s bay area
but disrupted rail service for an
hour and a half.
In the U.N. Security Council,
delegates considered a draft
resolution prepared by African
and Asian members asking the
15-natlon body condemn Israel
for its “premeditated air attack
on villages in southern Lebanon
in violation of its obligations
under the U.N. charter and
Security Council resolutions.”
Israel said the attack Monday
was in retaliation for Lebanon
allowing use of its territory for
Arab guerrilla bases.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan said his
country must guard against
being drawn at the wrong time
into an all-out Middle East war
like the one in 1967.
He said the Egyptians were
trying to wear down Israel
while continuing preparations
for the next confrontation.
In Cairo, a close friend of
Egyptian President Gamal Ab
del Nasser said today Egypt
had failed to persuade Pres
ident Nixon to follow an
“evenhanded” policy in the
Middle East.
Nixon is following the policy
of former President Lyndon B.
Johnson which was "total
favoritism” towards Israel,
said Mohamed Hassanein Baik
al, editor of the newspaper Al
Ahram.
Baikal said the United States
has submitted three plans for
settling the Middle East crisis
but all were largely similar and
largely inspired by an Israeli
viewpoint.
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