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By Quimby Melton
“A King’s Glory and Cor
ruption” is the title of this
week’s International Sunday
School lesson. Background
Scripture is I Kings 4:20-21, 29-
34; 5:13-18; 7:1-8; 9:1-9; 10 and
11.
The Memory Selection is “But
if ye shall at all turn from
following me, ye or your child
ren, and will not keep my com
mandments and my statutes...
then will I cut off Israel out of
the land which I have given
them.” (I King 9:6-7).
This is the last Sunday in the
third quarter and the last lesson
of three that tells of the reigns of
King David and his son King
Solomon.
Sunday also begins Christian
Education Week observed by
many Protestant Churches. For
years the last Sunday in Sep
tember was observed as “Rally
Day” in both the church and
Sunday School. Efforts were
made to increase attendance at
all church services, following
the summer vacation months,
when many activities of the
church were more or less
“shleved”. It was hoped that
Rally Day would awaken and
create new interest in the pro
gram of the church, Sunday
School and other church or
ganizations.
Just a personal experience.
One summer, not so long ago,
Good Evening was in New York
City on a Sunday. He wanted to
attend church. Leaving his hotel
he walked over to Fifth Avenue.
The famous street was almost
deserted and he passed several
churches that were closed.
Finally he reached one where a
few people were standing, not in
front of the church but in front
of a side door on a side street.
Walked up and asked when
church would begin. “We’ve al
ready had our church service,”
said one woman. “We hold one
service on Sunday, it takes the
place of Sunday School and
morning and evening service.
This is summer and almost
everyone is out of town. But
we’ll get back on full schedule
when school opens and the folks
come back home.”
This is an extreme illustration
of the part-time schedule of
some churches and the ne
cessity for a “Rally Day” each
year.
Doubling back on our way to
the hotel passed St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. People were going in
the front doors and we followed.
The cathedral was packed but a
courteous usher found us a seat
and we worshipped there before
leaving to catch our plane and
home.
As we checked out at the hotel
commented on how hard it was
to find a church to attend until
we reached St. Patrick’s cathe
dral. The cashier said “That
church never closes its doors,
summer or winter or any other
time.”
The lesson this week tells of
the glory and of the failures of
King Solomon. There are many
contrasts in the Man. On the one
hand we have a king who was
known as the wisest man in all
the earth and it was his wisdom
that enabled Israel to become
the most powerful and most
prosperous nation in the then
known world.
On the other hand Solomon
was a fool.
He was so busy promoting the
economic growth of Israel he
did not realize that the “re
form” program made slaves of
many.
And he was so busy trying to
add wives and concubines to his
palace and harem that he did
not realize the seriousness of
setting up worship places for
the false gods many of them
worshipped.
Maybe the real trouble was
that Solomon couldn’t stand the
fame that was his, got a case of
“swell head”, and thought he
could get along without God
Almighty.
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Go! Eagles
GHS Battles Clarkston
By ROGER DIX
A near capacity crowd is ex
pected at Memorial Stadium to
night when the Griffin Eagles
lay their 2-0 record on the line
against the once beaten
Clarkston Angroas. Game time
is 8 o’clock.
Clarkston is rated one of the
toughest teams in Region 7-
AAA.
They own wins over Columbia
and Cross Keys. Their only loss
was to Walker.
The Eagles are off to a fast
Power Question
Bolton: No Yes Or No
ATLANTA (UPI)-Atty. Gen.
Arthur Bolton says the law
supports “two different con
clusions” in the matter of High
way Director Jim Gillis Sr.,
who was given the State High
way Board’s authority 18
months ago.
Hie predicament concerns
Gillis’ authority as the sole
power in deciding county road
contracts.
Bolton was asked by assistant
highway director Emory Par
rish whether the board acted
legally when it delegated its au
thority to Gillis.
“I am unable to render a
definite yes or no answer on
the matter,” Bolton said in his
opinion. The situation, he said,
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DAILY NEWS
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land his dog, Bear, were re
! united when Gates returned to
Green Airport after a year of
duty in Vietnam. He is a
member of the 107th Signal Co.
of the National Guard.
start this season.
Coach Max Dowis’ chargers
whipped a good Decatur team 7-
0 and stopped Gordon 21-0 last
Friday. Griffin goes into the
Clarkston game unbeaten and
unscored on.
Clarkston is expected to give
Griffin’s defense its stiffest test.
The Angoras have a fine of
fensive team. They are capable
of scoring from anywhere on the
field, including punt and kickoff
returns.
In addition to having an ex
plosive offense, Clarkston has a
“certainly needs clarifying and
clarifying immediately.”
Gillis said he was “pleased
and happy’ ’ with the opinion. He
said the General Assembly will
straighten the matter out when
it next convenes.
“The legislature is in my
corner,” Gillis said. “I’m sure
the legislature will straighten it
out as necessary. I’m very
friendly with the legislature.”
In May, 1969 the board dele
gated its powers to Gillis, when
it is not in session, under a 1968
law that defined the director as
one “who shall possess and ex
ercise all power and authority
of the State Highway Board
• delegated to him by said board
...and shall have full authority
to executive contracts and all
other undertakings...”
But that section of the law
appears to be at odds with the
section saying that federal fund
projects “shall have the ap
proval of the State Highway
Board or a majority thereof...”
The board recently approved
a new policy for “review, stand
ards and maintenance inspec
tion” in all contracts. This
means that the board would
review Gillis’ decisions after
they are made.
Bolton said he did not think
his opinion would open the door
to suits regarding contracts dur
ing the past 18 months, “but
you never know what people
will do.”
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fine defensive team.
Coach Dowis and his Eagles
are counting on Griffin’s
defense to stop the Angoras.
Griffin has become known as
one of the best defensive teams
in the region.
Decatur is the only team that
has seriously challenged
Griffin. And the bulldogs didn’t
do it after the first quarter of
the opening game.
Griffin’s offense perked up in
the second half of the Gordon
game and Coach Dowis now
feels that Donnie Robison and
Kidnap
Charges
Made
Kidnap warrants have been
issued for two Griffin men in
connection with two missing
teenage girls here.
Police said warrants were
issued for Tommy Lee Wilson,
26, of North Second Street, and
Walter James Campbell, 25, of
Jefferson Street.
The two girls have been miss
ing a week.
The FBI is assisting Griffin
Police and the Spalding
Sheriff’s office in the investi
gation.
Police said warrants charg
ing the two men with unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution have
been issued also.
Lawmen here asked any
Griffinites who might have any
information about the case to
contact them.
Dutch tax receipts
THE HAGUE (UPI)-The
Dutch Treasury in 1908 received
a total of $6,108,000,000 (b)
in taxes, an increase of 10.5 per
cent over 1967.
Nixon Refuses
Pullout Date
Such Proposals
Said ‘Defeatist’
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon today rejected a
proposal in Congress to set a
flat date for total withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Vietnam.
In his first White House news
conference since June 19, Nixon
said any incentive the Commu
nists might have to negotiate a
peace settlement in Paris would
be “destroyed” if they were
told that if they simply waited
18 months or so, U.S. troops
would be gone.
Nixon’s reference was to a
proposal by Republican senator,
Charles S. Goodell, Thursday to
cut off funds for support of
American forces in Vietnam
beginning Dec. 1, 1970, and
order a complete withdrawal of
all Gls there by that date..
Nixon said that to set an
arbitrary deadline of inid-1970
or the end of 1971 would
perpetuate the war until such a
date and would destroy any
chance of ending it before then.
He said it would “inevitably
his offensive unit is ready to go.
Larry Chambers, who missed
the Gordon encounter, will start
tonight.
Robison will be at quarter and
Chambers at left half.
Rickey Clark will be at full
back and Kenneth Hand at right
half.
Griffin’s line will have Mike
Gatlin or Sonny Carlisle at
center, Mike Gleaves and Billy
Tiller at guard, Don Byram and
Keith O’Dell at tackle and Bill
Butler and John Seay or Steve
Bozeman at end.
Killed
TIFTON, Ga. (UPI)-A pick
up truck attempted to cross
over railroad tracks in down
town Tifton today despite flash
ing warning lights, and one
person was killed when a
freight train hit the truck.
Authorities identified the dead
man as Ernest McLemore of
Ashburn. Another person in the
truck, Willie Byrd, 30, also of
Ashburn, was seriously injured.
The southbound freight train
knocked the truck about 30 feet.
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undercut” U.S. efforts in the
Paris negotiations.
The President also said that
“under no circumstances”
would he be affected by
renewed antiwar demonstra
tions on college campuses or
elsewhere.
Asked for comment on plans
by students and others for a
one-day moratorium Oct. 15 to
protest the war, Nixon said:
“There is very little we can do
in Washington about running
university and colleges campu
ses.”
The President said that if the
Goodell proposal to require
total withdrawal from Vietnam
by the end of next year was
discussed in the Senate, he
believed that his position would
prevail—that setting such a
timetable might prolong the
U.S. presence in Vietnam.
in any case, the President
said that he has no control over
the subject matter of hearings
in the Senate. That was his
reply to a question whether
open discussion of the Goodell
proposal might politically em
barrass his administration or
Republican candidates in the
1972 congressional elections.
Asked how his efforts to end
the war were going, Nixon
said: “not as well as I would
hope.”
But he said there were
several signs of progress.
Withdrawal of 60,000 U.S.
troops by Dec. 15, cutting the
draft by 50,000; slower North
Vietnamese infiltration into the
South so far this year; and a
one third drop in American
casualties over the same
period.
He also said American offers
at Paris for mutual troop
withdrawal and internationally
guaranteed elections in which
the United States would accept
the result “even if it is a
Communist government” have
reversed “the whole tide of
world opinion” toward Ameri
ca.
Now, he said, it is time for
Hanoi to make a negotiating
offer.
Safety
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
National Transportation Safety
Board will sponsor three days
of hearings in Atlanta Oct. 14-
16 as part of its probe of an
Air South shuttle crash that
killed 14 persons near Monroe,
Ga. July 6.
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111 moon landing unfolded before]
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Athens Beret Says
Accusers After
Special Forces
By FRANK FROSCH
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)-One of
six Green Berets charged with
murdering a Vietnamese nation
al charged Thursday that his
accusers are trying to destroy
the U. S. Special Forces.
“I know who the enemy is
now and where he is,” Capt.
Budge E. Williams of Athens
said in a letter to his attorney.
Williams vowed to fight his ac
cusers “as if they were the Viet
Cong.”
He wrote his attorney, Guy
Scott, that “I am going to fight
them with all my power. They
are not going to make me
knuckle under even if they
throw me back into the ‘box’,”
a reference the 5X7 foot tin
structure in which the six men
were held in solitary during
their first 30 days of confine
ment.
Forces in Jeopardy
Williams said he and his com
panions were willing to remain
silent earlier “so as not to give
the Army a bad image. But
several people opened it up to
the press on 6 August in order
to discredit the Special Forces.
“Now they want it to go to
trial. Even if they don’t get a
conviction, they will have ac
complished their goal of
Book Shortage
Affects All,
Counselor Says
All students at the junior high
school at Concord, Ga., re
gardless of race, are having to
put up with a text book shortage
temporarily, according to Mrs.
Becky Brown, counselor at the
school.
She said it was a new school
and enrollment was difficult to
project. Additional books have
been ordered where there are
shortages and will be dis
tributed when they arrive, Mrs.
Brown said.
She said that a wire story
stating the text book shortage
was the cause of a student walk-
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destroying Special Force and in
creasing their influence of pow
er,” William wrote.
Williams and the other men
are awaiting trial in the death
of Thai Khac Chuyen, who was
slain for allegedly functioning
as a double agent for U. S.and
Viet Cong forces.
Petition to Nixon
Scott submitted a petition to
President Nixon last week
claiming that the case had been
prejudiced by command influ
ence. Similar charges were
made by attorney Henry Roth
blatt in Saigon, who is repre
senting another of the accused
men.
Scott also voiced fears to the
President about the role of the
Central Intelligence Agency in
the case. Williams said in his
letter that all the documents
proving the victim was a double
agent have disappeared.
They were secret documents
which we requested for the in
vestigation,” Williams wrote.
“The answer was that they
were not available.”
out was not correct.
Mrs. Brown said she under
stood that the walkout was over
school bus integration.
Granted, there was a mis
understanding between a Negro
boy and White girl, she said,
“but we thought we had that all
straightened out when they left
the school office.”
Pike schools were closed
Thursday and today following a
walkout.
They are scheduled to reopen
Monday.
Several hundred Pike County
citizens met with the Pike
Board of Education last night to
air their grievances about the
school system’s operation. The
meeting lasted until about 11
p.m. Then the school board
went into executive session for
about four hours.