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By Qnimby Melton
“I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”
written by Timothy Dwight
• (1752-1817) is the hymn we will
discuss this week. Hymnodists
say this hymn was inspired by
t Psalms 137:5-6, “If I forget
thee, O Jerusalem. ...”
Timothy Dwight was born in
Northampton, Mass. May 14,
• 1752. From 1769, when he gra
duated from Yale, until 1795,
when he became president of
that institution, he was a
• grammar school teacher in New
Haven, a tutor at Yale, a
chaplain in the Army, a farmer,
a preacher, a member of the
• Massachusetts State Assembly,
and pastor of the Con
gregational Church at Green
field, Conn.
• Even as a child Timothy
Dwight was unusual. As soon as
he could talk he insisted that he
, be taught the alphabet; when he
was four he read the Bible, and
at six, when he entered school
wanted to study Latin. Denied
• this he would stay in during re
cess and study the Latin text
books of the older students and
“learned the whole of Lily’s
j»Grammar.”
His school mates, both early
and later at Yale were amazed
at “his thirst for knowledge.”
•When he began teaching in New
Haven, one of his students said:
“I have never known a man
who took so deep an interest in
’everything — the best way to
grow a cabbage, as well as the
phenomena of the heavens. He
as pleased to talk with
lowly people as lofty ones — his
kitchen servant, the college
janitor, the blacksmiths, the
• boatmen, ploughmen; he drew
from them what they best knew,
and he well paid them in kind
for what they gave.”
, He became president of Yale
when 43, and it is said the
greatness of this institution be
gan the day he was in
augurated.
His duties were many. In
addition to being the ad
ministrative head of the Uni
versity he taught all subjects
required of seniors, was
Professor of Literature and
Oratory; Professor of Theology
‘and College Chaplain.
His greatest interest was in
leading both students and
# faculty members to Christ. One
who wrote of Timothy Dwight’s
presidency at Yale states that
when he became president
, there were no more than four
professing Christians among
the entire student body and
faculty. This historian tells of a
’series of sermons he delivered
at college chapel services, on
“Theology Explained and De
fended” that led to a great re-
• vival at Yale brought about the
conversion of more than a third
of all students and many mem
bers of the faculty. Dr. Dwight
inaugurated similar revivals at
Amherst, Dartmouth and
Williams Colleges, with “re-
, markable results.”
He died in Philadelphia Jan.
11, 1816.
« The “tune” of this hymn is
known as “St. Thomas” and
credit is given Aaron Williams,
English song writer, born in
• London, 1631. Little is known of
him except that he seems to
have had various occupations —
composer of music, engraver
• and printer of music, teacher,
and clerk to a church in London.
He died there in 1996.
The Country Parson
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‘One criticism I’ve seldom
heard of a sermon is that it
* wasn’t long enough.”
Copynght 1%9, by Frank A. Clark
5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
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Reserve Unit Flies
Home From Vietnam
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI)-A U.S. Army
reserve unit flew home from
Vietnam today under President
Nixon’s program to withdraw
35,000 more American troops
from the war zone by Dec. 15.
The 180 men of the 172nd
Transportation Co., a Nebraska
Army unit, were the second
unit to leave Vietnam since the
Nixon Administration’s “second
phase” withdrawal got under
way. A 90-man reserve unit left
last Sunday.
The transportation troops
flew from Cam Ranh air base
to Forbes Army Airfield,
Topeka, Kan. The unit will be
deactivated at Ft. Riley, Kan.
and be reconstituted in the
Pike Board Has
Plan For Buses
Pike School Supt. Harold
Daniel said the board of
education has approved a plan
it believes will take care of
trouble on school buses. The
plan will be put into effect Mon
day morning when schools
open.
They were closed this week
following a walkout by at least
36 Negro students at the Con
cord school.
Supt. Daniel did not disclose
details of the plan to handle the
busing trouble.
He conceded that the trouble
this week originated largely on
buses.
Asked if the system would
consider putting deputies on the
school buses, Mr. Daniel said
“absolutely not.”
He said discipline of students
on buses was up to the drivers.
If student discipline gets out
of hand on a bus, then the driver
should turn to the school princi
pal for help, Supt. Daniel said.
Mrs. Alice Salter who has
begun her third year as a bus
driver for the system said
trouble broke out on her bus this
week when she refused to let a
Negro girl off until the bus had
been turned around.
Army Reserve at Oamaha,
Neb.
The “first phase” withdrawal
of 25,000 American troops was
carried out between July 8 and
Aug. 30. It included two
brigades of the Army’s 9th
Infantry Division and the
Marines’ Regimental Landing
Team Nine, a portion of the
U.S. 3rd Marine Division.
Communiques reported light
fighting in South Vietnam
Friday and today.
Allied troops patrolling areas
near Saigon killed 105 Viet Cong
Friday. U.S. troops in three
battles killed 72 guerrillas while
losing three killed and 10
wounded.
In the Mekong Delta, South
Mrs Salter said the girl
called her an obscene name.
Mrs. Salter said she started
after the girl and was stopped
by two Negro males with
knives.
She said she did not plan to
quit driving the school bus.
Mrs. Salter said she talked
with State School Supt. Jack Nix
in Atlanta by telephone about
the trouble in Pike County. She
said Mr. Nix told her it was
strictly a local board problem
and he was powerless to do any
thing.
Mrs. Salter also attempted to
telephone Gov. Maddox but was
unable to get in touch with him.
Mrs. Salter said she was
among the Pike citizens who
carried their grievances to the
school board Thursday night.
The board held a late execu
tive meeting for several hours
after hearing from the citizens.
Asked what specific action
the board took, Supt. Daniel
said they approved purchase of
three new refrigerators and an
oven for some of the schools. He
said other equipment would be
purchased to improve the
physical facilities of the
schools.
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Sat. and Sun., Sept. 27-28,1969
Vietnamese commanders re
ported the end of a three-day
offensive operation Friday near
Mo Cay, 49 miles southwest of
Saigon. The South Vietnamese
said the operation killed 87
Communist troops at a cost of
17 killed and 61 wounded.
The drive involved six
battalions of the South Vietna
mese army.
Communist gunners shot
down a U.S. Army light
observation helicopter 12 miles
west of Hue and 63 miles
northwest of the northern city
of Da Nang. The two men
aboard were wounded.
South Vietnam
Sees Troop Need
Through 1972
WASHINGTON (UPI) -As
President Nixon was setting a
goal of ending the Vietnam War
by the end of 1970, official
South Vietnam sources said
American forces would be
needed there until at least 1972.
At his news conference
Friday, Nixon said: “Once the
enemy recognizes that it is not
going to win its objective by
waiting us out, then the enemy
will negotiate and we will end
this war before the end of 1970.
That is the objective we have.”
A few hours later, the South
Vietnam officials in Washing
ton, who declined to be
identified further, expressed
hope the war could be
“Vietnamized” by 1972. But
then they said:
“We will need some residual
U.S. forces, including logistical
and combat support troops. We
cannot say how many would be
required. That depends on the
enemy’s situation.”
Local Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 84,
low today 52, high yesterday 85,
low yesterday 56, sunrise
tomorrow 7:29, sunset
tomorrow 7:24.
Pilot Found
Dead In Crash
Clothing Drive
Here Monday Night
The Kiwanis Club today re
minded Griffinites to have
clothing ready for the annual
clothing drive Monday night.
Members of the club with the
help of Key Club and Boy Scout
groups will call at Griffin area
homes for clothing for students
in the Griffin-Spalding School
System.
The drive will begin at 7 p.m.
and officials hope it will be
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Clothing will be cleaned, re
paired and stored in a central
clothing bank for distribution by
faculty members.
Clothing for youngsters from
the first grade level through
seniors in high school will be
needed, the officials said.
They asked that people leave
their porch lights on during the
drive to help solicitors.
Wreckage Found
Near Williamson
WILLIAMSON, Ga. (UPI) —
The body of airplane salesman
John Russell was found at the
controls of a wrecked plane
Friday—one week after the
small craft crashed within 300
yards of a house.
The wreckage went unnoticed
until searchers found it Friday
during an air search.
Russell, of Hapeville, appar
ently crashed during a rain
storm last Friday while flying
from Americus to Atlanta on a
business trip. Authorities said
he apparently was attempting
to land at a tiny air strip when
he crashed.
The wreckage of the single
engine Navion was found in a
soybean field about 300 yards
from the home of Mrs. Ran
dolph Garfield. The crash site
was visible from the Garfield
house, but weeds hid the wreck
age from view.
Mrs. Garfield said she heard
a loud noise last Friday after
noon but she did not know
what caused it. Neighbors who
also heard the noise searched
the area but did not find the
plane.
The search for the missing
craft had been going on all
week but it was not until Fri
day that E.B. Galloway, man
ager of the South Expressway
Airport at Jonesboro, flew over
the area and spotted the wreck
age.
Authorities who removed the
body from the plane said $2,360
in $lO bills were scattered about
the wreckage, apparently
money Russell had made in the
sale of a plane.
Williamson is a small Pike
County town about two miles
east of Griffin.
Mr. Russell made his home at
3331 Sims Street, Hapeville. He
was an airplane salesman.
His mother was Mrs. Mary N.
Russel of Irving, Tex.
The body will be sent from
Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home
of Griffin to Inglewood, Calif.,
for funeral services and burial.
Inside Tip
Ceramics
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Beret Denies
Army's Claim
In Spy Death
By NAT GIBSON
SAIGON (UPl)—The Army
today accused Capt. Robert
Marasco, 27, of pulling the
trigger in what the military
contends was the murder of a
Vietnamese civilian by U.S.
Green Berets. Marasco denied
it.
Marasco made the denial in
cables to his wife and parents
in New Jersey after the Army
released the official charge
sheets accusing him of shooting
to death Thai Khac Chuyen
June 20.
“I want you to know that the
charge is merely that, a
charge, and does not constitute
the truth,” Marasco said in his
cables. “Please bear with me,
ancPl know that this is difficult
for all of us. Love. Bob.”
The cables went to Marasco’s
wife, Denise, in Rutherford,
N.J., and to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Marasco of
Bloomfield, N.J.
Marasco and five other Green
Beret officers were ordered
court-martialed in the slaying
or Chuyen. The Army contends
the South Vietnamese civilian
was slain near Nha Trang, 188
miles northeast of Saigon.
Charges against a Green Beret
warrant officer and an enlisted
man have been held in
abeyance until the higher
ranking special forces officers
are tried.
Defense: ‘Double Agent’
Defense attorneys for the
Green Berets contend the man
slain was a double agent
working both for the allies and
North Vietnam.