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By Quimby Melton
“0 Perfect Love” is our
• choice for this weekly comment
on Hymns We Love To Sing. It
was written by Dorothy Blom
field Guerney, and is often sung
*at weddings.
Mrs. Guerney gave the
, following account as to how she
came to write the hymn:
“It was written one Sunday
evening in a quarter of an hour
f sixteen years ago, for my sis
ter’s marriage. We had all been
singing hymns, and had just
sung No. 12 in Hymns Ancient
®and Modern ( ‘0 strength and
stay upholding all creation.’),
when my sister said she wished
the words were suitable for a
•wedding. ‘What is the use of
having a sister who writes
poetry’, she added, ‘if she can
not write me words for that
’tune.?’ I said I would and took
the hymn book into the library,
and wrote the words with hardly
a pause.’ ”
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At another time Mrs. Guerney
wrote “The writing of it was no
• effort whatsoever after the idea
had come to me of the two-fold
aspect of perfect union, love and
life, and I have always felt God
helped me write it.”
Dorothy Frances Guerney,
nee Blomfield, was the eldest
daughter of Prebesdary F. G.
Blomfield, and the grand
daughter of Doctor Blomfield,
Bishop of London. She married
, Gerald Guerney, who, graduat
ing from Oxford became an ac
tor. In 1919 both Mr. and Mrs.
Guerney joined the Roman
»Catholic Church.
Mrs. Guerney published
many poems. Perhaps the best
known of them is:
The kiss of the sun
for pardon,
The song of the birds,
* for mirth;
One is nearer God’s heart
in a garden
( Than anywhere else
on earth.
The London Times reporting
, the sudden death of Mrs. Guer
ney wrote:
“Thousands of people at thou
sands of weddings must have
> sung, or heard sung, “0 Perfect
Love” without knowing that
Mrs. Guerney wrote the hymn..
’.. But it is not as an author that
she will be best remembered by
her many friends. ... A wide
circle of friends of every creed
’ and class know that they could
take to her all their troubles,
great or small, and come away
, with the burden of them lighten
ed or removed.”
Joseph Barnby, author of the
music for this marriage hymn,
* was one of the most profilic, if
not one of the greatest of the
late 19th Century hymn-tune
, writers. He began singing in a
church choir at seven, taught
other boys at ten, became or
ganist at twelve, music master
a at a school at fifteen. He was
knighted in 1892 by Queen Vic
toria for his contribution to
music, and in 1897 246 of his
» compositions were published in
a collection. Born in 1838 he died
in 1897, his funeral service be
ing held in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Country Parson
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“We’re willing to admit
that everybody has rights —
it’s just that ours seem more
important.”
Copyright wo, by Fr»nk A. Clarlc
Airlines Tell Why They
Want North Atlanta Site
Lona Triplett, 9, a primary stu-
plaque Jack and Jill magazine
awarded for her poem which the
|| children’s publication pub-
I lished. At left is Librarian Mrs.
W| Bera and at right is Mrs.
IB Ellen Watson, teacher. The I
magazine said it was unusual .
Bfor a student so young to have a My’ JI
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Interest Comes Off Schedule A
By RAY DE CRANE
Distributed by Enterprise Press
Any interest you paid for
the use of money of a non
business nature is fully de
ductible on your income tax
return as a Schedule A de
duction.
This will generally include
interest on a home mort
gage, home improvement
loan, car purchase, or inter
est on notes to a bank, sav
ings and loan, credit union
or finance company.
On your tax return you
need list only the total inter
est paid on your mortgage
and installment loans but
must list by name and
amount any other institution
or person to whom interest
was paid.
Interest paid to Internal
Revenue Service for late
payment on an income tax
is deductible. So too is the
extra interest charge for late
payment of real estate taxes
Griffin Police Cleared
68 Percent Os Crimes
Records at the Griffin Police
Department show an increase
of only four known major
crimes in the city in 1969 over
1968, and that the percentage of
cases cleared by local officers is
over twice as high as the na
tional rate.
According to Chief Leo Black
well, of the 915 known crimes
committed last year, 624 or 68
per cent have been cleared by
arrest. Nationally, 30 per cent
were cleared. In 1968, 634 of 911
crimes were cleared. Chief
Blackwell pointed out that a
number of the 1969 cases will be
cleared in 1970. Os the 624
crimes cleared, 175 persons un
der 18 years of age were in
volved, he said.
The types of known crimes
and those cleared by arrest is as
follows:
Homicide four, cleared four;
rape four, cleared three;
S«STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
DAILY<NEWS
Daily Since 1872
or any other tax obligation.
But the penalty for late pay
ment is not a deductible
item.
Money frequently is bor
rowed on a discount note. In
a typical example, you would
receive $940 in cash on a
SI,OOO note discounted at 6
per cent and to be paid in 12
equal installments. The S6O
interest charge is not neces
sarily fully deductible in the
year the note was executed.
The total interest of S6O
would indicate a $5 monthly
interest charge. If only five
payments were made on the
note in 1969 your interest de
duction for last year would
be $25. The other $35 would
be deducted on your 1970 re
turn if the remaining seven
payments were made in
1970.
Where the amount of inter
est charged is not clearly
shown on installment pur
chases but carrying charges
are separately stated, the
robbery five, cleared two; as
saults 259, cleared 258; burglary
126, cleared 36: theft 486, clear
ed 307; auto theft 31, cleared 14.
Griffin police investigated 849
traffic accidents in 1969. This
was 135 fewer than the 984 acci
dents in 1968.
Chief Blackwell said this may
be attributed partially to mov
ing 1-75 traffic from Griffin, but
records show there were fewer
accidents on other streets.
Os the 1969 traffic accidents,
there were two fatalities (both
pedestrians), 242 injuries, and
$330,759.50 in estimated pro
perty damage.
In 1968, there was one fatality,
257 injuries and $368,265 es
timated property damage.
The Chief explained that
more accidents occurred bet
ween four and five in the after
noon, on Fridays and Satur
days, on dry streets, during
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allowable interest is deter
mined by totaling the unpaid
balances at the first of
month, dividing by 12 to get
the average unpaid monthly
balance and then multiplying
by 6 per cent.
“Points” charged a bor
rower to obtain a conven
tional mortgage loan consti
tutes deductible interest.
Also deductible is the pre
payment penalty for the
early payment of a mort
gage loan.
Persons living in a con
dominium apartment may
deduct the interest charges
on the mortgage for their in
dividual apartment, even
though it may be part of a
master mortgage.
(NEXT: Don’t overlook
those “miscellaneous
deductions.”)
daylight hours and involved
more drivers between 25 and 34
years of age.
The major causes of acci
dents were failure to yield right
of way, following too closely,
making improper turns, drunk
driving and speeding.
Griffin-Jackson
Resurface Set
The State Highway Depart
ment has called for bids to re
surface the Griffin-Jackson-
Monticello highway (route 16)
at an estimated cost of $296,674.
The project will cover 26.48
miles and will run easterly from
Griffin.
Bids will be opened Feb. 6 at
the state highway office in
Atlanta.
Christian School
Begins Limited
Registration
The Griffin Christian School
of the First Assembly of God
Church has begun limited
registration for the fall term,
according to the school’s
director, Leslie L. Grounds.
Registration is now open only
to members of the First
Assembly of God Church and
those presently enrolled in the
Kindergarten and first grade.
The limited enrollment period
will continue through Feb. 15,
after which registration will be
opened to the general public.
Registrations are being re
ceived for the Kindergarten and
for grades one and two in the
school. The second grade is the
fourth step in a long-range
program of elementary
education which started with
the opening of the Day Care
Center on Nov. 4, 1968 by the
church. The Kindergarten
began its operation in Jan. 1969,
and the first grade on Sept. 2,
1969,
Nigeria
LAGOS (UPI)-Nigeria wel
comed today the first plane
load of foreign aid for refugees
of the nation’s conquered
Biafran region, confident it can
end starvation this month. The
government also hinted it may
cut back its wartime army.
A cargo plane loaded with 11
tons of drugs and equipment
left Britain bringing the first
foreign aid for refugees Nigeria
has accepted since the surren
der of Biafra.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 57,
low today 39, high yesterday 55,
low yesterday 36. Total rainfall
.13 of an inch. Sunrise tomorrow
7:42, sunset tomorrow 5:49.
Vol. 97 No. 14
Don’t Like
Air Center
Proposal
Eight of Atlanta’s nine major
air carriers feel the concept of
an air center, a separate facility
proposed in connection with the
Henry county site which would
provide quick and convenient
travel between the site and the
present Atlanta airport by high
speed trains, is impractical,
according to airlines’ spokeman
Clint G. Sweazea.
In a Friday interview at the
state capitol, Sweazea, director
of Civic Affairs for Delta Air
Lines and representative of At
lanta’s air carriers for govern
mental affairs, gave the
airlines’ reasons for prefering a
northern site.
Prior to the air carrier’s an
nouncement, R. Dixon Speas
Associates, one of the nation’s
top airport planners, had
recommmended site D (Henry
County) with an air center as
the least expensive and most
desirable site for Atlanta’s
second carrier airport.
“We (airlines) don’t believe
that anybody from Atlanteor (at
least) the average person...who
would be in route to the Henry
County site in his auto
mobile...would want to stop half
way there and park his car and
get out and get on a train to go
the rest of the way,” Sweazea
said.
One of the 13 points of the
Speas recommendation was
that customer convenience
would be greater if the new air
port could be located near to the
greatest number of users and
the air carriers believe this to
be of prime importance.
Sweazea, a critic of the Speas
report, commented that this
point, would, without doubt,
indicate a northern site because
the vast majority of air
travelers live in this area.
“From there (north Atlanta)
to the Henrv County site, we are
talking of 40 something miles
they (passengers living in north
Atlanta) would have to travel
and we feel that this would be a
real passenger inconvenience,”
Sweazea said.
Airline officials know from
experience that when two air
ports are constructed on the
same side of a city with one
located nearer the metropoli
tian center, the farthest site will
only receive the overflow
passengers from the nearer
airport.
Such has been the case with
Dulles International Airport in
Washington, D. C., when it was
juilt in a sparcely populated
area more than 30 miles from
the capitol.
“Atlanta’s second airport...is
to be an airport for Atanta and
not a regional type airport for
any other area of the state,
which I believe has been a mis
conception on the part of many
people,” Sweazea said.
Rumors were crushed by
Sweazea that the present At
alnta airport would become a
ghost field, once the new facility
is completed. He stated that
Delta was investing nearly
$100,000,000 in new equipment
there and that jobs would be in
creased rather than eliminated.
Sweazea said there had been
speculation among airline
employes that the bulk of the
carrier’s operations would be
transfered to the new airport.
“There will be very little, if
any, decrease in traffic at At
lanta Airport, and it will con
tinue to be operated at
maximum capacity,” Sweazea
said.
Mabie Howard
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I am proud of Griffin because it is my home.
There are good things here and a few minor things.
The only big problem we have is that most of us
have stop praying. Prayer was the first thing that
put Griffin on the go. To keep Griffin on the go let
all of us pray that our city will not be like other
cities.
Let us pray that hate will turn to love, and that
love will make all of us a whole family so that we
will love each other as we love ourself.
Miss Mabie Howard
630 East Solomon St.
Brown To Close
Plant In Griffin
The Brown Company of Kala
mazoo, Mich ~ has announced it
will close the plant in Griffin
Feb. 15.
The plant has 27 employes
and its last annual payroll was
about $175,000.
Spokesman for the company
were in Griffin yesterday to
work out plans to close to plant.
They said the paper packaging
business had suffered from the
erosion caused by plastics and
film industries.
Many of the food items that
formerly were packaged in
paper now being processed
to be marketed in plastic, the
spokesman said.
The slow down in the type
products that the Griffin plant
was handling resulted from
technological changes, the
spokesmen said.
They said they would put the
Griffin plant in “mothballs” for
the present. They had no plans
to move the equipment to
Kalamazoo or sell the building
and property.
Ken Hill, manager of the
Griffin plant, will join Brown
Company in Kalamazoo. He
came to Griffin when the
company, men Known as KVP,
opened the Griffin plant 10
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years ago.
One of the officials said he
would attempt to get jobs for as
many employes in the Griffin
plant as he could in the Atlanta
Brown Company operations.
Sidney Dell,, head of the
Georgia Department of Labor
office in Griffin, was at the
plant yesterday when it was an
nounced that it would be closed.
He said he would assist
employes of the Griffin concern
in seeking unemployment bene
fits.
The spokesmen for the Brown
Company said that their
relations with the plant union in
Griffin always had been
pleasant. There was no conflict
in this respect, they said.
The spokesman also said they
had enjoyed good relations with
the community of Griffin and
appreciated it very much.
The Brown Company plant in
Griffin is located on Kalamazoo
drive just off th® new Griffin
By-Pass which has not been
opened to traffic yet.
The drive was named
Kalamazoo in honor of the
parent company’s home when
KVP opened here. Since its
location, several new industries
have located on Kalamozoo
drive.