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“0 Worship the King” is the
hymn we have chosen for to
day’s column in the series
“Hymns We Love to Sing.”
The words of this hymn were
written by Sir Robert Grant
(1779-1938) British author,
attorney, member of Parlia
ment and a director of the East
India Company. The music was
written by Johann Michael
Haydn, brother of the great
Franz Joseph Haydn.
Grant is said to have gotten
his inspiration for this hymn af
ter reading in the Anglo-Ger
man Psalter of 1562, William
Kethe’s version of the 104
Psalm. Grant wrote a much
longer and more elaborate
hymn than Kethe.
The first stanza of the earlier
hymn reads:
My soul praise the Lord
speak good of his name
0 Lord our great God
how dust thou appear,
So passing in glory,
that great is thy fame
Honor and majesty
in thee thine most clear.
Robert Grant was bom in
1779. Little is known of his early
life but it is believed he was well
educated, since he became one
of the leading barristers of his
time, served in Parliament, was
knighted for service to the
'crown, and was a director of the
powerful East India Company.
He spent his last years in Bom
bay where he served as British
governor. He died in India in
1838. After his death his brother,
Lord Glenelg, gathered
together twelve of his hymns
and had them published under
the title “Sacred Poems”. “The
Christian Observer,” a religious
publication, published Grant’s
hymn in 1916 and a few years la
ter it was included in C.T.
Eliott’s “Psalms and Hymns”,
with some changes being made
in the original wording. This
stirred up quite a controversy in
Church of England circles for at
that time there was an “age of
change” confronting that
church.
Johann Michael Haydn, who
wrote the music for “0 Worship
the King”, was bom in Rohrau,
Lower Austria. Sept. 14, 1737, a
younger brother of the better
known Franz Joseph Haydn.
Early in his life he displayed a
remarkably clear voice and
when his older brother’s voice
changed he succeeded his
brother as boy soloist at St.
Stephens, in Vienna. At the age
of 25 Johann Haydn obtained a
job in Salzburg where he lived
until his death. He continued
writing music for the church.
Although his yearly income was
never more than $240, plus room
and board, a year, he lived a
happy life until 1800 when the
French seized Salzburg.
His brother and friends help
him continue his work and
Empess Maria Theresa, in or
der to help, commissioned him
to write a special Mass for her.
And when it was first sung she
further honored him by singing
the soprano solo part herself.
Johann Haydn is said to have
written the music for more than
360 songs to be sung in his
church.
The younger brother of the
more famous musician is said to
have had more influence on the
music of his time than any other
composer. One may get a good
idea of how highly he was held
by knowing that the great Schu
bert, after visiting his grave,
said of him:
“The good Haydn! It almost
seemed as if his calm, clear
spirit were hovering over me. I
may be neither calm nor dear,
but no man living reverences
him more than I do. My eyes
filled with tears as we came
away,” Johann Haydn died
Ang 10,1806.
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LBJ Backs Georgia GOPs Turn Guns
Nixon
Policy On Supreme C° urt’s Do uglas
CHICAGO (UPI) — Former
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Friday said the nation should
stand united and support
President Nixon in his search
for peace.
In his first public address
since leaving the White House,
Johnson said nothing would
hurt the nation more than to
“present an image of a divided
land . . . with one person in
charge, speaking with no one
voice.
“I hope the President has the
prayers and support of all the
people who love freedom. He
certainly has mine, and God
knows Presidents need it,”
Johnson said.
The occasion was a SIOO-a
--plate dinner for 7,000 Democra
tic party members in the
ballrooms of the Conrad Hilton
Hotel, headquarters for the
violence-plagued 1968 Democra
tic National Convention.
The former President said
peace should remain the No. 1
priority for the nation as it was
when he stepped down from
office in 1968 in the interest of
national unity.
Without specifically mention
ing the new allied campaign in
Cambodia or the conflict in
Vietnam, Johnson said, “What
unites America is the U.S.
agenda for the future (and) the
first item on that agenda is
peace for the world.”
He said there will never be
“peace on this planet if
America draws back into its
shell.”
“I hope our President’s voice
will not be drowned out by
other voices that do not have
all the facts and don’t have to
make dangerous, agonizing
decisions,” he said.
“Folks seem to think that
if they could be successful it
would correct their faults ”
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5-Star Weekend Edition
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
By TOM GREENE
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) -
Georgian Republicans, in a bid
for party unity on the state
level, will turn their guns on
Washington and U. S. Supreme
Measles
Vaccine
Available
The rubella immunization
program sponsored by the
Spalding County Health Depart
ment, the Spalding Chapter
March of Dimes and the Na
tional Foundation, March of
Dimes, will be held in Griffin on
May 7.
There will be clinics located
in Griffin at the following
places:
Spalding County Health
Department, South Ninth
street; and the Fairmont
Center, Head’s Park Com
munity building.
The rubella vaccine is new,
available only since June 1969.
This school year, the health
department offered the vaccine
to school children in the first
through the fifth grades. Now it
is available free to all children
age one through 11.
There are two kinds of
measles. Rubella, more com
monly known as the German or
three-day measle, is not the
same as the big red, seven-day
measles. Even though a child
has had the seven-day measles
or the shot he still needs the
rubella vaccine. Medical
authorities recommend all
children, age one through 11, to
have the shot to prevent
needless birth defects, such as,.
mental retardation, loss of
hearing, eye sight, heart de
fects, crippling and others.
Only children who have a
fever on the clinic day or if a
child is under the care of a
doctor for an illness should not
have the rubella shot. The
family doctor may be con
tacted. The immunization is
approved by the Mecial
Association of Georgia, the
Georgia Chapter American
Academy of Pediatrics, the
Georgia Department of Public
Health, the Griffin-Spalding
County School System and the
Spalding County Health
Department.
Griffin, Gtorgia 30223, Sat. and Sun. May 2-3, 1970
Court Justice William O. Doug
las in winding up their two-day
convention here today.
A resolution calling for the
impeachment of Douglas, based
on charges levelled against him
by Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich.,
was approved by the convention
resolutions committee Friday.
Mims Wilkinson of Decatur,
sponsor of the resolution, pre
dicted it would pass the full
convention overwhelmingly.
But another proposed contro
versial resolution, which would
have been a slap at GOP na
tional committeeman Howard
“Bo” Callaway, apparently did
not come up before the commit
tee and appears to be dead al
though it could be introduced
from the floor.
The proposed resolution,
favored by State Sen. Jim Ty
singer of DeKalb and some
others, would have barred party
officers from endorsing can
didates before the primary.
Callaway, who already has
endorsed Comp. Gen. James
Bentley in the governor’s race,
said Friday that the move
“never was off the-ground. I
never was concerned about it.”
Mrs. Bootsie Calhoun of
Augusta, chairman of the reso
lutions committee, said “the
feeling of 100 per cent of the
committee was party unity.
Mayor Joe Dutton, City
Manager Homer Davis and
Albert Harrell (1-r) talk with
driver instructors James Quick,
James Johnson and John
Dallas. The three instructors
are city employes who will help
with the Defensive Driver
Course (DDC) which will get
under way on an intensive scale
here next week. The Georgia
Safety Council is making an
effort to saturate Griffin with
the driver course in an effort to
show the nation how it can help
reduce accidents.
They felt we’ve got a battle on
our hands (to capture the gov
ernor’s seat), let’s go in it to
gether.”
The resolutions committee
also passed resolutions en
dorsing President Nixon’s stand
against busing of school chil
dren to accomplish school inte
gration, and backing his move
to send American troops into
Cambodia.
A contest for state party
chairman also appears to have
faltered. Dr. F. W. “Bill”
Dowda of Atlanta, chairman of
the Fifth District Republican
organization, made a bid before
the nominating committee Fri
day to replace chairman Wiley
Wasden of Savannah, who is
seeking re-election.
The committee was to meet
today and finalize its recom
mendations for the state of
ficers , and Wasdenwas predicted
by most to be a shoo-in. Dowda
said later Friday that he might
not be a candidate in the end,
but predicted someone other
than Wasden would be nomin
ated from the floor.
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Jeptha Tanksley called a
news conference for today, re
portedly to formalize his inten
tions to seek the party nomina
tion for governor in the Septem
ber primary.
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Vol. 98 No. 78
Census Is
Due In May
South Viets
Race Toward
Rendezvous
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI)-Two co
lumns of 10,000 U.S. and South
Vietnamese troops raced tow
ard rendezvous in Cambodia
today in their pincers rush to
encircle a vast area of
Communist bivouacs. The guer
rillas left some laundry on the
line in an apparent quick
retreat.
The linkup nine miles inside
Cambodia neared as govern
ment spokesmen announced the
death of Maj. Gen. Nguyen Viet
Thanh, the commander of South
Footlights
Will Stage
‘Couple’
The Griffin Footlight Players
will present their version of the
long running Broadway pro
duction of “The Odd Couple.” It
will be staged at Mez-Art
studios on the Bucksnort road
May 7-8, 9. Curtain time is 8:30
p.m.
Dr. O. R. Butler, Griffin
dentist, and Howard Wallace,
Griffin attorney, will share the
lead roles. Included in the cast
will be Jack Robbins, Bob
Forio, Alvin Goldstein, Sammy
Murray, Rosemary Wynne and
Allen Murray.
Gene Robbins of Griffin is the
director and Billy McDaniel is
the production manager.
Griffinite
Gives Tip
To Polly
Mrs. Patricia O. Moran bf
Route Five, Box 153, Griffin,
makes a suggestion about book
ends today in the Polly’s
Pointers section of the Color
Comic section of the Griffin
Daily News.
Check her tip.
Vietnamese troops in the
Mekong Delta, in a helicopter
crash this morning near the
border.
Military sources said 400 Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese
had been killed since the Allies’
Operation Total Victory drive
into the Fish Hook of Cambodia
70 miles north of Saigon began
Friday. Another 161 persons
were detained as Viet Cong
suspects.
American losses were put at
two dead, the first U.S. deaths
in Cambodia, and six wounded,
with four government soldiers
reported slain and 10 wounded.
The 6,500 Americans and
3,500 South Vietnamese, behind
massive air and artillery
strikes, swept through the Fish
Heok. meeting little resistance
as they bypassed several
obvious guerrilla camps in
favor of making the rendezvous
and then coming back to clean
up as President Nixon ordered.
Foxhole Complex
UPI correspondent Robert
Sullivan, accompanying the
spearhead of tanks, reported
one guerrilla camp where the
laundry was still on the line,
left there by Communist troops
who apparently beat a hasty
retreat.
“So far we’re been finding
where they’ve been, not where
they’re at,” a high-ranking
senior official said. “We
haven’t been able to figure this
out. We were expecting some
sort of defense to be put up.”
A second allied task force,
made up of 10,060 government
soldiers accompanied by 100
American advisers, were in the
fifth day of their push into the
Cambodian Parrot’s Beak west
of Saigon after linking up with
Cambodian troops near Svay
Rieng. No major fighting was
reported.
The giant pincers movements
oi Operation Total Victory into
the Fishhook region 70 miles
north-northwest of Saigon came
across what one officer de
scribed as a “sophisticated
area” of bunkers and tunnels
six miles inside Cambodia.
Inside Tip
Antiques
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Work Here
Almost
Finished
Griffinites may get a rough
idea by the end of this month
about how many people live in
Griffin and Spalding County as
shown by the 1970 Census.
A spokesman for the Sixth
District Census headquarters in
Macon said some tentative
figures may be available by the
end of May.
Griffin is in the Sixth Con
gressional District which fell
under the Macon office for this
year’s nose count.
A spokesman for the office
said a campaign to get counted
anyone who might have been
missed so far will be carried out
in a week or two.
This campaign will ask for
anyone who has not been con
tacted by a census taker to let
government officials know about
it so they can have themselves
counted, the Macon office said.
Mrs. Lou Statham of Griffin,
one of the group leaders in the
counthere, said that most of the
work had been done in Griffin
and Spalding County. She said
she expects it to be finished by
next week.
Population estimates of this
community have indicated
Spalding County, including the
city of Griffin, should top 40,000
people in the 1970 count.
The estimate is one from the
State Health Department. The
department makes yearly
estimates of population in the
state, using migration, birth
and death rates and other data
to make its guess.
People in Griffin and Spalding
County who have not yet been
contacted for a census report
will be advised of what to do to
be counted during the follow up
campaign, the Macon office ad
vised.
But until the first preliminary
count is complete, those not al
ready counted were advised to
keep waiting for a census soli
citor to call on them.
MOVE HIGHWAY
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
government has decided to
move the planned route of an
interstate highway in Florida
300 feet to the side, so the road
won’t disturb a bald eagle
nesting atop a 500-foot pine
tree.
The tree is located near
Bradenton, about 40 miles
southeast of Tampa.