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By Quimby Meitou
“Light of the World, We Hail
Thee” by John Samuel Bewley
• Monseil (1811-1875), written
originally as a missionary
hymn, is published in modern
k editions of hymnals of several
denominations. It may not be
sung very often but hymnodists
consider it (Hie of the best
• hymns dealing with the life of
Jesus Christ.
The author was the son of
Archdeacon Monseil, of Lon-
• donderry, Ireland, where he
was born, March 2, 1811. After
graduating from Trinity Col-
, lege, Dublin, he devoted his life
to the work of the ministry. He
died April 9,1875, as the result
of an accident which befell him
• while watching workmen mak
ing alterations on the church,
St. Nicholas Church, Guildford,
t of which he was the pastor.
Dr. Monseil wrote many
hymns, first published in
“Hymns of Love and Praise,”
• which he edited. All of them
were filled with praise of The
Master.
Os the hymn we are consider-
• ing today, he said, “We are too
distant and reserved in our
praises. We sing not as we
, should sing to Him and of Him
who is chief among ten thou
sand, the altogether lovely.”
As we wrote this column
• Thursday morning — we always
try and write Good Evening a
day or so before it is published
— we were impressed with Dr.
• Monsell’s statement too many
people who profess to be Chris
tians are “too distant and re-
, served in their praises.” And as
we read this “indictment”, of
many years ago, could not help
think that it would also be appli-
• cable today.
Then we thought of attending
the “Wednesday Club” meeting
, at the First Baptist Church and
hearing our friend the pastor,
the Rev. Bruce Morgan, deliver
a message along the same lines.
• “The Joy of Living” was the
title of the pastor’s sermonette.
Using Philippines 4:4, “Rejoice
in the Lord always; and again I
• say, Rejoice”. He called on all
today to lay aside pessimistic
doubts and fears and let the joy
, in their hearts be reflected in
their daily living.
Dr. Monseil published eleven
volumns of religious poems,
• some of which were set to
music, but only a few have lived
till today. In addition to “Light
, of the World, We Hail Thee”,
three other hymns included in
some hymnals today are,
“Fight The Good Fight”, “Lord
• of the Living Harvest”, and “0
Love Divine and Golden.”
The music for the hymn we
are studying today was written
• by Lawrence White Watson.
The name of the tune is “Salve
Domine” and was originally
B written for James Mont
gomery’s hymn “Hail to the
Lord’s Anointed”.
Poisoning
ATLANTA (UPI)-The state
• and federal government are
working together to measure the
possible danger of chronic mer
cury poisoning from eating fish
' caught in the Savannah River
south of Augusta, in the Bruns
wick and Turtle Rivers and in
• Purvis Creek on the lower Geor
gia coast.
The investigation is being con
ducted by the Federal Water
• Quality Administration, the
State Game and Fish Commis
sion, die Georgia Water Quality
, Control Board and the State
Health Department.
State Health Director, John
Venable said information from
• sample results supplied him this
week by the Food and Drug Ad
ministration were “spotty and
inconclusive.” He said the fact
• that die FDA test did not state
where the samples were collect
ed “makesevaluation (fifficult.”
Census Bureau
Had Expected
Angry Shrieks
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Census Bureau counts the
population of the United States
once every 10 years and then
prepares itself for angry
shrieks. It is hearing them now.
From Mississippi to Michi
gan, from Philadelphia to
Gallup, N.M., the methods and
most especially the results of
the 1970 U.S. census are coming
under fire.
Congressmen are denouncing
the census on the House floor.
Newspapers and radio stations
are conducting their own
campaigns to find any noses
that went uncounted April 1.
Mayors and Chamber of
Commerce officials are de
manding complete recounts. In
one {dace, a group is suing the
Census Bureau to stop the
count.
Some of the complaints are
valid and some are sheer
outraged local boosterism. In
Suitland, Md., outside Washing
ton, Census Bureau officials are
trying to sort out the com
plaints and make corrections
where errors are found.
Preliminary Figures
“The figures we have put out
are preliminary, really preli
minary,” a bureau spokesman
said. He said a number of
errors already had been run
down, both on the basis of
oitside complaints and internal
checking, and no objection to
the bureau’s findings would be
dismissed out of hand.
But the Census Bureau has
its sticking point, and it occurs
at the drop of a suggestion that
it has made a total botch of the
1970 population count and
should do it all over again.
The spokesman said that
while local complaints of errors
are cheerfully checked out,
there is no provision for
complete recounts of a dty or
county “because it never has
been found necessary.”
He said the mistakes that
have been found “generally
speaking, produced insignificant
changes,” and there is not the
slightest loss of confidence in
suitland about the validity of
the methods used in counting
this year.
But there is in some places
out in the country. In a United
Press International check of
state and local officials after
Rep. Bill D. Burlison, D-Mo.,
called for a “missed persons
campaign,” a strong distrust of
the bureau’s “mail-back” sys
tem emerged.
The bureau spokesman said
87 per cent of the census forms
sent to homes were mailed
back and that census takers
went to (or are mi the way) to
every one that failed to
respond. In some cases, he
said, repeated visits failed to
find anyone home and census
information was taken from
neighbors.
“Some people may have been
counted and not know about it,”
he said.
The “mail-back” system,
used for the first time this
year, was not uniformly suc
cessful. For example, it got
only a 47 per cent return in
some New York neighborhoods,
and that is one reason 40 of the
45 census district offices in the
nation’s dozen largest cities
still are open and counting.
Closes Offices
Nationwide, the bureau fi
gures it has about 162 million
Americans counted—about 80
per cent of the expected 210
million tot&l— and it already
has closed down 321 of its 393
district offices opened for the
1970 enumeration. These are
mostly in the smaller states
and cities, and that is where
the first deluge of complaints
are coming from.
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Jeff Key, coordinator; BUI Mullis, assistant coordinator; Willie Brannon, who donated the use of
the buHdlng; and School Supt. D. B. Christie in front of new Adult Learning Center on West Taylor
street. It will open Monday. .
'Walk-In'
Learning
Center Set
An adult education learning
center will open Monday at 237
West Taylor street.
D. B. Christie, superintendent
of the Griffin-Spalding School
Ssytem, said the concept of a
“walk-in” learning center is to
provide an opportunity for
adults to improve their reading,
writing, math and spelling skills
at their own convenience.
Jeff Key is the coordinator of
the Griffin program.
He said special instruction
will be provided anyone in
terested in working toward the
high school equivalency
examination.
Willie Brannon donated the
use of the building to the school
and several other merchants
contributed building supplies
and equipment to make it ready
for the school.
The center will operate daily
from 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m.
Jap Officer Says 23 Americans
Were Killed In Atomic Blast
By ALBERT E. KAFF
TOKYO (UPI) -A Japanese
man who said he guarded U.S.
prisoners at Hiroshima during
World War II claimed today 23
American captives were killed
or fatally injured in the atomic
bomb Hast that ravaged the
city nine days before the war
ended.
Hiroshi Yanagida, a warrant
officer in the Japanese secret
police (Kempeitai) during the
war, said in a telephone
interview the 22 Americans who
were killed outright and the one
who died of injuries the next
day where the only U.S.
prisoners in the dty when the
bomb was dropped Aug. 6, 1945.
Several were women, he said.
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., July 11-12,1970
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DOWN THE HATCH. Beth Phelan, 15, of North Massa
pequa, N.Y., found this baby robin on her lawn. It was
so weak it couldn’t stand but, after two days of feeding
(bread, water and cut-up worms), the bird’s vigor was
restored and it now permits Beth to feed it while perched
on her finger.
The Kyodo news service,
Japan’s national news agency,
said Yanagida’s report was the
first confirmation of American
deaths in the explosion that
killed an estimated 75,000
Japanese.
(In Washington, a Pentagon
spokesman said he knew
nothing of the deaths and that
the Defense Department’s his
torian would have to make a
search of the records before the
account could be verified).
Bomber Crew Members
Yanagida, 56, said the priso
ners were crew members from
American planes that bombed
anddropped leaflets on Hiroshi
ma in the weeks before the
atomic bomb. Hiroshima was a
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major staging area and milita
ry port for the Japanese war
effort.
Two of the captives, he said,
had been captured nine days
before the atomic bomb when
they parachuted from a 824
bomber that was shot down
over Hiroshima after a mission
against nearby Kure.
“I know that there were one,
two or maybe three American
women in our prison camps,”
Yanagida said. “It was my
understanding at the time that
these women had been flying on
American bombers as radio
operators.”
All But 1 Died Instantly
The captured Americans, he
said, were interned in three
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Shoes Included;
Retaliation Feared
Dr. Hunt
To Run
For Board
Dr. Tom Hunt, Griffin
physician, today qualified for
election to the Griffin-Spalding
Board of Education from the
Akin-Cabin district.
The post currently is held by
Taylor Manley.
Dr. Hunt’s late father served
on the old Griffin Board of
Education before the Griffin
and Spalding systems were
consolidated. Dr. Hunt also
served as chairman of both
boards.
Qualifying opened today to
fill five psotions on the school
board in September. Qualifying
will end July 31. The school
board election will be held the
same date as the Republician
and Democratic primaries but
will be a separate electiorf.
Posts to be filled and the
incumbents are: City Ward
One, Kenneth Underwood; City
Ward Three, Don Jackson;
City-At-Large, C. T. Parker;
County Ward One, Bill West
moreland; and County Ward
Four, Taylor Manley.
Candidates for county posts
qualify at the County Com
missioner’s office in the
Spalding Courthouse. City
candidates qualify at the City
Hall.
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PERSONAL TRIBUTE
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —The
City Council Friday approved,
with discussion, a resolution
honoring the Chinese Wong
family on the occasion of the
upcoming 10th annual conven
tion of the Wong Family
Benevolent Association.
Three members of the
family, along with City Council
man Robert J. Stevenson and
four other Chinese-Americans,
have been indicted on charges
involving gambling in the city’s
Chinatown.
The resolution was introduced
by Stevenson.
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camps and their dogtags were
taken from them and stored in
a safe in Hiroshima. Yanagida
said the safe survived the bomb
blast and U.S. occupation
authorities later confiscated the
tags.
Twenty-two of the 23 Ameri
cans were killed instantly, he
said, while the 23rd, a young
soldier, was buried in the
wreckage and died the next day
of injuries, some of them
suffered when angry Japanese
survivors attacked him after he
was pulled from the rubble.
Japanese and American
newsmen who have been
working in Japan since the end
of World War II said the deaths
of Americans in the Hiroshima
By MICHAEL L. POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
bill to establish trade import
quotas on textiles and shoes
suddenly has entered choppy
waters. Now its outlook is
uncertain.
On Thursday, Rep. Wilbur D.
Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, said the bill would win
committee approval the next
day. It had the endorsement of
Mills and 256 other House
members.
Last month, after U.S.
negotiations with Japan for a
voluntary agreement covering
textiles broke down, Commerce
Secretary Maurice H. Stans
announced the Nixon adminis
tration’s support of import
quotas on textiles. The adminis
tration opposed mandatory
quotas on shoes, however.
Mood Changing?
On Friday the atmosphere
changed. All the reasons were
not clear, and it remained to be
seen whether It was just a
squall or a serious storm that
could sink the bill.
It was learned that Thursday
night Mills and Rep. John W.
Byrnes, R-Wis., ranking GOP
member on Ways and Means,
were called by President Nixon
to the White House to discuss
import quotas. The nature of
the talk was not ade public.
Assistant Attorney General
Richard W. McLaren told the
congressional Joint Economic
Committee Friday that he
opposed mandatory quotas as
“self-defeating” and inflationa
ry.
Retaliation Seen
Also Friday, Paul W. Mc-
Cracken, chairman of Nixon’s
Council of Economid Advisers,
paid an unannounced visit to
the Ways and Means committee
which was meeting secretly.
He said, according to mem
bers present, that talks with
Europans indicated foreign
countries would retaliate
against U.S. products —in
particular soybeans and farm
products —if Congress passed a
quota bill.
Following McCracken’s testi
mony, the committee discussed
quotas but recessed until Next
week.
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Smith
Jury
Picked
Judge Hugh Sosbee lost not
time in starting the trial of
Ronald Smith after an all male
jury had been chosen late Fri
day afternoon. Before they were
sent to a motel for the night
several witnesses had testified.
The jurors were instructed not
to discuss the case with anyone
or among themselves and to
report back at 10 this morning.
Judge Sosbee, of the Flint Cir
cuit, is presiding in the place of
Judge Andrew Whalen, who was
solicitor general at the time
Smith was indicted and during
the first trial.
Before the jury was em
panelled, 98 prospective jurors
were called.
Smith was convicted and
sentenced to death for the June,
1967, slaying of Charles Vaughn,
West Georgia College student.
The case was appealed and the
State Supreme Court ruled that
another jury reconsider the sen
tence and decide between life
imprisonment and death in the
electric chair.
Jurors are:
Hugh O. Hunt, Richard R.
Chamigo, Billy Joe Smith, Leon
W. Westmoreland, Stephen B.
Bailey, Robert Rauniker,
Harold Biles, Billy L. Thomas,
J. E. Stallings, Hubert J.
Anderson, D. L. Pulliam, Larry
G. Kennedy.
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bombing’nave been rumored
out never confirmed.
Yanagida said he did not
know the names of any of the
dead Americans but that
presumably they would be on
record in Washington, where he
said the dogtags were sent.
He withheld public comment
on the matter until now.
“I read in the newspaper the
other day about a Hiroshima
man who was keeping the ashes
of an American who had died in
one of our prison camps during
the war, an American whom he
had befriended,” Yanagida
said. “So I got to thinking what
I knew about the Americans
and decided to make my report
to the newspaper.”