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By Quimby Multon
“My God I Thank Thee” was
written by Adelaide Anne Proc
ter. The opening words of the
first stanza reveals the joyful
heart, the thankful heart, that
caused this young English
woman to write this beautiful
hymn. She begins with “My
God, I thank thee, who hast
made the world so bright.”
Thanksgiving Day is still two
months away, but every day in
the year should be a day for
thanking God The Father.
Miss Proctor was born in Lon
don, Oct. 30,1825, lived there all
her life and died there Feb. 2,
1864. Her father was Bryan
Waller Proctor, English poet
and author, who wrote under
the pen name of “Barry Corn
wall”. Her parents were per
sonal friends of the great nove
list Charles Dickens, who fre
quently visited in their home.
Miss Proctor “sat at the feet” of
Dickens and listened attentively
to “everything he said” and
read all of his works as quickly
as they were published. She
even managed to read some of
the original manuscripts which
Dickens had left with her father
“to check”. Charles Dickens
had no idea the effect his visits
were having on this young per
son.
Miss Proctor began writing
short articles and submitted
them for publication to “House
hold Words” under the pen
name “Mary Barwick.”
Dickens and no one else knew
that Mary Barwick was really
Adelaide Proctor.
One day Dickens, dining at
the Proctor home, showed them
proof of a poem by a “certain
Miss Barwick.” The following
day he found out the real
author. One hymnodist thinks
Dickens may have even that
day known who was the author.
If this is true then one might as
sume that the young woman
blushed so at hearing the great
novelist read her poem that
Dickens “smelled a mouse.”
Miss Proctor, never a strong
person, spent the last 15 months
of her life in pain. Dickens
wrote of her “she never com
plained and her cheerfulness
never left her.”
The music for this hymn is
known as “Wentworth” and was
written by Frederick Charles
Maker, an English musician
who lived to be 83 years old.
However, later in 1930, the
original was edited by “Fow
ler”. The editing was done to
avoid certain unpleasant ac
cents which made singing
easier. Later it was revealed
“Fowler” was none other than
Robert Guy McCutchan, dean of
the School of Music at DePaw
University, one of the favorite
hymnodists of today.
Adult
classes
to start
Registration for Adult Basic
Education will be held Monday
night at Griffin High School
Math building.
These classes are to assist the
adult in raising his educational
level and offer instruction in
reading, writing, arithmetic,
English, science, social studies
and other related subjects.
Completion of this course
provides a sound preparation
for the G.E.D. Exam to acquire
a high school equivalency
certificate.
There is no charge for
materials or instructions.
Classes will meet every Monday
and Thursday nights from 7:00
p.m. until 10:00 pan.
Those interested in attending
the Adult Education classes
may register Monday at 7:00
p.m. in the math building.
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Pakistan natives
teaching in Griffin
Griffin students are much
more creative and independent
than their counterparts on the
other side of the globe, accord
ing to Azhar Hasan, a Griffin
High School physics teacher
from Pakistan.
“Students in this com try
form their own opinions about
matters concerning them,” Ha
san said.
Hasan and his wife, Masood,
came to Griffin from the Uni
versity of Georgia, where they
both received masters’ degrees,
he in physics, she in education.
“We have found the people of
Griffin to be very friendly;”
said Mrs. Hasan, a Third Ward
fourth grade teacher.
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Rev. Pruett, Rev. Peavy
Revs. Pruett, Peavy
on trip to Korea
The Rev. E. P. Pruett,
missionary evangelist for the
Assembly of God Church, left
today for a speaking tour of
Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong,
China and Okinawa.
Accompaning the Rev. Pruett
will be the Rev. Russell Peavy,
who recently moved to Griffin
from Byron, Ga.
The trip to Korea will be the
second one from the Rev.
Pruett.
He was there about two years
ago for a series of meetings.
He helped organize a mission
at Inchon. That mission has had
tremendous growth. It is now
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Mr. and Mrs. Hasan and daughter, Zesan.
The Hasans have a daughter,
Zeshan, 3.
America’s dating system was
something new to the couple,
who did not meet each other be
fore their wedding.
“There is no dating system to
speak of in Pakistan,” the
Griffin High teacher said.
Since their arrival in the Unit
ed States in 1968, the Hasans
have found time to travel to
Washington, D.C., and New
York City. “We like the South
better,” Mrs. Hasan said. “In
the North, life is too mechani
cal, and the people are always
in such a big hurry.”
The Hasans plan to return to
Pakistan in a year or so, where
known as the Assembly of God
Church with a membership of
300.
The largest Assembly of God
Church is in Seoul. It has a
membership of over 3,000.
“Five services are held at the
church each Sunday to ac
commodate the huge mem
bership,” the Rev. Pruett said.
Besides holding many
meetings in Korea, the Rev.
Pruett and the Rev. Peavy will
also hold services in Hong Kong,
Formosa and Okinawa.
The Rev. Pruett is former
pastor of the First Assembly of
God Church here.
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223 Sat. and Sun., Sept. 12 -13,1970
he will be one of the few people
in the country trained in the use
of computers.
Another Pakistani family
joined the Hasans in Griffin this
year, also coming from the Uni
versity of Georgia. They are
Aqeel and Kishwar Ahmed and
their children, Masood, 4, and
Mahood, 2.
“We just arrived in Griffin,
coming straight from Athens
after I received my diploma,”
Ahmed, a math teacher at
Spalding Junior High said.
Ahmed came to America in
January, 1968, and his family
followed in September of the
same year.
“The great mechanization
3 sailors killed,
10 hurt in blast
SAIGON (UPl)—Three U.S.
sailors were killed and 10
injured when a five-inch gun
mount aboard the destroyer
USS Lloyd Thomas exploded
while the ship was shelling
Communist position on the
coast of South Vietnam, the
Navy said today.
The accident, which was not
caused by Communist fire,
happened Friday afternoon. The
destroyer was firing in support
of Australian troops conducting
operation “Massey Harris” in
Phuoc Tuy province southeast
of Saigon. The ship was
operating in the South China
Sea about 66 miles east
southeast of Saigon.
The injured, all in the
forward five-inch gun mount,
were rushed by medical eva
cuation helicopter to the Ist
Australian Field Hospital. Vic
tims names were withheld
pending notification of next of
kin.
The vessel was steaming
towards the Subic Bay Navy
base in the Philippines and was
expected to arrive there
Sunday, the Navy said.
In Saigon, five civilians were
injured early today when
terrorists detonated a 4% pound
plastic charge in a residential
area of Cholon, police said. Two
of the victims were in serious
condition.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kishwar Ahmed and children, Masood, 4, and
Mahood, 2.
found in the United States is the
major thing that sets it apart
from Pakistan,” Ahmed said.
Before coming to the United
States, Ahmed was a science
officer with a team experiment
ing with weather rockets in
Europe.
“I hope some day to achieve
my doctorate in physics,” Ah
med said.
The Ahmeds have no definite
plans to return to their home
country.
Although the Ahmeds have
been in Griffin only a short
time, they have been favorably
impressed by the few people
they have met.
The U.S. command reported
that a Marine Corps A4
Skyhawk jet was shot down
Friday morning about 370 miles
north of Saigon. The pilot was
missing in action.
In Cambodia, a military
spokesman said a Communist
land mine blew up and cut a
strategic road between Phnom
Penh and Saigon. The mine
exploded on Route 1, 32 miles
south of Pehnom Penh, and left
the road impassable.
Quake
rocks
LA area
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Two
sharp earthquakes rocked the
Los Angeles area today, sway
ing buildings and knocking out
power at some areas.
The first quake, felt at 7:11
am. PDT, was felt only in
some areas. A much stronger
shock, felt for 30 seconds,
rocked the area at 7:31 a.m.
The shock was felt as far
inland as San Bernardino, 60
miles from Los Angeles, where
a radio station was knocked off
the air. Power also was
disrupted in the Santa Monica
Mountains, northwest of Holly
wood.
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great accomplishment start
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Miss Mississippi, Chris McClamrock was greeted in Atlantic City, by 85
orphans who being raised in the home in Columbus, Miss, where she was raised as an orphan. The
children will stay in Atlantic City until the end of the Miss America Pageant (UPI)
Carter,
Sanders
battle
By CHARLES E. WEBB
ATLANTA (UPI) - The chal
lenges, charges and claims of
the survivors of bitter Georgia
gubernatorial contest pointed to
day toward a television show
down between peanut farmer
Jimmy Carter and former Gov.
Carl Sanders.
Sanders, finding himself the
underdog after Carter’s smash
ing 48.6 per cent upset in
Wednesday’s nine-man Demo
cratic primary, fired off the
challenges and charges at a
Friday news conference.
Sanders called Carter a
“smiling hypocrite,” a person
“who has smeared me and my
family all over Georgi” and one
who had lied to and deceived
the people of Georgia. He chal
lenged him to a face to face
televised debate “so the real
Jimmy Carter can be known.”
Carter made the claims. Grin
ning and jubilant at an appear
ance in South Georgia, Carter
said he would win the Sept. 23
runoff by a margin of two to
one.
Claims 159 Counties
“I will carry 159 counties,”
the former nuclear submarine
officer told a wildly cheering
crowd at Albany, not far from
his hometown of Plains.
“We have a lot of mom
entum,” Carter added. “The
trend is in our favor because
Sanders has lost support of the
people who were previously
committed to him. They have
paid their debts and will join
me in my fight.”
The final but unofficial and
incomplete returns from the pri
mary — 2,041 of 2,051 precincts
— showed Carter with 389,907
votes which figured about 48.6
per cent of the counted total,
to 299,629 for Sanders.
C. B. King, the Albany Negro
Inside Tip
Hijacks
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attorney was a distant third
with 66,838 votes, white racist
J. B. Stoner was a poor fourth
with 17,466 and Dr. McKee Har
grett with 11,909 was fifth.
Four other candidates divided
up a few thousand votes.
Sanders Loses No Time
Sanders, who had run a low
keyed campaign that had
virtually ignored the other can
didates, lost little time Friday
in going on the offensive.
He showed up at a crowded
news conference at a downtown
Atlanta hotel in a short-sleeved
tan shirt, his tie loose and col
lar unbuttoned. Beads of sweat
stood at temples hinting
of grayness and there was a
slight trace of weariness about
his eyes.
“I’m not going to rest until
the 23rd of September,” Sanders
said and then announced he had
challenged Carter to televised
debate.
“J immy Carter has been go
ing all over the state telling
different things to different
people,” Sanders said. “I want
to look him in the eye and for
him to look me in the eye so
the real Jimmy Carter can
stand up and be known to all
of the people.”
Calls Carter ‘Nondescript’
Sanders defended his admin
istration when he was governor
in 1963-‘67 and described Car
ter as having a “nondescript”
record when the Plains farmer
served in the Senate.
“His fellow senators consider
ed him an outspoken liberal
from 1962 to 1966 and here he
is today trying to pass himself
to the people of Georgia as a
conservative. There is nothing in
Carter’s record to show him to
be a conservative or a legisla
tive leader.”