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By Quimby Melton
Tomorrow, Thursday of Holy
Week, isknownasMaundvThurs
day, and commemorates two
events, the washing of the feet
of the disciples and the last
supper. Jesus and His disciples
had gathered in the Upper
Room to celebrate the Pass
over. It was for this purpose
that Christ came to Jerusalem
several days before this Jewish
celebration.
Many churches throughout
Chrisendom hold special Holy
Communion services on
Maundy Thursday night. There
will be several such here in
Griffin. At this service the table
will be covered with white,
indicating the purity of heart
those who partake are seeking.
It was after this Last Supper
that Jesus went into the Garden
of Gethsemane, prayed while
the disciples with Him fell
asleep, where He was betrayed
by Judas “with a kiss”, was ar
rested and taken to the authori
ties.
Webster’s Dictionary devotes
a paragraph to Maundy Thurs
day. And the paragraph above it
gives the origin of Maundy. It
comes from the word maunde,
which means “the washing of
the feet of the poor and giving
alms to the poor.”
In many churches where
Maundy Thursday celebrations
will be held those partaking of
the Last Supper will leave
contributions on the altar rail.
These gifts will be given as alms
for the needy.
It was late at night, on the
first Maundy Thursday, that
Jesus was led away and taken
from authority to authority.
Finally the demands of the
crowds, whipped into frenzy by
the leaders of the temple and
synagogue, were met and Jesus
was led away to be crucified.
The day of the crucifixion is
called “Good Friday”. Some
times it is hard to understand
what was “good” about this
day, when the Master was spit
upon, when His disciples fled,
and one, Peter, denied him
vehemently, and He suffered
intense pain and anguish.
We find the answer to the
question “what was good about
that ‘Good Friday’ ”? in John 3-
16, one of the most beloved
verses in the Bible, “For God so
loved the world, that he gave his
oily begotten Son, that whoso
ever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting
life.” The cruel Cross was a
terrible price to pay that man
should live hereafter if he avails
himself of God’s saving grace.
But God “so loved man” that He
thought this not too big a price.
And evidently so did Jesus.
Remember He prayed “thy will
be done” and one of the last
statements he made on the
Cross was a wailing “My God,
My God, Why hast thou for
saken me?” This was the
human side of Emmanuel. The
divine part of Jesus accepted
the verdict and in Luke 23:46 we
are told “He said, ‘Father, into
thy hands I commend my spirit’
and having said this, he gave up
the ghost.”
There comes to mind another
verse in John (John 15:13)
“Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.” And thinking
again of that Good Friday our
heart sings “What a Friend We
Have In Jesus.”
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mind as often as he does his
teeth — not to improve
performance but to discourage
decay.”
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Postal employe Wilson Norton with anti-smut form.
Nixon
reports
tonight
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres
ident Nixon wil go on national
television tonight to announce
what is expected to be a speed
up in the withdrawal of U.S.
soldiers from Vietnam—an in
crease sufficient to drop troop
levels to 50,000 men or less by
a year from this summer.
As Nixon worked over the 15-
minute speech, for delivery at 9
p.m. EST, word came from
U.S. military sources in Viet
nam that the number of
American soldiers in the war
zone has fallen below 300,000
for the first time in more than
4% years.
This would seem to indicate
the President is on the way to
meeting a goal he set in his last
troop withdrawal announce
ment, on April 20, 1970. At that
time he ordered a 150,000-man
reduction designed to bring the
level to 284,000 by this May 1.
When Nixon began the
withdrawal on June 8, 1969, the
troop level was 549,500.
The President gave a hint of
his plans two weeks ago when
he claimed the Allied opera
tions in Laos and Cambodia
severely crippled Hanoi’s capa
bility to make trouble in the
South. He told a television
interviewer then that future
withdrawals would be at least
as fast as the current average
of 12,500 men per month.
A White House official
familiar with the President’s
thinking conformed that Nixon’s
overall plan was to reduce the
U.S. role to a politically
acceptable level—now reckoned
at around 50,000 men—by the
time presidential politics heat
up a year from now.
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hit bees
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
—There is a new chapter in the
annals of California bee rus
tling.
The state agriculture depart
ment disclosed Tuesday that
thieves made off with about 100
colonies of bees from three
Merced County apiarists last
month.
To wipe out the evidence, the
department said, the rustlers
dumped the empty hives into
the Merced River and into a
reservoir at Merced Falls.
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Investigate whole FBI operation
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
puty Attorney General Richard
G. Kleindienst suggested today
that Congress make “an
investigation of the whole
operation of the FBI” to clear
the air of charges it is spying
on them.
Kleindienst did say that a
“handful” of congressmen had
been investigated by the FBI in
the past when they were
suspected of “specific illegal
acts,” but said none of the
investigations involved tele
phone taps. He did not
elaborate.
He charged that House
Democratic Leader Hale Boggs
Would you believe snow in Griffin?
Would you believe snow in
Griffin in April?
Well it happened.
But there was just a little.
Early morning risers in this
community saw a few white
flakes mixed with the spinkling
of rain.
The snow didn’t last long and
there was no accumulation.
The weather elsewhere:
A severe spring storm struck
the South today, dumping at
least two feet of snow on some
‘Artificial gut’
helps morale
CAREFREE, Ariz. (UPI)-
Dr. Belding H. Scribner, the
medical scientist who created
an efficient artificial kidney
and with it an enormous moral
problem, has now created a
simple, self-service apparatus
which he calls the “artificial
gut.”
Like the artificial kidney, it
can prolong many lives but it
can do it without the kick-back
of a moral dilemma. Unlike the
artificial kidney, it should be
within the financial reach of all
persons who face a slow death
from malnutrition due to end
stage bowel diseases, including
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Wednesday, April 7, 1971
was “either sick or not in
possession of his faculties"
when he charged in a House
speech that the FBI had tapped
phones of some members of
Congress. t
Kleindienst said the charges
were “false and irresponsible.”
Boggs called for the resigna
tion of FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover, accusing him of
Gestapo-like tactics in running
the agency.
Kleindienst was interviewed
on the CBS Morning News
program on CBS-TV.
Kleindienst said he knew of
no congressman now under
investigation by the FBI for
mountain communities, knock
ing out electric power, closing
some schools and causing haz
ardous driving conditions in
higher elevations.
Light snow fell as far south
as Columbus, Ga. Birmingham,
Ala., had its first April snow
fall since 1910 and Atlanta its
first since 1928.
Ice - caked power lines
siapped in northern Virginia,
knocking out power from sub
urban Washington to the south-
cancers.
At the annual science writers’
seminar of the American
Cancer Society Tuesday, Scrib
ner spoke bitterly of society
which permits people to die of
end-stage kidney disease be
cause they cannot afford to
have their blood cleaned at
least once a week by the
artificial kidney.
On the basis of his own
experience with such tragedies,
he gave this warning to cancer
scientists: “If you develop an
effective treatment for cancer
which is unavoidably expensive,
you’re in for a long, hard and
disilusioning struggle.’”
Assistant attorney general suggests:
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Rep. Hale Boggs leads attack on
FBl’s Hoover.
ern Shenandoah Valley. Icy
roads closed dozens of school
systems and sent children home
on an early Easter vacation.
Twenty-four inches of snow
buried some mountain commun
ities in Virginia and weather
forecasters called for four more
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on a farm near this northern Colorado city appears to have (UPI)
been turned out to pasture for good. The old horse with it’s
Vol. 99 No. 82
Anti-smut law
hardly used
Many Griffinites have raised
their voices about smut but
more apparently are unwilling
to take action to protect
themselves from it, according
to Postmaster Ed Dye.
“Starting February 20th,
folks could receive blanket
coverage (protection) against
sexually oriented materials that
they might receive through the
mail by simply coming by the
post office and filling out a short
form,” Dye said.
To date, Dye pointed out that
less than 25 Griffinites had
taken advantage of the new
protection.
“People raise a lot of sand
about this sort of thing, but
when it comes to doing
something constructive to end
it, they just don’t seem to want
to go to the trouble,” the
Griffin Postmaster added.
Dye confirmed that many
Spalding County residents do
indeed receive unwanted
pornography through the mails.
“I can’t figure it out. We give
people an easy way to keep this
sort of thing out of their mailbox
and then they don’t use it,” he
specific crime.
Boggs contended he had
“proof positive” that there had
been some phone tapping on
Capitol Hill.
Hoover has not issued a
public statement on the con
troversy, but speaking through
Senate Republican Leader Hugh
Scott, he denied Tuesday that
the FBI has ever tapped the
phone of a congressman.
Kleindienst echoed the denial
and said Hoover sent an agent
to Boggs’ office Tuesday asking
for proof but that the Louisiana
Democrat refused to see the
agent.
Kleindienst said the Boggs
inches of snow along the Vir
ginia - Tennessee - West Vir
ginia border today.
Roads were slippery in the
North Carolina mountains. The
Swain County sheriff’s office
said U. S. 441 through the Great
Smoky Mountain National Park
said.
Any person wanting his name
on the list must go to the post
office and fill out the form
which asks for his name, ad
dress, and the names of his
children under 19 years of age.
The form says the individual
does not want to receive
“sexually oriented” ad
vertisements from any source.
“It doesn’t cost anything and
you can even take the form
home to fill it out and mail it
back in,” Griffin’s bead of mail
service added.
After 20 days a list will be
compiled and up dated every 30
days thereafter that will be
offered for sale to smut ped
dlers so they will know who
doesn’t want their offers.
The postal service will charge
mailers $5,000 for the list and it
will be mailed out every month.
It also will be a criminal of
fense for anyone not dealing in
sexually oriented materials to
purchase the list.
“The newspaper and radio
stations reported that this
service was available back in
February. I guess some folks
statement had created fear in *
the Congress, and that an !
investigation of the FBI was ‘
needed to clear the air.
“I would think the responsible 1
members of Congress would
want to have an investigation of '
the whole operation of the FBI
to clear the air,” he said. “I
would welcome an investigation
of the Congress by its
responsible members.”
He said congressional investi
gators would not have access to
all FBI files, but could be
shown “all pertinent informa
tion” needed in the investiga
tion.
The 76-year-old Hoover has
was passable only with chains.
Minor flooding was reported on
the causeway connecting Nags
Head and Manteo at the other
end of the state.
Up to 20 inches of snow fell
on the east Tennessee moun
tain trails. Roads, however,
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just like to get this sort of
’thing,” he said.
Some postal employees in
dicated surprise that many of
the stongest and most vocal
local opponents to smut had not
bothered to apply for the federal
protection.
Once a person’s name has
been on the list for 30 days, a
mailer who sends him “smut”
materials is liable for penalties
of up to $5,000 fine or five years
in prison.
Last man club
SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI)—
The “Last Man’s Club” is down
to nine members and its bottle
of 1919 cognac.
Six of the nine World War I
veterans gathered Tuesday
night for their 38th annual
meeting, lifting their glasses as
they answered roll call. Three
others were too ill to attend.
Victor Linden, secretary
treasurer and historian, said
the club’s symbol is a 1919
bottle of cognac purchased by
one of the members in France
after the war ended.
been head of the FBI since 1925
and when the normal retire
ment age of 70 arrived,
President Lyndon B. Johnson
waived the requirement that he
step down. President Nixon has
continued the waiver.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
57, low today 33, high yesterday
54, low yesterday 40. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:23, sunset
tomorrow 6:57.
were in good shape, except for
U. S. 441 between Gatlinburg
and Cherokee, where chains
were needed.
Light snow also fell in Mis
sissippi. It was raining in South
Carolina where light snow was
forecsst.