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By Quimby Melton
The Easter Sunday School
lesson has as its title “Is Death
The End?” Background Scrip
ture is 1 Corinthians 15.
The Memory Selection is “I
am the resurrection, and the
life; he that believeth in me,
though he be dead, yet shall he
live; and whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never
die.” (John 11:25-26).
Paul in this letter to the
Corinthians seeks to explain to
them the mystery of the re
surrection. Paul uses the re
surrection of Christ as a con
vincing sign of God’s gracious
provision for our future. Paul
assures us that the total person
shall be raised from the dead
not just the soul. Soul and body
(spiritual body) will be raised to
a new life. No wonder Paul in
this chapter (verses 57-58)
wrote to the Corinthians
“Thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through
out Lord Jesus Christ. There
fore, my beloved, be ye stead
fast, unmoveable, always
abounding in the work of the
Lord, forasmuch as ye know
that your labour is not in vain in
the Lord.”
One cannot help at times to
wonder what the “spiritual
body” will be like. This question
is answered by Paul in
Philippians 3:21. We are told
that the Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ “shall change our vile
body, that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body.”
What more do we need to cause
us to join Paul in being thankful
—“Thanks be to God, who gives
us the victory (over death)
through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
And one is also inclined at
times to wonder what heaven
will be like. We can be assured
that heaven will be where those
who attain it will continue their
service to the Lord, and this
service will be one of love and
happiness.
It is only natural that many
people have a different idea of
what they hope heaven will be.
We believe God in his wisdom
will make heaven a place where
everyone will be happy.
William H. Harper, a former
president of the University of
Chicago, when on his death bed
prayed “May there be for me a
life beyond this life; and in that
life may there be work to do,
tasks to complete.” This man
could think of nothing worse
than to spend eternity idle. We
agree with him. No Christian,
ever in life, wants to be “idle”;
he wants to be active in prais
ing, in thanking, in seeking to do
the work of his Master today,
tomorrow, and through eter
nity.
Charles Laymon has said
“Immoratility for the Christian
is not to be considered solely in
terms of the extention of time
beyond the grave. It is a con
tinuation of our discipleship
with Jesus Christ and goes on
forever.
“When Jesus becomes the
central figure in our lives, our
loyalties change; our standard
of values changes; our goals
change. Sometimes this is call
ed conversion,’ the ‘new
birth,’ or ‘being saved’.”
In telling of his conversion E.
Stanley Jones said that when he
truly realized that Jesus was his
personal Savior, he wanted to
embrace the whole world in love
as he shared his experience.
Then he added “A few minutes
before I had no such desire, be
cause I had nothing to share.”
May this Easter bring to the
heart of all the desire to begin,
or continue, a discipleship with
Jesus Christ that after death
and the victory over the grave
can be continued “in our
Father’s house, where there are
many mansions.”
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Offer themselves for POWs
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-A
suburban father of three who
says he is “my brother’s
keeper” flies to Laos next week
with five others in the hopes of
being traded for an equal
number of American POWs.
With $926 round-trip tickets to
Vientiane already purchased,
the civilian, largely middle-age
group wants to persuade North
Vietnamese officials to. take
them as substitutes for U.S.
servicemen held in Communist
prison camps.
The group’s leader, Dominic
Cimino, 45, says the servicemen
could then use the return
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and some refuse to stoop to it.”
Patrolman saves child’s life
MEMPHlS—Patrolman B. R. Love of the Memphis Police
Department applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and
turned two-month-old Jeremy Henry upside down when Mr.
and Mrs. William Henry of Stuart, Fla., drove up and told
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ATLANTA (UPI)-An Atlanta
man whose stab wounds re
quired more than 200 stitches
told how he was attacked in the
city’s hippie district before
about 20 onlookers who refused
to come to his aid.
James R. Mitchell, 22, who
lives in the area around Peach
tree and 10th Street where the
hip section is concentrated, was
stabbed about dusk Monday by
a man he did not know and for
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, April 9, 1971
A hip talking oldster (over 30)
and ex-herion addict named
Jabo Cox from Jacksonville,
Fla., has been in Griffin for the
last two days trying to reach
teenagers and adults on the pro
blems associated with abuse
drugs.
“I’m really impressed with
the kids here. The reception
they have given me has been
really beautiful,” Cox said of
Griffin teens.
He had just finished two ad
dresses to the junior high and
one to the senior high school and
was in route to a Rotary Club
luncheon.
“You can’t tell two stories;
one to the adults and one to the
kids, because if you do, then one
of them has something wrong
with it,” the 43-year-old father
tickets to fly home.
Cimino, a World War II
Marine, began recruiting for
the unusual prisoner exchange
about four months ago. He got
answers from 56 volunteers
mostly World War II veterans,
two of them prisoners of war in
Germany.
“I went through the war,”
said Cimino, “and I was
wounded but I came out alive.
I’ve been fortunate and I want
to give some other guy a
chance to get married and have
kids.
“I am my brothers’s keeper,”
no apparent reason.
The stab wounds punctured a
lung and his liver, requiring an
operation and more than 200
stitches.
“The guy apparently didn’t
like seeing us happy,” Mitchell
said from his hospital bed, re
ferring to himself and his girl
friend who were walking togeth
er at the time.
The girl, who was not identi
fied, told a reporter “this guy
him their son was choking to death. Love was on duty
directing traffic. He reacted quickly and saved the child’s
life.
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Kids need ‘tough love’
said the suburban Monterey
Park salesman, “and it’s a
code I’ve lived with all my
life.”
Against his wife’s wishes,
Cimino will depart Wednesday
accompanied by a Methodist
minister, a retired Los Angeles
fireman, an auto mechanic, a
21-year-old conscientious objec
tor and a retired Air Force
sergeant who joined for reasons
of “humanity and Christianity.”
The six believe they can
convince the North Vietnamese
of their sincerity and wind up
in a prison camp for “a year or
two at the longest.”
All’s well now.
NEWS
Reformed drug addict believes
of four added.
Cox, the director of Houng
Life’s inner city program in
Jacksonville, was in Griffin at
the request of the Rotary Club
to speak as a public service to
concerned youth and adults
about the drug scene.
“Kids don’t mind being told
anything that’s real, but if its
phony, you can hang it up,” Cox
explained.
Long hair doesn’t make a
“baddie”, but that it just means
the person had long hair, he
said.
“Os course, you’ve got to
remember that there are a lot of
beautiful people with short hair,
too,’.’ he added.
Cox explained that parents
don’t have to be drug experts or
talk with their children about
appeared out of nowhere and
rushed between us, knocking us
apart. He looked at us and we
told him everything was cool
but he began cursing us and
daring James to a fight.
“Then all I could see was
this boy stabbing at James
again and again.”
She said she screamed for
help but “no one seemed to
care...except one guy who kept
saying ‘peace, man, violence is
really a bummer.’”
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drugs to communicate.
“He (parent) has to be a
expert on life — if he knows,
understands, and believes in his
kids, the (generation) gap won’t
be there,” he said.
Not soft on discipline, Cox
suggested that what kids need
today is “tough love.”
“Discipline with love, with
the discipline coming first,
builds your relationship, while
discipline without love can only
destroy,” Cox explained.
But how does a herion addict
kick (get off drugs), then at 34
go back and finish high school,
and end up directing a program
serving more than 4,000 “hard
core” youth?
“An addict never really gets
unhooked, he has to find some
thing else to give him his high,
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Jaycette’s “Young Woman of the Year” Mrs. Lester Luttrell (1), committee chairman Mrs.
George Sprayberry (c), and runner-up Mrs. George Murray Jr., admire certificates.
Jaycettes honor
Mrs. Luttrell
The Griffin-Spalding County
Jaycettes named Mrs. Lester
Luttrell their “Young Woman of
the Year” in a program last
night.
Mrs. Luttrell was presented a
certificate and a silver tray by
the organization for her out
standing volunteer community
service.
Announced as runner-up for
the award was Mrs. George
Murray Jr., who also received a
certificate and silver tray at the
banquette.
Other nominees were Mrs.
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Court upholds Dunbar ban
ATLANTA (U PI)-County
hospital authorities have the
right to restrict privileges of
doctors byway of reasonable
and nondiscriminatory rules
and regulations, the Georgia
Supreme Court has ruled.
The decision upholds the re
fusal of the Gwinnett County
Hospital Authority to appoint
Dr. William G. Dunbar to its
staff.
The case arose over the hos
pital authority’s credentials
committee charge that Dunbar
had failed to give full and
but there really aren’t many
things that will get you as high
as “H” (herion). I’m still hook
ed but I’ve switched from
herion to God,” Cox said.
Less than one per cent of the
Herion addicts in the United
States are ever to break their
habit, according to Cox.
“Let’s get one thing straight,
Young Life’s major reason for
being in the inner city area is to
communicate the gospel and
God’s love to these kids, but we
want to let our actions do our
talking (witnessing),” he ex
plained.
A 1966 graduate of Luthur
Rice Seminary, Cox attributes
his come back from drug addic
tion to his wife, Leona.
“She loved me when nobody
else could and treated me like a
Jerry Savage, Mrs. Edmund
Roberts, and Mrs. Albert Har
rell.
The wife of Griffin Ortho
donist Dr. Lester Luttrell, Mrs.
Luttrell activities include work
as a volunteer art teacher for
more than 240 Griffin
youngsters, vice president of
the Griffin-Spalding Art Guild
as well as a founder of the guild,
second vice president of the
Griffin Junior Woman’s Club,
and an active member of the
Utility Club’s Play to Learn
School Committee which works
with retarded children.
Mrs. George Murray Jr. was
also honored for her work with
the Play to Learn School as well
as her volunteer work with var
ious Griffin theater groups.
Acting as chairman of the
“Young Woman of the Year”
Committee for the Jaycettes
was Mr. George Sprayberry.
complete information in his
application.
It said Dunbar answered af
firmatively on the application
that his license had been sus
pended for violation of narcotics
laws in 1956 but was reissued in
1964, which the committee said
was “false and incomplete.”
The committee said Dunbar
entered a plea of guilty in U.S.
District Court in Atlanta to
three counts of narcotics viola
tions in 1961, and was sentenced
to five-year concurrent prison
terms on the three counts.
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human being when most folks
looked at me and couldn’t see a
man,” he added.
Spending some time with
Teen Challenge in New York,
Cox worked with the Rev. David
Wilkerson, but found many of
his rules a bit strick on the
young people.
“But he got results,” he add
ed.
“The thing to remember
about drugs is that they are all
brothers and sisters and where
you find anyone of them, the
rest are near by.”
“Some of the so called soft
drugs like pot may not
necessarily lead “H”, but why
take the chance. The pusher
who sold you the pot most likely
has acid, speed, and “H” for
sale too,” he concluded.
Dean Tate,
Davison
coming here
Dean William Tate, retiring
dean at the University of
Georgia, and President Fred
Davison of the University will
be featured at an eight-county
alumni meeting in Griffin May
5.
The meeting will be at the
Stucky auditorium beginning at
8 p.m.
Lee Roy Claxton of Griffin,
vice president of the Sixth
District Alumni, is handling
arrangements.
He said letters would go out
next week to alumni.
Included in the area meeting
will be the counties of Monroe,
Spalding, Pike, Butts, Fayette,
Lamar, Upson, and Henry.
Reservations may be made
with Mr. Claxton.
Dunbar also answered on his
application that he had never
been suspended from member
ship on other hospital staffs,
when actually his associate priv
ileges at the Griffin - Spalding
County Hospital were terminat
ed in August, 1960, the commit
tee added.
Dunbar sought relief in Gwin
nett Superior Court but the court
upheld the committee’s denial
and added that Dunbar was not
“qualified for membership in
die Gwinnett Medical Society.”
The appeal to the higher court
followed.