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* By Quimby Melton
# “God’s Call to Faith” is the
subject of this week’s Interna
tional Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture continu
es to be from the Book of Isaiah
— Chapters 30 and 31; 32:16-18;
37:5-7.
The Memory Selection is “In
Returning and rest shall ye be
saved; in quietness and in confi
dence shall be your strength.”
{lsaiah 30:15).
What is Faith?
Paul in Hebrews 11:1 says,
“Now faith is the substance of
dhings hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.”
The dictionary says, Faith is
confidence and trust in someone
tr something. Charles Lay mon
says “Someone has said that
every page of the Bible calls us
Jo faith, either directly or in
directly.”
And we of the present genera
tion have such a “cloud of wit
nesses” (Heb. 12:1) who testify
to the importance of faith that
none should doubt that faith,
true faith, is the key that opens
The door to one’s heart and let’s
the Holy Spirit, the agent of God
Almighty, enter and make one a
drue son of the King of Kings.
If one'would know how impor
tant a part Faith has paid in the
lives of those before us, suggest
they read Hebrews 11. And
though Paul lists many
examples of Faith as recorded
jn the Old Testament he also
says there are many more that
he could cite.
When we come to the New
Cestament there are many
examples of how power
ful and important is Faith.
Many times we read the words
W Jesus “Thy Faith hath made
thee whole.”
But let’s come a little doser to
today and see what a servant of
the Lord had to say about the
importance of faith. Dwight L.
Moody, who was one of the
greatest evangelists of the 19th
Century, said he was constantly
praying for faith. He said that if
men, including himself, only
Yiad faith, “Chicago could be
turned upside down for Christ.”
And Chicago, in the days of
pwight L. Moody was as full of
evil as is any city today.
But how does one come to
have faith? This same Dwight
L. Moody, who probably had as
great faith as any man in his
day, said he “constantly prayed
for faith,” increased,
Strengthened faith. One does not
“earn” faith, faith is a gift from
God, but one can prepare his
teart to receive faith and invite
God to send faith into his heart
where it will be welcomed and
nourished.
• How can one know if there is
faith in his heart?
This layman believes that one
who is willing to pray from his
heart “Thy will be done” has
supreme faith in God Almighty.
We suggest a hymn as the
theme song for this lesson:
“Faith of Our Fathers” by
Frederick Faber.
POU s didn
# By STEWART KELLERMAN
DA NANG, South Vietnam
(UPl)—Tran Van Ky came
within 20 miles of returning to
bis home in North Vietnam
today. It could just as well
have been 200 and the 29-year
old private couldn’t understand
Miy.
Ky, who has been a prisoner
of war in South Vietnam for
glmost four years, slowly paced
the 404>y-15 foot sick bay of the
transport ship Upshur and tried
to figure it all out.
* On crutches, he looked down
every few minutes at the left
trouser leg of his maroon
?ajamas which were tied in a
not at the spot where his own
leg used to be. He lost the leg
in the fighting which led to his
capture.
Tonight, Ky and 12 other
disabled North Vietnamese
| Pam Morris
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Miss Pamela Alice Morris
S: was awarded the George Niles
g: Murray Scholarship during
graduation exercises last night
£ at Griffin High School.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Morris of 417 Rich
ard way.
Miss Morris is the 19th winner
•S of the $4,000 award which is
g offered each year by The Dun
:g dee Community Association to a
£ graduating senior who has one
g: or both parents employed by
£ Dundee Mills. Her father is a
£ supervisor at Dundee No. 1.
Miss Morris was an honor
£ graduate and finished fourth in
£ her class.
Miss Morris was the winner of
g the DAR Award in U. S. History,
g was the reporter for the
£ Distributive Education Clubs of
£ America, and captured first
£ [dace in a state contest for
£ Merchandising Manuals in De
£■ partment Stores.
She is a member of the Searcy
£: Memorial United Methodist
£ Church where she serves as
£ youth member to the adminis
£ trative board. She also serves
:£ as a member of the Council on
Ministries.
g Miss Morris plans to enter the
University of Georgia to study
g for a teaching career.
High level meeting set
on European troop cuts
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
LISBON (UPI)-The United
States and its North Atlantic
Treaty (NATO) allies agreed
today to call a meeting of
deputy foreign ministers of the
alliance to draft plans for
negotiations with the Soviets on
east-west troop cuts in Europe.
They also announced their
readiness to name a represen
tative or several representa
tives to explore just how
serious the Soviets are in
proposing such talks.
U.S. officials said the two
agreements were reached by
NATO foreign ministers near
die end of a two-day meeting
here. The sources said the
decision would be announced in
the council’s closing commu
nique later today.
U.S. officials said the closing
communique also reiterated the
conditions laid down at Rome a
year ago on which the west
would agree to mutual east
west force reductions.
These were that:
Mutual reductions should be
compatible with the vital
security interests of the al
liance.
Reductions should be on a
basis of reciprocity.
Reductions should include
soldiers were back in a POW
compound near Da Nang after
the Hanoi government refused
to accept their repatriation.
The 13, who have been
prisoners from one to five
Potted plants
ATLANTA (UPI) - Owner
Carl Jernberg told Atlanta po
lice he had permitted his
daughter’s boy friend and an
other youth to use his property,
in southeast Atlanta to grow
some flowers.
Jernberg said the youths
came around to water the
plants every day.
Police, armed with a search
warrant, pulled up every one of
the 121 plants and advised Jern
berg the product was marijua
na. The officers also issued a
warrant for the pair.
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both foreign and local forces in
Europe and their weapons
systems.
There must be adequate
verifications and controls.
U.S. officials said the deputy
foreign ministers would meet in
Brussels later this year, either
in the fall or just before the
council’s annual December
meeting in the Belgian capital.
They said the U.S. represen
tative at the meeting would be
Undersecretary of State John
Irwin.
The sources said the repre
sentative or representatives
assigned to sound out Soviet
intentions on troop cuts proba
bly would go to Moscow after
the meeting of deputy foreign
ministers.
Officials said the commu
nique took note of progress in
the Big Four talks on Berlin.
They said it took a less hard
line than the communique
issued in Brussels last Decem
ber which said NATO would not
discuss any east-west security
agreement with the Soviets
without previous settlement of
the Berlin issue.
Diplomatic sources said the
council’s decision to call a
meeting of deputy foreign
ministers only highlighted the
’t make it
years, had been scheduled to be
handed over to North Vietna
mese authorities at 11:30 a.m.
today (11:30 p.m. EDT Thurs
day) at the mouth of the Ben
Hai River which runs through
the Demilitarized Zone (XMZ)
—the six-mile buffer which
divides North and South Viet
nam. They were the only
prisoners among the 640
captives who wanted to go
home.
Hanoi accused the United
States and South Vietnam of a
“dishonest maneuver” in ar
ranging the release and Com
munist vessels failed to rendez
vous with the 533-foot Upshur
at a point 20 miles from North
Vietnam. The ship turned
around and steamed back to Da
Nang, arriving at 5 p.m.
“We deeply regret that the
other side has turned down this
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, June 4, 1971
west’s failure so far to agree on
how to move next on the troop
cuts issue.
Water
map
The Griffin Daily News
will publish as a public ser
vice tomorrow a map
showing where the propos
ed water lines would be ex
tended in the county under
a water bond issue. Voters
will cast ballots on the pro
posal Tuesday, June 8.
Aw
“If the best things in life still
are free, it’s because we haven’t
figured out away to tax them.”
humanitarian offer,” Col. Ste
phen Edwards, U.S. spokesman
on the Upshur, told reporters.
“We believe we have complied
with all the requirements of the
Geneva Convention and all the
regulations set by the North
Vietnamese.”
Red Cross and South Vietna
mese officials met with the
POWs about 4 p.m. and told
them what had happened. Their
morale already was sagging.
A South Vietnamese spokes
man, Maj. To Tong Bien, said
the POWs told them they did
not want to return to their
camp at Bien Hoa, 18 miles
north of Saigon. “They were
afraid of trouble from their
former fellow prisoners,” he
said.
The officer said he doubted
they would return to Bien Hoa.
City will open
center Saturday
The Griffin Police Depart
ment will open its Youth Com
munity Center tomorrow,
climaxing a year of planning
and work.
The Center is located in the
old Cora Nimmons Elementary
School building near Pomona
Products Co.
Mayor Barron Cumming
along with other city officials,
including City Manager Roy In
man, Commissioners Pete Sni
der and Scott Searcy and Police
Chief Leo Blackwell will attend
the ribbon cutting ceremonies.
Mayor Cumming will cut the
ribbon, officially opening the
Center.
“We are extremely proud of
the Center,” Chief Blackwell
said today. “We invite the
public to attend the opening and
tour the building,” he added.
Police officers Homer
Williams and Pop Ellis will
operate the Center this sum
mer.
They are planning activities
for all age groups, especially
young people.
The activities include basket
ball, baseball, pool, ping pong,
volley ball, badminton, horse
shoes, weight lifting, TV lounge
and reading.
Grandmother earns degree
Mrs. James Boyd who began
her college studies in Griffin at
the University of Georgia Cen
ter in January, 1966, will gradu
ate from Tift College at Forsyth
on June 6, at 3 p.m. Mrs. Boyd
completed 45 quarter hours in
Griffin before going to Gordon
Military College and Tift
College.
Mrs. Boyd is not the usual
youngster who will be receiving
a degree this June; she is a
grandmother. Her interest in
college studies stemned from
the fact that she loves books and
reading. With the encourage
meng of her husband and two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Ivey
and Mrs. Carroll Dixon, she
registered for her first course
which was one in library
science.
Mrs. Boyd has seen some
busy days maintaining good
grades, and yet never neglect
ing her family including the five
grandchildren, Bert and Ren
wick Ivey of Moultrie, and
Katrina, Bill, and Boyd Dixon of
Griffin. She has remained a
faithful church worker and
keeps in touch with many
friends.
When Mrs. Boyd receives her
B.S. degree in elementary
education this Sunday it will be
exactly 37 years since she
graduated from Griffin High
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Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo veterinarian. The young tiger is
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Officer Williams said that in
the future, the Police Depart
ment hoped to organize a boxing
program and enter Griffin
boxers in the Golden Gloves.
The building was remodeled
inside by volunteer help.
Nixon’s cousin writes
COTATI, Calif. (UPI)-Pres
ident Nixon got a letter
Thursday from another of his
California cousins. The White
House didn’t want to talk about
it.
The letter was written by a
24-year-old girl who asked for
help because she is “sick and
weak” and her welfare pay
ments are too small.
“Dear President Nixon,” she
wrote. “I don’t know if you
remember me. I’m your second
cousin, Kathy Timberlake. My
grandmother is Edith Milhous
Timberlake.
“I’m writing to tell you my
life’s existence has become too
unbearable. I live in California,
Sonoma County, in a town
called Cotati ...
“I can’t work or do anything
because of my emotional
School in 1934. Mrs. Boyd is not
calling it quits. She has already
taken the Graduate Record
Examinations and hopes to be
gin studies leading to the
masters degree.
Daughter Adelia Dixon says,
“Yes, I’m proud of my mother,
and I have worried about her
traveling at night going to and
from school out of town, and
going back and forth every day
for the past year and a half.”
While Mrs. Boyd was attending
school at night, she was working
full time in the day. In 1969 her
husband, James Boyd, had a
massive coronary and was out
of work for four months.
Mrs. Boyd’s brother is the
Rev. Brady Blalock, Hammond
Drive Baptist Church, and her
sister is Mrs. Carlton McCrary.
Mrs. Boyd said today she
couldn’t have earned her degree
without the help and support of
her family and friends. She said
their encouragement kept her
going at times when it seemed
the going was rough.
Mrs. Boyd said she feels she
owes a piece of her diploma to
each member of her family and
all of her friends and wishes she
could give all of them a piece of
it.
She said she plans to rest this
summer before thinking about
graduate school.
It has been equipped through
donations.
The Police Department has
applied for federal funds to keep
the Center in operation.
Chief Blackwell said he ex
pected the federal funds, which
state.l’m going to the Mental
Health Service in Santo Rosa
almost every day, but it doesn’t
help me much.
“I don’t eat right ’cause I
don’t ever feel like it so I’m
always sick and weak, and the
welfare people give me a very
small amount to eat and get
my necessities.”
The White House confirmed
the President has such a
cousin, the grand-daughter of
Mrs. Timberlake, Nixon’s aunt.
The letter arrived Thursday but
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Mrs. James Boyd
being kept at the zoo veterinarian’s home until it has grown
enough to be returned to his mother at the zoo. (UPI)
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amounts to several thousand
dollars, to be approved within
the next few weeks.
The Center will be open from
10 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily.
Supervisors will be on hand at
all times.
there was no further comment,
the presidential spokesman
said.
The letter came to light when
carbon copies were sent to
newspapers and television sta
tions in the San Francisco Bay
area.
Miss Temberlake is the
second of the President’s
relatives living on welfare in
rural California.
Phillip Milhous, 55, a first
cousin, and his wife, Anna, 47,
were found living on welfare
and Social Security benefits in
Grass Valley in February.
Milhous did not ask Nixon for
help. He said he was sick and
had been advised by doctors not
to work. In a brief statement,
the White House called the
Milhous couple self-sufficient
people who were trying to
make their own way.