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Ry Quimby Melton
Everybody loves to sing; even
those who cannot “carry a tune
in a basket", for man is a
singing creature.
And in spite of the craze for
many songs, that have
characterized every generation
during our lifetime, the most
beloved of all songs are hymns.
Reading an old book “Stories
of Hymns We Love”, written by
Cecilia Margaret Rudin, came
across the statement that a poll
taken many years ago showed
the three favorite hymns in
America were:
“The Old Rugged Cross”,
with 26,671 votes;
“Nearer My God To Thee”
with 20,318;
“Abide With Me”, close
behind with 20,316.
Sometime later an en
terprising radio station in
Columbus, Ohio took another
poll, to find the most popular
songs and this poll did not
restrict the poll to hymns, and
the “sampling” was even larger
than the first. “The Old Rugged
Cross” led them all, receiving
more votes than all the other
songs put together, Rudin
reports.
No doubt there are few, if any
readers, of this column who not
only know but love “The Old
Rugged Cross.”
This hymn was written by
George Rennard in 1913. He
wrote both the poem and the
music.
George Rennard was born in
Youngstown, Ohio. His father
died when the author was 16
years old and it was up to this
youngster to be the “provider”
for his widowed mother and
four sisters. As a boy he worked
with the Salvation Army and
then became an officer of the
great organization. Later he
united with the Methodist
church and became an inter
denominational evangelist.
Asked how he came to write
this song, he said his ex-
periences with the Salvation
Army furnished the inspiration.
He was conducting revival
services in Albion, Michigan, in
1913, when he began writing
“The Old Rugged Cross”. First
he wrote the words and then the
music. He first sang the song to
friends of his, Rev. and Mrs. L.
U. Bostwick, at their home in
Pokaton, Michigan. So
delighted were they with the
song they insisted on having it
printed, so that others could
learn it and sing it.
The first public rendering of
“The Old Rugged Cross” was at
a large gathering held in
Chicago at the Chicago
Evangelistic Institute. It
became immediately popular.
It was recorded on phonograph
records and was taken into
homes, hospitals, churches.
Records were even played in
jails where it became known as
the ‘“prisoner’s anthem”.
Homer Rodeheaver, the
“singing-eveangelist” used it at
every meeting and added to its
popularity.
From 1913, the birthday of
this song, until today, has been
58 years, but we believe if a
check were made today “The
Old Rugged Cross” would still
top the Best Loved Song list.
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“By making your arguments
too strong you may merely
intimidate the fellow you bad
hoped to persuade.”
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LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.—When the McCulloch
Corporation bought the London Bridge in 1969 with the
intention of taking it apart and reconstructing it in the middle
of a desert on the California-Arizona border, most people
were rather skeptical It has taken two years and $7 million
but the bridge is nearly finished. C. V. Wood, president of
Grad job market tight
By RANDALL H. HARBER
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - In
June, Kathryn Sessions graduat
ed from the University of Geor
gia with a bachelor of arts de
gree in political science, a
teaching certificate in social
studies and both federal and
state job certifications.
Promptly she set out to find
a job in the Atlanta area, but
10 friendly rejecton letters and
a frustrating series of job inter
views later she’s still unem
ployed.
“I wanted to be in Atlanta,
and I’ve tried every school
system around there,” said the
Athens graduate. “I’ve written
lettera to several businesses,
but so far I’ve only received
one teaching offer and it wasn’t
in the Atlanta area.”
Queries to 10 Atlanta banks
resulted in replies such as,
“Well, as you know we are
rather limited.” Government
agencies merely told her,
“We’re frozen right now.”
“I’m going to wait until Sep
tember,” she said. “By then
I’ll probably take any job just
to have one, but I’ll still be
looking.”
Miss Sessions’ dilemma is
typical. Georgia graduates are
finding there are still jobs avail
able, but not the plush, big city
positions they’ve been looking
forward to.
“I wouldn’t say that the job
market overall is improving,”
saidStuartMcGarity, placement
coordinator at the University of
Georgia. “There are still some
areas that are hit hard.”
But, he added, “We still have
jobs if students are willing to
go out of Georgia or at least
leave Atlanta. There are still
plenty of jobs, but not the jobs
that the students want.”
The University of Georgia’s
placement office doesn’t com
pile figures on the number of
graduates that find jobs, insist
ing “we don’t place anybody.”
However, they have marked sev
eral trends in this year’s job
market.
There is an increase in the
number of government jobs
available, especially on state
and local levels, they say. Addi- •
tionally, job offers in educational
fields continue on a steady up
ward climb. Only in business
and industry have job opportun
ities shown a “slight” drop.
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However, even this area has
improved since last fall.
McGarity points to the fact
that the total number of job re
cruiters visiting the university
this year is only down nine per
cent from last year. “In 1970-
71,455 companies sent represen
tatives,” he said. “In 1969-70 we
had 500 recruiters to visit.
“In the fall, recruitment was
down, people told us they didn’t
know what their needs would
be,” he continued. “Winter,
there seemed to be a little spurt
in the economy and things be
gan to pick up and by June we
were getting an influx of oppor
tunities.”
Additionally, placement office
figures show salaries in educa
tional fields have jumped 13 per
cent this year. Government jobs
are paying salaries six per cent
higher than last year. And, in
hard pressed business and indus
try salaries are showing a two
per cent hike.
Education continues to be the
bright spot. This year 137 institu
tions sent recruiters to the uni
versity, and according to the
placement office, offered gradu
ates no less than 55,000 jobs.
This figure, which includes
all education oriented jobs
from principals, to purchasing
agents for schools, to teachers,
offers a striking paradox to
statements by Atlanta area
school officials who say they
are receiving 18 applications
for every job.
“Everyone wants to go to At
lanta,” says McGarity. “Well,
not everyone can get a job in
Atlanta. There just aren’t that
many. But if they are willing to
go to say Vidalia or to Tignal,
Ga., they can get a job. I’ll bet
if you go down there you won’t
find any teacher surpluses.”
Over all, McGarity believes,
students who planned ahead
and interviewed early found the
jobs they were looking for.
“It probably took a little
longer to get the job they want
ed,” he said, “but they are now
employed. Many of the gradu
ates who don’t have jobs didn’t
pursue the job quest early :
enough.”
Miss Anne Seawell, director 1
of student placement, believes '
the decline in job availability is 1
leveling off. 1
“People used to come here 1
with 18 to 20 jobs, said Miss
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griffin
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., August 14-15,1971
McCulloch Corp, is pictured standing beside the bridge this
week as water flowed under the bridge for the first time since
it left the Thames. The reconstructed London Bridge will be
the main attraction when it opens this October at this
McCulloch-built community on the Colorado River. (UPI)
i Seawell, a 22-year veteran in
job placement. “Now they are
t coming with two or three.
“People say the job market
is bad. It’s bad only in that the
. kids don’t have as many jobs
to choose from. Is that bad?”
Even those graduates who
have jobs apparently think so.
Tim Bailey, an Augusta native
who graduated with a master’s
degree in accounting, inter
viewed “10 or 12 firms” before
accepting a job in Dalton, Ga.
Bailey says his annual salary
is 11,400 less than the starting
salary paid his former room
mate who graduated in 1970
with the same degree.
Additionally, Bailey says,
many of his friends have been
laid off while their films con
tinue to recruit at the universi
ty-
Bonnie Bowen, who holds a
bachelor’s degree in business
administration, contacted be
tween 20 and 30 firms before
landing a position with the First
Union National Bank in Char
lotte, N. C.
She feels many of the recruit
ers she talked with didn’t have
any jobs to offer. This the
placement office denies. Re
cruitment is an expensive pro
cess, they say, and if firms
don’t have any jobs to offer
they don’t recruit.
Miss Bowen, however, said
several firms indicated they
were leaving jobs open because
they didn’t have the money to
pay new employes.
Being a woman, she indicat
ed, didn’t help much either.
“I’m satisfied right now,” ex
plained the Tifton native, “but
I don’t know whether I will be
next spring.”
Mary Ponder is one of the
select group of graduates who
looked for a job in Atlanta and
found one.
Miss Ponder, an Atlantan, is
employed by Arthur Young and ■
Co., a major accounting firm.
“I consider myself extremely
fortunate,” she said, “my firm
only hired one graduate from
the University of Georgia this
year.”
Miss Ponder, who talked only
to the firms she was interested
in, indicated that if she hadn’t
been offered a job either in At
lanta or Charlotte, N. C., she
irobably would still be looking.
Miss Seawell, on the other
NEWS
hand, sees the reduction in jobs
as a good thing. Graduates are
now selecting positions they
may have to keep for quite a
while rather than randomly se
lecting a job.
“Before we were talking
about jobs,” concluded Miss
Seawell, “now we’re talking
about careers—what a graduate
is going to do for the rest of
his life—and I think that’s what
it’s all about”
Moran leaves
Trail post
Erick J. Moran has resigned
as criminal justice planner for
the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission.
He has accepted a position
with ,the Juvenile Court at
Marietta, effective Aug. 16.
Regarding his work with the
Trail, Mr. Moran said, “Since
all the other professionals
received raises within three
months of their arrival, I feel
that my job should have been
included as well. I feel that I
have done as good a job as could
have been done in the short time
I have been here.”
Plane crash
kills man
ATLANTA (UPI) - A 51-year
old College Park man, Albert
W. Schug, was killed early
Saturday when his single-engine
private plane crashed short of
therunwayatHartsfield-Atlanta
International Airport.
Schug was the only person on
board the Cessna Skyhawk,
which fell at a construction site
southwest of the airport while
attempting to land, the Federal
Aviation Administration said.
3 arrested;
slots seized
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— Three persons were arrested
and 16 slot machines confiscated
during raids on three private
clubs Friday night, the GBI
reported.
Capt. Emmit Whitfield said
file slot machines were taken
from Elks, Moose and VFW
clubs.
Vol. 99 No. 192
Kent State
case closed
Ry ISABELLE HALL
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Justice Department closed its
books on the Ohio National
Guard slaying of four Kent
State University students for
lack of evidence, leading the
parents to declare a “loss of
faith in our government.”
Attorney General John N.
Mitchell said Friday he agreed
with the findings of the
President’s Commission on
Campus Unrest that the shoot
ing of the students during an
antiwar demonstration May 4,
1970, was “unnecessary, unwar
ranted and inexcusable.”
Rut Mitchell said there was
“no credible evidence” that
would assure a conviction on
charges of conspiracy. Justice
officials said the government
would have to prove the
National Guardsmen conspired
to violate the civil rights of the
students before any successful
prosecution could result.
“I have communicated this
decision to the parents of the
four students who died and
restated my sympathy with the
full knowledge that nothing can
be said to mitigate their sorrow
and remorse,” Mitchell said in
a statement.
The parents of the four
students said in a joint
statement that “we deeply
regret this because the loss of
faith in our government is
nearly as great as the loss of
our children.”
The statement was signed by
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krause,
parents of Allison Krause, 19, of
Pittsburgh; Mrs. Elaine Miller,
mother of Jeffrey Miller, 20, of
Plain City, N.Y.; Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Scheuer, parents of
Sandy Scheuer, 19, of Young
stown, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Schroeder, parents of
William Schroeder, 20, of
Lorain, Ohio.
“Now we know that it (‘the
system’) may work for some,
but that it does not work for
all, and at times it does not
work at all,” the parents said
in a statement issued by the
Rev. John P. Adams, a director
of the United Methodist
Church’s Roard of Christian
Social Concerns.
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Elizabeth, and William Kirke, both 22, are wed at St. John of God Church. Mr Paul is a 60-yearX
heart transplant patient who gave his daughter’s hand in marriage on the second annivXarv J
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13th operation anniversary. Mr. Paul received his new heart in the only such oneration at the
nearby University of California Medical Center to which the chapel belongs. (UPI)
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Angee of Lake Talmadge are costumed to
participate in Hampton festivities tonight as a part of the
Henry County Sesquicentennial Celebration. Beginning at 6
p.m., an old style supper will be served at the Lake Cindy
Civic Center while a promenade on main street Hampton will
show the latest in 1800’s fashion. Providing entertainment
will be the Hampton Kitchen Kuties, who will play at the Post
Office parking lot while celebration belles, kangaroo kops,
and others add to the fun with jokes, displays and good food.
Man slain in argument
James Robert Williams, 21, of
222 Lexington avenue was shot
in the back and killed last night
about 10 o’clock.
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Held in connection with the
death was E. J. Clark about 46,
of 626 East Central avenue. The
shooting happened at the Clark
house.
Lt. Lewis Law of the Griffin
Police Department said the two
men were in an argument and
the shooting followed.
The weapon was a .38 caliber
pistol, police said.
Williams was dead on arrival
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Police were continuing their
investigation today.