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VENIN U
By Quimby Melton
A friend asked “When do we
go back to “Slow Time’?”
We told him “Daylight Saving
time will end and Standard
Eastern Time will begin at 2:00
a.m. on Sunday October 31 —
the last day of the month.”
“When did Daylight Saving
time start last spring?”
“On April 25th — the last Sun
day in the month — at 2:00
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To continue the conversation
he then asked “What do we do to
keep us from being late to work,
or to church that Sunday?”
“Just turn the clock back one
hour. Thus regaining the hour
that was lost last April.”
Maybe there may be others
who are interested in when and
what to do.
As we talked on about the
change in time this friend
agreed with Good Evening that
“Dayligit Saving starts too
early in the spring and hangs on
too long in the fall. But the time
for starting and ending have
been the same in all states since
1966. So all one can do is accept
the change and not gripe too
much about it.
It seems to Good Evening and
our friend agreed with us that it
is school children and their
mothers who are the chief
“sufferers”. For there are
many of the children who must
get up long before there is any
daylight if they are to catch
their bus to school in the morn
ing and there are children who
get home long after darkness
sets in.” Not all of them of
course. There are some who live
doser to their schools and are
less inconvenienced.
Our school authorities have
done their best to work out bus
schedules but a flawless
schedule is impossible.
Speaking of Sundays:
Last Sunday night Mrs.
Evelyn Robbins of Atlanta, a
professional organist, who is a
g-aduate of Julliard School of
Music in New York as well as
Georgia’s Agnes Scott College,
gave a concert on the “new or
gin” at our church. We call this
organ our “new organ” for it
had been completely overhaul
ed and additional pipes and
ranks installed to increase its
range and magnitude in keeping
with the high ceiling cathedral
like auditorium. And Mrs.
Robbins lived up to her advance
notices.
We are not commenting on
our “new orfpn” to plug our
church but to call attention to
one feature of the program.
Music lovers from all the
churches had been invited and
there were some from many of
them. It was one of the largest
evening congregations we have
ever seen there. It was an
nounced at the “collection
treak” — one would have
thought it was some church
other than a Methodist Church,
if a collection had not been
taken — that at the end of the
concert the organist would play
Martin Luther’s great hymn “A
Mighty Fortress is Our God”,
the congregation would stand
and sing the song. Now Good
Evening likes to sing, but
recognizing in that congrega
tion many talented angers from
many of the churches, he
simply stood, moved his lips
and listened as others sang. And
we were rewarded. If ever a
sanctuary rang with sweet
music it was then.
We felt as though there were
angle voices that .joined in the
snging and we went home with
the thrilling memory of having
been dose to the throne of grace
located well within the Mighty
Fortress of Our God.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
», low today 65, high yesterday
3, low yesterday 65. Sunrise
.omorrow 7:31, sunset tomor
ow 7:29.
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Mayor Cumming decides
not to seek reelection
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Woman released; sheld
ATLANTA (UPI)—A 20-year-old white woman who was
kidnapped at gun point early today was released shortly
after her five Negro abductors took her from a car and
forced her to leave with them, police said.
Police later arrested five unarmed black men, age 19 to
24, in a yellow rental van after an Atlanta man spotted the
vehicle after hearing a broadcast description on an
Atlanta radio station.
Police said the blacks stopped a car carrying the white
woman and a Negro couple about 3 a.m. and that one of
them was armed at that time. They first robbed the Negro
couple of SSB. The white woman was found at home about
4:30 a.m. and said she had been raped. The Negro couple
in the car was identified as Jimmy Johnson and his wife,
Jacqlyn.
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Christian Church. Isami is the brother of Mrs. Jack Partain (c).
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1971
Mayor Barron Cumming an
nounced today he would not
seek reelection to the board of
city commissioners. He will
complete his three-year term on
the board at the end of Novem
ber. His successor will be in
stalled at the first meeting of
the commissioners in Decem
ber.
Cumming, 30, an attorney and
one of the youngest men in
Georgia to hold the office of
mayor, said he had pondered
whether to run or not for the last
several weeks.
“Over the past three years I
have been involved in some
unpopular votes, but I can
truthfully say that I have al
ways voted in the manner that I
felt would be in the best in
terests of the city of Griffin as a
whole.
“I always held the position
that if a man makes his decis
ions according to the pressures
of what is popular, then it is
impossible for that man to think
for himself and act in the best
interests of those he is supposed
to serve. I sleep well at night,
knowing that at least I have
voted my convictions and not
those I was pressured into be
cause of a desire for reelec
tion,” Cumming said.
He added:
“Over the three years that I
have served, I have also gained
experience in my nwn chosen
profession, and with that ex
perience, naturally my practice
has increased and it has been
increasingly difficult, time
wise, to do justice to both my
clients and the dty of Griffin.
“I don’t feel that I should
attempt to do two jobs and wind
up doing neither adequately.
The only office open to me in
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“The experience he has while
being a bad example may
prepare a fellow to give good
advice.”
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Another era ended today when bulldoziers moved in to
remove the old overhead shelter where the Griffin railroad
Justice
Black
critical
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Re
tired Justice Hugo L. Black, 85,
was placed on the critical list at
Bethesda Naval Hospital today,
trSupreme Court official said.
“The prognosis is considerea
poor,” the official said. “His
family is with him.”
Black, who entered the
hospital on Aug. 28, suffered a
severe stroke Monday in what
the official called a “cerebral
vascular accident” Since that
time, he said, Black has
continued to worsen and was
placed on the critical list at 10
a.m. EDT today.
Jap couple to wed here
A Japanese couple has chosen Griffin as
the place for their wedding and will be
married tomorrow night in the Damascus
Christian Church.
The groom, Sasaki Isami, is the brother
of Mrs. Jack Partain of West Poplar
street. He came to the States five months
ago to work for a Japanese trading firm in
New York City.
His financee, Harumi Saski, arrived in
New York Monday and they flew to Griffin
Tuesday to complete plans for the wed
ding.
Easy and Nancy (names they’ve
acquired in America) have been engaged
for about 11 months. As Easy’s work will
keep him in this country for three years,
they decided not to wait and that Nancy
should come over for the ceremony.
Even though they are Buddhists, they
are looking forward to an American
Wedding in a Christian Church. With Mrs.
Partain’s help, they have made a lot of
plans.
Nancy’s mother spent two months
crocheting a full length wedding dress.
Nancy brought that along with the veil and
platinum wedding rings from Japan.
They want a church wedding with all the
trimmings. If the ceremony were in
Japan, it would be very different.
There, a couple may marry at the
groom’s home or at special place used just
Vol. 99 No. 226
Griffinite killed
in Vietnam fighting
Sp.s Lynn Jones, 19, of Griffin
has been killed in action in the
Vietnam fighting.
Woman held
in hit-run
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI)—
Cobb County police arrested
Virginia Marie Wells, of Conely,
Wednesday night and have
charged her in the Tuesday hit
and-run death of a five-year-old
Austell boy.
Mrs. Wells, 34, is charged
with involuntary manslaughter
and leaving the scene of an ac
cident in the death of Chris An
thony Brown, son of an Austell
minister and his wife.
for weddings. A city official presides and
no preliminaries, such as a waiting period
or blood tests, are necessary. There are no
flowers, no wedding cake, just plain food
including a fish dish prepared especially
for weddings.
Until recently, they said, there were no
divorces and no remarriages in Japan.
Now, one can obtain a divorce by merely
signing a paper. Court battles are a rarity,
used only when the parties involved can’t
agree.
The wedding Friday will be small. Mrs.
Partain will be matron of honor. Her
husband will serve as best man and his
brother, Eddie Partain, will give the bride
away. The pastor, the Rev. Donald G.
Weldon, will perform the ceremony.
Afterwards, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse En
trekin, parents of Mr. Partain will en
tertain with a reception at their home in
Pomona. There will be a cake, flowers,
and of course, wedding pictures to send
back home.
A Japanese friend who works with Easy
in New York is flying down and a Japanese
student at the University of Georgia in
Athens also will be on hand.
Saturday, Easy and Nancy will fly to
Miami for a week’s honeymoon, then go
back to New York where Easy has rented
an apartment just over the state line in
New Jersey.
terminal used to stand. The Nancy Hanks, only passenger
train left serving Griffin, was discontinued last spring.
His grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Jones, 31 First
street, East Griffin, were noti
fied of the death.
The Armed Forces said that
he was shot Sunday in a helicop
ter and died undergoing treat
ment.
He was the son of the late Mr.
Doyle Jones of Griffin. His step
mother is Mrs. Charlene Jones
of East Griffin.
His mother is Mrs. Lavenia
Cowart of Valdosta. Sp. Jones
has a brother, Michael Jones,
and a sister, Sandy Jones, who
live in Valdosta. He has two half
brothers, Timothy Jones and
Derrick Jones, and a half sister,
Jan Jones of Griffin.
Sp. 5 Jones had been in the
Armed Forces about a year and
a half.
Easy, Nancy and Margie (Mrs. Partain)
grew up in Tokyo. They speak English
fluently as it is a required subject in the
schools from junior high through high
school.
Easy graduated from Keio University in
Toyko. He majored in sociology and hopes
to enroll in a business school in New York
to study marketing. This is his first trip
away from his homeland but he says
people are the same everywhere.
His company, Tsurumi, Ltd., has
branches the world over. It is Japanese
owned and deals in exports and imports
between Japan and other countries.
Easy says the company is losing much
money now since the economic restrictions
went into effect as there is no exchange
rate. He says his country is completely
dependent on their trade with other
countries and hopes the situation will soon
be worked out.
Nancy, who studied secretarial science,
does not plan to work after her marriage.
They were both very impressed with the
beautiful countryside around Griffin. In
Japan there are very few lawns. The yards
are dirt or cement. All available land is
used to grow food.
The most startling difference between
the two countries, Easy commented, is
that many races live together in America.
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