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By Quimby Melton
“God Gives Meaning to Life”
is the subject of this week’s
International Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
Psalms 73; Ephesians 1.
The Memory Selection is
“Having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ to himself, accord
ing to the good pleasure of his
will.” (Ephesians 1:15).
“When meaning goes out of
life, empty routine takes over.”
Charles Laymon begins his
comment on this lesson with
this statement Then he con
tinues, “It is like eating food
and not tasting, all the flavor is
missing. Night follows day, and
the seasons come as usual; but
there is no direction in living.”
In this layman’s opinion when
life loses its meaning one be
comes bored; there is nothing
exciting in living, there is no
goal to strive to reach. Life is a
humdrum affair.
It is easy for one to become a
“Lazy Christian,” content to sit
idly by, watch the world rush on
and excuse his laziness by say
ing “What can I do? All by my
self I am no more important
than a single grain of sand on
the seashore. Why butt my head
against a stone wall?”
In this layman’s opinion the
greatest curse to the Church of
the Living God is there are too
many “lazy” people in their
congregations.
Now if there is any place in
the Bible where we are warned
against being “lazy” I have not
found it. But there is an indict
ment of laziness in Revelation
3:15-16. The church at Laodicia
is told “I know thy works, that
thou art neither cold nor hot; I
would thou wert cold or hot. So
then because thou are luke
warm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of my
mouth.”
Can you think of anything that
shows more disguist than for
one to spew (spit) anything out
of their mouth?
Good Evening never reads
that warning to the church at
Laodicia but he reads on down
to the 20th verse of the same
chapter that says “Behold I
stand at the door and knock; if
any man hear my voice, and
open the door, I will come in to
tim, and will sup with him, and
he with me.” Can you imagine
any closer contact between man
and the Christ that for Him to
have a meal with the man? And
even the lukewarm can take
advantage of this invitation—
— man must open the door —
the Christ will never force His
way in.
When there is sunshine in life,
when everything runs smooth
ly and one does not have a care
or a worry, it is easy to find
meaning in life.
But let reverses and dis
appointments come; let one lose
a loved one, or one be stricken
ed and handicapped, it is
mighty hard to appreciate the
meaning of life. “Just why was I
born?” is a question one is apt
to ask.
The answer: “To serve God in
fullness of Life”.
And how may I do this?
Repent, confess, and seek
fellowship with The Master.
“Open the door” and invite the
Savior in.
Then one may say with
thanksgiving — “This is the
Day the Lord hath made, Re
joice and be glad of it.” (Psalms
118:24.)
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Care for people,
Carter tells solons
Thankless
task
begins
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Geor
gia General Assembly began
foe “thankless task” at an ex
traordinary session today of re
drawing the state’s legislative
and congressional lines to in
sure equal representation of the
state’s citizens.
At a brief meeting, bills to
reapportion the House and Sen
ate and the 10 congressional
districts, bring the state’s bill
board laws into conformity with
federal statutes and modify
election procedures were intro
duced along with local meas
ures.
The lawmakers then assem
bled in joint session to hear a
call from Gov. Jimmy Carter to
“care for the people who elect
ed us” lest the federal courts
take over the job of reappor
tionment.
House Speaker George L.
Smith told the lower chamber
it was facing “a thankless
task” because not everyone
would be happy, no matter what
foe legislators did.
The House redistricting bill
which went into the hopper
called for that chamber to be
cut in size from 195 to 180 mem
bers, and it was expected to
draw strong opposition from
rural legislators.
Other bills introduced in the
two chambers included two to
revamp the congressional dis
tricts, one of them approved by
foe Senate Reapportionment
Committee and one proposed by
Republican Rep. Harry Geising
er of DeKalb County.
The House also welcomed
back Denmaik Groover Jr. of
Gray who was sworn in as the
elected successor of the late
Rep. John Hadaway.
Rep. Quimby Melton of Grif
fin, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
predicted the session would end
in two weeks. He said he
thought the House plan would
be passed next week but “I think
the Senate has an awful lot of
work to do on its plan before it
is acceptable to the House.”
Rep. George Busbee of Al
bany, House majority leader,
said he did not think the con
gressionalreapportionmentplan
okayed by the Senate commit
tee would pass.
“I don’t think the majority of
legislators will support it,” he
said.
The proposal would create a
middle Georgia district and
split Fulton County among
three districts.
Officer
taken ill
on duty
Capt. H. L. Blackmon of the
Griffin Police Department was
reported to be in good condition
today at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital where he underwent an
-emergency appendectomy last
night.
Officials at the Police
Department said Capt. Black
mon was on duty around
midnight and was in a patrol
car when he became ill.
He was carried to the hospital
and underwent emergency
surgery. Officials said the
appendix had ruptured.
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Revamp session opens
Newton qualifies
for second ward
Will Hill Newton H, Griffin
real estate man, qualified to
seek election to the Griffin City
Commission from the second
ward.
He was the first person to
announce for one of three posts
to be filled in a city election in
November
“I have the time and I want to
serve the city as a com
missioner. I am interested in
foe entire city as well as the
second ward. I am a life-time
resident of Griffin and have had
years of business experience
here, with the exception of four
years of service during World
War H.
“I do not owe allegiance to
any individual or groups,” Mr.
Newton said.
He lives at 457 Morris street.
He and his wife, are the parents
of two daughters, Ellen, 21, and
Dana, 12.
Mr. Newton served on the old
city board of education and on
foe Griffin-Spalding board after
consolidation of the systems
here.
His wife, Edith, previously
served on the Griffin-Spalding
Board and was secretary for
several years.
Griffin voters will fill three
posts this fall. Post Two will
have a representative for the
second ward. The person
elected to this post will serve
three years.
Post Four which will have a
person to represent the fourth
ward also must be filled this
year. The person elected will
serve a two-year term.
Voters also will elect a
chairman of the commission
who will carry the title of
mayor. This candidate will be
dected for a four-year term.
Mayor Barron Cumming,
present holder of the post,
announced yesterday he would
not seek reelection.
The candidates for this post
will be elected from the dty at
large and they may reside in
any of the wards.
Other candidates must live in
the wards they seek to
represent but all will be dected
at large. This means that all
dty voters will vote on all the
candidates.
Post One and Post Three will
not be filled this year, under
provisions of a change from a
three-man board to a five-man
board.
Commissioner 0. M. Snider,
Jr., has a year to serve on his
present term and Com
missioner Scott Searcy has two
England expells 90 Soviets
in connection with spy ring
LONDON (UPI)-The British
government announced today it
has expelled 90 Soviet officials
from Britain and has asked
them to leave the country
within two weeks.
A foreign office statement
said all of them “have been
confirmed in intelligence activi
ties.”
The statement said 15 addi
tional Soviet officials who are
not at present in Britain but
are holding re-entry visas will
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years to serve.
Candidates have until Oct. 18
to qualify for the races.
Brandt
slapped
MUNICH, Germany (UPI)—A
23-year-old German political
science student slapped Chan
cellor Willy Brandt in the face
on a downtown Munich side
walk today as a protest against
Brandt’s conciliatory east Eu
ropean policies, police said.
Munich Police Chief Manfred
Schreiber identified the attack
er at a news conference as
Viktor Gislo, 23, a student who
recently ran unsuccessfully as a
candidate of the extreme right
wing National Democratic Par
ty (NDP) for the Bavarian
state parliament.
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“Most of us worry more about
whether folks will think we are
evil than whether we are eviL”
not be permitted to return to
Britain.
The foreign office said the
scale and nature of Soviet
espionage in Britain has been
provided by a Soviet official
who recently defected to
Britain.
“This man, an officer of the
KGB (the Soviet secret police),
brought with him certain
information and documents
including plans for infiltration
of agents for the purpose of
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jim
my Carter, warning Georgia
legislators the federal courts
were looking over their should
ers, urged the General Assem
bly today “to care for the peo
ple who elected us” instead of
politicians in drawing up new
congressional and legislative
districts.
In remarks prepared for a
joint meeting as a special ses
sion of the General Assembly,
called by Carter primarily for
reapportionment, got under
way, the governor said redis
tricting “can become a three
way street”
He referred to the fact reap
portionment bills must first be
passed by the legislators, get
his signature or veto, and then
might be scruitinized by the
federal courts.
There already have been
threats to take any plans
passed by the legislators into
the courts.
“The primary responsibility is
yours and mine,” Carter said,
“but if we fail—in this session
and in the regular January ses
sion-then our state will be re
apportioned by the courts.
“None of us want to see this
happen,” he added. “In my
mind, there is only one outcome
more undesirable and that is the
drawing of districts contrary to
the best interests of the people
of Georgia.”
The governor took note of
speculation that the various re
apportionment plans drawn up
by legislative committees and
recommended to the assembly
were designed to “take care of”
certain legislators.
“I can assure you I have no
political ax to grind, no partic
ular plan to propose, no legis
lators to reward nor punish,”
te said. “Your job and my job
is not to take care of each oth
er but to care for the people
who elected us. My only inter
est is to insure that any plan
which you and I approve does
just that.”
Carter also urged the legisla
tors to pass new billboard con
trol laws to head off loss of 10
per cent of the state’s federal
highway funds each year “be
ginning with the prospective
loss of about |ll million this
November.”
He said “just compensation is
provided” in the proposed bill
board legislation “for newly
prohibited billboards which have
been erected in compliance with
existing state law. This is good
legislation and I hope you will
give it your support.”
Even though Georgia long has
allowed 18-year-olds to vote in
all elections, Carter urged the
legislators also to approve the
already-ratifiedfederal constitu
tional amendment allowed the
vote of 18-year-olds nation
wide.
sabotage,” the statement said.
British officials said the
Soviet Union has a total of 550
officials attached to diplomatic,
trade and other missions in
Britain.
The scale of the expulsions
appeared unprecedented in
peacetime.
The foreign office said the
British government acted only
after long discussions with the
Soviets and after Moscow
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OMAHA—Neather Simmons, three-year-old daughter of the Henry Deerly Zoo director at Omaha,
bottle feeds a baby gorilla that was born at the zoo. The gorilla is being cared for at the director’s
home and eventually will be sent to the Camp Park Zoo in St PauL The baby’s mother, named
Bene it, accidentally killed her first baby. (UPI)
Griffin High battles
Price here tonight
The Griffin High Bears go
after victory number two
tonight when they play Price
High of Atlanta here at
Memorial Stadium. Game time
is 8 o’clock.
Griffin opened the season two
weeks ago with a 29-0 win over
Washington.
The Bears were scheduled to
play Therrell High last
Saturday but that game was
cancelled after Therrell was
suspended from football.
The Georgia High School
Association has not made a
decision whether or not the
Therrell game will be con
sidered a forfeit to Griffin. A
spokesman for the association
said a decision would be made
later. Therefore Griffin’s
record stands at 1-0.
Price is 0-2 going into
tonight’s game. The Wildcats
haven’t scored a point in two
games while allowing 45.
Price was winnless and
Griffin was unbeaten last year
when the two teams met at
Grady Stadium in Atlanta.
The Wildcats upset Griffin.
Griffin’s coach Max Dowis
plans to go with practically the
same lineup that beat
denied that it was engaged in
intelligence activity on the
scale alleged by Britain.
The statement said that on
the instructions of British
Foreign Secretary Sir Alec
Douglas-Home, the permanent
undersecretary of state, Sir
Dennis Greenhill, asked Soviet
charge d’affaires Ivan Ippolitov
to call at the foreign office
today and handed him an aide
memoire setting out the British
Washington here.
Charles Buckalew will
operate a backfield made up of
Tony Head at fullback, Harold
Garland at flanker and either
Curtis Jones, Zachrey Piercy or
Tony Williams at tailback.
Jones, Piercy and Williams
probably will share time at
their position.
Jepp Childs, who does the
Bears’ punting, will open at
tight end. Randy Crosby and
Lewis Vaughn will be at of
fensive tackle, Billy Taylor and
Randy Pass at guard, Howie
Gossett at center with Edward
Holston and Terry Willis
alternating at split end.
Terry Brannon and Mike
Zager will be at defensive end.
Charles Gaddy and Billy Taylor
will be at tackle. David
Woolfork, Hal Johnson, Gregg
Crawford and Walter Jones will
be at linebacker. Daryl Jones,
who is recovering from an ankle
injury, is expected to play some
at linebacker.
Niles Murray, Harold
Garland and David Buckalew
will be in the secondary.
decision.
Britain asked the Soviet
embassy to arrange for a
number of Soviet officials “all
of whom have been concerned
in intelligence activities to
leave the country within two
weeks.”
The foreign office statement
said Britain has decided to
limit in future the number of
Soviet officials who will be
permitted in the country after
those expelled have left.
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Plane
bombing
foiled
DETROIT (UPI) -A jetliner
with 71 persons aboard was
evacuated at Detroit Metropoli
tan Airport today after police
received a tip that a bomb was
aboard, and sky marshals
subdued a woman who threw
two sticks of dynamite at them
while screaminng “We’ll all
die.”
The dynamite did not ex
plode.
Walter B. Boyd, an official of
American Airlines, said the
woman carried a pistol in her
handbag.
The plane, American Airlines
flight 124 bound for New York
from Detroit, was searched
after all passengers were
removed and all other planes at
the airport moved away from
the boarding area.
No additional explosives were
found on the plane, and the
passengers reembarked for the
flight to New York.
“At 7:35 this morning our
reservations department got a
call from the state police,
stating that a passenger by the
name of Barbara Pliskow was
booked on flight 124 to New
York,” said Boyd.
“The flight was scheduled to
depart at 7:45 and they advised
us at the time that she,
according to the check they
had, was planning some activi
ty-
“So we deplaned all the
passengers and performed a
security check.”
“At this point," Boyd said,
“The suspect tried to flee the
scene. She was apprehended by
the sky marshals.”
As the marshals were pur
suing the woman, Boyd said,
she stopped at the top of a
stairway and threw two sticks
of dynamite.
“We’ll all die,” the woman
yelled.