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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Oct. 28,1971
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THAT STATE with the least federal land in it is
Connecticut. . . .THE U.S. BUREAU of Engraving and
Printing never permits one craftsman to do the design of an
entire bi 11.... HERE’S to Baltimore, birthplace of the
American umbrella -- clink! .... OLDEST military
organization in the country is the Society of the Cincinnati.
The city was named after it... . YOUR right lung is larger
than your left, if typical.
HOW WOULD YOU like a standard seven-year contract
with a major Hollywood motion picture firm, young lady?
Sounds dandy, what? It’s not, very. If it’s the usual deal, all
it does is guarantee you 20 weeks’ work at a fixed salary
during the first six months. Most of those burning bright
blue flame affairs don't last more than six months, evidently.
HOW DO YOU pronounce “either”? Is it “eether”? Or
“eyether”? Asked an Irishman this, and he said “Nayther,
it’s ‘ayther’.” ... “DID YOU KNOW earthworms practice
birth control?” inquires Don Quimby. “They won’t
reproduce if there’s not enough food to go around.” No, sir,
didn’t know that, sure didn’t.... CLIENT WANTS to learn
how to smack open a black walnut to get the meat out of
the thing without smashing it to smithereens. That’s not so
tough. Freeze it first.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED that Thomas Edison, a most
rational man, devoted many secret hours to the invention of
a machine that would allow him to talk to the dead. It’s also
known that Henry Ford, another most rational man, dipped
his comb every morning into a glassful of salt water
containing rusty razorblades in the belief this treatment
would prevent baldness. And it’s a fact, too, that Dr. Albert
Einstein was so averse to barbers he cut his own hair with
his wife’s sewing scissors no more than once every six
months.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “I always thought there were
more people of German descent in this country than any
other. Isn’t that right?” A. Not anymore. The Italians have
taken the lead. Believe that’s because parents of Italian
extraction are more prolific. The German blood lines rank
No. 2, however. And the Canadian descendants hereabouts
are rated No. 3.
BABY BEES in soy sauce, that’s another gourmet
specialty now on the shelves of the odd shops. Along with
squid in its own ink. And kangaroo tail soup. And fried
grasshoppers, of course. Mouthwatering, no? Nothing new
about such delicacies, certainly. In “Othellcf Mr. Shakespeare
himself refers to locusts as luscious.
AM TOLD a Tokyo women’s wear shop sports a window
sign in English which reads: “Shoes to make your
street-walking more relaxed.”
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byL.M.Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Oct. 28,
the 301st day of 1971.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Scorpio.
Jonas Salk, discoverer of the
polio vaccine, was bom Oct. 28,
1914.
On this day in history:
In 1636 Harvard University
was founded in Massachusetts.
In 1886 the Statue of Liberty
was dedicated on Bedloe’s
Island in New York Harbor.
In 1929 losses in quoted
values on the New York Stock
Exchange and curb exchanges
came to more than $lO billion.
Some high-price bank stocks
dropped as much as 500 points.
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THOUGHTS
As for these four youths,
God gave them learning and
skill in all letters and wis
dom, and Daniel had under
standing in all visions and
dreams.—Daniel 1:17.
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One of the reasons ma
ture people stop learning is
that they become less and
less willing to risk failure.—
John W. Gardner, former
U.S. secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare.
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A bit of history
The tearing down of that three-story
trick building on Fifth street just behind
the jail brings some interesting local
history to mind. It runs like this:
General Griffin founded this city in 1840.
The Legislature, on Dec. 20, 1851, passed
an act creating Spalding County, and the
new county built its first permanent
courthouse in 1859. It is now the county jail
and is located on the northwest comer of
Fifth and Broad street. In 1897, the county
erected the building which now is being
tom down. It was the county jail. The
present courthouse on the southwest
corner of Solomon and Sixth was con
structed in 1911.
County officials said it would cost more
to repair the old building which is being
Mall in our future?
Is there a mall in Griffin's future?
From time to time speculation about one
crops up. First, a Chamber of Commerce
committee submitted preliminary plans
for one and the Griffin Daily News printed
a big picture of what it might look like. It
was real pretty.
We did not hear any more about it, then,
until the Griffin Junior Woman’s Club won
a special prize in the Stay and See Georgia
Contest. The entry featured a proposed
mall.
Now, the November issue of the
Chamber of Commerce newsletter “Ac
tion” brings it up again, and we quote,
“For several years plans have been in the
works to redevelop part of downtown
Griffin —a project which would consist of
Needed: all records
Georgia’s traffic safety engineers in the
State Highway Department say that they
will receive the records on only 80 per cent
of the traffic accidents occurring in the
state this year. This is a good increase
over 60 per cent last year, but it is still not
enough for a really fair and
comprehensive analysis of where
accidents happen, what causes them, and
most important, learning ways to prevent
them.
The Highway Department has
mileposed every one of the 17,600 miles of
state highways in Georgia, and the traffic
safety division has worked up a computer
program to handle the records it does
receive.
In areas where it has been documented
through this program that road conditions
are not favorable, efforts have been made
to correct deficiencies. Grooves have been
cut in pavements with diamond-studded
saws, for example, to prevent cars
★ Personal Advice ★
‘Pregnancy’
By ELEANORB.
RODGERSON, M. D.
Copley News Service
Q. My sister’s pregnancy
turned out to be a “mole,” the
doctor said. What is meant by a
“mole?”
A. The correct and complete
name of your sister’s preg
nancy would be “hydatidiform
mole.” It is a mass of many
cysts which have grown from
an aborted pregnancy that has
remained in the uterus. Ap
proximately 1 in 2,000 preg
nancies is a mole. The embryo
or fetus is absent or necrotic,
but some of the placental mem-
If you can’t help
don t be harmful **
I am a naturally frank person, but many
of my friends are offended by my
frankness. I don’t see why people should be
offended when people try to be honest.
TJL
Restraint in appraising others is a part
of wisdom. The best way to be offensive is
to be unwaveringly candid in one’s
judgments and opinions. Remember, you
may be sincere and honest, but wrong. To
be absolutely frank is a mark of in
tellectual egotism.
Tact and diplomacy are desirable
factors in etiquette. Most of us respond to a
razed than it would to replace it, so down it
comes a new one will provide county
offices. That is fine. A side benefit will be
that nobody will have to sit at a desk over
which a condemned man’s heels once
hung. You see, back when it was a jail,
sheriffs hung condemned men (and
women, too though we never heard of a
woman being hung in Griffin) in their
home counties instead of sending them off
to Reidsville. The old jail was so con
structed that by opening a trap door on fie
second floor, the sheriff could string a rope
up to the third and the body of the person
hung could dangle around between the
first and second.
So much for today’s Spalding County
history lesson.
transforming a section of Hill street into a
diopping mall. But for one reason or
another, probably because all the owners
of the property have not been able to get
together, this project still simmers along
without being done. The Chamber of
Commerce wants to see improvements
made to the downtown business district,
and we feel the proposed shopping mall
would give our city a major face-lifting.
We would like to hear from the downtown
merchants to get their thoughts on ways to
improve Griffin’s central shopping area.”
Here at the paper, we are glad to learn
that the C of C is keeping the project alive.
We believe that a shopping mall most
definitely is in Griffin’s future, either
downtown or some place else.
hydroplaning in areas where this has
occurred.
And, acting on national statistics
showing most deaths occur when a single
vehicle leaves a road and strikes an object
nearby, the Highway Department is
installing breakaway posts for directional
signs and lights. Roadsides are being
cleared up to 30 feet from the traffic lanes,
or as far as possible.
But these actions are not enough as the
death rate in Georgia shows, since the
state ranks 37th highest in the nation in
deaths compared to miles traveled. If 36
other states are doing better, then Georgia
can reduce the traffic toll here, too. One
way to begin, traffic engineers say, is to
get the total picture by receiving all
accident reports in a standardized form
that can be assembled easily into a
computerized data analysis program that
will locate problem areas and offer
solutions.
branes continue to grow. The
villi, the parts of the placenta
that normally connect the
mother’s circulation in the
uterus with the baby’s, become
filled with fluid and form
grape-like clusters. The whole
mass tends to enlarge faster
than a regular pregnancy and
there is usually extra bleeding.
Sometimes a few of the grape
like villi are passed. Pregnancy
tests are positive.
The mole may deliver spon
taneously or it may have to be
removed. Rarely a mole will
turn into a chorionepithelioma,
a cancerous tumor. Because of
the danger of this change, a pa-
little praise, more than we do to brutally
frank estimates of our conduct and
character. The average person is too well
aware of his defects,and frankness only
adds fuel to the flame of inferiority.
Let us say you enter a new house of a
friends, and the decor strikes you as being
ridiculous. Being frank, you could say,
“How inharmonious — how utterly ab
surd!” This may be your honest, frank
estimate — but is such a statement wise or
necessary? How much more tactful and
helpful to say, “How different-how
unique!” Agood rule to go by is this: if you
can’t be helpful, don’t be harmful.
tient who has had a mole is
examined often for one to two
years afterward. Her preg
nancy tests are checked to be
sure all the mole has disap
peared and has not resumed
growth. After being treated for
a mole, it is wise for her not to
become pregnant until the doc
tor is sure of the state of the
uterus.
A woman who has had a mole
usually has normal children
with subsequent pregnancies.
The exact cause of the degen
eration of the placenta, or the
formation of hydatidiform
moles, is not yet known.
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RAY CROMLEY
Study Gl Misfits
For Key to Crime
By RAY CROMLEY
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
A story related the other day by a senior Army psy
chiatrist may explain in part why so few ex-convicts go
straight.
At one time, he disclosed, it had been routine at many
Army posts to give administrative discharges to enlisted
men sentenced to time in a stockade. It was an easy way
to get rid of “troublemakers” and “misfits.”
The feeling was that these men could not make good
in the Army. The chance of recidivism was high. It was
better for all concerned, therefore, to get such a man
out before he got into more trouble.
Then some of the brass decided on change. For the
initial step, first-timers would be given another chance.
A number of Army psychiatrists saw an opportunity
to study results. How many of these first-time losers
would make good? How many fail? What were the dif
ferences between the successes and failures?
A hundred stockade first-timers were chosen at ran
dom. Contact was maintained after release.
It turned out that two-thirds of the 100 were “success
ful”—they returned to normal productive military activi
ties, according to Army standards. The other third failed.
But when it came to predicting which individuals
would fail and which succeed, the psychiatrists found no
answer. Neither did the evaluations of correction offi
cials or parole boards hold up.
However, there was one factor which did correlate
with success and failure of the ex-prisoners.
It was the attitude of the captain of the company to
which the GI was assigned after release from the stockade.
Those assigned to companies led by captains who were
convinced these one-time losers were salvageable were
more often than not the prisoners who made good.
There was no other correlation.
All this must be dealt with carefully. The Army is not
civilian life. And stockade inmates are not strictly com
parable to a civilian prison population.
Nevertheless, there is a lesson.
Perhaps we as citizens could do more than complain
about prisons and the courts. A number of judges be
lieve that until we do more, we shall not solve the prob
lem of repeaters, however much reform of prisons and
courts is pressed.
These arguments are borne out by data from some
northern European countries, where churches and gov
ernments cooperate in maintaining after-care societies.
These groups provide each released prisoner with an
experienced, friendly volunteer civilian counselor. Pos
sibly as a result, recidivism in these lands is much lower
than in the United States.
We are not talking here about “pampering” criminals.
We are talking about giving a man who has served time
an even break in making good. No favors. But no impos
sible handicaps either. This should pay off for him. And
for us—in less crime.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION)
TIMELY QUOTES
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS—George
Bush, U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, after the body
voted to admit Communist
China and expel the Nationalist
Chinese:
“I hope the UJf. will not
relive this moment of infamy.
It’s not a good thing to kick
somebody out. My heavens,
anybody with a heart in his
chest who saw those decent
people thrown out of the UN.
couldn’t help but be affected.”
PARIS — Soviet Communist
leader Leonid Brezhnev, re
marking on European security
and the cold war during a visit
to Paris:
“We meet at a time when
Europe finds itself at a turning
point in history.”
AUSTIN, Tex.—Moment Ar
mistead, beginning a campaign
for stricter drug laws because
his daughter jumped to her
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death from the University of
Texas tower:
“My daughter didn’t jump off
that tower—LSD pushed her
off.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The first intercollegiate
football conference in the
United States was the Inter
collegiate Football Associa
tion organized at Spring
field, Mass., in 1876, The
World Almanac recalls. The
association standardized
the number of men on a
team to 15 and the size of
the field to 140 by 70 yards.
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