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By Quimby Melton
We have chosen “Now Thank
We AH Our God” as the hymn
for this week’s column on
hymns. It was written by
Martin Rinkart (1586-1648) and
translated from German by
Catherine Winkworth (1827-
1878) and though Rickart lived
40 years after Martin Luther
died, there are those who
believe the life of Luther and his
writings did much to influence
Rickart in writing this hymn.
Anyway no one will disagree
that Martin Luther’s times were
as hazardous as are the times of
today, that those days challeng
ed both the church and the
state, and Rickart had reason
to believe that everyone, as well
as the church and the state, had
many reasons to be thankful to
God. Thankful for His very
being, for His love for mankind,
and for the assurance that when
God thought the proper time
had come He would step in,
welcome the redeemed to their
Heavenly Home.
Notice the title of this hymn —
“Now Thank We All Our God.”
When shall we thank Our
God? Now!
Who Shall thank Our God? All
— everybody!
Whom shall we thank? God!
And whose God is the God we
thank? Our God — Everyone’s
God!
Here is the hymn written by
Rickart and translated by
Catherine Wink worth:
Now thank we all our God
With heart and hand and voices,
Who wondrous things hast done,
In whom His world rejoices;
Who, from our mother’s arms,
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
And still is ours today.
0 may this bounteous God
Through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
And blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace
And guide us when perplexed.
And free us from all ills
In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God
The Father now be given,
The Son, and Him who reigns
With them in highest heaven,
The one eternal God,
Whom earth and heaven adore;
For this it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
Senate kills foreign aid
By ELIZABETH WHARTON
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Senate, in an astonishing 41 to
27 vote, has killed the omnibus
American foreign aid program,
which showered $143 billion on
other countries over a quarter
century.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield called the vote
Friday night “a moment of
consequence.” The White House
called it “highly irresponsible.”
“President Nixon urges im
mediate restoration of the
absolutely vital foreign assis
tance program so that we can
continue the efforts to construct
a more peaceful world,” said
Ronald L. Ziegler, the White
House press secretary.
The bill included military
support for Israel, aid for
beleaguered Cambodia and
Laos, and funds to help the 9
million Pakistani refugees.
Aid for Vietnam, both milita
ry and economic, comes under
other legislation and was not
affected by the vote.
It was considered nearly
certain the administration
would move to restore some of
the individual items in the $2.9
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Griffin High falls
to LaGrange, 14-7
By ROGER DIX
The Griffin Bears, searching
for their first region football
championship in 19 years, must
now wait at least another year
before reaching the elusive
goal.
Their hopes of making it this
year died last night in
LaGrange, Ga., when the 3-3-1
Grangers upset the Bears, 14-7.
The loss was Griffin’s second
in a row.
The Bears, who held firmly to
first place in 6-AAA until a week
ago, now trail the Forest Park
billion bill, either in the form of
separate bills or as amend
ments to other programs. But
there was little likelihood that
any kind of general aid
program would clear Congress
this year. The bill killed by the
Senate came from the House
and is not subject to revival.
Supporters of foreign aid said
they would turn their efforts
toward offering a completely
revamped program, probably
early next year.
Mansfield said the Senate
action would give the United
States an opportunity to “deve
lop new ideas and move away
from the old ones.” He said he
would oppose any attempt to
revise the bill this year.
Chairman J. William Fulbright
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has long urged
channeling more aid funds
through multilateral institutions
instead of in bilateral pro
grams. He voted against the
till Friday night and grinned
broadly when the vote was
announced.
Another veteran senator,
Frank Church, D-Idaho, who
once strongly supported the
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Panthers, who have only to beat
Price to clinch the cham
pionship.
To say the Bears were
disappointed would be putting it
mildly.
The players, who had worked
long and hard for months
helplessly watched the final
second tick away. LaGrange
had the lead and ball and Griffin
was without time outs that
would have prolonged the
agony.
Although the Bears can still
finish the 1971 season with an 8-2
foreign aid program, has since
decided the program is a
failure and a relic of the cold
war. He has said the United
States has used the program to
buy the allegiance of developing
countries and argued the money
would be better spent if it were
channeled through agencies like
the United Nations.
The catalyst—but not the
basic cause—for Friday night’s
action appeared to be the vote
in the United Nations five days
earlier in which Taiwan was
ousted after bitter days of
battling by the American
delegation to save the seat.
After that vote, the White
House attacked the “undis
guised glee” of delegates who
voted against the United States
and said it was re-examining
foreign aid.
The Senate vote means that
after Nov. 15 funds can no
longer be obligated for the
direct aid program. There is,
however, in excess of $4 billion
in the Treasury that will enable
the completion of projects
already started.
In addition, there are several
other U.S. assistance programs
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record, a good one in anybody’s
book, they had hoped they
would be the ones who brought
Griffin its first region title.
No one hated losing more than
the players.
Despite the loss, this year’s
team still has a chance of
making the 1971 season Griffin’s
best in several years.
The Grangers were just as
tough as scouts had reported.
LaGrange showed its solid
defense on the first series of
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not affected by the bill, which
constitutes only two-fifths of the
total U.S. outlay.
These unaffected programs
include surplus food outlays,
credit assistance for military
sales, and outlays to interna
tional banks that make low
interest loans to poor countries.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield said it would be
a “lingering death.”
But the defeat of the main
authorization bill was, at the
least, the symbolic burial of the
aid program which began with
the Marshall Plan for recon
struction of Europe after World
War n and was extended year
after year to help other
countries in need get on their
feet.
It included grants and easy
credit loans to help other
countries build dams, raise
armies, distribute food, buy
weapons, sow crops, import
equipment and in general bring
American technology and know
how to help the poor of the
world pull themselves up by
their bootstraps.
In the end, the program was
denounced as an abject failure
NEWS
Court nominees
under attack
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Justice Department released
letters from Supreme Court
nominees William H. Rehnquist
and Lewis F. Powell, in which
each opposed integration or
ders, while opposition to
Rehnquist increased.
The department made the
documents public Friday, ap
parently ih an effort to bring
out any potentially damaging
information about the candi
dates named last week by
President Nixon. Senate confir
mation hearings begin Wednes
day.
The documents were made
public as the Americans for
Democratic Action (ADA) an
nounced that it would oppose
the nomination of Rehnquist, an
assistant attorney general who
once practiced law in Phoenix,
Ariz.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., who
led fights to defeat the
nominations of Clement F.
Haynsworth and G. Harrold
Carswell to the court, said
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by internationalists and isola
tionists, hawks and doves,
liberals and conservatives.
They agreed that the money
being handed out was like a
drop of water on the desert,
and won the United States few
friends, and, if anything, had
created enemies.
Only Sens. Jacob K. Javits,
R-N.Y., and Edward M. Kenne
dy, D-Mass., cried at the
funeral. Javits said it was “a
black day for the United
States” and vowed to do
everything in his power to
resurrect the program. Kenne
dy called it an “unfortunate
step backwards into the isola
tionism of the past” and said
he was appalled by the
wholesale abandonment of hu
manitarian programs in the
bill.
Redder hot dogs
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Agri
culture Department officials
have proposed allowing the use
of sodium acid pyrophosphate
to help give hot dogs and other
cooked sausages a “natural red
color.”
Thursday he opposed Rehnquist
because of his stand on
wiretapping and for supporting
mass arrests of Mayday
antiwar demonstrators last
spring.
The department released a
letter Powell wrote to Attorney
General John N. Mitchell
asking him to rescind an order
to prevent Richmond, Va., from
annexing its suburbs.
The ADA said Rehnquist has
“neither the respect for minori
ty aspirations nor the devotion
to the Bill of Rights that
justices should have.
Two letters that Rehnquist
wrote to the Phoenix Republic
in 1964 and 1967 opposing a city
public accommodations ordin
ance and proposals for integrat
ing the city’s high schools were
among the documents made
available to reporters.
The Sept. 9, 1967, letter,
expressing distress at a series
of articles decrying de factor
segregation in Phoenix schools
and proposing integration said
Circus stranded, elephants
frost bitten in blizzard
By United Press International
The first blizzard of the
season roared across the Rocky
Mountains and Northern Plains
Friday, causing fatal plane
crashes and stranding hundreds
of motorists and an entire
circus —complete with four
frost-bitten elephants.
East of the advancing storm,
thundershowers bathed the
Midwest and summer-like
weather prevailed. The mercu
ry soared to a record-matching
high of 84 at Memphis, Tenn.,
and 77 in New York City.
Five persons died when a
twin-engine plane, weighted by
ice from the Arctic-like storm,
crashed near Brandon, Colo.
The pilot stumbled through the
snow to safety and was
hospitalized in serious condition
with second degree bums.
Three other persons were
killed when a single-engine
aircraft crashed in the swirling
snowstorm late Thursday on a
ranch near Jackson, Wyo.
Up to 21 inches of snow as on
the ground in portions of
Wyoming and the storm conti
nued today. Mammoth drifts
blocked Interstate 80 —a main
cross-country thoroughfare —
for almost the entire width of
Wyoming.
Nearly 1.500 motorists held
up along the route to wait out
the storm, described by weath
ermen as “extremely dange
rous.”
At Rawlins, Wyo., 21 inches
of snow was on the ground.
One-thousand marooned
travelers packed motels, hotels,
a state hospital, a National
Guard armory, churches and
private homes in Evanston,
“The world’s troubles are
what make its beauties so
evident.”
“the school’s job is to educate
children. They should not be
saddled with the task of
fostering social change which
may lessen their ability to
perform their primary job.”
It also said many others
“would feel that we are no
more dedicated to an ‘integrat
ed’ society than we are to a
‘segregated’ society; that we
are instead dedicated to a free
society, in which each man is
equal before the law, but in
which each man is accorded the
maximum amount of freedom
of choice in his individual ac
tivities.”
Rehnquist’s letter of June 21,
1964 complained that the City
Council’s public accommoda
tions ordinance was a “mis
take” which would not correct
the source of indignity to the
Negro but would result in “the
unwanted customer and the
disliked proprietor... glowering
at one another across the lunch
counter.”
In the letter last August,
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DENVER—A parking meter was one of few wearing a happy
face when an autum snowstorm dumped four inches of snow
in the Rocky Mountain states. (UPI)
Wyo., while some 450 others
crammed into the tiny commu
nity of Little America, Wyo.
Snowplows were helpless
against the mounting drifts.
Schools closed in Wyoming and
high school football games were
called off from Wyoming to
Halloween candy spiked
MONROE, Midi. (UPI) -
Bags of Halloween candy
spiked with silver and gold
sewing needles were discovered
in nearby Dundee Friday a
short time after a new state
law went into effect making it
a felony to purposely dispense
harmful objects into food.
After receiving a report from
a Dundee housewife who
claimed to have bought three
bags of trick-or-freat candy bars
with needles stuck inside,
Monroe County sheriff’s depu
ties began a search to
determine whether any other
Halloween candy had been
tampered with.
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Powell said that he was acting
as an “interested citizen” and
not in any official capacity. In
it, he said Richmond’s annexa
tion of some 43,000 suburban
residents, nearly all of them
white, was done for economic
reasons and not to dilute the
voting power of Richmond
blacks.
Also made public were letters
from Deputy Attorney General
Richard G. Kleindienst to Sen.
James O Eastland, D-Miss.,
chairman of the Senate Judicia
ry Committee.
These listed the backgrounds
and financial connections of the
nominees and showed that
Rehnquist’s approximate worth
was $77,050, plus some mutual
fund securities his wife inherit
ed.
Powell, reported a wealthy
man who holds directorships in
several companies, sent his
financial statement directly to
Eastland and it was not made
public.
western Nebraska.
John Baldwin, ringmaster of
the stranded Miller-Johnson
Traveling Circus, said none of
his troupe was in danger but
that the elephants had frost
bite on their ears and feet and
the bears were in danger of
catching colds.
The investigation turned up
one more padcage with candy
containing sewing needles at a
Monroe store, a member of the
same chain as the Dundee store
where the other harmful candy
was sold. The package found
here, however, was discovered
before it was sold.
No other candy in the store
had been tampered with, City
Police Chief Paul Peters said.
He said police did not suspect
the food store chain or any of
its members of wrongdoing but
had no clues as to what had
actually happened.
In each case, the bags
containing the harmful candy
had not been opened.