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By Quimby Melton
“God Conquers Evil” is the
topic of this week’s Internation
al Sunday School lesson. Back
ground Scripture is Romans
5:8-28-39; 2 Corinthians 4:7-18.
The Memory Selection is, “In
all these things we are more
than conquerors through him
that loved us.” (Romans 8:37).
This is another lesson in the
series “How God Works.”
“God Conquers Evil” is a
positive statement. There are
no ifs, ands or buts, about this
statement. It does not say when
God will do this — but we know
that when God decides the
proper time has come to do so
he will.
The verb “conquer” does not
imply anything less that com
plete. There will be no partial
victory over the enemy-evil.
God and His victorious forces
will set the terms of surrender,
for the forces of evil will have
realized there is no longer the
slightest chance of their win
ning and will surrender un
conditionally.
When will that glorious day
come? Only God Himself
knows. But come it will, never
doubt this.
Learned men have asked why
God delays His day of Victory.
The presence of evil in the
world, and no one denies there
is an over abundance of evil,
does not mean that one who
trusts in God cannot live a good
life. History is full of the stories
of men and women who have.
Even the cynic George
Bernard Shaw admits this is
possible. In his play Saint Joan,
he has Joan saying as she
neared the stake to be burned:
“Well, my loneliness shall be
my strength for it is better to be
alone with God; his friendship
will not fail me, nor his counsel
nor his love. In his strength will
I dare and dare and dare until I
die.”
She had found a peace that
would enable her to rise above
the evils of her day. This peace
and joy was brought cm by her
continuous attempts to do God’s
will.
We ask, How can such peace
be mine?
The answer is so simple. By
having complete faith in God.
And we have no further to look
for reasons to have such a faith,
no further than the Cross on
which our Savior died that we
might have salvation.
But what a cruel price for any
man to pay to save a sinner, is a
question many will ask.
Again the answer is ample —
Because God so loved the world
he was willing to offer His
dearest — His Son — as a
sacrifice.
The strange yet wonderful
truth of God’s love for man
comes from the cross. It did
2,000 years ago, it does today.
It was certainly at the Cross
that evil displayed its hatred
more than ever.
Alfred Lord Tenneyson once
met a woman on the streets of a
an all English village and asked
her if she had any news. The
woman said, “There is only one
piece of news I know. Christ
died for all men.” Tennyson
replied, “That is old news, and
good news, and new news.”
It also was and is the best
news today.
For which we give Thanks to
Our Heavenly Father.
Paul tells us to pray without
ceasing.
We know no better way to
pray than to Thank God.
Thanksgiving should not be
just one day a year.
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“If you don’t trust others, it
may be because you know they
should not trust you.”
Horse shooting
may be linked
to vandalism
Let’s have
names again
The Griffin Daily News again
this year will publish a list of
names of men and women in the
Armed Forces so Griffinites can
send them a Christmas Card.
The names service personnel
were published last year and
the feature proved to be a
popular one.
The Griffin Daily News asks
that friends and relatives of
people in the service send their
complete names and addresses
to the newspaper for
publication.
Names and addresses should
be complete and they should be
printed or typed.
They may be mailed in letters
or by post card.
Since the Christmas Cards
should be mailed from Griffin
by Dec. 1, the newspaper would
like to publish the list within the
next few days.
Griffinites were asked to get
the names and addresses of
service personnel to the
Newspaper immediately.
The Griffin Daily News
mailing address is Box 13$,
Griffin, Ga. 30223.
New program for retarded
will go to Georgia Senate
ATLANTA (UPI) - A state
Senate committee will introduce
legislation next year to provide
comprehensive community ser
vices for the mentally retarded.
Sen. Bobby Rowan of Enigma,
chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Institutions and Men
tal Health, told a news confer
ence today the bill would
“change the direction in the
way we treat mentally retarded
and other developmentally dis-
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SAN FRANCISCO—Tandem bicycling can be great fun for
the riders, but pity the poor bike when the cyclists’ combined
weight is 830 pounds. Leo Rossi (1), local restauranteur who
weighs 470 pounds, and his bartender, Davey Rosenbert (r),
T GRIFFIN
BAI LY W" NEWS
Daily Since 1872
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Cameron McDonald of Greater:
Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP) displays
sample from a particulate measuring apparatus which
shows heavy pollution in Birmingham area. A U.S. District
Judge ordered 23 plants closed and invoked the emergency
powers of the Clean Air Act of 1970, the first time the law had
been tested. (Story Page 3.)
abled citizens of Georgia.”
He said it would provide “the
most humane and the most
economical treatments for men
tally regarded persons who do
not require the special medical
care or behavior training of
hospitals.”
The proposed Comprehensive
Community Services Act would
direct county health boards to
set up community services for
those persons not eligible for
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, Nov. 19, 1971
educational or vocational rehab
ilitation training because of
their age or severity of their
handicaps and who do not need
to be hospitalized.
It also would direct the State
Health Department to assist the
local boards in developing these
services and financing all oper
ating costs.
The proposed act set a dead
line of June 30,1978, for full im
plementation of the program.
who tips the scales at 360, decided that bicycling would help
their contours—or is it the bike that’s getting a new shape?
(UPI)
The Spalding County Sheriff’s
Department and the GBI were
looking into die shooting of a
horse on Birdie road today.
There may be a link between it
and the vandalism here early
yesterday morning in which at
least 13 business firms were
shot up apparently with
shotguns.
The horse was owned by
Jerry Nelson of Birdie road.
The shooting was not
discovered until yesterday and
the animal had stood, ap
parently unconscious near the
fence where it was shot.
The anmal did not die until
this morning.
A lawman said that it was
shot almost point blank between
the eyes with a shotgun.
The horse was one of two Mr.
and Mrs. Nelson own. The other
horse was not shot.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson live in a
mobile home on Birdie road.
The shooting of the animal
apparently took place about
2:30 a.m. yesterday.
Investigators have speculated
that the vandalism outbreak
against the business firms took
place yesterday morning
between 2 and 4 o’clock.
Groundbreak
set Monday
Groundbreaking ceremonies
will be held off Carver road
Monday at 10 a.m. for the new
Shapard industries plant to be
constructed there.
City and County officials and
other business leaders are
expected to participate in the
formal ceremony.
The Chamber of Commerce is
assisting with arrangements.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
72, low today 51, high yesterday
69, low yesterday 51. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:16, sunset
tomorrow 5:30.
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Horse shot between the eyes stands in daze.
Gov. Carter says his plan
would save $60.8-million
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter, after releasing dribs
and drabs of his reorganization
plan during the week of pre-leg
islative forums, has unveiled
the entire program calling for
a drastic overhaul of state gov
ernment at an estimated sav
ings of $60.8 million.
The governor was scheduled
to release the 219-page report
formally at the concluding fo
rum, sponsored by the state
Chamber of Commerce, in Col
umbus today.
The plan calls for paring the
65 budgeted agencies and de
partments that currently make
up the executive branch to 20
departments by combining and,
in some cases, abolishing those
already in existence.
Carter predicted the initial
savings from the realignment
would run to $20.46 million.
In addition, he proposed
changes in the collection of state
revenues that would bring in
• $30.5 million at first, then recur
ring revenues of $10,799 million
at an annual savings of $147,000
per year.
Some of the changes include:
—Stripping the comptroller
general of his regulatory pow
ers over industrial loan agencies
and arson investigation func
tions, but allowing him to con
tinue overseeing the insurance
Water
threat
City officials huddled today to
see it they could stop proposed
channelization of two to five
miles of Flint River in Clayton
County.
Harry Simmons, director of
the water filter system in
Griffin, said channelization of
that much of the river would
wreck Griffin’s water supply.
He consulted by telephone
with R. S. “Rock” Howard
about the situation this after
noon. Mr. Howard is director of
the water control program in
Georgia.
The possibility of a court
order to halt the channelization
was under consideration.
Mr. Simmons was in con
sultation with Griffin City Man
ager Roy Inman about the
matter this afternoon.
industry. The Workmen’s Com
pensation Department and in
dustrial safety inspection, now
done by the Labor Department,
would come under the comptrol
ler general.
—Overhauling the Public Ser
vice Commission and creating
an examiner review system,
with the five-man elected com
mission serving as a policy
board and final administrative
and appeal body.
—Transferring the securities
division from the secretary of
state to a new Department of
Financial Regulation and the
maintenance of real property
records to the attorney general.
—Combining the Budget Bu
reau and the functions of the
Bureau of State Planning into a
new Office of Planning and Bud
get, as well as the advisory
fimctions of the Georgia Com
mission on the Arts and
Sciences and the Technology
Commission.
—Amalgamating 17 depart
ments, including Treasury, Mer
it System and Teachers Retire-
Youth is held
in car strip
Michael Wayne Stewart, 17, of
824 Sunshine drive, Apt. 4, has
been arrested in connection
with the theft of three Ford
Mustangs, two of which were
found stripped of their parts in a
heavily wooded area off the
Steele road on Oct. 10.
Two of the cars were stolen
from Griffinites, one from a
Jonesboro resident. The
stripped cars were owned by
Gary Hattaway, 1030 Lyndon
avenue, who reported his 1966
Mustang stolen Aug. 11 and
Rodney Wright of Jonesboro
whose 1966 Mustang was stolen
Sept. 6. The third car, which
was recovered intact, was
owned by Jerry Morris, 1705
Ridge street. He reported it
stolen Tuesday.
Griffin Police detectives said
that on Wednesday, they receiv
ed a tip that the Morris car was
in Henry County, parked in
some woods, about a mile off
the Old Woolsey road. Maj. R.
Inside Tip
Fight
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ment, into a new Administrative
Services Department.
—Combining 36 departments
dealing with natural resources
and the environment into a new
Department of Natural Re
sources.
—Placing the Health Depart
ment, Family and Children Ser
vices (Welfare), Board of Cor
rections, Pardons and Paroles
and Probation in a new Depart
ment of Human Resources.
—Combining all law enforce
ment and safety agencies, in
cluding the State Patrol and the
Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion, into the Public Safety De
partment.
—Creating a new Department
of Financial Regulation to in
clude the Department of Bank
ing and other bodies.
—lncorporating thestateHigh
way Department, the Aviation
Division and the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
under the Transportation De
partment.
E. Irvin, Lt. Wallace Pitts, Sgt.
Marvin Barrow, Sgt. A. L.
Truett, and GBI Agent Mike
Carothers set up a surveillance
of the vehicle to wait for the
thief to come to the scene.
Stewart did not come back to
the car, but following more
investigation, the officers were
able to place him under arrest.
They said he confessed that he
also had stolen the cars which
had been stripped.
The owners of the stripped
cars were found through Spald
ing Deputy Franklin Pitts and
State Auto Theft Squad Agent B.
M. Pike.
Maj. Irvin said the investiga
tion is still under way and more
arrests may be made. They are
still in the process of recovering
the auto parts, he said.
Stewart was expected to be
transferred from the city jail to
the county jail today where
bond would be set.