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By Quimby Melton
“Facing Financial Res
ponsibilities” is the subject of
this week’s International Sun
day School lesson. Background
Scripture is Luke 16:1-15,19-51;
20:45 through 21:3.
The Memory Selection is, “No
servant can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he
will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.” (Luke 16:13)
Money has been called “the
root of all evil."
If we look on money with this
idea, is it not likely we may
consider a man who is “broke”
as being free from all evil and
the man who has money as a
sinner devoid of all good?
It is true that some men will
steal and lie, will swindle, will
kill to get money, and then will
bribe others to get more money.
Money can be a tool of evil.
But it is just as true, money
can be a tool of good.
It’s not how much money one
has that counts, it’s how one
uses that money.
“Unrighteous mammon” are
words used by Luke in 16:11.
TTie dictionary says “mam
mom” means money, or any
other kind of wealth, property,
bank accounts, stocks and
bonds, or cash “in pocket.” But
it is not the money or- property
that is unrighteous, it’s, once
again, how the owner of this
gets and how he uses it. Neither
does the amount of “mam
mom” one possess determine
whether it is “unrighteous” or
otherwise. It is possible for
those “who hath not” to get
what little they have and to use
what little they have in an
unrighteous manner.
No man but only God, knows
what motivates a man in the
way he “gets” nor the spirit in
which he uses his possessions.
The first section of the back
ground Scripture winds up with
Luke’s “saying things the
Pharisees did not agree with;
and they “derided him.”
Then Jesus described them in
a stinging manner when he said
“Ye are they which justify
yourselves before men; but God
knoweth your hearts for that
which is highly esteemed
among men is abomination in
the sight of God.”
Then in the second section —
Chapter 20, he continues the
indictment, including the
scribes, “which desire to walk
in long robes, and have
greetings in the markets, and
the highest seats in the synago
gues, and the chief rooms at the
feasts.”
Luke winds up the Back
ground Scripture with the story
of the widow's mite and the
comment of Jesus. “Os a truth I
say unto you that this poor
widow hath cast in more than
they all: for all these hath of
their abundance cast in unto the
offerings of God; but she of her
penury hath cast in all the living
that she had.”
We might all ask ourselves:
“When I give to My Master”
do I hide behind the “widow’s
mite” story and “rob God of
tithes and offerings?” (Read
Malachi 3:8)
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In a modern Garden of Eden
the temptation probably would
be to put a freeway through it.”
Council seeks
to prevent
overlap here
About 75 persons representing
some 24 local agencies and city
and county governments at
tended yesterday’s luncheon
meeting of the Spalding County
Interagency Council.
The meeting was held in the
cafeteria of the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital. Its purpose
was to inform the groups of
what each is doing in an effort to
prevent overlapping and to
coordinate the services; to
determine the needs of the
community; and to see if feder
al or state funds are available
for projects such as day-care
centers for working mothers.
Mrs. Bob Crossfield,
representing FISH, reported
that FISH will serve as a clear
ing house for general assistance
where churches and others may
register the help a given family
Gaissert to seek
House seat as Demo
George Gaissert said today he
planned to qualify to seek
election as a Democrat for the
House post now held by Rep.
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Rep. Melton has announced
he did not intend to qualify for a
new term after completing his
14th year this year in the House.
Mr. Gaissert served as a
Spalding representative from
the Republican party a few
years ago.
He said that rumors were
prevalent today that he would
run and rather than have them
spread about, he confirmed that
Local sales tax
hearing planned
ATLANTA (UPI) - City
and county groups which have
been pushing for a one per cent
local sales tax will get a pub
lic hearing next Tuesday before
a special House subcommittee,
Rep. Quimby Melton Jr. of Grif
fin announced today.
Melton, chairman of the pa
rent House Ways and Means
Committee, said he is opposed
to the plan and does not plan
to attend the hearing. He said
Rep. Burton Wamble of Cairo,
head of the subcommittee,
would chair the meeting.
House restores vetoes
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia House of Representa
tives today restored a series
of non-controversial vetoes it
made in Gov. Jimmy Carter’s
government reorganization
plan.
After about 30 minutes delib
eration, the bill passed 156-0.
The only challenge to the bill
came from Rep. Denmark
Groover of Gray who sought to
leave the present board of the
Department of Public Safety as
it is now constituted. The gov
ernor’s reorganization proposal
called for a new nine-man
board. Groover’s amendment
was beaten down by a voice
vote.
Most of the vetoes concerned
technical language. The only
notly debated section included
a provision to restore the Seed
Advisory Board and the Tobac-
GRIFFIN
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Daily Since 1872
has received to prevent duplica
tion. She said FISH has a 24-
hour answering service and will
set up the clearing house on a
month’s trial basis.
Program Chairman the Rev.
Jerry Litherland, youth direc
tor of the First United Metho
dist Church, said that even
though Griffin has above
average facilities, there is no
place to find what community
services are available and that
often, “the hand doesn’t
know what the left hand is
doing.”
He suggested that each
agency be responsible for a
program explaining its ser
vices.
He gave a brief run-down on
the services performed by
churches in the community.
Mrs. Mary Fitzhugh,
he would be a candidate for the
House seat being vacated by
Rep. Melton.
Gaissert said he had intended
to wait until the present session
of the General Assembly was
over before making an an
nouncement.
Mr. Gaissert said he made the
announcement because of the
rumors.
He has served as a Spalding
County Commissioner also.
Mr. Gaissert cannot formerly
qualify as a candidate until the
Democratic party sets rules for
the primary and announces
qualifying fees.
Leading the campaign for a
local sales tax where the
Georgia Municipal Associa
tion (GMA) and the Associa
tion County Commissioners of
Georgia.
The state currently has a
three per cent sales tax and
the legislature has rebuffed at
tempts in the past to permit
local governments to get into
the sales tax field. One excep
tion was the permission for
counties in the Atlanta metro
politan area to vote on asses
sing themselves one per cent
last year for rapid transit.
co Advisory Board which under
reorganization, would be abol
ished.
Majority Leader George Bus
bee of Albany said the sections
contained in the bill were ve
toed by House members ba
sically because of disagree
ments over the wording in the
governor’s original proposal.
While the House went to
work, Sen. Al Holloway of Al
bany prepared an “omnibus
bill” aimed at including all the
sections of the governor’s plan
vetoed by the Senate.
The governor won a major
victory Thursday afternoon
when the House rules commit
tee approved a proposal calling
for a 15 man board to govern
the Department of Human Re
sources.
The effect of the rules com
mittees action, if the plan is ac-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, Jan. 28, 1972
representing the Griffin
Association for Retarded Child
ren, is the Council’s new presi
dent.
Agencies and organizations
represented were the Spalding
County Commissioners, City of
Griffin commissioners, Griffin-
Spalding School System, Spald
ing County Health Department,
Vocational Rehabilitation, local
law enforcement agencies,
Mclntosh Trail, Salvation
Army, FISH, Alcoholics Anony
mous; Mental Health Associa
tion, Churches, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Cancer Society, Medical
Society, pharmacists, Chamber
of Commerce, Human Relations
Council, Association for
Retarded Children, Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Authority and
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
He wants
to drop
trailer
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
Sen. Steve Reynolds is doing
his best to drop the con
troversial issue of 14-foot trail
ers by the side of the road but
he’s having a hard time doing
so.
The Lawrenceville senator,
diairman of the Senate High
ways Committee and an avowed
foe of the oversized mobile
homes, would like to kill the
measure any way he can.
One tactic Thursday was to
report the bill out of the high
ways committee without recom
mendation in hopes the full Sen
ate would defeat the proposal.
But the Senate Rules Commit
tee unofficially sent it back and
Chairman Frank Coggin of
Hapeville told Reynolds his
group was much in agree
ment” some kind of recom
mendation had to be made be
fore the full Senate could act.
“I don’t understand it,” Rey
nolds said. “The House does it
all the time but the Senate
Rules Committee would not ac
cept the bill without recom
mendation. Every senator I
talked with thought we could do
it.”
Sen. Hugh Carter of Plains,
one of the authors of the bill
which would extend by two feet
the width of mobile homes per
mitted on state roads, told the
committee such a move would
be a “big step forward for
Georgia’s progressive econ
omy.”
cepted by the Assembly, would
be to abolish the State Board of
Health by doing away with its
functions.
However, the governor’s plan
for the department are far from
settled. Sen. Stanley Smith of
Perry Thursday is sponsoring a
bill to create a 20 man study
team to look into the structure
of the Human Resources De
partment.
Smith’s committee on Econo
my, Reorganization and Effi
ciency in Government passed
the bill out with a do - pass
recommendation and Smith
says the bill can be considered
by the Senate Monday.
The House Rules Committee
also passed out a bill creating
the proposed Department of Of
fender Rehabilitation. The pro
posal creates a nine man gov
erning board. The department,
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MINNEAPOLIS—Three-month-old Colleen McGrath of St
Paul, Minn., peered out of a gallon-size salad dressing jar
made into an oxygen tent for pint-sized patients at
Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Oxygen hoods for
Seedlings
free here
The Woman’s Division of the
Chamber of Commerce will
distribute free dogwood seed
lings tomorrow from the Rural-
Urban Center in the courthouse
beginning at 9 a.m.
They will be distributed on a
first come, first served basis.
This is an annual project of
the Woman's Division as part of
community beautification ef
fort.
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Nixon proposal
nudges talks
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon’s latest proposal to
Hanoi may be designed in large
part to persuade China to
endorse holding an Indochina
peace conference, according to
Asian diplomats.
Washington and Peking have
agreed that there will be no
attempt during Nixon’s China
trip next month to try to settle
the Vietnam conflict because,
as presidential adviser Henry
A. Kissinger says that must be
done in Southeast Asia and not
in Peking or Moscow.
However, both sides have
acknowledged that various
if passed, would assume the
functions of the Department of
Corrections and the State Par
dons and Paroles Board.
A proposed constitutional
amendment backed by the gov
ernor got some rough treat
ment from the House Game
and Fish Committee. The pro
posal to change the name of the
Game and Fish Commission to
the Board of the Department of
Natural Resources was amend
ed to allow the legislature to
select 10 members of the 15
member board.
In Senate action, legislators
approved 32 - 13 a controver
sial one per cent excise tax on
hotels, motels and restaurants
to finance the construction of a
world congress center in Atlan
ta.
Vol. 100 No. 23
Griffin Academy has
open house, dedication
More than 220 Griffinites
attended the open house and
dedication ceremonies of the
new facilities of Griffin
Academy on the Hudson road
last night.
The guest speaker, Jeptha C.
Tanksley, judge of the Fulton
County Superior Court, stressed
the need for schools today to
help instill high moral charac
ter in the students. He said that
“we are failing our young
people in that over one-half of
our children never graduate
from high school and many who
do are not equipped to adequa-
aspects of the Southeast Asian
conflict will be discussed during
the presidential visit and future
developments may be strongly
affected by the atmosphere
created by the discussions in
Peking.
There are several indicators
which lend support to the idea
that Nixon hopes China ulti
mately can be induced to
propose, or at least support, the
convocation of an Indochina
peace conference:
—Although Nixon several
times has formally proposed an
Indochina peace conference, it
was omitted from the eight
point plan disclosed Tuesday.
The belief of many Asian
experts was that the United
States had purposely dropped
the idea as a formal proposal in
order to take the curse off it as
an “American plan” and make
it easier for Peking to propose
it.
—Secretary of State William
P. Rogers, in explaining Thurs
day what the United States was
prepared to do under the new
plan, emphasized one aspect in
which China is very interested.
He said a cease-fire would
immediately end U.S. air
operations from bases in Laos,
Cambodia and Thailand and
that a peace settlement would
make it possible for the United
States to reduce or completely
withdraw the powerful air
elements based in Thailand.
—An Indochina peace confer
ence might tend to blunt the
sharp edges of the two issues,
which Kissinger says would be
the hardest to solve —the
nature of the political solution
in Saigon and a firm date for
final troop withdrawal.
infants have long been available but a Northwestern nurse
came up with the idea of simply cutting a hole in a big jar and
sterilizing it when one of the conventional hoods was not
available. Colleen was born with a heart defect. (UPI)
tely earn a living.”
Even more important, he
added, society has failed to
teach young people high moral
character as is evidenced in the
skyrocketing crime rate.
Judge Tanksley said he
believes that if a child learns
the basics, reading, writing,
and arithmetic, in the early
grades, he won’t have trouble
later on.
“The greatest wrong that can
be done a young person is to let
him drift through elementary
school without really knowing
these basics,” he said.
The judge was introduced by
Dumas Ponder, president of the
PTO. The Rev. Douglas Winn of
St. George’s Episcopal Church
opened the meeting with
prayer.
Dr. Ralph Hajosy, chairman
of the board, presided and an
nounced that registration for
kindergarten and grades one
through nine for the 1972-73
school year will begin Feb. 1. He
said that interested parents
may visit the school at any
time, lode over the facilities and
pick up a registration blank.
The classes will be limited to
a maximum of 25 each.
This year there are more than
90 students enrolled in the
kindergarten through the eighth
grade. A ninth grade will be
added next year and a grade
each year following until the
high school is complete.
Officials said that they will
consider adding a 10th grade
next year if enough interest is
shown.
This year the school has nine
teachers and a headmaster and
in addition, two part-time
teachers in music and art.
There is also a part-time librar
ian. Five of the teachers have
their masters degrees and all
have had five or more years
Monuments, schools
to be features
of Centennial edition
The Griffin Daily News’ cen
tennial edition to be published
Monday will feature pictures
and stories of historical
markers and monuments which
tell much of the history of the
community.
The newspaper in reporting
100 years of growth and
progress here has been involved
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experience in teaching.
The school has an active
athletic program with field
trips.
The emphasis now is on build
ing up a library. Fixtures for
this have been ordered and are
expected to arrive soon. They
presently have over 1,500 books.
The modern school plant has
wall to wall carpeting and was
built to accommodate the full 12
grades.
Officials stated that the
school was not conceived with
the idea of competing with the
public schools but as a college
preparatory school, aiming for
those students who plan to go to
college.
Griffin Academy was
organized early last year and a
corporation of 24 individuals or
stockholders provided the cash
and guarantees to make the
physical plant of the school
possible. The corporation was
granted a tax exempt status this
year, and any contributions of
monies or merchandise are
fully tax exempt gifts.
Griffin Academy will accept
students of any race, color or
creed. The only requirements
are that the child pass an en
trance examination or for some
reason if he does not do well on
the test, he will be accepted
provided he has maintained a B
average during the last
semester at the school he is
presently attending.
The tuition is $650 per year.
This includes books and all
teaching supplies, except paper
and pencils, the child will need.
A matriculation fee of $350 is
payable the first year only and
will go toward the cost of the
building. For the second child in
the same family, the fee goes
down to $250, to $l5O for the
third child and is free for the
fourth and additional children.
in the history of the community
and will include much of it in the
100th birthday paper.
Another feature of-the special
edition will be a page prepared
by the journalism class at
Griffin High School. It will
spotlight the history of the
school and its role as an
educational institution of this
community.