Newspaper Page Text
Page 4
— Griffin Daily News Sat, and Sun., Jan. 29-30,1972
7| 3 r —
JjJH| |k|| OBJ
I XiZw
/; |ip —<W' < I -
■ Wz - W/’ z ' ~"
□f fT"-"
11 M/diO ft
. .—.
; -
L M BOYD
First Thought
Signifies Sex
“How sad the day I first overlooked the lights
in words to stare at the shadows between them!”
Dr. Kark Krueger
Among those syllables most frequently found in word
association tests is "ring". What do you think of first
when you hear it? The psychology boys say they can tell
your gender by your answer. If you say "prizefight,” they
figure you’re masculine. If you say “third finger left
hand," they judge you’re feminine. If you say “bell," they
put you through another set of questions of a more prob
ing intimate nature. Do not try this revealing test on your
compatriots. Too personal.
MAYBE IT’S just coin
cidence. but lengthy stu
dies of the weather rec
ords show there are more
thunderstorms around the
world on the second day
after the full moon than
at any other time.
IN RAILROAD lingo,
if the train runs south,
it's described as west
bound. but if it runs north,
it’s described as east
bound. Curious.
IF YOU STRIPPED ab
solutely all the fat off
both a piece of pork and
a piece of beef, you couldn’t
taste the difference. Such
is the surprising claim of
U. S. Department of Agri
culture researchers.
SOLICITING
If a man on a street
corner wisecracks sug
gestively to a passing girl,
police ignore him. Us
ually, usually. But if a
girl on a street corner
wisecracks suggestively to
a passing man. that's
something else. Yes, Gwen
dolyn, she might just be
arrested for soliciting. Is
this equitable? It's one
more sample of what irri
tates the Women Libbers,
I’m told.
INCIDENTALLY. at
hand is a note from a Seat
tle lady who signs her
self neither Mrs. nor
Miss, but Ms. That’s pro
nounced "miz." the pre-
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
J H
Hw® X ) \-l**ol -■
<UW. af*? •
'R )■■'»-
•
A*»
e wi >, wo, w. tm. H in m,»i
"President Nixon’s trip has nothing to do with It.
I just don’t happen to feel Chinese/!’’
THE CONTROL PANEL
ferred address of the lib
eration girls.
THE LAW
In Youngstown. Ohio,
bear in mind it’s illegal
to ride on the roof of a
taxicab.
AND IT’S against the
law in Maine, you know, to
walk down the street
with your shoelaces un
tied.
AND THE MOST puz
zling law of the bunch
sometimes I sit in front of
the window with my elbow
on my knee and my chin
on the heel of my hand
trying to figure out the
nature of the specific case
that led to this judicial
ruling — is the ordinance
in Carmel, Calif., that
makes it unlawful for a
lady to take a bath in a
business office.
QUERIES
Q. "A friendly neighbor
asked me to do a minor
repair job as a favor, and
I said. sure. I'll be over
on the next fifth Saturday
in February, if not too
busy. So when will that
be?"
A. Mark your calendar
for Feb. 29. 1992, sir. If
you can’t make it then,
reset the appointment for
Feb. 29. 2020.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd,
P O. Sox 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102. .
Copyright 1971 I. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Jan. 29,
the 29th day of 1972 with 337
days to follow.
The moon is approaching full
phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
Freedom crusader Thomas
Paine was born Jan. 29, 1737.
On this date in history:
In 1861 Kansas entered the
Union as the 34th state.
In 1900 baseball’s American
League was organized, com
posed of eight teams: Buffalo,
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mil
waukee and Minneapolis.
In 1936 the first five men to
be elected to the baseball Hall
of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.,
were Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson,
Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth
and Honus Wagner.
In 1936 France vetoed the
application of Great Britain to
join the Common Market.
today's FUNNY
I 4 — ~—v _
SOME FEMALE'
CATTLE RANCHERS
HAVE NICE
Lgj calves
'S’
7/T® ” n k ’ NEA ' ’’*• fS*~
i
Today'« FUNNY will pay SI.OO for
each original "funny" used. Send goes '
FUNN '■ 1200 w »»f Third
St, Cleveland, Ohio 4411 J
J ]
I
THOUGHTS i
According to the commis- 5
sion of God given to me, like 1
a skilled master builder 1 J
laid a foundation, and an
other man is building upon «
it. Let each man take care '
how he builds upon it.—l
Cor. 3:10.
* * ft
If you have built castles in
the air. your work need not
be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put the foun
dation under them.—Henry
David Thoreau, naturalist.
MISS YOUR
PAPER?
If you do not receive your
paper by 7 p.m., or if it is not
delivered properly, dial 227-
6336 for our recording ser
viceand we will contact your
independent distributor for
you.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Subscription Prices
Delivered by carrier: One
year $24, six months sl3,
three months $6.50, one
month $2.20, one week 50
cents. By mail except within
30 miles of Griffin, rates are
same as by carrier. By mail
within 30 miles of Griffin:
One year S2O, six months sll,
three months $6, one month
$2. Delivered by Special
Auto: One year $27, one
month $2.25. All prices in
clude sales tax.
► viewpoint
Put Out Oil Drums
The Thomaston Times
There stands in the middle of
the roadway at the intersection of
Highway 19 and the Griffin by
pass a sign rooted in a 50-gallon
oil drum.
The odd thing about this sign
supporting drum is the fact that
it continues to fill up with trash
sandwich wrappers, soft drink
bottles, beer cans and other
roadway debris.
It occurred to us, in seeing this
overflowing drum not intended
for a trash can, that the State
Highway Department might save
some of that $500,000 annually it
requires to clean up the highways
if they put enough containers out
there as receptacles for trash.
Surely, if people are concerned
Higher County Taxes Not Necessary
The Daily Sun, Warner Robins
Georgia’s commissioner of revenue has rejected the valuation of
property in Houston County for tax purposes.
He said that property in Houston County was not on the tax books
at 40 per cent of true market value.
Jimmy Rosenburg, chairman of the Houston County tax asses
sors, says that it will be necessary to put new values of most real
estate in our county because of the inflationary spiral which has
increased cost of property.
At the same time, Mr. Rosenburg pointed out to the Houston Coun
ty Commissioners that this does not mean that taxes should go up.
As he sees it, when property evaluations are increased, the com-
, missioners can - and should - set the millage they want to collect
7 accordingly.
In other words, seek the same amount of money instead of more
1 by lowering the millage to compensate for higher property values
on the tax books.
: This makes sense to us.
We hope that next year, when the new property assessments are
■ adopted, our county commissioners will keep this in mind.
If there is one thing the taxpayers of Houston County do not need,
it is higher ad valorem taxes!
President Guns Down Critics
The Moultrie Observer
If there are red faces in the wake of
President Richard Nixon’s address to the
nation Tuesday night in which he bared
startling peace offers made in secret
more than eight months ago, they have
been in the camp of the perennial
administration critics—the ultra-liberal
forces who have employed every
conceivable means of aiding and
abetting the enemy with their
capitulative type of talk.
Hardly had the echoes from the
President’s disclosures ceased than
some of the critics were expressing
disapproval, saying in essence Mr.
Nixon’s new formula will not work and he
“didn’t offer enough.”
A Contrary Attitude
An analysis of the President’s
proposals for peace in Vietnam, pitched
against the background of long-time
critics of American participation in the
Vietnam affair, reminds us of the old, old
story about the fellow who, out of sorts all
day at the office, picked up his hat and
remarked to a fellow worker:
“I’m going home. If my wife doesn’t
have supper ready, I’m going to raise
h—. And if she does have it ready, I’m not
going to eat a d— bite!”
We are beginning to learn about some
of our fellow American citizens from
their attitudes and expressions—and
quite often they are far from exemplary.
Selfish ambition too frequently is being
put above service to the welfare of the
nation and her people. And too often
party politics and money becloud the
sight and hearing of those who should be
leading the way down the paths to
American greatness.
Where The Line Is Drawn
President Nixon disclosed that for at
She concentrated AJV^ER Q|
on the wrong things * Ak
I guess I am what you call a born loser. I
always lose the things that are most im
portant to me. I lost my first Christian
fiance to marry a drunk, whom I was
proud of because of his job status, and he
lost it. I had a job I was proud of and I lost
it. Ten years later my husband had a top
executive job and lost it because of alcoho
lism. Please tell me what makes a “born
loser.” E.L.P.
Yours is a sad story. But, as I see it, you
have concentrated on the wrong things.
Jesus spoke about “things that abide”, and
they were never material things. Your
lament is about lost jobs, lost status, lost
income, etc. I see in your question little
concern about spiritual things, about the
things that really last. Perhaps you are a
enough to fill up a sign
supporting oil drum with trash
they would dump other roadway
spoiling wrappers and cans and
paper into something actually
designed for receiving it.
The secret may lie, too, in the
location of that self-appointed
trash can in Griffin. It’s in a
place where cars normally stop
rather than on the side of the
road where an effort is necessary
to stop.
While the county officials
search for an answer to the same
problem, they might consider the
oil drum trash cans on county
roads, too.
Oil drums are certainly less
unsightly than trash-strewn
right-of-way.
least eight months—and twelve special
trips by Security Advisor Kissinger to
Paris—secret negotiations have been
under way with North Vietnam. The U.S.
proposal has been extended to cover
almost every major issue which could be
involved—from total withdrawal of
troops on a planned, quick schedule to
resignation of the president and vice
president of South Vietnam so free
elections may be conducted.
President Nixon has drawn the line
only at two points. There must be an
exchange of prisoners, assuring that all
U.S. prisoners held by the enemy shall be
released, and there will be no deliberate
overthrow of the Thieu government by
the U.S. Mr. Nixon is ready and willing,
as is Thieu, for the people of South
Vietnam to determine for themselves
what kind of government they want and
who shall head it.
Betray A National Trust
Failure of the U.S. government,
regardless of who is in political power in
Washington, to hold strictly to these two
limiting factors would be a betrayal of
everything our nation has stood for since
it won freedom from Britain.
The President has, in effect, gunned
down his critics who shooped and yelled
for many months without knowing what
they were talking about, and he has “laid
it on the line” with the North
Vietnamese, so to speak.
The big question now is whether both
the Hanoi and our domestic critics will "
pick up their “scatter-guns” again or
join in a serious, conscientious effort to
restore peace in Southeast Asia and
bring U.S. prisoners of war home to their
families. I
“born loser” because you have sought the
wrong things. Jesus said, “The abundance
erf a man's life consisteth not in the things
which he possesseth.” Luke 12-15.
I detect a lot of pride in your letter, and
the things you have lost have hurt your
pride. I suggest you try two things: first
seek some humility before God. Jesus
said, “He that humbleth himself shall be
exalted.” Luke 14:11. Notice, humility is
not particularly a gift from God, it is
something we can acquire — it is a slant of
soul. In pride you have been leaning away
from God, but in humility you can lean
toward Him.
Second, make Christ your goal instead of
self. Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you.” Matthew
6:33.
BERRY’S WORLD
■ I
<£ 1972 by NEA. lik
"V/here'd you get those secret papers?"
■L S| BRUCE BIOSS AT
It’s Budget Time,
Schools in Bind
• • ■Bl By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA >
It is budget time here, and the claimants on the U S
taxpayers dollar are weighing in. The National Educa
tion Association urges President Nixon to make a start
on boosting federal outlays for schools tenfold by 1976 to
a whopping $24.1 billion.
Present annual expenditures hover just beneath the $3
billion mark. The President is reported to be preparing a
striking new school finance proposal, but there are no real
clues yet as to its nature or its cost features.
The situation has been freshly unsettled by a state
court decision in California attacking as inequitable the
use of the property tax—long the chief reliance of local
communities—for school financing.
It is no news that the country’s schools have been in a
deepening money crisis in recent years. An NEA survey
shows more than 40 of the nation's largest school dis
tricts suffering severely. Only nine of 63 large-district re
spondents said they had adequate funds for 1970-71 and
19 /1 "72.
NEA sees the federal government a major culprit In
the present school year, federal outlays are said to range
around 7.1 per cent of the national total, the lowest U.S.
proportion since aid-to-education measures became law
in 1965. The federal share never has exceeded 88 per
cent.
Meantime, the state’s percentage in 1971-72 has risen
to 41 per cent and local areas are providing 52 per cent of
school revenues.
Again, it is now an old story that taxpayers at local
state levels are revolting. About 50 per cent of proposals
for special school levies are turned down by the voters.
Though NEA expects state-local school outlays per
year from state-local sources to rise moderately by 1976
to a little more than S4B billion from the current s4l 5
billion, it seems implicit in the organization’s approach
that these lower levels are doing their share and more to
support education.
Yet it is a fact that 11 of the 50 states do not have a
general personal income tax, at a time in American his
tory when it is widely asserted by public finance special
ists that other revenue sources can no longer meet the
constantly growing demands on government.
Only recently did Ohio and Pennsylvania join the
ranks of the income tax states. New Jersey, Connecticut,
Florida and Texas—all populous, complex and beset by
many burdens—are among the 11 without a broad income
levy
The slowness of some states in this field accounts in
some part for stubbornness in Congress over revenue
sharing proposals. A lot of lawmakers don’t like the idea
of turning federal monies back to states which are
deemed not to be carrying a full load at home.
In this atmosphere, it is dreamy to imagine Congress
even under hard spur from the President, plunging into
huge additional expenditures for education.
Furthermore, the educators are in a long, shoving line
of claimants upon the U.S. treasury.
We’re told we need a comprehensive national health in
surance program which at a minimum would cost up
wards of $55 billion a year at the outset and rise sharply
thereafter.
Social Security today costs American workers and
their employers more than S4O billion a year and is rising
steeply as higher and higher benefits are continuously
approved. Employer-employe taxes are going up to meet
the cost.
These are just samples. Don’t forget welfare and a host
of other things. We’ve got “high priorities’’ all over the
place.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY
QUOTES
It will revolutionize trans
portation. It will take the
astronomical costs out of as
tronautics.
—President Nixon, on the
$5.5 billion space shuttle.
I say thank God for the
military, and thank God for
a free industry that can pro
duce the weapons systems
we need to remain strong.
—Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-
Wash.
My whole talent is given
to this city. When I'm mayor
of this city. I’m mayor 24
hours a day, seven days a
week and that never stops.
If I'm ever out of town, I'm
still mayor of this town'
—New York City Mayor
John V. Lindsay, defend
ing his travels seeking the
Democratic presidential
nomination.
GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
Quimby Melton, <M o • . u .
Publisher Bill Kiughl. eZ7 Q y E^^ a ’ lr -'
Frit LrswJ Tire Srrrke LTI. Foil NEA. AdJm. J)
(Solomplioo, dungr ot A<Mre. ton. 357») Io F. O.
Box 135. E. Solomon Si.. Crittio, Co.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
i /M j
w ''U
Domesticated Brahman
bulls, weighing almost a
ton, are thought of as ex
tremely wild because of
m ei^ U A S . e in rodeos The
world Almanac notes, how
ever that in India millions
of Brahman cattle roam
docilely without fear of
harm because the passive
animals are held sacred by
the Hindu population.
PuUiJkU UJy, E,„ H Somlu. M 323 „
corn.. co. 30223. i,
VM - Crinta -