Newspaper Page Text
Forecast
Mild
Map Page 2
EgoodP
VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
“Endurance and the Chris
tian Hope” is the topic of this
week’s International Sunday
School lesson. Background
Scripture is Luke 17:20-37; 21:5-
38.
The Memory Selection is
“Heaven and earth shall pass
away; but my words shall not
pass away.” (Luke 21:35)
One could easily devote all the
space allotted for this column
discussing the title of the lesson
— “Endurance and Christian
Hope.”
Briefly: “Endurance” means
to stand steadfast despite all the
storms of doubt and fear,
despite all the backsets and dis
appointments that may come to
one.
And one can get a good idea of
just what Christian “hope” is by
turning to that long loved hymn
“My hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus’ blood and
righteousness." This was writ
ten by Edward Mote (1797-
1874).
Charles Laymon introduces
this lesson by saying, “I visited
two church groups on the same
Sunday. The morning class was
for oldest adults, and their
discussion tended to look back
to the ‘good old days’. They
were troubled with the present
trend in society and pessimistic
about the future.”
Notice Laymon said they
were “pessimistic.”
Then Laymon continues,
“The other group was made up
of youth who met at an evening
meeting. Here the discussion
tended to find hope for the
future. Changes must come;
and given a chance, they felt
they could make them.
“The young people lived in the
future; ‘out there’ was the life
they prized.” (The young people
were confident in themselves
and were optimistic.)
“The older group based their
hope on what had already
happened; the younger on what
could happen. One group was
pessimistic, the other optimis
tic."
There must be a “meeting of
minds” of these two groups.
True Christian Hope can and
will come only when all ages of
professing Christians join
hands, love and understand
each other and work together to
bring about the Kingdom of God
on earth.
Genuine Christianity is essen
tially Optimistic.
Laymon says “changes must
come.” This is true, there has
never been a day when changes
have not been necessary. But in
spite of this fact there are
certain things that cannot and
must not be changed. Some
things should and will “En
dure”.
The Memory Selection tells us
the word of Jesus shall not pass
away; but shall live forever.
What are some of the words of
Jesus that shall live forever?
Jesus told his disciples, and
what he said then is equally true
today, that the love and com
passion of God the Father,
would never lessen. He also told
the people and this statement
holds true today “I stand at the
door and knock. . . .”
And Jesus gave those who
profess Him as Master and
Savior, their “marching or
ders” when He said “Go ye into
the world and preach the
Gospel.” Now the Gospel is
“good news”. It is highly
“optimistic.”
There is no room in Chris
tianity for “pessimism”.
Paul tells us to run the race of
life with endurance and faint
not.
The day after we study this
Sunday School lesson is Valen
tine Day. The day to show one’s
love for someone. God’s love is
not just for “someone” but for
“everyone.”
Happy the man or woman
who fully relizes this and shares
rue love with others.
Jeane Dixon at Rotary
Says Wallace won’t
be U.S. president
Jeane Dixon believers, non
believers, skeptics and critics
who heard her talk to a Rotary
Club ladies night audience of
about 300 here surely must
agree on one thing: she’s an
interesting, fascinating and
entertaining person.
Several times she tried to end
the question and answer rap
session with the audience at the
Elks Club but they wouldn’t let
her quit.
Mrs. Dixon whose husband is
a real estate man in Washington
flipped rapidly through a stack
of pages with large typewritten
notes to present some of her
credentials as a forecaster of
the future.
During the preliminary
remarks and the questions and
answers that followed she
clicked off such opinions as
these:
George Wallace of Alabama
won’t be elected president. It’s
not his destiny. But he’ll keep a
lot of ther politicans straight.
(Mrs. Dixon said she knows
Gov. Wallace and likes him
very much.)
President Nixon will be hard
to beat in the election this year.
The outcome will depend
largely on the decisions he
makes during his trip to China
next week.
The United States fell into a
trap set by Russia in Vietnam
which eventually will make
Air war steps up
< ■ MB
ia* I# y■£
ATLANTA—CoIIege tuition will go up in Georgia next fall but
just how much depends on the General Assembly, a
legislative budget hearing was told yesterday. Lee Burge,
chairman of the Board of Regents, outlined a
recommendation for tuition increases of about 10 percent
which would bring in $6-million. Gov. Jimmy Carter has
proposed a $9-million figure which would raise tuition as high
as 18 percent (UPI)
Congress talking tax hike
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Congress that cut taxes by $22
billion since 1969 is now talking
about increasing taxes.
President Nixon said at his
news conference Thursday that
he would ask for no tax
increase this year. His econom
ic advisers cringe when con
gressmen even discuss the
matter.
They argue that even the
project of a tax increase is
likely to discourage economy in
Congress and to dampen the
spending spree the White House
GRIFFIN
DAI LY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
America and Russia allies
against China.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox of
Georgia had rather be governor
of Georgia again than serve in
the U. S. Senate.
(Mrs. Dixon said that was the
way she read the thought waves
she was getting on him at the
present. She is personally
acquainted with Lt. Gov.
Maddox and likes him, too.)
She said Gov. Jimmy Carter
and Lt. Gov. Maddox both have
political futures ahead and they
would be around in the public
limelight for a long time to
come.
Ted Kennedy could have the
Democratic nomination this
year if he wants it. His career
by no means is over.
She turned questioner at one
point and asked if the audience
would vote for Hubert Hum
phrey for president. Most
shouted no.
She said Humphrey
telephoned her one day after
she said she was misquoted and
welcomed her into the club. The
Minnesota senator said she now
belonged to that group of people
who read the newspapers in the
morning to see what they didn’t
say the night before.
Asked how the Supreme Court
would rule on capital punish
ment, Mrs. Dixon said no one
had ever asked her about that
and she wanted to give it some
wants the American public to
embark upon. It pins its hopes
for an economic recovery this
year on a free-spending public
that will create demand for
goods and services, cutting into
unemployment while wage
price controls curb inflation.
But for reasons both political
and fiscal, liberal Democrats in
Congress keep insisting that a
tax increase is needed, if not
now then certainly in 1973, and
that the cream this time should
be skimmed from the top
brackets.
Griffin, Ga., 30223 Friday Feb. 11, 1972
thought.
The forecaster said that the
trouble in Ireland would con
tinue for a long time to come.
Returning to politics, one of
her favorite subjects, she asked
the What about a Spiro Agnew
— Martha Mitchell ticket in
1976. Some chuckled and Mrs.
Dixon said that it may be more
of a reality than some think.
She said she sympathized
with Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the
attorney general, because she
was much misunderstood. Mrs.
Dixon said she had been
misunderstood and misquoted
many times, herself and could
appreciate Mrs. Mitchell’s feel
ings.
Mrs. Dixon said that the
political power in the country
was shifting to the South which
would figure prominently in the
election this year. She said she
had predicted years before
President Nixon was elected
that Sen. Strom Thurmond
would be a kingmaker.
She said the future of Atlanta
looked great and that the
Southland is the country’s last
frontier.
The drug problem will get
worse in this country, she said,
and much of the profit from
illegal drugs is going into the
pockets of enemies of this
country.
The constantly rising cost of
labor in this country was
SAIGON (UPl)—The United
States stepped up the air war
over South Vietnam today for
the third consecutive day
although the level of fighting
lessened. The South Vietnamese
reported a unit of its troops
killed 40 Viet Cong in breaking
the siege of an outpost in the
Central Highlands.
The U.S. command reported
two ambushes against Ameri
can truck convoys, one of which
wounded a GI.
Thailand-based 852 bombers
flew eight missions in South
Vietnam in the 24 hours ended
at noon today, the most since
Sept. 9 and U.S. fighter
bombers carried out 100 straf
ing runs which was two short of
the 102 flown Aug. 15.
With the air war over South
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
already at its highest level in
six months the signs pointed to
a temporary resumption of
bombing North Vietnam as well
in order to blunt a long
predicted Communist offensive
timed for President Nixon’s
visit to Peking Feb. 21-28.
A principal question was
whether Nixon would consider a
resumption of the bombing an
embarrassment in itself on the
eve of his Peking visit.
Rep. Martha W. Griffiths, D-
Mich., told Treasury Secretary
John B. Connally Jr. that no
candidate for the presidency
“can run an honest campaign
this fall without telling the
American people that they’re
due for a large increase in
taxes."
Not so, said Connally. A tax
increase is “not inevitable.”
When Rep. Henry Reuss, D-
Wis., demanded at a hearing of
Congress’ Joint Economic Com
mittee that President Nixon
send Congress a list of
driving it towaid a nation of
service consumers. She said the
increase in leisure would be a
major problem.
The institutional church is in
trouble, she believes.
When Pope Paul opened the
windows he didn’t put up the
screens and that let in evil
spirits, she said.
Mrs. Dixon said her forecast
of President Kennedy’s death
was a revelation. She said it
came to her after three days of
preparation. It came on the
fourth day and the next three
days were filled with complete
peace and serenity for her.
She said she tried to get word
to President Kennedy about the
piediction through friends who
visited the White House and
warn him against a trip to the
southwest.
She also said she tried to get
in touch with Sen. Robert
Kennedy. She came close. The
senator’s wife called for an
appointment with Mrs. Dixon
but never kept it. Mrs. Dixon
said it might have prevented his
assassination.
The rising rate of birth
defects worries Mrs. Dixon. She
said she discussed this with a
Russian journalist. Mrs. Dixon
said it had reached 25 percent in
tlie last few years and the nation
needs to do something about the
problem. She said Russia wants
to work with the U. S. on this.
★★★★★★★★
Bobby Shapard
president-elect
Dr. Jim Dunaway announced
last night that his successor as
Rotary president would be
Bobby Shapard, Griffin textile
manufacturer.
He will assume his duties in
July.
★★★★★★★★
Former top Hughes man
sues him for slander
LOS ANGELES (UPI(-Rob
ert Maheu, former top Howard
Hughes aide now embroiled in
a bitter feud with him, sued
Hughes’ disembodied voice
Thursday for $17.5 million,
alleging the voice slandered
him during a telephone news
conference.
The suit quoted a statement
made by “the man who, by
telephone, identified himself as
Howard R. Hughes” as saying
Hughes fired Maheu “because
he’s a no good, dishonest son of
a bitch and he stole me blind.”
The voice made the accusa
tion knowing it was false, or
loopholes that could be closed,
George P. Schultz, Nixon’s
budget chief, replied:
“Let the Congress do its work
and let the President do his
work. But let the Congress stop
telling the President how to do
his job.”
Politically, the Democrats
are making a campaign issue
of tax loopholes. The 1969 Tax
Reform Act was ballyhooed as
certain to make every Ameri
can with an above-poverty
income pay at least some
taxes. It didn’t.
Vol. 100 No. 34
BIBHBca
wEi
• ’ . ■ ■'#! H
E,
■FL i'
B / Nr «
88881 : w
Mrs. Dixon autographs program following talk to Rotary Club.
Asked about J. Edgar
Hoover’s tenure as FBI boss,
she said he would be around for
Mayor commends
police department
Mayor Louis W. Goldstein, on
behalf of the Griffin City Com
mission, today commended the
Griffin Police Department “for
the fine effort it has put forth”
during the latest series of
burglaries.
“For various reasons, includ
ing sickness, each shift has been
diort of men and it has been
necessary for some of our police
officers to work more than their
regular shift.
“Most of the extra work has
been on a voluntary basis and
the men have responded like
true policemen in a time of
need.
“Others have been changed
from their regular duties to
patrolling, and although, we are
still having some burglaries,
the city is being heavily
patrolled,” the mayor said.
Mayor Goldstein continued:
“The City of Griffin is a large
area to cover, and even with
“with reckless disregard of
whether it was true or false,”
the suit maintained.
lawyers filed suit in federal
district court against the voice
on the telephone, and Hughes’
intermediaries to the outside
world—the Hughes Tool Co., the
public relations agency of Carl
Byoir and Associates and one of
the agency’s executives, Rich
ard Hannah.
Maheu, 54, a former World
War II spy and once the best
shot in the FBI, was the head
of the multi-million-dollar
Hughes empire of land, hotels,
gambling casinos and other
Also advancing the Demo
crats’ new-found interest in tax
reform is the administration’s
interest in a value-added tax, a
form of national sales tax.
Nixon said Thursday the tax
still is being considered, but
that no decision has been made.
The Democrats see the value
added tax as regressive, harder
on the poor than the rich, but
appealing if offered to home
owners as away of cutting high
real estate taxes levied by
localities to pay for public
schools.
at least two more years. She
said she likes Hoover.
Sammy Murray, Griffin
unmarked cars being used, in
addition to the regular patrol
cars, it’s impossible to cover
every part of our community at
the same time.
“We need the help of the
..
OS
77P IM
“It won’t improve a fellow to
get rid of old prejudices if he
trades them for new ones.”
property in Nevada.
He was fired on Thanksgiving
Day, 1970, when Hughes left his
tightly guarded hotel suite in
Las Vegas for another like it in
the Bahamas.
There have been numerous
incidents in the Hughes-Maheu
feud since then. Maheu also is
suing Hughes for SSO million for
breach of contract on the
grounds he had an oral lifetime
contract to work for Hughes.
Hannah declined to comment
on the suit, speaking on behalf
of himself, Hughes TooFCo. and
the Byoir Agency.
Youth suffers
eye injury
Gregory S. Blakeney, 16, of
Brooks, suffered cuts about the
eye yesterday in a collision on
East Taylor near South Third
street. He was treated in a
doctor’s office.
Griffin Police said his station
wagon collieded with an auto
driven by James Wilburn
Roberts of Forest Park.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
50, low today 34, high yesterday
50, low yesterday 31. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:29, sunset
tomorrow 6:14.
Inside Tip
Wallace
See Page 8
attorney, introduced the
speaker. Dr. Jim Dunaway,
president, presided.
public in reporting any
suspicious person or activity
and ask you to call the Police
Department to report an
unusual activity.
“I would like to urge all
owners of businesses to check
any doors or windows that
might be easily accessible, and
take steps necessary to make
them more secure. We have had
wonderful cooperation from
many of our businessmen and
with everyone’s help our
problem will be solved.”
Garland
in jail
again
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) -Col
orful attorney Reubin Garland,
who says he’s been to jail be
fore but never in a losing
cause, was put behind bars
Thursday for contempt of court
by DeKalb Superior Court
Judge Clarence Peeler Jr.
Peeler ordered Garland jailed
for two hours for “arguing with
the court “during the trial of
Henry L. Whitlock for the mur
der of Decatur Police Lt. Billy
C. Cowart.
The judge also told Garland
that “I will deal with you when
this case is over,” nothing that
the defense attorney had re
ceived two previous contempt
citations.
The controversy began when
Assistant District Attorney Den
nis Jones objected to a question
asked of a witness by Garland
and Garland complained to the
judge.
Peeler told Garland he was
being held in contempt of court
and directed him to continue.
The defense attorney persisted
and Peeler ordered the jury to
leave the courtroom tempor
arily.
But the exchange continued
and the judge then ordered
Garland to spend the lunchroom
recess behind bars.
GOP sets
meetings
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Republicans open precinct
meetings throughout Georgia
Saturday to begin a lengthy
process of choosing 24 delegates
to the National Republican Con
vention, state GOP chairman
Robert J. Shaw announced to
day.