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By Quimby Melton
“The Redemptive Fellow-
Aip” is the topic for this week’s
International Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
Acts 4:32-37; Romans 15.
The Memory Selection is
“Wherefore receive ye one
another, as Christ also received
us to the glory of God.”
(Romans 15:7.)
This lesson begins a series of
four lessons on “The Nature of
the Church.”
The first of this series “The
Redemptive Fellowship” will
help us see the necessity for
individuals and groups to be
guided by the will of Christ.
On Tuesday of this week
heard Miss Ann Boswell, youth
director of the First Baptist
Church, speak to the Exchange
Club of Griffin. She spoke on
“The Sounds of Young People.”
Miss Boswell, herself hardly out
of the teen age class, has been
counciling and advising young
people, both in church and at
special youth camps. That she
has the confidence of young
people is borne out by the fact
that she played tape recorded
talks she had with young people
who had run away from home,
had become involved with dope
and the like. One of the most
revealing facts that we got from
her interesting talk was that a
majority of the youths who run
away from home and drop out of
school do so because they are
looking for understanding on
the part of others, for people
who will take the time to discuss
with them their problems and
help them solve these. And if
that does not mean “Fellow
diip” — the subject of our
lesson: what better definition
can you suggest?
And what finer more under
standing, more helpful
“Fellowship” can there be than
Fellowship with Jesus Christ?
The first half of our Back
ground Scripture (Acts 4:32-47)
has been “explained” by many
ministers, many Sunday School
teachers, and many Bible
Scholars. And there have been
those who have used it to charge
that the early Christians were
“Communists.” We do not
believe this. We believe “had all
things in common” means that
they were so filled with the holy
spirit and love for God that they
considered everything good
they had as the gift of God their
Heavenly Father and that He
expected them to share with
their less fortunate brothers.
Now read Acts 5, the chapter
that follows the background
Scripture. This tells the story of
the hypochacy of Ananias and
his wife Sophira. This is a
warning to every Christian
alive.
The second half of the back
ground Scripture (Romans 15:1-
7) begins “We then that are
strong enough to bear the in
firmaties of the weak, and not
to please ourselves.”
If those who are strong —
morally, mentally and physi
cally — will help our less for
tunate brother;
If those who are rich —
morally, mentally and physi
cally — will share their
Messings with those less for
tunate;
If those who have, realizing
that every good and perfect gift
comes from God, will assist the
“have nots”;
They will qualify as one “who
shall fulfill all my will” (Acts
13:22) as did “David the son of
Jesse.”
And one can rejoice in
Redemptive Fellowship.
But beware of the hypocrachy
of Ananias.
Cable car stalled
ARABBA, Italy (UPI)-A
cableway car with 60 passengers
was left dangling Thursday
when fire broke out at the
cableway terminal more than
6,500 feet up on Mount
Marmolada.
It was some time before
firefighters reached the scene
and moved the car back to
Arabba. There were no injuries.
Philip Smiths talks of Vietnam
Frustration leads to drugs
Lt Philip Smith believes that
frustration causes some Ameri
can fighting men in Vietnam
and Southeast Asia to turn to
drugs.
They are being forced to fight
with their hands tied behind
them, so to speak, the Griffin
native told the Rotary Club
yesterday.
Say American Gls chase
communists into a Vietnam
village but are stopped by the
village chief from finishing the
job, Lt Smith continued. The
Americans can point to the
enemy he has chased into the
village but, under agreement
with the U. S. Government, a
village chief has the right to say
whether American troops can
enter to flush out the enemy,
Smith explained. He said the
chief may be taking communist
payoff money.
If the Gls are stopped at the
village, they return to head
quarters and wonder why they
fought with the enemy in the
first place, Smith said.
Say a Vietnam civilian on a
Honda collides with a jeep,
Smith continued. Quickly the
scene will be surrounded by
civilians who must be paid off
by the U. S. government on the
spot or they will burn the jeep
and do possible harm to the Gls
in it, Smith said.
South Vietnam requested that
the U. S. set up a firebase in a
particular spot where there was
heavy Viet Cong traffic, Lt.
Smith recalled.
The firebase was set up.
Nixon asks bus ban;
new education bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon, warning that an
undue emphasis on school
busing for desegregation will
produce a “lost generation of
poor children” and disrupted
lives for those not so poor, has
asked Congress to ban all
further court-ordered busing
and to spend $2.5 billion to
improve poverty area schools.
Nixon unveiled his proposals
on one of the most politically
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HI were named Mr. and Miss St Patrick’s Day today at their
school. They wore these costumes to class today and made
talks to some fellow students about the Irish holiday. Cathy is
the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ira Slade, Jr., of Newnan road
and Mark is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Andrews, 1443
Upland drive.
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There happened to be a heavy
concentration of rubber trees
near the base. A fire fight broke
out and many of the trees were
destroyed, Lt. Smith said.
The U. S. government had to
pay $5 for every tree that was
scratched in the fighting, he
said.
“A good fire fight will destroy
2,000 or more trees,” the
Griffinite said.
Such payoffs are bad for U. S.
fighting morale, Lt. Smith
believes.
Young people today have the
freedom to question decisions
more than they used to, the
Griffin helicopter pilot continu
ed. He said when he was in
school at Georgia Tech,
students generally did what a
professor told them to do. But
he said now the youngsters ask
why and the professor has to
give a reason for his instruc
tions.
Transpose this to the Vietnam
fighting man, Lt. Smith
suggested.
He continued:
Perhaps a man had some
objections to the Vietnam war
and didn’t want to be drafted
but he answered the call any
way. He is trained and assigned
to combat in Vietnam against
his wishes. Then he reads in the
Armed Forces newspaper Stars
and Stripes about anti-war
demonstrations at home.
He knows most of the Viet
nam people don’t want him in
their country and he reads that
American citizens are
sensitive issues of this election
year in a broadcast address to
die nation Thursday night. The
formal message covering his
proposals was to be sent to
Capitol Hill today.
(See Page 8.)
Nixon’s address did not spell
out how Congress could order
the courts to stop issuing
busing orders, since the Consti-
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Lt. Smith
demonstrating against the war:
this leads to frustration, Lt.
Smith said.
It’s no wonder that some of
the Gls fall for a puff of
marijuana if he thinks it will
help relieve some of the frustra
tion, the Griffinite said.
Heroin is easily available in
Vietnam to Gls, he said and a $5
a day habit there will cost him
$175 a day in the U. S., Lt. Smith
said.
Military men believe that
the Vietnam war could have
been won in four months if
tution makes the judiciary a
separate but co-equal branch of
government with its separation
of powers provision; nor did it
mention any specific proposal
to further desegregation in lieu
of the busing technique.
“Many (parents) have invest
ed their life savings in a home
in a neighborhood they chose
because it had good schools,”
Nixon said. “They do not want
their children bused across a
city to an inferior school just to
meet some social planner’s
concept of what is considered to
be the correct racial balance —
or what is called ‘progressive’
social policy.”
Nixon said “The great
majority of Americans, white
and black, feel strongly that the
busing of school children away
from their own neighborhoods
for the purpose of achieving
racial balance is wrong.” And
he rejected the idea of
amending the Constitution to
tackle the problem, saying that
would take too long.
Instead, he said, an imme
diate moratorium on new
busing would sidetrack the
problem for now while legisla
tion, if approved by Congress,
would funnel over $2.5 billion in
the next year to improve the
education of poor children and
require that every jurisdiction
“grant equal educational oppor
tunity to every person regard
less of race, color or national
origin.”
Nixon said even the extreme
proponents of busing admit that
it would be years before a
majority of poor children could
be bused out of central city
areas into suburban schools.
Center sign-up is Monday
Registration for University of
Georgia, Griffin Center, is set
for Monday, beginning at 7 p.m.
at the Griffin High School new
math building. Representatives
of the University of Georgia will
be on hand to advise with
students.
Several courses will be offer-
NEWS
American fighting men could
have done the job without
having their hands tied behind
them, Lt. Smith believes.
He said he was expressing his
own opinions in his talk and not
any official government posi
tions.
He pointed out America is in
its eighth year in the Vietnam
fighting. He said winding down
of the war was difficult because
it forced American troops to
have to fight defensively and
pull out at the same time. One
major victory against a U. S.
unit would be a big boost to Viet
Cong morale at this time, Lt.
Smith believes.
Lt. Smith said U. S. troop
morale at the combat front is at
its highest and said the Ameri
can fighting man is the best in
the world and has proved it time
and time again in Vietnam.
He said when President Nixon
gave U. S. forces some attack
leaway in the Laos situation
when he was there, it was a big
boost to U. S. troop morale.
“They couldn’t hold them
back with a brick wall,” Smith
declared.
Lack of devotion to each other
and lack of pride in their
country is a handicap to the
South Vietnam fighting man,
Lt. Smith believes. He con
cluded this from close up
contact with the war.
A helicopter pilot flies with
the MIA (missing in action)
cloud over him, Lt. Smith said.
But when he is shot down, he
gets help quickly from patrol
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DENVER—Acting Attorney General Richard Kleindienst is
all smiles as he holds news conference in hallway after
speaking to the Colorado Chapter of the Federal Bar
Association. Kleindienst said a memo linking an alleged
Justice Department deal in the ITT case to a $400,000
donation to the Republican National Convention had no basis
in fact. (UPI)
Insurance man
reported missing
Authorities searched today
for a young insurance agent
who vanished Wednesday while
on a routine business trip in
middle Georgia.
William Sloan, 24, of Griffin
left home Wednesday to call on
prospects in the Newnan area.
Fitting celebration
KIRUNA, Sweden (UPI) -
Mrs. Berit Saloniemi, 24, went
to the local bingo parlor a
month ago and won —a state
lottery ticket.
Today she cashed in on the
ticket that gave her $70,000. She
celebrated byplaying bingo.
ed. Among them are college
algebra, English composition,
American history, history of
Western civilization, and
psychology of adjustment.
Classes meet on Monday and
Thursday evening each week
during the spring quarter with
final exams on June 1. The first
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fighters on the ground and pilots
in the air who risk thick
barrages of bullets to help a
buddy in trouble.
The South Vietnamese
fighting men do not have this
spirit, Lt. Smith observed. He
said some South Viet medical
units do not treat anyone after 5
p.m. which is quitting time. If a
fellow is hurt, their attitude is:
tell him to come back in the
morning and we’ll see what we
can do for him.
Lt. Smith was shot down
several times in the Southeast
Asian fighting. He was wounded
and awarded the Purple Heart
twice. Also included in his 39
decorations are two
Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Lt. Smith is a helicopter in
structor at Ft. Rucker, Ala. at
present. He graduated top in his
class of 100 men in both basic
and advance helicopter training
before he went to Vietnam.
Before entering the Army, he
already knew how to fly and
often did so around the Griffin
area in private planes.
Lt. Smith plans to get out of
the Armed Forces later this
year and hopes to become a
commercial airlines pilot.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richter Smith of Griffin.
Smith graduated from Griffin
High where he was basketball
standout and a top student.
He were his uniform to give
his talk to the Rotary Club be
cause he said it was appropriate
and that he was proud to wear
it.
It was the last anyone was
known to have seen him.
Sloan has been employed by
the Coastal States Insurance
Company for six weeks. His
wife, Joanne, told police she last
saw him at 7 a.m. Wednesday
when he left on his trip. E. G.
Duncan, associate manager of
Coastal States’ Griffin office,
said Sloan told him he had some
prospects to call on.
Sloan’s address was listed by
Griffin Police as 523
Hallyburton street. Sloan is six
feet tali and weighs 195. He has
brown hair and brown eyes.
He was driving a 1965 auto.
class period is from 6 to 8:10
p.m. and the second meets from
8:20to 10:30 p.m. Astudent may
register for either one or two
courses. Tuition for each course
is $55 plus a registration fee of
sl. Textbooks will be sold
Monday evening.
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WASHINGTON—Mrs. Pat Nixon whose 60th birthday was
yesterday, shows off toy panda with green ribbon which she
received from members of her staff. The First Lady
traditionally celebrates her birthday on St Patrick’s Day.
(UPI)
Man released
by mistake
A man mistakenly released
from Central State Hospital by
a doctor who thought he “wasn’t
that sick,” was back in custody
today.
Charlie Jay Ogletree, 46, from
Academy
names
Welsh
Griffin Academy announced
today the appointment of
Walter Welsh as acting Head
master.
He succeeded Walker Cook
who this week was elected
curriculum director of the
Griffin-Spalding School System.
Mr. Cook no longer is active in
the day to day operation of the
academy. The institution will
honor his contract which will
run through the present school
year in June. He stated today he
was leaving the school under
harmonious conditions.
Mr. Welsh has been
associated with the Academy
snee its opeiing as head of its
Science Department. He has a
masters degree in education
from Georgia Southern College.
He has five years teaching
experience, all in private
schools, and has been assistant
headmaster in one of his earlier
positions.
He was born in Pennsylvania
and reared there. He is married
to the former Delilah Cart
wright of Meriwether County,
Ga. and they make their home
in the Grandview Apartments in
Griffin.
The Academy is accepting
applications for the school year
1972-73 in grades kindergarten
through ninth grade with a tenth
grade dependent ipon demand
at this time. Applications are
being received daily and it now
appears that all grades will
operate at capacity or near
capacity next year.
Several open houses have
been held at the Academy for
the benefit of prospective
students and friends of the
school. At least one more will be
held this year, but the date for
this has not yet been set.
Veterans, who plan to enroll,
should obtain a certificate of
eligibility from the Veterans
Administration as soon as
possible. Mrs. L. C. Olson,
University Representative,
may be contacted for further
information.
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Busing
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the Griffin area, was picked
up Thursday and will be re
turned to the hospital. He was
furloughed Monday by a ward
doctor from Central State where
he was sent after being found
innocent by reason of insantiy
in the slaying of his estranged
wife.
“We were negligent,” Ray
Brown, director of public rela
tions at Central State, said.
“Our only excuse was a lack of
communication.”
A spokesman said Ogletree’s
regular doctor had left no in
structions and a ward doctor
“figured he wasn’t that sick,”
and sent him home.
Ogletree was tried in Febru
ary for the 1966 Mother’s Day
killing of his estranged wife.
He could not be brought to trial
earlier because he was under
going psychiatric treatment at
Central State and was not re
leased until last September.
Ogletree earlier had been con
victed of stabbing his wife and
was on parole from that prison
sentence when he allegedly shot
her to death as she sat in a car
with one of their six children.
His parole was revoked and he
was sent back for treatment.
No extension
on tags planned
Governor Jimmy Carter
announced today that there will
not be an extension of the April
1, deadline for the purchase of
1972 motor vehicle license tag
validation decals.
The Governor noted that
reports from courthouses
throughout the state indicate
that sale of the tag renewal
decals are lagging. With only a
few days left before the April 1,
deadline, the Governor added
that, “it would be unfair to those
who have purchased their 1972
renewal decals to extend the
deadline to accomodate those,
who for whatever reason, do not
purchase the decals on time.”
He urged all vehicle owners to
make their tag renewal pur
chase as soon as possible to
avoid long lines at the cour
thouse as well as to avoid the
monetary penalties that accrue
to tags purchased after the
April 1, deadline.
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“The best company is
someone who gets excited about
a lot of things.”