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■I By Quimby Melton
I Sunday is Palm Sunday.
B*The topic of the International
■ inday School lesson is “One
Ldy in Christ”.
■Background Scripture is
womans 12:1-5; Ephesians 4:1-
I. 1 Corinthians 12.
If The Memory Selection is
■Now ye are the bodv of Christ
I’nd members in particular”
pirst Corinthians 12:27).
E Palm Sunday is the anniver-
Eary of the Sunday, nearly 2,000
Bears ago, when Jesus Christ
Blade His triumphal entry into
Eerusalem.
K The story of what happened
rhat first Palm Sunday is one of
rhe most interesting ones in the
[Jible. It tells how the people
■vho lined the street down which
Uesus rode hailing Him as the
long promised Messiah — and it
Cells how these same people
(within a short time turned their
(jacks on Him. One can imagine
Ihat the heart of Jesus was filled
I with joy at the reception he was
■given, for Jesus was both
■human and divine and what
man would not have been
pleased that morning. But
before the day had ended the
Divine part of Jesus became
sorrowful and he wept over
Jerusalem and its people.
This story also tells of a time
when Jesus lost His temper.
Arriving at the Temple He
found that people who, like Him,
had come to worship, were
being short changed by greedy
people who had turned “My
Father’s House into a den of
thieves.” Jesus “horse whip
ped” them and drove them out
of the Temple.
But why did the people who
cheered Jesus that morning
turn against Him within the
week and demand “Crucify
Him”?
It is quite evident that the
leaders of the Temple had
convinced the multitude that
Jesus was not the Messiah and
was trying to mislead them.
(They, the leaders, probably
were influenced to do this when
Jesus cut off their source of
making money by driving “the
thieves” out of the Temple.)-
The Temple leaders pointed
out that the Messiah would be
one who would break the yoke of
the Roman government, drive
them out of Israel and end the
trials and tribulations they
suffered under the Caesars.
Those leaders wanted to take
over and rule. They were more
interested in their selfish ambi
tions than in helping the people.
But they were artists at pointing
rosy pictures of what could
happen if the people would just
“give them a chance.” “How
foolish to expect one man, who
could not afford even a small
chariot in which to ride into the
city to be able to drive the
Romans out?” they said.
But enough about that first
Palm Sunday — except to note
that it would be interesting to
think what would have been our
reaction had we lived that Palm
Sunday and been in the crowd
that hailed Him as the Messiah.
Would we have remained stead
fast?
“One Body in Christ”, the
title of this lesson, challenges
every person who daims to be a
Christian to examine just what
he believes was the message
Jesus wanted “put over” that
first Palm Sunday. We believe
He wanted to say then, and to us
today, There must be a unity
among Christians. There is
work for everyone if the King
dom of God is to come. There
must be no jealousies — There
is no part of the body but has its
use. All cannot be leaders but
all can be followers of the one
and only true God.
But beware of joining the
crowds that hail Him with joy in
the morning but wihin a few
hours are among those who cry
“Crucify Him”.
Easter is next week; shop in Griffin J
Dundee to buy
Chicopee products
Dundee Mills, Inc. of Griffin,
Georgia announced today that it
had reached an agreement in
principle to purchase the baby
products business, excluding
disposable diapers, from
Chicopee Mills, Inc.
The transfer will take place
as soon as the details are
completed. Chicopee, mean
while, will continue to service
its customers so as to provide a
continuing source of supply for
their baby products needs.
The products involved in
cludes gauze and birdseye
diapers, crib sheets, baby
pants, and bibs, which Chicopee
has produced and distributed
for many years and which in
cludes such brand names as
CHIX, REDIFOLD, and others.
Dundee is a well known
producer and distributor of
towels and other textile
products. They will now assume
a full line of baby products
under the Chicopee brand
names.
The Chicopee plant is located
near Gainesville, Ga.
Health Department survey takes look
at alcohol, drugs in 8-12 grades
One in eight tried drugs
ATLANTA (UPI) - A state
Health Department survey of
about 73,000 Georgia students in
the Bth through 12th grades
shows that uie of four high
school students have used alco
hol and that one of eight have
taken a drug at least once.
The survey also showed the
typical high school drug user is
“a white, urban male of middle
class background.” Drug use
among students was found to in
crease as the education level of
the head of the household in
creases.
Drug usage was higher in
cities than in rural areas. For
example, about 9 per cent of
urban students surveyed said
they had used marijuana at
least once while 4.37 per cent of
rural students replied affirma
tively.
Other categories were her-
Law partners
don ’t see
eye to eye
STATESBORO, Ga. (UPI) —
James P. Franklin and Charles
Brown are both members of the
law firm of Allen, Edenfield,
Brown and Franklin and good
friends — at least until the sub
ject of politics arises.
Franklin is chairman of the
Republican Party for the Ist
Congressional District and was
elected a delegate to the Na
tional Republican Convention.
Brown is the secretary for the
Democratic Party in the Ist
District and he was elected a
delegate to the National Demo
cratic Convention.
★★★★★★★★
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS IN GEORGIA'S JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
REPORTING DRUG USE BY SPECIFIC DRUG
Georgia, November, 1971
DRUG TOTAL URBAN RURAL
Alcohol 25.86 27.55 23.29
Marijuana 7.03 8.79 4.37
Tranquilizers 3.78 4.45 2.79
Amphetamines 3.35 4.13 2.18
Glue, Gasoline & Chemical Sniffing 3.16 3.61 2.47
Barbituates 2.59 3.41 1.34
LSD or STP 2.07 2.60 1.26
Narcotics other than Heroin 1.59 1.99 0.98
Mescaline 1.19 1.55 0.67
Cocaine 1.14 1.34 0.83
Heroin 1.07 1.34 0.67
Total Percent of Students with at Least 12.55 14.83 9.10
One Positive Response EXCLUDING ALCOHOL
Mother in hospital;
son hurt in mishap
Nine-year-old Stan Perdue of
1504 Atlanta road, was hit by an
auto while waiting for his school
bus at Riegel’s Curve this
morning. He was taken to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital with
injuries. His mother, Mrs.
Eunice Perdue, was already a
patient at the hospital and was
scheduled for surgery around
midmoming.
When she learned of her son’s
accident, she came down and
met him as he arrived at the
emergency room.
Hospital attendants said she
disnissed herself and canceled
her surgery, then admitted her
son to the hospital. He suffered
a broken leg, head injuries and
bruises.
Griffin Police said that wit
nesses told them the child ran
between two cars, which were
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, Mar. 24, 1972
oin, LSD, mescaline, cocaine,
barbiturates, transquilizers.am
phetamines and glue-sniffing.
Heroin use was lowest of all
drugs surveyed, averaging out
at about 1 per cent.
The survey showed alcohol
use increases from 14 per cent
in the Bth grade to about 37 per
cent in the 12th grade. Mari
juana use went up about five
times between the Bth and 12th
grades.
Glue-sniffing reached its peak
in the Bth grade and then de
clined steadily.
Tranquilizer use, according to
the survey, drops between the
Bth and 9th grades in urban
schools, then increases through
the 12th grade. In rural schools
it reaches its peak in the 11th
grade and falls by one third in
the 12th.
Twice as many boys as girls
waiting for a traffic light, and
into the path of an oncoming
auto. Officers said the accident
was unavoidable and no
charges were placed against the
driver, Mrs. Ethel Crawford of
924 Lake avenue.
20 cows dead in Pike
The total number of cows on a
Pike County farm which have
died from arsenic poisoning had
reached 20 this morning. This is
about half the herd. According
to Pike Sheriff J. Astor Riggins,
several others are sick and may
not live.
The cattle, Black Angus and
Hereford breeds, are owned by
Melvin Minter of Meansville.
They were in two pastures he
GRIFFIN
use marijuana, the report said.
Dr. Gene Hodges of the men
tal health division said the
study enhances the theory that
the public stereotype of the
drug user is all wrong.
“The public thinks of the drug
user as some wretched deviate,
a loner, a resident of the urban
ghetto, economically deprived
with psychological problems,”
he said.
But the report said the typi
cal student user is white and
middle class and that “his
parents would probably be using
drugs also.” It added “he has
some marijuana usage and has
experimented with some other
drugs as well.”
Hodges said studies show
drug usage among students is
sometimes “an experi
ment, sometimes for recreation,
and for some it is a social ac
tivity.”
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was renting from his aunt, Mrs.
Flossie Gibson, off the Kings
road.
The sheriff said about 50 to 75
pounds of arsenic mixed with
sweet feed had been poured into
the pastures.
The first cow died Tuesday.
Both the Pike Sheriff’s De
partment and the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation are
working on the case.
Vol. 100 No. 70
Britain
to rule
N. Irish
LONDON (UPl)—Britain to
day ended 51 years of
Protestant rule in Northern
Ireland and imposed direct
control from London for at
least a year in an effort to end
the violence that has taken
nearly 300 lives. A Protestant
leader in Belfast said civil war
was now inevitable.
Prime Minister Edward
Heath announced the historic
decision to a tense, packed
House of Commons. His move
climaxed a constitutional crisis
which British commentators
described as the gravest to face
this country since the abdica
tion of King Edward VIII in
1936.
It was a gamble which
Britain said it would take only
as a last resort
British spokesmen said Heath
hoped suspension of rule by
Ulster’s Protestant majority
and other moves including
gradual phasing out of the
interment without trial of
suspected Irish Republican
Army (IRA) gunmen would
pacify the Roman Catholic
minority.
Reaction Is Bitter
At the same time Heath
sought to placate Protestant
fears of a handover to the
Catholic-ruled Republic of Ire
land by promising periodic
plebiscite votes on the question
of the north-south border in
Ireland. The Protestants out
number the Catholics two to
one.
The reaction from Prote
stants and Catholics in North
ern Ireland was immediate—
both sides rejected Heath’s
solution. Thousands of shouting
shipyard workers marched
through Belfast in a demonstra
tion of Protestant rejection of
direct rule from London.
Frazer Agnew, Belfast chair
man of the Young Unionist
party organization, a Protestant
group, said Heath’s measures
represented a betrayal of
Ulster and a surrender to the
IRA. He said “this act of
betrayal to Ulster Loyalists has
hastened the inevitability of
civil war.”
Eamonn McCann, an official
of the anti-internment organiza
tion which opposes imprison
ment of IRA members and
suspects without trial, said the
Heath measures will touch off a
Protestant reaction that will
eclipse the present violence in
Ulster.
Many Deaths Predicted
“There will be a massive
Protestant reaction,” McCann
said. “I think there will be 1,000
people killed this summer.”
Sean MacStioffan, chief of
staff of the militant provisional
IRA, rejected any truce while
the Heath proposals are en
forced and said IRA operations
will continue until the last
British soldier withdraws from
Northern Ireland.
Instead of a troop withdrawal
Heath announced that 4,000
more British troops had been
placed on standby alert to be
flown to Northern Ireland to
bolster 14,500 already there if
“serious trouble” develops.
|
“If you’re poor enough, folks
will think you’re honest — They
figure if you’d cheated, you’d be
better off.”
LONDON—British Prime Minister Edward Health leaves
No. 10 Downing street on his way to the Houses of Parliament
where he announced Britain had assumed direct rule over
Northern Ireland for a year. (UPI)
Some teachers here
hold contract talks
A group of teachers in the
Griffin-Spalding County School
System met at the home of Mrs.
Thelma Davis, 91 Terracedale
court, last night to discuss their
contracts with National Educa
tion Association (NEA) and
Georgia Association of Educa
tors (GAE).
Mrs. Davis is employed by the
school system here. She was out
of the city and could not be
contacted for comment on the
meeting.
Ronnie Ellerson, president
elect of the local GAE chapter,
said he was invited to the
meeting but stayed only a short
while. He said he did not know
all that went on and declined to
comment today. Mr. Ellerson is
principal of North Side and will
be president of the local GAE
next year.
Supt. D. B. Christie said none
of the group from the meeting
had contacted him. C. T.
Parker, chairman of the school
board, said no one had con
tacted him about the meeting,
either.
Jim Williams who said he was
an NEA representative from
the Southern Region office in
Atlanta, stated the teachers
talked about some of the items
in their new contracts. He said
he had advised them to hold the
contracts and not sign them.
They are due March 31.
He said he wanted to contact
school officials about the
disputed points. He said that if
the matter cannot be settled or
Wall kills
Griffin man
Mr. Aubrey Frank “Zeke”
Pollard, 30, of Sunset drive
extension, was fatally injured
Thursday afternoon in Ken
nesaw, Ga., at a construction
site. A concrete block wall
collapsed suddenly, falling on
Mr. Pollard killing him in
stantly.
Mr. Pollard was a plumber
and was employed by the Wells
and West Plumbing Co. He was
a native of Fayette County, son
of Mrs. Sara Huckaby Pollard
and the late Banard Ralph
Pollard. He was a member of
the White Water Baptist
Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Marie Rider Pollard; two
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litigated, he believes that the
teachers would have a good
case in court.
One report said there were
about five or six teachers pre
sent at the meeting but Mr.
Eller son said he could not
confirm this. He said he did not
know the number present.
Some local teachers had
raised objection in a resolution
earlier this year to being
assigned duties at football
games. This was one of the
points reported being discussed
last night.
Mr. Christie made this state
ment today:
“I understand from news
reports that a small group of
educators from the Griffin-
Spalding County School System
met with NEA and GAE
representatives last night to
discuss teacher contracts for
the 1972-73 school year.
“Their main concern ap
parently lies with a clause
added this year which clarifies
the types of duties which
teachers have performed in the
past. It also makes certain that
teachers performing such
duties are covered by Work
mens Compensation. It should
be understood that teachers will
be asked to perform no more or
no less duties than they have in
the past.
“Teacher contracts are due
on March 30 and I am looking
forward to a good school year.”
sons, Randy and Michael
Pollard, all of Griffin; mother,
Mrs. Sara Pollard of Brooks; a
sister, Mrs. Charles Thompson
of Barnesville; and two
brothers, Ralph Pollard of
Brooks and Edward Pollard of
Riverdale.
Funeral services will be
conducted Saturday afternoon
at 3 o’clock from the White
Water Baptist Church. The Rev.
Worth Huckaby and the Rev. B.
E. Thompson will officiate and
burial will be in the church
cemetery. The body will remain
at Haisten Funeral Home until
carried to the church 30 minutes
prior to the funeral hour.