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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 12,1972
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L M BOYD
A Thief Stole
Her Portrait
“Women possess a very positive moral sense;
that which they will is right; that which they reject,
is wrong.”
Henry Adams
This happened. In London. Sometime back. And beats
me if anything casts a clearer light on the feminine out
look. A thief sneaked into the house of a wealthy woman,
stole the expensive frame from around a painted portrait
of her, and was caught. She pressed charges most might-
ily. Free again six months
later, the swift felon this
time stole the portrait,
but left the frame, and once
more was caught. The old
girl promptly bailed him
out.
Won’t be long now before
all new cars will have their
stop lights mounted on the
roof, contends a traffic
safety evangelist. Not a
bad notion.
This waiter got a little
confused at noon today,
and leaned over the lady
friend's shoulder, and
whispered, “Are you the
cold chicken?” She took it
pretty well.
Many is the devout
Christian even who can't
tell you Adam's occupation.
Can you name it? Right
you are, he was a gar
dener.
MISTRESSES
Q. “Men of which country
nowadays are most in
clined to keep mistresses
as well as wives?"
A. Japanese executives
in Tokyo, probably. One of
those intimate surveys
there indicates about 82
per cent of those fellows
now entertain extracur
ricular girlfriends.
Unlikely you ever met
anybody afflicted with
that oddest of ailments
known as astereognosis.
It's rare. Citizens who
suffer from same cant
recognize the size and
shape of anything by touch
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“Money getting tighter, Winslow?”
alone. Blindfolded, they
can’t tell a hammer from a
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PIGMENTS
That numerous citizens
tend to get gray-haired
as they grow older is com
mon knowledge. Less wide
ly known is that numerous
citizens tend also to get
gray-eyed as they grow
older. Pigments fade.
Little known, too, is the
fact the first cowpunchers
were Egyptians. Roped
bulls with lassos. More
than 3,000 years ago,
that was. In the valley of
the Nile.
The 66-year-old working
man is less likely to take
an unscheduled day off
the job than the 25-year
old working man. Far less
likely. The time card re
cords prove that,definitely.
No Army non-com, who
roars through the bar
racks at sunup to wake the
troops, should fail to read
Proverbs 27:14, then
tremble. Therein, it says:
He that blesseth his fel
low man with a loud voice,
rising early in the morn
ing. it shall be counted a
curse to him. Post that in
the orderly room, corporal.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, April 12,
the 103rd day of 1972.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Aries.
American statesman Henry
Clay was born April 12, 1777.
On this day in history:
In 1861 the Civil War began
when Confederate troops
opened fire on Ft. Sumter, S.C.
In 1945 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt died at Warm
Springs, Ga. Roughly three
hours later, Vice President
Harry S Truman was sworn in
as chief executive.
In 1954 Dr. Robert Oppenhei
mer, referred to as the “father
of the atomic bomb,” was
suspended by the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission as a
possible security risk.
In 1961 Russia launched into
space the first human to orbit
the earth and return safely.
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thoughts
For everything there is a
season, and a time for every
matter under heaven: a time
to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a
time to b uil d up.—Eccl.
3:1. 3.
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Time was invented by Al
mighty God in order to give
ideas a chance. —Nicholas
Murray Butler, educator.
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1-75 connector to Griffin
Someone put out the word incorrectly
that the Highway Department would hold
a hearing this week to determine the route
which the 1-75 connector to Griffin would
take. So we checked up and learned that
the correct date is May 18. It will be held at
7:30 in the Courthouse and is open to the
public.
The fact that the interstate is not closer
to town can not be changed, so there is no
use crying over spilt milk. The next best
thing is to get a good connector from
A look into the future
What kind of place will Spalding County
be in 1990?
The U.S. Census Bureau tells us that the
State of Georgia will grow 35.2 percent
over the 1970 population if its maximum
growth expectation materializes. That
means a state of six million people instead
of the four and a half million counted in
1970.
If Spalding’s growth is the same as the
state’s, we will have about 53,000 people
instead of the last count which was 39,514.
A pre-school program
The local system has applied to the state
for a pre-school program, and the Griffin
Daily News believes that the State
Department of Education will approve. It
ought to because Griffin churches have
been sponsoring similar programs for two
years and they have been very successful.
So our system has some good experience in
lUtettuu)
A resident of Highway 16 West writes,
“Take a quick ride out Highway 16 West
one sunny day. What do you see? City
trash thrown up and down both sides! It
falls and blows off of the city trash trucks
on their way to the dump. Follow one and
watch. Not only that, but then we pay extra
taxes so another crew can drive out and
pick it back up again! (Some of it at least.)
Somehow this doesn’t seem right, does it?
Highway 16 is a pretty road, or it used to
be. Can’t something be done? Perhaps a
cover for trash trucks or something else
that would cost very little but save a lot of
time and the shame of ruining our
countryside. Thank you for listening and
please think about it”
RESPONSE: We did ride out the
highway on a beautiful spring day when all
the world seemed to be singing with the joy
of its existence. We saw some patches of
litter, but we found similar patches on
other approaches to Griffin. We talked
with the attendant at the city landfill on
Shoal Creek road. He said that most of the
city trucks handling trash and garbage are
metal enclosed and there is not much
chance of trash blowing off them and on to
the highways. Some uncovered trucks spill
refuse along the way but the attendant said
the truck crews always try to go back and
clean their paths. He pointed out, too, that
some individuals who make it their
business to collect trash in subdivisions not
served by the city also use the highway to
Husband critical
of everyone
My husband leads Bible classes, quotes
Scripture, but is very critical and sar
castic towards everyone, including his own
family. He uses the Bible to point out
everyone’s shortcomings. I love him, but
his superior attitude is getting me down.
What can I do? DJ.
Your husband needs to read and take to
heart the words of Paul in I Corinthians
13:1. “Though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels, and have not love, I am
become as sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal.”
Same new Christians in their zeal
become very tense, critical and sarcastic.
They are like the story of a man I heard
point
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 *330
Griffin to it and the meeting in May will be
another step toward that.
The Highway Department has promised
it to Griffin and has committed itself to
building it. Federal funds are involved and
federal requirements must be met. One of
them is to hold the meeting at which local
citizens can offer their opinions on which
route will be the best.
It may seem a long time before
construction starts, and even longer before
completed. But the project is moving right
along, just about on schedule.
We probably have over 40,000 right now.
So, from the Census predictions, we get a
pretty good idea of how big we will be, but
they do not tell us what kind of place we
will be. That will be up to us.
At any rate, we do know that such
substantial growth requires advance
planning and present action if Spalding is
to be the kind of county most of those 53,000
people who live here in 1990 will want it to
be, and the kind which most of us here
( right now want it to be.
this field.
In the meantime, it is appropriate and
proper to thank the churches for what they
have done and are doing. Under the
original leadership of Mrs. Mac Cheatham
and the First Baptist Church which
sponsored the very first one, they have
filled an almost desperate need.
From time to time we will publish
complaints and suggestions about your
newspaper. Send questions, comments or
criticisms to WE’RE LISTENING, the
Griffin Daily News, P.O. Box 135, Griffin,
Georgia 30223.
go to the landfill. And he said some
business firms haul their trash to the
landfill, using the highway route. It is hard
to pinpoint people responsible for litter on
the streets and roads. We agree with you
that all of us should be more careful. Even
a chewing gum wrapper is litter.
To the person who wrote the letter on the
Bible: Sorry, but this column does not
discuss matters of race, religion or national
origin. We devote a great deal of free
space to religion and to church news. Good
Evening writes a Sunday School lesson
every Friday, plus regular columns on the
Hymns. We regularly report the news of
the various churches, and Dr. Billy
Graham, whom we regard as the world’s
foremost evangelist, writes a daily column
on this page.
“You print the estimated high
temperature today, the low today, the
high yesterday and the low yesterday. This
is good to know, but it is history, not news,
by the time we receive the paper. Why not
print the estimated high and low
temperatures for tomorrow?”
RESPONSE: Good idea. We will include
them when they are part of the official
forecast. Occasionally, though, they are
not included. They are part of it today.
about who, every night came home and
beat up on his family. One of his friends
told him he should reform and he did. So,
every night after that, he went home,
grabbed his children and wife, and hugged
them so hard, he injured them as badly as
he had before he had reformed. The end
result was the same, although his in
tentions had improved.
But in being the right kind of Christian
we must have more than good intentions.
The Bible says, “We must be as wise as
serpents and as harmless as doves.” Many
people by their lade of wisdom rather
than drawing people to Christ, actually
drive them away. This is not as it should
be.
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
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Democrat Fear:
Middle Incomes
Feel Bamboozled
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The Democratic party, questing after the presidency,
is foundering badly in its effort to get at the issues and '
concerns troubling most Americans in 1972.
First off, the Democrats, of course, can’t escape the I
indictment millions upon millions of voters are laying
on all politicians—that they can’t be trusted, that they ;
wildly over-promise, that no matter who wins, not much '
will be done about urban chaos, inflation, taxes, school 1
decay, crime, congestion, excessive public spending, de- ,
pletion of resources, pollution.
But the Democrats have a special dilemma. Since New
Deal days, they have been the avowed champions of the
disadvantaged. Their self-image and their driving force
compels them to continue this commitment.
Today, however, millions of those they championed in
earlier times have risen to better ground economically,
and moved from old poverty settings to the affluent city
edges and suburbs.
Keeping their vows, liberal-leaning Democratic leaders
now champion the new downtrodden in the nation’s
crumbling inner cities. Yet to help these people, mostly
black and other minorities, demands raising billions
of dollars and a strong focus of energy.
Quicker than most men, Democratic National Chair
man Lawrence F. O’Brien saw the wrenching difficulty
in this. The Democrats’ great, broad labor constituency,
the party’s backbone, was being asked to pay a huge .
part of the cost of aiding the new disadvantaged. But t
they themselves felt no security at all on the lower rungs I
of middle-class affluence. Many saw themselves teeter
ing on the brink.
O’Brien’s foresight of 1967 is the reality of today. Says
an aide to presidential contender Edmund Muskie:
“That the Democrats were for the progress of 20 per
cent of the people (the black, the poor) was the big news
of the 19605. The average citizen got the idea he was
paving for it and not getting a hell of a lot for it.”
This judgment was echoed by a top aide to a Muskie
rival, Sen. George McGovern. The newly emergent mid
dle-income citizen’s feeling is compounded, says the Mc-
Govern man, by discovery that the “rewards of affluence
aren’t very good, either.”
Incidentally, the belief of middle-income Americans
that they are paying the freight is no myth. Last summer
I reported on a Census Bureau study which shows that
Americans in the middle-income brackets, who repre
sent three-fifths of the U.S. taxpaying public, are paying
about half of all taxes at federal, state and local levels.
Moreover, in the 19605, not only their taxes but their
proportionate share of the total tax burden went up.
By contrast, the poor are paying no more proportionate
ly than a decade ago, and the rich are paying less.
These real figures are the hard rock in the average
citizen’s conviction that he is paying to help others while
no one is helping him. Worse still, perhaps, he doesn’t
think government is even talking to him. That’s where
the disconcerting Gov. George Wallace comes in. Says
that Muskie aide*
“It doesn’t matter what Wallace says specifically. Peo
ple know he is talking about them.”
Millions of average folk, then, believe that most Demo
cratic leaders, including some of this year’s presidential
contenders, have just gone away from their world. The
bright young McGovern poll analyst, Pat Caddell, study
ing samples, finds alienation in the great middle far
greater and politically significant than anywhere else.
And O’Brien, a wise judge of national mood, strongly
confirms it.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
CHICAGO— Treasury Secre
tary John Connally, revealing
that a spot check of income tax
returns prepared by tax ser
vices showed that 97 per cent
were fraudulent:
“We will check hundreds,
thousands, perhaps even mil
lions of tax returns that we had
not anticipated checking on the
basis of this survey.”
WASHINGTON—Sen. Quentin
Burdick, D-N.D., on testimony
by W. R. Merriam, head of
ITT’s Washington office, that
he never saw a document
linking die company with a
contribution to the Republican
national convention, after lob
byist Dita Beard said she gave
Merriam such a document:
“Somebody is wrong.”
DAILY
Car) Reeves, General Manager
Bill Knight, Executive Editor
Quimby Melton,
Publisher
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Nearly 10 per cent of the
U.S. population or about
20 million persons are 65
years and older, according
to the 1970 Census, The
World Almanac notes. Os
this number, approximate
ly 6 million live in the
South, 2 million live in New
York, 1.8 million in Cali
fornia, 1.3 million in Penn
sylvania and 1.1 million in
Illinois.
Copyright © 1972.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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