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L M. BOYD
Most Mores
Fool At Night
Why do nine out of 10 mares foal at night? And why
most particularly on a rainy night? Horse breeders dont
know.
National pollsters say that side dish most despised
by soldiers in the U.S. Army is chilled asparagus salad.
Understandable.
Thieves in scuba gear are emerging from the depths
to swipe motors off boats
at waterside resorts all
over the country. I’m told.
That stylish girls 80
years ago padded their
backsides with the thing
called the bustle you know.
But did you know stylish
women of 800 years ago
padded their frontsides?
Then, the protruding mid
section was in. Visited
upon all the village wo
men of Europe, it seemed
by appearances, was the
extreme embrace of a dis
solute army, and it was
fashionable everywhere
among girls from eight to
80 to precede themselves
bulbously in the streets.
QUERIES
Q. “Didn't Dorothy Park
er write ’Excuse My Dust’
as her own epitaph?’’
A. She wrote two. The
other was: “Involved in
a Plot."
Q. “I say there’s a musi
cal instrument called a
‘kit,’ but this stupid good
for-nothing bartender
doesn't talk my language.
Do you?”
A. Not fluently, but do
know a kits is a little violin
about the size of a half
pint. Eighty-six.
Can you name the second
worst wartime mistake in
U.S. military history?
Dont mention Viet Nam.
Surveys indicate that's
thought to be No. 1 now.
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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"Four escape attempt* before I got the idea . . .
I’d let them rehabilitate me . . . been rehabilitated.
three time* so far!"
No. 2, it’s said, was the
internment of the West
Coast Japanese during
World War 11. What’s
No. 3?
HAIRDO
“A change of hairdo,”
says a Boise, Idaho, doc
tor, “is the best prescrip
tion I know for a grieving
widow or a desperate
divorcee." Maybe the old
boy’s got something there.
You know what Mary Aus
tin said: “When a woman
ceases to alter the fashion
of her hair, you can guess
she has passed the crisis
of her experience.”
Pity the poor spider.
Confined to a liquid diet.
No steaks, no chops. The
spider cant chew.
That cancer most com
mon among men is a malig
nancy of the skin. Among
women, of the breast.
Maybe you didnt know
Lake Tahoe contains
enough water to cover the
entire state of California
up to 14 inches deep.
All the city buses in
Durban, South Africa, are
fixed with outside racks
for fishing poles. Now
that's all right.
Addrtss mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, April 13,
the 104th day of 1972.
The moon is new.
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.
Erank Woolworth, founder of
the five-and-dime stores, was
born April 13, 1852.
On this day in history:
In 1865 Union General Wil
liam Sherman took Raleigh,
N.C., ending his “March to the
Sea.”
In 1934 in the depths of the
Depression, federal Civil Works
Administrator Harry Hopkins
reported 4.7 million American
families were receiving welfare
payments.
In 1941 Russia and Japan
signed a five-year neutrality
pact.
In 1964 Sidney Poitier became
the first black man to win a
motion picture “Oscar” as the
best actor for the previous
year.
today s FUNNY
gfliliTiON — HOW
A WOMAN WOWS’
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THOUGHTS
If you really fulfill the
royal law, according to the
scripture, “You shall love
your neighbor as yourself,"
you do well. —James 2:8.
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Slowly and painfully man
is learning that he must do
to others what he would
have them do to him. —An-
thony Eden, British states
man.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4336
Welcome to the beasts
Pretty soon now the lions and elephants
and chimpanzees and all kinds of other
jungle animals will be on display at Lion
Country Safari in nearby Henry County.
We believe that this will be one of the
greatest tourist attractions in Georgia,
which already has become quite a tourist
state.
The thousands of people who pour in to
see the lions and elephants and each other
will pour thousands of dollars into the
economy of the state, and into this part of
the state in particular.
Stone Mountain and Six Flags are not far
from here. Lion Country is even closer. It
will be a big boost, and we can hardly wait
Speaking of beauty...
Here of late we have been writing and
thinking a lot about beautifying Griffin.
This is a good thing to write and to think
about because our town could stand a lot of
beautifying, as what place could not?
So, speaking of beauty, it was
particularly in mind when we visited
Augusta last week to watch the golfers and
the girls at the Masters.
The city must have been at its very
finest. Azaleas and dogwoods and all kinds
of blooming and flowering plants were
bursting out all over the place, in yards
and along street as well as on the links of
the National Golf Club which must be the
prettiest this side of Heaven — or of the
other place where golfers three-putt all the
greens and drive into all the ponds.
Augusta was beautiful indeed.
And the girls! My gracious they were
pretty. They seemed to be blooming right
We sure are listening
The little piece we started a few weeks
ago called “We’re Listening” has caught
on fast and the mail keeps coming. We are
getting so much that we need another set
of ears. Glad we started it, though. The
biggest problem of all is not having
somebody listen to you. So if you want to
get something off your chest, write us. We
are glad to listen.
We can not possibly use all of the letters,
and we won’t discuss race, religion or
Four cents a year
The lengths to which some New York
City savings banks are going to attract
customers verges on the ridiculous. Some
banks have been advertising that they will
compound interest daily instead of
quarterly. A few now are saying they will
compound interest “continuously” or
“every second.” Wow! At a bank paying 5
Inwardly full
of dead men’s bones
I have often heard people say,
“Cleanliness Is better than Godliness.” Do
you agree with this? F.H.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that
cleanliness is superior to Godliness. There
are many texts of Scripture which suggest
that Godliness is superior to physical
cleanliness. For example, Jesus said to the
Pharisees: “You make clean the outside
of the cup, but inwardly are full of dead
men’s bones.” He also said in Mar 7:15,
“There is nothing without a man, that
entering into him can defile him: but the
things which come out of him, those are
they that defile him.”
Physical cleanliness, however, is a
to see it ourselves.
In the meantime, a deer jumped to the
side of the road and out of sight right near
home as we caught it in the car headlights
the other night The fish will really get to
biting at High Falls and at Jackson
Lake just as soon as the water warms up a
bit more. Rabbits are jumping around in
the pasture behind the house and crimson
cardinals are adding vivid patches of color
to the hedgerows. Oh, this part of Georgia
is a great place to live.
So, welcome lions, and elephants, and
chimpazees. And welcome, too, you
tourists.
along with the flowers and the fashion
show was a sight to behold. We’ve seen top
shows in New York’s Music Hall and other
places, at the old Earl Carroll s Theater
where the coffee was not like Mom’s, nor
the girls like the ones next door. But the
girls in Augusta who were watching the
boys watch them were an even prettier
and fresher sight to see.
All of which leads to the observation that
none of the beautiful streets or yards of
Augusta was a speck prettier than some of
those here at home in Griffin. Nor were the
beauties prettier than those we see every
morning just before the bell rings for
classes to start at Griffin High.
Admittedly, we have not seen any golfers
around this town to match Jack Nicklaus,
but we have seen some coats just as green
as his, and after the tournament he went
some place else anyhow.
national origin. Nor will we allow the
space to be used in a personal grudge. But
of course YOU wouldn’t want to use it for
anything like that anyway, so be sure that
we are listening and please take this as a
personal thank you for your rapid
acceptance as a reader of this new feature.
P.S. We have some more things in the
works, which we hope you will like.
per cent on a regular savings account,
“continuous” compounding returns $512.71
in annual interest on a SIO,OOO account.
How much does a customer get from
“continuous” compounding over daily
compounding? Four cents a year. -
Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier
MY
ANSWER'., J!
desireable thing for everyone. Every
normal person like clean food, clean beds,
and a clean body. But what Jesus was
emphasizing was the cleanliness per se,
physically, does not necessarily imply
spiritual hygiene. In other words a person,
can be clean in body but dirty in spirit, and
vice versa, one can be unclean physically,
and clean spiritually. Os course both are
recommended and implied. While soap is
the cleaning agent for the body, the
deansing blood of the Savior is the
cleansing agent for the soul. The Bible
says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. ” (I John 1:9).
God has provided the means both for a
clean body and a dean spirit
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RAY CROMLEY I
Hand of Kremlin I
Is Pushing Hanoi ■
By RAY CROMLEY
Hanoi’s current attack pattern in South Vietnam tastesl
more of Moscow than of Hanoi.
It likewise runs counter to very strong advice given ■
by Mao Tse-tung’s representatives in North Vietnam.
The inevitable conclusion, backed by bits and pieces ■
of other evidence, is that Hanoi is moving closer to theß
Soviet Union. And away from China.
This is further confirmed by the obviously great Soviet ■
investment in North Vietnam over the past year—in tanks, ■
modern antiaircraft weapons and efficient artillery. j
All this has consequences for the United States, for]
Southeast Asia and for China.
The Soviet pattern here is similar to the Moscow in-■
volvement in the Middle East and in the India-Pakistan ■
war—first, heavy quantities of military supplies, then ■
Soviet promises of diplomatic backing and promises of ■
more supplies and, finally, direct or indirect Soviet en- I
couragement for strong military action.
If these North Vietnamese attacks are successful, even I
partially, they will strengthen Moscow’s position through- |
out Indochina and in Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Success would likewise push Moscow one step further I
along in its encirclement of China.
On the contrary, if the North Vietnamese drive fails, I
Moscow has lost nothing.
Traditionally, major Communist offensives of the type I
now being carried out in Vietnam are followed by a diplo- I
matic move of considerable importance.
The political move is time precisely with the high point I
of the military attacks. In the past, the Communists have |
been known to station their diplomats strategically, then I
send a wire from the military command post at the exact I
moment of triumph—however short lived. The object has 1
been to strike politically at the hour of their greatest I
advantage.
The Vietnam military attacks are timed so closely to I
President Nixon’s trip to Moscow it may well be the I
political ultimatum could be obliquely offered during I
Nixon’s visit. It is understood North Vietnamese officials I
of considerable stature have arranged to be in Moscow
immediately before Mr. Nixon arrives.
Leonid I. Brezhnev would certainly be in a very strong I
position to say to President Nixon on his visit to the Soviet
Union that if the United States wants peace in the world
and a settlement of the Vietnam war, then he, Mr. Nixon, • I
must deal through the Kremlin.
The implications of all this for the United States are
serious.
What is clear is that the Soviet Union in the Middle
East in South Asia and now in Southeast Asia has given
clear signs that it is not about to enter any meaningful
arrangement for cutting back the tensions around the
world.
The Kremlin may agree to some form of strategic arms
limitation, which could be a blessing whatever the Soviet
intentions. But the indications now are that such an
agreement would be intended merely to give the Soviet
Union more leeway for fishing in troubled waters world
wide without fear of nuclear war at home.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Sen. Mike
Gravel, D-Alaska, pleading that
a vote be taken on his proposal
that the Senate decide whether
to declare war on North
Vietnam:
“Maybe we could make it
clear to the President if there
are sufficient ‘no’ votes that
there isn’t sufficient support for
this war.”
SHIRAZ, Iran — Saltanant
Haskari, who lost four children
in an earthquake which may
have killed as many as 4,000
persons:
“I screamed ‘earthquake!
earthquake! earthquake!’
Everything fell around me. It
was horrible.”
DETROIT — Graham Steen
hoven, president of the U.S.
Table Tennis Association, com
menting on the American
team’s chances against a
visiting Chinese group of ping
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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The porpoise or dolphin
is a highly intelligent, play
ful mammal often credited
with saving men from
sharks. The World Almanac
notes that thousands of por
poises are killed annually
by tuna fishermen because
some dolphins swim with
schools of tuna and drown
when netted with the tuna.