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Griffin Daily News Friday, April 14,1972
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Women at 37
Know Fashion
“Fashion is what a her does to a hem to get a
him."
Changing Times
"Women know practically nothing about how to wear
clothes until they’re past age 27. They’re at their sharpest
in style at about age 37." So claims a renowned fashion
designer. Interesting. Age 37, you may recall, also is
known to be that year a married woman is most apt to
step out on her husband.
Someplace else I'd like
to see is Fairfax Hospital
in Falls Church, Va. There,
it's said, about 60 little
electronically operated
carts carry food and dishes
all over the building by
themselves. Roll down
hallways. Turn corners.
Take elevators. Unmanned.
Do just about everything
but insert thermometers, I
gather.
For the rest of the life, a
man should weigh what he
weighed when he was 25,
a woman when she was 22.
By those ages, the skele
tons have given up the
growth thing. Such is the
claim of a nutrition expert
Dr. Gene Mayer. Too de
pressing, this. Let's go
on.
QUERIES
That name “Wesley"
started out to mean “from
the west meadow,” know
that. But how did men come
to be so-called?
Quite so, far more west
erners than easterners are
shareholders in stocks.
But why is a mystery.
No lone dog ever whip
ped a grown raccoon, I'm
told. Can you claim other
wise?
Q. "How big is a hum
mingbird's nest?"
A. About the size of a
table tennis ball, but not
quite so heavy. Incidental
ly, note the bald eagle's
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feet across, weighs up to
two tons.
FLIRT
Too little praise of late
goes to the feminine flirt.
Unfortunate. She should be
honored. If women were
seasons, the flirtatious
girl would be springtime.
Remember Winthrop’s ob
servation: “A woman
without coquetry is as in
sipid as a rose without
scent, champagne without
sparkle, corned beef with
out mustard.”
In observing a gentle
man and his ladyfriend
for the first time, please
examine the width of their
foreheads. Whichever is
the wider above the ears
is bound to be the dominant
party in the household.
Such is the belief of those
whimsical specialists who
analyze personalities by
facial characteristics.
Another peculiarity
about that book "Tom
Sawyer" it was the first
novel ever submitted to a
publisher in typewritten
manuscript. In 1874, that
was. Mark Twain was also
greatly renowned in his
day as a hunt-and-peck
specialist.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L. M. Boyd
by Gill Fox
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, April 14, the
105th day of 1972.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
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.
British Antarctic explorer Sir
James Claru was born April 14,
1800.
On this day in history:
In 1861 the flag of the
Confederacy was raised over
Ft. Sumter, S.C., as Union
troops there surrendered.
In 1865 John Wilkes Booth
fatally shot President Abraham
lincoln during a performance
of “Our American Cousin” at
Ford’s Theater in Washington.
Lincoln died the next morning.
In 1910 President William
Howard Taft began a spring
time tradition by throwing out
the first baseball to open the
major league season.
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THOUGHTS
(J God, from my youth
thou hast taught me. and 1
still proclaim thy wondrous
deeds.—Psalms 71:17.
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Youth, though it may lack
knowledge, is certainly not
devoid of intelligence; it sees
through shams with sharp
and terrible eyes.—H e n r y
L. Mencken, philosopher.
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About that election
Georgians have been called upon on
numerous occasions to correct things
themselves, or have the federal courts do
it
A local example of this is the Spalding
County Board of Education referendum on
May 30.
It became apparent that the present
system did not meet the “one man, one
vote” requirement which now extends to
the school board level. The local Board of
Education recognized this, plus the fact
that if the inequity is not corrected locally
a court suit would come. There could be no
doubt as to the outcome of such a suit, so
the board took what we regard as the best
course under the circumstances. It
recommended legislation which will
correct the discrepancy. The board’s own
attorney (instead of a federal judge or his
appointee) drew it up. A local Grand Jury
endorsed it. The Legislature passed it.
Now it is to be submitted to the voters of
the county in the referendum.
What is your motto?
Back in the “days of olde” when men
were bold and women dressed like women,
the knights would decide upon a motto and
put it in French or Latin or German upon
their shields. These became family crests
and just about anybody with a last name
and ten bucks cash or credit can buy a
suitable one from a heraldry. (The price
includes a frame, but sales tax must be
added.)
Your editor’s maternal grandfather
recognized that a good motto can boost the
family spirits, so he sent his ten bucks to
Charleston or to New York or somewhere
and after awhile the family crest arrived.
The words were fine — “Death before
dishonor,” they said — but the picture was
111 the sunshine
There’s a good ring about the name
“sunshine” as applied to a law enacted by
the Georgia General Assembly to open
official state and local meetings to the
public.
The sunshine law does let the sun shine
in previously dark places. As logical as our
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Ricky Haygood dinner
While Ricky Haygood, a 17-year-old Pike
County High football player, remains
paralyzed from the head down at Emory
Hospital in Atlanta, his friends in this area
and around Georgia are raising money to
help pay for his medical treatment.
They are hoping that with prayers and
proper care that Ricky will fully recover.
Tomorrow night the Pike County Touch
down Club in cooperation with many of
Ricky’s friends will hold a Ricky Haygood
Benefit Dinner at the Pike County Gym.
Many sports celebrities, especially those
in football, will be on hand.
Norm Van Brocklin, coach of the Atlanta
Falcons, will be the principal speaker.
Frank Wall, president of the Falcons will
Times changing;
God’s law is not
These are time of changes, in beliefs,
values and doctines. I believe that your
work would be more effective if you kept
this in mind and updated your theology. A.
E.
I couldn’t disagree with you more!
The Bible emphatically teadies, that,
although times and fashions change, that
God’s laws are unchangeable. The Bible
says: “I am the Lord I change not.”
Malachi 3:6. He is a pivotal, fixed point in
the universe, and orderly societies, and an
orderly universe must geared to Him.
You say that everything changes, but
this is not true. Sdentific formulae are
unchangeable. Man must conform to
\point
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4336
It boils down to all 10 members being
voted on by voters in both the city and in
the county outside the city, instead of half
of them coming from each.
The Spalding Board of Education has
faced many more difficult decisions than
this one but has acted responsibly and
retained as much local control of the
system as possible under the
circumstances. Boards of education some
other places in Georgia and elsewhere
have not. Consequently, federal courts are
making decisions for them.
Things are not perfect by a jug-full, but
we are a lot better off in Griffin and
Spalding than we would have been if our
school board members had shirked their
duties. Not many of them are getting rich
from the job, either. They are paid S2O a
month and get two free tickets to high
school football games. And if they miss a
general meeting, they forfeit the S2O even
if they have attended a dozen committee
meetings.
terrible. Our distinguished-looking
ancestor was handsome indeed, full beard
and all. His eyes were closed though, and
this was no surprise since one end of a rope
was tied about his neck and the other to the
limb of a tree.
Family mottos are not assembled too
often these days, but if we ever are called
upon to paint one on our own shield, we
have one acquired gradually during 14
years in politics and nearly 27 as an editor.
It is, “Never turn your back on an enemy.
Or on a friend.”
We do not know how to say that in Latin,
or in French or in German. In good old
American, though, it speaks for itself.
explanation is, that’s not where the name
came from. It was modeled after an open
meeting law in Florida, which is known for
its sunshine. But whatever the background
of the name, government in the sunshine
has healthful connotations. - New Orleans
(La.) Times-Picayune
also attend along with several Falcon
football players.
Bill Fulcher, the new head coach at
Georgia Tech, and some of his players will
be there. The Georgia Bulldogs will also be
represented.
Morris Stroud of Griffin and an out
standing member of the Kansas City
Chiefs has accepted an invitation.
Many area high school coaches and
players plan to attend the special.
The barbecue dinner is a $5 a plate af
fair. All proceeds will go to the Ricky
Haygood Fund.
It’s a tribute to athletes from high school
through the pros that they will take time
out to aid one of their members.
universal law if he wants to survive. The
multiplication tables have never changed.
The alphabet is unchanged. The stars
move in fixed, prescribed courses. The sun
moves in an unchangeable orbit, and if it
did change, we would either freeze or be
burned to death. The calendar does not
change, The tides do not change. And
God’s will for mankind does not change.
His judgments do not change. His com
mandments do not change. God’s love and
mercy do not change. Hell does not
change, and heaven is unchanged.
I am more concerned with updating my
dedication to God, than in “updating” my
theology. The thing that needs changing is
human nature; not the nature of God.
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
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WASHINGTON (NEA>
Consider these examples of the Democratic party try
ing to grapple with the issues in a presidential year:
At one county convention in Minnesota, where the party!
is going through the presidential delegate selection proc j
ess, not one of 129 resolutions submitted for action had
anything to do with the nation’s economy.
When the liberally bent California Democratic Coun-,
cil met recently, the great preponderance of its resolu
tions had to do with what troubled economically strapped
Americans. They see as high-flown, remote issues Bang
ladesh, Thailand, amnesty, etc.
In late January, I attended a delegate-choosing precinct
caucus in an affluent university district in Des Moines, k
lowa. Some 55 people churned over issues and men fori
four hours, and there was virtually no mention either off
the state of the economy, of bristling tax issues, or evens
of the Vietnam war in a direct sense.
The participants seemed not to realize how ludicrous
it sounded when one aspirant to the county conventions
(next step up) rose to make his case and said:
“Let’s see now. I’ll just go through the issues—am
nesty, abortion, legalizations of marijuana . . .”
There were, of course, several young people on hand,
which would account for some stress on these matters.
But there were also plenty of adults, and they all seemed
blacked-out to the real world outside.
In a very major way, so does much of the Democratic
party leadership, including some of the presidential bid
ders the lowans were voting on that cold, snowy night.
The oddest commentary on the great gap between voter
concerns and the Democrats’ political discourse is the
fact that bantam Gov. George Wallace of Alabama is
now hailed as the alarm clock who stirred them all to
what’s on the average American’s mind
Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien says ■
he hears often from party rank and file that “at least “
Wallace has shaken these guys up.”
If, in fact, the Democratic leaders needed Wallace to
ring the bell for them, it’s a confession of incredible fail
ure They can all read. For years there have been color
ful accounts of the discontents of the harassed middle
income American. Where have they all been?
Today, most of the big contenders look like chumps,
stumbling after Wallace on such telling populist themes
as high property taxes, government’s bigness and in
difference, its focus on faraway places.
In this shameful exercise they give Wallace too much
He uses the populist tack negatively, ridiculing bureau
crats, laughing at “pointy-heads” he says run our lives
from Washington, but offering no constructive remedies
Still, his rivals keep trying to hijack that little Wallace
three-seater. Populist One, as if it were the big 747 in
the sky.
The tough core in all this is that, even if they should
stop quaking over Wallace and talk positively to people
they’ve neglected a long time, they really can’t offer
much cheerful prospect for them There’s illusion, too,
in the resounding simplicities of the candidates who strike
a little chord with antigovernment refrains.
O’Brien says the needed “real talk” comes hard:
“There’s an element of sacrifice in it for the average
man (still more burdens). It’s not a pretty thing, not a
Christmas present.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY -Mervyn
M. Martin, Rocky Mountain
director of the Federal Aviation
Administration, telling news
media they should not publicize
airplane hijackings:
“Let’s play up the convic
tions, the deaths to hijackers
and extortionists and the
penalties to all who dare
threaten our air transportation
system and the millions of
people who use and operate it.”
SAUKVILLE, Wis.—Dr. Ros
tilav Isvin, Saukville’s first
resident doctor since 1924,
explaining why he is willing to
make house calls:
“After all, this a small town
and I can walk most of the
[daces I have to go.”
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