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I By Quimby Melton
■b have chosen “There’s a
■1 New Song” as our Hymn of
■ Week. We do not know in
■ many hymnals it appears
■t is in the Baptist Hymnal
Hymn Number 311. A Baptist
■pd, a member of the First
Htist Church, gave us the
Hmal and we have found it
■ t helpful in writing our
Hrnn on hymns. This hymn
I written by Albert C. Fisher
■ 6-1946).
Be may have used this hymn
Hire, but we think it so good
■ are running it again.
I re’s a glad new song
■>ing in my heart,
■ h as angels would sing
■bove,
II the whole day long
I oth joy impart;
I; the song of redeeming love.
REFRAIN
■ His Love. . . .
liall ever sing Till above. .. .
I ehold the King;
|-ough eternity my glad song
■ hall be
| the Saviour’s redeeming
love.
lien my soul was lost
la starless night
liere my feet never ceased to
love,
I a dreadful cost
I sus brought me light,
I. because of redeeming love.
lien at last I stand
■th the heavenly choir
I the light of the throne above,
|i the golden strand
■shall never tire
I the song of redeeming love.
I'undee seeks
[olunteers
lor new unit
■Tie Dundee Volunteer Fire
Ipartment has called a
feting for Monday night for
l-sons interested in joining the
I Tiber three station.
ITie meeting will be held at
I Dundee Number One station
I Experiment at 7 p.m.
Irhe new number three station
pearing completion on High
ly 16 near the Everee road
lersection. The volunteer
Iganization is recruiting
ople to help man the new
nlity.
“I guess the Lord intended us
keep struggling or he
ouldn’t have put so many
lings just beyond our reach.”
Special session looms
ATLANTA (UPI) - A possi
lity looms that there may be
wther special session of the
eneral Assembly dealing with
{apportionment.
Such was the outlook Friday
■ter a hearing on the Justice
epartment’s suit challenging
e re-alignment plan of the
eorgia House of Representa
res.
A three-judge federal panel
■aring the challenge indicated
at the present plan would be
Commies
shell
Da Nang
SAIGON (UPl)—Communist
forces shelled the city of Da
Nang today, killing 33 civilians
and wounding 45 in one of the
worst such tolls of the war,
military spokesmen said. Guer
rilla troops spearheaded by
tanks attacked the embattled
provincial capital of An Loc in
the third attempt in as many
days to capture the city.
The Viet Cong radio claimed
that Communist troops had
seized An Loc and “annihilat
ed” its defenders. A relief force
of 1,000 South Vietnamese
paratroopers were airlifted into
the city to help the defenders
Friday.
The Communists seized Artil
lery Base Charlie, a key
government outpost 280 miles
north of Saigon, forcing aban
donment of the base after 24
hours of fighting. More than 300
rockets and mortars hit the
outpost. Government casualties
were not immediately deter
mined.
Military spokesmen said at
least 18 122 mm rockets
slammed into Da Nang, 360
miles northeast of Saigon.
Sources said the Soviet-made
shells took one of the worst
tolls in the war.
Four Rockets Hit
Four rockets hit around
Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Airbase,
killing at least 15 civilians and
wounding six, spokesmen said.
In the fighting at An Loc, 60
miles north of Saigon, spokes
men said eight Communist
tanks were destroyed by U.S.
jet bombers and government
ground troops using M 72
antitank weapons.
One American was killed and
two wounded today when a U.S.
Air Force Cl3O transport plane
was riddled with groundfire in
the An Loc sector, the U.S.
command said. Two of the
plane’s four engines were
knocked out but it made an
emergency landing at Tan Son
Nhut.
Another American was killed
late Friday when an Army UHI
chopper was shot down over
Binh Dinh Province on the
central coast. An AHI “Cobra”
helicopter gunship was hit by
groundfire Friday near Artille
ry Base Charlie, wounding one
of the American crewmen
aboard.
Saigon spokesmen said fight
ing in the northern sector of the
country Friday and early today
killed nearly 400 Communists.
They said the guerrillas early
today stormed a district
headquarters at Tam Quan in
Binh Dinh. A spokesman said 84
Communists were slain and
placed South Vietnamese losses
at 22 dead and 30 wounded, one
of the heaviest government tolls
since the North Vietnamese
offensive began March 30.
The U.S. command reported
20 852 bomber missions across
South Vietnam in the 24 hours
ending at noon today, heaviest
Stratofortress strikes since the
offensive began. Fire raids
were flown only one to two
miles outside An Loc.
rejected and House Speaker
George L. Smith told the court
that the General Assembly, and
not the court, should write any
new plan if the one passed on
the final day of the 1972 ses
sion is turned down.
Smith said such a special ses
ion could be called “within a
matter of two weeks” and prob
ably would not take any longer
than five days. But he also told
the court the legislature should
have guidelines for help in ar-
5-Star Weekend Edition
GRIFFIN
DAI EV # N EWS
Daily Since 1872
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This sketch shows what it will be like when Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride their
lunar rover over the rugged moonscape of Descartes. Rock samples collected on the Apollo 16
mission to the central highlands may date back to the original lunar surface. The area may contain
evidence of long-ago volcanic activity.
Apollo 16 crew relaxes
before flight to moon
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)-
Apollo 16 astronauts John W.
Young, Charles M. Duke and
Thomas K. Mattingly relaxed
from their long training grind
today before they climb aboard
a Saturn 5 rocket for Sunday’s
blastoff to the moon.
The astronauts had the day to
themselves and were expected
to stick close to their spaceport
living quarters where they have
been in relative quarantine for
Spalding to hold firm
on tax assessments
A1 Hill, Spalding tax assessor,
said today he did not plan to
begin raising property
assessments unless there is a
general move on the state level
to do so.
On the average, Spalding’s
assessments are at 30.12 per
cent, he said. State revenue
officials are seeking to raise the
riving at a solution.
The Justice Department has
maintained that 31 multi-mem
ber House districts in the latest
legislative plan endangered
Hack voter strength. However,
Deputy U. S. Atty. Gen. James
Turner said 10 of those districts
probably could be omitted from
consideration because of a small
Hack population.
The panel made no decision
Friday. It said it was taking the
suit under advisement but asked
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, April 15, 1972
three weeks to protect them
selves from viruses. A measles
bug cost Mattingly a flight on
Apollo 13 two years ago.
Young, the 41-year-old Navy
captain who is commander of
the mission, and lunar space
blip pilot Duke, 36, may visit
with their wives, who both were
given shots to immunize them.
Mattingly’s wife is pregnant
and will remain in Houston for
the launch.
assessments to 40 percent of
market value.
Mr. Hill said Spalding’s
assessments were above the
state average which is 20
percent.
Mr. Hill said if he gets a direct
order from the state revenue
department, he would have no
choice but to adjust the
attorneys on both sides to work
together to narrow the issues
and report back next week.
Assistant State Atty. Gen.
Harold Hill argued that the Jus
tice Department lacked jurisdic
tion in the case because it filed
its objection under the voter
rights act.
But Judge Griffin Bell, pre
siding at the hearing, agreed
that the U. S. attorney general
had jurisdiction as long as
“there is a change on one line
in one district.”
As crowds of “birdwatchers”
poured into the spaceport area,
the countdown continued to roll
without a hitch toward the
scheduled 12:54 p.m. EST
Sunday takeoff for the moon
and three days of exploring the
lunar highlands by Young and
Duke.
Weather forecasts remained
good, although forecasters were
keeping a watch on a cold front
which was expected to be in
assessments to meet state
requirements.
But he said in that event,
another state law requires that
tax millage rates be lowered by
an amount to match the in
crease by assessments.
What it would amount to here
is a lot of bookkeeping, Mr. Hill
suggested. It would not mean
Dedication
tomorrow
The Spalding County Con
valescent Center will have
dedication services Sunday at 2
p.m. The new nursing home
facility is at 615 Northside
drive, just off North. Hill ex
tension.
Rep. Jack Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin will be the dedication
speaker.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 85,
low today 64, high yesterday 85,
low yesterday 64, low tonight in
mid 60s, high Sunday in mid 80s.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:12, sunset
tomorrow 7:03.
Vol. 100 No. 89
North Florida by Sunday.
Tracking and recovery forces
were spread out around the
globe, ready for the start of the
12-day mission which will be
America’s next-to-last manned
moon expedition under current
plans.
“All elements of the team
report a ‘go’ for the fifth
manned lunar landing mission,”
said Mission Director Chet Lee
following a detailed review late
any more revenue, he said.
Mr. Hill gave this simplified
example to illustrate what state
officials are getting at: if a
piece of property in Spalding
county sold for SIOO, as recorded
in the office of the Superior
Court clerk’s office, it should be
assessed at least S4O in the
assessor’s office. Anything less
■would be less than the 40 per
cent of market value.
The Griffin Daily News asked
Mr. Hill to comment on a report
out of Atlanta indicating the
state planned to push for
assessments at 40 percent of
current market value in each of
the 159 counties in Georgia.
The state tax digest shows
that some S4O billion in property
is taxable in Georgia, but last
year’s assessments were only
S3O billion.
Urban legislators contended
during the past session of the
General Assembly that their
areas were being assessed prop
erly while some rural counties
have land greatly undervalued.
Friday by key members of the
launch team. After a final rest
period for ground crews, which
begins at 5 p.m today—at 2:54
a.m. Sunday—fueling of the
huge rocket begins.
Young, Duke and Mattingly
are due to climb into their
spacecraft about three hours
before launch time.
Spaceport workers got a big
morale boost Friday with the
announcement that the Kennedy
Scotland’s first quints
are doing quite well
EDINBURGH, Scotland
(UPl)—The mother of Scot
land’s first quintuplets, born
Friday at nearby Bangor
General Hospital, had not taken
any fertility drugs, a family
friend said today.
The quints—four girls and a
boy—were doing “quiet well,” a
hospital spokesman said. They
were under special care in
incubators.
The babies, each weighing
between two and three pounds,
were delivered six weeks
Half million
waiting deadline
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
taxpayers have until Monday
midnight to file their federal
and state income tax returns,
and about a half million are ap
parently going to wait until the
last minute.
Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) officials said late filings
are unusually heavy this year
because the deadline — April 15
—falls on a Saturday, giving
taxpayers two extra days to file.
Also, many citizens have" be-
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Space Center had been picked
as the main launch site for the
nation’s next big space venture,
the $5-5 billion space shuttle
program. Space Center Direc
tor Dr. Kurt Debus said the
decision saves the spaceport
from closing down at the end of
the Apollo and Skylab programs
in the mid-19725.
Apollo 16 is due back on
Earth April 28, with a
splashdown in the Pacific/
prematurely by Caesarian sec
tion to Mrs. Lilian Bostock, 32.
A family friend, who asked
not to be identified, said Mrs.
Bostock had taken no fertility
drugs or pills of any kind.
Dr. Janet Wroling, the
consultant obstetrician who
delivered the babies in less
than an hour, said doctors had
known for 11 weeks that a
multiple birth was expected.
Mrs. Bostock entered the
hospital after the diagnosis.
come concerned about fraudu
lent income tax preparers.
State revenue officials esti
mate that as many as 600,000.
taxpayers have yet to file their
state returns.
The IRS has beefed up its
staff statewide by adding 225
additional persons and post of
fices in many cities across the
state will put postmen on the
street to accept income 'tax re
turns.