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■ “Joy Within” is a special
■Mother’s Day” article pre-
Bared for this week’s issue of
■Decision." This weekly maga-
Bine is issued by the Billy Gra-
Bam team* This article,
■eatured on page 1, is compiled
Brom speeches delivered by
Blrs. Morrow Coffee Graham,
Bnother of Dr. Billy Graham.
I And even though “Mother’s
■Jay” is a month away we are
Beproducing part of this
■nessage because we believe it
Bill interest many, who do not
Beceive the magazine
■‘Decision.”
I Only wish we had the space to
Reproduce the entire article.
■ We all want to be happy.
■Each of us longs for joy, peace
land contentment in life. The
■search for these things is
■universal.
I Upon what do we depend for
■our happiness? Is it bright sun
■shine and clear skies? No. Is it
luxurious living? No. Fine
■clothes and lovely homes? Is it
■money that brings the desired
■peace of mind? No. Is it fun?
■No. Fun is a passing experience
land does not always express
■joy. Is it humor? No. Humor, as
Iwe normally understand the
■meaning of the word, does not
■necessarily bring happiness.
I Only when we live close to our
I Master, only when we come to
■ him in prayer confessing our
I shortcomings, only when we
I have that assurance that we are
I saved through the blood of
■ Jesus Christ, do we have that
I peace of mind and soul that con-
I veys happiness.
The Christian joy is from
I within. Joy, for the Christian, is
I the result of an inward sense of
I peace which comes from a right
I relationship with God. Our first
I joy is the consciousness that
I Christ is ours. I mention this
I joyous aspect of Christianity
I because the world is so full of
I just the opposite. Everywhere
I we meet with hopelessness, lack
I of assurance, and other things
I that bring sorrow to the heart
I and a pallor to the earth.
Do we Christians not feel so
discouraged at times that we
are prone to believe that God
has ceased to bless us? But God
has not changed. He is the same
yesterday, today and forever.
The trouble is with us. We fail to
do our part, to seek his counsel
and to ask his advice about
everyday living. To experience
joy — the greatest joy in life —
we need to keep before our
thoughts God’s supreme gift to
us. From his hand we constant
ly receive untold mercies. Each
day is marked by the outpour
ing of his great love.
When discouragements come,
and we feel it is no longer
worthwhile to push forward or
even to take another step; when
friends doubt us, and it seems
as if the whole world is tram
pling over us, there is some
thing we can do. We can come to
Jesus and ask him to accept us
just as we are. We can step out
of the old way of living into the
new way that God has so
graciously provided for us.
Christianity is not merely
belief in a set of doctrines. It is
not a law that says, “Do this!”
and “Don’t do that! ” It is a new
life in Christ.
“I wonder why a preacher
with a vital message for his
members so often phrases it to
sound like he meant someone
else.”
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ROTC students at Griffin High pass in review during annual federal inspection parade at Memorial Stadium this
morning.
Downtown committee
pushes on with drive
The Downtown Improvement
Committee hopes to have some
rough sketches within several
weeks of plans. Meanwhile, the
committee decided to go ahead
with fund raising efforts while
the project has the momentum.
A committee of 40 Griffinites
working on the program heard a
review of the project yesterday
afternoon at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Felton Rainwater, Griffin
businessman who is chairman
of the committee, gave a report.
A few members asked him if
the committee could do a better
selling job of the project if they
had sketches and definite
proposals to show when calling
fbr contributions.
Mr. Rainwater agreed that
the sketches and other details
would help to sell the idea. But
he said it would be several
weeks before such plans could
be drafted. Meanwhile, he said
he would like to keep the
momentum of the program
going.
Hardware dealer Herbert
Bolton raised the question of
waiting until sketches and plans
were drawn before direct
solicitation for funds was
begun.
After discussion, Mr. Bolton
agreed that the committee
should push ahead with plans
now while the project has
momentum.
The committee is seeking to
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raise $50,000 to get the project
started.
University of Georgia of
ficials who specialize in
downtown beautification
planning will be here May 9, 10
to talk with the committee.
Architect Gerald Bilbro of
Griffin who is a committee
Speaker Smith eyes Monday call
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
House Speaker George L. Smith
said Tuesday he will recom
mend Gov. Jimmy Carter call
a special session of the General
Assembly after a three - judge
federal panel told the legisla
ture to reapportion its lower
house.
Smith said he would suggest
that the governor call the ses
sion to begin next Monday and
promised that he would have a
reapportionment plan ready for
the judges to consider the week
of May 1.
The Justice Department had
objected to 14 multi - member
districts in the House and a
hearing had been held earlier.
Tuesday, Judge Griffin Bell of
the U. S. sth Circuit Court of
Appeals who headed the panel
told attorneys for the state af
ter another hearing of almost
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, April 19, 1972
member suggested that it might
be three or four weeks after the
planners come here before any
sketches could be drafted.
Mr. Rainwater has often said
he would like to see several
downtown lighted fountains
installed as part of the
beautification project, if they
two hours to “do what they ask
if you want to end the Justice
Department’s litigation.”
Originally, the Justice De
partment had objected to 32
multi-member districts as possi
bly diluting black voter strength
but reduced the figure by 17 in
districts where racial minorities
were either small or spread out
throughout the district.
The three-judge panel later
deleted Glynn County because
it has always been a two-mem
ber district.
The panel also heard a suit
brought by former State Sen. G.
Everett Millican charging that
the state Senate was gerry
mandered to favor incumbents
with the effect of under-repre
senting north Georgians and
over - representing southern
areas.
Bell indicated that a decision
would be returned soon in the
prove to be practical. He said
there might be room for three or
more.
“What we need is some coins
for three fountains,” Mr. Bilbro
remarked with tongue in cheek.
The committee broke into
sniles and agreed.
City Manager Roy Inman said
matter.
There is an urgency in the
call of the special session—the
second in less than a year —
because filing for state offices
begins on May 15 for Republi
cans and May 17 for Demo
crats.
If a special session is called
it will be the third time the
legislature has had to deal with
reapportionment of one sort or
another since last September.
The districts were drawn the
last time on the last day of the
regular 1972 session in an at
tempt to satisfy an earlier ob
jection by the Justice Depart
ment to the realignment drawn
up in the previous special ses
sion.
State Rep. Bill Williams, D-
Gainesville, chairman of the
House Reapportionment Com
mittee, told the court that his
group had worked solely on a
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that the city commissioners
already are moving toward a
downtown beautification
program. He said that the city
would spend a considerable
amount of money on things that
would blend with the overall
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“one-man, one-vote” basis.
“That’s all we considered,”
Williams said. “We had no
breakdown as to race.”
But Bell told him: “Now
you’re in the hands of the Jus
tice Department and you must
consider race.
“When you take on as big a
job as apportioning a state as
large as Georgia with the sec
ond largest number of counties
in the nation, and you get ob
jections on only 15 districts, part
of DeKalb County, and in the
mountains, you did a good job.
Don’t be downcast about it.”
The Justice Department has
recommended that the 14 multi
member districts be broken up
into 40. Bell said suits were
pending in two other districts—
District 4 which include Fannin
and Gilmore Counties and Dis
trict 56 which includes DeKalb
Spalding-Fayette |
are not included
The Spalding County-Fayette
County-part of Coweta County
legislative district was not
included in the federal court
order to reapportion.
It is a two-member district
presently represented by
Quimby Melton, Jr., Post One,
and Clayton Brown, Jr., in Post
Two. Melton has announced
that he will not seek reelection.
Former Representative George
Gaissert and Griffin insurance
man Dick Hyatt have an
nounced that they will seek the
post. Others are considering
running for it also. Brown plans
to seek another term.
County—and suggested the leg
islature take a look at them al
though! they are not part of the
Justice Department challenge.
Guidelines suggested called
for each of the disputed districts
to be divided into one-member
political subdivisions, that they
be compact and contigious, that
any racial makeup be con
sidered, and that there be no
gerrymandering.
The 14 districts included:
— District 62 made up of
Clarke and part of Oconee and
Barrow counties.
— District 65 including Troup
and part of Coweta, Heard and
Meriwether counties.
— District 74 including Pike,
Lamar, Upson and part of
Butts.
— District 76 including Bul
lock, Screven and part of
Burke.
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The court did require that the
proposed new district consisting
of parts of Butts, Pike, Lamar
and Upson Counties be revised,
and also the one composed of
Troup and parts of Coweta,
Heard, and Meriwether
Counties. All the counties in the
first group except Upson adjoin
Spalding. In the other district
Coweta and Meriwether touch
Spalding.
Spalding’s two represen
tatives said today that they will
attempt to keep the district as it
is and guard against changes in
adjoining counties sweeping
into Spalding or Fayette
Counties.
— District 77 made up of
Jefferson, the remainder of
Burke and parts of McDuffie,
Richmond and Warren.
— Districts 85, 86 and 87
which includes Muscogee Coun
ty-
— District 89 made up of
Bibb and Twiggs.
— District 102, including Lau
rens, Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski,
Wilcox and part of Telfair
County.
— District 114 including Dou
gherty, Lee, Baker and part of
Calhoun.
— District 115 including Dool
ey, Turner, Worth, Ben Hill,
Crisp, Irwin and part of Cof
fee.
— District 122 including Col
quitt and Mitchell.
— District 124 including
Lowndes, Lanier, Echols and
Brooks.