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By Quimby Melton
The Psalms has been called
Hymns of the Old Testament”,
hey were sung just as we sing
ymns today.
Charles Wesley, (1707-1788)
rho is credited with having
Titten more than 6,500 hymns;
ke many other men and
'omen who wrote hymns, often
>und Psalms their inspiration,
nly a few other books in the
Id Testament are so credited,
ere is one — Exodus 13-21 —
lat inspired Wesley to write
>e hymn “Captain of Israel’s
lost.”
Believe our readers might be
iterested. Here it is:
aptain of Israel’s host, and
guide
f all who seek the land above,
eneath thy shadow we abide,
he cloud of thy protecting
love;
ur strength, thy grace;
ir rule, thy word;
ur end, the glory of the Lord.
y thine unerring spirit led,
1e shall not in the desert
stray;
te shall not full direction need,
or miss our providential way;
s far from danger as from
fear,
Tiile love, almighty love, is
near.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -Con
•essmen spent almost $1
million of the taxpayers’ money
i “official trips” abroad last
ear. It was a record figure.
The Congressional Record
dicated Friday that the
mount of cash alone laid out
) pay for living expenses and
jmmercial travel of congress
len and aides ranged from
100,000 to $900,000.
Not included in the totals
sere sizable but undisclosed
ims spent on transportation
rovided by the military for
ongressional travelers.
The sum also did not reflect
osts incurred by U.S. embas
ies abroad who had to wine,
ine and guide the lawmakers
nd occasionally their wives.
Defenders of congressional
verseas trips describe them as
study missions” which allow
awmakers to broaden their
erspective on the world,
mprove their ability to legis
ite, and at times turn up
efficiency and corruption in
American government opera
ions abroad.
But critics have labeled the
rips as “junkets” that essenti
dly are taxpayer-financed joy
ides on which congressmen
ind their aides jet their way
iround the world on up to SSO a
lay expenses.
Last year, the administration
ook several legal steps to stem
he serious dollar deficit that
las been plaguing the United
States. It also called upon
Americans to voluntarily spend
heir dollars at home instead of
rverseas, but the advice
ipparently was not heeded by
jongressmen.
“A fellow always ought to
think he’s going to*do a little
better than he knows he will.”
Gordon president
wants Griffin support
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ATLANTA—-The crash of a light plane near Atlanta’s Hartfield Airport early today took the lives
of four passengers and the pilot The FAA said the plane, an Aero-Commander, owned by the J&H
Supply Co., of Gary, Indiana, was making an instrument approach to the airport when it crashed
and burned in a wooded area. (UPI)
Crash kills five
ATLANTA (UPI) - A twin
engine plane on a flight from
Gary, Ind., to Atlanta crashed
and burned near Hartsfield In
ternational Airport early today,
killing all five persons on board.
The victims were not im
mediately identified by Jack
Barker, a spokesman for the
Federal Aviation Administra
tion, said the bodies of three
men and two women were found
Special session
Is it on or off?
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
legislators anxiously awaited
word today on whether they will
meet Monday in a special re
apportionment session or not.
In a move that caught many
top state leaders by surprise,
the U. S. Supreme Court acted
on a plea by state Atty. Gen.
Arthur Bolton and stayed a fed
eral court injunction against the
House and Senate reapportion
ment plans.
House Speaker George L.
Smith, who was caught una
ware, said dryly, “The House
will be ready Monday morn
ing.”
But Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox,
who didn’t like the idea of a
special session anyway, fired off
a telegram to Gov. Jimmy Car
ter in South America asking
him to cancel the session.
Carter issued the session call
Friday after a three judge fed
eral panel enjoined the state
from holding legislative elec
tions until the reapportionment
question is settled.
Some state leaders said they
thought the stay will only pro
long the chaos over the reap
portionment issue.
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in the wreckage.
The plane, according to the
FAA, was an Aero Commander,
number N6319U, owned by the
J&H Supply Co. of Gary.
Barker said the plane was on
an instrument flight plan from
Gary to Atlanta and was mak
ing an instrument approach to
the airport runway at 1:27 a.m.
when it disappeared from the
control tower radar scope.
Bolton argued in his briefs
that the order handed down by
the lower court would require
“an expensive and perhaps un
necessary” special session and
the state would lose its right to
qipeal.
Citing the cost of a session at
$14,000 per day, Bolton said the
reapportionment cases contain
unconstitutional points needing
Supreme Court review. He said
these points will be “moot” if
the General Assembly is forced
to enact new reapportionment
plants.
The House plan was thrown
out by the lower court because
of a Justice Department objec
tion, while the Senate plan fell
when a private suit was filed
charging it violated the one
man, one vote concept.
The Justice Department ob
jected to 14 specific multi-mem
ber districts with numerical
posts and majority runoffs
which might prove discrimina
tory against blacks.
Bolton said objection, filed on
the basis of the 1965 Voting
Rights Act, is not legal. He ar-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, April 22, 1972
He said the aircraft crashed
and burned about four miles
west of the airport near the
Lakeside Country Club in a
wooded area. Barker said the
cause of the crash was not
known but that weather did not
appear to be a factor.
Ambulances removed the
bodies to Grady Hospital and
the Fulton County medical
examiner’s office began the
task of identification.
gued that the act pertains to po
litical changes in voting proce
dures after passage of the act
not to reapportionment. Bolton
said multi - member districts
were an established method of
reapportionment before the act
was passed.
He also objected to the Jus
tice Department challenge on
grounds it was based largely on
an inability to determine wheth
er the reapportionment plan
would dilute black voting
strength or not.
The Senate plan was chal
lenged by former state Sen. Ev
erett Millican who contended
that some north Georgia and
metropolitan counties were un
der represented. He said that
districts sometimes varied in
population by as much as two
per cent.
Under ideal representation, all
districts would have the same
number of people.
Bolton argued that in other
states federal courts have al
lowed variances greater than
those occurring in the Georgia
Senate plan.
He said Georgia made “a
good faith effort” to achieve ex-
Gordon Junior College’s
president-elect Dr. Jerry
Williamson forsees the Bar
nesville school as a community
college for Griffin, when the
Board of Regents takes over
operation of the institution on
July 1.
“I am really counting on
Griffin to be a major source of
students, as well as moral
support, within our service
area,” Dr. Williamson said.
Dr. Williamson is closing out
his duties as dean of the college
at Clayton Junior College in
Morrow, Ga.
“Since the school will soon be
a part of the university system,
it will mean that students will
be receiving a quality education
at a low cost, and that credits
will be readily transferable to
other colleges in the system,”
he pointed out.
Beginning with fall quarter in
September, students attending
full-time (three classes) will
pay fees totalling sllO, while a
person taking one five-hour
regular course will pay $37.50.
One striking change in
Gordon’s campus will be the
conversion of one of the men’s
dormitories into women’s
housing.
“We hope to attract as many
female boarding students as we
can, to give our projected
student body of 700-800 a good
balance,” Williamson said.
Other changes in campus life
will include the elimination of
the Gordon secondary school,
and the shifting of ROTC to an
optional class basis, if an
agreement can be worked out
with the Army to continue the
program.
Commenting on admission
policies, Dr. Williamson ex
plained that an effort will be
made to match each student
with classes to meet his needs.
“Everyone who applies for
admission will get a chance to
prove what he can or cannot
do,” he said.
Gordon Junior College
training will be divided into
three basic areas: a college
transfer program aimed at
act mathematical equality.
“The state hopes by this ap
peal to give the (Supreme)
court an opportunity to refine
its concept of ‘good faith ef
fort...’,” Bolton added.
The announcement from
Washington that a special ses
sion may not be needed came
as the House Reapportionment
Committee neared completion
on a plan answering the Justice
Department’s objections.
“We’re ready, except for Mus
cogee and Dougherty counties,
and they’re on their way,” said
Reapportionment Committee
chairman, Rep. Bill Williams,
D-Gainesville. “We will vote a
bill out of committee by 11 a.m.
Monday and it will be in the
House a short time later.”
In the Senate, Sen. Stanley
Smith, D-Perry, has had a sub
committee of his committee on
Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency in Government work
ing on the revamping plan for
the upper house.
Smith said his committee has
a meeting scheduled Monday
morning and promised “there
will be no delay.”
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moving the student toward a
four year degree at a senior
college; a developmental
program aimed at providing
students with supplemental
classes in math, English, or
reading to insure adaquate
preparation before attempting
college credit courses; and a
career program aimed at
providing students with an
educational program which
would lead to employment in
the surrounding community
after graduation.
“We will also be offering
bright high school seniors a
chance for dual enrollment
between their schools and the
college, where, for a part of the
day, they would be able to get
college credit for courses,” Dr.
Williamson added.
The program for high
achieving high school seniors
will be called the “Freshman
Scholar” program.
Planning is also en
compassing the need for a
college community service
division, and special adult
evening classes.
Moonmen. bubble
with good humor
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI)—-Apollo 16’s two explo
rers, cleared for a vital third
excursion and bubbling with
good humor, set out on their
second moon drive today to
explore a massive mountain
and fulfill a key objective of
man’s first trip into the lunar
badlands.
John W. Young, 41, and
Charles M. Duke, 36, bounded
out of their spacecraft Orion on
the second day of the three-day
stay on the washboard plains of
Descartes base and began
seven hours of exploration.
Their goal today was to drive
their moon buggy up the slopes
of Stone Mountain, 2.6 miles to
the south.
On their second seven-hour
excursion across the wash
board-pitted plains of Descartes
this morning, Young and Duke
planned to drive their trusty
moon buggy 2.6 miles to the
dopes of Stone Mountain, which
rises 1,666 feet above the
landing site.
The expedition was to begin
at 10:37 a.m. EST.
Their objective was to find
chunks of volcanic rock that
Commies overrun Viet base
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
SAIGON (UPl)—Communist
forces backed by tanks overran
artillery Base Delta in the
Central Highlands Friday night,
field reports said today. It was
the first time since 1969 the
North Vietnamese have used
tanks in the area 280 miles
north of Saigon.
The battle for An Loc 60
miles north of Saigon continued,
with the North and South
Vietnamese fighting like—as
one military officer put it—”a
pair of punch-drunk fighters
hurling themselves at each
other, each refusing to quit.”
The Communists fired 1,000
rocket and mortar rounds into
An Loc Friday, while U.S. 852 s
retaliated with overnight bomb-
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apparently spurted up from the
moon’s interior with a consis
tency of molasses to form
many of the mountains of the
highlands.
The landing was targeted to
place the astronauts close
enough to Stone Mountain to
sample it.
Young and Duke were cleared
for a third moonwalk on Sunday
morning, though it will be five
hours instead of the seven
hours of the first two explora
tions. They will take off from
the moon Sunday at 8:12 p.m.
EST—two hours earlier than
originally planned — ren
dezvous with command ship
pilot Thomas K. Mattingly in
lunar orbit and head back
toward Earth early Tuesday, 18
hours ahead of schedule.
The $445 million expedition
will end with a Pacific Ocean
splashdown at about 3:30 p.m.
EST Thursday—a day earlier
than had been planned. The
mission will be cut short as an
insurance measure resulting
from the command ship
guidance system trouble that
almost aborted the mission
Thursday and delayed the lunar
touchdown six hours.
Young and Duke logged 7
ing runs around the battered
town.
In addition, the Communists
attacked the provincial capital
of Phuoc Binh, west of An Loc
and 76 miles north of Saigon.
Military sources said North
Vietnamese artillerymen
poured 1,600 rockets and
mortars into Phuoc Binh
Friday in one of the heaviest
shellings against a population
center of the Indochina war.
Artillery Base Delta was the
second base screening the
Central Highlands city of
Kontum to fall in a week. UPI
reporter Matt Franjola report
ed that Delta, 20 miles
northwest of Kontum, was
manned by about a battalion of
South Vietnamese paratroopers
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hours and 11 minutes on their
first excursion from the lunar
module Orion Friday, and flight
director M. Pete Frank said
later, “It was a great day.”
“We accomplished nearly
everything that we had planned
—or maybe a better word
would be crammed in,” Frank
said. “I thought it was really
great.”
The one disappointment of
the outing came when Young
tripped over a ribbon-like wire
leading to the most important
instrument in the $25 million
science station the astronauts
set up. It was to have taken the
temperature of the moon’s
interior to confirm surprising
readings made on the Apollo 15
mission.
After erecting a moonquake
detector, a magnetometer, and
a mortar to create artificial
moonquakes later this year, the
two astronauts drove off to the
west in their $8 million moon
buggy.
Young and Duke roamed with
ease over the rock-strewn lunar
surface and said their landing
craft was sitting in just about
the only flat place around. In
all, they covered about two
miles.
and rangers—about 650 men.
On Friday U.S. 852 s struck
deep in North Vietnam for the
third time in less than two
weeks Friday in a heavy
bombing raid against the city
of Thanh Hoa, 90 miles south of
Hanoi, the U.S. command said.
Radio Hanoi in a broadcast
claimed the “Thanh Hoa army
and people” shot down three jet
fighter-bombers during the
raid.
In Cambodia, the high
command in Phnom Penh said
fighting continued along High
way 1 leading from Phnom
Penh to Saigon. The Commu
nists in a three-day attack have
overrun seven Cambodian bases
on the highway and taken a 50-
mile stretch of the road.