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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 25, 1972
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Stirs Static
It was the static electricity in the young lady's nylon
lingerie that excited this particularly delicate computer
as she walked by. But the technicians at the Leeds Uni
versity Computer Laboratory in England didn't realize
that. The girl was quite pretty. They just thought the
computer's heart skipped a beat. Eventually — illumina
tion! — they asked her to switch to cotton underwear. But
for awhile there, they believed they'd wired up a passion
ate machine, and they even went so far as to test it with
suggestive limericks, ribald stories and erotic photos.
Nothing.
ONE MORE puzzle, if
that's all right: This rab
bit takes four jumps. The
dog beside him takes three.
To cover the same dis
tance. So how many jumps
does the dog have to take
to gain the length of one
rabbit jump on the rabbit?
Ask your household rabbit
and-dog expert about this.
WRITES a young North
Carolina lady, recently
married: "I knew my hus
band and I would have
trouble as soon as I real
ized his mother repeatedly
referred to him as ‘my boy.’
Better warn brides of that,
sir. Mothers-in-law lyho
always call their sons
‘my boy' are almost impos
sible to get along with."
QUERY
Q. “Which has more
calories, a pizza or a ham
burger?”
A. Bet on the pizza, es
pecially if it's one of those
half pounders with saus
age. Authorities contend
its 600 calories will outdo
a hamburger with a tossed
salad flooded in dressing
plus a fistful of french
fries.
AM ASKED to name the
first U. S. President who
learned how to drive a car.
That was Warren Hard
ing. Please note, previous
Presidents had ridden in
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“You mean Paul Revere rode around spreading
the alarm? Where was the media?”
various fancy automotive
conveyances, but none ever
personally piloted same.
WHAT, YOU don't know
what a caddywister is?
That’s a fellow who might
otherwise be described as
kayneived. Or coochy
handed. Or golly-pawed.
Or gibble-fisted. Those are
just five of the 88 ways the
Englanders say “left
handed.”
EXPECTANT
That numerous expect
ant mothers seek abortions
this young lady says she
knows, but what she says
she doesn't know is what
proportion of same are
married. Exactly 44 per
cent, the record shows. It
shows further than 61 per
cent of the maybe mothers,
married or otherwise, are
under age 25.
A JET airplane aver
ages 22 passenger miles
per gallon of fuel. A car,
30 p.m.p.g. A bus, 120
p.m.p.g. A paddle wheel
steamboat, 150 p.m.p.g. A
10-car double-deck subur
ban train, 200 p.m.p.g.
That’s why that last one,
the train, is said to be the
best mass transit method.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
IX 76102.
Copyright 1972. L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, April 25,
the 116th day of 1972.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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 Taurus.
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian
inventor of wireless telegraphy,
was born April 25, 1874.
On this day in history:
In 1846 the first shots of the
Mexican War were fired at La
Rosia, Mexico.
In 1898 Congress formally
declared war on Spain in the
battle over Cuba.
In 1901 New York became the
first state to require auto
owners to have license plates
and 954 vehicles were regis
tered.
In 1945 delegates of 46
countries gathered in San
Francisco to organize a per
manent United Nations.
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THOUGHTS
"Blessed shall be your bas
ket and your kneading
trough. Blessed shall you be
when you come in, and
blessed shall you be when
you go out."—Duet. 28:5, 6.
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Reflect upon your present
blessings, of which every
man has many, not on your
past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.—Charles
Dickens, novelist.
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Griffin ‘volunteers’
That story we had the other evening
about newcomers to Griffin was
exceptionally interesting. For one thing, it
bore out the opinion that numbers of
Griffin residents could have gone
elsewhere but chose this place instead of
another. They are not “captive” citizens
because their jobs are here and they have
to live here, but “volunteer” residents of
Griffin because they like it here.
Ten of the 66 families represented in the
Newcomers Social Club have jobs with the
FAA traffic control center in Hampton and
four other families have jobs with airlines
Support by default
In an interview with the Griffin Daily
News, the new president of Gordon College
called on Griffin for support when the
Board of Regents takes it over on July 1.
Dr. Jerry Williamson said, “I am really
counting on Griffin to be a major source of
students as well as moral support.”
He and Gordon will get that support
from Griffin. The campus in Barnesville is
not far away, and Gordon is an excellent
Our governor’s trip
Back in Georgia after a 17,300-mile
South American trip, Governor Carter
said that the United States is making a
mistake by pursuing a foreign policy
aimed at the Middle and Far East while
ignoring Western Hemisphere nations.
He has a strong point there, and we
ought to clap our hands in approval. While
we guarded the nation’s front door with
troops in Europe and combat in Vietnam,
our arch foe communism traipsed around
to the back where our screen was not even
latched. Evidence? How about Cuba? Or
Venezuela.
Aiding the enemy
An organization calling itself the “Ad
Hoc Military Buildup Committee” is
carrying the irresponsibility to the
extreme in seeking out and disseminating
information about U.S. military units
being placed on alert or deployed because
of the new North Vietnamese invasion of
South Vietnam.
To protest against the Vietnam War is
one thing. To encourage or engage in acts
of spying and violation of security
involving the armed forces of the United
States of America is quite another.
Why? Here’s why
So a Department of Health, Education
and Welfare study is going to spend $23,000
in an effort to learn why little nippers fall
off tricycles?
Why spend all that money studying that
Reader thinks religion
is ‘pie-in-the-sky’
I think all religion is of the “pie-in-the
sky” variety. What do you offer your
converts that might prove me wrong?
U.R.
The writer of the third Gospel was a
physician by the name of Luke. His oc
cupation obliged him to major in the
contemporary, and that’s why his
statement in the 18th chapter is so
significant.
He recalls the word of Jesus to Peter,
which essentially becomes a promise for
every convert to Christ: “Everyone who
has left home, wife, brothers, parents, for
the sake of the kingdom of God, will be
repaid many times over now, as well as
receiving eternal life in the world to
come.” Ponder that phrase “repaid many
in Atlanta. Others did come here because
this is where they work, and we hope that
they like it.
Some folks like to knock Griffin, and we
often have wondered why they do not try to
improve it or go some place else, instead of
just kicking. But many such people would
knock wherever they did live, trying to
blame their real or imagined troubles on
the community.
We certainly do not think that Griffin is
perfect, or any place else. But it is
significant that so many families choose to
live here of their own free will.
college. Griffin’s support will be by
default, though, because Griffin rejected a
junior college of its own in the biggest
community-wide goof-off since earlier
settlers built a plank road instead of a
railroad to haul cotton.
No use crying over spilt milk? Os course
not. But we had better make sure that we
do not commit similar errors. One like that
every 60 years or so is one too many.
The Governor also said that he expects
Atlanta to become the center of Latin
American consulate activities in the
Southeast, moving there from New
Orleans, Miami and Houston. And, he said,
plans are afoot to make “Sister Cities” of
Rio de Janeiro and Atlanta. All this
certainly would be good for Georgia.
In addition to helping his own state,
Governor Carter’s tour will help the entire
Nation if it focuses attention on the need of
closer and friendlier ties with the nations
south of us as well as those across the
seas. We are glad that he took the trip.
This organization may have been
spurred on by the impunity with which
secret documents on Vietnam War
planning were stolen and published as the
“Pentagon Papers.” In this case,
however, it is not dealing with history but
with the here and now of a battle involving
American lives.
It makes no sense for our government to
allow the security of our forces in Vietnam
to be undermined by the activities of a
group at home feeding valuable
information to the enemy about
movements of ships and air units.
subject? They fall because they’re taught
how to ride by people who scrape both
fenders trying to park in a double garage. -
Birmingham (Ala.) News
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times over now”.
It must surely refer to immediate
benefit. Wouldn’t God be less than loving if
He reserved all the benefits of the new life
of faith to some future time? I assure you
he doesn’t.
As any follower of Jesus would know,
there is immediate forgiveness, there is
instant peace and joy, and a prompt
presence of Christ as a friend and older
brother.
No, I suspect that the “pie-in-the-sky”
charge is an attempt to discredit by
diverting attention only to the future
benefits - at the exclusion of the down
payment on His gifts we get today.
I really think the only way to test your
thesis is to try faith in Christ. Then send
me a special delivery if I’m wrong.
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Hanoi Leadership
Split Three Ways
By RAY CROMLEV
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The current North Vietnamese invasion of the south was
a compromise.
It is the culmination of a deep ideological struggle
which has wracked Hanoi for two years, on what path
Vietnamese communism is to follow—doctrinaire Marx
ism-Leninism or a communism modified to suit Viet
namese customs.
This fight has split the Hanoi leadership into three
major groups—those who argue for a quick military solu
tion, those who believe North Vietnam can win at the
Paris peace talks with a little push, and those who favor
the Mao Tse-tung theory of protracted war, with more
emphasis put on rebuilding the socialist north.
The present bitter compromise is between these three.
Thus the invasion has something for each. It is not a last
ditch drive or a final gasp of the north. Nor is it, on the
contrary, a sign of major strength. It is basically an
attempt to get out of the “trilemma” outlined above.
• The men who favor a quick military solution are
getting a chance to try their theory—that South Vietnam’s
armies and President Thieu’s government will collapse
under a series of multi-pronged, hammer-like attacks at
varied points in the country, followed by a multitude of
guerrilla rampages and underground assassinations, fol
lowed by “spontaneous” uprisings.
• The men who believe added pressure on weak points
in the south at just the right time will so downgrade con
fidence in the Thieu government and the South Vietnam
ese armies, and raise such a revival of anti-war feeling
in the United States that President Nixon will be forced
to agree to the Communist proposals—are also getting a
chance to prove their thesis.
• And finally, the protracted war men are getting
their opportunity. If the South Vietnamese army is so
weakened in this fighting, and so occupied in the border
areas fighting the north’s mainline forces that the guer
rillas are able to destroy a significant part of South Viet
nam’s local police, pacification units and local hamlet and
village governments, then the way will be opened for
North Vietnam to gradually rebuild the very strong under
ground apparatus which was largely destroyed in Tet
-1968.
This would enable Hanoi to follow in South Vietnam the
course which it so successfully pursued in the last half of
the 1950 s and the major part of the 19605, a policy which
almost won them victory.
It is interesting to note that if all three immediate
objectives fail, the protracted war group will have won
For they will have proved that the sudden thrust concept
is not tenable, at least for now, and will have shown that
Hanoi must again return to the solid underground build
up approach mentioned above.
In this event, the heavy losses which North Vietnam is
now sustaining would be written off as the experimental
exploration necessary to determine precisely which was
the correct route to follow. If this seems like a horrible
price to pay for such a determination, it is nevertheless
probably the only way in which the three groups in Hanoi
could achieve a solution. Each has enough power to block
the other two groups, but not enough to eliminate them
And all three put victory above the lives of their men.
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SPACE CENTER, Houston-
Apollo 16 astronaut John W.
Young, describing the pitted,
rock-strewn Descartes Plain on
the moon:
“My general impression is
that I’m a lot more surprised
at how really beat up this place
is. It must be the oldest stuff
around ... “
EL PASO, Tex.—Three ar
rested demonstrators, explain
ing in a joint statement why
they threw tomatoes at Army
Chief of Staff William West
moreland:
“The action was undertaken
out of love for our brothers and
asters in Vietnam and for all
peoples under attack from
American imperialism.”
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