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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 26, 1972
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L M BOYD
Inventor of
Canned Milk
“Remeber the Alamo!”
Col. Sidney Sherman
True, Col. Sherman delivered the foregoing phrase
most fiercely at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. However,
it was not Col. Sherman, but another Texas gentleman
who truly immortalized the cry “Remember the Alamo!”
Gail Borden, one and the same as he who invented con
densed milk. A newspaper publisher, he headlined that
stirring phrase in the
old Telegraph and Texas
Register to recruit fight
ing men. The call to arms
turned into a pattern. For
“Remember the Maine.”
For “Remember Pearl
Harbor.”
A BOSTON scholar
who has made a study
of the records there
abouts contends 45 out
of every 100 unmarried
mothers now keep their
infants. Ten years ago
only 10 out of 100 did
so.
AM FREQUENTLY
asked Ralph Nader's
address. All right, it’s
reported to be 1719-19th
Street. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20006.
QUERIES
Q. “Do termites eat
live trees?
A. No, green wood
gives them heartbum or
something. Wrecks them.
Q. “WHAT’S a luck
egg'’’’
A. Ah ha, you must be
a city mouse. That's one
of those olive-size eggs
that turns up in the hen's
nest toward the end of
the laying season.
DO WE HAVE any
sort of slang name for the
telephone? Can think of
none offhand. The English
refer to that instrument
in the vernacular as “the
blower.”
VICIOUS little twerp,
Billy the Kid. Yet the latest
count of poems, novels,
plays, balets and movies
about the savage now runs
to 467.
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Our commission found a marked decrease in
crime, but unfortunately our report has been
stolen!"
RING
No gentleman who
gives a diamond ring to
his girlfriend along with
a matrimonial proposal
should have the right to
take back said ring if he
breaks the engagement.
So contends a British
parliamentarian named
Leo Abse. He compares
such a girl to a delicate
loquacious phonograph
one might pick up in a
trade. “If a young man
wants to turn in the mer
chandise after misusing
it for months," says he,
“he ought not expect a
refund.” "
WRITES A Southern ’
Californian: “When the
swallows come back here
to Capistrano, we all pause
to listen to that charac
teristic chirping, which I
assume to be the females
wondering why they can’t
go someplace else this
year.”
IN JAPAN, men with
prominent noses are
thought to be exceedingly
virile. None too scientific,
this notion. Still, such
gentlemen have done little
to discourage the conten
tion. And it’s now common
cause thereabouts for the
giggle and the smirk.
’*• IN ST. Ives, England,
argument continues as to
whether the town ought to
change the name of that
historic street called Pig
Lane, now that a police
station has been opened on
it. No'decision yet.
Address mail Io L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972. L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, April 26,
the 117th 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.
American naturalist John
James Audubon was born April
26, 1785.
On this day in history:
In 1607 the first British
colonists to establish a per
manent settlement in America
landed at Cape Henry, Va.
In 1865 federal troops shot
and killed John Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of President
Lincoln, near Port Royal, Va.,
despite orders to capture him
alive.
In 1944 the government took
over the Chicago headquarters
of Montgomery Ward and Co.
after management defied a
ruling by the National Labor
Relations Board.
In 1954 a nationwide test for
the Salk anti-polio vaccine
began in parts of 45 states.
today s FUNNY
SOME folks
HAVE THE R6URE
TO PROVE THEY
CAN’T COUNT
calories
SCAN f
LOVE /
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THOUGHTS
It is He who made the
earth by His power, who es
tablished the world by His
wisdom, and by His under
standing stretched out the
heavens.—Jeremiah 10:12.
* * *
God governs in the affairs
of man; and if a sparrow
cannot fall to the ground
without His notice, is it prob
able that an empire can rise
without His aid” —Benjamin
Franklin.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
Sounds like Griffin High
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has about 19,000 students who
have about 14,000 automobiles for which
there are about 7,000 parking spaces. The
Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer
Apollo 16 and America’s three most
recent spacemen are scheduled to
splashdown on the planet Earth tomorrow.
Honestly now, did you hang over your tv
set like you did during earlier trips to outer
space? Don’t feel bad about it, though. Not
many people did.
This lack of public attention takes
nothing from the accomplishment. It is
fabulous, almost beyond imagination that
out fellow men, our fellow Americans
actually walked on the moon. It is just that
there is so much to comprehend these
days, so much to think about, so many
We’re
Listening
To the lady who called and said she
thought she had found an error in the
paper about President Lyndon Johnson:
You are right, lady. We were wrong.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th
president of the United States. He
succeeded to the presidency on Nov. 22,
1963, following the death of President
Kennedy. He was inaugurated for a full
term on Jan. 20,1965. You are right, lady.
You are right.
SIR: You said in the paper a few days
ago people in Griffin do most of their
shopping in Atlanta. If you think about it,
most people work in Atlanta. Why?
Because Griffin can’t afford enough jobs
with good wages. Speaking for a lot of
maids, we would love to work at home if
we could get a decent job. Maids in Atlanta
get $2.20 an hour with bus fare. What does
Griffin offer? Nothing. I suggest Griffin
come up with some kind of night training
so we can get jobs at the mills. We could be
trained at night, work during the day.
Signed: 12 Maids.
RESPONSE: You are mistaken about
what we said in the paper. We said that
SOME people do MOST of their shopping in
Atlanta, not that MOST people in Griffin
do. The adult education program does
offer night work in Griffin at the Learning
Center at 239 West Taylor street, telephone
228-8824. Also night classes are taught
twice a week at Griffin High School. First
thing needed for many a good job is a high
school education. Maybe all of you already
have that. If not, why not phone the
number stated? Griffin Tech has night
classes, too. Its phone number is 227-1322.
From time to time some of the mills in
Griffin have jobs available and we
understand that a good many former
domestic employes are working in them.
I noticed the little editorial about
shopping in Griffin. The reason lots of
women have to go to Atlanta to shop is that
Doesn’t Bible allow
kids to be different?
Our house is pretty quiet these days
because I’m a teen-ager that has little in
common with my square churchgoing
parents. Doesn’t the Bible allow kids to be
different and have a little fun? J. Y.
Let’s make this perfectly clear - the
Bible is on the side of children and young
people. After all, Mary was a teen-ager
when Christ was born. Furthermore, Jesus
Himself, although on an urgent mission of
world salvation, lived patiently through all
the teen-age years.
At age twelve, it showed Him in
disagreement with His parents over the
service of God, and even being on His own
for a couple of nights.
But lest you make hasty conclusions,
remember He lived His life in total con-
Splashdown
comments, “The streets there are
crowded even when there is no moving
traffic.” Our (Griffin Daily News)
comment is, “It sounds like Griffin High.”
miracles which happen every day. Too,
most everybody was confident that Apollo
16 and its American moon men would
make it. This was a confidence in
technology, in the know-how of the United
States whose government and private
enterprise teamed up to accomplish the
impossible.
For further thoughts on this, we suggest
that you read the adjoining column by Don
Oakley. It is well worth persuing, and we
guarantee that you will think about it long
after today’s paper is on its way to
recycling.
From time to time we will publish
complaints and suggestions about your
newspaper. Send questions, comments or
criticisms to WE’RE LISTENING, the
Griffin Daily News, P.O. Box 135, Griffin,
Georgia 30223.
none of the better stores carries large
sizes. They cater to junior and petite sizes.
Griffin has plenty of fat women. Ask
Weight Watchers, Inc. If they have
anything over 18 and a half, they have a
few styles and they are so matronly.
Nothing youthful at all. I have been
advocating for years that fat people are
human too. They have feelings too. After
you have to go to Atlanta to buy dresses,
you might as well get your shoes, bags and
other accessories. The only thing I buy in
Griffin is groceries. So ask the stores to
start stocking large sizes, and they might
find out that their sales will be different
Thank you for letting me comment
RESPONSE: You are welcome.
I don’t see how people can afford to live
if they work and also buy in Griffin. To me,
prices are high and wages are very low so
it only makes sense to make a daily trip to
Atlanta to work and to buy. When are the
local businesses going to wake up and
realize that if they continue to pay so
poorly, they should not expect people to
reciprocate by buying here? Also I find
clerks in certain “better” stores in Griffin
to be quite rude. Others have mentioned
this to me. Possibly a course in courtesy is
in order to help them and to improve
business. People do not appreciate rude
and snobbish employes.
“What does it cost to put an engagement
announcement in the paper?”
RESPONSE: It does not cost anything to
put it in this paper. We are glad to provide
this service to our readers. Just be sure,
though, to have the picture of the bride and
the account of the wedding in our hands not
more than a week after the wedding if you
would like for them to be printed too. Some
newspapers do charge for engagement
announcements, bride’s pictures, funeral
notices, and the like. We never charge for
such items.
MY PMh
ANSWER
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formity to the will of God. Now, any young
person who does that, will have little
problem with parents or society at large.
Now, there’s certainly room for you to be
different, and to have fun, but square it
with the formula the Bible gives for family
harmony. First, honor your parents. That
is, treat them with respect. Have you
made an effort recently to talk out your
differences, and to understand their
concern? Second, demonstrate that they
can trust you. Thirdly, share daily hap
penings. It’s no fancy that the family who
plays and prays together stays together.
Above all, commit your life to Christ.
With his guidance, and His kind
of love, plus the go-power that faith
provides, you’ll find life has suddenly a
new dimension - happiness.
BERRY’S WORLD
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£ 1,72 k , NIA. Inc
"Well, I guess you could say she's really an 'old-fash
ioned girl'—you know, preoccupied with material things,
social standings and facades!"
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Space Is Costly,
But We Learn
By DON OAKLEY
Once again millions of Americans sit on the edges of
their chairs watching a space spectacular being presented
live and in color right in their homes.
Well, perhaps they don’t lean so far forward any more.
The target site is different and more photogenic, some
aspects of the astronauts’ assignment are new, but a
moon landing is now pretty much old hat.
We know that the men of Apollo 16 can do it. We are
confident they will complete their mission successfully
and return safely to earth.
And such is our fickleness that when it is over, when
our fingers are uncrossed and Apollo 16 is a turned page
in the history of space exploration, many of us will again
take up that old refrain, “Why spend so many billions on
space when there are so many unsolved problems on
earth?”
The question is pretty much rhetorical as far as the
Apollo program is concerned. Only one more flight in the
series remains. After that, manned exploration of the
moon—by this country, at least—will cease, for how many
years no one can say.
The question will again become a live issue, however,
as the nation cranks up Skylab, the program to send men
into earth orbit for extended periods via reusable space
shuttles.
There is no one good answer to the question, but the
following quotations may provide part of an answer.'
“The suggestion of an either/or choice between tech
nological and social advances ignores the fact that with
out a technology base we will not have the capability to
address ourselves effectively to any national problem,”
says J. F. Clayton, general manager of Bendix Aero
space Systems Division.
He points out that the task of going to the moon re
quired a government, industry and university team which
at its peak involved organizing 400,000 people, hundreds
of universities and 20,000 separate industrial companies to
a common goal.
The project was done in public and in full view of the
world. It was done without a military objective and it
was done within the cost and schedule set for it 10 years
earlier. These management techniques are available to
the country if ever we again decide to use them on what
we now consider almost impossible tasks, says Clayton.
Aerospace writer James J. Haggerty has also spoken
about the boost to technology given by the Apollo pro
gram:
“So extraordinary were the demands for performance
and reliability needed to land men on the moon that the
Apollo team had to compress several decades of normal
technological development into less than one. Advances
in aerospace technology were not, by themselves, suffi
cient for the task; it became necessary to force progress
in virtually every scientific and technological discipline.”
Finally, a passage from "Earthbound Astronauts,” a
book about the builders of Apollo-Saturn by Beirne Lay
Jr.:
“Still struggling as we are in the Dark Ages of an un
derstanding of human motivations (including our motiva
tion for sending men to the moon), we can learn at least
two lessons from our space program—the miracle that
can result from the unemotional approach to a massive
problem, and the paramount importance of proceeding
step by step instead of plunging, as we have, into rem
edies for some of our social ills.
“Man has been given fresh grounds for confidence that
he may yet achieve other ‘impossibilities,’ even create
an environment on earth of dignity for all men. if only
he can learn, as has the space pioneer, to keep his cool.”
This is the legacy of Apollo.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
QUOTES
By United Press International
ATLANTIC, lowa—Vietnam
veteran Robert R. Pigsley fired
a rifle at a crucifix in a
Catholic church to protest the
war and was dragged out
yelling:
“Make love not war: That’s
what he died for.”
NEW YORK —Price Commis
sion Chairman C. Jackson
announcing government steps
against firms that exceeded the
profit margin ceiling:
"... The Price Commission
inaugurated a series of major
actions which will result in
hundreds of millions of dollars
in price reductions, which will
roll back current prices of
some of the country’s largest
companies to their base period
levels.”
GRIFFIN
Quimby Melton, General Manager Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Publisher Bill Knight, Executive Editor Editor
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with the exception of the
United States and Canada.
It was proposed in 1882
that the first Monday in
September be declared a
labor holiday in the United
States as it fell between
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