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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
“Worshipping in the Family”
is the title of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Psalms
78:1-8; 2 Timothy 1:3-7.
The Memory Selection is “As
for me and my house, we will
serve the LORD.” (Joshua
24:15)
Religion played an important
part on the lives of the early
Hebrews. They prayed to God
and they gave thanks to God in
their homes as well as in the
temple and the synagogue.
And today this is just as true.
The family is a most important
unit in their religion.
Henry Ware Jr. (1794-1843)
wrote the beautiful hymn
“Happy the Home When God is
There” that points out the
importance of “Worshipping in
the Family.”
Most of our background
scripture is from Deuteronomy
(6:1-9). This the fifth book in the
Old Testament is also “The fifth
book of Moses.”
Our lesson tells us of the laws
and the precepts, first given to
Moses at Sinai, shall be obeyed
and how they shall be taught to
every member of one’s family.
Moses, in Deuteronomy,
reduces the 10 commandments
into a few verses. “Hear, 0
Israel: The Lord our God is one
Lord: And thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy might.”
“And thou shalt teach them
dilligently unto thy children.” If
we today will worship and obey
our Lord, and our children will
be taught to do the same, and
if God is welcomed into our
homes, then we will have
reached the zenith of “Wor
shipping in the Family.”
And how badly this sin cur
sed, mixed up world needs
genuine Christian families.
Our Memory Selection from
Joshua is the story of how he,
chosen to lead the Children of
Israel into the promise land,
recognized the importance of
obeying God and of the im
portance of family obedience.
We suggest that those who
would understand the purpose
of this lesson turn to the book of
Joshua and read all of Chapter
24.
Before Joshua led the
children of Israel into the land
of promise he called them all
together and told them of the
importance of obeying the laws
and precepts of the One and
Only True God. The vast mass
meeting pledged themselves to
do just this. Their promise must
have gladdened the heart of
their dedicated leader.
But, we have an idea that had
they failed to follow God’s
commandments that Joshua
would have still obeyed, both he
and his family, 100 percent.
In the Memory Selection he
plainly says “As for me and my
house (family) we will serve the
LORD.”
“I hate to see folks destroy
that joy they have by longing
»r fun they might have had.”
GRIFFIN
Water
City not alarmed
but watching supply
The water supply situation in
Griffin today was not one for
alarm but one that will need
constant watching.
That was the word from Roy
Inman, Griffin city manager.
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WEST BRANCH, lowa—Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the guest
of honor at ceremonies for the formal establishment of
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, addresses an
estimated 2,500 persons attending. (UPI)
Thompson winner
in Spalding GOP
Fletcher Thompson won the
Republican nomination for U. S.
Senate in the Spalding County
primary this week with 244
votes.
He received 267 votes and was
the only candidate to announce
on the Republican ballot for the
unexpired portion of the late
Sen. Richard Russell’s term.
Thompson will face the
winner of the David Gambrell
and Sam Nunn runoff in the
Democratic primary, to be held
Aug. 29.
Tabulations completed
yesterday in the Spalding GOP
primary showed Clarence
Porter, Jr., with 19 votes,
Darrell Runyan with 17 and
Howard Tucker with nine in the
senatorial nomination race.
F. C. Rogers received 226
votes in his Public Service Com
mission race without opposi
tion.
Police charge six
in torture slaying
ATLANTA (UPI) - Six per
sons, five of them members of
one family, have been charged
in the torture-slaying of a 14-
year-old boy, DeKalb County
police said today.
Capt. J. T. Stanley, head of
the DeKalb Criminal Investiga
tion Division, said five of the
six were in custody and offi
cers were looking for one still
at large.
Those arrested for the mur
,xier of Carl Ervin Brokaw of
nearby East Point were listed
as Arthur Coppege Sr., 50; his
wife, Vennie; their two sons,
Arthur Coppege Jr., 24, and
Durrell Coppege, 22, and Thom
as Hewitt, 29, of Savannah. El
mer Lawson, 28, a son-in-law of
the Coppeges, was being sought.
Inside today
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The city has been drawing
water from its billion gallon
reservoir through the summer
because of pollution of Flint
River in Clayton County.
Mr. Inman said today the city
Al Norris polled 213 votes in
his uncontested race for the
Republican nomination for
House District 67, Post One. He
will face the winner of the
Democratic primary runoff
between John Carlisle and Don
Jackson for the same post.
Ivan Taylor polled 256 votes in
his unopposed race for the GOP
nomination for Spalding County
Commissioner. He will face the
winner of the Democratic runoff
between Palmer Hamil and
Bobby Dunn for the post.
David H. Fulton received 13
votes for the Justice of Peace
Post in Akin District. He was
unopposed for the Republican
nomination.
James S. (Jim) Hewitt
received eight votes in his
unopposed race for Justice of
the Peace in the Africa District
in the GOP primary.
Stanley said the boy had ap
parently been killed at a Cham
blee apartment complex. His
body, covered with hundreds of
snail knife wounds, was found
in a trash heap behind a liquor
store in Atlanta Sunday.
The boy was believed to have
died from either strangulation
or from a stab wound that pen
etrated an artery.
Stanley said no charges were
brought against Donnie Fail, 19,
of Savannah who was picked up
in the port city with Hewitt, ap
parently a friend of the family.
Fail has been released.
Mrs. Coppege was also ar
rested in Savannah while Ar
thur Coppege Sr. and Jr. and
Durrell Coppege were taken in
to custody here.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, August 11, 1972
hopes that Clayton County will
abide by a State Water Quality t
Control order to stop polluting 1
the Flint River and not force the t
city to go to court. <
If Clayton doesn’t, it might
force “us to put our oar in the i
water.” Mr. Inman said. :
The city manager said
Clayton has received an ex- 1
tension on its deadline for 1
completion of a new sewage j
treatment facility to Dec. 31. i
Clayton is dumping raw i
sewage into Flint River at
present because that county’s i
treatment facilities cannot i
handle its sewage.
Earlier this summer, the city
switched from its reservoir to
the Flint River for water. The 1
immediate result was a
noticeable change in the taste of
water and an increase in the
cost of treating it with
chemicals at the filter plant to
make sure it was fit for human
consumption.
Hampton family going down under
“Go west, young man”, has
capsuled the American love for
the new frontier for genera
tions.
Such a pioneer spirit is
leading a Hampton family —
Bob and Betty English and their
five children — to pull up stakes
and move to the Commonwealth
of Australia in early September.
“It’s a dream that Bob and I
have always had, and since it
didn’t look as if we might be
together as a family for many
more years, (single daughters
18 and 21), we decided that now
U.S. Army deactivates last
ground combat unit in Viet
SAIGON (UPl)—The Army
today deactivated the last U.S.
ground combat unit in Vietnam,
the command announced.
A booby trap wounded two
men of the unit Thursday
during their last combat patrol.
Another man complained that
the last U.S. ground combat
mission in Vietnam “won’t
make much difference.”
The unit, 3rd Battalion, 21st
I Murderer weds ex-warden |
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$ ROME (UPl)—Marino Vulcano, 39,
$: serving 14 years for killing his lover,
:$ married Dr. Giuliana Meogrossi behind
the walls of Regina Coeli (Queen of
£ Heaven) Prison Thursday. Until April, Dr.
Meogrossi had been a prison warden.
It was in April that Italians became
S interested in the romance. It was then that
•$ authorities charged Dr. Meogrossi of
“abusing an official position to obtain
sexual favors.” Legal experts said it was
the first time a woman had ever been
charged with the offense.
The marriage vows were spoken in
S Regina Coeli Prison where Vulcano is
serving his term for slaying Carla Torti.
Vulcano is a short, bald and slightly
pudgy man whose trial was marked by an
unusual legal challenge. His lawyers said
Harry Simmons, director of
the water filter system, told Mr.
Inman of the increased cost in
treating the Flint River water
and the change in taste.
The city switched back to its
reservoir and has stayed there
since.
The city manager said that
fortunately for Griffin rainfall
had kept the water tables high
in Head’s Creek and the
reservoir has been well supplied
through the summer.
But he noted that the peak
demand period for water in
Griffin is just before the city.
Canning operations reach
their peak during the late
summer and early fall months
here.
City officials said they would
keep a close eye on water levels
as the peak period approaches.
They indicated they would
take whatever steps necessary
to insure the people of this
community adequate water.
was the time,” said Mrs. Betty
English.
The English family will be
sponsored by the Australian
Education Service which
recruits qualified teachers to
immigrate.
“Bob has experience in physi
cal education and administra
tion, and is now working with
special education program for
the Atlanta Public Schools, and
I am a reading teacher at the
Hampton Elementary School,”
Mrs. English explained.
The English’s oldest
Infantry Regiment, with sup
porting artillery battery and
medical detachment, guarded
the big U.S. aircraft and
helicopter base at Da Nang.
The battalion has 1,043 men.
As of last week 44,600
American servicemen were left
in South Vietnam. The figure
does not include sailors in the
U.S. 7th Fleet off the Vietna
mese coast or airmen stationed
he was not guilty because he murdered his g
lover in his sleep in 1970. The state :¥
dismissed the argument.
Miss Meogrossi, 30, is the daughter of a g
policeman and teaches criminal law at g
Rome University. Associates call her a g
supporter of the womens’ liberation g
movement.
Until forced to resign as warden of g
another prison in Rome, Miss Meogrossi g:
was one of four women in Italy serving in g
the upper echelons of the prison system, g:
Dr. Meogrossi met Vulcano, which g
means volcano in Italian, when he was
selected to help her reorganize her office, g
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the romance that went on behind bars. It
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Ready for their trip to Australia are (1-r) Bob English, Mathew, Betty English, (second
row) Karen, Mary Ellen (third row) Robbie and Mark. The English family will fly to their
new home in early September.
daughter, Mary Ellen, 21, is a
June graduate of Georgia
southern College in Statesboro,
majoring in speech and drama.
She is qualified to teach also.
Graduate school or a career
in Australia’s fledgling
television industry are under
consideration.
Because seasons are reversed
between the U. S. and Australia,
the English’s will be arriving in
New South Wales at the
beginning of spring.
“We will be going on a year
to-year basis at first, deciding if
in Thailand and Guam flying
missions over North and South
Vietnam.
Most of the battalion’s men
will be going home in the next
few days, a command spokes
man said. Those with job
specialties still needed in
Vietnam and those with less
than six months service in
Vietnam will stay.
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we stay at the end of each,” Bob
English said.
Oldest son, Robby, 19, is a
student at Atlanta Tech
majoring in aircraft mechanics.
He hopes to find use for this skill
in his new home. Many areas of
Australia are accessable only
by plane so a thriving bush
flight business flourishes.
Karen, 18, is a June graduate
of Henry County High School
and hopes to enter college in
Australia. Although undecided,
she may follow the family
trademark of education.
“I am really looking forward
to meeting so many new
people,” Karen said, “and I
guess that we may be treated
some how special, being new to
the country.”
Most enthusiastic of the entire
Lt. Darsey heads
DOI region office
William Beardsley, director
of the State Division of In
vestigation, said today that DOI
Lt. William Darsey, a native of
Griffin, will be the senior agent
in charge of a new Division of
Investigation regional office at
Thomaston.
Beardsley said, “We have
endeavored to name the best
qualified men we could find to
be supervisors of the eight new
regional offices of the Division
of Investigation. Lt. Darsey’s
past record, both as a GBI
Agent and State Trooper,
exemplifies the kind of abilities
we were looking for in senior
agents to head the regional
offices. During the past two
years, since the time he has
been Supervisor of the State
Narcotic Squad, he has molded
a group of men into one of the
finest undercover investigative
groups anywhere. I am con
fident he will do an equally good
job with the assignment he now
has.”
Darsey joined the Depart
ment of Public Safety in 1954 as
English family are Mark, 15,
and Mathew, 9; both of who will
be attending public schools in
Australia.
“All Mathew can think about
is having a pet Kangaroo,” Mrs.
English said.
The English home at 6 Oak
street, near downtown Hamp
ton, an antibellum 12 room red
brick house, is being searched
from top to bottom as each
family member choses the 44
pounds of luggage he will take
on the flight with them.
“We are planning a giant
garage sale on Aug. 19 for
almost everything we own,”
Mrs. English said cheerfully.
The English home will be
occupied by a sister and her
family, Mr. and Mrs. Terry F.
Jones, while the family is gone.
a license examiner and was
promoted to trooper. He joined
the U.S. Justice Department in
1959 as a U.S. Marshall and was
re-employed as a trooper with
the State in 1961. In 1963 he was
named to the GBI where he has
served since. He is a 1966
graduate of the FBI National
Academy in Washington. He,
his wife, and three children
reside in Sunny Side in Spalding
County.
Region two of the DOI, which
will be located at Thomaston,
will encompass the judicial
circuits of Coweta, Griffin,
Flint, Chattahoochee, Macon
and Houston.
Darsey will assume his new
duties on Aug. 16.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 69, high yesterday
87, low yesterday 67, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70. Total rainfall
this morning .50 of an inch.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:02, sunset
tomorrow 8:22.