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VENIN VF
By Quimby Melton
The second city wide revival
service ever to be held at
Memorial Stadium, where the
Griffin Bears hold forth during
the football season, began
Monday night with C. M, Ward,
nationally known radio evange
list, preaching. John Hall of
Texas, gospel music recording
star, is conducting the music.
The other city wide —
Memorial Stadium — revival
was a few years ago when Bob
Harrington, “Chaplain of Bour
bon Street”, was the evangelist,
list.
The summer months,
especially August, is camp
meeting time in Georgia. There
are many features of such
revival services being held here
this week that closely resemble
camp meeting revivals. And
Spalding County is right in the
middle of camp meetings these
days.
As a matter of fact, the
historic Indian Springs revival
is running this week; and the
more than 100 year old Mt. Zion
camp meeting is scheduled for
the last week in August. Also in
the near future are Shingleroof
in Henry County and Salem
over in Newton.
Griffin has always been able
to secure evangelists of renoun
to conduct services here. One cf
the first city wide revivals
conducted here since Good
Evening has lived in Griffin was
one held in a big circus tent on
the Griffin High Campus.
Gypsy Smith Jr., was the
evangelist. And evangelists of
the caliber of Arthur Moore and
E. Stanley Jones have also
conducted revival services
here.
Good Evening remembers
attending “bush arbor” camp
meetings when he lived in
Alabama; but the earliest camp
meeting about which he
remembers any of the details
was the one at Wesley Grove
Camp Grounds near Baltimore.
There was a tremendous
tabernacle that would seat
upward of 2,000 people. Behind
this was the “hotel” for the
evangelist, his party, and
visitors who came for the two
week service.
But the thing we remember
best is that many Baltimore and
Washington families came to
Wesley Grove a month before
camp meeting time and lived in
tents — real tents, not imitation
ones. They were erected on
wooden floors and each tent was
actually two or more joined
together, one behind the other
that provided comfortable
living quarters. Camp meeting
time was vacation time for our
family and the families of
others.
There were many “powerful”
sermons preached at Wesley
Grove. We remember one of
them, not in detail, but what we
have long considered the meat
of that sermon. We do not
remember the name of the
evangelist, except that his last
name was Mitchell. The text of
his sermon was “If it is not true,
I would have told you.”
Mr. J. P. Nichols, a Baptist
layman who had much to do
with arranging the city wide
revivals in during his
life time, once"m telling Good
Evening of famous revivalists
who had preached here men
tioned Sam Jones and an
evangelist whom he said
stressed “hell fire and the
wages of sin.” They bore down
on “deamon rum,” he said.
Mr. Nichols then added,
“Today, while the evangelist
still warns, he stresses the love
and compassion of God.”
Mr. Nichols’ statement is as
true today as it ever was. True
religion can be a happy thing.
And we cannot close this
column without expressing our
personal opinion that Bishop
Arthur J. Moore, now well ad
vanced in years, was one of the
greatest of this type evangelist.
Clinic to battle measles;
other childhood diseases
The Spalding County Health
Department will have an im
munization clinic tomorrow at
the Health Department for
children ages one through 11.
The purpose of the free clinic
is to offer immunizations
against childhood diseases,
especially two types of measles.
The clinics will be held from 9
a.m. till 12:30 p.m., from 1:30
p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to
9 p.m.
All types of immunizations
will be offered but clinic of
ficials plan to stress the impor
tance of getting children
protected against measles.
A new vaccine protects them
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Evangelist Ward
to discuss rejects
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Kissinger’s trip spurs guessing
SAIGON (UPI)-Dr. Henry
A. Kissinger arrived in Saigon
tonight on a special mission
that some political figures
believed signaled a break
through in his secret Vietnam
peace talks in Paris. North
Vietnam’s Le Due Tho, who
met Kissinger in Paris, was
flying to Hanoi but called his
trip “routine.”
Kissinger’s blue and white
Air Force Boeing 707 made its
way through thick rain clouds
into Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Air
Base where he was greeted by
U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth
Bunker and Gen. Frederick
Weyand, commander of U.S.
forces in South Vietnam.
Kissinger entered a waiting
U.S. Embassy limousine and
sped off, ignoring a waiting
crowd of newsmen.
The belief in Saigon was
there had been an important
development, but South Vietna
mese officials were divided
among themselves over whe-
Lodge saw no opportunity
BOSTON (UPl)—Henry Cabot
Lodge said Tuesday there was
no “golden opportunity” in the
1969 Paris peace talks because
North Vietnam never budged
from its stand demanding the
United States unilaterally with
draw from South Vietnam and
depose the Saigon regime.
Lodge, the U.S. negotiator in
Paris starting in 1969, said
Sargent Shriver, the Democra
tic vice presidential nominee,
never mentioned that there was
such an opportunity until last
week.
“I was in touch with Shriver
during the period after I went
to Paris, and there was no talk
of a change in the North
Vietnam position,” Lodge said
in a telephone interview from
his Beverly, Mass., home.
“I don’t understand why the
people in power in 1968, if they
had such information, waited
until 1972 to tell us about it.”
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
against two types of measles
and probably is good for a life
time, clinic officials said.
The vaccine protects against
seven-day big red measles and
three-day German measles
(rubella).
Officials said that some
people are unaware that there
are two types of measles.
They are anxious to attack the
spread of both types but
especially the German measles.
In pregnant women, this type
can cause birth defects, such as
blindness, deafness, heart
trouble, arm and leg deformi
ties and mental retardation.
ther Kissinger was flying here
to dump President Nguyen Van
Thieu or to assure him his
political future was secure.
Thieu Reported Out
The North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong peace negotiators in
Paris at the last session on
Thursday issued statements
that there could be no peace
settlement until the Thieu
• government was dissolved.
They seek a coalition govern
ment.
The Miami Herald, in a
report from Bonn, said today
Kissinger is going to Saigon to
ask Thieu to step down and be
replaced by an “interim
coalition regime.” Correspon
dent William R. Frye, citing no
sources, said:
“The United States and South
Vietnam can have a cease-fire
if President Thieu will step
down and be replaced by an
interim coalition regime. If he
insists on retaining power,
Washington may attempt to
Lodge said that in “a little
more than a year that I was in
Paris, there were perhaps five
or six secret negotiations.”
Claims No Breakthrough
But he said no breakthrough
of the type described by
Shriver appeared in prospect,
Im
Lodge
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, August 16, 1972
German measles epidemics
tend to come six to nine years
apart. Health officials said that
the last one in Georgia was in
1964-65. Some 65,000 women
contracted rubella during early
pregnancy; the effect on the
fetus was tragic, officials said.
Thousands of babies were
born with defects as a result,
they pointed out.
The clinic will administer the
immunizations with modern,
painless jet guns.
Immunizations against
measles, polio, diphtheria,
whopping cough and tetanus
will be offered free at the clinic.
negotiate a cease-fire and
prisoner exchange applying
only to American forces.”
The White House declined to
comment on the speculation,
and Press Secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler cautioned reporters not
to expect dramatic results from
Kissinger’s trip. He said
Kissinger would be in Saigon
for two days of talks with Thieu
and there would be a “general
review of all aspects of the
Vietnam problem, including the
negotiations in Paris.”
Will Brief Nixon
Kissinger last met Tho and
Chief Hanoi negotiator Xuan
Thuy in Paris on Monday. The
nature of the talks was not
disclosed but administration
sources said Tuesday in Wash
ington that Kissinger would
discuss with Thieu “substantive
ideas” that were raised in
Paris.
Kissinger is to brief President
Nixon when he returns this
weekend. Kissinger flew to
on the basis of his consultations
with the White House and State
Department.
Shriver, former ambassador
to France, said President Nixon
missed “a golden opportunity”
for fruitful negotiations after he
took office in January, 1969,
letting it elude him by giving
South Vietnam President Thieu
virtual veto power over the U.
S. position.
When he arrived in Paris,
Lodge said, the enemy esta
blished these conditions as
necessary to end the conflict:
“The United States would
have to withdraw unilaterally
from South Vietnam.
“The United States would
have to overthrow the govern
ment and put a Communist
government in power.”
The North Vietnamese negoti
ators, he said, never changed
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Jerry Anderson, chairman of the United Fund board; Frank Akin, fund raising chairman for 1972,
and Mrs. Mildred Sawyer, secretary; talked over plans for the fall campaign yesterday at the
Chamber of Commerce with chairmen of divisions. The advanced gifts drive will open Sept. 5 and
general solicitation will begin Sept. 18. The drive will end Oct. 15. The goal is $91,200.
Saigon from Switzerland where
he had been visiting his parents
on the occasion of their 50th
wedding anniversary.
Tho, a member of the North
Vietnam Politburo who out
ranks even the chief negotiator,
left Paris today aboard a
scheduled Soviet Aeroflot airli
ner via Moscow. He also is
expected to stop off in Peking.
Tho told reporters at Le
Bourget airfield that specula
tion surrounding his trip was
generally not correct.
“My voyage today is within
the framework of my usual
comings and goings between
Hanoi and Paris,” he said.
“Since yesterday there has
been a lot of speculation about
my departure. In general, this
speculation does not coincide
with reality, and could also lead
to inaccurate conclusions.”
Thieu reportedly has been
concerned about Kissinger’s
private Paris meetings with the
North Vietnamese and Hanoi’s
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demand that the present Saigon
government be removed as a
condition for settling the 11-
year-old war. Thieu even has
forbidden South Vietnamese
newspapers to print the North
Vietnamese demand.
“I’m sure Dr. Kissinger is
going to reassure President
Thieu,” said (me high-ranking
government source. “President
Nixon—if he is consistent—
would not make any decision on
Vietnam without consulting Mr.
Thieu. He has always kept the
president informed.”
But many other officials,
including some of Thieu’s
opponents, viewed Kissinger’s
visit as an indication there was
a breakthrough in the Paris
peace talks despite a White
House warning against such
speculation.
“I think it is reasonably
certain there is something
new,” said one diplomat who
has served as a close adviser to
Thieu.
Harriman: silver platter
YORKTOWN, N.Y. (UPI)—
W. Averell Harriman says when
he left the Paris peace talks in
1969 he handed the President
Nixon a chance for successful
peace negotiations “on a silver
platter” but Nixon allowed
South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu to scuttle it.
Harriman, President Lyndon
Johnson’s chief delegate to the
talks, said Nixon gave Thieu
virtual veto over American
positions in the talks in order to
maintain a government in South
Vietnam beholden to the United
States.
During a luncheon interview
at his country estate, Harriman
said that by January, 1969, “all
the procedural questions were
settled which we thought made
it possible to begin really
serious negotiations.
“Unfortunately they never
took place. President Thieu, I
believe, consciously scuttled the
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who’ve never written a poem —
but have raised some mighty
fine com.”
Griffin
paving
in bids
Friday of next week the
Georgia Department of
Transportation will open bids on
52 construction contracts,
covering work in 53 counties.
They will include:
Spalding - Henry — 8.65 miles
of widening and resurfacing on
Georgia Route 155 beginning at
Georgia Route 16 and extending
north to 1-75 two miles south of
McDonough (55 available
days), and
Spalding — 4.467 miles of
resurfacing on nine streets in
the city of Griffin. (25 available
days).
Youth, 17, drowns
Larry Davis, 17-year-old son
of Ruth Davis of Concord, was
drowned Tuesday while
swimming in the Flint River at
Flat Shoals near Concord.
Davis would have been a
negotiations,” Harriman said.
Harriman said the North
Vietnamese had signalled—both
by withdrawing nearly 90 per
cent of their troops from the
northern two provinces of South
Vietnam and by “words” at
secret talks in the fall of 1968—
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Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
91, low today 69, high yesterday
90, low yesterday 67, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:06, sunset
tomorrow 8:17.
EMC plans
candidate
get-together
The Electric Membership Co
ops serving Spalding, Coweta
and Fayette Counties have
invited four candidates in two
runoff elections to attend an
informal get together in Griffin
Monday night.
It will be held at the Holiday
Inn in Griffin from 8 p.m. to
9:30.
Candidates invited include
Claude Whaley of Lake Spivey
and Bob Smalley of Griffin,
runoff candidates for the 28th
state senate post; and John
Carlisle and Don Jackson,
candidates for Post One, 67th
House district.
There will be no formal
program. Refreshments will be
served.
member of the 12th grade this
fall at Pike County High School.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by Union Society
Funeral Home of Concord.
that they were prepared to
begin serious negotiations.
Opportunity Referred To
The 80-year-old diplomat and
former New York governor said
it was this opportunity to which
he and Cyrus Vance, his deputy
in the talks, referred in their
joint statement Saturday sup
porting Democratic vice pres
idential nominee Sargent Shriv
er’s statement that Nixon
“blew” a chance for peace in
1969.
By the fall of 1968, Harriman
said, he and Vance had
overcome the most difficult
obstacles—getting the North
Vietnamese to begin negotia
tions and to accept the
presence of South Vietnamese
representatives.
Starting in October, 1968,
Harriman said, there were
several indications that fruitful
negotiations could begin. Princi
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