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— Griffin Daily News Friday, August 25, 1972
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Oriental Dad
Killed Twins
Tendency to bear twins, triplets, quadruplets, that's
inherited. And it's the orientals who are least apt to have
such multiple births. This has been reported. A Cali
fornia client named Julie Norie explains why: “In China,
it was long believed a mother who bore twins had com
mitted adultery, and the disgraced father of these unfor-
tunate offspring oftentimes
immediately killed both
the mother and the babies
to save face. Thus, over
the generations, that in
herited strain almost dis
appeared."
SUICIDE rate among
college students is half
again higher than said
rate among citizens in
general. Why?
YES, IT has been proved
scientifically the finger
nails of nailbiters do in
deed grow a little faster.
REMEMBER, what
hurts when you have a
splitting headache is never
the brain. It feels no
pain.
QUERY
Q. "How much money
do the owners of those
ocean-going yachts pay
their crews these days?"
A. Nothing is average.
The salaried crewman is
a rarity, anymore. Most
ly, those yachtsmen just
take on free souls who
want to work for grub and
passage to vacation in the
tropics.
AM NOW asked the
whereabouts of the largest
number of unmarried girls.
On New York City's east
•ide, probably. Between
30th and 90th streets. It's
estimated approximately
450.000 single, divorced
or separated women oc
cupy quarters thereabouts.
Please note, the estimated
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number of bachelors in
that happy hunting ground
only runs 250,000.
SLIPPERS
"Show me your bed
room slippers and I'll tell
you how old you are,"
writes that famous French
observer, Madame Dari
aux. Says she: You start
out with skyblue booties.
Go into marriage bare
foot. Soon sit down to
breakfast in leather moc
casins. Later don mono
grammed needlepoint
scuffs. Eventually slip into
black velvet pumps. And
finally, your grandchildren
bring you fur-lined foot
wear. Come on, you’re
getting up there now,
admit it.
MOST COEDS and col
lege men both say they
wish they had bigger
eyes while the men gen
erally report they'd like
more prominent chins. Or
so the pollsters report.
EVIDENTLY, one out
of every 20 U. S. citizens
possesses that goodluck
charm, the rabbit's foot.
At least, marketing stat
istics show the novelty en
trepreneurs peddle about
10 million a year here.
Address mail to 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 Friday, Aug. 25, the
238th day of 1972 with 128 to
follow.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
Pianist-conductor Leonard
Bernstein was born Aug. 25,
1918.
On this day in history:
In 1718, the city of New
Orleans was founded.
In 1921, the United States
signed a peace treaty with
Germany, officially ending
World War I.
In 1944, American troops
liberated Paris in World War
n.
In 1950, President Harry
Truman seized the nation’s
railroads to prevent a general
strike.
On this day in 1971, bandlead
er Ted Lewis died at the age of
81.
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THOUGHTS
“Can the Ethiopian change
his skin or the leopard his
spots? Then also you can do
good who are accustomed to
do evil.”—Jeremiah 13:23.
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Let us carry with us a re
membrance of how the world
is changing, the revolutions
which are taking place in the
world today. Let us forget
our petty quarrels and open
windows of our minds so that
we can see our changing so
ciety in its true picture.—
Jawaharlal Nehru. Indian
nationalist leader.
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Coming, ready or not
What happens to Atlanta is important to
Spalding and to Griffin. So its population
loss of 5,000 people in about two years is
noteworthy to us.
During the decade 1960-70, it gained 9,966
people, then by April of this year, it lost
5,000. Thus it can be said that its city limits
has started downhill.
Here at the Griffin Daily News we are
not wringing our hands with glee over this.
To the contrary, it is disturbing because a
healthy city limits Atlanta is to our own
Personal appearance
It is official now. Just as everyone knew
would happen, the Republicans have
nominated Mr. Nixon and Mr. Agnew.
Another thing happened at their conven
tion : they made a lot of new friends merely
because of personal appearance. We have
heard numerous people right here in
Griffin who watched both party conven
tions on television comment on that.
“This crowd (the GOP),” said one old
time Spalding County Democratic leader
of the past, “looks like we used to look."
A news story from Miami noted that
most Republican male delegates wore
coats and close-cropped hair, then said of
its women:
“The GOP women wear clothes that can
How important is it?
Imagine if Charles Lindbergh had
demanded that the prize money be doubled
before he would consent to attempt the
first nonstop flight between New York and
Paris, insisted that all clouds be removed
from his flight path, asked in midcourse
that half the money be deposited to his
account in advance ahd afterwards had
signed all kinds of promotional deals to
cash in on his fame and buy all the things
he never had as a Minnesota farm boy.
No doubt some would have defended him
on the grounds that his solo crossing of the
Atlantic brought glory to the United States
and prestige to the field of aviation.
Fortunately for both the United States and
aviation, Lindbergh did none of these
things.
It is ridiculous, of course, to compare
aviation and chess, or Charles Lindbergh
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
No miracles coming
A few weeks ago the Atlanta Braves
made a mid-season managerial change,
hoping that new leadership would perk up
the slumping club.
So far the move hasn’t worked. The
Braves are having just as much trouble
winning under Eddie Mathews as they had
under Luman Harris.
Those, who thought the managerial
change would bring instant success, are
Is it necessary
to go to church?
Is it absolutely necessary to go to church
on Sunday to be a Christian? I need a
simple, direct answer to this because I
lead a Christian life, but a physical
ailment hinders me from attending church
services. One of my friends told me I must
go, or I will be lost. Is this true? C.B.
There is no saving virtue in merely
attending church. I’m sure a lot of people
attend church faithfully who do not have a
personal faith in Christ.
But, having said that, it is not only my
opinion that most every able Christian
attends church. Our Lord attended in the
synagogues on the Sabbath day. I attend
church when I am not conducting a service
in a crusade. I urge every one who comes
forward in our meetings to attend a Bible
believing, spiritual church.
Some people have the wrong idea about
Quimby Melton, Jr
Telephone 227-6336
community’s benefit. Facts are facts,
though, and we should face them.
One of these facts is that many of the
5,000 who have left city limits Atlanta have
come to live in Spalding or in Griffin.
Hundreds more have moved into other
nearby places. So the flight to the suburbs
is an established fact , and unless the
trend is checked, Atlanta’s environs will
grow with increasing rapidity. Are we
ready?
best be described as middle America, a
conservative cut and color without flash.
Many female Democratic delegates wore
tattered-bottomed levis with ribbed knit
shirts, sans bra, and carried shoulder bags
constructed from burlap.”
The story also quoted a U. S. Secret
Service agent as saying he did not have to
watch the Republican delegates as closely
as the Democratic ones. “We had to keep a
close watch because it was difficult to tell
the difference between the demonstrators
and some of the Democrats. You can spot a
Republican when he turns the corner,” he
was quoted as saying.
So the Republicans have made new
friends just by personal appearance, and
the Democrats have lost some by theirs.
and Bobby Fischer. But what has been
going on at Reykjavik, Iceland, suggests
that either the popular idea of a hero has
changed or winning the game is now
considered more important than how it is
played.
Fischer’s antics have been excused on
the grounds that he is the greatest chess
genius of all time and that while you may
not like him personally, the important
thing is the tremendous boost he has given
the image of chess.
Maybe so. A lot of geniuses have been
hard to get along with. Leonardo, for in
stance, was secretive. Wagner was a dead
beat. Gauguin deserted his family.
But there we go again, comparing a
chess player with men who have really
contributed to the advancement of art and
science. Chess players just aren’t that
important.
disappointed.
They shouldn’t be.
It is apparent by now that the greatest
manager in all baseball could not instantly
cure the Braves’ problems.
It will take time for Mathews to make
changes he feels are needed to improve the
team.
In the meantime, fans who clamored for
a managerial change shouldn’t expect
miracles.
church. The church is not a building, an in
stitution, or organization. The church is
the “body of Christ.” In First Ephesian we
read: “And hath put all things under his
(Christ’s) feet, and gave him to be the
head over all things to the church. Which is
his body, the fulness of him that filleth all
in all.”
As a believer you are in the church
whether you want to be or not. If you
cannot attend the services of the church,
God understands that. But you can support
the body of believers with your prayers,
and with your substance. You can invite
Christians, even two or three, to meet with
you to talk about the Lord. And Jesus said
that sort of meeting would be a church.
For He said: “Where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am
I.” (Matthew 18:20).
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"WOW-WHEE—This is some check! You don't happen
to be that alleged bugging suspect of the ‘Watergate
Five,' do you?"
RAY CRO MLEY
Wholesale Murder
Backfires on Reds
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEAI
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Historical parallels are dangerous. But the North Ko
rean invasion of the South in 1950 and North Vietnam’s
Tet offensive may have something to tell us about the
after-effects of Hanoi’s current invasion and occupation
of parts of South Vietnam.
The Communist occupation of major areas in South
Korea in 1950 was so vicious, and the killing of teachers,
village officials, police and other local leaders so wide
spread that the North Koreans to this day have been un
able to set up a viable Communist underground in the
South.
In that 1950 occupation, the Communist underground
surfaced and became known to the citizens. With the
retreat of the North Korean armies, the backbone of the
Red underground also disappeared.
The anger of the South Koreans was increased by the
action of the retreating northerners. Before leaving each
town they were forced to give up, they would order the
local citizens to dig long trenches. The civilian leaders
of these towns and small villages—those who remained—
would be forced to line up beside these trenches. They
were shot and buried.
I have a picture left from those days. In this case the
bloody dead lie sprawled by the trenches. The retreating
Communists did not have time for burying the bodies.
In these killings, the retreating North Koreans at
tempted to destroy all civilian leadership—teachers, farm
cooperative leaders, minor officials, policemen, profes
sional men.
The situation after the massacres in Hue during Tet
-1968 was similar. The Communists who occupied Hue
systematically killed members of political parties, other
leading citizens and those who might later expose them.
The citizens of Hue remember the Communists with
hatred to this day.
Although the Saigon government perhaps would win no
popularity contests in Hue, the Communists are disliked
and feared far more. My friends report that in the most
difficult days after the Communist capture of Quang Tri,
this spring, the men and women of Hue began to form
civilian militia units to fight the invaders house-to-house
and door-to-door. Some men sent their families away but
stayed behind themselves.
If the Communists enter Hue again, they will find them
selves faced by these citizen irregulars by night.
In several parts of occupied northern South Vietnam,
reportedly the Communists are once again killing and
kidnaping those who could provide leadership, those who
protest and those with connections in Saigon.
If the Hue and Korean experiences have validity, the
current terrorism will forge such hatred among the peo
ple of these occupied areas it will be exceedingly difficult
for the Communists, if they are defeated in this round
of the war, to rebuild their underground.
As this reporter knows from his own guerrilla days in
Asia in World War 11, no underground can exist for long
without cooperation, at least from some groups within
the local population. Once that cooperation is dead, the
underground is finished.
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Q — W hat flower is
shunned by bees?
A—The English hawthorn,
because of its peculiar odor.
Q— Do holly trees have
sex distinction?
A—Yes. The red berries
grow only on a female.
Q — What does the Irish
name Barry mean?
A—Spear.
Q —How did the expression
“Peeping Tom’" originate?
A—When Lady Godiva,
clothed only in her long hair,
made her famous ride
through Coventry, a tailor
named Tom peeped through
a shutter and was struck
blind. This traditional inci
dent is the origin of the
phrase.
Q—Who was the first ma
jor league pitcher to hit a
World Series grand slam
homer?
A —Dave McNally, Oct. 13.
1970, for the Baltimore
Orioles.
Q—What is the largest
statue?
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WORLD ALMANAC
facts
Hashish is a narcotic con
tained in the leaves and
flowers of the hemp plant.
Its name was supposedly
derived from a sect of ter
rorist assassins, the Hash
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eaters. The World Almanac
notes that members of the
Hashshashin were drugged
and sent to murder Cru
saders passing through
Syria during the 12th cen
tury.
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