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— Griffin Daily News Friday, September 15,1972
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Tailbones
And Girls
Almost but not quite everybody has four spinal verte
brae at the tailend of the spine. But occasionally some
body turns up with five. This anatomical peculiarity occurs
more often in women than in men. And numerous scienti
fic fellows believe, therefore, that the female of the human
species has not yet evolved as far as the male from the fur
ry ancestors with tails.
AVERAGE man here
abouts puts away only half
as much bread today as he
ate 30 years ago. Why is
no mystery. He now can af
ford more meat and pota
toes, presumably. Still. I'd
guess the dearth now of
homemade bread has much
to do with that. Sad, too.
MISTER, did you know
your ladyfriend for at least
three years before the mar
riage? Do you have any
brothers or sisters?
Were you married in a
church? Did you live in the
country as a youngster?
Are you fond of your mom
and dad? Did your wife
work before the wedding?
Have you stayed in the
same house for the last
five years? Is your wife at
least a year older than
yourself? Hold on, I'm not
prying. If you answer yes
to all these queries, your
chances for a successful
matrimonial life are not
just good but almost per
fect. Such is the claim of a
Cornell scholar who has
made a study of the matter.
QUERIES
Q. "Left-handed men
outnumber left-handed
women, true?”
A. Quite right, about
6.6 per cent of all men are
left handed, only 3.8 per
cent of all women.
Q. “WHAT’S average
pay for a good cross-coun
try truck driver?"
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“We must be getting into the prosperity belt.
There's a better class of trash along the
highway!”
A. About $17,500.
Q. “IS the capitol of Mis
souri written St. Louis or
Saint Louis?"
A. Won’t bite on that
one. sir. Jefferson City is
the capitol of Missouri.
Q. “LET’S see if you
name the only person in
American politics who
had five grandmothers."
A. George Romney.
Q. “DOESN’T a wom
an's hair ordinarily grow
faster than a man’s?"
A. Appreciably.
LOVE AND WAR
If the husband of an
idealistic young woman
chases other girls, that
wife tends to blame her
self. But the more season
ed older lady whose hus
band strays is inclined ra
ther to blame the husband
himself. That’s the obser
vation of one matrimonial
expert. Our Love and War
man confirms the view. The
older the wife, he says, the
less apt she is to question
her own performance. Rea
sonable.
HOW many handbags
does your wife possess,
sir? Seven per married
lady is said to be the na
tional average this year.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 I.M Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Sept. 15, the
259th day of 1972 with 107 to
follow.
The moon is in its first
quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus, Mars and
Saturn.
The evening star is Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
Republican William Howard
Taft, 27th president of the
United States, was born Sept.
15, 1857.
On this day in history:
In 1942, Germany’s Nazi
armies began the siege of
Stalingrad, Russia.
In 1963, four Negro girls were
killed in the bombing of a
church in Birmingham, Ala.
Two Negro boys were shot to
death that day and citywide
rioting broke out.
In 1966, Gemini 2 splashed
down in the Atlantic Ocean
after a then-record three-day
space flight.
today s FUNNY
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Thanx to 9-15*
Antoinette Sicard
West Warwick, R l. (jß> 1972 by NEA, Inc.
Today's FUNNY will pay SI.OO for
each original "funny" used. Send gags
to: Today's FUNNY, 1200 West Third
St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113.
THOUGHTS
“Then you will delight
yourself in the Almighty,
and lift up your face to God.
You will make your prayer
to him. and he will hear
you: and you will pay your
vows.”—Job 22:26, 27.
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All of us, even those who
are not attached to a formal
religion, have need of that
which silent prayer satis
fies. It is the need of gather
ing together one’s inner re
sources.—Felix Frankfurter,
former U.S. Supreme Court
justice.
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The liquor referendum
The proposed liquor referendum for the
City of Griffin appears to be coming to a
head. Proponents continue to gather
signatures calling for it, and opponents
have formed an organization to fight it.
If enough signatures are obtained and
the referendum is called, it will be a
political matter. A political campaign will
ensue with both sides presenting their
cases. Then the will of the majority of the
qualified voters of the City of Griffin who
take the trouble to go to the polls and vote
will prevail. (We emphasize the words
“who take the trouble to go to the polls and
vote” because not enough did take the
trouble in the recent elections.)
The Griffin Daily News fully realizes
that a great deal of emotionalism will be
involved, and we pledge ourselves to keep
as clear of it as humanly possible, to
Goodbye, Hopalong
We mourn the death of Hopalong
Cassidy. He was a good-guy cowboy hero.
With even more tears we mourn the death
of the era of which he was a part.
“Hoppy,” as kids called him, was a
movie star extraordinary. He rode a white
horse, and all the popcorn eaters at the
Saturday morning matinee knew that he
was good.
They were simpler days. Now we have
“protagonists”, “central characters” and
all the rest. You watch the tube all night,
most of the movie screens all day, or read
the novels hour upon end and never really
know what characters are “good”, or
which ones “bad."
Today’s youngsters see “true to life”
dramas, and it would require six com
mentators, 18 sociologists, four editorial
Printed word endures
From the time television assumed a
major role in the art of human
communications, there have been those
whoha ve felt the demise of the printed word
was only a matter of time. Yet, as Mr.
James J. Kilpatrick has written: "... the
situation is far from hopeless. The late
Douglas Southall Freeman used to
complain, in his melancholy moments,
that newspapermen write on sand. In a
sense we do. Yet this is better than
television, which writes on wind. The
printed word must always have this
* *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ *
Bears at home
The Griffin Bears, slightly disappointed
by last week’s 26-26 tie with Decatur, will
open their home season tonight.
Clarke-Central of Athens, a team that
prides itself on defense, will furnish the
opposition.
Every football team, whether it is
professional, college or high school, enjoys
playing before hometown fans.
The home audience encourages players
to perform to the best of their ability.
Although Griffin was disappointed with
the tie, the players were not discouraged.
No substitute
for the church
In our area we have very fine radio and
television church services every Sunday.
Isn’t it better to listen to these rather than
going to church to hear a mediocre sermon
and music? W.J.
No! The church is the only institution
organized by Christ. The home and
marriage are results of God’s creative act,
but the church is the result of Christ’s
death and resurrection. If all followed your
suggestion, the church soon would pass
away, and the church’s witness to Christ’s
death and resurrection would vanish. You
are a bit selfish in your suggestion that
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
point
present both sides as fairly as possible,
and to be as impartial in our news
accounts as we can be. Should we have
comment on the matter, will be confined to
editorial expression. The advertising
columns will be open to both sides equally,
and on equal terms.
Undoubtedly the paper will be accused
by some wets and by some dries of
favoring the other side, but we point out
here in advance that some members of the
paper’s staff support the legal sale of
liquor in the city, and members oppose it.
Still others do not live inside the city limits
and can vote neither for nor against it.
In short, we will do our dead level best to
be fair to all parties in the news columns
and in our reporting. We try to do this all
the time anyhow.
writers, and a panel of “distinguished
citizens” to tell the viewer, or the listener,
or the reader who the “good guy” is — if
there is one. Society is the villain today.
And the magic tube tells us over and over
to live while we can, get it while we can,
everyone except we ourselves is to blame
for all our problems. And above all else,
“Live it up! Up, up, up! You’ll live only
once, so live it up!”
Old-fashioned though we be, we liked it
better when Hopalong rode the silver
screen on his white horse. He always did
the right thing, including tipping his hat to
the ladies. The thought of it probably is
corny today, but he did set an example for
the kids who paid 10 cents to see him at the
Imperial, at the Roxy, and at the Rex.
Goodbye, “Hoppy.”
enormous advantage over TV - that it is
available to the reader at this
convenience, to be absorbed in whole or in
part, at any hour; to be clipped, filed, or
mailed. Some of the products of our labor
may be used to wrap the fish, but as a
medium of communication the printed
word endures.” Both TV and the printed
word have their places so long as we live in
.a land where freedom of speech and
freedom of the press stand as bulwarks of
liberty. Williamson (W. Va.) Daily News
In fact, Griffin’s attitude and spirit was
exceptional in practice this week.
Fortunately the Bears completed the
tough work this week without major in
juries.
Coach Max Dowis will start the same
players who opened against Decatur.
Coaches feel the Bears are improved
over the team they played last Friday
night.
That improvement plus the loyal support
of hometown fans could spell trouble for
the team from Clarke County, Ga.
radio and TV services are much better.
They may be, but they do not represent the
visible congregation of Christ’s flock—a
vital assembly of believers.
Christians have always required a living
relationship with such assemblies. They
were baptized into the congregation; they
partook of fellowship at the communion
table. They met for mutual prayer. While
the blessing of fellowship of the radio
sermon cannot be overestimated, yet it is
no substitute for the church. Support your
local church, and pray that radio and TV
ministries may reach those yet untouched
by the Gospel.
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"Hold on! I agreed to do an equal share of the house
work so you could pursue a CAREER!"
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
GOP's Moderates
Lacking in Drive
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Moderates don’t command anything in the Republican
party any more because they neither have a tough leader
nor the kind of collective political skills which might
help them offset that lack.
About half the 20 GOP governors classify as attractive
moderates, some with real backbone. The roster: Govs.
Walter Peterson of New Hampshire, Francis Sargent of
Massachusetts, Nelson Rockefeller of New York, Rus
sell Peterson of Delaware, Linwood Holton of Virginia,
William Milliken of Michigan, Robert Ray of lowa, John
Love of Colorado, Tom McCall of Oregon, Daniel Evans
of Washington.
Among the Republicans’ 45 U.S. senators, the pickings
are slimmer. The moderates of real “name standing”
don’t go much beyond Sens. Charles Percy of Illinois,
Robert Taft of Ohio, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts,
Howard Baker of Tennessee, Jacob Javits of New York,
Clifford Case of New Jersey, Mark Hatfield of Oregon.
It is pipe-dreaming to imagine that this little posse of
men, fewer than a score, is going to put any sort of
dominant imprint upon the GOP in the years just ahead.
It is equally wild to predict that they are going to make
the 1976 Republican convention a conservative-moderate
death struggle.
They don’t have the talent for strategy, they don’t have
the weapons, and they don’t have the manpower—even
assuming there might be some augmenting of their num
bers this fall and in 1974.
The governors on that list are often real whipcrackers
in their own states. Yet, except for Rockefeller the
Perennial, none has any genuine national status nor has
demonstrated the capacity to lead the others.
Rockefeller in New York has become one of the tough
est old boys in the business. But his political future, in
cluding his possible role as a leader of moderates, is be
set by dilemma.
Should he choose to seek a fifth term in 1974 and win
it, he will be a very strong party figure, a potential 1976
presidential contender even though he will be 68 by that
time.
If, however, he should go after the 1976 nomination,
then he would almost surely crimp his possible useful
ness as a leader who might bang moderate heads togeth
er. Such an undertaking could in those circumstances
only seem self-serving.
For Rockefeller to have any real chance would require
a coalescing of moderate forces behind him, which didn’t
happen in 1964 or 1968. Who would do the coalescing?
Sargent? Milliken? Evans? Able men, these, but lacking
the big clout.
Among the moderate senators, only Percy appears to
have any real drive for the top job. A big re-election win
for him in Illinois this November would enliven his
prospects, but he has done far less than Rocky to
achieve respect broadly throughout the party. He would
have a hard row to cut even with his moderate fellows.
A Rockefeller-Percy struggle probably would weaken
the moderates’ outlook beyond imagining. They need
unity, not division. Their conservative opposition is not
likely to be badly torn. The guessing among some party
experts is that by 1975 the conservatives will have settled
upon either Vice President Agnew or John Connallv —
but will not be jockeying between the two. They will be
well organized.
Being great with the vocal chords, the moderates al
ways manage to get themselves a lot of press. What they
can’t seem to muster is a lot of pressure. And pressure is
the game they’re in.
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QUOTES
It is only because output
was first allowed to fall SBO
billion below its potential
and unemployment forced to
rise to 6 per cent and re
main there for 18 long
months that the last few
months look like good news
in comparison.
—Sen. William Proxmire,
D-Wis., on a report of the
Council of Economic Ad
visors, praising the Nixon
administration for its han
dling of the economy.
This country has been cas
trated technologically. The
gap will be with us for
many years to come.
—Christian Democrat Guil
lermo Videla of Chile, a
leading critic of Marxist
President Salvador Al
lende, on the economic
straits of his country.
GRIFFIN
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Publisher
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The concept of an inde
pendent air force in the
United States was strongly
advocated by Gen. “Billy”
Mitchell following World
War I, but wasn’t achieved
until after World War 11.
The U.S. Air Force was
established under the
Armed Services Unification
Act of July 26, 1947, The
World Almanac recalls.
Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Editor
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