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By Quimby Melton
“Christianity and the Secular
City” is the topic of this week’s
International Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
Genesis 11:1-9; John 17:15-18;
Acts 19:23-41; 1 John 2:15-17;
Revelation 21:10, 22-27;
Zechariah 8:1-8.
The Memory Selection is “Be
not conformed to this world; but
be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect will
of God.” (Romans 12:2).
Dr. Charles Laymon in
troduces this lesson saying, “A
friend of mine said, following a
Irip to Europe, that if one
wanted to see Europe as it
really was, he would need to see
it soon. Why? The reason is that
contemporary high-rise apart
ments and factories are spring
ing up everywhere. Built along
ancient historical sites, these
modern structures are
changing the face of the past. It
is a secular effrontery to cul
ture.”
“Someone, hearing my
friend, commented, ‘lt is the
same with the church. The city
is taking over. Everything is
wide open on Sunday, and
secular activities are smother
ing us.’ He cites figures to show
an alarming decrease in church
attendance. Membership is
shrinking in the large de
nominations.”
If conditions today are as
serious as Dr. Laymon implies,
and there is plenty of evidence
they are, then what must be
done to solve these problems?
Suggest we read again and
study the Memory Selection for
this lesson.
First, we are told in Paul’s
letter to the Romans (Romans
12:2) not to “conform” to the
practices and customs of the
current times. Conditions in the
Roman Empire, even in its
greatest days, were rotten.
Oppression of the unfortunate,
“loose” morals were rampant;
and false gods were wor
shipped. Paul and other early
Christians did their best to
change conditions, but with
little success.
Those who claim to be
Christians must see in secular
practices all the dangers and
ills that exist.
Now Paul continues giving us
an idea of how we can overcome
the evils of the day. “Be ye
transformed” he writes.
Transformed means completely
changed, hence a new
creature.” And we, a layman,
suggest that we look to the great
“transformer” to transmit and
pass on to us His power to
strengthen the “current” that
comes from above.
“I need thee every hour,” we
suggest as the theme song for
this lesson.
“We can learn a lot from
history— if we can just get it to
stop happening so fast.”
Landfill returns
to winter hours
Effective Monday, the city
landfill will resume winter
season hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Mondays through
Saturday.
The hour of darkness falls so
early that it no longer justifies
the landfill’s remaining open
until 8 p.m. city officials said.
The landfill is on Shoal Creek
road off the Newnan highway.
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ATLANTA—Georgia’s Governor Jimmy Carter received a
letter from the former Ruth Eisenmann-Schier, who was
convicted in the kidnapping case of Florida heiress Barbara
Jane Mackle, in which she charged that she bought her
freedom from prison. Here Governor Carter studies the
latter in which the girl said that the Rev. Howard Gardner of
Jonesboror, Ga., paid to secure her release. She declined to
say who had paid. (UPI)
Parole man offers
to take lie test
ATLANTA (UPI) - Dr.
Thomas Miller Jenkins, a mem
ber of the State Pardons and
Parole Board when Mrs. Ruth
Eisemann-Schier de Randazzo
was released from prison, has
offered to take a lie detector
test in connection with her
claim she paid SIO,OOO for her
release.
Jenkins, now deputy commis
sioner in the Department of Of
fender Rehabilitation, made the
offer in a letter to Gov. Jimmy
Carter. Jenkins suggested that
other members of the board
also take lie detector tests and
asked for a complete investiga
tion of the case.
Mrs. de Randazzo was deport
ed to her native Honduras after
her release from prison in Geor
gia. She and Gary Stephen Krist
were convicted of kidnaping
Florida heiress Barbara Jane
Mackle in 1968 for a $500,000
ransom.
Mrs. de Randazzo served
three years of a seven-year pri
son term. She wrote Carter
earlier in the week, claiming
that a minister, Rev. R. How
ard Gardner of Jonesboro paid
the SIO,OOO for her freedom.
Gardner said Thursday that
Mrs. de Randazzo had done “a
first class con job” on him.
Gardner said that she had
freely given him $4,000 she was
paid for an interview with a
German news agency. He said
the interview took place after
her release from prison in April
of this year.
Mrs. de Randazzo, however,
claimed that Gardner had
bilked her out of more than
Cancer researchers
have promising lead
By AL ROSSITER JR.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
leading cancer researcher to
day reported limited success in
using an anti-tuberculosis vac
cine to fight cancer in humans
and said it was a “promising
lead” in a long effort ahead to
develop an effective anti-cancer
agent.
“We haven’t got a cure but
we have better hope than we
had before,” Dr. Edmund
Klein, chief of the Department
of Dermatology at the Roswell
Park Memorial Institute, Buffa
lo, N.Y., said in an interview.
Klein reported the findings at
a meeting of scientists from
eight countries called by the
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
to discuss the use of the
bacterial agent BCG immobiliz
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
ATLANTA—Rev. Howard
Gardner (1970 photo) has been
charged in a letter to Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter, of
using SIO,OOO to secure the
release of Ruth Eisenmann-
Schier De Randazzo from a
Georgia jail. (UPI)
$6,000, enclosed a letter from
Gardner in which he asked for
$3,750 and charged he had paid
for her release.
Gardner denied the allega
tions and said she was trying
to hurt him because of an “un
requited love” and in an at
tempt to get back a contract
the minister has for Mrs. de
Randazzo’s book and movie
rights.
Meanwhile, Parole Board
Chairman Cecil McCall, named
to the board after Mrs. de
Randazzo’s release, said he had
no plans to call a meeting of
the board.
ing the body’s defenses against
cancer.
He said the BCG applied to
four patients with malignant
moles, four with breast cancer
and six with white blood cell
tumors produced partial or
temporary improvement in six
cases. There was no response
in five patients.
Greater success was reported
in the treatment of skin cancer.
Klein said that BCG applied to
the dtin resulted in complete
regression lasting one year in
ax of eight patients. BCG has
been used in tests against skin
cancer for several years but
Klein’s work with other types of
human cancer is new. The
research was carried out in
collaboration with NCI scien
tists.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 6, 1972
Alpine Express
Runaway Army man kills
two guards, waitress
GOETTINGEN, Germany
(UPI)—A runaway U. S. Army
sergeant shot and killed two
military guards and a waitress
aboard the Alpine Express
today, dumped their bodies out
the windows and fled with two
pistols into countryside near the
East German border, police
said.
Police helicopters buzzed over
the underbrush and busy
highways south of this central
German town, about nine miles
west of the barbed-wire border,
in search of Sgt. Thomas De
Gregorio, 26, of Hialeah, Fla.
and the Ist Armored Division.
Men with guns, dogs and
loudspeakers—both police and
West German troops—beat the
bush on foot and German
radios broadcast warnings
about “an American soldier on
the loose, armed and consi
dered dangerous.”
One terrified female motorist
told police “a man in uniform,
waving a pistol,” tried to flag
her down on a highway
southwest of Goettingen. He got
a faceful of gravel and exhaust
fumes, she said, but police
could not say whether that was
their man.
Official police spokesmen
sketched this scenario of
murder aboard the Alpine
Express:
De Gregorio, they said, had
been absent-without-leave
(AWOL) from his Ist Armored
outfit since Tuesday. U. S.
military police confirmed he
had been arrested Wednesday
trying to cross into Denmark
and had been picked up by two
unidentified U.S. army ser
geants at Bremerhaven, Ger
many, Thursday for return to
base in Bamberg.
They boarded the Copenha
gen-Rome express at Bremer
haven. About 1 a.m., they said,
De Gregorio made his play for
freedom as the express rocket
ed along just north of
Goettingen.
It happened in Wagon One,
first car behind the engine,
where De Gregorio and the two
escorting sergeants were seat
ed. A waitress was working
somewhere nearby. One or both
of the sergeants got careless,
perhaps dozed a bit, and the
butt of a .45 caliber pistol hung
free.
In the police reconstruction,
De Gregorio grabbed it and
blazed away. One bullet tore
through a wall, others mowed
down the sergeants and the
waitress. Police speculated she
was killed because she saw the
shooting or perhaps because
she came to investigate.
De Gregorio rode another 18
miles into Goettingen before he
left the train and escaped,
police said.
They marked the distance by
the location of the battered
bodies found along the track—
the soldiers close together near
the little town of Edesheim, the
waitress closer to Goettingen.
Panic blurred the memories
of witnesses to De Gregorio’s
escape, police said. The en
gineer at first said the soldier
had jumped from the moving
train as it approached Goettin
gen, but later recalled him
stepping onto the station
platform with pistol drawn. A
conductor said he heard an exit
door being forced open in
midjourney.
U. S. Army spokesmen
confirmed De Gregorio’s identi
ty and the essentials of the
incident. They said he was a
second-hitch soldier who had
joined the Army in 1966.
NEWS
Santa
to visit
tomorrow
Santa Claus will be aboard
one of two Marine helicopters
which are due to land at the
Griffin-Spalding Airport
tomorrow at 10 a.m.
His visit will open a drive for
toys for children here at
Christmas time.
The Marines will join with the
Griffin Jaycees in the joint
effort. For years both
organizations have had toys
program for children during the
Christmas season.
The Marines have called
theirs the “Toys for Tots”
campaign and the Jaycees have
held a program in connection
with their Empty Stocking
program.
The program will be called
Toy for Tots—Griffin Jaycees
locally.
Local government officials
along with a Jaycee delegation
will be on hand to greet the
helicopters. After a brief air
port ribbon cutting ceremony,
the group will go to the old
Maryland Fried Chicken
building on West Taylor to open
the joint toy drive.
Plans call for the
headquarters to be open day
and night. Griffinites have been
invited to donate toys to the
program, leaving them at the
headquarters building.
They will be repaired, where
needed, and made ready for
needy youngsters in this area at
Christmas.
A Marine spokesman said a
Cook’s Department Store
representative would be on
hand at the airport to greet
Santa and Marine officials. The
store plans to donate some toys
to the program to help get it off
to a good start here, the Marine
spokesman said.
Nixon visit
ATLANTA (UPI) -President
Nixon will make a campaign
speech in Atlanta next Thurs
day during part of a four and
a half hour visit to the city.
Republican Congressman
Fletcher Thompson, seeking to
win a U. S. Senate seat, made
the announcement and it was
later confirmed by the White
House Thursday.
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Ted Wilson (1), president of the Griffin Touchdown Club,
turns over Green blazers to Griffin High football Coach Max
Dowis for the football team and coaches. The team will wear
the blazers on their road trip to LaGrange tonight.
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Jimmy Mankin of the Chamber board of directors, Russ Spangler, new executive vice president,
Dewitt Simonton who is leaving the Chamber, and President Jerry Savage (1-r) talk in the
Chamber office.
Chamber taps Trail man
Russ Spangler of the Mcln
tosh Trail staff today was
elected executive vice president
of the Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce.
He will succeed Dewitt
Simonton who will return to
WKEU Monday as news direc
tor of the station.
Spangler will begin his duties
with the Chamber Nov. 6.
He said he had some projects
to finish for the Mclntosh Trail
before assuming the new job.
At the Trail, Spangler was
director of the economic and
industrial development pro
gram.
A native of Pittsburg, he has
lived in the Atlanta area 11
years before moving to Griffin
last November when he joined
the Trail.
In Atlanta he was with United
Air Lines and handled travel
arrangements for the Atlanta
Flacons and the Atlanta Chiefs.
In this capacity, he travelled
extensively with the two teams.
Spangler was elected at a
called meeting of the Chamber
directors this morning.
He is married and he and his
wife have two children, Anna,
6; and Benjamin, 4. They make
their home in Hillandale at 234
Lancom lane.
The Spanglers are members
Harvest Market
opens here today
The Harvest Market got
under way this afternoon at the
parking lots of Commercial
Bank & Trust Co. It will con
tinue through tomorrow in
connection with the annual
merchants Harvest of Values
sales.
The Federated Garden Clubs
of Griffin sponsored the Harvest
Market. They will donate
proceeds to the downtown
beautification project.
One of the features will be a
square dance exhibition. It will
be tonight from 7 to 8 at Hill and
Solomon street.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhett Glover of
Griffin organized the group and
will present the program.
Another entertainment
feature will be music by a
combo from Zebulon known as
“The Younger Generation.”
They will play this afternoon
from 5-7 and during the day
tomorrow.
Playing guitars and singing
will be Claire Ann Mankin,
Janet Smalley, Laura Davis
and Jill Chestnut.
Artists who will make sket
ches during the Harvest event
will be Joyce Smith and Nora
Tatum.
Live Scarecrows will mingle
through the crowds downtown
during the two-day affair and
will be giving treats to children.
Booths set up in the parking
lots will offer such items as
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
78, low today 56, high yesterday
73, low yesterday 61, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight in
50s. Sunrise tomorrow 7:31,
sunset tomorrow 7:11.
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of the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church in Griffin.
This is the first venture into
Chamber of Commerce work
for the 35-year-old.
baked goods, canned goods,
fresh produce from area farms,
and turkeys.
Concession stands will be
operated during the two-day
event.
Beret dispute
cans 30 girls
HEXHAM, England (UPI)—
The headmistress at a Roman
Catholic school canned 30 girls
for refusing to wear their
uniform berets at a school
assembly, some of the girls said
today.
Rose Hayden, 11, a student at
Hexham’s St. Mary’s School for
girls, said: “We were lined up
outside the headmistress’s stu
dy in groups according to our
ages. Some of the girls were
only six and seven years old but
they were canned, too.”
Sister Benedict, the school’s
headmistress, said: “The whole
thing has been widely exagger
ated. This is an internal matter
and I cannot comment on it.”
The county Education
Department said it is
investigating the incident.
School children over the age of
nine can be canned under
British law.
James Bond
goes to jail
STOKE-ON-TRENT, England
(UPI)— Magistrates sentenced
James Bond to two years
imprisonment Thursday.
The balding, bespectacled
Bond, 50, was convicted of
trying to break into a bungalow.