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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 24, 1972
1972 Ostrich Award
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Michael Is
Still No. 1
Most popular first names for grown men nationwide are not
the same as the most popular first names for newborn boys. That
Michael is No. I now among the infants has been reported.
The next 11, in order, are David, Mark, Jason, James, Scott,
Christopher, Adam, Matthew, Stephen, Thomas and William.
That’s one researcher’s report. Other names rapidly rising to the
top, he says, include Zachary, Aaron and Jeremiah.
HOW long it takes a book
keeper to finish the day’s work
depends somewhat on how
many times the figure 5 turns
up. That’s the single-digit
number which requires the
most time to write.
BECAUSE of the sun’s in
tense gravity it’s 28 times
that of the earth a 160-pound
man thereon would weigh over
two tons, briefly.
NOW about that bank cred
it card. The money boys say
it costs the average holder
about $43 a year in interest,
whatnot.
QUERY
Q. "Ask your Love and War
man who should get up first
in the morning, the husband
or the wife?"
A. Most matrimonial ex
perts believe the wife should
arise first to get breakfast
started. Except on dairy farms.
On these, however, the hus
band should be expected to
nap twice daily Besides a brief
snooze after breakfast, a
slightly longer siesta is war
ranted after lunch.
PECI LIAR thing about
the duck hawk. Its nostrils
are equipped with a set of baf
fles. So the wind velocity in
a 2(X)-mile-per-hour dive won't
blow its brains out. This is the
fastest bird that flies, please
note. Other fowl are not so
endowed.
PIANO
In exactly one out of every
6.3 households nationwide
stands a piano . . . ESKI
- have 15 different
words for snow .. . EXACTLY
why seamen came to call any
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little iceberg a "growler" I
do not know . . . EVERY
tenth new house now is a
prefab . . . RABBITS are born
blind and naked. Hares are
born wide-eyed and fully fur
red.
ON THE ISLAND of Sicily,
archaeologists dug down to
the remains of a luxurious
villa, which dated back to the
ancient Roman empire. They
dusted off a mosaic on the
floor of what most probably
ages ago had been some fam
ily’s gymnasium. It depicted
eight girls, seemingly swim
ming underwater, as in an
aquacade. What’s the Latin
word for bikini? That’s what
they wore. Swimsuits identical
to today’s scantiest. Pretty
little things.
WHAT world-famous fel
low, besides Joe Namath, has
green eyes? That’s what I
asked. Several, turns out. Sing
er Tom Jones can likewise be
so described. Swimmer Mark
Spitz, too. Who else?
ELDEST brother of that
famous fighter Sonny Liston
was named War. Client in
quires if that’s a common
name among blacks in the
South. In the south of Africa,
it is. Fairly. And another
fairly common name there
abouts is Famine.
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 Tuesday, Oct. 24,
the 298th day of 1972 with 68 to
follow.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus,
Saturn and Mars.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Scorpio.
American playwright Moss
Hart was born Oct. 24, 1904.
On this day in history:
In 1861, the first telegram
was sent across the United
States from California Chief
Justice Stephen Field to Pres
ident Abraham Lincoln in
Washington, D.C.
In 1939, women’s hosiery
made of nylon went on sale for
the first time in Wilmington,
Del.
In 1945, U.S. Secretary of
State Janies Byrnes announced
the United Nations charter had
gone into effect with Soviet
ratification.
In 1952, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the Republican
nominee for president, said if
elected he would go to Korea
and seek an end to the war
there.
A thought for the day: At his
inauguration as the 34th pres
ident of the United States,
Dwight David Eisenhower said,
“Since this century’s beginning,
a time of tempest has seemed
to coine upon the continents of
the earth.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Count Casimir Pulaski
was a Polish military com
mander who became a
brigadier general in the
Continental Army and
served at the battles of
Brandywine and German
town in Pennsylvania in
1777, The World Almanac
says. Pulaski was mortally
wounded while leading a
French and American cav
alry charge during the
siege of Savannah in 1779.
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*— Two weeks to go
Local, state and national elections are
two weeks from today. If you are eligible
to vote, then you enjoy one of the privileges
Thank you, Mr. President
President Nixon had some words about
draft dodgers and deserters.
America, he said, will not turn its back
on its men who have served honorably in
County still gets cans
When he was running for county
commissioner, Sandy Morgan said in
connection with the legal sale of beer
inside the city but it illegally outside: “The
city gets the tax but the county gets the
cans.” Since then Spalding County has
legalized beer sales, so it now gets some of
the tax. And it continues to get the cans.
It gets them up and down its roads, in its
rural residents’ yards, in ponds, even in its
boondocks.
Beer cans are not all that it gets, not by
any means. It gets trash and litter from
food and soft drinks bought at drive-ins in
town, eaten in cars in the country, then
strewn along roadsides. It gets liquor
bottles, old shoes and garbage.
The amendments
The Griffin Daily News is publishing the
24 proposed statewide constitutional
amendments and the single Spalding
County one for the second time today.
They are required by law to be published
in full, and the state pays for them as legal
advertising.
In addition, the Office of legislative
Counsel has prepared a short synopsis of
each one of the 24 and we will publish these
free of charge as a public service.
Here are the first two:
Proposed Amendment No. 1.
(Ga. Laws 1972, p. 1364
The ballot will state that this is an
amendment:
. to create a Judicial Qualifications
Commission and provide for the removal,
discipline, or involuntary retirement of
justices and judges of courts of this
State.”
This proposal creates the Judicial
Qualifications Commission to be composed
of seven members as follows: two judges
of any court of record to be selected by the
Supreme Court, three members of the
State Bar to be elected by the Board of
Governors of the State Bar, and two
citizens, neither of whom shall be a
member of the State Bar, to be appointed
by the Governor. Commission members
shall serve for four-year staggered terms.
This proposal provides that any justice
or judge of any court of this State may be
removed or otherwise disciplined for
willful misconduct in office, or willful and
persistent failure to perform his duties, or
habitual intemperance; or for conduct
prejudicial to the administration of justice
which brings the judicial office into
disrepute; or he may be retired for
disability seriously interfering with the
performance of his duties, which is, or is
likely to become, of a permanent
character. If, after hearing, or after
consideration of the record and report of a
special master, the Commission finds good
cause therefor, it shall recommend to the
Supreme Court of Georgia the removal,
Alcoholism is
a great tragedy
In your opinion, is alcoholism a sin?
P.R.
Alcoholism is one of the grestest
tragedies of our day. Yes, alcoholism is a
sin and the Bible clearly so states many
times. But all of us are sinners in God’s
sight and what the alcoholic needs is love
and compassion, not blame. Through the
constant use of alcohol, these people are
usually covering up some deep emotional
or personality sickness. They have come to
the place where they are sick sinners,
physically and spiritually. Alcoholics
Anonymous is doing a wonderful work for
these peolple, a work the Church needs to
study and share in, for they have
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
point
d American citizenship. If you are in good
health and do not, then you will have
shirked one of its responsibilities.
its armed forces by granting amnesty to
those who have dodged their duty or
deserted their military posts.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Now that the county is putting
dumpsters all around, there is a place to
deposit such stuff and we urge strongly
that litterers use the dumpsters.
Everybody will be better off, so why not?
In connection with the above, a steel
company informs us that this year,
garbage collectors in 22 cities will recover
an estimated 2.25 billion steel cans for
recycling, by magnetically separating
them from other waste. Also: About 15
percent of the nation’s copper is produced
by using shredded second-hand steel cans
in combination with chemicals to leach the
metal from low grade ore. So there is a use
for this refuse if it just gets to the right
place.
other discipline, or retirement of the
justice or judge. The Supreme Court shall
review the record of the proceedings on the
law and facts and may permit the
introduction of additional evidence.
Following its review, the Supreme Court,
in its discretion, shall order removal,
discipline or retirement, or reject the
recommendation of the Commission. A
justice or judge who is a member of the
Commission or the Supreme Court shall
not participate in any proceedings
involving his own removal, other
discipline, or retirement.
This proposal is self-executing, but it
provides that the Supreme Court shall
prescribe rules governing privilege,
confidentiality and practice and procedure
in all proceedings brought under the
proposal.
Proposed Amendment Number 2.
(Ga. Laws 1972, p. 1576)
The ballot will state that this is an
amendment:
“.. .to provide for a Board of Natural
Resources.”
This proposal strikes the provision of the
Constitution relating to the State Game
and Fish Commission and inserts in lieu
thereof a new provision creating the
Board of Natural Resources. The Board is
to be composed of one member from each
Congressional District, one member from
one of the following named counties:
Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, Mclntosh,
Glynn, or Camden; and four members
from the State at large. This is the same
procedure for designating the members of
the Game and Fish Commission except for
the addition of the four members from the
State at large. It retains the present
members of the Game and Fish
Commission as the first members of the
Board of Natural Resources until their
terms expire. Members are appointed by
the Governor. The General Assembly shall
prescribe the powers, authority and duties
of the board.
This proposal is self-executing.
developed techniques in dealing with the
alcoholic which Christians should un
derstand and use.
While many people have been brought
back to useful lives, they all need, in ad
dition, the presence and power of the living
Christ in their lives. It is this message
which the Church has, but many alcoholics
will never be reached by the Church until
there is shown more compassion and
understanding. It is my hope that the
Church and individual Christians will
undertake a broad program to help. In
some ways, alcoholics are comparable to
the lepers of our Lord’s time. He loved
them and touched them to heal. The
Church must do the same.
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Document Bares
Mao Purge Policy
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Mao Tse-tung has been circulating a most curious docu
ment accusing Mao himself of betraying his friends and
loyal associates.
The paper reportedly was written by Lin Li-kuo, son
of Lin Piao who was Mao’s designated heir until deposed
last year. It is especially interesting because it critically
analyzes Mao’s techniques in consolidating his power
within the Chinese Communist party, details of which I
learned some 27 years ago in the caves of Yenan from
sources high in Mao’s own heirarchy.
Lin Piao had been fervently loyal to Mao for decades.
In the upper echelons of the party almost every leading
Chinese Communist had broken with Mao at one time or
another—Chou En-lai, Chu Teh, Peng He : huai, Liu Shao
chi, and on and on and on. But not Lin Piao.
During the Long March, Mao’s initial rise to power was
heavily dependent on Lin Piao’s military columns. In the
political intrigues in Yenan in the Japanese war years,
Mao’s deepening control of the party was possible in
large measure because of Lin’s backing.
When Mao was threatened with loss of control of the
party some years back, he called in Lin Piao to take over
the army to insure its loyalty. In these circumstances,
assuming the document is genuine, as Mao himself
claims, and making due allowances for exaggeration,
what Lin Piao has to say through his son is indeed worth
reading.
Here are selected paraphrased excerpts:
Instability prevails in the ranks of the ruling clique.
The struggle for personal power and interests and the
contest of wits has become sharp.
Mao creates contradictions and splits to obtain his ob
jective of divide-and-rule within the party, destroying his
opponents one by one.
He makes use of this person to hit at that person at one
time, and makes use of that person to hit at this person
at another. He incites cadres to struggle against cadres,
army units to struggle against army units, party mem
bers to struggle against party members.
He talks sweetly to those he wishes to pull over, but
charges them with unwarranted offenses the next day,
utterly destroying them. A person can be his guest one
day, but his prisoner the next.
Reviewing the history of the past few decades, has
there been anyone whose position he boosted, but who
has not been eventually sentenced to political death?
Has there been a single political force which managed
to stay in the same boat with him all the way?
Past secretaries of his either committed suicide or were
under custody; his close-comrades-in-arms and confidants
were also sent to jail. His own son became a lunatic
under his pressure.
He is extremely skeptical and a sadist. His philosophy
of purging people is thoroughness; once he purges some
one he does not stop until the person is thoroughly de
stroyed. Once he abuses a person he does so to the end,
shifting all the blame for bad deeds onto that person.
He lives in seclusion and seldom comes out of his
abode. His movements are mysterious and his security
measures tight.
What is Mao’s purpose in circulating a document so
critical of himself? The answer may lie in Peking’s devel
oping relationships with Moscow and Washington.
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wild in Malaya and Indo
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feet in diameter.
Q —What distinguished a
horse named Copenhagen?
A—Copenhagen was the
horse the Duke of Welling
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Q —What birds live long
est?
A —Owls, sometimes to
nearly 70 years.
Q — What bird is consid
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can?
A—The turkey. The Az
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Q —What ancient Greek
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Q —What are called the
only truly American folk
songs?
A—Negro spirituals. Au
thorship unknown.
Q — What is the Tsar Kolo
koi?
A—The world’s heaviest
bell. It is in Moscow, and
was cracked at the foundry,
so it has never been tolled.
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another and build one an
other up, just as you are
doing.”—l Thess. 5:11.
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who could do real work ex
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