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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Daylight Savings Time ends
Saturday night.
When you retire Saturday
night set your clock back one
hour so you won’t be early for
Sunday School and Church Sun
day.
“Freedom Under Authority”
is the topic of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
2 Chronicles 10:1-16; Romans
13:1-7; I Peter 2:11-17.
The Memory Selection is
“Live as free men yet without
using your freedom as a pretext
for evil; but live as servants of
God.” (I Peter 2:2-16).
Basically Christianity is an
optimistic religion. But in
recent years in times of
"national crises” pessimism
has run rampant, even in this
nation that claims to be “One
Nation Under God.”
“Everything is wrong” and
“There is nothing good” and
“There is no one right but me.”
Such is the attitude of far too
many — including some who
claim to be Christians.
AU of which indicates that
none of us like for anyone else to
teU us what we should do. We
want to do what we want to do
and to do it when we want to do
it.
We revolt against any
authority.
But even in this revolt against
authority we subconsciously
admit there is a higher
authority of power that makes
things happen; for when things
do not please us, we blame
someone or some power that
brings this to happen. We feel
that this is an evil power or
thing. Then why not admit there
is also an authority for bringing
about things that please us?
Good, bad, pleasing and
disappointing things happen
that are beyond the control of
any individual.
And this layman believes that
the highest authority we should
depend on is God Almighty.
Though this highest authority
may see fit to test us, to refine
our spirits, removing the dross
as the miner refines silver and
gold, that when everything is
over God’s unbounded and
invincible compassion on sinful
man will prevail and there will
be rejoicing in heaven over the
saving of a sinner.
We like the opening verses cf
our background Scripture last
week (Luke 10:25-28); “And,
behold a certain lawyer stood
up, and tempted him (Jesus),
saying, Master, what shall I do
to inherit eternal life?
And he (Jesus) said unto him,
What is written in the law? How
readeth thou?
And he answered and said
Thy shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind;
and thy neighbor as thyself.
And He said unto him, This do
and thou shalt inherit eternal
life.
There’s plenty of reason to be
optimistic when we remember
this promise of our blessed
Savior — Jesus Christ, the Lord
and Master of mankind.
And, as we do, we will know
there is plenty of reason to be
optimistic as to the future.
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“Doing a worthwhile thing
today makes it more likely
you’ll do a worthwhile thing
tomorrow.”
Griffin battles Forest Park here tonight
They’re missing
State wants to pay
Griffinites refund
The State Revenue Com
missioner has issued a list of
names and addressed to which
Georgia withholding tax refund
checks have been mailed but
which have been returned to the
Revenue Department by the
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speaker
Veterans organizations here
will sponsor a Veteran’s Day
program Nov. 11 at Memorial
Parle
Rep. James H. (Sloppy)
Floyd will be the speaker. The
program will begin at 11 a.m.
Floyd is quartermaster and
adjutant of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Department of
Georgia. He is a member of the
Georgia General Assembly.
Quimby Melton Sr., of the
Griffin Daily News will in
troduce the spaker.
Carl Pruett, commander of
the American Legion Post 15
here, will lead in the Pledge of
Allegiance to the U.S. flag.
Lt. Col., Charles Fix, chaplain
of the Third Army from Ft.
McPherson in Atlanta, will open
and close the ceremony.
Phyllis Sheperd will sing
“America, The Beautiful,” and
“God Bless America.”
Hulett Goodman of Griffin,
past state VFW commander,
will be master of ceremonies.
Griffin’s two VFW posts and
two Legion posts will par
ticipate in the ceremony.
GRIFFIN
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Daily Since 1872
Post Office as undelivered.
The addresses are those
shown on the tax returns.
People entitled to these
checks must claim them within
90 days after publication of the
list. After that, refunds will not
Non-pilot
lands plane
SHREVEPORT, La. (UPI)-
James Crosby had never flown
an airplane in his life.
But Crosby, 46, had to take .
over the controls of a twin
engine private airplane between
Mississippi and Louisiana
Thursday because pilot R. W.
Hyde blacked out in flight. 1
“I was scared at first, but
then I wasn’t scared after
that,” he said. “I was busy,
and I was talking to the man
upstairs.”
Airport authorities said Fe
deral Aviation Agency officials
managed to radio Crosby
instructions for 50 minutes
during the emergency. They
talked him to a safe landing
through rainy, overcast skies.
The plane came down just
short of the runway and
bounced, but then settled for a
three-point landing.
Hyde, 59, was hospitalized
with suspected food poisoning.
He passed out during the flight
from Jackson, Miss., to Shreve
port, where he and Crosby live.
Crosby was asked if he
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
68, low today 53, high yesterday
62, low yesterday 43, high
tomorrow in mid 60s, low
tonight in upper 40s. Total
rainfall this morning .49 of an
inch. Sunrise tomorrow 7:47,
sunset tomorrow 6:45.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 27, 1972
be made unless formal applica
tion is made to the State
Revenue Department.
Anyone whose name is on the
list must communicate in
writing with the State Revenue
Department, P. 0. Box 38098,
planned to take flying lessons.
“I just had my first one,” he
said.
Thompson
coming
to Griffin
Fletcher Thompson,
Republican candidate for the U.
S. Senate, will be in Griffin
tomorrow.
Griffinites are invited to meet
him and his wife, Kathryn, at
Republican headquarters, 106
Meriwether street. He will be
there from 6 to 7 p.m. At seven,
he is scheduled to speak at the
Eighth Regional Jaycee dinner
dance which will be held in the
National Guard armory on the
Zebulon road.
Thompson’s Spalding County
campaign manager, Ivan
Taylor, said some 175 Jaycees
from as far away as Columbus,
Manchester, West Point,
Barnesville and Thomaston are
expected to attend.
He said Thompson will be on
hand to answer questions from
area residents and meet with
campaign workers at 6 o’clock
at campaign headquarters.
Atlanta, Georgia, 30334, in order
to obtain the refund. They must
submit Social Security numbers
and signatures as shown on
their tax returns.
The list consists of 145 sheets.
Those with Griffin addresses
on the list include:
Robert Y. and Ruth Aaron, P.
O. Box 316; Janet G. Acree, 136
West Solomon street; James R.
Austin, Griffin Hotel; Kay F.
Baker, no address except
Griffin; Carrie Bell Barfield, no
address except Griffin; Dennis
M. Brannon, no address except
Griffin; Ray W. Calloway,
Route 1, Box 25; Robert H. and
Helen Chapman, Route 3;
Beatrice Chatmon, P. O. Box
103; Stephen L. Cobb, Route 2,
Box 60; Nelson A. and Brenda
G. Coble, 5426 North Main
street; Hubert H. Dillard, 1422
Experiment street; John E.
English, Route 1, Box 118; Betty
H. Fears, no address except
Griffin.
Michael A. and Elsie Grimes,
Route 1, Box 233; Mattie Mae
Harper, 631 Experiment street;
Carrie W. Harvey, 115 North
Hill Street Apartment D;
William E. Henson, 104
McKinley drive; Andre L.
Hooker, no address except
Griffin; Brindle L. Jackson, no
address except Griffin; Debbra
A. Mayes, Apartment D-l,
Spalding Heights; William H.
Moore, no address except
Griffin; Peggy J. Morris, 3909
Checkmate Apartments, Apart
men(J4; Willie F. and Patsy
McCord, 424 North Sixth street;
Ernest Nash, Jr., no address
except Griffin.
Diane Nicholson, Howard
Trailer Park, Highway 16 W.;
Calvin Y. and Josephine Nor
ton, 120 North 11th street;
Bertis V. and Pauline Odell,
RFD 3, Box 260; Tony C.
Parker, 4618 College street;
Laura Parks, Route 3, Box 308;
Melvin T. and Maudine
Prescott, Route 3, Box 291 C;
Bobby and Bernice Reid, 830
Lane street; Daisy Rucker,
North Second street; Borders
M. Smiley, 139 North Butler
street; Artie C. Varnor, Route 3,
326 North 14th street; Lee W.
Watson, 208 Rock Allen (should
it be Rock Alley?); Raymond
Williams, Route 1; Robert A.
and Paulette Williams, Route 3,
Box 162; E: J. Wills, P. O. Box
343.
Those with addresses other
than Griffin but in the Griffin
Daily News circulation area
include:
BARNESVILLE; Rachel C.
Bowman, Route 2; Willie C. and
Brenda Flynt, Route 1, Box 269;
James F. and Geneva C.
Martin, 124 Lamar Street;
David Moxon, Route 1; James
G. and Yvonne Whitten, RFD 1,
Box 360.
CONCORD: David T. Neal,
Route (no number given).
JACKSON: Charles Boyd,
Route 1, Box 324; Walter N.
Phillips, 530 Hiawath street,
Apartment 98; Sunny L.
Presley, Route 2.
McDONOUGH: Jack Paul
Jones, Route 1; Bennie L. and
Betty Gile, Route 2; Howard
Lee and Francis S. Rowles,
Route 1, Box 262; Joe C. and
Vesta Sims, Route 11; Jesse and
Dena Starr, Route 3; John L.
Stewart, no address except
McDonough.
HAMPTON: Howard and
Dixie Ellison, Route 2.
SENOIA: Judy L. Evans,
Route 2, Box 221-A; Sallie F.
and Gaston (no last name
given), Route 2, Box 99.
WILLIAMSON: Carl Johnson
Clark, Jr., RFD Route 1.
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Kissinger briefs newsman on peace moves.
Kissinger
Peace at hand
By United Press International
Presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger broke weeks of
silence Thursday on his secret
negotiations with Hanoi and
said a “peace is at hand” in
Vietnam that will be just to all
parties.
He said final agreement could
come in one more meeting with
North Vietnam.
Kissinger made the statement
at a lengthy news conference in
Washington shortly after Radio
Hanoi broadcast terms of a
nine-point peace plan it said
North Vietnam was prepared to
sign in Paris next Tuesday.
Kissinger termed the radio
dispatch a “fair account” of the
draft agreement and said the
United States “will not be
deflected” from a peace
settlement.
The Foreign Ministry in
Saigon, however, said today in
the first offical South Vietna
mese statement concerning the
Hanoi broadcast that the end
of-the-war agreement was a
“perfidious act” of the North
Vietnamese designed to divide
Saigon government and its
allies.
First Public Remarks
President Nixon, in his first
public remarks since disclosure
that a cease-fire in Vietnam
was near, told a campaign rally
in Huntington, W.Va., Thursday
night:
“I can say with confidence
that I believe we are succeed
ing in achieving...peace with
honor and not surrender” in
South Vietnam. “There are still
some differences that must be
resolved,” the President said.
“I believe they will be
resolved.”
At the Paris peace talks
Thursday, the Vietnamese Com
munists accused the United
States of balking on its pledge
to endorse the agreement and
warned that it must be signed
by Tuesday at the latest—even
if it means Thieu’s dismissal.
Squirrel
knocks out
electricity
A squirrel stepped on a main
power line shortly after 8 this
morning and left a large section
on the south side of Griffin
without electricity. The squirrel
was electrocuted.
Officials at the Light and
Water Department said power
was off for about 20 minutes
from South Hill down both sides
of East College street.
The squirrel got on the line at
East College and Forest
avenue.
Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the
Viet Cong foreign minister,
branded Thieu “the real
obstacle to peace” and said:
“It is clear that if peace is to
be achieved, the United States
must stop backing the present
warlike ruling group in Saigon
and Nguyen Van Thieu must
resign.”
Kissinger said the Hanoi
demand that the United States
sign the pact by Tuesday
constituted “one particular
misunderstanding.” He said the
United States would sign a
peace pact “independent of any
arbitrary deadlines” and ad
ded: “...Obviously we could not
sign an agreement in which
details remained to be worked
out simply because in good
faith we had said we would
make an effort to conclude it
by a certain date.”
Results from Private Session
He said terms of the
settlement broadcast by Hanoi
Radio resulted from an Oct. 8
private session in which “the
North Vietnamese for the first
time made a proposal which
enabled us to accelerate the
negotiations...to negotiate con
cretely at all.”
Kissinger has been meeting
on and off secretly with the
Hanoi delegation to the Paris
peace talks, which have
dragged on publicly for more
than four years without agree
ment.
“We believe that peace is at
hand. We believe that an
agreement is within sight
...which is just to all parties,”
Kissinger said. He said the
“longest part of the road has
been traversed” and that the
Georgia POW kin
reaction mixed
Georgia relatives of soldiers
held prisoner in North Vietnam
reacted with a mixture of glee
and pessimism to word that a
peace settlement seems im
minent in Souuheast Asia.
Carolyn Collins, whose bro
ther, Air Force Capt. Quincy
Collins, has been a POW for
eight years, said “I won’t be
lieve it until my brother is
back in an airplane here in the
United States of America.
“We have had such a thing
of your hopes being gotten up
and then you have to readjust
to not being so hopeful again,”
she said. “Then your hopes go
down again.”
But Mrs. Porter Halyburton
of Tucker said “I don’t think
I have ever been this optimist
ic.” Mrs. Halyburton, wife of
a Navy flyer shot down seven
years ago, said she had been
optimistic in the past but “nev-
remaining issues are “less
important than those that have
already been settled.
“We believe,” he said, “what
remains to be done can be
settled in one more negotiating
session with the North Vietna
mese negotiators lasting, I
would think, no more than
three or four days, so we are
not talking about a delay of a
very long period of time.”
Kissinger said the agreement
provides that prisoners of war
be exchanged within 60 days of
signing of the pact and that
U.S. and allied troops would
leave South Vietnam within the
same period.
“North Vietnam has made
itself responsible for an ac
counting of our prisoners and
missing in action throughout
Indochina and for the repatria
tion of American prisoners,” he
said.
Kissinger said the North
Vietnamese “must know now
that peace is in reach within a
matter of weeks or less,
dependent on when the meeting
takes place.” He said the
meeting would be at the
choosing of the Communists
and although Hanoi did not
respond immediately, U.S. offi
cials in Washington said they
expect the final negotiating
session to be held within two
weeks.
Radio Hanoi, monitored in
Saigon today, said North
Vietnam’s National Assembly
has adopted a resolution
demanding that the United
States meet the Tuesday
deadline set by Hanoi for
signing of the truce agreement.
er before has it been this
specific.”
She said her daughter, who
was only 10 days old when her
husband left for Vietnam, made
the long wait easier. “He’s the
one who’s had it hard,” she
said.
Mrs. Millie Parrott of Atlan
ta, wife of Capt. Thomas Par
rott, a POW, said “This is the
first time I’ve been this happy
in a long time.”
She said she had not expect
ed peace before the November
elections, but “I had hoped it
would by the end of the year.”
Air Force Maj. Edward K.
Elias of Valdosta, who was re
leased last month by the North
Vietnamese, said “I think it is
wonderful. I think our govern
ment is doing everything that
is necessary and that’s all I
have to say.”