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VENIN U
By Quimby Melton
The title of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School
lesson is “What Kind of
Peace?”
Background Scripture is
Micah 4:1-4; Matthew 24:3-14;
James 4:1-10.
The Memory Selection is
“Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called the
children of God.” (Matthew
5:9)
Everybody wants Peace.
But the title of this lesson
indicates there is more than one
kind of Peace.
And no doubt everyone would
like to be called a
“peacemaker”. But what sort
of a peacemaker would any of
us make if God were to delegate
to us the role of peacemaker?
Would we lay away selfish
ness and prejudice? Would we
lay aside hatred and lust for
power? Would we ask God’s
guidance?
The background Scripture
may help us answer these
questions.
Micah 4:1-4 paints a dismal
picture of what can happen to
the world, then it tells how some
of the people of that day said
“Let us go into the house of God
(the church) and He will teach
us His way.” Then is pictured
the day of salvation when men
shall “beat their swords into
plowshares — etc. — and
neither shall they learn . . .
.(plan) wars any more.”
“Then every man shall dwell
under his fig tree and no one
shall make him afraid.”
Pray that God will reveal to
you His will as to how you may
play a part in briuging salvation
to the world.
Matthew 24 continues the
dismal picture saying “Ye shall
hear rumors of war” etc. There
certainly has never been an age
when there are more wars, hot
and cold, then today. But
Matthew continues, saying
today is not the end of time; and
in spite of our wanting salvation
we will not have it because “we
ask amiss”. (On our terms, not
as God directs.)
This lesson may cause many
to feel “what’s the use”, throw
up their hands and plunge into
the depths of dispair.
We suggest you turn to John
14 and read “Let not your heart
be troubled, ye believe in God,
believe also in me.”
Surely, we all believe in God.
But are there limits to how
well we believe? Do we want
God and His Blessed Son to give
us peace, on our own con
ditions?
Do we believe in Him so
completely that we need not
fear “what man can do to us?”
If not, it’s high time we
humbly ask God’s forgiveness
for our lukewarmness and in
still in our hearts the love that
“passeth all understanding.”
Then, and then only can we face
the future unafraid, knowing
that God in His own time will
redeem us, our nation and the
world and wars shall cease
forever.
May good sportsmanship
prevail on the field and in the
stands tonight when Griffin
goes after Lakeside in a state
playoffs game at Memorial
Stadium.
The game has a sort of in
ternational interest, in that one
Bear fan in Tokyo will be
awaiting for the results of the
game.
He didn’t sign it but wrote this
letter to Good Evening:
The Griffin High Bears might
think the only fans they have
are in Griffin, but the Bears
surely have a fan and a former
student of Griffin High
stationed in Tokyo, Japan. I’ve
kept up with the Bears all
season and never thought they
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Drag
Making 117
Although the Griffin Post of
the Georgia State Patrol has
had a relatively quiet holiday
period, with two minor ac
cidents and no injuries, there
was some excitement last night
when two drag racers on the
North Expressway were
clocked at speeds in excess of
110 miles per hour.
Cpl. Matthew Murray had set
up radar equipment just north
of the Spalding County line in
Henry County, when two cars
traveling side by side came
speeding by. One auto was
clocked at 117 miles per hour,
the other at 114 miles per hour.
The cars were headed north and
Cpl. Murray gave chase. He
radioed the Clayton County
authorities for assistance and
they set up two road blocks on
the Expressway and old U.S. 41.
Murray spotted one of the cars
and radioed its license number
back to the patrol station. He
kept going in search of the
second auto but couldn’t find it
when he had reached the road
block in Clayton County.
The trooper then turned
around and headed back south.
He soon spotted both cars
parked in the northbound lane.
The engine on one of the cars
had blown.
Murray said both vehicles
were loaded with passengers.
Their drivers, both Atlanta
men, were arrested and taken
to the Clayton County stockade.
They were identified as Willie
Henry Bridges, 21, of 246 Troy
street, Atlanta, who was
charged with racing and
traveling 117 miles per hour in a
50-miles zone, and Walter
Vaughn, 30, of Eugenia street,
Atlanta. Vaughn was charged
with racing, traveling 114 miles
per hour in a 50-mile zone and
driving under the influence.
Troopers said Bridges also had
been drinking but they did not
charge him with driving under
the influence, as his alcohol
count was .06 per cent. A count
of .10 is required for the charge.
The incident happened
shortly before 10 p.m.
Change
artists
at work
Police said a quick change
artist tricked a supermarket
cashier out of a $lO bill Wed
nesday afternoon. They warned
that as the Christmas season
approaches, Griffinites should
be on the alert for thieves and
con artists.
The thief was described as a
white man about 22-years-old.
Police said he purchased a
small item at Colonial Stores
and asked the casher to change
a S2O bill. In the process they
said, he confused the cashier
and cheated her out of a $lO bill.
The Police Department said
that merchants and shoppers
should be on the lookout for
shoplifters, purse snatchers and
con artists during the next few
weeks beofre Christmas.
They asked shoppers to lock
their cars, put packages in the
trunks and not to leave small
children unattended in autos.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
60, low today 25, high yesterday
46, low yesterday 30, high
tomorrow in mid 50s, low
tonight in mid 30s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:20, sunset
tomorrow 5:28.
GRIFFIN
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Color contest
Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, the
Christmas season is here.
To get into the swing of the Holiday Season, the Griffin
Daily News will kick off two annual events that have
proved popular with youngsters over the years.
First, there the annual Christmas Coloring Contest.
We’ll publish these pictures tomorrow. Ages will be
S- designated for each picture along with other contest rules,
g: Youngsters in this area will want to clip out the page,
& color the appropriate picture, and submit it to the Griffin
Daily News.
| And Santa letters
g The Griffin Daily News will help out Santa again this
:$ year by publishing letters from youngsters to the Jolly Old
St. Nick.
Already letters are pouring into the Griffin Daily News.
We’d like to hear from every little boy and girl in the
community.
We’ll publish the letters from time to time during the
g Christmas season.
Pike wreck
kills man
A Williamson man is dead and
two others injured as a result of
a wreck shortly before 1 a.m.
today. The accident occurred"
south of Griffin on U. S. 19 at the
Patton road intersection in Pike
County at the Blue Flame Gas
Co.
Willie Robert Hill, 51, ap
parently died instantly of a
broken neck and face injuries.
He was a passenger in an auto
driven by James Roberts, 35, of
Williamson, who was admitted
to the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
with face lacerations. A second
passenger, George Lewis, 40, of
Williamson, also was treated
for injuries at the hospital.
According to the Thomaston
Patrol Post, Roberts was
traveling east on Patton road
and failed to stop at the U. S. 19
intersection. His car skidded 62
feet across U. S. 19 and struck
an embankment.
Mr. Hill was a lifelong
resident of Spalding County and
a member of the Corinth Baptist
Church in Rover.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Lillie Hill.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Biggest
parade
planned
The annual Christmas parade
next Thursday night, Nov. 30,
promises to be the biggest ever,
according to the Chamber of
Commerce.
A record number of floats and
marching units have entered.
It will feature commercial
floats, bands, marching units
and local floats.
The parade will begin at 6:30
p.m. from the East Solomon
street shopping center and wind
its way through the downtown
area along the usual parade
route.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, November 24, 1972
Two men were injured in a
wreck Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
on the Jordan Hill road at the
Baptist Campground road. It
was before the holiday weekend
traffic count started.
They were identified as Jacob
Junior Combs, 19, of Route
Four, driver of the two ton truck
involved, and Willie H. Combs,
17, of the same address.
Both were treated at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital for'
lacerations about the face.
The driver said his breaks
failed. The vehicle which was
demolished ran a stop sign, hit
an embankment and overturned
once, landing upright.
Boys found
Henry County Sheriff’s
deputies, McDonough police,
troopers from the Griffin Patrol
Post, and game wardens with
the State Game and Fish
Commission searched for some
five or six hours in Henry
County woods last night for two
13-year-old boys who became
lost while hunting.
The boys, whose names were
not available, were found cold
but in good condition around
10:15 p.m.
They had been hunting near
the Kellytown community,
northeast of McDonough.
Blind woman charged in shooting
Two persons were wounded in
separate shootings in Spalding
and Pike Counties on Thanks
giving Day.
The Spalding Sheriff’s office
said that Richard Blankenburg,
48, of Route One, Sunset strip,
Pomona, was shot several times
in the shoulder last night around
8 o’clock.
Blandenburg was taken to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital where
attendants called sheriff’s
deputies. He told the deputies
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PARlS—White House adviser Henry Kissinger (1) and
Hanoi’s senior representative Le Due Tho engage in
animated conversation during a break in their talks at the
villa in suburban Gil-Sur-Yvette. In center is Tho’s
Peace
Unscheduled villa meet
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPI) —Presidential
adviser Henry A. Kissinger
conferred for about one hour
today with Hanoi’s chief peace
negotiator. Communist Vietna
mese sources said the meeting
was not scheduled but that it
came at Kissinger’s request.
The sources gave no details
of the meeting.
Earlier, both sides had said
no meeting was scheduled
today. It would have been the
first hiatus in this latest round
of negotiations, which began
Monday in an effort to find an
acceptable peace formula.
Newsmen who trailed Kissin
ger said the meeting today took
place in a villa owned by the
North Vietnamese delegation
and located two blocks from its
mission in suburban Choisy le
Roi.
The newsmen said Kissinger
slipped out of the rear exit of
the U.S. embassy residence in
Paris, went to the villa and
stayed about one hour.
As the negotiators left, a
television network correspon
dent remarked to Kissinger:
“It’s getting harder and harder
to find a place for a secret
rendezvous, isn’t it, Dr. Kissin
ger?”
Kissinger, he said, replied :
“It certainly is.”
Kissinger has been meeting
with Tho and Xuan Thuy at
suburban Gif Sur Yvette, 15
miles from Paris since Monday.
Earlier today, a Viet Cong
spokesman said the continued
support of South Vietnam’s
President Nguyen Van Thieu by
that he was visiting at the
residence of J. C. Bass on
Sunset strip and that the two
had had a few drinks. He said
they started teasing each other
and he pushed Bass. Bass
retaliated by shooting him twice
in the back with a pistol,
Blandenburg said.
One of the bullets went
through his body. The other was
lodged in his shoulder. He was
not thought to be wounded
seriously.
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the United States is blocking a
peace settlement.
“We wonder if the United
States really wants peace, since
it keeps supporting Thieu, the
Viet Cong spokesman said.
“Thieu is opposed to peace.
There has been no change in
our demands that Thieu must
go.”
Kissinger and the Hanoi
envoys conferred Thursday for
more than six hours, the most
protacted session so far.
Thieu has sent three top
diplomats to Paris since
Kissinger’s talks with North
Vietnamese Politburo member
Le Due Tho and Hanoi head
negotiator Xuan Thuy started
Monday. Thieu’s special advi
ser, Nguyen Phu Due, arrived
Thursday morning and consult
ed with Kissinger in the
evening.
“At present, the United
States is intensifying the war
and bombings and weapons
deliveries to the puppet in
Saigon,” the Viet Cong spokes
men said.
“According to our informa
tion these weapons deliveries to
the puppet in Saigon weapons
deliveries are continuing.”
The U.S. command in Saigon
last week said the shipments
were completed.
North Vietnamese officials,
who announced the pause in the
secret talks at suburban Gif
Sur Yvette, indicated no date
has been set for the next
meeting. The White House said
Thursday night the negotiations
would continue, but did not say
when.
No arrests had been made by
late this morning.
A Pike County woman is in
the Upson County Hospital
today with neck wounds she
received when shot by a distant
relative around 5:45 p.m.
yesterday.
According to Pike Sheriff J.
Astor Riggins, Mrs. Emily
Colquitt who lives in Means
ville, went across the street to
the home of Mrs. Della Smith,
her distant relative. The two
interpreter. To-level American and North Vietnamese peace
negotiators skipped lunch and spent six hours and five
minutes bargaining over issues blocking a cease-fire
agreement in Indochina. (UPI)
North Vietnamese officials
refused to comment on reports
circulating in the Paris diplo
matic circuit that the talks
have hit snags and that both
sides wanted to consult their
higher authorities before the
next meeting.
Deputy Press Secretary Ger
ald L. Warren said at Camp
David, Md., where President
Nixon spent Thanksgiving that
Nixon had a report on the talks
and that the White House would
announce when the next session
is scheduled.
Because the six-hour session
Thursday was considerably
longer than previous sessions of
three to four hours, observers
said it appeared possible that
the next session might be
delayed while both sides consult
with their governments.
Kissinger and North Vietna
mese Politburo member Le Due
Tho and Hanoi chief negotiator
Xuan Thuy talked straight
through Thursday without even
stopping for lunch.
The presidential adviser then
left the meeting site at
suburban Gif sur Yvette to
confer with another group of
Vietnamese, this time a delega
tion of Saigon representatives,
joined Thursday by Nguyen
Phu Due, a special envoy from
President Nguyen Van Thieu.
At one point during Thurs
day’s session, Kissinger and
Tho strolled outside into the
garden of the villa where the
meetings are held. Accompa
nied only by an interpreter,
they talked and gesticulated,
dressed in overcoats against
women allegedly got into an
argument over some property
Mrs. Smith’s husband left when
he died several years ago.
The sheriff said Mrs. Smith,
who is blind, picked up a pistol
and shot Mrs. Colquitt in the
neck. Mrs. Colquitt was taken to
the Upson County Hospital in
Thomaston and admitted.
A warrant has been sworn out
for the arrest of Mrs. Smith.
Sheriff’s officials were to pick
her up today.
the cold weather.
Then in a departure from
usual procedure, they ordered
the villa gate opened and posed
standing side by side for news
photographers.
The French Communist party
newspaper Humanite, said to
day under a two-column front
page headline titled “Nixon’s
Dangerous Game” that the
peace conference had hit snags
over Kissinger’s efforts to
renegotiate some basic clauses
of the draft accord.
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PARIS (UPI) —ls presiden
tial adviser Henry A. Kissinger
found time to eat it, there was a
Thanksgiving meal of turkey
with all the trimmings for him.
“We have prepared turkey
and all the trimmings for the
whole negotiating team,” a U.S.
Embassy spokesman said, “but
we don’t know when they will
get a chance to eat it.”
Kissinger was rushed enough
on the holiday to miss the meal.
His fourth round of Vietnam
peace talks with Hanoi envoys
began at 10:30 a.m. and lasted
six hours. Then he returned to
the embassy to receive envoys
from South Vietnam for more
talks starting before 7 p.m.
The embassy never did say
whether he got around to eating
the turkey dinner.
“Most of us would rather be
happy than rich — but we’d
rather be rich than miserable.”