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It's now an established fact that blacks are more susceptible
to frostbite than are whites .. . NO, THAT extremely swift beast
known as the fisher doesn’t go fishing, ever . OUR PROPER
JOB CLUB secretary lists Helen Flatt and Sydney Sharp as
onetime members ol the Memphis Opera Theater . . . OLDEST
PURE BREED of cat is the Abyssinian. Youngest, the Rex . . .
CONFIRMED ALSO is the claim that professional bass players
and drummers do indeed tend to become moderately hard of
hearing.
IT IS THE MAN in the construction business who is apt to
switch jobs most often, that’s widely known. Recent studies
reconfirm it. But they show the salesman and the barber run
a close second and third among the job switchers. It’s still true
the average working man, whatever his age, stays on one job only
3.9 years.
FATHERS IN WAITING
In the waiting room for expectant fathers at a San Francisco
hospital, I’m told, hangs a small hand-lettered sign which
reads: "There are 1,035 holes in each tile, 510 squares in each
light, 16 screws in each fixture.”
HORSERACING, that’s the No. I sport, some say. Because
more people pay money to see the ponies run than to watch any
other game. No, football, that’s the No. 1 sport, others contend.
Because more people follow it on television. Not so, swimming is
the No. 1 sport, many claim. Because more people participate in
it. Take your pick, sir.
WHAT’S SHOPLIFTED in the month of December aver
ages out at $7 per item. That’s overall. But what’s shoplifted
in the month of December by store guards averages out at $25
per item, studies show.
THE CLEAN ARMADILLO
Q. “Can an armadillo be housebroken?”
A. Can indeed. Feed an armadillo one meal a day about
9 p.m . treat it right, and it’ll turn into a dandy affectionate pet.
YES, THAT DOG PERFUME, known as Kennel No. 9, is
on sale in a New York sporting goods shop again this year. This
leaps to mind because a client asks if I ever acquired another dog
since the sad departure of old Smoky. Certainly did. Three dogs,
in fact. A couple of dalmatians, named Barney and Ben, with
looks. And a border collie, named Molly, with brains. As for the
notion any of these three superior beasts might wear perfume,
• no, not soon. The ladyfriend and I have not yet toboganned
dow n to such a depth of senility. Maybe later.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L. M. Boyd
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“Bert doesn’t love me more than shrimp but he
loves me more than chicken!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Dec. 11,
the 346th day of 1972 with 20 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
Colorful New York City
Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia was
born Dec. 11, 1882.
On this day in history:
In 1930, effects of the
depression began spreading in
New York City where the Bank
of the United States, including
60 branches, closed its doors.
In 1936, Britain’s King
Edward VIII abdicated his
throne to marry American
divorcee Wallis Warfield Simp
son.
In 1941, four days after
Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl
Harbor, Congress declared war
on Germany and Italy, the two
other Axis powers of World
War D.
In 1971, 22 workers died in an
underwater tunnel explosion
near Port Huron, Mich.
QUOTES
Your enemy always poses
for you that type of war
where he figures you will be
at the greatest disadvantage,
and having demonstrated
how inept we can be at this
kind of war here in Vietnam,
certainly our enemies will
give us the chance to be
equally inept somewhere
else.
—Willard E. Chambers, sen
ior official for six years in
the American pacification
program in Vietnam, re
signing "in disgust.”
THOUGHTS
I call upon thee, O Lord;
make haste to me! Give ear
to my voice, when I call to
thee! Let my prayer be
counted as incense before
thee, and the lifting up of
my hands as an evening sac
rifice! —Psalms 141:1, 2.
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There is a d i v i n i t y that
shapes our ends —but we can
help by listening for its
voice—K athl ee n Norris,
American author.
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But not the dream
Such is human nature that when the
voyage of Apollo 17 passes into history,
even those who have been most critical of
the space program may experience a
feeling of nostalgia—and perhaps even
pride—about having lived through one of
the most exciting and significant eras in
human history:
It is difficult to believe that it all began a
short 15 years ago, on Oct. 4,1957, when the
first Sputnik shocked the world into the
realization that a new age had dawned and
that a “new ocean,” as John F. Kennedy
later described it, beckoned mankind. And
though it is history, it is difficult to believe
that the successful landing of men on the
moon and their safe return to earth was
accomplished by Apollo 11 on July 20,1969,
a little more than nine years after
President Kennedy enunciated the goal.
Now, when Apollo 17 splashes down in
the Pacific next week, this brief era will
The State Prison at Jackson soon will get
99 of the toughest convicts in Georgia and
will try to help them learn to behave
themselves. A headline over the story
telling about it said, “They’ll try to turn
bad apples into good ones.”
The experiment calls for rewarding the
men for good behavior by moving them up
from one cell block to another which has
Problems of growth
Spalding has many things in common
with neighboring counties. With those to
the north of us in particular, we share the
problems of growth, and we can benefit
from their experiences because they have
had the overlap from Fulton and Atlanta
earlier than we have.
So here is what the Fayette County News
had to say in an editorial last week about
growth problems which are common to
Spalding and Fayette:
"We note in the Griffin Daily News to
our south that Spalding County and its
Board of Commissioners are taking a new
look at the matter of mobile homes, mobile
home parks and their location in Spalding
County.
“Recently the commissioners took
action to halt future expansion of present
mobile home parks and to prohibit the
building of any more mobile home parks.
“The matter of mobile homes is one of
the most pressing problems facing most
county commissioners these days and
Fayette County has not been exempt from
this. Neither has our neighbor to the west
Coweta County missed the pangs of trying
to deal with this problem.
“However, Fayette County seems to
have come to a truce in further expansions
and new mobile home parks. How many of
us remember just a few months back when
this was the ‘big news’ of the county? It
hasn’t been that long.
“In areas around the Atlanta
metropolitan circle, there is bound to be
problems of growth and handling the
Not good for man
to be alone
Women’s Lib members complain that
they are treated as sex objects by men.
I’m not a Women’s Lib, but I have never
known what it is to have my husband
tenderly put his arms around me, hug and
kiss me, with dignity and love — without
some extra, degrading, and ugly handling.
And I hate it! Is he right, or am I over
righteous? Thank you. N.A.
Let’s start with you. Perhaps the phrase
“degrading and ugly handling” indicates
that you think of sex in marriage as un
pleasant. It was never designed by God to
be that. The Bible says in Genesis 2:18 that
the Lord remarked “It isn’t good for man
to be alone. I will make a companion for
him”. Sexual activity, the expression of
love in a physical sense, has meaning and
dignity only when it is coupled with love in
a higher spiritual sense, all within the
marriage relationship. Now, surprisingly
enough, the advice of the sex clinics, that
Bad apples
have ended. But it will not be the end.
Skylab, the manned earth-orbiting
laboratory, lies head, as does the
development of reusable shuttle rockets
and the first joint U.S.-Soviet venture. An
American space probe continues to wing
toward Jupiter and beyond. Mariner 9, still
in orbit around Mars, has photographed
that planet’s entire surface. An instrument
landing on Mars, designed to seek
evidences of life, is scheduled for 1976.
Aware that he will be the last Apollo
astronaut to leave the moon, Eugene
Ceman reflected on what he would do and
think at that moment.
“I’ll probably stand there and look back
at the earth. I will contemplate the
fantastic series of events that brought man
to the moon. And I’ll look at the planets
and the stars, and I’ll dream of man one
day going there, too.”
The Apollo saga will be ended. But not
the dream.
more privileges. But remember that these
men are dangerous. They have been
involved in riots, planned escapes, and
assaults on guards. So they will be held
under strict security precautions..
11 seems to us that the idea is a good one,
and at least these 99 desperadoes will be
separated from other convicts. The
objective is a worthy one and we wish it
success.
placement of mobile homes is one of the
most volatile of these problems.
“Mobile homes have a place in our
society because there are many
individuals and families who need the
ready accessibility of low-priced housing
and they have a right to be housed in
modem and convenient surroundings.
However, a community needs to maintain
a good balance between mobile and
regular types of housing.
“Apartments and condominiums pose
similar problems. If a community allows
itself to get overbalanced with any one
segment of growth there is bound to be
drastic problems.
"We might take that even further to
include business growth, industrial
growth, and population growth. There is no
easy answer to growth of any kind—and
normal growth is certainly to be preferred
over stagnation and decline. Most of our
citizens would agree to that.
“Fayette County has had its baptism of
fire with the matter of mobile homes. And
one of the lessons we have learned is that
we must be level-headed, informed, and
keep up with what’s going on in our
community. Or else we face overwhelming
problems of growth.
“Fayette County citizens have learned
(some of them the hard way) that the only
alternative to being a good citizen is
suffering the consequences of apathy. And
that’s chaos.
“Some of us have had a taste of both and
we prefer the route of informed and
intelligent citizenry.”
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are springing up all over the country, is on
your side, at least when it comes to the
matter of sometimes showing affection
without total sexual involvement. They
claim the touch of one upon another, the
feeling of closeness, good conversation,
the casual kiss, all have an important
place in being a love partner. Talk to your
husband about this. Help him see that it’s
not an “either-or” proposition, it’s both.
Now, for your husband, he needs to
understand that to the degree sex becomes
the only expression of love, it weakens and
ultimately dies. Partners have no bond
cementing the relationship if the deeper
passions of the soul and mind have no
chance to be exercised. He needs to learn
again the art of love which operates at
various levels, and woos interest rather
than grabbing it.
Any marital impasse involves both
partners. Pray for wisdom, talk it out,
forgive and forget, and then enjoy each
other.
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BRUCf BIOSSAT
From Here On, We
Measure Kennedy
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
The idea may bore the American people, but the quest
for the presidency always begins the moment a given
election is over. So, for the Democrats, everybody al
ready knows it’s Ted Kennedy against a weak field. To
lose the big party prize, he’ll have to kick it away.
Because Ted will have the big clout, much of the
party’s probably over-publicized doings in the next couple
of years will in fact be pretty secondary stuff.
You’ll read about, or see on television, the battle for
“party control,” a lot of stir about a new party charter
and other reforms to be piled on top of those instituted in
1971-72, an “interim convention” to draft major policy
positions.
Every wispy bit of conflict will be brought your way,
and your living room screen will show the various Demo
cratic leaders scratching their ears in unguarded mo
ments.
But you can forget most of it. And you can ignore, also,
any high-flown talk from young militants about “taking
to the streets again” because George McGovern got clob
bered this year. The demonstration bit has lost its snap.
There are better television serials than the young folks’
street theater that have worn themselves out and gone
off the air.
What will count is how Kennedy performs and what he
says from now on. One major speech from him will be
more important than a week’s haggling over policies by
a couple of thousand or more earnest Democrats in some
off-year “platform” convention.
He’ll be leading a Senate inquiry into the 1972 Water
gate “bugging” affair and additional matters alleging
Republican spying and sabotage against 1972 Democratic
presidential and other campaigns.
The nation will watch to see not only what evidence he
dredges up, but whether he acts with responsibility and
restraint. If his behavior is professional, his 1976 nomina
tion prospects will get a further boost, which at this point
they hardly need. But he could be hurt by any descent
into rash, emotional, unsupported assaults that take on a
strictly partisan flavor.
With most Americans gone from Vietnam and very
likely some sort of cease-fire or other agreement with
Hanoi in effect in the not-distant future, Kennedy like
wise will be observed closely for his response to this
altered situation. Despite his work on the tough Viet
namese refugee problem and his many visits to foreign
shores, he is still to be judged by his party and nation in.
the foreign affairs field.
On the domestic front, health care has been his prime
interest. Can he promote and perhaps push to enactment
the kind of huge program he favors without appearing to
voters as “another of those big spenders” that so angered
and frustrated millions in 1972?
Most of all, can he, in his years from present age 40
to 44, persuade countless Americans that he has become
a man of sober judgment?
The real meaning for him of the 1969 Chappaquiddick
tragedy was not some hint of an untold story. The episode
gravely cast in doubt his capacity for judgment in a crisis.
He knew it better than anyone.
How Ted Kennedy makes his way through these prob
lems is the real news. And, all you weary voters out
there, whether you like it or not, the telling of that tale
—and hence the 1976 campaign—begins right now. You
can turn it off or not read it, but it will go on anyway.
QUICK QUIZ
Q —What animal eats bees?
A—The skunk. It even
digs into a nest of yellow
jackets.
Q —Can hairs actually
stand on end in times of
stress?
A— Yes. Each hair is at
tached to a muscle.
Q —What are myrrh and
frankincense, the gifts the
three magi gave to the in
fant Jesus?
A—Aromatic gums found
in trees of the Middle East
and East Africa.
Q —What state led in se
lecting a state flower?
A—New York, the rose, in
1891. The rose was voted by
school children.
q —What is an ant lion?
A—A grub that digs pit
fall traps for ants.
GRIFFIN
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Twentieth Century war
fare has been bravely de
picted by modern news
cameramen. The World Al
manac notes that war pho
tography was perfected
during the American Civil
War by Matthew Brady. He
and his lensmen vividly
portrayed many historic
episodes of America’s most
devastating war, often risk
ing their lives to capture
the “life-like” reality of the
carnage about them.