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By Quimby Melton
“The Reshaping of Life” is
the subject of this week’s In
ternational Sunday School
lesson. Background Scripture is
Jeremiah 18:1-11; 32:1-25.
The Memory Selection is “But
now, 0 LORD, thou art our
father; we are the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all are
the work of thy hand.” (Isaiah
64:8).
Sunday, Dec. 31, is New
Year’s Eve.
Year after year it long has
been the custom to toast veried
and sundry people. May our
toast be a promise to our
Heavenly Father to do our level
best to be devoted and thankful
children of his.
This layman likes the title of
this lesson — “The Reshaping of
Life.”
May we, remembering the
mistakes, the transgressions,
the sins of the past year, be
determined not to repeat them.
Good Evening has long
thought of each new year as it
arrives as a time to hang a new
calendar on the wall. There it is
with 365 days to come, un
marred by the past, each day
being one that offers a chance to
live “More like The Master.”
New Years Eve has also been a
time when people have sung
“Should Old Acquaintance Be
Forgot.” May none of us forget
the greatest acquaintance .
(friend) man has ever had —
Our Heavenly Father — and
may the coming year make Him
more than an acquaintance.
This layman also likes the
Memory Selection for this
Sunday. God is likened to the
potter and we as clay that in His
hands can be molded. But even
the most skilled potter cannot
mold anything out of a mass of
mud that the heat of passion has
turned into a solid rock. The
day must be pliable — made so
by man’s love for His Heavenly
Father.
Have you ever seen a potter at
work at his wheel?
We have. One in the North
Georgia Mountains; the other at
a village in Holland. Both of
them were skilled potters and
both of them worked with
pliable clay. As we watched the
Holland potter —a giant of a
woman — she made pottery that
was beautiful and some that
was not pretty. Once she threw
a hunk of the clay away in
disgust and in her broken
English said, “Too much grit in
this clay to make anything
worthwhile.”
We thought of this as we wrote
this comment on the lesson for
Sunday. Is there too much grit
(sin) in our lives for God, the
greatpotter, to do anything with
us?
May 1973 be your happiest
year of all.
May it bring you and yours
Health, Wealth and Happiness.
A healthy mind, a wealth of
friends, and happiness that
cones when you realize that
God so loved the world that He
sent His Only Begotten Son, to
redeem sinful man.
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Bloodmobile
got 157 pints
The final 1972 visit of the
bloodmobile here yesterday
netted 157 pints of blood. Lin
Thompson, chairman of the
local program, said he thought
it was a good response, con
sidering it is the holiday season
and a good many people are out
of the community visiting
elsewhere.
Some other people came but
could not donate blood because
of minor physical illnesses.
Thompson said 17 new donors
came to the bloodmobile
yesterday.
Freshman legislator talks
about taxes, marijuana, death penalty, no-fault
He won’t sit on hands
John Carlisle figures the
people of Spalding and Fayette
Counties didn’t send him to the
legislature and expect him to
take over the House leadership
this year. But he doesn’t believe
they sent him there to sit on his
hands, either.
With that approach, the 30-
year-old Griffin attorney is busy
these days getting his law
practice in shape so he can go to
Atlanta and serve in the House.
The 1973 session opens of
ficially on Jan. 8 but as far as he
is concerned, the work already
has begun. He’s attended
legislative briefing sessions in
Athens to help him prepare for
his duties in the House.
And already he is shaping up
some ideas he hopes will
become realities through the
legislative process.
He has in the works a couple
of bills he plans to introduce at
the new session.
Carlisle thinks the legislature
will respond to public pressure
and do something about easing
the tax burden on home owners.
He paid attention to what
people were saying to him
Australian visitor finds
American style football slow
When they kickoff the Peach
Bowl tonight in Atlanta
stadium, Bruce Long, 17, of
Australia will be in the crowd.
It’ll be the second big time
football game he has seen
during his three-week visit to
the United States.
Dr. Lauren Shewfelt, director
of the Food Science Department
at the Experiment Station here,
will be with the Australian
youngster. He and Mrs. Shew
felt have had Bruce as their
house guest here for a week.
They live at 1482 Wesley drive.
Dr. Shewfelt is president of
the Griffin Lions Club this year.
That’s how he came to be host
for Bruce. <
The Griffin food scientist
attended the Lions Internation
al Convention in Mexico City
and some of the Australian
Lions Club members were
housed near the Griffinite.
They became friends and the
idea of sending a youngster to
this country for a visit
developed in their conversa
tions.
Australian Lions financed the
trip and the Lions leaders of the
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Spalding County Commissioners Jack Moss (1) and Sandy
Morgan (r) commend retiring chairman David Elder (c)
who was first elected commissioner in 1955 and has served
continuously for 17 years. Elder holds a special silver tray
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during the fall campaigns and
tax relief was upper most on
their minds.
One measure Carlisle will
propose will be to increase a
utilities tax appeals board from
five to eight members. The
board was set up last year and
actually has not operated as
yet, because it does not become
a reality until 1973.
Carlisle said the board would
have the revenue commissioner
as chairman and include the
House Ways and Means Chair
man, the Attorney General, the
House Appropriations Chair
man, and the Senate President
pro tern as members.
Carlisle would add a
representative from the
Georgia Municipal Association,
one from the Association
County Commissioners, and one
from the Georgia Tax Assessors
Association.
He believes this would help
give people a greater voice in
the decision making of the com
mittee.
The committee as it is set up
now permits utilities to appeal
assessments in counties where
Griffin, LaGrange and
Thomaston Clubs arranged for
housing for Bruce.
Bruce spent a week in
Thomaston in the home of
Shelby Ellerbee before coming
to Griffin last week. Before
that, he was guest in the home
of Chap Stevens at LaGrange.
Bruce who comes from the
rural town of Warrague near
Melbourne has a dairy farm
background. Having completed
boarding school, he plans to get
some university level training
then return to an agricultural
situation in his home country.
He’s seen plenty of cotton
mills during his three weeks in
Griffin, LaGrange and Thomas
ton. He toured the Thomaston
Mill, Griffin Division while in
Griffin. He saw mills in
LaGrange and Thomaston, too.
He saw the Indian mounds near
Macon this week.
One of the most interesting
parts of his visit was a tour of
the air traffic control center at
Hampton. Ashley Hurt of
Griffin who is a controller there,
helped arrange for his tour.
Bruce was impressed with the
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Friday, December 29, 1972
they believe they are too high.
It does not permit the counties
the right of appeal in such
disputes. Carlisle would give
the county assessors the same
rights of appeal.
The Griffinite plans to check
carefully other measures he
hears will be introduced to
relieve property tax payers
from some of their burdens.
A local income tax on
residents is one possibility
being kicked around that has
possibilities, Carlisle said. He is
not committed, however. For
one thing, such a proposal keeps
the new revenue at home and
makes local officials respon
sible for spending it, Carlisle
said.
Then there’s talk again that a
new try for a sales tax increase
will be made. Carlisle has no
commitment on this either, but
wants to study the proposals.
As an attorney, he will be
interested in some of the
judicial reform proposals likely
to be introduced.
Carlisle said he would not
favor legalizing marijuana. But
he said he would support
security clearance he had to get
before he was admitted. Inside
the building, he watched traffic
controllers keeping up with
planes on giant radar scopes.
Asked what he thought about'
American style football, he said
to him it was a little slow. He
compared it to soccer which is a
big national sport in his
homeland.
Bruce saw the San Francisco
Giants play in that West Coast
city on his way to Georgia.
Tonight he’ll get a sample of
college style football and the
flavor of a bowl game.
Tomorrow he heads home
with memories of Griffin and
other places he has visited.
In his homeland, it’s summer
time. He was able to make the
trip to the States because of the
break in school at this par
ticular time.
He said he liked Griffin very
much and would like to live
here, if he were not going to
return to his homeland.
presented to him by his staff before his final commission
meeting as chairman this morning. Palmer Hamil, Spalding
farmer and businessman, will succeed Elder who elected mt
to seek reelection.
making first time convictions
for possession a misdemeanor
rather than a felony as it is now.
He said he would keep selling
marijuana a felony offense.
Carlisle said he expects some
legislators to make a lot of
snoke in attempting to get the
death penalty reinstated. But he
believes that the 5-4 Supreme
Court decision against it is the
law of the land and there’s no
getting around it.
He said he personally favored
the death penalty and thought it
ought to be enforced.
But he said the best Georgia
could hope for was to make a
life sentence mean exactly that.
As it is now, most of those with
life sentences are eligible for
parole after seven years.
Carlisle expects to work
actively for a no-fault insurance
bill.
He said he hoped to dispell the
notion that attorneys generally
were against it. A few may
thrive on handling insurance
cases, he said, but generally he
has found the no-fault insurance
principle has support among
lawyers.
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Bruce Long (1) with host Dr. Shewfelt.
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Carlisle jestures as he talks about upcoming session.
Carlisle will be assigned to
three committees. He has
requested Natural Resources,
University System and Health
and Ecology. What he will get
remains to be seen.
The speaker of the house will
have a lot to say about it,
Congressman plans
end war measure
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
New York congressman said
today he would introduce new
end-the-war legislation Jan. 3,
the day Congress reconvenes.
Rep. Edward I. Koch, D-N. Y.,
made the pledge after two
groups of American scientists,
who included several Nobel
Prize-winners, called on Pres
ident Nixon to halt the bombing
campaign against North Viet
nam.
The Ad Hoc Committee of
Concerned Scientists, made up
of 247 members of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
(AAAS), said in a statement
Thursday the bombing was “an
outrageous misuse of the fruits
of science for death and
destruction.” The scientists
said Nixon should end the
bombing and agree to a cease
fire in Vietnam.
Another group, the Federa
tion of American Scientists
(FAS), which describes itself as
a lobbying organization and the
“voice of science on Capitol
Hill,” said U.S. planes were
dumping the equivalent of an
atomic “Hiroshima bomb” each
week on Hanoi. It said
Congress should cut off funds
for the war, subject oily to the
safe return of American
prisoners.
Koch said he was seeking as
many cosponsors as possible
for legislation that would cut
off funds for military activities
in Indochina and require
withdrawal of all U.S. forces
within 30 days. He described
Carlisle realizes.
As a first-year legislator, he
plans to do a lot of listening and
learn his way around the
legislative halls at the capital in
Atlanta.
Carlisle thought he might be
the youngest member of the
the bombing campaign as a
“moral outrage.”
“Not to act is to condone the
President’s immoral actions
and to share his guilt for the
unconscionable course of action
pursued by the United States
and the resultant tragic loss of
lives,” Koch said.
The 247 signers of the petition
made up only a small portion of
the AAAS’s 7,500 professional
members, but the signers
included Nobel Prize-winners
Dr. George Wald of Harvard,
Dr. Salvador Luria of the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Dr. Albert
Szent-Gyorgi of the Woods Hole
Marine Biology Laboratory.
Loan ambulances
due here today
Ambulances with which to
begin service from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital after mid
night Sunday were due to arrive
in Griffin today.
A firm in Atlanta today
promised to deliver the vehicles
today. They will be here on a
loan basis from the firm which
sold three vehicles to the
county. The new vehicles are
expected to be delivered Jan. 20
cr after.
Carl Ridley, administrator of
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital,
said a crew of 12 ambulance
attendants has been employed
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House but said he had found one
lawmaker 24 years old and a
few who were 26 and one 28.
He said he had been im
pressed with the new House
members he has met and found
some sharp minds among them.
Youth
charged
in death
Charges of involuntary
manslaughter have been placed
against the 16-year-old brother
of Patty Hooks, who was shot
and killed yesterday in the
kitchen of her home. The
brother, who cannot be
identified under Georgia law,
was being held in the Spalding
County jail under $5,000 bond.
A coroner’s inquest, under the
direction of County Coroner E.
E. Chappell, was held late this
morning at the jail.
Sheriffs officials said the 10-
year-old girl apparently died
instantly after being shot once
with a 410 gauge shotgun in the
lower face.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.
L. Hooks, were at work when
the shooting took place. The
girl, her 13-year-old brother,
Jeff, the 16-year-old, and his
friend, Keith Statham, 17, were
in the home at the time of the
incident.
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“We can’t run our lives by
rules — unless we have the
judgment to know when to
break them.”
to begin the service at midnight
Sunday. From then on, all
persons in the community
needing ambulance service will
have to call the hospital.
Funeral homes in the com
munity with the exception of
Miller’s will discontinue all
ambulance service at midnight
Sunday. From then on, the
funeral homes will handle
funerals only.
Since the county’s new am
bulances could not be delivered
by Jan. 1, the firm which sold
them arranged for the vehicle
loan during the interim.