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• The Griffin Daily News has
published Dr. Billy Graham’s
column on its Editorial Page for
a number of years and is
* pleased to do so. This week in
special observance of Dr. Gra
ham’s Crusade in Georgia, it is
t appearing in this space on Page
One. Later, it will return to its
usual position on the Editorial
Page.
•
This letter comes from a very
desperate person. My husband
f and I have been married for 32
years, have reared five
children, and most people think
we have a happy home.
4 However, our marriage got
started wrong. You see, I had
been with a man before I
married my husband. Later, I
* confessed the truth, and then
my troubles started. Now, my
guilt is killing me. Fur-
( thermore, my husband says
he’s in love with a girl at work.
What can I do? T.D.
« Many people today are being
taught that free sex is right, as
long as the relationship is loving
and meaningful. Your case,
* however, points up the fact that
it is difficult for our old
fashioned consciences to keep
i with new-fashioned morality.
It’s just inevitable that any
transgression of God’s law
leaves a mark upon us. In your
* case, you have carried this guilt
for these years, and are still
paying the “wages of sin.”
But now, there is away out.
Jesus said to the adulteress,
“Neither do I condemn you; go
your way and sin no more” John
, 8:11. What He wrote on the
ground is anyone’s guess, but I
have an idea that Christ wrote
something like this: “This poor
* woman is guilty as charged; but
I will pay the penalty for her
sins upon the cross.” That is the
reason that He dismissed her
with words of hope and
forgiveness. Each of us, and I
mean each has sinned seriously
« against God, perhaps in dif
ferent ways, but nonetheless we
are guilty. Thank God the Bible
promises: “We have redemp
' tion through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to
the riches of His grace.”
t Ephesians 1:7.
I suggest you let faith in
Christ rid yourself of this
destructive guilt, and then give
* you the ability to be a loving,
patient wife. It’s only in that
role that you stand a chance of
beating the competition and
temptation that every couple
face today.
■ Krhv
“Fighting temptation would
be easier if it pounced on us —
* instead of just sneaking up.”
•Graham says many
running from God
ATLANTA (UPI) — Running
• away from God is running away
from reality, Billy Graham said
at the third night of his Atlan
ta Crusade Wednesday night.
• Some people say they run
away from God to “leave dull
Christianity,” the evangelist
t said. But “the only kind of
Christianity that is dull is half
hearted Christianity.”
“Jesus lived a full, adventur-
• ous life,” Graham told a crowd
estimated at 35,000.
Water from rain that has hit
the city throughout the crusade
• was still standing on portions
of the infield at when Graham
began his sermon.
• The one - time semi - pro
Committee pushes
for $15,000 more
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SAN FRANCISCO—With summer coming on and jobs hard to get, Pam Sylke thought it would be
a neat idea to sell old-fashioned lemonade to make some money for school. Like a good citizen,
Pam, 16, called City Hall to inquire about a permit. That’s when she found out her nickle and dime
venture would cost her $7,500 for starters — just to sell freshly made lemonade from back of a
truck. Pam, a recent arrival from West Allis, Wise., took up the venture along with two friends.
(DPI)
City puts squeeze
on lemon business
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Teen-ager Pam Sylke thought it
would be an easy way to earn
some money for school: Sell
old-fashioned lemonade from
the back of a truck.
Then the 16-year-old, who
recently moved here from West
Allis, Wis., called City Hall to
ask about a permit.
A mobile catering operation,
she was told, requires a $7,500
city permit.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 87,
low today 66, high yesterday 85,
low yesterday 68, rainfall .55 of
an inch.
baseball player cautioned that
running away from God is run
ning away from adventure, and
called on his hearers to “run
to God instead.”
“Adam did not succeed in hid
ing from God,” he said. “God
called him out of his hiding
place and he had to meet God
face to face. You will not suc
ceed in hiding from God.”
It was military night at the
crusade and among platform
guests was Army chief of chap
lains, Maj. Gen. Gearheart W.
Hyatt. He led the offertory
prayer and silent prayer of
thanks for peace in Southeast
Asia.
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“We don’t have $7,500,” Pam
and two teen-aged friends who
planned to join her venture said
in a letter to Supervisor John
L. Molinari. “All we want to do
is work, and $7,500 to sell
lemonade seems ridiculous.”
Molinari suggested an alter
native—a S4B peddler’s license.
But before she can get it,
Pam has to pay $6 for police
fingerprinting, must canvass
merchants along her planned
Smith
to serve
life term
Ronald Lee Smith of Griffin
has been ordered to serve the
remainder of his natural life in
prison for the murder of Charles
Vaughn, college student.
Smith had been sentenced to
death.
The order was signed by
Judge Hugh D. Sosebee of the
Flint Circuit. He acted in the
case, since Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr. of the Griffin
Judicial Circuit disqualified
himself. He prosecuted the case
against Smith. Judge Whalen
was the solicitor general in the
trial.
Judge Sosebee based his
order on a U. S. Supreme Court
and a Georgia Supreme Court
decision which declared the
Georgia law unconstitutional as
it related to the death sentence.
Smith has been confined six
years in the Spalding County
jail while attorneys filed ap
peals in his case.
Griffin
route to see if they object, have
police investigate the route, and
submit to a public hearing.
“I’m kind of disgusted with
all this stuff,” complained Pam
Wednesday. “But I feel I have
to go through it for other kids.”
She admitted she had consid
ered just ignoring the city
regulations.
“I didn’t think they’d come
out and arrest a 16-year-old girl
for setting up a lemonade stand
... but you never know.”
MARTA strike hits
120,000 riders
ATLANTA (UPI)-About 1,100
bus drivers for the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
(MARTA) walked off the job to
day, leaving some 120,000 riders
to find other means of getting
to work.
The drivers, members of
Amalgamated Transit Union Lo
cal 732, refused to take the
buses out on grounds their con
tract expired at midnight and
no new agreement had been
reached.
Before the walkout began,
U. S. District Judge Albert J.
Henderson Jr. had granted
MARTA officials a temporary
restraining order which forbade
a strike.
Contract negotiations bet
ween Marta and the union had
been going on for about 10
weeks but the negotiators, who
met right up until the contract
expired, were unable to reach
agreement on wages.
Irving Breslauer, a MARTA
spokesman, said the authority’s
The Community Development
Committee has started a drive
to raise $15,000 more in local
money to match federal funds.
The federal Housing and
Urban Development division
has approved a $50,000 grant of
matching funds for community
improvement.
The local committee already
has raised all but $15,000 of the
$50,000 needed in local matching
money.
The committee started the
project under the name of the
Downtown Beautification
Project. It had to expand its
concepts to a community wide
program to be eligible for the
federal money.
That’s why the committee has
changed its name to Commun
ity Development. Felton Rain
water, the original chairman,
continues to head the project.
Architect Gerald Bilbro,
engineer Alfred Bolton and
landscape designer Newton Bell
will be responsible for the plans.
The committee hopes the
plans will be finished by the
Sept. 15 goal and work will
begin shortly after that.
The city of Griffin will im
plement or let contracts for the
work and material when the
program gets under way, the
committee said.
£ Motivate workshop planned
The Existing Industries Com
mittee of the Griffin Area
Chamber of Commerce in
conjunction with the Small
Business Administration will
sponsor a Success Planning
Workshop, June 28 from 9 a.m.
till noon at the Chamber.
The workshop will be for mid
and upper management people.
It is for all businesses that
need new concepts of employe
Letson
is dean
ATLANTA (UPI) - Atlanta
School Supt. John Letson, who
steps down from his post this
summer, has been appointed
dean of Valdosta State College’s
school of education.
Letson will retire as school
head in Atlanta sometime after
July 1 to make way for Atlan
ta’s first black school superin
tendent. He will take over his
new post at Valdosta State on
Sept. 1, according to the an
nouncement Wednesday by the
State Board of Regents.
latest offer was a 60-cent-an
hour increase spread over two
years. The union was seeking
50 cents an hour in one year.
The base pay for bus drivers
is currently $4.36 an hour which
includes a 14-cent-per-hour cost
of living allowance.
Gas jacking may increase
ATLANTA (UPI) - The in
creasing price and decreasing
supply of motor fuel may cause
widespread gasoline hijacking,
according to a member of the
state Department of Investiga
tion.
Special Agent H. M. Spurlin
of the crime prevention bureau
sent a letter to Harrison W.
W. Bray, director of the Geor
gia Oilman’s Association, rec
ommending increased security
measures be taken at the state’s
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Jeff Dennis, 6, (1) yields to his little brother, Scott, 4, who gets a tip from tennis instructor Sandy
Schenk at Municipal Park. Jeff is one of the youngsters enrolled in the junior tennis classes at the
park. Scott was a little too young for the class. A new class will begin July 9. Jeff and Scott are the
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Dennis, 211 Larcom lane.
motivation.
Adrin Hartman, a specialist
in this field, will conduct the
workshop.
The cost will be $5 each for
Chamber members and $lO
each for non-members.
Reservations may be made
with Mrs. Jean Turner at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Hal suit
bug case
dropped
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lack of
evidence has forced the close of
an FBI investigation of the
“wire - grass Watergate” bug
ging charge lodged against
Georgia Republican Hal Suit by
a former gubernatorial candi
date.
U. S. Attorney John Stokes
Jr. said Wednesday the F B I
could not find enough evidence
that Suit monitored car tele
phone calls by Jimmy Bentley
during the 1970 GOP primary.
Suit had admitted that a
friend of his, a radio repairman
had listened in on Bentley’s car
telephone calls during the gu
bernatorial race. Suit said he
had done nothing illegal and
Bentley had been indiscrete for
discussing campaign tactics on
the phone.
The FBI investigation failed
to find the repairman, whose
name Suit said he could not re
call.
Bentley, who called the inci
dent a “wire - grass Water
gate,” had demanded an apolo
gy from Suit to all Georgia Re
publicans.
Suit said the demand was ri
diculous.
gasoline stations and depots.
Spurlin cited two recent inci
dents of gas hijacking in Florida
and one theft of gasoline in
Georgia as examples of a pos
sible increase in black market
gasoline operations.
“I though there was a damn
good potential of an outbreak of
hijacking so I thought some type
of precautionary measures
would help deter hijackers,”
Spurlin said.
He recommended padlocking
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127 feared dead
* in DC9 jet crash
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mex
ico (UPI) — A Mexican DC9
jetliner with 27 persons aboard
flying from Houston to Mexico
City slammed into a mountain
peak on Mexico’s rugged
Pacific Coast Wednesday night
and exploded. All aboard were
feared dead.
The wild Pacific coastal area
is almost inaccessible by land.
A flotilla of 30 to 40 small
rescue boats led by a yacht
went by sea early today along
the coast to a landing at the
base of craggy hilltop area and
sent rescue teams into the
mountains to search for the
wreckage.
A passenger list issued by the
Aero-Mexico airline indicated
that at least 14 Americans
boarded the plane at Houston,
but the list was incomplete and
the exact number of Americans
aboard among the 23 passen
gers was not known.
Pedro Vega Padilla, com
mandant of Puerto Vallarta
police, said he was waiting for
word on what the first rescue
group encountered at the scene,
about 30 miles south along the
coast from here.
“But I am not optimistic,” he
told UPI. “That is extremely
rough and rocky country and I
don’t see how anyone could
have survived.”
He said the plane crashed
and exploded, according to
eyewitness reports received so
far by authorities. The plane,
apparently preparing to epter
its landing approach, plowed
into El Morro hilltop between
Chimo and Chatala, he said.
The jet was last in contact
all gasoline storage tanks, post
ing night watchmen at gas
depots, and placing two men in
all gas tank trucks.
Bray sent notices to all mem
bers of his association, advising
them of the DOI warning and
urging implementation of the
new security measures.
“This has never been a real
problem before because gas was
always plentiful,” Bray said.
“But with the shortage all over,
someone could make money by
with the Puerto Vallarta airport
tower at 10:25 p.m. CST, about
10 minutes before its scheduled
landing.
Earlier reports fixed the
crash site as Chimo hilltop but
when dawn broke it was
determined to be Morro hilltop
nearby, he added.
Fourteen passengers boarded
the plane at Houston last night.
Nine more got aboard at
Monterrey, Mexico, the flight’s
last stop before it hit the
mountainside.
Everglades
crash kills
3 crewmen
MIAMI (UPI) - A Trans-Air
DC7 cargo plane crashed in the
Everglades just after takeoff
today, killing all three crew
men.
Dade County police went to
the scene by helicopter and
found the bodies. The three
men were not identified.
The plane, bound for Santo
Domingo, crashed and burned
in an uninhabited area of the
Everglades about five miles
north of the Tamiami Trail just
west of Miami.
The Coast Guard said the
plane took off at 4:20 a. m. and
four minutes later dropped
from the radar screen at Miami
International Airport.
A Coast Guard search heli
copter spotted the wreckage at
4:50 a. m. and the pilot
described the crash as “non
survivable.”
emptying storage tanks into a
truck, taking it across a state
line and selling it.
Bray estimated the theft of
8,000 gallons of gas could bring
more than $2,500 to the black
marketeer, who, Bray said,
would probably have a buyer
lined up before the theft.
The thief “would probably sell
it to some wholesaler to get rid
of it, Bray said. “I’m sure there
are some people who wouldn’t
care where the gas came from.”