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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
appearing in this space on Page
One. Later, it will return to its
usual position on the Editorial
Page.
The teacher of our Sunday
School Class says that the Bible
contains many contradictions
and errors. He says he bases
this on the writings of scholarly
men. What I want to know is:
are there really any recognized
Bible scholars who still believe
in the authenticity of the Bible?
S.D.
There are scores of scholars
who do not share the liberal
view that the Bible is a
collection of myths and inac
curacies. Dr. Oliver J. Buswell,
a highly trained theologian, who
taught in universities and
graduate schools for 35 years,
wrote in his “Systematic
Theology of the Christian
Religion:”
“In closing this chapter 0n...
the inspiration of the Bible, I
should like to add my personal
testimony, and state that in my
entire educational life, in the
universities and graduate
schools, endeavoring to keep as
well informed as possible, I
have never encountered any
facts which do not fall in line
with the evidence for the
complete truthfulness of what
the Bible has to say in any field
...Not only is the Bible never
proved false but over and over
again, it has been proven to be
true source of life and light
which it claims to be ... This
book is true. I have taken it and
lived with it amid the
naturalistic philosophies and
worldly trends of our modem
universities, graduate schools,
and schools of education, as
well as in anti-Biblical
seminaries, and I have found it
to be true at every point of
testing. It is the very Word of
God.” P. 213.
What more can be said? The
real proving ground, however,
for the truth of the Bible is the
step of faith, which personalizes
truth in Jesus Christ. I hope
you’ve discovered that.
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The Rev. Billy Graham gesters to the audience during his sermon at the Atlanta Stadium. Dispite
a city bus driver’s strike, the second biggest crowd in the first four day’s of the Crusade turned
out, estimated at some 41,500. No city buses were available, but the bus parking lot was full of
private buses. (UPI)
Credit on tax bills
Tax relief
in Spalding
is $433,350
Spalding County taxpayers
can expect credits on their tax
bills this fall totaling $433,350.
That was the word today from
John Blackmon, State Revenue
Commissioner.
He listed amounts of state
funds portioned out to Georgia
counties to be utilized in
providing property tax relief.
Social Security
raises expected
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
5.5 per cent increase in
payments in 1974 to all 28
million Social Security recipi
ents is considered certain to
pass the Senate and likely to
confront President Nixon next
week.
Its approval by the House
would put a quick test to
Nixon’s post-Watergate mood of
accommodation with Congress,
signaled this week when he
signed three bills he had
originally opposed.
On Nixon’s behalf Treasury
Secretary George P. Shultz
opposed the Social Security
boost Thursday as unnecessary
in light of last year’s “tremen
dous” 20 per cent increase, but
the Senate Finance Committee
brushed away his objections
and voted 12 to 2 to raise
payments. Republicans Wallace
F. Bennett, Utah, and Paul J.
Fannin, Ariz., voted no.
Also winning committee ap
proval were a liberalization of
welfare payments to aged,
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
The money will be distributed
under an act passed by the
Georgia Legislature. How much
each county will receive was
determined by average daily
attendance for the first four
months of school in 1972-73. The
attendance figures were taken
from county school systems.
The revenue commissioner
blind or disabled adults; a
delay in a cutback of social
services to the poor; a $268.7
ceiling on federal expenditures
in fiscal 1974, as Nixon
proposed; and a rider to
require congressional approval
when a President refuses to
spend funds appropriated by
Congress.
All were attached to a bill to
extend the existing ceiling of
$465 billion on the national debt.
The ceiling expires June 30.
It must be extended to enable
the government to continue
borrowing and normal opera
tions.
Congress plans to recess at
the end of next week for a nine
day Independence Day holiday.
So a decision by Nixon—hinted
at by Shultz—to veto the bill
could cause Nixon to call
Congress back into session.
Committee Chairman Russell
B. Long, D-La., predicted
Senate approval of the bill and
House approval also appeared
likely.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, June 22, 1973
said now that specific grants
have been determined,
preparations can be made for
calculating individual tax payer
credits.
However, he said that until
county digests are approved by
the State Revenue Department,
and local county tax rates are
set, no final calculations can be
made.
Blackmon said the 1973 digest
figures would be used in making
calculations.
Spalding County Com
missioners have not set any tax
rates for this year. This usually
is announced in August or
September.
Al Hill, tax assessor for
Spalding County, said the cost
of administering the tax credit
program had not been figured in
the overall program.
A spokesman for the Revenue
Department said the ad
ministration of the program
would be up to individual
counties and that this would not
be a state responsibility.
Hill said at this point, it is
impossible to determine how
much each person in Spalding
County will get as his share of
the SSO-million state program.
Taxpayers will not receive a
check or money directly from
the state under the property tax
relief program. The payments
will be made in the form of a tax
credit on the tax bills to be
mailed out this fall.
Grants to other counties in the
Spalding area are:
Butts $122,650, Fayette
$162,900, Henry $296,250, Lamar
$107,500, Pike $82,850, and
Upson $247,250.
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“Hiding sins is about as easy
as concealing oil spilled at sea.”
Dr. Graham preaches
Christ can give
purpose to young
ATLANTA (UPI) - Despite
a city bus strike, the second
biggest crowd in the first four
day’s of Billy Graham’s Atlan
ta Crusade turned out Thurs
day —a crowd estimated at
41,500 in Atlanta Stadium.
No city buses were available,
but the bus parking lot was
full of private buses.
The crowd heard Graham
preach on the problems of
youth.
He said today’s young people
“are the most analyzed” in his
tory. He noted they had lived
through the assassinations of
the Kennedy brothers and Mar
tin Luther King Jr., as well as
the war, rioting, the landing on
the moon, the “onslaught of por
nography and drugs,” and the
Watergate affair.
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City of Griffin office workers (1-r) Mrs. Willie B. Evans, Mrs.
Annette Rothbauer, and Mrs. Karen Stanford straighten up
their new offices in the City Hall Annex on East Solomon
Senior citizens
centers planned
A network of Senior Citizen’s
Centers will be opened through
out the Mclntosh Trail area
beginning this fall, according to
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission Executive
Director Wade Pierce.
The eight centers, including
one in Griffin, will serve as
headquarters for each county’s
federally funded Aging Services
Program.
The federal government will
provide $200,000 to operate the
programs.
Services for the aging will
include:
Nutrition —a lunchtime meal
service to provide proper
nutrition for the elderly and
give them the opportunity to
gather as a group from
throughout the community.
The nutrition program, under
the direction of Mrs. Jane
Osborn, is aimed at preventing
the premature institutionaliza
tion of older citizens.
Transportation —a transpor
tation program designed to give
the elderly access to the Senior
Citizens’ Center and other
special activities and facilities.
Information — persons and
literature to inform senior
citizens of their rights,
available services, and activi
ties.
Home Health Care — in-the
home services for the elderly.
Mclntosh Trail Planner Ed
Graham said the “now gener
ation” had come to expect ev
erything at once. This, he said,
led to emptiness, loneliness and
lack of purpose.
“Jesus Christ can give a pur
pose to young people,” Graham
said.
When he gave his invitation
to receive Christ, an estimated
1,550 walked to the baseball
diamond to make a commitment
—the largest number so far this
week.
The response brought to over
5,500 the number counseled thus
far during the Crusade. Cumu
lative attendance for the four
nights passed the 170,000 mark
Thursday. The largest crowd at
tended opening night Monday,
about 44,000.
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City Hall offices move to new home
Houghtailing will coordinate all
Aging Program services.
Blind plant
to resume
40-hr. week
Harold Emlet, superintendent
of the Georgia Factories for the
Blind, announced today that the
Griffin plant — one of three
operated by the Georgia De
partment of Human Resources
— has returned to a 40-hour
work week.
Earlier, the work week had
been cut to 32 hours and several
employees laid off due to the
loss of a sizeable sorting con
tract. Sorting and packaging
are primary operations at the
Griffin plant which provides
employment for some 35 blind
and partially sighted persons in
this area of the state.
“We anticipate that full
operations will continue
uninterruptedly,” Emlet said,
“provided the inflow of plastic
flatware for packaging is
normal.”
Commenting on the work
cutback, Eugene Owen, legal
services unit director of the
Georgia Department of Human
Resources, added, “Although
we have been unable to recall
workers laid off because of the
production cut, we are present
ly testing these employees
through services of the state’s
vocational rehabilitation
program in order to discover
what skills they have which will
enable them to be retrained for
other jobs as new business is
secured.
The state agency official went
on to say that Representative
Clayton Brown’s interest and
concern for workers and their
families had been very helpful
during the cutback period •
County to enforce
rabies control plan
Dogs in Spalding County
without tags and with no record
of being inoculated against
rabies will be subject to being
picked up after Saturday.
Commissioner Sandy Morgan
who has pushed for the rabies
control program said the county
definitely will have an en
forcement program.
He said the specifics have not
Street, next to City Hall. All city offices were moved into the
building today.
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NEW YORK — Martha Mitchell follows chauffeur to family
station wagon in front of her apartment building at 1030 Fifth
avenue. Girl at rear is not identified. Considerable luggage
was placed in vehicle. The destination was unknown. Her
husband, former Attorney General John Mitchell, was
believed to be still occupying the apartment. Mrs. Mitchell
had no comment for newsmen. (UPI)
Martha says John
would go to jail
for President Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mar
tha Mitchell said today her
husband John Mitchell would
“go to jail for Richard Nixon.”
“He’s protecting the Presi
dent of the United States,” she
declared in an early morning
telephone conversatvon.”
Mrs. Mitchell said she had a
number of “reasons” to express
those views but she declined to
be specific.
“I don’t know why, but
maybe it’s because he had so
much faith in Nixon, even after
all this,” she said.
Mrs. Mitchell declined to say
from where she was calling.
Thursday, she was seen leaving
her New York City apartment
house with travel luggage.
Mitchell apparently stayed be
hind.
As to how her husband is
bearing up after being implicat
ed in the Watergate scandal,
Mrs. Mitchell said, “He’s a
hurt person. My husband had
more integrity on Wall Street
been worked out but would be
soon.
The county’s final two rabies
inoculation clinics will be held
today and tomorrow.
The clinics are scheduled
between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
tonight at Orchard Hill court
house and the East Griffin
courthouse.
The clinic tomorrow will be at
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than anyone else. He feels
everybody’s got their tail
between their legs and is
running now.”
She said her husband had lost
a “helluva lot of weight” in the
past few months, and had been
preparing for his defense.
She once again said she
would be “perfectly willing” to
testify before the Watergate
investigating committee, but
added “they don’t want me.”
She also disclosed that
Mitchell “still takes up” for H.
R. Haldeman, the dismissed
White House chief of staff. John
D. Ehrlichman, Nixon’s former
domestic adviser, she said,
however “was so nasty to John,
it was unbelievable.”
Because of Ehrlichman, Mrs.
Mitchell said, her husband
wanted to quit as head of the
Justice Department two years
after he was in office. “I
persuaded him to stay on
because I thought he was doing
a good job,” she said.
the Experiment courthouse
from 11 till noon.
More than 300 dogs have been
inoculated during a week long
series of clinics at rural court
houses.
The Griffin Jaycees
cooperated with two
veterinarians in holding the
clinics.