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- Griffin Daily News Tuesday, June 26, 1973
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L M BOYD
Females Talk
About Health
What do women talk about most’ That's open to argument,
no? Still, a lady in the society department, wherein numerous
girls converse, contends the favorite feminine topic is health,
good and bad. And they enjoy talking about the bad more than
the good.
It's fairly standard among Soviet doctors, I'm told, to tell
their patients who suffer from migraine headaches to sleep
without pillows.
A national magazine says its survey proves one out of every
10 babies under age 2 chews gum at least once a week.
It's not just whimsical but factual that the human tongue
never seems to tire Why is that? Wait, really, your eyelids get
heavy, your shoulders, arms, legs even ache with fatigue, yet
your tongue registers no weariness. Odd.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. "Do blind people ski?"
A. They do. With sighted souls hollering signals at them.
"First gear" means trees and rough terrain. "Second gear"
means okay, pick it up a little ’ ‘Third gear means have at it,
all is clear ahead
Q. ’ 'Who are the loneliest people in the world?''
A. Those who eventually commit suicide, no doubt about it.
That loneliness thing is said to be the one common denominator
among people who take their own Eves.
Q. "This scissorbill is trying to tell me that polo started
out as an indoor sport
A. In this country, it did. First game here was played at
Dickel's Riding Academy in New York City in 1876. And it con
tinued to be an indoor sport in the United States for the next
four years.
Q. “You quoted the men of science as saying people think
beat when the air temperature is around 40 degrees F. At what
temperature do they say human fertility is highest?''
A. About 64 degrees F. Claim is it drops sharply when the
temperature goes over 70 degrees F.
LOVE COURSE
"How to make love" is the subject of a special college
course given to medical students at the University of Amsterdam.
One Dr. Conrad Boas holds down that professional chair. Theory
is doctors need special education in this titilating topic so
they properly can advise their patients.
In the last several years throughout Europe, the proportion
of baby boys over baby girls has increased enormously. A
researcher named Dr. N. G. MussaUi blames family planning.
He means The Pill, I think. And he warns that boys may so far
outnumber the girls in the upcoming years that several husbands
may have to share each wife. Shudder. Am assigning our Love
and War man to research ways to reverse this trend.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd. P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
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“Honesty in advertising is one thing, but who
wants to hear that a pill will cure his headache,
maybe?”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, June 26,
the 177th day of 1973 with 188 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury and Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Cancer.
American novelist Pearl Buck
was bom June 26,1892.
On this day in history:
In 1900, Dr. Walter Reed led
a medical team formed to wipe
out yellow fever in the Panama
Canal Zone.
In 1917, first troops of the
American Expeditionary Force
reached France for World War
II action.
In 1944, Cherbourg, the third
largest port in France, was
liberated from Nazi occupation
in World War 11.
In 1948, the United States
began operation of the “Berlin
Airlift” to bypass a Soviet road
and rail blockade of the divided
German city.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Even today, for most gals
a wedding ring is a one-man
band.
$ »k $
The man who never
hears another’s troubles
usually is one who doesn’t
stop speaking of his own
long enough to hear the
other fellow.
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Where we’re going for our
vacation is broke.
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THOUGHTS
"He has showed you, O
man, what is good; and what
does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love
kindness, and to walk humbly
with vour God? — Micah 6:8.
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No man or woman can
really be strong, gentle, pure,
and good without the world
being better for it. — Phillips
Brooks. American clergyman
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A court ruling last week in connection
with a convicted murderer brought at
tention to the fact that a killer sentenced to
life can get out of prison in seven years.
Also the fact that Superior Court is in
session in Griffin this week brings life
sentences into the spotlight again. An
explanation is in order, so here one is:
A person sentenced to life is eligible for
parole after doing seven years time, but
that does not mean that he will get it. As a
matter of fact, it is unlikely that he will.
Cecil McCall, chairman of the State
Board of Pardons and Paroles, recently
had this to say, “Anyone who believes such
fiction (that lifers are automatically
paroled after seven years) should have
been with the board last week when we
interviewed a prisoner who has not been
free since 1941. This man has served over
32 years.”
Search pays off
You know how it is. Everybody says,
“Somebody ought to do something about
it.” That is what happened when skyjack
ings were at their peak, and for a change
somebody did do something about it.
“The “something” in this case has been
security inspection of all passengers
before they board a plane and the result so
far in 1973 has been a safe year for Ameri
can flights compared to 160 air seizures
before the start of the year.
Federal Aviation Administration re
cords show that in the first three months of
There is talk about moving the
Cyclorama from Grant Park to some place
in downtown Atlanta.
The Cyclorama is a giant painting with
three-dimensional figures blended into it,
all in a circle showing vividly a Civil War
battle. A narration accompanies the usual
viewing and adds to the sense of reality.
Generations of youngsters from Griffin
have visitedit in Atlanta’s Grant Park and
Mobile homes
The Henry County Weekly-Advertiser
Something is missing in Henry
County development requirements
when owners of mobile home parks
and subdivisions can go off and
leave people without services. Many
parks are very nice. Others are
terrible.
Last week, The Weekly-Advertiser
answered a call to Davis Road north
of Stockbridge to talk with a number
of dejected residents of a mobile
home park.
They had been bombarded with
advertising about the desirability of
country club-type living. Swimming
pools, club houses and fellowship
away from the city's bustie.
Numbers of these people, solid
people, answered the ads, and now
one admits she doesn't want her
name used because she is ashamed
for her friends to find out what a fool
she has been.
Another points out the swimming
pool was just a come on and doesn't
The law forbids
marrying sister
I don’t think I’m alone with this problem,
but perhaps others have solved it more
easily. I’m in love with my sister—really
in love—like running away, changing our
names and being married. We find nothing
wrong anymore with lovemaking—but I
still believe we have a problem. Please
help me. L.B.
You do have a problem, but I am not
faulting you for that What I would be
critical of is a failure to seek a solution.
Somehow, I get the impression you’re
quite content with the status quo. In any
case, only God can convict you of
wrongdoing, and until that happens, I’m
afraid you’ll appease your conscience by
occasional pious questions about the
morality of the whole affair.
Your problem is called incest The law
forbids you to marry your sister for good
reason. It relates to your mutual com
patibility, and others to the dangers of
producing children who are mentally and
its
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4334
Life sentences
Dangerous
\point
Then citing a recent count of 286 Georgia
prison inmates serving life sentences who
are eligible for parole but have not been
granted it, he said, “The hard fact is that
some of them will never get out on parole. ”
Also:
—A Georgia prison inmate who finally
gets parole from life gets the chance only
after being denied parole an average of six
times.
—Those lifers who finally do earn parole
have served an average of almost 13 years.
(The figure does not take into considera
tion those serving life sentences who still
are being denied parole, those who die in
prison, or those whose sentences were
reversed or changed through appeal.)
So we see that a sentence of life does not
mean automatic freedom in “only seven
years”.
this year the security checks resulted in k
573 arrests on counts having to do with
interference with air traffic, seizure of 504
guns, and of 2,430 knives.
Some people don’t know a good thing
when they see one, though, and a minority
of regular travelers are trying to pressure
the FAA into relaxing the security checks.
Here’s hoping their effort is aborted. It
would be like firing all the policemen
because they had eliminated crime for
awhile.
gone on to look at the monkies and the
elephants in the fine zoo.
It is our understanding that the
Cyclorama belongs to Atlanta, so it is that
city’s business where it is located. But we
do suggest respectfully that if it is moved
to a downtown location that proper
security measures be taken since down
town Atlanta has become so dangerous a
place.
even have a drainage plug. There is
a sign proclaiming 'Site of future
club house.' The sign has been there
three years, but there is no club
house and probably never will be.
The developers have the money and
are gone.
In this mobile home park a dozen
or so people have gone bankrupt,
lost everything they had, just to
break the leases and leave.
The security guard who once
worked around the clock now comes
on duty only after midnight and the
street lights have been doused in the
park, because»of unpaid utility bills.
Some times garbage pick ups are not
made and the place smells horrible.
Possibly the only thing to do about
these people is to write them off as
being very foolish, but it would be
good if there were country
ordinances to prevent such things
from happening ever again. ROL.
MY
ANSWER
physically handicapped.
The Bible, of course, records cases of
incest, as it traces the development of
human society. Instances like 2 Samuel 13
show the disintegration of the tenderness
natural between brothers and sisters—into
hatred and murder. There is a certain
sanctity of relationship in the family which
is mutilated by incest. God intended for
certain bounds to be set between brother
and sister, and these are never violated
with immunity.
Marriage between brothers and sisters
doesn’t allow for the balancing and
evening up of human characteristics, as
would be the case in normal relationships.
When the book of Genesis speaks of a
person being married as leaving “mother
and father” it means the whole family, to
find a mate elsewhere. Before you do
irreparable emotional damage, ask God
for the desire and the power to reverse this
relationship.
BEAUTS WOULD
"On second thought, I don’t think I want to teach
you the value of a dollar. It's too distressing!"
Suppose they cried “Wolf!” and nobody came?
It happened in the fable and it could happen for real if
environmentalists and others whose business it is to alert
us to the future don’t learn to temper their alarums with
common sense.
For instance, says Stewart L. Udall, the current short
age of gasoline is a national "nightmare.”
“Rationing has already begun,” says the former secre
tary of the Interior, who now runs his own environmental
consulting firm in Bethesda, Md. “The whole cutrate seg
ment of the gasoline industry is being forced out of busi
ness. It may become a thing of the past before this year
is out.”
While there have been and are gasoline and other fuel
pinches in parts of the country and may be worse ones to
come, the latter statement will be news to thousands of
independent stations who have been pumping the same
volume throughout the “crisis” and at the same prices,
despite irresponsible predictions by some people that
gasoline will soon cost a dollar a gallon.
August is the month when the real gasoline crunch will
be felt, says Udall, who then proceeds to give the very
kind of advice that could precipitate that crunch and other
kinds as well:
“My advice is for people to take their vacations before
August and plan to stay closer to home.”
Having had that last fling, Americans, he suggests, are
going to have to change their life-style drastically from
here on out, particularly with respect to automobiles.
It may well be that America’s honeymoon with the in
ternal combustion engine is nearing its end. Petroleum
simply has too many valuable uses for so much of it to be
burned up just in moving people around. Neither do we
want to go completely into hock with the Arabs, who seem
to be sitting on most of the world’s oil.
But it is interesting that those who are most alarmed
about the gasoline shortage in the 1970 s are the same ones
who worried in the 1960 s that we were about to be asphyxi
ated by automobile exhausts —with one result that today’s
low-pollution but gas-guzzling cars have contributed no
little bit to Udall’s present “nightmare.”
Scare talk is a good way to get people’s attention; it is
the worst possible way to encourage them to make rational
decisions.
Another danger is that when they discover that the sit
uation is not really as bad as they were led to believe,
they may conclude that there is nothing to be concerned
about at all.
A gasoline tiger by the tail
There’s seldom a solution to a problem that doesn’t breed
another problem. The current gasoline shortage is no excep
tion.
In one approach to this problem. Congress is reportedly
considering requiring the states to reduce speed limits on
Interstate highways. Lower speeds would mean less fuel
consumption.
But less fuel consumption would mean less fuel buying and
in turn would mean fewer tax funds for highway mainte
nance and improvement, warns one state official.
The plan to reduce Interstate speed limits as a fuel con
servation effort could hurt highway departments all over the
country which depend on the fuel tax. says Ohio’s transporta
tion director. J. Phillip Richey. A little more than 4 cents of
every 7 cents of this tax in Ohio goes to his department.
But there’s “hope” for this problem. Also being considered
is a hike in the federal gasoline tax. Possibly some of this
extra revenue could go toward relief of state highway de
partments.
But even this “solution” raises a problem. If, as intended,
a higher gasoline tax discourages automobile use. less auto
mobile use would again mean less tax collection.
Any way you look at it. the motoring public is going to
pay. in one way or another.
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The Atlantic Charter was
issued by President Frank
lin Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
aboard the battleship
Prince of Wales, Aug. 14,
1941. The Charter’s prin
ciples renounced territorial
aggrandizement and op
posed territorial changes
made against the wishes of
the people concerned,
sought relaxed trade re
strictions and access to raw
materials for all nations,
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and advocated freedom
from fear and want, The
World Almanac recalls.
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