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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, June 27,1973
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Clark Gable,
Greta Garbo
"Who have been the greatest male and female screen stars
of all time 7 " inquires a client. Clark Gable and Greta Garbo,
probably. Now you know how old I am. Greatest here, please
note, doesn't mean most talented Just the most commanding
romantic leads, probably.
Yes, it was in Australia where Dr Margaret Raphael studied
825 lady laborers To discover that those working girls who took
The Pill were absent from the job an average of only 4.7 days a
year while those who didn't take said medication missed 5.6
days a year.
Question arises as to why men are more likely than women
to turn up their radios, TVs and stereos to a high volume.
Nothing mysterious about that. Most women would prefer to talk.
Most men would just as soon shut out the dialogue.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. "Isn’t it true you can mail yourself through the postal
service in Great Britain?"
A. Not anymore. For awhile there after World War 11, the
British Postal Service for sixpence per mile would send a post
man with you to show you how to get there, wherever. But too
few took advantage of this fancy social service, so it was cut out.
Q ’ Tell me, dad how come all manhole covers are round?”
A. Because if they were square or rectangular, my boy, they
could fall into the hole.
That young lady born under Virgo, said to be the most
feminine and feline of signs, looks best in the color white, claim
the stargazers.
. The front feet of a rabbit always leave their tracks behind,
not ahead of the tracks of the back feet, got that?
Figure about 5,000 Americans turn age 65 every day.
LOVE AND WAR
That bachelor and single girl are most apt to be attracted to
one another if they possess similar virtues but opposite faults.
For instance, if one were generous, it would be better if the other
were likewise But if one were hot-tempered, then it would be
better if the other were not Too obvious? Maybe, says a scholar
who has studied love and war. Point is that in romance, it's not
true simply to say that opposites attract nor that like chooses like
Rather, more specifically, he contends, like virtues choose like,
opposite faults attract.
Suppose it's because a woman's lungs are smaller that she
tends to sigh a little more often than does a man. Man's average
is once every three minutes
Seven out of 10 doves bom this year won't live to age 1.
Even so, they're the most common upland game bird in the
country. Pretty prolific.
About 40,000 wedding rings are sold in Hungary. About
50,000 couples get married there. Each year.
Addntt mail to I. M. Boyd. P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, 7X 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, June 27,
the 178th day of 1973 with 187 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 bom on this date are
under the sign of Cancer.
Blind American author Helen
Keller was born June 27, 1880.
On this day in history:
In 1847, telegraph wire links
were established between New
York and Boston.
In 1893, a major economic
depression began as prices
collapsed on the New York
Stock Exchange.
In 1950, President Truman
ordered U.S. naval and air
forces to help repel the North
Korean invasion of South
Korea.
In 1960, a typoon struck
Luzon Island in the Philippines,
killing more than 100.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
July 4 is already being cele
brated in the nation's capital
— with those big Watergate
bam-bams!
+ + +
June, moon, spoon all
rhyme — but how do you work
“astronaut” into it?
+ + +
K-
TV
Keep your eye on the ball
and someone will knock you
on the head with a cue stick
+ + +
The nicest things about
credit cards is that you can go
three years before they decide
you’re bankrupt.
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THOUGHTS
“No one can serve two
masters; for either he will
hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to
the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and
mammon.” — — Matthew
6:24.
♦ ♦ ♦
The universe is centered
on neither the earth nor the
Sun. It is centered on God. —
Alfred Noyes. English novel
ist.
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Dear Mr. Melton: In regard to your
editorial of June 15, 1973, you wondered
when Griffin and Spalding County will
merge?
As you know, a study is being conducted
at this time to determine the feasibility of
such a merger. I would assume the people
of Griffin and Spalding County will be
better informed than those in Chatham
County. The method used in Chatham
County was one where both the voters in
the City of Savannah and those outside the
city in Chatham County had to vote for
consolidation. The city vote was 12,039 for
and 4,090 against; in the county 3,157 for
and 6,666 against; therefore, the proposal
lost. The peculiar fact is 58.6 per cent of the
people voted for consolidation, yet it still
lost. The total vote was 15,196 for and
10,756 against. It seems ridiculous when a
vast majority of people (58.6 percent vs.
41.4 percent) vote for a proposal that it
does not pass.
Hopefully, the proposal for Griffin-
Spalding County will favor all the people
and not a split faction. Sincerely, (Signed)
Russ Spangler, Executive Vice President,
Griffin Area, Chamber of Commerce.
Dear Sirs: Will you please print the
following message in your paper. It is time
you had the opinion of both sides.
To the Board of Education: In regards to
your “concern” about the behavior of
students during the recent graduation
ceremony at Griffin High, myself and
many others feel that this type of interest
is wrong. Graduating students have the
right to display their feelings of happiness
and success at the completion of 12 years
of work. They deserve the right to rejoice
at their accomplishment, for three years,
or more for others, at Griffin High School
is something to celebrate. They are at last
free from the prison that our school has
become. You may criticize my way of
referring to Griffin High as a prison, but it
The ‘bug’
There has been a lottery (“bug”)
operation in Spalding County ever since he
could remember, Judge Andrew Whalen
declared in Superior Court this week. But,
he said, April raids in Griffin and Spalding
produced the first set of cases since 1954
which indicated anything akin to
organized crime here.
The judge sternly rebuked the “bug”
defendants, told them that they had been
“stupid and dump” to take the risks they
had in order to enrich somebody “higher
up”, and told them that “if those folks
want to finance this and you are fool
Griffin stores are offering particular
values this week in connection with
“Vacation Value Days” and shoppers
throughout this part of the state are
expected in town Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday to take advantage of them.
The merchants of Griffin have gone all
It’s about time
The Supreme Court’s ruling on
pornography already has had some good
effects in Georgia.
In Atlanta, “adult” movies have
switched from “x” to “r” rated programs,
and in Rome, Ga., a book store has closed
Healthy allegiance
to God and country
I read all your wise sayings in the
papers, and watch you on television. Why
is it, though, that you have never men
tioned Matthew 22, and that reference to
Caesar? Don’t you think we are defacing
God by placing Him on our money? G.F.
I assume you have reference to the
statement on our money “In God We
Trust”. Actually, there is no represen
tation of God I am aware of on our coins or
bills that would qualify for the charge of
idolatry or image worship.
In the chapter you mention, Christ was
teaching that if they accepted the coins of
Caesar, they were obligated to pay taxes to
viewpoint
Value days
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
is true. Students are not given any
responsibility that would prove them to be
capable adults. You say how ironic it is
that a few recede back into childhood at
the moment they are about to step into the
world of adults. You treat them as children
in school and give them no privileges or
responsibilities. If you would give them the
chance to act as adults, they would reward
you as being adults. Thank you, (Signed)
An interested parent
P.S. I do not wish my name to be
published or to be mentioned in regards to
this opinion.
Dear Editor: This letter is in response to
a program I saw on T.V. the other nite
about the children of Vietnam.
I wish I could put into words how I felt
when I saw the hundreds of starving and
homeless children who are a reality of
today. They never asked to be brought into
this world, but because of man’s lust to
rule the world, and the wars that come
after, they leave in their destruction these
tiny people who they don’t care about, who
have to suffer and starve. It’s not fair. If
the people of this community and clubs
also would unite for this sole purpose we
could help and maybe instead of hate and
distrust, love would spread throughout the
world. It has to start somewhere. Why not
here? If you have God in your hearts,
you’ll help.
When you put your child to bed tonight, I
want you to think of him or her sleeping on
the floor of an overcrowded orphanage and
maybe having one meal a day, that being
only rice or oatmeal.
If we don’t help nobody will. If it’s only a
prayer you give to these children give it
each time you drink a beer, or smoke a
pack of cigarettes, or pay for a meal out,
you think what that money could have
done for these poor little people. Sincerely,
(Signed) Jerry Parker, Route 2, Box 257-A,
Griffin.
in Griffin
enough to take the rap, then you’ll go to the
penitentiary.”
Finally, he warned “whoever is banking
this thing to take their money and paper
slips somewhere else.”
The community is indebted to the judge
for his forthright words. It is an
established fact that organized crime
usually gets its foot in a community’s door
with organized gambling. And there is no
doubt that with Griffin as close to Atlanta
as it is, this community must be constantly
vigilant against encroachments.
out to promote the event and to make it
what its name implies with special prices
and opportunities, and it promises to be an
exceptional event.
It always is good to shop in Griffin, and it
will be especially good the rest of this
week.
its “adult” section.
Now, local communities can adopt and
enforce ordinances banning the sale and
dissemination of filth.
It is about time, but better late than
never.
MY
ANSWER
him. The principle of government loyalty
and support was here established—a
principle, however, that was incorporated
in a higher one—that of loyalty to God.
The enemies of Jesus that day were
trying to establish a conflict of duty. He
showed them, however, that there was
really a harmony, which linked both of
them together. Naturally, Jesus called
them hypocrites because knowing their
hearts, He saw their desire to trap Him
while ostensibly seeming to flatter Him.
As a matter of fact, if Americans don’t
have a healthy dual allegiance to both God
and country, we invite our doom as a
nation.
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Georgia legislator Julian Bond is emerging as something
like a black Ralph Nader.
Not only do both men share youth, looks, brains and na
tional prominence as courageous reformers, but both are
given to making slightly outrageous statements.
Addressing students at Cuyahoga Community College in
Cleveland the other day. Bond said that while blacks can
point to many improved conditions in America, there are as
many others that are worse.
“We seem to be climbing a molasses mountain dressed in
snowshoes while the rest of the country rides an easy ski lift
to the top," he said.
Bond has climbed rather high on that mountain through his
own efforts, having had to go to court to win the right to sit
in the Georgia House of Representatives as a duly elected
member. But at a time when many poverty-level white
Americans would be glad just to have a serviceable pair of
snowshoes. Bond is no longer exceptional.
In his field of politics. Los Angeles councilman Tom Brad
ley, a black, won a landslide victory over incumbent Sam
Yorty, a white, as mayor of that predominantly white city.
It was Bradley s second try against Yorty.
Also in California, in Oakland, two black candidates were
in the running this year for the mayor s seat against two
whites, including the white incumbent. In the run-off, Black
Panther Bobby Seal lost to Mayor John H. Reading by al
most a 2-1 margin, but what is significant is not that he lost
but that he did so in a city close to 50 per cent black.
In Camden, N.J.. another city close to half black, five
black candidates and one Puerto Rican ran for mayor and
were overwhelmed by the white Democratic candidate, one
of three whites in the race.
These examples suggest that in politics, at least, if whites
are riding "an easy ski lift to the top,” a lot of minority
people must be pulling for them. Conversely, white losers
like Sam Yorty may have cause to mutter about sliding
down a “molasses mountain.”
On another subject that affects all Americans but blacks
especially, the president of the St. Louis Board of Police
Commissioners recently made some pertinent and much
needed comments.
“The crime reports I see from day to day show that 75 per
cent of crimes in St. Louis are committed by black criminals
and that 80 per cent of their victims are also black," said
Theodore D. McNeal.
“Whether or not we are willing to face up to the truth, the
fact remains that crime — black crime — is a noose, slowly
but relentlessly strangling the St. Louis black community
and every similar community across the nation."
While agreeing that there is some truth to the charge that
racism is one of the factors in the increase in crime, Mc-
Neal added that “I am convinced that there are not and nev
er will be enough police to reduce and control crime in our
cities until and unless the black community becomes actual
ly and actively involved in the overall war against crime.
“We cannot curb crime as long as large numbers of black
citizens act as if they were deaf, dumb and blind when a
crime is committed in their presence ...”
In other words, if white America were to disappear over
night, that "molasses mountain" of Julian Bond's would still
be there and black Americans would still have the problem
of climbing it.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
QUOTES
British writer John Galswor
thy said, “If you do not think
about the future, you cannot
have one.”
General of the Army Douglas
MacArthur said, “In war, there
is no substitute for victory.”
French novelist Anatole
France said, “People who have
no weaknesses are terrible ...
there is no way to take ad
vantage of them.”
English novelist George
Meredith said, “I expect that
woman will be the last thing
civilized by man.”
British poet Lord Byron said,
“Speak not of men’s creeds.
They rest between man and his
Maker.”
In the story of her life, blind
author Helen Keller wrote,
’“Literature is my Utopia. Here
I am not disfranchised. No
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By DON OAKLEY
barrier of the senses shuts me
out from the sweet, gracious
discourse of my book-friends.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Passenger fatalities and
injuries from train acci
dents showed a significant
decrease during the first
half of 1972, with no such
fatalities in a train acci
dent. This was the first
time since 1966 that no
passengers died, while in
the same period there were
79 fewer injuries than the
315 in 1971, The World
Almanac says. Grade-cross
ing fatalities dropped from
682 to 625 over the 6 month
period.
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