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Brunettes
Dominate?
Best of the men tamers are the blue-eyed brunettes Or so
contends one self-proclaimed expert on matters romantic Our
Love and War man is reluctant to argue, but he holds the
personal opinion the green-eyed redheads are second to none
in that knack of dominating gentlemen friends The blue-eyed
brunettes, he says, are apt to be too tender, a failing rarely
evidenced among the green-eyed redheads
First midwives were men, please note. That word "midwife"
didn't start out to describe a woman Merely meant "with
(the) wife "
Client wants to know how many animals get killed during a
typical afternoon at the bullfights. Six, usually Each of
three matadors kills two bulls. Each killing takes about 20 minutes
BRIDGE
Happens about 20 times a year that some bridge player
reports a hand with 13 cards in one suit. And said reports are
frequently confirmed in signed notarized statements by the other
players. Even so, bndge experts remain skeptical They say
the odds against such are astronomically high And they note
it's always a woman who claims such a hand, never a man.
Curious.
Q. "When walking to the table in a snazzy restaurant, who
goes first, the man or the girl?''
A Depends If led by a hostess or waiter, the girl goes first.
If not, the man So say the social sages
Q. "How come we call them cantaloupes?"
A Because they were cultivated first, at least in Western
Europe, on a papal estate outside Rome called Cantalupo.
Q "Did the great W.C. Fields write his own movie scripts?"
A Most of them, finally. Film writers with martini pitchers
used to follow him around the golf course, taking notes But
usually in the end, he wrote the stuff himself under an assumed
name.
THE HARD FACTS
Eleven out of every 12 sets of twins survive Five out of
every six sets of triplets. Three out of every four sets of quads .
Average Miss America poses for commercial photographers
more than 20,000 times during her year in office. . Why people
first started eating those purple eggplants about 110 years ago,
I'll never know. Travel experts say the average family here
abouts will go approximately 330 miles from home on this
summer's vacation. . Hard to realize 2,900 different makes of
automobiles have been turned out in this country at one time
or another, no?
If somebody asked you to name those nationals regarded
as the worlds greatest sailors, it's not likely you'd nominate
the Hollanders. Still, they must deserve some kind of maritime
credit. Our Language man points out our words yacht, schooner,
scow and skipper all come from the Dutch.
Address mail Io I. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 I. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, July 11,
the 192nd day of 1973 with 173
to follow.
The moon is approaching its
ull 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.
John Quincy Adams, sixth
president of the United States,
was born July 11, 1767.
On this day in history :
In 1864, American economists
claimed that Civil War inflation
had cut the value of the U.S.
dollar to 39 cents.
In 1933, all school teachers in
Germany were ordered to read
Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to
become familiar with the Nazi
creed.
In 1952, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower was nominated as
Republican presidential candi
date with Richard Nixon as his
running mate. They were
elected in November.
In 1955, the U.S. Air Force
Academy in Colorado was
dedicated with 300 cadets in its
first class.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Cross drivers-for-hire are
known as taxi crabs.
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Be first man in the shop or
office, and you'll have to
make the coffee.
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Once upon a time it was
hard to save money: now it's
difficult just to stay broke,
without going into debt.
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THOUGHTS
Do you not know that in a
race all the r u nne rs com
pete. but only one receives
the prize? So run that you
may obtain it.—l Cor. 9:24.
No person was ever hon
ored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward
for what he gave—Calvin
Coolidge.
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Dear Quimby: Recently there have been
several negative comments about Griffin
Light and Water Department’s bulletin,
Hotline. I believe a few words of
explanation are in order. Most all
successful business firms do some form of
advertising. Many including most utilities
use the form of staffers or advertising
material sent along with their statements.
This is perhaps the least expensive method
to advertise, and reaches directly to the
customer.
The Light and Water Department is
similar to a business, and in the case of
electricity sells at a profit. A profit which
it uses to operate the city, and maintain
our 8 mil tax rate. Nearly one third of the
City’s operating budget is derived by the
profit from sales of the Griffin Light and
Water Department. It seems only
reasonable to advertise our product in
order to increase sales and hopefully the
operating profit. Without the revenue from
the operating profit of the Light and Water
Department, our 8 mil tax rate would be
more like 33 mils, or our garbage fee would
have to be increased to $lO, or perhaps
some other form of taxation to raise the
near one million dollars loss in revenue.
I wonder if we realize how vital the sale
of electricity is to the economic condition
of our city. I sincerely believe that if any
complaint is justified, it is the fact that we
did not put out the Hotline sooner.
Sincerely, (Signed) Scott H. Searcy
RESPONSE: We recognize City
Commissioner Searcy’s complete
sincerity and appreciate his really
excellent service. Therefore we regret that
we must disagree with his position on The
“Hotline”. This is based upon the fact that
the City of Griffin is a municipal
government, not a private business. Its
function is to serve the public, not make a
profit on any of its operations. Therefore in
our opinion whatever it costs to publish
and distribute The “Hotline” is an
improper public expenditure.
Dear Editor: A special “price freeze”
contest has been announced by the
Georgia Poultry Federation with awards
for the best stories or editorials, written or
aired, on the dilemma of the poultry
industry and the question mark it poses for
consumers.
First prize will be 100 baby chicks,
second prize will be 500 chicks and third
prize will be 1,000 chicks. The prize
structure recognizes the impossible
situation of broiler, egg and turkey
producers and processors with frozen
selling prices and increasing costs of
production, so that production cuts can
reduce future losses.
Articles and comments may discuss
either the industry problem in trying to
find a comfortable average temperature
with the sales arm in the price freezer and
the cost arm on a hot stove, or the
possibility of future shortages for chicken
and eggs for consumers as production is
decreased. For example, reductions in
eggs set last week will mean one million
Random thoughts
A career can be wrecked by over
accelerating on the road to success.
Novel ideas are not confined to books.
She ran away
with a married man
I got married at 16, had a child at 17, and
ran away with a married man at 19. We
each got a divorce, and married several
years later. Now we’ve been together
almost 40 years, but guilt has been my
constant companion. Often, I’ve thought of
running. Lately though, I’ve felt an
urgency to change our lives. Can we be
forgiven and find happiness in these
remaining years? L.C.
Forgiveness and happiness are what the
Gospel is all about! What you report
recently as a feeling of dissatisfaction with
the past, and a longing for something
better, could well be the impact of God’s
Spirit working in your life. This is His busi
ness— to show us our shortcomings and
point to their remedy in Christ. That is
your first and greatest need.
Guilt is one of the most destructive
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
less broilers for market the week of
September 9 from the State of Georgia
alone, than for the equivalent week last
year.
The Federation hopes that the poultry
industry will be placed under a workable
Phase IV which will provide for the
increased cost of living for chickens,
assure an adequate supply of poultry
products for consumers, and eliminate the
difficult and undesirable situation which
pushes producers to the agonizing decision
of destroying chicks to avoid future losses.
Federation officials point out that the
poultry industry has never received or
asked for subsidies or price supports, that
it has never sought a guaranteed “no loss”
arrangement, and that it needs
desperately to be removed from a “sure
loss” situation.
It is ironic, Federation officials say, that
if all commodities, products and services
had the amazing record of all phases of the
poultry industry there would be no need for
a Cost of Living Council. For example,
according to figures from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics the average retail price
for frying chicken was 58.4 cents in May
1973, the last available month, compared
to 60.1 cents in May 1953. From May 1953 to
May 1973 eggs increased only about one
seventh of a penny per egg, from 66 cents
to 67.7 cents per dozen. On an annual
average basis the price for chicken
dropped from 60.7 cents a pound in 1952 to
41.4 cents in 1972 and the price for a dozen
eggs declined from 67.3 cents to 52.4 cents
over the same 20 year period.
Entries should be mailed to the Georgia
Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 763,
Gainesville, Georgia 30501 by August 1. If
the entry is a series of multiple use item
the winner may earn a bonus. If the price
freeze still applies to the poultry industry,
without allowance for increases in costs of
production, winners will be required to
accept only half of their prize. (Signed)
Georgia Poultry Federation
Dear Mr. Melton: I would like to say that
not all the used car dealers are like the
Smiling Sam on T.V., Channel 17.
Probably most everyone has seen him.
My Dad bought a used car from Mr. Tom
Jester of Jester & Hooper Used Cars. He
gave my Dad a warranty of 30 days, 100
percent labor and parts.
The transmission had a slight leak at
first. Mr. Jester had some minor work
done to it, tightening some bolts, changing
fluid, etc. My Dad drove the car for
approximately six months and it started
leaking real bad. When he took it to the
shop to be repaired, it was torn up inside
pretty bad.
I would like for everyone to know that
Mr. Jester went beyond his original
warranty and agreed to pay one half of the
bill for the repairs.
I think Griffin needs more businessmen
as nice as Mr. Jester, who stand behind
their product like he did. Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Phil Bunn, Route 6, Box 56,
Griffin.
forces in life. It can erode hope, smash
dreams, and constantly give cause for
anxiety. We can push it into our sub
’ conscious— but only God can push it aside
forever.
God’s plan through faith in Christ His
Son, was that we be relieved of guilt. No
wonder the hymn asserts: “He breaks the
power of cancelled sin— He sets the
prisoner free.” If we perpetuate the
memory of our mistakes, after God has
forgiven and forgotten them, we do a great
disservice to ourselves, not to mention
God.
Certainly no good purpose would be
served by running away. Take your life as
it is now. Let the past be the past. Live
each day with a conscious commitment to
God — and to your husband. With this
preoccupation, happiness will surely
come.
MY fMh
ANSWER, J!
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lobster dinner, we'll have to cut our vacation short
by a day!"
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Presidents flop
in second terms
Shortly before the Watergate revelations cast doubt on
whether he would serve out his constitutionally and elector
ally alloted four more years." President Nixon suggested to
Congress that it might favorably consider an amendment
limiting future presidents to a single term of six years.
There is at least one group still actively campaigning for
repeal of the 22nd Amendment, which limits a president to
two four-year terms (or one term if he served more than
two years of the term of some other person who had been
elected president).
It has been charged that the 22nd Amendment was passed
by a Republican Congress in 1947 as a sort of postmortem
revenge on Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only man to have
been elected president more than twice.
In the light of history since then, it may not be unreasona
ble to suggest that FDR's successors, both Democratic and
Republican, as well as the nation itself, might have been
better served had Congress seen fit to limit each president
to just one tour of duty — either the four years to which he
was elected in his own right or. if he succeeded from the
vice-presidency, to the remaining term of his predecessor.
With the exception of John F. Kennedy, who did not live to
run for re-election, every president since FDR scored his
greatest successes in his first term, whether it was of short
er or longer length, only to see his second term blighted in
one way or another.
First was Harry S. Truman, who between 1945 and 1948
presided over the conclusion of World War 11. the rebuilding
of Europe through the Marshall Plan and the thwarting of a
Communist takeover in Greece. Then came the Berlin Block
ade. Russia's explosion of an atom bomb, influence peddling
scandals in Washington and allegations of high-level treason,
the dismal war in Korea and its accompanying inflation.
The second term of the immensely popular Dwight D. Ei
senhower was pretty much four blah years, and when he re
tired to make way for his successor, it was after a campaign
in which the Democrats hammered on the theme that the
country had fallen behind in everything from missiles to
space exploration to education to racial progress to econom
ic growth.
Both Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon achieved
historic accomplishments in their early presidential years,
the one on the domestic front, the other in international af
fairs. The woes that later befell both are too fresh in memo-
' ry to need recapitulation.
The really interesting thing is that Truman, Eisenhower,
Johnson and Nixon were all either elected or re-elected by
impressive margins and that, in fact, the greater their elec
toral victories, the more precipitious their subsequent fall
from popularity and effectiveness.
It is as if events conspire against a man after he. as we
say. receives a "mandate" from the people and that crises
he avoided or surmounted before suddenly accumulate be
yond his ability to resolve them.
It is also as if we very quickly weary of the man to whom
we have given our mandate and impatiently speculate about
a possible successor while the incumbent's body is still
flushed with life.
Since World War II at any rate, it seems to be a peculiar
perversity of history that the more we like a president at the
height of his career, the happier we are when he leaves of
fice.
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QUOTES
U.S. historian Henry Brooks
Adams said, “What one knows
is, in youth, of little moment;
they know enough who know
how to learn.”
British statesman Lord John
Russell said, “If peace cannot
be maintained with honor, it is
no longer peace.”
Christian Science pioneer
Mary Baker Eddy said, “Divine
love always has met and always
will meet every human need.”
British writer Samuel Butler
said, “If people would dare to
speak to one another
unreservedly, there would be a
good deal less sorrow in the
world a hundred years hence.”
Writer Henry Thoreau said,
“That man is the richest whose
pleasures are the cheapest.”
GRIFFIN
DAILY#NEWS
Cary Reeves, General Manager
Bill Knight, Executive Editor
Quimby Melton,
Publisher
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By DON OAKLEY
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Archimedes, the Greek
mathematician, physicist
and inventor, is reputed to
have exclaimed: "Give me a
point of support and I shall
move the world." The World
Almanac notes that this task
would have been difficult, as
geologists estimate the
earth s weight at six sextil
lion. 588 quintillion tons. This
figure is 6.588 followed by 18
zeros.
Copyright 1973
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Editor
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