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By Quimby Melton
“The Undisciplined Person”
the title of this week’s In
■rnational Sunday School
sson.
Background Scripture is:
roverbs 23:19-21; 29-35; I
orinthians 10:6-13, 31;
alatians 5:13-24.
The Memory Selection is
Wherefore let him that
inketh he standeth take heed
st he fall. (I Corinthians
:12.)
One dictionary source says
scipline “is training that is
cpected to produce a specified
laracter or pattern of
ihavior, especially that which
expected to produce moral or
ental improvement.”
An undisciplined person is the
>posite of one who is subject to
scipline.
All churches, have certain
andards that they hope will be
et by their members. Some
ill the listing of these stan
irds the discipline of the
lurch.
Discipline is essential for
iccess in any field of endeavor,
in one imagine any army’s
iving the ghost of a chance of
ctory unless it is made up of
ell disciplined soldiers?
Discipline is not always
mething that is easy to submit
. It can bring trials, tribula
sns, temptations, and
metimes despair.
Jesus Christ is the Com
ander-in-Chief of God’s Army
r Salvation. Fortunate those
io totally accept His
scipline.
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‘lt’s annoying if folks won’t
ist you — alarming if they
n’t.”
Palace Street
Church sold
■The Palace Street Church of
Bod has voted to sell its
Boperty to the Eighth Street
feptist Church of Griffin which
B a black congregation.
■The sale had been in the
Bgotiating stages several
Beeks and was completed this
Beek when the Palace Street
Bngregation voted its ap-
Boval. The transaction is es-
Bctive Aug. 31.
■The church sanctuary,
■ucational buildings, three
Buses, and a store building
Brich are included in the
Blace Street property was sold
|r SIOO,OOO.
■Palace Street Church of God
■ready has purchased about
■ur acres in the High Falls,
Bntral Lake and Newton road
Bea to build a new church
School action
Ltarts Monday
Supt. D. B. Christie today
nnounced the school year
lould get under way on Mon
ty, with a general principals’
Meeting at 9:00 a.m.
Teachers will report for work
t their assigned schools on
uesday, atß:3oa.m. for a four
ty pre-plannhg schedule.
On Friday, August 24, “Open
puse” will be observed in all
:hools. Parents and other
terested citizens have been
icouraged to attend between
e hours of 1:00 and 6:00 p.m.
First grade and outof-state
udents must present, before
Greenhouse offers help to people
A telephone “help” service
for young people and adults
with problems will open here
Aug. 20.
It has been named “Green
house.”
The service will be a point of
listening and referral for
anyone who needs help with
problems, sponsors of the
project said.
The telephone number for
Greenhouse will be 227-3891.
The service is expected to be
open from 8 a.m. till about 10
p.m. in the beginning.
Greenhouse was started by a
group of young people and
adults who have been meeting
since January researching
community needs.
Concern over the growing
number of young people who
were becoming involved in
Remember?
History relived itself this
morning when Griffin served as
a water stop for steam engines
out of Atlanta. Pulled by two
turn-of-the-century steam
engines, excursion passengers
travelled from Atlanta to
Griffin and back to Atanta in a
tour sponsored by the Atlanta
chapter of the National
Railroad Historical Society.
Hundreds of Grifflnites
gathered to see Engines 722 and
750 take on water at the West
Solomon street crossing.
complex. Construction of a
parsonage there will begin in a
few days.
Under the sale terms, the
Palace Street Church will have
one year to move out. During
this interim, the Palace Street
Church will rent the sanctuary
and education buildings from
the Eighth Street Church.
The Eighth Street Church
agreed to allow the Palace
Street Church more time if the
year is not enough for it to move
from the building.
The Rev. M. G. Summers is
pastor of the Palace Street
Church. He makes his home in
Griffin.
The Rev. M. M. Solomon is
pastor of the Eighth Street
Church but makes his home in
Atlanta.
adnussion, an adequate im
munization certificate.
School officially will open for
students on Monday, Aug. 27.
Christie explained that
student insurance would be $3
for the regular school day
coverage and sl7 for the 24-hour
year-round coverage. Any
student desiring this insurance
must sign up by Friday, Sept. 7.
School lunch prices will
remain the same as last year
and they are as follows:
Elementary, 35 cents
Junior High, 40 cents
Griffin High, 40 cents
Extra milk, 10 cents
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
court action prompted the first
meeting of the group.
Since that time inquiries have
shown that a crisis phone
manned by trained personnel is
needed in the community by
people of all ages who would
benefit from such a service.
Sponsors of the service
named it Greenhouse for
several reasons.
They said green signified life,
hope, go, faith and some of the
other qualities of life that will be
principles on which the service
will be offered.
C. A. Knowles, president of
First National Bank, is chair-
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Kevin’s cancer subsides
‘God has a plan 9
CAREFREE, Ariz. (UPI) -
Kevin Steen has a surprise for
his friends, the spacemen. It
looks like he’ll be able to
accept that invitation to watch
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Take 9
conductor
arrested
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
cable car conductor stood at
the Aquatic Park turnaround,
collecting the quarter fare from
tourists and dropping them into
his money changer.
But when a cable car came
clanging to the end of the line,
the conductor took off—leaving
50 people to pay the fare again.
Police said the man, wearing
a stolen Muni Railway uniform,
then tried the same stunt a few
blocks away at the Fisherman’s
Wharf turnaround. By then
officers were on the lookout and
took him into custody.
Marseille Vredenberg, 21, San
Francisco, was charged with
possession of stolen property,
petty theft with a prior
conviction, posing as a Muni
employe and resisting arrest.
Fraud inspector Sal Ragona
said Vredenberg spent five
days in jail last September for
pulling the same trick.
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Friday, August 17, 1973
man of the Greenhouse. Other
committee members include
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Evans, Bob
Landham, Dr. Jim Dunaway,
Jim Joiner, Miss Dana Newton,
Miss Ann Boswell, Mrs. Henry
Evans and Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Blake, Jr.
Private contributions will
provide financial support. No
city, county or federal funds
will be involved.
Mr. Knowles said today, “We
have been very encouraged by
and deeply grateful to the
number of Griffin, Spalding
County, citizens who have
expressed enthusiasm and
support of a service such as
Greenhouse provides. The
assistance of local profession
als, especially those in the
mental health clinic and the
sensitive direction offered by
the joint Russian-American
space mission after all.
Kevin was 12 and the doctors
said he was dying of cancer
when the invitation was made
last year.
He was the subject of
worldwide attention when he
was invited aboard the USS
Ticonderoga to watch the
Apollo 17 astronauts splash
down in the South Pacific,
returning from the last planned
moon landing.
Kevin is a space buff and was
invited by NASA after doctors
said he had terminal cancer
and would be dead in a few
months.
Kevin is 13 now, and doctors
say they can’t explain it, but
the cancer is “in remission” —
subsided and no longer an
immediate threat to his life.
Kevin’s explanation for the
dramatic reversal in his condi
tion is that “God has a plan in
my life.”
Doctors say that in the final
stages of his four-year battle
with cancer, he was given
drugs so strong that few
patients survive the side
effects.
Now he is completely off
drugs and needs no treatment
at all. He still undergoes
examinations every other week
because the cancer could recur.
Last weekend he toured Navy
ships and shore installations at
San Diego, as he has many
NASA installations and support
facilities. The tour included the
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Ticonderoga, which “brought
back a lot of really great
memories,” he said.
His father, Orion Steen Jr.,
purchasing agent for an elec
tronics firm, said he thinks his
son’s recovery is due to his
strong religious faith and his
deep interest in the space
program.
When NASA invited Kevin to
the 1975 launch of an Apollo
ship that will rendezvous with a
Russian Soyuz in orbit and link
up with it, it was a gesture to a
dying boy.
A very alive Kevin says he’ll
be there.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
86, low today 70, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 66, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight in mid 60s.
Quick action saved man shocked
A 53-year-old black farm
worker, Frank Framboro of
Williamson, is credited with
saving the life of a man who
suffered an electrical shock and
other injuries in an accident on
the farm yesterday.
Kenneth Eugene Stephens, 27,
of Blanton Mill road,
Williamson, was helping set up
a metal grain bin at the farm of
his father-in-law, Julian Pierce,
who lives across the road. He
and Framboro were inside the
bin and Stephens was on a metal
ladder drilling into the bin with
a heavy electric drill when it
apparently shorted out and
started shocking Stephens.
Mr. Ed Crawford, (juvenile
probation officer), have been
invaluable to our progress as a
group.”
Crawford, who has worked
very closely with the group,
said, “I am very interested in
seeing a service rendered in our
community which will act as a
preventive approach to
potential offenders.”
The Greenhouse committee
has sought extensive guidance
from professional consultants in
the process of developing the
type of service being offered at
this time. The aim that has been
foremost in their planning was
to offer kinds of help that
specifically fit the needs of
Griffin rather than simply
following a program being used
in other areas.
Mt. Zion camp
opens Sunday
The Rev. John Carroll of
Sylvester, Ga., and Dr. Tom
Carruth of Wilmore, Ky. will be
evangelists for the 139th annual
Mt. Zion camp meeting
beginning Sunday and running
through Aug. 26.
Dr. Carruth has been the
evangelist for the annual camp
meeting several times. He is
director of the Department of
Prayer and Spiritual Life at
Asbury Theological Seminary,
Wilmore, Ky.
The Rev. Carroll is pastor of
the Pinson Memorial United
Methodist Church at Sylvester.
The Rev. Les Connell of
Dalton, Ga., will be the song
leader and youth worker.
Framboro, who was standing
below, heard Stephens yell and
saw him unconscious but still
holding to the drill and shaking
from the electric current.
Framboro quickly unplugged
the drill and Stephens fell some
12-feet to the concrete floor.
Framboro ran across the road
to get Mrs. Stephens who was
working in the basement ana
did not hear the doorbell ring or
Framboro knocking. He then
jumped in a pickup truck and
drove some four miles to get
Pierce who was working with a
front-end loader on another part
of the farm.
In the meantime, Stephens
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In addition to receiving
guidance of professional
counselors in Atlanta, visits
were made to similar programs
established in their communi
ties. Among the programs were
The Hub in Tucker, The Link in
Roswell, and the Bridge in
Atlanta.
A community meeting was
held early in May to introduce
the concept and it was attended
by a large cross section of civic,
business, and student leaders.
Surveys taken at this meeting
indicated a high degree of in
terest in an organization of this
First notaries public in Spalding
County were William S. Gordon, James
S. Jones, Augustus Merritt, and Allen
Fleming, appointed in 1852.
Mrs. Carl Thomas of The
Rock, Ga., will be the children’s
worker and pianist.
Monday through Saturday
services will begin at 11 a.m.
and 7:45 p.m. On Sunday, Aug.
26, the closing day, services will
be at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7:45
p.m.
The Rev. Neal Windom is the
host district superintendent and
the Rev. Eugene Walton, pastor
of Mt. Zion-Pomona Charge, is
the host pastor.
The Rev. Jimmy Buskirk of
the Candler School of Theology,
Emory University, originally
was scheduled to be on the
program but had to cancel
because of his work load at
had come to and had crawled
through a door to the outside of
the bin where he was found by
Framboro and Pierce a few
minutes later.
An ambulance was called and
Stephens was carried to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital and
admitted with multiple hip
injuries and an injured wrist
which is broken in six places.
Doctors said he will be in the
hospital for some four to five
weeks.
Stephens was taking a few
days vacation for his job with
Eastern Airlines where he is
employed as supervisor of
aircraft services.
type.
Plans have progressed
rapidly to the point that a
training program is now in
progress for volunteers who will
in the future answer the
telephone. Highly skilled
professional guidance per
sonnel have been secured to
take the calls coming in now.
Long range plans include a
full time counselor for personal
consultation and general ex
pansion of the programs as
funds permit and the need
becomes evident.
Bob Landham, one of the
young people on the group
stated, “One great pirpose of
Greenhouse is to make people
aware of the many fine
resources for help available in
our community.”
Emory.
Mt. Zion campground is on
the Newnan road (Highway 16)
west of Griffin at Zetella.
The camp hotel will be in
operation again this year. Those
planning to stay there should
make reservations and plan to
bring their own linen.
The United Methodist Women
of Pomona will prepare meals
at the hotel. They will be served
at 12:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.
daily. Personswishing to have a
meal at the hotel should make
reservations.
The Fisherman’s Quartet will
present a program Sunday
afternoon between 3 and 5
o’clock.
Mrs. Stephens said the drill
was purchased yesterday
morning and both Framboro
and her husband had said they
had received slight shocks
before the incident and did not
think anything about them.
She said Framboro has
worked for her father some
seven or eight years and they
are sure her husband would
have been electrocuted had not
Framboro been there to save
his life.
She said Framboro has a
heart condition and was resting •
today from all of the ex
citement.