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Griffin Daily News Friday, August 17,1973
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this, a client asks our Love and War man, Why, what s missing?
One thing, says he. Dating. That relatively recent social notion
of the Western world has not yet been adopted in India. Hence,
unattached souls there still find no personal way to meet eligible
members of the opposite sex.
Young lady, if you've owned that dress more than two years,
it must now be regarded as worthless, according to the National
Institute of Dry Cleaning. Point is most dry cleaning establish
ments decline to pay off adjustment claims for damaged dresses
of such vintage.
Average feminine tot is expected to be half her total height
by age 2.
MAN, WOMAN
"The higher the woman's IQ, the more she is likely to be
masculine in outlook. The higher a man's IQ, the more is he
likely to be feminine in outlook." Such is the contention of
Lucius F. Cervantes, S.J
Q. "Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly non-stop
over the Atlantic, right?''
A. Solo. But 66 men managed Atlantic flights earlier,
two in a plane and 64 in dirigibles.
The peeling of a pound of potatoes can be about six times as
tiring as the putting up of a shelf. Or so say the experts It's
the steady movement in the potato peeling, they say Allows no
intermittent relaxation of the muscles. That's not good
REDROOM
Wouldn't do to paint the living room red, just wouldn't do
Those experts who look into such matters contend that when the
color red predominates, it tends to: 1 Increase your blood
pressure. 2. Quicken your muscular reactions 3. Excite your
emotions. 4 Make you restless. 5. Cause time to appear to pass
much more slowly than it really does.
Customer asks which generally are more confident, men or
women. I've heard it claimed the men can be so characterized
Fact that fewer of them wear makeup is cited as proof
It's the mother of the bachelor in Ireland who is credited
with keeping him single until so late in life. Said mother is
known to pamper the young fellow considerably in an effort to
hold him under her own wing. Thus, he usually doesn't wed
until he's between the ages of 28 and 35 As you may know,
the typical Irish-born bachelor marnes about 10 years earlier,
if he moves away from his mother out of Ireland.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Aug. 17, the
229th day of 193 with 136 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Leo.
American frontiersman Davy
Crockett was born Aug. 17,
1786.
On this day in history:
In 1915, a devastating hurri
cane struck Galveston, Tex.
The death toll reached 275.
In 1933, first baseman Lou
Gehrig of the New York
Yankees set a major league
record by playing in his 1,308th
consecutive game.
In 1965, after 34 persons had
been killed in six days of
violence, the curfew was lifted
in the Watts section of Los
Angeles.
In 1969, Dr. Philip Blaiberg,
the world’s longest living heart
transplant patient at that time,
died at the age of 60.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
People who don't believe in
Unidentified Flying Objects
haven't seen our neighbors
during a brawl.
+ + +
Why do letters with checks
in 'em take three days longer
to arrive than do those with
bills enclosed.
The only way some folk can
• stand plane travel is to ride
thirst class.
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Dieters are like account
ants: they keep track of their
expanses.
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THOUGHTS
"You are indeed wiser than
Daniel; no secret is hidden
from you; by your wisdom
and your understanding you
have gotten wealth for your
self, and have gathered gold
and silver into your treasur
ies”; — Ezekiel 28:3,4.
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Bombings cease
American bombings have ended in
Cambodia, and without the support of the
United States it is likely that the unhappy
nation will fall to the communists, that this
will place heavy pressure on South
The welfare mess
Governor Carter is going about the state
feeling the pulse of the people, and he is to
be commended for doing so.
If he comes this way, we believe that
more than one Spalding Countian will tell
him that he should give top priority in his
last months in office to straightening out
the welfare mess.
Just this week it became known that
about sls-million a year is going into
illegal welfare payments in Georgia,
mostly because about one out of every five
people on welfare are overpaid.
Some other facts about the mess:
—The annual loss in Georgia is part of
about a billion a year lost nationally.
—The range of overpayments in Georgia
is from $6 to $55 a month and averages
$32.73.
—There were 102,548 cases getting
welfare payments in June. These
represented families of 336,968 people.
Common sense
The Board of Regents has informed a
federal court which has ordered it to
desegregate Fort Valley State College that
it can not force faculty members to
transfer from one college to another.
Os course it can’t! As of now at least,
Americans have the right to live where
Random thoughts
Only thing sure about the weather is that
whatever it is, somebody is sure to gripe
about it.
It must be human nature to say, “Look
what that fool did!” instead of asking,
“What would I have done.”
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS ★
Braves and homers
Three Atlanta Braves currently are in
home run chases.
Nearly everybody knows about Hank
Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run
record of 714.
Darrell Evans and Dave Johnson
haven’t hit nearly that many. However,
they are involved in pursuits of their own.
Evans hopes to become the National
League’s top slugger in 1973. He has a shot
at it.
He is tied with Pittsburgh’s Willie
Stargell for the home run leadership. Both
What do you think
Heaven is like?
What is your view of what heaven is like,
and should the average Christian have
hope of somehow getting there? J.W.
One of the great antidotes to the
frustration and despair of life is to think
about heaven. In fact, we don’t do it
enough, and saying that does not make me
an “escapist” of some sort
Many of the Biblical figures describing
heaven are physical—from the “fir
mament” in Genesis 1, to something
“stretched out like a curtain” in Isaiah 40.
In the New Testament, additional in
formation is given that tends to
spiritualize it. There it’s often called the
“kingdom of heaven.”
Heaven is a place to be anticipated by
the righteous—the “better country” as the
writer in Hebrews 11 puts it. It is the abode
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
Vietnam and make it even more difficult
for its government. Whether the South
Vietnamese can hold up is problematical.
We do not like to make predictions, but
that is the way it looks to us.
—Payments in June were $10,122,960, an
average of $98.71 per family.
—The state pays about a fourth of
welfare costs and the national government
pays the rest.
—Of those paid, 6.8 percent were
ineligible.
Welfare payments serve a proper
purpose, but illegal overpayments and
payments to ineligible people corrupt the
humanitarian objectives of the entire
program.
Governor Carter was successful with his
reorganization of state government and is
touring Georgia to see how it has turned
.out. Much of his program was long
overdue and is successful, but the welfare
mess remains with us and most Georgians
would hail him as an outstanding Chief
Executive if he would get busy and clean it
up. Not just say he’s going to do something
about it but really shape it up.
they want to and to work where they want
to if they can get a job.
One of the big troubles in our country
today is the disregard of common sense. It
is a shame that the regents have to remind
the court of a basic truth, but that is the
way that the ball keeps bouncing.
Maybe they call sports enthusiasts
“fans” because they generate so much
wind.
The omeriest thing about mother nature
is her offspring human nature.
have 34. That’s more home runs than
Evanshas hit in all his previous big league
playing time.
In addition to 34 home runs, Evans has
batted in 86 runs, which is good enough for
second place in the NL.
Johnson has hit 32 home runs and has a
chance at the home run record for second
basemen.
Despite all those home runs, the Braves,
who presently are on a hot streak, remain
buried in the NL West
At least the slugging gives Braves’ fans
something to cheer about.
of the Father, and there the believer in
Christ will find his “reward’ and his
“treasure.” Heaven is the realm of joy
(Luke 15:7) and peace (Luke 19:38).
The description of heaven in the book of
Revelation is highly pictorial, and
provides the real language of Christian
hope. Heaven represents the ultimate
triumph of the pin-pose of God in a
redeemed mankind.
Now as far as hope of getting there is
concerned, the Bible guarantees it, when
faith arranges it. But there are two
unalterable prerequisities. Man’s sin must
be pardoned and his nature changed.
Without that title to and fitness for heaven,
nobody could enter the kingdom of God. So
you see, faith makes heaven the grand and
happy finale to the drama of human life
thanks to Christ
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"Has It Ever Occurred To You That
I May Have A Perfect Constitutional Right
To Be A Male Chauvinist Pig?"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Watergate fairly
smothers capital
By Bruce Biossat
WASHINGTON (NEA)
A kind of numbing bewilderment is settling over this city
on Watergate.
For awhile the developments in the case, especially as
they unfolded day by day in the Ervin Senate committee
hearings, seemed to be producing a logical ebb and flow
which anyone could grasp. Now some of the town’s busiest
observers are offering diametrically opposed themes from
week to week, and the confusion is almost smothering
Not too long ago, many analysts argued, persuasively and
quite understandably, that the scandals meant that President
Nixon either would resign, or ought to.
Among the most perceptive was Garry Wills, a writer of
lean, brilliant prose who is both under-read and insufficiently
appreciated in Washington.
His thesis, which a lot of us came to second or third hand,
was that Mr Nixon — accustomed to crises which he could
deal with by self-devised formula — had in Watergate an
open-ended mess which was essentially beyond his control
From this it was easy to move to the presumption that the
President would be forever on the defensive, would be una
ble to govern, and would (or should) soon recognize this.
In Phase Two, it was widely written that Mr Nixon would
Ride It Out. If the White House chandeliers tinkled noisily in
the shaky days while former Nixon counsel John Dean was
“documenting’’ the mess, they quieted as the President s
more prestigious aides moved to center stage
National polls showed him plunging to new lows in popu
larity, but a “plebiscite” taken by the National Observer
suggested that most people — obviously including a substan
tial proportion of the many Americans who think he was “in
volved’’ in Watergate one way or another — thought Mr.
Nixon should stay Sentiment in Congress for impeachment
could be measured with an eyedropper.
The President’s hard-core supporters, and nobody seems
quite sure of their numbers or their proportion of the electo
rate, touched off a chorus of angry rebuttals, claiming the
Ervin committee and others were gunning for him as hunt
ers sometimes pursue a wounded animal.
Again understandably, some observers could not forget the
day in April when the car of touted lawyer John Wilson,
counsel to both of the President’s resigned top aides, John
Ehrlichman and HR. (Bob) Haldeman, was parked on the
White House driveway. It was believable that the group that
day weighed favorably Mr. Nixon's chances of survival, if
not new popularity, against the testimony of lesser aides.
Former Attorney General John Mitchell, a ramrod turned
willowy reed, staggered but did not fall. Ehrlichman and
Haldeman, with clean-cut assurance, contradicted the
“smallies ’’
But then the prestigious Wilson shouted like a damage-suit
lawyer and laid a racial slur on Sen Daniel Inouye, a Japa
nese-American. And former CIA Director Richard Helms,
looking straight and clean, often challenged Ehrlichman and
Haldeman
As this chapter ended. Mr. Nixon was off again to Camp
David to draft more of his promised answer to charges of
“involvement." One wonders what he can say that will not
sound like ghost-writing for one of convicted Watergate con
spirator Howard Hunt's many wild and quite unsalable spy
novels.
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— TIMELY QUOTES -
In the service of my coun
try, I withstood hours and
hours of depth charging, shell
ing. bombing, but I never ex
pected to run into a Watergate
in the service of a President
of a United States, and I ran
into a buzzsaw obviously.
—L. Patrick Gray, former
acting head of the FBI, be
fore the Watergate investi
gating committee.
I have nothing to hide ... I
have no intention of being
skewered in this fashion . . .
—Vice President Agnew deny
ing Maryland kickback alle
gations.
It has become popular to
think the President has the
power to declare war. But
there is not a word in the
Constitution that grants that
power to him. It runs only to
Congress.
—Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas
No foreign policy — no mat
ter how ingenious — has any
chance of success if it is born
in the minds of a few and car-
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Cary Reeves, General Manager
Bill Knight. Executive Editor
Quimby Melton,
Publisher
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ried in the hearts of none.
—Presidential adviser Henr
A. Kissinger.
WORLD ALMANAC
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white feathers which signij
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leaves was smoked in th< ’
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was considered an offense. |
Copyright 6 1973
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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