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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, August 18, 1973
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Convicts Pay
Final Hommage
Kathryn Lawes, wife of the one-time Sing Sing warden,
wasn’t scared of the convicts. She strolled in the prison yard
just about daily Further, she let her youngsters play there
She died. Silently, the prisoners gathered up front Somebody
in charge, doesn't matter who, opened the gate And in single
file, the quiet men walked to the house where the body of Mrs
Lawes lay Each paused there a moment. And each returned
to the walls then Not a one broke to run.
It’s no news that men in their 20s heal somewhat faster
after surgery than men in their 50s. Still, men in their 50s get
back on the job sooner, much sooner. Check of the medical
records shows that.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q "Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound
of gold?’ ’
A. The feathers. In Avoidupois weight, they’d equal 7,000
grains. In Troy weight, the gold would equal 5,760 grains.
Rather elderly, that query, isn’t it? Spring it on your granddad,
young fellow He’ll know
Q. "How many suicides have jumped off the Eiffel Tower
A. Last I heard it was about 350.
Q "How long does it take a hippo to get fully grown?’’
A About six years.
The more prosperous the economy, the fewer the admissions
to psychiatric hospitals This predictable trend has been
confirmed by a Yale sociologist who has studied the statistics
Why is a matter of debate Prosperity encourages sanity maybe
Or lack of money in hard times forces relatives to commit
TATTOOS
Among merchant mariners of old, the sailor who wore the
tattoo of an anchor had cruised the Atlantic. If his tattoo was
a full rigged ship, he’d sailed around Cape Horn. And if his
tattoo was a dragon, he’d been to China
You've seen pictures that depict the Neanderthal man.
The science boys now say he didn’t look like that because he
descended from the apes Rather, it probably was because he
suffered rickets. Most all the Neanderthal skull fossils studied
so far show signs of that ailment.
Am asked who installed the first bathtub in the White House
Dolley Madison was the notable It was shaped like a slipper.
With a stove in the heel to keep the water warm. And it stuck
around after her time, too. But then President Andrew Jackson
came along, declared the thing undemocratic, and tossed it out.
Doctors, lawyers, teachers and artists, they're the four
occupational types most apt to go in for psychoanalysis,
studies show
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1973 L. M. Boyd
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three pounds of frankfurters!”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Aug. 18,
the 230th day of 1973 with 135 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.
Virginia Dare, said to have
been the first white girl bom in
America, was delivered Aug.
18, 1587.
Also on this day in history:
In 1856, the U.S. Patent Office
approved condensed milk but
doubted it would ever be of
much commercial use.
In 1916, Abraham Lincoln’s
birthplace in Hodgenville, Ky.,
was given to the U.S. govern
ment as a national shrine to the
16th president.
In 1940, the United States and
Canada established a World
War II plan of joint defense 1
against possible enemy attacks.
In 1972, a masked rifleman
was shot and wounded after
hijacking a plane to Seattle and
collecting $2 million dollars in
cash and gold.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The high cost of leaving is
called “vacation money.”
People who buy mostly
convenience foods go on
constant package tours.
Graduation daze is the
condition afflicting young
folk hunting for their first
out-of-school jobs.
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The next time you gripe
about an air terminal search,
consider the alternative of
having a Magnum .45 stuck
into your back at 31,000 feet.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
THOUGHTS
The Lord utters his voice
before his army, for his host
is exceedingly great; he that
executes his word is powerful.
For the day of the Lord is
great and very terrible; who
can endure it? — Joel 2:11.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
How could it happen
in the 'good ole' USA?
News-Daily, Jonesboro, Ga.
How could it happen in the "good ole"
USA?
The hideous crime in Texas in which
more than 20 people were killed and buried
in shallow graves.
Why did the mothers and fathers of those
youngsters not tell the police that their
youngsters were missing from home?
Police have revealed to newsmen one
couple spent thousands of dollars in a
search for their 13-year-old son. He is
believed to have been one of those slain.
Those parents were concerned about their
son.
The perverted minds of three people
apparently were responsible for the
killings.
One of the young men who confessed to
the killings told his mother that he had told
the police everything and now “at last, I
can live." This statement alone indicates
that the youth was having problems in his
own mind.
Also, one might ask when someone did
not report suspicious activity about the
boat house where 17 of the bodies were
found?
Youths have gained more freedom in the
last few years than they ever have before.
Kills Sacred Cow
Thomaston Free Press
The Watergate investigation has killed
another sacred cow.
John D. Erlichman, a teetotaler, brought the
matter of Senate drinking habits out in the open.
Erlichman said it had been going on for
years but explained “there is a kind of unwritten
law in the media that that is not discussed.”
It was the let-it-all-hang-out attitude of
Watergate that killed the sacred cow.
Drinking is an occupational hazard of
Washington and it has touched some high spots
and caused grave concern among conscientious
law-makers. Georgia, to the best of our
knowledge, has been spared any real such
problem with the men sent to Washington.
But liquor has figured into many hearings,
much legislating and some administrating of the
laws. We once personally witnessed a committee
chairman presiding when he was not only
obviously inebriated but smelled strongly of
liquor when in close contact.
All this should not be construed to mean that
all of Congress is drunk, or even drinks, but in
fairness to those who are temperate and do their
best in a sober fashion we’re glad to see that this
sacred cow has been butchered and they will no
longer have to help cover up for their colleagues
who hide in the bottle.
Some people wonder if the 40,000 lives
and millions of dollars spent in Vietnam
were wasted. One former U.S. prisoner of
war replies emphatically, “No!” Major
Edward W. Leonard of Winlock,
Washington who spent almost five years in
a North Vietnamese prison camp, believes
that, “It was no waste of lives and money
to give the Vietnamese a chance for
freedom, a choice of forms of government.
“Then he lays down a basic truth, “If we
refuse to help others gain freedom, we are
Is there reunion
in life after death
What scriptural evidence is there that
we shall be with our loved ones again in
heaven? C.V.
There are several indications in both the
Old and New Testaments. After David’s
son died, II Samuel 12:23 quotes him as
saying, “I shall go to him, but he shall not
return to me.”
Then again as Paul discussed the events
of the end times in I Thessalonians 4, he
spoke of those alive at Christ’s return not
preceding those “asleep,” that is, those
already dead. In Chapter 4:17, you have
the phrase “caught up together with
We Can Learn Much
Americus Simes-Rccorber
Yet, parents should have enough concern
for their children to know where they are
and to question when they do not return
home. The citizen should be concerned
when there is suspicious activity
anywhere.
The Texas crime could be the largest
slaying crime in the United States. The
youths who confessed said as many as 30
bodies might be found in three different
places. The largest single slaying crime on
record so far was the one in California for
which Juan Corona was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Twenty-five bodies were
found in California.
How can 30 people disappear in a
particular area and no one show enough
concern to make the police officers of the
area suspicious?
get to the facts, Americans! If you
don’t show some concern for your
children, no one else will. This thing of
saying that “kids will be kids” has gone
far enough. You can just about bet that
your parents knew where you were when
you were a teenager. Your children are
your responsibility and that is not an easy
task. They feel that they “know it all” but
you should know where they are. -- JIMMY
STEWART
in danger of forfeiting our own freedom.”
Tne major and hundreds of other
returned POW’s are proud Americans--
proud of their country and its ac
complishments. We can learn much from
these men. If each of us makes a con
centrated effort to hold onto that “never
say-die” spirit which pushed the United
States to the top from its humble beginning
in 1776, our nation will continue to move
ahead as a world leader with wisdom and
purposefulness, carving a future worthy of
our past.
MY
ANSWER
them.” The imagery then is one of reunion
and restoration.
When family members die “in the
Lord,” as the Scripture puts it, we can
have every confidence that as fellow
believers, we will see them again. Beyond
just a reunion though, will be the delight of
heaven’s perfection and the mutual joy to
be derived from the presence of God.
I have known many a funeral service
where the hopeless kind of sorrow and
grieving was replaced by a calm assur
ance that the loss of a loved one was only
temporary. Thank God for the hope that
faith provides.
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“You tried to ‘communicate telephonically’ with me
this afternoon? Honey, I think you watched those
Watergate hearings too much!”
Armed forces
Secret decisions
bypass civilians
By Ray Cromley
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WASHINGTON (NEA)I
Many Americans were shocked recently to learn that even ■
the secretary of the Air Force did not know about the secret I
bombing raids on Cambodia of several years back — until he I
read accounts in the press.
Many people realized for the first time that a law passed!
by Congress in 1958 put the Army, Navy and Air Force sec-B
retaries outside the chain of command. They were severed!
from control over military operations. Worse yet, a system!
was set up whereby on very sensitive issues they are some-I
times literally kept in the dark on what is being planned and 1
even on what is going on.
Yet these men are responsible for the training, morale and
readiness of our armed forces. They are directly responsible
also for procurement and manage the spending of a hefty
portion of the total U.S. budget.
This extraordinary setup may make sense on paper. It
does not work satisfactorily in practice. It means that civil
ian authority in the Pentagon — the Defense Department’s _
overseeing on crucial issues — rests in the hands of two: ; :
men, the secretary of Defense and the deputy secretary of
Defense. And the White House, of course.
Despite the ability, the loyalty and the integrity of the
men in the military services, for our system of government
this is too thin a layer of civilian control. It does not provide
for sufficient give and take discussion and checks and bal
ances on crucial issues before orders are given. »
The problem actually is not “control” of the military. The
problem rather is that before crucial secret orders not open s
to public or congressional discussion are given to the mili- t
tary men to carry out, there should be a larger civilian
group in on the discussions. The civilian Army, Navy and
Air Force secretaries, for one thing, have more leeway in
stubbornly questioning or criticizing decisions by the Defense
secretary or even the White House than do military men. i
Their careers are not at stake. They can speak as equals, not *
as men required to take orders.
It is, furthermore, ridiculous, considering their great res
ponsibilities and the caliber of men necessary to do these
jobs, that the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force
are outside the chain of command and frequently left out of
the Pentagon top policy planning.
As a result of the practices noted above, it has become
more difficult of late to persuade first-rate men to take and
hold these top jobs. That we have had men of high caliber in
these posts is more a testimony to their loyalty than to the ,
setup under which they work.
Cutoff by Turkey
won’t faze opium
By Don Oakley
The much-heralded end to poppy farming in Turkey “will,
have virtually no impact on the amount of illicit opium or
heroin flowing into this country,” warns an internationally
recognized expert on drug addiction and the world narcotics
trade.
Southeast Asia and the “Golden Triangle” areas (Burma,
Laos and Thailand) don't represent much now in terms of
opium getting to the United States, says Dr. Maurice H.
Seevers, who was chairman of the department of pharmacol
ogy at the University of Michigan Medical School for nearly
30 years.
But when the Turkish trade is cut off, “there is tremen
dous potential for them to supply the demand,” he says.
This will be the last year for Turkey’s (legal) poppy crop.
With a SSO-million subsidy from the United States to encour
age its farmers to make the changeover, it is getting out of
the poppy-growing business.
However, Turkey has always played a relatively small role
in both the legal and illegal opium trade. Out of 1,400 metric
tons of opium produced legally in the world in 1970, Turkey
contributed only 150 tons. By comparison, the Golden Trian
gle produces an estimated 700 metric tons of illicit opiates
each year.
Seevers’ warning is backed up by a recently released re
port to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a special
narcotics subcommittee. A major share of heroin coming to
the United States flows almost freely from Thailand, unham
pered by corrupt Thai officials and meager U.S. antidrug
efforts, the report charges.
But according to Seevers, a large part of the problem lies
in the fact that most of the world’s illicit poppy farming
areas are not under the control of any national government.
The 200,000 hill tribesmen of northhern Thailand, for in
stance, rely on poppies as almost their sole cash crop.
As he indicates, supply is only one part of the frightening
drug equation. The other is demand. And in this regard, the
attorney general of Mexico, whose government is actively
combatting the drug trade, especially in marijuana, has
probably put his finger on the central issue.
The real problem, says Pedro Ojeda Paullada, is U.S. con
sumption of illicit drugs and the tremendous prices Ameri
cans are willing to pay for them. As long as this demand
continues, and profits are high enough to make drug-traf
ficking worth risks, the worldwide narcotics crisis will con
tinue to be with us.
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