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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Novembers, 1973
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INlLflllON
l. M. BOYD
Apology
To King
Did I ever tell you about old Henry Heidemann? As a boy,
1 cleaned trail with him one summer for the U S. Forestry Service
in Washington State Heidemann claimed he never apologized
for anything On the theory the apology sometimes turned out
to be worse than the insult "You've heard about the king’s
jester in the court’” said he "One day he romped up behind
the king, who was bending over, and booted His Majesty in the
Royal posterior That disturbed the king a little, son Then
the jester made his second mistake He said, 'Your pardon,
sire, 1 thought you were the Queen.' No, I never apologize
Writes a Pennsylvania girl: "When I told my husband
that our marriage was in danger because he was burning the
candle at both ends, he just shrugged and asked where he
could get more wax I'm through!” That’s not good It's bad
"Defenselessnesses” is not the only English word that
repeats the letter six times with no other vowels, but can
you think of any other such word?
KARATE
Q ’ 'How many different belts are there in karate?''
A Six From least to most skill: white, yellow, green,
purple, brown and black
Q "What do the English mean when they refer to a
’cooker'?"
A That’s an oven
Q. "Ever do any gambling, Louie?"
A Certainly. Lost $3.5 billion, in fact, in a bet with the
Ladyfriend on the World Series But won it all back plus $1.5
billion on subsequent Monday night football We plunge some
And now there are more TV sets, too, than bathtubs here
abouts
GROWING BALD?
Medical historians say the first known written prescription
was for a hair restorer It called for massage with hippopotamus
fat Still, that's not the point Point is that men have been
worried about growing bald for just about as many centuries as
they have been worried about anything
It's a rare politician who executes a powerful handshake
But this signifies no lack of self-assurance. Politicians shake
hands so much they choose to grip lightly Another professional
man who almost never bears down hard in the handshake is the
physician, I'm told The why of that remains unexplained.
Kind of like these Ozark sayings: "It ain't going to last
till it's gone.” "He'd tell the Devil how to run hell." "She
keeps scratching where it don't itch.” "Busier than a buzz
saw in a pine knot.” "Dull as a widow woman's ax.” Granted,
there's a lot of Festus Hagen in those, but why not?
Addrtis mail to I. M Boyd. P O. Box >7076. fori Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright l973l . M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Nov. 8,
the 312th day of 1973 with 53 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Scorpio.
British astronomer Edmond
Halley was born Nov, 8, 1656.
On this day in history:
In 1837, Mount Holyoke
Seminary in Massachusetts
became the first American
college founded exclusively for
women.
In 1889, Montana was admit
ted to the Union as the 41st
state.
In 1943, more than 400,000
Allied soldiers invaded North
Africa.
In 1960, Democrat John
Kennedy defeated Republican
Richard Nixon to become the
35th president of the United
States.
BARBS
by PHIL PASTORET
Merchandising marvels: Is
that the Easter bunny we see
peeking out of Santa’s toy
sack?.
Faith in the ability of a
leader is of slight service
unless it be united with faith
in his justice. — George W.
Goethals, American engi
neer.
RwW
Girls in loan offices always
attract a lot of interest.
Why does the phone ring
automatically when you turn
on the shower?
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THOUGHTS
I call upon thee, O Lord;
make haste to me! Give ear
to my voice, when 1 call to
thee! Let my prayer be
counted as incense before
thee, and the lifting up of my
hands as an evening
sacrifice! — Psalm 141:1,2.
There is a divinity that
shapes our ends — but we can
help by listening for Its voice.
— Kathleen Norris,
American writer.
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Civic breakdown
The registered voters of the City of
Griffin failed to distinguish themselves in
this week’s election when only about one in
four took the trouble to cast their ballots.
Some of the three out of four who did not
bother said their votes would not count.
Well, since they failed to cast them, they
certainly did not.
The City of Griffin
The city election this week caused some
comments about the new system under
which Griffin has five commissioners
instead of only three as it had and under
which it operated with relative success
from 1918 when it had its last Mayor and
Council until 1971.
The change from three members to five
occurred after the 1971 election and has
been in effect for two years. Some of the
questions asked and answered at the time
that the voters of Griffin enacted the
change have been revived. They include:
1. Why should the commission be
enlarged to five members instead of
three? Answer: In order to provide each of
the city’s wards with representation. Since
the city has four wards, it was impossible
for a commissioner to come from each of
the four when there were only three
commissioners. In the past all three
usually came from the same ward.
2. Okay, but since there are four wards,
why five commissioners? Because an odd
number is necessary in order to break tie
votes. The fifth comes from the city at
large.
3. Why, then, does everybody in the city
Judge’s response
The director of the Georgia Department
of Corrections wrote Judge Andrew
Whalen and other jurists of the state and
asked them to exhaust every alternative
short of prison when sentencing convicted
felons.
Judge Whalen responded to Mr. Ellis
MacDougall who was brought to this state
Detention center
Representative Clayton Brown is hard at
work trying to obtain a youth detention
center in Griffin.
Such centers are under the jurisdiction
of the Department of Human Resources
which operates them, and the department
is making a survey for Mr. Brown.
There has been a misunderstanding, the
Random thoughts
It’s a tossup whether there are more
crooks in the country or whether more are
just getting caught.
iry
What are your views answer
about reincarnation?
One night at our house we were talking
about reincarnation. My sister read Ec
clesiastes 1: 9-11. Do you thiuk it has
anything to do with it? What are your
views? B.M.
The particular statements you refer to
(Ecclesiastes 1:9-11) maintain that human
study and thinking are a repetition of an
unending round. He says nothing about
reincarnation there, but simply that
nothing is new. He asserts that all effort of
nature and man is the doing again of
something which has already been done.
The key phrase in Ecclesiastes is
“vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” It’s a
particularly appropriate word for our
This was a breakdown in democracy in
Griffin because the system requires the
expressed will of the majority, and the
majority did not express it.
Oh well, if the three out of four who
stayed away from the polls will refrain
from complaining for the next four years,
there will be a lot less gripes around town.
But will they forfeit that right too?
vote on every commissioner? Why not just
the people in their own wards? The answer
to that is to check against straight ward
politics. Since commissioners serve the
city as a whole, they are voted on by the
city as a whole.
4. Does any one of the five have any
more authority than the others? No. The
commissioner from the city at large has
the honorary title of mayor and is chair
man of the commission. His vote counts
the same and no more than the votes of the
other four. Furthermore, the law has been
changed so that two years from now the
commissioner at large will no longer be
mayor automatically. The commissioners
will elect their chairman and honorary
mayor from among themselves.
5. Why don’t the voters elect the city
manager? The City Commission-City
Manager form of government provides for
the election of the commissioners by the
voters and their choosing the city
manager. The commissioners are sup
posed to make policy and the city manager
is supposed to carry it out. The city
manager is a full time employe, and the
commissioners serve only part time.
by Governor Carter and who is supported
by the governor by saying that his
(Whalen’s) court will continue to make the
punishment and the crime compatible. In
other words, he will send felons to prison
when circumstances warrant.
Thank goodness somebody in a position
of authority in the matter has some
judgment. Cheers for the judge.
department says, about the 50-mile
business. It said that its policy is to have a
center within 50 miles of every county
seat, so one can be built in Griffin if the
state will provide the money.
Here is hoping that die state can and will
because Griffin and Spalding County need
one badly.
It is deer hunting season again, and we
hope none of the marksmen kills your
dear.
generation, because the writer, like us,
had the advantage of everything —
knowledge, wealth and honor.
While it might seem dreary to follow the
logic of Solomon’s thoughts, it can’t help
but be profitable. It sets the stage for the
appraisal of life as insufferable
monotonous, and a thing that ends in total
oblivion.
We move from that to the life of Christ.
At its close, He summed up His life by
saying: “I brought glory to You here on
earth by doing everything you told me to.”
(John 17:4.)
Faith lets us have that same purpose. It
rescues life from monotonous repetition
and gives it a glory and a destiny.
BERRY'S WORLD
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“Why not approach the Mideast conflict the way
Howard Hughes would — support both sides'"
On top of Watergate, the Agnew scandal and allegations
of questionable financial arrangements in the purchase of
his estates in Key Biscayne and San Clemente, the revela
tion that in two recent years President Nixon paid less in
come taxes then the average working stiff is likely to
arouse little more than a resigned shrug from Americans,
whose confidence in the integrity of their public servants
has already about reached bottom.
Specifically, Mr. Nixon paid taxes of $792,81 in 1970 and
$878.03 in 1971 on his salary of $200,000 — less taxes than a
family of three earning $8,500. Apparently, this was a result
of his donation to the National Archives of his personal pa
pers, on which he placed a value of some half-million dol
lars.
All perfectly legal, and who is to insist that the nation’s
first citizen should strap himself to set some kind of exam-
Kle for the rest of us? Wno, as any cynic will tell you, would
e just as happy to beat out the IRS if he could?
It has been a long time since a man like Herbert Hoover
turned back his presidential salary every year to the gov
ernment. But Hoover, of course, was a millionaire long
before he was elected. Our latter-day presidents, and at
least one very recent vice president, have been forced to
try to become rich men DURING their terms of office, if
they were not so before.
Even Dwight D. Eisenhower received favorable capital
gains tax treatment for his story of World War 11, some
thing denied your ordinary plodding author. The nation did
not begrudge this favor to its much-loved hero, though Ike
was hardly in the financial straits of a General Grant, the
publication of whose memoirs saved him from poverty.
Still and all, and even though it may be disgustingly old
fashioned these days, some people may not help feeling that
things which are perfectly legal are not necessarily per
fectly admirable — especially on the part of those wno ad
monish us about hard work, sacrifice, patriotism and all
those other — what was the word we used to use? — oh, yes,
virtues.
Clark Kent on Wheels
A new development on the technological front holds out
promises of being both a sword and a plowshare. It’s porta
ble radar capable of “looking down” through concrete and
several feet of soil to locate buried objects, nonmetallic as
well as metallic.
The penetrating radar was developed by Calspan Corp.,
formerly Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, in association
with Army researchers.
The Army has long wanted something like this since the
advent of plastic mines, which cannot be spotted by con
ventional mine detectors. Such mines, which are inexpen
sive to manufacture, caused many of the U.S. casualties in
Vietnam.
One civilian application, says Calspan, is the detection of
buried bodies, a severe problem in law enforcement for
which no satisfactory technology existed before.
Another major use will be to map the exact location and
depth of underground conduits, sewers and water lines,
which could mean reduced digging at busy street intersec
tions, where lines have been buried at various times over a
period of many years, and not always where old city maps
say they were supposed to go.
One version of the radar, carried on a vehicle, could
monitor the subsurface condition of highways. Cruising at
60 miles an hour, it could be used to guide routine mainte
nance or survey entire highway systems for hidden
weakened spots in areas where flooding has occurred.
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QUOTES
British statesman Winston
Churchill said, “If we open a
quarrel between the past and
the present, we shall find out
that we have lost the future.”
American novelist Dorothy
Canfield Fisher said, “A mother
is not a person to lean on, but a
person to make leaning un
necessary.”
British writer William McFee
said, “Responsibility’s like a
string that we can see only the
middle of. Both ends are out of
sight.”
No matter what we do now,
the odds are 10 to 1 that we
will have cold homes, we will
have cold hospitals, we will
have factories forced to close
down.
—An interior Department
spokesman, commenting
on the effects of mandato
ry fuel allocations.
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GRIFFIN
Quimby Melton, Reeves, General Manager Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Publisher Bill knight. Executive Editor Editor
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Taxing the
nation’s patience
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