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— Griffin Daily News Friday, April 19,1974
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L. M BOYD
When Miners
Panned Gold
When a lookout aboard an oldtime whaler first spotted a
whale, he yelled, "Thar she blows!" When a faller among the
lumberjacks made fus last cut through a tree, he yelled,
"Timber 1 " Client cites the foregoing, and asks "What did the
prospector of old traditionally yell, if anything, when he dis
covered gold 7 " Research reveals it was "Color in my pan!"
Maybe you didn't know there's a snowless valley right in
the middle of Antarctica About 4,(XX) square miles of it Lake
Vanda sits in the center The lake's covered with ice, all right
But the water temperature down at the bottom is in the high
70 degrees F
SHERRY
Q "How long should a good sherry age ?"
k Trick query, that Sherry is made in a solera That's
a bank of connected barrels one atop the other The yinter adds
new wine to the top, bottles from the bottom The shernes in all
those casks tend to marry therefore Some of that sherry in the
bottle on your table, if such there be, may be fairly new, some
may be decades old Did 1 tell you the word sherry comes from a
warped pronunciation of the name of that Spanish port called
Jerez?
Was the law in various states along the Atlantic seaboard
150 years ago that no boarding house could serve salmon to its
inmates more than three times a week Ecologists, please note
The Atlantic salmon were running so thick in the rivers then
that everybody was sick of them
MARRIAGE
Am asked when colleges first started to teach the phys
iological aspects of marriage Back m 1927, that was The
University of North Carolina made so bold
Expert anglers will tell you a yellow fishing lure should be
a little smaller than a lure of any other color for the same game
fish Yellow looks bigger underwater than it actually is
Cattlemen report they've just discovered a Fiji island
plant called sirato that speeds up beef production in a dandy
manner Plans are to grow it in Texas, I'm told
Technically, you're not supposed to be able to get a patent,
on any invention that has been in use for more than a year
If she's a 35-year-old-divorcee or widow, odds are she 11
work on some payroll for another 27 years.
Roses cut in the afternoon last considerably longer than
roses cut in the morning
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"Norma’s laryngitis DOES have its bright side She seldom gets
a chance to listen!”
By United Press International
Today is Friday, April 19, the
109th day of 1974 with 256 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mars
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
American nuclear scientist
Glenn Seaborg was born April
19,1912.
On this day in history:
In 1775, the American Revolu
tionary War began.
In 1933, the United States
went off the gold standard.
In 1951, American Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, relieved of
his command in Korea by
President Harry Truman, told
Congress: .Old soldiers never
die, they just fade away.”
In 1972, U.S. warships in the
Gulf of Tonkin were attacked
by Communist MIGs and patrol
boats.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
... I
The Young Men’s Hebrew
Association (YMHA) was
founded in New York City,
March 22. 1874. The World
Almanac recalls. The first in
dependent Young Women's
Hebrew Association (YEHA)
was founded in 1902, but YM
and YWHAs have since
me rg e d into a single
organization. It provides
social, cultural, physical and
recreational programs for all
age groups and has open
membership. They are today
usually called Jewish Com
munity Centers!
THOUGHTS
By this we know that we
love the children of God.
w hen we love God and obey
his commandments. For this
is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments.
And his commandments are
not burdensome. —1 John
5:2.3.
"The Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount
are Mill our best guides." —
Bernard Baruch. American
statesman.
I 1
Almanac
For
Today
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
Suggestion box
The hospital has decided to have a
suggestion box for its employes, some of
whom are feuding with each other.
What does it cost?
One of the candidates has quoted the
Legislative Fiscal Office as authority that
the office of Lieutenant Governor cost
Georgia taxpayers $392,476.00 during the
first three years of Lester Maddox’s oc
cupancy. At that rate it will have cost over
half a million by the time his term expires
after this year.
Although he has been the biggest, Mr.
Maddox has not been the only taxpayers’
burden. During the four years when
George T. Smith was Lieutenant Gover
nor, the office cost $397,892.14. And when
Peter Zack Geer held the position, four-
There has been some bad news in the
paper these past few days, but plenty of
good news too.
Congratulations are in order, for
example, to Mrs. Pat Brown for her
selection as Young Woman of the Year ...
to Alex Stewart of Griffin upon the opening
of the new West Central Georgia Bank in
Thomaston of which he is president... to
all the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital
Auxiliary members who received service
awards ranging from 500 hour pins to a
Could be worse
Those who are feeling less than kindly
toward the Internal Revenue Service these
April days may take some comfort in the
knowledge that things could be worse.
The ancient Romans had a tax on dying,
says the National Observer. No payment,
no burial.
Peter the Great of Russia put a tax on
businessmen who wore beards, and bar-
* *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
Sportsmanship vital
Spring has arrived and so have baseball
and softball.
The Griffin-Spalding Recreation
Department has opened its Commercial,
Church and Women’s softball programs.
The department soon will start Tee
League and Minor League play.
In addition, Griffin’s Little League
program is well into the new season and
Babe Ruth baseball is just around the
Hell is a place
of torment
I read your column most of the time. But
I marvel that a man as intelligent as you
still clings to the hell fire and damnation
theory. I haven’t seen it recently, but your
general comments lean in that direction.
J. N.
Two corrections, please! What you call
the message of hell fire and damnation is
no theory. If the Scripture is true, and it is
— then that’s a fact. Secondly, I do more
than just lean in that direction. I point to
the reality of eternal judgment with all the
strength I have. It’s simply because the
Bible says to preach the whole counsel of
God (acts 20:27), and that’s part of it.
Read the statement of Christ in Luke
16:23. There’s no possible explanation of
Here is our suggestion: those who are
doing so, stop bickering among your
selves.
year expenses were $346,799.89.
The candidate (John Savage who is
running for Lieutenant Governor himself)
says correctly, “What the office costs the
state is almost impossible to determine.
Many of the expenses are buried within the
Senate’s appropriation, such as the
photographer who serves at the Lieutenant
Governor’s pleasure.”
All of which supports the contention of
many, including the Griffin Daily News,
that the lieutenant governorship should be
abolished. It is unneeded, expensive, and
conducive to abuse.
Worthy
3,000 hour pin to Mrs. Lewis Simonton,
3,500 hour pins to Mrs. J. R. Seville and
Mrs. J. C. Hammond, and a 4,000 hour pin
to Mrs. Morris Goldstein ... to the Griffin
High students who won 17 awards in the
Georgia Science and Engineering Fair in
Athens. . .
This is not supposed to be a wholesale
all-inclusive list of everybody who is due
congratulations, just a sample of those
who are doing worthwhile things and
receiving recognition.
bers were stationed at the gates of Moscow
to shave all nonpayers.
And talk about being bitten by the tax
collector! In 18th century Turkey, after a
visiting pasha had dined with a peasant
family he would demand his “tooth
money” —a tax to compensate him for the
wear and tear on his teeth.
But stop! Enough of this; we do not want
to give you-know-who any ideas.
corner.
The Dundee Travelers are playing
exhibition games in preparation for their
Stan Musial season.
The various baseball and softball
programs attract hundreds of participants
to local parks. Hundreds of fans see the
games.
The 1974 season can be a good one if
everybody remembers that sportsmanship
is a vital part of any program.
hell except a place of torment. Jesus used
the strongest language to speak on the
matter of the certainty and the severity of
the punishment of sin. God has done all he
can to rescue man — and the offer of the
new life of faith is ever open. But for those
who reject pardon, there is no option left
but judgment.
The Scripture everywhere excludes the
idea that physical death is the extinction of
being, or even that annihilation immedia
tely follows judgment.
But now you must recognize this too,
that I spend more time on the positive
aspects of the Gospel than the negative.
My happy task is to share the victory of
deliverance, not the tragedy of doom.
MY
ANSWER
BERRY'S WORLD
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© 1974 by NEA
“The TROUBLE is, you're always out with the boys,
and the boys are in Cairo, Damascus, Tel Aviv,
Moscow, Peking...”
.I— > j|i Bruce Biossat
J Seeking an oasis
f rom the in^ation
By Bruce Biossat TOKYO — (NEA)
While the rest of the industrial world seems to see itself on
a speeding inflationary escalator, the Japanese say fhev
think they can find plateaus of stability - "resting places ’
— which will enable them to get their tremendous economy
under better control.
Certainly the wish is father to the thought. Prime Minister
Tanaka's Liberal Democratic party, facing important sum
mer elections in the Diet's upper House of Councillors, needs
a period of stability to hold status with Japanese voters
suffering from a variety of economic reverses.
Tanaka has just made his first key move — fixing fuel
prices at considerably higher levels. It is expected that, in
evitably, higher electric power rates, closely allied to oil
costs, also will be boosted - with understandably heavy im
pact upon both industrial and personal users. Yasuo
Takeyama, keen-minded chief editor of the Japan Economic
Journal, thinks power rates should have been boosted
simultaneously with oil prices, but that Tanaka feared the
political effect.
At first blush, there appears a contradiction between the
industrial world’s raging inflationary forces and Japan’s
conviction that it can find stability, at least for temporary
periods, amid the chaos.
As I have indicated in prior reports, the Japanese know
they are in a world situation largely beyond their total con
trol and that this complicates their industrial outlook
greatly. A most recent example'is America’s announcement
it is boosting the price of coking coal by 50 per cent. Japan’s
super-modern steel industry imports more than 82 per cent
of its coking coal.
There is constant fear here that other nations with heavy
grasp on the raw materials Japan imports (it has virtually
none needed for industry) may follow course and impose
crushing higher price burdens on the Japanese economy.
On top of this, most government and business specialists
I’ve talked to in Japan think labor’s annual “spring offen
sive” for higher wages will produce gains for the workers of
around 24 to 25 per cent - as against a top of 20 per cent in
earlier years. This clearly presents an inflationary prospect.
How, then, can Japan talk of stability?
For one thing, even though the wage demands are tied to
acknowledged inflationary trends, many responsible offi
cials don't expect the added money increment to be poured
into immediate consumer purchasing power. The Japanese
have a long habit of saving (their savings permit the huge
bank loans which supply much of the country’s capital in
vestment). There is wide expectation that, inflation notwiths
tanding, a lot of the workers' 1974 wage gains will flow into
new savings.
The larger point, however, is that same old matter of high
Japanese self-confidence.
The basic view, uttered here for me by countless leaders,
is that, if the Japanese were gaining on others in the in
dustrial world at lower price levels, the factors which ac
counted for that advantage will work as well at higher price
levels. , .
Not the least of those elements is Japans self-discipline.
Right now energy allocations are in effect, key price controls
apply, and the government is administering a rigid tight
money policy. The net consequence is a suppression of de
mand wnich one economic official dared to say is producing
a home-front depression, which many think will last at least
until summer. .
Beyond that aspect, though, is the contagious optimism of
men like Board Chairman Akio Morita of SONY, top pro
ducer of electronic products, and Board Chairman Yutaka
Sugi of Nikon, leading maker of cameras and other optical
instruments.
Morita especially exudes high spirits when he talks of the
future. He is one of those who believes that Japan is running
strongly on its own steam today technologically, that it will
consistently more than hold its own in the hard world race to
sell high quality goods at competitive prices.
U.S. economic experts here agree with such assessments.
They think, as some Japanese do, that the country’s real
GNP growth in 1974 will range around four to five per cent.
Not the miracle pace of recent years, but still a kink of half
miracle.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.I
TIMELY QUOTES
“We have an almost em
barrassing avalanche of
wealth from our oil exports."
— Venezuelan Ministry of
Mines and Hydrocarbons
spokesman commenting
on that nation’s improved
economy due to the oil
shortage.
“If we are told that in this
age of missiles and sophisti
cated aircraft, what does a
dozen or half a dozen
kilometers mean, experience
tells us that it can mean life
or death for many Israelis,
and security or insecurity for
the Israeli existence itself.'
— Israeli Foreign Minister
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“It’s like a Chinese dinner.
Two hours later you're hun
gry for more information."
—H. Taylor Howard, head of
a Stanford University
team analyzing the wealth
of data beamed back by the
Mariner 10 Venus and
Mercury probe.
“No guarantee in the world
that is promised to us can
come anywhere near to en
suring the security of Israel
as does our being on the
Golan Heights."
— Israeli Premier Golda
Meir.
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