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Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 5,1974
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Policy Cost
Two Cents
James Bolton walked the two blocks each day be
tween his home and the post office in Hartford, Conn.
But fearing some sort of mishap on this lengthy trip, he
decided to take out some insurance. The Travelers In
surance Company issued a policy to cover him only
during that two block walk. The premium was two cents.
It was the first accident policy in this country. In 1853.
DO YOU REALIZE the average single woman puts
in more years on the job than the average man? She can
expect to work 45 years, he only 43.
MORE THAN 30 patents have been issued on inven
tions designed to extract gold from sea water.
QUERIES EROM CLIENTS
Q. "How do you explain the fact that smoking be
came more popular than dipping snuff?”
A. Invention of the match brought that about.
Q. “WHATEVER happened to Johnny Sheffield
who used to play Boy in the Tarzan movies?”
A. Last I heard he was selling lobsters in Baja,
Calif.
Q. “HOW OLD is the real Smokey the Bear?”
A. He’s 24 now. Pretty old. Lives in Washington
Zoological Park. Figure the average zoo bear survives
from 25 to 30 years.
THERE IS a certain amount of lead in just about
all human hair. That's no curiosity. The curiosity is
that recent tests proved female hair contains approxi
mately 50 per cent more lead than does male hair. Why?
Shrug.
TELL THE TRUTH
Do physicians tend to tell the truth? Most people
think so, evidently. Psychologists at the University of
Connecticut asked 400 citizens to rate the practitioners
of 20 occupations as to their truthfulness. Doctors ranked
No. 1. Used car salesmen. No. 20. The others: 2. Clergy
men. 3. Dentists. 4. Judges. 5. Psychologists. 6. College
professors. 7. Psychiatrists. 8. High school teachers.
9. Lawyers. 10. Law enforcement officials. 11. TV news
reporters. 12. Plumbers. 13. Business executives. 14. U.S.
Army generals. 15. TV repairmen. 16. Newspaper col
umnists. 17. Auto repairmen. 18. Labor union officials.
19. Politicians.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd, P. O. fiox 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
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“Here’s old what*s-his-name again, sounding off loud and
wrong!”
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Sept. 5,
the 248th day of 1974 with 117 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury and Mars.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
French statesman Cardinal
Richelieu was born Sept. 5,
1585.
On this day in history:
In 1774, the first Continental
Congress was convened in
secret at Philadelphia.
In 1882, 10,000 workers
marched in the first Labor Day
parade in New York City.
In 1896, as a result of the
Klondike gold rush, the first
beefsteaks to reach Circle City,
Alaska, sold for S4B a pound.
In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes
and six other persons were
killed as a result of an Arab
guerrilla invasion of Olympic
Village outside Munich, Ger
many.
WORLD ALMANAC
The all-time season record
attendance for both the Na
tional and American baseball
leagues was 20,122.191 fans
during 1973, The World
Almanac notes. The Los
Angeles Dodgers had an all
time season record atten
dance for one club of 2,755,-
184 fans during 1962.
THOUGHTS
Besides that, they learn to
be idlers, gadding about
from house to house, and not
only idlers but gossips and
busybodies, saying what
they should not. — I Timothy
5:13.
“Never tell evil of a man, if
you do not know it for a cer
tainty, and if you do know it
for a certainty, then ask your
self: “Why should I tell it?” —
Johann Lavater, Swiss
Philosopher.
by Gill Fox
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Fairness to all
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair to everyone. The editor’s opinions are confined
to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
The elections
Now that the smoke and dust of the
primary elections is settling,
congratulations are due the winners and
their supporters. We extend them heartily.
Selection of George Busbee as the
Democratic nominee marks a distinct turn
for Georgia. He is a hard worker, highly
intelligent, dedicated to doing a good job.
We believe that he will win the general
election and be one of the best governors
Georgia ever had.
A person’s merit
Inevitably, objections have been voiced
to Nelson Rockefeller as vice president
because he is wealthy.
The attitude may conform to one of our
national prejudices, of which we have
many, but it has no basis in fact or in law.
Neither wealth nor proverty is included in
the constitutional qualifications for vice
president or president.
We’ve had wealthy presidents. George
| Prosperity |
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In these times of economic instability
one can measure the true prosperity of
America by taking a look at the autmobiles
parked by students at Griffin High School, S
and even at Spalding Junior High. &
Regional concern over pollution must be
translated to support for a national policy,
apparently, if the environment “from sea
to shining sea” is to be preserved.
Researchers from the California In
stitute of Technology have found con
tamination from industrial lead in a
remote canyon of Yosemite National Park,
a full day’s hike from the nearest road. A
report on the study suggests that few areas
in the country remain free of the pollution
threat.
According to the research team, the
industrial lead, primarily from auto
emissions, accumulates high in the at-
Random thoughts
With a general election coining on Nov.
5, hot air will not be limited this year to
summer months.
What obligation
has this landlady?
What, if any, is the moral obligation of
an elderly Christian landlady who finds
that her young woman tenant is having a
lover in the apartment upstairs? D.S.
From a practical standpoint, I suppose
the terms of your rental contract might
dictate how you would handle it. In some
documents, there are moral stipulations,
and these could be properly invoked.
But now, you had better be sure of your
accusations. Immoral conduct is
sometimess a difficult charge to sub
stantiate, and you might even run the risk
of a counter-suit if your allegations were
untrue.
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Pollution
point
As for Lester Maddox: he was not our
choice, but he has his good points and we
have no intention of kicking him editorially
or otherwise while he is down. We never
have questioned the sincerity of his sup
porters in Spalding and surrounding
counties; they had as much right to their
choice as those of us who preferred Busbee
had. We are glad that Busbee won, but
wish Lester Maddox happiness in his
retirement from public office.
Washington was the first. In more recent
times, there was John F. Kennedy.
We’ve had chief executives who were
poor in financial resources. Few men have
endured more abject poverty than did
Abraham Lincoln in his youth.
Perhaps this is a good time to revive the
time-honored American credo that a
person’s merit is determined by what he or
she does or can do, not by what he or she
has or doesn’t have.
mosphere and is dumped on the earth
during rains and snowfalls. The report
says that 195 pounds of the contaminating
material falls annually in the Yosemite
Valley alone.
A warning from one expert emphasizes
that lead pollution “makes us more
irritable and irrational than we should be
and it also causes irreversible damage to
the nervous system.”
The evidence of the mobility of the cloud
of pollutants spewed into the air from cars
and factories should also make us very
nervous.
“The closest to perfection a person ever
comes is when he fills out a job application
form,” — The Jersey Publisher.
MY
ANSWER
As a Christian you are right, however, in
objecting to the premissiveness which
winks at fornication and indulges adultery.
It is causing our society to disintegrate.
You certainly have a right to tell the tenant
of your concern, and, of course, you can
just not renew the lease when it expires.
Since the Bible says the Christian is to be
the “salt” of the earth, there is an obliga
tion to penetrate society with the Gospel.
It, of course, carries its own corrective
influence. But the assertion of God’s
righteous standards is always to be done in
love and understanding, and obviously
within the framework of the laws of your
community.
Berry’s World
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By Don Oakley
Here is a truly disturbing commentary on the times we live
"Top business executives, who have worked hard to achieve
prominence in their fields, are now being urged to work
equally hard to achieve obscurity and become just another
face in the crowd. The idea is to help prevent would-be kid
nappers - either political terrorists or ransom-seeking
criminals - from zeroing in on them as prime targets.
“It all boils down to us never doing the same thing once, or
reversing what comes naturally like eating in a favorite
restaurant, or being expected regularly at the club at a cer
tain time, or taking the same route home after work,” ob
served one business leader at an executive protection semi
nar in New York.
Such seminars are being conducted in major U.S. cities by
Burns International Investigation Bureau, whose director,
M. Fred Rayne, has testified on anti-kidnap techniques and
urban guerrilla tactics before the House Committee on Inter
nal Security.
Corporate managers at seminars or at private briefings at
company locations are provided with a 26-page manual
covering some 200 dangerous situations, including actual
kidnaping, and how to react to them.
Some of the rules include:
• Staying out of the office, unless others are there.
• Keeping vacation plans within the family, and not even
telling the friendly barber about the mountain retreat.
• Alerting the family to watch for and report to police any
strangers in the neighborhood — in parked cars, afoot or
slowly bicycling about.
• Personally writing for hotel reservations without men
tioning company affiliation and picking up tickets at the air
port when traveling, and even then purposely arriving
earlier or later than expected.
• Shunning all publicity and eliminating name and picture
from company advertising.
“Business leaders come to our briefings hoping they can
learn all about personal safety in one easy lesson," says
Rayne. “It comes as a jolt to them when they realize they and
their families have to adjust to virtually a new lifestyle by
figuratively looking over their shoulders endlessly.”
In Rayne s opinion, international terrorism poses a greater
danger than skyjacking did before security measures at air
ports eliminated that peril. He points out that kidnaping has
been developed into a fine art in South America, notably Ar
gentina, where kidnapings have escalated to 500 or more a
year and ransoms go into multimillions for American busi
nessmen. He sees an imminent threat of terrorist groups
overseas joining forces with those in this country.
The business community apparently agrees with him. So
far, about 4,000 companies have requested the anti-kidnap
handbook.
Paranoia, anyone?
The memory wallows on
It may all be water over the gate to most weary Ameri
cans, but historians, and certainly future Americans, are
going to be “wallowing” in the subject for generations to
come. The way things are going, they will have whole libr
aries devoted to it.
The first issue of “Bookletter”, a new review published by
Harper’s Magazine Co., lists a partial Watergate bibliogra
phy of 46 titles. Those swelling the “W” card catalogue file
include:
“Watergate by the Numbers,” “Watergate: Chronology of a
Crisis,” ‘Watergate and the White House,” “Watergate:
Crime in the Suites,” “Watergate Hearings,” “Watergate
Portraits,” “Watergate, the View from the Left,” “Watergate
and the Myth of American Democracy” and simply “Water
gate.
Interested researchers will also find such intriguing titles
as “Fireside Watergate,” “Watergate Cookbook,” “Water
gate Follies and something called “Watergate Girls.”
That s just the W’s. Other titles include biographies of
Richard Nixon, Sen. Sam Ervin and other Watergate per
sonalities, examinations of the impeachment process and the
doctrine of executive privilege, the Agnew scandal and the
constitutional and historical implications of Watergate in
general.
This is not even to mention all the memoirs that are ex
pected to come nor the thousands upons thousands of pages
of government documents, such as the White House tape
transcripts and Judiciary Committee hearings.
When I finally got her off
the beach at a picnic in
Maine, the prospects of her
getting here and properly
presentable for this ex
tremely impressive gather
ing, seemed impossible.”
-Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller discussing his
wife Happy’s problems get
ting to-Washington, D.C in
time for his nomination.
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"Actually, the only reason we’re HERE is so we
can hold our own with friends who play Travel
Oneupsmanship’!’
Don Oakley
Anonymity the high
price of success
TIMELY QUOTES
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British wartime Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill told the
House of Commons, “... I have
nothing to offer but blood, toil,
sweat and tears.”
American poet Henry Wads
worth Longfellow said, “Music
is the universal language of
mankind... poetry their univer
sal pastime and delight.”
NEWS
Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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