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Page 4 Griffin Daily News Safurday, Sepfember 14,1974 7 0 h/ // *Wd? // oil. r/fl ‘faxM## £< A z . >i3S L M. BOYD A Perfect Fit In New Boots Here’s away the lumberjack gets a perfect fit in his new boots. Before ever working in them, he fills them with water to soak overnight. Next morning, he puts them on wet, wears them all day, letting them dry to .the form of his feet. Then he softens up the leather with a little bear grease. And their excellent new shape never changes thereafter. Q. “HOW long does it take a fingernail to be re placed completely from base to tip?” A. Figure four to five months. SLEEP RESEARCHERS contend only about one person in 20 dreams in color. KING KONG Am asked how that great ape King Kong was made to move on the screen. Stop motion animation is what that film technique is called. The camera boys shoot one frame at a time, manually changing the position of the big beast between each exposure. Slow process. Re quires about three days that way to get 15 seconds of running film. REPORT OUT of Kuala, Lumpur, says a 100- year old medicine man there recently got married for the 78th time. That has to be a record, what? His latest bride was age 42. POETESS Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father, Ed ward Barrett, had so many children, 12 in all, that he ran out of names for them, so started designating them by numbers. Called his seventh son Septimus, his eighth Octavius. GREAT QUOTE What I can’t figure out is why so many innocuous remarks withstand the test of lime. In 1574, Murad 111, Sultan of Turkey, uttered: “I’m hungry. Bring me some thing to eat." And that precious gem has been included in countless books. Why? ALL JAPANESE words end in vowels or the letter N. WATER TURNED loose through a drain may create a little whirlpool all right, but it does not necessarily turn clockwise south of the equator and counterclockwise north of the equator, contrary to widespread belief. Which way the whirlpool spins has nothing to do with its whereabouts in the hemispheres. Such is the report from the U. S. Weather Bureau. Addrtts mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 1 7076, Port Worth, TX 76102. Copyright 1974 L. B. Boyd SIDE GLANCES ' - Sf*dv» ' f F N. A ' * Siu y< • «<»««.i». t»h u *« r 9-14 “Lets go! The bad guys of the flora world outnumber the good guys again!" PiP&jNF by Gill Fox Almanac For Today By United Press International Today is Saturday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 1974 with 108 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mer cury, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. Margaret Sanger, American pioneer leader in the birth control movement, was born Sept. 14,1883. On this day in history: In 1847, Mexico City was occupied by the United States Army. In 1901, President William McKinley died from wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. In 1972, the Senate approved a Soviet-American agreement limiting strategic missile laun chers. BARBS By PHIL PASTORET Why do trucks that whisper by in daylight have to gear up 14 times after midnight? Winter sportsfans note: week-old doughnuts make dandy hooky pucks. A pedestrian is anyone with a teen-ager, a car and lives more than three blocks from the high school. People who carry their work home with them find the brief case makes a good doorstop. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) THOUGHTS He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this moun tain, ‘Move hence to yonder place,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” — Matthew 17:20 GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS Subscription Prices Delivered by carrier or mail within the State of Georgia. Prices are one week, M cents, one month $2.68, 3 months, $8.04, 6 months, $16.07, 12 months, $32.13. These prices include sales tax. Delivered by mail out of the State of Georgia one month $3.75, 3 months , $11.25, 6 months, $22.50, 12 months, $45.00. From other newspapers The War On Crime Ask most Americans about the No. 1 problem today and chances are they’ll say it’s either inflation or crime. President Ford has labeled .inflation the nation’s top hurdle but some public opinion polls have put crime first. While many people tend to as sociate crime with the big cities, reports of recent years show that lawlessness has increased more in some suburban and rural areas. Atty. Gen. William Saxbe, who has the reputation of being an outspoken man, made a speech recently in which he said that he crime picture is even worse than most of us had imagined. He said that if we go on as we are, “there is every possibility that crime will inundate us.” Well that’s a pretty strong statement but Saxbe backed it up with figures show that crime increased 6 per cent in 1973 with a 16 percent spurt during the final quarter of the year and that the sharp rise continued into 1974 with a 15 per cent increase in the first Killing Hunters Each year thousands of hunters are shot by accident, many fatally. Most of the tragedies occur in fall and early winter, many on opening days for deer and other wildlife. Rifles, of course, are more deadly at long range but shotguns Chewable Iron Dangerous When tragedy from some unsuspecting source hits a child one of the first questions people ask is “why didn’t the doctors tell us of the danger?” Doctors can’t caution everyone about every danger but they can pass along to your local newspaper some warnings and that is exactly what one has done. The warning article comes from the American Medical Association Journal concerning preparations containing iron. “The fourth most common cause of poisoning in children under 5 years of age” is “ingestion of iron preparations and vitamin preparations con taining iron.” And some of these iron preparations happen to be around a house where there are children because they are the same pills commonly prescribed for mothers during or im- Lurking fear plagues her For the past few months, and it may be related to some of the events our nation is going through, I have had a great fear I’ve never had before. At times I think I am dying, and at times I wish I were dead. I hear you speak of peace and happiness, and I wish I could know them. But I have this lurking fear that something dreadful is about to happen. Please help me. M. M. The events of the past year and a half have been enough to upset anyone. These have certainly been grave days for the nation. But, as our new president an nounced with hope, better days are ahead, and if millions of Americans will repent of their sins this could well be. The truth of the matter is that without Editorials WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD The Henry County Weekly-Advertiser Die Thomaston Times quarter of the current year. And he pulled no punches in saying that the things that have been happening in Washington have been a sorry example of the “law and order” that the federal government is supposed to sup port. Neither the attorney general nor anyone else has come up with the solution to the crime problem. It is easy to speak in generalizations and blame poverty, the pressures of society, the growth of violence and pornography and other factors as contributing to the spiraling crime rate. Some like to say we have coddled criminals too much and this has encouraged crime. But no one knows and the answers remain elusive. Probably if there is one thing that most Americans are now agreed on however, it is that top priority in the crime war today should be on protecting society. Rehabilitating criminals, as im portant as that is, will have to come second. are even more dangerous at close range. The usual accident causes are failure to unload guns, firing at a moving target before identified, carelessness in carrying guns and hasty or excited shooting. mediately after pregnancy. Under prescription, many pediatricians are now recom mending iron-fortified formulas and other food products with iron. Thus the availability or iron is increasing, warns AMA. AMA warns, too, that the “fruit-flavored and animal shaped . . . chewable” iron tablets are often prescribed for children. But the danger lies in the fact a child could get the bottle and to chew up 25 of these tablets could bring death unless promptly treated. Unfortunately, the iron bottles carry no danger warning and, thus, AMA believes, the danger increases. So put iron tablets in the same category as lye, sleeping pills, and other dangerous drugs — keep them safely out of the reach of children. ' MY r ■ ANSWER Lfß God, fear is only natural. The Bible speaks of the last days of civilization when “men’s hearts shall fail them for fear.’’ Fear was unknown until man sinned. It was then that Adam hid himself from God and was afraid. But the Bible offers a cure for fear. It says, “Perfect love casteth out fear.” And who is “perfect love?” Jesus Christ! He spent a great deal of his time on earth casting out fear. When His disciples trembled with fear on stormy Galilee, He appeared to them and said, “It is I, be not afraid.” In the absence of fear is the Presence of Christ. Let Him come into your life and give you His peace to counteract those blighting fears. Berry’s World © W byNEAJnc "Rocky, I promised to take Betty out for dinner tonight and I seem to have the shorts. How 3 about a little loan ’till pay day? Foodstuff ACROSS 1 —turkey 4 Hash, for instance 8 Pub offerings 12 Fruit drink 13 Bird bill protuberance 14 Hawaiian goose 15 Decompose 16 Reinstall 18 Barterers 20 Sea duck 21 Split —soup 22 Concludes 24 Pain 26 On the briny 27 Little (Scot.) 30 Lodger 32 Certain pastry 34 Close-fitting undergarment 35 Feminine appellation 36 Heightslab.) 37 Communists 39 Flesh food 40 Ceramic piece 41 Brisk energy (slang) 42 Habituate (var.) 45 Boy's name 49 Abandonment 51 Epoch 52 Prayer ending 53 Unoccupied 54 Transgression 55 Greatest quantity 56 Dregs 57 Droop DOWN 1 Small pastry 2 Smell 3 Compressed similes 4 Botanical sheath 5 Sidelong look 6 Flowers 7 Os wine (comb, form; var.) I|2 |3 hls|6 I? |8 |9 lio In _ __ _ _ _______ 18 19 | 21 HP” 23 | 24* 25 8826 30 31 ■■32 33 36 |37 38 139 ~z F' nz 42 43 44 BiZ 46 47 48 49 “ 50 “ 51 52 “ 53 54 55 56 57 Illi 14 (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN > I Don Oakley U.S. Mint pleads for common ‘cents’ By Don Oakley In the past 15 years, the U.S. Bureau of the Mint has stamped out some 62 billion Lincoln cents. It is currently pro ducing 35 million each day, almost twice as many as last year. Fully half this tremendous output, however — something oyer 30 billion coins, the Mint estimates — is not in actual circulation. Thus the penny shortage which is a severe prob lem or inconvenience all over the country. Where are all these pennies hiding? According to Mint director Mary Brooks, billions of them are in dresser drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars — almost any place you can think of. An unknown number of others are believed to be in the hands of speculators. The reason for the latter is that in December, 1973, the Treasury announced that it would request legislation chang ing the penny from 95 per cent copper and 5 per cent zinc to an aluminum alloy. It was apparent that the steadily rising price of copper would eventually make the amount of metal in the penny worth more than the face value of the coin. Although there are stiff penalities for melting down pen nies, they began vanishing by the tens of millions, just as silver coins vanished in the middle 19605, even though the number of pennies that would have to be consumed to make any copper conversion operations worthwhile is staggering. For example, the market price of copper would have to go over $1.50 a pound (it is still well below that) to exceed the face value of a penny. At $1.50 a pound, 250,000 pennies, weighing 1,714 pounds and with a face value of $2,500, would be worth $2,571 as raw copper. The s7l profit would hardly pay for the energy needed to melt them down. But whatever the explanation, the penny shortage con tinues and the Treasury Department is appealing for the help of patriotic Americans. It points out that just one billion pennies returned to cir culation would save taxpayers $lO million. If 15 billion pen nies were returned, the Mint would not have to make anv more for almost two years and would save $l5O million. To stimulate citizen participation, the Treasury is award ing Certificates of Special Citation to anyone who deposits or cashes $25 worth of pennies at a commercial bank. Banks should forward the names of persons or groups qualifying for the citation to: Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, 55 Mint Street, San Francisco, CA 94175. GRIFFIN daily Quimby Melton, Jr, Editor and Publisher Cary Reeves. General Manager M UaH Mn laan l»t. M BEA. AMnn a (SfamfaiaaCtafa, * Asa. lan 3571) t, ya fa I Mm. S, faffa fa "■ Answer to Previous Puzzle IAIPIA 31 Weirder 33 Abalone 38 Determine 40 River in Ontario 41 Window glass (pl.) 42 Type of cheese 43 Glade (comb, form) 44 Employs 46 Doughnut center 47 Assam silkworm 48 Warbled 50 Sesame 8 Those against 9 Conduct 10 Grafted (her.) 11 Soothsayer 17 Unruffled 19 Opines 23 Arboreal homes 24 Eminent 25 Simpleton (coll.) 26 Craft society 27 Having no rest 28 Flat-topped hill 29 Anatomy (ab.) NEWS Bill Knight, Executive Editor I** I** 1 ** S»nb,. lai 1, fa, «. Ttatarmu 1 * 323 Ent SUum. stmt. sass,,. twg, J 0221 Mm Cannon. Snafa dm rm g faffis, fa. smtwlltao