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Sleep Arrives
In 7 Minutes
Sleep researchers contend it takes about seven min
utes for the average citizen to doze off each night . . .
TO KEEP his bartenders honest, an Ohio saloonkeeper
named James Ritty invented the cash register, I’m told
. . . WATERVILLE, Me., is that place where it’s a viola
tion to blow your nose in public . . . DO YOU REALIZE
the women in this country lose 58 million hairpins a
day? . . . AN AUTHORITY who should know estimates
there are about 5,000 illegal dogfight matches nation
wide every Weekend.
ALREADY told you about the Spaghetti Museum in
Italy. Failed to mention, though, there's also a Bread
Museum in Ulm-Donau, West Germany.
DOCTORS
Approximately 8,900 graduates of foreign medical
schools were tested in this country a couple of years ago
as to their basic medical savvy. Seven out of 10 failed
said test. Those results made the national health author
ities a mite nervous. Understandable. They figure as many
as 164,000 foreign medical graduates will be working as
physicians hereabouts 16 years from now.
Q. “WHERE did Chevrolet get the moniker
‘Monza’ for its new little car?"
A. “That’s the name of an ancient Italian castle near
Milan. A race track was built there in 1922.
TIES
Writes Chet Switell: “Men have been knotting ties
around their necks ever since the Croats defeated the
Turks during the 17th century wars. One of the victorious
Croat regiments was feted in Paris. The Frenchmen
copied the soldiers’ colorful flowing scarves, and in honor
of the Croats, called this neckwear the cravat. There are
16 ways to tie the cravat. One is so complicated, the
cravat must be cut off at the end of the day, a boon to
neckwear manufacturers.”
DID I TELL you about the windpipe of a crane? It’s
coiled into a trumpet behind the breastbone. Stretched its
full length, that windpipe is as long as the entire bird.
Makes quite a musical instrument, coiled that way.
CLIENT QUOTES an edition of the Britannica as
reporting that ancient Romans by law required all pro
fession women of the night either to bleach their hair or
wear blonde wigs.
QUICK, NAME the only animal with a movable
upper jaw. The alligator, the alligator.
APPROXIMATELY one half of those sad souls, who
try to commit suicide by shooting themselves through
the heart, miss.
Address moil to I. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1974 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 24,
the 2675th day of 1974 with 98 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Jupiter.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Libra.
John Marshall, fourth chief
justice of the United States,
was born Sept. 24, 1755.
On this day in history:
In 1955, President Eisenhower
suffered a heart attack while
vacationing in Colorado.
In 1959, President Eisenhower
and Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev met at Camp
David, Md.
In 1971, retired U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Hugo Black died
at the age of 85.
In 1972, a private jet plane
crashed into a Sacramento,
Calif., ice cream parlor, killing
22 persons, most of them
youngsters.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Fishing for compliments
around here is like looking
for sharks in the bathtub.
If you can't imagine the
troubles some folk have,
they'll tell you in detail.
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Another nice thing about
your newspaper: Did you
ever try to nap under a 450-
pound color TV?
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Add to your dictionary of
collective nouns: A sour of
cynics.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I
THOUGHTS
"But, because I tell the
truth, you do not believe me.
Which of you convicts me of
sin? If I tell the truth, why do
vou not believe me?” — John
8:45,46.
I believe that it is better to
tell the truth than a lie. I be
lieve it is better to be free
than to be a slave. And I be
lieve it is better to know than
be ignorant. — Henry L.
Mencken. American
philosopher.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-433*
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.
School board
Members of the Board of Education get
criticism, late-night phone calls, threats,
criticism, football tickets and S2O per
meeting attended.
Yet nine people at this writing are
running for five posts on the Griffin-
Spalding Board. Seats No. six through ten
are up for election this year. Those
numbered one through five will be voted on
two years from now.
We do not recall as many contested
Board of Education seats. It used to be a
| Good idea |
>: “Griffin Tech has recently launched a
>■: campaign to clean up and spruce up their
buildings and grounds. That sounds like a
:$ good idea for everyone.” — Weekly
Bulletin of the Exchange Club of Griffin
“Exchange Views”
Needed: a better way
Remember the “bedsheet ballots” of
two years ago when there was a long string
of constitutional amendments upon which
to vote?
Spalding Ordinary George Imes reports
that this year on Nov. 5 there will be 16
statewide amendments to be voted on in
Spalding and all the rest of the counties of
Georgia. There are no local ones in
Spalding this time, so the number here
Almost skimpy
There seems to be no such things as a
modest undertaking in Washington, and
that applies even to projects not paid for
by the government. The plan for private
donors to build a swimming pool for
President Ford is blossoming into
blueprints for a $500,000 “physical fitness
complex” at the White House.
The new Senate office building which
Must marriage
include children?
I strongly disagree with the belief that a
marriage must include children. In your
narrow-mindedness it seems difficult for
you to realize why a husband and wife
should remain child-free. Our marriage
has been satisfying without children.
There is no law which says that a man and
woman cannot love each other without the
interference of children. It is pathetic that
society has convinced too many people
that a child will bring instant happiness
and security to a marriage. Religious
leaders will always advocate large
families, for this is the way to perpetuate
the church. M.L.L.
I have never said there cannot be happy
marriages without children, because it is
physically impossible for some couples to
have children — and this would be a cruel
judgment. But having said that, we cannot
ignore the fact that when God created
problem to find enough people willing to
serve. But as this is written every expiring
post has opposition except Post 9 which is
held by Chairman Henry Walker, and Post
10 which is occupied by Bill West
moreland. The deadline for qualifying is
not until noon Friday.
So much interest is a healthy thing. We
hope that it will extend to the voters
themselves and that they will cast their
ballots in record numbers.
will be limited to 16.
As in the past, the Griffin Daily News
will publish a summary of these prior to
the election. All are important and deserve
consideration; else they would not be on
the ballot.
Still, 16 at one whack seems a little much
to ask voters along with deciding between
candidates in state, local and school board
races. There must be a better way.
was supposed to cost S4B million when
Congress authorized it in 1972 is now on the
drawing boards at a price of close to SIOO
million after such add-ons as $249,000 to
substitute bronze for wood in the stairway
railings and $400,000 extra for art and
sculpture. The way they do things on
Capitol Hill, the plans for the President’s
pool and gym sound almost skimpy.
MY
ANSWER
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male and female, He said, “Be fruitful and
multiply, and replenish the earth.”
Genesis 1:28. We must recognize that
having children was at least one of the
Divine ofjectives of marriage.
The family is the basic unit of society,
and if your parents had felt as you do, you
would never have been born. If we feel that
life is beautiful, purposeful and wor
thwhile, then having children becomes
desirable. But, if we take the attitude that
life is something to be grasped selfishly,
then, of course, we would rather be
childless.
Though I have been a poor parent
because of my forced absences from
home, my five children have been a joy
and comfort to me. But, I also believe that
a childless couple can have a happy
marriage — if they are childless for the
right reasons.
By Don Oakley
The warning that automobile antifreeze will be in short
supply this season and double the price it used to be is an
unpleasant reminder that the energy crisis is still very much
with us.
The waiting lines may be gone at the neighborhood gas
station but there is a “hidden part of the energy crisis we
are not too conscious of until we discover a product we once
took for granted is no longer available or has soared in cost.
This is the portion of the energy spectrum that concerns
the small amount of the nation's oil and natural gas that is
not used for fuel but as raw material for making the
petrochemicals that have become so essential to modern life.
How essential?
“From the time we get up in the morning and brush our
teeth with a plastic toothbrush and wash our faces with man
made detergent, until we go to bed at night and pull our per
manent press sheets and synthetic blankets, we are sur
rounded by petrochemicals.
The quote is by Richard C. Perry who is in charge of
Feedstock and Energy for Union Carbide Corp.
Although the percentage of oil and natural gas that goes to
make petrochemicals is extremely small compared to the
amount that goes to fuel uses —about five per cent of the oil
and 10 per cent of gas — our dependence upon them is much
greater than we realize, says Perry.
Consider the family car. If we were to remove everything
based on petrochemicals from today’s automobile, gone
would not only be such essentials as antifreeze but radiator
hoses themselves, also tires, brake fluid, steering wheel,
dashboard, upholstery and carpeting. Gone, too, would be
the windshield because the resins that hold safety glass to
gether are derived from petrochemicals. And also gone, the
grille and even the paint.
In and around the home we come in contact with
petrochemicals in paints and finishes for walls, furniture
and appliances, vinyl wall coverings and floor tile, kitchen
countertops, refrigerant for air conditioners, refrigerators
and freezers.
Even the family medicine chest depends upon petrochemi
cals. Common aspirin is a petrochemical derivative. In the
garden shed: Garbage and leaf bags, fertilizers, bug sprays,
weed killers —all petrochemicals.
Okay. But do we really need all these manmade materials?
Why not go back to the naturally occurring materials we
used before synthetics came along?
The answer is simple, says Perry: Natural products are in
extremely short supply and getting shorter. There are too
many people in the world today to be supported by natural
products. There aren’t enough trees and we couldn’t raise
enough sheep.
Even if natural materials were available, in many cases
they cannot do the job as well or as inexpensively as syn
thetics with their unique properties of light weight combined
with strength, wrinkle resistance, long wear, etc.
Then, too, any massive shift back to natural materials
would cause severe economic dislocations. It might seem a
simple matter, for instance, to go back to cotton for all the
things we now make from synthetic fibers. But how do we
come by the 16 to 20 million additional acres of cropland?
To add 16 million acres of cotton would mean reducing the
nation’s soybean crop by 30 per cent. A reduction that size in
soybean production would send the cost of animal feed
skyrocketing worse than it is already.
In sum, like it or not, we are dependent upon petrochemi
cals. From no other single natural resource do we get four of
the fundamental needs of life: Food, through fertilizers and
pesticides; shelter, through structural materials, coatings
and adhesives; clothing, through fibers and health care,
through drugs.
The thing that is really hard to understand is why we con
tinue to send .most of this precious natural resource up in
flames.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
QUOTES
“I may sound like a male
chauvinist, but I grow out of
my relationships with
women. I use them like some
artists use apples —for in
spiration. But no artist can be
inspired by the same apple —
or woman — forever.
—lsraeli artist Menachem
Gueffen explaining his sepa
ration from actress Diana
Rigg-
“For most of the final Nix
on year, as (Gen. Alexander
M.) Haig himself would
agree, he was the acting
President of the United
States. With a troubled Presi
dent drawing more and more
within his shell, everyone in
government, with the possi
ble exception of Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, was
working for Al Haig.'
— Jerald F. terHorst,
former press secretary to
President Ford.
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Yawning is an involuntary
drawing of air into the lungs.
The World Almanac notes
that yawning may be caused
by extreme fatigue, poor ven
tilation with reduced oxygen,
boredom or observing the act
of yawning in others. Persis
tent yawning could indicate a
physical condition which
may require medical atten
tion.
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