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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 4,1975
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L. Al, BOYD
When Is Wife
The Happiest?
In what stage of her matrimonial life is a wife most
likely to be happiest? Thai’s what the scholars wanted to
know. At the University of Michigan's Institute for Social
Research. After lengthy study of the matter, they con
cluded it was a toss-up between two stages. Before the
first youngster was born and after the last left home.
NO NEW YORK CITY policeman is authorized to
wear a curly moustache . . . IT’S NOT the carrier pigeon
that carries messages, but the homing pigeon . . . THREE
OUT of every 10 corporate bankruptcies result from
employee theft.
PRESIDENT
Am asked if that job of United States president is
harder on the man in the office or on his wife. Debatable.
Still, if you don’t count the assassinated presidents, most
chief executives have outlived their wives. In fact, they’ve
outlived their vice-presidents and even the campaigners
who ran against them. Would appear that defeat is more
likely than victory to grind those politicians to their
graves.
Q. “HOW MUCH money does a pro baseball player
get for letting his picture appear on bubblegum cards?"
A. Was $250 at last report.
RUM RIGHTS
Pretty fancy piece of construction, that Parliament
House in Sydney. Australia. Three contractors put it up
in 1811. Do you know what they got paid for the job?
The exclusive right to sell rum to the citizenry thereabouts.
STATISTICAL ODDS are greater that a wife will be
murdered by her husband than a husband by his wife.
BY THE TIME a working citizen now age 22 reaches
retirement, said party’s Social Security pension is expected
to run about $3,166.67 a month. Or so report the money
boys. They say the new escalator clauses in the Social
Security law which match benefits to consumer prices will
make that much difference at today’s rate of inflation.
THAT GREAT ACTOR Spencer Tracy once mis
takenly was given an Academy Awards Oscar engraved
Dick Tracy.
RECENTLY reported that a 1939 Superman comic
book in good condition is now worth about $5,000. Client
asks the value of same 10 years ago. About SIOO.
Address moil to L M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 I. M Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, March 4,
the 63rd day of 1975 with 302 to
follow.
The moon is in its last
quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Mars.
The evening stars are Saturn,
Venus and Jupiter.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Pisces.
Famed Notre Dame football
Coach Knute Rockne was bom
March 4,1888.
On this day in history :
In 1791, Vermont became the
24th state of the Union.
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson
became the first president to be
inaugurated in Washington.
In 1917, Jeanette Rankin, a
Montana Republican, became
the first woman member of
Congress when she was sworn
into the U.S. House of
Representatives.
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled against so-called
railroad “featherbedding”
under outmoded rules.
Only the
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Unexpected showers. It’ll happen,
even when you read the forecast
before planning outdoor activities.
Weather predictions can be wrong;
reading your newspaper with all its
benefits is never wrong.
THOUGHTS
Then Job answered: “I have
heard many such things; mis
erable comforters are you all.”
- Job 16:1,2.
"In no direction that we turn
do we find ease or comfort. If
we are honest and if we have
the will to win we find only
danger, hard work and iron
resolution.” — Wendell <L.
Willkie, American statesman.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
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.
Politics
America’s two-party political system,
except in response to warlike acts or other
national calamity, rarely performs with
unanimity.
But historically the role of the party
denied control of the White House has been
to maintain the illusion of “loyal op
position,” tempering its resistance to
administration policy with constructive
criticism.
And the stalwarts of the President’s
party by tradition defend his proposals as
representative of party philosophy.
President Ford, however, in his lonely
effort to find the answers to energy and
Good news
“There is no reason for any Georgia
youngster to be hungry at school as result
of the recessed economy,” according to
Josephine Martin, administrator, School
Food Services, Georgia Department of
Education.
She notes that many parents who have
never had financial difficulties until
recently may be unfamiliar with the food
service program which provides free and
reduced price lunches to students.
“Families classified as poverty level are
acquainted with the program, but lately
more families qualify as they experience
economic problems due to inflation, loss or
Tornadoes
This part of Georgia is scared to death of
tornadoes, and it has good cause to be.
Now comes this official word from the U.
S. Department of Commerce, “The year
1974 produced the most devastating out
breaks of tornadoes ever recorded any
where in the world, according to
meteorologists.”
There were 148 of them in 13 states on
twodays in April, and this was unprecedent
ed in number, combined strength and total
path length. The death toll was about 300,
but even that high a figure of horror was
not a record because that was set on
March 18, 1925, when a single tornado
Exaggerated
Reports in this newspaper and
elsewhere that the federal government
will spend a billion dollars a day in fiscal
year 1976 have been exaggerated, and if
we misled you in any way, we apologize.
Based upon the proposed budget, the
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Mother worries ANSWER i.,J|
about daughter
The first boy my daughter dated made
love to her. I’ve always tried to guide her
in the right way— but what can I do now?
She doesn’t seem to hear a word I say.
T.Y.B.
Your daughter has moved into that time
of life when peer pressure exceeds that of
the home. The formative years are not
over, but the basic shaping of character
has already taken place.
Keep the communication lines open with
your daughter, and counsel with her as
often as possible. She hears your advice all
right, even though nothing seems to
economic problems, is denied the benefit
of political custom.
Democrats, jockeying for position in the
1976 presidential sweepstakes, have been
unable to unite on alternatives to Ford
proposals.
Republicans, fascinated with a replay of
the intraparty bickering that created a
GOP shambles more than a decade ago,
have given a conservative-liberal rift
priority over presidential support and
counsel.
The nation, in crisis, expects more of its
leaders.
reduced-time employment,” Martin said.
To qualify for free or reduced price
lunches, application must be made at the
public school principal’s office where the
child attends. Information provided on the
form is confidential and will be used only
to determine eligibility. The identity of the
child bebefiting from the program also is
confidential.
Georgia’s program, part of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Food and
Nutrition Program, is administered
through the Georga Department of
Education.
No Georgia child hungry at school —
that is good news.
ripped through parts of Missouri, Illinois
and Indiana and killed 689 people. Think of
it!
In 1974 the nation counted 944 twisters,
the second highest number on record; the
highest was the year before, 1973, when
1,108 were counted. Georgia had 31 tor
nadoes and they killed 20 people in 1974.
No, there is nothing good about a twister,
but sometimes one does leave some good
in its aftermath such as the helping hands
of friends and neighbors and even
strangers as was the case in Fort Valley
which nature struck so brutally just a few
days ago.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the
spending will be at a rate of a billion bucks
every 25 hours instead of every 24. So we
are better off—or not as bad off — than we
thought, but not much better or less bad.
register.
The temptations young people face
today are almost overwhelming. As a
Christian, which you said your daughter
professes to be, she has the resources of
God available — courage, strength, and a
firming up of her will. (Read Psalm
139:24) Teach her to pray before every
date, and before she gets involved in other
friendships. Urge participation in church
activities, and get her some of the current
good books on a Christian view of sex.
Don’t forget you may also have in some
way failed your daughter. If so, ask for her
forgiveness, and move ahead in the
renewed bonds of family love.
Berry’s World
© 1975 by NEA.Inc
"Some years ago I predicted that we would
have a ‘cashless economy’, but I meant
because of credit cards, not stagflation!”
Don Oakley
I
Jl ‘lnfluence’ money
still flows freely
By Don Oakley
In the same year that the Watergate crisis reached its culmina
tion and the cleansing winds of honesty and integrity supposedly
swept through the American political system, the activities of
special-interest groups achieved new highs.
The year of Watergate was also an election year, and never did
so many give so much to the campaigns of so many, on both the
state and federal levels.
Pages would be required to list all the groups attempting to win
friends and influence legislation. They run from labor unions to
doctors’ and dentists’ associations to real estate and railroad lob
bies to insurance, construction, banking and teacher trusts.
About the only groups not making record donations last year
were the dairy cooperatives, still gun-shy because of adverse
publicity resulting from their massive contributions to ex-
President Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign.
Far and away the greatest contributor of all was. and is,
organized labor. According to a report last August by the
National Information Center on Political Finance, union political
committees had donated $2.6 million to House and Senate can
didates, plus another couple million tb candidates for state of
fices. With the election six weeks away, they still had $4.7 million
to spend.
It was all quite legal, of course. But many people are beginning
to wonder why it is wrong for businesses to contribute directly to
politicians but all right for unions to do the same, especially since
unions not only enjoy tax-exempt status but individual members
often have little say in how their dues money is used.
Seldom has the connection between donations and legislation
been more apparent than in the heavy, last-minute contributions
by the trucking industry to House members during a lobbying
drive to increase the weight and size limits for trucks on the
nation’s interstate highways.
The Truck Operators Nonpartisan Committee (TON) spread
more than $61,000 among some 17 House members in the last 10
days of the campaign. The next month, the House, which had
previously rejected the bill, reversed itself.
About the only fruit of Watergate was the legislation signed last
year by President Ford providing for public financing of
presidential election campaigns. Congressional contests were un
affected, however.
Common Cause, the public-interest lobby which purports to
represent the little person, charges that the law will in fact ac
tually serve to enhance the power of special-interest groups. By
limiting gifts by individuals to SI,OOO for any one candidate, it will
make candidates more than ever dependent upon organized in
terests
Politics in America remains business as usual, the lessons and
promises of Watergate notwithstanding
Dining out’s therapy
Bad news is good news for at least one industry.
The outlook for the restaurant industry is bullish, says a report
just released by the public accounting firm of Laventhol &
Howarth. Restaurant sales rose 8.4 per cent in 1973, nearly 45 per
cent above the increase of the previous year.
The optimistic forecast is based on estimates that one of every
three meals is eaten away from home today and that by 1980, two
of every three will be consumed in a restaurant.
The figures for 1974 are not in yet, but the impact of
recessionary factors is expected to be felt less in the restaurant
business than in other sectors of the economy. This is because,
historically, people tend to dine out as a relief from daily
problems.
There will, however, be some “trading down” in dining, which
is even better news for the burgers-and-fries branch of the in
dustry.
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TIMELY
QUOTES
•“The paramount issue is
economic recovery, and that
means jobs — jobs at decent
wages with a chance to fully
develop one’s talents.”
—Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Tex
as announcing his candidacy for
the Democratic presidential
nomination.
“Times have changed since I
was Miss America. Women
between the ages of 18 and 22
are much more issue-oriented
than we were. I’m amazed that
they can get 50 girls from 50
states.”
—Nancy Fleming, Miss
America 1960, saying the an
nual pageant perpetuates an
outmoded concept of women.
American essayist Ralph
Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing
can bring you peace but
yourself.”
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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After subtracting 2,800-billion
gallons of water per day used to
turn the turbines of the
hydroelectric industry,
hydrologists calculate that
about 1,800 gallons of water per
day per person were used in the
United States in 1970 for
domestic, industrial, rural and
irrigation activities. The World
Almanac notes that this means
about 370-billion gallons of
water were pumped, piped or
diverted each day.
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