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— Griffin Daily News Friday, March 28, 1975
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Those Dying
Never Yawn
Writes a kindly feminine client: “Being a registered
nurse. 1 sometimes have sad occasion to watch patients
who are far past medical help. Once long ago, I saw such
a patient yawn. I was so surprised that 1 waited lor her
next yawn. Sure enough, that was the turning point, and
she recovered. Subsequent vigils confirmed to me that
terminally ill persons do not yawn. And when very sick
patients do yawn, I rejoice, expecting their recovery."
IF Y ()l HAVE 12 guests at a party and ask each of
them to specify the exact amount of change in their
pockets or purses, you can be fairly certain that at least
two will name the same amount. Or so a statistician tells
me.
NO RAIN
Q. "How can the Peruvians grow things around Lima
if it never rains there?"
A. A fog bank hangs over the city about six months
out of every year. It's called the “garua." Dampens things
down fairly well.
Q. “WHO SAID, ‘Everybody talks about the
weather, but nobody does anything about it'? Mark Twain
or W ill Rogers?"
A. Both said it. but Charley Dudley Warner said it
first.
Q. “WHAT WAS the average wage in this country
150 years ago?"
A. Exactly $5.30 per week.
AM ALSO ASKED when and where the first blacks
arrived in North America, in 1619, that was. Colonists at
Jamestown. Va., bought 20 such souls from a Dutch
warship.
RING
"Why is a boxing ring called a ‘ring’ when it's
square?" inquires a customer. Because the original boxing
sites were simply circles drawn with sticks in the dirt.
Believe I already told you that the earlier boxers sat not
on stools, but on the knees of their handlers.
IE YOU’RE a cigarette smoker, your first two cig
arettes in the morning can be expected to raise your pulse
rate by about 10 beats per minute and boost your blood
pressure by as much as an inch. Such is the contention of
Pharmacology Professor J. H. Burn of Oxford University.
He says this explains why the first cigarettes of the day
give the perceptible lift.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, March 28,
the 87th day of 1975 with 278 to
follow.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
American bandleader Paul
Whiteman was born March 28,
1890.
On this day in history:
In 1797, Nathaniel Briggs was
awarded a patent for the first
washing machine. He called it
an “improvement for washing
clothes.”
In 1939, Madrid surrendered
to the Nationalist forces of
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1942, British forces led by
“commandos” raided Nazi
occupied St. Nazaire, France,
and blew up harbor installa
tions in one of the most daring
feats of World War 11.
In 1963, a federal jury
convicted Billie Sol Estes on
four counts of mail fraud and
one of conspiracy after he was
charged with swindling finance
companies in mortgage deals
involving $24 million.
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• dries up the bones. — Proverbs
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Good news — the best
Today is Good Friday, the day when
Christ was crucified. Sunday is Easter, the
day which marks His resurrection from
Griffin and Spalding fared particularly
well in the state budget which the Georgia
Legislature adopted before adjourning this
week.
As finally passed, it includes $600,000 for
a juvenile detention center here and
$631,000 for expansion of Griffin Tech.
Both projects are needed badly, and as an
additional plum, the money will come at a
good time to help a sagging economy.
Representative John Carlisle, who is the
Hail and farewell
There was good news and bad in the
business community of Griffin this week.
Opening of a new men’s store, Julian’s, on
the south side of town was the good;
closing of A and P supermarket in the
Solomon street shopping center is the bad.
So it is hail to the former, and we wish it
success — and it is farewell to the latter,
“The Tea Company” as so many of its
friends call it. It has been in Griffin since
1956.
The year 1974 saw more new businesses
This morning 705 state prisoners were
released for Easter weekend as a reward
for good behavior. They were required to
check in with law enforcement officials in
their own hometowns, and they must
return to the prisons by 8 o’clock Sunday
night. To be eligible, inmates must have
served at least a third of their sentences
★ * THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Fast start needed
The Atlanta Braves aren’t burning up
the Grapefruit League. As of yesterday
they had a 6-12 record.
Maybe things will change when they
open the season on April 7 in Houston.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati
Redlegs, the teams that finished ahead of
Her husband
screams at her
I’m not good at writing personal letters,
but I have a problem. I’m 20 years old, and
have been married four years and five
months. For the last six weeks, my
husband has been coming home quite
angry. He screams at me for things that
aren’t even my fault. He beats me also.
But why is he so sweet and gentle when
someone comes to visit? J.L.J.
A good marriage is the union of two
people who feel fairly adequate in giving
and receiving. Each must in away be
autononomus.
Dr. Paul Tournier, the Swiss
psychiatrist says: “This is what marriage
means: helping one another to reach the
full status of being persons, responsible
and autonomous beings who do not run
imby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4334
‘Like a rose’
It works
point
the grave, the event which not only is good
news, but absolutely the best in nearly two
thousand years of Christendom.
senior member of the delegation from
Spalding, said that the county came out
“smelling like a rose.” And so it did, and
so did Carlisle and John Mostiler in the
House and Virginia Shapard in the Senate.
We here at home are more than pleased
with their budgetary accomplishments in
this community’s behalf and welcome
them home from the long and weary
session.
open in Griffin than any other of the town’s
135 years. On balance, despite the closing
of several stores recently, there are more
businesses here than ever before, and
today Griffin offers hometown and out-of
town customers downtown shopping,
northside shopping, southside shopping,
eastside shopping, and westside shopping.
We will miss our old friends and are sad
to see them leave, but Griffin’s future is
the brightest it ever has been.
and they must also have been trusties for
at least six months.
This is a prison reform measure which
costs the taxpayers little if anything, and it
works because nearly 6,000 prisoners have
been allowed to go home on furlough since
the start of the program in 1972, and so far
only 22 have failed to return.
the Braves in 1974, are tearing up the
exhibition circuit. That’s a sure sign they
are loaded again.
The Braves need a fast start if they
expect to keep pace with the top con
tenders.
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away from life.”
Your husband finds satisfaction in
manipulating you, yes, and abusing you —
as he fails within himself to be sufficient or
autonomous. He knows, of course, this
behavior is socially unacceptable, so he
shapes up when visitors come.
I would arrange for counseling —
hoping, of course, both of your would
participate, but go alone if necessary.
While there may be some aggravation in
his employment, of which your’re
unaware, yet his problem has deeper roots
than that.
As a Christian, you can claim the
promise of wisdom in James 1:5, and be
encouraged by Psalms 3:3, which
promises help and hope.
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“My gag writers had a bad day, so you'll excuse
me if I move on directly to the many problems
facing our nation ...”
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Ray Cromley
Poe no match for
KGB horror stories
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — It is apparently an accepted rule
of international diplomacy that one nation does not interfere in
the internal affairs of another except by stealth, or, of course,
when one nation defeats another in war. Then, as after World
War 11, major internal changes can be ordered by the victors.
Sometimes, as in the case of Japan, these changes are lasting and
beneficial.
We are in no position to dictate to the USSR on its treatment of
Soviet citizens, as Sen. Henry M. Jackson, (D-Wash.) learned
when the Soviet Union gave the back of its hand to a trade agree
ment which seemed to commit it to greater freedom in the
emigration of Jews.
But we do, I think, have a moral obligation not to do anything in
the name of detente which strengthens the Kremlin’s hand in the
abuse of its citizens, whatever their religious persuasion.
We have a duty, as a civilized people, to protest the actions of
the Soviet Union in its continued use of psychiatric wards to im
prison those whose only crime is that they speak out peacefully
against repression.
When Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived in the Soviet Union and his
book, “The Gulag Archipelago” had just been released, there
was a period when the Western press was filled with stories about
suppression. Today, the reports have largely disappeared.
Why this should be so is strange for new evidence about the ac
tions of the Soviet secret police continue to seep out of that
secretive land.
The latest information this reporter has come across is
evidence presented by Dr. Norman B. Hirt, president-elect of the
American Psychiatric Association, Western Canada division.
As is well known, protesters in the Soviet Union are frequently
picked up and sent, without trial, to KGB psychiatric hospitals. A
series of examples detailed by Dr. Hirt suggests that KGB psy
chiatrists administer drugs not permitted in civilian Soviet
hospitals, drugs which create characteristics of one form of in
sanity or another. In some cases, these drugs leave the victim
senile or vegetable-like. These dissenters are then released in
this sad condition, some analysts reason, to serve as a warning to
other protesters.
Hirt says the KGB seems to use drugs which, when injected,
produce extremely high fever, severe joint inflammation and,
sometimes, brain damage. In older people they may cause a
stroke, chronic arthritis, heart damage or symptoms of senility.
The KGB psychiatrists have also discovered, says Hirt, that
huge doses of one drug result in a condition which looks
pathologically like atrophy of the brain.
Dissidents in KGB psychiatric units are reportedly rolled tight
ly in wet canvass which is then allowed to dry out and contract,
causing extreme pain and sometimes death.
Some of the KGB’s drugs are said to cause the equivalent of
epileptic seizures. At the Serbsky Institute, Hirt notes, there are
wire cages about a yard long and a yard wide, and somewhat
shorter than the height of a man. The dissident is put into a cage
naked arid given a drug which causes him to flail about uncon
trollably until he falls exhausted.
I have no way of verifying these reports, which chill me to the
bone. We must now do enough follow-through research to con
vince ourselves of their truth or falsity.
As one who believes firmly in seeking detente with the Soviet
Union in the hope of preventing nuclear war, I am also convinced
we must not allow that search to strengthen the Kremlin’s hand
in destroying the personal rights of its own people. Otherwise we
all lose a little of our own freedom.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN J
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Puzzle-of-the-day: Is that
fellow at the next table who’s
having crackers and water for
lunch on a diet or on a com
mission?
The boss told our salesmen
he's having a fire sale — either
sell something or get fired.
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collective nouns: a closing of
gas stations.
The easiest thing to mind is
your neighbor's business.
QUOTES
“Laughter is one of the best
things that God has given us,
and with hearty laughter
neither malice nor indecency
can exist.” — Stanley Baldwin,
former British Prime Minister.
GRIFFIN
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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Theodore Roosevelt and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 26th and
32nd presidents of the United
States respectively, were
cousins. An ancestor of both
men, Claes Martenszan van
Rosenvelt, came to New
Amsterdam from Holland
about 1650, The World Almanac
notes. Claes’ son Nicholas, a
New York aiderman in 1700 and
1715, had a son Johannes, from
whom Theodore Roosevelt was
descended, and a son Jacobus,
from whom F.D.R. was
descended.
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Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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