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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 31,1975
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Kelp Grows
Very Fast
Do you realize that long brown seaweed known as
kelp grows an inch an hour?
CLIENT ASKS our Love and War man why men
tend to prefer blondes. Who said they do? Surveys
repeatedly show that only about one man in every three
prefers blondes.
A PROFESSIONAL beer taster says he can't trust
his sense of taste if the beer is in a dark glass. Nor can he
judge it at all with his eyes closed. How it looks has much
to do with what his tongue tells him about it, evidently.
CANDID CAMERA
Q. “Os those people photographed unawares by Allen
Funt’s ‘Candid Camera,’ how many refuse to let their pic
tures be shown on television?”
A. About three out of every 1,000, says hunt. And 75
per cent of those who refuse are men, he says.
IF THAT BABY hippopotamus manages to survive
its first year, it can be expected to live to about age 45.
However, a lot of vicious beasts go after the hippo calves
with the intent to do bodily harm. Crocodiles, for
instance. And hippo bulls, too. Still, about four out of five
do grow up.
DID I TELL you it’s illegal in Norfolk, Va„ for a girl
to go to a public dance unless she wears a corset?
AVERAGE MAN stops growing when he’s 21 years
2 months old. Average girl stops growing when she’s 17
years 3 months old. Or so the most recent studies indicate.
LOS ANGELES POLICE sometime back set up an
experimental race in four unmarked cars. Over a 10-mile
stretch of the eight lane Hollywood freeway. Three of the
cars were committed to go as fast as possible without
changing lanes. The fourth was permitted to weave at
will, switching lanes, jockeying for position. That fourth
car made the trip in 15 minutes 30 seconds. The other
three finished in another four seconds, 76 seconds and 82
seconds, that quickly. Illuminating.
Address moil so I. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 I. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, March 31,
the 90th day of 1974 with 275 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
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.
Austrian composer Franz
Joseph Haydn was born March
31,1732.
On this day in history:
In 1870, one hour after
ratification of the 15th Amend
ment to the Constitution,
Thomas Peterson-Mundy of
Perth Amboy, N.J., became the
first American Negro to vote.
In 1938, Daylight Saving Time
went into effect in the United
States for the first time.
In 1968, President Lyndon
Johnson announced he would
not seek re-election and also
ordered suspension of American
bombing in North Vietnam.
In 1971, Army Lt. William
Calley was sentenced to life
imprisonment for his part in
the slaying of 22 Vietnamese
civilians.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Yes. Gwendolyn, you might
call the fellow who stole your
cassette player a tape worm.
An old-timer is one who
recalls when they threw the
book at you for doing a no-no in
stead of telling you to go write a
bestseller.
Peace talks often depend on
who gets the biggest piece of
the other fellow’s real estate.
Thoughts
“He has stripped from me my
glory and taken the crown from
my head. He breaks me down
on every side, and I am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up
like a tree.” — Job 19:9,10.
"Hope is the feeling that you
will succeed tomorrow in what
you failed at today.’’ — Herbert
Prochnow. American author.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4334
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.
Newcomers Club
The Newcomers Club will celebrate its
third birthday on Thursday, and we wish it
and its members many happy returns.
This is a club which fills a real need by
providing fun and fellowship, civic interest
and participation for people who have
moved here recently and otherwise might
be lonely for awhile.
Bonnie Pfrogner, Sandy Schenk, Joanne
Todd, Isabel Schofield, and Marge Zeigler
were new in town but decided that they
would not sit back and moan about it.
Instead, they got together in April of 1972
Good news
The nation is not out of the economic
swamps yet, but some economists say the
worst may be over, and at the end of last
week they cited these encouraging signs:
— The government’s composite index of
nine leading business indicators rose one
percent in February, the first rise in the
economic barometer in seven months.
— Oil imports dropped last month to
their lowest level since the 1973 Arab oil
embargo. This gave the United States a
February trade surplus of $971-million
which was the biggest on record.
— Latest retail sales figures improved
week before last, rising three and a half
percent over the prior week and seven
percent above one year ago.
True, a word of caution is in order, and
economists say these improvements in
various areas do not mean the recession
has ended— a fact which all of us knew
already. But it may have bottomed out,
and that is good news.
Thanks, Coach
Sports editors and athletic coaches have
a lot in common. Both are interested in
youngsters, both enjoy their jobs, both get
a lot of praise — and both get a lot of
fussing at, mostly from parents who blame
them for their offspring’s lack of athletic
ability or failure to get the child’s picture
on the front page in full living color.
So words of praise are encouraging, and
we appreciate them on behalf of our Sports
Editor Roger Dix who works hard at
covering umpteen athletic teams and who
does a good job of it. The other day Coach
Frank Hinson of the Griffin High boys
basketball team wrote him and sent his
boss a copy of the letter. It said, “Now that
basketball season is over, I want to thank
you for the excellent coverage you gave
Her husband fell
to temptation
Maybe some would call me a fool, but I
still love my husband. I’m a minister’s
wife, and a year ago when I was injured, I
went to another city for surgery. It was
then that a woman tempted my husband
and he fell. He assures me now that he
loves only me, but I can’t seem to forget,
much less forgive. J.W.
It is a misconception about love and
marriage that they can exist only when
there’s no opposition or intrusion. Love is
made to bridge problems, and true love
gives relationships a self -mending quality.
You’re no fool to keep your love strong.
and formed the club. Their enthusiam and
bright outlook were contagious, and their
numbers grew rapidly. Now three years
later, the founders are almost “oldtimers”
here themselves. We salute them and
appreciate the service they have rendered.
(The “Smiley” which we use on this
page from time to time over “Good news”
was a gift to the paper by one of the
founders of the Newcomers Club and is
typical of her and its outlook.)
my team. Most of us realized that this was
a rebuilding year., but you always phrased
your articles to give our young players
encouragement for the future.
“In the current trend to win at any cost it
means so much to have a sports editor who
understands more than just the score. We
made a lot of progress this year with some
young players, and hopefully we have
taught them more than the game of
basketball.”
We appreciate what the coach wrote,
and as he undoubtedly knows, en
couragement like his goes a long way to
counteracting some of the fussing which
seems to accompany sports all too often
these contentious days in which we live.
MY
ANSWER
But this is not to say that your husband is
guiltless. He was wrong, and the 7th
commandment is quite plain at that point.
However, if he practices the confession of
sin to Christ, that no doubt as a minister he
has urged others to do, he’ll be forgiven
and restored. In fact, your marriage can
be the stronger for this episode, if both of
you have learned through it.
Surely, if a Holy God has forgiven, you
can too. And if God can forget (Isaiah
43:25), so can you. Every time that
problem comes to mind, pray about it. I
John 4:18 says your mutual love can chase
away any fear of this happening again.
Berry’s World
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"When I asked you if you think we’re entering
into an era of neo-isolationism, I didn’t mean
the U.S., I mean US!”
Ray Cromley
Paper avalanche
I no ‘paper tiger’
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By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — It is estimated the federal govern
ment could save $2 billion to $9 billion a year without loss of ef
ficiency by adopting less expensive ways of doing things. In con
siderable measure, this means cutting paperwork which costs the
government and public almost $36 billion a year.
Experts say paper flowing into federal agencies each year fills
4.5 million cubic feet of space. Federal paperwork management
adds up to $8 billion annually. The federal bureaucracy alone
generates more than two billion pieces of paper every 12 months.
This figures out at 10 forms to be filled out each year for every
man, woman and child in the United States.
The savings estimate above does not include state, county and
city governments nor figure in the cost of reporting by private
companies and individuals.
Leaving out millions of hours spent on IRS tax forms, the
President’s Office of Management and the Budget estimates in
dividuals and business firms spend 130.5 million manhours per
year filling out federal report forms. This is equivalent to full
time employment for 78,000 persons.
In the years since 1967, American businesses have borne a 50
per cent increase in government reporting.
With all this paperwork, there is a paucity of information on es
sential economic and social matters.
Many reports are not read and much of the material called for
is filed away, never to get to where it could be used. Ironically,
despite the mountains of material, a great deal of the information
collected is wrong or much of what is needed is not asked for, or
is asked for in an unusuable form.
In many cases, there is no office to take advantage of what is
collected. Phillip S. Hughes, Assistant Comptroller General of
the United States, says that “during a study of data collection in
the energy area, we found ... no central agency in the govern
ment responsible for directing or Coordinating the collection of
energy data, nor . . . any agency whose principal responsibility
. . . (was) the analysis of energy data, as such. Yet... (as of)
March, 1973, fifteen major federal agencies were circulating 145
energy-related questionnaires to the states and the private sec
tor. These questionnaires require 11 million responses.”
It was not until a year and a half later that the Federal Energy
Administration announced the creation of a National Energy In
formation Center.
Duplication between federal agencies and between Washington
and state governments is the order of the day. There is tremen
dous overlap, for example, in the reporting requirements of
federal and state tax collection offices. A multitude of small and
large businesses must fill out a variety of state and federal forms
on the same subject matter.
A Federal Reports Act was created almost 33 years ago in an
effort to lessen paperwork. The Budget Bureau, later OMB, was
given the cleanup job. OMB officials report little progress.
In 1968, at the request of the Budget Bureau, an interagency
task force set out to cut grant-in-aid processing time. This effort
yielded a remarkable 43 per cent average reduction in workdays
required in the 10 agencies concerned. OMB believes this saving
has now largely evaporated, with agencies back to their old slop
py habits.
There’s also evidence paperwork can be controlled if constant
pressure is applied. When its feet were put to the fire, the Labor
Department discovered reports it had required from a million
small businessmen added nothing.
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QUOTES
“In the modern world, only
kings, queens, maharajahs and
United States federal judges
have lifetime tenure.”
— Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. (Ind-
Va.) introducing a consti
tutional amendment to make
federal judges subject to recon
firmation every eight years.
“It must be a peace without
victory. Only a peace between
equals can last: only a peace,
the very principle of which is
equality, and a common par
ticipation in a common
benefit.” — Woodrow Wilson,
28th U.S. President.
“When death comes to me it
will find me busy, unless I am
asleep. If I thought I was going
to die tomorrow, I should
nevertheless plant a tree
today.” — Stephen Girard.
American financier.
“He who would really benefit
mankind must reach them
through their work.” — Henry
Ford. American industrialist.
I.UII I IN ’
Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves,
General Manager
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Since 1860, there have been
only four presidential elections
in which all third parties
together polled more than 10
percent of the vote: the
Populists (James B. Weaver) in
1892, the National Progressives
(Theodore Roosevelt) in 1912,
the La Follette Progressives in
1924, and George Wallace’s
American Party in 1968. The
World Almanac notes the only
successful third party in
American history was the
Republican party in the election
of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
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Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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