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Who Is Boss
Os a Family?
When it's the husband but not the wile who earns the
family income, it's usually the husband but not the wife
who makes the big decisions. A client asks if the reverse
is true when the wife but not the husband earns the family
income. No, oddly enough. Scholars with the Florida
Stale Research Council studied the matter. And they
contend the husband has considerably more voice in
family decisions when his wife is the breadwinner than
when she isn't. Why is a mystery. Maybe it’s because
the wife is too tired at night to argue.
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS
Q. “Isn’t the tonsillectomy the most frequently per
formed surgery?"
A. Not anymore. Abortion is now.
Q. “IS THERE any state in the union where the
temperature has never gone up to 100 degrees F.?"
A. Not a one.
Q. “WHAT was the first U.S. automobile sold
abroad?"
A. That was a steam car made by Eli Ransom Olds.
An outfit in India bought it in 1893.
FREQUENTLY reported is the contention that
people with blue eyes are less sensitive to pain than are
people with eyes of any other color. Client asks what eye
color indicates the greatest sensitivity to pain. That’s
brown.
MURROW
Are you old enough to remember that newscaster
of note named Edward R. Murrow? Once his compatriots
at CBS in New York City formed a “We Don't Think
Murrow is God" club. Each member was elected a vice
president, but the presidency itself was left open. They
said they were reserving that spot for Mrs. Murrow. But
when Murrow himself found out about it, he applied for
the office.
ARGUMENT continues over the origin of the word
“mafia." Now contends one more client: “Your explana
tions of mafia are wrong. Mafia is a contraction of
‘Manus Finistra' which simply means ‘Black Hand' in
Italian."
AUSTRALIAN newspapers run daily columns under
the headline. “Drunk and In Jail." In it go the names
of all the DWIs arrested there.
Address mail to L M Boyd. P O Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Let’s get your demands straight. Just what percentage of the
time do you expect men to allow you to be equal to them?”
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, April 3,
the 93rd day of 1975 with 272 to
follow.
The moon is in its last
quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus
and Saturn.
Those bom on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
American astronaut Virgil
Grissom was born April 3, 1926.
Actors Doris Day and Marlon
Brando were born on this date
in 1924.
On this day in history:
In 1806, the Pony Express
postal service with riders
leaving St. Joseph, Mo., and
Sacramento, Calif., at the same
time.
In 1865, the Union Army
occupied Richmond, Va., one
time capital of the Confderacy.
Only the
Newspaper
Quotable: "A free press is the
unsleeping guardian of every
other right that free men prize
. . ."—Sir Winston Churchill.
Newspapers are many things to
many people.
THOUGHTS
“As the Father has loved me,
so have I loved you; abide in my
love. If you keep my com
mandments, you will abide in
my love, just as I have kept my
Father’s commandments and
abide in his love.” — John 15:9,-
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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at least three months in
advance.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
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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.
Lost: a friend
Spalding County lost a friend in the
death of Jim Gillis of Soperton this week.
He was 83.
For 18 years he headed the Georgia
Highway Department and often was the
center of political tugs of war and con
troversy. He administered billions of
dollars, and it is a fact that scandal’s dirty
hand never so much as pointed a finger at
him. “Mr. Jim” was a dynamo, a top ring
leader of Georgia politics for a generation.
Spalding County was the home of his
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Aid
It has been said that foreign aid is part of
the price Americans must pay to build the
kind of world we want. But money alone is
failing to build the kind of nation most of us
want, the kind of state, and even the kind
of community most want. Money helps,
but alone it never has been and never will
be the entire answer. Moral leadership,
practiced at home, is the foundation
without which all else will fail. And that
failure includes the dollar bill multiplied
by billions into foreign aid.
Transfer payments
The words “transfer payments” are
used to describe money collected by the
government from working people in the
form of taxes, then used for such things as
welfare, unemployment insurance, and
Medicare.
President Ford talked about transfer
payments in an interview the other day
95 Percent
Always there is much speculation after
adjournment of the Legislature about how
strong the Governor is. This year there
need be none because the General
Assembly ended its session by adopting a
record |1.9-billion appropriations bill
Suspended
Atlanta Mayor Jackson says he will fight
his city’s suspension from the Georgia
Police Intelligence Network. We do not
expect His Honor to ask our advice, but we
She loves both ANSWER
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husband and child
We take a marriage vow to “forsake all
others.” Does this mean forsaking our
children too? My sixteen-year-old
daughter is pregnant. She is not married,
nor even has a special boy friend. My
husband wants to throw her out (she’s not
his). Well, I refused, and now he is asking
me for a divorce. I love both my husband
and my daughter. Do you see my problem?
Desperate.
In the shame and disgust that your
husband is feeling, he’s taking the easiest
and quickest solution — eliminating the
problem. But perhaps there’s away to help
both of them handle this unexpected
development.
Can’t your daughter stay with a relative
until the child is bom? I know you wrote
wife, the former Annie Lois Walker who
died in 1962. He maintained a strong in
terest and close friendships here, and he
will be missed locally as well as
throughout the state.
Personally, we knew him well, admired
him as a man, respected him as a
politician, feared him on those several
occasions when we were on opposite sides
of a political fence, and we honored him as
a friend.
Few like Mr. Gillis cross one’s path in
life.
and predicted that unless some present
trends can be reversed or at least headed
in another direction —and we quote — “by
the year two thousand 50 percent of the
people will be living off the other fifty
percent.”
What a terrible thing! Yet how rapidly
we are heading that way.
which included 95 percent of the programs
which Governor Busbee recommended.
That’s right, 95 percent, and 95 percent is a
mighty strong batting average in any
political ball park.
suggest that the best way he can fight it is
to straighten things out in his Police
Department’s top echelon leadership.
of the option of abortion, but that would
only compound the guilt.
Somehow, get the two separated for the :
time being. Perhaps the Salvation Army
can help your daughter in one of their
facilities. Then arrange counseling for
your husband and yourself so that he can
accept her, whether or not she lives with
you again.
The Scripture (Genesis 2:24, Matthew
19:5) speaks of “forsaking” father and
mother in order that a husband may
“cleave” to his wife. It’s the marriage
service that uses the phrase “forsaking all
others,” but I believe that is implied in the
Bible statement. Your first obligation is to
your husband, but you can’t eliminate your
duty to your daughter either. Try to
reconcile both.
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© 1975 by NEA. Inc
"This year, the kids aren’t going to summer
camp — WE are!"
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| Now the good news,
. traffic deaths drop
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By Dor Oakley
Thousands of Americans who should have been traffic
statistics in 1974 are alive in ’75, thanks to a variety of factors.
According to a preliminary study by the National Safety Coun
cil, 17,060 traffic fatalities occurred between May 1 and August
31 last year, the peak driving months, compared with 20,630 for
the same period in 1973.
More than half the savings of lives, says the Council, can be at
tributed to reduced vehicle speeds, or about 10 percentage points
out of a total 17 percent reduction.
Even though a majority of drivers in a five-state sample taken
during the study period weren’t complying with the 55-mile-per
hour limit in rural areas, they did slow down from their 1973
speeds — from 70.2 mph to 62 mph. More drivers also were
traveling at about the same pace on the highway, which produced
a smoother traffic flow and lessened the probability of accidents.
Less travel and less night driving, fewer occupants per vehicle
and greater use of safety belts each contributed two percentage
points. “Unknown factors” added another two points, which
would have made a total of 18.
Unfortunately, a traffic fatality increase of one percentage
point had to be subtracted from the total, caused by increased use
of motorcycles and small cars and increased mileage by younger
drivers.
‘Medical mechanization’
Americans may complain about the assemblyline aspects of
modem medicine, as well as its cost, but it is precisely the trend
toward “medical mechanization” that offers one of the best
hopes for keeping costs down without reducing the quality of
care.
The operating room, one of the hardest pressed areas of the
hospital, has been successfully turning to automatic devices and
disposable supplies.
For example, throwaway needles and syringes are replacing
reusables that require expensive labor to clean and re-sterilize.
Many hospitals are also switching to disposable scrub suits and
surgical drapery, which substantially reduces laundering ex
penses.
The electric cautery, now widely accepted, cuts operating time
and eliminates the use of dozens of expensive sutures. And where
suturing is necessary, the surgical stapler has emerged as
probably the most significant time and cost saver.
Surgical stapling instruments stitch automatically using tiny
stainless steel staples. A surgeon can simultaneously place the
equivalent of 66 silk sutures with one application, reducing
operating time by as much as 50 per cent.
The use of surgical staplers is increasing rapidly. One maker,
United States Surgical Corp., estimates that close to 100 million
patients have been “stapled” since it introduced its Auto Suture
surgical stapling line in 1967.
With costs anywhere from SBO to SIOO an hour to run an
operating room today, any device that saves S4O or SSO an hour is
good news. In addition, “stapled” patients are said to heal faster,
have fewer postoperative complications and go home sooner.
Plant pollution?
A six-day air pollution alert in the Washington, D.C., area last
August was caused by plants, not automobiles, says the Motor
Vehicle Manufacturers Assn.
It cites a study by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory which
concluded that the situation was likely the result of natural
evaporation from vegetation in the Appalachian Mountains.
NRL scientists collected rain samples and found that the con
taminants came from “terpene-like hydrocarbons volatized from
Appalachian vegetation” which was trapped in a large stagnant
air mass centered over the coastal plain near the nation’s capital.
There was a notable absence of hydrocarbons associated with
motor vehicle exhausts.
“Where there is a high temperature in the 905,” said the NRL,
“the effect of pollution from vegetation is a hundredfold greater
than from autos.”
The question now is, how do you put emission controls on the
pesky plants?
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“Quote”
“Man’s capacities have never
been measured. Nor are we to
judge of what he can do by any
precedents, so little has been
tried.” — Henry David
Thoreau, American naturalist.
“We often pray for purity, un
selfishness, for the highest
qualities of character, and
forget that these things cannot
be given, but must be earned.”
— Lyman Abbott, American
clergyman.
American writer Isaac Gold
berg said, “Diplomacy is to do
and say the nastiest thing in the
nicest way.”
GRIFFIN
Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves,
General Manager
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By PHIL PASTORET
We’re having leftovers for
supper — if the wife can find
any.
What this country needs is a
good, five-cent nickel.
The difference between a
recession and a depression
depends on who’s selling — and
who’s buying — the apples from
the corner stand.
Considering what’s usually in
it, what difference does it make
if the mail takes two extra days
to get to you?
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