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Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 17,1975
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Too Few Shops
At Airports
What the airport designers are finding out 25 years
too late. I’m told, is that three non-flying citizens show up
at the terminals for each incoming or outgoing plane pas
senger. One youngster and two grownups, most usually.
This is a money market hotter than carnivals, and the mer
chandisers are saddened by the lack of shop space.
CONSIDER the wave lengths of four voices, each
singing an octave apart. Those of the soprano on the G
note above the treble clef are 1.4 feet in length. Those of
the contralto, 2.8 feet. Os the tenor, 5.6 feet. And bass,
11.1 feet. Got that?
LIMERICK
Recently reported here the wish to hold an annual
limerick contest. Mabie M. Sturgis of Boise, Ida., entered
the following: “His gift was brassieres and he trusted
His sweetheart would not be disgusted . But alas! and
alack! ... She gave them right back . . . Saying, 'I prefer
cash. I’m flat busted.’ " Oh, Mabel, you rascal you.
Q. “WHICH kills the more people, lightning or tor
nadoes?"
A. Lightning. Over the years. Tornadoes do in
about half as many citizens, but rack up a lot more prop
erty damage.
NOW ABOUT that eyebrow. It serves to keep the
dandruff off the eyelash. And the eyelash serves to keep
the dandruff out of the eye. Superb planning, what?
VISION
Take car drivers over the age of 60. Do you con
sider same a danger on the highways? Too broad a query,
no? Still, the Vision Committee of the American Optom
etrists Association contends four out of five such citizens
are risky on roads. Because of poor eyesight. Nuts!
Everybody's risky on the roads.
HOW IX) YOU account for the fact that many men
but few women have been impostors?
AGAIN AM ASKED how many people Billy the Kid
killed. And how old he was when Pat Garrett shot him.
Billy died at age 22. Historians say he gunned down 21
people, total. Would like to imply it figured out to be
one victim for each year of his life alter his first birth
day, but it didn’t work that way. There were several early
years there when he didn't kill anybody.
CHINESE EXPERTS say even a good math student
needs about five years to become proficient at handling
that oriental device known as the abacus.
Address mail to I M Boyd, P O. Box 1 7076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1975 I. M Boyd
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SHUTTLE IfIPLOMACV
by Gill Fox
Almanac
For
Today'
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, April 17,
the 107th day of 1975 with 258 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first 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 financier J. P.
Morgan was born April 17,1837.
On this day in history:
In 1521, Martin Luther was
excommunicated from the
Roman Catholic church after
refusing to admit charges of
heresy.
In 1917, New York Sen.
William Calder introduced a
bill establishing Daylight Sav
ing Time. It was defeated.
In 1961, a force of anti-Castro
Cuban rebels began what was
to end as the ill-fated “Bay of
Pigs’’ incident.
In 1964, Mrs. Jerrie Mock of
Columbus, Ohio, became the
first woman to make solo flight
around the world.
Barbs
By PHIL PASTORET
Why do they call some of the
spook-’n’ dagger goings-on
“intelligence’’ activities?
Anyone who thinks jokes
about plumbers are funny
hasn’t had a faucet replaced
recently.
For some of the baseball
crowd, it’s always the “fifth”
inning.
Why does the guy with the
loose dentures always get the
piece of candy with the caramel
in it?
Thoughts
Therefore, putting away
falsehood, let every one speak
the truth with his neighbor, for
we are members one of
another. Be angry but do not
sin; do not let the sun go down
on your anger. — Ephesians
4:25,26.
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Fairness to all
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to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
Selection by the Board of Education of
former. Spalding County Commissioner
David Elder to fill an unexpired term as a
member is what we used to call “a
natural.”
It is “a natural” because he has had
years of experience in government and has
dealt with county, city, state and national
officials — all of whom must be dealt with
by the school board.
And it is “a natural” because in his
More for less
Gordon College in Barnesville has set
another record. This time with slll per
quarter tuition, it has established itself as
the least expensive of 27 colleges in
Georgia.
Roughly, it costs several times that
much to provide for a student, but the state
picks up most of the expense now that
Gordon is a unit of the University System.
Having notched another record for
himself Sunday when he became the first
five-time winner in the history of the
famed Masters Tournament in Augusta,
Jack Nicklaus has a chance now to win all
four major golf championships in a single
year.
Nicklaus thrives on pressure, and he had
plenty of it in Augusta. He started the final
round with a bogey, then birdied three of
the next four holes and pulled into a tie
with Tom Weiskopf. The two Ohio State
alumni then shuffled the lead back and
forth until they were three holes from the
finish. There, Nicklaus sank a 40-foot putt
The beginning
of the earth
I am 14 years old and in the 9th grade.
last year in science class, a kid said that if
evolution wasn’t true, how come there was
so much evidence for it? I happen to
believe the Bible creation account, but I
couldn’t answer him, and I don’t dare ask
my parents. Don’t write me — I’ll read
your answer in the paper. J.S.
The Bible book of Genesis presents an
abbreviated account of the beginning of
our earth. Indeed, it does so in such
majestic simplicity that it has survived the
greatest attacks.
You can tell your fellow student that
evolution is an unverified hypothesis.
Really, the question of how life began is a
philosophical one. As far as science is
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-4334
‘A natural’
Good news
The Commerce Department is reporting
a $1.4 billion dollar drop in the stockpile of
unsold goods for February, the first such
monthly drop since May of 1970.
Economists say that such a drop is a
necessary first step for the economy to
snap out of its recession.
Nicklaus
point
years of public service his integrity never
was questioned, and he established a
reputation for sound judgments — and
because he is a successful businessman
and farmer, and so on.
In short, if the Board of Education
continues to pull rabbits like Mr. Elder out
of its hat, it will win honors as the
“Greatest Magician of the Year” — along
with the appreciation of the public.
While the cost of attending Gordon is
low, the quality of education remains high
and exceeds by far the minimum
requirments of the system of which
Gordon is part.
So it is a fact that Gordon is a place
where a person really can “get more for
less,” and this re-emphasizes its im
portance to the community of counties
which it serves.
and was not to be caught again.
Weiskopf and fast-charging Johnny
Miller both had chances to throw the
Masters into an 18-hole playoff by sinking
birdie putts on the final hole, but both
missed. So Nicklaus posted a one-stroke
lead over their tie for second.
As for the Grand Slam, the next major
tournament is not until the U.S. Open
outside Chicago in June, and Nicklaus says
winning all four this year is a possibility
but not a probability. We have to agree
with him on the odds, but we would like to
see him make it, wouldn’t you?
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concerned, you can hold to natural or
supernatural origin of life on an equally
valid scientific basis. You’d be interested
to know that a scientist writing recently in
the “Quarterly Review of Biology” even
thought the odds were in favor of the
supernatural view.
But here’s a good statement that ap
peared in “Inter-Varsity Press” last year:
“If we take seriously what the Bible means
by creation, we see that it is not just a
single datable event...it is rather a con
tinuing relationship of dependence bet
ween us and God, such that the whole of
our drama, its past, its present and its
future owes its form and its ongoing
existence moment by moment to His
creative power.”
Berry’s World
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© 1975 by NEA. Inc
“You’re the first crude oil man I’ve met and I
don't think you’re the LEAST bit crude!”
By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
Consumers prefer
to do it themselves
If the overwhelming majority of American consumers have
their way, Congress will again shelve the idea of setting up a
super consumer advocate in Washington.
Although the empowering legislation, “The Consumer Protec
tion Agency Act of 1975,” has been endorsed by an impressive 11-
1 vote in the Senate’s Government Operations Committee,
American consumers, by a 75 per cent majority, are opposed to
the creation of a new, independent consumer agency within the
federal government — according, that is, to another of those
übiquitous public opinion surveys.
The survey found that only 13 per cent of consumers support the
bill (5.200), which its proponents say would give consumers a
larger voice in helping shape government decisions. Not only
that, but more than half of the 13 per cent who initially favored
such an agency changed their minds when told that the bill calls
for the government to spend S6O million to set up and operate the
new agency over the first three years.
A total of 12 per cent of the public had no opinion either way.
Opinion Research Corp, of Princeton, N.J., conducted the sur
vey. which was commissioned by The Business Roundtable. A
total of 2,038 people of voting age were interviewed in their
homes between Jan. 10 and Eeb. 3, 1975. All sections of the coun
try and all population groups were represented.
One would have guessed otherwise from listening to the com
plaints of some consumer activists, but tlu survey found that the
public is generally satisfied with the consumer protection efforts
of existing government agencies. Almost eight out of 10 con
sumers feel they are being treated fairly by the government.
Asked about present federal agencies in the consumer field,
most of the people interviewed had heard of the Office of Con
sumer Affairs, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the
Environmental Protection Agency, and most felt they were doing
effective jobs.
Thus given the choice between creating a new agency or mak
ing existing ones more effective, they strongly favored improving
present agencies by 75 per cent to 13 per cent, as noted.
The survey also found that 27 per cent of consumers believe
they are “almost always” treated fairly by business, while 59 per
cent feel they are “usually” treated fairly. Thirteen per cent said
they have been treated unfairly.
Yet even in cases in which people have been dissatisfied with
some product or service, the survey showed that they believe the
best places to go in order to get something done about it are the
person or business they dealt with in the first place, the Better
Business Bureau and the company that made the product or fur
nished the service.
Only 8 per cent of the public look to federal consumer agencies
to correct unfair treatment.
Supporters of the Consumer Protection Agency could argue, of
course, that this last statistic, especially, underscores how much
Americans need to be educated in the matter of their consumer
rights.
Yet despite the constant din of criticism of American business
and the all too frequent examples of businesses failing to perform
as they should perform, there seems to be a notable absence of
any popular groundswell in favor of enshrining the consumerism
movement in its own agency in the national government.
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TIMELY QUOTES
“There will always be a fron
tier where there is an open
mind and a willing hand.” —
Charles F. Kettering.
American industrialist.
“The world will never have
lasting peace so long as men
reserve for war the finest
human qualities. Peace, no less
than war, requires idealism and
self-sacrifice and a righteous
and dynamic faith.” — John
Foster Dulles, former U.S.
Secretary of State.
British statesman Sir Winston
Churchill said, “If we open a
quarrel between the past and
the present, we shall find that
we have lost the future.”
President Franklin D. Roose
velt said, “The truth is found
when men are free to pursue
it.”
American writer Charles
Warner said, “The thing
generally raised on city land is
taxes.”
American humorist Mark
Twain said, “Work consists of
whatever a body is obliged to
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Quimby Melton. Jr„ Editor and Publisher
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do. Play consists of what a body
is not obliged to do.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Pro football’s game atten
dance. including pre-season and
post-season games, rose to an
all-time high of 15,500,586 in
1973, The World Almanac says.
Federal legislation required
clubs to appear on local
telecasts if any game was sold
out 72 hours prior to kickoff.
During the regular season, 9.48
per cent of the tickets sold were
not used. In 1972, when local
games were blacked out, 5.98
oer cent of the tickets sold were
lot used.
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NEWS
Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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