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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 1,1975
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L. M. BOYD
Billy the Kid
Named Henry
What, you thought the real name of Billy the Kid was
William H. Bonney? So did I. Wrong again! His real name
was Henry McCarty.
Q. “WILL music attract honeybees?”
A. Don’t see how. Honeybees are deaf.
YOU DON’T ordinarily see President George Washing
ton depicted as a highly emotional man. It’s a matter of
record, however, that his voice trembled almost out of con
trol in 1789 during the reading of his first inaugural
address. Every word he said created a precedent, sure
enough. Clearly, he knew that.
KINDLY EXPLAIN why just about all the great screen
lovers have been dark haired.
HOUSTON
Houston Street in New York City is pronounced "how
stun,” not "hew-stun.” And that’s right, too. Came from
two Dutch words "huis tuin” meaning "house garden.”
Used to be the road to the Bleecker family garden. That
city in Texas was not named after a house garden, but
after a fellow named Sam.
BELGIUM organized an army in 1893 in the African
Congo. Anytime a soldier died, his replacement took his
name. And said replacement also inherited his gun, his
wives and his children. The record, which doesn't tell
the truth, indicates that army didn’t lose a man in 20
years.
TEENAGERS
When a surveytaker some time back polled teenagers
nationwide as to just what they thought about this life,
three out of 10 reportedly said quite seriously that they
wished they had never been born. What do you make of
that?
BARBED WIRE collectors pay as much as SI,OOO for
an 18-inch strand of a rarer brand ... A WOODSMAN of
lengthy experience insists the moose has no enemy but
man ... IN THIS COUNTRY but not in many other
countries, one out of every five forkfuls of food gets
tossed into the garbage ... SOMETHING ELSE that Carl
Sandburg said was: "I shall always sing a little in tough
weather" ... IMAGINE you knew that a pigeon’s feathers
weigh more than its bones, didn’t you?
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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Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, May 1,
the 121st day of 1975 with 244 to
follow. This is May Day.
The moon is apprroaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Taurus.
American entertainers Kate
Smith and Jack Paar were
born May first, she in 1909 and
he in 1918.
On this day in history:
In 1873, penny post cards
went on sale for the first time.
In 1884, work began in
Chicago on a 10-story building
called a “skyscraper."
In 1931, the Empire State
Building was dedicated in New
York City—lo 2 floors, rising
1,250 feet.
In 1964, President Lyndon
Baines Johnson predicted the
day will come when the United
States has a woman chief
executive.
Barbs
By PHIL PASTORET
Recall when the only excess fat
in the meat package was the
butcher s thumb on the scale?
Consider how much less
things would cost if they didn’t
add the price of the "free" giz
mo you get with ’em.
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Recall when kids played with
trains, rather than the Conrail
bunch?
Spring blithely out of bed in
the morning and you’ll fall over
the cat.
Thoughts
"The Lord will fight for you,
and you have only to be still."
The Lord said to Moses, “Why
do you cry to me? Tell the peo
ple of Israel to go forward.” —
Exodus 14:14,15.
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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.
Success in defeat .. .
Poised as they have been on the fringes
of Saigon, we have wondered why the
communists did not invade the city and
stop us in our tracks as we sought to
depart. Perhaps it was because “face” is
so important in the Orient, and the victors
may have allowed our departure for their
own propaganda purposes.
The world has seen the unprecedented
spectacle of the United States bowing to its
foe, but also it has seen us safely evacuate
nearly all of our nationals and thousands
upon thousands of Vietnamese who wanted
to leave with us. Instead of tucking our
tails and running in rag-tag disarray, we
have left with strength in a well-organized
. . . Agony and joy
There is agony and joy in the American
pullout of Vietnam — agony to have lost,
joy to be done with it.
Likewise, there is defeat and victory.
The defeat is that of being forced to leave,
to abandon thousands of helpless people to
the mercies of the enemy, to have the
world watch as we strike our flag, push
others aside, and shake the jungle mud from
our boots. The victory is that of having
United Nations
If the United Nations has done a cotton
picking thing to promote a cease-fire in
Vietnam, stop the war, or even to ease the
suffering of its refugees, it has escaped our
Father has
custody of baby
I am going through a child custody fight
with my ex-husband over our 22 month old
sou. He has custody because I was unfit
and signed a waiver, not realizing I was
giving him up. I was gullible and stupid.
The only thing I have going for me is God.
Please give me some Bible verses for
guidance. S.P.
I’ll share a few Bible statements that I
think will help, but remember the best
source of wisdom and strength is your own
reading of the Bible — praying that God’s
spirit will apply the truth personally.
The Psalmist was like you when he
Good news
Nationwide, 1,400 students won National
Merit Scholarships which are sponsored
by 196 colleges and universities.
Georgians, including a Griffin High
graduate, won 99 of these.
Statewide, Georgia did well considering
the fact that its students won about a
fourteenth of the total. Locally, Griffin and
Spalding did well when Kevin Reid won.
He now is enrolled at the University of
Georgia, and we congratulate him.
It is good for Georgia and for Griffin-
Spalding to rank so high in scholarship.
and splendidly executed maneuver. And
we left with dignity. So the red propaganda
machine may have failed.
Too, some of the nations of the world
which have leaned so heavily upon us will
recognize now that they will have to get
busy and do their own part. In Vietnam we
did about all that we could do, more than
any other nation on this earth would have
done. But the government and the people
of that unhappy place had to stand or fall
on their own, and they, not the United
States, lost the war.
That is the lesson which other nations
and their leaders dare not fail to learn.
sufficient strength and power to do the job,
to evacuate our nationals and thousands
upon thousands of refugees, to locate them
in temporary centers, to land our Marines
and their helicopters on rooftops half a
world away, and to carry our people to our
own flotilla of ships assembled thousands
of leagues from home.
Though we lost the war, the evacuation
has been a success, and we can be proud of
it.
attention. If any reader knows of anything
it has done along these lines and will bring
it to our attention, we would appreciate it.
MY
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wrote, “So foolish was I and ignorant. . .
nevertheless, I am continually with thee. .
. thou shalt guide me with thy counsel”
(Psalm 73:22-24).
Doctor Luke shares a word of hope in
writing, “That which is impossible with
men is possible with God” (Luke 18:27).
And then Paul’s words in Phil. 4:11, 13,
give us the secret of the committed life. “I
have learned in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content. . . I can do all
things through Christ.”
Get yourself conditioned to accept
whatever the court decision is, and make
the welfare of the boy paramount.
Berry’s World
. “What’s the matter with me? Why aren't any im
pressionists doing me?’’
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By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
South Korea writes
a success story
One Asian “domino” that is determined not to go the way of
South Vietnam is South Korea.
It will have been 25 years ago next June 25 that the armies of
North Korea launched their invasion. With American help — first
fighting men. then Marshall Plan-style aid — South Korea was
able to push back the Communist tide that appears fated to engulf
most of Southeast Asia.
Not only has the Republic of Korea survived, it has developed
into a booming industrial complex that has made it the 12th most
important trading partner of the United States. South Korean ex
ports are skyrocketing with products ranging from false
eyelashes to oil tankers, and some economic observers say it
could well become another Japan.
Unfortunately, since the 1950-53 war, South Korea has also
developed into a police state under the elected but still repressive
rule of President Park Chung Hee. Democracy, as Americans
know it, is one potential import from the U.S. that remains on the
waiting list.
With that disclaimer, the story of South Korea's emergence
from its barren, war-torn condition in 1953 to become one of the
world's most rapidly developing nations is an inspiring one and il
lustrated by an abundance of statistics. For example:
— The gross national product has increased at an average rate
of 11 per cent a year since the beginning of the country’s first
Five-Year Development Plan in 1962.
—On a per capita basis, GNP was $433 in 1974. While extremely
low by American standards, it represents a quadrupling of the
1964 figure. Another 7 per cent growth to $543 for every man,
woman and child is projected for this year.
Citing figures like these, the Korean Traders Assn, has under
taken a program of persuading Americans that it makes sense to
buy, as it were, “a piece of theßOK.’Already. it notes, major
American corporations have invested some $2 billion in the South
Korean economy.
The association, composed of 1,800 private and investor-owned
Korean companies, is similar to the National Association of
Manufacturers in the United States and, of course, is in the
business of putting South Korea s best foot forward The reality
of the country’s economic progress, however, goes beyond mere
press agentry.
If a nation’s greatest resource is its people, South Korea’s
achievement in the past quarter century is even more
remarkable.
Literacy among its 33 million people is over 92 per cent.
Currently, every child of school age is in school. South Korea’s
100 colleges and 932 high schools graduate tens of thousands of
engineers and skilled technicians every year.
The capital. Seoul, now a buzzing metropolis of nearly 6.5
million, opened a pilot six-mile-long subway last August. Five
lines, with a total length of 80 miles, are to be running by 1985.
Despite the fact that the Republic of Korea has not developed
democratic institutions with comparable zeal or success,
Americans, who sacrificed so much to secure its independence,
can point to it as one Asian country where U.S. aid was given in
telligently and used diligently. And they can hope that as South
Korea’s industrial development continues apace, its economic
success story will one day be repeated in its political life.
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TIIVIELY QUOTES
Roman poet Horace said,
“The brief span of life forbids us
to cherish long hope.”
Charles Dudley Darner,
American man of letters, said,
“Politics makes strange bed
fellows.”
American humorist James
Thurber said, “You might as
well fall flat on your face as lean
over too far backward.”
Irish poet Oscar Wilde said,
“There is no such thing as a
moral or immoral book. Books
are well written or badly
written, that is all.”
British novelist Edward
Lytton said, “The easiest
person to deceive is one’s own
self.”
British writer John Clarke
said, “If life had a second
edition, how I would correct the
proofs.”
American author Washington
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Irving said, “I am always at a
loss to know how much to
believe of my own stories.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Sea otters were nearly ex
tinct in 1907. with only a few
survivors living in the Aleutian
Islands and along the California
coast. Today, thanks to wildlife
management, there are an es
timated 50,000, many of them in
re-established colonies off
mainland Alaska, British
Columbia, Oregon and
Washington, The World
Almanac notes.
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