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Chickens Are
State Birds
Maybe you were aware that the cardinal has been des
ignated by more states as their official bird than any other
fowl. But can you name the two states which identify the
chicken as their official bird? The Rhode Island Reds of
Rhode Island, of course. And the Blue Hen chicken of
Delaware, too.
THE TYPICAL Mother’s Day card costs approximately
twice as much as the typical Father’s Day card. Is that
fair?
ANOTHER of those relatively rare words with opposite
meanings, please note, is dust. As in dust the crops in
one instance and dust the piano in another. Cleave is
such a word, too. Any others?
SUICIDES
Q. “Is there any one weeknight in particular when the
most people commit suicide?”
A. Can only report the statistics out of the Los Angeles
Suicide Prevention Center. Wednesday is the peak night
there, it’s said.
Q. “WHAT musicals have won the Academy Award as
best picture of the year?”
A. Can think of five. “An American in Paris,” “Gigi,"
“West Side Story,” “My Fair Lady” and "The Sound of
Music.”
PLEASE don’t foget what old Abe Lincoln said about
fighting. "Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the
most of himself can spare the time for personal conten
tions. Better give your pants to a dog than be bitten by
him.”
CLASSIFIED
In that matter of fancy classified ads, here's one that
turned up some time back in Seattle: “Our pet terrier
slipped her chain and so we’re peddling pups again. Cock
ers? Bulldogs? German Shepherds? For all we know they
may be leopards." John W. Holmes wrote that.
WHAT, YOU hate to clean the oil-based paint out of a
brush when you have to stop in the middle of a job? Why
bother? Just put that brush in a plastic wrapper and
freeze it. When you want to start painting again, thaw it
out for 30 minutes, then have at it.
ACCIDENT statistics are what the insurance boys work
with. And said statistics indicate far more mishaps occur
in gasoline stations than in explosive manufacturing
plants. That's why the party who works in such a plant is
a better insurance risk than is a service station attendant.
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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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, May 2, the
122nd day of 1975 with 243 to
follow.
The moon is approaching 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.
Singer-actor Bing Crosby was
born May 2,1904.
On this day in history:
In 1863, Gen. Thomas Jona
than “Stonewall” Jackson was
mistakenly shot by his own
Confederate soldiers. He died
eight days later.
In 1941, the Federal Com
munications Commission ap
proved the regular scheduling
of commercial television broad
casts.
In 1972, FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover died at the age
of 77. Also that day, 91 persons
were killed in a mine fire at
Kellogg, Idaho.
In 1973, Democrat John
Connally, former governor of
Texas and Treasury Secetary
in the first Nixon administra
tion, joined the Republican
party.
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kindled, wrapped, mailed . . .
even stuffed. Newspapers are
the independent medium.
Thoughts
“Take heed to yourselves and
to all the flock, in which the
Holy Spirit has made you guar
dians, to feed the church of the
Lord which he obtained with his
own blood.” — Acts 20:28.
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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.
The kettle is not boiling yet, but it is
getting up a head of steam at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Ostensibly, the dispute is over whether
or not to contract with a private firm to
operate it. But that is only the tip of an
iceberg whose underside is made up of
frozen layers of old grudges, jealousies,
personality conflictsand other ugly debris.
An outside contract may or may not be
wise, but another full blown fuss similar to
The communists captured between $3-
billion and $5-billion worth of U.S. military
hardware in South Vietnam, thus making
them one of the biggest recipients of
About 1,500 people marched near the
University of California campus at
Berkeley immediately after the fall of
Saigon to hail the communist victory.
Carrying torches, they followed Viet
★ ★THIS WEEK'S SPORTS EDITORIAL★ ★
GHS’s champions
Coach Tammy Weaver has a right to be
proud of her tennis team.
It’s not very often that a team pulls off a
clean sweep in regular season and tour
nament competition.
Griffin followed up a perfect season by
winning the singles, doubles and team
championship in the 6-AAA tournament
completed here Wednesday.
Paula Westmoreland successfully
Could Jesus
haved sinned?
I am told that Jesus Christ lived a life on
earth entirely free from sin. My question
is: Would it have been possible for Jesus to
have sinned? Did He have a choice? I’m
aware of the Hebrews 4:14 reference.
C.L.D.
First, let me quote that Bible reference
for our readers. It says of Christ that He
“was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin.” Admittedly, the in
terpretation is difficult. Some scholars
have been branded heretic for even
suggesting the theoretical susceptibility of
Christ to sin.
Maybe there’s a clue in what John says
in I John 3. He says the one “bom of God
Our hospital
Good news
The president of the National
Association of Food Chains, Clarence
Adamy, predicted in Atlanta this week
that food prices will stabilize or even drop
during the remainder of 1975. He said that
fractional declines recorded in Fedruary
and March are the type reductions he
expects. Also, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture announced this week that
beef, turkey, chicken and eggs will be
plentiful during all of May.
Uncle Sucker
Disgusting
the one over recreation would not be in the
public interest. All the same, that appears
to be the direction in which the hospital is
headed.
In our judgment, what the hospital needs
more than anything else is full 24-hour a
day medical doctor staffing of its
emergency room, plus a daytime clinic
where non-emergency sick people can get
some help.
American military aid in history. In
comparison, we have sent France $4.2-
billion and Korea $3.3-billion.
Cong flag and a drummer in a five-mile
march. Oh how good it would be if we could
swap those 1,500 for a similar number of
South Vietnamese who want to get out of
there but can’t.
defended her singles championship and
Portia Vaughn and Karen Jackson
(doubles) joined her in the winner’s circle.
The three Griffin High girls now will
compete in the State Tournament at
Mercer University.
We congratulate the Griffin champions.
We wish them well as they represent their
school and 6-AAA in the state tournament.
MY
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doth not commit sin.” Now he certainly
does not mean that the Christian does no
wrong. Rather, he means that to the extent
the Christian gives no internal assent to
the tempter, to that extent “the wicked one
touche th him not” (5:18). How much more
true would this be of the Son of God.
In the earthly life of Christ, He under
went what one has called a complete
“curriculum of trial and temptation.”
Satan came as close to Christ, probably
closer than ayone else. But the difference
was that Christ never, never gave in. Let’s
put it this way: “He could — but would
not.”
And because He was the overcomer, He
can give us confidence and hope.
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'7 couldn’t help myself! Today, I bought the
biggest, most luxurious car I could find, and,
somehow, I feel like a lemming!”
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Ray Cromley
No consolation for
the honest men
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — I have just received the following
note from a dear Vietnamese friend:
•'All is finished. There is (not) any hope to save a free South
Vietnam. I wait for the latest declaration of Mr. Ford to write to
you because I expect to find out some changes in the policy of the
United States toward the government of Saigon. But I am really
despaired Only one thing is comforting: the hope that we can be
saved by a vast emigration promised by your President.
In 1971 I returned from the United States because I believed
that we can still save a free South Vietnam. But now this free
Vietnam can exist only a few weeks or a few months. So that we
can have only one choice: to live as stateless persons where we
can find a promised land.
“Can you give me some comforting news? Can you enlighten
me about the future? Here we talk nothing but abandon and
emigration. Can we expect another sort?
“In this pessimistic prospect. I hope to hear from you and send
you my best wishes.”
This is no soft Saigon native. My friend as a youth fought for
many years as a guerrilla in Vietnam's war to free itself from the
French. He was. for a long time, national secretary of South Viet
nam's newspapermen's union. He has of late been publisher of a
small hard hitting newspaper regularly in trouble with President
Thieu because of his frankness.
Whenever I would visit Vietnam in the old days, he would take
me to visit his friends. In the quagmire of politics, they were in
evitably the honest ones. Among them:
A police chief forced out because he would not bow to corrup
tion ordered from the President’s palace.
The commandant of a noncommissioned officer’s school who
had to resign because he told his students to vote for whomever
they personally believed in and refused to order them to vote for
Thieu.
A gentle uncorruptable professor of mathematics who, for a
time, was head of the South Vietnamese government until un
intentional blunders by the then-American Ambassador forced
him out. U.S. officials wrung their hands after discovering their
mistake. But it was then too late to turn the hands of the clock
back.
The former head of the foreign affairs committee of the South
Vietnamese Senate, whom the Communists attempted to murder
— getting his close friend instead — and politically attacked
regularly by the successive military rulers of the South.
What then do we tell honest, decent men like my friend?
When he talked back to Thieu on the pages of his newspaper, he
w T as censored or banned,a day or a week. Under Hanoi, of course,
he will have no paper. But if he did talk back to the new rulers,
which he would most certainly do, being a man and not a
chameleon, his end would be fixed.
But his fate is sealed anyway. For he has a reputation as an out
spoken man, which Hanoi cannot abide.
He knows and I know what the Communists will do.
Do we. like numbers of U.S. Senators and Representatives, say
to him then, go make a political accommodation with the North
Vietnamese? What settlement? Who would enforce it? How long
would it last?
My friend, please remember, was a guerrilla under Ho and has
seen the Hanoi men in action. Let us not attempt to beguile him
with mealy-mouthed words.
Ironically. North Vietnam owes its own freedom from France
in part to my friend and tens of thousands more like him in South
Vietnam who fought in the wars in those earlier years.
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Quotes
“The duty of man is plain and
simple, and consists of but two
points , his duty to God, which
every man must feel; and his
duty to his neighbor — to do as
he would be done by.” —
Thomas Paine, American
political essayist.
“A Church to me is the sym
bol of faith in the life eternal; it
typifies decency, kindliness and
fair dealing; it offers comfort
to the sorrowing. With the
golden rule it would make
neighbors of us all.” — Edgar
Guest. American poet.
“God is everwhere, the God
who framed mankind to be one
mighty family, himself our
Father, and the world our
home. — Samuel T. Coleridge,
English novelist.
“In no direction that we turn
do we find ease or comfort. If
we are honest and if we have
the will to win we find only
danger, hard work and iron
resolution.” — Wendell L.
Willkie, American statesman.
GRIFFIN
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WORLD ALMANAC
The length of the northern
boundary of the conterminous
United States — the U.S.-
Canadian border, excluding
Alaska — is 3,987 miles accor
ding to the U.S. Geological
Survey, Dept, of the Interior.
The World Almanac notes that
the length of the Alaskan-
Canadian border is 1,538 miles.
The length of the U.S.-Mexican
border, from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Pacific Ocean, is ap
proximately 1,933 miles, in ac
cordance with a 1963 agree
ment.
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Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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