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— Griffin Daily News Friday, May 23, 1975
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L. M. BOYD
Plastic
Surgery
Q. "Isn't breast enlargement the most popular plas
tic surgery in Tokyo now?"
A. It’s still No. 2. The westernization of the eyelids is
No. 1.
Q. "HOW LONG have those stamp collectors known as
philatelists been operating?"
A. Since 1840, I imagine. That’s when England issued
the world’s first postage stamp, the renowned Penny
Black.
Q. "HOW OLD was Johnny Miller when he first learned
how to play golf?”
A. Let's say age 5. At least, that’s how old he was
when his father draped a piece of canvas across the fam
ily's basement in San Francisco to teach Johnny how to
swing at a golf ball.
INVESTMENTS
Note it stated in print by a high federal official that
"husbands who discuss financial investments with their
wives tend to be richer than the husbands who don’t."
Naturally, dumdum. Husbands who discuss financial in
vestments with anyone tend to be richer than husbands
who don’t. If you don’t have any financial investments to
discuss, you're none too likely to discuss them, what?
WAS NONE OTHER than old Bob Ripley who reported
there are 10 ways to spell the sound “R" in English, 33
ways to spell the sound “E,” 17 ways to spell the sound
"V," 36 ways to spell the sound "I," and 17 ways to spell
the sound "S.”
GAMBLER
Scholars who have made a study of the matter con
tend one out of every 34 citizens is a compulsive gambler.
ON HIS INCOME TAX return, world champion poker
player Amarillo Slim Preston lists his occupation as "pro
fessional pool player,” I’m told.
CONSIDER elephants. When two bulls fight each other,
it's usually for position in the herd. When two cows fight
each other, it’s usually over some bull. Or so an elephant
expert says.
AM ASKED why cold cream was so named. That’s
widely known. Because the water in it evaporated when
applied to the skin, thus creating a cool sensation. World’s
first cold cream, concocted by that Greek physician
Galen about A.D. 150, consisted of olive oil, bee’s wax
and as much water as the mixture would hold.
Addtest mail to I. M Boyd. P.O. Box 17076, Fott Worth. TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, May 23, the
143rd day of 1975 with 222 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
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 Gemini.
Ambrose Burnside, a Union
general in the Civil War, was
born May 23,1824.
On this day in history:
In 1701, Captain William Kidd
was hanged in London on
charges of piracy and murder.
In 1939, the U.S. Navy
submarine “Squalus” went
down off New Hampshire in 240
feet of water. Thirty-three of
the 59 men aboard were
rescued with a diving bell.
In 1969, Israeli agents cap
tured Adolf Eichmann in
Argentina and spirited him
back to Tel Aviv. He was
convicted there of being a mass
killer of Jews during World
War II and was hanged.
Onlythe
Make your vacation a picnic by
remembering to have your
newspaper mailed—or saved for
pleasant “catching up” on all
the events when you return.
Thoughts
‘‘Either make the tree
good, and its fruit good; or
make the tree bad, and its
fruit bad; for the tree is
known by its fruit.” — Mat
thew 12:33.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
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.
A good neighbor
Keeping his property up is one of the
things which makes a good neighbor good.
In that respect as well as in others
Southern Bell Telephone Company is one
of the best. Its plant on the corner of Hill
and Poplar streets is an asset. Its business
office from which it is about to move from
further south on South Hill is too. And the
new building into which it is about to move
Band of Gold j
The Griffin High Band of Gold is one of
the best in Georgia. This fall it will look the
part with brand new uniforms which its
friends and sponsors have made possible
with generous contributions. The Boosters
Club, those who gave money, and the band
itself are due congratulations, and we are
looking forward to seeing as well as
hearing it.
It was good to learn that the real Smokey
Bear has not retired, that he will continue
through the pages of this newspaper and
others to urge forest fire prevention.
Smokey was born in an artist’s studio
instead of a den in a forest. He was first
featured in the forest fire prevention
campaign of the state foresters and the
U.S. Forest Service in 1945.
Then, in 1950, a game warden in New
Mexico rescued a bear cub who had been
badly burned in a forest fire and nursed
him back to health. Someone got the idea
of flying this cub back to the National Zoo
in Washington and naming him after the
already-famous Smokey Bear. And there
this live Smokey has lived for some 25
years.
★ * THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Christian athlete
Greg Head, a Griffin High football and
track star, this week was named the
school’s Christian Athlete of the Year.
The honor is one of the highest that can
be bestowed on any athlete.
Greg, as the award winners before him,
was not just selected at random to receive
the honor.
He was judged by his teammates on such
things as high moral standards, Christian
principals, language, participation in
What is answer
to loneliness?
What is the answer to loneliness? Is
there anything in the Bible to help me?
H.S.
I suppose there are many authorities in
the field of psychology and sociology who
could be quoted regarding this problem of
loneliness. But let me give you one
statement of Christ that embraces the
germ of truth from which all help is
derived.
It’s the statement of Christ recorded in
John 16:32, “Behold the hour cometh...
that ye shall leave me alone, and yet I am
not alone, because the Father is with me.”
No human loneliness could ever ap
proximate what Jesus knew. He was
its business and district offices on
Memorial Drive is one of the prettiest and
most impressive in town. We are looking
forward to its open house and to seeing the
inside as well as the outside.
“The voice with a smile” has given the
entire community something to smile
about in this new structure.
Smokey
During the past year, as it became
apparent that live Smokey had become a
very old bear and would soon have to be
“retired”, many people got the impression
that the entire Smokey Bear campaign
was about to be shelved. But that was not
true because Smokey will definitely
continue to be the national symbol of forest
fire prevention for America.
During a brief ceremony at the National
Zoo on May 2, the live bear called Smokey
since 1950 was officially retired and the
title transferred to a younger bear of the
same color and size. So for many years to
come there will be a live bear called
Smokey at the National Zoo, as well as the
fire fighter Smokey in the pages of this
paper.
church activities and conduct.
His classmates felt he met all the
requirements and they voted him to
receive the Christian Athlete award
presented by the Men’s Brotherhood of the
First Baptist Church.
We congratulate Greg for having the
outstanding qualities that earned him the
respect and admiration of his fellow
students.
socially alone, mentally alone and
spiritually alone. But though this ex
cruciating experience, He had the
reassuring presence of the Father. With
this sort of fellowship, Jesus showed that
neighter earth nor hell could break it.
What He had, we may have.
The problem of loneliness is com
pounded today by economic recession,
urban isolation and the disruptive mobility
of the American family. I know of no an
swer, however, except the presence of the
Father through Jesus Christ. With that,
you’ll be led into new friendships, more
productive living and an inner resour
cefulness that life’s bleakness can’t crack.
my
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" What’s it coming to, Harry, when people in our
bracket can’t afford to buy happiness?"
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Ray Cromley
Vietnam: Not
all was lost
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA ) — I must believe that something of
what we did in South Vietnam will endure.
I remember sitting near the Cambodian border on a rooftop in a
Special Forces camp then under seven feet of flood water, listen
ing to the Gls worry they would not be able to finish on time the
school house they had promised the local farmers.
Then there were the villagers who showed me with pride the
school they had constructed themselves — so happy they couldn't
stop talking And the American who had convinced the villagers
they could have a school if they wished, and that they could, in
deed build it if they tried. He had obtained the American
materials needed — galvanized iron for the roof and cement.
I can t forget the American nurse who traveled in safe areas,
contested areas and, for all she knew or cared, in Viet Cong
areas, helping the civilian sick, training Vietnamese nurses,
assisting civilian Vietnamese doctors. She asked no questions,
just helped.
And, walking through the countryside, visiting a local school,
noting a quiet American soldier in the corner, helping where he
could. He was an infantryman, and this was not his duty or his
assignment. But he wanted to do something.
There was the American who. in his off hours, went almost
every day up to a tiny settlement in the hills to help the villagers
with their crops, introducing new ideas — tomatoes, lettuce and
other vegetables — killed one day by the Viet Cong and avenged
by the hamlet’s women.
I sat in at a PTA meeting, where Vietnamese, unused to the
idea of questioning school principals and teachers, sat quietly at
first — then began slowly to get the idea that they as parents
might have some say, too.
There was the piglet program which set thousands of little
farmers up in the meat business in a small way. the introduction
of miracle rice which kept the South in food despite the disrup
tions of war.
Another friend taught hundreds of thousands of South Viet
namese farmers and fishermen to pool their meager funds, loan
the money back to each other for buying small motors and
pumps, small fishing craft, seeds and fertilizer — enabling them
to increase their standard of living by their own efforts.
I remember the repeated American pressures for land reform,
beginning long before our troops were in the country. These men,
undiscouraged by many failures', began to see measurable
progress before the end.
Consider, too. the words of another friend. Asked what he made
of the nationwide village and hamlet elections, he thought for a
moment, then said: “I am acquainted with most of the Viet
namese who associate with Americans — but I recognize only a
few names in the lists of those elected. That means in the coun
tryside they must be picking the men and women they want, not
just who they think we want. It's a good sign.”
There was the talk I had one day with the Taiwanese
agricultural specialist, brought to South Vietnam by the United
States to set up farming cooperatives and demonstration
stations. He was having great trouble in teaching the farmers to
run their own meetings, make their own decisions, stand up for
what they believed. They just want to sit and listen, he said. But
he was making headway. He’d just had an election in which the
farmers, for all their timidity, had elected a vigorous young
leader.
Whatever the men from Hanoi do, I somehow have faith, il
logically perhaps, they will not be able to completely destroy the
spirit these Americans and other friends have kindled in hun
dreds of thousands of hearts in the South
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Quotes
Poet John Masefield said,
“Bitter it is, indeed, in human
fate, when life’s supreme
temptation comes too late.”
British satirist Jonathan
Swift said, “Laws are like
cobwebs which may catch small
flies but let wasps and hornets
break through.”
American author Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens) said, “Let us
be thankful for the fools; but for
them, the rest of us could not
succeed.”
Spanish writer Miguel De
Cervantes said, “My honor is
dearer to me than my life.”
In his 1961 inaugural address,
President John Kennedy said,
“Let the word go forth from this
time and place that the torch
has passed to a new generation
of Americans.”
GRIFFIN
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
England’s King George 111
gets credit for introducing
champagne and the feminine
touch to a ship's coming out
party. Anxious to give his
daughters some stature in the
public eye without depleting the
royal purse, he struck on the
idea of having them sponsor
naval vessels, The World
Almanac recalls. The practice
got off to a smashing start —
one of the king’s daughters ac
cidentally hit a spectator with
the bottle.
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Executive Editor
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