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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 23,1975
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Coplay News Service
L. M. BOYD
Battle of
The Alamo
A pollster contends fewer than 7 per cent of the
grownups outside Texas in this country know who won
the battle of the Alamo. Your family historian may not
believe that. All right, ask that expert for the name of
Admiral Dewey's victorious flagship in the battle wherein
the Maine was sunk. Far fewer than 1 per cent can answer
that one. It was the Olympia.
EVERY FIFTH CAR sold around here lately is a foreign
make.
SIR, NOT MANY anagrams such as "unite" and "untie"
have opposite meanings, what?
HIAWATHA
Q "Was Hiawatha a real Indian?"
A The character in Longfellow's poem was a spinoff
of a real Indian named Hiawatha, a foxy fellow who did
much for the Onondaga tribe with his political strategy
and fancy oratory. He sold a lot of angry men on the
theory that peace was better than war.
Q. "WHO WAS the baseball catcher that first planted
himself directly behind the bat instead of 15 feet in back
of home plate?"
A. Connie Mack
Q. "HOW MANY quills on a porcupine?
A. Figure 30,000. That's about a third as many quills
as hairs on the scalp of a redheaded woman.
DIPLOMA
Just about anybody who gets a diploma nowadays
flattens it out in a frame. Our Langage man finds this
mildly curious inasmuch as "diploma" originally meant
"fold in two." Documents carried by diplomats were so
doubled over and sealed to hide their contents. And it
was the fold in such a paper that gave it the name
diploma.
YOU NEED 30 pounds of clean air a day to survive
Don't worry There are 21* million tons of clean air for
every human being on earth,
JOSEPHONE was just the nickname that Napoleon
gave his girlfriend Her real name was Rose. Incidentally,
it was erroneously reported that she was taller than
Nappy Research reveals she was only five feet tall while
he was five feet six inches.
POLLSTERS say no professional is more likely to
switch political parties from election to election than is
the farmer.
Address moil to I M Boyd. P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1975 I. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, July 23,
the 204th day of 1975 with 161 to
follow.
The moon is full.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn.
The evening star is Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of I-eo.
American actress Charlotte
CYishman and actor Michael
Wilding were born on July 23,
she in 1816 and he in 1912.
On this day in history:
In 1829, William Burt of
Mount Vernon, Mich., received
a patent for a device called the
"typographer," believed to
have been the first typewriter.
In 1904, the ice cream cone
was born. A St. Ixxiis man
called on a young lady,
carrying a bouquet of flowers
in one hand and an ice cream
sandwich in the other. The girl
fashioned one of the sandwich
layers into the form of a vase
and the cone idea caught on.
In 1973, Watergate Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox
served subpoenas on the White
House after President Nixon
refused to turn over tapes and
documents related to the case.
Nixon later refused to honor the
subpoenas.
Only the
Ml
ONLY THE NEWSPAPER
tailors itself to fit the read
er's needs so closely and to
the area it serves. The news
paper seeks out the trends of
modem life and reports them
to von.
Thoughts
Do you not know that you are
God's temple and that God's
Spirit dwells in vou? — I Cor
3:16.
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Ihe Griffin Daily News' policy is to be fair to everyone. Ito editor*! opinions are confined
to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
Cheerleaders
Dear Mr. Melton: We, the Griffin High
Varsity Cheerleaders, drastically
support! In order to provide more oppor
tunities for girls to become cheerleaders,
this year we have added Four girls to our
previous squad ot ton We felt that this
would increase our school spirit as well as
to be beneficial to the performance ot our
teams. Due to this increase, our expenses
are higher than ever! This year, our ex
penses including new uniforms, summer
camp, etc. total approximately 1150 per
girl. This does not include the expense ot
sign paper, paint, pep pins, booster but
tons, parties for the teams, and so on
Most people are unaware ot the con
tributions we make to our school simply
because they have become a yearly
routine. Unlike most athletes, we practice
and work year round supporting each
team at Griffin High. We are Griffin High
athletes!
As we are unable to have more than one
money-making project per year, we
cannot reach our goal of 22,100 This year
we arc trying a new project We are
colla ting labels off of Colgate products,
and in turn receiving money for them from
the Colgate Company. If you would saw
your labels off of such products as Ajax
Cleaner, Ajax All Purpose Cleaner, Ajax
for Dishes, Handi-wipes, Palmoliw Dish
washer Detergent, Irish Spring Soap,
Dynamo laundry Detergent, Baggies,
Curad Bandages i in the can I, Cold Power,
Axion, and Wash n- Dri, and send them to
us in care of Griffin High School, your help
would be very much appreciated! Thank
you for listening! (Signed' Griffin High
Varsity Cheerleaders. Robyn Mullins and
Terri Mays, < Captains}
Experiment
Station
Dear Quimby : The Georgia Experiment
Stations' Open House on July 16 was a huge
success. Thanks tor your assistance with
the publicity tor the celebration ot the
Agricultural Experiment Stations' Oen
tennial anti U. S. BMVntennial We ap
preciate your support and interest of our
research program at the Griffin Station.
Your friendship has meant a great deal
to us over the years. We hope you will come
to visit us at home or the Station any time
it is convenient
Best personal regards, ( Signed! Sin
cerely', A, Hugh Dempsey, Chairman,
Centennial and Bi-Centennial Committee
Trucks
Dear Mr. Melton: This letter is in
response to your editorial last week con
cerning sand and gravel trucks. First 1
have operated a saint and gravel truck
eleven years, so I think I should know a
little something about them.
Concerning your statement about the
watered down tarp law on local rock hauls
— most local hauls take less than one hour
to complete. It takes ten minutes to put a
tarp on and the same to take off. So it takes
an hour twenty* minutes to complete most
local hauls, it tarped. So a truck would lose
on a day' of ten local hauls, about three
hours time or about three hauls. As you
must realise this is a lot of time and money
tor the trucker, since most ot us are in
dependent owners and haul on a very
competitive basis. We haw had a 90
percent increase in the cost of fuel, 40
percent increase in tires and replacement
parts and only* 10 percent increase in pay*
The real ‘you*
won't be buried
1 don't know whether I'm a Christian or
not, but l have a horror of being put in n
coffin beneath the ground. Can you uader
stand how I feel? To live with the thought
of being someday under the earth makes
me wish I wasn't born. S.IJi.
I like what a Scottish clergyman of the
last century said about the death of a
Christian. He wrote: "We picture death as
coming to destroy; let us rather picture
Christ as coming to save. We dunk of death
as ending; let us rather think of life as
beginning. We think of losing; let us think
of gaining. We think of parting; let us think
of meeting. We think of going away; let us
think of arriving."
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
Fairness to «/Z
Letters I
I
The Griffin Daily News welcomes letters
to the editor and features them on this
page every Wednesday
Here are the ground rules:
AU must be signed. We may withhold a
name upon request, but only with the |
understanding that we will provide it to
anyone with a good reason for asking. We
will not withhold a name signed to any let
ter critical of any individual.
Letters concerning race, creed or f
religion are not acceptable Nor are letters
ter er against political candidates.
over the last two years. 1 think you can see
the problem — we need to cut our haul
time as much as possible.
We truckers now are forced with another
problem, the new Weight Law. According
toil, we will only be allowed a gross weight
of 66,280 lbs. Where, until July 1. 1975, we
were allowed 73,280 lbs. gross. This is a
7,000 pound loss. Freight line trucks of 36
foot length from center of tractor axle to
center of trailer axle will be allowed 80,000
gross on four dual axles. This is the same
amount of axle sand and gravel trucks
have. 1 feel this new weight law is very
unfair. If freight line trucks gross 80,000
lbs. and we are only allowed 66,280 lbs.,
t this is approximately a 14,000 lbs. loss)
we might as weU quit and another small
businessman wiU go down the drain.
The answer to the question of rock
falling off trucks and breaking windshields
is tor the trucks to be loaded six inches
below side boards. Most of the tractor
trailer operators already do this. There is
a big problem with John Q. Public getting
his windshield broken — getting behind a
gravel truck — saying a rock blew off the
gravel truck and broke his windshield. As
you know, rock will not blow like sand, so
JohnQ. Public rips off the trucker as well
as the Insurance Company. A lot of times
he will get a check for his windshield —
pocket it - and looks for another truck to
rip off. I always tarp sand, but frankly,
rock loaded right will not blow off.
You stated that the tarp law was passed
while you were in the legislature. Also
didn't you help pass the law that all State
Patrol cars were to be light and dark blue,
with a blue light on top? All sheriff and
police cars working traffic were to have a
blue light on top. Well, most State Patrol
cars now are yellow, brown and white with
no lights on top. I say if our tarp law was
watered down, so was the Uniform Car
law Don't get me wrong, 1 have no beef
against any law officer, I just feel that law
officials should be clearly recognisable so
as to create no problem when being pulled
over. This day' and time you don't want to
pull over and stop, unless you are ab
solutely sure it is a bonafied law officer.
Please do not use my name — just sign
"Independent Trucker *. Sincerely, Un
signed
Gasoline
Dear Editor: Recently there has been
quite an uproar in the media and by the
public concerning the rise of gasoline
prices on or near the first of the month.
Although we. as a trade association, have
no direct insight into the pricing of
products by various companies, there are
several things which should be made
apparent to the public so they can better
understand the complexities of pricing
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T ■ fl ANSWER
An area where the Christian community
can have an effective witness is its attitude
on death. Because of Christ's resurrection,
death not only loses its horror, but it
becomes actually a welcome gateway to
true happiness. As a Christian, the real
"you" won't be under the earth, but
vibrantly alive with the Lord (2 Cor. 5:1).
What does a butterfly care about the
discarded cocoon?
Shrinking from death is natural. But
faith can free you from the dead of it If
you'll make sure of your personal salva
tion through faith in Christ you can say
what Paul did in I Cor. 15:55, “O grave,
where is thy victory?*’
Berry’s World
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“It you don’t mind — I'd rather not know where
Susan Ford is and what she's doing this week. It
makes me too envious!”
petroleum products.
1. The Federal Energy Administration
controls the prices at which all petroleum
products may be sold in this country. Oil
products prices have been under federal
control since the summer of 1971. Oil
companies and natural gas producers are
not permitted to charge prices based on
market conditions — although other types
of businesses in the United States are
allowed to do so.
2. The FEA permits oil companies to
increase prices only when there is proof
that the companies have incurred higher
costs.
3. FEA regulations provide that an oil
company may pass through to consumers
increased costs of products. But the
federal agency does not guarantee that a
company will be able to pass those costs
along. For competitive reasons, many
companies in recent months have had to
“bank” increased product costs — that is,
to delay passing that added expense on to
customers. Until the costs can be passed
through, a company in that situation is
holding an “IOU", with no guarantee that
it will be able to collect.
4. Other FEA regulations require that if
a company incurs non-product cost in
creases (for building materials, or labor,
or utility bills, for example), the company
can recover these costs only during the
month after the additional expense is
incurred. If they are not recovered during
the subsequent month, they are lost
forever. This (rather than any plot) ex
plains why companies tend to increase
prices on the first day of the month — in
order to have a full month to recoup
amounts already paid out. These costs
cannot be recovered at all, under FEA
rules, if they would cause a company to
exceed a specified "profit margin”.
5. Gasoline prices, contrary to popular
lore, sometimes go down as well as up. The
FEA, which collects that kind of in
formation, has published reports showing
that in a given month, some companies
increase gasoline prices, some lower
them, and some remain steady. Cuts in
price, unfortunately, seldom attract the
attention given to increases.
6. With respect to July 1 gasoline prices,
individual refiners reacted differently,
based on their own situations. Thus, some
refiners passed through higher costs, some
lesser amounts, and some none whatever.
I hope that these points will help in
understanding the how and why of gasoline
price increases. (Signed) Creg Smith.
Director of Public Relations. Petroleum
Council of Georgia
CARNIVAL by Dick Tumei
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"But Dexter and I DO have something in common, Dad. He's
weak in geometry and so am I!"
GRIFFIN
Quimby Mrhon. Editor and Publisher
Cary Rervrw, Rill Knight.
General Manager Exreuthe Editor
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