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Why Dieter
Gets Giddy
Thought waves in the brain are influenced by a chem
ical called acedylchohne. It’s produced by a concentrate
of sugar and carbon in the blood. When a person diets,
said party greatly reduces the amount of this chemical.
It’s now known that’s why a dieter sometimes gets giddy
in conversation, casting uncharacteristic remarks.
QUESTION ARISES as to whether a deer is better able
to spot a bright red jacket on a hunter than, say, an olive
drab jacket. No, as far as the science boys can tell, a deer
is color blind. Everything it looks at is some shade of
gray.
THE BABY FOOD MAKERS say the most popular grub
among the infants is corn. Least popular, they say, is
spinach
BLOOD
Q. ‘How can I find out how much blood I have?”
A. Divide your weight by 12. That’s how many pints.
CLIENT ASKS why Sir Francis Drake was so success
ful in his voyages of discovery on the high seas. Probably
because he treated his crews well. Lot of sea captains in
those days shanghaied their crewmen out of England's
jails and virtually kept them prisoners aboard ship. Drake
didn't, though. When word got around that he was about to
set sail, volunteers showed up from all over. He had the
pick of the best.
FROGS
Frogs prefer the color blue. They’ll jump toward blue
everytime. Rather than to green or black or orange. Such is
is the dubious claim of a biology researcher.
EXERCISE is good for your bones as well as for
your muscles. The tug of the muscles against the bones
strengthens them. The medical specialist who reports the
foregoing contends it’s particularly important after the
age of 40 when the bones tend to get thinner and more
brittle.
THAT WOMEN tend to have more surgical operations
than do men has been reported. Less widely known is that
women generally take a good deal longer to recover from
same.
Is your third finger nearly as long as your second? If
so, odds are you're a taker of chances, a gambler. Or such
be the claim of a theorist who contends that physical char
acteristics denote personality traits. This is the same sav
ant who says a straight little finger suggests the posses
sor has not just one but several distinct talents.
AM ASKED IF any bird has eyebrows. No, but that fowl
known as the Asiatic Hornbill has eyelashes. Will that
do?
Address moil to I M Boyd, P.O. Box 1 7076, Fort Worth. TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 I. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
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Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Oct. 18,
the 291st day of 1975 with 74 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning stars are Venus,
Mercury, Mars and Saturn.
The evening star is Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Libra.
American actor George C.
Scott, an Academy Award
winner in “Patton,” was bom
Oct. 18, 1927.
On this date in history:
In 1776, the boundary between
Maryland and Pennsylvania
was finally settled, later to be
known as “The Mason-Dixon
Line.”
In 1873, the first rules
governing intercollegiate foot
ball were drawn up by
representatives of Yale, Prin
ceton, Rutgers and Columbia
Universities.
In 1959, Russia claimed to
have taken the first pictures of
the far side of the moon.
RICCNT€NNIAL
TRACTS—
Confronted by the demands of
the American war, Parliament
lowered whatever standards
that existed in the recruitment
of soldiers by authorizing the
impressment of all men not
lawfully employed, the enlist
ment of Roman Catholics, and
the relaxing of physical stan
dards to take in 16 year old boys
and 50 year old men, provided
they were at least 5 feet-3 in
ches tall. The World Almanac
recalls.
Thoughts
And he said to them, “Why
are you afraid, O men of little
faith?” Then he rose and rebuk
ed the winds and the sea; and
there was a great calm. —
Matthew 8:26.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Georgia’s Powderkeg
Georgia prisons are filled to
overflowing with inmates and state
penal officials are turning to the
counties for help.
Dr. Allen Ault, commissioner of
the Department of Offender
Rehabilitation, was quoted
recently as saying the state penal
system had “reached the ceiling”
and no more inmates will be ac
cepted until some of those now .in
carcerated are released.
District Atty. Lewis R. Slaton of
Atlanta said, “If we don’t do
something about providing
adequate prison facilities, our
whole justice system is going to
collapse. It’s squeaking now.
“We should be putting a great
many more people behind bars
that we are,” he said. “The pres
sure is to get them out, rather than
to build adequate facilities to keep
them in.”
It is not as though the current
prison dilemma slipped up on us.
Florida and other states have
A stalking horse
NEWS-DAILY, Jonesboro
Sargent Shriver is running for president of the
United States and claims he wears the Kennedy mantle.
He tossed in the name of the late President John Kennedy
at strategic times in his announcement a few weeks ago.
Shriver is probably a stalking horse for the surviving
Kennedy brother, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Said Shriver of Senator Kennedy: “All of the candidates
now in the field agree that if Sen. Kennedy wanted the
nomination he could get it.” And that’s probably true,
which shows how bad off the Democratic party really is.
A presidential term with Ted Kennedy at the helm would
be all we needed to completely bankrupt this nation.
Although he insisted for a time he *
would continue to travel as scheduled,
President Ford has now slowed his pace.
Obviously, that was the sensible course.
One reason some prefer a six-year
term for U.S. Presidents is that such an
arrangement would make it un
necessary for chief executives to politic
for a year in advance of elections. And
that is what Ford has been doing in
recent months - politicing for the
November, 1976 election.
All Presidents seeking to retain their
job do it. Former President Nixon did it
and was so concerned about possible
scandal during his reelection campaign
Courageous
and forthright
Did you happen to read Alexander Solz
henitsyn’s speech delivered to the AFL
CIO leadership in New York? I heard that
one leader in high office said, after reading
the speech, that the Russian poet is a
mental case. Do you happen to know if this
is true? What did you think of his remarks
to the nation, if you read the speech?
1.0. K.
I certainly did read Solzhenitsyn’s
speech and thought it to be one of the most
courageous and forthright I have heard
lately. Here is a man who has suffered for
his beliefs, and has earned the right to be
heard. He said many important things, but
one statement struck me forcibly.
“Communism has never concealed the
fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of
morality. It scoffs at any consideration of
‘good and evil’ as indisputable categories.
WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD
Ford’s Travels
Vidalia Advance
reached the saturation point in
recent months. On one occasion
Florida was housing inmates in
tents on the state prison grounds.
The state is looking for help from
counties but local officials say
their facilities are also overcrowd
ed and that they are already hous
ing prisoners in their jails who
should be Georgia prison inmates.
There have been court decisions
in several places in recent months
ordering officials to take measures
to relieve overcrowding in prisons
where conditions have been
described in terms such as “cruel
and inhuman.”
But chances of substantial
improvements are not good. Even
in prosperous times, penal facili
ties have a low priority. Under
present conditions, prospects for
creating adequate accommoda
tions are virtually nil.
Meanwhile, the situation poses a
serious threat. It is akin to sitting
on a keg of dymanite.
all sorts of abuses were committed to
insure victory at the polls.
Ford has insisted he will continue to
have a dialogue with the people, that all
Presidents should. The best way to
accomplish such a dialogue is through
press conferences, where reporters
representing all parts of the nation are
free to ask the questions they like.
Speech-making appearances here and
there, during which the President
shakes hands and walks among the
crowds briefly do not constitute con
structive dialogues with the people.
They are primarily political trips.
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.. It is in this respect that communism has
been most successful. It has infected the
whole world with the belief in the relativity
of good and evil. Communism has
managed to instill in all of us that these
concepts are old-fashioned concepts and
laughable. But if we are deprived of the
concepts of good and evil what will be left?
Nothing but the manipulation of one
another. We will decline to the status of
animals.”
Tragically, many Americans have
bought the philosophy of the relativity of
good and evil. It is as old as Eden, but
people still buy it — from the communist,
or somewhere else. But, “God com
mendeth his love toward us in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”
(Romans 5:8). If good and evil were
relative, the cross would have been un
necessary.
Berry’s World
“What does it mean, oh great one ‘Be willing to
put it all up front'?”
Sky Talk
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46 Prayer ending
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51 Earth's
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56 Constellation
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61 Faucet
62 Adult male
63 Delicious
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3 Norse god
4 Pulp
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14 Greek letter
15 Seven
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17 Rodent
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Without the Way there is no
going; without the Truth there
is no knowing; without the Life
there is no living. — Thomas a
Kempis, German
“Better keep yourself clean
and bright: you are the window
through which you must see the
world.” — George Bernard
Shaw, British playwright.
CARNIVAL by Dick Turner
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We were lucky Dad had the windows rolled up and the
doors locked! All that truck driver could do was stand
there and yell!”
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Quotes
Above all am I convinced of
the need, irrevocable and in
escapable, of every human
heart, for God. No matter how
we try to escape, to lose
ourselves in restless seeking,
we cannot separate ourselves
from our divine source There
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48 Paradise
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