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— Griffin Daily News Friday, December 12,1975
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“You mean if we go along we have to ROW?”
L M. BOYD
Blue Eyes
Sensitive
Lot of guesswork has been printed as to whether
blue eyed people really are more sensitive to pain than
are brown eyed people. Now the University of lowa’s Dr.
H. Stanley Thompson confirms that claim. He says blue
eyed patients react with greater sensitivity not only to
pain but to drugs. They seem to need smaller doses than
brown-eyed patients. It has been reported that the
sensitivity goes from blue eyes in descending order
through hazel, green, brown and finally dark brown eyes.
FURNITURE
Still on the books in Kentucky is one old law that
forbids a woman to move the furniture in her house with
out her husband’s approval.
A CHURCH in Buffalo keeps on handy display a
couple of credit card imprinters so any members of the
congregation who so desire can drop Mastercharge or
BankAmericard slips in the collection plate.
IT HAD BEEN customary for a wine bottle cork to be
about two inches long. Until recently. The price of cork,
too, has gone up And the demand for cork is likewise up.
For platform shoes, mainly. That explains why a lot of
wine bottle corks now are only an inch and a half long
WHERE IN THE world is the daily temperature range
the most extreme? In the Gobi Desert? In the hills of
Afghanistan? In the highlands of China? No, in Reno. Nev.
Or so I'm advised by a subscriber there. Reno alone
averages a 45 degree F. difference between its daily highs
and lows.
ONLY 14 PER CENT of the sex crimes are committed
by separated, divorced or widowed men. Blame married
men for 26 per cent. The single fellows are responsible for
the remaining 60 per cent.
JOURNALISM
The writing and broadcasting schools are expected to
turn out about 104,000 graduates in upcoming months.
They’ll be looking for work on newspapers, in publishing
houses, with broadcasting stations, and at the various
agencies that grind out printed matter. It’s going to be
pretty tough Maybe the newspapers will hire as many as
2,600 new reporters. Figure the broadcasting stations
might put on another 500 announcers. It’s estimated
I, technical writers will find jobs as well 4,400 public
relations hands. But at least 90,000 of those graduates
Will wind up looking for paychecks elsewhere. Why didn't
somebody let those kids know what in the deuce was
ahead of them?
START WITH a nugget of gold about the size of a lima
bean. Flatten it into a square-yard sheet by pounding on
it 30,000 times with a brass mallet. Done? All right, you’ve
just duplicated the routine chore of Thailand's profes
sional gold pounders. They work 10 hours a day, six days
a week, to earn maybe $l2O a month, if they're particular
ly nifty at the job. What I find curious about that occupa
tion is its limited longevity. The work takes too much out of
the men. There are no professional gold pounders in
Thailand over the age of 40.
Address mail to I M Boyd, P.O Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1975 L. M Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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for our parents to support us!"
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, December
12th, the 346th day of 1975 with
19 to follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
John Jay, the first chief
justice of the United States,
was born Dec. 12, 1745.
On this day in history:
In 1901, a wireless message
was transmitted across the
Atlantic Ocean for the first
time.
In 1937, Japanese planes
bombed and sank the U.S.
gunboat Panay in the Yangtze
River above Nanking, China.
Japan later said it was a case
of mistaken identity. -
In 1947, John K. Lewis
withdrew his United Mine
Workers Union from the Ameri
can Federation of for the
second time.
In 1953, Maj. Charles Yeager
flew a Bell XIA jet research
plane more than two and a half
times the speed of sound.
Rjccntcnnial
TRACTS
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A prolific author of anti-
British satirical plays, Mercy
Otis Warren was an outspoken
patriot. "The Blockheads," a
celebration of the ignominious
British evacuation of Boston,
was her answer to British
Gen. John ( "Gentleman John
ny") Burgoyne’s Loyalist play
"The Blockade of Boston."
Mrs. Warren's personal cause
for anger against the British
was the attack of a Crown of
ficer upon her brother, patriot
attorney James Otis, whose
skull and brain were so in
jured he never recovered his
sanity. The World Almanac
recalls.
Thoughts
The coastlands have seen
and are afraid, the ends of the
earth tremble; they have
drawn near and come; every
one helps his neighbor, and
says to his brother, “Take
courage!" — Isaiah 41:5, 6.
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
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.
Six men completed sentences in
Spalding County last week in an unusual
program which allowed them to live at
home instead of in prison but work for the
county. Their job was to clean up county
roadsides including discarded cans, and
they worked five days a week under
direction of Probation Supervisor Lamar
Conner who called the program a success.
There were several benefits. One was
that crowded jails and prisons were not
Peace! I
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Somewhat belatedly we take editorial
note of the cooperation, peace and har
mony which existed between city and
county commissioners last week when
they adopted a budget for the Recreation
Department.
It was in sharp (and pleasant) contrast
to their fighting and fussing over last
year’s. With full awareness that the word
“gentlemen” entails more than mere
designation of members of the male sex,
we say, “Thank you, gentlemen.”
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In low esteem
Democrats have never wasted an op
portunity to snipe at the Republicans over
disclosure that illegal corporate campaign
contributions have gone to GOP can
didates in the past. That’s politics, of
course, but if the Democrats are going to
convince anyone that they are champions
of financial purity, they need to explain the
150,000 of illegal money still bulging in
their pockets.
It has been nearly a year since
★ ★THIS WEEK'S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ *
The precedent
The Georgia High School Association set
a precedent last Saturday that may return
to haunt it.
The association declared Douglass High
the winner of the North Georgia triple-A
football championship after the Atlanta
school filed a protest following its game
with Lakeside.
Whether Douglass received a bum deal
due to an official’s error is not disputed
here.
‘God wants
to bless you’
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I am 18 and have
been In love with a man for some time. I
recently told him we should stop seeing
each other, since he is not a Christian. It
seems as though the closer I get to him, the
further away I get from the Lord.
However, he replied that on the basis of 1
Corinthians 7:9, God wants us to get
married. Is he right? I.L.
Dear 1.L.: One Corinthians 7:9 speaks to
unmarried persons and states: “If they
cannot exercise self-control, they should
marry. For it is better to marry than to be
aflame with passion.’*
This verse acknowledges that we have
the God-given desires for love and af
fection and that this finds its fullest ex
pression within the marriage union.
Please note, however, that it does not say
we are to marry just anyone. We are,
Success
crowded further. Another was that the
participants were not locked up with
hardened criminals. Still another is
cleaner roadsides, and goodness knows
they needed to be cleaned. Also, according
to Mr. Conner, the men took pride in their
work, and that is no mean accomplishment
in itself.
It is good to note success in the field of
crime and punishment, and even better to
note it right here in Spalding.
Democratic National Chairman Robert W.
Strauss conceded that he had accepted
$50,000 from officials of the Ashland Oil Co.
under the impression the money came
from their personal bank accounts, not the
company’s. The Ashland officials have
admitted this was an illegal corporate
donation, but Mr. Strauss has come up
with one excuse after another for not
turning the money back. Is it any wonder
that opinion polls show the American
people hold politicians in low esteem?
Whether the GHSA or its Appeal Board
was right or wrong in upholding the protest
isn’t questioned.
The problem is the precedent.
Football officials are human. They make
errors and sometimes those errors affect
the outcome of games.
Now that the precedent is set, we suspect
protests will become common in Georgia
high school football.
instead, to seek God’s will in the matter
and trust Him to lead us to the person of
His choice. If we do not, our natural in
stincts and desires can easily lead us
astray.
From what you have said, I think it is
clear from Scriptures that God will not
honor this relationship. Time and time
again in the Old Testament the Isrealites
were commanded not to marry un
believers, and their failure to obey this
commandment caused great grief. In the
New Testament, we read: “Do not be
mismated with unbelievers. For what
partnership have righteousness and
iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with
darkness?’’ (HCorinthians 6:14, RSV)
God wants to bless you in every way, and
He is very concerned that you find a
Christian who will be your lifelong
husband. Trust Him to lead you to one.
MY
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Berry’s World
© 1975 By NEA Inc
“What’s the latest on the reign in Spain?”
Ray Cromley
Expect no decisive
Presidential choice
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — One of my minor political ac
quaintances once told me his strategy in any contest was sim
ple Stir things up by any means possible, then watch for any
breaks the turmoil offered
It is not my belief that this is President Ford’s objective in
his all-out drive against the hidebound regulatory agencies,
new and old His emotions on regulations ran too high His in
terest in the subject is too old — begun well before he’d
developed a presidential political strategy. But the results
may be similar, all the same, to the stir-things-up strategy of
my old acquaintance
What seems clear is that Mr. Ford will now have a great
many people up in arms, crossing party and ideological lines.
What's more, Mr Ford seems to be enjoying the turmoil im
mensely. Intimates say he's delighted by the kind of opposi
tion he’s getting. These are the type of political enemies he
wants
For those thinking of 1976 and the type of man they want as
president, this fight on the regulatory agencies will be a
testing time for Mr. Ford — far more significant as to the
man's ability or lack of it than his strategy on New York City 's
problems.
In the next few months we will have a chance to see Presi
dent Ford’s political ingenuity and leadership severely
challenged in a catch-as-catch-can series of battles in which
traditional foes and allies will be so criss-crossed that no se
cond rater could possibly bring order out of the chaos.
One way or another. Mr Ford may find in his corner such
unlikely colleagues as Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass ). Ralph
Nader and his consumer groups, farm associations and major
environmentalists. Aligned against him may be the
Teamsters, big truckers and some of the men who have been
among his major backers in industry.
At immediate stake is the success or failure of Mr. Ford’s
attack on the noose-like regulations which control the trucking
business, largely, his aides say. for the benefit of established
companies.
Simultaneously, there will be battles over Ford administra
tion bills defusing regulations in the airline and railroad in
dustries.
These will be minor skirmishes compared to what will come
next: successive drives on the tangle of regulations binding
the broadcasting industry, oil and gas pricing and a series of
reforms the White House is developing on the enforcement of
employe safety and environmental protection and the regula
tion of drugs for medical use.
The emotional charge of almost every group involved in
each of these fields, those for and those against whatever Mr
Ford or anyone else proposes, is so great it may be virtually
impossible, this year and next, to determine the facts. All of
which will leave both congressmen and voters largely con
fused as to where the truth lies.
On his side, the President has gathered a team of young men
as ideologically committed and as fervent as Nader’s raiders
or President Kennedy’s Irish mafia. Some have spent their en
tire working lives in private research, as college professors
and in government developing their objectives and dreaming
what changes they would make in government regulation of
industry and the economy if opportunity should come their
way Despite the number of Ph D.s among them this is no
band of paper tigers. The opposition is equally adept at
political infighting.
The stakes for us all are great. Today's regulations, some
foolish, some wise but made foolish by petty minded
bureaucrats, some so complicated they invite corruption —
cost us billions each year and too frequently reduce our quali
ty of life.
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