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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 6,1976
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L.M.BOYD
'OBSTRUCTION OF THE LIVER'
THE STEPCHILD WAS FIRST
BLUE JEANS COST SSO
If you want to know how long doctors have been double
talking to their patients, consider the advice of a 13th century
physician named Arnold of Villanova. He counseled his fellow
medicos to use obscure words. "Obstruction of the liver" is a
■good diagnosis, he averred, because patients couldn't figure
out what it meant.
Did I say Sir Charles Sedley of England in 1663 was his
tory's first streaker? Wrong. St. Mark in Verses 51 and 52 of
Chapter 15 describes a young man, who, having abandoned his
linen cover to run naked, may merit that distinction, instead.
MOST ADMIRED
Q. "Where does William Shakespeare rank on the list of
most-admired persons in the Western World?"
A. He's No. 4, according to a Gallup Poll of 1971. Right be
hind No. 3, Mahatma Gandhi, and just ahead of No. 5,
Socrates. That particular poll placed Abraham Lincoln as No.l
and Winston Churchill as No. 2.
The word "stepchild" originated long before the words
"stepfather" or "stepmother." Our Language man reported
that. A client asks for further explanation. The "step" in those
words started out as a spin-off from the old English word
"steop" meaning "orphaned." And clearly, only the child
therefore was referred to originally as "steop.” The word had
long lost its original significance before any father or mother
was so called.
COVER THE ARMS
During the reign of Henry VIII, it was considered indecent
not only for a woman but also for a man to wear any sort of
costume without sleeves to cover the arms, the record shows.
Were you aware that more people in this country were mur
dered from 1970 through 1974 than were killed in all of the
Vietnam War? Murders have doubled hereabouts in the last 20
years.
The citizenry of Carmel, Calif., is not generally described as
narrow minded, even though its lawmakers did once decree it
illegal there for a lady to take a bath in a business office.
The world's grasshopper population drops to its lowest
every 9.2 years, I'm told, and every 9.2 years, too, it rises to
its highest.
Average price now for a pair of blue jeans runs sl2 in this
country, $25 in Europe, SSO in the Soviet Union.
No doubt residents of Nebraska eat less than people else
where. One study suggests that elderly citizens owe their
longevity to the fact that they don't put away as much grub as
others. Another study proves that Nebraskans have the longest
average life expectancy with 71.95 years.
Address mill to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth. TX 76102
Copyright 1976 UM. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Feb. 6, the
37th day of 1976 with 329 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and
Mamie Van Doren were born
on Feb. 6—Zsa Zsa in 1923 and
Mamie in 1933.
On this day in history:
In 1778, Massachusetts rati
fied the U.S. Constitution.
In 1943, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower was named com
mander of Allied Expeditionary
Forces in North Africa. He
later became World War II
supreme allied commander in
Europe.
In 1957, Cassius Clay defeated
Ernie Terrell to retain the
heavyweight boxing crown.
Riccntcnnial
Tracts—
The Jan. 3. 1776 issue of the
North Carolina Gazette
carried an editorial stating
that in order to become a
happy, wealthy, powerful and
respectable people, we must
first have independence, se
cond neutrality, and third,
open ports to all powers ex
cept Britain. The World
Almanac recalls.
Thoughts
Behold, what I have seen to
be good and to be fitting is to
eat and drink and find enjoy
ment in all the toil with which
one toils under the sun the few
days of his life which God has
given him, for this is his lot. —
Eccl. 5:18.
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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.
Our mistakes
None of us being perfect, we all make
mistakes from time to time. Somebody
said, “That’s why they put erasers on the
ends of pencils.” It is a good reason, and
we wish sometimes the nebulous “they”
would place them on the ends of ballpoint
pens as well.
Jokingly, it is said in newspaper circles
that doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers
send theirs to jail, but newspapers put
them in the paper for all the world to see.
And so it seems.
All of which is byway of leading up to a
big fat one which a public relations person
at the Georgia Department of Tran
sportation made the other day. The p.r.-
person mailed out a list of “fillers” dated
February 3, 1976, which contained this,
“The first paved mileage in the state of
Georgia was a five-mile stretch between
Macon and Atlanta in Paulding County,
paved as part of the state system in 1919.”
The correct county is Spalding, not
Paulding which is way up in the Seventh
District and of which Dallas is the County
seat. Griffin, as people hereabouts know,
Same old things
Away back in Old Testament times
Abraham and others sought wells of water.
Also strong drink concerned the writers of
the Holy Scriptures.
Now, thousands of years later in Griffin,
the big items in the news about city
government concern our town’s water
supply and possible changes in its liquor
laws.
Spalding Representative John Carlisle
expressed dismay at the Human
Resources Department’s opposition to
pending legislation which would require
welfare recipients to have identity cards
and to pick up their checks in person.
Exceptions would be made for the
disabled.
As for us, we were not surprised, but we
share Mr. Carlisle's concern and believe
★ *THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Grid scholarships
Three more Griffin High football players
recently signed grants-in-aid.
That brings to five the number of players
off last year’s 6-AAA championship team
who have signed scholarships and will
continue their education.
That speaks well of the football program
Judas’ life
was a tragedy
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Can you tell me
why there Is a different version of Judas’
death in the Matthew and John gospel
accounts? Matthew says Judas hanged
himself. John says otherwise. —J.E.C.
Dear J.E.C.: Actually, the gospel of
John, together with Mark and Luke, is
silent about the life of Judas after his
betrayal of Christ. Only Matthew and the
book of Acts picture Judas’ remorse and
death in some detail. According to Mat
thew, condemnation of Jesus awakened
Judas’ sense of guilt. His further
disillusionment with the chief priests and
elders, when they repulsed him, figured
ultimately in his suicide. The Scripture
It has merit
is the seat of Spalding.
Locally we are proud of our county’s
early paving accomplishments back in the
days when mud was the rule instead of the
exception on the nation’s roads and even
highways. And after that five-mile strip
which the p.r.-person assigned incorrectly
to Paulding, the commissioners of
Spalding (that’s us!) went on to pave a
strip running all the way through our
county from the northern county-line to the
southern. That made Spalding the first and
only county in Georgia to have a paved
road all the way through it
As stated, everybody makes mistakes,
and we are confident the Department of
Transportation will move our paving back
here from Paulding-Dallas. Better still, we
would like to see it step up that Griffin-175
connector which has been in the works so
long.
Undoubtedly, having called attention
above to someone else’s error, we will
almost immediately make a glaring one of
our own. So in the interests of time we
apologize in advance for it.
The more things change, the more they
stay the same.
This reminds us of Griffin banker Frank
Lindsey Jr.’s story about two very old
people. One told the other, “There’s not as
much carousing going on as there used to
be.” The other replied, “Oh yes there is!
It’s just a different crowd doing it”
the idea has merit in its effort to reduce
fraud. If properly carried out, it ought to
cut down on enough cheaters to provide
more badly needed money for legitimate
purposes.
An additional benefit which seems to be
going overlooked is that it surely would
reduce the number of thefts of welfare
checks from mailboxes, cases of which
have been reported right here in Griffin.
that Coach Max Dowis and his staff have
built at GHS.
College scouts now recognize that
Griffin High produces talented football
players and looks to the school for help
when it comes time to offer scholarships to
the best available players.
MY
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says, “He went and hanged himself’’
(Matthew 27:5).
In Acts it is stated that he fell down and
“burst open in the middle’’ (1:18 Amp.
N.T.). Another meaning of the original
Greek could be that he “swelled up’’ such
as would happen to a neglected corpse. In
any case, there is no contradiction: Each
writer supplements the other in details not
covered by the other.
More important, of course, is the lesson
of Judas’ life. What a tragedy! Here was a
man who had been around Jesus for
several years. And yet he had never come
to acknowledge Jesus as his Lord and
master. What a warning to us!
Berry’s World
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• 1976 by NEA
"First, a bionic man — now, a bionic woman!
The next logical step is A BIONIC KID!”
Ray Cromley
Missile balance
I tips to Soviets
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA) — The signs are now clear. Leonid
Brezhnev and associates in the Kremlin believe time is on
their side in the strategic missile race.
They’re happy with the present treaty, expiring late next
year, which gives the USSR virtually a free hand to develop
and build strategic missiles to the limits of its scientific and
economic ability. And binds the United States, through un
ilateral “understandings” announced by Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, to very strict limits on what nuclear expan
sion this country can undertake.
With Soviet military-strategic research, now roughly double
that of the U.S., the Russians could overtake and surpass us in
critical areas within the next two decades.
Kissinger’s failure in his Moscow mission to break the im
passe in the strategic arms limitation talks is rooted in two
major U.S. mistakes these past several year.
First, there was President Nixon’s deep emotional desire
for achieving a strategic arms limitation treaty in his time.
This resulted in his ordering Kissinger to get Soviet agree
ment at virtually any cost. Kissinger obeyed. And Brezhnev's
men got what they wanted. Terms the U.S. could not openly
agree to were left so vague they could be interpreted in any
manner Moscow chose.
Second. In the past half dozen or so years Congress has
chopped heavily at research and development — frequently
aided by administrations faced with Vietnam war costs, infla
tion and other financial problems. This, at a time the Russians
were increasing strategic military research as rapidly as they
could expand scientific and technical staffs and research and
testing facilities.
The Soviet tactic in each negotiation is to bind this country's
development in areas where we are ahead and running away,
but to hold the doors open where Soviet scientists see clear
signs they can catch up or surpass this country's efforts.
Take anti-ballistic missile development, where American
researchers were moving ahead with remarkable speed and
the Russians apparently bogged down in interminable
problems. The Soviet negotiators succeeding in pushing
through an agreement tying us to a partially-developed
system both they and we know would be ineffective,
worthwhile only as an intermediate experimental project, but
worthless if confined to then-current technology.
Take too the current attempt to halt U.S. development of in
termediate and long-range cruise missiles. Here the Russians
may be somewhat ahead. But American technology is im
proving so rapidly the Soviet advantage is bound to disappear
in short order.
In this cruise business, there’s a military pig in the poke
Short-range cruise missiles — with longer ranges barred —
give the Soviet Union a major advantage. Longer-range cruise
missiles would bring back a balance.
Because 40 per cent of major U.S. targets lie along our
coasts, Soviet submarines with short-range cruise missiles
could hide in the nearby seas and, in war, destroy a con
siderable chunk of our industry and populations. By contrast,
the Soviet Union is effectively an inland country; less than 2
per cent of the key military targets would be within the range
of U.S. submarines armed with short-range cruise missiles.
Though its anti-missile defenses are almost worthless, the
Soviet Union has developed a highly-sophisticated air defense
system. It would be difficult indeed for U.S. bombers to
penetrate targets in any numbers without the assistance of
long-range cruise missiles fired from without Russia's
borders. Short-range cruise missiles would be of little value.
By contrast, the continental U.S. has so little in the way of
air defense, Soviet bombers could penetrate at will. Short
range cruise missiles are adequate.
CARNIVAL by Dick Turner
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"There's no cause for alarm, Mrs. Bemish. We ll have him up
and back in your hair in no time!”
GRIFFIN
Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves, Bill Knight,
General Manager Executive Editor
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